Apple's contention that it only be run on Apple-built machines relates to its interpretation of copyright law, which if the Library of Congress' last ruling regarding jailbroken mobiles is any indication, it'll get its brushed aluminum backside handed to it shortly.
I fail to see how that ruling has any connection to running OS X on non-Apple branded hardware at all. If Apple was preventing you from running an OS other than OS X on Apple hardware then I could see it.
On the other hand this article seems to be quite applicable.
Hackers target the platform that is the most valuable to them. In the case of traditional operating systems or computers the market share numbers are so vastly different that the number one platform is target.
In the case of consoles, the numbers are close enough that hackers have chosen the platform with the most likelihood of having credit card information stored on them which happens to be number two.
I will leave the comments about which platform is easier to hack for someone else.
I believe it's actually Why build one when you can have two for twice the price.
The twice and the price kinda rhyme so it rolls off the tongue a bit better and is more movieesque.
More important how much land will those 58 (8.9 billion / 153 million) 50 MW wind farms take up? Not to mention what is the cost of building conventional power plants to supply the power on days when it is not windy. Did you factor that in to your price =)
I'd also venture a guess that maintenance costs on 58 wind farms (+ supplemental power)would actually be more than the one nuclear plant just due to the quantity of them.
I'm all for alternative energy as supplements and for using it where it's practical, but at our current state of technology we can't depend on it yet.
The only one that I can give any level of dependability to is geothermal and obviously you can't build those just anywhere.
The U.S. needs Nuclear power plants, but I fear it's not going to happen until it's too late.
Anyone think that's it's a bit too coincidental that this was announced on the same day the stimulus bill was signed and troops were ordered to Afghanistan? Pretty much guaranteed to not get a single lick of major press.
Not true actually. He has 1 year to file the patent from this date. At least that's how it's supposed to work. With the patent system the way it is today who the hell knows.
You're clearly not very bright, and have little knowledge of this subject.
Yes it failed to deploy, that does not mean the technology does not work. Every technological break through has failures. If everything was considered useless that failed the first time we'd be a hell of a lot further behind.
Finally to complete the icing on the cake. If you think this, top-secret, military spy-satellite was made in China you are completely ignorant of how the military in the US works.
Your idea about using up China's steel used to be correct. But more recently China has been purchasing steel from us because they can't make it fast enough. I used to work for a steel company's IT department (One of the largest in the world) and I can tell you that they were in serious trouble until China started booming and put the demand for steel and other metals through the roof. China is purchasing a significant amount of our steel and other building materials. That won't last long however since they're using it to build more steel and concrete plants.
Actually if you were to take a look on the dark side of the web you can get the source code for an alpha release of HL2. You should recall this from this story.
The iPhone would hardly be a bust if they got 2 or 3% market share of 1.3 billion phones would equate to 16.25 billion dollars in sales. So assuming Apple makes 20% profit (a conservative estimation for most Apple products) that is an extra 3.25 billion dollars in PROFIT. I believe Apple made around 550 million in the last quarter of 06 so assuming they did that well the entire year (which they didn't) that's still over a 100% increase in profit. If that's a failure, I'd like to fail twice please.
If the CEO of Microsoft is expecting them to get that kind of market penetration I'd say that is a huge incentive to buy Apple stock. Of course he also expects 85 year olds to buy a Zune... so perhaps we should just ignore his opinion entirely.
(The last sentence probably deserves to get me marked Troll)
My old employer (Fortune 500 company, about 40,000 employees) is entirely Lotus Notes. It was my first experience with it, and I must say it has some clever things. The user interface always felt a bit off to me though. They also had duplicate servers running but the default installation put everyone to server #1 so that server tended to be very slow. This worked out OK for me because I switched to server #2 manually.
A better solution would be constantly changing credit card numbers.
Utilizing something like the RSA tokens in combination with a credit card number would eliminate everything except physical theft of your card.
Instead of having your credit card be static 4444 4444 4444 4444 it would be 4444 4444 4444 4444 XXXXXX where the x's change every minute. A retailer stores the transaction time (synchronized of course), and the card number at the time of the sale. Utilizing the widely available RSA token technology the card company would be able to know if it was the correct token for your account. If it wasn't the card is denied.
This would make someone who stole your credit card online from a database worthless (unless you happened to buy something a minute before they did the hack) and could be mostly transparent to users purchasing in the store and only mildly different for people purchasing online (mostly it'd be a UI difference where you input your credit card number and 'token' on a separate screen so you can enter it in the short amount of time given.
The biggest problems with this whole plan is RSA owns the patent on that, and it's likely to be too expensive to implement for that reason.
Are you kidding me, do you know what the patent royalties will be for this. They'll probably charge you per lumen.
On the bright side at least the RIAA doesn't have anything to do with it. They would charge you per lumen with an extra fee for every thought you had for the remainder of your life. And we won't even get into what would happen if you share one of those thoughts.
Interesting. I didn't think they turned over all of their IP. I was thinking they turned over some IP and it just happened to be all of it that applied to this case. I don't know any of that for certain. It's just what I had in my head. Anyone know for sure?
If nothing else I think they should file the claim for legal fees to rid the world of SCO forever.
They could sue for the company's real IP (i'm sure they have some, just none that linux copied) and release it under the GPL just to add salt to the wounds.
Ahhh yes, the old Apple products won't sell routine. Time for me to break out my favorite slashdot comment from when Apple released the iPod.
"...Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod."
This comment was marked +4 Insightful at the time. Apple's loyal fan base (of which I have become one after years of hating them... but before OS X what was there to like?) and their ability to market 'cool' makes it almost impossible to predict how a product will do based upon price.
While it's true that the new Orion series of manned space vehicles are going to be rocket/capsule based a very important difference between Orion and Apollo is that the orion capsules are reusable. That's a significant different. I'm all for investigating different methods, but the capsule/rocket method is certainly quite effective and proven to be relatively safe over the years. You can point to the X-Prize winners all you like, but they have only a few, not even in orbit runs under their belt. There is no guarantee that they might not suffer the same type of problems the shuttle fleet has recently.
My favorite comment from that slashdot article comes from LoudMusic (199347)
"There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod. "
and the joy that it's marked 4 - Insightful. It's funny how things work out isn't it?
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"There is a very good possibility that in the near future, people will start changing their music players, like the new MS Zune."
I'll caution against this line of thinking, in order for that to prove your point people will actually have to buy the Zune.
I pray not. If I were to ever purchase an over priced computer it would be a Falcon. Their paint jobs are just ridiculous, and the care they take on the inside of the case is just fabulous.
It's quite relevant for those using it as a way to verify executables are the way developer had intended. Like the attack last year they're saying it would be possible for someone craft an exe without a virus, generated a checksum for it, get it linked to from major websites (after passing a virus scan of course), and then drop a virus in the end of the file and not have the checksum change. That's the real-world relevance.
Why are you being all secretive about the names Valve and Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 is a great product, I don't really have much respect for valve as a company. But I won't deny Half-Life 2 is amazing.
I suppose it would be useless to point out that very few people had the use for 8 GBs of data.... although truthfully not that many people have 8 GB of data now... but lots of people have hundreds of gigabytes of multimedia.
You do realize that Apple can not sign artists directly without starting a music company under a different name. Their current agreement with Apple Corp states that they cannot, as I'm sure you will recall Apple Corp already thinks Apple Computer is treading on their turf. If they start signing artists they will be blatantly doing it. I personally think it is an amazing idea, and one that will eventually happen but it won't be happening under the Apple Computer name. I can't believe more big artists haven't just cut off the RIAA and started their own record labels, the numbers are rising and the RIAA really has be realizing that their business model is a dying one.
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Apple's contention that it only be run on Apple-built machines relates to its interpretation of copyright law, which if the Library of Congress' last ruling regarding jailbroken mobiles is any indication, it'll get its brushed aluminum backside handed to it shortly.
I fail to see how that ruling has any connection to running OS X on non-Apple branded hardware at all. If Apple was preventing you from running an OS other than OS X on Apple hardware then I could see it. On the other hand this article seems to be quite applicable.
No that simply means it's not the most accurate.
Hackers target the platform that is the most valuable to them. In the case of traditional operating systems or computers the market share numbers are so vastly different that the number one platform is target.
In the case of consoles, the numbers are close enough that hackers have chosen the platform with the most likelihood of having credit card information stored on them which happens to be number two.
I will leave the comments about which platform is easier to hack for someone else.
I believe it's actually Why build one when you can have two for twice the price. The twice and the price kinda rhyme so it rolls off the tongue a bit better and is more movieesque.
How much land does that 50 MW wind farm take up?
More important how much land will those 58 (8.9 billion / 153 million) 50 MW wind farms take up? Not to mention what is the cost of building conventional power plants to supply the power on days when it is not windy. Did you factor that in to your price =)
I'd also venture a guess that maintenance costs on 58 wind farms (+ supplemental power)would actually be more than the one nuclear plant just due to the quantity of them.
I'm all for alternative energy as supplements and for using it where it's practical, but at our current state of technology we can't depend on it yet.
The only one that I can give any level of dependability to is geothermal and obviously you can't build those just anywhere.
The U.S. needs Nuclear power plants, but I fear it's not going to happen until it's too late.
Anyone think that's it's a bit too coincidental that this was announced on the same day the stimulus bill was signed and troops were ordered to Afghanistan? Pretty much guaranteed to not get a single lick of major press.
Not true actually. He has 1 year to file the patent from this date. At least that's how it's supposed to work. With the patent system the way it is today who the hell knows.
You're clearly not very bright, and have little knowledge of this subject.
Yes it failed to deploy, that does not mean the technology does not work. Every technological break through has failures. If everything was considered useless that failed the first time we'd be a hell of a lot further behind.
That's funny... it seems like they are stealing our technology.
Finally to complete the icing on the cake. If you think this, top-secret, military spy-satellite was made in China you are completely ignorant of how the military in the US works.
Your idea about using up China's steel used to be correct. But more recently China has been purchasing steel from us because they can't make it fast enough. I used to work for a steel company's IT department (One of the largest in the world) and I can tell you that they were in serious trouble until China started booming and put the demand for steel and other metals through the roof. China is purchasing a significant amount of our steel and other building materials. That won't last long however since they're using it to build more steel and concrete plants.
Actually if you were to take a look on the dark side of the web you can get the source code for an alpha release of HL2. You should recall this from this story.
The iPhone would hardly be a bust if they got 2 or 3% market share of 1.3 billion phones would equate to 16.25 billion dollars in sales. So assuming Apple makes 20% profit (a conservative estimation for most Apple products) that is an extra 3.25 billion dollars in PROFIT. I believe Apple made around 550 million in the last quarter of 06 so assuming they did that well the entire year (which they didn't) that's still over a 100% increase in profit. If that's a failure, I'd like to fail twice please. If the CEO of Microsoft is expecting them to get that kind of market penetration I'd say that is a huge incentive to buy Apple stock. Of course he also expects 85 year olds to buy a Zune... so perhaps we should just ignore his opinion entirely. (The last sentence probably deserves to get me marked Troll)
My old employer (Fortune 500 company, about 40,000 employees) is entirely Lotus Notes. It was my first experience with it, and I must say it has some clever things. The user interface always felt a bit off to me though. They also had duplicate servers running but the default installation put everyone to server #1 so that server tended to be very slow. This worked out OK for me because I switched to server #2 manually.
A better solution would be constantly changing credit card numbers. Utilizing something like the RSA tokens in combination with a credit card number would eliminate everything except physical theft of your card. Instead of having your credit card be static 4444 4444 4444 4444 it would be 4444 4444 4444 4444 XXXXXX where the x's change every minute. A retailer stores the transaction time (synchronized of course), and the card number at the time of the sale. Utilizing the widely available RSA token technology the card company would be able to know if it was the correct token for your account. If it wasn't the card is denied. This would make someone who stole your credit card online from a database worthless (unless you happened to buy something a minute before they did the hack) and could be mostly transparent to users purchasing in the store and only mildly different for people purchasing online (mostly it'd be a UI difference where you input your credit card number and 'token' on a separate screen so you can enter it in the short amount of time given. The biggest problems with this whole plan is RSA owns the patent on that, and it's likely to be too expensive to implement for that reason.
Are you kidding me, do you know what the patent royalties will be for this. They'll probably charge you per lumen. On the bright side at least the RIAA doesn't have anything to do with it. They would charge you per lumen with an extra fee for every thought you had for the remainder of your life. And we won't even get into what would happen if you share one of those thoughts.
Interesting. I didn't think they turned over all of their IP. I was thinking they turned over some IP and it just happened to be all of it that applied to this case. I don't know any of that for certain. It's just what I had in my head. Anyone know for sure? If nothing else I think they should file the claim for legal fees to rid the world of SCO forever.
They could sue for the company's real IP (i'm sure they have some, just none that linux copied) and release it under the GPL just to add salt to the wounds.
Ahhh yes, the old Apple products won't sell routine. Time for me to break out my favorite slashdot comment from when Apple released the iPod. "...Raise your hand if you have $400 to spend on a cute Apple device ...
There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod."
This comment was marked +4 Insightful at the time. Apple's loyal fan base (of which I have become one after years of hating them... but before OS X what was there to like?) and their ability to market 'cool' makes it almost impossible to predict how a product will do based upon price.
While it's true that the new Orion series of manned space vehicles are going to be rocket/capsule based a very important difference between Orion and Apollo is that the orion capsules are reusable. That's a significant different. I'm all for investigating different methods, but the capsule/rocket method is certainly quite effective and proven to be relatively safe over the years. You can point to the X-Prize winners all you like, but they have only a few, not even in orbit runs under their belt. There is no guarantee that they might not suffer the same type of problems the shuttle fleet has recently.
My favorite comment from that slashdot article comes from LoudMusic (199347) "There is Apple's market. Pretty slim, eh? I don't see many sales in the future of iPod. " and the joy that it's marked 4 - Insightful. It's funny how things work out isn't it?
I was actually just failing at being funny ;)
"There is a very good possibility that in the near future, people will start changing their music players, like the new MS Zune." I'll caution against this line of thinking, in order for that to prove your point people will actually have to buy the Zune.
I pray not. If I were to ever purchase an over priced computer it would be a Falcon. Their paint jobs are just ridiculous, and the care they take on the inside of the case is just fabulous.
It's quite relevant for those using it as a way to verify executables are the way developer had intended. Like the attack last year they're saying it would be possible for someone craft an exe without a virus, generated a checksum for it, get it linked to from major websites (after passing a virus scan of course), and then drop a virus in the end of the file and not have the checksum change. That's the real-world relevance.
Why are you being all secretive about the names Valve and Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 is a great product, I don't really have much respect for valve as a company. But I won't deny Half-Life 2 is amazing.
I suppose it would be useless to point out that very few people had the use for 8 GBs of data.... although truthfully not that many people have 8 GB of data now... but lots of people have hundreds of gigabytes of multimedia.
You do realize that Apple can not sign artists directly without starting a music company under a different name. Their current agreement with Apple Corp states that they cannot, as I'm sure you will recall Apple Corp already thinks Apple Computer is treading on their turf. If they start signing artists they will be blatantly doing it. I personally think it is an amazing idea, and one that will eventually happen but it won't be happening under the Apple Computer name. I can't believe more big artists haven't just cut off the RIAA and started their own record labels, the numbers are rising and the RIAA really has be realizing that their business model is a dying one.