I'm listening to Dave Brubeck on my iPod Shuttle right now and what I like about it is that is was $100.
(What screen?:-) As for getting 'bling' to protect their iPods, there is an aisle in their store dedicated to it. If you were too cheap to buy one, to quite a friend of mine, "Suffer Bee-atch."
Apple's already making the iPod in Asia (so production costs can't get cheaper) and charging what their market will allow. I don't anticipate ever seeing an iPod down at Costco or Wall*Mart for $19,95. Sorry but there it is.
The person at Sony said what customers really want is choice. Actually, most customers don't want choice, or at least they don't want to begiven choices that just get in their way.
What most customers really want is something that will do the job and get out of the way. For most the journey is not destination.
Steve Jobs understands this. Most Linux sellers don't.
They both provide an OS (or an iPod) and while the former says "Here is OS X and Aqua and iTunes and you can hook it up to your iPod and stuff and it just works." the later say "Look at all the configurations you can run this under, you have a __choice!__. But of course that implies you are smart and knowledgeable enough to make a choice."
At which point most people run screaming for an exit because they want anything but choice.
They just to do something and not be bothered with all the geeky stuff. They want to know nothing about how it works under the skin. They just want to enjoy it.
Apple is able to 'get away with "foisting their decisions on the world"' because they select components that do their work and then 'hide'.
I read a well researched series of articles on mistreatment. (And it happens, as it happen.) He is deploring the fact that these things are occurring. (What, he should rejoice?)
He wouldn't deplore it if he was outside the country and for what was happening. Basically your "My countr right or right!" is the kind of blinkered, knee-jerk, thoughtless but well ingrained attitute that tell me volumes about what you are.
I'm writing this knowing you'll never read it or understand it if you do.
Think of the last good eruption on earth. How high was the dust cloud.
Why wait to capture an asteroid? Just move Deimos or Phobos over to an earth orbit (I'm still pratting on about my previous post about building a space elevator. It needs an anchor point in orbit. One of those would do it. Then we move the equipment do Mars and repeat the process there. An earth space elevator would be great if it had a mars elevator at the other end.)
They saved on the pen and on retirement benefits for the Cosmonauts.
Think like an accountant, man.
In terms of payload to be delivered, if this could get recognized as a contractual obligation, it would be cheapest to build the space elevator.
It might be cheapest to capture an asteriod and park it in orbit (a few billion dollars, maybe a month's worth of war money at our current rate,) and use it to 'grow' some nanotubes down to the surface of the planet.
IBMers'll have to say a home. (Then you'll see a BIG increase in telecommunications.)
Sadly, the hand writing is on the wall for EVERYBODY who works with their head.
Its one thing if you hoist boxes for a retail store, its quite another if you've got to compete with someone who's living in 'po'nuff' Braziania who's just underbid you for your job in the 'developped world'.
If you're working for dirt now, you're going to be indispensable (but competing with everybody else 'cause anybody can hoist a hundred weight of finished goods,) and that will be you saving grace.
Wall*Mart is the future of America. Isn't that aweful?
A dialog box is 'owned' and drops down modally on top of the window that 'owns' it.
A new window is a new window and opens below (if there's room) and to the right (if there's room) of the requesting object window regardless of the amount of gadgetry on it (like title bars, buttons, window styles.)
Its always possible to fool somebody and they'll possibly be fooled into revealing their personal data, but eventually the problem will take care of itself hen these people and bust-ass broke and smothered in spam.
There's only so much people can do with a stateless environment. This would be a problem regardless of the language used (both computing & human), the browser used or the platform used (both hardware & software.)
At some point, people will realize this and stop trying to do the impossible.
Transactions are 'transactions'. That means that they have a 'commit point,' which means that they need a state engine which runs from the beginning of the process to the end of the process.
And yes, it CAN be done over the internet over a secure connection. But the control has to shift to the transaction machine while the transaction is going on. Neither you or anyone else should never be able to spawn a new GUI window while the transaction is happening.
Our laws accrete like dust motes settling on a dining room table.
Eventually, the dining room table gets cleaned (I'm not a neat freak but my wife has a higher tolerance for mess than I do, so its 'my job':-) and the same thing should be done for the law books otherwise you can't draw breath without breaking some 'edict of Nuggan."
And we're going to collect laws like lint, until we wise up and put in sunset clauses which will clear the books (like, 5 years after a law's last application, or seven years after the introduction of a law.)
if your customers think globally too. And they do too. They want the benefits of playing on a level field.
So we have laws, tariffs and taxes saying its one thing for manufacturers to want to extract the maximum profit by going 'off shore' and another thing entirely for the consumer to try and buy from there.
A story about a Spammer right after a story about copyright infringement. I love it when 'sentiments collide' like that.
You KNOW that these stories are about greed, as much for the spammer, who rips us off by coercing us to pay attention to shit, as for us, who are used to getting shit for 'free', for our paying lip service to listening to an advertiser.
Human beings have always had problems deciding on value. One man's trash and so on... The oldest document extant is the "Code of Hammurabi." "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is not a writ about vengance, its a document on wage and price control.
Start charging as much for delivering email as the post office does for delivering snail mail (except for 'registered lists' [with who?,] groups who don't have to pay.)
And if you include other crimes (color coded by severity [red for murder down to blue for streaking]?) would you find any city, any neighborhood, any apartment building, any residence without some criminal living in it?
Now you can go ahead and put on your tinfoil hat, beany-boy and hide, cowering in the woods.
I think that I wanna sell mine, now that one of the cornerstones for the foundation of the USofA, respect for property, has been rendered 'null and void' by a precedent setting judicial decision.
Nobody's safe from the developers since they always 'amiliorate' a neighborhood (and flip the housing once or twice before anybody gets to lay down on a couch.)
Even if you think that 99% of the users out there are legit, that still leaves over two million people who are running illegal copies. (If you think that its less than 99%, the problems are scaled proportionally.)
At $200 per box (a figure quoted here) that comes to $200,000,000.00 worth. That pays the salaries of a lot of lawyers wo figure out way to collect, not nicely, just to collect from legit users.
All that you need to do is be able to identify them all.
Good luck since getting some mom-n-pop box builder in "Po'nuf town" somewhere to pay you the tithe can often means that they don't eat this week.
Activation codes means that the software is designed to run on any hardware, any number of times WITH NOTHING TIEING A COPY TO A MACHINE.
This is NOT a problem for Linux which is free but its a big problem for Microsoft which is not.
OS X doesn't have this problem since it only runs and is installable on Mac hardware. And Appple CAN tie a piece of hardware that they sold to any given user and not give a fig about any copy of the OS. (You want SoftwareUpdate to work? GOT'CHA!)
Carrying everything in his head, safely and securely and unstealably, even he didn't know what he was carrying, from one place to another.
Its __all__ been done before. (And people ask me why I read sci-fi...:-)
The only way to transport information safely is to NOT broadcast it. Bit of a problem for a media company since it has to let you in on the 'secret' if it wants to see any money.
By permitting 'pork' to get tacked onto bills, the bill's originators insure that they will get support from whoever's 'pork' it happens to be.
That how you end up with bills on railroad subsidies carying some agriculture provisions. Its all like that: "You scratch my pig and I'll scratch yours."
It also how you kill a bill.
Just attach a portion that touches on abortion (for or against, doesn't matter,) religion (a sure fire bill killer since it will be stuck down constitutionally, ever by the most rabid right wing judge,) or some other 'hot-button' topic (strip mining in our national parks, in a state that actually has a tourist trade.)
You can even get the president to veto a military budget or a budget bill voting increases in pay for senators and congressmen if you tack a provision supporting abortion (say for sexually assulted military personel or assulted BY military personel.) It'll never pass.
All I know is that Americans give democracy a bad name by constantly muddying the issues. When you vote, it shouldn't need some one with a law degree and a doctorate in PoliSci to tell you what you actually voted for.
I could get a patent for using an 'iPod shuffle like device' as a suppository and that mean that I should get a exclusive licence which would get my money every time somebody farted.
The patent system is showing just how broken it is. This makes the entire concept invalid.
Patents without 'hardware' which does something specific are utterly bogus.
I treat them with the respect they deserve and ignore them.
Microsoft's biggest problem is end-user resistance to all their crap.
There are still '3.11 systems out there. There are still '95 systems out there. There are still '98 out there. There are still NT systems out there. There are still Win2k systems out there.
If they couldn't coerce the OEMs into bundling the latest crap, it probably wouldn't 'sell' at all. People PAY Apple $129 directly for each version of OS X. I wonder how many people PAY Microsoft directly?
Longhorn may be everything to everyone (as if:-) and it may be a bust because nobody will give a shit.
They'll 'sell' it the same way they've 'sold' every other system they put together, they'll bundle it with new hardware (and MIS shops may trash it because they 'roll their own' and need to control exactly what the user sees,) but that only works if the hardware churns as fast as it did before.
(The old versions are there because the hardware still works, doing what its supposed to and nothing more.)
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I'm listening to Dave Brubeck on my iPod Shuttle right now and what I like about it is that is was $100.
:-) As for getting 'bling' to protect their iPods, there is an aisle in their store dedicated to it. If you were too cheap to buy one, to quite a friend of mine, "Suffer Bee-atch."
(What screen?
Apple's already making the iPod in Asia (so production costs can't get cheaper) and charging what their market will allow. I don't anticipate ever seeing an iPod down at Costco or Wall*Mart for $19,95. Sorry but there it is.
interesting.
The person at Sony said what customers really want is choice. Actually, most customers don't want choice, or at least they don't want to begiven choices that just get in their way.
What most customers really want is something that will do the job and get out of the way. For most the journey is not destination.
Steve Jobs understands this. Most Linux sellers don't.
They both provide an OS (or an iPod) and while the former says "Here is OS X and Aqua and iTunes and you can hook it up to your iPod and stuff and it just works." the later say "Look at all the configurations you can run this under, you have a __choice!__. But of course that implies you are smart and knowledgeable enough to make a choice."
At which point most people run screaming for an exit because they want anything but choice.
They just to do something and not be bothered with all the geeky stuff. They want to know nothing about how it works under the skin. They just want to enjoy it.
Apple is able to 'get away with "foisting their decisions on the world"' because they select components that do their work and then 'hide'.
The rest is all conversion.
Granted it can get pretty ridiculous (decifathoms/year or parsecs/picosecond) and rounding errors introduce some imprecision but its all calculatable.
All you need is a conversion chart when you write your code.
I read a well researched series of articles on mistreatment. (And it happens, as it happen.) He is deploring the fact that these things are occurring. (What, he should rejoice?)
He wouldn't deplore it if he was outside the country and for what was happening. Basically your "My countr right or right!" is the kind of blinkered, knee-jerk, thoughtless but well ingrained attitute that tell me volumes about what you are.
I'm writing this knowing you'll never read it or understand it if you do.
Its got nothing to do with Apple.
They'll be able to get ALL the channels.
Think of the last good eruption on earth. How high was the dust cloud.
Why wait to capture an asteroid? Just move Deimos or Phobos over to an earth orbit (I'm still pratting on about my previous post about building a space elevator. It needs an anchor point in orbit. One of those would do it. Then we move the equipment do Mars and repeat the process there. An earth space elevator would be great if it had a mars elevator at the other end.)
And think of the penal colony potential.)
They saved on the pen and on retirement benefits for the Cosmonauts.
Think like an accountant, man.
In terms of payload to be delivered, if this could get recognized as a contractual obligation, it would be cheapest to build the space elevator.
It might be cheapest to capture an asteriod and park it in orbit (a few billion dollars, maybe a month's worth of war money at our current rate,) and use it to 'grow' some nanotubes down to the surface of the planet.
Yeah, I can see it...
IBMers'll have to say a home. (Then you'll see a BIG increase in telecommunications.)
Sadly, the hand writing is on the wall for EVERYBODY who works with their head.
Its one thing if you hoist boxes for a retail store, its quite another if you've got to compete with someone who's living in 'po'nuff' Braziania who's just underbid you for your job in the 'developped world'.
If you're working for dirt now, you're going to be indispensable (but competing with everybody else 'cause anybody can hoist a hundred weight of finished goods,) and that will be you saving grace.
Wall*Mart is the future of America. Isn't that aweful?
A dialog box is 'owned' and drops down modally on top of the window that 'owns' it.
A new window is a new window and opens below (if there's room) and to the right (if there's room) of the requesting object window regardless of the amount of gadgetry on it (like title bars, buttons, window styles.)
Its always possible to fool somebody and they'll possibly be fooled into revealing their personal data, but eventually the problem will take care of itself hen these people and bust-ass broke and smothered in spam.
There's only so much people can do with a stateless environment. This would be a problem regardless of the language used (both computing & human), the browser used or the platform used (both hardware & software.)
At some point, people will realize this and stop trying to do the impossible.
Transactions are 'transactions'. That means that they have a 'commit point,' which means that they need a state engine which runs from the beginning of the process to the end of the process.
And yes, it CAN be done over the internet over a secure connection. But the control has to shift to the transaction machine while the transaction is going on. Neither you or anyone else should never be able to spawn a new GUI window while the transaction is happening.
like a policeman.
:-) and the same thing should be done for the law books otherwise you can't draw breath without breaking some 'edict of Nuggan."
Our laws accrete like dust motes settling on a dining room table.
Eventually, the dining room table gets cleaned (I'm not a neat freak but my wife has a higher tolerance for mess than I do, so its 'my job'
And we're going to collect laws like lint, until we wise up and put in sunset clauses which will clear the books (like, 5 years after a law's last application, or seven years after the introduction of a law.)
20 whats? 5 whats? 35-45 whats?
If you don't put in the units your message is just noise. (and annoying.)
if your customers think globally too. And they do too. They want the benefits of playing on a level field.
So we have laws, tariffs and taxes saying its one thing for manufacturers to want to extract the maximum profit by going 'off shore' and another thing entirely for the consumer to try and buy from there.
A story about a Spammer right after a story about copyright infringement. I love it when 'sentiments collide' like that.
You KNOW that these stories are about greed, as much for the spammer, who rips us off by coercing us to pay attention to shit, as for us, who are used to getting shit for 'free', for our paying lip service to listening to an advertiser.
Human beings have always had problems deciding on value. One man's trash and so on... The oldest document extant is the "Code of Hammurabi." "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is not a writ about vengance, its a document on wage and price control.
Start charging as much for delivering email as the post office does for delivering snail mail (except for 'registered lists' [with who?,] groups who don't have to pay.)
And if you include other crimes (color coded by severity [red for murder down to blue for streaking]?) would you find any city, any neighborhood, any apartment building, any residence without some criminal living in it?
Now you can go ahead and put on your tinfoil hat, beany-boy and hide, cowering in the woods.
$250,000 (cheap at half the price :-)
I think that I wanna sell mine, now that one of the cornerstones for the foundation of the USofA, respect for property, has been rendered 'null and void' by a precedent setting judicial decision.
Nobody's safe from the developers since they always 'amiliorate' a neighborhood (and flip the housing once or twice before anybody gets to lay down on a couch.)
If you like to watch Barney or any other PBS program, you can take it up the ass.
I'm a student but I'm over 51 and a citizen of another country, so if they call me up, we'll have to have a little 'chat'.
I LIKE PBS Its all I watch 'cause everything else is damn poor. Now PBS is going to be as poor a choice as anything else.
Even if you think that 99% of the users out there are legit, that still leaves over two million people who are running illegal copies. (If you think that its less than 99%, the problems are scaled proportionally.)
At $200 per box (a figure quoted here) that comes to $200,000,000.00 worth. That pays the salaries of a lot of lawyers wo figure out way to collect, not nicely, just to collect from legit users.
All that you need to do is be able to identify them all.
Good luck since getting some mom-n-pop box builder in "Po'nuf town" somewhere to pay you the tithe can often means that they don't eat this week.
Activation codes means that the software is designed to run on any hardware, any number of times WITH NOTHING TIEING A COPY TO A MACHINE.
This is NOT a problem for Linux which is free but its a big problem for Microsoft which is not.
OS X doesn't have this problem since it only runs and is installable on Mac hardware. And Appple CAN tie a piece of hardware that they sold to any given user and not give a fig about any copy of the OS. (You want SoftwareUpdate to work? GOT'CHA!)
Carrying everything in his head, safely and securely and unstealably, even he didn't know what he was carrying, from one place to another.
:-)
Its __all__ been done before. (And people ask me why I read sci-fi...
The only way to transport information safely is to NOT broadcast it. Bit of a problem for a media company since it has to let you in on the 'secret' if it wants to see any money.
No.
Its only useful to somebody who'd STEAL XP.
Like, if somebody's that stupid, he deserves the viruses, worms and other creepy crawlies.
On to other news...
they write them.
By permitting 'pork' to get tacked onto bills, the bill's originators insure that they will get support from whoever's 'pork' it happens to be.
That how you end up with bills on railroad subsidies carying some agriculture provisions. Its all like that: "You scratch my pig and I'll scratch yours."
It also how you kill a bill.
Just attach a portion that touches on abortion (for or against, doesn't matter,) religion (a sure fire bill killer since it will be stuck down constitutionally, ever by the most rabid right wing judge,) or some other 'hot-button' topic (strip mining in our national parks, in a state that actually has a tourist trade.)
You can even get the president to veto a military budget or a budget bill voting increases in pay for senators and congressmen if you tack a provision supporting abortion (say for sexually assulted military personel or assulted BY military personel.) It'll never pass.
All I know is that Americans give democracy a bad name by constantly muddying the issues. When you vote, it shouldn't need some one with a law degree and a doctorate in PoliSci to tell you what you actually voted for.
Democracy, lets give it a try...
I could get a patent for using an 'iPod shuffle like device' as a suppository and that mean that I should get a exclusive licence which would get my money every time somebody farted.
The patent system is showing just how broken it is.
This makes the entire concept invalid.
Patents without 'hardware' which does something specific are utterly bogus.
I treat them with the respect they deserve and ignore them.
Microsoft's biggest problem is end-user resistance to all their crap.
:-) and it may be a bust because nobody will give a shit.
There are still '3.11 systems out there.
There are still '95 systems out there.
There are still '98 out there.
There are still NT systems out there.
There are still Win2k systems out there.
If they couldn't coerce the OEMs into bundling the latest crap, it probably wouldn't 'sell' at all. People PAY Apple $129 directly for each version of OS X. I wonder how many people PAY Microsoft directly?
Longhorn may be everything to everyone (as if
They'll 'sell' it the same way they've 'sold' every other system they put together, they'll bundle it with new hardware (and MIS shops may trash it because they 'roll their own' and need to control exactly what the user sees,) but that only works if the hardware churns as fast as it did before.
(The old versions are there because the hardware still works, doing what its supposed to and nothing more.)
Anybody who doesn't think so just has to ask Microsoft's legal department. :-)
/whatever/ ...
If Microsoft then turns around and tries to sue you, you can claim prior art.
Enjoy your torrent of
No, but they do spark innovation. Is every car being sold painted black?