I'm a vendor, and I've tried to work with both these antivirus vendors on a number of projects. My customers would pay as much as $1-2K per server for an integrated "name brand" anti virus feature in my product. What I wanted was an API that will let me hand them a file, scan it and tell me exactly what is wrong with it without them needing to write an extra copy to disk. Their brand would be all over our product: a major selling point. No vendor could deliver that, so I ended up implementing a solution that writes the file to disk, waits a bit to see if it disappears (usually because the "just in time" antivirus scanner grabbed it) and then parses through the logs of a few well known vendors to see if we can say for sure what virus was detected. Instead of a few hundred to the antivirus vendor per server, my customers pay $50 (or nothing if using their corporate subscription) for their favorite desktop AV.
budling them all together in one "easy for accountants" licensing scheme
The purpose of bundling isn't for the accountants; it's for the benefit of the seller: it forces more consumers to buy the same, more expensive thing because consumers cannot decouple the features they won't use from those they really want to buy. Phone companies, cable companies and many others all make heavy use of bundling for this reason.
And even with Windows 95 the TCP/IP support was rather halfhearty
You sure you worked with Trumpet Winsock? After dicking with that, Windows 95's support for TCP/IP was HUGE!
TCP/IP was bundled with a lot of other operating systems way before Microsoft Windows. For instance UNIX V3 was basicly build around TCP/IP.
Perhaps I should have said "end user operating systems". Anyone know when MacOS first supported TCP/IP? (I'm pretty sure it was in the middle of "System 7".)
I'll go for your lesser challenge of five...
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IOW, one for each year that they have existed. As it is, I doubt that you could come up with 5 that others do not point to and show that it came from elsewhere.
I'll just go for five brilliant ideas:
Bundle your OS part with the purchase of any PC compatible machine, not just the hardware we built.
Only license your core apps (Office, SQL Server) on non-threatening operating systems to prevent switching.
Bundle TCP/IP connectivity with the OS.
Bundle a web browser with the OS.
Make LDAP accessible to mere mortals (AD).
(Of course, these five are also reasons why some people hate Microsoft.)
Besides, the guy is giving MS a compliment (backhanded, but still a compliment).
If his target audience is techies (who value "innovation"), then it's not a compliment - period.
That explains the "take me back" kiss ass, then.
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That explains the "take me back" kiss ass, then.
Google was based on a couple of brilliant ideas... This is not to say that Larry, Sergey and Bill are not bright guys -- all three of them are sharper than I can ever hope to be.
Microsoft is probably the canonical example of a successful business, and it has never had a single brilliant idea in its entire history. (To the contrary, Microsoft has achieved success largely by seeking out and destroying other people's brilliant ideas.)
Another Microsoft screed? Did Ron Garret just get fired from Microsoft?
Given that the house was purchase from a current VP of Google, it sounds like a scam to shove some more money in her direction without having to face the board of directors.
OK, here's where I will actually defend Google: Google certainly isn't alone in making sweetheart deals to officers. (That's why such deals usually never make it to the level of the board of directors; no one else wants their deals exposed either.) On the other hand, I didn't know it was from a sitting VP. In this case, the VP might actually have been pressured to sell cheap (to keep her job) and the price may not have been that out of line.
Frankly, I'm surprised to hear that people, especially Slashdotters, still talk to each other. I'm guessing this "voice" thing is some kind of emergency backup in case your email and instant messaging clients go down.
Look it up, Wookie. Hell, even Slashdot's been covering the wacky shit that goes on at Google, and they're Google's biggest cheerleader.
I'm certain when he heard they don't have to wear suits he was also pretty perturbed
Poor assumptions like that are probably why you're not where you'd like to be in life. "No suits" is pretty common in the corporate world these days; it's the general "no leadership, no goals" culture at Google that scares me (and reminds me of the late 1990s dot-com businesses).
I just follow the earnings. If they keep making money, then whatever they're doing is working.
Like Enron? Like WorldCom? Books can be cooked; it's even fairly legal to do so over the short term. That's why analysts are always looking for other signs of health in a business.
Link everyone's credit report into their movie preferences; I'll bet your complete credit history would give them a 5-10% better chance of picking your movies. But seriously...why isn't this just a regression exercise?
All corporations' share prices already have adjusted to account for all public knowledge about them.
I'm sure you know the process isn't magic or perfect. You see one odd piece of news and you can say "eccentric management" or "outlier". You see many odd pieces and you tend to think "management may not know what they're doing". I'm starting to think that we're looking at the latter case. If/when the rest of the market agrees with me the price will drop significantly.
OK, in the past few weeks we've learned that Google's founders got into a catfight over a luxury airplane, let their employees do whatever the fuck they want during work hours (Wizards of the Coast style?) and are concentrating on cementing their "early" history. I'm not a shareholder, but if I was, I'd clicking the "Sell" button as fast and often as I could...
The fact that this guy actually needs to PAY for his subscription shows that he's a mark; if you're anybody with any purchasing power, your subscription will be free. (In fact, it's really hard to get publishers to QUIT mailing you their rags.)
I think its equally odd that there's a market for computer books in 2006, but that's another story...
text adventures/interactive fiction fit all three. Not for sale anywhere, disproportionately academic base, and, well, I can look down on you if you wish...
...but the academic goofballs who still play these things are usually too easy-going to look down on anyone (think of the professors from Ghostbusters or the tweedy guy who always smells like weed), so I can't say they fit #2.
Anyone else miss the old SlashDot? I still remember when articles were about a particular application or development milestone of a new open source project. Now, we get a proprietary platform game review of a 13-year old franchise vehicle aimed at middle schoolers...
I think defining a highbrow game would be easy if you compare it to highbrow books: 1) Does it mostly appeal to people with graduate degrees (especially to the point where the feel compelled to write papers about it)? 2) Do players of the game look down on all other gamers? Do other gamers feel like players of the game are priggish nutjobs? 3) Does it sell at WalMart, Target, Toys R Us? (If so, it's automatically disqualified.)
I can think of examples of games that meet one of the three qualifiers (#1: text-based Adventure, #2 Eve Online, #3 lots), but I can't seem to think of a single game that meets all three.
GIF is still usually a SMALLER format than PNG if you want to display a few-color, non-lossy image. If you're dealing with bandwidth issues and lots of users, it can add up.
They asked how they're supposed to audit us then if they can't use their e-mail?
At that point I would have asked them what they needed to send via email and how they planned to secure it. This reminds me of a case I saw with a Big accounting firm where they wanted to post some unencrypted network security results on an Internet-facing web server...
"...if you have responsibility for security but have no authority to set rules or punish violators, your own role in the organization is to take the blame when something big goes wrong."
Take out "security" and fill in "hiring". Now you can probably see why the root problem is isolation of departments, not the fact that you can't taser people who don't change their passwords. Besides, who wants to listen to a on-high "security" department that says "do X or else" (often without explaining why "X" is bad). Learn to talk to people, use a few carrots and maybe fewer people (including your own employees) will think you suck.
simple arial evaluations...an architects stand point...when features liek this...how much goolgle will allow us to intigrate there layout into 3d sfotware such as...
Forget "Google Earth"; we need "Slashdot Spell" more.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm a vendor, and I've tried to work with both these antivirus vendors on a number of projects. My customers would pay as much as $1-2K per server for an integrated "name brand" anti virus feature in my product. What I wanted was an API that will let me hand them a file, scan it and tell me exactly what is wrong with it without them needing to write an extra copy to disk. Their brand would be all over our product: a major selling point. No vendor could deliver that, so I ended up implementing a solution that writes the file to disk, waits a bit to see if it disappears (usually because the "just in time" antivirus scanner grabbed it) and then parses through the logs of a few well known vendors to see if we can say for sure what virus was detected. Instead of a few hundred to the antivirus vendor per server, my customers pay $50 (or nothing if using their corporate subscription) for their favorite desktop AV.
- Bundle your OS part with the purchase of any PC compatible machine, not just the hardware we built.
- Only license your core apps (Office, SQL Server) on non-threatening operating systems to prevent switching.
- Bundle TCP/IP connectivity with the OS.
- Bundle a web browser with the OS.
- Make LDAP accessible to mere mortals (AD).
(Of course, these five are also reasons why some people hate Microsoft.) If his target audience is techies (who value "innovation"), then it's not a compliment - period.Frankly, I'm surprised to hear that people, especially Slashdotters, still talk to each other. I'm guessing this "voice" thing is some kind of emergency backup in case your email and instant messaging clients go down.
Link everyone's credit report into their movie preferences; I'll bet your complete credit history would give them a 5-10% better chance of picking your movies. But seriously...why isn't this just a regression exercise?
OK, in the past few weeks we've learned that Google's founders got into a catfight over a luxury airplane, let their employees do whatever the fuck they want during work hours (Wizards of the Coast style?) and are concentrating on cementing their "early" history. I'm not a shareholder, but if I was, I'd clicking the "Sell" button as fast and often as I could...
The fact that this guy actually needs to PAY for his subscription shows that he's a mark; if you're anybody with any purchasing power, your subscription will be free. (In fact, it's really hard to get publishers to QUIT mailing you their rags.)
I think its equally odd that there's a market for computer books in 2006, but that's another story...
Anyone else miss the old SlashDot? I still remember when articles were about a particular application or development milestone of a new open source project. Now, we get a proprietary platform game review of a 13-year old franchise vehicle aimed at middle schoolers...
I think defining a highbrow game would be easy if you compare it to highbrow books:
1) Does it mostly appeal to people with graduate degrees (especially to the point where the feel compelled to write papers about it)?
2) Do players of the game look down on all other gamers? Do other gamers feel like players of the game are priggish nutjobs?
3) Does it sell at WalMart, Target, Toys R Us? (If so, it's automatically disqualified.)
I can think of examples of games that meet one of the three qualifiers (#1: text-based Adventure, #2 Eve Online, #3 lots), but I can't seem to think of a single game that meets all three.
GIF is still usually a SMALLER format than PNG if you want to display a few-color, non-lossy image. If you're dealing with bandwidth issues and lots of users, it can add up.
Orcs? Cool. Elf slaughter? Cool. Pig roasts? Still cool.
Running around in tights and underroos doing good? Creepy.
Count me out.