This is less logical than an Iraqi press conference. So if people could then freely copy this music, why would anyone want to pay to get it in the first place to gie away with their products?
...I mean, the Mozilla folks are great at releasing roadmaps. Not so good at releasing software. They should probably just ditch their code altogether and just refine their roadmaps over and over again.
You aren't allowed to charge varying prices at regular stores based on the customers appearance.
Sure you are. You can't discriminate based on sex, race, religion, etc... but anything else is fair game. Now, I'm not saying its a good idea, but its certainly a right.
Some expect the name Windows will be dropped completely. The antitrust agreement with the Bush DoJ specifically states "Microsoft Windows" throughout. By maintaining incompatibility (already planned due to design considerations), making it look different and calling it something else, Microsoft can free itself from antitrust oversight. "It's not Windows, it's a different product - the agreement doesn't apply."
The most important feature of Longhorn is replacement of the familiar DOS/Windows filesystem with an object database (W0). You will no longer copy files to a floppy or CD-ROM or attach them to an email, because there will be no files. Database records will be copied from one database to another, probably through a.NET server. Large organizations will have their own.NET servers, but everyone else will use one of Microsoft's, a service for which you will pay a fee.
3. Most likely cause of destruction was damage to heat shield.
Probably true. IIRC however, the shuttle has a certain angle of inclination that it has to be on during reentry. Something that caused this to change during reentry, such as say an incorrect firing of the shuttle's manuvering engines, collision with an object (which seems unlikely at 40 miles up), or structural failure of some sort would also cause a loss of the ship similar to what was seen today.
Loss of heat shield tiles in a critical area would also do it.. but its certainly far too early to come to that conclusion.
5. This does not bode well for manned space exploration
Eh, hard to say... best case is something is learned from this and things go forward.
The difference between the $45 price and the $300 price is what economists call "monopoly rents"
Oh bullshit.
If MS really had a monopoly, why aren't they charging $1000 a copy then? Just because they have a high profit margin, doesn't make it monopoly rents. Go down to your local jewery shop... those places routinely have 100 - 200% markups on items for sale... now tell me they have a monopoly on jewerly.
There are lots of great real world uses for web services. Do any sort of integration work. Hey, I have a web front end for ordering that needs to talk to my ERP instance on the back end to check inventory before I confirm an order. Do I
a) Code something in some language that does the lookup usually via some proprietary adapter or b) Use UDDI to lookup the WSDL. Create SOAP call to do the lookup. Now if I ever change my web front end, hey, I've got something that works no matter what web server I use as long as is it can do SOAP calls.
All this web services stuff is standard based and reduces vendor lock in. I don't know what all the resistance is to it. Anything that easily lets Apache talk to SAP talk to Siebel talk to by RDMS talk to my logistics system is OK with me.
Again, they are only buying consultants, not tax people, not accountants. Just IT consulting and management consulting people. PwC will continue to exist as an accounting and tax firm.
The other 4 accounting firms also have consulting divisions, that are in various stages of separation from the parent auditing company. Ernst & Young is still together, PWC is obviously spliting now, KPMG apears to still be part of the audit firm, and Delotte & Touche is also still together, I believe.
PwC is now getting rid of their consultants, and have been trying to for a number of years now.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (or D&T in the US), has renamed their consulting unit Braxton Consulting, and is either going to spin them off or sell them off at some point.
KPMG spun off their consulting unit, the unoriginally named KPMG Consulting. (KCIN is their ticket symbol).
As you did get right, Anderson and Anderson Consulting split quite a while ago... mostly over how to split up the profits in the firm. For a while there you would get proposals from both Andersen's Consulting unit and Andersen Consulting, and they'd actually fight over the work... AC had to drop the Andersen name and pay $1 Billion to Andersen as part of the settlement. I'm sure looking back its the best Billion dollars they've ever spent.
Basically accountants can't be in the consulting business anymore -- clients don't want to deal with the appearance that there might be something sketchy going on, and the law recently makes it pretty much impossible for them to do so anyway in wake of the Enron fiasco (not that there is any evidence that accounting/consulting ties had anything to do with it). They were good cash cows back in the day of the multi-year multi-million dollar ERP implementations...
Yeah, that number raises the old bullshit flag with me as well. The cost of the Apollo budget over the years 62 - 73 was around 20 Billion in nomial dollars. Factor in inflation since then and you get something more like $40 Billion in todays dollars. Granted, there were 7 attempted moon landing during the Apollo missions, plus 4 manned test flights, plus the Apollo 1 disaster, but still... I think they'd be lucky to get to the moon and back for $20 Billion today...
...and I've always wondered about this... why can I buy a digital watch for $10 that keeps better time than a Sun Starfire 15K? Or pretty much any other high end system for that matter? I mean, I would think for $1.5 Mill they could put a decent clock in the damn thing. For that matter, why does my desktop lose time so badly... I just don't get it.
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Were is the form to fill out telling your cable operator to keep this crapola off your cable?
Boy what fucking useful advice.
And if someone asked you how to play a flute you'd say, "oh, just blow in here and move your fingers."
I think you have to go with the wittier: "You've Got Jail!"
This is less logical than an Iraqi press conference. So if people could then freely copy this music, why would anyone want to pay to get it in the first place to gie away with their products?
...I mean, the Mozilla folks are great at releasing roadmaps. Not so good at releasing software. They should probably just ditch their code altogether and just refine their roadmaps over and over again.
You aren't allowed to charge varying prices at regular stores based on the customers appearance.
Sure you are. You can't discriminate based on sex, race, religion, etc... but anything else is fair game. Now, I'm not saying its a good idea, but its certainly a right.
Some expect the name Windows will be dropped completely. The antitrust agreement with the Bush DoJ specifically states "Microsoft Windows" throughout. By maintaining incompatibility (already planned due to design considerations), making it look different and calling it something else, Microsoft can free itself from antitrust oversight. "It's not Windows, it's a different product - the agreement doesn't apply."
.NET server. Large organizations will have their own .NET servers, but everyone else will use one of Microsoft's, a service for which you will pay a fee.
The most important feature of Longhorn is replacement of the familiar DOS/Windows filesystem with an object database (W0). You will no longer copy files to a floppy or CD-ROM or attach them to an email, because there will be no files. Database records will be copied from one database to another, probably through a
Yeah, right. Whatever.. this guy is a maroon.
...because they spend waaaaay too much time navel - gazing about their time in high school. Yesh.
3. Most likely cause of destruction was damage to heat shield.
Probably true. IIRC however, the shuttle has a certain angle of inclination that it has to be on during reentry. Something that caused this to change during reentry, such as say an incorrect firing of the shuttle's manuvering engines, collision with an object (which seems unlikely at 40 miles up), or structural failure of some sort would also cause a loss of the ship similar to what was seen today.
Loss of heat shield tiles in a critical area would also do it.. but its certainly far too early to come to that conclusion.
5. This does not bode well for manned space exploration
Eh, hard to say... best case is something is learned from this and things go forward.
The difference between the $45 price and the $300 price is what economists call "monopoly rents"
Oh bullshit.
If MS really had a monopoly, why aren't they charging $1000 a copy then? Just because they have a high profit margin, doesn't make it monopoly rents. Go down to your local jewery shop... those places routinely have 100 - 200% markups on items for sale... now tell me they have a monopoly on jewerly.
they bought a port scanner and logger.
Whoop de shit.
There are lots of great real world uses for web services. Do any sort of integration work. Hey, I have a web front end for ordering that needs to talk to my ERP instance on the back end to check inventory before I confirm an order. Do I
a) Code something in some language that does the lookup usually via some proprietary adapter or
b) Use UDDI to lookup the WSDL. Create SOAP call to do the lookup. Now if I ever change my web front end, hey, I've got something that works no matter what web server I use as long as is it can do SOAP calls.
All this web services stuff is standard based and reduces vendor lock in. I don't know what all the resistance is to it. Anything that easily lets Apache talk to SAP talk to Siebel talk to by RDMS talk to my logistics system is OK with me.
Again, they are only buying consultants, not tax people, not accountants. Just IT consulting and management consulting people. PwC will continue to exist as an accounting and tax firm.
The other 4 accounting firms also have consulting divisions, that are in various stages of separation from the parent auditing company. Ernst & Young is still together, PWC is obviously spliting now, KPMG apears to still be part of the audit firm, and Delotte & Touche is also still together, I believe.
Er...
E&Y sold off their consulting division to Cap Gemini in 2000. Hence Cap Gemini is now Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.
PwC is now getting rid of their consultants, and have been trying to for a number of years now.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (or D&T in the US), has renamed their consulting unit Braxton Consulting, and is either going to spin them off or sell them off at some point.
KPMG spun off their consulting unit, the unoriginally named KPMG Consulting. (KCIN is their ticket symbol).
As you did get right, Anderson and Anderson Consulting split quite a while ago... mostly over how to split up the profits in the firm. For a while there you would get proposals from both Andersen's Consulting unit and Andersen Consulting, and they'd actually fight over the work... AC had to drop the Andersen name and pay $1 Billion to Andersen as part of the settlement. I'm sure looking back its the best Billion dollars they've ever spent.
Basically accountants can't be in the consulting business anymore -- clients don't want to deal with the appearance that there might be something sketchy going on, and the law recently makes it pretty much impossible for them to do so anyway in wake of the Enron fiasco (not that there is any evidence that accounting/consulting ties had anything to do with it). They were good cash cows back in the day of the multi-year multi-million dollar ERP implementations...
Yeah, that number raises the old bullshit flag with me as well. The cost of the Apollo budget over the years 62 - 73 was around 20 Billion in nomial dollars. Factor in inflation since then and you get something more like $40 Billion in todays dollars. Granted, there were 7 attempted moon landing during the Apollo missions, plus 4 manned test flights, plus the Apollo 1 disaster, but still... I think they'd be lucky to get to the moon and back for $20 Billion today...
...and I've always wondered about this... why can I buy a digital watch for $10 that keeps better time than a Sun Starfire 15K? Or pretty much any other high end system for that matter? I mean, I would think for $1.5 Mill they could put a decent clock in the damn thing. For that matter, why does my desktop lose time so badly... I just don't get it.
And it looks like the DTDs will be free to use and distribute!
Great, now I can make my own crazy laws! Yipee!
The guy's name was Jesus bin Joseph.. he was born in the Middle East... I'd be more shocked if said experiment worked and you got a Northern European.
. Otherwise there is simply no economic incentive to hire competent programmers and do rigourous testing.
Yeah, other than the fact that if your code is a bug ridden piece of crap no one will buy it.
Then you combine the biometric data with a password. Problem solved.
..us getting all up in arms when other societies don't follow our beliefs.
Not sure if trademarking "yahooo.com" constitutes a really big threat to free speech, but it's still a thought-provoking article."
If by "thought-provoking" you mean, "stupid", then, yes, it is thought-provoking.
..making students prove NP=P is a good assignment for 1st year students.
...they are doing this becuase they are losing their asses providing broadband at current prices.
...the open source advocacy site likes an open source web browser. Color me surprised.