"Apple made it fairly clear that the early releases of MacOS X were only a few steps beyond beta"
I release a product that is not ready for the market.
I charge full price.
I never officially say that the product is a "beta" because then I couldn't charge full price.
Guess what, I don't really care whether or not "reading *any* of the Mac-releated news sites" should have made it clear that OS X ran like it was a debug build, Apple should have NOT released the product until it was ready. It was a cheap publicity ploy, plain and simple.
If it were any company besides apple (think Microsoft), you would be screaming bloody murder at having to pay an obscene amount of money for something THAT DIDN'T WORK.
Right on.
I've been using it on my G3 Powerbook for the last week or so, and it is _very_ good. Fast, stable, the ui tweaks are nice, and best of all, it can play DVD's!
But truth be told, this is what 10.0 should have been, and Apple really screwed the pooch by rushing out what really was a beta (or RC1 at best). Lots of people were turned off by 10.0 and ain't gonna switch to 10.1 until Office, Photoshop, et al are out. When Office X comes out in November, I'll be happy.
I had an interesting conversation about telecommuting with my boss at my last job. He said that the company really didn't have a problem with people telecommuting, but people who do so often get promoted less because they don't have as much face time with their superiors, can't volunteer for some projects, et al. He said a lot of people stopped telecommuting after a few years when their careers started to stagnate.
In primetime, it DOES seem pretty dumb. The Oscars give the technical awards at a different show, it's not the same with the Emmys? Or did Steve Jobs threaten to unleash those horrible Jeff Goldbloom ads again?
oh, good point. I was referring to their consumer systems which have lots and lots of random stuff on them. I was using an NT4 Optiplex myself a couple of years ago and that was fine...
Amen. First thing I do when a friend gets a Dell is an fdisk, format and reinstall of the OS. Saw a huuuuge performance improvement between the Dell installation and my own.
...slashdot misrepresents an article. The complaint about email was due to the vague wording of the legislation, that "unsolicited" email could be a crime.
While I hope to god this bill dies soon, the editors owe their readers more than just yellow journalism and fearmongering.
What about something that supplements the existing internet, like I2? Business gets their smart fast controlled network, and we get our free (slightly) slower less accountable one. That way everyone's happy.
Seriously. Sounds like a publicity grab to me. Say what you want about MSFT (and there are a lot of reasons not to like them), this is government interference at its worst. The whole point of US anititrust laws is to encourage innovation and competition in the market. This would stop innovation (such as it is) and not really help competition that much. I think Washington needs a reality check. But I think that much was apparent by the DMCA.
What other workgroup systems give you email, calendar, and the ability to share your email/calendar with your assistant/colleagues?
Lotus Notes. I'm not promoting it (Used it when I used to work for Big Blue and hated the UI) - I use Eudora and my Vx and say "screw sharing":) - but it does exist, and offers some cool security features.
Which of their competitors is losing money? Microsoft? Dell? Intel? (I guess that would be a competitor to Motorola). Red Hat?
Who ARE Apple's competitors? We always talk about "their competition" -- and there's plenty of O/S competition, hardware competition, et al, but no one offers what they do in one compete package -- so I guess there's no business competition:)
"In support of freedom of choice in browser software, this web site is Microsoft-Free on Fridays. Please use any browser except MSIE to access this web site today."
Well, I would assume "freedom of choice in browser software" would include my choice to use MSIE. But it apparently doesn't work that way.
Come on, that's just ridiculous.
Right. I think that the big thing with trademark law (at least in the US) is that if a product's name is close enough to cause confusion, it's a no-no. KIllustrator and Illustrator are similar products and close enough in name to cause confusion to the non-linux crowd...
Now if you had named a set of colored pencils KIllustrator or Illustrator for that matter, there'd be no problem?
Yes you can set a dollar limit. That dollar limit is the point where YOU do not want to spend any more. For example, there is a world of difference between a Honda Civic and BMW M5, but many people will not spend the money for it. I was asking people if THEY would spend the money for a 100k system. Spend some time reading audiophile mags and you find that many of the writers do not have the 100k systems (even though they care and listen a lot) because THEY DON'T THINK IT'S WORTH IT.
By the way, people will take you more seriously if you don't use a form of "retard" in almost every sentence.
Just spend a few minutes browsing through Stereophile. 100k for a pair of JM Labs Grand Utopia speakers, plus amps, transports, preamps et al.
But still, it's addictive. I'm working on my own (low) high end system right now and the difference is amazing between a five hundred dollar system and a fifteen hundred one. So what about higher? Is true High End worth it?
What would you do with apache on a PDA? I know it's just for putting the hardware through it's paces but I want some suggestions for nefarious purposes...
"Once identity is established it will be cross-referenced to capture that person's income and buying preferences. It's only a matter of time"
Well, they do that with credit cards already. So we should be used to it (that statement scares me, admittedly). The bad part about this is that it registers emotion and reaction to specific products - involuntary reactions in many cases. The information collected isn't just buying preferences but core values...things that might be DEDUCED from what I buy I suppose, but I still have control over what is tracked and what isn't (pay cash).
Right, so now anything I do, see, or react to can be held against me. It's a marketer's wet dream. We need to find out what stores are using these, pronto. There's a reason why they don't want their identities known! How can we go about doing this? Does anyone work places that have thought about (or are) implementing this system?
I think that the term "retinal scanning" is kind of a misnomer. The lasers would just project onto your retina; there would be no way to identify who you are (assuming the hardware did not have to be customized for each user). To identify, one would have to as detector hardware, which is more complicated (and apparent to anyone who buys it) than a few lines of code
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What's your point?
China [the culture] and China [the country run by the Chinese Communist Party] are two entirely separate things. China [the country run by the Chinese Communist Party] has been very agressive towards Taiwan who, despite being Chinese [the culture] is not enamoured with the idea of being run by China [the country run by the Chinese Communist Party].
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Was I the ONLY person that thought Archer looked like Dubya?
"Apple made it fairly clear that the early releases of MacOS X were only a few steps beyond beta"
I release a product that is not ready for the market.
I charge full price.
I never officially say that the product is a "beta" because then I couldn't charge full price.
Guess what, I don't really care whether or not "reading *any* of the Mac-releated news sites" should have made it clear that OS X ran like it was a debug build, Apple should have NOT released the product until it was ready. It was a cheap publicity ploy, plain and simple.
If it were any company besides apple (think Microsoft), you would be screaming bloody murder at having to pay an obscene amount of money for something THAT DIDN'T WORK.
Right on. I've been using it on my G3 Powerbook for the last week or so, and it is _very_ good. Fast, stable, the ui tweaks are nice, and best of all, it can play DVD's!
But truth be told, this is what 10.0 should have been, and Apple really screwed the pooch by rushing out what really was a beta (or RC1 at best). Lots of people were turned off by 10.0 and ain't gonna switch to 10.1 until Office, Photoshop, et al are out. When Office X comes out in November, I'll be happy.
I had an interesting conversation about telecommuting with my boss at my last job. He said that the company really didn't have a problem with people telecommuting, but people who do so often get promoted less because they don't have as much face time with their superiors, can't volunteer for some projects, et al. He said a lot of people stopped telecommuting after a few years when their careers started to stagnate.
Heck, I used to WORK at IBM and we used MS Office instead of SmartSuite. Sad but true.
Academy awards, non-primetime (technical achievement are the day before).
In primetime, it DOES seem pretty dumb. The Oscars give the technical awards at a different show, it's not the same with the Emmys? Or did Steve Jobs threaten to unleash those horrible Jeff Goldbloom ads again?
oh, good point. I was referring to their consumer systems which have lots and lots of random stuff on them. I was using an NT4 Optiplex myself a couple of years ago and that was fine...
Amen. First thing I do when a friend gets a Dell is an fdisk, format and reinstall of the OS. Saw a huuuuge performance improvement between the Dell installation and my own.
...slashdot misrepresents an article. The complaint about email was due to the vague wording of the legislation, that "unsolicited" email could be a crime.
While I hope to god this bill dies soon, the editors owe their readers more than just yellow journalism and fearmongering.
Sorry, I should have made myself clear. Something on the model of I2, not I2 itself.
What about something that supplements the existing internet, like I2? Business gets their smart fast controlled network, and we get our free (slightly) slower less accountable one. That way everyone's happy.
Seriously. Sounds like a publicity grab to me. Say what you want about MSFT (and there are a lot of reasons not to like them), this is government interference at its worst. The whole point of US anititrust laws is to encourage innovation and competition in the market. This would stop innovation (such as it is) and not really help competition that much. I think Washington needs a reality check. But I think that much was apparent by the DMCA.
What other workgroup systems give you email, calendar, and the ability to share your email/calendar with your assistant/colleagues? :) - but it does exist, and offers some cool security features.
Lotus Notes. I'm not promoting it (Used it when I used to work for Big Blue and hated the UI) - I use Eudora and my Vx and say "screw sharing"
Which of their competitors is losing money? Microsoft? Dell? Intel? (I guess that would be a competitor to Motorola). Red Hat?
:)
Who ARE Apple's competitors? We always talk about "their competition" -- and there's plenty of O/S competition, hardware competition, et al, but no one offers what they do in one compete package -- so I guess there's no business competition
"In support of freedom of choice in browser software, this web site is Microsoft-Free on Fridays. Please use any browser except MSIE to access this web site today."
Well, I would assume "freedom of choice in browser software" would include my choice to use MSIE. But it apparently doesn't work that way.
Come on, that's just ridiculous.
Japan has the death penalty.
And you're not sorry. You're practically chortling with glee.
Right. I think that the big thing with trademark law (at least in the US) is that if a product's name is close enough to cause confusion, it's a no-no. KIllustrator and Illustrator are similar products and close enough in name to cause confusion to the non-linux crowd...
Now if you had named a set of colored pencils KIllustrator or Illustrator for that matter, there'd be no problem?
Lawyers, am I wrong? Set me straight
I just gotta say this -
Imagine a beowolf cluster of 747s!
Yes you can set a dollar limit. That dollar limit is the point where YOU do not want to spend any more. For example, there is a world of difference between a Honda Civic and BMW M5, but many people will not spend the money for it. I was asking people if THEY would spend the money for a 100k system. Spend some time reading audiophile mags and you find that many of the writers do not have the 100k systems (even though they care and listen a lot) because THEY DON'T THINK IT'S WORTH IT.
By the way, people will take you more seriously if you don't use a form of "retard" in almost every sentence.
Just spend a few minutes browsing through Stereophile. 100k for a pair of JM Labs Grand Utopia speakers, plus amps, transports, preamps et al.
But still, it's addictive. I'm working on my own (low) high end system right now and the difference is amazing between a five hundred dollar system and a fifteen hundred one. So what about higher? Is true High End worth it?
What would you do with apache on a PDA? I know it's just for putting the hardware through it's paces but I want some suggestions for nefarious purposes...
"Once identity is established it will be cross-referenced to capture that person's income and buying preferences. It's only a matter of time"
Well, they do that with credit cards already. So we should be used to it (that statement scares me, admittedly). The bad part about this is that it registers emotion and reaction to specific products - involuntary reactions in many cases. The information collected isn't just buying preferences but core values...things that might be DEDUCED from what I buy I suppose, but I still have control over what is tracked and what isn't (pay cash).
Right, so now anything I do, see, or react to can be held against me. It's a marketer's wet dream. We need to find out what stores are using these, pronto. There's a reason why they don't want their identities known! How can we go about doing this? Does anyone work places that have thought about (or are) implementing this system?
I think that the term "retinal scanning" is kind of a misnomer. The lasers would just project onto your retina; there would be no way to identify who you are (assuming the hardware did not have to be customized for each user). To identify, one would have to as detector hardware, which is more complicated (and apparent to anyone who buys it) than a few lines of code
What's your point?
China [the culture] and China [the country run by the Chinese Communist Party] are two entirely separate things. China [the country run by the Chinese Communist Party] has been very agressive towards Taiwan who, despite being Chinese [the culture] is not enamoured with the idea of being run by China [the country run by the Chinese Communist Party].