I'd say that capitalizing God points at him respecting that people believe in a God and not wanting to insult them, but also not wanting to be force fed with their religious talk.
Whenever I walk through town here, the peopel who try to stop me and have a discussion are without exception trying to push one religion or another, but never did I encounter atheists among them. That might be different where you live, but soemhow I doubt it. I somehow believe that esp. more conservative christians in the USA think that seperation of church and state equals atheism.
Seeign how simply suggesting I disagree with somethign like the Iraq invasion has gotten me scores of Americans scream such things at me? yes, I definitely believe that that is a policy.
In fact, the policy is to play on the emotions of peopel and not letting them think.
The JJ nipple thingy would not have happened if it wasn't for the overreaction it was boudn to cause.
For that matter, youa re objectign to breast feeding? Must be, can't show somethign as natural as a breast to your kid, esp. not at that age!
Expecting some rules for what is not appropriate to eb shown during a time when you can expect young children to watch? makes sense. goign beyond that? thats simply censorship, nothign more and nothing less.
Hmm, that did indeed kill them off finally in the early 90s, but their problems are much older.
Imho their real problem was that they never managed to do anythign with the success of the C64, which doesn't really come as a surprise since noone could have forseen what happened with that machine, and it forced the company to expand at a rate they couldn't manage properly.
Add to that a whole lot of canceled or wasted development due to misguided ideas like
The never finished C65 on google or such, trying to build an 8 bit computer on steroids in the late 80s/early 90s? the rest of the world was moving to 32bit, and commodore had done so itself half a decade earlier.
SFD-1001 floppy drive, a 1MB (and very fast for the early 80s) 5 1/4" floppy drive.. superb machine, but by the time it came to market, CBM did not build any computers it could connect to directly. You could connect it to a C64 if you were prepared to buy an extra interface and give up compatibility with most existing C64 software (or were willing to write your own code for the interface and software that you wanted to use)
C16/Plus 4, nice idea, but built around a platform that had been getting outdated for quite a while and at the same time failing to provide compatibility with software from older machines
Bottomline, the problems actually started with the success of the C64 and the loss of any strategy as a result.
Their failure? squeezing the last bit out of their existing technology when it turned out successfull , wasting money on perfecting it beyond the reasonable while spendign way too little on innovating their tech. In the mid 80s they seem to have seen the problem (but not the cause) and tried to solve it by buying Amiga inc.
The Amiga is a seperate story, tho the cluelessness about where to go is also very obvious from its history. I won't go into that part beyond saying that the A2000 once more points at failure to innovate as soon as they had an initially succesfull design.
At any rate.. greed was only a part of the picture, and imho far from the main cause of their downfall.
I wasn't suggesting it is ding, just that a loyal customer base is no guarantee for a healthy business in the face of mismanagement and bad decisions.
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Yeah, because Money magazine has some secret vendetta against Apple. They are secretly MS fanboyz!@#@# OMG teh suxor and all that crap.
And where exactly was I saying or even suggesting that?
Matter of fact is that the death of Apple is predicted over and over, also by supposedly very reputable sources.
As long as Apple's actual results show a proffit, they are doing at least as good as the top of the rest, and a lot better then many in the IT business, so I don't see any reason to spell doom for Apple.
That doesn't mean that its stupid to discuss issues with itunes and the ipod tho, Apple itself is suggesting that that isn't entirely workign out as well as they hoped and thought it would, but I seriously doubt that that has anything to do with life/death for Apple really.
I think all the things you say about loyal userbase could be applied to Commodore as well.. yet they died like a decade ago due to lack of vision and marketing stupidity.
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low margin != low price.
What this is suggesting is that the ipod is rather expensive for apple to make.. soemthing I somehow don't really believe, which makes me doubt the entire article.
No, it is about not making your components more complex then they need be. It has nothign whatsoever to do with the complexity of the resultign system.
I solved that with a handheld (palm m505 in my case) years ago.. has the additional advantage that you dont have to carry your laptop around all the time just coz of needing your PIM.
It could be an Australian thing indeed. I know I stopped buying CDs from the large record companies after they managed to block investigations into their illegal price fixing and their idea of attacking their customers and insisting that paying a levy on recordable media does not give the consumer any rights.
I host my own mail for a lot of reasons which go a bit too far to explain here, but hosting it somewhere else is simply not a solution for me untill that means actually having control over the machine it is hosted on. That means renting a dedicated server somewhere and that is gonna be more expensive then $5-10/month.
And of course I do have DNS records for my mailserver;) But hrm, my isp has a policy of scanning their customers for open relays and selectively filtering port 25 where needed. Works for me as well, but wont stop email based worms from spreading.
I still see no problem in an isp givign a choice between open/protected connections, and it seems the technology for it exists.
Hmm, its actually not that impossible when combined with dhcp, at least not for technical reasons. Maybe the equipment often used by isps doesn't ffer the possibility, but I am pretty confident that it wouldn't take me that long to get such a thing to work on freebsd for example, and it shouldn't be difficult on Linux either.
> At the least, I'd be delighted to see $PROVIDER to a scan and relay check of all their customers' port 25.
Something which my provider actually does. if it fails, they turn on a filter on the port. (heh, which emans thay actually do have that capability.. they use dhcp tho give a fixed addy)
I'm fine with a contract tho an optional service is imho better.. anyway, that is entirely different from an isp blocking ports to their liking.
Ah well, its a good thing many isps overhere (the Netherlands) seem to be rather cluefull and actually provide transparant connectivity with optional spam and virus filtering etc.
No he is not pathetic, he just tries to make the point that many people (possibly including him (or her?)) simply don't care enough, and are not bothered by that. Saw any complains in the parent post?
Live with it, there are many people who simply dont have a passion for learning technical things and will only do it when it is somehow needed to get something done that does have a priority for them.
When you sell computers to the average user, those computers and whatever software runs on them better takes that into account.
> If I'm the ISP, then it's my right because I say so.
Which in turn also makes you liable for damages incured by those who get their copyright infringed and similar stuff, you obviously see it within your task to police what customers can communicate.
I am sorry but that is not a very smart attitude if you want a carrier status really.
I run my own mailserver (my isp explicitly allows it) and handle mail domains for myself, my family and some friends. Would really suck to get port 25 blocked.
What would work however is for isps to provide some basic firewall functionality which their customers can configure using a web interface and that by default blocks all dangerous ports.
And that is not entirely impossible to make actually.
There is enough malicious code around that is modular in nature and when such programs use the same internal abi for their modules they could exchange modules and thus add entirely new functionality to existing worms.
So far they only went as far as pulling new modules from the web or irc or such (on command often)
Interestingly enough, the few MS products I did like happened to be a mouse and a joystick.. my experience with the hardware they resell is decent enough...
> But it's not like companies hire full-time employees to administer their PA system.
Nah, just theatres and such places indeed.. not to mention the number of people and smaller shops that have hired me and similar people to help them select appropriate audio equipment for their home and such.
Fact is that the software industry will change substantially, but what that means for consultancy is not that easy to predict really, and I think you are ignoring many things for which companies (more then private users) are getting expert advice at this moment. Not from their own fulltime engineers all the time, actually more and more often from other companies that specialize in consultancy.
Then, even when there is no difference at all between products in a comodity market, so there is no reason to pick one over the other, there is still a need for consultancy with regards to actually using those comodities for somethign usefull/profitable etc.
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I'd say that capitalizing God points at him respecting that people believe in a God and not wanting to insult them, but also not wanting to be force fed with their religious talk.
Whenever I walk through town here, the peopel who try to stop me and have a discussion are without exception trying to push one religion or another, but never did I encounter atheists among them.
That might be different where you live, but soemhow I doubt it. I somehow believe that esp. more conservative christians in the USA think that seperation of church and state equals atheism.
Seeign how simply suggesting I disagree with somethign like the Iraq invasion has gotten me scores of Americans scream such things at me? yes, I definitely believe that that is a policy.
In fact, the policy is to play on the emotions of peopel and not letting them think.
You are confusing things a bit.
The JJ nipple thingy would not have happened if it wasn't for the overreaction it was boudn to cause.
For that matter, youa re objectign to breast feeding? Must be, can't show somethign as natural as a breast to your kid, esp. not at that age!
Expecting some rules for what is not appropriate to eb shown during a time when you can expect young children to watch? makes sense. goign beyond that? thats simply censorship, nothign more and nothing less.
Heh, to an outside viewer even CNN looks like its mostly US propagancda ;P
Imho their real problem was that they never managed to do anythign with the success of the C64, which doesn't really come as a surprise since noone could have forseen what happened with that machine, and it forced the company to expand at a rate they couldn't manage properly.
Add to that a whole lot of canceled or wasted development due to misguided ideas like
Bottomline, the problems actually started with the success of the C64 and the loss of any strategy as a result.
Their failure? squeezing the last bit out of their existing technology when it turned out successfull , wasting money on perfecting it beyond the reasonable while spendign way too little on innovating their tech. In the mid 80s they seem to have seen the problem (but not the cause) and tried to solve it by buying Amiga inc.
The Amiga is a seperate story, tho the cluelessness about where to go is also very obvious from its history. I won't go into that part beyond saying that the A2000 once more points at failure to innovate as soon as they had an initially succesfull design.
At any rate.. greed was only a part of the picture, and imho far from the main cause of their downfall.
I wasn't suggesting it is ding, just that a loyal customer base is no guarantee for a healthy business in the face of mismanagement and bad decisions.
And where exactly was I saying or even suggesting that? Matter of fact is that the death of Apple is predicted over and over, also by supposedly very reputable sources.
As long as Apple's actual results show a proffit, they are doing at least as good as the top of the rest, and a lot better then many in the IT business, so I don't see any reason to spell doom for Apple.
That doesn't mean that its stupid to discuss issues with itunes and the ipod tho, Apple itself is suggesting that that isn't entirely workign out as well as they hoped and thought it would, but I seriously doubt that that has anything to do with life/death for Apple really.
I think all the things you say about loyal userbase could be applied to Commodore as well.. yet they died like a decade ago due to lack of vision and marketing stupidity.
low margin != low price. What this is suggesting is that the ipod is rather expensive for apple to make.. soemthing I somehow don't really believe, which makes me doubt the entire article.
No, it is about not making your components more complex then they need be. It has nothign whatsoever to do with the complexity of the resultign system.
I solved that with a handheld (palm m505 in my case) years ago.. has the additional advantage that you dont have to carry your laptop around all the time just coz of needing your PIM.
It could be an Australian thing indeed. I know I stopped buying CDs from the large record companies after they managed to block investigations into their illegal price fixing and their idea of attacking their customers and insisting that paying a levy on recordable media does not give the consumer any rights.
Ah yeah. well, some proposals for that are in the works, but its gonna be a while before that becomes part of any standard I'm afraid.
I host my own mail for a lot of reasons which go a bit too far to explain here, but hosting it somewhere else is simply not a solution for me untill that means actually having control over the machine it is hosted on. That means renting a dedicated server somewhere and that is gonna be more expensive then $5-10/month.
;)
And of course I do have DNS records for my mailserver
But hrm, my isp has a policy of scanning their customers for open relays and selectively filtering port 25 where needed. Works for me as well, but wont stop email based worms from spreading.
I still see no problem in an isp givign a choice between open/protected connections, and it seems the technology for it exists.
Hmm, its actually not that impossible when combined with dhcp, at least not for technical reasons. Maybe the equipment often used by isps doesn't ffer the possibility, but I am pretty confident that it wouldn't take me that long to get such a thing to work on freebsd for example, and it shouldn't be difficult on Linux either.
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> At the least, I'd be delighted to see $PROVIDER to a scan and relay check of all their customers' port 25
Something which my provider actually does. if it fails, they turn on a filter on the port. (heh, which emans thay actually do have that capability.. they use dhcp tho give a fixed addy)
I'm fine with a contract tho an optional service is imho better.. anyway, that is entirely different from an isp blocking ports to their liking.
Ah well, its a good thing many isps overhere (the Netherlands) seem to be rather cluefull and actually provide transparant connectivity with optional spam and virus filtering etc.
No he is not pathetic, he just tries to make the point that many people (possibly including him (or her?)) simply don't care enough, and are not bothered by that. Saw any complains in the parent post?
Live with it, there are many people who simply dont have a passion for learning technical things and will only do it when it is somehow needed to get something done that does have a priority for them.
When you sell computers to the average user, those computers and whatever software runs on them better takes that into account.
> If I'm the ISP, then it's my right because I say so.
Which in turn also makes you liable for damages incured by those who get their copyright infringed and similar stuff, you obviously see it within your task to police what customers can communicate.
I am sorry but that is not a very smart attitude if you want a carrier status really.
It all depends on how such a thign would work.
I run my own mailserver (my isp explicitly allows it) and handle mail domains for myself, my family and some friends. Would really suck to get port 25 blocked.
What would work however is for isps to provide some basic firewall functionality which their customers can configure using a web interface and that by default blocks all dangerous ports.
And that is not entirely impossible to make actually. There is enough malicious code around that is modular in nature and when such programs use the same internal abi for their modules they could exchange modules and thus add entirely new functionality to existing worms. So far they only went as far as pulling new modules from the web or irc or such (on command often)
Lets see..
Till about 6 months ago, my fastest machien was a slightly overclocked dual pII 333 machine with 512mb and a gforce4mx graphics card.
On this machine I used to run Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.x (both using drivers obtained from nvidia)
How is it that on FreeBSD I had far less performance issues playing hires divx files or playing (identical!) games?
If you don't design a graphics system with remote use in mind, there is very likely no good way to add it later on.
Interestingly enough, the few MS products I did like happened to be a mouse and a joystick.. my experience with the hardware they resell is decent enough...
Just wondering.. is the EU gonna force them to include an ipod with it due to their unfair competitive behavior?
> But it's not like companies hire full-time employees to administer their PA system.
Nah, just theatres and such places indeed.. not to mention the number of people and smaller shops that have hired me and similar people to help them select appropriate audio equipment for their home and such.
Fact is that the software industry will change substantially, but what that means for consultancy is not that easy to predict really, and I think you are ignoring many things for which companies (more then private users) are getting expert advice at this moment. Not from their own fulltime engineers all the time, actually more and more often from other companies that specialize in consultancy.
Then, even when there is no difference at all between products in a comodity market, so there is no reason to pick one over the other, there is still a need for consultancy with regards to actually using those comodities for somethign usefull/profitable etc.
*lol*