this is more like Kill Bill where it was supposed to be one movie and they just released it as two to make more money and planned on soaking the fans by releasing multiple versions on DVD.
You mean like Grindhouse that was both movies in theater but then had to be sold as 2 different movies when it went to DVD just to make more money (the money they were hoping to make during the theater run but didn't get). Strangely, in both movies it was centered with movies by Quentin Tarantino.
Why would you lose interest in the game because of that? Please tell me.
Because it's a bad for the industry as a whole. When a big player can suddenly decide to stop selling a full product and instead just sell it in parts with each part at full price, or near enough, is shows others that they can get away with this too. Its been shown with the downloadable content thats running rampant and wild to the point that it's being planned upon and worked on before the basic product is available, and being available on the games release date. Now instead of having a full game being sold we can buy something like RE5 and spend more money to open up the multi-player modes, or games like Sonic where you can pay to open up the harder difficulty mode. Refusing to buy and not just refusing but mentioning way is what helps. Or we can all look forward to buy every game a small sub-sets at full prices.
When they declared it would be sold as three different packs, one per race. While they do have a history of expansion packs, it's never been 1 with 2 more like this, nor planned this far in advanced to break it up and sell the parts.
Since I already wear glasses, I don't really care about those 3D viewers since its a pain to have to remove my glasses, put on contacts just to turn around and put on another pair of glasses. Removing the middleman here would be a step in the right direction since I'm not alone with having to already wear glasses and not everyone can/has contacts.
I think its more along the lines of that they break their old one, and when they go for the claim to have it replaced that there will be no more of the old (their original model) in stock and thus they are going to be given the newer one by default. I've heard of this before with Blackberries in work places.
Ignoring the potentially messy, and unbounded, arguments over whether or not anybody should be bothering to collect these data, what sort of "trade secret" could they possibly be?
Signs of racial or sexist hiring practices. The information wouldn't be as much of value to corporate secrets as much as hiring practices and public backlash.
Have a lot of people from a certain ethnic background could be viewed as hiring many people with H1B visa which would reflect very poorly on the company during this recession. Would been seen as giving even more jobs away when they are wanted the most. Or also could be a sign of racial profiling to only want to hire those of a 'preferred' racial background/gender of the hiring staff's preferences. Public image is a very dangerous thing to toy with.
You mis-understood me. I'm not saying that they are stupid, it's that people won't treat them as an equal on an intelligent level. How smart they are isn't the same as how smart and or equal they are perceived and thats what I mean.
Doesn't matter how much you make them talk and respond like a person. As long as someone know they aren't talking to an equally intelligent human, they won't address it as fully intelligent. Think of people talking to little children, baby's and animals. Baby talk or at least being a little more patient and phrasing things a little more simple to understand. And if they won't talk to the robot like a normal person and 'dumb down' they conversion with them, the computer will have to look for very subtle clues of what to ignore and to expand upon or just dumb down the conversion to the level they are being spoken to which defeats the idea of this. Until robots can pass for human in movement and appearance, its just a bad loop.
You can go online and go to Dell and get everything right at the same time if that's what you want. Apples and Dells probably source their parts from the same or similar factories.
Steve Jobs' sense of style and feel for the market are vital to Apple.
If by style and feel, you mean how Apple all but admitted they couldn't program an OS to save their life (with OS9 showing the highlight there) and dropping all their work to do a mass cut-n-paste of BSD UNIX code and Mach Kernel code and change just enough to make it look like their own? Remember Mac OS isn't a Apple OS like it had been, or like how Windows is Microsoft OS, or how each Linux flavor states its still Linux. Mac OS is really a UNIX OS in Apple clothing with a glitzy market campaign designed to make you ignore the man behind the curtain and make you believe they did it all their own way. And yes I know Mac OS build from the Mach Kernel that Jobs tampered with in NeXTSTEP, but they didn't make the Mach kernel, Carnegie Mellon University did in 1985 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_kernel ) and working versions in 1987 (the first public version). Jobs didn't make Nextstep 1.0 until 1989, 2 years later.
What they should have done is built it on a high-end Atom CPU, and then created a hybrid interface that lets users choose between an iPhone-like interface for convenience and a real OS X desktop.
They would never do that, because it would kill their MacBook sales. They wanted to build something 'portable' but not 'kill all other MacBook sales'. Granted in this case, seems like it might not do as well as people might have said. Heard quite a lot of Apple users declare its great, amazing, pretty. But ask them if they would buy it and the offical answer is 'I have an iPhone, why do I need a bigger one?'
Laws might also play a much bigger role in something like this. Rife abuse of things like the DMCA to halt innovation for fear of lawsuits, a well known fact of a highly broken patent system would cause less of a desire to want to get too creative lest you get a court issue summoning to east Texas ( http://blog.innovators-network.org/?p=922 ) and being sued to death. Other issues are that I have a feeling that laws like the US-VISIT Act ( http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/usv.shtm ) might cause some people to re-consider going to the US since being digitally finger printed and photo'd for just wanting to enter the country is real discouraging (and I think this info stay on file indefinitely). Lots of legal problems, rising costs of business, the recession, laws that just make you less wanted by the country as a whole and stories of people being assaulted by border guards, and that the US Customs can and do copy your laptops and all of it's private business information ( http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/no-warrant-necessary-seize-your-laptop ) possibly risking millions of dollars to your business (and don't think that a leak could never happen, they do). With all this to consider, it's less and less of a reason to want to start a business or take a business from another country and do it in places like Silicon Valley in the US.
Funny thing though - Apple is *notorious* about controlling your experience with their hardware and software yet their OS updates have no restrictions, no serial numbers, no registration. It's the honor system that you don't share the DVD with all your friends. Plus there isn't multiple versions of the same OS to worry about *AND* it's cheaper than the least expensive Win7 build. I'm not a applefag but seriously - take a hint MS.
It wouldn't be so sure about the whole honor system and Apple. Steve Jobs flat up admitted that iPhone OS has a backdoor (http://news.idealo.co.uk/news/2618/steve-jobs-admits-the-existence-of-the-iphone-back-door.html) and last a remember the iPhone OS is just a modified version of the Mac OS, so if the modified version has a backdoor wouldn't be hard to put it in the full unmodified version. And they have done worse then a simple downgrade when your more or less pirating their OS by just killing it outright in consideration with patches killing various versions of Hackintosh (the one about killing the netbook Hackintosh: http://www.pcworld.com/article/181163/apple_kills_hackintosh_netbooks_with_snow_leopard_update.html)
Seriously, if you have a couple of people in an office and no full time admin Macs save you a small fortune.
So, fit for business? Yes.
Ready for the enterprise?
No where near ready for enterprise. At least not one that needs to be online. It would be a security nightmare to have to handle and deal with in consideration with it's patching history.
http://www.techspot.com/news/35108-apple-fixes-sixmonthsold-critical-java-bug.html 6 months to fix a critical Java bug.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/security-products/prevention/news/index.cfm?newsid=18393&tsb=share This time a a Flash bug (and flash is shipped with every Apple. And both of these are just in the last few months.
If I was the IT person and had to have this talk with my managers, it would be fun to say the least.
"So our Macs are vulnerable to a critical XYZ bug, and I see these were already fixed 3 weeks ago on all the Windows, Linux and Unix platforms. So that just means only the Macs need this fix. How long with it take for you to fix this problem?"
"I can't.... Apple hasn't fixed it yet and typically takes 6+ weeks to fix these issues or pass on the fixes for them."
"So, our top of the line systems, that we paid a premium for so we could supposedly be protected from many security issues, are just sitting online exposed to the world and can't be fixed. Even though every other OS on the planet has been fixed for weeks?"
"iYes."
Thinking about that, it would be a fun conversation to watch play out. But, seriously, this is why they aren't a good idea for a big business.
And lets not mention bugs like the one in Snow Leopard that wipes your whole home directory that Apple again took weeks to fix. http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/the-second-snow-leopard-update-reportedly-fixes-the-user-data-deletion-bug-20091019/ Another fun one to explain how everything done since the last backup (what? Typically 24 hours?) just disappeared. This would be bad on a business level and a moral level. Explaining that what at least the one person did will have to be re-done since for once the dog more or less really did eat the homework.
I'm not saying that only Mac's have these issues, but when they are major ones like these other company's make it a top priority to address and patch them, where Apple seems to take a back seat.
Lets not forget things like Big Buck Bunny (http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/) the whole video was made with FOSS tools. Hell, here's the list of every program/software they used:
First! (Presumably)
I wonder how this will play out in EU where MS was forced to include multiple browsers...
Doubtful because Apple isn't as large as Microsoft and therefor not considered a threat of a monopoly. Even in the smart phone business. So while there is competition, there can't be a forcing like this.
It had better if you have an Apple product. You can't really just go out and buy a new one.
I think you can if you take it to an Apple store. Just because its not something an end user can't do doesn't mean that it's not able to be done by anyone.
First Apple had laptop battery issues with OS 10.6 (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2139186&tstart=0) and now it's Microsoft with Windows 7. Two completely different OS's both suffering from the same style of issue in their newest product. Are they both using a shared driver code in their newest OS that is causing this? Did they only implemented in these changes in these new OS's or did they get patched in their older OS's too?
Kubuntu consistently puts out the worst KDE packages.
Tried using a KDE package and tried Kubuntu and K Mint (no doubt based on Kubuntu) and found out that this was the worst thing to ever try. Random crashing like it was still a very beta stage (but it was the final product). Personally I found the whole KDE GUI to be quite nice do handle (after I got over the difference-shock) but all the bugs in the end made it a no go. Might be worth trying it again but with a different KDE disto, hear a lot about Arch Linux for KDE. Any other suggestions?
is that it's 3 pictures in the same email. In the HD video you can see that all the pictures are being clicked left to right and the email isn't changing. If it was just something forwarded that he accidently clicked on then he should have stopped at the first one and either stop checking it during work (like who's he talking to? A boss or co-worker?) and wait to look at the rest during a break or after work, forward to his personal email or even delete it. It not so much the subject matter of the photo's as the fact that it's obviously a personal email he's checking during work hours in what is supposed to be a professional business. Also isn't this how a trojan virus could be installed? By clicking on attachments that are obviously not work related (like the whole iloveyou virus)?
Yeah, I think it really has to do with expectations.
I think that it has everything to do with expectations too. With an app store on a phone it is considered to many as the only way to get apps/games for that phone (I know its not the only way, but for many people I think they only know of that route). As for an OS's programs, everyone I know will google first before even considering what to get, sometimes to see if they can find a free one, other times to see a review of different programs since all OS's are much older then smartphone OS's like the iPhone and in turn have a much large amount of programs to choose from.
What about the power part? real books don't need them!
Convenience and portability beat out smaller options like that when things like a ebook reader with eInk can stay charged for days. Goes with the idea of a smart phone, needs to be charged daily which is a major downfall from the older landline phones but the convenience of having it always with you and what it can do beats out (this goes more so with an office cell phone when your at a desk all day anyways with a phone on your desk). 10 books = full bag, 10 ebooks = the reader's base size. 10000 ebooks = still the readers base size.
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this is more like Kill Bill where it was supposed to be one movie and they just released it as two to make more money and planned on soaking the fans by releasing multiple versions on DVD.
You mean like Grindhouse that was both movies in theater but then had to be sold as 2 different movies when it went to DVD just to make more money (the money they were hoping to make during the theater run but didn't get). Strangely, in both movies it was centered with movies by Quentin Tarantino.
Why would you lose interest in the game because of that? Please tell me.
Because it's a bad for the industry as a whole. When a big player can suddenly decide to stop selling a full product and instead just sell it in parts with each part at full price, or near enough, is shows others that they can get away with this too. Its been shown with the downloadable content thats running rampant and wild to the point that it's being planned upon and worked on before the basic product is available, and being available on the games release date. Now instead of having a full game being sold we can buy something like RE5 and spend more money to open up the multi-player modes, or games like Sonic where you can pay to open up the harder difficulty mode. Refusing to buy and not just refusing but mentioning way is what helps. Or we can all look forward to buy every game a small sub-sets at full prices.
When they declared it would be sold as three different packs, one per race. While they do have a history of expansion packs, it's never been 1 with 2 more like this, nor planned this far in advanced to break it up and sell the parts.
Since I already wear glasses, I don't really care about those 3D viewers since its a pain to have to remove my glasses, put on contacts just to turn around and put on another pair of glasses. Removing the middleman here would be a step in the right direction since I'm not alone with having to already wear glasses and not everyone can/has contacts.
I think its more along the lines of that they break their old one, and when they go for the claim to have it replaced that there will be no more of the old (their original model) in stock and thus they are going to be given the newer one by default. I've heard of this before with Blackberries in work places.
Ignoring the potentially messy, and unbounded, arguments over whether or not anybody should be bothering to collect these data, what sort of "trade secret" could they possibly be?
Signs of racial or sexist hiring practices. The information wouldn't be as much of value to corporate secrets as much as hiring practices and public backlash.
Have a lot of people from a certain ethnic background could be viewed as hiring many people with H1B visa which would reflect very poorly on the company during this recession. Would been seen as giving even more jobs away when they are wanted the most. Or also could be a sign of racial profiling to only want to hire those of a 'preferred' racial background/gender of the hiring staff's preferences. Public image is a very dangerous thing to toy with.
You mis-understood me. I'm not saying that they are stupid, it's that people won't treat them as an equal on an intelligent level. How smart they are isn't the same as how smart and or equal they are perceived and thats what I mean.
Doesn't matter how much you make them talk and respond like a person. As long as someone know they aren't talking to an equally intelligent human, they won't address it as fully intelligent. Think of people talking to little children, baby's and animals. Baby talk or at least being a little more patient and phrasing things a little more simple to understand. And if they won't talk to the robot like a normal person and 'dumb down' they conversion with them, the computer will have to look for very subtle clues of what to ignore and to expand upon or just dumb down the conversion to the level they are being spoken to which defeats the idea of this. Until robots can pass for human in movement and appearance, its just a bad loop.
You can go online and go to Dell and get everything right at the same time if that's what you want. Apples and Dells probably source their parts from the same or similar factories.
According to wikipedia, ASUS ( http://asus.com/index.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/products.aspx ) produces the parts for Apple. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus ). Or at least some of the parts.
Steve Jobs' sense of style and feel for the market are vital to Apple.
If by style and feel, you mean how Apple all but admitted they couldn't program an OS to save their life (with OS9 showing the highlight there) and dropping all their work to do a mass cut-n-paste of BSD UNIX code and Mach Kernel code and change just enough to make it look like their own? Remember Mac OS isn't a Apple OS like it had been, or like how Windows is Microsoft OS, or how each Linux flavor states its still Linux. Mac OS is really a UNIX OS in Apple clothing with a glitzy market campaign designed to make you ignore the man behind the curtain and make you believe they did it all their own way. And yes I know Mac OS build from the Mach Kernel that Jobs tampered with in NeXTSTEP, but they didn't make the Mach kernel, Carnegie Mellon University did in 1985 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_kernel ) and working versions in 1987 (the first public version). Jobs didn't make Nextstep 1.0 until 1989, 2 years later.
What they should have done is built it on a high-end Atom CPU, and then created a hybrid interface that lets users choose between an iPhone-like interface for convenience and a real OS X desktop.
They would never do that, because it would kill their MacBook sales. They wanted to build something 'portable' but not 'kill all other MacBook sales'. Granted in this case, seems like it might not do as well as people might have said. Heard quite a lot of Apple users declare its great, amazing, pretty. But ask them if they would buy it and the offical answer is 'I have an iPhone, why do I need a bigger one?'
Laws might also play a much bigger role in something like this. Rife abuse of things like the DMCA to halt innovation for fear of lawsuits, a well known fact of a highly broken patent system would cause less of a desire to want to get too creative lest you get a court issue summoning to east Texas ( http://blog.innovators-network.org/?p=922 ) and being sued to death. Other issues are that I have a feeling that laws like the US-VISIT Act ( http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/usv.shtm ) might cause some people to re-consider going to the US since being digitally finger printed and photo'd for just wanting to enter the country is real discouraging (and I think this info stay on file indefinitely). Lots of legal problems, rising costs of business, the recession, laws that just make you less wanted by the country as a whole and stories of people being assaulted by border guards, and that the US Customs can and do copy your laptops and all of it's private business information ( http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/no-warrant-necessary-seize-your-laptop ) possibly risking millions of dollars to your business (and don't think that a leak could never happen, they do). With all this to consider, it's less and less of a reason to want to start a business or take a business from another country and do it in places like Silicon Valley in the US.
So our Macs are vulnerable to a critical XYZ bug, and I see these were already fixed 3 weeks ago on all the Windows
About that 17 year old bug...
Which one on Linux?
Funny thing though - Apple is *notorious* about controlling your experience with their hardware and software yet their OS updates have no restrictions, no serial numbers, no registration. It's the honor system that you don't share the DVD with all your friends. Plus there isn't multiple versions of the same OS to worry about *AND* it's cheaper than the least expensive Win7 build. I'm not a applefag but seriously - take a hint MS.
It wouldn't be so sure about the whole honor system and Apple. Steve Jobs flat up admitted that iPhone OS has a backdoor (http://news.idealo.co.uk/news/2618/steve-jobs-admits-the-existence-of-the-iphone-back-door.html) and last a remember the iPhone OS is just a modified version of the Mac OS, so if the modified version has a backdoor wouldn't be hard to put it in the full unmodified version. And they have done worse then a simple downgrade when your more or less pirating their OS by just killing it outright in consideration with patches killing various versions of Hackintosh (the one about killing the netbook Hackintosh: http://www.pcworld.com/article/181163/apple_kills_hackintosh_netbooks_with_snow_leopard_update.html)
Seriously, if you have a couple of people in an office and no full time admin Macs save you a small fortune.
So, fit for business? Yes.
Ready for the enterprise?
No where near ready for enterprise. At least not one that needs to be online. It would be a security nightmare to have to handle and deal with in consideration with it's patching history.
http://www.techspot.com/news/35108-apple-fixes-sixmonthsold-critical-java-bug.html 6 months to fix a critical Java bug.
http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/security-products/prevention/news/index.cfm?newsid=18393&tsb=share This time a a Flash bug (and flash is shipped with every Apple. And both of these are just in the last few months.
If I was the IT person and had to have this talk with my managers, it would be fun to say the least.
"So our Macs are vulnerable to a critical XYZ bug, and I see these were already fixed 3 weeks ago on all the Windows, Linux and Unix platforms. So that just means only the Macs need this fix. How long with it take for you to fix this problem?"
"I can't.... Apple hasn't fixed it yet and typically takes 6+ weeks to fix these issues or pass on the fixes for them."
"So, our top of the line systems, that we paid a premium for so we could supposedly be protected from many security issues, are just sitting online exposed to the world and can't be fixed. Even though every other OS on the planet has been fixed for weeks?"
"iYes."
Thinking about that, it would be a fun conversation to watch play out. But, seriously, this is why they aren't a good idea for a big business.
And lets not mention bugs like the one in Snow Leopard that wipes your whole home directory that Apple again took weeks to fix. http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/the-second-snow-leopard-update-reportedly-fixes-the-user-data-deletion-bug-20091019/ Another fun one to explain how everything done since the last backup (what? Typically 24 hours?) just disappeared. This would be bad on a business level and a moral level. Explaining that what at least the one person did will have to be re-done since for once the dog more or less really did eat the homework.
I'm not saying that only Mac's have these issues, but when they are major ones like these other company's make it a top priority to address and patch them, where Apple seems to take a back seat.
Lets not forget things like Big Buck Bunny (http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/) the whole video was made with FOSS tools. Hell, here's the list of every program/software they used:
Blender http://www.blender.org/
GIMP http://www.gimp.org/
Python http://www.python.org/
Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/
SVN http://subversion.tigris.org/ (I think thats the right link)
Ubunutu http://www.ubuntu.com/
First! (Presumably) I wonder how this will play out in EU where MS was forced to include multiple browsers...
Doubtful because Apple isn't as large as Microsoft and therefor not considered a threat of a monopoly. Even in the smart phone business. So while there is competition, there can't be a forcing like this.
I think it is, as for that that incident with the police detective the video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFC8mNdxV0c
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It had better if you have an Apple product. You can't really just go out and buy a new one.
I think you can if you take it to an Apple store. Just because its not something an end user can't do doesn't mean that it's not able to be done by anyone.
First Apple had laptop battery issues with OS 10.6 (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2139186&tstart=0) and now it's Microsoft with Windows 7. Two completely different OS's both suffering from the same style of issue in their newest product. Are they both using a shared driver code in their newest OS that is causing this? Did they only implemented in these changes in these new OS's or did they get patched in their older OS's too?
Kubuntu consistently puts out the worst KDE packages.
Tried using a KDE package and tried Kubuntu and K Mint (no doubt based on Kubuntu) and found out that this was the worst thing to ever try. Random crashing like it was still a very beta stage (but it was the final product). Personally I found the whole KDE GUI to be quite nice do handle (after I got over the difference-shock) but all the bugs in the end made it a no go. Might be worth trying it again but with a different KDE disto, hear a lot about Arch Linux for KDE. Any other suggestions?
is that it's 3 pictures in the same email. In the HD video you can see that all the pictures are being clicked left to right and the email isn't changing. If it was just something forwarded that he accidently clicked on then he should have stopped at the first one and either stop checking it during work (like who's he talking to? A boss or co-worker?) and wait to look at the rest during a break or after work, forward to his personal email or even delete it. It not so much the subject matter of the photo's as the fact that it's obviously a personal email he's checking during work hours in what is supposed to be a professional business. Also isn't this how a trojan virus could be installed? By clicking on attachments that are obviously not work related (like the whole iloveyou virus)?
Yeah, I think it really has to do with expectations.
I think that it has everything to do with expectations too. With an app store on a phone it is considered to many as the only way to get apps/games for that phone (I know its not the only way, but for many people I think they only know of that route). As for an OS's programs, everyone I know will google first before even considering what to get, sometimes to see if they can find a free one, other times to see a review of different programs since all OS's are much older then smartphone OS's like the iPhone and in turn have a much large amount of programs to choose from.
What about the power part? real books don't need them!
Convenience and portability beat out smaller options like that when things like a ebook reader with eInk can stay charged for days. Goes with the idea of a smart phone, needs to be charged daily which is a major downfall from the older landline phones but the convenience of having it always with you and what it can do beats out (this goes more so with an office cell phone when your at a desk all day anyways with a phone on your desk). 10 books = full bag, 10 ebooks = the reader's base size. 10000 ebooks = still the readers base size.