It seems to me that the only marketplace of which Apple is a part is the Apple marketplace.
We can argue the position of Apple in the general PC marketplace -- the one dominated be MS -- but let's not.
OTOH, it has been generally acknowledged here that Apple has a strong position in the non-MS market. We're no longer talking about Apple as the producer of a strictly unique, third front in the OS wars. With OSX, Apple has a significant standing as the producer of *nix systems (in comparison to Sun/Solaris and numerous Linux distros).
Can we dispense with rating drivel like this AC mini-rant as a 5?
Wardialing pre-dates script kiddies who have no freaking clue how to spell "phreak". Notice the lack of imbecilic numbers used to represent letters.
Wardriving and wardialing are indeed quite similar, to the point of being painfully obvious. The object of both is searching a communications medium for the purpose of exploitation.
And on this whole concept of wireless bandwidth. If you're explicitly invited, its considered sharing. Thank you to the generous souls who feel so inclined. Don't have permission from the owner? Its theft.
Can we get just a little more self-absorbed? Fine. Wow, you're 26 or younger. Best years of your life are behind you now! Why don't you just throw in the towel and drop out of life?
If you actually believe that crap, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Get a grip, get a clue and get a friggin' life. Want a wake up call? Go ask someone from a third-world country what their prospects are like. Then realize how well you're really doing.
I don't see what the consumer gets for $500K, but I do see what the vendor gets: your DNA and a big chunk of money.
1) What keeps them from exploiting your DNA for their profit? Suppose they discover something profoundly unique about your DNA that has significant medical implication. Who has the rights to that information?
2) How is the information encoded on the CD? Is it proprietary or some kind of de facto standard? (Oh, so you want to use the information? We'll have to read that for you! $100,000 per reading!)
3) CDs last forever right? Thirty years from now I'll be able to use the information on that CD, right? Didn't think so.
It's still deception and fraud. Not to mention the latest in a long string of unethical tactics by these folks. There's no maybe about this. It's just wrong.
Would someone local to Sydney point out these toads to the local constabulary please?
Taking out the ones that you bitched about, here is what is left. Still totals over $400 Million. How much have you given lately?
Bill's money comes from people buying stuff from Microsoft. While the cost of hardware has fallen, has the cost of MS software? Therefore, I think one could say the we've all provided some of those funds. Even those of you who only use non-MS software. You pay taxes. The various levels of govt (local, state, fed) buy MS stuff hand over fist.
Since this is a zero sum game, Bill is just engaging in a redistribution of our funds.
You left out the part where poor George Steinbrenner and his Yankees were charging 4 times the going rate for baseball games on cable. AND they insisted on the network being part of std cable. So whether you watch the Yankees or not, your basic cable would rise $2. When Cablevision said "f*** that", George went wailing to the other idiots in NY-area media that Cablevision wouldn't carry the Yankees.
He knows where the bodies are buried. Think of all that has occured at MS that he might be privy to. Anyone else leave MS lately and been allowed to take their brain with them?
"Let me take my IP with me Bill, or I'll rat you out for all the stuff MS has pulled over the years."
One might call that the other "Slashdot Effect". Although there are subject matter experts who participate, they are routinely drowned in the clamoring of "conventional wisdom" (Slashdot-style). The other recurring themes include: all businesses are bad, and one political party (take your pick) is incredibly evil.
Along the same lines as Cisco, DLink has some products in 802.11b (AirPlus) that utilize a different modulation scheme (Packet Binary Convolutional Coding) and provide 256-bit WEP. They also claim to provide 22Mbps. DLink's gear is compatible with other vendors' products if you want to go with std 802.11b (ie. 11Mbps).
Under the NEPA (Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft) Project, the US Air Force had a contract with Fairchild to develop a nuclear-powered bomber. Part of the problem was that the project was split in two: the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was responsible for the reactor, and Fairchild/USAF was responsible for everything else (including a converted Convair B-36H).
Well, that wasn't really the biggest problem. There was the small detail: where do you crash-land a nuclear-powered bomber?
Class? The answer is: you don't.
There's a good write-up available about Project NEPA.
So I can trade all the usual woe of dealing with local (LEC/CLEC) or long distance (IXC) providers and their various regional monopolies, and instead deal with the power company!
Sure glad we don't have to worry about you designing a language for sysadmins around the world to use. I'll bet you've got some second-guessing for Linus too.
Why is it that, in the OSS community, some of the loudest bitching about those who do comes from those who can't or won't?
I don't think this is FUD against the Apple/Mac OS. I really wish The Steve would give his blessing so that the OS geeks at Apple could finally release an x86 version.
That would scare the ever living piss out of MS. The prevailing opinion here of MS not withstanding, imagine what kind of software we might have available if there was real competition. As opposed to MS only being mildly annoyed by the presence of the fragmented *nix community.
"Hey, wait a minute. Users can run Mac, Unix and Windows programs on the same box? And they don't have to pay and arm and a leg for their hardware anymore? We've got problems!"
There's no way that the majority of people are going to replace huge CD collections with SA-CDs.
Think about that for a moment. Replace CD & SA-CD with vinyl & CD. Sound familiar? Do I still have a stack of LPs? Yes. Do I listen to them or my CDs? The CDs of course.
Ding! I wish more people would take note of that easy to use thing. It's one of the things that keep more users from leaving Microsoft.
Well said.
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My, my, we do seem to have some issues don't we? Mom and Dad cut off your allowance, told you to move out and get a job?
One other thing, for most large corporations the "owner" equates to stockholders (think California Personnel Retirement System), NOT a single individual holding everything. Own a car, a computer perhaps? If so, save some of the vitriol for the guy in mirror.
Another researcher answered that. Recall that someone else (don't recall the name) wanted to attach electrodes inside the nerve bundle rather than on the surface. The more direct application allowed for lower power requirements (microamps vs millliamps) and a higher number of connections for more resolution. So one would expect that using a transdermal would require a higher signal level. Consider the kind of grande mal seizure that might provoke.
Thanks to the fine folks at IMDB, Godzilla made his first appearance in the movie Gojira in 1956. Also consider that the court hearing this will likely be in Japan where Godzilla is a cultural icon (and monster movies as a whole). First round to Mister Godzilla.
Yeah, but that other 'zilla has been kicking butt and taking names since what, the '50s? The question I have though is what took so long to state a claim to the name? Does anyone know if Toho, et al, have said anything the first 40+ years to protect the TM?
Sure the Army would love nothing better than to buy a handful of really expensive recon platform when they could get a thousand cheap disposable ones instead!
All things considered, there is no reason for such a post (I was a TA...) to be +2. We have no proof that the poster is Elvis, let alone a former TA for one of the accused (emphasis on the word accused pending a trial). Since this is merely an accusation and possibly slander (IANAL), it should not rate above -1 when it's posted as AC.
I realize that I'm offtopic here, but what exactly are the guidelines for moderation in this case?
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Before this, they were using carrier pigeon to transmit email. Just establishing a connnection to the mail server was a bitch.
It seems to me that the only marketplace of which Apple is a part is the Apple marketplace.
We can argue the position of Apple in the general PC marketplace -- the one dominated be MS -- but let's not.
OTOH, it has been generally acknowledged here that Apple has a strong position in the non-MS market. We're no longer talking about Apple as the producer of a strictly unique, third front in the OS wars. With OSX, Apple has a significant standing as the producer of *nix systems (in comparison to Sun/Solaris and numerous Linux distros).
Can we dispense with rating drivel like this AC mini-rant as a 5?
Wardialing pre-dates script kiddies who have no freaking clue how to spell "phreak". Notice the lack of imbecilic numbers used to represent letters.
Wardriving and wardialing are indeed quite similar, to the point of being painfully obvious. The object of both is searching a communications medium for the purpose of exploitation.
And on this whole concept of wireless bandwidth. If you're explicitly invited, its considered sharing. Thank you to the generous souls who feel so inclined. Don't have permission from the owner? Its theft.
Can we get just a little more self-absorbed? Fine. Wow, you're 26 or younger. Best years of your life are behind you now! Why don't you just throw in the towel and drop out of life?
If you actually believe that crap, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Get a grip, get a clue and get a friggin' life. Want a wake up call? Go ask someone from a third-world country what their prospects are like. Then realize how well you're really doing.
I don't see what the consumer gets for $500K, but I do see what the vendor gets: your DNA and a big chunk of money.
1) What keeps them from exploiting your DNA for their profit? Suppose they discover something profoundly unique about your DNA that has significant medical implication. Who has the rights to that information?
2) How is the information encoded on the CD? Is it proprietary or some kind of de facto standard? (Oh, so you want to use the information? We'll have to read that for you! $100,000 per reading!)
3) CDs last forever right? Thirty years from now I'll be able to use the information on that CD, right? Didn't think so.
It's still deception and fraud. Not to mention the latest in a long string of unethical tactics by these folks. There's no maybe about this. It's just wrong.
Would someone local to Sydney point out these toads to the local constabulary please?
Taking out the ones that you bitched about, here is what is left. Still totals over $400 Million. How much have you given lately?
Bill's money comes from people buying stuff from Microsoft. While the cost of hardware has fallen, has the cost of MS software? Therefore, I think one could say the we've all provided some of those funds. Even those of you who only use non-MS software. You pay taxes. The various levels of govt (local, state, fed) buy MS stuff hand over fist.
Since this is a zero sum game, Bill is just engaging in a redistribution of our funds.
You left out the part where poor George Steinbrenner and his Yankees were charging 4 times the going rate for baseball games on cable. AND they insisted on the network being part of std cable. So whether you watch the Yankees or not, your basic cable would rise $2. When Cablevision said "f*** that", George went wailing to the other idiots in NY-area media that Cablevision wouldn't carry the Yankees.
Who's kidding whom?
He knows where the bodies are buried. Think of all that has occured at MS that he might be privy to. Anyone else leave MS lately and been allowed to take their brain with them?
"Let me take my IP with me Bill, or I'll rat you out for all the stuff MS has pulled over the years."
One might call that the other "Slashdot Effect". Although there are subject matter experts who participate, they are routinely drowned in the clamoring of "conventional wisdom" (Slashdot-style). The other recurring themes include: all businesses are bad, and one political party (take your pick) is incredibly evil.
Along the same lines as Cisco, DLink has some products in 802.11b (AirPlus) that utilize a different modulation scheme (Packet Binary Convolutional Coding) and provide 256-bit WEP. They also claim to provide 22Mbps. DLink's gear is compatible with other vendors' products if you want to go with std 802.11b (ie. 11Mbps).
Under the NEPA (Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft) Project, the US Air Force had a contract with Fairchild to develop a nuclear-powered bomber. Part of the problem was that the project was split in two: the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was responsible for the reactor, and Fairchild/USAF was responsible for everything else (including a converted Convair B-36H).
Well, that wasn't really the biggest problem. There was the small detail: where do you crash-land a nuclear-powered bomber?
Class? The answer is: you don't.
There's a good write-up available about Project NEPA.
Wowzers!
So I can trade all the usual woe of dealing with local (LEC/CLEC) or long distance (IXC) providers and their various regional monopolies, and instead deal with the power company!
That's not a monopoly, right?
Sure glad we don't have to worry about you designing a language for sysadmins around the world to use. I'll bet you've got some second-guessing for Linus too.
Why is it that, in the OSS community, some of the loudest bitching about those who do comes from those who can't or won't?
I don't think this is FUD against the Apple/Mac OS. I really wish The Steve would give his blessing so that the OS geeks at Apple could finally release an x86 version.
That would scare the ever living piss out of MS. The prevailing opinion here of MS not withstanding, imagine what kind of software we might have available if there was real competition. As opposed to MS only being mildly annoyed by the presence of the fragmented *nix community.
"Hey, wait a minute. Users can run Mac, Unix and Windows programs on the same box? And they don't have to pay and arm and a leg for their hardware anymore? We've got problems!"
There's no way that the majority of people are going to replace huge CD collections with SA-CDs.
Think about that for a moment. Replace CD & SA-CD with vinyl & CD. Sound familiar? Do I still have a stack of LPs? Yes. Do I listen to them or my CDs? The CDs of course.
Due to genetic constraints, the final mammoth specimen will only be 88% pure mammoth and the process will take about 50 years.
And I thought elephants had a long gestation period (22 months)!
Ding! I wish more people would take note of that easy to use thing. It's one of the things that keep more users from leaving Microsoft.
Well said.
My, my, we do seem to have some issues don't we? Mom and Dad cut off your allowance, told you to move out and get a job?
One other thing, for most large corporations the "owner" equates to stockholders (think California Personnel Retirement System), NOT a single individual holding everything. Own a car, a computer perhaps? If so, save some of the vitriol for the guy in mirror.
Another researcher answered that. Recall that someone else (don't recall the name) wanted to attach electrodes inside the nerve bundle rather than on the surface. The more direct application allowed for lower power requirements (microamps vs millliamps) and a higher number of connections for more resolution. So one would expect that using a transdermal would require a higher signal level. Consider the kind of grande mal seizure that might provoke.
Thanks to the fine folks at IMDB, Godzilla made his first appearance in the movie Gojira in 1956. Also consider that the court hearing this will likely be in Japan where Godzilla is a cultural icon (and monster movies as a whole). First round to Mister Godzilla.
Yeah, but that other 'zilla has been kicking butt and taking names since what, the '50s? The question I have though is what took so long to state a claim to the name? Does anyone know if Toho, et al, have said anything the first 40+ years to protect the TM?
Do we start a contest to rename Mozilla now?
Sure the Army would love nothing better than to buy a handful of really expensive recon platform when they could get a thousand cheap disposable ones instead!
What an incredibly stupid thing to say.
Nash claims to have won the Nobel Prize too. The nerve of that guy.
All things considered, there is no reason for such a post (I was a TA ...) to be +2. We have no proof that the poster is Elvis, let alone a former TA for one of the accused (emphasis on the word accused pending a trial). Since this is merely an accusation and possibly slander (IANAL), it should not rate above -1 when it's posted as AC.
I realize that I'm offtopic here, but what exactly are the guidelines for moderation in this case?