Posted on 10/14/2008 5:00:40 PM PDT by Loud Mime
With more people turning to Apple products, and the holiday season just around the corner, Microsoft is keen to emphasize the fact that users looking to switch from Microsoft face the Apple tax.
In an interview with CNETs Ina Fried, Microsofts vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing Brad Brooks was keen to point out the hidden costs that face those making the switch. In fact, he outlines four different taxes:
* Choice tax
* Application tax
* Technology tax
* Upgrade tax
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.zdnet.com ...
I think even mac fans wouldn’t say that Mac is more controllable (i.e. configurable). They’d argue it is better because Apple has made the choices for you, so you don;t have to worry about (and they made better choice than you would). Now that I think about, it sounds like government central planning...
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So, tell me where you go in Vista to turn the DRM off?
By the way, there’s a lot of stuff you can alter on the Mac that you just can’t do on Vista. Like, oh, use a non HDCP display at full resolution.
This is true.
I have Windows XP on my Mac. Most of the time it sits in a folder like so much DNA sitting inactive, embedded in amber in that lab in Jurassic Park.
Once in a while, when the need arises, I type "{cmd-spacebar}par{return}{return}", and it comes out of suspended animation and takes over the external monitor in one of my spaces. I have it connect to the Dallas Office and run a few reports and drop them on the Mac's hard drive. Then I put it back to sleep, look over the reports, and go on about my business.
Which Mac has a blu-ray drives that works at full resolution with a non HDCP display? Which mac has blu-ray drive?
BTW, Apple is probably the single biggest perpetrator of DRM with iTunes and AAC.
I didn’t know Rush Limbaugh was a Democrat...huh, who would have known.
Yes, MAC fans who study and learn about their MACs would say they have more control than Windows fans.
So you work for Microsoft, eh? Should have noticed that at first.
You meant to say SVR4 ;)
The Logitech Mouse driver works well with many configurations.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/
OR ust the IOKit to make your own drivers if you have a specific need:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/IOKitFundamentals
Jobs has said he would love to move away from DRM. Unfortunately the contracts they have with most of the labels will not let them do so. But there is a growing number of non-DRMed music on iTunes. Not to mention that if you hate it that much you can always burn the music and reload and you have unencrypted mp3s. Something Steve Jobs has mentioned several times in interviews.
Maybe you should have done a google search to save yourself some money:
In a terminal type:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.trackpad.scaling -1
It was the first hit on google and is about as ugly as many MS registry hacks I have had to employ over the years.
The OS does it. And on the flip side, I was able to ditch a bunch of third-party Windows apps when moving to Mac.
Not in 1985 when the 6300 + was released. UNIX SRV3 wasn't released until 1986 and SRV4 in 1988. And remember this was also a PC version 286/386.
There is a free compatibility pack for Office 2003 at Microsoft.com which allows it to read/write 2007 format files.
That's just FUD B.S. You do not need an HDCP monitor or graphics card to use Vista at full resolution.
The only situation where you will have reduced resolution is during Blu Ray movie playback when the movie has the DRM set to degrade quality without HDCP. That only happens to the video, not the entire screen.
That is the requirement of the Blu Ray consortium, not Microsoft.
When and if Apple implements Blu Ray, they will be subject to the same DRM requirements.
“Same here. M$ free since 2003. Which distro you get?”
Ubuntu. While all distros seem fine for web surfing, Ubuntu’s great advantage is automatically recognizing and configuring printers to work; Knoppix and Mepis simply wouldn’t print.
Apple tends to not build a GUI for some of the more esoteric or rarely desired settings. Try this from Terminal for mouse and track pad respectively:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1 defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.trackpad.scaling -1It'll stick unless you otherwise change your mouse settings again. Explore "defaults write" some more, because you can do some pretty crazy fine-tuning and customization of the system with it. In Windows the equivalent would be hacking the registry to customize things you can't do through the GUI.
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