In the long run, who knows? In the short-term, it's free (I almost renewed this week!), and you'll get 1 year of Yahoo's premium service (2 GB, etc.) when it relaunches...
So, you're a parent, and your kid has NEVER gotten accidentally separated from you? Well, I'm a parent, and I don't really give a flying whatever about the parents who will do the laptop tracking, but I will get my kids the wristband...
So, maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how they can support encryption when their whole email business model is predicated on searching through the contents of a message. How can they do that if it is encrypted?
I wonder who would benefit most from this (cough Microsoft cough cough....)
Step back for a second and think about it from Baystar's point-of-view independent of M$. Baystar is in the business of getting the best return on their investment, and the best return on their investment would be realized in winning a court case. So of course they want SCO to focus on the litigation aspect--Baystar doesn't give a flying whatever about Unix...
Before dishing out the disdain, I wonder how many/.ers would consent to going offline for a week. Yeah, yeah, I know, you need to be online for your occupation, but the point of the no-TV thing is the amount of wasted time and addiction is inherent in TV-watching. So, during that week, how about not surfing 'time-wasting' sites? And, BTW, that includes PR0N:-)
I was afraid of the lack-of-ingenuity thing too when I started getting my son sets, but it's not as bad as you think--he still likes creating his own things from the non-specialized bricks and incorporates the (as you call them) preformed pieces. In other words, the preformed sets are not stifling ingenuity--kids don't just make the Millenium Falcon and leave it...
...the price could get pushed up as high as $100 billion in an auction...
The person who surfaced the $100B figure doesn't understand OpenIPO from WHR. There's no way that the price would be set that high even if Google could allocate all their shares at that valuation. It would be set significantly lower, more in line with (but, of course, higher than) the expectations of growth and earnings, probably in the upper range of the $15B to $25B that has been thrown around.
Linux end users have not done anything analogous to buying a magazine. In the eyes of SCO, Linux end users have obtained Linux in a manner analogous to users downloading copyrighted music from Napster/Kazaa/etc.
What if M$ sold a Linuxable XBox at a higher price (one which allowed them to turn a profit)? Would people pay the premium? (yeah, yeah, it depends on the premium...)
I work for a big company that makes mostly Windows-based products, but we have two versions of a browser client: one that is ActiveX-based and one that is Java applet-based.
We have a real business case that supports the need for the applet-based client regardless of what you've heard of IE dominance in the marketplace.
So the question that begs to be asked: what percentage of those thinking of implementing Opteron-based Linux systems will now wait for the Windows systems? Or, better yet, what does M$ think the percentage is?
I'm not arguing that there professionally-developed WebDAV servers that work or don't work. I'm talking about specific services that exist that claim to be WebDAV-enabled. You might say, "then use a different service," but that is not an option for me. Same thing with trying xythos in conjunction with these services.
(Wish your email was public so that I didn't have to carry this conversation as part of the thread)
Because of the lack of WebDAV protocol standards, I have never been able to make the redirector capabilities of WinXP work correctly for several supposedly WebDAV-enabled sites. Because of this shortcoming, your SMB-replacement argument also breaks down.
What if the coffee shop had an eye-in-the-sky retinal scanner and pinged your eye for ID to serve up custom ads? Oh wait, I think I already saw that in a movie...
And, as Gov. Pataki said yesterday, the Hudson Valley is much nicer than Silicon Valley. We have trees.
I'll be sure to send the Guv an ax for Christmas so he can cut down a few of those trees to warm himself up during those sub-zero-Upstate-NY winters while we put more sunscreen on and, BTW, take shelter under our own trees here if it gets a tad too hot...
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No, because:
1. he wants to hear it through his car stereo speakers
2. his car stereo has only one channel that ISN'T NPR
3. so he has use his iTrip...
Too bad you didn't write it in an evening and sell it to Yahoo! then. :-)
In the long run, who knows? In the short-term, it's free (I almost renewed this week!), and you'll get 1 year of Yahoo's premium service (2 GB, etc.) when it relaunches...
I agree with you in general, but I don't think stupidity over what gmail does under the hood is going to kill me...
I'm as interested this movie as the next guy, but why is it a /. topic?
So, you're a parent, and your kid has NEVER gotten accidentally separated from you? Well, I'm a parent, and I don't really give a flying whatever about the parents who will do the laptop tracking, but I will get my kids the wristband...
under the guise of helping "the children."
As a parent, I'll take your Legoland-has-ulterior-motives angle and STILL get my children wristbands...
So, maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how they can support encryption when their whole email business model is predicated on searching through the contents of a message. How can they do that if it is encrypted?
I wonder who would benefit most from this (cough Microsoft cough cough....)
Step back for a second and think about it from Baystar's point-of-view independent of M$. Baystar is in the business of getting the best return on their investment, and the best return on their investment would be realized in winning a court case. So of course they want SCO to focus on the litigation aspect--Baystar doesn't give a flying whatever about Unix...
Before dishing out the disdain, I wonder how many /.ers would consent to going offline for a week. Yeah, yeah, I know, you need to be online for your occupation, but the point of the no-TV thing is the amount of wasted time and addiction is inherent in TV-watching. So, during that week, how about not surfing 'time-wasting' sites? And, BTW, that includes PR0N :-)
I was afraid of the lack-of-ingenuity thing too when I started getting my son sets, but it's not as bad as you think--he still likes creating his own things from the non-specialized bricks and incorporates the (as you call them) preformed pieces. In other words, the preformed sets are not stifling ingenuity--kids don't just make the Millenium Falcon and leave it...
...that he doesn't want anyone to consider the Java Desktop initiative (regardless of its merits or lack thereof).
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...the US has proven they are RESPONSIBLE with their use of WMD...
Anything written after this statement can be ignored. There is no rationale for dropping nukes on two Japanese cities.
...the price could get pushed up as high as $100 billion in an auction...
The person who surfaced the $100B figure doesn't understand OpenIPO from WHR. There's no way that the price would be set that high even if Google could allocate all their shares at that valuation. It would be set significantly lower, more in line with (but, of course, higher than) the expectations of growth and earnings, probably in the upper range of the $15B to $25B that has been thrown around.
Linux end users have not done anything analogous to buying a magazine. In the eyes of SCO, Linux end users have obtained Linux in a manner analogous to users downloading copyrighted music from Napster/Kazaa/etc.
So the question is:
What if M$ sold a Linuxable XBox at a higher price (one which allowed them to turn a profit)? Would people pay the premium? (yeah, yeah, it depends on the premium...)
I work for a big company that makes mostly Windows-based products, but we have two versions of a browser client: one that is ActiveX-based and one that is Java applet-based.
We have a real business case that supports the need for the applet-based client regardless of what you've heard of IE dominance in the marketplace.
So the question that begs to be asked: what percentage of those thinking of implementing Opteron-based Linux systems will now wait for the Windows systems? Or, better yet, what does M$ think the percentage is?
I'm not arguing that there professionally-developed WebDAV servers that work or don't work. I'm talking about specific services that exist that claim to be WebDAV-enabled. You might say, "then use a different service," but that is not an option for me. Same thing with trying xythos in conjunction with these services.
(Wish your email was public so that I didn't have to carry this conversation as part of the thread)
Because of the lack of WebDAV protocol standards, I have never been able to make the redirector capabilities of WinXP work correctly for several supposedly WebDAV-enabled sites. Because of this shortcoming, your SMB-replacement argument also breaks down.
...Label GATES CD???
What if the coffee shop had an eye-in-the-sky retinal scanner and pinged your eye for ID to serve up custom ads? Oh wait, I think I already saw that in a movie...
And, as Gov. Pataki said yesterday, the Hudson Valley is much nicer than Silicon Valley. We have trees.
I'll be sure to send the Guv an ax for Christmas so he can cut down a few of those trees to warm himself up during those sub-zero-Upstate-NY winters while we put more sunscreen on and, BTW, take shelter under our own trees here if it gets a tad too hot...
...it's Harry Potter. All eyes will be on this release as opposed to your typical Mirimax offering.
...here and here