Because the number of 1978 volkswaggons is on the decline, while the number of gas guzzling SUV's has been o na steep incline.
And I doubt that Explorers, Bronco's, Expeditions, Range Rovers, Land Rovers, etc. etc. etc. get even near 30 mpg... at least, the expedition my boss had hovered around 14 miles per gallon...
I said, that it was backwards compatibility through software that got PowerPC where it is. If apple had intro'd powermacs that couldn't run 68k software, the powerpc series would have been an even bigger flop than MS Bob...
Next time, please read and quote the entire thought rather than just the 12 words that suit your argument the best.
When you broadcas TV or the radio, reaching your first listener is just as expensive as reaching you 10,000,000th. It's just amortized through the cost of the equipment. When you broadcast on the internet, yes, you still have the cost of equipment, but each listener/viewer also costs you money... Bandwidth isn't free, and i doubt that they make enough rebroadcasting ads to make up for it... Something needs to happen to enable it to pay for itself...
$10.00 / 162 games = 6 cents a game... and yet people still manage to find a way to grip about it... What sort of world do you live in that 6 cents is to much to pay to listen to a baseball game, when say, people are being slaughtered overseas and to the south of us?
Really.
6 cents a game is not worth a story on slashdot, except for it's sensationalistic value... "the man sticks it to us AGAIN".
Yay. I probably shouldn't have clicked on this thread, but the intro was so absurd i just had to...
I'm a big fan of the "garage" bands myself, and am actually quite happy with the current music scene... Why? Because, after every few years of mediocrity, a new genre appears in before the old scene completely dies away... It's a recurrent cycle.
Of course you'll never hear any thing but top 40 on 99% of the radio. Why? because the radio is basically for the lowest common denominator of audience, as broadcasters try to capture ears, and hence sell ads. Give up on it. And don't blame them. Blame yourself for not looking any further than what they hand you in the first place....
$9.99 a season just isn't that much. Of course quality and bandwidth can't be guarenteed,that's the nature of the interenet. Of course they won't provide you with a free copy of a $30.00 program, since there's already a free version available. Tax payers money goes into building stadiums because it helps stimulate the local economy, especially if the team is doing good, but internet broadcasts do nothing to help the economies of anyone involved, until you factor in the $9.99 a YEAR charge...
That's not much... If the interenet is affordable at $20 to $40 a month, if napster will be affordable at $9.95 a month, then certainly a seasons full of broadcasts at $9.99 a year isn't that bad. If you think so, just buy your self a set of FM headphones, and you'll recoup your investment in only 3 or 4 years....
Naah... personal computing took off on the Apple II and IBM PC. The IBM became the standard business machine, everyone adopted it and adopted MS DOS at the same time. Companies standardized on software that ran only under MS DOS. Each step forward in intel processors was a baby step, keeping complete compatibiltiy with the previous generation. As was each version of DOS, and then Windows after it. Very little has to do with marketing once you actually own the standard. For years Intel and Microsoft have steamrolled superior, but incompatible competitors. The only marketing line they need to use is "it already works with what you have".
I think it's morally wrong to advocate a solution that leaves users in a position of losing their data, and running inferior programs to boot. StarOffice is no substitute for MS office, except to the most diehard individual, for instance. Yes it has the same checklist of features, but it runs slow as molasses and crashes CONSTANTLY (under both Windows and Linux... i uninstalled it from Windows and kept it under linux to use in a pinch, until finally settling on VMWare.
Until free software can do everything commercial software can, including reading all of the file formats flawlessly, no amount of "freedom" can substitute for the loss of one's investments in time creating their documents and money spent on programs that won't work upon such a switch.
Backwards compatibility is why x86 is the leading architecture. Backwards compatibility is why DOS & Windows are still the leading platforms for developers. Backwards compatibiltiy is how the PowerPC got it's foothold into the market, and is what Transmeta's trying to do to get their processors accepted by the market place (though in both cases, backwards compatibitliy was achieved through the use of software rather than actual silicon).
Who wants to "upgrade" their system only to find their applications and more importantly, their documents inaccessible? Yes, you could use linux and open source products so that you wouldn't have any disruption, but 95% of the world (at least) don't have that luxury.
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Maybe you should try reading it as a paragraph, rather than sentence by sentence... He said that the first 9 months of the year represent over 50% of SALES, not over 50% of the year as you imply there... He's saying 50% of their sales occure Jan-Sep and the other 50% Oct-Dec (the holiday season)...
yes, but wasn't alan cox already working on linux before they hired him? Basically a waste of money, most of their operations are... they should ditch the entire distro and development idea and just sell support - except that'll die out as GNOME ane KDE become easier to use...
a losing proposition, selling free software...
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Bind is probably just as prevalent, being that if each network has one computer running BIND, and the other computers trust that computer to any extent, they're basically exposed as well. Don't forget that most "server" installs install BIND (so far as i've seen - your milage may vary).
And outlook isn't one of those programs that people "have to have" to be compatible. Not at home, if your'e just checking POP mail. And only at work if your employers settled on Exchange as their mail server... And who cares there anyways? It's not your computer, you're working under orders, you've gotta use the software they give you... But outlook so far as i've noticed, communicates really well with the outside world - Mac & PC versions work fine, sending just about any attatchment to any other mail client. My company's use of outlook forces no one else to use it, my point being.
Hey, my companies breaking even on it's linux consulting business. True, sold $0 worth of services, but hey, i had $0 in expenses.... Woo hoo!
Breaking even isn't that impressive, considering they really don't have to spend much on R&D except for say RPM.... What else has Redhat done? On the other hand it's rather impressive that they've suckered that many people into buying what is otherwise a free product.
No... just as an employee at work doesn't have the right to "privacy" at their desk, through their company email or on their company phone, the president doesn't have a right to privacy while he's serving US. Remember, he's under our employment right now, 24 hours a day, for the next 4 years (give or take). He doesn't work for a corporation, he works for us, and we can request information from him. He can't refuse, unless it's on the grounds of national security, and him making fun of a reporter isn't national security, so that's the stuff he doesn't want coming out (any more than it already has).
Besides which, where's your PGP key? Not in slash's little field set up to hold it. And why should the president feel obligated to encrypt his emails to his friends discussing their last round of golf, or the dirty jokes they heard? As long as he's under our employ, it doesn't matter if they're encrypted or not, so long as he or anyone else is capable of providing the plaintext version...
This isn't about encryption - encryption won't save you or the president... Just try holding out on handing over your private key and pass phrase if you're on trial... you'll probably be thrown in jail for contempt until you decide to hand it over.
How about cars, for instance? I drive mine 1000 miles a week, and with proper maintenence - new tires, oil changes, filter changes, etc..., i've not had one second of unplanned downtime in 2 years. And that's for a piece of machinery with MOVING PARTS... Software doesn't have that, so in actuality, it can almost seem disappointing that you're pleased that a machine with no unmoving parts would give you "only" 438 hours of unplanned downtime per year (an hour and 12 minutes per day)...
Why would your connection be any more secure if the certificate was signed by Verisign or Thawte assupposed to yourself? Since you signed it yourself, just memorize your key fingerprint, and from other locations, you'll still be sure that your communicating via the certificate you yourself signed, and are therefore just as safe as if you'd used a CA's certificate. You'll just have to click i simple box when the browser says "I don't know who signed this certificate, is it okay to proceed?"
Poor software developers... They have to operate within the same constraints as people in other industries. Don't take the patent so personally, think of the larger picture involved. It's not all about just one patent. It's about patenting things that really shouldn't be patentable. And don't take this as an anti-patent schpeel, because i'm totally for patents as being valid protectors of real innovation and new technologies. But patenting business models themselves?
I don't actually see a problem with the patent itself, just the theory of patenting business models rather than actual advances in technology and discovery. It's too bad that they're allowed, but no one will put up a big fight on business model patents until they start leaking out of the tech world and into the realm that it effects the other 95% of the business world.
How can you say that Microsoft has lost? Hmmmm they're 2nd in server market share, the only player on the business desktop, their web browser is used by 70%+ of the net population. While many companies will disappear during this turn of the market, Microsoft has the cash to simply ride it out.
You're heavily deluded, i'm thinking... Yes, linux is taking over the low end server market by storm, but that's still just a drop in the bucket compared to the desktop market, where linux can't really even be called a player at this point.
Ahhh, but if AOL was set up with the sole intention of trading kiddie porn and was just incedentally used to trade legal porn as an after thought, Steve Case would be in the slammer right now...
Step back a little and look at the distinctions between teh services they provide.
No, it's possible... Apple, unfortunately, has taken a slide as of late, so MSFT ate a bunch of their share. ALinux is eating away from the other Unixes. As the commodity hardware it runs on gets more and more powerful, company's like Sun, SGI, and IBM sell fewer and fewer of their lower end systems and concentrate on shipping more of their highend systems which carry much bigger margins.
So, it's quite possible that Windows, Linux and *BSD could all be rising in marketshare... Afterall there's more than enough OSes out there for them tot be taking from.
Isn't that more of a printer driver thing? At least that was what I have been told by people.
We're not talking color laser printers, inkjets or anything else you might be thinking of... When people talk about the need for CMYK and Pantone support they're talking about outputting their creations to film, delivering said film to an offset or web printer and having said printer image printing plates, which then transfers ink to the paper...
An earlier project had a $14,000 to $2,000 comparision and the implemented Linux solution is working amazingly well
how much do you expect the training costs to have been? less than $12,000? Unless your company's tiny, probably not...doesn't sound liek the best of decisions, in that case - you have to look at the cost of time as well as the cost of software & hardware
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Because the number of 1978 volkswaggons is on the decline, while the number of gas guzzling SUV's has been o na steep incline.
And I doubt that Explorers, Bronco's, Expeditions, Range Rovers, Land Rovers, etc. etc. etc. get even near 30 mpg... at least, the expedition my boss had hovered around 14 miles per gallon...
A few days after the fact...
I said, that it was backwards compatibility through software that got PowerPC where it is. If apple had intro'd powermacs that couldn't run 68k software, the powerpc series would have been an even bigger flop than MS Bob...
Next time, please read and quote the entire thought rather than just the 12 words that suit your argument the best.
When you broadcas TV or the radio, reaching your first listener is just as expensive as reaching you 10,000,000th. It's just amortized through the cost of the equipment. When you broadcast on the internet, yes, you still have the cost of equipment, but each listener/viewer also costs you money... Bandwidth isn't free, and i doubt that they make enough rebroadcasting ads to make up for it... Something needs to happen to enable it to pay for itself...
$10.00 / 162 games = 6 cents a game... and yet people still manage to find a way to grip about it... What sort of world do you live in that 6 cents is to much to pay to listen to a baseball game, when say, people are being slaughtered overseas and to the south of us?
Really.
6 cents a game is not worth a story on slashdot, except for it's sensationalistic value... "the man sticks it to us AGAIN".
Yay. I probably shouldn't have clicked on this thread, but the intro was so absurd i just had to...
I'm a big fan of the "garage" bands myself, and am actually quite happy with the current music scene... Why? Because, after every few years of mediocrity, a new genre appears in before the old scene completely dies away... It's a recurrent cycle.
Of course you'll never hear any thing but top 40 on 99% of the radio. Why? because the radio is basically for the lowest common denominator of audience, as broadcasters try to capture ears, and hence sell ads. Give up on it. And don't blame them. Blame yourself for not looking any further than what they hand you in the first place....
$9.99 a season just isn't that much. Of course quality and bandwidth can't be guarenteed,that's the nature of the interenet. Of course they won't provide you with a free copy of a $30.00 program, since there's already a free version available. Tax payers money goes into building stadiums because it helps stimulate the local economy, especially if the team is doing good, but internet broadcasts do nothing to help the economies of anyone involved, until you factor in the $9.99 a YEAR charge...
That's not much... If the interenet is affordable at $20 to $40 a month, if napster will be affordable at $9.95 a month, then certainly a seasons full of broadcasts at $9.99 a year isn't that bad. If you think so, just buy your self a set of FM headphones, and you'll recoup your investment in only 3 or 4 years....
Naah... personal computing took off on the Apple II and IBM PC. The IBM became the standard business machine, everyone adopted it and adopted MS DOS at the same time. Companies standardized on software that ran only under MS DOS. Each step forward in intel processors was a baby step, keeping complete compatibiltiy with the previous generation. As was each version of DOS, and then Windows after it. Very little has to do with marketing once you actually own the standard. For years Intel and Microsoft have steamrolled superior, but incompatible competitors. The only marketing line they need to use is "it already works with what you have".
I think it's morally wrong to advocate a solution that leaves users in a position of losing their data, and running inferior programs to boot. StarOffice is no substitute for MS office, except to the most diehard individual, for instance. Yes it has the same checklist of features, but it runs slow as molasses and crashes CONSTANTLY (under both Windows and Linux... i uninstalled it from Windows and kept it under linux to use in a pinch, until finally settling on VMWare.
Until free software can do everything commercial software can, including reading all of the file formats flawlessly, no amount of "freedom" can substitute for the loss of one's investments in time creating their documents and money spent on programs that won't work upon such a switch.
Backwards compatibility is why x86 is the leading architecture. Backwards compatibility is why DOS & Windows are still the leading platforms for developers. Backwards compatibiltiy is how the PowerPC got it's foothold into the market, and is what Transmeta's trying to do to get their processors accepted by the market place (though in both cases, backwards compatibitliy was achieved through the use of software rather than actual silicon).
Who wants to "upgrade" their system only to find their applications and more importantly, their documents inaccessible? Yes, you could use linux and open source products so that you wouldn't have any disruption, but 95% of the world (at least) don't have that luxury.
Maybe you should try reading it as a paragraph, rather than sentence by sentence... He said that the first 9 months of the year represent over 50% of SALES, not over 50% of the year as you imply there... He's saying 50% of their sales occure Jan-Sep and the other 50% Oct-Dec (the holiday season)...
yes, but wasn't alan cox already working on linux before they hired him? Basically a waste of money, most of their operations are... they should ditch the entire distro and development idea and just sell support - except that'll die out as GNOME ane KDE become easier to use...
a losing proposition, selling free software...
My opinion.
Bind is probably just as prevalent, being that if each network has one computer running BIND, and the other computers trust that computer to any extent, they're basically exposed as well. Don't forget that most "server" installs install BIND (so far as i've seen - your milage may vary).
And outlook isn't one of those programs that people "have to have" to be compatible. Not at home, if your'e just checking POP mail. And only at work if your employers settled on Exchange as their mail server... And who cares there anyways? It's not your computer, you're working under orders, you've gotta use the software they give you... But outlook so far as i've noticed, communicates really well with the outside world - Mac & PC versions work fine, sending just about any attatchment to any other mail client. My company's use of outlook forces no one else to use it, my point being.
Hey, my companies breaking even on it's linux consulting business. True, sold $0 worth of services, but hey, i had $0 in expenses.... Woo hoo!
Breaking even isn't that impressive, considering they really don't have to spend much on R&D except for say RPM.... What else has Redhat done? On the other hand it's rather impressive that they've suckered that many people into buying what is otherwise a free product.
No... just as an employee at work doesn't have the right to "privacy" at their desk, through their company email or on their company phone, the president doesn't have a right to privacy while he's serving US. Remember, he's under our employment right now, 24 hours a day, for the next 4 years (give or take). He doesn't work for a corporation, he works for us, and we can request information from him. He can't refuse, unless it's on the grounds of national security, and him making fun of a reporter isn't national security, so that's the stuff he doesn't want coming out (any more than it already has).
Besides which, where's your PGP key? Not in slash's little field set up to hold it. And why should the president feel obligated to encrypt his emails to his friends discussing their last round of golf, or the dirty jokes they heard? As long as he's under our employ, it doesn't matter if they're encrypted or not, so long as he or anyone else is capable of providing the plaintext version...
This isn't about encryption - encryption won't save you or the president... Just try holding out on handing over your private key and pass phrase if you're on trial... you'll probably be thrown in jail for contempt until you decide to hand it over.
How about cars, for instance? I drive mine 1000 miles a week, and with proper maintenence - new tires, oil changes, filter changes, etc..., i've not had one second of unplanned downtime in 2 years. And that's for a piece of machinery with MOVING PARTS... Software doesn't have that, so in actuality, it can almost seem disappointing that you're pleased that a machine with no unmoving parts would give you "only" 438 hours of unplanned downtime per year (an hour and 12 minutes per day)...
Why would your connection be any more secure if the certificate was signed by Verisign or Thawte assupposed to yourself? Since you signed it yourself, just memorize your key fingerprint, and from other locations, you'll still be sure that your communicating via the certificate you yourself signed, and are therefore just as safe as if you'd used a CA's certificate. You'll just have to click i simple box when the browser says "I don't know who signed this certificate, is it okay to proceed?"
Well, in this case, they are actually taking on the biggest fish in the pond. Palm and it's licensees have what? 60% of the market or is it 70%?
It's not like the logo resides in a LED display so that it can automatically change whenever the owner of the PalmOS changes... :)
Poor software developers... They have to operate within the same constraints as people in other industries. Don't take the patent so personally, think of the larger picture involved. It's not all about just one patent. It's about patenting things that really shouldn't be patentable. And don't take this as an anti-patent schpeel, because i'm totally for patents as being valid protectors of real innovation and new technologies. But patenting business models themselves?
I don't actually see a problem with the patent itself, just the theory of patenting business models rather than actual advances in technology and discovery. It's too bad that they're allowed, but no one will put up a big fight on business model patents until they start leaking out of the tech world and into the realm that it effects the other 95% of the business world.
How can you say that Microsoft has lost? Hmmmm they're 2nd in server market share, the only player on the business desktop, their web browser is used by 70%+ of the net population. While many companies will disappear during this turn of the market, Microsoft has the cash to simply ride it out.
You're heavily deluded, i'm thinking... Yes, linux is taking over the low end server market by storm, but that's still just a drop in the bucket compared to the desktop market, where linux can't really even be called a player at this point.
Ahhh, but if AOL was set up with the sole intention of trading kiddie porn and was just incedentally used to trade legal porn as an after thought, Steve Case would be in the slammer right now...
Step back a little and look at the distinctions between teh services they provide.
No, it's possible... Apple, unfortunately, has taken a slide as of late, so MSFT ate a bunch of their share. ALinux is eating away from the other Unixes. As the commodity hardware it runs on gets more and more powerful, company's like Sun, SGI, and IBM sell fewer and fewer of their lower end systems and concentrate on shipping more of their highend systems which carry much bigger margins.
So, it's quite possible that Windows, Linux and *BSD could all be rising in marketshare... Afterall there's more than enough OSes out there for them tot be taking from.
Isn't that more of a printer driver thing? At least that was what I have been told by people.
We're not talking color laser printers, inkjets or anything else you might be thinking of... When people talk about the need for CMYK and Pantone support they're talking about outputting their creations to film, delivering said film to an offset or web printer and having said printer image printing plates, which then transfers ink to the paper...
An earlier project had a $14,000 to $2,000 comparision and the implemented Linux solution is working amazingly well
how much do you expect the training costs to have been? less than $12,000? Unless your company's tiny, probably not...doesn't sound liek the best of decisions, in that case - you have to look at the cost of time as well as the cost of software & hardware
Is this by the "BSD is dying" troll?