You are straight up in denial. I'll give you the AOL one, as I forgot about it on the Mac, but the rest is rubbish. For some reason you think that market share proves Apple was ground breaking, but doesn't prove MS was. You are placing completely different standards as to what is ground breaking for MS than you would for Apple.
As for the 'changing nouns around' comment. I was showing that the exact same logic applies to MS that does to Apple. MP3 players existed well before Apple. Before the iPod you couldn't go into an electronics or department store that didn't have MP3s for sale. As much as you dislike it, your sentence about MS applies 100% about the iPod. My point was communicated in clear plain English. The problem is you WANT apple to be ground breaking, and MS not to be. That doesn't change the fact that this iTunes/iPod 'integration' that everyone is so in love with is simple bundling. It wasn't innovative. It wasn't ground breaking. It was simply vender lock in, the same as MS has been doing for years.
The only thing ridiculous is the attitude that when Apple does something that has already been happening for years, they are somehow ground breaking.
"I can't see how one could argue that it wasn't the iPod that made portable MP3 players popular. It definitely wasn't IE that made the internet popular."
I can't see how one could argue that it wasn't Windows that made the internet popular. There are more people that use the internet daily AND have only used Windows+IE than there are people with MP3 Players.
"The world wide web as we know it does NOT exist as a result of IE + Windows. If IE had never existed, the WWW would exist, and probably be exactly the same. Netscape and AOL both deserve way more credit than IE does for popularizing the internet/WWW (even if neither were first). IE was a product that, upon release had to play catch-up with it's competitors... hardly groundbreaking."
Portable music as we know it does NOT exist as a result of iPod/iTunes combo. If iPod had never existed, portable music would exist and probably be exactly the same. AOL only existed on Windows, and Netscape only gained popularity on Windows. iTunes upon release had to play catch-up with it's competitors... Hardly groundbreaking.
"And, yes there were music players, music sites, and music organizers before the iPod/iTunes combo. However none of them really worked together, thus none gained popularity. Having one solution that worked together and did it all allowed iTMS to become the #1 online music store by far (80% marketshare worldwide), and the iPod to become the #1 music player by far (62% marketshare)"
And, yes there were operating systems and web browsers before Windows + IE combo. However none of them really worked together, thus none gained popularity. Having one solution that worked together and did it all allowed IE to become the #1 Browser by far (95% marketshare worldwide).
IE wasn't the first web browser, iTunes wasn't the first music software, iTMS wasn't the first online music store, and iPod wasn't the first portable music player. No difference whatsoever.
Considering the impact on the internet market that Windows + IE has had, I'm not sure I even need to esplain this, but hey, it's slashdot.
iTunes is about as groundbreaking as Windows Media Player.
Of course that is like saying MS in 'innovating' when they bundle apps with Windows. Tying products together unnecessarily is rarely considered groundbreaking or innovative.
That's why I firmly believe that the other manufacturers need to band together to create a standard external connector. The iPod was an attractive product, but it was never ground breaking. The problem is that at this point, accessory manufacturers make accessories for iPod because they have the biggest market share, and at least partially because all the accessories are for iPods, iPod will keep the biggest market share.
If the other manufacturers standardized an external connector, they could have enough of an accessory market share that they could compete.
Well, I don't know about the rest of the people who have tired of MS, but the Win95 - Win2000 UI was something they did very right. The task bar did not take up much real estate, but did a good job of both letting you know what programs you had running, and showing you where to click if you wanted to load programs.
Best writers? The new BSG is ALL eye candy. BSG is by far the cheesiest and most unoriginal scifi show I have see in a very very long time. Here is a rule... When you have to copy your characters from Voyager, you loose any right to be called well written.
Yes. That is spot on. Because of telecommuting, I didn't have to put my child in daycare for the first year and a half of his life, letting someone else raise him. And now that my wife is recently laid off, he isn't in day care any more. This means that when lunch time hits, I simply walk out of my office, and sit down to have lunch with my wife and son just about every day. My days are 8 hours long instead of 11, which means more time with my family. Yeah, yeah, I know that not everybody wants that, but for me it is awesome.
I like the close buttons on the tabs... but I have to agree that IE7 seems to have changed the browser toolbar just to make IE7 look different for the sake of not looking the same. My opinion is that IE7 has a seriously broken UI. When I look IE7, it looks like someone with no artistic eye was given the tools to slap shaded bars on a page and told to go at it.
You know, we need to coin a term for this kind of behavior, and the people that use it. It should start with Pedifi and have something on the end. Get Colbert to use it as The Word. Most people are not aware enough about the words around them to know that Suffrage is a good thing. The same could go for this. Those that get the word could call these child exploiters by a name that sounds real bad, but that means 'A person that uses the fear of pedifiles to manipulate public opinion.' Of course then anyone using this work would be inherently described by the same word....
Speaking of that, what are people doing when they want a solid state computer. The only moving part of my wifes computer is the hard drive. I don't really want to try to run the entire OS over the network, but applications would be fine. So, a compact flash card would be big enough to hold the OS, but I worry that the swap partition would kill it in months.
I could be all wrong about UWB, but I believe that they want to clear 7 of those.
2 VGA cables to my dual monitors
1 Coax for my cable TV (would only count if you had a desktop case)
1 cord for USB mouse
1 cord for USB keyboard
1 cord to connect speakers to PC
The RF antenna and PC power cords are not on your desk. (given that you don't have a desktop case)
That leaves 3 power cords out of the 8 I would have counted. That is a pretty good improvement. Good enough to warrant more RF noise? That is another story...
Except that when it comes to war, being physically the largest is no longer a deciding factor. Once the war is over, anyone survivors that breed, get to pass on their genetic code, including any mutations. While you may argue that the gun hasn't been around long enough to have any significant impact on our genetic code, it no doubt will.
This is very good advice. As for writing your emulator, the NES is the perfect emulator to start with. The design is simple, and the system is extremely well documented. Start searching the web and you will find every detail necessary to write a NES emulator, including several open source projects written in various languages.
If you make a business transaction, and knowingly go into that transaction with no intent of keeping up your end of the deal, yes, it would apply to GPL'ed software too.
And THAT is exactly it. It amazes me that people are arguing that any government would feel the need to put in writing that they have the right to a military. By that logic, we should be very worried that they didn't also include a right to breath and eat. Whether you agree with it or not, the only possible reason that the Founding Fathers would have put a right to bear arms clause in the Bill of Rights is because they wanted to make sure the people were armed against their own government.
I think they should just charge "Property Tax" on "Intellectual Property". Then when you do your taxes, you have a choice as to how much you are going to value your "Property" at. If you value it at $100, then when you sue someone, you can only sue for $100 in damages. If you value it at $300,000,000, then you have to pay taxes on $300,000,000. Of course at any time you should be able to abdicate rights to the "Property", and then you would no longer have to pay taxes on it.
If you have not been asked to authenticate, you would be running a corporate or pirate(cracked) version of XP. Retail versions, both boxed and pre-installed, require authentication within 30 days or the system will no longer function. Graphics cards are not 'forced' obsolescence. There is nothing in the graphics card that is designed to self destruct after a period of time. XP does have a self destruct feature.
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You are straight up in denial. I'll give you the AOL one, as I forgot about it on the Mac, but the rest is rubbish. For some reason you think that market share proves Apple was ground breaking, but doesn't prove MS was. You are placing completely different standards as to what is ground breaking for MS than you would for Apple.
As for the 'changing nouns around' comment. I was showing that the exact same logic applies to MS that does to Apple. MP3 players existed well before Apple. Before the iPod you couldn't go into an electronics or department store that didn't have MP3s for sale. As much as you dislike it, your sentence about MS applies 100% about the iPod. My point was communicated in clear plain English. The problem is you WANT apple to be ground breaking, and MS not to be. That doesn't change the fact that this iTunes/iPod 'integration' that everyone is so in love with is simple bundling. It wasn't innovative. It wasn't ground breaking. It was simply vender lock in, the same as MS has been doing for years.
The only thing ridiculous is the attitude that when Apple does something that has already been happening for years, they are somehow ground breaking.
That comment indicates that you do not understand what the iPod interface does. It is the one thing that the iPod has that the others players do not.
During a recent remodel in CA, I was required to also use florescent in closets that had lighting.
"I can't see how one could argue that it wasn't the iPod that made portable MP3 players popular. It definitely wasn't IE that made the internet popular."
I can't see how one could argue that it wasn't Windows that made the internet popular. There are more people that use the internet daily AND have only used Windows+IE than there are people with MP3 Players.
"The world wide web as we know it does NOT exist as a result of IE + Windows. If IE had never existed, the WWW would exist, and probably be exactly the same. Netscape and AOL both deserve way more credit than IE does for popularizing the internet/WWW (even if neither were first). IE was a product that, upon release had to play catch-up with it's competitors... hardly groundbreaking."
Portable music as we know it does NOT exist as a result of iPod/iTunes combo. If iPod had never existed, portable music would exist and probably be exactly the same. AOL only existed on Windows, and Netscape only gained popularity on Windows. iTunes upon release had to play catch-up with it's competitors... Hardly groundbreaking.
"And, yes there were music players, music sites, and music organizers before the iPod/iTunes combo. However none of them really worked together, thus none gained popularity. Having one solution that worked together and did it all allowed iTMS to become the #1 online music store by far (80% marketshare worldwide), and the iPod to become the #1 music player by far (62% marketshare)"
And, yes there were operating systems and web browsers before Windows + IE combo. However none of them really worked together, thus none gained popularity. Having one solution that worked together and did it all allowed IE to become the #1 Browser by far (95% marketshare worldwide).
IE wasn't the first web browser, iTunes wasn't the first music software, iTMS wasn't the first online music store, and iPod wasn't the first portable music player. No difference whatsoever.
Considering the impact on the internet market that Windows + IE has had, I'm not sure I even need to esplain this, but hey, it's slashdot.
iTunes is about as groundbreaking as Windows Media Player.
Of course that is like saying MS in 'innovating' when they bundle apps with Windows. Tying products together unnecessarily is rarely considered groundbreaking or innovative.
That's why I firmly believe that the other manufacturers need to band together to create a standard external connector. The iPod was an attractive product, but it was never ground breaking. The problem is that at this point, accessory manufacturers make accessories for iPod because they have the biggest market share, and at least partially because all the accessories are for iPods, iPod will keep the biggest market share.
If the other manufacturers standardized an external connector, they could have enough of an accessory market share that they could compete.
A) That is still unacceptable.
B) What happens when MS decides XP is EOL?
Well, I don't know about the rest of the people who have tired of MS, but the Win95 - Win2000 UI was something they did very right. The task bar did not take up much real estate, but did a good job of both letting you know what programs you had running, and showing you where to click if you wanted to load programs.
Best writers? The new BSG is ALL eye candy. BSG is by far the cheesiest and most unoriginal scifi show I have see in a very very long time. Here is a rule... When you have to copy your characters from Voyager, you loose any right to be called well written.
"That's not a huge land area to sacrifice."
Why would you sacrifice any land at all. How about just sacrificing some roof area instead?
Yes. That is spot on. Because of telecommuting, I didn't have to put my child in daycare for the first year and a half of his life, letting someone else raise him. And now that my wife is recently laid off, he isn't in day care any more. This means that when lunch time hits, I simply walk out of my office, and sit down to have lunch with my wife and son just about every day. My days are 8 hours long instead of 11, which means more time with my family. Yeah, yeah, I know that not everybody wants that, but for me it is awesome.
I like the close buttons on the tabs... but I have to agree that IE7 seems to have changed the browser toolbar just to make IE7 look different for the sake of not looking the same. My opinion is that IE7 has a seriously broken UI. When I look IE7, it looks like someone with no artistic eye was given the tools to slap shaded bars on a page and told to go at it.
Thank you. that is incredibly useful, and I didn't now about it. I expect I will use that on a daily basis.
You know, we need to coin a term for this kind of behavior, and the people that use it. It should start with Pedifi and have something on the end. Get Colbert to use it as The Word. Most people are not aware enough about the words around them to know that Suffrage is a good thing. The same could go for this. Those that get the word could call these child exploiters by a name that sounds real bad, but that means 'A person that uses the fear of pedifiles to manipulate public opinion.' Of course then anyone using this work would be inherently described by the same word....
Speaking of that, what are people doing when they want a solid state computer. The only moving part of my wifes computer is the hard drive. I don't really want to try to run the entire OS over the network, but applications would be fine. So, a compact flash card would be big enough to hold the OS, but I worry that the swap partition would kill it in months.
I could be all wrong about UWB, but I believe that they want to clear 7 of those.
2 VGA cables to my dual monitors 1 Coax for my cable TV (would only count if you had a desktop case) 1 cord for USB mouse 1 cord for USB keyboard 1 cord to connect speakers to PC
The RF antenna and PC power cords are not on your desk. (given that you don't have a desktop case)
That leaves 3 power cords out of the 8 I would have counted. That is a pretty good improvement. Good enough to warrant more RF noise? That is another story...
Except that when it comes to war, being physically the largest is no longer a deciding factor. Once the war is over, anyone survivors that breed, get to pass on their genetic code, including any mutations. While you may argue that the gun hasn't been around long enough to have any significant impact on our genetic code, it no doubt will.
This is very good advice. As for writing your emulator, the NES is the perfect emulator to start with. The design is simple, and the system is extremely well documented. Start searching the web and you will find every detail necessary to write a NES emulator, including several open source projects written in various languages.
If you make a business transaction, and knowingly go into that transaction with no intent of keeping up your end of the deal, yes, it would apply to GPL'ed software too.
I have found them to be a good source for this sort of thing as well.
And THAT is exactly it. It amazes me that people are arguing that any government would feel the need to put in writing that they have the right to a military. By that logic, we should be very worried that they didn't also include a right to breath and eat. Whether you agree with it or not, the only possible reason that the Founding Fathers would have put a right to bear arms clause in the Bill of Rights is because they wanted to make sure the people were armed against their own government.
I think they should just charge "Property Tax" on "Intellectual Property". Then when you do your taxes, you have a choice as to how much you are going to value your "Property" at. If you value it at $100, then when you sue someone, you can only sue for $100 in damages. If you value it at $300,000,000, then you have to pay taxes on $300,000,000. Of course at any time you should be able to abdicate rights to the "Property", and then you would no longer have to pay taxes on it.
Funny, I got my definition for Bribe from Merriam-Webster. If you have a better authority on the definition, I'm happy to hear it.
If you have not been asked to authenticate, you would be running a corporate or pirate(cracked) version of XP. Retail versions, both boxed and pre-installed, require authentication within 30 days or the system will no longer function. Graphics cards are not 'forced' obsolescence. There is nothing in the graphics card that is designed to self destruct after a period of time. XP does have a self destruct feature.