I must say the article is the most interesting internet article I have every read. Maybe because I actually understand every part of it.. even the math.
The nova episode is also the most exciting I have ever seen... especially when you come to understand the real finanical implications of the option-pricing forumula at work in the real world.
Please put Billy Boy back in charge... Ballmer is the worst front-man for MSFT. The BOD should fire Ballmer for saying "I Didn't/Don't Know..." more then once.
Hey John... What's the official word on the MultiThreaded design or improvements (if any) in DOOM3 compared to Q3E
I ask because can't decide if I should stick with my AMD-XP upgrade path from (1500+ to 2500+) or take the plung and switch to Intel's P4 HT or true Duel CPU mobo before I buy the game!
... why can't someone identify the "bugs" in the US patent process, identify one or more "improvements" to the buggy US patent process, and then apply for US patent on bug-fix to the patent process itself?
To quote myself from my youth..
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Having an OS monopoly helps but it is only the tip of the iceburg in terms of why IE beat out NS.
Here is why.
IE beat NS in the long term simply because the very first version of IE was implemented as a programmable COM object with a flexible programming interface that OTHER developers could leverage against their feature requirements as part of a bigger project. That is what businesses found useful. Take for example Intuit's Quicken Product line.
NS was "discovered", hacked and slashed together real fast by a bunch of UNIX hackers while trying to deal with targetting more then one OS at a time!
IE was strategicly planned, designed and engineered to be lean and mean on ONE OS at first with a long term vision of satisfying application developer requirements for both MS and 3rd party ISVs and ASPs.
Back in 1995 there were MORE windows programmers in the world then UNIX programmers.
NS gets credit because it was an ORIGINAL IDEA, but NOT programmable; very short-sited on Andreesons part!
IE was a feature-for-feature COPY of NS; but VERY programmable, very small and very efficient!
VB programmers could work wonders with it in no time!
However, if NS had an SDK from the beginning.. and if NS marketed this NS-SDK (for free) to all the UNIX, Windows and Mac developers.. then they could have had 90% of the developer comunity as well as 90% of the USER community back when NS was in its prime!
MS on the other hand traditionally releases its SDKs (for free) at least 6 months (or more) BEFORE they ship a final release product.
I hate to say it.. but microsofts MSDN subscription model with documented SDKs, APIs, and COM object Type Libraries) is better for programmers then pure open source becuase I don't have time to read source code.. source code IS GOOD for fixing bugs.. the MSDN business model is better for creating NEW buggy software that give me a dependable pay cheque!
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..You must watch the outstanding PBS Nova episode titled "The Trillion Dollar Bet".
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/stockmarket/
I must say the article is the most interesting internet article I have every read. Maybe because I actually understand every part of it.. even the math.
The nova episode is also the most exciting I have ever seen... especially when you come to understand the real finanical implications of the option-pricing forumula at work in the real world.
Nobel Prize in Economics stuff hear folks.
...and Portman would have looked much better (sexy infact) with her head completely shaved bald
Please put Billy Boy back in charge... Ballmer is the worst front-man for MSFT. The BOD should fire Ballmer for saying "I Didn't/Don't Know..." more then once.
Humans 'may' not kill another human; but they do it anyways
.. Or is the SUSE 9.2 Pro Live DVD only good for evaluation.
... Watch this the next time it is broadcast on your local PBS station.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/extremeoil/
I wathced this last night..
Oil is going to be arround a lot longer then you think...
Hey John... What's the official word on the MultiThreaded design or improvements (if any) in DOOM3 compared to Q3E
I ask because can't decide if I should stick with my AMD-XP upgrade path from (1500+ to 2500+) or take the plung and switch to Intel's P4 HT or true Duel CPU mobo before I buy the game!
... why can't someone identify the "bugs" in the US patent process, identify one or more "improvements" to the buggy US patent process, and then apply for US patent on bug-fix to the patent process itself?
... "I ras rorn on a pile a shit!"
Especially if the study included Pr0n industry employees
This leads me to ask "What is the GPL definition of 'DISTRIBUTE' or 'DISTRIBUTION'"?
http://www.moissanite.com/getting_engaged.cfm
Having an OS monopoly helps but it is only the tip of the iceburg in terms of why IE beat out NS.
Here is why.
IE beat NS in the long term simply because the very first version of IE was implemented as a programmable COM object with a flexible programming interface that OTHER developers could leverage against their feature requirements as part of a bigger project. That is what businesses found useful. Take for example Intuit's Quicken Product line.
NS was "discovered", hacked and slashed together real fast by a bunch of UNIX hackers while trying to deal with targetting more then one OS at a time!
IE was strategicly planned, designed and engineered to be lean and mean on ONE OS at first with a long term vision of satisfying application developer requirements for both MS and 3rd party ISVs and ASPs.
Back in 1995 there were MORE windows programmers in the world then UNIX programmers.
NS gets credit because it was an ORIGINAL IDEA, but NOT programmable; very short-sited on Andreesons part!
IE was a feature-for-feature COPY of NS; but VERY programmable, very small and very efficient!
VB programmers could work wonders with it in no time!
However, if NS had an SDK from the beginning.. and if NS marketed this NS-SDK (for free) to all the UNIX, Windows and Mac developers.. then they could have had 90% of the developer comunity as well as 90% of the USER community back when NS was in its prime!
MS on the other hand traditionally releases its SDKs (for free) at least 6 months (or more) BEFORE they ship a final release product.
I hate to say it.. but microsofts MSDN subscription model with documented SDKs, APIs, and COM object Type Libraries) is better for programmers then pure open source becuase I don't have time to read source code.. source code IS GOOD for fixing bugs.. the MSDN business model is better for creating NEW buggy software that give me a dependable pay cheque!