Microsoft was once a couple of college-age kids who stayed up all night writing code who happened to get the DOS contract.
The chances of that happening again are fairly slim. This was clearly a case of being in the right place at the right time. A couple of years later and they would have found themselves trying to supplant the standard desktop OS. The combination of the right hardware platform, a 'new' OS and a viable business app all had to click at the same time. Had the PC revolution started years earlier and those same two college kids tried to unseat that alternate universe's Microsoft juggernaut it wouldn't happen, no matter how good a marketeer Bill is.
Companies have an advantage over OSS developers in that when the company is poised for success, people want to invest money in the company in order to reap larger returns later.
Precisely. Given the dominance of Microsoft in the market, those savvy people aren't likely to gamble with funds they want a return on. That's why OSS really is a viable way significant inroads can be made in the market. You now have several companies helping to fund that development. Entire countries are looking to OSS to free them from the Microsoft treadmill of costly upgrades and zany licensing fees. The momentum is building and Microsoft sees it. They don't have a problem with Apple because they see them as a niche player, but I don't think they'd be writing licenses with anti-GPL language in it if they didn't genuinely see it as a threat to marketshare. As much as some of us like to bash Microsoft the executives are not stupid and are quite capable of interpreting the GPL and understanding that their 'take' on the license just isn't supported by the GPL's language.
Although I rember this article in the Past a fiew months ago. But I am to lazy to look it up. But it is instering how the Open Source movement just by a lot of people just doing a lot of little things (and some not so little) has created a product that would take a lot resources for a large company to complete. Open Source Software in my opinion is the only way the Little Guy to play with the Big Guns.
Since I posted the original question - noone - not one person, has been able to give me an adequate answer.
I think that's primarily because you wouldn't be satisfied with one. The fact is several posters have had good responses. You haven't replied to a single one of them. You only reply to those who give flippant or ignorant answers.
You can mod it up all you want but if you run back up to the top of the page you'll note that the interview is now history. Unless Mr. S. reads it and decides to answer it goes in the bit bucket. If he does decide to answer it I'd guess it would be because he thinks it's a good question and modding won't make a bit of difference.
Though SongPro will start with only music, Richmond said it could branch out to other kinds of digital media, such as slide shows.
I don't know how many times I've been listening to some tunes and suddenly had an urgent desire to make a presentation. Who's going to want to do a slide show on a GameBoy anyway? Unless.... the next remake of 'The Little Rascals' has Darla looking up from her game to say, "I know! Let's put on a slide show!"
Would you rather spend time with kids who are going to hate you in a few short years as soon as they start participating in youth culture, or a real education, the kind you can use every day for the rest of your life? New parents are fooling themselves that their children will be as loving throughout their lives as they are when they were three.
Bitter are we? I opted to spend time with my kids and they turned out great. Maybe I should have stayed in school before starting a family and then I wouldn't have had to make that choice. My kids have rolled their eyes during discussions and have disagreed with me on some points (but not most). That's a far cry from 'hate'. I'd also like to challenge the idea that a three year old knows what love is (even most adults don't grasp that concept fully) much less express it. Affection is, indeed, fleeting and fickle and that is what most parents of young children confuse with love. That's also why some people are adamant about their pets loving them.
I suppose if your target for success is sufficiently low enough. Of course that means any redneck can also be a successful mathematician.
The people doing the family man stuff will snobbishly dismiss a liberal arts approach to education as being a waste of time or as some sort of pretense of learning that's not really there. Ignore them. Invest in knowledge, you'll thank me when the kids are grown and long-gone.
I think the poster was pointing out that you can't have two goals that consume the bulk of your time. One or the other has to give. Nothing wrong with a good education, but someone in his situation has to make a choice. Can you really ONLY get knowledge from a university? Does it matter to you how your kids turn out? What's important to you?
I don't think he's trying to make a case for equal coverage. I think he is stating that one story is receiving way too much coverage (ongoing national) while a similar case is being totally ignored in the same markets (ahem, except Milwaukee). Neither of these cases warrants the attention that the Smart story is getting (her parents feelings notwithstanding). If it was thought that she had been spirited out of the state and the media blitz could enhance the chance for her recovery then you could make a case for it, but that just isn't how the story is playing out. The point being that more and more media panders to the demographic and chokes the bandwidth (be it print, broadcast or otherwise) with non-news about events that in the greater scheme of things do not even effect the people they're trying to draw.
Neither of these missing children have been found yet, so I don't see what impact the that media coverage has had on the ultimate goal: finding these kids.
Now if Elizabeth Smart had been found after a single day of media-blitz coverage, you might have a case. But I'm afraid the facts once again disprove your argument.
Speaking of facts, I don't see an argument in the article for a flood of media coverage having the recovery of the kidnapped kids as the goal. The whole point of the article is that some stuff gets mega-coverage because it draws the "right" demographic to the advertizers.
Do you live in Milwaukee? Have you ever been to Milwaukee?
I think the point was this one only gets local coverage. I don't live in Milwaukee or Salt Lake City, but I've heard for weeks now about Elizabeth Smart and not one word (until today) about Alexis Patterson. Why does one get national coverage and the other only local? Now read the article with a broader view of the term 'media'.
I believe my company would be open to replacing their aging mainframe with a few Linux boxes. But the problem is that there are no free software databases that work as well as Adabas or DB2 do on the mainframe.
So what's the problem with your company using commercial databases on Linux? Nobody said (well, not nobody) that a free OS must run a free DB.
That's actually pretty funny, I didn't notice the shirt.
That's how it was intended. But now I'm a troll and I'm sure to sink into more and more trollish behavior until I can no longer post anything but pornographic haiku and ascii art.
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I read it as them implying that the product is cool.
While on the inside they're hoping it has a chilling effect on the competition.
Okay, so that's more like 6 words, but still it's great.
I don't know how well people will take your assessment given you think the word 'Spamassasin' is either three or six words. It's bad enough to be schizophrenic, but when both of you are wrong.....
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Microsoft was once a couple of college-age kids who stayed up all night writing code who happened to get the DOS contract.
The chances of that happening again are fairly slim. This was clearly a case of being in the right place at the right time. A couple of years later and they would have found themselves trying to supplant the standard desktop OS. The combination of the right hardware platform, a 'new' OS and a viable business app all had to click at the same time. Had the PC revolution started years earlier and those same two college kids tried to unseat that alternate universe's Microsoft juggernaut it wouldn't happen, no matter how good a marketeer Bill is.
Companies have an advantage over OSS developers in that when the company is poised for success, people want to invest money in the company in order to reap larger returns later.
Precisely. Given the dominance of Microsoft in the market, those savvy people aren't likely to gamble with funds they want a return on. That's why OSS really is a viable way significant inroads can be made in the market. You now have several companies helping to fund that development. Entire countries are looking to OSS to free them from the Microsoft treadmill of costly upgrades and zany licensing fees. The momentum is building and Microsoft sees it. They don't have a problem with Apple because they see them as a niche player, but I don't think they'd be writing licenses with anti-GPL language in it if they didn't genuinely see it as a threat to marketshare. As much as some of us like to bash Microsoft the executives are not stupid and are quite capable of interpreting the GPL and understanding that their 'take' on the license just isn't supported by the GPL's language.
Although I rember this article in the Past a fiew months ago. But I am to lazy to look it up. But it is instering how the Open Source movement just by a lot of people just doing a lot of little things (and some not so little) has created a product that would take a lot resources for a large company to complete. Open Source Software in my opinion is the only way the Little Guy to play with the Big Guns.
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If My spelling bugs you. Then my work is done.
In that case, you can go home now.
...couldn't you at least have fixed This Guy's Moronic Capitalization Scheme?
That's not a scheme. The entire post is a very long title for a very short book he's writing...
On a more serious note....
Since I posted the original question - noone - not one person, has been able to give me an adequate answer.
I think that's primarily because you wouldn't be satisfied with one. The fact is several posters have had good responses. You haven't replied to a single one of them. You only reply to those who give flippant or ignorant answers.
Wait a minute..... are you asking what the 1st world has that the 3rd world doesn't?
I just can't believe it. First Princess Di and now the paparazzi are using Hubble to rob the dignity of a dying star.
"Microsoft Monkey Colony on Mars,"
.NET carrot in front of Ximian, sucked them in and now plan to launch the entire development team to Mars!!! Diabolical.
Egad! They dangled the
You can mod it up all you want but if you run back up to the top of the page you'll note that the interview is now history. Unless Mr. S. reads it and decides to answer it goes in the bit bucket. If he does decide to answer it I'd guess it would be because he thinks it's a good question and modding won't make a bit of difference.
Though SongPro will start with only music, Richmond said it could branch out to other kinds of digital media, such as slide shows.
I don't know how many times I've been listening to some tunes and suddenly had an urgent desire to make a presentation. Who's going to want to do a slide show on a GameBoy anyway? Unless.... the next remake of 'The Little Rascals' has Darla looking up from her game to say, "I know! Let's put on a slide show!"
Would you rather spend time with kids who are going to hate you in a few short years as soon as they start participating in youth culture, or a real education, the kind you can use every day for the rest of your life? New parents are fooling themselves that their children will be as loving throughout their lives as they are when they were three.
Bitter are we? I opted to spend time with my kids and they turned out great. Maybe I should have stayed in school before starting a family and then I wouldn't have had to make that choice. My kids have rolled their eyes during discussions and have disagreed with me on some points (but not most). That's a far cry from 'hate'. I'd also like to challenge the idea that a three year old knows what love is (even most adults don't grasp that concept fully) much less express it. Affection is, indeed, fleeting and fickle and that is what most parents of young children confuse with love. That's also why some people are adamant about their pets loving them.
Somehow your joke got moderated as "insightful" instead of "funny".
Yeah. Funny, ain't it? Actually, the moderators are on crack today. Nothing I've posted has been moderated with regard to content.
Any redneck can be a successful family man.
I suppose if your target for success is sufficiently low enough. Of course that means any redneck can also be a successful mathematician.
The people doing the family man stuff will snobbishly dismiss a liberal arts approach to education as being a waste of time or as some sort of pretense of learning that's not really there. Ignore them. Invest in knowledge, you'll thank me when the kids are grown and long-gone.
I think the poster was pointing out that you can't have two goals that consume the bulk of your time. One or the other has to give. Nothing wrong with a good education, but someone in his situation has to make a choice. Can you really ONLY get knowledge from a university? Does it matter to you how your kids turn out? What's important to you?
People are always happy to share their knowledge...
Or simply pool their ignorance.
...I went from being a conservative christian to a liberal democrat...
Ah. So democrats are the opposite of christians....
Whaaa??? Hardware/Software to make people civil? Globally? Can anyone else hear the echoes bouncing off the empty walls at slashdot?
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Addall shows it at several places for the same price - including shipping (well, to AZ anyway). One place in the list has it for a couple bucks less.
I don't think he's trying to make a case for equal coverage. I think he is stating that one story is receiving way too much coverage (ongoing national) while a similar case is being totally ignored in the same markets (ahem, except Milwaukee). Neither of these cases warrants the attention that the Smart story is getting (her parents feelings notwithstanding). If it was thought that she had been spirited out of the state and the media blitz could enhance the chance for her recovery then you could make a case for it, but that just isn't how the story is playing out. The point being that more and more media panders to the demographic and chokes the bandwidth (be it print, broadcast or otherwise) with non-news about events that in the greater scheme of things do not even effect the people they're trying to draw.
Neither of these missing children have been found yet, so I don't see what impact the that media coverage has had on the ultimate goal: finding these kids.
Now if Elizabeth Smart had been found after a single day of media-blitz coverage, you might have a case. But I'm afraid the facts once again disprove your argument.
Speaking of facts, I don't see an argument in the article for a flood of media coverage having the recovery of the kidnapped kids as the goal. The whole point of the article is that some stuff gets mega-coverage because it draws the "right" demographic to the advertizers.
Do you live in Milwaukee? Have you ever been to Milwaukee?
I think the point was this one only gets local coverage. I don't live in Milwaukee or Salt Lake City, but I've heard for weeks now about Elizabeth Smart and not one word (until today) about Alexis Patterson. Why does one get national coverage and the other only local? Now read the article with a broader view of the term 'media'.
I believe my company would be open to replacing their aging mainframe with a few Linux boxes. But the problem is that there are no free software databases that work as well as Adabas or DB2 do on the mainframe.
So what's the problem with your company using commercial databases on Linux? Nobody said (well, not nobody) that a free OS must run a free DB.
When did smoking become a hobby?
No, smoking cars...
Figures a spammer would be partial to a vehicle that pollutes everyone else's air while he drives on ahead, right?
That's actually pretty funny, I didn't notice the shirt.
That's how it was intended. But now I'm a troll and I'm sure to sink into more and more trollish behavior until I can no longer post anything but pornographic haiku and ascii art.
I read it as them implying that the product is cool.
While on the inside they're hoping it has a chilling effect on the competition.
This explains a lot. Now we know what runs in their veins.
Okay, so that's more like 6 words, but still it's great.
I don't know how well people will take your assessment given you think the word 'Spamassasin' is either three or six words. It's bad enough to be schizophrenic, but when both of you are wrong.....