I agree that Steve Jobs, or most companies that sell proprietary software, would take out OSS in a heartbeat. The difference is that they're using a single pie chart showing their product and the product with over 80% market share on it and failed to leave out the portion that would normally be lumped together as "everything else." This happened in a meeting where the two products that were shown were going to be allowed on the same machines and actually compete. Everything about putting safari on windows is about competing with IE and has very little to do with competing with firefox (from my own anecdotal evidence, safari does worse again firefox on macs than it does against ie on windows). Even if they wanted to take over the browser market, Safari could leave firefox and everyone else alone and just take out IE and become the major browser. Where's the benefit of taking out firefox first?
In other words, there's a ton of evidence supporting the theory that Safari is gunning for IE and the evidence that they're gunning for firefox is that they left them out of a pie chart of the people they're competing against. It's not trying to say it's MS's fault, it's not saying apple or oss are saintly, it's saying that the rhetorical backflips are required for saying apple IS gunning for firefox.
I doubt you'll find any way to recover those costs, certainly not turn it into a profit. Unless you add in the thousands, if not millions, of people who would chip in money to fight microsoft and save linux. That might change the equation a bit.
You didn't elaborate much on the point I would have: internal standards. I could make more money and save more money by changing things around in my life, but the truth of the matter is that I like my life right now and know that, even were I to like my life just as much after becoming a millionaire, it would take a few years of not liking life as much. Overall, I know I'll enjoy life the way it is now; trading it in doesn't make sense to me.
I might also point out that LA is the home of the riot where people were actually pulled out of their cars and beaten brutally long before rockstar ever did it.
However, even serving the public is a game. Games are, at the end, mostly resource management and getting the most benefit for what you do while there's always trade-offs. Politics are the same. Those with an income over $100,000 are obviously not going to need welfare, but for those who are stuck with a lower income and want to stop, welfare is a big help. As a politician who's trying to serve the public, you're trying to do what's best for the most people or, depending one your beliefs, your constituency. There's always going to be some downside to a particular policy. In addition, you have to manage your political party and allies. No matter how you run politics, it's a game.
I'm actually hoping that they make "The Sims" division stand for all Sim games, not just the one they've milked to death. That would open up a lot of possibilities. SimFarm,while a horrible game overall, was a lot of fun at times; a decent update could work well. SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt, etc. could all do well if they would focus resources on them and give them a chance. Then open up new ones, like SimMachine, and I could see things going really, really well for that division.
I have to agree with you there; people who expect the current set of standards to actually be implemented by web developers are pie in the sky idealists. I love the idea of all the browsers working the same, but a divisive standard helps no one. In addition, if the Java Virtual Machine's different from one machine to another, I'm not sure how we can expect the same results out of browsers developed by completely different companies.
Of course people are going to compare it to Oblivion since The Elder Scrolls is the highest-profile achievement of Bethesda. The best predictor of future performance is past performance, so comparisons are inevitable and smart when you're speculating.
These should be two distinct games, not a post-apocalyptic Oblivion. Good comparison. Hypocritical at all?
Agreed. There aren't a lot of open-ended RPGs coming out any more, and Oblivion is definitely the standout. If anything, GP should be grateful that Fallout was picked up by someone who's at least dealt with some of Fallout's key elements.
I know that the Playstation 3 isn't selling as well as Sony would hope, but "dying" seems a bit premature when their last console cycle was 7 years. The Xbox 360 waited over a year for Gears of War, which many consider to be the first game that pushed the hardware (and it didn't push it that well). The PS3, by that standard, has until early next year to come out with something on the PS3 that looks like it couldn't be done on another console.
In other words, it's sick, but saying that it's dying is premature IMHO.
What if WoW catches wind of their accounts and shuts them down or, even worse, put the gold in a black hole instead of sending it to the buyer? Blizzard's not liable because they've got plenty of CYA in their policies, the buyers are demanding their money back and the sellers are out their gold and demanding their payment.
I think it's going to come down to how the publicly accessible folders are generally used. If they're usually used for storage and the student never advertised the music, then they'll have a good chance of the case being dismissed on the grounds of no intent. However, if the folders are generally used for sharing music and there's a culture of everyone browsing and copying from everyone else's folders, then I would imagine the judge would find intent based on the music being in the folder.
A lot of MMO content is less enjoyable because of gold farmers and others looking at playing the game for monetary gain rather than enjoyment. What measures, if any, will be used to make sure that the sellers are legitimately playing the game? If not, how is this service actually helping the gamers for whom gold selling is an inconvenience?
Yeah, because Apple stock is so low compared to when he took charge. Nice fallacious argument. Jobs has done well with the company, but that doesn't mean his arrogance hasn't hurt the company or that the arrogance is stupid. There's no doubt that Steve Jobs has been a great asset, but that doesn't mean he's above criticism (or SEC regulations).
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Raising child engineers in space is the future? I'm jealous!
I agree that Steve Jobs, or most companies that sell proprietary software, would take out OSS in a heartbeat. The difference is that they're using a single pie chart showing their product and the product with over 80% market share on it and failed to leave out the portion that would normally be lumped together as "everything else." This happened in a meeting where the two products that were shown were going to be allowed on the same machines and actually compete. Everything about putting safari on windows is about competing with IE and has very little to do with competing with firefox (from my own anecdotal evidence, safari does worse again firefox on macs than it does against ie on windows). Even if they wanted to take over the browser market, Safari could leave firefox and everyone else alone and just take out IE and become the major browser. Where's the benefit of taking out firefox first?
In other words, there's a ton of evidence supporting the theory that Safari is gunning for IE and the evidence that they're gunning for firefox is that they left them out of a pie chart of the people they're competing against. It's not trying to say it's MS's fault, it's not saying apple or oss are saintly, it's saying that the rhetorical backflips are required for saying apple IS gunning for firefox.
Mandriva: "Look, look, we're l33t linux people too! We hate M$! Bad M$!" Slashdot: "eh"
You didn't elaborate much on the point I would have: internal standards. I could make more money and save more money by changing things around in my life, but the truth of the matter is that I like my life right now and know that, even were I to like my life just as much after becoming a millionaire, it would take a few years of not liking life as much. Overall, I know I'll enjoy life the way it is now; trading it in doesn't make sense to me.
Or maybe they were most concerned with taking out IE, so they didn't make a comparison to other browsers which they weren't trying to take out.
Yeah, like Gateway, Opera, XBox...wait a minute...
I believe the embarrassment comes from the amount he spent, not the company he spent it on.
I might also point out that LA is the home of the riot where people were actually pulled out of their cars and beaten brutally long before rockstar ever did it.
However, even serving the public is a game. Games are, at the end, mostly resource management and getting the most benefit for what you do while there's always trade-offs. Politics are the same. Those with an income over $100,000 are obviously not going to need welfare, but for those who are stuck with a lower income and want to stop, welfare is a big help. As a politician who's trying to serve the public, you're trying to do what's best for the most people or, depending one your beliefs, your constituency. There's always going to be some downside to a particular policy. In addition, you have to manage your political party and allies. No matter how you run politics, it's a game.
degrading women?
I'm actually hoping that they make "The Sims" division stand for all Sim games, not just the one they've milked to death. That would open up a lot of possibilities. SimFarm,while a horrible game overall, was a lot of fun at times; a decent update could work well. SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt, etc. could all do well if they would focus resources on them and give them a chance. Then open up new ones, like SimMachine, and I could see things going really, really well for that division.
Yes, just like barbie and other dolls, the popularity will soon wane...
I have to agree with you there; people who expect the current set of standards to actually be implemented by web developers are pie in the sky idealists. I love the idea of all the browsers working the same, but a divisive standard helps no one. In addition, if the Java Virtual Machine's different from one machine to another, I'm not sure how we can expect the same results out of browsers developed by completely different companies.
Agreed. There aren't a lot of open-ended RPGs coming out any more, and Oblivion is definitely the standout. If anything, GP should be grateful that Fallout was picked up by someone who's at least dealt with some of Fallout's key elements.
I know that the Playstation 3 isn't selling as well as Sony would hope, but "dying" seems a bit premature when their last console cycle was 7 years. The Xbox 360 waited over a year for Gears of War, which many consider to be the first game that pushed the hardware (and it didn't push it that well). The PS3, by that standard, has until early next year to come out with something on the PS3 that looks like it couldn't be done on another console.
In other words, it's sick, but saying that it's dying is premature IMHO.
What if WoW catches wind of their accounts and shuts them down or, even worse, put the gold in a black hole instead of sending it to the buyer? Blizzard's not liable because they've got plenty of CYA in their policies, the buyers are demanding their money back and the sellers are out their gold and demanding their payment.
I think it's going to come down to how the publicly accessible folders are generally used. If they're usually used for storage and the student never advertised the music, then they'll have a good chance of the case being dismissed on the grounds of no intent. However, if the folders are generally used for sharing music and there's a culture of everyone browsing and copying from everyone else's folders, then I would imagine the judge would find intent based on the music being in the folder.
A lot of MMO content is less enjoyable because of gold farmers and others looking at playing the game for monetary gain rather than enjoyment. What measures, if any, will be used to make sure that the sellers are legitimately playing the game? If not, how is this service actually helping the gamers for whom gold selling is an inconvenience?
No, Insanity or Stay by Oingo Boingo. You know, the ones not based on movie plots.
As the previous child said, the yellow pages are a good example of a location based search, and they were already deep into innovation wars by 1999.
As a side note, you'd think that something becoming ubiquitous before a patent troll surfaced would indicate obviousness.
Actually, there were a lot of "unofficial" source books on the internet and elsewhere for a GURPS version of Star Wars.
I'm pretty sure I remember one of those too. I think it was a 2nd edition book with GURPS now being 4th edition, but I'm not 100% sure.