Nobody, not even Ballmer and Gates controls or dictates fully the company actions
At the micro level you're correct, but Open Source strategy and OSI are pretty macro-level issues and Ballmer should be fully aware of what that strategy is. If someone has acted on their own accord, then expect them to be confused with a chair and thrown around a bit. If Ballmer truely is clueless about this then that is gross mismanagement on his part and you can expect a lynching at the next shareholder's meeting.
Perhaps "we are smarter than me", but "we are also dumber than me". So how do you gather the smart bits and leave out the dumb bits? Perhps the answer is to use some sort of Linux-like peer review + benign dictator mechanisms. That might appeal to techies who see the benefit in code control, but will it work for the great unwashed; all hoping for their 15 words of fame and getting upset becuase they get edited out.
If you want low power devices, you go with ARM not x86. That's the main reason no phones use x86.
ARM parts have lacked horsepower vs x86, but the newer multi-code devices (http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2917028234.html) will change that.
Small too. A whole system (CPU + RAM + some peripherals) can fit on a DIMM stick, or even on a single chip with stacked parts. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these in a regular laptop size case. Want a low power system for web and mail? Load just one module. Want a high performance gaming/ scientific workstation? Load all the module slots.
When the Isrealites fled from Egypt, they couldn't carry all these gods, expecially all the statues carved out of stone - which weighed many tons and hardly promoted effective fleeing. So they had a quick vote and declared: one god and not a heavy one carved out of rock either.
Choice between two or three broken apps is not as important as having at least one very good app that works well.
Multi-platform is vital for helping a transition off MS and onto Linux or whatever. I use OO to edit docs and it just does not matter to me whether I use Windows or Linux. In essence all I care about is that it is an OO-capable machine.
When you read stuff like this, it makes you realise how much we still have to learn. Blood transfusion is over 500 years old and we still don't understand it properly.
Makes you realise that all the "scientists predict.. [insert global warming/oil crisis/ cancer cure/...]" is just pissing in the wind.
Little beasties that breed at an earlier age make more generations in n years than do longer living animals. Crank the for(;;) loop faster and things happen faster. Ummmmm: duh!
To be halfway habitable on permanent basis it needs good internat infrasturcture. Alternatively if it is going to be a tropoical vacation paradise it better have coconuts.
There are some things you just cannot say in certain languages because they lack the constructs and idioms. At one stage my father and I could speak English, Afrikaans and Zulu reasonably well and we'd often mix these all and be able to express richer thoughts than by just sticking with one language. Having moved away from South Africa, my ability to speak both Afrikaans and Zulu have fallen away badly and I can now really only communicate in English.
Various words just have no real translation. "Gesellig" (Dutch) just means so much more than the dictionary equivalents: genial, social. Similarly "mana" (Maori) means more than just pride or spirit.
Kill a language and you kill a culture. Kill a culture and you end up with disaffected people. You just need to look at Inuit, Uustalian Aboriginal and various other groups to see that this is a bad thing.
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I'll remain a skeptic until I see reliable weather prediction at least.
Manslaughter maybe, but not murder.
At the micro level you're correct, but Open Source strategy and OSI are pretty macro-level issues and Ballmer should be fully aware of what that strategy is. If someone has acted on their own accord, then expect them to be confused with a chair and thrown around a bit. If Ballmer truely is clueless about this then that is gross mismanagement on his part and you can expect a lynching at the next shareholder's meeting.
No need for /. to overhype. Leave that to USA Today.
"could cut" becomes "to cut". Probably previously in the chain there's a "might cut". No wonder we get so many hyped technologies that never deliver.
as the fundamental technology, you have nothing to fear.
Perhaps "we are smarter than me", but "we are also dumber than me". So how do you gather the smart bits and leave out the dumb bits? Perhps the answer is to use some sort of Linux-like peer review + benign dictator mechanisms. That might appeal to techies who see the benefit in code control, but will it work for the great unwashed; all hoping for their 15 words of fame and getting upset becuase they get edited out.
ARM parts have lacked horsepower vs x86, but the newer multi-code devices (http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2917028234.html) will change that.
Small too. A whole system (CPU + RAM + some peripherals) can fit on a DIMM stick, or even on a single chip with stacked parts. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these in a regular laptop size case. Want a low power system for web and mail? Load just one module. Want a high performance gaming/ scientific workstation? Load all the module slots.
when it is in the tumble drier making it look like you're getting a good work out!
But don't expect to finish the game yourself.
.... err, maybe not!
Slashdot: the finest source of religeous facts.
Multi-platform is vital for helping a transition off MS and onto Linux or whatever. I use OO to edit docs and it just does not matter to me whether I use Windows or Linux. In essence all I care about is that it is an OO-capable machine.
Makes you realise that all the "scientists predict.. [insert global warming/oil crisis/ cancer cure/...]" is just pissing in the wind.
like I said... I think I'll just stick with the acid!
like seeing visions of God, Moses, Virgin Mary etc? I think I'd rather go for the acid.
Sensing something that is not there.... surely that classifes as hallucination
Darl's brother, Kevin, is one of the SCO lawyers so has been slating away SCO cash for a long time. No doubt family ties are strong.
that Vista looks good and people will just switch.
Little beasties that breed at an earlier age make more generations in n years than do longer living animals. Crank the for(;;) loop faster and things happen faster. Ummmmm: duh!
or just apply some thermo-electric pads plugged into the car. Lots of IR then.
Unless of course the whole atmosphere was filled with tiny flakes of stuff, in which case people would be inhaling them and gooping up their airways.
Can you get there on frequent flier miles?
Duh!
Various words just have no real translation. "Gesellig" (Dutch) just means so much more than the dictionary equivalents: genial, social. Similarly "mana" (Maori) means more than just pride or spirit.
Kill a language and you kill a culture. Kill a culture and you end up with disaffected people. You just need to look at Inuit, Uustalian Aboriginal and various other groups to see that this is a bad thing.