Of course Matt thinks the article is wrong. I did read the linked forum discussion from the day before this shipped. First, You shouldn't have to plug the app to enable/disable a feature like this. Are we really that bad for wanting this? The functionality should be included. Secondly, there is no privacy statement associated with the information gathering. They can do with it if they so choose. Third, they never provided convincing info on why they need to gather the info. Autoupdate would work without most the info they are collecting. I could go on with rational discussion of why people see this as a negative, but what's the fun in that. Flame away.
I would challenge the chair throwing patent based on prior examples of published work. Example, Jesus throwing tables and chairs in the Bible.
"WWJD? Some times he gets pissed off and throws some chairs and tables over!":-)
I am a mac user and have used this.
http://www.formac.com/webapp/products_av_studiodv. php
It integrates automated recording/scheduling with titantv.com. My computer room is close to the tv room with a unfinished utility room adjacent to both. So I have this going from the satellite receiver to the Mac Pro's firewire port. I have the second DVI out from the video card going back to the TV so I can watch the video from the computer's hard drive on the TV. I use ILife to edit the video and burn to DVD when I want. The major missing feature to this is commercial skip. But, I already had everything except the studiodv. OK, I had a Dual G4 when I first set this up, and have since had it hooked up to G5's and such as I upgrade, but you know what i mean.:-)
Microsoft has "adjusted" Windows pricing to certain vendors in the past for not deploying what they want and how they want it. If you can risk upsetting Microsoft, then yes you can sell PC's without an OS. Some countries have been heavily lobbied to pass laws against this. I'm sure vendors are just as heavily lobbied. Dell has said they are supporting Linux and then have said they are not and than have said they are. I'm sure they are under pressure not to do so. Regardless, I as a Microsoft Volume license holder am not allowed to purchase a PC without a bundled Windows license if we intend a running a already purchased Windows Volume license on it.
The sales numbers include upgrade vouchers and workstation counts for volume license holders like schools and Enterprise customers. Of note, after the first month Microsoft claimed 20 million Vista licenses sold. That means for each month after 10 million licenses were sold (half). I should also note that of the Volume license customers, almost no one is deploying Vista. I have been to various tech conferences the past few months where this question has been posed to various business attendees. Everyone says they aren't deploying it for at least a year. I know of one small liberal arts college that is the exception to this. I should also note that many enterprise and especially education customers are ordering lots of PC's with Vista licenses attached. They then image them with their XP image via Ghost, Zenworks, LanDesk, etc. If vendors were allowed by Microsoft to sell PC's with Linux or without an OS you would see this number much smaller. I should also note that Microsoft's Volume License agreement doesn't allow you to install your volume licensed copy of Windows on a computer without an OS or with Linux. This means when a school who has purchased Windows Volume licenses from Microsoft is required to purchase PC's with a Windows license included. This amounts to Microsoft selling two copies of Windows per Volume license seat. As to the statement that most licenses sold have not been Home basic, almost all PC's are shipping with Home Premium and volume license customers are getting Vista Business or Vista Enterprise licenses.
Where does one find info about EFI's sole purpose being DRM based? I'm not doubting you, but as a Mac user, I would like to learn more. Also, I would like to find Linus's comments. However, I do take anything Torvalds says with a grain of salt though. If it's not Linux, he bashes it in a "you suck, and I'm not going to waste my time explaining why" manner. The lone exception to this would be his arguments against the Mach kernel.
I had a intern improperly mount a hard drive and this happened. He had the bottom circuit board touching metal. It shorted out and cooked like this one. I think someone is trying to get a free drive through bad publicity. Next we will have guys suing Playboy for a free playmate of their own because they got tennis elbow looking at the last issue.
I've been a Mac user since 1997. I still don't understand the significance of this. I have never heard of these two people, and I subscribe to several "Mac Nerd" list serves like macenterprise.org and afp548.com. It's not like Josh Wisenbaker, Schoun Regan, or some other significant user has left the platform. I know people that have switched from Linux to Mac, Windows to Mac, Mac to Windows, Mac to Linux. I think it's great. Learn other operating systems so you can make a informed decision. The only way to truly learn a OS is to immerse yourself in it and make it your primary OS for a period of time. I've done the same thing with Windows and Suse. I've always come back to the Mac, some may not. Windows is thee ultimate gamers OS, Linux is the ultimate server OS, but I feel OS X is currently the best productivity client OS. My two cents.
Of course, the only problem is lawyers cost money. Shouldn't be necessary, but unfortunately sometimes is. I wonder how many people they treated this way and didn't say anything do to fear or lack of financial resources.
I am a Mac user but work for an IT dept. at a college. I am very impressed with Lenovo notebooks. The salesperson showing them to us poured water in the keyboard while it was running and even stood on it at one point. The things are very durable. Secondly IBM has partnered with a company to provide most textbooks electronically. Third, they offer school Computer Science departments free training, course material, and access to a mainframe to get students to go the mainframe programmer/administrator route. Adds up to some sweet deals. They also offer significant discounts if you go the wireless campus route with them. They also have sensors built in that help it know when to park the hard drive heads in case of a fall. You can use this feature to control Tux racer by moving your laptop around.;-)
I submitted a better article than this yesterday and it was rejected. Symantec still has an unpatched security hole that affects all platforms including OS X, McAfees support of the mac platform has been dubious at best, and last week the hot topic on the macenterprise.org mailing list was that Sophos will generate false positives on the mac platform and quarantine or delete legitimate clean apps. I've installed Clamxav, made sure auto-opening of "safe" files is turned off, made sure unnecessary services are turned off and firewalled, and set a strong password for SSH. Come and get me.
I agree Apple didn't switch too soon. They had been promised 3 ghz some time ago. Still at dual 2.7 or quad 2.5. How many processors does Apple have to put in next year while they wait for the fabled Power 6? 8 cores? 2 power supplies to power them? Sweet. I think by the time the fabled Power 6 is shipping, Intel will be competitive with it. As for the constant complaints about not using AMD, AMD does some fabrication at IBM's Fishkill plant. Why switch to X86 to be limited once again by what IBM is willing to grace you with?
How about a VPN and VNC connection? Those could definately benefit from additional speed and would greatly improve a person's life. You could telecommute more effectively in the instance of a disaster, NYC transit strike, kid illness, etc. I could do 90% of my job from home if Apple Remote Desktop and Microsoft Terminal services were faster.
I see lots of discussion about windows Autorun CD feature. Those of us that were Mac users in 1998 (all 12 of us) learned this lesson from the Quicktime Autostart worm. QT used to have a autoplay cd option that was exploited pre OS X to install an annoying but harmless worm. I caught it from The CD that shipped with MacAddict magazine. Autorun should not be enabled.
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They can do whatever they want with it if they so choose. sorry
Of course Matt thinks the article is wrong. I did read the linked forum discussion from the day before this shipped. First, You shouldn't have to plug the app to enable/disable a feature like this. Are we really that bad for wanting this? The functionality should be included. Secondly, there is no privacy statement associated with the information gathering. They can do with it if they so choose. Third, they never provided convincing info on why they need to gather the info. Autoupdate would work without most the info they are collecting. I could go on with rational discussion of why people see this as a negative, but what's the fun in that. Flame away.
According to several mac rumor sites and this link by Apple, Safari 3 will also have similar functionality. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/aug/07leopard.html
I would challenge the chair throwing patent based on prior examples of published work. Example, Jesus throwing tables and chairs in the Bible. "WWJD? Some times he gets pissed off and throws some chairs and tables over!" :-)
I am a mac user and have used this. http://www.formac.com/webapp/products_av_studiodv. php
It integrates automated recording/scheduling with titantv.com. My computer room is close to the tv room with a unfinished utility room adjacent to both. So I have this going from the satellite receiver to the Mac Pro's firewire port. I have the second DVI out from the video card going back to the TV so I can watch the video from the computer's hard drive on the TV. I use ILife to edit the video and burn to DVD when I want. The major missing feature to this is commercial skip. But, I already had everything except the studiodv. OK, I had a Dual G4 when I first set this up, and have since had it hooked up to G5's and such as I upgrade, but you know what i mean. :-)
Wonder how many false positives will be generated for Iphone users downloading itunes video? :-)
Microsoft has "adjusted" Windows pricing to certain vendors in the past for not deploying what they want and how they want it. If you can risk upsetting Microsoft, then yes you can sell PC's without an OS. Some countries have been heavily lobbied to pass laws against this. I'm sure vendors are just as heavily lobbied. Dell has said they are supporting Linux and then have said they are not and than have said they are. I'm sure they are under pressure not to do so. Regardless, I as a Microsoft Volume license holder am not allowed to purchase a PC without a bundled Windows license if we intend a running a already purchased Windows Volume license on it.
The sales numbers include upgrade vouchers and workstation counts for volume license holders like schools and Enterprise customers. Of note, after the first month Microsoft claimed 20 million Vista licenses sold. That means for each month after 10 million licenses were sold (half). I should also note that of the Volume license customers, almost no one is deploying Vista. I have been to various tech conferences the past few months where this question has been posed to various business attendees. Everyone says they aren't deploying it for at least a year. I know of one small liberal arts college that is the exception to this. I should also note that many enterprise and especially education customers are ordering lots of PC's with Vista licenses attached. They then image them with their XP image via Ghost, Zenworks, LanDesk, etc. If vendors were allowed by Microsoft to sell PC's with Linux or without an OS you would see this number much smaller. I should also note that Microsoft's Volume License agreement doesn't allow you to install your volume licensed copy of Windows on a computer without an OS or with Linux. This means when a school who has purchased Windows Volume licenses from Microsoft is required to purchase PC's with a Windows license included. This amounts to Microsoft selling two copies of Windows per Volume license seat. As to the statement that most licenses sold have not been Home basic, almost all PC's are shipping with Home Premium and volume license customers are getting Vista Business or Vista Enterprise licenses.
Where does one find info about EFI's sole purpose being DRM based? I'm not doubting you, but as a Mac user, I would like to learn more. Also, I would like to find Linus's comments. However, I do take anything Torvalds says with a grain of salt though. If it's not Linux, he bashes it in a "you suck, and I'm not going to waste my time explaining why" manner. The lone exception to this would be his arguments against the Mach kernel.
I had a intern improperly mount a hard drive and this happened. He had the bottom circuit board touching metal. It shorted out and cooked like this one. I think someone is trying to get a free drive through bad publicity. Next we will have guys suing Playboy for a free playmate of their own because they got tennis elbow looking at the last issue.
I've been a Mac user since 1997. I still don't understand the significance of this. I have never heard of these two people, and I subscribe to several "Mac Nerd" list serves like macenterprise.org and afp548.com. It's not like Josh Wisenbaker, Schoun Regan, or some other significant user has left the platform. I know people that have switched from Linux to Mac, Windows to Mac, Mac to Windows, Mac to Linux. I think it's great. Learn other operating systems so you can make a informed decision. The only way to truly learn a OS is to immerse yourself in it and make it your primary OS for a period of time. I've done the same thing with Windows and Suse. I've always come back to the Mac, some may not. Windows is thee ultimate gamers OS, Linux is the ultimate server OS, but I feel OS X is currently the best productivity client OS. My two cents.
Of course, the only problem is lawyers cost money. Shouldn't be necessary, but unfortunately sometimes is. I wonder how many people they treated this way and didn't say anything do to fear or lack of financial resources.
http://www.ci.nashua.nh.us/content/51/98/555.aspx Google found this page. It includes this email address. LeciusE@pd.ci.nashua.nh.us I emailed them my thoughts. I encourage others to do the same.
They had previously set aside around $45p million for the previous settlement. Only a little over 100 Million is coming out of the existing quarter.
I am a Mac user but work for an IT dept. at a college. I am very impressed with Lenovo notebooks. The salesperson showing them to us poured water in the keyboard while it was running and even stood on it at one point. The things are very durable. Secondly IBM has partnered with a company to provide most textbooks electronically. Third, they offer school Computer Science departments free training, course material, and access to a mainframe to get students to go the mainframe programmer/administrator route. Adds up to some sweet deals. They also offer significant discounts if you go the wireless campus route with them. They also have sensors built in that help it know when to park the hard drive heads in case of a fall. You can use this feature to control Tux racer by moving your laptop around. ;-)
Very well stated.
I didn't know macs could be aroused. What is so sensual about worms anyway?
I submitted a better article than this yesterday and it was rejected. Symantec still has an unpatched security hole that affects all platforms including OS X, McAfees support of the mac platform has been dubious at best, and last week the hot topic on the macenterprise.org mailing list was that Sophos will generate false positives on the mac platform and quarantine or delete legitimate clean apps. I've installed Clamxav, made sure auto-opening of "safe" files is turned off, made sure unnecessary services are turned off and firewalled, and set a strong password for SSH. Come and get me.
I agree Apple didn't switch too soon. They had been promised 3 ghz some time ago. Still at dual 2.7 or quad 2.5. How many processors does Apple have to put in next year while they wait for the fabled Power 6? 8 cores? 2 power supplies to power them? Sweet. I think by the time the fabled Power 6 is shipping, Intel will be competitive with it. As for the constant complaints about not using AMD, AMD does some fabrication at IBM's Fishkill plant. Why switch to X86 to be limited once again by what IBM is willing to grace you with?
How about a VPN and VNC connection? Those could definately benefit from additional speed and would greatly improve a person's life. You could telecommute more effectively in the instance of a disaster, NYC transit strike, kid illness, etc. I could do 90% of my job from home if Apple Remote Desktop and Microsoft Terminal services were faster.
I see lots of discussion about windows Autorun CD feature. Those of us that were Mac users in 1998 (all 12 of us) learned this lesson from the Quicktime Autostart worm. QT used to have a autoplay cd option that was exploited pre OS X to install an annoying but harmless worm. I caught it from The CD that shipped with MacAddict magazine. Autorun should not be enabled.