Either that or it's a great orchestration by MS to appear like a non-monopoly as someone else mentioned here recently that their antitrust review is coming up.
This is very interesting since didn't Michael Dell buy a chunk of Red Hat recently? With MS getting deeper into the hardware business (Xbox and their MS-modified Cell chips), perhaps Dell and Intel are pushing back by partnering with Apple.
By Charles Jo Senior Appleologist, CharlesJo.com Rev. June 12, 2005 05:54PM PST
Forget Tom Cruz and his new and barely legal girlfriend. Or Brad Pitt and Lara Croft. The hottest couple of this summer is Apple and Intel. After years of bad-mouthing the Santa Clara-based Nelson of the chip sector, Jobs announced last week that Apple and Intel had been secretly dating for 5 years and now are comfortable enough about their relationship to announce to the world their commitment to each other. When asked about the future of the Cupertino-based computer company, Jobs said,"People want better user experience. So, with the hardware giant working on the [air quotes] exciting stuff, I would like to focus Apple's resources to the really really important stuff."
"The logo is our first priority. People love our Apple logo but I've got some neat ideas to take this to a new level that'll really make people go, 'Wow! Now that is a symbol that rappers would be proud to wear.' Watch out Mercedes. And come on, do you really want to be seen wearing a Dell logo? It's like you're advertising to the entire world that you eat at McDonalds and shop at Walmart." He then took a sip of bottled water, adjusted his Freudian spectacles, and continued,"Next on our list is the screensaver. Apple is at the top of the screensaver technology with the fades and zooms so why improve, you ask?" Before I could respond, he answered his own question with another question,"Why not? It's only a matter of time before the Windows folks and Linux folks copy me but by then, I'll have the next screensaver technology ready and BAM! I am on top again. Seriously, this is really important stuff to people. When you walk away from your workstation and your screensaver starts, you want your cubicle neighbors to turn green with envy and our R&D shows that Apple screensavers are excellent ways to increase social ranking in any corporation. Lastly, our commercials are going to so rock you. We are neck to neck with Sony and Budweiser right now and our future commercials will alter the way you view the universe." Jobs then leaned back and pushed a button on a remote control whereupon a giant white screen descended from the ceiling and in parallel, a podium rose from the floor. He insisted that this one-on-one interview continue with him standing at the podium.
Good questions. MS can copy Linux or any FOSS because the beauty of FOSS is that the source code is open for everyone,including MS, to study. They just need to study it and build a workalike. If there anyone in the world who is good at making near-workalikes, it's MS.
Cluster usage: Slashdot crowd for starters. I'm sure that many more of us would have clusters in home offices if it meant going to Fry's to buy a 6 pack of Xboxes and download a simple program that would cluster these.
Free ads for Linux: that goes without saying. Someone will install Linux on anything -- it's just a matter of time.
I believe that Gates will be happy if hackers repurposed Xbox360s for clustering for the following reasons:
1. Increase in unit sales for whatever reason will appear like Xbox360 is doing much better than otherwise.
2. MS can observe what all the interesting stuff that the FOSS community does with Xbox360 and then copy and replace the FOSS code with MS code, package it with expensive colorful labels and sell it.
3. As a previous poster noted, it's free advertisement for MS.
CharlesJo360
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Leaks at Apple Published: April 16, 2005 By Charles Jo Staff Writer, CharlesJo.com
There has been a lot of discussion on tech sites about Apple going after Mac rumor sites which posted supposedly leaked information. I believe all corporations -- big and small -- should be concerned about any leak of proprietary informations, especially if they have the potential threat of hurting revenue and profit. That said, without having any inside contacts at Apple, let me look into my crystal ball and divine future announcements from Apple for those of you who have not figured it out yet:
1. Apple will introduce boxes and laptops that will have faster CPUs, faster busses, and fatter hard disk drives. 2. Apple will introduce software updates and/or new software. 3. Apple may introduce neat, pricey monitors, keyboards and other peripherals. 4. If Steve Jobs is making the announcement, he will be sporting a dark turtleneck with blue jeans, drinking 1+ bottles of water, Keynote, appear to be in his 40s or 50s but still sound like an 18 year old.
News that would be interesting is if Apple reversed the trend and suddenly decided to make slower computers with smaller disk drives across the board and charged more for such products. Retro.
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Reminds me of the Simpson's episode where Mr. Burns loses everything and then Lisa helps him regain his confidence with recycling cans but he rises to the top of the capitalism game by recycling animals.
Slashdot Mirror
Offtopic? Come on...
I checked out their website and they have something about viagra for women. So what is thing called Wired?
CharlesJo.com
X Files + The O.C. = The 4400
Imagine...
Either that or it's a great orchestration by MS to appear like a non-monopoly as someone else mentioned here recently that their antitrust review is coming up.
This is very interesting since didn't Michael Dell buy a chunk of Red Hat recently? With MS getting deeper into the hardware business (Xbox and their MS-modified Cell chips), perhaps Dell and Intel are pushing back by partnering with Apple.
Right...
Apple and Intel Sitting on a Tree...
By Charles Jo
Senior Appleologist, CharlesJo.com
Rev. June 12, 2005 05:54PM PST
Forget Tom Cruz and his new and barely legal girlfriend. Or Brad Pitt and Lara Croft. The hottest couple of this summer is Apple and Intel. After years of bad-mouthing the Santa Clara-based Nelson of the chip sector, Jobs announced last week that Apple and Intel had been secretly dating for 5 years and now are comfortable enough about their relationship to announce to the world their commitment to each other. When asked about the future of the Cupertino-based computer company, Jobs said,"People want better user experience. So, with the hardware giant working on the [air quotes] exciting stuff, I would like to focus Apple's resources to the really really important stuff."
"The logo is our first priority. People love our Apple logo but I've got some neat ideas to take this to a new level that'll really make people go, 'Wow! Now that is a symbol that rappers would be proud to wear.' Watch out Mercedes. And come on, do you really want to be seen wearing a Dell logo? It's like you're advertising to the entire world that you eat at McDonalds and shop at Walmart." He then took a sip of bottled water, adjusted his Freudian spectacles, and continued,"Next on our list is the screensaver. Apple is at the top of the screensaver technology with the fades and zooms so why improve, you ask?" Before I could respond, he answered his own question with another question,"Why not? It's only a matter of time before the Windows folks and Linux folks copy me but by then, I'll have the next screensaver technology ready and BAM! I am on top again. Seriously, this is really important stuff to people. When you walk away from your workstation and your screensaver starts, you want your cubicle neighbors to turn green with envy and our R&D shows that Apple screensavers are excellent ways to increase social ranking in any corporation. Lastly, our commercials are going to so rock you. We are neck to neck with Sony and Budweiser right now and our future commercials will alter the way you view the universe." Jobs then leaned back and pushed a button on a remote control whereupon a giant white screen descended from the ceiling and in parallel, a podium rose from the floor. He insisted that this one-on-one interview continue with him standing at the podium.
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Related links:
http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jun/06intel.h tml
http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050609.html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050609. html
http://news.com.com/The+brains+behind+Apples+Roset ta+Transitive/2100-1016_3-5736190.html?tag=nefd.le de
http://www.slashnot.com/article.php3?story_id=532
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/12/ 1450217&tid=118&tid=3
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/06/ 1752234&tid=118&tid=179&tid=3
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/12/ 130234&tid=179&tid=1
As seen on News.com TalkBack and on Usenet:
/ 0238235&tid=118&tid=3&tid=137 / hardware/products/apple/macintosh/misc/project-sta r-trek.html
Pretty kewel! And complementary:
Intel Inside/Apple Outside
Blue Men Dancing/Other Bright Silhouettes Dancing
Wonder what the pundits will call this duo? Aptel? Inpple? Intelapple? AI? OSx86?
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Related links:
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/04
http://www.geektimes.com/michael/techno/computing
Unrelated link:
http://www.shawnevans.com/
Blatant plug:
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Anyone who has a gizmometer gets my vote.
I believe Xbox was a pre-emtive strike against such low end boxes:
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The alumni association should get together and create their own company.
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Jobs & So Much More
Good questions. MS can copy Linux or any FOSS because the beauty of FOSS is that the source code is open for everyone,including MS, to study. They just need to study it and build a workalike. If there anyone in the world who is good at making near-workalikes, it's MS.
Cluster usage: Slashdot crowd for starters. I'm sure that many more of us would have clusters in home offices if it meant going to Fry's to buy a 6 pack of Xboxes and download a simple program that would cluster these.
Free ads for Linux: that goes without saying. Someone will install Linux on anything -- it's just a matter of time.
CharlesJo.com
Slashdotter
Exactly. My interview with Jesse Hiller, a member of the world famous band, The Shawn Evans Band, discussed this:
http://www.charlesjo.com/index?name=60secondsAlt
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New Writers for The New New Media
Embarrassing? I think MS has evolved very thick skin on that front by now :) And I actually like some MS stuff.
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I believe that Gates will be happy if hackers repurposed Xbox360s for clustering for the following reasons: 1. Increase in unit sales for whatever reason will appear like Xbox360 is doing much better than otherwise. 2. MS can observe what all the interesting stuff that the FOSS community does with Xbox360 and then copy and replace the FOSS code with MS code, package it with expensive colorful labels and sell it. 3. As a previous poster noted, it's free advertisement for MS. CharlesJo360 http://www.charlesjo.com/newsletterissue?newslette rIssueEntityId=304
Good one. Heheheh.
Leaks at Apple
u e?newslette rIssueEntityId=250
Published: April 16, 2005
By Charles Jo
Staff Writer, CharlesJo.com
There has been a lot of discussion on tech sites about Apple going
after Mac rumor sites which posted supposedly leaked information. I
believe all corporations -- big and small -- should be concerned about
any leak of proprietary informations, especially if they have the
potential threat of hurting revenue and profit. That said, without
having any inside contacts at Apple, let me look into my crystal ball
and divine future announcements from Apple for those of you who have
not figured it out yet:
1. Apple will introduce boxes and laptops that will have faster CPUs,
faster busses, and fatter hard disk drives.
2. Apple will introduce software updates and/or new software.
3. Apple may introduce neat, pricey monitors, keyboards and other
peripherals.
4. If Steve Jobs is making the announcement, he will be sporting a
dark turtleneck with blue jeans, drinking 1+ bottles of water, Keynote,
appear to be in his 40s or 50s but still sound like an 18 year old.
News that would be interesting is if Apple reversed the trend and
suddenly decided to make slower computers with smaller disk drives
across the board and charged more for such products. Retro.
Source:
http://www.charlesjo.com/newsletteriss
www.charlesjo.com | We are captives of our own imaginations so let's
dream big.
Send comments to: charles@charlesjo.com
charles AT charlesjo DOT com
When I get a chance to do so, I encourage software engineers in my candidate pool to participate in an open source project since it will be good for their resumes as well as the potential of being hired because of corporate demand for such skills. Charles Jo www.charlesjo.com
Reminds me of the Simpson's episode where Mr. Burns loses everything and then Lisa helps him regain his confidence with recycling cans but he rises to the top of the capitalism game by recycling animals.
Charles
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