I don't really know the law exactly, but if the person running a company that the goverment views as a monoply (ie M$), asks another seperate company to do or NOT DO something, based on thier postion as CEO of said company ( do you think Andy Grove would listen to you or me?) then that can be viewed as illegal. If they had serious discusions about it, say more that yes or no than that is Collusion and conspiracy.
All of this assumes the current Administration would actully do something about it, which they won't. So the guy probably has a case in civil court, too bad the goverment doesn't actully enforce the laws equally.
yeah they got bought by Ziff Davis just like PC Shopper, remember when thy were like an inch thick (Shopper)! Once that happened, they were toast. I never understood why those morons changed every mag they bought to look like PC Week and Target the 'Middle Manager'... Then bitch about declining sales.. Those (byte and shopper) were for enthusiasts, not middle managers, so by destroying them you in turn alienate the audience you intended to 'buy'... Besides it's well known most Middle managers are illiterates and there are only so many 'shiny' magazines with pretty pictures they can look at in one trip to toilet.
With every other article now a days being about outsourcing and how there won't be any computer jobs in 20 years plus the fact that unemployment amoung software developers now is higher than the natioanl average for everyone else, is this any surprise?? I mean I know quite a few folks that went back and got nursing degrees, after the nuclear winter of 9/11 and are now making 35$ to 40$ hr ( to start for an rn ). Is it any wonder?
The Bushies want a free market, well welcome to it. You try and squeeze everyone out of a job and send the work overseas they go where there is a demand for workers, in this case Health Care.
Another example of the stupid short sightedness of American companies.
Whats to stop IBM from making thier own distro then. besides, they could probably make it freely downloadable and just charge for support (u know like red hat used to be?). So M$ would only be fanning the flames and spreading the fire so to speak.
What will they do next by Novell and IBM... even if they could buy IBM.... How do you buy Debian??
I mean that strategy worked for them in the past, buying smaller companies with competing products and then either rolling them into windows or just squashing them. But how do you buy linux?? Then whats next BSD???
I bought 3 of these files recently, not from Yahoo, but another well known co. They were the WMA format. Once I got them I wanted to burn them to CD, well you can't. On top of that the next day I ran the Windows Media player, I got some message that it was 'updating my catalog' or some such nonsense. After that the WMA files would'nt play, said they could'nt find the codec. I called and emailed the place I bought if from, they said it was a windows problem, sent me to M$, they said it was a problem with the place I bought it from. This went back and forth for a couple of days.
Finally I called the CC company and asked them. The nice lady said it sounded like a defective product, she asked if the company I bought it from refused to take care of it. I said yes, she said no problem and struck the charges from my bill.
I downloaded iTunes I ( i don't have an iPod) bought my 3 songs.... and there's a big ole burn CD button on the right top of itunes app!!!! I burned my CD and guess what 1 week later I can play my songs in iTunes, I can play my CD... I know iTunes is DRM'd, but it works as opposed to the Crappy MS wma files with thier server resident codecs.
I'm sure M$ will get thier stuff working correctly in a couple of years, after they have more closely ripped of Apple (as usual). But I like iTunes because it works the way it's advertised. When will companies learn that.
AVIS Rent a Car, Red Sky Interactive (Dot Com failure so maybe they don't count?) Mens Wearhouse Hertz Rent A Car FAA
All of the big app servers have been Solaris or Linux or AIX..... Granted they had windows desktops, windows servers for Peoplesoft, but all the Oracle/DB2, Java App server, Transaction management, Messanging etc.. Everything I actully wrote code on/for was some kind of *nix box.
So I keep hearing about the importantance of knowing Office etc.. I could see that it has some value, but I have NEVER hired anyone nor been hired myself based any kind of m$ office skills....
If somone is smart and can learn Word perfect or open Off or m$ off, then they can easily learn another package.
After it achieves market dominance the OO team will continue to refine and make it more usable, as opposed to M$ who seems only worried about making convuluted data formats that are harder for other apps to read.
You've obviously never used OO... maybe not even M$... I've used both and for 90+% of the tasks OO is as good or better.... Sure there might be some obscure thing that M$ supports, but I can't think of it right now....
yes you are correct in part HOWEVER, Nasa would require any space craft to carry a way to get back to earth.. What happens if the lunar or Mars mission limps back to earth orbit crippled Ala Apollo 13?? They would not have the resources to manuver and dock with a waiting CEV or the Spacestation.
NASA will requre any lunar Mission or Mars mission to have an escape route, thats why a soyuez (spelling) capsule hangs off the ISS at all times.
I think this is more a return to sanity, than a great evolution in space craft. After all the basic tech hasn't changed all that much.
The shuttle was too big and expensive and had to be basically rebuilt after every mission.
What nasa needs is a reliable, relativly cheap modular space craft(s) that can be bolted to gether for different missions. Orbit, Moon Mars.... really all the CEV is a way for folks to get to and from orbit. the lunar and Mars space craft will undoubtly be assembled in orbit from modules, and carry along a CEV docked on the side to the astronauts can return to earth after it's over.
So it probably will be nothing impressive, the big thing will be reliablility and operational costs ( or less of them).
This is just Lockeheed Martin's concept. No one has seen mockups of boeing's yet. I understand thiers is more of an Capsule type configuration, instead of a lifting body.
Maybe I missed something like reading the article and posts which i did do. One guy was talking about his love for his think pad, HOWEVER 99% of the rest of it was about IBM generally leaving the PC market, not just lap top pc's...... So my post was to point out that maybe they view PC's as old tech.
With the powerpc, the cel processor maybe IBM ditched the old pc to begin something new? Maybe not. However I could see somekind of wirless set top box that records (DVR) has basic Web/Email/Office capabilities and has wirless KB and Mouse. Others have tried it, but maybe it's time has come?
BTW whatever happened to CHRP and the promised PowerPC MB's we hobbyists could buy and build our own system from?
This is so tempting on so many levels...
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The company hires and trains people as consultants, Trainers and tech support. The developers still develop the software, again just like JBoss. The Jboss development guys seldom (at least now a days) do stints as travelling consultants. They manage and develop the software. It's just that now they have the money to pay themselves and hire other folks to do the 'dirty' work.
he says it will remain open source and they will sell enhancements. This seems similar to JBoss. It is open source, BUT if you want consultants, training, or 24x7 support it costs. This is really not a bad way to develop business around open source. For the folks that will read the free docs and figure stuff out on thier own great. For the Corp types that must have training and 24hr support thats there as well.
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'Since when "asking" is illegal?'
It's called consipracy....
I don't really know the law exactly, but if the person running a company that the goverment views as a monoply (ie M$), asks another seperate company to do or NOT DO something, based on thier postion as CEO of said company ( do you think Andy Grove would listen to you or me?) then that can be viewed as illegal. If they had serious discusions about it, say more that yes or no than that is Collusion and conspiracy.
All of this assumes the current Administration would actully do something about it, which they won't. So the guy probably has a case in civil court, too bad the goverment doesn't actully enforce the laws equally.
yeah they got bought by Ziff Davis just like PC Shopper, remember when thy were like an inch thick (Shopper)! Once that happened, they were toast. I never understood why those morons changed every mag they bought to look like PC Week and Target the 'Middle Manager'... Then bitch about declining sales.. Those (byte and shopper) were for enthusiasts, not middle managers, so by destroying them you in turn alienate the audience you intended to 'buy'... Besides it's well known most Middle managers are illiterates and there are only so many 'shiny' magazines with pretty pictures they can look at in one trip to toilet.
Nothing to see here keep moving along.
Next they will be calling MJ or Lebron James a Geek.. Jeez...
Ohhh that Brett Farve is such a geek because all he does is sit around and study Game film.
whatever..
India has been a nuclear power for quite a few years... so is Pakistan.
With every other article now a days being about outsourcing and how there won't be any computer jobs in 20 years plus the fact that unemployment amoung software developers now is higher than the natioanl average for everyone else, is this any surprise?? I mean I know quite a few folks that went back and got nursing degrees, after the nuclear winter of 9/11 and are now making 35$ to 40$ hr ( to start for an rn ). Is it any wonder?
The Bushies want a free market, well welcome to it. You try and squeeze everyone out of a job and send the work overseas they go where there is a demand for workers, in this case Health Care.
Another example of the stupid short sightedness of American companies.
The supposedly best of the first three was Empire strikes back, which is the darkest of that bunch.
So now, not suprisingly he best of these three is the darkest film as well. It could be Lucas just does better making those kind of films.....
He obviously cannot write love scenes, so maybe after SW he needs to concentrate on retro Film noir pictures.
My prediction for Lucas's next three films.
remake of the Maltese falcon.
Maltese Falcon: The Fat man strikes back
Maltese Falcon : Return of Spade
Whats to stop IBM from making thier own distro then. besides, they could probably make it freely downloadable and just charge for support (u know like red hat used to be?). So M$ would only be fanning the flames and spreading the fire so to speak.
What will they do next by Novell and IBM... even if they could buy IBM.... How do you buy Debian??
I mean that strategy worked for them in the past, buying smaller companies with competing products and then either rolling them into windows or just squashing them. But how do you buy linux?? Then whats next BSD???
1. All your codes are belong to us
2. All your jobs are belong to us
3. Let the hiliarity ensue
which is compatable with SUN's jvm? Sun is not the only source for java.
Granted it's not GPL'd but thats RMS problem not mine.
I bought 3 of these files recently, not from Yahoo, but another well known co. They were the WMA format. Once I got them I wanted to burn them to CD, well you can't. On top of that the next day I ran the Windows Media player, I got some message that it was 'updating my catalog' or some such nonsense. After that the WMA files would'nt play, said they could'nt find the codec. I called and emailed the place I bought if from, they said it was a windows problem, sent me to M$, they said it was a problem with the place I bought it from. This went back and forth for a couple of days.
Finally I called the CC company and asked them. The nice lady said it sounded like a defective product, she asked if the company I bought it from refused to take care of it. I said yes, she said no problem and struck the charges from my bill.
I downloaded iTunes I ( i don't have an iPod) bought my 3 songs.... and there's a big ole burn CD button on the right top of itunes app!!!! I burned my CD and guess what 1 week later I can play my songs in iTunes, I can play my CD... I know iTunes is DRM'd, but it works as opposed to the Crappy MS wma files with thier server resident codecs.
I'm sure M$ will get thier stuff working correctly in a couple of years, after they have more closely ripped of Apple (as usual). But I like iTunes because it works the way it's advertised. When will companies learn that.
THis is like the NYT reporter that was fired for just making crap up. Thats more or less what she did.
Besides it doesn't make sense for a pub. titled 'linux world' or 'linux business jornal' to have a rabidly anti-GPL anti-Open Source person on staff.
That would be akin to Microsoft hiring Richard Stallman to write about how bad proprietery software is.
Every corp I worked for in the last 12 years:
AVIS Rent a Car,
Red Sky Interactive (Dot Com failure so maybe they don't count?)
Mens Wearhouse
Hertz Rent A Car
FAA
All of the big app servers have been Solaris or Linux or AIX..... Granted they had windows desktops, windows servers for Peoplesoft, but all the Oracle/DB2, Java App server, Transaction management, Messanging etc.. Everything I actully wrote code on/for was some kind of *nix box.
So I keep hearing about the importantance of knowing Office etc.. I could see that it has some value, but I have NEVER hired anyone nor been hired myself based any kind of m$ office skills....
If somone is smart and can learn Word perfect or open Off or m$ off, then they can easily learn another package.
After it achieves market dominance the OO team will continue to refine and make it more usable, as opposed to M$ who seems only worried about making convuluted data formats that are harder for other apps to read.
You've obviously never used OO... maybe not even M$... I've used both and for 90+% of the tasks OO is as good or better.... Sure there might be some obscure thing that M$ supports, but I can't think of it right now....
OO works, M$ Works.. OO does'nt cost me 300-400$
yes you are correct in part HOWEVER, Nasa would require any space craft to carry a way to get back to earth.. What happens if the lunar or Mars mission limps back to earth orbit crippled Ala Apollo 13?? They would not have the resources to manuver and dock with a waiting CEV or the Spacestation.
NASA will requre any lunar Mission or Mars mission to have an escape route, thats why a soyuez (spelling) capsule hangs off the ISS at all times.
I think this is more a return to sanity, than a great evolution in space craft. After all the basic tech hasn't changed all that much.
.... really all the CEV is a way for folks to get to and from orbit. the lunar and Mars space craft will undoubtly be assembled in orbit from modules, and carry along a CEV docked on the side to the astronauts can return to earth after it's over.
The shuttle was too big and expensive and had to be basically rebuilt after every mission.
What nasa needs is a reliable, relativly cheap modular space craft(s) that can be bolted to gether for different missions. Orbit, Moon Mars
So it probably will be nothing impressive, the big thing will be reliablility and operational costs ( or less of them).
This is just Lockeheed Martin's concept. No one has seen mockups of boeing's yet. I understand thiers is more of an Capsule type configuration, instead of a lifting body.
Maybe I missed something like reading the article and posts which i did do. One guy was talking about his love for his think pad, HOWEVER 99% of the rest of it was about IBM generally leaving the PC market, not just lap top pc's...... So my post was to point out that maybe they view PC's as old tech.
With the powerpc, the cel processor maybe IBM ditched the old pc to begin something new? Maybe not. However I could see somekind of wirless set top box that records (DVR) has basic Web/Email/Office capabilities and has wirless KB and Mouse. Others have tried it, but maybe it's time has come?
BTW whatever happened to CHRP and the promised PowerPC MB's we hobbyists could buy and build our own system from?
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Good luck guys.....
I bet thats where he spent his 20years of consulting.....
Then why is it that OS X and Linux Implement this properly and don't have this problem???
The company hires and trains people as consultants, Trainers and tech support. The developers still develop the software, again just like JBoss. The Jboss development guys seldom (at least now a days) do stints as travelling consultants. They manage and develop the software. It's just that now they have the money to pay themselves and hire other folks to do the 'dirty' work.
he says it will remain open source and they will sell enhancements. This seems similar to JBoss. It is open source, BUT if you want consultants, training, or 24x7 support it costs. This is really not a bad way to develop business around open source. For the folks that will read the free docs and figure stuff out on thier own great. For the Corp types that must have training and 24hr support thats there as well.