nice to see the NeoOffice/J people have a sense of humor. From the website:
Warning: all NeoOffice/J development and testing is done by volunteers so there are always some missing features and bugs. So if you expect software to be absolutely perfect before you install it, we recommend that you purchase a commercially supported office suite like MicrosoftTM Office
Sorry to feed the troll but since you brought it up, yeah,/. have all the room in the world for improvement looks wise, but I think it is part of the/. brand to look non-commercial, non-marketing, all-geek./. = News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I am all for Firefox and enjoy it at home and work, but I am not for false advertising.
I read Firefox crossed 10 Million downloads and this ad is being timed to the 11 million download mark, but the ad reads something to the effect of: come see what 30 million users world wide already know. there is an alertnative.
Let's see, this is assuming I guess that 1 download reaches 3 people? I disagree. I have downloaded firefox to 3 computers myself. That's 1 download = 1/3 people. Now, one was my wifes' computer so I guess that means 3 downloads = 2 people or 1 download = 2/3 of a person in my particular situation.
Still, where is the 30 Million number coming from in the ad?
According to this note, the ATI and NVIDIA updates in 10.3.7 are good news for laptop owners because they reduce power consumption, thus improving battery life.
In the case of a trade mark, if the mark owner knows of an offending use (that is not satirical and therefore not protected by Amendment #1), and does not pursue an injunction of the offending use of their protected mark, then the mark can be determined to be void, since the mark holder is not defending their own rights to the protection of the mark.
Now please consider the situation where Company R approaches company A, asking to be cut in on Company A's technology. Company R does not bring enough (money/partnership/cache/etc) to the table to convince Company A of an agreement. In frustration, Company R then simply decides to develop their own, completely legal, reverse engineering of the technology.
At this point, Company A ust decide to implement countermeasures to Company R's technology or else do nothing, and set a precident that if you want to reverse engineer Company A's technologies, they are free for the taking - no licensing or partnerships required.
The bottom line is that Apple has innovated a great many things and a great many companies have become what they are by building a business from Apple's innovations. I see this as Apple taking a stand against those who would seek to take what is not theirs - the success of iPod and iTunes - away from Apple.
This all comes down to good business sense. Real wanted to negotiate with Apple to open up their DRM.
Real did not bring enough to the table to convince Apple to do so.
So Real decides to hack Apple's DRM.
In what way is Real acting ethically at this point?
Apple defends its rights by patching the vulnerabilities in their DRM.
In what was is Apple acting unethically at this point?
By not responding to Real's threat, Apple would be opening themselves up to lawsuits by the shareholders for not protecting their intellectual property rights.
Focusing on the news of the smaller, lighter 40GB drive, coule there be other applications of this in a device such as the iPod mini or even an Apple branded cellphone?
Or perhaps the 80GB will me a debut not in an iPod for music and photos, but in an iPod-like PDA/Table/Treo type device.
According to this website, in 1993 IBM created a PC dividion to compete agianst mailorder companies (Gateway, Dell, et al) and called that Dividion "Ambra".
The article states the Ambra division was miss managed and had poor customer service, leading to it's closure just one year later in 1994. The division would later be resurected as the IBM "Aptiva" line of personal computers many more of us know today.
As a college student I was very pleased with the support I received for my Ambra (386 I believe). The monitor went bad and IBM had a new one waiting for me at my dorm within 24 hours of the service call. I was sad to see Ambra go.
I can say from first hand experience that trademark issues are so painful you will wish you were dead.
I just left a company that was launching a new product. Marketing had me investigate the availability of several domain names. I gave thema report of what was available. Weeks later, they told me they had registered a couple trademarks that corresponded with a domain and would I register the domain name. Well what do you know, the domain was now registered by someone else. (This became my fault.)
We sued the company for trademark infringement since we owned the trademark.
Long story short, we spend a year and thousands of dollars just to eventually drop the case and go with a different URL.
Mr. Jobs rejects the comparison between the music players and computers. The Macintosh had an uphill battle, Apple says, because so many corporate customers already had applications based on Microsoft's operating system that they didn't want to abandon. By contrast, Apple's iTunes Music Store sells pretty much the same songs that the others do, but they cannot be moved onto non-Apple portable devices.
This is the glory of the iPod/iTunes combo.
Basic marketing speaks of product differentiation and competitive advantage as keys to sales growth. In all the on-line music stores, the differentiations are: (1) price for which there is either a.99/9.99 model or the subscription ideas which (some) people either love or (mostly) hate (2) catalog which is by and large the same (at least for mainstream current music the labels want to sell) with some larger stores securing exclusives and international market access. (3) format of encoding which directly dictates which devices the store works with.
Apple is so damn smart because they set (1) so low there is no margin in it for companies that just sell music only to compete, (2) is so big and robust that at best a competitor has the same catalog and at worst, a smaller one, and (3) locks all the Windows Media Format people into a "push" for product differentiation. This forces them to look at (1) or (2) and since their small market share will prevent (2) from getting exclusives that really means (1) is the only way to go. But as mentioned before, margins are too darn low so no matter how you slice it, they can't compete on price alone.
Which brings us back to that quote by Jobs above. If you start buying from iTMS, which 70% of the market has, it costs MORE to switch because you have comitted yourself to (3), the format, and you have to giveup all your music, and all those 0.99 that added up, to move.
When it comes to IT upgrades, I am more likely to skip the next generation product and go for the one that follows it. I didn't set out to do this, but it seems to just work out that way.
In my mind, I can't justify spending the premium to purchase the latest and greatest when what I have still works, and is a sunk cost. By the time what I have is two generations old, the latest and greatest is a LOT better, when I have may or maynot work so well, and that sunk cost was sunk a while ago so I don't feel the sting as much.
So when what I have is frustrating to use because it no longer functions properly or just far poorer than new tech, I upgrade.
A few examples from my own life: - I own a 2 megapix digital camera that is a couple years old and has some issues with certain modes. I am going to soon purchas a 5MP camera to replace it. - My laptop, a PowerBook G4 400Mhz is a great machine but as I have moved more and more towards an Apple centric home, I kinda want the more powerful systems to do home movie (DV) editing with iMovie and store all my digital music I didn't have when I bought the laptop. I will but buying a G5 iMac in January. - That same laptop has an 802.11b Airport card. I have a similar base station but the antena range isn't very good and I cannot get an external antena. I saw a CompUSA sale on 802.11g access points to I pounced last month.
Is this information interesting? well no, but it held your attention for a few moments anyway.
The cerators of Red Vs. Blue had a funny Mac Gamer skit. The guy talks about how good it is to play games on a Mac "You know the games are good 'cause you played them on the PC two years ago".
I don't use my computer for games that much, but it would be nice to have the option of more titles and being able to play them at the same time they come out for a PC.
I do take exception with some of the/. posts saying how the iMac is underpowered for games blah blah. THese are the same people who will drop $3000 on an Alienware system but expect the entry level Mac desktop to be sufficient. How about the single processor PowerMac. add whatever Ram or video card you want.
This interesting stat is just the latest thorn in the side of Microsoft and the less than stellar results the Xbox business unit has had in unseeting the industry leading Sony and their PS family of systems.
This is important because it is said whenever discussing on-line music or video for that matter that if Microsoft wants it, it can have it. (Referring of course to the question on many people's mind as to how long Apple can retain a 70% market share in legal music download.)
But if Sony, clearly better capitalized than Netscape, can defend it's turf against the agressor that fell the industry leading Navigator browser from it's #1 market position by simply giving Internet Explorer away for free as the default for the Windows OS, can Apple, or anyone else, defend their industry from MS?
okay, I'll give your #2 a bit of validity, but as for #1, this article is about Linux on the liquid cooled dual processor G5 - so saying Linux is useful for a box that can barely run OS X won't apply to this box.
as for #2 - is the Linux interface (KDE, Gnome, watver) so 'familiar' and impressive that someone would take all the time to port the OS to PPC? I mean, I have used Linux in various forms for several years, though only ever as dual boot, and I must say that savge Redhat 9, I thought the distributions had pretty poor interfaces, just look/feel/navigation wise, compared to Windows, which itself is so very, very bad.
Oh well, guess it comes down to personal preference.
I think you're new here. But let's do the math for fun.
800770 - 132545 -------- 668225
668225 / 132545 = 5.04
Yes, it would appear you're more than five time newer in fact. Not that anyone is trying to quantify 'newbeeness'.
But to qualify the 'newbeeness', I took a look at your previous posts and I would say that you are still in search of an elusive score of 5 to improve the old Karma. Hint: you will have to do more than post "why not?" to get someone to mod you 'funny' or 'interesting' or 'insightful'. Try posting an observation about the subject, oh I don't know, like this one:
this like those other times when people have gotten linux running on their Palm or Xbox or clock radio?
I am not trying to flame but I just don't see the point - OS X is BSD. You've got X11. you can run all sorts of apps from the OS X command line (from apache to fink to vi) so what's the appeal of running linux?
is this like those other times when people have gotten linux running on their Palm or Xbox or clock radio?
I am not trying to flame but I just don't see the point - OS X is BSD. You've got X11. you can run all sorts of apps from the OS X command line (from apache to fink to vi) so what's the appeal of running linux?
not to squelch the joking around about streets yet to be named, but I have a legit QUESTION:
I presumed that Apple's DRM worked by encoding a song with a particular user's ID, then transmitting it down. It would take that user's ID to unlock the song and thus, the DRM would work.
So how the heck will this work for the iPod? I am assuming you can take the music OFF the iPod and add it to iTunes but then you would just have this AAC file without DRM or with DRM you can't decrypt.
So this leads me to believe you will NOT be able to remove the songs from the iPod - they become like demo versions of video games on a CD you get with your modem. You can play the songs on the iPod all you want, but you gotta BUY them if you want to play them on iTunes.
Clever Apple, very clever.
If this is so, then I would suspect from now until forever, iPods will come preloaded with some songs, or perhaps photos, because it is such a great way to promote.
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my favorite game ever is Civ III - which is available on the PS2. Is there a longer, more drawn out game than Civ III?
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nice to see the NeoOffice/J people have a sense of humor. From the website:
Warning: all NeoOffice/J development and testing is done by volunteers so there are always some missing features and bugs. So if you expect software to be absolutely perfect before you install it, we recommend that you purchase a commercially supported office suite like MicrosoftTM Office
Sorry to feed the troll but since you brought it up, yeah, /. have all the room in the world for improvement looks wise, but I think it is part of the /. brand to look non-commercial, non-marketing, all-geek. /. = News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I zoomed in on the advertisement. That looks like a 1 to me, not a 3.
/. had a "retract your post" option. Clearly, I have failed to read the ad correctly. It *does* say 10 million, not 30 million.
Man, I wish
To Firefox, I appologize.
I am all for Firefox and enjoy it at home and work, but I am not for false advertising.
I read Firefox crossed 10 Million downloads and this ad is being timed to the 11 million download mark, but the ad reads something to the effect of: come see what 30 million users world wide already know. there is an alertnative.
Let's see, this is assuming I guess that 1 download reaches 3 people? I disagree. I have downloaded firefox to 3 computers myself. That's 1 download = 1/3 people. Now, one was my wifes' computer so I guess that means 3 downloads = 2 people or 1 download = 2/3 of a person in my particular situation.
Still, where is the 30 Million number coming from in the ad?
According to this note, the ATI and NVIDIA updates in 10.3.7 are good news for laptop owners because they reduce power consumption, thus improving battery life.
I offer this for consideration.
In the case of a trade mark, if the mark owner knows of an offending use (that is not satirical and therefore not protected by Amendment #1), and does not pursue an injunction of the offending use of their protected mark, then the mark can be determined to be void, since the mark holder is not defending their own rights to the protection of the mark.
Now please consider the situation where Company R approaches company A, asking to be cut in on Company A's technology. Company R does not bring enough (money/partnership/cache/etc) to the table to convince Company A of an agreement. In frustration, Company R then simply decides to develop their own, completely legal, reverse engineering of the technology.
At this point, Company A ust decide to implement countermeasures to Company R's technology or else do nothing, and set a precident that if you want to reverse engineer Company A's technologies, they are free for the taking - no licensing or partnerships required.
The bottom line is that Apple has innovated a great many things and a great many companies have become what they are by building a business from Apple's innovations. I see this as Apple taking a stand against those who would seek to take what is not theirs - the success of iPod and iTunes - away from Apple.
ou seem to think that Real hacked into Apple's DRM.
Nooo. (Said in Bill Engval voice.)
All they did was come up with a COMPATIBLE DRM for their own music.
But it was the fact that they made this format immediately after failing to negotiate with Apple that makes it so hostile.
It wasn't like it was the open source community creating a compatible DRM, it was someone else wanting to make a buck off Apple.
This all comes down to good business sense. Real wanted to negotiate with Apple to open up their DRM.
Real did not bring enough to the table to convince Apple to do so.
So Real decides to hack Apple's DRM.
In what way is Real acting ethically at this point?
Apple defends its rights by patching the vulnerabilities in their DRM.
In what was is Apple acting unethically at this point?
By not responding to Real's threat, Apple would be opening themselves up to lawsuits by the shareholders for not protecting their intellectual property rights.
Focusing on the news of the smaller, lighter 40GB drive, coule there be other applications of this in a device such as the iPod mini or even an Apple branded cellphone?
Or perhaps the 80GB will me a debut not in an iPod for music and photos, but in an iPod-like PDA/Table/Treo type device.
Uh, no. You are
Are you serious? Did you really just "I'm not, you are" me?
so I went to itunes.com, and poked around, ... yet nowhere can I find a link to actually select music to check out with for download.
You are officially the dumbest person on Earth.
According to this website, in 1993 IBM created a PC dividion to compete agianst mailorder companies (Gateway, Dell, et al) and called that Dividion "Ambra".
The article states the Ambra division was miss managed and had poor customer service, leading to it's closure just one year later in 1994. The division would later be resurected as the IBM "Aptiva" line of personal computers many more of us know today.
As a college student I was very pleased with the support I received for my Ambra (386 I believe). The monitor went bad and IBM had a new one waiting for me at my dorm within 24 hours of the service call. I was sad to see Ambra go.
Yes, without those pesky "passwords", security on Windows boxes will once again rival that of Linux, et al.
Lame.
You a missing out on a great music shopping experience. Apple isn't exploiting a market like some suppliers and retailers do.
Too bad for you.
I can say from first hand experience that trademark issues are so painful you will wish you were dead.
I just left a company that was launching a new product. Marketing had me investigate the availability of several domain names. I gave thema report of what was available. Weeks later, they told me they had registered a couple trademarks that corresponded with a domain and would I register the domain name. Well what do you know, the domain was now registered by someone else. (This became my fault.)
We sued the company for trademark infringement since we owned the trademark.
Long story short, we spend a year and thousands of dollars just to eventually drop the case and go with a different URL.
Trademarks are hell.
If you didn't RTFA, please do so. It's worth it.
.99/9.99 model or the subscription ideas which (some) people either love or (mostly) hate
I found many quotes interesting including this:
Mr. Jobs rejects the comparison between the music players and computers. The Macintosh had an uphill battle, Apple says, because so many corporate customers already had applications based on Microsoft's operating system that they didn't want to abandon. By contrast, Apple's iTunes Music Store sells pretty much the same songs that the others do, but they cannot be moved onto non-Apple portable devices.
This is the glory of the iPod/iTunes combo.
Basic marketing speaks of product differentiation and competitive advantage as keys to sales growth. In all the on-line music stores, the differentiations are:
(1) price for which there is either a
(2) catalog which is by and large the same (at least for mainstream current music the labels want to sell) with some larger stores securing exclusives and international market access.
(3) format of encoding which directly dictates which devices the store works with.
Apple is so damn smart because they set (1) so low there is no margin in it for companies that just sell music only to compete, (2) is so big and robust that at best a competitor has the same catalog and at worst, a smaller one, and (3) locks all the Windows Media Format people into a "push" for product differentiation. This forces them to look at (1) or (2) and since their small market share will prevent (2) from getting exclusives that really means (1) is the only way to go. But as mentioned before, margins are too darn low so no matter how you slice it, they can't compete on price alone.
Which brings us back to that quote by Jobs above. If you start buying from iTMS, which 70% of the market has, it costs MORE to switch because you have comitted yourself to (3), the format, and you have to giveup all your music, and all those 0.99 that added up, to move.
Brilliant he is, just brilliant.
When it comes to IT upgrades, I am more likely to skip the next generation product and go for the one that follows it. I didn't set out to do this, but it seems to just work out that way.
In my mind, I can't justify spending the premium to purchase the latest and greatest when what I have still works, and is a sunk cost. By the time what I have is two generations old, the latest and greatest is a LOT better, when I have may or maynot work so well, and that sunk cost was sunk a while ago so I don't feel the sting as much.
So when what I have is frustrating to use because it no longer functions properly or just far poorer than new tech, I upgrade.
A few examples from my own life:
- I own a 2 megapix digital camera that is a couple years old and has some issues with certain modes. I am going to soon purchas a 5MP camera to replace it.
- My laptop, a PowerBook G4 400Mhz is a great machine but as I have moved more and more towards an Apple centric home, I kinda want the more powerful systems to do home movie (DV) editing with iMovie and store all my digital music I didn't have when I bought the laptop. I will but buying a G5 iMac in January.
- That same laptop has an 802.11b Airport card. I have a similar base station but the antena range isn't very good and I cannot get an external antena. I saw a CompUSA sale on 802.11g access points to I pounced last month.
Is this information interesting? well no, but it held your attention for a few moments anyway.
The cerators of Red Vs. Blue had a funny Mac Gamer skit. The guy talks about how good it is to play games on a Mac "You know the games are good 'cause you played them on the PC two years ago".
/. posts saying how the iMac is underpowered for games blah blah. THese are the same people who will drop $3000 on an Alienware system but expect the entry level Mac desktop to be sufficient. How about the single processor PowerMac. add whatever Ram or video card you want.
I don't use my computer for games that much, but it would be nice to have the option of more titles and being able to play them at the same time they come out for a PC.
I do take exception with some of the
This interesting stat is just the latest thorn in the side of Microsoft and the less than stellar results the Xbox business unit has had in unseeting the industry leading Sony and their PS family of systems.
This is important because it is said whenever discussing on-line music or video for that matter that if Microsoft wants it, it can have it. (Referring of course to the question on many people's mind as to how long Apple can retain a 70% market share in legal music download.)
But if Sony, clearly better capitalized than Netscape, can defend it's turf against the agressor that fell the industry leading Navigator browser from it's #1 market position by simply giving Internet Explorer away for free as the default for the Windows OS, can Apple, or anyone else, defend their industry from MS?
Yeah it's off topic, but CmdrTaco brought it up!
okay, I'll give your #2 a bit of validity, but as for #1, this article is about Linux on the liquid cooled dual processor G5 - so saying Linux is useful for a box that can barely run OS X won't apply to this box.
as for #2 - is the Linux interface (KDE, Gnome, watver) so 'familiar' and impressive that someone would take all the time to port the OS to PPC? I mean, I have used Linux in various forms for several years, though only ever as dual boot, and I must say that savge Redhat 9, I thought the distributions had pretty poor interfaces, just look/feel/navigation wise, compared to Windows, which itself is so very, very bad.
Oh well, guess it comes down to personal preference.
I think your new here
I think you're new here. But let's do the math for fun.
800770
- 132545
--------
668225
668225 / 132545 = 5.04
Yes, it would appear you're more than five time newer in fact. Not that anyone is trying to quantify 'newbeeness'.
But to qualify the 'newbeeness', I took a look at your previous posts and I would say that you are still in search of an elusive score of 5 to improve the old Karma. Hint: you will have to do more than post "why not?" to get someone to mod you 'funny' or 'interesting' or 'insightful'. Try posting an observation about the subject, oh I don't know, like this one:
this like those other times when people have gotten linux running on their Palm or Xbox or clock radio?
I am not trying to flame but I just don't see the point - OS X is BSD. You've got X11. you can run all sorts of apps from the OS X command line (from apache to fink to vi) so what's the appeal of running linux?
All I coud figure is the desktop environment.
is this like those other times when people have gotten linux running on their Palm or Xbox or clock radio?
I am not trying to flame but I just don't see the point - OS X is BSD. You've got X11. you can run all sorts of apps from the OS X command line (from apache to fink to vi) so what's the appeal of running linux?
All I coud figure is the desktop environment.
not to squelch the joking around about streets yet to be named, but I have a legit QUESTION:
I presumed that Apple's DRM worked by encoding a song with a particular user's ID, then transmitting it down. It would take that user's ID to unlock the song and thus, the DRM would work.
So how the heck will this work for the iPod? I am assuming you can take the music OFF the iPod and add it to iTunes but then you would just have this AAC file without DRM or with DRM you can't decrypt.
So this leads me to believe you will NOT be able to remove the songs from the iPod - they become like demo versions of video games on a CD you get with your modem. You can play the songs on the iPod all you want, but you gotta BUY them if you want to play them on iTunes.
Clever Apple, very clever.
If this is so, then I would suspect from now until forever, iPods will come preloaded with some songs, or perhaps photos, because it is such a great way to promote.
for $150 you can upgrade a PlayStation to a PlayStation2 - and you get a free PlayStation!
my favorite game ever is Civ III - which is available on the PS2. Is there a longer, more drawn out game than Civ III?
(please don't answer that)