Does anyone know what happened at the meeting? Or where we can get some info on it? Yeah, it's fine and dandy to say "there's a meeting", but what the hell happened? It's almost as bad as saying "The Steelers are playing the Eagles in the Super Bowl tomorrow" and then hearing nothing else about it. Ayeeeee! I need to know...please...help...me...
Ahhhh, the random memories. I remember playing on the IIe. One assignment we had was to generate a quiz, so I wrote a program to ask who all the US Presidents were. I was already a geek in 6th grade. Three years later we still had IIe computers (different school...different state actually). We had to "draw" something, so my monochrome monitor ended up with a top view of an F-15.
Then the IIc came out and I thought that was the bomb.
Back to Woz...he's the man. Jobs is the man. Together, they rock. Wox has that childlike curiousity that keeps him working on things and coming up with new ideas and inventions. Unfortunately it's not always the "best idea" that gets there. Luckily Jobs was his buddy and took the business reigns.
And kudos to Woz for teaching, being a philanthropist, and giving his time to the people. In a time when so many executives just don't give a flyin' F about the "little people" and would rather build a nice big golden parachute for themselves, or worse yet, just suck the money from the company and the people and start half a dozen scandals, The Woz is truly a wonder to behold.
Ok, now that I got THAT out of my system (I blame it on the caffeine), I can ramble on about why this is so rediculous.
First, it's nuts that they're even allowed to get away with this. It's just absurd. Why does this one body have THIS much power? It's a precedent that must be stopped. Now. But instead we (gov't) are letting it get more and more out of hand.
Second, the whole "we're losing sales because of file swapping" is just dumb too. Hey guys (RIAA, not my fellow Slashdotters), we're in the midst of a recession. You're lucky you're selling ANY CDs at all, especially considering the prices you're charging. Even if there was no file swapping at all, sales would still drop. Who would they blame it on then? Bush? Clinton? Iraq? Please...
Does anyone else see all this as such a beautiful way to bring more *NIX geeks to the world? The Mac used to be considered a "toy". REAL programmers code on their PCs or Sparc stations. But now you have this Mac toy with such powerful UNIX underpinnings that is really getting the programming and hacking community excited.
I can see kids toying around on their parent's Mac. They tinker. They tinker more. Soon they're playing with Fink or with Gentoo. All of a sudden there are soooo many *NIX hackers out there that didn't even mean to be in the arena.
I know I'm guilty of it. And thousands more will be in no time at all.
Don't you find it ironic that the worldâ(TM)s biggest software company got there not by innovation but rather by other means, and now they're bemoaning that very fact? They started off by buying OS code and licensing their way into most computers built. As their warchest grew and grew, they simply swallowed up other innovative companies or put innovative companies perceived as a threat to their death.
This company was never based on customer service and now they want to be perceived that way? It's going to be quite tough for this large company to change the corporate culture that has run deep in its veins since the beginning of its existence, if it's even doable at all.
Microsoft files for patent for simple exchange process. Said process involves a transfer of carbon dioxide and oxygen between a semi-permeable membrane.
This is a good thing. Why? Because Palm/Handspring gets to consolidate the product line. Some people were bitching and moaning about "what gets dumped? Palm's good stuff or Handspring's good stuff?" I would assume it would be Palm's BAD stuff and Handpring's BAD stuff, thus leaving a tighter product line with the best features from both companies. Sounds like a good deal to me.
This rings familiar from the Apple times. Remember how many products Apple had? And then they had the clones. Buy out the clone licenses, tighten up the product line, and voila. Apple is much more focused. Consumers in the Palm market will have fewer, but BETTER options. No more confusion between 16 SLIGHTLY different products, but instead having more features in fewer models.
The Apple spokesman said it right with there is no timetable yet for when the songs could be added. "It's quality over quantity at this point,"
How many times have we seen Microsoft scramble to put up just ANY product that mimicks Apple or any other company, no matter how shoddy it was, and then use their deep pockets and name to further advance it. Windows 3.1 was hideous but they had to put SOMETHING out there against Apple and then keep revising it until it got better and people thought it was actually a good, innovative product. Same with the WinCE-powered handhelds. Palm was doing fine (ok, it was a portable OS going against Palm's organizing OS, but stick with me here) and then MS introduced WinCE which wasn't that hot either but after a few revisions it's turning out to be ok. Microsoft simply doesn't want to be left out and they're racing ahead with AOL/Time Warner now to ensure that doesn't happen.
Including indie labels is a brilliant move on Apple's part. Just think of the demographic of most Mac buyers anyway. Slightly creative, free-thinking, willing to pay a bit more for quality. It's the Mac owner that knows who is on these indie labels already.
And let's not forget Jobs and his pull in the entertainment industry. People there WANT to do business with him, from the artist level all the way up to managment. I just hope enough strategic alliances can be made so that a solid foundation can be built and not be torn away by a shoddy imitation with lots of money.
When iSync first came out I almost switched cell providers just so I could be a geek and use my phone. But I stayed with Sprint. Then I saw the SonyEricsson that was compatible with CDMA systems so I still stayed. And now this announcement, and yet I STILL don't see Sprint phone on their site.
So my basic rambling gets down to the fact Apple rocks and some of these phone companies have no idea how much business they are getting simply because of iSync. And Sprint needs to get off their ass 'cause I'm gonna switch soon if they don't.
They could make so much more money if they were to put up a web cam that shows them working on the film. Yeahh...that's the ticket. And every 12 hours shut it off and recycle old footage. Yeah. $20 a subscriber.
A simple question. Why would an OS X user want to use CUPS? I know there's a good reason it is built in, I just haven't found the need to use it yet.
Maybe I'll use it, maybe I won't. I remember thinking "PDF workflow handling in OS X? Why bother?" but it turned out to be a great help when working on newsletters and such and mailing them out from Illustrator.
So if anyone could post a good "5 - Informative" reply to me, I'd love it.
I guess that would be the only reason to pay $20. I want to see the cast and crew take that long tongue and tie it to doorknobs, maybe tie him up with it. I guess tossing it in a blender would be pretty cool too.
Or better yet, get that gecko glue and stick the tongue onto a moving prop...
Good googly!
This is what Quark has been waiting for. Now that we can zoom along at these blazingly fast new speeds, Quark will finally release the OS X version and the Mac platform will be saved.
As a CMU grad, I can say that none of us really needed help getting our hands sticky. Oops, did I say that out loud? I guess that's what happens when you go to a school that had a 70/30 ratio (I heard it may be better now) and was right down the street from Pitt.
Mmmmmm...sticky hands...*drooling*
As long as the computers don't take over our needs for drunken bar sex. When I get served by a robot, play video poker, lose to a foosball machine, and then turned down by a machine, I'll be just fine.
Now if only I could find my old copy of Mac Foxes. Now THAT was a game...
Does it surprise anyone that Real is doing this? Apple sold two million songs in just over two weeks. And think about how small the Apple market is. Based on percentages alone, of course Real would think "hm, well let's go after the other 95% of the market. Even if we only get 50% of those, we can make a killing".
That's just one part of the argument though. The "pure number" arguement.
Then you get into the geek argument of "great...first we had to deal with browser wars, then media player wars, now we're going to have online music service wars". Real is a major player in the market along with QuickTime and Win Media Player. They are not going to sit back and watch Apple take the market in online music sales when they eventually take over the Windows side (iPod seems to be a hit over with PC users now...so can this).
True, the pricing blows. You could buy a CD from Apple for the same price as simply SUBSCRIBING to Real's service. Riiiiiight...
From their (Real's) standpoint, it's a good, preventative measure to remain a player in the digital world.
From our standpoint...WTF?
Ok...this doesn't make any sense at all. They want to "pass the charges on to the students" as an incentive to not use the "illegal" methods? Um...isn't that the whole reason people are flocking to the "illegal" methods? So they don't have to pay?
When I initially read it, I thought it was a good idea. It could also legitimize the whole online services and show the industry people that it's a viable business model. But schools should suck up the costs. They make enough in tuition and other charges. They can use this as a marketing incentive...
That's the nature of the beast. Innovation comes from the little people with grand ideas. "Hey...I have a BETTER idea how to network, or how to have an interface with a computer..." and so on. Come up with a crazy idea and hopefully your idea is good enough to have standards be based around your idea (ie, 802.11(whatever letter you choose), FireWire, USB, etc).
If you design based on current standards, you're screwed. We would be nowhere in society if we continued to design around standards.
Yay...Microsoft is so nice giving software to all those non-profits.
Or are they?
I mean...it very highly resembles the "hey, we did bad with anti-trust, so we'll pay our fines by providing schools with lots of our software." In other words "Let's flood the market with our product and make the non-profits rely on us then we can go with the nutty pricing scheme later on while also keeping Linux and Apple out of there".
Maybe I'm just a crabby, cynical fella. Thoughts anyone?
Sadly enough, it doesn't really surprise me. I lived down the street from the Capitola store and was always annoyed that they didn't have a website. A simple thing like that could have helped draw customers to that location instead of having to drive over to the Apple Store over the Hill.
It WAS fun having new Apple stuff within walking distance. They just didn't have decent business sense.
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Does anyone know what happened at the meeting? Or where we can get some info on it? Yeah, it's fine and dandy to say "there's a meeting", but what the hell happened? It's almost as bad as saying "The Steelers are playing the Eagles in the Super Bowl tomorrow" and then hearing nothing else about it. Ayeeeee! I need to know...please...help...me...
Ahhhh, the random memories. I remember playing on the IIe. One assignment we had was to generate a quiz, so I wrote a program to ask who all the US Presidents were. I was already a geek in 6th grade. Three years later we still had IIe computers (different school...different state actually). We had to "draw" something, so my monochrome monitor ended up with a top view of an F-15.
Then the IIc came out and I thought that was the bomb.
Back to Woz...he's the man. Jobs is the man. Together, they rock. Wox has that childlike curiousity that keeps him working on things and coming up with new ideas and inventions. Unfortunately it's not always the "best idea" that gets there. Luckily Jobs was his buddy and took the business reigns.
And kudos to Woz for teaching, being a philanthropist, and giving his time to the people. In a time when so many executives just don't give a flyin' F about the "little people" and would rather build a nice big golden parachute for themselves, or worse yet, just suck the money from the company and the people and start half a dozen scandals, The Woz is truly a wonder to behold.
Ok, now that I got THAT out of my system (I blame it on the caffeine), I can ramble on about why this is so rediculous.
First, it's nuts that they're even allowed to get away with this. It's just absurd. Why does this one body have THIS much power? It's a precedent that must be stopped. Now. But instead we (gov't) are letting it get more and more out of hand.
Second, the whole "we're losing sales because of file swapping" is just dumb too. Hey guys (RIAA, not my fellow Slashdotters), we're in the midst of a recession. You're lucky you're selling ANY CDs at all, especially considering the prices you're charging. Even if there was no file swapping at all, sales would still drop. Who would they blame it on then? Bush? Clinton? Iraq? Please...
Rreally
Ignorant
Anal
Assmunches
Sorry.
Just venting.
But they really piss me off.
Does anyone else see all this as such a beautiful way to bring more *NIX geeks to the world? The Mac used to be considered a "toy". REAL programmers code on their PCs or Sparc stations. But now you have this Mac toy with such powerful UNIX underpinnings that is really getting the programming and hacking community excited.
I can see kids toying around on their parent's Mac. They tinker. They tinker more. Soon they're playing with Fink or with Gentoo. All of a sudden there are soooo many *NIX hackers out there that didn't even mean to be in the arena.
I know I'm guilty of it. And thousands more will be in no time at all.
Don't you find it ironic that the worldâ(TM)s biggest software company got there not by innovation but rather by other means, and now they're bemoaning that very fact? They started off by buying OS code and licensing their way into most computers built. As their warchest grew and grew, they simply swallowed up other innovative companies or put innovative companies perceived as a threat to their death.
This company was never based on customer service and now they want to be perceived that way? It's going to be quite tough for this large company to change the corporate culture that has run deep in its veins since the beginning of its existence, if it's even doable at all.
Oh my...
BR Does that mean Simon Says is going to be the annoying little judge that makes all the other robots cry?
This just in.
Microsoft files for patent for simple exchange process. Said process involves a transfer of carbon dioxide and oxygen between a semi-permeable membrane.
Damn...guess I can't breathe anymore...
This is a good thing. Why? Because Palm/Handspring gets to consolidate the product line. Some people were bitching and moaning about "what gets dumped? Palm's good stuff or Handspring's good stuff?" I would assume it would be Palm's BAD stuff and Handpring's BAD stuff, thus leaving a tighter product line with the best features from both companies. Sounds like a good deal to me.
This rings familiar from the Apple times. Remember how many products Apple had? And then they had the clones. Buy out the clone licenses, tighten up the product line, and voila. Apple is much more focused. Consumers in the Palm market will have fewer, but BETTER options. No more confusion between 16 SLIGHTLY different products, but instead having more features in fewer models.
I'm an optimist I guess...
The Apple spokesman said it right with there is no timetable yet for when the songs could be added. "It's quality over quantity at this point,"
How many times have we seen Microsoft scramble to put up just ANY product that mimicks Apple or any other company, no matter how shoddy it was, and then use their deep pockets and name to further advance it. Windows 3.1 was hideous but they had to put SOMETHING out there against Apple and then keep revising it until it got better and people thought it was actually a good, innovative product. Same with the WinCE-powered handhelds. Palm was doing fine (ok, it was a portable OS going against Palm's organizing OS, but stick with me here) and then MS introduced WinCE which wasn't that hot either but after a few revisions it's turning out to be ok. Microsoft simply doesn't want to be left out and they're racing ahead with AOL/Time Warner now to ensure that doesn't happen.
Including indie labels is a brilliant move on Apple's part. Just think of the demographic of most Mac buyers anyway. Slightly creative, free-thinking, willing to pay a bit more for quality. It's the Mac owner that knows who is on these indie labels already.
And let's not forget Jobs and his pull in the entertainment industry. People there WANT to do business with him, from the artist level all the way up to managment. I just hope enough strategic alliances can be made so that a solid foundation can be built and not be torn away by a shoddy imitation with lots of money.
When iSync first came out I almost switched cell providers just so I could be a geek and use my phone. But I stayed with Sprint. Then I saw the SonyEricsson that was compatible with CDMA systems so I still stayed. And now this announcement, and yet I STILL don't see Sprint phone on their site.
So my basic rambling gets down to the fact Apple rocks and some of these phone companies have no idea how much business they are getting simply because of iSync. And Sprint needs to get off their ass 'cause I'm gonna switch soon if they don't.
So there.
They could make so much more money if they were to put up a web cam that shows them working on the film. Yeahh...that's the ticket. And every 12 hours shut it off and recycle old footage. Yeah. $20 a subscriber.
I think I should get $5 just for suggesting it.
A simple question. Why would an OS X user want to use CUPS? I know there's a good reason it is built in, I just haven't found the need to use it yet.
Maybe I'll use it, maybe I won't. I remember thinking "PDF workflow handling in OS X? Why bother?" but it turned out to be a great help when working on newsletters and such and mailing them out from Illustrator.
So if anyone could post a good "5 - Informative" reply to me, I'd love it.
I guess that would be the only reason to pay $20. I want to see the cast and crew take that long tongue and tie it to doorknobs, maybe tie him up with it. I guess tossing it in a blender would be pretty cool too.
Or better yet, get that gecko glue and stick the tongue onto a moving prop...
Good googly!
This is what Quark has been waiting for. Now that we can zoom along at these blazingly fast new speeds, Quark will finally release the OS X version and the Mac platform will be saved.
Hurray!
I've heard of a way to get hairy palms. It hasn't seemed to work thus far though. Guess it takes a certain level of mastery
Huh huh...you said "mastery"
As a CMU grad, I can say that none of us really needed help getting our hands sticky. Oops, did I say that out loud? I guess that's what happens when you go to a school that had a 70/30 ratio (I heard it may be better now) and was right down the street from Pitt. Mmmmmm...sticky hands...*drooling*
I sure hope not. Then you'll have both SCO and RIAA coming after your ass. Run away!!!!
As long as the computers don't take over our needs for drunken bar sex. When I get served by a robot, play video poker, lose to a foosball machine, and then turned down by a machine, I'll be just fine. Now if only I could find my old copy of Mac Foxes. Now THAT was a game...
Does it surprise anyone that Real is doing this? Apple sold two million songs in just over two weeks. And think about how small the Apple market is. Based on percentages alone, of course Real would think "hm, well let's go after the other 95% of the market. Even if we only get 50% of those, we can make a killing". That's just one part of the argument though. The "pure number" arguement. Then you get into the geek argument of "great...first we had to deal with browser wars, then media player wars, now we're going to have online music service wars". Real is a major player in the market along with QuickTime and Win Media Player. They are not going to sit back and watch Apple take the market in online music sales when they eventually take over the Windows side (iPod seems to be a hit over with PC users now...so can this). True, the pricing blows. You could buy a CD from Apple for the same price as simply SUBSCRIBING to Real's service. Riiiiiight... From their (Real's) standpoint, it's a good, preventative measure to remain a player in the digital world. From our standpoint...WTF?
Ok...this doesn't make any sense at all. They want to "pass the charges on to the students" as an incentive to not use the "illegal" methods? Um...isn't that the whole reason people are flocking to the "illegal" methods? So they don't have to pay? When I initially read it, I thought it was a good idea. It could also legitimize the whole online services and show the industry people that it's a viable business model. But schools should suck up the costs. They make enough in tuition and other charges. They can use this as a marketing incentive...
That's the nature of the beast. Innovation comes from the little people with grand ideas. "Hey...I have a BETTER idea how to network, or how to have an interface with a computer..." and so on. Come up with a crazy idea and hopefully your idea is good enough to have standards be based around your idea (ie, 802.11(whatever letter you choose), FireWire, USB, etc). If you design based on current standards, you're screwed. We would be nowhere in society if we continued to design around standards.
Yay...Microsoft is so nice giving software to all those non-profits. Or are they? I mean...it very highly resembles the "hey, we did bad with anti-trust, so we'll pay our fines by providing schools with lots of our software." In other words "Let's flood the market with our product and make the non-profits rely on us then we can go with the nutty pricing scheme later on while also keeping Linux and Apple out of there". Maybe I'm just a crabby, cynical fella. Thoughts anyone?
Sadly enough, it doesn't really surprise me. I lived down the street from the Capitola store and was always annoyed that they didn't have a website. A simple thing like that could have helped draw customers to that location instead of having to drive over to the Apple Store over the Hill. It WAS fun having new Apple stuff within walking distance. They just didn't have decent business sense.