The above quote nicely points out the failure of modern democracy. It used to be 'If you don't like it, vote against it.
My sympathies to the American people, but take comfort in the fact that GWB was not elected by a majority vote. Who knows, we might even let you rejoin the international community once you have a democratically elected government.
As long as MS is staying away from one of the demonstrably best ways of making software secure, namely opening the source for scrutiny by anyone, the course is merely a show.
You might mean the company described in the book Maverick by Ricardo Semler. He took over his dad's company (Semco), started by firing the existing top management and then started experimenting.
Please try to have at least a basic understanding of economics before trying to (mis)educate your fellow readers.
Yes, business is about making a profit. But that word "profit" I just used has a very special definition in a market, namely it is the price of entrepreneurship.
As a businessman, you have inputs into your business which all cost money and which need to be paid for. These are called economic factors and are typically land (paid for with rent) and labour (paid for with wages). I'm sure you agree that it is fair that land and labour should be paid for (otherwise, I'll be glad to receive your salary for the work you do).
Another economic factor is entrepreneurship --- the will and energy to take the risk and run the business. Why should this be free? It usually isn't, and it is paid for by profit.
If someone is making huge profits from something, then (barring some form of monopoly, which could also be due to patents or legislation) someone else is going to say "Cool. Easy way to make money" and also do it. This is known as the free market and it will drive the prices down until the price the consumer pays is equal to the cost of selling the good (which is wages+rent+entrepreneurship).
Some sellers might at some point decide that, although they are covering wages and rent, they are not getting the return they require (ie. they are not getting paid enough for their spirit of free enterprise) and leave the market.
Any ECO101 textbook should serve as a handy reference to all of this.
Sony said on Thursday that it sold 8.5 million PlayStation2 game consoles during the key holiday shopping season in November and December, up 24 percent from a year ago and holding well ahead of rivals.
Now, that's just about the same time period the sales figures from Take Two are referring to, which means that almost everyone that bought a PS2 bought Vice City! Cool!
Quick lesson in causality in statistics. Just because the numbers are the same doesn't mean they are related. If 100 people bought PS2s and 100 people bought GTA:VC in a day doesn't mean that the same who bought a PS2 also bought GTA.
It also doesn't mean that the same people who bought GTA that day bought a PS2 that day (one is allowed to own the console before buying a kickass game).
For the simple reason that you can have the Knoppix CD along in your backpack and you have a complete, useable Linux system along. While this will not allow you to fix every possible problem (it can't repair fried CPUs, for example), it is a lot more useful than a DOS boot disk. For a rescue CD that fits on the small CDRs (of which I ALWAYS have a copy with me) check Timo's Rescue CD. (Not my project, but I'm a fan).
Plus, you can really show off Linux - pop it in the CD drive, boot it up, listen to the oohs and aahs.
ax
If you took away all the Windows desktops and put in something like Citrix MetaFrame, then guess what?
Guess what:
you have just put lipstick on a bulldog, as Windows was never designed to work that way and Citrix is a very dodgy proposition for anything that strays from the norm.
you have just paid for NT Server (500$) plus NT Terminal Server (8000$) and Citrix Server (I don't even wanna know) and that is for 10(!) users.
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The above quote nicely points out the failure of modern democracy. It used to be 'If you don't like it, vote against it.
My sympathies to the American people, but take comfort in the fact that GWB was not elected by a majority vote. Who knows, we might even let you rejoin the international community once you have a democratically elected government.
List of Windows Fundamentals Requirements
1.1 Perform primary functionality and maintain stability
That should disqualify just about every piece of software running on Windows, and right on the first requirement too.
As long as MS is staying away from one of the demonstrably best ways of making software secure, namely opening the source for scrutiny by anyone, the course is merely a show.
Both of the examples you named have "turned over a new leaf" --- Microsoft hasn't.
No. Apple is, sees itself as, and always has been a hardware company. The software is icing to make the hardware saleable.
You might mean the company described in the book Maverick by Ricardo Semler. He took over his dad's company (Semco), started by firing the existing top management and then started experimenting.
Good read.
Now if only gcc was OSS, then we could vet that as well......
:)
Oh, wait
BTW the compiler backdoor you mention was described by Ken Thompson. Read about it here here among other places.
Please try to have at least a basic understanding of economics before trying to (mis)educate your fellow readers.
Yes, business is about making a profit. But that word "profit" I just used has a very special definition in a market, namely it is the price of entrepreneurship.
As a businessman, you have inputs into your business which all cost money and which need to be paid for. These are called economic factors and are typically land (paid for with rent) and labour (paid for with wages). I'm sure you agree that it is fair that land and labour should be paid for (otherwise, I'll be glad to receive your salary for the work you do).
Another economic factor is entrepreneurship --- the will and energy to take the risk and run the business. Why should this be free? It usually isn't, and it is paid for by profit.
If someone is making huge profits from something, then (barring some form of monopoly, which could also be due to patents or legislation) someone else is going to say "Cool. Easy way to make money" and also do it. This is known as the free market and it will drive the prices down until the price the consumer pays is equal to the cost of selling the good (which is wages+rent+entrepreneurship).
Some sellers might at some point decide that, although they are covering wages and rent, they are not getting the return they require (ie. they are not getting paid enough for their spirit of free enterprise) and leave the market.
Any ECO101 textbook should serve as a handy reference to all of this.
Ciao
ax_42
Quick lesson in causality in statistics. Just because the numbers are the same doesn't mean they are related. If 100 people bought PS2s and 100 people bought GTA:VC in a day doesn't mean that the same who bought a PS2 also bought GTA.
It also doesn't mean that the same people who bought GTA that day bought a PS2 that day (one is allowed to own the console before buying a kickass game).
ax_42
For the simple reason that you can have the Knoppix CD along in your backpack and you have a complete, useable Linux system along. While this will not allow you to fix every possible problem (it can't repair fried CPUs, for example), it is a lot more useful than a DOS boot disk.
For a rescue CD that fits on the small CDRs (of which I ALWAYS have a copy with me) check Timo's Rescue CD. (Not my project, but I'm a fan). Plus, you can really show off Linux - pop it in the CD drive, boot it up, listen to the oohs and aahs. ax
Guess what:
you have just put lipstick on a bulldog, as Windows was never designed to work that way and Citrix is a very dodgy proposition for anything that strays from the norm.
you have just paid for NT Server (500$) plus NT Terminal Server (8000$) and Citrix Server (I don't even wanna know) and that is for 10(!) users.
And-you-still-haven't-paid-for-the-admin'ly yours
ax_42