Ford might be sued when it is selling better cars, at least in the USA.
But Microsoft isnt sues for shipping a more secure os, but because it is still crappy AND bars the competition from the info that its own av programmers do have. So MS is steering to less comptetion, not to a better OS.
"to destroy any online music distribution service they did not own or control" - they can prove, or at least look this very probable, by the continuous series of law suits by the RIAA against file sharing services not under their control.
"force such services to do business with them on exclusive and/or other anticompetitive terms " - law suits end when they sign to cooperate with the RIAA. See Kazaa.
"so as to limit and ultimately control the distribution and pricing of digital music, all to the detriment of consumers" - the RIAA has never hidden their financial motives.
Allow me to skip religious prejudices and get to the topic...
On the positive side, open source induces programmers to write documented, welk structured code. Simply becuase every one can read and see how terrible and unintelligible your code is. Look at it as a code review susch as often advocated in quality control.
On the negative side, progrmmers may be tempted to write hard-to-understand code to impress each other, but I guess this will be rare.
In closed source projects, code reviews are often skipped because "we are alreay 10% over budget. After all, we already had extensive testing, and if it works its OK".
In any meeting, note your action points, and be careful not to throw the babies in the water. If there is meeting when the department has a 'challenge' , try blame stroming in a small group first.
Never put short time priorities before business development, running break even is not what the company was setup for. Resist corporate annorexia when the manager cannot come up with a detailed financial calculation.
and your own backup server, and your own maintenance, your own updates, and your own security measures, your own security checks, and lots of other hassle....
i have two gmail accounts which i manage on my home pcs by using 1 browser for each gammil account. (Much derided IE for account 1, FF for account 2). But i doubt you will want to use five different browsers.
This doesnt work when i work at a customer, as they only have IE.
for webmail:
currently i use hotmail (25mb, no spam yet, but i havent published the address), yahoo (reasonable good spamfailter, 1Gb), and gmail (2.7Gb, excellent spamfilter).
I also have a 30gigs-account, but i dont actively use it.
Gmail is my favorite, as it has a very nice way of grouping mails in threads, but note that some people distrust its privacy policy (www.google-watch.org/). I dislike hotmail, as it has numerous ads, much, much more than yahoo and gmail.
As they r all free, why dont you all give them a try?
At yahoo, I have no problem to enter html statements, while at gpc i have to compose the html off line and upload the page.
Of course 100Mb is far more than geocities 15Mb, but frankly, I had hoped for a webspace of 2Gb and counting.....
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Ford might be sued when it is selling better cars, at least in the USA. But Microsoft isnt sues for shipping a more secure os, but because it is still crappy AND bars the competition from the info that its own av programmers do have. So MS is steering to less comptetion, not to a better OS.
"to destroy any online music distribution service they did not own or control" - they can prove, or at least look this very probable, by the continuous series of law suits by the RIAA against file sharing services not under their control. "force such services to do business with them on exclusive and/or other anticompetitive terms " - law suits end when they sign to cooperate with the RIAA. See Kazaa. "so as to limit and ultimately control the distribution and pricing of digital music, all to the detriment of consumers" - the RIAA has never hidden their financial motives.
Dont forget to push the "Start" button to switch it off.
Allow me to skip religious prejudices and get to the topic... On the positive side, open source induces programmers to write documented, welk structured code. Simply becuase every one can read and see how terrible and unintelligible your code is. Look at it as a code review susch as often advocated in quality control. On the negative side, progrmmers may be tempted to write hard-to-understand code to impress each other, but I guess this will be rare. In closed source projects, code reviews are often skipped because "we are alreay 10% over budget. After all, we already had extensive testing, and if it works its OK".
And does George Bush know about this?
Next month, the 1 TB drive?
In any meeting, note your action points, and be careful not to throw the babies in the water. If there is meeting when the department has a 'challenge' , try blame stroming in a small group first. Never put short time priorities before business development, running break even is not what the company was setup for. Resist corporate annorexia when the manager cannot come up with a detailed financial calculation.
But there is a difference in the amount of work it requires.....
Btw, from the original posting I understand that this person currently has his own mail server, and wants to get rid of it.
and your own backup server, and your own maintenance, your own updates, and your own security measures, your own security checks, and lots of other hassle....
i have two gmail accounts which i manage on my home pcs by using 1 browser for each gammil account. (Much derided IE for account 1, FF for account 2). But i doubt you will want to use five different browsers.
This doesnt work when i work at a customer, as they only have IE.
for webmail: currently i use hotmail (25mb, no spam yet, but i havent published the address), yahoo (reasonable good spamfailter, 1Gb), and gmail (2.7Gb, excellent spamfilter). I also have a 30gigs-account, but i dont actively use it. Gmail is my favorite, as it has a very nice way of grouping mails in threads, but note that some people distrust its privacy policy (www.google-watch.org/). I dislike hotmail, as it has numerous ads, much, much more than yahoo and gmail. As they r all free, why dont you all give them a try?
At yahoo, I have no problem to enter html statements, while at gpc i have to compose the html off line and upload the page. Of course 100Mb is far more than geocities 15Mb, but frankly, I had hoped for a webspace of 2Gb and counting.....