Apple (they've got the iPod, nice interface, and early lead), Microsoft (they've got the desktop monopoly), and Wal-Mart (they've got the low cost structure).
These companies also sell other products than the music downloads, and are thus willing to only break even on selling the music, and make profit elsewhere!
Yes, this is the first casuality of the new internet bubble. Next up I think will be Napster. It will probably be bought/merged with Microsoft's forthcoming online music endeavor.
No, I think Napster are quite entrenched at the moment (profit or not). The next to go will probably be either EMusic, Rhapsody, or Musicmatch. Where are their University deals? And isn't Napster generally considered number two? (I could be wrong on that last point).
I was really looking forward to getting my hands on a Phantom game console, but now that Infinium labs are focusing on all this litigation, I guess I am going to have to wait some more!
Remember that Microsoft brought Virtual PC, which soon will be able to emulate Windows on G5 class processors, which could be used for backwards XBox compatibility (not saying that Microsoft will do this, but it is an option).
Check out the Apple Death Knell Counter for links to many, many other articles, dating back to 1995, all of which have experts predicting that Apple is about to go bust.
and:
I'm sure that Steve Jobs wallpapers his office with all of the predictions of Apple's demise. If we keep going like that, we'll give him enough to wallpaper all of Apple's offices.
Amusingly, Steve Job's is the guy who made the 1995 prediction that Apple was going to die! Of course, he wasn't back at the company then... and he's obviously corrected everything he thought was wrong with it back then!;-)
IMO, the competition just isn't quite as good. I've never found a way to view video clips full screen in Quicktime, Real Player can't be trusted and all the decent OSS players are written for Linux. Media Player 9 is a very good player, although it damn well should be when you consider the millions of development dollars thrown at it.
However, reading and understanding code that ISN'T yours can be damn near impossible sometimes, especially when you're a newbie.
That's a bit harsh! Isn't this true of all programming languages?
Think of it this way, because there is much less code to write, and you shave off all the fluff and get to the point, surely that makes the code easier to read, because you're not left scratching your head and asking why certain counters are included, what a variable is set as at any one point in the program (this is due to it's strong typing of course). Sure, there are still certain concepts to understand with functional programs that aids your reading of other peoples code... But then, that's the same with programming in general anyway!
The solutions were very elegant, but very difficult to debug and very difficult to reason about.
Just to clear up, this is because of the lazy evaluator. Because code is executed until it needs to be, you never know what's happening when. For example: System.out.println("I have reached this point"); would be meaningless in a functional program, because from where was this code executed? Hence, not only have you got to re-learn how to write your programs, you have to re-learn how to debug them!
(As a footnote, I'd say the advantages (lazy evaluation, advanced pattern matching functions, less code, recursion, etc.) outweigh the disadvantages (hard to debug) by a mile!)
Expect in those cases you have specifically designed a product that nobody else can make because if they do make it you'll sue them for copyright violation and/or DCMA violations.
Then that's a monopoly on that market... Which isn't in and of itself illegal. Prices couldn't be fixed in this case, because by definition, more than one party is required to fix the prices!
When you agree with another company to both keep the prices high. This stops one of the companies in the agreement from undercutting the other to achieve more sells, and keeps the profit margins for both in the agreement (artificially) high.
What you choose to do within your own company (razors, cartridges) is entirely up to you...
I mean supplying alcohol to a minor is only a misdemenor in most jurisdictions, so showing a child a picture is somehow worse then supplying them with poison?
If you sell a children alcohol, they asked for it first. If they are browsing to a Disney web site, and end up on a porn site instead, that is defiantly not what they asked for!
If you bought a tower computer from Apple over the last couple of years, you already have dual monitor support on your graphics card... One for standard VGA, the other is Apple's ADC format (so you would need a standard CRT monitor, and an Apple branded flat screen, or converters to the other formats), which is cool for Apple to offer out of the box!
It's more accurate to say that programming languages are linear (or tend to be), because that's how computers work today. What a non-linear language would be is unclear
Something like Haskell, where order of your program doesn't matter due to it's lazy evaluator?
There are many other advantages to functional programming of course, but that's the only one that's relevant to this thread!;-)
From point number six on Apple's rules page, it states that only 200 total tunes can be claimed by one person, meaning that when people reach these upper limits, they could start donating...
The benefits of using Mac OS X, with Apples free iChat (or "iChat AV" (read: webcam ready), free with jaguar) lets you message everybody remotely on your network over rendezvous, without needing an Internet connection, or indeed, having to create an account with any of these clients.
While I in no way agree with censorship, I don't understand why bouncing boobs had any place in the game in the first place! It was the same with Street Fighter Alpha 3 and R. Mika. It was obvious why Capcom decided to include that character, and it wasn't to balance the game play.
Maybe the bouncing wasn't so much censored, as changed for the good of the game? Maybe somebody at the U.S. headquarters with half a brain realised it was unnecessary and could reflect bad on the series in the U.S. (I know I wasn't impressed when I first saw the R. Mika character).
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These companies also sell other products than the music downloads, and are thus willing to only break even on selling the music, and make profit elsewhere!
No, I think Napster are quite entrenched at the moment (profit or not). The next to go will probably be either EMusic, Rhapsody, or Musicmatch. Where are their University deals? And isn't Napster generally considered number two? (I could be wrong on that last point).
I was really looking forward to getting my hands on a Phantom game console, but now that Infinium labs are focusing on all this litigation, I guess I am going to have to wait some more!
And four generations of game consoles
Not to mention the hand held versions
Remember that Microsoft brought Virtual PC, which soon will be able to emulate Windows on G5 class processors, which could be used for backwards XBox compatibility (not saying that Microsoft will do this, but it is an option).
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Amusingly, Steve Job's is the guy who made the 1995 prediction that Apple was going to die! Of course, he wasn't back at the company then... and he's obviously corrected everything he thought was wrong with it back then! ;-)
Full screen in quicktime is a feature of quicktime pro (10 Reasons to go pro shown here), which costs $29.99 (eek). But what about VLC?
But at any rate, I just don't like the huge GUI for WMP... It's not like they have even done anything useful with it!
Look like Microsoft will get the predicted 10% fine (of annual global sales) and removal of WMP from Windows. Bring on the competition...
Indeed! Frog blast the vent core!
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Great, they've already been slashdotted, and you want to double the traffic to their website?
Doh!
It's not like they were in Michael Jackson's "scream" video or anything... :-P
That's a bit harsh! Isn't this true of all programming languages?
Think of it this way, because there is much less code to write, and you shave off all the fluff and get to the point, surely that makes the code easier to read, because you're not left scratching your head and asking why certain counters are included, what a variable is set as at any one point in the program (this is due to it's strong typing of course). Sure, there are still certain concepts to understand with functional programs that aids your reading of other peoples code... But then, that's the same with programming in general anyway!
Just to clear up, this is because of the lazy evaluator. Because code is executed until it needs to be, you never know what's happening when. For example:
System.out.println("I have reached this point");
would be meaningless in a functional program, because from where was this code executed? Hence, not only have you got to re-learn how to write your programs, you have to re-learn how to debug them!
(As a footnote, I'd say the advantages (lazy evaluation, advanced pattern matching functions, less code, recursion, etc.) outweigh the disadvantages (hard to debug) by a mile!)
Then that's a monopoly on that market... Which isn't in and of itself illegal. Prices couldn't be fixed in this case, because by definition, more than one party is required to fix the prices!
When you agree with another company to both keep the prices high. This stops one of the companies in the agreement from undercutting the other to achieve more sells, and keeps the profit margins for both in the agreement (artificially) high.
What you choose to do within your own company (razors, cartridges) is entirely up to you...
If you sell a children alcohol, they asked for it first. If they are browsing to a Disney web site, and end up on a porn site instead, that is defiantly not what they asked for!
If you bought a tower computer from Apple over the last couple of years, you already have dual monitor support on your graphics card... One for standard VGA, the other is Apple's ADC format (so you would need a standard CRT monitor, and an Apple branded flat screen, or converters to the other formats), which is cool for Apple to offer out of the box!
Something like Haskell, where order of your program doesn't matter due to it's lazy evaluator?
There are many other advantages to functional programming of course, but that's the only one that's relevant to this thread! ;-)
The title is a bit misleading... The mac version was released the same time as the Windows! I think the Linux version did lag a bit though...
Printing was one of the things that were improved. Don't know whether this will fix your problem in particular, but it fixed all mine! :-)
From point number six on Apple's rules page, it states that only 200 total tunes can be claimed by one person, meaning that when people reach these upper limits, they could start donating...
You mean less pissed off than:
"Hi, it's Gary LaPierre here, reporting from Florida, where it's 50 degrees! Hope you like it back there in boston...."
I think this is a little white lie so people don't get upset!. ;-P
So that's a savings of $17? Lets revise the list then:
So you get $3.40 back per gig because of all the above mentioned extras? Sweet! :-)
The benefits of using Mac OS X, with Apples free iChat (or "iChat AV" (read: webcam ready), free with jaguar) lets you message everybody remotely on your network over rendezvous, without needing an Internet connection, or indeed, having to create an account with any of these clients.
I'm surprised nobody pointed this out sooner...
While I in no way agree with censorship, I don't understand why bouncing boobs had any place in the game in the first place! It was the same with Street Fighter Alpha 3 and R. Mika. It was obvious why Capcom decided to include that character, and it wasn't to balance the game play.
Maybe the bouncing wasn't so much censored, as changed for the good of the game? Maybe somebody at the U.S. headquarters with half a brain realised it was unnecessary and could reflect bad on the series in the U.S. (I know I wasn't impressed when I first saw the R. Mika character).