i think it's a valid question. netscape went from total market domination to nothing in a few years. granted MS pulled from under handed moves to make it happen that would be a LOT harder to do this time around, the scene is set the same. google innovates and takes market by storm, MS puts out a few non starters, eventually refines it's product to take the lead.
1. Netscape wasn't a public company as well run as Google is today.
2. Underhanded moves can be pulled by anyone, and Google is as smart as if not smarter than MSFT, which still has a lot of old blood from the 80s running the show.
3. Microsoft could also end up trying all the time to play catch up to Google, just like how Linux Desktop is touted as always(not my opinion) playing catch up to Windows or how Windows plays catch up to OSX and still ends up shabby or how Mono plays catch up to Microsoft C#.
The whole bing(TM) backronym of Bing Is Not Google, can also mean that it can never be as good as Google.
My own computer may "only" be a Pentium 4, but it's still about 12,000 times faster than the old 8-bit machine where I used to write book reports.
Cloud computing isn't for everyone. It is for those who want to use their age old Pentium 3's and 4's with old sound cards and graphics cards, and still have a Vista or Windows 7 experience despite having an age old machine that can barely support XP with elan.
So if I have a P4 machine that works perfect for me, but I want to have a Vista/Win7 machine without the hassle of buying a new machine itself costing around 500$ or more, I can have everything be done in a cloud. That way, I can always work with the latest and greatest versions of OSes if available and have hardly any hardware costs. Plus the beauty of buying a cheap netbook and have it work like a high end desktop.
Going on a date and having a woman that you know, wants to have sex with you seems a lot better in that regard.
Well, that doesn't happen all the time. There is no guarantee that when you go on a date you'll get laid. On the other hand, when you go with a hooker, you WILL get laid.
Rather than spending your time whining about how apple sucks and limits you as a developer, get off your lazy fucking ass, write the app, pay the $100, put it on the app store and make your $100 back in a week, LITERALLY.
I am sorry to say but this is not the case. I am an iPhone developer myself, and the cost is not just $100. The cost is 1200$ for a Apple Mac with the Leopard version of OS X (as it was required in October 2008), buying an iPhone to test your app ($200 for the cheapest iPhone + all the extra data plan that you have to pay for every month which in addition to your existing plan can cost up to 80$ minimum if not more), and then the $100 fee for an individual developer which is actually chump change compared to the rest of the cost. So you really see at least 2000$ spent on the iPhone development process in all.
Let us talk about making money from the apps, the worst app that sells for us has made us only 150$ so far. And Apple does not pay you as soon as 1 app gets sold. They pay you in blocks of $250 of actual sales, which can turn out to be 70% of $250 for you or some magic number like that. Not to forget the time you invest in making the application itself.
Writing an app for the App Store is a lottery business. There are more than 40000 apps, and if you do not know OpenGL or do not have a cool game idea, you're shit out of luck because utility apps sell only a limited amount, and if they start selling well, someone comes out with a free as in beer version to undercut your revenue. And you cannot beat marketing by large corporations who make apps that might do the same thing as yours, but their budget is bigger.
App Store is over rated. Some people get lucky, but then there are those that get lucky when they go to a casino or buy a lottery ticket as well.
NASA should just do an IPO, raise the funds, go completely private, remove the redundancies created by bureaucracy and go ahead with their work. Then they can throw the frivolous projects out, and continue with the useful stuff.
IMHO, the Russians/Chinese/Indians/Private companies with their space organizations will get to the moon/Mars much faster than NASA anyway since their motivations are different, and especially, those countries take a lot of pride in their space related work.
We talk about the dangers of homogeny, but this is exactly the type of thing that homogeny causes. All the routers with DD-WRT implemented to save costs, but in the end everyone is screwed.
As opposed to using the base software from Linksys/Cisco where you don't know where the flaws lie, and if someone figures it out, it rarely ever gets published on the web openly or gets fixed soon enough in a firmware update. How is that different ? At least if you use Linux, you have people who care, and only people who care about their networks or improved experience with their routers use DD-WRT/OpenWRT/Other in the first place. Most just use the default software on their routers, which remains unpatched for a large portion of its use if at all.
Well since the book piracy has been compared to movie piracy in your article, I can use that comparison here in my argument. Movies cost millions to make, yet the cost of watching the movie in a theater is 9-13$ depending on where you live. But there, the theater costs are inbuilt into the price as cost of running the theater is added to the price of the ticket. Now in a DVD, the cost of reprinting the DVD is probably 1$, so why should the DVD cost 20$ for a movie. Hence they get pirated. It's the same with books, a 41$ e-book is quite expensive. If someone is buying many books, it adds up. Those who buy lots of books do think about the total amount of money they spend on their books, yours is not the only book they are buying.
So giving the argument that it took time to write a book and that's why it costs more is flawed. There are various tricks you can pull in selling e-books like selling 2 or 3 different titles together for a discounted price that makes it worthwhile to buy etc. Of course, the old business model of high price dead tree book leading to unfathomed riches for life is going to go the way of the dodo.
Actually, maybe offer the e-book for say 2$ and see how many buys you get. 50$ for a book might make people think twice before they buy, but 2$ for the book might actually generate more volume of sales for you. Those who pirate only do so either because they are not interested in buying the book at all, or they cannot afford it. But by making an authentic e-book version affordable you can increase volume sales because it becomes really cheap to buy. Replication of an e-book copy really costs no money unlike its dead tree counterpart, so instead of asking the question about how to control piracy, why don't you ask the question about why should e-books cost so much as the dead tree versions ?
I never use Interface Builder. It sucks. I "programmatically" do everything from adding labels, to buttons to text views to anything for that matter. It is much easier to code up than use Interface Builder. This is just my opinion though. Apple's documentation is pretty good in explaining how to code up everything.
But if you can create "macros" and modifications to your right click menus, then you ought to be able to save them in some standard format to be exported to another Office version, just like you can do with bookmarks in browsers. No ?
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i think it's a valid question. netscape went from total market domination to nothing in a few years. granted MS pulled from under handed moves to make it happen that would be a LOT harder to do this time around, the scene is set the same. google innovates and takes market by storm, MS puts out a few non starters, eventually refines it's product to take the lead.
1. Netscape wasn't a public company as well run as Google is today.
2. Underhanded moves can be pulled by anyone, and Google is as smart as if not smarter than MSFT, which still has a lot of old blood from the 80s running the show.
3. Microsoft could also end up trying all the time to play catch up to Google, just like how Linux Desktop is touted as always(not my opinion) playing catch up to Windows or how Windows plays catch up to OSX and still ends up shabby or how Mono plays catch up to Microsoft C#.
The whole bing(TM) backronym of Bing Is Not Google, can also mean that it can never be as good as Google.
the London black cab drivers
Hey! It's African American dude!
My own computer may "only" be a Pentium 4, but it's still about 12,000 times faster than the old 8-bit machine where I used to write book reports.
Cloud computing isn't for everyone. It is for those who want to use their age old Pentium 3's and 4's with old sound cards and graphics cards, and still have a Vista or Windows 7 experience despite having an age old machine that can barely support XP with elan.
So if I have a P4 machine that works perfect for me, but I want to have a Vista/Win7 machine without the hassle of buying a new machine itself costing around 500$ or more, I can have everything be done in a cloud. That way, I can always work with the latest and greatest versions of OSes if available and have hardly any hardware costs. Plus the beauty of buying a cheap netbook and have it work like a high end desktop.
Going on a date and having a woman that you know, wants to have sex with you seems a lot better in that regard.
Well, that doesn't happen all the time. There is no guarantee that when you go on a date you'll get laid. On the other hand, when you go with a hooker, you WILL get laid.
Rather than spending your time whining about how apple sucks and limits you as a developer, get off your lazy fucking ass, write the app, pay the $100, put it on the app store and make your $100 back in a week, LITERALLY.
I am sorry to say but this is not the case. I am an iPhone developer myself, and the cost is not just $100. The cost is 1200$ for a Apple Mac with the Leopard version of OS X (as it was required in October 2008), buying an iPhone to test your app ($200 for the cheapest iPhone + all the extra data plan that you have to pay for every month which in addition to your existing plan can cost up to 80$ minimum if not more), and then the $100 fee for an individual developer which is actually chump change compared to the rest of the cost. So you really see at least 2000$ spent on the iPhone development process in all.
Let us talk about making money from the apps, the worst app that sells for us has made us only 150$ so far. And Apple does not pay you as soon as 1 app gets sold. They pay you in blocks of $250 of actual sales, which can turn out to be 70% of $250 for you or some magic number like that. Not to forget the time you invest in making the application itself.
Writing an app for the App Store is a lottery business. There are more than 40000 apps, and if you do not know OpenGL or do not have a cool game idea, you're shit out of luck because utility apps sell only a limited amount, and if they start selling well, someone comes out with a free as in beer version to undercut your revenue. And you cannot beat marketing by large corporations who make apps that might do the same thing as yours, but their budget is bigger.
App Store is over rated. Some people get lucky, but then there are those that get lucky when they go to a casino or buy a lottery ticket as well.
What are "vegetative patents" ?
It is mentioned twice in the summary on /. and only once in the article.
Moore is throwing out all the numbers ....but misses an obvious cause of all of this: obesity.
That is because Moore is obese, and does not want to highlight his own problems.
Mother Clusters...
NASA should just do an IPO, raise the funds, go completely private, remove the redundancies created by bureaucracy and go ahead with their work. Then they can throw the frivolous projects out, and continue with the useful stuff.
IMHO, the Russians/Chinese/Indians/Private companies with their space organizations will get to the moon/Mars much faster than NASA anyway since their motivations are different, and especially, those countries take a lot of pride in their space related work.
Please also consider that there are those that do not subscribe to your method of child rearing.
What is your method of "rearing" your kid ;) ?
I don't understand why some seemingly rather simple applications would require a large amount of processing power.
Because they want to run Vista on it.
Amazon should rename their product to "Swindle".
We talk about the dangers of homogeny, but this is exactly the type of thing that homogeny causes. All the routers with DD-WRT implemented to save costs, but in the end everyone is screwed.
As opposed to using the base software from Linksys/Cisco where you don't know where the flaws lie, and if someone figures it out, it rarely ever gets published on the web openly or gets fixed soon enough in a firmware update. How is that different ? At least if you use Linux, you have people who care, and only people who care about their networks or improved experience with their routers use DD-WRT/OpenWRT/Other in the first place. Most just use the default software on their routers, which remains unpatched for a large portion of its use if at all.
Somehow, I don't think that Facebook is going to be the technology that drives computing forard...
Someone please tell that to the Facebook developers. That site moves slower than the clouds in the sky, giving a new meaning to cloud computing.
your desk isn't bad; but remember to switch arms from time to time).
Same for masturbation.
You can often tell that an operating system is in the Unix family if it has a name that is a combination of the letters U, I, and X.
That's a little unfair to the users of BSD based operating systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OSX and other variants.
Well since the book piracy has been compared to movie piracy in your article, I can use that comparison here in my argument. Movies cost millions to make, yet the cost of watching the movie in a theater is 9-13$ depending on where you live. But there, the theater costs are inbuilt into the price as cost of running the theater is added to the price of the ticket. Now in a DVD, the cost of reprinting the DVD is probably 1$, so why should the DVD cost 20$ for a movie. Hence they get pirated. It's the same with books, a 41$ e-book is quite expensive. If someone is buying many books, it adds up. Those who buy lots of books do think about the total amount of money they spend on their books, yours is not the only book they are buying. So giving the argument that it took time to write a book and that's why it costs more is flawed. There are various tricks you can pull in selling e-books like selling 2 or 3 different titles together for a discounted price that makes it worthwhile to buy etc. Of course, the old business model of high price dead tree book leading to unfathomed riches for life is going to go the way of the dodo.
Actually, maybe offer the e-book for say 2$ and see how many buys you get. 50$ for a book might make people think twice before they buy, but 2$ for the book might actually generate more volume of sales for you. Those who pirate only do so either because they are not interested in buying the book at all, or they cannot afford it. But by making an authentic e-book version affordable you can increase volume sales because it becomes really cheap to buy. Replication of an e-book copy really costs no money unlike its dead tree counterpart, so instead of asking the question about how to control piracy, why don't you ask the question about why should e-books cost so much as the dead tree versions ?
there were a lot of returns because people didn't know what to do with it.
As opposed to "Windows" which they can open ?
I never use Interface Builder. It sucks. I "programmatically" do everything from adding labels, to buttons to text views to anything for that matter. It is much easier to code up than use Interface Builder. This is just my opinion though. Apple's documentation is pretty good in explaining how to code up everything.
But if you can create "macros" and modifications to your right click menus, then you ought to be able to save them in some standard format to be exported to another Office version, just like you can do with bookmarks in browsers. No ?
isn't that actually a problem/limitation with the hardware ?
Should have been named bgE3 for "Bill Gates Embrace Extend Extinguish" !
That error came about because the editor probably hasn't had access to a vagyna in a long time...