What monopoly does Apple seem to have? Make sure you understand what a monopoly is, before you answer.
Legally speaking, I think it's neigh impossible for a company with 5% market share to be called a "monopoly." The very term implies captive a captive majority of the market.
even Mac's PCI 'thinks different' from PC PCI, so you can't use PC cards on a Mac and instead must pay three times as much for a card that's five times slower
This is quite honestly wrong.
The PCI in Macs is exactly the same PCI that's in PCs. What you see, sometimes (Voodoo was really bad about this) where a card manufacturer will write the ROMs on their card so that it'll only work on Macs (or PCs). In most cases (as with Voodoo), you can just re-flash the ROM to make it work on the other platform. You can blame this on the device manufacturers, not Apple.
It seems to me that this is exactly what Apple just did.... they announced (even PRE announced) that this will be the last version of Shake for Windows, and that they will continue Linux/IRIX versions at least through 2003.
This is obviously hyperbole. The point is valid, even if their choice of time frames is flawed. Do we need to sit down and learn what "exponential" means?
The Alamo Draft House is a very different movie theater than you're used to. It's basically a restaurant/bar with a movie screen up front. People talk, order food/drink, have a good time. The Draft House isn't your 'turn off the lights and everyone shut up' kind of theater.
Your coca cola analogy would be appropriate if:
1) coke so dominated the beverage industry that PepsiCo were in danger of bankruptcy.
2) there were allegations that Coca Cola had reintroduced Cocaine as an ingrediant in an effort to get everyone -addicted- to Coke. (where do you think the "Coca" in Coca Cola came from?)
In which case... YEAH I'd expect them to disclose their recipe to the court, if not the general public.
I saw this in someone's.signature on some random mailing list that I can't remember at the moment. I think they attributed it to a Mac website.
...someone is caught breaking into your house, offers to repair the
damage instead of going to jail, if they can put up a massive billboard
for their house maintainance business in your front yard for six
months...
Microsoft sold it's (non-voting) shares in Apple the first day they could legally do so. At a large profit, at that. Ask Shawn King @ The Mac Show Live, he's got the goods on this.
I wouldn't say that Apple's prices are so inflated, when you consider that everyone who's selling $500 PCs is in financial straights these days. Gateway, for one, is bleeding red ink like there's no tomorrow. Compaq was in serious trouble too, which lead to their exit from the consumer market and eventual buyout. Compaq has been laying off truckloads of employees at their corporate HQ in Houston. Dell ain't doing so well, and had to lay off several thousand employees here in Austin recently. Apple on the other hand is solidly in the black and hasn't been laying off employees (other than a rumored dozen or so here in Austin as well).
Now, tell me which is better.... Sell youl computers at "affordable" prices and eventually need bailing out (Compaq), border on bankruptcy (Gateway), or lay off a smal city of employees (Dell) in order to maintain profitability...... or actually sell your computers for sane, reasonable prices and stay in business?
Apple has managed to stay affloat, turn in profits, and retain their employees by not getting into the PC price wars. Sure, their prices are higher... but right now, they have a better future ahead of them than most of their competitors.
It's not just non-MS browsers that are blocked. It's also non-Windows OS's. Using Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS X, I am unable to access the site, but instead get this message;
We're sorry,
but MSN Music currently requires a PC system running
Internet Explorer 4.1 or higher installed if you want to browse the site
or
a PC system running Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
with Windows Media Player 7.0 or higher installed to listen to music
If I'm not mistaken, the aircraft that crashed into the ESB was B-45, not a B-52.
As well, the World Trade Center was built specifically to take a direct hit from a Boeing 707 jet, significantly smaller than the 757's and 767's used in the attacks.
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I think the idea behind this show is great. The specific issue (in this case, pedophilia) is really rather unimportant. I'd love to see a similar show done in the US, outing celebrities and politicians on both sides of an issue who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about when discussing Intellectual Property and Copyright Law, environmental issues like global warming, internet law, energy concerns, and the like.
In fact, I have a fledgeling site running Slash called Simon Jester where I'm trying to do just that... on a smaller scale and in a much less sensational manner.
www.simonjester.com
What little I know about this is that bandwidth from earth-to-space and visa versa is fairly limited. Most earth-based wireless comms are limited to about 11Mbps per second, I can't imagine that earth-to-space is much faster if at all.
Given that they're looking for prior art on specific company's patents, I'm guessing they have clients who are willing to pay for this as a service. Their clients, in fact, are probably being sued by said companies for patent infringement.
(b) you're going to have to learn about journalistic standards. If you expect to be taken seriously, you can't write like that - you can't show such prejudice, and you can't show such a casual dismissal of America's biggest company.
On this point, there's something even more important to point out. Taco pretty much slammed his own readers for posting this supposedly insignificant story... when the very fact that he received a bazillion submissions on this shows that they do indeed read this site and that it is important for many of those who submitted the story.
Journalists who insult their own readers don't have readers for very long.
absolutely. they run in the Classic environment just like any other 'classic' application. They haven't been "trying" to run OS 9.1 inside OS X. It runs, and runs fairly well; it's not technically emulating OS 9, as the classic environment affords OS 9 direct access to the processor and memory.
I've actually seen several DVD-capable players have problems with CDR and CDRW media. The explanation given to me by the manufacturers (one being Sony, the other being... crap, i don't remember) is that, because CDR and CDRW don't really have pits and just simulate them by manipulating a chemical coating, some DVD lasers have troubles reading them.
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MSN is supporting Macs only in certain areas, as part of a contract taking over some Telco's ISP operations (I forget which one, offhand).
Their "support" for Macs is horrible, basically just a PPP dialer, and no access to MSN specific features.
What monopoly does Apple seem to have? Make sure you understand what a monopoly is, before you answer.
Legally speaking, I think it's neigh impossible for a company with 5% market share to be called a "monopoly." The very term implies captive a captive majority of the market.
Compared to Microsoft, EVERYONE is an "also ran."
even Mac's PCI 'thinks different' from PC PCI, so you can't use PC cards on a Mac and instead must pay three times as much for a card that's five times slower
This is quite honestly wrong.
The PCI in Macs is exactly the same PCI that's in PCs. What you see, sometimes (Voodoo was really bad about this) where a card manufacturer will write the ROMs on their card so that it'll only work on Macs (or PCs). In most cases (as with Voodoo), you can just re-flash the ROM to make it work on the other platform. You can blame this on the device manufacturers, not Apple.
Your fatal mistake is assuming that Apple doesn't make money....
US$40M profit this quarter, beating analyst expectations by a penny/share.
It seems to me that this is exactly what Apple just did.... they announced (even PRE announced) that this will be the last version of Shake for Windows, and that they will continue Linux/IRIX versions at least through 2003.
What's so closed mouthed about that?
This is obviously hyperbole. The point is valid, even if their choice of time frames is flawed. Do we need to sit down and learn what "exponential" means?
DUH
The Alamo Draft House is a very different movie theater than you're used to. It's basically a restaurant/bar with a movie screen up front. People talk, order food/drink, have a good time. The Draft House isn't your 'turn off the lights and everyone shut up' kind of theater.
Your coca cola analogy would be appropriate if:
1) coke so dominated the beverage industry that PepsiCo were in danger of bankruptcy.
2) there were allegations that Coca Cola had reintroduced Cocaine as an ingrediant in an effort to get everyone -addicted- to Coke. (where do you think the "Coca" in Coca Cola came from?)
In which case... YEAH I'd expect them to disclose their recipe to the court, if not the general public.
I saw this in someone's .signature on some random mailing list that I can't remember at the moment. I think they attributed it to a Mac website.
...someone is caught breaking into your house, offers to repair the
damage instead of going to jail, if they can put up a massive billboard
for their house maintainance business in your front yard for six
months...
Microsoft sold it's (non-voting) shares in Apple the first day they could legally do so. At a large profit, at that. Ask Shawn King @ The Mac Show Live, he's got the goods on this.
Do you mean the 20th Anniversary Macintosh? I'm pretty sure Apple never made a "Macintosh millenium."
I wouldn't say that Apple's prices are so inflated, when you consider that everyone who's selling $500 PCs is in financial straights these days. Gateway, for one, is bleeding red ink like there's no tomorrow. Compaq was in serious trouble too, which lead to their exit from the consumer market and eventual buyout. Compaq has been laying off truckloads of employees at their corporate HQ in Houston. Dell ain't doing so well, and had to lay off several thousand employees here in Austin recently. Apple on the other hand is solidly in the black and hasn't been laying off employees (other than a rumored dozen or so here in Austin as well).
Now, tell me which is better.... Sell youl computers at "affordable" prices and eventually need bailing out (Compaq), border on bankruptcy (Gateway), or lay off a smal city of employees (Dell) in order to maintain profitability...... or actually sell your computers for sane, reasonable prices and stay in business?
Apple has managed to stay affloat, turn in profits, and retain their employees by not getting into the PC price wars. Sure, their prices are higher... but right now, they have a better future ahead of them than most of their competitors.
It's not just non-MS browsers that are blocked. It's also non-Windows OS's. Using Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS X, I am unable to access the site, but instead get this message;
We're sorry,
but MSN Music currently requires a PC system running
Internet Explorer 4.1 or higher installed if you want to browse the site
or
a PC system running Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
with Windows Media Player 7.0 or higher installed to listen to music
Macs will only boot to HFS, HFS+, and UFS volumes (and only OS X boots to UFS), so I would think that the iPod is formatted as such. Most likely HFS+.
If I'm not mistaken, the aircraft that crashed into the ESB was B-45, not a B-52.
As well, the World Trade Center was built specifically to take a direct hit from a Boeing 707 jet, significantly smaller than the 757's and 767's used in the attacks.
I think the idea behind this show is great. The specific issue (in this case, pedophilia) is really rather unimportant. I'd love to see a similar show done in the US, outing celebrities and politicians on both sides of an issue who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about when discussing Intellectual Property and Copyright Law, environmental issues like global warming, internet law, energy concerns, and the like. In fact, I have a fledgeling site running Slash called Simon Jester where I'm trying to do just that... on a smaller scale and in a much less sensational manner. www.simonjester.com
Amazingly, the engine took this into account.
Update 10.0.1 -> 10.0.3 = 15MB Download
Update 10.0.2 -> 10.0.3 = something like 1.9MB
I don't remember the exact figures, but Software Update knew the difference and downloaded the appropriate files.
What little I know about this is that bandwidth from earth-to-space and visa versa is fairly limited. Most earth-based wireless comms are limited to about 11Mbps per second, I can't imagine that earth-to-space is much faster if at all.
Given that they're looking for prior art on specific company's patents, I'm guessing they have clients who are willing to pay for this as a service. Their clients, in fact, are probably being sued by said companies for patent infringement.
Just a guess though...
(b) you're going to have to learn about journalistic standards. If you expect to be taken seriously, you can't write like that - you can't show such prejudice, and you can't show such a casual dismissal of America's biggest company.
On this point, there's something even more important to point out. Taco pretty much slammed his own readers for posting this supposedly insignificant story... when the very fact that he received a bazillion submissions on this shows that they do indeed read this site and that it is important for many of those who submitted the story.
Journalists who insult their own readers don't have readers for very long.
absolutely. they run in the Classic environment just like any other 'classic' application. They haven't been "trying" to run OS 9.1 inside OS X. It runs, and runs fairly well; it's not technically emulating OS 9, as the classic environment affords OS 9 direct access to the processor and memory.
I've actually seen several DVD-capable players have problems with CDR and CDRW media. The explanation given to me by the manufacturers (one being Sony, the other being ... crap, i don't remember) is that, because CDR and CDRW don't really have pits and just simulate them by manipulating a chemical coating, some DVD lasers have troubles reading them.
Does it seem like RMS is saying EVERYTHING is incompatible with GPL these days... KDE, now Python... what next? the Linux kernel itself?
How about sliced bread? The internet in general. The Wheel. . .