Developing an operating system is a bit like developing a new aircraft or going to the moon. It requires the utmost investment in time and money. The good thing about their being an operating system monopoly is that one company can afford to expend lots of cash developing the ultimate operating system. We can see this with Windows, which has had chips specially fabricated for it, unlike the MAC, which uses Intel technology designed for Windows.
There is still competition within such an environmement, with different games companies competing with each other. The operating systems are sold at a loss anyway, and must compete with free Linux distributions, which as far as the end home user is concerned, is very similar these days.
An operating system monopoly is good for the market, IMO. It is good for the consumer.
Reholster the flamethrowers and realize I am playing devil's advocate here. No monopoly is a good thing.
The poster wasnt concerned about paying the fee. He was stating that if he does decide to pay the fee and use their database, how does he get compensated for sharing his own intellectual property at the same level as do the major labels.
Id have to say its a tie so far between Pepsi's Kasparov commercial, and the return of Ali Landry for Doritos. You just dont expect that outcome there:)
Thanks to these leeches, no american-owned airline would dare to do something like this until after its been proven beyond all doubt that planes wont start dropping out of the sky.
There have been several crashes linked to cell phone usage in-flight
No, there havent.
I believe there was a Dateline NBC story a few months ago about just this (if not Dateline, it was another comperable show). Of all the studies conducted on this, not a single one has concluded that cel phone signals (or usage of laptops for that matter) interfere with anything on an aircraft. If you know of any, please direct us there, or if you can back up your claim, give us an NTSB official report of a crash caused by cel phone usage.
The real reason is that the airlines have struck a deal with cel phone service providers. When you use a cel phone on the ground, your signal goes to the nearest tower and is relayed along the network. When you are in a plane, the nearest tower changes very quickly -- so quickly, in fact, that the cel phone company is not able to track your call, and thus cannot bill you. Airline airphone towers work on the same general principles but the ground towers are much farther apart.. and youve never heard complaints there. Why? Because the airlines can charge $9/min for the monopoly.
Note: yes, I did hear about the plane that was forced to land a couple weeks ago because of what they claim was a cellular phone apparently ringing in the cargo hold. If this were proven to be the actual cause, it would be a first, but Im pretty confident they will find something else.
No, California could have PLENTY of power, but the power companies decided they dont want that. Ever since the state privatized power, about 40% of all powerplants were "down for maintenance". The laws of economics dictate that price rises when a) Demand increases, or b) Supply decreases. By creating less power, they can charge more, so they decreased the supply. However, every other new private company had the same idea and reduced their output; now, when the state really needs it, they cant simply flip a switch and turn it back on.
The state really ought to audit these companies and throw some execs in jail -- what they are doing IS criminal. Power is frequently controlled by governments because life-essential products and services cannot (and should not) be treated like a commodity, they need to be there no matter what. It just simply does not make good business sense to provide something at a loss, but a government can do just that. If CA doesnt retake control of the power industry, they do need to look into some serious regulation and spot-auditing.
I would expect things to be broken down even more -- into 1 tier with exceptions.
I work at a microchip distributor, and we currently ship to countries all over the world. I think that the software export controls will become similar to those of what I see in electronic components. Most parts can be found anywhere in the world and, for the most part, US customs doesnt do much in the way of controlling their export (you may not agree if you are the one filling out the paperwork, but you know what I mean:) There are then parts that are restricted based upon various reasons, some being the country into which they are being shipped, the particular company purchasing, the end use of the product, and of course the product itself.
Believe me, there are hundreds of pages sent each month about companies that are known in various countries to do business with others, and it is our responsiblity to know that we can no longer ship product X to company Y.
Specifics aside, I think it is a good thing finally that the government is realizing that they need a different way of doing things, because the old ways just simply didnt work.
Unlike your China scenario, physical goods here are actually being shipped into France. I dont think its the words and pictures of Nazi paraphenalia that they dont want, its the ability for its people to import it. (I could be wrong here)
No one in France has the right to tell us or anyone else what to do.
Actually, they do, just take the advice of our own saying: "America, love it or leave it." If Yahoo! wants to do business in another country, they have to respect their laws. Not exactly the same, but close: I dont know about you, but I get really pissed when I hear of foreign dignitaries abusing "diplomatic immunity" -- basically breaking laws because they are from somewhere else.
Then, they must maintain a residence in Washington, D.C. One of the most expensive real estate markets in the whole world. Then, they have the travel costs between their two homes. Finally, tack in all the costs of just plain living (food, gas, etc.). What you have is an amount that a common man (w/o a huge pre-existing bank account) can't hope to match on a $120,000/year salary.
Do you really think they pay for any job-related expenses out of their own pockets? Just look at your company and how the executives treat their expense accounts -- hell I know some that expense more than their salary. Congressmen will still fundraise, etc to take care of these things. The $120,000 is pure takehome money. They pay their main residence and family cars with it just like any of us would (unless they are really good at manipulating the system).
how often is it the small inventor coming up with something like that situation anyway
The perfect example is the guy that invented intermittant windshield wipers. He tried to sell the idea to GM, whose people basically laughed him out of the office. Then about a year or so later, guess what GM has as an option on thier cars? You guessed it, intermittent wipers.
I saw this on 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, or one of those others... It was a couple years ago, so please forgive me any specific errors.
If I remember correctly, JavaScript was developed by Microsoft. Originally, it was called LiveScript, but due to the buzz created when Java when it first came out, they renamed it.
If anyone can confirm for sure that it was Netscape, please correct me.
Its a sad commentary for the industry but certainly a good one for a quickly-growing economy. If you take the time to carefully plan, stick to the guidelines initially laid out, and test thoroughly enough that you are 99.44% bug free -- guess what -- you release and fail. Why? Because 3 or 4 other companies released months ago and dominate the market. No matter how good your product is, youre going to have an extremely difficult time getting people to switch if they are used to another product.
Now with the Internet, it is even more important than ever to be the first. That is the reason so many companies are willing to take huge losses their first couple years as they build up to a "critical mass of users", the point after which, they should, in theory, start to receive increasing economic returns to scale. (Yes, many are failing, but if you look closely, they are the me-too companies. Even amazon got caught up in this, and they should do better having pared their toys and other depts they added because they just could.)
Unfortunately, the reality of the times dictates that the only good choice is to develop a pretty good app, release it, and hopefully gain the name recognition and market share. Once you have market saturation, you can concentrate on making your product the best and upgrade to make your customers really happy, and then beat the other 2 or 3 companies out there doing the same thing.
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Developing an operating system is a bit like developing a new aircraft or going to the moon. It requires the utmost investment in time and money. The good thing about their being an operating system monopoly is that one company can afford to expend lots of cash developing the ultimate operating system. We can see this with Windows, which has had chips specially fabricated for it, unlike the MAC, which uses Intel technology designed for Windows.
There is still competition within such an environmement, with different games companies competing with each other. The operating systems are sold at a loss anyway, and must compete with free Linux distributions, which as far as the end home user is concerned, is very similar these days.
An operating system monopoly is good for the market, IMO. It is good for the consumer.
Reholster the flamethrowers and realize I am playing devil's advocate here. No monopoly is a good thing.
The poster wasnt concerned about paying the fee. He was stating that if he does decide to pay the fee and use their database, how does he get compensated for sharing his own intellectual property at the same level as do the major labels.
Damn, I wish I hadnt posted so I could mod this one down as flamebait.
the pets.com puppet had a killer cameo
Yeah, he looked great on Brittney Spears' arm during the halftime show.
Id have to say its a tie so far between Pepsi's Kasparov commercial, and the return of Ali Landry for Doritos. You just dont expect that outcome there
...small minds cant see past Uranus!
there were only 4 food groups
Whats the 5th food group??? Or did they finally promote beer?
I was about to write this, but glad I read the posts before writing something BOTH redundant and off-topic
But you are correct, the darkness association with band and evil is a primordial instinct associated with the night being when humans were hunted.
The so-called racial origin discussed above is a load of BS invented up by someone wishing to promate their agenda.
but why are Air Canada and SAS the first
Prohibitive insurance costs.
Thanks to these leeches, no american-owned airline would dare to do something like this until after its been proven beyond all doubt that planes wont start dropping out of the sky.
There have been several crashes linked to cell phone usage in-flight
No, there havent.
I believe there was a Dateline NBC story a few months ago about just this (if not Dateline, it was another comperable show). Of all the studies conducted on this, not a single one has concluded that cel phone signals (or usage of laptops for that matter) interfere with anything on an aircraft. If you know of any, please direct us there, or if you can back up your claim, give us an NTSB official report of a crash caused by cel phone usage.
The real reason is that the airlines have struck a deal with cel phone service providers. When you use a cel phone on the ground, your signal goes to the nearest tower and is relayed along the network. When you are in a plane, the nearest tower changes very quickly -- so quickly, in fact, that the cel phone company is not able to track your call, and thus cannot bill you. Airline airphone towers work on the same general principles but the ground towers are much farther apart.. and youve never heard complaints there. Why? Because the airlines can charge $9/min for the monopoly.
Note: yes, I did hear about the plane that was forced to land a couple weeks ago because of what they claim was a cellular phone apparently ringing in the cargo hold. If this were proven to be the actual cause, it would be a first, but Im pretty confident they will find something else.
In fact, even John Ashcroft probably does not know what his opinion will be
Thats because Bush hasnt told him what it will be yet.
No, California could have PLENTY of power, but the power companies decided they dont want that. Ever since the state privatized power, about 40% of all powerplants were "down for maintenance". The laws of economics dictate that price rises when a) Demand increases, or b) Supply decreases. By creating less power, they can charge more, so they decreased the supply. However, every other new private company had the same idea and reduced their output; now, when the state really needs it, they cant simply flip a switch and turn it back on.
The state really ought to audit these companies and throw some execs in jail -- what they are doing IS criminal. Power is frequently controlled by governments because life-essential products and services cannot (and should not) be treated like a commodity, they need to be there no matter what. It just simply does not make good business sense to provide something at a loss, but a government can do just that. If CA doesnt retake control of the power industry, they do need to look into some serious regulation and spot-auditing.
I would expect things to be broken down even more -- into 1 tier with exceptions.
I work at a microchip distributor, and we currently ship to countries all over the world. I think that the software export controls will become similar to those of what I see in electronic components. Most parts can be found anywhere in the world and, for the most part, US customs doesnt do much in the way of controlling their export (you may not agree if you are the one filling out the paperwork, but you know what I mean :) There are then parts that are restricted based upon various reasons, some being the country into which they are being shipped, the particular company purchasing, the end use of the product, and of course the product itself.
Believe me, there are hundreds of pages sent each month about companies that are known in various countries to do business with others, and it is our responsiblity to know that we can no longer ship product X to company Y.
Specifics aside, I think it is a good thing finally that the government is realizing that they need a different way of doing things, because the old ways just simply didnt work.
I changed your nick because I didnt realize your .sig was that, I thought it was directed at me.
Thank you. Feel superior now?
...what a dick
How about a link to back up your statement, SquidBoy
Unlike your China scenario, physical goods here are actually being shipped into France. I dont think its the words and pictures of Nazi paraphenalia that they dont want, its the ability for its people to import it. (I could be wrong here)
No one in France has the right to tell us or anyone else what to do.
Actually, they do, just take the advice of our own saying: "America, love it or leave it." If Yahoo! wants to do business in another country, they have to respect their laws. Not exactly the same, but close: I dont know about you, but I get really pissed when I hear of foreign dignitaries abusing "diplomatic immunity" -- basically breaking laws because they are from somewhere else.
someone mod this down
Then, they must maintain a residence in Washington, D.C. One of the most expensive real estate markets in the whole world. Then, they have the travel costs between their two homes. Finally, tack in all the costs of just plain living (food, gas, etc.). What you have is an amount that a common man (w/o a huge pre-existing bank account) can't hope to match on a $120,000/year salary.
Do you really think they pay for any job-related expenses out of their own pockets? Just look at your company and how the executives treat their expense accounts -- hell I know some that expense more than their salary. Congressmen will still fundraise, etc to take care of these things. The $120,000 is pure takehome money. They pay their main residence and family cars with it just like any of us would (unless they are really good at manipulating the system).
Not that funny, certainly not +5
how often is it the small inventor coming up with something like that situation anyway
The perfect example is the guy that invented intermittant windshield wipers. He tried to sell the idea to GM, whose people basically laughed him out of the office. Then about a year or so later, guess what GM has as an option on thier cars? You guessed it, intermittent wipers.
I saw this on 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, or one of those others... It was a couple years ago, so please forgive me any specific errors.
BTW, I think he won his case.
If I remember correctly, JavaScript was developed by Microsoft. Originally, it was called LiveScript, but due to the buzz created when Java when it first came out, they renamed it.
If anyone can confirm for sure that it was Netscape, please correct me.
Its a sad commentary for the industry but certainly a good one for a quickly-growing economy. If you take the time to carefully plan, stick to the guidelines initially laid out, and test thoroughly enough that you are 99.44% bug free -- guess what -- you release and fail. Why? Because 3 or 4 other companies released months ago and dominate the market. No matter how good your product is, youre going to have an extremely difficult time getting people to switch if they are used to another product.
Now with the Internet, it is even more important than ever to be the first. That is the reason so many companies are willing to take huge losses their first couple years as they build up to a "critical mass of users", the point after which, they should, in theory, start to receive increasing economic returns to scale. (Yes, many are failing, but if you look closely, they are the me-too companies. Even amazon got caught up in this, and they should do better having pared their toys and other depts they added because they just could.)
Unfortunately, the reality of the times dictates that the only good choice is to develop a pretty good app, release it, and hopefully gain the name recognition and market share. Once you have market saturation, you can concentrate on making your product the best and upgrade to make your customers really happy, and then beat the other 2 or 3 companies out there doing the same thing.
...finally has something to compliment their $300 hammers and $700 toilet seats