I don't see why this matters, I have owned a few iPods and I just bought an 80GB Zune and I love it. Has Microsoft beat Apple in the mp3 market? Personally I think the hardware and firmware on the Zune far exceeds the iPod, however, the Zune software is no where near iTunes (the music store itself on the other hand I find to be better), and I really don't like iTunes. Microsoft should really just plug the Zune in with WMP11 and it would be a competitor all around. Microsoft is just using the 30GB as a way to get in, knowing full well that when you upgrade your firmware you'll have a similar experience that the 80GB Zune buyers are having, minus a touch pad and squircle. Microsoft will and is a serious competitor with the Apple mp3 player "monopoly;" But I don't think the numbers will really start showing that until the Zune is well into it's 4th generation. This generation is fantastic, people will still buy iPods like mad, but maybe the Zune will eventually get a similar look. People say that Apple has a monopoly on the market, but I see people every day call a Sandisk or iRiver an iPod...I don't know if that's what Apple is wanting, but it's happening, and I would say it's working against Apple. Anyhow, I look forward to what the Zune's firmware updates will bring, something that you never anticipate with Apple. If anything the Zune will make Apple review their dominance and make a better product, personally I think Microsoft has the best HDD player on the market right now, but that doesn't mean Apple can't have the best next generation or visa versa. In the end, we are the winners.
I resent that statement, having owned an Alienware for many years is what got me in the game of geekdom. Beside you overlook the fact that many software geeks are not necessarily inclined to be hardware geeks and visa versa. I consider myself to be very geeky, having written programs, websites and built PCs...but not so geeky as to remain a virgin well into my 30s; if my type is considered being a technical wannabe, I'll gladly let others be more "technical savvy" than I.
One thing that is often ignored is the the Zune v.1 was not designed by Microsoft, it was designed by Toshiba. From what I've heard the Zune v.2 will be designed by Microsoft...if Microsoft could only push the Zune along side the 360 and make them integrate seamlessly with the PC, the Zune would be a blockbuster hit. Microsoft needs to learn to use their dominant fields of gaming and the PC to their advantage to push their products, especially through marketing. Microsoft has more power in this area than Sony or Apple.
I agree, except I heard that the battery life wasn't that great. If Apple makes an iPod that is all screen, they are going to shoot themselves in the foot (unless they make a way to change songs on the fly); and I have a feeling that's their next move. The Zune is underrated, and I'll probably buy a Zune v.2 but I'm not sure if they will be popular simply because Microsoft doesn't know how to market. If they tie it into the 360, they have a winner.
Sorry to interrupt the anti-Microsoft circle jerk, but my Windows Vista (64-bit Ultimate) does not have this problem. While I understand some people may have this problem, the Original Post makes it sound as if this has occurred on every single copy of Windows Vista that has ran the latest update; which as you can tell is not the case. Why does a minority problem even get Slashdotted? Because it's about Microsoft or because it's a slow Sunday? Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux.
I think this raises the question of who really has control of which OS has the dominant market share, the developers, or the consumers. I'm going to go with the consumer on this one, no consumer means developer goes out of business, no developer means consumer goes elsewhere. Elsewhere appears to be Microsoft; just because you don't like Microsoft doesn't mean that "OMG Microsoft won't be the number one operating system in a matter of years! GO LINUX!"...Why can't most enthusiasts just realize there are advantages to different platforms and leave it at that, don't turn software into a religion. Admittedly I usually stand up for Microsoft because they are usually the ones hated with the most passion, but my desktops run on Windows (XP, Vista), my server runs on Linux. I also vastly enjoy open source, but that doesn't mean that I like running an open source operating system on my desktops. I think maybe the survey lacks that understanding with some of the developers.
I suppose that's why my Windows Vista Ultimate disk shipped with both 32 and 64 bit discs under the same package name "Windows Vista Ultimate". The discs pertain no titles "Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit" or "Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit", but rather a notice: "This disc contains 64-bit software only" and "This disc contains 32-bit software only"...I also remember Microsoft having a new rule that in order to say you are "Vista Compatible/Ready" you must support both 64 and 32 bit editions. I think this should void the contract between the customer and AT&T, and I would suggest Apple simply have a disclaimer saying "currently we do not support 64 bit operating systems" right on the iPhone package or promotional. Considering I was actually considering an iPhone for the future after seeing it is actually quite nice, and I run 64 bit Vista Ultimate...this is quite disappointing. I hope Apple and AT&T make it right with their new iPhone customers running 64 bit operating systems, or I'll just be sticking with Verizon until Apple moves to them as a carrier, or a competing phone hits the market. I have a feeling AT&T will be more stingy about this than Apple...we'll have to wait and see.
Rumor has it that Yahoo will not have an independent search engine for long if News Corp takes stake in them, supposedly the search will be outsourced using Google's search index, like it was in the old days when Yahoo was an actual popular "search engine"...and in my experience Microsoft and Google's search engines turn up results that are way better than Yahoo's in regards to relevance...and Live and Google actually turn up nearly the same thing. Google is just more comfortable and faster. Live used to have this AJAX interface where you never had to change pages when it was in beta, I actually liked that feel. As far as I know they no longer offer that though. The only problem with Live I really have is that Google crawls many many more pages. I think Google has secured a huge chunk of the search market with Gmail, which still remains the easiest to use email service, at least in my opinion.
Ok, so let's not write software for Windows or OSX because they have a miscellaneous bug, reason being if we developed for them that might make them not fix them? That... doesn't sound like a very "smart" thing to me...I don't think you'd be in business for long. I've never had problems getting IE to render correctly, it just takes tweaking at times, but generally it works fine...no real difference than tweaking for any other browser.
Even if it wasn't free it still would make him not a very "smart" developer; he maybe good, I don't know...but considering IE6 and IE7 still make up the majority of market share, developing websites to work well with them is essential...doing otherwise would be pretty dumb considering you'd be cutting off a huge chunk of the market.
Anyhow, I'm sure some of these downloads of Safari are multiple downloads, Mac users running boot camp, web developers who never had a shot at testing designs on Safari, etc. I doubt, at least for now, that it is a serious contender with Firefox and Internet Explorer...but I think it could be a very serious contender if they begin packaging it with iTunes CDs that come with iPods...
How many people are going to know this? Or even know that this is the problem? You give far too much credit to the average user.
Oh... well here's a swell idea, why doesn't Google automatically turn it off (after asking of course) when you install Google Desktop (or inform you after you install it)? Oh hey, here is another idea; Google could put a link on the bottom of their Google Desktop results (or the top if the average user is too dumb to scroll) saying it detects Windows Indexer running and that it may hurt performance...then having a link to a tutorial on how to solve that. Oh man, I guess I'm giving Google's Desktop development team too much credit?
I love Google, but this ridiculous; and what makes it worse is that even Slashdotters, people who proclaim to be "nerds" don't know how to turn off services in Windows.
Probably a stupid question, but would this also prove that energy can be created? I don't know much about physics, but it seems that logically if hydrogen can pop out of no where, then energy is therefore able to be created. This of course as opposed to the "energy can neither be created nor destroyed." Also could this "god particle" destroy energy also, and could that give new insights to black holes? Please excuse my ignorance on the subject, I'm just giving a hypothetical.
There is a big difference between the Nintendo DS and iPhone touch screens though; The Nintendo DS has in enclosed screen (like a flip phone), while the iPhone is open faced. I really hope Apple uses a resilient plastic...I don't doubt the GUI and tactile feedback will be generally good/great, but I am concerned about the iPhone's potentially fragile nature.
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I've used a Xbox 360, and Microsoft designed that...I don't see many people complaining about the quality of the 360. From a hardware standpoint Microsoft actually does have a decent track record.
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I was modded down because I said the iPod might not be God, and you were modded up for defending it? Talk about bias. If you have ever used a Nano you could scratch it with your fingernail, it's that fragile. I had a protective case and the screen still scratched and I assure you slamming a ~$400 piece of equipment around isn't one of my hobbies. Anyhow, you are missing the point, I've had my phone for a year now and it's hardly scratched if at all, my iPod(s) was/were decimated by scratches in less than a year. The mere fact that I can't put it in the same pocket with my keys and that the battery loses charge in less than a year is a problem. The Zune's screen literally can have a key ran across it and it will not scratch, the battery issue has yet to be seen (which could be a case of youth). The scratch issue could be a huge issue for the iPhone...
Now to find out whether I was modded down for saying something good about Microsoft's product or something bad about Apple's.
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When I was around campus this past year I saw more Zunes than iPods. I noticed that less and less students were carrying their ipods in hand as they were the previous year. I was surprised to say the least, I did however notice more people using their phones (such as Sony Ericsson) as mp3 players than either the iPod or the Zune. Personally I will never buy another iPod until they can fully address their battery issues and make them virtually unable to be scratched without intent. I've gone through 3 iPods (3rd Gen, 4th Gen and a nano) all of which became grossly scratched even a lot of care and two of which the battery completely died, holding charge for only ~5 minutes. I really like where the Zune is headed overall but it's lack of file format support makes it very unattractive. I think when Microsoft themselves actually design the product it will begin to look much more polished (it was previously designed by Toshiba.) I'm waiting on the next generation Zune, hoping to not be disappointed like I was for the first one. I request they expand their file support, integrate it wirelessly with the 360, integrate it with the 360 arcade, add satellite radio extensions (just an antenna add-on and software load), and slim the player itself. If or when they do these things, I think they can actually have the title "iPod killer". Microsoft has the power to do this, I just want to know why they aren't.
Not to be an information nazi, but it was "Kudlow and Cramer", not "Kudlow and Kramer". The show is now "Kudlow and Company" as Jim Cramer now has his own show "Mad Money."
Anyhow, the press will publish whatever makes money, they don't censor news per se; The press is one instance of "the market" ruling.
I think you took hypothetical goals as real ones. Google doesn't want to tell you what you should do tomorrow, or what job you should get; they want to give you a broader spectrum of options which pertain to you. It's not like the book "The Giver" were they appoint you a job... If Google can give a set of options that are narrow, yet broad and can increase my income and level of happiness without manipulation, I don't see anything wrong with that.
The fact that biofuels are introducing competition for scarce food resources is a regulatory problem, not a problem with biofuels themselves. There need to be laws in place to prevent the food supply from competing with the biofuel supply.
I'm not sure if that's true/would work. The supply would still be the same, and I'm sure farmers would swarm to which ever category would make more profits. So one of them would be off balance, completely offsetting the other. The supply and demand don't change at all, even if it was government selected and farmers are just paid blindly, it still would have the same price, because as I said it still has the same supply base. I could be wrong, but with my logic I can't see it having anything but a negative effect. If you set a price cap you'd just force a supply shortage, which is what happened in the oil embargo. I just can't see any regulation that would have a positive effect. Can anyone give me an example? I suppose if the government itself planted corn etc it could keep a separate supply, but I doubt any farmer would support that...and they'd just plant less corn, which again would force higher prices. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I completely agree. However, the use of a $ in MS, is so original, thoughtful and funny and always leads to insightful posts. I think to battle this insightful jargon we should start saying things such as Goog£e, £inux, Appl(Euro sign here), Ci$co or ¥ahoo. We'll use currency diversity, that'll show em!
I expected no different, Microsoft actually going through with a lawsuit may have created some bad PR. Now maybe some will view Microsoft as having "mercy" or what have you about open source and by doing so move some customers to its new found partner Novell as the article states. All in all from a corporate standpoint, Microsoft is doing the right thing to improve its bottom line. Though I wonder if Microsoft used this patent dispute to strong arm Novell months ago, and to what extent Microsoft has tied itself to Novell?
That doesn't make any sense, because margins are higher on non-DRM songs for the media distributors. Why would Microsoft "tap dance" to less profits - for themselves? Microsoft has a very small footprint in the music/video industry compared to Apple, who has sold 2 billion+ songs and holds 70%+ of the online music industry...Apple has a lot more leverage than Microsoft in wiping out DRM, which is my point. Microsoft can't do anything to the music/video industry, because they have no leverage in that industry at this point. Microsoft is the 800 pound gorilla in its own industry, not across the broad spectrum of industries.
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I don't see why this matters, I have owned a few iPods and I just bought an 80GB Zune and I love it. Has Microsoft beat Apple in the mp3 market? Personally I think the hardware and firmware on the Zune far exceeds the iPod, however, the Zune software is no where near iTunes (the music store itself on the other hand I find to be better), and I really don't like iTunes. Microsoft should really just plug the Zune in with WMP11 and it would be a competitor all around. Microsoft is just using the 30GB as a way to get in, knowing full well that when you upgrade your firmware you'll have a similar experience that the 80GB Zune buyers are having, minus a touch pad and squircle. Microsoft will and is a serious competitor with the Apple mp3 player "monopoly;" But I don't think the numbers will really start showing that until the Zune is well into it's 4th generation. This generation is fantastic, people will still buy iPods like mad, but maybe the Zune will eventually get a similar look. People say that Apple has a monopoly on the market, but I see people every day call a Sandisk or iRiver an iPod...I don't know if that's what Apple is wanting, but it's happening, and I would say it's working against Apple. Anyhow, I look forward to what the Zune's firmware updates will bring, something that you never anticipate with Apple. If anything the Zune will make Apple review their dominance and make a better product, personally I think Microsoft has the best HDD player on the market right now, but that doesn't mean Apple can't have the best next generation or visa versa. In the end, we are the winners.
I resent that statement, having owned an Alienware for many years is what got me in the game of geekdom. Beside you overlook the fact that many software geeks are not necessarily inclined to be hardware geeks and visa versa. I consider myself to be very geeky, having written programs, websites and built PCs...but not so geeky as to remain a virgin well into my 30s; if my type is considered being a technical wannabe, I'll gladly let others be more "technical savvy" than I.
Yes, because you can change songs with the player in your pocket by feeling a flat screen...oh wait, is that a bullet?
One thing that is often ignored is the the Zune v.1 was not designed by Microsoft, it was designed by Toshiba. From what I've heard the Zune v.2 will be designed by Microsoft...if Microsoft could only push the Zune along side the 360 and make them integrate seamlessly with the PC, the Zune would be a blockbuster hit. Microsoft needs to learn to use their dominant fields of gaming and the PC to their advantage to push their products, especially through marketing. Microsoft has more power in this area than Sony or Apple.
I agree, except I heard that the battery life wasn't that great. If Apple makes an iPod that is all screen, they are going to shoot themselves in the foot (unless they make a way to change songs on the fly); and I have a feeling that's their next move. The Zune is underrated, and I'll probably buy a Zune v.2 but I'm not sure if they will be popular simply because Microsoft doesn't know how to market. If they tie it into the 360, they have a winner.
Sorry to interrupt the anti-Microsoft circle jerk, but my Windows Vista (64-bit Ultimate) does not have this problem. While I understand some people may have this problem, the Original Post makes it sound as if this has occurred on every single copy of Windows Vista that has ran the latest update; which as you can tell is not the case. Why does a minority problem even get Slashdotted? Because it's about Microsoft or because it's a slow Sunday? Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux.
I think this raises the question of who really has control of which OS has the dominant market share, the developers, or the consumers. I'm going to go with the consumer on this one, no consumer means developer goes out of business, no developer means consumer goes elsewhere. Elsewhere appears to be Microsoft; just because you don't like Microsoft doesn't mean that "OMG Microsoft won't be the number one operating system in a matter of years! GO LINUX!"...Why can't most enthusiasts just realize there are advantages to different platforms and leave it at that, don't turn software into a religion. Admittedly I usually stand up for Microsoft because they are usually the ones hated with the most passion, but my desktops run on Windows (XP, Vista), my server runs on Linux. I also vastly enjoy open source, but that doesn't mean that I like running an open source operating system on my desktops. I think maybe the survey lacks that understanding with some of the developers.
I suppose that's why my Windows Vista Ultimate disk shipped with both 32 and 64 bit discs under the same package name "Windows Vista Ultimate". The discs pertain no titles "Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit" or "Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit", but rather a notice: "This disc contains 64-bit software only" and "This disc contains 32-bit software only"...I also remember Microsoft having a new rule that in order to say you are "Vista Compatible/Ready" you must support both 64 and 32 bit editions. I think this should void the contract between the customer and AT&T, and I would suggest Apple simply have a disclaimer saying "currently we do not support 64 bit operating systems" right on the iPhone package or promotional. Considering I was actually considering an iPhone for the future after seeing it is actually quite nice, and I run 64 bit Vista Ultimate...this is quite disappointing. I hope Apple and AT&T make it right with their new iPhone customers running 64 bit operating systems, or I'll just be sticking with Verizon until Apple moves to them as a carrier, or a competing phone hits the market. I have a feeling AT&T will be more stingy about this than Apple...we'll have to wait and see.
Yes, but it is not well known that this is actually how some candidates buy elections.
Rumor has it that Yahoo will not have an independent search engine for long if News Corp takes stake in them, supposedly the search will be outsourced using Google's search index, like it was in the old days when Yahoo was an actual popular "search engine"...and in my experience Microsoft and Google's search engines turn up results that are way better than Yahoo's in regards to relevance...and Live and Google actually turn up nearly the same thing. Google is just more comfortable and faster. Live used to have this AJAX interface where you never had to change pages when it was in beta, I actually liked that feel. As far as I know they no longer offer that though. The only problem with Live I really have is that Google crawls many many more pages. I think Google has secured a huge chunk of the search market with Gmail, which still remains the easiest to use email service, at least in my opinion.
Ok, so let's not write software for Windows or OSX because they have a miscellaneous bug, reason being if we developed for them that might make them not fix them? That... doesn't sound like a very "smart" thing to me...I don't think you'd be in business for long. I've never had problems getting IE to render correctly, it just takes tweaking at times, but generally it works fine...no real difference than tweaking for any other browser.
Even if it wasn't free it still would make him not a very "smart" developer; he maybe good, I don't know...but considering IE6 and IE7 still make up the majority of market share, developing websites to work well with them is essential...doing otherwise would be pretty dumb considering you'd be cutting off a huge chunk of the market. Anyhow, I'm sure some of these downloads of Safari are multiple downloads, Mac users running boot camp, web developers who never had a shot at testing designs on Safari, etc. I doubt, at least for now, that it is a serious contender with Firefox and Internet Explorer...but I think it could be a very serious contender if they begin packaging it with iTunes CDs that come with iPods...
Probably a stupid question, but would this also prove that energy can be created? I don't know much about physics, but it seems that logically if hydrogen can pop out of no where, then energy is therefore able to be created. This of course as opposed to the "energy can neither be created nor destroyed." Also could this "god particle" destroy energy also, and could that give new insights to black holes? Please excuse my ignorance on the subject, I'm just giving a hypothetical.
There is a big difference between the Nintendo DS and iPhone touch screens though; The Nintendo DS has in enclosed screen (like a flip phone), while the iPhone is open faced. I really hope Apple uses a resilient plastic...I don't doubt the GUI and tactile feedback will be generally good/great, but I am concerned about the iPhone's potentially fragile nature.
I've used a Xbox 360, and Microsoft designed that...I don't see many people complaining about the quality of the 360. From a hardware standpoint Microsoft actually does have a decent track record.
I was modded down because I said the iPod might not be God, and you were modded up for defending it? Talk about bias. If you have ever used a Nano you could scratch it with your fingernail, it's that fragile. I had a protective case and the screen still scratched and I assure you slamming a ~$400 piece of equipment around isn't one of my hobbies. Anyhow, you are missing the point, I've had my phone for a year now and it's hardly scratched if at all, my iPod(s) was/were decimated by scratches in less than a year. The mere fact that I can't put it in the same pocket with my keys and that the battery loses charge in less than a year is a problem. The Zune's screen literally can have a key ran across it and it will not scratch, the battery issue has yet to be seen (which could be a case of youth). The scratch issue could be a huge issue for the iPhone... Now to find out whether I was modded down for saying something good about Microsoft's product or something bad about Apple's.
When I was around campus this past year I saw more Zunes than iPods. I noticed that less and less students were carrying their ipods in hand as they were the previous year. I was surprised to say the least, I did however notice more people using their phones (such as Sony Ericsson) as mp3 players than either the iPod or the Zune. Personally I will never buy another iPod until they can fully address their battery issues and make them virtually unable to be scratched without intent. I've gone through 3 iPods (3rd Gen, 4th Gen and a nano) all of which became grossly scratched even a lot of care and two of which the battery completely died, holding charge for only ~5 minutes. I really like where the Zune is headed overall but it's lack of file format support makes it very unattractive. I think when Microsoft themselves actually design the product it will begin to look much more polished (it was previously designed by Toshiba.) I'm waiting on the next generation Zune, hoping to not be disappointed like I was for the first one. I request they expand their file support, integrate it wirelessly with the 360, integrate it with the 360 arcade, add satellite radio extensions (just an antenna add-on and software load), and slim the player itself. If or when they do these things, I think they can actually have the title "iPod killer". Microsoft has the power to do this, I just want to know why they aren't.
Not to be an information nazi, but it was "Kudlow and Cramer", not "Kudlow and Kramer". The show is now "Kudlow and Company" as Jim Cramer now has his own show "Mad Money." Anyhow, the press will publish whatever makes money, they don't censor news per se; The press is one instance of "the market" ruling.
I think you took hypothetical goals as real ones. Google doesn't want to tell you what you should do tomorrow, or what job you should get; they want to give you a broader spectrum of options which pertain to you. It's not like the book "The Giver" were they appoint you a job... If Google can give a set of options that are narrow, yet broad and can increase my income and level of happiness without manipulation, I don't see anything wrong with that.
I completely agree. However, the use of a $ in MS, is so original, thoughtful and funny and always leads to insightful posts. I think to battle this insightful jargon we should start saying things such as Goog£e, £inux, Appl(Euro sign here), Ci$co or ¥ahoo. We'll use currency diversity, that'll show em!
I expected no different, Microsoft actually going through with a lawsuit may have created some bad PR. Now maybe some will view Microsoft as having "mercy" or what have you about open source and by doing so move some customers to its new found partner Novell as the article states. All in all from a corporate standpoint, Microsoft is doing the right thing to improve its bottom line. Though I wonder if Microsoft used this patent dispute to strong arm Novell months ago, and to what extent Microsoft has tied itself to Novell?
Hence, my question of which part of NYSE-Euronext is being switched to Linux and statement that Euronext is likely being the reason behind the switch.
That doesn't make any sense, because margins are higher on non-DRM songs for the media distributors. Why would Microsoft "tap dance" to less profits - for themselves? Microsoft has a very small footprint in the music/video industry compared to Apple, who has sold 2 billion+ songs and holds 70%+ of the online music industry...Apple has a lot more leverage than Microsoft in wiping out DRM, which is my point. Microsoft can't do anything to the music/video industry, because they have no leverage in that industry at this point. Microsoft is the 800 pound gorilla in its own industry, not across the broad spectrum of industries.