Did you think this article was about Microsoft? Your post make complete sense if I put Microsoft eveyewhere you put the word Apple. When you go for your weekly shock therapy, tell them to up the voltage.
And is there any real measurement that show Linux is on more desktops than Apple? I thougt not, you may go back to sleep now...
What the hell are you talking about? I read messages at Macaddict, Macobserver, Macnn and the Apple support boards and I haven't seen any unusual spike in issues since 10.2.4? If you think they need more beta releases, say so, but don't fabricate shit?
How did you get my companies SOP manual? It's hard enough for actual employees to get a copy? Then there's our I.T. policy manual that is stored in the directors locked cabinet... I can't decide whether to laugh or cry, that hit far to close to home.
we all know how consolidation benefits the consumer? Can Cisco succeed in making home broadband routers as painful to set up as their enterprise offerings?
I bought my iMac 600 CRT 5 weeks ago, I always had a secret lust for an iMac and I'm glad I did it before they were gone. Listening to Dylan and the Dead and typing this on it right now.
I'm bob670, I get high with Ellen Feiss, and I escaped the 'borg.
Or could it be that OSNews.com is an amatuer site getting most of it's content from armchair experts? Hmmm, keep moving, it's easier to live in denial when you don't stop to look.
with all the metaphors for desktop, file cabinet, T.V. channels (ala AOL) and typewriters that my mother could handle simple word processing, but no such luck. I have a feeling this is all directly linked to the massive use of prescription mood enhancers that doctors doled out like candy during the late 60s and 70s. Mother's little helper has left mom with a few too many fried receptors, and anything beyond the T.V. remote or answering machine is just too complex.
I've simply stopped helping family. I rebuild my father in laws total system, he then plugs in an IDE Zip drive with the unit powered up, fries everything and proceeds to tell the whole family I broke his PC? My mother calls and insist she "wants to type a letter" and begins to rail that this can't be right, she needs to set the margins. My wife's unlce still can't add a contact to the AOL address book, and still can't forward email.
I'm amazed just how far the American economy made it with this group in charge?
Hey man, that's not cool... you are shattering my dream of designing the ultimate Funyons site, what the hell...man I'm hungry, but where did I put my keys???
two far east countries essentially "force" MS to change it's policies but the U.S. can't do anything to control them? Proving once again our government if far to beholden to corporate interest.
boring. Yet another round of upgrades from Intel. The first poster was right, this is why Mac will gain marketshare this year. Intel and Microsoft will unleash another round of upgrades that promise to change the way we work and play. Then Apple will continue releasing new products that do change the way we work and play, all the while the Wintel fanboys will continue to proclaim Apple is dead. Just once I'd like to see Wintel do something really new instead of revisions. Oh boy, longhorn on 4gHz, yippy!!!
So basically we have a local reporter who went to lunch with Bill and asked him a set of pre-approved questions. Questions that were most likely reviewed, answered and rehearsed by Ballmer and some handlers. Then it's presented as an article, but it's really a puff piece about how MS and their amazing innovations will bring the tech sector, and in turn the whole economy out of it's slump by convincing everyone to upgrade? And we get a chance to humanize Bill a little more, but we'll mention the anti-trust thing and some competitors to keep the "street cred" high. What a joke, is this really the state of the press today?
Oh, that is a good one, knee slapper... Okay, put down the crack pipe. Big business can not be trusted, have you not watched the news for the past 2 years. The fact that our current administration allows monopolies like Microsoft to run unabated is a sign of how much power those large corporations have.
Corporate greed and abuse won't suddenly right itself if we take away all the rules, and your assertion that all of our problems stem from any remaining regulation shows your lack of understanding. I'm all for capitalism, but the profit-moitve doesn't negate a companies responsibility to both it's customers and to society at large. Using California's power problems to bolster your case shows just how off you are, it was a deregulated and corrupt bunch of utility brokers that created that issue, not government regulation.
Whining consumers are not the problem, out of control corporate greed is. No doubt companies exist to make money, but if you don't believe SBC/Ameritech would attemtp to slow the growth of a new technology in order to first damage competitors and upstarts, and second then attempt to control those assets to their own profits/ends then you are clearly not only confused but naive to boot.
I have to reiterate, if you can't clearly see that coporate America is out of control you have simply missed the last two years. Two years which have proven that if left to their own devices many large companies will screw the consumer to no end. Get a grip man, companies have an obligation to be decent citzens and give back to the people who allow them to exist. This becomes even more important when a company attempts to globalize, at that point a company acts as a powerful U.S. citizen abroad and can do much damage if they act in a manner damaging to both us and other countries.
And most importanlty, it is the consumer that allows that company to exist and make that profit, not shareholders, not capital goods, not deregulation and not the government.
you can see why they can't guarantee good service!
but would they be given more freedom if they could be trusted? We both know they are more than capable of delivering and guarunteeing good service, don't excuse their behavior. The behavior is anti-competitive and monopolistic, it should not be condoned under any circumstance.
Cleveland (also known as the asshole of the universe) I watched Ameritech basically kill Northpoint and Covalent off by abusing their already entrenched monopoly power. I have several executives who requested DSL for their home access a couple years ago. Since Network Admin means "anything that plugs into anything" at my place, this fell to me. I went to my preferred ISP and they couldn't do it, then went to another and another and finally found a local who could come through. They handled everything on the backend (and I wanted as little involvement as possible, I have enough to do), so they contacted Ameritech (now SBC round these parts) to verify and make any changes to the line, and Northpoint to handle from the curb to the house.
Within a couple days Ameritech came back and said the line was ready, so Northpoint was scheduled. When the Northpoint tech got there he said the pair was not ready, and called Ameritech who stated it would be at least 2 weeks. When Northpoint called to follow up with Ameritech, they said it was ready and to send out their tech. Trip two for the Northpoint guy resulted in even worse line conditions, trip three was planned and supposedly coordinated with Ameritech. This went on 3 more times just at this one house, and finally the line was ready and the DSL was operational. It took about 120 days from order to live, and everyone was pissed.
Now repeat this scenario for 5 other execs at my place and 2 friends of mine who lived in the same general area. I was an Earthlink dial up customer at the time, signed up with them for DSL, they were told by Ameritech we were ready to roll, they sent me a self-install kit, and when I tried to hook it up and it failed, they told Earthlink my address wasn't ready. And for 2 years I lived without DSL, unitl Earthlink gave up on this market, Northpoint was gone, and Ameritech had the local market to themselves. Two weeks later my line was approved, and on the fourth wee I had DSL at home.
This is clearly and abusive monopoly, and the fact that they are openly blackmailing state and local governments should be dealt with in a swift and harsh manner. As a country we have been promised repeatedly that deregulation of all public utilities and services will promote competition, preven monopolies of this sort and generally lower prices. Yet my DSL was held hostage until Ameritech could profit directly from it, my cable T.V. cost more than ever, heating cost go up each winter, and cell phone rates aren't much better. Hmmm, globalization, corporatization and deregulation of everything isn't helping consumers, big shock.
Very true, since the XP interface is only the third interface change MS has ever done (Win.xx-3.xx, Win 95, and now XP), and it's hardly a revolution. Outside of chaning icons for every app I can't see anything XP's interface can do that OS X can't, if anything OS X will prove the more extensible.
managing Windows PCs and servers for companies with little to no understanding of what kind of deal with the devil they had signed, I bought a 600mHz iMac for home use. I was so happy with the intuitive design I began to help some of my smaller clients switch, which has led to even more business as I help my customers become more productive and save money.
Oh wait, this was the ad I sent to Apple.com, sorry
My name is Bob, and I'm not Bill Gates bitch any longer.
to a PC market that is cycling in new products too fast for it's own good. Wintel hammers out a new CPU and chipset several times a year, motherboard makers never get up to any kind of ecnonomy of scale, and cut cost by stealing for those they should treat as partners.
This all ties back to a desperate need for innovation and leadership in the industry. Instead of looking for a way to creat the next Y2K-type boom, look for sustainable growth via innovation. It's more than clear no one cares about clock speed, and barring gamers, people care even less about video cards (take a look at where PC games rank in sales by walking into any recently remodeled Electronic's Boutique, PC games now take up less than 1/5th of the inventory). Wintel and their parnters should stop laying of the people who innovate, stop relying on market research and actually build something new. You need only look to Apple and the success they had with iMac and iPod to see that people don't mind paying for qualit when a product satisfies their needs.
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Give us a call when your not dual booting, thanks bye.
And is there any real measurement that show Linux is on more desktops than Apple? I thougt not, you may go back to sleep now...
What the hell are you talking about? I read messages at Macaddict, Macobserver, Macnn and the Apple support boards and I haven't seen any unusual spike in issues since 10.2.4? If you think they need more beta releases, say so, but don't fabricate shit?
But it can also be slow and bloated, where as Safari is fast and lean.
How did you get my companies SOP manual? It's hard enough for actual employees to get a copy? Then there's our I.T. policy manual that is stored in the directors locked cabinet... I can't decide whether to laugh or cry, that hit far to close to home.
we all know how consolidation benefits the consumer? Can Cisco succeed in making home broadband routers as painful to set up as their enterprise offerings?
I'm bob670, I get high with Ellen Feiss, and I escaped the 'borg.
Or could it be that OSNews.com is an amatuer site getting most of it's content from armchair experts? Hmmm, keep moving, it's easier to live in denial when you don't stop to look.
I've simply stopped helping family. I rebuild my father in laws total system, he then plugs in an IDE Zip drive with the unit powered up, fries everything and proceeds to tell the whole family I broke his PC? My mother calls and insist she "wants to type a letter" and begins to rail that this can't be right, she needs to set the margins. My wife's unlce still can't add a contact to the AOL address book, and still can't forward email.
I'm amazed just how far the American economy made it with this group in charge?
Hey man, that's not cool... you are shattering my dream of designing the ultimate Funyons site, what the hell...man I'm hungry, but where did I put my keys???
The new interface for Windows Longhorn?
two far east countries essentially "force" MS to change it's policies but the U.S. can't do anything to control them? Proving once again our government if far to beholden to corporate interest.
boring. Yet another round of upgrades from Intel. The first poster was right, this is why Mac will gain marketshare this year. Intel and Microsoft will unleash another round of upgrades that promise to change the way we work and play. Then Apple will continue releasing new products that do change the way we work and play, all the while the Wintel fanboys will continue to proclaim Apple is dead. Just once I'd like to see Wintel do something really new instead of revisions. Oh boy, longhorn on 4gHz, yippy!!!
So basically we have a local reporter who went to lunch with Bill and asked him a set of pre-approved questions. Questions that were most likely reviewed, answered and rehearsed by Ballmer and some handlers. Then it's presented as an article, but it's really a puff piece about how MS and their amazing innovations will bring the tech sector, and in turn the whole economy out of it's slump by convincing everyone to upgrade? And we get a chance to humanize Bill a little more, but we'll mention the anti-trust thing and some competitors to keep the "street cred" high. What a joke, is this really the state of the press today?
great idea, I'm sure the RIAA will try to stop it. After all, isn't it more fun to villify and anger your customers than it is to educate them?
they aren't a monopoly leveraging the desktop dominance into other markets, whew. Oh, wait...
Corporate greed and abuse won't suddenly right itself if we take away all the rules, and your assertion that all of our problems stem from any remaining regulation shows your lack of understanding. I'm all for capitalism, but the profit-moitve doesn't negate a companies responsibility to both it's customers and to society at large. Using California's power problems to bolster your case shows just how off you are, it was a deregulated and corrupt bunch of utility brokers that created that issue, not government regulation.
Whining consumers are not the problem, out of control corporate greed is. No doubt companies exist to make money, but if you don't believe SBC/Ameritech would attemtp to slow the growth of a new technology in order to first damage competitors and upstarts, and second then attempt to control those assets to their own profits/ends then you are clearly not only confused but naive to boot.
I have to reiterate, if you can't clearly see that coporate America is out of control you have simply missed the last two years. Two years which have proven that if left to their own devices many large companies will screw the consumer to no end. Get a grip man, companies have an obligation to be decent citzens and give back to the people who allow them to exist. This becomes even more important when a company attempts to globalize, at that point a company acts as a powerful U.S. citizen abroad and can do much damage if they act in a manner damaging to both us and other countries.
And most importanlty, it is the consumer that allows that company to exist and make that profit, not shareholders, not capital goods, not deregulation and not the government.
Within a couple days Ameritech came back and said the line was ready, so Northpoint was scheduled. When the Northpoint tech got there he said the pair was not ready, and called Ameritech who stated it would be at least 2 weeks. When Northpoint called to follow up with Ameritech, they said it was ready and to send out their tech. Trip two for the Northpoint guy resulted in even worse line conditions, trip three was planned and supposedly coordinated with Ameritech. This went on 3 more times just at this one house, and finally the line was ready and the DSL was operational. It took about 120 days from order to live, and everyone was pissed.
Now repeat this scenario for 5 other execs at my place and 2 friends of mine who lived in the same general area. I was an Earthlink dial up customer at the time, signed up with them for DSL, they were told by Ameritech we were ready to roll, they sent me a self-install kit, and when I tried to hook it up and it failed, they told Earthlink my address wasn't ready. And for 2 years I lived without DSL, unitl Earthlink gave up on this market, Northpoint was gone, and Ameritech had the local market to themselves. Two weeks later my line was approved, and on the fourth wee I had DSL at home.
This is clearly and abusive monopoly, and the fact that they are openly blackmailing state and local governments should be dealt with in a swift and harsh manner. As a country we have been promised repeatedly that deregulation of all public utilities and services will promote competition, preven monopolies of this sort and generally lower prices. Yet my DSL was held hostage until Ameritech could profit directly from it, my cable T.V. cost more than ever, heating cost go up each winter, and cell phone rates aren't much better. Hmmm, globalization, corporatization and deregulation of everything isn't helping consumers, big shock.
Very true, since the XP interface is only the third interface change MS has ever done (Win .xx-3.xx, Win 95, and now XP), and it's hardly a revolution. Outside of chaning icons for every app I can't see anything XP's interface can do that OS X can't, if anything OS X will prove the more extensible.
managing Windows PCs and servers for companies with little to no understanding of what kind of deal with the devil they had signed, I bought a 600mHz iMac for home use. I was so happy with the intuitive design I began to help some of my smaller clients switch, which has led to even more business as I help my customers become more productive and save money. Oh wait, this was the ad I sent to Apple.com, sorry My name is Bob, and I'm not Bill Gates bitch any longer.
same problem that is making a mess of the video game, sci-fi and fantasy genres, too many damn sequels and remakes.
on the Rambus lawsuit thread, but I think it still applies.... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=52277&cid=5185 879
Do it, I received my new iMac last Friday, best purchase I have made in ages. Sold my PIV to a friend with a gaming fetish and I won't look back.
This all ties back to a desperate need for innovation and leadership in the industry. Instead of looking for a way to creat the next Y2K-type boom, look for sustainable growth via innovation. It's more than clear no one cares about clock speed, and barring gamers, people care even less about video cards (take a look at where PC games rank in sales by walking into any recently remodeled Electronic's Boutique, PC games now take up less than 1/5th of the inventory). Wintel and their parnters should stop laying of the people who innovate, stop relying on market research and actually build something new. You need only look to Apple and the success they had with iMac and iPod to see that people don't mind paying for qualit when a product satisfies their needs.