Let's think about that for a minute. In the United States government is the people. One of the purposes of our government is making sure that businesses act in the interest of the people - like not polluting our water and air for example.
So when they say "less government" what they are really saying is "less of the public making sure businesses are not harming the interests of the public."
Now WHO would want to spend a bunch of money asking for "less government"??? -- wait, let me think...
Actually you can get an answer to that by looking into how much money Enron, for one, spent on spreading the "less government" message.
I haven't seen any economic analysis coming to this conclusion. Limits on pollution can alter the distribution of money a bit - for example, companies that provide pollution-limiting services and technologies do much better when legally required - but it's hardly a zero-sum game.
EXACTLY! The industries whose profits would be temporarily lowered by environmental regulations - oil and auto for example - are funding this anti-environmentalist movement. But OTHER companies like fuel cells, etc. will do WELL.
In the 92 presidential campaign when we were in a bad recession, Jerry Brown suggested putting people to work retrofitting buildings to be more energy efficient. Think about that - if we had spent the money then to do that, today companies and individuals would be paying much lower bills to heat and cool the buildings, helping the economy, and the lower demand would bring lower fuel prices.
The problem with environmentalism today is that most of the people in the movement know nothing about the environment or the science invovled in it. They're mostly ludities and communists just looking for another reason to attack capitalism and democracy.
Environmentalists are communists?
COOL - a retro to the 50's! Calling people communists, like THAT's going to score points!
Back to the "scientists and "environmentalists" who make their money by predicting doomsday. Guess what happens if global warming was disproven? They are out of a job. They depend on fear and anxiety to raise grant money for study after study.
Now THERE'S a brilliant scientific argument! A creful point-by-point refutation of the previous argument. I sense a Republican -- pretending to argue facts and coming up with character assasination instead.
How long do you think Star Office is going to be around, or at least going to be supported by Sun? Sun can't keep putting money into it while they are laying people off. It isn't bring anything to Sun. My bet is on Gobe Productive.
The settlement with the Justice Dept. specifically requires Microsoft to finally allow multi-boot machines. There is a lot of language in there about it.
Actually, a convincing case could be made if Microsoft threatened retaliation on OEM's who put alternate OS's (just one, not multiple) on a system. I don't think this has ever been alleged so far.
Read Be's suit. In fact Microsoft did this to Hitachi.
The antitrust problems come when Dell can't preload programs that directly compete with Microsoft's own applications.
I think you should review the monopoly conviction against Microsoft. This is what they were convicted of.
But honestly, except for hardcore developers, the majority of business users don't have a need for dual booting.
Imagine if ONE computer company could offer a computer with a difference. Like, "Our computer comes with an ADDITIONAL operating system, and you can run all these great audio apps, and video apps, and even Gobe Productive." Do you think is is a selling point in a world of otherwise nearly-identical Wintel boxes?
Why would an OEM put something like BeOS on their computers?
Because Wintel computers are all the same boxes. The manufacturers need to give customers reasons to buy THEIR computer instead of someone else's.
If they could say THIS computer ALSO comes with BeOS, and a bunch of great audio apps, and Gobe Productive, then they offer a great reason for people to buy their computer.
Be never really had a chance anyway. I installed it about 2 years ago and Linux had better PnP support for my hardware.
BeOS didn't have enough hardware support BECAUSE it didn't come installed on the machine. If it came on the machine OF COURSE it wouldn't be an issue whether it supported the hardware! DUH!
And if it came on the machine, it would have the market share so 3rd-party manufacturers would write the drivers! DUH!
However, nobody put a gun to the head of the OEM's who produced single system PC's.
In fact computer manufacturers STILL can not produce computer with Windows and another operating system installed. The weak Justice Dept. settlement finally stops Microsoft from blocking this, if it is approved. But it is looking more and more like it might not be approved, and we wait to see what the court imposes instead. UNTIL THEN the fact is that computer manufacturers STILL can not put another OS on the machines!
But is is a FACT that Microsoft stopped Hitachi from selling computers with BeOS. And there are good reasons to believe they stopped Compaq as well.
Had BeOS been installed on computers alongside Windows there would have been a market for software developers to sell into. BeOS enabled apps that were superior to apps on Windows, not to even mention what BeOS did for audio apps!
It would not have taken long for BeOS to establish pretty good market share, if it had been installed on even a few computers.
In Silicon Vallet it's 35. After that you can't get a programming job no matter what. I was actually hired once at Apple, showed up, the guy saw my grey hair and sent me away. I called later to ask what happened to the job and he said I "looked tired."
They missed the Interact computer, from Ann Arbor, from 1978. It was a video game machine with a keyboard, later more apps too advantage of its being a computer. I actually worked there...
I've had the same problem a few times. They forge the domain in the headers, and I get thousands of angry people sending e-mail, and a few times calling me at 3AM (finding my phone number in the domain registration WHOIS).
I think this does not bode well for Star Office. It is hard to understand how Sun justifies putting money and resources into this non-revenue-generating hobby while the company is cutting in other places. If I worked at Sun I would resent management putting cash into this while cutting my bonus!
Right. Explain to the masses about how to downoad it, compile it, partition their drive, etc... Right.
The OS has to come on the computer for people to use it. That way there are no driver issues and no installation issues, etc...
This is why it makes such a difference that computer manufacturers are not allowed to put another OS along with Windows on their computers. (That's what put BeOS out of business.)
If Linux or BeOS came on some computers preinstalled and configured, with a few apps, then people would occasionally boot into that partition - especially to run apps that work better in those OSes than they do in Windows. Like music apps on BeOS. And markets would develop.
This is the reason Microsoft paid off so many politicians to stop the anti-trust ruling.
Buy some shares of Palm stock, then go to the stockholders meeting and demand to know why they would refuse to license BeOS to a publisher, and receive checks every 3 months. There might even be a shareholder lawsuit in that.
Driver support is next to nonexistent for anything other than Windows, and increasingly Linux on the x86 platform.
If the OS comes with the computer there is no driver support issue. Also the consumer does not have to learn about partitioning drives and boot loaders, etc... And if the OS is on the computers the develops will have a market for their apps.
Microsoft has illegally prevented computer manufacturers from installing other OSes on their computers alongside Windows. THIS is why Linux and BeOS are not getting the necessary app development to flourish.
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Scientists and environmentalists make their money by predicting doomsday.
Oh yeah. Scientists and environmentalists make a LOT of moeny. TONs of money.
Yep. If I want to make tons of moeny, I'd sure choose to become and ENVIRONMENTALIST all right! Doh!
As contrasted with, say, OIL COMPANY executive, maybe?
less government is better.
Let's think about that for a minute. In the United States government is the people. One of the purposes of our government is making sure that businesses act in the interest of the people - like not polluting our water and air for example.
So when they say "less government" what they are really saying is "less of the public making sure businesses are not harming the interests of the public."
Now WHO would want to spend a bunch of money asking for "less government"??? -- wait, let me think...
Actually you can get an answer to that by looking into how much money Enron, for one, spent on spreading the "less government" message.
I haven't seen any economic analysis coming to this conclusion. Limits on pollution can alter the distribution of money a bit - for example, companies that provide pollution-limiting services and technologies do much better when legally required - but it's hardly a zero-sum game.
EXACTLY! The industries whose profits would be temporarily lowered by environmental regulations - oil and auto for example - are funding this anti-environmentalist movement. But OTHER companies like fuel cells, etc. will do WELL.
In the 92 presidential campaign when we were in a bad recession, Jerry Brown suggested putting people to work retrofitting buildings to be more energy efficient. Think about that - if we had spent the money then to do that, today companies and individuals would be paying much lower bills to heat and cool the buildings, helping the economy, and the lower demand would bring lower fuel prices.
Anyway, we didn't.
Let's see if you can guess where Cato gets its money from.
Choice 4 - there's a lot of MONEY to be made from the oil & auto companies, if you say bad things about environmentalists.
The problem with environmentalism today is that most of the people in the movement know nothing about the environment or the science invovled in it. They're mostly ludities and communists just looking for another reason to attack capitalism and democracy.
Environmentalists are communists?
COOL - a retro to the 50's! Calling people communists, like THAT's going to score points!
Back to the "scientists and "environmentalists" who make their money by predicting doomsday. Guess what happens if global warming was disproven? They are out of a job. They depend on fear and anxiety to raise grant money for study after study.
Now THERE'S a brilliant scientific argument! A creful point-by-point refutation of the previous argument. I sense a Republican -- pretending to argue facts and coming up with character assasination instead.
How long do you think Star Office is going to be around, or at least going to be supported by Sun? Sun can't keep putting money into it while they are laying people off. It isn't bring anything to Sun. My bet is on Gobe Productive.
The settlement with the Justice Dept. specifically requires Microsoft to finally allow multi-boot machines. There is a lot of language in there about it.
Why do you think that is?
Actually, a convincing case could be made if Microsoft threatened retaliation on OEM's who put alternate OS's (just one, not multiple) on a system. I don't think this has ever been alleged so far.
Read Be's suit. In fact Microsoft did this to Hitachi.
The antitrust problems come when Dell can't preload programs that directly compete with Microsoft's own applications.
I think you should review the monopoly conviction against Microsoft. This is what they were convicted of.
But honestly, except for hardcore developers, the majority of business users don't have a need for dual booting.
Imagine if ONE computer company could offer a computer with a difference. Like, "Our computer comes with an ADDITIONAL operating system, and you can run all these great audio apps, and video apps, and even Gobe Productive." Do you think is is a selling point in a world of otherwise nearly-identical Wintel boxes?
Why would an OEM put something like BeOS on their computers?
Because Wintel computers are all the same boxes. The manufacturers need to give customers reasons to buy THEIR computer instead of someone else's.
If they could say THIS computer ALSO comes with BeOS, and a bunch of great audio apps, and Gobe Productive, then they offer a great reason for people to buy their computer.
It's called product differentiation.
Be never really had a chance anyway. I installed it about 2 years ago and Linux had better PnP support for my hardware.
BeOS didn't have enough hardware support BECAUSE it didn't come installed on the machine. If it came on the machine OF COURSE it wouldn't be an issue whether it supported the hardware! DUH!
And if it came on the machine, it would have the market share so 3rd-party manufacturers would write the drivers! DUH!
However, nobody put a gun to the head of the OEM's who produced single system PC's.
In fact computer manufacturers STILL can not produce computer with Windows and another operating system installed. The weak Justice Dept. settlement finally stops Microsoft from blocking this, if it is approved. But it is looking more and more like it might not be approved, and we wait to see what the court imposes instead. UNTIL THEN the fact is that computer manufacturers STILL can not put another OS on the machines!
But this might revive BeOS. There is going to be a ton of publicity for months about how BeOS is such a great operating system.
Even a company as dense as Palm might figure out it's a good time to release BeOS 6.
But is is a FACT that Microsoft stopped Hitachi from selling computers with BeOS. And there are good reasons to believe they stopped Compaq as well.
Had BeOS been installed on computers alongside Windows there would have been a market for software developers to sell into. BeOS enabled apps that were superior to apps on Windows, not to even mention what BeOS did for audio apps!
It would not have taken long for BeOS to establish pretty good market share, if it had been installed on even a few computers.
You can't get a security clearance if you're a Democrat.
In Silicon Vallet it's 35. After that you can't get a programming job no matter what. I was actually hired once at Apple, showed up, the guy saw my grey hair and sent me away. I called later to ask what happened to the job and he said I "looked tired."
Forming a separate software licensing arm, while refusing to license BeOS? Real brainiacs at Palm.
They missed the Interact computer, from Ann Arbor, from 1978. It was a video game machine with a keyboard, later more apps too advantage of its being a computer. I actually worked there...
Does anyone remember Interact?
I've had the same problem a few times. They forge the domain in the headers, and I get thousands of angry people sending e-mail, and a few times calling me at 3AM (finding my phone number in the domain registration WHOIS).
I wish I knew what to do about it.
I think this does not bode well for Star Office. It is hard to understand how Sun justifies putting money and resources into this non-revenue-generating hobby while the company is cutting in other places. If I worked at Sun I would resent management putting cash into this while cutting my bonus!
Right. Explain to the masses about how to downoad it, compile it, partition their drive, etc... Right.
The OS has to come on the computer for people to use it. That way there are no driver issues and no installation issues, etc...
This is why it makes such a difference that computer manufacturers are not allowed to put another OS along with Windows on their computers. (That's what put BeOS out of business.)
If Linux or BeOS came on some computers preinstalled and configured, with a few apps, then people would occasionally boot into that partition - especially to run apps that work better in those OSes than they do in Windows. Like music apps on BeOS. And markets would develop.
This is the reason Microsoft paid off so many politicians to stop the anti-trust ruling.
I meant that shareholders of Palm stick deserve to know why the company would turn down the chance to license BeOS to an outside publisher.
That's about as stupid a decision as cutting off all your revenue to pursue internet appliances was for Be.
Buy some shares of Palm stock, then go to the stockholders meeting and demand to know why they would refuse to license BeOS to a publisher, and receive checks every 3 months. There might even be a shareholder lawsuit in that.
If the OS comes with the computer there is no driver support issue. Also the consumer does not have to learn about partitioning drives and boot loaders, etc... And if the OS is on the computers the develops will have a market for their apps.
Microsoft has illegally prevented computer manufacturers from installing other OSes on their computers alongside Windows. THIS is why Linux and BeOS are not getting the necessary app development to flourish.