When I was a kid the only camera my family had was a Kodak 110 camera. It was the kind that you could attach flash cubes to. My mother still has it. Around 1980 she bought a Minolta used 35mm camera which was a big deal for us at the time.
Is Australia within walking distance? I'm in Vancouver.
Yeah, sure. Just start walking southwest. There's a little bit of water, but don't worry. It's real shallow and you'll have no problem walking through it.
Microsoft and Apple have a cross license agreement (which Microsoft demanded) which allows either company to use any patents, etc. of the other pretty much for free. This has the net result that it mostly benefits Microsoft since Apple has a lot more patents and R&D in general. In this case, though maybe it helps Apple.
It's a sore spot. We're really tired of hearing this "Microsoft owns a huge amount/most of/almost all of Apple" FUD that Microsoft zealots have been pushing since the day it happened.
I then can ask you to give it back, and if you decline, then I call authorities who will force you to do so.
Don't be surprised if the authorities confiscate it as evidence and then it mysteriously disappears from the evidence locker. You have about the same chance of getting something of value out of the police as I would getting a truthful answer from George W. Bush.
You could set yourself up on the sidewalk selling CDs of *yourself* singing songs you wrote or that are in PD. Then, when they come hassel you, you tell them to get lost. When they beat you up, you sue them.
Unless you live in the northeast, you probably have the right to kill anyone who breaks into your house. Just make sure they are actually in your house before you shoot them.
Otherwise it is not so clear cut. In many northeastern states, it is my understanding that you can't use deadly force even after the person has wounded you and killed other members of your family. I heard about a case in Massachusetts where a woman was convicted of murder after shooting someone who had murdered other people in her house, wounded her, and she had run off into a back bedroom with her (some of?) her children. The crook broke down the bedroom door and she shot him. They prosecuted her on the ground that she and her kids could have jumped out the second story window intead of shooting him.
But if you live in Texas or Arkansas or most places in the south, midwest, or west as soon as they enter your house, you can kill them with no warning.
You are forgotting that without organized crime, we would have no one to supply our cities with heroin and prostitues. And who wants to live in a world without heroin and prostitues?
The economy boomed under Clinton mostly because we had a fiscally responsible federal budget.
The republicans are really against a balanced budget. Their goal is to bankrupt the country so that we have to get rid of social security and medicare. Or, possibly their goal is to have the government collapse so they can impose an Iran style theocracy. (Or both.)
No, he wasn't advocating any such thing. You are putting words in his mouth. He just said that Bush gets the stupid, white-trash vote (which is true.) He did not say we should bar stupid white trash people from voting.
This idea keeps coming up and it keeps being a stupid idea. If Apple gets out of the hardware business, that's it for them. If they clone the Mac out, they're back where they were in 1996 having to compete with companies that don't have an R&D budget.
I think this bodes well for Apple, and I don't know how even MS could fight this off, at least not without doing something that would violate the rulings or what not from the monopoly trial.
As long as Dubya is president, the anti-trust laws won't be enforced.
Second, why should Microsoft care?
Anyways, the only bad thing I can see coming out of this for Apple is the fact that it might stop people from switching to Apple computers, since, unless the marketing is done well, newbies might not realize this is an Apple product, not an HP product.
First, the article said that you would still get the Apple logo when you turn the HP iPod on. Second, I suspect that people will figure out that iTunes and the iTMS are Apple products. Third, I wasn't aware that the iPod got anyone to switch to the Mac anyway. Does it?
how will Apple keep the supply up
Order more from the factory? Apple doesn't manufacture anything anymore, as far as I know. Like most consumer electronics companies, they just rent factory time in Taiwan and Malaysia.
Why do you doubt this? It's obvious to me that they would totally need this talent and it would be easy to acquire it. Think of how many out of business HD manufacturers there are in Silicon Valley. Plus, people move around between companies and get all sorts of experience.
I presently work for a company that makes data projectors. We don't make the lamps that go into them - we buy that part from someone else. Does that mean we don't have people who have the kind of engineering talent to design and engineer lamps? Of course we do! Otherwise, how would we be able to know which lamp to buy (ahead of time - anyone can recognize a disaster after it happens). We wouldn't know when they are feeding us a line of shit.
I'm sure they talk to this people on the phone, listen to their statements and ask intelligent questions. People with the right background know when to call bullshit on statements about whether something is possible or not, etc. Plus, they probably buy enough hard drives that they can call out requirements.
It is not that hard to hire someone with that kind of background and as an engineer who does work with hardware vendors I can easily see where that kind of expertise might be vital even if you are merely buying the hard drive from a vendor.
I used to work for another company where we needed a whole bunch of software folks who knew a lot about video cards. We were a small software company with no where near the budget that Apple has. Yet, we hired lots of people who had worked for NVidia, ATI, Matrox, etc. Some of these people had been senior engineers at those companies. It is not as hard as you think to get people with a needed skill.
What kind of experience do YOU have to be making that kind of statement anyway?
I have one of these memberships. First, they are totally worth it. Second, they allow Apple not to lose so much money supporting developers.
You get a ticket for WWDC which normally costs between $1000 and $1500 per person. You get hardware discounts. You get 10 DTS support incidents. You get the developer mailings. I bet the cost of having WWDC is not offset by the ticket price. I bet the tickets cover maybe 50% of the cost or less.
3K per person isn't much at all in the grand scheme of things (despite the exclamation points).
Microsoft was never a hardware company. Apple was a hardware company from the beginning.
When should they have licensed? Whatever year you pick, I can come up with a scenario where it would have killed them.
Making the transition from a hardware company to a software company is not easy and not without pain. When they did it in 1995, it almost killed them. Trying to do that also killed Be.
And look how having the IBM PC cloned really helped IBM. (No, it didn't.) And they choose to do that on purpose. (No, they fought cloning all the way.) Having the PC Cloned almost drove IBM out of business.
People who advocate that Apple should exit the hardware business don't know what they are talking about. (Or else advocating that Apple commit suicide.)
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When I was a kid the only camera my family had was a Kodak 110 camera. It was the kind that you could attach flash cubes to. My mother still has it. Around 1980 she bought a Minolta used 35mm camera which was a big deal for us at the time.
That's pretty good, but mine came with a free blowjob every day for the rest of my life.
In the US if you don't lock your door, most insurance won't pay.
Yeah, but don't all the people in Canada live within like 2 feet of the US border?
Is Australia within walking distance? I'm in Vancouver.
Yeah, sure. Just start walking southwest. There's a little bit of water, but don't worry. It's real shallow and you'll have no problem walking through it.
Microsoft and Apple have a cross license agreement (which Microsoft demanded) which allows either company to use any patents, etc. of the other pretty much for free. This has the net result that it mostly benefits Microsoft since Apple has a lot more patents and R&D in general. In this case, though maybe it helps Apple.
It's a sore spot. We're really tired of hearing this "Microsoft owns a huge amount/most of/almost all of Apple" FUD that Microsoft zealots have been pushing since the day it happened.
I then can ask you to give it back, and if you decline, then I call authorities who will force you to do so.
Don't be surprised if the authorities confiscate it as evidence and then it mysteriously disappears from the evidence locker. You have about the same chance of getting something of value out of the police as I would getting a truthful answer from George W. Bush.
Good point!
You could set yourself up on the sidewalk selling CDs of *yourself* singing songs you wrote or that are in PD. Then, when they come hassel you, you tell them to get lost. When they beat you up, you sue them.
Unless you live in the northeast, you probably have the right to kill anyone who breaks into your house. Just make sure they are actually in your house before you shoot them.
Otherwise it is not so clear cut. In many northeastern states, it is my understanding that you can't use deadly force even after the person has wounded you and killed other members of your family. I heard about a case in Massachusetts where a woman was convicted of murder after shooting someone who had murdered other people in her house, wounded her, and she had run off into a back bedroom with her (some of?) her children. The crook broke down the bedroom door and she shot him. They prosecuted her on the ground that she and her kids could have jumped out the second story window intead of shooting him.
But if you live in Texas or Arkansas or most places in the south, midwest, or west as soon as they enter your house, you can kill them with no warning.
You are forgotting that without organized crime, we would have no one to supply our cities with heroin and prostitues. And who wants to live in a world without heroin and prostitues?
OK. I don't really care. Real sucks anyway.
The economy boomed under Clinton mostly because we had a fiscally responsible federal budget.
The republicans are really against a balanced budget. Their goal is to bankrupt the country so that we have to get rid of social security and medicare. Or, possibly their goal is to have the government collapse so they can impose an Iran style theocracy. (Or both.)
No, he wasn't advocating any such thing. You are putting words in his mouth. He just said that Bush gets the stupid, white-trash vote (which is true.) He did not say we should bar stupid white trash people from voting.
I think you leaked memory by assigning the pointer to NULL without freeing it first.
if (vote=="Democrat") {
free(vote);
vote=null;
}
Darwin, yes. Any other part of the OS, no.
Can you say costly, pain in the ass, and serves no purpose?
I thought you could.
There's a ton of shit that had to be moved into the NeXT base from OS 9. No one would bother making all that code work on x86.
Uh, yeah. Jobs showed this during his MacWorld keynote and got big laughs on Tuesday.
iPods do read other formats besides AAC. Just not Windows Media. Audible, for example, works with the iPod.
Why not just make HP branded PowerPC clones?
This idea keeps coming up and it keeps being a stupid idea. If Apple gets out of the hardware business, that's it for them. If they clone the Mac out, they're back where they were in 1996 having to compete with companies that don't have an R&D budget.
Why cut your own throat?
Ain't gonna happen.
I think this bodes well for Apple, and I don't know how even MS could fight this off, at least not without doing something that would violate the rulings or what not from the monopoly trial.
As long as Dubya is president, the anti-trust laws won't be enforced.
Second, why should Microsoft care?
Anyways, the only bad thing I can see coming out of this for Apple is the fact that it might stop people from switching to Apple computers, since, unless the marketing is done well, newbies might not realize this is an Apple product, not an HP product.
First, the article said that you would still get the Apple logo when you turn the HP iPod on. Second, I suspect that people will figure out that iTunes and the iTMS are Apple products. Third, I wasn't aware that the iPod got anyone to switch to the Mac anyway. Does it?
how will Apple keep the supply up
Order more from the factory? Apple doesn't manufacture anything anymore, as far as I know. Like most consumer electronics companies, they just rent factory time in Taiwan and Malaysia.
Why do you doubt this? It's obvious to me that they would totally need this talent and it would be easy to acquire it. Think of how many out of business HD manufacturers there are in Silicon Valley. Plus, people move around between companies and get all sorts of experience.
I presently work for a company that makes data projectors. We don't make the lamps that go into them - we buy that part from someone else. Does that mean we don't have people who have the kind of engineering talent to design and engineer lamps? Of course we do! Otherwise, how would we be able to know which lamp to buy (ahead of time - anyone can recognize a disaster after it happens). We wouldn't know when they are feeding us a line of shit.
I'm sure they talk to this people on the phone, listen to their statements and ask intelligent questions. People with the right background know when to call bullshit on statements about whether something is possible or not, etc. Plus, they probably buy enough hard drives that they can call out requirements.
It is not that hard to hire someone with that kind of background and as an engineer who does work with hardware vendors I can easily see where that kind of expertise might be vital even if you are merely buying the hard drive from a vendor.
I used to work for another company where we needed a whole bunch of software folks who knew a lot about video cards. We were a small software company with no where near the budget that Apple has. Yet, we hired lots of people who had worked for NVidia, ATI, Matrox, etc. Some of these people had been senior engineers at those companies. It is not as hard as you think to get people with a needed skill.
What kind of experience do YOU have to be making that kind of statement anyway?
Membership there is $3K per person!!!
I have one of these memberships. First, they are totally worth it. Second, they allow Apple not to lose so much money supporting developers.
You get a ticket for WWDC which normally costs between $1000 and $1500 per person. You get hardware discounts. You get 10 DTS support incidents. You get the developer mailings. I bet the cost of having WWDC is not offset by the ticket price. I bet the tickets cover maybe 50% of the cost or less.
3K per person isn't much at all in the grand scheme of things (despite the exclamation points).
I hear they got a new CEO since then.
Microsoft was never a hardware company. Apple was a hardware company from the beginning.
When should they have licensed? Whatever year you pick, I can come up with a scenario where it would have killed them.
Making the transition from a hardware company to a software company is not easy and not without pain. When they did it in 1995, it almost killed them. Trying to do that also killed Be.
And look how having the IBM PC cloned really helped IBM. (No, it didn't.) And they choose to do that on purpose. (No, they fought cloning all the way.) Having the PC Cloned almost drove IBM out of business.
People who advocate that Apple should exit the hardware business don't know what they are talking about. (Or else advocating that Apple commit suicide.)