I am looking at an Audi also; I find the A6 perfectly droolworthy. I did drive a Telsa yesterday which is now easily my favorite car after only 20 minutes (my boss has one). He points out that if you get the high-end, there is a 8 year warranty on the car, and all he has done so far (7,000 miles in) is rotate the tires. Cost? $10. They provided a garage charger and installed it at his house for free)
By the time you figure in 6 or 7 years of maintenance, gas, etc. on your Audi in Cali, you are not that far from what he paid upfront. Have the car charge automatically after midnight when the electric rates are low, and you begin to see the value. Over 8-10 years, buying a $60,000 car with gas prices shooting upwards, and replacing a zillion parts as they wear out, I will spend close to $87,000 on my car; my boss will only buy tires. It seems to boil down to whether you have the money upfront or not, the cars cost about the same.
Agreed. This guy is trying to dodge taxes on 9 BILLION dollars. Cut that to just 2 billion dollars times 1700 people. taxes at 50% - that is over a trillion dollars in tax revenue. So they just paid for the Iraq war. We can spend the rest of the money on teachers and policeman. I got no issue with that. Or they can move to Mexico, have their children kidnapped/killed by a drug cartel, and wish they had stayed here. Seriously what other country are billionaires safer in than here? Jeez!
Of course since most of the virus writers are clueless past Windows, you can take 'reasonable precautions', use a Linux or Mac OSX machine and get off from any impending legal charges.
You guys are putting way too much thought into this - it just ain't that hard. Palm screwed up. Didn't want to deal with Apple on their terms, and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates decided to hurt Palm, to their mutual best interests.
1. Apple is working on a PDA product of their own based on OSX, Palm got wind of it and decided to jump before they were pushed. Newton II? Odds are against it, but how much more work to add a bigger, 65K color screen to an iPod and brush off Inkwell, which is already in the OSX product? Sync with OSX, sync with Outlook, which explains the lack of an Appleworks 'Office' killer and the integration of Entourage to be used in the Enterprise. Now that Pocket Windows is in cars and smartphones, Gates is willing to cede some marketshare to Apple, whom he thinks he can control better than Palm.
2. The number of takers for Palm's Cobalt is so low that they can't afford the engineers to do the Mac sync. Remember, if you make PDAs like a Clie or other product, you probably purchased a license for Version 5 of Palm OS. If nobody is buying Cobalt (Version 6) you have to make cuts somewhere, and they are making it here. They can easily add it back in if enough Cobalt licensees ask for it.
Now - do a Google check. You will find that none of the usual suspects has agreed to build a new PDA using Cobalt - everything being announced is based on the current Version 5. Palm is in deep doodoo - they haven't sold any Cobalt licenses and have to trim back. Time to sell the Palm stock?
You can't have it both ways. You allow the code to be used, or you say "this is mine, get your own!"
Jeez, only in Amerika, can you threaten legal action against someone and not have to tell them what law was broken. What happened to simple cease and desist? "This is my code and you have 30 days to stop using my IP."
The REAL point of the article should get microsofties, and there are PLENTY on/., thinking.
What the article is about is not licensing, it is about POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE/RELATIONS. You can not charge a premium for your product and treat them like crap. They shold have done their audit, listed the issues and given him the choice of deleting the software or paying for the license. BSA is an enforcement arm, they have no mandate to MAKE money on the raid/audit.
With MS market saturation, they can only lose marketshare now. Customer Service is critical to maintaininh marketshare & cashflow
We already probably talk too much. The question is when is it being recorded?
How many of you idly chat/drone on while you pull up to the bank to deposit your paycheck? That is a wide opn microphone to the teller, but it is always assumed they aren't listening when you aren't taslking to them. Stand in the freaking lobby one day and you can hear what people discuss in their cars while waiting for their deposit slips. Un-nerving.....
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ummm, Microsoft does do this. Consulting at a 2000 seat client now, with NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and XP Professional running on various machines. At least there is some compatibility around OSX; Jaguar and PAnther will probably set up and run the same.
Moving from MS machine to MS machine, remembering different commands and shortcuts for 3 distinct operating systems... ugh.
If you are a home user, please don't whine about the 'enterprise'.
PPulleaze. These upgrades are NOTHING like Service Packs. Services packs have no new features, by design. If you have been on computers (not game machines) long enough to remember the move from Windows 98 to Windows 98SE, you wouldn't make comments like that. We paid $88 for NO new features and 54 very needed bug fixes that should have been in a new service pack, and you still have to reboot every couple of days, because of the memory leaks. I'm thinking free fax from any app, X11, auto backup of.mac, in all 100 major changes makes it a worthwhile upgrade.
The problem with service packs is they don't come out often enough. If they did, we wouldn't have a new Windows hack every week.
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I am looking at an Audi also; I find the A6 perfectly droolworthy. I did drive a Telsa yesterday which is now easily my favorite car after only 20 minutes (my boss has one). He points out that if you get the high-end, there is a 8 year warranty on the car, and all he has done so far (7,000 miles in) is rotate the tires. Cost? $10.
They provided a garage charger and installed it at his house for free)
By the time you figure in 6 or 7 years of maintenance, gas, etc. on your Audi in Cali, you are not that far from what he paid upfront. Have the car charge automatically after midnight when the electric rates are low, and you begin to see the value. Over 8-10 years, buying a $60,000 car with gas prices shooting upwards, and replacing a zillion parts as they wear out, I will spend close to $87,000 on my car; my boss will only buy tires. It seems to boil down to whether you have the money upfront or not, the cars cost about the same.
Agreed. This guy is trying to dodge taxes on 9 BILLION dollars. Cut that to just 2 billion dollars times 1700 people. taxes at 50% - that is over a trillion dollars in tax revenue. So they just paid for the Iraq war. We can spend the rest of the money on teachers and policeman. I got no issue with that. Or they can move to Mexico, have their children kidnapped/killed by a drug cartel, and wish they had stayed here. Seriously what other country are billionaires safer in than here? Jeez!
Rob:
Thanks for the information, discussion, insight & memories. It's been a great ride.
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So how do you know it belongs to the FBI when you destroy it, and it's not from a stalker ex-girlfriend? Does it have an FBI logo on it?
Please.
Of course since most of the virus writers are clueless past Windows, you can take 'reasonable precautions', use a Linux or Mac OSX machine and get off from any impending legal charges.
You guys are putting way too much thought into this - it just ain't that hard. Palm screwed up. Didn't want to deal with Apple on their terms, and Steve Jobs and Bill Gates decided to hurt Palm, to their mutual best interests.
1. Apple is working on a PDA product of their own based on OSX, Palm got wind of it and decided to jump before they were pushed. Newton II? Odds are against it, but how much more work to add a bigger, 65K color screen to an iPod and brush off Inkwell, which is already in the OSX product? Sync with OSX, sync with Outlook, which explains the lack of an Appleworks 'Office' killer and the integration of Entourage to be used in the Enterprise. Now that Pocket Windows is in cars and smartphones, Gates is willing to cede some marketshare to Apple, whom he thinks he can control better than Palm.
2. The number of takers for Palm's Cobalt is so low that they can't afford the engineers to do the Mac sync. Remember, if you make PDAs like a Clie or other product, you probably purchased a license for Version 5 of Palm OS. If nobody is buying Cobalt (Version 6) you have to make cuts somewhere, and they are making it here. They can easily add it back in if enough Cobalt licensees ask for it.
Now - do a Google check. You will find that none of the usual suspects has agreed to build a new PDA using Cobalt - everything being announced is based on the current Version 5. Palm is in deep doodoo - they haven't sold any Cobalt licenses and have to trim back. Time to sell the Palm stock?
You can't have it both ways. You allow the code to be used, or you say "this is mine, get your own!"
Jeez, only in Amerika, can you threaten legal action against someone and not have to tell them what law was broken. What happened to simple cease and desist? "This is my code and you have 30 days to stop using my IP."
The REAL point of the article should get microsofties, and there are PLENTY on /., thinking.
What the article is about is not licensing, it is about POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE/RELATIONS. You can not charge a premium for your product and treat them like crap. They shold have done their audit, listed the issues and given him the choice of deleting the software or paying for the license. BSA is an enforcement arm, they have no mandate to MAKE money on the raid/audit.
With MS market saturation, they can only lose marketshare now. Customer Service is critical to maintaininh marketshare & cashflow
We already probably talk too much. The question is when is it being recorded?
How many of you idly chat/drone on while you pull up to the bank to deposit your paycheck? That is a wide opn microphone to the teller, but it is always assumed they aren't listening when you aren't taslking to them. Stand in the freaking lobby one day and you can hear what people discuss in their cars while waiting for their deposit slips. Un-nerving.....
ummm, Microsoft does do this. Consulting at a 2000 seat client now, with NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and XP Professional running on various machines. At least there is some compatibility around OSX; Jaguar and PAnther will probably set up and run the same.
Moving from MS machine to MS machine, remembering different commands and shortcuts for 3 distinct operating systems... ugh.
If you are a home user, please don't whine about the 'enterprise'.
PPulleaze. These upgrades are NOTHING like Service Packs. Services packs have no new features, by design. If you have been on computers (not game machines) long enough to remember the move from Windows 98 to Windows 98SE, you wouldn't make comments like that. We paid $88 for NO new features and 54 very needed bug fixes that should have been in a new service pack, and you still have to reboot every couple of days, because of the memory leaks. I'm thinking free fax from any app, X11, auto backup of .mac, in all 100 major changes makes it a worthwhile upgrade.
The problem with service packs is they don't come out often enough. If they did, we wouldn't have a new Windows hack every week.