I thought something was wrong when I saw the headline, as I never saw any OSS machines around when I used to work in Japan. In fact, everywhere I saw, I only saw Windows machines (not even Mac back in 2002).
As we all know, all Linux machines have giant neon signs on them, so they can be clearly identified, and servers are always conveniently located in the middle of reception areas, just to satisfy the needs of the curious OS geeks.
Not.
So, you don't like the article. So, as I stated in my summary, Japan has only 21 percent Open Source OS usage by business and the US has 33 percent Open Source OS usage.
It's all there in the summary. And in the linked story.
If you haven't seen Macs in Japan, when I have many friends who've seen them in businesses, then perhaps your sample size may be distorted by either area or randomness?
Statistics can be used for many things. But in the end they're just statistics.
Actually, as I stated in the post - and as detailed in the linked news - Japan is behind the US in adoption of open source OS and software by business.
Now, perhaps they're ahead of us on the residential adoption - I couldn't say.
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
So long as Linux costs 0.00001 percent of the cost of Windows and other OS, it will always have less than 1 percent of marketshare.
Marketshare - by definition - is based on the cost of the OS per unit shipped. So if Win and Mac ship an OS that costs $100, and the average cost per Linux install - in paid OS copies - is $1, then even if Linux is on 50 percent of all PCs, and Win/Mac/etc is on 50 percent, it will by definition have a marketshare of $50 out of $10000 - or 0.5 percent.
Using marketshare as a metric is the wrong solution. What you want is installed user base.
actually, there are some recent economics studies that show that cooperative behaviour works better than competitive behaviour even when people don't trust each other or some sometimes cheat. Some has been published, others are coming out in September, October, and November and are in peer review.
Thanks for wishing Canada a Happy Birthday - we dual citizens of Canada and the USA love this extra-long weekend... now if only I wasn't upgrading a database today and tomorrow...
The article on why humans have so few genes [sciencemag.org] does some nice hand-waving but fails to answer the core question. Sure, the genome can do some interesting combinatoric stuff to get more out of a given length of DNA, but that does not answer the question -- why should humans have fewer genes than something so simple as a mustard plant or rice?
Actually, it's mostly that evolution has created DNA sequences, mitochondrial DNA, and various fragments and editing/copying mechanisms that allows it to get a lot done with less than you think, by silencing segments, reusing segments, having offsets for copying, and allowing proteins to shift and rotate.
The world is way more complex than the old days of DNA makes proteins and each segment makes one and only one - everything interacts, mutations occur, copying errors happen, and it's all really kind of beautiful on the proteomics level.
So that isn't really a question anymore - we have enough genes to get the job done, because they have more capabilities than anyone imagined ten years ago.
I happen to agree. It will be the rest of the world, implementing the true meanings of copyright and patents, with 15 to 20 year lifespans for both, that will crush the monopolistic practices of the corporate-controlled lifetime plus 25 year embarrassments which we call US copyright/patent law.
And about time, too.
That said, I still have the first filing for All Of The Above (TM) as used in digital media and print media, just in case. Filed back when I was a teen in both the US and Canada.
why would we ever need a new internet? it's not like there's 100 million Chinese online today and the Net was built before Kanji and other ideograms became popular...
seriously, let's go to IPv6 with Mars/Saturn/Jupiter extensions, ditch all the cruft, and do it right.
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So what happened the third time? Did you end up working for MSFT in the end?
No, the beginning.
in fact, I've passed it three times, and turned MSFT down two of the times as I didn't feel the job was a good fit.
It's quite puzzling, really - and about as useful as handwriting analysis or tea leaf reading.
"And the best reason is because it's cool", or so says the project leader.
Well, can't argue with that one.
self-identify itself as being from Microsoft, like the browser says it's IE?
I predict even smaller market share as a result, if so.
is at http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/06/business/pa tents.php if you want to read the International Herald Tribune's take on the decision.
why would I bother buying Longhorn?
...
no killer app so far as I can see.
unless I'm missing something
[caveat - I own MSFT shares]
BSD is really big in Japan. Good to see lots of open-source interest there.
Sadly, the Open Source OS was defined in the survey as including Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD, so my guess is that it's not quite that big.
You said Japan is behind, but without using the word behind.
In my submission I said Japan has 21 percent and the US has 33 percent.
Maybe in your world 33 percent is not obviously much more than 21 percent, but in mine it's fairly explicit.
I thought something was wrong when I saw the headline, as I never saw any OSS machines around when I used to work in Japan. In fact, everywhere I saw, I only saw Windows machines (not even Mac back in 2002).
As we all know, all Linux machines have giant neon signs on them, so they can be clearly identified, and servers are always conveniently located in the middle of reception areas, just to satisfy the needs of the curious OS geeks.
Not.
So, you don't like the article. So, as I stated in my summary, Japan has only 21 percent Open Source OS usage by business and the US has 33 percent Open Source OS usage.
It's all there in the summary. And in the linked story.
If you haven't seen Macs in Japan, when I have many friends who've seen them in businesses, then perhaps your sample size may be distorted by either area or randomness?
Statistics can be used for many things. But in the end they're just statistics.
One-Fifth of Giant Robots run OSS!
Only the ones being piloted by teens with big eyes.
The rest are dubbed into English with the wrong accents for their characters.
Actually, as I stated in the post - and as detailed in the linked news - Japan is behind the US in adoption of open source OS and software by business.
Now, perhaps they're ahead of us on the residential adoption - I couldn't say.
is at International Herald Tribune EU software patent article.
for tech support - and then be told it's the manufacturer's fault, even though it isn't.
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
So long as Linux costs 0.00001 percent of the cost of Windows and other OS, it will always have less than 1 percent of marketshare.
Marketshare - by definition - is based on the cost of the OS per unit shipped. So if Win and Mac ship an OS that costs $100, and the average cost per Linux install - in paid OS copies - is $1, then even if Linux is on 50 percent of all PCs, and Win/Mac/etc is on 50 percent, it will by definition have a marketshare of $50 out of $10000 - or 0.5 percent.
Using marketshare as a metric is the wrong solution. What you want is installed user base.
omfg you're not one of those intelligent design radicals, r u?
look, go crack open a good book on Proteomics or Cell Biology or something. i have no time for people who believe mitochondria are flat.
actually, there are some recent economics studies that show that cooperative behaviour works better than competitive behaviour even when people don't trust each other or some sometimes cheat. Some has been published, others are coming out in September, October, and November and are in peer review.
... now if only I wasn't upgrading a database today and tomorrow ...
Thanks for wishing Canada a Happy Birthday - we dual citizens of Canada and the USA love this extra-long weekend
The article on why humans have so few genes [sciencemag.org] does some nice hand-waving but fails to answer the core question. Sure, the genome can do some interesting combinatoric stuff to get more out of a given length of DNA, but that does not answer the question -- why should humans have fewer genes than something so simple as a mustard plant or rice?
Actually, it's mostly that evolution has created DNA sequences, mitochondrial DNA, and various fragments and editing/copying mechanisms that allows it to get a lot done with less than you think, by silencing segments, reusing segments, having offsets for copying, and allowing proteins to shift and rotate.
The world is way more complex than the old days of DNA makes proteins and each segment makes one and only one - everything interacts, mutations occur, copying errors happen, and it's all really kind of beautiful on the proteomics level.
So that isn't really a question anymore - we have enough genes to get the job done, because they have more capabilities than anyone imagined ten years ago.
as an aside, I bought a TigerDirect AMD laptop right after I posted that, so Intel lost the sale anyway, monopoly or no.
so all the music and software under copyleft is still good.
I happen to agree. It will be the rest of the world, implementing the true meanings of copyright and patents, with 15 to 20 year lifespans for both, that will crush the monopolistic practices of the corporate-controlled lifetime plus 25 year embarrassments which we call US copyright/patent law.
And about time, too.
That said, I still have the first filing for All Of The Above (TM) as used in digital media and print media, just in case. Filed back when I was a teen in both the US and Canada.
why would we ever need a new internet? it's not like there's 100 million Chinese online today and the Net was built before Kanji and other ideograms became popular ...
seriously, let's go to IPv6 with Mars/Saturn/Jupiter extensions, ditch all the cruft, and do it right.
everyone knows those are the hacker homelands - so the raid basically didn't work.
babes - but somehow PHP and MySQL just wasn't working out there.
no1 cares nemore
donut hav to use korrectin flewed ahnd no1 evuh says itz bahd.
I suddenly realized how lame the American voices were - and inappropriate for their characters.
Except for two of them, they were totally off in the English dub, and spot on in the Japanese voice choices.