They stole the crown from IBM - the biggest computer company in the world - so they know that position doesn't make them safe. And IT is terribly competitive.
Or maybe it's like a football team of geeks, who keep winning every year.... and just feel a bit nervous about it.
In interplanetary rocketry, a miss is as good as a kilometer, so I hope Scaled don't make this mistake in the downward direction, or they'll kilogram the ground! Anyways, while the gradual test-improve cycle means that they millimeter to success, it shows that they have more than just a milligram of sense - because in the end they'll triumph, and be drinking champagne by the decaliter.
A miss is as good as a kilometer
Give him a centimeter, and he takes a kilometer
millimeter by millimeter
"millimetering towards success"
"I can see for kilometers and kilometers"
"I'll kilogram you!"
"You don't have a milligram of common sense"
What if a PC+Windows was suddenly *cheaper* than buying a PC without Windows?
The only price being freedom?
Game consoles are often sold at cost (or lower), with the money made up on games (free the razors, sell the blades). Cheaper consoles means a more widely adopted platform, means a bigger market, and a bigger pie for all partners.
Intel and Microsoft might really try this, because right now, they're both in tremendous trouble: back-compatibility is their key asset, but they both want to break it (Longhorn, Itanium 64-bit). This could be a way to do it.
The question is: can Microsoft dominate the PC hardware market? They're already sewn-up the third-party market with their driver signing... and free (or at cost) hardware is simply impossible to beat - provided they can make it cheap enough.
It could even be argued that they were doing a great thing, by ushering in the next price-point for computers, making them affordable to everyone, including the untapped markets of the third world...
This reaction is a lesson for anyone thinking of giving anything away for free.
Responsibilities come with giving a gift, so that the giver is no longer free, but instead also gives away some of their own freedom, and is bound by the recipients to give them more.
Do these responsibilities really come with giving a gift? I'm not sure.
IBM wants Sun to open source Java... and yet (from the article):
How does this make a chip design more open? I can see where it makes it easier for people to work with IBM. But IBM still controls the processor architecture.
In vim, you can disable the middle mouse button (by making it act like the left button) with: map <MiddleMouse> <LeftMouse> map <2-MiddleMouse> <2-LeftMouse>
True, things don't look good for Sun, and Scott himself is looking unhealthily stressed out. However, Sun's business vision (cooperate, by publishing interfaces) and technology vision (the network is the computer) are still great.
Thse are great ideas that still have a lot of life in them.
This "Micheel" Malone gangsta guy tells a good story... but if he can't get the name of his subject's high profile CEO right, how seriously can he be taken?
(page 126) the quote was about API switching costs. This locks in application developers.
Windows is a platform whose real value is the applications built on it (/.eg most games run on Windows).
Interestingly, a change may be coming, and not from Linux...
...but from application servers, web services and SOA as they finally bring to fruition Netscape's threat of replacing the desktop with a web browser - and end the Windows monopoly forever.
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They stole the crown from IBM - the biggest computer company in the world - so they know that position doesn't make them safe. And IT is terribly competitive.
Or maybe it's like a football team of geeks, who keep winning every year.... and just feel a bit nervous about it.
maybe the web does prove something about a million monkeys on a million typewriters, after all?
Now *that's* marketing.
tho it does sound a bit Soviet Russia. "Those who anger you, control you"
Agree on spelling second?
Who'll get the next zero-g product placement?
What's wrong with metric, anyway?
A miss is as good as a kilometer
Give him a centimeter, and he takes a kilometer
millimeter by millimeter
"millimetering towards success"
"I can see for kilometers and kilometers"
"I'll kilogram you!"
"You don't have a milligram of common sense"
Ugh... I see. Metric weirds language.
No offence to "John Glenn", but it doesn't sound that dramatic...
The only price being freedom?
Game consoles are often sold at cost (or lower), with the money made up on games (free the razors, sell the blades). Cheaper consoles means a more widely adopted platform, means a bigger market, and a bigger pie for all partners.
Intel and Microsoft might really try this, because right now, they're both in tremendous trouble: back-compatibility is their key asset, but they both want to break it (Longhorn, Itanium 64-bit). This could be a way to do it.
The question is: can Microsoft dominate the PC hardware market? They're already sewn-up the third-party market with their driver signing... and free (or at cost) hardware is simply impossible to beat - provided they can make it cheap enough.
It could even be argued that they were doing a great thing, by ushering in the next price-point for computers, making them affordable to everyone, including the untapped markets of the third world...
What price freedom?
Responsibilities come with giving a gift, so that the giver is no longer free, but instead also gives away some of their own freedom, and is bound by the recipients to give them more.
Do these responsibilities really come with giving a gift? I'm not sure.
But look at the reaction.
All that's needed now is a wristfridge and a portable couch (unsigned)
In vim, you can disable the middle mouse button (by making it act like the left button) with:
map <MiddleMouse> <LeftMouse>
map <2-MiddleMouse> <2-LeftMouse>
Thse are great ideas that still have a lot of life in them.
This "Micheel" Malone gangsta guy tells a good story... but if he can't get the name of his subject's high profile CEO right, how seriously can he be taken?
Windows is a platform whose real value is the applications built on it (/.eg most games run on Windows).
Interestingly, a change may be coming, and not from Linux...
They are selling something.
Their customers have to interact with them somehow.
So there is a link right?
It's not going to catch the perpetrators of a joe job, but come on, that's a secondary issue. Spam is the first problem, right?
The prosector would need to prove the spam was commissioned by the seller.
To prosecute, just follow the link.
If this was a dup, would you know?
Boyer-Moore substring matching. No where near as weird as quicksort, just very simple and clever.
Algorithmic coding (can be seen as a generalization of huffman coding).
And run on Intel processors!! uh, wait...