"A better measure of the quality of healthcare is average lifespan"
A better measure, but I still don't think it's very good.
In the United States we have fast food joints on every corner and our work habits create a large amount of stress. We could have the best health care system in the world and would still die earlier than others. Our habits our terrible.
Hell, half of Europe works only one month out of the year.;)
Judges are human. Just as their are corrupt teachers, lawyers, and doctors... there are corrupt Judges.
To validate my opinion to myself, I decided to call someone I knew that has been practicing law for over 35 years. He agreed wholeheartedly. Some judges (not all and not most, but some) are corrupt.
So, a quick search on google (federal judge bribe), brought this link:
http://www.clr.org/corruptj.html
I'm sure with a little more research other stories could be found.
Some CEO's look at the short term consequences, and some at the long (usually the better ones are those that look at long term if the company can afford to do so.) However, I do agree with Bill and co. in this situation. I don't see the short or the long term benefits in supporting Linux (at least on the desktop).
I still have my college textbook from my OS class.
Kind of like the Dragon book is the book of choice when teaching a compilers class, Tanenbaum's book is the book of choice (judging by the number of CS departments that use it) when teaching an Operating Systems class.
That being said, Tanenbaum states on page 2, that the Operating System is not the collection of programs (both system and application), but rather it is just the kernel.
To make things simple Windows is an OS, and when we think of Windows, we think of all of the applications that go along with it. This is because an OS is useless without some system/application programs. BUT, in my opinion, TECHNICALLY they should be separated.
I don't understand why the FSF is making such a big deal out of this. It's all about ego, and to me that turns me off from the whole free software/open source initiative. If I wanted to deal with ego's, I'd use Microsoft products.
Who downloads something and doesn't listen to what they download?
I would guess your answer would be someone who wants to distribute the music.
Eventually that downloaded copy of a song gets into the hand of someone who DOES want to listen to it.
The argument of, "I just want to download it but I don't want to listen to it" is weak.
They just want to be compensated for their work. BTW, you mention listening to a song on the radio or cable... Well, the radio/music stations PAY to play the music. That is why you get to listen for free.
I respect the work that coders, both volunteers and those that work for companies such as RedHat have done.
But... I don't touch Linux. Just because I read Slashdot does not mean I use Linux or any other FREE OS. I use Windows because I am a paid developer to write Windows applications.
I used Linux a year ago, and two years ago, and three years ago, and as far back as 1995. However, I was tired of not having things work right out of the box. I don't want to spend my time figuring out why something is or isn't working. That is not productive for me and my company.
However, that is not the point. Back to the original topic of discussion. Selling strictly services is a very difficult model to make money on. This is not to say it can't be done. Just more difficult than licensing.
If you are a technology company that also supplies services, you want the percentage of your revenues to come from licensing rather than services. Why? Because it is easier to license, and costs virtually nothing to reproduce a license. Service on the other hand comes in the price of salaries of your employees. This is very expensive.
Look at www.10fold.com for an example of a company that had just this problem. As a matter of fact, they dumped their services side and have recently gone to a licensing only business model.
You mean the company that has yet to make a profit?
I can start a company selling software with a large capital infusion (and IPO) and never make a dime too.
Until a company truly succeeds selling services and giving the software away, I don't think it will work. At least not at the same level as if you were just selling licenses of your technology.
This idea is not new. Selling services is what an ASP does. I have not seen many great stories yet.
For the guy who said selling services for ISP's work implies that it will work for selling software. I'm not saying it will or won't, but just because one business model worked somewhere does NOT mean it will work everywhere.
Now, just because joe highschool kid isn't going to spend $600 on Photoshop does not give anyone the right to pirate software. Besides, if Adobe sold more copies of Photoshop, we might not see the $600 copies of Photoshop. Maybe be would. But defeating piracy only helps software developers- the better developers can demand a larger chunk of a companies profits.
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This is what I use too. Works great.
If you're bsod'ing blame one of your kernel mode drivers. Flash isn't at fault, it's a user mode app.
Just because a project comes from a company doesn't mean there is a budget or backing behind it.
I guess it's all subjective, because I've been developing software applications for years and have tried several and think VS is the best by far.
Amen to the amen. I jumped in 2002 from the Bay Area back down to L.A. Never been happier.
Here's one....
ldx #00
loop stx $d020
stx $d021
inx
cpx #15
bne loop
rts
A little 6502 assembly from the old days.
Blame the crooks! Sure, they hold some of the blame, but both builders KNEW the crooks were out there.
Some of the blame? IMO, the virii writers should shoulder most of the blame.
One of the problems with America, is nobody takes responsibility for their own actions these days. It's really very sad.
I think it's because you work for a KIA dealer- thus you see people who don't make very much money.
Of course, I live on the westside of LA where homeless people drive BMW's and Mercedes. My view might be a little skewed.
"A better measure of the quality of healthcare is average lifespan"
;)
A better measure, but I still don't think it's very good.
In the United States we have fast food joints on every corner and our work habits create a large amount of stress. We could have the best health care system in the world and would still die earlier than others. Our habits our terrible.
Hell, half of Europe works only one month out of the year.
Wow...
Judges are human. Just as their are corrupt teachers, lawyers, and doctors... there are corrupt Judges.
To validate my opinion to myself, I decided to call someone I knew that has been practicing law for over 35 years. He agreed wholeheartedly. Some judges (not all and not most, but some) are corrupt.
So, a quick search on google (federal judge bribe), brought this link:
http://www.clr.org/corruptj.html
I'm sure with a little more research other stories could be found.
Some CEO's look at the short term consequences, and some at the long (usually the better ones are those that look at long term if the company can afford to do so.) However, I do agree with Bill and co. in this situation. I don't see the short or the long term benefits in supporting Linux (at least on the desktop).
Proof? It's simple business logic. If it doesn't benefit Microsoft in some way, they won't spend money developing it.
When 10-Q's and 10-K's are released Microsoft better have explanations for everything to it's shareholders. The advantages of being a public company.
San Jose is more like 350 miles from LA.
That would be the 405.. ;)
Or was it the 10, 110, 5, 134, 105, 210, 170, 118, 605, 91, 710, 60, 55, 30, 241, 15, 215?
About 2 years ago I signed up for DirecTV. It was in the middle of the NBA basketball season.
So they gave me the NBA package for free. I didn't even ask for it. But that's ok, it was free.
The next year, I get billed for it. But because our bill was on automatic payment, I didn't notice this until after the first week of the season.
I called up DirecTV, and said I didn't order this. They told me that since I had the package the year before, it got automatically renewed.
I'm no longer using automatic bill pay.
I still have my college textbook from my OS class.
Kind of like the Dragon book is the book of choice when teaching a compilers class, Tanenbaum's book is the book of choice (judging by the number of CS departments that use it) when teaching an Operating Systems class.
That being said, Tanenbaum states on page 2, that the Operating System is not the collection of programs (both system and application), but rather it is just the kernel.
To make things simple Windows is an OS, and when we think of Windows, we think of all of the applications that go along with it. This is because an OS is useless without some system/application programs. BUT, in my opinion, TECHNICALLY they should be separated.
I don't understand why the FSF is making such a big deal out of this. It's all about ego, and to me that turns me off from the whole free software/open source initiative. If I wanted to deal with ego's, I'd use Microsoft products.
You are correct sir. I didn't read the article, but I wonder if it was a mistake by the guy who sent in the article, or the article itself.
Who downloads something and doesn't listen to what they download?
I would guess your answer would be someone who wants to distribute the music.
Eventually that downloaded copy of a song gets into the hand of someone who DOES want to listen to it.
The argument of, "I just want to download it but I don't want to listen to it" is weak.
They just want to be compensated for their work. BTW, you mention listening to a song on the radio or cable... Well, the radio/music stations PAY to play the music. That is why you get to listen for free.
I love it.. That was great.
The moron uses a TV's departure from their state as a statistic for the crime rate.
Maybe they left Texas because they were in fear for their lives?
2. Morpheus/Kazaa and other online sources of movies are dying.
Check out EDonkey. Tons of movies.
Exactly.. I don't see anyone complaining about Tivo- yes for all you Linux fans out there..
Let's get them all registered on TopCoder and see who comes out on top.
http://www.topcoder.com
I respect the work that coders, both volunteers and those that work for companies such as RedHat have done.
But... I don't touch Linux. Just because I read Slashdot does not mean I use Linux or any other FREE OS. I use Windows because I am a paid developer to write Windows applications.
I used Linux a year ago, and two years ago, and three years ago, and as far back as 1995. However, I was tired of not having things work right out of the box. I don't want to spend my time figuring out why something is or isn't working. That is not productive for me and my company.
However, that is not the point. Back to the original topic of discussion. Selling strictly services is a very difficult model to make money on. This is not to say it can't be done. Just more difficult than licensing.
If you are a technology company that also supplies services, you want the percentage of your revenues to come from licensing rather than services. Why? Because it is easier to license, and costs virtually nothing to reproduce a license. Service on the other hand comes in the price of salaries of your employees. This is very expensive.
Look at www.10fold.com for an example of a company that had just this problem. As a matter of fact, they dumped their services side and have recently gone to a licensing only business model.
You mean the company that has yet to make a profit?
I can start a company selling software with a large capital infusion (and IPO) and never make a dime too.
Until a company truly succeeds selling services and giving the software away, I don't think it will work. At least not at the same level as if you were just selling licenses of your technology.
This idea is not new. Selling services is what an ASP does. I have not seen many great stories yet.
First off a couple of comments:
For the guy who said selling services for ISP's work implies that it will work for selling software. I'm not saying it will or won't, but just because one business model worked somewhere does NOT mean it will work everywhere.
Now, just because joe highschool kid isn't going to spend $600 on Photoshop does not give anyone the right to pirate software. Besides, if Adobe sold more copies of Photoshop, we might not see the $600 copies of Photoshop. Maybe be would. But defeating piracy only helps software developers- the better developers can demand a larger chunk of a companies profits.