But the oil producers cut the oil price and make the investors bail out and then raise the oil prices again. Now that demand for oil exceeds supply, that tactic will no longer work. Also, I'm not convinced that anyone has really used that tactic in the past.
You've got it all wrong. We don't need Dell wasting effort to create features for Linux. We're good at creating features for Linux. What we're bad at, and Dell is good at, is convincing hardware manufactures to open up so that we can properly support their hardware.
...most buisnesses when they finally migrate will want to upgrade everything at once and since some machines won't have vista licenses they will need to buy upgrades for them
In that case, businesses will hold off until they've gone through a complete upgrade cycle before switching to Vista so that they don't have the additional cost of upgrading machines before they're fully depreciated (3 years?). It's the only way to guarantee that all machines being upgraded are capable of running Vista.
When we get new machines, the machines come with a corporate image already loaded. Our current corporate image is XP, not Vista. If a machine comes with Vista, it'll get wiped and replaced with the corporate image.
This is in a Fortune 100 company. I expect that this is typical of the other Fortune 100 companies.
Out of curiosity, anyone know what Microsoft's corporate image looks like? Specifically, is it XP or Vista based?
Maybe I'm being unreasonably optimistic, but it seems to me that Microsoft's market share can only decline.
They've saturated their market and that market is no longer growing like it once was. Vista doesn't offer any perceived value to business users (who resent spending money on their machines just to run the newer OS) and home users, especially gamers, perceive Vista as a step backwards in performance over what they are already running.
Expect to see Apple's market share grow faster than the market. Expect to see increasing awareness of Linux on the desktop. Expect to see XP users resistant to switching to Vista.
Don't expect to see people's perceptions of Vista to improve with SP1. SP1 doesn't address the big complaints and people who care are savvy enough to realize this.
I suspect that this would never have happened if it weren't for the efforts made by the OpenBSD crew to get information out of Sun.
Any insiders want to post anonymously about how we got here with Sun?
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Getting comfortable with basic editing and navigation commands took me about 3 days on and off use.
I slowly added more powerful commands over the course of a few months.
That was about 10 years or so. There's still stuff I don't know and I do add new tricks as I find them useful, but my vi/vim use hasn't really changed much in the last decade (except for the use of folds).
Counting pills is the least important thing that a pharmacist does.
Visually identifying that the pill is the correct kind of pill, recognizing potential dangerous interactions between medications, and catching physician/transcription errors are the kinds of things we expect a pharmacist to do. Some pharmacies do use machines for counting pills once the pharmacist has evaluated the prescription and verified the medication.
The problem with Microsoft "Standards", is that they become quickly unworkable in a mixed environment (which, of course, supports Microsoft's agenda).
There's hope, however, in the world of web standards since non-IE browsers are gaining significant traction (30% or more in Europe, 15% or so in the US). The notion that IE is not standards compliant is no longer something that only geeks talk about. School kids are aware of it and some of them even know what it means.
Pressure is mounting for all the web to become standards complaint and, eventually, that will either force Microsoft to comply or force Microsoft out of the market. I don't really care which happens as long as one of them does.
Last I heard, SCO only had something like 130 employees. While it sucks to be them, this would not be the humanitarian crisis you seem to think it will be.
But humans are so more expensive. They need to eat and breath. They require more space. You need to handle their waste. You need to keep them healthy. You need to provide a way for them to come back (they're not disposable like robots).
Robots are cheap and you can do more science per dollar spent using robots in space than you can using humans in space.
They reached a settlement with Vonage, if I remember correctly. That's not the same as getting a judgment in your favor that states the patent is valid.
Sure, his sperm may be damaged, but he cranks out a new batch of sperm every 36 hours or so. It's only an issue if his ability to produce sperm is compromised.
I would be surprised to find out that the radar operators were made sterile by the radar beams. Radar frequencies are below that of ionizing radiation.
When a top school wants a student, they don't depend on loans to make certain the student can attend.
Of the roughly $130k of financial aid that I received over the course of 4 years, only about 20% of that was in loans. The rest was grants, scholarships, and federal work-study. The biggest chunk of that was something the school called a "need-based grant" that came from the school itself which was basically a scholarship the school gave me each year to ensure I could attend. This made up about 50% of my financial aid package from the school.
Interacting with a computer is one of the fastest ways to become literate.
If you're literate, you can teach yourself anything you can find a source for.
If this computer can teach kids to read and write while they're having fun with it, that, by itself, justifies putting it in their hands. Anything else it can teach them is a bonus.
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You've got it all wrong. We don't need Dell wasting effort to create features for Linux. We're good at creating features for Linux. What we're bad at, and Dell is good at, is convincing hardware manufactures to open up so that we can properly support their hardware.
Companies might not replace machines every three years, but the tax laws haven't changed, so it still takes 3 years to fully depreciate a machine.
...most buisnesses when they finally migrate will want to upgrade everything at once and since some machines won't have vista licenses they will need to buy upgrades for them
In that case, businesses will hold off until they've gone through a complete upgrade cycle before switching to Vista so that they don't have the additional cost of upgrading machines before they're fully depreciated (3 years?). It's the only way to guarantee that all machines being upgraded are capable of running Vista.
When we get new machines, the machines come with a corporate image already loaded. Our current corporate image is XP, not Vista. If a machine comes with Vista, it'll get wiped and replaced with the corporate image.
This is in a Fortune 100 company. I expect that this is typical of the other Fortune 100 companies.
Out of curiosity, anyone know what Microsoft's corporate image looks like? Specifically, is it XP or Vista based?
Maybe I'm being unreasonably optimistic, but it seems to me that Microsoft's market share can only decline.
They've saturated their market and that market is no longer growing like it once was. Vista doesn't offer any perceived value to business users (who resent spending money on their machines just to run the newer OS) and home users, especially gamers, perceive Vista as a step backwards in performance over what they are already running.
Expect to see Apple's market share grow faster than the market. Expect to see increasing awareness of Linux on the desktop. Expect to see XP users resistant to switching to Vista.
Don't expect to see people's perceptions of Vista to improve with SP1. SP1 doesn't address the big complaints and people who care are savvy enough to realize this.
What kinds of problems are you experiencing with Linux?
I suspect that this would never have happened if it weren't for the efforts made by the OpenBSD crew to get information out of Sun.
Any insiders want to post anonymously about how we got here with Sun?
Getting comfortable with basic editing and navigation commands took me about 3 days on and off use.
I slowly added more powerful commands over the course of a few months.
That was about 10 years or so. There's still stuff I don't know and I do add new tricks as I find them useful, but my vi/vim use hasn't really changed much in the last decade (except for the use of folds).
Dude, just type ":make [target]" in vim and it will perform the compilation and place you at any line that causes a compilation error.
Isn't that exactly what you just said you wanted?
LaTeX is generally written by hand.
LaTeX also generally gives better results than WYSIWYG approaches.
Go month-to-month or simply purchase a preset amount of minutes. No need to make a 2 year commitment.
Counting pills is the least important thing that a pharmacist does.
Visually identifying that the pill is the correct kind of pill, recognizing potential dangerous interactions between medications, and catching physician/transcription errors are the kinds of things we expect a pharmacist to do. Some pharmacies do use machines for counting pills once the pharmacist has evaluated the prescription and verified the medication.
SCOTUS could never keep up.
The problem with Microsoft "Standards", is that they become quickly unworkable in a mixed environment (which, of course, supports Microsoft's agenda).
There's hope, however, in the world of web standards since non-IE browsers are gaining significant traction (30% or more in Europe, 15% or so in the US). The notion that IE is not standards compliant is no longer something that only geeks talk about. School kids are aware of it and some of them even know what it means.
Pressure is mounting for all the web to become standards complaint and, eventually, that will either force Microsoft to comply or force Microsoft out of the market. I don't really care which happens as long as one of them does.
As long as the speed is faster than flash (which it is, by many orders of magnitude), there will be a market for this stuff once it becomes available.
Tens of thousands of people will lose their jobs
Last I heard, SCO only had something like 130 employees. While it sucks to be them, this would not be the humanitarian crisis you seem to think it will be.
I apologize if I missed your point.
But humans are so more expensive. They need to eat and breath. They require more space. You need to handle their waste. You need to keep them healthy. You need to provide a way for them to come back (they're not disposable like robots).
Robots are cheap and you can do more science per dollar spent using robots in space than you can using humans in space.
My DSL gives me about 150k/sec. Is that even sufficient to stream a hi-def movie?
$100 million here, $100 million there...I fail to see how that's a cheap way of accomplishing anything.
They reached a settlement with Vonage, if I remember correctly. That's not the same as getting a judgment in your favor that states the patent is valid.
Sure, his sperm may be damaged, but he cranks out a new batch of sperm every 36 hours or so. It's only an issue if his ability to produce sperm is compromised.
I would be surprised to find out that the radar operators were made sterile by the radar beams. Radar frequencies are below that of ionizing radiation.
When a top school wants a student, they don't depend on loans to make certain the student can attend.
Of the roughly $130k of financial aid that I received over the course of 4 years, only about 20% of that was in loans. The rest was grants, scholarships, and federal work-study. The biggest chunk of that was something the school called a "need-based grant" that came from the school itself which was basically a scholarship the school gave me each year to ensure I could attend. This made up about 50% of my financial aid package from the school.
Interacting with a computer is one of the fastest ways to become literate.
If you're literate, you can teach yourself anything you can find a source for.
If this computer can teach kids to read and write while they're having fun with it, that, by itself, justifies putting it in their hands. Anything else it can teach them is a bonus.