There is no hypocrisy. Their job is to work with their client and defend their IP. They are not required to be passionate nor they have to personalty believe in it, their job is to defend their clients.
Well 66% after one years seems likes good news to Microsoft. Think about it. Most people will upgrade their PCs every 4 or 5 years on the average (The ones who upgrade faster will be balanced with the same people who keep the old ones running), on the average most people will not upgrade their OS until they get a new computer with it on it. Otherwise they will need to fight with getting the right drivers or just a slow OS which wasn't designed to run on the older computer. Then we can add that we are in or recovering from (depending who you ask) a bad recession. Where people are not into buying things. So after 1 year I would have expected 75% using their old systems, not 66%.
I have to admit although I am not a Windows Fan, Windows 7 is actually quite good. And OS X and especially Linux has a lot of catching up to do. Heck Apple has even dropped the I am a Mac and I am a PC adds after the "Trust Me" commercial. As Windows 7 has finally achieved what it promised us for Windows 95.
Except Oracle was one of the first major supporters for Linux. I remember back in the day that Oracle released a Linux version of their Database system. Everyone was saying how it would give Linux an Enterprise Ready respect for the server market. The Open Source Community includes Oracle the fact that they sell non-open source products is beyond the point.
Much of the "Open Source Community" Isn't really focusing on the ideals of Open Source, but more of an Anti-Corprate approach to everything. It is very annoying to Stick it to the Man when the man like you are sticking him with.
The Rename is the just going to hurt open office. As its name has already gotten strong name recognition. And there are actually a lot of Non-Geeks using it as it is cheaper then MSOffice and if you change the name they will have a hard time finding it. Also LibreOffice is quite horrible of a name.
While having Unlimited seems nice. For average usage we actually use a lot less then we think we will need.
On my phone I use about 200MB per month and I use my phone quite regularly. However I am on Wi-Fi for most of the time And if I am out of Wi-Fi Range Then is usually because I am driving and not really using my phone. So for people who use the phone for normal stuff it is actually probably a better deal, But people don't think it is because it is metered but they are probably saving money as a tradeoff of having the same bill every month
My view of extremism is attempting to advocate or push a change that will very difficult or impossible to implement on a scale needed to achieve full success.
So Stallman is unwilling to accept that there are companies who employes hundreds/thousands of people who are paid at rare Middle Income brackets to write software, and being that most companies will not be the most ethical so they will need to keep their source closed as not to give their competition their advantage in their market. Leaving software that took millions of dollars of development to be taken over by a company who may be one or two employees. Thus giving a negative impact. So in order to change to an open model you will need to change all the businesses who makes money in that way. Which will be difficult or impossible. Yes you can have a lot of small successes but to do the overall goal it will not happen.
Stallman has self stated that if you disagree with him you are part of the corporate corruption. That is also part of extremist thinking where if you are not part of their solution then you are part of the problem.
Moderate solutions are ones that try to get the most good done without trying to shake things up too much. Yes it sounds kinda wimpy compared to the Action Hero Approach of forcing the world into a new order. But in many cases it is much more useful.
Should Stallman be the Hero of the current success of Open Source... No I would say IBM, Red Hat, Apache, and even a lot of the Unix venders who compromised allowing many of the open source tools replace their propriety ones. They did incremental changes they did it in a way which didn't scare everyone that a new order will come out with considering the consequences. They were OK for comerical use of Open Source and Mixing Closed Source apps and Open Source apps together to create a solution.
Why wouldn't you consider Open Source on equal footing with commercial software by default? That is easy you need to think like a government.
The one rule. 1. It is not what you do right that gets you promoted. It is what you do wrong that gets you punished or fired.
Let's say you spend millions on an infrastructure and training people to use an open source product that does something useful, but that project after a time is no longer maintained because the key developer(s) moved to new and better things. Sure you can hire staff to maintain the code. But to the guy who OKed the product in the first place showed that he made a bad decision as they need to put even more resources then before that was unplanned.
Sure the same thing can happen with any product from a big company. But if that happens from say from IBM or Microsoft you may need to pay more to switch or higher fees to keep the software working, but to the approver he can come out clean as he made a decision at the time based on industry standards and it was the evil companies fault for dropping the product. Also with a big company you can have a contract to insure that it will be supported for a agreed period of time.
It is not fair, it is not open sources fault. It is that government don't run on rational thinking but how to ease the minds of it's voters who has 1/2 of it's population with below average intelligence.
The reason why we have a balance of power between the Judaical, Executive and Legislative branch. Is that Judaical branch will stop laws which are unconstitutional. Even if the other 2 branches are politically motivated to do such. Also why the Judaical branch isn't elected so they are not pressured in a way that they will loose their job for insulting any other member in the government.
So we got a lot of senators saying a lot of things... Most of it doesn't even get to real bill or even if it is added to a bill, if it is unconstitutional that part can be removed.
Well those guys are not really in that much competition with each other. They are all really fighting against the IE juggernaut. Their advancements has been because of IE6 was the key browser for Way Too long, and IE7/IE8 are in essence attached to the Vista problem mind set.
Windows 7 has been a good OS. I hope IE9 will be good too.
If Microsoft makes a good product that will force the others to try to make a better product too.
Because what was spilled is the raw ingredient. There are levels of refinement that goes on, and other drills being built. Being that it was 1 oil rig. Though Billions of Gallons of oil was spilt it compared to our real consumption of oil it is just a drop in the bucket.
Political conflicts cause more of a rise because it could effect the supply of hundreds or thousands of oil.
As these are freely traded Potential means people are worried when people are worried they will hold on to what they have. You are expecting Finance to follow pre calculated path. No there are just a lot of people making gut decisions.
That is why Microsoft Became the Dominate Operating System. The recent successes in the Rise of Macs and Linux and iPhones and Androids over windows during the past decade is the simple fact people no longer need to run OS only applications. Their browsers work and runs the apps they want to run.
Now please explain Structure of a well build app vs a structure of a well build web app? When they are both well built they both run quite well. Speed, Yes that is a trade off, but web browser speeds are about the same as any other Run Time based languages. Also behind you Web App you could have a huge cloud behind it to do massive amount of processing that could take you little computer a long time to run. Security, This is an other of those Well Built vs non well built app things. I see about a few dozen Linux Apps updates for apps that could possible cause Local Root code execution that needs to be fixed. If you need to have your app do something outside your own PC then it will have all the same conservers as it did before. Now for your last bit Functionality, Before the web 90% of the Apps out there were forms that you filled in and hit save. Web Apps are good at that and have been for a decade. Using modern Standard Web Technologies you can fill in about an other 8% to fill in the other areas. As of right now the only Non-Web Apps we need are... Web Browsers CAD High End Games Developer tools Office/Graphics Processing stuff.
Actually I don't like making the distinction between Web Apps and Normal Apps, They are really not that different, the one key difference is that we are using a different Interface engine.
I am willing to bet that if they did they wouldn't find much of a difference over all. Political Affiliation has influence of your environment your emotional response to particular issues and only a small fraction of actual rational thinking.
Environment Left Wing Parties. Tend to have supporters who are people who directly benefit from government support. Live in Cities where they need governments to keep the infrastructure up so they can survive, or are students where the government invests into their futures. Right Wing Parties. Tend to be in Rural areas where there are little government services, work in institutions who get little government funding or support. And often see the government as a hindering their success.
Emotional Responses Left Wing Parties. Wants a world where everything is fair and on equal footing. People who have more should be giving even more. People who have less should be getting some more. Right Wing Parties. Are more on "Tough Love" where if you mess up in life then you will need to suffer the consequences, if you are successful you need to reap the rewards.
Any particular facts which are true are almost purely accidental. Statistics and numbers can be taken and analysis to mean many things, that will prove anyones point. Politics are all about geting the emotional factor in.
Right Wing Parties are Evil because the support the theoretical Rich man who sits on a pot of money and does spread a dime except to pay off people to keep him there. Left Wing Parties are Evil because they are Godless folks with no morals who wants to bankrupt the American Worker.
The Modern Techie will now by definition reject all new technology no matter what advancements are in it. While adopting any new technology will have tradeoffs the modern will hold on to whatever tradeoff negative effect and call it a horrible plan. Any new tech is now a threat to their way of life and no longer a new interesting field to study...
You are under the idea that if DRM didn't exist then the content owners of the data will feel free to realease their data in the formats it already does.
You need to keep in mind the problem with digital data. Your copy is exactly the same as the original. As we get into viewing higher quality information. The fact that there original master copies are less valuable.
Let's face it without DRM there will not legal channels to get content, as content providers do not have a mechism to control their data.
That is the key issue. It is their data not yours. You pay for the right to view and use their data on their own terms. If you don't like that terms then you will need to negotiat with the content owners for different terms.
The fact that these are multy billion dollar companies doesn't change that fact. It is still their property. DRM is protecting their rights by inforcing the rights they apply to you, that you agreed to on purchase.
I think what is more important are limitations with games. As creative people they invasion far more then we can technically handle. Also you need to remember that people need to use your art too so a good ui may trump good art
Good (business and not for techies) software is designed is actually designed to force people to follow a process of best practices. In essence good software programs the people to do their work better. This is different then form a dictionary and thesaurus which are just point of references to be used like an expanded pallet.
1. Windows 7 mobile will need to be THAT much better then the iPhone. It can't be a little better or have a few different features.
2. Android is a good platform too and is a easier sell to other hardware manufactures. And has already took Microsofts place as the the OS for all the other Cell Phones.
3. How well are they going to follow the Internet standards. As some one who does make web UI for phones I am estatic that I can use proper standard HTML 5. Windows 7 may have some surprises when it gets to some advanced mobile sites.
4. Who are they going to target. Across RIM Apple and Android you have a lot of people who are happy with their phones.
But is that much better than Apples offering. I have seen the Zune. Yes it is different in some ways but it isn't enough to have people switch. People who get Zunes are in general (meaning there are exceptions) are the same people who wouldn't get an iPod anyways.
Well here is a question... Unlike other Holes to jailbreak the iPhone, would this be considered a security problem with the phone in general? If Yes then Apple would probably fix it. If No Apple will not probably fix the hole.
I doubt apple really cares that much about the jail broken phones. Sure apple fixes the problems as it could be part of a greater security risk. But I don't think it is apples best interests to invest money in stopping those jail breakers who have purchased their products, and willingly put their system in an unsupported state. ANd is willing to go threw some little hoops to access the hardware.
We geeks hound on the evils of apples closed model for iOS but for average joe it makes life easier. So if we geeks are willing to Jail Break the app and possibly make our $400 phone unusable more power to them. It just means that they will need to buy an other phone to hack.
Are they smarter then us. No but many are more evolved then us. Plants have been around evolving on land much longer then the first bug left the oceans. They are quite adapted to their environment. Now humans and mammals are not so evolved but our evolutionary path took a different way where a more organized central nervice system took presendance over energy gathering.
Well if you are coding professionally. You are wasting time going the hard route unless there is a real good reason to do such. Newbees want to show off that they can do all these things. Mature programmers know they can but if there is an easier way then go for it as it gets your project done faster and you look better to your boss who can give a rats ass on how you did it. Just as long as there isn't any consequences in the future.
You have been watching to much Disney. The rich don't put money in a vault and sit on it. The rich actually invest it and keep it moving. Hence why the rich get richer. They are not doing it at the expence of the poor. It is the middle class and the poor don't use the money they have well.
I am willing to bet that if you take away everyones money and assets 90% of the people who were rich will be rich again. And 90% who were poor will still be poor.
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There is no hypocrisy. Their job is to work with their client and defend their IP. They are not required to be passionate nor they have to personalty believe in it, their job is to defend their clients.
Well 66% after one years seems likes good news to Microsoft.
Think about it.
Most people will upgrade their PCs every 4 or 5 years on the average (The ones who upgrade faster will be balanced with the same people who keep the old ones running), on the average most people will not upgrade their OS until they get a new computer with it on it. Otherwise they will need to fight with getting the right drivers or just a slow OS which wasn't designed to run on the older computer. Then we can add that we are in or recovering from (depending who you ask) a bad recession. Where people are not into buying things. So after 1 year I would have expected 75% using their old systems, not 66%.
I have to admit although I am not a Windows Fan, Windows 7 is actually quite good. And OS X and especially Linux has a lot of catching up to do. Heck Apple has even dropped the I am a Mac and I am a PC adds after the "Trust Me" commercial. As Windows 7 has finally achieved what it promised us for Windows 95.
Except Oracle was one of the first major supporters for Linux. I remember back in the day that Oracle released a Linux version of their Database system. Everyone was saying how it would give Linux an Enterprise Ready respect for the server market. The Open Source Community includes Oracle the fact that they sell non-open source products is beyond the point.
Much of the "Open Source Community" Isn't really focusing on the ideals of Open Source, but more of an Anti-Corprate approach to everything. It is very annoying to Stick it to the Man when the man like you are sticking him with.
The Rename is the just going to hurt open office. As its name has already gotten strong name recognition. And there are actually a lot of Non-Geeks using it as it is cheaper then MSOffice and if you change the name they will have a hard time finding it. Also LibreOffice is quite horrible of a name.
While having Unlimited seems nice. For average usage we actually use a lot less then we think we will need.
On my phone I use about 200MB per month and I use my phone quite regularly. However I am on Wi-Fi for most of the time And if I am out of Wi-Fi Range Then is usually because I am driving and not really using my phone. So for people who use the phone for normal stuff it is actually probably a better deal, But people don't think it is because it is metered but they are probably saving money as a tradeoff of having the same bill every month
My view of extremism is attempting to advocate or push a change that will very difficult or impossible to implement on a scale needed to achieve full success.
So Stallman is unwilling to accept that there are companies who employes hundreds/thousands of people who are paid at rare Middle Income brackets to write software, and being that most companies will not be the most ethical so they will need to keep their source closed as not to give their competition their advantage in their market. Leaving software that took millions of dollars of development to be taken over by a company who may be one or two employees. Thus giving a negative impact. So in order to change to an open model you will need to change all the businesses who makes money in that way. Which will be difficult or impossible. Yes you can have a lot of small successes but to do the overall goal it will not happen.
Stallman has self stated that if you disagree with him you are part of the corporate corruption. That is also part of extremist thinking where if you are not part of their solution then you are part of the problem.
Moderate solutions are ones that try to get the most good done without trying to shake things up too much. Yes it sounds kinda wimpy compared to the Action Hero Approach of forcing the world into a new order. But in many cases it is much more useful.
Should Stallman be the Hero of the current success of Open Source... No I would say IBM, Red Hat, Apache, and even a lot of the Unix venders who compromised allowing many of the open source tools replace their propriety ones. They did incremental changes they did it in a way which didn't scare everyone that a new order will come out with considering the consequences. They were OK for comerical use of Open Source and Mixing Closed Source apps and Open Source apps together to create a solution.
Why wouldn't you consider Open Source on equal footing with commercial software by default?
That is easy you need to think like a government.
The one rule.
1. It is not what you do right that gets you promoted. It is what you do wrong that gets you punished or fired.
Let's say you spend millions on an infrastructure and training people to use an open source product that does something useful, but that project after a time is no longer maintained because the key developer(s) moved to new and better things. Sure you can hire staff to maintain the code. But to the guy who OKed the product in the first place showed that he made a bad decision as they need to put even more resources then before that was unplanned.
Sure the same thing can happen with any product from a big company. But if that happens from say from IBM or Microsoft you may need to pay more to switch or higher fees to keep the software working, but to the approver he can come out clean as he made a decision at the time based on industry standards and it was the evil companies fault for dropping the product. Also with a big company you can have a contract to insure that it will be supported for a agreed period of time.
It is not fair, it is not open sources fault. It is that government don't run on rational thinking but how to ease the minds of it's voters who has 1/2 of it's population with below average intelligence.
The reason why we have a balance of power between the Judaical, Executive and Legislative branch. Is that Judaical branch will stop laws which are unconstitutional. Even if the other 2 branches are politically motivated to do such. Also why the Judaical branch isn't elected so they are not pressured in a way that they will loose their job for insulting any other member in the government.
So we got a lot of senators saying a lot of things... Most of it doesn't even get to real bill or even if it is added to a bill, if it is unconstitutional that part can be removed.
Well those guys are not really in that much competition with each other. They are all really fighting against the IE juggernaut. Their advancements has been because of IE6 was the key browser for Way Too long, and IE7/IE8 are in essence attached to the Vista problem mind set.
Windows 7 has been a good OS.
I hope IE9 will be good too.
If Microsoft makes a good product that will force the others to try to make a better product too.
Belgium man!, Belgium!
Because what was spilled is the raw ingredient. There are levels of refinement that goes on, and other drills being built. Being that it was 1 oil rig. Though Billions of Gallons of oil was spilt it compared to our real consumption of oil it is just a drop in the bucket.
Political conflicts cause more of a rise because it could effect the supply of hundreds or thousands of oil.
As these are freely traded Potential means people are worried when people are worried they will hold on to what they have. You are expecting Finance to follow pre calculated path. No there are just a lot of people making gut decisions.
That is why Microsoft Became the Dominate Operating System. The recent successes in the Rise of Macs and Linux and iPhones and Androids over windows during the past decade is the simple fact people no longer need to run OS only applications. Their browsers work and runs the apps they want to run.
Now please explain Structure of a well build app vs a structure of a well build web app? When they are both well built they both run quite well.
Speed, Yes that is a trade off, but web browser speeds are about the same as any other Run Time based languages. Also behind you Web App you could have a huge cloud behind it to do massive amount of processing that could take you little computer a long time to run.
Security, This is an other of those Well Built vs non well built app things. I see about a few dozen Linux Apps updates for apps that could possible cause Local Root code execution that needs to be fixed. If you need to have your app do something outside your own PC then it will have all the same conservers as it did before.
Now for your last bit Functionality, Before the web 90% of the Apps out there were forms that you filled in and hit save. Web Apps are good at that and have been for a decade. Using modern Standard Web Technologies you can fill in about an other 8% to fill in the other areas.
As of right now the only Non-Web Apps we need are...
Web Browsers
CAD
High End Games
Developer tools
Office/Graphics Processing stuff.
Actually I don't like making the distinction between Web Apps and Normal Apps, They are really not that different, the one key difference is that we are using a different Interface engine.
I am willing to bet that if they did they wouldn't find much of a difference over all. Political Affiliation has influence of your environment your emotional response to particular issues and only a small fraction of actual rational thinking.
Environment
Left Wing Parties. Tend to have supporters who are people who directly benefit from government support. Live in Cities where they need governments to keep the infrastructure up so they can survive, or are students where the government invests into their futures.
Right Wing Parties. Tend to be in Rural areas where there are little government services, work in institutions who get little government funding or support. And often see the government as a hindering their success.
Emotional Responses
Left Wing Parties. Wants a world where everything is fair and on equal footing. People who have more should be giving even more. People who have less should be getting some more.
Right Wing Parties. Are more on "Tough Love" where if you mess up in life then you will need to suffer the consequences, if you are successful you need to reap the rewards.
Any particular facts which are true are almost purely accidental. Statistics and numbers can be taken and analysis to mean many things, that will prove anyones point. Politics are all about geting the emotional factor in.
Right Wing Parties are Evil because the support the theoretical Rich man who sits on a pot of money and does spread a dime except to pay off people to keep him there.
Left Wing Parties are Evil because they are Godless folks with no morals who wants to bankrupt the American Worker.
The Modern Techie will now by definition reject all new technology no matter what advancements are in it. While adopting any new technology will have tradeoffs the modern will hold on to whatever tradeoff negative effect and call it a horrible plan. Any new tech is now a threat to their way of life and no longer a new interesting field to study...
I think us techs have gotten too old.
You are under the idea that if DRM didn't exist then the content owners of the data will feel free to realease their data in the formats it already does.
You need to keep in mind the problem with digital data. Your copy is exactly the same as the original.
As we get into viewing higher quality information. The fact that there original master copies are less valuable.
Let's face it without DRM there will not legal channels to get content, as content providers do not have a mechism to control their data.
That is the key issue. It is their data not yours. You pay for the right to view and use their data on their own terms. If you don't like that terms then you will need to negotiat with the content owners for different terms.
The fact that these are multy billion dollar companies doesn't change that fact. It is still their property. DRM is protecting their rights by inforcing the rights they apply to you, that you agreed to on purchase.
I think what is more important are limitations with games. As creative people they invasion far more then we can technically handle. Also you need to remember that people need to use your art too so a good ui may trump good art
Good (business and not for techies) software is designed is actually designed to force people to follow a process of best practices. In essence good software programs the people to do their work better. This is different then form a dictionary and thesaurus which are just point of references to be used like an expanded pallet.
MS has a lot of work to get done.
1. Windows 7 mobile will need to be THAT much better then the iPhone. It can't be a little better or have a few different features.
2. Android is a good platform too and is a easier sell to other hardware manufactures. And has already took Microsofts place as the the OS for all the other Cell Phones.
3. How well are they going to follow the Internet standards. As some one who does make web UI for phones I am estatic that I can use proper standard HTML 5. Windows 7 may have some surprises when it gets to some advanced mobile sites.
4. Who are they going to target. Across RIM Apple and Android you have a lot of people who are happy with their phones.
But is that much better than Apples offering. I have seen the Zune. Yes it is different in some ways but it isn't enough to have people switch. People who get Zunes are in general (meaning there are exceptions) are the same people who wouldn't get an iPod anyways.
Tractors have front loader attachments to them. Which they use to push stuff
except for the fact that 100% of the bullets fell back down to their respective planents
Well here is a question...
Unlike other Holes to jailbreak the iPhone, would this be considered a security problem with the phone in general?
If Yes then Apple would probably fix it.
If No Apple will not probably fix the hole.
I doubt apple really cares that much about the jail broken phones. Sure apple fixes the problems as it could be part of a greater security risk. But I don't think it is apples best interests to invest money in stopping those jail breakers who have purchased their products, and willingly put their system in an unsupported state. ANd is willing to go threw some little hoops to access the hardware.
We geeks hound on the evils of apples closed model for iOS but for average joe it makes life easier. So if we geeks are willing to Jail Break the app and possibly make our $400 phone unusable more power to them. It just means that they will need to buy an other phone to hack.
Are they smarter then us. No but many are more evolved then us. Plants have been around evolving on land much longer then the first bug left the oceans. They are quite adapted to their environment. Now humans and mammals are not so evolved but our evolutionary path took a different way where a more organized central nervice system took presendance over energy gathering.
Well if you are coding professionally. You are wasting time going the hard route unless there is a real good reason to do such. Newbees want to show off that they can do all these things. Mature programmers know they can but if there is an easier way then go for it as it gets your project done faster and you look better to your boss who can give a rats ass on how you did it. Just as long as there isn't any consequences in the future.
One who doesn't nitpick from a blog response.
You have been watching to much Disney. The rich don't put money in a vault and sit on it. The rich actually invest it and keep it moving. Hence why the rich get richer. They are not doing it at the expence of the poor. It is the middle class and the poor don't use the money they have well.
I am willing to bet that if you take away everyones money and assets 90% of the people who were rich will be rich again. And 90% who were poor will still be poor.