It's innovative because this whole project is generating a lot of press that apple doesn't want. Do you think that the average Ipod user gives a damn that this technology actually exists? Do you think they would have even known about it had apple not gone bolistic and tried to wipe it off the face of the planet? If Apple gives it their blessing, the press around the project goes away. That's innovation, or good business. Either way...
Great post.
One correction.
Never said apple was evil.
Nor did I say George bush would actually join the green party.
I don't see how that's naive.
do you?
Apple will respond by trying to shut it down of course. If they really wanted to be innovative, they would give the project their blessing. I predict, (you heard it here first) that is exactly what apple will do, provided of course that pigs fly and george bush decides to become a member of the Green Party.
Yeah, very sexy.
Looks like they're finally capitalizing on the VAIO brand. I was wondering how long it was going to take them to do something like that. Their hand held VAIO looks nice too. Good stuff. Can't wait to spend far too much to own all of them!
Right. If they lock you out of updates, what is to stop you from using Linux, and not needing them anymore. If they want to stay the defacto standard, they need to do these things, as counter intuitive as it may seem.
Man, those "benai zonote" (sons of bitches for those of you who aren't fluent in Hebrew) are really on the cutting edge. I wonder when the portable version will be coming out. heh heh
They must be tired of being the standard. I understand longhorn is going to have even tighter security that will prevent it from being copied. Problem with that is that pirated copies of Windows outnumber regular copies of Windows ten to one in many places. Office is the same way. They make it harder to pirate, fewer people use it. Get my drift? It just creates an opening for something else to step in and become the standard. At that point, m$ is screwed, and there's no way to go back.
This was some of the most irresponsible journalism I've seen in a long time.
First off, since when is the www a "well policed little suburb?" There's just as much shadiness on the web as there is on IRC. And it's super easy to get at. Just enter it into Google, and you're on your way. All without even touching IRC.
The author also made some funny contradictions. Like the part where he says there are only 50,000 people on all of IRC on at any given time. And then in the next paragraph and the rest of the article he goes on to say how there's no way to know how many people are online. Funny, but a NYT editor should have caught that.
The article was big on assumptions, and short on fact. If they really wanted to bring it home, they should have interviewed a virus writer or hacker who actually uses the system for this kind of thing. That would have made it an interesting piece.
And rather than going on about how bad the thing is, the author should have proposed a solution, or spoken to someone who offers a solution.
I don't know. A lot of this should have been covered in Journalism 101. I guess if the point of the article was fear mongering of the technically challenged, it got it's point across. But it seemed kind of yellow to me.
I haven't been terribly impressed with recent versions of photoshop. The program has gotten to be so big, and more difficult to use with every release.
Mod me down, I don't care, but the last fucking usable photoshop release was 5.5. For my uses, it just never needed to be more complex than that.
Fireworks by Macromedia on the other hand has actually become easier to use along the way to becoming an extremely powerful program. I wish they would optimize it to run under Linux. It's the only thing that's keeping me from switching all together.
I don't understand this guy. He rails in his previous blogs about how bad microsoft is, yet he goes out of his way to emulate microsoft technology. It's mind blowing.
Do you think hosting companies should start banning popups and intrusive ads the way they do with spam, by putting it in their TOS? It would make sense to me. That way, credible sites stop doing it.
No kidding. I wonder if there's a way to block those annoying float ads. But that's a little more complicated than blocking popups. Might be a nice emerging market to get into...
If all we're talking about is API calls, what makes some API calls okay, while others are "dirivitive works?" If any API call can be considered a dirivitive work, than couldn't you say that all API calls could be considered "dirivitive works?"
I don't know about that. The more skills you have the better. But no one wants a mediocre employee to begin with, no matter what the skill set. The more skills and experience with those skills you have, the more employable you'll be. It also gives you more spin options for your resume. And in this job market you're going to need to spin your resumes in as many ways as possible. If I were in this guys shoes, I would spend some serious money on certification. Nothing, not even formal education is more voluble than a high level certification in your chosen area. If you have high level certification and education... all the better.
Yet another study that says openoffice.org is good, but it isn't ms office. Why does everybody get so bent out of shape when they find out that no one's trying to "clone" MsOffice with oo?
That was Microsoft's big thing too. "You can always use openoffice.org, but we know that you're stupid, and would have to need re-training in order to understand it. Did we mention it's a completely different program? No, really... it's not the same thing."
I'm not doubting them for a minute. But they seriously need to get a new copy writer. Some of the history and descriptions on their web site remind me of a 419 scam.
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It's innovative because this whole project is generating a lot of press that apple doesn't want. Do you think that the average Ipod user gives a damn that this technology actually exists? Do you think they would have even known about it had apple not gone bolistic and tried to wipe it off the face of the planet? If Apple gives it their blessing, the press around the project goes away. That's innovation, or good business. Either way...
Great post. One correction. Never said apple was evil. Nor did I say George bush would actually join the green party. I don't see how that's naive. do you?
Apple will respond by trying to shut it down of course. If they really wanted to be innovative, they would give the project their blessing. I predict, (you heard it here first) that is exactly what apple will do, provided of course that pigs fly and george bush decides to become a member of the Green Party.
Yeah, very sexy. Looks like they're finally capitalizing on the VAIO brand. I was wondering how long it was going to take them to do something like that. Their hand held VAIO looks nice too. Good stuff. Can't wait to spend far too much to own all of them!
Right. If they lock you out of updates, what is to stop you from using Linux, and not needing them anymore. If they want to stay the defacto standard, they need to do these things, as counter intuitive as it may seem.
Man, those "benai zonote" (sons of bitches for those of you who aren't fluent in Hebrew) are really on the cutting edge. I wonder when the portable version will be coming out. heh heh
They must be tired of being the standard. I understand longhorn is going to have even tighter security that will prevent it from being copied. Problem with that is that pirated copies of Windows outnumber regular copies of Windows ten to one in many places. Office is the same way. They make it harder to pirate, fewer people use it. Get my drift? It just creates an opening for something else to step in and become the standard. At that point, m$ is screwed, and there's no way to go back.
This was some of the most irresponsible journalism I've seen in a long time.
First off, since when is the www a "well policed little suburb?" There's just as much shadiness on the web as there is on IRC. And it's super easy to get at. Just enter it into Google, and you're on your way. All without even touching IRC.
The author also made some funny contradictions. Like the part where he says there are only 50,000 people on all of IRC on at any given time. And then in the next paragraph and the rest of the article he goes on to say how there's no way to know how many people are online. Funny, but a NYT editor should have caught that.
The article was big on assumptions, and short on fact. If they really wanted to bring it home, they should have interviewed a virus writer or hacker who actually uses the system for this kind of thing. That would have made it an interesting piece.
And rather than going on about how bad the thing is, the author should have proposed a solution, or spoken to someone who offers a solution.
I don't know.
A lot of this should have been covered in Journalism 101. I guess if the point of the article was fear mongering of the technically challenged, it got it's point across. But it seemed kind of yellow to me.
What problems? Study after study have shown that cell phones don't rot your brain. Sitting in front of your computer reading slashdot does...
True.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
Gates never said that.
I haven't been terribly impressed with recent versions of photoshop. The program has gotten to be so big, and more difficult to use with every release.
Mod me down, I don't care, but the last fucking usable photoshop release was 5.5. For my uses, it just never needed to be more complex than that.
Fireworks by Macromedia on the other hand has actually become easier to use along the way to becoming an extremely powerful program. I wish they would optimize it to run under Linux. It's the only thing that's keeping me from switching all together.
How convinient.
Thanks for the clarification.
I don't understand this guy. He rails in his previous blogs about how bad microsoft is, yet he goes out of his way to emulate microsoft technology. It's mind blowing.
Do you think hosting companies should start banning popups and intrusive ads the way they do with spam, by putting it in their TOS? It would make sense to me. That way, credible sites stop doing it.
No kidding.
I wonder if there's a way to block those annoying float ads. But that's a little more complicated than blocking popups. Might be a nice emerging market to get into...
Woahhh!
Hold on there cow boy.
Yeah, it sucks that they did it, but it's possible that it could be an honest mistake.
The artist who brought the complaint has a ton of legal recourse here. Paying him a royalty is cheaper than going to court and losing.
I'm certain they will settle this amicably.
Still, I would like to see what happens...
If all we're talking about is API calls, what makes some API calls okay, while others are "dirivitive works?" If any API call can be considered a dirivitive work, than couldn't you say that all API calls could be considered "dirivitive works?"
So what is to stop these people from updating their drivers if there is a change in linux, or otherwise getting around it?
I don't understand.
what is the advantage of saying something is gpl when it isn't?
So what do you expect him to do?
I don't know about that. The more skills you have the better. But no one wants a mediocre employee to begin with, no matter what the skill set. The more skills and experience with those skills you have, the more employable you'll be. It also gives you more spin options for your resume. And in this job market you're going to need to spin your resumes in as many ways as possible. If I were in this guys shoes, I would spend some serious money on certification. Nothing, not even formal education is more voluble than a high level certification in your chosen area. If you have high level certification and education... all the better.
Yet another study that says openoffice.org is good, but it isn't ms office. Why does everybody get so bent out of shape when they find out that no one's trying to "clone" MsOffice with oo?
That was Microsoft's big thing too. "You can always use openoffice.org, but we know that you're stupid, and would have to need re-training in order to understand it. Did we mention it's a completely different program? No, really... it's not the same thing."
I'm not doubting them for a minute. But they seriously need to get a new copy writer. Some of the history and descriptions on their web site remind me of a 419 scam.