i don't know about the quote from the article but the EU has already rules that MS's business practices were illegal. MS then promised not to do it again (the EU saying "we are particularly worried about media players"). MS did it again. The EU takes them to court. Simple .
it's not the monopoly that microsoft is in court for. they are in breach of a ruling that the court made against them - the ruling is because of the abuse of monopoly power but this hearing is about them breaking an agreement they accepted
much more likely - 10.5 will run Windows in a sandbox (VMWare/Virtual PC style). OSX for most stuff but Windows (in a window) for that crappy VB6 app that your department depends on
plus now they've got lock-in through the proprietary dock connector and iPod accessories - why buy a Zen or whatever if it means chucking away a hundred quid's worth of accessories
Part of the point of.NET is, like Java, it protects you from basic programming faulta - no buffer overflows and the like. so rewriting lots of services in.NET ought to improve the vulnerability of those services to exploits.
the main point of this is that it is now publicly available. thepolice have been able to do it for years whenever they wanted - in fact the ian huntley murder (which was a very big deal here) was down to phone tracking - there was only one place in the village that was a mobile dead spot - ian huntley's house.
It does work - I listen to football (soccer) commentaries that I have to pay for - in WMP formats. They were extremely dodgy on the Mac (had to use the Classic player, not the OSX one), despite the claims that it was supported, so I cancelled my subscription (as did quite a few other people I know).
Next season, they announced they had improved their Mac support - and while still WMP, whatever they had done works fine in the OSX player
actually i think mr jobs sees the value of apple as an "integrated appliance". look at the original mac. no expansion, a single plug. look at his first computer since he returned, the imac - no expansion, a single plug. look at the dock on osx - it's like a push button control panel (push this button to listen to the radio, this button for CDs - or push this button to chekc your email (Mail), this button for internet (Safari)). most people want apple stuff because you plug it in and it just works
plus, i have no idea what their margins are but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the markup on apple hardware is what pays for the r&d for apple software - and the software is pretty much sold at break even. so 50% market share on a couple of pennies a copy is nowt compared to 10% market share (which is what I imagine their target is) on several hundred dollars a go.
I think we're on the same lines, although my somewhat flippant first post probably distorted things. I probably should have said "today companies exist to make a profit". It is entirely possible that one day companies should exist to serve "consumers" but they never have and certainly do not at the moment. my point was that in the past companies existed because of the king (gawd bless 'im), today they exist for $$$ (at least in the "west"), tomorrow they could exist for who knows what.
the reason for the change is dependent upon society, i agree. what will trigger the change in society, who knows.
under british law it used to be the case that you could only form a company by charter from the king. a typical charter would be to increase british influence in (for example) the north east of india. as a reward for doing so the company owners would be allowed to make a profit from their endeavours. which is pretty much what you are describing.
however, that is not the case now. a company exists to make a profit for its owners. in order to do that it probably employs people, it probably keeps its customers happy, it probably upholds the values (and laws) of its society. but those things are contingent to its primary purpose, of making money for the owners.
Do they still need InnoDB? I thought that was the point of integrating the SAP DB engine - so they get transactions, relational integrity plus stored procs (coming real soon now)?
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all that stuff is lifted directly from Smalltalk
i don't know about the quote from the article but the EU has already rules that MS's business practices were illegal. MS then promised not to do it again (the EU saying "we are particularly worried about media players"). MS did it again. The EU takes them to court. Simple .
it's not the monopoly that microsoft is in court for. they are in breach of a ruling that the court made against them - the ruling is because of the abuse of monopoly power but this hearing is about them breaking an agreement they accepted
much more likely - 10.5 will run Windows in a sandbox (VMWare/Virtual PC style). OSX for most stuff but Windows (in a window) for that crappy VB6 app that your department depends on
plus now they've got lock-in through the proprietary dock connector and iPod accessories - why buy a Zen or whatever if it means chucking away a hundred quid's worth of accessories
all that translucency in the title bars and that was in 10.0 and 10.1. they turned it off cos it got in the way
Part of the point of .NET is, like Java, it protects you from basic programming faulta - no buffer overflows and the like. so rewriting lots of services in .NET ought to improve the vulnerability of those services to exploits.
it does - the poor and shat on don't think actions will change anything whereas those from a privileged background are used to making things happen
the main point of this is that it is now publicly available. thepolice have been able to do it for years whenever they wanted - in fact the ian huntley murder (which was a very big deal here) was down to phone tracking - there was only one place in the village that was a mobile dead spot - ian huntley's house.
OSX tied to Apple hardware for the next five years?
They already have ... it's called ROTOR (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F amilyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displ aylang=en) and works on FreeBSD as well.
Incidentally, if you examine Office, you will find that they also ported the entire COM runtime to the Mac to allow the VBA to work.
It does work - I listen to football (soccer) commentaries that I have to pay for - in WMP formats. They were extremely dodgy on the Mac (had to use the Classic player, not the OSX one), despite the claims that it was supported, so I cancelled my subscription (as did quite a few other people I know).
Next season, they announced they had improved their Mac support - and while still WMP, whatever they had done works fine in the OSX player
https://amateur.dev.java.net/
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free clone that uses the Quicktime APIs to a new client
I hardly notice the OS I'm working on. It's OSX and rarely gets in my way.
actually i think mr jobs sees the value of apple as an "integrated appliance". look at the original mac. no expansion, a single plug. look at his first computer since he returned, the imac - no expansion, a single plug. look at the dock on osx - it's like a push button control panel (push this button to listen to the radio, this button for CDs - or push this button to chekc your email (Mail), this button for internet (Safari)). most people want apple stuff because you plug it in and it just works
plus, i have no idea what their margins are but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the markup on apple hardware is what pays for the r&d for apple software - and the software is pretty much sold at break even. so 50% market share on a couple of pennies a copy is nowt compared to 10% market share (which is what I imagine their target is) on several hundred dollars a go.
I think we're on the same lines, although my somewhat flippant first post probably distorted things. I probably should have said "today companies exist to make a profit". It is entirely possible that one day companies should exist to serve "consumers" but they never have and certainly do not at the moment. my point was that in the past companies existed because of the king (gawd bless 'im), today they exist for $$$ (at least in the "west"), tomorrow they could exist for who knows what.
the reason for the change is dependent upon society, i agree. what will trigger the change in society, who knows.
unless you are dealing with monopolies and cartels.
I'm not advocating anything.
under british law it used to be the case that you could only form a company by charter from the king. a typical charter would be to increase british influence in (for example) the north east of india. as a reward for doing so the company owners would be allowed to make a profit from their endeavours. which is pretty much what you are describing.
however, that is not the case now. a company exists to make a profit for its owners. in order to do that it probably employs people, it probably keeps its customers happy, it probably upholds the values (and laws) of its society. but those things are contingent to its primary purpose, of making money for the owners.
companies do not exist to serve the consumer. they exist to make money for the owners (shareholders).
i only have two ears. how can i fit headphones for each device on all at once?
little companies like IBM
Microsoft are famous for their innovation. Look at the list of innovative products:
DOS,
Windows,
Visual Basic,
SQL Server,
Word,
Excel,
Internet Explorer,
Do they still need InnoDB? I thought that was the point of integrating the SAP DB engine - so they get transactions, relational integrity plus stored procs (coming real soon now)?
"I know the competition can do this, this and this NOW, but just wait another year for Windows Q35 where it will do this, this, this and THIS as well"
does it play .m4p?