Sounds like he is sticking with the programming model of doing a large number of releases with small changes type model. Glad to see it actually, as this is the approach that I have been using on all of the software I build for work. What this does bring up, though, is the unfilled need currently of having an auto-upgrader software package where new kernel packages can be auto-upgraded and then migrated too on the fly without requiring a reboot. This would be quite complex I would admit, and maybe not possible in all kernel releases, but this is definitely something that needs to be looked at... Just my 2 cents worth..:-)
Iridium failed because of two reasons. First, failure of concept in that you could never build a reasonably sized cell phone that could transmit about 100 miles to reach one of the low orbiting satellites. The second reason was that their design was basically just 9600 baud modems which make them almost useless beyond talking. Also, the need for connectivitiy in the 1980's was not that high. Today having a large data pipe is becoming very important...
In my opinion, the first company that could have a large footprint low cost global coverage map would be very valuable and would then be seen as the big player for all data communications. Think about the ability to have 10mbps anywhere in the world. No longer would you need fiber to cell towers. Businesses would now have another company to get internet/data/voice/video access from.. Meaning, M$ making a move like this could have a dramatic impact on their market cap and help them become a much relavent player in the video/data/voice markets..
700mhz is an almost ideal frequency. Its is low enough to penetration buildings (Unlike Ghz), but is still high enough that shadowing would not be a problem like with the lower frequencies...
To me, the company that is really missing the boat on this is M$. Their cash holdings trump anything Google can come up with and could easily buy the entire frequency map. The uses for this are endless... Iridium v2 I think are the best idea from a longtimer standpoint. They could sell low cost packages where you put a small dish on your house and get basic services for free. Then have an access point built directly into the unit... Instant national WiFi coverage!!:-)
My thought is that it is not an overlap, but rather an "future upgrade reason"... Think about it... When the next version to Vista comes out, seeing as Apple is demonstrating that DRM is going way, M$ can simply remove their slow DRM support, in addition to removing the Accept/Deny screens, and then talk about a HUGE performance and productivity enhancement for the user. Of course they would basically be releasing XP SP2 again, but talk about brilliant marketing...:-)
Who the heck came up with the "permissive" license.. It just sounds so dirty.... I mean do I need to wear protection with this license?? Wait a minute... I think I know that answer to that one...:-)
Yes, you would be the only person who thinks metering bandwidth would be a good idea... At least at the consumer level..:-)
The reality here is that this is a struggle of bandwidth versus content. In the past, the ISP's thought that the big money would be made in moving bits. Because of competition, however, they were wrong, and now the money is made on the actual content pushed across the bandwidth. The response of the ISP's were to consolidate and then try again. Meaning, the real intent of what the ISP's are trying to do with bandwidth metering is to try make moving bits more profitable again. If they can pull this off is yet to be seen...
Why does this sound like a marketing document that is intended to prepare the groundwork for them starting to "meter" content? Meaning, I am sure that if Google just "pays for their fair share" that everything would be wonderful!
Actually, considering that the net neutrality failed 6 months ago, I would say these companies are quite aggressive on their marketing...
Quite interesting that FoxComm has put all of its operations in one spot. This is something that US plants are not known for, and I suspect it is due to all types of single point failures such as power, water, and other facilities. One advantage of doing this, though, is that having all 270K of employees makes providing things such as hospitals and other ammenities. I wonder how much US manufactures thought about this in the early days... Meaning, why doesnt Boeing have their own hospital?
Listen I am not hear to start a flame war, but I will say that I am someone who is willing to pay for more quality. Yes, that it right, I am someone who enjoys paying that $129 every two years. Heck, if they gave the quality of the releases they do now every year, I will pay that sum yearly and smile every time at the cash register.
Why do I not care about paying what would appear to be a large sum of money? Because I have to admit that my MacBookPro is by far the finest laptop I have ever owned, and I am someone who works on it for about 16 hours per day. Even my IBM T42 seems like a "child" against it, and I really like that laptop at the time. Also, OSX brings to be the power and reliability of Linux, but none of the quirks and constant tweaking. Is it perfect? No, but, in my opinion, it is definitely better, and if a company comes out and offers something even better than Apple can provide, I will be from this new company as well.. Meaning, I am not Apple "lover", but I definitely like better tools to do my job...
So, if you want a Honda, then go by Windows... If you want something nicer, then go with Apple, because eventhough not everyone will agree, my experience has been that Apple products are just better. Oh, and as far as running all my windows apps, well lets just say that unity mode in VMWare is just oh so cool!!!:-)
That the balance of features versus benefits in Vista are not correct. Meaning, in Vista they were too interested in providing features that consumers did not care about, such as drm and copyright protection, and not enough benefits above XP. Not only that, but the XP version is even cheaper...
I suspect this is a shorterm problem only. Meaning I checked the Dell website and they are not providing XP as an option on all laptops, so I suspect M$ is simply providing this option to their larger customers until wider adoption occurs. Over time, it would be my guess they will slowly "fade" out XP and the forced Vista adoption will be complete. Longterm this will be seen as a major mistake made by them, in my opinion....
Exactly.. They also did not change their GPL license because they know what it would mean... Meaning, if MySQL AB changed their license to a closed source format people would just fork the last version that was open, which is the beautiful thing about GPL. In BitTorrents case, why do we even care what the original creator of torrents are doing?
The real purpose of their move was to try to create the perception that their paid offering has more value than their free version to business people. Meaning, if I was a business person who just paid thousands of dollars, I want to feel like I am getting something better than a 15 year old kid can get downloading it from his basement.
Yes I agree that they will do this, but the mode of usage is completely different. For example, detected heart murmurs, you listen for "slurps" from turbulent blood flowing/leaking thru the heart. It really is not possible to get this information visually, though, because it would require a very high resolution, in addition to being able to model it eventhough it is moving. X-Ray is useless at this. Magnetic Resonance works well, but even it has a hard time modeling individual heart valves, and quite big and expensive.
Also, lung cancer, which they primarily talk about detecting is now found by x-ray or thru an unexplained abnormality in the bloodwork. This new "technology" certainly will not change that anytime soon because even after reading about this, the resolution on near 100 year old x-ray is still superior...
What I find interesting is that checking lung inhalation capacity is only one small task for a stethoscope. How is imaging the lungs going to help checking for heart valve / murmur problems?
Meaning, from a marketing standpoint, saying that their product "replaces" the stethoscope is sexy to say, but actually pulling it off is a completely different thing all together...
Just for the record, I did put that it was my opinion, just as what you put is your opinion... Everyone does have one you know...:-)
Also, in no way would I consider the OIN a offensive organization. Just a strong defensive one. Also, I dont know about your MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) argument, but I admit that I do get your point... I strongly doubt, however, many scenarios where a lawsuit ends with destruction of both companies... Look at the SCO versus IBM for a legal comparison.
Also, I dont feel I need to realize that not everyone gets M$ as I do not force you to read by postings, and anyone who thinks that M$ wont hurt them for their own self interest would be quite nieve. In my opinion, M$ is just as dangerous to other companies right now as IBM was in the 80's because they are currently lacking vision of their future, but that will change in due time. Just so you know, I primarily put M$ when I post because of what I feel is their "raping" of the software industry by charging whatever they like for their accepted monopoly of Windows and Office products, eventhough it clearly hurts the overall industry as a whole. This is not free market capitalism at work, but rather a company exploiting their unfair advantage. The only reason they got away with it is was because of their manipulation of the US government, but in time this will all be sorted out. Also, their Windows/Office product lines, by the way, are the bulk of their revenue streams consisting of about 57% of gross profits as I recall, and not their services and consulting businesses. I might be slightly off on this figure, though, because in recent days I no longer own their stock.
Also, I do not "need to realise" anything you put. It is my choice after all, just as it is with you...:-)
Finally, yes.. In my opinion, the future of software is clearly services and not sales. A simple scan on any P2P/Torrent network clearly demonstrates this fact, but that is a different angle on this. The services part, though, is clear and even M$ understands this as their "Live" inititive clearly is showing. Meaning, M$'s Windows and Office lines have clearly been devalued by OSS and will continue to be so. The longterm effects of OSS on the marketplace is that it will make most software essentually valueless, as it already has for most of the products in the server industry. Many companies, including IBM, have embraced this, but admittably M$ has the most to loose so they will be slower in transition. As we move into the next 5 years, though, most companies in the software industry will have successfully converted to a services/support business or will die. The only companies that will still be selling software will be the niche players.... Once again, that is only my opinion, though...:-)
To be perfectly fair, Safari also crashes from time to time, but I do not know the specific causes as with this error... The thing that annoys me the most about Safari, though, is that is drinks memory like a sailor drinks beer...
The difference is, though, that you can take my MacBook Pro away from me when you pry it from my dead cold fingers... Expensive or not.. Other than some minor quirks, I am so much more efficient during the day on my MacBook Pro than I ever way on Windows...:-)
The main purpose, in my opinion, for the OIN is to help insure the successful transition of the industry from software sales based to services based... These companies are broken up into two categories..
The first group are companies are the ones that already offer just services, meaning that the software they use is insignificant to their mode of business, so having software that is free to use is important. Also, getting sued is a significant risk for these companies business models. Google would be a great example for this type of company. If google had to pay for every OS, database, and file system on every server they have, I question if their business model would even be possible or viable...
The second group is companies that still work in the business of writing/distrib. software, but are not the top players in the industry. IBM would be a great example of this type of company. These types of companies are realizing, though, that business of "selling" software is slowing going away. The future of software is to sell the services that follow the software. This type of income not only provides a better revenue stream, but also is considerably more profitable..
So who is OIN truely targetting Simple.. To strike after companies that are still are based on just selling software and have the most to loose in the transition to software services... M$ comes to mind..:-)
Maybe in a sentence.. "Individual Server power usage is embarrassing and it should be more efficient"...
So what happens now?? Now we wait for a congressional committee meeting broadcasted on c-span where politicians can grand stand and talk about how it needs to change... Fortunately most politicians will consider this typical as a "black box", so they will not touch on technical details, but rather just complain.. Maybe talk about a special "colo server" tax.... Maybe throw in some global warming comments... Nothing occurs more than thi...
What will change? Well considering that Intel and AMD are already moving towards cooler chips, this will be fixed thru time..
The M$ marketing plan kicked in?? Realistically I would assume that M$ would put some sort of plan in place to make it look like XP/Vista is just taking the market by storm. In fairness, this plan was probably put into place way before Vista even released.. This is only reasonable to expect. The only issue, though, is that I have not seen this information him mainstream news (ie. No Vista is taking the world over type news) so I would assume that their plan did not go completely as planned. It might also be that other bad news has discounted Vista/M$, though, or maybe the media is too pre-occupied with the subprime blowup. Either way, at this point, I do not see this information giving M$ any traction...
The raping of your legal system, and a complete lack of the political world of caring. In no way would the founding fathers see this for anything other than what is it.... A classic shakedown to get cash for a large company... In this country we have to come to terms that Intellectual Property is not something you can force people to pay you whatever you want. There must be balance...
So are we saying there is a good side to piracy? Shocking!! You mean the music industry could have just reduced their prices to compete with piracy instead of sueing every single person?
To me spending $3 per gallon of gas. Now maybe they can manufacture these solar cells cheaper than the power company can make them. Personally, I think it is only a matter of time until we see either solar cells or a solar collecting stirling engines on each home to offset peak power usage...
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Sounds like he is sticking with the programming model of doing a large number of releases with small changes type model. Glad to see it actually, as this is the approach that I have been using on all of the software I build for work. What this does bring up, though, is the unfilled need currently of having an auto-upgrader software package where new kernel packages can be auto-upgraded and then migrated too on the fly without requiring a reboot. This would be quite complex I would admit, and maybe not possible in all kernel releases, but this is definitely something that needs to be looked at... Just my 2 cents worth.. :-)
Iridium failed because of two reasons. First, failure of concept in that you could never build a reasonably sized cell phone that could transmit about 100 miles to reach one of the low orbiting satellites. The second reason was that their design was basically just 9600 baud modems which make them almost useless beyond talking. Also, the need for connectivitiy in the 1980's was not that high. Today having a large data pipe is becoming very important...
In my opinion, the first company that could have a large footprint low cost global coverage map would be very valuable and would then be seen as the big player for all data communications. Think about the ability to have 10mbps anywhere in the world. No longer would you need fiber to cell towers. Businesses would now have another company to get internet/data/voice/video access from.. Meaning, M$ making a move like this could have a dramatic impact on their market cap and help them become a much relavent player in the video/data/voice markets..
700mhz is an almost ideal frequency. Its is low enough to penetration buildings (Unlike Ghz), but is still high enough that shadowing would not be a problem like with the lower frequencies...
:-)
To me, the company that is really missing the boat on this is M$. Their cash holdings trump anything Google can come up with and could easily buy the entire frequency map. The uses for this are endless... Iridium v2 I think are the best idea from a longtimer standpoint. They could sell low cost packages where you put a small dish on your house and get basic services for free. Then have an access point built directly into the unit... Instant national WiFi coverage!!
My thought is that it is not an overlap, but rather an "future upgrade reason"... Think about it... When the next version to Vista comes out, seeing as Apple is demonstrating that DRM is going way, M$ can simply remove their slow DRM support, in addition to removing the Accept/Deny screens, and then talk about a HUGE performance and productivity enhancement for the user. Of course they would basically be releasing XP SP2 again, but talk about brilliant marketing... :-)
Who the heck came up with the "permissive" license.. It just sounds so dirty.... I mean do I need to wear protection with this license?? Wait a minute... I think I know that answer to that one... :-)
So is this the point where we starting hearing that blocking ads is just like running out of the store with a pair of blue jeans? I mean really...
At what point do businesses start realize they they are providers of information and not the gate keepers for information...
Yes, you would be the only person who thinks metering bandwidth would be a good idea... At least at the consumer level.. :-)
The reality here is that this is a struggle of bandwidth versus content. In the past, the ISP's thought that the big money would be made in moving bits. Because of competition, however, they were wrong, and now the money is made on the actual content pushed across the bandwidth. The response of the ISP's were to consolidate and then try again. Meaning, the real intent of what the ISP's are trying to do with bandwidth metering is to try make moving bits more profitable again. If they can pull this off is yet to be seen...
Why does this sound like a marketing document that is intended to prepare the groundwork for them starting to "meter" content? Meaning, I am sure that if Google just "pays for their fair share" that everything would be wonderful!
Actually, considering that the net neutrality failed 6 months ago, I would say these companies are quite aggressive on their marketing...
Quite interesting that FoxComm has put all of its operations in one spot. This is something that US plants are not known for, and I suspect it is due to all types of single point failures such as power, water, and other facilities. One advantage of doing this, though, is that having all 270K of employees makes providing things such as hospitals and other ammenities. I wonder how much US manufactures thought about this in the early days... Meaning, why doesnt Boeing have their own hospital?
Listen I am not hear to start a flame war, but I will say that I am someone who is willing to pay for more quality. Yes, that it right, I am someone who enjoys paying that $129 every two years. Heck, if they gave the quality of the releases they do now every year, I will pay that sum yearly and smile every time at the cash register.
:-)
Why do I not care about paying what would appear to be a large sum of money? Because I have to admit that my MacBookPro is by far the finest laptop I have ever owned, and I am someone who works on it for about 16 hours per day. Even my IBM T42 seems like a "child" against it, and I really like that laptop at the time. Also, OSX brings to be the power and reliability of Linux, but none of the quirks and constant tweaking. Is it perfect? No, but, in my opinion, it is definitely better, and if a company comes out and offers something even better than Apple can provide, I will be from this new company as well.. Meaning, I am not Apple "lover", but I definitely like better tools to do my job...
So, if you want a Honda, then go by Windows... If you want something nicer, then go with Apple, because eventhough not everyone will agree, my experience has been that Apple products are just better. Oh, and as far as running all my windows apps, well lets just say that unity mode in VMWare is just oh so cool!!!
That the balance of features versus benefits in Vista are not correct. Meaning, in Vista they were too interested in providing features that consumers did not care about, such as drm and copyright protection, and not enough benefits above XP. Not only that, but the XP version is even cheaper...
I suspect this is a shorterm problem only. Meaning I checked the Dell website and they are not providing XP as an option on all laptops, so I suspect M$ is simply providing this option to their larger customers until wider adoption occurs. Over time, it would be my guess they will slowly "fade" out XP and the forced Vista adoption will be complete. Longterm this will be seen as a major mistake made by them, in my opinion....
Considering the current track record of NASA, you can bet on it.
Exactly.. They also did not change their GPL license because they know what it would mean... Meaning, if MySQL AB changed their license to a closed source format people would just fork the last version that was open, which is the beautiful thing about GPL. In BitTorrents case, why do we even care what the original creator of torrents are doing?
The real purpose of their move was to try to create the perception that their paid offering has more value than their free version to business people. Meaning, if I was a business person who just paid thousands of dollars, I want to feel like I am getting something better than a 15 year old kid can get downloading it from his basement.
Why do I get the feeling that there will be a Torrent for MySQL Enterprise Server source? :-)
Yes I agree that they will do this, but the mode of usage is completely different. For example, detected heart murmurs, you listen for "slurps" from turbulent blood flowing/leaking thru the heart. It really is not possible to get this information visually, though, because it would require a very high resolution, in addition to being able to model it eventhough it is moving. X-Ray is useless at this. Magnetic Resonance works well, but even it has a hard time modeling individual heart valves, and quite big and expensive.
Also, lung cancer, which they primarily talk about detecting is now found by x-ray or thru an unexplained abnormality in the bloodwork. This new "technology" certainly will not change that anytime soon because even after reading about this, the resolution on near 100 year old x-ray is still superior...
Brilliant statement, by the way... Now if only you could consult the investors on this... :-)
What I find interesting is that checking lung inhalation capacity is only one small task for a stethoscope. How is imaging the lungs going to help checking for heart valve / murmur problems?
Meaning, from a marketing standpoint, saying that their product "replaces" the stethoscope is sexy to say, but actually pulling it off is a completely different thing all together...
Just for the record, I did put that it was my opinion, just as what you put is your opinion... Everyone does have one you know... :-)
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Also, in no way would I consider the OIN a offensive organization. Just a strong defensive one. Also, I dont know about your MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) argument, but I admit that I do get your point... I strongly doubt, however, many scenarios where a lawsuit ends with destruction of both companies... Look at the SCO versus IBM for a legal comparison.
Also, I dont feel I need to realize that not everyone gets M$ as I do not force you to read by postings, and anyone who thinks that M$ wont hurt them for their own self interest would be quite nieve. In my opinion, M$ is just as dangerous to other companies right now as IBM was in the 80's because they are currently lacking vision of their future, but that will change in due time. Just so you know, I primarily put M$ when I post because of what I feel is their "raping" of the software industry by charging whatever they like for their accepted monopoly of Windows and Office products, eventhough it clearly hurts the overall industry as a whole. This is not free market capitalism at work, but rather a company exploiting their unfair advantage. The only reason they got away with it is was because of their manipulation of the US government, but in time this will all be sorted out. Also, their Windows/Office product lines, by the way, are the bulk of their revenue streams consisting of about 57% of gross profits as I recall, and not their services and consulting businesses. I might be slightly off on this figure, though, because in recent days I no longer own their stock.
Also, I do not "need to realise" anything you put. It is my choice after all, just as it is with you...
Finally, yes.. In my opinion, the future of software is clearly services and not sales. A simple scan on any P2P/Torrent network clearly demonstrates this fact, but that is a different angle on this. The services part, though, is clear and even M$ understands this as their "Live" inititive clearly is showing. Meaning, M$'s Windows and Office lines have clearly been devalued by OSS and will continue to be so. The longterm effects of OSS on the marketplace is that it will make most software essentually valueless, as it already has for most of the products in the server industry. Many companies, including IBM, have embraced this, but admittably M$ has the most to loose so they will be slower in transition. As we move into the next 5 years, though, most companies in the software industry will have successfully converted to a services/support business or will die. The only companies that will still be selling software will be the niche players.... Once again, that is only my opinion, though...
To be perfectly fair, Safari also crashes from time to time, but I do not know the specific causes as with this error... The thing that annoys me the most about Safari, though, is that is drinks memory like a sailor drinks beer...
:-)
The difference is, though, that you can take my MacBook Pro away from me when you pry it from my dead cold fingers... Expensive or not.. Other than some minor quirks, I am so much more efficient during the day on my MacBook Pro than I ever way on Windows...
The main purpose, in my opinion, for the OIN is to help insure the successful transition of the industry from software sales based to services based... These companies are broken up into two categories..
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The first group are companies are the ones that already offer just services, meaning that the software they use is insignificant to their mode of business, so having software that is free to use is important. Also, getting sued is a significant risk for these companies business models. Google would be a great example for this type of company. If google had to pay for every OS, database, and file system on every server they have, I question if their business model would even be possible or viable...
The second group is companies that still work in the business of writing/distrib. software, but are not the top players in the industry. IBM would be a great example of this type of company. These types of companies are realizing, though, that business of "selling" software is slowing going away. The future of software is to sell the services that follow the software. This type of income not only provides a better revenue stream, but also is considerably more profitable..
So who is OIN truely targetting Simple.. To strike after companies that are still are based on just selling software and have the most to loose in the transition to software services... M$ comes to mind..
Maybe in a sentence.. "Individual Server power usage is embarrassing and it should be more efficient"...
So what happens now?? Now we wait for a congressional committee meeting broadcasted on c-span where politicians can grand stand and talk about how it needs to change... Fortunately most politicians will consider this typical as a "black box", so they will not touch on technical details, but rather just complain.. Maybe talk about a special "colo server" tax.... Maybe throw in some global warming comments... Nothing occurs more than thi...
What will change? Well considering that Intel and AMD are already moving towards cooler chips, this will be fixed thru time..
The M$ marketing plan kicked in?? Realistically I would assume that M$ would put some sort of plan in place to make it look like XP/Vista is just taking the market by storm. In fairness, this plan was probably put into place way before Vista even released.. This is only reasonable to expect. The only issue, though, is that I have not seen this information him mainstream news (ie. No Vista is taking the world over type news) so I would assume that their plan did not go completely as planned. It might also be that other bad news has discounted Vista/M$, though, or maybe the media is too pre-occupied with the subprime blowup. Either way, at this point, I do not see this information giving M$ any traction...
The raping of your legal system, and a complete lack of the political world of caring. In no way would the founding fathers see this for anything other than what is it.... A classic shakedown to get cash for a large company... In this country we have to come to terms that Intellectual Property is not something you can force people to pay you whatever you want. There must be balance...
So are we saying there is a good side to piracy? Shocking!! You mean the music industry could have just reduced their prices to compete with piracy instead of sueing every single person?
To me spending $3 per gallon of gas. Now maybe they can manufacture these solar cells cheaper than the power company can make them. Personally, I think it is only a matter of time until we see either solar cells or a solar collecting stirling engines on each home to offset peak power usage...