"Largest vendor of x" is always a contestable number, regardless of what x is. For a long time, people claiming Microsoft did not have monopoly power (including the company's own spokecritters) would point at IBM's vast software projects and explain that IBM was a much bigger software firm and thus, MS couldn't have monopoly power. Numbers on the desktop would tell a different picture.
Units shipped is an interesting measure; you'll note IDG and Gartner are currently squabbling over Linux metrics because there's no way of mapping installtions to shipped units.
The injunction came about because ORBS had, for some time, been including individuals and organisations who did nothing more than annoy Alan Brown, and were not, in fact, open relays, spamhauses or doing anything that people subscribe to ORBS to prevent.
As such, it's actually like PETA choosing to lie about a company's dolphin friendlyness because the person compiling the list doesn't like their logo. The organisations were quite sound in bringing legal action - they were being defamed and their business being interrupted for no reason relating to ORBS supposed mission.
Oh, bullshit. But then I guess you've never actually looked inside low-end Sun gear. A Blade 100 is a PC. It uses a boring ATI graphics processor. A PC IDE controller. The case access is a bit sub-par compared to the better PC manufacturers (and Apple). The motherboard as a whole is no better or worse than a common or garden PC. Ditto the power supply.
There is no real difference, which is why Sun's cheap hardware (Blades, low-end Netras and the like) only cost the same as a PC.
I imagine you could find their background with a search of, eg SEC filings and the like.
This isn't necessarily scummy. It's possible that directors are opting to wind companies down while there's still a chance of paying back creditors, staff redundancy, and maybe getting investors some pennies on the dollar, which is the most ethical decision the board of a failing company can take.
GNU tools won't do you much good without the Win API docs, available through MSDN. Nor will you get much joy out of downloading new SDKs and discovering you can't use free tools to build software while using them. Oops.
Devastating as in thousands of new drugs and medical procedures that save countless lives every year? Exactly how would these things come about if there were no profit in them?
Because, as we all know, unless people are motivated by the immediate prospect of vast financial gain, they'd never do anything for anyone, never mind anything as abtruse as research. Just ask that nice Mr. Einstein, who decided to stop thinking hard about physics unless someone handed him a fistfull of dollars.
You could try this one which provides some interesting material. One thing about professional advice: it's been shown time and time again that professional fund managers, advisors, brokers and the like are collectively underperformers. You can almost always get better returns off index linked funds, or, for that matter, monkys with a dartboard.
Of course, using your IPO wealth to ensure profitability by purchasing companies that (a) make money and (b) are a good fit is a sign of good management. As opposed to some companies who spent their IPO wealth on collections of crack monkies.
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It's interesting comparing strategies - RedHat have carefully purchased the likes of Cygnus (who make money) and given jobs to researchers like Alan Cos who improve the community code RH rely on. They're making money.
VALinux went on an insane spending spree including the likes of Andover, whose portfolio has never turned a cent, and is in deep shit.
The most ironic thing? Who'd a thunk a hardware company would be going broke while a company dealing n free software would make money?
(And $600K may not be much, but it beats having to lay people off. And making money in a dowturn is a good trick.)
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Had that experience myself - two years ago I wanted to spend a half million on hardware with them. Couldn't even get a reply out of them. Went with Dell instead.
I want to weep when I see academia rushing into a "teach one language" model of instruction. A great way to churn out mindles code monkeys, but one can get that from a Dummies book.
Sadly, most of these dicussions are driven less by a concern to give students a grasp of theory, and hence the intellectual tools to deal with a variety of problems in a variety of languages, but a desire to cram the language du jour down the throats of all and sundry (witness the battle to get Python as the "education language").
While I agree with the complaints about fair use, the zoning system has a lot going for it,
The zoning scam has nothing going for it. These aren't complaints that places outside the States pay less, but that they pay more.
But that leaves out the worst things about zoning. Try moving to Region 4. Then try buying movies. Say, oh, The Piano, The Dark Crystal, and The Princess Bride.
You can't. In fact, you can't buy them outside North America. Like those movies? Want to pay for them? Too bad, fuck you. You can't have 'em. I'm in New Zealand, and I can't buy The Piano, even though it was filmed in New Zealand, written by a New Zealander, directed by a New Zealander, and starred New Zealanders in leading roles.
There are literally *thousands* of movies that *cannot* be purchased outside of the US on DVD. There are hundreds more that are grossly cut back - sans commentaries, documentaries, interviews, you name it, even though they cost *more* than the same DVD bought in and shipped from the US.
So, if you run a webserver it OK for me to try to access your port 80 to see whether you run a web server, but if you don't then I shouldn't be allowed to do it?
Yup. Google only searches things when there are links from other pages or when you ask it to. If it gets a dead site, it marks it and doesn't return. And I don't know about you, but most people I know don't find web sites by portscanning netblocks, but by following links given them through various sources. That's how the web works, you know.
I want some of what you're smoking.
You can have some of it when you pull your head out of your arse.
I doubt it. If I run a public web server, I've given implicit permission for people to use it (attach to port 80 and make HTTP requests). That would include properly written spiders (ie ones that don't DOS the site).
But in running that web server, I haven't given people permission to rattle around looking for RPC daemons, mail daemons, IMAP... you get the idea.
Every primary school I'm aware of teaches Maori, and all the secondary schools where I grew up had it as an option (and Taranaki is hardly a bastion of Maori culture).
Lots of people don't understand these things, and tend to get mislead by bad marketing.
For example, there's an outfit which sells set top boxes for digital TV called Open; these boxes are used by outfits in the UK to provide their "like the Internet, only a not" offerings. Including Internet banking with a number of the UK's leading online banks.
Customers are assured that Open use s00per-s3kr3t encryption between the set top box and the host system to secure your banking experiance, which is true. What Open don't tell consumers is that their IR controller/keyboards run with no encryption and have a 50 foot range, so anyone with an IR reciever and a little work could be merrily sniff you logins, passwords, and so forth.
Oops.
There's a lot of work to be done on educating Joe and Jane Average about these things.
So? The guy's complaining about what he believes is a lack of distributions. A sysadmin could help the debian SPARC effort as a package maintainer or distro tester. Why did RedHat drop RH SPARC? Because nobody paid for it! Sysadmins could buy the software they like, even when it's free...
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I'd be happy to use IE 5.5, but Microsoft aren't interested in porting it to my platform of choice. So sad, never mind.
Given that no one seems to be interested in using TM's chip so far, there must be valid reasons.
That doen't necessarily mean those reasons have to do with the viability of the technology. It could be that, oh, most laptop companies have desktop divisions and wouldn't want to lose Intel as a supplier (or get a less-sweet deal) as a result of using Crusoe in some of their portable products.
IBM, for example, couldn't get its stor straight when announcing it was dropping Crusoe - the answer varied according to who you asked.
Silly. Star Wars isn't about a viable defense system, it's about handing over boatloads of taxpayer money to companies that bribe the right (or should that be Right 8) politicians.
No-one forces you to use the GPL code. To paraphrase Linus, I'm not really impressed by arguments to the effect of, "mommy, the bad man won't let me steal from him".
What next, arguing that if you're a millionaire, stealing fifty bucks from someone shouldn't count because you didn't steal much relative to your own fortune?
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"Largest vendor of x" is always a contestable number, regardless of what x is. For a long time, people claiming Microsoft did not have monopoly power (including the company's own spokecritters) would point at IBM's vast software projects and explain that IBM was a much bigger software firm and thus, MS couldn't have monopoly power. Numbers on the desktop would tell a different picture.
Units shipped is an interesting measure; you'll note IDG and Gartner are currently squabbling over Linux metrics because there's no way of mapping installtions to shipped units.
The injunction came about because ORBS had, for some time, been including individuals and organisations who did nothing more than annoy Alan Brown, and were not, in fact, open relays, spamhauses or doing anything that people subscribe to ORBS to prevent.
As such, it's actually like PETA choosing to lie about a company's dolphin friendlyness because the person compiling the list doesn't like their logo. The organisations were quite sound in bringing legal action - they were being defamed and their business being interrupted for no reason relating to ORBS supposed mission.
Oh, bullshit. But then I guess you've never actually looked inside low-end Sun gear. A Blade 100 is a PC. It uses a boring ATI graphics processor. A PC IDE controller. The case access is a bit sub-par compared to the better PC manufacturers (and Apple). The motherboard as a whole is no better or worse than a common or garden PC. Ditto the power supply.
There is no real difference, which is why Sun's cheap hardware (Blades, low-end Netras and the like) only cost the same as a PC.
I imagine you could find their background with a search of, eg SEC filings and the like.
This isn't necessarily scummy. It's possible that directors are opting to wind companies down while there's still a chance of paying back creditors, staff redundancy, and maybe getting investors some pennies on the dollar, which is the most ethical decision the board of a failing company can take.
The Blades and low-end Netras are PC hardware. Fantasise all you like but they're just a PC with OpenFirmware and an UltraSPARC.
There is no such thing as a small support contract with Cisco - you basically pay the cost of the equipment again every two years as a minimum, IME.
GNU tools won't do you much good without the Win API docs, available through MSDN. Nor will you get much joy out of downloading new SDKs and discovering you can't use free tools to build software while using them. Oops.
Largest Unix vendor?
AAPL market cap: 8.373B
SUNW market cap: 48.982B
IBM market cap: 195.7B
That's a 300 level critique? Good grief! The US education system is in a worse state than I imagined.
Because, as we all know, unless people are motivated by the immediate prospect of vast financial gain, they'd never do anything for anyone, never mind anything as abtruse as research. Just ask that nice Mr. Einstein, who decided to stop thinking hard about physics unless someone handed him a fistfull of dollars.
You could try this one which provides some interesting material. One thing about professional advice: it's been shown time and time again that professional fund managers, advisors, brokers and the like are collectively underperformers. You can almost always get better returns off index linked funds, or, for that matter, monkys with a dartboard.
Of course, using your IPO wealth to ensure profitability by purchasing companies that (a) make money and (b) are a good fit is a sign of good management. As opposed to some companies who spent their IPO wealth on collections of crack monkies.
It's interesting comparing strategies - RedHat have carefully purchased the likes of Cygnus (who make money) and given jobs to researchers like Alan Cos who improve the community code RH rely on. They're making money.
VALinux went on an insane spending spree including the likes of Andover, whose portfolio has never turned a cent, and is in deep shit.
The most ironic thing? Who'd a thunk a hardware company would be going broke while a company dealing n free software would make money?
(And $600K may not be much, but it beats having to lay people off. And making money in a dowturn is a good trick.)
Had that experience myself - two years ago I wanted to spend a half million on hardware with them. Couldn't even get a reply out of them. Went with Dell instead.
Yay! Someone talking sense.
I want to weep when I see academia rushing into a "teach one language" model of instruction. A great way to churn out mindles code monkeys, but one can get that from a Dummies book.
Sadly, most of these dicussions are driven less by a concern to give students a grasp of theory, and hence the intellectual tools to deal with a variety of problems in a variety of languages, but a desire to cram the language du jour down the throats of all and sundry (witness the battle to get Python as the "education language").
The zoning scam has nothing going for it. These aren't complaints that places outside the States pay less, but that they pay more.
But that leaves out the worst things about zoning. Try moving to Region 4. Then try buying movies. Say, oh, The Piano, The Dark Crystal, and The Princess Bride.
You can't. In fact, you can't buy them outside North America. Like those movies? Want to pay for them? Too bad, fuck you. You can't have 'em. I'm in New Zealand, and I can't buy The Piano, even though it was filmed in New Zealand, written by a New Zealander, directed by a New Zealander, and starred New Zealanders in leading roles.
There are literally *thousands* of movies that *cannot* be purchased outside of the US on DVD. There are hundreds more that are grossly cut back - sans commentaries, documentaries, interviews, you name it, even though they cost *more* than the same DVD bought in and shipped from the US.
Yup. Google only searches things when there are links from other pages or when you ask it to. If it gets a dead site, it marks it and doesn't return. And I don't know about you, but most people I know don't find web sites by portscanning netblocks, but by following links given them through various sources. That's how the web works, you know.
You can have some of it when you pull your head out of your arse.
I doubt it. If I run a public web server, I've given implicit permission for people to use it (attach to port 80 and make HTTP requests). That would include properly written spiders (ie ones that don't DOS the site).
But in running that web server, I haven't given people permission to rattle around looking for RPC daemons, mail daemons, IMAP... you get the idea.
Every primary school I'm aware of teaches Maori, and all the secondary schools where I grew up had it as an option (and Taranaki is hardly a bastion of Maori culture).
Lots of people don't understand these things, and tend to get mislead by bad marketing.
For example, there's an outfit which sells set top boxes for digital TV called Open; these boxes are used by outfits in the UK to provide their "like the Internet, only a not" offerings. Including Internet banking with a number of the UK's leading online banks.
Customers are assured that Open use s00per-s3kr3t encryption between the set top box and the host system to secure your banking experiance, which is true. What Open don't tell consumers is that their IR controller/keyboards run with no encryption and have a 50 foot range, so anyone with an IR reciever and a little work could be merrily sniff you logins, passwords, and so forth.
Oops.
There's a lot of work to be done on educating Joe and Jane Average about these things.
I'd be happy to use IE 5.5, but Microsoft aren't interested in porting it to my platform of choice. So sad, never mind.
And I don't view the Web with Outlook...
That doen't necessarily mean those reasons have to do with the viability of the technology. It could be that, oh, most laptop companies have desktop divisions and wouldn't want to lose Intel as a supplier (or get a less-sweet deal) as a result of using Crusoe in some of their portable products.
IBM, for example, couldn't get its stor straight when announcing it was dropping Crusoe - the answer varied according to who you asked.
Silly. Star Wars isn't about a viable defense system, it's about handing over boatloads of taxpayer money to companies that bribe the right (or should that be Right 8) politicians.
No-one forces you to use the GPL code. To paraphrase Linus, I'm not really impressed by arguments to the effect of, "mommy, the bad man won't let me steal from him".
What next, arguing that if you're a millionaire, stealing fifty bucks from someone shouldn't count because you didn't steal much relative to your own fortune?