The rationale for getting rid of this holdover from alcohol prohibition is the Commerce Clause and the discriminatory application of the laws. It is about time that the government allows me to make adult decisions for myself.
Michigan isn't satisfied and is proposing banning all over-the-net wine orders on the flimsy reasoning that kids will be able to buy booze without government control.
When you have a weak argument, tell them you are legislating "to save the children".
Works for you and I, but the learning curve to a completely open source environment is fraught with a complex operating operating system with new syntax and concepts.
As for me personally, I made the move to Linux in 1995 and have never looked back. I have been Microsoft free in my home ever since 1997.
Managing software installs on any kind of Unix is much simpler than doing so on Windows,..
While I would agree that someone managing a system based on *nix with experienced admins would probably be easier, it is not neccesarily the case that it is easier for everyone. If the person in the original article has no experience with *nix at all it will take them considerable effort and time to make the change to an open source environment.
Well, in my experience most of the stuff that's tied together with little scripts, general purpose utilities and dependencies tends to be brittle, even on Unix.
Yes, that can be problematic. That is why someone considering coverting would want to pick a distro and be consistent.
If you are honest in your assessment, though, you will concede that Microsoft updates often break apps that have been created by customers. We often experience a lag time in deploying Access when Office upgrades come out due to the updates thrashing our custom-built apps.
Pay 45K per year to hire someone to manage a homegrown house of cards "solution" based on rsync, rpm, apt-get, crontabs and other such industry stalwarts.
While I agree that the 3X differential in cost may be too high for this person's institution just to migrate, the "house of cards" comment is laughable. Centralized software management has been done successfully for years on *nix platforms and is done for a much lower cost than what you cite in yorur comments.
But we also manage large *nix server farms for research and maintain Solaris, AIX, HP-UNIX and other varieties of non-Microsoft OSs. The incremental cost of adding Linux administration for our workstations is a 1/4 of what you cite.
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Yeah, that and this current announcement were what I was alluding to.
If this codec gets wide enough use in Europe, it could make Microsoft and Real take a more open approach to their codecs.
I know Real has already made some moves and they are to congratulated. But something that would make video streaming available across all platforms seems like a long way off.
So what is the possibility that we could be converging on a universal streaming client? I know Microsoft and Real would like to see their systems become the ligua franca of streaming video, but the BBC has the advantage of a huge library of content.
Well, to pick a nit, I never said it was a submarine patent.
My question was posed in an attempt to generate discussion over whether their were other companies outside of Microsoft who might hold submarine patents that could affect Wine development.
I guess the hard part would be to get past the filters of those first few, but it would be possible after that.
True. I guess my concern would have been whether their proposed system could be mined for information regarding frequency of connection between two emailers.
The authors propose that their system have access to inbound and outbound contacts. For trusted email accounts, that might work. But what about email accounts that people may want to creat to sheild their identity (political dissidents, whistleblowers). They would have to live outside of the spam protection network and would, I assume, be seed accounts for spammers.
I'm sure that at one time, he predicted that Microsoft would dominate the desktop computing market.
I agree that Gates has done some great things in his time, but when I read articles that he has written over the years, I am struck by how often he has been dead wrong. The Microsoft Global Network vs. the internet is a case in point.
It seems he made a few bucks off that,..
So because he is rich that makes him right on everything he says? Probably not. Just as people who support gun ownership. They find his support for gun control to be way off base.
Bill has done some great things, but prognostication isn't his strong suit.
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The rationale for getting rid of this holdover from alcohol prohibition is the Commerce Clause and the discriminatory application of the laws. It is about time that the government allows me to make adult decisions for myself.
Michigan isn't satisfied and is proposing banning all over-the-net wine orders on the flimsy reasoning that kids will be able to buy booze without government control.
When you have a weak argument, tell them you are legislating "to save the children".
You need to think long-term.
Works for you and I, but the learning curve to a completely open source environment is fraught with a complex operating operating system with new syntax and concepts.
As for me personally, I made the move to Linux in 1995 and have never looked back. I have been Microsoft free in my home ever since 1997.
Agreed. You are talking about 1/5 of an FTE for full support of your desktops.
You are getting a great deal.
Every item that comes on a Redhat workstation (Firefox, OpenOffice) is updated by RHN on my machine.
If I get something outside of the RHN update inventory, I have to update it myself.
That would be no different in a Microsoft environment.
Managing software installs on any kind of Unix is much simpler than doing so on Windows,..
While I would agree that someone managing a system based on *nix with experienced admins would probably be easier, it is not neccesarily the case that it is easier for everyone. If the person in the original article has no experience with *nix at all it will take them considerable effort and time to make the change to an open source environment.
Well, in my experience most of the stuff that's tied together with little scripts, general purpose utilities and dependencies tends to be brittle, even on Unix.
Yes, that can be problematic. That is why someone considering coverting would want to pick a distro and be consistent.
If you are honest in your assessment, though, you will concede that Microsoft updates often break apps that have been created by customers. We often experience a lag time in deploying Access when Office upgrades come out due to the updates thrashing our custom-built apps.
No one solution is without its warts.
Pay 45K per year to hire someone to manage a homegrown house of cards "solution" based on rsync, rpm, apt-get, crontabs and other such industry stalwarts.
While I agree that the 3X differential in cost may be too high for this person's institution just to migrate, the "house of cards" comment is laughable. Centralized software management has been done successfully for years on *nix platforms and is done for a much lower cost than what you cite in yorur comments.
But we also manage large *nix server farms for research and maintain Solaris, AIX, HP-UNIX and other varieties of non-Microsoft OSs. The incremental cost of adding Linux administration for our workstations is a 1/4 of what you cite.
As always, YMMV.
From a post I am meta-moderating:
As of 4/26/05 I enter the world of a non-smoker. Wish me luck and a lot of support.
How is your effort going?
I've been off the butts for just over two years (Feb 1st, 2003).
Good luck.
Refrigerator would have been a better example.
You're right.
Yeah, that and this current announcement were what I was alluding to.
If this codec gets wide enough use in Europe, it could make Microsoft and Real take a more open approach to their codecs.
I know Real has already made some moves and they are to congratulated. But something that would make video streaming available across all platforms seems like a long way off.
So what is the possibility that we could be converging on a universal streaming client? I know Microsoft and Real would like to see their systems become the ligua franca of streaming video, but the BBC has the advantage of a huge library of content.
Will content trump market penetration?
Remove the brick and plug your motherboard directly into the wall.
Come on, you're from U Texas. You guys are bidding on Los Alamos, for crying out loud.
This isn't a submarine patent...
Well, to pick a nit, I never said it was a submarine patent.
My question was posed in an attempt to generate discussion over whether their were other companies outside of Microsoft who might hold submarine patents that could affect Wine development.
Sorry I wasn't more clear.
Not to justify anything, but I'd like to point out that it's tough to get rich by being wrong all the time.
Politicians prove that you can be wrong and still get rich.
So exception handling in the compiler, in itself, is not the patented method, right?
I saw prior art in the references, so perhaps the way they are reporting the errors to the OS is systemic to Windows systems?
I can think of one other open source package that *can* link to proprietary libraries to get enhanced capabilities.
Best just to keep it to ourselves, I guess.
I'm sure that Wine was looking for a Microsoft-based patent attack, but this one probably caught many off guard.
Who else may have submarine patents might affect the development of Wine?
I guess the hard part would be to get past the filters of those first few, but it would be possible after that.
True. I guess my concern would have been whether their proposed system could be mined for information regarding frequency of connection between two emailers.
Uhhh, Edison may have been right about technology once or twice also, genius.
Ford was an antisemite.
I guess being right a few times erases being wrong, eh genius?
He once predicted that he'd be so fucking rich that he would open beer bottles of the tight asses of hookers and wipe his mucus with $100 bills.
I think that was Leonardo DiCaprio.
Say... Butane or ethanol? Maybe a lighter isn't that unreasonable after all. :)
Longer PDA/phone life would be a good reason to quit smoking!
The authors propose that their system have access to inbound and outbound contacts. For trusted email accounts, that might work. But what about email accounts that people may want to creat to sheild their identity (political dissidents, whistleblowers). They would have to live outside of the spam protection network and would, I assume, be seed accounts for spammers.
Am I missing something in this analysis?
I'd say Bill Gates is right quite a lot of thie time.
About software, perhaps. About high schools, what has he proposed?
Rich guys get rich by being right. But they aren't rich by being right about everything.
Henry Ford was extremely rich and an antisemite.
Was Henry Ford right about Jews because he was rich?
Looking at the billions of dollars he has I'd say enough.
So being rich makes you right?
I guess you would be running your computer on DC power if that were true. Edison made that prediction and he was rich as well.
I'm sure that at one time, he predicted that Microsoft would dominate the desktop computing market.
I agree that Gates has done some great things in his time, but when I read articles that he has written over the years, I am struck by how often he has been dead wrong. The Microsoft Global Network vs. the internet is a case in point.
It seems he made a few bucks off that,..
So because he is rich that makes him right on everything he says? Probably not. Just as people who support gun ownership. They find his support for gun control to be way off base.
Bill has done some great things, but prognostication isn't his strong suit.