Even at the CEO level, an attempt to run a high-tech company in a way PepsiCo is being run is disastrous: witness Apple under MBA types. A techie with a managerial clue (Jobs), OTOH, was pretty good.
This type of coding had been going on in the Windows world for many years (10?), using glue languages like Visual Basic and off-the-shelf "components". The hackers in the past seemed to deride the folks using this technology.
The real code reuse will really take off under Linux only after a unified component architecture is established, similar to much-maligned, but very useful ActiveX on Windows. This plumbing should belong to the OS, at the very least to enforce just one architecture (Linus seems to keep good lid on the option proliferation).
Please don't point to many component architectures already available in the open source world - the very fact of multiple choices makes component pretty much useless as anyone who tried to port a non-trivial program from Gnome to KDE knows well.
--- Repeat after me: Coorelation does not equal causation. ---
Sorry, I see little reason to repeat misspelled mantras, as magic will not happen with badly cast spells. Just to make you happy, I would agree that
Correlation does not equal causation, but frequently hints at one:-)
Just try to get any decent broadband access in Europe, and compare that to Japan, where providers in the middle of bad economy spell are busily laying new wires - and you might be just tempted to agree that a hands off approach of the government is the best.
As for your concerns about Google, I do not see it doing badly under current regulations - could you please tell me again why do we need a new law to improve Google cash flow?
There is this insignificant force called "market". If someone with wires will try to squeeze too much cash out of Google, someone else will provide wires to Google for less. Until this "too much" is reached, I could care less if Google will have to fork some extra moneys over to Baby Bells. I don't own either Google or Bells stock, so why should I care?
I used to be very much pro-neutrality, but let's face it: amount of fiber deployed into the households is clearly inversely proportional to the amount of playing-field-leveling applied by the government. In countries with almost no neutrality (Korea, Japan) it is pretty common by now to have a 100 Mbps or even 1 Gbps link in the household. In countries with very strict open-wire regulations (many countries in Europe) there is currently no trace of fiber-to-home (FTH) deployments.
It seems that no one is willing to commit billions for FTH if they will be forced to open the wire to all comers. I therefore changed my mind, and think that the new wires put into the house should be exempt from any neutrality regulation.
There are many comparison shopping sites that do automatic price detection, all of them (including PG itself) developed and marketed for a fraction of the $0.5B acquisition cost. Personally, I prefer the little-known Dulance, http://dulance.com/.
A good test for Pricegrabber vs. Dulance that I have done this morning (an attempt to buy a miniPCI WLAN card):
atheros cm9
On PG, no results (but an ad from Neweb that really sells the thing - seems that whoever sells ads on PG does better matching than PG itself:-)
On Dulance - very decent list of results (it did confuse euros with dollars once, though).
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Even at the CEO level, an attempt to run a high-tech company in a way PepsiCo is being run is disastrous: witness Apple under MBA types. A techie with a managerial clue (Jobs), OTOH, was pretty good.
Polonium is not very hard to get. You can buy a device with, I think, a tenth of lethal dose for $71: http://www.osmolabstore.com/OsmoLabPage.dll?BuildP age&1&1&1005
This type of coding had been going on in the Windows world for many years (10?), using glue languages like Visual Basic and off-the-shelf "components". The hackers in the past seemed to deride the folks using this technology. The real code reuse will really take off under Linux only after a unified component architecture is established, similar to much-maligned, but very useful ActiveX on Windows. This plumbing should belong to the OS, at the very least to enforce just one architecture (Linus seems to keep good lid on the option proliferation). Please don't point to many component architectures already available in the open source world - the very fact of multiple choices makes component pretty much useless as anyone who tried to port a non-trivial program from Gnome to KDE knows well.
--- Repeat after me: Coorelation does not equal causation. ---
:-)
Sorry, I see little reason to repeat misspelled mantras, as magic will not happen with badly cast spells. Just to make you happy, I would agree that
Correlation does not equal causation, but frequently hints at one
Just try to get any decent broadband access in Europe, and compare that to Japan, where providers in the middle of bad economy spell are busily laying new wires - and you might be just tempted to agree that a hands off approach of the government is the best.
As for your concerns about Google, I do not see it doing badly under current regulations - could you please tell me again why do we need a new law to improve Google cash flow?
There is this insignificant force called "market". If someone with wires will try to squeeze too much cash out of Google, someone else will provide wires to Google for less. Until this "too much" is reached, I could care less if Google will have to fork some extra moneys over to Baby Bells. I don't own either Google or Bells stock, so why should I care?
Funny, Europe is very densely populated - and far behing in deployment. Perhaps, excess regulation still has something to do with that?
I used to be very much pro-neutrality, but let's face it: amount of fiber deployed into the households is clearly inversely proportional to the amount of playing-field-leveling applied by the government. In countries with almost no neutrality (Korea, Japan) it is pretty common by now to have a 100 Mbps or even 1 Gbps link in the household. In countries with very strict open-wire regulations (many countries in Europe) there is currently no trace of fiber-to-home (FTH) deployments. It seems that no one is willing to commit billions for FTH if they will be forced to open the wire to all comers. I therefore changed my mind, and think that the new wires put into the house should be exempt from any neutrality regulation.
There are many comparison shopping sites that do automatic price detection, all of them (including PG itself) developed and marketed for a fraction of the $0.5B acquisition cost. Personally, I prefer the little-known Dulance, http://dulance.com/.
:-)
A good test for Pricegrabber vs. Dulance that I have done this morning (an attempt to buy a miniPCI WLAN card):
atheros cm9
On PG, no results (but an ad from Neweb that really sells the thing - seems that whoever sells ads on PG does better matching than PG itself
On Dulance - very decent list of results (it did confuse euros with dollars once, though).