What kind of a difference would another 3 billion make to him? Honestly is he going to buy fifty more planes? A thousand feraris?
It's not easy to grasp how much money 3 billion for a single person really is. At $250K/per, it's 12000 Ferraris. Or given that a 5% slice of Ferrari recently for 114e6 euros, that means the entire Ferrari company is worth 2.28bn Euros or $2.73 BN.... but buying the company takes it out of personal terms again, doesn't it?
It doesn't seem to work for me using Mozilla on Linux.
What did they implement this thing in, anyways? Coming from Microsoft I would have guessed ActiveX, but apparentliy not if it works (or will work) under FireFox. It can't be Java. What is it?
Within a cluster, ssh is just too slow and you don't need the encryption anyways. Yet ssh is such a nice, featureful application (port forwarding in particular) I sometimes wish I could run it without encryption at all.
TFA mentions WGet, one of the most wonderful, most needed applications that most users and admins ON EVERY PLATFORM don't know they need.
Another in the same class is netcat ("nc"). If you don't need encryption and want the *fastest* way to get data from one host to another without configuring some sort of server process, netcat is it!
Shut up yourself, since you already made your statement in the debate by buying the game. Or more likely, you simply bought it because the screenshots looked cool without any clue of what you were buying into.
I think it could be a killer work-from-home app, though: install your company's VPN client and preferred apps with company settings in a VM and fire it up to do work...never worry that changing apps or settings in your home VM will mess up your work VM or vice versa.
I already do this with VMWare, in fact. It's nice because they're pretty restrictive about the configuration of machines that can hook up to the VPN, so I have a virtual disk set up with all their scanning and inventory crap installed inside it.
Most likly they think Word Processing IS Microsoft Word.
If so, they're going to be hard to pry away from Word regardless of what anybody says. Nobody likes to be "reeducated." Instead, the people behind this movement to OpenDocument should keep the debate about the format, not about dumping Word.
The CIO should say, "We have decided to adopt an open document format for reasons X, Y, and Z. In order to keep our business and earn the $X million dollars we pay them every year, we hope Microsoft will be responsive to customer needs and implement support for our chosen format. If they decide not to, of course we'll have to seek solutions that meet our requirements." Put the ball in Microsoft's court, after all, in the consumer-driven market economy we supposedly live in that would actually be the case.
Really, I wouldn't have a problem with people using Word if only it didn't force me to use Word, too.
The media companies will (if they haven't already) make cracking a punishable offense
It's called the DMCA. Before it was passed there was a lot of to-do around here about how it would be abused and pushed outside its apparent intention, but I was sceptical. I was wrong.
Like all legalease, it's just an open-ended statement that permits them to do whatever they want. They could do some absolutely ridiculous things which would be allowed under a literal interpretation of that agreement. So it boils down to the practical matter of how far they're going to take it, and that's why specific information about these spyware programs is useful.
Of course you still have the choice of whether to play. And no, I've never played WoW or HL2 (which has Steam). But I would like to be a part of fueling popular sentiment against these things because it's all part of a general trend, such as the ruling that just by driving a car you submit to random alcohol checks without just cause.
First, the presumption of Internet as inherently text-based is already fading away. That was just a technical limitation in the formative stages.
Second, I disagree that text (or even language) is somehow the native representation of information. The words "hurricane devastation" do not convey the same information as watching a wall of water crash over a house and wash it away or seeing a panorama of the destroyed city. Look at the Abu-Ghraib incident; when it was just "reports of prisoner mistreatment at a US detention center in Iraq" nobody really cared, but when people could see the truth for themselves, everything changed. With the proliferation of security cameras and cellphone cameras everywhere, we are increasingly able to see for ourselves what happened, or at least several views of it.
Finally, word count is a lousy metric; I could propose comparing bit counts instead, then let's see whether a video newscast trumps ASCII.
When Xen 3.0 comes out, if you have the new intel or amd chips that support on-chip virtualization, then Windows XP can even run as a guest underneath the linux kernel-Xen0 host.
Does that new hardware support allow running Windows without having to modify it first? For the moment, it appears that no OS will work without modification and support for Windows might not be forthcoming:
In addition to Linux, members of Xen's user community have contributed or are working on ports to other operating systems such as NetBSD (Christian Limpach), FreeBSD (Kip Macy) and Plan 9 (Ron Minnich). A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, but is not available for release due to licence restrictions.
Requiring hardware support seems like a big short-term disadvantage to me. It sounds like a feature that will take a long time to trickle down from expensive "server" processors to become widely available.
It's all pulpwood, grown expressly for the purpose of becoming newsprint. It's a farm crop, like corn or beans.
I used to think that, until I saw a TV segment on Canada's Boreal Forest. Based on that, and the information I just found during a quick web search, I'm now leaning towards believing that they are actually cutting down old-growth for disposable paper products:
More than 45% of the Boreal forest has been allocated to logging companies. Close to 650,000 hectares of Boreal forest are logged each year in Canada and the predominant method of cutting this forest is via clearcutting where most, if not all, of the trees are removed. Ninety percent of logging in Canada occurs within primary and old growth forests...
Canada is the largest forest products exporter in the world. This commerce encompasses nearly 20% of the total global value of all forest products, including lumber, chips, paper and paperboard, pulp and raw logs. In Canada s boreal forest, logging occurs primarily on public land in the case of thirteen of the largest companies on logging allocations the size of Switzerland. The United States imports a staggering 80% of all Canadian wood and paper export. Products produced from Boreal forests: Toilet paper, catalogs, book paper, magazines, lumber, newspapers, office paper, paper towels, diapers.
Of course, if history teaches us anything, their programmers will spend a year looking through the code, decide it's impossible to deal with, and start from scratch.
That is a good point. However, OpenOffice does have the advantage that it has already "changed hands" a few times, and survived. Bloated install and memory footprint sizes might even mean the code base is optimized for maintainability rather than execution, which isn't always the worst thing in the world.
BTW, does this announcement of google's mean they're officially enemies of Microsoft:) ?
Are you saying you'd stick with SBC even if they were to block google for refusal to pay up, so long as SBC put it somewhere in the fine print? I think that's the real question here.
Personally reading that article almost made me thankful for Comcast (gulp!) For my $50 or so per month I get a static ip (OK, it changed once in 5 years), no filters, and the ability to run anything I want. Is any of that guaranteed in the TOS? Nope. But that's what I pay, and that's what I get.
For all of Whitacre's braggadocio about the scale and scope of his "pipe," the fact is bandwidth is a commodity and content is king. More restrictive, higher-priced bandwidth may be what SBC wants, but it's sure not in my crystal ball. Lots of people can sell you some bandwidth, but there's only one google.com, so it might be entertaining to watch SBC torpedo itself by trying to impose pay-per-view on other companies' web sites.
That "story" is ridiculously short. What I want to know is, was that over *one* strand of fiber, or a big bundle of fibers with each at a non-record-setting speed?
Is voting in a national election even rational? There's no possible way your vote will affect the outcome, they can't even count the ballots with with that much precision. The only way to make any difference is to convince a large number of other voters.
Here's one alternative: what do people think about the TrackPoint on Thinkpads (and many Dell laptops)? You don't have to move your hands around or remove them from the keyboard, and you click with your thumb... to me it's dandy and I work on this laptop a lot. That said I have a trackball on my work PC, a mouse on my home PC, and another laptop with a touchpad, and really they all seem fine to me.
I'm sure it will wind up primarily a battlefield technology. (The article does mention military applications). The inital focus on space just means the developers got their funding from NASA instead of DARPA, that's all.
Well it's hard for me to see this as cheating when I haven't bought a new system all at once for over 10 years. Why would I buy a new case when it wouldn't make my system run any better? And since I'm not upgrading everything, I won't have a working PC left over, so why would I need a new copy of Windows? I see this as a $500 performance upgrade, what does that have to do with buying a new mouse?
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What did they implement this thing in, anyways? Coming from Microsoft I would have guessed ActiveX, but apparentliy not if it works (or will work) under FireFox. It can't be Java. What is it?
Within a cluster, ssh is just too slow and you don't need the encryption anyways. Yet ssh is such a nice, featureful application (port forwarding in particular) I sometimes wish I could run it without encryption at all.
Shut up yourself, since you already made your statement in the debate by buying the game. Or more likely, you simply bought it because the screenshots looked cool without any clue of what you were buying into.
Yes, seat belt laws are a sham.
The CIO should say, "We have decided to adopt an open document format for reasons X, Y, and Z. In order to keep our business and earn the $X million dollars we pay them every year, we hope Microsoft will be responsive to customer needs and implement support for our chosen format. If they decide not to, of course we'll have to seek solutions that meet our requirements." Put the ball in Microsoft's court, after all, in the consumer-driven market economy we supposedly live in that would actually be the case.
Really, I wouldn't have a problem with people using Word if only it didn't force me to use Word, too.
Of course you still have the choice of whether to play. And no, I've never played WoW or HL2 (which has Steam). But I would like to be a part of fueling popular sentiment against these things because it's all part of a general trend, such as the ruling that just by driving a car you submit to random alcohol checks without just cause.
Second, I disagree that text (or even language) is somehow the native representation of information. The words "hurricane devastation" do not convey the same information as watching a wall of water crash over a house and wash it away or seeing a panorama of the destroyed city. Look at the Abu-Ghraib incident; when it was just "reports of prisoner mistreatment at a US detention center in Iraq" nobody really cared, but when people could see the truth for themselves, everything changed. With the proliferation of security cameras and cellphone cameras everywhere, we are increasingly able to see for ourselves what happened, or at least several views of it.
Finally, word count is a lousy metric; I could propose comparing bit counts instead, then let's see whether a video newscast trumps ASCII.
BTW, does this announcement of google's mean they're officially enemies of Microsoft :) ?
Personally reading that article almost made me thankful for Comcast (gulp!) For my $50 or so per month I get a static ip (OK, it changed once in 5 years), no filters, and the ability to run anything I want. Is any of that guaranteed in the TOS? Nope. But that's what I pay, and that's what I get.
For all of Whitacre's braggadocio about the scale and scope of his "pipe," the fact is bandwidth is a commodity and content is king. More restrictive, higher-priced bandwidth may be what SBC wants, but it's sure not in my crystal ball. Lots of people can sell you some bandwidth, but there's only one google.com, so it might be entertaining to watch SBC torpedo itself by trying to impose pay-per-view on other companies' web sites.
That "story" is ridiculously short. What I want to know is, was that over *one* strand of fiber, or a big bundle of fibers with each at a non-record-setting speed?
Is voting in a national election even rational? There's no possible way your vote will affect the outcome, they can't even count the ballots with with that much precision. The only way to make any difference is to convince a large number of other voters.
Here's one alternative: what do people think about the TrackPoint on Thinkpads (and many Dell laptops)? You don't have to move your hands around or remove them from the keyboard, and you click with your thumb... to me it's dandy and I work on this laptop a lot. That said I have a trackball on my work PC, a mouse on my home PC, and another laptop with a touchpad, and really they all seem fine to me.
I don't believe piracy impacts cinema receipts, but I do believe it impacts DVD sales.
I'm sure it will wind up primarily a battlefield technology. (The article does mention military applications). The inital focus on space just means the developers got their funding from NASA instead of DARPA, that's all.
Well it's hard for me to see this as cheating when I haven't bought a new system all at once for over 10 years. Why would I buy a new case when it wouldn't make my system run any better? And since I'm not upgrading everything, I won't have a working PC left over, so why would I need a new copy of Windows? I see this as a $500 performance upgrade, what does that have to do with buying a new mouse?