Order a company to sell their product to another company as punishment, and make sure it's somebody that doesn't like them? I can't see this going very well.
Monopolies aren't inherently bad; abuse of monopolies is. While we're on the extreme solutions front, a more fitting punishment might be to force Microsoft to shut down its MSN video service for a year. Thing is, such punishments don't work if you don't actually solve the original problem, which is that they are unfairly blocking YouTube links.
My bad. I did see the videos of the Maori doing it while I was in New Zealand and at the original bungee jump location near Queenstown (Kawarau River) on my first and only jump. However, the hysteria may have made me misremember. This site agrees with what you say: http://www.queenstown.nz.com/bungy-jumping.aspx
Yes, ignoring the entire country of New Zealand and its native Maori, who have been using vines to bungee jump from wooden towers for hundreds of years, it's possible that he invented it.
Bear in mind that you'll still be forced to buy the artificially imposed "Mac edition" of whatever card you're looking at, which means the price will be over-inflated and you may run into problems with the drivers functioning properly. I'm curious to see how third-party upgrades go.
You work on various Psystars? I hope as tech support and not because you bought them (especially based on your own negative review of the system). Also, are you sure about that 17MB? If that takes more than 10 seconds on a G3, I'd be worried.
Sorry for the nitpicking. Anyway, while I'm impressed that Psystar is actually shipping, I can't imagine why anybody would actually want to purchase it. OSX seems to be only generally functional, you lose out on the benefit of automated software updates, and implementing many things requires hack after hack, thus throwing the benefit of "just works" out the window completely.
My question is, can you at least set the system up for multi-boot into Windows or Linux without any further headaches beyond the usual? If not, then I fail to see any benefit whatsoever in giving this company money; no support from Apple, no support from 3rd-party hardware vendors (try explaining to them what you're running their equipment on and see how long that lasts), and fidgety performance. No thanks.
Yeah, I have to agree that this sounds like Vista is actually doing its job. You can argue that malware can take advantage of this system, but such malware would require social engineering to get itself installed, rather than doing it on the sly.
The author of the article basically lauds XP's "everybody runs as an administrator" scenario as if it was a good thing, then goes on to complain that Microsoft forcing him to play by their rules rather than by his own is somehow a bad thing.
In other words, system hacks now take twelve times the effort to implement. That's a good thing. Sounds like Microsoft is finally in a position to clean up the sloppy "do whatever you like" developer culture that they've been burdened with for so long.
Man, this is old. One thing the original author of the story completely fails to take into account is that the store owner would probably be affected very little if at all by such piracy, unless the youth specifically targeted other potential music buyers in his geographical area. I seriously doubt he would believe that somebody several thousand miles away is downloading the CD for free and think it would impact his business.
This story is a good example, however, of just how poorly the music industry understood the way the internet works, even just a few years ago.
Actually, if you read it to the end, there is some basic analysis there. He says that while some methods of using Lagrange points can be considered novel and creative, using a massive celestial body in a swing-by orbit as a method for changing the ultimate trajectory and speed of an object is too elementary to be patentable, not to mention rife with prior art.
I think if the satellite maker's lawyers were being especially clever, they would have said that they were actually using the gravity of the sun, earth, and other interstellar objects, and that the interaction with the moon was an unforeseen and unintended consequence. That, or they could have just fixed the damn orbit and let Boeing sue them later.
Turns out that the only reason this patent became an issue was because Boeing is being sued by the company whose satellite went awry, and Boeing is holding the patent hostage to the other company dropping the suit. All very ugly and childish.
It's worse in Australian English. Just ask any Australian what they think of "rooting" and see what reaction you get (make sure they're your friend first, and best not asked in mixed company, if you catch my drift).
Or to be completely honest, the "Gnu is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program". Seriously, no, find a real name that doesn't make people feel uncomfortable or insulted. GNU Image Manipulation Program only loses the insulting aspect while maintaining the awkwardness in all its glory.
For a professional product, these things are necessary. Having them finally incorporated will be a wonderful thing indeed. I only hope they're addressing the Gimp's performance issues as well.
Actually, Bush seems to be fine with doing whatever he wants, regardless of what Congress says about it. That's the problem: the government only works if the people in it actually pay attention to what they are and are not supposed to do.
By the way, you gave us the choice of being vocal or bitching and complaining. Aren't those the same thing?
Except that US deployment typically works on the state level, not the national level, they certainly have the population and consumer demand to cover the price, and the government has paid them once already to take care of it. It is the telcos' fault that the US doesn't have broadband, not geography.
I live in Japan, which suffers from way too much geography (the vertical kind), not to mention earthquakes, volcanic activity, and a much higher cost of living in general. And yet I have a 100MB/s fiber connection to my apartment for less than half of what a US subscriber pays. I guess this is where government regulation trumps the free market system, where the only thing free seems to be how the companies view their access to my wallet.
It was based on exactly that sort of study. Easiest on the eyes because it was the easiest for the human eye to discern. Working on those old CGA monitors for hours on end required putting some thought into how to reduce eye strain. I believe that the number one combination, however, is supposed to be yellow on blue.
Do you believe that there are any other kinds of gays? Do you think that somebody can genuinely change sexual preference due to social factors (i.e. molestation, rape, identifying way too strongly with their same-sex parent etc)?
As a man, all I have to say is I could never give up my enjoyment of breasts.
I was wondering if the subway experience mirrored the arrival in City 17. That sequence made me feel a bit apprehensive and paranoid as well. And the passengers seemed a little less than happy.
There are a lot of conditionals in the article. "Embedded" by itself is a big one; there are a lot of hand-held devices that may use Linux or other open source underpinnings, but that is not the same thing as a mass movement towards open source on the desktop, for example. Gartner's analysis is very specific about how open source will be important for enterprises in certain markets like "cloud providers", but doesn't say anything about how the world in general is going to be happily whiling away the time on Ubuntu.
Photoshop's legacy is all Apple. If you've ever tried to use Photoshop in Windows from, say 4.0 on (about the time I tried using it on Windows, instead of my Mac, where I started at 2.5), you'd know how horribly awkward it was compared to its smooth operation on the Mac OS. Adobe has been criticized on the Windows side for having a Mac-like interface as well, which Windows users have been forced to just get used to.
Adobe has a long legacy of making sure their application is rock-solid and reliable before releasing. They, of any company, were the ones to set the bar for what it's like to release incredibly stable, bug-free software without any major point release dramas to fix glaring mistakes.
Yes, ever since they decided it was a good idea to put a salesman at the head of the company who believes that it's not what you sell, but how you sell it that's important, they've started going down a bad road. Their subsequent attempts to lock the system down with draconian DRM etc. has not improved their image much. However, there is no way to compare Pixelmator to Photoshop. Pixelmator can afford to be nimble because it has no expectations to live up to and is a relatively limited application with little utility in comparison.
Photoshop is a (reasonably) well-thought-out system of utilities and tools that have always done a darn good job working within the limits of the processor and memory and still manage to offer speedy, capable performance and a comprehensive 3rd-party plugin architecture. Adobe's main crutch is that they can't afford to simply throw away doing things the way they've always done in order to move forward; their own success has locked them into evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, progress.
Actually, if you read TFA, you will see that Creative merely forbade him from modding their software so that you could buy a cheap version of their card and software-enable it to behave like a more expensive version, plus unlocking other parts of their software in a way that would directly impinge upon their legitimate software sales that weren't actually bug-fix driven. They have not only given him permission to continue publishing his bug-fix-related patches, he's even allowed to officially accept donations for his work.
Disappointing as it sounds, it seems like Creative merely stopped him from going to far into the realm of actually cannibalizing their legitimate business while giving him permission to continue fixing issues that represent actual problems for their users. Sounds like a win-win all around.
There's a reason we invented the term, "leech". There are enough people out there who intend to download whatever they can while giving as little as possible back to justify the argument that a significant number of people have no intention of sharing at all.
Also, assuming that an "offer to distribute" requires a conscious decision, there are plenty of people who have no idea how P2P or Bittorrent work and therefore don't understand that they're giving anything to anybody.
Human history has always been about a small elite class and a large poor class. This isn't a new thing by any means; it's just the way it's always worked.
I agree that the name is crucial. The GIMP is never going to gain mainstream acceptance for as long as it has a name that some people might actually find offensive. GIMP developers: I'm sorry, it's not cute. Even if it wasn't offensive, it says horrible things about your software's abilities. Per the New Oxford American Dictionary:
a physically handicapped or lame person.
a limp.
a feeble or contemptible person.
Performance and functionality issues aside, I can't even bring it up in any kind of social setting without first having to apologize for the name.
Size is no longer a viable argument here; the backbones are in place, and as for the last-mile equation, the government already gave the money to the telcos specifically for that task. Ten years ago. They pocketed the money, said thank you very much, and proceeded with business as usual.
All of this distance argument has done very little to dissuade the cable companies from installing digital cable over fiber; they're very happy to pass the costs on to the consumer.
What I'd love to see is Seagate trying to examine their competitor's products in order to prove that they're really infringing. Their competitors invoke the DMCA, hilarity ensues.
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Order a company to sell their product to another company as punishment, and make sure it's somebody that doesn't like them? I can't see this going very well.
Monopolies aren't inherently bad; abuse of monopolies is. While we're on the extreme solutions front, a more fitting punishment might be to force Microsoft to shut down its MSN video service for a year. Thing is, such punishments don't work if you don't actually solve the original problem, which is that they are unfairly blocking YouTube links.
My bad. I did see the videos of the Maori doing it while I was in New Zealand and at the original bungee jump location near Queenstown (Kawarau River) on my first and only jump. However, the hysteria may have made me misremember. This site agrees with what you say: http://www.queenstown.nz.com/bungy-jumping.aspx
Yes, ignoring the entire country of New Zealand and its native Maori, who have been using vines to bungee jump from wooden towers for hundreds of years, it's possible that he invented it.
Bear in mind that you'll still be forced to buy the artificially imposed "Mac edition" of whatever card you're looking at, which means the price will be over-inflated and you may run into problems with the drivers functioning properly. I'm curious to see how third-party upgrades go.
You work on various Psystars? I hope as tech support and not because you bought them (especially based on your own negative review of the system). Also, are you sure about that 17MB? If that takes more than 10 seconds on a G3, I'd be worried.
Sorry for the nitpicking. Anyway, while I'm impressed that Psystar is actually shipping, I can't imagine why anybody would actually want to purchase it. OSX seems to be only generally functional, you lose out on the benefit of automated software updates, and implementing many things requires hack after hack, thus throwing the benefit of "just works" out the window completely.
My question is, can you at least set the system up for multi-boot into Windows or Linux without any further headaches beyond the usual? If not, then I fail to see any benefit whatsoever in giving this company money; no support from Apple, no support from 3rd-party hardware vendors (try explaining to them what you're running their equipment on and see how long that lasts), and fidgety performance. No thanks.
Yeah, I have to agree that this sounds like Vista is actually doing its job. You can argue that malware can take advantage of this system, but such malware would require social engineering to get itself installed, rather than doing it on the sly.
The author of the article basically lauds XP's "everybody runs as an administrator" scenario as if it was a good thing, then goes on to complain that Microsoft forcing him to play by their rules rather than by his own is somehow a bad thing.
In other words, system hacks now take twelve times the effort to implement. That's a good thing. Sounds like Microsoft is finally in a position to clean up the sloppy "do whatever you like" developer culture that they've been burdened with for so long.
Man, this is old. One thing the original author of the story completely fails to take into account is that the store owner would probably be affected very little if at all by such piracy, unless the youth specifically targeted other potential music buyers in his geographical area. I seriously doubt he would believe that somebody several thousand miles away is downloading the CD for free and think it would impact his business.
This story is a good example, however, of just how poorly the music industry understood the way the internet works, even just a few years ago.
Actually, if you read it to the end, there is some basic analysis there. He says that while some methods of using Lagrange points can be considered novel and creative, using a massive celestial body in a swing-by orbit as a method for changing the ultimate trajectory and speed of an object is too elementary to be patentable, not to mention rife with prior art.
I think if the satellite maker's lawyers were being especially clever, they would have said that they were actually using the gravity of the sun, earth, and other interstellar objects, and that the interaction with the moon was an unforeseen and unintended consequence. That, or they could have just fixed the damn orbit and let Boeing sue them later.
Turns out that the only reason this patent became an issue was because Boeing is being sued by the company whose satellite went awry, and Boeing is holding the patent hostage to the other company dropping the suit. All very ugly and childish.
It's worse in Australian English. Just ask any Australian what they think of "rooting" and see what reaction you get (make sure they're your friend first, and best not asked in mixed company, if you catch my drift).
Problem is, I pronounce "route" to rhyme with "out". I had to think about that one before it worked.
Or to be completely honest, the "Gnu is Not Unix Image Manipulation Program". Seriously, no, find a real name that doesn't make people feel uncomfortable or insulted. GNU Image Manipulation Program only loses the insulting aspect while maintaining the awkwardness in all its glory.
And by 32-bit color support you meant 16, right?
For a professional product, these things are necessary. Having them finally incorporated will be a wonderful thing indeed. I only hope they're addressing the Gimp's performance issues as well.
Actually, Bush seems to be fine with doing whatever he wants, regardless of what Congress says about it. That's the problem: the government only works if the people in it actually pay attention to what they are and are not supposed to do.
By the way, you gave us the choice of being vocal or bitching and complaining. Aren't those the same thing?
Except that US deployment typically works on the state level, not the national level, they certainly have the population and consumer demand to cover the price, and the government has paid them once already to take care of it. It is the telcos' fault that the US doesn't have broadband, not geography.
I live in Japan, which suffers from way too much geography (the vertical kind), not to mention earthquakes, volcanic activity, and a much higher cost of living in general. And yet I have a 100MB/s fiber connection to my apartment for less than half of what a US subscriber pays. I guess this is where government regulation trumps the free market system, where the only thing free seems to be how the companies view their access to my wallet.
It was based on exactly that sort of study. Easiest on the eyes because it was the easiest for the human eye to discern. Working on those old CGA monitors for hours on end required putting some thought into how to reduce eye strain. I believe that the number one combination, however, is supposed to be yellow on blue.
Do you believe that there are any other kinds of gays? Do you think that somebody can genuinely change sexual preference due to social factors (i.e. molestation, rape, identifying way too strongly with their same-sex parent etc)?
As a man, all I have to say is I could never give up my enjoyment of breasts.
I was wondering if the subway experience mirrored the arrival in City 17. That sequence made me feel a bit apprehensive and paranoid as well. And the passengers seemed a little less than happy.
There are a lot of conditionals in the article. "Embedded" by itself is a big one; there are a lot of hand-held devices that may use Linux or other open source underpinnings, but that is not the same thing as a mass movement towards open source on the desktop, for example. Gartner's analysis is very specific about how open source will be important for enterprises in certain markets like "cloud providers", but doesn't say anything about how the world in general is going to be happily whiling away the time on Ubuntu.
Photoshop's legacy is all Apple. If you've ever tried to use Photoshop in Windows from, say 4.0 on (about the time I tried using it on Windows, instead of my Mac, where I started at 2.5), you'd know how horribly awkward it was compared to its smooth operation on the Mac OS. Adobe has been criticized on the Windows side for having a Mac-like interface as well, which Windows users have been forced to just get used to.
Adobe has a long legacy of making sure their application is rock-solid and reliable before releasing. They, of any company, were the ones to set the bar for what it's like to release incredibly stable, bug-free software without any major point release dramas to fix glaring mistakes.
Yes, ever since they decided it was a good idea to put a salesman at the head of the company who believes that it's not what you sell, but how you sell it that's important, they've started going down a bad road. Their subsequent attempts to lock the system down with draconian DRM etc. has not improved their image much. However, there is no way to compare Pixelmator to Photoshop. Pixelmator can afford to be nimble because it has no expectations to live up to and is a relatively limited application with little utility in comparison.
Photoshop is a (reasonably) well-thought-out system of utilities and tools that have always done a darn good job working within the limits of the processor and memory and still manage to offer speedy, capable performance and a comprehensive 3rd-party plugin architecture. Adobe's main crutch is that they can't afford to simply throw away doing things the way they've always done in order to move forward; their own success has locked them into evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, progress.
Actually, if you read TFA, you will see that Creative merely forbade him from modding their software so that you could buy a cheap version of their card and software-enable it to behave like a more expensive version, plus unlocking other parts of their software in a way that would directly impinge upon their legitimate software sales that weren't actually bug-fix driven. They have not only given him permission to continue publishing his bug-fix-related patches, he's even allowed to officially accept donations for his work.
Disappointing as it sounds, it seems like Creative merely stopped him from going to far into the realm of actually cannibalizing their legitimate business while giving him permission to continue fixing issues that represent actual problems for their users. Sounds like a win-win all around.
There's a reason we invented the term, "leech". There are enough people out there who intend to download whatever they can while giving as little as possible back to justify the argument that a significant number of people have no intention of sharing at all.
Also, assuming that an "offer to distribute" requires a conscious decision, there are plenty of people who have no idea how P2P or Bittorrent work and therefore don't understand that they're giving anything to anybody.
Human history has always been about a small elite class and a large poor class. This isn't a new thing by any means; it's just the way it's always worked.
I agree that the name is crucial. The GIMP is never going to gain mainstream acceptance for as long as it has a name that some people might actually find offensive. GIMP developers: I'm sorry, it's not cute. Even if it wasn't offensive, it says horrible things about your software's abilities. Per the New Oxford American Dictionary:
a physically handicapped or lame person.
a limp.
a feeble or contemptible person.
Performance and functionality issues aside, I can't even bring it up in any kind of social setting without first having to apologize for the name.
Size is no longer a viable argument here; the backbones are in place, and as for the last-mile equation, the government already gave the money to the telcos specifically for that task. Ten years ago. They pocketed the money, said thank you very much, and proceeded with business as usual.
All of this distance argument has done very little to dissuade the cable companies from installing digital cable over fiber; they're very happy to pass the costs on to the consumer.
What I'd love to see is Seagate trying to examine their competitor's products in order to prove that they're really infringing. Their competitors invoke the DMCA, hilarity ensues.