Didn't SCO accuse Pamela Jones of non-existence? That she was a construct of IBM's legal team or something? I can't recall the details, except I don't think we ever saw conclusive proof that she did exist.
Not that it matters. But I would be curious to know. It always struck me as unusual that a sharp female paralegal would be that interested in the fate of Linux or Open Source. Not competely implausable, but a bit strange nonetheless.
For example MS, note that it was only with XP that they even tried to introduce some anti-piracy, and it is decidedly half-assed and low priority.
Good software companies have managed to have it both ways since the 80's and benefit from piracy and cracks spreading their best efforts, while making lots of noises about how bad it is so that those with money will be inclined to purchase it rather than take the risk. To my knowledge they only prosecute big black market dealers who are probably interfering with their attempts to set up profitable distribution channels.
I am sure they have numerical models in Redmond telling them exactly how much piracy vs. prosecution will maximize their profit in the various markets.
Only idiots like the RIAA are stupid enough to actually sue and thus alienate their basis directly and for all time.
15 percent sounds way too high. Wikipedia indicates that around 3-4 percent for 800 miles is what HVDC power transmission should achieve (3 percent per 1000 km). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC
Maybe they built a crappy transmission line there:)
Without reading the article in any detail and researching things - this sounds a lot like what the.NET CAS (Code Access Security)features do, and have been doing so for around 6-7 years now.
It is quite easy so configure a set of operations that I want an executable to be able to do, or not to do.
I suppose I will get flamed and modded down for mentioning this:)
The only one I have visted was Microsoft - and it looks nothing like that. At MS everyone I met or talked with had their own offce including lowly devs and testers. And one of those pictures was clearly from some kind of a conference. Talk about lame.
I have no reason to believe any of the other pictures are accurate either.
It looks like this journalist was either too lazy or underfunded to actually do real research, and too immoral to admit it.
Looking at ValleyWag is clearly not worth the time of day.
Most of the posts here completely miss the reality, which is that MS is really just starting out and that Linux is not very relevant to their market.
MS is actually way behind, and many of their own products are not supported on their own virtual platforms. MS not supporting Linux is just a reflection of how much priority Linux has with them and their customers - i.e not much.
But Hyper-V has a lot of promise. I would keep my eye on it. And I would bet money that Hyper-V will eventually get around to "supporting" anything that is not too wierd.
Someone else pointed out that the marginal cost is lower, but the cost of starting up the production line again might even make it higher.
But if they only crash one ever 10 years, then we can probably hold out until the fully robitized versions designed and built in Bangladesh (or somewhere) get cheap...
Yawn - the Economist had an extensive article on this last week.
It is sad when we get scooped by a large conservative economic journal that is only periphally concerned with technology.
If the fanboys on this site could focus on posting something besides "Linux is better than evil Microsoft" we might get Slashdot back to being the premier site for propagating techy news for geeks.
Microsoft doesn't really need Yahoo - it just looked cheap at $19. They can walk away and persue any of a dozen other strategies. They probably just want the advertising customers - and can might even get them by buying AOL for much less.
Most of Microsoft's business are thriving - Yahoo is not.
The numbers are sobering. Yahoo's stock owners will not get a better chance than this. For their sake I hope they are just bluffing to try and get their price up - because there is no other reasonable strategy on the table.
Think about intellegent ants on a sphere who cannot see off the sphere, but can measure really well. Didn't someone write a story along the lines of flatland with this approach?
But I understand your pain - When I studied math it took me awhile to get my head around the fact that in math you only worry about if things are consistent inside the "space" of their own laws - they don't really care about other embedding worlds and things. Or even if another model might not jive with the one they are currently concerned with.
So they have no trouble even with function spaces of infinite (even uncountable) dimension. They just worry about if that approach has any (obvious) internal contradictions.
All that extranious stuff is just irrelevant. If the ant's world is consistent - it is fine - doesn't need no stinking 3D world for it to move in:)
Checkout Riverbed, Cisco, and many others. Basically they do caching, compress traffic, do TCP/IP traffic control the way it should be done (with the hindsight of 30+ years experience) and some application specific round-trip optimization (some even do voodoo optimization:).
This has been discussed here many times before. There are integrators and seperators.
Figure out who you are and structure your life accordingly. I am an integrator, and me and my family have few problems with this. Vacations are occasionally problematic - but we deal with it:)
MS has lots of "fiscal legs". They will obviously miss having the OS if they lose it, but frankly it is a cash-cow now, and will probably generate another 100+ billion in profit before it disappears.
It looks to me like they no longer have their best and brightest on it but are just doing the minimum. Or maybe they just screwed up and the next version will be way better - who can tell from outside? (Can they even tell from inside:)?
In any case the growth is coming from things like "Live", the Server market (Sharepoint is white-hot and anchors Office), XBox, etc.
Certainly not the Vista on the shelves. But I have heard rumors of MS Research having a Vista kernal that runs in a very small footprint (10s of MB, but I can't remember it exactly). And it would probably be more stable than that huge piece of bloatware that is on the shelves today.
My point is that MS has the resources and the headstart to do practically anything it wants to. It just doesn't particularly want to - unfortuntaly because neither Linux nor Apple are significantly damaging revenues. I wish they would because that would probably cause all three to get much better.
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Didn't SCO accuse Pamela Jones of non-existence? That she was a construct of IBM's legal team or something? I can't recall the details, except I don't think we ever saw conclusive proof that she did exist.
Not that it matters. But I would be curious to know. It always struck me as unusual that a sharp female paralegal would be that interested in the fate of Linux or Open Source. Not competely implausable, but a bit strange nonetheless.
And I do hope you are joking.
For example MS, note that it was only with XP that they even tried to introduce some anti-piracy, and it is decidedly half-assed and low priority.
Good software companies have managed to have it both ways since the 80's and benefit from piracy and cracks spreading their best efforts, while making lots of noises about how bad it is so that those with money will be inclined to purchase it rather than take the risk. To my knowledge they only prosecute big black market dealers who are probably interfering with their attempts to set up profitable distribution channels.
I am sure they have numerical models in Redmond telling them exactly how much piracy vs. prosecution will maximize their profit in the various markets.
Only idiots like the RIAA are stupid enough to actually sue and thus alienate their basis directly and for all time.
MS has never brought out an OS that had as many haters as Vista. So according to this logic the next version will be great.
Actually from what I have heard, it might indeed be true.
Wow.
I had no idea the "greens" were so ambivalent towards Wind Power. Nice bit of googling.
I don't find it surprising actually, their "DNA" is anti-big business, and Wind Power is definitely becoming big business.
Of course the days where "green" is a useful political label are definitely numbered now, if not already zero.
15 percent sounds way too high. Wikipedia indicates that around 3-4 percent for 800 miles is what HVDC power transmission should achieve (3 percent per 1000 km). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC
Maybe they built a crappy transmission line there :)
What about Phoenix and Houston? Those are two places that need a lot of electrical power, surely a solor or wind farm could help them a lot too.
You would think meeting her would qualify as a high point for Bill :)
Well, for all .NET apps anyway.
Without reading the article in any detail and researching things - this sounds a lot like what the .NET CAS (Code Access Security)features do, and have been doing so for around 6-7 years now.
:)
It is quite easy so configure a set of operations that I want an executable to be able to do, or not to do.
I suppose I will get flamed and modded down for mentioning this
Of course so is my spelling :)
The only one I have visted was Microsoft - and it looks nothing like that. At MS everyone I met or talked with had their own offce including lowly devs and testers. And one of those pictures was clearly from some kind of a conference. Talk about lame.
I have no reason to believe any of the other pictures are accurate either.
It looks like this journalist was either too lazy or underfunded to actually do real research, and too immoral to admit it.
Looking at ValleyWag is clearly not worth the time of day.
Your dates don't match.
You mean you did it in 1995? Or you found prior art from 1984?
1985 would be rather early.
Saw this at some German university years ago, forgot the name, they wrote a custom GINA and implemented it for some flavor of Windows.
I don't think they thought it was reliable or secure enough in the end. Was an interesting bit of research and code though.
Mod this guy up. Microsoft has 80k people now. People come and go in a company of that size.
I am sure they have tons of talent still, and there are lots of interesting jobs in and outside of Microsoft.
Most of the posts here completely miss the reality, which is that MS is really just starting out and that Linux is not very relevant to their market.
MS is actually way behind, and many of their own products are not supported on their own virtual platforms. MS not supporting Linux is just a reflection of how much priority Linux has with them and their customers - i.e not much.
But Hyper-V has a lot of promise. I would keep my eye on it. And I would bet money that Hyper-V will eventually get around to "supporting" anything that is not too wierd.
Explain please :)
It is 2.1 billion, not 1.2 billion according to what I read http://www.fas.org/man/gao/nsiad97181.htm/
Someone else pointed out that the marginal cost is lower, but the cost of starting up the production line again might even make it higher.
But if they only crash one ever 10 years, then we can probably hold out until the fully robitized versions designed and built in Bangladesh (or somewhere) get cheap...
Yawn - the Economist had an extensive article on this last week.
It is sad when we get scooped by a large conservative economic journal that is only periphally concerned with technology.
If the fanboys on this site could focus on posting something besides "Linux is better than evil Microsoft" we might get Slashdot back to being the premier site for propagating techy news for geeks.
Microsoft doesn't really need Yahoo - it just looked cheap at $19. They can walk away and persue any of a dozen other strategies. They probably just want the advertising customers - and can might even get them by buying AOL for much less.
Most of Microsoft's business are thriving - Yahoo is not.
The numbers are sobering. Yahoo's stock owners will not get a better chance than this. For their sake I hope they are just bluffing to try and get their price up - because there is no other reasonable strategy on the table.
Think about intellegent ants on a sphere who cannot see off the sphere, but can measure really well. Didn't someone write a story along the lines of flatland with this approach?
:)
But I understand your pain - When I studied math it took me awhile to get my head around the fact that in math you only worry about if things are consistent inside the "space" of their own laws - they don't really care about other embedding worlds and things. Or even if another model might not jive with the one they are currently concerned with.
So they have no trouble even with function spaces of infinite (even uncountable) dimension. They just worry about if that approach has any (obvious) internal contradictions.
All that extranious stuff is just irrelevant. If the ant's world is consistent - it is fine - doesn't need no stinking 3D world for it to move in
Checkout Riverbed, Cisco, and many others. Basically they do caching, compress traffic, do TCP/IP traffic control the way it should be done (with the hindsight of 30+ years experience) and some application specific round-trip optimization (some even do voodoo optimization :).
Not cheap - but easy.
This has been discussed here many times before. There are integrators and seperators.
:)
Figure out who you are and structure your life accordingly. I am an integrator, and me and my family have few problems with this. Vacations are occasionally problematic - but we deal with it
MS has lots of "fiscal legs". They will obviously miss having the OS if they lose it, but frankly it is a cash-cow now, and will probably generate another 100+ billion in profit before it disappears.
:)?
It looks to me like they no longer have their best and brightest on it but are just doing the minimum. Or maybe they just screwed up and the next version will be way better - who can tell from outside? (Can they even tell from inside
In any case the growth is coming from things like "Live", the Server market (Sharepoint is white-hot and anchors Office), XBox, etc.
Certainly not the Vista on the shelves. But I have heard rumors of MS Research having a Vista kernal that runs in a very small footprint (10s of MB, but I can't remember it exactly). And it would probably be more stable than that huge piece of bloatware that is on the shelves today.
My point is that MS has the resources and the headstart to do practically anything it wants to. It just doesn't particularly want to - unfortuntaly because neither Linux nor Apple are significantly damaging revenues. I wish they would because that would probably cause all three to get much better.