I agree here. Does the algorithm do everything on its own and the programmer's bosses have no input? I'll bet the software is a very small piece of the money-making picture.
The money-making begins with money.
Think about it.
How much would you need to have in the market to clear $100,000 a day in instant trades?
The money-making also begins with accountability.
Who gets the ax - and who takes the loss - when a flaw in your algorithm puts a trader five or ten million down at the end of the day - and there are five to ten traders on the floor using your program?
>i>I refuse to own any HD-enabled TVs & etc. HD is simply the shiny bauble to get people to adopt a system that is controlled by those other than the consumer purchasers of the equipment in order to plug the "analog hole"
Then I'd say that you have a problem. Because Walmart has nothing but HDTV to sell you.
People like my brother who would rather spend $70/month to have a Comcast technician install his television, rather than do the setup himself and get TV for free (via antenna)
The antenna - done right - implies climbing to the peak of your roof. UHF reception - three to five strong signals. Maybe. Unless you willing to spend some serious time and money on a project like this, you are going to be disappointed.
I was at a Bank of America ATM in NC not long ago and could not use it. It had a large Windows XP error dialog covering the whole screen. I really don't feel confident about even having a debit card with them.
Would you feel more confident with an ATM that didn't post an error dialog?
Well let's travel backward in time to when Facebook was starting. Now let's rephrase your statement
It's not all unusual for the first entrant in a new market to fall by the wayside. But it becomes much - much - harder to overtake the mass market leader when you are third in line. Case in point: Linux on the desktop.
Anyway, Auntie says that HMRC have siezed 165,000 of these things, that's a sizeable market. Hopefully pissing off that many ordinary consumers of Nintendo products (don't forget, all those people will have bought DSs) will hopefully hit them where it hurts.
Or not.
According to GfK-ChartTrack data for sales up to June 27th, 2009, DS enjoys the biggest installed base with 9.1 million, up 2.7 million from the same period a year before. In addition, 300,000 DSi consoles have been sold since launch. Wii follows on 5.4 million - up 2.3 million on its installed base in June 2008. Elsewhere, Xbox 360 enjoys a 3.9 million installed base - up 1.7 million in the last 12 months. PS3 sits on 2.2 million - up 900,000 units from June last year.UK console installed base tops 24m
That would put the market for HMRC at 2% of DS players in 2009 and probably more like 1% in 2010 - and it is a market that Nintendo has no interest in serving.
If I pay you to put a new roof on my house, I pay you once for a few days' work, at until I need you to come back in fifteen or twenty years to do it again.
You are talking about work for hire - work you commissioned.
You are talking about work that adds substantially to the market value to your house - that yields an "unearned" return beyond the value of his labor.
In Germany the authors of artistic images created an organisation defending their rights. They bill the companies - and if they do not part with their brass, sue.
In union there is strength.
This is how Victor Herbert, John Philips Sousa, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern approached a similar problem in 1914 with the formation of ASCAP.
ASCAP won an early and important victory in the Supreme Court - and the legal and institutional framework for licensing public performance rights has changed little in 96 years.
If the majority of Americans ignore a law, then that law is wrong.
How many phones are actually "jailbroken?"
I doubt the numbers keep anyone at AT&T or Apple awake at night. The same can probably be said about the full litany of complaints the geek has about DRM.
It's far too easy to become convinced that you are in the majority, when all you really have is a chance to gripe on a forum like Slashdot.
What puzzles me is why the scammers don't download onto their "customer"'s machine one of the open-source, free antivirus programs.
You really, really, don't want this to happen.
Because the scammer can now trade on the reputation of the legitimate open-source AV or he can release malicious code into the wild that - to the user - will look exactly like the legitimate package.
then anyone who didn;t like the "selling out" (possibly because they didn't get made an offer) could just fork the last non-commercial version and continue down their own particular road.
How far are you going to get on your own?
Forking a project the size of The GIMP is not a trivial problem.
Particularly if your A-list contributers are looking at full-time employment, profit-sharing and benefits from Oracle - and eight and nine figure budgets for their next big enterprise project.
Idealism is wonderful, but it doesn't pay the rent.
it would cause a ripple for a while, like it has with MySQL, but trust me, in time - we'll have found another FOSS solution. The same thing would happen elsewhere.
I wonder.
How many FOSS office suites have the - alleged - maturity of OpenOffice.org?
I believe Sun spent around $200 million on Star Office before open-sourcing OpenOffice - which remains an essentially in-house project to this day - and still second-tier, however much the geek would like to pretend otherwise.
Oracle's core competence is enterprise-grade applications. Not an easy thing to master.
Do you really want to have a corporation that you have absolutely no control over to be in control of a device that sustains your very life?
It can't be any other way.
The development, testing, and licensing of the device could cost ten million dollars, a hundred million. There is no upper limit - and any company taking over the production and distribution of the device is going to see costs on the same scale.
There simply aren't very many companies with the strength and experience to do that.
He and his staff take on some personal risks of reprisals
His sources take the risk of reprisal.
He and his staff take the risk of surveillance and infiltration. The leak from within Wikileaks.
The structure is no longer safe and it collapses, burying you in the rubble.
Wikileaks is - let us say - selective.
It's generally adolescent to imagine that you might be a target for a high-profile CIA assassination. But it takes guts to cross the Saudis, the Israelis, Iran, or the Taliban itself. They have no line of retreat.
Image counts for less than survival. The object lesson is useful.
Office:It's way to late, given that OOo doesn't require re-training and Office 2007 (or whichever) does.
Microsoft sells MS Office as part of an integrated office system that scales to a business of any size.
Microsoft's dominance in this sector can not be wished away. Microsoft's share of the enterprise market alone is, as the NY Times blog I quoted earlier reminds us, is as big as Oracle's itself.
MS Office for the PC and the Mac top the software sales charts for the PC and the Mac at Amazon.com - and there is not a single game in the top 100 list.
In the mass market, Grand Theft Auto is worth less than pocket change - the sweepings under your couch - when compared to the MS Office franchise.
Microsoft's fourth quarter profits were $4.52 billion dollars, up 48% from the same period last year.
This, in most circles, would be considered good news.
Lost from view is what arguably is Microsoft's very best story -- its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations, what the trade calls selling to "the enterprise."
Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle. But despite that astounding growth, Microsoft must accept that, fair or not, victories on the enterprise side draw about as much attention as being the No. 1 wholesale seller of plumbing supplies. Microsoft won't receive the adoring attention that its chief rival draws with products like the iPad.Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem
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I agree here. Does the algorithm do everything on its own and the programmer's bosses have no input? I'll bet the software is a very small piece of the money-making picture.
The money-making begins with money.
Think about it.
How much would you need to have in the market to clear $100,000 a day in instant trades?
The money-making also begins with accountability.
Who gets the ax - and who takes the loss - when a flaw in your algorithm puts a trader five or ten million down at the end of the day - and there are five to ten traders on the floor using your program?
These days, I see nothing pushing Silverlight at all!
With the possible exception of Netflix...
Symbian...Microsoft's Flash challenger Silverlight hits Symbian
and porn. AEBN's Silverlight Player Gains Traction with Users
>i>I refuse to own any HD-enabled TVs & etc. HD is simply the shiny bauble to get people to adopt a system that is controlled by those other than the consumer purchasers of the equipment in order to plug the "analog hole"
Then I'd say that you have a problem. Because Walmart has nothing but HDTV to sell you.
Insulting people is not going to get you anywhere.
I'll remember that the next time I see a Borg icon, a rotten Apple, or a stained glass Window.
You get piles of stuff for free with any Ubuntu distro
Piles of something, anyway.
I don't mean to sound unkind, but Ubuntu's games have an early 90's freeware-shareware look to them.
In fact in today technological society there are already more people reading more from screens of some kind, than from paper.
Facts like these could stand a little batter anchorage.
Teletext exists since ages and nobody complains about it being unreadable.
They might, if all they had to go on were the screen shots in the Wikipedia. Teletext
People like my brother who would rather spend $70/month to have a Comcast technician install his television, rather than do the setup himself and get TV for free (via antenna)
The antenna - done right - implies climbing to the peak of your roof. UHF reception - three to five strong signals. Maybe. Unless you willing to spend some serious time and money on a project like this, you are going to be disappointed.
I was at a Bank of America ATM in NC not long ago and could not use it. It had a large Windows XP error dialog covering the whole screen. I really don't feel confident about even having a debit card with them.
Would you feel more confident with an ATM that didn't post an error dialog?
Well let's travel backward in time to when Facebook was starting. Now let's rephrase your statement
It's not all unusual for the first entrant in a new market to fall by the wayside. But it becomes much - much - harder to overtake the mass market leader when you are third in line. Case in point: Linux on the desktop.
Anyway, Auntie says that HMRC have siezed 165,000 of these things, that's a sizeable market. Hopefully pissing off that many ordinary consumers of Nintendo products (don't forget, all those people will have bought DSs) will hopefully hit them where it hurts.
Or not.
According to GfK-ChartTrack data for sales up to June 27th, 2009, DS enjoys the biggest installed base with 9.1 million, up 2.7 million from the same period a year before. In addition, 300,000 DSi consoles have been sold since launch. Wii follows on 5.4 million - up 2.3 million on its installed base in June 2008.
Elsewhere, Xbox 360 enjoys a 3.9 million installed base - up 1.7 million in the last 12 months.
PS3 sits on 2.2 million - up 900,000 units from June last year. UK console installed base tops 24m
That would put the market for HMRC at 2% of DS players in 2009 and probably more like 1% in 2010 - and it is a market that Nintendo has no interest in serving.
You are talking about work for hire - work you commissioned.
You are talking about work that adds substantially to the market value to your house - that yields an "unearned" return beyond the value of his labor.
In Germany the authors of artistic images created an organisation defending their rights.
They bill the companies - and if they do not part with their brass, sue.
In union there is strength.
This is how Victor Herbert, John Philips Sousa, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern approached a similar problem in 1914 with the formation of ASCAP.
ASCAP won an early and important victory in the Supreme Court - and the legal and institutional framework for licensing public performance rights has changed little in 96 years.
How many phones are actually "jailbroken?"
I doubt the numbers keep anyone at AT&T or Apple awake at night. The same can probably be said about the full litany of complaints the geek has about DRM.
It's far too easy to become convinced that you are in the majority, when all you really have is a chance to gripe on a forum like Slashdot.
What puzzles me is why the scammers don't download onto their "customer"'s machine one of the open-source, free antivirus programs.
You really, really, don't want this to happen.
Because the scammer can now trade on the reputation of the legitimate open-source AV
or he can release malicious code into the wild that - to the user - will look exactly like the legitimate package.
Like the SUV driving "soccer mom" who is concerned about the environment and recycles her husband's beer cans but drives a vehicle that gets 7 mpg.
That's a straw man argument. Your own fantasy construct.
What matters is how and where the SUV is being used in the real world.
Which burdens the environment more - the RV or motor home used six weeks out of fifty-two or the commuter car on the road six days out of seven?
Mass-produced by who and at what risk?
The homemade DVR is a pleasant - if geekish - project.
But the father of three kids rents - or more likely buys - the video from Pixar - and that is where the money is.
then anyone who didn;t like the "selling out" (possibly because they didn't get made an offer) could just fork the last non-commercial version and continue down their own particular road.
How far are you going to get on your own?
Forking a project the size of The GIMP is not a trivial problem.
Particularly if your A-list contributers are looking at full-time employment, profit-sharing and benefits from Oracle - and eight and nine figure budgets for their next big enterprise project.
Idealism is wonderful, but it doesn't pay the rent.
it would cause a ripple for a while, like it has with MySQL, but trust me, in time - we'll have found another FOSS solution. The same thing would happen elsewhere.
I wonder.
How many FOSS office suites have the - alleged - maturity of OpenOffice.org?
I believe Sun spent around $200 million on Star Office before open-sourcing OpenOffice - which remains an essentially in-house project to this day - and still second-tier, however much the geek would like to pretend otherwise.
Oracle's core competence is enterprise-grade applications. Not an easy thing to master.
Do you really want to have a corporation that you have absolutely no control over to be in control of a device that sustains your very life?
It can't be any other way.
The development, testing, and licensing of the device could cost ten million dollars, a hundred million. There is no upper limit - and any company taking over the production and distribution of the device is going to see costs on the same scale.
There simply aren't very many companies with the strength and experience to do that.
He and his staff take on some personal risks of reprisals
His sources take the risk of reprisal.
He and his staff take the risk of surveillance and infiltration. The leak from within Wikileaks.
The structure is no longer safe and it collapses, burying you in the rubble.
Wikileaks is - let us say - selective.
It's generally adolescent to imagine that you might be a target for a high-profile CIA assassination. But it takes guts to cross the Saudis, the Israelis, Iran, or the Taliban itself. They have no line of retreat.
Image counts for less than survival. The object lesson is useful.
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They're losing market share quickly though.
In your dreams, kid:
Top Operating System Share Trend, Top Operating System Share Trend
Microsoft sells MS Office as part of an integrated office system that scales to a business of any size.
Microsoft's dominance in this sector can not be wished away. Microsoft's share of the enterprise market alone is, as the NY Times blog I quoted earlier reminds us, is as big as Oracle's itself.
MS Office for the PC and the Mac top the software sales charts for the PC and the Mac at Amazon.com - and there is not a single game in the top 100 list.
In the mass market, Grand Theft Auto is worth less than pocket change - the sweepings under your couch - when compared to the MS Office franchise.
Microsoft's fourth quarter profits were $4.52 billion dollars, up 48% from the same period last year.
This, in most circles, would be considered good news.
Lost from view is what arguably is Microsoft's very best story -- its transformation into a powerhouse supplier of the specialized software that meets the complex needs of large corporations, what the trade calls selling to "the enterprise."
Microsoft's enterprise software business alone is approaching the size of Oracle. But despite that astounding growth, Microsoft must accept that, fair or not, victories on the enterprise side draw about as much attention as being the No. 1 wholesale seller of plumbing supplies. Microsoft won't receive the adoring attention that its chief rival draws with products like the iPad. Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem