GMail (the Google one) has the same business model as every other advertising-supported service. The fact that the ads are served by part of the same company is irrelevant - GMail generates advertising revenue.
The IP hoarders deserve to be constantly at each other's throats, IMO.
The IP in question is a trademark (awful journalism banging on about 'owning the intellectual property rights to the GMail service'). I take it you think Linus is an IP hoarder too, because Linux is trademarked.
This seems like a perfectly straightforward trademark dispute to me. No glaring flaws in this area of intellectual property law that I can see. This kind of dispute does not deserve to be lumped in with the ridiculous patents and copyright excesses we've seen.
You mentioned that they're using a desktop beast, but those are actually mainframe/server systems they're benchmarking on! 256 CPUs, Opteron Dual Core chips, etc.
The AMD Opteron 265 is a dual-core processor. There was just one in the the test machine, it's not a huge mainframe/server system.
The fact is, the art world is a bunch of sheep which will accept any old nonsense as long as the right person did it, or said they liked it.
This is of course entirely different to the stock market, music market, property market, clothing market, software market and any other market with human beings involved.
I expect they try to keep on schedule, but they've known about these bugs for weeks or months already so what's another month if the vulnerability hasn't been disclosed?
Does releasing patches on a regular schedule increase security by increasing the uptake of patches, or decrease it by increasing the time from discovery to patch? Does anybody have any numbers on the uptake of Windows patches since they started the monthly schedule?
The quality of the power supply, thermal management in the case, the quality of assembly and the quality of the motherboard all can and do affect reliability.
If a PowerMac G5 uses the same hard drive as your generic Newegg machine but keeps it 10C cooler the G5 will have a more reliable hard drive.
Now, I'm not saying Macs are more reliable. They are certainly better than cheap-ass PC hardware, but a lot of PC hardware is more reliable than that too. It's impossible to generalise about PCs as there are so many vendors. In my experience Macs are generally pretty reliable and Apple are pretty good when it comes to sorting out problems. Are they better than Dell? I don't really care, I've found all computing hardware is pretty reliable. Reliable enough that it's not a primary factor in selecting most of my kit.
Businesses already have almost -no- incentive to switch to Vista. Now, instead of just buying expensive licences, they have to upgrade the graphics cards on their vanilla work PCs??
Slide 1:
* PHBs decide what kit gets bought.
* PHBs perfer PowerPoint to human interaction.
* PowerPoint Vista Doubleplus++(tm) will have a huge selection of ugly, distracting and GPU-intensive transition effects.
I didn't think there was anything more tragic to do on/. than boast about a first post. But the idea of boasting about a first post you didn't even make had never occurred to me. Kudos.
The point is valid though. The largest chunk of money we can 'vote' with is that which is managed for us, typically invested in the stock market. Pensions are the number one. If you want to wield your economic clout then fuck where your coffee comes from, decide where your pension is invested. Combine the pension funds of thousands of slashdotters and you could be looking at hundreds of millions of dollars.
Per-OS TCO does not exist in a vacuum. Organizational direction, sunk costs from previous IT investments, interoperability with business partners / clients / vendors... each of these is a factor that will be different for EVERY business making the Linux/Windows/etc. choice.
IMO a well-run organization will have a hybrid environment.
If every business has different needs why do you think they should all go with a hybrid environment?
What makes you think speed limiters would save lives? Don't you think a system which treats an 80 year old woman in a 1970 VW Beetle at night in the rain the same as a 27 year old fighter pilot in a McLaren Mercedes SLR on a sunny day might be, you know, an over-simplification?
People dying in situations like this is extemely expensive. Ambulance, A&E, autopsy, inquest, council report... Even without factoring the girl's future contribution to GDP I think the system has proved itself pretty cost effective.
the innovation is that they had a new idea, and they implemented it, and it worked, and they want to protect their creative product from cheap knockoffs. isn't that the point of patents?
No. That's not the point of patents. Patents are not designed to protect creative works, that's what copyrights are for. The point of patents is to encourage technological development.
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GMail (the Google one) has the same business model as every other advertising-supported service. The fact that the ads are served by part of the same company is irrelevant - GMail generates advertising revenue.
The IP in question is a trademark (awful journalism banging on about 'owning the intellectual property rights to the GMail service'). I take it you think Linus is an IP hoarder too, because Linux is trademarked.
This seems like a perfectly straightforward trademark dispute to me. No glaring flaws in this area of intellectual property law that I can see. This kind of dispute does not deserve to be lumped in with the ridiculous patents and copyright excesses we've seen.
The AMD Opteron 265 is a dual-core processor. There was just one in the the test machine, it's not a huge mainframe/server system.
Profit for the shareholders or profit for the management who execute the buyout?
This is of course entirely different to the stock market, music market, property market, clothing market, software market and any other market with human beings involved.
Shirley, there are two impressions per duplex page. So wouldn't that be 720 duplex ppm?
Does releasing patches on a regular schedule increase security by increasing the uptake of patches, or decrease it by increasing the time from discovery to patch? Does anybody have any numbers on the uptake of Windows patches since they started the monthly schedule?
There's nothing wrong with George's diction - he has two children!
If a PowerMac G5 uses the same hard drive as your generic Newegg machine but keeps it 10C cooler the G5 will have a more reliable hard drive.
Now, I'm not saying Macs are more reliable. They are certainly better than cheap-ass PC hardware, but a lot of PC hardware is more reliable than that too. It's impossible to generalise about PCs as there are so many vendors. In my experience Macs are generally pretty reliable and Apple are pretty good when it comes to sorting out problems. Are they better than Dell? I don't really care, I've found all computing hardware is pretty reliable. Reliable enough that it's not a primary factor in selecting most of my kit.
Slide 1:
* PHBs decide what kit gets bought.
* PHBs perfer PowerPoint to human interaction.
* PowerPoint Vista Doubleplus++(tm) will have a huge selection of ugly, distracting and GPU-intensive transition effects.
Wikipedia has a list
I didn't think there was anything more tragic to do on /. than boast about a first post. But the idea of boasting about a first post you didn't even make had never occurred to me. Kudos.
Don't come whining to us when your house is washed into the lake by a mudslide :)
The point is valid though. The largest chunk of money we can 'vote' with is that which is managed for us, typically invested in the stock market. Pensions are the number one. If you want to wield your economic clout then fuck where your coffee comes from, decide where your pension is invested. Combine the pension funds of thousands of slashdotters and you could be looking at hundreds of millions of dollars.
You spend a whole ten minutes evaluating updates before you install them on your production servers?
If every business has different needs why do you think they should all go with a hybrid environment?
It means neither.
What makes you think speed limiters would save lives? Don't you think a system which treats an 80 year old woman in a 1970 VW Beetle at night in the rain the same as a 27 year old fighter pilot in a McLaren Mercedes SLR on a sunny day might be, you know, an over-simplification?
People dying in situations like this is extemely expensive. Ambulance, A&E, autopsy, inquest, council report... Even without factoring the girl's future contribution to GDP I think the system has proved itself pretty cost effective.
USB Class 1 devices have a range of 100m. 10m for IRDA would be a miracle.
No. That's not the point of patents. Patents are not designed to protect creative works, that's what copyrights are for. The point of patents is to encourage technological development.
Holy crap, you ID types are seriously good at the self-delusion. Kudos.
You drive an SUV, right?
All this money sitting around with nothing to do says to me that the present distribution of wealth is not doing the economy much good.
There is a 'Preview' button, but no 'can I rite shit wot does make sens' button. How curius.