They are building 100s of millions of them. Here you go https://www.voanews.com/a/on-w...
Now do they have your permission to go ahead and work on other priorities
Honestly this attitude makes no sense. when somebody gets fired mostly it is due to their own incompetence or because the company is not doing well. in either case there is nothing the employee can do about it right away. It is better to accept it, work hard if you are found wanting, and try to find another job...
But if the passengers were allowed to keep their phones switched on, I am sure some of those phone would have been able to pick up signal somewhere along the way.. I know it flew on vast stretches of ocean, but at least there was some chance it was possible when they were flying low somewhere near the land.... What were your thoughts
I call bullshit. We have have around 400,000 Outlook installation. We have seen hardly any issues. Whole MS office support staff is around 6 engineers.. Come on....
Okay. Lets do some simple math. Microsoft has spent 10000(Staff)*36($/Hour)*2000(hours/year)*5 (years) = 3.6 Billion Dollars. Lets bump it up to 5 billion dollars. Now the client division pulled in around 3.3 billion dollar profit in the last year 4th quarter http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY08/earn_rel_q4_08.mspx. Lets assume 50% of it is due to Vista licensing. This means they need around 3 quarters to make up all the money they spent on Vista.
Now the home for you. Write down. Go and calculate how long vista has been in the market and how long ago they broke even on Vista.
Also remember among those 10K staff, i doubt there will be more than 5 K engineers and managers who are directly working on Vista. Many of them would be shared resources and adminstrative staff.
Don't have to learn Hindi... I am an Indian and employed in Bangalore. You don't have to know Hindi to work in India. Many in my company don't understand Hindi. But all of them speak English. So don't bother learning Hindi.
The first and the foremost goal of OLPC is to educate kids in the third world nations. Whatever other goals anybody has should not come in the way of this primary goal. OLPC is an educational tool. We in the FOSS world are using this tool to promote our ideals. There is nothing wrong with it. But we should not cloud the primary goal of the project just to promote our world view. If the primary goal of the project is best served by using Windows XP, OSX or any other OS, then that OS should be used irrespective of OS's open source/free software status.
And about the argument that kids will not be able to view source and learn, why do we assume that the kids wants to learn computer internals or software development? Majority of those kids will not end up in software domain. They will end up being doctors, architects, other engineering fields, manual laborers, Govt servants, etc. Even among those who end up in software development field, a fraction might be interested in OS internals and development and have the required aptitude. Why are we holding the remaining 99% (yes the statistics taken out of my ass, but show me any other statistics which says there are more than 1% of general population is interested in learning OS development) for ransom? Source code for all the stack running above Windows is still available and can be viewed.
Windows does bring the advantage of being used most in the real world. This might prepare the reamining 99% kids to grow up and be employable in the real world. We in the FOSS world should not let our ideals and principles cloud our view of real world.
Flame away
May you should do a reality check. Microsoft has been doing this for a very long time. They have been giving away software for educational institutions for as long as i can remember. i have not studied in USA. But one of relative who was studying in late 80s and early 90 had access to full microsoft suite. Linux was nothing then..
I don't know what makes you and most others think security through obscurity does not work. Every single successful security has some part which is obscured from everybody else. For some it is algorithms, for others some key information. Obscuring your ATM key from all others has generally worked. Obscuring private key for every body else has also worked fine.
I don't know what to say. We have a 7480 users, 140 servers, around 12000 workstations/laptops. We are complete windows shop and have 32 IT personnel, including 3 help desk employees. I feel either you are lying or your IT budget is completely over the top. If you ask me its time to trim your IT herd. Bring it down to 25 or so.
If you already own the MS Office 2003 you can also download compatibility package from MS. This will allow you to open all the files generated in the new format in older office setups
is that this is the first time i am seeing a demo developed in silverlight. Yeah, i know, there are lots of demos on MS site. But this is the first time i am seeing somebody using SilverLight for some real demo on their own site. is this the sign of things to come? Time will surely tell
You are missing the point there. Obviously skills are very important and forms the basis of your selection. But your attitude also plays a big role in getting you selected. I am from India and we do lots of recruitment. I, being from technical back ground now having grown to a managerial position, can appreciate the importance of both these qualities. if we get two (or more) candidates with comparable skill set and skill level, i will always prefer one with better attitude. Always.
Tell me honestly you are not trolling. The system i am typing this post from was last rebotted in August.
C:\Documents and Settings\Gubol>systeminfo | find "Up Time"
System Up Time: 55 Days, 18 Hours, 45 Minutes, 12 Seconds
This is Windows XP SP2. If your Win XP system has stability problems check your hardware or installed drivers
Oh Great. Here i was worrying. Please let me know how can i run it on my Pentium 1V 1.7Ghz, system with 512 MB RAM, 120 GB harddisk, Sis graphics card with 64 MB RAM. lets take it one by one and we can discuss small issue about running any important application later. Lets get this great OS to boot first on my hardware....
Obviously there is an extra cost incurred in development of a multiprocessor software. No use running a software on a multiprocessor system if it cannot make use of the available extra processort. Its more complicated when the software happens to be an operating system. Don't tell me when Linux/Windows/BSDs offered SMP support they did not do anything. Obviously they added lots of development effort into it. Now the question is how to spread this cost. I can spread it to each copy of software sold. This would bring down the increase in price as it is spread to each and every software copy sold but would be unfair because not everybody has a multiprocessor system. So i create a separate version/option and charge more only to those customer who needs it. Now how is that evil.
if it is all about "creating obscure products that nobody needs", then nobody would buy/use it. So no work for script kiddies. Script kiddies get to work only when the software gets popular and people start buying/using it. Then it is no more obscure product that nobody needs... do you get the irony of your post...
RHEL, MySQL, or any one of the major OSS commercial product can potentially make a "financial windfall". The problem is they are not currently as popular as MS Windows. If any OSS commercial company review model has to succeed, the product needs to have some short comings. Only these short short comings can induce support calls and any sponsored future requests..
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They are building 100s of millions of them. Here you go https://www.voanews.com/a/on-w... Now do they have your permission to go ahead and work on other priorities
If you read the source you can see that a lot of them are three wheelers (e-rikshaws)
Honestly this attitude makes no sense. when somebody gets fired mostly it is due to their own incompetence or because the company is not doing well. in either case there is nothing the employee can do about it right away. It is better to accept it, work hard if you are found wanting, and try to find another job...
But if the passengers were allowed to keep their phones switched on, I am sure some of those phone would have been able to pick up signal somewhere along the way.. I know it flew on vast stretches of ocean, but at least there was some chance it was possible when they were flying low somewhere near the land.... What were your thoughts
I don't know where you are getting your data. But IE 8 + 9 has around 45% market share http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/03/01/internet-explorer-continues-growth-past-55-market-share-thanks-to-ie9-and-ie10-as-chrome-hits-17-month-low/
I call bullshit. We have have around 400,000 Outlook installation. We have seen hardly any issues. Whole MS office support staff is around 6 engineers.. Come on....
Okay. Lets do some simple math. Microsoft has spent 10000(Staff)*36($/Hour)*2000(hours/year)*5 (years) = 3.6 Billion Dollars. Lets bump it up to 5 billion dollars. Now the client division pulled in around 3.3 billion dollar profit in the last year 4th quarter http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY08/earn_rel_q4_08.mspx. Lets assume 50% of it is due to Vista licensing. This means they need around 3 quarters to make up all the money they spent on Vista.
Now the home for you. Write down. Go and calculate how long vista has been in the market and how long ago they broke even on Vista.
Also remember among those 10K staff, i doubt there will be more than 5 K engineers and managers who are directly working on Vista. Many of them would be shared resources and adminstrative staff.
Don't have to learn Hindi... I am an Indian and employed in Bangalore. You don't have to know Hindi to work in India. Many in my company don't understand Hindi. But all of them speak English. So don't bother learning Hindi.
The first and the foremost goal of OLPC is to educate kids in the third world nations. Whatever other goals anybody has should not come in the way of this primary goal. OLPC is an educational tool. We in the FOSS world are using this tool to promote our ideals. There is nothing wrong with it. But we should not cloud the primary goal of the project just to promote our world view. If the primary goal of the project is best served by using Windows XP, OSX or any other OS, then that OS should be used irrespective of OS's open source/free software status. And about the argument that kids will not be able to view source and learn, why do we assume that the kids wants to learn computer internals or software development? Majority of those kids will not end up in software domain. They will end up being doctors, architects, other engineering fields, manual laborers, Govt servants, etc. Even among those who end up in software development field, a fraction might be interested in OS internals and development and have the required aptitude. Why are we holding the remaining 99% (yes the statistics taken out of my ass, but show me any other statistics which says there are more than 1% of general population is interested in learning OS development) for ransom? Source code for all the stack running above Windows is still available and can be viewed. Windows does bring the advantage of being used most in the real world. This might prepare the reamining 99% kids to grow up and be employable in the real world. We in the FOSS world should not let our ideals and principles cloud our view of real world. Flame away
May you should do a reality check. Microsoft has been doing this for a very long time. They have been giving away software for educational institutions for as long as i can remember. i have not studied in USA. But one of relative who was studying in late 80s and early 90 had access to full microsoft suite. Linux was nothing then..
I don't know what makes you and most others think security through obscurity does not work. Every single successful security has some part which is obscured from everybody else. For some it is algorithms, for others some key information. Obscuring your ATM key from all others has generally worked. Obscuring private key for every body else has also worked fine.
I don't know what to say. We have a 7480 users, 140 servers, around 12000 workstations/laptops. We are complete windows shop and have 32 IT personnel, including 3 help desk employees. I feel either you are lying or your IT budget is completely over the top. If you ask me its time to trim your IT herd. Bring it down to 25 or so.
If you already own the MS Office 2003 you can also download compatibility package from MS. This will allow you to open all the files generated in the new format in older office setups
is that this is the first time i am seeing a demo developed in silverlight. Yeah, i know, there are lots of demos on MS site. But this is the first time i am seeing somebody using SilverLight for some real demo on their own site. is this the sign of things to come? Time will surely tell
You are missing the point there. Obviously skills are very important and forms the basis of your selection. But your attitude also plays a big role in getting you selected. I am from India and we do lots of recruitment. I, being from technical back ground now having grown to a managerial position, can appreciate the importance of both these qualities. if we get two (or more) candidates with comparable skill set and skill level, i will always prefer one with better attitude. Always.
Either way its a bitch :-)
So who has produced a mainstream operating system that is totally secure? Apple? RedHat? IBM? HP? Sun? ...
Tell me honestly you are not trolling. The system i am typing this post from was last rebotted in August. C:\Documents and Settings\Gubol>systeminfo | find "Up Time" System Up Time: 55 Days, 18 Hours, 45 Minutes, 12 Seconds This is Windows XP SP2. If your Win XP system has stability problems check your hardware or installed drivers
Oh come on.. he is far from being a racist. he is just being funny.. for your info i am Indian
Oh Great. Here i was worrying. Please let me know how can i run it on my Pentium 1V 1.7Ghz, system with 512 MB RAM, 120 GB harddisk, Sis graphics card with 64 MB RAM. lets take it one by one and we can discuss small issue about running any important application later. Lets get this great OS to boot first on my hardware....
Obviously there is an extra cost incurred in development of a multiprocessor software. No use running a software on a multiprocessor system if it cannot make use of the available extra processort. Its more complicated when the software happens to be an operating system. Don't tell me when Linux/Windows/BSDs offered SMP support they did not do anything. Obviously they added lots of development effort into it. Now the question is how to spread this cost. I can spread it to each copy of software sold. This would bring down the increase in price as it is spread to each and every software copy sold but would be unfair because not everybody has a multiprocessor system. So i create a separate version/option and charge more only to those customer who needs it. Now how is that evil.
yes but you require Media Center Extender. See your parent post
And you think they will listen to you ?... they will laugh at you and carry on using whatever came with their systems... wake and smell the coffee
if it is all about "creating obscure products that nobody needs", then nobody would buy/use it. So no work for script kiddies. Script kiddies get to work only when the software gets popular and people start buying/using it. Then it is no more obscure product that nobody needs... do you get the irony of your post...
RHEL, MySQL, or any one of the major OSS commercial product can potentially make a "financial windfall". The problem is they are not currently as popular as MS Windows. If any OSS commercial company review model has to succeed, the product needs to have some short comings. Only these short short comings can induce support calls and any sponsored future requests..