Remember that Microsoft started out working well with other software as well. Excel could load and save in 123 format, Word with WordPerfect and Wordstar, etc. What happened was that as the industry changed and other forms or types of data exchange became possible, Microsoft did it's best to PREVENT new entrants to the market - the easiest examples being Netscape and RealAudio.
I think the fear with Google as a monopoly (an evil one) is - they're open and offer lots of data exchange options NOW but what happens when things advance - 5 years from now when their CEO and board has turned over and their culture changes - will they still be as open? Are they going to impose limits on how we can get our data back.
Granted Microsoft, as someone said, may have had the worst of intentions from the beginning, but things change over time - you never know what the company will be like in 5 years. That's why people get wary now. Look at how easy it is to put your data in their hands - just as easy as it was with Microsoft back in the day.
Not saying they're a monopoly (an evil one) now. But they could become one if we're not careful.
The term "wireless" is usually related to 802.11, wifi, or "wireless networking", not the ability to make cell phone calls.
Tell that to AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless.
I've seen wireless networking referred to only as "wireless" when referring to computers. But in general when comparing, say, to mobile applications, i've only seen it described as WiFi. Saying the BART got WiFi or the BART got wireless means two different things to me.
No way - this is a media issue. As long as content producers make content available in other formats - consumers still have a choice. And the difference between VHS/Beta or CD/MD is that it costs almost nothing to produce multiple formats.
This could also come back to bite Apple if the movie studios are able to implement their variable pricing plans with non iTMS distributors - what's to stop them from pulling out of iTMS? It's not like they don't have their traditional distribution channels.
what about something a bit bigger - like the much speculated on mini-tablet? That's the next killer app I'm waiting on. Something that runs a full OS but is not as big as a laptop. But still a bit bigger than a PDA.
You know - something Newton-sized.
Problem with the culture here versus Europe and Japan is that public transpo is much more a part of people's travel so filling that downtime is more important there. You can't really be that interactive with a handheld while driving, and watching TV on your phone at lunch? Not so much.
I'd be interested to see how folks in the North East manage, but when I was up there I didn't see much in the way of handheld activity.
I've successfully run Knoppix 3.9 Live CDs on my corporate issued Thinkpad T40 and loved it. I was able to do everything I needed to do except write to the ntfs partition. I can play streaming audio and mp3s with XMMS, VNC to other computers, connect to my SMB shares, and open Word Docs. I ran it on my desktop and was even able to watch TV.
I've also had varying degrees of success with SuSe, Feather Linux, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu Live CDs. The software is there and it works with laptops.
There are still some movies that are great to see at a theatre - scary movies such as Panic Room are great at a theater with the idiots cheering or gasping at manufactured damatic moments. Of course, I'd never waste my time watching it at home.
Unless, of course, they included bloopers as a special feature - including something like Jody Foster not quite making it into the panic room before the door closed. (OUCH!)
Agreed. You need a certain type of employee for those corporate-sponsored events or services to be beneficial to the employee as well as have some sort of ROI for the employer. When you have a family to feed and a house to pay for, the laser-tag outing that cuts into your bonus can be a little frustrating.
Mmmm - Duke Nukem. There's nothing like dropping a pipe bomb on the subway in duke dukem, then detonating it as it pulls into the next stop, followed by a well timed Duke soundbite.
Or coming around the corner in Rise of the Triad with the flame-wall or the Hand of God.
Well, if they wait a year for Mack Brown to lose to Oklahoma again, they can fire him (finally) and use his salary to pay for the additional space to keep the books.
I mean - what's more important to a school in Texas - a grande mocha frappaccino in a fully stocked library or a BCS title shot?
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Remember that Microsoft started out working well with other software as well. Excel could load and save in 123 format, Word with WordPerfect and Wordstar, etc. What happened was that as the industry changed and other forms or types of data exchange became possible, Microsoft did it's best to PREVENT new entrants to the market - the easiest examples being Netscape and RealAudio.
I think the fear with Google as a monopoly (an evil one) is - they're open and offer lots of data exchange options NOW but what happens when things advance - 5 years from now when their CEO and board has turned over and their culture changes - will they still be as open? Are they going to impose limits on how we can get our data back.
Granted Microsoft, as someone said, may have had the worst of intentions from the beginning, but things change over time - you never know what the company will be like in 5 years. That's why people get wary now. Look at how easy it is to put your data in their hands - just as easy as it was with Microsoft back in the day.
Not saying they're a monopoly (an evil one) now. But they could become one if we're not careful.
The term "wireless" is usually related to 802.11, wifi, or "wireless networking", not the ability to make cell phone calls.
Tell that to AT&T Wireless, Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless.
I've seen wireless networking referred to only as "wireless" when referring to computers. But in general when comparing, say, to mobile applications, i've only seen it described as WiFi. Saying the BART got WiFi or the BART got wireless means two different things to me.
No way - this is a media issue. As long as content producers make content available in other formats - consumers still have a choice. And the difference between VHS/Beta or CD/MD is that it costs almost nothing to produce multiple formats. This could also come back to bite Apple if the movie studios are able to implement their variable pricing plans with non iTMS distributors - what's to stop them from pulling out of iTMS? It's not like they don't have their traditional distribution channels.
Perhaps, but that doesn't preclude them from entering into partnerships with the OS providers that do want to license Palm software.
what about something a bit bigger - like the much speculated on mini-tablet? That's the next killer app I'm waiting on. Something that runs a full OS but is not as big as a laptop. But still a bit bigger than a PDA. You know - something Newton-sized.
Problem with the culture here versus Europe and Japan is that public transpo is much more a part of people's travel so filling that downtime is more important there. You can't really be that interactive with a handheld while driving, and watching TV on your phone at lunch? Not so much. I'd be interested to see how folks in the North East manage, but when I was up there I didn't see much in the way of handheld activity.
I've successfully run Knoppix 3.9 Live CDs on my corporate issued Thinkpad T40 and loved it. I was able to do everything I needed to do except write to the ntfs partition. I can play streaming audio and mp3s with XMMS, VNC to other computers, connect to my SMB shares, and open Word Docs. I ran it on my desktop and was even able to watch TV. I've also had varying degrees of success with SuSe, Feather Linux, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu Live CDs. The software is there and it works with laptops.
There are still some movies that are great to see at a theatre - scary movies such as Panic Room are great at a theater with the idiots cheering or gasping at manufactured damatic moments. Of course, I'd never waste my time watching it at home. Unless, of course, they included bloopers as a special feature - including something like Jody Foster not quite making it into the panic room before the door closed. (OUCH!)
Agreed. You need a certain type of employee for those corporate-sponsored events or services to be beneficial to the employee as well as have some sort of ROI for the employer. When you have a family to feed and a house to pay for, the laser-tag outing that cuts into your bonus can be a little frustrating.
Mmmm - Duke Nukem. There's nothing like dropping a pipe bomb on the subway in duke dukem, then detonating it as it pulls into the next stop, followed by a well timed Duke soundbite. Or coming around the corner in Rise of the Triad with the flame-wall or the Hand of God.
Well, if they wait a year for Mack Brown to lose to Oklahoma again, they can fire him (finally) and use his salary to pay for the additional space to keep the books. I mean - what's more important to a school in Texas - a grande mocha frappaccino in a fully stocked library or a BCS title shot?
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