Well, yes, Microsoft could also become a car company, after all theres no technical or philisophical reason they couldn't sell cars. But it wouldn't make sense to buy them so that you could get into the business of selling cars.
This ignores one fairly important detail however - A large part of the barrier to adopting Linux in most coporations is the lack of a corporation to back it. Red Hat currently is that corporation for a lot of companies. Its destruction would set back coprporate adoptions of Linux. Although on the other hand, having AOL-TimeWarner backing a good Redhat would help our credibility immensely(How twisted is that?).
Close, but not quite. The atoms were redshifted as they traveled _upwards_ as energy was lost climbing out of the gravity well. Photons would blue-shift traveling downwards.
I think the open source community should produce open document formats. However, at the very most all someone has to do to figure out how a Koffice or Gnome Office produces its files is to dig into the source a little. However, our publishing a document declaring "This is what a Word Document is" is a little pointless when we don't have any control over what Word might happen to produce(Past experience would tend to indicated Microsoft doesn't eiiither...back compatibility, Bill?).
Re:Neat. How many of these do we really need?
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Assuming that the source for Microsoft Office was open, the logical thing to do would be to use their code to import and export these formats. After all, in the absence of a published standard, whatever these output is the standard for what a word Document is. If the goal is compatibility theres no better way to get it than using their code.
A more logical way to do this would be something like the relationship between Mozilla, Galeon and Netscape - you have 3 different browsers, but with a great deal of code sharing which avoids a lot labor spent reinventing the wheel yet again.
Neat. This makes, what 47 different spread sheets for Unix/Linux now? KOffice, StarOffice, GnomeOffice, ApplixWare, Corels Office Suite, etc. All from different code bases? Funny, I thought that aside from all of the "Software should be free" propaganda, the point of open source software was be able to modify others code to suit your needs instead of reinventing the wheel every time. I realize not all of the above are open source, but still. Couldn't say, Gnome Office and KOffice share big chunks of their code? Like, say the parts that they use to handle the Microsoft formats? A great deal of time and energy is nessecary to figure them out, why replicate it 5 times?
When are we going to see the end of this pathetic obsession for "all things shiny and fast" that we Americans are cursed with. For the love of Jeebus - do we really need to be on the Internet _that_ much?
For the average slashdotter, this is a "Oooh, shiny" sort of thing. Now I can play Counter Strike on the plane! Whooppee! For business travelers, it's an added convenience. A reason to fly one airline over another. Access the the company network over a VPN. Besides, have you ever been on a really long flight? Say, Europe or Aisa from Detroit? I know several business travelers who do one or the other on a regular basis. It's cramped and it takes 10 hours or so. The ability to get some work done or browse a little (porn|slashdot) would be a very welcome diversion.
I'm sure a few people out there can remember the politics surrounding the BBS "scene" -- that is to say, a certain segment of the community that did everything possible to be considered "elite". Some will say speak for your own experience; that's fine, but it doesn't dismiss the phenomenon that couldn't possibly have been local to my area only...
So much of it being a competition likely didn't help the matter -- who had the most warez, who could get the most artwork, who could do the best set up, who could hold the best networks, who had the best users, etc etc. There was so much hate in some of these people, too. Not just out of competition, either.
Hey, it's like IRC without DDOS attacks! Really, these people exist everywhere. The Internet is full of them. You get used to them, ignore them and move on. Yeah, I remember people who were like that. Either we ignored them or if they got too hard to ignore the Sysops booted them. If they were the Sysop, I quit calling back. It all worked out.
Something magical usually does happen with a 1.0 release - API freeze. Not something particularly magical to the end users, but very useful to 3rd party developers.
Whether the site is non profit or not doesn't come into play when a judge has to decide if a name has become common usage. This is why Kleenex goes bonkers over the usage of Kleenex to describe anything thats not official Kleenex brand tissues. The problem is a somewhat broken bit of the legal system, more than TI's legal department.
I don't know about every garage, but as someone who is currently working on a research project at a University, I can say we'd find something like this very interesting, as would a number of other departments on the campus. We've got a couple of Crays sitting around, but can't afford the cost of maintaining the things. Something like this would be way more affordable to buy and maintain for educational/research purposes where traditional supercomputers aren't even vaugely an option.
Trademark protection isn't just a matter of companies being Jerks - particularly in a case like yours. If companies don't at least go through the motions of protecting their trademarks, such as "Ti" in something obviously referring to calculators, they lose those trademarks. If they make attempts to protect their trademark only some of the time, they risk having the judge decided that it's become common usage when some Taiwanese company starts selling calculators with "TI" on them.
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This would require quite a bit more effort. Soldering a PPC onto an Intel motherboard (Even assuming that you could) does does not an Apple make.
Keep in mind, most of these Unix vendors are not in direct competition with Linux in and of itself. See IBM's embracing of Linux. Sun could care less if you use Solaris - They give it away free. They want you to use Sun Hardware, because thats what they charge you money for. IBM and AIX and HP with HPUX are similar. If they could run a Linux on their big iron, they no longer need to develop their own OS in house - siginificantly improving their margins.
Current UN figures put the European population at around 727 Million. I'd underestimated ours a bit, it turns out its 284 million. That puts you at a bit over two and a half times what our population is.
As do I. I'm loving the arrival of winter cause my (small cramped) bed room gets extremely warm during the summer with all the stuff I've got running in here. Its very nice to be able to open the window a bit and cool things off.
Yes, Europe is slightly larger then us. However it's population is many times that of the US, leading to a much higher population density, which is the more relavent number for the cost of deploying wireless services. As for being ahead of us in DSL, maybe a couple of countries but certainly not as a whole. In larger parts of Europe unmetered dialup is a relatively new and scarce concept....
Why is it that every time one of these stupid patents comes up somebody immediately makes some smart ass comment about this being the fault of capitalism? This has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with the the governmental body that is granting these idiotic patents. How precisely is a need for government reform the fault of our economic system?
This brings up an entirely new business for the record companies - people paying for them not to release new singles to radio stations. Could they make more money releasing the next Britney/BackStreet Boys/N'sync album or not doing so?
Yes, Solaris does trail linux on single and dual processor systems. Solaris has always sucked on single and dual processor systems. Why? It's not designed for such systems. Solaris is designed to run on the large, enterprise systems constructed of Sun's hardware. Where, surprise surprise, it still beats Linux pretty handily. There are some fairly large differences between designing a system to run on 1 or 2 processors and the hundred and change that will run in Sun's larger systems.
Ok, I suppose I didn't state that as well as I might have. My point was that the depreciation counts towards that $6 million dollar a day loss regardless of whether or not it actually works, has any actual value, will be replaced tomorrow or can be used flawlessly until the sun burns out. So if they bought a huge amount of equipment, its now showing as a loss and preventing them from being "profitable", regardless of what actual cash flow might be at the moment. Not to mention amortizing some of their larger(stupider) aquisitions during the dotcom heyday, such as Blue Mountain, which even if it's amortized over the next 10 years is going to show on the balance sheet as a hundreds of thousands of dollars day in expense without any corresponding revenue.
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Well, yes, Microsoft could also become a car company, after all theres no technical or philisophical reason they couldn't sell cars. But it wouldn't make sense to buy them so that you could get into the business of selling cars.
This ignores one fairly important detail however - A large part of the barrier to adopting Linux in most coporations is the lack of a corporation to back it. Red Hat currently is that corporation for a lot of companies. Its destruction would set back coprporate adoptions of Linux. Although on the other hand, having AOL-TimeWarner backing a good Redhat would help our credibility immensely(How twisted is that?).
Close, but not quite. The atoms were redshifted as they traveled _upwards_ as energy was lost climbing out of the gravity well. Photons would blue-shift traveling downwards.
I think the open source community should produce open document formats. However, at the very most all someone has to do to figure out how a Koffice or Gnome Office produces its files is to dig into the source a little. However, our publishing a document declaring "This is what a Word Document is" is a little pointless when we don't have any control over what Word might happen to produce(Past experience would tend to indicated Microsoft doesn't eiiither...back compatibility, Bill?).
Assuming that the source for Microsoft Office was open, the logical thing to do would be to use their code to import and export these formats. After all, in the absence of a published standard, whatever these output is the standard for what a word Document is. If the goal is compatibility theres no better way to get it than using their code.
A more logical way to do this would be something like the relationship between Mozilla, Galeon and Netscape - you have 3 different browsers, but with a great deal of code sharing which avoids a lot labor spent reinventing the wheel yet again.
Neat. This makes, what 47 different spread sheets for Unix/Linux now? KOffice, StarOffice, GnomeOffice, ApplixWare, Corels Office Suite, etc. All from different code bases? Funny, I thought that aside from all of the "Software should be free" propaganda, the point of open source software was be able to modify others code to suit your needs instead of reinventing the wheel every time. I realize not all of the above are open source, but still. Couldn't say, Gnome Office and KOffice share big chunks of their code? Like, say the parts that they use to handle the Microsoft formats? A great deal of time and energy is nessecary to figure them out, why replicate it 5 times?
When are we going to see the end of this pathetic obsession for "all things shiny and fast" that we Americans are cursed with. For the love of Jeebus - do we really need to be on the Internet _that_ much?
For the average slashdotter, this is a "Oooh, shiny" sort of thing. Now I can play Counter Strike on the plane! Whooppee! For business travelers, it's an added convenience. A reason to fly one airline over another. Access the the company network over a VPN. Besides, have you ever been on a really long flight? Say, Europe or Aisa from Detroit? I know several business travelers who do one or the other on a regular basis. It's cramped and it takes 10 hours or so. The ability to get some work done or browse a little (porn|slashdot) would be a very welcome diversion.
I'm sure a few people out there can remember the politics surrounding the BBS "scene" -- that is to say, a certain segment of the community that did everything possible to be considered "elite". Some will say speak for your own experience; that's fine, but it doesn't dismiss the phenomenon that couldn't possibly have been local to my area only...
So much of it being a competition likely didn't help the matter -- who had the most warez, who could get the most artwork, who could do the best set up, who could hold the best networks, who had the best users, etc etc. There was so much hate in some of these people, too. Not just out of competition, either.
Hey, it's like IRC without DDOS attacks! Really, these people exist everywhere. The Internet is full of them. You get used to them, ignore them and move on. Yeah, I remember people who were like that. Either we ignored them or if they got too hard to ignore the Sysops booted them. If they were the Sysop, I quit calling back. It all worked out.
Or, in the case of one I Co-Sysoped, VBBS under OS/2 Warp.....
I don't think so. I haven't seen any generic tissues marked "Kleenex" yet. (That I recall anyway)
Something magical usually does happen with a 1.0 release - API freeze. Not something particularly magical to the end users, but very useful to 3rd party developers.
Whether the site is non profit or not doesn't come into play when a judge has to decide if a name has become common usage. This is why Kleenex goes bonkers over the usage of Kleenex to describe anything thats not official Kleenex brand tissues. The problem is a somewhat broken bit of the legal system, more than TI's legal department.
I don't know about every garage, but as someone who is currently working on a research project at a University, I can say we'd find something like this very interesting, as would a number of other departments on the campus. We've got a couple of Crays sitting around, but can't afford the cost of maintaining the things. Something like this would be way more affordable to buy and maintain for educational/research purposes where traditional supercomputers aren't even vaugely an option.
My, what well thought out, enlightening discussion....
Trademark protection isn't just a matter of companies being Jerks - particularly in a case like yours. If companies don't at least go through the motions of protecting their trademarks, such as "Ti" in something obviously referring to calculators, they lose those trademarks. If they make attempts to protect their trademark only some of the time, they risk having the judge decided that it's become common usage when some Taiwanese company starts selling calculators with "TI" on them.
This would require quite a bit more effort. Soldering a PPC onto an Intel motherboard (Even assuming that you could) does does not an Apple make.
Keep in mind, most of these Unix vendors are not in direct competition with Linux in and of itself. See IBM's embracing of Linux. Sun could care less if you use Solaris - They give it away free. They want you to use Sun Hardware, because thats what they charge you money for. IBM and AIX and HP with HPUX are similar. If they could run a Linux on their big iron, they no longer need to develop their own OS in house - siginificantly improving their margins.
Current UN figures put the European population at around 727 Million. I'd underestimated ours a bit, it turns out its 284 million. That puts you at a bit over two and a half times what our population is.
As do I. I'm loving the arrival of winter cause my (small cramped) bed room gets extremely warm during the summer with all the stuff I've got running in here. Its very nice to be able to open the window a bit and cool things off.
No. Really, really no. Not even close. Athlons run considerably hotter.
Yes, Europe is slightly larger then us. However it's population is many times that of the US, leading to a much higher population density, which is the more relavent number for the cost of deploying wireless services. As for being ahead of us in DSL, maybe a couple of countries but certainly not as a whole. In larger parts of Europe unmetered dialup is a relatively new and scarce concept....
Why is it that every time one of these stupid patents comes up somebody immediately makes some smart ass comment about this being the fault of capitalism? This has nothing to do with capitalism and everything to do with the the governmental body that is granting these idiotic patents. How precisely is a need for government reform the fault of our economic system?
This brings up an entirely new business for the record companies - people paying for them not to release new singles to radio stations. Could they make more money releasing the next Britney/BackStreet Boys/N'sync album or not doing so?
Yes, Solaris does trail linux on single and dual processor systems. Solaris has always sucked on single and dual processor systems. Why? It's not designed for such systems. Solaris is designed to run on the large, enterprise systems constructed of Sun's hardware. Where, surprise surprise, it still beats Linux pretty handily. There are some fairly large differences between designing a system to run on 1 or 2 processors and the hundred and change that will run in Sun's larger systems.
Ok, I suppose I didn't state that as well as I might have. My point was that the depreciation counts towards that $6 million dollar a day loss regardless of whether or not it actually works, has any actual value, will be replaced tomorrow or can be used flawlessly until the sun burns out. So if they bought a huge amount of equipment, its now showing as a loss and preventing them from being "profitable", regardless of what actual cash flow might be at the moment. Not to mention amortizing some of their larger(stupider) aquisitions during the dotcom heyday, such as Blue Mountain, which even if it's amortized over the next 10 years is going to show on the balance sheet as a hundreds of thousands of dollars day in expense without any corresponding revenue.