Except that MS Virtual Earth can't give you driving directions. You need to at least look at whatever the hell you're writing about before posting crap on slashdot. There's no "battle", Google made Mic
This could be THE perfect vehicle to get people to actually use MSN. As a bonus, if they bought Konfabulator, they could release it without worrying that someone might blame them for ripping off Apple, because Apple themselves ripped off the Konfabulator. Please, someone at MSN, I'm a shareholder and I want to hear heads roll.
Ever tried to share a printer connected to a Mac with Windows machines? Ever had to reboot to make your network shares re-appear? Ever had problems copying files to Windows file share due to unsupported characters and resource forks? Apple has A LOT of work to do there before they can say they've nailed the interop story.
Also, once Apple starts shipping Intel boxes, a lot more black hats will have opportunity to come up with creative ways to fuck up macs. Right now every security update closes gaping holes that would be totally exploited if more hackers had Macs. Just wait and see now.
I'm sorry, but Mac SUCKS in corporate environment right now. It takes a non-trivial amount of futzing to just get the god damn file and printer sharing working. There's no centralized management. If you need anything but word to do your work - you're out of luck, because 99.9% of biz apps are written for Windows and for Windows only.
If anything, Linux is A LOT better choice for medium businesses right now, IF (and only if) they have IT staff on-site.
They don't have to. They've filed software 3000 patents last year, some of them on bone headed, obvious things. Once they realize they're really in trouble, they'll start using those patents. And individual developers aren't going to be able to withstand their legal pressure.
So the only hope for OSS is companies with insane patent portfolios, such as IBM. IBM and Microsoft (and other companies, such as Hitachi, etc) have cross-licensing agreements, and companies whose patent portfolio is less broad (such as Microsoft) pay big bucks to the ones that have better portfolios.
Sadly, it was IBM who started the whole thing about patenting obvious shit at Microsoft. One day Bill started receiving infringement notices from them, so he was like "WTF?". Then he hired some more lawyers and told them to patent everythin, and in the broadest terms possible.
This weapon is in standby mode right now, but I won't be greatly surprised to see RedHat be thrown out of business by a patent lawsuit, or Linus sued over some kind of broad OS-related patent.
And this is why this is good. This case will create a precedent so that such lawsuits will be thrown out by judges without consideration.
Non-compete my ass, if they paid me my salary for this whole year so that I don't compete, I'd gladly accept a noncompetitive clause. Microsoft has its hands in every god damn pie in the industry. No matter what you do after working for Microsoft, you're competing with them.
I wish Dr. Lee good luck with this, and hope he wins in the court. This will open up the gates for a lot of senior folks at MSFT who are right now contractually bound by that little non-compete clause.
So, having "lunches" (and hiring people) across the road from Netscape was OK, hiring Anders Hejlsberg was OK, hiring Dave Cutler with his entire freaking team was OK, and letting Dr. Lee go and do whatever the fuck he wants to do is not OK?
Man, I'm lost in this logic. Someone, please, make sure this gets thrown out of the court.
I'd like to see Microsoft dual boot into Linux. The difference between your situation and their situation is that they actually sell the OS they're migrating to, and suggest to others to migrate to it as well. So they MUST eat their own dogfood, every day, no matter how bad the taste is at first. That's the only way to truly improve it.
1. Better color fidelity in laptop screens. I want to see _all_ 16M colors, no clipping in the skies.
2. Lighter laptop batteries with 5-10x the capacity.
3. High DPI laptop monitors and OS that natively supports scalable output (Longhorn is supposed to take care of that, if that's not yet been cut, too).
This is actually great, if they switch completely and "stick to it". One prerequisite, though, is that they should allocate significant R&D resources to fixing the problems with this migration and afterwards. FOSS developers, PLEASE take their patches and merge them in. This trial by fire is invaluable, and may uncover problems that are not obvious to you.
That at least some of the utilities they're using are open source. Heck, even Microsoft uses Perl and GNU m4 in build process. Many devs use Emacs and UNIX CLI tools.
Man, 10-15 years down the road there will be another cold war and another arms/space/tech race. And for the layman, that's great news. More jobs here in the US, more investment into tech with all the trickle-down effects, more investment into education, too.
Yeah, that's Intel's own compiler and they're free to do whatever they please with it. The reason is, they shouldn't have to test it for AMD processors unless AMD is willing to cover the costs of doing so. Don't get me wrong, I have an Athlon64 in my desktop, and I'm a huge AMD fan, but I'm sure there were diplomatic means of solving this issue.
I would also like to see AMD throw some money to "starving artists" who develop GCC and boost the activity there. If this makes Intel's own compiler irrelevant in the marketplace, that's fine with me. If AMD-infused GCC performs better on AMD processors, that's fine with me also.
Right now their position is not constructive. They just sit there and whine, and this never brings any glory.
You should study what you enjoy to study and work on. If this means a less trendy job, so be it. I'd rather eat broken glass than do web development, for example. Even if it was the hottest job on the market, I wouldn't do it anyway.
One US based employee is about $200K per year, all costs included (that's if employee's salary is below $100K). You can only have 50 employees for one year with $10M.
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I see Bill Gates calling them:
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I'll take five hundred flights, please. Thank you very much.
Except that MS Virtual Earth can't give you driving directions. You need to at least look at whatever the hell you're writing about before posting crap on slashdot. There's no "battle", Google made Mic
This could be THE perfect vehicle to get people to actually use MSN. As a bonus, if they bought Konfabulator, they could release it without worrying that someone might blame them for ripping off Apple, because Apple themselves ripped off the Konfabulator. Please, someone at MSN, I'm a shareholder and I want to hear heads roll.
But comparred to the Google Maps, it's a horse-drawn buggy, while Maps is something like Porsche Carrera.
Heck, you can do this right now. EVDO data service and cheap laptop is all you need.
I guess "regular" maps can now be officially declared dead. This is right on so many levels, and implementation appears to be flawless.
Ever tried to share a printer connected to a Mac with Windows machines? Ever had to reboot to make your network shares re-appear? Ever had problems copying files to Windows file share due to unsupported characters and resource forks? Apple has A LOT of work to do there before they can say they've nailed the interop story.
Also, once Apple starts shipping Intel boxes, a lot more black hats will have opportunity to come up with creative ways to fuck up macs. Right now every security update closes gaping holes that would be totally exploited if more hackers had Macs. Just wait and see now.
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry". This was true back then. This is true now. Now bend over and hand that guy the vaseline.
I'm sorry, but Mac SUCKS in corporate environment right now. It takes a non-trivial amount of futzing to just get the god damn file and printer sharing working. There's no centralized management. If you need anything but word to do your work - you're out of luck, because 99.9% of biz apps are written for Windows and for Windows only.
If anything, Linux is A LOT better choice for medium businesses right now, IF (and only if) they have IT staff on-site.
>> Sorry...you can't compete with freedom
They don't have to. They've filed software 3000 patents last year, some of them on bone headed, obvious things. Once they realize they're really in trouble, they'll start using those patents. And individual developers aren't going to be able to withstand their legal pressure.
So the only hope for OSS is companies with insane patent portfolios, such as IBM. IBM and Microsoft (and other companies, such as Hitachi, etc) have cross-licensing agreements, and companies whose patent portfolio is less broad (such as Microsoft) pay big bucks to the ones that have better portfolios.
Sadly, it was IBM who started the whole thing about patenting obvious shit at Microsoft. One day Bill started receiving infringement notices from them, so he was like "WTF?". Then he hired some more lawyers and told them to patent everythin, and in the broadest terms possible.
This weapon is in standby mode right now, but I won't be greatly surprised to see RedHat be thrown out of business by a patent lawsuit, or Linus sued over some kind of broad OS-related patent.
And this is why this is good. This case will create a precedent so that such lawsuits will be thrown out by judges without consideration.
Non-compete my ass, if they paid me my salary for this whole year so that I don't compete, I'd gladly accept a noncompetitive clause. Microsoft has its hands in every god damn pie in the industry. No matter what you do after working for Microsoft, you're competing with them.
I wish Dr. Lee good luck with this, and hope he wins in the court. This will open up the gates for a lot of senior folks at MSFT who are right now contractually bound by that little non-compete clause.
So, having "lunches" (and hiring people) across the road from Netscape was OK, hiring Anders Hejlsberg was OK, hiring Dave Cutler with his entire freaking team was OK, and letting Dr. Lee go and do whatever the fuck he wants to do is not OK?
Man, I'm lost in this logic. Someone, please, make sure this gets thrown out of the court.
I'd like to see Microsoft dual boot into Linux. The difference between your situation and their situation is that they actually sell the OS they're migrating to, and suggest to others to migrate to it as well. So they MUST eat their own dogfood, every day, no matter how bad the taste is at first. That's the only way to truly improve it.
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Some people also prefer not reading DUPES on slashdot. In fact, I'm one of them.
Great, now instead of opening one pop-up a link will be able to open a hundred. Just what we need.
1. Better color fidelity in laptop screens. I want to see _all_ 16M colors, no clipping in the skies.
2. Lighter laptop batteries with 5-10x the capacity.
3. High DPI laptop monitors and OS that natively supports scalable output (Longhorn is supposed to take care of that, if that's not yet been cut, too).
This is actually great, if they switch completely and "stick to it". One prerequisite, though, is that they should allocate significant R&D resources to fixing the problems with this migration and afterwards. FOSS developers, PLEASE take their patches and merge them in. This trial by fire is invaluable, and may uncover problems that are not obvious to you.
That at least some of the utilities they're using are open source. Heck, even Microsoft uses Perl and GNU m4 in build process. Many devs use Emacs and UNIX CLI tools.
Man, 10-15 years down the road there will be another cold war and another arms/space/tech race. And for the layman, that's great news. More jobs here in the US, more investment into tech with all the trickle-down effects, more investment into education, too.
Yeah, that's Intel's own compiler and they're free to do whatever they please with it. The reason is, they shouldn't have to test it for AMD processors unless AMD is willing to cover the costs of doing so. Don't get me wrong, I have an Athlon64 in my desktop, and I'm a huge AMD fan, but I'm sure there were diplomatic means of solving this issue.
I would also like to see AMD throw some money to "starving artists" who develop GCC and boost the activity there. If this makes Intel's own compiler irrelevant in the marketplace, that's fine with me. If AMD-infused GCC performs better on AMD processors, that's fine with me also.
Right now their position is not constructive. They just sit there and whine, and this never brings any glory.
"Introduction to Christianity" courses by Osama Bin Laden.
>> Should I study Data Warehousing or E-Commerce
You should study what you enjoy to study and work on. If this means a less trendy job, so be it. I'd rather eat broken glass than do web development, for example. Even if it was the hottest job on the market, I wouldn't do it anyway.
One US based employee is about $200K per year, all costs included (that's if employee's salary is below $100K). You can only have 50 employees for one year with $10M.
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Robots that play better than Steve will only be made after AI is invented and Duke Nukem 3 is released. Which is a long way to say, never.