The problem I see is not that Apple want complete control over *their* boxes, but that they want complete control over other manufacturer's boxes also.
Apple is doing NOTHING to stop Dell or HP from loading any flavor of Linux or Windows on their boxes.
Apple sells Macs and iPhones, and OSX by Apple is designated only to run on those machines. If you can get it to run on other boxes, fine (and Apple has yet to threaten or prosecute folks who make or tell you how to make a Hackintosh), but don't tell me that Apple is desiring "complete control" over other manufacturer's boxes because those companies want to sell something they don't have the rights to (OSX).
I've said this before, and I'll say it again: Why does Oracle need mySQL?
If there's no reasonable answer, and Oracle refuses to spin it off, it clearly shows monopolistic intent, and the EU is rightfully worried.
Just because 59 Senators got off their asses doesn't mean that Oracle should get to buy all the marbles. Spin off MySQL and profit from it, Larry, or watch as your investment dwindles and you contribute to local unemployment, just because you believe everyone else must fail.
This guy just got the go-ahead to file a wrongful arrest suit possibly netting some nice $$ and/or a formal apology.
Sad that the community will have to pay restitution (to the improperly arrested) for this kind of police incompetence, while the cops close ranks and continue the code of blue silence... and "authorities" wonder why their reputation is in shambles.
That wouldn't last. People would demand changes as they saw their children miss out on higher education opportunities.
You'd think this would be true, but more likely it would lead to the kind of situation where Regent University "Law" graduates were running the DoJ in Bush's admin... because they were basically rubber-stamps for whatever Gonzales/Rove/Cheney wanted politically.
With the Droid out and the recent marketing push in terms of Verizon dollars behind it I think this might look a little different down the road a bit.
I will bet you the numbers don't change significantly. If anything, this is the 2nd start of Google's serious entry into the smartphone market and the first serious push for Andriod devices cross-marketing. Apple is surely taking them seriously.
That said, I predict nothing much will happen market-share-wise in 2,3 even 6 months... other than perhaps more nails in WinMo's coffin. In a couple of years, yes, things will be different, but who knows how the Apple tablet and ChromeOS netbook strategy play into this... it's an exciting time to be a mobile device consumer.
... but thats because I am a halfway knowledgeable user that uses adblock, noscript, betterprivacy, use privately encrypted TOR when about (Iron Key) and only allow certain cookies....
First time I've heard of betterprivacy, which is VERY cool. Thanks for the tip. (Just a note: it seems, according to the BetterPrivacy addon summary, it will help ALL your browsers because LSO's like flash cookies are cross-browser, so deletion of these will generally make you much harder to track on all browsers as long as you (like me) launch FF once a day or so). Link to BetterPrivacy addon.
I've been charmed by Chrome and Safari, but plugins like this are hard to find on the other browsers... go FF!
And I have to add the Bing search engine provider add-on in Firefox. And in Safari, I can't even change my search engine provider. This is just par for the course.
Mozilla (Firefox) isn't a convicted monopolist. Standard competitive practices cease to apply when you have significant market share and have been convicted of coercive monopolistic practices (see Microsoft, IBM).
Kane said that VeriSign will create and manage the zone-signing key (ZSK) for the root zone, and sign the root zone, for.net and.com. Icann will create, manage and publish the root zone key-signing key (KSK).
This is over my head, as the terminology seems repetitive (ZSK for root zone vs. root zone for KSK ?!?!)... can anyone explain the details to a DNSSEC initiate (A quick google search didn't yield any easily understandable content).
ctually, that's exactly why Microsoft never called it the "trashcan". They called it a Recycle Bin. It looks different, too.
Yeah, and McDowells isn't copying MacDonalds either! "They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs". Sad... life imitating art imitating life... infinite regression.
I'm pretty sure Ohare and NY airports aren't on this list because they're too big, or already have options (Someone mentioned that PDX has free wifi courtesy of the airport itself).
This is a nice gesture of goodwill from Google... I wonder how much it costs.
This is all a ploy to negotiate with Google some more beneficial (to Murdoch) terms.
I can only see it working if he also manages to get a critical mass of other publications' owners to do the same thing.
They don't have to move in lockstep if he does have a coalition going. He can block WSJ.com, claim some victory, show it as a case model, and hope others buy his idea (WSJ does not need Google, but the example would probably not work for many other not-as-self-sustaining sites).
It's not politics, it's purely (an attempt to save a failed) business (model). If Rupert doesn't have a coalition going, there's only so much posturing he can do before actually cutting off his nose to spite his face.
One specific development build of OSX didn't work properly on a completely unsupported platform, affecting perhaps tens of people nationwide. Subsequent builds did not exhibit this problem. News at 11.
I know MainStream Media pablum when I hear it... you guys are missing the real story: Apple broke Atom support to make it less likely that people would suspect their new Tablet will be running... an Atom! These guys are geniuses, that's for sure!!! (or I'm off my medication again).
But they should not pretend it is because Google has shown any pattern of abuse. If anything, they have been much better than most companies.
The quote in my subject from Lord Acton, has been proven time and again, that despite the purest of intentions, a concentration of power will corrupt any person, organization or company. This is the reason that "smaller government" is a desirable thing; We have examples time and again from history that overpowerful organizations aren't trustworthy (current example: US "intelligence community"). It's also the reason we have things like seperation of powers in governmental structures.
This applies equally to companies, and is the reason we have anti-trust laws (not to punish success, but to maintain free markets). In this vein, I think Google may be able to stay "non-evil" for some time (or maintain that illusion for the cynics), but eventually like enough concentrated mass creates a black hole, the power will collapse the regulatory structures. It's a matter of time, and that's why people (even Googlers) want to prevent this from happening.
You do realize that this essentially allows corporations to write law. This is some real scary shit, and I'm amazed that it finds cheerleaders among ordinary people.
You think this is scary? The CIA got one of their own (GHW Bush) as President, fercrissakes. In France, the country's leader of the gendarmes (think national militia) got elected as President (Sarkozy). I fear the merger of media and government more than corporations and government, though they're both BAD.
If you buy a phone, you expect to be able to put your own apps on it.
Your analogy breaks down right there. When I moved from my Treo 600 to an iPhone, I didn't expect to be able to move my apps/games with me. Neither if I moved to a blackberry. Sure there will be some great devs who do cross-platform stuff (PopCap: Bookworm), but that's because they take the time and effort to write it in different platforms
The iPhone is NOT a car. You can't die by using a phone, and the phone industry is not nearly as regulated as the auto industry.
In short, I have NO expectation that I should be able to move my apps from one platform to another, willy-nilly. Maybe if everything was copyleft'd and we were all using ports-capable OS's, sure. But I have no expectation of that any time soon.
Hate to reply to myself, but just thought of this: If iWeb were crapware, would it really have over 5000 users who actually go out of their way to say they use the software? It has more hits than Dreamweaver, or even another bundled app, iChat, which is definitely not useless (I use iChat so my daughter can see and talk to both her Grandmas).
Have you ever used iWeb? iDVD? Some would consider the whole iLife to be crapware because they plan to get higher-end, more professional applications through which to vent their creativity.
Seriously, you consider iDVD to be crapware? It's useful in making DVDs, my wife uses it all the time. Crapware is NOT things like WordPad (which according to you should be crapware because everyone buys Word anyway, right?), crapware is, according to Google:
# Bundled software, commonly known as software bundles or bundleware, is the practice of including several related games or other software into a single package. Poor quality software bundles are usually referred to in a derogatory manner as shovelware.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crapware
# Software that is useless or of poor quality
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crapware
# Adware, Spyware, malware, browser hijackers, unwanted advertising popups that can appear even when not online.
www.aami.org/resources/glossaries/itworld/Glossary-C.html
Apple does have nag/crapware (mobileme, Quicktime nagging, maybe iWeb) but it's miniscule compared to what you see on other manufacturers.
The EU has been the leading anti-trust regulator in the world for a long time now simply because they believe it's in societies best interest to force companies to compete whereas the US believes more in the innovative power of unregulated companies and thus have a more laissez-faire attitude.
It seems more and more that the US has become completely controlled by big business who are in turn owned by the elites (the top 1% who own more than 50% of everything).
(Economic) Freedom isn't Free. So tell me who believes more in Capitalism, the (so-called socialist) EU or the US?
If it's important enough to vote on, it's important enough to count properly.
I'll add something to your insightful remark, lamb... if it's important enough to vote on, we should be given the time to vote on it. Stop cramming everything into one voting day, have many ballots and do everything by vote-by-mail like Oregon does (you can still drop it off at the ballot box on election day, IIRC). Now you can have many elections and vote on all manner of stuff.
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Apple is doing NOTHING to stop Dell or HP from loading any flavor of Linux or Windows on their boxes.
Apple sells Macs and iPhones, and OSX by Apple is designated only to run on those machines. If you can get it to run on other boxes, fine (and Apple has yet to threaten or prosecute folks who make or tell you how to make a Hackintosh), but don't tell me that Apple is desiring "complete control" over other manufacturer's boxes because those companies want to sell something they don't have the rights to (OSX).
If there's no reasonable answer, and Oracle refuses to spin it off, it clearly shows monopolistic intent, and the EU is rightfully worried.
Just because 59 Senators got off their asses doesn't mean that Oracle should get to buy all the marbles. Spin off MySQL and profit from it, Larry, or watch as your investment dwindles and you contribute to local unemployment, just because you believe everyone else must fail.
If you can put some more context in here, it would help us understand the history. btw, are deletions final? Isn't the metadata kept around somewhere?
Sad that the community will have to pay restitution (to the improperly arrested) for this kind of police incompetence, while the cops close ranks and continue the code of blue silence... and "authorities" wonder why their reputation is in shambles.
You'd think this would be true, but more likely it would lead to the kind of situation where Regent University "Law" graduates were running the DoJ in Bush's admin... because they were basically rubber-stamps for whatever Gonzales/Rove/Cheney wanted politically.
You mean like when the US DOJ actually got them convicted as a coercive monopoly? Or maybe you were referring to when the EU smacked down Microsoft for bad practices?
I will bet you the numbers don't change significantly. If anything, this is the 2nd start of Google's serious entry into the smartphone market and the first serious push for Andriod devices cross-marketing. Apple is surely taking them seriously.
That said, I predict nothing much will happen market-share-wise in 2,3 even 6 months... other than perhaps more nails in WinMo's coffin. In a couple of years, yes, things will be different, but who knows how the Apple tablet and ChromeOS netbook strategy play into this... it's an exciting time to be a mobile device consumer.
As long as it's not a justin long... he's already signed.
First time I've heard of betterprivacy, which is VERY cool. Thanks for the tip. (Just a note: it seems, according to the BetterPrivacy addon summary, it will help ALL your browsers because LSO's like flash cookies are cross-browser, so deletion of these will generally make you much harder to track on all browsers as long as you (like me) launch FF once a day or so). Link to BetterPrivacy addon.
I've been charmed by Chrome and Safari, but plugins like this are hard to find on the other browsers... go FF!
Mozilla (Firefox) isn't a convicted monopolist. Standard competitive practices cease to apply when you have significant market share and have been convicted of coercive monopolistic practices (see Microsoft, IBM).
This is over my head, as the terminology seems repetitive (ZSK for root zone vs. root zone for KSK ?!?!)... can anyone explain the details to a DNSSEC initiate (A quick google search didn't yield any easily understandable content).
Yeah, and McDowells isn't copying MacDonalds either! ... life imitating art imitating life... infinite regression.
"They got the Golden Arches, mine is the Golden Arcs".
Sad
This is a nice gesture of goodwill from Google... I wonder how much it costs.
I seriously don't see why Oracle needs MySQL.
They don't have to move in lockstep if he does have a coalition going. He can block WSJ.com, claim some victory, show it as a case model, and hope others buy his idea (WSJ does not need Google, but the example would probably not work for many other not-as-self-sustaining sites).
It's not politics, it's purely (an attempt to save a failed) business (model). If Rupert doesn't have a coalition going, there's only so much posturing he can do before actually cutting off his nose to spite his face.
Another great article ahead of it's time: here. Again, note the date.
I know MainStream Media pablum when I hear it... you guys are missing the real story: Apple broke Atom support to make it less likely that people would suspect their new Tablet will be running... an Atom! These guys are geniuses, that's for sure!!! (or I'm off my medication again).
The quote in my subject from Lord Acton, has been proven time and again, that despite the purest of intentions, a concentration of power will corrupt any person, organization or company. This is the reason that "smaller government" is a desirable thing; We have examples time and again from history that overpowerful organizations aren't trustworthy (current example: US "intelligence community"). It's also the reason we have things like seperation of powers in governmental structures.
This applies equally to companies, and is the reason we have anti-trust laws (not to punish success, but to maintain free markets). In this vein, I think Google may be able to stay "non-evil" for some time (or maintain that illusion for the cynics), but eventually like enough concentrated mass creates a black hole, the power will collapse the regulatory structures. It's a matter of time, and that's why people (even Googlers) want to prevent this from happening.
So you're saying that email should have been invented AFTER the CAN-SPAM act?
You think this is scary? The CIA got one of their own (GHW Bush) as President, fercrissakes. In France, the country's leader of the gendarmes (think national militia) got elected as President (Sarkozy). I fear the merger of media and government more than corporations and government, though they're both BAD.
Your analogy breaks down right there. When I moved from my Treo 600 to an iPhone, I didn't expect to be able to move my apps/games with me. Neither if I moved to a blackberry. Sure there will be some great devs who do cross-platform stuff (PopCap: Bookworm), but that's because they take the time and effort to write it in different platforms
The iPhone is NOT a car. You can't die by using a phone, and the phone industry is not nearly as regulated as the auto industry.
In short, I have NO expectation that I should be able to move my apps from one platform to another, willy-nilly. Maybe if everything was copyleft'd and we were all using ports-capable OS's, sure. But I have no expectation of that any time soon.
Hate to reply to myself, but just thought of this: If iWeb were crapware, would it really have over 5000 users who actually go out of their way to say they use the software? It has more hits than Dreamweaver, or even another bundled app, iChat, which is definitely not useless (I use iChat so my daughter can see and talk to both her Grandmas).
Seriously, you consider iDVD to be crapware? It's useful in making DVDs, my wife uses it all the time. Crapware is NOT things like WordPad (which according to you should be crapware because everyone buys Word anyway, right?), crapware is, according to Google:
Apple does have nag/crapware (mobileme, Quicktime nagging, maybe iWeb) but it's miniscule compared to what you see on other manufacturers.
It seems more and more that the US has become completely controlled by big business who are in turn owned by the elites (the top 1% who own more than 50% of everything).
(Economic) Freedom isn't Free. So tell me who believes more in Capitalism, the (so-called socialist) EU or the US?
I'll add something to your insightful remark, lamb... if it's important enough to vote on, we should be given the time to vote on it. Stop cramming everything into one voting day, have many ballots and do everything by vote-by-mail like Oregon does (you can still drop it off at the ballot box on election day, IIRC). Now you can have many elections and vote on all manner of stuff.