After reading the article, the one thing I want to do is hear from Akio Morita about why his intuitions were so often correct at Sony. Doesn't that put a lot of MBAs out of jobs?
The study indicates that the percentage of students using pirated software has dropped. An alternative explanation may well be that as the use of the internet has accelerated less technically-savvy students want more/different kinds of software. They find it difficult or confusing to pirate, especially in a Windows environment which can make it hard to track where the file went. The result is the percentage willing to purchase increases, especially in light of falling prices and threatened legal action.
NASA really is intent on controlling who goes to heaven. Does this mean that St. Peter is the new Director of NASA?
If they mean drinking, lying, and cheating I'm still in the running. If they change it to or....
"The company said it would eventually like to have more data in the analysis, including embassy warnings, passport information, foreign watch lists."
It's interesting/troubling that the most obvious red flags are moved to the "eventually" column, while sophisticated data mining techniques are used on all sorts of other variables.
Having worked some, not a lot, with StarOffice I thought it was quite good, especially considering the price. I don't think it has been available long enough or promoted heavily enough to pass judgement yet on its eventual success or failure. Obviously, the success of StarOffice is inextricably linked to the success of Linux on the desktop, which brings us to the chicken-egg thing.
I think one of the hopes Sun has is not so much to make money from it, but rather to force MS to play a little defense in protecting its Office monopoly. That would theoretically pull some resources away from other initiatives, although some would say that MS has infinite resources. Office is a cash cow for MS and will remain so as long as businesses don't feel that they have an alternative.
Why wouldn't a Linux PDA ever replace a "small effecient Palm style PDA" ? Is it because the apps aren't currently available? Or does Linux pose a technical barrier to the eventual development of such "cool small apps" ? Just wondering
Early next year Ximian will becoming out with the widgetry that allows clients running Evolution to access shared Exchange files. It won't be free, but it should offer some hope to those trying to move Linux into the corporate environment
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Have you talked to your wife about
this?
An apartment with a 100 foot radius? Enough of the wireless stuff, I want to know how he heats the place.
After reading the article, the one thing I want to do is hear from Akio Morita about why his intuitions were so often correct at Sony. Doesn't that put a lot of MBAs out of jobs?
The study indicates that the percentage of students using pirated software has dropped. An alternative explanation may well be that as the use of the internet has accelerated less technically-savvy students want more/different kinds of software. They find it difficult or confusing to pirate, especially in a Windows environment which can make it hard to track where the file went. The result is the percentage willing to purchase increases, especially in light of falling prices and threatened legal action.
NASA really is intent on controlling who goes to heaven. Does this mean that St. Peter is the new Director of NASA? If they mean drinking, lying, and cheating I'm still in the running. If they change it to or....
"The company said it would eventually like to have more data in the analysis, including embassy warnings, passport information, foreign watch lists." It's interesting/troubling that the most obvious red flags are moved to the "eventually" column, while sophisticated data mining techniques are used on all sorts of other variables.
Is there any irony in the SEC using an open source OS to host a fictitious company's web site?
Having worked some, not a lot, with StarOffice I thought it was quite good, especially considering the price. I don't think it has been available long enough or promoted heavily enough to pass judgement yet on its eventual success or failure. Obviously, the success of StarOffice is inextricably linked to the success of Linux on the desktop, which brings us to the chicken-egg thing. I think one of the hopes Sun has is not so much to make money from it, but rather to force MS to play a little defense in protecting its Office monopoly. That would theoretically pull some resources away from other initiatives, although some would say that MS has infinite resources. Office is a cash cow for MS and will remain so as long as businesses don't feel that they have an alternative.
Why wouldn't a Linux PDA ever replace a "small effecient Palm style PDA" ? Is it because the apps aren't currently available? Or does Linux pose a technical barrier to the eventual development of such "cool small apps" ? Just wondering
Early next year Ximian will becoming out with the widgetry that allows clients running Evolution to access shared Exchange files. It won't be free, but it should offer some hope to those trying to move Linux into the corporate environment