Well, I guess it contains both Windows and Linux in the same phrase, so it must be news! Actually, it really should contain Google in it somewhere...we should really be posting a summary of every Google Blog post.
Obviously, there is a battle going on for digital content ownership, involving artists and record labels. Some artists (like Switchfoot...as mentioned previously) take the side of consumers while others do not. As some have mentioned, iTunes can allow artists to quite possibly bypass record labels in the long term. For example, on Apple's New Music Tuesday (loads in iTunes), Switchfoot was featured with an exclusive track only to be found in iTunes. If they do it right, this could be used to drive sales for them, possibly even without Sony grabbing a cut. At some point, iTunes will be (or already is) a bigger driver of sales than MTV or other traditional outlets (like stores) for some alternative artists. And this is the point at which artists and consumers will win, and of course Apple will be happy...
OK, so I'm a huge fan of tech in general, so I've gobbled up every single one of Google's offerings because they were quite simple and technically amazing. I got myself an invite on Gmail when they were going for $10/apiece on eBay, etc. etc.
However, I've noticed what seems to be some young (and new) blood on the MS campus that is definitely very interested in putting up a valiant fight within blogging and maps and other stuff. Virtual Earth, while coming second and with slightly older maps in some area than Google Maps, actually allows click zooming and scroll wheel zooming in FIREFOX! I heard Scoble during an interview specifically mention stuff like that and there is a much greater openness among their developers about the competition and increasing a userbase no matter what. BTW, Google Maps still don't zoom in Firefox using the scroll wheel, a real pain...and printing from Google Maps only seems to work if I use print screen.
Also, MS is saying "bring on the hackers" by offering $1000 in a contest to build the best plugin on top of Virtual Earth. Furthermore, MS is offering the Virtual Earth maps for free for commercial use. Furthermore, the virtual earth is integrated with the MySpace bloggin. Meanwhile, Google has tried to squash some commercial ideas built on their mapping, and there is no integration between their gmail, virtual earth, and blogging capabilities.
However, what I find cool is that there are some devs who are creating a bridge so that plugins can work on Google Maps AND Virtual Earth, which is awesome for increasing compatability between mapping services. Check out the video here (warning...requires WMP). Or you can read up about how to code it up here.
I love the line in the sig of the recruiter. "How far will you go?" I guess he went pretty far - it takes a certain level of pompousness that rather scares me when he mentioned "on that hopefully not too far distant day that I piss on Microsoft's grave." This "I-will-outlive-your-company" attitude smacks of some type of religious war where it almost seems he would be standing there cheering over the death of a large company while 60,000 people are now without jobs.
However, one little rant. Everytime people bring up ESR, someone has to mention his ideas about guns. This is serious ad hominem and irrelevant to the discussion at hand...unless if it points out that he's really not the FOSS advocate he claims he is but simply a pompous windbag.
FWIW, the iPod Nano color screen is basically the size of your standard digital camera screen. At least it was of the popular Canon Powershot A70 digicam (and its predecessors).
It was a neat thing for students at Stevens Institute of Technology, my alma mater, who were involved in ACM to take top 10 in the greater New York Regional contest for the last 4 years (while I was in school). Although I would have loved to take part, due to the timing of practice sessions and competition, I couldn't. However, I knew the leadership and others involved, and they became much better programmers as a result of this. We were competing against many larger and more well-funded schools like NYU, Cornell, Yale, Columbia, and so on. One major organizer behind it all is now working at Amazon right out of college, for what it's worth.
You don't happen to be a Financial Consultant in Global Wealth Management in that company? If so, you'll likely be able to find where I am in the Global Directory.
I see no problem with using F/OSS for servers, though. Provided you have the support for the various administrative aspects, Linux or other *NIX servers are solid. They are also quite popular for web hosting companies to use.
I work in a *very* big company as well, apparently the largest in the world by one metric, maybe the same company as you. We happen to use MS products (including OS, DB, etc.) and definitely don't use LAMP. But I can safely say we work with people within the corporation and others who do. Apparently, we didn't get the memo...
I'm surprised that you get modded +5 Informative when you say you are not even in IT and don't know the scope. So, let's obviously assume global!?!
as long as they (a) revolutionize cell phone UI in some way and (b) add one or two features customers would really love (maybe open WiFi and/or open computer/peripheral connectivity via USB), it should make some pretty big waves in the cell phone market. Camera is fine in or out, music player is totally optional although a separate Shuffle battery may accomplish that without much trouble. Of course, we're talking Cingular, whose reception is still rather sucky in many places.
Before people write off Apple in this venture, I'd say you should read the original comments about the iPod before making rash statements here...
Since when have Physics, Biology, and Chemistry stopped being based on philosophical frameworks (or presuppositions)? Apparently, people so quickly forget that Copernicus was a sun-worshipper who supported his theory (which ended up being factually correct) despite having less evidence than its predecessor. As far as I remember, his theory is still taught as science today. Have we forgotten the great philosopher Hume who in his philosophy nixed much of what we call science as being provable since he denied the "law of causality"?
As a philosophy minor with an interest in the philosophy of science, I've searched into this a bit more than the people who blindly accept what the scientists (who suck at philosophy, frankly) pass down. There is widespread disagreement among scientists about the origin of life, ranging from alien interference (a wacky idea that is totally swallowed by many despite the fact that aliens have not been scientifically verified or classified) and meteorites as well as more basic scientific processes. You'd think with our extensive knowledge of Physics/Biology/Chemistry, we'd have this "proved" already but scientists and theologians all have perpetuated "myths" instead (although in reality one such "myth" may in fact be true).
As far as proving God philosophically, I'd think while many have exhausted much effort, they are likely wasting their time as it's probably impossible trying to prove a God whose logic supercedes ours. If it's a superhuman God, well then we've changed the traditional meaning of "God" and we might as well get to work creating a gentically perfect clone to prove our argument correct.
I'd be curious how many who have posted have actually attended an ID conference at Yale University like I have a few years ago. These people receive no backing from the Institute for Creation Research and they have various philosophical backgrounds and quite a bit more serious creditionals than the ICR folks. I've seen Evangelicals, Catholics, agnostic Jews, and likely others all giving major speeches covering indepth probability theory, biochemistry, and other areas of their expertise as it pertains to the naturalistic theories. Of course, some/.ers may still trust their college science textbooks as Scripture despite the fact that they have (and even still do) included faulty experiments in support of various simplistic evolutionary ideas which have been already discounted by current researchers and evolutionary proponents.
I'd prefer that the whole "origin of life" issue and general discussion of evolution be completely dropped from textbooks entirely. Leave out evolution, leave out creationism, leave out ID. Just teach the current theories, taxonomies, etc. and have interested students study "Evolution" as another optional scientific discipline. And replace that content and time with a study of philosophy and/or logic because young students today could benefit more by learning how to THINK critically!
I'm quite disappointed. I was clicking on Apollo 11 fully expecting to find "To Here" and "From Here." Alternatively, they could supply that info to NASA to help them with their shuttle shuffle.
A few missing pieces though - please locate the "man on the moon" and I'd like to see where the cow jumps over the moon. Plus, it would be nice if someone could build a hack to show current real estate prices on the moon.
Now, if they could only integrate it with Google Earth...
Ah yet another "MS is dying" post...modded "insightful." Sure, one guy whose resume has had a great history. Maybe he saw Google as the best opportunity for his advanced education. Maybe he sees their technology as mathematically more interesting? Seriously, I know someone who worked as an intern for two summers at Microsoft, then one summer at Apple and now ended up at Google. Does she indicate where each company is going? I don't think so...
If someone started a website the provides a filtered search of Google and other search engines' results of bittorrents to pirated content, could Google (and others) be held responsible?
Granted, this is a bit different than this case, but if I had a bunch of Google search links to find a certain "favorite" bittorent file, who's blamed - me or Google?
There's of course the issue that the site you linked to could totally change without you as webmaster realizing it. Especially if the site is hacked...
I'm not sure your actual rationale for the boycott. "doing crap like this" is rather vague. They provide good selection and great deals, they provide a very good service for their corporate customers (Target, Walmart, etc.). I guess maybe you'd rather they get sued (like Apple recently) by some guy in Asia who's hoarding patents rather than prepare now for that problem facing them and others...
Am I the only person who normally finds Google's offerings interesting, but this to be useless and extremely late in coming? Using AutoFill and SpellBound, combined with Firefox's built-in Google search bar with its own drop-down list, I find the Google toolbar to be a huge waste of screen space. I'd much rather put my 50+ RSS feeds across the top and save the rest of my screen space.
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Yeah, I still see the "Shut Do.." bug/feature in play...
I've never seen a bona fide company appeal to altruism so that we pay them more money. (Let's discount the local friend who's trying to sell something on comission in a pyramid scheme as a special case). If they are trying to sell a product/service, they are the ones responsible for producing something of value, and we owe them nothing. The only major exception that comes to mind is the government, which somehow needs our money because they in their infinite wisdom know how to spend (read: on bribes) our money better (read: less efficiently) than we can and we out of altruism to others should cough up the money. No, I prefer to give to others myself through a local charity I can trust, not through a business or the government.
Speaking of overpriced, I find it humorous that people always mention Microsoft. If they were in fact viewed as overpriced by most people, people would simply stop buying. Software value often is perceived value and not $$/bug or something. Apple with the iPod charges a premium for iPods (call me cheap, but I've passed up some type of iPod a dozen times because I thought them overpriced). However, people will pay because beauty, style, "class", popularity, and a small size are pricey nowadays.
Sharing in an altruistic way expects nothing in return. Of course, that is so rare that companies or individuals that go that route usually have to sell support because many claim to pay for free software and few actually send more than a measly few dollars as thanks.
Back a year ago or so, I tried without success to create a desktop app that could run Ebay searches. However, it was a very expensive thing to do and I was doing it free as an academic project, so I had to go the route of HTML parsing and all that jazz.
This is definitely a step in the right direction...
Well, I've come across some important Intranet/Internet sites that still create a popup for login. For example, it's still around at a large financial corporation where I work. Even some banks and other "safe" institutions go that route. Idiotic if you ask me...
I for one am sick of the usual/. flaming against MS that smacks of jealousy and extreme idealism for "their pet OS". The point of Linus makes a lot of sense, and I think that yes the market will correct some of the rather hefty prices, as he says. Of course, the question is for the next 5-10 years, "What OS can my company bank on in the meantime?" I'd say MS is a pretty safe bet if (a)you have a lot of infrastructure that works well (Win2K/Win2K3/whatever) for the intranet where you have the knowledge and experience (and also support for the near future) and (b)you diversify with some *NIX (or even Windows Server) offering for the webserver where you have enough knowledge and experience to support it sufficiently yourself rather than rely on some company (RH) or other (pick your company).
Basically, those who bet against MS have the burden of proof on their specific OS over the MS offerings that have worked for a lot of people...and their view may be right for their situation.
As a Windows fanboy who's kinda warming up to OSX and Redhat Linux (ignorant of other distros), it's kind of interesting to watch the apparent flamewars between *BSD and Linux.
First, there's the major hangup over the name - GNU/Linux or just plain Linux. Then there's the "our history is better than yours" or "our software is freer than yours" flamewars that are perpetuated everywhere. Ideally, open source was NOT a battle between egos, but it seems each OS is a huge battle between the spokespeople (De Raadt vs. Torvalds vs. Stallman).
How about a usability study (with young kids for example) with Windows XP and OS X as a control? Or a side-by-side comparison of security issues between the *NIX OSes ranked in an objective manner?
Is the F/OSS movement (within the OS space anyway) really about the community or a religious battle between egos?
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Well, I guess it contains both Windows and Linux in the same phrase, so it must be news! Actually, it really should contain Google in it somewhere...we should really be posting a summary of every Google Blog post.
Obviously, there is a battle going on for digital content ownership, involving artists and record labels. Some artists (like Switchfoot...as mentioned previously) take the side of consumers while others do not. As some have mentioned, iTunes can allow artists to quite possibly bypass record labels in the long term. For example, on Apple's New Music Tuesday (loads in iTunes), Switchfoot was featured with an exclusive track only to be found in iTunes. If they do it right, this could be used to drive sales for them, possibly even without Sony grabbing a cut. At some point, iTunes will be (or already is) a bigger driver of sales than MTV or other traditional outlets (like stores) for some alternative artists. And this is the point at which artists and consumers will win, and of course Apple will be happy...
OK, so I'm a huge fan of tech in general, so I've gobbled up every single one of Google's offerings because they were quite simple and technically amazing. I got myself an invite on Gmail when they were going for $10/apiece on eBay, etc. etc.
However, I've noticed what seems to be some young (and new) blood on the MS campus that is definitely very interested in putting up a valiant fight within blogging and maps and other stuff. Virtual Earth, while coming second and with slightly older maps in some area than Google Maps, actually allows click zooming and scroll wheel zooming in FIREFOX! I heard Scoble during an interview specifically mention stuff like that and there is a much greater openness among their developers about the competition and increasing a userbase no matter what. BTW, Google Maps still don't zoom in Firefox using the scroll wheel, a real pain...and printing from Google Maps only seems to work if I use print screen.
Also, MS is saying "bring on the hackers" by offering $1000 in a contest to build the best plugin on top of Virtual Earth. Furthermore, MS is offering the Virtual Earth maps for free for commercial use. Furthermore, the virtual earth is integrated with the MySpace bloggin. Meanwhile, Google has tried to squash some commercial ideas built on their mapping, and there is no integration between their gmail, virtual earth, and blogging capabilities.
However, what I find cool is that there are some devs who are creating a bridge so that plugins can work on Google Maps AND Virtual Earth, which is awesome for increasing compatability between mapping services. Check out the video here (warning...requires WMP). Or you can read up about how to code it up here.
I love the line in the sig of the recruiter. "How far will you go?" I guess he went pretty far - it takes a certain level of pompousness that rather scares me when he mentioned "on that hopefully not too far distant day that I piss on Microsoft's grave." This "I-will-outlive-your-company" attitude smacks of some type of religious war where it almost seems he would be standing there cheering over the death of a large company while 60,000 people are now without jobs.
However, one little rant. Everytime people bring up ESR, someone has to mention his ideas about guns. This is serious ad hominem and irrelevant to the discussion at hand...unless if it points out that he's really not the FOSS advocate he claims he is but simply a pompous windbag.
FWIW, the iPod Nano color screen is basically the size of your standard digital camera screen. At least it was of the popular Canon Powershot A70 digicam (and its predecessors).
It was a neat thing for students at Stevens Institute of Technology, my alma mater, who were involved in ACM to take top 10 in the greater New York Regional contest for the last 4 years (while I was in school). Although I would have loved to take part, due to the timing of practice sessions and competition, I couldn't. However, I knew the leadership and others involved, and they became much better programmers as a result of this. We were competing against many larger and more well-funded schools like NYU, Cornell, Yale, Columbia, and so on. One major organizer behind it all is now working at Amazon right out of college, for what it's worth.
And, one other precious gem from the original...
They even took a picture from next January's CES. You'd think they'd advertise the time machine feature... http://atomchip.com/_wsn/page5.html
You don't happen to be a Financial Consultant in Global Wealth Management in that company? If so, you'll likely be able to find where I am in the Global Directory.
I see no problem with using F/OSS for servers, though. Provided you have the support for the various administrative aspects, Linux or other *NIX servers are solid. They are also quite popular for web hosting companies to use.
I work in a *very* big company as well, apparently the largest in the world by one metric, maybe the same company as you. We happen to use MS products (including OS, DB, etc.) and definitely don't use LAMP. But I can safely say we work with people within the corporation and others who do. Apparently, we didn't get the memo...
I'm surprised that you get modded +5 Informative when you say you are not even in IT and don't know the scope. So, let's obviously assume global!?!
as long as they (a) revolutionize cell phone UI in some way and (b) add one or two features customers would really love (maybe open WiFi and/or open computer/peripheral connectivity via USB), it should make some pretty big waves in the cell phone market. Camera is fine in or out, music player is totally optional although a separate Shuffle battery may accomplish that without much trouble. Of course, we're talking Cingular, whose reception is still rather sucky in many places.
Before people write off Apple in this venture, I'd say you should read the original comments about the iPod before making rash statements here...
a marketing decision - simply call the Neeons "Creative Zen Glow Worms." Hopefully, they can package a lot of different worms before they ship.
Since when have Physics, Biology, and Chemistry stopped being based on philosophical frameworks (or presuppositions)? Apparently, people so quickly forget that Copernicus was a sun-worshipper who supported his theory (which ended up being factually correct) despite having less evidence than its predecessor. As far as I remember, his theory is still taught as science today. Have we forgotten the great philosopher Hume who in his philosophy nixed much of what we call science as being provable since he denied the "law of causality"?
/.ers may still trust their college science textbooks as Scripture despite the fact that they have (and even still do) included faulty experiments in support of various simplistic evolutionary ideas which have been already discounted by current researchers and evolutionary proponents.
As a philosophy minor with an interest in the philosophy of science, I've searched into this a bit more than the people who blindly accept what the scientists (who suck at philosophy, frankly) pass down. There is widespread disagreement among scientists about the origin of life, ranging from alien interference (a wacky idea that is totally swallowed by many despite the fact that aliens have not been scientifically verified or classified) and meteorites as well as more basic scientific processes. You'd think with our extensive knowledge of Physics/Biology/Chemistry, we'd have this "proved" already but scientists and theologians all have perpetuated "myths" instead (although in reality one such "myth" may in fact be true).
As far as proving God philosophically, I'd think while many have exhausted much effort, they are likely wasting their time as it's probably impossible trying to prove a God whose logic supercedes ours. If it's a superhuman God, well then we've changed the traditional meaning of "God" and we might as well get to work creating a gentically perfect clone to prove our argument correct.
I'd be curious how many who have posted have actually attended an ID conference at Yale University like I have a few years ago. These people receive no backing from the Institute for Creation Research and they have various philosophical backgrounds and quite a bit more serious creditionals than the ICR folks. I've seen Evangelicals, Catholics, agnostic Jews, and likely others all giving major speeches covering indepth probability theory, biochemistry, and other areas of their expertise as it pertains to the naturalistic theories. Of course, some
I'd prefer that the whole "origin of life" issue and general discussion of evolution be completely dropped from textbooks entirely. Leave out evolution, leave out creationism, leave out ID. Just teach the current theories, taxonomies, etc. and have interested students study "Evolution" as another optional scientific discipline. And replace that content and time with a study of philosophy and/or logic because young students today could benefit more by learning how to THINK critically!
I'm quite disappointed. I was clicking on Apollo 11 fully expecting to find "To Here" and "From Here." Alternatively, they could supply that info to NASA to help them with their shuttle shuffle.
A few missing pieces though - please locate the "man on the moon" and I'd like to see where the cow jumps over the moon. Plus, it would be nice if someone could build a hack to show current real estate prices on the moon.
Now, if they could only integrate it with Google Earth...
Ah yet another "MS is dying" post...modded "insightful." Sure, one guy whose resume has had a great history. Maybe he saw Google as the best opportunity for his advanced education. Maybe he sees their technology as mathematically more interesting? Seriously, I know someone who worked as an intern for two summers at Microsoft, then one summer at Apple and now ended up at Google. Does she indicate where each company is going? I don't think so...
If someone started a website the provides a filtered search of Google and other search engines' results of bittorrents to pirated content, could Google (and others) be held responsible?
Granted, this is a bit different than this case, but if I had a bunch of Google search links to find a certain "favorite" bittorent file, who's blamed - me or Google?
There's of course the issue that the site you linked to could totally change without you as webmaster realizing it. Especially if the site is hacked...
I'm not sure your actual rationale for the boycott. "doing crap like this" is rather vague. They provide good selection and great deals, they provide a very good service for their corporate customers (Target, Walmart, etc.). I guess maybe you'd rather they get sued (like Apple recently) by some guy in Asia who's hoarding patents rather than prepare now for that problem facing them and others...
I'm surprised you mentioned Buy.com, which has had a 2.93/10 customer satisfaction rating at www.resellerratings.com. I would recommend Overstock.com, but they also have rather poor ratings there.
Am I the only person who normally finds Google's offerings interesting, but this to be useless and extremely late in coming? Using AutoFill and SpellBound, combined with Firefox's built-in Google search bar with its own drop-down list, I find the Google toolbar to be a huge waste of screen space. I'd much rather put my 50+ RSS feeds across the top and save the rest of my screen space.
Yeah, I still see the "Shut Do.." bug/feature in play...
I've never seen a bona fide company appeal to altruism so that we pay them more money. (Let's discount the local friend who's trying to sell something on comission in a pyramid scheme as a special case). If they are trying to sell a product/service, they are the ones responsible for producing something of value, and we owe them nothing. The only major exception that comes to mind is the government, which somehow needs our money because they in their infinite wisdom know how to spend (read: on bribes) our money better (read: less efficiently) than we can and we out of altruism to others should cough up the money. No, I prefer to give to others myself through a local charity I can trust, not through a business or the government.
Speaking of overpriced, I find it humorous that people always mention Microsoft. If they were in fact viewed as overpriced by most people, people would simply stop buying. Software value often is perceived value and not $$/bug or something. Apple with the iPod charges a premium for iPods (call me cheap, but I've passed up some type of iPod a dozen times because I thought them overpriced). However, people will pay because beauty, style, "class", popularity, and a small size are pricey nowadays.
Sharing in an altruistic way expects nothing in return. Of course, that is so rare that companies or individuals that go that route usually have to sell support because many claim to pay for free software and few actually send more than a measly few dollars as thanks.
Back a year ago or so, I tried without success to create a desktop app that could run Ebay searches. However, it was a very expensive thing to do and I was doing it free as an academic project, so I had to go the route of HTML parsing and all that jazz.
This is definitely a step in the right direction...
Well, I've come across some important Intranet/Internet sites that still create a popup for login. For example, it's still around at a large financial corporation where I work. Even some banks and other "safe" institutions go that route. Idiotic if you ask me...
I for one am sick of the usual /. flaming against MS that smacks of jealousy and extreme idealism for "their pet OS". The point of Linus makes a lot of sense, and I think that yes the market will correct some of the rather hefty prices, as he says. Of course, the question is for the next 5-10 years, "What OS can my company bank on in the meantime?" I'd say MS is a pretty safe bet if (a)you have a lot of infrastructure that works well (Win2K/Win2K3/whatever) for the intranet where you have the knowledge and experience (and also support for the near future) and (b)you diversify with some *NIX (or even Windows Server) offering for the webserver where you have enough knowledge and experience to support it sufficiently yourself rather than rely on some company (RH) or other (pick your company).
Basically, those who bet against MS have the burden of proof on their specific OS over the MS offerings that have worked for a lot of people...and their view may be right for their situation.
As a Windows fanboy who's kinda warming up to OSX and Redhat Linux (ignorant of other distros), it's kind of interesting to watch the apparent flamewars between *BSD and Linux.
First, there's the major hangup over the name - GNU/Linux or just plain Linux. Then there's the "our history is better than yours" or "our software is freer than yours" flamewars that are perpetuated everywhere. Ideally, open source was NOT a battle between egos, but it seems each OS is a huge battle between the spokespeople (De Raadt vs. Torvalds vs. Stallman).
How about a usability study (with young kids for example) with Windows XP and OS X as a control? Or a side-by-side comparison of security issues between the *NIX OSes ranked in an objective manner?
Is the F/OSS movement (within the OS space anyway) really about the community or a religious battle between egos?
But not much more, when we're currently commenting on