Does that mean that all of the land that cable runs over in my city is owned by the cable company? Or do they pay a lease?
Or is that land provided FREE OF CHARGE because the government saw some good in it?
Government subsidies don't always come in the form of cash payments. In fact, most government subsidies to the phone companies were just like this: phone companies were seen as a public good and so were allowed to use government resources for free.
Given that Microsoft acquired Groove Networks, a p2p document management platform, back in March and that Groove (the software) has been on the market for a number of years, I don't think that we can call Avalanche vapourware.
I also don't think Microsoft is going after BitTorrent. I think they're trying to create a new way of dealing with documents, kind of like what Lotus Notes was trying to do back in the 90's.
I don't know what's going to come out of Avalanche, but I doubt it will be teenagers sharing mp3s and bad porn (although it might work for that too).
After all, they listed you as a spammer in a public notice (libel) and you lost money and probably sustained damage to your reputation. IANAL but it sounds like a pretty airtight legal case.
I think this guy is way off. He implies that the vast majority of Linux supporters participated in attacks on Sys-Con Media and SCO.
While the DOSs in question no doubt cam from a few Linux zealots, I doubt the vast majority were involved.
If, as he implied, most Linux supporters were involved in these attacks, that would make the Linux community more like a terrorist organization, not like a union.
BTW, yes this does mean that the people who did participate in those attacks are terrorists. They were using a threat (of a DOS) to change somebody's (SCO or Sys-Con) actions for a plitical reason (support Linux).
And you try finding something interesting on a holiday monday;)
I line in Canada. It's not a holiday here, you insensitive clod;)
Oh and just maybe first post
Cars want to be free. So when I come to your house and use your car and don't return it, well that's just too bad.
Good information is a commodity. If it is not paid for all we'll have left are websites of suspect validity. Do you erally want your doctor to get their latest information from a website called www.medical-stuff.d00d.haxor.com?
The problem with the Graceful Degradation principle is that it makes the same assumption that the designers of HTML made: the only thing people are going to want to do on the web is publish books.
When you're trying to create a full-fledged application on the web, base HTML just doesn't cut it. Hell, even for most websites, Basic HTML doesn't cut it.
The problem is that HTML was never really thought through. Creating sites in HTML (or any derivatives like XHTML) just doesn't work. HTML is a good model for the Gutenberg project but a bad model for everything else.
What we really need is a new language that has nothing to do with HTML that can create complex interactions. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be happening. Even movements in that direction like XAML borrow too much from HTML.
Are you kidding? Are you out of your mind? Are you trying to lose money?
These are the things that my clients would say to me if I even asked: why bother with IE? IE still has ~90% of the browser market. If you decide to ignore IE, 90% of the world will ignore you, and you therefore reduce your revenues by 90%.
You'd be better off ignoring all other browsers and focusing solely on IE than not supporting IE.
I've got an.EXE on my site that does some really cool things including encrypting your hard drive. But that's OK, you can pay me $200 and I'll send you the decryption key.
While I agree that Google is here to stay and Ballmer is an idiot for saying anything different, I think Bill Gates prediction that the iPod will disappear is probably accurate.
Remember that we're talking about Apple here, who have built a whole corporate culture around screwing up early to market advantages. Why do we think that this will be any different?
That said, it's not Microsoft that's going to create an iPod killer, it's probably Sony or some other electronics company that actually has some experience in small electronic consumer goods; of course, it could just as easily be Nokia or Samsung.
Given the China is a member of the WTO, I'm wondering if this is legal. Of course, countries can ignore their treaty obligations *cough* US *cough* but that could bring down retaliation.
Other countries could (legally) place tariffs on Chinese goods and services, probably goods and services that are more important than I.T. for China.
Then again, maybe they could just ban outsourcing to China, although that wouldn't mean more I.T. jobs for the rest of us: it would just mean more outsourcing to other countries like India or the Phillipines.
I worked for a company that was running their internal applications on about 70 servers. They really needed about 20.
There was also a high-end server (~$20,000) in each of the 120 branch locations basically to work as a second router (each location already had an expensive Cisco router). These locations only had a single PC each and could have just as easily had a dial-up modem given the amount of information that came down the pipe.
The reason for all of this hardware? The boss' resume now erads: Managed an installation with 170 servers and over $5 million of hardware...
The prizes you mention are useful, but the Nobel prizes are meant to encourage research in a more general way.
Try this thought experiment: come up ith a prize like the ones you mentionned (X-Prize, etc.) that will styill be relevant in 100 years. Any idea where science will be in a hundred years? Me neither. But the Nobel prize has been around for over a hundred years rewarding people who have made advances that the founders couldn't even imagine.
And what exactly should be the requirements? Being able to hack the linux kernel? Design a network infrastructure for a corporation of 5,000 employees including file servers, database servers, e-mail servers, etc.?
Remeber, we're not talking a degree program in CS here, we're talking about 11 to 13 year olds knowing a few basic facts about computers.
When I was a Scout and I got my (e.g.) music badge, I was not required to write a symphony that could be mistaken for Bach or Beethoven, nor was I required to qualify for employment with a professional symphony orchestra.
while a lookup in a Java hashtable takes mere nanoseconds on typical hardware
Really? What about a C hashtable? or a Pascal hashtable? or even a VB hashtable? (some people get very tired of Java programmers who think that they invented everything)
If a user wants a new feature or a bug fixed, then it actually happens, even without a competing product including that feature
Yeah, I know that whenever my mom, who uses windows, needs her computer to do something new, she constantly complains that she can't just fire up a C++ editor and make the changes to the source code herself.
And my six year old nephew was complaining that his games were kind of sluggish. Poor kid can't just look at the source and find the problems.
Face it, the ability to change operating system code is a benefit for.0001% of people and of absolutely no use to the other 99.9999% of people. And as for forking your own project, try it sometime. Do you have the time and resources to maintain your own source tree? Starting it is easy, maintaining such a beast is a huge commitment.
And of course that was such a good strategy that Apple is now the largest selling brand in the software industry....
oooops.
Seriously though, is OpenOffice really good for the kids. The purpose of our schools is to educate children and get them ready for the "real world" not to provide a platform for religious zealots, whether they be fundamentalists, anarchists or open source advocates.
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I don't know where you live but I see a lot more Ford Taurus' on the road than Ferraris. I'd rather have the Taurus' market share any day.
Does that mean that all of the land that cable runs over in my city is owned by the cable company? Or do they pay a lease?
Or is that land provided FREE OF CHARGE because the government saw some good in it?
Government subsidies don't always come in the form of cash payments. In fact, most government subsidies to the phone companies were just like this: phone companies were seen as a public good and so were allowed to use government resources for free.
If the cable companies are not common carriers, doesn't that make them responsible for all of the content flowing across their lines?
Does that mean that the cable companies can now be sued for P2P music downloading? How about criminal charges for kiddie porn?
Given that Microsoft acquired Groove Networks, a p2p document management platform, back in March and that Groove (the software) has been on the market for a number of years, I don't think that we can call Avalanche vapourware.
I also don't think Microsoft is going after BitTorrent. I think they're trying to create a new way of dealing with documents, kind of like what Lotus Notes was trying to do back in the 90's.
I don't know what's going to come out of Avalanche, but I doubt it will be teenagers sharing mp3s and bad porn (although it might work for that too).
Sounds like you lost money so....
Why not sue?
After all, they listed you as a spammer in a public notice (libel) and you lost money and probably sustained damage to your reputation. IANAL but it sounds like a pretty airtight legal case.
I hope that's not the only reason you have to avoid Britney Spears movies
**shudder** Crossroads **shudder**
And what happens when a free software box is owned? Who gets held responsible then? Red Hat? Linus?
I think this guy is way off. He implies that the vast majority of Linux supporters participated in attacks on Sys-Con Media and SCO.
While the DOSs in question no doubt cam from a few Linux zealots, I doubt the vast majority were involved.
If, as he implied, most Linux supporters were involved in these attacks, that would make the Linux community more like a terrorist organization, not like a union.
BTW, yes this does mean that the people who did participate in those attacks are terrorists. They were using a threat (of a DOS) to change somebody's (SCO or Sys-Con) actions for a plitical reason (support Linux).
And you try finding something interesting on a holiday monday ;)
I line in Canada. It's not a holiday here, you insensitive clod ;)
Oh and just maybe first post
Cars want to be free. So when I come to your house and use your car and don't return it, well that's just too bad.
Good information is a commodity. If it is not paid for all we'll have left are websites of suspect validity. Do you erally want your doctor to get their latest information from a website called www.medical-stuff.d00d.haxor.com?
The problem with the Graceful Degradation principle is that it makes the same assumption that the designers of HTML made: the only thing people are going to want to do on the web is publish books.
When you're trying to create a full-fledged application on the web, base HTML just doesn't cut it. Hell, even for most websites, Basic HTML doesn't cut it.
The problem is that HTML was never really thought through. Creating sites in HTML (or any derivatives like XHTML) just doesn't work. HTML is a good model for the Gutenberg project but a bad model for everything else.
What we really need is a new language that has nothing to do with HTML that can create complex interactions. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be happening. Even movements in that direction like XAML borrow too much from HTML.
why bother with IE?
Are you kidding? Are you out of your mind? Are you trying to lose money?
These are the things that my clients would say to me if I even asked: why bother with IE? IE still has ~90% of the browser market. If you decide to ignore IE, 90% of the world will ignore you, and you therefore reduce your revenues by 90%.
You'd be better off ignoring all other browsers and focusing solely on IE than not supporting IE.
Great idea.
.EXE on my site that does some really cool things including encrypting your hard drive. But that's OK, you can pay me $200 and I'll send you the decryption key.
I've got an
While I agree that Google is here to stay and Ballmer is an idiot for saying anything different, I think Bill Gates prediction that the iPod will disappear is probably accurate.
Remember that we're talking about Apple here, who have built a whole corporate culture around screwing up early to market advantages. Why do we think that this will be any different?
That said, it's not Microsoft that's going to create an iPod killer, it's probably Sony or some other electronics company that actually has some experience in small electronic consumer goods; of course, it could just as easily be Nokia or Samsung.
Given the China is a member of the WTO, I'm wondering if this is legal. Of course, countries can ignore their treaty obligations *cough* US *cough* but that could bring down retaliation.
Other countries could (legally) place tariffs on Chinese goods and services, probably goods and services that are more important than I.T. for China.
Then again, maybe they could just ban outsourcing to China, although that wouldn't mean more I.T. jobs for the rest of us: it would just mean more outsourcing to other countries like India or the Phillipines.
I worked for a company that was running their internal applications on about 70 servers. They really needed about 20.
...
There was also a high-end server (~$20,000) in each of the 120 branch locations basically to work as a second router (each location already had an expensive Cisco router). These locations only had a single PC each and could have just as easily had a dial-up modem given the amount of information that came down the pipe.
The reason for all of this hardware? The boss' resume now erads: Managed an installation with 170 servers and over $5 million of hardware
Actually I think maybe he looks more like Daniel Webster, Pablo Picasso or maybe John Quincy Adams.
Instead of just modding down posts, why can't we mod down articles as well?
The prizes you mention are useful, but the Nobel prizes are meant to encourage research in a more general way.
Try this thought experiment: come up ith a prize like the ones you mentionned (X-Prize, etc.) that will styill be relevant in 100 years. Any idea where science will be in a hundred years? Me neither. But the Nobel prize has been around for over a hundred years rewarding people who have made advances that the founders couldn't even imagine.
And what exactly should be the requirements? Being able to hack the linux kernel? Design a network infrastructure for a corporation of 5,000 employees including file servers, database servers, e-mail servers, etc.?
Remeber, we're not talking a degree program in CS here, we're talking about 11 to 13 year olds knowing a few basic facts about computers.
When I was a Scout and I got my (e.g.) music badge, I was not required to write a symphony that could be mistaken for Bach or Beethoven, nor was I required to qualify for employment with a professional symphony orchestra.
while a lookup in a Java hashtable takes mere nanoseconds on typical hardware Really? What about a C hashtable? or a Pascal hashtable? or even a VB hashtable? (some people get very tired of Java programmers who think that they invented everything)
The trailer was OK but NOT ENOUGH KATIE HOLMES.
mmmm... Katie Holmes
If a user wants a new feature or a bug fixed, then it actually happens, even without a competing product including that feature
.0001% of people and of absolutely no use to the other 99.9999% of people. And as for forking your own project, try it sometime. Do you have the time and resources to maintain your own source tree? Starting it is easy, maintaining such a beast is a huge commitment.
Yeah, I know that whenever my mom, who uses windows, needs her computer to do something new, she constantly complains that she can't just fire up a C++ editor and make the changes to the source code herself.
And my six year old nephew was complaining that his games were kind of sluggish. Poor kid can't just look at the source and find the problems.
Face it, the ability to change operating system code is a benefit for
And of course that was such a good strategy that Apple is now the largest selling brand in the software industry....
oooops.
Seriously though, is OpenOffice really good for the kids. The purpose of our schools is to educate children and get them ready for the "real world" not to provide a platform for religious zealots, whether they be fundamentalists, anarchists or open source advocates.
You know, a part of me says these guys need to get a life.
And another part of me says this is a really cool waste of time.