The whole advantage to the Mac is that it's of a better quality, more stable, and has an Apple logo.
Sending Mac OS X to every computer manufacturer in the world would inhibit those three attributes.
The Apple brand is beyond hot - it's becoming part of culture. Market share is growing by leaps and bounds, and it's arguably just the beginning.
If you could sell the software and the hardware, why wouldn't you?
It's not holier tha thou. It's their product. That's like saying, "God, McDonalds is so snobby because they won't let Burger King offer their McNuggets. Come on already!"
Yes, the formula works for Microsoft, but I don't think it would work for Apple. It makes Apple just another PC company. The fact that they are truly innovating is the reason for their success.
That's the point of Linux. The Admin can lock out the user so that they only USE the OS to run applications. They CAN'T screw the system up because they don't have access to do so. THAT'S idiot proof.
This is what's wrong with the Linux community. What if there's no Admin? What if the only person involved is the primary user him- or herself? What if those grandparents had no one to set it up perfectly for them and ensure they'd only use a web browser? It's just not that simple.
And you can bet integration with iTunes will make this number explode.
Podcasting and the idea behind it is bigger than you think. It's a pretty evolutionary way to broadcast, be a radio show host, distribute cheaply and quickly news/gossip/whatever, and all in a cool way (iPod!).
It's also a market opportunity. You know, I'd like to subscribe to a Bright Eyes podcast. Whenever a new song is avail on iTunes, it automatically buys it, downloads, and it's there waiting for me when I wake up.
It's in its infancy still, but it IS a big deal. For those on the side of the road, you too will be driving soon.:-)
We actually talk about how important it is that a COMPANY endorse legislation. We don't talk about how many Americans agree or disagree - but which companies are supporting the resolution or the people behind it.
This is wrong. And it's wrong to treat LGBT as second-class citizens, which is what we're doing. It's funny how conservatives harp about "moral values," yet they seem to be pretty selective on which moral values they consider worthy of discuss. It's their buzzword - and it's pathetic.
Well, I don't know who "you people" and "you guys" are. I assume you mean Democrats. You know, that other half of the country. "You conservatives" should learn some personal responsibility. There is a huge difference between the Microsoft monopoly (anti-market scheme) and the popular iTunes DRM and iPod, which users decide to use. This Congress has no business practicing in these anti-free-market campaigns. But we know why they are. Because their big donors like Microsoft are complaining that they can't make a better product. And if you don't believe me - how entrenched these politicians are with big companies like MS and their many PACs, opensecrets.org, buddy. But maybe I should criticize them. After all, they apparently have better moral values than I do.
The only reason this is happening is because big campaign donors like Sony and Microsoft are whining to their buddies in Congress that their crappy products aren't as popular as iPod - and this is a great way to unfairly hurt Apple's dominance. Welcome to the world of money politics. It's not the first time. And refer to opensecrets.org if you'd like proof that Sony and Microsoft spend a TON of money on political campaigns and PACs (Apple doesn't).
Rather, iTunes locks you into the iPod. And you have every damn right to go use Walmart's music store and put those mp3's on your iPod.
The downside? You don't have quite the ease of use - but guess what: you knew that going in. Consumer choose iPod and they choose iTunes, in most instances. Their hands aren't forced.
And when you buy an iTunes mp3, you're agreeing to use that DRM. There is no monopoly unless you couldn't buy that same song somewhere else - and that isn't the case.
I love how our conservative Congress says we should engage in "personal responsibility" - but they feel the need to hold our hand in the decisions we make. The hypocrisy makes me sick. Very, very sick.
I'm reasonably sure he wasn't actually referring to a scientific principle that causes all clocks (American clocks, Chinese clocks, alien clocks) to somehow operate in unison or with 100% accuracy. It's just a way of explaining that one theory says time is absolute, and another that says time can be warped and changed.
The need for more operating systems is always there. A real growing industry, it is!
Um, this sucks.
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Yeah, this really isn't funny at all. The trick is to make it shockingly believable at first - whereas this is just outrageous and stupid. Thrill me next year.
this is so outrageusly off-topic but slashcode.com is sadly kaputt and i will spare some karma to maybe fix a huge problem i'm having. if ANYONE is familiar with a formkey problem in slashcode affecting mainly AOL users, please reply to this with an idea of how to fix it. it's wreaking havoc and making people angry! thank you.... and apologizes for cheating my way into help
Jobs is right when he says Apple is a software company, you just don't understand what he means by that. A Mac is nothing without OS X. An iPod is nothing without iTunes. Cameras are nothing without iLife. Software is the center, the key to the success of everything else.
But quite smartly, Apple makes money off both. Now why would Apple give up billions of dollars just so they can win a bet you seem to have with them?
Sorry, but if someone is going to tell me how to open my brand new computer and mess around with its internal workings, I don't want to read things like this:
Here is the bottom of the board. Or whatever you call it.
I knew something was going on. I called Apple yesterday saying I was interested in buying a new PowerBook to replace my 1GHz 12". The guy at Apple assured me that there would be no new PowerBooks until later in the year --- but also offered me a PB with a free SuperDrive upgrade and free hard drive upgrade, plus free shipping. Obviously those deals are not available today.
>>America is becoming the land of the ignorant. Proud, boastful, even aggressive ignorance.
>This is another bad generalization. America, assuming you mean the United States, is not an idealogical or even cultural monolith. The United States are a collection of individual states, each with a unique cultural, legal, and educational system.
Judging by your statement, I am quite sure you do not live in the United States. A collection of individual states with unique legal and education systems -- and unique cultures?
The truth is, religion spans wide across state borders. So does ignorance. When I drive from Pennsylvania into Maryland and Washington, D.C., I do not feel as though I am passing some geographical flux of cultures.
Similarly, the public schools in Florida work just like those found in Maine (although in Maine they work better). And if I wind up in court in Missouri, I have the same fundamental rights as I would in California.
You're absolutely wrong. The conservative culture of this country runs deep throughout. Right-wing ideology is sweeping the minds of Americans because it is packaged with better marketing than anything else.
It's the same kind of thinking that says Democrats don't go to church because they are Democrats. These sick perversions of ideology transcend at least a third of the country and the numbers are growing. In Chicago, you can go to a church on Sunday that only admits Republicans - or Democrats who are willing to consider changing parties.
Right-wing politics is in the roots of America now. It's not just another opinion. It's a religion in itself and it is indeed sweeping the United States, which is not so much a collection of states these days as it one giant creature that is currently trying to decide which side of the fork to walk down.
"Aggressive ignorance" is exactly what it is. It's the same thinking that makes it "unpatriotic" to disagree with the war in Iraq. That is aggressive ignorance.
Today in much of America, ignorance is just proof that you can stick to your guns. Being wrong is frowned upon - but STAYING wrong is a virtue somehow. And it is certainly proud and boastful - that's how it sells, because so many people don't think for themselves. They right the coattails of whoever seems to know where they're headed. It's how they win. It's how a blowjob is worth more national debate than the invasion of a sovereign nation. It's how finding no WMDs can be a footnote to the fact that John Kerry once enjoyed windsailing.
And it's why I feel so sad to be an American -- and even sadder that I just said that -- because I do love what this country can be, if not what it always is.
For Apple, rival MP3 players that sprout into iPods! PCs that you bury in the ground, and up pocks shares of Apple stock!... or more hair to sprout on Steve Jobs' head.
So on Election Day, with America's future at stake, our role in the world in question, Iraq a mess, soldiers and civilians dying, the organization of terrorism growing, kids impoverished, people without health care -- the message you want to send is you don't like the two-party system?
You should really think about your vote.
No one says democracy is perfect. We're trying to make it more perfect. No one says the parties are perfect either. But we're working on that, too... I hope you re-consider. This one's more crucial than we ever thought before.
between Tanenbaum and Torvalds, I've discovered that Linus Torvalds really is a dick.
Tanenbaum talked about the merits and critiqued what he saw as flaws of the Linux system. Torvalds ranted about how much Tanenbaum's project "sucks." What a complete dick.
Anyway, it's good to learn new things about Linus.:)
Electoral-Vote.com is a fantastic web site - especially if you look at the Averaged Polls version (linked from the home page) because it pulls together different state-wide polls and moves them together. Not exactly scientific - but it gives you a better glimpse of where things are moving.
To think that we'll be able to fly into space to get to Australia may never happen. Economically, it makes sense that, rather than space travel taking over commercial air flight, commercial airflight will simply continue to improve. Larger jets, more fuel-efficient, better accomodations. The idea isn't to necessarily make the trip much faster - though that will happen over time with conventional air travel - but to improve the experience enough that passages won't mind a 20 hour flight so much.
Besides, if flying in space becomes so commonplace that I can get to Australia - I might as well just go to the moon! (Though it lacks the Sydney Opera House... or does it?)
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You're wrong.
The whole advantage to the Mac is that it's of a better quality, more stable, and has an Apple logo.
Sending Mac OS X to every computer manufacturer in the world would inhibit those three attributes.
The Apple brand is beyond hot - it's becoming part of culture. Market share is growing by leaps and bounds, and it's arguably just the beginning.
If you could sell the software and the hardware, why wouldn't you?
It's not holier tha thou. It's their product. That's like saying, "God, McDonalds is so snobby because they won't let Burger King offer their McNuggets. Come on already!"
Yes, the formula works for Microsoft, but I don't think it would work for Apple. It makes Apple just another PC company. The fact that they are truly innovating is the reason for their success.
That's the point of Linux. The Admin can lock out the user so that they only USE the OS to run applications. They CAN'T screw the system up because they don't have access to do so. THAT'S idiot proof.
This is what's wrong with the Linux community. What if there's no Admin? What if the only person involved is the primary user him- or herself? What if those grandparents had no one to set it up perfectly for them and ensure they'd only use a web browser? It's just not that simple.
6 million people listen to podcasts
:-)
And you can bet integration with iTunes will make this number explode.
Podcasting and the idea behind it is bigger than you think. It's a pretty evolutionary way to broadcast, be a radio show host, distribute cheaply and quickly news/gossip/whatever, and all in a cool way (iPod!).
It's also a market opportunity. You know, I'd like to subscribe to a Bright Eyes podcast. Whenever a new song is avail on iTunes, it automatically buys it, downloads, and it's there waiting for me when I wake up.
It's in its infancy still, but it IS a big deal. For those on the side of the road, you too will be driving soon.
You know what's really wrong with this picture?
We actually talk about how important it is that a COMPANY endorse legislation. We don't talk about how many Americans agree or disagree - but which companies are supporting the resolution or the people behind it.
This is wrong. And it's wrong to treat LGBT as second-class citizens, which is what we're doing. It's funny how conservatives harp about "moral values," yet they seem to be pretty selective on which moral values they consider worthy of discuss. It's their buzzword - and it's pathetic.
a/s/l? is she hot?
In all seriousness - What's best about this story is that she's actually a 40 year old man, much to the disappointment of the AOL employee.
Well, I don't know who "you people" and "you guys" are. I assume you mean Democrats. You know, that other half of the country. "You conservatives" should learn some personal responsibility. There is a huge difference between the Microsoft monopoly (anti-market scheme) and the popular iTunes DRM and iPod, which users decide to use. This Congress has no business practicing in these anti-free-market campaigns. But we know why they are. Because their big donors like Microsoft are complaining that they can't make a better product. And if you don't believe me - how entrenched these politicians are with big companies like MS and their many PACs, opensecrets.org, buddy. But maybe I should criticize them. After all, they apparently have better moral values than I do.
The only reason this is happening is because big campaign donors like Sony and Microsoft are whining to their buddies in Congress that their crappy products aren't as popular as iPod - and this is a great way to unfairly hurt Apple's dominance. Welcome to the world of money politics. It's not the first time. And refer to opensecrets.org if you'd like proof that Sony and Microsoft spend a TON of money on political campaigns and PACs (Apple doesn't).
The iPod does NOT lock you into iTunes.
Rather, iTunes locks you into the iPod. And you have every damn right to go use Walmart's music store and put those mp3's on your iPod.
The downside? You don't have quite the ease of use - but guess what: you knew that going in. Consumer choose iPod and they choose iTunes, in most instances. Their hands aren't forced.
And when you buy an iTunes mp3, you're agreeing to use that DRM. There is no monopoly unless you couldn't buy that same song somewhere else - and that isn't the case.
I love how our conservative Congress says we should engage in "personal responsibility" - but they feel the need to hold our hand in the decisions we make. The hypocrisy makes me sick. Very, very sick.
I'm reasonably sure he wasn't actually referring to a scientific principle that causes all clocks (American clocks, Chinese clocks, alien clocks) to somehow operate in unison or with 100% accuracy. It's just a way of explaining that one theory says time is absolute, and another that says time can be warped and changed.
Just letting you know. You seemed upset by this.
The need for more operating systems is always there. A real growing industry, it is!
Yeah, this really isn't funny at all. The trick is to make it shockingly believable at first - whereas this is just outrageous and stupid. Thrill me next year.
The top 500 movies will be available to purchase via the Internet...
But they're all Betamax!
this is so outrageusly off-topic but slashcode.com is sadly kaputt and i will spare some karma to maybe fix a huge problem i'm having. if ANYONE is familiar with a formkey problem in slashcode affecting mainly AOL users, please reply to this with an idea of how to fix it. it's wreaking havoc and making people angry! thank you.... and apologizes for cheating my way into help
Because Apple has nothing to prove to you.
Jobs is right when he says Apple is a software company, you just don't understand what he means by that. A Mac is nothing without OS X. An iPod is nothing without iTunes. Cameras are nothing without iLife. Software is the center, the key to the success of everything else.
But quite smartly, Apple makes money off both. Now why would Apple give up billions of dollars just so they can win a bet you seem to have with them?
Posting multiple 100MB+ movies and he says, "bandwidth was much more of a serious issue than I thought."
I shall file this in my "No Shit" folder.
Sorry, but if someone is going to tell me how to open my brand new computer and mess around with its internal workings, I don't want to read things like this:
Here is the bottom of the board. Or whatever you call it.
I knew something was going on. I called Apple yesterday saying I was interested in buying a new PowerBook to replace my 1GHz 12". The guy at Apple assured me that there would be no new PowerBooks until later in the year --- but also offered me a PB with a free SuperDrive upgrade and free hard drive upgrade, plus free shipping. Obviously those deals are not available today.
>>America is becoming the land of the ignorant. Proud, boastful, even aggressive ignorance.
>This is another bad generalization. America, assuming you mean the United States, is not an idealogical or even cultural monolith. The United States are a collection of individual states, each with a unique cultural, legal, and educational system.
Judging by your statement, I am quite sure you do not live in the United States. A collection of individual states with unique legal and education systems -- and unique cultures?
The truth is, religion spans wide across state borders. So does ignorance. When I drive from Pennsylvania into Maryland and Washington, D.C., I do not feel as though I am passing some geographical flux of cultures.
Similarly, the public schools in Florida work just like those found in Maine (although in Maine they work better). And if I wind up in court in Missouri, I have the same fundamental rights as I would in California.
You're absolutely wrong. The conservative culture of this country runs deep throughout. Right-wing ideology is sweeping the minds of Americans because it is packaged with better marketing than anything else.
It's the same kind of thinking that says Democrats don't go to church because they are Democrats. These sick perversions of ideology transcend at least a third of the country and the numbers are growing. In Chicago, you can go to a church on Sunday that only admits Republicans - or Democrats who are willing to consider changing parties.
Right-wing politics is in the roots of America now. It's not just another opinion. It's a religion in itself and it is indeed sweeping the United States, which is not so much a collection of states these days as it one giant creature that is currently trying to decide which side of the fork to walk down.
"Aggressive ignorance" is exactly what it is. It's the same thinking that makes it "unpatriotic" to disagree with the war in Iraq. That is aggressive ignorance.
Today in much of America, ignorance is just proof that you can stick to your guns. Being wrong is frowned upon - but STAYING wrong is a virtue somehow. And it is certainly proud and boastful - that's how it sells, because so many people don't think for themselves. They right the coattails of whoever seems to know where they're headed. It's how they win. It's how a blowjob is worth more national debate than the invasion of a sovereign nation. It's how finding no WMDs can be a footnote to the fact that John Kerry once enjoyed windsailing.
And it's why I feel so sad to be an American -- and even sadder that I just said that -- because I do love what this country can be, if not what it always is.
Worst. Idea. EVER.
For Apple, rival MP3 players that sprout into iPods! PCs that you bury in the ground, and up pocks shares of Apple stock! ... or more hair to sprout on Steve Jobs' head.
Eureka!
So on Election Day, with America's future at stake, our role in the world in question, Iraq a mess, soldiers and civilians dying, the organization of terrorism growing, kids impoverished, people without health care -- the message you want to send is you don't like the two-party system?
You should really think about your vote.
No one says democracy is perfect. We're trying to make it more perfect. No one says the parties are perfect either. But we're working on that, too... I hope you re-consider. This one's more crucial than we ever thought before.
between Tanenbaum and Torvalds, I've discovered that Linus Torvalds really is a dick.
:)
Tanenbaum talked about the merits and critiqued what he saw as flaws of the Linux system. Torvalds ranted about how much Tanenbaum's project "sucks." What a complete dick.
Anyway, it's good to learn new things about Linus.
Electoral-Vote.com is a fantastic web site - especially if you look at the Averaged Polls version (linked from the home page) because it pulls together different state-wide polls and moves them together. Not exactly scientific - but it gives you a better glimpse of where things are moving.
Yeah, software algorithms that reduce sh*t on a frame of a movie is total sex appeal.
To think that we'll be able to fly into space to get to Australia may never happen. Economically, it makes sense that, rather than space travel taking over commercial air flight, commercial airflight will simply continue to improve. Larger jets, more fuel-efficient, better accomodations. The idea isn't to necessarily make the trip much faster - though that will happen over time with conventional air travel - but to improve the experience enough that passages won't mind a 20 hour flight so much.
Besides, if flying in space becomes so commonplace that I can get to Australia - I might as well just go to the moon! (Though it lacks the Sydney Opera House... or does it?)
AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion.
AOL sells Netscape for $30 million.
Hmm.. Carry the 4... the 0's... Yep, that's a crap deal. Congrats to AOL and all parties involved.
And everyone was worried AOL would buy RedHat. Oh the irony!