Uhh... wasn't this done before... not a successful time in Apple's past if I remember correctly.
I'd say that the Apple PC is just to prove that apple can build an OS on intel that's as good as it was on PPC... gotta keep the loyal customers!
Once their current market is on board, I think they will consider selling OSX alone and competing directly with MS.
The world is ready to abandon Windows... I see it more and more everyday (entire countries governments going open source, firefox gaining a suprisingly huge marketshare, and the fact that businesses are using more and more server side or web based apps that don't care about the client OS), this is nearly the time for the next great OS to make it's move and I think Apple knows it!
I'd wager that apple double's it's marketshare in 3 years... and WHEN the OSX x86 version is hacked... their mindshare will quadruple in an equal amount of time. I don't know a techie who wouldn't at least have it on a partition.
Ok... entry level econ will teach something as simple as supply and demand.
Once Apple creates OS X for PC (exists already from what I understand) all they then need to do is market and sell it. It costs them little more than they have already spent to create it for their Intel solution. However they now have a huge market who is demanding an alternative to MS.
So suppose they offer the software for commodity software for those of us who are interested and still market their hardware... who would then buy an apple PC? why those who want the best looking and best supported PC on the market... IE business and govt... the biggest buyers.
Sure I'm speculating a bit... but trust me, selling the OS to those of us who want to run it on our now Winblows PC's will do nothing to hurt them and will likely open a new market for their hardware.
"hey might get a few more people buying Macs if they can dual boot them, but will suffer a financial hit when someone gets it running on commodity hardware"
I beg to differ! Lets compare Apples to Oranges.. well Apples to Wintels... what truly sets the Mac apart?
Hardware? Nah... who cares if they use PPC or Intel or the new dung powered pc... as long as it's fast!
Cost? Well yeah, but essentially people don't buy macs because they cost more!
Operating System? Hey I think thats it! People still buy Macs because they like the OS, the look the feel, and the way it just works!
So, if they are smart they should sell a supported hardware platform... while selling the OS unsupported for non Apple hardware. I would be willing to bet that they would double their earnings in just a matter of months.
Why? The world is ready for an alternative to MS is why... it's not the cost that makes us want change... it's the belief that someone (anyone) could do a better job.
Imagine this... a Government standardizes on Macs... well they want a stable system so would they by commodity hardware and install the OS themselves... or would they by a Mac PC and get the support and development that comes with buying from Mac... stupid question!
They will make money if they sell the OS for commodity HW... I know because I will buy a copy myself!
Assuming that the developers of the closed binaries were not interested in supporting multiple architectures. My vision is that they would a private volunteer org that supports the SAMBA project... the developers would be slected from those developing samba now, and would be restricted to contributing to the closed source portion to prevent the OSS tools from being comprimised by their knowlege of the MS protocols.
MS is complying by "enabling two paths by which the WSPP protocols can be used by companies whose business model includes software distributed in open source form"
I'm sure that these paths don't include Linux binaries or release of the source code... but it doesn't appear that they are completely against open source implementations, just against releasing their source.
Why the hell not just give us some extremely detailed specifications to ensure compatibility... Linux developers managed to write a TCP/IP stack that follows standards better than MS's... lets see Linux Dev's create a windows compatible server that follows their own specs better than they do!
So now a non-oss company of SAMBA team members makes one closed source binary that contains only the necessary functions and sells the rights to distribute the binary for $1 to SAMBA. All of the tools that utilize that binary are still open, and any functionality that REQUIRES knowledge of the MS code, must be implemented in that binary.
MS is happy, the Linux world is happy, I'm happy. Not as thrilled as if they would allow OSS to use this info, but still happy!
I have to say that most of your post is... well... wrong.
I have worked with and studied under many old-school engineers, and those who were the "expert" who everyone went to when a problem needed solving were the same guys who could approximate complicated calculus problems in their head... hell most of them could look at the results of some huge formula and just know where you wen't wrong to get the result you did.
I felt just as you do about calculus, and I agree that most of the work is done using technology or some other shortcut tool (tables ect)... but until you get into upper level Calc and Differential Equations, you can never appreciate the power of understanding complex math. What once was only estimated by brute force, can now be calculated repeatedly and accurately with a single formula entered into a TI-89/92 but you need to understand calc to even begin to enter some of the formulas I have come up with for some of the projects I worked on.
and the goal of an education is to teach students how to use the resources available to them as much as anything. The big difference between college and primary/secondary school is that college focuses less on the memorization and more on the knowing how to find the answers. I am absolutely terrible at memorizing things, especially obscure facts, but I'm excellent with concepts and research. And in my experience, these are far more valuable skills. Sure a person should understand what a fractional number represents, and if they understand the concept, converting from decimal to fraction or fraction to decimal is simple, using a calculator or not. I would argue that they should have a series of questions about the concept of converting in addition to actual applications. And that goes for all topics! Who cares what date the A-Bombs were dropped, does the student know the ramifications and importance of such an event, that's whats important!
it's a boy. There are no genetic abnormalities that we can detect... so we can safely say that your son will probably fail to graduate high school and end up working some dead end job and spawning many healthy stupid grandkids for you, or he may become the next president of the US!.... talk about a grim outlook!
I can't wait till my neighbor's lawn mower and mine (both Friendly Robotics) can mate, the people across the street can never seem to keep their lawn mowed and are too cheap to buy one like ours... Hell I'll pimp mine out if it increases property values in my neighborhood.
What's wrong with word of mouth advertising... especially when the products you believe in have no other method to promote their use.
I think the only reason anyone promotes their open-source favorites is because a feeling of obligation and respect for the software's developers. Unless people like me push awareness and acceptance of the software it won't continue to exist... unlike big name products that can simply force the product down our throats or at least make sure we see it everywhere we turn around.
I don't think anyone is stupid for chosing not to use open source software... but I make it my responsibility to ensure that they are CHOOSING not to use it rather that being simply ignorant of the wonderful open source alternatives and their advantages.
Considering that most (if not all) laptop displays don't use the VGA standard, you will probably never find one that can be used to display another host's VGA output.
What I would do is shop for the smallest KVM-IP solution, preferably one that draws it's power from the usb or ps2 connection and use it and a crossover cable to your laptop.
Not gonna be cheap, but should be portable and functional... in addition, you get the added flexability of using the equipment's local network to allow you to work in a cushy cubicle somewhere rather than standing right next to the rack!
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Uhh... wasn't this done before... not a successful time in Apple's past if I remember correctly.
I'd say that the Apple PC is just to prove that apple can build an OS on intel that's as good as it was on PPC... gotta keep the loyal customers!
Once their current market is on board, I think they will consider selling OSX alone and competing directly with MS.
The world is ready to abandon Windows... I see it more and more everyday (entire countries governments going open source, firefox gaining a suprisingly huge marketshare, and the fact that businesses are using more and more server side or web based apps that don't care about the client OS), this is nearly the time for the next great OS to make it's move and I think Apple knows it!
I'd wager that apple double's it's marketshare in 3 years... and WHEN the OSX x86 version is hacked... their mindshare will quadruple in an equal amount of time. I don't know a techie who wouldn't at least have it on a partition.
Ok... entry level econ will teach something as simple as supply and demand.
Once Apple creates OS X for PC (exists already from what I understand) all they then need to do is market and sell it. It costs them little more than they have already spent to create it for their Intel solution. However they now have a huge market who is demanding an alternative to MS.
So suppose they offer the software for commodity software for those of us who are interested and still market their hardware... who would then buy an apple PC? why those who want the best looking and best supported PC on the market... IE business and govt... the biggest buyers.
Sure I'm speculating a bit... but trust me, selling the OS to those of us who want to run it on our now Winblows PC's will do nothing to hurt them and will likely open a new market for their hardware.
"hey might get a few more people buying Macs if they can dual boot them, but will suffer a financial hit when someone gets it running on commodity hardware" I beg to differ! Lets compare Apples to Oranges.. well Apples to Wintels... what truly sets the Mac apart? Hardware? Nah... who cares if they use PPC or Intel or the new dung powered pc... as long as it's fast! Cost? Well yeah, but essentially people don't buy macs because they cost more! Operating System? Hey I think thats it! People still buy Macs because they like the OS, the look the feel, and the way it just works! So, if they are smart they should sell a supported hardware platform... while selling the OS unsupported for non Apple hardware. I would be willing to bet that they would double their earnings in just a matter of months. Why? The world is ready for an alternative to MS is why... it's not the cost that makes us want change... it's the belief that someone (anyone) could do a better job. Imagine this... a Government standardizes on Macs... well they want a stable system so would they by commodity hardware and install the OS themselves... or would they by a Mac PC and get the support and development that comes with buying from Mac... stupid question! They will make money if they sell the OS for commodity HW... I know because I will buy a copy myself!
An RSS feed of Slashdot appearing in my RSS feed of Slashdot... hmm I'm confuzed!
Assuming that the developers of the closed binaries were not interested in supporting multiple architectures. My vision is that they would a private volunteer org that supports the SAMBA project... the developers would be slected from those developing samba now, and would be restricted to contributing to the closed source portion to prevent the OSS tools from being comprimised by their knowlege of the MS protocols.
in the orginal post:0 5/06-06EUFactSheet.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/jun
MS is complying by "enabling two paths by which the WSPP protocols can be used by companies whose business model includes software distributed in open source form"
I'm sure that these paths don't include Linux binaries or release of the source code... but it doesn't appear that they are completely against open source implementations, just against releasing their source.
Why the hell not just give us some extremely detailed specifications to ensure compatibility... Linux developers managed to write a TCP/IP stack that follows standards better than MS's... lets see Linux Dev's create a windows compatible server that follows their own specs better than they do!
So now a non-oss company of SAMBA team members makes one closed source binary that contains only the necessary functions and sells the rights to distribute the binary for $1 to SAMBA. All of the tools that utilize that binary are still open, and any functionality that REQUIRES knowledge of the MS code, must be implemented in that binary. MS is happy, the Linux world is happy, I'm happy. Not as thrilled as if they would allow OSS to use this info, but still happy!
I have to say that most of your post is... well... wrong. I have worked with and studied under many old-school engineers, and those who were the "expert" who everyone went to when a problem needed solving were the same guys who could approximate complicated calculus problems in their head... hell most of them could look at the results of some huge formula and just know where you wen't wrong to get the result you did. I felt just as you do about calculus, and I agree that most of the work is done using technology or some other shortcut tool (tables ect)... but until you get into upper level Calc and Differential Equations, you can never appreciate the power of understanding complex math. What once was only estimated by brute force, can now be calculated repeatedly and accurately with a single formula entered into a TI-89/92 but you need to understand calc to even begin to enter some of the formulas I have come up with for some of the projects I worked on.
and the goal of an education is to teach students how to use the resources available to them as much as anything. The big difference between college and primary/secondary school is that college focuses less on the memorization and more on the knowing how to find the answers. I am absolutely terrible at memorizing things, especially obscure facts, but I'm excellent with concepts and research. And in my experience, these are far more valuable skills. Sure a person should understand what a fractional number represents, and if they understand the concept, converting from decimal to fraction or fraction to decimal is simple, using a calculator or not. I would argue that they should have a series of questions about the concept of converting in addition to actual applications. And that goes for all topics! Who cares what date the A-Bombs were dropped, does the student know the ramifications and importance of such an event, that's whats important!
it's a boy. There are no genetic abnormalities that we can detect... so we can safely say that your son will probably fail to graduate high school and end up working some dead end job and spawning many healthy stupid grandkids for you, or he may become the next president of the US!.... talk about a grim outlook!
Sheep mate too... and I bet they could keep my lawn trimmed... and in my neighborhood, I could pimp them out as well!
I can't wait till my neighbor's lawn mower and mine (both Friendly Robotics) can mate, the people across the street can never seem to keep their lawn mowed and are too cheap to buy one like ours... Hell I'll pimp mine out if it increases property values in my neighborhood.
What's wrong with word of mouth advertising... especially when the products you believe in have no other method to promote their use. I think the only reason anyone promotes their open-source favorites is because a feeling of obligation and respect for the software's developers. Unless people like me push awareness and acceptance of the software it won't continue to exist... unlike big name products that can simply force the product down our throats or at least make sure we see it everywhere we turn around. I don't think anyone is stupid for chosing not to use open source software... but I make it my responsibility to ensure that they are CHOOSING not to use it rather that being simply ignorant of the wonderful open source alternatives and their advantages.
A decent example: http://www.42u.com/phantom-specter.htm
Considering that most (if not all) laptop displays don't use the VGA standard, you will probably never find one that can be used to display another host's VGA output. What I would do is shop for the smallest KVM-IP solution, preferably one that draws it's power from the usb or ps2 connection and use it and a crossover cable to your laptop. Not gonna be cheap, but should be portable and functional... in addition, you get the added flexability of using the equipment's local network to allow you to work in a cushy cubicle somewhere rather than standing right next to the rack!