If I give you a digital copy of my movie it costs me almost nothing. If I give you a cushioned seat in a room of NYC real estate for 68 minutes it's going to cost me a lot. Hence the movie's not free as in beer.
Whatever happened to the ability to confirm a person's identity by their typing pattern? Brain scans sound overly complicated compared to something simple like this. I thought the typing pattern check was accurate to within 95% or something like that. It would be purely software based but nothing ever came of it. Seems like a much better idea than this.
So um, clients aren't part of the network? Are you reading/. from a Linux server?
Microsoft's stranglehold is on the client. Since everyone uses a client to get onto the network Linux can simultaneously be prevalent in the server market. Microsoft also has huge market share for large corporate file servers.
First, the entire Nasdaq is up by almost that much. This just falls in line with the rest of the market.
Second, Microsoft has its thumb in over a hundred pies. Take a look at all of these news stories, especially the one on profit estimates. This case won't be resolved any time soon and there are plenty of other things going on.
Someone smart enough to major in CS and willing to do the work might as well just get an MBA, and start out making 30-50 percent more than they would with the technical degree.
Because that's why everyone gets into computers... for the money. A person should study and work in the field in which they're most interested. If they want to be a well-rounded business person then the MBA is a good idea. If you only want to remain very technical then it's a bad idea. I'd rather make half the money and be happy.
most smaller companies keep companty documents located in smb shares or on file servers and not on the intranet accessible via http, which, afaik, is a requirement for the google box to index the files.
Nope. Put in smb:// into the setup to index your file shares. Put in http:/// into the setup to index web pages. The appliance has always been able to search word docs and such on your file shares. It's the integration into Oracle apps and other "enterprise systems" that's new.
The driver is silently installed on first access, you never have to screw around with it - it just works!
Never in my experience. It usually installed a version from the wrong version of Windows. It would regularly crash my workstation by installing a driver for 2000 on XP.
My mac finds network printers with no delay at all and gets the appropriate drivers as needed (the Windows equivalent has sucked ever since they introduced it and it's specific to printers).
My co-workers' iTunes libraries show up instantly for me to play on my own mac.
iChat with no central server
There are others, but the point is that they all work over the same protocol. No specific network programming is required as long as a device is Bonjour-enabled. It's not the greatest thing since sliced bread but it makes networking easier. With Windows Microsoft prefers to program each device type separately.
It's not about the distro. If it were they'd take a small team and customize their own disto. Novell offers services and software (much more than just an OS) to a wide range of governments and mid-sized companies. Oracle has owned the really big business market for a long time. They have a much harder time getting mid-sized and smaller customers. That's where Novell fits in today.
A Novell purchase would be about much more than a distro. It's a corporation with long-term contracts and consultants. Which distro they choose is almost insignificant in comparison.
MS is doomed if they keep up their current product-based strategy. MS is today what IBM was in 1990. They will eventually be forced to change their business strategy to focus more on services than products. Eventually their software will not make them as much money. They'll have to turn to business services just like IBM if they want to still bring in the big cash.
Here are some references, a little old but still relevant:
Can someone please explain what brilliant technology is in a Tivo? I thought it just records and plays back video in digital form. From what I can gather what's made Tivo big is its usability. Am I missing something technical?
Not only would purchasing Novell bring them are large set of customers, it would also give them a team of business consultants. It's not all about the software. It's business strategy. Why would they buy a distro when they can also have a team of experts to deal with linux customers?
And as I said, there should be a place to post these issues. But thinking you're entitled to some attention is rediculous. If the owners of a site want to ignore their users it's their prerogative, whether or not it be to their peril.
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If I give you a digital copy of my movie it costs me almost nothing. If I give you a cushioned seat in a room of NYC real estate for 68 minutes it's going to cost me a lot. Hence the movie's not free as in beer.
Damn it!! Now I have to change the combination on my luggage!
Whatever happened to the ability to confirm a person's identity by their typing pattern? Brain scans sound overly complicated compared to something simple like this. I thought the typing pattern check was accurate to within 95% or something like that. It would be purely software based but nothing ever came of it. Seems like a much better idea than this.
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So um, clients aren't part of the network? Are you reading /. from a Linux server?
Microsoft's stranglehold is on the client. Since everyone uses a client to get onto the network Linux can simultaneously be prevalent in the server market. Microsoft also has huge market share for large corporate file servers.
First, the entire Nasdaq is up by almost that much. This just falls in line with the rest of the market.
Second, Microsoft has its thumb in over a hundred pies. Take a look at all of these news stories, especially the one on profit estimates. This case won't be resolved any time soon and there are plenty of other things going on.
Did I just violate the DMCA by disclosing this?
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Someone smart enough to major in CS and willing to do the work might as well just get an MBA, and start out making 30-50 percent more than they would with the technical degree.
Because that's why everyone gets into computers... for the money. A person should study and work in the field in which they're most interested. If they want to be a well-rounded business person then the MBA is a good idea. If you only want to remain very technical then it's a bad idea. I'd rather make half the money and be happy.
A Microsoft employee is reporting on Mac use from a site owned by Google? Hang on, I think I see a pig passing by my 4th story window...
Why is his blog not on an MSN domain or something like that?
On a related note is an old but still relevant essay: Debunking Common GNU/Linux Myths by Jem Matzan.
How's that ironic? Yahoo doesn't sell a competing product and Google doesn't host full news articles or press releases.
most smaller companies keep companty documents located in smb shares or on file servers and not on the intranet accessible via http, which, afaik, is a requirement for the google box to index the files.
Nope. Put in smb:// into the setup to index your file shares. Put in http:/// into the setup to index web pages. The appliance has always been able to search word docs and such on your file shares. It's the integration into Oracle apps and other "enterprise systems" that's new.
Maybe they aren't using it because it didn't "plug into" their "enterprise" business apps. Now it does. I'd say that's a major selling point.
The driver is silently installed on first access, you never have to screw around with it - it just works!
Never in my experience. It usually installed a version from the wrong version of Windows. It would regularly crash my workstation by installing a driver for 2000 on XP.
My mac finds network printers with no delay at all and gets the appropriate drivers as needed (the Windows equivalent has sucked ever since they introduced it and it's specific to printers).
My co-workers' iTunes libraries show up instantly for me to play on my own mac.
iChat with no central server
There are others, but the point is that they all work over the same protocol. No specific network programming is required as long as a device is Bonjour-enabled. It's not the greatest thing since sliced bread but it makes networking easier. With Windows Microsoft prefers to program each device type separately.
Hey, genius, the point is that IBM was forced to change its business strategy in the last decade. Microsoft will be forced to do the same soon.
In the words of Peter Griffin: "This plan is brilliant it's retarded!"
What's crazy to me is this might be a brilliant marketing strategy to divert some attention away from Microsoft. It's so crazy it just might work...
It's not about the distro. If it were they'd take a small team and customize their own disto. Novell offers services and software (much more than just an OS) to a wide range of governments and mid-sized companies. Oracle has owned the really big business market for a long time. They have a much harder time getting mid-sized and smaller customers. That's where Novell fits in today.
A Novell purchase would be about much more than a distro. It's a corporation with long-term contracts and consultants. Which distro they choose is almost insignificant in comparison.
Here are some references, a little old but still relevant:
brilliant technology
Can someone please explain what brilliant technology is in a Tivo? I thought it just records and plays back video in digital form. From what I can gather what's made Tivo big is its usability. Am I missing something technical?
That's right. We're here for funny posts.
a car that you know - weighs a lot - especially with all the toys it has built into it.
Plus the guy in the trunk talking through the mic.
Not only would purchasing Novell bring them are large set of customers, it would also give them a team of business consultants. It's not all about the software. It's business strategy. Why would they buy a distro when they can also have a team of experts to deal with linux customers?
And as I said, there should be a place to post these issues. But thinking you're entitled to some attention is rediculous. If the owners of a site want to ignore their users it's their prerogative, whether or not it be to their peril.
And the very first comment on that post is the perfect example of why I don't like digg. For 11 minutes now this comment is still visible:
/. sucks
/. that would have been modded to nothing in 10 seconds. Plus the article isn't spam.
wrong board
marked as spam
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