If by writing for Windows you can target both Windows and Linux (and whichever other platforms they support), then why would anyone write any native Linux programs?
When Linux has a large chunk of the market then even hardcore ms windows developers will migrate to linux. The API's are open and easy to code to. The total price of a system is lower for both the developer and for their customers. Performance of native apps is bound to be higher. And they will be able to take advantage of the latest developments on a platform which is evolving _much_ faster than Ms windows.
How will Linux get a large chunk of the OS market? Only by being backwards compatible with legacy windows apps.What you perceive as a setback is actually a longterm investment without which it could take 20 more years to conquer the desktop.
And establishing Linux as the Lingua Franca is too important to the economy to wait that long. Imagine if all businesses could suddenly save $1000 a year per computer user by switching to Linux. Yes between Windows, Office, Back Office, connections licenses, and misc. other packages like Visio and Frontpage, it is probably that big of a savings. It would make the Bush tax cut/economic incentives look like a piddling amount.
I'm sure that is why so many shows now ask trivia questions just before breaking for commercials and promise the answer as soon as they come back. Most of the channels around here seem to synchronize their commercials so I end up watching PBS in between and then get interested in some documentary on WWII or Nature. I just wish they would devote about 50% of their airtime to documentaries about sexy young women with breasts almost popping out of their low cut blouses. It would definitely help with their member drive.
Actually that prohibition has been around for a long time. Microsoft got NT 3.51 Service Pack ? tested and certified many years ago so that they could sell to the Defense Dept. in an attempt to displace Unix. And what happened was that when NT 4.0 came out it was not certified yet purchasing managers bought it anyway in a clear violation of the rule.
An OS is only certified for the version and service pack tested. It must be recertified each time the software is updated and it is a very expensive process. Yet the DOD bought uncertified OS's from MS anyway. So basically the rule only applies if your commanding officer doesn't own shares of MSFT.;-)
The only way they could get NT 3.51 certified, if I remember correctly, was to disable many 'features' and disconnect the computer entirely from any networks. Otherwise it was not secure enough to pass the test.
"I've never seen a systematic study that showed open source to be more secure," said Dorothy Denning, a professor of computer science at Georgetown University who specializes in information warfare.
There have been more than one such study published. They usually include bugs reports for all software packages that come on a Linux distributions CD's rather than just the OS, but often separate out Internet Explorer bugs from MS Windows bugs even though the manufacturer claims that it is part of the operating system. To compare apples to apples they would also have to include MS Office bugs in the report as well as IIS, Back Office servers, Indexing service, etc. However I have also read a study from a small consulting firm which seemed to make too rosy of assumptions in favor of Linux.
It really would be nice to see an independent committee write a report comparing only the OS portions. After all if the Army or NSA are going to use Linux for a beowulf supercomputer or echelon analyzer they probably won't be running Gnumeric, Abiword and a thousand other half finished pieces of software on it.
Does anyone know why we haven't been able to detect these directly? Why are they dark, are they enshrouded in dust? This story fits with other info I've read recently such as some gamma ray bursts being detected close by and clouds of hydrogen 'raining down' onto the galactic center from outside the plane of the galaxy. But what do they think is the reason for their invisibility? If it is due to dust then wouldn't our view of most of the sky be diminished?
I agree with you. Gattaca was uber-cool. Very perceptive and cerebral vision of a possible future. Just as good wines don't come in screw top bottles, good movies aren't filled with non-stop chase scenes and explosions.
All of your examples are for software and include Microsoft, who has had a monopoly on the IBM PC right from the get-go. But the parent was referring to hardware and what used to be a competetive market for sound cards. It's apples and oranges.
But I still disagree that first always wins. Even looking at his soundblaster example, it seems that the lowest price always takes the lions share of the market eventually. It's even starting to happen to Microsoft now.
So I think it all depends on what time frame you are looking at. In other words how mature the market is.
So are you saying that when EA and Sony take a position which is in the interest of their customers and is diametrically opposed to Microsoft's position that they are only doing it out of profit motive?
That is probably at least partially right. After all why should they help to Xbox in its efforts to become a success? EA competes with Microsoft in the game software arena and Sony in the game hardware arena.
But why disparage what they are doing when they are on the right side? You should give them a pat on the back for doing the right thing regardless of how they came to their decision.
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Microsoft made a very large investment in Corel about a year or so ago. Corel almost immediately stopped working on Linux related software and sold off what it had. Without a roadmap for the future their stock price has fallen dramatically. Investors aren't stupid. You can't compete with a monopoly holder on its own turf.
A mouse with one human gene to produce cheap insulin might be quite acceptable to the public. Frankly a goat that makes spider silk in its milk seems more twisted. But granting an application for a human with one mouse gene would be patently ridiculous. pun intended
It seems to me that Industry can develop incremental innovations faster without any patent or copyright protection. The more minds that are free to design a better mousetrap without having to pay licensing fees for the basic idea of a mousetrap (if the holder agrees to even license to you at all), the faster and cheaper that better mousetraps will come to market.
However, for pure Science and Technology where brand new ideas and processes must be developed it seems that there needs to be some way to allow the trailblazers to recoup their sometimes substantial investment. These conflicting principles create a gray area and need to be carefully balanced if the aim is to achieve the most rapid progress.
But it seems that the USPTO has gone way overboard in the last couple decades granting patents for even trivial and obvious innovations. Is the court system the only way to achieve that balance? What guidelines can a patent examiner use that would allow her to 'strike for the mean'?
Client actually. It has been a couple of years since I looked at Corel but I remember their SMB browser was integrated with file and possible FTP. And it was installed and pre-configured by default. Why can't Redhat do this? It would make a major difference in the acceptance of Linux as a desktop OS. And make my life easier.
Yes but it shouldn't require reading How-to's and FAQ's. It should be no harder than networking using native ms windows.
And does anyone know what ever happened to the explorer-like network/file browser that Corel Linux had? I remember trying Corel for a while and setting up SMB shares and connecting to them on ms window boxes was painless. Was that code kept proprietary by Corel? Who owns it now?
Didn't the lawyers for the game makers even ask the judge to consider interactive fiction? There could be risque interactive fiction which the judge might personally want to suppress yet would be violating the bill of rights if he did so. Take for example Infocom's 'Leather Goddesses of Phobos', though it was actually very tame. But maybe the lawyers thought the case was cut and dried so they didn't bother to search for clear examples.
I agree with you that ethanol helps with reducing oil imports and could benefit the farmers who certainly need the help.
On the hydrogen vehicle thing, wouldn't there be too much contamination of the wastewater from engine oil, radiator fluid, and other lubricants? Also wouldn't the wastewater be in the form of steam and reduce the thermodynamic efficiency to condense it into water? And how much extra weight would the car have to carry when collecting the water which would also lower its fuel economy? I wonder if more water couldn't be saved by replacing the washers in everyone's leaky faucets than could be collected from hydrogen vehicle emissions.
Did NCR drop their own version of Unix? Even though they no longer own the AT&T original source I'd bet they still have a licensing agreement to the code as it existed at the time. I think they had a version they called MP-RAS or something like that which is already optimized for their hardware.
You may be losing registrants because they never intended to sign up. They might just be smart alecs trying to fill up someone else's email with junk.
When I was a co-op I remember some of the engineers filling out those card packs of product ads (basically paper spam) for other engineers to just as a joke. For example, they would write 'Byron' instead of Bryan for one guy 's name then he would get loads of sales calls all day because they thought they had a warm lead and they always addressed him wrong. It was funny to everyone but him.
Some other things that you don't mention are that because of the higher grill on SUV's when they strike a child's body the impact comes above the child's center of gravity which causes the head to slam into the pavement. That means a much higher incidence of brain damage and death. The higher grill also causes head injuries to drivers and passengers in side impact crashes, again causing a much higher incidence of brain damage and death. Obviously it would be better for two drivers to each suffer a broken arm in a crash than for one to spill his coffee while the other becomes a vegatable.
The previous poster who likes SUV's as status symbols is the unwitting product of extensive marketing campaigns just as smokers were several decades ago. Perhaps someday when he is an adult he will question how this attitude affects the rest of society. But in the meantime, good for you for making such conscious, conscientious decisions.
Gladiator was a fairly popular movie but I did not like it much. When I can see many instances in which the movie doesn't make sense it makes it difficult for me to enjoy the movie.
Luckily for Ridley Scott, the average movie-goer doesn't know jack squat about the Romans, so a "We're not making a documentary" attitude is sufficient to make a box office success.
Sadly, I don't think that many movie-goers know much more about what is happening in today's world than about the world of two thousand years ago.
Of course that is true, but having a dozen hard to remember passwords can be a huge impediment to efficiency. The need for a centralized system is evident in the number of systems to provide just such a thing. Unix has had NIS/Yellow Pages for a long time. Novell followed with their NDS and recently with SSO Single Sign-On which ties in third party systems to NDS. IBM also has software to consolidate passwords but I can't remember the name of it. Microsoft used "domains" for their directory system, tieing multiple servers together with the same password database. So basically, others have already thought about what you said but have decided that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
For cross platform password management, chech out Novell's NDS. It is light years ahead of their competitors and you don't even need to run Netware. You can host it on Linux only if you are a web hosting service or ecommerce site. They have been developing it since 1992, I think, so it is a very mature product and free for developers too.
I have noticed that the Wall Street Journal seems to have a special place in its heart for anything Microsoft. And of course anything that could disrupt Microsoft tends to get portrayed as bad.
Don't believe it? Just read WSJ tech articles for a while keeping this in mind and you will start to see it for yourself.
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When Linux has a large chunk of the market then even hardcore ms windows developers will migrate to linux. The API's are open and easy to code to. The total price of a system is lower for both the developer and for their customers. Performance of native apps is bound to be higher. And they will be able to take advantage of the latest developments on a platform which is evolving _much_ faster than Ms windows.
How will Linux get a large chunk of the OS market? Only by being backwards compatible with legacy windows apps.What you perceive as a setback is actually a longterm investment without which it could take 20 more years to conquer the desktop.
And establishing Linux as the Lingua Franca is too important to the economy to wait that long. Imagine if all businesses could suddenly save $1000 a year per computer user by switching to Linux. Yes between Windows, Office, Back Office, connections licenses, and misc. other packages like Visio and Frontpage, it is probably that big of a savings. It would make the Bush tax cut/economic incentives look like a piddling amount.
I'm sure that is why so many shows now ask trivia questions just before breaking for commercials and promise the answer as soon as they come back. Most of the channels around here seem to synchronize their commercials so I end up watching PBS in between and then get interested in some documentary on WWII or Nature. I just wish they would devote about 50% of their airtime to documentaries about sexy young women with breasts almost popping out of their low cut blouses. It would definitely help with their member drive.
Actually that prohibition has been around for a long time. Microsoft got NT 3.51 Service Pack ? tested and certified many years ago so that they could sell to the Defense Dept. in an attempt to displace Unix. And what happened was that when NT 4.0 came out it was not certified yet purchasing managers bought it anyway in a clear violation of the rule.
;-)
An OS is only certified for the version and service pack tested. It must be recertified each time the software is updated and it is a very expensive process. Yet the DOD bought uncertified OS's from MS anyway. So basically the rule only applies if your commanding officer doesn't own shares of MSFT.
The only way they could get NT 3.51 certified, if I remember correctly, was to disable many 'features' and disconnect the computer entirely from any networks. Otherwise it was not secure enough to pass the test.
There have been more than one such study published. They usually include bugs reports for all software packages that come on a Linux distributions CD's rather than just the OS, but often separate out Internet Explorer bugs from MS Windows bugs even though the manufacturer claims that it is part of the operating system. To compare apples to apples they would also have to include MS Office bugs in the report as well as IIS, Back Office servers, Indexing service, etc. However I have also read a study from a small consulting firm which seemed to make too rosy of assumptions in favor of Linux.
It really would be nice to see an independent committee write a report comparing only the OS portions. After all if the Army or NSA are going to use Linux for a beowulf supercomputer or echelon analyzer they probably won't be running Gnumeric, Abiword and a thousand other half finished pieces of software on it.
Does anyone know why we haven't been able to detect these directly? Why are they dark, are they enshrouded in dust? This story fits with other info I've read recently such as some gamma ray bursts being detected close by and clouds of hydrogen 'raining down' onto the galactic center from outside the plane of the galaxy. But what do they think is the reason for their invisibility? If it is due to dust then wouldn't our view of most of the sky be diminished?
yeah and then the burning of books so that all content will exist only in digital format.
I agree with you. Gattaca was uber-cool. Very perceptive and cerebral vision of a possible future.
Just as good wines don't come in screw top bottles, good movies aren't filled with non-stop chase scenes and explosions.
All of your examples are for software and include Microsoft, who has had a monopoly on the IBM PC right from the get-go. But the parent was referring to hardware and what used to be a competetive market for sound cards. It's apples and oranges.
But I still disagree that first always wins. Even looking at his soundblaster example, it seems that the lowest price always takes the lions share of the market eventually. It's even starting to happen to Microsoft now.
So I think it all depends on what time frame you are looking at. In other words how mature the market is.
So are you saying that when EA and Sony take a position which is in the interest of their customers and is diametrically opposed to Microsoft's position that they are only doing it out of profit motive?
That is probably at least partially right. After all why should they help to Xbox in its efforts to become a success? EA competes with Microsoft in the game software arena and Sony in the game hardware arena.
But why disparage what they are doing when they are on the right side? You should give them a pat on the back for doing the right thing regardless of how they came to their decision.
Microsoft made a very large investment in Corel about a year or so ago. Corel almost immediately stopped working on Linux related software and sold off what it had. Without a roadmap for the future their stock price has fallen dramatically. Investors aren't stupid. You can't compete with a monopoly holder on its own turf.
I never thought I would be glad for the existence of spambots.
How do I search for this one?
A mouse with one human gene to produce cheap insulin might be quite acceptable to the public. Frankly a goat that makes spider silk in its milk seems more twisted. But granting an application for a human with one mouse gene would be patently ridiculous. pun intended
It seems to me that Industry can develop incremental innovations faster without any patent or copyright protection. The more minds that are free to design a better mousetrap without having to pay licensing fees for the basic idea of a mousetrap (if the holder agrees to even license to you at all), the faster and cheaper that better mousetraps will come to market.
However, for pure Science and Technology where brand new ideas and processes must be developed it seems that there needs to be some way to allow the trailblazers to recoup their sometimes substantial investment. These conflicting principles create a gray area and need to be carefully balanced if the aim is to achieve the most rapid progress.
But it seems that the USPTO has gone way overboard in the last couple decades granting patents for even trivial and obvious innovations. Is the court system the only way to achieve that balance? What guidelines can a patent examiner use that would allow her to 'strike for the mean'?
Client actually. It has been a couple of years since I looked at Corel but I remember their SMB browser was integrated with file and possible FTP. And it was installed and pre-configured by default. Why can't Redhat do this? It would make a major difference in the acceptance of Linux as a desktop OS. And make my life easier.
Yes but it shouldn't require reading How-to's and FAQ's. It should be no harder than networking using native ms windows.
And does anyone know what ever happened to the explorer-like network/file browser that Corel Linux had? I remember trying Corel for a while and setting up SMB shares and connecting to them on ms window boxes was painless. Was that code kept proprietary by Corel? Who owns it now?
Didn't the lawyers for the game makers even ask the judge to consider interactive fiction? There could be risque interactive fiction which the judge might personally want to suppress yet would be violating the bill of rights if he did so. Take for example Infocom's 'Leather Goddesses of Phobos', though it was actually very tame. But maybe the lawyers thought the case was cut and dried so they didn't bother to search for clear examples.
I agree with you that ethanol helps with reducing oil imports and could benefit the farmers who certainly need the help.
On the hydrogen vehicle thing, wouldn't there be too much contamination of the wastewater from engine oil, radiator fluid, and other lubricants? Also wouldn't the wastewater be in the form of steam and reduce the thermodynamic efficiency to condense it into water? And how much extra weight would the car have to carry when collecting the water which would also lower its fuel economy? I wonder if more water couldn't be saved by replacing the washers in everyone's leaky faucets than could be collected from hydrogen vehicle emissions.
Did NCR drop their own version of Unix? Even though they no longer own the AT&T original source I'd bet they still have a licensing agreement to the code as it existed at the time. I think they had a version they called MP-RAS or something like that which is already optimized for their hardware.
You may be losing registrants because they never intended to sign up. They might just be smart alecs trying to fill up someone else's email with junk.
When I was a co-op I remember some of the engineers filling out those card packs of product ads (basically paper spam) for other engineers to just as a joke. For example, they would write 'Byron' instead of Bryan for one guy 's name then he would get loads of sales calls all day because they thought they had a warm lead and they always addressed him wrong. It was funny to everyone but him.
Some other things that you don't mention are that because of the higher grill on SUV's when they strike a child's body the impact comes above the child's center of gravity which causes the head to slam into the pavement. That means a much higher incidence of brain damage and death. The higher grill also causes head injuries to drivers and passengers in side impact crashes, again causing a much higher incidence of brain damage and death. Obviously it would be better for two drivers to each suffer a broken arm in a crash than for one to spill his coffee while the other becomes a vegatable.
The previous poster who likes SUV's as status symbols is the unwitting product of extensive marketing campaigns just as smokers were several decades ago. Perhaps someday when he is an adult he will question how this attitude affects the rest of society. But in the meantime, good for you for making such conscious, conscientious decisions.
I demand a centralized repository of my personal information because:
__ I want every aspect of my personal life to be analyzed.
__ I believe that all security exploits have already been discovered.
__ My business is not my own. I submit to my corporate overlords.
__ It's the only way to prevent another September 11th.
__ Letting Mozilla's form manager fill in on-line forms is too hard.
__ I want to be resurrected as a robot after my death based on all my personal info and preferences.
__ Fashion their record needles into bones for CowbotRAD.
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Gladiator was a fairly popular movie but I did not like it much. When I can see many instances in which the movie doesn't make sense it makes it difficult for me to enjoy the movie.
Luckily for Ridley Scott, the average movie-goer doesn't know jack squat about the Romans, so a "We're not making a documentary" attitude is sufficient to make a box office success.
Sadly, I don't think that many movie-goers know much more about what is happening in today's world than about the world of two thousand years ago.
Of course that is true, but having a dozen hard to remember passwords can be a huge impediment to efficiency. The need for a centralized system is evident in the number of systems to provide just such a thing. Unix has had NIS/Yellow Pages for a long time. Novell followed with their NDS and recently with SSO Single Sign-On which ties in third party systems to NDS. IBM also has software to consolidate passwords but I can't remember the name of it. Microsoft used "domains" for their directory system, tieing multiple servers together with the same password database. So basically, others have already thought about what you said but have decided that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
For cross platform password management, chech out Novell's NDS. It is light years ahead of their competitors and you don't even need to run Netware. You can host it on Linux only if you are a web hosting service or ecommerce site. They have been developing it since 1992, I think, so it is a very mature product and free for developers too.
I have noticed that the Wall Street Journal seems to have a special place in its heart for anything Microsoft. And of course anything that could disrupt Microsoft tends to get portrayed as bad.
Don't believe it? Just read WSJ tech articles for a while keeping this in mind and you will start to see it for yourself.