but things like patents and copyrights discourage competition. The name of the game is to gain as much market share as possible and then do whatever is cheapest to keep that share.
If you really believe that (let's say AOL just to avoid flaming) AOL has innovated as much as it would have in the face of real competition, you just kidding yourself and have a limited imagination. It's only now that other providers are starting to eat into AOL share that they are getting back on the innovation wagon. And it's only because the other provider has deep pockets that they can afford to toss money at the issue (If quality matter, they would have been gone a lonnnng time ago).
Not demo-republicans, real democrats. Those of us who still believe that the individual is more important than any corporation. That monopolies actually need to be regulated, and that (many/most) people running (larger) corporations really can't be trusted to look beyond the latest stock price
Does this mean that the default save format for the new office is one of the existing formats? They haven't (as they traditionally do) changed it to make it incompatable? If I don't upgrade, and someone sends me a file saved in the new format, then yes I have lost functionality.
Nice bad example buddy. I would think a good zealot would recognise that the mosaic to netscape transition was a good ol' american way of doing business. Mosaic was a gov't/edu sponsored project. The lead(s) from the project took the idea of formed a company to sell it. Go USA Go!
If M$ was soooo interested in allowing the free market to prevail, they would have resisted the urge to buy politicians. How better to show that the system works by living within it. But you can see that M$ understands that a pure free market society just doesn't work.
I don't think people were. I think they are dumping on the corporation that employees the person. Most of the posts till now have been about people getting the person to not install crap on their computer.
Although it should be made clear buy someone from said company, before the person ever shows up, what the corporation intends to have installed, and the customer should have the option of say "Nope, don't want you installing spyware on my computer", unless "Maybe if you give me free service and equipment, then you can install spyware". That way the corporation is buying my demographics, and I know it.
If they use one of the newer versions of Windows (XP) how will their computers be able to "call home"? Much of the Navy stuff is on closed networks, without access to the internet. How do you take a computer containing classified information and attach it to the internet when someone has changed the configuration more than the allowed number of times (Or the periodic "phone home")
So they closed on a single day's sales? I'm surprised they stayed open as long as they did (even before the other shop appeared). They should have held on for at least a month to see if the glamor of the new shop went away. I bet the owner was looking for an excuse to quit.
The HD on mine crashed. I sent it back (payed a chunk for the replacement drive) and they sent me a new one with my lifetime still intact. So then I went out a bought a new drive which I use. The "original" drives are my backup. 2x80G = more shows that we will ever watch.
Screw the grace period. You putting the energy into designing something like that without the intent of getting it built. If you go through the trouble of getting a patent (rather than just allowing someone else to have the idea, or publishing it for anyone to grab (prior art wise) then you should have some idea on how to use the idea, and act on it immediately. S__t or get off the can!
The problem with a bid process is that, for the government, this means ONLY commerical entities. Getting Open Source into this process would be very difficult.
From my experience with the bidding process there was probably a requirement in the RFP that any software be able to 100% read MS word/excel documents. Again, very difficult to prove.
The Government RFP process makes it very difficult to factor in TCO for a purchase. They generally can only look at the lowest initial cost (that meets the requirements).
This is the second article I looked at today that seemed to be random thoughts stuck together as a series of paragraphs. There was no real value added by the auther other than basic research. I could have written this article with a script that grabbed snippets from various sites and strung them together. Hmmm, interesting program idea...
Ummmm nice troll??? People aren't expecting MySQL to do everything. This person only asked for views. And why shouldn't MySQL be able to eventually do these things? MySQL is easy to set up and use. That's why people use it. I would gladly try Postgres as it has some features that are currently missing from MySQL. But I don't feel like dealing with it.....
You also overlooked the fact that Views is just part of what the person uses MySQL for. Some of your options show this... He may have a successful production system based on MySQL, but would like just one more feature, is all....
Actually, you see this kind of thing happen... When there is not a Monopoly. If Honda put out a hydrogen cell car which needed special fuel, they (and the consumers) would start in the large locales, and work toward the smaller. Notice how California was the only state that had emmision standards, yet that was able to help push the need for unleaded everywhere... But with a monopoly that activily works toward destroying competion, this ain't gonna happen... They just keep shifting the standard.
Geez, mod up +2, for this crap!. It should have been marked -1 redudent. And it proves my point. The M$ whore(s) (someone modded this up) immediately attach a differing opinion as elitist. Power to the People!
You know, all the bitching that the M$ whores do about Linux advocates immediately jumping in a saying something new from M$ sucks... Yet here, all of the posts so far have been from M$ whores saying how Lindows sucks, the name is confusing, and it's going to fail.... And it ain't even out yet.
The monopoly has more to do with M$ selling managers on the one stop shopping is better philosophy. If you want mediocre software that is tied together, then M$ is the way to go (And obviously lots of people bought into this). If you want new, different , truely innovative stuff; then you want to avoid the M$ philosophy (Although, I believe that the players would have been forced by customers to starting playing better with each other (If the M$ monopoly didn't exist)) so that we would now have innovative software (way better than the mediocre M$ stuff) that all works together nicely.
Since FAA and Most Secret Military stuff in on physically seperate networks, the security of the application doesn't really matter. Someone would need physical access to the system to do anything
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but things like patents and copyrights discourage competition. The name of the game is to gain as much market share as possible and then do whatever is cheapest to keep that share.
If you really believe that (let's say AOL just to avoid flaming) AOL has innovated as much as it would have in the face of real competition, you just kidding yourself and have a limited imagination. It's only now that other providers are starting to eat into AOL share that they are getting back on the innovation wagon. And it's only because the other provider has deep pockets that they can afford to toss money at the issue (If quality matter, they would have been gone a lonnnng time ago).
Not demo-republicans, real democrats. Those of us who still believe that the individual is more important than any corporation. That monopolies actually need to be regulated, and that (many/most) people running (larger) corporations really can't be trusted to look beyond the latest stock price
Looks good in Netscape 7 & Mozilla on Win2k
Does this mean that the default save format for the new office is one of the existing formats? They haven't (as they traditionally do) changed it to make it incompatable? If I don't upgrade, and someone sends me a file saved in the new format, then yes I have lost functionality.
Nice bad example buddy. I would think a good zealot would recognise that the mosaic to netscape transition was a good ol' american way of doing business. Mosaic was a gov't/edu sponsored project. The lead(s) from the project took the idea of formed a company to sell it. Go USA Go!
If M$ was soooo interested in allowing the free market to prevail, they would have resisted the urge to buy politicians. How better to show that the system works by living within it. But you can see that M$ understands that a pure free market society just doesn't work.
I don't think people were. I think they are dumping on the corporation that employees the person. Most of the posts till now have been about people getting the person to not install crap on their computer.
Although it should be made clear buy someone from said company, before the person ever shows up, what the corporation intends to have installed, and the customer should have the option of say "Nope, don't want you installing spyware on my computer", unless "Maybe if you give me free service and equipment, then you can install spyware". That way the corporation is buying my demographics, and I know it.
If they use one of the newer versions of Windows (XP) how will their computers be able to "call home"? Much of the Navy stuff is on closed networks, without access to the internet. How do you take a computer containing classified information and attach it to the internet when someone has changed the configuration more than the allowed number of times (Or the periodic "phone home")
So they closed on a single day's sales? I'm surprised they stayed open as long as they did (even before the other shop appeared). They should have held on for at least a month to see if the glamor of the new shop went away. I bet the owner was looking for an excuse to quit.
Okay, so it's just a bug in the software that M$ has put out for the public to try out. Hmm, quality control
Hi, I'm a pretensis asshole in 100 words or less.
Watched this weeks monday night football in 1.5 hours.
The HD on mine crashed. I sent it back (payed a chunk for the replacement drive) and they sent me a new one with my lifetime still intact. So then I went out a bought a new drive which I use. The "original" drives are my backup. 2x80G = more shows that we will ever watch.
Screw the grace period. You putting the energy into designing something like that without the intent of getting it built. If you go through the trouble of getting a patent (rather than just allowing someone else to have the idea, or publishing it for anyone to grab (prior art wise) then you should have some idea on how to use the idea, and act on it immediately. S__t or get off the can!
The problem with a bid process is that, for the government, this means ONLY commerical entities. Getting Open Source into this process would be very difficult.
From my experience with the bidding process there was probably a requirement in the RFP that any software be able to 100% read MS word/excel documents. Again, very difficult to prove.
The Government RFP process makes it very difficult to factor in TCO for a purchase. They generally can only look at the lowest initial cost (that meets the requirements).
I disagree. I worked on a system that was just fine with MySQL. But, some people would have automatically chosen Oracle without thinking about it.
This is the second article I looked at today that seemed to be random thoughts stuck together as a series of paragraphs. There was no real value added by the auther other than basic research. I could have written this article with a script that grabbed snippets from various sites and strung them together. Hmmm, interesting program idea...
Hmmm, maybe if I patented lame comments.... Bill Gates would be poor compared to me :)
Ummmm nice troll??? People aren't expecting MySQL to do everything. This person only asked for views. And why shouldn't MySQL be able to eventually do these things? MySQL is easy to set up and use. That's why people use it. I would gladly try Postgres as it has some features that are currently missing from MySQL. But I don't feel like dealing with it.....
You also overlooked the fact that Views is just part of what the person uses MySQL for. Some of your options show this... He may have a successful production system based on MySQL, but would like just one more feature, is all....
until there are > 65000 rows :)
Actually, you see this kind of thing happen... When there is not a Monopoly. If Honda put out a hydrogen cell car which needed special fuel, they (and the consumers) would start in the large locales, and work toward the smaller. Notice how California was the only state that had emmision standards, yet that was able to help push the need for unleaded everywhere... But with a monopoly that activily works toward destroying competion, this ain't gonna happen... They just keep shifting the standard.
If you are writting an OS, then it is your responsiblity to write it correctly. If you can't do that, then you should get out of the business.
Geez, mod up +2, for this crap!. It should have been marked -1 redudent. And it proves my point. The M$ whore(s) (someone modded this up) immediately attach a differing opinion as elitist. Power to the People!
You know, all the bitching that the M$ whores do about Linux advocates immediately jumping in a saying something new from M$ sucks... Yet here, all of the posts so far have been from M$ whores saying how Lindows sucks, the name is confusing, and it's going to fail.... And it ain't even out yet.
The monopoly has more to do with M$ selling managers on the one stop shopping is better philosophy. If you want mediocre software that is tied together, then M$ is the way to go (And obviously lots of people bought into this). If you want new, different , truely innovative stuff; then you want to avoid the M$ philosophy (Although, I believe that the players would have been forced by customers to starting playing better with each other (If the M$ monopoly didn't exist)) so that we would now have innovative software (way better than the mediocre M$ stuff) that all works together nicely.
Since FAA and Most Secret Military stuff in on physically seperate networks, the security of the application doesn't really matter. Someone would need physical access to the system to do anything