Probably the very low user penetration.
It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as a viable desktop operating system.
I've been hearing that argument for years. I remember back in 1999 hearing how Linux would be ready for the desktop in 2001. Years have passed since then and it still isn't. The underlining problem is that Linux and its components create a system written by developers for developers, and it always will be. But the thing is, there's nothing wrong with that. The fun of linux is the fun of being able to tweak everything, and lets face it simple systems like Mac and Windows just aren't as fun in that way.
Uhm, actually there is. Sherman Anti-Trust laws would apply here. Apple got away with it previously because nobody could manufacture hardware where it should 'otherwise run.' With the intel world, that has changed. Regrettably I forget the name of the case which established this fact, but a precursor was the IBM case of the 1970s.
Actually, the argument is 100% relevant. The argument that Psystar has in it's favor is that because of tying, and further because of the licensing agreement supporting that tying, the licensing agreement Apple has is illegal.
So the question becomes, given that the license is not legal, did otherwise Psystar acquire and distribute Leopard legally? If they walked into the Apple store and bought 50 copies of Leopard, then resold them, there is nothing wrong with that. It's the same as if you sell your own used CDs. You may recall that in the 90s the records companies tried to collect fees on used CDs and they were told to screw off because the license fees had already been paid. Like always, just because a company puts something in a contract or license agreement doesn't mean that it's legal.
On the other hand if they did copy and distribute illegally, Apple could win the case and still lose. With the illegality of the license exposed, they would be forced to open up to any Intel machine capable of running OS X. This does NOT mean they have to write drivers for everything under the planet, but rather if you have equivalent hardware their product should run.
Of course in reality reaching a much larger market will greatly benefit Apple, it's just not in tune with their current business model.
This is going to turn out rather interesting. If Psystar hires even the most mediocre of lawyers, they simply need to argue that Apple is illegally typing their software to their hardware, which they are. Prior to Leopard, you couldn't by Mac OS X for intel without a computer so there was no issue. However, with Leopard this has changed. The fact that it runs in the first place on Psystar's hardware proves the illegal tying argument. The end result is Apple is going to be forced to deal with clones again, but it will be the best thing that ever happened to Apple but the worst for Jobs since he likes keeping things closed. Personally, I've been anticipating and awaiting this lawsuit since Apple went Intel.
I disagree. This is going to take everyone by surprise, as a long time Mac user, I actually found Vista to be quite easy to use. Everything in the user interface seemed far more intuitive than in XP. XP is "mechanical" -- you need to be an engineer to understand how it works. The control panel was goal-oriented rather than technology oriented. This fact alone is probably one that many techies have a hard time getting used to. My only real complaint with Vista is that it raises too many permission confirmations -- specifically it will ask twice on downloaded apps. Anyway, I find that Vista is closer to the elegant and simple factor of OSX, and IMO with Aero actually looks better than Leopard (Apple, what were you thinking with Blue & Grey?!?).
"DVD players needed over a decade to supersede the VCR in the living rooms of the United States"
Over a decade? Basic math rules that idea out. The DVD format was released to the public in the spring of 1997. We're still a few months shy of a decade. I still use my original Toshiba DVD player from November of that year, which was a bargain at $500. Not my primary player anymore, but still good for the bedroom.
Thes chart you link to is showing the amount of change occuring from year to year, not the mean temperature for that year, so the spike at the end is just showing that temperatures are climbing more rapidly in consecutive years. To quote the description exactly, "This image is a comparison of 10 different published reconstructions of mean temperature changes during the last 1000 years." And the MWP actually started prior to that, so we don't see the data leading into that.
These guys really like to ignore the Medieval Warming Period, where temperatures globally were much warmer than they are today. They also like to ignore the fact that the current warming period started in conjunction with the end of the little ice age. Scientific theories are great when you include all of the facts, but poor when you sensationalize findings and ignore entire eras to make your case.
If you haven't seen the episode of MythBusters with biometrics, it will scare you to death. Finger biometrics, anyway, are easily defeated and for such reason should be avoided without some other shared mechanism. A better approach is to use something like retna recognition which is harder to fake out, or combine finger scanning with something else such as a code that isn't biometric. But at the end of the day, you also have to ask, "How secure does this need to be?" to help weigh your options.
As for login times, you're not going to be able to do much about them. It's simply the nature of Windows and most other login/logoff systems.
A few years ago I watched as I was "randomly selected" for additional searching. But I noticed something -- the carrier had marked my ticket with a code that the security agent was referencing. I asked the security agent about it, and he confirmed that tickets were profiled due to the fact that I was flying alone, going one one way (from the standpoint of the airline since I took a different airline on the return trip), and had purchased my ticket only a short time prior to the actual flight. So the real answer, is yes you are profiled. They say randomly selected as it keeps you from getting upset about it. Oh and yes, co-incidentally I was randomly selected on the way back as well.
You obviously didn't actually see the movie. It was a GREAT experience and I strongly recommend it. It's the first movie I've seen in a while where I had FUN watching it. It all goes back to the old phrase "Don't diss it until you try it."
They were the first to include it on their entire product line. Intel had been pushing USB for years, and only a few niche computer manufacturers like Sun incorporated USB previously. Apple brought it to the mainstream. That fact, though, is old news as pretty much everything does USB these days.
Actually, in a lot of states you have a right to work. My own 2 cents is that unionization is a force that can be used to counter things such as offshoring. Imagine a production problem with your companies website while the workforce is on strike. They'll decide that offshoring isn't in their interestes really quick.
With all of the government-sponsored selling out of The People that has been going on in the past, say, 6 or so years, one has to wonder when or even if it is going to stop
m pretty sure Ghyslain did what was right for him.
Actually, he whined and bitched all the way to court. Honestly, this kids parents need to teach this kid that respect is a two way street and further he needs to learn to take a joke. But then again, his parents probably don't understand either of those concepts themselves.
As I recall, AOL used to be a tiered internet site. They still are, but people who sign up for it mostly just use the internet. Oh, same goes for Compuserve, etc. Tiered Internet won't last because customers don't want it.
Not really. Dewey has subclassifications (you know, the numbers after 005 like 005.8341). Plus, the category is already there. Just after the title page you'll find the Dewey number for every non-fiction book you buy.
Not really. If you price out an Intel Mac and an equivalent (or at least as close as possible to such) Dell, they're pretty much the same price. Apple can do this because they sell themselves the operating system.
But, like it or not, this hurts Apple. *You* might not think it hurts Apple, but the only people in the position to *decide* that it hurts Apple - i.e., Apple - have decided that it *does* hurt Apple.
We also live in a society which forbids tying. If software can run on a competitors computer were it not for an artificial restriction placed by the software manufacturer (eg. Tying), it must be open. Apple will eventually get sued by somebody, be it a private individual in a class action (these come up all the time), or by the DOJ. Past cases (IBM, Kodak, etc.) show these cases are pretty easy to win. Inevidably, OS X will be openish. Apple will most likely end up having to support OS X on other hardware, but only if you happen to have the same hardware configuration.
Hell, if I were Google, I'd just cut of Verizon's corporate headquarters (but not their customer base) until they scream 'uncle'. Sometimes it takes a big stick...
In the UBE industry, spam is viewed differently than it is here on slashdot. Whereas we consider Spam any unsolicited ad, spam is considered email that does not follow the rules of CANSPAM in the industry -- that is it doesn't allow opt-outs, emails come from scrapes, etc. What this fee does is it allows companies that follow optout and other rules to get inbox delivery for a fee. Further, because the cost goes from about $0.00001 per message to around $0.0025-$0.01 per message for that delivery, the marketer has incentive to target his list more carefully rather than just blasting everybody in sight. Because of this, he will send less email. Ex: Sending 1000000 emails right now costs next to nothing. At $0.01 per message, that same campaign costs $10,000 rather than $100.00.
This also gets rid of some of the crappier ads, as the marketer is going to pass the $10,000 fee on to the advertiser. Suddenly, not just anybody can drop $500 for an ad targeted at a few million people.
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Not really. Hell, I did it 8 years ago back in college for a computer science day demonstration. Air cans come in very handy for this.
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Probably the very low user penetration. It has occurred to me that Flash on Linux is the one major entry barrier controlling acceptance of Linux as a viable desktop operating system. I've been hearing that argument for years. I remember back in 1999 hearing how Linux would be ready for the desktop in 2001. Years have passed since then and it still isn't. The underlining problem is that Linux and its components create a system written by developers for developers, and it always will be. But the thing is, there's nothing wrong with that. The fun of linux is the fun of being able to tweak everything, and lets face it simple systems like Mac and Windows just aren't as fun in that way.
You mean OJ didn't actually kill his ex-wife?!?
Uhm, actually there is. Sherman Anti-Trust laws would apply here. Apple got away with it previously because nobody could manufacture hardware where it should 'otherwise run.' With the intel world, that has changed. Regrettably I forget the name of the case which established this fact, but a precursor was the IBM case of the 1970s.
Actually, the argument is 100% relevant. The argument that Psystar has in it's favor is that because of tying, and further because of the licensing agreement supporting that tying, the licensing agreement Apple has is illegal.
So the question becomes, given that the license is not legal, did otherwise Psystar acquire and distribute Leopard legally? If they walked into the Apple store and bought 50 copies of Leopard, then resold them, there is nothing wrong with that. It's the same as if you sell your own used CDs. You may recall that in the 90s the records companies tried to collect fees on used CDs and they were told to screw off because the license fees had already been paid. Like always, just because a company puts something in a contract or license agreement doesn't mean that it's legal.
On the other hand if they did copy and distribute illegally, Apple could win the case and still lose. With the illegality of the license exposed, they would be forced to open up to any Intel machine capable of running OS X. This does NOT mean they have to write drivers for everything under the planet, but rather if you have equivalent hardware their product should run.
Of course in reality reaching a much larger market will greatly benefit Apple, it's just not in tune with their current business model.
This is going to turn out rather interesting. If Psystar hires even the most mediocre of lawyers, they simply need to argue that Apple is illegally typing their software to their hardware, which they are. Prior to Leopard, you couldn't by Mac OS X for intel without a computer so there was no issue. However, with Leopard this has changed. The fact that it runs in the first place on Psystar's hardware proves the illegal tying argument. The end result is Apple is going to be forced to deal with clones again, but it will be the best thing that ever happened to Apple but the worst for Jobs since he likes keeping things closed. Personally, I've been anticipating and awaiting this lawsuit since Apple went Intel.
So, no, the FCC may not have the power to stop Comcast (but I suspect they can levy a fine, but that's another discussion entirely)
In other news, Comcast revenues fell by $60/m today as I canceled my internet service with them. The FCC may not be able to fine them, but I can.
I disagree. This is going to take everyone by surprise, as a long time Mac user, I actually found Vista to be quite easy to use. Everything in the user interface seemed far more intuitive than in XP. XP is "mechanical" -- you need to be an engineer to understand how it works. The control panel was goal-oriented rather than technology oriented. This fact alone is probably one that many techies have a hard time getting used to. My only real complaint with Vista is that it raises too many permission confirmations -- specifically it will ask twice on downloaded apps. Anyway, I find that Vista is closer to the elegant and simple factor of OSX, and IMO with Aero actually looks better than Leopard (Apple, what were you thinking with Blue & Grey?!?).
"DVD players needed over a decade to supersede the VCR in the living rooms of the United States"
Over a decade? Basic math rules that idea out. The DVD format was released to the public in the spring of 1997. We're still a few months shy of a decade. I still use my original Toshiba DVD player from November of that year, which was a bargain at $500. Not my primary player anymore, but still good for the bedroom.
Thes chart you link to is showing the amount of change occuring from year to year, not the mean temperature for that year, so the spike at the end is just showing that temperatures are climbing more rapidly in consecutive years. To quote the description exactly, "This image is a comparison of 10 different published reconstructions of mean temperature changes during the last 1000 years." And the MWP actually started prior to that, so we don't see the data leading into that.
These guys really like to ignore the Medieval Warming Period, where temperatures globally were much warmer than they are today. They also like to ignore the fact that the current warming period started in conjunction with the end of the little ice age. Scientific theories are great when you include all of the facts, but poor when you sensationalize findings and ignore entire eras to make your case.
If you haven't seen the episode of MythBusters with biometrics, it will scare you to death. Finger biometrics, anyway, are easily defeated and for such reason should be avoided without some other shared mechanism. A better approach is to use something like retna recognition which is harder to fake out, or combine finger scanning with something else such as a code that isn't biometric. But at the end of the day, you also have to ask, "How secure does this need to be?" to help weigh your options.
As for login times, you're not going to be able to do much about them. It's simply the nature of Windows and most other login/logoff systems.
A few years ago I watched as I was "randomly selected" for additional searching. But I noticed something -- the carrier had marked my ticket with a code that the security agent was referencing. I asked the security agent about it, and he confirmed that tickets were profiled due to the fact that I was flying alone, going one one way (from the standpoint of the airline since I took a different airline on the return trip), and had purchased my ticket only a short time prior to the actual flight. So the real answer, is yes you are profiled. They say randomly selected as it keeps you from getting upset about it. Oh and yes, co-incidentally I was randomly selected on the way back as well.
There's no reason to punish anybody. The thief has already been punished through sex deprivation!
You obviously didn't actually see the movie. It was a GREAT experience and I strongly recommend it. It's the first movie I've seen in a while where I had FUN watching it. It all goes back to the old phrase "Don't diss it until you try it."
They were the first to include it on their entire product line. Intel had been pushing USB for years, and only a few niche computer manufacturers like Sun incorporated USB previously. Apple brought it to the mainstream. That fact, though, is old news as pretty much everything does USB these days.
Actually, in a lot of states you have a right to work. My own 2 cents is that unionization is a force that can be used to counter things such as offshoring. Imagine a production problem with your companies website while the workforce is on strike. They'll decide that offshoring isn't in their interestes really quick.
With all of the government-sponsored selling out of The People that has been going on in the past, say, 6 or so years, one has to wonder when or even if it is going to stop
Whenever Bush is removed from the White House.
m pretty sure Ghyslain did what was right for him.
Actually, he whined and bitched all the way to court. Honestly, this kids parents need to teach this kid that respect is a two way street and further he needs to learn to take a joke. But then again, his parents probably don't understand either of those concepts themselves.
As I recall, AOL used to be a tiered internet site. They still are, but people who sign up for it mostly just use the internet. Oh, same goes for Compuserve, etc. Tiered Internet won't last because customers don't want it.
Not really. Dewey has subclassifications (you know, the numbers after 005 like 005.8341). Plus, the category is already there. Just after the title page you'll find the Dewey number for every non-fiction book you buy.
Not really. If you price out an Intel Mac and an equivalent (or at least as close as possible to such) Dell, they're pretty much the same price. Apple can do this because they sell themselves the operating system.
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But, like it or not, this hurts Apple. *You* might not think it hurts Apple, but the only people in the position to *decide* that it hurts Apple - i.e., Apple - have decided that it *does* hurt Apple. We also live in a society which forbids tying. If software can run on a competitors computer were it not for an artificial restriction placed by the software manufacturer (eg. Tying), it must be open. Apple will eventually get sued by somebody, be it a private individual in a class action (these come up all the time), or by the DOJ. Past cases (IBM, Kodak, etc.) show these cases are pretty easy to win. Inevidably, OS X will be openish. Apple will most likely end up having to support OS X on other hardware, but only if you happen to have the same hardware configuration.
Hell, if I were Google, I'd just cut of Verizon's corporate headquarters (but not their customer base) until they scream 'uncle'. Sometimes it takes a big stick...
In the UBE industry, spam is viewed differently than it is here on slashdot. Whereas we consider Spam any unsolicited ad, spam is considered email that does not follow the rules of CANSPAM in the industry -- that is it doesn't allow opt-outs, emails come from scrapes, etc. What this fee does is it allows companies that follow optout and other rules to get inbox delivery for a fee. Further, because the cost goes from about $0.00001 per message to around $0.0025-$0.01 per message for that delivery, the marketer has incentive to target his list more carefully rather than just blasting everybody in sight. Because of this, he will send less email. Ex: Sending 1000000 emails right now costs next to nothing. At $0.01 per message, that same campaign costs $10,000 rather than $100.00.
This also gets rid of some of the crappier ads, as the marketer is going to pass the $10,000 fee on to the advertiser. Suddenly, not just anybody can drop $500 for an ad targeted at a few million people.
Not really. Hell, I did it 8 years ago back in college for a computer science day demonstration. Air cans come in very handy for this.