When I arrived at the airport of Shenzhen (southern China) over a year ago, there was a TV display showing 3D images which could be seen without any visual aid... I dumbly took a picture but the effect would obviouly not show in it... still it surprises me that it has not become de standard yet... why do we need this sort of coloured or polarised lenses when it can be totally achieved without ? I'm sure that the Chinese company hasn't patented the system (cue to IP jokes, 3..2..1) so it should be fairly easy to do... even with prior art
Microsoft is now competing with its own products:
- IE 7 has just passed the 50% mark of the total IE share (remind yourself that it's a mandatory update so users must *explicitly* prevent its installation) and they're ready to roll IE 8
- Vista has barely passed the 10% mark (don't believe their hype, many have plainly got Vista OEM/SA but installed and used XP on their computer) and Windows 7 is already on the xmas shopping list
- what else, a German pope ? a black USofA president ? electric vehicles for the masses ? gee, the earth must be late for its magnetic reversal... oh wait
the countires adopting Linux in the first place are rthose where people cannot afford the price of retail Microsoft software - due to much lower wages in terms of PPP - and find a good opportunity in other software that is (mostly) free-to-download and incidentally, open to have a look at...
Microsoft is "fighting" this back with giveaway deals with these countries (the list is too long to be included here, and the ones that you mention are simply those which didn't come to an agreement (yet?)
whether you want to label anything non-american as anti-capitalistic, it's your freedom, and let me remind you how corporations deal with (unimportant) customers: "please hold, your call is important to us"
having a community out there ready to help (I agree that "you must ask the right question" to it) is nothing less than helping the old lady with her VCR (ehm, DVR these days...) so surely Open Source mustn't be compared to a dangerous gang of mutants (TECH: unless you think that "forking" a project is a mutation...)
the only built-in groupware feature that I've seen people using in Exchange (without shelling out xBox credits for half a dozen other additional applications like SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk, InfoPath, etc) is the one allowing to click on predefined Yes, No, Maybe buttons to reply to a message...
I'd ask if all these 250 mil TVs are still connected to analog systems ?!
surely most people have satellite/cable/digital alredy... how many "upgrades" are really still needed ? THAT would give a correct idea of how many converter kits are still needed to complete the "digital move"
True: "last time I heard" was in the mid-90s when I last was there and the (national) Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act of 1974 was still in force, but it appears to have been now abandoned in favour of state-set speed limits...
I still have to figure out how the people of the USA (sorry if I don't feel using the word American for those who don't inhabit the whole two continents) can kill so many people by driving so slowly...
last time that I heard, highway/motorway limit was 55 mph (88 kph) and residential areas 15 mph (24 kph)... that's nothing compared to continental Europe speed limits, and I don't think that drivers there kill many more
for once, be honest and admit that YOU have bad drivers, not Linux:-)
the road code in Italy mandates that with a yellow light you clear the crossing as fast as you can or you safely come to a halt before the stopping line.
I've never really understood what the first part is supposed to mean, but I guess that'll solve the mystery of people "flooring" it when the light flips to yellow...
It doesn't solve crimes... it simply helps find criminals.
To "solve" crimes, you have to put in place measures to prevent crime, like avoiding normal people from losing tons of money that have gone in banker's bonuses or unfair pricing for products using lock-ins and monopolistic practices
because someone's patented the judicial system, and only those rich enough to afford it can actually access it...
not to count that defending criminals is not my style (although I do believe in justice - in principle), so I'll leave that to those who keep benefiting from it...
are you saying that Microsoft is actually facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted music to other people via a peer-to-peer (P2P) system on the Zune ?
it makes me laugh each time I see an advert on TV here in UK about being trained as an IT "professional" to easily get a salary up to £30K (just before another advert which says exactly the same thing for driving instructors...)
I wonder why this type of advert is never aimed at lawyers or accountants... I mean, how difficult can it be ? (to me a lawyer is just like someone in marketing, but that's another story...)
while I perfectly agree with your post (1 our of 10 seems about right, and not just for people from India...), I have to comment the HTTP 5xx errors, one of which I recently got while investigating a customer's issue and it said in the error description "something that the client browser is sending caused this wrong reply by the server" - mind you, it was IE on IIS, so it might just have been a chair thrown at the server in the data centre...
we should do like the sicilians (people from Sicily) and never forget all the bad things that Microsoft has done
or
we should do like the Cylons and come back at them with a twist
or
we should do like Obama and simply ignore them and go to the next big thing: Open Source
just a quickie here, the Mafia nowadays is mostly situated in the USA (easier to do business there and larger "customer base")
in Italy the criminals do not operate undercover/ground anymore...
I think people keep forgetting costs when it comes to Microsoft.
Think about this, a Service Pack is made available for free, to "cover" for the bugs that they left in the product, even after years of Beta testing...
Calling it a "new" Operating System instead gives them the chance to sell it to the OEMs - who I believe don't have access to the Software Insurance programme that they sell to the large Enterprises - and the few mad people out there who still want to buy it from the shelves...
This about it, 150 million Vista paying installations vs 150 million free XP SP4 downloads...
not sure if you noticed, but if I try to write Barack in a text message, it comes out as Capabl, must mean something, right ?
on a less jolly note (and to stay on-topic), I guess that using Flash technology would have allowed many mobile users also to watch this on-the-go, as I don't believe that a "portable" SilverLight client exists so far, am I right ?
well, I guess that is what happens when the spec(ification)s for a technology are publicly available... you don't need the "lock-in" tool to use the technology, you can simply build your own...
I did post this link in another reply but it went aWoL... hope it helps clarify the story...
the other comments that I gave in that reply was that initially Microsoft asked for an exaggerated amount of money for the agreement fee (even though it's not mentioned in the link, I recall the news from a year ago) and that Microsoft is still holding back parts of the protocols with the "excuse" that they were enhancements done after the court decision, so that in reality the Samba team have to steer clear from these while trying to implement the protocols defined in the agreement that they paid for...
what's still not clear though is whether the end users will have to pay for the right to use the protocols as implemented in Samba, or they are covered also in the agreement after the further discussions, or if the pledge applies to the end users as well ?
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in my opinion, it would better be put this way:
what's more important, everyone's working conditions, or your access to cheap electronics ?
try that with an iPhone, they track you even when "off" :-)
When I arrived at the airport of Shenzhen (southern China) over a year ago, there was a TV display showing 3D images which could be seen without any visual aid...
I dumbly took a picture but the effect would obviouly not show in it... still it surprises me that it has not become de standard yet... why do we need this sort of coloured or polarised lenses when it can be totally achieved without ?
I'm sure that the Chinese company hasn't patented the system (cue to IP jokes, 3..2..1) so it should be fairly easy to do... even with prior art
It's happening !
Microsoft is now competing with its own products:
- IE 7 has just passed the 50% mark of the total IE share (remind yourself that it's a mandatory update so users must *explicitly* prevent its installation) and they're ready to roll IE 8
- Vista has barely passed the 10% mark (don't believe their hype, many have plainly got Vista OEM/SA but installed and used XP on their computer) and Windows 7 is already on the xmas shopping list
- what else, a German pope ? a black USofA president ? electric vehicles for the masses ? gee, the earth must be late for its magnetic reversal... oh wait
the countires adopting Linux in the first place are rthose where people cannot afford the price of retail Microsoft software - due to much lower wages in terms of PPP - and find a good opportunity in other software that is (mostly) free-to-download and incidentally, open to have a look at...
Microsoft is "fighting" this back with giveaway deals with these countries (the list is too long to be included here, and the ones that you mention are simply those which didn't come to an agreement (yet?)
whether you want to label anything non-american as anti-capitalistic, it's your freedom, and let me remind you how corporations deal with (unimportant) customers: "please hold, your call is important to us"
having a community out there ready to help (I agree that "you must ask the right question" to it) is nothing less than helping the old lady with her VCR (ehm, DVR these days...) so surely Open Source mustn't be compared to a dangerous gang of mutants (TECH: unless you think that "forking" a project is a mutation...)
Let me be the first to laugh at this one...
the only built-in groupware feature that I've seen people using in Exchange (without shelling out xBox credits for half a dozen other additional applications like SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk, InfoPath, etc) is the one allowing to click on predefined Yes, No, Maybe buttons to reply to a message...
I'd ask if all these 250 mil TVs are still connected to analog systems ?!
surely most people have satellite/cable/digital alredy... how many "upgrades" are really still needed ? THAT would give a correct idea of how many converter kits are still needed to complete the "digital move"
True: "last time I heard" was in the mid-90s when I last was there and the (national) Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act of 1974 was still in force, but it appears to have been now abandoned in favour of state-set speed limits...
I still have to figure out how the people of the USA (sorry if I don't feel using the word American for those who don't inhabit the whole two continents) can kill so many people by driving so slowly... :-)
last time that I heard, highway/motorway limit was 55 mph (88 kph) and residential areas 15 mph (24 kph)... that's nothing compared to continental Europe speed limits, and I don't think that drivers there kill many more
for once, be honest and admit that YOU have bad drivers, not Linux
the road code in Italy mandates that with a yellow light you clear the crossing as fast as you can or you safely come to a halt before the stopping line.
I've never really understood what the first part is supposed to mean, but I guess that'll solve the mystery of people "flooring" it when the light flips to yellow...
how would they know who it belongs to ?
or wait until a leaked bunch of these ends-up on BitTorrent...
or wait until a stolen bunch of these ends-up on the black market
or wait until a government really does the wish of the electoral body... oh wait !
It doesn't solve crimes... it simply helps find criminals.
To "solve" crimes, you have to put in place measures to prevent crime, like avoiding normal people from losing tons of money that have gone in banker's bonuses or unfair pricing for products using lock-ins and monopolistic practices
just my own 2c
what if the phone is defective... ? do I get arrested but can sue the manufacturer afterwards ?
because someone's patented the judicial system, and only those rich enough to afford it can actually access it...
not to count that defending criminals is not my style (although I do believe in justice - in principle), so I'll leave that to those who keep benefiting from it...
are you saying that Microsoft is actually facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted music to other people via a peer-to-peer (P2P) system on the Zune ?
it makes me laugh each time I see an advert on TV here in UK about being trained as an IT "professional" to easily get a salary up to £30K (just before another advert which says exactly the same thing for driving instructors...)
I wonder why this type of advert is never aimed at lawyers or accountants... I mean, how difficult can it be ? (to me a lawyer is just like someone in marketing, but that's another story...)
while I perfectly agree with your post (1 our of 10 seems about right, and not just for people from India...), I have to comment the HTTP 5xx errors, one of which I recently got while investigating a customer's issue and it said in the error description "something that the client browser is sending caused this wrong reply by the server" - mind you, it was IE on IIS, so it might just have been a chair thrown at the server in the data centre...
you mean, like the NHS "IT" system ? (why that reminds me King's horror book I'm not sure...)
we should do like the sicilians (people from Sicily) and never forget all the bad things that Microsoft has done
:0(
or
we should do like the Cylons and come back at them with a twist
or
we should do like Obama and simply ignore them and go to the next big thing: Open Source
That, my friend, is the question
just a quickie here, the Mafia nowadays is mostly situated in the USA (easier to do business there and larger "customer base")
in Italy the criminals do not operate undercover/ground anymore...
I think people keep forgetting costs when it comes to Microsoft.
Think about this, a Service Pack is made available for free, to "cover" for the bugs that they left in the product, even after years of Beta testing...
Calling it a "new" Operating System instead gives them the chance to sell it to the OEMs - who I believe don't have access to the Software Insurance programme that they sell to the large Enterprises - and the few mad people out there who still want to buy it from the shelves...
This about it, 150 million Vista paying installations vs 150 million free XP SP4 downloads...
not sure if you noticed, but if I try to write Barack in a text message, it comes out as Capabl, must mean something, right ?
on a less jolly note (and to stay on-topic), I guess that using Flash technology would have allowed many mobile users also to watch this on-the-go, as I don't believe that a "portable" SilverLight client exists so far, am I right ?
well, I guess that is what happens when the spec(ification)s for a technology are publicly available... you don't need the "lock-in" tool to use the technology, you can simply build your own...
<joke> time to start the nano-factories...
I did post this link in another reply but it went aWoL... hope it helps clarify the story...
the other comments that I gave in that reply was that initially Microsoft asked for an exaggerated amount of money for the agreement fee (even though it's not mentioned in the link, I recall the news from a year ago) and that Microsoft is still holding back parts of the protocols with the "excuse" that they were enhancements done after the court decision, so that in reality the Samba team have to steer clear from these while trying to implement the protocols defined in the agreement that they paid for...
what's still not clear though is whether the end users will have to pay for the right to use the protocols as implemented in Samba, or they are covered also in the agreement after the further discussions, or if the pledge applies to the end users as well ?