Re:If MS were to use such strategies, would anyone
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Wal-Mart destroyed the competition. And, yes, some say Wal-Mart is evil. But all they did is healthy, normal competition, no?
What they and others do is far beyond competition, much less 'healthy' or 'normal.'
They're coasting on the fact that once you achieve a certain critical mass, you get god-mode in the system. For individuals that condition tends not to last, as they either get booted from their company once things get big, or the novelty wears off and they decide to try it all over again. But for corporations, that's a sustainable state, which turns them into fiscal black holes that swallow everything visible to them.
I've always thought that communism looked good on paper, but just doesn't scale well beyond a few thousand people. So are we seeing a similar limitation with capitalism? Or is Wally World really just so clearly superior to anything else with a cash register?
Just listened to a little blurb about this on NPR, and they're overlooking that as well. In fact, I think I detected the faintest implication that not only are DVR users now unable to ever miss a commercial again for any reason, but they may also be liable for catching up on back commercial watchage. Or something like that.
True, I don't *need* the right mouse button, but I sure as hell prefer it.
And as for the 'toy' comment, I was referring only to that 190, since it's so underpowered by today's standards. I wasn't talking about Macs in general, as I quite prefer my 533mhz G4 tower to the 2.5ghz Dell I have at work.
And again, all this is academic (or worse!) since I have neither the cash nor the need for a PowerBook. (I'm saving up for the 4.2ghz Quad 980 that's being released next month.)
Not to troll, but getting a replacement 2 button trackbad to the market is the only way I'd ever be able to use an Apple laptop. I've got an old 190cs as a toy, but for daily use? Nope.
Of course, maybe I should be suggesting same to manufacturer, rather than bitching about it to the slashbots?
I hate to say it, but that's a really hard argument to counter. God, I hope you're wrong. I've always felt that one of the natural checks-n-balances on the 'net is the fact that AOL and MS are mortal enemies. If that changes, well, I guess I'll have to call Time Warner Cable company and start buying channels instead of bandwidth.
Or is this a defensive maneuver? I mean, think about it: three pieces of software that both a) have at least decent geek cred, and b) are in that elite upper 1 percent of software downloaded by the masses, are WinAmp, Gnutella and Mozilla. All of these are/were indirectly kinda-sorta put out by AOL. While none of them brings AOL/TW any real revenue, they do a) sell bandwidth, and b) help level the playing field with respect to certain other large corporations whose name I will not speak here.
So what I'm proposing is that there are things that AOL's strategists may want to get out there into the mainstream, but for various reasons AOL can't be seen as having a hand in. Nullsoft fills that need. They're seen as edgy/rebellious enough to give AOL/TW plausible deniability. What if this 'unauthorized release' is just Nullsoft doing exactly the wetworks for which they were hired?
Ask a paper wholesaler, and of course they'll say they can't get it and don't know what it is. Instead, just ask for Crane's Crest Flourescent Opaque White. Obviously it won't have the red and blue fibers, but it'll have the feel you're looking for. Myself, I use it for resumes. Anything printed on that stuff *will* be taken more seriously than similar stuff on similar papers, but nobody will realize why, or even that they do like the feel of it better.
Re:Perhaps the success of the Apple Music Store ..
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Do you really expect Microsoft to sit idly by while Apple makes $$$$ hand over fist, winning over converts in the process?
They haven't say idly by. Google for 'Microsoft Three Degrees'. Seems to me like the Aimster concept applied to MSN Messenger, but targeted solely at ten year olds. Dunno.
What the open source community can try to do is deflect the PR impact back on Microsoft by making it crystal clear what a sleazy deal this really is.
Yeah, because that always works. Every time MS pulls some slimy stunt, it's always been so easy to get the masses to realize what's truly going on. They're not easily swayed by mere sound-bite FUD.
Microsoft buys the right to sue everyone that pushes Linux.
No. In order to do that, they would have to buy it, not license it.
Which is exactly what CNET was reporting (via Google News) when I got to work at 6:30 this morning, although now I see they've changed it to a licensing deal in their current report. But they plainly stated in their first story that MS was purchasing the rights to Unix itself (in so far as SCO can transfer those rights, etc.)
No HR is NOT the proper channel, a FELONY was commited, the only proper channel is the police. Why is that so hard for people to understand. If a murder occours in the lobby do you call HR? No, you call the police. HR is for minor squables or at the most sexual harasment claims, not for serious felonies.
So I assume you'd feel the same way if you happened to look over and notice a *nix user watching a DVD on his lunch break?
I sum it up this way: Many, many people store their stuff in folders on the desktop, which (if you are so afflicted) is within either C:\Windows\ or whatever that other, username-based path is in the NT5 variants. And obviously Windows system directories are not something you wanna carry over across backups, etc.
Like all other things, this is only illegal if you get caught. If you wanna maintain your porn on your work PC, either learn about encrypted disk images and similar, or learn to fix the damn thing yourself without schlepping it over to IT.
I mean, what, do you call the plumber to unclog your bong?
You don't get any spam - I hope you realize that you're a part of a very small minority (you may also want to contact your MX admin, the mail server could just be down;) ).
I don't get spam, and yes my mailserver is up. In my case I attribute it to having 'obscenities' in my address. I assume the 'spam companies' run some basic filters over their victim list, and certain mono-syllabic words that deeply offend so many quasi-christians get shaved off the top. Moral of the story: www.fuckmicrosoft.com gives out free email aliases and only charges $10 one-time for a POP3.
That's always been my philosophy. I see a good-looking gay man, I'm a happy puppy. I figure the really attractive ones are equivalent (in RIAA math) to eliminating three average males from the dating pool.
I wouldn't be too surprised if Apple has most of those running internally. I also wouldn't be too surprised if they release a server based on something that isn't powerpc, but the client is out of the question.
They do.
google://apple+marklar
I also wouldn't be too surprised if an unreleased version of Windows 2003 Server runs on PowerPC and MIPS.
There is also AirPort base station, which employs an AMD MIPS processor [vonwentzel.net]
Apple has been using their chips since ~ forever.
I was assimilated back in '88, and the first time I heard the name AMD was for making the RISC chip that powered the Apple LaserWriter II (also IInt, IIntx). I think it was the 2900 series, or similar. That thing was the most battle-hardened laser printer ever built, and sold like crack, except where crack = $3,495.00. There's still squillions of them running to this very day, and I wish I had one of 'em.
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What they and others do is far beyond competition, much less 'healthy' or 'normal.'
They're coasting on the fact that once you achieve a certain critical mass, you get god-mode in the system. For individuals that condition tends not to last, as they either get booted from their company once things get big, or the novelty wears off and they decide to try it all over again. But for corporations, that's a sustainable state, which turns them into fiscal black holes that swallow everything visible to them.
I've always thought that communism looked good on paper, but just doesn't scale well beyond a few thousand people. So are we seeing a similar limitation with capitalism? Or is Wally World really just so clearly superior to anything else with a cash register?
Ya missed a few.
Wow. I can never get modded up with the YNHAY? replies. I bow down before thee...
*snore*
Just listened to a little blurb about this on NPR, and they're overlooking that as well. In fact, I think I detected the faintest implication that not only are DVR users now unable to ever miss a commercial again for any reason, but they may also be liable for catching up on back commercial watchage. Or something like that.
True, I don't *need* the right mouse button, but I sure as hell prefer it.
And as for the 'toy' comment, I was referring only to that 190, since it's so underpowered by today's standards. I wasn't talking about Macs in general, as I quite prefer my 533mhz G4 tower to the 2.5ghz Dell I have at work.
And again, all this is academic (or worse!) since I have neither the cash nor the need for a PowerBook. (I'm saving up for the 4.2ghz Quad 980 that's being released next month.)
Not to troll, but getting a replacement 2 button trackbad to the market is the only way I'd ever be able to use an Apple laptop. I've got an old 190cs as a toy, but for daily use? Nope.
Of course, maybe I should be suggesting same to manufacturer, rather than bitching about it to the slashbots?
I hate to say it, but that's a really hard argument to counter. God, I hope you're wrong. I've always felt that one of the natural checks-n-balances on the 'net is the fact that AOL and MS are mortal enemies. If that changes, well, I guess I'll have to call Time Warner Cable company and start buying channels instead of bandwidth.
Or is this a defensive maneuver? I mean, think about it: three pieces of software that both a) have at least decent geek cred, and b) are in that elite upper 1 percent of software downloaded by the masses, are WinAmp, Gnutella and Mozilla. All of these are/were indirectly kinda-sorta put out by AOL. While none of them brings AOL/TW any real revenue, they do a) sell bandwidth, and b) help level the playing field with respect to certain other large corporations whose name I will not speak here.
So what I'm proposing is that there are things that AOL's strategists may want to get out there into the mainstream, but for various reasons AOL can't be seen as having a hand in. Nullsoft fills that need. They're seen as edgy/rebellious enough to give AOL/TW plausible deniability. What if this 'unauthorized release' is just Nullsoft doing exactly the wetworks for which they were hired?
I only run gnutella on the weekends. Their math is faulty.
Ask a paper wholesaler, and of course they'll say they can't get it and don't know what it is. Instead, just ask for Crane's Crest Flourescent Opaque White. Obviously it won't have the red and blue fibers, but it'll have the feel you're looking for. Myself, I use it for resumes. Anything printed on that stuff *will* be taken more seriously than similar stuff on similar papers, but nobody will realize why, or even that they do like the feel of it better.
I'm not sure how to take that, I'll assume it's a [left handed] compliment?
Either way, I've got mod points today, so I'm not just a client, I'm also the president!
Yeah, because that always works. Every time MS pulls some slimy stunt, it's always been so easy to get the masses to realize what's truly going on. They're not easily swayed by mere sound-bite FUD.
You must be new here.
Which is exactly what CNET was reporting (via Google News) when I got to work at 6:30 this morning, although now I see they've changed it to a licensing deal in their current report. But they plainly stated in their first story that MS was purchasing the rights to Unix itself (in so far as SCO can transfer those rights, etc.)
So I assume you'd feel the same way if you happened to look over and notice a *nix user watching a DVD on his lunch break?
I sum it up this way: Many, many people store their stuff in folders on the desktop, which (if you are so afflicted) is within either C:\Windows\ or whatever that other, username-based path is in the NT5 variants. And obviously Windows system directories are not something you wanna carry over across backups, etc.
Like all other things, this is only illegal if you get caught. If you wanna maintain your porn on your work PC, either learn about encrypted disk images and similar, or learn to fix the damn thing yourself without schlepping it over to IT.
I mean, what, do you call the plumber to unclog your bong?
I don't get spam, and yes my mailserver is up. In my case I attribute it to having 'obscenities' in my address. I assume the 'spam companies' run some basic filters over their victim list, and certain mono-syllabic words that deeply offend so many quasi-christians get shaved off the top. Moral of the story: www.fuckmicrosoft.com gives out free email aliases and only charges $10 one-time for a POP3.
No it's not. They sold it to Steve Case. Yes, *that* Steve Case. For it's first few years, AOL was Mac-only.
That's always been my philosophy. I see a good-looking gay man, I'm a happy puppy. I figure the really attractive ones are equivalent (in RIAA math) to eliminating three average males from the dating pool.
google://apple+marklar
*shudder*
Apple has been using their chips since ~ forever.
I was assimilated back in '88, and the first time I heard the name AMD was for making the RISC chip that powered the Apple LaserWriter II (also IInt, IIntx). I think it was the 2900 series, or similar. That thing was the most battle-hardened laser printer ever built, and sold like crack, except where crack = $3,495.00. There's still squillions of them running to this very day, and I wish I had one of 'em.
Well, in this case, yes it is. Much easier.
Awesome!!! Thanks!
Did they just patent the Man In The Middle attack?