This assuming that Apple doesn't start doing other, DRM-related stupid stuff with TPM.........
and this assuming Apple will start assuming a copy of OS X is pirated even though it is running on a "Mac"!!!
Worst case here is that I might be running Tiger when I paid only for Leopard (I hope I got the names right). Not such a big deal, given that I paid for the Mac at least.
That is nothing big as compared to someone running Windows without paying a dime.
New Zea Land Population - 4 Million India Population - 1 Billion plus
New Zealand Per Capita Income - 24K India Per Capita Income - 4K
as compared to
US Per Capita Income - 41K
My guess is all of New Zealand's spare capacity in IT field can be absorbed by GE in less than a year.
PS: Guess which country is more attractive in terms of population and cost/benefit. These might overweigh the security risks (if they can be mitigated).
I know the salaries of people in technology field in India are quite high, but they will start getting depressed when competition opens up (Brazil, Russia, China and maybe New Zealand).
Not all iPods are $300 bucks. That's why I said take the iPod as big as the movie size.
Let's say Apple can bring costs for a 10 GB iPod nano (not a current option) to $100. Would it be better then? No rotating parts (disks). And it covers your DVD burning costs for 100 rentals.
So when you go to the store, all you have is a bunch of iPods BB. You want a movie, go to a kiosk and order a movie. 2 minutes later (ideally), go pickup the iPod with movie from the counter. No scratched discs to return etc.
How much is a DVD? 5 GB? Let's say we have an iPod that size.
What BB could do is to stock iPods preloaded with movies? You go and pick up a movie. When a movie is in demand, they load many iPods with the movie. When it goes out of demand, they replace the movie by a newer one.
They get to re-use the hardware. They could also do just-in-time inventory - if a movie is left with 2 copies, they just start loading another 2.
BB could charge customers a deposit to rent the device.
But I still think a better solution is downloadable movies.
I have not posted in eons. But parent comment takes the cake and I had to respond. Funny how trollish comments get rated as Insightful. The statement is a complete slander. The only complaint raised is "commodity hardware".
Do you have any other points on which you can compare Apple and Microsoft.
Do you think if Apple was a monopoly, Steve Jobs would have given up his reality distortion and would be a corporate suit? Forget the products, have you seen the passion with which the man introduces the products. If Apple was 80%, and Microsoft 20%, would anyone have come to watch Bill Gates introduce Windows Vista? The point being...despite market share Steve would have had passion for usability, and bill for unethical practices.
Do you think if Apple was a monopoly, the prices would be 10,000 per machine? Would not have Linux have much better opportunity in such times? After all, Linux is trying to fight a $300 operating system and could be winning with some more effort. With a $5000 operating system, and another $5000 for hardware, Linux would make sure Apple could not remain a monopoly.
Do you think if Apple was a monopoly, it would not innovate? With limited R&D funds, Apple is able to develop such cool technology. Give them twice the money, give them their lost 10 years and they would have had an operating system of circa 2010 NOW. Why? Because for all the market leadership Microsoft has, they do not have imagination. They know how to copy, not how to be creative.
I can go on, but I wonder. Why is the parent comment insightful?
What I want is someone to hack google maps to display full screen (1024 X 768) or nearly on 90% of the screen. The challenge is that even if you set the browser to full screen, the map height X width is fixed.
It should be a very simple hack. Let us know if someone has already done it.
- If employees in Microsoft are allowed to carry a portable MP3 player, then does the management have a right to control which one they can?
- If after one year we find 80% of Microsoft employees carry non-iPod players, would that not be interesting. And would there not be undue pressure on employees... leading to similar class action suits against Walmart... although the softies will be too soft to raise stink and lose their fat checks.
- If Microsoft was making MP3 players, even then should it matter what the employees buy? What if General Mills said you must eat only our cereals!!
It is interesting because it is an interesting take on reality (iPod share), management conflicts, employee preferences despite kool-aid. Sometimes just an honest peek into the realities behind a FUD campaign is interesting.
Remember his old NBC / CBS jokes....a variation on them....could work for other companies.
1. Dave, you are recording the program now, what do you watch when you go home.
Of course, Leno - who watches CBS?
2. Today Les Moonves (CBS Boss) had a busy day. There are so many series to review, so many decisions to make, such a tough life. So when he reached home, he relaxed watching an episode of Friends on NBC.
I am sure other jokes can be built. But you have to imagine Dave speaking for these to have some effect.
I personally recall working in Reebok and a colleague wearing Nikes, and the trouble he got from management.
Slightly off topic, but I hope "Funny" moderators.
Besides all the promotion etc., think of the CC processing fees they would be saving. The second biggest chunk in the $0.99 purchase price was CC processing fee. With this move, they eliminate 25-30c from their costs, give 20 to their customers and maybe get to keep a few cents themselves.
I know nothing is that simple, and it would cost them to build software for bulk purchase, keep track of codes etc., but I think this is a good move for long term.
I was thinking exactly the same yesterday, although in a different area.
I was on hold with INS for 28 minutes before the rep picked up, and then I said give me 15 seconds to get my wife on line (I had already set up with her to be nearby). She refused. We are not authorized to be put on hold. I said ok, wait for 10 sec and if I am not back, hang up. NO. Thank you very much. You should have thought of this. And this after waiting 4 freaking years for to get a file processed.
On the other hand, my DMV bill arrived promptly 70 days before the due date.
The surprise upset was corroborated by virtually every exit poll, although the extent of surprise was not predicted correctly. Before the elections started, the polls were giving 300+ (out of 545) to the ruling alliance. The exit polls indicated that that 300 was too high, and the ruling alliance will be hard pressed to meet 270. This actual numbers came just under 200. Although it indicates a big surprise, the polls seemed to indicate a shift away from the ruling alliance, only the extent of the shift was wrong.
Although rigging is possible, I do not think that was the case here.
make it so it's possible to buy from the iTMS through their player
Why? Apple does not make any money on the music store? It will remain the same if Real joined them as described above. Why would they add more traffic to the website when additional profits are zero? May work if Real offered to split their player/device profits with them.
Sorry I am probably too late for someone to see my comments. Anyway...
People are talking about HMOs and Insurance saving money and also talking about liability issues. Yet, that is one side but the solution there is easy. If the insurance companies can get comfortable with the model, they would use it because the overall costs (medical expenses + liability costs) will be lower. I do not think the jury will say Insurance did a wrong thing by sending someone to India because most of the other cases worked.
However, I feel that a significant pressure will come from un-insureds. My newborn was in ICU for just over a week and hospital billed about $50K. The insurance paid $12K. Even that is too high, but if I was uninsured the hospital would have insisted on $50K. Now this worked out because I am insured and the deductible is low. How about the uninsureds? As you know, there are lots and lots of them in this economy. If someone needs help which costs $10K and the hospital asks them for $50-$100K because they are not insured, what would they do? Well they are not going to think about where it is done, just that there is someone available to help them for the price they can pay.
I am not saying the un-insured are causing the change, but a significant part will be driven by them. If you think farther, isn't this how Linux started...keeping the rhetoric of open source aside for a minute.
I see all plans having narrow focus. Send the people to Mars, leave them there. OR. Do full return missions. OR. Build a colony and then have supplies only. OR so on and so on.
Real life will probably turn out to be a compromise. I do not think anyone will volunteer to go stay on Mars with only annual supply missions to help them out. And I do not think Mars colonies will develop until we start having multiple Mars trips every year.
I think the first point we have to prove is that the travel is viable. This might be expensive if we need to plan for the return trip, but I do not think any sane government is going to "sell" a one-way mission. Once we have proven the travel, we might send pieces of a return shuttle to Mars and demonstrate it works (no people to be launched, just that it can be assembled with robots and sent back to space...with maybe some help from a manned mission) - mainly that we will take the shuttle when needed, but we can assemble from pieces if needed. Once we demonstrate ability to configure / launch such flight from Mars, we can think of keeping one or two such shuttles available on Mars and talk about a colony of 4-6, so that the people have an exit plan. This does not mean these people die of old age at Mars. Once you have proven and established the travel basics, if you can have 1 Mars mission per year (initially) and Mars remains your focus, you should be able to scale up to 20 missions per year in a decade or two. People would be coming and going on a fairly regular basis, with some staying back for a longer period.
The other challenge is this discussion is about Mars being in a good position for launches only once in 2 years. We will need to get around that, maybe with a space station, maybe by willing to take a longer trajectory. And an Earth centric space station will not work, cause Mars might be directly opposite to us. The space station does not need to be a Star Trek type thingy, but just something which has supplies, maybe just a few boxes floating in space might do.
Ok, that is a non-rocket scientist's thought on how this could work. I think the progress will be slow. It is easier to say "go live on Mars", than to realize that we would pretty much freak out on Antartica, except for maybe a couple of hundred people. There would be times when mobility will be low. There would be times when it will be hot. Gravity would be an issue. Transport would be an issue. Cost will be exorbitant. But the colonies would emerge. And it will most likely not be the result of a gameplan developed now, but improvisations every step of the way.
Support WMA for Rio, Dell Jukebox, Nomad...(whatever)..., and then pull a Microsoft in the next release. So iTunes does not work with Dell Jukebox. Looks like a bug. We will fix it soon...like 2 months.
Oh no, only Microsoft can do that, in the name of providing choice...Sorry.
It is not that Novell suddenly decided to indemnify because of FUD. If you read the article, it says that Novell expects to complete its purchase of SUSE Linux today. If Novell did not own SUSE earlier, it could not have offered the indemnity.
"Novell executives are also expected to announce on Monday that the SuSE deal has been completed. That will mean that SuSE's Linux distributions join the Novell family of products and allow Novell to offer customers a complete Linux-solution stack and global technical Linux support."
However, I understand your concern for the FUD maybe becoming successful, and maybe one of the reasons for indemnity.
Not only does it give them bigger mindshare in the music (songs, hardware) market, it also sets up a partnership for future digital hub initiatives. My guess is HP and Apple might cross-license many technologies. Guess which machine will come preloaded with iPhoto or another "i" product the day their windows compatibility is announced.
All these stories are in the past, as in they achieved success more than one year back
Last year's story is/was iTunes Music Store. The challenge this year will be whether it will die against WalMart / Microsoft or will be able to hold its own. In terms of concept, simplicity, bundling (using the market force of iPod) etc., I think it has a tremendous edge and chances are slightly better than even that it will outperform others.
I think the next bubble will again be content -- Video/Movies on Demand, either over cable or internet, and this might give rise to a new name outside the traditional studios. Apple again has a chance given their history of building cool products, but has not demonstrated anything yet. The other side of content -- weblogs -- will mature too, but I think that will probably be dominated by Google/Microsoft rather than a newcomer.
Ok, do not penalize me for listing AOL...I think it was a tremendously successful company a few years back, despite what slashdot might think about it.
And do you have a solution except for publishing articles on slashdot? I do not think a technical solution will work as effectively. It is more of a social issue. You can either ask religion to get in the picture (as you will see many religions evolved because of establishment's inability to do the right thing), or involve the government / society. Even if a technical solution is developed, it will more be because of pressures from the people rather than a generosity of heart. Call it sensational, but this problem will not move beyond starting line unless you have another Martin Luther King, or Linus Torvalds. Or unless spam causes one catastrophic event...then how different is that from terrorism? Or should my expectation from email be something more than asking me to get my penis enlarged, my breasts enlarged, eat/drink viagra and watch porn? Come On!!
Don't you think the war on spam should be fought as aggressively as the war on terror (ok, I know iraq did sidetrack us from that war, but still). After all,
1. just like terrorism, the spam mainly affects western countries...most of the uneducated masses do not have computers 2. the spammers do not care if our life becomes hell...they are interested in their 72 virgins...or money in this case 3. the harder we fight them, the more workarounds they find 4. any time you turn to news, you find terrorism. any time you turn to computer, you find spam. does not matter whether it is a child's email account or a grownup's. 5. it is a relatively low cost business. any tom, dick and harry can get up and start spamming. you never know when your next door neighbor is a spammer.
If only the government and industry made it a mission to kill spam. The only way it can be killed is with collective will to do so. Prosecute the spammers at par with felony or higher. Kick the industry to find workable solutions without introducing proprietary protocols.
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This assuming that Apple doesn't start doing other, DRM-related stupid stuff with TPM..... ....
and this assuming Apple will start assuming a copy of OS X is pirated even though it is running on a "Mac"!!!
Worst case here is that I might be running Tiger when I paid only for Leopard (I hope I got the names right). Not such a big deal, given that I paid for the Mac at least.
That is nothing big as compared to someone running Windows without paying a dime.
New Zea Land Population - 4 Million
India Population - 1 Billion plus
New Zealand Per Capita Income - 24K
India Per Capita Income - 4K
as compared to
US Per Capita Income - 41K
My guess is all of New Zealand's spare capacity in IT field can be absorbed by GE in less than a year.
PS: Guess which country is more attractive in terms of population and cost/benefit. These might overweigh the security risks (if they can be mitigated).
I know the salaries of people in technology field in India are quite high, but they will start getting depressed when competition opens up (Brazil, Russia, China and maybe New Zealand).
- No child left behind czar
... working well at 3 dollars a gallon
... himself ... the DECIDER. Get me Saddam ... and who is this OBL you talk about
- Supreme court justice Harriet Myers
- Clean Air
- Environment czar to relax the environment initiatives
- Homeland security from everyone but the illegals
- VP himself to supervise energy policy
- And last but not the least
Not all iPods are $300 bucks. That's why I said take the iPod as big as the movie size.
Let's say Apple can bring costs for a 10 GB iPod nano (not a current option) to $100. Would it be better then? No rotating parts (disks). And it covers your DVD burning costs for 100 rentals.
So when you go to the store, all you have is a bunch of iPods BB. You want a movie, go to a kiosk and order a movie. 2 minutes later (ideally), go pickup the iPod with movie from the counter. No scratched discs to return etc.
How much is a DVD? 5 GB? Let's say we have an iPod that size.
What BB could do is to stock iPods preloaded with movies? You go and pick up a movie. When a movie is in demand, they load many iPods with the movie. When it goes out of demand, they replace the movie by a newer one.
They get to re-use the hardware. They could also do just-in-time inventory - if a movie is left with 2 copies, they just start loading another 2.
BB could charge customers a deposit to rent the device.
But I still think a better solution is downloadable movies.
I have not posted in eons. But parent comment takes the cake and I had to respond. Funny how trollish comments get rated as Insightful. The statement is a complete slander. The only complaint raised is "commodity hardware".
Do you have any other points on which you can compare Apple and Microsoft.
Do you think if Apple was a monopoly, Steve Jobs would have given up his reality distortion and would be a corporate suit? Forget the products, have you seen the passion with which the man introduces the products. If Apple was 80%, and Microsoft 20%, would anyone have come to watch Bill Gates introduce Windows Vista? The point being...despite market share Steve would have had passion for usability, and bill for unethical practices.
Do you think if Apple was a monopoly, the prices would be 10,000 per machine? Would not have Linux have much better opportunity in such times? After all, Linux is trying to fight a $300 operating system and could be winning with some more effort. With a $5000 operating system, and another $5000 for hardware, Linux would make sure Apple could not remain a monopoly.
Do you think if Apple was a monopoly, it would not innovate? With limited R&D funds, Apple is able to develop such cool technology. Give them twice the money, give them their lost 10 years and they would have had an operating system of circa 2010 NOW. Why? Because for all the market leadership Microsoft has, they do not have imagination. They know how to copy, not how to be creative.
I can go on, but I wonder. Why is the parent comment insightful?
What I want is someone to hack google maps to display full screen (1024 X 768) or nearly on 90% of the screen. The challenge is that even if you set the browser to full screen, the map height X width is fixed.
It should be a very simple hack. Let us know if someone has already done it.
Maybe GNU/Star Trek
Why is this particularly interesting?
... leading to similar class action suits against Walmart ... although the softies will be too soft to raise stink and lose their fat checks.
- If employees in Microsoft are allowed to carry a portable MP3 player, then does the management have a right to control which one they can?
- If after one year we find 80% of Microsoft employees carry non-iPod players, would that not be interesting. And would there not be undue pressure on employees
- If Microsoft was making MP3 players, even then should it matter what the employees buy? What if General Mills said you must eat only our cereals!!
It is interesting because it is an interesting take on reality (iPod share), management conflicts, employee preferences despite kool-aid. Sometimes just an honest peek into the realities behind a FUD campaign is interesting.
Remember his old NBC / CBS jokes....a variation on them....could work for other companies.
1. Dave, you are recording the program now, what do you watch when you go home.
Of course, Leno - who watches CBS?
2. Today Les Moonves (CBS Boss) had a busy day. There are so many series to review, so many decisions to make, such a tough life. So when he reached home, he relaxed watching an episode of Friends on NBC.
I am sure other jokes can be built. But you have to imagine Dave speaking for these to have some effect.
I personally recall working in Reebok and a colleague wearing Nikes, and the trouble he got from management.
Slightly off topic, but I hope "Funny" moderators.
Besides all the promotion etc., think of the CC processing fees they would be saving. The second biggest chunk in the $0.99 purchase price was CC processing fee. With this move, they eliminate 25-30c from their costs, give 20 to their customers and maybe get to keep a few cents themselves.
I know nothing is that simple, and it would cost them to build software for bulk purchase, keep track of codes etc., but I think this is a good move for long term.
I was thinking exactly the same yesterday, although in a different area.
I was on hold with INS for 28 minutes before the rep picked up, and then I said give me 15 seconds to get my wife on line (I had already set up with her to be nearby). She refused. We are not authorized to be put on hold. I said ok, wait for 10 sec and if I am not back, hang up. NO. Thank you very much. You should have thought of this. And this after waiting 4 freaking years for to get a file processed.
On the other hand, my DMV bill arrived promptly 70 days before the due date.
The surprise upset was corroborated by virtually every exit poll, although the extent of surprise was not predicted correctly. Before the elections started, the polls were giving 300+ (out of 545) to the ruling alliance. The exit polls indicated that that 300 was too high, and the ruling alliance will be hard pressed to meet 270. This actual numbers came just under 200. Although it indicates a big surprise, the polls seemed to indicate a shift away from the ruling alliance, only the extent of the shift was wrong.
Although rigging is possible, I do not think that was the case here.
Debra Baker tells people she has Unix. But she really doesn't. She has Linux.
make it so it's possible to buy from the iTMS through their player
Why? Apple does not make any money on the music store? It will remain the same if Real joined them as described above. Why would they add more traffic to the website when additional profits are zero? May work if Real offered to split their player/device profits with them.
That's what it is...
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly .html
Sorry I am probably too late for someone to see my comments. Anyway...
People are talking about HMOs and Insurance saving money and also talking about liability issues. Yet, that is one side but the solution there is easy. If the insurance companies can get comfortable with the model, they would use it because the overall costs (medical expenses + liability costs) will be lower. I do not think the jury will say Insurance did a wrong thing by sending someone to India because most of the other cases worked.
However, I feel that a significant pressure will come from un-insureds. My newborn was in ICU for just over a week and hospital billed about $50K. The insurance paid $12K. Even that is too high, but if I was uninsured the hospital would have insisted on $50K. Now this worked out because I am insured and the deductible is low. How about the uninsureds? As you know, there are lots and lots of them in this economy. If someone needs help which costs $10K and the hospital asks them for $50-$100K because they are not insured, what would they do? Well they are not going to think about where it is done, just that there is someone available to help them for the price they can pay.
I am not saying the un-insured are causing the change, but a significant part will be driven by them. If you think farther, isn't this how Linux started...keeping the rhetoric of open source aside for a minute.
I see all plans having narrow focus. Send the people to Mars, leave them there. OR. Do full return missions. OR. Build a colony and then have supplies only. OR so on and so on.
Real life will probably turn out to be a compromise. I do not think anyone will volunteer to go stay on Mars with only annual supply missions to help them out. And I do not think Mars colonies will develop until we start having multiple Mars trips every year.
I think the first point we have to prove is that the travel is viable. This might be expensive if we need to plan for the return trip, but I do not think any sane government is going to "sell" a one-way mission. Once we have proven the travel, we might send pieces of a return shuttle to Mars and demonstrate it works (no people to be launched, just that it can be assembled with robots and sent back to space...with maybe some help from a manned mission) - mainly that we will take the shuttle when needed, but we can assemble from pieces if needed. Once we demonstrate ability to configure / launch such flight from Mars, we can think of keeping one or two such shuttles available on Mars and talk about a colony of 4-6, so that the people have an exit plan. This does not mean these people die of old age at Mars. Once you have proven and established the travel basics, if you can have 1 Mars mission per year (initially) and Mars remains your focus, you should be able to scale up to 20 missions per year in a decade or two. People would be coming and going on a fairly regular basis, with some staying back for a longer period.
The other challenge is this discussion is about Mars being in a good position for launches only once in 2 years. We will need to get around that, maybe with a space station, maybe by willing to take a longer trajectory. And an Earth centric space station will not work, cause Mars might be directly opposite to us. The space station does not need to be a Star Trek type thingy, but just something which has supplies, maybe just a few boxes floating in space might do.
Ok, that is a non-rocket scientist's thought on how this could work. I think the progress will be slow. It is easier to say "go live on Mars", than to realize that we would pretty much freak out on Antartica, except for maybe a couple of hundred people. There would be times when mobility will be low. There would be times when it will be hot. Gravity would be an issue. Transport would be an issue. Cost will be exorbitant. But the colonies would emerge. And it will most likely not be the result of a gameplan developed now, but improvisations every step of the way.
Support WMA for Rio, Dell Jukebox, Nomad...(whatever)..., and then pull a Microsoft in the next release. So iTunes does not work with Dell Jukebox. Looks like a bug. We will fix it soon...like 2 months.
Oh no, only Microsoft can do that, in the name of providing choice...Sorry.
It is not that Novell suddenly decided to indemnify because of FUD. If you read the article, it says that Novell expects to complete its purchase of SUSE Linux today. If Novell did not own SUSE earlier, it could not have offered the indemnity.
"Novell executives are also expected to announce on Monday that the SuSE deal has been completed. That will mean that SuSE's Linux distributions join the Novell family of products and allow Novell to offer customers a complete Linux-solution stack and global technical Linux support."
However, I understand your concern for the FUD maybe becoming successful, and maybe one of the reasons for indemnity.
Not only does it give them bigger mindshare in the music (songs, hardware) market, it also sets up a partnership for future digital hub initiatives. My guess is HP and Apple might cross-license many technologies. Guess which machine will come preloaded with iPhoto or another "i" product the day their windows compatibility is announced.
AOL
Google
Yahoo
Amazon
Ebay
All these stories are in the past, as in they achieved success more than one year back
Last year's story is/was iTunes Music Store. The challenge this year will be whether it will die against WalMart / Microsoft or will be able to hold its own. In terms of concept, simplicity, bundling (using the market force of iPod) etc., I think it has a tremendous edge and chances are slightly better than even that it will outperform others.
I think the next bubble will again be content -- Video/Movies on Demand, either over cable or internet, and this might give rise to a new name outside the traditional studios. Apple again has a chance given their history of building cool products, but has not demonstrated anything yet. The other side of content -- weblogs -- will mature too, but I think that will probably be dominated by Google/Microsoft rather than a newcomer.
Ok, do not penalize me for listing AOL...I think it was a tremendously successful company a few years back, despite what slashdot might think about it.
And do you have a solution except for publishing articles on slashdot? I do not think a technical solution will work as effectively. It is more of a social issue. You can either ask religion to get in the picture (as you will see many religions evolved because of establishment's inability to do the right thing), or involve the government / society. Even if a technical solution is developed, it will more be because of pressures from the people rather than a generosity of heart. Call it sensational, but this problem will not move beyond starting line unless you have another Martin Luther King, or Linus Torvalds. Or unless spam causes one catastrophic event...then how different is that from terrorism? Or should my expectation from email be something more than asking me to get my penis enlarged, my breasts enlarged, eat/drink viagra and watch porn? Come On!!
Don't you think the war on spam should be fought as aggressively as the war on terror (ok, I know iraq did sidetrack us from that war, but still). After all,
1. just like terrorism, the spam mainly affects western countries...most of the uneducated masses do not have computers
2. the spammers do not care if our life becomes hell...they are interested in their 72 virgins...or money in this case
3. the harder we fight them, the more workarounds they find
4. any time you turn to news, you find terrorism. any time you turn to computer, you find spam. does not matter whether it is a child's email account or a grownup's.
5. it is a relatively low cost business. any tom, dick and harry can get up and start spamming. you never know when your next door neighbor is a spammer.
If only the government and industry made it a mission to kill spam. The only way it can be killed is with collective will to do so. Prosecute the spammers at par with felony or higher. Kick the industry to find workable solutions without introducing proprietary protocols.