The real money in software is in the services industry.... Just look at Redhat: they are actually making a profit through selling improvements to something that is buggy and hard to use otherwise.
Just look at Microsoft. They're making a profit selling software.
How hypocritical is it that Slashdot runs stories critical of RadioShack for asking information about their users (easily denied, by saying "No", or providing phony information), but forces its own users to register and provide a working email address, in order to post or moderate ?
The solicitation of email addresses by Slashdot is not excusable by reference to bots harvesting phony logins, or somesuch, because they have ANOTHER mechanism to do this (displaying images and asking users to type the text contained in the image).
This seems a classic case of the self-righteous pot calling the kettle black.
our rights to, say, play DVDs on an open-source OS?
This argument makes me ill. Arguably you have rights to play DVDs that you bought before the whole DVD brouhaha on an open-source OS. But now that it's clear what the license holders are demanding, I find it crazy to demand that you have a "right" to play, say, next-year's DVDs on a given OS.
To me, it's like smoking. ARGUABLY, tobacco companies should be liable for smoking-related deaths that happened due to smoking in an era when the health-risks of tobacco were not widely disseminated, and when people could plausibly have misinformed about them. But now that EVERYONE knows (and has known, for the last 2 decades or so) that cigarettes can cause a host of problems, I shed no tears for people who do fall ill due to their smoking now, and I don't think the tobacco companies should be liable for THESE deaths.
Similarly, I shed no tears for people who "demand" their "rights" to play the latest DVD on platform X. If you don't like the conditions that are being attached to a product - say the latest Star Wars DVD, or the latest Metallica CD - don't buy it, don't go to the theater, don't listen to their songs on the radio, and don't hype it on your website. That is the surest, best, and most honest way to get the MPAA, RIAA, etc. to listen to your demands.
Another anology: I might not like the terms of some GPL'ed product, thinking it "really" should be under a BSD license. Does that give me the RIGHT to use it under a BSD license ?
What I don't understand is, there's a small # of/. editors, posting a small # of stories in any given 3- or 4-day span. How is it possible that so many stories get reposted ? In other words, how is it possible that editors are so frequently unaware of what gets posted ?
It's not useless or irrelevant if you happen to be using Apache, don't need it's full feature set, and really need performance. Or maybe you're in a situation where you're considering both, and it MIGHT be convenient to use the full Apache feature set, but might be willing to work around deficiencies to have better performance. In other words, this info is relevant any time when the user is prepared to trade-off features against performance or vice-versa, when the need for feature-set and performance is not absolute and written in stone. In any such circumstance, it's entirely appropriate to compare performance, as long as the user recognizes there are other differences.
Yeah but the author claims he was happy with discrete speech processing on a 386-16 that we had back in the day.
The author might be happy with what he had those days. The rest of the market would not be happy with that. In fact, the market is not happy with what we have now, as witnessed by the very low penetration of voice-recognition software. So why would we expect companies to spend the resources porting the old stuff when the new stuff won't even sell ?
How can you agree to binding another party to do something, by simply agreeing to an agreement of your own writing ?
If ATI sent back the contents of the form in a confirmation page that acknowledge they were accepting the agreement as set for in the form, it might work.
As it is, I think the way you will be seeing a monkey is if you start beating your own.
Word is a ripoff from WordPerfect ??? This is no more valid than a claim that WordPerfect is a ripoff of WordStar. Word is, and always has been, substantially different from WordPerfect in ways that people (myself included) chose to use Word in the old days, even though WordPerfect was by far the dominant standard.
It was SO far from being a clone that the poster's claim is ludicrous. Anyone vaguely familiar with the two systems, their key bindings and document models would know this. They worked COMPLETELY differently.
The irony of this Jobs quote is that without MS - i.e., without Word, Excel, and IE, Apple might be long dead, or at least even more effectively marginalized than it is now.
I'm just wondering how they are working on a system to archive memories and experiences when the neurobiologists still only have inklings as to how and where the very, very simplest things are learned (I'm talking classical conditioning learning), and have NO idea how or where things like memories (as most of us know them) are stored.
But I guess technology must be moving faster than the underlying science.
600K a year would not come close to covering the cost of the high-profile and high-quality writers and editors they have on board. Then don't forget their production staff, sales staff, marketing staff, tech people, legal counsel, bandwidth costs, associated overhead, etc., etc.,
Who really thought that giving...facials over the internet was a good idea?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I would think any company that could figure out how to give facials over the Internet would make a ton of money. I'd like to see a copy of THAT business plan !
I'm holding my breath waiting for the first post to detail how we can circumvent their super-advertisements. I'm guessing the odds are about even that we see a post before I turn blue.
Guess what: IT'S NOT THE OS!...I'm fulling willing to say that 95% of the time it's YOUR OWN DAMNED FAULT!
Sometimes, it IS the OS' fault. And that says everything you need to know about Windows. If your Win98 computer isn't crashing, count yourself lucky instead of counting yourself skilled.
Here's an example. A few years ago I built a new machine. Installed Win98SE on it. The machine crashed constantly. I mean CONSTANTLY. I could boot it up, go to the bathroom, 2 minutes later find it frozen ON THE LOGIN SCREEN. I could open a document in Word, and it would freeze. This was true on a machine with the bare minimum install too, and this same machine was running Linux, NT, and Windows 95 without the same problems, so I don't think you could chalk it up to the hardware. So whose fault was that ? Finally, because my Win95 had no USB support and my games won't run under NT, I installed Windows ME, and my problems seemed to go away.
But the whole experience clearly shows how fragile is the Windows family. When someone tells ME their Windows (esp 95/98/Me) horror stories, I believe them, because I've used all of them to know they're very likely true.
As another reader points out, if you want them to be able to run Windows games, you need to have them on Windows. WINE may work OK, but it's not perfect, and I wouldn't bet on every game they want to play working under WINE.
If you're hell-bent on having them run Linux, and saving money thereby, why not run something like VMWare ? You can have virtual Windows machines running games for them, you can have multiple VMs so if you install one game that buggers Windows you can just build a new VM without having a "real" re-install, you can copy the VMs around so you have one stable known VM in which to install new software, and each kid can have their own VM - complete with their own software, files, etc. If the kid accidentally screws up Windows, you just copy over the VM file from some backup and are back in business. Sure beats having to reinstall the OS every time some badly written app or kid-gone-awry corrupts Windows. And having "real" Windows running means that the chances of incompatibilities or problems with Windows applications goes to nearly nil. Then all the other apps that are viable under Linux (say, for argument, OpenOffice), web browser, etc. can all run under Linux outside the VMs, saving you money.
Et Voila ! You have a way to satisfy their gaming needs, you protect yourself from Windows corruption (whatever the source), and you have a way to run software under Linux and save some bucks there too. And you don't need a separate computer.
Why was such capitalistic nonsense included in the story writeup? Most of us here don't really care about money;
Well the world would certainly be a better place with more people like you, wouldn't it ?
If you think that most of the people who read this website (read: "us here") aren't interested in prices, then you're nuts. A good part of the story of technology is about how inexpensive it becomes. (And if you really don't care about the money, I wonder why you're not giving away closer to 100% of your salary).
What is MS doing that Palm isn't? Making money ? (cymbal crash)
(sorry...still stung after the Palm IPO debacle)
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Whoever came up with that joke definitely doesn't know geeks, or he'd know that they most certainly do appreciate the opposite sex and that that programmer would have been all over the frog in a second.
What about the presumed 10% of Slashdotters who are gay ?
Disclaimer: I'm not gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that....
My guess would be that it would be bad strategy to use accounting tactics to cut their earnnigs here. The video game market is defined by market and mind share. To the extent that MS' video game division looks like it's bleeding money, it augers poorly - in Joe Public's mind - as to the XBox's future.
(Can anyone suggest an online Chinese English translation engine that produces other than gibberish?)
Here's a translation:
- We would like Microsoft to open the source code for Windows. - We would also like the drug companies to develop a cure for cancer in the next year or so - It would be ideal if the Israelis and Palestinians could come to some sort of agreement - We propose that all record companies make their content available for free, so that all consumers who like the songs will send in a reasonable payment for each song, while consumers who don't like the song will delete it.
Some company comes up with a way to distribute content in such a way that users can actually listen/view/try it in their home BEFORE buying, and/. readers are busy rubbing their hands in glee at the likely truth that will still be able to rip it off.
Where are the kudos for addressing a supposed itch that so many of the P2Pers out there use to justify the existence of unfettered file "sharing" ?
My god, I know I'm not the first to notice, but how is it that the same topics keep coming up over and over ? Why not just put up a sort of FAQ, where a generic post like this one is put up, and comments are perpetually allowed ?
How often is it "news" when Slashdot runs a post OVER AND OVER wherein everyone trumpets the lower TCO of Linux, or the myriad issues you need to consider, etc ?
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because it helped to generate that atrocious looking dog in the scooby-doo movie.;)
How long before RMS starts agitating to have the movie retitled "GNU/Scooby-Doo" ?
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The real money in software is in the services industry. ... Just look at Redhat: they are actually making a profit through selling improvements to something that is buggy and hard to use otherwise.
Just look at Microsoft. They're making a profit selling software.
How hypocritical is it that Slashdot runs stories critical of RadioShack for asking information about their users (easily denied, by saying "No", or providing phony information), but forces its own users to register and provide a working email address, in order to post or moderate ?
The solicitation of email addresses by Slashdot is not excusable by reference to bots harvesting phony logins, or somesuch, because they have ANOTHER mechanism to do this (displaying images and asking users to type the text contained in the image).
This seems a classic case of the self-righteous pot calling the kettle black.
How fast will this get modded down, I wonder ?
our rights to, say, play DVDs on an open-source OS?
This argument makes me ill. Arguably you have rights to play DVDs that you bought before the whole DVD brouhaha on an open-source OS. But now that it's clear what the license holders are demanding, I find it crazy to demand that you have a "right" to play, say, next-year's DVDs on a given OS.
To me, it's like smoking. ARGUABLY, tobacco companies should be liable for smoking-related deaths that happened due to smoking in an era when the health-risks of tobacco were not widely disseminated, and when people could plausibly have misinformed about them. But now that EVERYONE knows (and has known, for the last 2 decades or so) that cigarettes can cause a host of problems, I shed no tears for people who do fall ill due to their smoking now, and I don't think the tobacco companies should be liable for THESE deaths.
Similarly, I shed no tears for people who "demand" their "rights" to play the latest DVD on platform X. If you don't like the conditions that are being attached to a product - say the latest Star Wars DVD, or the latest Metallica CD - don't buy it, don't go to the theater, don't listen to their songs on the radio, and don't hype it on your website. That is the surest, best, and most honest way to get the MPAA, RIAA, etc. to listen to your demands.
Another anology: I might not like the terms of some GPL'ed product, thinking it "really" should be under a BSD license. Does that give me the RIGHT to use it under a BSD license ?
What I don't understand is, there's a small # of /. editors, posting a small # of stories in any given 3- or 4-day span. How is it possible that so many stories get reposted ? In other words, how is it possible that editors are so frequently unaware of what gets posted ?
It's not useless or irrelevant if you happen to be using Apache, don't need it's full feature set, and really need performance. Or maybe you're in a situation where you're considering both, and it MIGHT be convenient to use the full Apache feature set, but might be willing to work around deficiencies to have better performance. In other words, this info is relevant any time when the user is prepared to trade-off features against performance or vice-versa, when the need for feature-set and performance is not absolute and written in stone. In any such circumstance, it's entirely appropriate to compare performance, as long as the user recognizes there are other differences.
Yeah but the author claims he was happy with discrete speech processing on a 386-16 that we had back in the day.
The author might be happy with what he had those days. The rest of the market would not be happy with that. In fact, the market is not happy with what we have now, as witnessed by the very low penetration of voice-recognition software. So why would we expect companies to spend the resources porting the old stuff when the new stuff won't even sell ?
How can you agree to binding another party to do something, by simply agreeing to an agreement of your own writing ?
If ATI sent back the contents of the form in a confirmation page that acknowledge they were accepting the agreement as set for in the form, it might work.
As it is, I think the way you will be seeing a monkey is if you start beating your own.
Word is a ripoff from WordPerfect ??? This is no more valid than a claim that WordPerfect is a ripoff of WordStar. Word is, and always has been, substantially different from WordPerfect in ways that people (myself included) chose to use Word in the old days, even though WordPerfect was by far the dominant standard.
It was SO far from being a clone that the poster's claim is ludicrous. Anyone vaguely familiar with the two systems, their key bindings and document models would know this. They worked COMPLETELY differently.
The irony of this Jobs quote is that without MS - i.e., without Word, Excel, and IE, Apple might be long dead, or at least even more effectively marginalized than it is now.
I'm just wondering how they are working on a system to archive memories and experiences when the neurobiologists still only have inklings as to how and where the very, very simplest things are learned (I'm talking classical conditioning learning), and have NO idea how or where things like memories (as most of us know them) are stored.
But I guess technology must be moving faster than the underlying science.
600K a year would not come close to covering the cost of the high-profile and high-quality writers and editors they have on board. Then don't forget their production staff, sales staff, marketing staff, tech people, legal counsel, bandwidth costs, associated overhead, etc., etc.,
Who really thought that giving ... facials over the internet was a good idea?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I would think any company that could figure out how to give facials over the Internet would make a ton of money. I'd like to see a copy of THAT business plan !
I'm holding my breath waiting for the first post to detail how we can circumvent their super-advertisements. I'm guessing the odds are about even that we see a post before I turn blue.
Guess what: IT'S NOT THE OS!...I'm fulling willing to say that 95% of the time it's YOUR OWN DAMNED FAULT!
Sometimes, it IS the OS' fault. And that says everything you need to know about Windows. If your Win98 computer isn't crashing, count yourself lucky instead of counting yourself skilled.
Here's an example. A few years ago I built a new machine. Installed Win98SE on it. The machine crashed constantly. I mean CONSTANTLY. I could boot it up, go to the bathroom, 2 minutes later find it frozen ON THE LOGIN SCREEN. I could open a document in Word, and it would freeze. This was true on a machine with the bare minimum install too, and this same machine was running Linux, NT, and Windows 95 without the same problems, so I don't think you could chalk it up to the hardware. So whose fault was that ? Finally, because my Win95 had no USB support and my games won't run under NT, I installed Windows ME, and my problems seemed to go away.
But the whole experience clearly shows how fragile is the Windows family. When someone tells ME their Windows (esp 95/98/Me) horror stories, I believe them, because I've used all of them to know they're very likely true.
As another reader points out, if you want them to be able to run Windows games, you need to have them on Windows. WINE may work OK, but it's not perfect, and I wouldn't bet on every game they want to play working under WINE.
If you're hell-bent on having them run Linux, and saving money thereby, why not run something like VMWare ? You can have virtual Windows machines running games for them, you can have multiple VMs so if you install one game that buggers Windows you can just build a new VM without having a "real" re-install, you can copy the VMs around so you have one stable known VM in which to install new software, and each kid can have their own VM - complete with their own software, files, etc. If the kid accidentally screws up Windows, you just copy over the VM file from some backup and are back in business. Sure beats having to reinstall the OS every time some badly written app or kid-gone-awry corrupts Windows. And having "real" Windows running means that the chances of incompatibilities or problems with Windows applications goes to nearly nil.
Then all the other apps that are viable under Linux (say, for argument, OpenOffice), web browser, etc. can all run under Linux outside the VMs, saving you money.
Et Voila ! You have a way to satisfy their gaming needs, you protect yourself from Windows corruption (whatever the source), and you have a way to run software under Linux and save some bucks there too. And you don't need a separate computer.
Why was such capitalistic nonsense included in the story writeup? Most of us here don't really care about money;
Well the world would certainly be a better place with more people like you, wouldn't it ?
If you think that most of the people who read this website (read: "us here") aren't interested in prices, then you're nuts. A good part of the story of technology is about how inexpensive it becomes. (And if you really don't care about the money, I wonder why you're not giving away closer to 100% of your salary).
What is MS doing that Palm isn't?
Making money ? (cymbal crash)
(sorry...still stung after the Palm IPO debacle)
Whoever came up with that joke definitely doesn't know geeks, or he'd know that they most certainly do appreciate the opposite sex and that that programmer would have been all over the frog in a second.
What about the presumed 10% of Slashdotters who are gay ?
Disclaimer: I'm not gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that....
I bet a goodly part of the audience here WOULD choose to transform the frog into a beautiful virtual anime princess.
My guess would be that it would be bad strategy to use accounting tactics to cut their earnnigs here. The video game market is defined by market and mind share. To the extent that MS' video game division looks like it's bleeding money, it augers poorly - in Joe Public's mind - as to the XBox's future.
(Can anyone suggest an online Chinese English translation engine that produces other than gibberish?)
Here's a translation:
- We would like Microsoft to open the source code for Windows.
- We would also like the drug companies to develop a cure for cancer in the next year or so
- It would be ideal if the Israelis and Palestinians could come to some sort of agreement
- We propose that all record companies make their content available for free, so that all consumers who like the songs will send in a reasonable payment for each song, while consumers who don't like the song will delete it.
All completely reasonable propositions !
Some company comes up with a way to distribute content in such a way that users can actually listen/view/try it in their home BEFORE buying, and /. readers are busy rubbing their hands in glee at the likely truth that will still be able to rip it off.
Where are the kudos for addressing a supposed itch that so many of the P2Pers out there use to justify the existence of unfettered file "sharing" ?
I guess things are coming full-circle when Slashdot editors are pointing out the retread stories for us !
My god, I know I'm not the first to notice, but how is it that the same topics keep coming up over and over ? Why not just put up a sort of FAQ, where a generic post like this one is put up, and comments are perpetually allowed ?
How often is it "news" when Slashdot runs a post OVER AND OVER wherein everyone trumpets the lower TCO of Linux, or the myriad issues you need to consider, etc ?
because it helped to generate that atrocious looking dog in the scooby-doo movie. ;)
How long before RMS starts agitating to have the movie retitled "GNU/Scooby-Doo" ?