I'm not sure why you'd think going to Apple would be any better. You get the exact same business tactics, just a slightly more stylish computer.
Now say that with a straight face! Apple and Microsoft do NOT employ the same business strategies in any way; they cannot, because they are the 5-10% player, and microsoft is the 90-95% player. Therefore - as the evidence shows:
1) Microsoft's ONLY strategy is abuse of monopoly through lock-in;
2) Apple's ONLY strategy is to innovate and have the better product (nice that you acknowledge the hardware is better. It sure is. As a Mac user for more than 20 years, I can confirm the hardware is the best available.)
All available facts support both of the above contentions.
Real-time communication and collaboration features for teams using Eclipse such as peer-to-peer file sharing, remote opening of Eclipse views, screen capture sharing, and real-time shared editing.
A set of communications APIs and frameworks built upon existing protocols (like Google Talk, XMPP, SSH, HTTP/HTTPS, Rendevous, IRC, and others) for developers to add communications and messaging to their own Equinox-based plugins, or customize and extend the ECF applications.
As much as Adobe would like to sell it as the tool for EVERY purpose under the sun - Photoshop is not really aimed at mathematical/scientific image processing. It was originally aimed at pre-press as a complement to PostScript and Illustrator, and later diversified to web production, etc.
Photoshop has a severe case of feature creep - resulting in a product that, instead of doing one thing well (it always was the leader in print production), does too many things less well.
Mathematica's new features hardly amount to a Photoshop clone; they address only an insignificant subset of Photoshop's features, and in this specialised niche, go considerably further.
after some gross miscarriage of justice is perpetrated by an overzealous vigilante. The internet hasn't had that yet.
Yes it has - if you include 'governments' under the definition of 'vigilante'. Ask the citizens of China, Iran, Australia, and the USA - all of whom are the victims of unjust meddling with the internet.
The email in Exhibit F looks like it was written by a 2nd grader... who is failing English. Ballmer is a pathetic spectacle. If that is his standard of communication, Mircosfot is truly doomed.
In 1966, a nuclear armed B52 crashed over Palomares Spain, scattering radioactive material from multiple bombs, each 100 times more powerful than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The most serious reported accident in the U.S. Military's nuclear history took place in Palomares, Spain on Jan. 17, 1966 when a B-52 loaded with four nuclear bombs suffered a mid-air collision with a KC-135 refueling plane. All four bombs were ejected from the B-52 in the crash. One was recovered on the ground and a second from the sea after a long and difficult search. However, the high explosive packages of the other two bombs detonated on impact with the ground. While the nuclear payloads of the bombs did not detonate, over 1,400 tons of surrounding soil and vegetation were contaminated with radioactive materials. The US conducted an extensive cleanup of the area under the scrutiny of the Spanish government.
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I'm not sure why you'd think going to Apple would be any better. You get the exact same business tactics, just a slightly more stylish computer.
Now say that with a straight face! Apple and Microsoft do NOT employ the same business strategies in any way; they cannot, because they are the 5-10% player, and microsoft is the 90-95% player. Therefore - as the evidence shows:
1) Microsoft's ONLY strategy is abuse of monopoly through lock-in;
2) Apple's ONLY strategy is to innovate and have the better product (nice that you acknowledge the hardware is better. It sure is. As a Mac user for more than 20 years, I can confirm the hardware is the best available.)
All available facts support both of the above contentions.
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Jail Gates.
That's the very definition of American-style capitalism, and globalisation.
LOCK-IN.
Clever, isn't it.
100% MANGLED code. Their reputation precedes them...
French, do you write it? :)
But infinitely threatening to Microsoft.
Luckily, Microsoft is dying.
ECF home, articles at IBM DeveloperWorks, InfoQ.
From the latter: ECF is...
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some people have got the 3.2 GHz offering up to 4.5 GHz on air
I bet that's super-reliable. Don't people have anything better to do?
Instead of fretting about the long-gone mammoth, why don't we prevent the extinction of thousands of plant, fish and animal species that is occurring EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY OF EVERY YEAR due to HUMAN ACTIVITY?
s/bear a resemblance/resemble/
As much as Adobe would like to sell it as the tool for EVERY purpose under the sun - Photoshop is not really aimed at mathematical/scientific image processing. It was originally aimed at pre-press as a complement to PostScript and Illustrator, and later diversified to web production, etc.
Photoshop has a severe case of feature creep - resulting in a product that, instead of doing one thing well (it always was the leader in print production), does too many things less well.
Mathematica's new features hardly amount to a Photoshop clone; they address only an insignificant subset of Photoshop's features, and in this specialised niche, go considerably further.
Is that the issue around which the 'Vista Capable' scandal revolves - 3D accelerated interface - has been part of OS X since 2002...
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after some gross miscarriage of justice is perpetrated by an overzealous vigilante. The internet hasn't had that yet.
Yes it has - if you include 'governments' under the definition of 'vigilante'. Ask the citizens of China, Iran, Australia, and the USA - all of whom are the victims of unjust meddling with the internet.
No incentive to innovate, act ethically, or even to be civilised.
Therefore - they don't bother.
Why does anyone find this surprising? But it's all going to come grinding to a tremendously deserved final collapse. Pass the popcorn!
That Ballmer is close to illiterate. Unsurprising, though.
Yours was grammatical and properly punctuated.
The email in Exhibit F looks like it was written by a 2nd grader... who is failing English. Ballmer is a pathetic spectacle. If that is his standard of communication, Mircosfot is truly doomed.
Well, they're doomed anyway! Hooray!
Boiling dirty water and recondensing the steam... Perfectly simple... What's the big deal?
At any of the Apollo sites. The astronauts did quite a few kilometres of driving around - and nearly rolled the rover once or twice. :)
In 1966, a nuclear armed B52 crashed over Palomares Spain, scattering radioactive material from multiple bombs, each 100 times more powerful than those which destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Any "fuck-off" to Microsoft is worth it, by definition.
The sad part is this second Act.
The one and only Flickr. Maybe you've heard of it?