Well, one could argue that they have the important 50% - the 50% that also has excess cash to spend on advertisers offerings. Look at who's making money and who ain't...
Also, I question the 50% number. According to zdnet
According to estimates close to 90 percent of Google's visits are search-related, compared to about 10 percent for Yahoo. Google has also proven that search offers better financial rewards, outpacing Yahoo in revenue by close to $3 billion for the first three quarters of 2006.
It's not only a "scaling story", but a stability story too...
Yesterday I visited a small charter school I helped get started when they had no money. It's been six years. I setup an email system for them using various Linux software. I showed their full time IT guy how it all worked, but he came from a Microsoft world, such that his knowledge was. I left the area for awhile and didn't check back with them. Six years later, I'm back and check to see how they are - three IT guys later. They're still using the same system - unchanged - and unrebooted - running on an old Pentium 166, serving a staff of 30 with sendmail and ("slow, but good enough") imap. They're afraid to mess with it - it simply works. I'm aghast at the lack of backups, etc., but there you have it. I hope to (carefully) bring them a little more up to date.
I think the GP is suggesting that companies that have sensitive data (whether to the companies bottom line or some secret formula) are not quickly going to float their data over the internet
The amount of "sensitive data" that goes out over unencrypted email would amaze most of us.
A single unified login will obsolete sites like bugmenot.com
And what's to prevent the sharing of various openid logins with anyone and everyone? Nada... so in effect it doesn't provide uniqueness. It only proves that whomever just used that login knew the proper associated password.
This prospect undoubtedly constitutes the most immediate psychological brake, but not inevitably the deepest, that every normally made human being will oppose first of all to the idea of a life in the Ark.
That's the way it should be IMHO. Avoid confusing the less technical users by putting only the essential configuration options in the GUI, but leave the more advanced configuration options available for advanced users who are capable of using GConf.
With that attitude the good stuff on the web would still only be reachable via Gopher.
If it's configurable, and eeverything possible should be that doesn't break the system, then it should be obviously configurable. What ever happened to the idea of treating Unix people like adults?
he's being proven correct due to the anti-greenhouse-gases backlash that's been forming this week among prominent scientists (several more stories about it today in the media).
Publications with solid reputations such as the Wall Street Journal are not of interest to the Algoracolytes...
Intentional misrepresentation is certainly a viable cause of action, I would think breach of contract applies as well.
So NVIDIA declined a refund? What's next - law suits because the drivers are only 99% efficient as they could be? (after all, if anything can ever be improved, then it was substandard originally, wasn't it?)
It is not the fault of Congress if the least common denominator has demanded more and more democracy while deserving it less and less.
Yes it is - they have so miserably failed the People - and yet are so not called to task for it.
The problem is, the Rails team has created a module that, by their own admission, will be obsolete within a year.
Let me guess - you're one of those that would have waited for jet powered air travel to be invented instead of taking the luxurious ocean liner?
Developers need to choose the tools they feel will best help them get the job done in the time allotted and in their estimation will also allow them an upgrade path at an acceptable level of pain as things (inevitably) change.
Dear Mysterious X,
In spite of what you were told, attempts to sell yourself into slavery are considered invalid - enjoy the free room and board, but it's not the Hotel California - you can indeed leave anytime you want - and you don't have to view the ads while you're there.
Your pal in non-slavedom,
Abby
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No matter what the customers say, all the music execs understand is one word ... "blah blah blah blah DRM blah blah"
Huh, I thought it would be higher
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Well, one could argue that they have the important 50% - the 50% that also has excess cash to spend on advertisers offerings. Look at who's making money and who ain't
Also, I question the 50% number. According to zdnet
According to estimates close to 90 percent of Google's visits are search-related, compared to about 10 percent for Yahoo. Google has also proven that search offers better financial rewards, outpacing Yahoo in revenue by close to $3 billion for the first three quarters of 2006.
Google proves Linux can and does scale well.
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It's not only a "scaling story", but a stability story too
Yesterday I visited a small charter school I helped get started when they had no money. It's been six years. I setup an email system for them using various Linux software. I showed their full time IT guy how it all worked, but he came from a Microsoft world, such that his knowledge was. I left the area for awhile and didn't check back with them. Six years later, I'm back and check to see how they are - three IT guys later. They're still using the same system - unchanged - and unrebooted - running on an old Pentium 166, serving a staff of 30 with sendmail and ("slow, but good enough") imap. They're afraid to mess with it - it simply works. I'm aghast at the lack of backups, etc., but there you have it. I hope to (carefully) bring them a little more up to date.
But what about the "ribbon". Surely you find that a new technology. There's NO WAY anyone could consider THAT an annoying format.
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Let me see what the Bob thinks
Why would the warm global warming water go down to the bottom of the ocean
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Because that's where the funding is needed
I think the GP is suggesting that companies that have sensitive data (whether to the companies bottom line or some secret formula) are not quickly going to float their data over the internet
The amount of "sensitive data" that goes out over unencrypted email would amaze most of us.
phone home.
IBM has a big stake in LINUX continuing as it is.
So does Google, Yahoo, and a number of other serious players. Steve's threats may frankly bite him in the ass.
Possible Cure For Altruism
Are they giving it away?
A single unified login will obsolete sites like bugmenot.com
... so in effect it doesn't provide uniqueness. It only proves that whomever just used that login knew the proper associated password.
And what's to prevent the sharing of various openid logins with anyone and everyone? Nada
From the article:
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This prospect undoubtedly constitutes the most immediate psychological brake, but not inevitably the deepest, that every normally made human being will oppose first of all to the idea of a life in the Ark.
Well, maybe if there was free broadband
That's the way it should be IMHO. Avoid confusing the less technical users by putting only the essential configuration options in the GUI, but leave the more advanced configuration options available for advanced users who are capable of using GConf.
With that attitude the good stuff on the web would still only be reachable via Gopher.
If it's configurable, and eeverything possible should be that doesn't break the system, then it should be obviously configurable. What ever happened to the idea of treating Unix people like adults?
he's being proven correct due to the anti-greenhouse-gases backlash that's been forming this week among prominent scientists (several more stories about it today in the media).
...
Publications with solid reputations such as the Wall Street Journal are not of interest to the Algoracolytes
Clearly you don't understand the meaning of fraud - if NVIDIA has not declined anyone a refund then this class action talk is simply crap.
Intentional misrepresentation is certainly a viable cause of action, I would think breach of contract applies as well.
So NVIDIA declined a refund? What's next - law suits because the drivers are only 99% efficient as they could be? (after all, if anything can ever be improved, then it was substandard originally, wasn't it?)
I imagine it was still 'unpleasant' when they finally downloaded and compiled, after all, you're using Gnome
No, this is Gnome - silly settings like "unpleasant acceleration speed" have been hidden from me.
There are words used to describe people who exhibit that kind of behavior
"soon-to-be employment-challenged"?
If the recording industry is hurting soo badly, where the hell are they getting the money for all theese lawsuits & lawyers ?
Dumping their SCOX?
It is not the fault of Congress if the least common denominator has demanded more and more democracy while deserving it less and less.
Yes it is - they have so miserably failed the People - and yet are so not called to task for it.
The problem is, the Rails team has created a module that, by their own admission, will be obsolete within a year.
Let me guess - you're one of those that would have waited for jet powered air travel to be invented instead of taking the luxurious ocean liner?
Developers need to choose the tools they feel will best help them get the job done in the time allotted and in their estimation will also allow them an upgrade path at an acceptable level of pain as things (inevitably) change.
thinkers - it's in darn short supply in the real world.
The price tag for Sealand is reported in the $1 billion range
They'll probably take an IOU and $20 cold hard cash.
means it's got a chance of actually making it through a season before being canceled (after viewers invest their time into the storyline)
Some of my best friends are neutrons.
Jimmy? Is that you?
Dear Mysterious X,
In spite of what you were told, attempts to sell yourself into slavery are considered invalid - enjoy the free room and board, but it's not the Hotel California - you can indeed leave anytime you want - and you don't have to view the ads while you're there.
Your pal in non-slavedom,
Abby