No. This is a shitty way of saying "It's not our fault -- it's those guys over there."

When, in fact, 'us' and 'those guys' are one in the same.

Same pants, different pocket.

No. Directly owned.

You do realize that Hulu is OWNED by the content providers, right?

On a side note -- bringing consumer electronics into Brazil with you for "personal" use is a great way to finance a vacation!

It also does not justify Nintendo counting unauthorized copies of said game as lost revenue as they never intended to sell it to these people in the first place.

One word: Godfellas.

(although I enjoyed the DVD's for what they are- more Futurama.)

This is the wireless equivalent of "Let them eat cake."

A place where your cellphone doesn't work? Inconceivable.

Well the sound isn't the problem here... but, I believe that sometimes snipers, special troops, etc. use subsonic rounds for reasons of stealth. A silencer doesn't do you very much good when the bullet sonic-booms on its way to the target.

Oh yeah.. 1000 meters is nothing for a sniper... and given your 1500 fps velocity, you'd have 2 seconds to move.

Don't take this the wrong way, but who are you, -or I for that matter- to say "you'd only sell hardware if that was your primary business". A smart company would strive to capitalize on any revenue stream that they are capable of capturing.

Apple has always sold their computers with an Apple-developed OS. Call them control-freaks, or whatever, but that's the way it's always been.

Just because the software Apple bundles with its machines is software that you'd actually like to run, doesn't mean that they are obligated to support your random combobulation of commodity hardware.

I've seen wiper-blades in a grocery store... But I still call it the grocery store.

I tried to do a quick search to dig up the values of OS X sales as a percentage of gross sales, but wasn't able to come up with any neatly-packaged summary. Suffice to say that of the nearly 8 billion they took in last quarter, I'd bet that OS X sales were a very small percentage (although, I can't really back that up).

Apple's primary business is to sell hardware, always has been. The fact that the are willing to sell a new copy of their superior (yeah, I said it) OS to their existing client base, people that own Apple hardware, thereby allowing them an upgrade path (hardware specification willing) to the latest OS. I'm sure it's seen as a "value-add" or at least a way to open a revenue stream from a customer that has already made a significant purchase and may or may-not be likely to spend money on a new machine when their old one will run the latest OS to what is possibly (to them) an acceptable level.

I'm thankful they originally designed their OS to run on their hardware. If not, who else would have done it? Microsoft? Xerox? Remember back then it was almost inconceivable that anyone would actually want a home computer.

Apple spoke out about DRM on music because there is no need to encrypt data (AAC or MP3 format) that is readily available in the clear (AIFF or WAV files on an audio CD).

I agree that as it applies to media, DRM is bad. And if you buy a copy of Mac OS you, if you can, should be able to install it on your toaster if you want to -- just don't expect Apple to support it.

I'm sure the HDCP thing, sucky as it is, is a foreshadow of the shape of things to come until the content distributors pull their heads out of their asses and realize that customers do not want. And that their paid product is inferior to the one that anybody with a little initiative can download for free.

The fact of the matter is that an Intel Mac offers you the _most_ choices of supported OS'es out there, bar none.

Yes you can -- just not with cmd-shift-3 or 4..

Try this: (it's posted all over the place, this one came up first in google) http://highschoolblows.blogspot.com/2005/11/take-screenshot-of-dvd-player-in-os-x.html

Apple is a hardware company. Were you gone that day?

You get the OS X experience included in the cost of your Apple hardware.

Apple did not invent DRM and OS X is not copy-protected. You can copy it a zillion times and install it with no problems, activation, etc. to any supported Apple computer in existence an unlimited number of times.

osX86 is pretty-much so mature that a monkey could install it. If Apple really trying to keep you/hobbyists from enjoying OS X on a commodity-hardware box they would be finding and suing the groups that release, talk about, troubleshoot, etc osX86 out of existence.