So... Apple claims that they don't make money on iTunes (dumping below cost). In fact, iTunes exists in some ways so that Apple can sell iPods. If you buy an iPod you must run Apple's system on it (forced bundling). So... we just have to wait for them to buy out a competitor now?;)
but in order for this to be monopolistic wouldnt Microsoft have to have a monopoly on the OS market?
its not like Microsoft is the only place to get an OS... there are plenty of other online sources with different OSs that might suit this customers needs. hell he could just buy OSs like people used to back in the day from that small organization... what were they called... apple?
Even if Microsoft has a monopoly on computers (which they dont) they let you get your OS from anywhere you want. This lawsuit is completely frivolous.
Starbucks offers power/wifi as an incentive to attact customers. You *are* paying to use these things.
Other places do not offer these incentives. You are the customer, spend your money where you want. If you want the power/wifi, go somewhere (Starbucks) that has those for you.
If I paid you $10 to cut my grass, does that entitle me to come over to your house and use your power/wifi and eat food from your fridge by default (after all, you didn't *tell* me that paying you to cut my grass didn't entitle me to helping myself at your place). According to your logic, if I give you money for anything (regardless of the amount of money or what it was payment for), I'm entitled to anything of yours I want.
Well... I don't teach anymore, I left academia again a while back. After grad school, I went to work for about 2.5 years, then came back to work with some friends on HPC research which we spun off as a company. While doing that, I also taught classes to help out some friends in the CS department (joystick professor's wife was the head of the CS department at this time). After doing that a while, I had an opportunity to work at another startup with some more friends so I did that for a few years, now I'm at another startup.
I agree... I've been on both sides. As a student, I actually found out that some teachers have interests similar to mine. I found out that one of my most favorite professors had made a joystick with memory to record all the movements he made so he could replay certain games which didn't have a save feature up to the point where he last was stopped/killed. After approaching him, I found that he was pretty cool. All of this was in addition to being a very good teacher.
I took every class that the guy offered. Later, he and a couple other professors that I had come to know well approached me on the same day and asked if I had given grad school any thought. I hadn't and was actually looking for a job. These professors told me that if I wanted to go to grad school, they'd make sure it happened. After thinking about it some, I did. The professor with the joystick mentioned above became my committee head and the other two (one of which was his wife) were my other two members.
Over the years, I've maintained a good friendship with them, including a bit of playing paintball and all sorts of stuff. We get Christmas cards from them every year:)
Anyway, teaching is onus of the professor. Learning is the onus of the student. If you want to learn more, you have to take it upon yourself to broaden your horizons. Find teachers that have similar interests and get to know them. Professors see many faces (new ones too) each semester. It's basic human nature to figure out whether you want to invest your time in getting to know someone. Professors usually can't afford to befriend everyone. This is why they tend to not associate with students so much. However, only very few times have I ever seen a professor not befriend students who really wanted to befriend them.
Another calculus teacher I had really impressed me. Before our finals, a number of us in the same section got together to study. None of us understood or could figure out something that was covered in the last couple meetings and we were worried because the professor had explicitly said that it would be on the final. Desperate, one of my friends said he was going to call the professor to get help. This, of course, scared us all because it was after 9PM and, being sophomores, figured this might negatively impact our grades. Well, he called and after fifteen minutes on the phone trying to explain to us how to do it with no success, he asked where we were. Puzzled, we told him and he said to stay there, he'd be there in 10 minutes. Sure enough, he drove over (near 10PM now) and spent the next hour or so with us going over the material until we all understood it. We all aced that portion of the exam.
Now, as a teacher, I tought a few split level networking classes. Because I could, I usually was in the class 15 minutes before class started and hung around as long as anyone wanted to stay. In addition, my office hours were officially posted but all the students knew they could contact me just about anytime they wanted. At first, before class, only a couple students showed up early and we'd sit around and chat about whatever... games, classwork, programming, etc. Before the end of the semester, the class was usually 1/4 to 1/2 full 10 minutes before class.
Well... the Atari 1040ST was the first computer with 1MB of memory that cost under $1000 when it was released, and this was a bit after the Mac. Because Macs were so expensive back then (MacSE was over $3000), there was a device that would accept Mac ROMs and plugged into the Atari STs that would 'turn it into a Mac'. This was more popular in Europe where Macs were even more expensive. MagicSac, I think it was called. Anyway, 1M of memory back then cost more than your complete Athlon64 rig with 1GB of memory and a high end graphics card today.
...or it's an engineering cutaway view so you can see what's inside it...
I bet you could have used a V-8...
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....and maybe it is a cutaway view so you can see what's inside the thing that removes the requirement for pressurized air?...
I know when I saw that it didn't need to be filled with pressurized air, I wanted to know what was inside it that made it different from run-flats, which can't go high speeds for long distances.
Kennedy decided to go to the moon "because it was hard", not to make a buck.
He did it because he thought the Soviets were going to get there first otherwise. It was a race for national prestige (a moral boost for the USA and a downer for the Soviets).
You make something that needs tech support, and sell the tech support.
Are you suggesting that software you write should be designed and written to be obtuse and confusing, so that you can sell tech support for it? In my day, we wrote software to make tasks easier... not harder:)
Nothing you mentioned is specific to *any* OS. If you don't apply security updates, holes can be exploited on *any* platform (yes, even Linux).
As far as the OS giving customers grief, it's mostly because of ignorance (not necessarily stupidity). Have any one of those callers install Linux (thus giving them root access) and you'll get the same or similar problems. Of course, this doesn't even count the number of calls you'll get because they can't set up some hardware they have because a kernel module isn't installed (try talking one of those customers through that!) or any number of the other cryptic/complex installation issues they might encounter.
Windows does have issues but they aren't necessarily that much different from any other OS when put into the hands of someone who knows little to nothing about computers and/or OSs.
Perhaps you'll give us a rundown of exactly what you've personally done (besides watch TV and 'sympathize') to help the folks over there (as opposed to saying 'well, my gubberment is sending money')?
Heck, for that matter, give us a rundown of everything you've done in your life in order to be "morally responsable[sic] for the welfare and well-being of the rest of the world".
It's nice to talk the talk, but you have to also walk the walk (the part that most folks fall short on).
I've been doing this for years running VMWare. I run as many as 4 virtual machines in addition to my host regularly. None interfere with the others.
The main uses for this type thing that I've seen are: 1. Partitioning a large box into a number of smaller virtual boxes. This is done typically to handle load during certain peak seasons. Example: with a Sun 10K, the IT folks I know at a university partitioned the 32 proc machine into three. Administration got 8 processors, general computing needs got 16, and someone else got 8. During registration, they would move 4 to 8 processors from the general use to Administration because students aren't using it so heavy at that time, but administration needs more CPU power.
2. Q/A testing. VMWare works great for this (version 5 looks like it's going to be even better for it) where someone may have to test a product against multiple platforms for compatibility both running on top of them and interfacing between them (Windows client against a Linux server, for example).
We have had a bunch of dual boot machines in labs before (Windows and Linux) and found that 99.999% of the time, each machine stays in one OS or the other (most often Windows). Folks dual booting is rare outside of developer/enthusiast circles and basically becomes a waste of HDD space.
Yeah... unlike needing jboss, apache, struts, mysql, and who knows what all else with their configuration and manuals either practically non-existant or might as well have been written in Klingon.
Stupid programmers can do stupid things regardless of the platform and choice of language. Good programmers can do good things regardless of platform and choice of language.
As far as the OP, I agree with others who say you will be able to choose the whole platform (hardware and software). If you are entering a market and writing a new product, hopefully you've already done some research and lined up some potential buyers. See what your immediate potential customers are using. That should give you some idea on where to start. Don't ignore their infrastructure either, though. If they are running Windows98 on Pentium II machines connected by 10Mb 10Base2, well, that may guide how you approach the problem.
Well... by far and away, people like you are the exception rather than the rule. (Congrats, btw... sounds like you've had a lot of fun in the process.) The problem is that many folks tend to use the exception as the norm and think that everyone can be self-taught and that college is a waste of time (that attitude is actually more common among the self-taught than other groups).
College and similar forms of instruction work because it works for most people. There are folks who 'work differently' and can't get much out of these generalized instruction methodologies and there are people who are just sharp and grok what they do. Both cases are minorities no matter how easy it is to point to them as examples of what should be the majority.
Yeah. That's what I was meaning. Any semi- or fully- automatic weapons. This would also be an issue with all hand guns.
Yeah, I knew the ban was lifted, too.
I just find the whole trend of blaming everything *but* the person to be very annoying. No one wants to take responsibility for his/her own actions. Somebody or something else causes everyone to do whatever, not the person who actually decides to do whatever.
If someone decides to kill someone else, it doesn't matter what weapon was used. As someone else pointed out, *anything* can be used as a weapon. The fact that they chose one tool over another is irrelevant.
The main thing that seperates assault rifles from their non-assault varieties are basically the amount of ammunition it can hold in it's clip/magazine. If you suppose that having more ammunition available to you for immediate use before reloading constitutes that the gun was made with the sole purpose to kill humans, well... that's your logic I guess.
Case in point: HK-91.308. With a 5 round clip, it was legal to hunt deer and do whatever. Buy a 20 round clip and you now had an assault rifle and it was illegal.
Another case: Glok 9mm pistols had a 15 round clip to start with. That was considered to be "assault" or something, so a law was written to where it could only hold 10 rounds per clip. The clip had to be the same length to fit in the pistol mechanically, there was just a block put in so that the spring couldn't depress far enough to hold 15 rounds. Somehow, this made the pistol more "friendly" or something.
I purposefully used that example to show contrast. An assault rifle is a tool that has a bad stigma attached to it (they are designed to kill people!) so they have legislation to prohibit sales. P2P file sharing is a tool that also has a bad stigma attached to it (people use it to transfer illegal copies of files!) and is coming under heavy fire (no pun intended) from legislators and whoever.
As you state, you may not be able to kill a deer more reliably with an assault rifle over a more accepted hunting rifle, you typically won't be any less reliable, either. The distinction between a hunting semi-automatic and an "assault rifle" is completely (and arbitrarily) set at how many rounds are held in the magazine. I could take an old Remington Model 742 Woodsmaster (a reasonably popular semi-automatic rifle used for hunting, although early models did have some flaws in the spent shell ejection mechanism) and make myself a 50 shot clip (as opposed to the 5 shot one delivered with it) and have an "assault rifle" even though the rest of the gun would have been identified as a hunting rifle before the change of clips.
Perhaps "assault rifles" should be classified by having any mechanical reloading capability that is activated by either exhaust gases or recoil force (not human powered like a pump or bolt action) instead of some other arbitrary measure.
Assault rifles can be used for hunting, target practice, target competition, and recreational shooting (as can most guns).
Assault rifles, and guns in general, aren't "evil" or are built to serve nefarious purposes.
Similarly, P2P networks can solve a host of distribution issues.
It's the idiots that use them for illegal purposes (assault rifles, guns, or P2P networks) that cause the problems. Since the world is made up mostly of idiots, well... there you go.
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So... Apple claims that they don't make money on iTunes (dumping below cost). In fact, iTunes exists in some ways so that Apple can sell iPods. If you buy an iPod you must run Apple's system on it (forced bundling). So... we just have to wait for them to buy out a competitor now? ;)
but in order for this to be monopolistic wouldnt Microsoft have to have a monopoly on the OS market?
its not like Microsoft is the only place to get an OS... there are plenty of other online sources with different OSs that might suit this customers needs. hell he could just buy OSs like people used to back in the day from that small organization... what were they called... apple?
Even if Microsoft has a monopoly on computers (which they dont) they let you get your OS from anywhere you want. This lawsuit is completely frivolous.
Starbucks offers power/wifi as an incentive to attact customers. You *are* paying to use these things.
Other places do not offer these incentives. You are the customer, spend your money where you want. If you want the power/wifi, go somewhere (Starbucks) that has those for you.
If I paid you $10 to cut my grass, does that entitle me to come over to your house and use your power/wifi and eat food from your fridge by default (after all, you didn't *tell* me that paying you to cut my grass didn't entitle me to helping myself at your place). According to your logic, if I give you money for anything (regardless of the amount of money or what it was payment for), I'm entitled to anything of yours I want.
Well... I don't teach anymore, I left academia again a while back. After grad school, I went to work for about 2.5 years, then came back to work with some friends on HPC research which we spun off as a company. While doing that, I also taught classes to help out some friends in the CS department (joystick professor's wife was the head of the CS department at this time). After doing that a while, I had an opportunity to work at another startup with some more friends so I did that for a few years, now I'm at another startup.
Actually, go read up on military history, particularly the use of bright lights in relation to WWII in/around Egypt.
No... only those with laser pointers who are stupid enough to point them at airplanes.
I agree... I've been on both sides. As a student, I actually found out that some teachers have interests similar to mine. I found out that one of my most favorite professors had made a joystick with memory to record all the movements he made so he could replay certain games which didn't have a save feature up to the point where he last was stopped/killed. After approaching him, I found that he was pretty cool. All of this was in addition to being a very good teacher.
:)
I took every class that the guy offered. Later, he and a couple other professors that I had come to know well approached me on the same day and asked if I had given grad school any thought. I hadn't and was actually looking for a job. These professors told me that if I wanted to go to grad school, they'd make sure it happened. After thinking about it some, I did. The professor with the joystick mentioned above became my committee head and the other two (one of which was his wife) were my other two members.
Over the years, I've maintained a good friendship with them, including a bit of playing paintball and all sorts of stuff. We get Christmas cards from them every year
Anyway, teaching is onus of the professor. Learning is the onus of the student. If you want to learn more, you have to take it upon yourself to broaden your horizons. Find teachers that have similar interests and get to know them. Professors see many faces (new ones too) each semester. It's basic human nature to figure out whether you want to invest your time in getting to know someone. Professors usually can't afford to befriend everyone. This is why they tend to not associate with students so much. However, only very few times have I ever seen a professor not befriend students who really wanted to befriend them.
Another calculus teacher I had really impressed me. Before our finals, a number of us in the same section got together to study. None of us understood or could figure out something that was covered in the last couple meetings and we were worried because the professor had explicitly said that it would be on the final. Desperate, one of my friends said he was going to call the professor to get help. This, of course, scared us all because it was after 9PM and, being sophomores, figured this might negatively impact our grades. Well, he called and after fifteen minutes on the phone trying to explain to us how to do it with no success, he asked where we were. Puzzled, we told him and he said to stay there, he'd be there in 10 minutes. Sure enough, he drove over (near 10PM now) and spent the next hour or so with us going over the material until we all understood it. We all aced that portion of the exam.
Now, as a teacher, I tought a few split level networking classes. Because I could, I usually was in the class 15 minutes before class started and hung around as long as anyone wanted to stay. In addition, my office hours were officially posted but all the students knew they could contact me just about anytime they wanted. At first, before class, only a couple students showed up early and we'd sit around and chat about whatever... games, classwork, programming, etc. Before the end of the semester, the class was usually 1/4 to 1/2 full 10 minutes before class.
Well... the Atari 1040ST was the first computer with 1MB of memory that cost under $1000 when it was released, and this was a bit after the Mac. Because Macs were so expensive back then (MacSE was over $3000), there was a device that would accept Mac ROMs and plugged into the Atari STs that would 'turn it into a Mac'. This was more popular in Europe where Macs were even more expensive. MagicSac, I think it was called. Anyway, 1M of memory back then cost more than your complete Athlon64 rig with 1GB of memory and a high end graphics card today.
...or it's an engineering cutaway view so you can see what's inside it...
I bet you could have used a V-8...
....and maybe it is a cutaway view so you can see what's inside the thing that removes the requirement for pressurized air?...
I know when I saw that it didn't need to be filled with pressurized air, I wanted to know what was inside it that made it different from run-flats, which can't go high speeds for long distances.
...or some /.er who is half asleep tries to take a bite out of the laptop...
"Walk the Dinosaur", er wait... that was Was (Not Was)
Kennedy decided to go to the moon "because it was hard", not to make a buck.
He did it because he thought the Soviets were going to get there first otherwise. It was a race for national prestige (a moral boost for the USA and a downer for the Soviets).
You make something that needs tech support, and sell the tech support.
:)
Are you suggesting that software you write should be designed and written to be obtuse and confusing, so that you can sell tech support for it? In my day, we wrote software to make tasks easier... not harder
Nothing you mentioned is specific to *any* OS. If you don't apply security updates, holes can be exploited on *any* platform (yes, even Linux).
As far as the OS giving customers grief, it's mostly because of ignorance (not necessarily stupidity). Have any one of those callers install Linux (thus giving them root access) and you'll get the same or similar problems. Of course, this doesn't even count the number of calls you'll get because they can't set up some hardware they have because a kernel module isn't installed (try talking one of those customers through that!) or any number of the other cryptic/complex installation issues they might encounter.
Windows does have issues but they aren't necessarily that much different from any other OS when put into the hands of someone who knows little to nothing about computers and/or OSs.
Perhaps you'll give us a rundown of exactly what you've personally done (besides watch TV and 'sympathize') to help the folks over there (as opposed to saying 'well, my gubberment is sending money')?
Heck, for that matter, give us a rundown of everything you've done in your life in order to be "morally responsable[sic] for the welfare and well-being of the rest of the world".
It's nice to talk the talk, but you have to also walk the walk (the part that most folks fall short on).
I've been doing this for years running VMWare. I run as many as 4 virtual machines in addition to my host regularly. None interfere with the others.
The main uses for this type thing that I've seen are:
1. Partitioning a large box into a number of smaller virtual boxes. This is done typically to handle load during certain peak seasons. Example: with a Sun 10K, the IT folks I know at a university partitioned the 32 proc machine into three. Administration got 8 processors, general computing needs got 16, and someone else got 8. During registration, they would move 4 to 8 processors from the general use to Administration because students aren't using it so heavy at that time, but administration needs more CPU power.
2. Q/A testing. VMWare works great for this (version 5 looks like it's going to be even better for it) where someone may have to test a product against multiple platforms for compatibility both running on top of them and interfacing between them (Windows client against a Linux server, for example).
We have had a bunch of dual boot machines in labs before (Windows and Linux) and found that 99.999% of the time, each machine stays in one OS or the other (most often Windows). Folks dual booting is rare outside of developer/enthusiast circles and basically becomes a waste of HDD space.
Yeah... unlike needing jboss, apache, struts, mysql, and who knows what all else with their configuration and manuals either practically non-existant or might as well have been written in Klingon.
Stupid programmers can do stupid things regardless of the platform and choice of language. Good programmers can do good things regardless of platform and choice of language.
As far as the OP, I agree with others who say you will be able to choose the whole platform (hardware and software). If you are entering a market and writing a new product, hopefully you've already done some research and lined up some potential buyers. See what your immediate potential customers are using. That should give you some idea on where to start. Don't ignore their infrastructure either, though. If they are running Windows98 on Pentium II machines connected by 10Mb 10Base2, well, that may guide how you approach the problem.
Oh yeah? Well... I'm waiting for the Delta-11...
I salute you.
Anyone here remember about Alfred Nobel and his invention?
Well... by far and away, people like you are the exception rather than the rule. (Congrats, btw... sounds like you've had a lot of fun in the process.) The problem is that many folks tend to use the exception as the norm and think that everyone can be self-taught and that college is a waste of time (that attitude is actually more common among the self-taught than other groups).
College and similar forms of instruction work because it works for most people. There are folks who 'work differently' and can't get much out of these generalized instruction methodologies and there are people who are just sharp and grok what they do. Both cases are minorities no matter how easy it is to point to them as examples of what should be the majority.
Yeah. That's what I was meaning. Any semi- or fully- automatic weapons. This would also be an issue with all hand guns.
Yeah, I knew the ban was lifted, too.
I just find the whole trend of blaming everything *but* the person to be very annoying. No one wants to take responsibility for his/her own actions. Somebody or something else causes everyone to do whatever, not the person who actually decides to do whatever.
If someone decides to kill someone else, it doesn't matter what weapon was used. As someone else pointed out, *anything* can be used as a weapon. The fact that they chose one tool over another is irrelevant.
The main thing that seperates assault rifles from their non-assault varieties are basically the amount of ammunition it can hold in it's clip/magazine. If you suppose that having more ammunition available to you for immediate use before reloading constitutes that the gun was made with the sole purpose to kill humans, well... that's your logic I guess.
.308. With a 5 round clip, it was legal to hunt deer and do whatever. Buy a 20 round clip and you now had an assault rifle and it was illegal.
Case in point: HK-91
Another case: Glok 9mm pistols had a 15 round clip to start with. That was considered to be "assault" or something, so a law was written to where it could only hold 10 rounds per clip. The clip had to be the same length to fit in the pistol mechanically, there was just a block put in so that the spring couldn't depress far enough to hold 15 rounds. Somehow, this made the pistol more "friendly" or something.
I purposefully used that example to show contrast. An assault rifle is a tool that has a bad stigma attached to it (they are designed to kill people!) so they have legislation to prohibit sales. P2P file sharing is a tool that also has a bad stigma attached to it (people use it to transfer illegal copies of files!) and is coming under heavy fire (no pun intended) from legislators and whoever.
As you state, you may not be able to kill a deer more reliably with an assault rifle over a more accepted hunting rifle, you typically won't be any less reliable, either. The distinction between a hunting semi-automatic and an "assault rifle" is completely (and arbitrarily) set at how many rounds are held in the magazine. I could take an old Remington Model 742 Woodsmaster (a reasonably popular semi-automatic rifle used for hunting, although early models did have some flaws in the spent shell ejection mechanism) and make myself a 50 shot clip (as opposed to the 5 shot one delivered with it) and have an "assault rifle" even though the rest of the gun would have been identified as a hunting rifle before the change of clips.
Perhaps "assault rifles" should be classified by having any mechanical reloading capability that is activated by either exhaust gases or recoil force (not human powered like a pump or bolt action) instead of some other arbitrary measure.
Assault rifles can be used for hunting, target practice, target competition, and recreational shooting (as can most guns).
Assault rifles, and guns in general, aren't "evil" or are built to serve nefarious purposes.
Similarly, P2P networks can solve a host of distribution issues.
It's the idiots that use them for illegal purposes (assault rifles, guns, or P2P networks) that cause the problems. Since the world is made up mostly of idiots, well... there you go.