Apple is not a ground braker in that they create markets where none existed. They are a ground breaker in that they launch a product that completely redefines an existing market.
The Macintosh was not the first personal computer, but it had a revolutionary new user interface.
The iPod was not the first mp3-player, but it had a revolutionary new user interface.
iTunes music store was not the first way to download music of the net, but it was the first legal way to download legal music from a large number of labels.
OS X was not the first unix-like operating system, but it was a revolutionary mix of unix stability with Apple ease of use.
I'd argue that looking at a market and finding why the existing products suck and create something that doesn't is much more ground braking than beeing the first to launch a sucky version of an obvious idea. It takes huge amounts of skill to repeatedly make such high quality designs as Apple.
I think that the fact that both console games and the consoles themselves are often released in europe several months after the US release is one of the big reasons why computer gaming has a bigger market share in europe. As long as europe is treated as a second class citizen by console makers, their marketshare will be smaller.
By the way, when is the 360 coming to the rest of the world?
Adding this functionality to your code means creating the database, designing an interface to recieve exceptions, an administrative interface to view reported exceptions, setting up a clientside exception handler and a piece of code for marshalling the expception to the server.
Either that or just register with the site, download a small package and add four lines of code to your program.
So this saves you a few hous work, but costs you confidentiality, full control over the exception database and injects non-free code into your software.
Since the headphones actually reduce the amount of sound, the are not damaging your hearing.
On the other hand, since noise cancelling only works on low to mid frequency noise, and hearing loss is caused by high frequency sound, they aren't helping either.
On the third hand, if you are using noise cancelling to allow you to listen to music at a lower volume in a noisy environment, then they might actually help out a bit.
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of making sure that the UI for their #1 application never ever matches that of the OS. I can't understand how anybody can think this is a good idea. But seeing how Apple do the same thing, I guess somebody thinks it is a good idea. Though I don't hear anybody scream at Apple for plagiarising Microsofts ideas.
Gmail and G-mail are too similar to be separate trademarks. Fortunatly for Google, a trademark is only valid in a specific domain, and Google have never tried to trademark the term Gmail for a stupid mail-based service that no-one would want, so they should be safe.
The phone was developed by Motorola. This is not an Apple product, meaning that if every Rokr sold means one less iPod, Apple doesn't want the Rokr to take off. But I still think the article is stupid and wrong. Rokr doesn't suck because of a clever marketing tactic from Apple, Rokr sucks because it is a convergence device, and every convergence device ever made has sucked.
I mostly listen to EBM and industrial music, and I've found that FreeDB has very good coverage. As to the inadequate information, that could be improved yes. But it is the same format that CDDB used to use, so at least it's not a question of the new, free service beeing worse.
TV Tome didn't always have thousands of programs, hopefully tviv will start catching up quickly. This is a bit like what happened with CDDB and FreeDB. Sure CDDB was a much better source for a while, but FreeDB quickly caught on and is new a perfectly viable source of CD information.
And since both sites are free, your comment about getting what you pay for makes no sense whatsoever.
Once again, the main Slashdot page does not contain a single article by someone other than Zonk. Also notice how his articles are spaced at roughly two hour intervals for the last 15 hours? Me thinks he added a queue of articles to post for the entire day and then want home.
In theory, I think this should be a good thing. If Windows would feature a NFS client, a good Posix personality including a complete Posix commandline toolset, and a bunch of interoperability tools for printing, user authentication, etc out of the box, it would be great.
But what this probably means is that they are dropping SFU and integrating a few incomplete crumbs from it into the server versions of Windows.
I think that as long as the DMCA is used to kill things that the general public doesn't care about, like bnetd, nothing will happen. But if the DMCA ever threatens something that the average american cares about, it will quickly be removed. My guess is that this will happen when HDTV-based recorders that ignore any broadcast flags start shipping.
I think it is surprising how little people care about open formats. For me it is very important to know that I'll be able to open and edit my own documents twenty years from now, and to convert them to whatever format is all the rage then.
What are you talking about. When has Slashdot _ever_ corrected and edited submittors content? That's right, never. Slashdot isn't getting worse, it has always been this way but people are complaining more and more. And yes, Slashdot has also always had it's share of meaningless blog-style junk, like news posts about Taco's marriage, april first spoofs and Jon Katz. Take it or leave it, but I wish you'd stop complaining.
When they say 'accelerate devices in the field' do they meant that those cute little Ir ports on my laptop, with a transfer rate of something like 9600 baud and a range of about half an inch will suddenly become a high speed wireless connection? Doesn't sound very likely...
Get of your high horse. As editors, they pick out content from submissions. That is editing. You seem to want them to proofread peoples submissions, which is what a proof reader does.
Slashdot is not CNN, it is a nerd-blog. If you want a blog-style news site with excellent editing, proof reading, original articles and corporate sponsors that dictate the contents of the massive political propaganda package, I suggest you read something like TCS. I'm sure it will feel much more like the old media you are used to.
They've run campains about Microsoft TCO beeing lower than Linux TCO in the past. You probably missed it because you're using an addblocker.;-)
Personally, I don't think people on Slashdot will look at a Microsft ad in this site and think to themselves 'Well there you go, I was wrong all along. Windows is better'.
That is exactly what it is. It just happens to be a blog that is older than the blogging phenomenon. The Slashdot editors have, as far as I know, _never_ claimed that slashdot is anything than a hobbyist news feed that happened to grow pretty big.
Slashdot is not a news agency with that claims to giva a fair and balanced view of the world, it is a blog consisting of links to articles that the editors think are cool. I can't blame the Slashdot editors for not wanting to link to an article where one of the largest figures of the open source movement strongly critizises them.
The most amusing thing is that while the Slashdot summary is speculative, the headline is 100% correct.
Isn't the norm that the headline should be a catchy, speculative blurb, and that most of the actual article is a retraction of the claims from the headline?
Well, this contract is with Freescale, i.e. Motorola, who make the G4. The G4 is a pretty energy efficient processor, unlike IBMs G5. So the question here is how on earth are the going to make anybody buy a computer, portable or otherwise, powerd by a G4 in 2008?
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I'd argue that looking at a market and finding why the existing products suck and create something that doesn't is much more ground braking than beeing the first to launch a sucky version of an obvious idea. It takes huge amounts of skill to repeatedly make such high quality designs as Apple.
So what is C# is Windows only? 90% of all Slashdot readers are Windows users.
I think that the fact that both console games and the consoles themselves are often released in europe several months after the US release is one of the big reasons why computer gaming has a bigger market share in europe. As long as europe is treated as a second class citizen by console makers, their marketshare will be smaller.
By the way, when is the 360 coming to the rest of the world?
Adding this functionality to your code means creating the database, designing an interface to recieve exceptions, an administrative interface to view reported exceptions, setting up a clientside exception handler and a piece of code for marshalling the expception to the server.
Either that or just register with the site, download a small package and add four lines of code to your program.
So this saves you a few hous work, but costs you confidentiality, full control over the exception database and injects non-free code into your software.
Overall, a pretty louse tradeof.
Since the headphones actually reduce the amount of sound, the are not damaging your hearing.
On the other hand, since noise cancelling only works on low to mid frequency noise, and hearing loss is caused by high frequency sound, they aren't helping either.
On the third hand, if you are using noise cancelling to allow you to listen to music at a lower volume in a noisy environment, then they might actually help out a bit.
of making sure that the UI for their #1 application never ever matches that of the OS. I can't understand how anybody can think this is a good idea. But seeing how Apple do the same thing, I guess somebody thinks it is a good idea. Though I don't hear anybody scream at Apple for plagiarising Microsofts ideas.
Gmail and G-mail are too similar to be separate trademarks. Fortunatly for Google, a trademark is only valid in a specific domain, and Google have never tried to trademark the term Gmail for a stupid mail-based service that no-one would want, so they should be safe.
I just checked, and my GMail account still says "Gmail by Google BETA".
The phone was developed by Motorola. This is not an Apple product, meaning that if every Rokr sold means one less iPod, Apple doesn't want the Rokr to take off. But I still think the article is stupid and wrong. Rokr doesn't suck because of a clever marketing tactic from Apple, Rokr sucks because it is a convergence device, and every convergence device ever made has sucked.
I mostly listen to EBM and industrial music, and I've found that FreeDB has very good coverage. As to the inadequate information, that could be improved yes. But it is the same format that CDDB used to use, so at least it's not a question of the new, free service beeing worse.
TV Tome didn't always have thousands of programs, hopefully tviv will start catching up quickly. This is a bit like what happened with CDDB and FreeDB. Sure CDDB was a much better source for a while, but FreeDB quickly caught on and is new a perfectly viable source of CD information.
And since both sites are free, your comment about getting what you pay for makes no sense whatsoever.
Once again, the main Slashdot page does not contain a single article by someone other than Zonk. Also notice how his articles are spaced at roughly two hour intervals for the last 15 hours? Me thinks he added a queue of articles to post for the entire day and then want home.
The picture of Ballmer in the article makes him look like a serial killer. He's just creepy.
In theory, I think this should be a good thing. If Windows would feature a NFS client, a good Posix personality including a complete Posix commandline toolset, and a bunch of interoperability tools for printing, user authentication, etc out of the box, it would be great.
But what this probably means is that they are dropping SFU and integrating a few incomplete crumbs from it into the server versions of Windows.
I think that as long as the DMCA is used to kill things that the general public doesn't care about, like bnetd, nothing will happen. But if the DMCA ever threatens something that the average american cares about, it will quickly be removed. My guess is that this will happen when HDTV-based recorders that ignore any broadcast flags start shipping.
I think it is surprising how little people care about open formats. For me it is very important to know that I'll be able to open and edit my own documents twenty years from now, and to convert them to whatever format is all the rage then.
What are you talking about. When has Slashdot _ever_ corrected and edited submittors content? That's right, never. Slashdot isn't getting worse, it has always been this way but people are complaining more and more. And yes, Slashdot has also always had it's share of meaningless blog-style junk, like news posts about Taco's marriage, april first spoofs and Jon Katz. Take it or leave it, but I wish you'd stop complaining.
When they say 'accelerate devices in the field' do they meant that those cute little Ir ports on my laptop, with a transfer rate of something like 9600 baud and a range of about half an inch will suddenly become a high speed wireless connection? Doesn't sound very likely...
Get of your high horse. As editors, they pick out content from submissions. That is editing. You seem to want them to proofread peoples submissions, which is what a proof reader does.
Slashdot is not CNN, it is a nerd-blog. If you want a blog-style news site with excellent editing, proof reading, original articles and corporate sponsors that dictate the contents of the massive political propaganda package, I suggest you read something like TCS. I'm sure it will feel much more like the old media you are used to.
They've run campains about Microsoft TCO beeing lower than Linux TCO in the past. You probably missed it because you're using an addblocker. ;-)
Personally, I don't think people on Slashdot will look at a Microsft ad in this site and think to themselves 'Well there you go, I was wrong all along. Windows is better'.
That is exactly what it is. It just happens to be a blog that is older than the blogging phenomenon. The Slashdot editors have, as far as I know, _never_ claimed that slashdot is anything than a hobbyist news feed that happened to grow pretty big.
Slashdot is not a news agency with that claims to giva a fair and balanced view of the world, it is a blog consisting of links to articles that the editors think are cool. I can't blame the Slashdot editors for not wanting to link to an article where one of the largest figures of the open source movement strongly critizises them.
Cool, I'll have to try this when I get home.
The most amusing thing is that while the Slashdot summary is speculative, the headline is 100% correct.
Isn't the norm that the headline should be a catchy, speculative blurb, and that most of the actual article is a retraction of the claims from the headline?
Well, this contract is with Freescale, i.e. Motorola, who make the G4. The G4 is a pretty energy efficient processor, unlike IBMs G5. So the question here is how on earth are the going to make anybody buy a computer, portable or otherwise, powerd by a G4 in 2008?