This is a scandalous money grab. Apple Records had absolutely no contribution to the success of Apple Computer and its iTunes store, or its iPod. The success of iTunes and iPod is pure Apple Computer genius and trademark industrial design, and Apple Records has absolutely no right to claim a major bite out of that, or become a major shareholder in Apple Computer as a result. I mean, what have they contributed to the iPod or iTMS that was of value and deserved such hefty return??! Seriously, who have bought an Apple iPod or tracks from the iTunes music store thinking it was made or directly endorsed by the Beatles Apple Records??!! Apple Records is essentially squatting a word of the English language and seeking to extort Apple Computers regardless of market realities. Besides, Apple Computer is in its normal line of business, and that includes multimedia, as many other computer companies are currently doing, I mean, Does Apple Records expect Apple Computer to ship mute computers? Heck, look around, every major computer company, and even non-major ones, have a multimedia online operation. Apple Computer is right to say that they have different interpretations of the agreement; fore example, when they start talent scouting and recording their music artists then yeah, that *is* music business, but what they are doing now is within their line of computer business.
Two things annoy me most; first, I hope the judges won't be nationalistic about this; I live in the UK and people here have an excessively heightened esteem for all things British. Second, I have the worry that the judges may not represent the actual consumers of iPods or or iTMS, and due to their age, generation and British nationality, may even be more familiar with Apple Records than they are with Apple Computers.
If Apple Records gets anything out of this it would be a major breach of commonsense and basic morality.
"It's SMART to know what the competition is doing. I'd be disappointed in Microsoft if they didn't keep abreast of the competitors."... Yes, it's very very SMART of them to do that, and it's exactly how they became as big as they are now. They have cool business heads that will wait for someone else to test the market and endure the costs of doing so before they rush in with the hindsight of what works and what doesn't.
"With the recent wired article where a Microsoft security head admitting his use of Firefox"... I read his interview and it did not indicate that he was using it in any more capacity than testing it. He definitely did not say he was using it for browsing or relying on it. In fact, he said it too had security issues. So, although I'm typing this on firefox right now, let's not get excessively enthausiastic. Microsoft had always had a practice of seeing what's out there, competitors and already implemented solutions, that him having firefox on his computer means very little. He probably has every other browser out there too.
Let's not forget that many, if not most of those soldiers already have many good reasons to be furiously angry at Bush and his administration. I think I can safely speculate on what their vote would've been.
I am shocked by the blatant bias evident in the voyager
plaque; Is this what "intelligent life" on planet Earth looks like? Where are the African-American brother, the obviously homosexual, the kid in a wheelchair, the
nerk, and the "cheerfully chubby" munching on a burger? Those are "intelligent life" too, you know.
I don't understand you, people...
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PDAs are Personal Digital Assistants. They're not meant to be personal video players, there are dedicated devices that'll do that, so keep your video-on-the-go wishes, which are anyway far from useful, away from PDAs and let a PDA be what it is! Here's what I'd like to see in a PDA, and I am a person who depends on them - for my schedule, tasklist, to note down my ideas on them (it is clear from reading the wishes so far that people have no idea or use for a PDA, so please, shut up and let us speak).
1. Data reliability so data is never lost.
2. Hardware reliability and durabiltity so it never crashes and dropping it from a reasonable height does not cause damage.
3. A fast and forgiving data entry interface for those notes.
4. instantly responsive.
5. System and data search capability that'd find the data i need in an instant.
6. Long battery life, I mean long battery life.
I really admire this guy; although the ventures he took part in haven't gone anywhere financially, they were pretty cool. Transmeta, OQO, and now this! Go Colin Hunter!
Microsoft has been doing this for too long for my taste now. Promising all remarkable and amazing things that keep us on our toes and when the product hits the shelves it's only ever so slightly different from its predecessor.
You're absolutely right; I stopped using word a long time ago (years, basically since staroffice 5.2) simply for this reason. It messed up all my ouline numbered lists (did you know outline numbered was a misnomer? well yes, it is, it refers to either/both outline numbered and outline bulleted) on very regular basis. Newer versions such as office 2003 don't seem any better in this regard. Staroffice/openoffice.org *NEVER* messed up any such list I did, and that's why I've loyally used it ever since. You see, I'm using Staroffice/openoffice.org because it's *better*. I also hear that word also messes up footnotes, though i don't use much of these, and that's why the legal profession, which uses footnotes a lot, sticks to wordperfect.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, far from it, but i'm not naiive enough to think Republicans, and especially this administration, don't play dirty games; this (Bush) administration has been engaged in dirty games and harrassment right from the start and still does. I do *not* think it's a coincidence that the list would target more known democrats than republicans, in fact, far from a coincindence, I believe it's common practice for this administration to harrass political critics.
They have proven time and again that they won't drop prices, but will continue to raise them. Every time they used a widely emergent situation as a reason or excuse to raise prices they have declined to lower them when situations improved. I don't trust that the insurance will be less, in fact, it'll be less for a subset that they'll use to prove a point but it'll be more for the majority and overall it'll get them more revenue and profit.
This is similar to a new oral contraceptive pill that reduces the number of period bleedings a girl has to only 4 a year, which I argued over with a girl friend I know that just started taking it because she was told it was "safe". The company says it's as "safe" as other contraceptive pills but when I read about it in detail, from sources other than them though ones that quoted their research finding, I found out that what they mean by as "safe" as other pills, from what I read as quoted to one of their researchers, is that it is as "safe" as other pills in preventing the risk of pregnancy! Duh! But that's not what other people think of when they consider safety, for example, I would like to know how safe it is in the sense that it won't cause my friend have breast cancer in her early 30s, and for that, the fact remains that there is no real data. To add insult to injury the researcher says that women who worry may want to wait a year or two before they start experimentingn with the pill; oh yeah? what would happen in a year or two? it'll be all kosher then? Of course, the company does not make mention of that, as much as I observed in their advertising, and they consistently say it's "safe", leaving it in this, IMHO, very misleading but profitable conclusion. This is an example of a product that uses very generic ingredients but is administered differently so that it's differentiated enough as a new product in a way to make the companies more profit, as it's charged proprietary fees, that are times more than the good ol' and trusted oral contraceptive pill that's backed by 40 years of safety data and record, and the consumers be damned. I would have no issue with them if only they were clear in their advertising, as ordinary consumers don't fish out research details or investigate persistently about what "safe" means.
This new pay-as-you-drive will probably be sold as "costing less", but it won't say whether it'll be "costing" the insurance company less to insure your car and thereby they'd make more profit charging you the same or more, or whether it'd be "costing less" and then in tiny, almost unreadable fineprint it'd say that costs would "vary" thereby further misleading.
"What effect will the built-in search in Microsoft's Longhorn have on Google's traffic?"
Unless Microsoft changes its ways it won't matter. Have you seen that newsbot they're making? More than half its stories come from MSNBC! This is a deliberate policy as Microsoft says that the service resides on MSNBC so it will be given a first amongst equals treatment. Technology won't make a difference; people just don't trust Microsoft, and Microsoft keeps proving they're not trustworthy.
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain.
What's a Coral link?
That screenshot from the article sickened me; how many of those icons were Apple Mac icons? too many!!
This is a scandalous money grab. Apple Records had absolutely no contribution to the success of Apple Computer and its iTunes store, or its iPod. The success of iTunes and iPod is pure Apple Computer genius and trademark industrial design, and Apple Records has absolutely no right to claim a major bite out of that, or become a major shareholder in Apple Computer as a result. I mean, what have they contributed to the iPod or iTMS that was of value and deserved such hefty return??! Seriously, who have bought an Apple iPod or tracks from the iTunes music store thinking it was made or directly endorsed by the Beatles Apple Records??!! Apple Records is essentially squatting a word of the English language and seeking to extort Apple Computers regardless of market realities. Besides, Apple Computer is in its normal line of business, and that includes multimedia, as many other computer companies are currently doing, I mean, Does Apple Records expect Apple Computer to ship mute computers? Heck, look around, every major computer company, and even non-major ones, have a multimedia online operation. Apple Computer is right to say that they have different interpretations of the agreement; fore example, when they start talent scouting and recording their music artists then yeah, that *is* music business, but what they are doing now is within their line of computer business.
Two things annoy me most; first, I hope the judges won't be nationalistic about this; I live in the UK and people here have an excessively heightened esteem for all things British. Second, I have the worry that the judges may not represent the actual consumers of iPods or or iTMS, and due to their age, generation and British nationality, may even be more familiar with Apple Records than they are with Apple Computers.
If Apple Records gets anything out of this it would be a major breach of commonsense and basic morality.
"It's SMART to know what the competition is doing. I'd be disappointed in Microsoft if they didn't keep abreast of the competitors."... Yes, it's very very SMART of them to do that, and it's exactly how they became as big as they are now. They have cool business heads that will wait for someone else to test the market and endure the costs of doing so before they rush in with the hindsight of what works and what doesn't.
"With the recent wired article where a Microsoft security head admitting his use of Firefox"... I read his interview and it did not indicate that he was using it in any more capacity than testing it. He definitely did not say he was using it for browsing or relying on it. In fact, he said it too had security issues. So, although I'm typing this on firefox right now, let's not get excessively enthausiastic. Microsoft had always had a practice of seeing what's out there, competitors and already implemented solutions, that him having firefox on his computer means very little. He probably has every other browser out there too.
1) Open it up for extensions, the way firebird is. 2) until it can sync with mobile devices (palm, pocketpc.. etc), i won't be implementing it.
Let's not forget that many, if not most of those soldiers already have many good reasons to be furiously angry at Bush and his administration. I think I can safely speculate on what their vote would've been.
I am shocked by the blatant bias evident in the voyager plaque; Is this what "intelligent life" on planet Earth looks like? Where are the African-American brother, the obviously homosexual, the kid in a wheelchair, the nerk, and the "cheerfully chubby" munching on a burger? Those are "intelligent life" too, you know.
PDAs are Personal Digital Assistants. They're not meant to be personal video players, there are dedicated devices that'll do that, so keep your video-on-the-go wishes, which are anyway far from useful, away from PDAs and let a PDA be what it is!
Here's what I'd like to see in a PDA, and I am a person who depends on them - for my schedule, tasklist, to note down my ideas on them (it is clear from reading the wishes so far that people have no idea or use for a PDA, so please, shut up and let us speak).
1. Data reliability so data is never lost. 2. Hardware reliability and durabiltity so it never crashes and dropping it from a reasonable height does not cause damage. 3. A fast and forgiving data entry interface for those notes. 4. instantly responsive. 5. System and data search capability that'd find the data i need in an instant. 6. Long battery life, I mean long battery life.
I really admire this guy; although the ventures he took part in haven't gone anywhere financially, they were pretty cool. Transmeta, OQO, and now this! Go Colin Hunter!
yes, I second that. I'm curious too.
Microsoft has been doing this for too long for my taste now. Promising all remarkable and amazing things that keep us on our toes and when the product hits the shelves it's only ever so slightly different from its predecessor.
Check out Ava Find (commercial) and Wilbur (GNU) for existing implementations on windows.
"So a Jupiter-sized planet is about 2183908045977011494252873 VW Beetles."
How much is 2183908045977011494252873? My mind cannot comprehend such numbers.
Dude, I knew how to use that already; Staroffice/openoffice.org just simply works as it should, none of the nonsense.
You're absolutely right; I stopped using word a long time ago (years, basically since staroffice 5.2) simply for this reason. It messed up all my ouline numbered lists (did you know outline numbered was a misnomer? well yes, it is, it refers to either/both outline numbered and outline bulleted) on very regular basis. Newer versions such as office 2003 don't seem any better in this regard. Staroffice/openoffice.org *NEVER* messed up any such list I did, and that's why I've loyally used it ever since. You see, I'm using Staroffice/openoffice.org because it's *better*. I also hear that word also messes up footnotes, though i don't use much of these, and that's why the legal profession, which uses footnotes a lot, sticks to wordperfect.
Aren't there any software-based calculators for PDAs that have "a huge library of math functions"?
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, far from it, but i'm not naiive enough to think Republicans, and especially this administration, don't play dirty games; this (Bush) administration has been engaged in dirty games and harrassment right from the start and still does. I do *not* think it's a coincidence that the list would target more known democrats than republicans, in fact, far from a coincindence, I believe it's common practice for this administration to harrass political critics.
"OMG it's a conspiracy!!!! It's another BushCheneyNeoConFascistMonarchyForOilHaliburton scandal to destroy the opposition and kill baby pandas!
Mod him down please. This is the stupidest thing I read. Yes, I do believe the list targets democrats.
I just noticed this calculator is not that cheap. Can someone please explain to me why one would want to buy it instead of a PDA?
thanks.
They have proven time and again that they won't drop prices, but will continue to raise them. Every time they used a widely emergent situation as a reason or excuse to raise prices they have declined to lower them when situations improved. I don't trust that the insurance will be less, in fact, it'll be less for a subset that they'll use to prove a point but it'll be more for the majority and overall it'll get them more revenue and profit.
This is similar to a new oral contraceptive pill that reduces the number of period bleedings a girl has to only 4 a year, which I argued over with a girl friend I know that just started taking it because she was told it was "safe". The company says it's as "safe" as other contraceptive pills but when I read about it in detail, from sources other than them though ones that quoted their research finding, I found out that what they mean by as "safe" as other pills, from what I read as quoted to one of their researchers, is that it is as "safe" as other pills in preventing the risk of pregnancy! Duh! But that's not what other people think of when they consider safety, for example, I would like to know how safe it is in the sense that it won't cause my friend have breast cancer in her early 30s, and for that, the fact remains that there is no real data. To add insult to injury the researcher says that women who worry may want to wait a year or two before they start experimentingn with the pill; oh yeah? what would happen in a year or two? it'll be all kosher then? Of course, the company does not make mention of that, as much as I observed in their advertising, and they consistently say it's "safe", leaving it in this, IMHO, very misleading but profitable conclusion. This is an example of a product that uses very generic ingredients but is administered differently so that it's differentiated enough as a new product in a way to make the companies more profit, as it's charged proprietary fees, that are times more than the good ol' and trusted oral contraceptive pill that's backed by 40 years of safety data and record, and the consumers be damned. I would have no issue with them if only they were clear in their advertising, as ordinary consumers don't fish out research details or investigate persistently about what "safe" means.
This new pay-as-you-drive will probably be sold as "costing less", but it won't say whether it'll be "costing" the insurance company less to insure your car and thereby they'd make more profit charging you the same or more, or whether it'd be "costing less" and then in tiny, almost unreadable fineprint it'd say that costs would "vary" thereby further misleading.
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I totally agree. It disgusts me immensely.
"What effect will the built-in search in Microsoft's Longhorn have on Google's traffic?"
Unless Microsoft changes its ways it won't matter. Have you seen that newsbot they're making? More than half its stories come from MSNBC! This is a deliberate policy as Microsoft says that the service resides on MSNBC so it will be given a first amongst equals treatment. Technology won't make a difference; people just don't trust Microsoft, and Microsoft keeps proving they're not trustworthy.
You ask a person to carry an 18 hour voice recorder... I'm just curious what batteries you use.