I think it is a good assumption that Lightning + Almost Anything Else = Lethal Mix. I saw a CNN article with video yesterday where a guy was hit by lightning on a motorcycle. Being the "Almost Anything Else" part of the equation did prove lethal to him. They showed gouges in the asphalt where the lightning had hit it!
Gaining the monopoly position and piles of money was supposed to ensure their dominance. Now that it is obvious that spending large sums of money on a project does not ensure its success and seeing how they flail about, I don't think Microsoft ever considered a backup plan. Their goal is to be the dominant company in software wherever that may be, and that's the problem. No one knows where the software market is going next. I too think that if I were them, I would try to give up on maintaining the monopoly and make sure my software runs on every major system out there. But, I think their hands may be tied somewhat at present due to their convicted monopolist status. So we will probably watch them crumble somewhat until they are out of the woods with the DOJ. This would again put them behind the pack. With a view toward the long term, it makes me wonder if it was worth the win-at-all-costs monopoly approach.
I went into the Army straight out of high school and served about a decade. I went a lot of places and was exposed to a lot of very exciting technology. I doubt I will ever again come close to doing anything as cool in the civilian sector. Outside of the technology, I miss the sense of purpose I had while I was in. I miss knowing exactly what I needed to do to get promoted. I do make waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more money than I did then, but I am not as satisfied with the kind of work I do now. I program for a living (which I did not get to do then, so that is cool (I think)), but I don't particularly enjoy the fact that it is in support of an endless hustle for greenbacks.
Anyways, I don't know if maybe I didn't know any better at the time, but I still haven't seen the level of organization out here that I witnessed while I was in. A lot of the companies I have worked for in the 12 or so years since I got out were growing ones though.
MS is scared that if they don't have some kind of player in every software niche that one of them will take off wildly without them. Plus whether their player is any good or not doesn't matter. There are enough MS groupies out there who'll buy anything they put out that they can't lose.
I think they know you cannot trust Microsoft as far as you can throw them. I bet they couldn't even pick up Steve Ballmer much less throw him.
The best part is Microsoft, having assumed Adobe's compliance, is having to change their stuff now to avoid an injunction against shipping next year. I'll give them a hint, Adobe knows how they treat their partners. Bygones may be bygones, but no one is forgetting the things they have done.
Looking through Microsoft glasses is like trying to look through a stained glass window. The colors are pretty, but you can't make out anything clearly on the other side.
The rise of the networked PC was supposed to be the end of the mainframe, but we are seeing a resurgence there. Big bad IBM isn't so bad anymore. The multimedia PC miracle that was being pushed to ignorant consumers buying 486SX PC's only started achieving its promise almost decade later. The Internet _is_ a big thing..Net is not multiplatform for any of Microsoft's doing. Linux is not a toy OS. OSS is not a cancer. Java is not dead. NT wasn't bullet proof. XP wasn't secure. Tablet PC's aren't everywhere. And people weren't stupid enough to fall for Hailstorm.
To their credit, they've done a lot of stuff, but predictions is not something I think they do well.
Also, Blu-Ray is not a new form factor. Before the DVD, video was on tape or much larger laser disks. The form/size and, though not visible, new media type of the DVD was perfect. Now, if they say Blu-Ray disks are unscratchable, then I think they will be on to something!
Microsoft could do plenty of right with the Slashdot crowd if they wanted to, but they don't want to. This is not some defenseless little start-up you are defending either. Microsoft does nothing out of the goodness of its heart--it's all for their shareholders. There's nothing wrong with that either, but let's not pretend they are anything that they aren't. We will get to see more and more of how they really are as time goes on: Why Your Future Depends on Open Source -- Part 2.
Also, telling your audience that you think they are a bunch of hypocrites and daring to be modded down does nothing for your argument.
I would make sure the license was congruent with my principles then. I don't know of one off hand that requires sharing source if the changes aren't distributed outside of an organization. GPL 3 might have that in there somewhere, dunno.
I had a roommate in the Army who said he *loved* to clean and for me not to worry about it, he would do all the cleaning. Okay, cool by me. Later when I was transferred from that base to another, he complained to a sergeant that I would never help clean our room/bathroom. As a punishment for my being stupid enough to take my roommate up on his offer, I was made to scour the place from top to bottom before I could leave.
My take on this is: Don't offer to freely share your software and then complain that there is no reciprocal sharing later. You did not freely share. If financial institutions are honoring the applicable licenses for the software they are using then leave them alone. Otherwise your offer was disingenuous and you become an asshole like my roommate turned out to be. If you can't sleep at night because there is no sharing in return, change the license and quit belly-aching about it because not everyone is going to get caught up in the spirit of open source software the way you would like them to.
So, why would a British citizen be held there. He wasn't caught in Iraq or Afghanistan as an enemy combatant. It's just an attempt to pull at the heart strings of the British public to cause an outcry over his extridition. I guess you can't blame him for trying though.
I'm guessing there was a wave of newly rich Nigerians just before his email filtering team was put in place. Ballmer is probably still patiently waiting on his bequethals, lottery winnings and fees for helping rich politicians flee their countries-Can't pass these up because the return is much better than hustling software!
Here comes another wave of UFO's to see what we are up to now. adsfsa adfad **** afasfa htyeey? dfadsfas ****ek gfa gdghg yuhjhj? Loose translation-What the **** are those humans up to now? How ****ing hot did you say?
that will be suggested here and when you hit one that you think is fun to use, stick with it and don't let anyone talk you out of it. Not to disparage the crowd around these here parts, but everyone has his/her favorite language, and you couldn't talk him/her out of it. So, when you find one that floats your boat, set sail and don't look back.
Also, don't think that you'll be able to get by without learning more than one language. Personally, I've made a decent living coding in VB and C over the years. I've used COBOL and Java in school and even at one time thought I wanted to move into Java because I thought it more "professional." I'm having fun with C# now though, so I'll probably stick with it.
Newsweek has a test that you can take to see if you have autistic traits. My take on it is that autism runs along a continuum with everyone having a degree of it as part of the human condition. It doesn't sound like it's really a problem if you have autistic traits unless it affects your ability to function in society. I guess if you are autistic-leaning and are planning on having children, you may want to carefully screen your partner to make sure s/he isn't similarly affected so you don't pass on a double dose of it.
You have to find my door and knock on it first. That's the problem. With an SaaS, you know where to find their door. You shut them down, you shut me down. If I'm worried about you, I have time to migrate to another piece of software before you find my door.
As I understand it, RIM is looking at various work arounds to avoid having to pay any licensing to NTP. If I'm NTP and I know RIM is trying to buy time to finish their work around, I'm going to push hard to shut them down until they can come back up in a manner that won't violate my IP. Unless, RIM is going to pay me something to back off. A blackout of just a day is bad news for RIM. It would also be bad news for the SaaS model because parallels can be drawn.
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First I heard they found 20 kilos of it in Oprah's pants. Now they are smuggling it on the Space Shuttle! What lengths will these drug runners go to?
Oh, *a* crack. Well, that's not quite as astonishing. But still a very serious matter indeed!
I would characterize what the poster calls "bleeding" as "more effectively competing with" other companies in the industry.
I think it is a good assumption that Lightning + Almost Anything Else = Lethal Mix. I saw a CNN article with video yesterday where a guy was hit by lightning on a motorcycle. Being the "Almost Anything Else" part of the equation did prove lethal to him. They showed gouges in the asphalt where the lightning had hit it!
Gaining the monopoly position and piles of money was supposed to ensure their dominance. Now that it is obvious that spending large sums of money on a project does not ensure its success and seeing how they flail about, I don't think Microsoft ever considered a backup plan. Their goal is to be the dominant company in software wherever that may be, and that's the problem. No one knows where the software market is going next. I too think that if I were them, I would try to give up on maintaining the monopoly and make sure my software runs on every major system out there. But, I think their hands may be tied somewhat at present due to their convicted monopolist status. So we will probably watch them crumble somewhat until they are out of the woods with the DOJ. This would again put them behind the pack. With a view toward the long term, it makes me wonder if it was worth the win-at-all-costs monopoly approach.
Judging by their scrambling to catch up, they evidently wish they had been. It would have been innovative if they had been.
Well, I sure as hell will not be typing *b*e*f*o*r*e* around here now.
How stupid must one be? For
I went into the Army straight out of high school and served about a decade. I went a lot of places and was exposed to a lot of very exciting technology. I doubt I will ever again come close to doing anything as cool in the civilian sector. Outside of the technology, I miss the sense of purpose I had while I was in. I miss knowing exactly what I needed to do to get promoted. I do make waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more money than I did then, but I am not as satisfied with the kind of work I do now. I program for a living (which I did not get to do then, so that is cool (I think)), but I don't particularly enjoy the fact that it is in support of an endless hustle for greenbacks.
Anyways, I don't know if maybe I didn't know any better at the time, but I still haven't seen the level of organization out here that I witnessed while I was in. A lot of the companies I have worked for in the 12 or so years since I got out were growing ones though.
MS is scared that if they don't have some kind of player in every software niche that one of them will take off wildly without them. Plus whether their player is any good or not doesn't matter. There are enough MS groupies out there who'll buy anything they put out that they can't lose.
"Powerful, like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball." It was called "The Homer," I believe.
I think they know you cannot trust Microsoft as far as you can throw them. I bet they couldn't even pick up Steve Ballmer much less throw him.
The best part is Microsoft, having assumed Adobe's compliance, is having to change their stuff now to avoid an injunction against shipping next year. I'll give them a hint, Adobe knows how they treat their partners. Bygones may be bygones, but no one is forgetting the things they have done.
Looking through Microsoft glasses is like trying to look through a stained glass window. The colors are pretty, but you can't make out anything clearly on the other side. The rise of the networked PC was supposed to be the end of the mainframe, but we are seeing a resurgence there. Big bad IBM isn't so bad anymore. The multimedia PC miracle that was being pushed to ignorant consumers buying 486SX PC's only started achieving its promise almost decade later. The Internet _is_ a big thing. .Net is not multiplatform for any of Microsoft's doing. Linux is not a toy OS. OSS is not a cancer. Java is not dead. NT wasn't bullet proof. XP wasn't secure. Tablet PC's aren't everywhere. And people weren't stupid enough to fall for Hailstorm.
To their credit, they've done a lot of stuff, but predictions is not something I think they do well.
Also, Blu-Ray is not a new form factor. Before the DVD, video was on tape or much larger laser disks. The form/size and, though not visible, new media type of the DVD was perfect. Now, if they say Blu-Ray disks are unscratchable, then I think they will be on to something!
Microsoft could do plenty of right with the Slashdot crowd if they wanted to, but they don't want to. This is not some defenseless little start-up you are defending either. Microsoft does nothing out of the goodness of its heart--it's all for their shareholders. There's nothing wrong with that either, but let's not pretend they are anything that they aren't. We will get to see more and more of how they really are as time goes on: Why Your Future Depends on Open Source -- Part 2.
Also, telling your audience that you think they are a bunch of hypocrites and daring to be modded down does nothing for your argument.
I would make sure the license was congruent with my principles then. I don't know of one off hand that requires sharing source if the changes aren't distributed outside of an organization. GPL 3 might have that in there somewhere, dunno.
I had a roommate in the Army who said he *loved* to clean and for me not to worry about it, he would do all the cleaning. Okay, cool by me. Later when I was transferred from that base to another, he complained to a sergeant that I would never help clean our room/bathroom. As a punishment for my being stupid enough to take my roommate up on his offer, I was made to scour the place from top to bottom before I could leave.
My take on this is: Don't offer to freely share your software and then complain that there is no reciprocal sharing later. You did not freely share. If financial institutions are honoring the applicable licenses for the software they are using then leave them alone. Otherwise your offer was disingenuous and you become an asshole like my roommate turned out to be. If you can't sleep at night because there is no sharing in return, change the license and quit belly-aching about it because not everyone is going to get caught up in the spirit of open source software the way you would like them to.
Digg has a link to some HTML that can cause XP to restart. It is here:
s _Windows_XP
http://digg.com/security/Simple_HTML_code_restart
Mayhaps you will eXPerience a flash from the past.
So, why would a British citizen be held there. He wasn't caught in Iraq or Afghanistan as an enemy combatant. It's just an attempt to pull at the heart strings of the British public to cause an outcry over his extridition. I guess you can't blame him for trying though.
I'm guessing there was a wave of newly rich Nigerians just before his email filtering team was put in place. Ballmer is probably still patiently waiting on his bequethals, lottery winnings and fees for helping rich politicians flee their countries-Can't pass these up because the return is much better than hustling software!
Here comes another wave of UFO's to see what we are up to now. adsfsa adfad **** afasfa htyeey? dfadsfas ****ek gfa gdghg yuhjhj? Loose translation-What the **** are those humans up to now? How ****ing hot did you say?
that will be suggested here and when you hit one that you think is fun to use, stick with it and don't let anyone talk you out of it. Not to disparage the crowd around these here parts, but everyone has his/her favorite language, and you couldn't talk him/her out of it. So, when you find one that floats your boat, set sail and don't look back.
Also, don't think that you'll be able to get by without learning more than one language. Personally, I've made a decent living coding in VB and C over the years. I've used COBOL and Java in school and even at one time thought I wanted to move into Java because I thought it more "professional." I'm having fun with C# now though, so I'll probably stick with it.
Now the kajillions of non-corporate data stealing types of iPod users will probably be shut down because you had a point to prove.
He says he's sorry about the misunderstanding. You can make all the copies of Altair BASIC you want now.
Okay, okay, okay... This is just a joke! I'm sure Altair BASIC is as valuable a piece of IP as it ever was.
Newsweek has a test that you can take to see if you have autistic traits. My take on it is that autism runs along a continuum with everyone having a degree of it as part of the human condition. It doesn't sound like it's really a problem if you have autistic traits unless it affects your ability to function in society. I guess if you are autistic-leaning and are planning on having children, you may want to carefully screen your partner to make sure s/he isn't similarly affected so you don't pass on a double dose of it.
You have to find my door and knock on it first. That's the problem. With an SaaS, you know where to find their door. You shut them down, you shut me down. If I'm worried about you, I have time to migrate to another piece of software before you find my door.
As I understand it, RIM is looking at various work arounds to avoid having to pay any licensing to NTP. If I'm NTP and I know RIM is trying to buy time to finish their work around, I'm going to push hard to shut them down until they can come back up in a manner that won't violate my IP. Unless, RIM is going to pay me something to back off. A blackout of just a day is bad news for RIM. It would also be bad news for the SaaS model because parallels can be drawn.