one should equate it to the masses in front of the guillotine back in 18th century. it is not wise, to keep ignoring their will, despite they having started to openly express it and become aggressive over it. last batch to do that, had their heads in a bucket.
21% of peak Internet traffic in North America is a Netflix stream.
For just once, can someone design a trojan/worm that updates browsers to include useful addons like this instead of trying to steal banking information? Just sayin'.
Tell me how you quarantee an innocent and useful payload.
Tell me why geek the who unleashes a trojan has won the right to decide how users should manage their systems.
I had better graphics playing Neuromancer on the C64 than windows managed for a decade
What you didn't have - until the C-128 - was a decent keyboard and an 80 column display. What you didn't have was an upgrade path for C-64 video and sound.
You can stand up to Microsoft, but only through co-operation, quality and reliability. Make sure that whatever you develop is to an internationally agreed standard that literally leaves no bit unspecified (even in an API function call).
That standards committee takes eternity and a day to come to a decision.
Which will, most likely - in the end - ratify existing practices, while tossing a bone or two to every significant faction. The Engineer. The Corporation. The Nationalist. The Ideologue, and so on.
The Kinect controller hits retail shelves just weeks before Christmas. 20% of prime time Internet traffic becomes a Netflix stream. Dwarfing YouTube, BitTorrent. Everything. 500 million people sign on to Facebook - before the geek is aware he has taken a punch to the gut.
MS Office pricing for the NGO is not US retail list.
Staffing an office with workers trained in MS Office is trivially easy anywhere south of the Artic Circle.
Including full and part time staff and volunteers.
Minorities, seniors, veterans, the disabled, and so on.
Successful recruitment among these groups can be essential to an NGO's mission, reputation and financing.
The small NGO is almost certainly not a business school. It will, however, be competing for the business school graduate. The graduate trained in MS Office.
MS Office skills are marketable.
The probability that the NGO's correspondents work exclusively in Office is high.
The prosecution will show great potential for loss of revenue (requiring only a "rational basis" for skirting due process...
The "prosecution" doesn't have to show "loss of revenue." It doesn't have to show that the infringer has a profit motive. NET [No Electronic Theft] Act
It only has to show that is acting to protect a federally granted property right.
Windows didn't dominate because of random events. It piggy-backed on the popularity of the hardware, specifically the IBM PC. When the PC won, so too did MS-DOS and its overlay called windows. If the PC had died, so too would have DOS and windows.
The MS-DOS PC was a commercially viable product before the cloning of the PC BIOS.
MS-DOS cost $40. CP/M-86 $240.
Both offered a clear upgrade path from CP/M for both the developer and the user. Both were equally well defined as 16 bit "office machines."
An MIT student works out an interesting way to merge Kinetic with existing technologies for the benefit of users.
Like this technology isn't going to be commercialized for Microsoft's benefit and others.
OLPC also emerged from MIT. 1.5 million units distributed. The winner in that round? XP on the Netbook. The "walled garden" of the iOS. Google and AdSense. The "open source" product whose sole commercial purpose is to sell the buyer to the advertiser.
The non-MSFT-beholden vendors (e.g. System76 and ZaReason) still have Linux netbooks, notebooks, desktops, and workstations. Oddly, given economies of scale, in much, much wider variety than the big, MSFT-beholden vendors
This is the holiday line-up at Walmart.com: [Nov 17 12:30 PM]
251 Windows laptops 108 Windows desktops 121 Windows Printers 96 Webcams 734 flavors of the Windows keyboard, mouse and joystick.
None of this is high end: 111 laptops at $500-$750.
But even before I got internet I rarely used the white pages.
There remains a substantial minority of people who have opted-out of the life online.
In the latest report, the Commerce Department found that 23 percent of Americans don't use the Internet at all. An additional 8 percent use the Internet, but not at home. And 5 percent of Americans have only dial-up access at home. Some of the demographic and regional breakdowns showed even starker differences. While 91.5 percent of American households with more than $75,000 in annual income had broadband Internet access at home, just 35.8 percent of households with less than $25,000 in income did.
Similarly, among households where the head of household has a college degree or higher, 84.5 percent have broadband access. Among households where the head of household doesn't have a high school diploma, just 28.8 percent have broadband access. Among those who don't have broadband at home, the top reason was lack of interest, cited by 38 percent of those households. Others said they had no need or that broadband was too expensive, while still others said they didn't have a computer or that their computer was inadequate for accessing broadband.
Among urban households, 65.9 percent had broadband Internet access in 2009, up from 10.5 percent in 2001. By contrast, only 51 percent of rural households had broadband access last year, up from 3.8 percent in 2001. The Western region of the country had the highest rate of broadband adoption at 68 percent, while the South was the lowest with 60 percent. California's relative ranking among states fell from 2001, when it ranked No. 4 with 13 percent of households having broadband at home. Last year, California ranked 14th, with 68 percent of households having broadband access
To your question of "Why?" here's the answer: it helps our business. We have many potential clients who run MS IT infrastructures. If we have this certification that greatly increases the confidence in SilverStripe in the eyes of...these organizations. We did not make this decision lightly. We thought a lot about how this would be perceived in the open source community.
I can't help but think about how sad a commentary this makes about the open source "community."
this is why I hate not being able to just walk into a high street shop and buy a computer pre-loaded with Linux or with no OS pre-loaded at all... far too many sales that end up with the OS being wiped to replace with Linux or else reversion rights being exercised to install XP are being counted as Windows 7 sales...
This is the geek in Fantasyland.
The webstat counts users not licensees - and it doesn't much matter whether you look at Net Applications, StatCounter or W3Schools. Win 7 took about a 20 to 25% market share in less than one year.
In the strongholds of FOSS, Win 7 is performing very, very, well against Linux. Germany
Bare bones sells to the hobbyist and the IT pro. The OEM PC as home appliance or office machine is sold under a warranty and will - at least ideally - arrive properly configured for respectable performance based on its price point and intended use.
If it doesn't, it goes back.
That is the middle class shopper's level of comfort in all things.
Walmart.com has 231 Windows laptops in stock for the holidays, 99 Windows desktops.
118 Windows printers, 80 webcams, 727 flavors of the Windows mouse, keyboard and joystick and about 1,000 retail boxed Windows software packages, equally divided between productivity apps and games.
Retailers love a product which can deliver such extraordinary after-market sales.
Its a very hard market failure to correct however, because actually breaking up Microsoft and Apple would cripple computing for 5-10 years. Kind of like At&t. In a decade we would all be better off, but in the short term it would be rough
The Baby Bells independence was short-lived - what followed was wave after wave of consolidation. What we lost was Bell Labs and Western Electric.
Seeing as libreoffice is just a fork of openoffice (they're probably almost identical in code right now), you can probably rely on it just as much as openoffice now, and possibly even more in the future.
The LibreOffice website is itself a work in progress.
There are no links to external resources of any kind: Templates, tutorials, clip art and so on.
Office.com does this sort of thing very, very well - and I don't think the geek has ever quite understood the importance of getting this right.
"This beta release is not intended for production use!"
The Windows build is an International build - you can choose the user interface language that is suitable for you, but the help is always English. The Linux and MacOSX builds are English builds with the possibility to install language packs.LibreOffice Productivity Suite"
When traveling this holiday season, opt out of any porn scanners.
The weather is threating to close down O'Hare. The delays in Atlanta are already a misery. You have a chance to board one of the last flights out. You will take it - and the faster you can flit though the scanners the better.
Trust me on this.
You do not want to be the geek who screws things up.
You, really, really, don't want to be the geek who draws his kids into stunts like this. The kids will - in all innocence - rat you out. To the TSA. Fox News and CNN.
It's the lock-up for you and Protective Services for them.
The geek has a genius for putting names to his projects that are certain to raise red flags.
The Gimp carries baggage into the OSX and Windows shop that the charity providing services for the disabled does not need or want. Fedora and Red Hat need to maintain their credibility in the enterprise environment.
Time and money spent in explanation and recovery - PR - can always be put to better uses.
H.264's patent licensing fees make it a dealbreaker for law-abiding indies, open source advocates and small hardware makers who don't want to pay. WebM is free
It wasn't a deal breaker for Canonical and its OEM partners.
This is big-league ball:
There are about 30 H.264 licensors and 900 licensees. These include global giants in manufacturing:
Fujitsu. JVC. Mitsubishi. NTT. Panasonic. Philips. Samsung. Sony. Toshiba... Theatrical production. Home video. Broadcast, cable and satellite distribution. Mobile. Industrial, security and military video. The list goes on and on and on. The Asian presence is particularly formidable.
I don't know how - much less why - the small hardware maker builds or buys an encoder/decoder that doesn't include H.264 support. The maximum fee is 20 cents a unit - and the first 100,000 units you produce each year are royalty free.
20% of "prime time" Internet traffic is a Netflix stream.
Think about that. 20% of traffic and not a single click for AdSense. Every file a legit subscription download.
That says a lot about the changing face of the Internet.
The Netflix customer only needs a browser to search and select from the online catalog. The player - and the browser - can be built into his HDTV, his video game console, Blu-Ray player or set-top box.
He doesn't need Firefox. He doesn't need FOSS.
If FOSS software is being used in the client, it will be for - all practical purposees - invisible.
I see this as an opportunity to bring up the topic of migrating the majority of our office from Windows 7 to Linux and from Exchange to Gmail. However, this would result in three departments each running a different system: Windows, OS X, and most likely Fedora.
You expect stiff resistance ahead from sales, management, and marketing.
Which means that the only driving force behind Linux in your shop is you. The one-man band in IT.
Mac users may only be 10-20% of the overall market (depending on which stats you use), but they're far more likely to buy YOUR game title you release for OS X than the typical Windows user is! They've got far less to choose from AND they tend to be more affluent and willing to pay for software
The port to the Mac does not come free. Marketing your Mac product does not come free. Supporting your Mac product does not come free. Reaching out for that last ten percent of the market is often a mistake.
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one should equate it to the masses in front of the guillotine back in 18th century. it is not wise, to keep ignoring their will, despite they having started to openly express it and become aggressive over it. last batch to do that, had their heads in a bucket.
21% of peak Internet traffic in North America is a Netflix stream.
YouTube Video 10% Flash Video 6%. Everything BitTorrent, 10%. Video's Expanding Bandwidth, and What It Means for Internet Traffic [Nov 19]
Netflix reached those numbers with only a bare 2% of it's 15 million paying subscribers streaming video.
300,000.
That would put the number of prime time video pirates at less than 30,000.
Jamie Thomas took her case before three civil juries. Each one of which handed her head back to her on a plate.
It seems that nothing pisses off the masses quite like the geek's sense of entitlement.
For just once, can someone design a trojan/worm that updates browsers to include useful addons like this instead of trying to steal banking information? Just sayin'.
Tell me how you quarantee an innocent and useful payload.
Tell me why geek the who unleashes a trojan has won the right to decide how users should manage their systems.
I had better graphics playing Neuromancer on the C64 than windows managed for a decade
What you didn't have - until the C-128 - was a decent keyboard and an 80 column display. What you didn't have was an upgrade path for C-64 video and sound.
You can stand up to Microsoft, but only through co-operation, quality and reliability. Make sure that whatever you develop is to an internationally agreed standard that literally leaves no bit unspecified (even in an API function call).
That standards committee takes eternity and a day to come to a decision.
Which will, most likely - in the end - ratify existing practices, while tossing a bone or two to every significant faction. The Engineer. The Corporation. The Nationalist. The Ideologue, and so on.
The Kinect controller hits retail shelves just weeks before Christmas. 20% of prime time Internet traffic becomes a Netflix stream. Dwarfing YouTube, BitTorrent. Everything. 500 million people sign on to Facebook - before the geek is aware he has taken a punch to the gut.
Remember...He didn't even have DOS when he sold it to IBM.
What Gates had was a full suite of programming languages ready to port to the new micro.
What Gates had was the guts to promise delivery of a serviceable 16 bit CP/M clone in time for the scheduled launch of the IBM PC.
These were the words IBM needed to hear.
What Gates had was the smarts to negotiate a non-exclusive license for DOS -
which would sell for $200 less than CP/M 86.
$467 less, adjusted for inflation. The Inflation Calculator
MS-DOS would be the commodity OS.
That alone permanently altered the landscape.
The MS-DOS PC was an unquestionably viable commercial product before the cloning of the PC BIOS.
MS Office pricing for the NGO is not US retail list.
Staffing an office with workers trained in MS Office is trivially easy anywhere south of the Artic Circle.
Including full and part time staff and volunteers.
Minorities, seniors, veterans, the disabled, and so on.
Successful recruitment among these groups can be essential to an NGO's mission, reputation and financing.
The small NGO is almost certainly not a business school. It will, however, be competing for the business school graduate. The graduate trained in MS Office.
MS Office skills are marketable.
The probability that the NGO's correspondents work exclusively in Office is high.
no, but it's a reason why your insurance claim won't be paid.
In searching Google, I found many anecdotes about thefts from unlocked cars.
But an authoritative source confirming that a claim for theft could be denied because the door to your house was unlocked?
Not one.
this same technology was a key plot point in the movie AntiTrust, which came out in 2001.
Fiction doesn't count.
The majority of the population does NOT want to see this pass, yet it made it through the Senate with NO opposition?
I'm curious what makes you so certain you know what the majority wants.
The next Congress will likely prove as conservative and Republican as any we have seen since the fifties.
The prosecution will show great potential for loss of revenue (requiring only a "rational basis" for skirting due process...
The "prosecution" doesn't have to show "loss of revenue." It doesn't have to show that the infringer has a profit motive. NET [No Electronic Theft] Act
It only has to show that is acting to protect a federally granted property right.
Windows didn't dominate because of random events. It piggy-backed on the popularity of the hardware, specifically the IBM PC. When the PC won, so too did MS-DOS and its overlay called windows. If the PC had died, so too would have DOS and windows.
The MS-DOS PC was a commercially viable product before the cloning of the PC BIOS.
MS-DOS cost $40. CP/M-86 $240.
Both offered a clear upgrade path from CP/M for both the developer and the user. Both were equally well defined as 16 bit "office machines."
Seperate "professional" keyboard - console - 80 column monitor.
If you can think of a plausible competitor in the North American market in 1981, be my guest.
An MIT student works out an interesting way to merge Kinetic with existing technologies for the benefit of users.
Like this technology isn't going to be commercialized for Microsoft's benefit and others.
OLPC also emerged from MIT. 1.5 million units distributed. The winner in that round? XP on the Netbook. The "walled garden" of the iOS. Google and AdSense. The "open source" product whose sole commercial purpose is to sell the buyer to the advertiser.
The powers that be want Assange captured and made an example of.
Assange seems quite capable of self-destruction.
It wouldn't be the first time that the geek has thought himself invincible - somehow above the law.
The non-MSFT-beholden vendors (e.g. System76 and ZaReason) still have Linux netbooks, notebooks, desktops, and workstations. Oddly, given economies of scale, in much, much wider variety than the big, MSFT-beholden vendors
This is the holiday line-up at Walmart.com: [Nov 17 12:30 PM]
251 Windows laptops
108 Windows desktops
121 Windows Printers
96 Webcams
734 flavors of the Windows keyboard, mouse and joystick.
None of this is high end: 111 laptops at $500-$750.
Top of the line at $1800:
The desktop replacement Toshiba Omega Black 18.4" Qosmio X505-Q898 Laptop PC with Intel Core i7-740QM Processor, Blu-ray Disc Drive, Windows 7 Home Premium 4 GB RAM. 64 GB SSD. 500 GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M with 1.5GB GDDR5 RAM.
The geek is quaranteed to choke on the software bundle - everything Win-PC from Chrome to Skype.
But even before I got internet I rarely used the white pages.
There remains a substantial minority of people who have opted-out of the life online.
In the latest report, the Commerce Department found that 23 percent of Americans don't use the Internet at all. An additional 8 percent use the Internet, but not at home. And 5 percent of Americans have only dial-up access at home.
Some of the demographic and regional breakdowns showed even starker differences. While 91.5 percent of American households with more than $75,000 in annual income had broadband Internet access at home, just 35.8 percent of households with less than $25,000 in income did.
Similarly, among households where the head of household has a college degree or higher, 84.5 percent have broadband access. Among households where the head of household doesn't have a high school diploma, just 28.8 percent have broadband access.
Among those who don't have broadband at home, the top reason was lack of interest, cited by 38 percent of those households. Others said they had no need or that broadband was too expensive, while still others said they didn't have a computer or that their computer was inadequate for accessing broadband.
Among urban households, 65.9 percent had broadband Internet access in 2009, up from 10.5 percent in 2001. By contrast, only 51 percent of rural households had broadband access last year, up from 3.8 percent in 2001. The Western region of the country had the highest rate of broadband adoption at 68 percent, while the South was the lowest with 60 percent.
California's relative ranking among states fell from 2001, when it ranked No. 4 with 13 percent of households having broadband at home. Last year, California ranked 14th, with 68 percent of households having broadband access
More Americans have broadband but 'digital divides' remain [Nov. 9]
To your question of "Why?" here's the answer: it helps our business. We have many potential clients who run MS IT infrastructures. If we have this certification that greatly increases the confidence in SilverStripe in the eyes of ...these organizations. We did not make this decision lightly. We thought a lot about how this would be perceived in the open source community.
I can't help but think about how sad a commentary this makes about the open source "community."
this is why I hate not being able to just walk into a high street shop and buy a computer pre-loaded with Linux or with no OS pre-loaded at all...
far too many sales that end up with the OS being wiped to replace with Linux or else reversion rights being exercised to install XP are being counted as Windows 7 sales...
This is the geek in Fantasyland.
The webstat counts users not licensees - and it doesn't much matter whether you look at Net Applications, StatCounter or W3Schools. Win 7 took about a 20 to 25% market share in less than one year.
In the strongholds of FOSS, Win 7 is performing very, very, well against Linux. Germany
Bare bones sells to the hobbyist and the IT pro. The OEM PC as home appliance or office machine is sold under a warranty and will - at least ideally - arrive properly configured for respectable performance based on its price point and intended use.
If it doesn't, it goes back.
That is the middle class shopper's level of comfort in all things.
Walmart.com has 231 Windows laptops in stock for the holidays, 99 Windows desktops.
118 Windows printers, 80 webcams, 727 flavors of the Windows mouse, keyboard and joystick and about 1,000 retail boxed Windows software packages, equally divided between productivity apps and games.
Retailers love a product which can deliver such extraordinary after-market sales.
Its a very hard market failure to correct however, because actually breaking up Microsoft and Apple would cripple computing for 5-10 years. Kind of like At&t. In a decade we would all be better off, but in the short term it would be rough
The Baby Bells independence was short-lived - what followed was wave after wave of consolidation. What we lost was Bell Labs and Western Electric.
Seeing as libreoffice is just a fork of openoffice (they're probably almost identical in code right now), you can probably rely on it just as much as openoffice now, and possibly even more in the future.
The LibreOffice website is itself a work in progress.
There are no links to external resources of any kind: Templates, tutorials, clip art and so on.
Office.com does this sort of thing very, very well - and I don't think the geek has ever quite understood the importance of getting this right.
"This beta release is not intended for production use!"
The Windows build is an International build - you can choose the user interface language that is suitable for you, but the help is always English. The Linux and MacOSX builds are English builds with the possibility to install language packs. LibreOffice Productivity Suite"
When traveling this holiday season, opt out of any porn scanners.
The weather is threating to close down O'Hare. The delays in Atlanta are already a misery. You have a chance to board one of the last flights out. You will take it - and the faster you can flit though the scanners the better.
Trust me on this.
You do not want to be the geek who screws things up.
You, really, really, don't want to be the geek who draws his kids into stunts like this. The kids will - in all innocence - rat you out. To the TSA. Fox News and CNN.
It's the lock-up for you and Protective Services for them.
The holiday traveller is focused on one thing only - making it home on time.
The geek and his causes are no more welcome an obstruction than the Hare Krishna.
"SQLNinja, jack-the-ripper, metasploit."
The geek has a genius for putting names to his projects that are certain to raise red flags.
The Gimp carries baggage into the OSX and Windows shop that the charity providing services for the disabled does not need or want. Fedora and Red Hat need to maintain their credibility in the enterprise environment.
Time and money spent in explanation and recovery - PR - can always be put to better uses.
H.264's patent licensing fees make it a dealbreaker for law-abiding indies, open source advocates and small hardware makers who don't want to pay.
WebM is free
It wasn't a deal breaker for Canonical and its OEM partners.
This is big-league ball:
There are about 30 H.264 licensors and 900 licensees. These include global giants in manufacturing:
Fujitsu. JVC. Mitsubishi. NTT. Panasonic. Philips. Samsung. Sony. Toshiba... Theatrical production. Home video. Broadcast, cable and satellite distribution. Mobile. Industrial, security and military video. The list goes on and on and on. The Asian presence is particularly formidable.
I don't know how - much less why - the small hardware maker builds or buys an encoder/decoder that doesn't include H.264 support. The maximum fee is 20 cents a unit - and the first 100,000 units you produce each year are royalty free.
20% of "prime time" Internet traffic is a Netflix stream.
Think about that. 20% of traffic and not a single click for AdSense. Every file a legit subscription download.
That says a lot about the changing face of the Internet.
The Netflix customer only needs a browser to search and select from the online catalog. The player - and the browser - can be built into his HDTV, his video game console, Blu-Ray player or set-top box.
He doesn't need Firefox. He doesn't need FOSS.
If FOSS software is being used in the client, it will be for - all practical purposees - invisible.
I see this as an opportunity to bring up the topic of migrating the majority of our office from Windows 7 to Linux and from Exchange to Gmail. However, this would result in three departments each running a different system: Windows, OS X, and most likely Fedora.
You expect stiff resistance ahead from sales, management, and marketing.
Which means that the only driving force behind Linux in your shop is you. The one-man band in IT.
Mac users may only be 10-20% of the overall market (depending on which stats you use), but they're far more likely to buy YOUR game title you release for OS X than the typical Windows user is! They've got far less to choose from AND they tend to be more affluent and willing to pay for software
The port to the Mac does not come free. Marketing your Mac product does not come free. Supporting your Mac product does not come free. Reaching out for that last ten percent of the market is often a mistake.