One of the measurements analysts look at is ROA, or Return On Assets. It is equal to the company's income (some form of it, anyway) divided by the value of the company's assets. If you have assets which can produce no income, you can improve your ROA by eliminating those assets.
Wow, a basic consumer right? That is an absurd statement, and it is typical of the techno-elite that frequent these conferences. You don't see 'unbundled' newspapers being a basic consumer right, or magazines, or even TV shows...
But you do see telephone dial tone, electricity, natural gas, running water, and sewers as basic consumer rights, don't you? Why should there be a right to water? Is there a right to Pepsi or Kool-aid? And what about electricity - does everyone 'deserve' to have a generator in their house? My point is that the proposer is essentially suggesting that TCP/IP access become a utility, and that access to TCP/IP should be free (as in free speech).
I worked for Gateway at the time. IIRC (and it's been a while) some of the problems with the system were...
- The system was advertised as having a Matrox Millenium video card. While the card was manufactured by Matrox, and had the same chipset as the Matrox Millenium, it was actually an OEM product. The card's RAMDAC was not as fast, and not all of the cards had a VESA feature connector.
- The speakers shipped with the system were not the ones that they appeared to be in the ads. (I have forgotten the brand and model numbers so I'll make some up). The speakers in the ad looked like Brand Y 450s, but were actually brand Y 350s, where the 450s were a retail product and the 350s were an OEM product. I never heard the speakers, but callers would tell me that they hissed annoyingly unless they were playing something or were turned off.
- The CD-ROM drive was advertised as a 6X but was slammed in the industry press for turning in performances on a par with 4X drives.
Um...perhaps you didn't realize, but the issue at hand is not home use, where you are free to download and decorate as much as you like. This is a municipal government. If I caught one of my employees downloading wallpaper and touching it up, I'd reprimand them on the spot. There are better things to do when you're on the clock.
- From the first article of the constitution of Beta in Lois McMasters Bujold's universe.
IIRC, the book this quote was taken from was written in the 80s, and is pretty forward thinking. I think something like this should be written into ANY internet constitution. Individuals may choose to limit their own access, or may choose to let someone else do it, but the infrastructure shouldn't be doing it. In short, unless you have written consent from all individuals affected, you may not deny access to information.
I created a Hotmail email address several months ago and never used it for ANYTHING. Within a month, the inbox was full of spam. Try it yourself. I guarantee that MS is selling email addresses; no reason why they shouldn't.
Even if they are, they could write a really clever EULA that says, in essence, "We own the box. You do not. We own the software. You do not." This would mean that they are not legally distributing any binaries, and are thus not required to release their source code.
Consider also Arrow's paradox (sometimes called the Voter's Paradox). Kenneth Arrow, an economist, was able to prove that no voting system can always represent the will of the voters. He starts with five basic requirements, such as that no voter may control any other voter, or that if all individuals prefer one choice, then the outcome of the vote should show a preference for that choice.
The requirements are all quite reasonable, adn you would consider them each to be vital to democratic election. The paradox is simply the mathematical conclusion that no voting system can fulfill all the requirements all the time. In other words, a democratic election does not always reflect what the people really want.
TSR tried something similar way back in the day. They essentially said that anything created for use with their D&D game, whether it was a world, a city, a character, a weapon description, or a module, was their property. Their "compromise" with their fans was to provide a web site for fans to post content on; they declared that any content posted anywhere else was a violation of their copyright.
This site is not being represented as the only sanctioned place for fan films to be placed, but I betcha money that's how it will end up. Let LucasFilm get financially involved, let the site make a few bucks, and then start looking for the cease and desist orders. LucasFilms will say "Hey, be cool, we've got a site for you to put your stuff on!" And Troops-alikes will be no more...
You, sir, are a COMPLETE idiot. Next you'll suggest that MPS (Meters Per Second) per second is not a valid unit, when even a nine-year-old could tell you that it's a measure of acceleration. The original poster was CLEARLY talking about how rapidly the CPU on that bad boy could spin up.
I'd be curious to know what the max processing speed would be though; clearly, it can't accelerate its operations forever.
Linux shipped revenue in 2005 will approach 20 percent of the revenue of Unix and 17 percent of that of Windows.
This, of course, says nothing about the number of units shipped or the number of boxes with Linux installed, as the "shipped revenue" of Linux can be as low as the purchaser desires.
well-established OS environments that continue to benefit from the research and development resources of Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM,
As nearly as I can tell, Linux benefits from their research as well. The lag is a little higher, but the 'geek effect'* means that Linux benefits from any research that benefits any other operating system.
Much of the beneficial backlash Linux has gained at Windows NT's expense will dissipate by 2002, forcing the Linux community to refocus and re-energize its campaign for wide corporate acceptance. Yup. Market growth of any non-MS OS must eventually slow, as only hardcore MS-ites will continue to buy MS products, and everyone who's convinced that MS is non-optimal has already stopped buying MS products.
Interesting article, but really only worthwhile from the point of view of business people and marketroids. Every business in the world could drop all support of Linux, and guess what?
It would still exist and grow and improve.
*geek effect: Geeks work in technical places. Geeks like Linux. Geeks learn new technical things in technical places. Geeks say "Hey, let's add this to Linux!"
A completely blank board is a consistent Minesweeper configuration, as is a completely covered board.
The subject of the article is not about solving Minesweeper. It's more like debugging Minesweeper. Given a minesweeper board, can you find evidence of a flaw in the Minesweeper program? If the upper left corner of your minesweeper board looked like this:
1 1
1 1
...then you'd know that there was a bug in Minesweeper. If you wrote a program that would analyze arbitrary Minesweeper boards to look for inconsistencies in them, and if your program ran in polynomial time, then you'd be famous and possibly rich.
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Read the article that precedes the discussion; it indicates that the word came into existence in the 1930s.
One of the measurements analysts look at is ROA, or Return On Assets. It is equal to the company's income (some form of it, anyway) divided by the value of the company's assets. If you have assets which can produce no income, you can improve your ROA by eliminating those assets.
To be precise - the INSTALL ROUTINE will stop.
All the install routine does is put files into place and make configuration changes. These can be done manually.
Wow, a basic consumer right? That is an absurd statement, and it is typical of the techno-elite that frequent these conferences. You don't see 'unbundled' newspapers being a basic consumer right, or magazines, or even TV shows...
But you do see telephone dial tone, electricity, natural gas, running water, and sewers as basic consumer rights, don't you? Why should there be a right to water? Is there a right to Pepsi or Kool-aid? And what about electricity - does everyone 'deserve' to have a generator in their house? My point is that the proposer is essentially suggesting that TCP/IP access become a utility, and that access to TCP/IP should be free (as in free speech).
I worked for Gateway at the time. IIRC (and it's been a while) some of the problems with the system were...
- The system was advertised as having a Matrox Millenium video card. While the card was manufactured by Matrox, and had the same chipset as the Matrox Millenium, it was actually an OEM product. The card's RAMDAC was not as fast, and not all of the cards had a VESA feature connector.
- The speakers shipped with the system were not the ones that they appeared to be in the ads. (I have forgotten the brand and model numbers so I'll make some up). The speakers in the ad looked like Brand Y 450s, but were actually brand Y 350s, where the 450s were a retail product and the 350s were an OEM product. I never heard the speakers, but callers would tell me that they hissed annoyingly unless they were playing something or were turned off.
- The CD-ROM drive was advertised as a 6X but was slammed in the industry press for turning in performances on a par with 4X drives.
This has been about four years ago.
Maybe you ought to reexamine what "humor" actually means. :)
you'll have to tell them you're moving on months in advance instead of not returning from lunch
Naw, just catch a flight back to the US over lunch.
Not the 500 users I'm responsible for. Most can't even navigate a hierarchical file structure or rename a file.
Um...perhaps you didn't realize, but the issue at hand is not home use, where you are free to download and decorate as much as you like. This is a municipal government. If I caught one of my employees downloading wallpaper and touching it up, I'd reprimand them on the spot. There are better things to do when you're on the clock.
it's news for woodworkers.
Don't knock woodworkers They can handle a routing table better than most people here.
I find your lack of faith...unsettling.
And YOU are not intelligent. It's actually a bundle of neurons deep within your cerebrum. You are a meatspace cellular automaton.
"You made a Turing machine out of a board game? Is it a winner?" (advertising jingle for the game - "Be a winner at the game of life!")
MS is a monopoly. The rules are different for monopolies.
:)
(Yes, I know I shouldn't feed the trolls
TV=TeleVision
I/O=Input/Output
TiVo=Tele-input-Vision-output
...shall not be abridged."
- From the first article of the constitution of Beta in Lois McMasters Bujold's universe.
IIRC, the book this quote was taken from was written in the 80s, and is pretty forward thinking. I think something like this should be written into ANY internet constitution. Individuals may choose to limit their own access, or may choose to let someone else do it, but the infrastructure shouldn't be doing it. In short, unless you have written consent from all individuals affected, you may not deny access to information.
I created a Hotmail email address several months ago and never used it for ANYTHING. Within a month, the inbox was full of spam. Try it yourself. I guarantee that MS is selling email addresses; no reason why they shouldn't.
Who says they're doing any kernel mods?
Even if they are, they could write a really clever EULA that says, in essence, "We own the box. You do not. We own the software. You do not." This would mean that they are not legally distributing any binaries, and are thus not required to release their source code.
Shades of Word 3.0...I mean 6.0.
And 97 is higher than 8.0, so we'll go with Microsoft's suite, not Corel's.
Consider also Arrow's paradox (sometimes called the Voter's Paradox). Kenneth Arrow, an economist, was able to prove that no voting system can always represent the will of the voters. He starts with five basic requirements, such as that no voter may control any other voter, or that if all individuals prefer one choice, then the outcome of the vote should show a preference for that choice.
The requirements are all quite reasonable, adn you would consider them each to be vital to democratic election. The paradox is simply the mathematical conclusion that no voting system can fulfill all the requirements all the time. In other words, a democratic election does not always reflect what the people really want.
TSR tried something similar way back in the day. They essentially said that anything created for use with their D&D game, whether it was a world, a city, a character, a weapon description, or a module, was their property. Their "compromise" with their fans was to provide a web site for fans to post content on; they declared that any content posted anywhere else was a violation of their copyright.
This site is not being represented as the only sanctioned place for fan films to be placed, but I betcha money that's how it will end up. Let LucasFilm get financially involved, let the site make a few bucks, and then start looking for the cease and desist orders. LucasFilms will say "Hey, be cool, we've got a site for you to put your stuff on!" And Troops-alikes will be no more...
There are two pragmatic reasons to join the military:
1) To get or pay for training you otherwise couldn't afford.
2) You want to do things you couldn't do ANYWHERE else - drive a tank, fire a missile, legally kill people.
Of course, there's that selfess patriotic bit about serving your country, but that's not too pragmatic.
You, sir, are a COMPLETE idiot. Next you'll suggest that MPS (Meters Per Second) per second is not a valid unit, when even a nine-year-old could tell you that it's a measure of acceleration. The original poster was CLEARLY talking about how rapidly the CPU on that bad boy could spin up.
I'd be curious to know what the max processing speed would be though; clearly, it can't accelerate its operations forever.
Linux shipped revenue in 2005 will approach 20 percent of the revenue of Unix and 17 percent of that of Windows.
This, of course, says nothing about the number of units shipped or the number of boxes with Linux installed, as the "shipped revenue" of Linux can be as low as the purchaser desires.
well-established OS environments that continue to benefit from the research and development resources of Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM,
As nearly as I can tell, Linux benefits from their research as well. The lag is a little higher, but the 'geek effect'* means that Linux benefits from any research that benefits any other operating system.
Much of the beneficial backlash Linux has gained at Windows NT's expense will dissipate by 2002, forcing the Linux community to refocus and re-energize its campaign for wide corporate acceptance.
Yup. Market growth of any non-MS OS must eventually slow, as only hardcore MS-ites will continue to buy MS products, and everyone who's convinced that MS is non-optimal has already stopped buying MS products.
Interesting article, but really only worthwhile from the point of view of business people and marketroids. Every business in the world could drop all support of Linux, and guess what?
It would still exist and grow and improve.
*geek effect: Geeks work in technical places. Geeks like Linux. Geeks learn new technical things in technical places. Geeks say "Hey, let's add this to Linux!"
A completely blank board is a consistent Minesweeper configuration, as is a completely covered board.
The subject of the article is not about solving Minesweeper. It's more like debugging Minesweeper. Given a minesweeper board, can you find evidence of a flaw in the Minesweeper program? If the upper left corner of your minesweeper board looked like this:
1 1
1 1
...then you'd know that there was a bug in Minesweeper. If you wrote a program that would analyze arbitrary Minesweeper boards to look for inconsistencies in them, and if your program ran in polynomial time, then you'd be famous and possibly rich.