Apple's position is supported by the market. Enough people want to buy Apple's computers, as they stand now, to keep Apple in business.
Monopoly implies an attempt to control the market, to manipulate the common market to do something only in the interest of the monopolist.
So company Y might make a great system with unique features. But that doesn't stop you from buying any computer and doing any math routine you want. So Company Y doesn't have a monopoly on computers. Those unique features of company Y's products are merely the differentiation that makes them appealing. That's a perfectly acceptable economic idea.
Its why all food of a certain type doesn't cost the same. If company Z grows tomatoes with a special fertilizer, packages them in a lined can and calls them "Tasty" tomatoes, they can charge more than raw tomatoes, but it doesn't stop you from growing and selling tomatoes. If company Z threatens and attacks others who start growing tomatoes and compels them to stop, to keep their pricing power up. Then a monopoly exists.
Monopoly is an Economic term, misusing or over using it distorts your message.
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The worst part is that the palm kernel from Kadak, is multi-tasking and realtime, but Palm's kernel liscense prevents them from making those APIs available to developers. To do multi-tasking on the Palm pre- os 5 one has to pay Kadak money for access to the kernel APIs.
Adavis Tevanian did more to write Mach at CMU and Tevanian gave Microsoft's employment office the finger on principle. He was a major figure at NeXT. Tevanian is now Apple's head of software development.
IBM was just following in the footsteps of the Apple ][ computers which provided complete schematics for the computer in the manuals. The Apple ][ pioneered multiple expansion cards and an easily openable case, and here IBM realising what a good idea it was also folowed suit. Too bad Apple sometimes forgot those concepts.
Actually, Apple's Titanium PowerBook G4 is rumored to have the capacity for dual 7410 processors. Its currently a heat and power consumption issue though. Merlancia sure is copying some notes from the Apple playbook. Of cource Apple and NeXT both have taken some minor inpiration from Amiga's one time pushing of the state of the art. (no examples, deal with it)
Perhaps Slashdot needs a PowerPC topic icon. We do have a Transmeta topic, for example. The PowerPC does come from a three company alliance, and is popular in embeded devices and workstations. Embeded linux is growing. So the PowerPC processor family will become even more important as time goes on.
>Hacked servers by Microsoft
>Robertson said that Egghead.com is using Microsoft's Internet >Information Server, a common e-business server, as the platform for >its online service.
This is the second Eazel preview release, so why isn't there a PowerPC Linux build out? I don't have the space or time to download Mozilla too and build Eazel, but I'd really like to try it out.
>Laptops have had handles since before Apple even had a laptop design division - my old Grid machine had a great carrying system.
Yeah, the GRiD machine with the red plasma display was damn cool. However Apple did have a research department that did alot of early stuff with LCDs back in the 80s, and the first luggable Macintosh did have a handle.
I'm sorry those Qrium units look like cheap clock radios. Their design actually makes the Intel "Astec" pyramid concept design look good in comparison.
2.98 pounds, 1" thick, Pentium 3 500 MHz, 10.4" SVGA TFT screen, stereo speakers, V.90 modem (I hope it's a real hardware modem, it ships with Windows 2000 so maybe), NeoMagic 256AV video processor, Yamaha audio chip, USB, 1394, memory stick and jog dial, etc.
And the case is in metalic sliver and their new greenish black shade. There is also a faster Vaio SR-7K model available.
What? This new Vaio model looks like they put all the design work into the lid and keyboard to distract attention from the cheap and mediocre rest of the chassis. To me the base of the unit looks crude with obvious seams and large PCMCIA slots/ports that break the potential sleakness of the design.
Sony's trackpads can also digitize stylus input. They pioneered offering that. Apple's trackpads while they use the same supplier only respond to finger contact. However now due to the Digital Signatures law in the US more companies will start to ship trackpads you can write on. Although technically a digital signature dosen't require handwriting, it has a romantic appeal.
I'd like to see some notebooks in the Vaio 505 line be shipped with Crusoe processors. Since they are still quite small and light, but with a larger screen and some have lower price tags than the PictureBook. Has Sony decided to phase out the 505's with the new SR (5 & 7) line?
An SR with a Transmeta processor could work too, haven't seen one in person yet.
>OS X doesn't offer a command line unless you buy server or developer versions for a lot more money.
That's not true. The terminal.app is in the OS X beta with csh, tcsh, and zsh. Bash origionaly compiled for Rhapsody is a free download from who ever has a copy. Or grab Darwin and compile your own shell of choice.
There is LinuxPPC support for G4 SMP machines.
Yes, the OS X GUI windowing engine currently has performance problems compared to the X Window system. But then, Apple is trying to do more with the vector graphics of PDF.
Too bad BeOS didn't become more popular, with its multi-processing support for consumer/client machines. That must have been a major reason that Intel sunk money into Be, since the os encouraged dual Celeron or Pentium II mobo sales to those who tried the OS.
I hope those ties don't inhibit full Beos support for dual Duron systems.
And Lycos = BMG. Haven't they made a big stink about MP3 distrobution in Germany? I wonder if Sonique will start pushing a "secure" MP3 alternative at some time.
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Apple's position is supported by the market. Enough people want to buy Apple's computers, as they stand now, to keep Apple in business.
Monopoly implies an attempt to control the market, to manipulate the common market to do something only in the interest of the monopolist.
So company Y might make a great system with unique features. But that doesn't stop you from buying any computer and doing any math routine you want. So Company Y doesn't have a monopoly on computers. Those unique features of company Y's products are merely the differentiation that makes them appealing. That's a perfectly acceptable economic idea.
Its why all food of a certain type doesn't cost the same. If company Z grows tomatoes with a special fertilizer, packages them in a lined can and calls them "Tasty" tomatoes, they can charge more than raw tomatoes, but it doesn't stop you from growing and selling tomatoes. If company Z threatens and attacks others who start growing tomatoes and compels them to stop, to keep their pricing power up. Then a monopoly exists.
Monopoly is an Economic term, misusing or over using it distorts your message.
The worst part is that the palm kernel from Kadak, is multi-tasking and realtime, but Palm's kernel liscense prevents them from making those APIs available to developers. To do multi-tasking on the Palm pre- os 5 one has to pay Kadak money for access to the kernel APIs.
Adavis Tevanian did more to write Mach at CMU and Tevanian gave Microsoft's employment office the finger on principle. He was a major figure at NeXT. Tevanian is now Apple's head of software development.
IBM was just following in the footsteps of the Apple ][ computers which provided complete schematics for the computer in the manuals. The Apple ][ pioneered multiple expansion cards and an easily openable case, and here IBM realising what a good idea it was also folowed suit. Too bad Apple sometimes forgot those concepts.
Actually, Apple's Titanium PowerBook G4 is rumored to have the capacity for dual 7410 processors. Its currently a heat and power consumption issue though. Merlancia sure is copying some notes from the Apple playbook. Of cource Apple and NeXT both have taken some minor inpiration from Amiga's one time pushing of the state of the art. (no examples, deal with it)
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uh.. At a pet store that sells computers.
Or you could try a Logitec three button USB mouse on a G4, but you'll have to instal Linux yourself.
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Perhaps Slashdot needs a PowerPC topic icon. We do have a Transmeta topic, for example. The PowerPC does come from a three company alliance, and is popular in embeded devices and workstations. Embeded linux is growing. So the PowerPC processor family will become even more important as time goes on.
PPC=IBM, Motorola, Apple and a cast of thousands
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Here's a telling excerpt from the article.
>Hacked servers by Microsoft
>Robertson said that Egghead.com is using Microsoft's Internet >Information Server, a common e-business server, as the platform for >its online service.
>IIS is known to have had many security flaws.
Show that to your boss.
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If the IPaq is so open, why are you forced to buy a Microsoft license when you get one?
Compaq's success has more to do with the Digital Itsy, than anyone in Redmond. It would be nice if the IPaq was available with Linux preinstalled.
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Nautilus, excuse me
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This is the second Eazel preview release, so why isn't there a PowerPC Linux build out? I don't have the space or time to download Mozilla too and build Eazel, but I'd really like to try it out.
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She's so SCSI.
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>Laptops have had handles since before Apple even had a laptop design division - my old Grid machine had a great carrying system.
Yeah, the GRiD machine with the red plasma display was damn cool. However Apple did have a research department that did alot of early stuff with LCDs back in the 80s, and the first luggable Macintosh did have a handle.
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I'm sorry those Qrium units look like cheap clock radios. Their design actually makes the Intel "Astec" pyramid concept design look good in comparison.
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The apparent Vaio 505 successor is already on the market. http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/products/pc/notebook/p cgsr5k.html
2.98 pounds, 1" thick, Pentium 3 500 MHz, 10.4" SVGA TFT screen, stereo speakers, V.90 modem (I hope it's a real hardware modem, it ships with Windows 2000 so maybe), NeoMagic 256AV video processor, Yamaha audio chip, USB, 1394, memory stick and jog dial, etc.
And the case is in metalic sliver and their new greenish black shade. There is also a faster Vaio SR-7K model available.
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What? This new Vaio model looks like they put all the design work into the lid and keyboard to distract attention from the cheap and mediocre rest of the chassis. To me the base of the unit looks crude with obvious seams and large PCMCIA slots/ports that break the potential sleakness of the design.
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Sony's trackpads can also digitize stylus input. They pioneered offering that. Apple's trackpads while they use the same supplier only respond to finger contact. However now due to the Digital Signatures law in the US more companies will start to ship trackpads you can write on. Although technically a digital signature dosen't require handwriting, it has a romantic appeal.
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I'd like to see some notebooks in the Vaio 505 line be shipped with Crusoe processors. Since they are still quite small and light, but with a larger screen and some have lower price tags than the PictureBook. Has Sony decided to phase out the 505's with the new SR (5 & 7) line?
An SR with a Transmeta processor could work too, haven't seen one in person yet.
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>OS X doesn't offer a command line unless you buy server or developer versions for a lot more money.
That's not true. The terminal.app is in the OS X beta with csh, tcsh, and zsh. Bash origionaly compiled for Rhapsody is a free download from who ever has a copy. Or grab Darwin and compile your own shell of choice.
There is LinuxPPC support for G4 SMP machines.
Yes, the OS X GUI windowing engine currently has performance problems compared to the X Window system. But then, Apple is trying to do more with the vector graphics of PDF.
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Too bad BeOS didn't become more popular, with its multi-processing support for consumer/client machines. That must have been a major reason that Intel sunk money into Be, since the os encouraged dual Celeron or Pentium II mobo sales to those who tried the OS.
I hope those ties don't inhibit full Beos support for dual Duron systems.
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>The KBasic language is a pretentious project,
WTF?
They admit they are lame like that? That's a little too open.
(not an insult)
portentious?
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But it was coded by Aliens!
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And Lycos = BMG. Haven't they made a big stink about MP3 distrobution in Germany? I wonder if Sonique will start pushing a "secure" MP3 alternative at some time.
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Should all telephones still be black?
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Maybe you hadn't heard:
Be Inc + Intel's venture capital = No more PPC/Mac hardware support.
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