A major part of the deal was to end Apple's lawsuit over the fact that Microsoft stole the source code for Quicktime for Windows and put it into Video for Windows without permission. Also, Microsoft was violating many of Apple's patents.
They threatened to cancel Office for Mac if Apple didn't take the deal and drop all the lawsuits.
My field is programming and I do almost all of my programming on a Macintosh.
I find that it is easy to write cross platform C++ on the Mac and then port it to Windows. I've done it the other way too, but I like XCode better than MS Visual Catastrophe. And for GUI, I like Qt or else I use Cocoa on Mac and Win32 on Windows. The nice thing about Cocoa is you don't accidentally put a Cocoa call into your cross platform C++ module, because Cocoa requires Objective-C or Objective-C++ which makes it easy to identify which files are portable.
The times I ask people to write portable code on Windows, I've been clusterfucked by people who will stick a Win32 call right in the middle of platform independent code, so I got Macs for my team.
without resorting to self-righteous babbling about how it's all been done before and Slashdot is so behind the times, and how stupid we all are for not knowing about the previous stories.
With the republicans in control, it now legal for George Lucas, or anyone else who is super-rich, to actually kick you. It was necessary as part of the war on human rights^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h terrorism.
Someone should do a documentary on how Microsoft stole Apple's source code for Quicktime and incorporated it into their own "Video for Windows" and then bullied Apple into accepting a very one sided deal to drop the lawsuit.
You have a 1 GB iPod with a screen? How did you get that? Downgrade the hard disk in a regular iPod, or attach a screen to an iPod Shuffle?
I would think that the videos wouldn't be placed on the iPod at all - you'd view them on your Mac (or PC). I doubt the iPod Photo is capable of playing video (I could be wrong.)
Yeah, somone brought a baby to a movie once and it cried so I shot it in head with a pistol. Everyone in the theater thanked me and I won the Congressional Medal of Honor for my heroic actions that day.
she doesn't date geeks and so you can never exist in the future
Hillarity ensues as our protagonist desperately tries to be cool. He enlists the aid of the future "King of Rock and Roll" Elvis Presley who is only six years old.
I didn't get laid off. I was one of the few who stayed and eventually found another job when the economy got better. Also, my company wasn't publiclly traded.
Yes, we had other problems. Yes, there were probably some other things we should have done besides have a human monitor on the email. For example, the other company had a re-org and my boss wanted our CEO to go out there and meet with their CEO during the re-org to make sure our project wasn't transferred to any manager in the "enemy camp", but our CEO thought it would be better not to do that. Something about "don't poke a stick into the hornets nest". In retrospect, my boss was right. He also wanted to have a Program Manager personally approve any outgoing email to that other company, but the COO thought it was too "Nazi like" and the IT department didn't want to set that up.
He was laid off and that was it. As far as I know, no one went out of their way to do anything particularly "mean" to him. However, a number of people wanted to buy him T-Shirt that read something like, "I sank my company and all I got was this T-Shirt", but he actually got a severce package (same as anyone else.)
What we should have done is, yes, monitor all emails going from anyone at our company to the "customer" company by a human being. There wouldn't have been that many.
In fact, my boss wanted to do just that and was overruled by the IT director and the COO of our company because they felt it would have been too onerous and "Nazi like".
I worked for a company that was developing a software product for a single large customer. This customer is a very large technology company that had various factions in it that were for or against our product.
My boss who was the engineering VP had told everyone repeatedly to be very careful about the kind of emails to send to them.
The email that killed us was a "reply all" to a thread announcing that a build of our product that was available for evaluation. An engineer hit "reply all" and then proceeded to write a highly negative diatribe about the build. The reason why he did that was he was upset that he hadn't had time to put in a fix for some particular hardware configurations. Of course, we had months of development left in the project and his fix would have been in the next build. However, he did not state this very precisely, nor did he consider his audience.
The folks who did not like our product (because they percieved it to be a threat to their political power within the company) used his email to convince the CEO of the customer company to cancel our project.
I was in an "Oh Shit" meeting the next day with our CEO and the rest of senior management. Our CEO stated that he wanted to throw the engineer who sent the email off the roof of our building (which is maybe 25 floors). Ultimately this email lead to the layoff off of 130 out of 150 employees during the middle of the resession (November 2001) and ultimately the company limped along for another year before folding. Fortunately for me, I was positioned exactly right (politically) to be able to stay, but a lot of really good people lost jobs at the worst possible time.
If that email had *not* been sent, we might have hung on long enough to ship the product. If that had happened, it would have meant that the people in the "customer" company would havee been promoted, our company would have made some money and maybe been acquired. I'd probably still be working there.
That said, I have no problem with companies monitoring email.
That's a great quote. Unfortunately, most americans think it reads: "My country, right or wrong" and they stop there thinking it means "My country is always right and can do no wrong."
Yeah, because in Amerika we don't eat "cheese". We only eat "cheez". Also, proper cheez comes in a spray can and should be sprayed directly into one's mouth while laying on the couch and watching Fox.
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A major part of the deal was to end Apple's lawsuit over the fact that Microsoft stole the source code for Quicktime for Windows and put it into Video for Windows without permission. Also, Microsoft was violating many of Apple's patents.
They threatened to cancel Office for Mac if Apple didn't take the deal and drop all the lawsuits.
My field is programming and I do almost all of my programming on a Macintosh.
I find that it is easy to write cross platform C++ on the Mac and then port it to Windows. I've done it the other way too, but I like XCode better than MS Visual Catastrophe. And for GUI, I like Qt or else I use Cocoa on Mac and Win32 on Windows. The nice thing about Cocoa is you don't accidentally put a Cocoa call into your cross platform C++ module, because Cocoa requires Objective-C or Objective-C++ which makes it easy to identify which files are portable.
The times I ask people to write portable code on Windows, I've been clusterfucked by people who will stick a Win32 call right in the middle of platform independent code, so I got Macs for my team.
without resorting to self-righteous babbling about how it's all been done before and Slashdot is so behind the times, and how stupid we all are for not knowing about the previous stories.
He's got you for that.
With the republicans in control, it now legal for George Lucas, or anyone else who is super-rich, to actually kick you. It was necessary as part of the war on human rights^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h terrorism.
sec state is the third place guy.
Would you really want someone like Ross Perot or Pat Buchanan to be Secretary of State?
That's the system we had prior to the ratification of the 12th amendment.
Someone should do a documentary on how Microsoft stole Apple's source code for Quicktime and incorporated it into their own "Video for Windows" and then bullied Apple into accepting a very one sided deal to drop the lawsuit.
I said "video", not "flip book".
His ex-wife did the editing on it, though. (And the first three StarWars movies.) She had some talent, and she kept it in the divorce.
You have a 1 GB iPod with a screen? How did you get that? Downgrade the hard disk in a regular iPod, or attach a screen to an iPod Shuffle?
I would think that the videos wouldn't be placed on the iPod at all - you'd view them on your Mac (or PC). I doubt the iPod Photo is capable of playing video (I could be wrong.)
Hmmm. Most bands I've been in had bass players. I'd be interested to see your base player.
All your base are belong to us?
Yeah, somone brought a baby to a movie once and it cried so I shot it in head with a pistol. Everyone in the theater thanked me and I won the Congressional Medal of Honor for my heroic actions that day.
No. His ex-wife is a good editor. He sucks. She edited the original three movies.
she doesn't date geeks and so you can never exist in the future
Hillarity ensues as our protagonist desperately tries to be cool. He enlists the aid of the future "King of Rock and Roll" Elvis Presley who is only six years old.
You call one second per second slow?
Also, you can change the rate of time travel by adjusting your speed.
I didn't get laid off. I was one of the few who stayed and eventually found another job when the economy got better. Also, my company wasn't publiclly traded.
I knew that. My boss knew that. Unfortunately our "brilliant" COO didn't and we were overruled when we tried to put this in.
Yes, we had other problems. Yes, there were probably some other things we should have done besides have a human monitor on the email. For example, the other company had a re-org and my boss wanted our CEO to go out there and meet with their CEO during the re-org to make sure our project wasn't transferred to any manager in the "enemy camp", but our CEO thought it would be better not to do that. Something about "don't poke a stick into the hornets nest". In retrospect, my boss was right. He also wanted to have a Program Manager personally approve any outgoing email to that other company, but the COO thought it was too "Nazi like" and the IT department didn't want to set that up.
He was laid off and that was it. As far as I know, no one went out of their way to do anything particularly "mean" to him. However, a number of people wanted to buy him T-Shirt that read something like, "I sank my company and all I got was this T-Shirt", but he actually got a severce package (same as anyone else.)
What we should have done is, yes, monitor all emails going from anyone at our company to the "customer" company by a human being. There wouldn't have been that many.
In fact, my boss wanted to do just that and was overruled by the IT director and the COO of our company because they felt it would have been too onerous and "Nazi like".
I worked for a company that was developing a software product for a single large customer. This customer is a very large technology company that had various factions in it that were for or against our product.
My boss who was the engineering VP had told everyone repeatedly to be very careful about the kind of emails to send to them.
The email that killed us was a "reply all" to a thread announcing that a build of our product that was available for evaluation. An engineer hit "reply all" and then proceeded to write a highly negative diatribe about the build. The reason why he did that was he was upset that he hadn't had time to put in a fix for some particular hardware configurations. Of course, we had months of development left in the project and his fix would have been in the next build. However, he did not state this very precisely, nor did he consider his audience.
The folks who did not like our product (because they percieved it to be a threat to their political power within the company) used his email to convince the CEO of the customer company to cancel our project.
I was in an "Oh Shit" meeting the next day with our CEO and the rest of senior management. Our CEO stated that he wanted to throw the engineer who sent the email off the roof of our building (which is maybe 25 floors). Ultimately this email lead to the layoff off of 130 out of 150 employees during the middle of the resession (November 2001) and ultimately the company limped along for another year before folding. Fortunately for me, I was positioned exactly right (politically) to be able to stay, but a lot of really good people lost jobs at the worst possible time.
If that email had *not* been sent, we might have hung on long enough to ship the product. If that had happened, it would have meant that the people in the "customer" company would havee been promoted, our company would have made some money and maybe been acquired. I'd probably still be working there.
That said, I have no problem with companies monitoring email.
They are worried that Apple might ruin their bad name.
That's a great quote. Unfortunately, most americans think it reads: "My country, right or wrong" and they stop there thinking it means "My country is always right and can do no wrong."
They're cheese-eating
Yeah, because in Amerika we don't eat "cheese". We only eat "cheez". Also, proper cheez comes in a spray can and should be sprayed directly into one's mouth while laying on the couch and watching Fox.
Yeah, in that version every sentance ends with "eh?".