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Why?
I wrote:
Quote: IF IBM has 90% of the market with 3500 customers
Which is just a shorter version of what the article said:
Quote: but IBM has the lion's share of the market today, with more than 90%. And 50 years after IBM released its first mainframe, the System/360, in April 1964, the company still has 3,500 mainframe customers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I didn't read the article, and apparently I mis-interpreted your comment as the remaining 10% equaling 3.
My apologies.
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Microsoft is expanding its Azure platform again, this time rolling out a NoSQL database service as well as a new search tool. It’s the kind of innovation Microsoft needs to focus on if it’s going to lure new developers and really compete in the cloud. Because just hosting MongoDB (or any of the other bajillion NoSQL DBs) would have been too much work?
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Cody Littley’s new hard drive can only hold a single kilobyte of data—about one millionth of what you can cram onto those finger-nail-sized microSD cards—and it can’t exactly slide into the back of your smartphone. But it’s still an impressive creation. Everyone needs a hobby. I guess?
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Next project: A Turing Machine.
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Been done, sorry can't get at link now - will try to remember to post later.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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That's the beastie.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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At Syncfusion, we recognize that the freedom enjoyed by hobbyists enables them to be great innovators. That is why we offer special Hobbyist licenses of our JavaScript, WinRT, and Windows Phone controls—to encourage creativity, experimentation, and innovation in development for Windows devices and web apps. "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
Except overseas, where the waive the $1 fee!
Better than a free lunch!
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"He gives the kids free samples because he knows full well that today's young innocent faces are tomorrow's clientele." -- Tom Lehrer, "The Old Dope Peddler"
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Pretty dark for a Tom Lehrer song.
TTFN - Kent
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They're not all happy and light like "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park".
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Really? I hate pigeons, I thought that was happy and light 
TTFN - Kent
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Some are gooshy love songs.
/o~ I ache for the touch of your lips my dead ~o/
/o~ So say you love me here and now, I'll make the most of that. ~o/
/o~ I hold your hand in mine, dear, I press it to my lips. ~o/
/o~ I love my friends and they love me. We're just as close as we can be. ~o/
/o~ Sharks gotta swim, and bats gotta fly, I gotta love one woman till I die. ~o/
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The vast majority of web users would not be willing to pay to browse the internet without advertisements. Can I pay with a money order?
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Are you asking for my bank details? 
I wouldn't. There will never be zero ads, so paying would be a waste of money.
Additionally, is that per user? Will I need to pay separately for me, my wife, and my kid?
Is it per workstation/device? Will I need to pay separately for my home desktop, work laptop, and smartphone?
What happens when I reinstall an operating system?
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'Struth: totally unworkable in reality. You hit a lot of great points on the consumer side - then it gets even more ugly when you think about how to divvie up the take on the other side.
I think it's more a measure of how much this would cost all of us without advertisers. I've even given up on Adblock. Let the adverts flow: I can ignore them.
TTFN - Kent
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All they'll probably do is put some kind of ad filter like that used in adBlock anyway so why pay?
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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uhm... no.
I'd rather download adblocker+, Ghostery and such.
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Just use AdBlock 
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AdBlock!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Why would I pay for something I already have? Even without ad-blocker? Something that works across all applications? On both Windows and Linux?
Read this[^], and download the textfile.
I'll build an auto-updater, might make it somewhat easier.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Pretty much this. Adblock is a wrong way to block ads.
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Over the last year or two I've been moving away from domain based rules in my adblocker because I've increasingly ran into problems where they're hosted on the same CDN as legit content; with the result that I either have to spend 5 or 10 minutes troubleshooting the problem or temporarily turn my blocker off. Editing a HOST file every time there's a problem would be a giant leap backward. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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