The free dictionary tells me that "put paid to" means "to consider something closed or completed; to mark or indicate that something is no longer important or pending".
And that "canard" means "An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story."
So am assuming the author wants to say that the opening up of SixthSense via an open source license will stop the false stories that open source does not lead to innovation.
Is it only me who is surprised (because of ignorance) that the s/w footprint stands at 100MB, when evidently they just want to control the h/w & for an application they want only a browser?
Well, for practical uses, the browser would need flash plugins, etc. and most obviously would need addons if the browser supports it.
When a Linux distro like DamnSmallLinux provides much more than a browser in just 50MB why do these guys need double of that?!
It costs at max Re.1/- which is ~1.25p. Some networks its half the cost.
However I am not counting the cost of the SMS that one sends to the plethora of reality shows.
There the costs might go 4x to 6x.
And if it is for downloading ringtones, it could go upto 15x!
Dude the site you provided... was very useful... I just had to look up the list for November 2007 & look up the details of the fourth supercomputer to check if the original post got it right.
And guess what? Its right there... don't believe me? Well look up the top 10 list for Nov '07.
And to quote from that site you pointed to:
The TOP500 table shows the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems known to us. Bold by me.
Try as I might, I could find no information that this list is only for supercomputers that are publicly funded. May be I didn't try hard enough... could you pls give reference to the claim you make?
Also, these are the IT services companies that live on offshored projects. Their clientèle is not exactly what you would call technical; sure banks, hospitals, etc. use technology, but they are not what you would call a technology organization. And these organizations are Microsoft shops too, so obviously NASSCOM & the other biggies don't want the burden of having to spend on upgrading their IT infrastructure to support ODF too.
The fast track process consists of a contradictions phase, a ballot phase, and a ballot resolution phase. During the contradictions phase, ISO/IEC members national standardization bodies submit perceived contradictions to JTC 1. During the ballot phase the members vote on the specification as it was submitted by Ecma and submit editorial and technical comments with their vote. In the ballot resolution phase the submitted comments are addressed and members invited to reconsider their vote.
The national body members of ISO/IEC have already voted against the draft text for OOXML (September 2007), but ISO has magnanimously given time to the voters till midnight CET of 29th March 2008 to change their vote.
May be you are not aware of the realities out here. If it were only upto the free market, they would never go to the rural India, where India resides but not the money. There is no restriction on the free market to not implement WiMax but they aren't going to the rural areas even though they have started providing it in Bangalore & other urban areas.
Computer penetration is not as good as mobiles in India. Also a 3g mobile is far cheaper (~ $200) than a computer (~ $300).
The common man is more comfortable with using a mobile than a computer.
If enough mobile apps are made available for most of the stuff that the common man requires it might be possible that 3g phones win over the wimax connected phones.
In addition to the apps like feed readers, gmail, google maps, browsers, there need to be applications that can enable the common man to bank, pay bills, shop, get weather updates (atleast warnings), get various examination results (believe it or not, this is a big business for small time entrepreneurs in the rural districts), make bookings in trains, buses, etc.
The new AGPL will have important effects for companies that, under the GPL, have no obligation to distribute changes to users on the Web.
What does this mean now? If I release a web service under AGPL, do I have to distribute the changes or not?
Sorry, am not a native English speaker. IANAL too.
One doesn't have to be a geek to be tech loving... and one doesn't have to be God fearing (/loving) to be a philanthropist.
And I thought 'God fearing' actually means 'God loving'? English is not my native language neither is Christianity my religion, so I might have erred.
And the reason why I wondered if it will sell like Dells is because I inherently want more XOs to sell. And it doesn't matter if my group benefits out of it, heck our group is not for personal benefits in the first place!
And yeah, I was following OLPC even before I formed my group, especially since India was critical about it & refused to join it. So I am interested in the OLPC project & its success even if it has zero bearing on my group. Surely, by success, you mean better education for the under privileged?
No, I don't have anything against geeks or philanthropists... I consider myself to be a bit of both.
I run a group which implements Edubuntu and other FOSS at poorer schools in India for free. So, am naturally interested in XO & all its alternatives out there to better utilize the meager funds (so far zilch) we have.
And I have a vested interested in the success of this buy one donate one concept as it will help groups like ours & many more.
I only put up an honest query and not any rhetoric. I really want to know if the average Joe in the 'developed' countries would really buy these when they get cheaper deals from others like ASUS Eee PC, that do not donate any PC to the 'under developed' countries. I do not know the demography of the typical customer in the 'developed' countries first hand or otherwise. So put up the query.
With so many other options for low cost linux based laptops coming up, how many would lap up the XOs? Yeah some geeks & some philanthropists... the tech loving & God fearing maybe... but will it sell like the Dells?
Do you mean the encryption part of PGP/GPG to help in keeping private messages private?
That works for one-to-one communication. Great.
But... how do I make a message readable only for my immediate circle of friends & not the circle out friend of friend using PGP/GPG? It would have to be signed with the public key of each individual in my circle of friend, isn't it? More usage of CPU? Performance issues? Escalated costs?
I bet the sites are not buying the idea unless the added costs are either minimal or the public uproar is more than the cost of implementing the privacy s/w.
With so much brouhaha about social networking, Web 2.0, networking analytics, etc. that the internet is spewing, I wonder where this is all leading to from a corporate intranet perspective. Am sure even if the CIO (or which ever CXO is responsible for IT & security) is not ready to open up these sites in his/her corporate network (by putting up site blockers, etc.), employees will find out a way to bring them in. So is it not prudent for the CIO to include social networking in the IT strategy of the organization?
OTOH, for the sales & marketing managers this could be a god send. It would be even very helpful for the product managers. These social networking mechanisms connect the customers directly with the product managers as shown by the GM, Lenovo, etc. blogs which led to the development of new products based on the direct inputs from customers to the product managers! Youtube kind of sites offering a very easy means of creating effective viral marketing.
The traditional CRM strategies that help the marketing, sales & service people need to be upgraded to include social networking. This indeed is happening with lots of talks about CRM 2.0! *not again* All that CRM 2.0 says is to enable customers to connect directly with the business in a much more integrated manner.
With the raise of open source business apps like compiere, openbravo & especially since SugarCRM getting GPLed, CRM & ERP systems have suddenly gotten within the reach of numerous SMBs who hitherto could not afford to splurge millions on systems like SAP or Siebel.
Now Google's OpenSocial being supported by SugarCRM from its launch puts a lot of pressure on the traditional CRM approach as well as vendors.
All that remains now is to come out with an architecture for integrating social computing apps with the traditional enterprise applications.
Social computing is supposed to fetch ~ $750 MM by year 2011 as per Gartner!
Many VPs, Directors, CXOs, do not understand why social computing is so 'in' thing may be (they are old) but the youngsters do understand it.
In the US especially, with the huge number of experienced people retiring in the next 5 years and some young blood joining the ranks, it is important in two aspects to implement social software in the enterprises too.
The knowledge of the old will be lost if not captured. But any amount of documentation is not going to capture knowledge as effectively as the informal atmosphere of blogs/wikis allows a person to do so. Organizational story telling is very important in this aspect. Not many people are keen to prepare formal documents confirming to templates, standards, etc. in a huge enterprise. But many are willing to try their hand in writing stories of their experiences at work.
Thus social networking & computing is going to act as big contributor for institutionalizing the old knowledge which will be not available the next few years.
The younger generation which will join in the next five years OTOH, will already be very well accustomed to the whole concept of social computing & networking, mostly without even being aware of them. Having a social network with the enterprise is going to allow these bunch of people to mingle better & easily in addition to learning form the system.
BTW, the young blood will anyway try to bring in the social networking concept into the enterprise in spite of all the regulations against them (they are currently viewed as time wasters in the enterprise environment). So it would be prudent & proactive of the CSO (Chief Security Officer) to allow enterprise social software with the organization in everybody's interest.
Also, the growing trend these days is to telecommute, work from home. In such an environment, social networking at work does make a lot of sense. Also, this is going to be helpful in enterprises which are spread out geographically too, to bind the various dispersed diaspora & workgroups.
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We (my group at my employers place) are involved in preparing a (work in progress) modular vendor agnostic framework which would ideally involve marrying web 2.0, social networking (social computing in general) with traditional CRM systems. Our initial offerings would presumably be using a cacophony of open source solutions already available.
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In due course of our R&D we found that IBM is already into the social software arena & has launched an enterprise version called Lotus Connections.
We are now partnering with them to figure out what it is, what are its capabilities and how can it fit into our framework.
IBM has already been in touch with many big fortune 500 enterprises and are talking about multi million dollar deals!
The stuff doesn't look very techie if you are already aware of what wikis, blogs, social networking, etc. are. But it does provide that enterprise touch to the whole thing of social networking & related stuffs.
Car crashes are bigger risk in India than in the developed nations... most of all in Bangalore... but I can still see a lot of Reva on Bangalore roads... never seen a Reva involved in any of the accidents I get to witness almost on a biweekly basis.
did we ever discuss about the Indian electric car company Reva any time in the past?
Their latest variant, Reva i, released this month costs around USD 9K (at exchange rate of INR 40 per USD).
Sure, it can only do a top speed of around 50MPH with a range of 60 Miles per charge, but I guess that's enough for city driving? I don't know, but is USD 9K too much for a small electric car that can carry two adults & two children in your place? In India, it is a viable option as a second car, for the growing numbers of nouveau rich at least.
Its a CRM app... so it means that it does stuff to help out the sales guys, the marketing folks & the support blokes. So now you know which types of application you should (not?) be working upon if you are pissed off with those calls (both that you receive as well as the ones that you have to make sometimes *gasp*)
Accounts, Contacts, Calendar, Activities, Products, Pricing, Leads, Opportunities, Quotes, Orders, Incidents, Service Requests, etc. are some of the features available in most CRM applications.
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Ok, that estimate is two years old, but still, huge ... no?
The free dictionary tells me that " put paid to " means "to consider something closed or completed; to mark or indicate that something is no longer important or pending". And that " canard " means "An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story." So am assuming the author wants to say that the opening up of SixthSense via an open source license will stop the false stories that open source does not lead to innovation.
Is it only me who is surprised (because of ignorance) that the s/w footprint stands at 100MB, when evidently they just want to control the h/w & for an application they want only a browser? Well, for practical uses, the browser would need flash plugins, etc. and most obviously would need addons if the browser supports it. When a Linux distro like DamnSmallLinux provides much more than a browser in just 50MB why do these guys need double of that?!
It costs at max Re.1/- which is ~1.25p. Some networks its half the cost. However I am not counting the cost of the SMS that one sends to the plethora of reality shows. There the costs might go 4x to 6x. And if it is for downloading ringtones, it could go upto 15x!
Dude the site you provided ... was very useful ... I just had to look up the list for November 2007 & look up the details of the fourth supercomputer to check if the original post got it right.
And guess what? Its right there ... don't believe me? Well look up the top 10 list for Nov '07.
And to quote from that site you pointed to:
The TOP500 table shows the 500 most powerful commercially available computer systems known to us. Bold by me.Try as I might, I could find no information that this list is only for supercomputers that are publicly funded. May be I didn't try hard enough ... could you pls give reference to the claim you make?
Also, these are the IT services companies that live on offshored projects. Their clientèle is not exactly what you would call technical; sure banks, hospitals, etc. use technology, but they are not what you would call a technology organization. And these organizations are Microsoft shops too, so obviously NASSCOM & the other biggies don't want the burden of having to spend on upgrading their IT infrastructure to support ODF too.
Duh? The vote in September was the initial Ballot, now this resolution is to not change the earlier vote as per the provisions provided by the BRM.
As per Wikipedia:
The national body members of ISO/IEC have already voted against the draft text for OOXML (September 2007), but ISO has magnanimously given time to the voters till midnight CET of 29th March 2008 to change their vote.
Discworld's Death (also called Bob) always new it ... that's why only cats, children & wizards could see him but not the common folks.
Could you please point me to a URL with more info on this? This is most interesting! :)
May be you are not aware of the realities out here. If it were only upto the free market, they would never go to the rural India, where India resides but not the money. There is no restriction on the free market to not implement WiMax but they aren't going to the rural areas even though they have started providing it in Bangalore & other urban areas.
Computer penetration is not as good as mobiles in India. Also a 3g mobile is far cheaper (~ $200) than a computer (~ $300).
The common man is more comfortable with using a mobile than a computer.
If enough mobile apps are made available for most of the stuff that the common man requires it might be possible that 3g phones win over the wimax connected phones.
In addition to the apps like feed readers, gmail, google maps, browsers, there need to be applications that can enable the common man to bank, pay bills, shop, get weather updates (atleast warnings), get various examination results (believe it or not, this is a big business for small time entrepreneurs in the rural districts), make bookings in trains, buses, etc.
Mod parent up! :)
:D
Thanks a bunch for the explanation
May your AGPL'ed code always be updated by your end users
What does this mean now? If I release a web service under AGPL, do I have to distribute the changes or not?
Sorry, am not a native English speaker. IANAL too.
One doesn't have to be a geek to be tech loving ... and one doesn't have to be God fearing (/loving) to be a philanthropist.
And I thought 'God fearing' actually means 'God loving'? English is not my native language neither is Christianity my religion, so I might have erred.
And the reason why I wondered if it will sell like Dells is because I inherently want more XOs to sell. And it doesn't matter if my group benefits out of it, heck our group is not for personal benefits in the first place!
And yeah, I was following OLPC even before I formed my group, especially since India was critical about it & refused to join it. So I am interested in the OLPC project & its success even if it has zero bearing on my group. Surely, by success, you mean better education for the under privileged?
No, I don't have anything against geeks or philanthropists ... I consider myself to be a bit of both.
I run a group which implements Edubuntu and other FOSS at poorer schools in India for free. So, am naturally interested in XO & all its alternatives out there to better utilize the meager funds (so far zilch) we have.
And I have a vested interested in the success of this buy one donate one concept as it will help groups like ours & many more.
I only put up an honest query and not any rhetoric. I really want to know if the average Joe in the 'developed' countries would really buy these when they get cheaper deals from others like ASUS Eee PC, that do not donate any PC to the 'under developed' countries. I do not know the demography of the typical customer in the 'developed' countries first hand or otherwise. So put up the query.
But certainly Asus eeepc will be a better option if not Dell/Acer?
With so many other options for low cost linux based laptops coming up, how many would lap up the XOs? Yeah some geeks & some philanthropists ... the tech loving & God fearing maybe ... but will it sell like the Dells?
Do you mean the encryption part of PGP/GPG to help in keeping private messages private?
... how do I make a message readable only for my immediate circle of friends & not the circle out friend of friend using PGP/GPG? It would have to be signed with the public key of each individual in my circle of friend, isn't it? More usage of CPU? Performance issues? Escalated costs?
That works for one-to-one communication. Great.
But
I bet the sites are not buying the idea unless the added costs are either minimal or the public uproar is more than the cost of implementing the privacy s/w.
I am sorry its not SugarCRM but Salesforce.com that's supporting OpenSocial.
Is this an ad or an article?
With so much brouhaha about social networking, Web 2.0, networking analytics, etc. that the internet is spewing, I wonder where this is all leading to from a corporate intranet perspective. Am sure even if the CIO (or which ever CXO is responsible for IT & security) is not ready to open up these sites in his/her corporate network (by putting up site blockers, etc.), employees will find out a way to bring them in. So is it not prudent for the CIO to include social networking in the IT strategy of the organization?
OTOH, for the sales & marketing managers this could be a god send. It would be even very helpful for the product managers. These social networking mechanisms connect the customers directly with the product managers as shown by the GM, Lenovo, etc. blogs which led to the development of new products based on the direct inputs from customers to the product managers! Youtube kind of sites offering a very easy means of creating effective viral marketing.
The traditional CRM strategies that help the marketing, sales & service people need to be upgraded to include social networking. This indeed is happening with lots of talks about CRM 2.0! *not again* All that CRM 2.0 says is to enable customers to connect directly with the business in a much more integrated manner.
With the raise of open source business apps like compiere, openbravo & especially since SugarCRM getting GPLed, CRM & ERP systems have suddenly gotten within the reach of numerous SMBs who hitherto could not afford to splurge millions on systems like SAP or Siebel.
Now Google's OpenSocial being supported by SugarCRM from its launch puts a lot of pressure on the traditional CRM approach as well as vendors.
All that remains now is to come out with an architecture for integrating social computing apps with the traditional enterprise applications.
Many VPs, Directors, CXOs, do not understand why social computing is so 'in' thing may be (they are old) but the youngsters do understand it.
In the US especially, with the huge number of experienced people retiring in the next 5 years and some young blood joining the ranks, it is important in two aspects to implement social software in the enterprises too.
The knowledge of the old will be lost if not captured. But any amount of documentation is not going to capture knowledge as effectively as the informal atmosphere of blogs/wikis allows a person to do so. Organizational story telling is very important in this aspect. Not many people are keen to prepare formal documents confirming to templates, standards, etc. in a huge enterprise. But many are willing to try their hand in writing stories of their experiences at work.
Thus social networking & computing is going to act as big contributor for institutionalizing the old knowledge which will be not available the next few years.
The younger generation which will join in the next five years OTOH, will already be very well accustomed to the whole concept of social computing & networking, mostly without even being aware of them. Having a social network with the enterprise is going to allow these bunch of people to mingle better & easily in addition to learning form the system.
BTW, the young blood will anyway try to bring in the social networking concept into the enterprise in spite of all the regulations against them (they are currently viewed as time wasters in the enterprise environment). So it would be prudent & proactive of the CSO (Chief Security Officer) to allow enterprise social software with the organization in everybody's interest.
Also, the growing trend these days is to telecommute, work from home. In such an environment, social networking at work does make a lot of sense. Also, this is going to be helpful in enterprises which are spread out geographically too, to bind the various dispersed diaspora & workgroups.
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We (my group at my employers place) are involved in preparing a (work in progress) modular vendor agnostic framework which would ideally involve marrying web 2.0, social networking (social computing in general) with traditional CRM systems. Our initial offerings would presumably be using a cacophony of open source solutions already available.
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In due course of our R&D we found that IBM is already into the social software arena & has launched an enterprise version called Lotus Connections.
We are now partnering with them to figure out what it is, what are its capabilities and how can it fit into our framework.
IBM has already been in touch with many big fortune 500 enterprises and are talking about multi million dollar deals!
The stuff doesn't look very techie if you are already aware of what wikis, blogs, social networking, etc. are. But it does provide that enterprise touch to the whole thing of social networking & related stuffs.
Car crashes are bigger risk in India than in the developed nations ... most of all in Bangalore ... but I can still see a lot of Reva on Bangalore roads ... never seen a Reva involved in any of the accidents I get to witness almost on a biweekly basis.
did we ever discuss about the Indian electric car company Reva any time in the past? Their latest variant, Reva i, released this month costs around USD 9K (at exchange rate of INR 40 per USD).
Sure, it can only do a top speed of around 50MPH with a range of 60 Miles per charge, but I guess that's enough for city driving? I don't know, but is USD 9K too much for a small electric car that can carry two adults & two children in your place? In India, it is a viable option as a second car, for the growing numbers of nouveau rich at least.
Its a CRM app ... so it means that it does stuff to help out the sales guys, the marketing folks & the support blokes. So now you know which types of application you should (not?) be working upon if you are pissed off with those calls (both that you receive as well as the ones that you have to make sometimes *gasp*)
Accounts, Contacts, Calendar, Activities, Products, Pricing, Leads, Opportunities, Quotes, Orders, Incidents, Service Requests, etc. are some of the features available in most CRM applications.