Google's main revenue stream is from licensing its searcing technologies. It's most certainly the best search technology, but I have to wonder how solid that revenue stream is, and how long it can last. I know I wouldn't mind ad viewing for my google searches, but ads don't even provide a good revenue stream these days (do they./?). Google or any search engine could start (or maybe already is) tracking the types of things people search for in a session, maybe requiring logins.. and then selling that information to those marketoids and information analysts.
i love the tin box. mine's a little dented, but i don't care. it's a tin box!
hardware i can order online and schedule time later to install/play with it, but software? games? i really like to get it at a store so i can take it right home open the new package, and play with it.
a mobile education unit, eh? how about a mobile teach with a laptop? what more do ya need? what real need is there for internet connectivity in a classroom environment? i know if my classrooms had more than a teacher's computer for sleep demanding powerpoint presentations i surely would have shaved a few grade points off my gpa. if every student has a laptop and it's connected.. during class..
btw - the gateway folks or whoever came to one of the city festivals downtown with their bus last year to show off their kewl computers. i don't know how it went for them, but when i go out side, downtown, i really would like to NOT see a computer.
i have no idea why sales were so poor? maybe the fact that you can't find it on the shelves anywhere! i look for linux games every time i'm in best buy, and never see anything. just last week, i saw quake 3 and some railroad tycoon. these were 10$ each. i don't know how long quake 3 for linux has been out, but for 10$.. that's chump change. the game installed easily and is well worth the money. my point is, they'll sell more boxes if they put them on the shelves!
ctrl+alt+delete -> kill task that's got the box all locked up. it doesn't seem like it's reemptible at all. when something's got the box locked hard, even the ole 3 finger salute won't bring up the process manager.
The United States plans to impose sanctions on Ukraine's metals and footwear industries on Jan. 23.
i guess it's gotta be wall-mart shoes, or some "valu-brand" thing. i'm sure if this had some nike or reebok plants, the us would be looking for other industries to sanction. anyway. can't the riaa take a hint? PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COPY THE MUSIC!
the US gov't isn't the backbone of this whole manipulation, it's the RIAA (and the international IP association). the US gov't is just doing it's usual job by taking lots of money from the lobby. someone's gotta snag those mo-fo's into some quake action and show 'um what fraggin is all about.
it's gotta take at least a couple hours. come on. you have to search for their snail address. write the letter, make it all nice and pretty, good sounding. shove it in an envelope, attach the 0.32 postage or whatever the current going rate is, and then shove it in a mail slot. and that's just for it to be read by some college student intern and given some smack reply. my goal for Feb. will be to write a letter to someone in office and see what the response is.
non biased comparison? you obviously haven't been around the linux desktop much, eh? spending too much time lately on a vax machine writing com files and using set default when you could be cd'ing all over the place;)
they're both for "newer" machines and probably perform about the same. they both use a lot of memory (but a few years back we were all screaming about the 26MB that X11 was using). install them both and give them a whirl. play around with them and see which one sticks on you.
seeing that we're at just over 2GHz right now, according to moore's law, that 20 GHz you mention will be here in about 5 years.2007. in 10 years, it will be 200GHz, and we'll be overclocking them to 350Ghz using super cooling microscopic bacteria or some such.
i guess every 10 years, the chips get 100 times faster, so our 2GHz we have now, 10 years ago was 20 mhz. that's about right, eh? my 386 machine was 16mhz and probably pretty new then.
i don't think NY was built for cars at all. i wouldn't dare take a car in NY. it's too horrendous and it's current public transportation is excellent. from what i've heard, LA wasn't built "properly" for cars either, though i have yet to see the rush hour traffic there.
exactly relying on a "broken" hardware implementation is not good business practice. this is as bad as the "best viewed with IE" or even NS ads that were so common on the internet.
maybe a larger reason there's less domain names registered is that lots of the companies that owned the names are no longer in existance anymore. i believe we're still in the dot-bomb era, correct? mycompanywithoutaBusinessPlan.com which had 30 registered domains and 20 patent applications and no revenue no longer exists. they just let the registration run out. also, before google, altavista and yahoo did a pretty good job at finding information/sites. that was before they sold out to other influences ($$). not that google hasn't revolutionized what those other engines did, but they could sell out just as well. i'll have to admit i use google daily.
the one man entry point is a HUGE problem. isn't it obvious with the many issues 2.4 has seen? i don't know the number of lines of code, or number of total developers, but i would venture to say that KDE has more developers than the kernel, and more lines of code. how do they manage to release anything stable (not that they don't have bugs too)? TRUST IN THE DEVELOPERS! checkin/checkout. this works for nearly every other project out there and i can't understand why it can't work at all for the kernel.
that said, the kernel also could use a solid testing environment. a load of dedicated testing hardware, setup with testing scripts that build the new kernels, and run extensive tests on them. testing is a huge key to success in any SD project, and the kernel is no different. maybe this exists now, and i'm just not aware of it, but i'm guessing it doesn't as i don't see the issues in 2.4 arising with better testing and an ACTUAL DISTRIBUTED system. i don't think the blame can come on Rik at all, it's mainly the system. all code comes through one person?!? maybe in version 1.x when the userbase was much much less, but not in a project this size/scope where boxed version of the software are being sold in wall-mart stores and IBM is running commercials about how linux is replacing server farms. linux, welcome to the big league, let's try to play ball like the pro's do, eh?
that works great in the consumer goods market, but what about the business goods market? i would consider software more of a business good than a consumer good. consumer generally don't directly pay for software. either it's bundled in their new pc, or they steal it.
take a look at companies who make their bread and butter selling to consumers (computer games, minor desktop publishing (greeting cards, etc). none step out as huge successfull companies. on the other side, successfull companies who sell to business are inheritantly household names (oracle, microsoft, even redhat)
they're probably planning their normal traffic load, maybe double, but not a./ effect. to my knowledge./ itself uses MySQL to store all it's stuff, and handles it ok, but it's been tuned and tuned over and over again to handle it's load. when./ gets a./ effect (911), it handled better than some other sites, but still has some issues.
let's see./ try to host the victoria's secret fashin show online next year. that's more of an overall bandwidth issue though i would have to assume.
I didn't notice any problem with the tone of the article. Rik definately doesn't come across as prima donna. the interview emphisized strongly that linus (and the linux kernel development model) could use some serious improvement. bug fixing patches to major portions of the kernel NEED to be applied. lost or overlooked email just doesn't cut it. I think that lots of times the "younger" people pay less attention to politically corectness, feel-good warm overs, and the such. Linus seems very similar in his interviews. Linux seem to be more of a get the job done kinda person, but sometimes shoves off any politically touchy questions. Rik definately wants to get the job done, but also doens't hesitate to speak up when he sees an issue. Now.. will anyone listen seriously? Guess we'll have to wait and see.
so the local pet store owner can't be held liable or accountable if somehow his catnip is really pot that his catnip supplier gave him as catnip?
i believe both firestone and ford did recalls for the tires in their recent fiasco, but who was ultimately responsible for the faulty vehicles? the supplier or the vendor? i think the consumers were suing ford, not firestone.
i would argue that the series of negotiations you mention include being asked for time estimates, then removing (or delaying till another release) functionality, squeezing down the testing, or whatever to get the project to meet the deadline.
yes, if your application needs (or can) work with a specific hardware which requires a specific configuration, then your application should take responsibility to ensure that environment is present. aborts are bad! they should not be tolerated. an application should not allow a dumb user or dumb hardware to crash it.
is today trolling friday? thougth that was yesterday, but i might have misread the memo. had it stuffed under my TPS report.
i do believe the kernel allows you to load video drivers, which provides an api to access the video hardware, which people write games to. therefor linux is a platform (a stage which other items stand on) that supports games.
they certainly have a right to charge for their work if they want to. i'd gladly pay 5-10$ for the game after recently seeing the vast amounts of changes in the 1.0 version. the problem is, when it hits the shelf i expect to see it sitting at 19.99$ or 24.99$. i won't pay that much. most software is too overpriced these days. 80$ for a disk partitioner? oh it's got a nice pretty point and click interface! faggetaboutit!
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Google's main revenue stream is from licensing its searcing technologies. It's most certainly the best search technology, but I have to wonder how solid that revenue stream is, and how long it can last. I know I wouldn't mind ad viewing for my google searches, but ads don't even provide a good revenue stream these days (do they ./?). Google or any search engine could start (or maybe already is) tracking the types of things people search for in a session, maybe requiring logins.. and then selling that information to those marketoids and information analysts.
i love the tin box. mine's a little dented, but i don't care. it's a tin box!
hardware i can order online and schedule time later to install/play with it, but software? games? i really like to get it at a store so i can take it right home open the new package, and play with it.
a mobile education unit, eh? how about a mobile teach with a laptop? what more do ya need? what real need is there for internet connectivity in a classroom environment? i know if my classrooms had more than a teacher's computer for sleep demanding powerpoint presentations i surely would have shaved a few grade points off my gpa. if every student has a laptop and it's connected .. during class ..
btw - the gateway folks or whoever came to one of the city festivals downtown with their bus last year to show off their kewl computers. i don't know how it went for them, but when i go out side, downtown, i really would like to NOT see a computer.
i have no idea why sales were so poor? maybe the fact that you can't find it on the shelves anywhere! i look for linux games every time i'm in best buy, and never see anything. just last week, i saw quake 3 and some railroad tycoon. these were 10$ each. i don't know how long quake 3 for linux has been out, but for 10$.. that's chump change. the game installed easily and is well worth the money. my point is, they'll sell more boxes if they put them on the shelves!
ctrl+alt+delete -> kill task that's got the box all locked up. it doesn't seem like it's reemptible at all. when something's got the box locked hard, even the ole 3 finger salute won't bring up the process manager.
The United States plans to impose sanctions on Ukraine's metals and footwear industries on Jan. 23.
i guess it's gotta be wall-mart shoes, or some "valu-brand" thing. i'm sure if this had some nike or reebok plants, the us would be looking for other industries to sanction. anyway. can't the riaa take a hint? PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COPY THE MUSIC!
the US gov't isn't the backbone of this whole manipulation, it's the RIAA (and the international IP association). the US gov't is just doing it's usual job by taking lots of money from the lobby. someone's gotta snag those mo-fo's into some quake action and show 'um what fraggin is all about.
it's gotta take at least a couple hours. come on. you have to search for their snail address. write the letter, make it all nice and pretty, good sounding. shove it in an envelope, attach the 0.32 postage or whatever the current going rate is, and then shove it in a mail slot. and that's just for it to be read by some college student intern and given some smack reply. my goal for Feb. will be to write a letter to someone in office and see what the response is.
yeah, the story was posted about 10 minutes ago, and it took 2 minutes for me to get the review page to come up. can't find a mirror anywhere...
non biased comparison? you obviously haven't been around the linux desktop much, eh? spending too much time lately on a vax machine writing com files and using set default when you could be cd'ing all over the place ;)
they're both for "newer" machines and probably perform about the same. they both use a lot of memory (but a few years back we were all screaming about the 26MB that X11 was using). install them both and give them a whirl. play around with them and see which one sticks on you.
5 posts about what a great job the gnome folks are doing
8 posts about how much better and more advanced kde is than gnome
7 posts about how you shouldn't do OO programming in C
9 posts about how OO is a method not a language :)
50 posts from people who don't give a rat's arse about different desktops and like their gnome
and finally... 4 posts summarizing the number of other posts for the topic
seeing that we're at just over 2GHz right now, according to moore's law, that 20 GHz you mention will be here in about 5 years.2007. in 10 years, it will be 200GHz, and we'll be overclocking them to 350Ghz using super cooling microscopic bacteria or some such.
i guess every 10 years, the chips get 100 times faster, so our 2GHz we have now, 10 years ago was 20 mhz. that's about right, eh? my 386 machine was 16mhz and probably pretty new then.
i don't think NY was built for cars at all. i wouldn't dare take a car in NY. it's too horrendous and it's current public transportation is excellent. from what i've heard, LA wasn't built "properly" for cars either, though i have yet to see the rush hour traffic there.
exactly relying on a "broken" hardware implementation is not good business practice. this is as bad as the "best viewed with IE" or even NS ads that were so common on the internet.
maybe a larger reason there's less domain names registered is that lots of the companies that owned the names are no longer in existance anymore. i believe we're still in the dot-bomb era, correct? mycompanywithoutaBusinessPlan.com which had 30 registered domains and 20 patent applications and no revenue no longer exists. they just let the registration run out.
also, before google, altavista and yahoo did a pretty good job at finding information/sites. that was before they sold out to other influences ($$). not that google hasn't revolutionized what those other engines did, but they could sell out just as well. i'll have to admit i use google daily.
which episode was that? i've got some gnutella searching to do :)
the one man entry point is a HUGE problem. isn't it obvious with the many issues 2.4 has seen? i don't know the number of lines of code, or number of total developers, but i would venture to say that KDE has more developers than the kernel, and more lines of code. how do they manage to release anything stable (not that they don't have bugs too)? TRUST IN THE DEVELOPERS! checkin/checkout. this works for nearly every other project out there and i can't understand why it can't work at all for the kernel.
that said, the kernel also could use a solid testing environment. a load of dedicated testing hardware, setup with testing scripts that build the new kernels, and run extensive tests on them. testing is a huge key to success in any SD project, and the kernel is no different. maybe this exists now, and i'm just not aware of it, but i'm guessing it doesn't as i don't see the issues in 2.4 arising with better testing and an ACTUAL DISTRIBUTED system. i don't think the blame can come on Rik at all, it's mainly the system. all code comes through one person?!? maybe in version 1.x when the userbase was much much less, but not in a project this size/scope where boxed version of the software are being sold in wall-mart stores and IBM is running commercials about how linux is replacing server farms. linux, welcome to the big league, let's try to play ball like the pro's do, eh?
that works great in the consumer goods market, but what about the business goods market? i would consider software more of a business good than a consumer good. consumer generally don't directly pay for software. either it's bundled in their new pc, or they steal it.
take a look at companies who make their bread and butter selling to consumers (computer games, minor desktop publishing (greeting cards, etc). none step out as huge successfull companies. on the other side, successfull companies who sell to business are inheritantly household names (oracle, microsoft, even redhat)
they're probably planning their normal traffic load, maybe double, but not a ./ effect. to my knowledge ./ itself uses MySQL to store all it's stuff, and handles it ok, but it's been tuned and tuned over and over again to handle it's load. when ./ gets a ./ effect (911), it handled better than some other sites, but still has some issues.
./ try to host the victoria's secret fashin show online next year. that's more of an overall bandwidth issue though i would have to assume.
let's see
I didn't notice any problem with the tone of the article. Rik definately doesn't come across as prima donna. the interview emphisized strongly that linus (and the linux kernel development model) could use some serious improvement. bug fixing patches to major portions of the kernel NEED to be applied. lost or overlooked email just doesn't cut it. I think that lots of times the "younger" people pay less attention to politically corectness, feel-good warm overs, and the such. Linus seems very similar in his interviews. Linux seem to be more of a get the job done kinda person, but sometimes shoves off any politically touchy questions. Rik definately wants to get the job done, but also doens't hesitate to speak up when he sees an issue. Now.. will anyone listen seriously? Guess we'll have to wait and see.
so the local pet store owner can't be held liable or accountable if somehow his catnip is really pot that his catnip supplier gave him as catnip?
i believe both firestone and ford did recalls for the tires in their recent fiasco, but who was ultimately responsible for the faulty vehicles? the supplier or the vendor? i think the consumers were suing ford, not firestone.
i would argue that the series of negotiations you mention include being asked for time estimates, then removing (or delaying till another release) functionality, squeezing down the testing, or whatever to get the project to meet the deadline.
yes, if your application needs (or can) work with a specific hardware which requires a specific configuration, then your application should take responsibility to ensure that environment is present. aborts are bad! they should not be tolerated. an application should not allow a dumb user or dumb hardware to crash it.
is today trolling friday? thougth that was yesterday, but i might have misread the memo. had it stuffed under my TPS report.
i do believe the kernel allows you to load video drivers, which provides an api to access the video hardware, which people write games to. therefor linux is a platform (a stage which other items stand on) that supports games.
they certainly have a right to charge for their work if they want to. i'd gladly pay 5-10$ for the game after recently seeing the vast amounts of changes in the 1.0 version. the problem is, when it hits the shelf i expect to see it sitting at 19.99$ or 24.99$. i won't pay that much. most software is too overpriced these days. 80$ for a disk partitioner? oh it's got a nice pretty point and click interface! faggetaboutit!