Who's fucking joking? I get BSOD's at home and at the office. Sure, maybe less now than it did with NT4 or W2k, but it still BSOD's if you even sneeze at it. And I'm not a MS hater, I'm an MCDBA. But I'm also realistic. Just running WoW at home now takes down my system. Haven't bothered tracing down the problem yet, mostly because I know I'll invariably end up having to reinstall XP yet again.
wmv has several differences. They have scripting abilities built-in, and can indeed make popups, download drm licenses, and in some cases install spyware. It's been documented. Playing a WMV in Windows Media player is about as safe as surfing pr0n sites with IE, if you don't have activeX and scripting disabled. However, I don't believe other players run the scripts in wmv files. But I could be wrong.
You know, think about this... You're YOUR MOM, or Nancy in marketing, or Joe in sales, or Grandpa "retired firefighter", or someone else that isn't from a tech background. You going to buy an OS cd and attempt to install an OS? Not likely. You're going to want the whole package. And if you were one of those non-tech people clueful enough to handle an OS install, and MacOS was what you wanted, wouldn't you be willing to pay the premium over Windows? I think so.
I agree here completely. I also think that the number of people who will be competent enough to modify their OS X instal disks to allow installation on banned hardware is going to be a very small percentage of the OS X user base. The pro's (graphic artists, video editing, music) are still going to buy Apple hardware. The average home schmo is either going to buy Apple hardware to run OS X, or buy a Dell and run Windows. Techy nerds who like OS X, but don't want to (or can't) buy an Apple will figure out how to modify their installs to work on what they have. This last group is very small, overall. I think it will be counter productive for Apple to spend too many resources on this topic. Most users won't know how to install OS X on their Dell, even if handed a print out of instructions. (can you tell I'm a jaded ex-helpdesk monkey yet?:))
And then it begs the question, can they serve cease & desists based on EULA's? Last I heard, it's not illegal to post instructions on how to do something that will violate your EULA. The poster may or may not have purchased the software and agreed to the EULA themselves, therefore aren't violating said contract. It's not even illegal to violate the EULA itself, just breach of contract.
will Apple have to shut down sites like this, once there's no more obvious developer NDA's to claim. I mean, if people are buying OS X, then modifying their legal copies to work on a generic x86 box, what law have they broken? How will Apple shut down sites describing this process? Will it be a DMCA violation to edit config files in the OS, or patch a binary, to allow your OS to run on another machine?
To me, it's like modifying Windows to run on a Sparc or something (nearly impossible without recompiling source, I know, but same idea).
There's certainly many reasons I assume, but the first that comes to my mind is that they can have end-to-end control of data. Windows Server 2003 w/ IIS and some IE-only ASP content serving pages with IE-only ActiveX content to IE/Win XP clients. Or.asx streaming MMS content to Win Media Player. Very handy for locking clients, and their client's clients, into MS formats and MS standards.
*before anyone dissects that, yes, I know there are ASP implentations for Apache. But they're not 100% compatible.
Most of the 'fox users I know user it primarily because of security as opposed to the featureset. But once you use it, and see the nifty new features, it's a nice bonus. Even if IE adds in those features, how many Firefox users will trust it?
They only mentioned 4 motors for Formula One racing. I'd assume a street car would be outfitted with just one. Current electric cars have only one motor, and they claim that this one is more powerful than those.
Yeah, I assume he was making fun of the fact that OS 8 and lower (or was it 7.6.1?), the machine was useless while it formatted a floppy. The curser turned into an hourglass until it finished. But that was ~10 years ago and was fixed before OS X even came out. Back when you could still buy a Mac with a floppy.
On a production machine where uptime is vital, you do NOT let a machine sit at a bluescreen for a couple hours. You make it reboot and then check the event viewer logs later on to see what caused the crash. Or you lose your job. The BSOD messages are generally non-informative anyway. I'd prefer my system reboot quickly and I'll just read my logs to find the cause. It's not hard, even us proffessional "noobs" can do it. But I'm sure you know all about that.
If you put a webpage on the internet, and do not charge people for the priviledge of access to said site, then it is "free". If you then puts ads on the site to attempt to recoup some of the money for hosting, that's fine. But when you start to think that all visitors MUST view all the ads, it's beyond reasonable expectations. If the site is "free" no payment is expected or asked for from visitors. I have a colo server myself. It gets close to a million hits a month, and I pay close to $150 a month for it. I have no ads. Hosting is simply a cost I expect to incur for having a webpage, and I do not and cannot expect visitors to my site to help pay for it. That's not why it's there. Non-business websites are not money-making ventures, and I doubt they ever will be.
The point they're making (if I understand their meaning) is that by changing the clocks for half the year, we keep businesses open during daylight hours rather than dark/twilight, thereby saving a few cents per building in electricity per day. By not changing the time back again in the summer, you negate the effect by having businesses stay open too late and hitting dim light hours again for half the year. Sounds stupid to me.
Don't see how it would work. Would it prevent you from dropping your own mp3's onto the device? And if so, just what mp3's would this supposed mp3 player actually be able to play? Only ones ripped with the supplied ripper program? I still need to see the actual documentation on how they're going to implement this before I discount it.
No shit. It's like people can't understand what "maximim bid" means. I mean, decide what the highest amount you're willing to pay for that item is, and set it. If you win you win, if not then you didn't overpay for that item. Obviously, if you need to go back in and raise it later, then you didn't actually put your maximum bid in to start with. Either that, or they caught the "auction bug" and can't help themselves from trying to outbid someone. It's as bad as gambling "sickness" sometimes.
How does it support the suit? It's documented procedure. When you sign up with ebay, you're expected to read and understand how the process works. Just because you're too lazy too, doesn't make you eligible to sue them for something you should have known before you started bidding. Ebay tells you it works this way. If you use the system you agree to those terms. The suit is frivilous.
That's exactly the point. If the woman owned no computer or internet connection, then how the hell did they get her name? Properly investigating who they are suing before filing it may have prevented this idiocy.
Yeah, and it makes me wonder, how many of these damn lawsuits are even the right people? How can we trust they're not just suing anyone without even going through proper investigative procedure to see if their data is accurate? I get the feeling they don't care. Just grab an IP off the log and sue it. Who cares if it's the actual file sharer or not, we deserve compensation.
I'd bet his problem with fonts management is that he's probably using at least one Classic app in OS X, and has no idea that the classic version of apps use a totally different font folder in the OS9 system folder. So you open up Photoshop (OSX version) and see one set of fonts. Open up Quark (classic version) and see a different set of fonts. Then wonder what's wrong with the system. Since he's not a Mac user, I guess you can't expect him to really understand the difference here though... many Mac users don't get it.
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Who's fucking joking? I get BSOD's at home and at the office.
Sure, maybe less now than it did with NT4 or W2k, but it still BSOD's if you even sneeze at it.
And I'm not a MS hater, I'm an MCDBA. But I'm also realistic. Just running WoW at home now takes down my system. Haven't bothered tracing down the problem yet, mostly because I know I'll invariably end up having to reinstall XP yet again.
I wish I could laugh at the BSOD jokes.
And in a way, it seems to be a valid method of research.
Instead of looking for the data... have the data come to you.
Lazy, but possibly effective.
wmv has several differences. They have scripting abilities built-in, and can indeed make popups, download drm licenses, and in some cases install spyware. It's been documented. Playing a WMV in Windows Media player is about as safe as surfing pr0n sites with IE, if you don't have activeX and scripting disabled.
However, I don't believe other players run the scripts in wmv files. But I could be wrong.
You know, think about this... You're YOUR MOM, or Nancy in marketing, or Joe in sales, or Grandpa "retired firefighter", or someone else that isn't from a tech background. You going to buy an OS cd and attempt to install an OS? Not likely. You're going to want the whole package. And if you were one of those non-tech people clueful enough to handle an OS install, and MacOS was what you wanted, wouldn't you be willing to pay the premium over Windows? I think so.
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I agree here completely. I also think that the number of people who will be competent enough to modify their OS X instal disks to allow installation on banned hardware is going to be a very small percentage of the OS X user base. The pro's (graphic artists, video editing, music) are still going to buy Apple hardware. The average home schmo is either going to buy Apple hardware to run OS X, or buy a Dell and run Windows. Techy nerds who like OS X, but don't want to (or can't) buy an Apple will figure out how to modify their installs to work on what they have. This last group is very small, overall. I think it will be counter productive for Apple to spend too many resources on this topic. Most users won't know how to install OS X on their Dell, even if handed a print out of instructions.
(can you tell I'm a jaded ex-helpdesk monkey yet?
NDA's are NOT law.
They're contracts.
So someone is violating their agreement, but not a law.
And then it begs the question, can they serve cease & desists based on EULA's?
Last I heard, it's not illegal to post instructions on how to do something that will violate your EULA. The poster may or may not have purchased the software and agreed to the EULA themselves, therefore aren't violating said contract. It's not even illegal to violate the EULA itself, just breach of contract.
will Apple have to shut down sites like this, once there's no more obvious developer NDA's to claim.
I mean, if people are buying OS X, then modifying their legal copies to work on a generic x86 box, what law have they broken? How will Apple shut down sites describing this process? Will it be a DMCA violation to edit config files in the OS, or patch a binary, to allow your OS to run on another machine?
To me, it's like modifying Windows to run on a Sparc or something (nearly impossible without recompiling source, I know, but same idea).
There's certainly many reasons I assume, but the first that comes to my mind is that they can have end-to-end control of data. .asx streaming MMS content to Win Media Player.
Windows Server 2003 w/ IIS and some IE-only ASP content serving pages with IE-only ActiveX content to IE/Win XP clients. Or
Very handy for locking clients, and their client's clients, into MS formats and MS standards.
*before anyone dissects that, yes, I know there are ASP implentations for Apache. But they're not 100% compatible.
Most of the 'fox users I know user it primarily because of security as opposed to the featureset. But once you use it, and see the nifty new features, it's a nice bonus.
Even if IE adds in those features, how many Firefox users will trust it?
We don't see you posting links to *your* more credible sources, now do we?
They only mentioned 4 motors for Formula One racing. I'd assume a street car would be outfitted with just one. Current electric cars have only one motor, and they claim that this one is more powerful than those.
Yeah, I assume he was making fun of the fact that OS 8 and lower (or was it 7.6.1?), the machine was useless while it formatted a floppy. The curser turned into an hourglass until it finished. But that was ~10 years ago and was fixed before OS X even came out. Back when you could still buy a Mac with a floppy.
On a production machine where uptime is vital, you do NOT let a machine sit at a bluescreen for a couple hours. You make it reboot and then check the event viewer logs later on to see what caused the crash. Or you lose your job.
The BSOD messages are generally non-informative anyway. I'd prefer my system reboot quickly and I'll just read my logs to find the cause.
It's not hard, even us proffessional "noobs" can do it. But I'm sure you know all about that.
Maybe it's just me, but this whole article screams, "Give me some good ideas to take to my boss and make me look good, and help me do my job."
If you put a webpage on the internet, and do not charge people for the priviledge of access to said site, then it is "free".
If you then puts ads on the site to attempt to recoup some of the money for hosting, that's fine.
But when you start to think that all visitors MUST view all the ads, it's beyond reasonable expectations. If the site is "free" no payment is expected or asked for from visitors.
I have a colo server myself. It gets close to a million hits a month, and I pay close to $150 a month for it. I have no ads. Hosting is simply a cost I expect to incur for having a webpage, and I do not and cannot expect visitors to my site to help pay for it. That's not why it's there. Non-business websites are not money-making ventures, and I doubt they ever will be.
The point they're making (if I understand their meaning) is that by changing the clocks for half the year, we keep businesses open during daylight hours rather than dark/twilight, thereby saving a few cents per building in electricity per day.
By not changing the time back again in the summer, you negate the effect by having businesses stay open too late and hitting dim light hours again for half the year.
Sounds stupid to me.
I think he meant you could try again immediately, not a week later after you healed up.
Don't see how it would work. Would it prevent you from dropping your own mp3's onto the device? And if so, just what mp3's would this supposed mp3 player actually be able to play? Only ones ripped with the supplied ripper program?
I still need to see the actual documentation on how they're going to implement this before I discount it.
memory stick... don't care about too much
:)
tmobile... great, that's my co.
DRM... where does it say that at? I read Ericsson's site and saw no mention of DRM.
No shit. It's like people can't understand what "maximim bid" means. I mean, decide what the highest amount you're willing to pay for that item is, and set it. If you win you win, if not then you didn't overpay for that item. Obviously, if you need to go back in and raise it later, then you didn't actually put your maximum bid in to start with.
Either that, or they caught the "auction bug" and can't help themselves from trying to outbid someone. It's as bad as gambling "sickness" sometimes.
How does it support the suit? It's documented procedure. When you sign up with ebay, you're expected to read and understand how the process works. Just because you're too lazy too, doesn't make you eligible to sue them for something you should have known before you started bidding.
Ebay tells you it works this way. If you use the system you agree to those terms. The suit is frivilous.
That's exactly the point. If the woman owned no computer or internet connection, then how the hell did they get her name? Properly investigating who they are suing before filing it may have prevented this idiocy.
Yeah, and it makes me wonder, how many of these damn lawsuits are even the right people? How can we trust they're not just suing anyone without even going through proper investigative procedure to see if their data is accurate?
I get the feeling they don't care. Just grab an IP off the log and sue it. Who cares if it's the actual file sharer or not, we deserve compensation.
Licensing issues maybe?
I'd bet his problem with fonts management is that he's probably using at least one Classic app in OS X, and has no idea that the classic version of apps use a totally different font folder in the OS9 system folder.
So you open up Photoshop (OSX version) and see one set of fonts. Open up Quark (classic version) and see a different set of fonts. Then wonder what's wrong with the system.
Since he's not a Mac user, I guess you can't expect him to really understand the difference here though... many Mac users don't get it.