They don't have much choice for making cash other than pursuing these patents. Their devices are also-rans and have been since the iPod. Their newest offering looks suspiciously like the Champ's. Not that there is a lot of sympathy to pour on Apple here either. They're presumably revving up the legal engine to sue Creative for copying the look of the ipod or somesuch.
As to the Creative chairman's comments about focusing only on the technology and selling people on that -- when was the last time that worked? When over the past couple of years did that seem like a good idea. Sure, if your technology is a breakthrough, but slapping videos on something the size of my cell phone? And doing it after the Showman already released his version? And what does it do differently than the champ? Support a few more formats heard of only by the slashNerds? C'mon!
The real answer is purple. It worked for Prince. You need purple devices. That'll differentiate your product. Plus Purple has the most RAM.
I've been holding off on a DVD purchase so I could get it all at once -- Sony home theatre system, big ass tv, and even a new VCR. There was an article in wired magazine about the Sony strategy a while ago. Maybe this is the start of the convergence we hear so much about. Screw Webtv... Oh and for the kiddies, they develop on Linux.
There is a lot of new information always available on the web -- that's one of its greatest strengths. However, keep in mind that in high school you have to learn to walk before you can learn to fly. Who cares that there are 118 elements versus 114 if you don't know the difference between an element and a compound. High school is about learning the basics. One major complaint against that (and it was my own complaint) is that some people figure out the basics quicker than others. Great -- that's why there are AP classes. Even in those classes, it hardly matters that there are 118 elements... oop, 119 today. Its more important to learn the rules of chemical bonding and composition. Why is water only two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen? So I think you have a viable complaint, but not really in the context of chemistry. Go to college, hit a chem lab there, and then complain about the crappy equipment and out of date or irrelevant experiments. I did. Still, I learned. I know all sorts of crap about chemical structure that hardly matters to me in my daily life as a programmer. But it will never matter to me that they discovered a new element (unless its discovery explains the mysterious excess mass of the universe. Then it will matter to me as I will say "gee!" and post it to./)
Now I think a better area that education in areas misses out is in the computer science field. My senior year programming class years back was in Basic on an apple IIe. Even there though, it was taught by a smart instructor who understood programming methodologies. I could start with that same class today, and because I had good teachers (not necessarily good teaching materials), I would arguably be one step ahead of a teacher who didn't care and half-assed taught his class Java. Sure I'd be behind initially in the college Java class, but I would really get it IF I was taught programming methodology. So even there, I think its more important to pay those teachers well.
Money does need to get everyone connected to the Internet though. All kids should leave high school with basic knowledge of the Internet and related. After all, the revolution isn't televised -- its packet filtered.
"Anything is possible, but everything isn't probable" is what I recall from my quantum physics classes. This may point to "why here?" but in reality "here" is no different from "there."
We see it as "why us" and come up with a reasonable answer that "it was made so" rather than "why not?". Neither side is provable and your mound of statistics just helps my self-esteem raise a good.000001 point as today I feel special. I do see your point though -- it is amazing. Still...
If life sprang into existence on the earth, and we weren't here to see it, would it make a sound?
What part of "moderator" isn't clear. If they posted everything, you would've gotten the link I submitted to the Klingon porn site.
Everything you read anywhere is pushed through some subjective filtering. We read slashdot because we share tastes with the moderators and appreciate their choice of articles.
the first thought that crossed my mind when they announced the Chat stuff was -- why aren't they just working REALLY hard to finish the main browser? Yes, I know there is a really cool M4 release of it... seen it, cool and all, but is it SO COOL?
so now we get at the heart of my problem with the whole "opensource" mozilla project. there are people who's jobs it is to work on this. that should make for a great product because of the full-time workers, but I would feel a little wierd trying to push my way in from the outside to help steer the project. Some people have though in defense of the project as open source.
I also think this retraction reinforces my feelings (substantiated or not to the rest of the world) that mozilla is a product of netscape. Period.
Point me to all the propaganda you want, but I feel that this is a major reason why this project isn't as far along as it could be -- because there isn't the army of zealots that linux or apache has. There are mostly only the engineers up in Mountain View.
flames to my work address, president@whitehouse.gov
"With patience and plenty of saliva, the elephant deflowered the mosquito."
Similarly in responses to the original article, the one comment about "gee, this [stephenson article] is really long -- it would be nice if someone would put together a summary". I laughed out loud at that comment, and laughed harder when the clueless flamed him. None of those people understood the humor of such a comment because they read in the Stephenson piece only about literal computers rather than reading about the buffering of experience by some artificial interface. Look again at the piece -- there are all sorts of little interesting tidbits in there.
Regarding the counterpoint's author, perhaps he has spent too much time reading RFCs...
"With patience and plenty of saliva, the elephant deflowered the mosquito."
How am I going to play my eight versions of *The End* at a good sample rate on these babies while dancing about in a wierd drug-induced haze inevitably breaking that conveniently placed mirror lingering before me so hauntingly?!!!
I'm not.
Hopefully those IBM porta-drives get integrated soon.
and translucent plastic teal... apple has inspiried yet another revolution...
"With patience and plenty of saliva, the elephant deflowered the mosquito."
Larry can't just focus on scrapping windows -- his goal is the same as Bill's. "Whatever it is I think I see looks like [insert company name here] to me!!!"
The other thing is cocking off to the media at every opportunity is what got Oracle where they are today and will probably push them where they're going tomorrow. [and now an op-ed] To microsoft's credit, that stupid database is the soundest piece of their technology (release 6.5 actually) that I've ever used, but they sure aren't Oracle.
Plus, another Ellison quote from the news points out that he doesn't feel he has to smash windows as it will crash down under its own weight with Windows2000. I think the quote was something about MS "should've gone with WindowsCE" instead of clinging to the past.
"With patience and plenty of saliva, the elephant deflowered the mosquito."
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They don't have much choice for making cash other than pursuing these patents. Their devices are also-rans and have been since the iPod. Their newest offering looks suspiciously like the Champ's. Not that there is a lot of sympathy to pour on Apple here either. They're presumably revving up the legal engine to sue Creative for copying the look of the ipod or somesuch.
As to the Creative chairman's comments about focusing only on the technology and selling people on that -- when was the last time that worked? When over the past couple of years did that seem like a good idea. Sure, if your technology is a breakthrough, but slapping videos on something the size of my cell phone? And doing it after the Showman already released his version? And what does it do differently than the champ? Support a few more formats heard of only by the slashNerds? C'mon!
The real answer is purple. It worked for Prince. You need purple devices. That'll differentiate your product. Plus Purple has the most RAM.
I've been holding off on a DVD purchase so I could get it all at once -- Sony home theatre system, big ass tv, and even a new VCR. There was an article in wired magazine about the Sony strategy a while ago. Maybe this is the start of the convergence we hear so much about. Screw Webtv... Oh and for the kiddies, they develop on Linux.
Now I think a better area that education in areas misses out is in the computer science field. My senior year programming class years back was in Basic on an apple IIe. Even there though, it was taught by a smart instructor who understood programming methodologies. I could start with that same class today, and because I had good teachers (not necessarily good teaching materials), I would arguably be one step ahead of a teacher who didn't care and half-assed taught his class Java. Sure I'd be behind initially in the college Java class, but I would really get it IF I was taught programming methodology. So even there, I think its more important to pay those teachers well.
Money does need to get everyone connected to the Internet though. All kids should leave high school with basic knowledge of the Internet and related. After all, the revolution isn't televised -- its packet filtered.
We see it as "why us" and come up with a reasonable answer that "it was made so" rather than "why not?". Neither side is provable and your mound of statistics just helps my self-esteem raise a good .000001 point as today I feel special. I do see your point though -- it is amazing. Still...
If life sprang into existence on the earth, and we weren't here to see it, would it make a sound?
it doesn't matter anyway because they appear to be on hiatus. I asked for a primary dns change last week... they said it needed to be done manually.
I am not pleased.
What part of "moderator" isn't clear. If they posted everything, you would've gotten the link I submitted to the Klingon porn site.
Everything you read anywhere is pushed through some subjective filtering. We read slashdot because we share tastes with the moderators and appreciate their choice of articles.
the first thought that crossed my mind when they announced the Chat stuff was -- why aren't they just working REALLY hard to finish the main browser? Yes, I know there is a really cool M4 release of it... seen it, cool and all, but is it SO COOL?
so now we get at the heart of my problem with the whole "opensource" mozilla project. there are people who's jobs it is to work on this. that should make for a great product because of the full-time workers, but I would feel a little wierd trying to push my way in from the outside to help steer the project. Some people have though in defense of the project as open source.
I also think this retraction reinforces my feelings (substantiated or not to the rest of the world) that mozilla is a product of netscape. Period.
Point me to all the propaganda you want, but I feel that this is a major reason why this project isn't as far along as it could be -- because there isn't the army of zealots that linux or apache has. There are mostly only the engineers up in Mountain View.
flames to my work address, president@whitehouse.gov
"With patience and plenty of saliva,
the elephant deflowered the mosquito."
He totally misses the point.
Similarly in responses to the original article, the one comment about "gee, this [stephenson article] is really long -- it would be nice if someone would put together a summary". I laughed out loud at that comment, and laughed harder when the clueless flamed him. None of those people understood the humor of such a comment because they read in the Stephenson piece only about literal computers rather than reading about the buffering of experience by some artificial interface. Look again at the piece -- there are all sorts of little interesting tidbits in there.
Regarding the counterpoint's author, perhaps he has spent too much time reading RFCs...
"With patience and plenty of saliva,
the elephant deflowered the mosquito."
How am I going to play my eight versions of *The End* at a good sample rate on these babies while dancing about in a wierd drug-induced haze inevitably breaking that conveniently placed mirror lingering before me so hauntingly?!!!
I'm not.
Hopefully those IBM porta-drives get integrated soon.
and translucent plastic teal... apple has inspiried yet another revolution...
"With patience and plenty of saliva,
the elephant deflowered the mosquito."
Larry can't just focus on scrapping windows -- his goal is the same as Bill's. "Whatever it is I think I see looks like [insert company name here] to me!!!"
The other thing is cocking off to the media at every opportunity is what got Oracle where they are today and will probably push them where they're going tomorrow. [and now an op-ed] To microsoft's credit, that stupid database is the soundest piece of their technology (release 6.5 actually) that I've ever used, but they sure aren't Oracle.
Plus, another Ellison quote from the news points out that he doesn't feel he has to smash windows as it will crash down under its own weight with Windows2000. I think the quote was something about MS "should've gone with WindowsCE" instead of clinging to the past.
"With patience and plenty of saliva,
the elephant deflowered the mosquito."