This is a price/performance benchmark. It is mostly supported by hardware manufacturers, so it's less likely to be influenced by Microsoft's or Oracle's bank accounts. Notice that in a price/performance benchmark, free DBMS don't even show up.
All that shows is that the free DBMS's do not have a lot of marketing money behind them, marketing money that makes the product more expensive than it needs to be.
Additionally, why pay for TPC capability when you don't need it?
People know the limitations of the DRM ahead of time,
If the media companies wanted the purchasers to know the limitations ahead of the purchase, then the media companies and the DRM companies would not go through so much marketing mumble-jumble in order to hide the fact that DRM is limiting the use of the media being purchased.
If the ODSL were to agree to this study, they would be sucked into a maelstrom created by Microsoft to divert the ODSL's attention away from more important matters.
How long would Microsoft drag out the negotiations regarding precisely what should be tested and the methodologies that would be used?
How long would Microsoft drag out the guidelines for interpreting the results of the testing that is performed?
What more productive things could the ODSL people be doing instead of being sucked into this quagmire?
I liked it when one time djb visited the ntp mailing list and had to run away with his tail between his legs. He just couldn't handle the fact that his view was correct only in a very narrow sense.
That may be a possibility. I don't know if the power utils do it that way or not. I do know the power grid needs to stay synchronized, lest major sparks occur.
Working so hard to keep a bunch of clock radios from getting off by one second...on most models you can't even set the seconds
It is significantly more serious than that. Imagine if you connect two power grids together, and those grids are 1/120 of a second apart in the 60Hz cycle. They are effectively out of phase, resulting is some rather significant fireworks.
Would be the ability to have the car know when it is parked in my garage, and connnect up to my home wireless network. Then it would refesh and/or update media files and playlists.
I currently do this manually wih my iPod, i.e., dock it and synchronize it. Why can't the blasted thing understand my wireless network and just synch up whenever it is in the garage at night.
Obvious doesn't matter here. Microsoft is trying to build up a portfolio of patents. The purpose of the portfolio is not really to protect intellectual property, but to give Microsoft's lawyers another weapon in any disputes with other companies.
that Microsoft acquired from its customers via the illegal leveraging of its monopoly? Is Microsoft going to donate that to the Justice Department to help it fight corporate abuse?
An out. An excuse for any given software company's lack of success in the market.
I was talking about the lack of innovation in Microsoft's products because Microsoft has used the monopoly to kill the competition. I have to commend you for your nice, but obvious, attempt at creating a strawman, though.
Amusing anecdotal evidence for the perceived comparative quality of a software product.
I was talking about the tens (some might say, hundreds) of millions of people who think you have to reboot a computer multiple times a day in order for it to work correctly. Again, congratulations on the strawman.
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The amount of money behind the Oracle's, DB2's, and MS-SQL's of the world dwarfs that behind the Open Source databases.
All that shows is that the free DBMS's do not have a lot of marketing money behind them, marketing money that makes the product more expensive than it needs to be.
Additionally, why pay for TPC capability when you don't need it?
So that's two holes in your argument.
If the media companies wanted the purchasers to know the limitations ahead of the purchase, then the media companies and the DRM companies would not go through so much marketing mumble-jumble in order to hide the fact that DRM is limiting the use of the media being purchased.
... when it was so late that it didn't make the Vista dev releases?
How long would Microsoft drag out the negotiations regarding precisely what should be tested and the methodologies that would be used?
How long would Microsoft drag out the guidelines for interpreting the results of the testing that is performed?
What more productive things could the ODSL people be doing instead of being sucked into this quagmire?
Yes, I am.
Navy ships are controlled by Windows. Windows bought^H^H^H^H^H^H won security certification from the US government.
Mil-spec AS/400's, audited code? You're joking, right?
The reality is that the Chinese has the full set of Windows source code.
China has full source code for Windows, others do not.
It was a delicious moment.
That may be a possibility. I don't know if the power utils do it that way or not. I do know the power grid needs to stay synchronized, lest major sparks occur.
It is not revving the generators up for 4 fours, but slightly adjusting their speed over the course of 4 hours to gain the leap second.
It is significantly more serious than that. Imagine if you connect two power grids together, and those grids are 1/120 of a second apart in the 60Hz cycle. They are effectively out of phase, resulting is some rather significant fireworks.
Primary standards also drift, there is just nothing to measure it against. :-)
Patent someone else's technology more than 6 months after it is released.
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I currently do this manually wih my iPod, i.e., dock it and synchronize it. Why can't the blasted thing understand my wireless network and just synch up whenever it is in the garage at night.
Obvious doesn't matter here. Microsoft is trying to build up a portfolio of patents. The purpose of the portfolio is not really to protect intellectual property, but to give Microsoft's lawyers another weapon in any disputes with other companies.
How does one back up that much data?
I'm so glad this sub-thread started. It is about time that there was a discussion of BSD vs GPL on /.
that Microsoft acquired from its customers via the illegal leveraging of its monopoly? Is Microsoft going to donate that to the Justice Department to help it fight corporate abuse?
... is a good offense?
Can someone mod the parent up a notch or two. It's a good tidbit.
I was talking about the lack of innovation in Microsoft's products because Microsoft has used the monopoly to kill the competition. I have to commend you for your nice, but obvious, attempt at creating a strawman, though.
Amusing anecdotal evidence for the perceived comparative quality of a software product.
I was talking about the tens (some might say, hundreds) of millions of people who think you have to reboot a computer multiple times a day in order for it to work correctly. Again, congratulations on the strawman.
2) the lowering of expectations for the reliability of computers.
Just updating an old chestnut.
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