What he really liked, apparently, was the fact that the hardware was cheap and easily replaceable. It's a win for clustering, certainly, but is it a win for Linux?
What I think he really liked is that it could result in the same number of sales of databases and fewer sales of Microsoft OS. Larry hates Microsoft with a passion. He tried to use network computing to attack it and didn't really get anywhere. It must keep him up at nights thinking that Oracle installations running on NT are providing money to Microsoft to develop and market their own database products.
Just make sure to use a cross-cur shreader. I saw on the news last night folks were taping the enron papers back together. How's that for a crappy job?
Anyone check out the wording on the website? It sounds like it was generated with Emacs dissociated press. Now that is a prepetual source of gibberish.
Put a lot of money into developing a fuel efficient car. Market it well, price it competitively. But if it must be driven on the left side, or is 12' wide, you won't sell any (substitute right for left in UK, Japan, Australia, etc.). This is what a barrier to entry is. A product can be better than the M$ version, and still fail.
This must be why I did so poorly in my econ class. I thought that allowing companys to merge and destroy competition lowered prices and improved service to customers. Good thing I got this cushy programmer's job:)
Well, I didn't calim it would work in every case (otherwise, it could compress anything to 1 byte). Compressing twice usually isn't worth it even if it does make the file a bit smaller.
I had one of those when I was a kid. It was a circular disk made of some sort of silica compound. The only problem was that it had to be heald at just the right angle, and in a beam of sunlight in order to work:)
This is a great business model. Tell the Gov't how much you think you should be making and how much you are making and they tax other goods to make up the difference.
Would you like to be able to run two Linuxes simultaneously on the same box?
Actually, I'd like to be able to run one Linux on N boxes, or M Linuxes on N boxes where M!=N. Just immagine a cluster of 50 machines where the failure of one machine has no effect on the operation of the cluster as a whole. There are some good projects in this area, but I don't think they can quite offer this kind of transparency.
Finally, Microsoft has named two people to help it comply with the proposed settlement.
If you read more carefully:
Guyton will be responsible for making sure Microsoft employees don't run afoul of employment and anti-discrimination statutes or violate laws governing civil rights, competition, foreign trade or privacy, among others.
Probaby a very important thing for a company of this size to do, but this doesn't really sound like it is related to the anti-trust panel.
If secure boot cannot be assured, then whatever rights management system the secure OS provides, the computer can always be booted into an insecure operating system as a step to compromise it.
Sounds like a lot of work for the OS to be doing. This could be good news for Wintel as faster processors will be needed to keep up. OTOH, some people may find a way to fool the computer into thinking their executable is DRM compliant. Sad to think about having to break into your own computer.
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What he really liked, apparently, was the fact that the hardware was cheap and easily replaceable. It's a win for clustering, certainly, but is it a win for Linux?
What I think he really liked is that it could result in the same number of sales of databases and fewer sales of Microsoft OS. Larry hates Microsoft with a passion. He tried to use network computing to attack it and didn't really get anywhere. It must keep him up at nights thinking that Oracle installations running on NT are providing money to Microsoft to develop and market their own database products.
Or just shread and collect the even columns into one dumpster, odd into another.
Just make sure to use a cross-cur shreader. I saw on the news last night folks were taping the enron papers back together. How's that for a crappy job?
Anyone check out the wording on the website? It sounds like it was generated with Emacs dissociated press. Now that is a prepetual source of gibberish.
How many evil companies would even bother discovering things if they could not be pantented? Do you think new drugs just grow on trees?
Damn, they even sell 'Freedom to innovate' t-shirts and mugs there...
Let me guess, the shirts have 3 arms but no kneck or waist openings.
Put a lot of money into developing a fuel efficient car. Market it well, price it competitively. But if it must be driven on the left side, or is 12' wide, you won't sell any (substitute right for left in UK, Japan, Australia, etc.). This is what a barrier to entry is. A product can be better than the M$ version, and still fail.
Is it April 1 already?
"The word un-blow-upable is tossed around a lot these days but..."
(BOOM)
This must be why I did so poorly in my econ class. I thought that allowing companys to merge and destroy competition lowered prices and improved service to customers. Good thing I got this cushy programmer's job:)
Well, I didn't calim it would work in every case (otherwise, it could compress anything to 1 byte). Compressing twice usually isn't worth it even if it does make the file a bit smaller.
That6's the whole point, gzip can't compress a gz file anymore
.25%, but it did compress again.
% cat xkobo-1.11.tar | gzip -c9 | wc -c
71789
% cat xkobo-1.11.tar | gzip -c9 | gzip -c9 | wc -c
71608
Now that's only saving
MMMMM, W32.Donut.
I had one of those when I was a kid. It was a circular disk made of some sort of silica compound. The only problem was that it had to be heald at just the right angle, and in a beam of sunlight in order to work :)
This is a great business model. Tell the Gov't how much you think you should be making and how much you are making and they tax other goods to make up the difference.
How much would slashdotters pay to be guaranteed never to hear another song by insync, Brittney Spears, (insert other group here)?
Or just make sure you are online when you open the file, or check your computer for dongles before you power it on.
Look into the lens, now please tell me in single words only the good things that come to mind about your mother...
Would you like to be able to run two Linuxes simultaneously on the same box?
Actually, I'd like to be able to run one Linux on N boxes, or M Linuxes on N boxes where M!=N. Just immagine a cluster of 50 machines where the failure of one machine has no effect on the operation of the cluster as a whole. There are some good projects in this area, but I don't think they can quite offer this kind of transparency.
There is a secret message:
ATCGATCGATCGATCGACTGAC...
All Your base-pair are belong to us!
...TCGATCGAGCTAGACGTCGTGC
I wonder if they are going to have TicketMaster sell the tickets. They are almost as evil as the RIAA.
It's only a northern sun.
Finally, Microsoft has named two people to help it comply with the proposed settlement.
If you read more carefully:
Guyton will be responsible for making sure Microsoft employees don't run afoul of employment and anti-discrimination statutes or violate laws governing civil rights, competition, foreign trade or privacy, among others.
Probaby a very important thing for a company of this size to do, but this doesn't really sound like it is related to the anti-trust panel.
If secure boot cannot be assured, then whatever rights management system the secure OS provides, the computer can always be booted into an insecure operating system as a step to compromise it.
Now wait, Windows is the secure operating system?
Sounds like a lot of work for the OS to be doing. This could be good news for Wintel as faster processors will be needed to keep up. OTOH, some people may find a way to fool the computer into thinking their executable is DRM compliant. Sad to think about having to break into your own computer.