Or maybe that a domain holding page registar switched 4,000 'sites' (those stupid 'search' bullshit pages) to Win2k3 Server?
A big company like Verisign can make a huge difference (1-2%?) simply by moving their domain parking facilites over to a different platform.
Indeed - all of NASAs labs that could of produced something intresting instead of sending the 12th probe too saturn to find more moons, have been shut down due to lack of funding. The ESA may be something to keep an eye on...
I agree. Microsoft is TOO BIG for itself. It just can't change in any big way, unless it starts dying.
The reason? Most of its $$$ comes from OEMs/Enterprise installs. They need too have the same product, Windows XP/Office XP, loaded onto 10,000 boxes. It works. However, if M$ said too itself: 'hmm, lets make Windows free and charge subscriptions for updates', the OEMs wouldn't be happy. They have made a buisness out of reselling MS stuff. They'd move away before you can say 'MandrakeRedHatSUsE'.
Not only that M$ knows for a fact its very ineffecient. They have hundreads of coders doing sweet FA. Seriously, they have about 2-4 years inbetween major releases, and very little changes between them. Windows 2000 vs Windows XP? Luna theme, better compatibily etc. Very little major changes - in the same time Linux moved from 2.0 too 2.4, KDE from v1 too v3 etc.
M$ also pays a lot of its staff with stock options, instead of cash. Once investors start too realize that other companies are starting too become profitable and a genuine compentitor too M$ (Red Hat for example), they will start selling. This will mean M$ will have too start paying more stock options (in a similar way too Hyper Inflation in Germany - where you just keep printing more 'money' too get rid of your problems) or pay fully with cash. This will hit MS's bottom line even more -- meaning it gets trapped in a downwards cycle that it cant avoid.
While 1 year is a bit too soon IMO, I don't think it will be long before MS is no longer the driving force in IT. 5 years maybe. But it _is_ going down, unless Bill + Steve start smoking crack.
Advertising on the internet is a MASSIVE area. It is just being totally abused by people, and thats why it brings so little $$$ home. Look at google adwords, they are customized too perfection just for you - google is making a fortune off them.
However, banner ads have always been used as a 'small TV' where you blast out the same ad over and over. Internet advertising would work extremly well if someone tracked you and your movements, hell if you saw an ad with 'Hey Mr. Jones, look at this Ford you have been searching the web for. It's only $15,000 here!' I'm sure we'd be seeing clickthrus of at least 5%. But of course that would be invading your privacy, so the internet will always be a poor source for advertising unless you start tracking everything your audience does and analyzes it well.
So true. When I looked of the ~100 domains that were there, about half of them actually had sites on them, and the ones i clicked on just linked too.orgs,.com etc..com,.net and maybe.org are the only domains that matter - apart from local ones such as a.co.uk,.ca,.us etc...
And of course everyone would pay M$ if it was optional. M$ is a *huge* company now. It can't suddenly change its buisness plan overnight.
It's doing the same thing as it did 20 years ago, albeit on a larger scale. Moving from a mainly product based way of doing stuff too a subscription based one isn't easy, and M$ knows it wouldnt be able too pull it off. Can you see home user 'Joe' paying $10/month for 'computer interweb updates'? They don't even update it for free, and they don't buy OSes. They come preloaded with the PCs.
Maybe in a enterprise enviroment it might work, but in the home/small buisness, it's not going too happen.
Most of the people I know just don't buy single player games anymore. They just download them or copy them. Buying a 52x32x52 CD-RW and a 25pack of CD-R is cheaper than a new game, so why should someone buy it?
They do however buy multiplayer games. Look at everquest, look at HL and BF1942. No-one pirates them, (well apart from half life) because the single player element is none-existant or so damn bad that you could cry. They have CDkey checks nowadays - and have done for some time.
I personally think the whole game industry is moving too a 'TV type' subscription. You pay $10/month too Sierra/Valve (which are doing this when HL2 is coming out, with Steam), and get access too all of their back catalog of games and multiplayer. You'd then subscribe too say EA's games, for $10/month aswell. We might even find that gaming publishers network - get an EA subscription and also have access too Sierra's too.
No, because when you turn SSH off you don't loose the ability for programs too comunicate locally. Shut down RPC then try too copy and paste - it doesn't work.
Not only that most explots for Linux are: a) moderatly hard too exploit, not just 'blaster.exe -IP' b) usually always exist in a certain set of conditions, unlike Blasters 'all windows NT/2k/XP machines'.
Use APT-RPM and synaptic. Gives you that lovely APT system from debain, and also a GUI so you can look at eye candy:). Automatically checks, downloads and installs dependencies too...
75% of games nowadays use OGG, simply because they don't have too pay the 50 cent patent fee. This usually means they install a ogg codec. While I agree that mp3 is not very popular on kazaa etc, I'm sure it will do as people realize they can fit 160k mp3 into a 80k ogg, and know that they can play it on other peoples PCs...
Uh, it's a temporary name. By 1.6 it will be changed over too 'Mozilla Browser' and 'Mozilla Mail'.
But, Opera has nothing too do with the internet (not much, anyway). Mozilla doesn't either. Mosiac also didn't have much in common with it's functinality...
The Sunday Times ran CD-rom 'one offs' with it for years - I can remember getting some badly authored CD-ROM with some stuff about the arts or other crap.
I run XP on my gaming box. I thought I'd be clever after the blaster outbreak (not that I got blaster - I have a router with an inbuilt hardware firewall) too secure up my XP box (if thats possible with Windows). So I headed off too Windows Update, and installed all the critical patches. Downloaded, Installed and rebooted. Windows XP took an age as usual too boot up, then I heard my monitor 'click' into the next resolution, and then it blue-screened. I rebooted again, BSOD AGAIN. By this time I was getting pissed off - whipped out the XP CD(R) and chose 'Repair' - 1 hour 30 minutes later, I had my XP install back up.
I'm NEVER installing a Windows Update again, it's just asking for trouble.
I don't think it was ever going too cost $400. The lowest price I can find a P4 on Pricegrabber.com is $390. Let's say Phantom gets them for 20% less, because they buy in bulk. Thats $312 per CPU. Add into that a mobo, a hard drive, windows XP lisences and a high power graphics card for Doom3 or HL2 and you have a BIG LOSS per machine. We are talking $600 per box, at least, not including the cost of distrobuting the box too game retail stores, there slice in the margins etc.
No rational compay would take that kind of loss per machine - its simply too much. Hell, even $49billion in the bank Microsoft would'nt take that amount of loss, and they really want too get into the home electronics market more than anyone.
What's too stop me going into that box and just taking the P4 out of it, and putting it in another machine. Or the graphics card, or the hard drive?
a) Give thunderbird a chance - it is very young compared too firebird and a lot of the crap from mail/news part of mozilla hasn't been cut out yet.
b) There is an effort too share the Gecko Runtime Engine - ie. you download a web installer, it checks if you need the GRE, if so it downloads that too. If not (eg you have Firebird installed already) it just downloads the small Thunderbird files. Also this will mean that Mozilla can do an 'Internet Explorer' by placing the GRE in RAM all the time - meaning that both apps should load faster still..
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Or maybe that a domain holding page registar switched 4,000 'sites' (those stupid 'search' bullshit pages) to Win2k3 Server? A big company like Verisign can make a huge difference (1-2%?) simply by moving their domain parking facilites over to a different platform.
Indeed - all of NASAs labs that could of produced something intresting instead of sending the 12th probe too saturn to find more moons, have been shut down due to lack of funding. The ESA may be something to keep an eye on...
Using TorrentSpy (torrentspy.sf.net) there are 131 seeds and 531 peers...
I agree. Microsoft is TOO BIG for itself. It just can't change in any big way, unless it starts dying.
The reason? Most of its $$$ comes from OEMs/Enterprise installs. They need too have the same product, Windows XP/Office XP, loaded onto 10,000 boxes. It works. However, if M$ said too itself: 'hmm, lets make Windows free and charge subscriptions for updates', the OEMs wouldn't be happy. They have made a buisness out of reselling MS stuff. They'd move away before you can say 'MandrakeRedHatSUsE'.
Not only that M$ knows for a fact its very ineffecient. They have hundreads of coders doing sweet FA. Seriously, they have about 2-4 years inbetween major releases, and very little changes between them. Windows 2000 vs Windows XP? Luna theme, better compatibily etc. Very little major changes - in the same time Linux moved from 2.0 too 2.4, KDE from v1 too v3 etc.
M$ also pays a lot of its staff with stock options, instead of cash. Once investors start too realize that other companies are starting too become profitable and a genuine compentitor too M$ (Red Hat for example), they will start selling. This will mean M$ will have too start paying more stock options (in a similar way too Hyper Inflation in Germany - where you just keep printing more 'money' too get rid of your problems) or pay fully with cash. This will hit MS's bottom line even more -- meaning it gets trapped in a downwards cycle that it cant avoid.
While 1 year is a bit too soon IMO, I don't think it will be long before MS is no longer the driving force in IT. 5 years maybe. But it _is_ going down, unless Bill + Steve start smoking crack.
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Do you sit on it and it lights up?
Advertising on the internet is a MASSIVE area. It is just being totally abused by people, and thats why it brings so little $$$ home. Look at google adwords, they are customized too perfection just for you - google is making a fortune off them.
However, banner ads have always been used as a 'small TV' where you blast out the same ad over and over. Internet advertising would work extremly well if someone tracked you and your movements, hell if you saw an ad with 'Hey Mr. Jones, look at this Ford you have been searching the web for. It's only $15,000 here!' I'm sure we'd be seeing clickthrus of at least 5%. But of course that would be invading your privacy, so the internet will always be a poor source for advertising unless you start tracking everything your audience does and analyzes it well.
So true. When I looked of the ~100 domains that were there, about half of them actually had sites on them, and the ones i clicked on just linked too .orgs, .com etc. .com, .net and maybe .org are the only domains that matter - apart from local ones such as a .co.uk, .ca, .us etc...
And of course everyone would pay M$ if it was optional. M$ is a *huge* company now. It can't suddenly change its buisness plan overnight.
It's doing the same thing as it did 20 years ago, albeit on a larger scale. Moving from a mainly product based way of doing stuff too a subscription based one isn't easy, and M$ knows it wouldnt be able too pull it off. Can you see home user 'Joe' paying $10/month for 'computer interweb updates'? They don't even update it for free, and they don't buy OSes. They come preloaded with the PCs.
Maybe in a enterprise enviroment it might work, but in the home/small buisness, it's not going too happen.
So true.
Most of the people I know just don't buy single player games anymore. They just download them or copy them. Buying a 52x32x52 CD-RW and a 25pack of CD-R is cheaper than a new game, so why should someone buy it?
They do however buy multiplayer games. Look at everquest, look at HL and BF1942. No-one pirates them, (well apart from half life) because the single player element is none-existant or so damn bad that you could cry. They have CDkey checks nowadays - and have done for some time.
I personally think the whole game industry is moving too a 'TV type' subscription. You pay $10/month too Sierra/Valve (which are doing this when HL2 is coming out, with Steam), and get access too all of their back catalog of games and multiplayer. You'd then subscribe too say EA's games, for $10/month aswell. We might even find that gaming publishers network - get an EA subscription and also have access too Sierra's too.
No, because when you turn SSH off you don't loose the ability for programs too comunicate locally. Shut down RPC then try too copy and paste - it doesn't work.
Not only that most explots for Linux are:
a) moderatly hard too exploit, not just 'blaster.exe -IP'
b) usually always exist in a certain set of conditions, unlike Blasters 'all windows NT/2k/XP machines'.
Upgrade too 9.0. You can't blame RH for stopping support of old OSes. I agree the cycle is too short, but Linux moves *very* fast.
Use APT-RPM and synaptic. Gives you that lovely APT system from debain, and also a GUI so you can look at eye candy :). Automatically checks, downloads and installs dependencies too...
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75% of games nowadays use OGG, simply because they don't have too pay the 50 cent patent fee. This usually means they install a ogg codec. While I agree that mp3 is not very popular on kazaa etc, I'm sure it will do as people realize they can fit 160k mp3 into a 80k ogg, and know that they can play it on other peoples PCs...
Uh, it's a temporary name. By 1.6 it will be changed over too 'Mozilla Browser' and 'Mozilla Mail'.
But, Opera has nothing too do with the internet (not much, anyway). Mozilla doesn't either. Mosiac also didn't have much in common with it's functinality...
Uh, news.google.com.
Because CD-RWs cost 20p each, and pressed CDs can be produced for as little as 10p - and probably less in large quantites, which this is...
The Sunday Times ran CD-rom 'one offs' with it for years - I can remember getting some badly authored CD-ROM with some stuff about the arts or other crap.
I run XP on my gaming box. I thought I'd be clever after the blaster outbreak (not that I got blaster - I have a router with an inbuilt hardware firewall) too secure up my XP box (if thats possible with Windows). So I headed off too Windows Update, and installed all the critical patches. Downloaded, Installed and rebooted. Windows XP took an age as usual too boot up, then I heard my monitor 'click' into the next resolution, and then it blue-screened. I rebooted again, BSOD AGAIN. By this time I was getting pissed off - whipped out the XP CD(R) and chose 'Repair' - 1 hour 30 minutes later, I had my XP install back up. I'm NEVER installing a Windows Update again, it's just asking for trouble.
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I don't think it was ever going too cost $400. The lowest price I can find a P4 on Pricegrabber.com is $390. Let's say Phantom gets them for 20% less, because they buy in bulk. Thats $312 per CPU. Add into that a mobo, a hard drive, windows XP lisences and a high power graphics card for Doom3 or HL2 and you have a BIG LOSS per machine. We are talking $600 per box, at least, not including the cost of distrobuting the box too game retail stores, there slice in the margins etc.
No rational compay would take that kind of loss per machine - its simply too much. Hell, even $49billion in the bank Microsoft would'nt take that amount of loss, and they really want too get into the home electronics market more than anyone.
What's too stop me going into that box and just taking the P4 out of it, and putting it in another machine. Or the graphics card, or the hard drive?
This is a major pain in the ass. But hey, it makes me want too stop watching WMV, which is good right...
a) Give thunderbird a chance - it is very young compared too firebird and a lot of the crap from mail/news part of mozilla hasn't been cut out yet. b) There is an effort too share the Gecko Runtime Engine - ie. you download a web installer, it checks if you need the GRE, if so it downloads that too. If not (eg you have Firebird installed already) it just downloads the small Thunderbird files. Also this will mean that Mozilla can do an 'Internet Explorer' by placing the GRE in RAM all the time - meaning that both apps should load faster still..
Not anymore, its broken* and the firebird people don't want too fix it. In the latest nightlies, which means that 0.7 will probably be b0rked too.