Part of the problem is historical. Tim B-L wanted to make a WYSYWYG viewer system. Back in the day when it was invented, it was dangerous. Dangerous because it was an independent, open API set that worked wherever a browser worked. That flew in the face of tons of proprietary software. It was a transport-irrelevent protocol set that took the best of different coding schemes and made it work. Like most things invented by a single (or very few) person(s), it was a work of art. But it was state of the art nearly two decades ago, and we've come a lonnnnnnng way.
When http and W3C were hatching, there were still battles about ARCNet, Token Ring, Ethernet, and something called ATM. Now most of the world uses Ethernet and Ethernet-like communications using TCP/IP-- which back then, was barely running across the aforementioned networking protocols.
Lawn mowers, by contrast, were a 2-stroke, then 4-stroke engine with a blade and housing. The need, whacking grass, hasn't changed. By contrast, we now make browsers do all sorts of things never invisioned in the early 1990's. And we're planning stuff not really imagined in 2000. In 2020, browsers may be gone, or they may be *completely* different tools than they are now. Lawnmowers will still only whack grass.
This rubrik is often cited by the fear-based advocates of Bircherism. The fear induced in this rubrik is the loss of liberty, sacrificed for ostensible capacity for tyranny.
As long as we're human, as long as we're from the animal origins that is our basis, we're actually tribes. It's the tribes that war on each other. Even with a world-ish government, all politics have been, and will remain local. No one wants to feel as though we're in a political jail; it will never happen as long as we have the genes that we do.
So toss out that argument for a minute and imagine that resource distribution, the largest cause of war, is suddenly equalized. Your greed for oil becomes the greed that it really is, not the freedom of movement and energy resource. If everyone has equal access to resources then the equalization means that imbalances are vanquished. Then we get to the core problem: this is a finite machine, this world we live in. Population has to be controlled against our very human need to reproduce. There in is the crux of things: sex and goods. Remove the jealousy, the greed, and evolve a different method of dealing with biological urges.
I detect tenets of libertarianism and a dash of Ayn Rand in there somewhere. Using opposites or strong contrasts to typify motivation is pretty simplistic when the dynamics are millions of tribes, and the stubbornness not to think beyond one's nose.
There's much truth to what you say. Yet talk of populist uprisings are met with sounds of derision by the Birchers (the Glenn Beck set) as well as the religiousiters. Phrases like "workers of the world unite" are viewed dimly by most governments.
So what does one do? I'm asking this question in all earnestness.
The sheep need shepherds, but egads, what shepherds?
The "think globally, act locally" aphorism might apply here. I try to by locally first, nationally second. Domestic stuff gets harder to find. From that point, I try to spread my money, not favoring one particular country or another. Still, I avoid Chinese products where possible because of the debt that the Chinese government owns of the US government paper.
Can it be avoided? So far, I have an HDTV, but it's an LCD and doesn't use the manufacturing processes involved in touch screens. Indeed almost everything I buy with a touch screen eventually fails anyway, like two Treos and two HTC Touch Pros.
If you know something you're considering buying potentially directly hurts the workers making them, do you buy it anyway?
Governments are artificial; man-made. Pain, suffering, poverty, these are realities. One-sixth of the world's population is suffering from malnutrition.
When one of us suffers, we all suffer. Yeah, it begs for birth control but we haven't figured out how to get over the religious bias that for millennia, has said: make more babies for armies and to plow fields.
The single global government idea, while with merit, goes against the grain of the fact that we all consider ourselves tribes, a heritage of our nature as animals. If you don't believe we're tribes, look at the denominational list for churches, synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship in your town/city.
There is such a thing as social justice, and we're all responsible for it, ultimately.
Which is why you use a fat darn capacitor or other store-and-forward method to balance the grid. Imagine huge caps under the spot where gas pumps are. Gigafarads waiting to dump their load of electrons into your car's stash.
The number you cite is nothing to sneeze at, and its source is Microsoft themselves. You won't hear the billions that were sold by Canonical for Ubuntu. You won't hear the billions sold by Apple because their OS is bundled.
You won't find how many are in actual use, because of bundle deals with OEMs; how many of those OEM machines were retrofit to XP?
It's my belief that Microsoft jumped the shark several years ago, and as big as they are, you're only now seeing the real fall-out. There's more to come. The Windows oil well in the basement is running out of oil.
Incestuous implies that they don't look outside of their own little world in Redmond for new ideas or talent. They let people that have made the same mistakes, time and again, continue to make mistakes. In my opinion, Ray Ozzie was one of them.
This... slowly crush the competition..rubrik may have been true years ago. It's not true now.
IE is losing share, slowly steadily, assuredly. There's a fanboi contingent that will longingly await each new IE release. Fine. That contingent gets smaller each year.
The xbox is out of my vision; I'm not a gamer at all. I don't follow gaming machines, or their software. I follow personal and large systems, and communications infrastructure of all kinds.
In terms of pioneering markets, Microsoft voluntarily gave up that effort. The Windows franchise was botched by horrendous architectural mistakes, and business practices punished the world over--> and for good reason.
Just like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq spawned a reactionary counter-force, MS business practices fueled the evolution of open source models. Lack of product vision means that Microsoft stood by to watch iStuff pioneer new markets and satisfy consumer demands in ways never seen before. It meant that they lost the market cap war to Apple, and Apple's quality hard work.
Microsoft has a powerful developer network and business partnering has helped them enormously. Don't think for a minute that Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt don't understand that. And Microsoft didn't do developers first in this industry-- they copied Novell and others.
The XP-Vista-7 evolution has been a disaster. Microsoft and cloud has been a disaster. Microsoft and smartphones has been a disaster. Microsoft and servers have been better than expected, and part of the reason that they own a lot of corporate turf is because of the success of Active Directory, which for better or worse, is the de facto DS on corporate networks today.
Developers get pissed off by a lot of organizations. In the end, Microsoft ends up losing because they're desperately behind in each and every area that I track (again, I don't track gaming in any way). If the love of money is a metric, MS has friends. But there's little warmth there, little of the 'good fight' that motivates people to do more than 9-5. They need a Wall Street electrical jolt in a big way. I nice sell-off ought to get their attention. Heavens knows nothing else does.
I think 'potential' in the poster's context could be infinite. Such are optimists.
And reality, the potential is near zero, and will remain near zero. Microsoft has lots this, and numerous other values. Hence what Ray Ozzie connoted when he left with an exit memo that ought to shake Wall Street into a regime change in Redmond.
Microsoft's oil well, the Windows Franchise, is losing steam, and steadily. That's the crux of CNN's observation. I agree with them, and the inflection point was Windows Vista, and the denial that open source and Steve Jobs could do it better. Maybe the PC isn't dead, it's just one more device. Microsoft doesn't understand this, and the incestuous products they make, coupled with a not-invented-here mentality means their distant and certain future death if they don't wake up.
You're not listening. I didn't say it was moral, good for you, or the route to improved community(s) relationships. It is what Oracle does: make money.
OSS is a triviality to Oracle. They're out to make money. I'm not trying to be mean or stupid--> this is what they do. If it doesn't serve that purpose, kiss it goodbye. This is what some of us old-timers were trying to warn of; Oracle is a totally mercenary army. Join up, or you're probably the enemy or at least in their way.
Yet I walked onto planes, having arrived and parked just ten minutes before. Then there were the loosey-goosey x-ray machines for my stuff, and anything but a.38 special was fine. Then there was the Hall-effect scanner. Then these tightened up.
Then there were a bunch of shitheads in Manchester and Boston that let some box cutters get thru-- spawning what we know now as 9/11.
Afterwards, random searches and questioning because you might be suspect. X-ray pics of your ugly bod. For a while, no lighters and nothing over 4oz liquids. Some airports abroad will scan you, frisk you, and wand you. Not one asks the name of your political party. This is about a balance of power, and the balance has been tipped in favor of the government, and unnecessarily so.
Now, we've unleashed machines that can see into homes. The US Constitution is in tatters.
Living in fear all of the time is a neurosis for some, and psychosis for others.
You really believe that these measures are somehow abetting freedom, or liberty? They were a great excuse for a paranoid administration to lay seige on Americans, and heaven-forbid anyone wanting to come to the US. It was a great excuse to tromp and trump freedom, the US Constitution, and give bullies everywhere the Fear Card.
If you think of 64-bit dual-core processors, you'll get to understand how an organization that can't think in light-weight threads would want to approach 128bit word-sizes.
Truly, believe nothing about Windows 8 until you've touched it. There's so much BS surrounding a Windows release these days that until it's in leakable beta, who really cares?
It's a time-honored way to get unique page hits--> speculating about the next Windows release from Microsoft.
The entire piece was so much fluff. Microsoft is scared to death that we'll forget about Windows, and with good reason. At no point in history has Microsoft been this vulnerable. Controlled leaks to the press will be common place. Little rumors about this and that. Then there'll be leaked releases, first looks, and so on. It's the same formula that Microsoft has used for 20+ years.
You recategorize. A computer is a computer if the context is doing things like email, basic WP, etc. So it's the #1 purveyor, in the USA, of end-user computing devices-- not counting sub-iPad sized stuff.
In reality, and I wish I wasn't making this up, Apple became the #1 provider of end-user computers in the US *if* you count the iPad.
Why do I wish i wasn't making it up? It means that all of the other ones, despite their best efforts, couldn't do better. Subtract the iPad, and it's still an ugly marketplace out there.
The reason there's resistance to SSDs is that they're JUST TOO EXPENSIVE.
Ok. Enough karma whoring for today. My work is done here.
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Part of the problem is historical. Tim B-L wanted to make a WYSYWYG viewer system. Back in the day when it was invented, it was dangerous. Dangerous because it was an independent, open API set that worked wherever a browser worked. That flew in the face of tons of proprietary software. It was a transport-irrelevent protocol set that took the best of different coding schemes and made it work. Like most things invented by a single (or very few) person(s), it was a work of art. But it was state of the art nearly two decades ago, and we've come a lonnnnnnng way.
When http and W3C were hatching, there were still battles about ARCNet, Token Ring, Ethernet, and something called ATM. Now most of the world uses Ethernet and Ethernet-like communications using TCP/IP-- which back then, was barely running across the aforementioned networking protocols.
Lawn mowers, by contrast, were a 2-stroke, then 4-stroke engine with a blade and housing. The need, whacking grass, hasn't changed. By contrast, we now make browsers do all sorts of things never invisioned in the early 1990's. And we're planning stuff not really imagined in 2000. In 2020, browsers may be gone, or they may be *completely* different tools than they are now. Lawnmowers will still only whack grass.
This rubrik is often cited by the fear-based advocates of Bircherism. The fear induced in this rubrik is the loss of liberty, sacrificed for ostensible capacity for tyranny.
As long as we're human, as long as we're from the animal origins that is our basis, we're actually tribes. It's the tribes that war on each other. Even with a world-ish government, all politics have been, and will remain local. No one wants to feel as though we're in a political jail; it will never happen as long as we have the genes that we do.
So toss out that argument for a minute and imagine that resource distribution, the largest cause of war, is suddenly equalized. Your greed for oil becomes the greed that it really is, not the freedom of movement and energy resource. If everyone has equal access to resources then the equalization means that imbalances are vanquished. Then we get to the core problem: this is a finite machine, this world we live in. Population has to be controlled against our very human need to reproduce. There in is the crux of things: sex and goods. Remove the jealousy, the greed, and evolve a different method of dealing with biological urges.
I detect tenets of libertarianism and a dash of Ayn Rand in there somewhere. Using opposites or strong contrasts to typify motivation is pretty simplistic when the dynamics are millions of tribes, and the stubbornness not to think beyond one's nose.
Factionalization seems the problem, not the cure.
There's much truth to what you say. Yet talk of populist uprisings are met with sounds of derision by the Birchers (the Glenn Beck set) as well as the religiousiters. Phrases like "workers of the world unite" are viewed dimly by most governments.
So what does one do? I'm asking this question in all earnestness.
The sheep need shepherds, but egads, what shepherds?
The "think globally, act locally" aphorism might apply here. I try to by locally first, nationally second. Domestic stuff gets harder to find. From that point, I try to spread my money, not favoring one particular country or another. Still, I avoid Chinese products where possible because of the debt that the Chinese government owns of the US government paper.
Can it be avoided? So far, I have an HDTV, but it's an LCD and doesn't use the manufacturing processes involved in touch screens. Indeed almost everything I buy with a touch screen eventually fails anyway, like two Treos and two HTC Touch Pros.
If you know something you're considering buying potentially directly hurts the workers making them, do you buy it anyway?
Governments are artificial; man-made. Pain, suffering, poverty, these are realities. One-sixth of the world's population is suffering from malnutrition.
When one of us suffers, we all suffer. Yeah, it begs for birth control but we haven't figured out how to get over the religious bias that for millennia, has said: make more babies for armies and to plow fields.
The single global government idea, while with merit, goes against the grain of the fact that we all consider ourselves tribes, a heritage of our nature as animals. If you don't believe we're tribes, look at the denominational list for churches, synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship in your town/city.
There is such a thing as social justice, and we're all responsible for it, ultimately.
If you're a member of the human race, it's your problem. If you have a conscience, it's your problem.
Which is why you use a fat darn capacitor or other store-and-forward method to balance the grid. Imagine huge caps under the spot where gas pumps are. Gigafarads waiting to dump their load of electrons into your car's stash.
Consider http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/10/count-ipads-as-pcs-and-apple-is-number-one-in-us/ and the fact that corporate US has barely deployed Windows 7 at all. It's my belief that Windows 7 is the best that Microsoft's put out in decades, but that's damning with faint praise.
The number you cite is nothing to sneeze at, and its source is Microsoft themselves. You won't hear the billions that were sold by Canonical for Ubuntu. You won't hear the billions sold by Apple because their OS is bundled.
You won't find how many are in actual use, because of bundle deals with OEMs; how many of those OEM machines were retrofit to XP?
It's my belief that Microsoft jumped the shark several years ago, and as big as they are, you're only now seeing the real fall-out. There's more to come. The Windows oil well in the basement is running out of oil.
Incestuous implies that they don't look outside of their own little world in Redmond for new ideas or talent. They let people that have made the same mistakes, time and again, continue to make mistakes. In my opinion, Ray Ozzie was one of them.
Doesn't that describe the Heathkit Hero robot?
This ... slowly crush the competition..rubrik may have been true years ago. It's not true now.
IE is losing share, slowly steadily, assuredly. There's a fanboi contingent that will longingly await each new IE release. Fine. That contingent gets smaller each year.
The xbox is out of my vision; I'm not a gamer at all. I don't follow gaming machines, or their software. I follow personal and large systems, and communications infrastructure of all kinds.
In terms of pioneering markets, Microsoft voluntarily gave up that effort. The Windows franchise was botched by horrendous architectural mistakes, and business practices punished the world over--> and for good reason.
Just like the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq spawned a reactionary counter-force, MS business practices fueled the evolution of open source models. Lack of product vision means that Microsoft stood by to watch iStuff pioneer new markets and satisfy consumer demands in ways never seen before. It meant that they lost the market cap war to Apple, and Apple's quality hard work.
Microsoft has a powerful developer network and business partnering has helped them enormously. Don't think for a minute that Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt don't understand that. And Microsoft didn't do developers first in this industry-- they copied Novell and others.
The XP-Vista-7 evolution has been a disaster. Microsoft and cloud has been a disaster. Microsoft and smartphones has been a disaster. Microsoft and servers have been better than expected, and part of the reason that they own a lot of corporate turf is because of the success of Active Directory, which for better or worse, is the de facto DS on corporate networks today.
Developers get pissed off by a lot of organizations. In the end, Microsoft ends up losing because they're desperately behind in each and every area that I track (again, I don't track gaming in any way). If the love of money is a metric, MS has friends. But there's little warmth there, little of the 'good fight' that motivates people to do more than 9-5. They need a Wall Street electrical jolt in a big way. I nice sell-off ought to get their attention. Heavens knows nothing else does.
I think 'potential' in the poster's context could be infinite. Such are optimists.
And reality, the potential is near zero, and will remain near zero. Microsoft has lots this, and numerous other values. Hence what Ray Ozzie connoted when he left with an exit memo that ought to shake Wall Street into a regime change in Redmond.
Microsoft's oil well, the Windows Franchise, is losing steam, and steadily. That's the crux of CNN's observation. I agree with them, and the inflection point was Windows Vista, and the denial that open source and Steve Jobs could do it better. Maybe the PC isn't dead, it's just one more device. Microsoft doesn't understand this, and the incestuous products they make, coupled with a not-invented-here mentality means their distant and certain future death if they don't wake up.
That may be true. But I don't think Oracle understands or cares.
You're not listening. I didn't say it was moral, good for you, or the route to improved community(s) relationships. It is what Oracle does: make money.
OSS is a triviality to Oracle. They're out to make money. I'm not trying to be mean or stupid--> this is what they do. If it doesn't serve that purpose, kiss it goodbye. This is what some of us old-timers were trying to warn of; Oracle is a totally mercenary army. Join up, or you're probably the enemy or at least in their way.
Follow the money. Oracle is. You're not talking altruism here, you're talking about shareholder return for Oracle shareholders.
This is not a 'community' sort of organization. You're with the program (pun intended) or not.
I'd imagine an attack every decade or so ought to keep the machine churning.
I did the same thing-- nuclear disaster drill.
Yet I walked onto planes, having arrived and parked just ten minutes before. Then there were the loosey-goosey x-ray machines for my stuff, and anything but a .38 special was fine. Then there was the Hall-effect scanner. Then these tightened up.
Then there were a bunch of shitheads in Manchester and Boston that let some box cutters get thru-- spawning what we know now as 9/11.
Afterwards, random searches and questioning because you might be suspect. X-ray pics of your ugly bod. For a while, no lighters and nothing over 4oz liquids. Some airports abroad will scan you, frisk you, and wand you. Not one asks the name of your political party. This is about a balance of power, and the balance has been tipped in favor of the government, and unnecessarily so.
Now, we've unleashed machines that can see into homes. The US Constitution is in tatters.
Living in fear all of the time is a neurosis for some, and psychosis for others.
You really believe that these measures are somehow abetting freedom, or liberty? They were a great excuse for a paranoid administration to lay seige on Americans, and heaven-forbid anyone wanting to come to the US. It was a great excuse to tromp and trump freedom, the US Constitution, and give bullies everywhere the Fear Card.
If you think of 64-bit dual-core processors, you'll get to understand how an organization that can't think in light-weight threads would want to approach 128bit word-sizes.
Truly, believe nothing about Windows 8 until you've touched it. There's so much BS surrounding a Windows release these days that until it's in leakable beta, who really cares?
It's a time-honored way to get unique page hits--> speculating about the next Windows release from Microsoft.
The entire piece was so much fluff. Microsoft is scared to death that we'll forget about Windows, and with good reason. At no point in history has Microsoft been this vulnerable. Controlled leaks to the press will be common place. Little rumors about this and that. Then there'll be leaked releases, first looks, and so on. It's the same formula that Microsoft has used for 20+ years.
You recategorize. A computer is a computer if the context is doing things like email, basic WP, etc. So it's the #1 purveyor, in the USA, of end-user computing devices-- not counting sub-iPad sized stuff.
Read it and weep. I did: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2371000,00.asp
No.
In reality, and I wish I wasn't making this up, Apple became the #1 provider of end-user computers in the US *if* you count the iPad.
Why do I wish i wasn't making it up? It means that all of the other ones, despite their best efforts, couldn't do better. Subtract the iPad, and it's still an ugly marketplace out there.
The reason there's resistance to SSDs is that they're JUST TOO EXPENSIVE.
Ok. Enough karma whoring for today. My work is done here.
MySpace -> Facebook seems to refute your claim. Pet Rocks. Really.