So the company that owns CUPS, created WebKit(the basis for Safari and Chrome), is the largest distributor of UNIX in the world, and nearly singlehandedly crafted the digital media revolution isn't an IT company?!? It isn't Apple's fault that they're also making money faster than they can count it. OK, it actually is their fault, but that shouldn't be held against them. There is nothing in the rule book that says an IT company can't also be successful. Just because they've managed to figure out how to provide an open-source OS (Darwin is open-source) AND make money is no reason to dislike them...unless...are you by any chance an ex-Sun employee?
Why do authors write novels? Why do painters paint? Programmers program. That is what they do. Everyone wants to be creative in some way. Precious few of us ever find a release for that desire. It may strike others as odd that programming is a creative activity, but it is something that didn't exist until after it was created. Programmers are painting with logic, writing a novel with numbers, or composing with HTML.
You're mistaken. Internet radio is transmitting highly compressed copies that usually sound only marginally better than a cassette tape. It is digital in format, but that does not mean that it is of superior quality. There is a reason why the digital format on a CD is about 40 MB per song and an MP3 of the same exact song is about 4 MB. The quality is lower. If they were streaming some lossless format then maybe it would be a concern. The bandwidth costs alone would drive all but the largest webcasters out of business. A cassette tape recorded off of a strong FM station probably sounds better than most internet streams. This is not about digging money out of a new business. This is about shutting down a new business that threatens the vertical integration of the old business. If people have un-restricted access to new artists and music it becomes more difficult for the labels to force-feed their crap down our throats. This will drive everyone out of webcasting...except for ClearChannel and maybe AOL. Their precious business model secure until someone figures out how to bit-torrent radio streams. (Actually Octoshape is already doing that more or less)
I know that the parent's comment sounds obvious, but to some people it isn't. This is EXACTLY why open source is a better development model. This will lead to a stronger product in a shorter time frame. Yes it creates some more work, but this type of work is never complete.
Google does not need to be market leader in any particular fields. They just need to be good enough. Their business is presenting advertising that is targeted to an audience. Whatever they can do that keeps your eyes focused on their ads is a success. MS Maps may be a better product than Google Maps, but if I can click on a on a google search result and from that one click I'm able to find the vendor, call them, schedule an appointment and put it on my calendar, tranfer funds to them, and record the transaction on a spreadsheet I'd say Google just kicked the snot out of any of their competitors...they just managed to get me to look at about 10 times more ads than their competitors, and the ads are better targeted as well because they now know that I'm willing to spend money on product x and live near location z. This information only further refines their marketing tools.
I'd very much like to hear about how you're doing this. I'd like to hear all the gory details, the pitfalls, mistakes, successes, everything. I thought about doing this too, but I'd have to manually touch every machine, but I only have 80 or so to deal with.
This is essentially a Proof Of Concept. My concern is that because there still is not a single real virus for OS X, there is not any real antivirus software for OS X. Even if you wanted to buy some you couldn't. Don't get me wrong, there is AV software for OS X, but it detects primarily Windows viruses and does little to protect OS X because there's next to nothing to protect against. These companies may have 2 people working shifts looking for OS X viruses. I suspect that there are hordes of people looking for Windows viruses. If they actually managed to find an OS X virus they wouldn't know what to do. They'd have to wait until there "specialist" got back from vacation in a week to produce a signature file. Even if you have AV software for your Mac you're gonna get burned by the first virus because response time will be so slow. I'm not delusional, there will be a virus for OS X eventually. When it hits it will be a big deal because magazines, newspapers, and TV stations will all be leveled. The general population probably will barely notice, but the people who present the news will be hammered by it and they'll make it out to be the biggest news of the day.
Audible.com allows users to purchase much of the NPR content. TAL in particular is available for purchase. iTunes also has lots of NPR stuff avaialable for purchase. Those models help to fund NPR more than listening to the stream online does. The online stream, aside from a single promo at the beginning (usually for Acura in my exerience) is nothing more than a financial drain because it consume bandwidth on a per user basis. Broadcasts cost the same amount if they have 1 listener or 10,000 listeners. Feeding a stream online is different though. Every person that connects to the stream costs them more bandwith with little or no probability of being paid for.
What version of Firefox are you people using? I use Firefox all day with about 5-8 tabs open and it rarely, if ever, cracks the 80 meg barrier. If you have 256 megs of RAM consumed are you viewing a web page that loads a Java version of Linux and have 4 copies of it open?
Actually, this is part of my gripe with the way they installed IE 7. It is not a standalone application. They actually replace IE 6 during the install. I was expecting it to be a stadalone application, like Firefox, Opera, etc. Why would they install a beta product that takes over part of the OS?
For every person like you, there is a person like me. I've downloaded it 8 times (for each version since...Phoenix?). I've installed it 80+ times though. Every computer on my network has it.
Step 1: Donate a huge sum of money to the people most likely to undo the M$ monoply so that they can work on the biggest competitor making it better, faster, easier, CHEAPER, more secure...and in the process, swicth a whole campus (or two)over to Linux.
Step 2: ummm
Step 3: Profit
The sad thing is that MS will probably market their incompatible version of XML as "XML - Extended version" or "XML Plus" or some other fantastic non-descript name. They will tout its interoperability with their own products and point out how nothing from OpenOffice will correctly open their files. In addition, the fact that MS Office won't open files from OpenOffice will make people think that OpenOffice is not sharing information. Remember, the game is all about perception. 90% of the people don't care how their documents open, they just want it to work. If they can not open their 12 year old Word document in OpenOffice they won't like it, never mind that they can't open their 12 year old Word document in Word 2003 either...
If Apple does get locked out, they could get back at the other labels by creating their own label. Of course they'd have to deal the Apple Records and past legal agreements. But imagine what would happen if Apple said, We'll distribute your album, foot the bill for recording and promoting it, and we'll give you(the artist) 50% of the profit. That would still increase Apple's profits by 45%, and it would increase profits to the artists by about 300%. Even if the iTMS sells a fraction of the volume of conventional CD sales, if the total proceeds are divided between only two parties, those two parties may come out ahead of the game as it stands now. Artists might jump ship left and right. Suddenly Apple controls all the best names and the labels are left with a bunch of worthless CDs that the 14 year old kids consider so obsolete they might as well be 8-track tapes or 78 RPM records.
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I bet the designers at Apple are both proud and furious about this. It is a blatant knock-off of their design style, but it will now be on 100,000,000 computers instead of 8,000,000.
This reminds me of a Sam Kinison comment: "Why ship food to the Ethiopians!? Ship the Ethiopians to the food." In this case, why not move New Orleans to where the Lake was that was above the level of the city, which has now migrated to downtown New Orleans?
I think that the problem is more a case of "The people who know better aren't in a position to make the change. I know better, but everytime I ask my boss if we can start buying Macs, or at least switch to Linux he says that the corporate standard is Windows. I try to point out to him that our Corporate office is still using Exchange 5.0 and Windows NT as their servers. They're not the brightest bulbs in the shed, and as such, should not be trusted to dictate our computer standards. It just doesn't matter. No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft, so that's what they go with.
Remember the early demos of the new Xbox that were running on G5s? Now consider that Playstation might be able to run OS X. Suddenly the two major game consoles are theoretically capable of running OS X. That would rock!
The Corvair is the only car PROVEN safe in a court of law. Ralph Nader even apologized for his scathing remarks in the book "Unsafe at Any Speed". And for god's sake, don't lump the Corvair in with the Pinto. The Pinto was below the Edsel in terms of popularity. The Corvair at least looked good, handled well (after '65 at least), and sold well (until Ralph wrote his book that is).
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So the company that owns CUPS, created WebKit(the basis for Safari and Chrome), is the largest distributor of UNIX in the world, and nearly singlehandedly crafted the digital media revolution isn't an IT company?!? It isn't Apple's fault that they're also making money faster than they can count it. OK, it actually is their fault, but that shouldn't be held against them. There is nothing in the rule book that says an IT company can't also be successful. Just because they've managed to figure out how to provide an open-source OS (Darwin is open-source) AND make money is no reason to dislike them...unless...are you by any chance an ex-Sun employee?
It just has to run OS X and conform to the OS X EULA...oh, wait...I guess that means it has to be a Mac.
Why do authors write novels? Why do painters paint? Programmers program. That is what they do. Everyone wants to be creative in some way. Precious few of us ever find a release for that desire. It may strike others as odd that programming is a creative activity, but it is something that didn't exist until after it was created. Programmers are painting with logic, writing a novel with numbers, or composing with HTML.
I rather liked FORTRAN.
You're mistaken. Internet radio is transmitting highly compressed copies that usually sound only marginally better than a cassette tape. It is digital in format, but that does not mean that it is of superior quality. There is a reason why the digital format on a CD is about 40 MB per song and an MP3 of the same exact song is about 4 MB. The quality is lower. If they were streaming some lossless format then maybe it would be a concern. The bandwidth costs alone would drive all but the largest webcasters out of business. A cassette tape recorded off of a strong FM station probably sounds better than most internet streams. This is not about digging money out of a new business. This is about shutting down a new business that threatens the vertical integration of the old business. If people have un-restricted access to new artists and music it becomes more difficult for the labels to force-feed their crap down our throats. This will drive everyone out of webcasting...except for ClearChannel and maybe AOL. Their precious business model secure until someone figures out how to bit-torrent radio streams. (Actually Octoshape is already doing that more or less)
I know that the parent's comment sounds obvious, but to some people it isn't. This is EXACTLY why open source is a better development model. This will lead to a stronger product in a shorter time frame. Yes it creates some more work, but this type of work is never complete.
"Can it also survive computers that tether their owners to the office or make the bed the workplace itself?" It depends on what she looks like...
That's a bargain. I'm pretty sure that the US alone has contributed more than 5 times that much to the International Space Station.
Google does not need to be market leader in any particular fields. They just need to be good enough. Their business is presenting advertising that is targeted to an audience. Whatever they can do that keeps your eyes focused on their ads is a success. MS Maps may be a better product than Google Maps, but if I can click on a on a google search result and from that one click I'm able to find the vendor, call them, schedule an appointment and put it on my calendar, tranfer funds to them, and record the transaction on a spreadsheet I'd say Google just kicked the snot out of any of their competitors...they just managed to get me to look at about 10 times more ads than their competitors, and the ads are better targeted as well because they now know that I'm willing to spend money on product x and live near location z. This information only further refines their marketing tools.
I'd very much like to hear about how you're doing this. I'd like to hear all the gory details, the pitfalls, mistakes, successes, everything. I thought about doing this too, but I'd have to manually touch every machine, but I only have 80 or so to deal with.
This is essentially a Proof Of Concept. My concern is that because there still is not a single real virus for OS X, there is not any real antivirus software for OS X. Even if you wanted to buy some you couldn't. Don't get me wrong, there is AV software for OS X, but it detects primarily Windows viruses and does little to protect OS X because there's next to nothing to protect against. These companies may have 2 people working shifts looking for OS X viruses. I suspect that there are hordes of people looking for Windows viruses. If they actually managed to find an OS X virus they wouldn't know what to do. They'd have to wait until there "specialist" got back from vacation in a week to produce a signature file. Even if you have AV software for your Mac you're gonna get burned by the first virus because response time will be so slow. I'm not delusional, there will be a virus for OS X eventually. When it hits it will be a big deal because magazines, newspapers, and TV stations will all be leveled. The general population probably will barely notice, but the people who present the news will be hammered by it and they'll make it out to be the biggest news of the day.
Audible.com allows users to purchase much of the NPR content. TAL in particular is available for purchase. iTunes also has lots of NPR stuff avaialable for purchase. Those models help to fund NPR more than listening to the stream online does. The online stream, aside from a single promo at the beginning (usually for Acura in my exerience) is nothing more than a financial drain because it consume bandwidth on a per user basis. Broadcasts cost the same amount if they have 1 listener or 10,000 listeners. Feeding a stream online is different though. Every person that connects to the stream costs them more bandwith with little or no probability of being paid for.
You can actually install Asterisk on the 770 and make it into a PBX!http://www.cayennegraphics.com/asterisk770/
What version of Firefox are you people using? I use Firefox all day with about 5-8 tabs open and it rarely, if ever, cracks the 80 meg barrier. If you have 256 megs of RAM consumed are you viewing a web page that loads a Java version of Linux and have 4 copies of it open?
Actually, this is part of my gripe with the way they installed IE 7. It is not a standalone application. They actually replace IE 6 during the install. I was expecting it to be a stadalone application, like Firefox, Opera, etc. Why would they install a beta product that takes over part of the OS?
Why are you restraing squid behind your windows? That is a bit strange isn't it? Oh, wait...you wrote "quid"? What the hell is a quid?
For every person like you, there is a person like me. I've downloaded it 8 times (for each version since...Phoenix?). I've installed it 80+ times though. Every computer on my network has it.
Step 1: Donate a huge sum of money to the people most likely to undo the M$ monoply so that they can work on the biggest competitor making it better, faster, easier, CHEAPER, more secure...and in the process, swicth a whole campus (or two)over to Linux. Step 2: ummm Step 3: Profit
The sad thing is that MS will probably market their incompatible version of XML as "XML - Extended version" or "XML Plus" or some other fantastic non-descript name. They will tout its interoperability with their own products and point out how nothing from OpenOffice will correctly open their files. In addition, the fact that MS Office won't open files from OpenOffice will make people think that OpenOffice is not sharing information. Remember, the game is all about perception. 90% of the people don't care how their documents open, they just want it to work. If they can not open their 12 year old Word document in OpenOffice they won't like it, never mind that they can't open their 12 year old Word document in Word 2003 either...
If Apple does get locked out, they could get back at the other labels by creating their own label. Of course they'd have to deal the Apple Records and past legal agreements. But imagine what would happen if Apple said, We'll distribute your album, foot the bill for recording and promoting it, and we'll give you(the artist) 50% of the profit. That would still increase Apple's profits by 45%, and it would increase profits to the artists by about 300%. Even if the iTMS sells a fraction of the volume of conventional CD sales, if the total proceeds are divided between only two parties, those two parties may come out ahead of the game as it stands now. Artists might jump ship left and right. Suddenly Apple controls all the best names and the labels are left with a bunch of worthless CDs that the 14 year old kids consider so obsolete they might as well be 8-track tapes or 78 RPM records.
I bet the designers at Apple are both proud and furious about this. It is a blatant knock-off of their design style, but it will now be on 100,000,000 computers instead of 8,000,000.
This reminds me of a Sam Kinison comment: "Why ship food to the Ethiopians!? Ship the Ethiopians to the food." In this case, why not move New Orleans to where the Lake was that was above the level of the city, which has now migrated to downtown New Orleans?
I think that the problem is more a case of "The people who know better aren't in a position to make the change. I know better, but everytime I ask my boss if we can start buying Macs, or at least switch to Linux he says that the corporate standard is Windows. I try to point out to him that our Corporate office is still using Exchange 5.0 and Windows NT as their servers. They're not the brightest bulbs in the shed, and as such, should not be trusted to dictate our computer standards. It just doesn't matter. No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft, so that's what they go with.
Remember the early demos of the new Xbox that were running on G5s? Now consider that Playstation might be able to run OS X. Suddenly the two major game consoles are theoretically capable of running OS X. That would rock!
The Corvair is the only car PROVEN safe in a court of law. Ralph Nader even apologized for his scathing remarks in the book "Unsafe at Any Speed". And for god's sake, don't lump the Corvair in with the Pinto. The Pinto was below the Edsel in terms of popularity. The Corvair at least looked good, handled well (after '65 at least), and sold well (until Ralph wrote his book that is).