This is also one of the reasons they developed C#/dotNet.
Also, they developed C# and.NET because they saw what a horrible failure Java had become in many of the things it originally set out to accomplish. I.e. 'there's a JVM suited for every purpose, one you have to load to make each Java app run, and it's bundled with said app.'
If HD-DVD or Blu-ray wants to be the media of choice on the desktop just make any DRM that gets tacked on as inocuous as possible.
The DRM doesn't have to be any less obnoxius and overbearing than it presently is for regular DVD. Which, in spite of the efforts of a lot of hackers, is relatively inpenetrable for the regular joe who buys all those DVDs at WalMart and Best Buy.
No, the annoyance of DRM features won't be a barrier for early adopters. Early adopters by definition are the people who buy stuff because it's new. Emphasis on the word 'buy.' Money defines the market, and if Sony chooses to dump their film libraries cheap, consumers will buy into the format.
Sony takes the risk, however, of squandering all that hoarded up IP by doing so.
No matter what a bunch of music pirates say and try to do, Sony is and has been a company that produces a superior grade of consumer electronics equipment. Not 'far superior,' just a trademark that can usually be relied on when buying something at a mainstream retailer.
Believe me, I do a lot of R&D Testing of products whose manufacture recently was 'shifted' from the US to China. The Chinese who I have encountered (Shenzen region) have zero concept of proactive quality engineering. They will do exactly what they think you told them to do without thinking. Any time there is a problem, they become defensive and opaque, and it becomes very difficult to do anything about the issue.
My feeling is that this comes from years of socalism and group-think within a very regimented culture.
That's fine, so long as the patient is paying for it.
There are all sorts of scams out there to victimize people desperate for a cure to their malady. Why should the HMO or government be funding said scammers?
All the techniques on which modern web design rely that work reliably in all the major browsers have major issues in Mac IE.
I would rather that 'all the techniques on which modern web design rely' would die. I'm sorry. There's an amount of pizzaz and cleverness involved, but it's largely a lot of bullshit for the sake of 'design.' And I'd rather 'Web Designers' (a nebulous category, kind of the 'Telephone Sanitizers' of the current era) were forced to 'design' (pugh! there's that WORD again!) to a very accessable common standard. The idea of hypertext is for it to be a useable tool for everyone, not another barrier to common communications. Of course, 'experts' had to drag their baggage onto the landscape and set up shop.
Communications is a two way process. Unless you're a propagandist, of course.
Yes, but the IE code on the Mac is a totally different code base. Which reinforces Microsofts arguement that IE on Windows is a part of the OS. They were unable to bundle it, they paid a team of developers to do a total re-write for the Mac OS.
Thanks for reminding the legal team at Microsoft of this (they already knew).
This announcement from MS is just what I've been waiting for; at the end of this school year, it goes away.
Nice autocrat. Here's your cookie.
(In case anybody wonders, 'ordinary users' sometimes want to shove a screwdriver in the throat of wannabe-BOFH types who use the phrase 'my users.' Naw. Not me.)
Well, the fact is, Apple gave it up and just bought in a third-party OS and have just piled layers on that for the last half dozen years. It's too late for them to go back to being an original software company.
Nope. Your problem is you've been 'trolled' now, and even hooked and landed. Right this moment you're a big lunker just flopping around in the bottom of some guy's boat. Or if you're lucky, he has a livewell.
I learned Fortran on punched cards. Also took my Pascal course that way. It was much nicer than using punched tape.
At some sites on cazmpus we were allowed to load and run our own card decks directly.
And the top card on the deck was the one with the account password on it. If the card reader was going to jam, it was going to mangle that card first. If you knew how, you could read back the password from the mangled card manually. So it was fruitful to 'surf' the wastebaskets in the terminal rooms from time to time to get passwords, so you could use somebody else's time on the machine to run your job.
And some of us would prefer there to be a single 'distribution' called GNU/Linux so that it would be all GNU-based. All these hodge-podge linux 'distros' are both confusing and inconsistent.
No, but since Apple is the sole publisher of both ends of the interface (client and server sides) they can break third party tools with glee. They already have an update mechanism in the client and a fairly regular update cycle.
Its been a long time since Apple Computer was a feelgood company with a friendly philosophy.
And check out eBay sometime. The publishers of sniping tools have to reverse engineer the eBay site. eBay publishes a web interface the tool authors could code to, but it's quite expensive, so many just implement a robust 'version/update tracking' feature in their software and users have to update rather frequently.
And eBay really wants people to buy stuff on their site and aren't attacking the sniping tool vendors directly. Apple will probably be mean and aggressive about it. It's in their heritage, way back to the days of running Apple II cloners out of business.
The common-sense answer is 'they can choke in their big mass of data.'
Which leads to the common-sense approach to take: it can never be cost-effective to keep and the kind of tracking information that gets the paranoids all frothy. Anybody who has experience managing big masses of data could tell us this. So it's all hand-wringing by people without much of a clue.
Why issue a cite, when you can just provide a link to Google, which will link to all the other places that don't provide a cite by instead providing links to other places that provide a cite to left wing opinion pieces?
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This is also one of the reasons they developed C#/dotNet.
.NET because they saw what a horrible failure Java had become in many of the things it originally set out to accomplish. I.e. 'there's a JVM suited for every purpose, one you have to load to make each Java app run, and it's bundled with said app.'
Also, they developed C# and
If HD-DVD or Blu-ray wants to be the media of choice on the desktop just make any DRM that gets tacked on as inocuous as possible.
The DRM doesn't have to be any less obnoxius and overbearing than it presently is for regular DVD. Which, in spite of the efforts of a lot of hackers, is relatively inpenetrable for the regular joe who buys all those DVDs at WalMart and Best Buy.
No, the annoyance of DRM features won't be a barrier for early adopters. Early adopters by definition are the people who buy stuff because it's new. Emphasis on the word 'buy.' Money defines the market, and if Sony chooses to dump their film libraries cheap, consumers will buy into the format.
Sony takes the risk, however, of squandering all that hoarded up IP by doing so.
"Firewire" is an IEEE-sanctioned standard. Although Apple has stuck on one of their clever trademarked names that some people use to refer to it.
It's been quite awhile since Apple had the gumption to coin one of their own 'standards' in hardware. Really, they've been beaten badly in that area.
No matter what a bunch of music pirates say and try to do, Sony is and has been a company that produces a superior grade of consumer electronics equipment. Not 'far superior,' just a trademark that can usually be relied on when buying something at a mainstream retailer.
Believe me, I do a lot of R&D Testing of products whose manufacture recently was 'shifted' from the US to China. The Chinese who I have encountered (Shenzen region) have zero concept of proactive quality engineering. They will do exactly what they think you told them to do without thinking. Any time there is a problem, they become defensive and opaque, and it becomes very difficult to do anything about the issue.
My feeling is that this comes from years of socalism and group-think within a very regimented culture.
That's fine, so long as the patient is paying for it.
There are all sorts of scams out there to victimize people desperate for a cure to their malady. Why should the HMO or government be funding said scammers?
I suppose, if they can afford it.
But if it's going to be tax funded, an elected governmental body should have some say in the matter.
All the techniques on which modern web design rely that work reliably in all the major browsers have major issues in Mac IE.
I would rather that 'all the techniques on which modern web design rely' would die. I'm sorry. There's an amount of pizzaz and cleverness involved, but it's largely a lot of bullshit for the sake of 'design.' And I'd rather 'Web Designers' (a nebulous category, kind of the 'Telephone Sanitizers' of the current era) were forced to 'design' (pugh! there's that WORD again!) to a very accessable common standard. The idea of hypertext is for it to be a useable tool for everyone, not another barrier to common communications. Of course, 'experts' had to drag their baggage onto the landscape and set up shop.
Communications is a two way process. Unless you're a propagandist, of course.
Yes, but the IE code on the Mac is a totally different code base. Which reinforces Microsofts arguement that IE on Windows is a part of the OS. They were unable to bundle it, they paid a team of developers to do a total re-write for the Mac OS.
Thanks for reminding the legal team at Microsoft of this (they already knew).
Yes, and there could be evidence in the code that implicates Bill Gates as a serial killer.
But now we are both just wildly speculating...
This announcement from MS is just what I've been waiting for; at the end of this school year, it goes away.
Nice autocrat. Here's your cookie.
(In case anybody wonders, 'ordinary users' sometimes want to shove a screwdriver in the throat of wannabe-BOFH types who use the phrase 'my users.' Naw. Not me.)
Neither Apple nor Microsoft want Mac users to stay on OS 9.
I think it's a pretty nice OS and use it occasionally on my Beige G3 Tower.
But there's no, zippo, not a bit of money for Apple or Microsoft in keeping it alive.
Well, the fact is, Apple gave it up and just bought in a third-party OS and have just piled layers on that for the last half dozen years. It's too late for them to go back to being an original software company.
I live almost 45 degrees north, so to help compensate for the lack of daylight, ...... I buy myself a Solstice present (new digital camera this year).
Ummm, dude....
Unreasonable expectations?
I expect to have to deal with relatives a bit more than I want. To eat more food than is healthy.
I wish those were unreasonable expectations.
Nope. Your problem is you've been 'trolled' now, and even hooked and landed. Right this moment you're a big lunker just flopping around in the bottom of some guy's boat. Or if you're lucky, he has a livewell.
I learned Fortran on punched cards. Also took my Pascal course that way. It was much nicer than using punched tape.
At some sites on cazmpus we were allowed to load and run our own card decks directly.
And the top card on the deck was the one with the account password on it. If the card reader was going to jam, it was going to mangle that card first. If you knew how, you could read back the password from the mangled card manually. So it was fruitful to 'surf' the wastebaskets in the terminal rooms from time to time to get passwords, so you could use somebody else's time on the machine to run your job.
He is defining 'mainframe' to mean 'a computer bigger than I can lift that management won't let me keep for my personal use in my cubicle.'
And he's lucky he doesn't have my IBM PC Server 704. It's a 'PC' but it's the size of a file cabinet.
And some of us would prefer there to be a single 'distribution' called GNU/Linux so that it would be all GNU-based. All these hodge-podge linux 'distros' are both confusing and inconsistent.
Or maybe I'm just too used to running a BSD now.
It pleases me to speculate that a dude that meddlesome is wasting his time fiddling around just to feel self righteous.
No, but since Apple is the sole publisher of both ends of the interface (client and server sides) they can break third party tools with glee. They already have an update mechanism in the client and a fairly regular update cycle.
Its been a long time since Apple Computer was a feelgood company with a friendly philosophy.
And check out eBay sometime. The publishers of sniping tools have to reverse engineer the eBay site. eBay publishes a web interface the tool authors could code to, but it's quite expensive, so many just implement a robust 'version/update tracking' feature in their software and users have to update rather frequently.
And eBay really wants people to buy stuff on their site and aren't attacking the sniping tool vendors directly. Apple will probably be mean and aggressive about it. It's in their heritage, way back to the days of running Apple II cloners out of business.
If it's valuable enough for them to pay money for it, it's valuable enough for me not to part with it without seeing some of that money.
And you are, in the form of the reduced price the service can sell whatever it was they sold you where the information was gathered.
Sure, its a rather intangible benefit. But you cited a rather intangible cost.
What did you part with, BTW? What don't you now have? 'Privacy' isn't tangible at all, so don't say that.
What exactly can they do with this information?
The common-sense answer is 'they can choke in their big mass of data.'
Which leads to the common-sense approach to take: it can never be cost-effective to keep and the kind of tracking information that gets the paranoids all frothy. Anybody who has experience managing big masses of data could tell us this. So it's all hand-wringing by people without much of a clue.
Why issue a cite, when you can just provide a link to Google, which will link to all the other places that don't provide a cite by instead providing links to other places that provide a cite to left wing opinion pieces?