The study looked at a defined population of species, and then extrapolated the results. This isn't unusual and is one of the reasons for the tolerance in the headline figures.
Or do you think they'd study everything on planet earth ?
Call me silly, but the last thing I want is a tiny screen for video, what I'd much prefer is a device the size of an iPod, or a bit smaller, for which I can buy a screen I can attach. That way when I buy the normal device I know that if I don't want to watch video (99% of the time) I'm not going to lug around the TV screen.
Sounds like classic "geek feature creep" put it in because its cool... not because it has a point or purpose.
IBM don't want to own a release they want to build on top of both SuSE and Red Hat, Sun will do the same. This will enable both SuSE and Red Hat to get good profits BUT... will ensure competition between them managed by the big two, thus preventing anyone becoming Microsoft. IBM will release, and support, Desktop versions released on Red Hat and SuSE to corporate customers depending on where they are based.
Sun runs around 20,000 people off thin clients, and most of their laptop users are moving over to Java Desktop (really Linux).
Think of it this way...
Microsoft make money out of the desktop and want to make money out of the server using.NET,.NET only works on Windows.
Sun and IBM make money out of the server, and want to continue to make money on the server. They make money out of J2EE based applications on those servers which runs on anything.
If you kill Windows on the desktop you kill.NET, and killing it in this context means getting a significant enough share to make businesses question solutions that are purely windows based (say 10%+ should do it, 25% is the sweet number though). So how do IBM and Sun do this ? They release full desktop suites at a fraction of the price of windows (Sun will give you $150 a seat for their whole enterprise stack including desktop, office, email, application server, directory etc etc).
Now the one thing that stands in the way here is Outlook, love it or hate it it does do calendaring and email, with task lists and that Exchange server is the thing that really stops people moving over. The Sun system kicks Exchange into touch.. but an open source solution that gets decent penetration would further help here. If Sun Messaging or Domino gain share in the next 12 months this will be indicative of companies looking to move away from Windows.
The Sun and IBM plan is in many ways about killing.NET, not Windows.
Sun and IBM will be considered the biggest Linux players by the end of 2004, and that Linux will be installed on Mac like numbers of corporate desktops (corporate not techy).
I also predict the return of thin-clients to the corporate environment, especially in large outsourcing contracts.
The point is almost well made. The issue is that if they were colluding then it had to be with OTHER large manufacturers to fix the prices. You can't actually collude on your own, the whole point is that you are working with others.
So maybe what the DoJ is doing is going after the one where they have the evidence in the knowledge that this will cause the others to fall as well. The RAMBUS issue is a mute one for the same reason that Passport failed for Microsoft, an existing monopoly wanted to make more cash by supporting an standard they felt they could make cash out of while trying to lock others out.
And on a final point, RAM is cheap, its getting cheaper at Moore's Law rates, and the margins are not insane. Why doesn't the DoJ go and have a look at other areas where companies charge 69% margins on their products, or even more. De Beers ? Microsoft Office ? In a free and open market how is that possible ?
I worked in the Defence industry in the UK for a while, my favourite piece of classification was when one of our design specs was upgraded from its current level to a higher one because some big-wig felt it was now more important.
This meant we couldn't now read our design document or the comments on the document without being approved for the higher level of security. This cost us 2 months on the project, paid for by the taxpayer.
There is so much rubbish that is classified, for instance our change log used to be classified. The change log was the request NUMBERS only, no descriptions and a statement of its current status. Because the project had a high level of classification the log MUST have a high level as well.
The military does not make sense, and if you want REALLY bizarre security try working on a cross border defence project where you can't send your design docs without them being refered to the censor.
Who things it the Admins that matter here ? I mean really ? The reason why Linux continues to do well is perceived cost, and by that I mean be a real enterprise looking for decent support and get a "free" version of Linux... err no.
The other reason is that the OS is a commodity item and the applications for the most part are running on application servers, probably running Java. So if SCO wins you either sign-up to Microsoft or pay the cash for Windows or Solaris x86.
One interesting thing for Linux next year is that buying an off-the-shelf server with Linux is no-longer cheaper than buying it with Solaris.
I bought Linux because it was cheap... if I can get Solaris at the same price I'll buy Solaris.
Well if they'd released it into Open Court they'd have had to sue the US Judicial System, so maybe the Judges just got scared ?
I can imagine it now
Darl McBride : "By forcing our code to be shown in open court the US Judicial system has infringed on our copyright and we demand a royalty from every sentence now uttered in court which is a derivative of ours... which is all of them"
Next week SCO sue the Department of Defense for using SCO infringing software in the conquest of Iraq.... and demand Iraq as payment.
Review of his last book. Didn't realise the chap had died and was now no-longer able to write books. Its a shame to see the demise of such a great OSS proponent pass so un-noticed.
Very sad....
Unless of course the word was meant to be "latest" ?
So we've all agreed that 300mm isn't the chip size, so it must be the size of the fab itself. Yes AMD are building the worlds smallest fab, and employing little goblins to make, by hand, the worlds smallest chips.
Next generation AMD processors will require no power supply as they will have tiny elves inside on treadmills which act both as the power and the clock cycle. Elves have been tested at IBMs labs up to 4.2THz which appears to be their physical limit for peak speed. The advantage of using Elves is that they can intelligently act as a variable clock speed, slowing down when nothing is happening, potentially to a stop, then giving a quick blast of 4.2THz power when required. It should be noted that each chip will have accomodation for around 100 elves, but only 50 will be delivered with the chip, the remaining 50 berths are for expansion and also for much more effective chip to chip communication in "ElfBUS"(tm) multi-processor systems.
Yes Elves are the future alright, and goblins are taking our jobs.
NO! not W2K because then that will bump the server numbers up.
Anyone know what the fingerprint for a PDP11 is ?
Now that would be good
"New analysis shows that 42% of new server installations are in-fact PDP-11, this came as a suprise to HP who said 'we haven't sold a new one in 20 years'"
Errr so you think that Saddam Hussein was not supported and maintained by the West ? He was our number 1 ally in the middle East during the 80s, we supplied him with all the guns he needed to fight the "evil" Iranians.
Yup you got modded down... but maybe not for the reasons you think.
Sure make your point, and no-one is claiming that Saddam Hussein wasn't a complete bastard put there by the west to try and control the Islamic fundamentalists in places like Iran.
The point is that NONE of the element you talk about actually represented a clear and present threat to any countries around Iraq, and certainly not to the US or Britain. Definately they were hiding somethings, but what they were NOT hiding were long range WMDs that could be launched in 45 minutes. Which was the implication of the UK dossier.
Saddam Hussein was a rabid nutter who commited acts of genocide on his people... the MAJORITY of these were conducted BEFORE the first war in Iraq and during a time where he was supported by the West. There is almost no doubt that some people in Iraq were still looking at chemical and biological agents (as they are in the UK and US) but nothing to suggest this was being manufactured on a large scale or presented an immediate threat... which was the justification for war.
My joke was refering to acutal WEAPONS of Mass Destruction not Hard Disks of information than could be used when combinded with a large scale industrial plant and several technologies that Iraq no-longer has to produce, potentially, Weapons of Mass Destruction. As has been said on radio before, the BBC has more capacity to create WMDs than Iraq.
And even though its a gag it is still getting mods down on the right-wing side.
Good point, we are talking here about a 10% profit margin. Something most businesses would consider to be ample. This also says how dumb analysts are for considering 10% profit margins to be nothing and hyping up people who claim bigger, and less reliable, numbers.
Put it this way, iTunes hasn't bumped up the Apple Share price in any way like the SCO price hike, one has real profits... the other a near suicidal legal case.
Surely this is the most impressive innovation of the year ? In January there were lots of them and now it turns out they are all invisible and that is the reason we can't find them. I mean the alternative is that they were not there in the first place, which we know they were because we are told they were therefore the obvious conclusion is that if they are there and we can't see them then they must be invisible.
No its invisible WMDs that are the most impressive technical achievement of 2003.
This was a paid for posting on behalf of Donald Rumsfeld
Surely that is the coolest thing in the world, I've seen the adverts, its lets me do more with less, I can consolidate all my domains down to just 4. AND I can then slide.
Microsoft Server 2003 is the coolest invention of the year, and MacDonalds are a healthy food option.
Wha' da' ya mean dominated by advertising ? Me and Mary Beth were only on Jerry Springer twice.
Slashdot Mirror
You wouldn't. But that is part of the problem as legitimate uses can't be differentiated from SPAM when taking this approach.
Its one of those great "lose liberty in the name of enforcement" style things.
Or of course you could just set up SMTP on that remote server of yours.
The study looked at a defined population of species, and then extrapolated the results. This isn't unusual and is one of the reasons for the tolerance in the headline figures.
Or do you think they'd study everything on planet earth ?
What do you think the P900 is ?
Call me silly, but the last thing I want is a tiny screen for video, what I'd much prefer is a device the size of an iPod, or a bit smaller, for which I can buy a screen I can attach. That way when I buy the normal device I know that if I don't want to watch video (99% of the time) I'm not going to lug around the TV screen.
Sounds like classic "geek feature creep" put it in because its cool... not because it has a point or purpose.
After Sampling the new Chip Internally the general view was
"Tastes like Chicken"
Further Internal Samplings are being conducted using Tabasco and BBQ sauces.
Desktops
1) Sun Java Desktop
2) IBM Linux Desktop
What it is under the cover doesn't matter, its the name at the front that counts.
Disagree...
.NET, .NET only works on Windows.
.NET, and killing it in this context means getting a significant enough share to make businesses question solutions that are purely windows based (say 10%+ should do it, 25% is the sweet number though). So how do IBM and Sun do this ? They release full desktop suites at a fraction of the price of windows (Sun will give you $150 a seat for their whole enterprise stack including desktop, office, email, application server, directory etc etc).
.NET, not Windows.
IBM don't want to own a release they want to build on top of both SuSE and Red Hat, Sun will do the same. This will enable both SuSE and Red Hat to get good profits BUT... will ensure competition between them managed by the big two, thus preventing anyone becoming Microsoft. IBM will release, and support, Desktop versions released on Red Hat and SuSE to corporate customers depending on where they are based.
Sun runs around 20,000 people off thin clients, and most of their laptop users are moving over to Java Desktop (really Linux).
Think of it this way...
Microsoft make money out of the desktop and want to make money out of the server using
Sun and IBM make money out of the server, and want to continue to make money on the server. They make money out of J2EE based applications on those servers which runs on anything.
If you kill Windows on the desktop you kill
Now the one thing that stands in the way here is Outlook, love it or hate it it does do calendaring and email, with task lists and that Exchange server is the thing that really stops people moving over. The Sun system kicks Exchange into touch.. but an open source solution that gets decent penetration would further help here. If Sun Messaging or Domino gain share in the next 12 months this will be indicative of companies looking to move away from Windows.
The Sun and IBM plan is in many ways about killing
Sun and IBM will be considered the biggest Linux players by the end of 2004, and that Linux will be installed on Mac like numbers of corporate desktops (corporate not techy).
I also predict the return of thin-clients to the corporate environment, especially in large outsourcing contracts.
Dave Mirra BMX to this as no matter how hard I tried it just wasn't as much fun raiding a disc as pulling a double backflip over a moving train.
The point is almost well made. The issue is that if they were colluding then it had to be with OTHER large manufacturers to fix the prices. You can't actually collude on your own, the whole point is that you are working with others.
So maybe what the DoJ is doing is going after the one where they have the evidence in the knowledge that this will cause the others to fall as well. The RAMBUS issue is a mute one for the same reason that Passport failed for Microsoft, an existing monopoly wanted to make more cash by supporting an standard they felt they could make cash out of while trying to lock others out.
And on a final point, RAM is cheap, its getting cheaper at Moore's Law rates, and the margins are not insane. Why doesn't the DoJ go and have a look at other areas where companies charge 69% margins on their products, or even more. De Beers ? Microsoft Office ? In a free and open market how is that possible ?
It is... it evolved from Outlookramon.
I worked in the Defence industry in the UK for a while, my favourite piece of classification was when one of our design specs was upgraded from its current level to a higher one because some big-wig felt it was now more important.
This meant we couldn't now read our design document or the comments on the document without being approved for the higher level of security. This cost us 2 months on the project, paid for by the taxpayer.
There is so much rubbish that is classified, for instance our change log used to be classified. The change log was the request NUMBERS only, no descriptions and a statement of its current status. Because the project had a high level of classification the log MUST have a high level as well.
The military does not make sense, and if you want REALLY bizarre security try working on a cross border defence project where you can't send your design docs without them being refered to the censor.
Who things it the Admins that matter here ? I mean really ? The reason why Linux continues to do well is perceived cost, and by that I mean be a real enterprise looking for decent support and get a "free" version of Linux... err no.
The other reason is that the OS is a commodity item and the applications for the most part are running on application servers, probably running Java. So if SCO wins you either sign-up to Microsoft or pay the cash for Windows or Solaris x86.
One interesting thing for Linux next year is that buying an off-the-shelf server with Linux is no-longer cheaper than buying it with Solaris.
I bought Linux because it was cheap... if I can get Solaris at the same price I'll buy Solaris.
Bush to lose ?
Well if they'd released it into Open Court they'd have had to sue the US Judicial System, so maybe the Judges just got scared ?
I can imagine it now
Darl McBride : "By forcing our code to be shown in open court the US Judicial system has infringed on our copyright and we demand a royalty from every sentence now uttered in court which is a derivative of ours... which is all of them"
Next week SCO sue the Department of Defense for using SCO infringing software in the conquest of Iraq.... and demand Iraq as payment.
Darl McBride leader of Iraq...
Review of his last book. Didn't realise the chap had died and was now no-longer able to write books. Its a shame to see the demise of such a great OSS proponent pass so un-noticed.
Very sad....
Unless of course the word was meant to be "latest" ?
Now that Saddam Hussein has had to pull out of "Santa Claus and the Weapons of Mass Destruction".
Crazy beard... crazy guy.
So we've all agreed that 300mm isn't the chip size, so it must be the size of the fab itself. Yes AMD are building the worlds smallest fab, and employing little goblins to make, by hand, the worlds smallest chips.
Next generation AMD processors will require no power supply as they will have tiny elves inside on treadmills which act both as the power and the clock cycle. Elves have been tested at IBMs labs up to 4.2THz which appears to be their physical limit for peak speed. The advantage of using Elves is that they can intelligently act as a variable clock speed, slowing down when nothing is happening, potentially to a stop, then giving a quick blast of 4.2THz power when required. It should be noted that each chip will have accomodation for around 100 elves, but only 50 will be delivered with the chip, the remaining 50 berths are for expansion and also for much more effective chip to chip communication in "ElfBUS"(tm) multi-processor systems.
Yes Elves are the future alright, and goblins are taking our jobs.
Or am I reading a bit too much into this ?
NO! not W2K because then that will bump the server numbers up.
Anyone know what the fingerprint for a PDP11 is ?
Now that would be good
"New analysis shows that 42% of new server installations are in-fact PDP-11, this came as a suprise to HP who said 'we haven't sold a new one in 20 years'"
What Mr O'Reilly has as prior art is the following
1) Own publishers
2) Put all of your books on one shelf
3) Remove from shelf
This can be made online by sending an IM to his secretary in one click to get the book.
Sincerly
Jeff Bozos Lawyers
Errr so you think that Saddam Hussein was not supported and maintained by the West ? He was our number 1 ally in the middle East during the 80s, we supplied him with all the guns he needed to fight the "evil" Iranians.
Yup you got modded down... but maybe not for the reasons you think.
Sure make your point, and no-one is claiming that Saddam Hussein wasn't a complete bastard put there by the west to try and control the Islamic fundamentalists in places like Iran.
The point is that NONE of the element you talk about actually represented a clear and present threat to any countries around Iraq, and certainly not to the US or Britain. Definately they were hiding somethings, but what they were NOT hiding were long range WMDs that could be launched in 45 minutes. Which was the implication of the UK dossier.
Saddam Hussein was a rabid nutter who commited acts of genocide on his people... the MAJORITY of these were conducted BEFORE the first war in Iraq and during a time where he was supported by the West. There is almost no doubt that some people in Iraq were still looking at chemical and biological agents (as they are in the UK and US) but nothing to suggest this was being manufactured on a large scale or presented an immediate threat... which was the justification for war.
My joke was refering to acutal WEAPONS of Mass Destruction not Hard Disks of information than could be used when combinded with a large scale industrial plant and several technologies that Iraq no-longer has to produce, potentially, Weapons of Mass Destruction. As has been said on radio before, the BBC has more capacity to create WMDs than Iraq.
And even though its a gag it is still getting mods down on the right-wing side.
It was a joke, lighten up.
Good point, we are talking here about a 10% profit margin. Something most businesses would consider to be ample. This also says how dumb analysts are for considering 10% profit margins to be nothing and hyping up people who claim bigger, and less reliable, numbers.
Put it this way, iTunes hasn't bumped up the Apple Share price in any way like the SCO price hike, one has real profits... the other a near suicidal legal case.
Surely this is the most impressive innovation of the year ? In January there were lots of them and now it turns out they are all invisible and that is the reason we can't find them. I mean the alternative is that they were not there in the first place, which we know they were because we are told they were therefore the obvious conclusion is that if they are there and we can't see them then they must be invisible.
No its invisible WMDs that are the most impressive technical achievement of 2003.
This was a paid for posting on behalf of Donald Rumsfeld
Surely that is the coolest thing in the world, I've seen the adverts, its lets me do more with less, I can consolidate all my domains down to just 4. AND I can then slide.
Microsoft Server 2003 is the coolest invention of the year, and MacDonalds are a healthy food option.
Wha' da' ya mean dominated by advertising ? Me and Mary Beth were only on Jerry Springer twice.