This memo of bf webster's is like a deja-vu on several memos I've written for several Big Firms containing their own Bob Winsoms. I think Webster wrote this memo with FUBAR and BigFirm so he can do a global search and replace for the next BigFirm he consults for. Saves a lot of time.
True, but I'd happily pay a buck or two more if everything was firewire. Having to have 3 different types of connections on my computer costs a lot more.
If you're going to all the effort to rewrite from scratch, do you really want to re-implement X? That's the problem, nobody really wants to re-implement X because its obsolete, yet it does hold the unix community together. So it plugs on.
There is a scam where you send bogus invoices to every company you find hoping someone will be stupid enough to pay. Trouble is, the police come calling.
Now if you have a patent, no matter how stupid, you can claim it wasn't fraud but a legitimate claim. Now you can scam with impunity. Not everyone will pay, but some will.
A person can be considered non-rehabilitatable. But a corporation you just install new management. Why hurt all the employees and ongoing customers because of what some idiot in the organisation did?
Apple does compete with Dell. They suck up Dell's lucrative high end, leaving Dell with the dregs. They could compete with Dell's low end too, but it's more profitable not to.
Does your car dealer sell you a car, you drive it away, then when you go to use the power windows it pops up an EULA with onerous terms that you don't agree to?
It was a right in the sense that you had a right to do your darnest to copy something if you wanted. Or at least it used to be before the DMCA came in.
The businessmen in suits secretly want to be kool too. That's why their home machines are starting to be macs. The businessmen are fine with the current Apple image.
So Russia is worried about the prestige of their space agency selling private space travel, but NASA has no problem trading its name in MMOs? Go figure.
Macbook pros are available with matte screens, and as many reviews have testified, they are the best machine for running windows, because you can install a fresh windows (no stupid vendor shareware and crap) and all the drivers are available on a separate disk. Such simple pleasures are denied to many "Windows" laptops.
Having said that, I ordered my macbook pro with glossy screen, and I've never had glare problems. In fact, many people believe, myself included, that matte screens that disperse the light actually make it harder to find a position with no glare. And I hate the dull look of the matte macbook pros in the shop, I don't know why anyone would want that.
Technology will overtake this. When everyone has an iPhone or like in their pocket, who is going to send potentially compromising emails through their employer?
What happens when these things run out of control replicating themselves, and the planet becomes a crawling oooze of 3D printers? Have they thought of that? No, I'll bet not. Smash any 3D printers you can see NOW!
UNIX isn't so bad, and at least it's a standard API. So we know MS wouldn't use it because the last thing they have ever wanted to give you is anything standard.
Most people don't actually know their race. They did a study asking some Brits if they were 100% British. They found that people who thought they were 100% Brit actually had big chunks of African, American, Arabic, even Chinese, without having any clue. So what is race? Some people might be 100% something or other, but what if you put on your census form, 15% Chinese, 10% African, 20% Arabic etc? What is the point?
Microsoft's core competency has always been in corporate deals, politicking and product positioning rather than actually making a product good enough to stand on its own merits. This can work for a while, but my prediction is we are near to the end game of this strategy.
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What's this obsession of sound pioneers with sheep? Didn't Edison say "Mary had a little lamb"?
This memo of bf webster's is like a deja-vu on several memos I've written for several Big Firms containing their own Bob Winsoms. I think Webster wrote this memo with FUBAR and BigFirm so he can do a global search and replace for the next BigFirm he consults for. Saves a lot of time.
True, but I'd happily pay a buck or two more if everything was firewire. Having to have 3 different types of connections on my computer costs a lot more.
I'm sure it has happened to you. It's called a CREDIT CARD. And it matters not if your balance was in debit at the time. Fees apply.
If you're going to all the effort to rewrite from scratch, do you really want to re-implement X? That's the problem, nobody really wants to re-implement X because its obsolete, yet it does hold the unix community together. So it plugs on.
Maybe they don't want to win...
There is a scam where you send bogus invoices to every company you find hoping someone will be stupid enough to pay. Trouble is, the police come calling.
Now if you have a patent, no matter how stupid, you can claim it wasn't fraud but a legitimate claim. Now you can scam with impunity. Not everyone will pay, but some will.
I say they remove it in March 2012, before shipping in 2015 after the 3rd rewrite.
A person can be considered non-rehabilitatable. But a corporation you just install new management. Why hurt all the employees and ongoing customers because of what some idiot in the organisation did?
Apple does compete with Dell. They suck up Dell's lucrative high end, leaving Dell with the dregs. They could compete with Dell's low end too, but it's more profitable not to.
Does your car dealer sell you a car, you drive it away, then when you go to use the power windows it pops up an EULA with onerous terms that you don't agree to?
"Time shifting is not a right, it's a defense"
It was a right in the sense that you had a right to do your darnest to copy something if you wanted. Or at least it used to be before the DMCA came in.
"6 repeating? How do you have 2/3 of a person?"
1 baby, 2/3 on the way out? 2 babies 1/3 of the way out?
Inconsistent APIs make it too hard. And Windows has half a dozen contradictory conventions for how to treat memory passed to APIs.
"The CFO said "too expensive"
That CFO probably didn't price support costs, useful life and resale value.
The businessmen in suits secretly want to be kool too. That's why their home machines are starting to be macs. The businessmen are fine with the current Apple image.
1. Find some old EPROMS
2. Write the names of old video games on stickers and attach.
3. Go to flea market.
4. Profit!!
So Russia is worried about the prestige of their space agency selling private space travel, but NASA has no problem trading its name in MMOs? Go figure.
Russia has always been top heavy in beaurocracy, even before Soviet times.
Macbook pros are available with matte screens, and as many reviews have testified, they are the best machine for running windows, because you can install a fresh windows (no stupid vendor shareware and crap) and all the drivers are available on a separate disk. Such simple pleasures are denied to many "Windows" laptops.
Having said that, I ordered my macbook pro with glossy screen, and I've never had glare problems. In fact, many people believe, myself included, that matte screens that disperse the light actually make it harder to find a position with no glare. And I hate the dull look of the matte macbook pros in the shop, I don't know why anyone would want that.
Technology will overtake this. When everyone has an iPhone or like in their pocket, who is going to send potentially compromising emails through their employer?
Even if the patent is "valid", what jurisdiction would it have in space?
What happens when these things run out of control replicating themselves, and the planet becomes a crawling oooze of 3D printers? Have they thought of that? No, I'll bet not. Smash any 3D printers you can see NOW!
UNIX isn't so bad, and at least it's a standard API. So we know MS wouldn't use it because the last thing they have ever wanted to give you is anything standard.
Most people don't actually know their race. They did a study asking some Brits if they were 100% British. They found that people who thought they were 100% Brit actually had big chunks of African, American, Arabic, even Chinese, without having any clue. So what is race? Some people might be 100% something or other, but what if you put on your census form, 15% Chinese, 10% African, 20% Arabic etc? What is the point?
Microsoft's core competency has always been in corporate deals, politicking and product positioning rather than actually making a product good enough to stand on its own merits. This can work for a while, but my prediction is we are near to the end game of this strategy.