What's the difference between capital costs and operating costs? (Wednesday 27th of May 2009 06:04:00 AM)
Capital costs are costs for typically physical things that are needed to run the business. For
example, a factory or a machine. Thus, capital costs are typically investments.
Operating
costs are the costs to operate the business for things like supplies ...
(more)Is Linux's "Overall Market Share" Statistic Meaningful? (Saturday 23rd of May 2009 03:15:01 PM)
Ruphus13 writes "Linux afresh achieved 1% market share of the overall operating costs system
market. But, does that statistic really mean anything at all useful? This article makes the
case that it doesn't. It states, 'Framed in the "overall market share" ...
(more)Why AT&T Wants To Keep the iPhone Away From Verizon (Sunday 26th of April 2009 12:30:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Saul Hansell of the NY Times has an interesting post analyzing AT&T's
earnings report and highlighting the brobdingnagian stakes complicated in the renewal of its
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(more)Canadian Federal Government Mulling Open Source? (Saturday 14th of February 2009 12:15:05 PM)
An unnamed reader points out a CBC report discussing a request from the Canadian dominion for
wisdom about open source systems program and free proprietary software. Evan Leibovitch, an
advocate for open source, says the government's interest was spurred ...
(more)VMware Releases Open Source Virtualization Client (Wednesday 04th of February 2009 10:30:01 PM)
Ruphus13 writes in with the news that VMware has finally decided to open-source its client for
virtual desktops, releasing it under the LGPL. This was in retroaction to intense tension from
the growing number of Linux distros that include virtualization ...
(more)Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS (Wednesday 05th of November 2008 06:15:01 PM)
Linux Blog recommends an audience up on the O'Reilly site with Greg Kroah-Hartman, long-time
Linux kernel hacker and the current Linux kernel maintainer for the USB driver core. He updates
the free Linux driver program announced almost two years ago, ...
(more)HP May Be Developing Its Own Version of Linux (Saturday 13th of September 2008 09:45:01 AM)
Vondiggity writes to tell us that HP is working on several unique ways to make an end run
around Vista. Among the plans is also a conjectural rumor that certain factions within HP are
third world nation their own flavor of Linux. supervisors at HP ...
(more)Software Patent Sanity on the Way? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Ars Technica is reporting that the traditionally silent US Patent and label Office (USPTO) may
be open gate to turn things around. It seems that in recent action the USPTO has started to
make it much easier to vitiate disk operating system patents with ...
(more)Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption (Friday 22nd of February 2008 07:00:05 AM)
Jcrouthamel writes "Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern radios retain
their space for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating budget temperatures
and even if removed from a motherboard. whereas
notes:although and ...
(more)Motley Fool Writes Off Microsoft (Saturday 26th of January 2008 06:15:04 AM)
The Vista hot water* has caught Wall Street's headwork before but I've never seen the popular
press understand the issues like this argument in the Motley Fool. The opposing argument is a
weak dictum of faith, essentially "as it was in the beginning ...
(more)Vista Branding Confusing Even To Microsoft (Friday 30th of November 2007 06:30:02 PM)
Trotti Laganna writes "Lawyers are now arguing a case brought against Microsoft over Vista's
marketing. The disk operating expenses expenses system giant is being dinged for allegedly not
telling the truth when it put the 'Vista capable' logo on PCs that ...
(more)Leopard Claims Half the Japanese OS Market In October (Thursday 15th of November 2007 01:45:03 AM)
Hoagiecat writes "Is Apple like all those bands who claim to be "huge in Japan"? Leopard
accounted for 53 percent of boxed operating expenses systems sold in Japan in October —
even though it was only on sale for the last six days of the ...
(more)Schwarzenegger signs ban on teen cell phone use while driving (Sunday 16th of September 2007 02:05:00 PM)
Filed under: Transportation
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't as much fun as a big brother as he was
in The Terminator... just ask California's teen drivers. The former action movie star has
signed a new bill -- which we told you about in August -- into law, ...
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