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Under traditional common law everything above your property up to outer space was your property and thus covered by traditional trespass laws. Under United States v. Causby, 1946, this was revisited for the aviation age and the generally accepted fi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by elmsley Those on PowerPC architecture have fewer means to purchase software as they have no access to the MAS. It's a strike against software companies moving to MAS-only distribution as they will lose all those legac…
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HP builds disposable computers built to last the warranty period (1 year) then die. Right now there are no Thunderbolt peripherals. HP doesn't care what's going to be available 1 year from now, because they're looking at the next quarter, not next y…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rob53 I need to look through the Lion EULA again but I don't remember seeing any change to the requirement that even OS X Server has to be run on Apple hardware. My VMware rep came in and gave a talk to the company …
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Some thoughts: 1) Obviously Costco was not happy with the amount of profit they were making selling iPods. My suspicion is that they were being killed by returns, due to Costco's generous return policy. 2) Costco sells upscale items compared …
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Parallels has been the best Windows environment on MacOS for some time -- when it works. Which is the problem. I finally gave up on Parallels with release 5.0 after having used their product since almost the beginning, when the upgrade crashed all t…
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One of my early advertising gurus told me that one of the Iron Rules of advertising is, "never mention your competitors by name in your ads or documentation, it just gives them free advertising." The Apple antenna thing was incredibly petty and unp…
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I have an Acer Aspire One netbook that I have refitted with an SSD and carry on camping / geocaching / mapping trips where I want to be able to re-program my GPS on the fly yet don't want to haul something I care about (like my MBP) where it could g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dusk That is what I asked myself too after seeing this Chipset Diagram yesterday night. They put all the stuff there that is not necessary for optimus but still use the slow Nvidia GPUs My guess: it's about time-to…
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Since I updated to iTunes 9, occasionally it won't recognize my iPhone 3G. I think it's the initial sync to update the position of the program icons that is failing because either my MacBook Pro or the iPhone isn't getting its USB interface all the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Alfiejr right, it's just terrible the way Boot Camp ... Uhm, that's software. The dude was talking about hardware. And yes, Apple locks down their hardware. In a Windows or Linux box you can change network cards, gr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider When it looked to redesign its dominant operating system after the struggles of Windows Vista, Microsoft reportedly turned to Apple's Mac OS X for the "look and feel" of Windows 7. Well, one word for th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater I agree with your statement the only problem I have is the fact no one mentions Apple does the same thing with Microsoft. Good point. A tiny competitor to a giant monopoly might break the general rule.…
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Yay, more free advertising for AT&T. What school did Verizon's marketing people graduate from? Clown School? Everybody knows that you do *not* mention your competition's name in your ads. You might *imply* who you're talking about, you might …
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When I was young and arrogant, I was taught by a marketing guru that I respected, "never mention your competitor in your ads. It makes you look insecure and gives your competitor free advertising." I thought about it, said "Makes sense!" and took al…
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I call "bulls**t" on the "Parallels 20% faster than competitor". On the Windows 7 "Windows Experience" mini-benchmark, the *only* benchmark on which it's faster is 3D performance. That's with an identical fresh install on both VMware 3.0.0 and Paral…
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I know someone who was at Apple during the period 1996-2001, during the last days of Pepsi Apple and the first days of New Jobs Apple. What he says: Apple always had good people. But the problem with having good people is that good people tend to be…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wicked666 However - when I go to About this mac>more info>applications it does not say that it's 64 bit. Doesn't really matter to me as it's fast enough but it's advertised as 64bit if i'm correct? VMware con…
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From a technical point of view, Windows Mobile is already a superior platform to the iPhone. WM has full multi-tasking for example. But that's not why the iPhone rocks. The iPhone rocks because it has a slick UI. Anything Microsoft makes will alway…
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GAH! Just what we need, *ANOTHER* GUI for Linux! Don't we have enough GUI's for Linux already? Yeah, like their Linux for netbooks is gonna revolutionize the world just like their Linux for smartphones did LOL! Nothing to see here. Move along. C…