I agree compleatly with your first point. Service, speed, ease of use were major factors in the starting popularity of P2P. The music industry spent years fighting legal battles, all the while users getting more and more hooked on service and ease of use.
To draw an analogy, at a trade conference a couple of years ago, concerning security, the presenter asked the crowd how many blocked IMs on the corp firewall. Something like 90% of the people did. And then the presenter asked what they were going to do in 5 years when all their new hires grew up using IMs, as almost a way of life, in HS and university. (*blank stares*)
I cant say that if iTunes existed in 1998 then music sales wouldnt have dropped off, period. Unquestionably, they wouldnt have dropped off so rappidly. And there wouldnt be a generation of people who grew up hooked on instant gratifaction, compleatly willing to violate copyrights to do so.
Your second point is off the mark however, its a flawed analogy. Resturaunts offer both preperation, experience in doing so, service, atmospher, and to some extent prestege. Music records do not. OTOH, live music does - and its signficant to point out that this fight is against the RECORD industry, not the MUSIC industry.
Novell has already made not-insignificant investement in OOo. One of the value added features in their various commercial distros is a Novell branded OOo 2.0, with things like commercial, "Microsoft compatable" fonts. Long term, OOo is the way to go, in general. Yes, a migration phase may be necessary.
In the last few months, Novell has announced layoffs. They built up a bunch of fat and extra capacity in developers; I cant see them purchasing a new team of developers, which has a product with a hopefully short lifespan. Partnering with them, and selling a Novell branded Crossover is a different thing entirely, but that isnt something that Novell typically does.
HTTP explicitly allows for caches - its part of the protocol. Associated standards have been published to restrict what can be cached, and indexed by e.g. search engines.
You can no more complain that something is caching, or indexing, your pages you have published with HTTP, then you can complain that someone is accessing them at all.
Chornobyl is in the Ukraine. There are at least two classes of people who would find you squashing them together offensive, I call them "Russians" and "Ukrainians".
Perhaps, but in business the question isnt necessaraly about the technology today. Its the old story of small fish, little pond, v. big fish little pond.
If Apple had gone with a the Sparc chip/platform, could Apple have influenced SPARC Internation more then they did with the Motorola/IBM/Apple setup? Interesting question. I know that one of the reasons cited for Apple moving from the PPC arch is that IBM has only been interested in investing in the POWER arch, all but ignoring the consumer grade PPC systems. I think that Apple could have sold at least as many AppleSparcs then Sun sold UltraSparcs, and therefor had a greater (relative) pull with SparcInternational then with IBM. Also, (and Im not sure on the timeline here), they could have gotten help with a 68k to Sparc transition from Sun, which had done the same thing (though, without binary compatability).
Well, a length of fiber optic cable that would be reasonable to carry around with you all the time would be useless when not looking for rescue. Cards, OTOH, have utility beyond a rescue implement, and thus have a better carry-effort:reward ratio.
Well, see, its like this. You know about health. Eat your veggies. Get your fat ass out of your chair once in a while. But if you have a serious health problem, or want a serious health question answered, we have these special people who can help. We call them Doctors.
And you know about law. Dont kill people. Stop at stop signs. Dont cary condoms filled with cocaine in your ass when crossing international borders. But if you have a legal problem, or want a point of law clarified, we have these special people who can help. We call them Lawyers.
One of my past summer jobs was for a consulting engineering firm. Anyway, one of the jobs that I had was to do a florescent light ballast inventory of an old hospital. Any ballast manufactured before 1970 definitely had PCBs in it. Any made after 1975 definitely did not (and are marked with "no pcb", anyway). I have no idea how, or if, that translates out to other applications.
Speaking of PCBs in old transformers, Ill relate a story from a environment engineer (strangely, different firm), I knew. His company was doing a site cleanup at an old junk/salvage yard. One thing that Junky Jims had specialized in was getting the valuable metal out of old (military) transformers. How do you get the liquid PCBs out, you ask? Crack it open with an ax, and let it drain into a hole dug in the ground. "What do you do when the hole filled up?" asked my PEng friend of a former worker. His reply "Well, see, that was the beauty of the system. It just "Went away.""
You are incorrect. Google, with gmail, and maps, are demonstrating that the browser can be a valid platform, meaning the OS is irrelevent. Microsoft killed off Netscape-the-platform ten years ago, largly because there was no killer-app for that platform. Maps and GMail have spawned a rebirth of the web-platform concept. And that is the biggest threat MS has ever faced.
Very good strategy. Except that you miss that while zero-Cost Linux, Windows, "Enterprise" Linux, commercial UNIX may very well be resonably similar as far as administration, down time, etc; And Dell, IBM xSeries, HP, homemade PCs, Sun Fire systems may provide a similar platform, to run you ERP package on; however AS/400 and iSeries is in a distinct class. VMS is perhaps comparable. High end Sun stuff may be (www.sun.com listing "midrange" server starting at $30k).
Some applications, while supporting different platforms, do so at a very different level. AppX on PlatformA may be "better" then AppY on PlatformA. But AppX on PlatformB is worse then AppY on PlatformB. So the question then is which of {AppX/PlatformA, AppX/PlatformB, AppY/PlatformA, AppY/PlatformB) is better. And thats a different question entirely. One might be tied to a paticular application, so only the platform is open for change. One might be tied to a platform, and the application must run on this. In this paticular case, everything seems to be on the table.
The line should likely be "If you're not making them money today...." See, its not all about making money on this one sale. Its about them coming back next year, and them telling their friends about you. Its about breaking even to pay for developers. Its about laying the foundation for making money tomorrow.
The -vv support may or may not make it into the final 2.0. I IM'd Sean Egan about it, and while he has more work done in his own tree, he was rather aloof when I suggested he check it into SF cvs.
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I agree compleatly with your first point. Service, speed, ease of use were major factors in the starting popularity of P2P. The music industry spent years fighting legal battles, all the while users getting more and more hooked on service and ease of use.
To draw an analogy, at a trade conference a couple of years ago, concerning security, the presenter asked the crowd how many blocked IMs on the corp firewall. Something like 90% of the people did. And then the presenter asked what they were going to do in 5 years when all their new hires grew up using IMs, as almost a way of life, in HS and university. (*blank stares*)
I cant say that if iTunes existed in 1998 then music sales wouldnt have dropped off, period. Unquestionably, they wouldnt have dropped off so rappidly. And there wouldnt be a generation of people who grew up hooked on instant gratifaction, compleatly willing to violate copyrights to do so.
Your second point is off the mark however, its a flawed analogy. Resturaunts offer both preperation, experience in doing so, service, atmospher, and to some extent prestege. Music records do not. OTOH, live music does - and its signficant to point out that this fight is against the RECORD industry, not the MUSIC industry.
Novell has already made not-insignificant investement in OOo. One of the value added features in their various commercial distros is a Novell branded OOo 2.0, with things like commercial, "Microsoft compatable" fonts. Long term, OOo is the way to go, in general. Yes, a migration phase may be necessary.
In the last few months, Novell has announced layoffs. They built up a bunch of fat and extra capacity in developers; I cant see them purchasing a new team of developers, which has a product with a hopefully short lifespan. Partnering with them, and selling a Novell branded Crossover is a different thing entirely, but that isnt something that Novell typically does.
HTTP explicitly allows for caches - its part of the protocol. Associated standards have been published to restrict what can be cached, and indexed by e.g. search engines.
You can no more complain that something is caching, or indexing, your pages you have published with HTTP, then you can complain that someone is accessing them at all.
If you CANDO it?
As the US is a net importer of oil, reduction in oil consumption would, if anything, increase the value of the dollar.
Chornobyl is in the Ukraine. There are at least two classes of people who would find you squashing them together offensive, I call them "Russians" and "Ukrainians".
RAID 5, unless you like 50% waste, rather then 1/n (n>=3) waste.
Perhaps, but in business the question isnt necessaraly about the technology today. Its the old story of small fish, little pond, v. big fish little pond.
If Apple had gone with a the Sparc chip/platform, could Apple have influenced SPARC Internation more then they did with the Motorola/IBM/Apple setup? Interesting question. I know that one of the reasons cited for Apple moving from the PPC arch is that IBM has only been interested in investing in the POWER arch, all but ignoring the consumer grade PPC systems. I think that Apple could have sold at least as many AppleSparcs then Sun sold UltraSparcs, and therefor had a greater (relative) pull with SparcInternational then with IBM. Also, (and Im not sure on the timeline here), they could have gotten help with a 68k to Sparc transition from Sun, which had done the same thing (though, without binary compatability).
Well, a length of fiber optic cable that would be reasonable to carry around with you all the time would be useless when not looking for rescue. Cards, OTOH, have utility beyond a rescue implement, and thus have a better carry-effort:reward ratio.
Well, see, its like this. You know about health. Eat your veggies. Get your fat ass out of your chair once in a while. But if you have a serious health problem, or want a serious health question answered, we have these special people who can help. We call them Doctors.
And you know about law. Dont kill people. Stop at stop signs. Dont cary condoms filled with cocaine in your ass when crossing international borders. But if you have a legal problem, or want a point of law clarified, we have these special people who can help. We call them Lawyers.
... and if you are posting a comment in it... ah fuck.
... does not mean what you think it means ...
One of my past summer jobs was for a consulting engineering firm. Anyway, one of the jobs that I had was to do a florescent light ballast inventory of an old hospital. Any ballast manufactured before 1970 definitely had PCBs in it. Any made after 1975 definitely did not (and are marked with "no pcb", anyway). I have no idea how, or if, that translates out to other applications.
Speaking of PCBs in old transformers, Ill relate a story from a environment engineer (strangely, different firm), I knew. His company was doing a site cleanup at an old junk/salvage yard. One thing that Junky Jims had specialized in was getting the valuable metal out of old (military) transformers. How do you get the liquid PCBs out, you ask? Crack it open with an ax, and let it drain into a hole dug in the ground. "What do you do when the hole filled up?" asked my PEng friend of a former worker. His reply "Well, see, that was the beauty of the system. It just "Went away.""
Sadly, a true story.
The browser can run on any OS. Any of the Mozilla products are cross platform, as is Opera.
You are incorrect. Google, with gmail, and maps, are demonstrating that the browser can be a valid platform, meaning the OS is irrelevent. Microsoft killed off Netscape-the-platform ten years ago, largly because there was no killer-app for that platform. Maps and GMail have spawned a rebirth of the web-platform concept. And that is the biggest threat MS has ever faced.
Round down and put the extra aside. Say, in your own account. Like the have-a-penny-need-a-penny jar at the local Gulp-n-Blow.
Very good strategy. Except that you miss that while zero-Cost Linux, Windows, "Enterprise" Linux, commercial UNIX may very well be resonably similar as far as administration, down time, etc; And Dell, IBM xSeries, HP, homemade PCs, Sun Fire systems may provide a similar platform, to run you ERP package on; however AS/400 and iSeries is in a distinct class. VMS is perhaps comparable. High end Sun stuff may be (www.sun.com listing "midrange" server starting at $30k).
Some applications, while supporting different platforms, do so at a very different level. AppX on PlatformA may be "better" then AppY on PlatformA. But AppX on PlatformB is worse then AppY on PlatformB. So the question then is which of {AppX/PlatformA, AppX/PlatformB, AppY/PlatformA, AppY/PlatformB) is better. And thats a different question entirely. One might be tied to a paticular application, so only the platform is open for change. One might be tied to a platform, and the application must run on this. In this paticular case, everything seems to be on the table.
Well, as far as "karma" goes it doesnt realy matter that you are a paticular real world entity, just that you are a consistant entity.
The line should likely be "If you're not making them money today...." See, its not all about making money on this one sale. Its about them coming back next year, and them telling their friends about you. Its about breaking even to pay for developers. Its about laying the foundation for making money tomorrow.
The -vv support may or may not make it into the final 2.0. I IM'd Sean Egan about it, and while he has more work done in his own tree, he was rather aloof when I suggested he check it into SF cvs.
Who said it was incomming spam?
Do both?
Google search: http://www.google.com/
Google Portal: http://www.google.com/ig
Doesnt seem all that troublesome to me.
THREE RULES OF BEING A PLUMBER
Dammit: THERE IS NO RULE NUMBER SIX.
hello slaschode coders. I know all caps is like yelling. that is what Im tring to acheive.
My girlfriend is absolutely computer illiterate: she thinks (well, thought) that Office is the OS that runs on his laptop.
Talk about usability issues!