That may be (and I agree). But UNCONSTITUTIONAL?!! Teaching it, learning it, believing it is protected by the constitution. This will give Bill O'reilly a whole show's worth of material.
This seems almost like some contrived effort to increase Google's ad revenue. Now, when Google negotiates an advertising agreement, they can cite this. Poor, dumb people (who have computers) don't use Google? Virtually everyone uses Google. I wouldn't claim to know, but I'd think the Google demographic is that of the general population.
" just buy a new PC for $500 and move your old one on ebay for $150."
You can't do that if there's any Microsoft software loaded on it, according to the EULA. You can't sell it, resell it, or give it away because you don't own it. All you own is the physical media (if any). Microsoft owns and maintains perpetual dominion over the content, subject to change without notice, including termination.
... I apparently had developed my own algorithm, sub-consciously. Maybe not very efficient, or perhaps PROficient, and I couldn't express it in a formula, but it was reproduceble. I just didn't want to learn somebody else's algorithm. That's what I meant by "cheat". No fun, or adventure, or mental exercise in it.
I was fortunate to be one of the first people in the world to play with a Rubik's Cube. In the late '70s, I worked with a woman who's husband worked for the Ideal Toy Co. in Jamaica, NY (that's Queens). She brought a secret prototype into work and all the engineers and technicians couldn't stop fighting over this thing; trying both to solve it and to figure out the mechanism. It was supposed to be hush-hush and she could have gotten her husband in trouble, but when she realized how obsessed we all were with it, she was afraid it would disappear.
It was only a few months later that they hit the market and I couldn't wait to get my hands on one. I eventually got to the point of being able to solve it consistently within a half hour or less. Then I lost interest in the challenge.
I also remember a Scientific American cover story (c. 1980), where I finally learned about the mechanism, disassembly and reassembly. Of course, they also discussed algorithms, but I wasn't interested in that. I never use cheats. Takes most of the fun out.
... the site first went up. IIRC, it was hosted on Apache on Solaris (or some such *NIX). A day or so later, it was pulled and replaced with IIS on Windows [NT|2000]. After that, I never payed it no nevermind.
... to all those who toil to bring OSS project to Windows. I *have* to use Windows at work and I sure do appreciate so many of these projects making my life easier without my having to justify to my boss the purchase of commercial licences.
In fact, I now work for a company that is quite liberal with software purchases. I'd still rather use OSS on Windows because it takes up a fraction of hard drive space and my PC runs better than if I had all that bloated, overpriced, revenue-generating, resource-sucking crappola.
" A hint? Look at their stock history. No real growth in *years*."
That's because they have a 90%+ market share in mature, no-growth markets and are non-competitive or marginally competitive in all their other markets (which are low margin commodities anyway). Hey, we all knew the Soviet Union would implode; we just didn't know the moment at which it would happen. Same for Microsoft. Could be next month, next year, the year after, or the year after that. But this nonsense won't even delay the inevitable.
Every time something he doesn't like (for whatever reason) starts to gain prominence, he makes comments like this in an attempt to freeze the market and play the White Knight with an alternative that is really, REALLY bad for consumers, but much better for him.
Soon, MS Office will have native support for PDF (like OOo has always had). Now, all they have to do is add support for ODF, give it away free along with the source code, and it will be almost as good as OOo.
"If it costs $10 today to [save] $100 tommorow it's not worth it.
And that's why capitalism fails. Nobody does anything that makes any god damn sense anymore."
Capitalism only fails for those who are a failures at capitalism. A successful capitalist might just as easily elect to spend the $10.
Once Microsoft starts giving away their suite of security products, taken 90% market share (and "cut off Symantec's air supply"), what will be their incentive to deliver updates, patches, or virus libraries on a timely basis? What will be *ANYBODY'S* incentive, once Microsoft has seen to it that you can't make money in the security business. They will provide virus updates about as often as they provide browser updates.
It doesn't bother me personally, but most traditional Windows users will always be turned off to the separate GTK download. This is a form of "dependecy hell" that Linux users have come to accept and Windows users never will. Even PDF Creator managed to integrate AFPL GhostScript.
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V10.0 should be X. But it's a Roman numeral only for that release. Then you go to letters Y and Z. If you're still in business after that, you go to Greek letters, like hurricanes. Nobody's ever made it that far.
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Uh, er, I mean inovate.
That may be (and I agree). But UNCONSTITUTIONAL?!! Teaching it, learning it, believing it is protected by the constitution. This will give Bill O'reilly a whole show's worth of material.
This seems almost like some contrived effort to increase Google's ad revenue. Now, when Google negotiates an advertising agreement, they can cite this. Poor, dumb people (who have computers) don't use Google? Virtually everyone uses Google. I wouldn't claim to know, but I'd think the Google demographic is that of the general population.
Oooohhhhhhh! It's open cores - I thought it was open Coors ... then you get iron hot, add carbon, make steel.
" just buy a new PC for $500 and move your old one on ebay for $150."
You can't do that if there's any Microsoft software loaded on it, according to the EULA. You can't sell it, resell it, or give it away because you don't own it. All you own is the physical media (if any). Microsoft owns and maintains perpetual dominion over the content, subject to change without notice, including termination.
Isn't it a violation of the DMCA to publish benchmarks? Intel will just sue.
What are all these web page things I keep hearing about?
"DRINK DECAF AND DIE!!"
When the hell did Rupert Murdoch buy Slashdot?!!
... I apparently had developed my own algorithm, sub-consciously. Maybe not very efficient, or perhaps PROficient, and I couldn't express it in a formula, but it was reproduceble. I just didn't want to learn somebody else's algorithm. That's what I meant by "cheat". No fun, or adventure, or mental exercise in it.
I was fortunate to be one of the first people in the world to play with a Rubik's Cube. In the late '70s, I worked with a woman who's husband worked for the Ideal Toy Co. in Jamaica, NY (that's Queens). She brought a secret prototype into work and all the engineers and technicians couldn't stop fighting over this thing; trying both to solve it and to figure out the mechanism. It was supposed to be hush-hush and she could have gotten her husband in trouble, but when she realized how obsessed we all were with it, she was afraid it would disappear.
It was only a few months later that they hit the market and I couldn't wait to get my hands on one. I eventually got to the point of being able to solve it consistently within a half hour or less. Then I lost interest in the challenge.
I also remember a Scientific American cover story (c. 1980), where I finally learned about the mechanism, disassembly and reassembly. Of course, they also discussed algorithms, but I wasn't interested in that. I never use cheats. Takes most of the fun out.
"Marx called, he wants know why his system doesn't work."
Karl or Groucho?
... the site first went up. IIRC, it was hosted on Apache on Solaris (or some such *NIX). A day or so later, it was pulled and replaced with IIS on Windows [NT|2000]. After that, I never payed it no nevermind.
"... a $90 billion company bent on unilaterally changing copyright law to their benefit ..."
I didn't know a company could do that. I thought only legislators could do that.
... to all those who toil to bring OSS project to Windows. I *have* to use Windows at work and I sure do appreciate so many of these projects making my life easier without my having to justify to my boss the purchase of commercial licences.
In fact, I now work for a company that is quite liberal with software purchases. I'd still rather use OSS on Windows because it takes up a fraction of hard drive space and my PC runs better than if I had all that bloated, overpriced, revenue-generating, resource-sucking crappola.
" A hint? Look at their stock history. No real growth in *years*."
That's because they have a 90%+ market share in mature, no-growth markets and are non-competitive or marginally competitive in all their other markets (which are low margin commodities anyway). Hey, we all knew the Soviet Union would implode; we just didn't know the moment at which it would happen. Same for Microsoft. Could be next month, next year, the year after, or the year after that. But this nonsense won't even delay the inevitable.
"Although relative share fell by 0.67 percent, the total number of sites powered by Apache grew to over 52 million."
From September to October, Apache's share went from 69.15% to 69.89% (+0.74%).
Every time something he doesn't like (for whatever reason) starts to gain prominence, he makes comments like this in an attempt to freeze the market and play the White Knight with an alternative that is really, REALLY bad for consumers, but much better for him.
I don't know, but I don't think there is any functional difference.
Soon, MS Office will have native support for PDF (like OOo has always had). Now, all they have to do is add support for ODF, give it away free along with the source code, and it will be almost as good as OOo.
"If it costs $10 today to [save] $100 tommorow it's not worth it.
And that's why capitalism fails. Nobody does anything that makes any god damn sense anymore."
Capitalism only fails for those who are a failures at capitalism. A successful capitalist might just as easily elect to spend the $10.
Once Microsoft starts giving away their suite of security products, taken 90% market share (and "cut off Symantec's air supply"), what will be their incentive to deliver updates, patches, or virus libraries on a timely basis? What will be *ANYBODY'S* incentive, once Microsoft has seen to it that you can't make money in the security business. They will provide virus updates about as often as they provide browser updates.
I don't do science.
"Excellent article, a bit long of a read but worth it. Read it!"
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"And should you choose not to read the entire article, ..."
Don't let 'em off the hook. Everybody should just RTFA and I mean TWFA and NBTFA.
It doesn't bother me personally, but most traditional Windows users will always be turned off to the separate GTK download. This is a form of "dependecy hell" that Linux users have come to accept and Windows users never will. Even PDF Creator managed to integrate AFPL GhostScript.
V10.0 should be X. But it's a Roman numeral only for that release. Then you go to letters Y and Z. If you're still in business after that, you go to Greek letters, like hurricanes. Nobody's ever made it that far.