I think this just another pathetic whine from companies who just cant live the 21st century. They are crying to the Government to bail them out of their own incompetence and lack of vision.
Sites like Google News, Reddit and Digg dont take anything away from these news papers, they send them traffic and if they can make any money from that traffic, thats their own stupid fault !
Sooner or later, someone will find a way to pay journalists directly for their efforts without the need for a newspaper. When that happens, the newspapers will be totally redundant and totally dead !
Im sure GrokLaw covered this a year or two ago. Perhaps RedHat should go and trawl through their archives.
I'm sure the original XT-PC had multiple text screens built into the video BIOS and that was 1981 ish
Make it free or low cost to get all your customers to use it.
When they are totally dependent on you, force them to upgrade to your new, improved, very expensive service or lose their data !
Profit big time !!
Call me paranoid if you wish, but I would feel very uneasy to have my data hosted 6,000 miles away by a greedy, convicted monopolist with a dubious security record.
You also need a long chain of complex, fragile technology to be able to access your data. What happens if any company in that chain goes bankrupt ?
.. I suspect a lot of business men, Venture Capitalists and middle managers are also on the way out too.
As the cost of creating and running online ventures plummets the need for large groups of 'suits' to fund and manage said ventures will diminish with many 'suites' being replaced by smart automation.
A lot of the innovative businesses were created by techies. Example: Google (Page & Brin), Craigslist (Newmark), Yahoo (Filo & Yang), YouTube (Hurley & Chen). And these days even more ventures are being self funded - no VCs needed. This article by Paul Graham The Venture Capital Squeeze sums it up quite well.
The meek don't need to inherit the Earth - they already own it !!
One of the strengths of MS was backward compatibility in most of their products - with the possible exception of Office (Please note the past tense).
Ultimately this is another nail in the coffin for MS for it proves that you can't use ANY MS Office file format for reliable long term storage - unless you are prepared to walk the MS Upgrade Treadmill.
With a serious credit-crunch looming, I suspect that more and more people will be having a long hard look at cheaper, reliable office alternatives.
Come to think of it, why doesn't everyone just sack everyone else ?
Off course we might just run into a slight hyper-inflation problem caused by the fact that no one is making anything anymore - but hey !! we would all be millionaires so who cares !!
In some cases shareholders are necessary but it seems to me that they are the main problem.
What many seem to have forgotten is that if you pay your workers less, they:-
Become demoralized and work less effectively.
Leave and take their expertise elsewhere.
Have less cash to spend on your products - ensuring you have to make more cuts.
Have less cash to spend on their kids education - ensuring that the next generation is even less effective.
Money is like blood - its only useful if its moving around.
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
In that case, we probably shouldn't listen to distinguished but elderly scientists !!
More than anything else, this is evidence that they don't believe there's any real threat of people switching to linux or MacOSX. In their view they have a monopoly.
I am personally losing faith in the Linux community in their attempts to take on Vista. Its a true tragedy
How are they doing this - by writing delay-loops in various parts on the kernel ?? or by randomly allocating huge blocks of RAM for no reason ???
To be honest, I believe the Linux community (including me) couldn't give a toss about MS Vista or its bells and whistles.
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... only have to go to 1 web site to update my PC's - Windows Update - and it's incredibly simple - just click on Update and voila, it's done and everything works.
It works that way on Linux and PC-BSD too AND it updates all the applications as well.
On many distros you don't even have to go to any web site, just click an icon on the desktop.
... when they created cheap, forgettable, manufactured music and pop bands.
I listen to the radio most days. I listen to the new tracks as they get released, played to oblivion on TV/radio and finally drop out of the charts into obscurity. By the time each track gets to that point, I feel no compunction to go out and buy it because I'm tired of hearing it day after day.
Much of the music I want is no longer in the charts and therefore unavailable in most music shops in the form of a CD. This only leaves me the option of music downloads. I suspect there are many others like me out there.
Result: CD sales down, Downloads up.
If the music companies had real, visionary leadership, they would have seen the Internet as the most amazing opportunity and they could have bee world leaders in downloadable music technology. Instead we have clueless dinosaurs desperately trying to drag us all back the the 80's
I think if Charles Hannum is unhappy with NetBSD he should jump ship to FreeBSD and/or OpenBSD and help out there. As for portability FreeBSD works on x86, AMD64, UltraSPARC, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM so I'm not quite sure what gap NetBSD was trying to fill. If a new CPU came out *BSD and Linux whould be ported to it very quickly.
To be fair it was the US that developed the Internet all those years ago so I can see why they would want to keep control of it - however so many people from so many countries have added to it in so many ways (eg Tim Berners-Lee = WWW) I think it's only fair for it to be under International control now.
Its quite obvious to everyone here that Google pays for its connection to the Internet as does everyone else connected to the Internet.
But this is not about "free lunches" this is about Verizon saying "We can't make money on the net, Google is, we hate them, lets kill them ASAP". If it wasn't for sites like Google fewer people would be on the Internet, which would mean less cash for Verizon. They are just too dumb to see it.
It desperation and/or jealousy from a bunch of spoilt brats !!.
It seems that start-ups will benefit most from FOSS if they make the decision to only use FOSS from day 1 - like Google & Yahoo on the huge end of the scale and small start-ups like us (M2MN) on the microscopic end of the scale.
The more established companies will probably have a mix of FOSS and Proprietary software and can allways be easily coerced / bullied by certain vendors especially if they use proprietary software in their infrastructure.
We use FOSS ( Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, MySQL,... ) because it allows us to develop many mini-projects at near zero cost and if one or two start to earn money, we can detach them from our "incubator" and convert them into self-contained businesses when the time is right. ( One of our mini-projects Rare List Rare Book Community is almost at that stage.)
Now multiply that by the thousands of companies who (thanks to FOSS) are now able to fund dozens of projects and you start to see why the big vendors are so shit scared. We (and all the others) are just too small and numerous for them to target en-mass. Like millions of ants nibbling away at your market, you may stomp on a few but there are thousands more in the pipeline.
If that was not scary enough for those vendors, quite a few of those FOSS "ants" could grow large enough to bite your legs off - Google, Yahoo anyone !!
Peter Blue - Technologist, Entrepreneur & Project developer
If they make these DVDs bio-degradable, that might be OK but do we really need billions of discarded use-once DVDs to join all the millions AOL CDs, disposable cameras, old (or infected) PCs, TVs, etc in ever expanding land-fill sites ??
I can see the logic here:-
Once you have played it, you cant give it to your friend to play
digital media is good for everyone but bad for media companies still stuck in the 19th century. Solution: try to get everyone to stop using that evil digital media and back to good old, physical media.
Solution: Post all the expired DVDs back to MS using their free-post envolopes !!
A few years ago, I heard that the UK postal service realised that they were losing out to people sending emails instead of sending letters. So like any other old-school organisation on the receiving end of a new, disruptive technology, they demanded some kind of compensation from every email sent. Needless to say, it did not happen, they re-organised and are doing fine as far as I know.
It seems to me that the RIAA are in the same situation but with one major difference - we will always need to send stuff via the postal service but who will be buying music on physical media in say 10 years ?? - none I would bet. No wonder the RIAA are sounding so desperate.
The music industry could have seen the Internet as a wonderful new opportunity and started a world-class online music industry but instead we find them suing little old ladies, 13 year old girls and starting a "Jihad" against any new technology.
I think, deep down, they know they will be totally irrelevant in 10 years and are simply playing for time.
They are just paying the price for their astonishing lack of vision.
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I have 4 SSDs, 2 x 128 GB OCZ and 2 x 16GB Samsung
I get lots of problems with FreeBSD 7.2 on one OCZ (random drive crashes but easy to fix with fsck) but the other OCZ works fine on Ubuntu 8.04
One of the 16GB SSDs lost a partition a while back when running Fedora 9 needing a complete re-install.
In summary: SSDs are not particularly reliable.
I think this just another pathetic whine from companies who just cant live the 21st century. They are crying to the Government to bail them out of their own incompetence and lack of vision.
Sites like Google News, Reddit and Digg dont take anything away from these news papers, they send them traffic and if they can make any money from that traffic, thats their own stupid fault !
Sooner or later, someone will find a way to pay journalists directly for their efforts without the need for a newspaper. When that happens, the newspapers will be totally redundant and totally dead !
Im sure GrokLaw covered this a year or two ago. Perhaps RedHat should go and trawl through their archives. I'm sure the original XT-PC had multiple text screens built into the video BIOS and that was 1981 ish
Call me paranoid if you wish, but I would feel very uneasy to have my data hosted 6,000 miles away by a greedy, convicted monopolist with a dubious security record.
You also need a long chain of complex, fragile technology to be able to access your data. What happens if any company in that chain goes bankrupt ?
I think I will keep my data on my machines.
As the cost of creating and running online ventures plummets the need for large groups of 'suits' to fund and manage said ventures will diminish with many 'suites' being replaced by smart automation.
A lot of the innovative businesses were created by techies. Example: Google (Page & Brin), Craigslist (Newmark), Yahoo (Filo & Yang), YouTube (Hurley & Chen). And these days even more ventures are being self funded - no VCs needed. This article by Paul Graham The Venture Capital Squeeze sums it up quite well.
The meek don't need to inherit the Earth - they already own it !!
Many companies will have legal documents, contracts, etc that were saved 10+ years ago using those older version of MS Office.
They saved them because they might want to read them again in the future - but now they can't without a lot of effort.
I guess what I am trying to say is that documents should be "Write once - read forever".
One of the strengths of MS was backward compatibility in most of their products - with the possible exception of Office (Please note the past tense).
Ultimately this is another nail in the coffin for MS for it proves that you can't use ANY MS Office file format for reliable long term storage - unless you are prepared to walk the MS Upgrade Treadmill.
With a serious credit-crunch looming, I suspect that more and more people will be having a long hard look at cheaper, reliable office alternatives.
Come to think of it, why doesn't everyone just sack everyone else ?
Off course we might just run into a slight hyper-inflation problem caused by the fact that no one is making anything anymore - but hey !! we would all be millionaires so who cares !!
- Become demoralized and work less effectively.
- Leave and take their expertise elsewhere.
- Have less cash to spend on your products - ensuring you have to make more cuts.
- Have less cash to spend on their kids education - ensuring that the next generation is even less effective.
Money is like blood - its only useful if its moving around.This isn't quite what you want because you have to select the text to be checked but its better than nothing !
Hope this helps
Any browser can be fitted with an ad blocker so why just target Firefox and not the ad blocking process ?
I think somebody, somewhere doesn't want you to use Firefox - I wonder who that could be !!!
When MS share price drops a bit, automatically send out "You owe us money for not using Windows" messages to any IP stealing, Linux hippies !!
BTW You BSD users can stop sniggering too !! As for you smug Mac users, just wait ...
- http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=
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- http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=
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- http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/origi
n alContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1245710,00.html
I could add quite a few more to this list but you all get the point - large organisations switching to various flavours of Linux.MS might slow things down by suing small companies back to Windows but how many times can they do that to governments ?
To be honest, I believe the Linux community (including me) couldn't give a toss about MS Vista or its bells and whistles.
I listen to the radio most days. I listen to the new tracks as they get released, played to oblivion on TV/radio and finally drop out of the charts into obscurity. By the time each track gets to that point, I feel no compunction to go out and buy it because I'm tired of hearing it day after day.
Much of the music I want is no longer in the charts and therefore unavailable in most music shops in the form of a CD. This only leaves me the option of music downloads. I suspect there are many others like me out there.
Result: CD sales down, Downloads up.
If the music companies had real, visionary leadership, they would have seen the Internet as the most amazing opportunity and they could have bee world leaders in downloadable music technology. Instead we have clueless dinosaurs desperately trying to drag us all back the the 80's
No sympathy here.
I think if Charles Hannum is unhappy with NetBSD he should jump ship to FreeBSD and/or OpenBSD and help out there. As for portability FreeBSD works on x86, AMD64, UltraSPARC, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM so I'm not quite sure what gap NetBSD was trying to fill. If a new CPU came out *BSD and Linux whould be ported to it very quickly.
To be fair it was the US that developed the Internet all those years ago so I can see why they would want to keep control of it - however so many people from so many countries have added to it in so many ways (eg Tim Berners-Lee = WWW) I think it's only fair for it to be under International control now.
Oops, I mean RIAA, not MPAA !! - need more coffee !
I wonder what the MPAA will make of that ??
But this is not about "free lunches" this is about Verizon saying "We can't make money on the net, Google is, we hate them, lets kill them ASAP". If it wasn't for sites like Google fewer people would be on the Internet, which would mean less cash for Verizon. They are just too dumb to see it.
It desperation and/or jealousy from a bunch of spoilt brats !!.
The more established companies will probably have a mix of FOSS and Proprietary software and can allways be easily coerced / bullied by certain vendors especially if they use proprietary software in their infrastructure.
We use FOSS ( Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, MySQL, ... ) because it allows us to develop many mini-projects at near zero cost and if one or two start to earn money, we can detach them from our "incubator" and convert them into self-contained businesses when the time is right. ( One of our mini-projects Rare List Rare Book Community is almost at that stage.)
Now multiply that by the thousands of companies who (thanks to FOSS) are now able to fund dozens of projects and you start to see why the big vendors are so shit scared. We (and all the others) are just too small and numerous for them to target en-mass. Like millions of ants nibbling away at your market, you may stomp on a few but there are thousands more in the pipeline.
If that was not scary enough for those vendors, quite a few of those FOSS "ants" could grow large enough to bite your legs off - Google, Yahoo anyone !!
Peter Blue - Technologist, Entrepreneur & Project developer
I can see the logic here:-
Solution: Post all the expired DVDs back to MS using their free-post envolopes !!
It seems to me that the RIAA are in the same situation but with one major difference - we will always need to send stuff via the postal service but who will be buying music on physical media in say 10 years ?? - none I would bet. No wonder the RIAA are sounding so desperate. The music industry could have seen the Internet as a wonderful new opportunity and started a world-class online music industry but instead we find them suing little old ladies, 13 year old girls and starting a "Jihad" against any new technology.
I think, deep down, they know they will be totally irrelevant in 10 years and are simply playing for time.
They are just paying the price for their astonishing lack of vision.