I call bullshit. Microsoft spent from 2001 to 2004 working on Longhorn and then tossed out 100% of the code they wrote. At that point they took the Windows Server code base and started working on Vista.
"I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage system. LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we need to start taking the lessons of 'scenario, simple, fast' to heart. Jim"
Microsoft lost 3 years on Vista because they had to start over from scratch.
The problem Microsoft had was that they made changes from what Sun called "Java" AND Microsoft still tried to call it Java. That they can not do.
Google is a fork. It is Java, but by a different name. Now there may still be legal problems, but they are not the same problems that Microsoft faced. Microsoft signed a contract stating that what they made was Java and was sanctioned by Sun as such. Once they went off reservation that was no longer true and Sun had the right to sue under contract law.
There is no contract between Sun/Oracle and Google for Davalik
If we going to talk about feature MS Windows is missing. Let's pick two that Linux has had for well over a decade and I would LOVE for Microsoft to come along and "invent" them again.
1. The ability to put a mouse over the volume control and roll the scroll wheel to change the volume.
2. Virtual Desktops.
Hey Microsoft. I know where you can find a prototype for those functions. (Linux)
I call bullshit on this. I have had a rough life. No need for someone to cry a river for me. I was a life long learner by the time I hit 9th grade. Before leaving high school I had a rudimentary understanding of lasers, microwaves, cryogenics, fingerprinting, cryptanalysis, and computer programming. I had "personal interests" in linguistics, history, Latin and several others area of study. I had read over 1,000 books on my own, and had a more well rounded education that most people I knew who had several years of college under their belt.
I was laid off of work for over a year recently and while on unemployment and looking for work I entered into a vocation training program to get a AA in Computer Information Services. I will not speak of the quality of the CS classes. I will speak about the quality of the general ed classes I was required to take. Pretty much a waste of time and money. I would be better off with a notepad and $100. Take any of those instructors out for a fine dinner and speak with them for 2 hours about their area of expertise would have been time better spent.
My overall impression of education at the local community college was this. I have spent $150 on books for the class, I can read the book, take the self tests in the book and for the most part know if I have nailed the answers or not. Anything I did not understand, I could find a video on you-tube explaining. My instructors essentially were there to go over in class what the book covered for the slower students and to proctor tests of materials I already know that I had mastery of. I was paying $300 for a class to have an instructor proctor me in things I already knew. Because once I consumed the material I had been given, if I asked any questions that were not directly related to the material in the book, I received no answer. Either because the instructor did not understand the subject mater and lacked real world experience and did not know the answer, or because even asking the question confused other students, they did not want to do more damage by talking about matters that would confuse the rest of the class.
It appears college was about paying money, to have instructors make sure that we read books and took tests with an average cost of $450 a class, when I could read better material on the subject online and hear actual instruction, instead of regurgitation on youtube. Maybe things change at the 4 year level, not the scam of paying money for being tested, but the study of material actually worth learning.
I am self educated and have studied things that I have found interesting. I work with a variety of people who are all "better educated" than myself. I routinely use words that I think nothing of but leave them scratching their heads. I am known as a cornucopia of information because of the number of topics on which I know something.
I would hope in an interview my passion, knowledge and love of learning would be evident and I would be someone considered for a decent job with your company. Not the fact that from everything I have experienced the college education system indicated that the system is broke and what was offered in general ed classes seemed more remedial than affirming the fact that there is a lifetime of things worth learning.
There have always been those in business that gouge the customer. Customers pay up. However, if they realize they are being gouged, they hate the business and will switch to using some other business as soon as they can find another business that offers a better value.
I have worked for several millionaires in my lifetime. I have seen reverse Reagnomics work. That is where the the state mandate that businesses have to spend money on something, opposed to where Reaganomics eliminates that kind of behavior. When the costs go up, compared to the risk the millionaires think it is better to stop hiring, close businesses down and just park their money in a bank, or out of the country till things are more favorable.
What bothers me far more than Reagonomics is small businesses selling out to larger businesses. These in turn sell out to mega corporations. Once you move from the level of someone who has built the business and actually cares about the business itself, the employees, the quality of product or service produced and are willing to make less money short or long term due to these factors. You end up with a business that answers to "stockholders", at which point stock holders can sue if you don't maximize profits for them right now, no matter who it hurts in the process.
Which brings us back to EVE. If the short term profit from selling items in game and going around the in-game economy screws up the gameplay and player economy. In the long term, CPP may be shooting themselves in the foot.
I taught myself back in the 80s. All I had was access to a VIC-20 display unit at a K-Mart store and a library card. The demo program I typed in out of the book did not run and it took me 5 hours to figure out there was a difference between ";" and ":" as well as "0" and "O" or "1 and "I". So it has been a while since I have thought like a beginner.
I took some classes last year and "introduction to programming" was one of them. What surprised me was most peoples lack of ability to sequence anything. They would know in an instant that the sequence of 1. Push the door open till it is open wide enough to pass though while walking forward through the doorway. 2. reach for the door knob take a firm grip of the door knob. 3. Release the door knob. 4. Turn right about 90 degrees till the knob no longer turns Is not a good sequence.
However they would routinely do things in a loop like 1. TOTAL=TOTAL+SUM 2. SUM=USER INPUT * 2.5 3. TOTAL=0 having no idea that they should have zeroed out the total before the loop started, and that they had to add the sum to the total AFTER they computed the sum, not before they compute it. Simple cause and effect sequencing. The problem is people do it in there sleep without any thought. They have never thought about the process.
Just like staring to count at 1 without even considering the number 0.
Every student is different. We all stumble at different points. Class marches forward while students struggle with a concept that never quite sunk in.
I was hoping that programming would separate the men from the boys so to speak. No need to teach networking or database theory to someone who can not grok a variable or a for loop. Turns out it is possible to write a program that 30% of the statements in it make no sense and still pass the class.
I think if Google wants to provide a link to chrome first, then firefox and then opera and then IE/Sarfi that is fine. They are not a convicted monopolist. And Chrome, Firefox and Opera are available on all platforms. IE and Chrome, not so much.
I would argue that Apple does not design by committee. Steve Job rules by fiat. It does not matter how many companies manufacture Apple products. All Apple products produced are exactly as Steve jobs has envisioned them to be. Thus far, Steve has done a very good job at either designing a product people want or creating a market for Apple products.
Microsoft deigns by committee. Even with one hardware vendor, what Microsoft has produced is 2 to 3 years behind Apple. Which hardly makes for compelling devices. I will admit that to many hardware manufacturers making to many changes only lowers the quality of Microsoft's offering.
The bigger problem as I see it is what they will have to offer. Windows 8 on regular PC's able to run office and legacy software. Windows 8 on x86 tables with terrible battery life that can run office and legacy software. Then they will have Windows 8 on ARM tablets that have excellent battery life and can run Office, but almost no other legacy software. End users, will be end users and some will be confused when they buy a laptop and cant load the windows software they have already purchased on the unit.
"Tighter" hardware integration will not help with this problem.
Take a look at Steve Jobs idea of the future back in the 1980's... we are living it today.
Take a look at Bill Gates idea of the future back in the 80's or 90...he missed it. He even missed it on spam being a thing of the past and Microsoft would get it done in 5 years.
Why do you think he left in the first place? So his fingerprints would not be on the decline of Microsoft.
Look at Windows "rise" through Vista. The code base kept multiplying in size. Requiring larger teams and more management, until the whole thing collapses on itself. The company provided double digit growth EVERY YEAR as the PC market expanded and every business purchased new PCs. Then as business only purchased replacement PCs, the home use market expanded. This trend could not continue on forever. Hell it could not continue on for even another decade.
The brain trust at Gnome knows better than us end users. The most intuitive way to do things is to have suspend option that changes to a shutdown option when you hold down your ALT key.
Brilliant, no wonder I am just an end user. I could never ponder such transparency.
On the other hand, it does not work for me. I use a desktop setup much like the parent poster does. The problem lies in the fact that all of these apps MUST be started up. If for any reason whatsoever you close out the final app on a desktop or the final app on a desktop crashes, that desktop goes away and the other desktops "shift" up by one. Now the Browser is no longer on desktop 4, it is on desktop 3.
In addition to that I use ctrl+alt+left and ctrl+alt+right to move between desktops, and having the ability to wrap around from 4 back to 1 or from 1 back to 4 is nice. The way Gnome shell uses ctrl+atl+up and ctrl+alt+down and the lack of desktop wrapping is an issue for me.
With Fluxbox I am able to do the following right out of the box:
Ctrl+Fx = goto desktop Winkey+Fx = send app to desktop Ctrl+Winkey+Fx = goto deskop WHILE sending app to desktop
Ctrl+Alt+left/right = goto next/prev desktop Winkey+left/right = send app to next/prev desktop Ctrl+Winkey+left/right = goto next/prev desktop WHILE sending app to desktop
Without even taking my fingers off of the keyboard I have more control over my virtual desktops in a program written a decade ago than I do with Gnome Shell. Along with the ability to set shortcut keys for launching apps like:
ctrl+alt+c = calc
Or chaining keys such as ctrl+alt+k (for KDE) thus: ctrl+alt+k+b (for browsing, bring up konqueror) ctrl+alt+k+c (for kcalc) ctrl+alt-e (for editor, kate) ctrl+alt+s (for shell, konsole).
Along with the ability to have rules for where windows end up or being able to set up a keyboard shortcut to start a program if it is not running, and if it is running, either to bring the program to my current desktop, or to switch to the desktop where the program is currently running at. I can also run Dock Apps for launchers, pagers, utilities, status indicators, and clocks instead of being forced into app indicators. I have seen nothing better than wmmsg http://www.dockapps.org/file.php/id/169 at letting me know I received an IM while I was gone. As long as I am at a desktop and not a hand held tablet, Fluxbox beats Gnome Shell 3 hands down. I have a 6 year investment in my keyboard shortcuts that Gnome Shell can not match.
The funny thing is all of the stuff they are doing to bring virtual desktops so front and center that users can't help but use them, kills off a lot of the usefulness of virtual desktops.
I have to agree. They mentioned this on the Linux Action Show.
11.04 Unity 3d is a version 1.0 product... buggy 11.11 Unity 2d will be main environment with users able to switch to Unity 3d if they think their hardware can handle it. Thus also a version 1.0 product...buggy. 12.04 Wayland Graphic drivers, version 1.0 product..buggy.
So that "polish" users are looking for does not start till 12.11 at least. That is 1 year of 4 years that is going to be frittered away on their own 1.0 products.
Three Canonical board members have left in five months: chief operating officer, and Reg contributor, Matt Asay was the first to go in December after just 10 months with the company. He called his decision "difficult" and the move to a mobile startup "a leap of faith". That leaves Canonical with a board of four people, when it should be eight. The COO's seat has been vacant since Asay's departure. Chief executive Jane Silber is doubling as COO but the plan, Silber said when Asay left in December 2010, is to recruit a replacement.
Meanwhile Shuttleworth is working harder at monetizing the whole works and in what I am going to characterize as a "frantic frenzy for Canonical to start breaking even" he is carefully listening to the community, and then by fiat doing what he wants to do anyways.
At the rate he is going, he will be lucky to be at 12 million users once 12.11 is out the door.
When you have a bum product, sell its shortcomings.
Not configurable=simple to use Parts made of plastic not glass so cant test acid = plastic and durable without glass parts No Applets = Distraction Free computing
I am a music lover. I have music on all the time. But 50% of what I listen to are not in the standard "catalogs". I love out of print music. $14.99 for 50% of what I listen to is not a good deal for me.
Then again Apples deal does not work so well for me either. I end up buying albums on GEMM from shops that will master a CD for me and send both out at the same time to me.
What matters is if consumers who purchased a Blue-Ray player purchase DVD's or Blue-Ray discs to play in that fancy player? At 2x or 3x the price what will matter is the adoption rate of disc purchases.
I own a Roku and an xbox with XBMC on it, as well as a standard DVD player. Anything that is not in my collection I rent from NetFlix. The better NetFlix streaming service gets the fewer DVDs I need around.
This may end up much like Palm (DVD) vs WinCE (Blue-Ray). By the time Microsoft won the PDA market, there was no market left to sell to.
No what he is saying is why would you spend $150 on a new BR player to play DVD's when your current DVD player does it just fine? If you need a new player, you can buy a great DVD player for $50.
The only reason to buy a BR player is to play BR content. If you don't buy that many new movies, lets say 15 a year, the only way to get any value out of that BR player is by rebuilding your collection with BR disks. Once again, why? From where I sit I can spend $0 to enjoy what I already have. Or I have to spend from about $200 up to $5000 to upgrade everything in my life to get the "real" BR experience. Which for most people, on a 50" set from 20' away wont make any difference.
I totally agree. I work all day. My wife has a handicap and there are days where walking to the shelf and picking out a DVD is acutely painful. What does she do? She watches netflix or whatever ISO's I have copied over to a network drive so she can watch them on an xbox with XBMC.
For my wife it is not about piracy. It is about not having to get up 3 or 4 times a day when it is very painful to do so.
The problem is that technically the Blu-Ray customer is Hollywood. You as the end user are granted the privilege of licensing a product. And Hollywood would like to have a say in what happens every time you stick a Blue-Ray disk in a Blue-Ray drive.
Most consumers are not as excited about the process as Hollywood is.
Devils Advocate: What if he had this server running at home or from one of the Doctors own practice? Outside the hospital network?
As in: There are several doctors who want to share scheduling information AND will not post any patient info (really we promise). And they purchased a small server and run it from an outside location So that they can reach the webpage/scheduling software via any computer or their iPhones.
Now it is off your network.Is it a non-issue? How does HIPAA come into play? How much of this is now hospital policy vs Doctors obligations under HIPPA?
In theory they could still post patient info. But then again, in theory they could do that on Facebook as well.
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I call bullshit. Microsoft spent from 2001 to 2004 working on Longhorn and then tossed out 100% of the code they wrote. At that point they took the Windows Server code base and started working on Vista.
To Quote Jim Allchin, Micorosfts architect of Vista.
http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/News-Jim-Allchin-Longhorn-Vista-Pig-Rise-Linux-Challenge--ftopict386763.html
"I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage system. LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we need to start taking the lessons of 'scenario, simple, fast' to heart. Jim"
Microsoft lost 3 years on Vista because they had to start over from scratch.
If it reads the same then Oracle should lose.
The problem Microsoft had was that they made changes from what Sun called "Java" AND Microsoft still tried to call it Java. That they can not do.
Google is a fork. It is Java, but by a different name. Now there may still be legal problems, but they are not the same problems that Microsoft faced. Microsoft signed a contract stating that what they made was Java and was sanctioned by Sun as such. Once they went off reservation that was no longer true and Sun had the right to sue under contract law.
There is no contract between Sun/Oracle and Google for Davalik
If we going to talk about feature MS Windows is missing. Let's pick two that Linux has had for well over a decade and I would LOVE for Microsoft to come along and "invent" them again.
1. The ability to put a mouse over the volume control and roll the scroll wheel to change the volume.
2. Virtual Desktops.
Hey Microsoft. I know where you can find a prototype for those functions. (Linux)
Congress is drinking the Microsoft Kool-Aid.
I call bullshit on this. I have had a rough life. No need for someone to cry a river for me. I was a life long learner by the time I hit 9th grade. Before leaving high school I had a rudimentary understanding of lasers, microwaves, cryogenics, fingerprinting, cryptanalysis, and computer programming. I had "personal interests" in linguistics, history, Latin and several others area of study. I had read over 1,000 books on my own, and had a more well rounded education that most people I knew who had several years of college under their belt.
I was laid off of work for over a year recently and while on unemployment and looking for work I entered into a vocation training program to get a AA in Computer Information Services. I will not speak of the quality of the CS classes. I will speak about the quality of the general ed classes I was required to take. Pretty much a waste of time and money. I would be better off with a notepad and $100. Take any of those instructors out for a fine dinner and speak with them for 2 hours about their area of expertise would have been time better spent.
My overall impression of education at the local community college was this. I have spent $150 on books for the class, I can read the book, take the self tests in the book and for the most part know if I have nailed the answers or not. Anything I did not understand, I could find a video on you-tube explaining. My instructors essentially were there to go over in class what the book covered for the slower students and to proctor tests of materials I already know that I had mastery of. I was paying $300 for a class to have an instructor proctor me in things I already knew. Because once I consumed the material I had been given, if I asked any questions that were not directly related to the material in the book, I received no answer. Either because the instructor did not understand the subject mater and lacked real world experience and did not know the answer, or because even asking the question confused other students, they did not want to do more damage by talking about matters that would confuse the rest of the class.
It appears college was about paying money, to have instructors make sure that we read books and took tests with an average cost of $450 a class, when I could read better material on the subject online and hear actual instruction, instead of regurgitation on youtube. Maybe things change at the 4 year level, not the scam of paying money for being tested, but the study of material actually worth learning.
I am self educated and have studied things that I have found interesting. I work with a variety of people who are all "better educated" than myself. I routinely use words that I think nothing of but leave them scratching their heads. I am known as a cornucopia of information because of the number of topics on which I know something.
I would hope in an interview my passion, knowledge and love of learning would be evident and I would be someone considered for a decent job with your company. Not the fact that from everything I have experienced the college education system indicated that the system is broke and what was offered in general ed classes seemed more remedial than affirming the fact that there is a lifetime of things worth learning.
There have always been those in business that gouge the customer. Customers pay up. However, if they realize they are being gouged, they hate the business and will switch to using some other business as soon as they can find another business that offers a better value.
I have worked for several millionaires in my lifetime. I have seen reverse Reagnomics work. That is where the the state mandate that businesses have to spend money on something, opposed to where Reaganomics eliminates that kind of behavior. When the costs go up, compared to the risk the millionaires think it is better to stop hiring, close businesses down and just park their money in a bank, or out of the country till things are more favorable.
What bothers me far more than Reagonomics is small businesses selling out to larger businesses. These in turn sell out to mega corporations. Once you move from the level of someone who has built the business and actually cares about the business itself, the employees, the quality of product or service produced and are willing to make less money short or long term due to these factors. You end up with a business that answers to "stockholders", at which point stock holders can sue if you don't maximize profits for them right now, no matter who it hurts in the process.
Which brings us back to EVE. If the short term profit from selling items in game and going around the in-game economy screws up the gameplay and player economy. In the long term, CPP may be shooting themselves in the foot.
I taught myself back in the 80s. All I had was access to a VIC-20 display unit at a K-Mart store and a library card. The demo program I typed in out of the book did not run and it took me 5 hours to figure out there was a difference between ";" and ":" as well as "0" and "O" or "1 and "I". So it has been a while since I have thought like a beginner.
I took some classes last year and "introduction to programming" was one of them. What surprised me was most peoples lack of ability to sequence anything. They would know in an instant that the sequence of 1. Push the door open till it is open wide enough to pass though while walking forward through the doorway. 2. reach for the door knob take a firm grip of the door knob. 3. Release the door knob. 4. Turn right about 90 degrees till the knob no longer turns Is not a good sequence.
However they would routinely do things in a loop like 1. TOTAL=TOTAL+SUM 2. SUM=USER INPUT * 2.5 3. TOTAL=0 having no idea that they should have zeroed out the total before the loop started, and that they had to add the sum to the total AFTER they computed the sum, not before they compute it. Simple cause and effect sequencing. The problem is people do it in there sleep without any thought. They have never thought about the process.
Just like staring to count at 1 without even considering the number 0.
Every student is different. We all stumble at different points. Class marches forward while students struggle with a concept that never quite sunk in.
I was hoping that programming would separate the men from the boys so to speak. No need to teach networking or database theory to someone who can not grok a variable or a for loop. Turns out it is possible to write a program that 30% of the statements in it make no sense and still pass the class.
I think if Google wants to provide a link to chrome first, then firefox and then opera and then IE/Sarfi that is fine. They are not a convicted monopolist. And Chrome, Firefox and Opera are available on all platforms. IE and Chrome, not so much.
I would argue that Apple does not design by committee. Steve Job rules by fiat. It does not matter how many companies manufacture Apple products. All Apple products produced are exactly as Steve jobs has envisioned them to be. Thus far, Steve has done a very good job at either designing a product people want or creating a market for Apple products.
Microsoft deigns by committee. Even with one hardware vendor, what Microsoft has produced is 2 to 3 years behind Apple. Which hardly makes for compelling devices. I will admit that to many hardware manufacturers making to many changes only lowers the quality of Microsoft's offering.
The bigger problem as I see it is what they will have to offer. Windows 8 on regular PC's able to run office and legacy software. Windows 8 on x86 tables with terrible battery life that can run office and legacy software. Then they will have Windows 8 on ARM tablets that have excellent battery life and can run Office, but almost no other legacy software. End users, will be end users and some will be confused when they buy a laptop and cant load the windows software they have already purchased on the unit.
"Tighter" hardware integration will not help with this problem.
Take a look at Steve Jobs idea of the future back in the 1980's ... we are living it today.
Take a look at Bill Gates idea of the future back in the 80's or 90...he missed it. He even missed it on spam being a thing of the past and Microsoft would get it done in 5 years.
I agree
Why do you think he left in the first place? So his fingerprints would not be on the decline of Microsoft.
Look at Windows "rise" through Vista. The code base kept multiplying in size. Requiring larger teams and more management, until the whole thing collapses on itself. The company provided double digit growth EVERY YEAR as the PC market expanded and every business purchased new PCs. Then as business only purchased replacement PCs, the home use market expanded. This trend could not continue on forever. Hell it could not continue on for even another decade.
The brain trust at Gnome knows better than us end users. The most intuitive way to do things is to have suspend option that changes to a shutdown option when you hold down your ALT key.
Brilliant, no wonder I am just an end user. I could never ponder such transparency.
On the other hand, it does not work for me. I use a desktop setup much like the parent poster does. The problem lies in the fact that all of these apps MUST be started up. If for any reason whatsoever you close out the final app on a desktop or the final app on a desktop crashes, that desktop goes away and the other desktops "shift" up by one. Now the Browser is no longer on desktop 4, it is on desktop 3.
In addition to that I use ctrl+alt+left and ctrl+alt+right to move between desktops, and having the ability to wrap around from 4 back to 1 or from 1 back to 4 is nice. The way Gnome shell uses ctrl+atl+up and ctrl+alt+down and the lack of desktop wrapping is an issue for me.
With Fluxbox I am able to do the following right out of the box:
Ctrl+Fx = goto desktop
Winkey+Fx = send app to desktop
Ctrl+Winkey+Fx = goto deskop WHILE sending app to desktop
Ctrl+Alt+left/right = goto next/prev desktop
Winkey+left/right = send app to next/prev desktop
Ctrl+Winkey+left/right = goto next/prev desktop WHILE sending app to desktop
Without even taking my fingers off of the keyboard I have more control over my virtual desktops in a program written a decade ago than I do with Gnome Shell. Along with the ability to set shortcut keys for launching apps like:
ctrl+alt+c = calc
Or chaining keys such as ctrl+alt+k (for KDE) thus:
ctrl+alt+k+b (for browsing, bring up konqueror)
ctrl+alt+k+c (for kcalc)
ctrl+alt-e (for editor, kate)
ctrl+alt+s (for shell, konsole).
Along with the ability to have rules for where windows end up or being able to set up a keyboard shortcut to start a program if it is not running, and if it is running, either to bring the program to my current desktop, or to switch to the desktop where the program is currently running at. I can also run Dock Apps for launchers, pagers, utilities, status indicators, and clocks instead of being forced into app indicators. I have seen nothing better than wmmsg http://www.dockapps.org/file.php/id/169 at letting me know I received an IM while I was gone. As long as I am at a desktop and not a hand held tablet, Fluxbox beats Gnome Shell 3 hands down. I have a 6 year investment in my keyboard shortcuts that Gnome Shell can not match.
The funny thing is all of the stuff they are doing to bring virtual desktops so front and center that users can't help but use them, kills off a lot of the usefulness of virtual desktops.
I have to agree. They mentioned this on the Linux Action Show.
11.04 Unity 3d is a version 1.0 product... buggy
11.11 Unity 2d will be main environment with users able to switch to Unity 3d if they think their hardware can handle it. Thus also a version 1.0 product...buggy.
12.04 Wayland Graphic drivers, version 1.0 product..buggy.
So that "polish" users are looking for does not start till 12.11 at least. That is 1 year of 4 years that is going to be frittered away on their own 1.0 products.
Three Canonical board members have left in five months: chief operating officer, and Reg contributor, Matt Asay was the first to go in December after just 10 months with the company. He called his decision "difficult" and the move to a mobile startup "a leap of faith". That leaves Canonical with a board of four people, when it should be eight. The COO's seat has been vacant since Asay's departure. Chief executive Jane Silber is doubling as COO but the plan, Silber said when Asay left in December 2010, is to recruit a replacement.
Meanwhile Shuttleworth is working harder at monetizing the whole works and in what I am going to characterize as a "frantic frenzy for Canonical to start breaking even" he is carefully listening to the community, and then by fiat doing what he wants to do anyways.
At the rate he is going, he will be lucky to be at 12 million users once 12.11 is out the door.
Hot keys are really nice. You can bring up apps quicker with the keybord than the mouse.
When you have a bum product, sell its shortcomings.
Not configurable=simple to use
Parts made of plastic not glass so cant test acid = plastic and durable without glass parts
No Applets = Distraction Free computing
It must be nice being Pat right now. Since he no longer bundles Gnome, non of this mess is a problem for him.
Someone else can bundle Gnome 2 and Unity, or bundle Gnome 3 with the Gnome Shell.
Either way, Pat does not have to worry about it.
I am a music lover. I have music on all the time. But 50% of what I listen to are not in the standard "catalogs". I love out of print music. $14.99 for 50% of what I listen to is not a good deal for me.
Then again Apples deal does not work so well for me either. I end up buying albums on GEMM from shops that will master a CD for me and send both out at the same time to me.
While in the cubical next to you Steve Balmer breaks chairs in front of his office suite.
What matters is if consumers who purchased a Blue-Ray player purchase DVD's or Blue-Ray discs to play in that fancy player? At 2x or 3x the price what will matter is the adoption rate of disc purchases.
I own a Roku and an xbox with XBMC on it, as well as a standard DVD player. Anything that is not in my collection I rent from NetFlix. The better NetFlix streaming service gets the fewer DVDs I need around.
This may end up much like Palm (DVD) vs WinCE (Blue-Ray). By the time Microsoft won the PDA market, there was no market left to sell to.
No what he is saying is why would you spend $150 on a new BR player to play DVD's when your current DVD player does it just fine? If you need a new player, you can buy a great DVD player for $50.
The only reason to buy a BR player is to play BR content. If you don't buy that many new movies, lets say 15 a year, the only way to get any value out of that BR player is by rebuilding your collection with BR disks. Once again, why? From where I sit I can spend $0 to enjoy what I already have. Or I have to spend from about $200 up to $5000 to upgrade everything in my life to get the "real" BR experience. Which for most people, on a 50" set from 20' away wont make any difference.
I totally agree. I work all day. My wife has a handicap and there are days where walking to the shelf and picking out a DVD is acutely painful. What does she do? She watches netflix or whatever ISO's I have copied over to a network drive so she can watch them on an xbox with XBMC.
For my wife it is not about piracy. It is about not having to get up 3 or 4 times a day when it is very painful to do so.
As I have heard it put.
It is to late to fix the system from the inside and it is to soon to start shooting the son of a bitches.
The problem is that technically the Blu-Ray customer is Hollywood. You as the end user are granted the privilege of licensing a product. And Hollywood would like to have a say in what happens every time you stick a Blue-Ray disk in a Blue-Ray drive.
Most consumers are not as excited about the process as Hollywood is.
Devils Advocate: What if he had this server running at home or from one of the Doctors own practice? Outside the hospital network?
As in: There are several doctors who want to share scheduling information AND will not post any patient info (really we promise). And they purchased a small server and run it from an outside location So that they can reach the webpage/scheduling software via any computer or their iPhones.
Now it is off your network.Is it a non-issue? How does HIPAA come into play? How much of this is now hospital policy vs Doctors obligations under HIPPA?
In theory they could still post patient info. But then again, in theory they could do that on Facebook as well.