I think they're the largest company on a US stock exchange (or maybe any publically traded company) whose revenue is entirely open-source based. IBM does a bunch of other stuff, Sun sells servers, and Novell has other products designed for Windows. So Red Hat might be the largest company based whose revenue is entirely dependent upon Linux or a stack built primarily on Linux.
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Legally speaking, that's an interesting question. Technically speaking, Cells aren't supported by Tiger, so you'd have to emulate a G3 on top of a Cell processor. And you'd still have to hack the installer. I think the more interesting question would be whether you could install it on a modded Xbox, since processor wise, they're more like a G4 or G5.
In Apple's case however, since the retail versions of OS X are often marketed as upgrades, it should be pretty clear that it's not for generic x86 PCs. In the case of post-sale transactions, you're being told that something (a game or program) will work on (or is designed for) your computer, and you find conditions attached to it. In this case, OS X isn't being marketed as software for a generic PC, it's being marketed as software for a Mac. You're getting what you bought. Its not an incident where you're secretly being sold spyware.
Also, every retail copy of Tiger on the market is for a PowerPC computer. The only non-Apple PPC computers are some IBM servers and some old Sun computers. So you're buying something that won't work on your computer, pirating the Intel version, and calling that legal. When Leopard comes out and Apple is selling an x86 compatible retail version of their OS, that's a possible different story.
Also if battery life was such a concern why does Apple do all of the decode in the cpu? From what I understand, there are no M4A or MP3 accelerators in it. While that may have added $5 bucks to the end cost [which is already at a premium anyways] it would have boosted battery life nicely.
The iPod supports mp3 (DRMed or un-DRMed), AAC (DRMed or un-DRMed), WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless, and maybe 1-2 more codecs. That's more than is reasonable to have separate decoders for. Even if they did it just for un-DRMed MP3, DRMed AAC, and un-DRMed AAC, that's still a lot of discrete chips.
I'm sorry. I just don't get it. I hope that's a joke, because iTunes started out on the Mac. And you can run the Windows version of iTunes via WINE or Crossover on Linux, can't you? Also, Mac support is fine for external peripherals (unless they need legacy ports or something), and most Macs don't have internal upgrade spots anyways.
"All you've done is substitute one set of unique information for another set of unique information, the fact that the information means nothing to you doesn't change it."
Yes, but it's information that's harder to obtain. I mean, you can't read it off the card's front, you have to scan to get it, and once you get it, you can't use that series of encrypted info at the online stores, you have to find a credit card of a similar type and "flash" it to that encrypted series.
You REALLY misunderstand him. He's not espousing those points, or agreeing with or opposing them. He's saying that those are examples of times that Slashdot has pushed an organizational opinion in a summary. And it's true. Slashdot is biased towards GNU/Linux/OSS, and against copyright. It's also owned by VA Software, so that should be no surprise. But I think the issue here that no one is addressing is that Forbes shouldn't be being compared to Slashdot. Slashdot is run by 4-5 guys, and is aimed at a small niche ("Nerds"). Forbes is supposedly the top business magazine. Big difference is that Forbes shouldn't have the biases Slashdot can get away with.
* If you want an office suite, you have to pay quite a bit extra to get it. MS Office for Mac is something like $379 or so. If you're a student you might get it for less.
Mac OS X has OpenOffice as well, and it has NeoOffice, both of which are free (and essentially identical to the OO.o that comes with Linux distros. I think we're a few 2.0.x's back, but it's practically the same.
more efficient windowing system - maybe, even probably
better software development - again, maybe
better user interface - NO. Linux doesn't work because you occaisonally have to drop to the CLI or edit a preferences file by hand to do complicated things like make integrated sound or newer video cards work. The rest of it maybe be wonderful, but the second a person has to look at the manual or ask a veteran and it/he says "go to the command line and...", it's game over. I can figure out what "sudo apt-get distro-update" means, but Joe Average can't. And apt-get is the easiest package manager (or so many say). Similarly, if someone has to edit multiple config files to get graphics to work, then it's a no-go. And when Flash/WMV/whatever doesn't work, Joe Average doesn't care why. He just cares that Linux won't do it, and Windows or OS X will.
Well, at a certain age, it will be harder to bribe them with merit badges.
One of the BSA/RIAA/MPAA's worries has to be that politicians hostile to them will come into office. If they work on training a generation of politically active individuals who share their copyright opinions, that's less likely.
For example, imagine if the Computers merit badge had a history component that discussed Linux. Particularly, what if the discussion of requirement 1 (history of computing) or 8 (is it ok to accept a free copy of a computer program from a friend) required the two-part answer "Not if it's closed-source commercial software, but absolutely yes if it's freeware or opensource". Then every Boy Scout who does the merit badge (which due to its ease is popular) knows about OSS. Or if this merit badge about copyright talked about how the average musicians get screwed by record labels. Or how the RIAA/MPAA use very shady legal tactics.
If you've trained someone by age 18 to accept an idea, it becomes harder to get them to change their mind. Then the RIAA gets another generation of "upstanding people" who agree with them 100%.
Huh? All the systems on this lineup use standard PC3200 (DDR400) RAM. Which is the same RAM that you could use as system RAM with many motherboards (e.g. this one). I don't see why the RAM would be faster on the video card than in the main system...?
You are correct that those systems are using DDR RAM. But graphics cards (including the cards in those machines) use other, more expensive, faster RAM, like GDDR3.
Apparently they got tired of spending so much money on computer graphics, so almost all of the new shows are set in a muddy field, with some tents and some junk. It's turned into a freaking soap opera about mommies and babies. Fuck that shit, I want to see some nuclear explosions in space!
OK. First of all, Galactica is a drama set in space. It's not a scifi kill-fest. The awesome explosions and Viper vs. Raider battles are incidental to the plot. The show gets all its acclaim and awards (and most of its audience) from the script and acting. Without that, the show won't have lasted into season 2.
And the current situation on the planet is symbolically critical - recall the line last week when Tyrol said "We're going home" in reference to reassembling the fleet, when the whole first 2 seasons they wanted a planet to call home, they've found out (both before and during the occupation) that maybe there's more to a new home than soil. Also, you'll be getting your wish in Exodus Part 2, I bet, with 2 battlestars vs. 5 basestars, and 1000 resistance fighters versus the Cylons on the ground.
Back on topic: The webisodes were short (a total of about 15 minutes of content), but they are vital to introducing Duck and Jammer and their choices. Seeing the webisodes helps with the Duck-related scenes in "Occupation", and Jammer's conflicts in the other two episodes. It also really reveals the full irony of Tyrol's conversation with Jammer about Gaeta. That will echo through to at least Episode 5 "Collaborators".
Obviously you forgot the entire Centris and Performa lines.
I have a Performa. It still works. We replaced it with a G3 iMac, but we didn't remove it for years. Only in the last year has my mom migrated from Claris Works to AppleWorks on the G3. If I could find a use for the Performa, it'd still be running.
Not to mention that it's not like they're not bringing cases. All they have to say is "We intend to go after other sites later, we've got out hands full with dozens or hundreds of lawsuits already now".
What you don't realize is that none of those are viruses. Some are worms, some are trojans, but none are viruses. Even the worst of those require some interaction on the part of the user, and the infection rate is near minimal. I could hook my Mac Pro up to two 1 GB pipes at a Tier 1 ISP, deactivate the firewall and set it on a script to search the entire Internet and download anything sketchy and Mac-compatible. If I walk away and come back a few days later, it's not going to be owned. An unpatched XP machine is owned in less time than it takes to play a game of Solitaire.
Jason P is one of the lead techs who's in the project. What we're looking at (and I'm not a tech) is using PostgreSQL and optimizing for better searches and collisions, so that we can cut down on silly categories like "French-Canadian singer/songwriter/actresses".
He ran Nupedia, co-founded Wikipedia, and has worked with the Digital Universe Foundation. He's got the relevant experience to start and lead this sort of a project.
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I think they're the largest company on a US stock exchange (or maybe any publically traded company) whose revenue is entirely open-source based. IBM does a bunch of other stuff, Sun sells servers, and Novell has other products designed for Windows. So Red Hat might be the largest company based whose revenue is entirely dependent upon Linux or a stack built primarily on Linux.
Either with Penryn in late 2007, which is a 45 nm Core 2 chip, or they'll wait until the Nehalem micro-arcitechure in 2008.
XP is on 99.99% of new computers.
Which proves only that MS makes deals with OEMs, not that XP is a viable OS.
I'm pretty sure that the US military is going to be nicer to its own citizens than its being to the Iraqis.
Please feel free to email me (zachary.pruckowski@gmail.com) and we can talk about Citizendium, where we're currently recruiting experts to help approve articles. It will help address a lot of your issues. Since approved pages are the first ones that are displayed to readers, pages will change less often, and we won't be publishing vandalism to un-logged people. You could go and approve the page yourself before your students look at it. While I think professors and students alike agree that encyclopedias aren't the best primary sources for papers at all, but as a quick primer on a topic, it can be quite useful.
Legally speaking, that's an interesting question. Technically speaking, Cells aren't supported by Tiger, so you'd have to emulate a G3 on top of a Cell processor. And you'd still have to hack the installer. I think the more interesting question would be whether you could install it on a modded Xbox, since processor wise, they're more like a G4 or G5.
In Apple's case however, since the retail versions of OS X are often marketed as upgrades, it should be pretty clear that it's not for generic x86 PCs. In the case of post-sale transactions, you're being told that something (a game or program) will work on (or is designed for) your computer, and you find conditions attached to it. In this case, OS X isn't being marketed as software for a generic PC, it's being marketed as software for a Mac. You're getting what you bought. Its not an incident where you're secretly being sold spyware.
Also, every retail copy of Tiger on the market is for a PowerPC computer. The only non-Apple PPC computers are some IBM servers and some old Sun computers. So you're buying something that won't work on your computer, pirating the Intel version, and calling that legal. When Leopard comes out and Apple is selling an x86 compatible retail version of their OS, that's a possible different story.
Also if battery life was such a concern why does Apple do all of the decode in the cpu? From what I understand, there are no M4A or MP3 accelerators in it. While that may have added $5 bucks to the end cost [which is already at a premium anyways] it would have boosted battery life nicely.
The iPod supports mp3 (DRMed or un-DRMed), AAC (DRMed or un-DRMed), WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless, and maybe 1-2 more codecs. That's more than is reasonable to have separate decoders for. Even if they did it just for un-DRMed MP3, DRMed AAC, and un-DRMed AAC, that's still a lot of discrete chips.
On the contrary, this way early adopters get it now, and other FFers get it tomorrow. Spreads the server death out a bit, makes it more endurable.
I'm sorry. I just don't get it. I hope that's a joke, because iTunes started out on the Mac. And you can run the Windows version of iTunes via WINE or Crossover on Linux, can't you? Also, Mac support is fine for external peripherals (unless they need legacy ports or something), and most Macs don't have internal upgrade spots anyways.
"All you've done is substitute one set of unique information for another set of unique information, the fact that the information means nothing to you doesn't change it."
Yes, but it's information that's harder to obtain. I mean, you can't read it off the card's front, you have to scan to get it, and once you get it, you can't use that series of encrypted info at the online stores, you have to find a credit card of a similar type and "flash" it to that encrypted series.
You REALLY misunderstand him. He's not espousing those points, or agreeing with or opposing them. He's saying that those are examples of times that Slashdot has pushed an organizational opinion in a summary. And it's true. Slashdot is biased towards GNU/Linux/OSS, and against copyright. It's also owned by VA Software, so that should be no surprise. But I think the issue here that no one is addressing is that Forbes shouldn't be being compared to Slashdot. Slashdot is run by 4-5 guys, and is aimed at a small niche ("Nerds"). Forbes is supposedly the top business magazine. Big difference is that Forbes shouldn't have the biases Slashdot can get away with.
* If you want an office suite, you have to pay quite a bit extra to get it. MS Office for Mac is something like $379 or so. If you're a student you might get it for less.
Mac OS X has OpenOffice as well, and it has NeoOffice, both of which are free (and essentially identical to the OO.o that comes with Linux distros. I think we're a few 2.0.x's back, but it's practically the same.
Thousands of built in applications - yes
more efficient windowing system - maybe, even probably
better software development - again, maybe
better user interface - NO. Linux doesn't work because you occaisonally have to drop to the CLI or edit a preferences file by hand to do complicated things like make integrated sound or newer video cards work. The rest of it maybe be wonderful, but the second a person has to look at the manual or ask a veteran and it/he says "go to the command line and...", it's game over. I can figure out what "sudo apt-get distro-update" means, but Joe Average can't. And apt-get is the easiest package manager (or so many say). Similarly, if someone has to edit multiple config files to get graphics to work, then it's a no-go. And when Flash/WMV/whatever doesn't work, Joe Average doesn't care why. He just cares that Linux won't do it, and Windows or OS X will.
There was about 30 seconds of identical opening/closing stuff on each one, and a 30-second trailer at the end.
Well, at a certain age, it will be harder to bribe them with merit badges.
One of the BSA/RIAA/MPAA's worries has to be that politicians hostile to them will come into office. If they work on training a generation of politically active individuals who share their copyright opinions, that's less likely.
For example, imagine if the Computers merit badge had a history component that discussed Linux. Particularly, what if the discussion of requirement 1 (history of computing) or 8 (is it ok to accept a free copy of a computer program from a friend) required the two-part answer "Not if it's closed-source commercial software, but absolutely yes if it's freeware or opensource". Then every Boy Scout who does the merit badge (which due to its ease is popular) knows about OSS. Or if this merit badge about copyright talked about how the average musicians get screwed by record labels. Or how the RIAA/MPAA use very shady legal tactics.
If you've trained someone by age 18 to accept an idea, it becomes harder to get them to change their mind. Then the RIAA gets another generation of "upstanding people" who agree with them 100%.
I'm not the AC above, but I'm sure he's lied on several occasions.
Huh? All the systems on this lineup use standard PC3200 (DDR400) RAM. Which is the same RAM that you could use as system RAM with many motherboards (e.g. this one). I don't see why the RAM would be faster on the video card than in the main system...?
You are correct that those systems are using DDR RAM. But graphics cards (including the cards in those machines) use other, more expensive, faster RAM, like GDDR3.
NOTICE: Possible Spoilers
Apparently they got tired of spending so much money on computer graphics, so almost all of the new shows are set in a muddy field, with some tents and some junk. It's turned into a freaking soap opera about mommies and babies. Fuck that shit, I want to see some nuclear explosions in space!
OK. First of all, Galactica is a drama set in space. It's not a scifi kill-fest. The awesome explosions and Viper vs. Raider battles are incidental to the plot. The show gets all its acclaim and awards (and most of its audience) from the script and acting. Without that, the show won't have lasted into season 2.
And the current situation on the planet is symbolically critical - recall the line last week when Tyrol said "We're going home" in reference to reassembling the fleet, when the whole first 2 seasons they wanted a planet to call home, they've found out (both before and during the occupation) that maybe there's more to a new home than soil. Also, you'll be getting your wish in Exodus Part 2, I bet, with 2 battlestars vs. 5 basestars, and 1000 resistance fighters versus the Cylons on the ground.
Back on topic: The webisodes were short (a total of about 15 minutes of content), but they are vital to introducing Duck and Jammer and their choices. Seeing the webisodes helps with the Duck-related scenes in "Occupation", and Jammer's conflicts in the other two episodes. It also really reveals the full irony of Tyrol's conversation with Jammer about Gaeta. That will echo through to at least Episode 5 "Collaborators".
Obviously you forgot the entire Centris and Performa lines.
I have a Performa. It still works. We replaced it with a G3 iMac, but we didn't remove it for years. Only in the last year has my mom migrated from Claris Works to AppleWorks on the G3. If I could find a use for the Performa, it'd still be running.
Not to mention that it's not like they're not bringing cases. All they have to say is "We intend to go after other sites later, we've got out hands full with dozens or hundreds of lawsuits already now".
What you don't realize is that none of those are viruses. Some are worms, some are trojans, but none are viruses. Even the worst of those require some interaction on the part of the user, and the infection rate is near minimal. I could hook my Mac Pro up to two 1 GB pipes at a Tier 1 ISP, deactivate the firewall and set it on a script to search the entire Internet and download anything sketchy and Mac-compatible. If I walk away and come back a few days later, it's not going to be owned. An unpatched XP machine is owned in less time than it takes to play a game of Solitaire.
The folder on the iPod is invisible. Obviously it's not hard to get around that, but why bother?
Jason P is one of the lead techs who's in the project. What we're looking at (and I'm not a tech) is using PostgreSQL and optimizing for better searches and collisions, so that we can cut down on silly categories like "French-Canadian singer/songwriter/actresses".
He ran Nupedia, co-founded Wikipedia, and has worked with the Digital Universe Foundation. He's got the relevant experience to start and lead this sort of a project.