What doesn't it do well? Produce PC hardware that is a good value for the money.
I call troll. Apple's hardware is a good value for the money and it pretty much always has been at least since I've been using Macintosh (since 1993 - prior to that I was using Atari).
The advice you are giving Apple is to commit suicide.
Don't believe me? It right out of the BeOS playbook. Microsoft can effectively kill any non-free OS competition at will by threatening the OEMs.
If Apple stopped designing and building hardware, or tried changing to an x86 chip at this point, that might kill them and would certainly be a very bad move. You can't go from being a multi-Billion dollar hardware company to being a multi-million dollar sofware company without massive losses of money and credibility. Ask IBM. Ask Be. Ask some Amiga users.
And the fact is, Apple doesn't need to do this. They only hope for Apple - long term - is to keep doing what they are doing. Keep quality up. Keep customers happy. Provide a user experience that is worth paying for. Capture the high end. Take sales away from companies like Silicon Graphics and Sun.
(I seem to recall the press having a field day with this one.)
Rise: Mac Fall: Mac (sales stagnated after about 90 days.) Massive bad times and predictions of Apple's demise: 1985 - 1987
Rise: Mac II Good times!
Fall: Introduction of Windows 3.1 Massive predictions that it was the death of Apple.
Rise: PowerBooks introduced - Apple, a latecomer to the world of laptop computers takes it by storm and becomes #1 in portable computers
Fall: Lead up to and launch of Windows 95 Although Apple had its best year ever in 1995, the press started (continued) a drumbeat of noise about the Death of Apple.
1995 - 1997 Bad Times. After outsting Sculley, Apple's board struggles to find someone who can build Apple's marketshare - or else sell Apple to Sun or whoever. Eventually they succeed in sacrificing profits for Marketshare, bringing on a massive crisis.
1998 Steve Jobs returns, fires Apple's board, rebuilds company, correcting the massive mistake Apple made in 1985 by firing him and going with Sculley.
As Linux gains marketshare, Microsoft will be forced to lower prices on their cash cow products - Office and Windows. As they do this, they get squeezed because all of their other products such as MSN and xBox, and others are real dogs - consistently loosing money. This will quickly put Microsoft up against a wall. Apple, on the other hand, will be able compete against Linux based on quality and a better user experience (i.e. being at the cutting edge). There will always be room for Apple in the PC market if they keep doing what they are doing. But will there be room for MS? How will they compete against Linux? Sue everyone? Continue to release insane and nonsensical position papers?
Unfortunately, with the $600 basic system - that's all you'll ever do. With a Mac, even a lower end Mac for just a little more money, you'll find yourself doing things with your computer that you hadn't anticipated.
Wow. I've been using Linux for the past 3 years and I completely forgot about the whole concept of shareware. Its sort of like the bastard child of OSS, trying to capitalize on the free as in beer, but then sticking you in the back 30 days later on that and never giving you the free as in speech bit.
Don't like it? Don't use it. Shareware has been around since the very beginning of personal computers - I remember downloading shareware for my Atari 800 back in 1981-2 from BBSes and mailing payment to the author through US mail for programs I really liked.
Does anyone know if shareware actually generates much revenue, or are they all just people hoping for a break?
I know people who make their living off of shareware and consulting. The shareware constitutes very significant income and allows them to continue writing software, attending MacHack, etc.
Because the US government does shit like putting opposition party members (such as green party members) on No Fly lists. There is no reason to think they will not abuse this technology. The police and FBI are also totally incompetent fools and often make mistakes. They also have a big chip on their sholder and will not admit any mistakes, so if they make a mistake and charge you with a crime based on this "evidence" from OnStar, they would rather frame you than admit they were wrong.
I had an incident last year where Subaru took my monthly check (paid on time, thank you very much) cashed it, then failed to credit my account and started calling me and harassing me about non-payment. I had to go to the bank, get a copy of the canceled check and fax it to them to clear it up.
Needless to say, I will never buy Subaru again. Still, it would have been worse if the car had actually locked me out.
When you are ready to buy, go to the dealer, get ready to buy the car, then tell them that you will only buy it if they completely remove the OnStar. You might end up walking out on the deal, but you've gotten your message across pretty well.
I can't speak about Nokia, but there are lots of commercial libraries, tools, SDKs, etc. where the support is a lot less good than Open Source. Plus, you can't fix it yourself if you don't have the source which is often the case with third party SDKs.
I have used Open Source in projects at companies. In one case, I found a bug and sent the patch back to the guy maintaining the archive and (rather quickly) my patch made it into the distribution.
In another case, I used Xerces as part of a larger project. We didn't need to modify it - we just linked to the Xerces library. It worked great and I have not found any problems with Xerces (other than that it is large ~ 18MB).
Actually, there are folks who put together enough money to buy tickets for every possible number. In Lotteries where this is allowed, they wait until doing this will yield a profitable prize. In these cases, they *are* going to win. The risk they take is that they will be the only winner.
Yes, I did RTFA. Having drug addicts working for you and having them hanging out in your hotel room to socialize are two different things. I could very well imagine having an intermediary who works with the addicts. Or at least keeping some kind of personal distance from them.
When I read about guys like this - they are always idiots. Basically he got caught because he was hanging around a bunch of crazy drug addicts.
I keep wondering if for every guy like this they catch, there must be like 3 guys who are really careful and "normal people" (i.e. professionally minded, don't take drugs or hang around prostitutes, etc.) who do these type of crimes to build up some large amount of money, then move someplace and live off the interest. Those would be the guys that would be real hard to catch.
I wonder if those kind of criminals exist and in what numbers?
I didn't post the parent to this - but I could have. I am about the same age and felt the same way about the stupid robot dog. Yes, I did know why he had the dog according to the plot. Yes, I did think the dog was stupid anyway. I could have done without the dog and without the kid.
What I wanted (and still want) more of in BSG: - A prequelle that explains the origins of the cylons, how they got out of control, their motives for killing humans, etc. - More episodes that show how cylons live, more insight into how their ships are designed, etc. - A revisit to the (destoryed) colonies to look at the ruins - Some resolution for the fate of the fleet.
iTunes is a Carbon app, not a BSD app. It is not even a Cocoa app. It relies on the Carbon technology of OS X, not anything derived from BSD.
Remember when Jobs said that OS X had two parents? Those were MacOS and NeXT (which is based on BSD)? Well, iTunes comes from MacOS roots, not NeXT roots.
What this means is that if you were to look at the iTunes source code, it has calls in it that don't exist in BSD or Linux. It no doubt uses Carbon events and tons of QuickTime calls. QuickTime is another technology derived from MacOS.
Porting iTunes to Linux would be at least as hard as porting to Windows was.
Not only were there not any publicized holes, but there were actually contests with prize money to be awarded to anyone who would find a hole.
There were never any takers on a standard system with StarNine installed. Someone did once find an exploit with a third party plubin to WebStar.
A standard install MacOS 9 box did not have any security vulnerabilities over the network. None.
No open ports - nothing to attack. You'd have a better chance trying to gain access via AppleTalk than TCP/IP - and even AppleTalk wasn't on by default.
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What doesn't it do well? Produce PC hardware that is a good value for the money.
I call troll. Apple's hardware is a good value for the money and it pretty much always has been at least since I've been using Macintosh (since 1993 - prior to that I was using Atari).
The advice you are giving Apple is to commit suicide.
Don't believe me? It right out of the BeOS playbook. Microsoft can effectively kill any non-free OS competition at will by threatening the OEMs.
If Apple stopped designing and building hardware, or tried changing to an x86 chip at this point, that might kill them and would certainly be a very bad move. You can't go from being a multi-Billion dollar hardware company to being a multi-million dollar sofware company without massive losses of money and credibility. Ask IBM. Ask Be. Ask some Amiga users.
And the fact is, Apple doesn't need to do this. They only hope for Apple - long term - is to keep doing what they are doing. Keep quality up. Keep customers happy. Provide a user experience that is worth paying for. Capture the high end. Take sales away from companies like Silicon Graphics and Sun.
Give me a fucking break. They quit saying beliegered when the original iMac came out and the company announced a profit.
(Actually they were still saying it but they started saying it about Gateway and then Compaq and then Gateway again.)
Yes, you are forgetting several.
Rise: Apple II
Fall: Apple III
(Some doubted Apple could survive this flop.)
Rise: Apple IIe
Fall: Lisa
(I seem to recall the press having a field day with this one.)
Rise: Mac
Fall: Mac (sales stagnated after about 90 days.)
Massive bad times and predictions of Apple's demise: 1985 - 1987
Rise: Mac II
Good times!
Fall: Introduction of Windows 3.1
Massive predictions that it was the death of Apple.
Rise: PowerBooks introduced - Apple, a latecomer to the world of laptop computers takes it by storm and becomes #1 in portable computers
Fall: Lead up to and launch of Windows 95
Although Apple had its best year ever in 1995, the press started (continued) a drumbeat of noise about the Death of Apple.
1995 - 1997 Bad Times. After outsting Sculley, Apple's board struggles to find someone who can build Apple's marketshare - or else sell Apple to Sun or whoever. Eventually they succeed in sacrificing profits for Marketshare, bringing on a massive crisis.
1998 Steve Jobs returns, fires Apple's board, rebuilds company, correcting the massive mistake Apple made in 1985 by firing him and going with Sculley.
Maybe he means lookup of the CD through CDDB? If so, maybe his firewall is blocking that port because this does work in iTunes.
going to be a slam dunk that Paul dies before Ringo
And you base this assertion on ???
Besides, isn't Pete Best still alive?
As Linux gains marketshare, Microsoft will be forced to lower prices on their cash cow products - Office and Windows. As they do this, they get squeezed because all of their other products such as MSN and xBox, and others are real dogs - consistently loosing money. This will quickly put Microsoft up against a wall. Apple, on the other hand, will be able compete against Linux based on quality and a better user experience (i.e. being at the cutting edge). There will always be room for Apple in the PC market if they keep doing what they are doing. But will there be room for MS? How will they compete against Linux? Sue everyone? Continue to release insane and nonsensical position papers?
Unfortunately, with the $600 basic system - that's all you'll ever do. With a Mac, even a lower end Mac for just a little more money, you'll find yourself doing things with your computer that you hadn't anticipated.
Wow. I've been using Linux for the past 3 years and I completely forgot about the whole concept of shareware. Its sort of like the bastard child of OSS, trying to capitalize on the free as in beer, but then sticking you in the back 30 days later on that and never giving you the free as in speech bit.
Don't like it? Don't use it. Shareware has been around since the very beginning of personal computers - I remember downloading shareware for my Atari 800 back in 1981-2 from BBSes and mailing payment to the author through US mail for programs I really liked.
Does anyone know if shareware actually generates much revenue, or are they all just people hoping for a break?
I know people who make their living off of shareware and consulting. The shareware constitutes very significant income and allows them to continue writing software, attending MacHack, etc.
The lender is Subaru American Credit, dumbass. Besides that, the car is a piece of shit.
Because the US government does shit like putting opposition party members (such as green party members) on No Fly lists. There is no reason to think they will not abuse this technology. The police and FBI are also totally incompetent fools and often make mistakes. They also have a big chip on their sholder and will not admit any mistakes, so if they make a mistake and charge you with a crime based on this "evidence" from OnStar, they would rather frame you than admit they were wrong.
I had an incident last year where Subaru took my monthly check (paid on time, thank you very much) cashed it, then failed to credit my account and started calling me and harassing me about non-payment. I had to go to the bank, get a copy of the canceled check and fax it to them to clear it up.
Needless to say, I will never buy Subaru again. Still, it would have been worse if the car had actually locked me out.
When you are ready to buy, go to the dealer, get ready to buy the car, then tell them that you will only buy it if they completely remove the OnStar. You might end up walking out on the deal, but you've gotten your message across pretty well.
Why not just put landing gear for water on the plane and then land (in the ocean or wherever) at night?
I can't speak about Nokia, but there are lots of commercial libraries, tools, SDKs, etc. where the support is a lot less good than Open Source. Plus, you can't fix it yourself if you don't have the source which is often the case with third party SDKs.
I have used Open Source in projects at companies. In one case, I found a bug and sent the patch back to the guy maintaining the archive and (rather quickly) my patch made it into the distribution.
In another case, I used Xerces as part of a larger project. We didn't need to modify it - we just linked to the Xerces library. It worked great and I have not found any problems with Xerces (other than that it is large ~ 18MB).
If Congress would just make falling the 419 scam a felony, then the poor guy wouldn't have to worry about keeping his house.
Actually, there are folks who put together enough money to buy tickets for every possible number. In Lotteries where this is allowed, they wait until doing this will yield a profitable prize. In these cases, they *are* going to win. The risk they take is that they will be the only winner.
Yes, I did RTFA. Having drug addicts working for you and having them hanging out in your hotel room to socialize are two different things. I could very well imagine having an intermediary who works with the addicts. Or at least keeping some kind of personal distance from them.
When I read about guys like this - they are always idiots. Basically he got caught because he was hanging around a bunch of crazy drug addicts.
I keep wondering if for every guy like this they catch, there must be like 3 guys who are really careful and "normal people" (i.e. professionally minded, don't take drugs or hang around prostitutes, etc.) who do these type of crimes to build up some large amount of money, then move someplace and live off the interest. Those would be the guys that would be real hard to catch.
I wonder if those kind of criminals exist and in what numbers?
The Vatican is in the UN. They are the only non-arab state always siding with the Palestinian terrorists.
I didn't post the parent to this - but I could have. I am about the same age and felt the same way about the stupid robot dog. Yes, I did know why he had the dog according to the plot. Yes, I did think the dog was stupid anyway. I could have done without the dog and without the kid.
What I wanted (and still want) more of in BSG:
- A prequelle that explains the origins of the cylons, how they got out of control, their motives for killing humans, etc.
- More episodes that show how cylons live, more insight into how their ships are designed, etc.
- A revisit to the (destoryed) colonies to look at the ruins
- Some resolution for the fate of the fleet.
MacOS X, Saab, Subaru
iTunes is a Carbon app, not a BSD app. It is not even a Cocoa app. It relies on the Carbon technology of OS X, not anything derived from BSD.
Remember when Jobs said that OS X had two parents? Those were MacOS and NeXT (which is based on BSD)? Well, iTunes comes from MacOS roots, not NeXT roots.
What this means is that if you were to look at the iTunes source code, it has calls in it that don't exist in BSD or Linux. It no doubt uses Carbon events and tons of QuickTime calls. QuickTime is another technology derived from MacOS.
Porting iTunes to Linux would be at least as hard as porting to Windows was.
I live in the USA and I agree with you. It is a lousy place and you wouldn't want to live here.
I wish I could leave.
You ought to be able to have both, just not at the same time and not for the same purposes.
Not only were there not any publicized holes, but there were actually contests with prize money to be awarded to anyone who would find a hole.
There were never any takers on a standard system with StarNine installed. Someone did once find an exploit with a third party plubin to WebStar.
A standard install MacOS 9 box did not have any security vulnerabilities over the network. None.
No open ports - nothing to attack. You'd have a better chance trying to gain access via AppleTalk than TCP/IP - and even AppleTalk wasn't on by default.