Radio announcers all over are still cursing Tim Berners-Lee for that one.
That's because they are even dumber than the abreviation and haven't figured out the one syllable slang replacement (dub dub dub)
What your missing is that the white box industry is a lot larger than you think. The white box industry (world wide) is ripe for this kind of innovation for several reasons:
1) There is no need to pay $100 to M$. This is especially poignant in the world economy where most people cannot possible afford to purchase an OS for $100. 2) No need to hire a Linux expert to install and configure your machines for you. Where the margins are razor thin for whitebox builders already, this cost woudl have precluded the possibility of going with an alternative OS. 3) The savings that the whitebox builders realize will get passed on to the consumer in the form of even cheaper PCs. This means schools, governments, business can afford to upgrade hardware without additional costs for software, or IT specialists.
"That brings them under the purview of the proposed rule, which includes computer networks as 'substitute communications systems' -- subject to a 9.17 percent state tax, plus local option taxes"
Does that mean my hand gesture just cost me 9.17%???
Any company that offers a desktop Linux product that attempts to broker an OEM deal with any of the top computer manufacturers, (i.e. tries to get them to ship their computers with their Lunix product) will most likely never succeed since those companies make all their $ by including M$ products and cannot justify switching to Linux when there is relatively no $ in it.
To these companies, the products spawned by Open Source project and Desktop Linux are disruptive technologies. Often when a disruptive technology comes along to counter the status quo, smaller companies become the champion of that technology and those companies displace the larger, older companies that couldn't switch technologies, i.e. A changing of the guard occurs.
Will this be the case with Open Source and Desktop Linux, will there be a changing of the guard with respect to the top computer manufacturers, or will they indeed find a way to break free of M$ and start shipping systems with Open Source and Desktop Linux products? If so, what event do you foresee that would act as a catalyst to cause this switch in the marketplace?
Even if they give the OS away, you still have to buy all the software from them to make it do something...there are so many hooks that it would almost be impossible for M$ to not make money in some fashion on these types of deals.
One thing I have found that shocks me is that 90% of the individuals I have tested in order to verify their skill set for a web developer position flunked the test out right. The test was not really that difficult. It asked the person to demonstrate some fundamental skills involving MySQL, PHP, Java Script, Perl, and Object Oriented Design principles. The people that I tested had stated in a phone interview that they were very experienced in all of those technologies and by and large, they couldn't answer the questions and just left them blank. On the other hand, I ended up hiring developers who are either still in college or are just graduating, who passed the test without much trouble.
The point is that I can hire sharp people straight from the university for much less than I can hire a mediocre developer with 3 to 5 years experience. As the marketplace becomes tighter, the mediocre developers will end up working at Blockbuster and the developers who know their stuff will always be able to find work, even if they have to take a pay cut.
I have hired seasoned developers, but like I said, they had to take a pay cut of around 20 to 30K. I don't believe this will change for quite a while.
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Radio announcers all over are still cursing Tim Berners-Lee for that one.
That's because they are even dumber than the abreviation and haven't figured out the one syllable slang replacement (dub dub dub)
What your missing is that the white box industry is a lot larger than you think. The white box industry (world wide) is ripe for this kind of innovation for several reasons:
1) There is no need to pay $100 to M$. This is especially poignant in the world economy where most people cannot possible afford to purchase an OS for $100.
2) No need to hire a Linux expert to install and configure your machines for you. Where the margins are razor thin for whitebox builders already, this cost woudl have precluded the possibility of going with an alternative OS.
3) The savings that the whitebox builders realize will get passed on to the consumer in the form of even cheaper PCs. This means schools, governments, business can afford to upgrade hardware without additional costs for software, or IT specialists.
Just go with the flow, everyone is doing it. Oh and btw, Solient Green is people, but if no one tells, then it isn't really so...
"That brings them under the purview of the proposed rule, which includes computer networks as 'substitute communications systems' -- subject to a 9.17 percent state tax, plus local option taxes" Does that mean my hand gesture just cost me 9.17%???
As the doc said to Marty McFly, "You're not thinking 4th demensionally"
So...your the one that caused THE blackout. You owe me for a pile of melted Klondike bars buddy.
Any company that offers a desktop Linux product that attempts to broker an OEM deal with any of the top computer manufacturers, (i.e. tries to get them to ship their computers with their Lunix product) will most likely never succeed since those companies make all their $ by including M$ products and cannot justify switching to Linux when there is relatively no $ in it. To these companies, the products spawned by Open Source project and Desktop Linux are disruptive technologies. Often when a disruptive technology comes along to counter the status quo, smaller companies become the champion of that technology and those companies displace the larger, older companies that couldn't switch technologies, i.e. A changing of the guard occurs. Will this be the case with Open Source and Desktop Linux, will there be a changing of the guard with respect to the top computer manufacturers, or will they indeed find a way to break free of M$ and start shipping systems with Open Source and Desktop Linux products? If so, what event do you foresee that would act as a catalyst to cause this switch in the marketplace?
says, "Aaaaaayyyyy"
Even if they give the OS away, you still have to buy all the software from them to make it do something...there are so many hooks that it would almost be impossible for M$ to not make money in some fashion on these types of deals.
One thing I have found that shocks me is that 90% of the individuals I have tested in order to verify their skill set for a web developer position flunked the test out right. The test was not really that difficult. It asked the person to demonstrate some fundamental skills involving MySQL, PHP, Java Script, Perl, and Object Oriented Design principles. The people that I tested had stated in a phone interview that they were very experienced in all of those technologies and by and large, they couldn't answer the questions and just left them blank. On the other hand, I ended up hiring developers who are either still in college or are just graduating, who passed the test without much trouble. The point is that I can hire sharp people straight from the university for much less than I can hire a mediocre developer with 3 to 5 years experience. As the marketplace becomes tighter, the mediocre developers will end up working at Blockbuster and the developers who know their stuff will always be able to find work, even if they have to take a pay cut. I have hired seasoned developers, but like I said, they had to take a pay cut of around 20 to 30K. I don't believe this will change for quite a while.