The problem with open source development is that computer geeks are attracted to it. not other kinds of geeks (design geeks, graphic geeks, font geeks, even marketing geeks). The way to attract other kind of geeks to something they aren't innately attracted to is to offer them money. Something that a commercial, closed-source shop can do. Open source software can have a much harder time doing that (of course its not impossible).
That's why the core of linux is rock-solid. Its computer geeks doing what computer geeks love. But when you get to areas where computer geeks are out of there element, there tends to be more lackluster results.
According to this site The Federal Fifth Circuit of Appeals overturned the idea that laws could be copyrighted, and stated that laws are public information.
to quote:
"The citizens are the authors of the law, and therefore its owners, regardless of who actually drafts the provisions, because the law derives its authority from the consent of the public, expressed through the democratic process."
State of Georgia v. Harrison Co., 548 F. Supp. 110, 114 (N.D. Ga. 1982)
"You allege that Mr. Roberts was employed for Worldcom for a period of time. The innuendo is that Mr. Roberts was employed for a significant period of time. You need to correct your article to state that Mr. Roberts worked out of his home for WorldCom for 90 days as a non-officer"
90 days is a freakin' period of time! 20 seconds is a period of time! the sentence is a true statement! Under what US law is publishing a true statement a crime? (well, other than copyright, patent, and trademark laws; depending on the context, but those aren't being argued here).
Therefore Pepsi hands a $20 million check to Apple and it's all settled.
I'm guessing that his is not how it works (though I could be wrong and you could be right;-). My understanding on how these promotions go, is that pepsi actually pays some insurance company (or, more-likely, a company that specializes in promotion coverage, like this one.) a straight fee (like the $20 million you mentioned), Pepsi probably says "hey, wouldn't it be cool if we gave away 100 millions songs for free off of itunes?", they go the the insurance company who runs a bunch of numbers through computers and calculate the actual odds of percentages of redemption. They then tell Pepsi, we'll insure the promotion for $X dollars and pepsi says go or no-go.
Remember those wacky rumor sites claim that pepsi is paying Apple full price. Other sites (more news oriented) say that Apple is only getting something like 10 cents a song, so Apple is probably very limited on what kind of special pricing they can offer.
That's my guess anyways - take it for what it is, just random thinking from a random guy who vaguely remembers reading an article many years ago on how these kinds of promotions work.
Your call. I'll bet they're not the first vendor (from any manufacturing sector) to replace functionally-identical parts with cheaper ones though.
And that is good capitalism, and company management.
But companies only do that with the un-advertised components of that product. When the describe the pickup, they don't tell you what brand the bolts are, or who made the axle, or who manufactured the circuit boards. But they tell you that the engine is a hemi. If the circuit boards are changed, you don't care, you made no purchasing decision on who/what those are. You did make a purchasing decision on the hemi though, and if they changed that on you and said, don't worry - the performance is the same. They would be facing a class-action lawsuit.
It's all about the fact that they advertised a very specific brand of video cards, and outright lied about it.
The big problem with this, imho, is that consumers already can't trust advertising in regards to anything. Because of this, those in the know have to rely on known quantities, like the parts of the machine and its known specs by independent (or should I say trusted by that person) reviewers.
Therefore they only way they can tell if the purchase is worth their time is by looking at the specs, which we don't expect to be lied to about - and I had thought we had the force of law on our side, truth in advertising and all that. (warning: Poorly thought out car analogy ahead) A car company can't advertise a truck as having 500 horsepower, even if they can claim that there new-fangled 300hp engine is just as good in all conditions. Or even if they could claim that by putting 500hp engine into this trucks transmission wouldn't give you anymore benefit cause the transmission can't make use of the extra 200 horsepower.
If the specs say one thing, but they give us another - then there is no point in deciding for myself what is the best product - I should say here's 1000 dollars, give me the computer.
And finally, just because _they say_ there is no difference. It doesn't mean there is no difference. They have already lied to me about one thing, why should I trust them on this? They are removing my ability to research the video cards and deciding on my own if its worth paying more $$ on a video card that gives me no benifits, maybe there are benefits that for my particular purposes that review sites like Tom's Hardware didn't take into account or didn't even think about. Maybe they are right and there is no difference - but then don't lie to me about it!
I saw the live feed from cnn too, and it was very cool. A very tense few minutes between the landing tones and the "all things are really cool" signal.
I was almost as excited for that signal as I was for the packers making it to the playoffs last week (woo-hoo go packers!). It makes me wonder what other geeky events should the be showing live on tv? I'm also curios to know how long they would've stayed with the NASA feed if things had gone badly.
Creates a case-sensitive HFS Plus filesystem. By default a case-insensitive filesystem is created. Case-sensitive HFS Plus file systems require a Mac OS X version of 10.3 (Darwin 7.0) or later
Keep in mind that, particularly with regard to Aqua, much of the code has been optimizes specifically for the Velocity Engine of the G4/G5.
Also remember that Apple supports G3's, which do not have AltiVec - I'd guess that there are some nonheavily optimized versions of all altivec-optimized code, that could be recompiled relatively painlessly to x86, I'd also bet that Apple learned its lesson from the 68k->powerpc transition, and relies a lot less on huge chunks of non-portable code.
plus there are always the rumors of the small group of apple engineers whose job it is to make sure the current OSX codebase can compile on an x86 box, just in case the PowerPC starts to really lose the mhz race (which some say, if it weren't for the G5, might have happened)
AFAIK you still need an AOLIM account for chatting outside of your LAN
Actually you can get a.Mac ID, even though you haven't subscribed to.Mac, and use that instead of an AOLIM account for chatting outside of your LAN. See Apple for more details
They also give you 6 months free.Mac trial membership, but the iChat name will last past that.
According to the fed's Do not call FAQ there are whole industries that are exempt for some stupid reason that more than likely involves money. Those industries are: long-distance phone companies, airlines, banks and credit unions, and the business of insurance
It really upsets me that these business are exempt (even though they can't use a professional telemarketing firm, according the posted faq), There is no reason that I would want to get calls from these business as opposed to others.
I really like my state's (Wisconsin) no-call list (except for the 2 year limit opposed to the federal 5 year limit). The only exemptions make some sense (previous business relationship, non-profits, politicians, surveys), and they require that all telemarketers not block Caller ID, that's great thinking if you ask me.
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Wow, I've never heard of this feature. Of course I didn't believe it when you first mentioned it (sorry:), but sure enough, this link describes it like you say. That's a pretty neat feature.
'cause then ms would have proof that Real stole the code and that they didn't clean room it? I dunno, just a thought.
Some potential code comments that would have to be combed through before release: /* Insert stolen MS code here */ /* note: Many Bothans died to bring you this information */ /* note: don't forget to re-write if ever open-sourced */
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Weird. Do you have the model with the USB port (print server) ?
There are two airport extremes, one with a modem and an antenna port (for for 249) and one without the two (for 199). Which never made sense to me, I would think the user who wanted the antenna, would be the one who connected the airport to the LAN, and wouldn't ever use the modem.
If this is going to be US funded I thinks it's okay to favor US companies
yay! To better position American companies they are also going to change the system of measurement from metric to US Standard (whatever the hell its called). Little does the world know, this is just the first step to rid us of the wimpy french metric system.
after all, there's no reason the Iraqi people need any input in these kind of decisions...
The Supreme Court may yet overturn it, but it would be an interesting precedent if upheld
Can the (presumably US) Supreme Court overturn a State Supreme Court interpreting that State's Constitution? I would guess not (unless the state constitution was unconstitutional). I would then conjecture that the US Supreme Court couldn't overturn the part of the ruling that stated it violated the Colorado constitution.
IE on the Mac uses the Quartz HTML redering engine, I think, so Microsoft is actually depandant on Apple there.
Quartz is NOT an HTML rendering engine, its MacOS X's 2D rendering engine.It knows nothing of HTML at all. IE for the mac has its own html renderer thats completly microsoft develped, called Tasman. Apple does have an HTML rendering engine called the HTMLRenderLib, but it really sucks the big one. Other than Apple's HTML Help, I don't really know of anybody that makes use of it.
Am I the only one to notice that the Mac postings on Slashdot are getting hardly any comments?
This is probably just because most of the Apple stories aren't posted to the main slashdot page. Since the apple page started, only about 3 of the total stories here have made it to the front page. You can tell 'cause the comment count is much greater!
btw, does anybody know of a link on apple.slashdot.org to get to the main site quickly? it't probably pretty obvious, but I can't find it, and I'd rather goto the apple page first, and then flit over to the main page.
Gateway's cube shaped computer is just a rebranded cobalt Qube.
from a cobalt press release in 2000: "During the December quarter 1999, Cobalt established several strategic relationships including NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom and Gateway. The company began shipments of products to Gateway, which Gateway is marketing under the name Gateway Microserver. "
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The problem with open source development is that computer geeks are attracted to it. not other kinds of geeks (design geeks, graphic geeks, font geeks, even marketing geeks). The way to attract other kind of geeks to something they aren't innately attracted to is to offer them money. Something that a commercial, closed-source shop can do. Open source software can have a much harder time doing that (of course its not impossible).
That's why the core of linux is rock-solid. Its computer geeks doing what computer geeks love. But when you get to areas where computer geeks are out of there element, there tends to be more lackluster results.
to quote:
Lines like
"You allege that Mr. Roberts was employed for Worldcom for a period of time. The innuendo is that Mr. Roberts was employed for a significant period of time. You need to correct your article to state that Mr. Roberts worked out of his home for WorldCom for 90 days as a non-officer"
90 days is a freakin' period of time! 20 seconds is a period of time! the sentence is a true statement! Under what US law is publishing a true statement a crime? (well, other than copyright, patent, and trademark laws; depending on the context, but those aren't being argued here).
anyways, its-a funny readin'
Remember those wacky rumor sites claim that pepsi is paying Apple full price. Other sites (more news oriented) say that Apple is only getting something like 10 cents a song, so Apple is probably very limited on what kind of special pricing they can offer.
That's my guess anyways - take it for what it is, just random thinking from a random guy who vaguely remembers reading an article many years ago on how these kinds of promotions work.
But companies only do that with the un-advertised components of that product. When the describe the pickup, they don't tell you what brand the bolts are, or who made the axle, or who manufactured the circuit boards. But they tell you that the engine is a hemi. If the circuit boards are changed, you don't care, you made no purchasing decision on who/what those are. You did make a purchasing decision on the hemi though, and if they changed that on you and said, don't worry - the performance is the same. They would be facing a class-action lawsuit.
It's all about the fact that they advertised a very specific brand of video cards, and outright lied about it.
The big problem with this, imho, is that consumers already can't trust advertising in regards to anything. Because of this, those in the know have to rely on known quantities, like the parts of the machine and its known specs by independent (or should I say trusted by that person) reviewers.
Therefore they only way they can tell if the purchase is worth their time is by looking at the specs, which we don't expect to be lied to about - and I had thought we had the force of law on our side, truth in advertising and all that. (warning: Poorly thought out car analogy ahead) A car company can't advertise a truck as having 500 horsepower, even if they can claim that there new-fangled 300hp engine is just as good in all conditions. Or even if they could claim that by putting 500hp engine into this trucks transmission wouldn't give you anymore benefit cause the transmission can't make use of the extra 200 horsepower.
If the specs say one thing, but they give us another - then there is no point in deciding for myself what is the best product - I should say here's 1000 dollars, give me the computer.
And finally, just because _they say_ there is no difference. It doesn't mean there is no difference. They have already lied to me about one thing, why should I trust them on this? They are removing my ability to research the video cards and deciding on my own if its worth paying more $$ on a video card that gives me no benifits, maybe there are benefits that for my particular purposes that review sites like Tom's Hardware didn't take into account or didn't even think about. Maybe they are right and there is no difference - but then don't lie to me about it!
I saw the live feed from cnn too, and it was very cool. A very tense few minutes between the landing tones and the "all things are really cool" signal.
I was almost as excited for that signal as I was for the packers making it to the playoffs last week (woo-hoo go packers!). It makes me wonder what other geeky events should the be showing live on tv? I'm also curios to know how long they would've stayed with the NASA feed if things had gone badly.
Its a just recently added feature!
See the -s option for newfs_hfs:
(from man newfs_hfs)
-s
Creates a case-sensitive HFS Plus filesystem. By default a case-insensitive filesystem is created. Case-sensitive HFS Plus file systems require a Mac OS X version of 10.3 (Darwin 7.0) or later
Where's my promised Firefly content?
You can't burn an MP3 CD from the paid music store selections (I've tried), but you can still make Audio CD's and pure data CD's.
:)
This is the DRM in effect, there is no technical reason why this should be.
Though you can, of course, take that Audio CD and rip it to MP3's, Apple claims you lose fidelity. My crappy ears can't tell the difference though.
(I'm a fan of iTunes, just didn't want you to get your hopes up
Also remember that Apple supports G3's, which do not have AltiVec - I'd guess that there are some nonheavily optimized versions of all altivec-optimized code, that could be recompiled relatively painlessly to x86, I'd also bet that Apple learned its lesson from the 68k->powerpc transition, and relies a lot less on huge chunks of non-portable code.
plus there are always the rumors of the small group of apple engineers whose job it is to make sure the current OSX codebase can compile on an x86 box, just in case the PowerPC starts to really lose the mhz race (which some say, if it weren't for the G5, might have happened)
They also give you 6 months free .Mac trial membership, but the iChat name will last past that.
It really upsets me that these business are exempt (even though they can't use a professional telemarketing firm, according the posted faq), There is no reason that I would want to get calls from these business as opposed to others.
I really like my state's (Wisconsin) no-call list (except for the 2 year limit opposed to the federal 5 year limit). The only exemptions make some sense (previous business relationship, non-profits, politicians, surveys), and they require that all telemarketers not block Caller ID, that's great thinking if you ask me.
Wow, I've never heard of this feature. Of course I didn't believe it when you first mentioned it (sorry:), but sure enough, this link describes it like you say. That's a pretty neat feature.
'cause then ms would have proof that Real stole the code and that they didn't clean room it? I dunno, just a thought.
/* Insert stolen MS code here */
/* note: Many Bothans died to bring you this information */
/* note: don't forget to re-write if ever open-sourced */
Some potential code comments that would have to be combed through before release:
There are two airport extremes, one with a modem and an antenna port (for for 249) and one without the two (for 199). Which never made sense to me, I would think the user who wanted the antenna, would be the one who connected the airport to the LAN, and wouldn't ever use the modem.
after all, there's no reason the Iraqi people need any input in these kind of decisions...
Dammit! now I've got to link to a pippin site again!
Looks like it's 4 buttons, a trackballish thing, and a standard 4 way pad.
Thanks to Newtonian_p for a link to a better site than the one I had initially linked to. Its got a nice picture that goes with it too!
The pippen! Ruggedized ADB ports, 6 megs of ram! a slimmed down macos that only had one game that I've ever heard of (Marathon!! I loved that game).
... oooh! a shiny penny!
The specs for the pippen are available at this site
ah yes those heady days where apple was so distracted by any little
source code to webcore found at http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore /index.html
I haven't used or downloaded the source - so I'm not entirely sure its what your looking for, but use it for what its worth.
but I'm just guessing...
btw, does anybody know of a link on apple.slashdot.org to get to the main site quickly? it't probably pretty obvious, but I can't find it, and I'd rather goto the apple page first, and then flit over to the main page.
Gateway's cube shaped computer is just a rebranded cobalt Qube.
from a cobalt press release in 2000:
"During the December quarter 1999, Cobalt established several strategic relationships including NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom and Gateway. The company began shipments of products to Gateway, which Gateway is marketing under the name Gateway Microserver. "