I don't have a games console, I've probably out-grown them - the last one I brought was a Sega Megadrive. But some of the TV/cinema ads I've seen recently have tempted me - a great one for Final Fantasy X on the PlayStation, and various ads for Nintendo games. I've also seen some great ads for PlayStation games at the cinema.
What I don't understand is - Microsoft say they are investing a few billion on the X-Box over the next few years - but where are the ads? Maybe it's different in the USA, but in the parts of Europe I frequent I've seen hardly any X-Box advertising recently. There was a burst of TV ads at the launch, but now virtually nothing.
I'll admit to not being as brilliant a businessman as Bill Gates, but I can't help thinking that spending a bit more on regular and compelling TV advertising might be a better idea than adding more functionality to the X-Box hardware.
What's happening with console advertising in other parts of the world?
There's a difference. You're comparing a simple action -- driving a car, to one that is not simple by any means -- administering a network. It's like saying that because everyone knows how to operate a television, they should be able to know how to operate television broadcast equipment. Most people these days can operate a computer, does that mean they'll ever be qualified to manage a network of computers with interdependent services? Probably not.
I think you are confusing things as well. Nobody ever mentioned administering a network of computers with interdependent services. The discussion was about a server and it's OS.
A telephone answering machine is a type of server. I can plug it into a socket and people can call it up and listen to it, even interact with it by pressing keys on their telephone. I don't need to be a telephone engineer to plug one of those in and get it working.
Basic computer servers should be the same - I need an email server, I plug it into an available network socket, it sends and receives email. Ditto with a web server. It should be secure out of the box, and if it needs patching, it should patch itself. It will be like this one day, in the meantime we just have to put up with the primitive state of things.
A good admin who is a pro will work hard to secure his servers and patch and look after them - a bad admin is a bad admin regardless of the OS
Many years ago, anyone who wanted to drive a car also had to be a mechanic. Things needed constantly tweaking, they would break down often and were difficult to start and keep running. These days, if someone had a car that kept breaking down, you wouldn't say to them "well, that's your fault. You're obviously not a good mechanic", you'd say "go out and buy yourself a better car, mate".
Don't blame the administrators for the primitive state of current computer technology.
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it seems that the US is the only decent place to be on the net, here in the UK we are a country full of 56kers,
Speak for yourself. I live in Barcelona, Spain and companies are falling over themselves to offer broadband services here. I have fast DSL for about £24 a month, and it's never failed. In other European countries the situation is similar. Perhaps it's just the UK that's backward.
Funny. If you went back in time to the height of Thatcher's reign and told someone from the UK that in 15 years time Spain would have better telecomms and a better health service than the UK, people would have laughed.
Yes, but it's happening. A couple of years ago, the idea of Walmart selling linux boxes as desktop machines was laughable. Not now.
OSS evangelists saying this is like kids on car journeys repeatedly asking "are we there yet?" Just because they're annoying - and we're not there yet, dammit - doesn't mean we're not going to get there.
Why has this been moderated as off-topic? I'm talking about how free software distributed over the internet like OpenOffice is changing the face of the software industry. I fail to see how that is off-topic.
I find it amazing that people can be so blind about how the Internet/web is affecting the fundamental economics of the software industry.
I remember back when Microsoft were backslapping saying they had 'turned-on-a-dime' with regard to the Internet, and 'won' the browser wars by giving away IE. I remember thinking - this is the beginning of the end for you, mate. The day MS gave away IE was the start of a new epoch in the software industry which will result in the death of MS. Ironic.
IMHO Asimov had a few ideas that should become fundamental laws whenever self-preservation and even self-defence play a part in robotics:
The trouble with Asimov's laws of Robotics is that they assume a 'Hard AI' approach to programming robots.
In 50 years time a robot might be a grey slime of a billion nanobots, each with a small and fluid intelligence/memory and perception of the world, but collectively with a powerful hive mind. How would you hard code Asimov's simplistic rules into a robot like that?
or does it seem like Red Hat is kinda moving away from the little guy, getting Linux on the desktop effort, screw big corporate culture movement?
I'm not sure that RedHat was ever there. The good thing about RedHat is that they do seem committed to Open Source i.e. they actively participate in contributing to many GPL projects and don't keep anything closed. As long as they continue to do this I don't really care who they collaborate with.
I think the House of Lords is the best part of our democracy. It may seem counterintuitive that an unelected body enjoys this accolade, but it's true.
The House of Lords is made up of an eccentric bunch of old codgers. But that's one of the reasons it works. They might be eccentric, but they hold a few things dear and one of those is civil rights. It might seem undemocratic to have a bunch of unelected old loonies as part of the decision making process, but their long sherry-enhanced afternoons napping and discussing the rights of the common man are actually beneficial to the democratic process. Of course, I don't think this kind of set-up would export very well. Other places don't have the quality of barmy old fogies that the UK has.
I searched for "Juliette Binoche tits" on the image search of both sites (with filtering turned off in both cases) and neither returned satisfactory results.
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faggot, eurotrash. We're a#1, and you're just jealous. We laugh at the socialist, europeans. We are the wealthiest and the strongest. Bow before America eurocunt.
Your superiour education, style and culture shines through.
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You know what's really funny? I watched a speech Bush gave to a group of Spanish-Americans, and he didn't studder one bit! Crazy... he speaks better Spanish than English.
Jesus that is funny. Obviously you don't speak Spanish yourself.
Bush's Spanish is embarrassingly bad. I mean, if you think his English makes him look stupid, you should hear his Spanish. Whenever he says some Spanish they always show it on the news here in Spain. Translated back into English, he talks kind of like this:
"I is happy very to be in Spanish"
"You people is very good."
"Terrorism is a global bad thing."
It's like you ran his normal speak through Babelfish.
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If you voted for Al Gore, you are a freak, end of story
Well I'm not visiting America then. Half of you are freaks, apparently.
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Ok, let's get all the extreme left-wingers out and have them parade around proclaiming that the rise in temps in Alaska are caused definitely by global warming.
Extreme left-wingers? What??
What I don't understand is why most right-wingers in the USA like to classify issues such as global warming as a left-wing political issue. Is it not possible to be right wing and concerned about the environment?
"Don't fight with MS on their turf/by their rules" has been tried before, and it just does not work.
Oh come on. That is just rubbish. Methinks you wouldn't make a great strategist.
Linux is a relative exception, but only (IMHO) because there is no corporate entity behind Linux that MS can attack.
You see? You've said it yourself. Linux is having outstanding success in server space, and part of the reason is because it does not play be MS's rules. It is developed and supported by multiple companies/individuals which makes it a nightmare for MS. Strategically it's fantastic because not only is it successful but there is no effective strategic response for MS to counter the attack.
If your enemy starts using weapons you haven't got which are more effective than yours, then the normal response is to try to develop equivalent or better weapons. With the GLP, it's next to impossible for MS to do that. Now that's what I call good strategy.
Slashdot Mirror
Everyone is talking about it but no one is doing it.
Yes, and everyone pretends to know all about it.
Microsoft of course is strutting round the playground saying they know how to do it better than anybody.
I still have difficultly explaining to clients what "web services" actually are, and I've been in this industry 10 years now.
Want daily Linux headlines? Once again, Google provides:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=linux
I don't have a games console, I've probably out-grown them - the last one I brought was a Sega Megadrive. But some of the TV/cinema ads I've seen recently have tempted me - a great one for Final Fantasy X on the PlayStation, and various ads for Nintendo games. I've also seen some great ads for PlayStation games at the cinema.
What I don't understand is - Microsoft say they are investing a few billion on the X-Box over the next few years - but where are the ads? Maybe it's different in the USA, but in the parts of Europe I frequent I've seen hardly any X-Box advertising recently. There was a burst of TV ads at the launch, but now virtually nothing.
I'll admit to not being as brilliant a businessman as Bill Gates, but I can't help thinking that spending a bit more on regular and compelling TV advertising might be a better idea than adding more functionality to the X-Box hardware.
What's happening with console advertising in other parts of the world?
There's a difference. You're comparing a simple action -- driving a car, to one that is not simple by any means -- administering a network. It's like saying that because everyone knows how to operate a television, they should be able to know how to operate television broadcast equipment. Most people these days can operate a computer, does that mean they'll ever be qualified to manage a network of computers with interdependent services? Probably not.
I think you are confusing things as well. Nobody ever mentioned administering a network of computers with interdependent services. The discussion was about a server and it's OS.
A telephone answering machine is a type of server. I can plug it into a socket and people can call it up and listen to it, even interact with it by pressing keys on their telephone. I don't need to be a telephone engineer to plug one of those in and get it working.
Basic computer servers should be the same - I need an email server, I plug it into an available network socket, it sends and receives email. Ditto with a web server. It should be secure out of the box, and if it needs patching, it should patch itself. It will be like this one day, in the meantime we just have to put up with the primitive state of things.
A good admin who is a pro will work hard to secure his servers and patch and look after them - a bad admin is a bad admin regardless of the OS
Many years ago, anyone who wanted to drive a car also had to be a mechanic. Things needed constantly tweaking, they would break down often and were difficult to start and keep running. These days, if someone had a car that kept breaking down, you wouldn't say to them "well, that's your fault. You're obviously not a good mechanic", you'd say "go out and buy yourself a better car, mate".
Don't blame the administrators for the primitive state of current computer technology.
it seems that the US is the only decent place to be on the net, here in the UK we are a country full of 56kers,
Speak for yourself. I live in Barcelona, Spain and companies are falling over themselves to offer broadband services here. I have fast DSL for about £24 a month, and it's never failed. In other European countries the situation is similar. Perhaps it's just the UK that's backward.
Funny. If you went back in time to the height of Thatcher's reign and told someone from the UK that in 15 years time Spain would have better telecomms and a better health service than the UK, people would have laughed.
You must think in decades-long timescales, since this is nowhere near happening.
If you study history, you'll know that that's how long these changes take.
"The reports of my death have been exaggerated." - Microsoft.
Tick tock tick tock tick tock.
How often have we heard this phrase.
Yes, but it's happening. A couple of years ago, the idea of Walmart selling linux boxes as desktop machines was laughable. Not now.
OSS evangelists saying this is like kids on car journeys repeatedly asking "are we there yet?" Just because they're annoying - and we're not there yet, dammit - doesn't mean we're not going to get there.
It was:
1) collect underpants
2) ???
3) profit!
At least the Underpants Gnomes would end up with a pile of underpants - which could be useful - even if they didn't make any profit.
Why has this been moderated as off-topic? I'm talking about how free software distributed over the internet like OpenOffice is changing the face of the software industry. I fail to see how that is off-topic.
I find it amazing that people can be so blind about how the Internet/web is affecting the fundamental economics of the software industry.
I remember back when Microsoft were backslapping saying they had 'turned-on-a-dime' with regard to the Internet, and 'won' the browser wars by giving away IE. I remember thinking - this is the beginning of the end for you, mate. The day MS gave away IE was the start of a new epoch in the software industry which will result in the death of MS. Ironic.
Defeating Linux and open source apps - strategy
- identify strengths and weaknesses of opponent (done)
- ???
- Defeat linux and open source!
They must be tearing their hair out. Nelson "Ha Ha".IMHO Asimov had a few ideas that should become fundamental laws whenever self-preservation and even self-defence play a part in robotics:
The trouble with Asimov's laws of Robotics is that they assume a 'Hard AI' approach to programming robots.
In 50 years time a robot might be a grey slime of a billion nanobots, each with a small and fluid intelligence/memory and perception of the world, but collectively with a powerful hive mind. How would you hard code Asimov's simplistic rules into a robot like that?
or does it seem like Red Hat is kinda moving away from the little guy, getting Linux on the desktop effort, screw big corporate culture movement?
I'm not sure that RedHat was ever there. The good thing about RedHat is that they do seem committed to Open Source i.e. they actively participate in contributing to many GPL projects and don't keep anything closed. As long as they continue to do this I don't really care who they collaborate with.
I think the House of Lords is the best part of our democracy. It may seem counterintuitive that an unelected body enjoys this accolade, but it's true.
The House of Lords is made up of an eccentric bunch of old codgers. But that's one of the reasons it works. They might be eccentric, but they hold a few things dear and one of those is civil rights. It might seem undemocratic to have a bunch of unelected old loonies as part of the decision making process, but their long sherry-enhanced afternoons napping and discussing the rights of the common man are actually beneficial to the democratic process. Of course, I don't think this kind of set-up would export very well. Other places don't have the quality of barmy old fogies that the UK has.
When I was young,[..]
I am in awe at the depth of your father's insight. If only all children had such perceptive and intelligent parents.
Yes, this is sarcasm.
there => they're
Damn. Spotted it just after I'd clicked submit.
Well, I think there both rubbish.
I searched for "Juliette Binoche tits" on the image search of both sites (with filtering turned off in both cases) and neither returned satisfactory results.
faggot, eurotrash. We're a#1, and you're just jealous. We laugh at the socialist, europeans. We are the wealthiest and the strongest. Bow before America eurocunt.
Your superiour education, style and culture shines through.
You know what's really funny? I watched a speech Bush gave to a group of Spanish-Americans, and he didn't studder one bit! Crazy... he speaks better Spanish than English.
Jesus that is funny. Obviously you don't speak Spanish yourself.
Bush's Spanish is embarrassingly bad. I mean, if you think his English makes him look stupid, you should hear his Spanish. Whenever he says some Spanish they always show it on the news here in Spain. Translated back into English, he talks kind of like this:
"I is happy very to be in Spanish"
"You people is very good."
"Terrorism is a global bad thing."
It's like you ran his normal speak through Babelfish.
It's amazing how much our leaders don't get it.
Your leader. Your leader doesn't get it.
If you voted for Al Gore, you are a freak, end of story
Well I'm not visiting America then. Half of you are freaks, apparently.
Ok, let's get all the extreme left-wingers out and have them parade around proclaiming that the rise in temps in Alaska are caused definitely by global warming.
Extreme left-wingers? What??
What I don't understand is why most right-wingers in the USA like to classify issues such as global warming as a left-wing political issue. Is it not possible to be right wing and concerned about the environment?
"Don't fight with MS on their turf/by their rules" has been tried before, and it just does not work.
Oh come on. That is just rubbish. Methinks you wouldn't make a great strategist.
Linux is a relative exception, but only (IMHO) because there is no corporate entity behind Linux that MS can attack.
You see? You've said it yourself. Linux is having outstanding success in server space, and part of the reason is because it does not play be MS's rules. It is developed and supported by multiple companies/individuals which makes it a nightmare for MS. Strategically it's fantastic because not only is it successful but there is no effective strategic response for MS to counter the attack.
If your enemy starts using weapons you haven't got which are more effective than yours, then the normal response is to try to develop equivalent or better weapons. With the GLP, it's next to impossible for MS to do that. Now that's what I call good strategy.
I'm sick and tired of people arguing that this doesn't hurt sales. [...]
I don't own a lawnmower. I borrow my neighbours. This affects sales of lawnmowers.
So should they stop sharing of lawnmowers? Yeah probably. Will I be happy about it? Not one bit, but I'll accept it.
I sometimes hitch a lift with a friend rather than use my own car. This affects petrol sales.
Should they stop people hitching lifts? Yeah probably. Will I be happy about it? Not one bit, but I'll accept it.
I often drink water out of the tap, rather than buying it. This affects bottled water sales.
Should they stop people drinking out of taps? Yeah probably. Will I be happy about it? Not one bit, but I'll accept it.
I sometimes think about naughty things, rather than looking at porn. This affects porn sales.
Should they stop people thinking naughty things? Yeah probably. Will I be happy about it? Not one bit, but I'll accept it.
(I'm not sure what my point is. Draw your own conclusions...)