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I don't want people to think that I'm a fan of Bill Simmons, but I do think his "13 levels of losing" can be applied to the Soriano situation.
SPECIFICALLY, "Level II: The Stomach Punch," defined as "Any roller-coaster game that ends with A) an opponent making a pivotal (sometimes improbable) play, or B) one of your guys failing in the clutch ... usually ends with fans filing out after the game in stunned disbelief, if they can even move at all ... always haunting, sometimes scarring .."
I feel like this is especially the case because of the LaRoche/Hudson rumors, the senseless scouting debacle that Jeff noted, etc.
What got me started on this was noticing how my desire to shut out senseless, stupid sporting pain was eerily similar to the wake of the Gonzaga-UCLA game on March 23rd, arguably the most painful loss of my sporting life. There's just no way to adequately deal with the needless stupidity and random chance involved...


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Unlike the hotspots from AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon, T-Mobile's works with 802.11b/g only; it can't use the newer and potentially faster 802.11n protocol for Wi-Fi. The router can service up to five clients, but it lacks the GPS location abilities that the other three hotspots have.
On the other hand, the T-Mobile hotspot can do something the others can't: It has a connector to plug in an external antenna to boost a weak signal. The antenna is available from third-party sellers for $50.
Like the AT&T and Sprint hotspots, the MF61 has a handy MicroSDHC card slot that lets connected users share data. It works with cards that hold up to 32GB of data. The hotspot supports Windows and Mac OS X computers.
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Able to keep a client online 120 feet away, T-Mobile's MF61 has the longest Wi-Fi range of any hotspot I've seen, besting the Verizon hotspot's range by 25 feet.
In my data throughput tests using T-Mobile's HSPA+ 21 network, the MF61 hotspot had mixed results. Over the course of two weeks of heavy use at several locations on the East Coast, the MF61 averaged a respectable download speed of 3.26Mbps, peaking at 7.61Mbps.
I can't definitively say how that stacks up to the other hotspots and networks I tested because I didn't test T-Mobile's system at the same times that I did the others. Unscientifically, however, the T-Mobile hotspot came in well behind Verizon's 11.3Mbps average download speed and slightly ahead of Sprint's 2.33Mbps and AT&T's 1.65Mbps.
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We've actually had two nights of frost, so the flowers aren't as brilliant gold as they were earlier in the week, but you get the idea from the picture: mustard takes over the vineyards in the early spring. The vines have been pulled out of this field and piled up for burning once the rain stops for a few days (the picture is taken about 100 yd south of August Briggs Winery, right by the Calistoga city limit sign). We don't use a lot of flowers at solbar–that is, we don't fly in edible nasturtiums from Ohio or anything–but we use what we can pick; you can see a few on the carrot salad dish. Barney Welsh at Forni-Brown Gardens has great chive and garlic blossoms but they are STRONG and you only need a couple. We use our own lavender blossoms, usually for cocktails.
And yes, it's been pointed out already that "an iphone doesn't mean you're a photographer all of a sudden."
Another rainy day in Calistoga, but allegedly the sun'll come out tomorrow and stay out for the week. We have rows and rows of the finest fava virtuosos pictured here, looking at the hoop house where gardener Greg Goodman will start the seedling for our tomatoes, and then in the other direction out across the vineyards toward the Mayacamas Mountains. We'll use the fava beans and leaves in the restaurant, of course, but they are also planted to help fix nitrogen in the soil so we don't deplete all the nutrients with one crop of tomatoes. Other plantings will include padron peppers, kale, spinach, kabocha squash, baby collard greens, and a top-secret plant that I haven't seen, nor has any other farmer I've asked, since I was in the Hudson Valley ten years ago. Greg spent the last year gardening in Italy, and was in Maine for two years before that at a restaurant/garden operation whose name sounded v. difficult to spell when he told it to me. Juelle Fisher of Fisher Vineyards has been very generous with her time and space in this project, and we'll be holding al fresco dinners (hoedowns?) at the barn on the property.
Not too often do carrots appear front and center, but two weeks ago I told Ryder that I wanted a solbar version of the old cafeteria carrot-raisin-and-mayonnaise salad. As we say, If we're going to make it stupid, let's make it STUPID. (Besh said it first.) What Ryder came back with is this killer plate of frenhc round, baby yellow, baby white, and pickled baby red carrots, all cooked differently–some in red wine vinegar and sugar, or with verus and xvoo, or with honey and pistachio, all accompanied by raitha foam (through the isi gun), red sumac, mustard flowers, raisin puree. Not as easy a sell as dungeness crab salad or pork cheek tacos but hey. The plate-up is long and so is the payoff. Nice to see carrots at the center of the plate, ain't California grand?
Reading HF whittingstall late last night with a glass of Rutz 06 maison grand cru RRVPN . . . is there a more inspirational cookbook or a smarter one? My current top two are that one–The River Cottage Cookbook–and East of Paris by David Bouley, which has been #1 by itself for a long time but now has a serious contender. It's four-star soul food and I love it even though Danube doesn't exist anymore. Read that one and you can trace food from the country to the city to the modern kitchen. HFW keeps it in the country but cooks everything from bushberries to cuttlefish to his own cows. Doesn't a life of early mornings, six hours of hard physical work, a long, leisurely lunch, a nap, and an afternoon spent reading and writing sound just about right? I'm not the first one to say so but MAN that's gotta be the life. Does anyone get to do it? Unlikely. Anyway, it's something to aspire to . . .
Can we get them out here? The ones from belle river, a bayou in the north shore of lake ponchartrain used to be the biggest and sweetest when I worked at Rest. August; we're looking for a replacement for dungeness crab now that it's getting a little warm out. Might have to call them crayfish on a California menu, we'll see. Good with our homemade andouille in a carolina gold rice salad? With fresh chickpeas? With cold beer? With lady creamer peas? Probably too early for the latter. Soon we'll have the first favas from out own garden.
First cones of stockton asparagus are here–working on toasted/ground nori as part of tempura dredge? with soy caramel and pickled shiitakes? If I'm going to steal ideas from other chefs I probably shouldn't stop at just one per plate . . . there are solbar dishes hook line and sinker on other menus in Calistoga and Yountville . . . like omar says, "the game is the game." You will not see asparagus and morels together on a solbar menu this spring; is there a more utterly exhausted combination? Those dishes need to be shelved for fifteen years, like the entire library of the Steve Miller Band, completely overplayed and ready for revival by my children someday . . .
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"According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device Tracker, vendors shipped 367.7 million desktop PCs, portable PCs, tablets, and smartphones – a collective view IDC refers to as "Smart Connected Devices" – in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12), up 28.3% from the prior year. As desktop PCs and portable PCs declined (-4.1% and -3.4%, respectively), the overall smart connected device space continued to surge to just over 1.2 billion shipments cumulatively in 2012. Tablet shipments experienced the largest year-over-year growth in 2012, up 78.4% over 2011, while smartphones grew 46.1% but accounted for 60.1% of all smart connected devices shipped throughout the year."see Mobility Reigns as the Smart Connected Device Market Rises 29.1% in 2012 Driven By Tablet and Smartphone Growth, According to IDC – prUS23958513.
Well M$ and many others claimed smart thingies were a "flash in the pan" but it's not looking that way to me. Huge growth sustained over years is not a fad but a movement to smaller cheaper computers. Apple lost dominance in smartphones last year and look to lose dominance in tablets this year. Meanwhile, M$ rides a sinking ship.
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–Robert might well be correct in accusing Microsoft of "bloat" — for some value of bloat — but only a bloviating fool would accuse them of lacking development staff.–
Ok how much does it cost for those 12 development staff. Lots
Linux kernel itself has a over 1000 known developers. Most who are full time. Those 1000 known developers come from 200 companies. So about 10 each.
This is the simple reality DrLoser a team of 12 is small. Mature and well developing FOSS projects have many times more developers.
One of the many Open Source search projects use to build internal business equals to bing and google. 37 Committees, 24 on the management committee.
So that one FOSS search engine project itself is double your size at min. DrLoser Microsoft is bleeding money just making Bing.
DrLoser yes I know you are with a team of 12 you think you have some size because for a commercial internal project team of 12 is large. Problem is from a FOSS project point of view if you development team core is under 20 your project is most likely not mature project and not used by enough parties.
Yes Bing in developers is the size of FOSS projects that fold and disappear. This is common for a lot of MS departments.
About time you come into the reality Microsoft from a development staff point of view compared to most of the FOSS equals is heavily lacking.
Does not matter how many PHD's the staff have if you don't have the staff to write the code fast enough.
Yes you really do need to include your market-specific developers to have enough size. Even with them your size is still questionable.
Lacking staff? Interesting.
Here's a pertinent (anecdotal) observation. I work for the "Related Search" bit of Bing. In the grand scheme of things, it's a tiny, trivial little bit of a single division of That Other Company; indeed, a division that actually loses large amounts of money.
(You can see the related search bit on the right rail of http://www.bing.com. Don't worry, you can go right back to googling afterwards. This is for illustrative purposes only.)
Ingoring the management and HR and office staff and other backup, and in fact (impolitely) ignoring the market-specific developers in places like Beijing, we have an engineering group supporting the platformm of six people. We have a data-mining group (mostly people with PhDs in machine learning) of another six people.
That's twelve people in single-minded support of one tiny little function that doesn't even have 100% coverage and achieves a click-through rate of the order of 1%.
Robert might well be correct in accusing Microsoft of "bloat" — for some value of bloat — but only a bloviating fool would accuse them of lacking development staff.
DrLoser the big thing you forget Redhat is not facing Microsoft alone. Cern and other makers of Scientific Linux work directly with redhat on development even that they don't pay Redhat a cent in licensing.
So Redhat is 1/20 of MS size. Combined group who are are sharing development does excess Microsoft.
There is a direct disadvantage to Closed source.
If you Novell income of SUSE and Ubuntu income they do mirror Redhats. 6 to 1 would be a more correct figure vs External Paid Linux. That of course skips over the large boys like Cern who have enough to do there own internal development.
Size compare Dr Loser is one of your biggest problems. Comparing size of the Linux world development force that is paid full time to that of Microsoft. Microsoft is lacking staff.
Well, Robert, and irrespective of what either of us feel about the Red Hat OS (I notice that you are reluctant to recommend it, even though your preferred XFCE desktop suits it perfectly):
Let's start with a billion, shall we? I could question the books, but I'm not going to. (Because I really don't care either way.)
Let's project.
Let's give Red Hat 20% uninterrupted growth (unlikely, but this is a Gedankenexperimente) for twenty years.
At the end of that, they'd be worth $38.34 billion, as far as I can see.
Nice, isn't it?
Not quite so nice as the $18.7billion that Microsoft's server division alone made this year. Project that outwards, and it will eat Red Hat for lunch.
I'd go back and do the re-re-re-boot dance, if I were you. It's no more convincing, and in fact it's terribly old-fashioned and ignorant, but at least it cannot be refuted by simple mathematical fact.
RedHat does not put a floor under M$ or Oracle. They compete toe to toe with them.
Interesting observation, Robert. I'm not sure that RedHat "competes" with Oracle. In fact, given the fact that RedHat sells into the corporate sector, I would be immensely surprised to find that they make much less than 50% of their revenue by supporting Linux systems that don't run Oracle.
But, this "toe-to-toe" thing (and I wish all of you would stop with the battlefield and boxing ring metaphors):
M$'s "server" revenue last year: $18.7billion
RedHat's revenue last year: $965 million but they also had $167 million in "training" revenue.
Bully for that $167 million!
Now, I really don't care, but don't you think that a ratio of 20:1 (approx) is less a toe-to-toe and more a David and Goliath sort of thing?
And before you ask: no, I don't think that RedHat has a sling-shot. I don't think they have a chance in hell of overtaking the MS server business, or even coming close. I do think they have a decent business, and I do think they will continue to grow at about 5% a year.
Just like any other successful large-scale business in the field of IT.
Like, say, Microsoft.
Purely on a point of interest:
BTW, I took the "Bing Challenge" that Microsoft has been pushing on-line lately. Google won 3-2 on my searches although it was hard to pick on anyone test. They came up with the same links usually, just different orders.
Since I work for Bing (and obviously I encourage everybody here to check out http://www.bing.com, simply because nobody here likes a monopoly and in fact Bing is quite good apart from the bits I've contributed), I have of course taken the same challenge.
In fact I took it, I think, three times.
The results were 3/2, 2/3, 3/2 in favour of Google. The difference wasn't great, but Google had the edge. (And I will be honest here and point out that in the de-DE market it is probably 20% ahead).
Both are free, and Bing is in fact losing That Other Operating System scads of money by the quarter. So, what are you waiting for, Mr Pogson? Push Bing as hard as you can! It doesn't cost you a penny, and it loses Microsoft hundreds of millions!
What's not to like?
PS I do Related Search (it's on the right rail and inline). I like to think that our related search is more helpful than Google's related search.
But I'm willing to be proved wrong.
bw if you like Google entering the OS market track to Microsoft CEO being stupid. There was really no gain for Google to enter the OS market without a threat to them.
–You are obsessing on Microsoft! Microsoft has made a fantastic business out of selling the personal computer OS product and layered applications such as Microsoft Office. They have used the client success to build on a similar success story in servers.–
Lot of anti-trust issues along the way. Sorry you are only remembering half the history.
Of course you have to say I am obsessing over Microsoft. Sorry history is history get use to it. Only event on record that could possible explain goggle entering OS market is MS threat.
–Why they did that is still a mystery to me, and your explanations are absurd on their face.–
Researching history you have to at time make informed presumes why particular events happened. The most likely is the one you have evidence for is general rule of history research. So you cannot find any other recorded event other than the one I found that could possibly explain googles action right bw. So it has to be presumed until proven other wise and you look for items attempting to disprove it. Basic science theory work.
–There is a place under the sun for just about anyone who can find a new trend and stay with it. You can't do that very effectively with a totally free thing like Linux, though. All you can do is create a sort of floor under the commercial products that keeps the proprietary products on their toes.–
You are still a idiot. Commercial supported products is part of the FOSS world. Commercial Products and FOSS do mesh.
FOSS is about providing the frameworks. Where it goes from there is because of the Freedom it provides. This is why the free in foss refers to Free as in Speech not free as in beer. There is a important difference Free as in Speech if you want something printed or produced you still have to pay.
Yes Commercial side of FOSS has historic example in commercial print shops providing flyers to people doing free speech. How much harder is it to do a free speech push without means to print in volume.
This is why your arguments here go on deaf ears because you are foolishly trying to put up arguments that FOSS and Commercial don't mix when they do.
–but the real success is Android and Google's efforts to popularize it.–
Why this is wrong is explained in a simple quote.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton
Exactly where would have Google found the billions required to develop a OS kernel. The reality Android would not be able to exist without a free base to start from. Other OS's will appear in future from the same Free Base.
Yes Google has done a good job advertising Android but its existence tracks to Linux. In fact Linux ability to work wellish on arm chips tracks to being used inside routers even before it appears in phones.
History of Linux evolution is very interesting. Without the prior history the Linux kernel would not have been ready for Google usage in Android. Android stands on top of a lot of historic Linux events that got it to the point Google could customise it for there usage.
Sorry bw you are like Der Balrog with a very limit understanding.
Do you think Linux world is going to stop with Android as the only Linux phone OS?? The answer is no its not going to stop as the only one. Has there been Other Linux OS's in the phone market at the same time as android? Yes there have been.
The free speech effect of FOSS basically. Commercial parties are expected to take FOSS and take advantage of it. As long as they respect and give back the FOSS world is happy about it.
You are obsessing on Microsoft! Microsoft has made a fantastic business out of selling the personal computer OS product and layered applications such as Microsoft Office. They have used the client success to build on a similar success story in servers. Nothing in the history of computing really comes near that sort of achievement. They had the right stuff at the right time in history. You need to get over that.
The world has progressed onward to mobile devices and other companies, notably Apple, are the dominant suppliers who set the standard of comparison.
Google is very successful in their own right and has the dominant lead in internet search based advertising. Facebook and Twitter dominate their niches in social media. Phone suppliers like ATT and Verizon are the leaders in communications network services.
There is a place under the sun for just about anyone who can find a new trend and stay with it. You can't do that very effectively with a totally free thing like Linux, though. All you can do is create a sort of floor under the commercial products that keeps the proprietary products on their toes.
You can claim victories for Linux because Google used some parts of it for Android, but the real success is Android and Google's efforts to popularize it. Why they did that is still a mystery to me, and your explanations are absurd on their face.
bw there is a little problem.
Steve Ballmer is still Microsoft CEO right bw.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/microsoft-ceo-im-going-to-fing-kill-google/2005/09/03/1125302772214.html Some very important reading.
Recorded actions. CEO of Microsoft directly threaten google May 2005 .
Google acquired Android Inc. on August 17, 2005. 3 months latter bw.
bw Android predate Chrome OS and Chrome by a long way.
Chrome September 2, 2008 initial release. First development sometime in 2007. So at least 2 years after Android starts. July 7, 2009 first announcement of Chrome OS.
Time-lines Google had to start OS development somewhere for the non server market. For the non server market its Android that leads to Chrome OS existence.
Google never believed Chrome would take off due to the Web browser market being so saturated(or so they believed). Chrome was an example of what could be done to make a Web browser secure.
So chrome OS existence is more a twist of fate. Android is a response to a threat.
Also by Goggle tradition run multi products into a single market and see what one lives.
Google is not going to leave Microsoft in its location with market dominance while there is a direct threat to kill it.
bw anti-trust regulators are very slow to respond ask Novell over Office suite they have. By the time anti-trust regulators respond Google could be dead.
Exactly why should not Google believe that Microsoft will attempt any stunt. So is getting prepared for war.
Start of android has been the collapse of MS Phone OS's in business.
DrLoser PS Chrome is not Android browser from start. Both can provide information back to Google. Remember Google rarely plays just one card to get a market. The idea of there own browser feeding information back to Google starts before Google makes Chrome. It starts inside Android a few years before Chrome.
"the more information that Google can mine."
That might be a reason to push Chrome, if it were true, but not Android. Very nearly 100% of the Chrome users in the world use it on Windows or Mac, I bet. Google doesn't need to make an OS to push search usage. Google dominates the search business just like Windows dominates the PC OS business.
BTW, I took the "Bing Challenge" that Microsoft has been pushing on-line lately. Google won 3-2 on my searches although it was hard to pick on anyone test. They came up with the same links usually, just different orders.
If Apple or Microsoft tried to use their OS to squash search they would be severely chastised by both the customers and anti-trust regulators. Google is much more likely to get into anti-trust trouble there.
Robert Pogson said: "Huge growth sustained over years is not a fad but a movement to smaller cheaper computers."
You got that right! They also want them to use less power, further reducing operating costs.
I note that today, Intel released its newest NUC boxen. The processor is relatively feeble, but with 8 GB of DDR3, a fair sized SSD, and a price UNDER A$200 each, ex-tax, wholesale, we can expect to be seeing these low power consumption Linux boxen in many corporate offices.
"That has to be the dumbest idea that I have heard from you to-date."
Just because a idea should dumb does not have base in recorded actions.
Actually, dumb though oiaohm consistently is, he may have got it right for once.
The more Chromes out there, and the less IE10s, the more information that Google can mine.
Sad little world we live in, isn't it?
" Google entered the OS market to protect there existing search market"
That has to be the dumbest idea that I have heard from you to-date.
Der Balrog
–Unfortunately your outrage is unjustified. You claim that there's an ethical problem, that using BSD code for proprietary purposes is wrong. Well, it's not, because the license explicitly allows it. That is, in fact, the right way to do IT, giving developers the ultimate freedom.–
Wine project history.
There is a risk that a BSD project will collapse because no one support it. Proprietary purposes is not wrong. There become a issue where everyone doing for Proprietary Purposes forgets advantage of sharing code and gets into a huge dog fight trying to beat each other for market share. Result is there programs get buggy. Yes BSD network stack that was used by most OS's. Bugs fixed up stream were not making it down stream due to the company to company fighting.
Der Balrog LGPL might not be ideal but its about the best license to avoid dog fighting. ASL 2.0 is about second best. ASL 2.0 prevents patents being used to block features implemented in something ASL. So a company modify something ASL cannot prevent someone else re-implementing the feature they did not release that they inserted into something ASL.
Both ASL and LGPL contain clauses to prevent company vs company dog fights getting too bad.
Der Balrog history does suggest BSD is not that great and items like MIT are not that great either.
Yes the neglect and bit rot of X11 server also traces to MIT license and commercials doing forks and forgetting to care about the core they depend on.
Really you like bring up completely pointless arguments Der Balrog.
–The GPL tries to impose morals, it forces developers to give back. That's a lot like the compulsory gift-giving in Japan. You've habitualized it, and that's why you do it, but there's no real emotional value behind it anymore.–
What if its not Morals. Everyone to live with everyone else in peace requires some rules. Shared code between companies need rules or things can go badly wrong.
Der Balrog besides I can pull out many cases of BSD people screaming about BSD code being used in a LGPL or GPL project so not able to take the alterations back. Really BSD people hate people not giving back as much as GPL people do but they try to come from the moral high ground. They try to believe a fork will have to come back due to the amount of effort to maintain fork. When a fork is strong enough its never going to come back BSD people show there true colours.
Proprietary and BSD does not mix forever. Results of this is is normally the same BSD project project becomes weak compared to a Proprietary using its source base or the BSD project at some point ceases to be a BSD project.
Der Balrog of course I don't say people cannot release under BSD. But anyone doing so has to accept Proprietary can destroy them. Yes implement features put patents over them so blocking you from having those features so making project second rate.
Releasing under ASL 2.0 is about the lowest license I would recommend. There is a requirement to protect projects means to develop as well as allow Proprietary to use it in particular ways.
Der Balrog licensing is a very complex problem.
bw Google entered the OS market to protect there existing search market as much as able. You think if Microsoft or Apple managed to be 100 percent successful they could effectively lock Google out of being default search so cutting off Advertising stream.
Android is a scorched earth defence item. Google supporting Android makes perfect sense when you see it for what it is.
Dr Loser
–If you insist on applying an irrelevant term from evolutionary biology, then I would suggest that Microsoft wins on the "survival of the fittest" principle.–
Evolutionary biology is not static. Its part of understanding why you cannot get Linux people to give up. Did our ancestors give up when the earth was ruled by dinosaurs. Dinosaurs was the Microsoft of there day. Yes the descendants of dinosaurs are still here just a lot smaller. Birds and other reptiles. Evolutionary biology very key point is the world is not set in stone it changes. Survival of the fittest does not have a fixed finish line other than dieing out completely.
Der Balrog
Google define of non kernel software is very broad.
The Linux mix inside your normal Android is not much different to the LAMP stack systems in servers.
There is an old saying. Actions speak louder than words. Actions of Android says it fairly close to normal GNU/Linux distribution with a fancy ASL licensed front end.
Big variation is in the libc library. Bionic also this is not without historic precedent. The biggest issue Linux world had with Bionic is that it was required reinventing wheel not that it BSD. Interesting right its BSD not ASL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klibc Yes Klibc could be used its GPL with BSD license core is kinda confusing. Google took lets go the least confusing path guess what Bionic is. Reworked Klibc.
Der Balrog yes a BSD core Linux exists before Android exists. See Android gets really hard to say what it is. Even what is exposed in the development API's is not pure ASL. Like Webkit that is LGPLv2.
Very early Androids like Android 1.0 were very GPL free. This was required to get hardware developers to ship Linux. But the newer like 4.2 Android is getting more LGPL and GPL parts as it ages. So its mutating from an ASL/BSD/Linux to be more GNU/Linux.
Der Balrog
Look what happened to BSD. Apple and M$ use it against the world establishing monopolies globally. That worked our really well. Didn't it? If you're going to share the source code, share it.
Unfortunately your outrage is unjustified. You claim that there's an ethical problem, that using BSD code for proprietary purposes is wrong. Well, it's not, because the license explicitly allows it. That is, in fact, the right way to do IT, giving developers the ultimate freedom.
The GPL tries to impose morals, it forces developers to give back. That's a lot like the compulsory gift-giving in Japan. You've habitualized it, and that's why you do it, but there's no real emotional value behind it anymore.
I'm just wondering why you don't accuse Linux users. I'd bet that of 10 Linux users only one gives back something meaningful to the community.
Also, Torvalds stated it plainly enough: Linux developers are to a lesser or a greater part egotists. Sharing the source code has an important social function for them: creating the possibility of acknowledgment and appraisal. It's unwise to think that source code is shared purely out of altruism.
Der Balrog
It's a peculiar thing that Google would use GPL Linux kernel but prefer everything else ASL… They spent time, money and manpower avoiding GNU. If you are going to distribute the source code for $0 what's their motive? I don't know.
What, Google's explanation ain't enough for you, Pogson?
We are sometimes asked why Apache Software License 2.0 is the preferred license for Android. For userspace (that is, non-kernel) software, we do in fact prefer ASL2.0 (and similar licenses like BSD, MIT, etc.) over other licenses such as LGPL.
Android is about freedom and choice. The purpose of Android is promote openness in the mobile world, but we don't believe it's possible to predict or dictate all the uses to which people will want to put our software. So, while we encourage everyone to make devices that are open and modifiable, we don't believe it is our place to force them to do so. Using LGPL libraries would often force them to do so.
"I don't know"
Google's motives are not at all clear. To me it is still a competition between Apple and a bunch of others who mostly use Android for either phones or tablets. The conventional way to look at this business is as an Apple vs Samsung or Apple vs Sony or Apple vs Motorola kind of competition. There is a major element of Samsung vs Sony vs HTC vs Nokia vs Motorola and so on. Oh, and remember Amazon and Barnes and Nobel are in there, too.
There is next to no competition between Microsoft's OS, Apple's OS, and Google's OS. All of the competition is between end user purchased devices. The only OS for sale in all that is Microsoft's phone and table products. The rest is either proprietary to a single device maker or free for the taking.
Google seems to want to get a commission on app sales via its store and is trying to get into the device side of things with buying Motorola and selling a Google branded tablet. It does not seem very likely that they can make much money that way, but they have made a lot where no one thought they could before.
Adam King
Der Balrog, moving the goalposts, wrote"You should be able to understand that Android adoption does not cause Linux adoption — it does so only when you cling to the narrow viewpoint that Android is Linux, and therefore Android adoption means Linux adoption. But everyone with only half a brain knows that this is a big, old fallacy."
Android GNU/Linux is the most popular smartphone platform in the world. Just because people don't know they're using GNU/Linux doesn't mean they're not actually using GNU/Linux. What so-called normal people know or care about is irrelevant. Soon enough they will understand ffreedom.
Dr Loser
I think, oiaohm, that your stated "first mover" axiom of "Survival of the fittest" suggests that Linux is doomed on the desktop.
We've had general purpose computers for about sixty years now. For thirty of those sixty years, the main OS on the desktop has been either MS-DOS or Windows.
If you insist on applying an irrelevant term from evolutionary biology, then I would suggest that Microsoft wins on the "survival of the fittest" principle.
All the other guff you came out with is just that — guff.
Der Balrog the basic idea you are missing. Survival of the Fittest.
–You should be able to understand that Android adoption does not cause Linux adoption — it does so only when you cling to the narrow viewpoint that Android is Linux, and therefore Android adoption means Linux adoption. But everyone with only half a brain knows that this is a big, old fallacy.–
Sorry from Linux world point of view its Android is still Linux adoption.
Its part of the basic Survival of the Fittest.idea of Linux Distributions.
Every Distribution tries something different. The strongest live on. The weakest die. The idea a Distribution would appear strong enough to destroy the rest.
This idea is also the cause war between KDE and Gnome. The theory would be the strongest would destroy the weakest.
Next of course idiot you Der Balrog have not picked up QT gaining android support. Or wine project getting Android support.
Or the fact this exists. http://ppaalanen.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/wayland-on-android-upgrade-to-404-and.html
Yes next generation Linux interface for desktop Linux to fix all the X11 security holes. Yes it allows single applications at a time.
Der Balrog exactly what is the different long term between android and any other distribution. Not much just the packaging format and style. Android is more a NixOS style Linux. Yes NixOS is a Linux Distribution. APK and NixOS packaging have a lot in common.
Der Balrog –Because they don't know and don't care that it is Linux.–
Does end user buying product need to care so Linux developers are paid to work on Linux by Hardware companies. Answer no Der Balrog.
We don't need end users to care about Linux. We just need end users to accept using it in some form to fund development and provide reasons for hardware makers to supply us with drivers.
–That the same goes for Windows if a person acquires a computer with Windows pre-installed is self-evident. But that's not the issue.–
It is not a non issue. It shows this you are a true moron. If it fine for Windows using person not to care it perfectly fine for a Linux using person not to care. In fact that is one of the stated goals of Ubuntu. I don't think Ubuntu does a great job of achieving it.
Market acceptance is measured by if the users use it. Not if they care about it. You are measuring if they care about it you are measuring fans not acceptance.
Yes the stupid point of acceptance has nothing todo with end users caring. You accept wearing shoes right. You don't normally care about brand if you are not fan right.
Der Balrog really you have complained about my english I think you better go away and read what acceptance means.
Simple reality of acceptance if you don't reject it you accept it. If you knew basic english words like Acceptance you would not be half the idiot you are.
Android is an acceptable form of Linux that is not causing major rejection.
Reality using the word Acceptance the way you are is just another Jane & Joe type example just proven you are a bigger idiot.
How come you an idiot here. There are 5 types of Acceptance. You did not state want one you are referring to. So if any of the 5 apply you are wrong.
Linux in Android is Implied Acceptance. This is acceptance by action.
Fan style acceptance is Expressed Acceptance maybe or Social acceptance.
Adoption only require any one of the 5 forms of Acceptance. Again failure to state type most likely because you are such a english moron that you did not know you had to.
So yes Android Adoption is Linux Adoption in generic type.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/adoption Yes type 3 of adoption has no requirement on you to willing choose. I could say Der Balrog has adoption of english. Because you do use english words just not well. Its a very fancy insult in fact.
The reality your complete arguement is dead in water about time you accept it unless you rewrite it then I still will hammer you. Because you have already proved windows did not need adoption by personal will.
Der Balrog
You're making no sense, Hamster. Pogson likes to cite Android adoption as a proof that Linux works and is accepted by people. That can't be true. Because they don't know and don't care that it is Linux. That the same goes for Windows if a person acquires a computer with Windows pre-installed is self-evident. But that's not the issue.
You should be able to understand that Android adoption does not cause Linux adoption — it does so only when you cling to the narrow viewpoint that Android is Linux, and therefore Android adoption means Linux adoption. But everyone with only half a brain knows that this is a big, old fallacy.
Android is 'cool', but Linux gives people still the creeps.
Der Balrog Little test of knowledge. What was the basic idea that is the reason why Many Linux distributions formed in the first place.
If Android defeats every other Linux Distribution in existence this would still be following the basic idea that allowed many distributions to form. The idea pre-dates Linux by a long way and its the basic idea of the multi verse of distributions.
Der Balrog
–Jane & Joe do not care that Android is built on top of the Linux kernel.–
Der Balrog and get this threw your thick head. Linux developers and people like don't care if Jane & Joe care if Android is built on top of a Linux kernel.
The thing we care about is funding to continue development. I could say that Jane & Joe don't care that Windows is installed on a computer either as long as there favorate application works.
Talking about Jane & Joe examples basically is attempting to prove you are a idiot Der Balrog so basically stop doing it. Reality the general Jane & Joe examples you could say they don't care if they get flatted by a bus as well.
Der Balrog
Pogson still believes that smartphones and tablets will usher in the age of Linux. Thus there is need to repeat it again:
Jane & Joe do not care that Android is built on top of the Linux kernel.
"Further look at it from the customer's point of view. Why should M$ grow fat from their business?"
That is an important observation, I agree, although I bet we don't agree on the answer. From a customer's point of view the important thing is that the customer receives maximum value overall. "This thing pays for itself!" would be the goal where a commercial customer gets a higher benefit out of a product than its raw cost.
Getting away from software, it is like the difference between paying a dozen laborers with shovels or a single backhoe operator-owner to dig a needed ditch. Paid results can even be better than free ones if the results are more beneficial to the payer. The key number is the difference between what something produces and what it costs, not the cost itself.
For the consumer, the same sort of thing is applicable. It is really very hard to see any price advantage in using Linux on a computer versus using Windows if all computers, ignoring Macs for the sake of argument, come with Windows anyway.
In places where people are not so used to getting Windows with a new computer, such as the India or other Asian sources you occasionally cite, there is a slight price difference in some cases that adds to the attraction of a Linux computer, but not in the United States. Or Canada as far as I know.
As these areas expand and become more affluent, it is likely that Microsoft will not be able to sell as efficiently or as dominantly there as they do here, but that is just business. For today, Microsoft is still building revenues year after year. It is not the go-go sort of thing it once was and the hot areas are now social media companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., but it is a very respectable business still and is likely to remain such for a long time to come.
From a stockholder's point of view, MSFT has a higher revenue and profit and value per share than they had in the past, particularly in light of the huge share buy back that they have been doing the past 5 or 6 years. They are hardly "sinking".
bw to make it really clear.
These are all annual revues.
All nicely checkable out here. http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Microsoft_(MSFT)/Data/Revenue/2012
2008 60.02B Ok normal MS revenue growth.
2009 58.44B Ok what the hell recession caught MS.
2010 62.48B returning to normal.
Redhat what recession.
Apple what recession.
Yes Apple is many times bigger than Microsoft today even that it was smaller than MS in 2007-2008. Apple is showing the same growth curve Redhat is. Redhat just started latter.
Google interested the recession value shows in
2008-2009. Exactly where MS takes a major thump. Google stays level where Microsoft goes backwards.
Google being advertising you would expect it to be effected.
Apparently Microsoft is not recession proof.
Recession equals Microsoft income stalling.
dw when you look at debt things get more worring.
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Red_Hat_%28RHT%29/Data/Total_Liabilities Fairly stable.
Not so much.
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Microsoft_%28MSFT%29/Data/Long-Term_Debt/2012 Even more worrying. Apple and Redhat both have 0 long term debt.
Apples liabilities are huge but there income also is way larger than Microsoft. Same with IBM huge income huge liabilities but liabilities are paid and cleared every year.
Microsoft is not the only company that is looking worrying. http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Oracle_%28ORCL%29/Data/Long-Term_Debt/2012
Basically both Microsoft and Oracle are packing on the pounds of debt. This hinders a companies means to deal with failures.
Yes early warning to a possible failing company is packing on the debt.
Recession right now neither Microsoft or Oracle are in a good place to weather it. Means to take on debt and pay debt are key to deal with bad outcomes from Recession.
bw also the other thing to note Redhat is making more products today. Microsoft is making less. You can always increase profits in short term by killing off products.
Sub-prime disaster is 2007. At the start of the subprime redhat http://news.cnet.com/Red-Hat-revenue-up,-profit-down/2100-1014_3-6171824.html
Yes 217.5 Million income. 2006 there were some financial issues as well before the sub-prime effect fully hit.
Your time window is wrong bw. It was not only red-hat with the growing revenue in that time frame.
–unimpeded– I would not say so. You are also missing MS has increased debt over the time frame.
2008 to 2012 is going over a lot of good times. Remember what I said FOSS does well in the bad. The closed appears todo well in the good. Mirrors to each other. Redhat hit 1 billion by 2010. So from 2007-2010 Redhat quads. Global economy gets back on it feet kinda around 2010 and redhat growth slows.
2007-2010 MS really did not have a great time. Smaller closed source companies disappeared in that timeframe.
In the period from 2008 to 2012, Red Hat boosted their revenues from $523M to $1,133M (hardly "quaded", but nevertheless respectable) whereas Microsoft went from $60.4B to $73.7B. Stated as a percentage, Red Hat went up more than 140% and Microsoft only went up some 20%. So Red Hat wins the percentage game by a 7 to 1 margin.
However, Microsoft increased their revenues by $13,300M while Red Had only increased their revenues by a measly $600M, making Microsoft some 20 times better in terms of revenue increase than Red Hat.
None of that is pertinent, though. The question was in regard to whether Microsoft's ship is sinking or not and it is certainly afloat and bobbing ever higher as time goes on. There is no requirement that Microsoft have the only ship at sea and there is no need to compare ships to one another. It is enough that the SS Microsoft is plainly sailing unimpeded through the sea of progress.
SS Microsoft is a proud ocean liner contrasted to the Little Toot sort of ugly tugboat that is operated by Red Hat.
bw in the recession Redhat quaded their income. Most Linux providers doubled their profits I would not say Microsoft prospered in the recession. Held own maybe yes. Thing to remember Redhats income did not drop when the recession ended.
Basically recession seams to send Linux companies into over drive with massive growing incomes. Linux companies growth seams to flatten out when there is not a recession.
The companies that went out of business in the software industry in the recession was the closed source ones. FOSS ones just had a party.
So basically FOSS seams to act like an exact mirror to MS performance. Closed source does well in boom times and FOSS not that great but holds it own. Closed source does badly in recession and FOSS does great.
So bring on another recession.
"Meanwhile, M$ rides a sinking ship."
It is not easy to see that. They made more money and more profits this year than last year and that has been the case for decades now. True, they had some tougher times during the great recession, but a lot of companies went out of business entirely and Microsoft actually prospered.
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The name Mercia comes from merce, "people of the Marches" (or boundaries, or borders); and, originally, the kingdom was primarily made up of borderlands. To the east were the lands that the Anglo-Saxons had settled; to the west, the territory into which the newcomers had driven some of the Celts that had inhabited those lands. Early Mercia included all or parts of present-day Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, the West Midlands and Warwickshire. Eventually, the kingdom expanded to encompass present-day Gloucestershire and parts of Cheshire, Hereford, Salop and Worcester. At its height, Mercia ranged from Wales in the west to East Anglia in the east, and from the river Humber in the north to the Thames in the south.
The earliest king of Mercia that scholars have any dependable information about is Penda, whose thirst for conquest increased Mercian territory and made the kingdom an early powerhouse. Penda's victories included the subjugation of the Hwicce (a West Saxon people) and East Anglia, the temporary ejection of King Cenwalh from Wessex, and two invasions of Northumbria that, each time, resulted in the death of the Northumbrian king. Penda was a pagan, but he allowed his son Peada to introduce Christianity into Middle Anglia.
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After Penda's death during yet another invasion of Northumbria (655), Mercia came temporarily under the control of the Northumbrians. But a few years later the Mercians shook off the overlordship of Oswiu of Northumbria, and Penda's son Wulfhere came to the throne. Continuing in the tradition of his father, Wulfhere managed to extend the borders of the kingdom in all directions. Early on in his reign he captured Lindsey from Northumbria and saw a successful campaign against Wessex. In the 660s, he took control of London away from Essex. Wulfhere was also a zealous proponent of Christianity, not only spreading it throughout Mercia, but forcing the people of Essex and Sussex to accept the religion. He is even believed to have founded a monastery or two.
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In 704 Aethelred abdicated in favor of Wulfhere's son Coenred (Cenred) and retired to a monastery. His successor reigned only five years before following suit, going to Rome. Although Church sources reveal Coenred to have been active in ecclesiastical matters, and some scholars claim he was pious and peace-loving, it's possible that he was forcibly removed from the throne and coerced into taking up the monastic life in order to disqualify him from ruling the kingdom.
Coenred was succeeded by his half-brother Ceolred, whose reputation is pretty dreadful. Ceolred is said to have suppressed monasteries, led a life of dissolution and, according to Saint Boniface, died out of his mind. Ceolred reigned only seven years (which couldn't have been short enough for most of Mercia); his successor may have been his brother Ceolwald. If so, Ceolwald reigned for less than a year, because before 716 was out, Aethelbald was on the throne.
Mercian Power on the Rise
Aethelbald was only distantly related to his predecessors; his grandfather had been Penda's brother Eowa. When he came to power, Ine of Wessex and Wihtred of Kent stood ready to oppose him. Both kings were strong leaders who had ruled for more than twenty-five years, and Aethelbald had no real chance against them. But in 725 Wihtred died, and in 726 Ine abdicated. Aethelbald saw his chance, and within five years he had become chief king of a confederation of southern kingdoms, exerting authority over both Wessex and Kent. While Aethelbald was king, London came under Mercian control. In one of his charters he went so far as to use the title rex Britannia -- a Latin term we translate as "King of Britain," but which may have been intended specifically to represent the Anglo-Saxon term, Braetwalda.
Saint Boniface took Aethelbald to task for his loose lifestyle and for violating church rights, but the king was always generous to the Church, and in 749 he liberated the English churches from many public financial burdens. Still, he is generally regarded as a tyrant and a brute. He was murdered by his own bodyguard in 757.
The exact motive for Aethelbald's murder is unknown; it might have had something to do with a clan feud, or it may simply have been a personal grudge against a despot. Whatever the reason, his death was followed by civil war. Beornred, whose claim to the throne is unclear, led forces against Offa, son of Thingfrith, a descendant of Eowa.
In a matter of months Offa was victorious in his battle for the throne, and he began a lengthy reign. Unfortunately, the death of Aethelbald and the resulting war broke the confederation the murdered king had founded into bits, and for several years Offa had little territory to rule. But by squashing resistance from neighboring kingdoms, Offa soon put together a single entity that ruled a huge portion of southern England. By marrying his daughters to the kings of Northumbria and Wessex, he consolidated his power still further.
Offa not only expanded Mercia's power to an extent greater than it had ever been before, he elevated its prestige. He was on good terms with Pope Adrian I, who granted Offa's request to create an archbishopric of Lichfield; this liberated the Mercian church from the dominance of Canterbury, in Mercia's enemy of Kent. And though he had a dispute with Charlemagne, in 796 he made an official trading agreement with the Frankish king. Offa may be best known for the defensive earthwork he built that bears his name (Offa's Dyke), but he also established a new form of coinage, the principles of which would govern the design and production of English coins for hundreds of years.
Offa's reign is generally considered the peak of Mercia's power and prestige. He died in 796.
In 787, Offa's son Ecgfrith was anointed as King of Mercia (although Offa continued to rule). This is the first recorded consecration of an English king. Unfortunately, several weeks after Offa died, so did Ecgfrith. The throne then fell to Cenwulf, a distant relation of Offa.
Cenwulf succeeded, for the most part, in preserving the supremacy of Mercia that Offa had established. Early in his reign, he suppressed a revolt in Kent and installed his brother as king there. He also attempted to expand westward, raiding Wales on two occasions -- though he did not conquer any territory.
However, some of the connections Offa had forged began to crumble during Cenwulf's reign. In 796, the murder of Offa's son-in-law, King Aethelred of Northumbria, put an end to Mercia's influence in that kingdom. Six years later Beorhtric, king of Wessex and another son-in-law of Offa, also died, and when Egbert returned from exile to take up the crown, Wessex slipped from Mercian control. Cenwulf retained authority over East Anglia, Essex, Kent and Sussex, but he did not exercise power over all the territory that Offa had, and he did not use the title rex Britannia that his predecessors had dared to use.
Cenwulf may have been preparing to make one more assault on Welsh territory in 821 when he died, apparently of natural causes, at Basingwerk in Flintshire. His brother and successor Ceolwulf took up Cenwulf's campaign in 822, destroying the fortress of Deganwy and taking control of the Welsh kingdom of Powys. This would prove to be the last significant accomplishment made by the Kingdom of Mercia.
The Decline of Mercian Power
Ceolwulf's reign lasted barely two years; he was deposed by Beornwulf in 823. Beornwulf launched an ill-conceived campaign against Wessex and was soundly defeated at the Battle of Ellendune in 825. After this, what was left of Mercia's control over its neighbors rapidly disintegrated, and Egbert of Wessex obtained the allegiance of many of the kingdoms that had once been subordinate to Mercia. In 826, Beornwulf was killed in battle against East Anglia; in 827, his successor Ludeca met a similar fate. In 829 Egbert conquered Mercia and its dependencies, deposing King Wiglaf; and though the victory was short-lived, it marked an important achievement for Wessex, presaging that kingdom's ultimate primacy in England.
In 830 Wiglaf took the throne of Mercia once again and, it is believed, ruled independently until his death in 839. He was followed by a series of fairly-short-lived kings, who had little of note to offer Mercian history.
The Danish Incursion and the End of the Kingdom of Mercia
In 852 or 853, Burgred came to the throne. His reign would last more than 20 years, but it would not be a glorious one. After a large army of Danes came to England in the mid-860s, Burgred apparently arranged to buy them off, and they left Mercia alone for a while. Eventually, however, the Danes returned and drove Burgred out of the kingdom. He went to Rome in 874, where he died. The Danes put their own puppet king on the throne of Mercia and took over a large portion of the kingdom that, together with parts of other Anglo-Saxon lands, would come to be known as the Danelaw.
It was Alfred of Wessex who managed to keep the Danes from taking over the better part of all England. Mercia's decline would continue; and when Alfred's son, Edward the Elder, reconquered the last of what the Danes had taken in the early 10th century, Mercia would thenceforward be ruled by ealdormen in service to Wessex.
Although Mercia was ultimately subsumed by Wessex, for more than 150 years it was a very powerful member of the Heptarchy. The significance of Mercia has sometimes been overlooked, thanks in large part to the concentration of records, particularly the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, that originated in Wessex.
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