MS used to buy macintoshes just to copy their features in early versions of Windows. Infact Bill Gates had the first mac prototypes before anyone of course with the knowledge of making Windows 1.0 like it.
So now MS after years of poor management and engineering finally decided to focus on making a good os rather than concentrate on Office is outdoing MacOSX. Or at least attempting too.
Good and so what? This is what companies do and its good for consumers. Hyundia imitiated Toyota for years and finally make cars that are more reliable than toyota cars. So now the other company is imitiating Hyundai by hiring better engineers. Its life.
So why bash Apple? I bet he never bashed Microsoft for copying macos and even incorporating quicktime code in Media player which ms admitted to doing a decade ago.
It would be alot ore than 2% or 3% if Nvidia released quadro versions of their consumer cards. Artists and engineers really could use this more than gamers. Aren't quadro's just consumer cards with different drivers? THis is why Nvidia's drivers are closed source.
But still cool for gamers but even greater for more productive uses for this when money is involved. I think archcad and proengineer would scream on such a system.
You see, you only bought a right to use it. The card came with it for convience. Just like I dont own my home or car. Only a right to live and drive them. Get with the program
Well if the card makers actually provided drivers or the kernel had an api for drivers so we could have closed source ones like Unix and Windows it would not be a big deal.
But if you want to run google Earth or the 3d visuals in amork or xmms then you need a 3d driver. The community has to reverse engineer them because the hardware makers only look at marketshare and prefer to only support an OS from a convicted monopolist instead.
The conspiracist in me thinks this was a deliberate product feature to extort and put pressure on the licensee (city of hoboken) to give in or face angry users and lawsuits.
After all the news of companies like RIM extorting blackberry and shutting down their service and same with Apple music threatening to shutdown Itunes is an example of this new corporate culture. You can negotiate alot more money when you are blackmailed and pressure is involved. In the case with blackberry they gave RIM $500,000,000 for a product they never developed whose patent was ruled invalid. Amazing what we can learn from the mobfia.
Actually if I were in charge of this company I would be tempted to mandate this feature and screw whoever I could and raise the rates to exhorborant fees to renew the contracts. I would make a ton of money and its perfectly legal. I dont think I would ever sink to this low but it would certainly be on my mind if I were greedy enough.
If aqua is ever opensourced you can bet within 24 hours there would be 5 projects on sourceforge to port the gui to Linux and OpenDarwin. Then you would no longer need to have a mac to run macosx or a macosx like environment.
The closing of the Xnu kernel and proprietary nature of carbon and aqua made alot of former macosx FOSS zealots switch to Linux. I am aware that Windows is all closed source but people run windows because it comes with their computers and all the software runs on it.
Most os's today are open source such as Solaris and the free unixies.
If the engine is an interference engine then a metal timing chain should be used. Not a rubber belt unless of course its a non interference engine. Then if it snaps no engine damage will be done. Still your supposed to replace them every 60,000 miles.
80/20 rule in bussiness. You spend 80% of the time on %20 of the problems or in this case annoying customers. Sometimes its best to let a competitor waste his resources on.
I know that sounds very unAmerician in this customer is god concept if your American but its true.
Just becarefull that you dont keep knocking off customers here and there until you wont have anymore. I have seen customers threaten former pc shops where I work with violence or come in and dude you are going to be soooo sorry bla bla. Not worth your time and could threaten the morale of yoru workers dealing with such jerks. A customer is not god and it only makes sense to serve them if its profitable.
"The Civic is a great car, a marvel of economical engineering. I'd even say it is a more impressive feat than any Ferrari and has a huge community following"
Speaking as a former owner of a Honda Civic I find that particular statemement terrifying. I sold mine for $100 and still owe $2500 in repairs.
For example the timing belt chain is made of rubber and the engine is setup in such a way that the cylinders will smash into each other and wreck the engine when it breaks. Its an interference engine.
So every 60,000 miles your engine could be damaged if you forget to replace your rubber chain.
Brilliant engineering!
Also I had the struts go out every 10k miles instead of 40k which was quite strange.
No I never had that issue but I had nothing but problems iwth mine and I do admit it had over 100k miles but it performed more like a chevy or kia than a japanesse car after 115k miles and everything went out on it. My parents Nissan lasted for nearly 300k miles.
I am signed in o a different user for my Ipod since I synced it to my gf's computer to hear her music.
Here is the problem. My system is fried and all my music is on the hard drive. I can't listen to my own music on the Ipod and if I replace the systems mainboard which is fried it will require another installation of Windows. Itunes will never create teh same user again even if its the same name. Therefore my collection is drmed and encrypted and unaccessible.
What a pain in the ass?
I think I will try to to use my failed installation of Windows as a seperate computer that the tunes are licensed too. Assuming that will even work??
tIME to upgrade. I was planning on upgrading my athlonXP +2400 to a +2900. However if these price drops occur I think I am just going to upgrade with a whole new motherboard and cpu. It would only be $150 more. But get them while they are hot!
Microsoft did use SCO Openserver as late as 1997 until Exchange server stopped sucking enough. Ask any MS employee from then? MS tries to eat its own dogfood but does not every time. For examle they also used OS/2 and not Windows 3.0 and perhaps didn't use Windows 3.1 either. They finally stopped using os/2 when Windows95 came out.
Well if only we had net neutrality ended and regulation. Then we can really get all high speed we want. While we are at it we should just let the teleco's do whatever they want and not be regulated by the FCC and we need them to have the ability to lobby whomever they wish for as much as they want.
After all these are acomplished I am sure we would have nice higher speed access for alot cheaper.
After all, the telecom industry said so as well as any republican. The market will make it so and the government is the problem. Who does the government think they are to come in and fight for consumers? Jessh
Ya, but the crap at Walmart is usually there because the movie was so terrible taht BestBuy and BlockBuster wont buy them and the studio's have an oversupply on their hands.
So they dump them at Walmart for near at cost. Walmart is cheap for a reason.
I assume you can at least get a good selection at the site. Also many newer hot titles are nearly $39 at most regular outlets.
Nice computers you are selling I see. It would be a shame if your competitors got Windows Vista and Office 2007 before you did. Think about what that would do to yoru business?
Before MS used to jack up the price something obscene like %500 if you dared included just one pc without Windows with SCO or OS/2. The doj stopped this behavior but now its standard so ms does not have to worry about this anymore.
Today ms, can just use the...last to recieve updates bit. Or if they really want to appear innocent they could simply let the OEM install Windows Vista when it came out but refused to give them early builds that hte other oem's enjoy. That way it would take weeks or months before their systems on the shelves had what their competitors had.
Also companies like Dell would love to see HP get grilled like this so customers would have to either wait while Bob enjoys Vista or just buy a Dell instead that already has it preinstalled.
Mainly because when I recieved NT4 for free when getting my MCSE many years ago. Directx3 was available and you could download directx5 beta for it. THen Microsoft decided it would be better to force me to upgrade to Windows2000 instead or have my downgrade to Windows98 (shudder). That pissed me off and I began looking at Linux as a result.
What platform do you think the directX team uses? Its not Vista. Its too unstable right now for real production use. They use WindowsXP and backporting directX10 beta's to Vista and then claiming they can't do it to save PR. What a load of crap?
Last they plan on including directx10 with the xbox360 live with a firmwire update or internet update. Does the xbox live use Xp embedded or the windows powered (aka WindowsCE) os instead? If it uses w2k or xp embedded my guess is the pr department is full of shit and wants us to hand out our wallets and watch the performance of our opengl games suffer instead.
Mine definitely has plans of her own and has her own set of dreams and makes more money than I do. We both love school and getting different degrees for things so that works out but they are in different area's.
I do agree with some insecure women who want to do everything with you. For example my former boss had a gf who obsessed with watching TV with him and would not do it without him. I personally wanted to shoot her.:-)
I avoid those kinds of women so its not a problem. She has her own life and just likes to have fun with me.
Speaking of which, some companie slike Microsoft dont even pay dividends! Zilch. You get nothing from buyig Microsoft and its all based on what someone might pay for your share 6 months down the road.
SOme dividends are so low that is not worth it. For example how many dividends would you get for a share for a average company whose price is $15 a share? I was reading statistics somewhere and its only $.50 on average for each share around $15 in value??
In other words the stock market doesn't care about dividends. Only what someone might pay for something later like a game of monopoly. This seems very disturbing as everyone and their brother owns stocks just because everyone else does.
Like the housing market I sense reality might make things crash. Sure its not fair your neighbor made 50k flipping houses every 6 months but eventually it will reverse and you could lose everything when you are stuck with a mortage now that is worth alot more than the home.
I used to think like you and prefer to be alone. I hated dating.
However my gf is clingy but in a same way. MEaning she loves chatting with me and having me involved but loves to give me privacy when I need it. I learned to appreciate it more and being alone works only so long as it can cause depression. A gf will make sure you get your ass out of bed on your days off of work.
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Damn I so wish I could find the old mac magazine article satry with Scotty the clone of Bob from 94 or 95.
MS used to buy macintoshes just to copy their features in early versions of Windows. Infact Bill Gates had the first mac prototypes before anyone of course with the knowledge of making Windows 1.0 like it.
So now MS after years of poor management and engineering finally decided to focus on making a good os rather than concentrate on Office is outdoing MacOSX. Or at least attempting too.
Good and so what? This is what companies do and its good for consumers. Hyundia imitiated Toyota for years and finally make cars that are more reliable than toyota cars. So now the other company is imitiating Hyundai by hiring better engineers. Its life.
So why bash Apple? I bet he never bashed Microsoft for copying macos and even incorporating quicktime code in Media player which ms admitted to doing a decade ago.
It would be alot ore than 2% or 3% if Nvidia released quadro versions of their consumer cards. Artists and engineers really could use this more than gamers. Aren't quadro's just consumer cards with different drivers? THis is why Nvidia's drivers are closed source.
But still cool for gamers but even greater for more productive uses for this when money is involved. I think archcad and proengineer would scream on such a system.
You can get a 6200 for like $55. I think that is affordable even for the college student.
But this assumes you own your video card.
You see, you only bought a right to use it. The card came with it for convience. Just like I dont own my home or car. Only a right to live and drive them. Get with the program
Well if the card makers actually provided drivers or the kernel had an api for drivers so we could have closed source ones like Unix and Windows it would not be a big deal.
But if you want to run google Earth or the 3d visuals in amork or xmms then you need a 3d driver. The community has to reverse engineer them because the hardware makers only look at marketshare and prefer to only support an OS from a convicted monopolist instead.
Dont have that problem under Unix or Windows. I can run an old driver or app from solaris 2.x on solaris10 sparc without a problem. Same with Irix.
All the drivers are closed source on those platforms and its never a problem. WIthout an api your relying on the manufactor to use blobs instead.
I chose an api. Its what everyone uses
Personally I dont think that it was a flaw.
The conspiracist in me thinks this was a deliberate product feature to extort and put pressure on the licensee (city of hoboken) to give in or face angry users and lawsuits.
After all the news of companies like RIM extorting blackberry and shutting down their service and same with Apple music threatening to shutdown Itunes is an example of this new corporate culture. You can negotiate alot more money when you are blackmailed and pressure is involved. In the case with blackberry they gave RIM $500,000,000 for a product they never developed whose patent was ruled invalid. Amazing what we can learn from the mobfia.
Actually if I were in charge of this company I would be tempted to mandate this feature and screw whoever I could and raise the rates to exhorborant fees to renew the contracts. I would make a ton of money and its perfectly legal. I dont think I would ever sink to this low but it would certainly be on my mind if I were greedy enough.
There should be laws agaisnt this.
If aqua is ever opensourced you can bet within 24 hours there would be 5 projects on sourceforge to port the gui to Linux and OpenDarwin. Then you would no longer need to have a mac to run macosx or a macosx like environment.
The closing of the Xnu kernel and proprietary nature of carbon and aqua made alot of former macosx FOSS zealots switch to Linux. I am aware that Windows is all closed source but people run windows because it comes with their computers and all the software runs on it.
Most os's today are open source such as Solaris and the free unixies.
If the engine is an interference engine then a metal timing chain should be used. Not a rubber belt unless of course its a non interference engine. Then if it snaps no engine damage will be done. Still your supposed to replace them every 60,000 miles.
80/20 rule in bussiness. You spend 80% of the time on %20 of the problems or in this case annoying customers. Sometimes its best to let a competitor waste his resources on.
I know that sounds very unAmerician in this customer is god concept if your American but its true.
Just becarefull that you dont keep knocking off customers here and there until you wont have anymore. I have seen customers threaten former pc shops where I work with violence or come in and dude you are going to be soooo sorry bla bla. Not worth your time and could threaten the morale of yoru workers dealing with such jerks. A customer is not god and it only makes sense to serve them if its profitable.
Typo ... I meant the pistons slam into the cylinders if the timing belt chain breaks.
"The Civic is a great car, a marvel of economical engineering. I'd even say it is a more impressive feat than any Ferrari and has a huge community following"
Speaking as a former owner of a Honda Civic I find that particular statemement terrifying. I sold mine for $100 and still owe $2500 in repairs.
For example the timing belt chain is made of rubber and the engine is setup in such a way that the cylinders will smash into each other and wreck the engine when it breaks. Its an interference engine.
So every 60,000 miles your engine could be damaged if you forget to replace your rubber chain.
Brilliant engineering!
Also I had the struts go out every 10k miles instead of 40k which was quite strange.
No I never had that issue but I had nothing but problems iwth mine and I do admit it had over 100k miles but it performed more like a chevy or kia than a japanesse car after 115k miles and everything went out on it. My parents Nissan lasted for nearly 300k miles.
I now own a hyundia and glad I bought it.
I am signed in o a different user for my Ipod since I synced it to my gf's computer to hear her music.
Here is the problem. My system is fried and all my music is on the hard drive. I can't listen to my own music on the Ipod and if I replace the systems mainboard which is fried it will require another installation of Windows. Itunes will never create teh same user again even if its the same name. Therefore my collection is drmed and encrypted and unaccessible.
What a pain in the ass?
I think I will try to to use my failed installation of Windows as a seperate computer that the tunes are licensed too. Assuming that will even work??
I will never buy an Ipod again
tIME to upgrade. I was planning on upgrading my athlonXP +2400 to a +2900. However if these price drops occur I think I am just going to upgrade with a whole new motherboard and cpu. It would only be $150 more. But get them while they are hot!
Microsoft did use SCO Openserver as late as 1997 until Exchange server stopped sucking enough. Ask any MS employee from then? MS tries to eat its own dogfood but does not every time. For examle they also used OS/2 and not Windows 3.0 and perhaps didn't use Windows 3.1 either. They finally stopped using os/2 when Windows95 came out.
Well if only we had net neutrality ended and regulation. Then we can really get all high speed we want. While we are at it we should just let the teleco's do whatever they want and not be regulated by the FCC and we need them to have the ability to lobby whomever they wish for as much as they want.
After all these are acomplished I am sure we would have nice higher speed access for alot cheaper.
After all, the telecom industry said so as well as any republican. The market will make it so and the government is the problem. Who does the government think they are to come in and fight for consumers? Jessh
Ya, but the crap at Walmart is usually there because the movie was so terrible taht BestBuy and BlockBuster wont buy them and the studio's have an oversupply on their hands.
So they dump them at Walmart for near at cost. Walmart is cheap for a reason.
I assume you can at least get a good selection at the site. Also many newer hot titles are nearly $39 at most regular outlets.
Its not bidding. Look at it this way?
...last to recieve updates bit. Or if they really want to appear innocent they could simply let the OEM install Windows Vista when it came out but refused to give them early builds that hte other oem's enjoy. That way it would take weeks or months before their systems on the shelves had what their competitors had.
Nice computers you are selling I see. It would be a shame if your competitors got Windows Vista and Office 2007 before you did. Think about what that would do to yoru business?
Before MS used to jack up the price something obscene like %500 if you dared included just one pc without Windows with SCO or OS/2. The doj stopped this behavior but now its standard so ms does not have to worry about this anymore.
Today ms, can just use the
Also companies like Dell would love to see HP get grilled like this so customers would have to either wait while Bob enjoys Vista or just buy a Dell instead that already has it preinstalled.
I dont buy that.
Mainly because when I recieved NT4 for free when getting my MCSE many years ago. Directx3 was available and you could download directx5 beta for it. THen Microsoft decided it would be better to force me to upgrade to Windows2000 instead or have my downgrade to Windows98 (shudder). That pissed me off and I began looking at Linux as a result.
What platform do you think the directX team uses? Its not Vista. Its too unstable right now for real production use. They use WindowsXP and backporting directX10 beta's to Vista and then claiming they can't do it to save PR. What a load of crap?
Last they plan on including directx10 with the xbox360 live with a firmwire update or internet update. Does the xbox live use Xp embedded or the windows powered (aka WindowsCE) os instead? If it uses w2k or xp embedded my guess is the pr department is full of shit and wants us to hand out our wallets and watch the performance of our opengl games suffer instead.
So it now does after being investigated several years ago by the SEC. Hmm
Mine definitely has plans of her own and has her own set of dreams and makes more money than I do. We both love school and getting different degrees for things so that works out but they are in different area's.
:-)
I do agree with some insecure women who want to do everything with you. For example my former boss had a gf who obsessed with watching TV with him and would not do it without him. I personally wanted to shoot her.
I avoid those kinds of women so its not a problem. She has her own life and just likes to have fun with me.
Speaking of which, some companie slike Microsoft dont even pay dividends! Zilch. You get nothing from buyig Microsoft and its all based on what someone might pay for your share 6 months down the road.
SOme dividends are so low that is not worth it. For example how many dividends would you get for a share for a average company whose price is $15 a share? I was reading statistics somewhere and its only $.50 on average for each share around $15 in value??
In other words the stock market doesn't care about dividends. Only what someone might pay for something later like a game of monopoly. This seems very disturbing as everyone and their brother owns stocks just because everyone else does.
Like the housing market I sense reality might make things crash. Sure its not fair your neighbor made 50k flipping houses every 6 months but eventually it will reverse and you could lose everything when you are stuck with a mortage now that is worth alot more than the home.
I used to think like you and prefer to be alone. I hated dating.
However my gf is clingy but in a same way. MEaning she loves chatting with me and having me involved but loves to give me privacy when I need it. I learned to appreciate it more and being alone works only so long as it can cause depression. A gf will make sure you get your ass out of bed on your days off of work.