Which is ironic though - Apple has a monopoly on the platform they operate on, and Microsoft has a monopoly on theirs. Perhaps Windows has 99% of the desktop x86 PC market, conversely OSX has 99% of their desktop market too... (x86 with EFI BIOS).
While Apple has 5% of the despktop market, they have 99% of their platform's market.
and evolved into including browsers and email clients (ie and outlook express). So now you want to include media player... and what else?
Not that Linux or OSX is different. OSX includes iTunes and Quicktime. Different Linux variants bundle in their own variety of applications.
Difference is that Microsoft's a target. Not I run FC4 on my laptop because I like not having to run anti-virus or anti-spyware progs, but it is no where near as stable as XP.
The EU's problem with the bundling of WMP is that Microsoft effectively killed competition in the market before the video player market had a chance to develop.
I don't buy that. Apple bundles all sorts of crap with OSX as well. Quicktime, iTunes, and a DVD player. Why isn't the EU going after Apple, who is essentially doing the same thing?
Not flamebait here folks, seriously wondering what the difference is.... Apple leverages the OSX market to promote iTunes. No difference IMO.
So on the one hand, Perfect 10 wants high ranking with google, and OTOH they don't want their images in google's search.
AFAIK, google respects robots.txt, and if they added one to their site, google wouldn't index those images.
It's not explicitly stated, but if you want google to index your site, you should expect to play by their rules. You can explicitly tell them not to spider your site and they'll respect that.
CD writing - Not terrible, but KDE's K3B blows the doors off of gnome's CD writing capabilities. I use K3B all the time, now, and I'm very happy (before I used command-line tools because the GUI under gnome was so painful, now it's better).
Check out Gnome-Baker for burning CD's. It's pretty awesome actually. It makes gnome a real contender now IMO. I know K3b is the reason to have Qt, but Gnomebaker might be usable enough to get to turf Qt from your system
And there are people with legitimate Intel OSX machines presently. Apple has no right to tell them they can't install Linux on said box and install their OS on a normal PC.
Given Apple's history of logic board failers, we can expect within the next year we'll have 30% of those PC's with blown main boards, so people with have OSX86 licenses without any hardware.
If the information the government wanted was a matter of national security... Then yeah, google should hand it over immediately, no questions asked...
Yeah, according to the DHS, everything is a matter of national security. They use it as an excuse for just about everything they want to do, without being subject to scrutiny.
Really, you guys need to do something about your congressmen openly selling their vote to the highest bidder. It's getting really out of hand....not a stab at Americans, but it's definitely a breakdown in democracy when votes can be purchased by a lobby group.
You guys need to put politicians in jail who accept bribes. Yes bribes. That's what vote buying is - a bribe.
Actually they are. Google profits because they support human rights violations in china through censorship.
Nike OTOH is exploiting human rights violations with low wages and child labour in sweat shops.
The difference is there, but it's more subtle than you think. What I'm guess I'm saying is the government is picking the wrong fight. They should go after companies who profit from sweat shops first, and then worry about what Google does with China. There's bigger fish to fry than that one. I'd say Nike is way more evil than Google.
My opinion on this is that the US government needs to intervene a bit here (which it looks like is happening). Normally I would detest government intrusion, but when it comes to international trade I think it's one of the few areas that the government must be involved.
What about Nike exploiting sweat shops in the far East to make shoes? Where was the US government then?
I'd like to know what the heck the house of representatives is trying to prove. The US Govt encourages trade with China, with a huge amount of US Imports originating in China, and other countries where human rights abuses are rampant.
You don't see the House of Representatives going after Nike for manufatcturing shoes in sweat shops do you?
This is a bullshit stunt. While I don't support what Google does, they reall should go after companies like Nike first. In the grand scheme of things, child labour is a bigger deal than censorship IMHO.
If you could buy coke and heroin at Walgreens, about 98% of all the bad things that happen because of drugs would go away.
So because you can buy alcohol legally, the bad stuff isn't happening?
No alcholism in society, no drunken wife beating takes place, and no drunken fighting right?
You can't necessarily assume that legalization is the solution...
Truth is, we should just open it up to consumption. Who are we to dicatate what a person should or should not consume? We are all victims of our bad choices, one way or another.
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Since we're on the topic of the past, let's not forget about Laserdisc and Minidisc formats.
Recall Laserdisc had quality improvements over VHS (400 lines v 200 lines), and didn't stretch like VHS, and was more expensive. Kicker was the laserdisc was a 1980's technology, and it was released too close to VHS IMO.
People took to DVD's because it had a lot of benefits - resolution, and likeliest the biggest factor, storage size was probably the biggest attraction. Retailers liked it too because they could store more DVD's in a warehouse than VHS, meaning that they had a lowever overhead per sq. ft.
Blue ray players offer a higher resolution, but at a higher cost. IMO Blue Ray will go the way of Laserdisc, unless they encode one side in blue-ray and the other in regular DVD.
If there's not transition, then the format's screwed.
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Which is ironic though - Apple has a monopoly on the platform they operate on, and Microsoft has a monopoly on theirs. Perhaps Windows has 99% of the desktop x86 PC market, conversely OSX has 99% of their desktop market too... (x86 with EFI BIOS).
While Apple has 5% of the despktop market, they have 99% of their platform's market.
It can be viewed in two different ways.
and evolved into including browsers and email clients (ie and outlook express). So now you want to include media player... and what else?
Not that Linux or OSX is different. OSX includes iTunes and Quicktime. Different Linux variants bundle in their own variety of applications.
Difference is that Microsoft's a target. Not I run FC4 on my laptop because I like not having to run anti-virus or anti-spyware progs, but it is no where near as stable as XP.
The EU's problem with the bundling of WMP is that Microsoft effectively killed competition in the market before the video player market had a chance to develop.
I don't buy that. Apple bundles all sorts of crap with OSX as well. Quicktime, iTunes, and a DVD player. Why isn't the EU going after Apple, who is essentially doing the same thing?
Not flamebait here folks, seriously wondering what the difference is.... Apple leverages the OSX market to promote iTunes. No difference IMO.
As someone who paid for a copy of Mandrake 5, I actually understood the need to pay $5 for a CD... Seemed like a fair purchase to me at the time...
Granted that was when Linux on the desktop sucked balls...
So on the one hand, Perfect 10 wants high ranking with google, and OTOH they don't want their images in google's search.
AFAIK, google respects robots.txt, and if they added one to their site, google wouldn't index those images.
It's not explicitly stated, but if you want google to index your site, you should expect to play by their rules. You can explicitly tell them not to spider your site and they'll respect that.
For the record, that hammas (sp?) was elected as the majority in Palestine makes me think I need to disagree with you on this point.
Just remember, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Don't be so quick to judge.
CD writing - Not terrible, but KDE's K3B blows the doors off of gnome's CD writing capabilities. I use K3B all the time, now, and I'm very happy (before I used command-line tools because the GUI under gnome was so painful, now it's better).
Check out Gnome-Baker for burning CD's. It's pretty awesome actually. It makes gnome a real contender now IMO. I know K3b is the reason to have Qt, but Gnomebaker might be usable enough to get to turf Qt from your system
-1 Troll? Who gave a Mac Zealot mod points???
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And there are people with legitimate Intel OSX machines presently. Apple has no right to tell them they can't install Linux on said box and install their OS on a normal PC.
Given Apple's history of logic board failers, we can expect within the next year we'll have 30% of those PC's with blown main boards, so people with have OSX86 licenses without any hardware.
whereas some of us still have 12:00 blinking on our VCRs
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A VCR? What's that? Haven't had one in my home for about four years now
No, but if you hold a legitimate license for OSX, you should be able to run it on whatever hardware you choose.
Truth is, Apple is no better than Microsoft, no matter what the zealots will tell you.
If the information the government wanted was a matter of national security
Then yeah, google should hand it over immediately, no questions asked
Yeah, according to the DHS, everything is a matter of national security. They use it as an excuse for just about everything they want to do, without being subject to scrutiny.
"personal responsibility" party (repubs)
...not a stab at Americans, but it's definitely a breakdown in democracy when votes can be purchased by a lobby group.
You mean the financial whores party?
Really, you guys need to do something about your congressmen openly selling their vote to the highest bidder. It's getting really out of hand.
You guys need to put politicians in jail who accept bribes. Yes bribes. That's what vote buying is - a bribe.
Not that my country (Canada) is much better...
Pretty sure there's also a standalone REXX for Windows.
True, and you can even code ASP pages in Rexx if you're feeling bold and daring...
just that they two are not directly comparable.
Actually they are. Google profits because they support human rights violations in china through censorship.
Nike OTOH is exploiting human rights violations with low wages and child labour in sweat shops.
The difference is there, but it's more subtle than you think. What I'm guess I'm saying is the government is picking the wrong fight. They should go after companies who profit from sweat shops first, and then worry about what Google does with China. There's bigger fish to fry than that one. I'd say Nike is way more evil than Google.
I, too, look forward to the day when a billion obese Chinese are driving around in SUVs...
:)
It's a shame you'll be modded down as a troll for that comment... LMAO that's funny
My opinion on this is that the US government needs to intervene a bit here (which it looks like is happening). Normally I would detest government intrusion, but when it comes to international trade I think it's one of the few areas that the government must be involved.
What about Nike exploiting sweat shops in the far East to make shoes? Where was the US government then?
I'd like to know what the heck the house of representatives is trying to prove. The US Govt encourages trade with China, with a huge amount of US Imports originating in China, and other countries where human rights abuses are rampant.
You don't see the House of Representatives going after Nike for manufatcturing shoes in sweat shops do you?
This is a bullshit stunt. While I don't support what Google does, they reall should go after companies like Nike first. In the grand scheme of things, child labour is a bigger deal than censorship IMHO.
Everyone complains about prices w/o realizing that the consumer really has the last say in how much something cost.
Not when there's a cartel. The consumer is the victim.
The **AA won't lower their prices, and instead goes on the attack of fair use...
If you could buy coke and heroin at Walgreens, about 98% of all the bad things that happen because of drugs would go away.
So because you can buy alcohol legally, the bad stuff isn't happening?
No alcholism in society, no drunken wife beating takes place, and no drunken fighting right?
You can't necessarily assume that legalization is the solution...
Truth is, we should just open it up to consumption. Who are we to dicatate what a person should or should not consume? We are all victims of our bad choices, one way or another.
Apple could be so much more successful
Let's take a trip in the way back machine for moment.
Once upon a time, Apple tried to open up its system to being cloned, and only achieved 7% market share.
Then Jobs came back, stopped allowing the Mac to be cloned, and introduced the iMac to the world. Jobs saved Apple and brought them to profitability.
So who's correct? You or Jobs?
Okay, in response to your nitpick, I raise you a variation on your nitpick :)
:)
Blue Ray perhaps is to DVD what MUSE was to Laserdisk.
I can't see it lasting, especially if there's no backwards compatibility.
Sony has another hit here, right after the Minidisc
Since we're on the topic of the past, let's not forget about Laserdisc and Minidisc formats.
Recall Laserdisc had quality improvements over VHS (400 lines v 200 lines), and didn't stretch like VHS, and was more expensive. Kicker was the laserdisc was a 1980's technology, and it was released too close to VHS IMO.
People took to DVD's because it had a lot of benefits - resolution, and likeliest the biggest factor, storage size was probably the biggest attraction. Retailers liked it too because they could store more DVD's in a warehouse than VHS, meaning that they had a lowever overhead per sq. ft.
Blue ray players offer a higher resolution, but at a higher cost. IMO Blue Ray will go the way of Laserdisc, unless they encode one side in blue-ray and the other in regular DVD.
If there's not transition, then the format's screwed.
Apple has a very competent R&D team that could easily start from scratch and create a superior product.
Like the Newton?
Superior, perhaps. Well marketed. Bah.
Eclipse can debug perl and even javascript seamlessly
If it was stable enough to run. I've tried to use eclipse-ruby for working on rails projects, and it regularly hangs on my Linux laptop.
If activestate ever opened up Komodo to the public, I'd switch in a heartbeat.