The dot-com fire sale 'pennies on the dollar' is
a falacy. Most of the equipment for auction is
old and prices are higher than you would
pay for ebay.
I tried to add some equipment to our office, guess
what there is even a shortage of good used furniture!
" I've written in clean, attractive Java code (to do stuff like rename files"
er you wrote a Java program to rename files?
The best think about Java for Linux developers
is that we can get access to programs that
previously would have been only been Windows binaries.
GJC does not help that at all. I for one won't
be using it, the JDKs are faster enough for me
and I do more than rename files!
Lets face in the world of software we have still only mastered the basics of what machines can do.
We don't have the time to write assembler and so high level languages are a step to solve the more complex computational problems.
An example? Lets take email, when you look at what most email readers do they are so primitive compared to how humans deal with handling information (prioritizing , remembering context etc)
We are also still behind in machine vision/pattern recognition, neural networks etc etc
Tools like Java are good, I wish I learn't that
instead of pascal, boy did I get some funny looks at my resume, who uses pascal in the real world.
No disrepect to the author of the reference manual which I seem to remember was a nice book along with the rest of the X set. But I would argue that motif is not "the native toolkit for the X Window System" It did later become the toolkit of the Common desktop environment. Thats another story
Motif came to zenith as a windows look and feel, early 1.x implementations were extremely poor quality and the SDK was expensive but did promise faster gui development. Just around the time it became more stable up comes the browser and the
rest was history. Well consigning motif to history at least. If openmotif was done earlier maybe things would be different but this product is from a bygone age of consortiums with the big cheeses like IBM, HWP, Sun. The closest I get to motif is Java and netscape, thats close enough for me
No matter how SGI got there score, where is
the so called Linux company IBM?
I mean come on, they were even using IBMs DB2
database, are you telling me that IBM doesn't know how to use their database in a cluster of machines but SGI (RIP) does?
I think IBM *does not* want to post a linux score while they can still sell their proprietry machines like as400 and the like. Look at
the OS they have submitted, AIX, dynix?!? and win2000. Is dynix more important to them than
Linux, it looks like it to me.
What Bob neglects to mention is the company that lobbied for the extension to copyrights was none other than the Disney corp.
Patents are different to copyright, I think Bob subconsciously blurred the answer here. The question is should we have been allowed to copy Mickey mouse in 1966, or wait 1986 or now 2034. I think Disney thinks the answer should be never.
one answer is, what are Microsoft toolkits often too good at? Integration. KDE and GNOME have incompatible integration glue, for example only gnome has bonobo
If I write an X program it should work on all X clients but it won't be integrated. I could write a KDE app but then that won't be integrated with bonobo etc
The person behind privacy foundation is the
previous head of QVC, thats quality for sure.
He also worked for TCI hence the brief on privacy
foundation to track set top boxes.
The article brings up some interesting points but
I believe privacy foundation has *failed* in
meeting Peters goals which was to stop data mining
abuse of minors, and instead he has a couple of
hackers finding abuses where there are none.
Sorry guys but you get a c+ for effort. I could
have written that report in a couple of hours
> When can I look forward to seeing MSFT's
> earnings report with a tip of the hat to them?
Last time I looked Microsoft were convicted
of breaking the laws of America. So unless you
are into cheering other criminals then it shouldn't interest you.
I am afraid for Redhat, I think IBM cosy relationship as a "partner" could turn ugly with
the gorillas need for service revenue too
I would guess what has changed is that Palm
have been demonstrating using the device to
beam payments via infra-red. This has been a high profile PR exercise by Palm and Visa to work
with Point of Sale terminals.
NCR (national cash registers) are all about POS
they already thought of this 'idea' but obviously
didn't succeed back then.
Except that the admins have to work out that in 1) Microsofts techno-bable means that they have a serious problem with their machine.
They have to then fight Service pack hell, and finally get plan down time on a system. thats supposed to be available for the 5 9's and reboot away.
Finally all the security announcements are written in legalise for one and only one purpose only. Admonish MS from "due negligence" and cover themselves
The big guys are not really selling support but more of an insurance policy against failure. (whether they live up to that is another story).
one analogy, if your car stalls at home, sure you may be able to fix it, or your neighbor might help you out. But a large number of people buy AAA or some breakdown service, for when they can't fix it themselves or the neighbor isn't around. Its called peace of mind.
Oracle are the GM breakdown service, your neighbor who works at the local service station is your open source guy.
Redhat marketing are definitely emulating Microsoft misleading information department. I asked the redhat booth at linuxworld frankfurt how long would it take after the 2.4 kernel is released before redhat would release a version.
The answer: We already ship the 2.4 kernel.
me: No sorry you are 2.4 ready, you do not ship the 2.4 kernel
redhat bot: Oh yes we do
me: show me on the box then
redhat bot; Its not there, you need to talk to someone else
At least Caldera stick "Technology preview" on a beta product
I feel sorry for those who lost their jobs
due to unfair competition. I don't feel
sorry for a company that had previously received
a warning about its business practices and
then continued as business as usual.
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The dot-com fire sale 'pennies on the dollar' is a falacy. Most of the equipment for auction is old and prices are higher than you would pay for ebay. I tried to add some equipment to our office, guess what there is even a shortage of good used furniture!
" I've written in clean, attractive Java code (to do stuff like rename files"
er you wrote a Java program to rename files?
The best think about Java for Linux developers
is that we can get access to programs that
previously would have been only been Windows binaries.
GJC does not help that at all. I for one won't
be using it, the JDKs are faster enough for me
and I do more than rename files!
Lets face in the world of software we have still only mastered the basics of what machines can do.
We don't have the time to write assembler and so high level languages are a step to solve the more complex computational problems.
An example? Lets take email, when you look at what most email readers do they are so primitive compared to how humans deal with handling information (prioritizing , remembering context etc)
We are also still behind in machine vision/pattern recognition, neural networks etc etc
Tools like Java are good, I wish I learn't that
instead of pascal, boy did I get some funny looks at my resume, who uses pascal in the real world.
So tell me who made your digital cable box? General Instrument perhaps?
Who owns General Instrument? Yes its Motorola isn't it.
So one of the largest set top box companies in the USA won't stand to gain from this at all? ie new cable boxes that don't use Windows CE
You can slap yourself, I can't reach from here
I always ask myself, why did someone write an article (being an ex-journo myself).
Something like this was submitted either by
the university in question or an interested party.
The lack of any data to back up most of the claims, (canadian offices don't have RSI)
brings me to think it was the latter.
"The same thing is true that has been for all of time: the only safe long term investment is land."
Nope, what about ghost towns, cities that lose
their trade like steel or coal or even shipping.
Those places had inflated values when there was demand, not so when there wasn't.
No disrepect to the author of the reference manual which I seem to remember was a nice book along with the rest of the X set. But I would argue that motif is not "the native toolkit for the X Window System" It did later become the toolkit of the Common desktop environment. Thats another story
Motif came to zenith as a windows look and feel, early 1.x implementations were extremely poor quality and the SDK was expensive but did promise faster gui development. Just around the time it became more stable up comes the browser and the
rest was history. Well consigning motif to history at least. If openmotif was done earlier maybe things would be different but this product is from a bygone age of consortiums with the big cheeses like IBM, HWP, Sun. The closest I get to motif is Java and netscape, thats close enough for me
No matter how SGI got there score, where is
the so called Linux company IBM?
I mean come on, they were even using IBMs DB2
database, are you telling me that IBM doesn't know how to use their database in a cluster of machines but SGI (RIP) does?
I think IBM *does not* want to post a linux score while they can still sell their proprietry machines like as400 and the like. Look at
the OS they have submitted, AIX, dynix?!? and win2000. Is dynix more important to them than
Linux, it looks like it to me.
What Bob neglects to mention is the company that lobbied for the extension to copyrights was none other than the Disney corp.
Patents are different to copyright, I think Bob subconsciously blurred the answer here. The question is should we have been allowed to copy Mickey mouse in 1966, or wait 1986 or now 2034. I think Disney thinks the answer should be never.
one answer is, what are Microsoft toolkits often too good at? Integration. KDE and GNOME have incompatible integration glue, for example only gnome has bonobo
If I write an X program it should work on all X clients but it won't be integrated. I could write a KDE app but then that won't be integrated with bonobo etc
peter barton: A Private Man's Privacy Campaign
The article brings up some interesting points but I believe privacy foundation has *failed* in meeting Peters goals which was to stop data mining abuse of minors, and instead he has a couple of hackers finding abuses where there are none.
Sorry guys but you get a c+ for effort. I could have written that report in a couple of hours
> When can I look forward to seeing MSFT's
> earnings report with a tip of the hat to them?
Last time I looked Microsoft were convicted
of breaking the laws of America. So unless you
are into cheering other criminals then it shouldn't interest you.
I am afraid for Redhat, I think IBM cosy relationship as a "partner" could turn ugly with
the gorillas need for service revenue too
hmm I found it funny! Got mod'd down for some
reason.
> Yeah, He hath created him in His own image,
> little did early scholars realise that the magic
> man was a baboon eats nuts in Africa.
My interpretation....
I would guess what has changed is that Palm
have been demonstrating using the device to
beam payments via infra-red. This has been a high profile PR exercise by Palm and Visa to work
with Point of Sale terminals.
NCR (national cash registers) are all about POS
they already thought of this 'idea' but obviously
didn't succeed back then.
Its a tried and tested technique
Consider pythagorus and other early scholars
who sat around playing with geometry and came
up with all sorts of theorems and the like.
Except that the admins have to work out that in 1) Microsofts techno-bable means that they have a serious problem with their machine.
They have to then fight Service pack hell, and finally get plan down time on a system. thats supposed to be available for the 5 9's and reboot away.
Finally all the security announcements are written in legalise for one and only one purpose only. Admonish MS from "due negligence" and cover themselves
Exactly.
The big guys are not really selling support but more of an insurance policy against failure. (whether they live up to that is another story).
one analogy, if your car stalls at home, sure you may be able to fix it, or your neighbor might help you out. But a large number of people buy AAA or some breakdown service, for when they can't fix it themselves or the neighbor isn't around. Its called peace of mind.
Oracle are the GM breakdown service, your neighbor who works at the local service station is your open source guy.
From what I remember he should have been protected by the whistle blowers act but MS disregarded that too and they eventually settled
Microsoft defends cookie jar
maybe the beef is that the guy is after some publicity even if it means dragging his daughter through the mud
1/2 year =5 months 1/4 year = 2.5 months 1/3 year =3.3333 months
where we currently have the babylonian base 60 system units
1/2=6 months 1/4=3 months 1/3=4 months
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Redhat marketing are definitely emulating Microsoft misleading information department. I asked the redhat booth at linuxworld frankfurt how long would it take after the 2.4 kernel is released before redhat would release a version.
The answer: We already ship the 2.4 kernel.
me: No sorry you are 2.4 ready, you do not ship the 2.4 kernel
redhat bot: Oh yes we do
me: show me on the box then
redhat bot; Its not there, you need to talk to someone else
At least Caldera stick "Technology preview" on a beta product
I feel sorry for those who lost their jobs
due to unfair competition. I don't feel
sorry for a company that had previously received
a warning about its business practices and
then continued as business as usual.
The truth is IBM embracing everything and are so huge they can afford to.