1. They screwed up by announcing the end of line for Solaris on X86 2. They screwed up by refusing to offer X86 hardware. 3. They screwed up by not offering Linux on any of their hardware 4. They screwer up by not open sourcing Java, Solaris, and other goodies.
In the end, they are trying to correct all those errors, but I wonder whether doing that 7-8 years later means that they missed a golden opportunity to become a leader in the Linux and Unix software and hardware market (including on X86).
I used to work as a sysadmin in academia and we used to get such false infringement notices on a regular basis. Here is a typical story. Some professor, let's call him Smith, puts some tar and zip files on this webpage or on his ftp site, which naturally has a URL like ftp:somehost.edu/pub/users/smith/bundle.zip
Eventually we get emails some trade association: "We are asking you in good faith to remove the material that infringes on out IP rights. The site in question is such and such and it contains a copy of a Nintendo game "Mr. Smith's Day Out"" or some other non-sense like that. I found those amusing.
Icahn is not an idiot. He and other investors don't give a damn to what happens to Microsoft or Yahoo afterwards. What they know is that if MS and Yahoo do merge, they get over $30 for each share that they bought for under $20. Instant profit!
How come FTC hasn't looked into the antitrust implications of this merger? If Microsoft and Yahoo are allowed to merge, the US search engine market will be split between only two companies, a dangerous situation. Moreover, one of them, Microsoft, had been already convicted of possessing a monopoly in the desktop OS market and using its market power in operating systems to tie its secondary products with the OS, thus gaining an unfair advantage over other software and service vendors. Even if the FTC allowed Microsoft and Yahoo to merge, they should seriously consider forcing Microsoft to give the consumer a choice of creating a gmail account and say getting google bar instead of automatically getting the standard MSN setup.
This could potentially bar American companies like Google or Yahoo from doing business in countries like China. Is this what our congress is trying to accomplish?
Unfortunately, in case of most courses listed there, those are simply course web pages (just like at any other school, albeit MIT centralizes this). What you can usually find is course syllabi, homework assignments, and such. Less often you will find homework solutions or even complete lecture notes. It's nice to have access to it so you know what they're doing at MIT, but for most part its still far from offering complete course materials. I looked at the most courses I am interested in, and they still for the most part assign readings from well known texts.
That's not the reason. The median salary of a professor at a UC campus is about $130.000. How much more should they get paid? The biggest problem is that the established text book authors and publishers have too much market power. For many subjects there are really just one or two really good books. In other cases, professors are just lazy and want to teach the course using the same text they had been using for the past 20 years, and for more part they don't care whether the book costs $50 or $150.
It really depends on the subject and professor, but at least at undergraduate level, lectures or lecture notes alone rarely substitute a good text when one is available.
I am not really sure what you mean by "opencourseware does provide lectures". Most opencourseware class web sites provide neither lecture notes nor recorded lectures.
Where do you get the idea that opencourseware constitutes complete course material? Opencourseware is simply a central web site for individual class web pages. Professors at any university, not just MIT, often setup web sites for their courses. On such web sites, you can usually find the course syllabus, list of homeworks, and sometimes homework solutions and occasionally lecture notes of variable quality. Does that constitute everything you need to learn the subject? Most of the time no way. I have been looking at opencourseware sites for economics courses. They still assign readings and homeworks from textbooks that everyone else uses.
The problem with A380 is that once-a-day flight strategy might not work on many routes. People want to have some flexibility. Also, there are only 4-5 airports at this point in the USA that actually want and have the capacity to accept A380. Another problem with the A380 is that it's really good for the hub and spoke kind of operators, but it is clear that more decentralized operations with smaller capacity per flight are also very viable and profitable.
I think the FTC should block this merger simply on the grounds that we already have a tight oligopoly in the search engine market. Unless the market is inherently structured that it does not have space for three search engines, this merger should not be allowed to proceed regardless of that Yahoo! directors think.
I think this is a great move. No matter how respected a publication is, the publisher can't afford to lose the Harvard faculty articles. After all, they're from Harvard faculty. These people _WILL_ find a place to publish their articles, and those articles will be read no matter where they're published. So, the publishers, regardless of what their policy is now, will have to bend over and approve the waivers for Harvard faculty, and if they give waivers to Harvard faculty, I am pretty sure that the researchers from other schools will demand the same treatment as well.
Quite honestly, I hope that someday a law will get passed that bans universities from patenting the products of their research. The idea that the universities use mostly public money or private donations for their research and then patent results and sell them to businesses who essentially create mini-monopolies based on those patents is simply outrageous (remember RSA?). We fund the universities so that they would create and share new knowledge for the public good. Patenting the products of university research seems at odds with this goal. I just can't believe that universities these days have gone so low as to insist on patenting their discoveries. If they're thinking of using their discoveries for profit, maybe they also should use the proceeds to fund their research as well without taxpayer money?
Just before the Apple-Intel announcement, he speculated that Apple most likely will announce a move to MIPS processors. Of all microprocessors, MIPS! zeus
The question is quite simple: Is this a message from the Kremlin that dissidents must remain quiet? Or is it an attempt to frame the Kremlin? If the assassination of Litvinenko, Politkavskaya, and others are the latter, then it would seem to be counterproductive, because of the chilling effect it has on getting other people to come forward. On the other hand, given other known similar incidents and given the chilling effect which has occurred, I would suggest that the Kremlin is almost certainly involved in these assassinations. No, we can't prove it, but the circumstantial evidence is fairly substantial.
I believe the case for alternative hypotheses (those that don't put Putin behind the murders) is much stronger. However evil you may allow Putin to be, I just don't see a good motive behind those murders for Putin. No one cared about Litvinenko's or Politkovskaya's work in Russia, but they sure were darlings of the western media. When it comes to Litvinenko's murder my favorite hypothesis is "the rogue FSB officials did it." Think about Litvinenko's past. He used to work as a small fish at FSB, so he probably has some dirt of some of the low and mid-ranking officials. He could have blackmailed them requesting to produce more dirt on higher ups or assistance in his "investigations", and eventually got whacked but these people (one of whom supposedly had access to the kind of polonium you're talking about).
But Politkovskaya was no mere political dissident. She had been prevented from mediating an end to the standoff in Beslan but was poisoned on her way there.
Ugh, why was she more qualified to end this standoff and how do you know her involvement would have produced better results?
Litvinenko, on investigating her death, is then poisoned with Polonium from a Russian nuclear reactor.
Another wild speculation by Putin haters. Investigating murders from London? *laugh*. Litvinenko loved making sensationalist claims about things he was "investigating" in Russia, always accusing the authorities of something bad, all while he was living in London, for Zeus' sake. And no one in Russia cared about what he says or does in London. Russian printed and internet press often made articles about his grandeur and over-pretentious statements and accusations, but to most people it sounded like a little bitter dog barking at an elephant.
Admit it. The western media simply has a huge Putin envy. At the time when America's foreign policy has reached an all-time low, when America is losing the war everyone thought was supposed to end years ago, when America's president is looking like loser, liar, and wimp at home and abroad, Russia won a war that everyone said was not winnable, and is becoming once again strong economically, politically, and militarily.
Forget Litvinenko and Politkovskaya. Tell me, who killed Zurab Zhvania, and why are the western press and politicians so quiet about this obvious implications of this murder? Maybe it's because Georgia's president a pawn of the US government, so overlooking a MAJOR (unlike the other two) political murder fine, something that can be swept under the rug before you start bashing Putin's Russia again.
Where have you been? Putin's been killing dissidents for a long time. Ever heard of Anna Politkovskaya?
This claim is unsubstantiated bullshit and you know it. There is no even a good motive for Putin to have to do that. The heyday of her journalism was during Chechen wars where she got to interview with Basayev and other blood thirsty thugs. The last few years almost no one cared any more about her or what she writes. Her murder was a very sad day in history of Russia and such incidents demonstrate that not all is well in Russia today, but saying that Putin did it is simply spreading blatant LIES and wild speculations, and you know it.
This is yet another confirmation of the point of view that the modern surface ships are obsolete against even relatively simple (e.g. not nuclear) modern submarines. A large surface ship fleet, like the one in US Navy's possession, is a great tool for attacking and intimidating countries that can't fight back (e.g. Iraq or Iran). However, a relatively cheap modern diesel-electric submarine is well-capable of sinking such large and expensive ships like aircraft carriers while being undetected. Rumor has it that during a recent exercise, Pyotr Velikiy, Russia's most advanced battlecruiser, detected a Kilo class submarine nearby only after the submarine had already "sunk" the battlecruiser at least three times. A similar Kilo class submarine is a relatively inexpensive (under a quarter billion) diesel-electric submarine that Russia had been selling to countries like India and China for many years.
I almost laughed out loud when I saw pictures of MIT's pimped out Land Rover. Besides the numerous external sensors and other gear mounted on the vehicle, I read that there is so much internal equipment to manage everything that they had real heating issues that were solved by installing an additional air conditioner and a power generator to power the AC. This is what happens when you give some money and parts to a bunch of bright geeks with too much time.
Huh, where have you heard that Iran has anything to do with Chechen separatists? If anything, Iran is the country that was possibly involved the least in the Chechen separatist issues. The Arab states certainly were involved, as were Turkey and say some Central Asian countries, as well as say UK (by sheltering the high profile Chechen leaders and critics of the Chechen wars.) By Iran? I'd say UK and its citizens had done more for the Chechen cause than Iran.
Lots of people remember her, and so what is your point? Where is the proof that Putin or the Russian government in general were behind her murder? Forget the proof, where is even the motive for Putin to get rid of her? She stopped mattering on the Russian news scene a long long time ago. No one really remembered or cared much about her right before her murder.
(NASA's) Answer. The average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 million per mission.
In other words, the whole shuttle program had been a big waste of money that set the American space exploration back by several decades. The whole thing should have been canned after the Challenger disaster. At that point it was already so damn obvious that the program failed MOST of its original goals. This situation is so bad that Russians can indeed successfully compete with us even though they're using decades old technology and at a fraction of our costs.
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1. They screwed up by announcing the end of line for Solaris on X86
2. They screwed up by refusing to offer X86 hardware.
3. They screwed up by not offering Linux on any of their hardware
4. They screwer up by not open sourcing Java, Solaris, and other goodies.
In the end, they are trying to correct all those errors, but I wonder whether doing that 7-8 years later means that they missed a golden opportunity to become a leader in the Linux and Unix software and hardware market (including on X86).
I used to work as a sysadmin in academia and we used to get such false infringement notices on a regular basis. Here is a typical story. Some professor, let's call him Smith, puts some tar and zip files on this webpage or on his ftp site, which naturally has a URL like ftp:somehost.edu/pub/users/smith/bundle.zip
Eventually we get emails some trade association: "We are asking you in good faith to remove the material that infringes on out IP rights. The site in question is such and such and it contains a copy of a Nintendo game "Mr. Smith's Day Out"" or some other non-sense like that. I found those amusing.
Icahn is not an idiot. He and other investors don't give a damn to what happens to Microsoft or Yahoo afterwards. What they know is that if MS and Yahoo do merge, they get over $30 for each share that they bought for under $20. Instant profit!
How come FTC hasn't looked into the antitrust implications of this merger? If Microsoft and Yahoo are allowed to merge, the US search engine market will be split between only two companies, a dangerous situation. Moreover, one of them, Microsoft, had been already convicted of possessing a monopoly in the desktop OS market and using its market power in operating systems to tie its secondary products with the OS, thus gaining an unfair advantage over other software and service vendors. Even if the FTC allowed Microsoft and Yahoo to merge, they should seriously consider forcing Microsoft to give the consumer a choice of creating a gmail account and say getting google bar instead of automatically getting the standard MSN setup.
This could potentially bar American companies like Google or Yahoo from doing business in countries like China. Is this what our congress is trying to accomplish?
Unfortunately, in case of most courses listed there, those are simply course web pages (just like at any other school, albeit MIT centralizes this). What you can usually find is course syllabi, homework assignments, and such. Less often you will find homework solutions or even complete lecture notes. It's nice to have access to it so you know what they're doing at MIT, but for most part its still far from offering complete course materials. I looked at the most courses I am interested in, and they still for the most part assign readings from well known texts.
That's not the reason. The median salary of a professor at a UC campus is about $130.000. How much more should they get paid? The biggest problem is that the established text book authors and publishers have too much market power. For many subjects there are really just one or two really good books. In other cases, professors are just lazy and want to teach the course using the same text they had been using for the past 20 years, and for more part they don't care whether the book costs $50 or $150.
It really depends on the subject and professor, but at least at undergraduate level, lectures or lecture notes alone rarely substitute a good text when one is available.
I am not really sure what you mean by "opencourseware does provide lectures". Most opencourseware class web sites provide neither lecture notes nor recorded lectures.
Where do you get the idea that opencourseware constitutes complete course material? Opencourseware is simply a central web site for individual class web pages. Professors at any university, not just MIT, often setup web sites for their courses. On such web sites, you can usually find the course syllabus, list of homeworks, and sometimes homework solutions and occasionally lecture notes of variable quality. Does that constitute everything you need to learn the subject? Most of the time no way. I have been looking at opencourseware sites for economics courses. They still assign readings and homeworks from textbooks that everyone else uses.
Solaris >=2 is based on SunOS 5 which was derived from closed source system v.
SunOS 4 was indeed based on some kind of BSD, but got killed by Solaris 2 long time ago
The problem with A380 is that once-a-day flight strategy might not work on many routes. People want to have some flexibility. Also, there are only 4-5 airports at this point in the USA that actually want and have the capacity to accept A380. Another problem with the A380 is that it's really good for the hub and spoke kind of operators, but it is clear that more decentralized operations with smaller capacity per flight are also very viable and profitable.
6. Lack of attractive females in all or most of your classes.
7. Teaching assistants who can't speak English (and don't care about you..)
I think the FTC should block this merger simply on the grounds that we already have a tight oligopoly in the search engine market. Unless the market is inherently structured that it does not have space for three search engines, this merger should not be allowed to proceed regardless of that Yahoo! directors think.
I think this is a great move. No matter how respected a publication is, the publisher can't afford to lose the Harvard faculty articles. After all, they're from Harvard faculty. These people _WILL_ find a place to publish their articles, and those articles will be read no matter where they're published. So, the publishers, regardless of what their policy is now, will have to bend over and approve the waivers for Harvard faculty, and if they give waivers to Harvard faculty, I am pretty sure that the researchers from other schools will demand the same treatment as well.
Quite honestly, I hope that someday a law will get passed that bans universities from patenting the products of their research. The idea that the universities use mostly public money or private donations for their research and then patent results and sell them to businesses who essentially create mini-monopolies based on those patents is simply outrageous (remember RSA?). We fund the universities so that they would create and share new knowledge for the public good. Patenting the products of university research seems at odds with this goal. I just can't believe that universities these days have gone so low as to insist on patenting their discoveries. If they're thinking of using their discoveries for profit, maybe they also should use the proceeds to fund their research as well without taxpayer money?
Just before the Apple-Intel announcement, he speculated that Apple most likely will announce a move to MIPS processors. Of all microprocessors, MIPS! zeus
The question is quite simple: Is this a message from the Kremlin that dissidents must remain quiet? Or is it an attempt to frame the Kremlin? If the assassination of Litvinenko, Politkavskaya, and others are the latter, then it would seem to be counterproductive, because of the chilling effect it has on getting other people to come forward. On the other hand, given other known similar incidents and given the chilling effect which has occurred, I would suggest that the Kremlin is almost certainly involved in these assassinations. No, we can't prove it, but the circumstantial evidence is fairly substantial.
I believe the case for alternative hypotheses (those that don't put Putin behind the murders) is much stronger. However evil you may allow Putin to be, I just don't see a good motive behind those murders for Putin. No one cared about Litvinenko's or Politkovskaya's work in Russia, but they sure were darlings of the western media. When it comes to Litvinenko's murder my favorite hypothesis is "the rogue FSB officials did it." Think about Litvinenko's past. He used to work as a small fish at FSB, so he probably has some dirt of some of the low and mid-ranking officials. He could have blackmailed them requesting to produce more dirt on higher ups or assistance in his "investigations", and eventually got whacked but these people (one of whom supposedly had access to the kind of polonium you're talking about).
But Politkovskaya was no mere political dissident. She had been prevented from mediating an end to the standoff in Beslan but was poisoned on her way there.
Ugh, why was she more qualified to end this standoff and how do you know her involvement would have produced better results?
Litvinenko, on investigating her death, is then poisoned with Polonium from a Russian nuclear reactor.
Another wild speculation by Putin haters. Investigating murders from London? *laugh*. Litvinenko loved making sensationalist claims about things he was "investigating" in Russia, always accusing the authorities of something bad, all while he was living in London, for Zeus' sake. And no one in Russia cared about what he says or does in London. Russian printed and internet press often made articles about his grandeur and over-pretentious statements and accusations, but to most people it sounded like a little bitter dog barking at an elephant.
Admit it. The western media simply has a huge Putin envy. At the time when America's foreign policy has reached an all-time low, when America is losing the war everyone thought was supposed to end years ago, when America's president is looking like loser, liar, and wimp at home and abroad, Russia won a war that everyone said was not winnable, and is becoming once again strong economically, politically, and militarily.
Forget Litvinenko and Politkovskaya. Tell me, who killed Zurab Zhvania, and why are the western press and politicians so quiet about this obvious implications of this murder? Maybe it's because Georgia's president a pawn of the US government, so overlooking a MAJOR (unlike the other two) political murder fine, something that can be swept under the rug before you start bashing Putin's Russia again.
Where have you been? Putin's been killing dissidents for a long time. Ever heard of Anna Politkovskaya?
This claim is unsubstantiated bullshit and you know it. There is no even a good motive for Putin to have to do that. The heyday of her journalism was during Chechen wars where she got to interview with Basayev and other blood thirsty thugs. The last few years almost no one cared any more about her or what she writes. Her murder was a very sad day in history of Russia and such incidents demonstrate that not all is well in Russia today, but saying that Putin did it is simply spreading blatant LIES and wild speculations, and you know it.
This is yet another confirmation of the point of view that the modern surface ships are obsolete against even relatively simple (e.g. not nuclear) modern submarines. A large surface ship fleet, like the one in US Navy's possession, is a great tool for attacking and intimidating countries that can't fight back (e.g. Iraq or Iran). However, a relatively cheap modern diesel-electric submarine is well-capable of sinking such large and expensive ships like aircraft carriers while being undetected. Rumor has it that during a recent exercise, Pyotr Velikiy, Russia's most advanced battlecruiser, detected a Kilo class submarine nearby only after the submarine had already "sunk" the battlecruiser at least three times. A similar Kilo class submarine is a relatively inexpensive (under a quarter billion) diesel-electric submarine that Russia had been selling to countries like India and China for many years.
I almost laughed out loud when I saw pictures of MIT's pimped out Land Rover. Besides the numerous external sensors and other gear mounted on the vehicle, I read that there is so much internal equipment to manage everything that they had real heating issues that were solved by installing an additional air conditioner and a power generator to power the AC. This is what happens when you give some money and parts to a bunch of bright geeks with too much time.
Huh, where have you heard that Iran has anything to do with Chechen separatists? If anything, Iran is the country that was possibly involved the least in the Chechen separatist issues. The Arab states certainly were involved, as were Turkey and say some Central Asian countries, as well as say UK (by sheltering the high profile Chechen leaders and critics of the Chechen wars.) By Iran? I'd say UK and its citizens had done more for the Chechen cause than Iran.
Lots of people remember her, and so what is your point? Where is the proof that Putin or the Russian government in general were behind her murder? Forget the proof, where is even the motive for Putin to get rid of her? She stopped mattering on the Russian news scene a long long time ago. No one really remembered or cared much about her right before her murder.
(NASA's) Answer. The average cost to launch a Space Shuttle is about $450 million per mission.
In other words, the whole shuttle program had been a big waste of money that set the American space exploration back by several decades. The whole thing should have been canned after the Challenger disaster. At that point it was already so damn obvious that the program failed MOST of its original goals. This situation is so bad that Russians can indeed successfully compete with us even though they're using decades old technology and at a fraction of our costs.
Take an evening class at your local community college. Most of them teach highschool-level mathematics.