I read:
"and the reason it won't increase overall profit and value to stockholders is because Apple is a hardware company."
as, "apple won't increase the overall profit and value to stock holders by switching to software sales, because they are a hardware company"
I took "it" to mean apple (the last subject). When you meant "The reason switching to software sales won't increase profit is because apple is a hardware company."
I still do not agree though. Apple being a hardware company doesn't mean they could never be more profitable as a software company.. I think the reason they can't be profitable (or rather more profitable) is because of their market share. If Apple had the distribution of Dell (ie that many customers) then starting to sell their OS seperate from hardware might make sense, but at this point it is just a feature of the hardware.
So it is your opinion they would make more money by selling software, but won't do it because they are a hardware company and they would rather just stick to what they know.
At this point I highly doubt changing to a software company would make them more profit. It's a lot of software to sell to make up for hardware sales, not to mention other costs (shrinking other departments and trying to get rid of their overhead etc). Maybe you would buy OSX for a pc, but you won't see your average home users moving over so quickly nor the various gov't agencies and big businesses that run on windows (where the real proffit would be in an OS).
Speaking of "sticking to what you do": that is kind of thinking is what puts businesses in the ground. You do not avoid doing something that will gain you market share and profit just because you are X type of business. Businesses adapt all the time (SGI has had to change it's business, but it may be too late). Right now hardware is making Apple good money, and moving to selling software with such a small market share is a big risk: they could lose current hardware customers and some dealers and have no way to get them back.
Apple is a hardware company, not a software company.
That is true but that probably isn't why they aren't doing it. If they aren't doing it, it is because the people good at crunching financial numbers and analyzing potential market share are saying it won't increase their overall profit and value to stockholders.
If this is targeted at the htpc then why doesn't it have an svideo out onboard? Until I upgrade to an hdtv I'm stuck with svideo, composite and component, and any friends that have a hdtv compatable tv have a dvi or hdmi input, no vga.. so how exactly does this motherboard target the htpc market? Knowing ecs you may be able to add an expansion tv out, but if it IS targeted at this market as the writeup says, then why isn't that stock?
There are other AM2 motherboards with onboard video and this one is no different and definitely no better for a htpc.
Too bad I don't have any mod points today, great advice on the gparted.
Gparted is excellent now, and I have used the live cd many times. It will resize ntfs w/o defragmenting first, which is my primary use for it. It also has a nice non-intimidating gui.
"This guy shouldn't be writing a web development book."
I couldn't agree more. Makes you wonder about the reviewer's connection to the writer. Anyone who has a clue about web-dev would not reccomend this writer.
I know it was meant to be funny, but the implication being good with math means bad with people does not imply the converse is true (the converse being: bad with people means you are good at math). Just wanted to clarify that for any people who are bad with logic.
Not flamebait at all, just truthful observation. One of his "creations" has a lot of text as images (oh and it's dynamically served static pages).. don't even get me started on text as images, I'll start foaming at the mouth. I'll sum it up in 4 words: wrong, very very wrong.
Any rootkit is going to be stealthy. It hooks to kernel calls, so say you search for the binary on the hardrive, hmm well that involves a kernel call which you grabbed so you respond by saying all files but yours is there. What about running processes? Oh yeah, have to make a kernel call for that, which was intercepted again by the rootkit, and guess what, it doesn't show that it is running!
The original poster was correct, this isn't news. It is trivial to install a rootkit with root access. Do this in usermode on any linux kernel and I'll be impressed.
I'll just out and say it -- Ken Mingis is just looking for bells & whistles.
He's a mac user, what did you expect?
He's not going to benchmark filesystems (if he even knows what one is), he's not going to look into the granularity of file permissions, he's going to look at the surface and compare it to his favourite OS (which he most likely loves due to the "ohhs and ahhs" portions).
It's like a soccer mom's review of two minivans. The soccer mom doesn't care about horsepower or towing capcity, she cares about easily getting kids in and out and how many cup holders it has and "Ooh, look this one comes with video screens to keep the kids quiet o the way to the grocery store". Of course your avg slashdot geek would be measuring the size of those video screen, the resolution and would be trying to find a place to hide their itx mini media server with a array of laptop hardrives setup in raid 5 (wouldn't want to lose any of those precious Babylon 5 reruns).
This thing looks small and cool enough that you could just make it a portable router and skip the WiFi/ndiswrapper tangle for a Linux laptop?
Well they already make wireless ethernet bridges for that (often used on xboxes so you can have wireless connectivity). You could take that idea and go further though: With the processor and mem you could write up a little app to connect to local access points (autocrack wep keys, keep a database of connections etc). Free internet for the computer challenged. Of course the current version doesn't have wifi.. so it would make a poor ethernet bridge.
In response to a YAGAAR you just need to ask yourself WWSJD? (What would Steve Jobs do?) I think you get a free bracelet with the purchase of an ipod now.
You beat me to it. Haptic feedback is going to be the next big thing in interfaces. Do a quick google and you will find most big universities have some kind of research in it, however I don't think it will filter its way down to consumer good for some time to come.
But dd/mm/yyyy makes so much sense. It is in order of decreasing accuracy! Although I vote for changing to yyyy/mm/dd/hh:mm:ss. So I don't have to read the entire date if I don't need all the accuracy. For example I might only care the year something happened in and then don't have to read any further. Kind of like just reading the submission and not the article.
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Well I know Mark Foley knows how to use msn, obviously he's never heard of OTR though.
In all honesty I read your post wrong.
I read:
"and the reason it won't increase overall profit and value to stockholders is because Apple is a hardware company."
as, "apple won't increase the overall profit and value to stock holders by switching to software sales, because they are a hardware company"
I took "it" to mean apple (the last subject). When you meant "The reason switching to software sales won't increase profit is because apple is a hardware company."
I still do not agree though. Apple being a hardware company doesn't mean they could never be more profitable as a software company.. I think the reason they can't be profitable (or rather more profitable) is because of their market share. If Apple had the distribution of Dell (ie that many customers) then starting to sell their OS seperate from hardware might make sense, but at this point it is just a feature of the hardware.
So it is your opinion they would make more money by selling software, but won't do it because they are a hardware company and they would rather just stick to what they know.
At this point I highly doubt changing to a software company would make them more profit. It's a lot of software to sell to make up for hardware sales, not to mention other costs (shrinking other departments and trying to get rid of their overhead etc). Maybe you would buy OSX for a pc, but you won't see your average home users moving over so quickly nor the various gov't agencies and big businesses that run on windows (where the real proffit would be in an OS). Speaking of "sticking to what you do": that is kind of thinking is what puts businesses in the ground. You do not avoid doing something that will gain you market share and profit just because you are X type of business. Businesses adapt all the time (SGI has had to change it's business, but it may be too late). Right now hardware is making Apple good money, and moving to selling software with such a small market share is a big risk: they could lose current hardware customers and some dealers and have no way to get them back.
Looks kinda like Rachael Leigh Cook in antitrust. Wish I new some gui designers that looked like her.
Apple is a hardware company, not a software company.
That is true but that probably isn't why they aren't doing it. If they aren't doing it, it is because the people good at crunching financial numbers and analyzing potential market share are saying it won't increase their overall profit and value to stockholders.
If this is targeted at the htpc then why doesn't it have an svideo out onboard? Until I upgrade to an hdtv I'm stuck with svideo, composite and component, and any friends that have a hdtv compatable tv have a dvi or hdmi input, no vga.. so how exactly does this motherboard target the htpc market? Knowing ecs you may be able to add an expansion tv out, but if it IS targeted at this market as the writeup says, then why isn't that stock?
There are other AM2 motherboards with onboard video and this one is no different and definitely no better for a htpc.
Too bad I don't have any mod points today, great advice on the gparted.
Gparted is excellent now, and I have used the live cd many times. It will resize ntfs w/o defragmenting first, which is my primary use for it. It also has a nice non-intimidating gui.
As long as you are visiting the site you may as well download this 191 page pdf. If we all download it we can better understand the case. This 27 page pdf might be worth checking out as well, you know, to get the facts straight.
"This guy shouldn't be writing a web development book."
I couldn't agree more. Makes you wonder about the reviewer's connection to the writer. Anyone who has a clue about web-dev would not reccomend this writer.
I know it was meant to be funny, but the implication being good with math means bad with people does not imply the converse is true (the converse being: bad with people means you are good at math). Just wanted to clarify that for any people who are bad with logic.
Not flamebait at all, just truthful observation. One of his "creations" has a lot of text as images (oh and it's dynamically served static pages).. don't even get me started on text as images, I'll start foaming at the mouth. I'll sum it up in 4 words: wrong, very very wrong.
Oprah gave up spoons and look at her now!
Oh come on congressmen don't do anything like that.
Any rootkit is going to be stealthy. It hooks to kernel calls, so say you search for the binary on the hardrive, hmm well that involves a kernel call which you grabbed so you respond by saying all files but yours is there. What about running processes? Oh yeah, have to make a kernel call for that, which was intercepted again by the rootkit, and guess what, it doesn't show that it is running!
The original poster was correct, this isn't news. It is trivial to install a rootkit with root access. Do this in usermode on any linux kernel and I'll be impressed.
I'll just out and say it -- Ken Mingis is just looking for bells & whistles.
He's a mac user, what did you expect?
He's not going to benchmark filesystems (if he even knows what one is), he's not going to look into the granularity of file permissions, he's going to look at the surface and compare it to his favourite OS (which he most likely loves due to the "ohhs and ahhs" portions).
It's like a soccer mom's review of two minivans. The soccer mom doesn't care about horsepower or towing capcity, she cares about easily getting kids in and out and how many cup holders it has and "Ooh, look this one comes with video screens to keep the kids quiet o the way to the grocery store". Of course your avg slashdot geek would be measuring the size of those video screen, the resolution and would be trying to find a place to hide their itx mini media server with a array of laptop hardrives setup in raid 5 (wouldn't want to lose any of those precious Babylon 5 reruns).
Shouldn't that be from Stanford Research Institute to xerox to...
SRI is where Engelbart and crew started (he later ended up at Xerox PARC). What the doremouse said has a good review of the beginings of the PC.
Sure I guess (pick one with a driver that works), but then you are talking about even more money on an already expensive little piece of hardware.
This thing looks small and cool enough that you could just make it a portable router and skip the WiFi/ndiswrapper tangle for a Linux laptop?
Well they already make wireless ethernet bridges for that (often used on xboxes so you can have wireless connectivity). You could take that idea and go further though: With the processor and mem you could write up a little app to connect to local access points (autocrack wep keys, keep a database of connections etc). Free internet for the computer challenged. Of course the current version doesn't have wifi.. so it would make a poor ethernet bridge.
In response to a YAGAAR you just need to ask yourself WWSJD? (What would Steve Jobs do?) I think you get a free bracelet with the purchase of an ipod now.
You beat me to it. Haptic feedback is going to be the next big thing in interfaces. Do a quick google and you will find most big universities have some kind of research in it, however I don't think it will filter its way down to consumer good for some time to come.
I think it was a second or third year course for me. Still pretty basic stuff. However if you don't know it and are a "programmer"...
But dd/mm/yyyy makes so much sense. It is in order of decreasing accuracy! Although I vote for changing to yyyy/mm/dd/hh:mm:ss. So I don't have to read the entire date if I don't need all the accuracy. For example I might only care the year something happened in and then don't have to read any further. Kind of like just reading the submission and not the article.
With DDR my family looked like a bunch of kids with Tourette's Syndrome.
So they looked like this guy?
Most people use their honey pots for surfing the web, checking email and sometimes playing games.