off the windows version is fine with me, but when it is 35% (inferred from statement that macintosh is 65%) of revenues sounds rather stupid.
not to be a troll, but it is stupid business decisions like this that hampers the growth of apple. steve jobs is good for some things, but i don't think long range planning is one of them (he is great for revitalizing the 'look and feel' of things though).
i wonder if stuff like this is filed into the memory of bill gates when he negotiates with apple? it could be on a list of reasons to discontinue ms office, or IE (no great loss that one).
When you are talking viewable, do you mean in reference to the laptop (ie LCD) world, or the desktop (CRT still, for the most part) world? I am confident you know the difference.
If Linux is such a priority, and Linux is still quite a bit of command line, or maybe you write a decent amount of code, than I am not sure I understand you wants/desires. Gaming?
Bigger is better, I know, I know. I think Dell, or maybe it is Gateway, not sure, has a 15.7" display for their laptops now (yep, Gateway does).
And your gripe about poor viewing angles has been a moot point for at least a year or two now. Besides, the entire point of a laptop is that IT'S MOBILE. You could just move it a bit.
Less standardization? You should have said "less options."
I have no troubles calling MS or MSNBC a bunch of muckracking FUD spreaders, if it can be backed up. As far as this article goes, too many people read the biased post, ignored the article and started posting the usual anti-MS rants.
The article gave credit where it is due, serverside. As for the desktop, the article stated it much as it is; getting better, but still lacking.
The idea of open source might have been derided, but the accomplishments seem to have been stated fairly close to the truth.
the retailers pay for the shipping of the units, not microsoft. it goes that way for all things retail. that way, the retailer can justify their high prices by saying that "we don't just buy , we have to get it here too."
as for advertising, a lot of that is due to microsoft not advertising winxp or office xp so much (think stupid madonna ads) anymore.
as the article stated, microsoft has the ca$h; let 'em burn it.
3 games per box sold so far seems kinda bad, considering halo is prolly.95 (as in almost 1/3) of the 3 games sold per box.
Uhhhh.... color Palm's have been around for quite some time.
As for charging, why not hook up one of those units that the wearable computer guys use? You could charge your PDA as you walk from your cubicle to the meeting, and back again! The perfect technology for the drones!
If only there was some way to convert white noise (drones talking) into a viable power source...
""Traditionally Scotland has had a lot of odd incidents, right through history, from ghosts and poltergeists to supernatural beings and the Loch Ness monster. So, Scotland is well-known as a place where strange things happen," Ron Halliday, author of "UFO Scotland," said."
...this is due to the large amounts of liquor consumed in Scotland.
Or, we could let all the stupid "warriors" fight for as long as they please, killing each other off. The rate of young people enlisting is dropping off, worldwide. Now that the after-effects are realized, young men/women just don't want to do it anymore.
Eventually we will figure out, as a whole planet, that fighting to the death about what happens to you after you die is a little silly.
all this discussioin centering around funding for programs to search the skies is a little rediculous. the only thing that would change is this: it would not be a surprise when we get slaughtered.
personally, i think i would rather not know, than sit through all the looting, riots, and general chaos that news of this magnitude would create.
this has been seriously talked about, planned for, for over a decade, and the US is just getting around to starting to build the infrastructure for this?
what with the problems of air travel right now (expense, overcrowding, & safety, to name a few), something like a mag-lev system would be awesome for continental travel; say, LA to Phoenix, DC to Boston etc.
it just makes so much sense that it will probably never be utilized in the proper manner.
"These computers do not ship with Microsoft Windows. They ship with an exciting new UNIX based Operating System (OS) named Lindows. This exciting new OS delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs. These computer systems are a perfect low cost alternative to computers preloaded with Microsoft Windows."
Nowhere do I see the word Linux. How is the average uneducated (OS wise) Wal-Mart customer going to know that Lindows uses the Linux kernel? Will they even know/care what the kernel is?
Personally, I think this is better news for KDE than anything else. AFAIK, there is no Gnome option.
For me, the most annoying thing with Mozilla is when I click on a link, the boss walks by and I minimize the window, the page loads, and then the window pops back onto my screen.
Without fail, it is followed by; "Chris, can you do... for me?", or "Are you busy right now?"
Do you know what foreigners (specifically chinese and taiwanese) think of Americans? They have no interest in giving us money. And you forget, if you are the standard, such as Microsoft is, you can charge whatever you want, and the people have to pay, otherwise they can't use your product. This is true for an OS, as well as proprietary file formats, such.doc or.xls or whatever else. Own the file format, and usually the customer has to own the program to use the format. No different than a car or anything else. Toyota owns the car, if you buy it (rent, lease or buy), then you can use it.
Because they enter into contracts that go for 6 months at a time. The price the negotiated 6 months ago has not much to do with what RAM costs today, but we still have to pay based on the pricing of late last year. I mean come on now, $400 (US) to get a 512 MB upgrade for the iBook. It can be had elsewhere for $185, or less, if I looked that hard.
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off the windows version is fine with me, but when it is 35% (inferred from statement that macintosh is 65%) of revenues sounds rather stupid.
not to be a troll, but it is stupid business decisions like this that hampers the growth of apple. steve jobs is good for some things, but i don't think long range planning is one of them (he is great for revitalizing the 'look and feel' of things though).
i wonder if stuff like this is filed into the memory of bill gates when he negotiates with apple? it could be on a list of reasons to discontinue ms office, or IE (no great loss that one).
"FYI my patch is for Media Player 6.4 on Windows NT 4.0."
I though MP was up to 7.1 now.
Besides, this is much scarier.
When you are talking viewable, do you mean in reference to the laptop (ie LCD) world, or the desktop (CRT still, for the most part) world? I am confident you know the difference.
If Linux is such a priority, and Linux is still quite a bit of command line, or maybe you write a decent amount of code, than I am not sure I understand you wants/desires. Gaming?
Bigger is better, I know, I know. I think Dell, or maybe it is Gateway, not sure, has a 15.7" display for their laptops now (yep, Gateway does).
And your gripe about poor viewing angles has been a moot point for at least a year or two now. Besides, the entire point of a laptop is that IT'S MOBILE. You could just move it a bit.
Less standardization? You should have said "less options."
Read The Linked Article!
geesh!
I have no troubles calling MS or MSNBC a bunch of muckracking FUD spreaders, if it can be backed up. As far as this article goes, too many people read the biased post, ignored the article and started posting the usual anti-MS rants.
The article gave credit where it is due, serverside. As for the desktop, the article stated it much as it is; getting better, but still lacking.
The idea of open source might have been derided, but the accomplishments seem to have been stated fairly close to the truth.
IMO, of course.
what a stupid reporter.
.95 (as in almost 1/3) of the 3 games sold per box.
the retailers pay for the shipping of the units, not microsoft. it goes that way for all things retail. that way, the retailer can justify their high prices by saying that "we don't just buy , we have to get it here too."
as for advertising, a lot of that is due to microsoft not advertising winxp or office xp so much (think stupid madonna ads) anymore.
as the article stated, microsoft has the ca$h; let 'em burn it.
3 games per box sold so far seems kinda bad, considering halo is prolly
--chris
sounds like a good excuse to re-test what they can do. or use it as a test bed for some anti-missle stuff.
"no really, we are taking pictures of rocks in space..."
Uhhhh.... color Palm's have been around for quite some time.
As for charging, why not hook up one of those units that the wearable computer guys use? You could charge your PDA as you walk from your cubicle to the meeting, and back again! The perfect technology for the drones!
If only there was some way to convert white noise (drones talking) into a viable power source...
""Traditionally Scotland has had a lot of odd incidents, right through history, from ghosts and poltergeists to supernatural beings and the Loch Ness monster. So, Scotland is well-known as a place where strange things happen," Ron Halliday, author of "UFO Scotland," said."
...this is due to the large amounts of liquor consumed in Scotland.
But Americans brought the world McDonald's!
Or, we could let all the stupid "warriors" fight for as long as they please, killing each other off. The rate of young people enlisting is dropping off, worldwide. Now that the after-effects are realized, young men/women just don't want to do it anymore.
Eventually we will figure out, as a whole planet, that fighting to the death about what happens to you after you die is a little silly.
Really? And where did the pelt come from that backed up his claims?
all this discussioin centering around funding for programs to search the skies is a little rediculous. the only thing that would change is this: it would not be a surprise when we get slaughtered.
personally, i think i would rather not know, than sit through all the looting, riots, and general chaos that news of this magnitude would create.
Depending on who you talk to, ripping your own cd's is not legal either. You circumvented a copyright(ed) device. That is illegal.
That is one big kernel!
Windowmaker works fine, it is nice and small. You don't need KDE or Gnome to be useful in a GUI environment.
this has been seriously talked about, planned for, for over a decade, and the US is just getting around to starting to build the infrastructure for this?
what with the problems of air travel right now (expense, overcrowding, & safety, to name a few), something like a mag-lev system would be awesome for continental travel; say, LA to Phoenix, DC to Boston etc.
it just makes so much sense that it will probably never be utilized in the proper manner.
*sigh*
"These computers do not ship with Microsoft Windows. They ship with an exciting new UNIX based Operating System (OS) named Lindows. This exciting new OS delivers the stability of UNIX with the ease of Windows and the ability to run most Microsoft programs. These computer systems are a perfect low cost alternative to computers preloaded with Microsoft Windows."
Nowhere do I see the word Linux. How is the average uneducated (OS wise) Wal-Mart customer going to know that Lindows uses the Linux kernel? Will they even know/care what the kernel is?
Personally, I think this is better news for KDE than anything else. AFAIK, there is no Gnome option.
You mean like running IE or Office or something?
Very cool.
Thank You.
--chris
For me, the most annoying thing with Mozilla is when I click on a link, the boss walks by and I minimize the window, the page loads, and then the window pops back onto my screen.
... for me?", or "Are you busy right now?"
Without fail, it is followed by; "Chris, can you do
What is wrong with Barney?
"...and what made you become interested in Linux in the first place?"
IPO
funny, i watch stargate on showtime, not fox. besides, fox still has the simpsons and NFL games. the rest is just filler now.
Do you know what foreigners (specifically chinese and taiwanese) think of Americans? They have no interest in giving us money. And you forget, if you are the standard, such as Microsoft is, you can charge whatever you want, and the people have to pay, otherwise they can't use your product. This is true for an OS, as well as proprietary file formats, such .doc or .xls or whatever else. Own the file format, and usually the customer has to own the program to use the format. No different than a car or anything else. Toyota owns the car, if you buy it (rent, lease or buy), then you can use it.
Welcome to capitalism.
Piracy did not make it standard. The standard caused the piracy.
That, and doing business with the US (MS centric).
Because they enter into contracts that go for 6 months at a time. The price the negotiated 6 months ago has not much to do with what RAM costs today, but we still have to pay based on the pricing of late last year. I mean come on now, $400 (US) to get a 512 MB upgrade for the iBook. It can be had elsewhere for $185, or less, if I looked that hard.