Post by: Paddy on November 02, 2009, 11:38:03 AM
Caution re: comments following article - anti-Mac vitriol alert
Me? I say good for Apple - they're a HARDWARE company, which a whole lot of people out there fail to comprehend.
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 02, 2009, 03:28:44 PM
I'm sure Apple wants to keep this as difficult as possible, of course. Perhaps a check value in each machine and a corresponding one at an Apple server that initiates a 'conversation' between the two until Apple decides the machine has the right "genes"? This will continue until one side determines it's not worth the effort. And Apple has some pretty deep pockets and several hundred bodies to throw at the problem. Of course, the other side may have fewer people and much less capitol, but the one thing they have is time. It would seem to me that Apple could come up with multiple schemes and have them ready for each scheme the hackers figure out. Maybe even before they figure out the current scheme. One step ahead, so to speak. 
As long as they match the hardware and software quality, I won't be opting for any Hackintosh. Especially ones that are only marginally cheaper than the real thing. But, except for a few companies that see a profit in making these machines, I don't think most of this work is done for any more than the 'fame' of doing it. Some people thrive on these kinds of challenges, and sometimes good comes out of it. At least some people are learning a lot of information that would be very costly to obtain, otherwise. I'm not sure, however, that my grandkids, kids will even know that Apple used to make "computers".
Post by: Paddy on November 02, 2009, 04:20:52 PM
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I'm not sure, however, that my grandkids, kids will even know that Apple used to make "computers".
What? You haven't given them all Macs for Christmas, Jim??
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 02, 2009, 06:04:24 PM
And that 16 year old had better not suggest otherwise!!! 
Post by: Paddy on November 02, 2009, 07:14:18 PM
Grandkids' kids perchance?
Post by: krissel on November 03, 2009, 05:31:38 AM
http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2009/11/0...comment-page-1/
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 03, 2009, 10:34:32 AM
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misplaced comma, missing apostrophe.
Moi?! I thought we'd fired our "Grammar Policemen!" Your mistake is assuming I think before I write! I never do that before speaking, so why would I do that when writing?! 
Their are just two meny rooles in English! 
And, there hard too remember! 
Post by: krissel on November 04, 2009, 01:34:27 AM
QUOTE(krissel @ Nov 3 2009, 06:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Saw a similar blog referencing the same story. My post is at the moment the last of the comments.
http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2009/11/0...comment-page-1/
http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2009/11/0...comment-page-1/
Hmmm, never quoted myself before....
Anyway, seems a lot of the posters that came after me agreed with what I had to say. ("kris" is my post in case you didn't figure it out)
Jim, I have a feeling you would not be able to reply to a lot of threads if we removed these smilies from the list...
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 04, 2009, 09:02:17 AM
My wife will also tell you I am the wurst sepler n the wurld! But I read an on-line article yesterday in a very prestigious news paper, that was so full of grammatical errors that half the comments were about that rather than the subject matter! "Wher is your poof reeder?!"
As for comma's and apostrophes', I think they add 'color' to my prose, so I scatter them, liberally throughout, all, sentences'.
Post by: Paddy on November 04, 2009, 10:47:10 AM
http://www.ehmac.ca/anything-mac/81702-app...r-10-6-2-a.html
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 04, 2009, 04:06:49 PM
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the one that accused me of a "straw man" argument
Maybe he is also a badd speler?! He probably meant "snowman" argument.