At our college Software Engineering department Professors are pretty creative in grading exams :
- one professor has a binary notation system. Every answer is either 100% right or wrong. He must be a roulette gambler. - another, this semester, gave out blank sheets on which every student had to write down 5 questions and answer them. Only the ones of 'interest' were graded.
And they wonder why students are just in a hurry to get out of there once they graduate.
First of all, don't write once, write many times to your representatives. At best, any response will take time, so the next time you are out to by a new peripheral, choose one that has open source drivers or that have been validated by others (no real choice with graphic cards, yet). Money will always talk so buy cautiously and manufacturers will do anything to keep selling.
1- A leak about Apple attempting to create a handheld device The diagram on MacRumors looks very much like a Newton. Just look at the size of the finger on the button. This thing is huge !!
2- To get competitors to work on a mp3 player that doesn't look like an Ipod.
That's really too bad because many very very interesting topics were presented for the first and only time. By missing this important event, you were discalified from any further information that might be made availble in the future.
Sorry for the inconvenience [insert name and title here]
EEStor is working the capacitor not the refuelling device, yeah right.
So this is how the article should be understood : "We don't having any money left to keep our project going so we came up with this outrageous but easy to understand figure (9$ for 500miles) to bait investors. Yes, the PR guys are really worth the investment".
Lenovo doesn't seem to have it on sale. I have just spent 20 minutes looking for a laptop that has Linux pre-installed. It's not even on the Thinkpad models presentation page http://www.pc.ibm.com/ca/brand/thinkpad_brand.html If Dell had their linux systems that visible, no wonder the sales didn't pick up.
So Lenovo is just making a PR stunt waiting for requests and then maybe products will appear on their website ?
Upgrades will be forced by incompatibilities. I mean, if you wanted to keep revenues at least at current levels you would try, by any means, to keep the upgrade cycle running, right ? right. So why have your next Office suite have file formats that will only work on Vista ? I has worked before, why not again ??
If that's not enough, well, try (in any order): - end support, - buggy updates, - free upgrades in schools, universities and any other state or federal owned organisation, - force websites to be compatible only with your browser, - give away your developper tools, - screw up open source projets, - subsidize a dying company to sue big open source supporters and make a big splash about it, - get involved in normalization commities and slow every process to a halt, - lobby representatives to outlaw open source projets, - buy at&t, bell south and any other telecom still in business and block any packet that doesn't come from your os, - get the army to invade any country that is shifting to open source because of national interest
As you are very creative you will come up with some new way to get things going your way.
that the US was still determined to keep control of the net's root zone file
Haaa, the headline got me scared for a moment there. The us renouncing world domination would have smashed my values, really.
Now that everything is safe, I can get back to work.
Now bloggers will post under fake identities. That will not silence any subversiv text. Us bloggers will just have to learn from the chinese.
Thank you for teaching us to be stealthy. There is no such thing as education.
How about another perspective, like market protectionism first ?
This is not another conspiracy theory but I seems unlikely that the whole patent office is run by complete morons. Right ?
So why would those educated people grant such patents ?
Well, the US is the software dominant player and wants to stay on the top. With all the rising countries like india and china the best way to protect America's interest is to patent everything possible localy and apply it to the rest of the world. Just look at the lobbying effort to get software patents in europe.
To get back to market protectionnism, patent will allow american compagnies to collect royalties on any foreign software that might run in the US. Maximum return on no R&D inverstment, the jackpot !!
As many have noticed, IDC has changed the way they count linux market penetration. Last year they counted the number of installations and this year it all about revenue. For something that often comes free... Some event suggest that they are pro-microsoft.
I am really going to watch this closely. If countries can be bullied by a corparation into buying their software this will redefine the whole "Choice" concept. Some tried to sue because changing laws were impacting business but this is new.
It make me wonder if this situation will not trigger a diplomacy crisis because isn't Microsoft trying the "Offer you can't refuse" trick to an entire continent ?
Wouldn't that be a true incentive to other companies not to pursue similar goals ? Simple, easy to implement and I am sure very effective !
We already have Open Source, could we have Open Boycot ? I mean, this whole patent office situation is really getting hazardous for anyone in the software business.
So if a boycot is not the way to go, what else can effectively be done to stop this spiral of death ?
to get corporations to switch to Linux. Why ? Well have you heard of retraining costs ? They're huge and, I am sure, are a major factor in keeping M$ on desktops.
Ugly or not is not the question, how many use it is !
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At our college Software Engineering department Professors are pretty creative in grading exams :
- one professor has a binary notation system. Every answer is either 100% right or wrong. He must be a roulette gambler.
- another, this semester, gave out blank sheets on which every student had to write down 5 questions and answer them. Only the ones of 'interest' were graded.
And they wonder why students are just in a hurry to get out of there once they graduate.
First of all, don't write once, write many times to your representatives. At best, any response will take time, so the next time you are out to by a new peripheral, choose one that has open source drivers or that have been validated by others (no real choice with graphic cards, yet). Money will always talk so buy cautiously and manufacturers will do anything to keep selling.
Safe Coding
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http://www.google.com/
With WOW who needs testosterone ?
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This rumor might be :
1- A leak about Apple attempting to create a handheld device
The diagram on MacRumors looks very much like a Newton. Just look at the size of the finger on the button. This thing is huge !!
2- To get competitors to work on a mp3 player that doesn't look like an Ipod.
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Dear [insert security vendor's contact]
You couldn't attend the meeting ?
That's really too bad because many very very interesting topics were presented for the first and only time. By missing this important event, you were discalified from any further information that might be made availble in the future.
Sorry for the inconvenience
[insert name and title here]
EEStor is working the capacitor not the refuelling device, yeah right.
...
So this is how the article should be understood :
"We don't having any money left to keep our project going so we came up with this outrageous but easy to understand figure (9$ for 500miles) to bait investors. Yes, the PR guys are really worth the investment".
Vaporware
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- More people
- More machines
to run the same applications. Way to go Microsoft !! Another one like that and organisations will switch to Linux instead of upgrading.
Thank you, really
Znort
Lenovo doesn't seem to have it on sale. I have just spent 20 minutes looking for a laptop that has Linux pre-installed. It's not even on the Thinkpad models presentation page http://www.pc.ibm.com/ca/brand/thinkpad_brand.html
If Dell had their linux systems that visible, no wonder the sales didn't pick up.
So Lenovo is just making a PR stunt waiting for requests and then maybe products will appear on their website ?
Upgrades will be forced by incompatibilities. I mean, if you wanted to keep revenues at least at current levels you would try, by any means, to keep the upgrade cycle running, right ? right. So why have your next Office suite have file formats that will only work on Vista ? I has worked before, why not again ??
.... Wait and see ...
If that's not enough, well, try (in any order):
- end support,
- buggy updates,
- free upgrades in schools, universities and any other state or federal owned organisation,
- force websites to be compatible only with your browser,
- give away your developper tools,
- screw up open source projets,
- subsidize a dying company to sue big open source supporters and make a big splash about it,
- get involved in normalization commities and slow every process to a halt,
- lobby representatives to outlaw open source projets,
- buy at&t, bell south and any other telecom still in business and block any packet that doesn't come from your os,
- get the army to invade any country that is shifting to open source because of national interest
As you are very creative you will come up with some new way to get things going your way.
Wait and see
It would require some skill but it is possible. Will the police be liable if the crashing drone set a house on fire. Just wondering ...
Now bloggers will post under fake identities. That will not silence any subversiv text. Us bloggers will just have to learn from the chinese.
Thank you for teaching us to be stealthy. There is no such thing as education.
How about another perspective, like market protectionism first ?
...
This is not another conspiracy theory but I seems unlikely that the whole patent office is run by complete morons. Right ?
So why would those educated people grant such patents ?
Well, the US is the software dominant player and wants to stay on the top. With all the rising countries like india and china the best way to protect America's interest is to patent everything possible localy and apply it to the rest of the world. Just look at the lobbying effort to get software patents in europe.
To get back to market protectionnism, patent will allow american compagnies to collect royalties on any foreign software that might run in the US. Maximum return on no R&D inverstment, the jackpot !!
Just follow the money
As many have noticed, IDC has changed the way they count linux market penetration. Last year they counted the number of installations and this year it all about revenue. For something that often comes free... Some event suggest that they are pro-microsoft.
/ ms/idc2.html
Well after reading this, you will be sure they are : http://www.theglobeandmail.com/partners/microsoft
I doen't look like the usual anti-linux attack, it's much more subtle this time.
A team of scientists have discovered that you can make anything out of hot air. The process has yet to be perfected.
PR is the key not analysis. A few weeks of PR damage control and EDS will be ready to shudown (upgrade) another part of the country.
I am really going to watch this closely. If countries can be bullied by a corparation into buying their software this will redefine the whole "Choice" concept. Some tried to sue because changing laws were impacting business but this is new. It make me wonder if this situation will not trigger a diplomacy crisis because isn't Microsoft trying the "Offer you can't refuse" trick to an entire continent ?
Why not boycot all Kodak products ?
Wouldn't that be a true incentive to other companies not to pursue similar goals ? Simple, easy to implement and I am sure very effective ! We already have Open Source, could we have Open Boycot ? I mean, this whole patent office situation is really getting hazardous for anyone in the software business.
So if a boycot is not the way to go, what else can effectively be done to stop this spiral of death ?
May the patent be with you, young Luke
My favorite quote :
... That is unknow territory to Microsoft !!!
"Rather than support the development and eventual maintenance of two MMORPGs in an already crowded and highly competitive market"
Successfully entering a competitive software market
to get corporations to switch to Linux. Why ? Well have you heard of retraining costs ? They're huge and, I am sure, are a major factor in keeping M$ on desktops. Ugly or not is not the question, how many use it is ! Znort