Which is why I coined the phrase about the Internet way back when as "The World's Biggest Secret Club" - the only way most people knew what the Internet was was if they were on it.
I'll match your don't forget that until and raise it by one older one. Don't forget: when Yahoo first started, their search engine was based upon people manually walking the web and keying references to things they found interesting (as well as things people sent to them).
Never underestimate Micro$oft's ability to leverage their competition.
Indicate you're looking at Linux?
Be prepared for some very sweet deals - sell your souls...this time
Defy them (fail to re-up)?
Prepare for a license audit at 0-dark-hundred.[1]
Ahead of them in the marketplace?
Be prepared.
Feel their breath on your neck?
Here it comes
They'll offer^w send Guido to the more important or most crucial lynchpins and make them an offer they cannot refuse. Little by little, they maintain, then grow their marketshare not by outperforming their competitors but by sabotaging them - cut off vital resources - in this case, information. No info, no service.
the ability to trade a book with someone else, loan a book to someone else, and so on. These are functions which are available with physical books. I realize publishers are probably salivating at the prospect of making money by losing some (or all) of the features above [and forcing people to repurchase every time], but serious are not going to go for the scheme.
The same could have sunk the music market but once the price was lowered to what the level will bear on all sides, consumers started becoming much more honest instead of learning how to and living on P2P software.
The same roller coaster behavior will likely be observed in the next types of media available to consumers; movies & books. Movies will be seen a cash cow, PROTECT IT AT ALL COSTS!! so the give-and-take will occur with the wildest gyrations htting the sellers the most.
In summary, eBooks will have to address all of the same "issues" dealt with in MP3 (or sound in general) + the other issues such as loaning or swapping as well as some of the other unforeseen issues or eBooks will die [again] until someone eventually gets it right.
Office is the cash cow. Office produces 1/3 of their profit. Not sales, but profit.
This is why there was a story here on/. several weeks ago pointing out that a lot of good ideas which have to be round-filed because the overall contribution of two vital sources (time, people) would interfer with things such as Office. Unless and until something mysteriously is left on their doorstep, they're kind of wearing golden handcuffs.
What's interestingly is this week's Barrons'...the cover shows a picture of Gates peeking through a candy store's window.
"Time to Grow Up: After paying its hue divident, Microsoft will no longer be the kid in the candy store. But, even in middle age, Bill Gates' company has impressive growth ropects. Why the stop could jump 25%"
It requires a subscription to get to the story (which I don't have - I only get it when there's something good in it)
web sites and online resources are part of the lifeblood of many series, particularly those on the "off stations" - those not on the standard affiliate networks. I could see it if there were things which slammed it because they think they got screwed or something, but this type of thing has been around for a long, long time. Go back through usenet and dig very, very deep to see how many tv shows were being discussed back then. I've been on more than fifteen years, making me a newbie to many people - but shows were discussed then (only there wasn't a web - we had to use usenet, email, and FTP, archie, veronical, etc.)
If some of the people involved with the show realized just how much time & effort is injected to all of these resources, they could probably extend a lot of shows simply becuase there would be a better reckoning of taking a viewer count.
l[placed here to keep it near the top - hopefully]
I have been told - on good word, the abstract code layer under.net was designed & written such that it could be written in a "long Microsoft weekend" (which I would interpret to be two or four calendar weeks as a conservative value).
Microsoft's problems right now have nothing to do with whether they'll write code for Linux. It has to do with the fact they don't comprehend the concepts of "Free", "Open Source", etc. (here's a good example, but it's not Microsoft. During a PHB^10 strategy meeting, the word "rip" came up. Eisner was almost ready to pop a vein, wondering how any company could support such a philosophy. He thought "rip" meant "ripoff" (as in some street lingo).
Back to Microsoft. WHGIII[1] & company waited....waited...and waited until Bill went away to his two week sohjourn to watch squirrels, swat mousquitoes, and read. And he realized they were on the brink of missing the bus "Internet" (and screwing the pooch) - those of us already online[2] watched as they finally came online. The funny thing is, when it came to using the method(s) for beta software & discussions, they used Compu$erve instead of saving everyone's money and using usenet and FTP.
They might have thought it more convenient for Microsoft because they just finished a big contract with Compu$erve.
Pop Quiz Hotshot: What happens when Microsoft works hand-in-hand or as a project lead with a new technology or one which needs revamping?
If you answered "They mysteriously create an isomorphic version." Pat yourself on your back, high enough you can enjoy it.[3]
While Microsoft is pushing all of their support through Compu$erve, MSN was being developed.
Back to the purpose of this post. One other major oversight: XML.
So now, Microsoft's lifeblood is money, money, money. And when they need it, they pass the hat. Moving from 98 to XP. We need more time and more cash to come in during that time. Let's create SE, more cash, create ME.
Microsoft just can't figure out why people are so fascinated by writing code for free when they could be getting paid for it. (see Eisner at Disney) Unless and until they figure this out, they're chasing their tails, periodically stopping to file a patent[4,5] or two, feeling the walls closing in on them.
[1] William Henry Gates 3rd
[2] The phrase I've coined has always been "The World's Biggest Secret Club" - about the only way most people heard about it was if they were on it.
[3] My Latin teacher in high school used this phrase all the time.
[4]"Someday, we'll find Microsoft has patented the alphabet and we'll have to pay royalties every time we use our keyboards."
[5]I just can't see why they've filed some of the patents they have and others which are due: could you imagine one requiring software to be sold if it's for business practices?
We tried this about fifteen years ago[1] when I created JUGGLE-L. Someone was living out where God lost his shoes in Africa and managed to make a connection.
[1] And as always, those days are when I referred to the Internet as "The World's Biggest Secret Club". If you knew about it, it was likely because you were on it. Otherwise...
COBOL isn't all that tough. It was my fifth language to receive a paycheck in (LISP, FORTRAN, Assembler, BASIC, then COBOL). I made a lot of summer vacation money in COBOL... following behind a consulting firm who judged people by their knowledge of RPG but their COBOL was written using a manure shovel. It was a city of 15k so finding their clientele was pretty easy - particularly the mad ones.
In terms of the standard application programmer on mainframes today, you can take it, rewrite it and eliminate 50%-75% of it simply because they don't know much about efficiency, just "does it work?"
Slashdot Mirror
Which is why I coined the phrase about the Internet way back when as "The World's Biggest Secret Club" - the only way most people knew what the Internet was was if they were on it.
I'll match your don't forget that until and raise it by one older one. Don't forget: when Yahoo first started, their search engine was based upon people manually walking the web and keying references to things they found interesting (as well as things people sent to them).
Never underestimate Micro$oft's ability to leverage their competition.
Indicate you're looking at Linux?
Be prepared for some very sweet deals - sell your souls...this time
Defy them (fail to re-up)?
Prepare for a license audit at 0-dark-hundred.[1]
Ahead of them in the marketplace?
Be prepared.
Feel their breath on your neck?
Here it comes
They'll offer^w send Guido to the more important or most crucial lynchpins and make them an offer they cannot refuse. Little by little, they maintain, then grow their marketshare not by outperforming their competitors but by sabotaging them - cut off vital resources - in this case, information. No info, no service.
the ability to trade a book with someone else, loan a book to someone else, and so on. These are functions which are available with physical books. I realize publishers are probably salivating at the prospect of making money by losing some (or all) of the features above [and forcing people to repurchase every time], but serious are not going to go for the scheme.
The same could have sunk the music market but once the price was lowered to what the level will bear on all sides, consumers started becoming much more honest instead of learning how to and living on P2P software.
The same roller coaster behavior will likely be observed in the next types of media available to consumers; movies & books. Movies will be seen a cash cow, PROTECT IT AT ALL COSTS!! so the give-and-take will occur with the wildest gyrations htting the sellers the most.
In summary, eBooks will have to address all of the same "issues" dealt with in MP3 (or sound in general) + the other issues such as loaning or swapping as well as some of the other unforeseen issues or eBooks will die [again] until someone eventually gets it right.
Office is the cash cow. Office produces 1/3 of their profit. Not sales, but profit.
/. several weeks ago pointing out that a lot of good ideas which have to be round-filed because the overall contribution of two vital sources (time, people) would interfer with things such as Office. Unless and until something mysteriously is left on their doorstep, they're kind of wearing golden handcuffs.
This is why there was a story here on
What's interestingly is this week's Barrons'...the cover shows a picture of Gates peeking through a candy store's window.
"Time to Grow Up: After paying its hue divident, Microsoft will no longer be the kid in the candy store. But, even in middle age, Bill Gates' company has impressive growth ropects. Why the stop could jump 25%"
It requires a subscription to get to the story (which I don't have - I only get it when there's something good in it)
web sites and online resources are part of the lifeblood of many series, particularly those on the "off stations" - those not on the standard affiliate networks. I could see it if there were things which slammed it because they think they got screwed or something, but this type of thing has been around for a long, long time. Go back through usenet and dig very, very deep to see how many tv shows were being discussed back then. I've been on more than fifteen years, making me a newbie to many people - but shows were discussed then (only there wasn't a web - we had to use usenet, email, and FTP, archie, veronical, etc.)
If some of the people involved with the show realized just how much time & effort is injected to all of these resources, they could probably extend a lot of shows simply becuase there would be a better reckoning of taking a viewer count.
l[placed here to keep it near the top - hopefully]
.net was designed & written such that it could be written in a "long Microsoft weekend" (which I would interpret to be two or four calendar weeks as a conservative value).
I have been told - on good word, the abstract code layer under
Microsoft's problems right now have nothing to do with whether they'll write code for Linux. It has to do with the fact they don't comprehend the concepts of "Free", "Open Source", etc. (here's a good example, but it's not Microsoft. During a PHB^10 strategy meeting, the word "rip" came up. Eisner was almost ready to pop a vein, wondering how any company could support such a philosophy. He thought "rip" meant "ripoff" (as in some street lingo).
Back to Microsoft. WHGIII[1] & company waited....waited...and waited until Bill went away to his two week sohjourn to watch squirrels, swat mousquitoes, and read. And he realized they were on the brink of missing the bus "Internet" (and screwing the pooch) - those of us already online[2] watched as they finally came online. The funny thing is, when it came to using the method(s) for beta software & discussions, they used Compu$erve instead of saving everyone's money and using usenet and FTP. They might have thought it more convenient for Microsoft because they just finished a big contract with Compu$erve.
Pop Quiz Hotshot: What happens when Microsoft works hand-in-hand or as a project lead with a new technology or one which needs revamping?
If you answered "They mysteriously create an isomorphic version." Pat yourself on your back, high enough you can enjoy it.[3] While Microsoft is pushing all of their support through Compu$erve, MSN was being developed.
Back to the purpose of this post. One other major oversight: XML.
So now, Microsoft's lifeblood is money, money, money. And when they need it, they pass the hat. Moving from 98 to XP. We need more time and more cash to come in during that time. Let's create SE, more cash, create ME.
Microsoft just can't figure out why people are so fascinated by writing code for free when they could be getting paid for it. (see Eisner at Disney) Unless and until they figure this out, they're chasing their tails, periodically stopping to file a patent[4,5] or two, feeling the walls closing in on them.
[1] William Henry Gates 3rd
[2] The phrase I've coined has always been "The World's Biggest Secret Club" - about the only way most people heard about it was if they were on it.
[3] My Latin teacher in high school used this phrase all the time.
[4]"Someday, we'll find Microsoft has patented the alphabet and we'll have to pay royalties every time we use our keyboards."
[5]I just can't see why they've filed some of the patents they have and others which are due: could you imagine one requiring software to be sold if it's for business practices?
We tried this about fifteen years ago[1] when I created JUGGLE-L. Someone was living out where God lost his shoes in Africa and managed to make a connection.
[1] And as always, those days are when I referred to the Internet as "The World's Biggest Secret Club". If you knew about it, it was likely because you were on it. Otherwise...
COBOL isn't all that tough. It was my fifth language to receive a paycheck in (LISP, FORTRAN, Assembler, BASIC, then COBOL). I made a lot of summer vacation money in COBOL... following behind a consulting firm who judged people by their knowledge of RPG but their COBOL was written using a manure shovel. It was a city of 15k so finding their clientele was pretty easy - particularly the mad ones.
In terms of the standard application programmer on mainframes today, you can take it, rewrite it and eliminate 50%-75% of it simply because they don't know much about efficiency, just "does it work?"
And the day after that, Microsoft claimed Word, threatened to sue SCO, and SCO looked for other suckers they could go after.
What if you take your own CD along with you?
...if dentists are getting drilled by this, what's happening to proctologists?