No OS is "fully" documented. No UNIX will EVER be fully documented and, hey, who would like to even see windows documented? It would be a larger task than building, marketing and supporting the software itself.
Even giving the researchers the benefit of the doubt regarding their funding, I find their study bleak and useless. Why? Well, they have discovered that migration has its costs: training and retraining. That closed environments designed to work together beforehand can have relative short-term benefits: exchange comes prepackaged to "work" with Active Directory, so there is no integration cost. But Zimbra comes prebuilt to work with its own openldap, another openldap, any kind of ldap (really) and/or AD, and its foss...
So they are pussies. They made a study that reflects that moving from one technology to another costs, without an effort to measure what the long term benefits of migrating may be....
I find Zero insight in their work (insofar as ive seen, like the arcticle in the economist, although i will read the whole thing once i get my hands on it),, they only bring what we already know to the table, with the FUD package we have come to know for years now...
Add big cloud of computers and a cheap 100MBPS line and you can match in two secconds against a database.... or how many megabytes does a genome take? I dont think too many. I think its already well compressed.
25 years in programming-language-development time is an eternity. PLs have been around for less than 70 years and we have thousends of them, the more popular (and even some of the least), continuosly evolve.
Inventing a new language is cheaper than waiting 25 years.
I can say Ive been around very rational religious people, akin to what you post here. The problem, however, is that they are not the ones in charge, they arent leading anyone in the catholic church and are meek: they are NOT fighting against their church's stance cause, you know, they can loose their jobs that way.
So i just dont count them. If intelligent Catholics are not actively reforming their faith, they are worthless to it. Thank god, they are not worthless to me, or you, or people around them...
It is a sad thing that nobody remembers that the Latin word ecclesia (church), actually means congregation or assembly: it should be the reunion of the faithful what leads the church, not old men in weird dresses.
Things will change? Sure: look at japan's practically fully up-for-grabs anime and manga market.
What happens is that most creations get paritioned in much smaller chunks and they are sold briefly and separatly... yes, its a price to pay, but on the upside, its a HUGE market of stuff to choose from and the quality of the top 10% is, well hell, probably the best in the world
Let me say it again: ONE link. No cable company, no tv channels, no "networks". Just one link, and everyone provides their content in their wepage behind paywalls and we pay for what we want.
If independent musicians do better than labels and can distribute and produce for me, who will pay them to do so, then WHY NOT? If labels are so good at producing that they can survive even competition on the market, then all the best to them.
Dont you see? This law ONLY serves a middle man that has lost tremendous value once music/video/software can travel at almost zero cost.
MOST of the cost is NOT in production. Most of the cost are executive pay, lawyer pay and investment in the new DRM or such format pay to limit what YOU, the buyer can do with the music that this houses BUY OUT RIGHT from artists.
You see, in MY perfect world, musicians would sell directly to me and id download their music from their site for whatever money the sell it, even if with DRM.
Whats "material" cost of music? Most of the cost comes from a distribution method that has been obsoleted in the digital age. This law only tries to impose limitations on a better and less costly way to get digital "wares", to save the ass of a distribution bussiness that is simply not needed anymore: music labels, cable companies, tv channels.
We should have ONE link, the internet, and content providers, both independent and from label and shit, competing together: THATS HOW CAPITALISM WORKS.
Protecting unnecesary monopolies with law is both plain stupid and a plain robbery from the people. We are supposed to do "as if", the internet wasnt there with regards to digitalizable content. But it is there. And digital content can travel through the net. That is "bad" for the distribution monopoly and they thus bought politicians to FUCK US ALL IN ALL OF THE WORLD.
I, a Mexican, hereby attest to the non racist nature of your comment. It's a bit of a generalization (hip, cool, feminist mexicans exist, you know?), but this suv-mommyvan problem is visible enough to justify the small bit of political incorrectness.
More than Canada, California itself both in legal and illegal crops produces a fuckload of cannabis. Really, the Californians have it all going for them: they have cheap mexican shit, expensive top-of-the-line hydro, gourmet crops in mendocino and a big import from BC...
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No OS is "fully" documented. No UNIX will EVER be fully documented and, hey, who would like to even see windows documented? It would be a larger task than building, marketing and supporting the software itself.
Even giving the researchers the benefit of the doubt regarding their funding, I find their study bleak and useless. Why? Well, they have discovered that migration has its costs: training and retraining. That closed environments designed to work together beforehand can have relative short-term benefits: exchange comes prepackaged to "work" with Active Directory, so there is no integration cost. But Zimbra comes prebuilt to work with its own openldap, another openldap, any kind of ldap (really) and/or AD, and its foss...
So they are pussies. They made a study that reflects that moving from one technology to another costs, without an effort to measure what the long term benefits of migrating may be....
I find Zero insight in their work (insofar as ive seen, like the arcticle in the economist, although i will read the whole thing once i get my hands on it),, they only bring what we already know to the table, with the FUD package we have come to know for years now...
The more they tighten the grip, the less productive they will be.
Either the chinese find a way to soften their government, or they will never be the power they could be.
He may be an unwanted normal guy that does not want to be tracked by beaurocrats.
Add big cloud of computers and a cheap 100MBPS line and you can match in two secconds against a database.... or how many megabytes does a genome take? I dont think too many. I think its already well compressed.
"Of course, nothing can touch the combination of mainframes and COBOL when it comes to processing millions and millions of records."
Mhm... we have this new thing called databases, you know?
Its revolutionary....
My thoughts exactly.
Thats all okay, but I would point out that the complex, if any, would be of inferiority and not of superiority.
Good programmers dont go crying to mama when they have to learn a few tricks.
25 years in programming-language-development time is an eternity. PLs have been around for less than 70 years and we have thousends of them, the more popular (and even some of the least), continuosly evolve.
Inventing a new language is cheaper than waiting 25 years.
If they released as GPL, their patent claims become invalid for derivative works of *that* (and none other) release.
Imaginary friends are not proof of a vast social life.
I can say Ive been around very rational religious people, akin to what you post here. The problem, however, is that they are not the ones in charge, they arent leading anyone in the catholic church and are meek: they are NOT fighting against their church's stance cause, you know, they can loose their jobs that way.
So i just dont count them. If intelligent Catholics are not actively reforming their faith, they are worthless to it. Thank god, they are not worthless to me, or you, or people around them...
It is a sad thing that nobody remembers that the Latin word ecclesia (church), actually means congregation or assembly: it should be the reunion of the faithful what leads the church, not old men in weird dresses.
So he forced TWO gigantic nordic woman to have sex without a condom whilst everyone was boning, naked, in bed? Aha...
The market is. Period.
Things will change? Sure: look at japan's practically fully up-for-grabs anime and manga market.
What happens is that most creations get paritioned in much smaller chunks and they are sold briefly and separatly... yes, its a price to pay, but on the upside, its a HUGE market of stuff to choose from and the quality of the top 10% is, well hell, probably the best in the world
Have you ever read Lessigs work on this issue?
Go read Free Culture, its online and free.
Yes. If its reasonably priced, i think people won't copy it.
Who said that?
Let me say it again: ONE link. No cable company, no tv channels, no "networks". Just one link, and everyone provides their content in their wepage behind paywalls and we pay for what we want.
If independent musicians do better than labels and can distribute and produce for me, who will pay them to do so, then WHY NOT? If labels are so good at producing that they can survive even competition on the market, then all the best to them.
Dont you see? This law ONLY serves a middle man that has lost tremendous value once music/video/software can travel at almost zero cost.
MOST of the cost is NOT in production. Most of the cost are executive pay, lawyer pay and investment in the new DRM or such format pay to limit what YOU, the buyer can do with the music that this houses BUY OUT RIGHT from artists.
You see, in MY perfect world, musicians would sell directly to me and id download their music from their site for whatever money the sell it, even if with DRM.
Capisce?
Whats "material" cost of music? Most of the cost comes from a distribution method that has been obsoleted in the digital age. This law only tries to impose limitations on a better and less costly way to get digital "wares", to save the ass of a distribution bussiness that is simply not needed anymore: music labels, cable companies, tv channels.
We should have ONE link, the internet, and content providers, both independent and from label and shit, competing together: THATS HOW CAPITALISM WORKS.
Protecting unnecesary monopolies with law is both plain stupid and a plain robbery from the people. We are supposed to do "as if", the internet wasnt there with regards to digitalizable content. But it is there. And digital content can travel through the net. That is "bad" for the distribution monopoly and they thus bought politicians to FUCK US ALL IN ALL OF THE WORLD.
THAT SUCKS.
I really dont care. I was just voicing my opinion.
I, a Mexican, hereby attest to the non racist nature of your comment. It's a bit of a generalization (hip, cool, feminist mexicans exist, you know?), but this suv-mommyvan problem is visible enough to justify the small bit of political incorrectness.
Sheesh, leave your kids alone. Teach them guitar or the violin, don't geekazoid their ass.
More than Canada, California itself both in legal and illegal crops produces a fuckload of cannabis. Really, the Californians have it all going for them: they have cheap mexican shit, expensive top-of-the-line hydro, gourmet crops in mendocino and a big import from BC...
It doesnt get better than Cali...
Sugar baby, and grease... hell, anything we REALLY LIKE (TM), like alcohol or any drug, legal or illegal.
No, that dicotomy was presented to me by the parent poster and, as such, his argument made no sense.