Why else would you buy a share into a company
if you didn't think they were viable?
Buying a stock makes you very much a partial owner in the company
by giving quarterly gains you get an idea of what you own is worth
And while I agree with the if they didn't like it, they shouldn't have bought
why not just do away with money completely. We would all live in a better world
where I can trade my sheep for your cow.
That's because he forgot to add Sugar as one of the options...
and ever try a "good" wine, $100+, that smells and taste like "Barnyard"? as in Article link
makes you wonder what these tasters are doing with their spare time.
it's either water
water with alcohol- think barcadi 151 diluted
not water- tannins
not water not sweet- minerally
not water sweet- tannins + "fruit"
not water very sweet - forward fruit
buttery - oak
oaky - oak
chocolate- oak
cigar box- oak
californian wine- oak
Just because a company has a product.. doesn't mean that they need to register the domain name.
They're web based product is called gmail... why would they even need to register it? They could have been hosted on say... www.iiir.com/gmail
or gmail.iiir.com
how bout apache's gump project?.. how come that's not called gump.com?
the housing market hasnt taken more than a slight dip since... its been pretty much the highest rate of return you can get at least in this area.
now thats not to say that this couldn't change any day now, but people have been saying it for 20 years and it hasn't happened. if you have the money to buy and the ability to hold your property (ie ride out dips in the market and not selling the first time your house is worth slightly less than it was a year ago) its probably not a bad idea to buy a home.
you could rent for a lifetime waiting for a "market correction"
New england prices have fallen alot (to the tune of 20-50% depending on the area you were in) in the 80s. And again in the early 90s but no where near as much. It really is only recently that prices have soared 20-30% annually.
On the flip side, if you were to buy a house as your primary residence and plan to live there for the next 20 years of your life, absolutely buy a house regardless of your price. You'd get a 15-30 year fixed and you'd know exactly what your payments are and you wouldn't really care if the house of the price drops.
If you're looking for either a short term place/secondary home for investment, you'd better watch out because you'd probably would take either a floating rate loan/interest only loan (to lower your monthly payments) and if the market value goes down you won't be able to sell it for as much leaving you wiht a hefty short term payment.
The problem is as an investment that even if you had the money to ride out the the dips in the market is that you have to pay maintanence, utility (if you plan on renting out), real estate taxes, and mortgage. These are what I would call "wasted" money because i'm not living in the house and I'm still paying the bills for it. If you can find a renter that will cover all that, then defintely yes, wonderful investment, but with todays market there's a huge price descrepancy between renters and buyers. A mortgage on a 1 br apartment in NYC for instance will run you at rough 1000/month not including utilities/real estate taxes/maintanence fees. which after everythign will equate toa 2500$/month payment. You can rent a similar apartment for only 1500$.
If you had purchased you're basically losing 1000$/month in flow income, if the value of your place rises you make money, if it stays flat or goes down, yer screwed losing that 1000$/month.
* 1 bedroom = rent = no equity
* leased car = no equity
* eating out 6 times a week = waste of money and health
* party time on Saturdays - see above
Leasing a car is quite dumb I'll agree,
but with current housing prices going through the roof, it's financially prudent to rent as oppose to paying mortgage right now.
As with eating out... it's for my own sanity.. if i had to live on ramen after working 80-90 hours a week, my health care alone would exceed my cost of eating =)
and as you get older you realize it's cheaper to fulfill your alcoholic tendencies at home rather then outside.
Do you realize that many people find this whole idea rather attractive? Not everyone is rushing to get away from their jobs or their coworkers at 5pm. A lot of folks actually love what they do for a living and like the people they work with. So much so, that it's not a job to them; it's a lifestyle. Granted, it's not the lifestyle for everyone. But I don't understand why so many people feel that it's wrong for a company to operate this way. Especially when everyone working there has made the choice to be there.
Hell, I'd love to find an environment like that to work in. One that wasn't full of negative paranoid slackers. I already love what I do; I just don't have the support staff or amenities to make it an enjoyable lifestyle.
As for games, I guess I got lucky -- the only game I ever really liked was Unreal Tournament, and there are excellent Linux versions available (original, 2003, 2004). Personally, I think the hardcore gamers should just use consoles; they're cheaper than computers, Just Work, use less power, and turn on instantly. Use your computer for work and your game system for gaming. That's what I would do.
Space issues are acutally the reason for me to stick with the computer.. a Tele takes up too muhc room in my small nyc apartment. Computer games are due to convience (no fun to play on the console if yer plastered 2 inches from the screen.) Anyhow in some sense, I've invested alot into the hardware of my computer that I'd really would want to utilize it to the fullest extent.
I personally dual boot my machine right now. and while I don't disagree with taking the time to relearn some stuff. If you shut yourself out from one facet of the computer, you're just not using that computer to it's max potential and that is... You have a choice of OS, you have a choice in which notepad/latex/VI you want to use, and if you want to play games you can use windows and if you wish to do some hard core scripting you can use linux. I mean the list goes on.
If anything I'd say that Apple should be the antichrist, because once you buy a mac, yer kinda screwed if you want a choice with the hardware you spent alot of money on.
There seems to be one or two neurons in your brain that just seem to be misfiring to each other.
It seems that once you have no better argument to make you enjoy referring me to a mythical creature that obviously is just that a figment of your imagination
To further show just how much of an ass you seem to be, you seem to stick stubbornly to your belief that "NFS makes companies money" when I'd doubt you could find a single point to show me just actually how NFS would make any company money. (unless they're selling NFS).
And after everything else when you can no longer justify the point you're trying to make you revert yourself to a mere simpleton making childish and idiotic noises.
Just so you learn something from all of this. I am going to repeat that NFS is not a production able system if you require read/write and redundancy. Other technologies include, AFS/DFS/JFS/CODA.
once again you are deviating from the fact and trying to justify your failed beliefs. Shall I point you to various man pages that will explicitly tell you that NFS should not be used in a production environment where you need to both read/write and redunancy?
Perhaps it's too much to ask you to read back to all the posts I made relating to this topic. If you can find a single location where I mentioned Microsoft instead of other more robust *nix technologies like AFS/DFS, I might acutally relent and say that NFS is good for a production environment. (or even CODA as one of the other posters mentioned).
So Mr. I don't speak absolutely when I say "It won't work on me, or anyone else that uses NFS daily to make money and get serious work done." Once again I ask you to pull your head out of your ass and learn about other *nix technologies.
Relate to the article. It tells how the scotland police find it difficult to share files that they all need to edit.
I'm already telling you that NFS has an inherent disadvantage because true redundancy ONLY comes when you have a read only environment.
A better technology would be DFS/AFS instead.
I pity your customers if they have a support guy that's just so stuck on technology that might not suit their needs.
For my home system I use NFS as it suits my need and I don't need the redundancy, but If I were to go into a production environment where the users are sharing say sensitive word documents that they would be editing day in and day out... NFS is unacceptable.
Right - its business model was brilliant. Why does that mean they should be given kudos? They've made a lot of money for themselves and convinced a lot of people to buy their stuff. I reserve kudos for people who do good things for me or other people. Merely finding a great way of making themselves money doesn't count.
I've made a good chunk of change being a stock holder of MS. As have many other people, so you should stick with "good things for me".
Oh jesus, are you trolling? (Checks post-log) Ah, possibly.
I happen to point out things that people don't agree with. A troll post would be... "Linux sucks". I've always stated in my posts that you use what fits best.
Windows is neither here nor there - the Apache/IIS comparison has been trotted out so many times to disprove this argument that I (erroneously, apparently) assumed everyone would understand without explanation.
Now before you go all high and mighty on yourself. I said Windows is NOT apache nor is apache Windows. Windows is an Operating System and Apache is a Web Server. Because you didn't make the clarification it looked like you were making the comparison between an Operating System. And no I realyl didn't care to go back to the link you posted to see what the article was about.
Aaaaah. So in other words his criticism here was valid. Fair play then. Does windows' kernel then count as a microkernel, or is that something different again?
Sigh, Nevermind. Windows. is not a true monolithic kernel. Because of such it is faster then the mac osx kernel when it comes to interacting with hardware.
Fair play - Microsoft do put a lot of effort into the ergonomics of their user-interface, and I should have acknowledged that. However, they're quite, quite happy to literally lobotomise their products if it ensures vendor-lockin or they think for a second they can convince you to dole out hundreds of dollars more for a "Pro" version. Look at the differences between XP Home, Pro and (IIRC) Server 2003. The major differences were a few registry settings and a couple of software tools included on the CD, but they were happy to charge hundreds (thousands?) of dollars more for XP Pro or Server 2003.
Microsoft provides great ease-of-use for their UI, but much less for interoperability or developers.
interoperability with what? Last I checked all the apps i've been using have been working quite well with my windows 2000 OS and what kind of developers are we talkign about here? Are you really goign to tell me that VI is more powerful then Visual C++ for development?
Most Linux companies may not give away money (the side-product of their work) - they give away their products. They give away systems that allow people to make their own money, by capitalising on them to produce products and services without huge up-front startup costs.
Last I checked redhat and suse is charging my company up the ass for support. (and alot more then microsoft is with their new licensing agreement). Microsoft themselves Do give away alot of money, and they also invest in MANY of the open source/new technology firms along with closed source technolgoies out there. (granted for business reasons but you can't say that they don't give money for ideas)
Like they say, give a man a fish and he's fed for a day - teach him to fish (or, in this case, give him a free fishing rod) and he's fed for life.
(Actually, I always preferred Terry Pratchett's take on this: Give a man a fire and he's warm for an evening - set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.)
If you read the proverb it's more like give the person the product and he's happy for a few days... teach the person how to write the products (which these linux companies do NOT do as helpful as the faqs are) and he can write his own programs for a life time. But the pratchett quote definitely does apply, and I
Calls Windows a "pioneering effort". Now, I'm no Linux or Mac fanboy, but I was under the distinct impression that Windows had very little innovation compared to the Mac. IIRC various Microsofties have even admitted as much before, albeit off the record.
It pioneered the mass market software principle.
Regurgitates the long-disproven "popularity => more successful breakins" argument. More popularity equals more cracking attempts, I'll grant you, but that's not the same as successful security breaches. And anyway, haven't we already disproven this whole argument?
Not really windows is still a more complex piece of software compared to apache. I see just as many bugs from linux through my CERT alerts. We HEAR about it more (not that it happens more, will agree that just because it's used more doesn't mean it should be more insecure) because windows is a more used software.
Now, I'm not that au fait with the low-level Windows or Linux processes, but I understood that they both used monolithic kernels (ie, drivers not in userland). Surely this means that Windows also has to "recompile" the kernel when the device drivers change? If so it might be hidden behind a pretty user-interface, but it's the same damn architecture and the same design problem.
kinda coolw hat windows did here. Drivers are not allowed to touch the kernel at all. Drivers go through the OS layer interface through hooks and doesn't interact directly with the hardware. Except for direct x.. which does hit the hardware
Oh, and the key thing is that because Microsoft has a monopoly its software doesn't have to be any better than the competition, and in fact is (often) demonstrably worse. The fact it's already on every PC sold makes it the de-facto standard: you can't remove it, all other programs have to interoperate with it to have a chance of being used, and you have to target it as a content/application-producer because it's the majority platform.
let's just keep to the facts.. MS does not necessarily make "worse" products. In fact the MS Office suite is definitely one of the best on the market. but yes they are a monopoly.
It also illegally abuses its monopoly position to extend its monopoly into other areas. What's not to understand about this? We've had the court case. They lost. They're officially a bunch of criminal arseholes. Now, I'm no Linux or Mac fanboy,
Perhaps I missed something
"and constantly strives to provide us ease of use in every sphere it touches."
Again, Apple.
Again you need to keep fact from comments out if you wish to argue against the author's comments.
Well, maybe because what Microsoft does is illegal and unethical (anti-trust monopolism), harms its customers (deliberately breaking third-party compatibility), and retards the progress of the computing industry as a whole (habitually compromises on features to ensure vendor lock-in).
Egads.. if i recall you still have a computer and i'm sure you're content on using it.
Yeah. But there's a fertile middle-ground between giving away every bit of code they produce and aggressively and deliberately shitting all over the computing industry for unethical gain at the expense of their own users.
they give away money... and much more then any of these linux companies have =)
rest of your comments I'd agree with
"Granick said, however, that she thought the agency was simply following through on a complaint it received when Cisco and ISS filed their lawsuit against Lynn and that it didn't come after her client reached his settlement. She didn't know the nature of the complaint but said it was probably something to do with intellectual property and that it most likely came from Cisco or ISS."
For people who are looking into the market of gourmet coffee.. I would imagine the type of people you're trying to attract are the ones who have the money to buy a drink sit and chat with perhaps a client/business colleague for a few and head out.
Those types of clients most likely will be utilizing devices like blackberrys or palm treos that inherently already have built in internet.
Offering free wifi really just attracts one type of person, the squatter. Usually someone who buys one or no cups of coffee and squats there for multiple hours while real paying guests come and go because there's no room around.
As an alternative example is the star bucks at my barnes and noble.
it's ALWAYS packed because people just bring the books there and start reading. I see at most people buying a cup of coffee and finishing entire novels at a time. Is that good for business? most likely not in a volume based business. You're looking for more volume, and offering things that just make people sit there longer is not it.
If on the other hand you added a special promotion where only people who are extremely attractive get free wireless, then you dont mind if they sit there as long as they want because they'll pull in more volume..
regardless free wifi is never worth it for the cafe/coffee shop.
Barring the trolls I'm probably going to get from this, I 'd like to say that Choice is a Good Thing
Mac OSX is a very slow OS.. because of it's true monolithic approach it's no where near as fast as windows will be.
As for power users/admins/developers... I'd really doubt you would use Apple's OS to control anyhting else but a mac.. because we all know that macs are really just sitting in every server room through out this world.
For developers... as much as I like using textpad. tools like eclipse even netbeans are just so much more efficent (if even just for the library look ups) that there is no reason NOT to use a gui.
regardless there are benefits of the command line and yuor examples really suck and you need to learn how to use windows properly.
. The system provides a user interface
is the key here... which is exactly what he did. He provided a specific type of musical interface, which apple does look to in fact copy. You'll notice Microsoft's WMP, Realplayer, the Microsoft XBox Media Player, MusicMatch, etc look nothing like his described interface
as with the 4 years... well it obviously wasn't popular enough for him to see the similarities until now =)
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Why else would you buy a share into a company
if you didn't think they were viable?
Buying a stock makes you very much a partial owner in the company
by giving quarterly gains you get an idea of what you own is worth
And while I agree with the if they didn't like it, they shouldn't have bought
why not just do away with money completely. We would all live in a better world
where I can trade my sheep for your cow.
Did you just say that google should offer a PC but just not call it a PC?
That's because he forgot to add Sugar as one of the options...
and ever try a "good" wine, $100+, that smells and taste like "Barnyard"? as in Article link
makes you wonder what these tasters are doing with their spare time.
it's either water
water with alcohol- think barcadi 151 diluted
not water- tannins
not water not sweet- minerally
not water sweet- tannins + "fruit"
not water very sweet - forward fruit
buttery - oak
oaky - oak
chocolate- oak
cigar box- oak
californian wine- oak
... all those pr0n messages that send to gmail (because I obviously never google up any pr0n sites) ..
i don't even want to begin to wonder what searches would show up
when my little sister uses the computer
Just because a company has a product .. doesn't mean that they need to register the domain name.
... why would they even need to register it? They could have been hosted on say ... www.iiir.com/gmail
or gmail.iiir.com
.. how come that's not called gump.com?
They're web based product is called gmail
how bout apache's gump project?
the housing market hasnt taken more than a slight dip since... its been pretty much the highest rate of return you can get at least in this area. now thats not to say that this couldn't change any day now, but people have been saying it for 20 years and it hasn't happened. if you have the money to buy and the ability to hold your property (ie ride out dips in the market and not selling the first time your house is worth slightly less than it was a year ago) its probably not a bad idea to buy a home. you could rent for a lifetime waiting for a "market correction"
New england prices have fallen alot (to the tune of 20-50% depending on the area you were in) in the 80s. And again in the early 90s but no where near as much. It really is only recently that prices have soared 20-30% annually.
On the flip side, if you were to buy a house as your primary residence and plan to live there for the next 20 years of your life, absolutely buy a house regardless of your price. You'd get a 15-30 year fixed and you'd know exactly what your payments are and you wouldn't really care if the house of the price drops.
If you're looking for either a short term place/secondary home for investment, you'd better watch out because you'd probably would take either a floating rate loan/interest only loan (to lower your monthly payments) and if the market value goes down you won't be able to sell it for as much leaving you wiht a hefty short term payment.
The problem is as an investment that even if you had the money to ride out the the dips in the market is that you have to pay maintanence, utility (if you plan on renting out), real estate taxes, and mortgage. These are what I would call "wasted" money because i'm not living in the house and I'm still paying the bills for it. If you can find a renter that will cover all that, then defintely yes, wonderful investment, but with todays market there's a huge price descrepancy between renters and buyers. A mortgage on a 1 br apartment in NYC for instance will run you at rough 1000/month not including utilities/real estate taxes/maintanence fees. which after everythign will equate toa 2500$/month payment. You can rent a similar apartment for only 1500$.
If you had purchased you're basically losing 1000$/month in flow income, if the value of your place rises you make money, if it stays flat or goes down, yer screwed losing that 1000$/month.
* 1 bedroom = rent = no equity * leased car = no equity * eating out 6 times a week = waste of money and health * party time on Saturdays - see above
... it's for my own sanity.. if i had to live on ramen after working 80-90 hours a week, my health care alone would exceed my cost of eating =)
Leasing a car is quite dumb I'll agree,
but with current housing prices going through the roof, it's financially prudent to rent as oppose to paying mortgage right now.
As with eating out
and as you get older you realize it's cheaper to fulfill your alcoholic tendencies at home rather then outside.
Do you realize that many people find this whole idea rather attractive? Not everyone is rushing to get away from their jobs or their coworkers at 5pm. A lot of folks actually love what they do for a living and like the people they work with. So much so, that it's not a job to them; it's a lifestyle. Granted, it's not the lifestyle for everyone. But I don't understand why so many people feel that it's wrong for a company to operate this way. Especially when everyone working there has made the choice to be there. Hell, I'd love to find an environment like that to work in. One that wasn't full of negative paranoid slackers. I already love what I do; I just don't have the support staff or amenities to make it an enjoyable lifestyle.
World of warcraft my friend =)
But then everyone will hit 60 after the first 2 weeks of playing =(
As for games, I guess I got lucky -- the only game I ever really liked was Unreal Tournament, and there are excellent Linux versions available (original, 2003, 2004). Personally, I think the hardcore gamers should just use consoles; they're cheaper than computers, Just Work, use less power, and turn on instantly. Use your computer for work and your game system for gaming. That's what I would do.
Space issues are acutally the reason for me to stick with the computer.. a Tele takes up too muhc room in my small nyc apartment. Computer games are due to convience (no fun to play on the console if yer plastered 2 inches from the screen.) Anyhow in some sense, I've invested alot into the hardware of my computer that I'd really would want to utilize it to the fullest extent.
I personally dual boot my machine right now. and while I don't disagree with taking the time to relearn some stuff. If you shut yourself out from one facet of the computer, you're just not using that computer to it's max potential and that is... You have a choice of OS, you have a choice in which notepad/latex/VI you want to use, and if you want to play games you can use windows and if you wish to do some hard core scripting you can use linux. I mean the list goes on.
If anything I'd say that Apple should be the antichrist, because once you buy a mac, yer kinda screwed if you want a choice with the hardware you spent alot of money on.
There seems to be one or two neurons in your brain that just seem to be misfiring to each other.
It seems that once you have no better argument to make you enjoy referring me to a mythical creature that obviously is just that a figment of your imagination
To further show just how much of an ass you seem to be, you seem to stick stubbornly to your belief that "NFS makes companies money" when I'd doubt you could find a single point to show me just actually how NFS would make any company money. (unless they're selling NFS).
And after everything else when you can no longer justify the point you're trying to make you revert yourself to a mere simpleton making childish and idiotic noises.
Just so you learn something from all of this. I am going to repeat that NFS is not a production able system if you require read/write and redundancy. Other technologies include, AFS/DFS/JFS/CODA.
once again you are deviating from the fact and trying to justify your failed beliefs. Shall I point you to various man pages that will explicitly tell you that NFS should not be used in a production environment where you need to both read/write and redunancy?
Perhaps it's too much to ask you to read back to all the posts I made relating to this topic. If you can find a single location where I mentioned Microsoft instead of other more robust *nix technologies like AFS/DFS, I might acutally relent and say that NFS is good for a production environment. (or even CODA as one of the other posters mentioned).
So Mr. I don't speak absolutely when I say "It won't work on me, or anyone else that uses NFS daily to make money and get serious work done." Once again I ask you to pull your head out of your ass and learn about other *nix technologies.
Relate to the article. It tells how the scotland police find it difficult to share files that they all need to edit.
... NFS is unacceptable.
I'm already telling you that NFS has an inherent disadvantage because true redundancy ONLY comes when you have a read only environment.
A better technology would be DFS/AFS instead.
I pity your customers if they have a support guy that's just so stuck on technology that might not suit their needs.
For my home system I use NFS as it suits my need and I don't need the redundancy, but If I were to go into a production environment where the users are sharing say sensitive word documents that they would be editing day in and day out
Yes, although true redundancy for NFS is available only for read-only shares..
please try again.
What happens if a server that's part of the NFS environment goes down?
think it over why NFS in a prod env is a nono.
I've never read, heard, or seen a concept that couldn't be expressed in simple text typed into notepad.
just because I can run 40 miles to work doesn't mean I'm going to give up my car
Stop being an idiot
NFS in a production environment is a big no-no.
Right - its business model was brilliant. Why does that mean they should be given kudos? They've made a lot of money for themselves and convinced a lot of people to buy their stuff. I reserve kudos for people who do good things for me or other people. Merely finding a great way of making themselves money doesn't count.
... "Linux sucks". I've always stated in my posts that you use what fits best.
... teach the person how to write the products (which these linux companies do NOT do as helpful as the faqs are) and he can write his own programs for a life time. But the pratchett quote definitely does apply, and I
I've made a good chunk of change being a stock holder of MS. As have many other people, so you should stick with "good things for me".
Oh jesus, are you trolling? (Checks post-log) Ah, possibly.
I happen to point out things that people don't agree with. A troll post would be
Windows is neither here nor there - the Apache/IIS comparison has been trotted out so many times to disprove this argument that I (erroneously, apparently) assumed everyone would understand without explanation.
Now before you go all high and mighty on yourself. I said Windows is NOT apache nor is apache Windows. Windows is an Operating System and Apache is a Web Server. Because you didn't make the clarification it looked like you were making the comparison between an Operating System. And no I realyl didn't care to go back to the link you posted to see what the article was about.
Aaaaah. So in other words his criticism here was valid. Fair play then. Does windows' kernel then count as a microkernel, or is that something different again?
Sigh, Nevermind. Windows. is not a true monolithic kernel. Because of such it is faster then the mac osx kernel when it comes to interacting with hardware.
Fair play - Microsoft do put a lot of effort into the ergonomics of their user-interface, and I should have acknowledged that. However, they're quite, quite happy to literally lobotomise their products if it ensures vendor-lockin or they think for a second they can convince you to dole out hundreds of dollars more for a "Pro" version. Look at the differences between XP Home, Pro and (IIRC) Server 2003. The major differences were a few registry settings and a couple of software tools included on the CD, but they were happy to charge hundreds (thousands?) of dollars more for XP Pro or Server 2003.
Microsoft provides great ease-of-use for their UI, but much less for interoperability or developers.
interoperability with what? Last I checked all the apps i've been using have been working quite well with my windows 2000 OS and what kind of developers are we talkign about here? Are you really goign to tell me that VI is more powerful then Visual C++ for development?
Most Linux companies may not give away money (the side-product of their work) - they give away their products. They give away systems that allow people to make their own money, by capitalising on them to produce products and services without huge up-front startup costs.
Last I checked redhat and suse is charging my company up the ass for support. (and alot more then microsoft is with their new licensing agreement). Microsoft themselves Do give away alot of money, and they also invest in MANY of the open source/new technology firms along with closed source technolgoies out there. (granted for business reasons but you can't say that they don't give money for ideas)
Like they say, give a man a fish and he's fed for a day - teach him to fish (or, in this case, give him a free fishing rod) and he's fed for life. (Actually, I always preferred Terry Pratchett's take on this: Give a man a fire and he's warm for an evening - set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.)
If you read the proverb it's more like give the person the product and he's happy for a few days
Calls Windows a "pioneering effort". Now, I'm no Linux or Mac fanboy, but I was under the distinct impression that Windows had very little innovation compared to the Mac. IIRC various Microsofties have even admitted as much before, albeit off the record.
.. which does hit the hardware
.. if i recall you still have a computer and i'm sure you're content on using it.
... and much more then any of these linux companies have =)
rest of your comments I'd agree with
It pioneered the mass market software principle.
Regurgitates the long-disproven "popularity => more successful breakins" argument. More popularity equals more cracking attempts, I'll grant you, but that's not the same as successful security breaches. And anyway, haven't we already disproven this whole argument?
Not really windows is still a more complex piece of software compared to apache. I see just as many bugs from linux through my CERT alerts. We HEAR about it more (not that it happens more, will agree that just because it's used more doesn't mean it should be more insecure) because windows is a more used software.
Now, I'm not that au fait with the low-level Windows or Linux processes, but I understood that they both used monolithic kernels (ie, drivers not in userland). Surely this means that Windows also has to "recompile" the kernel when the device drivers change? If so it might be hidden behind a pretty user-interface, but it's the same damn architecture and the same design problem.
kinda coolw hat windows did here. Drivers are not allowed to touch the kernel at all. Drivers go through the OS layer interface through hooks and doesn't interact directly with the hardware. Except for direct x
Oh, and the key thing is that because Microsoft has a monopoly its software doesn't have to be any better than the competition, and in fact is (often) demonstrably worse. The fact it's already on every PC sold makes it the de-facto standard: you can't remove it, all other programs have to interoperate with it to have a chance of being used, and you have to target it as a content/application-producer because it's the majority platform.
let's just keep to the facts.. MS does not necessarily make "worse" products. In fact the MS Office suite is definitely one of the best on the market. but yes they are a monopoly.
It also illegally abuses its monopoly position to extend its monopoly into other areas. What's not to understand about this? We've had the court case. They lost. They're officially a bunch of criminal arseholes.
Now, I'm no Linux or Mac fanboy,
Perhaps I missed something
"and constantly strives to provide us ease of use in every sphere it touches."
Again, Apple.
Again you need to keep fact from comments out if you wish to argue against the author's comments.
Well, maybe because what Microsoft does is illegal and unethical (anti-trust monopolism), harms its customers (deliberately breaking third-party compatibility), and retards the progress of the computing industry as a whole (habitually compromises on features to ensure vendor lock-in).
Egads
Yeah. But there's a fertile middle-ground between giving away every bit of code they produce and aggressively and deliberately shitting all over the computing industry for unethical gain at the expense of their own users.
they give away money
"Granick said, however, that she thought the agency was simply following through on a complaint it received when Cisco and ISS filed their lawsuit against Lynn and that it didn't come after her client reached his settlement. She didn't know the nature of the complaint but said it was probably something to do with intellectual property and that it most likely came from Cisco or ISS."
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fuck off
So I misquoted the company
For people who are looking into the market of gourmet coffee.. I would imagine the type of people you're trying to attract are the ones who have the money to buy a drink sit and chat with perhaps a client/business colleague for a few and head out.
Those types of clients most likely will be utilizing devices like blackberrys or palm treos that inherently already have built in internet.
Offering free wifi really just attracts one type of person, the squatter. Usually someone who buys one or no cups of coffee and squats there for multiple hours while real paying guests come and go because there's no room around.
As an alternative example is the star bucks at my barnes and noble.
it's ALWAYS packed because people just bring the books there and start reading. I see at most people buying a cup of coffee and finishing entire novels at a time. Is that good for business? most likely not in a volume based business. You're looking for more volume, and offering things that just make people sit there longer is not it.
If on the other hand you added a special promotion where only people who are extremely attractive get free wireless, then you dont mind if they sit there as long as they want because they'll pull in more volume..
regardless free wifi is never worth it for the cafe/coffee shop.
Sigh... so I dont get my pr0n for 4 hours..
the horr....
wait a minute... AHH!!! I WONT GET MY PR0N FOR 4 HOURS!!!!!
just the nature of the contract he signed when he took a job with cisco.
alot of companies have non disclosure clauses in their contract and you can bet yer ass this was a breach of contract.
but like the previous person said teh fbi decided not to get involved and this is a breach of contract which in this country is illegal =)
Barring the trolls I'm probably going to get from this, I 'd like to say that Choice is a Good Thing
... I'd really doubt you would use Apple's OS to control anyhting else but a mac .. because we all know that macs are really just sitting in every server room through out this world.
... as much as I like using textpad. tools like eclipse even netbeans are just so much more efficent (if even just for the library look ups) that there is no reason NOT to use a gui.
Mac OSX is a very slow OS.. because of it's true monolithic approach it's no where near as fast as windows will be.
As for power users/admins/developers
For developers
regardless there are benefits of the command line and yuor examples really suck and you need to learn how to use windows properly.
. The system provides a user interface is the key here... which is exactly what he did. He provided a specific type of musical interface, which apple does look to in fact copy. You'll notice Microsoft's WMP, Realplayer, the Microsoft XBox Media Player, MusicMatch, etc look nothing like his described interface
as with the 4 years... well it obviously wasn't popular enough for him to see the similarities until now =)