Perhaps after the success of the switch adds Apple inched ahead of Linux on the desk top. But if you look over the last 15 years, I believe that there has been more Linux on the desktop than Apple OS's.
It hasn't been in anyone's interest to say that. I think that is even true of the Linux companies. For a long time they wanted to be under the radar under dogs. Perhaps because they didn't want a fight to the death with Microsoft.
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to make fun of the blind.
Every time I hear this argument I wonder if the next step is to take on text-to-speech in Windows and OS X that is there primarily as an accessibility feature for the "visually impaired."
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SpyGlass sued MS and according to Wikipedia they settled for $8 Million.
Internet Explorer 3.0 was released free of charge in August 1996 by bundling it with Windows 95, another OEM release. Microsoft thus made no direct revenues on IE and was liable to pay Spyglass only the minimum quarterly fee. In 1997, Spyglass threatened Microsoft with a contractual audit, in response to which Microsoft settled for US $8 million.[4]
The 986-pound (447-kg) spacecraft was tucked inside a clamshell-like shroud to protect it during the ride into space. But three minutes into the flight, the cover failed to separate as expected, dooming the mission.
"As a direct result of carrying that extra weight we could not make orbit," said John Brunschwyler, the Taurus program manager with manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corp.
The spacecraft, also built by Orbital Sciences, fell back to Earth, splashing down into the southern Pacific Ocean near Antarctica.
Instead of browsers being the new os, is some sort of hyper visor system the New OS, with sub-oses running. How about virtualization of cool embedded products?
Wired Magazine has a story titled "The Plot to Kill Google". It is very much worth reading. The story basically details how Microsoft and AT&T have been lobbying the Federal government that Google is a monopoly and needs to taken down.
From the article: Microsoft's arguments weren't just winning over advertisers. Back in July, the company penned one of a series of confidential memos titled "Google + Yahoo Competition" and sent it to its allies and the Justice Department. The memo claimed that the Google-Yahoo deal was illegal on its face, mentioning as precedent the 68-year-old case United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc., which Microsoft also cited in congressional testimony that same month. When Yahoo lawyer Dan Wall heard the argument, he didn't see how a 1940s case against conspiring oil companies bore much relevance to a deal in which prices are set by electronic auctions. But then a Justice official brought up Socony during one of their regular phone calls. "I thought, 'Good grief, they're buying the Microsoft BS,'" Wall says. "I don't have any doubt that Microsoft put that in DOJ's mind."...
Other companies joined in, including AT&T. Many observers believe that the telecom company hopes to compete directly with Google someday by going into the business of serving online ads to its users, and it was happy for the opportunity to beat up on its future rival. On September 24, 10 members of Congress sent a letter to the DOJ opposing the deal. All of them have received donations from AT&T over their careers (average total contribution since 1996: $29,000), and most counted the telecom giant as one of their largest contributors....
Google barely had time to recover from the failed Yahoo deal before its staff learned of a 94-page document titled "Google Data Collection and Retention," that had been circulating around Washington. The treatise listed all the ways that Google hoards user information. Google Checkout remembers credit card numbers. Gmail reads private email. Blogger saves draft posts. As one annotation on the document helpfully notes, Google's privacy policy "gives Google the right to retain personal information over the wishes of a user." Overall, Google is painted as a Big Brother with an insatiable desire for private data.
The document, written by a consulting firm, was commissioned by AT&T, which says it was intended only for internal use. Protection from snooping, says AT&T public policy chief James Cicconi, is one of his firm's top priorities. "We sell our customers access to the Internet," he says, "and we want them to have a good experience." Privacy is a newfound concern for the company, which in 2005 was one of the telecoms that allowed the National Security Agency to listen in on millions of phone calls. AT&T was accused of "warrantless wiretapping" before successfully lobbying Congress to grant it immunity against suits by its customers. But now AT&T is trumpeting the cause of consumer privacy, unveiling an elaborate policy stating that it will not sell its customers' browsing histories to advertisers without explicit permission.
In all the multiple page article paints a very ugly picture of the situation and leaves me amazed that politicians don't realize they are being played, or don't care as long as the donations keep coming in.
(Also seems like the slashdot community could easily match the $29K of AT&T's donations. Apparently being politicians is cheaper than I would have thought.)
Without their content, none of what Hulu does would be possible, including providing you content via Hulu.com and our many distribution partner websites.
The above quote is from the Hulu Blog. The Their is obviously the "content providers", AKA the losers.
I can watch TikiBar, and wish it were more than 5 minutes long. I was about to Boxee my Apple TV for Hulu. But frankly I'm fine with free video podcasts, TikiBar, TED Talks, NASA, etc.
When will they ever get it? Commercials, no commercials, I'm not sitting in front of the computer to watch something longer than 5 minutes in duration. They need Hulu in my living room if they think I will ever care even a little bit about Hulu.
Thus far, sea ice extent in 2009 is tracking ahead of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, so the predictions of an ice-free north pole might be premature."
Does that follow? The predictions of ice-free north pole are for it to be ice free during the summer. Its now winter so this winter might be colder than normal, but that doesn't mean the summer will be cooler also.
I bet if I stood out on the street and took pictures of their house and posted them on my blog they wouldn't notice or care. But Google has lots of cash, so they sue them.
I worry about Google knowing too much about me, but not about them taking a picture of the outside of my house.
What is wrong with natural consequences? Unless she was noisily texting, she wasn't harming anyone but herself. If she can pass the class without paying attention, good for her, and I have no problem with it. If not she will fail and that is the natural consequence of not paying attention in class.
To me this sounds like a teacher more interested in demonstrating their authority than in actual teaching.
Did you even think about reading the article? The ultimate goal of this is to make sure that people can do it for little cost. I listen to researchers in the area complain that they can't get grad students to work on a project if there isn't an easy off the shelf kit you can buy to do the work.
1- Those you take for short periods of times. 2- Those you take for life.
For the first set, what most young healthy people have experience with, the first hit is free attitude doesn't matter. For the life long "maintenance" drugs that could apply.
Not sure where drugs for developing world diseases fit in these two camps.
PS. Apple is more profitable that most of the major drug companies, and is in MUCH better financial shape.
The problem is that I don't see the political establishment listening to "a bunch of gamers and the EFF."
I think it tying together the Sony Root Kit issue with farms of own machines used for SPAMing, scaming, or organized crime would get a little attention.
The biggest problem I have had with DRM is that I rented Ratatouille last year and was unable to play it on a standard DVD player, unable to play it on two different computer DVD players, and of course unable to make a copy (which I only tried because I couldn't play it.) The disk cause me to have to unplug and plug back in my Toshiba DVD player to even get it to eject, it totally locked up the player.
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Perhaps after the success of the switch adds Apple inched ahead of Linux on the desk top. But if you look over the last 15 years, I believe that there has been more Linux on the desktop than Apple OS's.
It hasn't been in anyone's interest to say that. I think that is even true of the Linux companies. For a long time they wanted to be under the radar under dogs. Perhaps because they didn't want a fight to the death with Microsoft.
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to make fun of the blind.
Every time I hear this argument I wonder if the next step is to take on text-to-speech in Windows and OS X that is there primarily as an accessibility feature for the "visually impaired."
I think she passed that class with flying colors.
SpyGlass sued MS and according to Wikipedia they settled for $8 Million.
Internet Explorer 3.0 was released free of charge in August 1996 by bundling it with Windows 95, another OEM release. Microsoft thus made no direct revenues on IE and was liable to pay Spyglass only the minimum quarterly fee. In 1997, Spyglass threatened Microsoft with a contractual audit, in response to which Microsoft settled for US $8 million.[4]
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I seem to remember rumors that the settlement was for $50 Million, but perhaps that was what they were suing for, and settled for less.
It is interesting to look at that time. Cookies were not widely supported at that time. I can only find the paper here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.54.7317 Times really have changed. Patrick
Searching through the text of every page you have ever visited? Isn't that what Google is for? :-)
Anyone using one of these as a hackintosh, I'd like to know about the experience.
The 986-pound (447-kg) spacecraft was tucked inside a clamshell-like shroud to protect it during the ride into space. But three minutes into the flight, the cover failed to separate as expected, dooming the mission.
"As a direct result of carrying that extra weight we could not make orbit," said John Brunschwyler, the Taurus program manager with manufacturer Orbital Sciences Corp.
The spacecraft, also built by Orbital Sciences, fell back to Earth, splashing down into the southern Pacific Ocean near Antarctica.
Instead of browsers being the new os, is some sort of hyper visor system the New OS, with sub-oses running. How about virtualization of cool embedded products?
I have more respect for the man now. And that was perfect for Monday. I have not laughed that hard in a while.
Yep it will do that, but not in the same manner: Sharing Large Files with the MobileMe iDisk
Wired Magazine has a story titled "The Plot to Kill Google". It is very much worth reading. The story basically details how Microsoft and AT&T have been lobbying the Federal government that Google is a monopoly and needs to taken down.
From the article: ...
Microsoft's arguments weren't just winning over advertisers. Back in July, the company penned one of a series of confidential memos titled "Google + Yahoo Competition" and sent it to its allies and the Justice Department. The memo claimed that the Google-Yahoo deal was illegal on its face, mentioning as precedent the 68-year-old case United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc., which Microsoft also cited in congressional testimony that same month. When Yahoo lawyer Dan Wall heard the argument, he didn't see how a 1940s case against conspiring oil companies bore much relevance to a deal in which prices are set by electronic auctions. But then a Justice official brought up Socony during one of their regular phone calls. "I thought, 'Good grief, they're buying the Microsoft BS,'" Wall says. "I don't have any doubt that Microsoft put that in DOJ's mind."
Other companies joined in, including AT&T. Many observers believe that the telecom company hopes to compete directly with Google someday by going into the business of serving online ads to its users, and it was happy for the opportunity to beat up on its future rival. On September 24, 10 members of Congress sent a letter to the DOJ opposing the deal. All of them have received donations from AT&T over their careers (average total contribution since 1996: $29,000), and most counted the telecom giant as one of their largest contributors. ...
Google barely had time to recover from the failed Yahoo deal before its staff learned of a 94-page document titled "Google Data Collection and Retention," that had been circulating around Washington. The treatise listed all the ways that Google hoards user information. Google Checkout remembers credit card numbers. Gmail reads private email. Blogger saves draft posts. As one annotation on the document helpfully notes, Google's privacy policy "gives Google the right to retain personal information over the wishes of a user." Overall, Google is painted as a Big Brother with an insatiable desire for private data.
The document, written by a consulting firm, was commissioned by AT&T, which says it was intended only for internal use. Protection from snooping, says AT&T public policy chief James Cicconi, is one of his firm's top priorities. "We sell our customers access to the Internet," he says, "and we want them to have a good experience." Privacy is a newfound concern for the company, which in 2005 was one of the telecoms that allowed the National Security Agency to listen in on millions of phone calls. AT&T was accused of "warrantless wiretapping" before successfully lobbying Congress to grant it immunity against suits by its customers. But now AT&T is trumpeting the cause of consumer privacy, unveiling an elaborate policy stating that it will not sell its customers' browsing histories to advertisers without explicit permission.
In all the multiple page article paints a very ugly picture of the situation and leaves me amazed that politicians don't realize they are being played, or don't care as long as the donations keep coming in.
(Also seems like the slashdot community could easily match the $29K of AT&T's donations. Apparently being politicians is cheaper than I would have thought.)
I don't buy either cable or satellite. And on broadcast I watch PBS, Simpsons, and House. Otherwise I watch what I get from Netflix or Video podcasts.
Of course all companies in this situation would claim its the actions of a rouge sale's person. But I'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Without their content, none of what Hulu does would be possible, including providing you content via Hulu.com and our many distribution partner websites.
The above quote is from the Hulu Blog. The Their is obviously the "content providers", AKA the losers.
I can watch TikiBar, and wish it were more than 5 minutes long. I was about to Boxee my Apple TV for Hulu. But frankly I'm fine with free video podcasts, TikiBar, TED Talks, NASA, etc.
When will they ever get it? Commercials, no commercials, I'm not sitting in front of the computer to watch something longer than 5 minutes in duration. They need Hulu in my living room if they think I will ever care even a little bit about Hulu.
Thus far, sea ice extent in 2009 is tracking ahead of 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, so the predictions of an ice-free north pole might be premature."
Does that follow? The predictions of ice-free north pole are for it to be ice free during the summer. Its now winter so this winter might be colder than normal, but that doesn't mean the summer will be cooler also.
Any sea ice experts on slashdot?
I bet if I stood out on the street and took pictures of their house and posted them on my blog they wouldn't notice or care. But Google has lots of cash, so they sue them.
I worry about Google knowing too much about me, but not about them taking a picture of the outside of my house.
What is wrong with natural consequences? Unless she was noisily texting, she wasn't harming anyone but herself. If she can pass the class without paying attention, good for her, and I have no problem with it. If not she will fail and that is the natural consequence of not paying attention in class.
To me this sounds like a teacher more interested in demonstrating their authority than in actual teaching.
Does anyone know of a case where a company has successfully enforced a EULA?
Did you even think about reading the article? The ultimate goal of this is to make sure that people can do it for little cost. I listen to researchers in the area complain that they can't get grad students to work on a project if there isn't an easy off the shelf kit you can buy to do the work.
A few $1000, eBay, and you can equip a basement lab. This time is to bioscience what the 1970's were to Steve Jobs and Woz. See this ebay search: http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZsequencerQ20dnaQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZR40QQ_mdoZ
She was in Forbes magazine months ago (unless I get Forbes and Wired confused). Nope, google confirms it was Forbes and it was Aug. of 2008.
Yea I find this both scary and REALLY cool. To read more about these technologies, read this blog post of links to similar stories.
Why would any major company agree to such arrangements?
Of course such insane arrangements with respect to investments lead to a portion of the financial meltdown.
There are two types of drugs.
1- Those you take for short periods of times.
2- Those you take for life.
For the first set, what most young healthy people have experience with, the first hit is free attitude doesn't matter. For the life long "maintenance" drugs that could apply.
Not sure where drugs for developing world diseases fit in these two camps.
PS. Apple is more profitable that most of the major drug companies, and is in MUCH better financial shape.
The problem is that I don't see the political establishment listening to "a bunch of gamers and the EFF."
I think it tying together the Sony Root Kit issue with farms of own machines used for SPAMing, scaming, or organized crime would get a little attention.
The biggest problem I have had with DRM is that I rented Ratatouille last year and was unable to play it on a standard DVD player, unable to play it on two different computer DVD players, and of course unable to make a copy (which I only tried because I couldn't play it.) The disk cause me to have to unplug and plug back in my Toshiba DVD player to even get it to eject, it totally locked up the player.