MS Office makes up a large amount of MS's income with the recent resignation of Offices key executive and just a day after google goes public about contributing actual paid employees into open office it does make you wonder...
This whole www.live.com thing looks nice but two things i dont get is a) the slashdot feed is there (linux users haven) and i saw the netscape logo there too b) its all beta beta beta, MS has a reputation of releasing stuff with a little more substance.
Google was going to do this then didnt and the whole thing seemed like a rumor... all perpertuated by slashdot anyway..
Do you think MS has fallen for Googles bluff..
Anyway i cant wait for Googles contribution to OO to take off, then being advertised by Google is going to snap MS back a few notches and i dare say thats what MS is worried about.
I cant see a problem with it personally esspecially if lives are saved, probably the beurocracy surrounding it does though, if this didnt exsist i doubt billy boy would of bothered to do it...
Is it really the most forgotten charity or just the most business viable charity? why waste money on a charity devoted to an uphill battle when you can devote money to a working one with definate results..
Maybe there is an angle maybe there isnt as geeks we must speculate...
The latest Gates Foundation money will target three main areas. The largest chunk -- $107.6 million -- will be devoted to the most advanced experimental malaria vaccine and will cover the completion of testing in Africa and the licensing process, should the vaccine prove viable.
Although spending money in causes such as these is a noble thing to say the least..
The above quote makes me wonder how this "donation" can be considered a part of Research and development. This whole artical seems like it is adgenda motivated (like anything from the news) and it goes on about figures of "how much is spent on research" when most of the money is used for vaccine? It does raise the question what the real modivations are behind all of this?
Testing and Licencing, sounds like a pretty done deal to me.
service, he said. Its Linux core begins not with software from a company such as Red Hat, or Novell's Suse Linux, but rather from the version that project leader Linus Torvalds posts periodically to the kernel.org Web site.
See i dont get that, how 80meg is big compared to MS Office which sits on 4 CD's ofcourse its got things like frontpage, etc so you only really need the 1st or 2nd CD but still 1 CD blows 80 meg out of the water... *SHRUG*
Lets look at it this way they want to make windows more server os orientated but....
The things they are implementing: - Symlinks - Shell scripting Language - AV, Spywear apps
They things they should be implementing - Proper memory protection - VFS technology - Proper multiuser environment (including proper file permission systems) - Integrated internet protocalls as an os subsystem, not just a set of dodgy dlls. with an even more dodgyer firewall sitting on top of it slowing everything down...
MS innovation requires just two things, a nice big smoky fire and a huge ass mirror...
My god, insted of ripping off a decent and challenging "unix like" innovation they are ripping off very simplisitic and straight forward ones... I wonder if ms will decide to actually implement VFS subsystems.. now that would raise an eyebrow! not bloody symbolic links... all i got to say is a big.. PFFFFT!
BTW how come this earned a spot in the slashdot? GIVE ME SOMETHING REALLLLL!!!!!!!!
I can see your point here but you have to also look at it this way, demand and resources.. Realistcally warez and porn sites are huuuge resource hogs and if you look at the trends of data that comes out of netwatch you can see when apache spike for a month IIS weakens and vice versa. Plus percentile wise the domain to server differential is only about.2%
This is really good news for the OS community, it shows a community product being chosen over a commerical application in the industry.
But keep in mind just because the server is not IIS and is Apache doesnt mean they arent running Windows Apache, I find lots of Windows admins leaning to Apache even when they have IIS readily available.
I run a web hosting business and here is the breakdown for webstats last month, and yes its linux hosting btw:
Windows 16400 70 % Linux 5497 23.4 %
MS Internet Explorer No 14012 59.8 % Firefox No 7579 32.3 %
Though windows is the dominator in this respect but it goes to show the website content does really depend on who visits the site and therefore produces the stats.
Lets face it BBC is a news network business people and general interest users are reading these articals; ofcourse nerds and geeks are but on the scale of things we really only make up that 9%:)
Poory billy baby doesnt want to pay SONY royalties so he bad mouths Blu-Ray...
On a more realistic note, its always the case that different media formats come down to two things, Need and cost. Lets face it a removable harddrive is going to cost significantly more then a plastic disk to mass produce. The thing that works against blue-ray which i dare say will be only a matter of time is the need, at present it may not be needed to utilise the entire 50gig at present but the day will come when something greater then DVD will be required.
Weather it be removal hdd, i see its just a little unrealistic, heck so many factors work agaisnt using hdds as standard removable meida, one of those is the fact they are easily breakable, by dropping and magantisim, Okay yes we can sctrach disks but they still a hell of a lot more durable then a hdd.
Im agreeing with what your saying, the only problem is... "The CEO of Sony has already said the removable hard drive for the PS3 will be preloaded with Linux."
Personally i dont want some crappy Sony Distro on my PS3.. id pefer slackware or debian.
Does anyone know what applications they are looking at putting under these new licencing models?
Also the other thing that doesnt make sense, isnt microsoft "worried" about secruity and looking at enhancing their systems by making them stronger secruity wise? Will this not mess up that idea?
I wonder how many hackers out there going to rub their hands in glee being able to pry their ways around MS code (if you can actully bring yourself through the pain to do so)...
Or maybe i've lost the plot here.. with ms i just dont know anymore:-/
Ballmer said Microsoft needs to continue to invest in research and development to deal with open-source software, Google, IBM and other competitors
He sure likes to challenge the impossible, when will he learn OSS is not a business you cant make it go bankrrupt, when he faces the fact it will always exisit the better and _deal_ with it a bit more positivily and fairly you might actually find OSS developers actually using ms applications instead of trying to debunk it.
Yeah i can buy that to a point, the problem would be building a system that conforms to standard (properly) ansii, posix, system v. Windows doesnt conform to standard, they conform to half of it then create their own to stop portability of applications to other os'.
Slashdot Mirror
Before today i never saw live, and before 5 mins ago i never saw google personal homepage ..
.. And the way the screen divides itself ..
:) ...
I find the google one much easier to arrange stuff with..
Plus their drag and drop seems a lot nicer
Im trying not to be against ms here with my comments but nah do not agreet wid ya
Type in "server" and you get http://httpd.apache.org/
:)
Type in "os" and you get http://www.apple.com/macosx
Type in "operating system" and you get http://www.debian.org/
Oh you could have lots of fun here!
I think its real but it is in desperation..
MS Office makes up a large amount of MS's income with the recent resignation of Offices key executive and just a day after google goes public about contributing actual paid employees into open office it does make you wonder...
This whole www.live.com thing looks nice but two things i dont get is a) the slashdot feed is there (linux users haven) and i saw the netscape logo there too b) its all beta beta beta, MS has a reputation of releasing stuff with a little more substance.
Google was going to do this then didnt and the whole thing seemed like a rumor... all perpertuated by slashdot anyway..
Do you think MS has fallen for Googles bluff..
Anyway i cant wait for Googles contribution to OO to take off, then being advertised by Google is going to snap MS back a few notches and i dare say thats what MS is worried about.
True, indeed ..
...
I cant see a problem with it personally esspecially if lives are saved, probably the beurocracy surrounding it does though, if this didnt exsist i doubt billy boy would of bothered to do it
The only thing i think of here is ..
..
...
Is it really the most forgotten charity or just the most business viable charity? why waste money on a charity devoted to an uphill battle when you can devote money to a working one with definate results
Maybe there is an angle maybe there isnt as geeks we must speculate
The latest Gates Foundation money will target three main areas. The largest chunk -- $107.6 million -- will be devoted to the most advanced experimental malaria vaccine and will cover the completion of testing in Africa and the licensing process, should the vaccine prove viable.
Although spending money in causes such as these is a noble thing to say the least..
The above quote makes me wonder how this "donation" can be considered a part of Research and development. This whole artical seems like it is adgenda motivated (like anything from the news) and it goes on about figures of "how much is spent on research" when most of the money is used for vaccine? It does raise the question what the real modivations are behind all of this?
Testing and Licencing, sounds like a pretty done deal to me.
service, he said. Its Linux core begins not with software from a company such as Red Hat, or Novell's Suse Linux, but rather from the version that project leader Linus Torvalds posts periodically to the kernel.org Web site.
See i dont get that, how 80meg is big compared to MS Office which sits on 4 CD's ofcourse its got things like frontpage, etc so you only really need the 1st or 2nd CD but still 1 CD blows 80 meg out of the water ... *SHRUG*
Lets look at it this way they want to make windows more server os orientated but ....
The things they are implementing:
- Symlinks
- Shell scripting Language
- AV, Spywear apps
They things they should be implementing
- Proper memory protection
- VFS technology
- Proper multiuser environment (including proper file permission systems)
- Integrated internet protocalls as an os subsystem, not just a set of dodgy dlls. with an even more dodgyer firewall sitting on top of it slowing everything down...
MS innovation requires just two things, a nice big smoky fire and a huge ass mirror...
My god, insted of ripping off a decent and challenging "unix like" innovation they are ripping off very simplisitic and straight forward ones. .. I wonder if ms will decide to actually implement VFS subsystems .. now that would raise an eyebrow! not bloody symbolic links ... all i got to say is a big .. PFFFFT!
BTW how come this earned a spot in the slashdot? GIVE ME SOMETHING REALLLLL!!!!!!!!
True but opendocument was born from openoffice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
"proposed document storage standards after blind and other visually impaired state workers raised concerns."
Set font size+18 ????? font weight bold????
the difference being if they used ms office ?????
It is possible it is 6 very well paid and well looked after individuals just decieding to "retire" or "start their own business" ...
Maybe they know something the public doesnt.
I can see your point here but you have to also look at it this way, demand and resources.. Realistcally warez and porn sites are huuuge resource hogs and if you look at the trends of data that comes out of netwatch you can see when apache spike for a month IIS weakens and vice versa. Plus percentile wise the domain to server differential is only about .2%
This is really good news for the OS community, it shows a community product being chosen over a commerical application in the industry.
But keep in mind just because the server is not IIS and is Apache doesnt mean they arent running Windows Apache, I find lots of Windows admins leaning to Apache even when they have IIS readily available.
I run a web hosting business and here is the breakdown for webstats last month, and yes its linux hosting btw:
:)
Windows 16400 70 %
Linux 5497 23.4 %
MS Internet Explorer No 14012 59.8 %
Firefox No 7579 32.3 %
Though windows is the dominator in this respect but it goes to show the website content does really depend on who visits the site and therefore produces the stats.
Lets face it BBC is a news network business people and general interest users are reading these articals; ofcourse nerds and geeks are but on the scale of things we really only make up that 9%
Slowww down cowboy ...
Dont get mistaken by fools gold! J/KS..
When its matters relating to my preference of operating system, always a golden spoon :)
Poory billy baby doesnt want to pay SONY royalties so he bad mouths Blu-Ray...
On a more realistic note, its always the case that different media formats come down to two things, Need and cost. Lets face it a removable harddrive is going to cost significantly more then a plastic disk to mass produce. The thing that works against blue-ray which i dare say will be only a matter of time is the need, at present it may not be needed to utilise the entire 50gig at present but the day will come when something greater then DVD will be required.
Weather it be removal hdd, i see its just a little unrealistic, heck so many factors work agaisnt using hdds as standard removable meida, one of those is the fact they are easily breakable, by dropping and magantisim, Okay yes we can sctrach disks but they still a hell of a lot more durable then a hdd.
Im agreeing with what your saying, the only problem is ... "The CEO of Sony has already said the removable hard drive for the PS3 will be preloaded with Linux."
.. id pefer slackware or debian.
Personally i dont want some crappy Sony Distro on my PS3
Does anyone know what applications they are looking at putting under these new licencing models?
.. with ms i just dont know anymore :-/
Also the other thing that doesnt make sense, isnt microsoft "worried" about secruity and looking at enhancing their systems by making them stronger secruity wise? Will this not mess up that idea?
I wonder how many hackers out there going to rub their hands in glee being able to pry their ways around MS code (if you can actully bring yourself through the pain to do so)...
Or maybe i've lost the plot here
NASA said no sex with fellow crew members, so i guess they'll be flying about in the hope that some UFO comes find them to give a good old probing!
Ballmer said Microsoft needs to continue to invest in research and development to deal with open-source software, Google, IBM and other competitors
He sure likes to challenge the impossible, when will he learn OSS is not a business you cant make it go bankrrupt, when he faces the fact it will always exisit the better and _deal_ with it a bit more positivily and fairly you might actually find OSS developers actually using ms applications instead of trying to debunk it.
Yeah i can buy that to a point, the problem would be building a system that conforms to standard (properly) ansii, posix, system v. Windows doesnt conform to standard, they conform to half of it then create their own to stop portability of applications to other os'.