Ummm, then run Linux on them. Yellowdog is one example, do a little research before beeching that you've gotta run OS X. You don't have to run OS X. As for VT, I'm pretty sure they're not running Aqua on the majority of the boxes. It is Unix, you can keep that task from starting up.
Oh yeah, and there's not really an extra charge for the OS when you buy the hardware. Alas, it seems to be yearly when the next big update comes up.
Ok, everyone keeps calling these servers and wondering why they've got firewire and a nice video card. Apple sells XServe's if you want a pure server. Typically, these machines would be used by some media professional (layout, design, audio, movies, animation) for which these things make complete sense. These aren't XServe's, these are PowerMacs and as such should be loaded to the gill.
VT didn't buy XServe's to start because there was no G5 version. Now that there is, they are, which over the long run the cooling and power expenses should more than compensate for any money lost on the computer swap deal. Oh yeah, and they've still got the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the world.
Yeah, good for you! You can do simple things from the DOS prompt. There's no need for things like perl, regular expressions, scripting, and god knows what else. Had OS X created it's own command line, it would be limited, but this is a full unix shell.
Hey, now that I really read this, all you really did was recreate csh aliases. Congrats.
Someone correct me on this, but I was under the impression that the data stored in a protected AAC file was not under any encryption. I thought iTunes simply managed the rights whether you could copy or play the song. You never have to tell your iPod whether it's allowed to play a song or not, so if you used ephpod or something else to add a protected file it would play without any issue.
Time for a reality check: Napster's prepaid cards are NOT based on Apple's Allowance. Unless you're telling me a company of that size can get several other very large retail outlets to carry said cards in under a month.
You've got at least a week for Napster to come up with their concept, and figure out all the legalese. Then you've got to convince stores that sell real physical CDs to sell these cards that will take business away from them if they really catch on. Finally, where's the profit? Napster has to be "losing" money on these, since Must Buy isn't going to sell them just for fun.
Yeah, I've got an iBook SE 466 and just upgraded to a 15" AlBook. Biggest problem with the iBook SE, 800x600 resolution. Especially with OS X, you've got to resize everything constantly and can't fit anything on the screen.
Of course, if the new iBook's had resolution greater than 1024x768 (cmon Apple, 1280x1024!!), I would actually consider replacing it. Those iBooks are beasts! They make nice wireless satellites to your desktop too, if you don't always need the power on the road.
Just to be obnoxious, the 0.33 (or 0.19) isn't profit if they then have to spend money on servers, development, and bandwidth. It's revenue, their actual profit is much lower (and at this point, still negative).
If you're going to buy and entire album, I still consider CDs to be your best bet. It may cost more, but you get quality and all the nice physical medium. BUT, for a song or two off an album, it's no doubt the way to go. Worst case, you buy a couple of songs off the store and later buy the whole CD later. Of course, then it would be nice to be able to sell those two songs you bought to someone else, but whatever.
Apple was correct in not following Windows guidelines, for two reasons. First, it's a port. When you port something, you make as few changes possible to the initial code base. Keep as much common as you can, and it's less you have to change as updates and bug fixes are made.
The more important point is that Apple is getting Windows users to use Apple software. They're not doing this so you keep using it in Windows. They do it so you realize how easy and friendly and cool it really is and hope you bite and assume the rest of their software is that way. Part of the Mac is the interface, brushed metal and all (whether you like it or not). Otherwise, outside of the cash made on selling music, what's the point???
As for wiping your iPod drive, did it give you any warning that it was matching it to a new computer or anything like that? It's not terribly suprising though, as they had to get the databases sync'd up properly.
The maximize button does the same thing in OS X, I agree it's a dubiously interesting use of it.
To an extent, it depends on the App. If you're running Photoshop with 10 different pictures you're working on, you can't select just one from the taskbar can you?
Of course, MS has "fixed" that with Word. I never can figure out why a new instance is opened when I open a new document, instead of using the current session. Same with IE (sometimes).
If Apple ever moves to x86 technology, or something else in the future more standard than PowerPC, it will not be stock hardware. You will still have to buy the system from Apple and you won't be able to buy generic Dell and throw OS X on it.
My point, they could go to x86 and still be a closed platform. But why when you've got the G5 with an almost seamless upgrade path. Even if there is Darwin running on x86, and OS X with a recompile, think of all the Altivec enabled code in the OS and in various apps that is now useless. Can you see Steve up there saying "we went to this super fast x86, but final cut takes longer to render now without the vector engine."
Apple only went to the PPC 7 years ago (ok, maybe that _is_ long in computer years), but with the G5 there's life so why jump ship?
Standards. For all the proprietary stuff you get when you buy a Mac, I think Apple's been working very hard to promote and use open standards. Dare I say first with USB, first with Firewire. Would you rather they make their own and then you're stuck with only an Apple mouse that only has 1 button?
Anyone who's been waiting for this update knows that it is at least a couple of months overdue. The common concensus in the Mac community is that it's MOT's fault for not getting processors to them fast enough. There's a good chance they couldn't get enough of the 1.33MHz chips to put in both lines, so they only put it in the high end. I'm sure Apple would like to have released a faster one, since everyone's also assuming the next iteration will have G5's in them.
Actually, they did purchase a lot of companies a few years back. Diab and SingleStep allowed them to own the entire tool chain from compiler to debugger. They've been integrating these into their IDE in an attempt to provide an entire solution. They may have gotten pSOS or BSD to kill them, but don't forget there's also money in support.
Personally, I started using VxWorks almost 10 years ago and always considered it a decent OS. Sure, it's just one big memory space, but in a lot of ways it's a good solid scalable embedded operating system. Are you gonna put it on your PC, hell no. But it's hella good in telecom applications, and anything else that isn't going to need a pretty GUI. Oh yeah, and it supports IPv6 already.
I wouldn't count WindRiver out. With the some of the acquisitions they've made, the embedded Linux people will need some of their hardware and software just for debugging. They may end up being niche players, but they'll still have a share of the pie.
The minute I can buy a new 15" Powerbook with a big enough hard drive for all my CD's, then I'll fill up the iPod. Something's wrong when you've got more storage on your mp3 player (30gig) than your laptop hard drive (20gig). Rerip everything at 160bps MPEG4 and life is good. Can you fill it up with music? Hell yeah.
Actually, OpenGL is offloaded to the graphics card, along with drawing pretty much anything else on the screen. Sure, it's mostly bogus eyecandy, but with Quartz Extreme at least not eating up your main processor with it like you do in Windows. Pretty sure I read Microsoft was working on this also, but Apple's got it now.
Hey now, Russia is no longer a threat. Couldn't be North Korea, they've only got 2-3. China maybe, or a whole buncha Iraqi SCUDS wif chem weapons. They did find those, right?
You didn't have to add a Title ID for each game you wanted to play. You had to add the Title ID for whatever particular PS1 disc you wanted to use to exploit the hack. Presumably, at this point you would switch discs and (somehow) put in a backup or foreign game that would boot even though it isn't "signed."
As for Linux on Playstation2, it's already there, supported by Sony.
Yes, but they bought OS X on Apple's word that their computer would be fully supported. In this case, it's not a G3/G4 issue, it's the video card. Apple did not go back and add complete video support for the older machines as they said they would. As a result, some things (including the dvd player) did not work properly.
It's not zealots, it's not OS 9 freaks, it's people who bought OS X because it should have worked on their computer, and didn't fully.
How is this a security breakthrough? Or, is this all a part of MS's trusted computing platform? I mean, in the end it's still just a password.
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I said this somewhere else, but OSX is still maturing. The APIs will get nailed down. Carbon and Cocoa and Java will all eventually act the exact same way on the system. Sure, there will continue to be things that rely on the latest version, but only because the latest version will have added features. As OSX develops more, you'll see fewer things that require an OS upgrade (and fewer apps that have different versions for 10.1 vs. 10.2 vs. 10.3).
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Mostly free code??? Maybe the lowest level of underpinnings. Trust me, none of the gooey Aqua goodness is open source.
Not that I should encourage this, but another one of Apple's niceties is that they don't have any draconian installation BS. No keys to enter, you don't even have to register the software. So, nothing is stopping you from buying a single copy and putting it on multiple machines. Except maybe your conscience...
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Ummm, then run Linux on them. Yellowdog is one example, do a little research before beeching that you've gotta run OS X. You don't have to run OS X. As for VT, I'm pretty sure they're not running Aqua on the majority of the boxes. It is Unix, you can keep that task from starting up.
Oh yeah, and there's not really an extra charge for the OS when you buy the hardware. Alas, it seems to be yearly when the next big update comes up.
Same troll, different day. At least they mixed it up a little bit, I was getting tired of seeing the old one.
Get with the times. It's a AlBook, not Titanium, and it's FireFox, not Netscape.
Ok, everyone keeps calling these servers and wondering why they've got firewire and a nice video card. Apple sells XServe's if you want a pure server. Typically, these machines would be used by some media professional (layout, design, audio, movies, animation) for which these things make complete sense. These aren't XServe's, these are PowerMacs and as such should be loaded to the gill.
VT didn't buy XServe's to start because there was no G5 version. Now that there is, they are, which over the long run the cooling and power expenses should more than compensate for any money lost on the computer swap deal. Oh yeah, and they've still got the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the world.
Yeah, good for you! You can do simple things from the DOS prompt. There's no need for things like perl, regular expressions, scripting, and god knows what else. Had OS X created it's own command line, it would be limited, but this is a full unix shell.
Hey, now that I really read this, all you really did was recreate csh aliases. Congrats.
Someone correct me on this, but I was under the impression that the data stored in a protected AAC file was not under any encryption. I thought iTunes simply managed the rights whether you could copy or play the song. You never have to tell your iPod whether it's allowed to play a song or not, so if you used ephpod or something else to add a protected file it would play without any issue.
Anyone tried something like this?
Time for a reality check: Napster's prepaid cards are NOT based on Apple's Allowance. Unless you're telling me a company of that size can get several other very large retail outlets to carry said cards in under a month.
You've got at least a week for Napster to come up with their concept, and figure out all the legalese. Then you've got to convince stores that sell real physical CDs to sell these cards that will take business away from them if they really catch on. Finally, where's the profit? Napster has to be "losing" money on these, since Must Buy isn't going to sell them just for fun.
It doesn't use IMAP, but it does keep folders on the server (unless you explicitely setup local ones).
I believe rules, and your out of office msg, are all stored server side. This could be while you can't get them to work with Mail.
Yeah, I've got an iBook SE 466 and just upgraded to a 15" AlBook. Biggest problem with the iBook SE, 800x600 resolution. Especially with OS X, you've got to resize everything constantly and can't fit anything on the screen.
Of course, if the new iBook's had resolution greater than 1024x768 (cmon Apple, 1280x1024!!), I would actually consider replacing it. Those iBooks are beasts! They make nice wireless satellites to your desktop too, if you don't always need the power on the road.
Just to be obnoxious, the 0.33 (or 0.19) isn't profit if they then have to spend money on servers, development, and bandwidth. It's revenue, their actual profit is much lower (and at this point, still negative).
If you're going to buy and entire album, I still consider CDs to be your best bet. It may cost more, but you get quality and all the nice physical medium. BUT, for a song or two off an album, it's no doubt the way to go. Worst case, you buy a couple of songs off the store and later buy the whole CD later. Of course, then it would be nice to be able to sell those two songs you bought to someone else, but whatever.
Apple was correct in not following Windows guidelines, for two reasons. First, it's a port. When you port something, you make as few changes possible to the initial code base. Keep as much common as you can, and it's less you have to change as updates and bug fixes are made.
The more important point is that Apple is getting Windows users to use Apple software. They're not doing this so you keep using it in Windows. They do it so you realize how easy and friendly and cool it really is and hope you bite and assume the rest of their software is that way. Part of the Mac is the interface, brushed metal and all (whether you like it or not). Otherwise, outside of the cash made on selling music, what's the point???
As for wiping your iPod drive, did it give you any warning that it was matching it to a new computer or anything like that? It's not terribly suprising though, as they had to get the databases sync'd up properly.
The maximize button does the same thing in OS X, I agree it's a dubiously interesting use of it.
To an extent, it depends on the App. If you're running Photoshop with 10 different pictures you're working on, you can't select just one from the taskbar can you?
Of course, MS has "fixed" that with Word. I never can figure out why a new instance is opened when I open a new document, instead of using the current session. Same with IE (sometimes).
If Apple ever moves to x86 technology, or something else in the future more standard than PowerPC, it will not be stock hardware. You will still have to buy the system from Apple and you won't be able to buy generic Dell and throw OS X on it.
My point, they could go to x86 and still be a closed platform. But why when you've got the G5 with an almost seamless upgrade path. Even if there is Darwin running on x86, and OS X with a recompile, think of all the Altivec enabled code in the OS and in various apps that is now useless. Can you see Steve up there saying "we went to this super fast x86, but final cut takes longer to render now without the vector engine."
Apple only went to the PPC 7 years ago (ok, maybe that _is_ long in computer years), but with the G5 there's life so why jump ship?
Standards. For all the proprietary stuff you get when you buy a Mac, I think Apple's been working very hard to promote and use open standards. Dare I say first with USB, first with Firewire.
Would you rather they make their own and then you're stuck with only an Apple mouse that only has 1 button?
Anyone who's been waiting for this update knows that it is at least a couple of months overdue. The common concensus in the Mac community is that it's MOT's fault for not getting processors to them fast enough. There's a good chance they couldn't get enough of the 1.33MHz chips to put in both lines, so they only put it in the high end. I'm sure Apple would like to have released a faster one, since everyone's also assuming the next iteration will have G5's in them.
Actually, they did purchase a lot of companies a few years back. Diab and SingleStep allowed them to own the entire tool chain from compiler to debugger. They've been integrating these into their IDE in an attempt to provide an entire solution. They may have gotten pSOS or BSD to kill them, but don't forget there's also money in support.
Personally, I started using VxWorks almost 10 years ago and always considered it a decent OS. Sure, it's just one big memory space, but in a lot of ways it's a good solid scalable embedded operating system. Are you gonna put it on your PC, hell no. But it's hella good in telecom applications, and anything else that isn't going to need a pretty GUI. Oh yeah, and it supports IPv6 already.
I wouldn't count WindRiver out. With the some of the acquisitions they've made, the embedded Linux people will need some of their hardware and software just for debugging. They may end up being niche players, but they'll still have a share of the pie.
The minute I can buy a new 15" Powerbook with a big enough hard drive for all my CD's, then I'll fill up the iPod. Something's wrong when you've got more storage on your mp3 player (30gig) than your laptop hard drive (20gig). Rerip everything at 160bps MPEG4 and life is good. Can you fill it up with music? Hell yeah.
Actually, OpenGL is offloaded to the graphics card, along with drawing pretty much anything else on the screen. Sure, it's mostly bogus eyecandy, but with Quartz Extreme at least not eating up your main processor with it like you do in Windows. Pretty sure I read Microsoft was working on this also, but Apple's got it now.
Hey now, Russia is no longer a threat. Couldn't be North Korea, they've only got 2-3. China maybe, or a whole buncha Iraqi SCUDS wif chem weapons. They did find those, right?
You didn't have to add a Title ID for each game you wanted to play. You had to add the Title ID for whatever particular PS1 disc you wanted to use to exploit the hack. Presumably, at this point you would switch discs and (somehow) put in a backup or foreign game that would boot even though it isn't "signed."
As for Linux on Playstation2, it's already there, supported by Sony.
Yes, but they bought OS X on Apple's word that their computer would be fully supported. In this case, it's not a G3/G4 issue, it's the video card. Apple did not go back and add complete video support for the older machines as they said they would. As a result, some things (including the dvd player) did not work properly.
It's not zealots, it's not OS 9 freaks, it's people who bought OS X because it should have worked on their computer, and didn't fully.
Wouldn't it be funny if the SCO lawsuit effed all this up?
This is old news in the mac world (a whole day), everyone's worried about the Apple/IBM relationship. They're freaks, it happens.
"Sounds like a major breakthrough in security"
How is this a security breakthrough? Or, is this all a part of MS's trusted computing platform? I mean, in the end it's still just a password.
I said this somewhere else, but OSX is still maturing. The APIs will get nailed down. Carbon and Cocoa and Java will all eventually act the exact same way on the system. Sure, there will continue to be things that rely on the latest version, but only because the latest version will have added features. As OSX develops more, you'll see fewer things that require an OS upgrade (and fewer apps that have different versions for 10.1 vs. 10.2 vs. 10.3).
Mostly free code??? Maybe the lowest level of underpinnings. Trust me, none of the gooey Aqua goodness is open source.
Not that I should encourage this, but another one of Apple's niceties is that they don't have any draconian installation BS. No keys to enter, you don't even have to register the software. So, nothing is stopping you from buying a single copy and putting it on multiple machines. Except maybe your conscience...