But now that I think about it, this would cannibalize iTunes TV show sales... Maybe this is all rumor?
Well, think about this... maybe steve jobs wasn't able to nail down contracts with anyone other than disney^H^H^H^H^H^HABC. So this is his way to insure the Video iPod will succeed..
Disney hasn't just "lost sight" but Disney has "found sight". Eisner had found that disney has such a foundation with "wholesome family entertainment" that even if they had some cheap knock off SEQUAL they could rake in the doe. It pains me to see all the sequals like Little Mermaid 2, Cinderella 2, etc.. They're just so terrible I can't believe Disney puts their name on them. BUT these terrible flix go streight to DVD/Video and are so cheap to make that they recoup on the lame sequal plus pull in enough to cover losses on wonderful hits like "Treasure Planet"</sarcasm>.
You are missing the point. There is a perfect example as to why linux is where it is.
I have always felt linux should focus on being the best server platform out there. It'll be impossible for Linux to be a solid desktop operating system without serious corporate investment. And frankly, nobody wants to invest in Linux for a "desktop" because with the GPL there is no way to recoup those costs. It makes sense for IBM, Novell, and RedHat to be focusing on the SERVER aspects. Which is why linux is mostly still a server, even after millions and millions and millions have been poured into Linux.
What's to say he didn't get a tail shipped to him from someone in some other country?? Why is the "DNA" conclusive evidence that there are "BIG CATS" in the area? The guy shoulda' either taken hundreds of pictures of every inch of the cat or brought the body back. It shows his motorcycle in the picture, the guy was out there "hunting" was he not planning on bringing anything back beyond a tail of whatever he killed? Come on.... This is fabricated.
take the code developed by thousands of programmers over 15 years, make it proprietary, and contribute nothing back.
That is the most previlant excuse GPL supporters use. You're leaving out two major points.
First of all, the "open sourced code" that had been developed for over 15 years is STILL going to be available and developed by the individuals who support the "open source" cause. It does not just disappear. The only thing that would be proprietary is the changes and efforts the individual or company puts into above and beyond the original code base. And as someone else brought up, even in the situation of MacOSX, they have large portions of their source code available for people to look at and develop on their own.
Secondly, if the developers of the code believe in their code and their roadmap, why should they care if someone forks their code and goes off and does something else with it that ends up contributing to the computer industry? The open source developer is donating their time for a cause to make a difference, money isn't usually a factor for this person. They can continue coding their BSD licensed software all they want, they can continue doing whatever it is that drives them, and others can take their code and try to make something proprietary and make a business model out of the code because the original developer doesn't want to do that, or he would have. And lots of times the original developers are seeked out by the company who forked the code to see if they want a job. The developer can decline the offer. The open source BSD licensed developer is still in control of their original code base and where it goes and everything else.
I could go on and on, but the main point is with the BSD license developers maintain control of their code base and their project for as long as they want. It allows for when a developer throws in the towel and is tired of maintaining a project, someone else can come in and start maintaining it and try to make a business model of the software and offer the developer a job or better yet back the project to continue development. And the last point, in the end, companies contribute most of the code back into some sort of public view such as http://opendarwin.org/
You just proved my point. You believe that somehow blu-ray is incredibly different than dvd and hd-dvd is the same as HD-DVD, just an "UPGRADE". They're both using blue laser technology just the media is layered differently. So in other words, both BLU-RAY and HD-DVD are similar "upgrades" to DVD, just consumers will perceive HD-DVD to be more like DVD than BLU-RAY.
When all is said and done, HD-DVD will win. Based off of ONE reason. People will think BLU-RAY is something new and weird, but HD-DVD is just a new version of DVDs. Consumers are stupid, which makes HD-DVD the default winner. It's the one consumers are going to know what it is and buy it.
Consumers would benifit most from a 'dual support' system. From what I understand, Blu-ray uses a very intense holographic type system to allow the higher amount of storage. There won't be any 'blu-ray' consumer burners for a LONG time (if ever). Where as HD-DVD could have consumer burners pretty quickly.
Why not allow for something like toshiba is doing where you could have a BLU-RAY reader and HD-DVD reader/burner?
If that isn't the solution, consumers are going to suffer. One format will win in the end (remember beta vs vhs) and a group (either HDDVD or Blu-ray) will be left with a bunch of worthless media down the road (ie. beta).
This is all very basic stuff that any decent admin should be able to implement easily.
This is all very basic stuff that any decent employee could disable easily.
Your giving your implimentation efforts way too much credit. Almost everyone I know that receives a laptop with a company image on it reimages it. A corporate laptop typically has barely enough ram and cpu to run the necessary apps WITHOUT all the extra overhead of all that extra necessary crap.
Sure, it's easy to say, "Oh well, they should be fired for doing that. Make a few examples out of people and nobody else will do it." But it's hard when the argument is, "Well, I asked for the new laptop 6 months ago, and I didn't get it, so I installed a lean version of winxp on it without all the overhead apps and it runs 60% faster to hold me over till the next budgets are approved."
Can you give an example where a reasonable [Google] search yields results that are mostly "crap?"
.... to be continued... The previous posters are currently on google hitting page after page thinking, "I know there was something that returned "crap"...
While the GP was definately written as a flamebait... it's a valid poinr. I don't see why these Apple fanboys have such blind devotion.
There have been these type of mac followers for years though, now it's just worse because they have a decent OS.
There really is no explanation that can be said to describe why "apple fanboys have such blind devotion". When I bought my first mac about 3 years ago, I felt like i was telling friends that I had come out of the closet or something. It was VERY ironic. I had been bashing macs my entire life.
I believe my devotion to the mac platform is due to the circumstances as to what led me to buy a mac. I had been using PCs forever. IBM DOS, MS DOS, Windows 3.x (grugingly), Windows 95, Windows 2000. On the other side I was admining servers with Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and also Linux (Slackware, RedHat, Debian, etc). I had actually attempted at one point to replace my audio/video editing machine with a linux machine. Of course I wasted about 6 weeks and in the end it was an utter failure due to every opensource application for audio and video editing was still a beta (if not alpha).
So I went back to Windows 2000, was doing more video editing project, doing more audio projects... I just put up with the crashing and learned to work around it. I would do the routine "windows rebuild" ever 3 - 6 months just to keep it running smoothly and keep spyware/adware off my machine.
FINALLY, one day, my computer died in the middle of a critical moment FOR THE LAST TIME. I went and bought a mac. I have been running the same INSTALL of MacOSX since the day I bought it. It has survived 3 MAJOR OS upgrades without reinstalling from scratch (10.1 -> 10.2 -> 10.3 -> 10.4). I have done countless updates, and 3rd party drivers and such without any problems. This is why I am a "FANBOY". I have been a thousand times more productive and don't have to screw around with my operating system any more.
With windows I would have to reinstall every 3 - 6 months just to keep it running tip top. With Linux I would have to suffer through inadoqute software, trying to get WINE to work, endless updates and recompiling of gtk, glib, qt, and various other dependencies. With MacOSX I get work done and have time left over to post insanely long posts on slashdot that nobody will read.
Also, the perception in businesses is that it's worthwhile to pay extra as compared to running Linux on cheap PCs because they don't believe that Linux will be cost effective to maintain when compared to OS X (this may or may not be true, like I said it's a perception).
Very well said. The "business community" buys more expensive hardware in general, whether it's for windows, linux, or macosx. More expensive hardware with major vendors is a cheaper solution in the end. Buying cheap hardware in large quantities usually results in lots of time and money spent troubleshooting random issues or faulty hardware. Troubleshooting "random freezes" involves swaping out a part and letting it run until it locks up again. Probably something in this order: Memory, cpu, motherboard, ethernet card, video card, sound card, any other type of IO card, harddrives, and then throw the box away. (I'm sure I missed a few steps, but that's the general idea).
I have personally been both fortunate and unfortunate with cheap hardware. It's awesome when a sub $100 box lasts 5 years running linux in a server room. It's a gamble. Because I've had situations where the sub $100 box ends up costing me about 4 or 5 weeks of troubleshooting, switching out parts, and unwanted downtime.
Businesses need the computers for productivity, not to prove anything. And if you're buying top quality hardware from a vendor, typically the OS comes free. So with MacOSX they're getting a WIN WIN situation. Top quality hardware with a virusfree productive environment with top notch support.
Please don't tell your customers we waited 6 years for a new desktop theme and background.
By "WE" you mean "YOU". I jumped ship about three years ago and transitioned to Apple products. Since then I've been through several OS releases and lived through innovation and an excellent user experiance. How long are you going to keep waiting and watch innovative companies pass you buy?
The main thing stopping me from trying dvorak is that I use VI all the time and have gron used to the 'hjkl' keys vs arrows. Is there any different adjustments for dvorak on VI?
I think the misconception is that people are thinking of the problem wrong. You're not standing in the middle of the earth when looking at the moon off to the horizon. I made a drawing to explain the situation and it makes complete sense.
View diagram. I did this in 30 seconds. It's not to scale by any means and not even the correct angles, but it's enough to get the point across.
Notice the amount of atmosphere that is in the path between the PAW and the moon in the two different positions. I imagine this additional atmosphere at the horizon angle distorts the image of the moon like a magnifying glass compared to when it's right above.
Wine hardly runs all the games available on linux as it is today. Hardcore gamers would be fine and actually prefer to boot into windows to play their counterstrike or halflife or whatever. Windows for games, MacOSX for productivity. Windows will run games faster then any UNIX based system be it Linux, MacOSX, BSD, or anything else. I think porting WINE to OSX will just piss microsoft off enough to maybe pull Microsoft Office COMPLETELY once and for all like they did with Internet Explorer for Mac. Let it go, play games on a dualbooting macintel, keep microsoft happy enough to not squash this thing before it comopletely germinates.
Longhorn is a far more important and comprehensive upgrade than Tiger
All the features you raved that Longhorn WILL HAVE, TIGER HAS. If you're all stoked on longhorn, then you'd be flippin out about Tiger. With tiger you get to stare at your pixel perfect rendered desktop while using features needed to maintain sanity in this 'paperless environment'.
So uh, why is Longhorn is taking so long to release? Are they redrawing all the icons again? The icons are still all pixelated. Oh I heard they're implimenting hard links and soft links on the file system. I can understand why that would take 2 years to impliment. Wait a minute, wasn't that what they were advertising as a huge feature that was going to be in win2k? Whatever... I'm SOOOO GLAD I run OSX these days. Longhorn should be called long in the tooth.
so Next time they think about doing it, they will think twice.
Why would they think twice about it? In the end, the consumers pay back the money lost to lawsuits. Doesn't hurt the company in the end.
When is Apple going to be stiffed with PRICE FIXING? I don't understand exactly what pricefixing is and what is illegal about it, but I do know that gasoline companies all agree on prices for gas all over the nation. Ever notice how the gas price goes up and down the exact same morning across all gasstations?
So now they have a REAL reason to charge more for the memory. Sounds like a solution to benifit the consumers for sure! How much of the $185 million went to lawyers and lawfirms and how much of that is going back to the consumers? $0.18 checks aren't worth crap to the consumer that bought the memory at the 'fixed rate'. Cause in the end, the consumers get nothing back from a suit like this except paying more for the memory in the future because of the impact of the lawsuit. The lawyers make out like a bandit! Why else do imagine these lawsuits exist?
While I was in Brazil I noticed something unique. Ethanol AND Gasoline are both available at every gas station (I guess it should be called a fueling station). Here's an extremely informative website that shows some charts of ethanol.
Why is the US going with Hydrogen instead of ethanol? I know that ethonal is more like "diesel fuel" so it requires the engine to heatup before starting the car in colder areas, but it seems that ethanol is already widely in use in other countries. Seems odd the US goes with hydrogen and everyone else is using ethanol.
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Disney hasn't just "lost sight" but Disney has "found sight". Eisner had found that disney has such a foundation with "wholesome family entertainment" that even if they had some cheap knock off SEQUAL they could rake in the doe. It pains me to see all the sequals like Little Mermaid 2, Cinderella 2, etc.. They're just so terrible I can't believe Disney puts their name on them. BUT these terrible flix go streight to DVD/Video and are so cheap to make that they recoup on the lame sequal plus pull in enough to cover losses on wonderful hits like "Treasure Planet"</sarcasm>.
Can't beat em, join em, then beat em.
You are missing the point. There is a perfect example as to why linux is where it is.
I have always felt linux should focus on being the best server platform out there. It'll be impossible for Linux to be a solid desktop operating system without serious corporate investment. And frankly, nobody wants to invest in Linux for a "desktop" because with the GPL there is no way to recoup those costs. It makes sense for IBM, Novell, and RedHat to be focusing on the SERVER aspects. Which is why linux is mostly still a server, even after millions and millions and millions have been poured into Linux.
What's to say he didn't get a tail shipped to him from someone in some other country?? Why is the "DNA" conclusive evidence that there are "BIG CATS" in the area? The guy shoulda' either taken hundreds of pictures of every inch of the cat or brought the body back. It shows his motorcycle in the picture, the guy was out there "hunting" was he not planning on bringing anything back beyond a tail of whatever he killed? Come on.... This is fabricated.
First of all, the "open sourced code" that had been developed for over 15 years is STILL going to be available and developed by the individuals who support the "open source" cause. It does not just disappear. The only thing that would be proprietary is the changes and efforts the individual or company puts into above and beyond the original code base. And as someone else brought up, even in the situation of MacOSX, they have large portions of their source code available for people to look at and develop on their own.
Secondly, if the developers of the code believe in their code and their roadmap, why should they care if someone forks their code and goes off and does something else with it that ends up contributing to the computer industry? The open source developer is donating their time for a cause to make a difference, money isn't usually a factor for this person. They can continue coding their BSD licensed software all they want, they can continue doing whatever it is that drives them, and others can take their code and try to make something proprietary and make a business model out of the code because the original developer doesn't want to do that, or he would have. And lots of times the original developers are seeked out by the company who forked the code to see if they want a job. The developer can decline the offer. The open source BSD licensed developer is still in control of their original code base and where it goes and everything else.
I could go on and on, but the main point is with the BSD license developers maintain control of their code base and their project for as long as they want. It allows for when a developer throws in the towel and is tired of maintaining a project, someone else can come in and start maintaining it and try to make a business model of the software and offer the developer a job or better yet back the project to continue development. And the last point, in the end, companies contribute most of the code back into some sort of public view such as http://opendarwin.org/
You just proved my point. You believe that somehow blu-ray is incredibly different than dvd and hd-dvd is the same as HD-DVD, just an "UPGRADE". They're both using blue laser technology just the media is layered differently. So in other words, both BLU-RAY and HD-DVD are similar "upgrades" to DVD, just consumers will perceive HD-DVD to be more like DVD than BLU-RAY.
When all is said and done, HD-DVD will win. Based off of ONE reason. People will think BLU-RAY is something new and weird, but HD-DVD is just a new version of DVDs. Consumers are stupid, which makes HD-DVD the default winner. It's the one consumers are going to know what it is and buy it.
Consumers would benifit most from a 'dual support' system. From what I understand, Blu-ray uses a very intense holographic type system to allow the higher amount of storage. There won't be any 'blu-ray' consumer burners for a LONG time (if ever). Where as HD-DVD could have consumer burners pretty quickly.
Why not allow for something like toshiba is doing where you could have a BLU-RAY reader and HD-DVD reader/burner?
If that isn't the solution, consumers are going to suffer. One format will win in the end (remember beta vs vhs) and a group (either HDDVD or Blu-ray) will be left with a bunch of worthless media down the road (ie. beta).
Your giving your implimentation efforts way too much credit. Almost everyone I know that receives a laptop with a company image on it reimages it. A corporate laptop typically has barely enough ram and cpu to run the necessary apps WITHOUT all the extra overhead of all that extra necessary crap.
Sure, it's easy to say, "Oh well, they should be fired for doing that. Make a few examples out of people and nobody else will do it." But it's hard when the argument is, "Well, I asked for the new laptop 6 months ago, and I didn't get it, so I installed a lean version of winxp on it without all the overhead apps and it runs 60% faster to hold me over till the next budgets are approved."
I believe my devotion to the mac platform is due to the circumstances as to what led me to buy a mac. I had been using PCs forever. IBM DOS, MS DOS, Windows 3.x (grugingly), Windows 95, Windows 2000. On the other side I was admining servers with Solaris, AIX, HPUX, and also Linux (Slackware, RedHat, Debian, etc). I had actually attempted at one point to replace my audio/video editing machine with a linux machine. Of course I wasted about 6 weeks and in the end it was an utter failure due to every opensource application for audio and video editing was still a beta (if not alpha).
So I went back to Windows 2000, was doing more video editing project, doing more audio projects... I just put up with the crashing and learned to work around it. I would do the routine "windows rebuild" ever 3 - 6 months just to keep it running smoothly and keep spyware/adware off my machine.
FINALLY, one day, my computer died in the middle of a critical moment FOR THE LAST TIME. I went and bought a mac. I have been running the same INSTALL of MacOSX since the day I bought it. It has survived 3 MAJOR OS upgrades without reinstalling from scratch (10.1 -> 10.2 -> 10.3 -> 10.4). I have done countless updates, and 3rd party drivers and such without any problems. This is why I am a "FANBOY". I have been a thousand times more productive and don't have to screw around with my operating system any more.
With windows I would have to reinstall every 3 - 6 months just to keep it running tip top. With Linux I would have to suffer through inadoqute software, trying to get WINE to work, endless updates and recompiling of gtk, glib, qt, and various other dependencies. With MacOSX I get work done and have time left over to post insanely long posts on slashdot that nobody will read.
I have personally been both fortunate and unfortunate with cheap hardware. It's awesome when a sub $100 box lasts 5 years running linux in a server room. It's a gamble. Because I've had situations where the sub $100 box ends up costing me about 4 or 5 weeks of troubleshooting, switching out parts, and unwanted downtime.
Businesses need the computers for productivity, not to prove anything. And if you're buying top quality hardware from a vendor, typically the OS comes free. So with MacOSX they're getting a WIN WIN situation. Top quality hardware with a virusfree productive environment with top notch support.
The main thing stopping me from trying dvorak is that I use VI all the time and have gron used to the 'hjkl' keys vs arrows. Is there any different adjustments for dvorak on VI?
I made a simple little diagram explaining. You can see the difference in the amount of atmosphere and curve in the simple diagram.
Simple Diagram
View diagram. I did this in 30 seconds. It's not to scale by any means and not even the correct angles, but it's enough to get the point across.
Notice the amount of atmosphere that is in the path between the PAW and the moon in the two different positions. I imagine this additional atmosphere at the horizon angle distorts the image of the moon like a magnifying glass compared to when it's right above.
Wine hardly runs all the games available on linux as it is today. Hardcore gamers would be fine and actually prefer to boot into windows to play their counterstrike or halflife or whatever. Windows for games, MacOSX for productivity. Windows will run games faster then any UNIX based system be it Linux, MacOSX, BSD, or anything else. I think porting WINE to OSX will just piss microsoft off enough to maybe pull Microsoft Office COMPLETELY once and for all like they did with Internet Explorer for Mac. Let it go, play games on a dualbooting macintel, keep microsoft happy enough to not squash this thing before it comopletely germinates.
I just want to know how long will it take an XBox 360 to get MacOSX running on it. That would be a ton better than a mac mini.
So uh, why is Longhorn is taking so long to release? Are they redrawing all the icons again? The icons are still all pixelated. Oh I heard they're implimenting hard links and soft links on the file system. I can understand why that would take 2 years to impliment. Wait a minute, wasn't that what they were advertising as a huge feature that was going to be in win2k? Whatever... I'm SOOOO GLAD I run OSX these days. Longhorn should be called long in the tooth.
I wonder how much of that 500TB wasn't pr0n.
When is Apple going to be stiffed with PRICE FIXING? I don't understand exactly what pricefixing is and what is illegal about it, but I do know that gasoline companies all agree on prices for gas all over the nation. Ever notice how the gas price goes up and down the exact same morning across all gasstations?
So now they have a REAL reason to charge more for the memory. Sounds like a solution to benifit the consumers for sure! How much of the $185 million went to lawyers and lawfirms and how much of that is going back to the consumers? $0.18 checks aren't worth crap to the consumer that bought the memory at the 'fixed rate'. Cause in the end, the consumers get nothing back from a suit like this except paying more for the memory in the future because of the impact of the lawsuit. The lawyers make out like a bandit! Why else do imagine these lawsuits exist?
While I was in Brazil I noticed something unique. Ethanol AND Gasoline are both available at every gas station (I guess it should be called a fueling station). Here's an extremely informative website that shows some charts of ethanol.
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http://www.distill.com/World-Fuel-Ethanol-A&O-2
Why is the US going with Hydrogen instead of ethanol? I know that ethonal is more like "diesel fuel" so it requires the engine to heatup before starting the car in colder areas, but it seems that ethanol is already widely in use in other countries. Seems odd the US goes with hydrogen and everyone else is using ethanol.