The IT industry is shifting away from Microsoft EVERY SO often, there is a big shift in an industry. The shifts are not usually visible until long after they've happened, making you look back and say: "Oh yeah, things were different back then". We are experiencing a major IT industry shift right now, and if you know where to look you can actually see it as it happens. This shift is all about Microsoft and open source. Until very recently, Microsoft owned everything in the personal computer business, both low and high on the food chain. Everyone who challenged it was bought out, cheated out of the technology, or generally beaten into the ground with dirty tricks, by ruthless competition, or on rare occasions, with a better product. Netscape, Stac, Wordperfect, Novell, and others are among the notable casualties. Just as the press proclaims the inability of anyone to challenge the Redmond beast, control is slipping from Microsoft. One of the richest companies on earth, run by one of the richest people on earth afraid? I doubt it will.
How Does the Binary System Work: An Introduction Before you start reading this article, I want you to take a trip back into your past when you were being taught the decimal system. Personally, when I was in elementary school (in the 70′s/80′s), teachers used to use a column system to teach us about numbers: [Thousands] | [Hundreds] | [Tens] | [One] The number 1234 is – 1 Thousands, 2 Hundreds, 3 Tens and 4 Ones. A few years later, we learned about the composition of the decimal system in a more complex way. Thousands became 10^3 (10*10*10) Hundreds became 10^2 (10*10) … and so on. 1234 then became: As you already know, counting in decimals is done by using 10 digits, from 0 to 9. How does the binary system work? Let’s start with what a binary number looks like: “What the heck does this mean, and how do I represent this in more familiar decimal format” you ask. Ok, let’s apply this chart to the binary number I gave a few moments ago to get us the decimal equivalent. which means that 01001010 = 74 Simple isn’t it? Now let’s do the inverse.
News Blog : Remapping the Universe using this GUI Main Page Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: Historic discussion live from D 2007 We kind of never thought we'd see the day where Mac and PC voluntarily shared the stage on neutral ground, but that day is today. Very soon Bill Gates and Steve Jobs -- both pioneering execs that need absolutely no introduction -- will sit up in front of the audience here at D and discuss god knows what. Don't miss this, people, who knows if this will happen again in any of our lifetimes. You'll know when we get started. Who's got odds that they don't walk out and say "Hi, I'm a PC." We're in! Update: Video recap online! Definitely a full house, people are tense. "During 1984 Microsoft expects to get half of its revenues from Macintosh software." 1991 Jobs and Gates, photographed together. 1997, Jobsnote in which Gates appears on-screen via satellite. They're on stage! They're recognizing notable technologists... Gates is sooo reminiscing, talking about Altairs and Woz and floating point -- Jobs interrupts. 22k for the screenbuffer, 14k for the OS. It's almost heartwarming... Comments