Data Mining and Data Warehousing is increasingly being used not just at Governmental levels but even in Colleges. We're going to be investigating this as a way of reducing load on the main online transaction processing where I work. Data mining is going to be very common in the near future.
I think your wrong. This is the same type of arguement that people used regarding CD sales and Napster back in the day. If there was no DRM on it, once one person bought it up on Limewire or one of the other services it would go. I personally do not think the DRM will cause this to be unplayable in the future. What will happen if Apple ever decided to shut iTMS down would be some enterprising young hacker (which ALREADY happened....many times) will crack the final format and then it will be posted to Slashdot and everyone will decrypt thier files permanently. AAC itself is NOT a closed format. I can play AAC on Linux just fine,I just have issues with the DRM'd files onmy Mac. Once decrypted, any iTMS song plays fine on my Linux box or my mac or my windows partition.
In all of my local Radio Shack's they don't even have one 8085 or similar processor nor can you get modern ones there let alone the other parts you'd need. How ya gunna build one now?? NewEgg I guess or maybe a mom and pop computer shop.
Get good repair contracts because they are GOING to break and since the bought them from you, you have to support them. In fact, I would standardise. You pick....Mac OR Dell....NOT BOTH. Powerbooks can run just about everything and so can Dells. Find out the things you simply can't deal without and pick the platform that runs on. Convert everything else to the other. That makes for less laptops and part s you will need to have on hand. Other then that, but up a wifi network with a authentication box and let them have at it. Get site licenses for as much as you can.
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I agree that the academic fraud he pulled off is the most off putting thing, but let's be honest.....how can even a educated CEO save Radio Shack? All of thier competition has them beat on price and in alot of cases, selection. I mean I went there to look for something I thought they may carry...bluetooth headphones (no not a stupid headset for my cellphone) and they only had one model and it didn't even come with the adapter to plug into a 3.5 mm port! Stupid. They did make my son happy this Christmas though with a big honking radio controlled Camaro!
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Tandy Leather was sold many years ago. They are still around, but harder to find. I remember goign to Tandy alot when I was a kid. Back then, my dad did leather work to supplement his income. I still carry a wallet he made. He still does the stuff, but has to get the kits via mail most times.
Radio Shack still does sell alot of components, but just not as many as there used to be. I have not seen a ole 200 in 1 kit lately. Problem is how do you get kids intrested in component circuits? I would love to see Radio Shack start to carry computer components and mother boards. They have some things, but you can't really build a computer with parts from Radio Shack anymore(you coudl have back in the component days).
Apple does not make money from thier software? Just thought I would ask. Last I checked, other then development time (which a large part is done FOR them for FREE), pressing a CD or DVD is damn cheap. and considering that Apple has never given a point release for free(except for one time), well that goes out the Windows.
Hmm....either the PTO is waking up and doing something it should do for a majority of it's patents (NTP vs RIM anyone??) or NASA has looked at this and said....WOW....we could USE THIS!
On the otherhand, I don't believe for s second that this guy really has invented a WORKING FTL drive.
In the near future, I can go into any store that carries Mac OS X and purchase the Intel version of it. What I do with it after that is my business. Oh sure, I may be "violating" the license by trying to run it on Non-Apple hardware, however am I going to be calling Apple's support line? NO! Am I going to be complaining that it doesn't work on non-apple hardware? Well, yeah I will, but not to Apple. The thing is Apple is the one who CHOSE to use Intel. Intel is a far more open platform then the PowerPC platform is. Most PowerPC companies have thier own deal preventing other OS's running on thier hardware and the different Linux projects have worked arounf this. IBM has ROS on the pSeries and Apple has OpenFirmware. Intel simply doesn't have this kind of limitation. Apple is just one of the first companies to take advantage of EFI and other companies will follow. Why? Apple does not OWN EFI and EFI is destined to replace BIOS. As soon as EFI becomes more popular, it's going to be even EASIER to run Mac OSX on any hardware and even easier to get Windows to run on Apple hardware.
Apple's fighting a battle they cannot win. Just because this site is shutdown does not mean there will not be another to pop up and replace it.
Yes we deserve to run Mac OS X on anything we want....we just won't get support from Apple and a large majority of the people who want to do this probably don't need support from them anyway. Besides, this is a way to transition to Apple hardware in the first place. I think there's a large contingent of people who would LOVE to try it, but want to be sure that they can do what they want to do on it before spending a bunch of dollars on new hardware. After they get it running on a regular Intel box and they find out this stuff is great thier next PC may just come from Apple. This project isn't costing Apple money.
I think that one of the most important things that any project that replaces it needs to make clear is that you must purchase a license from Apple. Right now, this requires you to buy a MacBook Pro or a iMac. In the future, when 10.5 is out, you can just buy that. That way the only thing Apple loses in the near term(after 10.5 is out) is a hardware sale. The project should not condone piracy. In the long term, Apple stands to make that money back on future hardware and software purchases.
Correct. And I don't know a single person who wants to run this OS on thier PC wanting to steal it. There's a bunch of guys willing to fork out 129 to run this on thier PC they ALREADY have. There's NO reason that Apple should want to prevent this. These are not even the guys who would go whine about thier machine not working. Noone is asking you guys to support unsupported hardware configs. If it doesn't work, these guys will either tweak thier machine until it does work or they will give up and buy a Mac anyway.
Apple, this is not something you can stop. Its NOT illegal to do what these folks are doing. The law allows for reverse engineering. IBM LOST this battle and you will too. What is this battle I speak of? Remember way back when all PC's were made by IBM?? IBM tried to sue the pants off of Compaq and others for reverse engineering BIOS. Granted, this is not the same time period or the same thing but case law seems to go in our hands in my humble opinion.
From Wikipedia:
Columbia copied the IBM PC and produced the first 'compatible' (i.e., more or less compatible to the IBM PC standard) PC in 1982. Compaq Computer Corp. produced its first IBM PC compatible a few months later in 1982 -- the Compaq Portable. The Compaq was not only the first "sewing machine-sized" portable PC but, even more important, was the first essentially 100% PC-compatible computer. The company could not directly copy the BIOS as a result of the court decision in Apple v. Franklin, but it could reverse-engineer the IBM BIOS and then write its own BIOS using clean room design.
Franklin and Columbia did the wrong thing but Compaq did a white room reverse-engineering of the BIOS. This is all the OSx86 project is doing too. Hello EFF??? You need to defend these guys.
In less then 10 years, there will be no Mac's or Apple will just give up preventing anyone from installing thier OS on other machines....can't Apple see that there are lot of people who ALREADY HAVE x86 machines that are perfectly capable of running thier OS but they can't or rather won't justify spending 3 grand on a new Mac. These same people would probably even consider a Mac when they do have the money just because they WANT to run your OS. Helloooo? Apple what are you thinkin?
AIX is not and has not een dropped by IBM. It MAY happen over time, but AIX has infintely MORE support for Enterprise level stuff then Linux. IBM has HACMP which is better then any failover solution you can do on top of Linux. IBM dropped Linux? News to them! Oh sure, I DO see AIX loosing out eventually but it's going to take many YEARS for this to happen. Once Linux supports alot of the high end stuff that AIX already supports, IBM has no reason to develop AIX anymore.
Apple dropping OSX for Windows....shyeah as if. I ain't going to say much more about that because even Leo Laporte told John he's full of it.
Everyone I see saying tar sands and shale is to expensive to extract the oil from it....it's too expensive NOW. What's to say that Shell or someone else doesn't come up with a cheap process to extract the oil?
You know, I am almost at the same damn point. It's a frackin pain in the ass to do the SSL and when the guy who did it last leaves the company and the cert expires and neither one of you have or remember the frackin password....GRR!
Invalidating them and getting new ones cost $$$ and there's no consistent way that servers and applications use these. One app you ust drp the file into a directory and another has a encrypted keystore for them and yet another does it....
I had a Atari 800XL and in fact my mom and dad still have it! Up until they got thier own machine, they used ot for printing resumes on a nice letter quality printer. I miss that thing. As far as I know it still works.
Ok, when I had a Pentium II 366 in a laptop a year or two ago, I was able to do VoIP Calls with Yahoo Chat and we had many more the 10! Why limit it at all?? Limiting it by CPU??? I'd imagine that the SEC would like to hear about this...
And wait til grandma's machine breaks....you'll be singing a different tune then. Who's going o take back your video card? Sometimes I have had difficulty calling the manufacturer to get components fixed. Gateway was excellent when we bought our current workhorse desktop my wife currently uses. One reason I bought it off of them at the time was that they had a store I could take it back to if it broke. Well we had a power suply go out in it and I took it in it took 4 days to get the damn Power Supply fixed because they stock ZERO parts. DUMB. Gateway had a good deal with the stores and it would have bene even better if they had parts and staff that could fix it. I am a geek just like the next slashdotter, but I have to do work on my PC and not work to get it fixed.
This definitely is true. I have said it time and time and TIME again....if Linux is to get more users, the developers need to:
1. Pull thier heads out of thier arses and listen to NON PROGRAMMERS. 2. When the user makes a REALLY dumb choice (You know that password thingy, I hate having to type it in oh why do I have to do that??), be nice and tell them it would not be a good idea becaus then that creepy guy in Russia can steal thier stuff. 3. Just because a user asks for something that is hard ir really hard to implement with the code base you already have DOESN'T mean you shouldn't considerate or even completely dismiss it. 4. Oh and again, listen to the NON-PROGRAMMERS.
There are tons of people who CAN use computers who are experts at using some apps that can't write the app. That DOES NOT mean thier opinion isn't important.
Greatfully, I see some projects that are starting to tuen this around a little. Look at iJuice (used to be iPodder) a year ago, Adam Curry would ask for X feature and then others would comment to Adam that it would be a good idea and then bam.....it happens. That doesn't happen on alot of projects.
Yeah I have seen those too.....but the one I always remembered was the humongous pager they had....while it was smaller then that brick, it ws bigger then anything I had seen at the time.
Your right it IS unfair. What's worse is they will come up with some silly thing that will make all future iPods USELESS.....like a volume limiter. This is STUPID and a BAD lawsuit. I hope the judge tells them to POUND SAND.
And it was from....RIM. I have been in what used to be a mainframe shop since the mid 90's and the techs carried the early blackberries. I saw the RIM logo on the back of these. They switched from the brick like ones to the more PDA like ones a while back.
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Data Mining and Data Warehousing is increasingly being used not just at Governmental levels but even in Colleges. We're going to be investigating this as a way of reducing load on the main online transaction processing where I work. Data mining is going to be very common in the near future.
I think your wrong. This is the same type of arguement that people used regarding CD sales and Napster back in the day. If there was no DRM on it, once one person bought it up on Limewire or one of the other services it would go. I personally do not think the DRM will cause this to be unplayable in the future. What will happen if Apple ever decided to shut iTMS down would be some enterprising young hacker (which ALREADY happened....many times) will crack the final format and then it will be posted to Slashdot and everyone will decrypt thier files permanently. AAC itself is NOT a closed format. I can play AAC on Linux just fine,I just have issues with the DRM'd files onmy Mac. Once decrypted, any iTMS song plays fine on my Linux box or my mac or my windows partition.
I swear my watch says February 22 not April 1!
This can be nice....even for a technical user. Not all of us want to run a webserver at home. Some of us pay for hosting or web pages.
In all of my local Radio Shack's they don't even have one 8085 or similar processor nor can you get modern ones there let alone the other parts you'd need. How ya gunna build one now?? NewEgg I guess or maybe a mom and pop computer shop.
Get good repair contracts because they are GOING to break and since the bought them from you, you have to support them. In fact, I would standardise. You pick....Mac OR Dell....NOT BOTH. Powerbooks can run just about everything and so can Dells. Find out the things you simply can't deal without and pick the platform that runs on. Convert everything else to the other. That makes for less laptops and part s you will need to have on hand. Other then that, but up a wifi network with a authentication box and let them have at it. Get site licenses for as much as you can.
I agree that the academic fraud he pulled off is the most off putting thing, but let's be honest.....how can even a educated CEO save Radio Shack? All of thier competition has them beat on price and in alot of cases, selection. I mean I went there to look for something I thought they may carry...bluetooth headphones (no not a stupid headset for my cellphone) and they only had one model and it didn't even come with the adapter to plug into a 3.5 mm port! Stupid. They did make my son happy this Christmas though with a big honking radio controlled Camaro!
Tandy Leather was sold many years ago. They are still around, but harder to find. I remember goign to Tandy alot when I was a kid. Back then, my dad did leather work to supplement his income. I still carry a wallet he made. He still does the stuff, but has to get the kits via mail most times.
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Radio Shack still does sell alot of components, but just not as many as there used to be. I have not seen a ole 200 in 1 kit lately. Problem is how do you get kids intrested in component circuits? I would love to see Radio Shack start to carry computer components and mother boards. They have some things, but you can't really build a computer with parts from Radio Shack anymore(you coudl have back in the component days).
Apple does not make money from thier software? Just thought I would ask. Last I checked, other then development time (which a large part is done FOR them for FREE), pressing a CD or DVD is damn cheap. and considering that Apple has never given a point release for free(except for one time), well that goes out the Windows.
Hmm....either the PTO is waking up and doing something it should do for a majority of it's patents (NTP vs RIM anyone??) or NASA has looked at this and said....WOW....we could USE THIS!
On the otherhand, I don't believe for s second that this guy really has invented a WORKING FTL drive.
Ok...this is wrong and I will tell you why....
In the near future, I can go into any store that carries Mac OS X and purchase the Intel version of it. What I do with it after that is my business. Oh sure, I may be "violating" the license by trying to run it on Non-Apple hardware, however am I going to be calling Apple's support line? NO! Am I going to be complaining that it doesn't work on non-apple hardware? Well, yeah I will, but not to Apple. The thing is Apple is the one who CHOSE to use Intel. Intel is a far more open platform then the PowerPC platform is. Most PowerPC companies have thier own deal preventing other OS's running on thier hardware and the different Linux projects have worked arounf this. IBM has ROS on the pSeries and Apple has OpenFirmware. Intel simply doesn't have this kind of limitation. Apple is just one of the first companies to take advantage of EFI and other companies will follow. Why? Apple does not OWN EFI and EFI is destined to replace BIOS. As soon as EFI becomes more popular, it's going to be even EASIER to run Mac OSX on any hardware and even easier to get Windows to run on Apple hardware.
Apple's fighting a battle they cannot win. Just because this site is shutdown does not mean there will not be another to pop up and replace it.
Yes we deserve to run Mac OS X on anything we want....we just won't get support from Apple and a large majority of the people who want to do this probably don't need support from them anyway. Besides, this is a way to transition to Apple hardware in the first place. I think there's a large contingent of people who would LOVE to try it, but want to be sure that they can do what they want to do on it before spending a bunch of dollars on new hardware. After they get it running on a regular Intel box and they find out this stuff is great thier next PC may just come from Apple. This project isn't costing Apple money.
I think that one of the most important things that any project that replaces it needs to make clear is that you must purchase a license from Apple. Right now, this requires you to buy a MacBook Pro or a iMac. In the future, when 10.5 is out, you can just buy that. That way the only thing Apple loses in the near term(after 10.5 is out) is a hardware sale. The project should not condone piracy. In the long term, Apple stands to make that money back on future hardware and software purchases.
Correct. And I don't know a single person who wants to run this OS on thier PC wanting to steal it. There's a bunch of guys willing to fork out 129 to run this on thier PC they ALREADY have. There's NO reason that Apple should want to prevent this. These are not even the guys who would go whine about thier machine not working. Noone is asking you guys to support unsupported hardware configs. If it doesn't work, these guys will either tweak thier machine until it does work or they will give up and buy a Mac anyway.
Agreed. This is no different then IBM getting pissed off about Compaq reverse engineering BIOS.
Apple, this is not something you can stop. Its NOT illegal to do what these folks are doing. The law allows for reverse engineering. IBM LOST this battle and you will too. What is this battle I speak of? Remember way back when all PC's were made by IBM?? IBM tried to sue the pants off of Compaq and others for reverse engineering BIOS. Granted, this is not the same time period or the same thing but case law seems to go in our hands in my humble opinion.
From Wikipedia:
Columbia copied the IBM PC and produced the first 'compatible' (i.e., more or less compatible to the IBM PC standard) PC in 1982. Compaq Computer Corp. produced its first IBM PC compatible a few months later in 1982 -- the Compaq Portable. The Compaq was not only the first "sewing machine-sized" portable PC but, even more important, was the first essentially 100% PC-compatible computer. The company could not directly copy the BIOS as a result of the court decision in Apple v. Franklin, but it could reverse-engineer the IBM BIOS and then write its own BIOS using clean room design.
Franklin and Columbia did the wrong thing but Compaq did a white room reverse-engineering of the BIOS. This is all the OSx86 project is doing too. Hello EFF??? You need to defend these guys.
In less then 10 years, there will be no Mac's or Apple will just give up preventing anyone from installing thier OS on other machines....can't Apple see that there are lot of people who ALREADY HAVE x86 machines that are perfectly capable of running thier OS but they can't or rather won't justify spending 3 grand on a new Mac. These same people would probably even consider a Mac when they do have the money just because they WANT to run your OS. Helloooo? Apple what are you thinkin?
Sorry....John, John, John....
AIX is not and has not een dropped by IBM. It MAY happen over time, but AIX has infintely MORE support for Enterprise level stuff then Linux. IBM has HACMP which is better then any failover solution you can do on top of Linux. IBM dropped Linux? News to them! Oh sure, I DO see AIX loosing out eventually but it's going to take many YEARS for this to happen. Once Linux supports alot of the high end stuff that AIX already supports, IBM has no reason to develop AIX anymore.
Apple dropping OSX for Windows....shyeah as if. I ain't going to say much more about that because even Leo Laporte told John he's full of it.
Everyone I see saying tar sands and shale is to expensive to extract the oil from it....it's too expensive NOW. What's to say that Shell or someone else doesn't come up with a cheap process to extract the oil?
You know, I am almost at the same damn point. It's a frackin pain in the ass to do the SSL and when the guy who did it last leaves the company and the cert expires and neither one of you have or remember the frackin password....GRR!
Invalidating them and getting new ones cost $$$ and there's no consistent way that servers and applications use these. One app you ust drp the file into a directory and another has a encrypted keystore for them and yet another does it....
I had a Atari 800XL and in fact my mom and dad still have it! Up until they got thier own machine, they used ot for printing resumes on a nice letter quality printer. I miss that thing. As far as I know it still works.
Ok, when I had a Pentium II 366 in a laptop a year or two ago, I was able to do VoIP Calls with Yahoo Chat and we had many more the 10! Why limit it at all?? Limiting it by CPU??? I'd imagine that the SEC would like to hear about this...
And wait til grandma's machine breaks....you'll be singing a different tune then. Who's going o take back your video card? Sometimes I have had difficulty calling the manufacturer to get components fixed. Gateway was excellent when we bought our current workhorse desktop my wife currently uses. One reason I bought it off of them at the time was that they had a store I could take it back to if it broke. Well we had a power suply go out in it and I took it in it took 4 days to get the damn Power Supply fixed because they stock ZERO parts. DUMB. Gateway had a good deal with the stores and it would have bene even better if they had parts and staff that could fix it. I am a geek just like the next slashdotter, but I have to do work on my PC and not work to get it fixed.
Drones are not new. Where do you think that Microsoft got the idea from???
This definitely is true. I have said it time and time and TIME again....if Linux is to get more users, the developers need to:
1. Pull thier heads out of thier arses and listen to NON PROGRAMMERS.
2. When the user makes a REALLY dumb choice (You know that password thingy, I hate having to type it in oh why do I have to do that??), be nice and tell them it would not be a good idea becaus then that creepy guy in Russia can steal thier stuff.
3. Just because a user asks for something that is hard ir really hard to implement with the code base you already have DOESN'T mean you shouldn't considerate or even completely dismiss it.
4. Oh and again, listen to the NON-PROGRAMMERS.
There are tons of people who CAN use computers who are experts at using some apps that can't write the app. That DOES NOT mean thier opinion isn't important.
Greatfully, I see some projects that are starting to tuen this around a little. Look at iJuice (used to be iPodder) a year ago, Adam Curry would ask for X feature and then others would comment to Adam that it would be a good idea and then bam.....it happens. That doesn't happen on alot of projects.
Yeah I have seen those too.....but the one I always remembered was the humongous pager they had....while it was smaller then that brick, it ws bigger then anything I had seen at the time.
Your right it IS unfair. What's worse is they will come up with some silly thing that will make all future iPods USELESS.....like a volume limiter. This is STUPID and a BAD lawsuit. I hope the judge tells them to POUND SAND.
And it was from....RIM. I have been in what used to be a mainframe shop since the mid 90's and the techs carried the early blackberries. I saw the RIM logo on the back of these. They switched from the brick like ones to the more PDA like ones a while back.