"Of course we are innovating and we absolutely want to defeat Linux, just as we want to defeat any other competitor. We work and live in a competitive environment, as do most companies. The competitive battle between Pepsi and Coke is legendary, as is the battle between GM and Ford, Boeing and Airbus, and the Red Sox and Yankees."
Except Coke is never going to "defeat" Pepsi in the sense that they will put Pepsi out of business, Neither is GM's goal to see Ford fold tomorrow, etc... Certainly the Red Sox don't want to see the Yankees disappear - then their main reason for selling tickets would also go away. It's mostly about market share. If MS hasn't made Apple and *NIX and Linux go away yet, odds are they won't. Since Apple and *NIX are MS's de facto incubators, they'd be doubly dumb to see them die outright.
Darl might be referring to the ardor of fans of these products, and the boasting and fan-boy attitudes that prevail in popular culture over brands. His previous experiences were at hardware companies (IKON) where they're trying to push copier units, win the trip to Hawaii, and the sales pep rallies can be the stuff of bad movies. I actually had a sales rep tell me "Dude - the IKON blah-blah BLOWS AWAY the Canon what-ever - just TOASTS it!" I think they lock these guys in a room with their eyes taped open watching SportsCenter reruns for 168 hours straight.
If he thought the SW world would be like that, he guessed wrong. He's selling this stuff and exposing his strategies to people who know how it works, who can write equivalent software, who are used to far greater transparency and aren't making decisions based on sales brochures and hype.
As for his apparent brand of competition, mostly, the companies themselves who make "par" products (there's really not a world of difference between them - it's pretty much the same can of beans) know that if they ever really got THAT competitive, they'd be waging a war that would likely see the defeat of the victor as well - there will always be new competition, some suprising and more effective and more flexible than anyone thought. Who thought a company whose original product was toilet paper could dominate the cell phone market? While the established players in online music were each convinced their solution was going to be "it", they succeeded in beating each others brains out and Apple came out of nowhere and owned them all.
Using all that as an excuse for going for the rest of the industry's throat isn't going to go well, no matter what the rest of the rationale is, and we know now that all the rest of it was impossibly thin to begin with.
They still hand-fly the landing for two reasons - the trivial one is it gives the pilots something to "do". The non-trivial one is the landing programs have never been certified for flight. Given the bucks, they could do so, but last I'd checked it's still an option but not a good one.
For the past ten years (since my PB1400 days) a decent Mac was within $100 of the price of COMPARABLY EQUIPPED PC box, and for at least the past five years, cheaper.
You can also thank Windows for the virus / trojan / worm hell - on balance it's not an OS I would invest time or money in given the choice.
Running a lab with 1:3 PC:Mac, I can tell you that it takes as much time to babysit those 1/4 PCs as to take care of the 3/4 Macs.
(bridging from the original item yesterday that had people in spasms proclaiming how bad it would be when they actually used it - because apparently according to them Apple must have designed, built, manufactured, whipped and sold this without trying to use it...)
It acts like a typical Apple mouse for feel and clicking, it is tactile and the right/left thing is not at all like a track/tap pad. It's like having two buttons. The center button takes some getting used to to just move it and not click it, the squeeze buttons are cool, dunno what I'd assign to them yet.
The local Apple store sold out of the 12 they got immediately.
It's intuitive. There's plenty of tactile feedback on all buttons. Left and right click feel exactly as they should. Everyone relax. BTW this Apple store sold out of them already.
Millions *would* want to, most of those *could* not. You apply to the astronaut corp. Typically 3,000 applicants reduced to 120 candidates down to 15 astronauts per class. It is a very rigorous competition of skill, experience, and attitude. Once chosen, they work harder than most people imagine. Luck has less to do with it than attitude and persistence.
"Apple has included with the Developer Kit DVD uses TCPA/TPM DRM. More specifically, it includes "a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip "
After 2001 debuted, someone at PanAm got smart and instead of hanging up on what they thought were cranks looking for tickets to the moon, they started taking cataloged down payments on the first PanAm flights to the moon...
One way or the other, I want to visit my one acre on the moon!
(1) the three minute average is silly. You can work uninterrupted or be in a meeting for an hour - this means you'd need other spans of near constant interruption to hit that average. Most likely this was a survey, "3 minutes" was a choice and it came up most often. People like to complain to inquisitive strangers who are paying attention to them, and you see the events, not the space between them.
(Same problem accurately estimating cloud cover. Here's an exercise: Take a sheet of plain paper. Fold it in half the short way, tear a big circle out of the middle. Open it back up. You have a rectangular paper donut. Tear the round piece in half. Put one half in your pocket, tear the other into about a dozen random shapes and sizes. Lay the donut down. Lay the random pieces into the open hole. Ask passers-by to tell you how much of the hole is filled. You'll get big numbers. 70-80 % coverage. You can prove it's really only 50% - you have exactly half the hole in your pocket untouched.)
(2) the 8 minute ramp-up is almost as silly. Suppose it's roughly right. Office workers are required to be in "a really creative state" to get any work done? Nonsense.
Their motto is "invent" not "schlep". If they hadn't produced world-beater printers, they woudn't be selling that ink. So do the same with PC hardware and software. HP stockholders would kill for Apple's 2-year growth due to what? Innovation, foresight and the stones to carry it out. You want focus? STOP MAKING AND SELLING COMPAQ. Build your brand. Most recent quarter, printing & imaging was 30% of their revenue - as was personal systems. Same quarter year-to-year, printing grew 5%, PCs grew 6%, even closer scrutiny, ink rose only 4% (with a 15% decline in profits), consumer laptops 10%. But their services unit beat them all for revenue growth - 14%.
By that stockholder / analyst logic, they'd still be the best oscilloscope maker in town.
I was just talking to someone yesterday about how HP has a thread of innovation and style (like Apple) and the entire PC market for the taking (like Dell), and if they do things right, they have an Apple-like hook with a much larger market potential. And they have Alan Kay.
Seems like a bonehead move to me. If Apple could make much of iLife under OS9 and now OSX, then someone with a great SW division could certainly push the PC software envelope in the Windows world.
A cop ticketed me for doing 60 in a 40 - I saw him, checked my speed (42) and figured I was OK. I took pictures of the car where it was stopped and his view of the road from where they were parked, got aerial photos (acme.com) and did the calculations that showed that for him to catch me and stop me where he did then either I couldn't have been doing more than low 40s or if I was doing 60 he had to get his car backed out of a parking spot, get going and on the main road in under 2 seconds. The court looked at it and since I said I was doing 42, gave me a $25 "sign violation". Not a bad morning's work.
That music videos started out as promos - free ones - to push music sales. MTV made its nut early on leveraging this (until they became the angst outlet for whiney 24-year-old teens).
Of course this was back in the same era when a pair of fathers and sons from Bristol CT were having a tough time figuring out how they could ever fill 24 hours of sports on a cable channel...
1. It's a joke - laugh. 2. this "simpliest" solution apparently didn't work 3. the story of the space pen is just that - an urban legend - and every time I hear it quoted, the price tag goes up - but congrats - you now hold the record at $60M. Everyone - US included - used a pencil until the pen was delivered. Everyone - Russians included - used the pen after that.
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Do you remember the demos of what it took to extricate Explorer from Windows?
Lots of hard work by some hefty nerds.
What does it take to play your iTMS/Fairplay music on anything else?
Burn a CD.
In theory they're both leverage. In practice they're very different.
that Apple got there by making a clearly superior product and applying DRM to satisfy the copyright holders.
Making that equivalent with your typical MSFT strategy for sewing up a market is way out in left field.
You can use your iTunes anywhere you want. Burn, re-rip. Thinking that Apple is going to do this for you is unreasonable.
Apple needs to enforce the DRM so that it maintains its consistent potection of the holder's requirements.
Real's claim to want interop really really really badly is hardly a reason for Apple to allow them to monkey with the DRM.
... on a screenplay by a guy who has "agenda" written on his forehead.
"Of course we are innovating and we absolutely want to defeat Linux, just as we want to defeat any other competitor. We work and live in a competitive environment, as do most companies. The competitive battle between Pepsi and Coke is legendary, as is the battle between GM and Ford, Boeing and Airbus, and the Red Sox and Yankees."
Except Coke is never going to "defeat" Pepsi in the sense that they will put Pepsi out of business, Neither is GM's goal to see Ford fold tomorrow, etc... Certainly the Red Sox don't want to see the Yankees disappear - then their main reason for selling tickets would also go away. It's mostly about market share. If MS hasn't made Apple and *NIX and Linux go away yet, odds are they won't. Since Apple and *NIX are MS's de facto incubators, they'd be doubly dumb to see them die outright.
Darl might be referring to the ardor of fans of these products, and the boasting and fan-boy attitudes that prevail in popular culture over brands. His previous experiences were at hardware companies (IKON) where they're trying to push copier units, win the trip to Hawaii, and the sales pep rallies can be the stuff of bad movies. I actually had a sales rep tell me "Dude - the IKON blah-blah BLOWS AWAY the Canon what-ever - just TOASTS it!" I think they lock these guys in a room with their eyes taped open watching SportsCenter reruns for 168 hours straight.
If he thought the SW world would be like that, he guessed wrong. He's selling this stuff and exposing his strategies to people who know how it works, who can write equivalent software, who are used to far greater transparency and aren't making decisions based on sales brochures and hype.
As for his apparent brand of competition, mostly, the companies themselves who make "par" products (there's really not a world of difference between them - it's pretty much the same can of beans) know that if they ever really got THAT competitive, they'd be waging a war that would likely see the defeat of the victor as well - there will always be new competition, some suprising and more effective and more flexible than anyone thought. Who thought a company whose original product was toilet paper could dominate the cell phone market? While the established players in online music were each convinced their solution was going to be "it", they succeeded in beating each others brains out and Apple came out of nowhere and owned them all.
Using all that as an excuse for going for the rest of the industry's throat isn't going to go well, no matter what the rest of the rationale is, and we know now that all the rest of it was impossibly thin to begin with.
"My job is to help Microsoft have an understanding of the Open Source technology world. "
Oh yeah:
"My job is to help *Black Flag* have an understanding of the *cellular metabolism of ants and cockroaches*."
They still hand-fly the landing for two reasons - the trivial one is it gives the pilots something to "do". The non-trivial one is the landing programs have never been certified for flight. Given the bucks, they could do so, but last I'd checked it's still an option but not a good one.
I'm good and sick of this.
For the past ten years (since my PB1400 days) a decent Mac was within $100 of the price of COMPARABLY EQUIPPED PC box, and for at least the past five years, cheaper.
You can also thank Windows for the virus / trojan / worm hell - on balance it's not an OS I would invest time or money in given the choice.
Running a lab with 1:3 PC:Mac, I can tell you that it takes as much time to babysit those 1/4 PCs as to take care of the 3/4 Macs.
Who's more expensive now?
(bridging from the original item yesterday that had people in spasms proclaiming how bad it would be when they actually used it - because apparently according to them Apple must have designed, built, manufactured, whipped and sold this without trying to use it...)
It acts like a typical Apple mouse for feel and clicking, it is tactile and the right/left thing is not at all like a track/tap pad. It's like having two buttons. The center button takes some getting used to to just move it and not click it, the squeeze buttons are cool, dunno what I'd assign to them yet.
The local Apple store sold out of the 12 they got immediately.
It's intuitive. There's plenty of tactile feedback on all buttons.
Left and right click feel exactly as they should.
Everyone relax.
BTW this Apple store sold out of them already.
Millions *would* want to, most of those *could* not.
You apply to the astronaut corp.
Typically 3,000 applicants reduced to 120 candidates down to 15 astronauts per class.
It is a very rigorous competition of skill, experience, and attitude.
Once chosen, they work harder than most people imagine.
Luck has less to do with it than attitude and persistence.
...they remained on the earth during this run, they were merely making 80% of all the current on the earth. Currently. Well, currently at that time...
"Apple has included with the Developer Kit DVD uses TCPA/TPM DRM. More specifically, it includes "a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip "
Yes, but does it have Full LRF Support?
"This picture: http://www.caffeine-junkies.com/images/articles/ik itchen/cut5.jpg"
Don't Drink and Dremel.
(apologies to Matt Groening)
After 2001 debuted, someone at PanAm got smart and instead of hanging up on what they thought were cranks looking for tickets to the moon, they started taking cataloged down payments on the first PanAm flights to the moon...
One way or the other, I want to visit my one acre on the moon!
Astronauts are on government pay scales GS-11 thru GS-14.
The lowest step of GS-11 is $45K per year, the highest step of GS-14 is $99K per year.
Another way to look at it is that they do it in spite of the middling bucks, because that's the sort of person they are.
.. in the Google version.
I wonder who's supposed to be able to see the "coronado" spelled out in the sand.
This rumor has been on ThinkSecret for a week.
CNN quotes it and suddenly it's worth listening to?
(1) the three minute average is silly. You can work uninterrupted or be in a meeting for an hour - this means you'd need other spans of near constant interruption to hit that average. Most likely this was a survey, "3 minutes" was a choice and it came up most often. People like to complain to inquisitive strangers who are paying attention to them, and you see the events, not the space between them.
(Same problem accurately estimating cloud cover. Here's an exercise: Take a sheet of plain paper. Fold it in half the short way, tear a big circle out of the middle. Open it back up. You have a rectangular paper donut. Tear the round piece in half. Put one half in your pocket, tear the other into about a dozen random shapes and sizes. Lay the donut down. Lay the random pieces into the open hole. Ask passers-by to tell you how much of the hole is filled. You'll get big numbers. 70-80 % coverage. You can prove it's really only 50% - you have exactly half the hole in your pocket untouched.)
(2) the 8 minute ramp-up is almost as silly. Suppose it's roughly right. Office workers are required to be in "a really creative state" to get any work done? Nonsense.
Their motto is "invent" not "schlep".
If they hadn't produced world-beater printers, they woudn't be selling that ink.
So do the same with PC hardware and software.
HP stockholders would kill for Apple's 2-year growth due to what? Innovation, foresight and the stones to carry it out.
You want focus? STOP MAKING AND SELLING COMPAQ. Build your brand.
Most recent quarter, printing & imaging was 30% of their revenue - as was personal systems. Same quarter year-to-year, printing grew 5%, PCs grew 6%, even closer scrutiny, ink rose only 4% (with a 15% decline in profits), consumer laptops 10%. But their services unit beat them all for revenue growth - 14%.
By that stockholder / analyst logic, they'd still be the best oscilloscope maker in town.
I was just talking to someone yesterday about how HP has a thread of innovation and style (like Apple) and the entire PC market for the taking (like Dell), and if they do things right, they have an Apple-like hook with a much larger market potential. And they have Alan Kay.
Seems like a bonehead move to me. If Apple could make much of iLife under OS9 and now OSX, then someone with a great SW division could certainly push the PC software envelope in the Windows world.
1. i was doing 42
2. it's a $25 fine with no further penalties vs. $185 and insurance badness.
A cop ticketed me for doing 60 in a 40 - I saw him, checked my speed (42) and figured I was OK. I took pictures of the car where it was stopped and his view of the road from where they were parked, got aerial photos (acme.com) and did the calculations that showed that for him to catch me and stop me where he did then either I couldn't have been doing more than low 40s or if I was doing 60 he had to get his car backed out of a parking spot, get going and on the main road in under 2 seconds. The court looked at it and since I said I was doing 42, gave me a $25 "sign violation". Not a bad morning's work.
That music videos started out as promos - free ones - to push music sales. MTV made its nut early on leveraging this (until they became the angst outlet for whiney 24-year-old teens).
Of course this was back in the same era when a pair of fathers and sons from Bristol CT were having a tough time figuring out how they could ever fill 24 hours of sports on a cable channel...
Spend $400 so you don't have to spend $129. Brilliant!
And good luck with that $375 Dell.
1. It's a joke - laugh.
2. this "simpliest" solution apparently didn't work
3. the story of the space pen is just that - an urban legend - and every time I hear it quoted, the price tag goes up - but congrats - you now hold the record at $60M. Everyone - US included - used a pencil until the pen was delivered. Everyone - Russians included - used the pen after that.