Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up! $2000 in sound equipment? You're a major exception. Joe and Jane Schmoe have like iPods and maybe half-way decent speakers, then whatever came standard in their car. Which is like $1000 for 3 systems and their kid's CD player or nano. Really, they're not going to notice this difference, and they're like 95% of the iTMS buying population.
Some benevolent pirate buys a quad-processor machine with 2 video cards, and converts down to DVD size. Only has to be done 2-3 times per movie. Problem solved. Seems like a waste, but it can be done. After all, people downgrade things to iPod size from DVD and TV size.
I've always been of the understanding that you can't remove IE, but if you're right, then I think removing Safari works in the same way, in that you just remove Safari, not KHTML/Webkit.
On a Mac, or in Linux, you can swap out the parts. Don't like QT? it can be easily uninstalled. Ditto iTunes. Same with Safari, and Mail, and AppleWorks. You can uninstall all of those and replace them without problems. And they all have free alternatives.
I've replaced Mail and Safari and stuck them on a backup disk in case I change my mind. I like iTunes and QuickTime (but VLC is growing on me) and Appleworks is smaller/nimbler than NeoOffice (which I also have). Heck, one could replace the Dock if they felt like it, and I have replaced my Finder. You can do that on Linux too, although it probably takes a bit more work. Try doing that on Windows, and everything will either break, or you'll be called a pirate..
I don't think he wants to, but if the other big companies line up against MS, the DoJ will bend to the pressure. There are a lot of companies that'd like to see MS taken down a peg, so I don't think that MS's lobbying power will play that big a role this time.
Or just slap together a Wikipedia application that has all the hyper-linked articles and super basic browser and toss it on the laptop. It wouldn't be editable, but it'd be updateable everytime you log on.
What did Steve Jobs have to do with SCO? As I recall, he would have been at NeXT and Apple, working on NeXTStep/OS X when all of this went down. He'd have had his hands full and no time to worry about Linux when he's trying to save Apple. Not to mention why attack Linux when it's going mostly after MS and not Apple? OS X is part-Unix, not necessarily part-Linux, right?
They may not need to win. MS certainly doesn't want to get DoJ investigations restarted again, and using SCO as a sock puppet to beat down on a potential rival sure is risky in terms of monopolistic practices. MS wants to avoid possible DoJ issues and get this whole thing buried? Well, write IBM a fat check, and consider them satisfied.
Well, if they could prove that MS was backing this, that's bad behavior from someone already in Anti-Trust trouble. Maybe they can somehow get punitive damages for it? Or they could be planning on increasing their support of Linux in enterprises, like shipping it with more of their servers? If the R&D is getting to be too much on their OS. It may also be a warning to everyone else in the world: Don't screw with IBM. They mean business (no pun intended)
Google image searching site:www.perfect10.com/ brings up 0 images. Also, googling Perfect 10 brings up their site. So it appears they have blocked images and allowed text perfectly fine.
I was using Safari on OS X 10.4.4, with Safe Search off in Private Browsing mode if anyone gets different results somehow. Also checked with Firefox 1.5.0.1 Don't think that that makes a difference.
Maybe something like this should be opt-in? Like if there is no robots.txt file, it should default to not indexing? Personally, I feel like 99% of the web desperately wants to be on Google, hence it should be opt-out.
Agreed. Upstarts like this NEED mac and linux versions more than most products do, because I feel like Mac and Linux users tend to be more willing to try products like this out.
Now the problem here is that software seems to be getting less efficient. Even with faster processors, checking your email, web browsing and word processing now takes a lot more RAM than it used to. If software was getting more efficient, or at least holding to the same level, we'd be a lot farther ahead now.
Basically, the one hope we ever had at unbreakable communications just got P3WNed. Whereas current telecommunications can be intercepted and copied along the way (called packet sampling at the ISP level I think), this would have been impossible with quantum encryption. But they found a way to listen to it without changing it, at least as I understand it.
Yes, but it's the nerds who tell the uncaring people what kind of computer they want. If a friend of mine is going to buy a computer, he'd ask for my opinion. And I would be up front: If you buy a TC'd computer, you give all your rights to use it to the hardware company who sells it to you. And they won't like that option.
Yes, but if you are a typical person, who is going to get a new computer with Vista, Mac OS X isn't that much more of a transition, esp if it someone gets Windows virtualization or dual-booting going well.
Let's say the console costs Sony $750, because they get deals for bulk-buys, co-investment with IBM, etc. Now, I'd say that $500 is the maximum market price, because I'd be able to get a 360 and a Revolution together for about that in 2007. So Sony takes a $250 loss on the units. Let's say they get liscense fees of $20 per $50/60 game. That means that the consumer is expected to buy 13 expensive games at retail price? Some how I don't see that. I mean, that requires a lot of "must-have" games. That's a big gamble for Sony, seeing as there's a lot of backwards compatibility, and I don't see people buying a dozen $50 games, except over a long time frame.
Yes, but they aren't vital updates. Most OS X things will still work on Panther, and even a fully patched Jaguar for a lot of commerical stuff. So you could have purchased Panther and skipped Tiger without issue, or even gotten Jaguar and skipped Panther and Tiger and be waiting to pounce on Leopard. With Windows, they try a lot harder to force you to upgrade to the next one.
BTW, Microsoft was the first to ship a componentized internet browser that could be used by other apps, years before Apple
That's a joke right? Honestly, about 3/4 the problems XP and ME and 2000 and all of them had was that IE was integrated and caused so much trouble with viruses and worms and etc.
It's just that Vista is heralding those as reasons we should be using it. Like it's saying "We're the new OS on the block, here's our NEW AND INNOVATIVE stuff that no one else has". And the article is encouraging people to plop down a thousand bucks to get a computer that'll run Vista decently. And we're saying, "Hey, we've had that stuff for a year or two at least, and we're about the same price."
iTunes only has DRM on stuff you buy from the iTMS. Anything you buy from another store, or rip from a CD is unaffected. Less than 1/5 of my songs have any DRM, and the DRM doesn't matter to a consumer, because he either has less than 5 computers/iPods, or has the computers networked so that they can share the music.
Final Cut doesn't come standard, but iMovie HD does, and it's a good tool for basic stuff. You can't expect to buy a $1000 computer and have it able to do all your Hollywood movie-making for you, but it'll do a school project decently.
Ditto Garageband. At the radio station I volunteer at, we're considering having people with Macs record broadcasts from home, because it's almost as good as the professional stuff they have. Sure, it's a small radio station in a small market, but Garageband isn't laughable by any means.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up! $2000 in sound equipment? You're a major exception. Joe and Jane Schmoe have like iPods and maybe half-way decent speakers, then whatever came standard in their car. Which is like $1000 for 3 systems and their kid's CD player or nano. Really, they're not going to notice this difference, and they're like 95% of the iTMS buying population.
Some benevolent pirate buys a quad-processor machine with 2 video cards, and converts down to DVD size. Only has to be done 2-3 times per movie. Problem solved. Seems like a waste, but it can be done. After all, people downgrade things to iPod size from DVD and TV size.
I've always been of the understanding that you can't remove IE, but if you're right, then I think removing Safari works in the same way, in that you just remove Safari, not KHTML/Webkit.
On a Mac, or in Linux, you can swap out the parts. Don't like QT? it can be easily uninstalled. Ditto iTunes. Same with Safari, and Mail, and AppleWorks. You can uninstall all of those and replace them without problems. And they all have free alternatives.
I've replaced Mail and Safari and stuck them on a backup disk in case I change my mind. I like iTunes and QuickTime (but VLC is growing on me) and Appleworks is smaller/nimbler than NeoOffice (which I also have). Heck, one could replace the Dock if they felt like it, and I have replaced my Finder. You can do that on Linux too, although it probably takes a bit more work. Try doing that on Windows, and everything will either break, or you'll be called a pirate..
Quicktime 7 is available for both Mac and Windows. Ditto iTunes.
Windows Media Player is not. They offer that Flip4Mac download thing, which can't do the DRM'd files, if I understand correctly.
This means that MS has allowed no way for people on Macs or Linux to use DRM'd WMAs legally.
I don't think he wants to, but if the other big companies line up against MS, the DoJ will bend to the pressure. There are a lot of companies that'd like to see MS taken down a peg, so I don't think that MS's lobbying power will play that big a role this time.
So who's this Anonymous Coward guy, and why can't he make up his damn mind?
Or just slap together a Wikipedia application that has all the hyper-linked articles and super basic browser and toss it on the laptop. It wouldn't be editable, but it'd be updateable everytime you log on.
What did Steve Jobs have to do with SCO? As I recall, he would have been at NeXT and Apple, working on NeXTStep/OS X when all of this went down. He'd have had his hands full and no time to worry about Linux when he's trying to save Apple. Not to mention why attack Linux when it's going mostly after MS and not Apple? OS X is part-Unix, not necessarily part-Linux, right?
They may not need to win. MS certainly doesn't want to get DoJ investigations restarted again, and using SCO as a sock puppet to beat down on a potential rival sure is risky in terms of monopolistic practices. MS wants to avoid possible DoJ issues and get this whole thing buried? Well, write IBM a fat check, and consider them satisfied.
Well, if they could prove that MS was backing this, that's bad behavior from someone already in Anti-Trust trouble. Maybe they can somehow get punitive damages for it? Or they could be planning on increasing their support of Linux in enterprises, like shipping it with more of their servers? If the R&D is getting to be too much on their OS. It may also be a warning to everyone else in the world: Don't screw with IBM. They mean business (no pun intended)
And I thought the iPod nano got heavily scratched...
Google image searching site:www.perfect10.com/ brings up 0 images. Also, googling Perfect 10 brings up their site. So it appears they have blocked images and allowed text perfectly fine.
I was using Safari on OS X 10.4.4, with Safe Search off in Private Browsing mode if anyone gets different results somehow. Also checked with Firefox 1.5.0.1 Don't think that that makes a difference.
Maybe something like this should be opt-in? Like if there is no robots.txt file, it should default to not indexing? Personally, I feel like 99% of the web desperately wants to be on Google, hence it should be opt-out.
Agreed. Upstarts like this NEED mac and linux versions more than most products do, because I feel like Mac and Linux users tend to be more willing to try products like this out.
I was talking about products in mass use. I personally am 100% Redmond free, but like 95% of the computer using world isn't.
Now the problem here is that software seems to be getting less efficient. Even with faster processors, checking your email, web browsing and word processing now takes a lot more RAM than it used to. If software was getting more efficient, or at least holding to the same level, we'd be a lot farther ahead now.
Basically, the one hope we ever had at unbreakable communications just got P3WNed. Whereas current telecommunications can be intercepted and copied along the way (called packet sampling at the ISP level I think), this would have been impossible with quantum encryption. But they found a way to listen to it without changing it, at least as I understand it.
Yes, but it's the nerds who tell the uncaring people what kind of computer they want. If a friend of mine is going to buy a computer, he'd ask for my opinion. And I would be up front: If you buy a TC'd computer, you give all your rights to use it to the hardware company who sells it to you. And they won't like that option.
Yes, but if you are a typical person, who is going to get a new computer with Vista, Mac OS X isn't that much more of a transition, esp if it someone gets Windows virtualization or dual-booting going well.
Let's say the console costs Sony $750, because they get deals for bulk-buys, co-investment with IBM, etc. Now, I'd say that $500 is the maximum market price, because I'd be able to get a 360 and a Revolution together for about that in 2007. So Sony takes a $250 loss on the units. Let's say they get liscense fees of $20 per $50/60 game. That means that the consumer is expected to buy 13 expensive games at retail price? Some how I don't see that. I mean, that requires a lot of "must-have" games. That's a big gamble for Sony, seeing as there's a lot of backwards compatibility, and I don't see people buying a dozen $50 games, except over a long time frame.
Yes, but they aren't vital updates. Most OS X things will still work on Panther, and even a fully patched Jaguar for a lot of commerical stuff. So you could have purchased Panther and skipped Tiger without issue, or even gotten Jaguar and skipped Panther and Tiger and be waiting to pounce on Leopard. With Windows, they try a lot harder to force you to upgrade to the next one.
BTW, Microsoft was the first to ship a componentized internet browser that could be used by other apps, years before Apple
That's a joke right? Honestly, about 3/4 the problems XP and ME and 2000 and all of them had was that IE was integrated and caused so much trouble with viruses and worms and etc.
It's just that Vista is heralding those as reasons we should be using it. Like it's saying "We're the new OS on the block, here's our NEW AND INNOVATIVE stuff that no one else has". And the article is encouraging people to plop down a thousand bucks to get a computer that'll run Vista decently. And we're saying, "Hey, we've had that stuff for a year or two at least, and we're about the same price."
iTunes only has DRM on stuff you buy from the iTMS. Anything you buy from another store, or rip from a CD is unaffected. Less than 1/5 of my songs have any DRM, and the DRM doesn't matter to a consumer, because he either has less than 5 computers/iPods, or has the computers networked so that they can share the music.
Final Cut doesn't come standard, but iMovie HD does, and it's a good tool for basic stuff. You can't expect to buy a $1000 computer and have it able to do all your Hollywood movie-making for you, but it'll do a school project decently.
Ditto Garageband. At the radio station I volunteer at, we're considering having people with Macs record broadcasts from home, because it's almost as good as the professional stuff they have. Sure, it's a small radio station in a small market, but Garageband isn't laughable by any means.