They could just Escrow the money until feedback is left. If positive feedback is given, the money goes through, if negative is given the money is returned. After all the only requirement of the buyer is to actually pay for the goods, nothing else.
1. The Star Trek equivalent of Animal House. Crazy co-eds, the antics of Star Fleet Academy's most crazy frat house
2. Cadets save the world.
I know which one is more likely, and it pains me to say it, I don't want to watch movie #2, but #1 would be awesome.;)
Seriously, who actually thinks a movie based in Starfleet academy is a good idea? Obviously the unimaginative producers think its an "angle" of Starfleet that hasn't been covered, and an excuse to "sex up" the franchise by having a bunch of 20-somethings in the roles.
I especially cringe at the thought of "young Kirk" and "young Spock". Face it, Muppet Babies was terrible, Star Trek babies will be too.
[quote]Certainly the recent rise of OS X on the back of the iPod has hurt desktop Linux, but these two desktop OS's appeal to completely different market segments so they are natural allies, not adversaries.[/quote] Not true. I, and many of my friends are former Linux geeks who have moved to Mac OS X because we simply got tired of the fact that Linux doesn't work that well as a Desktop OS. With Macs we have all the Unix goodness coupled with a decent user interface.
As a Desktop OS Mac OS X and Linux are definitely the same market segments. I believe that a large percentage of Linux users would be much happier using a Mac. The ones that wouldn't are probably mainly made up of GPL zealots who wouldn't dream of running an OS that wasn't "Open Source".
Actually it will be Aqua, as Aqua is just the name of the Mac OS X interface.
You probably mean Carbon or Cocoa. QT on Mac is essentially another UI library, like Cocoa, Carbon and some others are (Adobe's libraries for example), which all run on Aqua.
Apple are not being anti-competitive, the consumer is free to choose which ever MP3 player they like, and a accompanying music store. If the iTMS was the only place you could buy music, thus forcing you to buy an iPod if you wanted to listen to music, THAT would be anti-competitive.
Creative/whatever users are free to buy music for their devices from other stores if they like.
You didn't address my comment on the Spotlight rip off. Pursuade me that Gnome coders didn't see Spotlight and think, "That's great - we should reimplement it in Gnome". You can clearly see the origin of the idea there. You might argue that Gnome are copying Google Desktop as well if you like, I'd conceed that.
Fast user switching, my original comment was really meant to signal the fact that Gnome called it "Fast User Switching", rather than it being an original idea. Obviously features like this have been available for a long time (before Linux even).
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that there's any thing wrong with Gnome taking ideas from other UIs, but I strongly dissagree with any assertion that Gnome ISN'T "ripping-off" the UI of Windows or Mac OS X, where clearly they are.
At least Gnome is taking ideas from OS X, and not being a total clone of Windows like KDE is.
I mean things like "Fast User Switching" - they could at least have called that something different, and the "DeskBar" which is basically look identical to the Spotlight search bar on Mac. Like it or not, Gnome coders are taking the best of Windows and Mac OSX and putting it into Gnome, there is little original in Gnome, as nice as it is.
Also, don't start on the whole "OS X uses open source software so its OK to the OS X GUI". Open source software specifically grants a license to be used on operating systems. Just because Apple takes them up on that offer, doesn't mean its OK to rip Apple's UI off.
Yep, I can attest to the fact this works great. Although I still get several per month, its better than the 5 per day I was getting. I guess I have better credit than the above poster!:)
A lot of music stores have been having difficulty competing with the iTunes Music Store, and with good reason, iPods are hip, and the only Store guaranteed to work with the iPod is the iTMS.
However there is another way, if Yahoo's store sold, instead of DRM encumbered MS only files, un-DRMed AAC or MP3 files, these would work fine with the iPod, they could sell them at a lower cost than iTunes and compete with Apple.
Of course the RIAA will never allow them to do this, because non-DRMed music is bad, right?
I think you have good reason to be skeptical, I'm not convinced this guy isn't a crank. Anybody can post a paper on a preprint server. Does he have any papers on this subject that have actually made it into a peer reviewed journal?
Also this story is basically based on a press release from Starmark, the company that this so-called "noted scientist" founded himself, so basically he wrote the press release I'm guessing.
Also the fact that he's giving a talk at a conference means nothing, I've been to plenty of conferences where they let a few cranks give talks. I sat through a talk on Creation and the Big Bang at a Astrophysics conference once and the guy was a loon.
That said the biggest proof that this guy could be a crank is the fact that this story got posted on Slashdot, where something like 90% of the science stories are crap.
I believe the comment I made was about "scientific computing", as in computers used by scientists. I wouldn't argue Sun's dominance over Apple in the server environment.
The fact is in Scientific Computing, i.e. workstations used by Scientists, Sun used to have close to 100% dominance in my field. Now they're close to 0%.
I'm talking about in the USA, not in the UK. PPARC budgets for computing in the UK are low, so you have to go cheap. I know because I did my PhD in the UK, but I've worked in the USA for 8 years now in Astrophysics.
However in the US, where Macs are cheaper than in the UK and computing budgets are more reasonable, Macs are starting to win out. I work on a NASA mission at a University and personally have a Dual G5 workstation. The Astronomy department here is moving to entirely Macs, and my project is too (currently we only have 3 G5's in the building, but after the next budget cycle that will most likely double). Trust me ther e is a lot of serious work going on here using Macs!
The main reason for this is that Macs are easier to administer, easier to use and run Microsoft Office. Use of Office is much more prevalent in US research I find, so much so that many people I work with have Windows laptops and Linux workstations. With Macs they can do everything on one machine.
The last conference I went to as I said, at least 50% of people had powerbooks. Everyone who worked at NASA/GSFC had a Powerbook.
You're out of date I'm afraid. Solaris already lost out to Linux in the scientific computing field a few years ago. In my field (Astrophysics) universities 5-10 years ago were 100% Solaris, with some Dec Alphas thrown in the mix. 5 years ago the exodus began to Linux machines when people realised they were faster than Solaris boxes, 1/5th of the price and could run all the same software.
Fast forward to today linux is losing out to Macs in science, every conference I go to it seems that more and more people have Powerbooks (like > 50% of the audience), especially at NASA. My project just decided to move entirely over to Macs. Solaris isn't even in the mix anymore.
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Haven't you seen 24? Jack Bauer does this kind of thing *every week*!
They could just Escrow the money until feedback is left. If positive feedback is given, the money goes through, if negative is given the money is returned. After all the only requirement of the buyer is to actually pay for the goods, nothing else.
In my mind this could go one of two ways.
;)
1. The Star Trek equivalent of Animal House. Crazy co-eds, the antics of Star Fleet Academy's most crazy frat house
2. Cadets save the world.
I know which one is more likely, and it pains me to say it, I don't want to watch movie #2, but #1 would be awesome.
Seriously, who actually thinks a movie based in Starfleet academy is a good idea? Obviously the unimaginative producers think its an "angle" of Starfleet that hasn't been covered, and an excuse to "sex up" the franchise by having a bunch of 20-somethings in the roles.
I especially cringe at the thought of "young Kirk" and "young Spock". Face it, Muppet Babies was terrible, Star Trek babies will be too.
Don't knock it. Office is the only decent thing that Microsoft makes!
[quote]Certainly the recent rise of OS X on the back of the iPod has hurt desktop Linux, but these two desktop OS's appeal to completely different market segments so they are natural allies, not adversaries.[/quote]
Not true. I, and many of my friends are former Linux geeks who have moved to Mac OS X because we simply got tired of the fact that Linux doesn't work that well as a Desktop OS. With Macs we have all the Unix goodness coupled with a decent user interface.
As a Desktop OS Mac OS X and Linux are definitely the same market segments. I believe that a large percentage of Linux users would be much happier using a Mac. The ones that wouldn't are probably mainly made up of GPL zealots who wouldn't dream of running an OS that wasn't "Open Source".
How this is related to you getting laid I'll never know.
Girls own iPods. You'll never get laid showning them your iRiver.
Actually it will be Aqua, as Aqua is just the name of the Mac OS X interface.
You probably mean Carbon or Cocoa. QT on Mac is essentially another UI library, like Cocoa, Carbon and some others are (Adobe's libraries for example), which all run on Aqua.
Everyone should read this:
r isky_ideas
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/asinine_and_or_
which gives all the reasons why these types of stories are crap.
Hi hope it's as great as the Google Video store!!!
Apple are not being anti-competitive, the consumer is free to choose which ever MP3 player they like, and a accompanying music store. If the iTMS was the only place you could buy music, thus forcing you to buy an iPod if you wanted to listen to music, THAT would be anti-competitive.
Creative/whatever users are free to buy music for their devices from other stores if they like.
You didn't address my comment on the Spotlight rip off. Pursuade me that Gnome coders didn't see Spotlight and think, "That's great - we should reimplement it in Gnome". You can clearly see the origin of the idea there. You might argue that Gnome are copying Google Desktop as well if you like, I'd conceed that.
Fast user switching, my original comment was really meant to signal the fact that Gnome called it "Fast User Switching", rather than it being an original idea. Obviously features like this have been available for a long time (before Linux even).
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that there's any thing wrong with Gnome taking ideas from other UIs, but I strongly dissagree with any assertion that Gnome ISN'T "ripping-off" the UI of Windows or Mac OS X, where clearly they are.
At least Gnome is taking ideas from OS X, and not being a total clone of Windows like KDE is.
I mean things like "Fast User Switching" - they could at least have called that something different, and the "DeskBar" which is basically look identical to the Spotlight search bar on Mac. Like it or not, Gnome coders are taking the best of Windows and Mac OSX and putting it into Gnome, there is little original in Gnome, as nice as it is.
Also, don't start on the whole "OS X uses open source software so its OK to the OS X GUI". Open source software specifically grants a license to be used on operating systems. Just because Apple takes them up on that offer, doesn't mean its OK to rip Apple's UI off.
Well they're certainly doing a good job of copying stuff out of OS X, even if they're not trying to! ;)
Yep, I can attest to the fact this works great. Although I still get several per month, its better than the 5 per day I was getting. I guess I have better credit than the above poster! :)
A lot of music stores have been having difficulty competing with the iTunes Music Store, and with good reason, iPods are hip, and the only Store guaranteed to work with the iPod is the iTMS.
However there is another way, if Yahoo's store sold, instead of DRM encumbered MS only files, un-DRMed AAC or MP3 files, these would work fine with the iPod, they could sell them at a lower cost than iTunes and compete with Apple.
Of course the RIAA will never allow them to do this, because non-DRMed music is bad, right?
Mods, please mod this up, this clearly isn't flamebait. The original poster is talking out of his ass.
Then again, maybe enough people really really like Ricky Gervais. But probably not.
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People must like him somewhat, being as his podcast just got into the Guiness Book of World Records for being the most downloaded.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1703591
No, you're the first person ever to think of that! ;)
I think you have good reason to be skeptical, I'm not convinced this guy isn't a crank. Anybody can post a paper on a preprint server. Does he have any papers on this subject that have actually made it into a peer reviewed journal?
Also this story is basically based on a press release from Starmark, the company that this so-called "noted scientist" founded himself, so basically he wrote the press release I'm guessing.
Also the fact that he's giving a talk at a conference means nothing, I've been to plenty of conferences where they let a few cranks give talks. I sat through a talk on Creation and the Big Bang at a Astrophysics conference once and the guy was a loon.
That said the biggest proof that this guy could be a crank is the fact that this story got posted on Slashdot, where something like 90% of the science stories are crap.
I believe the comment I made was about "scientific computing", as in computers used by scientists. I wouldn't argue Sun's dominance over Apple in the server environment.
The fact is in Scientific Computing, i.e. workstations used by Scientists, Sun used to have close to 100% dominance in my field. Now they're close to 0%.
Hey, I said I was a scientist, not a mathematician!
I don't personally use SAS, and don't know anybody who does.
I'm talking about in the USA, not in the UK. PPARC budgets for computing in the UK are low, so you have to go cheap. I know because I did my PhD in the UK, but I've worked in the USA for 8 years now in Astrophysics.
However in the US, where Macs are cheaper than in the UK and computing budgets are more reasonable, Macs are starting to win out. I work on a NASA mission at a University and personally have a Dual G5 workstation. The Astronomy department here is moving to entirely Macs, and my project is too (currently we only have 3 G5's in the building, but after the next budget cycle that will most likely double). Trust me ther e is a lot of serious work going on here using Macs!
The main reason for this is that Macs are easier to administer, easier to use and run Microsoft Office. Use of Office is much more prevalent in US research I find, so much so that many people I work with have Windows laptops and Linux workstations. With Macs they can do everything on one machine.
The last conference I went to as I said, at least 50% of people had powerbooks. Everyone who worked at NASA/GSFC had a Powerbook.
You're out of date I'm afraid. Solaris already lost out to Linux in the scientific computing field a few years ago. In my field (Astrophysics) universities 5-10 years ago were 100% Solaris, with some Dec Alphas thrown in the mix. 5 years ago the exodus began to Linux machines when people realised they were faster than Solaris boxes, 1/5th of the price and could run all the same software.
Fast forward to today linux is losing out to Macs in science, every conference I go to it seems that more and more people have Powerbooks (like > 50% of the audience), especially at NASA. My project just decided to move entirely over to Macs. Solaris isn't even in the mix anymore.