Apple's VP said last year (in the only statement on the matter) that they wouldn't try to prevent it. And since it's an Intel processor that'll be found in other OEM's products soon (Yonah Core Duo/Solo), my money's on a possible dual boot. However, you may want to consider X11+Wine, or Cedega, which would let you use Windows stuff without having to have Windows (which ought to make the computer more secure, in theory)
I'm sorry, but feeding SCO lawyers and execs to sharks (even mutated ones with head-mounted "lay-zers") would be considered cruel and unusual. Some types of shark, after all, are an endangered species.
Language issues perhaps? I mean, it seems like he speaks fine English, but having had a close friend from Germany and a current roommate from China, I can attest to the fact that jokes are the hardest things to translate (I speak minimal German, and no Chinese, they both speak very good English), because they are often rooted in idiom or plays on words. My German teacher said that you always lose something like 13% or so in even the best translations. This may be one of those cases.
The worst part is that about half the campus IT staffs are students (hence not working right now), and the other half are probably part time over the winter break, because they shouldn't have much work to do. And students are really bad about patching their computers, because we are sort of lazy/reckless about it. Luckily I have a Mac, but I was planning on trying to get X11+Darwine working.
On the flip side, classes don't start at most colleges for a week or two, so they have some lead time.
Good call. I for one would be less willing to want to compile my own software and have no support. Since about 98% of the rest of the world have limited coding skills at best, they'd be in the same boat. I mean, I'm sure I could take the posted source somewhere and compile it into Cocoa or Carbon or whatever, but having the security of someone backing you is well worth it. Someone could open a Linux help center, charge $50 a year for coverage, and still come out in the black. I'm sure someone could make an actual Firefox manual, sell it as a book, and it'd at least break even (and prolly bring in converts)
first, a direct counterpoint: No registering OS X. No CD keys, nothing.
just as much DRM, only it's rather better implemented and rather less obvious (Emphasis mine) See, but here's the thing: "rather less obvious" is fine for a lot of people.
If you want to talk about the majority of people who are just starting to get annoyed by Microsoft's awkward solutions (including DRM), it's Joe SemiComputer-Literate. And Joe SCL isn't going to want to make the jump to Linux (it'll seem too risky and experimental, reality aside), but would like solutions better than (or at least different from) MS's solutions. And that's a big part of Apple's market right there. That's how Apple plans on going from 5 percent to 15 percent of the market. Apple still is a proprietary big business company, but they manage the balance between DRM and customer satisfaction better than MS does. Most people don't notice the iPod stuff because you can share the iTunes songs with up to 5 computers/devices (I forget which), so if Joe SCL wants to do something with an iTunes song he bought, he can give it to 4 other friends in its native form, or he can just burn it to a CD (yes, quality issues). He's used to not caring about not being able to skip a bit of a movie DVD, not a big deal.
I don't see that as the case. Mac OS X is stable and easy to use. I have no major problems with Firefox or Thunderbird, I use Adium (a free Mac version of Trillian) instead of MSN messenger, and I'm strongly considering going to OpenOffice.org or iWork over Office. I'll be totally free of MS products, and I'll be able to do everything my PC buddies with MS stuff can, except possibly Excel (of course, I'm a gov't major, so less of a deal than if I was a math or accounting major)
Dude, it's New Year's Eve, one of the biggest party nights of the year, and you're correcting some news story about Klingons and Star Trek on a website for nerds. That's so geeky and nonsocial that I have to say... wait a second....%*&@!
But if they could, don't you think they'd jump on it? They compete rather feverishly for school districts with Dell, so don't you think they'd fight for the "big business" share if in 5-10 years they are a bigger player?
53. After being confronted with the falsity of Ms. Granado's statements, Plaintiffs' counsel refused to accept the truth and instead launched a counterattack accusing both Mr. Nelson and/or his attorney of a criminal conspiracy. (Exhibit 10, 11, 12, 13)
54. In their efforts to cover up their own wrongdoing, Plaintiffs' counsel (1) harassed both the witness and her parents, (2) encouraged them to sign false declarations under oath, (3) threatened Defendants and their counsel to refrain from contacting Ms. Granado (4) participated in numerous meetings with the witness to re-establish her original testimony despite their knowledge and awareness that the testimony was false. (Exhibit 9, pp. 68-71, 79-82, 90-91; Exhibit 13)
Not only did they break the rules, but they turned around and blamed the other guy. That reminds me of 12 year olds (mostly because I have to deal with that when I supervise them at the local Teen Center).
Here's the kicker: On June 30, 2005, Plaintiffs deposed several additional witnesses who either lived with the Nelsons or had access to their computer. All of the witnesses confirmed that the Nelsons never participated in any infringing activity nor did they know about the use of the KaZaA program on their computer until receiving a notification letter from their internet provider. This teenage girl was the only witness who claimed that the defendants did it. Everyone else said she did it. Even if her original testimony was true, how is that a case. If 10 people say that Joe is guilty, and Joe blames Bob, why do you bring the case against Bob instead of Joe?
1) You're tainted by the RIAA, we'd better kill you just to be safe.:)
2) There doesn't seem to be much lawyering going on here. It seems like all they have to do is copy and paste some long documents (changing the names and song titles where appropriate) and harass the people into paying the money.
3) The detective staff doesn't seem to have its act together either. I mean, they sued a dead person among others.
You have to admire the girl though, stepping forward and taking the heat off her employers. I bet it was easy for the lawyer to make it clear that she was going down unless she implicated the wealthier employers (in contradiction of several other witnesses).
Problem: These are Senators we're talking about. You think the people who pass these sorts of ridiculous laws actually know how to turn a computer on? I mean, if they tried to fileshare, it'd be beyond their abilities to google "BitTorrent".
Even worse, this could be de facto precedent of DRM and EULAs being OK. It's almost saying "Sony, you slightly stepped over the line", instead of "Sony, you committed crimes by screwing with people's computers". Now it seems like Sony (or anyone) can get a new DRM thing that is only slightly better than the current DRM, and it'll be ok. To me, this is the worst possible outcome, short of a national DRM holiday.
For all they know, they could be suing someone on their legal team, or even the judge!
Yeah, I'm waiting for them to sue someone awkward, like a celeb or someone in the gov't. I mean, with all the people pirating, it's almost a gaurantee that they'll get someone important sooner or later.
It's just Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo from now on.
Makes sense that they're dropping the Pentium name, with all these "yonah"s and "conroe"s we Mac fans have been hearing about. So if it's Duo and Solo, does that rule out the idea of quad core processors by Intel?
Very true. I have used IE for Mac before getting this new laptop, and I'd like to say that there are dozens of websites (including my bank) that wouldn't let me use Mac IE, (telling me to upgrade to IE6, which is Windows only), but will let Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and my other 5 browsers which aren't IE for Mac work ok.
Who is this aimed at? How can pay a few hundred extra dollars to add this to their car? Wouldn't the kind of people this is marketed towards mostly be driving second hand cars (or at least cheap ones?). I mean, no offense, anyone with the cash to shell out for this would likely feel a level of social stigma about having a videogame system in his car.
With the larger print and the higher amount of pages, this book has ensured that less script kiddies will read it. With the smaller population that know about its obscure secrets, more companies can use it's advice with success.
Problem: you want regular IT people to read this. If it is too thick, they'll put it off, or be intimidated. In some places I've seen, the techies were basically just the people most skilled with the computers, and with a little bit of special training. Unless you are hiring dedicated special support staff or something, you may have "script kiddies" in your IT dept.
Actually, the other Friday night shows do this regularly, so if BSG gets renewed (as I assume it will) this'll be normal. They air 10-11 eps of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis from late July to Oct, then do reruns, then finish the season. Other, "mainstream" shows have started doing this, like the "OC" on Fox.
What I want to see is some sort of national broadband penetration. You folks can have 100GB/s, but if the more rural parts of the US are stuck with AOL dialup, it don't do a lot of good to us. The highspeed advantage is pretty freaking serious, and I feel the pain when I come home from school over the holidays.
If the information has value, why don't they pay me for it?
Because they can get it for cheaper and easier in bulk from people you have to tell the info to who then turn around and sell it, or lose it to hackers.
I'm pretty sure you're either trolling or being sarcastic, but I just want to add something lest we all forget:
Only a pathologically dishonest person can look at the history of Islam and call it a religion of peace.
Only a pathologically dishonest system could look at the history of Christianity and call it peaceful. You're judging based on history rather than on the actual precepts of the religion. Just because someone claims to be an adherent of a religion or does something in the name of a religion doesn't mean that everything they do adheres to the religion.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" is such a lovely phrase. But "let he who is without sin cast the first stone". I mean, who doesn't have something they'd like to keep private, illegal or just embarassing?
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Apple's VP said last year (in the only statement on the matter) that they wouldn't try to prevent it. And since it's an Intel processor that'll be found in other OEM's products soon (Yonah Core Duo/Solo), my money's on a possible dual boot. However, you may want to consider X11+Wine, or Cedega, which would let you use Windows stuff without having to have Windows (which ought to make the computer more secure, in theory)
I'm sorry, but feeding SCO lawyers and execs to sharks (even mutated ones with head-mounted "lay-zers") would be considered cruel and unusual. Some types of shark, after all, are an endangered species.
"Hey you over there... put that chair down NOW!"
Wait. What smart people get themselves in a room with Ballmer and a chair?
Language issues perhaps? I mean, it seems like he speaks fine English, but having had a close friend from Germany and a current roommate from China, I can attest to the fact that jokes are the hardest things to translate (I speak minimal German, and no Chinese, they both speak very good English), because they are often rooted in idiom or plays on words. My German teacher said that you always lose something like 13% or so in even the best translations. This may be one of those cases.
The worst part is that about half the campus IT staffs are students (hence not working right now), and the other half are probably part time over the winter break, because they shouldn't have much work to do. And students are really bad about patching their computers, because we are sort of lazy/reckless about it. Luckily I have a Mac, but I was planning on trying to get X11+Darwine working.
On the flip side, classes don't start at most colleges for a week or two, so they have some lead time.
Good call. I for one would be less willing to want to compile my own software and have no support. Since about 98% of the rest of the world have limited coding skills at best, they'd be in the same boat. I mean, I'm sure I could take the posted source somewhere and compile it into Cocoa or Carbon or whatever, but having the security of someone backing you is well worth it. Someone could open a Linux help center, charge $50 a year for coverage, and still come out in the black. I'm sure someone could make an actual Firefox manual, sell it as a book, and it'd at least break even (and prolly bring in converts)
first, a direct counterpoint: No registering OS X. No CD keys, nothing.
just as much DRM, only it's rather better implemented and rather less obvious (Emphasis mine)
See, but here's the thing: "rather less obvious" is fine for a lot of people.
If you want to talk about the majority of people who are just starting to get annoyed by Microsoft's awkward solutions (including DRM), it's Joe SemiComputer-Literate. And Joe SCL isn't going to want to make the jump to Linux (it'll seem too risky and experimental, reality aside), but would like solutions better than (or at least different from) MS's solutions. And that's a big part of Apple's market right there. That's how Apple plans on going from 5 percent to 15 percent of the market. Apple still is a proprietary big business company, but they manage the balance between DRM and customer satisfaction better than MS does. Most people don't notice the iPod stuff because you can share the iTunes songs with up to 5 computers/devices (I forget which), so if Joe SCL wants to do something with an iTunes song he bought, he can give it to 4 other friends in its native form, or he can just burn it to a CD (yes, quality issues). He's used to not caring about not being able to skip a bit of a movie DVD, not a big deal.
I don't see that as the case. Mac OS X is stable and easy to use. I have no major problems with Firefox or Thunderbird, I use Adium (a free Mac version of Trillian) instead of MSN messenger, and I'm strongly considering going to OpenOffice.org or iWork over Office. I'll be totally free of MS products, and I'll be able to do everything my PC buddies with MS stuff can, except possibly Excel (of course, I'm a gov't major, so less of a deal than if I was a math or accounting major)
Dude, it's New Year's Eve, one of the biggest party nights of the year, and you're correcting some news story about Klingons and Star Trek on a website for nerds. That's so geeky and nonsocial that I have to say... wait a second....%*&@!
But if they could, don't you think they'd jump on it? They compete rather feverishly for school districts with Dell, so don't you think they'd fight for the "big business" share if in 5-10 years they are a bigger player?
53. After being confronted with the falsity of Ms. Granado's statements, Plaintiffs' counsel refused to accept the truth and instead launched a counterattack accusing both Mr. Nelson and/or his attorney of a criminal conspiracy. (Exhibit 10, 11, 12, 13)
54. In their efforts to cover up their own wrongdoing, Plaintiffs' counsel (1) harassed both the witness and her parents, (2) encouraged them to sign false declarations under oath, (3) threatened Defendants and their counsel to refrain from contacting Ms. Granado (4) participated in numerous meetings with the witness to re-establish her original testimony despite their knowledge and awareness that the testimony was false. (Exhibit 9, pp. 68-71, 79-82, 90-91; Exhibit 13)
Not only did they break the rules, but they turned around and blamed the other guy. That reminds me of 12 year olds (mostly because I have to deal with that when I supervise them at the local Teen Center).
Here's the kicker: On June 30, 2005, Plaintiffs deposed several additional witnesses who either lived with the Nelsons or had access to their computer. All of the witnesses confirmed that the Nelsons never participated in any infringing activity nor did they know about the use of the KaZaA program on their computer until receiving a notification letter from their internet provider.
This teenage girl was the only witness who claimed that the defendants did it. Everyone else said she did it. Even if her original testimony was true, how is that a case. If 10 people say that Joe is guilty, and Joe blames Bob, why do you bring the case against Bob instead of Joe?
1) You're tainted by the RIAA, we'd better kill you just to be safe. :)
2) There doesn't seem to be much lawyering going on here. It seems like all they have to do is copy and paste some long documents (changing the names and song titles where appropriate) and harass the people into paying the money.
3) The detective staff doesn't seem to have its act together either. I mean, they sued a dead person among others.
You have to admire the girl though, stepping forward and taking the heat off her employers. I bet it was easy for the lawyer to make it clear that she was going down unless she implicated the wealthier employers (in contradiction of several other witnesses).
like good olde Senator Hatch
Problem: These are Senators we're talking about. You think the people who pass these sorts of ridiculous laws actually know how to turn a computer on? I mean, if they tried to fileshare, it'd be beyond their abilities to google "BitTorrent".
Even worse, this could be de facto precedent of DRM and EULAs being OK. It's almost saying "Sony, you slightly stepped over the line", instead of "Sony, you committed crimes by screwing with people's computers". Now it seems like Sony (or anyone) can get a new DRM thing that is only slightly better than the current DRM, and it'll be ok. To me, this is the worst possible outcome, short of a national DRM holiday.
For all they know, they could be suing someone on their legal team, or even the judge!
Yeah, I'm waiting for them to sue someone awkward, like a celeb or someone in the gov't. I mean, with all the people pirating, it's almost a gaurantee that they'll get someone important sooner or later.
It's just Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo from now on.
Makes sense that they're dropping the Pentium name, with all these "yonah"s and "conroe"s we Mac fans have been hearing about. So if it's Duo and Solo, does that rule out the idea of quad core processors by Intel?
Very true. I have used IE for Mac before getting this new laptop, and I'd like to say that there are dozens of websites (including my bank) that wouldn't let me use Mac IE, (telling me to upgrade to IE6, which is Windows only), but will let Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and my other 5 browsers which aren't IE for Mac work ok.
Who is this aimed at? How can pay a few hundred extra dollars to add this to their car? Wouldn't the kind of people this is marketed towards mostly be driving second hand cars (or at least cheap ones?). I mean, no offense, anyone with the cash to shell out for this would likely feel a level of social stigma about having a videogame system in his car.
With the larger print and the higher amount of pages, this book has ensured that less script kiddies will read it. With the smaller population that know about its obscure secrets, more companies can use it's advice with success.
Problem: you want regular IT people to read this. If it is too thick, they'll put it off, or be intimidated. In some places I've seen, the techies were basically just the people most skilled with the computers, and with a little bit of special training. Unless you are hiring dedicated special support staff or something, you may have "script kiddies" in your IT dept.
Actually, the other Friday night shows do this regularly, so if BSG gets renewed (as I assume it will) this'll be normal. They air 10-11 eps of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis from late July to Oct, then do reruns, then finish the season. Other, "mainstream" shows have started doing this, like the "OC" on Fox.
What I want to see is some sort of national broadband penetration. You folks can have 100GB/s, but if the more rural parts of the US are stuck with AOL dialup, it don't do a lot of good to us. The highspeed advantage is pretty freaking serious, and I feel the pain when I come home from school over the holidays.
If the information has value, why don't they pay me for it?
Because they can get it for cheaper and easier in bulk from people you have to tell the info to who then turn around and sell it, or lose it to hackers.
Unless they procrastinate and the dupe doesn't show up until they do spring cleaning.
I'm pretty sure you're either trolling or being sarcastic, but I just want to add something lest we all forget:
Only a pathologically dishonest person can look at the history of Islam and call it a religion of peace.
Only a pathologically dishonest system could look at the history of Christianity and call it peaceful. You're judging based on history rather than on the actual precepts of the religion. Just because someone claims to be an adherent of a religion or does something in the name of a religion doesn't mean that everything they do adheres to the religion.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" is such a lovely phrase. But "let he who is without sin cast the first stone". I mean, who doesn't have something they'd like to keep private, illegal or just embarassing?