One word. Sarbanes-Oxley. I'm sure the query requirements are a b*tch.
Then again 12 GB is a walk in the park for Oracle Financals. Again this is another tech company that serves great product, but uses wacky internal setups. Not a good sign of eating your own dog food.
Bill Gates speaking: "We have been successful and have so much cash at hand, let's take common OSS/interoperable technology and create an OS, of course it will be made an inferior OS (e.g. mainly eye candy & dialog security) and will be marketed as 'New Windows' (i.e. Vista). Of course, we'll rebrand 'Classic Windows' (XP) with increased sales."
If the iPhone makes email and file transfers (to and from the device) easy, then Microsoft will be irrelevant to the mobile business user.
Since email is still ther killer app, MS's analysis is skewed. Yeah they're selling more PPC devices, but it mainly for email. Also consider the hearsay that everyone has a problem with their PPC smartphone.
But using tracking cookies has been a cornerstone for DC's success--why spend weeks datamining when you can just grab a resident state... And if it makes gobs of $$$, why 'make it better' unless you've solved the risks in overhauling a system?
""Narcissism," says Adler, his hands flapping the air, "makes a person feel that he should be a leader. He's the one motivated to sell himself to peers.""
Note that selling one's self is currently 'rule #1' to be successful in business (any MBA program would tell ya).
Also...
"But the one who reaches the top fastest doesn't necessarily make the best boss. "
Hence, this article really explains why more businesses fail than succeed.
Really, if they were great salesmen, Circuit City wouldn't be in the situation it's currently in. Salesmen don't have a standard book for "how to sell", it's about adapting.
I like SuSE a lot, and Novell does have the clout to push back against MS (though it is making deals with them), but Mono is just killing the interop effort.
Shout to Novell: Just drop mono and switch to Java...Pleeaseeeze! (pleading like De Icarza).
And yes, I've tried switching my winforms apps to mono and it never worked out. Why? cause the cool features in.Net apps are either referenced unmanaged code or some DLL import hack..Net only offers great cross coding between MS languages and webservices (I prefer XML-RPC anyway) from my experience and that's it.
Then again, my apps broke switching from.Net 1.1 to.Net 2.0. sheesh.
Windows 2000 Server is likely a lower TCO than linux--less secure too and also end-of-lifed. In about 3 yrs Windows XP Pro and 03 server will be in the same boat.
Once business upgrade to the next version of windows, then you'll see the TCO jump higher than Linux. Fortunately, most big corporation jump to the next version of windows when the TCO look right--that when the next version's (e.g. Vista) been around for several years.
Of course business can update to the latest Linux kernel easily. And they likely are running the latest production versions or even cutting edge versions. And it's more hardened (secure), and Linux is usually replacing a UNIX environment, i.e. which are bigger or more demanding ecosystems than Windows setups == a higher TCO.
If content is truly king, then Google cannot win this lawsuit.
Regardless, Google still wins in the end. It's just they paid 2B's for an 'instance' userbase [possibly to switch to some new service, Google Video 2.0?] while undercutting the competition as they were first to market. It didn't look like a typical Microsoft buyout that competitiors can prepare for, so it was a smart/stealthy strategy...
So they may lose a little value from their 2B buyout (the YouTube brand, the technology), but they [think they've] built that loyal base that would easily switch to a new service if the time does come.
If something exists out there that isn't normal matter, evolution says some lifeform should exist in dark matter. It makes sense nothing lives in a vacuum, but if there's something other than a vacuum?
With only 4% matter from TFA, could lead to the idea there must be a billion species & ecosystems we just can't detect, hence the thought...
Lot of companies from Taiwan that develop surveillance s/w have tracking capability in their entry level packages. This is due to the need for machine vision technologies in the manufacturing industry (automated QA). And with the pace of manufacturing, it needs to be very fast and precise.
We're also using video tracking in theme parks rides too, hence, the tech is not all that new. It's tracking things that are fast (i.e. airplanes, rockets, gases/fluids) that could require some new approaches and since machines can't interpret social law(s) yet, will always need a person reviewing the video at some point.
yeah, being ubiquitous is the problem... trying to get the gov't to create a fair environment will just kill the system (as it will expose how unethical/bad/ineffective most gov't services are).
Once ubiquitous and fair, I think the public will be fine and find new ways of expressing privacy.
Newton was able to do some spectacular science back in his day (on a shoestring budget). Same for Maxwell, even for Einstein (though he got way more funding, but peanuts compared to today's budgets).
The community does need to ask--why is science getting "more expensive"? Is it the cost of an apparatus? The IP law/legal know-how to protect yourself, that science is currently profit oriented, science is tightly coupled with a free market society or even tightly coupled to a political bias? Or is it just a cost of living issue (professors need their BMW's too...)
I mean even kids' science fair projects have gotten way too expensive (robotics anyone?).
In a world were you need to buy fresh water, practicing science is becoming a privilege vs. a right.
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Hence why there are millions of surveillance cameras in the 1st place.
Just speak in sneezes and coughs, like "huh-sh*t-chu" and "b*llsh*t--cough". Reminds me of all those 80's movies...
Interesting that ./ & wikipedia have at least a 1st line defense: moderated content...
Here comes the second coming of parallel program. This is gonna be cool.
Then again 12 GB is a walk in the park for Oracle Financals. Again this is another tech company that serves great product, but uses wacky internal setups. Not a good sign of eating your own dog food.
Can someone please have India or China outsource my soul? I'm sure they would be able to live my life better than me currently.
Stay healthy, get some sleep, eat some good food, have a life basically. Cause if your dead, this discussion is meaningless.
Gotta love conspiracies (and Futurama).
Since email is still ther killer app, MS's analysis is skewed. Yeah they're selling more PPC devices, but it mainly for email. Also consider the hearsay that everyone has a problem with their PPC smartphone.
But using tracking cookies has been a cornerstone for DC's success--why spend weeks datamining when you can just grab a resident state... And if it makes gobs of $$$, why 'make it better' unless you've solved the risks in overhauling a system?
Then again, accordingly TFA, I guess the pipes are clogged.
Note that selling one's self is currently 'rule #1' to be successful in business (any MBA program would tell ya).
Also...
"But the one who reaches the top fastest doesn't necessarily make the best boss. "
Hence, this article really explains why more businesses fail than succeed.
that's unless you have GPS of course.
Hmm: could it be offline access to old mail?
Really, if they were great salesmen, Circuit City wouldn't be in the situation it's currently in. Salesmen don't have a standard book for "how to sell", it's about adapting.
you mean high bandwidth, lots of servers, and...
100% free (as in beer) service.
If other services spent the cash to beef up their infrastructure, some could surpass Youtube in viewership.
Nor did Youtube or Google start something new. Flash7 + high bandwidth + cheap video cameras help make this idea that been around for 5 yrs flourish.
Shout to Novell: Just drop mono and switch to Java...Pleeaseeeze! (pleading like De Icarza).
And yes, I've tried switching my winforms apps to mono and it never worked out. Why? cause the cool features in .Net apps are either referenced unmanaged code or some DLL import hack. .Net only offers great cross coding between MS languages and webservices (I prefer XML-RPC anyway) from my experience and that's it.
Then again, my apps broke switching from .Net 1.1 to .Net 2.0. sheesh.
Once business upgrade to the next version of windows, then you'll see the TCO jump higher than Linux. Fortunately, most big corporation jump to the next version of windows when the TCO look right--that when the next version's (e.g. Vista) been around for several years.
Of course business can update to the latest Linux kernel easily. And they likely are running the latest production versions or even cutting edge versions. And it's more hardened (secure), and Linux is usually replacing a UNIX environment, i.e. which are bigger or more demanding ecosystems than Windows setups == a higher TCO.
This report somewhat skews the facts.
blame capitalism...
anyone who runs a business can relate to this strategy.
Regardless, Google still wins in the end. It's just they paid 2B's for an 'instance' userbase [possibly to switch to some new service, Google Video 2.0?] while undercutting the competition as they were first to market. It didn't look like a typical Microsoft buyout that competitiors can prepare for, so it was a smart/stealthy strategy...
So they may lose a little value from their 2B buyout (the YouTube brand, the technology), but they [think they've] built that loyal base that would easily switch to a new service if the time does come.
With only 4% matter from TFA, could lead to the idea there must be a billion species & ecosystems we just can't detect, hence the thought...
man, we are truly stupid.
Well, according to Schrodinger (and somewhat Heisenberg)...
We're also using video tracking in theme parks rides too, hence, the tech is not all that new. It's tracking things that are fast (i.e. airplanes, rockets, gases/fluids) that could require some new approaches and since machines can't interpret social law(s) yet, will always need a person reviewing the video at some point.
yeah, being ubiquitous is the problem... trying to get the gov't to create a fair environment will just kill the system (as it will expose how unethical/bad/ineffective most gov't services are). Once ubiquitous and fair, I think the public will be fine and find new ways of expressing privacy.
The community does need to ask--why is science getting "more expensive"? Is it the cost of an apparatus? The IP law/legal know-how to protect yourself, that science is currently profit oriented, science is tightly coupled with a free market society or even tightly coupled to a political bias? Or is it just a cost of living issue (professors need their BMW's too...)
I mean even kids' science fair projects have gotten way too expensive (robotics anyone?).
In a world were you need to buy fresh water, practicing science is becoming a privilege vs. a right.