I have pretty much spent my professional career using Window$ and when I needed to do development, I used Linux. I pretty much just disregarded Mac as cultish until I took over as the IT Director of a sports publishing company that was all MAC. I drank the Kool-Aid and shaved my head because MAC was doing what the Linux people were hoping that Linux would do: provide an alternative to Windows that actually worked.
For as much as I love the idea of Linux on the desktop, it won't work because even today it's just too difficult to make it work out of the box and that's what needed. Mac actually does it. It IS a superior experience.
That being said......
Apple is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important
to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means sweatshops for iPods and doing things like heading down the
dangerous path of closing off the Darwin source for development so
that OSS geeks can't find a way to make OS X work on commodity boxes.
Apple is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business
The real question in all of this is how is Apple going to be after Steve Jobs leaves (whether voluntarily... hahahahahahaha or via cancer). No CEO is more tied to his company than Jobs, except maybe Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett.
If it were former HotBot engineers that were doing this would this be such a big deal? Probably not.. It's the Google association that is generating all the media. IMHO, Cuil is having it's 15 minutes.
It does make you wonder though if the Google lovefest is over. Now that they are a publicly traded company their only obligation is to their shareholders and as a publicly traded company they should probably change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else".
Makes you wonder if all the attention to Cuil just brings up the fact that maybe people are starting to turn on Google and why not? Maybe they're getting TOO much power. With that being said, more power to Cuil.
Google is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important
to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
In fact since they are publicly traded, they should change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else". This is just one more backlash of several future backlashes now that the Google lovefest is winding down.
Google is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
By using Fourier analysis on number fields, we prove in this paper E. Bombieri's refinement of A. Weil's positivity condition, which implies the Riemann hypothesis for the Riemann zeta function in the spirit of A. Connes' approach to the Riemann hypothesis.
Weather permitting of course. (Just looking on the positivity side)
Google is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important
to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
Despite all the happy horse hockey about "Do no evil", Google needed to amend it's mission statement once it became a publicly trade company to "We do less evil than everyone else"
Google is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business
We ran Solaris boxes at the government agency I worked for and it was easy as heck to just replace Solaris with RedHat. OpenSolaris = one more free *nix initiative in a world with too many free *nix initiatives as it is.
The solution is simple: get rid of your Comcast 'net service, just keep cable. Get FIOS from Verizon or even DSL.
Comcast is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important
to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means stopping the things that zap their resources. I don't think anyone will disagree that BitTorrent does exactly that.
Comcast is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business. Vote with something they DO understand, your monthly $$$
I am sure that Sen Biden's idea has nothing to do with the fact that he has taken $178,358 from the TV/Movies/Music lobby in this last cycle.
The ROI on paying off a politician is insane. Just look at Orrin Hatch and the DMCA.
Besides the nanny state, what about this concept that "everybody wins". Society needs mediocrity to reward the true winners. It also needs Darwin Award winners.
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I have pretty much spent my professional career using Window$ and when I needed to do development, I used Linux. I pretty much just disregarded Mac as cultish until I took over as the IT Director of a sports publishing company that was all MAC. I drank the Kool-Aid and shaved my head because MAC was doing what the Linux people were hoping that Linux would do: provide an alternative to Windows that actually worked.
For as much as I love the idea of Linux on the desktop, it won't work because even today it's just too difficult to make it work out of the box and that's what needed. Mac actually does it. It IS a superior experience.
That being said......
Apple is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means sweatshops for iPods and doing things like heading down the dangerous path of closing off the Darwin source for development so that OSS geeks can't find a way to make OS X work on commodity boxes.
Apple is going to do what is best in their corporate interest. Surprised? Don't be. It's business
The real question in all of this is how is Apple going to be after Steve Jobs leaves (whether voluntarily... hahahahahahaha or via cancer). No CEO is more tied to his company than Jobs, except maybe Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett.
Scrabulous = 14
Wordscraper = 19
A better choice of letters in more than one way.
If it were former HotBot engineers that were doing this would this be such a big deal? Probably not.. It's the Google association that is generating all the media. IMHO, Cuil is having it's 15 minutes.
It does make you wonder though if the Google lovefest is over. Now that they are a publicly traded company their only obligation is to their shareholders and as a publicly traded company they should probably change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else".
Makes you wonder if all the attention to Cuil just brings up the fact that maybe people are starting to turn on Google and why not? Maybe they're getting TOO much power. With that being said, more power to Cuil.
Google is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
In fact since they are publicly traded, they should change their motto to "We do less evil than everyone else". This is just one more backlash of several future backlashes now that the Google lovefest is winding down.
Google is going to do what is best in their corporate interest.
Surprised? Don't be. It's business
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I was bitten by a radio active sloth and now I can do the laying around of TEN men!
I found this great instruction on Instructables (pops new) on how to create a usb wifi out of a 2.00 strainer from WalMart. Works like a champ!
My friend lives across the Ohio River and we're able to send the signal across the river that way.
Nothing says says cheers to PJ like donating to help her keep the site running! Left side, your choice, Paypal or Amazon. Just sayin.....
more than 640K! Congratulations on the upgrade!
By using Fourier analysis on number fields, we prove in this paper E. Bombieri's refinement of A. Weil's positivity condition, which implies the Riemann hypothesis for the Riemann zeta function in the spirit of A. Connes' approach to the Riemann hypothesis. Weather permitting of course. (Just looking on the positivity side)
Google is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
Despite all the happy horse hockey about "Do no evil", Google needed to amend it's mission statement once it became a publicly trade company to "We do less evil than everyone else"
Google is going to do what is best in their corporate interest. Surprised? Don't be. It's business
"Catholicism WOW!" with the Buddy Jesus
Isn't China a buyer of Microsoft Shared Source technology? Hard to imagine they DON'T know what's going on under the hood.
chicken
Don't drop the kryptonite in the shower.
Duke Nukem Forever?
The whole phenomenon of blogging proves that a million monkeys with a million typewriters will not recreate the works of Shakespeare.
We ran Solaris boxes at the government agency I worked for and it was easy as heck to just replace Solaris with RedHat. OpenSolaris = one more free *nix initiative in a world with too many free *nix initiatives as it is.
The solution is simple: get rid of your Comcast 'net service, just keep cable. Get FIOS from Verizon or even DSL.
Comcast is a publicly traded company and as such here's what's important to them.....
Making money for their stockholders.
That means stopping the things that zap their resources. I don't think anyone will disagree that BitTorrent does exactly that.
Comcast is going to do what is best in their corporate interest. Surprised? Don't be. It's business. Vote with something they DO understand, your monthly $$$
It sounded really good at the time.
I am sure that Sen Biden's idea has nothing to do with the fact that he has taken $178,358 from the TV/Movies/Music lobby in this last cycle. The ROI on paying off a politician is insane. Just look at Orrin Hatch and the DMCA.
by the Journal of DUH.
Besides the nanny state, what about this concept that "everybody wins". Society needs mediocrity to reward the true winners. It also needs Darwin Award winners.
Although not a laptop I can show you a 5 cent word processor
N.S.A. already owns the patent to DES and the whole point of that was have a backdoor when Clipper failed to pass.
You also know that N.I.S.T. is a front for N.S.A. too right? Of course there's a backdoor.
This and other stories are available in the latest issue of DUH!
EVERYBODY PANIC!!!!!!