An operating system's installed base is not the same as the market share.
Net Applications colllects mass market web stats.
It collects stats on users and systems - the PC, the cell phone, the video game console --- quite literally any device that can link to sites like Amazon, Google and the BBC.
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month. In addition, we classify 430+ referral sources identified as search engines. Aggregate traffic referrals from these engines are summarized and reported monthly. The statistics for search engines include both organic and sponsored referrals. The websites in our population represent dozens of countries in regions including North America, South America, Western Europe, Australia / Pacific Rim and Parts of Asia.About Our Market Share Statistics
For the cruise liner, you have something along the murder-mystery parties, but now it's a spy-theme
The cost of bringing the aging QE2 into compliance with future safety standards sent the liner into premature retirement as a dockside hotel. There are, inevitably, with a military vessel the questions of fuel consumption, manning requirements and so on, endlessly.
No criminal charges, just a civil liabilities. That is what should have happened to Childs, no more no less.
The civil judge can - and will - demand the keys. He will find you in comptenpt. He will put you in jail. For no set term. He just might be able to set the per diem for your stay in the Roach Motel.
I'm sure, at the end of it, Windows 7 will be a massive hog that requires outrageous amounts of RAM and disk space
What can you call "outrageous" these days?
The $920 "refurbished" Vista 64 i7 Studio XPS from Dell ships with 6 GB of RAM, a 750 GB HDD and 512 MB Radeon 4850 graphics.
The generic XP ATOM netbook has a respectable 1 GB RAM, a 160 GB HDD and sells for under $300.
Of course the recession will delay the retirement of many older but still serviceable systems - and that will be as true in the home as in the enterprise.
But it is difficult to see hardware as a barrier to to the adoption of any OS as the market recovers.
That's the whole point, a tear will only affect locally. You, as an individual, simply don't add people you don't trust.
Bill has - or knows how to get - the file you want.
The file hotter than a stove.
What he neglected to tell you is that his source is Chester.
Outside your web of trust.
What Bill hasn't been told is that Chester is being watched by the SPCA. Child Protection. ATF. The FBI. The Episcopal Diocese of New York and perhaps twenty or thirty others.
That Chester's web of trust intersects yours and others at many points.
That Dan and Edgar in Seattle did for Chester what Chester and Bill in Atlanta are about to do for you.
"Six dgrees of separation."
The initial point of failure is obviously the file.
If it were genuinely innocent and private it could be shared with minimum risk through ordinary means. It is the temptation to give it wider distribution that sinks you.
There is precedent now for forcing monopolistic operating systems to add or subtract components. So? That's hardly a the most powerful remedy in anti-trust cases. You should see what they did to Standard Oil.
Petroleum was known as a widow-maker.
You never quite knew what you were buying - or how much.
That gave Rockfeller his opening.
The Standard product was just that - cheap, reliable and safe.
Sold in honest weights and measures.
When the trust was broken - customers stuck with the Standard's regional operating companies, who prospered mightily, as did Rockefeller himself, of course.
They did not defect to the small independents - who soon faded out of the picture, as did the populist reformer.
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Anti-Trust is Populist and Nationalist.
The geek plays with fire when he invokes such forces.
It's quite foolish to assume that anti-trust is the only hook on which the politician can hang his coat.
If the geek had an once of sense he'd put more distance between himself and the EU bureaucrat.
There is precedent now for government to add or subtract - mandate anything it wants from any OS distribution - depending on which way the political winds are blowing.
Obviously, someone didn't look at Dell.com before they posted...
I was looking at sales through the world's largest retailer - and not the direct seller whose promotional pricing schemes change almost literally from day to day, if not hour to hour.
Not that itmatters, really. Because you've simply provided another example that systems based on more or less the same hardware sell for more or less the same price whether the OS is Linux or Windows.
THe "$200 OS on a $300 laptop" remains pure fantasy.
That's great, but aren't there already more people equipped with computer skills than the market needs?
That depends on what you mean by computer skills.
Take a look at the fine print in the help wanted adds. Count how many employers expect you to be productive when working with MS Office.
You can move higher up the food chain and still see adds like this:
Contract Administrator. Minimum 5 years experience. Must have extensive computer skills with speed and accuracy in MS Word, Excel, Access and Outlook. Experience with MS Project or SureTrack is a plus. - Buffalo [NY] News, Feb 22]
You could shoot a nude of a 40 year old women but if you don't have a record of her age then you're guilty of a crime.
but what if you had to continually register your possessions to prove you didn't steal them?
The nude model is not your possession.
The photographer, photo agency or publisher, who can't produce a valid consent form is exposed to both civil and criminal prosecution.
That won't come as headline news to anyone in the business.
And why exactly do we need to send someone to a "remote area" to report on conditions when there are already people in those remote locations who are quite capable of telling the story?
He - or she - may not as effective in telling the story to an American audience.
He or she may have far less mobility - and face far greater risks than the foreigner.
The blatantly political murders of reporters in Russia should be proof enough of that.
It is really quite naive to think that the native reporter is free of corporate or political or religious influence.
Slashdot Mirror
Think again.
Net Applications collects stats for on-line retailers and other clients who don't give a damn about licenses -
but do give a damn about how to get the best possible return from hits to their websites.
Vista really doesn't suck. I say this as an OS X, Linux, and M-Windows user.
The geek has issues with activation.
I think it a safe bet, however, that for the overwhelming majority of XP and Vista users, activation is fire and forget.
That their OEM hardware configuration remains untouched. That they have never found a compelling reason to re-install Windows.
While I realize they're hemorrhaging market share (how sad)
"Hemorrhaging" is GM sales.
It is not Microsoft which has lost 2% of the desktop market - 23% of which now Vista. Operating system market share
An interesting footnote here:
In the Net Applications webstats, Linux at 0.8% has only eight times the share of the Win 7 Beta
- and something less than twice the share of the iPhone.
An operating system's installed base is not the same as the market share.
Net Applications colllects mass market web stats.
It collects stats on users and systems - the PC, the cell phone, the video game console --- quite literally any device that can link to sites like Amazon, Google and the BBC.
We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers. The data is compiled from approximately 160 million visitors per month. In addition, we classify 430+ referral sources identified as search engines. Aggregate traffic referrals from these engines are summarized and reported monthly. The statistics for search engines include both organic and sponsored referrals. The websites in our population represent dozens of countries in regions including North America, South America, Western Europe, Australia / Pacific Rim and Parts of Asia. About Our Market Share Statistics
linux is dangerous because attacking a single vendor is useless and because no single vendor needs to become 'huge' for linux to grow...
The home and SOHO market is looking for a off-the-shelf solution that "just works -" and strong vendor support when it doesn't.
That is a perfectly intelligible decision even when you are working on a much larger scale. It's why you chose Red Hat and Dell:
Dell and Red Hat Alliance
The cost of bringing the aging QE2 into compliance with future safety standards sent the liner into premature retirement as a dockside hotel. There are, inevitably, with a military vessel the questions of fuel consumption, manning requirements and so on, endlessly.
The civil judge can - and will - demand the keys. He will find you in comptenpt. He will put you in jail. For no set term. He just might be able to set the per diem for your stay in the Roach Motel.
That is why the whole idea of an OS manufacturer is passe'
Just for laughs, how about we hold off on the obituaries until Linux as a client OS has the same market share as OSX?
The ordinary meaning of "bazaar" is "marketplace" - and there both Apple and Microsoft have shown extraordinary strength and resilience.
To be red-faced and raging is to be part of the game, the time-honored ritual of making the deal. But this is theater, not revolution.
There are no absolutes.
Something the geek has never really understood.
What can you call "outrageous" these days?
The $920 "refurbished" Vista 64 i7 Studio XPS from Dell ships with 6 GB of RAM, a 750 GB HDD and 512 MB Radeon 4850 graphics.
The generic XP ATOM netbook has a respectable 1 GB RAM, a 160 GB HDD and sells for under $300.
Of course the recession will delay the retirement of many older but still serviceable systems - and that will be as true in the home as in the enterprise.
But it is difficult to see hardware as a barrier to to the adoption of any OS as the market recovers.
Bill has - or knows how to get - the file you want.
The file hotter than a stove.
What he neglected to tell you is that his source is Chester.
Outside your web of trust.
What Bill hasn't been told is that Chester is being watched by the SPCA. Child Protection. ATF. The FBI. The Episcopal Diocese of New York and perhaps twenty or thirty others.
That Chester's web of trust intersects yours and others at many points.
That Dan and Edgar in Seattle did for Chester what Chester and Bill in Atlanta are about to do for you.
"Six dgrees of separation."
The initial point of failure is obviously the file.
If it were genuinely innocent and private it could be shared with minimum risk through ordinary means. It is the temptation to give it wider distribution that sinks you.
Past practices shape future decisions.
It doesn't matter if the argument is weak or fraudulent, that it has no formal, logical - legal - validity.
Petroleum was known as a widow-maker.
You never quite knew what you were buying - or how much.
That gave Rockfeller his opening.
The Standard product was just that - cheap, reliable and safe.
Sold in honest weights and measures.
When the trust was broken - customers stuck with the Standard's regional operating companies, who prospered mightily, as did Rockefeller himself, of course.
They did not defect to the small independents - who soon faded out of the picture, as did the populist reformer.
_____
Anti-Trust is Populist and Nationalist.
The geek plays with fire when he invokes such forces.
It's quite foolish to assume that anti-trust is the only hook on which the politician can hang his coat.
If the geek had an once of sense he'd put more distance between himself and the EU bureaucrat.
There is precedent now for government to add or subtract - mandate anything it wants from any OS distribution - depending on which way the political winds are blowing.
I was looking at sales through the world's largest retailer - and not the direct seller whose promotional pricing schemes change almost literally from day to day, if not hour to hour.
Not that itmatters, really. Because you've simply provided another example that systems based on more or less the same hardware sell for more or less the same price whether the OS is Linux or Windows.
THe "$200 OS on a $300 laptop" remains pure fantasy.
You'll find plenty of "friends" on the net willing to trade in porn - or anything else, for that matter.
The question is, who do you trust?
In the case of OneSwarm ...an adversary would be able to correlate the increase in traffic between sender and receiver along an overlay path. FAQ
I can't quite shake the notion that a "web of trust" is inherently fragile.
That as they scale upward and are increasingly interwoven there will be a breach, a tear - that will unravel very quickly.
It's time the geek stopped wallowing in his own FUD.
The Acer XP laptop with an Atom CPU, a 9" screen, 1 GB RAM and a 160 GB HDD is $298 at Walmart.com.
In six months to a year the OS will be Win 7, the specs significantly better, and the price will still be cheaper than OEM Linux.
The lone Linux netbook?
A Dell Inspiron with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of Flash for $350.
"Not sold in stores."
The service economy is labor intensive.
Which means that it generates countless supporting documents and records, to be printed or filed.
The clerical worker is not about to disappear.
The geek whose livelihood depends on the expensive and now dispensable gadget - like the TiVO or the iPhone - seems to me rather more exposed.
That depends on what you mean by computer skills.
Take a look at the fine print in the help wanted adds. Count how many employers expect you to be productive when working with MS Office.
You can move higher up the food chain and still see adds like this:
Contract Administrator. Minimum 5 years experience. Must have extensive computer skills with speed and accuracy in MS Word, Excel, Access and Outlook. Experience with MS Project or SureTrack is a plus. - Buffalo [NY] News, Feb 22]
When we give/get awards, it's in the family.
Meaning that no one outside the family knows you exist - or has the slightest notion of what you have accomplished.
When you rant on about the "MAFIAA' you do so in an echo chamber.
While the producers of WALL-E and The Dark Knight are out speaking directly to an immense global audience.
Which is why your new video card or motherboard has HDMI out - a single cable and a single path for protected audio and video.
You got me there. I tend to spell "meme." with an "i" and not an "e." But "idee fixe" seems just too French.
Is this the best you can do?
but what if you had to continually register your possessions to prove you didn't steal them?
The nude model is not your possession.
The photographer, photo agency or publisher, who can't produce a valid consent form is exposed to both civil and criminal prosecution.
That won't come as headline news to anyone in the business.
Activation.
Ballmer throwing chairs.
Clippy.
Vista sales.
Have I missed anything?
It's rather a pity Slashdot's jokes and memes do not come with an expiration date.
It would make for clearer thinking:
Oh, the humanity: Windows 7's draconian DRM?
You know you've reached rock bottom when every Microsoft-bashing story from kdawson is met with gales of laughter across the Internet.
Vista is close to taking 25% of the client OS market: Top Operating System Share Trend
Linux has yet to scratch its way into the single digit.
OEM Vista is the 64 Bit OS that runs on the dual or quad core PC with four to eight gigabytes of RAM that you can buy at any WalMart.
The same WalMart which unloaded its Linux inventory in favor of XP on the netbook.
He - or she - may not as effective in telling the story to an American audience.
He or she may have far less mobility - and face far greater risks than the foreigner.
The blatantly political murders of reporters in Russia should be proof enough of that.
It is really quite naive to think that the native reporter is free of corporate or political or religious influence.