These kids nowadays never played those games, they were before their time. Thus, the weak thumbs. Maybe all those hours of 'Tendo actually did some good for me!
Why would China wait 5 years to kill this guy? They put bullets in the heads of the students who stood in front of the tanks in 1989. It was common knowledge. If this guy is going to die, it will happen soon and publicly.
This is exactly what I thought after reading this article.
The guy blabbers on about what a big mistake MS is making for 95% of the article, and then at the end he quickly mentions about how Sony and Nintendo will be doing the same exact damn thing when their consoles come out. Aren't they making a big mistake too?
IBM learned long ago that ongoing support generates a constant revenue stream.
Yes, but IBM makes its support money by installing crappy software and then charging $325/hr for support (see this story http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/27/95759/4240 ). Is this a catch-22 for open source software: if their software is good (bug-free) then the support money won't materialize; but if the software is bad every one will run back to Windows.
It's like depending on a long string of obsolete fixed defense fortresses and then hoping that you don't get invaded through your small, weak, neutral neighbor. Even if this is exactly the thing that happened 20 years earlier.
While it is true that there is a lot of bogus info on the net, this only highlights yet another advantage of online media: copious sources. Most people don't sit down with hundreds of newspapers (or encyclopedias or other reference materials) in front of them to cross reference the validity of the newspaper stories they read. But this is essentially what you are doing when you are reading news online. If I come across something fishy, verifying it is a few clicks away.
Wow! This was an outstanding post. I can see now how larger companies would want to host an Office "server" and run everything inside the firewall. This is a good solution for larger companies. Of course, you need an IT guy to admin the server. Small companies may not have the cash for that. Also, there will probably be some inertia to converting from MS Office to anything else. You need to retrain the users and such. This is probably why MS is able to charge so much, because nobody wants to retrain their entire workforce and go through the transition. I now think MS would indeed lose some of its fat margins if a viable alternative showed up.
While I agree some things the author said, this statement seems to be nonsensical:
But these same features are their downfall: readers of online media don't all see the same news, since they can customize what they want to see, and since many newspaper web sites display stories according to what readers have seen before; stories may change from hour to hour, even from minute to minute, so different readers will see different versions of stories.
I still can't figure out why everyone thinks that web-based Office type products are going to take down MS Office. I can't see any reason why people would switch to web based solutions which would now introduce bandwidth/latency/connection speed issues and security issues. Also, Microsoft could just whip up their own web based version of their own office suite and crush anything Google came up with. Of course, if MS did want to build their own "web enabled" Office suite, they would have to make it compatible with the other browsers so as to not aleiniate what is becoming a significant portion of browser users.
It seems this AC has made a convincing argument for using XP as opposed to FreeBSD. Since I don't really know anything about FreeBSD, could some expert please offer a rebuttal of this AC's arguments? I know it seems like feeding the trolls, but I never see any real answer to any of these issues.
The reason why most Linux apps have strange names is simple. The people coding these apps have more personnally invested in the project than those working at MS. I know I wouldn't spend months of my time coding up an app, and then christen it with a bland name like "Windows Media Player". Plus, there are no marketing stooges around to force them to change the name to something an end luser could easily understand.
This will mean exactly nothing to MS. If everyone in the world suddenly stopped using IE, MS would not lose one red nickel. The browser wars are completely pointless.
Pissing off the EU is a very easy thing to do. The EU puts harsh and irrational restraints on all businesses. This is why there is > 10% unemployment in France, Germany, etc. When they stop strangling business with their laws things will get better for them.
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We could grab 5 random slashdot nerds, give them a keg of beer and 48 hours, and they could make a better voting machine than what's out there now.
These kids nowadays never played those games, they were before their time. Thus, the weak thumbs. Maybe all those hours of 'Tendo actually did some good for me!
WA!-T-F is with the name?
Why would China wait 5 years to kill this guy? They put bullets in the heads of the students who stood in front of the tanks in 1989. It was common knowledge. If this guy is going to die, it will happen soon and publicly.
This sounds like Greenland's problem, not ours. We need to start litigation to force Greenland to stop this harmful dumping of ice into the ocean.
It just goes to show that 99% of lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.
Maybe these laptops will decrease the spread of AIDS (no one spreads AIDS while downloading pr0n).
Wasn't spaghetti invented in Asia?
This is exactly what I thought after reading this article.
The guy blabbers on about what a big mistake MS is making for 95% of the article, and then at the end he quickly mentions about how Sony and Nintendo will be doing the same exact damn thing when their consoles come out. Aren't they making a big mistake too?
The EU sues everyone. I'll be impressed when someone in China gets their ass sued for spamming.
Yes, but IBM makes its support money by installing crappy software and then charging $325/hr for support (see this story http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/9/27/95759/4240 ). Is this a catch-22 for open source software: if their software is good (bug-free) then the support money won't materialize; but if the software is bad every one will run back to Windows.
Actually it's too coherent to be in anime. There are no dwarfs or unicorns.
It's like depending on a long string of obsolete fixed defense fortresses and then hoping that you don't get invaded through your small, weak, neutral neighbor. Even if this is exactly the thing that happened 20 years earlier.
While it is true that there is a lot of bogus info on the net, this only highlights yet another advantage of online media: copious sources. Most people don't sit down with hundreds of newspapers (or encyclopedias or other reference materials) in front of them to cross reference the validity of the newspaper stories they read. But this is essentially what you are doing when you are reading news online. If I come across something fishy, verifying it is a few clicks away.
Wow! This was an outstanding post. I can see now how larger companies would want to host an Office "server" and run everything inside the firewall. This is a good solution for larger companies. Of course, you need an IT guy to admin the server. Small companies may not have the cash for that. Also, there will probably be some inertia to converting from MS Office to anything else. You need to retrain the users and such. This is probably why MS is able to charge so much, because nobody wants to retrain their entire workforce and go through the transition. I now think MS would indeed lose some of its fat margins if a viable alternative showed up.
But these same features are their downfall: readers of online media don't all see the same news, since they can customize what they want to see, and since many newspaper web sites display stories according to what readers have seen before; stories may change from hour to hour, even from minute to minute, so different readers will see different versions of stories.
This huge advantage of online media prevents debacles like "Dewey defeats Truman" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey from lasting more than a few minutes.
I still can't figure out why everyone thinks that web-based Office type products are going to take down MS Office. I can't see any reason why people would switch to web based solutions which would now introduce bandwidth/latency/connection speed issues and security issues. Also, Microsoft could just whip up their own web based version of their own office suite and crush anything Google came up with. Of course, if MS did want to build their own "web enabled" Office suite, they would have to make it compatible with the other browsers so as to not aleiniate what is becoming a significant portion of browser users.
It seems this AC has made a convincing argument for using XP as opposed to FreeBSD. Since I don't really know anything about FreeBSD, could some expert please offer a rebuttal of this AC's arguments? I know it seems like feeding the trolls, but I never see any real answer to any of these issues.
The reason why most Linux apps have strange names is simple. The people coding these apps have more personnally invested in the project than those working at MS. I know I wouldn't spend months of my time coding up an app, and then christen it with a bland name like "Windows Media Player". Plus, there are no marketing stooges around to force them to change the name to something an end luser could easily understand.
This will mean exactly nothing to MS. If everyone in the world suddenly stopped using IE, MS would not lose one red nickel. The browser wars are completely pointless.
Pissing off the EU is a very easy thing to do. The EU puts harsh and irrational restraints on all businesses. This is why there is > 10% unemployment in France, Germany, etc. When they stop strangling business with their laws things will get better for them.