At the time they first made a deal with Disney it was good move for them, but they have rapidly outgrown Disney. Pixar is better off on their own. Disney has become associated with crappy, low quality movies. Plus, they are real scum suckers for corrupting public officials to change the copyright law for their exclusive benefit.
Now that Pixar has dumped their crappy ass, I can finally boycott them completely.
In the Booble case, the content is not intented as a parody but as a 'serious' service that they hope to exploit profitably.
When I went to see SpaceBalls and they asked for my money - the guy behind the counter selling tickets was serious. He wasn't joking. He wasn't parodying the act of selling tickets. The movie was a parody, but even though it was a comedy, they were serious about making money from it.
Starting a software company is fine, but you'll either need investment money or a day job. And if you pick day job, let's hope you don't mind working 20 hours a day until your company gets revenue.
But I think that there is a legitimate concern that goes beyond law and beyond reason. That concern has to do with SCO being the skunk at Google's wedding. If you stand to make a lot of money from the Google IPO, and SCO starts shouting, threatening, and filing lawsuits around that time, it won't matter that those claims are without merit. It will still interfere with their IPO.
It won't really hurt Google's employees since in general the day of the IPO is probably in one of the blackout periods, so they can't sell their stock then anyway. It will, however, interfere with Google's ability to raise capital which is generally the reason to have an IPO in the first place.
but on the other hand, I have a day job (as a software engineer). You can't make a go of it unless you either have investment money to feed you while you are starting or else you have a day job.
Also, get 2-3 partners with really good complementary skills. For example, I have a partner who is a marketing guru. I have another who is an expert at starting companies and knows how to deal with investors, business strategy, etc. I have a third who was the head of QA at my last company. And for now, that's it. I supplied the idea, and I'm writing the code.
I completely agree with you. It has nothing to do with the age you are when you see the movie. It really doesn't have that much to do with being jaded about special effects.
I like mostly non-science fiction movies, but I also like really good sci fi. When I think about what movies I have liked the most in the past couple of years, they were mostly movies with no special effects at all. It has to do with the *story* and the quality of the filmmaking.
My theory is that the element that made the original Star Wars movie good was Marsha Lucas's editing. As you may be aware, Marsha and George Lucas were divorced about the time that Return of the Jedi came out. She did not do the editing on either of the two more recent movies (Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones).
I think that George Lucas just wasn't the one with the talent compared to his wife.
I think he means "as opposed to FreeDOS which no one's heard of".
Maybe they figured that Linux folks could install Linux themselves and this way they aren't putting themselves at risk in case SCO wins their lawsuit. (Which is a very small risk, but maybe Dell doesn't see it that way.)
Plus, Microsoft *really* hates Linux. I still have some friends who work there ( I used to work there at one time), and they all say that the culture within the company is just an absolute hatred for Linux.
The reason they put the Edsel on the list was that it was a "public relations disaster". The only reason it is so poorly remembered is because Ford tried to create a whole new division around that car.
Frankly, I think Ford, GM, and Chrysler have both historically gone overboard on divisions, especially GM. My biggest criticisms are that I think that Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Buick and really redundant in the GM line. (Did they get rid of Buick finally?) Really, you either want a chevy, or you want a cadillac. Plus, I think they've let their Cadi division become too "grampa". I think that's why they bought Saab. I *never* wanted a GM car before, but I really like Saabs.
I had a 1989 Escort. It was OK. It was a 5 speed. The automatics tended to be real sluggish. The car lasted about 150,000 miles and then it started breaking down all the time. I didn't have anyone good to fix it and decided that planning to spend $400/month on a new car was better than spending $1200 every couple of months in an unplanned way and walking in the mean time.
Those were extremely ugly, but in my experience they ran OK. Since you should be able to judge "ugly" at the time of purchase, I can't really see faulting the car for being what it is.
I cannot possibly fathom why the MG is not on this list. My parents bought a brand new 1976 MG Midget. The damn thing caught on *fire* on the way home from the dealer. The car was *constantly* not running. When my brother was in college (early 80s), he worked on that car every day and still it barely ran. The damn thing ended up in pieces in their garage. Every single person I've ever spoken to who had one had the same experience. Worst car *ever*.
I'm saying its their pet law because it is Ashcroft's pet law and he's in charge there. Presumably he has the final decision as to whether to move forward with an action or not. Remember that he went on a nation wide tour trying to promote the Patriot Act and "stump" for Patriot Act 2.
I think we agree that no technical barriers will cause Linux or CE to win on Smartphones. So, it comes down to two reasons why Linux wins:
1. Embedded Linux will require less memory than CE all other things being equal. 2. Windows CE costs about $20 per unit for a licensing cost. Linux costs nothing. 3. The dev tools for writing Linux software are free vs. hundreds (maybe thousands depending on what you buy) per seat for MS dev tools.
In Microsoft's favor, you can get commercial DTS support from them if you have a problem. (For what its worth.) Plus, there are probably more hardware drivers available for CE. It might also be slightly easier to hire a CE developer, but I'm not really sure.
Overall, I think Linux has a moderate advantage because of BOM costs on the phone(i.e. Bill of Materials cost which is how much they have to pay to make the phone per unit.) Manufacturers care about that a lot.
Yeah, its fucking impossible to integrate a device that isn't running windows CE with desktop Windows. That's why Palm never could sell any of their PDAs and no one could sync a Palm with Outlook.
And Samba doesn't exist either.
Yep, I guess Linux is totally screwed. 'Cause it would be impossible to get it interoperate with Windows at all!
You're making the assumption that Microsoft's apps will be superior to Linux apps running on the phone. I do not believe there is any basis for this belief. App developers who need to make a Linux phone interoperate with Windows will be able to do that without any problems. Developers will hit whatever requirement that they are given in this regard. You want a Linux phone that syncs with Outlook? No problem. Palm does it, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, LG, and Sanyo can too.
Second, you are making an assumption that the phone maker cares about the usability of the apps they ship on the phone. I do not think there is any basis for that belief either. They will care about the cost, they will care about how the phone looks to someone in a store. They won't care about whether it is easy to use with Windows in everyday life. That goes for phones based on either OS.
Third, you are making an assuption that phone buyers can make an effective judgement about which phone has more usable apps. Again, I think there is no basis for this belief either. In fact, there is a lot of negative evidence against it. (Like the fact that MS has 95% marketshare.) People buy based on price and how the phone looks. A few people will care about some specific feature, like "does it sync with Outlook", but that will be a check off item, not a case where people will really examine the quality of how it syncs with Outlook. Any buyer with a more nuanced approach than that is some uber-geek and/or a Mac customer who will probably *prefer* the Linux phone just 'cause its Linux - and that's a small percentage indeed.
Basically they wanted to advise a group of people on how to peacefully resolve a dispute.
This was a case of a super-vague law that prohibits someone from engaging in speech that basically no ordinary person would even find to be controversial speech. I'm surprised that the DOJ even threatened them with enforcement of this in this case. It should have been obvious to them that pursuing some white hat like this would just bust their pet law.
That happened in a totally different context. So much so, that the fact that MS currently has 90+% of the desktop market doesn't matter *at all* in the context of smart phones.
For one thing, the maker of the phone puts both the OS and the apps on the phone. The user probably doesn't even know what OS the phone is running - or care. The phone maker is going to go with the smallest costs. That includes all costs, not just the license cost. Fortunately, Linux is not harder or more expensive to develop for than Windows CE. So, Linux has a good shot at being picked for any given implementation.
I think the most interesting part of your post is the fact that you are quoting the server price from SCO (the desktop price is $199 and there is an even smaller price for embedded devices). I'd like to know how you plan to use the SmartPhone as a server.
I think it says something about your argument that you had to go back to the 1940s and find a president who was crippled with post-Polio to find someone whose vacation schedule compares with W.
I have a PS2, but I've never even played any multiplayer games on it. However, I seem to recall a thing you could get called a multi-tap that was specifically for pluggin in >2 controllers. Am I wrong on this? If so, what does the multi-tap do?
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At the time they first made a deal with Disney it was good move for them, but they have rapidly outgrown Disney. Pixar is better off on their own. Disney has become associated with crappy, low quality movies. Plus, they are real scum suckers for corrupting public officials to change the copyright law for their exclusive benefit.
Now that Pixar has dumped their crappy ass, I can finally boycott them completely.
In the Booble case, the content is not intented as a parody but as a 'serious' service that they hope to exploit profitably.
When I went to see SpaceBalls and they asked for my money - the guy behind the counter selling tickets was serious. He wasn't joking. He wasn't parodying the act of selling tickets. The movie was a parody, but even though it was a comedy, they were serious about making money from it.
I don't think Google has a case at all.
Starting a software company is fine, but you'll either need investment money or a day job. And if you pick day job, let's hope you don't mind working 20 hours a day until your company gets revenue.
But I think that there is a legitimate concern that goes beyond law and beyond reason. That concern has to do with SCO being the skunk at Google's wedding. If you stand to make a lot of money from the Google IPO, and SCO starts shouting, threatening, and filing lawsuits around that time, it won't matter that those claims are without merit. It will still interfere with their IPO.
It won't really hurt Google's employees since in general the day of the IPO is probably in one of the blackout periods, so they can't sell their stock then anyway. It will, however, interfere with Google's ability to raise capital which is generally the reason to have an IPO in the first place.
but on the other hand, I have a day job (as a software engineer). You can't make a go of it unless you either have investment money to feed you while you are starting or else you have a day job.
Also, get 2-3 partners with really good complementary skills. For example, I have a partner who is a marketing guru. I have another who is an expert at starting companies and knows how to deal with investors, business strategy, etc. I have a third who was the head of QA at my last company. And for now, that's it. I supplied the idea, and I'm writing the code.
I completely agree with you. It has nothing to do with the age you are when you see the movie. It really doesn't have that much to do with being jaded about special effects.
I like mostly non-science fiction movies, but I also like really good sci fi. When I think about what movies I have liked the most in the past couple of years, they were mostly movies with no special effects at all. It has to do with the *story* and the quality of the filmmaking.
My theory is that the element that made the original Star Wars movie good was Marsha Lucas's editing. As you may be aware, Marsha and George Lucas were divorced about the time that Return of the Jedi came out. She did not do the editing on either of the two more recent movies (Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones).
I think that George Lucas just wasn't the one with the talent compared to his wife.
Wouldn't it be cool if the first day, *no one* showed up?
I'm sure your post will achieve that effect.
I think he means "as opposed to FreeDOS which no one's heard of".
Maybe they figured that Linux folks could install Linux themselves and this way they aren't putting themselves at risk in case SCO wins their lawsuit. (Which is a very small risk, but maybe Dell doesn't see it that way.)
Plus, Microsoft *really* hates Linux. I still have some friends who work there ( I used to work there at one time), and they all say that the culture within the company is just an absolute hatred for Linux.
The reason they put the Edsel on the list was that it was a "public relations disaster". The only reason it is so poorly remembered is because Ford tried to create a whole new division around that car.
Frankly, I think Ford, GM, and Chrysler have both historically gone overboard on divisions, especially GM. My biggest criticisms are that I think that Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Buick and really redundant in the GM line. (Did they get rid of Buick finally?) Really, you either want a chevy, or you want a cadillac. Plus, I think they've let their Cadi division become too "grampa". I think that's why they bought Saab. I *never* wanted a GM car before, but I really like Saabs.
And Ford's Mercury divison is like soo redundant.
I *am* an American, but I don't have a car (live/work in San Francisco)
I thought you said you were an American?
I had a 1989 Escort. It was OK. It was a 5 speed. The automatics tended to be real sluggish. The car lasted about 150,000 miles and then it started breaking down all the time. I didn't have anyone good to fix it and decided that planning to spend $400/month on a new car was better than spending $1200 every couple of months in an unplanned way and walking in the mean time.
Those were extremely ugly, but in my experience they ran OK. Since you should be able to judge "ugly" at the time of purchase, I can't really see faulting the car for being what it is.
I cannot possibly fathom why the MG is not on this list. My parents bought a brand new 1976 MG Midget. The damn thing caught on *fire* on the way home from the dealer. The car was *constantly* not running. When my brother was in college (early 80s), he worked on that car every day and still it barely ran. The damn thing ended up in pieces in their garage. Every single person I've ever spoken to who had one had the same experience. Worst car *ever*.
I'm saying its their pet law because it is Ashcroft's pet law and he's in charge there. Presumably he has the final decision as to whether to move forward with an action or not. Remember that he went on a nation wide tour trying to promote the Patriot Act and "stump" for Patriot Act 2.
I think we agree that no technical barriers will cause Linux or CE to win on Smartphones. So, it comes down to two reasons why Linux wins:
1. Embedded Linux will require less memory than CE all other things being equal.
2. Windows CE costs about $20 per unit for a licensing cost. Linux costs nothing.
3. The dev tools for writing Linux software are free vs. hundreds (maybe thousands depending on what you buy) per seat for MS dev tools.
In Microsoft's favor, you can get commercial DTS support from them if you have a problem. (For what its worth.) Plus, there are probably more hardware drivers available for CE. It might also be slightly easier to hire a CE developer, but I'm not really sure.
Overall, I think Linux has a moderate advantage because of BOM costs on the phone(i.e. Bill of Materials cost which is how much they have to pay to make the phone per unit.) Manufacturers care about that a lot.
Yeah, its fucking impossible to integrate a device that isn't running windows CE with desktop Windows. That's why Palm never could sell any of their PDAs and no one could sync a Palm with Outlook.
And Samba doesn't exist either.
Yep, I guess Linux is totally screwed. 'Cause it would be impossible to get it interoperate with Windows at all!
You're making the assumption that Microsoft's apps will be superior to Linux apps running on the phone. I do not believe there is any basis for this belief. App developers who need to make a Linux phone interoperate with Windows will be able to do that without any problems. Developers will hit whatever requirement that they are given in this regard. You want a Linux phone that syncs with Outlook? No problem. Palm does it, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, LG, and Sanyo can too.
Second, you are making an assumption that the phone maker cares about the usability of the apps they ship on the phone. I do not think there is any basis for that belief either. They will care about the cost, they will care about how the phone looks to someone in a store. They won't care about whether it is easy to use with Windows in everyday life. That goes for phones based on either OS.
Third, you are making an assuption that phone buyers can make an effective judgement about which phone has more usable apps. Again, I think there is no basis for this belief either. In fact, there is a lot of negative evidence against it. (Like the fact that MS has 95% marketshare.)
People buy based on price and how the phone looks. A few people will care about some specific feature, like "does it sync with Outlook", but that will be a check off item, not a case where people will really examine the quality of how it syncs with Outlook. Any buyer with a more nuanced approach than that is some uber-geek and/or a Mac customer who will probably *prefer* the Linux phone just 'cause its Linux - and that's a small percentage indeed.
Basically they wanted to advise a group of people on how to peacefully resolve a dispute.
This was a case of a super-vague law that prohibits someone from engaging in speech that basically no ordinary person would even find to be controversial speech. I'm surprised that the DOJ even threatened them with enforcement of this in this case. It should have been obvious to them that pursuing some white hat like this would just bust their pet law.
That happened in a totally different context. So much so, that the fact that MS currently has 90+% of the desktop market doesn't matter *at all* in the context of smart phones.
For one thing, the maker of the phone puts both the OS and the apps on the phone. The user probably doesn't even know what OS the phone is running - or care. The phone maker is going to go with the smallest costs. That includes all costs, not just the license cost. Fortunately, Linux is not harder or more expensive to develop for than Windows CE. So, Linux has a good shot at being picked for any given implementation.
Wow! You're husband is into Linux AND you married him? Amazing!
I think the most interesting part of your post is the fact that you are quoting the server price from SCO (the desktop price is $199 and there is an even smaller price for embedded devices). I'd like to know how you plan to use the SmartPhone as a server.
When Jobs first came back to Apple, he used a Dell laptop and a NeXt cube. I think the laptop might have been running NeXT instead of Windows.
I think it says something about your argument that you had to go back to the 1940s and find a president who was crippled with post-Polio to find someone whose vacation schedule compares with W.
You probably mean Logo(not pogo.)
Logo was very much a "kids" programming language and the one that a lot of kids in the 80s started with.
I have a PS2, but I've never even played any multiplayer games on it. However, I seem to recall a thing you could get called a multi-tap that was specifically for pluggin in >2 controllers. Am I wrong on this? If so, what does the multi-tap do?