The internet cafes in China are not going to run Linux anytime soon.
Why?
Because the cafe users are gamers, mostly. They use the *cheap* internet connection to play one of tons of different windows only MMORPGs(And that includes World of Warcraft.) or Online shooters.(Used to be counterstrike.)
To ask those internet cafes to run Linux is to ask them to get rid of their source of profits.
I know for a fact that 95% of the Chinese/Indian workers here have at least a graduate degree. And a large number of them also have a doctorate degree. Because it is exceedingly hard to apply for a H1B visa without an advanced degree obtained in States.
And a lot of them got it from the top tier universities in States.
The large part of internet has nothing to do with open source. I am not talking about Apache web servers that run every geek's personal web site that no one bothers to visit. I am talking about the internet routers.
If those routers are using OSS, it would take 10 minutes just to load up slashdot's front page.
Have you realized, instead of trying to pry open the potential victim's brain and steal their "w3irdPa33w0rD", now the thief only need to steal, you know what, their smartcard! Woohoo! You just did their career a big favor.
the petstore was originally a demo application written by sun. it was a tutorial tool to demo how to use some new j2ee technologies, some best practices and good design patterns, a 101 course for j2ee. Nothing involved to run as a real world applicaiton or optimazed for that.
then came the MS petstore for.Net. a design clearly aimed at performance and competition, MS declared their petstore is much faster than Sun's. It is a absurd and ridiculous marketing trick only MS could think out. (when they hire poople, they do ask them to think out of box by asking some stupid tricky questions, do they?)
Since it is a marketing trick targeted to nono technical managers, j2ee camp reacted by their own performance petstore, Oracle has their own version running under oracle app server and db. I can not remember exactly the figure of the result, but it is at least 10 times faster than the.net one.
MS lost this round, they must have thought very hard for a while, now we have this new report.
The report published by TMC, the company has a web site theServerSide.com which has very high reputation in java community. MS obviously put a big money in the boss's hand and forced the report to be published. Some tricks they used now:
1. a brand new beta version of.Net VS two outdated version of j2ee app servers. 2. using Wintel machine for.Net. VS linux for j2ee. (linux version of j2ee usually is the slowest one because other venders always tuned to their own hardware first, then windows, last resource is given to linux, recently IBM and Oracle changed their priority i think.) 3. using extensive cache for.Net VS using the slowest and now abandoned BMP Entity Bean for j2ee. (the new CMP Entity Bean not only faster, but also has very good cache machanism.and directly jdbc perhaps even faster if you only care about the speed. ) 4. MS invited to tune their application VS IBM, BEA, SUN have zero idea of this project. 5. running db and app server in same machine. (J2ee is designed for distributed computing, that is why a high overhead for EJB technology etc) 6. trying to give a impression that TSS j2ee experts joined this competation, but the fact is none of them involed. so they just fighted with a dummy made by themself.
So much precious OOS developer time wasted on reinventing the wheel.
Imagine if we have a KDE compatible/look like evolution, we can save so much time in redoing just another outlook client - kaplan, which is basically the same thing as evolution.
I dont ever need to use two PIM client (outlook clone) that has identical functionality but with two different set of configuration files and stores my information differently.
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Apparently you are a 2nd class or maybe even lower starcraft/broodwar player because you don't understand the beauty of micromanagement of the units. Simply drag and go wouldn't get you anywhere in one of those big touranment. You should probrably learn to play more.
That being said, stupid Americans dont know play anything besides the mindless FPS. Point and shoot, yah, fun fun
The Adobe China/Asia region president did an interview with a Chinese newspaper, and clarified the issue. There was no quitting in the market for the company whatsoever.
But how can you look at ZDnet for journalism anyway?
Is that most of the slashdot geeks dont run a company nor do they occupy an important position in a company, so that they can blasphemy about the strategy of running a company all day long without worrying actually running into some financial troubles.
The fact is that in the REAL WORLD, unless you are a big company like Microsoft, CISCO, IBM, (fill in your favorite giant), you simply dont have the human nor financial resources for constant fast improvement for software/hardware. They need time to breath, to recruit. Though none of our slashdot geeks have realized that from their sysadmin desks, because they never looked beyond their Linux boxes and their stack of mp3 CDs.
That is one thing with Open sourcing your software without something to insure you that no one is gonna steal your technology. Especially for small companies, that is going to be a fatal blow.
I know it is going to be moderated down because of the anti-IP, anti-windows, FREE BEER crowd on slashdot, but I have got to say what is in my throat.
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The most popular browser in China is IE6. You know why? Because it runs on pirated XP best.
The internet cafes in China are not going to run Linux anytime soon.
Why?
Because the cafe users are gamers, mostly. They use the *cheap* internet connection to play one of tons of different windows only MMORPGs(And that includes World of Warcraft.) or Online shooters.(Used to be counterstrike.)
To ask those internet cafes to run Linux is to ask them to get rid of their source of profits.
I know for a fact that 95% of the Chinese/Indian workers here have at least a graduate degree. And a large number of them also have a doctorate degree. Because it is exceedingly hard to apply for a H1B visa without an advanced degree obtained in States. And a lot of them got it from the top tier universities in States.
The large part of internet has nothing to do with open source. I am not talking about Apache web servers that run every geek's personal web site that no one bothers to visit. I am talking about the internet routers.
If those routers are using OSS, it would take 10 minutes just to load up slashdot's front page.
It is the new flavor of the month.
Have you realized, instead of trying to pry open the potential victim's brain and steal their "w3irdPa33w0rD", now the thief only need to steal, you know what, their smartcard! Woohoo! You just did their career a big favor.
I seriously doubt you have ever used kdevelop and anjuta. kdevelop is a very mature product while anjuta still feels like a hack.
FUD?
(~)> HEAD http://ir.sco.com
200 OK
500 Can't connect to ir.sco.com:80 (Bad hostname 'ir.sco.com')
(~)> HEAD http://www.sco.com
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:56:48 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.3.2-RC
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:51:30 GMT
Client-Response-Num: 1
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.2-RC
Ars Technica Interviews 970 Designers, creating a new guinness world record.
Don't you think the money is a little short for developing a nuclear spacecraft?
I would have thought it is more like 6B.
We have debian anyway.
BS stands for bullshit.
.Net. a design clearly aimed at performance and competition, MS declared their petstore is much faster than Sun's. It is a absurd and ridiculous marketing trick only MS could think out. (when they hire poople, they do ask them to think out of box by asking some stupid tricky questions, do they?)
.net one.
.Net VS two outdated version of j2ee app servers. .Net. VS linux for j2ee. (linux version of j2ee usually is the slowest one because other venders always tuned to their own hardware first, then windows, last resource is given to linux, recently IBM .Net VS using the slowest and now abandoned BMP Entity Bean for j2ee. (the new CMP Entity Bean not only faster, but also has very good cache machanism.and directly jdbc perhaps even faster if you only
a little history of pet fight.
the petstore was originally a demo application written by sun. it was a tutorial tool to demo how to use some new j2ee technologies, some best
practices and good design patterns, a 101 course for j2ee. Nothing involved to run as a real world applicaiton or optimazed for that.
then came the MS petstore for
Since it is a marketing trick targeted to nono technical managers, j2ee camp reacted by their own performance petstore, Oracle has their own version
running under oracle app server and db. I can not remember exactly the figure of the result, but it is at least 10 times faster than the
MS lost this round, they must have thought very hard for a while, now we have this new report.
The report published by TMC, the company has a web site theServerSide.com which has very high reputation in java community. MS obviously put a big money in the boss's hand and forced the report to be published. Some tricks they used now:
1. a brand new beta version of
2. using Wintel machine for
and Oracle changed their priority i think.)
3. using extensive cache for
care about the speed. )
4. MS invited to tune their application VS IBM, BEA, SUN have zero idea of this project.
5. running db and app server in same machine. (J2ee is designed for distributed computing, that is why a high overhead for EJB technology etc)
6. trying to give a impression that TSS j2ee experts joined this competation, but the fact is none of them involed. so they just fighted with a dummy made by themself.
So much precious OOS developer time wasted on reinventing the wheel.
Imagine if we have a KDE compatible/look like evolution, we can save so much time in redoing just another outlook client - kaplan, which is basically the same thing as evolution.
I dont ever need to use two PIM client (outlook clone) that has identical functionality but with two different set of configuration files and stores my information differently.
Apparently you are a 2nd class or maybe even lower starcraft/broodwar player because you don't understand the beauty of micromanagement of the units. Simply drag and go wouldn't get you anywhere in one of those big touranment. You should probrably learn to play more.
That being said, stupid Americans dont know play anything besides the mindless FPS. Point and shoot, yah, fun fun
Go is NOT a Japanese game. If you want to resort to is origin, it is a Chinese game. Very complicated and very fun too. :)
The Adobe China/Asia region president did an interview with a Chinese newspaper, and clarified the issue. There was no quitting in the market for the company whatsoever.
But how can you look at ZDnet for journalism anyway?
There isn't much tricky stuff in terms of programming. (Write good, efficient C code for example)
1: You need to have a clear goal of what you want to accomplish,
2: Understand the important concept of Operating Systems,
3: Know a bit of basic algorithms.
Then you are good to go.
This article is definitely -1, troll.
As if giving out source code for free is.
Face it, your OSS moron, small companies suffer the most when it comes to OSS.
AOL on your PS2 or winCE on your PS2?
Take your pick!
And it does NOT have to be coherent with the actual fact either.
I wonder how they managed to play Diablo 2, Alice, Broodwar, Sim under their wine....
Or does LINUS like this one?
It is funny that how an insignificant individual's opinion can seem to be so important in a slashdot article.
Sorry, just some rant about a previous post.
There haven't been many companies who had made money for making software for Linux, period. Not any big companies anyway.
How do make money off a OSS OS is still a question.
The fact is that in the REAL WORLD, unless you are a big company like Microsoft, CISCO, IBM, (fill in your favorite giant), you simply dont have the human nor financial resources for constant fast improvement for software/hardware. They need time to breath, to recruit. Though none of our slashdot geeks have realized that from their sysadmin desks, because they never looked beyond their Linux boxes and their stack of mp3 CDs.
That is one thing with Open sourcing your software without something to insure you that no one is gonna steal your technology. Especially for small companies, that is going to be a fatal blow.
I know it is going to be moderated down because of the anti-IP, anti-windows, FREE BEER crowd on slashdot, but I have got to say what is in my throat.