Windows XP home is $200 for a high-volume, lower-quality product, with R&D costs shared with more expensive XP pro/2003 server. Most people immediatelly pay another $300 for Office. Apple can never survive selling the OS at these prices.
They are not making money selling free iTunes for Windows either. Currently, their only goal is to drive sales of iPods. In time, perhaps they can negotiate a better contract with music labels and the music store will become the main money maker.
That would be a wonderful idea if Apple could pay for their R&D effort by selling an OS without any application base. Everything would need to be recompiled, and forget about your classic apps. Would you pay $600 on top of your PC cost then to run an alternative OS? Solaris X86 is not making any great inroads last I heard.
With all the worms, spyware and apps violating user's privacy, we need a strong security model for individual processes rather than just different users.
Let's say, by default the application is allowed to only open one top level window and access it's own directory on the disk ala chroot jail. No internet access at all. Users can pick application type from a list of profile, for example "A typical web browser" and further edit permissions manually. Only priviliged system processes will be able to install or modify executables. Now try to turn my PC into a spambot.
Nope, the purpose of a public corporation is to do what they told you they would do when you invested and let you benefit from your share of the profit, by dividends or growth of the share price. If you invest in a ship, they better sail to the indies and come back with the goods to sell. They don't have to abandon all their employees at destination and come back with cheaper natives to man the sales. That's just captain's greed.
Being famous, Bill Gates could make serious money by literally screwing thousands of customers, male or female. Should shareholders require him to take his ass to Microsoft France and make money from what he is doing anyway.
When many sites withstand slashdotting that involves movies, images and dynamically generated pages. This kind of problem can only result from extraordinary stupidity of both client and server.
Start by running RSS reader on a cheaper separate server hosted by another ISP. If clients connect at random time, great. If they connect exactly on the hour, the ones that get through will only get the "news" about an RSS reader than will fix that problem.
There have been instances of former Microsoft employees securing another gainful engagement. One prominant one have even sent a private ship to space recently, without any complaint that he infringed on an XP desktop theme.
Microsoft was accused of stealing Altavista code lately. They are still hiring people with existing industry experience.
Have some choice patents waiting if Microsoft interferes with their ability to use open source. It doesn't matter if MS has more, just one of the other guy's patents will stick and cover some major aspect of Windows MS can't easily work around. Look how much trouble browser plugins patent caused. Like titlebar on windows or something. It would be nicer if software patents were outlawed, just like patents on mathematic formulas. But in the meantime, guaranteed mutual destruction counts for something.
It's embarassing, but not such a big deal. If you work in a big company, you group probably lost a deal worth more than $1M because it couldn't deliver some feature on time. And companies as a whole - oh boy. Microsoft stranded a Navy carrier at see before. If I had a dollar for every million lost because of their security/stability problems, I would drive a porsche by now.
Although I am done with college, I would have loved to opt out of all the unwanted general education classes and all the costs averaged with majors more expensive to support than an undergraduate degree in CS. I mean, a Linux PC is $1K/student/year to run. High-end physics equipment.. umm!
We need a school that only teaches programming in a cost effective manner, lets people graduate in 2 years and has such a good results that companies would rather hire its students that someone with a full degree.
If I'm paying through my college for cable television in my dorm, why should I have to pay if I want to get one of the movies I watched on cable on dvd after I graduate?
I trust that a Good Guys sales person will be able to explain how you can excersize your fair use rights in this situation.
We deserve 7 year old music for free, with a one time 7 year extension upon owner's request. Copyright is supposed to maximize the progress of arts and sciences, not profit/work ration of creators. Think artists/music companies would really not create songs if they could hold on to them for "only" 14 years? On the contrary, today they are encouraged to be idle because they still get money from old work. Look at Apple records.
Don't you want to try something else on the flight, like I don't know, browsing a magazine or shopping during a stopover? Personally my ears hurt after 6 hours with headphones and my brain hurts from listening to the same book for so long.
In this case, I don't see how even 20 hour battery life would be optimium. What she needs is a player with regular batteries and a box of Duracell ultra.
What are you doing to need more than 6-8hours battery life that can not be solved with a regular or car charger? I can not imagine listening to so much music or audiobooks in one shot. If anything, I can listen to iPod longer than a regular mp3 player because I can choose from my whole library.
Apple has undergone a dramatic transformation by emphasising computers that are pleasent to use and program for, down to case design of iMac, rather than just fast. Also, they did downsize to account for 2.8% market share rather than almost a half. Fortunately for them, the total number of computer owners expanded at the same time, so they didn't have to cut as much.
Still I suspect they don't need $5B in the bank to make a profit of 12 million. Don't they get as much from interest? If they returned like $4B back to shareholders by buying back their own stock, I would be very pleased as a shareholder and not too worried as a Mac owner who wants to buy an upgrade after a few years.
Sun on the other hand, so far failed to reinvent themselves. There last innovation was Java 1.1 and they failed to profit from that for all the years they had Java. Maybe it's time to cash in the chips and go home.
Why do you think Java requires an X server? Rendering is rendering, and general purpose CPUs are not good at either doing it at real time, or doing lots of it for web applications. Yes you can go to SGI and get a dedicated graphics processor without a video output. But it's lots cheaper/easier to plug in a few ATI "hard core gaming" video cards, do rendering using DirectX and send output back to client in a bitmap.
Yes, I didn't actually do this kind of things myself and just summarize what I read and experienced in other aspects of "PC vs server" issues. If you have a counterexample, maybe you should invest in a free slashdot account and share it with us.
Distribute all the cash and sales proceeds from their stuff to the employees and shareholders and then just close down. Then people can get back together and do something more promising. Why let good money go to waste.
Most computers are workstations and Sun's workstations have no chance against Dell. Apple is a "higher-quality" niche player, spends good money on R&D and has a good head start. What is Sun going to offer to get even 1% of the market?
Now the problem is that people want servers to be extensions of their workstations, not something totally different. Same UI for management, interoperable applications from the same vendors, one place to call for support and so on. Windows-based servers and to some degree XServe fit this model well. I wonder how Sun will address this problem. Even IBM better make sure that their Linux servers remain cheaper/more stable than Windows. You know, you could just run Apache on Win server and firewall everything except port 80. Instant security! I am sure Linux is currently better at multitasking/SMP but on the other hand driver support sucks (want to do some server-side rendering using your ATI video card?) and Microsoft will not sit still forever on performance.
People with high sex drive are more likely to rape, all other things being equal. Teenagers looking at violent pr0n rather than nakked chicks or normal sex is probably not a good idea. But I bet people with high sex drive and no regard for fellow humans who also don't even have an outlet of watching pr0n are the most dangerous of all. That's what we used to have in Soviet Russia and it wasn't pretty.
Leaving a marriage is not a crime. If there is nothing to keep you except physical attraction, you probably should leave, and if pr0n wakes you up to that fact, great. Alimony should be abolished. Child support, well if you have children you should support them as long as you are allowed to spend signifcant time with them and your wife doesn't try to make them hate you. Go and find someone who doesn't look like a playboy model, is at least slightly attractive to you, and has a great personality and desire to make you happy. Bet she wouldn't care you drive a used Civic. Yugo must be rare enough now to fetch a premium for sentimental value.
Something wildly popular usually manages to make money somehow - unless the owners are either too dumb or making profit is not their first priority. Next time Sony re-negotaites a contract with iTMS, it may find that half of their customers search for a song on that particular music service and just buy something else if they don't see it. All of a sudden, Apple gets to keep more of that $0.99. 2005) Profit!!!
1. You are a human being who is capable to learn how to shoot and possibly kill me 2. ??? 3. I will just kill you first, just in case
Real societies tend to adopt more restrictive laws, where self defence is allowed, but restricted to cases where the threat to your life is immediate and obvious. On the same note, Microsoft can update their contracts with a provision that if using a patent is the most straightforward way to run Windows on the hardware and utilize all it's features then Microsoft gets a free license for any use of the patent in computer operating systems. It would be too inconvinient for Microsoft to have it's own code that can not be copied to other places.
On the other hand, it's ridiculous if Microsoft releases headphones that uses Sony's patent without licensing it. Mind you, I hate patents for anything but extremly complicated, non-obvious ideas. But any contracts to bypass them should be mutual and matched in scope on both sides.
RTFAC (article copy posted by a nice slashdotter). They pay little attention to overclocking. That would make brand comparison way too expensive - you would need like a hundred chips bought over the course of a few month, from different stores. With that out of the way, chips are tested to perform to stated specs. If yourth doesn't, you can probably exchange it as defective.
The main value of the benchmark than, is to check if the manufacturer is honest. I am sure front side bus has some concept of retries, variable wait states or error correction, so one could just claim higher speed and generate lots of the above.
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You can just use sticky keys. You know, once there is enough sticky stuff on the keyboard, Shift doesn't come up on it's own.
Windows XP home is $200 for a high-volume, lower-quality product, with R&D costs shared with more expensive XP pro/2003 server. Most people immediatelly pay another $300 for Office. Apple can never survive selling the OS at these prices.
They are not making money selling free iTunes for Windows either. Currently, their only goal is to drive sales of iPods. In time, perhaps they can negotiate a better contract with music labels and the music store will become the main money maker.
That would be a wonderful idea if Apple could pay for their R&D effort by selling an OS without any application base. Everything would need to be recompiled, and forget about your classic apps. Would you pay $600 on top of your PC cost then to run an alternative OS? Solaris X86 is not making any great inroads last I heard.
With all the worms, spyware and apps violating user's privacy, we need a strong security model for individual processes rather than just different users.
Let's say, by default the application is allowed to only open one top level window and access it's own directory on the disk ala chroot jail. No internet access at all. Users can pick application type from a list of profile, for example "A typical web browser" and further edit permissions manually. Only priviliged system processes will be able to install or modify executables. Now try to turn my PC into a spambot.
Nope, the purpose of a public corporation is to do what they told you they would do when you invested and let you benefit from your share of the profit, by dividends or growth of the share price. If you invest in a ship, they better sail to the indies and come back with the goods to sell. They don't have to abandon all their employees at destination and come back with cheaper natives to man the sales. That's just captain's greed.
Being famous, Bill Gates could make serious money by literally screwing thousands of customers, male or female. Should shareholders require him to take his ass to Microsoft France and make money from what he is doing anyway.
When many sites withstand slashdotting that involves movies, images and dynamically generated pages. This kind of problem can only result from extraordinary stupidity of both client and server.
Start by running RSS reader on a cheaper separate server hosted by another ISP. If clients connect at random time, great. If they connect exactly on the hour, the ones that get through will only get the "news" about an RSS reader than will fix that problem.
There have been instances of former Microsoft employees securing another gainful engagement. One prominant one have even sent a private ship to space recently, without any complaint that he infringed on an XP desktop theme.
Microsoft was accused of stealing Altavista code lately. They are still hiring people with existing industry experience.
They meant Microsoft certified members of the oldest profession. Guys don't listen to Britney.
Uh-oh. I know Japanese are crazy about inventing and I would imagine filing patents. I am sure XBOX doesn't violate anything granted to Sony.
Have some choice patents waiting if Microsoft interferes with their ability to use open source. It doesn't matter if MS has more, just one of the other guy's patents will stick and cover some major aspect of Windows MS can't easily work around. Look how much trouble browser plugins patent caused. Like titlebar on windows or something. It would be nicer if software patents were outlawed, just like patents on mathematic formulas. But in the meantime, guaranteed mutual destruction counts for something.
It's embarassing, but not such a big deal. If you work in a big company, you group probably lost a deal worth more than $1M because it couldn't deliver some feature on time. And companies as a whole - oh boy. Microsoft stranded a Navy carrier at see before. If I had a dollar for every million lost because of their security/stability problems, I would drive a porsche by now.
Although I am done with college, I would have loved to opt out of all the unwanted general education classes and all the costs averaged with majors more expensive to support than an undergraduate degree in CS. I mean, a Linux PC is $1K/student/year to run. High-end physics equipment.. umm!
We need a school that only teaches programming in a cost effective manner, lets people graduate in 2 years and has such a good results that companies would rather hire its students that someone with a full degree.
If I'm paying through my college for cable television in my dorm, why should I have to pay if I want to get one of the movies I watched on cable on dvd after I graduate?
I trust that a Good Guys sales person will be able to explain how you can excersize your fair use rights in this situation.
We deserve 7 year old music for free, with a one time 7 year extension upon owner's request. Copyright is supposed to maximize the progress of arts and sciences, not profit/work ration of creators. Think artists/music companies would really not create songs if they could hold on to them for "only" 14 years? On the contrary, today they are encouraged to be idle because they still get money from old work. Look at Apple records.
Try a cross country flight with one stopover.
Don't you want to try something else on the flight, like I don't know, browsing a magazine or shopping during a stopover? Personally my ears hurt after 6 hours with headphones and my brain hurts from listening to the same book for so long.
In this case, I don't see how even 20 hour battery life would be optimium. What she needs is a player with regular batteries and a box of Duracell ultra.
What are you doing to need more than 6-8hours battery life that can not be solved with a regular or car charger? I can not imagine listening to so much music or audiobooks in one shot. If anything, I can listen to iPod longer than a regular mp3 player because I can choose from my whole library.
Apple has undergone a dramatic transformation by emphasising computers that are pleasent to use and program for, down to case design of iMac, rather than just fast. Also, they did downsize to account for 2.8% market share rather than almost a half. Fortunately for them, the total number of computer owners expanded at the same time, so they didn't have to cut as much.
Still I suspect they don't need $5B in the bank to make a profit of 12 million. Don't they get as much from interest? If they returned like $4B back to shareholders by buying back their own stock, I would be very pleased as a shareholder and not too worried as a Mac owner who wants to buy an upgrade after a few years.
Sun on the other hand, so far failed to reinvent themselves. There last innovation was Java 1.1 and they failed to profit from that for all the years they had Java. Maybe it's time to cash in the chips and go home.
Why do you think Java requires an X server? Rendering is rendering, and general purpose CPUs are not good at either doing it at real time, or doing lots of it for web applications. Yes you can go to SGI and get a dedicated graphics processor without a video output. But it's lots cheaper/easier to plug in a few ATI "hard core gaming" video cards, do rendering using DirectX and send output back to client in a bitmap.
Yes, I didn't actually do this kind of things myself and just summarize what I read and experienced in other aspects of "PC vs server" issues. If you have a counterexample, maybe you should invest in a free slashdot account and share it with us.
Distribute all the cash and sales proceeds from their stuff to the employees and shareholders and then just close down. Then people can get back together and do something more promising. Why let good money go to waste.
Most computers are workstations and Sun's workstations have no chance against Dell. Apple is a "higher-quality" niche player, spends good money on R&D and has a good head start. What is Sun going to offer to get even 1% of the market?
Now the problem is that people want servers to be extensions of their workstations, not something totally different. Same UI for management, interoperable applications from the same vendors, one place to call for support and so on. Windows-based servers and to some degree XServe fit this model well. I wonder how Sun will address this problem. Even IBM better make sure that their Linux servers remain cheaper/more stable than Windows. You know, you could just run Apache on Win server and firewall everything except port 80. Instant security! I am sure Linux is currently better at multitasking/SMP but on the other hand driver support sucks (want to do some server-side rendering using your ATI video card?) and Microsoft will not sit still forever on performance.
People with high sex drive are more likely to rape, all other things being equal. Teenagers looking at violent pr0n rather than nakked chicks or normal sex is probably not a good idea. But I bet people with high sex drive and no regard for fellow humans who also don't even have an outlet of watching pr0n are the most dangerous of all. That's what we used to have in Soviet Russia and it wasn't pretty.
Leaving a marriage is not a crime. If there is nothing to keep you except physical attraction, you probably should leave, and if pr0n wakes you up to that fact, great. Alimony should be abolished. Child support, well if you have children you should support them as long as you are allowed to spend signifcant time with them and your wife doesn't try to make them hate you. Go and find someone who doesn't look like a playboy model, is at least slightly attractive to you, and has a great personality and desire to make you happy. Bet she wouldn't care you drive a used Civic. Yugo must be rare enough now to fetch a premium for sentimental value.
Something wildly popular usually manages to make money somehow - unless the owners are either too dumb or making profit is not their first priority. Next time Sony re-negotaites a contract with iTMS, it may find that half of their customers search for a song on that particular music service and just buy something else if they don't see it. All of a sudden, Apple gets to keep more of that $0.99. 2005) Profit!!!
1. You are a human being who is capable to learn how to shoot and possibly kill me
2. ???
3. I will just kill you first, just in case
Real societies tend to adopt more restrictive laws, where self defence is allowed, but restricted to cases where the threat to your life is immediate and obvious. On the same note, Microsoft can update their contracts with a provision that if using a patent is the most straightforward way to run Windows on the hardware and utilize all it's features then Microsoft gets a free license for any use of the patent in computer operating systems. It would be too inconvinient for Microsoft to have it's own code that can not be copied to other places.
On the other hand, it's ridiculous if Microsoft releases headphones that uses Sony's patent without licensing it. Mind you, I hate patents for anything but extremly complicated, non-obvious ideas. But any contracts to bypass them should be mutual and matched in scope on both sides.
RTFAC (article copy posted by a nice slashdotter). They pay little attention to overclocking. That would make brand comparison way too expensive - you would need like a hundred chips bought over the course of a few month, from different stores. With that out of the way, chips are tested to perform to stated specs. If yourth doesn't, you can probably exchange it as defective.
The main value of the benchmark than, is to check if the manufacturer is honest. I am sure front side bus has some concept of retries, variable wait states or error correction, so one could just claim higher speed and generate lots of the above.