I think on the server Windows is history now for many companies, either they run Linux on x86 architectures or they run it under VM on the mainframe.
On the desktop I am not so sure, certainly by 2015 I think the dominance will be gone. Whether it will be gone completely is another matter. I am pretty certain that if people are running Windows it will be Windows 2010 or whatever it will be called and not Windows 2015.
I don't think that MS has realised that there is no money in operating systems any more. IBM, HP and Sun (to some extent) cottoned on to that some time back. MS is trying to sell the same old stuff, while FOSS gradually climbs up the food chain. I think we will see the likes of Oracle getting out of databases and BEA getting out of enterprise Web systems before we see MS abandoning its cash cows.
Given that the biggest Linux vendor is going with a J2EE application server are there any implications for Mono and its associated application stack?
In another topic it was pointed out that Novell are not doing particularly well with Linux. Given that they employ a number of Mono hackers are there any implications for Novell and said hackers?
Some good stuff on these. My taste is probably a bit different to most readers, but the fact that Magnatune includes material from the Dufay Collective is impressive.
What you have to remember is that MS isn't really a software company. It is a marketing company that just happens to produces software.
As long as they can spend money on marketing and advertising to convince PHBs and Joe Sixpack they they are the only game in town they will keep on cleaning up.
> Four months before Saddam's fall, Human Rights Watch estimated that up to 290,000 people had "disappeared" since the late 1970s and were presumed dead.
You don't mention how many have died since the invasion. It might be interesting to compare the number of people killed per year during Saddam's presidency and the numbers since the invasion.
There is no doubt that Saddam was a monster, but let us put the suffering of the Iraqi people into context.
> That being said: where do you think R&D money comes from?
> Once example: You do realize that developing new medicines costs a crapload of money right? > You do realize that companies who develop medicines depend on patents to guarantee that it > cannot be copied so they can make more money and make more medicines right? Thankfully, the > patents expire and the drugs become generics, bringing costs down.
Pharmaceutical companies do spend a fair amount on R & D. However, it is nowhere near as much as they spend on marketing. The reality is that they are using patents to control the market, not to recoup their R & D investment.
> So to save money I need to buy a new car and move to a new house closer to work? That's a fantastic idea..
No, you need to move to someplace where a car isn't a necessity. If you need a car then you ought to have one that is fuel efficient. You should also consider whether it would be possible for you to homework two or three days a week.
> Many brave French citizens died resisting the Nazis. Unfortunately, just as many were assisting the Nazis. The rest were just ducking for cover.
In WWII the French lost 212,000 military personnel and 267,000 civilians. In the whole of the war in Europe the USA lost 131,000 military personnel. In the whole of the ward they lost 11,000 civilians.
Even in your despisement of the French you ought to use some facts in your argument.
And as has been said in other posts, it was the USSR that saved Europe. America, as in WW1, was late into the war. It only joined the war when it was attacked. Previously it had been selling dysfunctional destroyers to the allies and extracting territory in payment.
There is another explanation. I worked for an expert systems company when it was "the next big thing". There were very few reports in the press about companies developing expert systems, though people in the field knew a lot was being done.
The major reason was that the possibility of getting a competitive advantage by producing something that nobody else had.
The same may be true here but in a different way - you just removed a large amount of your cost base, but you don't want your competitors to know about it because they might start doing the same thing.
Try reading some of Jack Schofield's columns in the Guardian online. The man is an arrogant boor, convinced he is always right and trashing anybody who doesn't agree with him. He is also a devoted microserf and seems to delight in putting down anyone who takes exception to their software or business practices.
>.. with this issue is that it seems like there is some sort of systematic slander campaign in the US press to make the UN look bad.
It isn't just the UN (totally corrupt) and the EU (faggot socialists) that seem to take the hit, it is anything that smacks of any kind of internationalism.
I don't know whether it is because Americans believe they are being attacked (verbally) by people outside the US. In most cases they are not, it isn't Americans that are disliked so much as the American Government.
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You need to start watching people fencing saber. I was at the World Under-17 championships last year as one of the coaches to the British squad.
8 615883493 for a (not very good) example.
First period (this stops when someone reaches 8 hits): 8-4 to Alex O'Connell after 27 seconds of fencing time.
Half time break: 1 minute
Second period (this stops when someone reaches 15): 15-11 to Alex O'Connell after 29 seconds of fencing time.
An ideal sport for those with the attention span of a small goldfish.
See http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=539602150
Isn't this just another MS attempt to "decommoditise the protocols" mentioned in the Halloween reports?
That it is Linux that is hard to install. Windows just works out of the box.
> My prediction: by 2015, Windows is history.
I think on the server Windows is history now for many companies, either they run Linux on x86 architectures or they run it under VM on the mainframe.
On the desktop I am not so sure, certainly by 2015 I think the dominance will be gone. Whether it will be gone completely is another matter. I am pretty certain that if people are running Windows it will be Windows 2010 or whatever it will be called and not Windows 2015.
I don't think that MS has realised that there is no money in operating systems any more. IBM, HP and Sun (to some extent) cottoned on to that some time back. MS is trying to sell the same old stuff, while FOSS gradually climbs up the food chain. I think we will see the likes of Oracle getting out of databases and BEA getting out of enterprise Web systems before we see MS abandoning its cash cows.
This just seems to be a puff piece with no detail on what is proposed at all.
> China has not been communist for years
China has never been communist. It has always been a dictatorship.
Given that the biggest Linux vendor is going with a J2EE application server are there any implications for Mono and its associated application stack?
In another topic it was pointed out that Novell are not doing particularly well with Linux. Given that they employ a number of Mono hackers are there any implications for Novell and said hackers?
Some good stuff on these. My taste is probably a bit different to most readers, but the fact that Magnatune includes material from the Dufay Collective is impressive.
What you have to remember is that MS isn't really a software company. It is a marketing company that just happens to produces software.
As long as they can spend money on marketing and advertising to convince PHBs and Joe Sixpack they they are the only game in town they will keep on cleaning up.
"Death toll from Katrina: 1420
:-)
Death toll from the European 2003 heat wave: 35000"
So how much time in advance was Katrina forecast? Somewhat further than the heatwave I would guess.
"...because the entire country was on vacation."
A slight exaggeration, and you are only saying it because you are jealous of the fact that Europeans actually take holidays
> Four months before Saddam's fall, Human Rights Watch estimated that up to 290,000 people had "disappeared" since the late 1970s and were presumed dead.
You don't mention how many have died since the invasion. It might be interesting to compare the number of people killed per year during Saddam's presidency and the numbers since the invasion.
There is no doubt that Saddam was a monster, but let us put the suffering of the Iraqi people into context.
Not forgetting Cockermouth
> humans are highly sociable animals, according to anthropologists.
Aristotle said this in another form (Man is by nature a political animal) in about 300 BC.
> Colt manufactures guns. Man opens fire in public with a Colt pistol. Who's at fault? The shooter, of course.
But if Colt or gun shops connive in selling guns to someone who is obviously intent on committing a crime then share some of the culpability.
> We don't surround embassies with guns and blow them up if a newspaper prints something we don't like.
Like the "accidental" bombing of the Al-jazeera station in Afghanistan, or the planned bombing in Qatar?
> We don't murder people that have political dissagreements with us.
So how many Iraqi civilians have been killed since the last invasion?
> I think you really need to spend some time thinking about this more and doing more research.
Don't we all?
In the UK the libraries pay a fee to the publishers each time a book is borrowed.
when the Norman French conquered Britain
Or when Napoleon captured most of Europe
Of course you might mean when they ignominiously pulled out of Vietnam leaving the Americans to bring a succesful conclusion to the war there.
> That being said: where do you think R&D money comes from?
> Once example: You do realize that developing new medicines costs a crapload of money right?
> You do realize that companies who develop medicines depend on patents to guarantee that it
> cannot be copied so they can make more money and make more medicines right? Thankfully, the
> patents expire and the drugs become generics, bringing costs down.
Pharmaceutical companies do spend a fair amount on R & D. However, it is nowhere near as much as they spend on marketing. The reality is that they are using patents to control the market, not to recoup their R & D investment.
> 6. Profit!
So that makes Windows, Office and FAT the three things that MS produces that create a profit.
> So to save money I need to buy a new car and move to a new house closer to work? That's a fantastic idea..
No, you need to move to someplace where a car isn't a necessity. If you need a car then you ought to have one that is fuel efficient. You should also consider whether it would be possible for you to homework two or three days a week.
> Many brave French citizens died resisting the Nazis. Unfortunately, just as many were assisting the Nazis. The rest were just ducking for cover.
In WWII the French lost 212,000 military personnel and 267,000 civilians. In the whole of the war in Europe the USA lost 131,000 military personnel. In the whole of the ward they lost 11,000 civilians.
Even in your despisement of the French you ought to use some facts in your argument.
And as has been said in other posts, it was the USSR that saved Europe. America, as in WW1, was late into the war. It only joined the war when it was attacked. Previously it had been selling dysfunctional destroyers to the allies and extracting territory in payment.
There is another explanation. I worked for an expert systems company when it was "the next big thing". There were very few reports in the press about companies developing expert systems, though people in the field knew a lot was being done.
The major reason was that the possibility of getting a competitive advantage by producing something that nobody else had.
The same may be true here but in a different way - you just removed a large amount of your cost base, but you don't want your competitors to know about it because they might start doing the same thing.
Try reading some of Jack Schofield's columns in the Guardian online. The man is an arrogant boor, convinced he is always right and trashing anybody who doesn't agree with him. He is also a devoted microserf and seems to delight in putting down anyone who takes exception to their software or business practices.
> You're right. And the sad fact is that it is in France where the government and the media collude to deceive the public.
;-)
No sign of the American government paying for TV programs pretending to be news then
> .. with this issue is that it seems like there is some sort of systematic slander campaign in the US press to make the UN look bad.
It isn't just the UN (totally corrupt) and the EU (faggot socialists) that seem to take the hit, it is anything that smacks of any kind of internationalism.
I don't know whether it is because Americans believe they are being attacked (verbally) by people outside the US. In most cases they are not, it isn't Americans that are disliked so much as the American Government.