That's funny that you say HP is losing sales. According to IDC, they have just displaced Dell as the #1 provider of computers and they have increased sales. Of course, why should I believe IDC when I can get my information from random people on Slashdot.
Perhaps they're dropping this because MCE downright sucks?
As was announced as CES this year, HP is launching a new product in conjunction with Microsoft called Windows Home Server. The device would logically replace their existing media center line of products, and is currently only in a beta stage with a release planned for sometime soon. Please explain to me how Home Server is going to replace Media Center? Home Server is not even close to the same thing...
You clearly don't know what you're talking about, and I'm not even a lawyer.
1) Investigators in civil cases do not have police like powers. If they ask for evidence and the other party refuses, they must file a Motion to Compel, which is asking THE COURT to force the hand-over of evidence. This is done precisely because they LACK THIS POWER.
2) The RIAA never asked for this hard drive, it was offered by the defendant before discovery in the case had even begun, which would be the appropriate time for the RIAA to ask for the hard drive.
3) Enron is an entirely different story. No one is saying Enron was in the right. However, Enron was under no obligation to turn over those documents the instant a lawsuit was filed whatsoever. It is the same here. An Answer hadn't even been filed yet in this case! Do you know ANYTHING about the legal process at all?
The Defendant offered the hard drive before filing an answer so that the RIAA would back off. They were under absolutely no obligation to do so. The parent poster was asking why they had to do this (incorrectly assuming that they had to, rather than that they chose to do so), and you proceeded to spew some of the most legally incorrect crap I have ever seen in my life.
Your post was so idiotic I felt it was worth it to undo all of my moderations on this discussion to respond to you. Cheers!
Well obviously you can't buy from other stores using iTunes, but there was a recent article on MacNN about a movie store that sells AppleTV compatible movies, and they are even allowing free downloads as a promotion this month. They are DRM-free, so Apple opening their DRM is completely unnecessary.
Ummmm...Sony put Linux on the PS3 and then promoted it themselves. It wasn't "hacked" on there. And if you think the PS3 is popular then you need your head examined...
Why not just rip your DVD's to an AppleTV compatible format instead of DivX. AppleTV is not just limited to iTMS purchases. Any store that wants to sell their media in a compatible format will work just fine.
Please explain how exactly she "tricked" them. She exercised her rights under the DMCA, the NFL abused theirs. The NFL believed the clip was infringing, she believed it was fair use, so she properly filed her response with Youtube. The NFL should have raised the issue through the courts, and instead chose to abuse the DMCA by illegally filing a second take-down notice. Trickery on her part indeed! (That last sentence was sarcastic by the way).
Ever heard of fair use? She took a short clip showing the NFL's copyright notice, not the entire broadcast, for the purposes of educational debate. Precisely what fair use covers. And that's why the NFL violated the DMCA as opposed to taking her to court...
Yes, because a short clip used for critique is forbidden by copyright law. Oh, and pigs fly as well. Time for you to get back to work and quit playing lawyer.
That doesn't stop the majority of Slashdot posters from assuming Mozilla Corp. is working on this as we speak and proceeding to criticize them for it. I'm not sure who to blame, the submitter who didn't clarify that this is simply a bunch of messages and not an official Mozilla project, or the Slashdot posters who are too lazy to read the bloody article.
Imagine a world where Slashdot readers actually read BEFORE commenting...
Like I said, Dashboard doesn't consume any resources (or even have any processes running) until you actually open and view your widgets for the first time after logging in (which is why they all have to load for a few seconds at that point). So you have to consciously run Dashboard and use it before it'll consume any resources, just like any other program on your computer. If you don't use it, it's as if it doesn't exist (aside from the paltry amount of disk space it takes up being included in Tiger).
The command-line hack is completely unnecessary. Also, I read somewhere that someone has made a Cocoa application that does the same thing, something I would hope a regular user could handle.
I upped the RAM shortly after getting the computer, long before it ran OS X. I also still have OS 9 installed and OS X runs just as fast, and also boots quicker and is more stable.
As for 256MB of RAM, I wouldn't know. I've never tried OS X on that little RAM.
As for your XP argument, you left out the fact that XP was released in 2001, 1 year after those 2000 era PCs were built, whereas Tiger was released in 2005. I would hope XP would run on a computer built a year before it even shipped.
While Vista would squeak by on that 1 GHz computer, I used my Powermac solely and comfortably while it was running Tiger with a 400 MHz processor up until mid last year, when I bought a Mac Mini. From what I've read, Leopard will again improve speed and the added features (or "bloat"...whatever you want to call it) such as Time Machine will be optional, just like Dashboard. Microsoft has yet to release a new OS that was actually faster than the previous release that I know of. XP had next to no tangible improvements over Windows 2000 (other than Microsoft artificially preventing software from running on it of course), and yet still consumed more resources. Tiger has loads of improvements over Panther and in my experience is faster.
OS X Tiger is faster on my Powermac G4 (400 MHz, 768 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128) than OS X Panther as long as I don't use Dashboard (which, unlike your post seems to imply, is not mandatory and can even be completely disabled if you wish). Until you actually hit F12 and use Dashboard for the first time after logging in, it doesn't even run and consumes no resources. As for Spotlight, after the initial indexing when you first install OS X, it doesn't slow down the system much in my experience, and the initial indexing, even on my old system, only takes about 15 minutes or so. The relatively small slowdown is worth the added convenience in my opinion.
In-fact, my Powermac G4 is more useful today than it was 7 years ago when it first shipped with OS 9 (mainly because OS 9 isn't all that much faster than Tiger, but crashed at least 3 times a day under heavy use requiring a reboot, as opposed to my current 23 day uptime with Tiger....oh, and cause OS 9 was a steaming pile of crap that should never have been released imho).
And I've never seen a Mac that had a single piece of Norton or Symantec software installed on it myself, so what exactly is your point? Making assumptions about an entire market based on your own very limited personal experiences is pretty asinine IMHO. For instance, you never knowing anyone who has used Geek Squad is not even close to being relative to the market, or else they would have gone out of business before they were even a well known name.
Similarly, it is pretty asinine for the blog to assume that every single PC owner uses Geek Squad or spends money on antivirus software, and even more asinine for them to factor in these costs in a comparison against Macs. Owners of Intel Macs that install Windows will have the same costs (Windows on a Mac has the same "problems" as Windows on a PC), and these costs also aren't mandatory. I use Windows Defender and Avast! Antivirus, both of which are free, so these costs simply don't apply to me or anyone who's computer I set up for them.
Bias exists in some way or another in every single piece of literature available (including both your post and the blog you reference, and my post as well), get over it for crying out loud.
What about the people who haven't heard about the lawsuits? Whenever I mention these lawsuits to a non-geek, the general response is "Are you serious? That actually happens?"
The last time I'm aware of Microsoft pumping money into SCO was their weird arrangement with Baystar in 2003. No one is pumping money into SCO anymore, which is why they're almost out of money (again).
It makes me wonder what sort of decision making process is used to figure who is sued in the US vs who gets a courteous nudge on the shoulder to knock if off (or change your behaviors to not get caught). Innie minnie miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe?
Please explain how exactly Youtube is "fascist", a word that is thrown around by people who don't actually know what it means almost as much as words like FUD.
Bad/Evil/Greedy != Fascist
In-fact, what you have said sounds more like Saddam Huessin to me, who was definitely not fascist.
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I somehow find it hard to believe it would be easier reselling them with Ubuntu... unless they were only sold on Slashdot of course.
That's funny that you say HP is losing sales. According to IDC, they have just displaced Dell as the #1 provider of computers and they have increased sales. Of course, why should I believe IDC when I can get my information from random people on Slashdot.
Perhaps they're dropping this because MCE downright sucks?
To my knowledge the records have always been public. In-fact, Ray Beckerman has posted links to numerous court documents on his own blog.
You clearly don't know what you're talking about, and I'm not even a lawyer.
1) Investigators in civil cases do not have police like powers. If they ask for evidence and the other party refuses, they must file a Motion to Compel, which is asking THE COURT to force the hand-over of evidence. This is done precisely because they LACK THIS POWER.
2) The RIAA never asked for this hard drive, it was offered by the defendant before discovery in the case had even begun, which would be the appropriate time for the RIAA to ask for the hard drive.
3) Enron is an entirely different story. No one is saying Enron was in the right. However, Enron was under no obligation to turn over those documents the instant a lawsuit was filed whatsoever. It is the same here. An Answer hadn't even been filed yet in this case! Do you know ANYTHING about the legal process at all?
The Defendant offered the hard drive before filing an answer so that the RIAA would back off. They were under absolutely no obligation to do so. The parent poster was asking why they had to do this (incorrectly assuming that they had to, rather than that they chose to do so), and you proceeded to spew some of the most legally incorrect crap I have ever seen in my life.
Your post was so idiotic I felt it was worth it to undo all of my moderations on this discussion to respond to you. Cheers!
Well obviously you can't buy from other stores using iTunes, but there was a recent article on MacNN about a movie store that sells AppleTV compatible movies, and they are even allowing free downloads as a promotion this month. They are DRM-free, so Apple opening their DRM is completely unnecessary.
To be fair, most of Google's stuff that they've released is never going to make them a dime.
Ummmm...Sony put Linux on the PS3 and then promoted it themselves. It wasn't "hacked" on there. And if you think the PS3 is popular then you need your head examined...
Why not just rip your DVD's to an AppleTV compatible format instead of DivX. AppleTV is not just limited to iTMS purchases. Any store that wants to sell their media in a compatible format will work just fine.
This is Slashdot. Fanboyist rhetoric beats logic. You should know this already! :-)
Please explain how exactly she "tricked" them. She exercised her rights under the DMCA, the NFL abused theirs. The NFL believed the clip was infringing, she believed it was fair use, so she properly filed her response with Youtube. The NFL should have raised the issue through the courts, and instead chose to abuse the DMCA by illegally filing a second take-down notice. Trickery on her part indeed! (That last sentence was sarcastic by the way).
Ever heard of fair use? She took a short clip showing the NFL's copyright notice, not the entire broadcast, for the purposes of educational debate. Precisely what fair use covers. And that's why the NFL violated the DMCA as opposed to taking her to court...
Yes, because a short clip used for critique is forbidden by copyright law. Oh, and pigs fly as well. Time for you to get back to work and quit playing lawyer.
That doesn't stop the majority of Slashdot posters from assuming Mozilla Corp. is working on this as we speak and proceeding to criticize them for it. I'm not sure who to blame, the submitter who didn't clarify that this is simply a bunch of messages and not an official Mozilla project, or the Slashdot posters who are too lazy to read the bloody article.
Imagine a world where Slashdot readers actually read BEFORE commenting...
Like I said, Dashboard doesn't consume any resources (or even have any processes running) until you actually open and view your widgets for the first time after logging in (which is why they all have to load for a few seconds at that point). So you have to consciously run Dashboard and use it before it'll consume any resources, just like any other program on your computer. If you don't use it, it's as if it doesn't exist (aside from the paltry amount of disk space it takes up being included in Tiger).
The command-line hack is completely unnecessary. Also, I read somewhere that someone has made a Cocoa application that does the same thing, something I would hope a regular user could handle.
I upped the RAM shortly after getting the computer, long before it ran OS X. I also still have OS 9 installed and OS X runs just as fast, and also boots quicker and is more stable.
As for 256MB of RAM, I wouldn't know. I've never tried OS X on that little RAM.
As for your XP argument, you left out the fact that XP was released in 2001, 1 year after those 2000 era PCs were built, whereas Tiger was released in 2005. I would hope XP would run on a computer built a year before it even shipped.
While Vista would squeak by on that 1 GHz computer, I used my Powermac solely and comfortably while it was running Tiger with a 400 MHz processor up until mid last year, when I bought a Mac Mini. From what I've read, Leopard will again improve speed and the added features (or "bloat"...whatever you want to call it) such as Time Machine will be optional, just like Dashboard. Microsoft has yet to release a new OS that was actually faster than the previous release that I know of. XP had next to no tangible improvements over Windows 2000 (other than Microsoft artificially preventing software from running on it of course), and yet still consumed more resources. Tiger has loads of improvements over Panther and in my experience is faster.
OS X Tiger is faster on my Powermac G4 (400 MHz, 768 MB RAM, ATI Rage 128) than OS X Panther as long as I don't use Dashboard (which, unlike your post seems to imply, is not mandatory and can even be completely disabled if you wish). Until you actually hit F12 and use Dashboard for the first time after logging in, it doesn't even run and consumes no resources. As for Spotlight, after the initial indexing when you first install OS X, it doesn't slow down the system much in my experience, and the initial indexing, even on my old system, only takes about 15 minutes or so. The relatively small slowdown is worth the added convenience in my opinion.
In-fact, my Powermac G4 is more useful today than it was 7 years ago when it first shipped with OS 9 (mainly because OS 9 isn't all that much faster than Tiger, but crashed at least 3 times a day under heavy use requiring a reboot, as opposed to my current 23 day uptime with Tiger....oh, and cause OS 9 was a steaming pile of crap that should never have been released imho).
And I've never seen a Mac that had a single piece of Norton or Symantec software installed on it myself, so what exactly is your point? Making assumptions about an entire market based on your own very limited personal experiences is pretty asinine IMHO. For instance, you never knowing anyone who has used Geek Squad is not even close to being relative to the market, or else they would have gone out of business before they were even a well known name.
Similarly, it is pretty asinine for the blog to assume that every single PC owner uses Geek Squad or spends money on antivirus software, and even more asinine for them to factor in these costs in a comparison against Macs. Owners of Intel Macs that install Windows will have the same costs (Windows on a Mac has the same "problems" as Windows on a PC), and these costs also aren't mandatory. I use Windows Defender and Avast! Antivirus, both of which are free, so these costs simply don't apply to me or anyone who's computer I set up for them.
Bias exists in some way or another in every single piece of literature available (including both your post and the blog you reference, and my post as well), get over it for crying out loud.
Ummm...I think he was referring to the fact that this is the second announcement on Slashdot for this release...As in, a dupe...
No patents are involved in the SCO lawsuits....
What about the people who haven't heard about the lawsuits? Whenever I mention these lawsuits to a non-geek, the general response is "Are you serious? That actually happens?"
The last time I'm aware of Microsoft pumping money into SCO was their weird arrangement with Baystar in 2003. No one is pumping money into SCO anymore, which is why they're almost out of money (again).
Ummm...Google Apps for your domain doesn't include an office suite yet either. Google Docs has yet to be integrated into GAFYD.
Please explain how exactly Youtube is "fascist", a word that is thrown around by people who don't actually know what it means almost as much as words like FUD.
Bad/Evil/Greedy != Fascist
In-fact, what you have said sounds more like Saddam Huessin to me, who was definitely not fascist.
Ummmm...NeXT did not buy Apple. Apple bought NeXT.