It is very simple really. You join Mozilla, license something like Bugzilla and then charge for customization to it to make a customized version for each organization because they all have different needs and the standard Bugzilla doesn't do all that they want it to do. Part of the contract for customization requires that the code created can be submitted back into Mozilla for use in the regular version of it that Mozilla controls.
All the client organization is paying for is the labor to create the custimized code, and not the original version itself. You see, this way, the client pays for the labor for open source code, and as they agree to it, that code can be put into the standard/regular version to honor the OSS license.
Come to think of it, they could create a customized version of Firefox to do things that Mozilla lists as a WONTFIX because they are just features, and things that do not follow the HTML standards. The client organization can pay for the labor to add features to Novell's version of Firefox (Maybe call it Novfox) that the Mozilla Foundation refuses to add.
IBM/Lotus, well they could help them port the Lotus software to Linux, and then share in the licensing fees. I mean if MS-Office won't be available for Linux, maybe the Lotus Office Suite can be ported to Linux? That would be a commercial software package that they can be an OEM for IBM/Lotus to sell. Perhaps they can port Lotus Notes or Lotus Domino to Linux as well?
Yeah Apple did classical management until Jobs returned in 1996. H. Ross Perot had helped Steve Jobs with Next, in running it using new business management theories and ideas. The early 1990s to mid 1990's (1995), Apple was acting like a classical management run organization and at the first sign of a loss, downsized their employees and it almost killed them. Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, and knew a better form of business management and found unprofitable products and services like the Newton, scanners, printers, etc. and cut them out, and later replaced them with new products and services like iTunes and the iPod, which proved to be more profitable later.
I hope this has been educational for some people, in finding a better way of business management than just downsizing employees at the first sign of a loss.
In a nutshell, there are two ways to turn a loss into a profit. Either decrease expenses, or increase revenue. Sometimes you can do both. Cutting employees is stupid because it can cost up to 10 times their annual salary to recruit someone to replace them later when business picks up. Plus you have to train that new employee to the way your organization does business.
An alternative is to offer sabbaticals from work for six months to a year or more at 20% or 30% salary, and the employee is still an employee but you giv e them a cell phone and laptop and they check in from time to time. They are free to go back to college, take care of family members, or work another job. When business picks up they can end their sabbatical and return to full-time work and a full-time salary. Those who went to college will be more valuable employees when they return, those who took care of family members will be happier with the quality time they had, and those who worked other jobs will increase their experience and skills and become more valuable employees.
Remember that an employee is not an expense and is very valuable and important to the functioning of the organization. You want them to have the best benefits so they can have health insurance and be healthy and happy, have college tuition to increase their knowledge, have a 401K or savings program to plan for retirement, and the more benefits you give them, the less likely they will leave for a competitor. This also shows the organization meeting the needs of the social customers, as they will see that the organization really cares about its employees and people in general and this will give good PR, the kind you cannot buy.
I'll tell you why. Since the new software will be open sourced, any device can use it. Which means anyone or any organization that wants to make a MP3/Video player can use the open sourced code to do so, and each system based on the code will work the same and look the same.
This can be taken farther, remember the Indrema? What if the Indrema was instead an open source standard for a game console software to run under Linux? Not only could any organization make an Indrema, but any Linux based PC with the same processor as the Indrema could run the game console CD/DVD games. Since it uses Linux standards, this would give Linux game play a boost. Game players could choose between running the Indrema games on a Linux PC, or an Indrema game console. There can be F/OSS games that you download the ISOs and burn, or commercial games that you buy in a store or off of the web. F/OSS games could be sold by CD or DVD for the cost of making the CD or DVD, which means there could be cheap games sold at Walmart for under $10 (Possibly $5) based on F/OSS software.
To take things even further, since there could be a hard drive on the Indrema, emulators could be installed to emulate other game consoles. An organization could be formed to make arrangements with the owners of the ROMs to sell emulation CDs or ROM files of those games to play on emulators like Star Roms did with old Atari arcade game ROMs. Imagine if EA did this with all of their old classic Genesis, SNES, etc sports games? Maybe they could form an iTunes type DRM system to buy the ROMs via an application, and have DRM built into emulators to make sure that the ROMs are legally owned.
Anyway I would be interested in a Linux based MP3 and Video player handheld device, because I think it would lower the cost of developing such a device. The same, apparently, for game consoles, and other units.
is to get rid of employees when things are not profitable, rather than try and fix the problems causing expenses to be so high. Something like job cost accounting could be used to find the products and services that cost more to support than the revenue they bring in. Then either remove the products and services that are not profitable, or use quality control to improve them so there does not need a lot of expenses in supporting them anymore.
An example of this was when Apple was bleeding billions of dollars. They got rid of unprofitable products like the Newton, scanners, printers, Pippin, etc, and improved the Macintosh quality and features, until the company started to show a profit again. Of course they also downsized, but if they did things correctly they would not have to downsize. Keep in mind that they found new markets to be profitable in like music and video files, and the iPod.
There is some risk involved in doing that, but anything in business has a certain degree of risk.
Novell ought to see if Netware is costing more to support than the revenue it brings in. Sadly there are still organizations using Netware 3.X on MS-DOS and older Windows based workstations. If Novell was smart, they'd find a product or service to offer these organizations, or allow them to upgrade the Netware 3.X servers to a version of SuSE Linux with the Netware server application designed for the older servers, and then use SAMBA to connect to Windows clients as well. Perhaps Novell could make a deal with a PC maker to bundle SuSE Linux on their workstations and servers. Maybe make a SuSE Linux based rackmount server for web, email, IM, and other functions with some PC maker.
Anyway Novell ought to see what new markets they can get into, perhaps partner up with IBM/Lotus, Oracle, Sun, or even contribute to the Mozilla Foundation.
Nah but the Mac makes up for it when you are forced to buy a Windows emulator and the actual Windows install CD to play the latest and greatest video games on the Macintosh, because they all require Windows to play. I mean like $300 for Virtual PC and $200 for a copy of Windows XP to play those Windows exlusive-only video games on a Mac. Plus MacOSX has fewer applications that can run natively than Linux does, so you just might need an emulator anyway.
Then that new iPod model will force you into buying a newer iMac to get the full features, so you might as well just keep spending money when you own a Macintosh anyway. By the way when you are done spending a ton of money on PowerPC Macs, you will have to spend a ton more of money when the Mac goes to Intel chips. In fact, Apple has a convient payment plan, that deducts the amount that Macintosh upgrades cost out of every paycheck that you get, and then Apple automatically mails you the upgrades by postal mail. When you need a new system, it adjusts the amount taken out of your paycheck to reflect that as well.
Don't worry, your clients will win Darwin Awards sooner or later for their stupidity.:)
I mean seriously anyone with an IQ of over 50 can program the timer on a Microwave.
Push timer button, key in the number of seconds you want, push start button, the timer will count down. The cook button works the same way. Either they have an IQ of less than 50, or they have no fingers to press buttons.
Ah schucks, that takes all the fun out of hacking into a box. I really want to put the biggest IDE hard drive than I can find into my TIVO, as well as turn it into a Linux server with full Ethernet support.;)
Clearly the Apple iPod not only has a smaller screen, but a lower resolution. These are the facts that you have denied. Why are you spreading lies and mistruths? Are you yet another Apple Zealot claiming that Apple technology is superior? Don't let the facts slow you down, apparently.
TIVO can be made to move media files off of it to PC desktops and laptops and hand held video players. You need to research the TIVO Hacks that are out there.
P.S. I'll give you a hint, TIVO is based on Linux, and it is easy to modify and change and regular hard drives can be added to up the storage capacity just like a regular PC. Get network drivers for ethernet and USB connections and you can set it up like a file sharing network server for your home network with just adding some custom open source Linux programs. Of course it voids your warranty, but it is not illegal, yet. It doesn't do anything differently than a regular PC DVR/PVR does with a video capture card.
I pay $5.99 a month for TIVO services to record TV shows, movies, etc for as much as my TIVO hard drive can hold from my Satelite company. Via USB or Ethernet I can copy those media files to my PC Desktop or Laptop and any video player I want (like the Sony PSP which gets a better resolution than the Apple iPod, or the Creative Zen Vision which has the same resolution as the Apple iPod, costs the same, plays MP3 and other media files, and has more features than an Apple iPod, and some Microsoft Windows CE (Windows Powered) devices with 1.8" hard drives that have video and audio features).
$5.99 for unlimited downloads, compared to iTunes which charges how much per media file? I mean why should you pay an arm and a leg to watch Network TV programs when for a low monthly fee you can record as many as you want and download all of them to some portable video player?
Did Apple even bother to research their competition? They are hardly competitive, more expensive, and have fewer features. They are also, not first, in this area either.
Watch the language, you are showing yourself to be unprofessional.
What exactly is an average sized pocket anyway? If Apple were honest they would say that the iPod was the first MP3 player to play thousands of audio files and fit into an AVERAGE SIZED pocket. Yet, clearly they did not. They instead said pocket, which is a more generic term, which means any size pocket, which I define as large size pockets as well, which I actually use.
I am undergoing psychological counselling, you insensitive clod! If you bothered to read my blog from my personal web page link you will see the mental illnesses I am trying to get over, and all the abuse and harassment I have been given as a result of them. Which means that you just violated my civil rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and have discrminated against me.
There was a HD based MP3 player that fit into a pocket. There is just a debate over pocket size now. I say that I have a pocket large enough for the Jukebox MP3 player to fit into, someone who has a micropocket claims that it won't fit into a teeny tiny pocket.
If it fit into a large pocket, then it is the first MP3 HD based player that plays thousands of songs and fit into a pocket. Notice that Apple did not say "fits into a SMALL pocket" just a pocket, which is untrue. I know of pockets large enough for MP3 HD based players to fit into before the iPod was made. So you, and the other Apple Zealots and Apple need to learn honesty.
Most Internet Ads use some form of malware these days. Even something as innocent as an image file, will use an exploit in your browser to install malware on your system. Not just Internet Explorer, but they found a way to infect Mozilla Firefox as well.
I used Supertrick XG to block known hosts that are found to host malware infections. I use Adblock to nuke stupid and annoying ads that cause "ActiveX" errors in Mozilla Firefox, which are really malware infection attempts. Anything I cannot block, I just simply stop using and tell my friends about how that stupid web site infects people's machines with malware. I think we need to start making a list of malware advertisers on the Internet, and start filing class action lawsuits against them!
If there were no malware advertisements, I would not mind so much, and I wouldn't block any ad. I am trying to keep my system malware-free, thank you very much!
I use Uncyclopedia instead because it is more reliable than Wikipedia. Your milage may vary, but I think that Uncyclopedia is the better choice for Internet Encyclopedias.
As I recall, Xerox lost their lawsuit against Apple, and this effected the lawsuit Apple had against Windows. Apple tried to appeal, after losing, but made a deal with Microsoft to exchange technology and patents and have Microsoft invest in Apple to help pump more money into Apple so it can save itself and use the money to develop the iPod and iTunes and new Macintoshes.
Sure there are a lot of shares in Apple, but that does not mean that Apple has the money from those shares, more to the point Apple is responsible for paying off dividends for those stocks. In order to do that they have to make a profit. The number of shares of stock in your company does not mean your company is going to make a profit. If you seem to think that it magically makes a profit, I strongly suggest you take a few classes in accounting. Perhaps you missed history when Apple was taking a lot of losses and bleeding money, and had to bring Steve Jobs back to itself, and cut out a lot of products and programs (The Newton, Scanners, Laser Printers, etc, all had to go because they were not profitable) and find a new market to develop for and move into, in the hope of turning out profits again.
Apple makes Appleworks, which competes with Microsoft Office, the only reason that one would need Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, is to use the same documents and software as Windows PCs use. Apple knows that this is their bread and butter, to have a reason for corporations to buy Macintoshes or people to work at home using a Macintosh and use the same exact file format as those Windows machines. Well, that and Photoshop for the Macintosh is very powerful.:)
Apple is taking a big risk, and ticking off a lot of developers by moving to the Intel platform. I am sure that Microsoft will write MS Office for the new Mactel systems. In any case, Apple owes a lot to Microsoft for helping them out. Just that managers at Microsoft seem to think that they pwn Apple, which was my original point.
How about people use GPG or PGP, and get a public key for their bank, which the bank uses to sign each email it sends out to verify itself.
I'd like to see something like GPG be made easy to use and a part of email clients, we can require that by law. Imagine if Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, etc all had GPG abilities.
Anyway GPG/PGP can verify if the email is legit or not. This can even be automated. That way the phisher cannot possibly fake the GPG/PGP signed emails from the bank. If an email is not signed, don't trust it.
Yes you got to love Apple Zealots, present the facts to them, and they mod you down as "flamebait". As if moding me down as flamebait would censor the truth about Apple and Apple Zealots?
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Classical Management just does not understand OSS licenses. It is possible to make a profit from OSS licenses. Still those classical managers want to avoid OSS licenses in favor of classic closed source licenses.
OSS Business Plans are something that classical managers do not understand. Sure the source code is open, and available for download for free, but you can sell the tech support, manuals, training, CDs you burn the software on, other merchadice related to the product (like those Tux dolls and Tux t-shirts that are so popular with Linux), and even bundle hardware with the software and sell the hardware and software in one package (like their competitors did, duh, why didn't they think of that?)
The Windows version of Nessus is commercial anyway, so they must be getting burned by the Unix version?
Oh, BTW, isn't it possible to sell GPL code as a commercial software like all of those Windows environments based on WINE, like CrossOffice, WINEX/Caldega, etc? I mean if that is the case, why drop the GPL license? Or did those modifications on WINE get released from the GPL?
To me, this is not a failing of the GPL, but rather a failing of classical management. There are more modern and better types of business management out there, that leave classical management in the dust. Yet people like me who practice the new forms of business management, get blackballed by classical managers, because we are a threat to them.
Apparently the manager who made that claim, figures that Mac OSX is a Windows clone or something like Windows, and not a non-Windows OS.
Microsoft figures that it owns Apple anyway, with that big investment it made to save Apple so many years ago. Anything Microsoft or a company that Microsoft owns that makes software is considered a part of Microsoft and Windows compatable anyway. If not for Microsoft, Apple would have gone the way of Commodore, Osborne, Kaypro, and Atari in the way their computer products went over. Perhaps Apple would have merged with the Amiga company, forming a Mac/Amiga fusion and call it the MacAmi or AmiMac something?:)
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Even my shirts have pockets. I have jackets made with large pockets, due to me being a time traveller and needing to hold things in them. I have pants with large pockets in them that can hold CD Players, and large tools. I learned my fashion sense from Doctor Who and other time travellers.
#1 the iPod was not the first MP3 player.
#2 The iPod was not the first MP3 player with a hard drive.
#3 The iPod was not the first MP3 player to fit in a pocket. Other MP3 players fit in pockets, but didn't always use microdrives.
#4 The iPod was not the first MP3 player with a HD to fit in a pocket (I have large pockets as part of my good fashion sense) and large and extra-large pockets count in that definition. Not teeny tiny pockets that match the manhood of some male iPod users.
#5 iTunes was not the first MP3 music store on the Internet.
#6 Adding a 1.8" HD to a MP3 player is not innovative. Not any more than adding a 1.8" HD to a laptop or desktop computer. Say if I add a 1.6" HD to a MP3 player, and called it the iRion, would you consider that to be innovative?
#7 There are less expensive, and better MP3 players than the iPod out there.
#8 There are already hand held video players out on the market. The iPod Video will be a Johnny-come-lately.
#9 There are already video stores on the Internet.
#10 Apple, the iPod, the Macintosh, and Steve Jobs are all out of fashion. The new fashion styles are Linux organizations, open source MP3 players, Linux PCs, and Linus Torvalds. "Finn is in!" Big pockets are in too.
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It is very simple really. You join Mozilla, license something like Bugzilla and then charge for customization to it to make a customized version for each organization because they all have different needs and the standard Bugzilla doesn't do all that they want it to do. Part of the contract for customization requires that the code created can be submitted back into Mozilla for use in the regular version of it that Mozilla controls.
All the client organization is paying for is the labor to create the custimized code, and not the original version itself. You see, this way, the client pays for the labor for open source code, and as they agree to it, that code can be put into the standard/regular version to honor the OSS license.
Come to think of it, they could create a customized version of Firefox to do things that Mozilla lists as a WONTFIX because they are just features, and things that do not follow the HTML standards. The client organization can pay for the labor to add features to Novell's version of Firefox (Maybe call it Novfox) that the Mozilla Foundation refuses to add.
IBM/Lotus, well they could help them port the Lotus software to Linux, and then share in the licensing fees. I mean if MS-Office won't be available for Linux, maybe the Lotus Office Suite can be ported to Linux? That would be a commercial software package that they can be an OEM for IBM/Lotus to sell. Perhaps they can port Lotus Notes or Lotus Domino to Linux as well?
Yeah Apple did classical management until Jobs returned in 1996. H. Ross Perot had helped Steve Jobs with Next, in running it using new business management theories and ideas. The early 1990s to mid 1990's (1995), Apple was acting like a classical management run organization and at the first sign of a loss, downsized their employees and it almost killed them. Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, and knew a better form of business management and found unprofitable products and services like the Newton, scanners, printers, etc. and cut them out, and later replaced them with new products and services like iTunes and the iPod, which proved to be more profitable later.
I hope this has been educational for some people, in finding a better way of business management than just downsizing employees at the first sign of a loss.
In a nutshell, there are two ways to turn a loss into a profit. Either decrease expenses, or increase revenue. Sometimes you can do both. Cutting employees is stupid because it can cost up to 10 times their annual salary to recruit someone to replace them later when business picks up. Plus you have to train that new employee to the way your organization does business.
An alternative is to offer sabbaticals from work for six months to a year or more at 20% or 30% salary, and the employee is still an employee but you giv e them a cell phone and laptop and they check in from time to time. They are free to go back to college, take care of family members, or work another job. When business picks up they can end their sabbatical and return to full-time work and a full-time salary. Those who went to college will be more valuable employees when they return, those who took care of family members will be happier with the quality time they had, and those who worked other jobs will increase their experience and skills and become more valuable employees.
Remember that an employee is not an expense and is very valuable and important to the functioning of the organization. You want them to have the best benefits so they can have health insurance and be healthy and happy, have college tuition to increase their knowledge, have a 401K or savings program to plan for retirement, and the more benefits you give them, the less likely they will leave for a competitor. This also shows the organization meeting the needs of the social customers, as they will see that the organization really cares about its employees and people in general and this will give good PR, the kind you cannot buy.
Basically there are four type of customers yo
I'll tell you why. Since the new software will be open sourced, any device can use it. Which means anyone or any organization that wants to make a MP3/Video player can use the open sourced code to do so, and each system based on the code will work the same and look the same.
This can be taken farther, remember the Indrema? What if the Indrema was instead an open source standard for a game console software to run under Linux? Not only could any organization make an Indrema, but any Linux based PC with the same processor as the Indrema could run the game console CD/DVD games. Since it uses Linux standards, this would give Linux game play a boost. Game players could choose between running the Indrema games on a Linux PC, or an Indrema game console. There can be F/OSS games that you download the ISOs and burn, or commercial games that you buy in a store or off of the web. F/OSS games could be sold by CD or DVD for the cost of making the CD or DVD, which means there could be cheap games sold at Walmart for under $10 (Possibly $5) based on F/OSS software.
To take things even further, since there could be a hard drive on the Indrema, emulators could be installed to emulate other game consoles. An organization could be formed to make arrangements with the owners of the ROMs to sell emulation CDs or ROM files of those games to play on emulators like Star Roms did with old Atari arcade game ROMs. Imagine if EA did this with all of their old classic Genesis, SNES, etc sports games? Maybe they could form an iTunes type DRM system to buy the ROMs via an application, and have DRM built into emulators to make sure that the ROMs are legally owned.
Anyway I would be interested in a Linux based MP3 and Video player handheld device, because I think it would lower the cost of developing such a device. The same, apparently, for game consoles, and other units.
is to get rid of employees when things are not profitable, rather than try and fix the problems causing expenses to be so high. Something like job cost accounting could be used to find the products and services that cost more to support than the revenue they bring in. Then either remove the products and services that are not profitable, or use quality control to improve them so there does not need a lot of expenses in supporting them anymore.
An example of this was when Apple was bleeding billions of dollars. They got rid of unprofitable products like the Newton, scanners, printers, Pippin, etc, and improved the Macintosh quality and features, until the company started to show a profit again. Of course they also downsized, but if they did things correctly they would not have to downsize. Keep in mind that they found new markets to be profitable in like music and video files, and the iPod.
There is some risk involved in doing that, but anything in business has a certain degree of risk.
Novell ought to see if Netware is costing more to support than the revenue it brings in. Sadly there are still organizations using Netware 3.X on MS-DOS and older Windows based workstations. If Novell was smart, they'd find a product or service to offer these organizations, or allow them to upgrade the Netware 3.X servers to a version of SuSE Linux with the Netware server application designed for the older servers, and then use SAMBA to connect to Windows clients as well. Perhaps Novell could make a deal with a PC maker to bundle SuSE Linux on their workstations and servers. Maybe make a SuSE Linux based rackmount server for web, email, IM, and other functions with some PC maker.
Anyway Novell ought to see what new markets they can get into, perhaps partner up with IBM/Lotus, Oracle, Sun, or even contribute to the Mozilla Foundation.
Nah but the Mac makes up for it when you are forced to buy a Windows emulator and the actual Windows install CD to play the latest and greatest video games on the Macintosh, because they all require Windows to play. I mean like $300 for Virtual PC and $200 for a copy of Windows XP to play those Windows exlusive-only video games on a Mac. Plus MacOSX has fewer applications that can run natively than Linux does, so you just might need an emulator anyway.
Then that new iPod model will force you into buying a newer iMac to get the full features, so you might as well just keep spending money when you own a Macintosh anyway. By the way when you are done spending a ton of money on PowerPC Macs, you will have to spend a ton more of money when the Mac goes to Intel chips. In fact, Apple has a convient payment plan, that deducts the amount that Macintosh upgrades cost out of every paycheck that you get, and then Apple automatically mails you the upgrades by postal mail. When you need a new system, it adjusts the amount taken out of your paycheck to reflect that as well.
Don't worry, your clients will win Darwin Awards sooner or later for their stupidity. :)
I mean seriously anyone with an IQ of over 50 can program the timer on a Microwave.
Push timer button, key in the number of seconds you want, push start button, the timer will count down. The cook button works the same way. Either they have an IQ of less than 50, or they have no fingers to press buttons.
Ah schucks, that takes all the fun out of hacking into a box. I really want to put the biggest IDE hard drive than I can find into my TIVO, as well as turn it into a Linux server with full Ethernet support. ;)
Apparently not, the Apple iPod Video edition has a 320x240 resolution.
The Sony PSP has a 480 x 272 resolution.
Clearly the Apple iPod not only has a smaller screen, but a lower resolution. These are the facts that you have denied. Why are you spreading lies and mistruths? Are you yet another Apple Zealot claiming that Apple technology is superior? Don't let the facts slow you down, apparently.
for your WINTEL PC is by reformatting your hard drive and then installing Linux on it, so Windows based Malware won't infect it. Peroid!
Either that or you can go the expensive route and buy a Mac or Amiga, or some other Non-Windows based computer.
TIVO can be made to move media files off of it to PC desktops and laptops and hand held video players. You need to research the TIVO Hacks that are out there.
P.S. I'll give you a hint, TIVO is based on Linux, and it is easy to modify and change and regular hard drives can be added to up the storage capacity just like a regular PC. Get network drivers for ethernet and USB connections and you can set it up like a file sharing network server for your home network with just adding some custom open source Linux programs. Of course it voids your warranty, but it is not illegal, yet. It doesn't do anything differently than a regular PC DVR/PVR does with a video capture card.
I pay $5.99 a month for TIVO services to record TV shows, movies, etc for as much as my TIVO hard drive can hold from my Satelite company. Via USB or Ethernet I can copy those media files to my PC Desktop or Laptop and any video player I want (like the Sony PSP which gets a better resolution than the Apple iPod, or the Creative Zen Vision which has the same resolution as the Apple iPod, costs the same, plays MP3 and other media files, and has more features than an Apple iPod, and some Microsoft Windows CE (Windows Powered) devices with 1.8" hard drives that have video and audio features).
$5.99 for unlimited downloads, compared to iTunes which charges how much per media file? I mean why should you pay an arm and a leg to watch Network TV programs when for a low monthly fee you can record as many as you want and download all of them to some portable video player?
Did Apple even bother to research their competition? They are hardly competitive, more expensive, and have fewer features. They are also, not first, in this area either.
You can find that review here, for those interested in a third party review not tied to Apple, Microsoft, or any other major corporation.
Watch the language, you are showing yourself to be unprofessional.
What exactly is an average sized pocket anyway? If Apple were honest they would say that the iPod was the first MP3 player to play thousands of audio files and fit into an AVERAGE SIZED pocket. Yet, clearly they did not. They instead said pocket, which is a more generic term, which means any size pocket, which I define as large size pockets as well, which I actually use.
I am undergoing psychological counselling, you insensitive clod! If you bothered to read my blog from my personal web page link you will see the mental illnesses I am trying to get over, and all the abuse and harassment I have been given as a result of them. Which means that you just violated my civil rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and have discrminated against me.
Here is a photo of Al Gore as he addresses the rest of the world over the poor image they have of the USA and its Internet policies. Caption included.
There was a HD based MP3 player that fit into a pocket. There is just a debate over pocket size now. I say that I have a pocket large enough for the Jukebox MP3 player to fit into, someone who has a micropocket claims that it won't fit into a teeny tiny pocket.
If it fit into a large pocket, then it is the first MP3 HD based player that plays thousands of songs and fit into a pocket. Notice that Apple did not say "fits into a SMALL pocket" just a pocket, which is untrue. I know of pockets large enough for MP3 HD based players to fit into before the iPod was made. So you, and the other Apple Zealots and Apple need to learn honesty.
Most Internet Ads use some form of malware these days. Even something as innocent as an image file, will use an exploit in your browser to install malware on your system. Not just Internet Explorer, but they found a way to infect Mozilla Firefox as well.
I used Supertrick XG to block known hosts that are found to host malware infections. I use Adblock to nuke stupid and annoying ads that cause "ActiveX" errors in Mozilla Firefox, which are really malware infection attempts. Anything I cannot block, I just simply stop using and tell my friends about how that stupid web site infects people's machines with malware. I think we need to start making a list of malware advertisers on the Internet, and start filing class action lawsuits against them!
If there were no malware advertisements, I would not mind so much, and I wouldn't block any ad. I am trying to keep my system malware-free, thank you very much!
Apparently Microsoft and Tivo beat Apple to the hand-held video device market, and online store bit.
Sorry Steve, too little, too late.
I used to be an Apple Zealot, but now "Finn is in" and I am a Linux Zealot. :)
I use Uncyclopedia instead because it is more reliable than Wikipedia. Your milage may vary, but I think that Uncyclopedia is the better choice for Internet Encyclopedias.
As I recall, Xerox lost their lawsuit against Apple, and this effected the lawsuit Apple had against Windows. Apple tried to appeal, after losing, but made a deal with Microsoft to exchange technology and patents and have Microsoft invest in Apple to help pump more money into Apple so it can save itself and use the money to develop the iPod and iTunes and new Macintoshes.
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Sure there are a lot of shares in Apple, but that does not mean that Apple has the money from those shares, more to the point Apple is responsible for paying off dividends for those stocks. In order to do that they have to make a profit. The number of shares of stock in your company does not mean your company is going to make a profit. If you seem to think that it magically makes a profit, I strongly suggest you take a few classes in accounting. Perhaps you missed history when Apple was taking a lot of losses and bleeding money, and had to bring Steve Jobs back to itself, and cut out a lot of products and programs (The Newton, Scanners, Laser Printers, etc, all had to go because they were not profitable) and find a new market to develop for and move into, in the hope of turning out profits again.
Apple makes Appleworks, which competes with Microsoft Office, the only reason that one would need Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, is to use the same documents and software as Windows PCs use. Apple knows that this is their bread and butter, to have a reason for corporations to buy Macintoshes or people to work at home using a Macintosh and use the same exact file format as those Windows machines. Well, that and Photoshop for the Macintosh is very powerful.
Apple is taking a big risk, and ticking off a lot of developers by moving to the Intel platform. I am sure that Microsoft will write MS Office for the new Mactel systems. In any case, Apple owes a lot to Microsoft for helping them out. Just that managers at Microsoft seem to think that they pwn Apple, which was my original point.
How about people use GPG or PGP, and get a public key for their bank, which the bank uses to sign each email it sends out to verify itself.
I'd like to see something like GPG be made easy to use and a part of email clients, we can require that by law. Imagine if Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, etc all had GPG abilities.
Anyway GPG/PGP can verify if the email is legit or not. This can even be automated. That way the phisher cannot possibly fake the GPG/PGP signed emails from the bank. If an email is not signed, don't trust it.
Yes you got to love Apple Zealots, present the facts to them, and they mod you down as "flamebait". As if moding me down as flamebait would censor the truth about Apple and Apple Zealots?
Classical Management just does not understand OSS licenses. It is possible to make a profit from OSS licenses. Still those classical managers want to avoid OSS licenses in favor of classic closed source licenses.
OSS Business Plans are something that classical managers do not understand. Sure the source code is open, and available for download for free, but you can sell the tech support, manuals, training, CDs you burn the software on, other merchadice related to the product (like those Tux dolls and Tux t-shirts that are so popular with Linux), and even bundle hardware with the software and sell the hardware and software in one package (like their competitors did, duh, why didn't they think of that?)
The Windows version of Nessus is commercial anyway, so they must be getting burned by the Unix version?
Oh, BTW, isn't it possible to sell GPL code as a commercial software like all of those Windows environments based on WINE, like CrossOffice, WINEX/Caldega, etc? I mean if that is the case, why drop the GPL license? Or did those modifications on WINE get released from the GPL?
To me, this is not a failing of the GPL, but rather a failing of classical management. There are more modern and better types of business management out there, that leave classical management in the dust. Yet people like me who practice the new forms of business management, get blackballed by classical managers, because we are a threat to them.
Apparently the manager who made that claim, figures that Mac OSX is a Windows clone or something like Windows, and not a non-Windows OS.
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Microsoft figures that it owns Apple anyway, with that big investment it made to save Apple so many years ago. Anything Microsoft or a company that Microsoft owns that makes software is considered a part of Microsoft and Windows compatable anyway. If not for Microsoft, Apple would have gone the way of Commodore, Osborne, Kaypro, and Atari in the way their computer products went over. Perhaps Apple would have merged with the Amiga company, forming a Mac/Amiga fusion and call it the MacAmi or AmiMac something?
Even my shirts have pockets. I have jackets made with large pockets, due to me being a time traveller and needing to hold things in them. I have pants with large pockets in them that can hold CD Players, and large tools. I learned my fashion sense from Doctor Who and other time travellers.
#1 the iPod was not the first MP3 player.
#2 The iPod was not the first MP3 player with a hard drive.
#3 The iPod was not the first MP3 player to fit in a pocket. Other MP3 players fit in pockets, but didn't always use microdrives.
#4 The iPod was not the first MP3 player with a HD to fit in a pocket (I have large pockets as part of my good fashion sense) and large and extra-large pockets count in that definition. Not teeny tiny pockets that match the manhood of some male iPod users.
#5 iTunes was not the first MP3 music store on the Internet.
#6 Adding a 1.8" HD to a MP3 player is not innovative. Not any more than adding a 1.8" HD to a laptop or desktop computer. Say if I add a 1.6" HD to a MP3 player, and called it the iRion, would you consider that to be innovative?
#7 There are less expensive, and better MP3 players than the iPod out there.
#8 There are already hand held video players out on the market. The iPod Video will be a Johnny-come-lately.
#9 There are already video stores on the Internet.
#10 Apple, the iPod, the Macintosh, and Steve Jobs are all out of fashion. The new fashion styles are Linux organizations, open source MP3 players, Linux PCs, and Linus Torvalds. "Finn is in!" Big pockets are in too.
Perhaps you just have small pockets and a bad fashion sense? It fit fine in my pockets.