You are a reasonably ordinary country enjoying an interestingly efficient industrial revolution in a quite remote spot of the world with none directly worth invading. And you have an A-Bomb that has not been tested, demonstrated or exactly understood in the world at the time. How can you, exactly, 'directly' dominate the world?
Oh, and actually USA did not refrained from anything - remember that little Japanese incident? That about represent the max use that bomb could have had then - and conveniently set up the world to realize what exactly it is. A demonstration. Apart from that - there were no means, no troops, no way to actually dominate the world. Just look at the past USA attempts at 'dominating' something (fyi: track record is not in favor of USA and just about to become even worse)
The way Microsoft operates is by promising 'marketing support budgets' that are entirely disproportionate to the states marketing plans. Obviously there never is any audits as to how it is spent afterwards.
My guess would be that M$ expected supplier to smooth the way out further and supplier failed.
Simple as that. I have spent a looooong time to learn the UI and quirks of de-facto image manipulation program on the market - do not make it a lost investment. If I will decide to torture myself and learn it all again I could just as easy choose GIMP (what is, btw, an absolute proof that photoshops' GUI is JUST FINE).
Of course I can as well just stop buying every new version and switch. There is enough 'streamlined' image editing shit around - think Elements or ImageReady for a start - modifying PS would not even be a fight in that market...
oooh! I can attest that this is a VERY GOOD policy. Especially if you, once in a three months, manage to review your transactions online while she is still around...
Aaah, but there is a very certain subsidy - the rev share deal, that, btw, places apple in the same line as the provider (okay, that _could_ be argued now about, but...).
Ether apple sells phones unlocked - and there is no subsidy OR it sells phones locked and for use on a particular network where they state (in APPLES' documentation) a required minimum contract length (aka - a minimal amount of rev share they agree to sell this product to you).
Pity M$ failed to exploit the deal. Had Vista been on time and indeed a better OS it might stand a chance. Or even if the lawsuit would come to this before vista would be actually launched. Current timing couldn't be worse now that people I know that have dared to play with it seriously are coming to agreement that only thing really improved (or not regressed) over XP is media center functionality. And then there is ubuntu and redhat that, last I checked, are chumming along nicely doing their thing and not giving a shit about the warcry of the month.
Yes, you may feel pissed off that they are not releasing their GUI code - after all how could they dare build something that they have worked hard to get working, done it themselves, polished and maintained and not release it for everyone. But as far as whatever they have taken from the community I certainly do not see any case where they would have not given back. At least source code.
Even webkit - the stuff behind safari and that acid2 test thing - all the code is in the open.
There is a difference between not giving back and not doing your homework* for yourself. And your ideas about apple contributing to that steamy bloated shit called open office? Dream on. But be sure - if it would have made at least most remote business sense for them to do anything reasonable and in the end - usable to the end user, with it, they would have done it.
*Homework. You do an open source app/lib. Lets say - a file system db engine (I pulled that out of my ass). You release it. Someone takes it, improves, essentially re-creates 30% of it that you know were shitty parts to start with and in the end - end up with a semi-fork of your stuff. semi in a sense that it is still ish the same thing/codebase, fork in a sense that you cannot get it to compile immediately because it depends/uses some slightly different things, has changed some preprocessor flags and has changed API you wrote because you forgot to add sensible documentation to 70% of the 'it is f***&^( obvious' stuff. Who is responsible for getting it compile with _YOUR_ config/makefile?
You are missing one more detail - given the heat of the issue almost any kiddie wannabies in russia (and there are a lot of them) with any kinda control over some machines (and almost any of those kiddie wannabies actually have a few spare servers/machines hijacked there and here - on order of 10-20k machines for an average scene group is not unusual) rised to arms, not to mention state groups chiming in. Had it had anything to do with the superadvertised storm it would have been a totally different story. For now it was just a nicely coordinated attack (and do not ask me who coordinated and how) using existing sleeping resources. Idea that storm was involved would imply that it is controlled by russian government.
all this traffic about that openMoko (that nobody really wants, show me one real buyer, please) somehow makes me think about a bunch of kiddies that worked hard to do something w/o realizing that nobody cares about openness of the platform their mobile works on - just looks (and maybe some functionality).
Bunch of school kids. Life is unfair, deal with it.
Suggestions for next iterations: Ass of a scheduler, bastard scheduler, unfair bully scheduler, depressed goth scheduler... (I will leave the exercise of figuring out the allocation semantics to reader)
ok, here is your 5K seat company with few big offices, few smaller ones and generally ether secretaries that store their private docs in recycle bin or uberprogrammers that insist on reflashing their bios each other day as users... You are responsible for general IT policy definition - acquiring, maintaining and decommissioning all the shitty equipment/software turned around. You are likely to be eaten by a grue...
(in fact Windows XP sp2 was already pushing it strongly from admin perspective. Not the hassle of rolling out - must admin M$ did an okay job with necessary assistance, etc, but new/changed stuff generated quite a lot of headache)
One of the key reasons for process switch is to lover cost-per-working-core. Milking us out of more money by selling same performance* part for the same money.
Inventories in the channel and stuff matter thou - the pricing/charging/chargeback/ripoffs structures in pc hw business looks any kind of al capone look like a stupid n00b with a water pistol...
*performance - low end is defined by how successful the process is and just represents the 70%ish percent of parts that do not warrant a higher upmark.
Slashdot Mirror
heh, somehow I suddenly recall Feynman and his safe locking skills... (read 'surely you must be joking, Mr Feynman' sometime)
ok, a homework for you.
You are a reasonably ordinary country enjoying an interestingly efficient industrial revolution in a quite remote spot of the world with none directly worth invading. And you have an A-Bomb that has not been tested, demonstrated or exactly understood in the world at the time. How can you, exactly, 'directly' dominate the world?
Oh, and actually USA did not refrained from anything - remember that little Japanese incident? That about represent the max use that bomb could have had then - and conveniently set up the world to realize what exactly it is. A demonstration. Apart from that - there were no means, no troops, no way to actually dominate the world. Just look at the past USA attempts at 'dominating' something (fyi: track record is not in favor of USA and just about to become even worse)
No.
The way Microsoft operates is by promising 'marketing support budgets' that are entirely disproportionate to the states marketing plans. Obviously there never is any audits as to how it is spent afterwards.
My guess would be that M$ expected supplier to smooth the way out further and supplier failed.
Simple as that. I have spent a looooong time to learn the UI and quirks of de-facto image manipulation program on the market - do not make it a lost investment. If I will decide to torture myself and learn it all again I could just as easy choose GIMP (what is, btw, an absolute proof that photoshops' GUI is JUST FINE).
Of course I can as well just stop buying every new version and switch. There is enough 'streamlined' image editing shit around - think Elements or ImageReady for a start - modifying PS would not even be a fight in that market...
oooh! I can attest that this is a VERY GOOD policy. Especially if you, once in a three months, manage to review your transactions online while she is still around...
uh.
why 99% of us are on slashdot?
because BD camp will patent the business model ;)
they missed the "fits together" part...
to throw a note - it is a TV - and one with twin tuners at that if I am not mistaken. TV part alone will take some fair bit...
Oh FUCK UP WITH THAT OPEN MOKO SHIT ALREADY!
Interested in an open source linux phone? Try greenphone. Shit the moko slashdot spammers.
Aaah, but there is a very certain subsidy - the rev share deal, that, btw, places apple in the same line as the provider (okay, that _could_ be argued now about, but...).
Ether apple sells phones unlocked - and there is no subsidy OR it sells phones locked and for use on a particular network where they state (in APPLES' documentation) a required minimum contract length (aka - a minimal amount of rev share they agree to sell this product to you).
why exactly is this a crime? You can always be unsure about the number.
Pity M$ failed to exploit the deal. Had Vista been on time and indeed a better OS it might stand a chance. Or even if the lawsuit would come to this before vista would be actually launched. Current timing couldn't be worse now that people I know that have dared to play with it seriously are coming to agreement that only thing really improved (or not regressed) over XP is media center functionality. And then there is ubuntu and redhat that, last I checked, are chumming along nicely doing their thing and not giving a shit about the warcry of the month.
aheeeeeemmmm...?
Ever seen Darwin? small hint: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html
Yes, you may feel pissed off that they are not releasing their GUI code - after all how could they dare build something that they have worked hard to get working, done it themselves, polished and maintained and not release it for everyone. But as far as whatever they have taken from the community I certainly do not see any case where they would have not given back. At least source code.
Even webkit - the stuff behind safari and that acid2 test thing - all the code is in the open.
There is a difference between not giving back and not doing your homework* for yourself. And your ideas about apple contributing to that steamy bloated shit called open office? Dream on. But be sure - if it would have made at least most remote business sense for them to do anything reasonable and in the end - usable to the end user, with it, they would have done it.
*Homework. You do an open source app/lib. Lets say - a file system db engine (I pulled that out of my ass). You release it. Someone takes it, improves, essentially re-creates 30% of it that you know were shitty parts to start with and in the end - end up with a semi-fork of your stuff. semi in a sense that it is still ish the same thing/codebase, fork in a sense that you cannot get it to compile immediately because it depends/uses some slightly different things, has changed some preprocessor flags and has changed API you wrote because you forgot to add sensible documentation to 70% of the 'it is f***&^( obvious' stuff. Who is responsible for getting it compile with _YOUR_ config/makefile?
You are missing one more detail - given the heat of the issue almost any kiddie wannabies in russia (and there are a lot of them) with any kinda control over some machines (and almost any of those kiddie wannabies actually have a few spare servers/machines hijacked there and here - on order of 10-20k machines for an average scene group is not unusual) rised to arms, not to mention state groups chiming in. Had it had anything to do with the superadvertised storm it would have been a totally different story.
For now it was just a nicely coordinated attack (and do not ask me who coordinated and how) using existing sleeping resources.
Idea that storm was involved would imply that it is controlled by russian government.
Why, exactly, do you think that Estonia affair had anything to do with "THE STORM"?
In fact is there even a reference to this in the article you cite?
all this traffic about that openMoko (that nobody really wants, show me one real buyer, please) somehow makes me think about a bunch of kiddies that worked hard to do something w/o realizing that nobody cares about openness of the platform their mobile works on - just looks (and maybe some functionality).
Stop spamming slashdot, you - openMoko freaks.
Bunch of school kids. Life is unfair, deal with it.
Suggestions for next iterations: Ass of a scheduler, bastard scheduler, unfair bully scheduler, depressed goth scheduler... (I will leave the exercise of figuring out the allocation semantics to reader)
Pentium-M?
Oh, why not? In the _ooold_ world it is the accepted way for you to reach your voicemail.
sms works just fine. visual voicemail - oh well. I never use voicemail (disable it) anyway.
No. Phone unlocking is specifically allowed under DCMCA or whatever those no-reverse-engineering laws were called.
ok, here is your 5K seat company with few big offices, few smaller ones and generally ether secretaries that store their private docs in recycle bin or uberprogrammers that insist on reflashing their bios each other day as users...
You are responsible for general IT policy definition - acquiring, maintaining and decommissioning all the shitty equipment/software turned around. You are likely to be eaten by a grue...
(in fact Windows XP sp2 was already pushing it strongly from admin perspective. Not the hassle of rolling out - must admin M$ did an okay job with necessary assistance, etc, but new/changed stuff generated quite a lot of headache)
they are going for the second chance offer scam ;)
!False!
One of the key reasons for process switch is to lover cost-per-working-core. Milking us out of more money by selling same performance* part for the same money.
Inventories in the channel and stuff matter thou - the pricing/charging/chargeback/ripoffs structures in pc hw business looks any kind of al capone look like a stupid n00b with a water pistol...
*performance - low end is defined by how successful the process is and just represents the 70%ish percent of parts that do not warrant a higher upmark.