Right, Microsoft's crime wasn't so much including Internet Explorer, but instead "cutting off the air supply" by threating OEMs and ISPs that were shipping Netscape.
He's exaggerating, but everything he said is basically true:
* iTunes/QuickTime hijacks multimedia filetypes without prompting * QuickTime hijacks browser mime types (MP3 and TIFF for example) * QuickTime installs into your system tray and runs a background service * Apple Software Update pesters you all the time and slams stuff like Safari * QuickTime is neutered to encourage you to buy QuickTime Pro
Apple's Windows software follows every dodgy crapware vendor practice. And keep in mind that unlike on a Mac, Apple doesn't have any privileged position. They're just one of a hundred Win vendors that try to spam as much of their branded shit as possible, and they're all annoying.
The ancient CD-ROM repair manual for my ancient car has this problem, I ended up having to setup VirtualPC with only 64MB for it to run because anything more just errors out.
Yes and no. While there is a ton of industrial DVD piracy in other countries, the street vendor in the US I've seen are selling DVD-R rips they made on their home computer using the usual cracking methods.
Also, Sony is apparently trying to address industrial piracy by keeping the BD plants out of the "bad" places (China and so on), but that won't keep up if the format catches on to the extent that DVD has.
The software probably has a bug where it's using a variable to check memory that's too small and overflows. (In other words a bug caused by too much RAM, not too little.)
I don't know, I;ve seen interviews with former employees that stated that Steve Jobs' role in certain products has been vastly overrated. People want to hear about Steve Jobs, so thats what people talk about.
Problem is that "Forged directly in the bowels of Steve Jobs" is an essential part of Apple' marketing pitch. So any information they give to outside news organizations is going to reinforce this view rather than talk about the boring conventional marketing methods that they also use.
The MacBookPro and PowerBook G4 have almost identical industrial design. However the MBP sells a lot better because it comes with a fast processor and good OS.
The way it works is that OS X looks at the legacy type/creator codes before it checks the file extension. So you can have a "APPL" executable file with any extension, just like under classic MacOS.
Many printer manufacturers only shipped drivers and soft-fonts in the WordPerfect DOS formats, which meant if you were a DisplayWrite or Word user you were either out of luck or only had reduced access to the printer's features.
WordPerfect understood this was a huge competitive advantage for them, so they tried to replicate the same system under Windows and OS/2, despite them having their own application-indpendant printer drivers and font formats. As one might expect this failed completely and made WP look like retards.
Supposedly, every version of WP was basically written from scratch in ASM. So any goodness in the NextStep product would not be transitive to the Windows version.
Also the OS/2 version of WordPerfect was somehow even shittier than the Windows version, so there goes that theory.
As people have said, the real problem was that WP wasn't just trying to write applications, they were trying to fight both Microsoft and IBM over who controlled the printing infrastructure.
No it sucked because WP built their own monopoly lock-in on DOS fonts and printer drivers and then for some extremely foolhardy reason they tried to port that stuff to windows.
I think your memories are overly idealized. Most of those secretaries saved all of their files in the C:\WP51\ directory, and the only way they could find anything was using the fullscreen file browser program that came with WordPerfect. If they used the command line at all, they had a cheatsheet taped to their monitor.
But it doesn't really matter because businesses got rid of most of their secretaries after GUI word processing became popular.
Tivo is adding open access to h.264 versions of their videos, so people will be able to build clients without using the flash plugin. (This is what the iphone does.)
Unfortunately, numerous properly authenticated and encrypted techniques aren't supported by Windows Explorer (well, WebDAV/SSL, which has its own set of problems). So authenticated FTP remains pretty popular simply due to ease of use.
I disagree. They are giving the SDK away for FREE. The development tools (including IDE) are all FREE. The only thing the are charging for is a ONE time $99 registration fee in order to distribute applications through the iTunes App store.
Don't forget you have to buy a Mac too. (Which will be an issue for the vast majority of enterprise developers.)
Let's be honest - if this was Windows, people would be criticising the price,
A MS Windows Authenticode certificate costs roughly $400, and every serious Win32 developer who sells over the web buys one. So no this is really cheap.
(Note also there's nothing about this scheme which prevents you from posting your hacked iPhone apps for free.)
If only was that easy. Having interviewed a ton of programmers, I can tell you that the vast majority of them are platform zealots for the tech they know. Finding someone that not only has a good knowledge of the APIs you're using and also is remotely objective and knowledgeable about other platforms is a difficult trick.
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Right, Microsoft's crime wasn't so much including Internet Explorer, but instead "cutting off the air supply" by threating OEMs and ISPs that were shipping Netscape.
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Slashdot will never understand this
He's exaggerating, but everything he said is basically true:
* iTunes/QuickTime hijacks multimedia filetypes without prompting
* QuickTime hijacks browser mime types (MP3 and TIFF for example)
* QuickTime installs into your system tray and runs a background service
* Apple Software Update pesters you all the time and slams stuff like Safari
* QuickTime is neutered to encourage you to buy QuickTime Pro
Apple's Windows software follows every dodgy crapware vendor practice. And keep in mind that unlike on a Mac, Apple doesn't have any privileged position. They're just one of a hundred Win vendors that try to spam as much of their branded shit as possible, and they're all annoying.
The ancient CD-ROM repair manual for my ancient car has this problem, I ended up having to setup VirtualPC with only 64MB for it to run because anything more just errors out.
Yes and no. While there is a ton of industrial DVD piracy in other countries, the street vendor in the US I've seen are selling DVD-R rips they made on their home computer using the usual cracking methods.
Also, Sony is apparently trying to address industrial piracy by keeping the BD plants out of the "bad" places (China and so on), but that won't keep up if the format catches on to the extent that DVD has.
The software probably has a bug where it's using a variable to check memory that's too small and overflows. (In other words a bug caused by too much RAM, not too little.)
I don't know, I;ve seen interviews with former employees that stated that Steve Jobs' role in certain products has been vastly overrated. People want to hear about Steve Jobs, so thats what people talk about.
Problem is that "Forged directly in the bowels of Steve Jobs" is an essential part of Apple' marketing pitch. So any information they give to outside news organizations is going to reinforce this view rather than talk about the boring conventional marketing methods that they also use.
The MacBookPro and PowerBook G4 have almost identical industrial design. However the MBP sells a lot better because it comes with a fast processor and good OS.
The way it works is that OS X looks at the legacy type/creator codes before it checks the file extension. So you can have a "APPL" executable file with any extension, just like under classic MacOS.
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2015.html
However, IIRC this only works under PowerPC not Intel.
Many printer manufacturers only shipped drivers and soft-fonts in the WordPerfect DOS formats, which meant if you were a DisplayWrite or Word user you were either out of luck or only had reduced access to the printer's features.
WordPerfect understood this was a huge competitive advantage for them, so they tried to replicate the same system under Windows and OS/2, despite them having their own application-indpendant printer drivers and font formats. As one might expect this failed completely and made WP look like retards.
Supposedly, every version of WP was basically written from scratch in ASM. So any goodness in the NextStep product would not be transitive to the Windows version.
Also the OS/2 version of WordPerfect was somehow even shittier than the Windows version, so there goes that theory.
As people have said, the real problem was that WP wasn't just trying to write applications, they were trying to fight both Microsoft and IBM over who controlled the printing infrastructure.
No it sucked because WP built their own monopoly lock-in on DOS fonts and printer drivers and then for some extremely foolhardy reason they tried to port that stuff to windows.
You're confused. WinWord was developed inhouse. Ami was bought by Lotus and became IBM Word Pro.
I think your memories are overly idealized. Most of those secretaries saved all of their files in the C:\WP51\ directory, and the only way they could find anything was using the fullscreen file browser program that came with WordPerfect. If they used the command line at all, they had a cheatsheet taped to their monitor.
But it doesn't really matter because businesses got rid of most of their secretaries after GUI word processing became popular.
Back in the Day, Word Perfect WAS better.
You really have no clue. The early versions of WordPerfect for Windows were some of the hugest pieces of shit ever shat.
Oops. I mean YouTube
Tivo is adding open access to h.264 versions of their videos, so people will be able to build clients without using the flash plugin. (This is what the iphone does.)
Unfortunately, numerous properly authenticated and encrypted techniques aren't supported by Windows Explorer (well, WebDAV/SSL, which has its own set of problems). So authenticated FTP remains pretty popular simply due to ease of use.
Actually I agree with you on principle. The iPhone is closed platform and not an open system like MS Windows.
However, the cost itself shouldn't be that big of a deal if you're in it for the money.
I disagree. They are giving the SDK away for FREE. The development tools (including IDE) are all FREE. The only thing the are charging for is a ONE time $99 registration fee in order to distribute applications through the iTunes App store.
Don't forget you have to buy a Mac too. (Which will be an issue for the vast majority of enterprise developers.)
According to my experimental data, there's a high probably that you will get fucked by your database vendor first.
Not quite "science", but an objective study of development projects could very likely prove the value in a database abstraction layer.
Let's be honest - if this was Windows, people would be criticising the price,
A MS Windows Authenticode certificate costs roughly $400, and every serious Win32 developer who sells over the web buys one. So no this is really cheap.
(Note also there's nothing about this scheme which prevents you from posting your hacked iPhone apps for free.)
If only was that easy. Having interviewed a ton of programmers, I can tell you that the vast majority of them are platform zealots for the tech they know. Finding someone that not only has a good knowledge of the APIs you're using and also is remotely objective and knowledgeable about other platforms is a difficult trick.
Yes, the original paper by Moore makes the explicit connection between transistor density and prices and consumer marketing.
I'm sure you're fully aware that "open source" was taken from the intelligence community, where it definitely has a "read only" connotation.