That's nice, good for AMD. But where are the FB-DIMMs?
What a coincidence that you ask that question now. I submitted a story yesterday to bring this article to the attention of the slashdot crowd "The Future of DDR Memory is Serial".
Guess what, the submission was rejected, and yet in the same day they let through a story about a self perpetuating miracle motor. Why do I even bother!
LOL.. thanks. Though what I actually drew looked more like the sail ship on Star Wars. If memory serves me right, the one that Darth Tyranus (Count Dooku) escaped in.
At the tender age of 12 (some 29 years ago) I submitted a drawing of a space ship powered by sails as part of a school homework assignment. I got the idea after visiting a friends house and seeing a strange ornament displayed in their window. It was a glass dome and inside were 4 paddles mounted cross wise (horizontally) on a vertical support. One side of each paddle was black and the other white (or silver, its hard to remember now). On a nice sunny day the paddles would start to spin. I was so enchanted by this I never forgot it, and dreamed about flying through space on solar sales for years after. I never guessed that one day I might actually get to see it in action.
I pay something like 60-70 EUR a month for flat-fee UMTS access
Yeah, but I bet you're bandwidth capped. How expensive does it get when you discover that you've blown your inclusive 200MB/month (or whatever it is) though web browsing, email and VoIP calls, and you default to their higher tariff ? The parent is quite right for countries like the UK.
The article says this will be targeted at business users first. And that's where I see it having the most appeal.
Why don't you actually READ what the site moderators have to say about it all. They don't portray themselves as poor helpless victims of being stomped on, and I agree with them. Seeing as you obviously haven't bothered so far, let me post a couple of paragraphs from their front page about all this.
As most of you know, two days ago we were contacted by an Apple representative concerning links, posted by our members, to the newest patches by Maxxuss on his site. Since the beginning, we have made it known that we would be very willing to work with Apple regarding any concerns they had with their intellectual property and this site (I actually wrote Steve about it a few months ago... but that's another story...). After speaking with the lawyer representing Apple, we've removed the handful of links to Maxxuss' website from the Forum.
Apple is certainly well within their rights to protect their OS and we have always supported them in this effort. Our first-class moderating staff has helped ensure that direct links to any patches are not allowed. We have in the past linked to the homepage of Maxxuss - but not to the offending 10.4.4 patches - in the interest of news, but we've removed those links just in case.
News of Apple's DMCA concerns with the links on our site have traveled far and wide over the past 24 hours. Most major tech news site have covered it in one way or another, some accurately, some not. I'd like to be clear regarding the history of this site.
You may not like the way corporations have to behave. But its the real world pal. And as far as your rights to free speech goes; well I don't live in the US, but from what I've heard and read over recent years, its a lot less free than you seem to think it is.
I agree with you, a link should not be illegal. It's just a signpost pointing to a place, a notification of an address for a place to go. Just because I post an address of some data on a server doesn't involve me in any transaction that takes place between a client and that server. Unfortunately (as far as I can tell) lawyers have managed to spin it differently, so that's not how the law see's it any more. Nothing you or I can do about that.
If this isn't a corporation stomping on a little guy, I don't know what is
And what else are they supposed to do? Just sit back and ignore it? Corporations have obligations to their shareholders, to their employees and even to their customers to make sure that they look after their assets, try to build their market share and stay in business. Whether you (or I) like it or not they have chosen to stick to a business model that is working for them and to keep OSX running on Apple systems only. If they don't defend that model now and ignore attempts by people to undermine it, then they won't be able to defend it effectively later if an underground hacked OSXx86 movement gathers momentum. The computer business is cut throat and harsh. That's the game that has to be played to survive in it.
Have any of the 100's of people replying to this actually bothered to visit www.osx86project.org and look for themselves to find out what's been going on? Doesn't bloody seem like it. The Washington Post article was hopelessly wrong and inflammatory, and n.e.watson is a jerk for not checking it out either before making himself look like a complete ass!
At no time during all of this was the OSX86 Project shutdown, nor was there any chance it was going to. It was THE FORUM only. And only for as long as it took the moderators long enough to find and remove the links to "patches" that violated the DMCA and got Apple's attention.
I guess some people don't want to know the truth. Too busy lathering at the mouth over how some big bad corporation has stomped over the little guy. When in this case it didn't.
If a rival mp3 player to iPod emerges, Apple wants it to be worth throwing away hundreds of dollars in music and/or teh inconvenience of converting the purchased songs to WAV to mp3. Say as inconvenient as switching from IE to Netscape in the late nineties
You forget that Apple did not create the digital music player and legal download markets. Both already existed and Apple were late to the party in BOTH cases. What Apple did that no one else had done properly before them was create a union between the two that greatly enhanced the end users ease of use and experience. They entered a market that already existed and succeeded by out competing the competition. They created a fusion experience that people liked, and wrapped it up in brand that dripped "cool".
Its called innovation, its called competition. They were just better at it than the rest and now they've got their just rewards. Get over it.
Ditto. I tried the free Desktop Manager which (last time I checked) was better than the Codetek virtual desktop. But even so, I've found that its slower (for me) in real life to work with virtual desktops than not.
I agree. Its probably the only thing that could happen. If they bundled it or gave it away for free then the other AV companies would run screaming to the courts. Never mind that in an ideal world the likes of McAfee wouldn't (and shouldn't) even exist!
Having said that, I think this is going to cause huge waves in the AV world anyway. Despite all the screams of "extortion" etc from the slavering slashdot masses, combining all three functions into one package and making it available for up to 3 PC's for $50/year is going to be attractive to a lot of people.
Its going to cause the competition to adjust their pricing model to compete, and I predict that they won't all be able to survive it. There are lean times, mergers and buyouts looming on the horizon for the AV sector.
OS X is fine for users trying to run two or three windows but for serious users that run ten or twenty programs at once it just is in the way
You need to learn how to use the OS X desktop more effectively then.
1. Map your Exposé functions to the screen corners from the "Dashboard and Exposé" option in System Preferences. I've got the following mapped: Top-Left-Application-Windows, Top-Right-All-Windows, Bottom-Left-Start-Screen-Saver, Bottom-Right-Desktop. Its way faster than having to hunt out F9-12 between mouse movements.
2. Make better use of Command-H to hide an app and its associated windows instead of iconizing. It keeps the dock from getting cluttered up
3. If things are getting too busy on the desktop use Option-Command-H to hide all the other apps except the one you're working on. Instant clarity.
4. Remember that you can bring an app (and all its associated windows) to the foreground by clicking the app icon in the dock.
As a serious user who's been using Mac OS X for 3-4 years now, full time, for both work and home I can tell you that the OSX desktop does not get in the way if you make full use of the available features. On the contrary, its a pleasure to use.
For a quick result the Activity Monitor has the option under the View --> Columns menu to show not just the usual Real Memory and Virtual Memory, but also Private Memory and Shared.
... its the source code to Office that we want. If it were possible to buy a competing office suite for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, etc, that was 99% compatible with all office file formats, then we would have true competition in an open and level market. The competition would drive down the price of MS Office to something much less obscene than it is now, benefitting consumers. And Linux on the desktop would have a much better chance of gaining traction as a viable alternative. Mac OS X would benefit too. So would the other *BSD OS's.
You miss the point. You must be in a 0.001% bracket of users who go significantly out of their way to shut out as much formatting as possible from their web experience. Certainly in all my years I've never heard of anyone going to the extremes that you do.
As such, you consign yourself to an insignificant minority. Why should the parent, or any other online service care about you or loosing your custom. From a business perspective you're so small that you just don't matter. And its all your own fault.
if it was about Market Share, MS would be smarter to make Office for Linux and FreeBSD. Period.
Huh? Linux has a bigger market penetration than OSX in the small-server space, but you're living in cloud cuckoo land if you think it has anything like OSX's presence on the desktop and mobile markets.
I remember reading about PAN's a good 10 years ago I would guess. It was to do with a technology that IBM were playing around with, passing a current and exchanging data through the subcutaneous layer under the skin. The idea was that you could have gadgets like a smart business card attached to your skin somewhere that would transmit your data and receive others. You would walk around a meeting shaking hands with people, linking your PAN with their PAN and your respective business cards would exchange information.
I don't know what happened to that technology in the end. Its not visible today so they must've shelved it. But IBM owns patent rights to the use of the term Personal Area Network, of that I'm sure.
Huh? I can't see an option for this in mine. Does it only exist for square monitors ?
That was my mistake too
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I remember when I first got my business domain some 6 years ago. I was ok for the first year. Kept it very quiet, only used it for business and I never got a single spam. Then one day I posted on Usenet and forgot to hide my address. I realised seconds after I'd clicked the send button, but it was too late. A few days later I got my first spam:-( Now I'm getting them at the rate of:
Today: 40 Yesterday: 35 Day before: 45
etc, etc. My Junk folder holds about a months worth on any given day. Before Xmas it dipped from around the 1000 mark to below 900 and held there. First time in ages, and I thought maybe it was finally lessening off. No such luck, its back up again to 1150 now. Arse!
Apple's Mail.app does a great job of filtering. Most of the time I don't notice the junk. But of late more with a specific style format (I won't describe it in here just in case) have been getting past the Junk filter. So I don't think its going down at all.
I want to run my business utilizing every right I was born with -- including speech
You have the right to free speech in your own home.
You have the right to free speech in a public place.
You do NOT have the right to free speech in MY home unless I invite you in first. Your rights stop at my front door, and the point where the telephone line enters my house. If I decide I don't want you and your filth in my inbox, on my computer, in MY HOME then laws should exist for me to prosecute you if you trespass (and I can prove who you are).
Yep, I just tried it and it behaves as you said. Plays the wmv file just fine, but when you close the window when its finished Quicktime crashes and you get the crash report dialogue box up. I filled it in and sent if off to Apple.
Because then you get caught with import duties. I forget what the threshold is, but anything over a (relatively) small value has to be declared. Customs and Excise intercept it and slap you with a 17.5% VAT charge which you have to pay before they'll hand over the goods. Add the cost of shipping to that as well, plus the cost of a new power lead and you hardly save anything at all.
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Guess what, the submission was rejected, and yet in the same day they let through a story about a self perpetuating miracle motor. Why do I even bother!
LOL
Hey thanks
That's exactly what I saw and haven't seen one since.
At the tender age of 12 (some 29 years ago) I submitted a drawing of a space ship powered by sails as part of a school homework assignment. I got the idea after visiting a friends house and seeing a strange ornament displayed in their window. It was a glass dome and inside were 4 paddles mounted cross wise (horizontally) on a vertical support. One side of each paddle was black and the other white (or silver, its hard to remember now). On a nice sunny day the paddles would start to spin. I was so enchanted by this I never forgot it, and dreamed about flying through space on solar sales for years after. I never guessed that one day I might actually get to see it in action.
The article says this will be targeted at business users first. And that's where I see it having the most appeal.
Why don't you actually READ what the site moderators have to say about it all. They don't portray themselves as poor helpless victims of being stomped on, and I agree with them. Seeing as you obviously haven't bothered so far, let me post a couple of paragraphs from their front page about all this.
You may not like the way corporations have to behave. But its the real world pal. And as far as your rights to free speech goes; well I don't live in the US, but from what I've heard and read over recent years, its a lot less free than you seem to think it is.
And what else are they supposed to do? Just sit back and ignore it? Corporations have obligations to their shareholders, to their employees and even to their customers to make sure that they look after their assets, try to build their market share and stay in business. Whether you (or I) like it or not they have chosen to stick to a business model that is working for them and to keep OSX running on Apple systems only. If they don't defend that model now and ignore attempts by people to undermine it, then they won't be able to defend it effectively later if an underground hacked OSXx86 movement gathers momentum. The computer business is cut throat and harsh. That's the game that has to be played to survive in it.
Have any of the 100's of people replying to this actually bothered to visit www.osx86project.org and look for themselves to find out what's been going on? Doesn't bloody seem like it. The Washington Post article was hopelessly wrong and inflammatory, and n.e.watson is a jerk for not checking it out either before making himself look like a complete ass!
At no time during all of this was the OSX86 Project shutdown, nor was there any chance it was going to. It was THE FORUM only. And only for as long as it took the moderators long enough to find and remove the links to "patches" that violated the DMCA and got Apple's attention.
I guess some people don't want to know the truth. Too busy lathering at the mouth over how some big bad corporation has stomped over the little guy. When in this case it didn't.
Its called innovation, its called competition. They were just better at it than the rest and now they've got their just rewards. Get over it.
Ditto. I tried the free Desktop Manager which (last time I checked) was better than the Codetek virtual desktop. But even so, I've found that its slower (for me) in real life to work with virtual desktops than not.
Not on a PowerBook they're not. The F* keys are half the size of the regular keys. Believe me, using hot-corners is way faster.
I agree. Its probably the only thing that could happen. If they bundled it or gave it away for free then the other AV companies would run screaming to the courts. Never mind that in an ideal world the likes of McAfee wouldn't (and shouldn't) even exist!
Having said that, I think this is going to cause huge waves in the AV world anyway. Despite all the screams of "extortion" etc from the slavering slashdot masses, combining all three functions into one package and making it available for up to 3 PC's for $50/year is going to be attractive to a lot of people.
Its going to cause the competition to adjust their pricing model to compete, and I predict that they won't all be able to survive it. There are lean times, mergers and buyouts looming on the horizon for the AV sector.
1. Map your Exposé functions to the screen corners from the "Dashboard and Exposé" option in System Preferences. I've got the following mapped: Top-Left-Application-Windows, Top-Right-All-Windows, Bottom-Left-Start-Screen-Saver, Bottom-Right-Desktop. Its way faster than having to hunt out F9-12 between mouse movements.
2. Make better use of Command-H to hide an app and its associated windows instead of iconizing. It keeps the dock from getting cluttered up
3. If things are getting too busy on the desktop use Option-Command-H to hide all the other apps except the one you're working on. Instant clarity.
4. Remember that you can bring an app (and all its associated windows) to the foreground by clicking the app icon in the dock.
As a serious user who's been using Mac OS X for 3-4 years now, full time, for both work and home I can tell you that the OSX desktop does not get in the way if you make full use of the available features. On the contrary, its a pleasure to use.
For a quick result the Activity Monitor has the option under the View --> Columns menu to show not just the usual Real Memory and Virtual Memory, but also Private Memory and Shared.
The EU are aiming at the wrong goal !
I never seem to have my mod points when I want them most.
You miss the point. You must be in a 0.001% bracket of users who go significantly out of their way to shut out as much formatting as possible from their web experience. Certainly in all my years I've never heard of anyone going to the extremes that you do.
As such, you consign yourself to an insignificant minority. Why should the parent, or any other online service care about you or loosing your custom. From a business perspective you're so small that you just don't matter. And its all your own fault.
I don't know what happened to that technology in the end. Its not visible today so they must've shelved it. But IBM owns patent rights to the use of the term Personal Area Network, of that I'm sure.
Huh? I can't see an option for this in mine. Does it only exist for square monitors ?
I remember when I first got my business domain some 6 years ago. I was ok for the first year. Kept it very quiet, only used it for business and I never got a single spam. Then one day I posted on Usenet and forgot to hide my address. I realised seconds after I'd clicked the send button, but it was too late. A few days later I got my first spam
Today: 40
Yesterday: 35
Day before: 45
etc, etc. My Junk folder holds about a months worth on any given day. Before Xmas it dipped from around the 1000 mark to below 900 and held there. First time in ages, and I thought maybe it was finally lessening off. No such luck, its back up again to 1150 now. Arse!
Apple's Mail.app does a great job of filtering. Most of the time I don't notice the junk. But of late more with a specific style format (I won't describe it in here just in case) have been getting past the Junk filter. So I don't think its going down at all.
You have the right to free speech in a public place.
You do NOT have the right to free speech in MY home unless I invite you in first. Your rights stop at my front door, and the point where the telephone line enters my house. If I decide I don't want you and your filth in my inbox, on my computer, in MY HOME then laws should exist for me to prosecute you if you trespass (and I can prove who you are).
Yep, I just tried it and it behaves as you said. Plays the wmv file just fine, but when you close the window when its finished Quicktime crashes and you get the crash report dialogue box up. I filled it in and sent if off to Apple.
Because then you get caught with import duties. I forget what the threshold is, but anything over a (relatively) small value has to be declared. Customs and Excise intercept it and slap you with a 17.5% VAT charge which you have to pay before they'll hand over the goods. Add the cost of shipping to that as well, plus the cost of a new power lead and you hardly save anything at all.