It's funny how Google keep adding value to XP on the desktop by providing robust, well executed user orientated applications for Microsoft customers. I wouldn't use my Thinkpad at all (my iBook wears the pants in our relationship) if it weren't for Mozilla, Picassa, Google desktop, and the odd FPS now and then.
Somehow XP feels like the end of the road for Microsoft... Longhorn doesn't feel like it's ever coming. I'd like to see what Google could do with XP if Microsoft sold off it's OS division and concentrated on Xbox, Office etc
It seems interesting to me that Apple is so forthright in talking about the "razor-thin" margins involved in their iTMS venture... sounds like they're trying to convince someone about their intentions... they keep saying they just want to sell ipods and macs.
Its exactly what I would be saying to a paranoid recording industry at this time.
"Its ok, we just want to sell out little mp3 players, we're not trying to take your market away from you."
I guarantee that while the iTMS keeps growing and becoming the dominant online music service that Apple will keep insisting that it is not in the business of music to keep an already paranoid recording industry calm. When the sales on iTMS become significant thats when the playing field will alter... apple will be able to negotiate better deals and the record companies won't be able to threaten their supply. Also consider an apple subsidury being able to approach bands and say "here's how many CDs you sold last year and here's how many mp3s you sold on iTMS... now who's you're daddy."
I think OS X is great, use it for all my creative work but Linux is the future of operating systems... and it all has to do with embedded systems and the versatility of linux.
PC sales have stopped growing, I hate PC's... the're big, clunky (Im talking about laptops here too) and they get hot. Throughout a regular day I check my email, check stuff on the web, browse files, listen to music... things that would be far more conveniant to do on a device that didn't cost more than $1000 or weigh more than 500g. Linux will rule the post-pc world of computing because of its versatility and its open-source model. It will drive all the new computing devices.
I think there is something prophetic about the typical slashdot joke "does it run linux?".... what is the significance of more than half a million alpha-geeks hacking away with linux to make their new digital camera stream mp3's to a stereo over a 802.11b network? The future of computing.
Competition is a really funny thing... a whole bunch of clans on Slashdot have their little competitions everyday about "SPECint" this and "open source" that.... all the while seemingly oblivious to the fact that competition is driving this technology.
Apple use Open source because it is a unique competition paradigm for software technology... OS X and Linux are both part of the competition but each team is fueling the other. The great thing is that although its very tough competition (i.e. lots of new releases, lots of development, lots of new code), each team benefits from the others improvements. Im talking big picture here... not the symantics associated with open source licenses etc. It is why open source is all about competition... it is a new paradigm of competition... it is a paradigm of competition that is similar to athletes who train and compete together.
The space race was a great non-violent spin-off of the cold war. A technological competition between two enormous developers. Now they didn't have an opensource model... they were too paranoid for that... but they did have leaks and spys and defectors and other means of sharing their core developments. I think the opensource model makes a whole bunch more sense.
I think that this new opensource paradigm is the reason why OS X is so good and why it has foundations which are standards based. I also know OS X's limitations but this is early days for apple in this new developer environment.
Imagine if Microsoft joined this paradigm. The landscape of computing would change dramatically. Unfortunately they wont engage in competition with the likes of Apple or the Opensource world...... "but they ARE in competition!!" you say... no they are not. They are the bully's on the playground who do not want to play with the other kids... all the time looking at what everyone is doing and playing catchup, or making there own version. Ofcourse their games aren't as much fun, because they make up their own rules and change the rules as they go. Time to finish the playground analogy... it could go on forever, it is very apt in describing Microsofts behavior.
It is very frustating to me that there is a culture and a philosophy at microsoft that is threatened by this new paradigm of competition... unfortunately they think it impacts on their bottom line. They are short-sighted and under-resourced to play the bully in this technology landscape. I'm not any kind of Opensource evangilist but I'll tell you now Microsoft do not have enough money in the bank to take on the shift in computing that is taking place now.
This isn't off topic... Apple had enough money in the bank (thanks to their first iMac sales) to join this new paradigm... it also suits their original style which is one of advanced technology and innovation. This is why they have got a product like OS X and why they are creating new hardware initiatives with companies like IBM, who are part of the Opensource competition.
... due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly capable military empires, the University on April 22 advised the Government to suspend work on the "command and conquer" portion of its foriegn policy.
Yeah those "expensive-little-toy cake" Porsche 911 turbos !!
Who'd want one of those !!??
Dude, maybe you have a factory out back with a R&D department and a specialist racing development team. I don't... thats why when I win Lotto I'll be paying my dollars to Porsche so I can drive like a demon and not kill myself or others.
Oh and yeah anyone pulling up beside a 911 turbo doesn't say !@#$... but hey, different strokes.
Yeah hackers.... working out of the pentagon.
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I'm not really one for conspiracy theories, but this doesn't look like a hacker M.O.
Half of this war is an information war, winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, keeping public opinion in the States on-side and also proving to the rest of the world, many of whom are against this war, that this military action is justified.
I have been amazed by the role of the Western media in all of this (NBC, CNN, ABC and also the BBC).... all of the reports that come from the field are from reporters who have been placed within military divisions. Half of these reporters act like they are soldiers in battle!! This certainly has effects on their reportage.
Al Jazeera is the only other independent media voice in the region that has access to both sides of the war.... they are also the only media outlet that seems to have shown any interest in reporting the impact on civilians in Iraq. Whatever their bias is I would still like to be able to view their coverage and judge for myself.
There is so much spin coming from both sides that it is frustrating if you just want to know the facts. The organisation with the greatest advantage in keeping the al-jazeera website out of American households is the pentagon (see "hearts and minds" as mentioned above).
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It's funny how Google keep adding value to XP on the desktop by providing robust, well executed user orientated applications for Microsoft customers. I wouldn't use my Thinkpad at all (my iBook wears the pants in our relationship) if it weren't for Mozilla, Picassa, Google desktop, and the odd FPS now and then.
Somehow XP feels like the end of the road for Microsoft... Longhorn doesn't feel like it's ever coming. I'd like to see what Google could do with XP if Microsoft sold off it's OS division and concentrated on Xbox, Office etc
It seems interesting to me that Apple is so forthright in talking about the "razor-thin" margins involved in their iTMS venture... sounds like they're trying to convince someone about their intentions... they keep saying they just want to sell ipods and macs.
Its exactly what I would be saying to a paranoid recording industry at this time.
"Its ok, we just want to sell out little mp3 players, we're not trying to take your market away from you."
I guarantee that while the iTMS keeps growing and becoming the dominant online music service that Apple will keep insisting that it is not in the business of music to keep an already paranoid recording industry calm. When the sales on iTMS become significant thats when the playing field will alter... apple will be able to negotiate better deals and the record companies won't be able to threaten their supply. Also consider an apple subsidury being able to approach bands and say "here's how many CDs you sold last year and here's how many mp3s you sold on iTMS... now who's you're daddy."
I think OS X is great, use it for all my creative work but Linux is the future of operating systems... and it all has to do with embedded systems and the versatility of linux.
PC sales have stopped growing, I hate PC's... the're big, clunky (Im talking about laptops here too) and they get hot. Throughout a regular day I check my email, check stuff on the web, browse files, listen to music... things that would be far more conveniant to do on a device that didn't cost more than $1000 or weigh more than 500g. Linux will rule the post-pc world of computing because of its versatility and its open-source model. It will drive all the new computing devices.
I think there is something prophetic about the typical slashdot joke "does it run linux?".... what is the significance of more than half a million alpha-geeks hacking away with linux to make their new digital camera stream mp3's to a stereo over a 802.11b network? The future of computing.
Competition is a really funny thing... a whole bunch of clans on Slashdot have their little competitions everyday about "SPECint" this and "open source" that.... all the while seemingly oblivious to the fact that competition is driving this technology.
Apple use Open source because it is a unique competition paradigm for software technology... OS X and Linux are both part of the competition but each team is fueling the other. The great thing is that although its very tough competition (i.e. lots of new releases, lots of development, lots of new code), each team benefits from the others improvements. Im talking big picture here... not the symantics associated with open source licenses etc. It is why open source is all about competition... it is a new paradigm of competition... it is a paradigm of competition that is similar to athletes who train and compete together.
The space race was a great non-violent spin-off of the cold war. A technological competition between two enormous developers. Now they didn't have an opensource model... they were too paranoid for that... but they did have leaks and spys and defectors and other means of sharing their core developments. I think the opensource model makes a whole bunch more sense.
I think that this new opensource paradigm is the reason why OS X is so good and why it has foundations which are standards based. I also know OS X's limitations but this is early days for apple in this new developer environment.
Imagine if Microsoft joined this paradigm. The landscape of computing would change dramatically. Unfortunately they wont engage in competition with the likes of Apple or the Opensource world...... "but they ARE in competition!!" you say... no they are not. They are the bully's on the playground who do not want to play with the other kids... all the time looking at what everyone is doing and playing catchup, or making there own version. Ofcourse their games aren't as much fun, because they make up their own rules and change the rules as they go. Time to finish the playground analogy... it could go on forever, it is very apt in describing Microsofts behavior.
It is very frustating to me that there is a culture and a philosophy at microsoft that is threatened by this new paradigm of competition... unfortunately they think it impacts on their bottom line. They are short-sighted and under-resourced to play the bully in this technology landscape. I'm not any kind of Opensource evangilist but I'll tell you now Microsoft do not have enough money in the bank to take on the shift in computing that is taking place now.
This isn't off topic... Apple had enough money in the bank (thanks to their first iMac sales) to join this new paradigm... it also suits their original style which is one of advanced technology and innovation. This is why they have got a product like OS X and why they are creating new hardware initiatives with companies like IBM, who are part of the Opensource competition.
... due to world events and the evolving threat posed by increasingly capable military empires, the University on April 22 advised the Government to suspend work on the "command and conquer" portion of its foriegn policy.
Yeah those "expensive-little-toy cake" Porsche 911 turbos !!
Who'd want one of those !!??
Dude, maybe you have a factory out back with a R&D department and a specialist racing development team. I don't... thats why when I win Lotto I'll be paying my dollars to Porsche so I can drive like a demon and not kill myself or others.
Oh and yeah anyone pulling up beside a 911 turbo doesn't say !@#$... but hey, different strokes.
I'm not really one for conspiracy theories, but this doesn't look like a hacker M.O.
.... all of the reports that come from the field are from reporters who have been placed within military divisions. Half of these reporters act like they are soldiers in battle!! This certainly has effects on their reportage.
Half of this war is an information war, winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, keeping public opinion in the States on-side and also proving to the rest of the world, many of whom are against this war, that this military action is justified.
I have been amazed by the role of the Western media in all of this (NBC, CNN, ABC and also the BBC)
Al Jazeera is the only other independent media voice in the region that has access to both sides of the war.... they are also the only media outlet that seems to have shown any interest in reporting the impact on civilians in Iraq. Whatever their bias is I would still like to be able to view their coverage and judge for myself.
There is so much spin coming from both sides that it is frustrating if you just want to know the facts. The organisation with the greatest advantage in keeping the al-jazeera website out of American households is the pentagon (see "hearts and minds" as mentioned above).