Everybody talks about the OS as the lock-in for business, but it's really MS Office. So long as Office only runs in a predictable way under Windows and cannot BY DEFAULT interact seamlessly with any other app, Microsoft retains the monopoly. Businesses really don't care about the OS, what they care about is their intellectual output looking "right" without a hitch. Anybody who has dealt with the bloody mess that results from a Mac Office to PC Office conversion knows that real interoperability is a distant dream. And since "everybody" runs Office, Office and Windows become the only choice.
Which is why killing widespread support for the Open Document Format is Microsoft's primary goal right now. You can see how MS freaked when the state of Massachusetts mandated *support* for ODF. Not that MS had to use it by default, they just had to read and write it. Not a big deal, but MS recognized it as the thin edge of the wedge for erosion of their desktop domination, and began all kinds of political dirty tricks to overturn the decision. This obscure corner of policy may be the most important fight about electronic freedom in this country.
Dear Google, Could you guys be any cooler? Hey, I know I'm a geeky Google fanboy, you make me look smart at my job every day. I'm not pretending otherwise, let's get that straight. It's hard not to like a friend like that. And I know you've had PR issues with employee bloggers, but on balance you guys do more "good things" than just about any other Big Evil Internet Corporation around. Granted, the Gates Foundation gives a lot of money to worthy causes, but their patron takes our money and freedom with the other hand. Long term you probably want to make a buck off Wikipedia, and you're getting your foot in the door now. They ARE one of the best resources around, and it fits your strategy of being the answer to just about any question.
But strangely, I trust you guys not to screw it up, unlike some others (Micro*cough*) I can think of. I think you're crazy enough to let Wikipedia run under it's own editorial control - if you can call it that;) - without heavy-handed corporate meddling. I hope you'll just let it purr along with minimal intervention and let it make you money. Better Google than MS, I say. And if it's really just a charity gesture, well, a big hellyeah and mucho goodwill to you all.
I believe all 50 states have laws regarding compulsory education, typically to the age to 16, although I seem to remember a few southern states setting the age at 15 years of age. Although the federal "No Child Left Behind" act has imposed significant federal rules on education in the 50 states, education is still governed primarily at the state level. That's why you see news stories about the teaching of certain subjects, evolution for example, as being debated at the state level or lower. It's a different way of setting policy than the national rules of most other countries. University education is governed apart from those laws, with a sometimes odd mix of federal funding laws driving policy, state laws driving policy for state-funded schools and private accreditation policies. Universities tend to be more independent, which makes this proposal unusual. I hope that small explanation helps our friends from abroad!
Frankenhooker! Yes, it's what you think. Some guy rebuilds his girlfriend (killed in a tragic lawnmover accident) out of hooker parts. Hilarity ensues. A Polish Vampire In Burbank! When the two main characters are "Sphincter" and "Queerwolf" you know it's gonna be a rough two hours....
I think you're right, but how many Unixware sales can there possibly be?:)
Jokes aside, that is clearly a possible revenue stream to SCOSource, and would inflate the numbers. But then they're denting the margin of the "core UNIX business" they're pimping lately by assigning some of that $ from each Unixware sale to SCOSource rather than the software side (unless they increased the price of Unixware). You can't count that $ twice. Either way, it's still smoke-and-mirrors.
I think the only reason that SCO will be able to announce 6-figure revenue for SCOSource is because this is the fiscal quarter that they'll book the revenue from the EV1 scam - the first and to my knowledge ONLY large deal (other than the war-chest they got from Microsoft) they've ever closed.
If this is the case, this does NOT indicate new deals, this does NOT indicate a new revenue source, this does NOT mean that did a dime's worth of business in the last 3 months - it's just when the revenue from their only decent deal some time ago hit the books.
A quote from the SECOND quarter conference call (Darl speaking to Maureen O'Gara):
McBride: We had a few deals on the SCOsource side, Maureen. You know with last quarter we had announced a major deal with EV1. That is not part of the revenue stream that we're reporting in second quarter. That revenue will start to be accounted for in the quarter that we're currently in.
O'Gara: Sorry. The EV1 revenues will show up on this quarter?
McBride: Yes. They will start this quarter, and they'll be booked over multiple quarters going forward.
Now, within that conversation, Darl claims to have deals in the pipeline:
O'Gara: Well, we'll see how that.... Now, you forecast 10 to 12 this quarter, but that's mostly from the UNIX business, which....
McBride: Yeah, until there's a stream of revenue that comes out of the SCOsource side, we're not going to get in the business of handicapping or projecting the forecast of it. You know, the pipeline that Bert is talking about that is healthy right now is not really part of that 10 to 12. Once we have more predictability, then we'll start to get projections on that.
Notice he hints "10 or 12", but I suspect all he got this time was money from EV1. Looking forward to the conference call to see if anybody challenges his smoke-and-mirrors show.
You have to admit, it's a pretty impressive hack. Even on my hardened gaming rig (Windows tweaked down to an inch of it's life, Firefox, no plugins, ActiveX or Java) it still hung my system. Nice work, you sick bastard!:)
Look, laptop locks are psychological blocks, not physical blocks. If you can't hork a cablelock out of a plastic laptop case in less than 15 seconds you don't deserve to steal that laptop.
They keep honest people honest. They're speedbumps for the pros. Don't leave you leptop alone!
If the GPL does foster the creation of new and innovative applications, why has the community not already brought forth an email client and an office client that are so convincingly innovative, useful and attractive that people will happily abandon the Outlook/MSOffice paradigms in order to adopt them?
They did. It's called "Thunderbird". Have you ever used Outlook as an IMAP client? It blows goats. Used the "spam filter" in Outlook 2003? It blows goats. Been owned by some email you only saw in the preview pane? Wow, that REALLY blows goats. And it's very common.
Outlook is the de-facto standard thanks to predatory practices by Microsoft. TBird has to use that as a baseline to satisfy users, then kick Outlook's ass by exceeding their expectations. And it does.
They bitch and whine about sending a "space tourist", but they'll happily take the $ to do films rather than hard science? NASA, your hypocrisy alarm is flashing.
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Good Lord, I want to see the women in YOUR world!
Everybody talks about the OS as the lock-in for business, but it's really MS Office. So long as Office only runs in a predictable way under Windows and cannot BY DEFAULT interact seamlessly with any other app, Microsoft retains the monopoly. Businesses really don't care about the OS, what they care about is their intellectual output looking "right" without a hitch. Anybody who has dealt with the bloody mess that results from a Mac Office to PC Office conversion knows that real interoperability is a distant dream. And since "everybody" runs Office, Office and Windows become the only choice.
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Which is why killing widespread support for the Open Document Format is Microsoft's primary goal right now. You can see how MS freaked when the state of Massachusetts mandated *support* for ODF. Not that MS had to use it by default, they just had to read and write it. Not a big deal, but MS recognized it as the thin edge of the wedge for erosion of their desktop domination, and began all kinds of political dirty tricks to overturn the decision. This obscure corner of policy may be the most important fight about electronic freedom in this country.
Here's the Wiki article, read it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
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Because Microsoft France surely just made one.
Dear Google,
;) - without heavy-handed corporate meddling. I hope you'll just let it purr along with minimal intervention and let it make you money. Better Google than MS, I say. And if it's really just a charity gesture, well, a big hellyeah and mucho goodwill to you all.
Could you guys be any cooler? Hey, I know I'm a geeky Google fanboy, you make me look smart at my job every day. I'm not pretending otherwise, let's get that straight. It's hard not to like a friend like that. And I know you've had PR issues with employee bloggers, but on balance you guys do more "good things" than just about any other Big Evil Internet Corporation around. Granted, the Gates Foundation gives a lot of money to worthy causes, but their patron takes our money and freedom with the other hand. Long term you probably want to make a buck off Wikipedia, and you're getting your foot in the door now. They ARE one of the best resources around, and it fits your strategy of being the answer to just about any question.
But strangely, I trust you guys not to screw it up, unlike some others (Micro*cough*) I can think of. I think you're crazy enough to let Wikipedia run under it's own editorial control - if you can call it that
I believe all 50 states have laws regarding compulsory education, typically to the age to 16, although I seem to remember a few southern states setting the age at 15 years of age. Although the federal "No Child Left Behind" act has imposed significant federal rules on education in the 50 states, education is still governed primarily at the state level. That's why you see news stories about the teaching of certain subjects, evolution for example, as being debated at the state level or lower. It's a different way of setting policy than the national rules of most other countries. University education is governed apart from those laws, with a sometimes odd mix of federal funding laws driving policy, state laws driving policy for state-funded schools and private accreditation policies. Universities tend to be more independent, which makes this proposal unusual. I hope that small explanation helps our friends from abroad!
Yes. You're missing something. :)
Reference above posts for why this is not faster than light.
Frankenhooker! Yes, it's what you think. Some guy rebuilds his girlfriend (killed in a tragic lawnmover accident) out of hooker parts. Hilarity ensues.
A Polish Vampire In Burbank! When the two main characters are "Sphincter" and "Queerwolf" you know it's gonna be a rough two hours....
I think you're right, but how many Unixware sales can there possibly be? :)
Jokes aside, that is clearly a possible revenue stream to SCOSource, and would inflate the numbers. But then they're denting the margin of the "core UNIX business" they're pimping lately by assigning some of that $ from each Unixware sale to SCOSource rather than the software side (unless they increased the price of Unixware). You can't count that $ twice. Either way, it's still smoke-and-mirrors.
I think the only reason that SCO will be able to announce 6-figure revenue for SCOSource is because this is the fiscal quarter that they'll book the revenue from the EV1 scam - the first and to my knowledge ONLY large deal (other than the war-chest they got from Microsoft) they've ever closed.
.... Now, you forecast 10 to 12 this quarter, but that's mostly from the UNIX business, which ....
If this is the case, this does NOT indicate new deals, this does NOT indicate a new revenue source, this does NOT mean that did a dime's worth of business in the last 3 months - it's just when the revenue from their only decent deal some time ago hit the books.
A quote from the SECOND quarter conference call (Darl speaking to Maureen O'Gara):
McBride: We had a few deals on the SCOsource side, Maureen. You know with last quarter we had announced a major deal with EV1. That is not part of the revenue stream that we're reporting in second quarter. That revenue will start to be accounted for in the quarter that we're currently in.
O'Gara: Sorry. The EV1 revenues will show up on this quarter?
McBride: Yes. They will start this quarter, and they'll be booked over multiple quarters going forward.
Now, within that conversation, Darl claims to have deals in the pipeline:
O'Gara: Well, we'll see how that
McBride: Yeah, until there's a stream of revenue that comes out of the SCOsource side, we're not going to get in the business of handicapping or projecting the forecast of it. You know, the pipeline that Bert is talking about that is healthy right now is not really part of that 10 to 12. Once we have more predictability, then we'll start to get projections on that.
Notice he hints "10 or 12", but I suspect all he got this time was money from EV1. Looking forward to the conference call to see if anybody challenges his smoke-and-mirrors show.
You have to admit, it's a pretty impressive hack. Even on my hardened gaming rig (Windows tweaked down to an inch of it's life, Firefox, no plugins, ActiveX or Java) it still hung my system. Nice work, you sick bastard! :)
Look, laptop locks are psychological blocks, not physical blocks. If you can't hork a cablelock out of a plastic laptop case in less than 15 seconds you don't deserve to steal that laptop.
They keep honest people honest. They're speedbumps for the pros. Don't leave you leptop alone!
Parent's "Doom Tweak Guide" link is nasty-fake. Don't click. :)
They bitch and whine about sending a "space tourist", but they'll happily take the $ to do films rather than hard science? NASA, your hypocrisy alarm is flashing.