I recall that the NBA was suing companies that were sending out the scores of games over some wireless pager or cells phones. I guess this means that you can pay the money for the license to a seat, but forget about SMS'ing somene or telling anyone what the score was.
why not just pour some real money into mono and then beat them at their own game ? and all the while PHP continues to drive something like 40% of the globes websites why is microsoft even a consideration here ?
I remember in the early 90's Virginia Tech used to have some sort of IBM printer (pre lexmark) that could print staggering amounts paper. I remember them talking about skids of paper/min or hour. it looked more like a newspaper press with a big ole stream of paper and a bunch of scary knives at the end to do the paginagation. I remember the damn thing ate paper so fast that it had its own loading dock where the skids of paper were pushed off the back of the truck waiting to be consumed by the beast.
Its not the success of google, but the competition you face getting talent - if you have candidates who can go to google - who wouldn't? So to retain you have to pay more or to get candidates you have to pay more. for a start up this can be in someways the life and death since salary in a knowledge company is > 70% of costs. Ther other drag is that housing is always going up - not this this is new even in the boom 1500 sq ft would go 2 million or more which has a side effect that people not in the industry cant live there.
it seems like you would be better off trying to find this stuff with IR, or black light or whatever it is they use to illuminate bills to verify their authenticity. I've heard my conspiracy theory friends tell me that photocopiers do this sort of thing as well.
I think you are making the assumption that the thin client doesnt grant you a CAL on a TS Server. Purchasing this thin client software may grant you a CAL to upgrade your TS to one more client on your TS. Keeps the price down, gives enough bait to those organizations considering thin client alternatives to windows to stay on windows for about the same or a just a bit more money. than say a system from Sun.
Groove is what notes/exchange/outlook should have been. Its got the coolness/slickness of an Apple product. It will be interesting to see how MS screws this up when the Office team takes hold...
Microsoft has always produced software for the Macintosh platform. In fact at one time it was thought that half of MS revenue would stem from this platform. Currently the Macintosh has between 1 and 3 percent marketshare. How much marketshare would the Linux desktop have to have before MS would consider producing software for this platform? Even in a closed source form.?
There was a memo that was published in Wired serveral years ago where Bill tried to get Steve to license Mac OS to clone vendors and such - this was waaay before window 3 ever happened. if all the machines were running some variant of mac os pre OSX what the world would have been like?
at one time Bill said that he full expected more than half of the revenue of microsoft to come from Mac
Anyone else remember his work on the Cannon Cat info appliance - it was early mid 80's. what a completely wild device. It was like a palm pilot but given the constraints of the day was about the size of a toaser...
I don't think its being suggested that we program in xml directly but use a better editor to read/understand xml markup and present it to us in a better way. I for one would welcome having source files be more like word processing files. I would like to be able to embed a real image or bitmap in the document instead of tab-damaged ascii art showing things like bit map layouts our being able to click on embedded http links in comments. Let the editor give me a view that I can use and be friendly and let my 3ghz machine extract the raw.C or.cpp etc to feed to the monolithic compiler and take advantage of its raw computational power
By having the code in a structured format, it would be far easier to do things like static analysis, metrics, or reverse engineering of code, without resorting to hand to LEXX/YACC combat. simply understanding the sequence of nodes and we would be good to go to write some nice tools.
A problem with a lot of the dark fibre is that the equipment to transfer data on that kind of fibre is old or obsolete. poeple wouldn't abandon it if it werent useful. My office still has miles of coax in the walls next to the cat5. We just never use it because we would need ISA cards and slots to utilize it and things with ISA slots inside are pentium and 486 machines
no matter what the change set "theory" are implemented into the product if it's not easy to do things with it, it will languish. VSS and CVS are still used widely becuase there are lots of clients and tools that make it useful.
the draw of SVN (loved or hated) is that it has a good client and the command line client is easy to drive with scripting tools
Tech has a long tradition of this. We weren't allowed to come near the IBM 3090 (a near super computer in the late '80's) when I was an undergrad there either.
it was housed in the CRC about 1 mile off campus in those days. Probably freed up the room for the cluster when they decomissioned the old 3090 behemoth.
After I got my letter from RBC saying my credit card info now processed in Georgia in the United States and was subject to info request of the Patriot Act. I cancelled my card and went with a different card provider here in Canada. What rubs me was that I got the impression that it wasnt the need for a request, but that as the transactions were comming in they were being copied over to homeland security. Clearly the knowledge that I buy (legally) cuban cigars is going to be linked up to my passport and I'm going to get a free body cavity search one of these days when I head across the border on vacation.
actually you don't even need to be banking with a US subsidiary such as MBNA Canada. If you are a Royal Bank or CIBC Visa holder, your credit records are subject to the Patriot Act becuase those transactions are now cleared through Georgia in the USA. I just got my letter from the bank informing me of this wonderful situation.....
but not unexpected, over 10% of Americans are functional illiterates and are 68th on the global general literacy (total population) scale
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turn off that TV and get reading folks
10%??!?!? Gosh! that's nearly half!
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Bill Gates wanted Apple to license it out. There was an article Wired years ago devoted to it. He even had names and phone #'s of people to contact to get the OEM deals done (ie chairman of AT&T, Big Blue etc) attached to the memo.
Even then Bill knew the OS was a marginal business ($50) vs selling an office platform $450 on a $2500 PC. (average price in those days). When Bill realized this wasnt going to happen he built the platform he needed to run his software. IIRC, excel first shipped as a Mac product.
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I recall that the NBA was suing companies that were sending out the scores of games over some wireless pager or cells phones. I guess this means that you can pay the money for the license to a seat, but forget about SMS'ing somene or telling anyone what the score was.
why not just pour some real money into mono and then beat them at their own game ? and all the while PHP continues to drive something like 40% of the globes websites why is microsoft even a consideration here ?
Rock! nothing beats good old rock....
I remember in the early 90's Virginia Tech used to have some sort of IBM printer (pre lexmark) that could print staggering amounts paper. I remember them talking about skids of paper/min or hour. it looked more like a newspaper press with a big ole stream of paper and a bunch of scary knives at the end to do the paginagation. I remember the damn thing ate paper so fast that it had its own loading dock where the skids of paper were pushed off the back of the truck waiting to be consumed by the beast.
Its not the success of google, but the competition you face getting talent - if you have candidates who can go to google - who wouldn't? So to retain you have to pay more or to get candidates you have to pay more. for a start up this can be in someways the life and death since salary in a knowledge company is > 70% of costs. Ther other drag is that housing is always going up - not this this is new even in the boom 1500 sq ft would go 2 million or more which has a side effect that people not in the industry cant live there.
it seems like you would be better off trying to find this stuff with IR, or black light or whatever it is they use to illuminate bills to verify their authenticity. I've heard my conspiracy theory friends tell me that photocopiers do this sort of thing as well.
xbox has a green screen of death already....
I think you are making the assumption that the thin client doesnt grant you a CAL on a TS Server. Purchasing this thin client software may grant you a CAL to upgrade your TS to one more client on your TS. Keeps the price down, gives enough bait to those organizations considering thin client alternatives to windows to stay on windows for about the same or a just a bit more money. than say a system from Sun.
I can smell the In Soviet Russia jokes already....
make it so that programmers can write in english and you will find that programmers can't write english.
Groove is what notes/exchange/outlook should have been. Its got the coolness/slickness of an Apple product. It will be interesting to see how MS screws this up when the Office team takes hold...
Not that this is a shock, but checking that box never seems to work. I still to this day do not know whats up with that.
Has MS evern considered using a unix based kernel in Windows in much the same way that BSD is the kernel of Mac OS X? if not, why not?
Microsoft has always produced software for the Macintosh platform. In fact at one time it was thought that half of MS revenue would stem from this platform. Currently the Macintosh has between 1 and 3 percent marketshare. How much marketshare would the Linux desktop have to have before MS would consider producing software for this platform? Even in a closed source form.?
at one time Bill said that he full expected more than half of the revenue of microsoft to come from Mac
Anyone else remember his work on the Cannon Cat info appliance - it was early mid 80's. what a completely wild device. It was like a palm pilot but given the constraints of the day was about the size of a toaser...
By having the code in a structured format, it would be far easier to do things like static analysis, metrics, or reverse engineering of code, without resorting to hand to LEXX/YACC combat. simply understanding the sequence of nodes and we would be good to go to write some nice tools.
A problem with a lot of the dark fibre is that the equipment to transfer data on that kind of fibre is old or obsolete. poeple wouldn't abandon it if it werent useful. My office still has miles of coax in the walls next to the cat5. We just never use it because we would need ISA cards and slots to utilize it and things with ISA slots inside are pentium and 486 machines
no matter what the change set "theory" are implemented into the product if it's not easy to do things with it, it will languish. VSS and CVS are still used widely becuase there are lots of clients and tools that make it useful. the draw of SVN (loved or hated) is that it has a good client and the command line client is easy to drive with scripting tools
it was housed in the CRC about 1 mile off campus in those days. Probably freed up the room for the cluster when they decomissioned the old 3090 behemoth.
After I got my letter from RBC saying my credit card info now processed in Georgia in the United States and was subject to info request of the Patriot Act. I cancelled my card and went with a different card provider here in Canada. What rubs me was that I got the impression that it wasnt the need for a request, but that as the transactions were comming in they were being copied over to homeland security. Clearly the knowledge that I buy (legally) cuban cigars is going to be linked up to my passport and I'm going to get a free body cavity search one of these days when I head across the border on vacation.
actually you don't even need to be banking with a US subsidiary such as MBNA Canada. If you are a Royal Bank or CIBC Visa holder, your credit records are subject to the Patriot Act becuase those transactions are now cleared through Georgia in the USA. I just got my letter from the bank informing me of this wonderful situation.....
damn it! here I am without mod points when "in Soviet russia..." is actually funny
Even then Bill knew the OS was a marginal business ($50) vs selling an office platform $450 on a $2500 PC. (average price in those days). When Bill realized this wasnt going to happen he built the platform he needed to run his software. IIRC, excel first shipped as a Mac product.