Your reference to the fee to send mail is interesting. But the same can be said for road tolls. It almost always costs more to run toll booths than the gain in money to support the roads. The tolls actually mostly support the tolls. Yet it doesn't prevent most areas from keeping up their road tolls. It would make much more sense to drop them and use local taxes to support the roads, but in today's government logic just doesn't prevail.
This certainly isn't anything new. Since when has a game of purely amazing graphics and no quality gameplay sold millions of copies? No game sells well if it's not fun and engaging. Gaming is an active, not a passive, experience. Therefore graphics are only part of the equation.
A linux company can certainly become huge, like Microsoft. But they'll never get the same level of control. One vendor can remain far ahead of the rest on features and support, but a competitor can easily appear with a completely compatible product.
The only issue would be for proprietary software sold on top of Linux. That would hinder competition. But there will probably never be a proprietary killer app only distributed by one linux vendor on their own distro. And even if there was competitors today will be quick to create a similar application. Today it's not like the environment Microsoft grew up in.
Considering they have many millions of users they only need a tiny portion of them to still have thousands of people help them out. I'm sure they'll get them.
What selective sight you have! How about this quote from less than 5 years ago:
"Five minutes after any agreement is signed with Microsoft, they'll be thinking of how to violate the agreement. They're predators. They crush their competition. They crush new ideas. They stifle innovation. That's what they do." - Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, Quoted by Matthew Szulik at a U.S. Senate Hearing, Dec 12, 2001
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Except they have a real business plan.
The IPO offer is real
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I don't see a reference to the domain, but I did find this press release proving the IPO offering is real:
Vonage To Reserve A Portion Of Common Stock For Customers
Holmdel, NJ, May 8, 2006 - Vonage Holdings Corp. today announced the launch of a Directed Share Program as part of its proposed initial public offering (IPO) of common stock, which will allow eligible customers to purchase shares at the IPO price.
To be eligible to purchase common stock at the IPO price in the Vonage IPO, customers must meet strict eligibility criteria. Vonage customers may be eligible to participate if they meet all of the following criteria:
they opened accounts with Vonage America on or prior to December 15, 2005, and
maintained their accounts in good standing through February 1, 2006, and
are a U.S. citizen, and
reside in the U.S. when the offering closes, and
have a valid social security number
Customers do not need to continue to be Vonage account holders to participate in the program.
Vonage employees can not answer any questions on this subject.
A registration statement relating to our common stock has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. The common stock may not be sold nor offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration becomes effective. A copy of the prospectus for the proposed offering may be obtained from:
Cindy Capone Re: Prospectus Request 23 Main Street Holmdel, NJ 07733
Well I can obviously not speak from seeing the code. But every book I've ever read on the subject uses the term "microkernel" in describing the NT kernel. We're talking pure semantics here.
Um, those benchmarks are only for statistical computations. I don't know about you but most computer users aren't performing statistical analysis. Ask anyone who uses a Mac on a regular basis and they'll tell you it hums along nicely.
NT4 had a microkernel whose sole purpose was object brokering. What I think we're missing today is a truely compartmentalized microkernel. The NT4 kernel handled all messages between kernel objects, but all it did was pass them along. One object running in kernel space could still bring down the rest. I assume that's still the basis of the XP kernel today.
I haven't looked at GNU/Hurd but I have yet to see a "proper" non-academic microkernel which lets one part fail while the rest remain.
Jon Stewart: Tonight, our focus is on Television! Today, the FCC wanted to impose the same decency standards that apply to broadcast television as they do to cable. [audience boos] Jon Stewart: To which many people said, "Uh, f*ck that guy!".
What's interesting is that Google is pretty good at blocking these spam sites from the index, like the wikipedia copies. But since Yahoo and MSN are terrible at blocking them these spammers are making Google money without flooding Google's own index.
I believe this is all an unintentional consequence of AdSense. I'm sure the people at Google knew some of this would happen, but probably not to this extent.
In the real world... where the client says, "I don't care about security, just get it done!" Of course they start to care after a break-in, so they have things fixed in hind-sight.
Also, the US ambassador to the UN, Bolton, is publicly opposed to the existence of the UN. Who better to represent us in an international assembly than a person who believes the assembly should be abolished? Brilliant.
If they don't compete in the right markets they'll easily become outdated and post very slow growth outlook. They want to dominate all computing platforms. That includes the internet. In the future that will mean the multimedia living room. If they don't fight for the entertainment center in your home you'll eventually have a fat computer running another OS.
Taking losses in all these niches fits with their business goals, believe it or not. It's their goals that need fixing as much as their methods.
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Your reference to the fee to send mail is interesting. But the same can be said for road tolls. It almost always costs more to run toll booths than the gain in money to support the roads. The tolls actually mostly support the tolls. Yet it doesn't prevent most areas from keeping up their road tolls. It would make much more sense to drop them and use local taxes to support the roads, but in today's government logic just doesn't prevail.
This certainly isn't anything new. Since when has a game of purely amazing graphics and no quality gameplay sold millions of copies? No game sells well if it's not fun and engaging. Gaming is an active, not a passive, experience. Therefore graphics are only part of the equation.
Your facts are incorrect. 61% of the eligible population voted. These stats don't count how many are registered, just voted.
A linux company can certainly become huge, like Microsoft. But they'll never get the same level of control. One vendor can remain far ahead of the rest on features and support, but a competitor can easily appear with a completely compatible product.
The only issue would be for proprietary software sold on top of Linux. That would hinder competition. But there will probably never be a proprietary killer app only distributed by one linux vendor on their own distro. And even if there was competitors today will be quick to create a similar application. Today it's not like the environment Microsoft grew up in.
You must be new here and not know that everything from Google is in beta. Expect the bugs. ;)
In the spotlight, but so far they've won every argument that what they're doing is fair-use.
Considering they have many millions of users they only need a tiny portion of them to still have thousands of people help them out. I'm sure they'll get them.
What selective sight you have! How about this quote from less than 5 years ago:
"Five minutes after any agreement is signed with Microsoft, they'll be thinking of how to violate the agreement. They're predators. They crush their competition. They crush new ideas. They stifle innovation. That's what they do." - Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, Quoted by Matthew Szulik at a U.S. Senate Hearing, Dec 12, 2001
My point is those IT managers SHOULD CARE.
But that's not what he said. There's a big difference between promoting a product as non-Microsoft and educating people on why Microsoft is bad for them. We can educate without advertising.
Except they have a real business plan.
9 out of 10 Americans hate the tenth for telling them about useless surveys.
So you're saying it should be able to vacuum my floors and wash my windows? I agree!
As a Pastafarian I'm offended by this immitation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's a blatant mockery of all I find sacred. I demand reparations!
Well I can obviously not speak from seeing the code. But every book I've ever read on the subject uses the term "microkernel" in describing the NT kernel. We're talking pure semantics here.
the performance of OS X sucks like a Hoover
Um, those benchmarks are only for statistical computations. I don't know about you but most computer users aren't performing statistical analysis. Ask anyone who uses a Mac on a regular basis and they'll tell you it hums along nicely.
NT4 had a microkernel whose sole purpose was object brokering. What I think we're missing today is a truely compartmentalized microkernel. The NT4 kernel handled all messages between kernel objects, but all it did was pass them along. One object running in kernel space could still bring down the rest. I assume that's still the basis of the XP kernel today.
I haven't looked at GNU/Hurd but I have yet to see a "proper" non-academic microkernel which lets one part fail while the rest remain.
Jon Stewart: Tonight, our focus is on Television! Today, the FCC wanted to impose the same decency standards that apply to broadcast television as they do to cable.
[audience boos]
Jon Stewart: To which many people said, "Uh, f*ck that guy!".
(Yes, the "*" is added for irony.)
What's interesting is that Google is pretty good at blocking these spam sites from the index, like the wikipedia copies. But since Yahoo and MSN are terrible at blocking them these spammers are making Google money without flooding Google's own index.
I believe this is all an unintentional consequence of AdSense. I'm sure the people at Google knew some of this would happen, but probably not to this extent.
Microsoft also has begun exploring how to apply Massive technology...
Have you seen the disk requirements for Vista? They already know how to apply massive technology!
(I apologize for the terrible joke... couldn't resist)
In the real world... where the client says, "I don't care about security, just get it done!" Of course they start to care after a break-in, so they have things fixed in hind-sight.
Also, the US ambassador to the UN, Bolton, is publicly opposed to the existence of the UN. Who better to represent us in an international assembly than a person who believes the assembly should be abolished? Brilliant.
Oh I know it doesn't. It was purely a joke since so many people are talking about AJAX like it solves all you problems and washes your windows, too.
If they don't compete in the right markets they'll easily become outdated and post very slow growth outlook. They want to dominate all computing platforms. That includes the internet. In the future that will mean the multimedia living room. If they don't fight for the entertainment center in your home you'll eventually have a fat computer running another OS.
Taking losses in all these niches fits with their business goals, believe it or not. It's their goals that need fixing as much as their methods.
...when arriving home after a 10-hour day at the office programming...
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Dude, if you had just developed it in AJAX you'd get it done in half the time.