Somehow everyone assumes that MS techology will be
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...worse than Google's. Now imagine that technology is not worse, and they have a ridiculously large server farm sitting on a ridiculously fat pipe that indexes the internet twice as fast as google using better algorithms. "Can't happen", you say? "Why?" I'll ask. Maybe not in the first version, but I have no doubt MS can beat the crap out of Google with technology alone. Heck, I know at least two other search engines that aren't worse than Google, and they don't even have Google's resources, whereas MS has 10x the resources, monetary, IP and other.
You can do EVERYTHING in windows remotely using scripting, WMI and ADSI and command line (that "net" command - it can do a lot more than you think it can). Just because you don't know this doesn't mean the technologies aren't there.
Now I may give them a good online listen as well. I like their attitude towards radio broadcasting - in fact they're the only radio station I listen to when driving to and from work.
And nobody is excited about high-tech startups anymore. Even more so about more or less mature companies whose potential is well known, and who is gonna receive the wrath of one little company from Redmond this year (rumor has it).
That both Gnome and KDE, as well as some other windowing environments contain "Eolas IP" as well. So those guys are next in a row. Now all those exagerrated user base estimations can rear their ugly head and bite desktop linux vendors right in their asses.
Then 5-10 years down the road I could just retire and never ever work again. Physician can fart a couple of times and there you go, he made $150 for "yearly checkup". No sweat, no pressure, no dead nerve cells. A typical programmer would have to crank out the code for half a day for this kind of money, under pressure from his moronic boss and on a tight schedule. And retirement would be nowhere in sight.
The movie was so crappy and drawn out, I'd fucking flush the film down the toilet if it were up to me. Forty minutes of looking at each other, hugging, kissing and smiling in the end - that was just a disaster. I thought my head would fucking explode - that's how drawn out the ending was.
That's no enforcement. They merely offered a "standard" implementation of their format at "cheaper than dirt" price. $250K a year makes it a good deal for camera and flash manufacturers. I haven't seen anybody getting sued for not paying yet.
As opposed to Microsoft (who has never enforced any patents, so some people even think they don't have any), IBM has in the past enforced their patents and squeezed a great deal of money from others by doing so. Plus, IBM has 10x the patent portfolio that Microsoft has.
A few thousand people out of a billion don't make any difference and may just as well be dismissed.
And I don't know about MP3s. I buy CDs. Luckily I don't spend much money on them, because every year all this music industry produces only 3-4 CDs I'm really interested in. It's not worth getting into trouble for $50 a year. I spend twice as much every month on utilities here.
In India you can pay $2 for a copy of Windows XP and another $2 for Office 2003. Those won't be legal of course. But the question is, if Indians have the money to buy their PCs, why don't they have money to buy legal software?
Analog devices allowing full use of 32-bit dynamic range are PHYSICALLY impossible to implement due to thermal noise floor of your DAC and subsequent circuits. Heck, even 24bit dynamic range is impossible to fully exploit for that matter. 192KHz doesn't make sense either. 96KHz offers many benefits when constructing audio equipment (you can use crappy, "cheap" filtering algorithms and DSPs and still get excellent sound), but 192KHz is too much even for your dog.
And then only the first 15 minutes which are the most true-to-life picture of war I've ever seen on the big screen. From there it becomes pathetic and nurturing. Utter crap if you ask me. I have bought the DVD though, solely for the first 15 minutes of it.
>> Sometimes writing a whole piece of software is the best >> way to take your coding to the next level
The sad thing is, I don't see this happening. Rather than reading good code written by somebody else and learning from it, most of those notepad wannabes write their own crappy code and learn NOTHING. It's like learning languages. To learn to speak well you have to be using the language in your conversations with the native speakers for hours every day. It simply doesn't work any other way. Same here. In order to accumulate the knowledge you have to have some kind of source of this knowledge, be it an experienced developer who's mentoring you or reading somebody else's code, or having your own code reviewed and criticized by your peers.
Every successful piece of software I've ever worked on was rewritten at least once, by the same team (or by myself on private projects) in the process of development, fully or at least partially.
The fact of the matter is, even if you hire an expensive architect and have him do a good job, he's not a God. When you develop software some parts of it tend to become ugly as heck and you can't help but think on how to do the same thing better and/or with less effort, so that it won't become a PITA to run, maintain, improve and extend. When you reach critical mass, you become "enlightened", throw some shit away and rewrite it to save time later on. In all cases where I've seen it done I think it was worth the extra effort. I also think re-engineering code as you go saves money long-term if it's done reasonably.
All of this, of course, doesn't apply to those who start their separate standalone projects even though there are dozens of other reasonably good projects to contribute to (and maybe rewrite some parts of). Freshmeat.net is full of examples.
Let's see. About five thousand people, with about $75-80K in average yearly salary and an additional $30K in non-monetary benefits (medical insurance, blah blah blah). Then the actual cost of having all those buildings, servers and computers, advertisement and whatnot. There you go, a billion bucks per year.
I mean, seriously, guys. How can you hope for any product recognition at all if it doesn't even have a name. GStreamer is not bad for Unix, after all they could have just called it "xyzzy" or "foo" or "ogg vorbis" or "xmms", but you gotta take product names seriously, otherwise the public will always perceive your products as pieces of shit hacked together in a haste. Which, to tell the truth, is what most of the stuff on freshmeat and sourceforge is.
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...worse than Google's. Now imagine that technology is not worse, and they have a ridiculously large server farm sitting on a ridiculously fat pipe that indexes the internet twice as fast as google using better algorithms. "Can't happen", you say? "Why?" I'll ask. Maybe not in the first version, but I have no doubt MS can beat the crap out of Google with technology alone. Heck, I know at least two other search engines that aren't worse than Google, and they don't even have Google's resources, whereas MS has 10x the resources, monetary, IP and other.
You can do EVERYTHING in windows remotely using scripting, WMI and ADSI and command line (that "net" command - it can do a lot more than you think it can). Just because you don't know this doesn't mean the technologies aren't there.
Now I may give them a good online listen as well. I like their attitude towards radio broadcasting - in fact they're the only radio station I listen to when driving to and from work.
I'd rather live in a country dominated by conservative christians and pay 14% income tax (which is what I paid last year).
So you're peeing outside the toilet bowl right now.
And nobody is excited about high-tech startups anymore. Even more so about more or less mature companies whose potential is well known, and who is gonna receive the wrath of one little company from Redmond this year (rumor has it).
When google results come back too "commercialized" (five pages of online stores before the first useful link), I go there and find stuff.
Exchange that works on Sun computers, please?
That both Gnome and KDE, as well as some other windowing environments contain "Eolas IP" as well. So those guys are next in a row. Now all those exagerrated user base estimations can rear their ugly head and bite desktop linux vendors right in their asses.
Then 5-10 years down the road I could just retire and never ever work again. Physician can fart a couple of times and there you go, he made $150 for "yearly checkup". No sweat, no pressure, no dead nerve cells. A typical programmer would have to crank out the code for half a day for this kind of money, under pressure from his moronic boss and on a tight schedule. And retirement would be nowhere in sight.
He doesn't give a flying fuck (pun intended) about the girls anymore.
The movie was so crappy and drawn out, I'd fucking flush the film down the toilet if it were up to me. Forty minutes of looking at each other, hugging, kissing and smiling in the end - that was just a disaster. I thought my head would fucking explode - that's how drawn out the ending was.
That's no enforcement. They merely offered a "standard" implementation of their format at "cheaper than dirt" price. $250K a year makes it a good deal for camera and flash manufacturers. I haven't seen anybody getting sued for not paying yet.
As opposed to Microsoft (who has never enforced any patents, so some people even think they don't have any), IBM has in the past enforced their patents and squeezed a great deal of money from others by doing so. Plus, IBM has 10x the patent portfolio that Microsoft has.
A few thousand people out of a billion don't make any difference and may just as well be dismissed.
And I don't know about MP3s. I buy CDs. Luckily I don't spend much money on them, because every year all this music industry produces only 3-4 CDs I'm really interested in. It's not worth getting into trouble for $50 a year. I spend twice as much every month on utilities here.
Nobody uses Linux there anyway.
In India you can pay $2 for a copy of Windows XP and another $2 for Office 2003. Those won't be legal of course. But the question is, if Indians have the money to buy their PCs, why don't they have money to buy legal software?
Why do you need to "combine" anything when you can simply record the same thing as eight losslessly compressed 20bit 96KHz channels?
Analog devices allowing full use of 32-bit dynamic range are PHYSICALLY impossible to implement due to thermal noise floor of your DAC and subsequent circuits. Heck, even 24bit dynamic range is impossible to fully exploit for that matter. 192KHz doesn't make sense either. 96KHz offers many benefits when constructing audio equipment (you can use crappy, "cheap" filtering algorithms and DSPs and still get excellent sound), but 192KHz is too much even for your dog.
And then only the first 15 minutes which are the most true-to-life picture of war I've ever seen on the big screen. From there it becomes pathetic and nurturing. Utter crap if you ask me. I have bought the DVD though, solely for the first 15 minutes of it.
Are they the same kind of people that predicted a stock market boom 3 days before Great Depression market crash?
>> Sometimes writing a whole piece of software is the best
>> way to take your coding to the next level
The sad thing is, I don't see this happening. Rather than reading good code written by somebody else and learning from it, most of those notepad wannabes write their own crappy code and learn NOTHING. It's like learning languages. To learn to speak well you have to be using the language in your conversations with the native speakers for hours every day. It simply doesn't work any other way. Same here. In order to accumulate the knowledge you have to have some kind of source of this knowledge, be it an experienced developer who's mentoring you or reading somebody else's code, or having your own code reviewed and criticized by your peers.
What are you, kamikaze or something?
Every successful piece of software I've ever worked on was rewritten at least once, by the same team (or by myself on private projects) in the process of development, fully or at least partially.
The fact of the matter is, even if you hire an expensive architect and have him do a good job, he's not a God. When you develop software some parts of it tend to become ugly as heck and you can't help but think on how to do the same thing better and/or with less effort, so that it won't become a PITA to run, maintain, improve and extend. When you reach critical mass, you become "enlightened", throw some shit away and rewrite it to save time later on. In all cases where I've seen it done I think it was worth the extra effort. I also think re-engineering code as you go saves money long-term if it's done reasonably.
All of this, of course, doesn't apply to those who start their separate standalone projects even though there are dozens of other reasonably good projects to contribute to (and maybe rewrite some parts of). Freshmeat.net is full of examples.
Let's see. About five thousand people, with about $75-80K in average yearly salary and an additional $30K in non-monetary benefits (medical insurance, blah blah blah). Then the actual cost of having all those buildings, servers and computers, advertisement and whatnot. There you go, a billion bucks per year.
I mean, seriously, guys. How can you hope for any product recognition at all if it doesn't even have a name. GStreamer is not bad for Unix, after all they could have just called it "xyzzy" or "foo" or "ogg vorbis" or "xmms", but you gotta take product names seriously, otherwise the public will always perceive your products as pieces of shit hacked together in a haste. Which, to tell the truth, is what most of the stuff on freshmeat and sourceforge is.