And just look at the fantastic piece-of-crap clones resulted from the licensing of Mac technology an architecture to Motorola, Radius, Umax, and Power Computing in 1996-1998.
It's way to early to judge how these systems will perform in the long run. OS X has been getting faster and more stable with every revision. I'm sure that when 10.3 comes out we're going to see significant speed improvements for the G5's and other speed improvement for G3 and G4 (like the Finder...)
Yeah, I remember that... They killed mTropolis because they feared it would compete with QuarkImmedia.
If I remember right (which I probably don't) QuarkImmedia basically let you put hyperlinks in quark documents and publish to the web (and required a browser plug-in to view...) This was all, "back-in-the-day".
Buying mFactory was a really strange move for Quark. mTropolis wasn't even in the same market as their Immedia vaporware.
It's too bad because mTropolis could have competed very well with Macromedia if it had a little more time to mature.
Micropayments may work for the top 1% of a given field (web comics, online music), but I've never heard of anyone making a decent living off of it, and certainly not the average group
The rules are different for the indi labels. Sure, the vast majority of people will be buying the latest popular single from madonna-spears-agulara. And they'll sells millions of downloads of one song. But the vast majority of the label's other music will go unsold.
On the other hand, with indi labels, fans on a band are more likely to buy from other bands on the label. There was a time that I would buy anything on 4AD just because I liked their "sound". Labels like Kill Rock Stars and Elephant 6 are like specialty boutiques. The actualy label names have cache. I'd be very likely to preview songs from other band on Elephant 6, just because I like 3 of their bands already...
The indi's biggest problem is distribution. The ITMS solves this problem with (presumably) no overhead for the label. So it's a win-win for them.
That's horrible. How does that demo movie show anything even remotely useful. It's great to see the kind of crap that Microsoft is wasting their time creating.
Is it just me, or did those windows look non-antialiased also?
This idea just needs a Corporate Sponsor or two to host the server space and bandwidth.
Naw... Hosting could be done by those "on-demand-printing" sites. The license would speculate that they can sell a printed/bound version, but only if they make the PDF (or whatever format) available for download for free.
No corporate sponsor needed. Let the markets decide.
The difference is that, in a presidential election you can't vote more than once. So, no one person can rig the election. Even if you told everyone you know to vote for contestant X, how many would?
The article stated that one person tried to vote 228 times. If you consider that the ZDnet poll garnered 1415 total votes, then that one person could have potentially accounted for between 13% and 16% of the total.
Even if this wasn't 'official' corporate policy, clearly trying to vote 228 times should have registed on someone's conscience as 'wrong'.
Anyone have any (good/bad) experiences with bringing in personal laptops and hooking them up to their work network?
About 4 of us have laptops which we *used* to bring into the office to work on. However, recently the IT staff has banned us from being on the network (sighting virus and 'illegal' software concerns.)
Would Company X be liable for the contents of someone's personal laptop if it were on Company X's computer network?
I beg to differ...
Sure, pinball manufacturing is in the tubes, but that doesn't mean pinball is dead. Now is the best time to go to an auction and buy the pin you've always wanted. I've got 3 pinball machines at home (all bought at auction for about $700 a piece.)
As for repair...
Pinball machines are built to take punishment. They are a model of survival. All my pins are +10 years old. Most problems can be traced to dirty or bent contacts and bad repair jobs from previous owners. Replacement hardware (coils, switches, pop-bumbers...) can be ordered on-line.
Other hardware such as the cpu, power, and audio boards are interchangable between games of the same system (I've got two Williams System 11 games.)
If you run into trouble...
You can find manuals and repair guides on-line. The people in rec.games.pinball are also a valuable source of insight.
(now go buy a pinball machine...)
The guy from VA linux says that there's no question that what MS has done is illegal.
Actually, he's saying just the opposite: If you read that sentence again you'll find that Ts'o is prefacing his remarks by saying that, no one is questioning that Microsoft has done something illegal in regard to the Kerberos spec.
Which is quite different then saying that there is no question...
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An you think that CNN is objective?
Which you then need to manually re-mount every time you log in.
Not if you add them to your "Login Items". Then they automatically re-mount.
Or, make a shortcut to the drive in your Dock, then they're only a click away when you need them...
And just look at the fantastic piece-of-crap clones resulted from the licensing of Mac technology an architecture to Motorola, Radius, Umax, and Power Computing in 1996-1998.
It was almost the ruin of Apple.
It's way to early to judge how these systems will perform in the long run. OS X has been getting faster and more stable with every revision. I'm sure that when 10.3 comes out we're going to see significant speed improvements for the G5's and other speed improvement for G3 and G4 (like the Finder...)
Can't wait!
Man, that is so freaking paranoid!
Yeah, I remember that... They killed mTropolis because they feared it would compete with QuarkImmedia.
If I remember right (which I probably don't) QuarkImmedia basically let you put hyperlinks in quark documents and publish to the web (and required a browser plug-in to view...) This was all, "back-in-the-day".
Buying mFactory was a really strange move for Quark. mTropolis wasn't even in the same market as their Immedia vaporware.
It's too bad because mTropolis could have competed very well with Macromedia if it had a little more time to mature.
Micropayments may work for the top 1% of a given field (web comics, online music), but I've never heard of anyone making a decent living off of it, and certainly not the average group
The rules are different for the indi labels. Sure, the vast majority of people will be buying the latest popular single from madonna-spears-agulara. And they'll sells millions of downloads of one song. But the vast majority of the label's other music will go unsold.
On the other hand, with indi labels, fans on a band are more likely to buy from other bands on the label. There was a time that I would buy anything on 4AD just because I liked their "sound". Labels like Kill Rock Stars and Elephant 6 are like specialty boutiques. The actualy label names have cache. I'd be very likely to preview songs from other band on Elephant 6, just because I like 3 of their bands already...
The indi's biggest problem is distribution. The ITMS solves this problem with (presumably) no overhead for the label. So it's a win-win for them.
That's horrible. How does that demo movie show anything even remotely useful. It's great to see the kind of crap that Microsoft is wasting their time creating.
Is it just me, or did those windows look non-antialiased also?
This idea just needs a Corporate Sponsor or two to host the server space and bandwidth.
Naw... Hosting could be done by those "on-demand-printing" sites. The license would speculate that they can sell a printed/bound version, but only if they make the PDF (or whatever format) available for download for free.
No corporate sponsor needed. Let the markets decide.
Boycott? No, no. "Boycott" is a Nintendo Gameboy emulator... :)
More like, break down the tough choices in the form of:
Good, Better, and Best
Or maybe,
Fast, Faster, and Fastest
Hmm...
The difference is that, in a presidential election you can't vote more than once. So, no one person can rig the election. Even if you told everyone you know to vote for contestant X, how many would?
The article stated that one person tried to vote 228 times. If you consider that the ZDnet poll garnered 1415 total votes, then that one person could have potentially accounted for between 13% and 16% of the total.
Even if this wasn't 'official' corporate policy, clearly trying to vote 228 times should have registed on someone's conscience as 'wrong'.
Anyone have any (good/bad) experiences with bringing in personal laptops and hooking them up to their work network?
About 4 of us have laptops which we *used* to bring into the office to work on. However, recently the IT staff has banned us from being on the network (sighting virus and 'illegal' software concerns.)
Would Company X be liable for the contents of someone's personal laptop if it were on Company X's computer network?
You forgot: 4) You can upgrade your headlights, but then you'll need a fast car to use them.
Speaking of which... What's the connection between Star Trek and TNN?
Do you find it creepy too?
I beg to differ... Sure, pinball manufacturing is in the tubes, but that doesn't mean pinball is dead. Now is the best time to go to an auction and buy the pin you've always wanted. I've got 3 pinball machines at home (all bought at auction for about $700 a piece.) As for repair... Pinball machines are built to take punishment. They are a model of survival. All my pins are +10 years old. Most problems can be traced to dirty or bent contacts and bad repair jobs from previous owners. Replacement hardware (coils, switches, pop-bumbers...) can be ordered on-line. Other hardware such as the cpu, power, and audio boards are interchangable between games of the same system (I've got two Williams System 11 games.) If you run into trouble... You can find manuals and repair guides on-line. The people in rec.games.pinball are also a valuable source of insight. (now go buy a pinball machine...)
The guy from VA linux says that there's no question that what MS has done is illegal.
Actually, he's saying just the opposite: If you read that sentence again you'll find that Ts'o is prefacing his remarks by saying that, no one is questioning that Microsoft has done something illegal in regard to the Kerberos spec.
Which is quite different then saying that there is no question...