- Microsoft furious at the agreement between Apple and HP - Lionel - 17:31:13


Source : iPodHack
It seems Microsoft don'tt like at all the agreement between Apple and HP about distributing the iPod and the eviction of their WMA format.

The general manager of Windows digital media division reportedly said the rising domination of iTtunes [iTMS] was bad for consumers, as it would restrict their choice : they would buy the iPod, while they could have been restricted... to their own Microsoft based products....
Until now, Microsoft merely smashed all that stood on their way. How will they try to get rid of Apple ? Buy them ? do a tender offer ? Their unlimited credits allow any speculation.

Zamisli ti Microsofta, kako je zabrinut za slobodu izbora kupaca!

Zamisli ti Microsofta, kako je zabrinut za slobodu izbora kupaca!

Napravit ce isto sto su napravili i na trzistu konzola -- izbacit svoj player i svoj glazbeni servis, odnosno kopirat' iPoda i iTMS te glasno vikat kako su inovativni. Budale ce im vjerovati.
* Onda ce BUG posvetit 5 brojeva tom revolucionarnom MS cudu!
* O.M. ce dozivjeti delirium tremens i pisat ce o tome u 7 brojeva Playboya!
* MS Dionice ce skocit uvis 126%!
* Hackeri ce imati u rukavu bar 50 virusa specijalno napisanih za MSPod.

Prijedlog za s*anje mjeseca
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Clanak s CNeta, koji govori o tome kako 3. superracunalo na svijetu u biti nije to, vec djecja igracka, necja prljava igra i zabluda masa.

Zbilja je nevjerojatno koliko ljudi zavidni na Appleovu tehnologiju mogu ogresti u svojim mentalnim pre*eravanjima.

No, evo i price!
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1,100 computers. 2,200 64-bit G5 processors running at 2GHz each, at a total cost of US$5.2 million.; untold miles worth of cabling. 10.3 Teraflops; the third fastest computer in the world...Impressive sounding, perhaps, but according to an article at C|Net, it's no more than an "educational project," not something a serious commercial customer should be interested in.

From C|Net:

But when it comes to cluster supercomputers, an important technology expected to become the foundation of utility computing, there are hidden costs aplenty. It cost $5.2 million to buy the Virginia Tech gear, but that figure doesn't include what the school says were "hundreds of volunteered hours of Virginia Tech faculty, staff and students to help set up the 19.25 tons of computers, routers and other equipment."

In an academic environment, there are plenty of graduate students on hand to figure out the best arrangement of processors, memory and network gear for a given task. Students also can translate software written for other computers to Apple's systems, which with a single machine now on the top 500 list are far from prevalent in the supercomputing arena.

So the Apple project at Virginia Tech may be a wonderful educational project, but commercial customers who have less interest in experimentation are more likely to pay specialists at Linux Networx, RLX Technologies, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell or Hewlett-Packard to plan the plumbing, package the software and plug in the cables. And those companies aren't going to rely on Apples.

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He-he, debelo su zavidni . Čitao sam ja još toga...