Come on, start a blog, write to a newspaper, anything. But why you have to put it here, in a topic about an office package where everything you'll get is being moded down as a troll.
Their paranoia comes from their past. They outwitted the IBM, because IBM thought it's invincible. They don't want to make the same blunder. So, they now go and try to stomp on any competition that might outwit them. It has nothing to do with rational business, it's a complex emotional attachment of their leaders to the company and its position coupled with fear someone would push them out of it.
Of course, someone will at some point as everything is impermanent and all power ends some day. Before that, however, attachment of Balmer and the like brings them much apparently suffering which they deal with by screaming profanities and throwing furniture. And that's something I find distasteful. It's rather hard to respect a man in his late forties with emotional reactions of a spoiled child.
You know Schmidt is just harboring some serious grudge against MS right now.
How do you know that? Does Shmidt scream profanities at leaving employees? Is he a furniture thrower? Is his main motivation to drive Microsoft out of business? Did he say something about killing Balmer? Or burying Gates?
OK, OK... The point was - Microsoft has no class. Who said it is, well, less important. But since he said it long time I ago I thought it would be ok to reference him.
Microsoft lacks class. It's visible in their products and apparently shows also in personal behavior of their leaders. It's interesting to watch Microsoft's Channel 9 to see this in their corporate culture. No wonder they get mad at Google.
Zen Patent? I think religious leaders should act quickly to trademark words like "Zen", "Buddha", "Jesus", "Allah", "Virgin Mary" etc. before corporations do it.
They also clearly think that a typical geek likes small, B-class segment cars which can't boast performance, safety or comfort so they have to discuss how advanced and green their small, weak engine is.
I'm not a geek then, it's official, what a relief...
I welcome all the blunders like this that expose the idiocy of current patent system. It can lead to something positive being done with this inefficient 19th century system which certainly can't cope with 21st century problems.
Hm... Slyck is an interesting site but I find the numbers they report disturbing.
The sum of users of all p2p networks it tracks is about 8 million. Some of those use more than one network, so the actual number of unique persons using any of those is probably smaller. On the other hand some are not constant users so they show up for a day or two, then show again in a month. So, let's assume optimistically it's 10 million. Now, there is the BitTorrent which is not tracked by Slyck - let's put that optimistically at 10 million. Even if we add another 10 million for all other forms of file sharing not covered otherwise and end up with 30 millions of P2P users it is still just 3% of the total estimated number of Internet users.
This means that file sharers are a tiny minority and therefore file sharing can be successfully stigmatized and kept at bay as a marginal, shameful activity. I believe it's those numbers that make ??AA think they can win. And I can say I'm not sure they won't once I did this estimating.
It's an effect of what I call "database hiring". As a human resource you are being chosen more or less like any other commodity using IT systems. In these a HR droid choses the parameters he desires the resource to have and runs a query on the resume database. You are more likely to be in the output the HR droid gets if you can click more fields while submitting your resume. More certs -> more fields -> more chances of getting through.
Thank god networking stil works and even sites like LinkedIn exist, especially for those of us who have the rare ability of being able to learn practically anything without a need for institutionalized tuition.
The interview concentrates on the computing side of the project, the BOINC platform. While this is interesting what puzzles me more is that so far SETI@Home failed to really find anything. I would it even call it surprising given the fact that recent numerous discoveries of planets orbiting other stars give more ground to the assumption that life might be common in the Universe. Either it is not or a part of our assumptions must be wrong.
I don't understand your rant. People set up servers, users get to use those they choose and like. Isn't that the way it should be?
I use a Jabber server run by a friend of mine on his server. Somehow he is connected with other Jabber throughout the world and it's quite convenient. But I don't think at all how this relates to state of the mind or doing anything illegal. It's just some kind of nonsense what you say here.
Anyone still believing Earth would always be the same cozy place you knew if only you segregate your trash and shun SUVs? What else could happen to it that we can't predict now that could potentially kill us as species and civilization? Isn't it obvious that the only real answer is developing space flight technologies and increasing our chances by moving significant percentage of humans out.
Now I only wait for the scientists to confirm my lifelong suspicion, that chocolate (especially chocolate covered wafer bars) is a healthy vegetable product (chocolate is made from fruit, isn't it?) that should be a cornerstone of a healthy diet.
No, Skype is not dead yet but it should be worried. Very worried. It's cool for PC-to-PC calls but its rates are anything but cheap when calling out. Google explicitly talks on its developer info page that it works closely with EarthLink and Sipphone.
Which is a good thing. I like Skype, but I don't like the fact that it uses a closed, proprietary protocol. Google, on the other hand, wants to adhere to open standards with its communicator - also with its voice component.
To install, Google Desktop requires one gigabyte (Gb) of space on your hard drive. Once you've installed, your personal Google Desktop index requires no more than four additional Gb.
I decided not to bother. I'm switching to Mac soon anyway and to get this beast running I would have to delete something to get 5 gigs of free space on my hard disks. A lot of somethings, actually.
I skimmed through the discussion so far, and the interesting thing is that apparently there are no drivers in the/. crowd - at least not ones that actually like driving and like cars. As an effect someone here can, for example, suggest that people will switch to smaller cars with time - which is funny, because people in the US are rather getting bigger and you can't bend the law of physics so much as to really make a smaller car safer and more comfortable.
Leaving that funny stuff aside I have two points to make:
Obsession with safety is a warning sing of our civilization's deep crisis. Car is not a safety device, it is a machine for moving fast. Moving fast is risky. Car accidents and victims are the price for the fact, that we have an effective, simple system of fast individual transport. Thwarting it with unreasonable speed limits and limitations is counterproductive and stupid - in the end it can be always proven that walking is safer than running. And staying in your bed all the time is even safer.
Success of the car comes only in part from its versatility and adaptability as a transport system. Big part of its attraction is that it gives people more freedom. With car you are basically free to go where you want when you want and how you want with people you choose or alone. This liberating aspect of a car - or any individually controlled transportation system - is utterly lost in all public transport. Public transport is a prosthesis not a solution, unless you want to limit people's freedom.
Sorry but what he said reflects very well the mood here in Europe, except we don't care about Bolton.
Isn't it the mood in which Chirac and Schroeder live? Until next elections would wipe them out as they are so incompetent on internal matters that they can't use that to hide their international failures. And kissing up to Russia is a kind of French tradition, at least since they kicked the Napoleon's ass.
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Come on, start a blog, write to a newspaper, anything. But why you have to put it here, in a topic about an office package where everything you'll get is being moded down as a troll.
Of course, someone will at some point as everything is impermanent and all power ends some day. Before that, however, attachment of Balmer and the like brings them much apparently suffering which they deal with by screaming profanities and throwing furniture. And that's something I find distasteful. It's rather hard to respect a man in his late forties with emotional reactions of a spoiled child.
How do you know that? Does Shmidt scream profanities at leaving employees? Is he a furniture thrower? Is his main motivation to drive Microsoft out of business? Did he say something about killing Balmer? Or burying Gates?
(BTW: is Steve a furniture-thrower too?)
Microsoft lacks class. It's visible in their products and apparently shows also in personal behavior of their leaders. It's interesting to watch Microsoft's Channel 9 to see this in their corporate culture. No wonder they get mad at Google.
Read too much Marx recently?
Zen Patent? I think religious leaders should act quickly to trademark words like "Zen", "Buddha", "Jesus", "Allah", "Virgin Mary" etc. before corporations do it.
I'm not a geek then, it's official, what a relief...
Frustrating? Think of unpaid royalties and lost business. They should definitely sue...
(I know, I know, redundant, but I couldn't resist...).
I welcome all the blunders like this that expose the idiocy of current patent system. It can lead to something positive being done with this inefficient 19th century system which certainly can't cope with 21st century problems.
The sum of users of all p2p networks it tracks is about 8 million. Some of those use more than one network, so the actual number of unique persons using any of those is probably smaller. On the other hand some are not constant users so they show up for a day or two, then show again in a month. So, let's assume optimistically it's 10 million. Now, there is the BitTorrent which is not tracked by Slyck - let's put that optimistically at 10 million. Even if we add another 10 million for all other forms of file sharing not covered otherwise and end up with 30 millions of P2P users it is still just 3% of the total estimated number of Internet users.
This means that file sharers are a tiny minority and therefore file sharing can be successfully stigmatized and kept at bay as a marginal, shameful activity. I believe it's those numbers that make ??AA think they can win. And I can say I'm not sure they won't once I did this estimating.
What I don't get is why the post doesn't provide link to some information about eDonkey network and some clients to use. I know it can be found on the Net within seconds, but why not make the article more useful.
You say they would moderate those names on Pluto? Whoa...
This is pure idiocy. What I'll get from having my name on Pluto?!?
Thank god networking stil works and even sites like LinkedIn exist, especially for those of us who have the rare ability of being able to learn practically anything without a need for institutionalized tuition.
The interview concentrates on the computing side of the project, the BOINC platform. While this is interesting what puzzles me more is that so far SETI@Home failed to really find anything. I would it even call it surprising given the fact that recent numerous discoveries of planets orbiting other stars give more ground to the assumption that life might be common in the Universe. Either it is not or a part of our assumptions must be wrong.
I use a Jabber server run by a friend of mine on his server. Somehow he is connected with other Jabber throughout the world and it's quite convenient. But I don't think at all how this relates to state of the mind or doing anything illegal. It's just some kind of nonsense what you say here.
The only way is up.
Now I only wait for the scientists to confirm my lifelong suspicion, that chocolate (especially chocolate covered wafer bars) is a healthy vegetable product (chocolate is made from fruit, isn't it?) that should be a cornerstone of a healthy diet.
In other news "Microsoft Seeks to Develop Parallel Universe".
Which is a good thing. I like Skype, but I don't like the fact that it uses a closed, proprietary protocol. Google, on the other hand, wants to adhere to open standards with its communicator - also with its voice component.
To install, Google Desktop requires one gigabyte (Gb) of space on your hard drive. Once you've installed, your personal Google Desktop index requires no more than four additional Gb.
I decided not to bother. I'm switching to Mac soon anyway and to get this beast running I would have to delete something to get 5 gigs of free space on my hard disks. A lot of somethings, actually.
So, you smoked it but didn't inhale? :-)
Leaving that funny stuff aside I have two points to make:
Isn't it the mood in which Chirac and Schroeder live? Until next elections would wipe them out as they are so incompetent on internal matters that they can't use that to hide their international failures. And kissing up to Russia is a kind of French tradition, at least since they kicked the Napoleon's ass.