And more... Not only is this is survey of the folks who have shown themselves to be undecided (surprise! survey says: folks are undecided) but it is also commissioned by other folks who are creating tools for the undecided. Should we be surprised when they present a survey that conforms to their worldview?
My wife wants my 8 year old daughter to be a writer. (She is an English major who works at a hedge fund). I want my daughter to be scientist. (I am a psychology major, now building web apps).
Finally I realized: why not both?
In my opinion 2 of the top 10 most important books (in any field) written in the last 500 years are science books:
Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said the company had not broken the law because all of the work in the South Pars gas field would be done by non-Americans employed by a subsidiary registered in the Cayman Islands.
They may not be playing catch-up but Intel used to ignore the competition. Now they have to have press releases that acknowledge the competion: "considerable lead over our competitors".
Sounds like they are at least looking over their shoulders at AMD to me.
Or maybe even trying to speak to investors to prop up the stock price...
GET/storeBag.xml.gz HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: iTunes/4.1 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.3)
Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50
Accept-Encoding: gzip, x-aes-cbc
Connection: close
Host: phobos.apple.com
iTMS replies like this:
TH_PUSH TH_ACK HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:34:23 GMT
Content-Length: 569
Content-Type: text/xml
Connection: close
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Darwin)
Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:41:55 GMT
ETag: "916605-239-3f8cd013"
Content-Encoding: x-gzip
Via: 1.1 netcache01 (NetCache NetApp/5.2.1R2D2)
And in fact you can point your browser at this url and get the XML:
http://017.250.248.150/storeBag.xml.gz
for me, in Safari, the resulting file is downloaded to the desktop rather than displayed, but this is merely a matter of filetype settings I believe.
It appears to me that there is nothing to prevent other browsers from visiting the iTMS assuming that they could handle/decompress/parse the xml.gz files.
One thing that the new iTunes Music Store does for apple is smooth out the income curve.
Apple sell computers seasonally for back to school and Xmas. They also sell when they announce the availability of a new model (or is it when they ship it? -- not the same thing unfortunately).
Whether these benchmarks are true or not they are going to depress sales of G4's even further (tho the author rationalizes this by saying pretty much they can't go any lower).
Personally, I was thinking about specifying a refurbed dual Xserve for a customer, which are a really great deal right now if you can find them, but this makes me think that I'll be happy if I wait.
Tho this still hurts Apple it's not as bad as it could be because of the iTunes music store they can get income all year long in a fashion that follows neither back-to-school or holiday seasonality nor is it tied to product announcements.
I haven't used it since it went out of free beta but it is a pretty neat tool for folks who are truly addicted to having the latest version of any software.
When I was I boy (back in the days before most businesses had fax machines and almost no one had email) I had a summer job as a foot messenger for a big law firm in Philadelphia (5 floors of attorneys).
The firm's biggest customer? UPS.
Lawyers they got. They are always running people over, losing things, breaking stuff.
Good luck trying to recover, either through channels or the courts.
Best thing you got going for you is that your Mac.com page now reads 40,000 views! I bet they'd pay just to see you post a "happy ending" to your story...
Watch out! This could be like putting a "sin tax" on Microsoft.
Sin taxes are leveled on products and services that the government wants to discourage but is afraid to outlaw: gambling, liquor, tobacco...
At first the money that comes in is just "surplus", but very soon it gets its own constituancy -- the money is earmarked to support specific programs.
Next thing you know you can't afford to restrict the "sin" because it is supporting essential social programs.
You hear: "We can't outlaw the lottery (even tho it is essentially a tax on those who can least afford it ) because without the lottery would wouldn't have funds for X (in PA it's senior citizens, in NY it's schools)"
When the government collects 10% more from the sale of Microsoft products through a sin tax than they do from a Microsoft competitor they are no longer indifferent between a Microsoft product and a competitor, they favor Microsoft! This ends up having the exact opposite from the effect indended.
As other posters have submitted, it would be very important to watch where the collected funds would go, especially for this reason...
BTW, does anyone else remember getting a sinking feeling back when MS acquired Hotmail?
That was nothing compared to the feeling I got when they aquired firefly (orginal (?) colaborative filtering engine on the web -- now rolled into MS passport).
Passport scares me more than anything else at Microsoft, mostly because the benefits of it are going to be so irresitable to folks not paranoid about privacy. And adopters won't feel the bite for years but when it comes... Ouch.
No one will be able to make any decision without consulting their Passport first. And it ain't going to be free, and it ain't gonna be unbiased.
Two years I signed up with Flashcom who was reselling for Covad with BellAtlantic on the backend.
BA missed three appointements that I stayed home from work for, Flashcom didn't answer the phone.
It was only the Covad folks who made the whole thing go. The Covad tech who did hte install used to work for BA told me that the whole New York area was screwed up because NYNEX had known for years that they would be bought out and that the wiring problems would be someone else's headache.
After 4 months of trying I finally got DSL up and running, which had been awesome for two years now.
I was so impressed with Covad that I bought the company (well a few shares anyway), and watched them go from 20 to 80. Then from 80 to 3 (but first I bought more when they dropped to 10). Now Flashcom is out of business and Covad shares are at 1.
It's possible there may have been some funny stuff going on at Covad as this suit alleges BUT I believe that this funny stuff was in response to
1. Incompetance on the Verizon side
2. Intentional malfeasance on the Verizon side
3. A feeling of desparation on Covad's part that they could not get relief through any other means (goverment always favors the big guys 'cause on the big guys can see a suit like this through).
Slashdot Mirror
Ding ding. Give that man a prize!
And more... Not only is this is survey of the folks who have shown themselves to be undecided (surprise! survey says: folks are undecided) but it is also commissioned by other folks who are creating tools for the undecided. Should we be surprised when they present a survey that conforms to their worldview?
If you look at the full version of the slide, here:
http://media.bestofmicro.com/6/C/237396/original/att-q409-slide-1.jpg
One of the next 90 day fixes is "Deploy Ethernet to Cell sites to improve network backhaul".
As an NYC iphone customer I can almost forgive them for bad reception in the canyons of the city. So many tall buildings etc...
But come on, the bottleneck is also that they don't have enough bandwidth from the towers to the network?? WTF?
My wife wants my 8 year old daughter to be a writer. (She is an English major who works at a hedge fund). I want my daughter to be scientist. (I am a psychology major, now building web apps).
Finally I realized: why not both?
In my opinion 2 of the top 10 most important books (in any field) written in the last 500 years are science books:
Newton's Principia Mathematica
and
Darwin's On the Origin of Species
I think that's because the demo he provides gives admin access. You would expect that a malicious admin could do some damage if he/she chose, no?
This is what I read slashdot for. Thank you.
They may not be playing catch-up but Intel used to ignore the competition. Now they have to have press releases that acknowledge the competion: "considerable lead over our competitors".
Sounds like they are at least looking over their shoulders at AMD to me.
Or maybe even trying to speak to investors to prop up the stock price...
I love how in the article they present the case of FBI agents being snooped on.
As if it's ok to snoop on regular people but you go too far snooping on FBI agents!
I did report it the editor on duty and it was not fixed.
I don't drink coffee.
Just wait 'til Steve Jobs, who is already head of Apple and Pixar, decides that he wants to be the head of Disney too.
How long would the MSFT deal last then?
I used Interarchy to sniff this out.
/storeBag.xml.gz HTTP/1.1
iTunes says this:
GET
User-Agent: iTunes/4.1 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.3)
Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50
Accept-Encoding: gzip, x-aes-cbc
Connection: close
Host: phobos.apple.com
iTMS replies like this:
TH_PUSH TH_ACK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:34:23 GMT
Content-Length: 569
Content-Type: text/xml
Connection: close
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Darwin)
Last-Modified: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:41:55 GMT
ETag: "916605-239-3f8cd013"
Content-Encoding: x-gzip
Via: 1.1 netcache01 (NetCache NetApp/5.2.1R2D2)
And in fact you can point your browser at this url and get the XML:
http://017.250.248.150/storeBag.xml.gz
for me, in Safari, the resulting file is downloaded to the desktop rather than displayed, but this is merely a matter of filetype settings I believe.
It appears to me that there is nothing to prevent other browsers from visiting the iTMS assuming that they could handle/decompress/parse the xml.gz files.
One thing that the new iTunes Music Store does for apple is smooth out the income curve.
Apple sell computers seasonally for back to school and Xmas. They also sell when they announce the availability of a new model (or is it when they ship it? -- not the same thing unfortunately).
Whether these benchmarks are true or not they are going to depress sales of G4's even further (tho the author rationalizes this by saying pretty much they can't go any lower).
Personally, I was thinking about specifying a refurbed dual Xserve for a customer, which are a really great deal right now if you can find them, but this makes me think that I'll be happy if I wait.
Tho this still hurts Apple it's not as bad as it could be because of the iTunes music store they can get income all year long in a fashion that follows neither back-to-school or holiday seasonality nor is it tied to product announcements.
I wish Safari all the best but will wait a little. And WHY with Aqua have they still not dropped that awful brushed metal look???
MacOSXhints had a story on how to remove the brushed metal appearance from Safari (requires the free Developer Tools). Works for me.
As of this writing there are over a dozen other helpful hints on Safari as well.
VersionTracker Pro provides essentially this feature already...
I haven't used it since it went out of free beta but it is a pretty neat tool for folks who are truly addicted to having the latest version of any software.
Ooops, Forgot the link to the dual 500 cube info:
xlr8yourmac
Now that the cube has
1000 Mhz upgrades
Dual 500 Mhz upgrades
How long before we have
Dual 1000 Mhz upgrades for the Cube?
What do you think? Doable? Too hot?
Renewed availablity of faster video cards would be a bonus too.
It's not in the article but it is linked from his "I like it page".
t ml
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/like/like20020124.h
When I was I boy (back in the days before most businesses had fax machines and almost no one had email) I had a summer job as a foot messenger for a big law firm in Philadelphia (5 floors of attorneys).
The firm's biggest customer? UPS.
Lawyers they got. They are always running people over, losing things, breaking stuff.
Good luck trying to recover, either through channels or the courts.
Best thing you got going for you is that your Mac.com page now reads 40,000 views! I bet they'd pay just to see you post a "happy ending" to your story...
Watch out! This could be like putting a "sin tax" on Microsoft.
Sin taxes are leveled on products and services that the government wants to discourage but is afraid to outlaw: gambling, liquor, tobacco...
At first the money that comes in is just "surplus", but very soon it gets its own constituancy -- the money is earmarked to support specific programs.
Next thing you know you can't afford to restrict the "sin" because it is supporting essential social programs.
You hear: "We can't outlaw the lottery (even tho it is essentially a tax on those who can least afford it ) because without the lottery would wouldn't have funds for X (in PA it's senior citizens, in NY it's schools)"
When the government collects 10% more from the sale of Microsoft products through a sin tax than they do from a Microsoft competitor they are no longer indifferent between a Microsoft product and a competitor, they favor Microsoft! This ends up having the exact opposite from the effect indended.
As other posters have submitted, it would be very important to watch where the collected funds would go, especially for this reason...
Start by registering as an apple developer.
There are free, student, enthusiast and pro levels that have different benefits and costs.
The register has an article that sheds some light on the cases that drove ORBS down:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19460.html
it in turn points to:
news://ws.admin.net-abuse.email
BTW, does anyone else remember getting a sinking feeling back when MS acquired Hotmail?
That was nothing compared to the feeling I got when they aquired firefly (orginal (?) colaborative filtering engine on the web -- now rolled into MS passport).
Passport scares me more than anything else at Microsoft, mostly because the benefits of it are going to be so irresitable to folks not paranoid about privacy. And adopters won't feel the bite for years but when it comes... Ouch.
No one will be able to make any decision without consulting their Passport first. And it ain't going to be free, and it ain't gonna be unbiased.
My experience:
Two years I signed up with Flashcom who was reselling for Covad with BellAtlantic on the backend.
BA missed three appointements that I stayed home from work for, Flashcom didn't answer the phone.
It was only the Covad folks who made the whole thing go. The Covad tech who did hte install used to work for BA told me that the whole New York area was screwed up because NYNEX had known for years that they would be bought out and that the wiring problems would be someone else's headache.
After 4 months of trying I finally got DSL up and running, which had been awesome for two years now.
I was so impressed with Covad that I bought the company (well a few shares anyway), and watched them go from 20 to 80. Then from 80 to 3 (but first I bought more when they dropped to 10). Now Flashcom is out of business and Covad shares are at 1.
It's possible there may have been some funny stuff going on at Covad as this suit alleges BUT I believe that this funny stuff was in response to
1. Incompetance on the Verizon side
2. Intentional malfeasance on the Verizon side
3. A feeling of desparation on Covad's part that they could not get relief through any other means (goverment always favors the big guys 'cause on the big guys can see a suit like this through).
Let's play mad libs with your logic:
If were [a group]
which had [a woe]
I'm not sure I would want [a money making scheme].
try it and see!
It's not just "what you would want" that forms the basis of justice.