He has no talent at making everyone happy. In the U.S., the president doesn't have 100% control. He actually might make a semi-decent dictator, but he'd fail miserably as a president.
He'll have his plan. The republicans will want small changes and the democrats will propose their own, modified version. Jobs: "Screw you all".
As much as I disliked Clinton and his "all-promises no deliveries" politics, he was very good at getting opposing sides to compromise. Of course, the downside to this is both sides compromise so many issues that when they're done there's nothing important that's agreed on.
I think the point was that there were two principles that were conflicting. Do you
A) Wave the GPL flag and shove it to Apple or B) Produce the best product you can that might actually benefit people
Or you could go the ego route and see which helps your ego more.
A) Mad fame from blindly touting the GPL even though the license was never GPL to begin with. This lasts about as long as your story is on the front page of slashdot.
B) Possible long-term fame by continuing to develop a useable product.
If movie theatres can only afford pimple-faced teenagers, what makes you think this idea (definitely a smaller audience than movie theatres) will be able to afford hot ladies?
Sorry you feel that way, but if ads = free things, I'm all for them. As long as they're easy to ignore and don't require me to do anything, I'll take my free radio/sitcoms and cheap postal service over paying a lot for them.
And every once in a while, I see something I might like to buy.
Well, if IE *did* allow you to block all the advertisements, how would a lot of websites make money? I know most websites can't survive on banner ads alone, but it does generate a revenue that's pretty significant to web companies.
Hehe. And if this technology means you don't get to visually verify everything at the checkstand as they pass it over the bar-code reader, children everywhere will find ways to get more and more sweets outta the grocery store:)
Considering Apple's been pushing Firewire pretty hard, I'd be surprised for them to jump ship on that and go to USB 2.0.
I have to say I kind of Agree. I like the firewire standard for demanding peripherals (DV Conversion, DV Cameras, Hard Disks, DVDBurner, etc) and USB for the simple input devices (Mouse, KB, Zip, Tablet, Mic, etc).
If ignoring USB 2.0 shaved $50 off the price, I'm happy. I just don't see the need for both on a system unless you absoultely need a specific peripheral of each.
In fairness to her, how would you like it if you signed up for life insurance for $20 a month. You just tell'em to put it on your credit card and you never really pay attention that the bill doesn't show up.
20 years later they realize you haven't paid and want $4,800. That might be a bit of a problem on your monthly cash flow.
But even so, there's a significant benefit from having it resemble a human. I bet even you'll admit that you'd choose your assistant to resemble a hot secretary over a hairy, eight legged freak.
This annoying "DRM" (oh please) system of renaming the files and registering them is just how Apple is making their i-products these days. Go try out iPhoto, and you'll notice all the pictures you import are given a random number and stored in a bazillion different randomly named directories.
Hmm.. I guess that's DRM for the photos I've taken?
Please people. It's just their stupid way of making you use the interface (iPhoto/iTunes) more than just browsing around your hard drive. I don't really like it, but its hardly DRM.
I don't see why they should bother. They've probably considered that and decided they'll make more money selling it to businesses at 1500 ringgit than selling it to everyone at 50 ringgit... then let the pirates do their work to maintain market share.
Software companies are out to make money, not make sure everyone can use their product.
You do realize that most of the countries in the world are smaller than Los Angeles County, don't you? While I'm not partial to unilateral action on major events (Iraq, for example), for minor events they're the only way to go.
Heck, most countries can't even afford to have embassy's in most other countries. Do you think any country is going to spend a lot of resources 1) Tracking down the criminal who only committed crimes against US citizens 2) Arresting him 3) Gathering evidence against him 4) Trying/convicting him 5) sentancing him and paying for his food/housing.
All this for a guy who brought money into the country? Nah, it's not worth it to them.
The U.S. is abusive to other countries/peoples, but this isn't a canidate for multilateral action.
Ehhh. Who uses voice recognition anyways? About the same amount of people who use Videophones. Voice recognition is:
Buggy Slower A sure sign you should attend the next Star Trek convention
Every time there's a new voice recognition feature for my mac I love to go and try it out. Then, after using it for about 10 seconds I feel like a total freaking idiot and turn it off.
This is a good point. It's like when Disney bought ABC from CapCity for an obscene amount of money. Whenpeople say "wtf were you thinking" they hold up their comfort letter (Think pawn shop appraisal by investment bankers) and say "But they said it was worth this much".
However, I think the most important thing is marketing. Let's say you know *nothing* about cars and decide to go buy a motor oil. You look and see that they range from $10 to $40. You don't buy the $10 one. You might buy the $40 one, but the odds are you buy one of the ones in the middle.
You know, Marketing guys *are not useless*. Any basic Marketing class taken by every business major in the world covers this.
I have no knowledge of the finances of running a cable company/network, but do you think part of the problem is overpaid actors and that's why they're trying to cram more advertising in? Seems to me that it's having the same problems as some other industries I can think of (Recording, MLB, etc.).
To keep your ratings, you have to pay your star actors more. To pay them more, you need more $$, to get more $$, you need more advertising.
Yeah, this is broken up over a couple companies, but the circle still applies. Maybe the public should ask the same question of actors and rock stars we've all been asking of baseball players. Are they really worth that much? (Obligatory response: They're worth whatever someone's willing to pay them.) There.
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He has no talent at making everyone happy. In the U.S., the president doesn't have 100% control. He actually might make a semi-decent dictator, but he'd fail miserably as a president.
He'll have his plan. The republicans will want small changes and the democrats will propose their own, modified version. Jobs: "Screw you all".
As much as I disliked Clinton and his "all-promises no deliveries" politics, he was very good at getting opposing sides to compromise. Of course, the downside to this is both sides compromise so many issues that when they're done there's nothing important that's agreed on.
I think the point was that there were two principles that were conflicting. Do you
A) Wave the GPL flag and shove it to Apple
or
B) Produce the best product you can that might actually benefit people
Or you could go the ego route and see which helps your ego more.
A) Mad fame from blindly touting the GPL even though the license was never GPL to begin with. This lasts about as long as your story is on the front page of slashdot.
B) Possible long-term fame by continuing to develop a useable product.
Which did they choose?
Do you realize the cost of this? It's not just the price of a second admin, I'd take a wild stab and say it would quadruple your admin costs.
Salary + Salary + Inefficiency of having to have 2 people approve code/review code.
You've suddenly got 2 people doing half of the job that was done before.
I don't think this would work. "Classic" would have been 10x harder to make work, and it working well would have been another issue entirely.
So, no one would have upgraded to OSX. No developers would have hurried to carbonize applications. Macs would drop from 5% marketshare to 1%.
If movie theatres can only afford pimple-faced teenagers, what makes you think this idea (definitely a smaller audience than movie theatres) will be able to afford hot ladies?
Sorry you feel that way, but if ads = free things, I'm all for them. As long as they're easy to ignore and don't require me to do anything, I'll take my free radio/sitcoms and cheap postal service over paying a lot for them.
And every once in a while, I see something I might like to buy.
I think making the claim that liking eyecandy=ignorant is pretty ignorant in and of itself.
Well, if IE *did* allow you to block all the advertisements, how would a lot of websites make money? I know most websites can't survive on banner ads alone, but it does generate a revenue that's pretty significant to web companies.
Hehe. And if this technology means you don't get to visually verify everything at the checkstand as they pass it over the bar-code reader, children everywhere will find ways to get more and more sweets outta the grocery store :)
Considering Apple's been pushing Firewire pretty hard, I'd be surprised for them to jump ship on that and go to USB 2.0.
I have to say I kind of Agree. I like the firewire standard for demanding peripherals (DV Conversion, DV Cameras, Hard Disks, DVDBurner, etc) and USB for the simple input devices (Mouse, KB, Zip, Tablet, Mic, etc).
If ignoring USB 2.0 shaved $50 off the price, I'm happy. I just don't see the need for both on a system unless you absoultely need a specific peripheral of each.
In fairness to her, how would you like it if you signed up for life insurance for $20 a month. You just tell'em to put it on your credit card and you never really pay attention that the bill doesn't show up.
20 years later they realize you haven't paid and want $4,800. That might be a bit of a problem on your monthly cash flow.
But even so, there's a significant benefit from having it resemble a human. I bet even you'll admit that you'd choose your assistant to resemble a hot secretary over a hairy, eight legged freak.
In this case, every villian that's ever faced superman should have won. Superman's never been the smartest of heros.
Heh heh heh...
You're obviously from LA.
Have you even seen them? Most of them focus on:
A) True plug-n-play "I saved Christmas" technology.
B) Free (with OS/Comp I guess), easyily used apps (iPhoto)
C) "Just Working"
I don't think Windows offers any of those 3 things.
This annoying "DRM" (oh please) system of renaming the files and registering them is just how Apple is making their i-products these days. Go try out iPhoto, and you'll notice all the pictures you import are given a random number and stored in a bazillion different randomly named directories.
Hmm.. I guess that's DRM for the photos I've taken?
Please people. It's just their stupid way of making you use the interface (iPhoto/iTunes) more than just browsing around your hard drive. I don't really like it, but its hardly DRM.
I don't see why they should bother. They've probably considered that and decided they'll make more money selling it to businesses at 1500 ringgit than selling it to everyone at 50 ringgit... then let the pirates do their work to maintain market share.
Software companies are out to make money, not make sure everyone can use their product.
You do realize that most of the countries in the world are smaller than Los Angeles County, don't you? While I'm not partial to unilateral action on major events (Iraq, for example), for minor events they're the only way to go.
Heck, most countries can't even afford to have embassy's in most other countries. Do you think any country is going to spend a lot of resources 1) Tracking down the criminal who only committed crimes against US citizens 2) Arresting him 3) Gathering evidence against him 4) Trying/convicting him 5) sentancing him and paying for his food/housing.
All this for a guy who brought money into the country? Nah, it's not worth it to them.
The U.S. is abusive to other countries/peoples, but this isn't a canidate for multilateral action.
As for the whole "Steve's Interest"... I'd sum it up this way.
Linux wants to free you... as long as you start working for the Horde...
Microsoft wants to own your soul and control every movement and every cent associated with you.
Apple wants to seperate you from your money as much as possible... and then have you take out a loan.
I think you mean...
I'm beginning to think that all Slashdotters do is quote lines from The Simpsons.
Ehhh. Who uses voice recognition anyways? About the same amount of people who use Videophones. Voice recognition is:
Buggy
Slower
A sure sign you should attend the next Star Trek convention
Every time there's a new voice recognition feature for my mac I love to go and try it out. Then, after using it for about 10 seconds I feel like a total freaking idiot and turn it off.
This is a good point. It's like when Disney bought ABC from CapCity for an obscene amount of money. Whenpeople say "wtf were you thinking" they hold up their comfort letter (Think pawn shop appraisal by investment bankers) and say "But they said it was worth this much".
However, I think the most important thing is marketing. Let's say you know *nothing* about cars and decide to go buy a motor oil. You look and see that they range from $10 to $40. You don't buy the $10 one. You might buy the $40 one, but the odds are you buy one of the ones in the middle.
You know, Marketing guys *are not useless*. Any basic Marketing class taken by every business major in the world covers this.
I've had the same good experience... except switching out my macally kb and ms mouse back and forth tends to lead to crashes in win98se.
I know I know, running Win98se on an XP 2000+ and GF4 is a shame.
The mac seems to recognize the kb/mouse in about a second, whereas win98 takes 5-10. Hopefully that'll go away when I upgrade to 2k or XP.
I have no knowledge of the finances of running a cable company/network, but do you think part of the problem is overpaid actors and that's why they're trying to cram more advertising in? Seems to me that it's having the same problems as some other industries I can think of (Recording, MLB, etc.).
To keep your ratings, you have to pay your star actors more. To pay them more, you need more $$, to get more $$, you need more advertising.
Yeah, this is broken up over a couple companies, but the circle still applies. Maybe the public should ask the same question of actors and rock stars we've all been asking of baseball players. Are they really worth that much? (Obligatory response: They're worth whatever someone's willing to pay them.) There.
lol... and then.
"You agree to not keep a copy of this EULA so you don't know how bad we're screwing you."