Given the razor-thin margins in a lot of retailing, giving up even 5% of potential customers seems pretty retarded, IMO. A lot of companies break even by such a slight margin that just the wind blowing differently could push them to a loss. Ignoring 10% would be insane.
When I said that IE was clearly in the majority, I'm talking 80+%. What it shows, is that people who know anything about computers do switch. In hordes. And those hordes have family and friends who listen to them. I personally got three people in my family to switch, for example.
Ace's Hardware recently ran a short article that Firefox passed 50% share at their website in December. They had a nice graph showing IE clearly in the majority, lessening over time, and, finally, passing into the minority.
If the MPAA gets its way, you'll be renting these movies, not buying them.
Just like going to a movie theatre, but without the family-afternoon-out-with-dinner experience. People buy DVDs to have them available anytime, whether for watching during a bored evening or curing a bout of insomnia. If this flexibility is hampered in any way, even if very slightly, the MPAA might as well kiss its own ass goodbye.
The entire underlying kernel is an excellent POSIX-compliant UNIX implementation, arguably better than Solaris.
When Solaris is Open Sourced, soon, people will be able to make a direct comparison between Darwin and Solaris. Let's just hope it is done independently and not by a Linux fanboy ("they both suck!").
A person doesn't have to install CVS, Subversion, or BitKeeper to be a "good little developer". Many people get by quite successfully by just keeping good daily backups of their work and making copies of milestones and releases as "branching." It works pretty well when the size of the team allows good communication and relatively little toe-stepping.
Quite honestly, if there are only a handful of copies, even manually porting fixes across the releases can be simpler than learning a VC system. Sometimes, once a person has learnt programming and everything else, adding more tools for tools' sake can be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Looking at how good UNIX has become from both raw functionality and asthetic viewpoints, there's no way Microsoft can maintain all their share. There's just no way. Why install 500 Windows desktops, when you could install a small set of SunRay servers and just plug in the clients? Alternatively, why install 500 Windows desktops, when you could put in 500 PCs with UNIX/Linux and StarOffice/OpenOffice.org? The argument that MS Office is the bomb gets more stale everytime someone exhales it.
I still disagree. Open and cheap is taking the share from Microsoft, whether they like it or not. UNIX was cheap relative to Mainframes in the 80s, Windows NT was cheap relative to UNIX in the 90s, only, now, it's UNIX/Linux being cheaper than Windows in the 00s. Microsoft is backed into a corner--either open up or die...but they have no other business like IBM and Sun (hardware)...so they'll probably just die.
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What's stopping someone from writing an entire environment like OS X from the ground up, around and on top of Linux, and creating an OS X like environment that is as complete and modern as either OS X or Windows?
Yeah, those thousands of man-years required to do a good job at this are merely a speed bump. Not a problem at all. You might think thousands of man-years sounds like too much, but consider that Microsoft had thousands of people working on Windows 2000. It took Sun a half-billion dollars to make Solaris 10 what it is. GNOME and KDE have geen going for, what, a decade, now? Your one sentence is the equivalent to JFK saying it is a good idea to go to the moon by 1970.
They are very capable of squashing serious deployment of Linux out there, and putting it back to the realm of hobbiest-only.
Untrue. How can they compete against things that are more open? Less expensive? Seriously, when in history has closed and more expensive won out in the long term? AT&T eventually fell from greatness. IBM eventually changed their ways. Both times it isn't like they had much choice. Even those multi-billion dollar Microsoft-only government projects can't hide behind their absurdity forever. See how much IBM changed from the 1980s to the 1990s; now, look, it's only five years to the 2010s. We have all the reasons to be optimistic.
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Unfortunately, they tend to do this on the golf course with their other CEO, CIO, CFO, and CTO buddies, instead of asking the people who have to actually support the applications and systems.
So the executives at IBM, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun don't play golf? Surely it isn't just Microsoft execs that play golf.
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Linux is by hackers for hackers, and Windows is by suits for suits.
Isn't RHEL Linux-for-suits? OpenSolaris will also help tame the suits away from Windows. It's win-win, either way.
The penalty for early withdrawal on an IRA is only 10%. You don't have to wait until retirement to get it. If given enough time, it is still worth avoiding the income tax. Also, the case where a person can retire at 30 is extremely extremely rare.
Well, sometimes, the people who provide financial advice for retirement had a trust fund for college and were given an Audi for their 16th birthday. This is why some of the reform posed by GWB concerns me. It isn't necessarily wrong, but they can really screw things up and the odds are not in their favor.
He was a great comic. His one-liners are unparalleled. You are the type of person who would write "Perfect Poetry, A Formula for Greatness: Why I'm Right, and You're Wrong. BTW, All Rap Sucks, Because I Know Better."
And they are the same ones who will leave you horrible code, because they learned from web examples instead of a solid base. (real life case: mantain legacy app created by self-taught genius: a few thousands of lines of java, in ONE CLASS, with scores of static fields and static methods)
Your generalization is wrong. More often the bad code comes from cream-fed doe-eyed neophytes out of college. The 'genius' you refer to was really a moron for thinking he/she can treat Java like C.
That's one thing that gets me, the people other people think are geniuses are most often not geniuses. A real genius, you can't mistake. They are rare.
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention: I've developed the opinion that realtors, mostly those in cities, are a scam operation. On one transaction, I figured our realtor was getting well over 100 dollars an hour to put out a sign, make an MLS entry, and a color brochure. The house basically sold itself, as most in that area did. No wonder the realtor was always smiling.
Make sure you read the fine print on a foreclosure contract. They are downright scary (as-is, where-is). You really have to know what you are getting in to, even if it requires paying for an inspection before entering into a contract.
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That'd make for some great Schwag Set blogging!
What about hot-swap?
Just put a desk fan behind the cluster.
Given the razor-thin margins in a lot of retailing, giving up even 5% of potential customers seems pretty retarded, IMO. A lot of companies break even by such a slight margin that just the wind blowing differently could push them to a loss. Ignoring 10% would be insane.
Ugh, forgot the .com: Ace's Hardware
Are you serious? I was talking about Ace's Hardware. No pro-football personality tie-ins or anything like that.
You *do* know what OS X is, don't you?
It's not Linux. It's not GPL. A FSF purist would hate it, hence the benefit of a more neutral reviewer.
When I said that IE was clearly in the majority, I'm talking 80+%. What it shows, is that people who know anything about computers do switch. In hordes. And those hordes have family and friends who listen to them. I personally got three people in my family to switch, for example.
Ace's Hardware recently ran a short article that Firefox passed 50% share at their website in December. They had a nice graph showing IE clearly in the majority, lessening over time, and, finally, passing into the minority.
We'll miss you, IE...not!
If the MPAA gets its way, you'll be renting these movies, not buying them.
Just like going to a movie theatre, but without the family-afternoon-out-with-dinner experience. People buy DVDs to have them available anytime, whether for watching during a bored evening or curing a bout of insomnia. If this flexibility is hampered in any way, even if very slightly, the MPAA might as well kiss its own ass goodbye.
The entire underlying kernel is an excellent POSIX-compliant UNIX implementation, arguably better than Solaris.
When Solaris is Open Sourced, soon, people will be able to make a direct comparison between Darwin and Solaris. Let's just hope it is done independently and not by a Linux fanboy ("they both suck!").
A person doesn't have to install CVS, Subversion, or BitKeeper to be a "good little developer". Many people get by quite successfully by just keeping good daily backups of their work and making copies of milestones and releases as "branching." It works pretty well when the size of the team allows good communication and relatively little toe-stepping.
Quite honestly, if there are only a handful of copies, even manually porting fixes across the releases can be simpler than learning a VC system.
Sometimes, once a person has learnt programming and everything else, adding more tools for tools' sake can be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Linux is replacing some Unix, nothing else.
Looking at how good UNIX has become from both raw functionality and asthetic viewpoints, there's no way Microsoft can maintain all their share. There's just no way. Why install 500 Windows desktops, when you could install a small set of SunRay servers and just plug in the clients? Alternatively, why install 500 Windows desktops, when you could put in 500 PCs with UNIX/Linux and StarOffice/OpenOffice.org? The argument that MS Office is the bomb gets more stale everytime someone exhales it.
they're letting us get any gains we have.
I still disagree. Open and cheap is taking the share from Microsoft, whether they like it or not.
UNIX was cheap relative to Mainframes in the 80s, Windows NT was cheap relative to UNIX in the 90s, only, now, it's UNIX/Linux being cheaper than Windows in the 00s. Microsoft is backed into a corner--either open up or die...but they have no other business like IBM and Sun (hardware)...so they'll probably just die.
What's stopping someone from writing an entire environment like OS X from the ground up, around and on top of Linux, and creating an OS X like environment that is as complete and modern as either OS X or Windows?
Yeah, those thousands of man-years required to do a good job at this are merely a speed bump. Not a problem at all. You might think thousands of man-years sounds like too much, but consider that Microsoft had thousands of people working on Windows 2000. It took Sun a half-billion dollars to make Solaris 10 what it is. GNOME and KDE have geen going for, what, a decade, now? Your one sentence is the equivalent to JFK saying it is a good idea to go to the moon by 1970.
They are very capable of squashing serious deployment of Linux out there, and putting it back to the realm of hobbiest-only.
Untrue. How can they compete against things that are more open? Less expensive? Seriously, when in history has closed and more expensive won out in the long term? AT&T eventually fell from greatness. IBM eventually changed their ways. Both times it isn't like they had much choice. Even those multi-billion dollar Microsoft-only government projects can't hide behind their absurdity forever. See how much IBM changed from the 1980s to the 1990s; now, look, it's only five years to the 2010s. We have all the reasons to be optimistic.
Unfortunately, they tend to do this on the golf course with their other CEO, CIO, CFO, and CTO buddies, instead of asking the people who have to actually support the applications and systems.
So the executives at IBM, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun don't play golf? Surely it isn't just Microsoft execs that play golf.
Linux is by hackers for hackers, and Windows is by suits for suits.
Isn't RHEL Linux-for-suits? OpenSolaris will also help tame the suits away from Windows. It's win-win, either way.
The penalty for early withdrawal on an IRA is only 10%. You don't have to wait until retirement to get it. If given enough time, it is still worth avoiding the income tax. Also, the case where a person can retire at 30 is extremely extremely rare.
Well, sometimes, the people who provide financial advice for retirement had a trust fund for college and were given an Audi for their 16th birthday. This is why some of the reform posed by GWB concerns me. It isn't necessarily wrong, but they can really screw things up and the odds are not in their favor.
He was a great comic. His one-liners are unparalleled. You are the type of person who would write "Perfect Poetry, A Formula for Greatness: Why I'm Right, and You're Wrong. BTW, All Rap Sucks, Because I Know Better."
And they are the same ones who will leave you horrible code, because they learned from web examples instead of a solid base. (real life case: mantain legacy app created by self-taught genius: a few thousands of lines of java, in ONE CLASS, with scores of static fields and static methods)
Your generalization is wrong. More often the bad code comes from cream-fed doe-eyed neophytes out of college. The 'genius' you refer to was really a moron for thinking he/she can treat Java like C.
That's one thing that gets me, the people other people think are geniuses are most often not geniuses. A real genius, you can't mistake. They are rare.
Is it sad that I didn't realize the Ghostbusters were making a pee-pee joke until a decade after I saw the movie?
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention: I've developed the opinion that realtors, mostly those in cities, are a scam operation. On one transaction, I figured our realtor was getting well over 100 dollars an hour to put out a sign, make an MLS entry, and a color brochure. The house basically sold itself, as most in that area did. No wonder the realtor was always smiling.
Make sure you read the fine print on a foreclosure contract. They are downright scary (as-is, where-is). You really have to know what you are getting in to, even if it requires paying for an inspection before entering into a contract.