If they have to port it to every OS people "prefer", they have a whole shitload of driver writing on their hands.
I said support, not port.
To support linux / bsd / etc, you don't have to write anything - just release specs (and maybe even the source of the windows drivers) and let the oss community do the hard work.
That way people don't end up with a situation where they have to buy new hardware to get a new operating system (consider XPs breaking of loads of old scanner drivers)
Mac's are harder to support (as the kernel is no longer open source) - but mac users tend to only buy mac hardware anyway.
Google news is good because its an aggragator rather than a source of news, so you can read al jazeera or fox's stance on the latest iraq sadness.
I'm not familiar with any of the channels you mention apart from CNN (which is drifting slowly right), but for a reasonably non-biased (and I stress, only reasonably) news channel, give BBC world a try if you can get it.
As usual, you've utterly missed the point, while rushing to defend Apple.
1) People are more concerned about working conditions then pay. 2) If the regime in China is bad, then:
a. We cant fix it, but we can;
b. Pressure Apple to stop dealing with them.
Everyone does it true, but Apple is prominent.
Apple has a choice here. They can be nike, or they can be reebok.
I'm curious, if you did, who would force you to watch it? I get CNN but nobody makes me turn it on;
The attitude of TV new helps shape public opinion, people's conversations, prejudices, etc.
Yes, I wouldn't watch it (although it would still irritate me flickin'), but I would have to put up with people asking me / telling me / whatever about the utter bullshit they'd seen on it.
(and I've watched enough fox to believe that enough on that channel is utter, utter horsecrap.)
Apple's successes lean heavily on not straying too far from their core market competencies - useable devices that people want.
Nonsense - in 2000, I would have said:
Apple's successes lean heavily on not straying too far from their core market competencies - PCs.
But I would have been wrong, because inspite of the failure of the pippin & newton, Apple's wildest success was going out & making a music player - completely outside their core market.
Difference between that & buying nintendo however, is that:
1) Apple did that on their own. 2) They expanded into a new, emerging market (like the newton should have).
Apple should continue to look to new markets, rather then try to get in to an already overcrowded market using a brute-force approach (like one of their O/S competitors).
Article is speculation of the stupidist sort. Check this:
A Nintendo purchase could potentially let Apple bring the success enjoyed by the iPod to the Macintosh computer.
That is quite possibly the stupidest sentence I've ever read.
I certainly hope that Apple doesn't buy nintendo (even if they could) because the reason nintendo are great is because the concentrate on games, games, games. No failed computer / pda / music player / whatever for them. They just concentrate on what they're good at.
To be fair, Jobs did offer to give them a gratis license to use OSX freely; they turned him down because OSX is not open-source.
Hmmmmn,
To be fair, Jobs did offer to give them a gratis license to use OSX freely, knowing they needed a libre license - and why they needed it; they turned him down because OSX is not open-source.
What the grandparent asks is a little like "Shouldn't the police be going after the crack dealers producing the expensive, crappy crack noone wants, rather then the dealers with the pure, cheap crack?"
(to extend the always brilliant DRM vendors / drug pusher analogy)
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If they have to port it to every OS people "prefer", they have a whole shitload of driver writing on their hands.
I said support, not port.
To support linux / bsd / etc, you don't have to write anything - just release specs (and maybe even the source of the windows drivers) and let the oss community do the hard work.
That way people don't end up with a situation where they have to buy new hardware to get a new operating system (consider XPs breaking of loads of old scanner drivers)
Mac's are harder to support (as the kernel is no longer open source) - but mac users tend to only buy mac hardware anyway.
More like, the developer did the math and decided that supporting linux users wouldn't be profitable.
Exactly what he said.
If the developer can't see the point in supporting the OS you prefer (be it mac or linux), why the hell would you choose to buy their products?
Are you sure?
I presume you're refering to figures on this page that puts MS's net income at US$12.25 billion (EU 9.63 billion) - Around 26m euros/day.
So, it would take them a little over 10 days to recover it, furthermore, you're comparing the fine for a single region to their world wide profits.
Its a pretty big deal, not just the cash, but the possibilities for further fines (or harsher penalties).
Google news is good because its an aggragator rather than a source of news, so you can read al jazeera or fox's stance on the latest iraq sadness.
I'm not familiar with any of the channels you mention apart from CNN (which is drifting slowly right), but for a reasonably non-biased (and I stress, only reasonably) news channel, give BBC world a try if you can get it.
Dave,
As usual, you've utterly missed the point, while rushing to defend Apple.
1) People are more concerned about working conditions then pay.
2) If the regime in China is bad, then:
a. We cant fix it, but we can;
b. Pressure Apple to stop dealing with them.
Everyone does it true, but Apple is prominent.
Apple has a choice here. They can be nike, or they can be reebok.
I'm curious, if you did, who would force you to watch it? I get CNN but nobody makes me turn it on;
The attitude of TV new helps shape public opinion, people's conversations, prejudices, etc.
Yes, I wouldn't watch it (although it would still irritate me flickin'), but I would have to put up with people asking me / telling me / whatever about the utter bullshit they'd seen on it.
(and I've watched enough fox to believe that enough on that channel is utter, utter horsecrap.)
Google News is much better.
Agreed.
Word of Advice: DO NOT try this in your home country.
about Apple's brand - premium, professional goods sold to a very specific professional market. NOT TOYS.
and the Ipod is?
A toy or a 'professional good'
Yeah, yeah, ohreally too, along with moore, etc. Doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum to be a troll.
And, no, thank the fuckin' lord, I do not get fox here.
Nonono, he was attributing the article to the Stupidist movement
*snort*
Now that's a movement I could join!
Dvorak is nothing other than the worlds most successful troll.
I think you meant:
Dvorak is nothing other than the worlds most successful internet troll.
(see Stern, Rush, etc etc)
Thats an almost impossible task - mac users are too smart to take the bait ;)
Absolutely true.
:-)
UK beer is terrible, no matter what temperature its served at!
You have to go to the continent to get something decent
Apple's successes lean heavily on not straying too far from their core market competencies - useable devices that people want.
Nonsense - in 2000, I would have said:
Apple's successes lean heavily on not straying too far from their core market competencies - PCs.
But I would have been wrong, because inspite of the failure of the pippin & newton, Apple's wildest success was going out & making a music player - completely outside their core market.
Difference between that & buying nintendo however, is that:
1) Apple did that on their own.
2) They expanded into a new, emerging market (like the newton should have).
Apple should continue to look to new markets, rather then try to get in to an already overcrowded market using a brute-force approach (like one of their O/S competitors).
That is quite possibly the stupidest sentence I've ever read.
I certainly hope that Apple doesn't buy nintendo (even if they could) because the reason nintendo are great is because the concentrate on games, games, games. No failed computer / pda / music player / whatever for them. They just concentrate on what they're good at.
Any dillution of that fervour would be sad.
.. 1984. George was right, just off by 22 years.
The NSA's been intercepting & analysing any communications it can get its hands on since its inception.
Nothing new here, and its been going on since long before 1984 (although george was smart seeing it coming in '48).
Philip Jose Farmer predicted "batacitors" in his novels decades ago. Chalk annother one up for life imitating science fiction.
:-)
Well - its a bit of a no-brainer to any EE kind of guy. No wasteful energy conversion process, etc etc.
Everyone's been waiting for the materials technology to catch up to the rather obvious idea that's all
Nice link to a story about the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
I think it was actually a story about someone protesting about the terms of a service they were using.
I suspect he just knows how to write up a story wel^h^h^h in a manner suited for the slashdot audience.
Who cares really - he doesn't seem to be pimping anything like Roland or beatlesbeatles were, so *shrug*
*snort* - thanks for that, haven't heard it in years :-)
law-abiding college students
Individually, I understand every word in that snippet.
But together.... just not parsing.
To be fair, Jobs did offer to give them a gratis license to use OSX freely; they turned him down because OSX is not open-source.
Hmmmmn,
To be fair, Jobs did offer to give them a gratis license to use OSX freely, knowing they needed a libre license - and why they needed it; they turned him down because OSX is not open-source.
Story is about american students. Summary headline should read:
Apple: iPod more popular than flavourless brown fizzy drinks.
(I'll leave the facebook==beer popularity jokes to others:)
If you want to protest, the usual method is by "voting with your feet."
You sir, have no idea what protest means.
Note that I am not likening this flash protest with Rosa Parks - just pointing out the absurdity of your statement.
If you don't like iTunes DRM, then don't use it.
DRM is coming, better to fight it early, raise the profile of what DRM means & attack its current most visible form.
Well put!
What the grandparent asks is a little like "Shouldn't the police be going after the crack dealers producing the expensive, crappy crack noone wants, rather then the dealers with the pure, cheap crack?"
(to extend the always brilliant DRM vendors / drug pusher analogy)