Judging from the success of the iPod, Apple has shown that "jack of all trades expert at nothing" devices are not what all customers want.
Integration is one thing, but quality is another. The iPod does one thing best and that is to be an audio player.
I just hope Apple doesn't sway to far with the iPod and turn it into a jack of all trades devices.
Re:Symbolism or hedging your bets?
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Consider, even still further, that the irony of your post is that your analysis of why it would damage either political party uses the exact same generalization/sterotyping technique.
There are indeed thinking people who align with a particular political party and are not simply sheeps looking for a shephard, towing the party line on every issue.
It certainly is easier for you to make your point by reducing the proportion of such *thinking* people amongst your sample of the population.
Because of the huge library of commercial software that is written in C++, they have no choice in supporting it if they want to continue their dominance in the desktop arena.
Companies are not going to port their software to managed languages anytime soon because they don't HAVE to in order continue to selling their products. Microsoft also sent the message to them that they don't have to, so why would they?
Even if they all started the conversion now, it would take many years to get everything converted. Even still there will be applications out there written in non-managed style.
The bottom line is that it will be a very long time before everything on a Windows box (minus the OS of course) runs in a 100% managed environment.
I tend to think that tab browsing is a basic/core feature. Does Word or Excel force you to open a new window in order to open a second spreadsheet or document? No, they allow you to open a new "tab" (or MDI) inside the same application window.
Tabbed browsing is simply MDI implemented in a browser.
It's more interesting to ask why people are putting credence to the latest intelligence reports when it runs contrary to what Bush says, but in the same argument, the same people will say Bush lied when he based his decision to go to war on intelligence reports generated by the very same one that generated this latest reports.
How do you as a president deal with people that like to have it both ways?
Let just hope your bank doesn't decided that their transactions of your personal bank account aren't considered "mission critical" anymore. What's a few hundred dollars or so missing here or there. That's perfectly acceptable right?
Sun will still continue to build enterprise class products and provide the corresponding support to those products.
They will also be able to provide the same type of service and support similiar to what RedHat has done and what IBM is doing with linux support as well.
What in the world have I been running over the last few years. Was the penguin just a figment of my imagination? Slashdot doesn't actually exist either? And Google?
Yeah, but what if nobody pays for it. How do they expect to generate 6-figure revenue from nothing?
They have to win their cases first, and that doesn't seem to be that likely.
What people blame Microsoft for is leaving that option on by default. Most users wouldn't even know what that means much less have the sense to uncheck it.
It was actually a question not a comment. Would you be complaining had the question read "One step backward for Microsoft, one giant leap forward for mankind?"
Insurance companies also tend to drive up the prices of the products/services they are insuring as well because the side effect of insurance companies is that they take the real consumer out of the loop. The real consumer is basically replaced with multi-billion dollar insurance company who is able to pay $1000 for a car bumper unlike the original consumer.
Of course, the consumer does incrementally end up paying far more then $1000 dollars for that car bumper due to their monthly fees and the fact that their rates would be increased in the event they file a claim to have their car bumper repaired. It never ceases to amaze me that you get penalized for using the service you PAID for. I to would not even want this type of highway robbery even close to my precious linux box:)
Which is exactly the point of my original post. There will always be a non-free dependency, regardless of the reason why there is.
You could also design and build your own processor and then design and build a new type of computer around that, and then build your own custom OS, and then build your own software on top of that.
But most people will consider the effort not worth their time or effort and thus will go buy either a prebuilt PC or the parts to build one because "companies can provide it more economically".
Stallman's pie-in-the-sky thinking just doesn't match up with the realities of this world and I doubt they ever will. You will have to depend on something that is out of your ultimate control (ie non-free) and to suggest that a perfect world according to Stallman wouldn't have this constraint anymore is just plain silly.
Free software depends on non-free hardware to run. Even if hardware became free, you still rely on non-free electricity to make your hardware run.
Would Stallman then advise us to avoid the Electricity Trap?
Re:We need to start taxing companies who do this.
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Don't forget that this cuts both ways. Remember that the US also exports alot of other products besides just tech jobs to these foreign companies as well. So if we start taxing them for the people we export, they will in turn tax their companies that buy U.S. products or hire foreign tech workers. The end result being, you won't have a job here, nor will you have a job there.
So when politicians get up and make blanket statements like that, the are simply appealing to your emotions, not your head. We are in a global economy. Just adjust and get over whining about losing the jobs you probably don't even want to do anyway.
Afterall, when was the last time you ever made tennis shoes? Tech jobs have become the new white collar job of our time. If you don't like it, you are free to pursue other occupations. You might think about that the next time you go buy your shiny new pair of Nikes. You are supporting the very thing you are complaining about.
You certainly can bring suit with out your full stack of evidence. It happens everyday. Why do you think they call depositions "discovery"?
The point you are missing is that you can sue whomever you want whenever you want. All you need is the court fee to file a suit. And then if the going gets rough for you, you simply drop the case. Plus, many defendants will settle out of court just to not have to take on the huge cost of litigation.
The only thing you have to watch for is a counter sue by the defendant charging you of being frivilous. The problem there is that is it very difficult to prove a parties intent which is why you do not see many frivolous lawsuits being brought.
Plus the courts do not like to second guess motivites of either party unless it is blatantly obvious, and any good lawyer can make anything not blatantly obvious.
I think all of these manufactures should take some hardware design lessons from Apple. One of the big appeals of the IPod is that is so well designed, built, and looks great as well. I've yet to see any other portable mp3 player that even comes close to the look and feel of the IPod.
Would it then be also fair to say that the image of Windows developers is dramatically tarnished by now?
Re:System was dead before it was out the door...
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Another problem with this gadget is that you will be unable to play it while flying in an airplane (at least in the U.S.). Airlines will not allow you to turn on your "cellphone" even if all you plan to do is play games on it.
I was asked to shut mine off even after I explained to the flight attendant that I was not on the phone, just playing a game. I even showed her the screen. Her reply was that no cellphone devices of any kind were to be powered on while the plane was in flight.
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Judging from the success of the iPod, Apple has shown that "jack of all trades expert at nothing" devices are not what all customers want. Integration is one thing, but quality is another. The iPod does one thing best and that is to be an audio player. I just hope Apple doesn't sway to far with the iPod and turn it into a jack of all trades devices.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/bmw/
Consider, even still further, that the irony of your post is that your analysis of why it would damage either political party uses the exact same generalization/sterotyping technique.
There are indeed thinking people who align with a particular political party and are not simply sheeps looking for a shephard, towing the party line on every issue.
It certainly is easier for you to make your point by reducing the proportion of such *thinking* people amongst your sample of the population.
Because of the huge library of commercial software that is written in C++, they have no choice in supporting it if they want to continue their dominance in the desktop arena. Companies are not going to port their software to managed languages anytime soon because they don't HAVE to in order continue to selling their products. Microsoft also sent the message to them that they don't have to, so why would they? Even if they all started the conversion now, it would take many years to get everything converted. Even still there will be applications out there written in non-managed style. The bottom line is that it will be a very long time before everything on a Windows box (minus the OS of course) runs in a 100% managed environment.
I tend to think that tab browsing is a basic/core feature. Does Word or Excel force you to open a new window in order to open a second spreadsheet or document? No, they allow you to open a new "tab" (or MDI) inside the same application window.
Tabbed browsing is simply MDI implemented in a browser.
It's more interesting to ask why people are putting credence to the latest intelligence reports when it runs contrary to what Bush says, but in the same argument, the same people will say Bush lied when he based his decision to go to war on intelligence reports generated by the very same one that generated this latest reports. How do you as a president deal with people that like to have it both ways?
Let just hope your bank doesn't decided that their transactions of your personal bank account aren't considered "mission critical" anymore. What's a few hundred dollars or so missing here or there. That's perfectly acceptable right?
Sun will still continue to build enterprise class products and provide the corresponding support to those products. They will also be able to provide the same type of service and support similiar to what RedHat has done and what IBM is doing with linux support as well.
Flip-flop?
Is this the forecasted meltdown of the Internet. Tell all the world that Linux doesn't exist, and whamo, no more Internet?
What in the world have I been running over the last few years. Was the penguin just a figment of my imagination? Slashdot doesn't actually exist either? And Google?
sys-con's servers are actually running cold fusion.
Yeah, but what if nobody pays for it. How do they expect to generate 6-figure revenue from nothing? They have to win their cases first, and that doesn't seem to be that likely.
Can't help but see a new Bill Gates Dr Evil icon with the Dr. Evil pinky raised to his lips. Should the Borg logo be replaced?
What people blame Microsoft for is leaving that option on by default. Most users wouldn't even know what that means much less have the sense to uncheck it.
It was actually a question not a comment. Would you be complaining had the question read "One step backward for Microsoft, one giant leap forward for mankind?"
Of course, the consumer does incrementally end up paying far more then $1000 dollars for that car bumper due to their monthly fees and the fact that their rates would be increased in the event they file a claim to have their car bumper repaired. It never ceases to amaze me that you get penalized for using the service you PAID for. I to would not even want this type of highway robbery even close to my precious linux box :)
You could also design and build your own processor and then design and build a new type of computer around that, and then build your own custom OS, and then build your own software on top of that.
But most people will consider the effort not worth their time or effort and thus will go buy either a prebuilt PC or the parts to build one because "companies can provide it more economically".
Stallman's pie-in-the-sky thinking just doesn't match up with the realities of this world and I doubt they ever will. You will have to depend on something that is out of your ultimate control (ie non-free) and to suggest that a perfect world according to Stallman wouldn't have this constraint anymore is just plain silly.
Would Stallman then advise us to avoid the Electricity Trap?
Don't forget that this cuts both ways. Remember that the US also exports alot of other products besides just tech jobs to these foreign companies as well. So if we start taxing them for the people we export, they will in turn tax their companies that buy U.S. products or hire foreign tech workers. The end result being, you won't have a job here, nor will you have a job there.
So when politicians get up and make blanket statements like that, the are simply appealing to your emotions, not your head. We are in a global economy. Just adjust and get over whining about losing the jobs you probably don't even want to do anyway.
Afterall, when was the last time you ever made tennis shoes? Tech jobs have become the new white collar job of our time. If you don't like it, you are free to pursue other occupations. You might think about that the next time you go buy your shiny new pair of Nikes. You are supporting the very thing you are complaining about.
Afterall, it was and is their platform that continues to provide these hacker assholes a global stage for their virus creations.
You certainly can bring suit with out your full stack of evidence. It happens everyday. Why do you think they call depositions "discovery"? The point you are missing is that you can sue whomever you want whenever you want. All you need is the court fee to file a suit. And then if the going gets rough for you, you simply drop the case. Plus, many defendants will settle out of court just to not have to take on the huge cost of litigation. The only thing you have to watch for is a counter sue by the defendant charging you of being frivilous. The problem there is that is it very difficult to prove a parties intent which is why you do not see many frivolous lawsuits being brought. Plus the courts do not like to second guess motivites of either party unless it is blatantly obvious, and any good lawyer can make anything not blatantly obvious.
I think all of these manufactures should take some hardware design lessons from Apple. One of the big appeals of the IPod is that is so well designed, built, and looks great as well. I've yet to see any other portable mp3 player that even comes close to the look and feel of the IPod.
Would it then be also fair to say that the image of Windows developers is dramatically tarnished by now?
Another problem with this gadget is that you will be unable to play it while flying in an airplane (at least in the U.S.). Airlines will not allow you to turn on your "cellphone" even if all you plan to do is play games on it.
I was asked to shut mine off even after I explained to the flight attendant that I was not on the phone, just playing a game. I even showed her the screen. Her reply was that no cellphone devices of any kind were to be powered on while the plane was in flight.