What TFA proposes doesn't even make sense. Microsoft has diversified into entertainment BECAUSE Windows and Office peaked long ago, and the server market isn't going to offer much of a growth curve for Microsoft thanks to Linux having matured. Even back in the '90s when Linux still struggled with hardware support, it was already showing signs of dominating the server market and even showed promise as a supercomputing platform. Honestly, I'm surprised it has been so successful given the monolithic nature of the kernel compared to some of the BSDs, but even for all of its shortcomings (which are largely idealistic vs. practical) it has proven to be so flexible, so reliable, extensible, and even secure compared to Windows that the negative aspects are practically immaterial
Given Linux's continued dominance and growth in the server sector, and now on smartphones and tablets, Microsoft needs to find ways to continue to deliver returns to investors. Xbox becoming more of an HTPC + video game console + streaming + video conferencing convergence device can continue to keep Microsoft a household name, and keep people coming back to Microsoft.
I honestly don't see Windows phones going anywhere - Microsoft had a GOLDEN opportunity when PocketPC morphed into Windows Mobile and phones were offered on that platform: the browsers worked well (for mobile browsers of the time), the devices were much faster than the competition that existed, they offered FAR more functionality than Blackberry, were expandable (CF, SD and even PC card slots) and were enterprise-friendly to boot. Microsoft REALLY dropped the ball on that and did nothing with the platform, and did little to foster third-party developer support. Initially it was really good - for PocketPC at one point Compaq was making their devices flash upgradable (and also offered a Linux distro for iPaq devices BTW), and Microsoft took note and required that new PocketPCs be flash upgradable. It was good, for one release, then Microsoft let the platform languish for about 5 to 7 years, by which point iPod became more than an MP3/AAC player, to a basic PDA, to a smartphone built on a full-blown BSD platform.
Apple took the smartphone market that Microsoft really created (with the PocketPC phones) and should have dominated, but relinquished to Apple. Now with Windows Phone, and forcing the phone interface on the desktop, Microsoft is nothing more than a "me-too" player, having abandoned all of the features which made Windows Mobile so enterprise-friendly in the beginning, and at the same time by forcing that same UI on the desktop, made the Windows PC totally impractical for actual work.
Microsoft needs to reexamine where they want to be in the marketplace, but abandoning Xbox is the wrong way to go about it. KEEPING Xbox as a center for home entertainment, but focusing Windows and Windows Phone to be enterprise-friendly is the way to ensure that they do not lose out to Linux and Apple, because but Linux and OS X are very usable, very capable, and now more user friendly than Windows 8.
Xbox isn't their problem - Windows 8 and Windows Phone are the source of Microsoft's current ills.
Xbox is an asset which if marketed correctly as more of a full-fledged entertainment device (Hulu + Netflix + Amazon Prime + Vudu client, telephony/video chat, etc) rather than just a game console, can end up being THE dominant set top box, possibly displacing even cable TV if they team up with video providers to offer a basic streaming service in addition to the services I already mentioned. Microsoft could easily make Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, etc. irrelevant as programming providers.
I lost my iPhone once. The person who picked it up did this and tracked me down before I even knew it was missing, so I didn't even get to use the findmyiphone feature. I didn't berate her, I thanked her and bought her a starbucks gift card as a thank you.:-)
Some people are so uncivilized. I'm sorry that happened to you - and I'd probably have shitcanned the phone after that response too.
But think for a second, what government puts in their constitution the ability for their citizens to have weapons to kill them if they don't like what they are doing? Are you seriously that naive?
The people who fought against Britain and formed our system of government with the second amendment as the ultimate check and balance against tyranny, that's who.
The second amendment was for militias run by the state. I believe the south wanted it so that they could bear arms to control potential uprisings from their slaves.
The right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
I do not believe in taking away the right of the citizen for sporting, for hunting and so forth, or for home defense. But I do believe that an AK-47, a machine gun, is not a sporting weapon or needed for defense of a home.
The purpose of the second amendment is not for sporting, hunting, or even home defense. It is there to prevent the government from disarming the people and instituting tyranny and/or fascism. We have the second amendment to preserve our natural right to shoot tyrants and fascists should our system of checks and balances fail and they come into power.
Neither is oil, by arguments posted here. We have hundreds of years of oil left at current usage rates (and assuming no new oil is forming) but that isn't being used as an excuse to waste it today, right?
This also applies to every desktop OS - ESPECIALLY Windows. How many years has Microsoft been attempting to secure Windows? Obviously if you care about national security, you will unplug your PC today.
We have energy shortages here, why would we waste fissible materials on this? We need to solve problems on the ground first before we consider using limited resources that will be spent in space with no possibility of recycling.
It might have been a mistake that they decided not to correct, but to use as a marketing tool to get more people addicted to the creative suite and hopefully convert them to CS6. I haven't upgraded from CS2 because of the obscene cost - the upgrade price doesn't apply to CS2 users.:-(
I've been running CS2 on Windows 7 (64-bit) just fine for a few years now. No issues. I think the major issues are in bridge and ACR but since my camera isn't supported by that ancient ACR version, I don't bother with that nor do I use bridge for photo management so I'm not affected by either problem.
What I want to know is: if they deploy this as an air-to-ground weapon, will the drone be in the form of a flying pig named "Algie", and will they be blasting "Animals" or "The Wall" while on missions?
I have a much better idea, one that lawmakers seem to have forgotten decades ago when the baby boomers came into power (thanks for piling debt on our backs, assholes!!). How about they cut spending? I'm sure there is a lot of wasted money in administrative overhead. How about trimming administrative costs, and make DOT maintenance management a volunteer job, or a maybe provide a salary that pays no more than the average worker who mans a shovel?
"Cloud" is a marketing buzzword, nothing more. People are using the term to describe all kinds of fileservers and appservers now. "Cloud" started out describing the sort of apps that already existed: fileservers like dropbox and what is now iCloud, VPSes with secured CIFS/SMB shares, and appservers like Google Apps and SugarCRM subscriptions . It has since been expanded to include local fileservers, proving how the term really means nothing.
What you want ideally is a fileserver, possibly one running Plex or XBMC to serve up media streams and catalog your media, preferably one built on RAID5 or RAID6 on a hardware-based controller, with a separate array to serve as a backup.
I have yet to try a motherboard which is not Linux-friendly in recent years. Every single server board I have ever tried has worked flawlessly. Every true hardware RAID controller (be it integrated or PCI-X, PCI-E, or PCI) has been supported natively, and software/hybrid/fakeraid controllers have always been supported in JBOD mode. Integrated Intel or Matrox video works fine.
Workstation/desktop boards? Aside from bluetooth, wifi, or weird video chipsets, they are supported fine. Ethernet ports used to require some tweaking (especially for Marvell controllers) but even those enjoy good support. If you want a good, fast board check out the GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB
As far as UEFI is concerned - if you run 32-bit RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux, you won't be able to boot the 32-bit disc with UEFI enabled, but why would you forgo the flat memory space of a 64-bit board now that RAM is dirt cheap? Boot 64-bit disc and it works just fine. I have UEFI enabed on my GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB and it is fully supported out of the box by OpenSUSE and both Centos and RHEL 6.3. It's more work to get full support in Linux, actually, because the Linux install Just Works(TM). To boot Windows 7, I had to make a Windows 7 USB key. It booted 64-bit Linux just fine.
The first is who is advertising. I pretty confident that it is that in most cases it is not the actual copyright holder making that statement - instead it is a retailer who cannot sell you ownership of the work.
I'm pretty sure that retailers are not running the ads without mentioning who they are. You don't hear "OWN IT ON BLU-RAY TODAY. BUY IT AT WAL-MART!" No, it's "Own it today on Blu-Ray or DVD" with no mention of any particular retailer.
It is NOT a license - it is a commodity good sold off the shelf, just like a book or anything else. When you buy a book you OWN that copy. When you buy a DVD or Blu-Ray disc or CD, you OWN that copy.
You OWN the content you buy on DVD or Blu-Ray, etc. and the content producers actually acknowledge this in their advertising. When was the last time you saw or heard an ad for a movie on blu-ray or DVD? What do they say? Do they say "License it on Blu-Ray or DVD today?" No, the advertisements say "Own it on Blu-Ray or DVD today!"
They explicitly acknowledge that you OWN that copy (it is NOT licensed, it is SOLD). It is the distribution rights you do not get with that copy of the media that you own. You can resell that one copy you bought (and if you've made backups which are defensible under Fair Use you must either destroy the backups or transfer those backups with the original when you resell it) if you want. You just cannot violate copyright by making copies to distribute.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps some people prefer the iOS UI and app selection compared to Android on phone-size devices?
What TFA proposes doesn't even make sense. Microsoft has diversified into entertainment BECAUSE Windows and Office peaked long ago, and the server market isn't going to offer much of a growth curve for Microsoft thanks to Linux having matured. Even back in the '90s when Linux still struggled with hardware support, it was already showing signs of dominating the server market and even showed promise as a supercomputing platform. Honestly, I'm surprised it has been so successful given the monolithic nature of the kernel compared to some of the BSDs, but even for all of its shortcomings (which are largely idealistic vs. practical) it has proven to be so flexible, so reliable, extensible, and even secure compared to Windows that the negative aspects are practically immaterial
Given Linux's continued dominance and growth in the server sector, and now on smartphones and tablets, Microsoft needs to find ways to continue to deliver returns to investors. Xbox becoming more of an HTPC + video game console + streaming + video conferencing convergence device can continue to keep Microsoft a household name, and keep people coming back to Microsoft.
I honestly don't see Windows phones going anywhere - Microsoft had a GOLDEN opportunity when PocketPC morphed into Windows Mobile and phones were offered on that platform: the browsers worked well (for mobile browsers of the time), the devices were much faster than the competition that existed, they offered FAR more functionality than Blackberry, were expandable (CF, SD and even PC card slots) and were enterprise-friendly to boot. Microsoft REALLY dropped the ball on that and did nothing with the platform, and did little to foster third-party developer support. Initially it was really good - for PocketPC at one point Compaq was making their devices flash upgradable (and also offered a Linux distro for iPaq devices BTW), and Microsoft took note and required that new PocketPCs be flash upgradable. It was good, for one release, then Microsoft let the platform languish for about 5 to 7 years, by which point iPod became more than an MP3/AAC player, to a basic PDA, to a smartphone built on a full-blown BSD platform.
Apple took the smartphone market that Microsoft really created (with the PocketPC phones) and should have dominated, but relinquished to Apple. Now with Windows Phone, and forcing the phone interface on the desktop, Microsoft is nothing more than a "me-too" player, having abandoned all of the features which made Windows Mobile so enterprise-friendly in the beginning, and at the same time by forcing that same UI on the desktop, made the Windows PC totally impractical for actual work.
Microsoft needs to reexamine where they want to be in the marketplace, but abandoning Xbox is the wrong way to go about it. KEEPING Xbox as a center for home entertainment, but focusing Windows and Windows Phone to be enterprise-friendly is the way to ensure that they do not lose out to Linux and Apple, because but Linux and OS X are very usable, very capable, and now more user friendly than Windows 8.
Xbox isn't their problem - Windows 8 and Windows Phone are the source of Microsoft's current ills.
Xbox is an asset which if marketed correctly as more of a full-fledged entertainment device (Hulu + Netflix + Amazon Prime + Vudu client, telephony/video chat, etc) rather than just a game console, can end up being THE dominant set top box, possibly displacing even cable TV if they team up with video providers to offer a basic streaming service in addition to the services I already mentioned. Microsoft could easily make Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, etc. irrelevant as programming providers.
Have you never heard of managing a budget? Cutting spending works for me. If it works for microeconomics, it has got to work for macroeconomics. :-)
I lost my iPhone once. The person who picked it up did this and tracked me down before I even knew it was missing, so I didn't even get to use the findmyiphone feature. I didn't berate her, I thanked her and bought her a starbucks gift card as a thank you. :-)
Some people are so uncivilized. I'm sorry that happened to you - and I'd probably have shitcanned the phone after that response too.
The people who fought against Britain and formed our system of government with the second amendment as the ultimate check and balance against tyranny, that's who.
The right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The purpose of the second amendment is not for sporting, hunting, or even home defense. It is there to prevent the government from disarming the people and instituting tyranny and/or fascism. We have the second amendment to preserve our natural right to shoot tyrants and fascists should our system of checks and balances fail and they come into power.
Neither is oil, by arguments posted here. We have hundreds of years of oil left at current usage rates (and assuming no new oil is forming) but that isn't being used as an excuse to waste it today, right?
This also applies to every desktop OS - ESPECIALLY Windows. How many years has Microsoft been attempting to secure Windows? Obviously if you care about national security, you will unplug your PC today.
We have energy shortages here, why would we waste fissible materials on this? We need to solve problems on the ground first before we consider using limited resources that will be spent in space with no possibility of recycling.
I switched to DirecTV and the picture quality is amazing - even 720p content, which upscales nicely.
> The real issue is content, in that nothing is really in 4K right now. The transportation and storage method is not.
And yet, there is now a 4K DSLR from Canon, and there are plenty of 4K cinema cameras now. 4K content is on its way, sooner than you might think.
It might have been a mistake that they decided not to correct, but to use as a marketing tool to get more people addicted to the creative suite and hopefully convert them to CS6. I haven't upgraded from CS2 because of the obscene cost - the upgrade price doesn't apply to CS2 users. :-(
I've been running CS2 on Windows 7 (64-bit) just fine for a few years now. No issues. I think the major issues are in bridge and ACR but since my camera isn't supported by that ancient ACR version, I don't bother with that nor do I use bridge for photo management so I'm not affected by either problem.
I'm so glad we liberated Kuwait, so that they could get their tyrannical regime back.
So does this mean I can't install from my own media any more?
What I want to know is: if they deploy this as an air-to-ground weapon, will the drone be in the form of a flying pig named "Algie", and will they be blasting "Animals" or "The Wall" while on missions?
I have a much better idea, one that lawmakers seem to have forgotten decades ago when the baby boomers came into power (thanks for piling debt on our backs, assholes!!). How about they cut spending? I'm sure there is a lot of wasted money in administrative overhead. How about trimming administrative costs, and make DOT maintenance management a volunteer job, or a maybe provide a salary that pays no more than the average worker who mans a shovel?
3 users? Wow, that's 50% userbase growth since last month!
"Cloud" is a marketing buzzword, nothing more. People are using the term to describe all kinds of fileservers and appservers now. "Cloud" started out describing the sort of apps that already existed: fileservers like dropbox and what is now iCloud, VPSes with secured CIFS/SMB shares, and appservers like Google Apps and SugarCRM subscriptions . It has since been expanded to include local fileservers, proving how the term really means nothing.
What you want ideally is a fileserver, possibly one running Plex or XBMC to serve up media streams and catalog your media, preferably one built on RAID5 or RAID6 on a hardware-based controller, with a separate array to serve as a backup.
D'oh! That was supposed to be It's more work to get full support in Windows, actually. Linux is pretty much plug & play.
Sorry about that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWlOeRNoDU
The content owners are advertising. Google Avatar Blu Ray Ad brought this up. Own it!
I have yet to try a motherboard which is not Linux-friendly in recent years. Every single server board I have ever tried has worked flawlessly. Every true hardware RAID controller (be it integrated or PCI-X, PCI-E, or PCI) has been supported natively, and software/hybrid/fakeraid controllers have always been supported in JBOD mode. Integrated Intel or Matrox video works fine.
Workstation/desktop boards? Aside from bluetooth, wifi, or weird video chipsets, they are supported fine. Ethernet ports used to require some tweaking (especially for Marvell controllers) but even those enjoy good support. If you want a good, fast board check out the GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB
As far as UEFI is concerned - if you run 32-bit RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux, you won't be able to boot the 32-bit disc with UEFI enabled, but why would you forgo the flat memory space of a 64-bit board now that RAM is dirt cheap? Boot 64-bit disc and it works just fine. I have UEFI enabed on my GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB and it is fully supported out of the box by OpenSUSE and both Centos and RHEL 6.3. It's more work to get full support in Linux, actually, because the Linux install Just Works(TM). To boot Windows 7, I had to make a Windows 7 USB key. It booted 64-bit Linux just fine.
Ahhh, Shaws/Star. I've left a cart full of groceries more than once - usually when they close all the registers but one or two and it gets real busy.
I'm pretty sure that retailers are not running the ads without mentioning who they are. You don't hear "OWN IT ON BLU-RAY TODAY. BUY IT AT WAL-MART!" No, it's "Own it today on Blu-Ray or DVD" with no mention of any particular retailer.
It is NOT a license - it is a commodity good sold off the shelf, just like a book or anything else. When you buy a book you OWN that copy. When you buy a DVD or Blu-Ray disc or CD, you OWN that copy.
You OWN the content you buy on DVD or Blu-Ray, etc. and the content producers actually acknowledge this in their advertising. When was the last time you saw or heard an ad for a movie on blu-ray or DVD? What do they say? Do they say "License it on Blu-Ray or DVD today?" No, the advertisements say "Own it on Blu-Ray or DVD today!"
They explicitly acknowledge that you OWN that copy (it is NOT licensed, it is SOLD). It is the distribution rights you do not get with that copy of the media that you own. You can resell that one copy you bought (and if you've made backups which are defensible under Fair Use you must either destroy the backups or transfer those backups with the original when you resell it) if you want. You just cannot violate copyright by making copies to distribute.