halvri
About
- Username
- halvri
- Joined
- Visits
- 0
- Last Active
- -
- Roles
- member
- Badges
- 0
- Posts
- 146
Reactions
Comments
-
Quote: Originally Posted by stevielee . This quote is from Lawrence Lessig's site - one of the founders of the "creative commons" project: "I'm very concerned that some forms of IP law have lost that balance. The example on which I have w…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by DavidW So so basically you're saying that record companies should be forced to compete with people making music avaiable online for free. And movie studios should priced their DVD's to complete with those black market …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by BenRoethig Its apple's fault because they put be in the position for a difficult move I would rather not make. But they would rather sell their OS to weak minded lemmings who are only interested in flash and social co…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by stevielee If in the year 2019, we still have the same situation with OSX (on Apple branded machines ONLY), Windows (even worse than it is now), with only Linux being the sole OS that can be installed on either a PC or…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by stevielee I swear that some of you posting on this thread must really be "Apple Insiders" - the way that you are bleating on and on in defense of Apples's defenseless, anti-consumer, anti-choice and anti-trust market m…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by stevielee Well let me be the first one on this post to wholeheartedly disagree with all of the Apple Devotees who seem to think that it's fine and dandy fro Apple to control what I do with a product after I've paid for…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by iReality85 HDMI 1.3 and above supports a max resolution of 2560x1600. DisplayPort has a similar spec, I believe. I haven't yet seen a spec sheet verifying that, but I'll take your word for it for now. The one tangi…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by Fairly This is totally spot on. Apple may have only 5% of the market but what they're doing is still monopolistic within their sector. A lot of things go on inside Apple but I think Steve Jobs is the driving force behi…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by jasenj1 My point, and I think other's, is not that Apple or any other manufacturer can't say: This is intended to be installed only on our hardware, and we will only provide support if it is installed on our hardware. …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by MacOldTimer As a matter of fact YES. My computer senses the swith and it get display and sound on the TV in about 2 seconds. No adjustments required at all. Get out of your APPLE box and realize that most PC compu…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by FallofRedmond 1) Displayport is video only. So no, this adapter will not pass audio through HDMI since Displayport(like DVI before it) does not pass audio. You will still have to go Toslink for audio. 2) HDMI royalt…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by MacOldTimer What I don't understand is why Apple doesn't include HDMI in their computers as the PC market has been doing for the last couple years. I come home, take my notebook and plug in the HDMI cable and switch…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by lfmorrison But remember, this is not unique to the world of software. Whenever anybody purchases a copy of any copyrighted material, the content's creator (or his/her assignee) always retains ownership of the intellec…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by altrenda apple opened the gates themselves when they switched to Intel. If hardware comes out that rivals Apple in quality and support, but at a lower price, then apple can respond by either pulling up the drawbrid…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by Archipellago 2 points.... 1/ Nothing is being stolen or taken, each computer has a fully paid copy of OSX on it. 2/ Since you brought up Open Source, then take a guess as to how much of OSX is actually open sourc…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by camroidv27 Services are very different from Hardware. Apple sells MobileMe as a service. MacBook Pro is Hardware. I think it is wrong to hack a cable box to get free channels you didn't pay for. Stealing a service …
-
Quote: Originally Posted by jahonen I stand corrected on the Palo Alto example even though most if the references on the net still do say that there are several controversies still about how much Apple copied form PARC (for example http://en.wiki…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by Daniel0418 What year did the OS X dock come out? What year did Windows 95 come out? When was quicklaunch and a dock/taskbar added? Why does MAC even have a desktop... resembling that of windows... with a screen saver..…
-
Quote: Originally Posted by jahonen Unchecked and uncritiqued fandom (or should we call it blind faith religion?) seems to be at play here. Why would you claim that stating a fact and proving it is "vile"? Is it because it doesn't fit the officia…
-
[QUOTE=MacOldTimer;1373489]And you are as biased for Apple as he is for Microsoft so please don't pull the same BS. And for a guy that made his money stealing it from so many companies and people he sure is a generous man that has saved millions …