You haven't meet the efficency of the BlackBerry/cellphone combo!!! The IBM CEs I work with don't have offices... probably don't even sit at a desk... between the blackberry/cellphone and laptop, they "go to work" at their first customer of the day and are "done when they're done". Everything is remote... orders, calls, parts ordering, callouts... It's quite slick... but they keep those guys brutally busy.
at a company like IBM they have many Field Service or Support Engineers spread out where they live in their geographic region, but might report to the office 100 miles away. They're either fielding calls from all over the world for their specialty, or they're running from customer to customer...
My Brother and his wife did the Sales and Training thing for a while.. the company was in OK.. so each person worked from home and flew to the customer all over the world. Unfortunately, they had many of the same issues... disconnected from the office by living near family.. but flying all over so they never see family either!!
no... it says Microsoft won't sue Novell's CUSTOMERS... if infriging material happens to find it's way. That lowers the barrier of Novell's executives to keep the code pool extra clean because why worry about everybody else when THEY have no fear of being sued... it could even be to their financial benifit to let a few bits of MS "IP" from Novell's other products "slip" just to get customers thru FUD. The rest of the community as of now has to treat ALL Novell patches as suspect. They and Microsoft know what "IP" is at stake... WE don't.
they made a design decision to build for MS windows and MS Xbox to the exclusion of other platforms.. they decided up front not to port.. then it got worse from there.
My response is that if Linux/Mac want a game platform, they'll have to make it themselves... There's a few game platforms "getting there" Glest looks like a candidate... if you grab all the user created mods and models from other games it could turn out OK.
Xerox and Apple have whole A's... Microsoft isn't on the MAP!! Halliburton has a whole A? WTF.. gives conspiracy nuts a lot more credence! What about that "localhost" group... we should invade them for their IP. Note Ford has a whole class A, the only automaker... HP and IBM do too, but not SUN, or NEC....
Boy in a funny way you can see who planned for the future with innovation and who didn't.
the "Indian" companies are taught to run their businesses that way... it's what corporate American businesses want over here...that's what sells the shops even more than the price... the potential of getting even MORE out of the already cheap workers. It's about to backfire in India because the population is catching up to "poor" Americans as many go to school here. They quickly learn how things should be. That's why China is the Bigger bet...they have heavily armed govt that's not afraid to shoot a few engineers to keep the rest in line. How cool is THAT for a gutless business!
Simple.. since the "napster" monster started eating the easy profits they've been "loosing" money. Now they have the ringtone (and others) digital markets THEY charge the highest royalties for ($2.50 for a ring versus $0.99 for a iTune)..and profits are improving! their first order of business? Cut artist royalties because it's UNFAIR that RIAA business members should have to pay SO MUCH MONEY to artists...even though it's in the contract and the law... you know the ones they helped write in the first place!
anand also did a review a month or so ago... what it amount to is that this is a consumer-marketed board that has server features enabled. Thats the same reason a gigabit Intel nic costs $400 when you can get "nearly" the same thing onboard for free. What that review amounted to was that it did work..but only in some cases. Much like expensive server Nics, if you got the other hardware for it it can help...but it's not "magic".
background.. Britian is our ally.. we want to sell them cool, new, up-to-date mainline fighters. OK...
But... We don't want to give them the source code for the avionics so they can reprogram and update the plane themselves! Most Forgien countries get the "base" version of military hardware... they get the plane, but not all the radar, guns, missles, radios, etc.. but new planes are heavily "fly by wire" we don't want to give them that code... so they can't update the plane. Worse than that they can't prove it's really THEIR plane.. that the US hasn't somehow sabotaged it so that if we might have a security leak they could end up with hacked planes they can't fix... or worse WE could hack the planes so they wouldn't fly if Britian Crossed us. Think "Microsoft Windows Advantage"....for nuclear weapons!!!!
Exactly!! The original term "copyright" was "Copy Wright".. it was the king's authorization to OWN, POSSESS, or even USE a printing press. You had to promise that you'd use your new found press responsibly, not to undermine the king's power. It was a "king sanctioned" thing... like the royal baker or a knight.
It was the Americans that shifted the idea of copyright as something ANYBODY could get for a small price per document. It was a radical then as GPL is now.. for about the same reasons.
American's seem to forget Congress is FORBIDDEN to grant "titles of Nobility"... that doesn't just mean Congress can't call somebody "King" or we have to kick a girl out because she marries a REAL prince. A title of "nobility" is something that endures.. you pass on or inherit. Something "abstract" like a knight in service to a queen, or a lord over land... "IP" as a concept is beginning to fall into a "title of nobility" status. Only this time it's not one person that gets the "title" it's a corporation. YUCK! That makes it worse because the corporation never actually DIES. It makes the executives of the RIAA and MPAA like the religious priest class in other cultures. Only they can spread knowledge, entertainment, and even legal documents of the govt because of their "IP" property. Only they have the ability to protect "IP" property.. so you have to pay "fealty" and "prostration" to them to be heard.... that's 100% Un-American!
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The term is "Failure to Thrive" they typically use it in children that have all their physical needs meet but fail to actually grow bigger or smarter... Extreme cases in infants result in death!!
What they're really pointing to as "burnout" is really a lack of personal growth. Call it the "working dead" if you will. You're working, but never "productive" enough for advancement. you have all the other things but aren't really "alive".
John Mayer even has a Song about it "Something's missing"... you can buy it on iTunes with your credit card to put on your iPod, in your in car stereo adapter, on the way to work!
Linux can't easily go to GPL3... it is expressly GPL2 without the upgrade clause. Some key developers are DEAD.. you'd have to track down an heir and get them to legally sign over the work to GPL3. Not that parts won't be rewritten, but even then somebody could always claim you "stole" their work by rewriting it under the new license... you'd have the same problems as abandonware apps do now.
That's why the FSF sponsored projects require the source be signed over to them and placed on their servers... then they can relicense at will. You of course are free to maintain your own version of your work if you wish, but not the official version.
essentially what the agreement does is allow Novell programmers to KNOWINGLY put patented stuff for Microsoft compatibility into their products, even the OSS ones and know M$ won't DMCA them. The trouble is that those patches essentially "poison the water hole"... i.e. will be destroying a public resource, even if it's on "private" land... (like out west where cattle herd are allowed to range over many individual's property but are still owned by 1 person) Novell will be allowed to release "open source" that's really not open. NOW EVERYTHING that comes out of there is suspect and they are the keepers of the SAMBA team. It's funny that MS also released documentation to the EU, rather quietly, right after securing this deal... essentially M$ just claimed all the Samba teams, legitimately reverse engineered work right out from under them... while "complying" with the EU Ruling.
That's why Shuttleworth was trying to poach developers. SuSe was funding key projects...many related to Microsoft compatibility... this agreement means that all those projects are now suspect for added code that shouldn't be there. The Samba team in particular was very proud of their implementation being very clean legally... the very soul of the team was sold right out from under them!!!
first, they are under Software Assurance and Microsoft wants to pretend to give them value for their money by giving it to them first. Realize the first companies to bite for SA on XP got NOTHING for their money then the 3 years ran out!
Second, big customers take a long time to roll out. Give them a 3 month head start!
Developers, Developers, Developers! If even one big fortune 500 moves to Vista first, that's dozens of high profile ISVs that have to release updates now. That's more apps "vista ready" on the market an on the shelves to buy. And more high profit Developer tools sold!!!
Finally, more people will update once they SEE the new thing at work.. again, they'll want a PC for home that can run work apps, and they'll look for a new PC with Vista because it's "comming soon" at work too.
but remember, it's not Nvidia that's REALLY the bad guy. The add in board market is only about 25% of graphics... it's the INTEGRATED market that rules. Nobody would take a chance on you because most of the card makers you'd know by name drive market/mind share off getting the latest Geforce 8800 first, even though they don't sell a lot of them. Try going to a real PC maker.. Dell, Gateway, HP... you'd get laughed out for not being INTEL...
That said, it would be nice to have a more diverse market... but it's Intel that's squeezing 5 companies into the marketshare that they EACH had before with deals like Centrino bundles... marketed a la Microsoft as "features" for "free"... so you won't give money to another company like yours!
what we consider performance doesn't matter in the scale of the PC market top end graphics are the top 5% like luxury cars.. that'd be like suing BMW because "Beamers" aren't cheap enough.. won't happen. I like the go after Intel approach, without more info, they're just supeonas. Intel is quietly strong arming all the OEMs away from discrete graphics as well as processors... perhaps there's another "bundling" suit building over Centrino type deals? The majority of the PC market is "Fords" with "good enough" parts... look at the big box store PCs some time... It's a shame.
this stinks of somebody important being bribed to start this... But maybe they're after Intel, and neither of them? ATI USED to be a powerhouse...they had like 40% of the OEMs at one time with Rage Pro's. But that was a long time ago. Intel is using it's CPU/Chipset/networking/wireless/nand market share to drive off graphic makers. Note how they co-released VIIV with ATI... then promptly ditched all the ATI concept designs? Microsoft used both ATI and Nvidia for Xboxes. In current Gen Wii and PS3 both Nvidia and ATI are used as well. I didn't see either company using "unfair" market tactics to get those kinds of contracts.. they're both of insignificant size as players in the PC or Console markets. That's hardly Monopoly power... if they didn't stay in line, the big companies would crush them and BUILD somebody new.
Seriously, neither company has ever been able to command ANYBODY to buy their parts in an unfair manner. And there are plenty of other companies making "good enough" parts for OEM use... compare XGI Volari or Via S3 Chrome to Intel Extreme as an OEM part... they're about equivalent. ATI and Nvidia are "premium" brands... the "Fords" of the PC market don't get premium parts. Their "crime" is probably focusing on their business and not keeping some regulator at the DOJ happy. It's amazing they can take time to investigate PETTY stuff like the Ram issue, or Graphics chips, but can't seal the deal to get restrictions on Intel or Microsoft's stranglehold on the industry... time to start paying those "bribes"... I mean lobbiests!
look at big 3 cars lately? obviously not... GM, Chrysler, and Ford do exactly the same thing ATI and Nvidia do.. they all release the exact same size/style/colors of SUV/sedan nearly every year. Drive by a car dealer some time and look. Even the foreign makers are getting on board. Almost all competitive markets are like this.. they follow the leaders. Although ATI and Nvidia are more like Lexus and Audi or Mercedes and BMW... of course their cars look a lot alike and have similar features too, not much is
As far as Market share there's about an even mix of the big 7-8 being sold now... but each market sells different vehicles types to their customers.
What you miss is that the #1 graphic chip maker is probably INTEL right now!! More PCs are sold with Intel parts, sure they're only cheap stuff, but that doesn't matter.. especially when there are no slots to upgrade! Just like the top selling cars are Accords and Tauruses... there's far more of the midrange sold than top of the line. ATI and Nvidia hardly qualify as "monopolists".. although ATI was doing well thru the last 7-8 years... until intel came for them.
gaming is a drop in the bucket of the PC market... only about 10% max of all video cards qualify as "gaming". The bigger market is OEM and that's pretty evenly matched. Via has the old S3 "chrome" series, SIS has the XGI Voltari, Intel has "extreme", Nvidia, ATI are name brand...All those companies also make chipsets and several make CPUs so it's not unfair by any means... and there's a few independents out there like Matrox and Bitboys Oy.. but there's hardly any "monopoly". ATI and Nvidia are both highly competitive but for years have been locked out of the lucrative OEM contracts... hardly the work of "monopolists".
I laugh like hell when I see these silly suits for graphic chips or Ram, or Flash.. most of those companies live on razor edge profits, but everybody ignores the 1000lb gorillas the likes of IBM, Intel, and Microsoft making double digit profits per unit or more that make or destroy smaller companies like graphic or ram makers at will? Riiiight.
Copper mesh walls are where it's at!!! I worked for a defense contractor that did RF engineering IN a small city. Some of it was even rated top secret. The key to doing that work was the labs with copper mesh behind the wallboards... the ceiling... the doors had mesh seals... but worked. I'd suppose those rooms probably get zilch for cell reception too... wonder why? They were working with military stuff, so it didn't have to be FCC compliant. I'm sure they have RF blocking paint that's a whole lot cheaper than copper mesh. If theaters would start putting that up it would make quick work of their problems. To make it efficient there would really need to build the theater with cell blocking in mind.. but it's just like sound or light blocking. Not much harder if you're building it in. Then you wouldn't need jammers.
sure if you want to PAY and extra 10%. That's what it boils down to. They can have fewer people man the store and have the items hanging on racks pretty for everybody to see.. or they can have a bunch of closed up counters maned by cheaper stupider people and charge higher prices.
I like the clamshells.. the product is better displayed. Most of the time you can visually inspect the contents... and the cost to the manufacturer are cheaper.. they use a few sheets of paper for printing instead of paying for a whole box of printed material.. that adds up you know. The theft resistance is also a boon. It's a cheap way to make a tiny, highly theftable product like a memory stick awkward and uncomfortable to snatch... It also makes action figures keep that NRFB look a lot longer!!!
the engines and nose cone are still standard parts. The nose is a standard cone rocket engine with a mini satillite disc on top. Upon closer inspection the engines look to be made of standard slopped parts also. the cowl is a tire hub. quite a nice job of matching colors and shapes.
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You haven't meet the efficency of the BlackBerry/cellphone combo!!! The IBM CEs I work with don't have offices... probably don't even sit at a desk... between the blackberry/cellphone and laptop, they "go to work" at their first customer of the day and are "done when they're done". Everything is remote... orders, calls, parts ordering, callouts... It's quite slick... but they keep those guys brutally busy.
My Brother and his wife did the Sales and Training thing for a while.. the company was in OK.. so each person worked from home and flew to the customer all over the world. Unfortunately, they had many of the same issues... disconnected from the office by living near family.. but flying all over so they never see family either!!
as long as they let Dick Cheany hold be the one aiming it should be fine.
no... it says Microsoft won't sue Novell's CUSTOMERS... if infriging material happens to find it's way. That lowers the barrier of Novell's executives to keep the code pool extra clean because why worry about everybody else when THEY have no fear of being sued... it could even be to their financial benifit to let a few bits of MS "IP" from Novell's other products "slip" just to get customers thru FUD. The rest of the community as of now has to treat ALL Novell patches as suspect. They and Microsoft know what "IP" is at stake... WE don't.
My response is that if Linux/Mac want a game platform, they'll have to make it themselves... There's a few game platforms "getting there" Glest looks like a candidate... if you grab all the user created mods and models from other games it could turn out OK.
Boy in a funny way you can see who planned for the future with innovation and who didn't.
he got slashdot and digg on there too!
the "Indian" companies are taught to run their businesses that way... it's what corporate American businesses want over here...that's what sells the shops even more than the price... the potential of getting even MORE out of the already cheap workers. It's about to backfire in India because the population is catching up to "poor" Americans as many go to school here. They quickly learn how things should be. That's why China is the Bigger bet...they have heavily armed govt that's not afraid to shoot a few engineers to keep the rest in line. How cool is THAT for a gutless business!
Simple.. since the "napster" monster started eating the easy profits they've been "loosing" money. Now they have the ringtone (and others) digital markets THEY charge the highest royalties for ($2.50 for a ring versus $0.99 for a iTune) ..and profits are improving! their first order of business? Cut artist royalties because it's UNFAIR that RIAA business members should have to pay SO MUCH MONEY to artists...even though it's in the contract and the law... you know the ones they helped write in the first place!
anand also did a review a month or so ago... what it amount to is that this is a consumer-marketed board that has server features enabled. Thats the same reason a gigabit Intel nic costs $400 when you can get "nearly" the same thing onboard for free. What that review amounted to was that it did work..but only in some cases. Much like expensive server Nics, if you got the other hardware for it it can help...but it's not "magic".
But... We don't want to give them the source code for the avionics so they can reprogram and update the plane themselves! Most Forgien countries get the "base" version of military hardware... they get the plane, but not all the radar, guns, missles, radios, etc.. but new planes are heavily "fly by wire" we don't want to give them that code... so they can't update the plane. Worse than that they can't prove it's really THEIR plane.. that the US hasn't somehow sabotaged it so that if we might have a security leak they could end up with hacked planes they can't fix... or worse WE could hack the planes so they wouldn't fly if Britian Crossed us. Think "Microsoft Windows Advantage" ....for nuclear weapons!!!!
It was the Americans that shifted the idea of copyright as something ANYBODY could get for a small price per document. It was a radical then as GPL is now.. for about the same reasons.
American's seem to forget Congress is FORBIDDEN to grant "titles of Nobility"... that doesn't just mean Congress can't call somebody "King" or we have to kick a girl out because she marries a REAL prince. A title of "nobility" is something that endures.. you pass on or inherit. Something "abstract" like a knight in service to a queen, or a lord over land... "IP" as a concept is beginning to fall into a "title of nobility" status. Only this time it's not one person that gets the "title" it's a corporation. YUCK! That makes it worse because the corporation never actually DIES. It makes the executives of the RIAA and MPAA like the religious priest class in other cultures. Only they can spread knowledge, entertainment, and even legal documents of the govt because of their "IP" property. Only they have the ability to protect "IP" property.. so you have to pay "fealty" and "prostration" to them to be heard.... that's 100% Un-American!
What they're really pointing to as "burnout" is really a lack of personal growth. Call it the "working dead" if you will. You're working, but never "productive" enough for advancement. you have all the other things but aren't really "alive".
John Mayer even has a Song about it "Something's missing"... you can buy it on iTunes with your credit card to put on your iPod, in your in car stereo adapter, on the way to work!
Linux can't easily go to GPL3... it is expressly GPL2 without the upgrade clause. Some key developers are DEAD.. you'd have to track down an heir and get them to legally sign over the work to GPL3. Not that parts won't be rewritten, but even then somebody could always claim you "stole" their work by rewriting it under the new license... you'd have the same problems as abandonware apps do now. That's why the FSF sponsored projects require the source be signed over to them and placed on their servers... then they can relicense at will. You of course are free to maintain your own version of your work if you wish, but not the official version.
That's why Shuttleworth was trying to poach developers. SuSe was funding key projects...many related to Microsoft compatibility... this agreement means that all those projects are now suspect for added code that shouldn't be there. The Samba team in particular was very proud of their implementation being very clean legally... the very soul of the team was sold right out from under them!!!
Second, big customers take a long time to roll out. Give them a 3 month head start!
Developers, Developers, Developers! If even one big fortune 500 moves to Vista first, that's dozens of high profile ISVs that have to release updates now. That's more apps "vista ready" on the market an on the shelves to buy. And more high profit Developer tools sold!!!
Finally, more people will update once they SEE the new thing at work.. again, they'll want a PC for home that can run work apps, and they'll look for a new PC with Vista because it's "comming soon" at work too.
That said, it would be nice to have a more diverse market... but it's Intel that's squeezing 5 companies into the marketshare that they EACH had before with deals like Centrino bundles... marketed a la Microsoft as "features" for "free"... so you won't give money to another company like yours!
what we consider performance doesn't matter in the scale of the PC market top end graphics are the top 5% like luxury cars.. that'd be like suing BMW because "Beamers" aren't cheap enough.. won't happen. I like the go after Intel approach, without more info, they're just supeonas. Intel is quietly strong arming all the OEMs away from discrete graphics as well as processors... perhaps there's another "bundling" suit building over Centrino type deals? The majority of the PC market is "Fords" with "good enough" parts... look at the big box store PCs some time... It's a shame.
Seriously, neither company has ever been able to command ANYBODY to buy their parts in an unfair manner. And there are plenty of other companies making "good enough" parts for OEM use... compare XGI Volari or Via S3 Chrome to Intel Extreme as an OEM part... they're about equivalent. ATI and Nvidia are "premium" brands... the "Fords" of the PC market don't get premium parts. Their "crime" is probably focusing on their business and not keeping some regulator at the DOJ happy. It's amazing they can take time to investigate PETTY stuff like the Ram issue, or Graphics chips, but can't seal the deal to get restrictions on Intel or Microsoft's stranglehold on the industry... time to start paying those "bribes"... I mean lobbiests!
What you miss is that the #1 graphic chip maker is probably INTEL right now!! More PCs are sold with Intel parts, sure they're only cheap stuff, but that doesn't matter.. especially when there are no slots to upgrade! Just like the top selling cars are Accords and Tauruses... there's far more of the midrange sold than top of the line. ATI and Nvidia hardly qualify as "monopolists".. although ATI was doing well thru the last 7-8 years... until intel came for them.
I laugh like hell when I see these silly suits for graphic chips or Ram, or Flash.. most of those companies live on razor edge profits, but everybody ignores the 1000lb gorillas the likes of IBM, Intel, and Microsoft making double digit profits per unit or more that make or destroy smaller companies like graphic or ram makers at will? Riiiight.
Copper mesh walls are where it's at!!! I worked for a defense contractor that did RF engineering IN a small city. Some of it was even rated top secret. The key to doing that work was the labs with copper mesh behind the wallboards... the ceiling... the doors had mesh seals... but worked. I'd suppose those rooms probably get zilch for cell reception too... wonder why? They were working with military stuff, so it didn't have to be FCC compliant. I'm sure they have RF blocking paint that's a whole lot cheaper than copper mesh. If theaters would start putting that up it would make quick work of their problems. To make it efficient there would really need to build the theater with cell blocking in mind.. but it's just like sound or light blocking. Not much harder if you're building it in. Then you wouldn't need jammers.
I like the clamshells.. the product is better displayed. Most of the time you can visually inspect the contents... and the cost to the manufacturer are cheaper.. they use a few sheets of paper for printing instead of paying for a whole box of printed material.. that adds up you know. The theft resistance is also a boon. It's a cheap way to make a tiny, highly theftable product like a memory stick awkward and uncomfortable to snatch... It also makes action figures keep that NRFB look a lot longer!!!
the engines and nose cone are still standard parts. The nose is a standard cone rocket engine with a mini satillite disc on top. Upon closer inspection the engines look to be made of standard slopped parts also. the cowl is a tire hub. quite a nice job of matching colors and shapes.
That would make a cool Linux OpenGL screensaver... rearrange the bricks in all 915,102,765 combinations.
I have a hard time saying that little circle-R... so I substitute and "s"!