The article states "Microsoft is effectively prevented from extracting any monetary value.", referring to the fact that PHP is free.
I don't think that's quite true. I think there is still plenty of room for commercial PHP development apps - providing they are good ones. So if Microsoft developed a really great tool I might consider buying it - well that would depend on whether it was a truly exceptional tool or another abomination like Front Page.
There is room to make money based off of free languages - you just can't force people to pay money for your tools anymore!
See on a windows machine there are so many great games and apps to install that you end up installing and uninstalling stuff all the time leading to fragmentation. But on Mac's, well you tend to keep those precious few fun games and useful apps because you have no choice, thus the HDD tends to stay the same.:P
Well we ended up with an Exchange 2003/Outlook 2003 solution here...an expensive solution, but once they spent the money - well It's actually been quite good! Active Directory seems to be a bit of a headache;) But Exchange/Outlook really is running well! Two things stand out (well having different mail views in OL2K3 is awesome - for example having a view of "follow up" items, or "unread" items separate from the folders they are in):
One is cached mode - no more online/offline dicking around - it really works *well*. I have not had any screwy problems as of yet. (Basically Outlook caches your email - a seamless synchronization of your folders and it automatically detects a connected state)
The other thing is the RPC over HTTP - so I can get full exchange functionality over the internet, just as if I was using IMAP or POP standards, but with the full exchange server deal: contacts, calendars etc. It's really been handy - no opening VPN connections or using webmail to check my work mail on my laptop.
Are these two features available with Novell's solution? Even if they aren't I'm sure they will be. And having the option is great for the future even though, we are on the MS road for the time being. But for now, Exchange 2003 has worked very well, certainly better than our Linux pilot (Debian/FetchMail/Exim etc. with Thunderbird) - but our Linux pilot was kneecapped by having to operate in a mixed environment (which these new connectors would fix), and obviously going with Exchange cost us a whole lot more money! (Like $20K or thereabouts instead of free - consulting and hardware fees would've been required in both cases - and the Linux consulting was a lot cheaper believe it or not)
I hope bell will carry the new channel! Although I think the Cdn Tech TV might be separate - not really sure what with our crazy CRTC and all. I'm just getting to enjoy watch the Screen Savers the odd time.
Just got a Vaio for our President, one of the small ones, he loves it and all, but the problem I have with the Sony's is the sheer amount of crap they install on the machines - the thing just seems to really drag its feet due to all the unnecessary software installed. I got rid of most of it anyways, but what a pain.
Timesplitters 2 (and 1) is a great game, with fun multiplay - you can hook up to 4 PS2's for up to 16 players in Golden Eye style play. So far I've only managed to do 2 PS2's (1 player each), but it was a blast - and TS2 is available cheap now (you need a copy for each PS2 obviously). It's a great FPS for quick, small dose play.
I liked Dungeon Siege- it was enjoyable, the real problem I had was later on - when you were carrying a ridiculous amount of items with various requirements and trying to remember who I wanted to have what - hopefully there'll be some sort of way to automate this later on.
I do my image stuff with Paint Shop Pro - but I was wondering about a post effect software (like Adobe's package - like Photoshop for film). I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a film version of gimp - anyone had experience with it and know if it's any good?
I got the Namco one (pac-man etc) for my wife, but thinking "she'll never really play this...", to my surprise she fires it up fairly often. Something about zero load times, simple game play, being able to insta-reset and play a different game...she loves it. Plus it has a "real" arcade joystick. I think games have gotten too complicated for a lot of people to bother playing...but don't try and take away my Far Cry mind you!
.3ds is a horrid format and often you have as much work ahead of you correcting a.3ds mesh as you would making the model yourself. Also it likes to butcher UVW mappings..OBJ is a better format IMO.
Kaydara Motionbuilder (.fbx I think) files seem to be becoming one of the defacto standard file formats for 3D - it stores mesh, bone, and UVW/texture information (to my knowledge), as well as animation info and most of the major apps now have Kaydara support.
Seriously it is a good point - if you are filtering Viagra or other words spelled correctly, obviously you are not interested in those products - so there is nothing to be gained by trying to "sneak" these ads into your box!
Nothing to see here. No reason for any commission or anything. As long as everything is up front from the get go you can choose to use this service or not.
And who knows, someday the viewer may just have the $$, and then remember, "Hey there was that cool car on that DVD I got..." A few people like that would pay for many free DVDs I would think!
I'm "the" computer guy in our company, it's about $100 million a year (300 employees, perhaps 80 computers?), I'm the only full time IT. I handle everything computer related for our local plant (35 -ish computers, plus remote citrix types) and help out the other areas on demand. I can do 8-5, 5 days most of the time, obviously with the odd weekend or after hours work thrown in. I do everything from setting up new PCs to doing some web programming to planning WAN stuff to MIS system management, reporting, and DB programming. Heck we've even started to get into Linux (have to use a consultant for that...until I catch up). So lots of different stuff to do, lots of room for growth jobwise.
I think the key is that it is still a private company - so the company doesn't tend to make decisions based on the up to the minute share value or quarterly reports.
I'm not sure that I've ever bought a game based on its rating; well perhaps in the Mortal Kombat days it was interesting to see what all the fuss was about, but those days are long past. Only how fun the game is matters, and I must confess it must look decent for me to be interested as well, but I wouldn't buy or not buy a game based on whether or not I could see a decapitation or some T&A.
I think the only two things I need for an Linux distro are Cinema 4d, and better games support. Oh sure I've got some other apps kicking around, but those are my must-haves. But on the other hand, it's not a big deal either - if I'm willing to drop $3000 (cdn heh) on a laptop, or $300 on the latest gaming system, $100 on a steering wheel, $70 on a joystick etc... (hasn't been one in awhile mind you) the $75 on Windows XP isn't really a huge deal. *But* if Linux had some must have games in its own right then it would be very tempting indeed, but everyone that makes a decent game for Linux ultimately converts to Windows anyways, joining the legions of great games already available.
But it will certainly be nice to have that choice one day - especially with $500 systems with works and windows on it - they'd probably be right down to $350 or so without having to pay the MS tax == a gaming computer for the price of a console.
This whole things if f'ing BS...I mean I *might* use my hammer to smack someone, where's the "skull bashing tariff" to cover the health care costs of the potential victims? Heck I *might* use a pen and paper to record sheet music from some RIAA musician...
This whole tariff thing is completely and utterly baseless and I don't know how they can defend it!
Heh this is actually a good idea - of course allow the hood to be opened (no thanks on being tied to dealer servicing), but having the washer fluid fillable from a more accessible location is an awesome idea. I guess the only problem might be you'd need some sort of funnel, or an upwards facing port - those washer fluid bottles like to splash all over as it is.
I've got a 64MB FX5600 - seems to run everything reasonably well. Actually my laptop is no where near 16lbs...maybe 6-8lbs - and it's got 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, GeForce Card, Harman/kardon speakers (best sound out of a laptop I've heard yet), and a DVD-R/RW drive. 2.4GHZ processor. 15" Screen.
We just had an 'eLAN' (sDSL of some sort on Winnipeg's fibre loop) connection setup in one of our Winnipeg locations - 2.3Mbps bi-directional full network connection ot the internet - I only wish we could get as good of a deal here!
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I don't think that's quite true. I think there is still plenty of room for commercial PHP development apps - providing they are good ones. So if Microsoft developed a really great tool I might consider buying it - well that would depend on whether it was a truly exceptional tool or another abomination like Front Page.
There is room to make money based off of free languages - you just can't force people to pay money for your tools anymore!
See on a windows machine there are so many great games and apps to install that you end up installing and uninstalling stuff all the time leading to fragmentation. But on Mac's, well you tend to keep those precious few fun games and useful apps because you have no choice, thus the HDD tends to stay the same. :P
Well we ended up with an Exchange 2003/Outlook 2003 solution here...an expensive solution, but once they spent the money - well It's actually been quite good! Active Directory seems to be a bit of a headache ;) But Exchange/Outlook really is running well! Two things stand out (well having different mail views in OL2K3 is awesome - for example having a view of "follow up" items, or "unread" items separate from the folders they are in):
One is cached mode - no more online/offline dicking around - it really works *well*. I have not had any screwy problems as of yet. (Basically Outlook caches your email - a seamless synchronization of your folders and it automatically detects a connected state)
The other thing is the RPC over HTTP - so I can get full exchange functionality over the internet, just as if I was using IMAP or POP standards, but with the full exchange server deal: contacts, calendars etc. It's really been handy - no opening VPN connections or using webmail to check my work mail on my laptop.
Are these two features available with Novell's solution? Even if they aren't I'm sure they will be. And having the option is great for the future even though, we are on the MS road for the time being. But for now, Exchange 2003 has worked very well, certainly better than our Linux pilot (Debian/FetchMail/Exim etc. with Thunderbird) - but our Linux pilot was kneecapped by having to operate in a mixed environment (which these new connectors would fix), and obviously going with Exchange cost us a whole lot more money! (Like $20K or thereabouts instead of free - consulting and hardware fees would've been required in both cases - and the Linux consulting was a lot cheaper believe it or not)
I hope bell will carry the new channel! Although I think the Cdn Tech TV might be separate - not really sure what with our crazy CRTC and all. I'm just getting to enjoy watch the Screen Savers the odd time.
Just got a Vaio for our President, one of the small ones, he loves it and all, but the problem I have with the Sony's is the sheer amount of crap they install on the machines - the thing just seems to really drag its feet due to all the unnecessary software installed. I got rid of most of it anyways, but what a pain.
Timesplitters 2 (and 1) is a great game, with fun multiplay - you can hook up to 4 PS2's for up to 16 players in Golden Eye style play. So far I've only managed to do 2 PS2's (1 player each), but it was a blast - and TS2 is available cheap now (you need a copy for each PS2 obviously). It's a great FPS for quick, small dose play.
I liked Dungeon Siege- it was enjoyable, the real problem I had was later on - when you were carrying a ridiculous amount of items with various requirements and trying to remember who I wanted to have what - hopefully there'll be some sort of way to automate this later on.
Ah nuts...thanks for the info though!
I do my image stuff with Paint Shop Pro - but I was wondering about a post effect software (like Adobe's package - like Photoshop for film). I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a film version of gimp - anyone had experience with it and know if it's any good?
I got the Namco one (pac-man etc) for my wife, but thinking "she'll never really play this...", to my surprise she fires it up fairly often. Something about zero load times, simple game play, being able to insta-reset and play a different game...she loves it. Plus it has a "real" arcade joystick. I think games have gotten too complicated for a lot of people to bother playing...but don't try and take away my Far Cry mind you!
.3ds is a horrid format and often you have as much work ahead of you correcting a .3ds mesh as you would making the model yourself. Also it likes to butcher UVW mappings. .OBJ is a better format IMO.
Kaydara Motionbuilder (.fbx I think) files seem to be becoming one of the defacto standard file formats for 3D - it stores mesh, bone, and UVW/texture information (to my knowledge), as well as animation info and most of the major apps now have Kaydara support.
When can I fax myself from LA to Switzerland then? Do we have that collapsiter grid done yet?
Seriously it is a good point - if you are filtering Viagra or other words spelled correctly, obviously you are not interested in those products - so there is nothing to be gained by trying to "sneak" these ads into your box!
It's those Trigens again, lousy monkeys!
Nothing to see here. No reason for any commission or anything. As long as everything is up front from the get go you can choose to use this service or not.
And who knows, someday the viewer may just have the $$, and then remember, "Hey there was that cool car on that DVD I got..." A few people like that would pay for many free DVDs I would think!
I'm "the" computer guy in our company, it's about $100 million a year (300 employees, perhaps 80 computers?), I'm the only full time IT. I handle everything computer related for our local plant (35 -ish computers, plus remote citrix types) and help out the other areas on demand. I can do 8-5, 5 days most of the time, obviously with the odd weekend or after hours work thrown in. I do everything from setting up new PCs to doing some web programming to planning WAN stuff to MIS system management, reporting, and DB programming. Heck we've even started to get into Linux (have to use a consultant for that...until I catch up). So lots of different stuff to do, lots of room for growth jobwise.
I think the key is that it is still a private company - so the company doesn't tend to make decisions based on the up to the minute share value or quarterly reports.
I'm not sure that I've ever bought a game based on its rating; well perhaps in the Mortal Kombat days it was interesting to see what all the fuss was about, but those days are long past. Only how fun the game is matters, and I must confess it must look decent for me to be interested as well, but I wouldn't buy or not buy a game based on whether or not I could see a decapitation or some T&A.
I think the only two things I need for an Linux distro are Cinema 4d, and better games support. Oh sure I've got some other apps kicking around, but those are my must-haves. But on the other hand, it's not a big deal either - if I'm willing to drop $3000 (cdn heh) on a laptop, or $300 on the latest gaming system, $100 on a steering wheel, $70 on a joystick etc... (hasn't been one in awhile mind you) the $75 on Windows XP isn't really a huge deal. *But* if Linux had some must have games in its own right then it would be very tempting indeed, but everyone that makes a decent game for Linux ultimately converts to Windows anyways, joining the legions of great games already available.
But it will certainly be nice to have that choice one day - especially with $500 systems with works and windows on it - they'd probably be right down to $350 or so without having to pay the MS tax == a gaming computer for the price of a console.
This whole things if f'ing BS...I mean I *might* use my hammer to smack someone, where's the "skull bashing tariff" to cover the health care costs of the potential victims? Heck I *might* use a pen and paper to record sheet music from some RIAA musician...
This whole tariff thing is completely and utterly baseless and I don't know how they can defend it!
Ditto Bell ExpressVU, I saw the text as well, I think during RealTV (though saying I was watching Real TV on Spike TV is almost redundant at times...)
Heh this is actually a good idea - of course allow the hood to be opened (no thanks on being tied to dealer servicing), but having the washer fluid fillable from a more accessible location is an awesome idea. I guess the only problem might be you'd need some sort of funnel, or an upwards facing port - those washer fluid bottles like to splash all over as it is.
I've got a 64MB FX5600 - seems to run everything reasonably well. Actually my laptop is no where near 16lbs...maybe 6-8lbs - and it's got 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, GeForce Card, Harman/kardon speakers (best sound out of a laptop I've heard yet), and a DVD-R/RW drive. 2.4GHZ processor. 15" Screen.
We just had an 'eLAN' (sDSL of some sort on Winnipeg's fibre loop) connection setup in one of our Winnipeg locations - 2.3Mbps bi-directional full network connection ot the internet - I only wish we could get as good of a deal here!