Because we are bad consumers. Americans have in general became very bad consumers. We focus on price not cost. We have lost the Gut to say no or lets build a different contract.
Half of the problems with SaaS software licenses etc... Is the fact the no one is willing to negotiate for what they feel is fair.
You want to go to SaaS for some of your services/software but you are afraid that if you get off them your data will be loss. Well when making a contract with the company make sure you have that as one of your conditions.
Companies are looking for their best interests, you should be looking out for your own. Even ethical companies who make good products and services they are still looking out for themselves and if you say yes to everything then you will end up with the short end of the sick.
I never got this Cellphone Keyboard obsession thing. Even ones with real keyboards they are just good for typing short messages, really small buttons makes it hard to type. At least with the touch screen the keys are actually a bit bigger as you can switch keyboards for what you are typing. But for the most part the type of stuff you need on a smart phone is Point and Click. When you are texting you only write short bursts. The need of a real keyboard isn't that big of a deal, much like people who complained when we went from the Dial phone to the Touch pad. The Dial Phones had great feed back, the feeling of the resistance of the dial, the arch motion your finger was made to do. The feeling it touching the stopper. The sound of it winding up and winding back with the gentile clicks of it puling the number over the line. But still TouchTone Phones took over as they were more efficient, and allowed for future upgrades, in the short term the people switching from Dial to Touchtone were less efficient as they had to hunt down numbers in a different pattern. But in time it picked up. I think the same thing will happen with touch screens. The feeling of pressing the key for a response will not be a major concern in the future.
This would make the new form of super hero. Combine the DNA from these microbes into our. A man who can dive into lava. Survive a freezing Tundra without layers of clothing. Yea he probably wont have everything that superman has, especially the Hidden power to resolve a plot.
That is actually a good one for first year students. First it covers first year physics pretty well. Calculating where the ball will land, and try to get them to factor in different envrioments (wind, projectile shape and size, and weight). Plus you have built a war machine which is always fun.
It gives them a sense of accomplishment and a real physical thing to show for. Not just a bunch of numbers on a paper. You can give them different challenges. Say one that just focuses on getting the Maximum distance (in height or distance). Other for controllable accuracy.
Its fun, its a lot of work and they learn a lot of things.
Even we do do find it it will open thousand more questions about it. Thus will keep the pointless debate of is there a God or Not going.
I think they came up with the "God Particle" name as a way of saying to the people who beleave in God. Here we found out how the Universe works and THERE IS NO GOD See, you have lived your life on a false belief.
Just as the religious people are hoping for the Second Coming to say to the atheists. Oh Oh here is God he about to put the smack down on you. You should have lived your life based on these values, and now you gonna pay.
However I think if we find this particle so many new questions will come up that we will just realize how much more we don't know. And if there is a second coming many of the Religious people will do like they did before, Ignore or reject it as they bring up ideas that they don't like. And the Religious people will probably kill Jesus for the second time, not the atheists.
Not if your license doesn't care about combining other licenses in your code. The GNU is big on that. But for other licenses it is less of an issue. Just avoid GNU products and you are probably good.
I think I agree with your point. That the developer should choose a license that they agree with for their product. However you wording is kinda off. RMS has a unique view of Software, Business and the world, and really isn't open to opposing ideas, and likes to place people in Good and Evil Categories, with a thin gray area. While others don't see the world like that there is much more of a gray area and different ideas of fair use.
Such as Free for Personal and Education however if you are going to make money off that software you should get a cut too.
Or the FreeBSD license where you are OK if the people take you code and use it without any extra responsibility.
Then there others who say they don't want their code used for Military/Government use.
Others want full control of the product and doesn't want it to fork.
The GNU isn't the only game in town and it may not be the most moral as well. Such as the "TiVoization" distinction between Consumer User application and Corporate use applications, aka Lets be nice to IBM who is a big supporter, and let some things slide for them.
Demand is local to each country though. If X cost 1 USD and the Price Parity Ratio is different that means the demand for the product has changed. The demand for Drug X is much lower when it costs significantly more.
It is a case of supply vs. demand. It is just business. Each country or area has a different supply vs. demand curve. If the average population makes 30k a year there will be a different curve then people living on 10k a year. Getting the right balance will maximize profits and matching pricing for the right areas is more profitable.
This happens in all sectors, say you are traveling around the world and you give the bell boy a 5 dollar tip. In the US that will like $5 for them (Deli-Meat for a week). In the country where the average is about $10k that is a $15 (Good cuts for meat for dinner about 2 days and the deli-meat) for the really poor countries where people make $1k a year. That would be close to a $150 tip (Food for a family for a week or 2).
Well yea if you want a sprite you ask for a sprite. However say up in New York Downstate NY and eastern Upstate NY calls Carbonated Soft Drinks Soda, Western NY Calls it Pop. Being from New England/Eastern Upstate NY myself I call it Soda. So when sitting at home and have only one brand of soda in the fridge I see my wife getting herself a drink I may ask her if I could have a drink too. And she will ask what do you want Milk, Water, Juice or Soda.
Down South except for calling it Soda or Pop they call it Coke. It may not necessarily be in the Atlanta area as there is a Coke Plant there and there are a lot of people with massive brand awareness. But in other areas where people don't care if it is Coke, Pepsi, or Royal Crown they will just say Coke,Soda or Pop or even rare Soda-Pop.
Exactly you could have the fastest computer in the world but if it doesn't run the software that the people want the people wont buy it. The Companies to make the software that people wont wont make software for that hardware if no one has it.
It is kinda of a catch 22. The only way out is to do minor upgrades Removing and old feature rarely used and adding a new feature that will not break much. And software companies will slowly add the new feature that take use of the new hardware features but the big switch off the old x86 to something newer and better will not happen anytime soon.
Yea keep telling yourself that. So what do you know about Medical Billing, Digastondics Coding, Transcriptions and record keeping. You probably don't even know the Difference between a PM an EMR or even what HL7 is. It would take you 2 weeks just to understand the basics before you can go and collect the specs.
Even if you did write a crappy PHP App you will need the doctors to like it. And they are not easy or nice people, they will tare a basic HTML form to shreds, they want the best and they have the money to buy the best. Not a hack job done in a few weeks.
I think what is happening is just as iPod became the unofficial name of a MP3 Payer, Kleanex became the unofficial name of tissues. Coke down south has became the unofficial name for Carbonated Soft Drinks. the iPhone is getting its reputation as a smart phone or an internet aware phone. Which is a growing market. I think the point still hold true. How many people with satellite radio or how many people with iPhones, from my experience I have seen more iPhones (even more smart phones which can do the same job) then satellite radios. A smart phone you can carry anywhere with you Satellite radio don't have much of a market as a portable unit. And normally just hooked into cars. So the iPhone (as the term of a powerful cellphone) could unseat Satellite radio
Just as the growth in Open Source Software created a growth to Out Sourcing [wikipedia link to reference] this could have unknown consequences. The world economy and the worlds trade laws were based around physical goods. Where in order copy and break say American Copywrite/Patent laws it still required a fair amount of work. Having to purchase the original, reverse engineering, then reengineering build it work out how to optimize the manufacturing proces... While it was still frowned at it was mostly let alone, because it took a determined individual or group to get this done and it is usually just cheaper and easier to purchase the product anyways. Now with Digital Media people have a hard time understanding value in it. As they don't have a physical device they can hold (Like back when I was a kid I saved up for months to get a Copy of DesqView (A program that allowed DOS to multi-task), When I got it and opened it up it was on 1, 3 1/2 floppy, oddly enough I felt rather disappointed in that, although it was a good program for its day, and it did what I wanted it to do the fact that I spent all this money for 1 floppy was kinda disappointing.) But just because people have a hard time understanding the Value a information it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, or should be shared freely, freedom of speech is the freedom of Ideas and views. However freedom of data and precise replications are much different, the original data does take take and effort from person/people in which they should be compensated for their work. Even if it is a faceless corporation you need to realize most of the money ends up to a bunch of faces. Companies don't need money or have money... People do, money is not a raw material but a an abstract idea where people agree on value.
What happens when your idea fails... Oh lets fire the janitor because his suggestion on how to improve productivity has failed.
That said rewarding a successful idea by bonus/raises/job security etc. Is a good way because it keep him part of the process not just a blank idea which could save the company millions and is sill struggling day to day.
Do you trust yourself to handle the company information and backups and data storage... If so is that you full time or near full time job.
Secondly if you company is going to go to cloud computer you should be smart enough to create part of the contract the ability to get your data at request even after service has ended for a period of time.
Oddly enough a piece of paper with a couple of signatures on it works better then any technical solution.
Your argument is the same as people who are afraid to fly. The fact that your fate is in someone else hands even if it is statically safer, you feel more comfortable when you are in control.
I'd say Microsoft's problem is first, that they can't design or maintain a robust, secure, desktop operating system; and second, that they continually ignore customer desires for a stable OS environment in favor of a business plan that forces upgrades.
Just keep telling yourself that. I have actually had more issues of Linux Crashing this year then I had with Windows (including Vista) crashing on me in the last 8 years). Also I have seen Linux Boxen that have been hacked into, More then windows systems too. Yea Windows gets more viruses but Linux usually gets hacked into more.
Which high end software are you speaking of? Word? Excel? Project? Word's user interface changes every time they do a new version.
Are a High School Kid or something? Although Windows and Office accounts for the bulk of Microsofts profits. They actually have some good High End software such as BizTalk, SharePoint, SQL Server... While you can debate it against alternatives they are actually quite good software that are well designed.
Several of my friends, faced with defunct laptops and the option of "Vista or nothing" on a new purchase, While Vista isn't that great it isn't as bad as people think, for those who use it with an open mind. It still better then Windows ME
Oddly enough most of them don't know it is an Apple, Just a nice looking laptop. However starting communication is the first step. There were times I was working with my Laptop going completely geeked out. I hooked up a second display, added an external keyboard and mouse. Full of terminal Windows with FORTRAN 77 Code. And woman would still randomly stop in and ask about my laptop.
We are from Support of Open Source Software and we are Protesting that Microsoft is spending money and hiring people to operate a retail store. Which time will tell if it is successful for not.
Although our movement is not actually For or against Microsoft (While we have opposing view on software licensing and distribution) but most of our members really don't like them, because we had to buy their product once.
Apple had a case that their products were not shown in stores. The Apple Ghetto Section in COMPUSA comes to mind, In the far right corner of the store with shelving arranged differently to prevent people from wondering into the area by mistake (you wanted to go to the Apple section to get there). When talking to the sales rep they will stray you away from the Apple Product and point to you a nice shiny new Compaq with Windows and say how much better that is, and give every false rumor and misconception about the apple product as possible.
So that is the key reason for the Apple store to actually show off and highlight their product in their own store. They made an inviting environment that makes all their products look really nice, and the sales rep will talk about its strengths. (granted they will not go too far to point out any weaknesses) As well offer basic training to the people looking at the product to ease the switching anxieties.
Microsoft has a different PR problem. Their success has trivialized their products. Even their high end software which is rather nice (if you are able to look at them threw un Fanboy/Zealot eyes) has the stigma of being sub-par home software. As well associating any and all PC problems that one has with Microsoft even if it isn't their fault. Really gives them a PR problem. Now I am not sure a retail store will fix it. Showing off the software is a much more difficult problem. It takes time to determine if you want or like the software. Vs. say a Mac which just looks cool and you feel that it can do what you want it to do. Most people felt they have been burned by Microsoft far more then people who felt burned by Apple so standard marketing will make them suspicious.
See all the great products that already come by default on your PC. If you have an Old version buy a new one... See that it doesn't work on your old PC and buy a New One with all the products you just bought is pre-installed!
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Because we are bad consumers. Americans have in general became very bad consumers. We focus on price not cost. We have lost the Gut to say no or lets build a different contract.
Half of the problems with SaaS software licenses etc... Is the fact the no one is willing to negotiate for what they feel is fair.
You want to go to SaaS for some of your services/software but you are afraid that if you get off them your data will be loss. Well when making a contract with the company make sure you have that as one of your conditions.
Companies are looking for their best interests, you should be looking out for your own. Even ethical companies who make good products and services they are still looking out for themselves and if you say yes to everything then you will end up with the short end of the sick.
I never got this Cellphone Keyboard obsession thing. Even ones with real keyboards they are just good for typing short messages, really small buttons makes it hard to type. At least with the touch screen the keys are actually a bit bigger as you can switch keyboards for what you are typing. But for the most part the type of stuff you need on a smart phone is Point and Click. When you are texting you only write short bursts. The need of a real keyboard isn't that big of a deal, much like people who complained when we went from the Dial phone to the Touch pad. The Dial Phones had great feed back, the feeling of the resistance of the dial, the arch motion your finger was made to do. The feeling it touching the stopper. The sound of it winding up and winding back with the gentile clicks of it puling the number over the line. But still TouchTone Phones took over as they were more efficient, and allowed for future upgrades, in the short term the people switching from Dial to Touchtone were less efficient as they had to hunt down numbers in a different pattern. But in time it picked up. I think the same thing will happen with touch screens. The feeling of pressing the key for a response will not be a major concern in the future.
This would make the new form of super hero. Combine the DNA from these microbes into our. A man who can dive into lava. Survive a freezing Tundra without layers of clothing.
Yea he probably wont have everything that superman has, especially the Hidden power to resolve a plot.
That is actually a good one for first year students. First it covers first year physics pretty well. Calculating where the ball will land, and try to get them to factor in different envrioments (wind, projectile shape and size, and weight). Plus you have built a war machine which is always fun.
It gives them a sense of accomplishment and a real physical thing to show for. Not just a bunch of numbers on a paper. You can give them different challenges. Say one that just focuses on getting the Maximum distance (in height or distance). Other for controllable accuracy.
Its fun, its a lot of work and they learn a lot of things.
Even we do do find it it will open thousand more questions about it.
Thus will keep the pointless debate of is there a God or Not going.
I think they came up with the "God Particle" name as a way of saying to the people who beleave in God. Here we found out how the Universe works and THERE IS NO GOD See, you have lived your life on a false belief.
Just as the religious people are hoping for the Second Coming to say to the atheists. Oh Oh here is God he about to put the smack down on you. You should have lived your life based on these values, and now you gonna pay.
However I think if we find this particle so many new questions will come up that we will just realize how much more we don't know. And if there is a second coming many of the Religious people will do like they did before, Ignore or reject it as they bring up ideas that they don't like. And the Religious people will probably kill Jesus for the second time, not the atheists.
Not if your license doesn't care about combining other licenses in your code. The GNU is big on that. But for other licenses it is less of an issue. Just avoid GNU products and you are probably good.
I think I agree with your point. That the developer should choose a license that they agree with for their product. However you wording is kinda off. RMS has a unique view of Software, Business and the world, and really isn't open to opposing ideas, and likes to place people in Good and Evil Categories, with a thin gray area.
While others don't see the world like that there is much more of a gray area and different ideas of fair use.
Such as Free for Personal and Education however if you are going to make money off that software you should get a cut too.
Or the FreeBSD license where you are OK if the people take you code and use it without any extra responsibility.
Then there others who say they don't want their code used for Military/Government use.
Others want full control of the product and doesn't want it to fork.
The GNU isn't the only game in town and it may not be the most moral as well. Such as the "TiVoization" distinction between Consumer User application and Corporate use applications, aka Lets be nice to IBM who is a big supporter, and let some things slide for them.
Demand is local to each country though. If X cost 1 USD and the Price Parity Ratio is different that means the demand for the product has changed. The demand for Drug X is much lower when it costs significantly more.
It is a case of supply vs. demand. It is just business. Each country or area has a different supply vs. demand curve. If the average population makes 30k a year there will be a different curve then people living on 10k a year. Getting the right balance will maximize profits and matching pricing for the right areas is more profitable.
This happens in all sectors, say you are traveling around the world and you give the bell boy a 5 dollar tip. In the US that will like $5 for them (Deli-Meat for a week). In the country where the average is about $10k that is a $15 (Good cuts for meat for dinner about 2 days and the deli-meat) for the really poor countries where people make $1k a year. That would be close to a $150 tip (Food for a family for a week or 2).
Well yea if you want a sprite you ask for a sprite. However say up in New York Downstate NY and eastern Upstate NY calls Carbonated Soft Drinks Soda, Western NY Calls it Pop. Being from New England/Eastern Upstate NY myself I call it Soda. So when sitting at home and have only one brand of soda in the fridge I see my wife getting herself a drink I may ask her if I could have a drink too. And she will ask what do you want Milk, Water, Juice or Soda.
Down South except for calling it Soda or Pop they call it Coke. It may not necessarily be in the Atlanta area as there is a Coke Plant there and there are a lot of people with massive brand awareness. But in other areas where people don't care if it is Coke, Pepsi, or Royal Crown they will just say Coke,Soda or Pop or even rare Soda-Pop.
Exactly you could have the fastest computer in the world but if it doesn't run the software that the people want the people wont buy it. The Companies to make the software that people wont wont make software for that hardware if no one has it.
It is kinda of a catch 22. The only way out is to do minor upgrades Removing and old feature rarely used and adding a new feature that will not break much. And software companies will slowly add the new feature that take use of the new hardware features but the big switch off the old x86 to something newer and better will not happen anytime soon.
Yea keep telling yourself that.
So what do you know about Medical Billing, Digastondics Coding, Transcriptions and record keeping. You probably don't even know the Difference between a PM an EMR or even what HL7 is. It would take you 2 weeks just to understand the basics before you can go and collect the specs.
Even if you did write a crappy PHP App you will need the doctors to like it. And they are not easy or nice people, they will tare a basic HTML form to shreds, they want the best and they have the money to buy the best. Not a hack job done in a few weeks.
I think what is happening is just as iPod became the unofficial name of a MP3 Payer, Kleanex became the unofficial name of tissues. Coke down south has became the unofficial name for Carbonated Soft Drinks. the iPhone is getting its reputation as a smart phone or an internet aware phone. Which is a growing market. I think the point still hold true. How many people with satellite radio or how many people with iPhones, from my experience I have seen more iPhones (even more smart phones which can do the same job) then satellite radios. A smart phone you can carry anywhere with you Satellite radio don't have much of a market as a portable unit. And normally just hooked into cars. So the iPhone (as the term of a powerful cellphone) could unseat Satellite radio
Just as the growth in Open Source Software created a growth to Out Sourcing [wikipedia link to reference] this could have unknown consequences. The world economy and the worlds trade laws were based around physical goods. Where in order copy and break say American Copywrite/Patent laws it still required a fair amount of work. Having to purchase the original, reverse engineering, then reengineering build it work out how to optimize the manufacturing proces... While it was still frowned at it was mostly let alone, because it took a determined individual or group to get this done and it is usually just cheaper and easier to purchase the product anyways. Now with Digital Media people have a hard time understanding value in it. As they don't have a physical device they can hold (Like back when I was a kid I saved up for months to get a Copy of DesqView (A program that allowed DOS to multi-task), When I got it and opened it up it was on 1, 3 1/2 floppy, oddly enough I felt rather disappointed in that, although it was a good program for its day, and it did what I wanted it to do the fact that I spent all this money for 1 floppy was kinda disappointing.) But just because people have a hard time understanding the Value a information it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, or should be shared freely, freedom of speech is the freedom of Ideas and views. However freedom of data and precise replications are much different, the original data does take take and effort from person/people in which they should be compensated for their work. Even if it is a faceless corporation you need to realize most of the money ends up to a bunch of faces. Companies don't need money or have money... People do, money is not a raw material but a an abstract idea where people agree on value.
Right now I tend to recharge my phone at night
This wouldn't be a problem if you lived in Australia. When it is night in the USA it is daylight there.
You know it was a sarcastic comment. Being the point of the futility of protesting such a thing, and we are signalinout MS for the sake it is MS
What happens when your idea fails... Oh lets fire the janitor because his suggestion on how to improve productivity has failed.
That said rewarding a successful idea by bonus/raises/job security etc. Is a good way because it keep him part of the process not just a blank idea which could save the company millions and is sill struggling day to day.
Do you trust yourself to handle the company information and backups and data storage... If so is that you full time or near full time job.
Secondly if you company is going to go to cloud computer you should be smart enough to create part of the contract the ability to get your data at request even after service has ended for a period of time.
Oddly enough a piece of paper with a couple of signatures on it works better then any technical solution.
Your argument is the same as people who are afraid to fly. The fact that your fate is in someone else hands even if it is statically safer, you feel more comfortable when you are in control.
I'd say Microsoft's problem is first, that they can't design or maintain a robust, secure, desktop operating system; and second, that they continually ignore customer desires for a stable OS environment in favor of a business plan that forces upgrades.
Just keep telling yourself that. I have actually had more issues of Linux Crashing this year then I had with Windows (including Vista) crashing on me in the last 8 years). Also I have seen Linux Boxen that have been hacked into, More then windows systems too. Yea Windows gets more viruses but Linux usually gets hacked into more.
Which high end software are you speaking of? Word? Excel? Project? Word's user interface changes every time they do a new version.
Are a High School Kid or something? Although Windows and Office accounts for the bulk of Microsofts profits. They actually have some good High End software such as BizTalk, SharePoint, SQL Server... While you can debate it against alternatives they are actually quite good software that are well designed.
Several of my friends, faced with defunct laptops and the option of "Vista or nothing" on a new purchase,
While Vista isn't that great it isn't as bad as people think, for those who use it with an open mind. It still better then Windows ME
So who will pickup the slack for Slashdot new UI. Where for some reason you can get more Info from the RSS Feed.
Oddly enough most of them don't know it is an Apple, Just a nice looking laptop. However starting communication is the first step. There were times I was working with my Laptop going completely geeked out. I hooked up a second display, added an external keyboard and mouse. Full of terminal Windows with FORTRAN 77 Code. And woman would still randomly stop in and ask about my laptop.
Except girls will talk to you if you have a Mac. I'm sorry but it is true.
What will you protest?
We are from Support of Open Source Software and we are Protesting that Microsoft is spending money and hiring people to operate a retail store. Which time will tell if it is successful for not.
Although our movement is not actually For or against Microsoft (While we have opposing view on software licensing and distribution) but most of our members really don't like them, because we had to buy their product once.
Microsoft and Apple have different problems.
Apple had a case that their products were not shown in stores.
The Apple Ghetto Section in COMPUSA comes to mind, In the far right corner of the store with shelving arranged differently to prevent people from wondering into the area by mistake (you wanted to go to the Apple section to get there). When talking to the sales rep they will stray you away from the Apple Product and point to you a nice shiny new Compaq with Windows and say how much better that is, and give every false rumor and misconception about the apple product as possible.
So that is the key reason for the Apple store to actually show off and highlight their product in their own store. They made an inviting environment that makes all their products look really nice, and the sales rep will talk about its strengths. (granted they will not go too far to point out any weaknesses) As well offer basic training to the people looking at the product to ease the switching anxieties.
Microsoft has a different PR problem. Their success has trivialized their products. Even their high end software which is rather nice (if you are able to look at them threw un Fanboy/Zealot eyes) has the stigma of being sub-par home software. As well associating any and all PC problems that one has with Microsoft even if it isn't their fault. Really gives them a PR problem. Now I am not sure a retail store will fix it. Showing off the software is a much more difficult problem. It takes time to determine if you want or like the software. Vs. say a Mac which just looks cool and you feel that it can do what you want it to do. Most people felt they have been burned by Microsoft far more then people who felt burned by Apple so standard marketing will make them suspicious.
See all the great products that already come by default on your PC.
If you have an Old version buy a new one... See that it doesn't work on your old PC and buy a New One with all the products you just bought is pre-installed!