I'd argue the difference in Japan is that the good of the many comes before the good of the individual. And that is what prevents a view of selfish action. Competition is extremely high, but it is never at the expense of others.
At least, that's my sort of unsupported take on things.
How is what you've just described any different than what "experts" in a field have developed themselves into?
Being able to take what you've learned (experience), apply it to new situations in new combinations, and to see the relationships and patterns involved, quicker and better than others.
I wouldn't sell out the Apple Brand so quickly. Japan is a very different culture than the U.S., and brand is extremely important. Regardless of price.
Furthermore, you could argue that DNA, being the building blocks of life, should in no way be owned by a single individual. Even the individual from which that DNA was "harvested". I can only see bad things happening from people fighting against the use of DNA sequences that may have been found in an individual.
This is a good example of why I'm in support of a socialist support structure for the U.S. I'm willing to pay more in taxes if it resulted in better services and infrastructure for people I don't even know. Of course, certain approaches and half-efforts have shown that it's easy to mess this up big time.
Anyway, if you can still do something, like type, I'm sure you can still find work. Just that you'll have to do so as a contractor perhaps, given that a company wouldn't hire you full-time due to your medical condition.
In response to another's reply about getting rid of the "old" people: Logan's Run.
Um, because Apple cares about making things "insanely great". I don't think Microsoft does. And Apple only does this for their own products. It's their own products that are such high quality. They do not require the CPU upgrade manufacturers to submit to a licensing structure, but businesses that do third-party work for Apple products know that Apple customers do hold quality to a higher standard.
Well, obviously, since we're throwing stuff into outer space, we need to be putting back the same amount of matter that we're throwing away. I suggest we start harvesting minerals from the Moon and Mars to replace the materials we've permanently removed from Earth.
It's just like logging, so I'm sure all the environmentalists will agree with me on this one.
I think the better question is how to make sure the source is legitimate while maintaining its anonyminity? (Is that a word?) I'm not sure I have an answer to that.
Wasn't one of the arguments earlier that Windows Vista is different than just plain Vista? That the name as a whole differentiated the product from trademark infringement? Yet this entire submission calls the product Vista. It's barely been announced and already the name is Vista.
I realize, of course, that the Windows releases have always been shortened to their version as an abbreviation, e.g. 2000 or XP. But, I would argue that people would only abbreviate once the context of the discussion is known. (What version of Windows are you using? 2000.) But I started reading this submission and it took me a minute to realize this is Windows Vista.
This is probably the same argument that was brought up when Microsoft first announced "Windows".
Now I'm half-way there to not having to put my DVD-Audio discs into my DVD player. I am half-way closer to being able to place them on my music server instead.
I haven't been listening to them as much or buying them so much either, because of this requirement. So this will actually encourage me to purchase more of them.
Unfortunately, the other halves to this problem are to get playback from my media server, and to somehow get the DVD-Audio data to my receiver. The last half is probably going to be the hardest, since there's no multi-channel output from my iBook, and no firewire input on my receiver.
Apple also spends an enormous amount of time, effort, and money on making sure the choice(s) they provide to consumers are the best ones available.
I realized the other day that if you name a foreign car brand, I think I can name their entire line. Or in some cases, the only difference in the line are some numbers. But name a U.S. car brand, and I don't think I can name the entire line.
Apple does this too. There's only a few choices. And they're all good choices, just different. I remember the huge number of Mac choices being horrible under Gil Amelio.
Customization is something experience and confident users will do, and the simple truth is that the vast majority of modern computer users never reach that level of confidence and knowledge.
Customization is also something that experienced and confident users don't necessarily want. They either don't want it ever, or making it part of the product is a mistake.
When was the last time you customized your car? Or were interested in purchasing a car that came with customization features? Or a DVD player? There are people who customize those too, but I'm really not interested in spending money on a DVD player that has twice as many buttons or a harder to navigate main menu, just because it might let me customize it.
If you're really into it, you can get in there and customize things. People do it to their cars, DVD players, and iPods. But none of these products are designed in a manner that requires a user to deal with those issues unless they choose to. And it would be quite annoying if they did.
This is an extremely important point. As soon as a company goes public, the owners of the company are the shareholders. It doesn't matter what the officers or managers or any employee thinks. If they do not maximize profit and stock price, they will get fired.
No one is protected from that fate, regardless of their position within a company. Carly Fiorina is a prime example of what can happen when the shareholders are unhappy. It doesn't matter if she was trying to do the "right" thing for HP's future. Even if a decision was made to not kill babies, if the company started losing tons of money to not kill babies, the shareholders would revolt.
Unless you're a CIO or CTO of a company doing business with IBM, or an IBM business partner, you won't have received any announcement that they are lowering prices. Go ask some of them what their current take on things is.
Or, you can also ask the stock market. If IBM was making tons of profit and lots more money (i.e. keeping prices high while lowering costs), why did everyone just dump their stock?
I would actually request that they do not turn iCal, Mail, Address Book, etc. into a single application. I absolutely hate that about Lotus Notes. Thing is, they all work together already. There's no reason for them to be in a single application.
Opening iCalendar files in Mail puts them into iCal. Scheduling something in iCal allows you to send out invitations to the people identified in your Address Book via Mail. Address Book will connect to a central LDAP machine for accounts.
It isn't complete yet though. If you delete an entry in iCal, the original sender of the invitation is not notified. There's no way to use iCal or Mail to send back a response indicating acceptance of an invitation. Partially because you cannot yet assign an attendance status to the list of people. And you cannot check against other people's calendars to find free/busy time because there is no group calendaring mechanism.
Ah, well, the e-commerce suite I wrote actually supported one-click ordering. I wrote my suite very flexibly and it supported this in part because of an earlier contract job I did that allowed a user to complete an order from a single screen. (If I recall the order of events correctly.) Extending that to ordering with a single click, based on a cookie to identify the user, was simple. However, my implementation was after the date of file, but before the patent was granted and before one-click was in use by Amazon. I went back to check my code timestamps after this patent was granted.
Are you buying the screen, keyboard, CD-ROM drive, etc. Or are you buying a product that provides you with a solution, both from a hardware and software perspective?
I think it is quite unfair to categorize this ias a Steve Jobs hissy fit. IBM failed to deliver processors that met the roadmap Apple was planning, and promised by IBM, so they are switching suppliers. Having Mac OS X run on x86 over the past 6-7 years was Apple's way of ensuring they were not stuck.
This is a sensible business decision that has nothing to do with looking bad. As it happens, Apple is probably the one company that is in such an excellent position to switch suppliers, given the choices: AMD, Intel, PowerPC. How many other consumer electronics companies can make a switch like this? Other companies are stuck because their stuff will only run on a specific platform.
This announcement hasn't affected my desire for a Mac Mini. The only reason I haven't bought one for my home theater is I'm running Tiger just fine for iTunes on my clamshell iBook.
Changing the processor is not going to produce a huge leap in performance, like the G4 to the G5. So there's no reason for me to wait for an Intel-based Mac. But my Dual G5 is probably going to last about 4 more years anyway, before it feels too slow for comfort.
I know it's a joke, but the analogy to downloading a missed TV show is flawed. Distribution rights of copyrighted material is something that belongs to the copyright holder. That's where the law is being broken.
And why do you need something like this to make a copy of a DVD?
Slashdot Mirror
I'd argue the difference in Japan is that the good of the many comes before the good of the individual. And that is what prevents a view of selfish action. Competition is extremely high, but it is never at the expense of others.
At least, that's my sort of unsupported take on things.
How is what you've just described any different than what "experts" in a field have developed themselves into?
Being able to take what you've learned (experience), apply it to new situations in new combinations, and to see the relationships and patterns involved, quicker and better than others.
On identical hardware OS 10.3 ran *faster* than 10.2, and 10.4 would have been faster still if not for Spotlight.
On my clamshell Firewire iBook G3 466 SE, 10.3 ran slower for me than 10.2. However, 10.4 runs faster than both 10.2 and 10.3.
I wouldn't sell out the Apple Brand so quickly. Japan is a very different culture than the U.S., and brand is extremely important. Regardless of price.
Furthermore, you could argue that DNA, being the building blocks of life, should in no way be owned by a single individual. Even the individual from which that DNA was "harvested". I can only see bad things happening from people fighting against the use of DNA sequences that may have been found in an individual.
This is a good example of why I'm in support of a socialist support structure for the U.S. I'm willing to pay more in taxes if it resulted in better services and infrastructure for people I don't even know. Of course, certain approaches and half-efforts have shown that it's easy to mess this up big time.
Anyway, if you can still do something, like type, I'm sure you can still find work. Just that you'll have to do so as a contractor perhaps, given that a company wouldn't hire you full-time due to your medical condition.
In response to another's reply about getting rid of the "old" people: Logan's Run.
Um, because Apple cares about making things "insanely great". I don't think Microsoft does. And Apple only does this for their own products. It's their own products that are such high quality. They do not require the CPU upgrade manufacturers to submit to a licensing structure, but businesses that do third-party work for Apple products know that Apple customers do hold quality to a higher standard.
Well, obviously, since we're throwing stuff into outer space, we need to be putting back the same amount of matter that we're throwing away. I suggest we start harvesting minerals from the Moon and Mars to replace the materials we've permanently removed from Earth.
It's just like logging, so I'm sure all the environmentalists will agree with me on this one.
I think the better question is how to make sure the source is legitimate while maintaining its anonyminity? (Is that a word?) I'm not sure I have an answer to that.
Wasn't one of the arguments earlier that Windows Vista is different than just plain Vista? That the name as a whole differentiated the product from trademark infringement? Yet this entire submission calls the product Vista. It's barely been announced and already the name is Vista.
I realize, of course, that the Windows releases have always been shortened to their version as an abbreviation, e.g. 2000 or XP. But, I would argue that people would only abbreviate once the context of the discussion is known. (What version of Windows are you using? 2000.) But I started reading this submission and it took me a minute to realize this is Windows Vista.
This is probably the same argument that was brought up when Microsoft first announced "Windows".
Now I'm half-way there to not having to put my DVD-Audio discs into my DVD player. I am half-way closer to being able to place them on my music server instead.
I haven't been listening to them as much or buying them so much either, because of this requirement. So this will actually encourage me to purchase more of them.
Unfortunately, the other halves to this problem are to get playback from my media server, and to somehow get the DVD-Audio data to my receiver. The last half is probably going to be the hardest, since there's no multi-channel output from my iBook, and no firewire input on my receiver.
So, where can I get the earlier performances? I assume someone might have them available for download somewhere. Thanks. :)
Apple also spends an enormous amount of time, effort, and money on making sure the choice(s) they provide to consumers are the best ones available.
I realized the other day that if you name a foreign car brand, I think I can name their entire line. Or in some cases, the only difference in the line are some numbers. But name a U.S. car brand, and I don't think I can name the entire line.
Apple does this too. There's only a few choices. And they're all good choices, just different. I remember the huge number of Mac choices being horrible under Gil Amelio.
Customization is something experience and confident users will do, and the simple truth is that the vast majority of modern computer users never reach that level of confidence and knowledge.
Customization is also something that experienced and confident users don't necessarily want. They either don't want it ever, or making it part of the product is a mistake.
When was the last time you customized your car? Or were interested in purchasing a car that came with customization features? Or a DVD player? There are people who customize those too, but I'm really not interested in spending money on a DVD player that has twice as many buttons or a harder to navigate main menu, just because it might let me customize it.
If you're really into it, you can get in there and customize things. People do it to their cars, DVD players, and iPods. But none of these products are designed in a manner that requires a user to deal with those issues unless they choose to. And it would be quite annoying if they did.
This is an extremely important point. As soon as a company goes public, the owners of the company are the shareholders. It doesn't matter what the officers or managers or any employee thinks. If they do not maximize profit and stock price, they will get fired.
No one is protected from that fate, regardless of their position within a company. Carly Fiorina is a prime example of what can happen when the shareholders are unhappy. It doesn't matter if she was trying to do the "right" thing for HP's future. Even if a decision was made to not kill babies, if the company started losing tons of money to not kill babies, the shareholders would revolt.
Unless you're a CIO or CTO of a company doing business with IBM, or an IBM business partner, you won't have received any announcement that they are lowering prices. Go ask some of them what their current take on things is.
Or, you can also ask the stock market. If IBM was making tons of profit and lots more money (i.e. keeping prices high while lowering costs), why did everyone just dump their stock?
Disclaimer: I work for IBM.
My home's been around about 30 years. It's perfectly fine after all the previous earthquakes in this area. I expect it to be fine in the next one.
I live in San Jose.
1984: 6.2 in Morgan Hill about 20m away
1989: 6.9 in Loma Prieta about 20m away
Of course, a _really_ big earthquake hasn't been near my location in while.
I would actually request that they do not turn iCal, Mail, Address Book, etc. into a single application. I absolutely hate that about Lotus Notes. Thing is, they all work together already. There's no reason for them to be in a single application.
;D
Opening iCalendar files in Mail puts them into iCal. Scheduling something in iCal allows you to send out invitations to the people identified in your Address Book via Mail. Address Book will connect to a central LDAP machine for accounts.
It isn't complete yet though. If you delete an entry in iCal, the original sender of the invitation is not notified. There's no way to use iCal or Mail to send back a response indicating acceptance of an invitation. Partially because you cannot yet assign an attendance status to the list of people. And you cannot check against other people's calendars to find free/busy time because there is no group calendaring mechanism.
Note to Apple: want to hire me?
PHP iCalendar went down because it was compromised. It won't go back up until a specific person has time to make sure it is safe to do so.
I'm one of the previously quite active, now kind of lurker, PHP iCalendar developers. No conspiracy here.
Ah, well, the e-commerce suite I wrote actually supported one-click ordering. I wrote my suite very flexibly and it supported this in part because of an earlier contract job I did that allowed a user to complete an order from a single screen. (If I recall the order of events correctly.) Extending that to ordering with a single click, based on a cookie to identify the user, was simple. However, my implementation was after the date of file, but before the patent was granted and before one-click was in use by Amazon. I went back to check my code timestamps after this patent was granted.
I use hdiutil. Comes with Mac OS X.
Are you buying the screen, keyboard, CD-ROM drive, etc. Or are you buying a product that provides you with a solution, both from a hardware and software perspective?
I think it is quite unfair to categorize this ias a Steve Jobs hissy fit. IBM failed to deliver processors that met the roadmap Apple was planning, and promised by IBM, so they are switching suppliers. Having Mac OS X run on x86 over the past 6-7 years was Apple's way of ensuring they were not stuck.
This is a sensible business decision that has nothing to do with looking bad. As it happens, Apple is probably the one company that is in such an excellent position to switch suppliers, given the choices: AMD, Intel, PowerPC. How many other consumer electronics companies can make a switch like this? Other companies are stuck because their stuff will only run on a specific platform.
This announcement hasn't affected my desire for a Mac Mini. The only reason I haven't bought one for my home theater is I'm running Tiger just fine for iTunes on my clamshell iBook.
Changing the processor is not going to produce a huge leap in performance, like the G4 to the G5. So there's no reason for me to wait for an Intel-based Mac. But my Dual G5 is probably going to last about 4 more years anyway, before it feels too slow for comfort.
I know it's a joke, but the analogy to downloading a missed TV show is flawed. Distribution rights of copyrighted material is something that belongs to the copyright holder. That's where the law is being broken.
And why do you need something like this to make a copy of a DVD?