Huh? COLA claimed ...
Hadron
.. that MS don't do R&D and simply steal other people's work.
This article quoting real facts seems to suggest that Jed and co are
talking garbage. Again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12570045
"But Microsoft - a company that may well spend more on R&D than any other
business - believes its strategy is paying off, and the proof is the
XBox Kinect system."
They need Phil Da Lick, Jed and Gortard. Managed by Homer. They would
discover open source Alchemy within, err, "6 hours".
7
Nearly all the innovation space is owned by Linux.
Android smartphones - created out of thin by google with Linux.
Ubuntu - created out of thin air by canonical by adding Linux.
MP3, MP4, MP5 players by adding Linux
IP Webcams by adding Linux to a camera
Routers - by adding Linux to ethernet ports
Set top boxes - by adding Linux to TV
Flat TV OSD - by adding Linux to flat TVs
DVD recorders - by adding hard disk to digital tuners
..
etc.
Anyone can do anything with Linux.
Just add thin air.
Micosahft crap is ancient technology and it was being done in 80's.
I built a security system in hours using Gambas and VL2
drivers in Linux. So bought a whole bunch of cameras
for image recognition - alas not much time these
days to play with such toys amongst
all the other toys that Linux offers up.
But I wouldn't hype up billion dollar micoshaft R&D crap
especially because Linux can replicate it with a few hours of tinkering.
DFS
> Anyone can do anything with Linux.
> Just add thin air.
Funny you should say that, since that's the basis for all your
vapor-products for your entire life.
> Micosahft crap is ancient technology and it was being done in 80's.
The MS Kinect came out late 2010 and is the fastest selling gadget in
history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect
http://www.neowin.net/news/kinect-beats-apple-becomes-fastest-selling-device-in-gadget-history
You're an IDIOT.
> I built a security system in hours using Gambas and VL2
> drivers in Linux.
Show us the code.
> So bought a whole bunch of cameras
> for image recognition - alas not much time these
> days to play with such toys amongst
> all the other toys that Linux offers up.
>
> But I wouldn't hype up billion dollar micoshaft R&D crap
> especially because Linux can replicate it with a few hours of tinkering.
Hours?
Ubuntu and all that Shuttleworth money has had 5 years to create a
distro that doesn't freeze randomly.
An Old Friend
> .. that MS don't do R&D and simply steal other people's work.
Well, I'm pretty sure that I've not painted Microsoft with THAT broad a
brush.
I haven't seen as much innovation at Microsoft as in the past--the Kinect
excepted.
Microsoft *has* been known to copy other's innovations, and I've
witnessed times when Microsoft refused to fix issues in software
(particularly Mac versions of Word) in an apparent attempt to get the
software user to switch to the Windows version of the software.
I have no great love for Microsoft, but I would never say that they do
*no* R&D.
Sinister Midget III
> I have no great love for Microsoft, but I would never say that they do
> *no* R&D.
Me neither. They research linux. They develop fraud, lies and FUD.
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Homer
> Hadron wrote:
>>
>> .. that MS don't do R&D and simply steal other people's work.
>>
>> This article quoting real facts seems to suggest that Jed and co are
>> talking garbage. Again.
>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12570045
>>
>> "But Microsoft - a company that may well spend more on R&D than any
>> other business
Any fool can spend money, that in itself means nothing. I mean, just
look at Vista, for example. Microsoft apparently wasted 10 Billion USD
developing that garbage. That doesn't make it "innovative", or even
remotely functional.
Can't beat that hi-kuality prefeshinal big-budget approach though, eh?
>> - believes its strategy is paying off, and the proof is the
>> XBox Kinect system."
That's some track record they have there. Billions of dollars wasted
every year, for years on end, and they finally come up with something
that nearly works (apart from the horrendous lag) - a glorified Webcam.
Er, except it wasn't actually /Microsoft/ that "came up" with this at
all, it was an Israeli company called PrimeSense (hardware), and a
British company assimilated by Microsoft, called Rare (software).
But hey, why quibble over insignificant details, like proper credit?
Once again, the only "innovation" Microsoft achieves is with greasy wads
of cash, used to assimilate /others'/ work, on the rare occasions they
bother paying for it at all, of course.
>> They need Phil Da Lick, Jed and Gortard. Managed by Homer. They would
>> discover open source Alchemy within, err, "6 hours".
No, actually it only took half that time:
http://www.osnews.com/story/24014/Kinect_Already_Hacked_Linux_Driver_Released
> Nearly all the innovation space is owned by Linux.
Sadly there's very little real innovation /anywhere/, but what little
there is has nothing whatsoever to do with Microsoft. At all.
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chrisv
> Hadron quacked:
>>
>> .. that MS don't do R&D and simply steal other people's work.
>
>I have no great love for Microsoft, but I would never say that they do
>*no* R&D.
Of course you haven't. Who would make such a silly claim?
"Hadron" is lying, as usual.
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Bjørn Steensrud
>
> That's some track record they have there. Billions of dollars wasted
> every year, for years on end, and they finally come up with something
> that nearly works (apart from the horrendous lag) - a glorified Webcam.
>
> Er, except it wasn't actually /Microsoft/ that "came up" with this at
> all, it was an Israeli company called PrimeSense (hardware), and a
> British company assimilated by Microsoft, called Rare (software).
>
> But hey, why quibble over insignificant details, like proper credit?
>
> Once again, the only "innovation" Microsoft achieves is with greasy wads
> of cash, used to assimilate /others'/ work, on the rare occasions they
> bother paying for it at all, of course.
Actually, the MS R&D is pretty good, I think. The problem is that their
best stuff is emasculated, gutted, hung, drawn, and quartered by the
marketing divisions. MS literally can't afford to release quality
software - that would release their users from the forced upgrade Ka-
ching treadmill.