Actually in WinXP SP2, I believe that most of the core OS components are being recompiled w/MS's Prefast, PostFix (or did I flip those around) options that should eliminate Buffer Overruns in those components.
The problem with this article is that mobile service should be rated regionally as opposed to nationally. I understand that some carriers have national plans, but in general each carrier has strengths in different geographic areas.
If you look at corporations building applications, there is a war between J2EE and.NET. Both are doing well regardless of what this article says and it will continue to be a war.
If its time from Microsoft to move on from.NET then its time for Sun, IBM, Oracle, etc to move on from J2EE. They are essentially equal, but different platforms. You can drill into the details and semantics all you want, but the two are very similar.
You know, Gates has said many times that he intends to give all his money to charity with the exception of $10 mil to each of his children. So, I don't think a $1.18B dividend is going to do much for him. In addition, there isn't much more he can do with a $52B fortune than he can do with $51B.
The thought of invoking Ayn Rand is interesting in this scenario. However, I doubt Ms Rand would have ever supported a movement that involved people providing their hard work and ideas without direct compensation.
They are a massive company. I'm sure they can focus on more than one thing at once. Do you think every employee at UPS is sitting around thinking about how to stop packages from getting stolen off people's front porch...or every employee at Ford thinking about how to build a better airbag?
Actually, more than a few times I've heard of companies losing one or more domain name b/c they forget to pay. Think about paying for hundreds of thousands of copyrights. This is one of the many problems 18,000-headed corporation.
If you get two candidates with similar skills, one who worked at Microsoft and one who is maintainer of some Linux kernel driver, who would you hire?
I'm not sure who I would hire b/c I would never hire anyone based only on the "names" contained in their resume.
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dumping is when a company is selling their product at a loss AND well below market price in order to beat the competition. microsoft is not dumping b/c they are selling at a loss just to remain price competitive with nintendo and sony. if they were selling at $50, that might be dumping.
If you don't like the rules of the contest don't enter. It is nice that somebody pointed the rules out, but no one is being forced to enter either. Also, it's not like Visa isn't a duopoly with Mastercard. Is Visa somehow a really loveable company to everyone and now you're all crushed to find out Microsoft is involved?
One thing the owner of this website could do would be to use the Amazon.com Web Service to peruse their book library and capture cover, title, author, and ISBN info for their books. You could also write a screen scraping tool for the library of congress web site. It looks like this site has less than 500 books right now which is pretty pathetic.
What about a hardware failure or an accidental power off. Depending upon how important the application is, you absolutely have to plan for some sort of catastrophic hardward failure.
there is a difference from reading the book and returning it. when i return the book i can no longer read it, but if i've installed the software, i can continue to use it.
it just seems like i would have to pay $1500 just for the damn case that the machine comes in. i would never have to pay that sort of price in the PC world...
this conspiracy clearly runs very deep...whatever.
i believe the policy is there b/c the stores don't want you to buy the product, install the product, and then return the opened product. they would have a very hard time selling any software at all.
I'll tell you what is hard to do with a Mac. Try buying one with a more recent processor that isn't glued to a monitor or panel for less than $1000 or even $1500 for that matter.
At least with XML it will not be very long until many software companies and project reverse engineer the XML. I suppose they could put some weird binary or encrypted data in the files, but that would defeat the purpose of XML.
The poster says that the computer contains data which you cannot legally access. I would actually interpret that you can access it, you just cannot legally try to go around the protection mechanism that pressplay has put on it.
I find it almost funny to hear Ticketmaster being associated with free software since they provide a service that adds almost no value and charges a boatload. Good thing they are saving so much money on software systems.
He says: 'This makes it apparent that not all of the benefit of open source software deployment in is the form of cost savings; much of the benefit is in terms of capabilities gained. In other words, through the use of free software, I am able to do more within my budget than I could if I only had commercial solutions available.'"
The author seems to be says that this switch was more than cost savings b/c they got more capability. Isn't that more of a side-effect of cost savings. If I have $10 to buy lunch and I only spend $5, I can either pocket the $5 or else buy a bigger lunch.
Your point is also a good one. However, there is a slight difference. In this case, Symantec is releasing the exact code to exploit the bug. Release this code is different than saying that there is an issue with a certain API when certain circumstances occur.
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Stores like WalMart and Target make their money on volume. When you can sell a trillion dollars in merchandise, 3-5% is pretty nice.
Actually in WinXP SP2, I believe that most of the core OS components are being recompiled w/MS's Prefast, PostFix (or did I flip those around) options that should eliminate Buffer Overruns in those components.
You can also install their IRM server on your local intranet and tie identity to active directory.
The problem with this article is that mobile service should be rated regionally as opposed to nationally. I understand that some carriers have national plans, but in general each carrier has strengths in different geographic areas.
If you look at corporations building applications, there is a war between J2EE and .NET. Both are doing well regardless of what this article says and it will continue to be a war.
If its time from Microsoft to move on from .NET then its time for Sun, IBM, Oracle, etc to move on from J2EE. They are essentially equal, but different platforms. You can drill into the details and semantics all you want, but the two are very similar.
You know, Gates has said many times that he intends to give all his money to charity with the exception of $10 mil to each of his children. So, I don't think a $1.18B dividend is going to do much for him. In addition, there isn't much more he can do with a $52B fortune than he can do with $51B.
The thought of invoking Ayn Rand is interesting in this scenario. However, I doubt Ms Rand would have ever supported a movement that involved people providing their hard work and ideas without direct compensation.
They are a massive company. I'm sure they can focus on more than one thing at once. Do you think every employee at UPS is sitting around thinking about how to stop packages from getting stolen off people's front porch...or every employee at Ford thinking about how to build a better airbag?
Actually, more than a few times I've heard of companies losing one or more domain name b/c they forget to pay. Think about paying for hundreds of thousands of copyrights. This is one of the many problems 18,000-headed corporation.
I'm not sure who I would hire b/c I would never hire anyone based only on the "names" contained in their resume.
dumping is when a company is selling their product at a loss AND well below market price in order to beat the competition. microsoft is not dumping b/c they are selling at a loss just to remain price competitive with nintendo and sony. if they were selling at $50, that might be dumping.
If you don't like the rules of the contest don't enter. It is nice that somebody pointed the rules out, but no one is being forced to enter either. Also, it's not like Visa isn't a duopoly with Mastercard. Is Visa somehow a really loveable company to everyone and now you're all crushed to find out Microsoft is involved?
One thing the owner of this website could do would be to use the Amazon.com Web Service to peruse their book library and capture cover, title, author, and ISBN info for their books. You could also write a screen scraping tool for the library of congress web site. It looks like this site has less than 500 books right now which is pretty pathetic.
What about a hardware failure or an accidental power off. Depending upon how important the application is, you absolutely have to plan for some sort of catastrophic hardward failure.
there is a difference from reading the book and returning it. when i return the book i can no longer read it, but if i've installed the software, i can continue to use it.
it just seems like i would have to pay $1500 just for the damn case that the machine comes in. i would never have to pay that sort of price in the PC world...
this conspiracy clearly runs very deep...whatever.
i believe the policy is there b/c the stores don't want you to buy the product, install the product, and then return the opened product. they would have a very hard time selling any software at all.
I'll tell you what is hard to do with a Mac. Try buying one with a more recent processor that isn't glued to a monitor or panel for less than $1000 or even $1500 for that matter.
I believe Chicago was the first US city to build to the traffic sensors into all of its major freeways. Most of it was done about 10 years ago.
At least with XML it will not be very long until many software companies and project reverse engineer the XML. I suppose they could put some weird binary or encrypted data in the files, but that would defeat the purpose of XML.
The poster says that the computer contains data which you cannot legally access. I would actually interpret that you can access it, you just cannot legally try to go around the protection mechanism that pressplay has put on it.
I find it almost funny to hear Ticketmaster being associated with free software since they provide a service that adds almost no value and charges a boatload. Good thing they are saving so much money on software systems.
The author seems to be says that this switch was more than cost savings b/c they got more capability. Isn't that more of a side-effect of cost savings. If I have $10 to buy lunch and I only spend $5, I can either pocket the $5 or else buy a bigger lunch.
Your point is also a good one. However, there is a slight difference. In this case, Symantec is releasing the exact code to exploit the bug. Release this code is different than saying that there is an issue with a certain API when certain circumstances occur.