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- Countering an Apple-favoring .NET critic
- Countering an Apple-favoring .NET criticFantastic post JohnI'd give you two thumbs up if I could. :)[i]This is what one might consider a thesis statement, to be followed by details as to why .NET is "bad" and / or "simplistic and inflexible." At least, that is what one would expect if...
- Tags: .NET, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., environment
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- The end of Microhoo
- The end of MicrohooIt's not over yet, but......but a Yahoo buyout doesn't seem terribly likely at this point. I won't say "it's over", though, until after the Yahoo shareholder meeting, since if Icahn wins, he'll certainly try to change MS' collective mind. I figure the chances of Icahn...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Competion
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Could an OEM like Dell every be as cool and as stylish as Apple?
- Could an OEM like Dell every be as cool and as stylish as Apple?Interesting StatisticOwning 65% of the over $1000 market is an interesting statistic. What share do they have of the under $1000 market?RE: Could an OEM like Dell every be as cool and as stylish as Apple?I hadn't...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Apple Inc., Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- CraterSaver (zip)
- You'll understand how large-scale features we see on the moon could be achieved by incremental small-scale modification. A crater-simulation program implemented as a screensaver, that slowly turns a flat piece of ground in to a scarred, Mercurial landscape. The idea was basically to try and understand how large-scale features we...
- Tags: Moon, Crater
- Software downloads 2007-11-28
- Time Machine - Part II: Going back in time with Time Machine
- Time Machine - Part II: Going back in time with Time MachineLooks very simple ...I give kudos to Apple for making a simple to use backup tool. For Linux you have Simple Linux Backup, which is very easy to use, but it's just not as seamless:http://simplelinuxbkup.sourceforge.net/I have no problem with...
- Tags: Backups, Operating systems, UNIX, Time Machine, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Steve's mea culpa: $100 credit to iPhone pioneers
- Steve's mea culpa: $100 credit to iPhone pioneersfamous last words....“If they bought iPhone a month ago, well, that’s what happens in technology.” - Steve Jobs to USA Today."If they wound up with a million unsold units at end of year, well, that's what happens in technology," - Steve Jobs' prospective...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., phone, marketing, Steve Jobs
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Can rich Americans save newspapers?
- Okay. So Craigslist is shafting newspapers with its free sex ads. But is there anything we can actually do to save these wonderfully civilizing and civilized institutions? Free market digital fundamentalists will, of course, argue that newspapers are inevitable roadkill on route to their self-publishing utopia. But, for the rest...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- An exegesis of the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates keynotes
- An exegesis of the Steve Jobs and Bill Gates keynotesJobs v. GatesWell it doesn't hurt that Jobs actually has cool products to announce and show off as opposed to some other variant of Windows.My guess is …… if Barney the purple dinosaur and Albert Einstein were added to the competition,...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Microsoft Corp., Steve Jobs, Bill Gates
- Discussion threads 2007-01-15
- In Search of the Valley
- Worth watching: During the holiday I had the pleasure of watching "In Search of the Valley," a film written, directed and edited by fellow ZDNet blogger Steve OHear. The polished film, shot in September 2004, documents the month long journey of Steve and friends to explore the soul of Silicon...
- Tags: Valley, Hewlett-Packard, Apple, General
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- The ripple effect of a GPL'd Java will reach far and wide
- Its official. Despite some saying it couldnt be done, not only is Sun open sourcing Java, its doing it under version 2 of the Free Software Foundations GNU General Public License (GPLv2) using an FSF-endorsed footnote known as the "classpath exception." The FSFs classpath exception gives developers a bit...
- Tags: GNU Classpath, GNU, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- The ripple effect of a GPL'd Java will reach far and wide
- Its official. Despite some saying it couldnt be done, not only is Sun open sourcing Java, its doing it under version 2 of the Free Software Foundations GNU General Public License (GPLv2) using an FSF-endorsed footnote known as the "classpath exception." The FSFs classpath exception gives developers a bit more...
- Tags: General, Open Source, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Legal, Berlind
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Westerlies (zip)
- Alas, I fear that the mercurial mystery will more likely become my strange grave. So says the protagonist of Westerlies, a challenging and unusual graphical adventure game. Your task is to collect five mysterious pearls hidden in different time zones on an enigmatic island. You will match wits with Polyphemus...
- Tags: Mode, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2006-10-10
- As copyright enforcement strategies go, licensing beats litigation any day (and DRM isn't even in this race)
- The big news today is Warner Music Group's agreement to license music to YouTube and its users. TechCrunch has some details as to how this is likely to work: YouTube and Warner Music Group Corp. will announce...
- Tags: Warner Music Group Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-09-18
- MS platform chief: closed-mindedness about open source continues
- While Microsoft has been increasingly tip-toeing into open source via SourceForge projects, Shared Source licenses and Linuxlab, getting to this place where Open Source is no longer considered a pejorative by Microsoft has been a slow and deliberate process that must be massaged both internally and externally.At Microsoft, that massaging...
- Tags: Bill Hilf, open source
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Another pirate?
- Another pirate?He also states...He has the serial from his MSDN. It's legitimate to copy it on more than one computer.Hehe, truer words have not been spoken[i]In the end, actions speak louder, the "actual" message sent is that the punishment for license non-compliance is more than offset by the reward for...
- Tags: WGA Notification, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, piracy, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-21
- Fun with iChat AV
- Judging by my column the past couple of days you'd think that I didn't like iChat AV or something. Au contraire! I only point out it's deficiencies because I think that video conferencing is nothing short of revolutionary and I want Apple to invest more R&D into iChat so that...
- Tags: Apple iChat, iChat AV, video
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- Date set for Oracle antitrust suit
- Date set for Oracle antitrust suitThe BEST job field [Lawyer] not being offshored yetI think I am going to become an attorney of law.Question."The judge ordered the Justice Department to hand over the third-party documents to Oracle but did allow any third party, such as a customer or competitor, to...
- Tags: antitrust, Oracle Corp., U.S. Department of Justice, PeopleSoft Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-03-10
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