Also, how are we quantifying "do better" in the phrase "Apple would do better if... [insert opinion]". They aren't short of cash, their products are selling as fast as they can make them...
Apple is doing well in the consumer electronics market. They aren't selling desktops to businesses, and they're sure not selling servers to businesses.
OS/2 didn't catch on because the royalty payments that OEM manufacturers had to pay per unit sold went to one of their direct competitors in the PC hardware business.
Also, OS/2 spent too much time being compatible with Windows 3 during the time period when Microsoft was rolling out Windows 95.
A Samsung fan is just a regular person who doesn't have a deeply compelling brand loyalty. Or at least in the usage in this article summary on Slashdot that is the meaning.
Baen Books is a niche publisher (Science Fiction) for a notoriously narrow market. What they are doing 'works' just like every major metropolitan area having a small handful of SF bookstores works.
Bullshit. Pulldown menus existed in many software products. What Apple 'invented' was a crippled little box with a collection of applets in it and no third party software for a year or so. The Mac 128 was a joke machine.
Their work? They collected tales from the Public Domain, many of them from France.
Yes, and their collection of stories remained essentially public domain. They didn't try to lock-it-down after they put it in their collection. That's a big difference.
Does this new guy heading Apple mean we are going to have people here defending Fucking Disney on slashdot now? It might be time to split off apple.slashdot.org from the main page.
Most of us remember the direction the company took the last time Jobs was no longer heading it up.
Hey, I liked my Beige G3 Minitower. And the Newton had a bright future. If Jobs hadn't come along and trashed the company when he did, they might have merged with Sun and we might have a hell of a good desktop, plus robust tablets ten years ago.
It's impossible to predict alternative history, but it's also a mistake to assume history went the way it is hyped as having gone.
Jobs had a history of walking into the room and trashing whatever was going on. Sometimes that was good, sometimes very bad. That's all that can really be said.
The fact that the entertainment industry has piled onto Apple because they produced the first big properly DRM'd mp3 player is really all Apple's recent success shows. That and they figured out how to graft the result of that synergy onto a cellphone. Unfortunately for them, there's nothing unique in that. Nothing that isn't dependent on patent trolling, that is.
Jobs learned from the really big cult creators of the 70's. He explicitly studied under one of them. Thus we find ourselves today confronting a cult that refers to anybody who is opposed to said cult, particularly those who say: "my fucking god, look at that emporer over there with no clothing on!" as 'The Haters.'
Anybody who has known a moonie in real life knows that there is a long painful deprogramming process involved in getting them their fucking clue. So the fanboys are probably beyond hope for the time being. Just say 'uh-huh' and avoid them.
I thought geeky meant not specializing. That is, it means writing the code in assmbly language, having the part number and pinout memorized for the TTL chip you are goimg to use for the glue logic, and using several colors of wire wrap to build it up with separate colors for data address and control lines. Plus powering it with a little thrown together linear supply because you've still got a bunch of LM317 regulators that you salvaged out of surplus syncronous modems you bought at a thrift shop in 1987. And using opamps for the time delay deglitching oneshot kludge because they induce less spikes on the power bus than a 555 or a 74123 would.
Also fabricating an enclosure for the thing too. Using wood metal and plexiglass as raw materials.
That isn't specialization though I suppose geekiness involves specializing in everything all at once.
Or has Slasdot really changed that much. Shame if it has...
It's a free speech issue because people are not being allowed to shuttle around the same prerecorded comtent to and fro to each other that none of them produced. Though I suppose by some definitions the fact that the program material was ripped and re-encoded makes it original content. The noise and artifacts are protected free expression I guess.
I find it missing in this whole discussion and this is the only place I see to add my comment without making a 'top' level comment: the Spirit of Solyndra is Crony Capitalism. Obama's White House is loving that stuff. That is the deal we should be discussing.
And the national Thrift Shops, namely Goodwill Industries, have a deal going with Dell. They accept any PC hardware you want to turn in, but the CPU boxes themselves NEVER are put out on the shop floor for sale. They are all whisked off to be crushed or destroyed, per Dell's wishes.
Dell, through their contrived 'green' initiatives, actively make certain that second-hand hardware is as difficult as possible for nerds and poor younger people to obtain.
Not really. I don't know of anybody who has switched to a Mac recently. I bet most other people reading this thread don't either. But keep rollin' the astroturf, dood.
That is, it commodifies jobs, so that they can be whisked away to wherever the multinationals can get the 'best deal' which translates: the lowest possible wages.
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'Water rights.' People are not deemed to own rights to the water that flows over their land.
Also, how are we quantifying "do better" in the phrase "Apple would do better if... [insert opinion]". They aren't short of cash, their products are selling as fast as they can make them...
Apple is doing well in the consumer electronics market. They aren't selling desktops to businesses, and they're sure not selling servers to businesses.
So Apple is basically selling sugar water.
OS/2 didn't catch on because the royalty payments that OEM manufacturers had to pay per unit sold went to one of their direct competitors in the PC hardware business.
Also, OS/2 spent too much time being compatible with Windows 3 during the time period when Microsoft was rolling out Windows 95.
Ok, I'll bite on the bait.
A Samsung fan is just a regular person who doesn't have a deeply compelling brand loyalty. Or at least in the usage in this article summary on Slashdot that is the meaning.
It means, anybody who isn't a Steve-fan.
Baen Books is a niche publisher (Science Fiction) for a notoriously narrow market. What they are doing 'works' just like every major metropolitan area having a small handful of SF bookstores works.
Bullshit. Pulldown menus existed in many software products. What Apple 'invented' was a crippled little box with a collection of applets in it and no third party software for a year or so. The Mac 128 was a joke machine.
Which are you? Chip or Dale?
Again with 'the haters.' Don't you have flowers you should be selling at an Airport somewhere?
Their work? They collected tales from the Public Domain, many of them from France.
Yes, and their collection of stories remained essentially public domain. They didn't try to lock-it-down after they put it in their collection. That's a big difference.
Does this new guy heading Apple mean we are going to have people here defending Fucking Disney on slashdot now? It might be time to split off apple.slashdot.org from the main page.
Most of us remember the direction the company took the last time Jobs was no longer heading it up.
Hey, I liked my Beige G3 Minitower. And the Newton had a bright future. If Jobs hadn't come along and trashed the company when he did, they might have merged with Sun and we might have a hell of a good desktop, plus robust tablets ten years ago.
It's impossible to predict alternative history, but it's also a mistake to assume history went the way it is hyped as having gone.
Jobs had a history of walking into the room and trashing whatever was going on. Sometimes that was good, sometimes very bad. That's all that can really be said.
The fact that the entertainment industry has piled onto Apple because they produced the first big properly DRM'd mp3 player is really all Apple's recent success shows. That and they figured out how to graft the result of that synergy onto a cellphone. Unfortunately for them, there's nothing unique in that. Nothing that isn't dependent on patent trolling, that is.
To be fair, Jobs was probably trying to get definitive truth of who his birth father was.
Jobs learned from the really big cult creators of the 70's. He explicitly studied under one of them. Thus we find ourselves today confronting a cult that refers to anybody who is opposed to said cult, particularly those who say: "my fucking god, look at that emporer over there with no clothing on!" as 'The Haters.'
Anybody who has known a moonie in real life knows that there is a long painful deprogramming process involved in getting them their fucking clue. So the fanboys are probably beyond hope for the time being. Just say 'uh-huh' and avoid them.
Any group of fans who refer to 'the others' as 'the haters' is a fucking cult.
I thought geeky meant not specializing. That is, it means writing the code in assmbly language, having the part number and pinout memorized for the TTL chip you are goimg to use for the glue logic, and using several colors of wire wrap to build it up with separate colors for data address and control lines. Plus powering it with a little thrown together linear supply because you've still got a bunch of LM317 regulators that you salvaged out of surplus syncronous modems you bought at a thrift shop in 1987. And using opamps for the time delay deglitching oneshot kludge because they induce less spikes on the power bus than a 555 or a 74123 would.
Also fabricating an enclosure for the thing too. Using wood metal and plexiglass as raw materials.
That isn't specialization though I suppose geekiness involves specializing in everything all at once.
Or has Slasdot really changed that much. Shame if it has...
It's a free speech issue because people are not being allowed to shuttle around the same prerecorded comtent to and fro to each other that none of them produced. Though I suppose by some definitions the fact that the program material was ripped and re-encoded makes it original content. The noise and artifacts are protected free expression I guess.
True. And the fast and easy way to solve the issue is to rigorously clip government's wings.
I find it missing in this whole discussion and this is the only place I see to add my comment without making a 'top' level comment: the Spirit of Solyndra is Crony Capitalism. Obama's White House is loving that stuff. That is the deal we should be discussing.
A mulatto president apparently wasn't good enough.
And the national Thrift Shops, namely Goodwill Industries, have a deal going with Dell. They accept any PC hardware you want to turn in, but the CPU boxes themselves NEVER are put out on the shop floor for sale. They are all whisked off to be crushed or destroyed, per Dell's wishes.
Dell, through their contrived 'green' initiatives, actively make certain that second-hand hardware is as difficult as possible for nerds and poor younger people to obtain.
And that's a good thing, because you get to go stand in a line at the Apple Store when your battery gets killed....
Not really. I don't know of anybody who has switched to a Mac recently. I bet most other people reading this thread don't either. But keep rollin' the astroturf, dood.
It is the same treatment I'd give a business that would tell me that "negros and tattooed people not allowed."
You chose to uninstall Flash. What would you say to a business that said 'negros, tattooed people, and Flash not allowed" ?
You can check off the 'not willing to moderate' box in your config. I have had it checked for about a decade now.
Actually, the WTO creates global employment.
That is, it commodifies jobs, so that they can be whisked away to wherever the multinationals can get the 'best deal' which translates: the lowest possible wages.
I just use gmail's POP server and don't use their web portal, or see any of the ads.