DDT's original purpose was malaria control. Only later was it used for a general pesticide. For a while, the WTO suggested the use of DDT in this manner. DDT is extremely effective, and when used moderately and not as a general pesticide, the environmental effects are highly reduced. Clearly DDT as a pesticide is clearly worse that the pests, but DDT as a malaria prevention is not clearly worse that malaria.
Try to think of people who arent in your financial situation when you say no one looks at price or cost.
We do pretty well but I hate spending money when I dont have to.
I didn't say that. I said, "Price is not the only reason for choosing an OS. Not even cost is." In other words, when choosing an OS, price/cost is not the only thing to look at. Most people choose Windows because it is the de facto standard, not because it has a low price, which alone backs my point. There are many other reasons to pick a particular OS which have nothing to do with price or cost. This, of course, does not mean that there do not exist people that choose solely based on price or cost. Even then, in your case, Linux was installed because you preferred it over (say) the BSD variants for some reason, even though they are also free(gratis).
Exactly. I read the article as follows:
1) MS does not get nearly as much revenue from a copy of Windows as it does from a copy of Office. (This is per copy revenue, not total, and besides, even if it is smaller, it doesn't mean it is insignificant.)
2) People are turning away from Windows because they do not like to pay for Windows, at least on the business desktop or in the server room. (Come on. Price is not the only reason for choosing an OS. Not even cost is.)
3) Ergo, Windows will need to be free(gratis) in order to keep market share. (What? Why? There are other ways to get/keep market share than competing on price. Windows is a nice case study.)
4) Windows needs market share so that MS can sell apps. (Why? They can't make apps for other operating systems?)
5) The author can't see why MS will make Windows free(gratis) without also making it free(libre). (What? Where on earth did that come from?)
Conlusion: Windows is going to go open source!
The premises are shaky, the logic is faulty, assumptions abound, and even if it were all true, MS is not necessarily going to be logical!
While other replies have noted that Russia is a Berne signatory, they do not notice that there are others that are not. Laos, for example, not only is not a signatory, but does not have any type of copyright law whatsoever, despite a recent treaty with the US saying that they will create one. As a result, those producing content and competing in the marketplace (literally -- the content creator and a "pirate" could be facing each other across the same walkway) have to do so on quality -- basically, if it is sold by the content creator, then the buyer knows the CD is of high quality and will work the first time and for a long time. Oh, and the price has to be close to what the others charge (say, $1.20 instead of $1.00), or the buyer won't give a damn about quality.
Actually, since it is a branch office of a US company, then it is really getting some people in America to pay rich American monopolists extra money through an intermediary in a third-world country.
Ah yes, good old acroread on my old linux box, which would utilize 100% CPU when idling displaying a document in Mozilla. That seriously screwed up nightly builds using that machine. God forbid if you had more than one PDF open.
That's another problem with these cute names: get careless and you get sued. Apple actually spends a lot of money paying off people with claims against the names they use for all their OS updates. Possibly worth it, since it contributes to their main marketing asset: their coolness factor. But not worth it for most companies.
Kind of like the PowerMac 7100/66, code named "Carl Sagan", until Sagan sued Apple and lost (when it became BHA, or Butt Head Astronomer, causing Sagan to sue again and lose again (at which point it was LAW, or Lawyers Are Wimps)).
Which is why each machine should have two names, the functional one (cc-dx12-ptr) and the English one (belch). Those familiar with the machines find the English ones memorable, while those unfamiliar find the functional one simpler. CNAMEs are cheap.
How do you know? Because "it's obvious"? Maybe you have some reasons, but some really good ideas seemed really stupid at the time. The point of the GP is that doing parallel inventing can come up with alternate ideas that are really interesting, rather than limiting everyone to a monoculture.
I believe that the Mac has more than 1-3% market share, and 90+% of Mac users use the default browser. Doing a quick Google search shows a minuscule percentage on Windows, but about 8% overall as of Jan 2nd.
After RTFS, my first thought is that all the major ISP's will reverse engineer the tools, such that their traffic 'bandwidth shaping' methods will actually prioritize these packets, so that end users wind up getting lied to (that their network traffic isn't being slowed down AND that they are getting a faster internet connection than they actually are).
Yes, exactly. So the next step is for the users to start making their traffic look like these tools. The final solution for the user is for the test tool to be as much like file transfer tools that the ISP can't tell the difference, so must either play fair or be detected.
In other words, when you are caught downloading the latest movie releases, you can simply say it is for testing purposes.
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation#Criticisms Feel better?
First, he didn't release the mosquitoes (although you wouldn't realise that from the summary).
Please note the first response to the linked comment. In short, yes, he did.
DDT's original purpose was malaria control. Only later was it used for a general pesticide. For a while, the WTO suggested the use of DDT in this manner. DDT is extremely effective, and when used moderately and not as a general pesticide, the environmental effects are highly reduced. Clearly DDT as a pesticide is clearly worse that the pests, but DDT as a malaria prevention is not clearly worse that malaria.
Try to think of people who arent in your financial situation when you say no one looks at price or cost. We do pretty well but I hate spending money when I dont have to.
I didn't say that. I said, "Price is not the only reason for choosing an OS. Not even cost is." In other words, when choosing an OS, price/cost is not the only thing to look at. Most people choose Windows because it is the de facto standard, not because it has a low price, which alone backs my point. There are many other reasons to pick a particular OS which have nothing to do with price or cost. This, of course, does not mean that there do not exist people that choose solely based on price or cost. Even then, in your case, Linux was installed because you preferred it over (say) the BSD variants for some reason, even though they are also free(gratis).
Exactly. I read the article as follows:
1) MS does not get nearly as much revenue from a copy of Windows as it does from a copy of Office. (This is per copy revenue, not total, and besides, even if it is smaller, it doesn't mean it is insignificant.)
2) People are turning away from Windows because they do not like to pay for Windows, at least on the business desktop or in the server room. (Come on. Price is not the only reason for choosing an OS. Not even cost is.)
3) Ergo, Windows will need to be free(gratis) in order to keep market share. (What? Why? There are other ways to get/keep market share than competing on price. Windows is a nice case study.)
4) Windows needs market share so that MS can sell apps. (Why? They can't make apps for other operating systems?)
5) The author can't see why MS will make Windows free(gratis) without also making it free(libre). (What? Where on earth did that come from?)
Conlusion: Windows is going to go open source!
The premises are shaky, the logic is faulty, assumptions abound, and even if it were all true, MS is not necessarily going to be logical!
Here you go: http://svn.red-bean.com/ale/repos/trunk/lisp/gene-menus.el
While other replies have noted that Russia is a Berne signatory, they do not notice that there are others that are not. Laos, for example, not only is not a signatory, but does not have any type of copyright law whatsoever, despite a recent treaty with the US saying that they will create one. As a result, those producing content and competing in the marketplace (literally -- the content creator and a "pirate" could be facing each other across the same walkway) have to do so on quality -- basically, if it is sold by the content creator, then the buyer knows the CD is of high quality and will work the first time and for a long time. Oh, and the price has to be close to what the others charge (say, $1.20 instead of $1.00), or the buyer won't give a damn about quality.
Actually, since it is a branch office of a US company, then it is really getting some people in America to pay rich American monopolists extra money through an intermediary in a third-world country.
Or Avenue Q.
Ah yes, good old acroread on my old linux box, which would utilize 100% CPU when idling displaying a document in Mozilla. That seriously screwed up nightly builds using that machine. God forbid if you had more than one PDF open.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt-Igoe
That's another problem with these cute names: get careless and you get sued. Apple actually spends a lot of money paying off people with claims against the names they use for all their OS updates. Possibly worth it, since it contributes to their main marketing asset: their coolness factor. But not worth it for most companies.
Kind of like the PowerMac 7100/66, code named "Carl Sagan", until Sagan sued Apple and lost (when it became BHA, or Butt Head Astronomer, causing Sagan to sue again and lose again (at which point it was LAW, or Lawyers Are Wimps)).
Wikipedia says it well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#Personal_life_and_beliefs
Which is why each machine should have two names, the functional one (cc-dx12-ptr) and the English one (belch). Those familiar with the machines find the English ones memorable, while those unfamiliar find the functional one simpler. CNAMEs are cheap.
Your post advocates a
(X) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work.
The Development Abstraction Layer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol's_cost_disease
Libration, perhaps?
And to cap it off, Wikipedia makes no reference to Thomas Harriot at all.
To the right is "Crater characteristics", which has an item "Eponym", listing Thomas Harriot.
How do you know? Because "it's obvious"? Maybe you have some reasons, but some really good ideas seemed really stupid at the time. The point of the GP is that doing parallel inventing can come up with alternate ideas that are really interesting, rather than limiting everyone to a monoculture.
I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility
In other words:
Editors "Teleport" Summary Information One Week
I believe that the Mac has more than 1-3% market share, and 90+% of Mac users use the default browser. Doing a quick Google search shows a minuscule percentage on Windows, but about 8% overall as of Jan 2nd.
That's SRTFA.
Yes, exactly. So the next step is for the users to start making their traffic look like these tools. The final solution for the user is for the test tool to be as much like file transfer tools that the ISP can't tell the difference, so must either play fair or be detected.
In other words, when you are caught downloading the latest movie releases, you can simply say it is for testing purposes.
Tortoise shell cats have different colorings due to environmental conditions. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat