I liked emusic in the start, they had cheap non-DRM mp3s. Good. Then they made everyone use their own custom download manager, which now only exists for Win and Mac. I no longer use emusic, no matter how much good music they have.
Seriously, asking slashdot users to make a choice between Sony or religion?
Well, it isn't. It's about Sony showing pictures of the interior of a house, and the owner says Sony didn't have permission to do that. It just so happens that the house in question is a church.
Yeah, you are correct too! The biggest problem Commodore had, was that it had two guys with very strong willpower in the top! Neither of them would budge to pressure. Jack Tramiel didn't care about money, he just wanted to be successful, while Irving Gould basically wanted to live a life in luxury (or at least it seamed that way).
Well, there's a lot of things that Commodore could have done, and it would have find itself being the only computer company used today...:) Commodore had very good engineers, but unfortunately Jack Tramiel did what hi wanted instead of listening to the engineers. That is one of the major reasons (IMO) that Commodore failed.
Well, in Europe, there wasn't any Apple envy, because we hadn't hear about Apple! Remember, Commodore sold their computer at double the price in Europe, and it was still (at least) half the price of anyone else (which was true for the US too actually).
But neither Apple nor Commodore made the first "home computer". Which was first? I have no idea, but MOS Technology (which was bough by Commodore) made one of the early computers that users could by as a kit (and this it basically what the Apple I was based on) but there were many earlier computer that users could by, although most (if not all) was kit computers that the user had to assemble themselves.
Damn! I knew there was something wrong! I'll try to remember better next time. Thanks.:)
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Well, at the trade show where both the PET and the Apple II were anounced, what do you think got the most attention? A dull grey box that showed random data on the screen when turned on and then just a blinking prompt and had no functioning BASIC, or a futuristic nice-looking box with built-in monitor and tape-drive and a working BASIC that you could work with immediatly?
Apple was good at deceptive commercials, like saying that the Apple II was the best-selling computer of all time, when both Commodore and especially Tandberg (with the TRS/80) outsold them plenty. It wasn't until VisiCalc that the Apple II became really popular, and then mainly in business. In the term of number of sold units Commodore beat everyone, first with the VIC-20 and then with the C64.
Why go through all the hassle with this developer (and others that will undoubtly follow) with some (probably) vague writing in the EULA? Wouldn't the easiest solution to simply disable plugins in the actual program? Or do MS want to write plugins themselves, but not let anyone else do it?
What seems missing from most discussions on net-neutrality, is the companies need to be able to hide under the blanket of common carrier status. If they start to control the data that flows through their pipes, in any way what so ever, they can no longer claim to be a common carrier.
Historically, Americans have resisted the idea, which totalitarian governments have tended to do, of having a national ID.
So Sweden is a totalitarian country because we have a national ID card? Wow, I didn't know that! And besides, isn't a passport a form of national ID card? You DO have passports over in the US I presume?
There was no evaulation board from MOS, there was no "chipset", it was just a simple CPU that was easy to understand and easy to implement.
Chuck Peddle also designed a periphial chipset for the 6502, and a kit-computers using all chips called KIM-1. Some other companies also made kit-computers.
According to Chuck Peddle (in the book "On the edge"), Woz didn't really understand how the 6502 or its chipset worked when creating the Apple II, so Apple had to hire an engineer to rework it so it worked properly. They also couldn't handle radio emission according to FCC standards for home use either. And talking about BASIC, the BASIC language they first created for the Apple II wasn't good either, so they had to buy it from MicroSoft, but at double the price of Commodore.
But then, I know I could never create a computer almost from scratch (apparantly Woz had one of the early 6502 boards from MOS), so he is good deal better than me! But I think I would be able to write a descent BASIC though...;)
I'm glad that Stephen King already graduated. I did not (of course) read TFA, but how many of todays big horror writers would actually write those (sometimes) disturbing stories if they were arrested for it in college?
So they cut 6 gigs by removing duplicate pre-rendered movies? That means there are around 6 gigs of pre-rendered movies left on the disc. Are all those movies really needed? How good have they been compressed? How much of the rest of the data on the disc is compressed? I guess that they could probably get it down to a normal dual-layer dvd disc if they really wanted to.
Saw a news-segment on tv a couple of days ago. The reporter stated that Sweden might have anything from below one percent of the worlds uranium, up to almost 20 percent. However, the villagers in a nearby village of one place where initial test-drills was supposed to start soon, was not happy. They were very worried both about loosing tourists and that it might have a bad effect on the reindeers.
In Sweden, many american tv-series and moves could take quite some time before getting shown or released. It's much better now though, with many tv-series only a couple of episodes behind, if even that.
Well, it can happen the other way round too. I bought a Mad Max dvd some years ago, and default spoken language was... American! Yes, the movies was dubbed to american english! After changing it to australian, I really can't see why because the actors barley spoke with an australian accent.
Corporate developers and other IT professionals must get better at divining the winners and ignoring the losers. The wrong picks can lead companies down a rat hole of support problems and obsolete software.
Maybe so, but some projects may turn out to be loosers just because they didn't get picked up by some company wanting to use it.
Why I am not surprised to see that the very forum that applauded the release of the Grey Album by Danger Mouse now thinks that sampling and mixing is bad?
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I liked emusic in the start, they had cheap non-DRM mp3s. Good.
Then they made everyone use their own custom download manager, which now only exists for Win and Mac.
I no longer use emusic, no matter how much good music they have.
Well, it isn't. It's about Sony showing pictures of the interior of a house, and the owner says Sony didn't have permission to do that.
It just so happens that the house in question is a church.
Yeah, you are correct too!
The biggest problem Commodore had, was that it had two guys with very strong willpower in the top! Neither of them would budge to pressure.
Jack Tramiel didn't care about money, he just wanted to be successful, while Irving Gould basically wanted to live a life in luxury (or at least it seamed that way).
Well, there's a lot of things that Commodore could have done, and it would have find itself being the only computer company used today... :)
Commodore had very good engineers, but unfortunately Jack Tramiel did what hi wanted instead of listening to the engineers.
That is one of the major reasons (IMO) that Commodore failed.
Well, it's time to switch from hungarian to slovakian notation!
Well, in Europe, there wasn't any Apple envy, because we hadn't hear about Apple! Remember, Commodore sold their computer at double the price in Europe, and it was still (at least) half the price of anyone else (which was true for the US too actually).
But neither Apple nor Commodore made the first "home computer". Which was first? I have no idea, but MOS Technology (which was bough by Commodore) made one of the early computers that users could by as a kit (and this it basically what the Apple I was based on) but there were many earlier computer that users could by, although most (if not all) was kit computers that the user had to assemble themselves.
Damn! I knew there was something wrong! I'll try to remember better next time. :)
Thanks.
Well, at the trade show where both the PET and the Apple II were anounced, what do you think got the most attention? A dull grey box that showed random data on the screen when turned on and then just a blinking prompt and had no functioning BASIC, or a futuristic nice-looking box with built-in monitor and tape-drive and a working BASIC that you could work with immediatly?
Apple was good at deceptive commercials, like saying that the Apple II was the best-selling computer of all time, when both Commodore and especially Tandberg (with the TRS/80) outsold them plenty. It wasn't until VisiCalc that the Apple II became really popular, and then mainly in business. In the term of number of sold units Commodore beat everyone, first with the VIC-20 and then with the C64.
Why go through all the hassle with this developer (and others that will undoubtly follow) with some (probably) vague writing in the EULA? Wouldn't the easiest solution to simply disable plugins in the actual program?
Or do MS want to write plugins themselves, but not let anyone else do it?
What seems missing from most discussions on net-neutrality, is the companies need to be able to hide under the blanket of common carrier status.
If they start to control the data that flows through their pipes, in any way what so ever, they can no longer claim to be a common carrier.
Don't forget all the wars in former Yugoslavia.
And if they smell bad it's a plus.
But it have to be ordered by the pizza delivery guy.
And besides, isn't a passport a form of national ID card? You DO have passports over in the US I presume?
Chuck Peddle also designed a periphial chipset for the 6502, and a kit-computers using all chips called KIM-1. Some other companies also made kit-computers.
According to Chuck Peddle (in the book "On the edge"), Woz didn't really understand how the 6502 or its chipset worked when creating the Apple II, so Apple had to hire an engineer to rework it so it worked properly. They also couldn't handle radio emission according to FCC standards for home use either.
;)
And talking about BASIC, the BASIC language they first created for the Apple II wasn't good either, so they had to buy it from MicroSoft, but at double the price of Commodore.
But then, I know I could never create a computer almost from scratch (apparantly Woz had one of the early 6502 boards from MOS), so he is good deal better than me! But I think I would be able to write a descent BASIC though...
I'm glad that Stephen King already graduated. I did not (of course) read TFA, but how many of todays big horror writers would actually write those (sometimes) disturbing stories if they were arrested for it in college?
So they cut 6 gigs by removing duplicate pre-rendered movies? That means there are around 6 gigs of pre-rendered movies left on the disc. Are all those movies really needed? How good have they been compressed? How much of the rest of the data on the disc is compressed? I guess that they could probably get it down to a normal dual-layer dvd disc if they really wanted to.
Saw a news-segment on tv a couple of days ago. The reporter stated that Sweden might have anything from below one percent of the worlds uranium, up to almost 20 percent.
However, the villagers in a nearby village of one place where initial test-drills was supposed to start soon, was not happy. They were very worried both about loosing tourists and that it might have a bad effect on the reindeers.
In Sweden, many american tv-series and moves could take quite some time before getting shown or released. It's much better now though, with many tv-series only a couple of episodes behind, if even that.
Well, it can happen the other way round too. I bought a Mad Max dvd some years ago, and default spoken language was... American! Yes, the movies was dubbed to american english! After changing it to australian, I really can't see why because the actors barley spoke with an australian accent.
Does this mean that old Tom & Jerry could be banned? If something is violent, this is it!
Considering that it's the KLF, I think they wouldn't mind you pirating their material.
What does the European Space Agency have to do with games?
Why I am not surprised to see that the very forum that applauded the release of the Grey Album by Danger Mouse now thinks that sampling and mixing is bad?