and we see the very practical (!) results of them. It has nothing to do with being new to "computers", I just saw it in 2009 while setting up a Lenovo thinkpad BIOS and something told me it is one thing to stay away on that machine. I'd better pay to PGP guys.
SD cards have passwords too and as far as I know, they are also hardware based. Funny thing is, that is one thing the phone vendors hate since they create problems with firmware upgrade process which is already a very risky thing on a smart phone. Nokia states "please remove password of your memory card before the update process". It seems some interesting things happened.
I am extremely old fashioned in regards to hard drives. Not buying until something with normal price comes out from 2 vendors of mine, Seagate and Western Digital. They do storage for years.
Basically Intel is a CPU vendor/monopoly. Not a GPU vendor or a hard disk manufacturer.
Ones who flames us whenever we say "it is early, don't beta test storage hardware" should come up and answer them. Especially when it is predictably personal memories which has no backup.
In an enterprise environment which X-25 was originally designed for, data loss is not a huge problem. They have all kinds of backups,verification, mirroring and cool filesystems like ZFS. When it comes to personal data of ordinary OS X or Windows user, the problem begins. Whenever they suggest an untested technology to ordinary people, they should leave a phone number or working mail address to get called when 1000s of unreproducible personal jpegs are gone forever.
What makes Intel a hard disk vendor anyway? Yes, it is still a disk. Expertise which Intel doesn't have is a huge factor along with software support.
Other alternative? It is "OCZ" and Samsung. What kind of software support do they give? Zero. Samsung can't even produce pages without english spelling mistakes.
Call me old fashioned, I am waiting and will continue to wait until Seagate, Western Digital does real stuff, not "we can do it too" stuff if you understand what I mean.
While it is some super advanced electric car, there is nothing stopping one to couple it with a Yamaha generator at baggage "just in case".
It is not like it will be meaningless, a generator charged electric car will still have amazing low environment impact compared to old fashion always running motor.
Slowly running traffic is one thing electric cars have significant advantage. There is no need for an idling (but running) motor while you wait. Just to remind you its running (albeit silently), to heat up a car before you leave takes 5-6 mins at most. People using gas to heat faster are just wasting gas and killing environment even more.
Go ask what happens to those perfect millage ratios when the cars get into the real traffic in a real crowded city. Petrol based motor has to run, there is no S3 state.
No, a lot of third party apps including the ones from their rivals would fail if one truly removes IE. I think that is what they talk about.
IMHO if Apple keeps playing the wise game without unneeded scandals like putting Safari to sw update (fixed), Webkit may eventually replace mshtml com object. That would be the day when we can speak about really removing the IE (and its frameworks). Or, perhaps it would enlighten MS enough to release first true open source thing, trident engine, with Apple model of doing things.
I don't know about current situation but just months earlier, someone from IBM said they are still on IE 6 since the massive changes at the engine level needs massive changes. We speak about Big Blue with 450.000 workers here.
So next time, careful when you call companies "backwards", they could be so huge so they can't deploy every new MS toy instantly when they feel like it. I am sure it is not just IBM, a lot of large companies have to do extensive testing, re-coding whenever a large update ships. MS couldn't sell Intel Vista licenses for example, Intel basically didn't see reason to upgrade to Vista from their time tested operating system installations. Is Intel a backward company too?
Windows 7 warns you rather seriously if you dare to "turn IE off" using that interface. I tend to agree to MS on that subject, there is no way you will have a 100% Windows experience if you remove IE completely.
U remember the Mono fanboys trying to "prove" RMS is lunatic using his valid idea of 1980s where there will be absolutely no "single admin,password" rather than a shared password known by trustable and ethical people.
When I heard about admin going AWOL and they live problems, I just ask "What if 4-5 people knew the password?"
So it is better to think a second before joking with old school people's "lunatic" ideas, they eventually turn out to be right.
Well, nice information I am hearing for the first time.
You know HFS+ is also fully documented right? The only undocumented part is.DS_Store flat file which Finder uses and nobody really cares too much.
So, if a person reading filesystem specs for entertaintment didn't know about these and only knew about enterprise features of ZFS, perhaps there is a problem with how ZFS is advertised to OS X community and the stuff you talk about not being implemented at all.
You sound like Apple rejects GNU licensed PGPFone 1.0 for iPhone. They are rejecting another information giant's (some already calls monopoly) application/service which really made some people super paranoid about their intentions for future.
Lets all hate Apple but please don't let me start about Google.
For that kind of high level, friendship etc. doesn't exist.
The biggest pain in the ass for MS after Netscape was Real Networks and effects of it are still around. Who is the founder of Real? Rob Glaser, a former MS exec close to BillG enough to carry his personal briefcase.
That person you mention can move to Apple media division as soon as next year and you shouldn't be surprised. They move from company to company, to govt. agency to govt. agency.
I don't buy iPhone because of App store policies and the ridiculous claims of J2ME crashing phone network, hiding the real reason of not having flash etc.
I struggle sometimes but I keep using Symbian and J2ME combination.
Whatever you or FCC think doesn't matter to Apple, you already bought the device. My single protest doesn't matter too since there are 1000x more people who chooses to buy that 1984 device and continues to whine about it.
If Google Voice application was released on Symbian, Windows Mobile with equivalent functionality, FCC (and Dev) could ask this: "How is it possible for application to exist on Symbian and Windows Mobile?"
As Developer(s) were so cool to touch a operating system installed to 100 million devices (just Symbian), Apple finds it easy to reject it.
Sorry but I really blame developer and whoever purchases a device bound to this kind of surreal policy. It is easier to blame Apple, call it evil etc. As a Symbian OS handset owner who is getting amazed at Symbian OS getting ignored by developers who thinks it is not cool, oh... live with it. You had it coming...
Another thing: Is it ethical to say the Apple high level guy "personally" allowed it to app store? What about poor shareware developer who doesn't meet with such gods in real life as he doesn't work with Google? What if it is the reason? What if Apple asked "Who the hell are you to name our high level executive to some blogs?" by not approving it?
I am afraid it will be never feature complete until it does things as Resource forks, Icons, "Open With", 4 char creator codes.
You know, the things "flat unix" people hate but OS X users and especially professionals use. Yes, they do like to change their icons.
If they work on a thing which will be super advanced UFS and nothing else, that is a problem. A serious problem. OS X is a hybrid OS, it is Unix, NeXT and MacOS same time. Anything designed for it must contain things which will make all 3 happy. I will get killed for saying this but case insensitive operation compatibility is a must for any OS X filesystem. I said "compatibility".
The issue with ZFS is the culture of the company, products of them and their focus. I can't imagine explaining a Sun developer about how would user would want to change his application icon and even pay for apps that does it safely.
While I speak about this, I am considering to format an external drive as ZFS but I won't launch any apps from it or do the other Mac things. It will be an expandable pure data drive.
One issue and it ends all. eBay sellers doesn't want to talk with the buyers and buyers would buy someone else's product rather than having to voice call seller.
eBay had amazing success because it was impossible on "old World", eBay enabled complete digital dealing with the seller. People doesn't want to talk with strangers for a 10 dollar product.
If they weren't absolutely stupid, they could test it before buying. For example, do a business deal with Skype to have "Skype Me" button without buying it at first place. Let it track how many people click that button or enable it. In 1980s, Tramiel of Commodore had the same idea after getting $5M offer from a company just to figure the supply and price needs. He simply put an ad to NY Times for a product that doesn't exist, with purely predicted price and he simply used the number of callers. Cost $450:) (it is from computer history museum video of him)
eBay buying Skype doesn't make sense. Compare it to Nokia buying Trolltech, maps companies, opening up Symbian with their own money and even starting to enhance their love-hate J2ME virtual machine.
All makes sense if you think about them, in long term strategy and expanding to new markets and I speak about billions here. Billions spent to make things free and even allowing el cheapo Chinese manufacturers have a real OS on their cell phones and I can easily figure why. On eBay case, I can't.
If Amazon purchased Skype, it would make absolute sense but not eBay. Amazon had their "expand to new horizons" since the beginning, remember how people laughed at them when they enabled competitors to advertise on their own pages? That was ages ago. Remember S3 first launch?
I heard from "This Week in Tech" podcast that eBay was dreaming the ebay sellers will put "skype me" to their product pages and let the customers (buyers) call them.
One thing of course, people hates to be called via voice regarding a sell. So, it blew.
All PPC here except other family members have their Intel macs. I use from G4 Mini up to G5 Quad so I had pretty good time to think about it.
It is not Apple or SJobs fault that IBM and Motorola, on Desktop CPUs, never cared enough. They don't have that culture to begin with. IBM is back to its roots, only making mainframe, enterprise CPUs and CUSTOM built Console CPUs which 2 giants like Microsoft and Sony can provide significant input for their needs. Look to MS, they could make IBM actually care about their suggestions and they could truly work with them. See the xbox 360 success compared to the earlier joke.
Compile open source software on powerpc and intel, both OS X and see the difference. Intel has all the "cool stuff", they somehow made developers code and support their (backwards) MMX and SSE while we get surprised when Altivec used by some rare and great open source developers. Mplayer for example.
The thing to blame SJobs is, he showed "universal binary" as something very easy, just click something and it compiles. It is NOT the case except for very simple applications or applications having their own frameworks (like Opera). Obviously, you can compile "Hello World" for MC68000 too, with single click but when libraries, frameworks and especially stuff like CUDA, OpenCL gets involved, that magic is instantly gone.
The Framework or Library, having millions of lines, millions of manhours doesn't run on anything other than x86. Now what to do?
It is mostly the entire deal for Snow Leopard and another reason is, Intel 64bit is a huge hack requiring "pure 64bit" to run better. PowerPC which was designed with 32/64bit in mind from ground doesn't have that issue and in fact, needless pure 64bit on PPC will run slower in most cases.
Worse, there are still people who thinks something good can come out of the company who still doesn't kill the technology and even tries to photocopy it to open source, free operating systems.
A single FW800 port can serve 2-3 devices without losing a bit of speed unlike USB. That is why good firewire disks always come with 2 firewire ports, to chain more disks or other equipment. Our latest gen Mini has all 5 USB ports full and fw800 port is shared by 2 firewire drives.
I use both FW800&400 and USB2 equipment, whatever fits the particular need.
For example, my colour laser printer has USB2 and as USB2 is very good for short bursts of data, it works lovely.
Firewire just needs some extra speed and FW1600 is already ready, Sony actually needs some kind of FW3200 in pro department so they may make a surprise.
Apple really wants to make "Macbook Pro" a laptop for professionals and the "non pro" one something cheaper, comparable to HP&Toshiba (not Sony Vaio high end) laptops. The difference between pro and consumer is real at Apple. At least they want to underline the difference which always existed.
Act like you are a little company wanting to advertise your product and compare them, especially international language support.
I don't like Google, its policies etc. but there is a fact that they don't have competitor at all. Not because they send a secret signal to advertiser brains, their advertising system is way better that is all.
Want to compete? My nr1 suggestion would be "quality control" of ads. Give users chance to click "spam" in advertising or some sort of "thumbs down" scheme, use the already included MCafee siteadvisor for ads etc. E.g. there is no way to prevent Scientology advertising attack on Slashdot. If there was a tiny button like "spam" or "off topic", I would click it and have the really mattering ads show. It is not something can be done by Google or Slashdot.
For a long time, I don't click to software "want to download...., click here?" ads too. I don't trust them, I go to site itself or a trusted, edited download site. That is where my "mcafee siteadvisor" idea comes from.
Slashdot Mirror
and we see the very practical (!) results of them. It has nothing to do with being new to "computers", I just saw it in 2009 while setting up a Lenovo thinkpad BIOS and something told me it is one thing to stay away on that machine. I'd better pay to PGP guys.
SD cards have passwords too and as far as I know, they are also hardware based. Funny thing is, that is one thing the phone vendors hate since they create problems with firmware upgrade process which is already a very risky thing on a smart phone. Nokia states "please remove password of your memory card before the update process". It seems some interesting things happened.
I am extremely old fashioned in regards to hard drives. Not buying until something with normal price comes out from 2 vendors of mine, Seagate and Western Digital. They do storage for years.
Basically Intel is a CPU vendor/monopoly. Not a GPU vendor or a hard disk manufacturer.
Ones who flames us whenever we say "it is early, don't beta test storage hardware" should come up and answer them. Especially when it is predictably personal memories which has no backup.
In an enterprise environment which X-25 was originally designed for, data loss is not a huge problem. They have all kinds of backups,verification, mirroring and cool filesystems like ZFS. When it comes to personal data of ordinary OS X or Windows user, the problem begins. Whenever they suggest an untested technology to ordinary people, they should leave a phone number or working mail address to get called when 1000s of unreproducible personal jpegs are gone forever.
What makes Intel a hard disk vendor anyway? Yes, it is still a disk. Expertise which Intel doesn't have is a huge factor along with software support.
Other alternative? It is "OCZ" and Samsung. What kind of software support do they give? Zero. Samsung can't even produce pages without english spelling mistakes.
Call me old fashioned, I am waiting and will continue to wait until Seagate, Western Digital does real stuff, not "we can do it too" stuff if you understand what I mean.
While it is some super advanced electric car, there is nothing stopping one to couple it with a Yamaha generator at baggage "just in case".
It is not like it will be meaningless, a generator charged electric car will still have amazing low environment impact compared to old fashion always running motor.
Slowly running traffic is one thing electric cars have significant advantage. There is no need for an idling (but running) motor while you wait. Just to remind you its running (albeit silently), to heat up a car before you leave takes 5-6 mins at most. People using gas to heat faster are just wasting gas and killing environment even more.
Go ask what happens to those perfect millage ratios when the cars get into the real traffic in a real crowded city. Petrol based motor has to run, there is no S3 state.
No, a lot of third party apps including the ones from their rivals would fail if one truly removes IE. I think that is what they talk about.
IMHO if Apple keeps playing the wise game without unneeded scandals like putting Safari to sw update (fixed), Webkit may eventually replace mshtml com object. That would be the day when we can speak about really removing the IE (and its frameworks). Or, perhaps it would enlighten MS enough to release first true open source thing, trident engine, with Apple model of doing things.
I purchased MS "Plus!" for Windows 95 and it was rather expensive. The most advertised feature on package was IE 1.0 for Windows.
MS already won the browser war. See those geeks who can't imagine a windows without IE libraries installed? The war is already over.
I don't know about current situation but just months earlier, someone from IBM said they are still on IE 6 since the massive changes at the engine level needs massive changes. We speak about Big Blue with 450.000 workers here.
So next time, careful when you call companies "backwards", they could be so huge so they can't deploy every new MS toy instantly when they feel like it. I am sure it is not just IBM, a lot of large companies have to do extensive testing, re-coding whenever a large update ships. MS couldn't sell Intel Vista licenses for example, Intel basically didn't see reason to upgrade to Vista from their time tested operating system installations. Is Intel a backward company too?
Windows 7 warns you rather seriously if you dare to "turn IE off" using that interface. I tend to agree to MS on that subject, there is no way you will have a 100% Windows experience if you remove IE completely.
Which heroic OEM will dare to exclude IE from their Windows? Don't state some unknown brands please. I speak about HP, Lenovo, Dell sized OEMs.
There is no way an OEM will dare to exclude Microsoft's browser and drive them nuts.
U remember the Mono fanboys trying to "prove" RMS is lunatic using his valid idea of 1980s where there will be absolutely no "single admin,password" rather than a shared password known by trustable and ethical people.
When I heard about admin going AWOL and they live problems, I just ask "What if 4-5 people knew the password?"
So it is better to think a second before joking with old school people's "lunatic" ideas, they eventually turn out to be right.
Well, nice information I am hearing for the first time.
You know HFS+ is also fully documented right? The only undocumented part is .DS_Store flat file which Finder uses and nobody really cares too much.
So, if a person reading filesystem specs for entertaintment didn't know about these and only knew about enterprise features of ZFS, perhaps there is a problem with how ZFS is advertised to OS X community and the stuff you talk about not being implemented at all.
You sound like Apple rejects GNU licensed PGPFone 1.0 for iPhone. They are rejecting another information giant's (some already calls monopoly) application/service which really made some people super paranoid about their intentions for future.
Lets all hate Apple but please don't let me start about Google.
For that kind of high level, friendship etc. doesn't exist.
The biggest pain in the ass for MS after Netscape was Real Networks and effects of it are still around. Who is the founder of Real? Rob Glaser, a former MS exec close to BillG enough to carry his personal briefcase.
That person you mention can move to Apple media division as soon as next year and you shouldn't be surprised. They move from company to company, to govt. agency to govt. agency.
I don't buy iPhone because of App store policies and the ridiculous claims of J2ME crashing phone network, hiding the real reason of not having flash etc.
I struggle sometimes but I keep using Symbian and J2ME combination.
Whatever you or FCC think doesn't matter to Apple, you already bought the device. My single protest doesn't matter too since there are 1000x more people who chooses to buy that 1984 device and continues to whine about it.
If Google Voice application was released on Symbian, Windows Mobile with equivalent functionality, FCC (and Dev) could ask this: "How is it possible for application to exist on Symbian and Windows Mobile?"
As Developer(s) were so cool to touch a operating system installed to 100 million devices (just Symbian), Apple finds it easy to reject it.
Sorry but I really blame developer and whoever purchases a device bound to this kind of surreal policy. It is easier to blame Apple, call it evil etc. As a Symbian OS handset owner who is getting amazed at Symbian OS getting ignored by developers who thinks it is not cool, oh... live with it. You had it coming...
Another thing: Is it ethical to say the Apple high level guy "personally" allowed it to app store? What about poor shareware developer who doesn't meet with such gods in real life as he doesn't work with Google? What if it is the reason? What if Apple asked "Who the hell are you to name our high level executive to some blogs?" by not approving it?
I am afraid it will be never feature complete until it does things as Resource forks, Icons, "Open With", 4 char creator codes.
You know, the things "flat unix" people hate but OS X users and especially professionals use. Yes, they do like to change their icons.
If they work on a thing which will be super advanced UFS and nothing else, that is a problem. A serious problem. OS X is a hybrid OS, it is Unix, NeXT and MacOS same time. Anything designed for it must contain things which will make all 3 happy. I will get killed for saying this but case insensitive operation compatibility is a must for any OS X filesystem. I said "compatibility".
The issue with ZFS is the culture of the company, products of them and their focus. I can't imagine explaining a Sun developer about how would user would want to change his application icon and even pay for apps that does it safely.
While I speak about this, I am considering to format an external drive as ZFS but I won't launch any apps from it or do the other Mac things. It will be an expandable pure data drive.
One issue and it ends all. eBay sellers doesn't want to talk with the buyers and buyers would buy someone else's product rather than having to voice call seller.
eBay had amazing success because it was impossible on "old World", eBay enabled complete digital dealing with the seller. People doesn't want to talk with strangers for a 10 dollar product.
If they weren't absolutely stupid, they could test it before buying. For example, do a business deal with Skype to have "Skype Me" button without buying it at first place. Let it track how many people click that button or enable it. In 1980s, Tramiel of Commodore had the same idea after getting $5M offer from a company just to figure the supply and price needs. He simply put an ad to NY Times for a product that doesn't exist, with purely predicted price and he simply used the number of callers. Cost $450 :)
(it is from computer history museum video of him)
eBay buying Skype doesn't make sense. Compare it to Nokia buying Trolltech, maps companies, opening up Symbian with their own money and even starting to enhance their love-hate J2ME virtual machine.
All makes sense if you think about them, in long term strategy and expanding to new markets and I speak about billions here. Billions spent to make things free and even allowing el cheapo Chinese manufacturers have a real OS on their cell phones and I can easily figure why. On eBay case, I can't.
If Amazon purchased Skype, it would make absolute sense but not eBay. Amazon had their "expand to new horizons" since the beginning, remember how people laughed at them when they enabled competitors to advertise on their own pages? That was ages ago. Remember S3 first launch?
I heard from "This Week in Tech" podcast that eBay was dreaming the ebay sellers will put "skype me" to their product pages and let the customers (buyers) call them.
One thing of course, people hates to be called via voice regarding a sell. So, it blew.
All PPC here except other family members have their Intel macs. I use from G4 Mini up to G5 Quad so I had pretty good time to think about it.
It is not Apple or SJobs fault that IBM and Motorola, on Desktop CPUs, never cared enough. They don't have that culture to begin with. IBM is back to its roots, only making mainframe, enterprise CPUs and CUSTOM built Console CPUs which 2 giants like Microsoft and Sony can provide significant input for their needs. Look to MS, they could make IBM actually care about their suggestions and they could truly work with them. See the xbox 360 success compared to the earlier joke.
Compile open source software on powerpc and intel, both OS X and see the difference. Intel has all the "cool stuff", they somehow made developers code and support their (backwards) MMX and SSE while we get surprised when Altivec used by some rare and great open source developers. Mplayer for example.
The thing to blame SJobs is, he showed "universal binary" as something very easy, just click something and it compiles. It is NOT the case except for very simple applications or applications having their own frameworks (like Opera). Obviously, you can compile "Hello World" for MC68000 too, with single click but when libraries, frameworks and especially stuff like CUDA, OpenCL gets involved, that magic is instantly gone.
The Framework or Library, having millions of lines, millions of manhours doesn't run on anything other than x86. Now what to do?
It is mostly the entire deal for Snow Leopard and another reason is, Intel 64bit is a huge hack requiring "pure 64bit" to run better. PowerPC which was designed with 32/64bit in mind from ground doesn't have that issue and in fact, needless pure 64bit on PPC will run slower in most cases.
Worse, there are still people who thinks something good can come out of the company who still doesn't kill the technology and even tries to photocopy it to open source, free operating systems.
We all know who they are...
A single FW800 port can serve 2-3 devices without losing a bit of speed unlike USB. That is why good firewire disks always come with 2 firewire ports, to chain more disks or other equipment. Our latest gen Mini has all 5 USB ports full and fw800 port is shared by 2 firewire drives.
I use both FW800&400 and USB2 equipment, whatever fits the particular need.
For example, my colour laser printer has USB2 and as USB2 is very good for short bursts of data, it works lovely.
Firewire just needs some extra speed and FW1600 is already ready, Sony actually needs some kind of FW3200 in pro department so they may make a surprise.
Apple really wants to make "Macbook Pro" a laptop for professionals and the "non pro" one something cheaper, comparable to HP&Toshiba (not Sony Vaio high end) laptops. The difference between pro and consumer is real at Apple. At least they want to underline the difference which always existed.
Open Firefox in your 30 inch presentation monitors. Let it open 2 windows and put them next to each other on desktop both showing same time.
Now, open these addresses.
http://adwords.google.com/
http://advertising.yahoo.com/ (I don't even KNOW live.com advertising url)
Act like you are a little company wanting to advertise your product and compare them, especially international language support.
I don't like Google, its policies etc. but there is a fact that they don't have competitor at all. Not because they send a secret signal to advertiser brains, their advertising system is way better that is all.
Want to compete? My nr1 suggestion would be "quality control" of ads. Give users chance to click "spam" in advertising or some sort of "thumbs down" scheme, use the already included MCafee siteadvisor for ads etc. E.g. there is no way to prevent Scientology advertising attack on Slashdot. If there was a tiny button like "spam" or "off topic", I would click it and have the really mattering ads show. It is not something can be done by Google or Slashdot.
For a long time, I don't click to software "want to download ...., click here?" ads too. I don't trust them, I go to site itself or a trusted, edited download site. That is where my "mcafee siteadvisor" idea comes from.