This is also the same for banks, insurers and other financial institutions. The traditional customers are not the customers anymore, the shareholders and investors are.
As far as the average joe goes, there seems to be no compitition in the banking industry. Across the board fee's are high, service is poor, and interest on savings is virtually nonexistent...
I remember a Current affairs program in Australia that did a test where they opened and account at each of the 4 major bank in Australia. Over the period of a year they withdrew and redeposited a certain amount of money each month and watched the balance shrink.
a) They want to set a precedent, so they go for the companies that are risk adverse and will pay up (as noted above)
b) They don't want to get caught up in 50,000 little lawsuits from every Joe Bloggs linux user. This would just drain and clog up their legal department and distract them from stategically more important lawsuits.
Piracy is to be overthrown by "Trusted Computing" if you would believe it's supporters. My question is this: Will "Trusted Computing" allow us to sign our personal information so that only those we want to use it can do so? Some how I don't think so...
All the information about my likes, dislikes, shopping habits originally came from me, regardless of who collected it. It's my "IP" and I should have the right to protect it. Is the personal information market that much different from a P2P network. Personal information seems to spread just as quickly as the latest mp3's.
Not really... all it constitutes is that there is hydrogen around Mars. Scientist waste millions of dollars trying to prove their religion, all the while millions of people here on Earth starve. We wonder about amoeba's on Mars while our own civilisation is on the brink of destruction. The world political system is colapsing, governments are lying to carry out their own secret agendas, small unstable countries are building bombs that can distroy whole other nations. Come on people, get a clue.
Apple is and will always be more expensive than roll your own boxes, but so are all the big name manufacturers. I think Apple have also been far behind in price/perfomance since the introduction of the Pentium 4, but the G5 is a good turn around for them.
A dual G5 is *cheaper* than Dell's dual Xeon machine, and if you believe the Apple tripe, it's a good deal faster. If you are a bit skeptical like me, I think you could say that for most tasks it will match the performance of a dual Xeon. Xeons are not cheap, and if you want a high end work station class machine you will need to pay a high end workstation price. That's the market they go for with the Power Mac's.
The G5 Mac's have huge improvements over the G4's which were serverely limited by their bus and memory speeds. The new G5's use fast ram, a fast (I assume hyper-transport) bus and fast serial ATA hdd's. Most intel boxes have fast ATA but dont use it, does anyone remember what it took for pc's to start using usb? Would USB 2.0 exist without Firewire kicking USB's but?
I am pretty confident that with good performance, which is comparable to Intel machines, Apple will be able claw back a bit of market share and I am sure we will see improvements trickle down into the cheaper 'home' machines in the coming weeks and months.
...when you do something yourself, you choose how you like it. I don't need XXXX or VB (or Budwiser) to tell me what good beer is. Brewing my own beer does not stop me from drinking or enjoying a commercial beer. It simply gives me a choice. And if I don't like a batch of my own beer, I can try to improve it.
Open source software is the same. It give us a choice, I do not need to use Windows or MacOS, but I can still choose to if I want. I don't even need to use Linus' or AC's kernel, I can make my own changes to the source.
The real benifit is this, what if all the beer companies (or whatever product it is) amalgamated and there were only a few types of beer. What if Apple died and there was only one commercial desktop OS. If there were no hackers making there own beer, writing there own software what choice would there be?
At the end of my first session using Win XP I went to logout, to my suprise the screen started to fade to b&w. I thought this was a really nice touch and even thought maybe, just maybe, they were catching up to Apple, then I clicked logout and the background instead of dying and going toally b&w as one would expect, sprung back to full life colour just as one wouldn't expect... this is what Microsoft lacks... attention to detail. It is eviedent everywhere throughout Microsoft products. It is why Mac users love their Mac's and despise Windows. Apple has great attention to detail thats why on a Mac things just work...
Agreed, I think it really depends on who will be using the website. HTTP is very convenient for people who don't care for acronyms, but for people who do, they'll want FTP.
Yes america does a lot of things while it is convenient. They sign treaties and then when it isn't convinient anymore they break them. To hell with whether it is for the common good or not.
America signs a trade agreement to lower tariffs, sometime down the track it is not "convienent" so they put the tariffs up anyway and screw some smaller country. America treat their detainee's inhumanely and claim that, technically, they are not POW's, so they are not bound by the Geneva convention. Because they aren't POW's does that mean they aren't human and should not be protected by that convention?
This is why there are people who don't like the USA.... This is why some people crash planes into buildings... and this is why some people are not sorry about it.... arrogance, and hypocracy... this is why people dislike the USA.
I think it is very sad. There seems to be a double standard here, It's ok for USA to do Nuclear tests but not other countries (how ever the are conducted). I mean, Americans can feel all warm and fuzzy about not doing acutal tests, but are they really any better than the Indians, Pakistanis or the French, just becasue they can simulate them? Wasn't the intent of stopping nuclear tests, in part, to slow the development of nuclear weapons.... I think it is a very hyporitical move on the part of the US of A. If America can test nuclear weapons why should not other counties be able to do so too....
I bought an iBook 1 week ago. Just the low end CD model, with an extra 256MB Ram. I too spent quite a while making sure the specs stacked up to its x86 counterparts before buying.
I just got Debian booting last night, it took about 3 hours. I used the Debian 2.2r3 ISO images available on most mirrors and the instructions on http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html. .
I found for my install some of the yaboot.conf settings in the instructions didn't work. I used following lines in/target/etc/yaboot.conf
Once those were right everything else was a breeze.
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I dont think it is loss of hardware sales that is stopping apple, although I think it is a pretty big thing. I think the biggest thing affecting Apple is its relationship (if you can call it that) with M$. If Apple competes with M$ in the OS market (and esp. the Server OS market) M$ will stop all support for MacOS. MacOS would not fair well if Office for Mac was scrapped. The only reason is exists at the moment is because apple signed a deal to make IE the default web browser (over netscape). M$ has more control over apple than most people think.
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This is also the same for banks, insurers and other financial institutions. The traditional customers are not the customers anymore, the shareholders and investors are.
As far as the average joe goes, there seems to be no compitition in the banking industry. Across the board fee's are high, service is poor, and interest on savings is virtually nonexistent...
I remember a Current affairs program in Australia that did a test where they opened and account at each of the 4 major bank in Australia. Over the period of a year they withdrew and redeposited a certain amount of money each month and watched the balance shrink.
My guess is that:
a) They want to set a precedent, so they go for the companies that are risk adverse and will pay up (as noted above)
b) They don't want to get caught up in 50,000 little lawsuits from every Joe Bloggs linux user. This would just drain and clog up their legal department and distract them from stategically more important lawsuits.
Piracy is to be overthrown by "Trusted Computing" if you would believe it's supporters. My question is this: Will "Trusted Computing" allow us to sign our personal information so that only those we want to use it can do so? Some how I don't think so...
All the information about my likes, dislikes, shopping habits originally came from me, regardless of who collected it. It's my "IP" and I should have the right to protect it. Is the personal information market that much different from a P2P network. Personal information seems to spread just as quickly as the latest mp3's.
Not really... all it constitutes is that there is hydrogen around Mars. Scientist waste millions of dollars trying to prove their religion, all the while millions of people here on Earth starve. We wonder about amoeba's on Mars while our own civilisation is on the brink of destruction. The world political system is colapsing, governments are lying to carry out their own secret agendas, small unstable countries are building bombs that can distroy whole other nations. Come on people, get a clue.
Apple is and will always be more expensive than roll your own boxes, but so are all the big name manufacturers. I think Apple have also been far behind in price/perfomance since the introduction of the Pentium 4, but the G5 is a good turn around for them.
A dual G5 is *cheaper* than Dell's dual Xeon machine, and if you believe the Apple tripe, it's a good deal faster. If you are a bit skeptical like me, I think you could say that for most tasks it will match the performance of a dual Xeon. Xeons are not cheap, and if you want a high end work station class machine you will need to pay a high end workstation price. That's the market they go for with the Power Mac's.
The G5 Mac's have huge improvements over the G4's which were serverely limited by their bus and memory speeds. The new G5's use fast ram, a fast (I assume hyper-transport) bus and fast serial ATA hdd's. Most intel boxes have fast ATA but dont use it, does anyone remember what it took for pc's to start using usb? Would USB 2.0 exist without Firewire kicking USB's but?
I am pretty confident that with good performance, which is comparable to Intel machines, Apple will be able claw back a bit of market share and I am sure we will see improvements trickle down into the cheaper 'home' machines in the coming weeks and months.
...when you do something yourself, you choose how you like it. I don't need XXXX or VB (or Budwiser) to tell me what good beer is. Brewing my own beer does not stop me from drinking or enjoying a commercial beer. It simply gives me a choice. And if I don't like a batch of my own beer, I can try to improve it.
Open source software is the same. It give us a choice, I do not need to use Windows or MacOS, but I can still choose to if I want. I don't even need to use Linus' or AC's kernel, I can make my own changes to the source.
The real benifit is this, what if all the beer companies (or whatever product it is) amalgamated and there were only a few types of beer. What if Apple died and there was only one commercial desktop OS. If there were no hackers making there own beer, writing there own software what choice would there be?
At the end of my first session using Win XP I went to logout, to my suprise the screen started to fade to b&w. I thought this was a really nice touch and even thought maybe, just maybe, they were catching up to Apple, then I clicked logout and the background instead of dying and going toally b&w as one would expect, sprung back to full life colour just as one wouldn't expect... this is what Microsoft lacks... attention to detail. It is eviedent everywhere throughout Microsoft products. It is why Mac users love their Mac's and despise Windows. Apple has great attention to detail thats why on a Mac things just work...
Agreed, I think it really depends on who will be using the website. HTTP is very convenient for people who don't care for acronyms, but for people who do, they'll want FTP.
Yes america does a lot of things while it is convenient. They sign treaties and then when it isn't convinient anymore they break them. To hell with whether it is for the common good or not.
America signs a trade agreement to lower tariffs, sometime down the track it is not "convienent" so they put the tariffs up anyway and screw some smaller country. America treat their detainee's inhumanely and claim that, technically, they are not POW's, so they are not bound by the Geneva convention. Because they aren't POW's does that mean they aren't human and should not be protected by that convention?
This is why there are people who don't like the USA.... This is why some people crash planes into buildings... and this is why some people are not sorry about it.... arrogance, and hypocracy... this is why people dislike the USA.
I think it is very sad. There seems to be a double standard here, It's ok for USA to do Nuclear tests but not other countries (how ever the are conducted). I mean, Americans can feel all warm and fuzzy about not doing acutal tests, but are they really any better than the Indians, Pakistanis or the French, just becasue they can simulate them? Wasn't the intent of stopping nuclear tests, in part, to slow the development of nuclear weapons.... I think it is a very hyporitical move on the part of the US of A. If America can test nuclear weapons why should not other counties be able to do so too....
Caterpillar also are releasing GPS navigation and guidance as a factory fitted option in their Challenger MT700 series of agricultural tractors.
I bought an iBook 1 week ago. Just the low end CD model, with an extra 256MB Ram. I too spent quite a while making sure the specs stacked up to its x86 counterparts before buying.
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/target/etc/yaboot.conf
I just got Debian booting last night, it took about 3 hours. I used the Debian 2.2r3 ISO images available on most mirrors and the instructions on http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html.
I found for my install some of the yaboot.conf settings in the instructions didn't work. I used following lines in
install=/target/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/target/usr/lib/ofboot
Once those were right everything else was a breeze.
I dont think it is loss of hardware sales that is stopping apple, although I think it is a pretty big thing. I think the biggest thing affecting Apple is its relationship (if you can call it that) with M$. If Apple competes with M$ in the OS market (and esp. the Server OS market) M$ will stop all support for MacOS. MacOS would not fair well if Office for Mac was scrapped. The only reason is exists at the moment is because apple signed a deal to make IE the default web browser (over netscape). M$ has more control over apple than most people think.