It's incredible that one of the cited reasons for WinFS' death is that Microsoft couldn't figure out how to expose the technology to the user. Call me crazy, but planning how the user was supposed to interact with the technology should have been one of the first design steps. In fact, it kind of illustrates a difference between Microsoft and Apple in that area. You'd know Apple would design the user interaction first and then build the technology to support that. Not the other way around where you hope for an interface idea to come along after you've worked on an API for the last five years. Silly, silly, silly.
That's the funny part of Microsoft offering to re-purchase your music. It's not like people made the iPod the #1 player because of the iTunes Music Store. It's the cool thin design with the clickwheel and the slick interface. Most iPod users have ripped their CD tracks into MP3s or M4As in iTunes.
Nobody really thinks a Microsoft portable media player will go anywhere, do they? Did you already forget about "Ultra-Mobile PCs?" Yeah, me too.
At least Microsoft licenses WMA to third parties so that purchased music will play in my in-dash car stereo, my dvd player, and multiple portable music players from multiple companies.
Funny, I manage to do all that with the MP3s already on my iPod. But thank goodness for Microsoft saving me with their Windows-only WMA format!
Meaning it will allow for easy replacement of the rechargeable battery
Which will increase the size.
not require proprietary vendor lock-in formats (ACC)
AAC isn't a proprietary vendor lock-in format, it's the successor to MP3, as in MP4. It's amazing how many people think AAC is an Apple thing. They've obviously never even looked into the format. AAC is the standard audio format for next-gen movies (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray).
and use generic cables/interfaces/devices to extend the use of the product? SIGN ME UP!
Right, people have found no uses for the port at the bottom of the iPod.
This is another money-sinking venture into locking you into WMA and getting you reliant on Windows tech. The device will be bulky (bigger screen? What, you think Apple won't be introducing new iPods this Christmas either? Probably those huge widescreen touchscreen iPods we've been hearing about for a year) and will only work with Windows and Window Media Player. Yuck.
As for free downloads of iTunes purchases, does Microsoft think people use iPods because of the iTunes Music Store?
It's not a billion dollar fine; it's a fine for each day since the deadline that they broke the law for not complying with the documentation request. If you were fined for parking in front of a hydrant and kept doing it for over a year, you'd be paying a lot of money too. All they had to do was comply with the law.
Man, it's weird how much pro-Microsoft shilling appears on Slashdot whenever there's a EU discussion. All Microsoft had to do was document their APIs as requested by the commission. Why do MS fanbois hate that idea so much?
Microsoft was told the consequences of not complying with the API documentation requests. Of course they deserve the ruling. The fine goes back to the date they were told to comply and is meant to punish them for each day of noncompliance. If they had complied, they wouldn't be fined. You're essentially asking if it's unfair to enforce the law.
That's just not true. Microsoft is being fined for not complying with the API disclosure the EU demanded. It doesn't matter if Microsoft has enough money to pay the fines, shareholders will not be happy with the company paying a multi-million dollar fine every day. As a result, Microsoft will be forced to change its behavior and provide the adequate documentation, which accomplishes what the EU wanted.
The point of this isn't to destroy Microsoft or anything.
Oh no! Apple should be worried about two guys! Two guys have switched. What ever will Apple do about two guys? Someone at the New York Times better crack the scoop on the two guys. I suspect Apple's strategy to deal with two guys involves drying their tears on the cash from the higher-than-expected sales of the MacBook.
You pretty much nailed it. A large number of people today misunderstand what Freedom of Speech actually means. It's the freedom to speak and not have the government censor you. The right does not extend to situations where someone else's rights may be endangered or limited in some way, like harassment or libel. In this case, the teacher's safety was under threat.
I'm not sure I understand how it being an icon negates it being a threat. An icon is "a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something."
They put the memory controller on chip, which again improves multicore performance.
Recent reviews of the Core 2 Duo have mentioned that Intel avoided this because it would limit their future chip designs, and they instead relied on Moore's Law to catch up. Word is that AMD is now limited to a certain design strategy that isn't as efficient as Intel's because of that memory controller (which doesn't provide improved performance over Intel anymore...Intel's new chips stomp the AMDs).
Of course, XAML has been pretty gutted in the past 12 months. Vista's APIs could easily have been made available for download on XP. In fact, I wonder if Microsoft is still planning to do that as they originally promised.
Everyone by default can get mod points, but your chances go up the higher your karma. Many trolls karma whore and get mod points to abuse the system in this way. Meta-moderation was instituted to try to combat this, but it's barely done much, if anything.
It's just frustrating, Jamie. We've been hearing about a "future moderation system" for a few years now. I call today's version absolutely, totally broken because it doesn't scale well. It only takes one moderation from one person to knock a post up or down an entire grade. A +5 Interesting just means 3 or 4 people who had mod points found it interesting, not everyone else. Also, it's far too easy to modbomb and ruin an account.
That's what's great about web feeds. The Digg front page RSS feed is my prime source of information throughout the day. If you want to slow things down, raise the Dugg threshold, or just follow certain sections (Digg 3.0 unrolled today). It's a very customizable experience. Digg is a fast-paced, user-driven link site, which is how I used to view Slashdot until about five years ago.
It should be noted that Digg surpassed Slashdot's traffic a while ago. There isn't enough time to "savor an article" because the point of Digg is to quickly give you the link to the article, and not have--as Linus Torvalds famously put it--a bunch of wankers who don't know what they're talking about posting comments for karma points. Things are kept short and to the point--the focus is the link, not the babble surrounding the link.
Not that commentary isn't good, but Slashdot's comment system would improve dramatically if the moderation system were more like Digg's. The way it is now, sifting through the good and the bad is a real pain in the ass. Idiotic comments get modded up too quickly, and really great comments that go against the status quo get marked down. It only takes one person to knock a post down an entire grade. Screw CSS, I wanted a revamp of Slashdot's completely, totally, absolutely broken moderation system.
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This may come as a shock to you, but all businesses are out to drive their competition out of business.
With four OS releases under its belt since 2001 and going on number five, Apple seems to have gotten a reasonable clue on how to manage it.
It's incredible that one of the cited reasons for WinFS' death is that Microsoft couldn't figure out how to expose the technology to the user. Call me crazy, but planning how the user was supposed to interact with the technology should have been one of the first design steps. In fact, it kind of illustrates a difference between Microsoft and Apple in that area. You'd know Apple would design the user interaction first and then build the technology to support that. Not the other way around where you hope for an interface idea to come along after you've worked on an API for the last five years. Silly, silly, silly.
That's the funny part of Microsoft offering to re-purchase your music. It's not like people made the iPod the #1 player because of the iTunes Music Store. It's the cool thin design with the clickwheel and the slick interface. Most iPod users have ripped their CD tracks into MP3s or M4As in iTunes.
Nobody really thinks a Microsoft portable media player will go anywhere, do they? Did you already forget about "Ultra-Mobile PCs?" Yeah, me too.
It's Urge, not "Surge," and it's already out...and it sucks.
Microsoft has 96% of desktops but those desktops use iTunes almost entirely.
Funny, I manage to do all that with the MP3s already on my iPod. But thank goodness for Microsoft saving me with their Windows-only WMA format!
Which will increase the size.
AAC isn't a proprietary vendor lock-in format, it's the successor to MP3, as in MP4. It's amazing how many people think AAC is an Apple thing. They've obviously never even looked into the format. AAC is the standard audio format for next-gen movies (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray).
Right, people have found no uses for the port at the bottom of the iPod.
This is another money-sinking venture into locking you into WMA and getting you reliant on Windows tech. The device will be bulky (bigger screen? What, you think Apple won't be introducing new iPods this Christmas either? Probably those huge widescreen touchscreen iPods we've been hearing about for a year) and will only work with Windows and Window Media Player. Yuck.
As for free downloads of iTunes purchases, does Microsoft think people use iPods because of the iTunes Music Store?
What is "OS/X"? Where do people get their magic slashes and dashes from? It's OS X, as in OS Ten.
It's not a billion dollar fine; it's a fine for each day since the deadline that they broke the law for not complying with the documentation request. If you were fined for parking in front of a hydrant and kept doing it for over a year, you'd be paying a lot of money too. All they had to do was comply with the law.
Man, it's weird how much pro-Microsoft shilling appears on Slashdot whenever there's a EU discussion. All Microsoft had to do was document their APIs as requested by the commission. Why do MS fanbois hate that idea so much?
Microsoft was told the consequences of not complying with the API documentation requests. Of course they deserve the ruling. The fine goes back to the date they were told to comply and is meant to punish them for each day of noncompliance. If they had complied, they wouldn't be fined. You're essentially asking if it's unfair to enforce the law.
That's just not true. Microsoft is being fined for not complying with the API disclosure the EU demanded. It doesn't matter if Microsoft has enough money to pay the fines, shareholders will not be happy with the company paying a multi-million dollar fine every day. As a result, Microsoft will be forced to change its behavior and provide the adequate documentation, which accomplishes what the EU wanted.
The point of this isn't to destroy Microsoft or anything.
15% worldwide install base and counting. Where is Linux on the desktop again? Just askin'.
Oh no! Apple should be worried about two guys! Two guys have switched. What ever will Apple do about two guys? Someone at the New York Times better crack the scoop on the two guys. I suspect Apple's strategy to deal with two guys involves drying their tears on the cash from the higher-than-expected sales of the MacBook.
You pretty much nailed it. A large number of people today misunderstand what Freedom of Speech actually means. It's the freedom to speak and not have the government censor you. The right does not extend to situations where someone else's rights may be endangered or limited in some way, like harassment or libel. In this case, the teacher's safety was under threat.
I'm not sure I understand how it being an icon negates it being a threat. An icon is "a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something."
Recent reviews of the Core 2 Duo have mentioned that Intel avoided this because it would limit their future chip designs, and they instead relied on Moore's Law to catch up. Word is that AMD is now limited to a certain design strategy that isn't as efficient as Intel's because of that memory controller (which doesn't provide improved performance over Intel anymore...Intel's new chips stomp the AMDs).
Jobs and other Apple representatives have stated repeatedly that the switch to Intel was based on Intel's future roadmap.
Why do people capitalize "MAC?" It's Mac, short for Macintosh. MAC means something else.
It's like those people who call it OS/X or OS-X. Where are they getting these magic hyphens and slashes from?
Of course, XAML has been pretty gutted in the past 12 months. Vista's APIs could easily have been made available for download on XP. In fact, I wonder if Microsoft is still planning to do that as they originally promised.
Everyone by default can get mod points, but your chances go up the higher your karma. Many trolls karma whore and get mod points to abuse the system in this way. Meta-moderation was instituted to try to combat this, but it's barely done much, if anything.
Mod points are randomly assigned to a pool.
It's just frustrating, Jamie. We've been hearing about a "future moderation system" for a few years now. I call today's version absolutely, totally broken because it doesn't scale well. It only takes one moderation from one person to knock a post up or down an entire grade. A +5 Interesting just means 3 or 4 people who had mod points found it interesting, not everyone else. Also, it's far too easy to modbomb and ruin an account.
I'll stay tuned...
In that regard, then, it is Slashdot's peer.
That's what's great about web feeds. The Digg front page RSS feed is my prime source of information throughout the day. If you want to slow things down, raise the Dugg threshold, or just follow certain sections (Digg 3.0 unrolled today). It's a very customizable experience. Digg is a fast-paced, user-driven link site, which is how I used to view Slashdot until about five years ago.
It should be noted that Digg surpassed Slashdot's traffic a while ago. There isn't enough time to "savor an article" because the point of Digg is to quickly give you the link to the article, and not have--as Linus Torvalds famously put it--a bunch of wankers who don't know what they're talking about posting comments for karma points. Things are kept short and to the point--the focus is the link, not the babble surrounding the link.
Not that commentary isn't good, but Slashdot's comment system would improve dramatically if the moderation system were more like Digg's. The way it is now, sifting through the good and the bad is a real pain in the ass. Idiotic comments get modded up too quickly, and really great comments that go against the status quo get marked down. It only takes one person to knock a post down an entire grade. Screw CSS, I wanted a revamp of Slashdot's completely, totally, absolutely broken moderation system.