Seriously. FOSS disrobes the emperor with respect to the cost of fundamental software, driving them toward commodity status. What's MS's profit margin on operating system and office suite software sales? Still high, but progressively, as the lingering fog of FUD laid down by MS and others begins to clear, software managers are recognizing that they have options, that they don't NEED to pay for basic infrastructure software like an OS, database, office suite... and that leads to MS loss of sales, having to reduce profit margins, etc.
Yet Apple continues to sustain very high profit margins - by virtue of selling an integrated solution. Which is what MS will be able to do for servers/desktops/laptops/tablets, if Dell enters their fold - and for phones, either through resuscitation of Dell's phone product line, or through a buyout of Nokia.
You are allowed to transfer your license as long as you wipe it from the old machine first.
That's patently untrue of the Windows OEM license that is used by the vast majority of consumer PCs. If you buy a PC with Windows pre-installed, the license for that copy of Windows only extends to that specific PC.
Can't do blah blah... no one buys from Amazon blah blah... return rate blah blah... back to the '80s terminal blah blah...trailer park Amazon buyers blah blah
I think i answered this above in reply to another of your postings, but in attempt to stem every flow of FUD...
Google only takes 30% of in-app purchases for app upgrades (e.g. from free to paid-for) and for app add-ons. They emphatically do NOT charge anything when an app uses an in-app payment system, or Google Wallet, for you to buy ebooks, couches, clothes, videos, music... no charge for physical nor virtual goods.
Sorry, Apple's policy is not the same, and Google is doing less (maybe no) evil.
And Google only takes a 30% cut for in-app upgrades or purchase of app-addons. You buy an ebook via the Amazon app, they get 0%, they don't collect (nor require use of Google Wallet) for sale of physical nor virtual goods. Iow, you can't distribute a free app that acts as a bootloader-without-paying-30%-to-Google for your premium version. Seems pretty reasonable.
BIG differences not mentioned - Google doesn't take a cut of sale of physical nor virtual transferrable goods (music, ebooks, video, etc.).
What they're requiring is use of Google Wallet for in-app upgrades (e.g. from the free to a paid-for version of the app) or app-related add-ons. In other words, they're not allowing a free version of an app to be a trojan for distributing a paid version via the Google Play Store without paying for the service.
You access SlashDot, you see ads (that go to ad agencies that compile data about you). You can disable it, under certain circumstances.
In Ubuntu, you see ads if you search for music etc. You're able to disable it.
In either case, a compute resource tracks something about you - and you can cause it not to. How is this different? Because on a website we've just kind of given up, and accept that our privacy will be "violated"?
I see again and again that your account profile is tied to your Live account. We've spent years and years tuning Windows to be deployable in a closed network environment, where our users don't have internet access. How will Win8 accommodate that setting? Will there be any way to setup a custom "app store" so that if someone develops a metro app, it can be distributed? Will there be any way to NOT use MS Live accts, or an easy way to have an organization-specific Live server? How will it work with smartcards, and other alternate forms of authentication?
I can't believe that MS didn't consider these use cases, but I haven't seen any answers on this front.
I'm confused... I rtfa'ed, and it says in the project costs section that of the $10m needed, "$1.5m will be for licensing of the modern interfaces such as DDR3, HDMI, SATA-II, USB-3 and RGMII." If those modern interfaces need to be licensed that way, don't they violate FSF endorsability, ipso facto? Or, is it that the licensing terms for such are compatible with e.g. GPLv3?
This reminds of the old adage, "The Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math". For that price, you could buy:
- A good PC for home, to also act as an RDP target (heck, it can even have Windows 8)
- A Nexus 10 or comparable tablet
- A bluetooth keyboard
- Internet connectivity for the PC (you probably already have it, but just to demonstrate how overpriced the Surface Pro is)
And now you have a better PC and a better tablet that can run any Windows app (via RDP), including Win8 apps, even from the MS store (ahem, if you find such an app that doesn't have a better version available in the Android store). And with the money left over, you could pay for your internet access for a couple of years!
Or forego the PC at home and use a cloud-based Windows desktop solution for a couple of bucks/month.
Heck, replace the Nexus 10 with an iPad, and it's STILL cheaper than a Surface Pro.
PostGIS is very popular in the neogeo community (GIS extensions on top of PostgreSQL), primarily because it's supported by arguably the most important GIS server stacks (OSGeo's and Esri's). If geography plays any role in your career planning, or if you just want to keep your options open in that area, definitely choose PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
What's your perspective on the role of freedom in the Makerbot revolution? What is needed to ensure the appropriate freedoms are safeguarded in the context of that movement? What differences do you see between freedom in that context and in the software context?
--I can already watch Netflix streaming in Vmware Workstation/Player (Win7--64 guest) running on a 64-bit Linux host with accelerated video drivers - which I believe is a better and more natural arrangement. WINE's work, while nice to have, is not the only way to accomplish these things.
Better... you can do that for free? Without paying MS for the privilege of watching NetFlix?
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Azure has nothing running on it. Amazon's cloud had to handle all those annoying customers soaking up their CPU and network.
Heck, seems like we do nearly a full OS update every stinking month, on the 2nd Tuesday!
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection."
... except for the problem of too many layers of indirection."
Except that this user may end up running into Henney's Corollary: "
Seriously. FOSS disrobes the emperor with respect to the cost of fundamental software, driving them toward commodity status. What's MS's profit margin on operating system and office suite software sales? Still high, but progressively, as the lingering fog of FUD laid down by MS and others begins to clear, software managers are recognizing that they have options, that they don't NEED to pay for basic infrastructure software like an OS, database, office suite ... and that leads to MS loss of sales, having to reduce profit margins, etc.
Yet Apple continues to sustain very high profit margins - by virtue of selling an integrated solution. Which is what MS will be able to do for servers/desktops/laptops/tablets, if Dell enters their fold - and for phones, either through resuscitation of Dell's phone product line, or through a buyout of Nokia.
If not, I should introduce you two ... :-)
Curse and damn Betty Crocker...
Yeah, her phones are really really tasty, but get moldy so fast ...
You are allowed to transfer your license as long as you wipe it from the old machine first.
That's patently untrue of the Windows OEM license that is used by the vast majority of consumer PCs. If you buy a PC with Windows pre-installed, the license for that copy of Windows only extends to that specific PC.
Are you trying to say something else?
Can't do blah blah ... no one buys from Amazon blah blah ... return rate blah blah ... back to the '80s terminal blah blah ...trailer park Amazon buyers blah blah
STFU. Sales is sales.
There ARE alternatives, ya know. You might not have ever heard any mentioned here on /. ;-)
Nothing more.
I think i answered this above in reply to another of your postings, but in attempt to stem every flow of FUD ...
... no charge for physical nor virtual goods.
Google only takes 30% of in-app purchases for app upgrades (e.g. from free to paid-for) and for app add-ons. They emphatically do NOT charge anything when an app uses an in-app payment system, or Google Wallet, for you to buy ebooks, couches, clothes, videos, music
Sorry, Apple's policy is not the same, and Google is doing less (maybe no) evil.
And Google only takes a 30% cut for in-app upgrades or purchase of app-addons. You buy an ebook via the Amazon app, they get 0%, they don't collect (nor require use of Google Wallet) for sale of physical nor virtual goods. Iow, you can't distribute a free app that acts as a bootloader-without-paying-30%-to-Google for your premium version. Seems pretty reasonable.
BIG differences not mentioned - Google doesn't take a cut of sale of physical nor virtual transferrable goods (music, ebooks, video, etc.).
What they're requiring is use of Google Wallet for in-app upgrades (e.g. from the free to a paid-for version of the app) or app-related add-ons. In other words, they're not allowing a free version of an app to be a trojan for distributing a paid version via the Google Play Store without paying for the service.
Or even a server. In spite of your low /. id#, that made me laugh.
You access SlashDot, you see ads (that go to ad agencies that compile data about you). You can disable it, under certain circumstances.
In Ubuntu, you see ads if you search for music etc. You're able to disable it.
In either case, a compute resource tracks something about you - and you can cause it not to. How is this different? Because on a website we've just kind of given up, and accept that our privacy will be "violated"?
Let's all chant it together. How many times do we need to learn the same lesson?
Can't fight the machine, can you?
I see again and again that your account profile is tied to your Live account. We've spent years and years tuning Windows to be deployable in a closed network environment, where our users don't have internet access. How will Win8 accommodate that setting? Will there be any way to setup a custom "app store" so that if someone develops a metro app, it can be distributed? Will there be any way to NOT use MS Live accts, or an easy way to have an organization-specific Live server? How will it work with smartcards, and other alternate forms of authentication? I can't believe that MS didn't consider these use cases, but I haven't seen any answers on this front.
I'm confused ... I rtfa'ed, and it says in the project costs section that of the $10m needed, "$1.5m will be for licensing of the modern interfaces such as DDR3, HDMI, SATA-II, USB-3 and RGMII." If those modern interfaces need to be licensed that way, don't they violate FSF endorsability, ipso facto? Or, is it that the licensing terms for such are compatible with e.g. GPLv3?
And now you have a better PC and a better tablet that can run any Windows app (via RDP), including Win8 apps, even from the MS store (ahem, if you find such an app that doesn't have a better version available in the Android store). And with the money left over, you could pay for your internet access for a couple of years!
Or forego the PC at home and use a cloud-based Windows desktop solution for a couple of bucks/month.
Heck, replace the Nexus 10 with an iPad, and it's STILL cheaper than a Surface Pro.
PostGIS is very popular in the neogeo community (GIS extensions on top of PostgreSQL), primarily because it's supported by arguably the most important GIS server stacks (OSGeo's and Esri's). If geography plays any role in your career planning, or if you just want to keep your options open in that area, definitely choose PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
What's your perspective on the role of freedom in the Makerbot revolution? What is needed to ensure the appropriate freedoms are safeguarded in the context of that movement? What differences do you see between freedom in that context and in the software context?
And a vast army of biased bloggers/developer/managers/MCSEs that depend on MS for their livelihood.
Unless you don't count those as major differences.
NetFlix on Android works because of a hardware component that supports the DRM ... which obviously isn't emulated in the emulator.
--I can already watch Netflix streaming in Vmware Workstation/Player (Win7--64 guest) running on a 64-bit Linux host with accelerated video drivers - which I believe is a better and more natural arrangement. WINE's work, while nice to have, is not the only way to accomplish these things.
Better ... you can do that for free? Without paying MS for the privilege of watching NetFlix?