When an OEM decides to load Linux on a certain class of PC, that's no small thing.
Jedidiah, I know this is going to aggravate your condition, but open a blank Microsoft Word document. Type this text 10pt Venn diagram and print it:
. o
The dot is people who care. The o is people who pretend to care. The whitespace is the people on Earth who do not care enough to even pretend. Study it for a while and then try to think peaceful thoughts. Go to your happy place. It's OK to cry.
They used to hide "right sizing" in the legions of temps.. but of course now it's better to shed the real employees and keep the temps!
Ya think? Having been a temp in this whole blue-badge, green-badge continuous reorganization scheme I can speak to this. In this environment the temp's got a lot of leverage. He can afford to call a turd a turd and not say it has potential. He can make fun of PHBs. He can do honest work and contribute without fear his out-of-scale achievements become the flag that gets him targeted for political career assassination. He can take bigger risks without fear of being labeled a 10%er. He has the power of laughter, and oh, what a power that is. He can do this because - what are they going to do? Fire him?
But this isn't Microsoft specific. I've never worked for them and I probably won't - they would have to pay enough more than I was worth to make me feel like I was exploiting them. Seinfeld money maybe. I would for what he got paid, and I think I could give them what they got for what they paid him.
They're just saying this to "look busy" so the stock market will still like them.
Agreed. Do you think anybody will notice their stock is worth half of what it was ten years ago today? Apple's good for 10x your money in the same period. For you 401K folks that's the leverage that investing in a growth company gives you. Companies that have achieved monopoly have no growth potential - the best they can hope for is graceful decline potentially (but rarely) followed by a bet-the company reinvention of process. This is going to surprise a lot of you dollar-cost-averaging investors, but betting that a company will survive the retirement of its founders is a very bad bet. If you start investing in a company at the beginning of your working life, and keep your money in that company throughout your careers, 95% of the time you'll lose it all because founders of companies don't have longer working lives than you do.
If you would like to view a video without the use of persistent cookies, a link to download the video file is typically provided just below the video.
Actually, the video is at whitehouse.gov if you click the "download movie" link you get the mp4 from whitehouse.gov directly. Only if you want the embedded video in youtube's flash player do you need to click the player and get your youtube cookie, and that's disclosed in the privacy statement. That's fair.
And if you don't like MP4? Convert it to your preferred format and publish it. It's public domain. You have that right. Mix the audio into whatever you want. Dice it up and spin it any way you like. Have fun with it. Sell the original or your compilation if you can, or use it to draw eyes to your ads. You get to do that with stuff in the public domain.
The POTUS headlines three stories on the/. main page, and not only did nobody get killed - they're all news for nerds, and they're all positive. Shoot, two of them are even stuff that matters. A POTUS trifecta on/.
That's the (former) President Elect's Youtube account's videos, ChangeDotGov. You're looking for the "whitehouse" account's videos. They also have the "Download" link.
The Official Channel of the White House. (These videos are public domain per White House copyright policy)
And just like that the wind changed direction. These folks do indeed know their stuff and they're hitting the ground running. Those videos were up sooner than I would have though possible for government work. Can you believe it's only day three? What will tomorrow bring? Are they going to hire a video enabled Truth Corps to stream American Success Stories from every corner of the land to defeat the drumbeat of doom from the mainstream media? Solicit same from the general public? Offer tours of Area 51 and revive the economy with the proceeds from the gift shop? What? I'm actually excited to know.
Oh, [tinfoil hat] and if there's been a "Whitehouse" account on youtube since Joined: January 21, 2006, where are the videos from before three days ago? Was it always there unused, or was there content there that now is gone? [/tinfoil hat]
You clearly underestimate the necessity of such a useful feature as autorun. Sure, Microsoft innovates in this area, but the feature is becoming more common in all devices.
My cell phone has auto-answer. My dvr has auto-record. My paper shredder even automatically runs when you put paper in.
There is a downside of course. The auto-run on the disposal has mangled a fork and a few spoons. The auto-run on the table saw was the most disconcerting, but if you're on your toes about precautions nothing bad will happen.
Her eyes sparkled in the afternoon sun as you leaned in to share the secret. As you spoke, timid and hopeful, her smile grew. "Ooh. That sounds like fun. I'd like to try that.
"But it's two hundred up front and the options are extra."
I'm not sure, but I think for Linux it was nothing per server plus nothing per CPU. But you had to pay double if you used over 4 gigs of RAM, and virtualization had a whole different set of multipliers.
I was actually quite excited when vista came out as I was hoping that promises would be kept and my life would be made easier by not having to help friends and family sort their computers out once every six months.
That isn't going to change ever. Get yourself an external USB drive and a pendrive with clonezilla. After you put them back together next time, make a clone of their hard drive. That way next time you can be done in 20 minutes.
I have seen it written in the press a number of times that Vista is the greatest gift Microsoft could have given Apple and Linux. Google it up yourself. Another year of this and they'll be cracking interesting market shares. Microsoft can't afford to many more successes like this one.
Like hell I did. The demand curve is a very specific measure of demand vs price over time. When a technology is introduced, a small number of people are willing to pay an early adopter premium. After a while, more common demand will pay less, but still a profitable amount. In the long run everyone will pay a commodity price. In the demand tail nobody is willing to pay anything but salvage prices because tech has moved on. The demand curve is the basis for a lot of economic theory.
The thing is it's not a smooth slope, and control of the market does funny things to it. People are resistant to control. They are far more resistant to obvious control than non-obvious control. At some stages of the demand curve, branding is a bad thing. When there are competing technologies - the general forum of Sony's FAIL, the problem gets three dimensional.
Maybe this is more complicated than I let on. I think maybe Sony needs some full time help with this.
and, of course, since he told you that himself and you found him interesting to talk to, you automatically assumed he actually was very smart.
You can be forgiven for thinking that, being as how we're discussing the question on an informal message board, but no... we were in the military and I had access to his whole file. 165 was his official IQ score on an actual test administered by a registered psychologist. He's the only guy I've ever met that I'm sure had a higher IQ score than me - mostly because I don't have a registered psychologist to measure y'all.
Thanks for playing though. I'm sure you scored well on the inkblot.
SONY: When you develop a new medium, and it looks like the best thing, be patient.
When the director of the division comes to you and says, "now is the time to strike" he has measured the market and he's wrong. Fire him on the spot and mark your calendar. Cut your margins to almost zero and grant liberal terms for limited periods. Three years from that day, the time is ripe. You will then win and can then charge as much as the market will bear.
Or don't... and I will taunt you again.
Poor bastards probably aren't reading this anyway.
Their failure is about their insistence on seizing control before the proper point in the demand curve. Everything they do where they split control with somebody else is irrelevant to the question because when they do that they lack the failure mode control that they use to prevent their own success.
Is that so hard? They shoot themselves in the foot over and over. It's not my fault.
I wonder if the noise this breakthrough removed was the same noise observed there or a ddifferent kind?
Neither. The world-as-you-know it is imaginary. The rest of us are really not here. All of this stimulus is being fed directly into your brain by a computer. You're in a coma, and not likely to recover. Sorry, dude. We'll make it look as close to real as we can. (Roll cheerleader porn).
With few exceptions, most of them have substantially more obnoxious licenses than the software you'd be wanting to audit in the first place.
Of course they do. They couldn't set the bad example of being the least obnoxious, could they? Their customers might not think they were serious about enforcing their quite reasonable terms, if the enforcer didn't have less reasonable terms. See MPAA, etc.
Look, you seem like the average unbiased poster so I'm going to give you a few tips even though I'm going to be modded off topic.
If you're going to defend Microsoft or one of their products on/., you need to observe a few simple rules:
Don't ask for proof of Microsoft malfeasance. You'll just get proof, and that doesn't serve your goal. Read the series of Halloween documents for an introduction to how much we know. It's scary.
Don't ask questions you don't know the answer to. That's good guidance for lawyers, too. You'll get answers you don't want.
Don't ask about someone else's experience. Their experience isn't going to help your cause, and you'll get replies from the least helpful people.
Do brag features, but do it with some understanding of the features. Don't just list the marketing babble. Don't brag more than three features at a time because it's then obvious you're typing them from a list. Do brag features that seem important to the parent poster.
If you must employ "anecdotes are not proof" be prepared for a swarm of people who confirm the anecdote. Nearly a billion people use MS software. Given enough experience, every failure mode is common. Every anecdote is common here and you would be surprised how selection bias draws people with shared anecdotes to slashdot just in time to skew the replies.
If it's allowed in your contract, do be specific: What platform worked well on Vista, how much RAM did you have? What video card? If you must avoid vendor bias, split the vendors by market share and let the astroturfers brag up proportionate systems - if they work. And if they don't work, leave it alone.
Slashdot has a grand bullshit detector, so don't lie. If you lie, the lie is not just going to be modded down - the responses to the lie are going to be modded up and be the only thing that people see, so the lie does more damage than silence would.
There are more rules, but this should help quite a bit for now.
SCO is dead. They'll convert to liquidation any day now. At least one would hope so. Nobody knows how long that zombie has to shamble.
there's no such thing as no lawsuit exposure.
Thatistrueenough but to accept that as a premise is to refuse to do business. There is some middle ground where businesses can still operate in where the risk is acceptible. Limiting your exposure by avoiding licensing agreements that include the right to sue you if you overdeploy seems wise, and licensing agreements that include the right to audit you more so. Especially when there are options available that include terms like "use all you want for free".
(i'd like to see documented example of it)
Meet Ernie Ball. But wait... that wasn't Microsoft... that was their representatives, the Business Software Alliance! Same same. Evil by proxy is still evil.
Slashdot Mirror
When an OEM decides to load Linux on a certain class of PC, that's no small thing.
Jedidiah, I know this is going to aggravate your condition, but open a blank Microsoft Word document. Type this text 10pt Venn diagram and print it:
. o
The dot is people who care. The o is people who pretend to care. The whitespace is the people on Earth who do not care enough to even pretend. Study it for a while and then try to think peaceful thoughts. Go to your happy place. It's OK to cry.
That's a lowercase 'o'.
The current crop of netbooks are powerful enough to run Vista.
Stop right there. Every thing after this sounds like "Waaargarbl".
Don't forget Dell.
They used to hide "right sizing" in the legions of temps.. but of course now it's better to shed the real employees and keep the temps!
Ya think? Having been a temp in this whole blue-badge, green-badge continuous reorganization scheme I can speak to this. In this environment the temp's got a lot of leverage. He can afford to call a turd a turd and not say it has potential. He can make fun of PHBs. He can do honest work and contribute without fear his out-of-scale achievements become the flag that gets him targeted for political career assassination. He can take bigger risks without fear of being labeled a 10%er. He has the power of laughter, and oh, what a power that is. He can do this because - what are they going to do? Fire him?
But this isn't Microsoft specific. I've never worked for them and I probably won't - they would have to pay enough more than I was worth to make me feel like I was exploiting them. Seinfeld money maybe. I would for what he got paid, and I think I could give them what they got for what they paid him.
They're just saying this to "look busy" so the stock market will still like them.
Agreed. Do you think anybody will notice their stock is worth half of what it was ten years ago today? Apple's good for 10x your money in the same period. For you 401K folks that's the leverage that investing in a growth company gives you. Companies that have achieved monopoly have no growth potential - the best they can hope for is graceful decline potentially (but rarely) followed by a bet-the company reinvention of process. This is going to surprise a lot of you dollar-cost-averaging investors, but betting that a company will survive the retirement of its founders is a very bad bet. If you start investing in a company at the beginning of your working life, and keep your money in that company throughout your careers, 95% of the time you'll lose it all because founders of companies don't have longer working lives than you do.
If you would like to view a video without the use of persistent cookies, a link to download the video file is typically provided just below the video.
Actually, the video is at whitehouse.gov if you click the "download movie" link you get the mp4 from whitehouse.gov directly. Only if you want the embedded video in youtube's flash player do you need to click the player and get your youtube cookie, and that's disclosed in the privacy statement. That's fair.
And if you don't like MP4? Convert it to your preferred format and publish it. It's public domain. You have that right. Mix the audio into whatever you want. Dice it up and spin it any way you like. Have fun with it. Sell the original or your compilation if you can, or use it to draw eyes to your ads. You get to do that with stuff in the public domain.
The POTUS headlines three stories on the /. main page, and not only did nobody get killed - they're all news for nerds, and they're all positive. Shoot, two of them are even stuff that matters. A POTUS trifecta on /.
I have to go lie down now.
That's the (former) President Elect's Youtube account's videos, ChangeDotGov. You're looking for the "whitehouse" account's videos. They also have the "Download" link.
The Official Channel of the White House. (These videos are public domain per White House copyright policy)
And just like that the wind changed direction. These folks do indeed know their stuff and they're hitting the ground running. Those videos were up sooner than I would have though possible for government work. Can you believe it's only day three? What will tomorrow bring? Are they going to hire a video enabled Truth Corps to stream American Success Stories from every corner of the land to defeat the drumbeat of doom from the mainstream media? Solicit same from the general public? Offer tours of Area 51 and revive the economy with the proceeds from the gift shop? What? I'm actually excited to know.
Oh, [tinfoil hat] and if there's been a "Whitehouse" account on youtube since Joined: January 21, 2006, where are the videos from before three days ago? Was it always there unused, or was there content there that now is gone? [/tinfoil hat]
The Tao of Programming
Being "interpreted" is not a property of the language, merely of some implementation of the language.
I wrote an interpreter for assembler once as a proof of concept. It worked. I got class credit. It's not even hard to do.
By your definition then, even assembler is therefore an "interpreted" language. That's just silly.
Meh. You could replace it all with 1MB of APL.
Ick. 1MB of APL code? Was that much ever written?
This joke works better as "do you want to pay for that per server or per user?"
You clearly underestimate the necessity of such a useful feature as autorun. Sure, Microsoft innovates in this area, but the feature is becoming more common in all devices.
My cell phone has auto-answer. My dvr has auto-record. My paper shredder even automatically runs when you put paper in.
There is a downside of course. The auto-run on the disposal has mangled a fork and a few spoons. The auto-run on the table saw was the most disconcerting, but if you're on your toes about precautions nothing bad will happen.
Her eyes sparkled in the afternoon sun as you leaned in to share the secret. As you spoke, timid and hopeful, her smile grew. "Ooh. That sounds like fun. I'd like to try that.
"But it's two hundred up front and the options are extra."
I'm not sure, but I think for Linux it was nothing per server plus nothing per CPU. But you had to pay double if you used over 4 gigs of RAM, and virtualization had a whole different set of multipliers.
I was actually quite excited when vista came out as I was hoping that promises would be kept and my life would be made easier by not having to help friends and family sort their computers out once every six months.
That isn't going to change ever. Get yourself an external USB drive and a pendrive with clonezilla. After you put them back together next time, make a clone of their hard drive. That way next time you can be done in 20 minutes.
This doesn't mean OS X is doing well
I have seen it written in the press a number of times that Vista is the greatest gift Microsoft could have given Apple and Linux. Google it up yourself. Another year of this and they'll be cracking interesting market shares. Microsoft can't afford to many more successes like this one.
Me. You got a problem with that?
You neglected a very important factor; cost.
Like hell I did. The demand curve is a very specific measure of demand vs price over time. When a technology is introduced, a small number of people are willing to pay an early adopter premium. After a while, more common demand will pay less, but still a profitable amount. In the long run everyone will pay a commodity price. In the demand tail nobody is willing to pay anything but salvage prices because tech has moved on. The demand curve is the basis for a lot of economic theory.
The thing is it's not a smooth slope, and control of the market does funny things to it. People are resistant to control. They are far more resistant to obvious control than non-obvious control. At some stages of the demand curve, branding is a bad thing. When there are competing technologies - the general forum of Sony's FAIL, the problem gets three dimensional.
Maybe this is more complicated than I let on. I think maybe Sony needs some full time help with this.
and, of course, since he told you that himself and you found him interesting to talk to, you automatically assumed he actually was very smart.
You can be forgiven for thinking that, being as how we're discussing the question on an informal message board, but no... we were in the military and I had access to his whole file. 165 was his official IQ score on an actual test administered by a registered psychologist. He's the only guy I've ever met that I'm sure had a higher IQ score than me - mostly because I don't have a registered psychologist to measure y'all.
Thanks for playing though. I'm sure you scored well on the inkblot.
So I'll give this guidance for free.
SONY: When you develop a new medium, and it looks like the best thing, be patient.
When the director of the division comes to you and says, "now is the time to strike" he has measured the market and he's wrong. Fire him on the spot and mark your calendar. Cut your margins to almost zero and grant liberal terms for limited periods. Three years from that day, the time is ripe. You will then win and can then charge as much as the market will bear.
Or don't... and I will taunt you again.
Poor bastards probably aren't reading this anyway.
Their failure is about their insistence on seizing control before the proper point in the demand curve. Everything they do where they split control with somebody else is irrelevant to the question because when they do that they lack the failure mode control that they use to prevent their own success.
Is that so hard? They shoot themselves in the foot over and over. It's not my fault.
I wonder if the noise this breakthrough removed was the same noise observed there or a ddifferent kind?
Neither. The world-as-you-know it is imaginary. The rest of us are really not here. All of this stimulus is being fed directly into your brain by a computer. You're in a coma, and not likely to recover. Sorry, dude. We'll make it look as close to real as we can. (Roll cheerleader porn).
With few exceptions, most of them have substantially more obnoxious licenses than the software you'd be wanting to audit in the first place.
Of course they do. They couldn't set the bad example of being the least obnoxious, could they? Their customers might not think they were serious about enforcing their quite reasonable terms, if the enforcer didn't have less reasonable terms. See MPAA, etc.
Look, you seem like the average unbiased poster so I'm going to give you a few tips even though I'm going to be modded off topic.
If you're going to defend Microsoft or one of their products on /., you need to observe a few simple rules:
Don't ask for proof of Microsoft malfeasance. You'll just get proof, and that doesn't serve your goal. Read the series of Halloween documents for an introduction to how much we know. It's scary.
Don't ask questions you don't know the answer to. That's good guidance for lawyers, too. You'll get answers you don't want.
Don't ask about someone else's experience. Their experience isn't going to help your cause, and you'll get replies from the least helpful people.
Do brag features, but do it with some understanding of the features. Don't just list the marketing babble. Don't brag more than three features at a time because it's then obvious you're typing them from a list. Do brag features that seem important to the parent poster.
If you must employ "anecdotes are not proof" be prepared for a swarm of people who confirm the anecdote. Nearly a billion people use MS software. Given enough experience, every failure mode is common. Every anecdote is common here and you would be surprised how selection bias draws people with shared anecdotes to slashdot just in time to skew the replies.
If it's allowed in your contract, do be specific: What platform worked well on Vista, how much RAM did you have? What video card? If you must avoid vendor bias, split the vendors by market share and let the astroturfers brag up proportionate systems - if they work. And if they don't work, leave it alone.
Slashdot has a grand bullshit detector, so don't lie. If you lie, the lie is not just going to be modded down - the responses to the lie are going to be modded up and be the only thing that people see, so the lie does more damage than silence would.
There are more rules, but this should help quite a bit for now.
SCO is dead. They'll convert to liquidation any day now. At least one would hope so. Nobody knows how long that zombie has to shamble.
there's no such thing as no lawsuit exposure.
That is true enough but to accept that as a premise is to refuse to do business. There is some middle ground where businesses can still operate in where the risk is acceptible. Limiting your exposure by avoiding licensing agreements that include the right to sue you if you overdeploy seems wise, and licensing agreements that include the right to audit you more so. Especially when there are options available that include terms like "use all you want for free".
(i'd like to see documented example of it)
Meet Ernie Ball. But wait... that wasn't Microsoft... that was their representatives, the Business Software Alliance! Same same. Evil by proxy is still evil.