It is just in the same way that Linux forced Microsoft to improve. If you don't believe me see Windows 3.1 and compare it to windows 95 - 98
Are you high, man?
Competition from Linux had nothing to do with improvements made in Windows from version 3.1 to Windows 95. If competition had anything to do with it, it was competition from Apple.
The only people using Linux prior to 1995 are the folks on Slashdot with 4-digits-or-less user IDs. In other words, old-school hard-core geeks. (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)
What Linux desktop were you using before Windows 95 that was a significant improvement over Windows 3.1, which sucked? Note that 'ksh' does not count as a GUI, by the way.
Garbage collection can't guarantee code that's completely free of memory leaks. You can still leak memory in Java is you have a long-lived data structure (Set or Map, for example) that holds references longer than it needs to.
Let's say you've got an improperly written session management routine where users are added to a Set when they log in, but there's a bug that forgets to remove them when they log our or their session expires. Over time, you'll start having memory issues.
Of course, it's still true that there's much less likelihood of leaks in a GC environment.
FYI: You can now format drives with case-sensitive filesystems in Mac OS X if you don't like the case-preserving (but not sensitive) default filesystem.
Some companies on the other hand try to give us proprietary binary data streams over tcp or incremental relational data dumps over TCP. Guess which i prefer.
Hmmm...let me see...the proprietary binary data streams over tcp or incremental relational data dumps over TCP?
I don't see why you gave up the benefits of C++ for such a small improvement. One day you might want to display video on the sides of your cubes. With C++, you just pass a VideoCube to renderer.spin(Cube&cube) and it will call approporiate virtual functions to get bitmaps of each of the sides. With C code, you are likely accessing internals of struct Cube directly and can not change it's implementation without re-writting a lot of code.
I tried this and it wouldn't compile. Where are the header files for the VideoCube and Renderer classes?
Apple also denied having an eye on the sub-$800 PC market. During the previous conference call (October '04) they said "We don't think we can make a lot of money there."
That's not the same thing as saying they don't have one. Apple might not make a lot of money selling $499 Mac minis, but if they convert a lot of people to the Mac, Apple might make a lot of money on their second Mac purchase. There's a network effect inherent in gaining market share even when doing so won't result in much incremental profit.
Drug pushers don't make money on any free samples they hand out, razor manufacturers don't profit from selling the handles, etc. But there is a longer-term vision at play...
And don't even start with Apple. Their users are pre-conditioned to apply for a mortgage every time they have a product launch, so they're used to paying for a system with an over-spec video card.
Sheesh. You'd think that two days after Apple releases a $499 computer this kind of statement wouldn't still be popping up on Slashdot. Then again, relying on 10-year-old stereotypes that no longer apply seems to be something of a requirement for Slashdot posters.
You will note that there is no legal definition of who is a journalist and who is not. In other words, just as I said, the law recognizes no special class of citizen called journalist. Anybody can act as a journalist and claim privilege in conjunction with those acts.
If a journalist were declared a separate class of people, it would be very dangerous. Can't anyone with a website legitimately claim to be a journalist? Are people who work for alternative weeklies journalists? Are only people who work for "big media" part of the press? Does a newspaper have to meet a circulation threshold before its reporters are considered legally sanctioned journalists? Are people who report on UHF and public access not journalists, but those on VHF and cable news are? Are the people who work for CBS News journalists?
Where do you draw the line? Who decides what is part of the press? Nobody decides. And that's a good thing, because once the government gets involved in deciding who is a journalist and who isn't, it'll be that much easier to implement a police state.
This isn't new, guy. If the court orders you to reveal a name, you have to reveal the name. You have the right to refuse to do so, but you will do so from the comfort of your jail cell. It's called contempt of court and that's been the law of the land for years and years and years.
Incidentally, the press has no special rights here above those of any other citizen, which is just as well. These days, anyone with a website can claim--rightfully so, in a lot of cases--to be part of the press.
The law recognizes no special class of citizen called journalist. And if it did, who would get to decide who's a journalist and who isn't? Is Dan Rather a journalist, or is he just a well-placed tool of the Democratic National Committee?
Insert several new products in the pipe, but release no substantial information about them.
Stomp the hell out of people who really like your products when they release "premature" info even though they are really, really interested in your new products.
On the other hand, I've *never* seen Apple cancel eBay auctions for unopened Apple software.
That could be because the bulk of Apple's revenue comes from hardware and not software, so there's no business case for such an action. Unopened OEM software from Microsoft, it can be argued, diminishes the market for the equivalent retail versions of the same product, the sales of which generate higher margins for Microsoft than the OEM copies.
Then again, I don't see Apple suing anyone over *unopened* Mac boxes, either...
$50 says that Apple had plans BEFORE these "secrets" were published to announce them at MacWorld. So the judge is going to look at this and wonder why, if it's such a secret, they announced it to the largest gathering of journalists, developers, and customers in the world.
I think the real problem for Apple isn't the rumors that turn out to be true, but the ones that turn out to be false or only partially true. People trade stocks based on these rumors. Remember when the rumor was that the iPod mini was going to be cheaper than it actually was? Apple got slammed because they put out a device that was more expensive than the false rumor said it was going to be. Apple has a right and a responsibility to protect its shareholders from unnecessary stock price fluctuations that result from bogus rumors. Clamping down on sites like ThinkSecret will stabilize the stock price see-saw that happens before and after every MacWorld.
Apple spent the money on the 1st round of this suit because it may lead to the insider who released the info. I expect that it might have been released by someone in marketing that knows that a trade show is a nasty place to release new stuff because the only ones watching are your loyal customers. Preaching to the choir doesn't bring in converts and their new products purpose is just that. This leak got many more people to watch the announcements and that will help Apples Sales.
If that's Apple's strategy, then shouldn't Apple's management get to decide that, not some rogue in marketing?
Let me get this straight... Microsoft prematurely releases details of their products and grabs marketshare as a result. Apple sues everyone who talks about their products before the official unveiling. I've been a Machead for over ten years, but I think Apple could learn something from the boys in Redmond on this one.
Whether pre-announcing a product is to a company's advantage largely depends on that company's position in the marketplace. Microsoft now pre-announces products because doing so tends to "freeze the market", because companies will often hold off on buying an existing third-party product that Microsoft will be shipping "real soon now". Microsoft often uses pre-announcements as a form of FUD to solidify their market position.
A company in Apple's position has a different calculation to make. Certain pre-announcements are just going to tell companies with greater resources (like Microsoft) what innovations they should start copying.
Companies that aren't the market leader will often play their cards close to the vest, just so their bigger competitors don't figure out a strategy to beat their hand. When Microsoft was a small shop, they weren't crowing from the rooftops about Windows 1.0 months before it was released. It wouldn't have been to their advantage, because they didn't have the dominance they do now. Things have changed.
I don't know what sigma level Microsoft is at but with 2 defects per 100 is 360000 per 1,000,000 lines of code. That puts them at a sigma level between 3 and 4. The Majority of software makers are below that. Yet if MS were six-sigma (they sell software that tracks it) they would have only 61 defects for those 18 million lines of code.
That's why you should always put curly braces on their own lines, to increase your total lines of code. Helps achieve a more favorable sigma.
Then maybe, just maybe, they could make a TV series called "Desperate Houswives" were hot chicks like Terri Hatcher in tight spandex work all day long getting Debian installed, and the adminintering their box.
Heh heh heh. I love it. Seeing your sig is like seeing all those people with Kerry bumper-stickers still on their cars. Calling the president Hitler, an idiot, an evil genius, a Nazi chimpanzee, etc., didn't win you the election. Imagine that. Maybe next time you guys will realize you need a little more than childish name-calling to convince voters to go your way.
Then again, seeing how you've all been after the election makes me think you still don't get it. Calling 62,000,000 people idiots because they didn't vote the way you wanted them to isn't going to make them any more likely to vote your way in the future.
I was willing to pay more to be free of Apple's DRM, regardless of how unintrusive you might think it is.
You will be completely free of Apple's DRM unless you buy music from the iTunes Music Store. If you never buy music from the iTMS, then Apple's DRM never affects you, so it is not a valid argument against owning an iPod. Don't like DRM? Then rip (or, in your case I assume, pirate) all your music as MP3 or MP4 and shut up about it.
..and if you honestly believe that you'll be free of DRM with your Microsoft PlaysForSureUnlessTheRIAAWon'tLetYouToPlayIt, then I've got 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven, knucklehead.
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No good! Joe is already taken! It's a UNIX text editor...
Are you high, man?
Competition from Linux had nothing to do with improvements made in Windows from version 3.1 to Windows 95. If competition had anything to do with it, it was competition from Apple.
The only people using Linux prior to 1995 are the folks on Slashdot with 4-digits-or-less user IDs. In other words, old-school hard-core geeks. (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)
What Linux desktop were you using before Windows 95 that was a significant improvement over Windows 3.1, which sucked? Note that 'ksh' does not count as a GUI, by the way.
Cultures now get their own TLDs? Is .cat the only "cultural" TLD? I don't know of any others...
Let's say you've got an improperly written session management routine where users are added to a Set when they log in, but there's a bug that forgets to remove them when they log our or their session expires. Over time, you'll start having memory issues.
Of course, it's still true that there's much less likelihood of leaks in a GC environment.
FYI: You can now format drives with case-sensitive filesystems in Mac OS X if you don't like the case-preserving (but not sensitive) default filesystem.
Hmmm...let me see...the proprietary binary data streams over tcp or incremental relational data dumps over TCP?
I tried this and it wouldn't compile. Where are the header files for the VideoCube and Renderer classes?
That's not the same thing as saying they don't have one. Apple might not make a lot of money selling $499 Mac minis, but if they convert a lot of people to the Mac, Apple might make a lot of money on their second Mac purchase. There's a network effect inherent in gaining market share even when doing so won't result in much incremental profit.
Drug pushers don't make money on any free samples they hand out, razor manufacturers don't profit from selling the handles, etc. But there is a longer-term vision at play...
Sheesh. You'd think that two days after Apple releases a $499 computer this kind of statement wouldn't still be popping up on Slashdot. Then again, relying on 10-year-old stereotypes that no longer apply seems to be something of a requirement for Slashdot posters.
If a journalist were declared a separate class of people, it would be very dangerous. Can't anyone with a website legitimately claim to be a journalist? Are people who work for alternative weeklies journalists? Are only people who work for "big media" part of the press? Does a newspaper have to meet a circulation threshold before its reporters are considered legally sanctioned journalists? Are people who report on UHF and public access not journalists, but those on VHF and cable news are? Are the people who work for CBS News journalists?
Where do you draw the line? Who decides what is part of the press? Nobody decides. And that's a good thing, because once the government gets involved in deciding who is a journalist and who isn't, it'll be that much easier to implement a police state.
This isn't new, guy. If the court orders you to reveal a name, you have to reveal the name. You have the right to refuse to do so, but you will do so from the comfort of your jail cell. It's called contempt of court and that's been the law of the land for years and years and years.
Incidentally, the press has no special rights here above those of any other citizen, which is just as well. These days, anyone with a website can claim--rightfully so, in a lot of cases--to be part of the press.
The law recognizes no special class of citizen called journalist. And if it did, who would get to decide who's a journalist and who isn't? Is Dan Rather a journalist, or is he just a well-placed tool of the Democratic National Committee?
Nice generalization. This coming from someone who speaks German, too! To paraphrase The Simpsons, "Nobody who speaks German could be evil!"
Looks like that strategy works...
Now, if I could only pin down the particulars of Step 3, I'd be rolling in dough too!
That could be because the bulk of Apple's revenue comes from hardware and not software, so there's no business case for such an action. Unopened OEM software from Microsoft, it can be argued, diminishes the market for the equivalent retail versions of the same product, the sales of which generate higher margins for Microsoft than the OEM copies.
Then again, I don't see Apple suing anyone over *unopened* Mac boxes, either...
I think the real problem for Apple isn't the rumors that turn out to be true, but the ones that turn out to be false or only partially true. People trade stocks based on these rumors. Remember when the rumor was that the iPod mini was going to be cheaper than it actually was? Apple got slammed because they put out a device that was more expensive than the false rumor said it was going to be. Apple has a right and a responsibility to protect its shareholders from unnecessary stock price fluctuations that result from bogus rumors. Clamping down on sites like ThinkSecret will stabilize the stock price see-saw that happens before and after every MacWorld.
If that's Apple's strategy, then shouldn't Apple's management get to decide that, not some rogue in marketing?
Whether pre-announcing a product is to a company's advantage largely depends on that company's position in the marketplace. Microsoft now pre-announces products because doing so tends to "freeze the market", because companies will often hold off on buying an existing third-party product that Microsoft will be shipping "real soon now". Microsoft often uses pre-announcements as a form of FUD to solidify their market position.
A company in Apple's position has a different calculation to make. Certain pre-announcements are just going to tell companies with greater resources (like Microsoft) what innovations they should start copying.
Companies that aren't the market leader will often play their cards close to the vest, just so their bigger competitors don't figure out a strategy to beat their hand. When Microsoft was a small shop, they weren't crowing from the rooftops about Windows 1.0 months before it was released. It wouldn't have been to their advantage, because they didn't have the dominance they do now. Things have changed.
That's why you should always put curly braces on their own lines, to increase your total lines of code. Helps achieve a more favorable sigma.
Mmmmm...Teri Hatcher!
I wouldn't mind administering her box!
You heard the man! Let's get started building a piece of crap!
Thank you, Slashdot!!!
Then again, seeing how you've all been after the election makes me think you still don't get it. Calling 62,000,000 people idiots because they didn't vote the way you wanted them to isn't going to make them any more likely to vote your way in the future.
...and we're the ones you call idiots. Sheesh.
I think you may be right. Then again, iPod might be to Apple what StarTac was to Motorola.
You will be completely free of Apple's DRM unless you buy music from the iTunes Music Store. If you never buy music from the iTMS, then Apple's DRM never affects you, so it is not a valid argument against owning an iPod. Don't like DRM? Then rip (or, in your case I assume, pirate) all your music as MP3 or MP4 and shut up about it.
..and if you honestly believe that you'll be free of DRM with your Microsoft PlaysForSureUnlessTheRIAAWon'tLetYouToPlayIt, then I've got 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven, knucklehead.
Yeah. To me, the Zen Micro looks like an iPod eaten by the 1970s and shat out into various jars of watercolor paint.