When business people discovered that they could pop in a Z80 card, run Visicalc, and do really sophisticated financial projections without hiring a programmer, they had to have them.
Actually Visicalc I think was originally designed natively for Apple II, it didn't need a Z80 card. Now, Apple did eventually realize that this market was important. Why do you think they created the failed Apple III that was targeted at business?
When business people discovered that they could pop in a Z80 card, run Visicalc, and do really sophisticated financial projections without hiring a programmer, they had to have them.[/quote]
Actually Visicalc I think was originally designed natively for Apple II, it didn't need a Z80 card.
Now, Apple did eventually realize that this market was important. Why do you think they created the failed Apple III that was targeted at business?
You mean the kind who are shackled to a desk 9-5 with a strict 30 minute lunch break, and get kicks out of really awesome spreadsheets?
You can keep your "real coffee" and your fucking suit, I'll stick to working a job that is flexible around me, not the other way around.
Yea, the 9x series of Windows is very different from the NT series. It is just that it happened that the last release in the 9x series (Me) was released after NT 5.0 (Win2000) was released, thus Win2000 had none of Me's features. It was XP that finally stopped development of 9x series and merge most of the feature of the last release into the NT series, and split the server editions into a separate line.
Yea, the corporation as a "nexus of contracts", and homo economicus, both of which is flawed. See my Slashdot submission on the problems of shareholder value and agency theory.
This is a real weakness of many companies that have fallen into the common trap of allowing personal relationships at the executive level to dominate business decisions.
Well, business is personal, particularly these days, so...
A lot of short-term thinking based on ego and this year's bonus. Since the typical executive severance is what an engineer makes in two or more years, it's really not a problem for them to run companies into the ground and hop from enterprise to enterprise.
Yea, homo economicus yet again. I had a Slashdot submission on this that got rejected.
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Yea, the flaws of artificial scarcity, as I said in another comment.
Also, last time I read, adding Software Assurance will convert a OEM license into a volume license.
Yea, the flaws of artificial scarcity.
When business people discovered that they could pop in a Z80 card, run Visicalc, and do really sophisticated financial projections without hiring a programmer, they had to have them.
Actually Visicalc I think was originally designed natively for Apple II, it didn't need a Z80 card. Now, Apple did eventually realize that this market was important. Why do you think they created the failed Apple III that was targeted at business?
When business people discovered that they could pop in a Z80 card, run Visicalc, and do really sophisticated financial projections without hiring a programmer, they had to have them.[/quote] Actually Visicalc I think was originally designed natively for Apple II, it didn't need a Z80 card. Now, Apple did eventually realize that this market was important. Why do you think they created the failed Apple III that was targeted at business?
You mean the kind who are shackled to a desk 9-5 with a strict 30 minute lunch break, and get kicks out of really awesome spreadsheets? You can keep your "real coffee" and your fucking suit, I'll stick to working a job that is flexible around me, not the other way around.
Yea, kind of off-topic to discuss this here.
Yea, the 9x series of Windows is very different from the NT series. It is just that it happened that the last release in the 9x series (Me) was released after NT 5.0 (Win2000) was released, thus Win2000 had none of Me's features. It was XP that finally stopped development of 9x series and merge most of the feature of the last release into the NT series, and split the server editions into a separate line.
In fact, even some hacks are not that stupid. VirtualDub by Avery Lee still support 98/ME/NT4.
AFRIK, it was reported that the raise to 867MHz as the minimum was kind of last-minute.
At least that is what agency theory assumes. I just submitted a Slashdot submission on the flaws of these assumptions:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1168626/The-flaws-of-shareholder-value-and-agency-theory
Thanks for the history. BTW, you can in particular blame Friedman for it.
Here is the new pending Slashdot submission: http://slashdot.org/submission/1168626/The-flaws-of-shareholder-value-and-agency-theory
See my Slashdot and Reddit submissions on the problems of shareholder value and agency theory, it has info on what is happening here:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1159318/The-problems-of-the-shareholder-value-ideology http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/axwzw/the_problems_of_shareholder_value_and_agency/ (another new Slashdot submission is coming up soon on this)
Yea, the corporation as a "nexus of contracts", and homo economicus, both of which is flawed. See my Slashdot submission on the problems of shareholder value and agency theory.
Yea, the problems of shareholder value and agency theory. After I tried to submit a submission twice that have lots of links on this issue and got rejected, I submitted it to the reddit instead. Here is the links to the submissions: http://slashdot.org/submission/1159318/The-problems-of-the-shareholder-value-ideology http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/axwzw/the_problems_of_shareholder_value_and_agency/
To be honest, the upgrade treadmill is not unique to Apple, it is just that Microsoft enforces it less strictly.
Chrome has required Mac OS X 10.5 on an Intel processor as a minimum since the beginning. I still remember people complaining about it in this blog post (despite the fact that it was a software still in *alpha* back then): http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/danger-mac-and-linux-builds-available.html
Yep, the problems of shareholder value and agency theory yet again. After my slashdot submission being rejected twice, I submitted it to the Reddit instead: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/axwzw/the_problems_of_shareholder_value_and_agency/
Except that it never was true. I wrote a Slashdot submission about this, and a Reddit one too: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/axwzw/the_problems_of_shareholder_value_and_agency/
This is a real weakness of many companies that have fallen into the common trap of allowing personal relationships at the executive level to dominate business decisions.
Well, business is personal, particularly these days, so...
A lot of short-term thinking based on ego and this year's bonus. Since the typical executive severance is what an engineer makes in two or more years, it's really not a problem for them to run companies into the ground and hop from enterprise to enterprise.
Yea, homo economicus yet again. I had a Slashdot submission on this that got rejected.
Yea, it is a fundamental problem of top-down command and control.
In fact, NT retained the ability to run text-mode OS/2 1.x apps up to Win2000!
Yea, Google is not perfect, but these shills are IMO even worse. Google is still going to be better than MS regardless of what the shills say.
Well, there is a difference between having a monopoly and abusing one, it is the latter that MS did and that was illegal under anti-trust laws.