It is not surprizing to me that they could not find missing equipment and that no one has any clue how the whole system works. I think that corperations in the USA do not take administration seriously. People that keep track of things and quality of information are secondary to net profitability. How can one keep track of billions in equipment? It makes me neurvous. This FCC deal just said to America, 'don't worry, just make sure calls go through alright and we will all make a lot of money.' What about us?
Didn't anybody else notice a similarity between the movie Catch Me If You Can with Tom Hanks and the story Takedown. Alright, Kevin probably never got any chicks or much in the way of money, but the idea is still the same, where you can be to high profile and experienced to ever start being a criminal ever again, so you might as well start becoming good at helping catch the bad guys. There is probably just as much personal satisfaction out of catching theives as there is being one. The only difference I think is that you get patted on the back for catching a guy but not for being caught.
There is even more incentive for white box sellers to be using over clocked processors. If you void the warranty of a $150 pentium 2.4 and sell it for 10% markup as a $550 pentium 3.06, they can pocket the $455. If the chip blows up in 6 months the $150 chip is now $75. You are still making good money if the first chip blows up and you have to replace it with a $75 chip.
The liability is worth taking the chance and voiding the warranty. Who knows how many overclocked chips Intel replaces each year.
As a record label exec. this is the best deal in town. Think from their perspective how much they pay for one CD to make it to the shelf. The labels have a supply chain to distribute their CDs or they sell off their CDs to distributers, then to CD stores who have to sit in inventory for the marketing department to bring in people to sell the CDs. This new system puts the only distribution cost into a Datacenter and maybe a web development set-up costs.
T-Mobile works on the Cingular digital network. If it works with T-Mobile than it works on Cingular. Not necessarily the other way around. I think that AT&T has a new GSM network as well. Verizon is really the best service. Driving through the USA, Verizon always works.
JVM stands for Java Virtual Machine and is not a set of libraries. The main set of libraries is the JFC or the Java Foundation Classes. These are broken up into Swing components and AWT components.
A Ferrari and a GEO Metro are really the same thing. No, you don't think so? They both have wheels and spin right? You think that the sping on the Ferrari wheel is different than the GEO. You just don't think that the GEO is the same. You are bad.
I think most people do not understand why Solaris is so damn cool. So many peices of the puzzle where Linux says, "when we tackle the [insert issue here] as was shown in [insert publication here]we will be ahead of Microsoft like all the big UNIX players." Solaris is the big Iron solution. We did tests @ sun with a machine that would scale from 1-128 processors and they had them lined up. Image your server just taking processors like they were quarters going into a gum ball machine. That is cool. You get the same basic OS that they run the SUN Sun Fire 15K, that sells for a couple Million Dollars for free off of the Sun website. This is a bullet proof OS. Now if it only had the hardware support we could rule the world.
I studied the kernel threading system and it is really great how they have mixed user-level (M to N) and kernel-level threading (N to N) into a hybrid system. Your programs can control blocking systems, so user level threads can give up their time slice as easy as kernel level threads. That makes Java threading make more sense than with Native threads in Linux, where you have to use IPC for processes to talk between bytecode interpreted programs.
Give us hardware support and games and ease of cross-compiling source level Linux programs and you have a winner.
You didn't finish reading the article where multithreaded apps are compared. Simple UNIX calls are NEVER sped up by SMP but file servers and web servers are much faster and this is shown in this article. This HT would be great in the situation of a DB server, SMB server, Apache, email server, CGI server, etc....
Duh, no one is worried about compile time or link time as far as speed. Better compilers take longer and produce more machine code for faster running applications. Those speeds have nothing to do with speed of applications.
This is hillarious, I went to college with Nick and we got him to drink one night. It was hillarious, he tried to keep up with me drinking martini's and Nick is thype of guy that programs computers and bitches about Microsoft for fun (more than is healthy ranting and raving) so he could barely hold his liquor. As you could guess this big pale computer programmer, smashed on martinis, he was hurting. He looked like the fat kid in Stand By Me who pukes at the eating contest. It was a riot. You gotta love Nick, he has so many crazy ideas about how GNU will make you toast and coffee in the morning and that Microsoft reps are trying to put land sharks in your office so they can steal the money out of your wallet. I think it is great he is quoted and you
I get frustrated as hell!!! I am a computer programmer and I am native in Unix but the world I live in is all Windows 2000. I get really frustrated when I have to complete tasks. To change GUI settings on Win software, where do you go??? You go into the menu lists, try to find one that works FILE-preferences EDIT-options TOOLS-options. The whole thing is silly. In UNIX you go through the.conf file and look through all the options or grep the option you are interested in.
So someone is offering you something valuable and free. You say thank you. They then change the deal a bit and you cry to your momma like a bitch. What a bunch of pussies. Sorry I don't want to give you something free and give you expensive service so you can use my resources. I am all about free stuff, but I am also about people having jobs where they make money and will continue to have a job in the future.
I have experienced this many times. I can recall many a time when I went to open a file and it was opened by a shotty sharware program that I downloaded to play MP3s or edit hex. I do not change it and I am a power user on windows. The reason I never change the settings back is because I do not want to spend 5 minutes changing my settings when I want to listen to a new CD. This problem would be insane if there were a competitor to MS Office. What if you liked Word's competitor for some documents and MS for others? 2000 has a solution in the RUN PROGRAMS option but most users, not all, of win 9x/Me don't know what a file type is.
I did a body of research on browsing patterns over the last several years and it is useful information for everyone. The privacy issue though would effect all who have something to hide. You know they are whatching you allready don't you. It does not matter if you have ssh, they already have a kernel level thread hidden in the source that tells the CIA what you are looking at, they have files, warehouses full just on you. So what are a few URLs, they know how much you talk with other users about Apache and PERL, your secret mail to Internet girl (we know you only "talk"), how you know better than MS and AOL about the world of computers (it bought you a cube, didn't it), porn you have in your files, and how you make cybersex. Check it out, when MP3s get turned into stolen goods, you goin' down man. Whitey holdin' you down with all this, knowing the web sites you go to n' shit. Just cause you are not paranoid does not mean they are not comin' after you! Yes, you! You know all that web page making and programming is really sensitive stuff. People might figureout that you like Objects and are not a true C programmer. That you go to the MS page every Friday and try to hack at the webservers. MS will get you when you least expect it. They have there own listening device in the source. They do not even have to bury it since only they see it. Why do they still use dos in Windows 98? Have you done a Hex dump lately to see how they do it, what they are saying. Sure ZDNet says Windows ME is great, but that is what they want you to think, letting Bill own you is the price you pay for being smart and devoted to computers.
I feel for you, I just made my way out of the cube and into a new way. I still think they are after me but I hold on. I talk to kids about computers now. I cannot stay in front of one before it owns me. It is Paranoid Losers for Jesus. We wish we had those people like in Fight Club. That chick wanted it. You woulda' so done her, even though she was bald and dying of cancer. I woulda'. If only there was a chick that offered herself to the group man, we would get so many more chicks after that. So don't let them get to you or you'll end up like me. What are a few URLs
The problem as I see it is we have no reason to pay large penalties for being distributed to. We pay for record companies to make CDs, to distribute them to Tower type record stores, promote them on the radio and through ad promotions, and to make known that types of music are vital to our lives. N'Sync is a great example of this. The record companies make more money due to the royalties for publishing. N'Sync does not write its songs and does not make as much money due on CD sales and shows, but since the record companies convince enough people that they are great artists, we will buy it and it makes more money for them than Metallica who owns its material outright. The record companies only make money on services distributing and promoting Metallica, they do not get money from, publishing, royalties on performances, etc...
The real value of Napster is, is direct distribution, not having to go to a store and buy an album. If bands and their managers do not need the record companies, they will once and for all make all the money. They do not pay BMG, Tower, song-writers (I fear artists that do not make their own music - N'Sync, Britany, etc... - They are talking heads only, not artists) and Album promoters.
Direct disttribution should happen sometime soon. Us geeks can make a device where we can play any song anytime, wireless on the road or off our computers. Imagine a wireless device where we make songlists and play them without storing them locally. It should not be that hard to do (I am a software engineer, so I know it would be hard and expensive at first). With direct distribution, where one says "I want to listen to Dr. Dre / Blink 182 / Britany" record companies, Tower Records, CD Manufacturers, and others lose their cut. We get the music from the source. Of course we would pay somehow (monthly fee / per download out of our e-accounts), but we would ONLY PAY THE ARTIST (and his manager). This means that we demolish the industry that distributes CDs that we don't need. BMG is embracing Napster, I believe to restore their influence. If they can get to the distribution techniques before someone else, we are hooked. If they make the devices and set up the fees we will continue paying them for a fee that is technologically unecessary. E-mail me if you want to discuss this idea gametoken_2000@yahoo.com. We are slaves to the hype of Britany (those who bought the album), who does not make her music and keeps money in the pocket of her Record Contractor.
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Artist sign contracts with bands, so technically they are contractors, and bands are sub-contractors. This seems contrary to a direct contract with an Artist. For example my mother is an Artist (painter), and she charges for her work (jilllogan.com). She makes 50% of sales in a Gallery, she makes 100% in her gallery. The gallery does promotion and has a room to show the art. My mother pays 50% for a service that is simple. They hang a bunch of paintings and invite some hob-nobbers to drink wine around the art. I do not like paying hob-nobbers to drink wine. I would also not like to pay royaltes to record executives to buy imported cars, drugs, hookers, and houses in the Hollywood hills. We pay this money to record execs and their companies in order to get a service that we could do for ourselves using direct distribution.
what about streaming audio. I think that the problem with mp3s is that we are still dealing with the distribution of music, be it files or cds with files on them. It seems to me that we could put a database of every song every made on the Internet/Web(for newbies) and allow people to play anything from that database without downloading files. This whole idea of playing lossy signals and waiting 10 minutes for each song baffles me.
What do you think? Most people think this sounds like a weird idea but I think this will be the only way to make things work when we have these mega-bandwidth wireless devices. Why have storage on them? The idea of paying IBM for micro drives when we have tremendous storage elsewhere baffles my mind.
In america, it is what does not infringe on money making!
What part does money have in it?
All the difference in the world! -If this was a spyder that went every day to search through the Stanford University Research Paper archive and gave out the number and links to Copywrighted papers, we would have no discussion. EBay makes money so boo hoo. They are being infringed upon. Give it up. IT is not a question but an excuse to infringe on our freedom. What happens when this goes on for research. When you cannot search for facts and information on the web. All over a bit of cash. Boo hoo for EBay. They should be proud that you can be better informed on the web. That is what it is about. Information moves faster. Information for better or for worse.
Moderate me up please. This is the heart of the matter.
FYI! Robust software works when we have good groupware and steady management, calling all the shots. This Open Source solution to our Enterprise needs might be the ticket if we play our cards right. What I propose is that we keep each other in the loop on this one and try to steady the rains on thie project. If we can see our goals in our sights and work hard, we can get the ball really moving on this project of revamping our primary image in the PC world
Sun is not really dead because of this. They have a target market that is the huge players. Companies like eBay and Yahoo can only run their monsterous applications on a Sun box. Maybe huge AIX mainframes can compete but AIX is not very cool for corperate computer people. On the lower end Linux and NT are scaling up into Sun's market for eBuisiness(isn't it exciting that meaning changes with an e in front of anything). Linux cannot run these monsterous things like eBay, which runs on e10000's. I read that IBM has a 16 way Itanium setup that is coming out. This is the begining of Itel machines with Linux or NT scaling up to compete with Sun's big guns. How this will all turn out is dependdant on the balls that the CEO's that make the decisions have for IBM, SGI, INTEL, Microsoft (bill is working on NT Datacenter), SUN, and HP have as to who has the monopoly. The company that provides computing services with be whittled down to one or two and it will be like bank services or corperate building services are now. There are corperate to copreate banks. There are corperate to consumer banks and so on. Conpanies that provide the selling of services in these markets will choose one company to provide eCommerce (there the e is again) solutions. The CEO that can figure out how to do this without stepping on anyones toes or any courts floors wins the multibillion dollar prize.
You would be really set if you hooked this up to a clapper. A clapper activated stereo, with a voice activated MP3 player. That would be the ultimate in sloth.
If you want to control the market for computers, you get kids hooked on gaming machines so that they get brand preference. Next you make a system that will play movies and music and surf the web for parents for the parents. Parents want the new Microsoft console, and their children are hooked on their games like they are crack. Also as a side benefit, the games will run on windows machines. Oh, and you can have a PC with the correct hardware and windows do the whole entertainment center thing like you neighbors (though it already can). So they can buy the X-Box and have a DVD player, CD player, internet appliance, and gaming console. People will not need to understand the hardware and writing software should be cake, and microsoft getss all of the pieces of the pie. So you convince people that they need to buy this product in order to do this whole integration of entertainment thing, which we all know is a load of bull. The problem is that Americans are stupidand will fall for marketing bullshit. We know better though.
DIVX was extinguished by the community of people with sense about technology spreading the word that DIVX was a big fat load of crap. DIVX did not fair too well. Tell your friends that this is a big hoax designed to steal your money and take away our ability to use technology the way we have expected to. CD has the ability to be exchanged in new ways, regardless of what the laws are(that were set up for analog media). They gave us CDs without really asking us if we wanted them, we are going to use them how we want.
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It is not surprizing to me that they could not find missing equipment and that no one has any clue how the whole system works. I think that corperations in the USA do not take administration seriously. People that keep track of things and quality of information are secondary to net profitability. How can one keep track of billions in equipment? It makes me neurvous. This FCC deal just said to America, 'don't worry, just make sure calls go through alright and we will all make a lot of money.' What about us?
Didn't anybody else notice a similarity between the movie Catch Me If You Can with Tom Hanks and the story Takedown. Alright, Kevin probably never got any chicks or much in the way of money, but the idea is still the same, where you can be to high profile and experienced to ever start being a criminal ever again, so you might as well start becoming good at helping catch the bad guys. There is probably just as much personal satisfaction out of catching theives as there is being one. The only difference I think is that you get patted on the back for catching a guy but not for being caught.
There is even more incentive for white box sellers to be using over clocked processors. If you void the warranty of a $150 pentium 2.4 and sell it for 10% markup as a $550 pentium 3.06, they can pocket the $455. If the chip blows up in 6 months the $150 chip is now $75. You are still making good money if the first chip blows up and you have to replace it with a $75 chip.
The liability is worth taking the chance and voiding the warranty. Who knows how many overclocked chips Intel replaces each year.
As a record label exec. this is the best deal in town. Think from their perspective how much they pay for one CD to make it to the shelf. The labels have a supply chain to distribute their CDs or they sell off their CDs to distributers, then to CD stores who have to sit in inventory for the marketing department to bring in people to sell the CDs. This new system puts the only distribution cost into a Datacenter and maybe a web development set-up costs.
T-Mobile works on the Cingular digital network. If it works with T-Mobile than it works on Cingular. Not necessarily the other way around. I think that AT&T has a new GSM network as well. Verizon is really the best service. Driving through the USA, Verizon always works.
JVM stands for Java Virtual Machine and is not a set of libraries. The main set of libraries is the JFC or the Java Foundation Classes. These are broken up into Swing components and AWT components.
A Ferrari and a GEO Metro are really the same thing. No, you don't think so? They both have wheels and spin right? You think that the sping on the Ferrari wheel is different than the GEO. You just don't think that the GEO is the same. You are bad.
I think most people do not understand why Solaris is so damn cool. So many peices of the puzzle where Linux says, "when we tackle the [insert issue here] as was shown in [insert publication here]we will be ahead of Microsoft like all the big UNIX players." Solaris is the big Iron solution. We did tests @ sun with a machine that would scale from 1-128 processors and they had them lined up. Image your server just taking processors like they were quarters going into a gum ball machine. That is cool. You get the same basic OS that they run the SUN Sun Fire 15K, that sells for a couple Million Dollars for free off of the Sun website. This is a bullet proof OS. Now if it only had the hardware support we could rule the world.
I studied the kernel threading system and it is really great how they have mixed user-level (M to N) and kernel-level threading (N to N) into a hybrid system. Your programs can control blocking systems, so user level threads can give up their time slice as easy as kernel level threads. That makes Java threading make more sense than with Native threads in Linux, where you have to use IPC for processes to talk between bytecode interpreted programs.
Give us hardware support and games and ease of cross-compiling source level Linux programs and you have a winner.
What is a company like Microsoft to do about a per Processor licensing fee on machines with "virtual" SMP?
You didn't finish reading the article where multithreaded apps are compared. Simple UNIX calls are NEVER sped up by SMP but file servers and web servers are much faster and this is shown in this article. This HT would be great in the situation of a DB server, SMB server, Apache, email server, CGI server, etc....
Interesting things can come from Intel
Duh, no one is worried about compile time or link time as far as speed. Better compilers take longer and produce more machine code for faster running applications. Those speeds have nothing to do with speed of applications.
This is hillarious, I went to college with Nick and we got him to drink one night. It was hillarious, he tried to keep up with me drinking martini's and Nick is thype of guy that programs computers and bitches about Microsoft for fun (more than is healthy ranting and raving) so he could barely hold his liquor. As you could guess this big pale computer programmer, smashed on martinis, he was hurting. He looked like the fat kid in Stand By Me who pukes at the eating contest. It was a riot. You gotta love Nick, he has so many crazy ideas about how GNU will make you toast and coffee in the morning and that Microsoft reps are trying to put land sharks in your office so they can steal the money out of your wallet. I think it is great he is quoted and you
Keep on rocking in the FREE WORLD!!!!!
I get frustrated as hell!!! I am a computer programmer and I am native in Unix but the world I live in is all Windows 2000. I get really frustrated when I have to complete tasks. To change GUI settings on Win software, where do you go??? You go into the menu lists, try to find one that works FILE-preferences EDIT-options TOOLS-options. The whole thing is silly. In UNIX you go through the
So someone is offering you something valuable and free. You say thank you. They then change the deal a bit and you cry to your momma like a bitch. What a bunch of pussies. Sorry I don't want to give you something free and give you expensive service so you can use my resources. I am all about free stuff, but I am also about people having jobs where they make money and will continue to have a job in the future.
I have experienced this many times. I can recall many a time when I went to open a file and it was opened by a shotty sharware program that I downloaded to play MP3s or edit hex. I do not change it and I am a power user on windows. The reason I never change the settings back is because I do not want to spend 5 minutes changing my settings when I want to listen to a new CD. This problem would be insane if there were a competitor to MS Office. What if you liked Word's competitor for some documents and MS for others? 2000 has a solution in the RUN PROGRAMS option but most users, not all, of win 9x/Me don't know what a file type is.
I did a body of research on browsing patterns over the last several years and it is useful information for everyone. The privacy issue though would effect all who have something to hide. You know they are whatching you allready don't you. It does not matter if you have ssh, they already have a kernel level thread hidden in the source that tells the CIA what you are looking at, they have files, warehouses full just on you. So what are a few URLs, they know how much you talk with other users about Apache and PERL, your secret mail to Internet girl (we know you only "talk"), how you know better than MS and AOL about the world of computers (it bought you a cube, didn't it), porn you have in your files, and how you make cybersex. Check it out, when MP3s get turned into stolen goods, you goin' down man. Whitey holdin' you down with all this, knowing the web sites you go to n' shit. Just cause you are not paranoid does not mean they are not comin' after you! Yes, you! You know all that web page making and programming is really sensitive stuff. People might figureout that you like Objects and are not a true C programmer. That you go to the MS page every Friday and try to hack at the webservers. MS will get you when you least expect it. They have there own listening device in the source. They do not even have to bury it since only they see it. Why do they still use dos in Windows 98? Have you done a Hex dump lately to see how they do it, what they are saying. Sure ZDNet says Windows ME is great, but that is what they want you to think, letting Bill own you is the price you pay for being smart and devoted to computers.
I feel for you, I just made my way out of the cube and into a new way. I still think they are after me but I hold on. I talk to kids about computers now. I cannot stay in front of one before it owns me. It is Paranoid Losers for Jesus. We wish we had those people like in Fight Club. That chick wanted it. You woulda' so done her, even though she was bald and dying of cancer. I woulda'. If only there was a chick that offered herself to the group man, we would get so many more chicks after that. So don't let them get to you or you'll end up like me. What are a few URLs
The problem as I see it is we have no reason to pay large penalties for being distributed to. We pay for record companies to make CDs, to distribute them to Tower type record stores, promote them on the radio and through ad promotions, and to make known that types of music are vital to our lives. N'Sync is a great example of this. The record companies make more money due to the royalties for publishing. N'Sync does not write its songs and does not make as much money due on CD sales and shows, but since the record companies convince enough people that they are great artists, we will buy it and it makes more money for them than Metallica who owns its material outright. The record companies only make money on services distributing and promoting Metallica, they do not get money from, publishing, royalties on performances, etc...
The real value of Napster is, is direct distribution, not having to go to a store and buy an album. If bands and their managers do not need the record companies, they will once and for all make all the money. They do not pay BMG, Tower, song-writers (I fear artists that do not make their own music - N'Sync, Britany, etc... - They are talking heads only, not artists) and Album promoters.
Direct disttribution should happen sometime soon. Us geeks can make a device where we can play any song anytime, wireless on the road or off our computers. Imagine a wireless device where we make songlists and play them without storing them locally. It should not be that hard to do (I am a software engineer, so I know it would be hard and expensive at first). With direct distribution, where one says "I want to listen to Dr. Dre / Blink 182 / Britany" record companies, Tower Records, CD Manufacturers, and others lose their cut. We get the music from the source. Of course we would pay somehow (monthly fee / per download out of our e-accounts), but we would ONLY PAY THE ARTIST (and his manager). This means that we demolish the industry that distributes CDs that we don't need. BMG is embracing Napster, I believe to restore their influence. If they can get to the distribution techniques before someone else, we are hooked. If they make the devices and set up the fees we will continue paying them for a fee that is technologically unecessary. E-mail me if you want to discuss this idea gametoken_2000@yahoo.com. We are slaves to the hype of Britany (those who bought the album), who does not make her music and keeps money in the pocket of her Record Contractor.
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Artist sign contracts with bands, so technically they are contractors, and bands are sub-contractors. This seems contrary to a direct contract with an Artist. For example my mother is an Artist (painter), and she charges for her work (jilllogan.com). She makes 50% of sales in a Gallery, she makes 100% in her gallery. The gallery does promotion and has a room to show the art. My mother pays 50% for a service that is simple. They hang a bunch of paintings and invite some hob-nobbers to drink wine around the art. I do not like paying hob-nobbers to drink wine. I would also not like to pay royaltes to record executives to buy imported cars, drugs, hookers, and houses in the Hollywood hills. We pay this money to record execs and their companies in order to get a service that we could do for ourselves using direct distribution.
what about streaming audio. I think that the problem with mp3s is that we are still dealing with the distribution of music, be it files or cds with files on them. It seems to me that we could put a database of every song every made on the Internet/Web(for newbies) and allow people to play anything from that database without downloading files. This whole idea of playing lossy signals and waiting 10 minutes for each song baffles me. What do you think? Most people think this sounds like a weird idea but I think this will be the only way to make things work when we have these mega-bandwidth wireless devices. Why have storage on them? The idea of paying IBM for micro drives when we have tremendous storage elsewhere baffles my mind.
What are we free to do legaly and why?
In america, it is what does not infringe on money making!
What part does money have in it?
All the difference in the world!
-If this was a spyder that went every day to search through the Stanford University Research Paper archive and gave out the number and links to Copywrighted papers, we would have no discussion. EBay makes money so boo hoo. They are being infringed upon. Give it up. IT is not a question but an excuse to infringe on our freedom. What happens when this goes on for research. When you cannot search for facts and information on the web. All over a bit of cash. Boo hoo for EBay. They should be proud that you can be better informed on the web. That is what it is about. Information moves faster. Information for better or for worse.
Moderate me up please. This is the heart of the matter.
FYI! Robust software works when we have good groupware and steady management, calling all the shots. This Open Source solution to our Enterprise needs might be the ticket if we play our cards right. What I propose is that we keep each other in the loop on this one and try to steady the rains on thie project. If we can see our goals in our sights and work hard, we can get the ball really moving on this project of revamping our primary image in the PC world
Sun is not really dead because of this. They have a target market that is the huge players. Companies like eBay and Yahoo can only run their monsterous applications on a Sun box. Maybe huge AIX mainframes can compete but AIX is not very cool for corperate computer people. On the lower end Linux and NT are scaling up into Sun's market for eBuisiness(isn't it exciting that meaning changes with an e in front of anything). Linux cannot run these monsterous things like eBay, which runs on e10000's. I read that IBM has a 16 way Itanium setup that is coming out. This is the begining of Itel machines with Linux or NT scaling up to compete with Sun's big guns. How this will all turn out is dependdant on the balls that the CEO's that make the decisions have for IBM, SGI, INTEL, Microsoft (bill is working on NT Datacenter), SUN, and HP have as to who has the monopoly. The company that provides computing services with be whittled down to one or two and it will be like bank services or corperate building services are now. There are corperate to copreate banks. There are corperate to consumer banks and so on. Conpanies that provide the selling of services in these markets will choose one company to provide eCommerce (there the e is again) solutions. The CEO that can figure out how to do this without stepping on anyones toes or any courts floors wins the multibillion dollar prize.
You would be really set if you hooked this up to a clapper. A clapper activated stereo, with a voice activated MP3 player. That would be the ultimate in sloth.
If you want to control the market for computers, you get kids hooked on gaming machines so that they get brand preference. Next you make a system that will play movies and music and surf the web for parents for the parents. Parents want the new Microsoft console, and their children are hooked on their games like they are crack. Also as a side benefit, the games will run on windows machines. Oh, and you can have a PC with the correct hardware and windows do the whole entertainment center thing like you neighbors (though it already can). So they can buy the X-Box and have a DVD player, CD player, internet appliance, and gaming console. People will not need to understand the hardware and writing software should be cake, and microsoft getss all of the pieces of the pie.
So you convince people that they need to buy this product in order to do this whole integration of entertainment thing, which we all know is a load of bull. The problem is that Americans are stupidand will fall for marketing bullshit. We know better though.
I know people tha can write really fast assmebly, but they cannot write nearly as much as me and my C compiler, and I am not the greatest C coder.
Can anyone say DIVX.
DIVX was extinguished by the community of people with sense about technology spreading the word that DIVX was a big fat load of crap. DIVX did not fair too well. Tell your friends that this is a big hoax designed to steal your money and take away our ability to use technology the way we have expected to. CD has the ability to be exchanged in new ways, regardless of what the laws are(that were set up for analog media). They gave us CDs without really asking us if we wanted them, we are going to use them how we want.