Hackers and spammers will quickly target the network and find weak accounts and suddenly warez, porn, and spam will cross the net at ridiculous speeds.
it only works well when you have a lot of people interested in actually doing work on the project. More often than not there are a small number of core programmers who may talk infrequently, have no real design or development plan, no timeframes for anything, little to no useful documentation, and are so swamped with support requests that either you learn to live with a defect or the development process slows while that small group of people work out the problem.
Sure there are scenarios where open source is hands down better than traditional software development, but in the average case - I would say that it blows and in the worse case you're better off buying something closed source from someone else.
I can't think of a better place for them to be than in movie theaters or at the opera houses of the world. Since these companies are apparently trying to figure out how to remotely disable cell phone cameras, perhaps they could somehow remotely force peoples phones into vibrate or something.
Yeah I ran into this issue over the holidays when connecting someones extenal harddisk to a Powerbook. The Mac could READ all of the content but couldn't WRITE anything because XP formatted the drive as NTFS.
Maybe the camera folks will consider moving to an open file system...
While I too have some problems with Count Bakula, Enterprise as a series is getting better and better as the seasons go. No federation, no shields, no quantum warp flux or cascading warp shell, no starbases, and no support.
There have just been so many good episodes that they counteract the bad ones. I like the series... a lot more than I did its pilot. The only thing that I abhor about the series is the idiocy of the temporal cold war... that's just stupid stupid stupid.
If you want to make a show 'very different from the reality of the original,' then give it a name very different from the original.
Far too many brands get hijacked by morons who know that the only way they can get their crappy idea on TV is to bastardize a good brand and kill it with their crappy universe. Make your own! At least don't try to premise your work as a remake of the original. Call it Battlestar Galactica: Rise of the Cylon Pornbots or something.
I think that Linus would rather have the money to be honest. Nevertheless I don't think the article is completely correct in showcasing the Linux vs Bill super smackdown.
Money vs Altruism ----------------
While having the 'community' of open sourcers behind him is certainly exceedingly important, the open source community is fractured across a variety of fronts, frequently cannot integrate (merge those fronts against a common foe), and lacks a true core focus comitted to solving specific problems. When it does do these things, it does so slowly and without focus. One can blame Microsoft for a wide variety of things, but they can repurpose the company on a dime to release a brand new product (note I didn't say original) within a years time and make it acceptable and commercially viable.
The Linux community - particularly the open source community has simply not the structure and organization to do this.
Geek Fervor ------------
The author talks about how there is a cause to create an alternative to Windows. That's fine - but at the same time, it cost most - lots and lots of money, lots and lots of marketing to make people switch. The one thing that really helps open source sometimes is that the alternatives are of such crap quality that people will endure the lack of support and documentation of an open source product just to get something of good reliability (something the commercial vendors just lack these days).
Creative Chaos -------------
Chaos is a good thing. Good things can come from random brainstorming - however many times a good idea can simply be neglected in an open source environment where it would have thrived in a commercial environment. There's something to be said for having the time, energy, and resources to actually take an idea that sounds great but would take enormous resources and focussed manpower to pull off.
So while I think its great that open source can do some serious damage to the monopoly of Microsoft and push us forward - I would be quick to note that it isn't really the open source community that's making the types of advances that we really need with respect to getting people to USE the fruit of our labors. Sun, IBM, RedHat, etc. are utilizing the greatness of open source to actually make a difference to the average consumer. And after all - isn't that the point?
If you're going through all this trouble to down clock a processor, wouldn't it make more sense to just use something that runs at a lower clock? Its like putting a Farrari engine in a car that is only ever intended to move at 35 MPH - sure you could do it, but wouldn't it make sense to just get an engine more suited to the task.
Unless AMD or someone else has a massive gain with respect to being able to cool these monster CPUs along with shrinking the die so that they are suitable in general consumer electronics, I don't think anyone is going to stop producing smaller/cooler CPUs. While the 64 bit chips are great and all, I just can't imagine seeing one in a phone (for example) or even a PDA in the timeframe that they suggest.
Maybe they meant to include that they won't go into these markets which limits their desire to produce low footprint, low heat chips.
Nope, I suggested that the look at some of the segments in which they're losing ground with their RISC chips and put together something based on the Qube form-factor that can be used in the home. Retreating from the enterprise space would be stupid for Sun as they are still a player in it - whereas Gateway has not been and is unlikely to ever be, yet they do have a reasonably strong consumer brand.
I thought gateway had been relegated to cheap PCs and consumer electronics. Had no idea they were even still in the server space, which begs the question. In this day and age - who is buying business servers from Gateway?
If Gateway had ANY sense (and I've recommended this to Sun as well), they would sell personal home servers. Today's 'connected' home is full of a lot of devices that people want to share data and yet most people are heating their homes trying to use full PCs for the task. Gateway should at the very least look up the old Qube design and turn that into a home server design. Something small, relatively quiet, and light on power consumption that can stream video, audio, etc to all of the 'connected' devices that Gateway makes.
But alas I'm sure they'll try to jump on the Linux bandwagon with everyone else, after-the-fact and sell servers to the few companies who would still buy a business server from Gateway (unless I'm just not seeing their servers when I visit companies or something).
We have probes that have been outside the reach of earth for over a quarter of a century and they are STILL sending back information and Hubbel is already on its way out? Maybe they should just find a way to attach it to the space station or something. Not sure why there is such an emphasis on 'reusable' craft as opposed to permenant space based solutions. Granted I understand that things become obsolete, but shouldn't they be done in such a way that we can keep them fueld (or attached to ISS) and keep using them?
AOL actually makes quite a bit of money. AOLs problem is that they do have a good growth projection meaning that they aren't a good investment as their business model and profits are stagnant. When the advertising market returns, and unfortunately it appears to be returning quickly - AOL will be in the money again.
Hmmm... so what do you do when you have a good 2-3k client machines to handle as well? If it were just servers that would be one thing - but when you have client applications all over the place and you have to go around installing and patching that's something entirely different.
They are also going up against Linux and the nameless company that is open source. While open source is great in that Microsoft has no one specific target to sue, exploit or otherwise screw over - its bad because there also is no unified marketing arm, no marketing budget, and no clear marketing message.
But of course I can see why they're upset. They know that the Windows desktop and Office product suite cannot sustain them going forward. They planned on making a move into the server side with web services and the like and they aren't getting traction - indeed losing position that they once had, so now they're desperate to demonstrate to the world that 'yeah we suck - but look at those guys!' Stupidity at its finest.
Microsoft's apparent idea of security is to sue people who expose vulnerabilities and to put out bounties so that others who might be encouraged to exploit those vulnerabilities would be afraid to do something. This doesn't suggest that Microsoft is taking security seriously, it suggests that they're pissed that people are exposing how Microsoft ISN'T taking security seriously. Microsoft can create as many initiatives as they want, but so long as they continue to live in the world where providing dancing paperclips on the screen in a single click is more important than making sure that users have to actually understand their machines before letting programs change system files - they aren't doing the world or themselves any favors.
This most certainly isn't the fault of J2ME considering that both Nokia and Symbian have MIDP2 APIs available that would allow them to hardware accelerate rendering. They chose to go the niche C/C++ route and they'll burn for it:)
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Well the next time I'm carrying my PC with me while I'm at the bank I'll remember that:) The whole appeal of both camera phones and cell phone games is that they take advatage of a device that you are already carrying around with you. While people may leave their iPod, PDA, laptop, etc. somewhere else - they most often always have their cell phone with them.
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Hackers and spammers will quickly target the network and find weak accounts and suddenly warez, porn, and spam will cross the net at ridiculous speeds.
it only works well when you have a lot of people interested in actually doing work on the project. More often than not there are a small number of core programmers who may talk infrequently, have no real design or development plan, no timeframes for anything, little to no useful documentation, and are so swamped with support requests that either you learn to live with a defect or the development process slows while that small group of people work out the problem.
Sure there are scenarios where open source is hands down better than traditional software development, but in the average case - I would say that it blows and in the worse case you're better off buying something closed source from someone else.
I can't think of a better place for them to be than in movie theaters or at the opera houses of the world. Since these companies are apparently trying to figure out how to remotely disable cell phone cameras, perhaps they could somehow remotely force peoples phones into vibrate or something.
Death rate doesn't determine what's safer - failure rate does - and the failure rate of the harrier is reported to be higher than that of the osprey.
Yeah I ran into this issue over the holidays when connecting someones extenal harddisk to a Powerbook. The Mac could READ all of the content but couldn't WRITE anything because XP formatted the drive as NTFS.
Maybe the camera folks will consider moving to an open file system...
While I too have some problems with Count Bakula, Enterprise as a series is getting better and better as the seasons go. No federation, no shields, no quantum warp flux or cascading warp shell, no starbases, and no support.
There have just been so many good episodes that they counteract the bad ones. I like the series... a lot more than I did its pilot. The only thing that I abhor about the series is the idiocy of the temporal cold war... that's just stupid stupid stupid.
If you want to make a show 'very different from the reality of the original,' then give it a name very different from the original.
Far too many brands get hijacked by morons who know that the only way they can get their crappy idea on TV is to bastardize a good brand and kill it with their crappy universe. Make your own! At least don't try to premise your work as a remake of the original. Call it Battlestar Galactica: Rise of the Cylon Pornbots or something.
I think having to deal with dead fish in the walls of my house would spoil any chance that I would seriously want to consider it.
I think that Linus would rather have the money to be honest. Nevertheless I don't think the article is completely correct in showcasing the Linux vs Bill super smackdown.
Money vs Altruism
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While having the 'community' of open sourcers behind him is certainly exceedingly important, the open source community is fractured across a variety of fronts, frequently cannot integrate (merge those fronts against a common foe), and lacks a true core focus comitted to solving specific problems. When it does do these things, it does so slowly and without focus. One can blame Microsoft for a wide variety of things, but they can repurpose the company on a dime to release a brand new product (note I didn't say original) within a years time and make it acceptable and commercially viable.
The Linux community - particularly the open source community has simply not the structure and organization to do this.
Geek Fervor
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The author talks about how there is a cause to create an alternative to Windows. That's fine - but at the same time, it cost most - lots and lots of money, lots and lots of marketing to make people switch. The one thing that really helps open source sometimes is that the alternatives are of such crap quality that people will endure the lack of support and documentation of an open source product just to get something of good reliability (something the commercial vendors just lack these days).
Creative Chaos
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Chaos is a good thing. Good things can come from random brainstorming - however many times a good idea can simply be neglected in an open source environment where it would have thrived in a commercial environment. There's something to be said for having the time, energy, and resources to actually take an idea that sounds great but would take enormous resources and focussed manpower to pull off.
So while I think its great that open source can do some serious damage to the monopoly of Microsoft and push us forward - I would be quick to note that it isn't really the open source community that's making the types of advances that we really need with respect to getting people to USE the fruit of our labors. Sun, IBM, RedHat, etc. are utilizing the greatness of open source to actually make a difference to the average consumer. And after all - isn't that the point?
If you're going through all this trouble to down clock a processor, wouldn't it make more sense to just use something that runs at a lower clock? Its like putting a Farrari engine in a car that is only ever intended to move at 35 MPH - sure you could do it, but wouldn't it make sense to just get an engine more suited to the task.
Unless AMD or someone else has a massive gain with respect to being able to cool these monster CPUs along with shrinking the die so that they are suitable in general consumer electronics, I don't think anyone is going to stop producing smaller/cooler CPUs. While the 64 bit chips are great and all, I just can't imagine seeing one in a phone (for example) or even a PDA in the timeframe that they suggest.
Maybe they meant to include that they won't go into these markets which limits their desire to produce low footprint, low heat chips.
StarTrek's been rambling on about them for years :)
Surprised that's not on the list anywhere ...
Nope, I suggested that the look at some of the segments in which they're losing ground with their RISC chips and put together something based on the Qube form-factor that can be used in the home. Retreating from the enterprise space would be stupid for Sun as they are still a player in it - whereas Gateway has not been and is unlikely to ever be, yet they do have a reasonably strong consumer brand.
Sure, Sun is such an important player that they have drug down the entire stockmarket....
I thought gateway had been relegated to cheap PCs and consumer electronics. Had no idea they were even still in the server space, which begs the question. In this day and age - who is buying business servers from Gateway? If Gateway had ANY sense (and I've recommended this to Sun as well), they would sell personal home servers. Today's 'connected' home is full of a lot of devices that people want to share data and yet most people are heating their homes trying to use full PCs for the task. Gateway should at the very least look up the old Qube design and turn that into a home server design. Something small, relatively quiet, and light on power consumption that can stream video, audio, etc to all of the 'connected' devices that Gateway makes. But alas I'm sure they'll try to jump on the Linux bandwagon with everyone else, after-the-fact and sell servers to the few companies who would still buy a business server from Gateway (unless I'm just not seeing their servers when I visit companies or something).
We have probes that have been outside the reach of earth for over a quarter of a century and they are STILL sending back information and Hubbel is already on its way out? Maybe they should just find a way to attach it to the space station or something. Not sure why there is such an emphasis on 'reusable' craft as opposed to permenant space based solutions. Granted I understand that things become obsolete, but shouldn't they be done in such a way that we can keep them fueld (or attached to ISS) and keep using them?
This sounds incredibly wasteful!
Our survey says *engh*
AOL actually makes quite a bit of money. AOLs problem is that they do have a good growth projection meaning that they aren't a good investment as their business model and profits are stagnant. When the advertising market returns, and unfortunately it appears to be returning quickly - AOL will be in the money again.
Hmmm... so what do you do when you have a good 2-3k client machines to handle as well? If it were just servers that would be one thing - but when you have client applications all over the place and you have to go around installing and patching that's something entirely different.
They are also going up against Linux and the nameless company that is open source. While open source is great in that Microsoft has no one specific target to sue, exploit or otherwise screw over - its bad because there also is no unified marketing arm, no marketing budget, and no clear marketing message.
But of course I can see why they're upset. They know that the Windows desktop and Office product suite cannot sustain them going forward. They planned on making a move into the server side with web services and the like and they aren't getting traction - indeed losing position that they once had, so now they're desperate to demonstrate to the world that 'yeah we suck - but look at those guys!' Stupidity at its finest.
Microsoft's apparent idea of security is to sue people who expose vulnerabilities and to put out bounties so that others who might be encouraged to exploit those vulnerabilities would be afraid to do something. This doesn't suggest that Microsoft is taking security seriously, it suggests that they're pissed that people are exposing how Microsoft ISN'T taking security seriously. Microsoft can create as many initiatives as they want, but so long as they continue to live in the world where providing dancing paperclips on the screen in a single click is more important than making sure that users have to actually understand their machines before letting programs change system files - they aren't doing the world or themselves any favors.
This most certainly isn't the fault of J2ME considering that both Nokia and Symbian have MIDP2 APIs available that would allow them to hardware accelerate rendering. They chose to go the niche C/C++ route and they'll burn for it :)
Well the next time I'm carrying my PC with me while I'm at the bank I'll remember that :) The whole appeal of both camera phones and cell phone games is that they take advatage of a device that you are already carrying around with you. While people may leave their iPod, PDA, laptop, etc. somewhere else - they most often always have their cell phone with them.
Considering there are games just like it all over the place I'm not realy sure anyone is trying.