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I keep hearing about how Apple doesn't make that much money off of the music, but instead from iPod sales. I feel that Apple intends to make more money in the future by selling music from independent labels, but at the moment it seems they make very little from the sole sale of music.
If that is the case, then why would Microsoft be concerned with the selling of music? I guess it's a silly question because Microsoft wants to certainly not lose out in the digital lifestyle arena, but what does Microsoft offer that would suffer from this? Media Player comes with every Windows PC, which makes up, when I last checked, about 95% percent of the market.
HP wants to make money selling hardware, like Dell and Gateway, so they should pick what will sell the most hardware. Is HP supposed to do the research and development for Microsoft? And what the hey, they might woo in more people from the Apple camp.
I agree that racism is intolerable. However, my response was directed at a comment I read that implied that the blog was intentionally promoting racism.
I read his blog entry as an illustration of how awful some posters are. While perhaps he could have worded it a bit better, it still sounded to me as if his blog implied that people who post racist comments are the lowest of the low, the people that "gotta piss in the pool".
While some of his responses are rather terse to Mr. McBride, Linus certainly is being a bit more forgiving than he is in some of his Linux related newsgroup responses.
I expected something like: "Mr. McBride. Obviously you cannot read so I have decided not to put any effort into a response. Maybe you should try the SCO-general list instead."
Go Linus!
If you think this is fun, maybe SCO will go after Apple/Jobs. I'm sure Steve would hold his tongue?
Perhaps Apple should take a different approach
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"Tired of viruses, ugly looking icons, a confusing line of operating systems? Want to have the power of BSD in a stylish design? Hate Windows and are not so sure yet about Linux? Well, then buy Mac."
I'm not trolling with my love for Apple here. Instead, just pointing out some ways for Apple to go about being a larger thorn without having to argue their point. Novell has been known for their outspoken attitude at times, so perhaps it's not so far fetched to imagine a Novell ad in the near future promoting Linux in a similar vein?
Mozilla may be considerably better than IE, but Microsoft is only letting that remain the case because of Mozilla's tiny marketshare. And the Longhorn previews, btw, are already showing pop-up blocking in the IE that'll ship with that.
You obviously love to promote something other than Microsoft but have no idea as to how to take advantage of it.
I certainly am not worth a million, but I do make some good money installing and promoting products that save my clients hundreds of dollars now and thousands in the future, because I can offer a service that gets them working. IE is shitty compared to Mozilla and others, so I install Mozilla for web browsing. If a client doesn't need Office, I install OpenOffice. If they're still running Windows 98 and are stubborn, I install products that will work with '98 and tell them they have a couple of years left. If they need a database, I install MySQL. If they need a web server, I install Apache. If they need a total solution, I install it all and listen as they comment on how great it is that it all works. It's like a candy store!
If you truly believe in other products, then please don't actually sell the hype by mentioning Longhorn previews. Instead, charge by the hour and install and train people on products that will let them do what they need to do, be it storing files in a database or composing an email to their parents. Charge away and send some money to some of the OSS projects every now and again and/or pay for a license that is well worth the money.
Leave Longhorn in the future and out of the present, because the future is exactly where it is right now.
I will add that it is very nice to sit down with Dreamweaver and crank out some possible layouts using CSS, get some feedback from the client, and then transfer that design into some nice classes or functions, and then finish off with the dynamic content.
On top of that, Macromedia was one of the first of these types of editors to support jsp and php languages, as well as DAV as a method of file management. Not to mention that Dreamweaver MX supports sftp without the need for another application. And, lastly, Dreamweaver makes it very easy to work with the code, either in their editor or another editor.
While it's true that WYSIWYG tools can crank out some seriously bad html, let's give Macromedia some credit for listening to the people that use their product.
Re:Don't try this at work, kids...a flip side
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I feel for you, as I've had those same bosses that, even in technical positions, don't understand the difference between just sitting in your office, pulling a George Costanza, and sitting in your office a few less hours per week because you do good work.
On the flip side, there are those that claim they are working at home, or work short weeks, that are basically trying their best to just get out of work, and then we have the "no one can work at home" statement by the manager after someone brings attention to him or her self. Sheesh, just fire the people that don't respond to their emails in a timely manner, or answer the phone, for goodness sakes!
How special would I feel if I was a manager of a large company, and SCO tells me that despite that fact that the license process was still in formation, my company needs to choke up some money because we're rather large?
It sounds like SCO is having scalability trouble with more than their software.
Comment Disclaimer: Not that I think they should collect from anyone, by the way (-:
I like to think of myself as a "Passionate" Linux user, and it's always annoying to hear people bitch and moan about someone actually expressing an opinion.
If I didn't consider this article to be nothing more than an attempt to capture visits by those very people he is speaking of, I would say this fellow is "Passionate" about his dislike for Linux. I can argue, but it's his right to feel this way.
This entire SCO ordeal is certainly something to be taken seriously, since a win on SCO's end could possibly impede the work of many talented people.
But every now and then, a light flashes, common sense goes out the window, and a glimpse of the image illustrates a complete distortion of reality: Why in the heck is SCO valued on the stock market more than Sun microsystems? Love or hate Sun, they make hardware, have JAVA, Solaris...let's see, global distribution, the possibility of a future (bias creeping in (-: ) At the time of this posting, SCO is around 41, Sun is around 3. So SCO is almost double that of Apple's stock right now.
Give me a break. I could imagine their stock running up, maybe from $1 to $2, but to give value to a company that makes money off the idea of a lawsuit?
I guess it's a given that the stock market is a game of sorts, but if the stock market gives more value to SCO than a Sun or Apple, then what good is it?
I'm afriad I am only familiar with the investor side of things. What does Google lose, for instance, by staying private? Don't they just give themselves raises as they make more money, and they are not subject to all of the crazy analysts that seem to wake up in the morning and decide who is IN and who is OUT?
It's amazing, however, to note how Windows doesn't seem to handle more than one task at a time. Consolidate a library, import tunes from a CD, and open an application and see how quickly you can open a new application. Maybe XP handles this a bit better, this machine is 2000, but still...my old iMac does better.
This is not a pure Windows bash, just something I've always noticed about using Windows and wondered how one could be confident about server issues when many apps will not let you access the application until the app is finished doing this or that.
While the benefits are not always immediately tangible, a good, clean design makes a better impression. It does take a bit more time, I know because I'm as guilty of sometime just throwing things up on the Web as well, but it's tough to think much of a product if you are new to the product and the Web site is terrible.
And the site certainly doesn't need to be fancy, just clean and informative.
I've been doing some work with ImageMagick of late, and I love the power this set of tools provides. I actually worked with the tools well before ever visiting the main Web site. To my surprise the site, while easy to navigate, is very stark and unimpressive compared to the tool-set. This is not a bash at all, but simply what I consider to be an example of a site that doesn't shine nearly as brightly as the product.
A contrast to the above is the Open Source project Gallery's Web site. This site is visually stimulating, which is great considering the product is a visually oriented product.
There are so many sites that have little or no content that keep piling on the Flash, piling on the glitz, so it's nice to see sites, such as the new Mozilla site, that offer something useful and look good.
I love to hear Microsoft mention Linux, especially in a paragraph that can be taken out of context and re-written (too much SCO of late):
Complete misquote:
What's your strategy to compete with Linux, which I might mention is not competition; I'm just talking about Linux specifically as an example, not as a more stable, robust threat.
"The truth (laughter) is our products compete with other products, and our products compete with other products in a variety of ways, starting with the crushing hammer of a monopoly and value delivered in the product running right through to the services and training of our partners and the applications that our partners built.
But we've got to start by having products that deliver the best value in every scenario that our customers care about, and especially those areas they had no idea they SHOULD care about. And so when we think about innovation, we think about innovation in a value sense for our customers and a competitive sense. Or, to put it another way, we want to charge more for less.
Linux is better at high-performance computing than Windows, so we hired some Linux engineers and they look at it and they look at it and they look at it and they say, "Why are we looking at this, we wrote it? Linux? How do we make that easier?" When I think of Linux, I think of my mother. (Laughter.) That was a little extra emotion, but it was not Freudian.
I equate Pair programming to brainstorming: necessary but not used during the entire process.
The web is an entire world filled with programming resources, and is easily accessed to most programmers. With this resource at hand, don't we all already have help when we need it? Are we not already working with one another?
To gather more information about a crash, different approaches have been taken. For example, America Online has the ability to determine the location of a crash of Microsoft's "INTERNET EXPLORER" web browser and report this information to Microsoft. However, other information regarding the state of a user's machine at the time of the crash is not known and it is difficult to distinguish between different crashes. Without this valuable information, not much can be done to determine whether there is a bug and, if so, correct the bug. Other approaches have been taken to tackle the problems of failures. For example, Netscape's "COMMUNICATOR" web browser includes a quality feedback agent to report a crash to Netscape, although it is not known what information is reported to Netscape. Moreover, both of these approaches apply to fatal crashes, i.e., when the operating system has decided to kill the application. Thus, there is a need for a method and system for reporting non-fatal crashes, such as when the operating system continues executing the application's code.
The entire computing programming industry has been changed because of Java in some way or another. Object oriented coding is used now by those that work in VB. PHP, Perl, and Python all are improving their ability to work with the Java language and JSP is very popular with Apache users.
Now why the heck would you wanto to alienate the very people that worked to get you language into the enterprise? This attitude on Sun's part strikes me as something that will make it more difficult to promote Java as the platform to use over others. Promote your own OS, sure, but Sun had better get Java out the door as much as possible over the next few years, or it's going to get swallowed up either by an existing language or an adaptation of a language that has yet to be realized. And then if Java is less popular, then there goes to the service, training, and publishing revenue streams to Sun.
Hardware is only going to become more of a commodity, and there is no way around that future. I just hope Sun doesn't tighten their grip, hurting those that have pushed to use Java as an alternative to M$ in the process.
Who knows, maybe Apple will buy them for their sales department.
On Wednesday he embraced all three. On Thursday he cloned them all. On Friday he released the clones, having changed their names and feature sets. On Saturday he released the first 12 patches.
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I keep hearing about how Apple doesn't make that much money off of the music, but instead from iPod sales. I feel that Apple intends to make more money in the future by selling music from independent labels, but at the moment it seems they make very little from the sole sale of music.
If that is the case, then why would Microsoft be concerned with the selling of music? I guess it's a silly question because Microsoft wants to certainly not lose out in the digital lifestyle arena, but what does Microsoft offer that would suffer from this? Media Player comes with every Windows PC, which makes up, when I last checked, about 95% percent of the market.
HP wants to make money selling hardware, like Dell and Gateway, so they should pick what will sell the most hardware. Is HP supposed to do the research and development for Microsoft? And what the hey, they might woo in more people from the Apple camp.
I agree that racism is intolerable. However, my response was directed at a comment I read that implied that the blog was intentionally promoting racism.
I read his blog entry as an illustration of how awful some posters are. While perhaps he could have worded it a bit better, it still sounded to me as if his blog implied that people who post racist comments are the lowest of the low, the people that "gotta piss in the pool".
I cannot tell if you are being sarcastic, but it's pretty easy to see that his comment was, well, sarcastic, making fun of others that use the word.
Seems like the patent office can demonstrate quite a bit of prior art regarding Amazon's 'One-Click Shopping'.
Great image (-:
While some of his responses are rather terse to Mr. McBride, Linus certainly is being a bit more forgiving than he is in some of his Linux related newsgroup responses.
I expected something like:
"Mr. McBride. Obviously you cannot read so I have decided not to put any effort into a response. Maybe you should try the SCO-general list instead."
Go Linus!
If you think this is fun, maybe SCO will go after Apple/Jobs. I'm sure Steve would hold his tongue?
"Tired of viruses, ugly looking icons, a confusing line of operating systems? Want to have the power of BSD in a stylish design? Hate Windows and are not so sure yet about Linux? Well, then buy Mac."
I'm not trolling with my love for Apple here. Instead, just pointing out some ways for Apple to go about being a larger thorn without having to argue their point. Novell has been known for their outspoken attitude at times, so perhaps it's not so far fetched to imagine a Novell ad in the near future promoting Linux in a similar vein?
Mozilla may be considerably better than IE, but Microsoft is only letting that remain the case because of Mozilla's tiny marketshare. And the Longhorn previews, btw, are already showing pop-up blocking in the IE that'll ship with that.
You obviously love to promote something other than Microsoft but have no idea as to how to take advantage of it.
I certainly am not worth a million, but I do make some good money installing and promoting products that save my clients hundreds of dollars now and thousands in the future, because I can offer a service that gets them working. IE is shitty compared to Mozilla and others, so I install Mozilla for web browsing. If a client doesn't need Office, I install OpenOffice. If they're still running Windows 98 and are stubborn, I install products that will work with '98 and tell them they have a couple of years left. If they need a database, I install MySQL. If they need a web server, I install Apache. If they need a total solution, I install it all and listen as they comment on how great it is that it all works. It's like a candy store!
If you truly believe in other products, then please don't actually sell the hype by mentioning Longhorn previews. Instead, charge by the hour and install and train people on products that will let them do what they need to do, be it storing files in a database or composing an email to their parents. Charge away and send some money to some of the OSS projects every now and again and/or pay for a license that is well worth the money.
Leave Longhorn in the future and out of the present, because the future is exactly where it is right now.
I will add that it is very nice to sit down with Dreamweaver and crank out some possible layouts using CSS, get some feedback from the client, and then transfer that design into some nice classes or functions, and then finish off with the dynamic content.
On top of that, Macromedia was one of the first of these types of editors to support jsp and php languages, as well as DAV as a method of file management. Not to mention that Dreamweaver MX supports sftp without the need for another application. And, lastly, Dreamweaver makes it very easy to work with the code, either in their editor or another editor.
While it's true that WYSIWYG tools can crank out some seriously bad html, let's give Macromedia some credit for listening to the people that use their product.
I feel for you, as I've had those same bosses that, even in technical positions, don't understand the difference between just sitting in your office, pulling a George Costanza, and sitting in your office a few less hours per week because you do good work.
On the flip side, there are those that claim they are working at home, or work short weeks, that are basically trying their best to just get out of work, and then we have the "no one can work at home" statement by the manager after someone brings attention to him or her self. Sheesh, just fire the people that don't respond to their emails in a timely manner, or answer the phone, for goodness sakes!
How special would I feel if I was a manager of a large company, and SCO tells me that despite that fact that the license process was still in formation, my company needs to choke up some money because we're rather large?
It sounds like SCO is having scalability trouble with more than their software.
Comment Disclaimer: Not that I think they should collect from anyone, by the way (-:
I like to think of myself as a "Passionate" Linux user, and it's always annoying to hear people bitch and moan about someone actually expressing an opinion.
If I didn't consider this article to be nothing more than an attempt to capture visits by those very people he is speaking of, I would say this fellow is "Passionate" about his dislike for Linux. I can argue, but it's his right to feel this way.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=sunw. yahoo.com/q?s=scox
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I did hit a 4 instead of a 2 with regards to the SCO stock, honest mistake. However, Sun microsystems is nowhere near 41. SUNOCO INC is around 41.
This entire SCO ordeal is certainly something to be taken seriously, since a win on SCO's end could possibly impede the work of many talented people.
But every now and then, a light flashes, common sense goes out the window, and a glimpse of the image illustrates a complete distortion of reality: Why in the heck is SCO valued on the stock market more than Sun microsystems? Love or hate Sun, they make hardware, have JAVA, Solaris...let's see, global distribution, the possibility of a future (bias creeping in (-: ) At the time of this posting, SCO is around 41, Sun is around 3. So SCO is almost double that of Apple's stock right now.
Give me a break. I could imagine their stock running up, maybe from $1 to $2, but to give value to a company that makes money off the idea of a lawsuit?
I guess it's a given that the stock market is a game of sorts, but if the stock market gives more value to SCO than a Sun or Apple, then what good is it?
I'm afriad I am only familiar with the investor side of things. What does Google lose, for instance, by staying private? Don't they just give themselves raises as they make more money, and they are not subject to all of the crazy analysts that seem to wake up in the morning and decide who is IN and who is OUT?
Root services should not be dependent upon a few entities that need to not only make a profit, but need to INCREASE their profits each year.
Where does this idea that no money is ever made from the internet come from? I mean, what are most of us working on today?
So far so good. This is 100% odd (-:
It's amazing, however, to note how Windows doesn't seem to handle more than one task at a time. Consolidate a library, import tunes from a CD, and open an application and see how quickly you can open a new application. Maybe XP handles this a bit better, this machine is 2000, but still...my old iMac does better.
This is not a pure Windows bash, just something I've always noticed about using Windows and wondered how one could be confident about server issues when many apps will not let you access the application until the app is finished doing this or that.
Well, it seems as if this thread, despite it being about Napster, is handling the iTunes situation.
While the benefits are not always immediately tangible, a good, clean design makes a better impression. It does take a bit more time, I know because I'm as guilty of sometime just throwing things up on the Web as well, but it's tough to think much of a product if you are new to the product and the Web site is terrible.
And the site certainly doesn't need to be fancy, just clean and informative.
I've been doing some work with ImageMagick of late, and I love the power this set of tools provides. I actually worked with the tools well before ever visiting the main Web site. To my surprise the site, while easy to navigate, is very stark and unimpressive compared to the tool-set. This is not a bash at all, but simply what I consider to be an example of a site that doesn't shine nearly as brightly as the product.
A contrast to the above is the Open Source project Gallery's Web site. This site is visually stimulating, which is great considering the product is a visually oriented product.
There are so many sites that have little or no content that keep piling on the Flash, piling on the glitz, so it's nice to see sites, such as the new Mozilla site, that offer something useful and look good.
Here's to presentation that equals the content.
I love to hear Microsoft mention Linux, especially in a paragraph that can be taken out of context and re-written (too much SCO of late):
Complete misquote:
What's your strategy to compete with Linux, which I might mention is not competition; I'm just talking about Linux specifically as an example, not as a more stable, robust threat.
"The truth (laughter) is our products compete with other products, and our products compete with other products in a variety of ways, starting with the crushing hammer of a monopoly and value delivered in the product running right through to the services and training of our partners and the applications that our partners built.
But we've got to start by having products that deliver the best value in every scenario that our customers care about, and especially those areas they had no idea they SHOULD care about. And so when we think about innovation, we think about innovation in a value sense for our customers and a competitive sense. Or, to put it another way, we want to charge more for less.
Linux is better at high-performance computing than Windows, so we hired some Linux engineers and they look at it and they look at it and they look at it and they say, "Why are we looking at this, we wrote it? Linux? How do we make that easier?" When I think of Linux, I think of my mother. (Laughter.) That was a little extra emotion, but it was not Freudian.
I equate Pair programming to brainstorming: necessary but not used during the entire process.
The web is an entire world filled with programming resources, and is easily accessed to most programmers. With this resource at hand, don't we all already have help when we need it? Are we not already working with one another?
Perhaps I miss the point.
Netscape is mentioned in the text of the patent:
To gather more information about a crash, different approaches have been taken. For example, America Online has the ability to determine the location of a crash of Microsoft's "INTERNET EXPLORER" web browser and report this information to Microsoft. However, other information regarding the state of a user's machine at the time of the crash is not known and it is difficult to distinguish between different crashes. Without this valuable information, not much can be done to determine whether there is a bug and, if so, correct the bug. Other approaches have been taken to tackle the problems of failures. For example, Netscape's "COMMUNICATOR" web browser includes a quality feedback agent to report a crash to Netscape, although it is not known what information is reported to Netscape. Moreover, both of these approaches apply to fatal crashes, i.e., when the operating system has decided to kill the application. Thus, there is a need for a method and system for reporting non-fatal crashes, such as when the operating system continues executing the application's code.
The entire computing programming industry has been changed because of Java in some way or another. Object oriented coding is used now by those that work in VB. PHP, Perl, and Python all are improving their ability to work with the Java language and JSP is very popular with Apache users.
Now why the heck would you wanto to alienate the very people that worked to get you language into the enterprise? This attitude on Sun's part strikes me as something that will make it more difficult to promote Java as the platform to use over others. Promote your own OS, sure, but Sun had better get Java out the door as much as possible over the next few years, or it's going to get swallowed up either by an existing language or an adaptation of a language that has yet to be realized. And then if Java is less popular, then there goes to the service, training, and publishing revenue streams to Sun.
Hardware is only going to become more of a commodity, and there is no way around that future. I just hope Sun doesn't tighten their grip, hurting those that have pushed to use Java as an alternative to M$ in the process.
Who knows, maybe Apple will buy them for their sales department.
Damn, I knew I should have copyrighted my material!
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On Wednesday he embraced all three.
On Thursday he cloned them all.
On Friday he released the clones, having changed their names and feature sets.
On Saturday he released the first 12 patches.
Be sure to check out the this course, which focuses on modular system design.
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