The hPod only happened because of Carly Fiorina and her desire to be a rockstar CEO. Selling a mp3 player thats rivals a toaster in the aesthetics dept istn't glamorous. Also, rumor is, she and Steve Jobs were creasing the sheets (no explaining taste).
Anyhow, with the hPod, Apple (china) is still the manufacturer, HP is just a distributor. It doesn't prevent ipod minis from being out of stock.
Job's first order of business was to kill the clones. Why would he want HP to start cloning?
Was he? I reread his articles. Somebody tipped him off about an apple/intel switch. His predictions: a dual PPC/x86 transition computer, and Apple will only use Itanium processors.
He had a list of facts (that turned out to be correct) and then threw in some predictions which turned out to be wrong.
Remember, NeXT went from selling Computers with a BSD-based OS to selling just the OS for x86 computers. Steve Jobs was there, he saw how well that worked.
Lilenfeld had a schematic and a patent, but he didn't have a working prototype (he was ahead of his time and the technology prevented it).
Bell Labs actually built a working one. Although it turned out to have a lot of uses outside telephony, Bell Labs provided the need for it and the R/D funding.
Work a street corner as a tranny hooker. Take pictures of executives having hot man-on-man gay sex. Include these pictures when you send in your resume.
The best part about this job is, they pay you not to show up!
CmdrTaco thinks they're justing assholes pissing in the pool. I think they're pissed at the moderation system and the slashdot editors. Every other story is a dupe or stuff that was news 6 months ago. Try criticizing or offering a suggestion and you will get a -1 offtopic moderation and probably end up banned for a month.
Yet somehow making life miserable for normal people hasn't affected crap flooders upset with the slashdot abuses.
The solution isn't ip banning or reading blurry letters from images. The solution is a more active involvement by the "editors". Check the stories (less crap). Read the slashdot frontpages (less dupes). Have a story devoted just for bitching and complaining once a month (and read the comments).
yeah... when sourceforge went from open source to closed source, the VA Linux people had to get releases from everybody who had sent in code changes. Since most of the people said "fuck you", they ended up having to remove a lot of bug fixes and functionality. Meanwhile, savannah, the gnu project based on the last open/free sf release is far more functional and has fewer bugs.
Here's another corporate example: AT&T spent their R&D money inventing cool stuff like transistors and unix. And gave it away. Look what happened to them.
If all they want is something to listen to, free radio handles that need perfectly right now.
free radio is dying. Once upon a time, radio was the perfect vehicle for advertising - while tv watches channel surf (or tivo) during ads, most radio listeners didn't bother changing the channel.
However, those days are over. Radio listeners are declining as people get their music from ipods, satellite, digital music from cable, etc. Notice none of those formats feature a 5-minute ad break every other song.
Clear Channel and other radio stations have started trying to reduce the ads/hour and make up for the revenue by encouraging the more expensive 15-second spots instead of 30 or 60 second spots.
While that addresses one issue, it ignores the reality of the radio market. Thanks to consolidation, clear channel et alia set playlists for country, classic rock, top 40, etc. and broadcast the same music all throughout the US. If you don't like it, well fuck you.
My ipod has the music I want to listen to, no ads, no interuptions.
Sattellite radio (as well as DirecTV and cable audio) broadcasts one signal throughout the US, so they can target smaller audience groups and can skip the ads.
So I'd say xm/sirius do offer music that can't be heard elsewhere.
IE also supports client-side VBScript. The only time I've seen it used is in IIS's remote control pages and dynamic code generated by javascript specifically for IE (to check for Flash player, etc).
NextStep/OpenStep (originally 68k NeXT hardware only) was ported to run on generic x86 boxes. When OS X (rhapsody) was being developed, they had x86 developer releases.
There's a saying to the effect that Democracy is 6 wolves and 5 sheep voting on what's for dinner.
Interestingly enough, the ancient Greece democracy model required every bill to have a sponser. If the bill was later challenged and found unconstitutional, the sponsor was fined a (relatively) large amount.
Your premise seems to be that legislators blindly vote for a bill not knowing what they're voting for. That's certainly true for tax code, highway funding, and other pork, but in that case 1) it isn't easily summarized and 2) it's one big orgy of money and nobody cares as long as everybody orgasms.
The 1994/Contract With America crew did pass a line-item-veto law which gave the President (Clinton) the ability to remove items from bills before signing them.
SCOTUS don't play that game though, so it didn't last long.
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Anyhow, with the hPod, Apple (china) is still the manufacturer, HP is just a distributor. It doesn't prevent ipod minis from being out of stock.
Job's first order of business was to kill the clones. Why would he want HP to start cloning?
He had a list of facts (that turned out to be correct) and then threw in some predictions which turned out to be wrong.
Remember, NeXT went from selling Computers with a BSD-based OS to selling just the OS for x86 computers. Steve Jobs was there, he saw how well that worked.
Bell Labs actually built a working one. Although it turned out to have a lot of uses outside telephony, Bell Labs provided the need for it and the R/D funding.
The best part about this job is, they pay you not to show up!
Fact: NeXT used an i860 (64-bit RISC) graphics accelerator. Manufactured by Intel.
Fact: Intel manufactures ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) processors.
Intel knows a thing or about RISC chips. Intel manufacturing PPCs is far more probable than Apple jumping to x86.
Yet somehow making life miserable for normal people hasn't affected crap flooders upset with the slashdot abuses.
The solution isn't ip banning or reading blurry letters from images. The solution is a more active involvement by the "editors". Check the stories (less crap). Read the slashdot frontpages (less dupes). Have a story devoted just for bitching and complaining once a month (and read the comments).
Yes ...
cardboard boxes are much nicer to sleep in when your parents kick you out of their basement.
Just to be pedantic, a license is a contract, so breaking it is a tort, not a crime.
yeah... when sourceforge went from open source to closed source, the VA Linux people had to get releases from everybody who had sent in code changes. Since most of the people said "fuck you", they ended up having to remove a lot of bug fixes and functionality. Meanwhile, savannah, the gnu project based on the last open/free sf release is far more functional and has fewer bugs.
Here's another corporate example: AT&T spent their R&D money inventing cool stuff like transistors and unix. And gave it away. Look what happened to them.
If the gnome board of directors are such experts on unprecedented and innovation, how do you explain gnome?
you get $500 up front. If you can't live 3 months off $500, you're not a programmer and you're definitely not a college student.
Google also pimped out their search engine to Yahoo!.
free radio is dying. Once upon a time, radio was the perfect vehicle for advertising - while tv watches channel surf (or tivo) during ads, most radio listeners didn't bother changing the channel.
However, those days are over. Radio listeners are declining as people get their music from ipods, satellite, digital music from cable, etc. Notice none of those formats feature a 5-minute ad break every other song.
Clear Channel and other radio stations have started trying to reduce the ads/hour and make up for the revenue by encouraging the more expensive 15-second spots instead of 30 or 60 second spots.
While that addresses one issue, it ignores the reality of the radio market. Thanks to consolidation, clear channel et alia set playlists for country, classic rock, top 40, etc. and broadcast the same music all throughout the US. If you don't like it, well fuck you.
My ipod has the music I want to listen to, no ads, no interuptions.
Sattellite radio (as well as DirecTV and cable audio) broadcasts one signal throughout the US, so they can target smaller audience groups and can skip the ads.
So I'd say xm/sirius do offer music that can't be heard elsewhere.
i guess you've never had an antenna shoved up your ass.
Offtopic: my no-bot text image is "anigger". GNAA indeed.
1) Linux was developed without being boned by them, and would continue to be developed without the aid of a big blue boner
2) HP, BM, Novell, etc. employ programmers to work on Linux and other OSS projects.
They donate cash because they're being shaken down.
IE also supports client-side VBScript. The only time I've seen it used is in IIS's remote control pages and dynamic code generated by javascript specifically for IE (to check for Flash player, etc).
I think they'd rather sell you Garage Band.
NextStep/OpenStep (originally 68k NeXT hardware only) was ported to run on generic x86 boxes. When OS X (rhapsody) was being developed, they had x86 developer releases.
Actually, very likely. See the 6100/66 DOS Compatible (95-96 era), which included a 486 card.
Interestingly enough, the ancient Greece democracy model required every bill to have a sponser. If the bill was later challenged and found unconstitutional, the sponsor was fined a (relatively) large amount.
Your premise seems to be that legislators blindly vote for a bill not knowing what they're voting for. That's certainly true for tax code, highway funding, and other pork, but in that case 1) it isn't easily summarized and 2) it's one big orgy of money and nobody cares as long as everybody orgasms.
SCOTUS don't play that game though, so it didn't last long.