It just shows that proprietary companies still do not understand OSS... OSS is not about building a company to sustain profits, but rather about trying to build tools to help get around paying a "tax" just to use something...
OSS is an evolution of the software industry. In fact, I strongly suspect OSS will actually do better in a recession because companies want to reduce costs even further...
Exactly... An engine failure in something as slow as a Citabria would be easy to to "pancake" as they call it. Chances are he never saw the mountain which is very easy to happen..
When was a device built by Apple a democratic system? If I have a party do I have to invite everyone even if I do not like them?? Certainly not..
In short.. If you do not like the iPhone, then dont buy one. That is your right, and Apple is not holding a gun to your head. What they are trying to do, however, is to provide the experience that they want and not yours. If that means that they hurt some people's feelings along they way, then they seem fine with that... Personally, I am too...
You realize that mainframe programmers and unix programmers are pretty much one in the same. Meaning, a linux guy could easily navigate around AS400 systems with a cue card showing them the command changes...
And yes, generally unix developers are the cream of the crop and you pay top dollar for them because their knowledge of the systems are typically allot higher than you see on the Windows side.... With Windows developers you see allot of.Net guys who have very little understanding other than what they were taught in class. That is not as common in Unix developers...
I certainly understand your point, but quality of developers are only half the picture. The OS design structure of Windows and Unix is just different, and both have their strengths and weaknesses. I am excluding OSX in this argument for several reasons...
The Unix development approach is allot better at appliance like implementations. Meaning, you build it for a specific job (batch transactional processing in this case), and you treat the hardware as an appliance. You also limit ways a user can interact with the system, so patching is rare to never. Video interaction is rare, and even shell interactions are console menu based and/or web based. The prevents users from tinkering, and prevents the ability to exploit any vulnerabilities that may exist.
The Windows development approach is more more flexible in nature. Meaning, primarily keyboard and mouse user interaction is guaranteed. The possibility of somehow getting a virus must be taken into consideration. Most interactions is RDC and/or VNC based. Web based servicing sometimes occurs, but Windows is impractical to build in an appliance fashion typically...
No... Actually I deal with this everyday. Windows is great for places where you need desktop apps or such. It also does well when you must have generic developers for web development.
Where Unix/Linux/BSD truly shines is on back office type transactional processing. There are many reasons for this, and have a long history at doing exactly this. Meaning, mainframes may not have every been considered sexy, but they ran critical systems in companies for decades with very little problems... Actually they built such a reputation that when they failed most instantly assumed it was a hardware failure... Working on them, however, takes a more polished developer...
Why the heck they were using MS Windows for this type of environment is stunning... Transactional processing which is the bulk of this type of setup is where Solaris and Linux excel. Any company that builds a system like that on.Net should be thown out on the street.
In short.. Not to rock on Windows, but different platforms always offer different strengths..
"Headed for Trouble"... My friend, I think we are more than there... We have decided that in this country the only thing that is important are business people. If your companies product(s) suck, then all you need to do is to buy another company to exploit, or get better marketing... Pretty pitiful state of affairs if you ask me, and is definitely not something that leads to long-term success.
Nasa no doubt has any special love for the shuttle fleet. They were built under a promise that everyone realized was not achievable for a government institution to do, which is to function cheaply and efficiently..
Now, after 3 decades, and having their chairman admit that the shuttle program was a mistake, they are going back to their roots and re-building Apollo and Saturn 5.
So yes... The Shuttle was a very expensive mistake and even Nasa admits this... If the Saturn 5 would have ever been produced in volumes, its costs per mission would have been considerably cheaper than a shuttle mission...
Yes, except it really is kind of a disappointment that they have to "relearn" what they did with Apollo. One would have hoped they would have kept the documents and engineering notes to allow them to basically duplicate the earlier effort, but apparently they did not.
And Robert Goddard also got in trouble for building a rocket go cart, and look at what he ended up achieving. The reality is that we are trying to discourage the same bright minds we want to push the outer limits of what society considers normal. My opinion is that they should have padded the kids on the back, and then told them to please do not drive the contraption on public streets...
In all the coverage that I have seen, they keep talking about the phone itself. In my opinion, the reason the ipod was so successful was not as much because of the device, but rather on the integration of an easy to use platform of services for consumers. The ease of use App Store for the iPhone is a great example of this, but is only a small piece long term. In Apple's case, you can bet they have big integration plans for their OSX/iPod/iTunes/iTV product lines.
Meaning, I really question is the industry can effectively challenge Apple in a long term sense without the full underpinning support of Microsoft and eventually the Linux community... I guess we will see, though...
With Vista stumbling terribly and now XP being removed from the marketplace, in the medium term do you see Wine / Linux as a true potential commercial viable alternative rather than just a niche as it is now? If so, what financial steps have you taken to prepare for legal threats?
I am really starting to get annoyed with Yahoo and how they are handling this. They are a beaten company, because they just sat around and did nothing... Google crushed their future business model, and now instead of letting themselves be purchased by what appears the best fit from a competition standpoint, they instead are poisoning it in a number of ways.
I am certainly no fan of MS, but Google definitely needs to stay nervous in my opinion. This will, they will not eventually fall into the same trap that Yahoo did.... The trap of laziness...
I know very little about climate change, but one thing I do know is that climate sciences are very complex and can never be "verified" as you call it. In fact, none of the current cooling trend of (0.7C) over the last year was ever calculated into any of the GW predicted models. This understandably is making it a little hard time right now...
Also, one other thing you might want to consider is that GW was never about the actual science, but rather is a political way of trying to get people to become socialists by apologizing for their existence. That is why at least in the US, I can promise you that real GW policy will never happen...
Actually it is quite difficult to make money in the stock market right now with all the volatility...:)
Also, let me be yet make a prediction for you.. I am definitely with you that we need to put in better policies to take better care of our earth, but big global changes are occurring right now that have very little to do with our involvement... Hopefully this will turn around in the coming years, so that we can get back to talking about GW..
Meaning, the global climate is now changing to the colder side, and the unfortunate part of this is that because of the GW issue, no one seems to be planning for possible outcomes. If the current growing season of corn crops and Australia's wheat crops are any indication of what we have to look forward in coming years, then I think that carbon emission will be the least of our concerns...
I think the corn prices and sun spots probably are a better trade right now... The unexpected cold and wet conditions in the growing states are pushing corn higher than it has ever been before...
In short, I think all of us need to get ready to pay allot more for energy and food in the immediately future. With 6.6 Billion people vying for the same food supply, things in the next decade should get quite interesting..
Actually, this happens all the time. In fact, SOHO had a video last week of a comet being sucked it, which I thought was really neat to watch...
As far as what it does... The comet In the video actually did hit the sun, but it was slowly being disintegrated as it got close. As humans we would like to think we have control of our environment, but the reality is that we cannot really even fathom the shear magnitude of energy the sun releases.
Personally, I am not saying the IPCC is wrong, but when your whole organizations existence relies on climate change actually occurring, I think some bias probably is guaranteed in their numbers...
Also, if you want me to produce some graphs that show that global temperatures have gone to 0C, I can certainly do that for you. Data can be made to look anyway you want, but with La Nina currently on the upswing, there is little disagreement that global temps are falling. At least in the short term, but no one has a clue what will happen in the medium term...
From my limited understanding, the main theory on solar flare and climate change is not on light intensity, but rather an magnetic field extension. Meaning, it is speculated that when you have less solar activity, it leads to more lower cloud cover. Current satellite data is backing this up, I might add, but a couple more years of data will be required to prove this... Hence, why science moves slow and why the whole argument of doing something immediately about GW was always political and not science... Science is all about taking your time to figure out exactly what is going on, and not "pulling the trigger" too quickly..
You obviously you have not spent allot of time on a mac...:)
For me, I could care less about style, but reliability and productivity is everything to me because I work 16 hour days... I can rely on my my MacBookPro every morning that I wake up... Personally, I could care less about how much it costs as long as it is reliable, functional, and stays that way... I could never say that about windows xp/vista...
I agree 100%. Meaning, Dell would love to sell a system that would compete directly with Apple, and I think that if they had an OS that could go head to head with OSX, then I think they would have a fighting chance..
Dont get me wrong... I really like all my macs (100% mac laptop enviroment w/ VMWare server Windows), but the main thing I like is OSX. Vista does not even come close, and Linux, eventhough it is certainly reliable enough, in all its variants really not equipped to take on OSX on the desktop side...
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It just shows that proprietary companies still do not understand OSS... OSS is not about building a company to sustain profits, but rather about trying to build tools to help get around paying a "tax" just to use something...
OSS is an evolution of the software industry. In fact, I strongly suspect OSS will actually do better in a recession because companies want to reduce costs even further...
Exactly... An engine failure in something as slow as a Citabria would be easy to to "pancake" as they call it. Chances are he never saw the mountain which is very easy to happen..
When was a device built by Apple a democratic system? If I have a party do I have to invite everyone even if I do not like them?? Certainly not..
In short.. If you do not like the iPhone, then dont buy one. That is your right, and Apple is not holding a gun to your head. What they are trying to do, however, is to provide the experience that they want and not yours. If that means that they hurt some people's feelings along they way, then they seem fine with that... Personally, I am too...
You realize that mainframe programmers and unix programmers are pretty much one in the same. Meaning, a linux guy could easily navigate around AS400 systems with a cue card showing them the command changes...
And yes, generally unix developers are the cream of the crop and you pay top dollar for them because their knowledge of the systems are typically allot higher than you see on the Windows side.... With Windows developers you see allot of .Net guys who have very little understanding other than what they were taught in class. That is not as common in Unix developers...
I certainly understand your point, but quality of developers are only half the picture. The OS design structure of Windows and Unix is just different, and both have their strengths and weaknesses. I am excluding OSX in this argument for several reasons...
The Unix development approach is allot better at appliance like implementations. Meaning, you build it for a specific job (batch transactional processing in this case), and you treat the hardware as an appliance. You also limit ways a user can interact with the system, so patching is rare to never. Video interaction is rare, and even shell interactions are console menu based and/or web based. The prevents users from tinkering, and prevents the ability to exploit any vulnerabilities that may exist.
The Windows development approach is more more flexible in nature. Meaning, primarily keyboard and mouse user interaction is guaranteed. The possibility of somehow getting a virus must be taken into consideration. Most interactions is RDC and/or VNC based. Web based servicing sometimes occurs, but Windows is impractical to build in an appliance fashion typically...
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No... Actually I deal with this everyday. Windows is great for places where you need desktop apps or such. It also does well when you must have generic developers for web development.
Where Unix/Linux/BSD truly shines is on back office type transactional processing. There are many reasons for this, and have a long history at doing exactly this. Meaning, mainframes may not have every been considered sexy, but they ran critical systems in companies for decades with very little problems... Actually they built such a reputation that when they failed most instantly assumed it was a hardware failure... Working on them, however, takes a more polished developer...
Why the heck they were using MS Windows for this type of environment is stunning... Transactional processing which is the bulk of this type of setup is where Solaris and Linux excel. Any company that builds a system like that on .Net should be thown out on the street.
In short.. Not to rock on Windows, but different platforms always offer different strengths..
"Headed for Trouble"... My friend, I think we are more than there... We have decided that in this country the only thing that is important are business people. If your companies product(s) suck, then all you need to do is to buy another company to exploit, or get better marketing... Pretty pitiful state of affairs if you ask me, and is definitely not something that leads to long-term success.
Nasa no doubt has any special love for the shuttle fleet. They were built under a promise that everyone realized was not achievable for a government institution to do, which is to function cheaply and efficiently..
Now, after 3 decades, and having their chairman admit that the shuttle program was a mistake, they are going back to their roots and re-building Apollo and Saturn 5.
So yes... The Shuttle was a very expensive mistake and even Nasa admits this... If the Saturn 5 would have ever been produced in volumes, its costs per mission would have been considerably cheaper than a shuttle mission...
Yes, except it really is kind of a disappointment that they have to "relearn" what they did with Apollo. One would have hoped they would have kept the documents and engineering notes to allow them to basically duplicate the earlier effort, but apparently they did not.
And Robert Goddard also got in trouble for building a rocket go cart, and look at what he ended up achieving. The reality is that we are trying to discourage the same bright minds we want to push the outer limits of what society considers normal. My opinion is that they should have padded the kids on the back, and then told them to please do not drive the contraption on public streets...
In all the coverage that I have seen, they keep talking about the phone itself. In my opinion, the reason the ipod was so successful was not as much because of the device, but rather on the integration of an easy to use platform of services for consumers. The ease of use App Store for the iPhone is a great example of this, but is only a small piece long term. In Apple's case, you can bet they have big integration plans for their OSX/iPod/iTunes/iTV product lines.
Meaning, I really question is the industry can effectively challenge Apple in a long term sense without the full underpinning support of Microsoft and eventually the Linux community... I guess we will see, though...
Microsoft is working on a new OS that will never see the light of day because it will risk the monopolistic platform to which they now enjoy...
Silly kid... All Americans know that only politicians votes are for sale. Not your own.... :)
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With Vista stumbling terribly and now XP being removed from the marketplace, in the medium term do you see Wine / Linux as a true potential commercial viable alternative rather than just a niche as it is now? If so, what financial steps have you taken to prepare for legal threats?
Thanks!! :)
I am really starting to get annoyed with Yahoo and how they are handling this. They are a beaten company, because they just sat around and did nothing... Google crushed their future business model, and now instead of letting themselves be purchased by what appears the best fit from a competition standpoint, they instead are poisoning it in a number of ways.
I am certainly no fan of MS, but Google definitely needs to stay nervous in my opinion. This will, they will not eventually fall into the same trap that Yahoo did.... The trap of laziness...
I know very little about climate change, but one thing I do know is that climate sciences are very complex and can never be "verified" as you call it. In fact, none of the current cooling trend of (0.7C) over the last year was ever calculated into any of the GW predicted models. This understandably is making it a little hard time right now...
Also, one other thing you might want to consider is that GW was never about the actual science, but rather is a political way of trying to get people to become socialists by apologizing for their existence. That is why at least in the US, I can promise you that real GW policy will never happen...
Actually it is quite difficult to make money in the stock market right now with all the volatility... :)
Also, let me be yet make a prediction for you.. I am definitely with you that we need to put in better policies to take better care of our earth, but big global changes are occurring right now that have very little to do with our involvement... Hopefully this will turn around in the coming years, so that we can get back to talking about GW..
Meaning, the global climate is now changing to the colder side, and the unfortunate part of this is that because of the GW issue, no one seems to be planning for possible outcomes. If the current growing season of corn crops and Australia's wheat crops are any indication of what we have to look forward in coming years, then I think that carbon emission will be the least of our concerns...
Yes... It is called day and night... :)
I think the corn prices and sun spots probably are a better trade right now... The unexpected cold and wet conditions in the growing states are pushing corn higher than it has ever been before...
In short, I think all of us need to get ready to pay allot more for energy and food in the immediately future. With 6.6 Billion people vying for the same food supply, things in the next decade should get quite interesting..
Actually, this happens all the time. In fact, SOHO had a video last week of a comet being sucked it, which I thought was really neat to watch...
As far as what it does... The comet In the video actually did hit the sun, but it was slowly being disintegrated as it got close. As humans we would like to think we have control of our environment, but the reality is that we cannot really even fathom the shear magnitude of energy the sun releases.
Personally, I am not saying the IPCC is wrong, but when your whole organizations existence relies on climate change actually occurring, I think some bias probably is guaranteed in their numbers...
Also, if you want me to produce some graphs that show that global temperatures have gone to 0C, I can certainly do that for you. Data can be made to look anyway you want, but with La Nina currently on the upswing, there is little disagreement that global temps are falling. At least in the short term, but no one has a clue what will happen in the medium term...
From my limited understanding, the main theory on solar flare and climate change is not on light intensity, but rather an magnetic field extension. Meaning, it is speculated that when you have less solar activity, it leads to more lower cloud cover. Current satellite data is backing this up, I might add, but a couple more years of data will be required to prove this... Hence, why science moves slow and why the whole argument of doing something immediately about GW was always political and not science... Science is all about taking your time to figure out exactly what is going on, and not "pulling the trigger" too quickly..
You obviously you have not spent allot of time on a mac... :)
For me, I could care less about style, but reliability and productivity is everything to me because I work 16 hour days... I can rely on my my MacBookPro every morning that I wake up... Personally, I could care less about how much it costs as long as it is reliable, functional, and stays that way... I could never say that about windows xp/vista...
I agree 100%. Meaning, Dell would love to sell a system that would compete directly with Apple, and I think that if they had an OS that could go head to head with OSX, then I think they would have a fighting chance..
Dont get me wrong... I really like all my macs (100% mac laptop enviroment w/ VMWare server Windows), but the main thing I like is OSX. Vista does not even come close, and Linux, eventhough it is certainly reliable enough, in all its variants really not equipped to take on OSX on the desktop side...