Commodore failed to develop the Amiga and didn't know what to do with it. Dithering between marketing it as a business computer or a games machine.
About 6 years after I got my A500 in 1987 they finally released a new chipset, it was a stop gap hack until the long awaited AAA chipset came out. It never did appear due to bankruptcy. Rumour has it that they were still flying the company jet around right to the end.
If AAA had been released when the A3000 came out then the Amiga would have blown the competition away. They intended on having DSPs and 16-bit sound in the A3000 which they removed.
Incompetent management milking the original genius of Jay Miner (RIP), Dale Luck, RJ Mical and others. A600 (A500 in a smaller case with ECS).
I dont understand what is wrong with a good keyboard. Sure, on a phone you dont have much space, but tactile feedback is important. Spongey keys or worse still membrane keys are poor for typing.
Steve's obsession with minimalism does turn off many users. It also tarnishes the reputation of Apple, people always go on about their one button mouse.
I bought a bluetooth Mighty mouse and the right click ability drives you mad, its simply unusable. Not to mention very heavy.
People don't care about which format is better, they care about who controls it.
Organisations are trying to move away from Microsoft controlled formats for their documents, simply so they can choose which software to run and not have to use Microsoft simply because they are forced to.
Given the huge cost of Office it's no wonder many are trying alternatives.
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Actually, it might even increase sales, which all goes to show how DRM isn't good for hardware sales.
Entrapment is usually argued in the context that it was the Police who baited the victim and that the person would otherwise have been a person who would be unwilling to commit a crime.
It's annoying being into photography and not being able to print much. But I simply despise how this market has progressed. I can't think of many other markets (game consoles?) where the use of protection is so blatantly designed to sell something simple for more than the cost (per cc) of a good champagne.
I remember when a good printer cost a few hundred pounds, I'm sure I bought one for over 400 pounds (UK) once, that was an inkjet. Naturally prices will fall, but at the same time these chips have been introduced to increase the cost of cartridges and artificially lower the cost of the printer.
There were no 3rd party cartridges about 10 or so years ago. It's time for the printer manufacturers to be fair about consumables. Perhaps the environmental angle could be used to force change? make manufactures produce refillable cartridges to cut down on waste.
This is all part of a gradual decline in the value of music. It is now so cheap to make that people give it away anyway, unsigned artists have mp3s all over the net.
The music giants want to keep the price and cost of music high since they spend so much money hiring expensive producers, remixers and video producers.
Prince is well known for cranking out much fast, he can record and mix and album in a week. So it's no wonder he can give away a CD.
1. Vista isn't exactly in widespread use. The sort of people who poke holes in Windows and use it for spam bots etc will concentrate on XP for now as it is much easier. The anti-piracy and activation make pirating Vista a little harder, again this means the low life will not use it for a while.
2. Linux is easily available to all. Plus people identifying security holes are helping out, they do it to improve the product. They would do this for Windows too, but they don't have access to the code.
3. Mac OS uses a lot of open source tools, gcc, samba etc.. these have bugs and holes identified from time to time. So Apple naturally has to plug them.
All the other consoles are making a loss with each sale. The Wii makes Nintendo a profit with each sale. That profit can be invested in Nintendo's own development of games which are usually very good games.
Sony will lose even more money once they lower the very high price of a PS3.
I wasn't convinced about the iPhone until I watched it. While the data rate will be slow, the whole operation of the phone is very simple and highly usable.
While the product may or may not succeed, you will see much of it's functionality stolen by Microsoft and the Symbian crew.
The iPhone interface makes UIQ, S60 and Windows mobile seem like dumbphones.
No wonder standards are slipping in education, especially science and maths.
A blackboard/whiteboard doesn't go wrong and it relies upon having a good tutor who knows what they are talking about. They can't just flick through a load of slides, they have to interact with the class.
People designed planes, nuclear bombs and all sorts of engineering/science marvels without computers. Computers are useful but not essential.
As 3D graphics become more realistic the chances of disturbing people become greater. It's not like watching a horror film where you are the observer, you are taking on the role of the killer.
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While Europe and other markets use GSM, the US market started up using CDMA.
Much of the phone innovation has come from European and Asian companies and these have usually been GSM phones.
Commodore deserved bankruptcy, the Amiga didn't.
Commodore failed to develop the Amiga and didn't know what to do with it. Dithering between marketing it as a business computer or a games machine.
About 6 years after I got my A500 in 1987 they finally released a new chipset, it was a stop gap hack until the long awaited AAA chipset came out. It never did appear due to bankruptcy. Rumour has it that they were still flying the company jet around right to the end.
If AAA had been released when the A3000 came out then the Amiga would have blown the competition away. They intended on having DSPs and 16-bit sound in the A3000 which they removed.
Incompetent management milking the original genius of Jay Miner (RIP), Dale Luck, RJ Mical and others. A600 (A500 in a smaller case with ECS).
Apple make keyboards, the iPod has buttons.
I dont understand what is wrong with a good keyboard. Sure, on a phone you dont have much space, but tactile feedback is important. Spongey keys or worse still membrane keys are poor for typing.
Steve's obsession with minimalism does turn off many users. It also tarnishes the reputation of Apple, people always go on about their one button mouse.
I bought a bluetooth Mighty mouse and the right click ability drives you mad, its simply unusable. Not to mention very heavy.
Everyone is putting off upgrading or buying a Mac until leopard appears.
Considering the Wii was launched about a year later those are impressive sales figures.
Also about 50% or more of the 360 sales are in the US. Japanese sales are under half a million.
It has a terminal, plus you can use a USB link and SSH into it from your PC.
It uses open embedded, so you use bitbake to compile, this uses GCC to cross compile.
People don't care about which format is better, they care about who controls it.
Organisations are trying to move away from Microsoft controlled formats for their documents, simply so they can choose which software to run and not have to use Microsoft simply because they are forced to.
Given the huge cost of Office it's no wonder many are trying alternatives.
Actually, it might even increase sales, which all goes to show how DRM isn't good for hardware sales.
They can release it under any licence they like.
Do you really think a hardware vendor who implements Samba in their product would stop using it and write their own SMB implementation?
Moving important projects to GPL3 is a good idea as it prevents abuse of the code.
Entrapment is usually argued in the context that it was the Police who baited the victim and that the person would otherwise have been a person who would be unwilling to commit a crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment
Being as someone was searching for such a site and signed up suggests that it isn't entrapment.
Current Macbooks have multitouch detection. If you place one finger on the trackpad then move around with the other finger it scrolls around webpages.
I would imagine the current limitation is that it can't detection multiple positions, just that there is something else on the pad.
It's annoying being into photography and not being able to print much. But I simply despise how this market has progressed. I can't think of many other markets (game consoles?) where the use of protection is so blatantly designed to sell something simple for more than the cost (per cc) of a good champagne.
I remember when a good printer cost a few hundred pounds, I'm sure I bought one for over 400 pounds (UK) once, that was an inkjet. Naturally prices will fall, but at the same time these chips have been introduced to increase the cost of cartridges and artificially lower the cost of the printer.
There were no 3rd party cartridges about 10 or so years ago. It's time for the printer manufacturers to be fair about consumables. Perhaps the environmental angle could be used to force change? make manufactures produce refillable cartridges to cut down on waste.
I think Apple like to frustrate Windows users on purpose. There's no reason why 64-bit wouldn't simply be a re-compile?
This is all part of a gradual decline in the value of music. It is now so cheap to make that people give it away anyway, unsigned artists have mp3s all over the net.
The music giants want to keep the price and cost of music high since they spend so much money hiring expensive producers, remixers and video producers.
Prince is well known for cranking out much fast, he can record and mix and album in a week. So it's no wonder he can give away a CD.
Why would it be a problem for Mac users? there are literally a handful of viruses and malware for the Mac.
I doubt these bugs will cause problems for many end users, it is those using servers that will be worried. But the code has to get onto the box first.
I keep hearing that Linux isn't user friendly. But people are so used to Windows that they find anything else pretty much alien to them.
But then you read stuff like this and realise it's not as hard as people think.
http://www.cio.com/article/120452
Sure, if stuff breaks it can be hard to put right, but the same is true if your Windows PC won't boot and you don't know much about computers.
1. Vista isn't exactly in widespread use. The sort of people who poke holes in Windows and use it for spam bots etc will concentrate on XP for now as it is much easier. The anti-piracy and activation make pirating Vista a little harder, again this means the low life will not use it for a while.
2. Linux is easily available to all. Plus people identifying security holes are helping out, they do it to improve the product. They would do this for Windows too, but they don't have access to the code.
3. Mac OS uses a lot of open source tools, gcc, samba etc.. these have bugs and holes identified from time to time. So Apple naturally has to plug them.
Why not forever until the right people get the message?
I dont really use online radio, but if I did I wouldn't miss it for a day.
In the UK what killed off steam vehicles was axle weight restrictions, obviously a steam car is going to be much heavier than a petrol machine.
But these days in the UK you can drive a steam car without paying road tax, which for enthusiasts is a good thing.
The price of steam rollers and machinery is very high now due to popularity of the hobby, there's quite a few steam rallys around.
All the other consoles are making a loss with each sale. The Wii makes Nintendo a profit with each sale. That profit can be invested in Nintendo's own development of games which are usually very good games.
Sony will lose even more money once they lower the very high price of a PS3.
I wasn't convinced about the iPhone until I watched it. While the data rate will be slow, the whole operation of the phone is very simple and highly usable.
While the product may or may not succeed, you will see much of it's functionality stolen by Microsoft and the Symbian crew.
The iPhone interface makes UIQ, S60 and Windows mobile seem like dumbphones.
No wonder standards are slipping in education, especially science and maths.
A blackboard/whiteboard doesn't go wrong and it relies upon having a good tutor who knows what they are talking about. They can't just flick through a load of slides, they have to interact with the class.
People designed planes, nuclear bombs and all sorts of engineering/science marvels without computers. Computers are useful but not essential.
What use is a choice of games if people have little money to buy them after the cost of the console.
I have bought 4 Wii games so far and the cost of the console plus games is still less than a PS3.
As 3D graphics become more realistic the chances of disturbing people become greater. It's not like watching a horror film where you are the observer, you are taking on the role of the killer.
This is one angle to pursue, you have requested a page and the page you receive has been altered by the proxy, therefore "corrupted" the data.
If this continues then someone can write a plugin for Firefox to stop the adverts.