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by mahrain 15y ago
By, when you get to the point where you have to choose with either your heart or your head (wallet, benchmarks etc.) picking the former. Oh, and watch Steve Jobs at Stanford on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
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by mahrain 15y ago
Nice, but to get a bit more "meta", this also confirms the "Top 100 leaders" group within Apple, presumably this is "Apple University".
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by mahrain 15y ago
With 29$ for what used to be called a "family pack" and a permissive license regarding virtualisation, it almost seems like Apple is taking a very different position regarding the Mac OS. That it's a way to sell Macs, not to make more money
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by mahrain 15y ago
The time between GM seed and release could be much shorter this time around, because they don't need to press millions of shiny plastic discs and ship them around the world.
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by mahrain 15y ago
This may actually have me switch to using a site-specific browser for gmail instead of mail.app!
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by mahrain 15y ago
From what I know Steve used to do his NeXT presentations in Lighthouse Design's Concurrence, and he continued to use an OpenStep machine well into his return to Apple.
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by mahrain 15y ago
So that is what the black bar is about, I was afraid it was a childish pun on Google's redesign :-S and now I feel bad for thinking that.
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by mahrain 15y ago
I guess these statements can be countered by just reading the actual license .
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by mahrain 15y ago
I don't see why this is discussed so much, afaik this article just says "Windows is more secure than OSX", mentions Mac Defender and goes on OSX about market share... The same story Mac users have heard for the last 10 years. Nothing new he
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by mahrain 15y ago
Yeah, and it's a great competitor against the iPhone 3GS ;-)
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by mahrain 15y ago
Steve Jobs is going to hate this thread!
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The Sickness Beneath the Slump(nytimes.com)
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by mahrain 15y ago
A great use for this would be to connect to a remote X-server and have the applications execute there. Then he could use a mix of remotely executing apps and native local apps to get his work done on this awesome machine!
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by mahrain 15y ago
I bought the game the day of the release (having waited for it for twelve years!) and I must say it's good to be back. I agree with some points, the loading times are terrible (especially when you're killed and want to get back in the actio
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by mahrain 15y ago
Near the end the author asks a very pertinent question indeed: how should the free software community respond to the cloud? Stallman's response seems to be just not to use it, to keep your own data locally and manage everything yourself, le
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by mahrain 15y ago
Microsoft won market share when they were competing actively on web platforms and services. Their ASP, ActiveX and such technologies were real contenders a few years ago, competing with the likes of PHP. It seems they aren't competing with
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by mahrain 15y ago
One contributing factor here in the Netherlands is a huge lack of the type of investors I read about on this site. If you want to start a business here, there are two options, either go to the bank and get a personal loan with loads of inte
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by mahrain 15y ago
Modern distributions are unusable for me because of Intel 855GM graphics driver bugs. The latest one I can use is Ubuntu 10.10 with special patches by glasen-hardt.de, even Fedora 15 and openSUSE 11.4 give me trouble with flashing windows,
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by mahrain 15y ago
This must be very highly tuned brand management, keeping the brand proposition value in the eyes of the consumer. If it's free too often, it loses it's value.
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by mahrain 15y ago
With Windows 8's Metro interface being a shell on top of the old Windows 7 shell, I can imagine pretty well how HP's Web OS running on Windows is going to work.
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by mahrain 15y ago
I'm pretty sure I'll have to hook up a mouse to a Windows 8 tablet in order to configure the IP address. On a desktop however, the tiles and fonts are going to be incredible and allow many visually impaired users to use a computer without w
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by mahrain 15y ago
Exactly, and there's a nice story on this from the early days of the Macintosh: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin... Bill Atkinson improved on code and made it 2000 lines shorter, so he entered his contribution
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by mahrain 15y ago
So, when we waste our processing power on credits generated on limited supply by the Bitcoin network, it's a waste, but when we waste our time on acquiring credits created in limited quantities by the (Central) Banks it's okay. I guess the
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by mahrain 15y ago
There are a couple of "bare bones" laptop manufacturers that can give you OEM-type empty shells with a mainboard, screen and battery. The only options you have to customize are in the memory, storage, optical bay and operating system. Some
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by mahrain 15y ago
Could this one boot CP/M or MS-DOS?
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by mahrain 15y ago
...and following usual RIAA logic that's 150 million times some 30 dollar for a concert recording on DVD, so 4.5 Billion to the pirates!
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by mahrain 15y ago
If I trick a GNU/Linux or UNIX user into running a "sudo rm -rf /" command and entering a password, did I create malware?
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by mahrain 15y ago
Exactly, Mac users have so far been very safe from actual virusses and worms, and other malicious stuff sneaking onto your computer through security holes, however, this type is something you can't do anything against. It's the user conscio
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by mahrain 15y ago
I agree that even the Great Firewall of China can easily be beaten by simply using Tor, however, it is now our democratic duty to prevent this from becoming a necessity in the western world.
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by mahrain 15y ago
In addition to running on iPad, it also runs on Safari (5.0.5, snow leopard) now.

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