"Many providers" will choose wrong, either overcharging for the phone's inherent features, or selling Android's usability out to Microsoft with a Bing app their buyers can't uninstall (now why would Microsoft want to cripple the critical search and navigation features of Android phones?) "Many phone vendors" will likewise choose wrong, giving you crudware or just hosing up the native interface with their own-branded "value added" interface. The nice thing about choice is... some won't. And you can choose the ones who don't when you buy your phone because we have the Internet now, and you can learn about what's where without buying the phone. So you can choose the ones who don't and get the phone you want.
You see how that works? When you had no choice, it wasn't up to you and you had no hope of ever getting what you wanted no matter what you were willing to pay. With choice you get to choose so you get to have what you want up to what you're willing to pay. I know, it's hard. Try printing that text out and reading it over a few times during the day and it might start making sense.
Some people want different things. For security one might want a fingerprint reader, face and voice recognition to wake the phone. Another might want telemetry with their pacemaker and an app that calls their doctor or 911. Someone else might need a blood sugar gauge that keys into their diet calendar and insulin monitoring app so that a kid with diabetes don't have to carry around embarrassing gear, and giving parents or doctors legitimate information to work with. Some people want thinner and lighter, some more battery life. Who knows, maybe I want USB peripherals for servo controllers, dual external MicroSD ports for media and a camera on five sides sides for my observation blimp RPV application? Hey, I hear they're making projectors for phones now, and external HDMI ports that do full-HD. Maybe I want all the phone parts that can possibly to be transparent, translucent or blacklight reactive because that's my sense of personal style. Maybe I want a Wacom tablet for photo editing, drafting, as a programmable control panel. All of these things are fringe things, that no all-in-one phone is going to give. Without choice we get none of these things. We won't see all of them, but I'm willing to bet that with the rich choices Android offers we'll see some of them.
Since the competitors don't have choice and can't get it they have to argue that "choice is bad". If you like choice though - if you prefer a less expensive phone or one with all the bells and whistles, or larger or smaller or whatever, Android is an obvious choice. If you like to choose the phone network based on pricing or features, quality of network, or how badly they restrict the phone's features to maximize your bill, again Android is a clear winner. If a single great design that's wholly integrated and secured by a single vendor is your preference, iPhone is a grand choice - and that's great! You get to choose that too.
Lack of choice as a feature though is in general a tough sell.
I'm guessing your kids don't have Internet. If they did they could download Postal II demo. They can also use it to browse lots of xxx rated stuff, and of course that's what the internet is for.
Yeah. It's a product. How much? About $250K list with eight X7560 processors (64 cores/128 threads) and the 2TB of RAM. Other vendors are pretty much in line with this I believe - I haven't done comparatives on this box yet. The premium on 8GB and 16GB DIMMs isn't as much as you might think any more. They were horrible recently though. I hear Samsung is sampling a 32GB DIMM. No word on if it'll slot into these servers.
Yeah I have both a Westmere and a Nehalem server on my desk with 144GB of RAM each. They go up to 192GB actually, using 16GB DIMMS. The AMD dual socket platforms go to 256GB with 4 channels per CPU, and the Nehalem-EX with 8 sockets go as high as 2TB of RAM per server.
Yeah, but for virtualization workloads we're seeing that the processor really isn't being taxed at all. Basically the controlling factor is the amount of RAM and I/O latency. Speaking of which... Sandy Bridge is only two channels of RAM per socket instead of the current three.
Woo, that was a little freaky. You might want to back off the emphasis just a tad. Wait, that was me? Oh shit. Nurse! Meds! Can we get some 420 love here before shit gets real please?
Yeah, I can agree with that. When you cut them fine ethics get a little slippery. It's fine to stand on the hill and bear judgement on the ethical questions that come before you. It's a different thing to decide in a knife fight whether the guy who's trying to kill you was better off dead or unconscious. Obviously according to the rules of fighting unconcious is best but if you survey your family's opinion, dead will do.
Algae has some promise. Algaes suspended in water have great potential. Ultimately the objective is the conversion of CO2 to sugars, so algae is only a step on the climb.
Solar energy rocks! We need to recognize that the ability to store solar energy in sugars and proteins enables many uses. If there were an ability to convert algae to protein in some more Green way, perhaps with the remarkable protein conversion of Soy, that would be awesome. In fact, I see this Soy-Lent Green being both a food and fuel for the future. Soy-lent Green could enable us to continue our population growth. Soy-lent Green is people!
BTW, the premise is that the project manager will hire professional orchestras to perform the works, not amateurs. I know it's difficult to imagine an American professional orchestra agreeing to perform a single work for a measly $11,000 - or even renting a hall for that, let alone all of them, but not everybody lives in the US.
They're up to $31K. In some parts of the world that's Real Money.
Let me relay a story. I know a guy who was part of the Russian space program. He's a thermal engineer I met working in a fortune 500 company, one of the most brilliant people I've ever met. He related to me a story about how salaries were not forthcoming for many years, yet they were expected to do their jobs. They took up a collection of what they could scrounge, and sold what they could to buy a chainsaw and some axes. These aerospace engineers then went into the countryside and sold their services as homebuilders building log cabins to the elites for cash. They built good cabins with the saw and the axes, sound homes a man can be proud of. Fine Russian country houses. They then brought back the cash and used it to feed themselves, to buy instruments and equipment, and so continued the Russian space program on their own production, because that was their job. They raised chickens and did other things too, but some of the Russian space program was funded by their space engineers building log cabins in the woods.
When the guy says he can find an orchestra in Eastern Europe to perform all of the classical works of Beethoven, Bach and Brahms for $11k, I believe him. I figure most of these artists play private venues of patrons of the arts in order to fund their public venues anyway. We need not desparage their art because they're poor. Poor people can make good art as well as rich people can make poor art. In addition to granting the entire world unrestricted use of these presentations of timeless classics to have and keep and play forever however they will, the money will probably save some troubled orchestra from closing, at least for a year or three. So it's well spent thrice over.
If this were a typical commercial work, then you might be right. I think we can all agree this is not a typical commercial work. I'll go ahead and ask to project manager to ensure that all the artists who want credit get it in the canonical implementation. Obviously the license doesn't ensure that successive copies will continue to attribute, but many will as it's the Right Thing To Do.
Y'know, even in this article about how Microsoft was enabling the oppression of dissidents in Russia I was expecting some Microsoft Fanboi to step up and defend the use of Microsoft software. Congratulations for being the most convincing of such. Obviously there is no practice so despicable that someone will not step up to defend it.
Look, a mom and pop operation can get away with selling "rosebuds" in a glass cylinder, or a "glass pen" that's clearly a crack pipe at your corner store. An international corporation like Microsoft has to adhere to the legal fabric and political construct of the market they find themselves in. In this environment it's perfectly acceptible that the cooperate with censoring web search results in China or even turning in dissident web searchers. That is the law of the land after all, and obedience to the law is the highest moral choice, right?
Rebels like Google might get away with abandoning China search entirely to preserve their moral high ground, but Microsoft is pragmatic about the expectation of its shareholders to deliver continuing growth in these markets despite the cost to human rights. They will win in the end because people in the first world (you and me) don't really care about how badly the people in the second and third worlds are oppressed as long as they keep making our iPods affordable. Microsoft will win because you and I could not care less about the plight of our fellow humans. The fact that we don't care about this is actually the core of Microsoft's market strategy.
I wish I could introduce you to the hell that is HP's partner portal, their Learning Center, the portal for support. It's a carnival of the obscene. As someone who understands web design I have to hope there's a special level of hell devoted to eternally tormenting these web developers.
Not only do these sites require specific versions of IE, but then you come to a certain point where they don't even work with those, so you have to migrate the session to other browsers through trial and error until you find the one that works with it. It's sick. It's like an online skill test that requires four nines of web proficiency in order to download a freaking driver update or read the product alerts.
In a perfect world some auditor would have these web developers separated from their skin slowly, under a saltwater and lemon juice shower while rats ate their organs, with a blaring Phil Collins soundtrack.
You're looking for This one. W7 and Vista have together less than 30%, and that's the only operating systems IE9 will run on. So if they get 100% of those, which seems unlikely, their max upside today is 30% of the total browser market. Since as you note they only get 60% share even though Windows is over 90%, it's a 20% upside potential for IE9 today - probably less since early adopters are also the people most likely to choose a different browser. Fringe. Not enough to dominate the developers.
XP has a very long tail. It's still selling in the market and will be installed through downgrade rights for the entire life of W7. XP will likely still be over 50% three years from now. IE9 doesn't run on XP.
Using CC0, you can waive all copyrights and related or neighboring rights that you have over your work, such as your moral rights (to the extent waivable), your publicity or privacy rights, rights you have protecting against unfair competition, and database rights and rights protecting the extraction, dissemination and reuse of data.
It's as close as you can get to public domain. This seems to be popular with the donors.
One might presume that artist credits on the public domain orchestral reference work will go a long way in an artists' career. Also, some of them might do it just because they love the music and want people to hear it. The upside is that they need do it only once, and they get the benefits forever as the work is archived for free and forever as a public service by well-endowed organizations. Their work will be in the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive. It will serve as background music for countless video works both amateur and professional. The only risk is that the practice becomes popular - emulated by every middle school, high school and university - and so their work is lost amongst the mass of freely available classical music. Actually, no, being part of spurring that movement is a selling point too.
Ah, the "choice is bad" argument. All of Android's competitors have to argue this because it's the feature of Android that they don't have and can't get. Good luck selling that to people who expect 15 different kinds of bottled water at their corner store.
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"Many providers" will choose wrong, either overcharging for the phone's inherent features, or selling Android's usability out to Microsoft with a Bing app their buyers can't uninstall (now why would Microsoft want to cripple the critical search and navigation features of Android phones?) "Many phone vendors" will likewise choose wrong, giving you crudware or just hosing up the native interface with their own-branded "value added" interface. The nice thing about choice is... some won't. And you can choose the ones who don't when you buy your phone because we have the Internet now, and you can learn about what's where without buying the phone. So you can choose the ones who don't and get the phone you want.
You see how that works? When you had no choice, it wasn't up to you and you had no hope of ever getting what you wanted no matter what you were willing to pay. With choice you get to choose so you get to have what you want up to what you're willing to pay. I know, it's hard. Try printing that text out and reading it over a few times during the day and it might start making sense.
Some people want different things. For security one might want a fingerprint reader, face and voice recognition to wake the phone. Another might want telemetry with their pacemaker and an app that calls their doctor or 911. Someone else might need a blood sugar gauge that keys into their diet calendar and insulin monitoring app so that a kid with diabetes don't have to carry around embarrassing gear, and giving parents or doctors legitimate information to work with. Some people want thinner and lighter, some more battery life. Who knows, maybe I want USB peripherals for servo controllers, dual external MicroSD ports for media and a camera on five sides sides for my observation blimp RPV application? Hey, I hear they're making projectors for phones now, and external HDMI ports that do full-HD. Maybe I want all the phone parts that can possibly to be transparent, translucent or blacklight reactive because that's my sense of personal style. Maybe I want a Wacom tablet for photo editing, drafting, as a programmable control panel. All of these things are fringe things, that no all-in-one phone is going to give. Without choice we get none of these things. We won't see all of them, but I'm willing to bet that with the rich choices Android offers we'll see some of them.
/There are FOUR lights!
Since the competitors don't have choice and can't get it they have to argue that "choice is bad". If you like choice though - if you prefer a less expensive phone or one with all the bells and whistles, or larger or smaller or whatever, Android is an obvious choice. If you like to choose the phone network based on pricing or features, quality of network, or how badly they restrict the phone's features to maximize your bill, again Android is a clear winner. If a single great design that's wholly integrated and secured by a single vendor is your preference, iPhone is a grand choice - and that's great! You get to choose that too.
Lack of choice as a feature though is in general a tough sell.
I'm guessing your kids don't have Internet. If they did they could download Postal II demo. They can also use it to browse lots of xxx rated stuff, and of course that's what the internet is for.
Yeah. It's a product. How much? About $250K list with eight X7560 processors (64 cores/128 threads) and the 2TB of RAM. Other vendors are pretty much in line with this I believe - I haven't done comparatives on this box yet. The premium on 8GB and 16GB DIMMs isn't as much as you might think any more. They were horrible recently though. I hear Samsung is sampling a 32GB DIMM. No word on if it'll slot into these servers.
TCO is a different question - not my specialty.
Oh, yeah. And the NEXT DRM scheme will be the one that remains unbreakable - FOREVER!
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Yeah I have both a Westmere and a Nehalem server on my desk with 144GB of RAM each. They go up to 192GB actually, using 16GB DIMMS. The AMD dual socket platforms go to 256GB with 4 channels per CPU, and the Nehalem-EX with 8 sockets go as high as 2TB of RAM per server.
And still people want more RAM per box.
Yeah, but for virtualization workloads we're seeing that the processor really isn't being taxed at all. Basically the controlling factor is the amount of RAM and I/O latency. Speaking of which... Sandy Bridge is only two channels of RAM per socket instead of the current three.
Yeah, that was sarcasm. I guess there's a rule for that but I forgot it.
Woo, that was a little freaky. You might want to back off the emphasis just a tad. Wait, that was me? Oh shit. Nurse! Meds! Can we get some 420 love here before shit gets real please?
Yeah, I can agree with that. When you cut them fine ethics get a little slippery. It's fine to stand on the hill and bear judgement on the ethical questions that come before you. It's a different thing to decide in a knife fight whether the guy who's trying to kill you was better off dead or unconscious. Obviously according to the rules of fighting unconcious is best but if you survey your family's opinion, dead will do.
Obviously I meant fruddered igluent. Clearly fruddered debulents wouldn't create fractious nibbles.
Your nipples have fruddered my debulent. We have fractious nibbles in agreement, but your burfle is negulent.
Algae has some promise. Algaes suspended in water have great potential. Ultimately the objective is the conversion of CO2 to sugars, so algae is only a step on the climb.
Solar energy rocks! We need to recognize that the ability to store solar energy in sugars and proteins enables many uses. If there were an ability to convert algae to protein in some more Green way, perhaps with the remarkable protein conversion of Soy, that would be awesome. In fact, I see this Soy-Lent Green being both a food and fuel for the future. Soy-lent Green could enable us to continue our population growth. Soy-lent Green is people!
They've done something clever. They've made it not work with Windows XP. Now let's see if in that they've done something prudent.
BTW, the premise is that the project manager will hire professional orchestras to perform the works, not amateurs. I know it's difficult to imagine an American professional orchestra agreeing to perform a single work for a measly $11,000 - or even renting a hall for that, let alone all of them, but not everybody lives in the US.
They're up to $31K. In some parts of the world that's Real Money.
Let me relay a story. I know a guy who was part of the Russian space program. He's a thermal engineer I met working in a fortune 500 company, one of the most brilliant people I've ever met. He related to me a story about how salaries were not forthcoming for many years, yet they were expected to do their jobs. They took up a collection of what they could scrounge, and sold what they could to buy a chainsaw and some axes. These aerospace engineers then went into the countryside and sold their services as homebuilders building log cabins to the elites for cash. They built good cabins with the saw and the axes, sound homes a man can be proud of. Fine Russian country houses. They then brought back the cash and used it to feed themselves, to buy instruments and equipment, and so continued the Russian space program on their own production, because that was their job. They raised chickens and did other things too, but some of the Russian space program was funded by their space engineers building log cabins in the woods.
When the guy says he can find an orchestra in Eastern Europe to perform all of the classical works of Beethoven, Bach and Brahms for $11k, I believe him. I figure most of these artists play private venues of patrons of the arts in order to fund their public venues anyway. We need not desparage their art because they're poor. Poor people can make good art as well as rich people can make poor art. In addition to granting the entire world unrestricted use of these presentations of timeless classics to have and keep and play forever however they will, the money will probably save some troubled orchestra from closing, at least for a year or three. So it's well spent thrice over.
If this were a typical commercial work, then you might be right. I think we can all agree this is not a typical commercial work. I'll go ahead and ask to project manager to ensure that all the artists who want credit get it in the canonical implementation. Obviously the license doesn't ensure that successive copies will continue to attribute, but many will as it's the Right Thing To Do.
Y'know, even in this article about how Microsoft was enabling the oppression of dissidents in Russia I was expecting some Microsoft Fanboi to step up and defend the use of Microsoft software. Congratulations for being the most convincing of such. Obviously there is no practice so despicable that someone will not step up to defend it.
Look, a mom and pop operation can get away with selling "rosebuds" in a glass cylinder, or a "glass pen" that's clearly a crack pipe at your corner store. An international corporation like Microsoft has to adhere to the legal fabric and political construct of the market they find themselves in. In this environment it's perfectly acceptible that the cooperate with censoring web search results in China or even turning in dissident web searchers. That is the law of the land after all, and obedience to the law is the highest moral choice, right?
Rebels like Google might get away with abandoning China search entirely to preserve their moral high ground, but Microsoft is pragmatic about the expectation of its shareholders to deliver continuing growth in these markets despite the cost to human rights. They will win in the end because people in the first world (you and me) don't really care about how badly the people in the second and third worlds are oppressed as long as they keep making our iPods affordable. Microsoft will win because you and I could not care less about the plight of our fellow humans. The fact that we don't care about this is actually the core of Microsoft's market strategy.
I wish I could introduce you to the hell that is HP's partner portal, their Learning Center, the portal for support. It's a carnival of the obscene. As someone who understands web design I have to hope there's a special level of hell devoted to eternally tormenting these web developers.
Not only do these sites require specific versions of IE, but then you come to a certain point where they don't even work with those, so you have to migrate the session to other browsers through trial and error until you find the one that works with it. It's sick. It's like an online skill test that requires four nines of web proficiency in order to download a freaking driver update or read the product alerts.
In a perfect world some auditor would have these web developers separated from their skin slowly, under a saltwater and lemon juice shower while rats ate their organs, with a blaring Phil Collins soundtrack.
I think they're saying "My Javascript brings the boys to the yard."
You're looking for This one. W7 and Vista have together less than 30%, and that's the only operating systems IE9 will run on. So if they get 100% of those, which seems unlikely, their max upside today is 30% of the total browser market. Since as you note they only get 60% share even though Windows is over 90%, it's a 20% upside potential for IE9 today - probably less since early adopters are also the people most likely to choose a different browser. Fringe. Not enough to dominate the developers.
XP has a very long tail. It's still selling in the market and will be installed through downgrade rights for the entire life of W7. XP will likely still be over 50% three years from now. IE9 doesn't run on XP.
Creative Commons Zero license:
It's as close as you can get to public domain. This seems to be popular with the donors.
It can't run on XP either, nor phones, nor tablets. Fringe browser for the platform of yesteryear.
One might presume that artist credits on the public domain orchestral reference work will go a long way in an artists' career. Also, some of them might do it just because they love the music and want people to hear it. The upside is that they need do it only once, and they get the benefits forever as the work is archived for free and forever as a public service by well-endowed organizations. Their work will be in the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive. It will serve as background music for countless video works both amateur and professional. The only risk is that the practice becomes popular - emulated by every middle school, high school and university - and so their work is lost amongst the mass of freely available classical music. Actually, no, being part of spurring that movement is a selling point too.
Ah, the "choice is bad" argument. All of Android's competitors have to argue this because it's the feature of Android that they don't have and can't get. Good luck selling that to people who expect 15 different kinds of bottled water at their corner store.