Mmmmm, funny > accurate I guess;)
The big complaint from AV firms isn't that Vista is more secure but, as others have pointed out, that MS has locked all other software out of their issue ridden kernel except their own. The replies to the first post along the vein of this one ( the napa post ) were correct, it's not that the AV companies are complaining about the competing AV product from MS, although I'm sure they don't appreciate it, but that they are being locked out. They at least want a chance to compete against MS's product, but as Vista stands now, it looks like they can't even do that. MS not only tried to take them on in the free market, but also took their ball ( the kernel ) and went home before they really had a chance to see how they faired in open competition.
When Woz ran the company.....did someone mistake their dad's copy of Pirates of Silicon Valley for Coeds Gone Wild and pick up a name? Tell me when Woz ran the company, as in made the business the decisions....ever... Job's is a business man and while he has a penchant for design and tech he's always been a business man first.
That could be the case, I need to do more looking into it. On the surface I didn't see how Rambus's patent schenanagins could be linked to other companies trying to drive a different standard rambus was pushing into the ground. The price fixing had to do with RDRAM and the patents and to do with DDR ram right? I could very well be off base, I should do more reading before posting I guess.
I just got a chance to read the link you posted and I think we're talking about 2 different things. Your link mentions the price fixing scandal where several major players ganged up on Rambus and fixed prices in an effort to disuade companies from using Ram incorporating Rambus's technology.
What I was refering to is mentioned here: http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20011128S0017
Rambus was part of the JEDEC committie that drafted the DDR syncronous specification and they "suggested" several bits of technology that they had previously patented but they never disclosed the patent to the committee. The spec went official and then, after a while to make sure parts were in circulation, Rambus tried to enforce those patents on unsuspecting companies that were just following the spec.
Oh.....whoops, i stand corrected. Any chance on some link action? Last I heard the "you can't prosecute us because you didn't tell us you had the patent when you put the idea in the standard" arguement was doing okay. If Rambus wins then I think we found the next fad in startups, get some IP in a standard, wait a few years and profit.
"Truthfully, I don't know how anyone can set out with the knowledge they're going to get told to drop dead 70-100 times/night, but I guess if you can live with that kind of failure rate on an ongoing basis, you'll eventually get the success rate you wanted."
This is simply the brute force method of reproduction;)
Great post, I'd mod your's up if I had any points right now.
How about the % of them that would work on a lady in a bar?
line 53256 "Hey pretty lady, are you an astronaut because your ass looks out of this world"....oh....not those kinds of lines....*sigh* and I thought I was so close
"Hey Hillary, looky here, I just blew up a tank with the rocket launcher, whooo-eh." "Shut up Bill, I pandering to parents that don't take the time to raise their own kids here"
Reverse engineering is still legal but whomever does that needs to be willing to keep up with the Jones'. If Intel cranked out a new setup then AMD would need to reverse engineer that puppy all over again. This is the road that REAL picked so they can, as you stated, suck it if Apple monkey pokes with the API.
I concede that there are numerous analysts out there that don't think this is the best thing. I didn't put this in my post buy I have a material interest in Veritas and what happens to it and, as an "insider", I think it could be good in the long wrong. Short term, stock wise....meh, I think it could go either way. Just hope my options stil work out;)
Look at Vertas's stock over the last five days. It jumped roughly 10% when speculation of this deal was announced on Tuesday. Veritas was trading around $40 this summer when some blunders by the CEO in a earnings call scared analysts and it dropped to $17 in August. That made it a good takeover target as it was undervalued. I'd say that market thinks this is at least a good thing for Veritas if not Symantec also. I can see why there stocks when down, they just decided to lay out a bunch of capital, in the form of stocks.
I know they had disabled hardware acceleration for Mac's because of issues with the graphics drives. I wonder if these improvements will allow them to turn the acceleration back on. My 12" powerbook would sure appreciate it.
I agree. If you view college as a product that you've paid for then why isn't it in a store? Why can't you just swipe the visa to the tune of $120,000 or whatever and walk out with it? An education is something you earn. Granted, it's not free, but it wouldn't work if it was. It's you, paying for the opportunity to learn from those qualified to teach. What you do with that is your decision. If you lack the desire/drive/ability to pass a class that's not their fault.
In regards to this post, if something seems unfair, that's an entirely different topic. That's subjective and more difficult to argue.
This could work but Apple would want some pretty significant say into what went into the clones. Apple actually did license clones back in the day. I can remember several companies making them, Starmax being one of the bigger ones. This didn't go the best as Apple had always been able to provide really good support/compatabilty when it controlled the hardware and could test on every possible iteration of that hardware. Once other companies started changing the hardware layout the support calls became a lot harder/slower. I think the financial gain apple saw from the licensing was not enough to offset the damage ot their image of reliability.
Granted, IBM is big enough and strong enough to make high quality clones and support them well themselves but Apple is pretty proud of their G5 towers. I think it'd be pretty hard to get them to let go of that. Plus if they let the towers go what would Pixar run on;)
I'll give you the ego bullet hands down, and the cultural one is also valid but I would argue the first two.
As the article states, apple has tried, with limited success, to get into the HPC and business side of things. The XRAID is, $ for $, some of the best cheap/dumb disk out there. With IBM filling the high - middle end, apple could come in on the low end of business hardward and help out. With IBM pimping Apple's business products they could gain ground fast.
IBM growing it's services biz and apple not having one is okay, they compliment each other. Apple has a reputation for building easy to use interfaces on top of *nix hardware/software. I'ved used OS X server and it makes running apache/mysql/etc. a lot easier for a *nix novice.
I've been a long time apple fan and I would be cautious of this merger. I'd hate to see apple's "style" or whatever you want to call it formed into the mainstream by the behemouth that is big blue.
I seem to recall that in the article it says the links are pulled from the webpages that hold the ordering pages for the crap spammers pedal. They're also, reportedly, human verified so as to prevent false positives. It is kinda bunk that the good guys have to play by the rules while the bad guys don't.
How is this off topic? It may not be funny, or ever appropriate but off topic? The topic is liquid lenses that will be used in cameras and endoscopy....I hit both.....some days.... }:|
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Mmmmm, funny > accurate I guess ;)
The big complaint from AV firms isn't that Vista is more secure but, as others have pointed out, that MS has locked all other software out of their issue ridden kernel except their own. The replies to the first post along the vein of this one ( the napa post ) were correct, it's not that the AV companies are complaining about the competing AV product from MS, although I'm sure they don't appreciate it, but that they are being locked out. They at least want a chance to compete against MS's product, but as Vista stands now, it looks like they can't even do that. MS not only tried to take them on in the free market, but also took their ball ( the kernel ) and went home before they really had a chance to see how they faired in open competition.
When Woz ran the company.....did someone mistake their dad's copy of Pirates of Silicon Valley for Coeds Gone Wild and pick up a name?
Tell me when Woz ran the company, as in made the business the decisions....ever...
Job's is a business man and while he has a penchant for design and tech he's always been a business man first.
That could be the case, I need to do more looking into it. On the surface I didn't see how Rambus's patent schenanagins could be linked to other companies trying to drive a different standard rambus was pushing into the ground. The price fixing had to do with RDRAM and the patents and to do with DDR ram right? I could very well be off base, I should do more reading before posting I guess.
I just got a chance to read the link you posted and I think we're talking about 2 different things. Your link mentions the price fixing scandal where several major players ganged up on Rambus and fixed prices in an effort to disuade companies from using Ram incorporating Rambus's technology. What I was refering to is mentioned here: http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20011128S0017 Rambus was part of the JEDEC committie that drafted the DDR syncronous specification and they "suggested" several bits of technology that they had previously patented but they never disclosed the patent to the committee. The spec went official and then, after a while to make sure parts were in circulation, Rambus tried to enforce those patents on unsuspecting companies that were just following the spec.
Cool, thanks for the info.
Oh.....whoops, i stand corrected. Any chance on some link action? Last I heard the "you can't prosecute us because you didn't tell us you had the patent when you put the idea in the standard" arguement was doing okay. If Rambus wins then I think we found the next fad in startups, get some IP in a standard, wait a few years and profit.
I think Rambus alrady tried this with the DDR syncronous DRAM spec and the JEDEC committee and it didn't go so well.
I know the excerpt mentions it but both formats will be delayed by this, title seems a bit misleading.
"Truthfully, I don't know how anyone can set out with the knowledge they're going to get told to drop dead 70-100 times/night, but I guess if you can live with that kind of failure rate on an ongoing basis, you'll eventually get the success rate you wanted." This is simply the brute force method of reproduction ;)
Great post, I'd mod your's up if I had any points right now.
How about the % of them that would work on a lady in a bar? line 53256 "Hey pretty lady, are you an astronaut because your ass looks out of this world" ....oh....not those kinds of lines....*sigh* and I thought I was so close
Are you thinking of four corner?
Pun intended ?
"Hey Hillary, looky here, I just blew up a tank with the rocket launcher, whooo-eh."
"Shut up Bill, I pandering to parents that don't take the time to raise their own kids here"
I think it was more this man:
Silly gil.....
http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/gil.shtml
Reverse engineering is still legal but whomever does that needs to be willing to keep up with the Jones'. If Intel cranked out a new setup then AMD would need to reverse engineer that puppy all over again. This is the road that REAL picked so they can, as you stated, suck it if Apple monkey pokes with the API.
the Nobel prize committee will have to start testing for brain doping?
I concede that there are numerous analysts out there that don't think this is the best thing. I didn't put this in my post buy I have a material interest in Veritas and what happens to it and, as an "insider", I think it could be good in the long wrong. Short term, stock wise....meh, I think it could go either way. Just hope my options stil work out ;)
Look at Vertas's stock over the last five days. It jumped roughly 10% when speculation of this deal was announced on Tuesday. Veritas was trading around $40 this summer when some blunders by the CEO in a earnings call scared analysts and it dropped to $17 in August. That made it a good takeover target as it was undervalued. I'd say that market thinks this is at least a good thing for Veritas if not Symantec also. I can see why there stocks when down, they just decided to lay out a bunch of capital, in the form of stocks.
I'm gonna RTFA myself. I didn't bother to check the link and they spell it out in there. Sorry.
I know they had disabled hardware acceleration for Mac's because of issues with the graphics drives. I wonder if these improvements will allow them to turn the acceleration back on. My 12" powerbook would sure appreciate it.
I agree. If you view college as a product that you've paid for then why isn't it in a store? Why can't you just swipe the visa to the tune of $120,000 or whatever and walk out with it? An education is something you earn. Granted, it's not free, but it wouldn't work if it was. It's you, paying for the opportunity to learn from those qualified to teach. What you do with that is your decision. If you lack the desire/drive/ability to pass a class that's not their fault. In regards to this post, if something seems unfair, that's an entirely different topic. That's subjective and more difficult to argue.
This could work but Apple would want some pretty significant say into what went into the clones. Apple actually did license clones back in the day. I can remember several companies making them, Starmax being one of the bigger ones. This didn't go the best as Apple had always been able to provide really good support/compatabilty when it controlled the hardware and could test on every possible iteration of that hardware. Once other companies started changing the hardware layout the support calls became a lot harder/slower. I think the financial gain apple saw from the licensing was not enough to offset the damage ot their image of reliability.
;)
Granted, IBM is big enough and strong enough to make high quality clones and support them well themselves but Apple is pretty proud of their G5 towers. I think it'd be pretty hard to get them to let go of that. Plus if they let the towers go what would Pixar run on
I'll give you the ego bullet hands down, and the cultural one is also valid but I would argue the first two. As the article states, apple has tried, with limited success, to get into the HPC and business side of things. The XRAID is, $ for $, some of the best cheap/dumb disk out there. With IBM filling the high - middle end, apple could come in on the low end of business hardward and help out. With IBM pimping Apple's business products they could gain ground fast.
IBM growing it's services biz and apple not having one is okay, they compliment each other. Apple has a reputation for building easy to use interfaces on top of *nix hardware/software. I'ved used OS X server and it makes running apache/mysql/etc. a lot easier for a *nix novice.
I've been a long time apple fan and I would be cautious of this merger. I'd hate to see apple's "style" or whatever you want to call it formed into the mainstream by the behemouth that is big blue.
I seem to recall that in the article it says the links are pulled from the webpages that hold the ordering pages for the crap spammers pedal. They're also, reportedly, human verified so as to prevent false positives. It is kinda bunk that the good guys have to play by the rules while the bad guys don't.
How is this off topic? It may not be funny, or ever appropriate but off topic? The topic is liquid lenses that will be used in cameras and endoscopy....I hit both.....some days.... }:|