How many ipods did the itunes music store help sell? How many imacs did the ITMS help sell...
You are right, the ITMS isn't a huge moneymaker, it is profitable though. The ITMS is just another reason to say 'hey, maybe i should get one of them macs'. It compliments the Apple consumer hardware line, and that is where they make the big money.
they did, they called it the G4 Cube, and it sold horribly. However, it WAS the first computer in the US that wasn't allowed to be shipped overseas(temporarily), because the G4 processor was so powerful, the US Gov didn't want it available to the outside world.
Personally, i am hoping someday apple will remake the cube and sell it for very little profit, to make it into the lowend(near lowend. think: $500-800) range of computers. But that is just me.
itunes has the feature that lets you stream songs on your local lan(it was the entire internet, till apple 'upgraded' the software), which means that you can stream out any of your music(1 copy at a time, to make it legal) to your local office buddies. If the ipod could stream out software wirelessly, then... all woud be right with the world.
In reality, the batteries needed are the biggest hurdle, but it would be a killer app for bluetooth if they made it work.
you can put a version of osx(or os9, if your mac can boot to it), and boot off your harddrive. you can rip dvds and put them on your ipod, something i think would be very, cool:)
You don't have to put JUST music, the ipod supports any filetype, it acts just like a external harddrive... So all your favorite utilities, personal info, documents, pictures, movies, backup archives even. Anything you could ever need can just be copied onto the ipod:)
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remember, even thought that WOULD be a killer app, these ipods run on batteries, with a bluetooth streaming feature you can bet that those batteries would only last a handful of songs before they went kaput.
you CAN burns the songs for backup, and keep them on up to 3 macs... so that is 5 places to have the songs at any given time.... 10,000 dollars in songs would be fun though:)
how about the possibility of keeping their entire userbase(theoreticly) free of virii attacks that many of their customers friends are getting screwed by...
If my isp gave me spam filters and port blockage i would thank them... as long as i have a way(web interface, please) to customize those settings.
well, koffice is going to be moving to the OOo file format, and Abiword has mentioned it does plan to have a filter for it(at some point), but not likely as it's default format(sticking with.rtf instead).
Ok, i think the open source/Linux community has an interest in gaming, but lack the funds for hardware production which keeps console systems out of our reach... So my idea? create a framework, of APIs, opengl, etc. with a nice gracphical development enviroment to program a full blown game. These games wouldn't run on a console, necesarily, almost a virtual machine(similar to a java program). This console software could be put onto a linux desktop box and run as a program, or even have an option as a bootable drive, that makes the desktop act as a client(restart your computer, if you have a linux-console-cd inserted, it will boot to your linux console).
That way, in the future, some company can take this console software and build a custom console box that is tailored to run the games/virtual machine really well.
Note: this would turn into almost a very custom distro, with the goal of playing linux-console games very well, and developing the tools to make coding new games very easy...
Ask.com would be goof for tutorials possibly, or even Wikipedia. Another good idea that has been mentioned, make a well organized clean(and simple! no fancy stuff, just the facts) website and get it on google and what not. Even sharing that text with the above links, along with letting the word out on related websites, and your information will reach it's audience.
whatever detection software used by the central IM system, could also be used in the local IM server system....
Jabber lets you setup a local IM Server, that can connect to others so you can chat with whomever, there is no reason why these Jabber Servers can't be fitted with spam filtering and safegaurds just like the main central servers for MSN/AIM are.
no, they haven't forgotten, this is good ole' MS strategy. Right now, MSN is second seat to AOL/AIM in size. with AOL being as big as they are, they don't need to bow down to make it easy for the little guys to play in their sandbox(note: the FCC restrictions were recently lifted off of AOL TW). MS is playing the standards friendly underdog, until they can get the network size to flip AOL the bird and Microsoft can do whatever they want.
maybe we should name it rename Xfree86 to windows, since X puts 'windows' on the screen. And when you hear window, don't you just automaticly think 'a rectangle on a computer monitor' rather than, say, a peice of transparent glass in a wall?
Generic names like word, office, windows... so unimaginative...
so it is up to Dell, Gateway, and maybe even the Apple's of the world to stop these annoyances out of the Box. 1. Ship the default mail client with a Bayesian mail filter/spam filter to delete generic spam email. Bayesian would be best so that it can learn, what the user actually like/dislikes. And have the system ON from the get go. 2. Lockout all ports that are not needed(apple already does this) and ship with a generic firewall software program. 3. Use a browser, or write a plugin for IE, that can block popups!
that should fix a lot of things... any other questions?
Well ya, them bundling an OOo filter would be handy, but it would just be YET ANOTHER FEATURE the general masses wouldn't need. By the way, i believe it is free to create filters for Office(they wouldn't be bundled with every Office Sale, ofcourse) to read new formats, only no one has done it yet...
In my humble opinion, one (or all!) of these would be a better punishment:
*publish ALL their APIs... MS tried to avoid this siting some security reasons, but in reality is there even a downside to this?
*Document all aspects of the MS office file formats(and future formats) to an extent that a third party can write a filter equal to that of the native MS Office filter.
*Make it illegal(more illegal!) for MS to bully OEMs by saying 'if you ship that product line with Linux(or other OS) then we can't keep giving you the current deal on the Windows OEM version, it will now cost 10x of what you are currently paying per machine'... that is anticompetitive and wrong.
*require.net to have a port(equal to the native port) on 3 platforms other Windows(inlcuding windows alpha), or just make them port it to Mac, Linux, and Solaris.... any others that i am missing?
I thought the tubroPascal (and turboC++, which my school still uses, and i like) had a very good GUI... Since the code was GPLed (turbovision) why hasn't someone made a linux gui that uses it?!
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Ya, they are trojan horses... but they are profitable trojan's, and that is double great.
How many ipods did the itunes music store help sell? How many imacs did the ITMS help sell...
You are right, the ITMS isn't a huge moneymaker, it is profitable though. The ITMS is just another reason to say 'hey, maybe i should get one of them macs'. It compliments the Apple consumer hardware line, and that is where they make the big money.
they did, they called it the G4 Cube, and it sold horribly. However, it WAS the first computer in the US that wasn't allowed to be shipped overseas(temporarily), because the G4 processor was so powerful, the US Gov didn't want it available to the outside world.
Personally, i am hoping someday apple will remake the cube and sell it for very little profit, to make it into the lowend(near lowend. think: $500-800) range of computers. But that is just me.
itunes has the feature that lets you stream songs on your local lan(it was the entire internet, till apple 'upgraded' the software), which means that you can stream out any of your music(1 copy at a time, to make it legal) to your local office buddies. If the ipod could stream out software wirelessly, then... all woud be right with the world.
In reality, the batteries needed are the biggest hurdle, but it would be a killer app for bluetooth if they made it work.
actually, since you can boot a mac off one of these things, you might not be too far off:)
you can put a version of osx(or os9, if your mac can boot to it), and boot off your harddrive. you can rip dvds and put them on your ipod, something i think would be very, cool:)
You don't have to put JUST music, the ipod supports any filetype, it acts just like a external harddrive... So all your favorite utilities, personal info, documents, pictures, movies, backup archives even. Anything you could ever need can just be copied onto the ipod:)
one very sexy brushed metal wall:)
remember, even thought that WOULD be a killer app, these ipods run on batteries, with a bluetooth streaming feature you can bet that those batteries would only last a handful of songs before they went kaput.
you CAN burns the songs for backup, and keep them on up to 3 macs... so that is 5 places to have the songs at any given time.... 10,000 dollars in songs would be fun though :)
how about the possibility of keeping their entire userbase(theoreticly) free of virii attacks that many of their customers friends are getting screwed by...
If my isp gave me spam filters and port blockage i would thank them... as long as i have a way(web interface, please) to customize those settings.
well, koffice is going to be moving to the OOo file format, and Abiword has mentioned it does plan to have a filter for it(at some point), but not likely as it's default format(sticking with .rtf instead).
Ok, i think the open source/Linux community has an interest in gaming, but lack the funds for hardware production which keeps console systems out of our reach... So my idea? create a framework, of APIs, opengl, etc. with a nice gracphical development enviroment to program a full blown game. These games wouldn't run on a console, necesarily, almost a virtual machine(similar to a java program). This console software could be put onto a linux desktop box and run as a program, or even have an option as a bootable drive, that makes the desktop act as a client(restart your computer, if you have a linux-console-cd inserted, it will boot to your linux console).
That way, in the future, some company can take this console software and build a custom console box that is tailored to run the games/virtual machine really well.
Note: this would turn into almost a very custom distro, with the goal of playing linux-console games very well, and developing the tools to make coding new games very easy...
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Ask.com would be goof for tutorials possibly, or even Wikipedia. Another good idea that has been mentioned, make a well organized clean(and simple! no fancy stuff, just the facts) website and get it on google and what not. Even sharing that text with the above links, along with letting the word out on related websites, and your information will reach it's audience.
Sounds like a .pdf file with a stripped down pdf viewer builtin to me. But not a bad idea.
whatever detection software used by the central IM system, could also be used in the local IM server system....
Jabber lets you setup a local IM Server, that can connect to others so you can chat with whomever, there is no reason why these Jabber Servers can't be fitted with spam filtering and safegaurds just like the main central servers for MSN/AIM are.
no, they haven't forgotten, this is good ole' MS strategy. Right now, MSN is second seat to AOL/AIM in size. with AOL being as big as they are, they don't need to bow down to make it easy for the little guys to play in their sandbox(note: the FCC restrictions were recently lifted off of AOL TW). MS is playing the standards friendly underdog, until they can get the network size to flip AOL the bird and Microsoft can do whatever they want.
When you are the underdog, you have to play nice.
maybe we should name it rename Xfree86 to windows, since X puts 'windows' on the screen. And when you hear window, don't you just automaticly think 'a rectangle on a computer monitor' rather than, say, a peice of transparent glass in a wall?
Generic names like word, office, windows... so unimaginative...
now, if only they would use this supercomputer to run the Distributed.net client!
so it is up to Dell, Gateway, and maybe even the Apple's of the world to stop these annoyances out of the Box.
1. Ship the default mail client with a Bayesian mail filter/spam filter to delete generic spam email. Bayesian would be best so that it can learn, what the user actually like/dislikes. And have the system ON from the get go.
2. Lockout all ports that are not needed(apple already does this) and ship with a generic firewall software program.
3. Use a browser, or write a plugin for IE, that can block popups!
that should fix a lot of things... any other questions?
Well ya, them bundling an OOo filter would be handy, but it would just be YET ANOTHER FEATURE the general masses wouldn't need. By the way, i believe it is free to create filters for Office(they wouldn't be bundled with every Office Sale, ofcourse) to read new formats, only no one has done it yet...
.net to have a port(equal to the native port) on 3 platforms other Windows(inlcuding windows alpha), or just make them port it to Mac, Linux, and Solaris. ... any others that i am missing?
In my humble opinion, one (or all!) of these would be a better punishment:
*publish ALL their APIs... MS tried to avoid this siting some security reasons, but in reality is there even a downside to this?
*Document all aspects of the MS office file formats(and future formats) to an extent that a third party can write a filter equal to that of the native MS Office filter.
*Make it illegal(more illegal!) for MS to bully OEMs by saying 'if you ship that product line with Linux(or other OS) then we can't keep giving you the current deal on the Windows OEM version, it will now cost 10x of what you are currently paying per machine'... that is anticompetitive and wrong.
*require
how about an alias? just make 'ps -ef' mean 'ps -ax' in mac osx. simple hack:)
for those who are interested in bochs, Wintel is a bochs frontend that makes the configuration/use GUI (read: easy!) :)
for those who don't want to tink Wintel is a gui frontend to bochs, to make setup/use easier. Enjoy!
Borland's text user interface is called TurboVision, and is opensource under the GPL... Search sourceforge.
I thought the tubroPascal (and turboC++, which my school still uses, and i like) had a very good GUI... Since the code was GPLed (turbovision) why hasn't someone made a linux gui that uses it?!