I want to see a leaked Apple memo from their early strategic planning. If Steve Jobs had this all mapped in 2001 and then Fausted the labels, I think some quarter's "miscellaneous earnings" would see a chunk of change if they sold the memo on ebay.
This is THE company known for proprietary ways to do everything. Skies help them if they make an accidental mistake after their "intentional" ones.
And what's with the timing? "We didn't want to ( ?? ) to Christmas sales, so we saved this announcement for the day people got back from vacation / finished inventory."
I was a little fuzzy with my set theory. "A certain segment of people" doesn't want to pay as an enduser. Those are the people who originated the new battlefront. If you pay the classical way, great for you, great for them, everyone goes home to dinner.
Content is becoming "free as in beer" to the enduser for the next phase, financed by ads. someone can figure out how I can earn back the check I just dropped off to my landlord today.
I enjoy multiple emails, to separate things like/. notifiers from family email.
However, re: "NetSpeak", I simply ban it. I announce that if an email (message, etc) has more than two "Netisms" I add a nasty note to my answer. (This is different if someone is working off a mobile device.)
I never signed up for a MySpace acct because it doesn't actually do anything. My email is not crypted here, so if any of you felt I had to know something, you would have emailed me. I don't need a giant list of people who I've chatted with once.
Wasn't "bakward compatibility" the whole crusade they were on last year? "We must preserve support for old formats, which is why we won't make IE standards compliant, and our spec has to back-support IndentsLikeWord95" and the rest?
Their sneaky brand of evil is saying two conflicting things and making us believe they work together.
There have only been two fundamental revenue models of content for 25 years now - EndUser and Advertiser. The ISP's went through the throes of the switch from PerHour to FlatRate in the 1990's, and the RIAA is struggling with it now.
I don't know anyone who would "pay to search" casual queries. There are some professional databases which do operate on this principle for high powered content.
From the RIAA threads we learn people don't want to pay as endusers for their content. The post above asks about the advertiser model.
The absolutely tough part about Free Open Source models is that it takes a MUCH longer cycle for the benefits to wind around the social benefit cycle. The monthly rent/mortgage whips around much sooner. The first person to absolutely nail this problem will be the mogul of the 2010 decade.
That's jut it - it's a "low reward" behavior on the part of a Simple Troll.... Unless the employees from the minicities ARE the trolls.
But even if we include a larger troll base such as the Goatse's, all we have to do is the same type of trick as on the RIAA threads - find a way to siphon it out to our benefit. I don't know yet, but once some counter-weight advantage starts weighing against trolls, we'll regain the power of AC.
For anyone over about age 25, buying books makes a ton of sense in certain categories. These are my particular reasons.
1. Borrowing a book creates an obligation to keep track of it, and then return it in good condition without any accidents. Since everything I read is alongside a snack, I manage to smudge the page of at least a book a year, sometimes two. If it's yours, and you're not a perfectionist, you don't have to care. Plus, I was paying attention in the "active reading" class. I write notes all around the margins of my books. If it was good enough for Fermat, it is good enough for me.
2. Borrowing a specific book forces a decision at the library to borrow X book, and not regret the decision. Then you have to read as much as needed to assuage your guilt when you can't finish it by the time it is due back. I enjoy science/essay monographs, and typically only read 50 pages a week of a particular tome, then switch it out the following week. For a valuable book, it is clearly worth the purchase price to dip into it once a month over the course of a year.
3. It's about the selection. This is the fallacy that creeps into one of your questions. Of course I don't drill linearly through my collection, never to care about it again. Having a permanent personal collection of basics allows you to gaze across the selection to pick something relevant for the moment. When I go cruising at a large bookstore, I snap up anything that I know I will need *later*. I REFUSE to be hobbled by some store's title display decisions. Libraries don't carry things like all four volumes of Tad Williams' Otherland.
Let's see what Austrailia has been up to this week:
"The Australian government is mandating the creation of 'clean' internet feeds", but you also "scrapped the proposed Australian universal ID 'Access Card'."
When I parsed the mentioned comment, it stated "undeclared-your" hair was the subject of the knotting. The Wife's spurious attribution of the cause to small semi-sentient beings does not change the knots in your hair.
Meanwhile, when is the last time you swapped your hair strands around with the purpose of installing new hardware?
"Microsoft, this is Ballmer." "Steve? It's Jobs." "The Other Steve." (Ballmer lowers the chair and sits down.) "Right. Listen, meet me for lunch in 2 hours. We have a problem." "What's the Exec. Summary?" "RIAA. Sez their music is neither Certified for Vista or 'Castable on my 'Pod." "Uh... we're on the same side for this one?" "Good to have you aboard, Ballmer." "Damn, Jobs. This could be fun. Lunch is on us. " "Wouldn't miss it."
"Hey man. To you and all the other sour posters up there, you should see how they trash the scripts we try to deliver. But that's irrelevant from us making enough to pay the rent, you know? So, try to separate your unhappiness from my occupation".
Microsoft seems to be able to eat its own tail & live.
"is like trying to market an office productivity suite that doesn't read/write MS Office docs: You're doomed to failure from the start."
As in "The file that your less informed coworker has a 4 character extension that no one has ever heard of, so you can't open it. However, you can try downloading a converter".
Wallmart's deadliest trick is Loss-Leading the undead blazes out of stuff. "Tell you what. Buy anything else in our store and we'll pay you a dollar to try our movie service! Look! We got market share!". If they went for some ridiculously high price, then that means some Suit got swindled.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, AOL just caved Netscape. Maybe the code will go into a discount bin at Wallmart, who will make a killing on it at 25 cents a copy for developers looking for Zombie Code.
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I want to see a leaked Apple memo from their early strategic planning. If Steve Jobs had this all mapped in 2001 and then Fausted the labels, I think some quarter's "miscellaneous earnings" would see a chunk of change if they sold the memo on ebay.
This is THE company known for proprietary ways to do everything. Skies help them if they make an accidental mistake after their "intentional" ones.
And what's with the timing? "We didn't want to ( ?? ) to Christmas sales, so we saved this announcement for the day people got back from vacation / finished inventory."
P.s. Is there a rootkit in your skates?
I'm looking towards the monster new KDE version coming soon as well.
This is a third cousin to "why end users luv monopolies until they strangle you".
Apple has *A* platform, and to a point, MS has *A* platform. A single entity talks to itself reasonably well.
The price of choice among variants of the Free OS types will always be the interop. concerns.
Will the next version decide to save as ".doc9"?
Between the file format change and the GUI change it feels like entirely different App co-branded by MS.
Great answer, too.
I was a little fuzzy with my set theory. "A certain segment of people" doesn't want to pay as an enduser. Those are the people who originated the new battlefront. If you pay the classical way, great for you, great for them, everyone goes home to dinner.
Content is becoming "free as in beer" to the enduser for the next phase, financed by ads.
someone can figure out how I can earn back the check I just dropped off to my landlord today.
Give us some contact procedures so we can check you out!
Let's do the Alternate Distribution thing for real, right here.
I enjoy multiple emails, to separate things like /. notifiers from family email.
However, re: "NetSpeak", I simply ban it. I announce that if an email (message, etc) has more than two "Netisms" I add a nasty note to my answer. (This is different if someone is working off a mobile device.)
I never signed up for a MySpace acct because it doesn't actually do anything. My email is not crypted here, so if any of you felt I had to know something, you would have emailed me. I don't need a giant list of people who I've chatted with once.
Wasn't "bakward compatibility" the whole crusade they were on last year? "We must preserve support for old formats, which is why we won't make IE standards compliant, and our spec has to back-support IndentsLikeWord95" and the rest?
Their sneaky brand of evil is saying two conflicting things and making us believe they work together.
There have only been two fundamental revenue models of content for 25 years now - EndUser and Advertiser. The ISP's went through the throes of the switch from PerHour to FlatRate in the 1990's, and the RIAA is struggling with it now.
I don't know anyone who would "pay to search" casual queries. There are some professional databases which do operate on this principle for high powered content.
From the RIAA threads we learn people don't want to pay as endusers for their content. The post above asks about the advertiser model.
The absolutely tough part about Free Open Source models is that it takes a MUCH longer cycle for the benefits to wind around the social benefit cycle. The monthly rent/mortgage whips around much sooner. The first person to absolutely nail this problem will be the mogul of the 2010 decade.
That's jut it - it's a "low reward" behavior on the part of a Simple Troll. ... Unless the employees from the minicities ARE the trolls.
But even if we include a larger troll base such as the Goatse's, all we have to do is the same type of trick as on the RIAA threads - find a way to siphon it out to our benefit. I don't know yet, but once some counter-weight advantage starts weighing against trolls, we'll regain the power of AC.
For anyone over about age 25, buying books makes a ton of sense in certain categories. These are my particular reasons.
1. Borrowing a book creates an obligation to keep track of it, and then return it in good condition without any accidents. Since everything I read is alongside a snack, I manage to smudge the page of at least a book a year, sometimes two. If it's yours, and you're not a perfectionist, you don't have to care. Plus, I was paying attention in the "active reading" class. I write notes all around the margins of my books. If it was good enough for Fermat, it is good enough for me.
2. Borrowing a specific book forces a decision at the library to borrow X book, and not regret the decision. Then you have to read as much as needed to assuage your guilt when you can't finish it by the time it is due back. I enjoy science/essay monographs, and typically only read 50 pages a week of a particular tome, then switch it out the following week. For a valuable book, it is clearly worth the purchase price to dip into it once a month over the course of a year.
3. It's about the selection. This is the fallacy that creeps into one of your questions. Of course I don't drill linearly through my collection, never to care about it again. Having a permanent personal collection of basics allows you to gaze across the selection to pick something relevant for the moment. When I go cruising at a large bookstore, I snap up anything that I know I will need *later*. I REFUSE to be hobbled by some store's title display decisions. Libraries don't carry things like all four volumes of Tad Williams' Otherland.
I figured out a little about how to hijack those cities. Would you like your own with an instant population?
There's #2 of 5...
Okay, so there are about five minicity proponents who troll here.
Yet there isn't even a direct payoff. What happens if someone turns around and puts monetary incentives on these things?
Let's see what Austrailia has been up to this week:
"The Australian government is mandating the creation of 'clean' internet feeds", but you also "scrapped the proposed Australian universal ID 'Access Card'."
So far, that's a draw.
When I parsed the mentioned comment, it stated "undeclared-your" hair was the subject of the knotting. The Wife's spurious attribution of the cause to small semi-sentient beings does not change the knots in your hair.
Meanwhile, when is the last time you swapped your hair strands around with the purpose of installing new hardware?
That's truly frightening ...
Cell phone rings.
"Microsoft, this is Ballmer."
"Steve? It's Jobs."
"The Other Steve." (Ballmer lowers the chair and sits down.)
"Right. Listen, meet me for lunch in 2 hours. We have a problem."
"What's the Exec. Summary?"
"RIAA. Sez their music is neither Certified for Vista or 'Castable on my 'Pod."
"Uh... we're on the same side for this one?"
"Good to have you aboard, Ballmer."
"Damn, Jobs. This could be fun. Lunch is on us. "
"Wouldn't miss it."
Dear AC,
You must be preferring this:
"Hey man. To you and all the other sour posters up there, you should see how they trash the scripts we try to deliver. But that's irrelevant from us making enough to pay the rent, you know? So, try to separate your unhappiness from my occupation".
Unbelieveable.
Someone spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about a TinyUrl link in reference to a discussion about Microsoft trashing standards.
Meanwhile, the full link is:
http://pipka.org/blog/2007/12/18/initial-report-from-ooxml-technical-and-legal-workshop-last-week/
You gotta hand it to the HoldenFohoot this time.
Yahoo: We did not find results for: "worst netscape bug".
Google: Your search - "worst netscape bug" - did not match any documents.
MSN live search: We did not find any results for "worst netscape bug".
Ask: Your search for "worst netscape bug" did not match with any Web results.
That's because the Fetuses were the CEO's, who were responsible for "spend so far into the hole maybe we'll be profitable in China" business plans.
http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6278387-1.html
Or they could just blanket the world with more coasters labeled "You've Got Code!"
Microsoft seems to be able to eat its own tail & live.
"is like trying to market an office productivity suite that doesn't read/write MS Office docs: You're doomed to failure from the start."
As in "The file that your less informed coworker has a 4 character extension that no one has ever heard of, so you can't open it. However, you can try downloading a converter".
Wallmart's deadliest trick is Loss-Leading the undead blazes out of stuff. "Tell you what. Buy anything else in our store and we'll pay you a dollar to try our movie service! Look! We got market share!". If they went for some ridiculously high price, then that means some Suit got swindled.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, AOL just caved Netscape. Maybe the code will go into a discount bin at Wallmart, who will make a killing on it at 25 cents a copy for developers looking for Zombie Code.
Call it "intended to be private".
Just because you can social engineer it out of people doesn't mean it was intended to be known.