Are there other reasons why the likelihood of a "Sobig" or an "ILUVYOU" would be lower for Linux than Windows?
Because there's fewer of you (not myself a Linux user) and as a result the law of averages says it's less likely that it will happen. And let's be honest - smarter people run Linux. They're not smart because of Linux per se, but people who run Linux know what they're doing, usually. Lots of Windows users don't know what they're doing (think parents and grandparent types).
But if Dell shipped 95% Red Hat boxen, you'd see a lot more Linux worms show up. Maybe not as many as Windows, but still...
... the Return of the King movie won't be the extended edition. It'll still be hella long, but it won't be like you're seeing all three extended editions back to back.
Unless of course there's not going to be an Extended ROTK, in which case disregard my previous paragraph.
But then again there's got to be an EE ROTK, since there's got to be those 2 DVD's come December 2004. Man, that's going to be like over four hours of movie.
If Microsoft advertising ever stops drowning everybody out and they stop forcing computer distributors to *only* offer their OS, then people still start to gain a little more visibility.
People need to at least get this little nugget right. Microsoft cuts people like Dell a deal where instead of paying like $80 per OEM copy of Windows, they can instead pay $30 per copy if they agree to pay that for each computer they ship. This is different than the old deal where there was no price cut involved, just bullying - that got MS in court and they had to cut it out.
Now what's happening is that MS is cutting people like Dell a deal in order to save the hassle of checking to see if every PC sold has Windows. In theory this might make it easier to sell Linux since to sell five PC's with Windows under the old deal it costs $400 in OS licensing, but to sell four with Windows and one with a free Linux it costs $150 in licensing fees. In practice however, Dell still basically views that $30 OS hit on the license they don't actually sell as a loss, so they throw up barriers to keeping people from being able to get Linux. You won't be able to remove Windows from a PC through their website, but you can call them up and make it happen if you're persistent enough.
Anyone from Dell who tells you they can't put Linux on your PC "because Microsoft won't let them" is either lying to you or uninformed.
Apparently this article is part of the return of tsr, which rocks. tsr did tsr's NES Archive until he put it on hiatus in January 2000. He hasn't touched it since and it looks like this site is like the second coming. Very cool.
You're missing a step here. Your logic appears to be "No woman has won, therefore the first one to run won't win either." That's pretty faulty logic.
Actually I meant to get across that "No woman has won, therefore the first one to run probably won't win" - notice how in 43 presidents they've almost all been white male protestants. If voters were condusive to change we'd have more variety.
And I think someone like Elizabeth Dole would have an easier time winning the presidency than the nomination for the presidency. It's not that I'm saying women have never run for president - they do all the time - they've just never had the nomination of a major party.
But as for female govenors, there's been plenty of those - even one that was pregneant. I'm saying (by way of a convoluted analogy) that enough people run for political office without sqeaky clean campaign issues (i.e., gay marriages and drug legalization) and these issues won't become death knells - but until they are they'll continue to be and anyone who runs under them is really just taking one for the team.
I would like to know if you fear that two of your more controversial issues (legalization of marijuana and gay marriages) will be detrimental to your campaign?
Perhaps the goal is not so much to actually become governor but rather to be the sacrifice. For example, we've yet to have a female president. Ergo, the odds of the first female candidate to win the presidency are pretty slim. And therefore the first woman to become her party's candidate must surely realize she's going to lose - and yet women try to become candidates (Elizabeth Dole, probably Hillary Clinton) because they realize while they won't win, at least the next woman in theory has an easier chance. Of course by this logic most parties won't put a female candidate forward since they don't want to lose, ever. Perhaps she's taking the stance of running on controversial issues at a young age as a patsy?
I think he means the Panasonic "Q" model which plays DVD's and GameCube discs and has not been released outside of Japan (and therefore only plays Japanese movies and games).
I'm still kind of surprised that Adobe wouldn't port Photoshop over to Linux even for a company with as much clout as Disney
Dvorak ran a column on the five things it would take to make Linux work on the desktop, and Photoshop was #1. People wrote back and reminded him about how steamed Adobe was about GhostScript and how their ports to Solaris met zip sales, so a Linux port is unlikely.
I don't know how closely you ever followed it, but as I saw it, they actually produced a pilot episode for it (complete with clips on their site), then started shopping it around to networks and such. I assume that went nowhere. It must be frustrating as hell to see some of these networks (TBS, TLC) turn around and make their own show, especially when they take a gag from your website and report it as true.
Tell me about it - my aunt likes to forward to all us relatives everything she gets in her email box. I would of course politely reply to just her with the Snopes link proving the email wrong. At some point my parents told me to stop doing that - "she likes living in a fantasy world...". I haven't seen anything from her in a long time, and though I'd like to think I finally conditioned her to "snope" the things she gets first, I fear that she's really just taken me off of her distribution list. The sad thing is she's a teacher....
...the chip Dvorak said was rumored to be like slower than a 486 chip? The one that was total crap but the Chinese government was all happy about it since they had control over it?
Reminds me of the line: "If you had let the government come up with the cure to Polio, you'd have the best iron lung in the world but you'd be no closer to a vaccine."
how many of those 2 million jobs that they claim will be MIA are located in the US?
My guess would me most to all of them - since long distance is expensive. If this was an issue like outsourcing or spam where other countries and/or their labor was the answer then there wouldn't be a lawsuit like this.
Coincidentally, with things like Internet going down to flat rates, I've always been surprised that the phone industry (long distance, cell phones) can still get away with a model that works off of usage.
The main reason that they decided to put the different ports of Quake 3 in different boxes was to see how many of each sold. 95% of the copies were Windows, ~4% were Mac, and ~1% were Linux. Of course, Activision passed on the Linux port so it wound up in the hands of less-capable Loki, meaning it took too long to get to stores and most Linux people just bought the Windows port instead. And of course Macintosh has very little retail presence, so that accounts for that. So now I see Savage will have the Linux client on the same CD/in the same box as the Windows version. Bravo. However, I see this as a bad thing in the long run since it's less obvious to the marketing gurus which version "sold". When the next game comes along and the developer is trying to sell the publisher on giving them enough time and money to get a Linux port going, the publisher will probably balk since they don't "see" more Linux sales. Sure, if it's a multiplayer game there's bound to be some way of seeing who's playing on what platform, but to a publisher, only dollars count.
For that matter, ETM was in this neat little spot where the Wal-Mart crowd went and snatched it up en masse as soon as it came out. Wal-Mart of course has no take-back policy on games. You bought it, you keep it (unless it's defective, in which you trade it for a different copy of the same game). So it's impossible to punish the game companies by demanding their money back (or at least not through most retail channels), and most people won't bother anyway.
Well here's the part that I'm always surprised no one points out.
You have a bank. That bank runs on a mainframe. That mainframe is programmed in something like COBOL or somesuch. There's a problem getting COBOL programmers. Not many people want to learn or work with COBOL any more, so when these existing programmers retire or die (which will cause the pool of COBOL programmers to dwindle 15% in the next decade), they're going to be hard to replace. But in India there's a crapload of people willing to do the work. It would be considerably cheaper to outsource the maintenance on the existing system than it would be to rewrite it in flavor-of-the-month language/platform, so to India the jobs go.
Yes, throw in the factor of "lay of tons of people about to retire and outsource them now" and the situation gets all shitty, but why doesn't it ever occur to people that sometimes the jobs are outsourced because no one wants to do it anymore?
A place I interviewed at outsources their document imaging to India - and the nature of the business meant that millions and millions of documents are done this way. True, they saved a lot of money by not paying rows and rows of Americans a minimum wage, but the other problem was that there simply weren't enough Americans willing to do it, period.
Remember that Microsoft has not made any money with Xbox or Xbox Live. None. Lost money. Will lose billions before they start headed back to black. But it doesn't matter - they make so much money off of Windows and Office that everything else they do can bleed money like crazy. Sony's similar in this respect - PS2 can lose money, they've got the pile they made off of PSOne to burn, plus all their other divisions.
Nintendo is different. Nintendo doesn't make software or DVD players or anything else. They're not interested in doing anything unless it makes money. They don't have other industries to fall back on. They'll let Microsoft find out what works for the industry in so far as online games are concerned.
Of course, the N64 didn't pull in the bucks and if they weren't making a killing from All Things Game Boy they might have given up on this home console thing a while ago.
Actually the version I've always heard is that AOL wanted Netscape because they heard that home.netscape.com had lots of hits and they wanted it for advertising banner purposes. Sounds crazy - kinda like buying Winamp to "make money off that MP3 thing".
Valve made Half-Life,
Sierra published Half-Life,
Vivendi owns Sierra.
Given that Activision published Valve's "mod in a box" Day of Defeat and that we're probably going to see HL2 available via Steam as well as retail channels, maybe Valve isn't going through Sierra for HL2?
If you can tolerate a Tripod popup, I have an article here.
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And if you really really want to play it it's available here. Seeing as how it's an offline rip of an online game, you can't save or anything. But from a historical perspective it's interesting.
A guy up here at work occasionally wears a SPAM T-shirt - blue with a yellow SPAM logo. If SPAM was just a "mystery meat" product we would all just think he's weird, but since SPAM is also the name of annoying email, we find it funny. For that matter he wouldn't have bought the shirt otherwise. Hormel even has a catalog of stuff to get. They've been making money off of geeks for some time now.
I think there's two things going on here. It's not that Hormel is trying to stop people from calling it "spam", but it's something else to take a registered trademark and name your product after it. Second, they're suing "SpamArrest" - using "SPAM" in conjunction with "Bad", implying "SPAM is Bad". Not sure what the alternative would be but that's what the real issue is.
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But if Dell shipped 95% Red Hat boxen, you'd see a lot more Linux worms show up. Maybe not as many as Windows, but still...
Unless of course there's not going to be an Extended ROTK, in which case disregard my previous paragraph.
But then again there's got to be an EE ROTK, since there's got to be those 2 DVD's come December 2004. Man, that's going to be like over four hours of movie.
Now what's happening is that MS is cutting people like Dell a deal in order to save the hassle of checking to see if every PC sold has Windows. In theory this might make it easier to sell Linux since to sell five PC's with Windows under the old deal it costs $400 in OS licensing, but to sell four with Windows and one with a free Linux it costs $150 in licensing fees. In practice however, Dell still basically views that $30 OS hit on the license they don't actually sell as a loss, so they throw up barriers to keeping people from being able to get Linux. You won't be able to remove Windows from a PC through their website, but you can call them up and make it happen if you're persistent enough.
Anyone from Dell who tells you they can't put Linux on your PC "because Microsoft won't let them" is either lying to you or uninformed.
Apparently this article is part of the return of tsr, which rocks. tsr did tsr's NES Archive until he put it on hiatus in January 2000. He hasn't touched it since and it looks like this site is like the second coming. Very cool.
And I think someone like Elizabeth Dole would have an easier time winning the presidency than the nomination for the presidency. It's not that I'm saying women have never run for president - they do all the time - they've just never had the nomination of a major party.
But as for female govenors, there's been plenty of those - even one that was pregneant. I'm saying (by way of a convoluted analogy) that enough people run for political office without sqeaky clean campaign issues (i.e., gay marriages and drug legalization) and these issues won't become death knells - but until they are they'll continue to be and anyone who runs under them is really just taking one for the team.
Why PSAnything? Why not GameCube? I mean, IBM already supplied some of the technology for it...
I think he means the Panasonic "Q" model which plays DVD's and GameCube discs and has not been released outside of Japan (and therefore only plays Japanese movies and games).
I don't know how closely you ever followed it, but as I saw it, they actually produced a pilot episode for it (complete with clips on their site), then started shopping it around to networks and such. I assume that went nowhere. It must be frustrating as hell to see some of these networks (TBS, TLC) turn around and make their own show, especially when they take a gag from your website and report it as true.
Reminds me of the line: "If you had let the government come up with the cure to Polio, you'd have the best iron lung in the world but you'd be no closer to a vaccine."
Coincidentally, with things like Internet going down to flat rates, I've always been surprised that the phone industry (long distance, cell phones) can still get away with a model that works off of usage.
The main reason that they decided to put the different ports of Quake 3 in different boxes was to see how many of each sold. 95% of the copies were Windows, ~4% were Mac, and ~1% were Linux. Of course, Activision passed on the Linux port so it wound up in the hands of less-capable Loki, meaning it took too long to get to stores and most Linux people just bought the Windows port instead. And of course Macintosh has very little retail presence, so that accounts for that. So now I see Savage will have the Linux client on the same CD/in the same box as the Windows version. Bravo. However, I see this as a bad thing in the long run since it's less obvious to the marketing gurus which version "sold". When the next game comes along and the developer is trying to sell the publisher on giving them enough time and money to get a Linux port going, the publisher will probably balk since they don't "see" more Linux sales. Sure, if it's a multiplayer game there's bound to be some way of seeing who's playing on what platform, but to a publisher, only dollars count.
For that matter, ETM was in this neat little spot where the Wal-Mart crowd went and snatched it up en masse as soon as it came out. Wal-Mart of course has no take-back policy on games. You bought it, you keep it (unless it's defective, in which you trade it for a different copy of the same game). So it's impossible to punish the game companies by demanding their money back (or at least not through most retail channels), and most people won't bother anyway.
You have a bank. That bank runs on a mainframe. That mainframe is programmed in something like COBOL or somesuch. There's a problem getting COBOL programmers. Not many people want to learn or work with COBOL any more, so when these existing programmers retire or die (which will cause the pool of COBOL programmers to dwindle 15% in the next decade), they're going to be hard to replace. But in India there's a crapload of people willing to do the work. It would be considerably cheaper to outsource the maintenance on the existing system than it would be to rewrite it in flavor-of-the-month language/platform, so to India the jobs go.
Yes, throw in the factor of "lay of tons of people about to retire and outsource them now" and the situation gets all shitty, but why doesn't it ever occur to people that sometimes the jobs are outsourced because no one wants to do it anymore?
A place I interviewed at outsources their document imaging to India - and the nature of the business meant that millions and millions of documents are done this way. True, they saved a lot of money by not paying rows and rows of Americans a minimum wage, but the other problem was that there simply weren't enough Americans willing to do it, period.
Remember that Microsoft has not made any money with Xbox or Xbox Live. None. Lost money. Will lose billions before they start headed back to black. But it doesn't matter - they make so much money off of Windows and Office that everything else they do can bleed money like crazy. Sony's similar in this respect - PS2 can lose money, they've got the pile they made off of PSOne to burn, plus all their other divisions.
Nintendo is different. Nintendo doesn't make software or DVD players or anything else. They're not interested in doing anything unless it makes money. They don't have other industries to fall back on. They'll let Microsoft find out what works for the industry in so far as online games are concerned.
Of course, the N64 didn't pull in the bucks and if they weren't making a killing from All Things Game Boy they might have given up on this home console thing a while ago.
Actually the version I've always heard is that AOL wanted Netscape because they heard that home.netscape.com had lots of hits and they wanted it for advertising banner purposes. Sounds crazy - kinda like buying Winamp to "make money off that MP3 thing".
Valve made Half-Life,
Sierra published Half-Life,
Vivendi owns Sierra.
Given that Activision published Valve's "mod in a box" Day of Defeat and that we're probably going to see HL2 available via Steam as well as retail channels, maybe Valve isn't going through Sierra for HL2?
If you can tolerate a Tripod popup, I have an article here.
And if you really really want to play it it's available here. Seeing as how it's an offline rip of an online game, you can't save or anything. But from a historical perspective it's interesting.
I think there's two things going on here. It's not that Hormel is trying to stop people from calling it "spam", but it's something else to take a registered trademark and name your product after it. Second, they're suing "SpamArrest" - using "SPAM" in conjunction with "Bad", implying "SPAM is Bad". Not sure what the alternative would be but that's what the real issue is.
Perhaps they should sue Monty Python instead...