Do any of these have any significant market share? Now Google is going to try a 4th time. I'd say it fails again.
This is all they need to do to maintain dominance
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Implement many new browser features that have caught on in Opera, Mozilla & Firefox. Secure it up a little. As long as its bundled with the operating system, and they pay a little lip service in the press to improved security, Joe User will continue taking the path of least resistance, i.e., IE (pun intended)
one of the the primary reasons that things like PHP and Perl constantly change is so that guys like this can keep writing books and running training classes?
The shitty thing about the Geneva convention is that it assumes everybody is civilized and will play by the same rules. If that doesn't happen, one side is at a decisive disadvantage.
Consider what the North Vietnamese did to US forces.
Do you not think there were people subject to stronger, Nazi torture techniques day and night for 3 years? No wait, they probably weren't because they died before that long. I'm not dismissing what's happening, I'm dismissing the analogy... big difference, at least to me.
Perhaps you should go back and read what tortures the Gestapo & SS used before drawing the analogy?
While I'm not condoning torture, what's being reported at Gitmo is extremely mild in comparison.
You can't just take the community as a whole, and assume it has widespread adoption as a primary goal.
Gee in one post I'm a running capitalist dog and in another I'm a OSS zealot. Cool!
I base my observation of the desire for OSS to go forth, be fruitful and multiply on reading the sentiments of (mostly) pro-OSS people on forums like this one.
If you have the most perfect desktop in environment known since the invention of the desk and jyou are the only person using it, is it successful? To you maybe, but to you only.
Not a thing if you're content with Microsoft's current market share.
If you're in the "OSS will rule the world" crowd, you need to understand that in order to succeed, you will need to adapt to what users want, not the other way around.
If most OSS is developed by developers based on what they choose to implement, then OSS will be limited mostly to developers.
Real, for-profit development succeeds mostly by doing something the customer wants. That's the real-world bar that's been set by "the rest of the user community". By failing to listen to and develop to their requests, OSS risks becoming perceived as elitist, which will hamper wide-spread adoption.
Well, as Mark Twain once said, "land if the one think that God's not making more of". There's a finite amount.
I think 20 years would qualify as a long-term investmnent in just about anybody's book. But, perhaps unlike some people, I didn't buy a house as an investment. I bought a house to own the place I live in. The appreciation in value has been a major upside, but it's not my motivating factor. I bought my first house in 1988, sold it when I married to buy a bigger place and start a family. I'm in no hurry to sell now, top of the market or not. It's paid for. I own it lock, stock and barrel. No f-ing mortgage payments and I like it that way just fine, tyvm.
If you're so very sure of yourself, short real-estate related stocks. You'll clean up.
You're right, it was the late eighties, not early nineties. I remember houses being on the market longer (6 months was not uncommon) but I do not recall a significant drop in median selling price.
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Do any of these have any significant market share? Now Google is going to try a 4th time. I'd say it fails again.
Implement many new browser features that have caught on in Opera, Mozilla & Firefox. Secure it up a little. As long as its bundled with the operating system, and they pay a little lip service in the press to improved security, Joe User will continue taking the path of least resistance, i.e., IE (pun intended)
that they could have managed to reserve a theater. :)
See Metcalfe's law in previous article.
one of the the primary reasons that things like PHP and Perl constantly change is so that guys like this can keep writing books and running training classes?
After you my dear Alphonse
Yeah, its not like they ever offer any fixes or anything. Get real.
Forget the Holocaust. Just look at POWs.
The shitty thing about the Geneva convention is that it assumes everybody is civilized and will play by the same rules. If that doesn't happen, one side is at a decisive disadvantage.
Consider what the North Vietnamese did to US forces.
Also, while we're at it, where would you personally draw the line with regards to interrogation? What could and could not be done?
Do you not think there were people subject to stronger, Nazi torture techniques day and night for 3 years? No wait, they probably weren't because they died before that long. I'm not dismissing what's happening, I'm dismissing the analogy... big difference, at least to me.
Perhaps you should go back and read what tortures the Gestapo & SS used before drawing the analogy? While I'm not condoning torture, what's being reported at Gitmo is extremely mild in comparison.
Apple offered no choice in hw vendor. Customers obviously wanted one.
Gee in one post I'm a running capitalist dog and in another I'm a OSS zealot. Cool!
I base my observation of the desire for OSS to go forth, be fruitful and multiply on reading the sentiments of (mostly) pro-OSS people on forums like this one.
If you're so in love with the idiot-centric commercial model, just go buy some more of it and leave us alone.
See my elitist comment above.
If you have the most perfect desktop in environment known since the invention of the desk and jyou are the only person using it, is it successful? To you maybe, but to you only.
If you're in the "OSS will rule the world" crowd, you need to understand that in order to succeed, you will need to adapt to what users want, not the other way around.
Did you RTFA? Most end-users are not sw developers.
Real, for-profit development succeeds mostly by doing something the customer wants. That's the real-world bar that's been set by "the rest of the user community". By failing to listen to and develop to their requests, OSS risks becoming perceived as elitist, which will hamper wide-spread adoption.
Shut up and eat your differently ableds. No dessert until you do.
No it will be PiXXXar, a wholly-owned subsdidiary. :)
My mistake. I thought Jobs lived in Atherton/Woodside.
when compared to say, a CD containing said rescue sw? Sounds to me a lot more like justifying the iPod purchase.
Well, as Mark Twain once said, "land if the one think that God's not making more of". There's a finite amount. I think 20 years would qualify as a long-term investmnent in just about anybody's book. But, perhaps unlike some people, I didn't buy a house as an investment. I bought a house to own the place I live in. The appreciation in value has been a major upside, but it's not my motivating factor. I bought my first house in 1988, sold it when I married to buy a bigger place and start a family. I'm in no hurry to sell now, top of the market or not. It's paid for. I own it lock, stock and barrel. No f-ing mortgage payments and I like it that way just fine, tyvm. If you're so very sure of yourself, short real-estate related stocks. You'll clean up.
You're right, it was the late eighties, not early nineties. I remember houses being on the market longer (6 months was not uncommon) but I do not recall a significant drop in median selling price.
How? By lowering their expectations, that's how.