If Microsoft offered to pay you the amount of money that they are paying him, you would denounce linux in a second and be pro microsoft so long as you worked there.
The expected outcome of the Microsoft breakup is that it will stimulate competition in the OS marketplace. Sadly this will not happen for many years if Microsoft is broken up. Developing an OS to be at the same level of complexity and quality as Windows takes years to do. This is a proposition that next to no company would be willing to undertake. Linux and other open source OS's, are great for people who know how to use them. However, you will never be able to educate the masses on how to use a linux system. Linux will always have it's relatively small group of users and that's it.
Secondly, once a viable alternative is created, it would take years fot it to garner it's share of the marketplace. How could you market your porduct to the majority of computer illiterate people. How could you tell them to switch to your product because it is better? The comptuer industry isn't like other industries (IE Cars) where you can easily market to people like that.
Breaking up Microsoft probably won't stimulate the OS industry at all. We will see Linux grow to a certain extent. And the majority of people will still use Windows or Mac. Sadly nothing will change.
Wow, these Bionic hand are a major step forward in Human Cybernetics. The hands can preform a multitude of useful tasks that were never available to a person with that disability before. Will the motors and gears ever be fast enough to compete with biological hands? Will someone with this bionic hand ever be able to type at a fast rate or be able to react in a quick motion (falling down)?
Anyone say Inspector Gadget is on the way (His hands at least)?
Having read this book myself, I compleatly agree with Jon Katz's views on this book. I makes no sense to any well educated person. I strives to point out the obvious and makes vast generalizations and assupmtions on the IT/Tech industry. Once again, Jon has hit the nail right on the head with this article
Matt
The article mentions that it will block all sites that have illeagal MP3's and only show sites that have good leagal MP3's. With all major record labels denouncing the trading of MP3's all together, it would be next to impossible to have a site with "leagal MP3's". In order for this to work as planned, the record labels would have flip flop and allow MP3's to be traded, which is unlikely. So who is this software going to please?
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If Microsoft offered to pay you the amount of money that they are paying him, you would denounce linux in a second and be pro microsoft so long as you worked there.
It's true, it's true - Kurt Angle
mchud
The expected outcome of the Microsoft breakup is that it will stimulate competition in the OS marketplace. Sadly this will not happen for many years if Microsoft is broken up. Developing an OS to be at the same level of complexity and quality as Windows takes years to do. This is a proposition that next to no company would be willing to undertake. Linux and other open source OS's, are great for people who know how to use them. However, you will never be able to educate the masses on how to use a linux system. Linux will always have it's relatively small group of users and that's it.
Secondly, once a viable alternative is created, it would take years fot it to garner it's share of the marketplace. How could you market your porduct to the majority of computer illiterate people. How could you tell them to switch to your product because it is better? The comptuer industry isn't like other industries (IE Cars) where you can easily market to people like that.
Breaking up Microsoft probably won't stimulate the OS industry at all. We will see Linux grow to a certain extent. And the majority of people will still use Windows or Mac. Sadly nothing will change.
Your probably right
Still 0 karma for me
Wow, these Bionic hand are a major step forward in Human Cybernetics. The hands can preform a multitude of useful tasks that were never available to a person with that disability before. Will the motors and gears ever be fast enough to compete with biological hands? Will someone with this bionic hand ever be able to type at a fast rate or be able to react in a quick motion (falling down)?
Anyone say Inspector Gadget is on the way (His hands at least)?
Having read this book myself, I compleatly agree with Jon Katz's views on this book. I makes no sense to any well educated person. I strives to point out the obvious and makes vast generalizations and assupmtions on the IT/Tech industry. Once again, Jon has hit the nail right on the head with this article Matt
There was physical bandwidth loss, it is all just porno being streamed along the big pipe that they have
The article mentions that it will block all sites that have illeagal MP3's and only show sites that have good leagal MP3's. With all major record labels denouncing the trading of MP3's all together, it would be next to impossible to have a site with "leagal MP3's". In order for this to work as planned, the record labels would have flip flop and allow MP3's to be traded, which is unlikely. So who is this software going to please?