Smuggness about browser stats for general sites is fine. Don't let that distract you from the fact that early adopters pick up first what everyone else will be using later on. Those sites now frequented more by early adopters of ICT are using more Firefox than the general sites. That doesn't mean Firefox is niche or MSIE will always dominate, it means that those sites are preview of what we will probably see on the general sites.
The difference is that since the 80's it is much easier. Personal data on Windows servers has made getting personal data that much easier. Doing that and connecting it to the Internet is just asking for a gross- or willful-negligence lawsuit. Take the case of the recent Mastercard incident:
(sorry, link in Finnish)
People burned by that one could go for a class action lawsuit against either Mastercard their service supplier or the software vendor or a combination. There's no excuse for using tools known to be defective in a networked context.
Increasingly that said same vendor has been associated with breaches of security and failures. A year ago it was voting machines now this...
It's cool and high tech to be sure. But how is this cheaper faster or better than regular quonset huts. Don't tell me it's the acoustics.
All kinds of modern insulating or defensive material can be added to the outside of a quonset.
Aim much higher. The money that isn't used up by the NYT ad can be used to purchase a new Nobel Prize category. If the banking industry can pay enough to convince the Nobel Committee to pretend that there is a prize in economics, then surely a world wide Mozilla campaign can accumulate enough capital to top what the banks offered. Gotta get in there before professional wrestlers, Bill Gates, astrologers and others get in on the action and degrade the award further.
Come on, The 2005 Nobel Prize in Open Source Web Browsers is awarded to..., has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? You know it does, admit it.
No, but then they require other people to come and do the other stuff which has to be done (virus cleanups, spyware purges, etc. etc). And when it has to be done manually, it is not a pleasant experience.
That is called working for free for uncle Bill and is probably not counted in Bills precious TCO adverts.
No, in practice MSIE does not work or else we'd not be having any of these discussions. MS apologists like to blame the user for being stupid but face it, bundled software with an icon on the desktop gets left there and used by almost 70% of the users. That's one of the facts established during the anti-trust trials during the 1990's. Take MSIE off the desktop and have OEMs preload one or two others and the problem will start to go away.
Don't blame the user, blame the DOJ for not enforcing effective corrective measures, blame MS for continuing to treat security like a post-production add-on, blame MS for continuing to treat security like a public relations problem rther than a design problem, and last but not least blame the media for not covering any options than sit tight and wait for the next exiting service pack-patch.
What's worse? That billions are lost to design and production failures in a single company's product line or that the media does not cover other options?
Hopefully the U.S. won't get bought and paid for too soon, or it will become the world's Former Super-Power.
Too late. W has run up a bar tab he can't pay and is now trying to get the EU to cover it even as it continues to increase. While the sheeple were busy electing Conan, no action was taking to shore up the economy. Some of the federal costs have been shifted over to individual states which are mostly worse off than California. The interest rate cannot be cut further and it is doubtful that the last-ditch maneuver of reducing the strength of the dollar can hold of the D-word.
The only thing that could stop the snowball would be U.S.-style software patents in Europe, which is why the U.S. is lobbying so hard in the EU to get them put through. The EU will vote yet again on software patents 10 Nov 2003. Contact your EU representative and prevent the U.S. economic depression from dragging down the European development.
All surface appearances are that this is the first step in killing of VMware. Looking a little deeper, we see that cancelling products and services are what's really happening. A little creative book keeping to hide horrendous losses by buying up a small company and then cannibalizing it.
Yes. We learned that going IPO is a way of saying, "We'd like you to pay us to drop our core competencies out the window."
As far as stockmarket gambling goes it will be as good an investment as any other flash-in-the-pan dot-com. In the short term, perhaps it is better than other pyramid *cough*MSFT*cough* schemes. However, beyond the short term, it means that the techincial developments is no longer a priority and the company won't be around much longer than it takes to gracefully wind down or liquidate.
First the Forbes article now this. The Forbes article was a variation on the classic BSD vs GPL troll. How is it that the ear of the U.S. media is held by trolls?
SCO are lazy, stupid bastards... And so they think that everyone else is too. It's the classic syndrome called "projection".
There are many things they or would like forgotton. In particular, their collaborators would like forgotton, like seccurity, or fines.
Could it be that it's over and that the pyramid game is done? Maybe I'm reading this wrong but choke me with a pretzel and call me Bush Jr if ole Chairman Bill isn't diversifying his portfolio. [see forms 4 and 5]
The timing of it is pretty rich. What with the worms and the SCO code.
I guess it's OK for him to divest, even the families of the senior officers have caught on.
Major newspapers and tabloids have a several month lag time from the science journals, even the mainstream ones like Discover. So, rather than point to the digested version in the NYT, Weekly World News, MSNBC, Slate, and others, look up the original article in the Lancet, Nature, Science, Discover, Scientific American. If that's too hard, then fire up BIOSIS at your University and use that to find the online journal...
The bad reputation for poor security has been earned by treating secuirty as a PR problem. Any business storing sensitive data on Microsoft based systems is really asking for trouble, perhaps even a willful negligence lawsuit. It's not enough to slap old programs into a new carton and call them secure.
Nobody needs Apple's permission to do Quicktime streams - you just buy Quicktime server software, plug it in, and go. It sounds (although I'm really not up on how these contracts work) like NPR wanted some sort of reimbursement from Apple for them to provide
So then we can infer that there is some sort of "re-imbursement" incentive to send in Windows Media Format or RealPlayer? Windows Media format is too locked into the Windows-only cult and looks to be getting even more that way. The client for RealAudio has been getting more unstable and has too many spyware characteristics.
I'd prefer to see the NPR use QuickTime or Ogg, especially Ogg. The BBC seemed to have a successful trial with Ogg.
The political situation in the U.S. is not so condicive to visits by non-citizens. Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal would be better venues. Theyre more centrally located in regards to flight connections from North America.
Dan Bricklin/Bob Frankston's creation, Visicalc, is why each business / organization bought a microcomputer in the 1980's. Visicalc and subsequent copycats spreadsheets really changed the way things could be done, suddenly a day or two of statistics or accounting work could be done in a few minutes to a few hours.
For a while, there were dozens of quality spreadsheets on the market. The office spreadsheet opened the door for other technologies, more gradual adoption of microcomputers for word processin and eventually e-mail and the WWW. Counting these two definitely get my vote for one of the slots as top ten software innovators.
Actually there are quite a few discrepancies and vagueries with Palladium. Similar ones existed with MS-Passport but the FTC finally forced them to quit lying about MS-Passport. (Notice, except for a small attempt to smear Liberty Alliance, how quiet it's been since August?) Since Palladium seems to be full of contradictory claims, it's quite possible that the FTC will pull the plug on that line of bull also.
Even if Palladium eventually dries up and blows away it's serving as a good distraction: either Windows is being dropped from.Net or.Net is being dropped from Windows.
Stay focused on standards, interoperability, and development.
The easier way is that MS just says "Sorry folks, we have a patent on XXXX, and you can't use MONO any more. Oh by the way, since it is now so ingrained into Gnome, you can't use it either. Oh, and since all those Linux disks have Gnome on them, you'll have to destroy them all too."
If, by encumbering patents, Gnome and other tools
can be taken out of the market, then that's a loss for users and has economic ramifications in itself. However, the real goal
looks to be to transfer vendor lock-in to the Internet which would be far more expensive. Proprietary protocols are one means. I. Cringley is not
the only one to point this strategy out. Bill Gates has himself mentioned similar
ideas as an aside in his critique of Symbian:
According to his quote, he thought that Microsoft should create proprietary
protocols in a few areas beside just the PC so that other devices have to
pay them royalties if they want to interoperate.
Gates suggests action to patent Microsoft's schemas and not to be asleep on "key
issues like this".
It's happening. People are starting to pay attention. With most households owning a DVD player, things like "region code" are filtering down to the masses, and people are a lot more receptive when you attempt to explain how CSS, end-to-end encryption and the DMCA affect what they can (and are allowed) to do with digital media they payed for.
It's a start and hopefully the EU's decision makers will take the clue. I spoke with a Dane about the issue last year and it seemed just under the radar then, though it was common knowledge that you have to get your DVD player "fixed" in order to play DVDs that you buy elswhere.
Where does this mythical $40bn figure come from, alt.folklore.urban ? Show me the money or quote a reliable source -- one that ends in.gov, not some company press release or company sponsored psuedo-science. Corporations eagerly misrepresent their financial position. Enron was doing just as well as Microsoft until the books got a proper going over.
Last time I checked, Microsoft was losing money except for two areas dependent on monopoly rents. Not only that, "adjustments" to their financial statements seem to put them $18 billion into the red, that during a time when sales were good compared to recent years.
If nothing else,
Microsoft's behavior has been like they do not expect to be around in 12 months. The recent treatment of Sendo and similar treatment of past partners, extortion of customers using the Business Software Alliance, unfavorable licensing 6, and even the faked video testimonies in federal court are not what you'd expect from a company that plans to stay in business. Rather it seems that Microsoft is just another dot-com that is now beginning re-entry.
I'm not sure whether it's tragical or comical that business executives don't seem to learn from other's mistakes. Granted that any successful business relationship has to have trust somewhere, but no one has yet survived partnership with Microsoft.
Seriously, Microsoft's behavior does not seem to be that of a company that expects to be around in 12 months. The treatment of Sendo & co., extortion of customers using the Business Software Alliance, unfavorable licensing 6, and even the faked video testimonies in the federal trials are not what you'd expect from a company that plans to stay in business. Rather it seems that Microsoft is just another dot-com that is now beginning re-entry.
Show me a reliable source -- one that ends in.gov. Corporations eagerly misrepresent their financial position. Enron was doing just as well as Microsoft until the books got a proper going over.
The article mentions use of the phrase trade secrets. I suppose now they'll angle for use of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 to keep the market place from changing.
Seditious groups like the RIAA/MPAA are fighting a losing battle to try to back up outdated business models with legislation. Copy protection doesn't work, it's even been tried -- and later dropped -- by software companies like Lotus and Ashton-Tate during the 1980's. The role that RIAA/MPAA companies have played in the past has been as a channel for distribution. The Internet is a much more convenient distribution channel and they need to rework their business models to take that into account. DeCSS is perhaps so embarrassing for the RIAA/MPAA companies because it shows where they are falling far short of market needs -- DeCSS allows time-shifting or space-shifting, both of which are not just fully legal, but widely practiced and accepted.
Free as in market...the RIAA and MPAA are hurting the U.S. economy.
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Smuggness about browser stats for general sites is fine. Don't let that distract you from the fact that early adopters pick up first what everyone else will be using later on. Those sites now frequented more by early adopters of ICT are using more Firefox than the general sites. That doesn't mean Firefox is niche or MSIE will always dominate, it means that those sites are preview of what we will probably see on the general sites.
People burned by that one could go for a class action lawsuit against either Mastercard their service supplier or the software vendor or a combination. There's no excuse for using tools known to be defective in a networked context.
Increasingly that said same vendor has been associated with breaches of security and failures. A year ago it was voting machines now this...
It's cool and high tech to be sure. But how is this cheaper faster or better than regular quonset huts. Don't tell me it's the acoustics. All kinds of modern insulating or defensive material can be added to the outside of a quonset.
Come on, The 2005 Nobel Prize in Open Source Web Browsers is awarded to ..., has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? You know it does, admit it.
That is called working for free for uncle Bill and is probably not counted in Bills precious TCO adverts.
Don't blame the user, blame the DOJ for not enforcing effective corrective measures, blame MS for continuing to treat security like a post-production add-on, blame MS for continuing to treat security like a public relations problem rther than a design problem, and last but not least blame the media for not covering any options than sit tight and wait for the next exiting service pack-patch.
What's worse? That billions are lost to design and production failures in a single company's product line or that the media does not cover other options?
The only thing that could stop the snowball would be U.S.-style software patents in Europe, which is why the U.S. is lobbying so hard in the EU to get them put through. The EU will vote yet again on software patents 10 Nov 2003. Contact your EU representative and prevent the U.S. economic depression from dragging down the European development.
All surface appearances are that this is the first step in killing of VMware. Looking a little deeper, we see that cancelling products and services are what's really happening. A little creative book keeping to hide horrendous losses by buying up a small company and then cannibalizing it.
As far as stockmarket gambling goes it will be as good an investment as any other flash-in-the-pan dot-com. In the short term, perhaps it is better than other pyramid *cough*MSFT*cough* schemes. However, beyond the short term, it means that the techincial developments is no longer a priority and the company won't be around much longer than it takes to gracefully wind down or liquidate.
First the Forbes article now this. The Forbes article was a variation on the classic BSD vs GPL troll. How is it that the ear of the U.S. media is held by trolls?
There are many things they or would like forgotton. In particular, their collaborators would like forgotton, like seccurity, or fines.
Or 6 (million) other reasons:
The timing of it is pretty rich. What with the worms and the SCO code.
I guess it's OK for him to divest, even the families of the senior officers have caught on.
Major newspapers and tabloids have a several month lag time from the science journals, even the mainstream ones like Discover. So, rather than point to the digested version in the NYT, Weekly World News, MSNBC, Slate, and others, look up the original article in the Lancet, Nature, Science, Discover, Scientific American. If that's too hard, then fire up BIOSIS at your University and use that to find the online journal...
The crowd is starting to murmur, "the emperor [chairman] has no clothes".
So then we can infer that there is some sort of "re-imbursement" incentive to send in Windows Media Format or RealPlayer? Windows Media format is too locked into the Windows-only cult and looks to be getting even more that way. The client for RealAudio has been getting more unstable and has too many spyware characteristics.
I'd prefer to see the NPR use QuickTime or Ogg, especially Ogg. The BBC seemed to have a successful trial with Ogg.
The political situation in the U.S. is not so condicive to visits by non-citizens. Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal would be better venues. Theyre more centrally located in regards to flight connections from North America.
For a while, there were dozens of quality spreadsheets on the market. The office spreadsheet opened the door for other technologies, more gradual adoption of microcomputers for word processin and eventually e-mail and the WWW. Counting these two definitely get my vote for one of the slots as top ten software innovators.
Even if Palladium eventually dries up and blows away it's serving as a good distraction: either Windows is being dropped from .Net or .Net is being dropped from Windows.
Stay focused on standards, interoperability, and development.
The easier way is that MS just says "Sorry folks, we have a patent on XXXX, and you can't use MONO any more. Oh by the way, since it is now so ingrained into Gnome, you can't use it either. Oh, and since all those Linux disks have Gnome on them, you'll have to destroy them all too."
If, by encumbering patents, Gnome and other tools can be taken out of the market, then that's a loss for users and has economic ramifications in itself. However, the real goal looks to be to transfer vendor lock-in to the Internet which would be far more expensive. Proprietary protocols are one means. I. Cringley is not the only one to point this strategy out. Bill Gates has himself mentioned similar ideas as an aside in his critique of Symbian:
According to his quote, he thought that Microsoft should create proprietary protocols in a few areas beside just the PC so that other devices have to pay them royalties if they want to interoperate. Gates suggests action to patent Microsoft's schemas and not to be asleep on "key issues like this".
It's happening. People are starting to pay attention. With most households owning a DVD player, things like "region code" are filtering down to the masses, and people are a lot more receptive when you attempt to explain how CSS, end-to-end encryption and the DMCA affect what they can (and are allowed) to do with digital media they payed for.
It's a start and hopefully the EU's decision makers will take the clue. I spoke with a Dane about the issue last year and it seemed just under the radar then, though it was common knowledge that you have to get your DVD player "fixed" in order to play DVDs that you buy elswhere.Last time I checked, Microsoft was losing money except for two areas dependent on monopoly rents. Not only that, "adjustments" to their financial statements seem to put them $18 billion into the red, that during a time when sales were good compared to recent years.
If nothing else, Microsoft's behavior has been like they do not expect to be around in 12 months. The recent treatment of Sendo and similar treatment of past partners, extortion of customers using the Business Software Alliance, unfavorable licensing 6, and even the faked video testimonies in federal court are not what you'd expect from a company that plans to stay in business. Rather it seems that Microsoft is just another dot-com that is now beginning re-entry.
Free as in market.
Seriously, Microsoft's behavior does not seem to be that of a company that expects to be around in 12 months. The treatment of Sendo & co., extortion of customers using the Business Software Alliance, unfavorable licensing 6, and even the faked video testimonies in the federal trials are not what you'd expect from a company that plans to stay in business. Rather it seems that Microsoft is just another dot-com that is now beginning re-entry.
Show me a reliable source -- one that ends in .gov. Corporations eagerly misrepresent their financial position. Enron was doing just as well as Microsoft until the books got a proper going over.
Seditious groups like the RIAA/MPAA are fighting a losing battle to try to back up outdated business models with legislation. Copy protection doesn't work, it's even been tried -- and later dropped -- by software companies like Lotus and Ashton-Tate during the 1980's. The role that RIAA/MPAA companies have played in the past has been as a channel for distribution. The Internet is a much more convenient distribution channel and they need to rework their business models to take that into account. DeCSS is perhaps so embarrassing for the RIAA/MPAA companies because it shows where they are falling far short of market needs -- DeCSS allows time-shifting or space-shifting, both of which are not just fully legal, but widely practiced and accepted.
Free as in market...the RIAA and MPAA are hurting the U.S. economy.
This is not the first time that rumors and false advertising has been used to try to erode market share from a superior competitor.