The #2 best decision in MS's history would have to be bailing on OS/2, and catching IBM's fumble by continuing to ship DOS and Windows versions. IBM tried to take the PC world in a different direction, and MS let the customers continue with the same old shit.
Vandalism is usually very quickly noticed and corrected. What I find rather more problematic, is the people who try to whitewash the articles on subjects like the moonies, pedophiles, neonazis, etc. The nutcases care very much about how WP describes them, and they usually have rather more stamina than anyone trying to maintain the accuracy of an article.
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I think that would be "Linux for Suckers", technically.
FWIW, the ITC doesn't have the power to resolve this patent dispute. What they can do, is prohibit a product from being imported into the USA. If they rule in Creative's favor, then Apple can continue to make iPods in China for the rest of the world, but units sold in the USA will have to be manufactured here.
I can think of a lot of places that would kill to get an Apple plant in their town.
I've never met Ozzie, and I wasn't favorably impressed by Lotus Notes, but it was at least shipped on a schedule.
We've seen that MS fails utterly when trying to make major innovations in their products. If they switch instead to shipping bug fixes and minor feature additions on a 12 to 18 month cycle, they might be able to preserve their near-monopoly for a decade or more. Another Longhorn though, and they're in serious trouble.
Meanwhile those of us in the rest of the industry will benefit as MS becomes the new IBM: still massive, but stripped of the power to coerce anybody's choices of technology. We'll know we're there when Dell and HP feel safe enough to offer Linux, BSD, or whatever else you want pre-installed.
to an established company with close ties to ppc manufacturers and billions in revenue it's a challenge which is surmountable with proper coordination and management.
Has it occured to you that Apple's management may have come to a different decision than you wish, because they have information which you don't?
Easy to say what someone else should do, when you're not the one responsible to the shareholders.
And don't say.. "well they couldnt get what they want from ppc".. if they licensed the ppc architecture and put as much effort into it as they did into ipod, they could iron out ppc on their own.
Thank goodness you're not running the business, because your grasp on reality is tenuous at best. Do you think that Apple gave up on PPC on a lark? The fact is, IBM wasn't willing to invest in a G5 that could go in a laptop. If you think that Apple could afford to do it on their own, then you're on crack.
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The #2 best decision in MS's history would have to be bailing on OS/2, and catching IBM's fumble by continuing to ship DOS and Windows versions. IBM tried to take the PC world in a different direction, and MS let the customers continue with the same old shit.
-jcr
Vandalism is usually very quickly noticed and corrected. What I find rather more problematic, is the people who try to whitewash the articles on subjects like the moonies, pedophiles, neonazis, etc. The nutcases care very much about how WP describes them, and they usually have rather more stamina than anyone trying to maintain the accuracy of an article.
-jcr
I think that would be "Linux for Suckers", technically.
-jcr
Reading comprehension isn't your long suit, is it?
-jcr
Keep trying, you haven't come close to any of my buttons yet.
As for humiliating RMS, he does a far better job of that himself than anyone else could hope to accomplish. Getting snubbed by the french? LOL!
-jcr
FWIW, the ITC doesn't have the power to resolve this patent dispute. What they can do, is prohibit a product from being imported into the USA. If they rule in Creative's favor, then Apple can continue to make iPods in China for the rest of the world, but units sold in the USA will have to be manufactured here.
I can think of a lot of places that would kill to get an Apple plant in their town.
-jcr
What's to prove? The PPC stagnated, you propose pouring a pile of money into continuing along a failed path: the burden of proof is yours.
-jcr
Wow, what an amazing feat of reaching for a non-sequitur!
Nevertheless, you're still wrong about PPC. Have a nice day.
-jcr
I've never met Ozzie, and I wasn't favorably impressed by Lotus Notes, but it was at least shipped on a schedule.
We've seen that MS fails utterly when trying to make major innovations in their products. If they switch instead to shipping bug fixes and minor feature additions on a 12 to 18 month cycle, they might be able to preserve their near-monopoly for a decade or more. Another Longhorn though, and they're in serious trouble.
Meanwhile those of us in the rest of the industry will benefit as MS becomes the new IBM: still massive, but stripped of the power to coerce anybody's choices of technology. We'll know we're there when Dell and HP feel safe enough to offer Linux, BSD, or whatever else you want pre-installed.
-jcr
I am just trying to help you out.
No, you aren't.
-jcr
I don't see this as the proper path to insure said survival.
Better-informed people than you have come to a different conclusion.
-jcr
Secure against whom?
;-)
The user, probably.
-jcr
to an established company with close ties to ppc manufacturers and billions in revenue it's a challenge which is surmountable with proper coordination and management.
Has it occured to you that Apple's management may have come to a different decision than you wish, because they have information which you don't?
Easy to say what someone else should do, when you're not the one responsible to the shareholders.
-jcr
the same point i already debunked a second time!
Nonsense. You haven't debunked anything, you just proclaimed that something that's very expensive and difficult, isn't.
-jcr
I am just trying to help you that's all.
No, you're not. You're trying and failing to get my goat. But, feel free to continue. It's quite amusing.
-jcr
If the "industry" he's referring to is "the MIcrosoft operating systems industry"...
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it's called hiring engineers and setting up a department.. exactly what part of this is a departure from reality?
Oh, well! If it's so easy, why don't you start a new PPC development company? Let us know when you come up with a G5 that's suitable for laptops.
it's called business, where you take risks for your future.
I pity any investor who takes a risk on your management acumen.
-jcr
And don't say.. "well they couldnt get what they want from ppc".. if they licensed the ppc architecture and put as much effort into it as they did into ipod, they could iron out ppc on their own.
Thank goodness you're not running the business, because your grasp on reality is tenuous at best. Do you think that Apple gave up on PPC on a lark? The fact is, IBM wasn't willing to invest in a G5 that could go in a laptop. If you think that Apple could afford to do it on their own, then you're on crack.
-jcr
Alright, explain to me how I can protect a wma file of mine with fairplay.
When did I ever say you could?
The question at hand is whether AAC is an open standard. It is.
-jcr
Fairplay is an AAC standard,
Nope. It's a DRM system that can be applied to files of any type (the videos that are available on the iTMS, for example: they're not AAC.) Try again.
-jcr
remember the "musicians are craftsmen not artists" argument they were throwing around
Oh, is that why singers suddenly decided to call themselves "artists" a couple years back?
-jcr
I am suggesting that giving the finger to RMS from your mothers basement probably isn't all that fulfilling.
Does it prop up your ego to imagine me in this way?
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I never said he was completely insignificant. I said he's not important enough to hate.
-jcr
There, I just proved global warming.
If only it were so easy.
-jcr
Apple fairplay is an open standard?
Try again. Fairplay and AAC are not the same thing.
-jcr