The others have pointed this out, so I'll just stick with a nice informative link. Up to 24GB in 6 sockets, DDR3 1600, triple channel. $234 plus shipping today. They have 23 different ones today just that support the I7.
You could give 200B to the incumbent providers, like the story says, and get not one job out of it, nor one mile of fiber. Well, they might hire an extra masseuse to work the Information Infrastructure symposium they hold in Aruba to "educate" lawmakers. Like the fine summary states, we have already tried that.
Maybe instead of bailing out the ridiculously profitable incumbents we could try something new and encourage Public Utility districts to hang fiber on their poles with the electric wires - They sell composite fiber/electrical transmission wire, and the expensive part of the operation is the labor.
But no, that's not going to happen. Instead we get this and probably a $100B Microsoft bailout to provide "Education software". Ugh. To think for a while I had hope for change.
I stick with my decade old opinion that you don't partner with Microsoft - you watch your back.
So Microsoft screw the entire non-Apple MP3 market for a couple of years. Then they bring out their own PlaysForSure player. Except it's not PlaysForSure.
This specific business strategy is called "knife the baby". A key non-technical Microsoft innovation. Who says they don't innovate?
Did you try educating them the importance of safe browsing habits?
Didn't he tell you he installed slackware? The training was unnecessary. Slackware users can pretty much click with reckless abandon. Why would he need to teach them that the internet is a perilous place where a single errant click can send your computer careening completely out of control and render it useless? That's no longer true for them.
You can find a complete and total permanent fix here or here. There are other sources, but you get the picture. We're 23 years into this Microsoft Malware problem and it's only getting worse.
Any other answer you get to this question is completely bogus.
Yeah, but good practices like having "no open ports" and "don't execute files in every damned media you mount" are good security practices. Practices that Windows fails at. Still.
They've also learned to not click on every fool link there is just because they can.
Did you explain to them that it has open login ports they can't see that are by default open to the Internet, and a bot army has immense resources to bang on the default "administrator" account all day until it picks the lock (assuming the admin account even has a password), opening them up to remote control from anonymous badguys, complete loss of private information, keyboard information capture like credit card numbers and online banking access information?
Did you mention that autorun unless carefully disabled, will automatically run programs in the root of any new media they insert, including music CDs, DVD videos, LCD picture frames, pen drives, cameras and so on?
Did you know that most forms of Linux don't have those "features"? This is relevant because those are the precise features being used to spread the worm in TFA.
No, for every Monty Python movie there's two dozen films the quality of "Glitter", "The Hottie and the Nottie" and "The Postman".
There's no way it would improve their average sales to have those actual films previewable on YouTube. They're much better off with a thumbnail view of the clamshell case.
First, MSFT stock has paid a good chunk of dividends over that 10 year period.
Microsoft did not start paying dividends until 2003. Since then they've declared $4.96 in dividends.
You're comparing growth between two companies at very different stages of maturity, which is not really fair.
My retirement account doesn't care about "fair". What it cares about is growth. You can't get growth out of a company that's got no growth potential. You can't have more of a market than all of it.
Sure, if you look at the last few months/years of equity growth, but that doesn't mean it was the better investment.
A decade is not the last few months/years. It's hopefully one third of your working life. How long should you wait to get favorable returns? half? Two thirds? If you get to 30 years and you're down to 25% of what you put into your retirement you would have been better off putting half of the money in a mattress and setting the other half on fire.
"We'd like to offer you a job. You get the same pay as the local people, but if we have to fire anybody, then we fire you first, regardless of your job performance and dedication, and then you are no longer legally in the country and have to leave immediately. What do you say?"
And you'll pay me more in a year than I might make in a lifetime in my home economy? Where do I sign?
You forgot about the settlement including a charitable donation of software licenses to schools, which of course they get to use to wipe out all of their tax liability at zero cost.
Brilliant, really. Microsoft is turning getting sued into a profit center.
My netbook could easily run Vista. It just doesn't.
So you admit you haven't tried it. Please do try it before you start with this stuff. Also with the hypothetical "would have" stuff that follows from your assumption that this would be something other that a laughably hideous user experience.
I've tried Vista on the Atom. It's not acceptable. Not even close.
Previously entangled qbits decay to the same state, even though their decay is separated by space and time.
Therefore, it's not necessary for light in its travels to cover all the granular space bits between point A and point B. The line has gaps and lands, and touching the lands between A and B is optional.
Did I miss something? You physicists and math weenies weigh in here.
MS-DOS was a very "serious entry" into the OS market
This would be a good place to point out that prior to DOS 2.0 in 1983, Microsoft DOS did not enjoy the concept of "subdirectory". At that point in time, Unix already had networking, The Internet, user vs system security, mounted volumes for user directories, real multitasking, multiuser capability, multiprocessor capability, emulation of other systems, open software, the C compiler Windows still doesn't have and a vast number of things that Microsoft either took a long time to catch up to, or hasn't caught yet. It's no accident that "Project Athena" was launched the same year. MS-DOS was serious then? You must be kidding. Many of us wonder if they're serious now.
Every year I'm amazed at the brand new Microsoft innovations I became used to back when we hung an onion on our belt.
Thanks for the info, but it's still not evidence that MS's current problems are due to Linux.
Good point. It's probably due to the dreadful economy and their conversion from growth company to utility. But Apple isn't faring badly even in the downturn, Vista is the bee's flaming immolation, and Linux is gaining share. Also, Microsoft bet the wrong way in the recent election cycle
Did the number of people who are giving away computers with Linux installed suddenly increase significantly in the last quarter?
Thanks for playing. You've given me an excuse to post a link to freegeek.
Almost every government in the US is on a 3 or 4 year replacement schedule. Those pulls are currently 3GHz 1GB RAM 40GB HDD PCs that run Linux sweetly, or W7 quite well. The governments have a good share of the jobs in this country, so even without all the PCs from business that's many millions of PCs entering the grey market each year. Many of them are donated to FreeGeeks. The various FreeGeeks take those PCs, and as many others as they can, and refit them with Linux as often as they can, and then give them away. For free.
If you want a free PC that works well and has Linux, go to your local FreeGeek. Sometimes they have laptops.
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The others have pointed this out, so I'll just stick with a nice informative link. Up to 24GB in 6 sockets, DDR3 1600, triple channel. $234 plus shipping today. They have 23 different ones today just that support the I7.
/happens to me all the time.
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You could give 200B to the incumbent providers, like the story says, and get not one job out of it, nor one mile of fiber. Well, they might hire an extra masseuse to work the Information Infrastructure symposium they hold in Aruba to "educate" lawmakers. Like the fine summary states, we have already tried that.
Maybe instead of bailing out the ridiculously profitable incumbents we could try something new and encourage Public Utility districts to hang fiber on their poles with the electric wires - They sell composite fiber/electrical transmission wire, and the expensive part of the operation is the labor.
But no, that's not going to happen. Instead we get this and probably a $100B Microsoft bailout to provide "Education software". Ugh. To think for a while I had hope for change.
I stick with my decade old opinion that you don't partner with Microsoft - you watch your back.
So Microsoft screw the entire non-Apple MP3 market for a couple of years. Then they bring out their own PlaysForSure player. Except it's not PlaysForSure.
This specific business strategy is called "knife the baby". A key non-technical Microsoft innovation. Who says they don't innovate?
Did you try educating them the importance of safe browsing habits?
Didn't he tell you he installed slackware? The training was unnecessary. Slackware users can pretty much click with reckless abandon. Why would he need to teach them that the internet is a perilous place where a single errant click can send your computer careening completely out of control and render it useless? That's no longer true for them.
You can find a complete and total permanent fix here or here. There are other sources, but you get the picture. We're 23 years into this Microsoft Malware problem and it's only getting worse.
Any other answer you get to this question is completely bogus.
What makes 2009 a special year?
Why, it's the year Antivirus 2009 was released, of course!
Yeah, but good practices like having "no open ports" and "don't execute files in every damned media you mount" are good security practices. Practices that Windows fails at. Still.
They've also learned to not click on every fool link there is just because they can.
Did you explain to them that it has open login ports they can't see that are by default open to the Internet, and a bot army has immense resources to bang on the default "administrator" account all day until it picks the lock (assuming the admin account even has a password), opening them up to remote control from anonymous badguys, complete loss of private information, keyboard information capture like credit card numbers and online banking access information?
Did you mention that autorun unless carefully disabled, will automatically run programs in the root of any new media they insert, including music CDs, DVD videos, LCD picture frames, pen drives, cameras and so on?
Did you know that most forms of Linux don't have those "features"? This is relevant because those are the precise features being used to spread the worm in TFA.
it forces the MPAA's feet into their mouths.
No, for every Monty Python movie there's two dozen films the quality of "Glitter", "The Hottie and the Nottie" and "The Postman".
There's no way it would improve their average sales to have those actual films previewable on YouTube. They're much better off with a thumbnail view of the clamshell case.
First, MSFT stock has paid a good chunk of dividends over that 10 year period.
Microsoft did not start paying dividends until 2003. Since then they've declared $4.96 in dividends.
You're comparing growth between two companies at very different stages of maturity, which is not really fair.
My retirement account doesn't care about "fair". What it cares about is growth. You can't get growth out of a company that's got no growth potential. You can't have more of a market than all of it.
Sure, if you look at the last few months/years of equity growth, but that doesn't mean it was the better investment.
A decade is not the last few months/years. It's hopefully one third of your working life. How long should you wait to get favorable returns? half? Two thirds? If you get to 30 years and you're down to 25% of what you put into your retirement you would have been better off putting half of the money in a mattress and setting the other half on fire.
Yeah, it's got nothing to do with open ports and autorun enabled by default. That would be crazy talk.
"We'd like to offer you a job. You get the same pay as the local people, but if we have to fire anybody, then we fire you first, regardless of your job performance and dedication, and then you are no longer legally in the country and have to leave immediately. What do you say?"
And you'll pay me more in a year than I might make in a lifetime in my home economy? Where do I sign?
You forgot about the settlement including a charitable donation of software licenses to schools, which of course they get to use to wipe out all of their tax liability at zero cost.
Brilliant, really. Microsoft is turning getting sued into a profit center.
My netbook could easily run Vista. It just doesn't.
So you admit you haven't tried it. Please do try it before you start with this stuff. Also with the hypothetical "would have" stuff that follows from your assumption that this would be something other that a laughably hideous user experience.
I've tried Vista on the Atom. It's not acceptable. Not even close.
Then it's a historical artifact.
Seriously the guy has the systemic perception of a really slow thing.
Previously entangled qbits decay to the same state, even though their decay is separated by space and time.
Therefore, it's not necessary for light in its travels to cover all the granular space bits between point A and point B. The line has gaps and lands, and touching the lands between A and B is optional.
Did I miss something? You physicists and math weenies weigh in here.
Can we blame W32.Conflicker yet or do we have to wait?
Does this DDoS run Linux or OS-X?
Really. We want to know.
The best opportunity shares space with the greatest risk.
Look, I knew two of the "Boys from Boca". They knew their stuff. They could make an OS if they cared. They really didn't care.
They hosed that, and we still pay. That bites. I'd hate them for that, but they did teach me some useful stuff so I can't. You can though.
MS-DOS was a very "serious entry" into the OS market
This would be a good place to point out that prior to DOS 2.0 in 1983, Microsoft DOS did not enjoy the concept of "subdirectory". At that point in time, Unix already had networking, The Internet , user vs system security, mounted volumes for user directories, real multitasking, multiuser capability, multiprocessor capability, emulation of other systems, open software, the C compiler Windows still doesn't have and a vast number of things that Microsoft either took a long time to catch up to, or hasn't caught yet. It's no accident that "Project Athena" was launched the same year. MS-DOS was serious then? You must be kidding. Many of us wonder if they're serious now.
Every year I'm amazed at the brand new Microsoft innovations I became used to back when we hung an onion on our belt.
Thanks for the info, but it's still not evidence that MS's current problems are due to Linux.
Good point. It's probably due to the dreadful economy and their conversion from growth company to utility. But Apple isn't faring badly even in the downturn, Vista is the bee's flaming immolation, and Linux is gaining share. Also, Microsoft bet the wrong way in the recent election cycle
So there's hope for change. I'm for it.
They are reaping what they've sown with their Windows-for-everything strategy.
Wait!, no! Windows for Warships and Windows for Submarines were the right products for the right time.
If the right time was FREAKING NEVER.
If you have a local freegeek, I would go there. They have PCs for free, from the current decade. With Linux.
Did the number of people who are giving away computers with Linux installed suddenly increase significantly in the last quarter?
Thanks for playing. You've given me an excuse to post a link to freegeek.
Almost every government in the US is on a 3 or 4 year replacement schedule. Those pulls are currently 3GHz 1GB RAM 40GB HDD PCs that run Linux sweetly, or W7 quite well. The governments have a good share of the jobs in this country, so even without all the PCs from business that's many millions of PCs entering the grey market each year. Many of them are donated to FreeGeeks. The various FreeGeeks take those PCs, and as many others as they can, and refit them with Linux as often as they can, and then give them away. For free.
If you want a free PC that works well and has Linux, go to your local FreeGeek. Sometimes they have laptops.
Don't you feel like you've done well now?