They already did. The Justice department found that the major labels were in collusion to keep the price of CDs above $15, and cost consumers around $2 billion. The labels had to pay some insignificant fine and stop their collusion. It worked somewhat ($10 CDs at Best Buy at times), but the price can still come down further.
There's been a lot of discussion on the Mac Web (it's entirely separate from the regular web of course) about Apple buying Palm as they tried to do earlier. What do you guys think about?
Let's see, open source Apple products:
Quicktime Streaming Servers
Darwin
While these aren't all their products, it's better than some companies, say ones in Redmond, do. Plus, Apple, and its employees contribute to the FreeBSD source; just look for everything my Winfred Sanchez (who no longer works there by the way).
But should we really expect ZDNet to be anything but totally biased? See most of the thread a couple weeks ago about John Dvorak, the PC "columnist".
I really don't understand why Napster can't simply use a variation of a simple spellchecker to prevent people from using the files. I mean, in Word, when you misspell a word it comes up with the word you most likely meant to spell. Why couldn't Napster simply use this to make a filter that sees S@ndman as Sandman and therefore blocks it?
I understand it would take a large team of programmers to find the equivalent terms, but couldn't Napster use Song Length and basic letter obfuscation techniques to make an algorithm that searches Napster and adds equivalents to a list?
That does not mean I endorse this course of action...
The BOWGO (patent pending) is a new kind of pogo stick that bounces higher,
farther and more efficiently than conventional devices. The BOWGO is a
product of the Toy Robots Initiative
and is a scaled-up, human-sized version
of the Bow Leg. The Bow Leg is a highly resilient leg being
developed for running robots at Carnegie Mellon
University's Robotics
Institute. The key technology is the fiber-reinforced
composite (FRC) spring that bends like a bow to store elastic energy.
Compared to the steel coil spring used in a conventional pogo stick, the
bow spring stores 2-5 times as much energy per unit mass, and precludes the
sliding friction that results when long coil springs buckle sideways. The
BOWGO also uses rollers to guide the plunger, in place of the usual
plastic guide bushings, providing smooth, almost frictionless motion. The
force/deflection characteristic of the bow spring is tailored to provide
high-energy storage with minimal shock at ground contact. A large,
rubber-padded foot allows the BOWGO to be used on relatively soft
surfaces such as grass, sand and gravel. (We recommend using the
BOWGO only on soft surfaces and away from any obstacles that might
cause injury.)
Two prototypes, BOWGOI and BOWGOII, have been built and tested with a number of users and spring designs. Performance has greatly surpassed our expectations. A third prototype is presently in the works that should push performance even higher. We are currently seeking licensees for the technology.
I remember reading that one of the old editors of 'Analog' magazine (a sci-fi story magazine) in the 30s/40s put in one of the brief blurbs at the bottom of pages something to the effect "Uranium 238 is being looked at to instantly power on televisions". He was later visited by the FBI...
According to neo-classical (aka what is usually taught now) microeconomics, competition exists even in a monopolized market. Mainly, the fear of entry of another firm, which could compete with the monopoly, will force the monopoly to act like a firm in a competitive market.
Of course, this doesn't really hold true in industries with high costs of entry (the lines for electricity regulation, lines for cable, etc.). Nor do some of us believe it really works in general either...
Mr. Dvorak isn't exactly reliable...
on
Calling Out TiVo
·
· Score: 5
Among his reasons why the Mac won't succeed:
From the San Francisco Examiner, Feb. 19th, 1984
The Macintosh has no slots for expansion and is therefore restricted in versatility
Well, Microsoft is currently pushing a legacy free, closed box PC as the new consumer utopia...
The machine uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse'
If Dvorak didn't use a GUI based system (my bet is a PC, seeing how he is so viruntly anti-Mac) to write his article, and to do all his work for the past 7 or 8 years (conservative estimate), I will eat my own shorts.
Who out there in the general martketplace even knows what a 'font' is?
I would bet that about 90% of the public knows at this point; and most knew by the early 90s
What businessman knows about point size or typefaces or the value of variable point size?
See the comment above...
The Macintosh uses icons to represent functions as though there was some intuitive knowledge on the part of the user as to what these icons mean.
Did you know what sounds the letters in the alphabet represented before you memorized them? Sever anti-GUI trend here...
Mr. Dvorak is one of the worst 'major' PC columnists in almost all regards (accuracy, predictions, impartiality). I don't have time to list more of his hilarious mistakes, but if you put anything Apple in front of him, he will immediatly say it will fail and is inferior to anything PC.
Please back up things you say with facts. While Mac people may not do this all the time, you cannot insult the Mac without some facts.
P.S. If you can't fix a Mac, there's no way you can fix a PC (no fact to back this one up)
Seeing how all problems with voting can be traced directly to a bad user interface, why the hell is Microsoft designing the UI? Wouldn't it make much more sense to have the acknowledged leader in UI's, Apple, design these things?
They have a multi-billion dollar company and all they can do is make recliners? Who knows, maybe they will soon be broken up by the recliner anti-trust team.
IT is obviously some sort of new-millennium blow-up doll. They might have thought that was Bezos laughing, but who knows what it really was (other than his wife)? Whether it is legal or not? Sounds like a drug or sex to me, seeing how we're a nation of prudes. 2k seems awfully expensive compared to your average $15 air-inflated model however.
Here's Blizzard's response:
[On] Monday, January 8, we will be reviving all hardcore characters who died between December 19th and January 1st. The restored hardcore characters will be revived with the experience, skills and items possessed as of Tuesday, December 19th. This restore will be automatic and players do not need to contact Blizzard to request that their character be restored. Note: Only dead hardcore characters that died between December 19th and January 1st will be revived.
The problem with this is that many Hardcore players have died naturally between now and then; but this problem is minor compared to the fix. All hail Blizzard, king of the graphical MUDs!
Most new devices that are designed to work with Macs come in graphite or a similar iMac color. Since most of these devices are standard USB devices (and the developers would be insane not to also have Windows support), you could purchase some of these. There also is a PC case that looks almost identical to the G3 B&W/G4 Minitower cases. I forget what exactly it is called, but you can probably find it by asking around.
How hard would it be to port this to Darwin (and subsequently Mac OS X) on either Mac or Intel hardware? From what I have seen, programs that operate on a BSD variant have been quickly ported over, can the same be done here?
Art
I seem to remember hearing about a different schema for web addresses that went something like this: instead of say www.slashdot.org, you would have www.slash.dot, so www.networksolutions.com would become www.networksoluti.ons... As I remember it, this schema promised an almost infinite number of names, while still making the names easy to remember.
I used to be a loyal netscape user, but I recently switched to IE. Mozilla/Netscape 6 has so much junk and clutter (AOL crap) that I can barely see the web pages it loads. While IE has some clutter, it does not have the annoying pane (that takes up a lot of room) that Netscape does
It has been said that using the internet to campaign represents a fundamental shift in the way politics will run in the future. The question I see here is how is the internet going to help make people believe canidates have spent some "one-one-one" time with them. Will the internet replace things like townhall meetings with a live video feed anyone can download or is that kind of face-time with a canidate still important?
As I remember it, all the new Apple computers, and all of the ones built since the iMac and the Blue and White G3 have been made out of bulletproof Lucite. Has anyone ever tried to gun one of these down (a waste of good money)? I wonder if there are any differences between the durability of say a graphite G4 and an iBook.
Slashdot Mirror
They already did. The Justice department found that the major labels were in collusion to keep the price of CDs above $15, and cost consumers around $2 billion. The labels had to pay some insignificant fine and stop their collusion. It worked somewhat ($10 CDs at Best Buy at times), but the price can still come down further.
Looks like the wired story is called 2Legit 2Quit. Maybe Wired thinks they are 2Cool 4U?
Does coding for an open-source project, say Linux, count as Community Service? They don't really gain any benefit from it now do they...
There's been a lot of discussion on the Mac Web (it's entirely separate from the regular web of course) about Apple buying Palm as they tried to do earlier. What do you guys think about?
The only defence of these drivers is that they allow me to delete the nude Tomb Raider patch.
Let's see, open source Apple products:
Quicktime Streaming Servers
Darwin
While these aren't all their products, it's better than some companies, say ones in Redmond, do. Plus, Apple, and its employees contribute to the FreeBSD source; just look for everything my Winfred Sanchez (who no longer works there by the way).
But should we really expect ZDNet to be anything but totally biased? See most of the thread a couple weeks ago about John Dvorak, the PC "columnist".
I really don't understand why Napster can't simply use a variation of a simple spellchecker to prevent people from using the files. I mean, in Word, when you misspell a word it comes up with the word you most likely meant to spell. Why couldn't Napster simply use this to make a filter that sees S@ndman as Sandman and therefore blocks it?
I understand it would take a large team of programmers to find the equivalent terms, but couldn't Napster use Song Length and basic letter obfuscation techniques to make an algorithm that searches Napster and adds equivalents to a list?
That does not mean I endorse this course of action...
The BOWGO (patent pending) is a new kind of pogo stick that bounces higher, farther and more efficiently than conventional devices. The BOWGO is a product of the Toy Robots Initiative and is a scaled-up, human-sized version of the Bow Leg. The Bow Leg is a highly resilient leg being developed for running robots at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. The key technology is the fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) spring that bends like a bow to store elastic energy. Compared to the steel coil spring used in a conventional pogo stick, the bow spring stores 2-5 times as much energy per unit mass, and precludes the sliding friction that results when long coil springs buckle sideways. The BOWGO also uses rollers to guide the plunger, in place of the usual plastic guide bushings, providing smooth, almost frictionless motion. The force/deflection characteristic of the bow spring is tailored to provide high-energy storage with minimal shock at ground contact. A large, rubber-padded foot allows the BOWGO to be used on relatively soft surfaces such as grass, sand and gravel. (We recommend using the BOWGO only on soft surfaces and away from any obstacles that might cause injury.)
Two prototypes, BOWGOI and BOWGOII, have been built and tested with a number of users and spring designs. Performance has greatly surpassed our expectations. A third prototype is presently in the works that should push performance even higher. We are currently seeking licensees for the technology.
I remember reading that one of the old editors of 'Analog' magazine (a sci-fi story magazine) in the 30s/40s put in one of the brief blurbs at the bottom of pages something to the effect "Uranium 238 is being looked at to instantly power on televisions". He was later visited by the FBI...
Where's my uranium powered television?
According to neo-classical (aka what is usually taught now) microeconomics, competition exists even in a monopolized market. Mainly, the fear of entry of another firm, which could compete with the monopoly, will force the monopoly to act like a firm in a competitive market.
Of course, this doesn't really hold true in industries with high costs of entry (the lines for electricity regulation, lines for cable, etc.). Nor do some of us believe it really works in general either...
Among his reasons why the Mac won't succeed:
From the San Francisco Examiner, Feb. 19th, 1984
The Macintosh has no slots for expansion and is therefore restricted in versatility
Well, Microsoft is currently pushing a legacy free, closed box PC as the new consumer utopia...
The machine uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse'
If Dvorak didn't use a GUI based system (my bet is a PC, seeing how he is so viruntly anti-Mac) to write his article, and to do all his work for the past 7 or 8 years (conservative estimate), I will eat my own shorts.
Who out there in the general martketplace even knows what a 'font' is?
I would bet that about 90% of the public knows at this point; and most knew by the early 90s
What businessman knows about point size or typefaces or the value of variable point size?
See the comment above...
The Macintosh uses icons to represent functions as though there was some intuitive knowledge on the part of the user as to what these icons mean.
Did you know what sounds the letters in the alphabet represented before you memorized them? Sever anti-GUI trend here...
Mr. Dvorak is one of the worst 'major' PC columnists in almost all regards (accuracy, predictions, impartiality). I don't have time to list more of his hilarious mistakes, but if you put anything Apple in front of him, he will immediatly say it will fail and is inferior to anything PC.
Please back up things you say with facts. While Mac people may not do this all the time, you cannot insult the Mac without some facts. P.S. If you can't fix a Mac, there's no way you can fix a PC (no fact to back this one up)
Seeing how all problems with voting can be traced directly to a bad user interface, why the hell is Microsoft designing the UI? Wouldn't it make much more sense to have the acknowledged leader in UI's, Apple, design these things?
They have a multi-billion dollar company and all they can do is make recliners? Who knows, maybe they will soon be broken up by the recliner anti-trust team.
IT is obviously some sort of new-millennium blow-up doll. They might have thought that was Bezos laughing, but who knows what it really was (other than his wife)? Whether it is legal or not? Sounds like a drug or sex to me, seeing how we're a nation of prudes. 2k seems awfully expensive compared to your average $15 air-inflated model however.
Here's Blizzard's response:
[On] Monday, January 8, we will be reviving all hardcore characters who died between December 19th and January 1st. The restored hardcore characters will be revived with the experience, skills and items possessed as of Tuesday, December 19th. This restore will be automatic and players do not need to contact Blizzard to request that their character be restored. Note: Only dead hardcore characters that died between December 19th and January 1st will be revived.
The problem with this is that many Hardcore players have died naturally between now and then; but this problem is minor compared to the fix. All hail Blizzard, king of the graphical MUDs!
Most new devices that are designed to work with Macs come in graphite or a similar iMac color. Since most of these devices are standard USB devices (and the developers would be insane not to also have Windows support), you could purchase some of these. There also is a PC case that looks almost identical to the G3 B&W/G4 Minitower cases. I forget what exactly it is called, but you can probably find it by asking around.
How hard would it be to port this to Darwin (and subsequently Mac OS X) on either Mac or Intel hardware? From what I have seen, programs that operate on a BSD variant have been quickly ported over, can the same be done here? Art
Anyone know if this will be integrated into the Mac OS X (more specifically, the Darwin) code base?
I seem to remember hearing about a different schema for web addresses that went something like this: instead of say www.slashdot.org, you would have www.slash.dot, so www.networksolutions.com would become www.networksoluti.ons... As I remember it, this schema promised an almost infinite number of names, while still making the names easy to remember.
I used to be a loyal netscape user, but I recently switched to IE. Mozilla/Netscape 6 has so much junk and clutter (AOL crap) that I can barely see the web pages it loads. While IE has some clutter, it does not have the annoying pane (that takes up a lot of room) that Netscape does
ANyone know what is new?
It has been said that using the internet to campaign represents a fundamental shift in the way politics will run in the future. The question I see here is how is the internet going to help make people believe canidates have spent some "one-one-one" time with them. Will the internet replace things like townhall meetings with a live video feed anyone can download or is that kind of face-time with a canidate still important?
As I remember it, all the new Apple computers, and all of the ones built since the iMac and the Blue and White G3 have been made out of bulletproof Lucite. Has anyone ever tried to gun one of these down (a waste of good money)? I wonder if there are any differences between the durability of say a graphite G4 and an iBook.