Given the opportunity it is very hard for any person or company to pass up a chance to change the rules of a game in a way that disadvantages its competition in that game. This is especially true when survival is at stake. We do not and should never condone this type of behavior but we must realize it is natural and (without regard to morality) should be expected. This type behavior is bad for our industry as we have all seen so we must always be aware that some company out there will always try this as a means to advantage and stop it to allow strength to be generated via fierce competition.
It's bad for every industry. It's natural to be competitive and that's why morals and values are a good thing. Business is bad when the bottom line and being number 1 becomes more important than the product. At that point you've lost focus and have embraced greed. I'm a small business owner, but I learned from a great mentor that all deals should be win/win and you should never screw someone over to get ahead or you'll get a bad name. When I sell, I don't bad mouth competitors products and I tell the people who work for me not to either. Say a few positive things about the competition and then educate the merits of your product, if it's good it'll sell.
Being conservative I have to say that the Bush administration really let us down with the MS antitrust case. Not to mention other things, but I prefer to stay on topic.
I know this may be unpopular, but I think we should have a patent system, but not the way it's implemented now.
I think patents should only protect companies with a small market cap and as they reach a specific size, they lose their patent. This would help protect small companies as they are getting started without larger companies with massive resources destroying them before they get off the ground. It should be based on industry and market cap.
I also believe companies that do not intend to produce products with their patents should be force to sell them or lose them. No patent trolls with ridiculous fees.
Just look how much the players, media and rentals cost. Then take into consideration market conditions and you'll have people holding off on taking the plunge.
In addition you really need a TV 42" or larger to really see the difference in quality.
Lastly, most stores the employees can't really sell you on players. They don't know enough. Plus there is the confusion of profiles between BR 1.0 1.1 2.0.
First adopters are home theater enthusiasts and many of them are holding out for a full featured player.
that's what flip screens are for. Still have the real estate, but have the QWERTY too.
My girlfriend hates her iPhone because of the touchscreen keyboard. She had the SideKick prior to the iphone and loves it. She does a lot of instant messaging and emailing and the iPhone keyboard doesn't cut it, even after year of owning it. When her contract is up, she'll get something different with a physical keyboard.
Touchscreen is ideal for navigating a phone, but a real volume nob and a physical keyboard are key requirements.
You're right. Not everything is a web application. But to google it is. Chrome will allow them to make sure they have browser support for all of their enterprise applications. This includes offline and mobile applications.
It would certainly suck to be a large web platform company, but have to wait for others to support your innovative technology. This way they can implement what they want and allow others to catch-up.
Nearly any company that becomes big becomes hated. Look at Comcast and ATT. I remember the day when IBM was hated. The turning point comes when company employees become arrogant and the company itself becomes less product focused and more financial focused. The people I know that love Microsoft are the same people that are making money from them by either developing on their platform or consulting for them. The people I know that hate them, hate them because of their dominance and their other lack of support for anything standards based. Microsoft has become a money machine and people know it. If you let a finance guy run your company, profits will surge for sure. However, in the long run customer satisfaction will decrease and loyal customers will defect.
I like to think of it this way. Product people look at a product with passion. Financial people look at a product with greed.
Companies that are happy with a slice of pie instead of the whole pie are usually not hated as long as their products or services are produced or rendered well.
Sounds like something apple should support. Instead of whining about it, file a feature request or bug report to Apple. They do seem to listen. I think what you're saying makes a lot of sense and would use it myself.
What about spaces. Seems pretty fast and simple and easily selectable via the menu bar. Between that and expose, I can't imagine the problem. Plus you can double click on any window bar and it'll move to the dock. Perhaps I'm not understanding your issue.
I'd rather have dual players and competition. It seems like the technology is there so it's a shame to see the possibility of one being thrown aside. Technology should embrace both.
UK drivers are better than US drivers anyway. Driving in the UK, people would accommodate others and move slightly over to keep things running smoothly. In California people have an attitude and wont make any room. They make sure people can't move into "their" lane and I think they take a slight pleasure in cutting people off.
Here's an example scenario: If a truck is parked on the side of the road and there's 3 lanes where the truck is taking up part of one of the lanes, in the UK the cars will nudge over so other cars can pass. Here, people wont budge and force cars to sit in wait until there's an opening. If you try to squeeze past, they'll lay on the horn even though they could move slightly over and let you pass. Until we get people to understand how to be polite defensive drivers, we'll always have traffic problems.
That and the fact that it's way too easy for any moron to get a license in the US.
I've said it before, but I'm not sure if anyone listens. Probably why I have a mod point of 1.
Ubuntu and many linux distros lack in some fundimental area's. For starters I'm well aware that you can write scripts for ubuntu, but how many applications are scriptable? How do you even find out if they are? On Windows and OS X I can script the OS and applications. So I can have MS Word on both platforms scripted. This is a major utility for me and I don't even know where to begin scripting applications with linux. That is the first major roadblock for me.
Second, there are many mature applications for Ubuntu, but I don't see much integration or cross application capability. On OS X, I have iLife and the applications work well with each other. There are great applications on linux, but each one is it's own entity and they don't play together. OS X has it's core services and flat xml files which allow application developers to take advantage of the system easily and aid in cross application compatibility. This isn't necessarily Ubuntu's problem, it's the lack of communication and cooperation between development communities and the vision to see how things could improve.
One of Apple's biggest flaws is that they have consumer lock-in. iLife applications are not opensource and therefore it's much more difficult to build applications that work with them or at least as seamless as the suite itself. OpenSource could easily trump this by having an open core services architecture and allow any application builder to easily work with another, but this has to start from the core of the system. You need to have a few standard databases for consumer based applications, something like sqlLite, and some xml files that define application properties. You should be able to have any MP3 application read an XML file of another application and have immediate access to the same library without having to examine the library. That library could also be used for a video application to make it easy to add a soundtrack to a home movie or a photo application to allow you to make a cool slideshow with your music files. Obviously if the application has some rather unique features it could be put in a separate file or added to the original.
OpenSource is great, but it has a lot of barriers for your average consumer. Applications are one, but codecs are another. Granted licencing is a problem, but I think people would give it a go even if they had to pay a nominal fee. But unless you can have some standarized services or an address book that works with any application, you're always going to have this barrier. I'm certainly not saying there should be one way of doing things, but the foundation needs to be very accessible and running any application should be a very simple and intuitive to the end user.
I've had Leopard since launch day. I haven't had a crash or freeze. Parallels 2.0 works just fine and most if not all applications. Most of the people that I have problems, besides a few iMac hardware issues, have had odd third party utilities installed and did an upgrade without removing those utilities. Others have had hacked their system to no end to get some specialized setup. So, I'm not surprised some people are having issues and I believe they didn't use their head when upgrading.
I made a clone of my Tiger setup and then performed a clean install of leopard. I migrated all the applications, but no utilities or hacks. The system is running great and I like it much more than Tiger. I have had much better network performance as well. I haven't used Windows Vista and don't plan on it, so I can't comment on it.
In the early 80's and 90's we had basic cable companies that provided a good service for a reasonable price, $19.99 a month. In the 90's comcast bought all the local cable stations and year over year increased the price. They justified it by offering a few more channels, but many I never watch.
Today comcast charges $45 a month for basic cable and around $65 for digital. I stopped seeing the value of paying for cable at $45 a month or $540 a year. It would be one thing if it was commercial free, but it's not. If you want HBO, Showtime or cinemax etc you pay more. I have one friend that pays $120 just tv with the exra channels. That's $1440 a year to watch TV and you get commercials for the majority of those. The ironic thing is he spends most of his time on his computer playing games and watching porn. He's been sucked into media services, so I hardly see him anymore and last time I saw him he looked like cartman on the WOW episode of southpark, I'm not kidding.
The thing is, I just can't seem to bring myself around to paying a company to watch mostly lame show and commercials. Commercials were originally intended to pay for programing of broadcast television. Now people pay for TV and still get the commercials. Well at least I don't anymore. I bought an antenna and watch 37 local channels in HD. I miss a few channels like the Food Network, Discovery and the History channel. On the other hand, I've been reading more and spending more time with people, which is kinda nice. I still get to watch the NFL in HD and honestly I think the broadcast HD looks better than digital cable or satellite.
The bottom line for me is regulation is a good thing for companies like comacast if they ever want a customer like me, which they probably don't, so whatever trevor.
Is it really just a phone? Then what do you call the iPod Touch? Now add a phone capabilities to the iPod Touch and what do you have, just a phone? No. Duh! Take it one step further and add a 7" or 10" screen and what do you have? Perhaps a tablet internet device.
The iPhone is more than just a phone. You're oversimplifying it - perhaps because you're tired of it - to downplay it. The iPhone is a small example of what the portable internet could be, in that, it's revolutionary.
Poured myself another dirty martini (two jalapeno olives this time).
Performed a clean install.
Poured myself some 18 year Glenfiddich.
Loaded certain drivers for some unsupported third party hardware.
Used the migration assistant to migrate my applications, settings and files.
Poured myself some Bailey's Irish Cream.
Passed out.
Next day had to reenter Adobe CS serial number, but other than that all was good except for my head. I've had no problems and it's actually running much better than Tiger.
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Given the opportunity it is very hard for any person or company to pass up a chance to change the rules of a game in a way that disadvantages its competition in that game. This is especially true when survival is at stake. We do not and should never condone this type of behavior but we must realize it is natural and (without regard to morality) should be expected. This type behavior is bad for our industry as we have all seen so we must always be aware that some company out there will always try this as a means to advantage and stop it to allow strength to be generated via fierce competition.
It's bad for every industry. It's natural to be competitive and that's why morals and values are a good thing. Business is bad when the bottom line and being number 1 becomes more important than the product. At that point you've lost focus and have embraced greed. I'm a small business owner, but I learned from a great mentor that all deals should be win/win and you should never screw someone over to get ahead or you'll get a bad name. When I sell, I don't bad mouth competitors products and I tell the people who work for me not to either. Say a few positive things about the competition and then educate the merits of your product, if it's good it'll sell.
Being conservative I have to say that the Bush administration really let us down with the MS antitrust case. Not to mention other things, but I prefer to stay on topic.
I know this may be unpopular, but I think we should have a patent system, but not the way it's implemented now.
I think patents should only protect companies with a small market cap and as they reach a specific size, they lose their patent. This would help protect small companies as they are getting started without larger companies with massive resources destroying them before they get off the ground. It should be based on industry and market cap.
I also believe companies that do not intend to produce products with their patents should be force to sell them or lose them. No patent trolls with ridiculous fees.
If you're going to go with mythTV, then I highly recommend mythbuntu LTS (long term support). This is the fastest and easiest way to get it going.
I've seen a few moons I wouldn't mind probing.
Just look how much the players, media and rentals cost. Then take into consideration market conditions and you'll have people holding off on taking the plunge.
In addition you really need a TV 42" or larger to really see the difference in quality.
Lastly, most stores the employees can't really sell you on players. They don't know enough. Plus there is the confusion of profiles between BR 1.0 1.1 2.0.
First adopters are home theater enthusiasts and many of them are holding out for a full featured player.
It's not a car. It's a suppository with wheels.
I completely understand where you're coming from, but nonetheless there's a market for such devices. I have found the perfect device by any means.
Apparently the designers need a better design.
that's what flip screens are for. Still have the real estate, but have the QWERTY too.
My girlfriend hates her iPhone because of the touchscreen keyboard. She had the SideKick prior to the iphone and loves it. She does a lot of instant messaging and emailing and the iPhone keyboard doesn't cut it, even after year of owning it. When her contract is up, she'll get something different with a physical keyboard.
Touchscreen is ideal for navigating a phone, but a real volume nob and a physical keyboard are key requirements.
You're right. Not everything is a web application. But to google it is. Chrome will allow them to make sure they have browser support for all of their enterprise applications. This includes offline and mobile applications. It would certainly suck to be a large web platform company, but have to wait for others to support your innovative technology. This way they can implement what they want and allow others to catch-up.
Nearly any company that becomes big becomes hated. Look at Comcast and ATT. I remember the day when IBM was hated. The turning point comes when company employees become arrogant and the company itself becomes less product focused and more financial focused. The people I know that love Microsoft are the same people that are making money from them by either developing on their platform or consulting for them. The people I know that hate them, hate them because of their dominance and their other lack of support for anything standards based. Microsoft has become a money machine and people know it. If you let a finance guy run your company, profits will surge for sure. However, in the long run customer satisfaction will decrease and loyal customers will defect.
I like to think of it this way. Product people look at a product with passion. Financial people look at a product with greed.
Companies that are happy with a slice of pie instead of the whole pie are usually not hated as long as their products or services are produced or rendered well.
Sounds like something apple should support. Instead of whining about it, file a feature request or bug report to Apple. They do seem to listen. I think what you're saying makes a lot of sense and would use it myself.
right and can also assign this function to one of the buttons on a multi function mouse.
What about spaces. Seems pretty fast and simple and easily selectable via the menu bar. Between that and expose, I can't imagine the problem. Plus you can double click on any window bar and it'll move to the dock. Perhaps I'm not understanding your issue.
I'd rather have dual players and competition. It seems like the technology is there so it's a shame to see the possibility of one being thrown aside. Technology should embrace both.
UK drivers are better than US drivers anyway. Driving in the UK, people would accommodate others and move slightly over to keep things running smoothly. In California people have an attitude and wont make any room. They make sure people can't move into "their" lane and I think they take a slight pleasure in cutting people off.
Here's an example scenario: If a truck is parked on the side of the road and there's 3 lanes where the truck is taking up part of one of the lanes, in the UK the cars will nudge over so other cars can pass. Here, people wont budge and force cars to sit in wait until there's an opening. If you try to squeeze past, they'll lay on the horn even though they could move slightly over and let you pass. Until we get people to understand how to be polite defensive drivers, we'll always have traffic problems.
That and the fact that it's way too easy for any moron to get a license in the US.
I've said it before, but I'm not sure if anyone listens. Probably why I have a mod point of 1.
Ubuntu and many linux distros lack in some fundimental area's. For starters I'm well aware that you can write scripts for ubuntu, but how many applications are scriptable? How do you even find out if they are? On Windows and OS X I can script the OS and applications. So I can have MS Word on both platforms scripted. This is a major utility for me and I don't even know where to begin scripting applications with linux. That is the first major roadblock for me.
Second, there are many mature applications for Ubuntu, but I don't see much integration or cross application capability. On OS X, I have iLife and the applications work well with each other. There are great applications on linux, but each one is it's own entity and they don't play together. OS X has it's core services and flat xml files which allow application developers to take advantage of the system easily and aid in cross application compatibility. This isn't necessarily Ubuntu's problem, it's the lack of communication and cooperation between development communities and the vision to see how things could improve.
One of Apple's biggest flaws is that they have consumer lock-in. iLife applications are not opensource and therefore it's much more difficult to build applications that work with them or at least as seamless as the suite itself. OpenSource could easily trump this by having an open core services architecture and allow any application builder to easily work with another, but this has to start from the core of the system. You need to have a few standard databases for consumer based applications, something like sqlLite, and some xml files that define application properties. You should be able to have any MP3 application read an XML file of another application and have immediate access to the same library without having to examine the library. That library could also be used for a video application to make it easy to add a soundtrack to a home movie or a photo application to allow you to make a cool slideshow with your music files. Obviously if the application has some rather unique features it could be put in a separate file or added to the original.
OpenSource is great, but it has a lot of barriers for your average consumer. Applications are one, but codecs are another. Granted licencing is a problem, but I think people would give it a go even if they had to pay a nominal fee. But unless you can have some standarized services or an address book that works with any application, you're always going to have this barrier. I'm certainly not saying there should be one way of doing things, but the foundation needs to be very accessible and running any application should be a very simple and intuitive to the end user.
I've had Leopard since launch day. I haven't had a crash or freeze. Parallels 2.0 works just fine and most if not all applications. Most of the people that I have problems, besides a few iMac hardware issues, have had odd third party utilities installed and did an upgrade without removing those utilities. Others have had hacked their system to no end to get some specialized setup. So, I'm not surprised some people are having issues and I believe they didn't use their head when upgrading.
I made a clone of my Tiger setup and then performed a clean install of leopard. I migrated all the applications, but no utilities or hacks. The system is running great and I like it much more than Tiger. I have had much better network performance as well. I haven't used Windows Vista and don't plan on it, so I can't comment on it.
This seems like it will be great technology when technology catches up............. wait a minute:\
good thing.
In the early 80's and 90's we had basic cable companies that provided a good service for a reasonable price, $19.99 a month. In the 90's comcast bought all the local cable stations and year over year increased the price. They justified it by offering a few more channels, but many I never watch.
Today comcast charges $45 a month for basic cable and around $65 for digital. I stopped seeing the value of paying for cable at $45 a month or $540 a year. It would be one thing if it was commercial free, but it's not. If you want HBO, Showtime or cinemax etc you pay more. I have one friend that pays $120 just tv with the exra channels. That's $1440 a year to watch TV and you get commercials for the majority of those. The ironic thing is he spends most of his time on his computer playing games and watching porn. He's been sucked into media services, so I hardly see him anymore and last time I saw him he looked like cartman on the WOW episode of southpark, I'm not kidding.
The thing is, I just can't seem to bring myself around to paying a company to watch mostly lame show and commercials. Commercials were originally intended to pay for programing of broadcast television. Now people pay for TV and still get the commercials. Well at least I don't anymore. I bought an antenna and watch 37 local channels in HD. I miss a few channels like the Food Network, Discovery and the History channel. On the other hand, I've been reading more and spending more time with people, which is kinda nice. I still get to watch the NFL in HD and honestly I think the broadcast HD looks better than digital cable or satellite.
The bottom line for me is regulation is a good thing for companies like comacast if they ever want a customer like me, which they probably don't, so whatever trevor.
If it sounds like a Tron lightcycle, then I'm game.
I'm just waiting for the day when they patent fraud and then sue for it.
Is it really just a phone? Then what do you call the iPod Touch? Now add a phone capabilities to the iPod Touch and what do you have, just a phone? No. Duh! Take it one step further and add a 7" or 10" screen and what do you have? Perhaps a tablet internet device.
The iPhone is more than just a phone. You're oversimplifying it - perhaps because you're tired of it - to downplay it. The iPhone is a small example of what the portable internet could be, in that, it's revolutionary.
- Poured myself a dirty martini
- Backed up my drive.
- Poured myself another dirty martini (two jalapeno olives this time).
- Performed a clean install.
- Poured myself some 18 year Glenfiddich.
- Loaded certain drivers for some unsupported third party hardware.
- Used the migration assistant to migrate my applications, settings and files.
- Poured myself some Bailey's Irish Cream.
- Passed out.
Next day had to reenter Adobe CS serial number, but other than that all was good except for my head. I've had no problems and it's actually running much better than Tiger.