I read somewhere that s)ome artists have said that due to the way it's licensed, they make more money off of a single track sold through the iTMS, then they do through a hard copy sale of one of their older albums. (Sorry I don't have the link to back this up - search the mac rumor site archives if you're interested).
Keep in mind that Apple's not responsible for paying the artists, the label is.
You may be interested in researching how the music industry currently works, before spreading FUD about a new technology that goes about selling music.
No, they don't. (no, I'm not saying they're cheaper)
Less apps, almost as good a variety, and at least most of the apps work
I'll grant you.
I wouldn't call the windows users I support "experienced." Even if I would the switchers I've seen have had the vast majority of the knowledge transfer, and most of the rest compensated for with an easier-to-use UI
They are geared towards production environments. That's why they do things like patch their software right away
Bottom line, the reason I didn't recommend Macs at my job is because of the built-in infrastructure. We recently upgraded our old Novell 3.1 server to Windows 2000 SBS. I didn't want to risk upsetting anything or compatibility problems. It's been in place for less than a year, and it got hacked. We weren't even that far out of date on the patches. I'm beginning to wish that I had recommended an xServe. It wouldn't have been hacked, I know now from experience that it would do our file-sharing and proxy server stuff just fine, I'd have software that I enjoy working with (mySQL instead of SQL Server, PHP instead of ASP, etc), and I wouldn't have to walk back into the server room DAILY to look for patches (as I now have to do).
Honestly, the vast majority of the infrastructure stays the same. If I were to switch out this company, the only difference would be instead of buying new PC's, I'd buy new Macs. I wouldn't go through and scrap everything, nor would I have a reason to do so. For our purposes, Mac's play completely nicely with the Windows stuff, and an XServe can play completely nicely with windows clients. The only thing I'd be starting from scratch is my relationship with our reseller.
MacTCP is approximately 8-10 years ago. I was fooling around and getting online when I was 12-14, and I'm 21 now.
It was a nightmare. Stupid tech support took 30 minutes to get me set up properly with it. Wait I think that says something. 30 minutes is a BAD time for the resolution involving a third-party network protocol isn't it? Come to think of it, that's a fairly good time compared to the PC's I support regularly (and yes, I do it for a living).
the next time a virus is released that takes down 90% of Linux installs, and toasts most of the internet, let me know. Until then, your point isn't exactly valid
The next time a virus takes down 90% of Windows installs and toasts most of the internet, let ME know...
Though don't bother if it only toasts about 50% of Windows installs and bring down only a significant portion of the internet. That's becoming too common place.
So now all those worms and viruses will be able to even further disrupt my system by using a spiffier console! Like.net wouldn't enable it enough already!
And Third, directed at idou more specifically, is that with Win2k and Windows XP you can switch the language with a simple reboot so you do not need multiple OS's anymore.
I don't know if I should be laughing or crying! I heard "Wow - you don't even have to hit the power button to turn it off" from a PC user using a newer PC for the first time the other day, too
Mac OS X included native support for all those major languages, you can switch without a reboot - hell - I can have my menu's in English and type in Japanese, vice versa, and even change both in 30 seconds.
Don't mean to troll of be flamebait, but look at your alternative before you become so self-satisfied with what you're currently using.
Wow - that's the first time I've _ever_ heard this argued for a windows box. I'm not trying to be flamebait - but generally that's the argument you hear for Mac OS (which I use). Wow.
Seeing your comment, and then thinking of all the time I've wasted trying to get simple video card drivers to work on a PC makes me ill (I've been a Windows-based admin, too...) If plugging something in and just having it work is your main concern, you ought to rethink your platform (and I'm not talking about moving to Linux).
What i have been thinking so far is that for signing up - you have to purchase/get/rent/whatever - the wireless card from the ISP. This cards MAC is in an ISP DB and its get authenticated. In addition - that MAC is tied back to a username password (or biometric) auth which then validates the user and opens up the port. Is it possible to have an ISP with such a system - that is not too overly paranoid secure - but not just a leech-net?
This is what Ricochet (recently restarted in Denver, CO) does. The UN/PW and access is linked to the modem. If you try to log in with a modem that's not currently linked to an account, they auto-redirect you at the router level to their sign-up page to put in your credit card info. Speed isn't as good as 802.11, but I never get dropped and they cover all of downtown.
Ricochet is back! They'll be expanding out of Denver, CO as resources and business sense allow.
Microsofts systems except in a few rare cases are not really inherantly insecure
BS! If you were running OS X you could simply compare the number of patches available for OS X (specifically security patches) to those available for any MS Server product and see the difference.
Do you not remember the web server patch that was supposed to patch a major security hole but ended up breaking the whole OS in many cases when it was applied?
I'm not saying that it's not partially user fault and partially due to market saturation (the more machines running an OS, the more attractive it is to attack), but there are severe security issues over at MS....
Granted for personal telephony Dialogic cards are not insanely priced. The topic of the original post (seemed) to refer to business and call center applications....
For a 24 port MSI card you can expect to pay at LEAST $1k (even if you know the right people), and single port T1 cards start retailing for around $2000 or $2500.
I know of several call-center (telemarketing) solutions that run on Linux. There are Dialogic drivers (and isn't $500 a bit conservative for a dialogic board?)
In any case, if you're looking for some sort of call center solution with built in data and scripting solutions, one of the largest developers of such a product uses Linux - Noble Systems http://www.noblesys.com
I certainly wouldn't say that they've got the best solution or the most intuitive interface, but they have the best call prediction engine that I've seen.
They actually just (18 mo. ago?) re-outfitted the 2nd largest telemarketing company in the world with their solution.
Warning: even though their server software is Linux based, their client software is either terminal or Win32 based (through FourJ's)
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I read somewhere that s)ome artists have said that due to the way it's licensed, they make more money off of a single track sold through the iTMS, then they do through a hard copy sale of one of their older albums. (Sorry I don't have the link to back this up - search the mac rumor site archives if you're interested). Keep in mind that Apple's not responsible for paying the artists, the label is. You may be interested in researching how the music industry currently works, before spreading FUD about a new technology that goes about selling music.
Bottom line, the reason I didn't recommend Macs at my job is because of the built-in infrastructure. We recently upgraded our old Novell 3.1 server to Windows 2000 SBS. I didn't want to risk upsetting anything or compatibility problems. It's been in place for less than a year, and it got hacked. We weren't even that far out of date on the patches. I'm beginning to wish that I had recommended an xServe. It wouldn't have been hacked, I know now from experience that it would do our file-sharing and proxy server stuff just fine, I'd have software that I enjoy working with (mySQL instead of SQL Server, PHP instead of ASP, etc), and I wouldn't have to walk back into the server room DAILY to look for patches (as I now have to do).
Honestly, the vast majority of the infrastructure stays the same. If I were to switch out this company, the only difference would be instead of buying new PC's, I'd buy new Macs. I wouldn't go through and scrap everything, nor would I have a reason to do so. For our purposes, Mac's play completely nicely with the Windows stuff, and an XServe can play completely nicely with windows clients. The only thing I'd be starting from scratch is my relationship with our reseller.
MacTCP is approximately 8-10 years ago. I was fooling around and getting online when I was 12-14, and I'm 21 now.
It was a nightmare. Stupid tech support took 30 minutes to get me set up properly with it. Wait I think that says something. 30 minutes is a BAD time for the resolution involving a third-party network protocol isn't it? Come to think of it, that's a fairly good time compared to the PC's I support regularly (and yes, I do it for a living).
Though don't bother if it only toasts about 50% of Windows installs and bring down only a significant portion of the internet. That's becoming too common place.
So now all those worms and viruses will be able to even further disrupt my system by using a spiffier console! Like .net wouldn't enable it enough already!
And Third, directed at idou more specifically, is that with Win2k and Windows XP you can switch the language with a simple reboot so you do not need multiple OS's anymore.
I don't know if I should be laughing or crying! I heard "Wow - you don't even have to hit the power button to turn it off" from a PC user using a newer PC for the first time the other day, too
Mac OS X included native support for all those major languages, you can switch without a reboot - hell - I can have my menu's in English and type in Japanese, vice versa, and even change both in 30 seconds.
Don't mean to troll of be flamebait, but look at your alternative before you become so self-satisfied with what you're currently using.
Wow - that's the first time I've _ever_ heard this argued for a windows box. I'm not trying to be flamebait - but generally that's the argument you hear for Mac OS (which I use). Wow.
Seeing your comment, and then thinking of all the time I've wasted trying to get simple video card drivers to work on a PC makes me ill (I've been a Windows-based admin, too...) If plugging something in and just having it work is your main concern, you ought to rethink your platform (and I'm not talking about moving to Linux).
What i have been thinking so far is that for signing up - you have to purchase/get/rent/whatever - the wireless card from the ISP. This cards MAC is in an ISP DB and its get authenticated. In addition - that MAC is tied back to a username password (or biometric) auth which then validates the user and opens up the port. Is it possible to have an ISP with such a system - that is not too overly paranoid secure - but not just a leech-net?
This is what Ricochet (recently restarted in Denver, CO) does. The UN/PW and access is linked to the modem. If you try to log in with a modem that's not currently linked to an account, they auto-redirect you at the router level to their sign-up page to put in your credit card info. Speed isn't as good as 802.11, but I never get dropped and they cover all of downtown.
Ricochet is back! They'll be expanding out of Denver, CO as resources and business sense allow.
*friendly aol voice speaking*
"You Got Fired!"
No no no no no... You have to use AOL's classic grammar...
You've got fired!
Microsofts systems except in a few rare cases are not really inherantly insecure
BS! If you were running OS X you could simply compare the number of patches available for OS X (specifically security patches) to those available for any MS Server product and see the difference.
Do you not remember the web server patch that was supposed to patch a major security hole but ended up breaking the whole OS in many cases when it was applied?
I'm not saying that it's not partially user fault and partially due to market saturation (the more machines running an OS, the more attractive it is to attack), but there are severe security issues over at MS....
Granted for personal telephony Dialogic cards are not insanely priced. The topic of the original post (seemed) to refer to business and call center applications....
For a 24 port MSI card you can expect to pay at LEAST $1k (even if you know the right people), and single port T1 cards start retailing for around $2000 or $2500.
I know of several call-center (telemarketing) solutions that run on Linux. There are Dialogic drivers (and isn't $500 a bit conservative for a dialogic board?)
In any case, if you're looking for some sort of call center solution with built in data and scripting solutions, one of the largest developers of such a product uses Linux - Noble Systems http://www.noblesys.com
I certainly wouldn't say that they've got the best solution or the most intuitive interface, but they have the best call prediction engine that I've seen. They actually just (18 mo. ago?) re-outfitted the 2nd largest telemarketing company in the world with their solution.
Warning: even though their server software is Linux based, their client software is either terminal or Win32 based (through FourJ's)