Does it bother anyone besides me that google has only one source of revenue?
I'm not a shareholder, so why would I care how they run their business? I agree that its a massively flawed business plan, though, a holdover from the dot.com bubble (Hey, lets write a bunch of software, throw it up on a wepage, don't charge our users any money, then sell advertising. It can't possibly fail!) but yet it still seems to be working for them, Yahoo, and others. At least MS has cash cows like Office, Windows, etc. that they sell for real money. If/when MS ever gets their search/ad business together, they could do some serious damage to Google.
Relative to most people here, I guess I'm lucky/spoiled.
The company where I work (a large, telecom equipment company) has embraced Linux. Virtually all new designer desktops are Linux machines - Redhat 8, RHEL 3/4, etc.. In addition, most new-ish products coming down the pipe use a home-rolled version of embedded Linux on the target hardware.
We still require Windows, though, for e-mail, documentation, test-set GUI software, etc. For that, everyone has VmWare installed on their boxes.
The science agrees with you. e.g. Lottery winners, one year after, are no happier than they were before. What makes people happy long term are experiences, not pay increases, and with a bit of lateral thinking and creativity experiences don't have to cost much.
Yeah, but with lots of money, you can achieve many of those enriching life experiences:
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars? Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man. Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time? Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money. Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks. Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do. Peter Gibbons: Good point.
What's so great about it that people insist on using it rather than any other editor?
Not sure, but here's a guess: Consider someone just starting out on Unix. Needs a text editor. Popular choices are vi or emacs. vi is, well, the devil incarnate to a newbie. emacs allows you to open a file and "just type". After a while, said newbie learns keyboard shorcuts, and then he's hooked.
At least, that's the way it worked for me. I use vi quite a bit as well (the embedded platforms I work on don't have emacs, so vi skills are a must for editing config files and such), but emacs is my editor of choice when I have some serious work to do (i.e. coding).
The people who use emacs for everything are loonies, if you ask me.
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I'm not a shareholder, so why would I care how they run their business? I agree that its a massively flawed business plan, though, a holdover from the dot.com bubble (Hey, lets write a bunch of software, throw it up on a wepage, don't charge our users any money, then sell advertising. It can't possibly fail!) but yet it still seems to be working for them, Yahoo, and others. At least MS has cash cows like Office, Windows, etc. that they sell for real money. If/when MS ever gets their search/ad business together, they could do some serious damage to Google.
Relative to most people here, I guess I'm lucky/spoiled.
The company where I work (a large, telecom equipment company) has embraced Linux. Virtually all new designer desktops are Linux machines - Redhat 8, RHEL 3/4, etc.. In addition, most new-ish products coming down the pipe use a home-rolled version of embedded Linux on the target hardware.
We still require Windows, though, for e-mail, documentation, test-set GUI software, etc. For that, everyone has VmWare installed on their boxes.
The science agrees with you. e.g. Lottery winners, one year after, are no happier than they were before. What makes people happy long term are experiences, not pay increases, and with a bit of lateral thinking and creativity experiences don't have to cost much.
Yeah, but with lots of money, you can achieve many of those enriching life experiences:
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
What's so great about it that people insist on using it rather than any other editor?
Not sure, but here's a guess: Consider someone just starting out on Unix. Needs a text editor. Popular choices are vi or emacs. vi is, well, the devil incarnate to a newbie. emacs allows you to open a file and "just type". After a while, said newbie learns keyboard shorcuts, and then he's hooked.
At least, that's the way it worked for me. I use vi quite a bit as well (the embedded platforms I work on don't have emacs, so vi skills are a must for editing config files and such), but emacs is my editor of choice when I have some serious work to do (i.e. coding).
The people who use emacs for everything are loonies, if you ask me.