Well said. The same people wouldn't operate their car without AAA, OnStar and a fullsize spare tire think nothing of operating their datacenter without so much as a cold spare hard drive. It's unfortunate.
Oh, no. We do this all the time. Around the holidays we rewire the production server racks so their ethernet cables droop over the aisles, so we can hang up Christmas cards. Jimmy has a script that blinks the blue UID lights for a festive holiday display.
The effects were spectacular, the score was ok. The plot? A little thin, but for a kid movie not too bad. My kids ate it up and they want to go back. I could sit through it a second time just for the visuals and I never go to a movie twice. I saw it in digital 3D and I recommend that.
The science? You want actual science in a science fiction movie? That's cute. Science fiction isn't about the science - it's a prop to aid in dissociating you from your daily grind so as to focus better on the people. Good stories are always about people.
Licensing Windows Server: Each copy of Microsoft Windows Server, whether used as the OS for a virtual machine ("guest OS") or as the OS for the server ("host OS"), must be separately licensed. For example, if a user is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition as a host OS on a server and creates two virtual machines, each with its own copy of Windows 2000 Server (each a guest OS), the user would require one Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition license and two Windows 2000 Server licenses.
The new information: 2008 Enterprise (.docx) gives you four guests. Standard gives you one. Datacenter doesn't give you any if your guest operating systems need to be authenticated and managed through AD, but unlimited if they don't. I'm not sure why they would do that, but there it is.
As you can see from the documents the licensing messaging of virtual guests on Windows Hyper-V has been neither consistent nor clear. I would think if Microsoft could do one thing well it would be to explain what you need to buy to achieve what you want to do, but apparently they forgot the need for that.
Limiting a modern server to four guests is quite silly. A normal dual socket Nehalem server can support more than 50 typical VMs. I'm trying to imagine a scenario where I would want to run Windows servers in a VM but then not authenticate and manage them with AD and coming up blank. Maybe you could help me out with that one.
Then you're doing it wrong. How can you not find things with Google? I Google everything, and it never lets me down.
Now back to the topic: SEO maximizes shareholder value by claiming high-ranking positions in the search engine namespace for brands. In as much as ownership of mindshare is a symbol game, to ignore the main vehicle used by cash-ready consumers to find their heart's desire is high idiocy. It does not serve the shareholders, nor the board.
Only one Linux, and that their pet from Novell - and only with one processor per guest. Yeah, that's cross-platform. And for client operating systems there's five versions of Windows and nothing else.
And then there's the licensing. If you're using more than one Windows guest you had better be running Windows Datacenter (and the required SA) on the host or you're a filthy pirate and the BSA will be along presently to audit your books. Even if you keep that straight, if you fail over you have to wait 30 days to fail back because of the licensing.
Target employs SEO. For a company their size that's diligence. Now list companies in the Fortune 500 that neither know nor care about SEO and report back how much that's costing the shareholders.
Extra points if you mention HP whose web technologies are for a technology company nothing short of incredible.
I'm thinking that traditional print media looks a lot more ephemeral than blogging to me. Something about the business model of selling advertising on four day stale news stamped on a dead tree in toxic ink, versus "profit is coming out. I'm a Twitter advertiser." and "Here's phone camera video from the scene of the incident." After all, it's difficult to print a 3D island of multimedia presentations of your products in a magazine ad.
They had their clue with CueCat, and lost it with hubris. They could have it again with 2D barcodes scannable by cell phone cameras to link print stories to commentary, multimedia and updates. But they won't because they're stupid.
You want to talk about weak adoption? Windows Mobile lost 28% in Q3 over a year before. In order to lose 28% share year-over-year in a market where your customers are typically locked into a two or three year contract you have to sell essentially none.
And that's just smartphones. Android also powers the hottest eBook reader this holiday season. They're sold out. If you order now you might get one in February.
An operating system takes control of the hardware and offers interfaces that allow applications to perform their functions through an abstraction that avoids having to encode hardware interaction into every application.
In addition to that the operating system allocates system resources in such a way that they may be shared by multiple users and applications.
We were so desperate to beat up on MS after taking so damn long to give us a new OS that when it had problems we blew it out of all proportion, far beyond what empirical facts would support.
I know a lot of people who are huge Microsoft fans. People who aren't shy about saying "We're a Microsoft shop". Serious professionals with years of experience supporting hundreds and thousands of users. People who were eager to adopt Vista, and were beta testers for it. People with not just a desire to adopt Vista, but with a mandate from the top down that "we will adopt Vista". These enterprise folks have Software Assurance and their enterprise agreements allow them to just call up Microsoft and get top-flight Redmond schooled professionals to assist them in their migration. They were willing to refresh half of their end user equipment and the servers too to get 'er done, recession or no.
They tried and tried, but they just couldn't do it. Too many line-of-business apps architected on old versions of.NET, ASP and IE6. Too much unsupported hardware. Too many performance issues. Too much software to re-buy both on the client and on the server side. Too many contractor-developed apps they didn't have the source code for. After so many years of XP and embracing the internicene codependencies that are the Windows platform their infrastructure has set like concrete.
They like Windows 7 better, but it could be three or four years before they get that to go.
Yeah, I do this too. I have an LTSP server set up in the house for guests to use, so they don't compromise somebody's normal computer. Boots fast and works great. Bulk lots of corporate desktop pulls work great too and these days you can get them with a 3GHz processor and gigabit networking for about $130, including shipping. That's plenty powerful for the task.
I thought you were talking more about the commercial thin client PC's, which are tailored to this task and come in form factors so small some of them mount on the back of the monitor.
$200, $300 is missing the point. If you've going VDI, most of the money will be spent in training the end user, in the displays and their mounting. In most cases the deployment costs more than the thin client. The thin client is a trivial part of the cost, and you might as well get a good one.
I have to admit that I'm not up to the minute on Smartphones. The N900 is brilliant, but at 600MHz its processor is somewhat limited. These days we like more than 3.5" display size and at least 720p resolution with our cell phones, and HD video that doesn't lag. That's not the N900, sorry.
It was last year. It turned out better than we could have hoped for.
Not only did Google win the ability to attach any equipment to the network (itself as huge a win as the Carterphone decision), but the biggest deal - a nationwide block of 700MHz spectrum was not won by any bidder and still remains available.
So if the incumbent providers won't deal with Google fairly, Google can buy a single block of spectrum and give us what we want - truly open communications capability. Google has the cash to buy it, and the history to back up that if a provider won't give them what they need to meet our desires they'll go around them.
/btw, it's "jive," not "jibe". Jibe is a sailing term that means "To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a vessel to the other while sailing before the wind so as to sail on the opposite tack." cite. In the colloquial Jibe! is a command to shift the sails so as to change direction promptly. It is in no way synonymous with "jive" which in this sense would mean "agree".
I realize I'm probably being trolled by an Android or iPhone fan who wants the opposite of what he says, but I'm going to play along anyway. I forgot to bump my post points in my previous reply so I'll do it here and offer a prediction, which I seldom do:
If WiMo 7 isn't the Second Coming of phone OS's - if it doesn't launch with an open toolkit and an app store with many apps and a search function that's not Bing crippled, and in addition to that offer some revolutionary customer serving technology unheard of before, then WiMo market share two years from now (4Q 2011) will be less than 3% and trending down. Android will be >40% and trending up.
Basically my prediction revolves around the fact that we don't need Excel and Outlook on a mobile OS that sucks. What we need is a robust mobile phone OS that lets us plug it in to our other stuff. We want products that obey us and get out of our way.
The failure of WiMo is going to do horrible things to Microsoft. It will be hard to make people afraid of OS-X and Linux when they've got a copy in their pocket that serves them just fine.
When we can get VOIP over 3G on an open smartphone, current providers that milk their customers dry are going to shrivel like the wicked witch of the West in a torrential downpour. I'm not surprised they were upset that Google gamed the spectrum auction.
I would rather have Google for my phone company, but if they can get me what I want without spending money, more power to them. What I want is progress.
WinMo held less than 15% of the smartphone market last year. That's not "extremely popular". In tech-savvy Japan iPhone share has reached almost half. WiMo has negative growth. In fact one Gartner (we can trust Microsoft's friend Gartner not to skew the numbers away from Redmond, right?) analyst has WiMo share at a meek 7.9% in 3Q 2009, off 28% from a year before.
"From one side, the market is going open source," Cozza said. "We expect that, by 2012, around 62 percent of the whole smart phone market will be open source with Symbian, Android and other Linux flavours. On the other side, they have more closed environments like Apple and RIM. Microsoft is caught in the middle. They have to think hard what they can do."
"All their licensees - HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson - are developing on Android," Cozza said, adding that previous licensees Palm and Motorola have both abandoned Windows Mobile.
I'll agree about the ringtones thing, though - they're idiots. The thing is, there are a lot of idiots. Ringtones made up $500M in sales last year. It's shrinking fast, but to most people half a billion dollars is still a lot of money.
An important thing to note is that two or three year contracts are the norm in cell phones, so if you lose 28% of customers year over year, that's essentially everybody who could ditch your product for free. I'll say it again: that's not popular.
They got what they wanted: a low or no cost OS that works, that they can customize, that isn't Windows Mobile, Palm, or some other legacy anchor most consumers know already they don't want. They do not want or need an upgradable phone O.S. They would much prefer that people renew their phones every two or three years and so stay obligated on their contracts than that they upgrade their phone O.S. That they have to buy all their ringtones and apps again is just bonus.
The NexusOne isn't for the phone providers. It's for the phone buyer who would rather pay for the phone up front and not get contractually committed to a wireless company (all of whom are notorious for milking their contractually obligated customers untily they're dry). It's for the hardware buyer who wants to stay in control of his hardware.
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Well said. The same people wouldn't operate their car without AAA, OnStar and a fullsize spare tire think nothing of operating their datacenter without so much as a cold spare hard drive. It's unfortunate.
Oh, no. We do this all the time. Around the holidays we rewire the production server racks so their ethernet cables droop over the aisles, so we can hang up Christmas cards. Jimmy has a script that blinks the blue UID lights for a festive holiday display.
[citation needed]
Lots of folks could use some clear messaging on Hyper-V licensing, including me. If you've got some nice links that would be handy.
The effects were spectacular, the score was ok. The plot? A little thin, but for a kid movie not too bad. My kids ate it up and they want to go back. I could sit through it a second time just for the visuals and I never go to a movie twice. I saw it in digital 3D and I recommend that.
The science? You want actual science in a science fiction movie? That's cute. Science fiction isn't about the science - it's a prop to aid in dissociating you from your daily grind so as to focus better on the people. Good stories are always about people.
Licensing Windows Server: Each copy of Microsoft Windows Server, whether used as the OS for a virtual machine ("guest OS") or as the OS for the server ("host OS"), must be separately licensed. For example, if a user is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition as a host OS on a server and creates two virtual machines, each with its own copy of Windows 2000 Server (each a guest OS), the user would require one Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition license and two Windows 2000 Server licenses.
The new information: 2008 Enterprise (.docx) gives you four guests. Standard gives you one. Datacenter doesn't give you any if your guest operating systems need to be authenticated and managed through AD, but unlimited if they don't. I'm not sure why they would do that, but there it is.
As you can see from the documents the licensing messaging of virtual guests on Windows Hyper-V has been neither consistent nor clear. I would think if Microsoft could do one thing well it would be to explain what you need to buy to achieve what you want to do, but apparently they forgot the need for that.
Limiting a modern server to four guests is quite silly. A normal dual socket Nehalem server can support more than 50 typical VMs. I'm trying to imagine a scenario where I would want to run Windows servers in a VM but then not authenticate and manage them with AD and coming up blank. Maybe you could help me out with that one.
Then you're doing it wrong. How can you not find things with Google? I Google everything, and it never lets me down.
Now back to the topic: SEO maximizes shareholder value by claiming high-ranking positions in the search engine namespace for brands. In as much as ownership of mindshare is a symbol game, to ignore the main vehicle used by cash-ready consumers to find their heart's desire is high idiocy. It does not serve the shareholders, nor the board.
Link.
Only one Linux, and that their pet from Novell - and only with one processor per guest. Yeah, that's cross-platform. And for client operating systems there's five versions of Windows and nothing else.
And then there's the licensing. If you're using more than one Windows guest you had better be running Windows Datacenter (and the required SA) on the host or you're a filthy pirate and the BSA will be along presently to audit your books. Even if you keep that straight, if you fail over you have to wait 30 days to fail back because of the licensing.
No thanks.
Target employs SEO. For a company their size that's diligence. Now list companies in the Fortune 500 that neither know nor care about SEO and report back how much that's costing the shareholders.
Extra points if you mention HP whose web technologies are for a technology company nothing short of incredible.
I'm thinking that traditional print media looks a lot more ephemeral than blogging to me. Something about the business model of selling advertising on four day stale news stamped on a dead tree in toxic ink, versus "profit is coming out. I'm a Twitter advertiser." and "Here's phone camera video from the scene of the incident." After all, it's difficult to print a 3D island of multimedia presentations of your products in a magazine ad.
They had their clue with CueCat, and lost it with hubris. They could have it again with 2D barcodes scannable by cell phone cameras to link print stories to commentary, multimedia and updates. But they won't because they're stupid.
ahem. Roughly 1.5 million units in Q3 2009 is not untested and suffering from weak adoption for a new product.
You want to talk about weak adoption? Windows Mobile lost 28% in Q3 over a year before. In order to lose 28% share year-over-year in a market where your customers are typically locked into a two or three year contract you have to sell essentially none .
And that's just smartphones. Android also powers the hottest eBook reader this holiday season. They're sold out. If you order now you might get one in February.
Hang or Remote code execution by a malformed packet to its file sharing service. It ain't BSD. If this is the result of a decade of emphasis on code security, Microsoft has got problems that aren't in their code, they're in their culture.
An operating system takes control of the hardware and offers interfaces that allow applications to perform their functions through an abstraction that avoids having to encode hardware interaction into every application.
In addition to that the operating system allocates system resources in such a way that they may be shared by multiple users and applications.
That's all. Everything else is fluff.
What happens when Moore's law reaches it's limit, will these talents be rediscovered?
You need have no worries about Moore's Law limiting out any time soon. We've still got the entire third dimension as undiscovered country.
We were so desperate to beat up on MS after taking so damn long to give us a new OS that when it had problems we blew it out of all proportion, far beyond what empirical facts would support.
I know a lot of people who are huge Microsoft fans. People who aren't shy about saying "We're a Microsoft shop". Serious professionals with years of experience supporting hundreds and thousands of users. People who were eager to adopt Vista, and were beta testers for it. People with not just a desire to adopt Vista, but with a mandate from the top down that "we will adopt Vista". These enterprise folks have Software Assurance and their enterprise agreements allow them to just call up Microsoft and get top-flight Redmond schooled professionals to assist them in their migration. They were willing to refresh half of their end user equipment and the servers too to get 'er done, recession or no.
They tried and tried, but they just couldn't do it. Too many line-of-business apps architected on old versions of .NET, ASP and IE6. Too much unsupported hardware. Too many performance issues. Too much software to re-buy both on the client and on the server side. Too many contractor-developed apps they didn't have the source code for. After so many years of XP and embracing the internicene codependencies that are the Windows platform their infrastructure has set like concrete.
They like Windows 7 better, but it could be three or four years before they get that to go.
Yeah, I do this too. I have an LTSP server set up in the house for guests to use, so they don't compromise somebody's normal computer. Boots fast and works great. Bulk lots of corporate desktop pulls work great too and these days you can get them with a 3GHz processor and gigabit networking for about $130, including shipping. That's plenty powerful for the task.
I thought you were talking more about the commercial thin client PC's, which are tailored to this task and come in form factors so small some of them mount on the back of the monitor.
$200, $300 is missing the point. If you've going VDI, most of the money will be spent in training the end user, in the displays and their mounting. In most cases the deployment costs more than the thin client. The thin client is a trivial part of the cost, and you might as well get a good one.
Correct. I surrender the point.
I have to admit that I'm not up to the minute on Smartphones. The N900 is brilliant, but at 600MHz its processor is somewhat limited. These days we like more than 3.5" display size and at least 720p resolution with our cell phones, and HD video that doesn't lag. That's not the N900, sorry.
I'm not disagreeing with you here.
It was last year. It turned out better than we could have hoped for.
Not only did Google win the ability to attach any equipment to the network (itself as huge a win as the Carterphone decision), but the biggest deal - a nationwide block of 700MHz spectrum was not won by any bidder and still remains available.
So if the incumbent providers won't deal with Google fairly, Google can buy a single block of spectrum and give us what we want - truly open communications capability. Google has the cash to buy it, and the history to back up that if a provider won't give them what they need to meet our desires they'll go around them.
/btw, it's "jive," not "jibe". Jibe is a sailing term that means "To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a vessel to the other while sailing before the wind so as to sail on the opposite tack." cite. In the colloquial Jibe! is a command to shift the sails so as to change direction promptly. It is in no way synonymous with "jive" which in this sense would mean "agree".
Modded funny, should be insightful.
Can it be used with netbooks with cellular wireless technology like Gobi? That would rock.
I realize I'm probably being trolled by an Android or iPhone fan who wants the opposite of what he says, but I'm going to play along anyway. I forgot to bump my post points in my previous reply so I'll do it here and offer a prediction, which I seldom do:
If WiMo 7 isn't the Second Coming of phone OS's - if it doesn't launch with an open toolkit and an app store with many apps and a search function that's not Bing crippled, and in addition to that offer some revolutionary customer serving technology unheard of before, then WiMo market share two years from now (4Q 2011) will be less than 3% and trending down. Android will be >40% and trending up.
Basically my prediction revolves around the fact that we don't need Excel and Outlook on a mobile OS that sucks. What we need is a robust mobile phone OS that lets us plug it in to our other stuff. We want products that obey us and get out of our way.
The failure of WiMo is going to do horrible things to Microsoft. It will be hard to make people afraid of OS-X and Linux when they've got a copy in their pocket that serves them just fine.
Mod sibling up please.
When we can get VOIP over 3G on an open smartphone, current providers that milk their customers dry are going to shrivel like the wicked witch of the West in a torrential downpour. I'm not surprised they were upset that Google gamed the spectrum auction.
I would rather have Google for my phone company, but if they can get me what I want without spending money, more power to them. What I want is progress.
WinMo held less than 15% of the smartphone market last year. That's not "extremely popular". In tech-savvy Japan iPhone share has reached almost half. WiMo has negative growth. In fact one Gartner (we can trust Microsoft's friend Gartner not to skew the numbers away from Redmond, right?) analyst has WiMo share at a meek 7.9% in 3Q 2009, off 28% from a year before.
"From one side, the market is going open source," Cozza said. "We expect that, by 2012, around 62 percent of the whole smart phone market will be open source with Symbian, Android and other Linux flavours. On the other side, they have more closed environments like Apple and RIM. Microsoft is caught in the middle. They have to think hard what they can do."
"All their licensees - HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson - are developing on Android," Cozza said, adding that previous licensees Palm and Motorola have both abandoned Windows Mobile.
I'll agree about the ringtones thing, though - they're idiots. The thing is, there are a lot of idiots. Ringtones made up $500M in sales last year. It's shrinking fast, but to most people half a billion dollars is still a lot of money.
An important thing to note is that two or three year contracts are the norm in cell phones, so if you lose 28% of customers year over year, that's essentially everybody who could ditch your product for free. I'll say it again: that's not popular.
Now show me how I can't back my shit up.
They got what they wanted: a low or no cost OS that works, that they can customize, that isn't Windows Mobile, Palm, or some other legacy anchor most consumers know already they don't want. They do not want or need an upgradable phone O.S. They would much prefer that people renew their phones every two or three years and so stay obligated on their contracts than that they upgrade their phone O.S. That they have to buy all their ringtones and apps again is just bonus.
The NexusOne isn't for the phone providers. It's for the phone buyer who would rather pay for the phone up front and not get contractually committed to a wireless company (all of whom are notorious for milking their contractually obligated customers untily they're dry). It's for the hardware buyer who wants to stay in control of his hardware.