There's absolutely nothing I do at work that I couldn't do at home unless there is a hardware failure. And that happens maybe once or twice a year. Plus I'd save about 70 miles a day driving and more importantly at least 1.5 hours a day driving.
I wonder how many people would use Microsoft servers and desktops if their jobs were on the line. If I'm the boss, and my network constantly goes down due to worms and viruses, I'm firing my network administrators for putting in such faulty software. Why doesn't this happen in the computer world? It happens with other products.
It's nice to see that big oil companies are helping fund a project like this too. It's very rare today to hear of a major company throwing money at a research project since the '80s.
The oil companies are funding this research so they can receive the patents on it. Then they basically bury the inventions. Take solar energy. Oil companies own somewhere around 90% of the patents on solar energy. Why do you think they do this? Simple, better to fund the research themselves so they own the patents. This prevents anyone else from actually inventing something new and possibly marketing it. Do you think the oil companies will ever push solar energy? Not on your life. The same goes with ethanol.
I'm an Apple fan. I own an iBook. I own an iPod. And I have a.mac account. Steve Jobs was ousted in 1985. He went and started Next Computers. In the early 90's Apple had about a 10% market share. Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. By then, they had about a 5% market share. For 2003, only about 2% of all personal computers sold were Apples.
Apple will never return to the 10% numbers until they get serious about the consumer market. Apple is pretty much gearing themselves to the prosumer and professional markets. Their consumer line of computers don't come close to the performance of entry level PC's.
Apple is selling a lot of iPods, but I think its got a short lifespan. Within the next couple of years, you will see flash-memory based players that hold about 5GB's of storage. And these will sell for under $100 at some point. By then, the price will win out over the glamour of the iPod. And once again Apple will be left behind. They just can't see that the DRM is the future and if they don't license theirs, Microsoft will win this market as well. And online music sites will continue to have only one option, WMA. And eventually it will win by sheer volume.
2) IBM still "owns" the Big Iron environment, purchasing Sun would have allowed them maintain that high ground while pushing outwards towards department and desktop environments.
I doubt IBM would be able to purchase Sun. The gov't would probably slap an anti-trust lawsuit on them the same way they are talking about doing to Oracle regarding their takeover bid of PeopleSoft.
And I'm sure Microsoft would be the first to complain to the state of Washinton's Representatives if IBM tried to purchase Sun.
I've downloaded about 275 songs from iTunes Music store. But I've come to the decision that I will no longer download music for one reason. And its not because of DRM. I can actually live with Apple's DRM. I don't notice it.
I will stop downloading because I no longer want to own music that is in a format other than its original format. Let me be the one to decide what to encode my music to make the files smaller. Not Apple or Microsoft. If you let me purchase my music in WAV or even FLAC, I'll continue to support your store, but if you insist on keeping all downloads in AAC or WMA formats, I will no longer be a customer.
And if CD's go away, I guess I just won't buy music anymore.
Apple doesn't own AAC. Dolby does. Apple owns Fairplay, the DRM. Or maybe they don't. They won't say. And be careful with WMA. I believe its tied to your computer. Replace your computer and your music is history. I could be wrong, but go to Walmarts online music site. Its in the small print. And they are using WMA.
I wasn't referring to which is better. Just more popular. MySQL is more popular because it has a company promoting it. I actually used to work for a company that supported PostgreSQL, Great Bridge. But it still wasn't the same as being the company that actually created it.
Why not use Postgres? That way, you don't have to wait for features that all the other RDBMS products have had for years. What is it that makes MySQL so much more popular than Postgres? It sure isn't features.
MySQL has a company behind it. PostgreSQL is a volunteer product for the most part.
Who do you think wrote the DMCA? Politicians? Not likely. I bet if Word documents from then had the metadata that Word has now, the metadata would be very interesting.
If its not given a BSD-style license, but one closer to GPL, there shouldn't be a problem. Microsoft won't touch the GPL since they can't make it their own like they can with BSD code. So I doubt Microsoft would do anything with Java provided its using an open-source license which prevents it from being hijacked.
I don't think its marketing as much as its lack of marketing by Apple. Sure, they are flooding the airwaves with iPod and iTunes commercials, but they have never run a commercial showing what OS X is capable of. Or iLife. Most people I talk to have no idea when it comes to Apple. They are amazed at how well the software is integrated together and that Microsoft Office can run on a Mac and that they can surf the internet as well. I get so tired of doing Apple's job for them. I really should send them an invoice for all of my PR work.
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Yeah, but she looks a helluva lot better. And thats all that matters in today's music business.
There's absolutely nothing I do at work that I couldn't do at home unless there is a hardware failure. And that happens maybe once or twice a year. Plus I'd save about 70 miles a day driving and more importantly at least 1.5 hours a day driving.
Thats like the GPL license or the XFS file system.
I wonder how many people would use Microsoft servers and desktops if their jobs were on the line. If I'm the boss, and my network constantly goes down due to worms and viruses, I'm firing my network administrators for putting in such faulty software. Why doesn't this happen in the computer world? It happens with other products.
I would hate to have to deal with all the spy software and viruses these laptops will get on them. They are going to wish they went with Apple iBooks.
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The oil companies are funding this research so they can receive the patents on it. Then they basically bury the inventions. Take solar energy. Oil companies own somewhere around 90% of the patents on solar energy. Why do you think they do this? Simple, better to fund the research themselves so they own the patents. This prevents anyone else from actually inventing something new and possibly marketing it. Do you think the oil companies will ever push solar energy? Not on your life. The same goes with ethanol.
I'm an Apple fan. I own an iBook. I own an iPod. And I have a .mac account. Steve Jobs was ousted in 1985. He went and started Next Computers. In the early 90's Apple had about a 10% market share. Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. By then, they had about a 5% market share. For 2003, only about 2% of all personal computers sold were Apples.
Apple will never return to the 10% numbers until they get serious about the consumer market. Apple is pretty much gearing themselves to the prosumer and professional markets. Their consumer line of computers don't come close to the performance of entry level PC's.
Apple is selling a lot of iPods, but I think its got a short lifespan. Within the next couple of years, you will see flash-memory based players that hold about 5GB's of storage. And these will sell for under $100 at some point. By then, the price will win out over the glamour of the iPod. And once again Apple will be left behind. They just can't see that the DRM is the future and if they don't license theirs, Microsoft will win this market as well. And online music sites will continue to have only one option, WMA. And eventually it will win by sheer volume.
I doubt IBM would be able to purchase Sun. The gov't would probably slap an anti-trust lawsuit on them the same way they are talking about doing to Oracle regarding their takeover bid of PeopleSoft.
And I'm sure Microsoft would be the first to complain to the state of Washinton's Representatives if IBM tried to purchase Sun.
Version 0.3 was on sourceforge as of last night. I was able to get it.
I'd love to see it. It might just blow up the player.
I've downloaded about 275 songs from iTunes Music store. But I've come to the decision that I will no longer download music for one reason. And its not because of DRM. I can actually live with Apple's DRM. I don't notice it.
I will stop downloading because I no longer want to own music that is in a format other than its original format. Let me be the one to decide what to encode my music to make the files smaller. Not Apple or Microsoft. If you let me purchase my music in WAV or even FLAC, I'll continue to support your store, but if you insist on keeping all downloads in AAC or WMA formats, I will no longer be a customer.
And if CD's go away, I guess I just won't buy music anymore.
Apple doesn't own AAC. Dolby does. Apple owns Fairplay, the DRM. Or maybe they don't. They won't say. And be careful with WMA. I believe its tied to your computer. Replace your computer and your music is history. I could be wrong, but go to Walmarts online music site. Its in the small print. And they are using WMA.
Magnatune offers a multitude of formats including Ogg, MP3, WAV, and FLAC.
Forget that, move to the Caymens. They seem to allow just about anything down there.
I wasn't referring to which is better. Just more popular. MySQL is more popular because it has a company promoting it. I actually used to work for a company that supported PostgreSQL, Great Bridge. But it still wasn't the same as being the company that actually created it.
MySQL has a company behind it. PostgreSQL is a volunteer product for the most part.
If you are a Hokie, Virginia Tech IS "The University of Virginia".
Who do you think wrote the DMCA? Politicians? Not likely. I bet if Word documents from then had the metadata that Word has now, the metadata would be very interesting.
That went out the first time an elected official decided he could make a career out of politics.
Technically, he was correct. Virginia Tech IS "The University of Virginia", not that school in Charlottesville.
Has it been that long? God, I'm getting old.
If its not given a BSD-style license, but one closer to GPL, there shouldn't be a problem. Microsoft won't touch the GPL since they can't make it their own like they can with BSD code. So I doubt Microsoft would do anything with Java provided its using an open-source license which prevents it from being hijacked.
I don't think its marketing as much as its lack of marketing by Apple. Sure, they are flooding the airwaves with iPod and iTunes commercials, but they have never run a commercial showing what OS X is capable of. Or iLife. Most people I talk to have no idea when it comes to Apple. They are amazed at how well the software is integrated together and that Microsoft Office can run on a Mac and that they can surf the internet as well. I get so tired of doing Apple's job for them. I really should send them an invoice for all of my PR work.
Wouldn't Microsoft's Security Chief be a marketing guy? He obviously doesn't have anything to do with security.