The New MacBook Pros are the (very) rough equivalent of a dual-core G5 Powerbook. The point is that Apple made a notebook vastly superior to the current powerbook (or will be, once everything is native) with similar battery life, while only marginally increasing battery size. This means that the new MacBook Pro is more energy efficient. I'm sure the MacBooks [iBook replacements] will have great battery life, because they'll be no where near the performance level of the MacBook Pros.
I don't mean this in a negative way, but what percentage of the computer buying public even knows about AMD? I mean, it seems to me that the average person couldn't tell you what chip is in his computer. I mean, the answer I usually get to that question is "Dell" or "HP". So basically, what I'm saying is that it may not be AMD chips that are doing well, but the particular brands they're in?
Founded by Wayne Chang in 2003 while he was a student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the i2hub network linked students and others over the super-fast Internet2 network.
In a letter to Chang dated Monday, attorneys with the Student Legal Services Office claimed i2hub placed ads on campus to deceive UMass students into believing the software was approved by the university.
It's one of several reasons that the student-funded legal group says led its clients to believe they were authorized to use the software to trade copyrighted music and other files.
Universities subsidize things. It isn't unreasonable from the perspective of someone familar with University sponsored events that a university could pay for the rights to do this, and then pay the fees associated with the music for you. I mean, colleges give free admittance to sports games, and subsidize concerts. It's all paid for by an "activities fee". So it is theoretically possible that they could legitimately fall for it. Obviously I'd have asked some one for more info as it sounds fishy, but the idea of colleges paying for your music through a fee you paid with your tuition isn't entirely left-field, just third base or so.
Furthermore, what steps will Microsoft take to ensure that 3rd party applications don't require running as administrator to install? That seems to be a large percent of the problem with Microsoft security, and it isn't MS's fault, per se.
I have a complaint, why is it that we are always fed the low hanging fruit? Is the high-hanging fruit reserved only for those who can reach it?
Here's the truth: CmdrTaco is actually Spiderman. He wants his secret to be safe, so no picky buttheads are going to get on his case about all that sticky web-goo on all the skyscrapers. Letting them bitch about spelling and stuff keeps them from discovering his secret identity.:)
Do a Google images search. Or click the "Cached" link in a regular search. If I'm making money off hosting pictures or information for ad money, and I don't update often, I'm basically sunk. Using the Google "cached" link for Wikipedia isn't a big deal, it saves them bandwidth. But because people can use the google cache version, they can get around the need to visit the site. This is a problem if the site is trying to lure people there to look at ads.
Can this be used for other non-biological things that need small batteries? For instance, laptops/pdas, while less important than artifical eyes, could benefit from any sort of watt-hour/area increase. Also, you could design an ultralight car that runs on a battery, right?
If it is something run by the EU, it's going to face a lot of political hurdles. I recognize that gov'ts are sometimes better at providing these services than companies, but the EU has a whole lot more red tape to get through than most other gov't organizations. And the French President supporting it is no promise it'll happen. He lost the vote to ratify the EU constitution in his country.
I'm not saying it won't happen, just that it'll face lots of problems in a new governmental organization that is still trying to get its feet under it.
Now if someone should get WINE running under OS X, or get OS X to easily install on a generic PC then you will see an unholy alliance of MS and Apple attempt to destroy the persons responsible.
Half right. MS would care about WINE, but they'd care only slightly more than they care about it on Linux. Apple wouldn't mind WINE (for the reasons you described), and would prolly be just as happy if you used it, as it is less money going to MS. But you're right in that a OS X on a generic box would mean such an unholy alliance.
That was to stop and undo an outright invasion by Iraq of another country. This time is different because it is not tied to any (confirmed) huge sin by Saddam. You misunderstand me. I meant that previous presidents paid attention to what other countries had to say. I'm not criticizing European nations for not going into Iraq, I think they made the right call there.
Doesn't anyone feel we'll see better Windows emulation on the Mac OS if there is an Intel processor to fall back on?
Yeah probably. WINE or VMWare or VPC. But the big #1 thing that VMWare and VPC have issues with is hardware graphics acceleration. If either of those can manage DirectX 9c or whatever it is that newer games need, at close to full speed, then then would rock the dualbooting idea totally. But until that day, people like me who want to play games that likely won't get ported (Rome Total War for instance) see the new iMac with decent room for RAM, a huge HD, and a 256MB graphics card (BTO 20" only)see a Mac that can also play those games. It can also comfort switchers who are worried about plopping down $1000+ and then not being able to cope without Windows (which I doubt they'll miss)
Since when has the US gov ever cared what Europeans think?
Prior to Bush, we at least gave it weight. We bent over backwards for European politics in the Balkans (as we should have done, IMO), and Bush Sr. got a big coalition together (including our European allies) for Gulf War I. I have a feeling that once Bush is gone, the US will pay a lot more attention to Europe.
the moon controls the tide. The sun don't do nothing.
Just to be a pain in the butt, I'd like to put out that the sun actually does affect the tide. It is much less noticeable then the moon, because it is so far away, but it does have an impact on the tides (and a technically measurable one at that).
I agree with the AC, but I'd like to add that Apple doesn't see Mac OS X or Macintosh computers, it sells an experience. OS X and Macs go hand in hand and are designed to complement each other. Look at the iPod for an even better example. iTMS and iTunes and iPods were built for each other. They are each individually enhanced by the other in a sort of synergy. A OS X on a Dell wouldn't be half as good as OS X on a Mac.
I would argue that a person with an iPod is more likely to replace it with another iPod than you suggest. This is because of inertia. iTunes works with iPods, and it's quick and easy, and they may or may not have money in iTMS songs that are harder to get onto other players. The unwillingness of people to change, even if that change is basically free, is a large market factor. I'd wager that a decent amount of "brand loyalty" is actually just inertia.
You are very correct. In a sense, Microsoft needs Apple, because Apple is its only commercial competitor in the OS market. I like Linux, I'm not badmouthing it, but it'd be hard to explain that as a competing company to a judge, whereas the judge can easily recognize Apple as a competing company.
Also, MS needs Apple to continue with it's "complete user experience" thing, because that would suggest to any anti-trust judge that bundling is simply a part of the industry. Yes, MS stuff is harder to remove than Apple stuff, and MS has other questionably "monopolistic" business practices, but Apple removes an anti-trust person's main two arguments.
It's a ten year old or so vulnerability. It predates DRM, so I doubt it was built for that originally. Sure, it may have DRM uses, but it couldn't have been made for DRM.
I wasn't worried about an OS X virus hitting the Windows part, but rather the other way around. If you dual boot, my understanding is that windows viruses can still clock you (correct me if I'm wrong)
This is an instant where you actually want to be the later one with the Apple MWSF "pre-game", because it isn't until tonight or tommorrow or Tuesday that non-Mac-fanboys (I'm prolly one) will be noticing MWSF (if at all).
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The New MacBook Pros are the (very) rough equivalent of a dual-core G5 Powerbook. The point is that Apple made a notebook vastly superior to the current powerbook (or will be, once everything is native) with similar battery life, while only marginally increasing battery size. This means that the new MacBook Pro is more energy efficient. I'm sure the MacBooks [iBook replacements] will have great battery life, because they'll be no where near the performance level of the MacBook Pros.
I don't mean this in a negative way, but what percentage of the computer buying public even knows about AMD? I mean, it seems to me that the average person couldn't tell you what chip is in his computer. I mean, the answer I usually get to that question is "Dell" or "HP". So basically, what I'm saying is that it may not be AMD chips that are doing well, but the particular brands they're in?
Founded by Wayne Chang in 2003 while he was a student at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the i2hub network linked students and others over the super-fast Internet2 network. In a letter to Chang dated Monday, attorneys with the Student Legal Services Office claimed i2hub placed ads on campus to deceive UMass students into believing the software was approved by the university. It's one of several reasons that the student-funded legal group says led its clients to believe they were authorized to use the software to trade copyrighted music and other files.
Universities subsidize things. It isn't unreasonable from the perspective of someone familar with University sponsored events that a university could pay for the rights to do this, and then pay the fees associated with the music for you. I mean, colleges give free admittance to sports games, and subsidize concerts. It's all paid for by an "activities fee". So it is theoretically possible that they could legitimately fall for it. Obviously I'd have asked some one for more info as it sounds fishy, but the idea of colleges paying for your music through a fee you paid with your tuition isn't entirely left-field, just third base or so.
Furthermore, what steps will Microsoft take to ensure that 3rd party applications don't require running as administrator to install? That seems to be a large percent of the problem with Microsoft security, and it isn't MS's fault, per se.
I have a complaint, why is it that we are always fed the low hanging fruit? Is the high-hanging fruit reserved only for those who can reach it?
:)
Here's the truth: CmdrTaco is actually Spiderman. He wants his secret to be safe, so no picky buttheads are going to get on his case about all that sticky web-goo on all the skyscrapers. Letting them bitch about spelling and stuff keeps them from discovering his secret identity.
What exactly was the problem again?
Do a Google images search. Or click the "Cached" link in a regular search. If I'm making money off hosting pictures or information for ad money, and I don't update often, I'm basically sunk. Using the Google "cached" link for Wikipedia isn't a big deal, it saves them bandwidth. But because people can use the google cache version, they can get around the need to visit the site. This is a problem if the site is trying to lure people there to look at ads.
You make it sound like it matters. We live in a corporatocracy.
Rule #1: If you are a big corporation, you are entitled to every penny you can get your hands on.
Bush bitches about "double taxation" on the estate tax, so shouldn't we get some relief from double paying?
Can this be used for other non-biological things that need small batteries? For instance, laptops/pdas, while less important than artifical eyes, could benefit from any sort of watt-hour/area increase. Also, you could design an ultralight car that runs on a battery, right?
If it is something run by the EU, it's going to face a lot of political hurdles. I recognize that gov'ts are sometimes better at providing these services than companies, but the EU has a whole lot more red tape to get through than most other gov't organizations. And the French President supporting it is no promise it'll happen. He lost the vote to ratify the EU constitution in his country.
I'm not saying it won't happen, just that it'll face lots of problems in a new governmental organization that is still trying to get its feet under it.
Now if someone should get WINE running under OS X, or get OS X to easily install on a generic PC then you will see an unholy alliance of MS and Apple attempt to destroy the persons responsible.
Half right. MS would care about WINE, but they'd care only slightly more than they care about it on Linux. Apple wouldn't mind WINE (for the reasons you described), and would prolly be just as happy if you used it, as it is less money going to MS. But you're right in that a OS X on a generic box would mean such an unholy alliance.
Legally, it'll need Apple specific hardware.
Illegally, I'm sure it'll eventually be cracked, but it'll prolly have extra flaws in it, and every update might break a cracked version.
That was to stop and undo an outright invasion by Iraq of another country. This time is different because it is not tied to any (confirmed) huge sin by Saddam. You misunderstand me. I meant that previous presidents paid attention to what other countries had to say. I'm not criticizing European nations for not going into Iraq, I think they made the right call there.
Doesn't anyone feel we'll see better Windows emulation on the Mac OS if there is an Intel processor to fall back on?
Yeah probably. WINE or VMWare or VPC. But the big #1 thing that VMWare and VPC have issues with is hardware graphics acceleration. If either of those can manage DirectX 9c or whatever it is that newer games need, at close to full speed, then then would rock the dualbooting idea totally. But until that day, people like me who want to play games that likely won't get ported (Rome Total War for instance) see the new iMac with decent room for RAM, a huge HD, and a 256MB graphics card (BTO 20" only)see a Mac that can also play those games. It can also comfort switchers who are worried about plopping down $1000+ and then not being able to cope without Windows (which I doubt they'll miss)
Since when has the US gov ever cared what Europeans think?
Prior to Bush, we at least gave it weight. We bent over backwards for European politics in the Balkans (as we should have done, IMO), and Bush Sr. got a big coalition together (including our European allies) for Gulf War I. I have a feeling that once Bush is gone, the US will pay a lot more attention to Europe.
the moon controls the tide. The sun don't do nothing.
Just to be a pain in the butt, I'd like to put out that the sun actually does affect the tide. It is much less noticeable then the moon, because it is so far away, but it does have an impact on the tides (and a technically measurable one at that).
I agree with the AC, but I'd like to add that Apple doesn't see Mac OS X or Macintosh computers, it sells an experience. OS X and Macs go hand in hand and are designed to complement each other. Look at the iPod for an even better example. iTMS and iTunes and iPods were built for each other. They are each individually enhanced by the other in a sort of synergy. A OS X on a Dell wouldn't be half as good as OS X on a Mac.
I would argue that a person with an iPod is more likely to replace it with another iPod than you suggest. This is because of inertia. iTunes works with iPods, and it's quick and easy, and they may or may not have money in iTMS songs that are harder to get onto other players. The unwillingness of people to change, even if that change is basically free, is a large market factor. I'd wager that a decent amount of "brand loyalty" is actually just inertia.
You are very correct. In a sense, Microsoft needs Apple, because Apple is its only commercial competitor in the OS market. I like Linux, I'm not badmouthing it, but it'd be hard to explain that as a competing company to a judge, whereas the judge can easily recognize Apple as a competing company.
Also, MS needs Apple to continue with it's "complete user experience" thing, because that would suggest to any anti-trust judge that bundling is simply a part of the industry. Yes, MS stuff is harder to remove than Apple stuff, and MS has other questionably "monopolistic" business practices, but Apple removes an anti-trust person's main two arguments.
It's a ten year old or so vulnerability. It predates DRM, so I doubt it was built for that originally. Sure, it may have DRM uses, but it couldn't have been made for DRM.
Re-post daily until GP2X concedes.
But that raises a giant moral issue: "Is duping OK if done for a good reason?" Man, that's deep.
Now, what'd be funny is if they turned to BitTorrent to get it by tomorrow.
So can we get the GNAA arrested now? I was looking for a post announcing that they're moving offshore or something.
No, I meant that I am a mac fanboy. I just didn't make it clear.
I wasn't worried about an OS X virus hitting the Windows part, but rather the other way around. If you dual boot, my understanding is that windows viruses can still clock you (correct me if I'm wrong)
This is an instant where you actually want to be the later one with the Apple MWSF "pre-game", because it isn't until tonight or tommorrow or Tuesday that non-Mac-fanboys (I'm prolly one) will be noticing MWSF (if at all).