"I think the only open aspect of the iPhone is an API for developers to produce apps on that platform."
And look how badly that has affected them. 30 million devices (iPhone & iPod Touch). Over 500 million downloads from the app store?
How does OpenMoko compete? What's their app store strategy? Is there a strategy? At the moment, it looks like Apple is on the verge of running away with the handheld market. What is OpenMoko doing about it?
These are the questions I wonder about. More so, than, *if* API is free or not...
It boils down to: Can I make money on this handset?
"How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?"
The same way the Mac was 400% faster in Photoshop competitions? Select a minuscule market where you want to see growth -> See massive growth -> Expunge data.
Oh, you mean netbooks that have a 800x600 screen & flash drives with only 2 gigs of storage? Yeah, then we meant 0.01/4 growth instead.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: North Korea is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered North Korea community when IDC confirmed that the North Korean market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all ICBMs. Coming on the heels of a recent North Korea survey which plainly states that North Korea has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. North Korea is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent ICBM launch test.
You don't need to be a pinko Communist to predict North Korea's future. The hand writing is on the wall: North Korea faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for North Korea because North Korea is dying. Things are looking very bad for North Korea. As many of us are already aware, North Korea continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
"Some might say that some of what they do is a waste, but there aren't many companies that are able to do such large scale R&D."
Steve Ballmer, Feb 2009: Microsoft asked some of its employees to read various company annual reports from 1927 through 1938. The goal, he said, was to find out who had done a good job handling the Great Depression," Lane reports. "'RCA, god rest them in peace, RCA become our role model,' Ballmer said. 'They actually kept investing in R&D through the Depression period, and in the post-Depression they dominated TV technology because they were really the only guys who had invested.'" (http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12000B3128U0)
Steve Jobs, March 2008: We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place -- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that's exactly what we did. And it worked. And that's exactly what we'll do this time. (http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gallery.jobsqna.fortune/15.html)
R&D is HUGE. Without it, I'd doubt the iPod would have made such a big splash, or if we'd see any of the amazing processor iterations that we're currently seeing.
"...the first conviction under a new Canadian law making recoding a movie in a theater a crime. Until the new law took effect in 2007, prosecutors had to show evidence of distribution to get a conviction; now, recording without permission is sufficient."
What if I'm an indie film director and I want to film part of a movie that takes place inside of a movie theater? What kind of hoops do I have to jump through just to line permission?
"The 'MP3: 100% Compatible' logo allows the stores to emphasize the advantages of the format, namely that MP3 files will run on any device and won't keel over and die as DRM-laden files are wont to."
What about AAC? Ogg? Flac? I don't like encoding my music into a proprietary format.
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"I would bet that a lot of people on Slashdot only believe in evolution because they distrust religious people and not because they actually understand what is wrong with creationism."
I distrust religious people because I refuse to believe an invisible man, who lives in the sky, is watching my every move. And, although He's created everything that's ever existed, he still needs my money.
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Will DVDs stil be around, and readable, 10 years from now?
Probably not, but it's really funny seeing how my parents (and grandparents) dealt with changing technology. We've moved to digital pictures & movies with substantial quality increases and supposed longer lifespans, and I look back to how my parents stored "precious" moments of our family in shoeboxes and bins stored in a humid attic.
Earlier this year my mother came across some 8mm reel to reel films from when I was 2 or 3 years old (30+ years old) and had a company convert them to DVDs. The movies were in storage for years before we discovered them, just laying in some cardboard box stored in an attic before being moved to a cellar for a few years. The biggest reason we knew they were still good was because my grandparents left the old reel to reel player in the box so we could watch the movies. The same goes for the boxes and boxes of slides my stepfather had, he also had a slide projector handy to view the images.
Sometimes keeping around older tech comes in handy. Make sure the videos are in an open format and maybe keep a backup copy. Best of luck!:)
"Brady also lamented that closing user accounts doesn't keep bad eggs off a site. They just come back and create new ones..."
Hey, that's life. I wish I could figure out a way to keep every kook and asshole from coming near me but it's impossible. Why is it any different on the internet?
"It's LOUD. Crazy loud. OS X doesn't seem to interface with the fan controller, so it runs at full tilt all the time. It doesn't really come across on the video, but it's loud enough so that it's hard to talk on the phone when the machine is running. There's no way we could deal with this thing on a daily basis."
I watched the video, and he's completely wrong. The fan's so loud that at about 2 minutes into the video it drowns out a passing fire truck.
If you looking for a similar experience, hold a hair dryer (on low heat) about 3 inches from your ear.:)
"Didn't MS get sued for being a monopoly when it included a browser?"
No, they got their asses sued for abusing their monopoly position.
"Somthing you need if you want to get another browser or anything of the Internet (I guess you can use telnet)."
Or they could have let OEMs decide what default browser they wanted to install (before IE became "bundled" with Windows). Instead, they strong-armed them into installing IE or face increased license costs. See my first quote.
"They didn't say "no browsers but ours" they just included it for free."
Wrong. That's exactly what then said to OEM vendors. Then, magically, IE became a integrated part of Windows and removal became "impossible". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98lite
"Apple specifically states that you can't make a browser on their IPhone OS and everyone looks the other way? What a bunch of bias bullshit."
When Safari is running on +95% of internet devices, you may have a point. Apple isn't a convicted monopolist. Microsoft is. They have to behave differently because of it. They have no one else to blame but themselves.
"If you want to see where OS X has borrowed from OSS, simply look at spaces (predated by Virtual Desktops), Dashboard (predated by Konfabulator), Spotlight (predated by Beagle), etc."
Sigh, I keep seeing this time and time again. Spaces? That's a given and a total rip off, I'll agree. But, "Dashboard (predated by Konfabulator)"... I seem to remember 1984, which might be a little bit before your time. They both seem to look a little bit like Desk Accessories don'tyathink?
And Beagle? Apple hired Dominic Giampaolo in early 2002, who knows if he started working on Spotlight right from the get-go?
I'm not a hard core Linux user (stopped using it some time in 2002, for that "other" OS. No, not that one, the other one. No, the one with the pretty eye candy and egomaniac boss running the show. No! The _OTHER_ Steve. Yes, the non-sweaty one).
Anyway - Why does it look like I ate Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista only crap out something like this? I know, I know, Windows users switching over will feel more comfortable in an environment closely resembling the operating system they switched from, but... The resemblances are downright creepy.
I'd like to see some originality, but once again OSS disappoints.
fvwm = Win95 back in the day, now more like Mac OS. Windowmaker = OpenStep, NextStep KDE = Windows Vista / Mac OS Gnome = More like Mac OS (with Windows thrown in for the heck of it)
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MakeMKV. No loss in quality (think Ogg). Simple, easy and high quality. Hope you have a big hard drive.
"I think the only open aspect of the iPhone is an API for developers to produce apps on that platform."
And look how badly that has affected them. 30 million devices (iPhone & iPod Touch). Over 500 million downloads from the app store?
How does OpenMoko compete? What's their app store strategy? Is there a strategy? At the moment, it looks like Apple is on the verge of running away with the handheld market. What is OpenMoko doing about it?
These are the questions I wonder about. More so, than, *if* API is free or not...
It boils down to: Can I make money on this handset?
"How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?"
The same way the Mac was 400% faster in Photoshop competitions? Select a minuscule market where you want to see growth -> See massive growth -> Expunge data.
Oh, you mean netbooks that have a 800x600 screen & flash drives with only 2 gigs of storage? Yeah, then we meant 0.01/4 growth instead.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: North Korea is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered North Korea community when IDC confirmed that the North Korean market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all ICBMs. Coming on the heels of a recent North Korea survey which plainly states that North Korea has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. North Korea is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent ICBM launch test.
You don't need to be a pinko Communist to predict North Korea's future. The hand writing is on the wall: North Korea faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for North Korea because North Korea is dying. Things are looking very bad for North Korea. As many of us are already aware, North Korea continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
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Is that better?
Steve Ballmer, Feb 2009: Microsoft asked some of its employees to read various company annual reports from 1927 through 1938. The goal, he said, was to find out who had done a good job handling the Great Depression," Lane reports. "'RCA, god rest them in peace, RCA become our role model,' Ballmer said. 'They actually kept investing in R&D through the Depression period, and in the post-Depression they dominated TV technology because they were really the only guys who had invested.'" (http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12000B3128U0)
Steve Jobs, March 2008: We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place -- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that's exactly what we did. And it worked. And that's exactly what we'll do this time. (http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0803/gallery.jobsqna.fortune/15.html) R&D is HUGE. Without it, I'd doubt the iPod would have made such a big splash, or if we'd see any of the amazing processor iterations that we're currently seeing.
"Don't steal music"
It's subtle, but it gets the word out. Whether people grasp to it or not is their own business. Stop treating us all like criminals.
Linux on the desktop?
Seeing as what happened to his balls, I think you meant EX-Man.
Indeed, someone mod this up.
"...the first conviction under a new Canadian law making recoding a movie in a theater a crime. Until the new law took effect in 2007, prosecutors had to show evidence of distribution to get a conviction; now, recording without permission is sufficient."
What if I'm an indie film director and I want to film part of a movie that takes place inside of a movie theater? What kind of hoops do I have to jump through just to line permission?
"...and travel at a maximum speed of 3 mph, while taking up three lanes..."
So, sort of like selling a Cadillac to a senior citizen?
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me to see...
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Hello Partner,
DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!
Sincerely,
Steve Ballmer
What about AAC? Ogg? Flac? I don't like encoding my music into a proprietary format.
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Stupid whitespace filter, yadda yadda
Now how about incorporating this into every Cocoa app? Provide developers with an API so they can use it as well.
"I would bet that a lot of people on Slashdot only believe in evolution because they distrust religious people and not because they actually understand what is wrong with creationism."
I distrust religious people because I refuse to believe an invisible man, who lives in the sky, is watching my every move. And, although He's created everything that's ever existed, he still needs my money.
Imbube
Imbube
Imbube
Near the village, I'll fucking kill you
The developer sleeps tonight
Near the village, I'll fucking kill you
The developer sleeps tonight
Imbube
Imbube
Imbube
Hush, my coder, don't fear, my coder - Windows 7 is almost here
The developer sleeps tonight
Hush, my coder, don't fear, my coder - Windows 7 is almost here
The developer sleeps tonight
Probably not, but it's really funny seeing how my parents (and grandparents) dealt with changing technology. We've moved to digital pictures & movies with substantial quality increases and supposed longer lifespans, and I look back to how my parents stored "precious" moments of our family in shoeboxes and bins stored in a humid attic.
Earlier this year my mother came across some 8mm reel to reel films from when I was 2 or 3 years old (30+ years old) and had a company convert them to DVDs. The movies were in storage for years before we discovered them, just laying in some cardboard box stored in an attic before being moved to a cellar for a few years. The biggest reason we knew they were still good was because my grandparents left the old reel to reel player in the box so we could watch the movies. The same goes for the boxes and boxes of slides my stepfather had, he also had a slide projector handy to view the images.
Sometimes keeping around older tech comes in handy. Make sure the videos are in an open format and maybe keep a backup copy. Best of luck! :)
That's better than bitting into your pillow every night, I guess.
"Brady also lamented that closing user accounts doesn't keep bad eggs off a site. They just come back and create new ones..."
Hey, that's life. I wish I could figure out a way to keep every kook and asshole from coming near me but it's impossible. Why is it any different on the internet?
"It's LOUD. Crazy loud. OS X doesn't seem to interface with the fan controller, so it runs at full tilt all the time. It doesn't really come across on the video, but it's loud enough so that it's hard to talk on the phone when the machine is running. There's no way we could deal with this thing on a daily basis."
:)
I watched the video, and he's completely wrong. The fan's so loud that at about 2 minutes into the video it drowns out a passing fire truck.
If you looking for a similar experience, hold a hair dryer (on low heat) about 3 inches from your ear.
"Didn't MS get sued for being a monopoly when it included a browser?"
No, they got their asses sued for abusing their monopoly position.
"Somthing you need if you want to get another browser or anything of the Internet (I guess you can use telnet)."
Or they could have let OEMs decide what default browser they wanted to install (before IE became "bundled" with Windows). Instead, they strong-armed them into installing IE or face increased license costs. See my first quote.
"They didn't say "no browsers but ours" they just included it for free."
Wrong. That's exactly what then said to OEM vendors. Then, magically, IE became a integrated part of Windows and removal became "impossible". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98lite
"Apple specifically states that you can't make a browser on their IPhone OS and everyone looks the other way? What a bunch of bias bullshit."
When Safari is running on +95% of internet devices, you may have a point. Apple isn't a convicted monopolist. Microsoft is. They have to behave differently because of it. They have no one else to blame but themselves.
Sigh, I keep seeing this time and time again. Spaces? That's a given and a total rip off, I'll agree. But, "Dashboard (predated by Konfabulator)"
And Beagle? Apple hired Dominic Giampaolo in early 2002, who knows if he started working on Spotlight right from the get-go?
Server's dead to me with only 9 comments showing.
I'm not a hard core Linux user (stopped using it some time in 2002, for that "other" OS. No, not that one, the other one. No, the one with the pretty eye candy and egomaniac boss running the show. No! The _OTHER_ Steve. Yes, the non-sweaty one).
Anyway - Why does it look like I ate Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista only crap out something like this? I know, I know, Windows users switching over will feel more comfortable in an environment closely resembling the operating system they switched from, but... The resemblances are downright creepy.
I'd like to see some originality, but once again OSS disappoints.
fvwm = Win95 back in the day, now more like Mac OS.
Windowmaker = OpenStep, NextStep
KDE = Windows Vista / Mac OS
Gnome = More like Mac OS (with Windows thrown in for the heck of it)
I think there's a donkey show in Mexico City that is made entirely of discarded AOL CDs.
Fixed. *shudder*