Yes, and engineers work for the CEO, but steve didn't dictate which chips were used, only how the product had to function. His engineers picked the chips.
The board wants profits, Steve gave them profits, as long as he doesn't do anything to jeopardize those profits, the board is generally going to be in agreement with him.
Perhaps you really need to get an idea of how boards and C level officers of a company work because you really seem like you don't have the slightest idea.
In the 4th quarter, at the 2 minute warning, the coach lets the quarterback call the shots, thats their respective jobs.
Yes, the kernel is millions of lines of code, its fucking massive by all known standards of kernels at this point.
If soylentnews is working so great, why do you people keep posting the link on slashdot? Whats that? Its got a friendly but utterly vacant vibe, well good for you.
You just have different definitions for words than... well pretty much the rest of the english speaking world.
Of course you don't, because you're afraid that it'll be you.
You're a sissy. Grow up. If you fuck up, take it like an adult.
You simply aren't going to find a group of people of Linus's caliber that agree with you, because people like you are loathed by people like him. You want to sit around the camp fire and talk about how awesome the world is and how great it is to be nice to everybody all the while accomplishing exactly dick.
People like you, that whine about things like this are invariable the people who can't do this and want to pretend you can... but don't want to be called on it.
Crawl back in your hole until you grow up enough to deal with the fact THATS HE DESERVES IT.
Its fucking words for god sake, stop being such a pussy.
I'm sorry what? Are you smoking some PCP or something?
Instant messaging, i.e. SMS text messaging has replaced voice for an entire generation of kids and many adults. Just because your favorite silly little IM network isn't supported doesn't mean your boxed view of the world is actually true.
Instant messaging is extremely popular even if you can't be bothered to leave the basement and have friends long enough to notice it. The only difference is the protocol used and the lack of being tied specifically to one network.
You now must realize that it costs nothing extra to the developers to select a cross platform development toolchain instead of a platform specific one which may tie them to OSs that have uncertain futures.
I've been writing software for Windows, OSX, FreeBSD and Linux for about 10 years, one app, runs on all of them, both command line and GUI versions... and I have to say, a statement like that just shows that you really have absolutely no fucking clue what you're talking about.
There is no toolchain on the planet that can make up for the difference in platforms, sorry fanboy, you don't know what you're talking about.
VMs always cost more than real hardware unless you're using some shitty VM hypervisor. Anything capable of real virtual desktops (i.e. VMware) is ridiculously expensive.
VMware will cost you more in licensing alone than physical hardware 9 times out of 10.
Short sighted? You just pointed out how they can keep this up for 43 YEARS without costing as much as replacing it today. Thats 2 GENERATIONS of people. Thats an entire career for many people.
That wasn't an upgrade, sorry to burst your bubble. You at best end up with KDE, at worse... Gnome. How you can consider either of those an upgrade is beyond me.
When the standards change, that doesn't make the old equipment more dangerous, it just means we try to not be as dangerous in the future.
When safety standards change, RARELY do they require everyone to immediately replace whats already working. There are exceptions for extreme cases of course, but we're talking about XP, not Windows 95/98.
If you think Exchange is a mail server you have no idea what the software you run is doing.
Exchange is a collaboration server, mail isn't even anywhere NEAR its primary function.
Outlook is NOT an email client, its an exchange client and a DAMN powerful one at that.
Yes, they do email. If you're using exchange and outlook just for email you utterly fail at IT and should have your ass handed to you.
To further that point, you can't make a Linux box do what Exchange does (or FreeBSD or OSX for that matter either), and NO, Zimbra IS NOT AN EXCHANGE replacement.
If you think I'm wrong on any of these points you're just showing exactly how little you know about the product. You're using the space shuttle to ferry a stick of gum to your neighbors house.
Mono will happily run MS.NET dlls which are already available.
Its own library is rather lacking, but you don't have to use your own, as the software should come with the.net framework it requires as a distributable and the license to use it.
I run.NET apps on my Raspberry Pi....NET 4.5 apps..NET is what Java wanted to be and failed utterly. Mono is the OpenJDK equivalent.
MS has also open sourced pretty much all of the core components of the.NET (not the libraries), so its not exactly like you can't fix bugs yourself.
Whats that? You had no idea that the.NET CIL and CLR where open sourced by MS IN 2002? You even missed the slashdot article a few days ago about the C# compiler and backend being OS'd? Whats that? Yes, I agree, you should shut the fuck up until you get a clue.
You'd rather save $30 and risk your life to some script kiddie.
I'd rather pay the cost and watch your house burn done.
This is why people like me write software for medical devices and people like you don't, and should be banned from making any decisions that effect others.
And what you're ignoring is the better penetration on more demographics are... demographics that aren't buying. So while it has 'bigger numbers', they aren't useful numbers.
Go turn your radio up to 11 and fanboy about how awesome it is.
Well, that just makes you stupid, not Apple users.
Your point may be valid, but since you can't buy a 'screenshot app', its impossible to say that apple users would buy an app that duplicates builtin functionality.
But hey, why pull your head out of your ass, you'd rather just rant on about how your favorite product is far superior to someone else's favorite product... regardless of solid evidence that you're completely wrong and utterly ignorant of the subject you're talking about.
In short, you're post makes it clear your just a mindless douche, one of the 'omg@#$^@#$^@B linuxAndroids you a re looking for' morons.
If you knew anything about bandwidth usage, you'd understand why using the Internet for television they way that its being done is absolutely fucking retarded and unsustainable without increasing bandwidth to every home by a considerable amount.
My ISP costs more per month than an AppleTV if you include the bundled cable tv... If you ignore TV, then my ISP costs about 2/3rd the cost of an AppleTV...
They are only $100, you aren't buying a Roku AND any ISP service fast enough to stream to it for a single month at $100
If you're selling an app, you look for everything and decide how you'll make the most money.
You don't pick one aspect... so that fanboys like you can have their way... and ignore the fact that that large market share group... doesn't buy dick. Or you can target the slightly smaller group who actually spends money.
You utterly missed the entire point of the article.
All.NET languages are more or less equal as they ALL go through the same back end and share the same runtime.
Unless your in an embedded world where garbage collection isn't acceptable or something like that, they.NET world is capable of just about any task, gaming being one of them. Runtime speed is not an issue unless you need real time hard limits.
There's the.net compact framework for embedded devices and interacting with real time components as needed..NET is really what Java wishes it was.
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... the board didn't side with the VPs, Jobs didn't allow Windows versions for several years. Do you even know what an iPod is?
Yes, and engineers work for the CEO, but steve didn't dictate which chips were used, only how the product had to function. His engineers picked the chips.
The board wants profits, Steve gave them profits, as long as he doesn't do anything to jeopardize those profits, the board is generally going to be in agreement with him.
Perhaps you really need to get an idea of how boards and C level officers of a company work because you really seem like you don't have the slightest idea.
In the 4th quarter, at the 2 minute warning, the coach lets the quarterback call the shots, thats their respective jobs.
Yes, the kernel is millions of lines of code, its fucking massive by all known standards of kernels at this point.
If soylentnews is working so great, why do you people keep posting the link on slashdot? Whats that? Its got a friendly but utterly vacant vibe, well good for you.
You just have different definitions for words than ... well pretty much the rest of the english speaking world.
Linux is no where near 35 years old. Try again fanboy.
Of course you don't, because you're afraid that it'll be you.
You're a sissy. Grow up. If you fuck up, take it like an adult.
You simply aren't going to find a group of people of Linus's caliber that agree with you, because people like you are loathed by people like him. You want to sit around the camp fire and talk about how awesome the world is and how great it is to be nice to everybody all the while accomplishing exactly dick.
People like you, that whine about things like this are invariable the people who can't do this and want to pretend you can ... but don't want to be called on it.
Crawl back in your hole until you grow up enough to deal with the fact THATS HE DESERVES IT.
Its fucking words for god sake, stop being such a pussy.
Look if you can't stand for people to treat you the way you deserve to be treated, then change the way you behave.
Kay is a dick, so Linus reacts as such.
I'm not a fan of Linux or Linus in particular, but I've never heard of an incident where he blew up on someone who didn't deserve it.
He seems to be fully capable of rational, polite conversation ... unless you're an asswipe, in which case, he'll treat you like one.
instant messaging (is now dead)
I'm sorry what? Are you smoking some PCP or something?
Instant messaging, i.e. SMS text messaging has replaced voice for an entire generation of kids and many adults. Just because your favorite silly little IM network isn't supported doesn't mean your boxed view of the world is actually true.
Instant messaging is extremely popular even if you can't be bothered to leave the basement and have friends long enough to notice it. The only difference is the protocol used and the lack of being tied specifically to one network.
You now must realize that it costs nothing extra to the developers to select a cross platform development toolchain instead of a platform specific one which may tie them to OSs that have uncertain futures.
I've been writing software for Windows, OSX, FreeBSD and Linux for about 10 years, one app, runs on all of them, both command line and GUI versions ... and I have to say, a statement like that just shows that you really have absolutely no fucking clue what you're talking about.
There is no toolchain on the planet that can make up for the difference in platforms, sorry fanboy, you don't know what you're talking about.
AFAIK
Thats your first and foremost mistake. The rest of your post just goes down hill from there.
If you don't understand why someone might run Windows or OS X, the ignorance and stupidity is yours and no one else's.
VMs always cost more than real hardware unless you're using some shitty VM hypervisor. Anything capable of real virtual desktops (i.e. VMware) is ridiculously expensive.
VMware will cost you more in licensing alone than physical hardware 9 times out of 10.
Short sighted? You just pointed out how they can keep this up for 43 YEARS without costing as much as replacing it today. Thats 2 GENERATIONS of people. Thats an entire career for many people.
Who's the terribly short sighted one?
That wasn't an upgrade, sorry to burst your bubble. You at best end up with KDE, at worse ... Gnome. How you can consider either of those an upgrade is beyond me.
When the standards change, that doesn't make the old equipment more dangerous, it just means we try to not be as dangerous in the future.
When safety standards change, RARELY do they require everyone to immediately replace whats already working. There are exceptions for extreme cases of course, but we're talking about XP, not Windows 95/98.
XP can be made safe if you have half a clue.
And XP doesn't magically get more broken when its not on a stand alone machine not connected to any network or on a secure network.
What was your point?
Exchange IS NOT A MAIL SERVER.
THAT is where you are going wrong.
If you think Exchange is a mail server you have no idea what the software you run is doing.
Exchange is a collaboration server, mail isn't even anywhere NEAR its primary function.
Outlook is NOT an email client, its an exchange client and a DAMN powerful one at that.
Yes, they do email. If you're using exchange and outlook just for email you utterly fail at IT and should have your ass handed to you.
To further that point, you can't make a Linux box do what Exchange does (or FreeBSD or OSX for that matter either), and NO, Zimbra IS NOT AN EXCHANGE replacement.
If you think I'm wrong on any of these points you're just showing exactly how little you know about the product. You're using the space shuttle to ferry a stick of gum to your neighbors house.
All of them?
Mono will happily run MS .NET dlls which are already available.
Its own library is rather lacking, but you don't have to use your own, as the software should come with the .net framework it requires as a distributable and the license to use it.
I run .NET apps on my Raspberry Pi ... .NET 4.5 apps. .NET is what Java wanted to be and failed utterly. Mono is the OpenJDK equivalent.
MS has also open sourced pretty much all of the core components of the .NET (not the libraries), so its not exactly like you can't fix bugs yourself.
Whats that? You had no idea that the .NET CIL and CLR where open sourced by MS IN 2002? You even missed the slashdot article a few days ago about the C# compiler and backend being OS'd? Whats that? Yes, I agree, you should shut the fuck up until you get a clue.
YES! I have a brain and half a clue.
You'd rather save $30 and risk your life to some script kiddie.
I'd rather pay the cost and watch your house burn done.
This is why people like me write software for medical devices and people like you don't, and should be banned from making any decisions that effect others.
And what you're ignoring is the better penetration on more demographics are ... demographics that aren't buying. So while it has 'bigger numbers', they aren't useful numbers.
Go turn your radio up to 11 and fanboy about how awesome it is.
Well, that just makes you stupid, not Apple users.
Your point may be valid, but since you can't buy a 'screenshot app', its impossible to say that apple users would buy an app that duplicates builtin functionality.
But hey, why pull your head out of your ass, you'd rather just rant on about how your favorite product is far superior to someone else's favorite product ... regardless of solid evidence that you're completely wrong and utterly ignorant of the subject you're talking about.
In short, you're post makes it clear your just a mindless douche, one of the 'omg@#$^@#$^@B linuxAndroids you a re looking for' morons.
If you knew anything about bandwidth usage, you'd understand why using the Internet for television they way that its being done is absolutely fucking retarded and unsustainable without increasing bandwidth to every home by a considerable amount.
My ISP costs more per month than an AppleTV if you include the bundled cable tv ... If you ignore TV, then my ISP costs about 2/3rd the cost of an AppleTV ...
They are only $100, you aren't buying a Roku AND any ISP service fast enough to stream to it for a single month at $100
Thats just stupid.
If you're selling an app, you look for everything and decide how you'll make the most money.
You don't pick one aspect ... so that fanboys like you can have their way ... and ignore the fact that that large market share group ... doesn't buy dick. Or you can target the slightly smaller group who actually spends money.
You utterly missed the entire point of the article.
So they violate their own terms of service?
No, try again fanboy.
All .NET languages are more or less equal as they ALL go through the same back end and share the same runtime.
Unless your in an embedded world where garbage collection isn't acceptable or something like that, they .NET world is capable of just about any task, gaming being one of them. Runtime speed is not an issue unless you need real time hard limits.
There's the .net compact framework for embedded devices and interacting with real time components as needed. .NET is really what Java wishes it was.
I'm still looking for you guys to give me an answer on how much I have to pay to get front page placement like Bennett?