Sony has it's own music label as you allude to toward the end of your comment.
Apple? They stole a record label to name their company, but they're just another music reseller, without a label or rights to a single song (except for 'Apple II Forever' of course)
It also seems that there is a new story on slashdot about the iPod every four hours and yet there is nothing about some of the new more fully featured mp3 players.
There's also a full apple.slashdot.com domain now, and the fanboys have flooded the site.
It's sad, but it's now the way things are. Makes me almost want to install NetBSD on my Quadra 650 in protest.
I remember a few great closeout deals at the Northgate Store in Roseville, MN. This was pre-Windows 95, mindyou. There was decent software in the bins. Got my first copy of MicroGrafx Designer there for over half off (I think I paid less than $200 for it).
They've gotta fill all those slots in the mall with something. Lord help us if there were an actual hardware store, or any other general-purpose retailer allowed in the malls.
No, there would be a store for nails, another for screws, a third for 'specialty fasteners' . ..
They'd all carry just one brand. 'Go to the Stanley Factory Outlet for a great deal on screwdrivers. They stock ever size of Phillips screwdriver in the Stanley line!!'
I am sure someone has coded a wobbly Python script with GUI enhancements to be a 'Management Console' that manipulates hpppd.conf
Probably, there are a dozen, or six dozen, implementations of something like this.
Which, of course, is the OSS way: dozens of alternatives, some half broken, adding up to no single 'console' for people to learn and help others learn to use.
but I think really this has as much or more to do with their web designers and/or sysadmins as it does with their political stance.
No. Certainly not! "The Personal Is Political".
How can you possibly not concern yourself that your chosen candidate might possibly be wearing the wrong brand of shoes? They could very well have been made with leather from McDonalds cows.
and coincided with the campaign's move from K Street in Washington, DC to a new location on Charlotte Avenue in Nashville.
Nashville, in Tennessee. Ostensibly Algore's home state, though if they'd voted for Algore in the 2000 election, he would have had enough electoral votes that the Florida votes wouldn't have mattered.
Something must have gone very wrong with his campaign after moving to TN. Or, perhaps the TN voters knew him pretty well...
Yep. I heard a somewhat distorted 'press release' type of announcement on my way to work, and found it funny. So I should immediately hop on the Apple marketing website.
You shouldn't get so angry.
Is your chosen hardware/software platform really that important??
Anybody with extensive experience with Microsoft's OS products knows that Microsoft reaches a plateau ever so often. The most recent Plateau before Windows 2000 was Windows 3.11. It was well-tested, reliable, and did what it set out to do very well.
Windows 2000 does the same. There's little or nothing in Windows XP that a W2K user 'misses out on' except draconian 'product activation' and the pretty pictures.
However, you were posting in jest, so perhaps I'm wasting words with this response.
You're right that it is more complex than just cutting out the entire diversity of plant and animal life in an area and replacing it with a truckload of a single species of seedlings.
However, nature is damned pervasive at replacing what has been removed. Probably over a 500 year period, not immediately.
And a part of the problem some people have is that the 'green' culture grew up out of the dominant western culture, which had already 'gotten theirs' by plowing over huge swaths of land. Then they amble on over to places where the 'lesser people' are trying to scratch out a living, and preach at them.
I've planted and am nurturing over 65 young hardwood trees at this time and hope to put in that many more again in the next year or so. When I drive by a little patch of the kind of dense, diverse forest that all of this region of the country used to be covered with, I feel sad that it's almost all cornfield now. However, I can't change history.
BeOS tried to do this. The boxed BeOS set that I purchased at retail would boot on just about any Pentium system, but you were stuck with grayscale blah-resolution if your video card wasn't supported.
Windows 'prospers' because a huge cadre of third-party hardware vendors are on board supporting it. 'Bad stories' about unsupported hardware on MacOS would scare people away. To say nothing of the new and probably intolerable stress the 'Apple Culture' would face in trying to support a huge amount of 'core' third-party hardware. They're used to living in a walled off kingdom.
I've been logging onto the Windows Update website and downloading updates and patches almost since my W2K CD came, in the first month of the W2K release. It hasn't cost me $3-400.
Apple would have to jack up the price of OS X for x86 well above $129 to offset the missing revenue from lost hardware sales, and if they do that nobody's going to buy it.
That is complete and utter nonsense. If Apple had the sales volume of Windows, they could sell OS X for well under $129 and make money at it.
However, they are in the hardware business, and probably incapable of producing an OS X release that would run on the hundreds, even thousands, of permutations of x86 platforms they would be expected to support.
Basically, they are in the hardware/software bundle business and are stuck in that 'box' so to speak. They couldn't release OS X for x86 and succeed at it if they wanted to.
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My friend had a big full-sized Oldsmobile sedan in the early 80's. I think it had an Atrack Deck in the dashboard.
Sony already has its own music store
Sony has it's own music label as you allude to toward the end of your comment.
Apple? They stole a record label to name their company, but they're just another music reseller, without a label or rights to a single song (except for 'Apple II Forever' of course)
It also seems that there is a new story on slashdot about the iPod every four hours and yet there is nothing about some of the new more fully featured mp3 players.
There's also a full apple.slashdot.com domain now, and the fanboys have flooded the site.
It's sad, but it's now the way things are. Makes me almost want to install NetBSD on my Quadra 650 in protest.
I remember a few great closeout deals at the Northgate Store in Roseville, MN. This was pre-Windows 95, mindyou. There was decent software in the bins. Got my first copy of MicroGrafx Designer there for over half off (I think I paid less than $200 for it).
They've gotta fill all those slots in the mall with something. Lord help us if there were an actual hardware store, or any other general-purpose retailer allowed in the malls.
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No, there would be a store for nails, another for screws, a third for 'specialty fasteners' . .
They'd all carry just one brand. 'Go to the Stanley Factory Outlet for a great deal on screwdrivers. They stock ever size of Phillips screwdriver in the Stanley line!!'
'Soylent-Corn is peeeepul!'
I am sure someone has coded a wobbly Python script with GUI enhancements to be a 'Management Console' that manipulates hpppd.conf
Probably, there are a dozen, or six dozen, implementations of something like this.
Which, of course, is the OSS way: dozens of alternatives, some half broken, adding up to no single 'console' for people to learn and help others learn to use.
I don't respond to trolls with my 'No Karma Bonus' unclicked, and spam the discussion with personal snits.
but I think really this has as much or more to do with their web designers and/or sysadmins as it does with their political stance.
No. Certainly not! "The Personal Is Political".
How can you possibly not concern yourself that your chosen candidate might possibly be wearing the wrong brand of shoes? They could very well have been made with leather from McDonalds cows.
(please note sarcasm)
and coincided with the campaign's move from K Street in Washington, DC to a new location on Charlotte Avenue in Nashville.
Nashville, in Tennessee. Ostensibly Algore's home state, though if they'd voted for Algore in the 2000 election, he would have had enough electoral votes that the Florida votes wouldn't have mattered.
Something must have gone very wrong with his campaign after moving to TN. Or, perhaps the TN voters knew him pretty well...
If you'd thrown your ribbon instead, it wouldn't have bonked the face of the CRT and cracked it.
It still looks like there is consistent giving of about 40% to Democrats.
You always have to get a word in, don't you?
Yep. I heard a somewhat distorted 'press release' type of announcement on my way to work, and found it funny. So I should immediately hop on the Apple marketing website.
You shouldn't get so angry.
Is your chosen hardware/software platform really that important??
Anybody with extensive experience with Microsoft's OS products knows that Microsoft reaches a plateau ever so often. The most recent Plateau before Windows 2000 was Windows 3.11. It was well-tested, reliable, and did what it set out to do very well.
Windows 2000 does the same. There's little or nothing in Windows XP that a W2K user 'misses out on' except draconian 'product activation' and the pretty pictures.
However, you were posting in jest, so perhaps I'm wasting words with this response.
You're right that it is more complex than just cutting out the entire diversity of plant and animal life in an area and replacing it with a truckload of a single species of seedlings.
However, nature is damned pervasive at replacing what has been removed. Probably over a 500 year period, not immediately.
And a part of the problem some people have is that the 'green' culture grew up out of the dominant western culture, which had already 'gotten theirs' by plowing over huge swaths of land. Then they amble on over to places where the 'lesser people' are trying to scratch out a living, and preach at them.
I've planted and am nurturing over 65 young hardwood trees at this time and hope to put in that many more again in the next year or so. When I drive by a little patch of the kind of dense, diverse forest that all of this region of the country used to be covered with, I feel sad that it's almost all cornfield now. However, I can't change history.
Exactly.
If you were a rich Greenpeace contributor, you'd probably want to make the trip on daddy's yacht.
Greenpeace wouldn't be able to get all those rich contributors 'on board' if they didn't speak their lingo.
Visualize whirled peas.
"Gimmie that old time religion. It's good enough for me!"
BeOS tried to do this. The boxed BeOS set that I purchased at retail would boot on just about any Pentium system, but you were stuck with grayscale blah-resolution if your video card wasn't supported.
Windows 'prospers' because a huge cadre of third-party hardware vendors are on board supporting it. 'Bad stories' about unsupported hardware on MacOS would scare people away. To say nothing of the new and probably intolerable stress the 'Apple Culture' would face in trying to support a huge amount of 'core' third-party hardware. They're used to living in a walled off kingdom.
Wow. I haven't seen this robust of an Intel-vs-PowerPC troll in ages.
I've been logging onto the Windows Update website and downloading updates and patches almost since my W2K CD came, in the first month of the W2K release. It hasn't cost me $3-400.
Hell, even the Quicktime Pro player is 'keyed' with a registration number.
Apple would have to jack up the price of OS X for x86 well above $129 to offset the missing revenue from lost hardware sales, and if they do that nobody's going to buy it.
That is complete and utter nonsense. If Apple had the sales volume of Windows, they could sell OS X for well under $129 and make money at it.
However, they are in the hardware business, and probably incapable of producing an OS X release that would run on the hundreds, even thousands, of permutations of x86 platforms they would be expected to support.
Basically, they are in the hardware/software bundle business and are stuck in that 'box' so to speak. They couldn't release OS X for x86 and succeed at it if they wanted to.