The difference is that ipod is very easy to kill. It's an mp3 player, there is nothing special about it.
I don't think you understand what ipod really is... It definitely is not just a music player: People are proud of their ipods, they like to show them to their friends -- People are happy not just because they can listen to music with their ipod, they're also happy just to own one. It would be foolish to think that people buy music players based on technical quality only.
Nokia is an impressive company, but Apple has one advantage: Other good companies have satisfied customers, Apple has fans.
I stand by my point about CMYK and RGB, though. Your comment implied that the two systems are interchangable when actually they are not. The principles of the systems are opposite as you say, but that does not really help in the real world when there is no universally defined conversion...
Before you do that, do your homework. CMYK is not "basically the negative of RGB", they are quite different color systems that have no "correct" conversion rules between them. This is because neither is an absolute color space. In practice if you do a CMYK --> RGB --> CMYK it's common that you'll end up with different values than the ones you started with. The difference is often visible to the eye.
And by the way, the Key in CMYK was actually invented to save the more expensive color inks.
Well, maybe that international wisdom is worth something?
I mean, they will eventually cover continental Europe too. Then would you like to have different services for the UK and rest of Europe? Or maybe you're thinking rest of Europe should use the British Grid too;)
Listening to customers is a great idea. But a key to creating a really outstanding product is not implementing every feature users want, but having a clear vision of the whole product.
Sure, sometimes the vision the developers pick is wrong and users will stop using the product. But that is why a competitive market is needed -- users are not left without a solution, they'll just select another one. Without a competitive market and visionary developers there will be no real progress.
Firefox and Opera are both very good examples of this.
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So where is your case exactly?... Opera is doing very well, as far as I know -- they're making a profit and are expanding in the areas they've identified as their core markets.
NASA says it will draw on modern day satellites and global positioning systems to track the flying vehicles -- to prevent them from bumping into each other.
Bumping? I know marketing people like to downplay possible problems, but calling aircraft-to-aircraft collision "bumping" is both hilarious and scary.
You can't compare a flash site and a word processor in that manner.
Oh, I can and I will. Both are using substantial amounts of processing power to accomplish very little (or nothing) that wasn't doable with the older technologies.
If you think about it for a moment, the only choice they have is to limit the number of windows (not counting child windows), i.e. the amount of programs visible in the taskbar -- the reason being that they have to be able to explain this to clueless users, and this is the only easy way to calculate "running programs".
Why? IBM plays by the current rules of the game BUT IBM also wants the rules to change. There is nothing two-faced there. In fact I believe this is the only way they can really go here: If some IBM big shots decided to one-sidedly start 'playing fair', they'd probably be sued by their stock holders.
I also see the necessity of the command prompt and use it for scripting in addition to applescript (
both of which are soon going to become unnecessary.
Well that was hilarious. You know, Apple isn't the first to try drag'n'drop programming. They'll fail like the ones before. I'm not saying their stuff won't be useful in some strictly defined situations (like the one in the flash clip), but frankly, if you think you can somehow emulate the power of the CLI with a couple of listboxes and radiobuttons you either don't know much about command line tools or are out of your mind.
Go read the article, ok? The conclusion was that music downloading is not responsible for the ills of the music industry. You may agree or disagree with that, but please don't just pull comments out of your ass.
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Nokia is an impressive company, but Apple has one advantage: Other good companies have satisfied customers, Apple has fans.
I stand by my point about CMYK and RGB, though. Your comment implied that the two systems are interchangable when actually they are not. The principles of the systems are opposite as you say, but that does not really help in the real world when there is no universally defined conversion...
Before you do that, do your homework. CMYK is not "basically the negative of RGB", they are quite different color systems that have no "correct" conversion rules between them. This is because neither is an absolute color space. In practice if you do a CMYK --> RGB --> CMYK it's common that you'll end up with different values than the ones you started with. The difference is often visible to the eye.
And by the way, the Key in CMYK was actually invented to save the more expensive color inks.
Luxury. I only had a 5.25-inch DD floppy drive (that's 360KB per disk for the young uns). I think Win3.1 was something like twenty floppies.
And when the user zooms out to see the whole of Europe?
I mean, they will eventually cover continental Europe too. Then would you like to have different services for the UK and rest of Europe? Or maybe you're thinking rest of Europe should use the British Grid too ;)
There seems to be a red light district between Manchester and Birmingham though -- search "brothel" ;)
Have they sold Canada? To whom?
Sure, sometimes the vision the developers pick is wrong and users will stop using the product. But that is why a competitive market is needed -- users are not left without a solution, they'll just select another one. Without a competitive market and visionary developers there will be no real progress.
Firefox and Opera are both very good examples of this.
What's the problem, what would SW patents "fix"?
Not ISO, but OASIS Open Document Format.
"Now this"? Care to explain what they actually did wrong this time - use cookies?
If you think about it for a moment, the only choice they have is to limit the number of windows (not counting child windows), i.e. the amount of programs visible in the taskbar -- the reason being that they have to be able to explain this to clueless users, and this is the only easy way to calculate "running programs".
I've heard there is an automation tool for generating TPS Reports in Tiger - they say it'll even create Cover Sheets automatically! I can't wait!
I believe your license is called 'Shared Source'.
Now that we're comparing sizes, look at the Helsinki Subway (yep, that's all of it).
Why? IBM plays by the current rules of the game BUT IBM also wants the rules to change. There is nothing two-faced there. In fact I believe this is the only way they can really go here: If some IBM big shots decided to one-sidedly start 'playing fair', they'd probably be sued by their stock holders.
Don't be silly, nipples aren't suitable for children. Maybe you should talk to your mom about that, she might have news for you...
Go read the article, ok? The conclusion was that music downloading is not responsible for the ills of the music industry. You may agree or disagree with that, but please don't just pull comments out of your ass.