You are probably right about the importance of these elections. However, as an outside observer I can't help myself but thinking that there's something very wrong with the whole process of electing the US President.
Too much money influence, candidates that don't really represent the ideas of political parties they belong to - thus adding to confusion, too much focus on the foreign policies which affects US people in a very negative way...
I also have a feeling that you will elect the democrat, no matter who ends up in presidential elections, as a knee-jerk reaction to last 8 years of Bush government.
I guess it was a case of bad wording. However, Whitehurst said himself that JBoss can do much, much better. $500M is largely based on core product (RHEL subscriptions), while $5B might be achievable through sales of stuff that goes on top of the OS.
I am also sure that they could do really well in a desktop market, if only they wanted to. That would bring a whole hip of complexity to the way Red Hat does business (and development) but I'm now certain that underlying technology is finally in a good shape to start something like this.
You, Sir, clearly have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about.
One of the major reasons why Red Hat will soon become $1Bn+ revenue company is the fact that they invested so much into community through Fedora Project. Everybody and their dog bitch about RH product line discontinuation, forgetting that the code base has been split into two superior products, unparalleled in the Linux world. Slowly but steadily Fedora has largely been put back to community care. Community that has learned A LOT from Red Hat and gave back enormous amount of code improvements to various upstream projects. CentOS is there, too - another proof of how much Red Hat Inc. actually care.
They know what they are doing. If they say that James Whitehurst is culturally good fit, I believe them.
MS/Intel magic is "windows" which is far more important when trying to integrate into the modern technical society.
Since when did modern technical society start making any progress by sticking to tried and tired technologies? Do you seriously think that the Windows is what children should be directed at from an early age? How do you foster creativity by making kids do the things "modern, Windows way"?
So they should be allowed to force a hack as an open standard upon the rest of us, who couldn't really care less about how MS plans to eat what they've been cooking over the last 12-15 years? Enough is sometimes enough.
all parents who receive money from the government take care of their children
That's a bit overgeneralised. Most people do, regardless of whether they receive a benefit and regardless of what amount they receive. There are always lot of jerks around though. They don't care about anything, including their own children. All day care about is that cheque every month. Helps get more booze and pills.
I think I shall start advertising in Maryland. Remote support (linux,windows), rsync backups, VPNs, Desktop support... NZ$ fees will look more attractive than when buying these services from other States, too.
Silly question, but why upgrade all the time anyway?
Microsoft does this with updates. Sometimes it's sensible to EOL a product (stop releasing bug/security fixes), usually when the new one, supposedly better, is released. They did this with Win2K just before the Vista was out but they had XP to lean on. Then, they were to EOL XP, too - just to boost Vista sales. Not going to work, though - Vista is bad for business. There are too many issues with it - confusing licensing model, bad hardware support, bad apps support, you name it.
This time around businesses might just hold onto XP until new Windows is released and it proves to be an improvement over XP.
Microsoft is not as strong in a desktop area as it used to be, after all the goodness coming out of Linux distros and Apple. If they try to be tough and EOL XP while Vista is the only MS alternative, it'll be like trowing a chair in their own face.
Study-respondents actually put up with 33%, which what they believed was a figure. America is very specific in military needs, though but 21% seems hell of a lot of money. Must be more than 500b.
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I will be in the form of doxnloadable OOXML.
You are probably right about the importance of these elections. However, as an outside observer I can't help myself but thinking that there's something very wrong with the whole process of electing the US President.
Too much money influence, candidates that don't really represent the ideas of political parties they belong to - thus adding to confusion, too much focus on the foreign policies which affects US people in a very negative way...
I also have a feeling that you will elect the democrat, no matter who ends up in presidential elections, as a knee-jerk reaction to last 8 years of Bush government.
It's not bloody pictures! It's seeing proof that we have our maths right.
I guess it was a case of bad wording. However, Whitehurst said himself that JBoss can do much, much better. $500M is largely based on core product (RHEL subscriptions), while $5B might be achievable through sales of stuff that goes on top of the OS.
I am also sure that they could do really well in a desktop market, if only they wanted to. That would bring a whole hip of complexity to the way Red Hat does business (and development) but I'm now certain that underlying technology is finally in a good shape to start something like this.
In other words - references, or STFU
Here, is that better?
You, Sir, clearly have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about.
One of the major reasons why Red Hat will soon become $1Bn+ revenue company is the fact that they invested so much into community through Fedora Project. Everybody and their dog bitch about RH product line discontinuation, forgetting that the code base has been split into two superior products, unparalleled in the Linux world. Slowly but steadily Fedora has largely been put back to community care. Community that has learned A LOT from Red Hat and gave back enormous amount of code improvements to various upstream projects. CentOS is there, too - another proof of how much Red Hat Inc. actually care.
They know what they are doing. If they say that James Whitehurst is culturally good fit, I believe them.
One of the moderations - yours or grandparent's - needs fixing. What exactly is the truth here?
The fact that GP runs KDE means that he can't be as stupid as JOE.
In NZ we have a new Guinness Book record holder - texting blindfolded.
MS/Intel magic is "windows" which is far more important when trying to integrate into the modern technical society.
Since when did modern technical society start making any progress by sticking to tried and tired technologies? Do you seriously think that the Windows is what children should be directed at from an early age? How do you foster creativity by making kids do the things "modern, Windows way"?
May I ask, what happened to your original /. ID?
So they should be allowed to force a hack as an open standard upon the rest of us, who couldn't really care less about how MS plans to eat what they've been cooking over the last 12-15 years? Enough is sometimes enough.
Nope. Says there - from the original location. There goes my cunning plan. And I can't be bothered with moderators, either.
all parents who receive money from the government take care of their children
That's a bit overgeneralised. Most people do, regardless of whether they receive a benefit and regardless of what amount they receive. There are always lot of jerks around though. They don't care about anything, including their own children. All day care about is that cheque every month. Helps get more booze and pills.
Well, 5% on NZ$ fee 5% on US$ fee.
Of course, I wasn't too serious because I'm too small but it's an interesting idea, anyhow.
I'm 10 minutes walk from a beach. In about an hour or so, it's gonna be waterfront, baby!
I think I shall start advertising in Maryland. Remote support (linux,windows), rsync backups, VPNs, Desktop support... NZ$ fees will look more attractive than when buying these services from other States, too.
You are all Space Life Forms
OK. But what about you?
Yes, we did.
Not exactly when the telephone became popular - it happened when we were old enough to be left at home alone.
You are welcome to try ADSL in New Zealand. Should give you a good idea.
Hilarious! Thanks for a real good laugh.
It's pretty interesting in this context, though.
Performant code for audio libraries. I love it!
Silly question, but why upgrade all the time anyway?
Microsoft does this with updates. Sometimes it's sensible to EOL a product (stop releasing bug/security fixes), usually when the new one, supposedly better, is released. They did this with Win2K just before the Vista was out but they had XP to lean on. Then, they were to EOL XP, too - just to boost Vista sales. Not going to work, though - Vista is bad for business. There are too many issues with it - confusing licensing model, bad hardware support, bad apps support, you name it.
This time around businesses might just hold onto XP until new Windows is released and it proves to be an improvement over XP.
Microsoft is not as strong in a desktop area as it used to be, after all the goodness coming out of Linux distros and Apple. If they try to be tough and EOL XP while Vista is the only MS alternative, it'll be like trowing a chair in their own face.
Study-respondents actually put up with 33%, which what they believed was a figure. America is very specific in military needs, though but 21% seems hell of a lot of money. Must be more than 500b.
Ever read ANYTHING more nauseating?