Not only that, but many cancers look and act somewhat similarly, but are functionally unique, and operate on quite different principals. ie Win95 and WinCE and WinXP.
If you are correct that M$ is bashing the GPL and not Linux (which they are, but the question is are they attacking GPL directly, or only using it to indirectly attack Linux?) then it is quite interesting.
M$ has many lawyers. Why would they attack the GPL unless it looked rigorous enough to hold up? Possibly the only attacks would also destroy the validity of their own licenses. No matter, it means that even though there has not been a legal challenge of the GPL, Microsoft is afraid to be the first.
In a nutshell, that's a damned good thing. If even M$ is afraid to attack the GPL on legalistic grounds, nobody should, and that means that that particular argument (no legal test yet) is now pointless (if it ever had weight to begin with).
BTW, anybody have any idea which projects M$ is specifically bitching about the US (presumably) gov't funding that they can't use? Sure, there is SELinux, but what about the Navy development of that automated ship? I certainly can't use that. IBM can't. But anyone can use SELinux.
I know. It's typical M$PR. Anybody have Ballmer's phone number? Or how about the phone number's of some major investment houses? I mean, how can you put mutual fund money into a company heading by someone who is either: a) an idiot or b) morally bankrupt?
Okay, there is some hardware that is unworkable in the Internet age. A 4.77 MHz PC/XT with dual floppies and a green-screen counts as "unworkable" and should be junked.
Sounds like the beginnings of a serial terminal to me...
But seriously, your ideas are great and to the point. I would much rather donate time than a few ducats.
M$ is already a reverse plumber of sorts. See, I usually need to do plumbing work to get shit out of my house. M$ keeps trying to pump it in... (Thank the maker that NeverWinter Nights is supposed to have a Linux client. If only I can finish BGII, BGII add on, and Icewind Dale before then (yeah, I know they've been out forever, but I'm a cheap bastard most of the time))
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While I don't think I'm yet quite old enough to not want to deal with tests (I'm only 28!) I do remember some poorly written tests in grad school. So I made every multiple guess test a short answer type test. Luckily, my classes were small enough that my profs would look at this.
My first child is due to be born any day now. Idiocy like this might make him home-schooled (much as I dread that). My wife largely lost her teaching job due to not teaching to the test (PG County MD if that means anything) and now works at a private company teaching kids to write and do math that they don't learn at the regular schools (too busy teaching to the test). But, to bring up home-schooling again, she's also teaching reading, writing, math to kids who have parents who are totally unqualified to home school anything, yet think they are.
I need to find a Jedi and just let my kid become a padawan...
While I'm no fan of the Sox (unfortunately, I have to love Peter Angelos' monument to the ego, the Baltimore Orioles), there is this nifty new technology that lets you not only get scores, but also get play-by-play coverage of the game! It doesn't require a computer, and is so simple, my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother could use it. Heck, it doesn't need a power cord, and some don't even need batteries.
Now, you do need to be close to a transmitter (kind of like with the wireless internet thing) but they are all over the world. Everywhere. It's amazing how this thing has taken off. This guy named Marconi invented the whole thing in his basement, so he should get plenty of Slashdot cred.
Heck, like TCP/IP the protocol is totally open source, and it's easy to build your own transmitter or receiver. Heck, there is even a simple encryption scheme available.
Sure, this has been mentioned several times, but bears repeating: most software is not sold. Most is developed in house.
I run a doctor's office. I occasionally write a shell script or php script. Maybe we could sell them. But why? That would require more time and effort than it is worth. Similarly, we don't have the resources to support anything other than our own business. So why not open source our stuff and let others do some of the debugging? Why not let them improve it?
Some might say that those scripts and programs are an integral part of our business, and one of our competitive advantages. Not in our case (and in the case of many others). Our advantages are more fundamental: treating employees fairly and expecting hard work in return, keeping abreast of the medical/legal/business environment, and having a good community name. Our nearest 'competitor' (which has been self-imolating for a few years) could have every piece of software we've written, and still self-destruct. Ditto for our next competitor.
We are in the medical business. Not the software business. Banks are in the lending business, Ford is in the auto business (okay, and the suing 2600 business), even AOL/Time Warner is not in the software business.
Microsoft is one of VERY few companies in the software business. It is one of VERY few companies to be threatened by Free and/or Open Source software.
Microsoft, via Mundie, seems to want to claim that support is not a valid business model. Most local car dealerships would differ. They sell the car near cost, and make it up in service. Gilette and Sony almost give away the product to sell ancillary products.
Microsoft could start giving away free (beer) software tomorrow, and still rake in billions in support. The only problem is that their support isn't much better (in fact, worse) than their software.
IOW, Microsoft is a majority of one (hmmm... a monopoly) who has a business model unique to themselves. And now it is being threatened.
And I say fuck 'em (especially after the letter from their license auditing group last week.)
>>But they aren't quite like Honda's solution, and that is what makes cars like the S2000 unique. By pulling 240 hp out of a normally aspirated 2.0 liter engine.
Ho, hum. Honda CBR600Fi. 600cc's. 94.1 hp. I leave the hp/cc calculation as an excercise for the reader. No VVT. Not exceptional.
But that doesn't mean what you said is wrong. Just that the power per liter of the S2000 isn't that impressive (to get really sick numbers, let's look at some two-strokes.)
Voyager had the potential to be better than Voyager. When DS9 and Voyager were running at the same time, there was more a thread, and more ongoing stories in DS9 than in Voyager. The former was syndicated, the latter on a network, so I must ask: why?
The writing and stories (IMNSHO) on DS9 finally came together in the last two-three years. Voyager never had that. It always seemed that they were getting close, then BOOM! Another Borg episode, another holo-emitter episode, another just plain bad episode... It's almost as if the writer's strike began much earlier at Paramount, and there was nobody left to polish and shape the good scripts, and pitch out the bad ones (Janeway and Chakotay devolving into Komodo dragons and having a family is an episode I will unfortunately never forget.)
Anyway, from the spoilers I've read, the Voyager series finale will suck almost as much as the rest of the series. Hopefully, Bakula's character will do what starship captains do best: screw female aliens, and get in fights with male aliens, both to the tune of some pre-techno techno music:)
For better or worse, my wife loved Quantum Leap, due in no small part to Scott Bakula. After skipping Voyager (and much of DS9, her loss) I think she may be back in the fold.
Emacs is already a desktop environment (and was before Gnome was a gleam in Miguel's eye) and it just needs a few things here and there (better documentation for one).
Companies do not pay that money up front (except in rare instances). They get a lease or lease-purchase on the software. The monthly payment for the three years is probably about the same, but at the end of the lease purchase, you pay 10% or $1 or whatever, and with M$, you pay whatever their new scheme is.
(Forget MCSE's. How about a Microsoft Certified License Expert?)
Pick up a couple of extra power supplies while you are at it. We've got several (20+) at the place where I work, and we've replaced at least a half dozen power supplies.
But, they do run linux (not sure if the video out works. Never got that far.) Heck, there are even drivers on the install CD that came with it (although, if memory serves, they merely duplicate some drivers in the kernel sources).
There is nothing wrong with your browser.
For the next 7 seconds, we will take control
of your computer.
We control the horizontal
We control the vertical
We control the Javascript.
Reminds me of those current M$ ads about how interoperable and compatible they are with other machines. So annoying that I now hate to buy M$ products.
;)
(Boy, I'm sure glad that M$ has helped out the Samba project so much...)
But seriously, I do not and will not shop at Old Navy for precisely this reason.
As much as people here love MBA's, I'll post anyway:)
You are correct. The main goal of advertising is to help name/brand recognition. The point is that when the customer is ready to buy, your product is one that they will associate with that need.
There are of course many instances where this is not the case in the short term (coupons, vouchers, rebates, etc are the best examples) but the long term goal is still to keep your name in front of the consumer.
That's why Coke buys so much ad space/time. They are number one in the cola market (and a large player in the overall beverage market) but their market dominance is new since about the mid 1980's. (Actually with the introduction of 'Classic Coke'.) Their market share and the money spent on ads are directly proportional. Ditto Pepsi, who has not spent anywhere near the money Coke has.
(BTW, that MBA is with a specialization in IT, so I know how to manage you programmer drones. NOT!:)
For china and silver: Michael Round (www.mround.com)
For the normal stuff, EVERYONE has a web site. Target, Wal-Mart, etc. (Ditto for baby registry).
If you are getting china or silver, go to the store. It will cost a little bit more for your guests, but if you care about this stuff (and don't register for it if you don't) there IS a difference between various plates and knives and forks. (I wasn't as worried about look as I was feel. If I'm digging into a nice 18 oz. steak, I don't want the fork to bend. Requires a nice bit of counterbalance.)
And don't underestimate one thing:
First, you might grow up, sell out, and decide you need this crap. So you may as well start now with the 'traditional' registry.
Oh, and don't go cheap on the registry thinking that it will help your friends. Put everything on it. They can decide for themselves how much they will spend. Or, they may get creative (like my coworkers did and some of my wife's friends did) and chip in together.
Go nuts. You've got an excuse: you're getting married. Oh, and manners suggest that people have up to six months to get you a wedding gift (although they are NOT obligated to do so) and you have up to 12 months after the ceremony to send thank you cards.
"Ettiquette and protocol? Why, it's my primary function sir."
You'll never see a question that intelligent on a front page "Ask Slashdot". That space is reserved for "Hi. I can't figure out how to use google. Can you help me search for cool (hardware, software, people, etc.)?"
But what's the big deal? I purposely don't run GAIM or any of the others so that I can avoid having to provide my mother tech support on a regular basis (unfortunately, she can use AIM).
How does OSX compare to BSD? Are all of the.conf files REALLY there, or is there some kind of kludged mapping? What server tasks are you using it for? (My neighbor is a Mac consultant, but he's never home, or I'd ask him:)
Therein lies one of the problems with the article: if Apple is catering to recording studios and graphics houses, how is this possibly a 'machine for the rest of us'?
My Mac Classic. That was a machine for the rest of us. Turn it on and go.
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Not only that, but many cancers look and act somewhat similarly, but are functionally unique, and operate on quite different principals. ie Win95 and WinCE and WinXP.
If you are correct that M$ is bashing the GPL and not Linux (which they are, but the question is are they attacking GPL directly, or only using it to indirectly attack Linux?) then it is quite interesting.
M$ has many lawyers. Why would they attack the GPL unless it looked rigorous enough to hold up? Possibly the only attacks would also destroy the validity of their own licenses. No matter, it means that even though there has not been a legal challenge of the GPL, Microsoft is afraid to be the first.
In a nutshell, that's a damned good thing. If even M$ is afraid to attack the GPL on legalistic grounds, nobody should, and that means that that particular argument (no legal test yet) is now pointless (if it ever had weight to begin with).
BTW, anybody have any idea which projects M$ is specifically bitching about the US (presumably) gov't funding that they can't use? Sure, there is SELinux, but what about the Navy development of that automated ship? I certainly can't use that. IBM can't. But anyone can use SELinux.
I know. It's typical M$PR. Anybody have Ballmer's phone number? Or how about the phone number's of some major investment houses? I mean, how can you put mutual fund money into a company heading by someone who is either: a) an idiot or b) morally bankrupt?
Sounds like the beginnings of a serial terminal to me...
But seriously, your ideas are great and to the point. I would much rather donate time than a few ducats.
M$ is already a reverse plumber of sorts. See, I usually need to do plumbing work to get shit out of my house. M$ keeps trying to pump it in... (Thank the maker that NeverWinter Nights is supposed to have a Linux client. If only I can finish BGII, BGII add on, and Icewind Dale before then (yeah, I know they've been out forever, but I'm a cheap bastard most of the time))
While I don't think I'm yet quite old enough to not want to deal with tests (I'm only 28!) I do remember some poorly written tests in grad school. So I made every multiple guess test a short answer type test. Luckily, my classes were small enough that my profs would look at this.
My first child is due to be born any day now. Idiocy like this might make him home-schooled (much as I dread that). My wife largely lost her teaching job due to not teaching to the test (PG County MD if that means anything) and now works at a private company teaching kids to write and do math that they don't learn at the regular schools (too busy teaching to the test). But, to bring up home-schooling again, she's also teaching reading, writing, math to kids who have parents who are totally unqualified to home school anything, yet think they are.
I need to find a Jedi and just let my kid become a padawan...
Now, you do need to be close to a transmitter (kind of like with the wireless internet thing) but they are all over the world. Everywhere. It's amazing how this thing has taken off. This guy named Marconi invented the whole thing in his basement, so he should get plenty of Slashdot cred.
Heck, like TCP/IP the protocol is totally open source, and it's easy to build your own transmitter or receiver. Heck, there is even a simple encryption scheme available.
But wait, there's more. With a simple hardware add on, you can enjoy interactive events and IM.
I tell you. This technology is here, and it is here to stay. Give it a chance. You might enjoy it.
Sure, this has been mentioned several times, but bears repeating: most software is not sold. Most is developed in house.
I run a doctor's office. I occasionally write a shell script or php script. Maybe we could sell them. But why? That would require more time and effort than it is worth. Similarly, we don't have the resources to support anything other than our own business. So why not open source our stuff and let others do some of the debugging? Why not let them improve it?
Some might say that those scripts and programs are an integral part of our business, and one of our competitive advantages. Not in our case (and in the case of many others). Our advantages are more fundamental: treating employees fairly and expecting hard work in return, keeping abreast of the medical/legal/business environment, and having a good community name. Our nearest 'competitor' (which has been self-imolating for a few years) could have every piece of software we've written, and still self-destruct. Ditto for our next competitor.
We are in the medical business. Not the software business. Banks are in the lending business, Ford is in the auto business (okay, and the suing 2600 business), even AOL/Time Warner is not in the software business.
Microsoft is one of VERY few companies in the software business. It is one of VERY few companies to be threatened by Free and/or Open Source software.
Microsoft, via Mundie, seems to want to claim that support is not a valid business model. Most local car dealerships would differ. They sell the car near cost, and make it up in service. Gilette and Sony almost give away the product to sell ancillary products.
Microsoft could start giving away free (beer) software tomorrow, and still rake in billions in support. The only problem is that their support isn't much better (in fact, worse) than their software.
IOW, Microsoft is a majority of one (hmmm... a monopoly) who has a business model unique to themselves. And now it is being threatened.
And I say fuck 'em (especially after the letter from their license auditing group last week.)
-George
>>But they aren't quite like Honda's solution, and that is what makes cars like the S2000 unique. By pulling 240 hp out of a normally aspirated 2.0 liter engine.
Ho, hum. Honda CBR600Fi. 600cc's. 94.1 hp. I leave the hp/cc calculation as an excercise for the reader. No VVT. Not exceptional.
But that doesn't mean what you said is wrong. Just that the power per liter of the S2000 isn't that impressive (to get really sick numbers, let's look at some two-strokes.)
For the money he spent on that system, he could have easily gotten a WRX.
(Okay, maybe it wasn't available at the time, but still...)
Voyager had the potential to be better than Voyager. When DS9 and Voyager were running at the same time, there was more a thread, and more ongoing stories in DS9 than in Voyager. The former was syndicated, the latter on a network, so I must ask: why?
The writing and stories (IMNSHO) on DS9 finally came together in the last two-three years. Voyager never had that. It always seemed that they were getting close, then BOOM! Another Borg episode, another holo-emitter episode, another just plain bad episode... It's almost as if the writer's strike began much earlier at Paramount, and there was nobody left to polish and shape the good scripts, and pitch out the bad ones (Janeway and Chakotay devolving into Komodo dragons and having a family is an episode I will unfortunately never forget.)
Anyway, from the spoilers I've read, the Voyager series finale will suck almost as much as the rest of the series. Hopefully, Bakula's character will do what starship captains do best: screw female aliens, and get in fights with male aliens, both to the tune of some pre-techno techno music:)
For better or worse, my wife loved Quantum Leap, due in no small part to Scott Bakula. After skipping Voyager (and much of DS9, her loss) I think she may be back in the fold.
Which may be the point.
Emacs is already a desktop environment (and was before Gnome was a gleam in Miguel's eye) and it just needs a few things here and there (better documentation for one).
I'd appreciate it at least:)
Companies do not pay that money up front (except in rare instances). They get a lease or lease-purchase on the software. The monthly payment for the three years is probably about the same, but at the end of the lease purchase, you pay 10% or $1 or whatever, and with M$, you pay whatever their new scheme is.
(Forget MCSE's. How about a Microsoft Certified License Expert?)
-George
Pick up a couple of extra power supplies while you are at it. We've got several (20+) at the place where I work, and we've replaced at least a half dozen power supplies.
But, they do run linux (not sure if the video out works. Never got that far.) Heck, there are even drivers on the install CD that came with it (although, if memory serves, they merely duplicate some drivers in the kernel sources).
There is nothing wrong with your browser.
For the next 7 seconds, we will take control
of your computer.
We control the horizontal
We control the vertical
We control the Javascript.
Reminds me of those current M$ ads about how interoperable and compatible they are with other machines. So annoying that I now hate to buy M$ products.
;)
(Boy, I'm sure glad that M$ has helped out the Samba project so much...)
But seriously, I do not and will not shop at Old Navy for precisely this reason.
I believe I read somewhere that television (at least as presented in the US) is the perfect medium to cause people to grow up with and develop ADHD.
Slashdot being the second best.
As much as people here love MBA's, I'll post anyway:)
You are correct. The main goal of advertising is to help name/brand recognition. The point is that when the customer is ready to buy, your product is one that they will associate with that need.
There are of course many instances where this is not the case in the short term (coupons, vouchers, rebates, etc are the best examples) but the long term goal is still to keep your name in front of the consumer.
That's why Coke buys so much ad space/time. They are number one in the cola market (and a large player in the overall beverage market) but their market dominance is new since about the mid 1980's. (Actually with the introduction of 'Classic Coke'.) Their market share and the money spent on ads are directly proportional. Ditto Pepsi, who has not spent anywhere near the money Coke has.
(BTW, that MBA is with a specialization in IT, so I know how to manage you programmer drones. NOT!:)
For china and silver: Michael Round (www.mround.com)
For the normal stuff, EVERYONE has a web site. Target, Wal-Mart, etc. (Ditto for baby registry).
If you are getting china or silver, go to the store. It will cost a little bit more for your guests, but if you care about this stuff (and don't register for it if you don't) there IS a difference between various plates and knives and forks. (I wasn't as worried about look as I was feel. If I'm digging into a nice 18 oz. steak, I don't want the fork to bend. Requires a nice bit of counterbalance.)
And don't underestimate one thing:
First, you might grow up, sell out, and decide you need this crap. So you may as well start now with the 'traditional' registry.
Oh, and don't go cheap on the registry thinking that it will help your friends. Put everything on it. They can decide for themselves how much they will spend. Or, they may get creative (like my coworkers did and some of my wife's friends did) and chip in together.
Go nuts. You've got an excuse: you're getting married. Oh, and manners suggest that people have up to six months to get you a wedding gift (although they are NOT obligated to do so) and you have up to 12 months after the ceremony to send thank you cards.
"Ettiquette and protocol? Why, it's my primary function sir."
>>How about DVD's? There was a time (and there may still be) when certain players couldn't handle certain discs.
I know what you mean. I've got this busted ass DVD player that will only play discs that say something about 'Region 1' on them.
What's up with that?
You'll never see a question that intelligent on a front page "Ask Slashdot". That space is reserved for "Hi. I can't figure out how to use google. Can you help me search for cool (hardware, software, people, etc.)?"
>Or, god no, something other than *nux
I think it should be:
Or, god no, something other than (*n?x | *BSD)
But what's the big deal? I purposely don't run GAIM or any of the others so that I can avoid having to provide my mother tech support on a regular basis (unfortunately, she can use AIM).
And just like jury duty, you don't want anyone doing it who is too dumb to get out of it.
How does OSX compare to BSD? Are all of the .conf files REALLY there, or is there some kind of kludged mapping? What server tasks are you using it for? (My neighbor is a Mac consultant, but he's never home, or I'd ask him:)
Therein lies one of the problems with the article: if Apple is catering to recording studios and graphics houses, how is this possibly a 'machine for the rest of us'?
My Mac Classic. That was a machine for the rest of us. Turn it on and go.