This is the old business model, one that has shown to be successful in the short-term but I believe ultimately is doomed to failure.
Customers like choice. Customers hate to be bullied into using something, and even worse resent using something only to find out that they are locked in and didn't realize it.
In the big IM boom there was ICQ, then MSN, Yahoo, etc. But people found that they had some friends on one, and some friends on the other, so they would install both. However some programmers ran into this and figured out how to write their own IM clients that allowed you to act as one, both or whole slew of IM clients as well as adding features.
Microsoft also recently got in trouble for 'bundling' their browser with their OS, and not making it easy to change the default. Which is what you are suggesting.
The last thing people at google want to do is lock people into some proprietary search engine. They want the public to have the freedom to switch. Why? Because they are convinced that they offer the best service.
If you offer the best service then you don't need to lock customers into your solution.
And keeping it the best service is what their search index updates, and PageRank tuning is all about.
Defense Lawyer: Your honour, if you let this case proceed our court systems will be flooded with inane frivolous lawsuits, and the number of lawyers in our country will rise exponentially. As proof I would like to enter into Evident Exhibit A, the United States legal system.
Under the new law it will also be illegal to manufacture a computer keyboard with the forward slash '/' key.
And in other news use of the internet has decreased sharply. Those who are still using the internet are using the default homepages more, rather than drilling down to the page they want.
Also millions of students fail math because they no longer have the divide button crutch they had been relying on for years.
Comparing raw cpu power for consoles and pc's does not give a correct picture of the performance, but don't mention that because it serves your argument quite well.
Personally I would rather buy a console and have it play games released for the system (for approx 5 years), and being able to play those games until the system can no longer be repaired.
My PC is 3-4 years old. It could barely play the games that came out 1 year after it was purchased, and has no hopes of playing any graphical game released in the last two years.
I loved the original screen savers, in fact I was telling people to pay extra to get TechTV just for that show. It never failed to inform me on a wide range of topics in a single episode.
Then, the G4 bomb hit.
The screensavers was pillaged and plundered and all that was left was hollow remains and the logo. I am glad that they eventually rebranded it 'Attack of the Show', because it didn't resemble anything of its namesake.
However Attack of the Show is getting better, at being what it intends. A little informative, a lot of tries at humour (some payoff, some don't) and then a lot of fluff. I think it is starting to hit it's stride, tossing out the segments (with one of the new hosts that was completely clueless) that don't work and allowing new segments to try and get a footing.
It's no screen savers, but it is getting a little better at the new target market.
On the plus side I get Call for Help, reborn and broadcasting from Toronto. Having Leo escape regularly to my city and broadcast his unique brand of show is one good thing to come out of the merger.
The only thing I found lacking in the game was knowing where to go in Co-Operative play. In addition to removing your binoculars you do not have access to a map. This was frustrating on the first co-op level in trying to figure out how to get into the big fancy server room to end the mission, without really knowing where you had to go.
With the game being so new there were no walkthroughs for the co-op mode either. But I am pretty sure that has changed by now.
From what I have seen of CMVC it would be good for large scale development projects. However configuration looked to be a pain in the butt to get it set up right and define everything correctly. For small projects it just had way too much process overhead to make it efficent, Defects-Tracks-Levels-Releases.
Although it does handle file renames etc much easier than cvs.
If IBM did release the source (which I can only believe would be ugly), or make it freely available to download, there is a ton of documentation already out there for it (god bless redbooks).
So cmvc is not a perfect solution, but it might be better than some of the other alternatives.
Most people don't closely monitor their accounts. Also the theif could have used an account under an assumed name. you could bounce the money around for a while to make a long trail and then withdraw it at some point.
Of course its still pretty suspicious when the smell y computer nerd you know buys your block and turns it into a 1:20 replica of his parents basement.
Indeed! Heck they should even give away copies of their dictionary. Free Information For All. Profits? What is that? We don't need profits, so what if our business is based on, you know, selling their compiled information.
IBM will not be producting any PC hardware. They cannot compete with the Dell's of the world. They sold off their PC business because they can't compete, getting right back in the thick of it would be silly and ridiculous. Of course time will tell:)
. Jesus let them have access. Let them track the defects through the levels and releases back to the source and try and find their code. Better yet just give them a windows client to connect to the remote machine over a slow network link. Twenty minutes and they will give up, pack their bags, and return to the centre of the earth.
He's not changing the subject. He is saying, listen yes we do have DRM. Some of our customers want a secure envelope. When they come to use we don't tell them to use DRM, we see what they want, and what we can reasonably do. His other choice is to turn away customers that want some measure of security to try and apease the unwashed masses, which seems like a pretty stupid business decision.
Protection is protection. He is write there is no difference in protecting a movie and protecting medical records. Its all rights managment of bits. Gates and Microsoft are not taking a political view and saying DRM good, free bad. They are saying "Hey we can give you both chocolate and vanilla."
Gizmodo: I think setting up the platform? No, it's not inherently bad. But I think it does depend on what it is that you're protecting. But I think we just disagree.
Gates: No, I actually don't think we disagree.
I can't tell if its spin by Gates, or spin by Gizmodo, or just looks like spin because its transcribed. But it made me spit coke out on my laptop.
Why is this modded at 0? Applications outside the norm (but inside what is standard for some Enterprise businesses) is exactly what this book should be covering.
Most people can install linux. It's when you run into a corrupted video driver, or firewire not working, or WiFi not working that an inexperienced linux user will get throw their hands up. Add to that a big wig breathing down your neck to determine migration feasability and it gets pretty easy to answer 'Nope, not yet.'
For example. I installed fedora core 3 a little while back. And my video was completely messed up, it wasn't refreshing properly. Now here I am an IT professional, but not a Linux geek. So I try to google, but couldn't find a match. It was an old machine I had converted over to Linux, so I didn't know that it was an Intel(97?) on-board video, which happened to have a corrupted driver in fedora core 3. But without the knowledge of the hardware, I had no chance of finding the problem.
Linux can be great for an enterprise, but when you have many different configurations of machines, different user levels, it has to be easy to get your techies up-to-speed and trained to know what to look for, before they can even begin to handle the monstrocities that the users will throw at them.
Slashdot Mirror
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity/ serenity_ifs2.mov
if you don't have/want itunes.
This is the old business model, one that has shown to be successful in the short-term but I believe ultimately is doomed to failure.
Customers like choice. Customers hate to be bullied into using something, and even worse resent using something only to find out that they are locked in and didn't realize it.
In the big IM boom there was ICQ, then MSN, Yahoo, etc. But people found that they had some friends on one, and some friends on the other, so they would install both. However some programmers ran into this and figured out how to write their own IM clients that allowed you to act as one, both or whole slew of IM clients as well as adding features.
Microsoft also recently got in trouble for 'bundling' their browser with their OS, and not making it easy to change the default. Which is what you are suggesting.
The last thing people at google want to do is lock people into some proprietary search engine. They want the public to have the freedom to switch. Why? Because they are convinced that they offer the best service.
If you offer the best service then you don't need to lock customers into your solution.
And keeping it the best service is what their search index updates, and PageRank tuning is all about.
Apparently it has been a long time since Hillary actually had sex.
Seriously its graphical sex (sex portrayed with graphics), not graphic sex. They don't even have anatomically correct parts for intercourse.
You sir are lucky Rowling didn't patent making up words ;)
Defense Lawyer: Your honour, if you let this case proceed our court systems will be flooded with inane frivolous lawsuits, and the number of lawyers in our country will rise exponentially. As proof I would like to enter into Evident Exhibit A, the United States legal system.
Judge: Case Dismissed!
And in other news use of the internet has decreased sharply. Those who are still using the internet are using the default homepages more, rather than drilling down to the page they want.
Also millions of students fail math because they no longer have the divide button crutch they had been relying on for years.
I hope to god there are existing patents for CLI that could be thrown back in Microsofts face. "Sorry Bill, someone patented the 'prompt'."
Comparing raw cpu power for consoles and pc's does not give a correct picture of the performance, but don't mention that because it serves your argument quite well.
Personally I would rather buy a console and have it play games released for the system (for approx 5 years), and being able to play those games until the system can no longer be repaired.
My PC is 3-4 years old. It could barely play the games that came out 1 year after it was purchased, and has no hopes of playing any graphical game released in the last two years.
I loved the original screen savers, in fact I was telling people to pay extra to get TechTV just for that show. It never failed to inform me on a wide range of topics in a single episode.
Then, the G4 bomb hit.
The screensavers was pillaged and plundered and all that was left was hollow remains and the logo. I am glad that they eventually rebranded it 'Attack of the Show', because it didn't resemble anything of its namesake.
However Attack of the Show is getting better, at being what it intends. A little informative, a lot of tries at humour (some payoff, some don't) and then a lot of fluff. I think it is starting to hit it's stride, tossing out the segments (with one of the new hosts that was completely clueless) that don't work and allowing new segments to try and get a footing.
It's no screen savers, but it is getting a little better at the new target market.
On the plus side I get Call for Help, reborn and broadcasting from Toronto. Having Leo escape regularly to my city and broadcast his unique brand of show is one good thing to come out of the merger.
The only thing I found lacking in the game was knowing where to go in Co-Operative play. In addition to removing your binoculars you do not have access to a map. This was frustrating on the first co-op level in trying to figure out how to get into the big fancy server room to end the mission, without really knowing where you had to go.
With the game being so new there were no walkthroughs for the co-op mode either. But I am pretty sure that has changed by now.
From what I have seen of CMVC it would be good for large scale development projects. However configuration looked to be a pain in the butt to get it set up right and define everything correctly. For small projects it just had way too much process overhead to make it efficent, Defects-Tracks-Levels-Releases.
Although it does handle file renames etc much easier than cvs.
If IBM did release the source (which I can only believe would be ugly), or make it freely available to download, there is a ton of documentation already out there for it (god bless redbooks).
So cmvc is not a perfect solution, but it might be better than some of the other alternatives.
Most people don't closely monitor their accounts.
Also the theif could have used an account under an assumed name. you could bounce the money around for a while to make a long trail and then withdraw it at some point.
Of course its still pretty suspicious when the smell y computer nerd you know buys your block and turns it into a 1:20 replica of his parents basement.
So I shouldn't bother getting a /. subscription? ;)
Indeed! Heck they should even give away copies of their dictionary. Free Information For All. Profits? What is that? We don't need profits, so what if our business is based on, you know, selling their compiled information.
IBM will not be producting any PC hardware. They cannot compete with the Dell's of the world. They sold off their PC business because they can't compete, getting right back in the thick of it would be silly and ridiculous. Of course time will tell :)
Of course they do have Canada, but you are EuroCentric.
my local independant record store
;)
Sorry grandpa, your what?
He's not changing the subject. He is saying, listen yes we do have DRM. Some of our customers want a secure envelope. When they come to use we don't tell them to use DRM, we see what they want, and what we can reasonably do. His other choice is to turn away customers that want some measure of security to try and apease the unwashed masses, which seems like a pretty stupid business decision.
Protection is protection. He is write there is no difference in protecting a movie and protecting medical records. Its all rights managment of bits. Gates and Microsoft are not taking a political view and saying DRM good, free bad. They are saying "Hey we can give you both chocolate and vanilla."
I can't tell if its spin by Gates, or spin by Gizmodo, or just looks like spin because its transcribed. But it made me spit coke out on my laptop.
Apologies, I hadn't seen this article, just a few others, that didn't have the exact figures.
I think the problem is with that 20% they will be the majority shareholders, and have a large voice in the company, the biggest voice in the company.
Simple reasoning, EA just needs fresh rowers, and Ubisoft has proved to have some pretty good oarsmen. Avast ye scurvy dogs!
I did a quick google and came up with Sametime 3.1 Linux Client
Not sure if it will help or not, but take a look if you have time.
Why is this modded at 0?
Applications outside the norm (but inside what is standard for some Enterprise businesses) is exactly what this book should be covering.
Most people can install linux. It's when you run into a corrupted video driver, or firewire not working, or WiFi not working that an inexperienced linux user will get throw their hands up. Add to that a big wig breathing down your neck to determine migration feasability and it gets pretty easy to answer 'Nope, not yet.'
For example. I installed fedora core 3 a little while back. And my video was completely messed up, it wasn't refreshing properly. Now here I am an IT professional, but not a Linux geek. So I try to google, but couldn't find a match. It was an old machine I had converted over to Linux, so I didn't know that it was an Intel(97?) on-board video, which happened to have a corrupted driver in fedora core 3. But without the knowledge of the hardware, I had no chance of finding the problem.
Linux can be great for an enterprise, but when you have many different configurations of machines, different user levels, it has to be easy to get your techies up-to-speed and trained to know what to look for, before they can even begin to handle the monstrocities that the users will throw at them.