If iPod/iTunes represents 80% of the market then Apple need to look after that 80% of the market at a minimum. The average user isn't important in that sense.
Sometimes the extremes can be very influential. For example they may buy more iPods on average and their word-of-mouth role in promoting iPods may be significant.
With dealing with DRM trust is extremely important. Your best customers are the most vocal and the most loyal. If you can't hold onto them you'll start losing a lot of customers
Hardness is the resistance to indentation (or scratching).
The summary also confuses toughness (resistance to impacts) which is usually mutually exclusive with hardness. Hard substances like diamond aren't tough. The hardest steels are brittle and not at all tough. You can smash them with a hammer like it was glass.
Re:That "fairly stable api" didn't help Microsoft
on
Vista - iPod Killer?
·
· Score: 1, Troll
Vista breaks iPod support. That's Microsoft's fault not Apples. Either Microsoft deliberately broke iPod support or Vista's hardware support is so bad that it was never tested with some of the most popular hardware out there. The second is more likely.
Apple will update iTunes but they have every right to let their customers know that Microsoft are responsible. This is another reason not to get Vista (I don't have enough RAM either). I don't like having to rely on manufacturers to update their legacy software if I want to be able to hook up my printers, scanner, wireless adapter etc.
Yes I've had similar problems on Apple too where manufacturers didn't update software but that was the intel switch combined with a mess of a driver not an OS update.
Recent iPods are more complex from a driver point of view because they use a HFS filesystem and then use a driver so that Windows can read iPods as FAT drives - that doesn't explain why the Zune wasn't initially compatible though.
Or examining patterns might be a less resource hungry way to look for spam. Anything that does get flagged can be assessed in more detail. The more mail you send the more it gets checked to see if it's spam.
Most people send valid bulk email (where they send it) to similar lists of people. That's easy to block using blacklists if a spammer tries the same method.
But if you're sending 100s of messages to different people and it's a different 100 people and a large number of them are invalid addresses then it's something that's much more indicative of suspected spamming.
btw I think there are several problems with the idea of blocking someones email ports and then sending them an email telling them that they have a problem with their email. For one thing people shouldn't mightn't read unsolicited emails telling them to do something that they don't understand. Spammers do the same thing.
Maybe this is a way for Microsoft to keep Red Hat away from Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is strong and is likely very willing to play hard ball to get good Windows discounts.
I'm sure Microsoft execs were able to get Wal-Mart to use Suse by continuing to offer them great Windows discounts. This way they aren't really compromising the integrity (sic) of their volume licensing.
Re:The Amiga was a quantum leap for computers
on
AmigaOS 4
·
· Score: 1
The Amiga would fly on something like the OLPC (with a different architecture) and lack of power wouldn't be a problem.
Having to get a big box with custom hardware sorta defeats the major advantages of the Amiga platform. flash based ultra light PCs though would be a different matter. They could make them cheap and sell bucketloads of them if there was wireless.
Patent applications are not made public immediately. Apple could have made patent applications some time ago.
Patents would be irrelevant in any case for this complaint.
I take your general point but in this case it's direct copying. Apple have been creative and someone else is ripping their design off.
I'm not sure how that means Apple is stifling creativity. If anything the skinners are the ones who are stifling creativity by stealing someone else's designs and undermining the value of the (no doubt expensive) work done by Apple.
Tiger is still available as a retail box ($129). It's also available as a family edition which allows you to install it on up to 5 different computers ($199).
They don't do anything at all to stop you buying the single license and installing it on more than one computer. They update their software often so even 2 year old computers have an old edition of the OS.
Their case for adding a Genuine Advantage is just as strong because there are more OS sales per mac than with Windows.
Apple can get away with it because they can make money in other areas and it doesn't wash well with customers. Microsoft have a monopoly and can do whatever they want.
Journalists have another boss and they are supposed to have professional standards. Bloggers are more easily bought.
If Microsoft didn't engage in astroturfing and sent out Microsoft products then people wouldn't blink. Instead bloggers are being put into ethical conflict just as much as if they took a cheque from Microsoft.
Re:This might have something to do with
on
Red Hat Sales Surge
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
That's nothing. Microsoft waited 5 years and they're pretty profitable.
Applications do far more to sell OSs than the other way around. Growth takes time at first but goes through phases. Red Hat has a lead because it is good at what it's supposed to be doing.
I don't think OSX is that hard to use or to migrate to. Some things are tricky to find at first but you get used to it very quickly. Sure there are bad habits like putting everything in the dock etc.
I've often wondered why so much development work going into making desktops on Linux work like Windows when there's a fairly broad consensus that OSX does a better job. I know there have been some efforts but they remain relatively small. People have the choice to use windows or linux but you can't install OSX on any computer.
If AutoCAD succeed in this case then they will be able to ensure that drawings which are both unsigned by AutoCAD and use features from newer versions of AutoCAD (and hence files from a rival) don't render properly in AutoCAD.
If AutoCAD treats it's own documents differently from those of other vendors just because they have been digitally signed then that's an anti-competitive practise.
IANAL but the DMCA covers breaking encryption not adding it to your own documents. i.e. you can make your own region encoded disks AFAIK.
NIMBY isn't good enough. It's BANANA now (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything);)
On the subject of oil refineries one of the main reasons no refineries were built was due to tough environmental restrictions on NEW refineries. It was cheaper to just expand the existing refineries.
Thanks. It's an interesting article but it misses the point. Just because something is louder doesn't make it more annoying.
All it takes for noise to annoy some people is for it to be above their threshold of hearing. If they can hear you they can complain about it. It doesn't matter in the slightest that the noise isn't louder than anything else they can hear. People get used to that and tune it out. But if you decide a noise is annoying you focus on it.
It's the same with planes. Most of the time I don't hear them where I live and I don't find them annoying. But I do hear them most days and I know that other people do get annoyed. Sure they're overreacting but that's irrelevant because you end up with a noise complaint.
If you can't hear the wind farm at all, ever, then you can't be bothered by the noise (no matter how hard you try).
So by that logic a house uses half the power of a kettle. Modern fast boil kettles use 2kW. That'd be a good way to get people thinking about conserving power.
That's true. The highest risk category is step-fathers.
If you don't think that people would advocate taking measures against step-fathers there is serious lobbying starting to open the sex offenders register to allow single mothers to have their boyfriends vetted. Wouldn't surprise me if it ends up happening.
You have some control of your own home. You can control access and supervise. When they go to school etc. you place them in someone else's care. Until they come home you don't have any control and that's why it's such a big deal to people. It's an effective protection for the other 25%. Interestingly, the more effective such measures the higher the proportion of sexual abuse carried out by family will become.
True. Now imagine how much worse it would be if there were criminals before they joined. In theory they're already law-abiding when they start.
If you don't think the standard is high enough now then imagine if it were to be lowered.
Today I read that they will now classify panty theifs as sex offenders, receiving the same long-term classification on the sex offenders' registry as child abusers, rapists, and child pornographers. Actually that's done with good reason. They are sex offenders and there is a high enough instance of such offenders going on to commit more serious offences to warrent classifying them as high risk. As such they shouldn't be allowed to hold jobs which give them unsupervised access to and influence over children.
The sex offenders register is not about (and should never be about punishment). It's about protection. Keeps high risk individuals out of high risk occupations. It's the same as not wanting people with a criminal record in the police force. You want to be able to trust your policemen to be able to abide by the law, it's paramount.
If you want to trust your children, the most precious thing you have, to someone then you don't want them to have ANY record.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only that, he's the guy who discovered the Sony rootkit.
For me that's the biggest part of the story. This guy did a lot for Windows security and it must really be tough for him to be put in that position.
People do do that in Europe.
If iPod/iTunes represents 80% of the market then Apple need to look after that 80% of the market at a minimum. The average user isn't important in that sense. Sometimes the extremes can be very influential. For example they may buy more iPods on average and their word-of-mouth role in promoting iPods may be significant. With dealing with DRM trust is extremely important. Your best customers are the most vocal and the most loyal. If you can't hold onto them you'll start losing a lot of customers
Hardness is the resistance to indentation (or scratching).
The summary also confuses toughness (resistance to impacts) which is usually mutually exclusive with hardness. Hard substances like diamond aren't tough. The hardest steels are brittle and not at all tough. You can smash them with a hammer like it was glass.
Vista breaks iPod support. That's Microsoft's fault not Apples. Either Microsoft deliberately broke iPod support or Vista's hardware support is so bad that it was never tested with some of the most popular hardware out there. The second is more likely.
Apple will update iTunes but they have every right to let their customers know that Microsoft are responsible. This is another reason not to get Vista (I don't have enough RAM either). I don't like having to rely on manufacturers to update their legacy software if I want to be able to hook up my printers, scanner, wireless adapter etc.
Yes I've had similar problems on Apple too where manufacturers didn't update software but that was the intel switch combined with a mess of a driver not an OS update.
Recent iPods are more complex from a driver point of view because they use a HFS filesystem and then use a driver so that Windows can read iPods as FAT drives - that doesn't explain why the Zune wasn't initially compatible though.
meh.
That works for Windows too. It's Windows L
Or examining patterns might be a less resource hungry way to look for spam. Anything that does get flagged can be assessed in more detail. The more mail you send the more it gets checked to see if it's spam. Most people send valid bulk email (where they send it) to similar lists of people. That's easy to block using blacklists if a spammer tries the same method. But if you're sending 100s of messages to different people and it's a different 100 people and a large number of them are invalid addresses then it's something that's much more indicative of suspected spamming. btw I think there are several problems with the idea of blocking someones email ports and then sending them an email telling them that they have a problem with their email. For one thing people shouldn't mightn't read unsolicited emails telling them to do something that they don't understand. Spammers do the same thing.
Maybe this is a way for Microsoft to keep Red Hat away from Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is strong and is likely very willing to play hard ball to get good Windows discounts.
I'm sure Microsoft execs were able to get Wal-Mart to use Suse by continuing to offer them great Windows discounts. This way they aren't really compromising the integrity (sic) of their volume licensing.
The Amiga would fly on something like the OLPC (with a different architecture) and lack of power wouldn't be a problem.
Having to get a big box with custom hardware sorta defeats the major advantages of the Amiga platform. flash based ultra light PCs though would be a different matter. They could make them cheap and sell bucketloads of them if there was wireless.
It uses a magnet and produces a powerful field. It might be possible to triangulate using sensitive compasses.
Patent applications are not made public immediately. Apple could have made patent applications some time ago. Patents would be irrelevant in any case for this complaint.
I take your general point but in this case it's direct copying. Apple have been creative and someone else is ripping their design off.
I'm not sure how that means Apple is stifling creativity. If anything the skinners are the ones who are stifling creativity by stealing someone else's designs and undermining the value of the (no doubt expensive) work done by Apple.
Actually, icons are part of the applications branding and that part could be trademarked. Parent might have meant copyright anyway.
Apple are just sending a very public, early message that it's going to protect the iPhone image and is warning other people about it.
Tiger is still available as a retail box ($129). It's also available as a family edition which allows you to install it on up to 5 different computers ($199). They don't do anything at all to stop you buying the single license and installing it on more than one computer. They update their software often so even 2 year old computers have an old edition of the OS. Their case for adding a Genuine Advantage is just as strong because there are more OS sales per mac than with Windows. Apple can get away with it because they can make money in other areas and it doesn't wash well with customers. Microsoft have a monopoly and can do whatever they want.
Journalists have another boss and they are supposed to have professional standards. Bloggers are more easily bought.
If Microsoft didn't engage in astroturfing and sent out Microsoft products then people wouldn't blink. Instead bloggers are being put into ethical conflict just as much as if they took a cheque from Microsoft.
That's nothing. Microsoft waited 5 years and they're pretty profitable. Applications do far more to sell OSs than the other way around. Growth takes time at first but goes through phases. Red Hat has a lead because it is good at what it's supposed to be doing.
I don't think OSX is that hard to use or to migrate to. Some things are tricky to find at first but you get used to it very quickly. Sure there are bad habits like putting everything in the dock etc.
I've often wondered why so much development work going into making desktops on Linux work like Windows when there's a fairly broad consensus that OSX does a better job. I know there have been some efforts but they remain relatively small. People have the choice to use windows or linux but you can't install OSX on any computer.If AutoCAD succeed in this case then they will be able to ensure that drawings which are both unsigned by AutoCAD and use features from newer versions of AutoCAD (and hence files from a rival) don't render properly in AutoCAD.
If AutoCAD treats it's own documents differently from those of other vendors just because they have been digitally signed then that's an anti-competitive practise.
IANAL but the DMCA covers breaking encryption not adding it to your own documents. i.e. you can make your own region encoded disks AFAIK.
NIMBY isn't good enough. It's BANANA now (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) ;)
On the subject of oil refineries one of the main reasons no refineries were built was due to tough environmental restrictions on NEW refineries. It was cheaper to just expand the existing refineries.
Thanks. It's an interesting article but it misses the point. Just because something is louder doesn't make it more annoying.
All it takes for noise to annoy some people is for it to be above their threshold of hearing. If they can hear you they can complain about it. It doesn't matter in the slightest that the noise isn't louder than anything else they can hear. People get used to that and tune it out. But if you decide a noise is annoying you focus on it.
It's the same with planes. Most of the time I don't hear them where I live and I don't find them annoying. But I do hear them most days and I know that other people do get annoyed. Sure they're overreacting but that's irrelevant because you end up with a noise complaint.
If you can't hear the wind farm at all, ever, then you can't be bothered by the noise (no matter how hard you try).
So by that logic a house uses half the power of a kettle. Modern fast boil kettles use 2kW. That'd be a good way to get people thinking about conserving power.
Annoy? It's 12 miles offshore. You can barely see them at that range let alone hear them.
Personally I think they're great when I'm sailing along as they usually mark sand banks and make navigation much easier. I like the look of them too.
That's true. The highest risk category is step-fathers.
If you don't think that people would advocate taking measures against step-fathers there is serious lobbying starting to open the sex offenders register to allow single mothers to have their boyfriends vetted. Wouldn't surprise me if it ends up happening.
You have some control of your own home. You can control access and supervise. When they go to school etc. you place them in someone else's care. Until they come home you don't have any control and that's why it's such a big deal to people. It's an effective protection for the other 25%. Interestingly, the more effective such measures the higher the proportion of sexual abuse carried out by family will become.
True. Now imagine how much worse it would be if there were criminals before they joined. In theory they're already law-abiding when they start. If you don't think the standard is high enough now then imagine if it were to be lowered.