It's all good. This means that the open source movement is having a real impact on the MS bottom line. So far they have had to play games with buying and selling their own stock and cutting R&D to keep their number up. Schools and countries insisting on free software from MS will mean more continued pressure. Eventually their profits will actually drop and when that happens the stock games will not work anymore. It's going to be a doozy.
This sounds like a nightmare to me. So if you want to install a new software on all the desktops but you find it needs special permissions you have to create a new image and push it to hundreds of desktops. As a bonus you wipe whatever the users might have installed, whatever their personal settings and prefs were, any documents they may have saved in their computer. Unless of course you are running everybody with remote profiles (which I know from expereience are troublesome as hell) or you are running from desktop to desktop installing software and setting permissions.
Like I said, sounds like a nightmare, I bet your TCO is horrendous.
I'll do you one better. Eat real food and the rest will take care of itself. Before you put it in your mouth ask yourself "Is this real? Is this food? Does it look like something that came out of the earth meant for human consumption?" If the answer is no then don't eat it.
I run windows 2000 too, I have run it since it was first introduced. I simply do not believe you. Honestly I think you are lying your ass off. Either that you are amongst the.000000001% of windows 2000 users who have only had one blue screen in the last two years.
Anybody who has ever ordered a dozen or more PCs from dell (rhymes with HELL) knows what kind of crapshoot mishmash of hardware you are likely to get in the same freakin batch. I swear no two dells are alike.
True innovation is common in open source. You just have to look.
Look at Zope. Look at Ruby on rails and the innovative persistance layer they have developed. Look at Xen, look at postgresql which is chuck full of innovation that no other database even comes close to matching. Look at firefox and all the innovations they have provided from Xul to livebookmarks.
I'd go further and say that these days most innovation takes place in the open source world, corporations are too conservative to innovate anymore.
"My local state school has in-state education costs of under $500 a semester."
Obviously that does not include the books right? And BTW WOW, what state do you live in where school is that cheap?
Anyway here is a question for you, please answer honestly if you are capabable of it.
Did you pay 100% of your schooling? By that I mean you received 0% of your education costs from your parents. If you got loans that's OK, you can also count grants as being "your money".
"'Not obtaining a quality high school education is the first mistake most people make."
Yes, it's a bitch when you live in some inner city to get a quality high school education.
"The real way a person gets into an untenable position is by making poor decisions."
Nah, it's all circumstance. I am a nice white boy who grew up in the suburbs. Like most nice white boys I drank and smoked dope when I was in high school. Lucky for me I lived in the suburbs where the cops were not constantly patrolling the neighborhoods. Also lucky for me I could drive my dad's car out to the "woods" where we could party safely away from the law. My friends who lived in the city didn't have that luxury, they drank and toked in the alleys of heavily patrolled areas. More then one of them got caught and one ended up in jail because of it. Too bad he didn't live where I did, now he has a record and will never get a decent job.
Being a nice white boy also saved me when I got caught for shoplifting once. The cop looked me over and decided to let me got with a stern warning and a call to my parents. If I was a nice black boy I am pretty sure the cop would want to scare me straight and haul me off to jail.
Trust me being a nice white boy has million other advantages, I am grateful for every single one of them. If it wasn't for my parent's money, my well appointed high shcool in a upper middle class neighborhood, my access to first class libraries, teachers, books, I would not be where I am today. I would probably be just another statistic, black man with a record.
"Ask me when MS isn't a distant second in the video game market."
Because they are (illegally) using their monopoly profits to develop and then dump the xbox at below cost to the market.
Other companies who do not have fat monopoly profits can not afford to do this.
A better question is "Given practically infinate amount of money, massive political power, and an enless supply of programmers why isn't sony and intendo out of the game business".
It seems like MS has not been able to gain new monopolies in any new field they have entered since office. I have detailed a horrendous trail of dead and mee too product they have introduced with much fanfair and the fanboys (like you!) running around saying "so and so competitor will be out of business in five years!" and yet one dismal failure after another.
Looks like that air of invincibiliy MS had around them is now gone. Now they enter a field, dump products at below cost and still gain no better then a 1/3rd share.
"Encryption is merely a tool, to be used for both good and evil"
Not in the court of law apparently. Either way you will never convince a jury 12 ordinary Americans of that. They KNOW for sure that only terrorists use encryption, they know this because the man on the TV told them so.
The fact that AJAX even exists points to the massive failure of Java to save us from stateless applications. Everything people do with AJAX was supposed to get done with Applets and done even better.
The fact that the humble and lowly javascript has continued to flourish while java applets died a screaming and painful death is sad for the industry. BTW, I don't give a crap about java, in fact I dislike it on many levels but I would have swallowed hard and made it my best friend if it would have kept it's promise to free me from the bondage of stateless applications, browser incompatibilites and the lame HTML gui widgets.
I was once reading an article by Phillip K Dick. In it he said that one day his doorbell rang and there was a young lady who had a christian fish symbol on her necklace. When he looked at it he said he got momentarily a vision of life as it was 2000 years ago. He said that he thinks all time periods exits simultaniously and it's just that we can't percieve all of them.
Anyway I bring this up because it seems to me that nothing has changed in the last 5000 years of human history. The more that things change the more they stay the same. Here we are in 2005 having the same friggin fight that Archimedes had. It's as if the last couple of thousand years never happened. An invisible powerful man who lives in the sky is still the answer to everything. What's worse he regularly talks to the president of the United States and tells him to invade iraq.
While you are at it blame the romans too. They burned down the library of alexandria which at the time contained pretty much every important document the greeks made plus quite a few arabic and other cultures too.
That right there probably set mankind back several hundred years.
"You're splitting hairs to justify doing something that is clearly ethically wrong"
So is spitting on the sidewalk, using your monopoly to rip off customers, controlling distribution channells and ripping off artists. None of them are piracy either.
There are certain enterprise businesses who want broken and buggy publish and subscribe replication, the inability to replicate users, lock escalation, and a stored procedure languages from the 70s.
Those people selling MS solutions could make even more money by selling linux solutions. When you sign a deal with a client for a mail server or whatever you get to keep a much higer percentage of the money and still come under your rival's windows bid.
"That's right - let's make sure the TCO for Linux ends up being higher for them. What could be better for open source than making Microsoft's FUD come true?"
HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA. I get it. When you sell a windows solution to a business they will never ever need any help with it!. You crack me help dude.
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It's all good. This means that the open source movement is having a real impact on the MS bottom line. So far they have had to play games with buying and selling their own stock and cutting R&D to keep their number up. Schools and countries insisting on free software from MS will mean more continued pressure. Eventually their profits will actually drop and when that happens the stock games will not work anymore. It's going to be a doozy.
Do people still open office documents with embedded macros? I pity that company!
This sounds like a nightmare to me. So if you want to install a new software on all the desktops but you find it needs special permissions you have to create a new image and push it to hundreds of desktops. As a bonus you wipe whatever the users might have installed, whatever their personal settings and prefs were, any documents they may have saved in their computer. Unless of course you are running everybody with remote profiles (which I know from expereience are troublesome as hell) or you are running from desktop to desktop installing software and setting permissions.
Like I said, sounds like a nightmare, I bet your TCO is horrendous.
I am not, and what are you going to show me? How do propose to prove that your windows only crashed once in two years.
You are lying plain and simple.
He doesn't have a point, he is merely repeating the things he heard on talk radio and fox news.
Edison used to electrocute cats to demonstrate how dangerous and evil AC was.
I'll do you one better. Eat real food and the rest will take care of itself. Before you put it in your mouth ask yourself "Is this real? Is this food? Does it look like something that came out of the earth meant for human consumption?" If the answer is no then don't eat it.
I run windows 2000 too, I have run it since it was first introduced. I simply do not believe you. Honestly I think you are lying your ass off. Either that you are amongst the .000000001% of windows 2000 users who have only had one blue screen in the last two years.
So how do you change permission on all the desktops?
Anybody who has ever ordered a dozen or more PCs from dell (rhymes with HELL) knows what kind of crapshoot mishmash of hardware you are likely to get in the same freakin batch. I swear no two dells are alike.
True innovation is common in open source. You just have to look.
Look at Zope. Look at Ruby on rails and the innovative persistance layer they have developed. Look at Xen, look at postgresql which is chuck full of innovation that no other database even comes close to matching. Look at firefox and all the innovations they have provided from Xul to livebookmarks.
I'd go further and say that these days most innovation takes place in the open source world, corporations are too conservative to innovate anymore.
"My local state school has in-state education costs of under $500 a semester."
Obviously that does not include the books right? And BTW WOW, what state do you live in where school is that cheap?
Anyway here is a question for you, please answer honestly if you are capabable of it.
Did you pay 100% of your schooling? By that I mean you received 0% of your education costs from your parents. If you got loans that's OK, you can also count grants as being "your money".
"'Not obtaining a quality high school education is the first mistake most people make."
Yes, it's a bitch when you live in some inner city to get a quality high school education.
"The real way a person gets into an untenable position is by making poor decisions."
Nah, it's all circumstance. I am a nice white boy who grew up in the suburbs. Like most nice white boys I drank and smoked dope when I was in high school. Lucky for me I lived in the suburbs where the cops were not constantly patrolling the neighborhoods. Also lucky for me I could drive my dad's car out to the "woods" where we could party safely away from the law. My friends who lived in the city didn't have that luxury, they drank and toked in the alleys of heavily patrolled areas. More then one of them got caught and one ended up in jail because of it. Too bad he didn't live where I did, now he has a record and will never get a decent job.
Being a nice white boy also saved me when I got caught for shoplifting once. The cop looked me over and decided to let me got with a stern warning and a call to my parents. If I was a nice black boy I am pretty sure the cop would want to scare me straight and haul me off to jail.
Trust me being a nice white boy has million other advantages, I am grateful for every single one of them. If it wasn't for my parent's money, my well appointed high shcool in a upper middle class neighborhood, my access to first class libraries, teachers, books, I would not be where I am today. I would probably be just another statistic, black man with a record.
Cross financing is one thing, dumping below cost is another. It's illegal in the US but only if the govt is brave enough to go after a large donor.
"Ask me when MS isn't a distant second in the video game market."
Because they are (illegally) using their monopoly profits to develop and then dump the xbox at below cost to the market.
Other companies who do not have fat monopoly profits can not afford to do this.
A better question is "Given practically infinate amount of money, massive political power, and an enless supply of programmers why isn't sony and intendo out of the game business".
It seems like MS has not been able to gain new monopolies in any new field they have entered since office. I have detailed a horrendous trail of dead and mee too product they have introduced with much fanfair and the fanboys (like you!) running around saying "so and so competitor will be out of business in five years!" and yet one dismal failure after another.
Looks like that air of invincibiliy MS had around them is now gone. Now they enter a field, dump products at below cost and still gain no better then a 1/3rd share.
Virtually every TV drama has dealt with terrorism or is about terrorism. Virtually every one has talked about encryption at one point or another.
Do you watch TV at all?
"Encryption is merely a tool, to be used for both good and evil"
Not in the court of law apparently. Either way you will never convince a jury 12 ordinary Americans of that. They KNOW for sure that only terrorists use encryption, they know this because the man on the TV told them so.
I hate to say this but....
The fact that AJAX even exists points to the massive failure of Java to save us from stateless applications. Everything people do with AJAX was supposed to get done with Applets and done even better.
The fact that the humble and lowly javascript has continued to flourish while java applets died a screaming and painful death is sad for the industry. BTW, I don't give a crap about java, in fact I dislike it on many levels but I would have swallowed hard and made it my best friend if it would have kept it's promise to free me from the bondage of stateless applications, browser incompatibilites and the lame HTML gui widgets.
The majority of MS stock is held by less then 100 people all of whom are closely tied to MS.
There is no such thing as shareholders complaining, who the hell cares if some grandma is complaining about her 401K.
It was the romans, look it up. I lilke how everything is the fault of the muslims these days though.
I was once reading an article by Phillip K Dick. In it he said that one day his doorbell rang and there was a young lady who had a christian fish symbol on her necklace. When he looked at it he said he got momentarily a vision of life as it was 2000 years ago. He said that he thinks all time periods exits simultaniously and it's just that we can't percieve all of them.
Anyway I bring this up because it seems to me that nothing has changed in the last 5000 years of human history. The more that things change the more they stay the same. Here we are in 2005 having the same friggin fight that Archimedes had. It's as if the last couple of thousand years never happened. An invisible powerful man who lives in the sky is still the answer to everything. What's worse he regularly talks to the president of the United States and tells him to invade iraq.
While you are at it blame the romans too. They burned down the library of alexandria which at the time contained pretty much every important document the greeks made plus quite a few arabic and other cultures too.
That right there probably set mankind back several hundred years.
"You're splitting hairs to justify doing something that is clearly ethically wrong"
So is spitting on the sidewalk, using your monopoly to rip off customers, controlling distribution channells and ripping off artists. None of them are piracy either.
It's a lie bacause 99.9999999999999999% of the companies that run linux run it on intel hardware.
Alas for intel machines Linux kicks MS ass in TCO calculations so MS has to pick the extreme in order to even attempt to make a case.
Sucks for them.
There are certain enterprise businesses who want broken and buggy publish and subscribe replication, the inability to replicate users, lock escalation, and a stored procedure languages from the 70s.
Those people selling MS solutions could make even more money by selling linux solutions. When you sign a deal with a client for a mail server or whatever you get to keep a much higer percentage of the money and still come under your rival's windows bid.
"That's right - let's make sure the TCO for Linux ends up being higher for them. What could be better for open source than making Microsoft's FUD come true?"
HAHAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA. I get it. When you sell a windows solution to a business they will never ever need any help with it!. You crack me help dude.