In my junior and senior engineering courses
I agree with you, but the parent is talking about MATH classes not Engineering classes. All of which should have the math classes as prerequisites anyway. Using a calculator in Math is BAD.
Is this a copyright infringement on Super Target? And even if it isn't...does anyone else think this is the dumbest name ever? Really, I'm not sure why I would want to "SuperTarget" my search.
Just think how many positives for IBM such a marriage would provide. IBM would give the same credibility to the Macintosh computer, and its Microsoft-beating operating systems as it provided for the PC in the first place, thereby opening the flood gates of corporate demand.
That is about the biggest load of shit I have seen since Biff crashed into a manure truck in Back to the Future.
Of course it would be nice to have an Apple on my desk at work, but I think this guy is doing more coke than Tony Montana.
And then there is Apple. Could the Icon of Counter Culture ever merge with THE Corporation. Nah!
I don't know anything about this guy except his short bio, but he definately does not understand the Apple business model.
Hitching up with Apple would provide IBM with a real inroad into the fast growing 'lifestyle' market, something the men and women in blue suits kind of missed.
They didn't miss it. They just didn't have the right brand image to take advantage of it. The IBM iPod. Come on. It could have been the coolest thing ever and it wouldn't have made dollar one. The only thing people know about IBM is, well, IBusinessM. I can't think of the last consumer popular product IBM created. DOS? Who wants an MP3 player from International BUSINESS Machines. I think I would be more likely to buy one from Nike.
Dick: Dad, I just flew an airplane around the world on a single tank of gas, aren't you pround.
Dad: Quiet Dick, your borther Burt is sending a man into space.
Me: I know, I know, I am sure they are all one big happy family!
Isn't the problem really that DISNEY won't do anything new? Pixar is locked into a deal with disney and can't release their own movies. I can imagine that after they get out from under the disney brand, they will begin to release some not so disneyfied movies. Love him or hate him Steve Jobs and Apple are not known for doing the same old thing (they may have stolen the ideas from Xerox, but they sure as hell weren't copying IBM) so why would you expect the same old same old from Jobs and Pixar? Give 'em 2 more movies and you will see the real pixar!
they currently don't see sufficient numbers in the platform to make a good business case for it.
Isn't this a chicken and egg thing for Adobe? I can imagine there are several people who use Photoshop who are unwilling to switch to Linux because it has no Photoshop. I mean the GIMP is there, and it is a great product, but it is not Photoshop anymore than OO.o is MS Office. (It might work just as well, but it is still a whole new piece of software to learn the quirks in)
So what I am wondering is, does it make sense for Adobe to take the plunge and see what customers are out there?
That's it? It has a hard drive with 5 hours on it? Lets see here. MP3 encoding at ~1meg/minute. No that can't be right. Lets go WAV, 10 meg/minute so 5*60=300 so its 3000 megs. A 3 gig hard drive and its $349. WTF? This thing should be able to time shift hundreds of hours at that price. And if tivo can sell a 40 gig hard drive in their unit...and its $99. XM is not going to sell these things as well as they think.
But this article was written by the editor (Grossman) and it references the other article.
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&p a=showpage&pid=215
I can't figure out who actually submitted this story, but it seems the summary was "written" by gManZboy and the Article was written by Edward Grossman or gMan. Is this a shameless self promotion of a website? I can't find this guy as a user on slashdot either. Clicking on his name just takes me to the site. Did Hemos just find this on the net and think it was interesting? Anyone know?
Microsoft's revenue comes almost completely from Windows and Office. For the most part all of their other products are sold at a loss to add value to Windows and thus generate more Windows profits. It seems to me that MS would not mind a switch to Max OS all that much as Office is still $499/seat on the mac, and they don't have to sell you things like SQL server because you will get it from someone like oracle or mysql instead. I have always thought that if MS just dropped out of the OS market, and started focusing on porting MS office to every OS they would be able to continue their revenue stream. Honestly how many of you would buy MS Office to replace your OO.o suite on linux? Let the flaming begin!
If you bought a WMA only device, you'd have to re-purchase whatever music you'd want to listen to
I think Microsoft breaking into the music player market in any signifigant way is about as unlikely as Richard Branson's space liner not killing anyone before he reaches the 3000 passenger mark, but I think you are overstating their DRM a little. I'm sure you will still be able to rip music and play it, it will just be in WMA and will be locked down to devices associated directly with your computer. You wouldn't have to repurchase it, just re rip it. Of course the real test of this type of player will come from Sony, who has the biggest music player brand in the world and the crappiest player on the market. If their's doesn't sell, then maybe (again not likely) MS will reconsider this horrendously stupid move.
If you bought a WMA only device
I said I have an iPod, what in the world made you think I would EVER consider buying a WMA only device. How would I ever get my *.stolen files on it.
The 20 gig Ipod holds 5000 songs which is $5000 (you mean the 40gig), but that is not the point here. I Have a full 20 gig iPod that I have filled with ripped CD's I own. I rip my music at a quality that is acceptable (328 or whatever the high one is). So I have about 2500 songs on it. At 13 songs per cd that is 2500/13 or roughly 200 cds. 200 cds is a relatively small collection by todays youth standards. Collections of many of my friends range into the 1000's. I know 50yr olds who have collections just as big. Now I can't stand new music for the most part, so I buy my cd's at garage sales and get several of them for $0.50. My collection is huge, but it didn't cost nearly $10,000 to fill up my iPod legally. If I had bought my cd's new I would have spent roughly $3000 on it, and that still seems like a small amount for 24 years of collecting.
I think this could be sloved by adding something like a mouse scroll wheel to your steering wheel tha behaved like the iPod and a HUD on your windshield that displayed the information on the iPod...I know its a fairly grand scheme, but I think this is a very cool way to integrate to a car stereo!
I can just imagine Citizen Cane where everyone where's nike shoes and drinks Pepsi.
You had me right up until this sentence. I thought the argument was intelligent, and then you used where's (Where is) instead of wears. I can take the accidental misuse of a homonym, but HOW can you use a contraction in a verb? I assume you meant wear since I don't think that "where" owns a pair of shoes, and "everyone where is nike shoes" just doesn't make sense.
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In my junior and senior engineering courses I agree with you, but the parent is talking about MATH classes not Engineering classes. All of which should have the math classes as prerequisites anyway. Using a calculator in Math is BAD.
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How to SuperTarget your search
Is this a copyright infringement on Super Target? And even if it isn't...does anyone else think this is the dumbest name ever? Really, I'm not sure why I would want to "SuperTarget" my search.
Just think how many positives for IBM such a marriage would provide. IBM would give the same credibility to the Macintosh computer, and its Microsoft-beating operating systems as it provided for the PC in the first place, thereby opening the flood gates of corporate demand.
That is about the biggest load of shit I have seen since Biff crashed into a manure truck in Back to the Future.
Of course it would be nice to have an Apple on my desk at work, but I think this guy is doing more coke than Tony Montana.
And then there is Apple. Could the Icon of Counter Culture ever merge with THE Corporation. Nah!
I don't know anything about this guy except his short bio, but he definately does not understand the Apple business model.
Hitching up with Apple would provide IBM with a real inroad into the fast growing 'lifestyle' market, something the men and women in blue suits kind of missed.
They didn't miss it. They just didn't have the right brand image to take advantage of it. The IBM iPod. Come on. It could have been the coolest thing ever and it wouldn't have made dollar one. The only thing people know about IBM is, well, IBusinessM. I can't think of the last consumer popular product IBM created. DOS? Who wants an MP3 player from International BUSINESS Machines. I think I would be more likely to buy one from Nike.
Don't you mean
INSERT INTO slashdot (comment) VALUES ('In Korea only old people use databases');
MySQL is popular because its easy
Funny, I thought bashing certain software packages was popular because it was so easy!
Dick: Dad, I just flew an airplane around the world on a single tank of gas, aren't you pround. Dad: Quiet Dick, your borther Burt is sending a man into space.
Me: I know, I know, I am sure they are all one big happy family!
Isn't the problem really that DISNEY won't do anything new? Pixar is locked into a deal with disney and can't release their own movies. I can imagine that after they get out from under the disney brand, they will begin to release some not so disneyfied movies. Love him or hate him Steve Jobs and Apple are not known for doing the same old thing (they may have stolen the ideas from Xerox, but they sure as hell weren't copying IBM) so why would you expect the same old same old from Jobs and Pixar? Give 'em 2 more movies and you will see the real pixar!
I don't know, but it was a great book, and it is a great director!
they currently don't see sufficient numbers in the platform to make a good business case for it.
Isn't this a chicken and egg thing for Adobe? I can imagine there are several people who use Photoshop who are unwilling to switch to Linux because it has no Photoshop. I mean the GIMP is there, and it is a great product, but it is not Photoshop anymore than OO.o is MS Office. (It might work just as well, but it is still a whole new piece of software to learn the quirks in)
So what I am wondering is, does it make sense for Adobe to take the plunge and see what customers are out there?
I checked my calendar and nope...it is the middle of October. This is pretty cool.
Stop suing your customers, then perhaps we'll talk.
Are they really your customers if they aren't buying anything from you? If Pirates were customers of the music industry they wouldn't be suing them.
That's it? It has a hard drive with 5 hours on it? Lets see here. MP3 encoding at ~1meg/minute. No that can't be right. Lets go WAV, 10 meg/minute so 5*60=300 so its 3000 megs. A 3 gig hard drive and its $349. WTF? This thing should be able to time shift hundreds of hours at that price. And if tivo can sell a 40 gig hard drive in their unit...and its $99. XM is not going to sell these things as well as they think.
But this article was written by the editor (Grossman) and it references the other article. http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&p a=showpage&pid=215
I can't figure out who actually submitted this story, but it seems the summary was "written" by gManZboy and the Article was written by Edward Grossman or gMan. Is this a shameless self promotion of a website? I can't find this guy as a user on slashdot either. Clicking on his name just takes me to the site. Did Hemos just find this on the net and think it was interesting? Anyone know?
In some of them, if you throw enough money to the nearest elected official, they'll make all your regulatory problems go away.
How is this better than congress regulating things?
What jurisdiction does Congress have in Space? Any? I can see how regulating our airspace is their jurisdiction, but our space?
Microsoft's revenue comes almost completely from Windows and Office. For the most part all of their other products are sold at a loss to add value to Windows and thus generate more Windows profits. It seems to me that MS would not mind a switch to Max OS all that much as Office is still $499/seat on the mac, and they don't have to sell you things like SQL server because you will get it from someone like oracle or mysql instead. I have always thought that if MS just dropped out of the OS market, and started focusing on porting MS office to every OS they would be able to continue their revenue stream. Honestly how many of you would buy MS Office to replace your OO.o suite on linux? Let the flaming begin!
He was speeding. I hope he gets a ticket. Can he sue the car company for the cost of the ticket?
If you bought a WMA only device, you'd have to re-purchase whatever music you'd want to listen to
I think Microsoft breaking into the music player market in any signifigant way is about as unlikely as Richard Branson's space liner not killing anyone before he reaches the 3000 passenger mark, but I think you are overstating their DRM a little. I'm sure you will still be able to rip music and play it, it will just be in WMA and will be locked down to devices associated directly with your computer. You wouldn't have to repurchase it, just re rip it. Of course the real test of this type of player will come from Sony, who has the biggest music player brand in the world and the crappiest player on the market. If their's doesn't sell, then maybe (again not likely) MS will reconsider this horrendously stupid move.
If you bought a WMA only device
I said I have an iPod, what in the world made you think I would EVER consider buying a WMA only device. How would I ever get my *.stolen files on it.
The 20 gig Ipod holds 5000 songs which is $5000 (you mean the 40gig), but that is not the point here. I Have a full 20 gig iPod that I have filled with ripped CD's I own. I rip my music at a quality that is acceptable (328 or whatever the high one is). So I have about 2500 songs on it. At 13 songs per cd that is 2500/13 or roughly 200 cds. 200 cds is a relatively small collection by todays youth standards. Collections of many of my friends range into the 1000's. I know 50yr olds who have collections just as big. Now I can't stand new music for the most part, so I buy my cd's at garage sales and get several of them for $0.50. My collection is huge, but it didn't cost nearly $10,000 to fill up my iPod legally. If I had bought my cd's new I would have spent roughly $3000 on it, and that still seems like a small amount for 24 years of collecting.
I think this could be sloved by adding something like a mouse scroll wheel to your steering wheel tha behaved like the iPod and a HUD on your windshield that displayed the information on the iPod...I know its a fairly grand scheme, but I think this is a very cool way to integrate to a car stereo!
Indeed it is!
The Internet: Proof that a million monkeys with keyboards won't produce the complete works of Shakespeare.
No...but they will pirate it.
Sorry...I don't ever reply to sigs...but I just felt it was necessary!
I can just imagine Citizen Cane where everyone where's nike shoes and drinks Pepsi.
;-) No harm intended.
You had me right up until this sentence. I thought the argument was intelligent, and then you used where's (Where is) instead of wears. I can take the accidental misuse of a homonym, but HOW can you use a contraction in a verb? I assume you meant wear since I don't think that "where" owns a pair of shoes, and "everyone where is nike shoes" just doesn't make sense.
Anyway just my two sense.
The other responses to this were stupid. But this is LMAO funny!