Hopefully since reporting his personal stock buys is newsworthy here, maybe next we can cover what kind of ketchup he uses, or what his wife's bra size is. I mean, that's obviously quite worthy of being a story here now, right?
What is his wife's bra size? Inquiring minds want to know!
When CEOs say "good for the economy" they don't mean "good for the average Joe" they mean "good for our shareholders"
Let us consider what is good for shareholders. Firt the shareholders require transparency in accounting. It is in the interest of to accurately report when their stock is getting diluted.
Barret does not want to expense stock options. Not expensing stock options is just one way Barret does not want to meet the needs of shareholder.
This desire to meet the needs of the shareholders seems a bit selective.
Sun was getting pecked apart by Penguins. Microsoft so far has not lost any of it's core business to the rising tide of Penguinistas. But Microsoft sees the threat. Microsoft fears Open Source.
Microsoft would rather have the battle on Sun's turf- even if that means keeping Sun alive! I think the two will fight open source with patents.
Sun and Microsoft could have partitioned the 1.6 Billion in any way they saw fit. They put the bulk of into into Licensing patents. Not so much for damages from violating anti trust law. They are saying this: We think IP is important, antiTrust law is not important.
Will these boxen be at the store or will they just be mail order?
MS succeeds because we do not always want choice.
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The sciam article had this basic thesis. When we have a choice we have to decide not to take some available options in order to choose other options. Then we wonder what we gave up. There is some sense of loss regarding the choices we did not choose.
I think most people know in their heart of hearts that Microsoft is a criminal enterprise. Most people know their software is mediocre. But it is the "standard". Microsoft frees people from the pain of choice.
This is why Microsoft will dominate the desktop for a long time. If they keep their software quality at least sort of OK, and do not squeeze their customers too hard, they will keep the dekstop. It does not matter how good the alternatives are.
Intel had this marketing campaign. The blurred the line between the processor and the WiFi. Then Intel had their web site with lists of public WiFi spots. It was brilliant marketing.
But the Intel list of WiFi spots were spots with a bit too much business model. The ones at StarBucks are on the list. You have to pay money to use them. I assume you have to install some more software too. Just what our computers need -- more junk software on the TCP/IP stack. And the pay as you go WiFi spots were not really making money. Providing the WiFi is cheap. But the overhead of collecting money and preventing freeloaders was costing more than it was worth.
It looked like AMD had a brilliant counter to this campaign. Help the independent shops set up "free" WiFi. But AMD snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Instead of helping people set up spots, they are just taking credit for existing spots.
"There are two meanings to software design," he explained on Tuesday. "One is, designing the artifact we're trying to implement. The other is the sheer software engineering to make that artifact come into being. I believe these are two separate roles -- the subject matter expert and the software engineer."
Giving the former group tools to shape software will transform the landscape, according to Simonyi. Otherwise, you're stuck in the unsatisfactory present, where the people who know the most about what the software is supposed to accomplish can't directly shape the software itself: All they can do is "make a humble request to the programmer."
I work on a project where real time control software is written by software artists who only know software. Getting them to meet the needs of the project is like pulling teeth. They do not understand the needs of real time control software. If others beg and negotiate a lot they can get some of what they need.
Getting this project to work has been excruciatingly slow and frustrating.
But this is beautifull code. It is the easiest to read code I have ever seen. It is the best organised code I have seen. But the performance ot what the code does is rather poor.
I used to work in a very competative industry. The hardware control engineers would write the control code. We would gets things functioning quicky. The code would really meet the needs of the project.
But it was butt ugly code!
Is there some way to get what the projects need and get readable well organised code too?
Gates went on to say that young programmers don't need computer science degrees: "The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems."
This image of Gates liberating source code print outs from dumpsters made the whole artlicle worth reading.
To be fair the support costs are higher for some versions of Windows. I would expect that to show up in the price.
SuSE charges a lot more for the server edition than for the home versions. The level of support is a lot lot higher too.
Redhat had similar pricing back in the days they sold a home version.
Helvick,
I am trying to find out if SP2 breaks. interpeters like Java and Python. They generate object code on the fly.
Does Java work in Firefox?
Does Python work?
You can downlog the python interpeter from this site.
"The great bulk of applications will not be affected by memory protection. The number one that leaps to mind is execution environments with just-in-time code generation. The.Net Framework is one," Goodhew said.
.NET is not the only interpreter that generates object code on the fly. Here is my partial list of other interpreters that could get broken:
I am also on Microsoft's side on this one. I have reservations about software patents. I do not like patents getting awarded so easily. The patent office should do a better job of screening for prior art. The patent office should also do a better job of figuring out if the invention is obvious to someone with ordinary skill in the art.
It sure hurts to take Microsoft's side on an issue but sometimes they are right!
Very often protectionism works to help a domestic industry reach critical mass. I know this runs counter to current economic theology. But there are examples.
One example documented in Michael Pollan's book The Botany of Desire is the U. S. marijuana industry. U. S. grown pot used to be of rather poor quality. Law enforcement cut off the supply from foreign competators. Under this unintentional protectionist program, U. S. grown pot became some of the best in the world.
Alternatives to the Microsoft desktop will reach critical mass a lot faster with some protectionism. Short term, the people in the Chinese goverment will be using software they find unfamiliar, and a little harder to configure, and perhaps a bit awkward to use. But this shall pass. They are obviously willing to take short term hit to come out ahead in the long run.
Use the browser based CUPs configurator.
The I ran into this when I had to get my daughters iBook to use a printer on a Windows box. I found instructions on the web to point a web browser on the OS X to the loopback CUPs address - http://127.0.0.1:631.
I had a SuSE box that I could not get to print to the Windows box. Yast was FUBAR for this. I followed the instructions ( loosely ) written for the OS X on the Linux box and it worked!
Imagine Microsoft's surprise when an Open Source developer sends them a copy of their source tree for Win2k and NTFS has been completely replaced by ext3
The group the lawyer is in charge of is a lobbying group, not one that will be making any of the decisions.
Lobbyists pay the money. Politicians need the money to buy ads to get elected. The aliterate electorate then votes for these corrupt bozos. So lobbyists do make the decisions.
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What is his wife's bra size? Inquiring minds want to know!
Let us consider what is good for shareholders. Firt the shareholders require transparency in accounting. It is in the interest of to accurately report when their stock is getting diluted.
Barret does not want to expense stock options. Not expensing stock options is just one way Barret does not want to meet the needs of shareholder.
This desire to meet the needs of the shareholders seems a bit selective.
Microsoft would rather have the battle on Sun's turf- even if that means keeping Sun alive! I think the two will fight open source with patents.
Sun and Microsoft could have partitioned the 1.6 Billion in any way they saw fit. They put the bulk of into into Licensing patents. Not so much for damages from violating anti trust law. They are saying this: We think IP is important, antiTrust law is not important.
Will these boxen be at the store or will they just be mail order?
I think most people know in their heart of hearts that Microsoft is a criminal enterprise. Most people know their software is mediocre. But it is the "standard". Microsoft frees people from the pain of choice.
This is why Microsoft will dominate the desktop for a long time. If they keep their software quality at least sort of OK, and do not squeeze their customers too hard, they will keep the dekstop. It does not matter how good the alternatives are.
But the Intel list of WiFi spots were spots with a bit too much business model. The ones at StarBucks are on the list. You have to pay money to use them. I assume you have to install some more software too. Just what our computers need -- more junk software on the TCP/IP stack. And the pay as you go WiFi spots were not really making money. Providing the WiFi is cheap. But the overhead of collecting money and preventing freeloaders was costing more than it was worth.
It looked like AMD had a brilliant counter to this campaign. Help the independent shops set up "free" WiFi. But AMD snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Instead of helping people set up spots, they are just taking credit for existing spots.
"There are two meanings to software design," he explained on Tuesday. "One is, designing the artifact we're trying to implement. The other is the sheer software engineering to make that artifact come into being. I believe these are two separate roles -- the subject matter expert and the software engineer." Giving the former group tools to shape software will transform the landscape, according to Simonyi. Otherwise, you're stuck in the unsatisfactory present, where the people who know the most about what the software is supposed to accomplish can't directly shape the software itself: All they can do is "make a humble request to the programmer."
I work on a project where real time control software is written by software artists who only know software. Getting them to meet the needs of the project is like pulling teeth. They do not understand the needs of real time control software. If others beg and negotiate a lot they can get some of what they need.
Getting this project to work has been excruciatingly slow and frustrating.
But this is beautifull code. It is the easiest to read code I have ever seen. It is the best organised code I have seen. But the performance ot what the code does is rather poor.
I used to work in a very competative industry. The hardware control engineers would write the control code. We would gets things functioning quicky. The code would really meet the needs of the project.
But it was butt ugly code!
Is there some way to get what the projects need and get readable well organised code too?
This image of Gates liberating source code print outs from dumpsters made the whole artlicle worth reading.
Where is the law enforcement here. This guy commits blatant fraud for years. But the law enforcement folks have not made it out of the donut shop.
If Microsoft designed my car radio/CD player would be essential part of my car! If I remove the radio, the engine would not run.
To be fair the support costs are higher for some versions of Windows. I would expect that to show up in the price.
SuSE charges a lot more for the server edition than for the home versions. The level of support is a lot lot higher too.
Redhat had similar pricing back in the days they sold a home version.
Thank you very much!
They talk about a "photon vacuum" but all is see is an information vacuum and a product vacuum. There is no there there.
Helvick,
I am trying to find out if SP2 breaks. interpeters like Java and Python. They generate object code on the fly.
Does Java work in Firefox?
Does Python work?
You can downlog the python interpeter from this site.
Java
Python
perl
Visual Basic?
It sure hurts to take Microsoft's side on an issue but sometimes they are right!
One example documented in Michael Pollan's book The Botany of Desire is the U. S. marijuana industry. U. S. grown pot used to be of rather poor quality. Law enforcement cut off the supply from foreign competators. Under this unintentional protectionist program, U. S. grown pot became some of the best in the world.
Alternatives to the Microsoft desktop will reach critical mass a lot faster with some protectionism. Short term, the people in the Chinese goverment will be using software they find unfamiliar, and a little harder to configure, and perhaps a bit awkward to use. But this shall pass. They are obviously willing to take short term hit to come out ahead in the long run.
The I ran into this when I had to get my daughters iBook to use a printer on a Windows box. I found instructions on the web to point a web browser on the OS X to the loopback CUPs address - http://127.0.0.1:631
I had a SuSE box that I could not get to print to the Windows box. Yast was FUBAR for this. I followed the instructions ( loosely ) written for the OS X on the Linux box and it worked!
Farmer who lives close to power line makes some big coils to nab some of the energy in the air around his house.
Power company: You are stealing our power. Stop.
Farmer: What are your E fields and H fields doing on my property. Get them off or let me use them as I see fit.
This could turn into quite a pissing contest!
Maybe Microsoft wants us to copy the code. That way Open Source stuff will be as fucked as Microsoft code!
Or better yet-- ReiserFS!
sudo apt-get instal kpilot
Perhaps the physicists just do not believe in the God they hear about in a typical church service. Religions attach a lot of sectarian baggage to God.
Lobbyists pay the money. Politicians need the money to buy ads to get elected. The aliterate electorate then votes for these corrupt bozos. So lobbyists do make the decisions.
( aliterate is a word! )
At the very least we are allowed to make as many copies as the copyright holder says we can make!