Let's just call them the yellow people, since oriental is not politically correct. No seriously, I wonder how many years it is going to take before we go full circle back to yellow people, since we run out of words moving from one to another because every 10 years the last one is considered racially charged politically incorrect term. The only good thing about americans is that there is no way to patent crazy. For every conceivable or unconceivable kind of crazy there is an american with a prior art.
I mean, can you imagine holding this giant thing up to take photos? It is ridiculous and exactly the thing Apple would not do with its products. But I think there should have been front facing camera for video chat.
There should be a way to mark posts as favorite or submit to hall of fame of comments or something. This comment spot on describes my relationship with Microsoft during the last 14 years.
Developed countries have 60-70% people working in "Services" industry, which means for every gainfully emplyed person, there are at average 2 servants:) So if you got 10 people and bring 90 people with jobs, you got 0% unemployment and 170 unfilled vacancies in services.
You might be onto something here. My typical experience with Indian programmers is that I just cannot make them to take up any project outside of work no matter how much I suggest it would be a good idea and for most of them 100% of their experience comes from past work projects. Extracurricular activities seem to not be very popular in India from my experience. On the other hand, if I talk with my Easter European friends, more than 50% of their experience will come from projects done outside of work. So they would be more likely to replace some of that extracurricular activity with participation in a contest like this. I cannot say about the Chinese, never had much experience with them though.
To me the problem is that there are no TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) low cost PCs.
Let me explain. I think we should start to talk about the Microsoft Tax. For me to work in the Microsoft OS+App ecosystem compared to Apple OS+App ecosystem means about 1-2 hours a week wasted on maintenance or senseless Microsoft time wasting programming designs. Even if I spend just 1 hour a week extra, at my hourly slalary it is $7500 amortized over 3 year life span of my computer. I don't have that kind of time to waste.
Paying the Microsoft Tax to me is completely unacceptable. Apple computers would have to be 3 times more expensive for me to even start considering PCs for my use. And I love the fact that I only get quality computers with quality parts which further lowers my need for maintenance. I love how Microsoft is all about the TCO when comparing to Linux solutions, but when it comes to Apple, its all price baby!
So you are just trying to increase the authority of your statement by making it sound like it was a good idea of some other person of authority or a common knowledge in the field.
Oracle is essentially a parazite on the Redhat Linux. It is not in Oracle self-interest to eat RedHat's lunch because if RedHat goes bust, Oracle won't be able to maintain it by itself. Oracle only wants to eat the minimum amount of RedHat's lunch needed for its own profits, which lie in selling their own products with full support of the entire vertical stack. So clearly Oracle will go for support contracts on servers that run Oracle Database or Middleware solutions, or maybe as part of an existing contract few other servers that are essentially part of the entire solution, but which might run other products. Oracle would be against itself to try to compete with RedHat in other areas and make RedHat's business model financially unviable.
This has nothing to do with who makes the product. It is entirely a support issue. Lets say you have a problem with your Oracle solution on Solaris or RedHat Linux. Oracle will look at the problem and determine it is an OS problem and so you go to Sun or RedHat and they say this is after all not an OS problem, but a virtualization problem so you go to third provider, who will find out that finally fixes the problem two day and several millions in lost profit later.
If you can have one provider who will offer support for the entire stack, OS, virtualization, database or middleware engine, you have a huge win on your hands. Premium contracts can have time limits which now don't cover just one layer, but the entire stack. The same company will resolve the problem no matter where it lies and they are responsible by the service contract to resolve the problem. Where the problem actually lies is an internal issue you don't need to care about.
When you add to it that business talks are done with single company, which results in time savings and you usually save by bundling the service contracts into one package as well. this is almost a no brainer that customer actually demand this.
Add to it that RedHat is not binary free product, that you actually have to pay for the binary distribution of enterprise version, and that Oracle will basically save you additional money by compiling RedHat linux from sources for you.
Redhat has a huge edge for servers not using Oracle database or middleware, but for servers actually running Oracle products, it is no brainer to go with a full stack support contract.
I don't understand where you made the mental leap from being an atheist to being a nihilist.
Just because you believe there is no such thing as a god, does not imply that life is futile, fleeting and nothing you do matters in a long run. On the contrary. Since there is no god to take care of matters, it is essentially up to you to make a difference. It is interesting how people are always expert and wrong on what other people must think.
LOL. Georgia is about as European as Afghanistan. And if it would not be for heavy US lobbying supported by propaganda, brainwashing and outright lies, the world would condemn its aggression and attempted genocide in South Ossetia, just as they condemned Serbia in Kosovo. And actually, making a rocket go few extra thousand miles is a challange that takes decades to solve. Just mark the delay between Hiroshima and ICBM. It is over 10 years. And that is for US and Russia during the arms race. And Russia is... well, you probably would know more about Russia, if US media didn't push so much propaganda down your throat. Did you notice how every article about Russia, no matter what is the topic mentions Putin and democracy issues? It often goes directly in titles like "Vaccine discovered in Putin's Russia", "Polar bears endangered in Russia, just as local democracy." It is laughable if you actually look for it. Demonizing Russia is not a way to start a dialogue or improve relations, that is for sure.
If you follow Linus' approach of upload and mirror, you don't need to keep no stinkin' records. Just ask the Russians or Mosad. I'm positive they got a copy and for a small (well, maybe not so small) fee the Russians will produce it together with the experts and facility to manufacture it.
Actually, we really need to publicize issues like this. Get them to the mass media, whatever the cost. Lets use the system for once. If there is a guy who has agenda against Obama, lets abuse him and feed it to him as an anti-obama news. In other words lets make the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh useful for once by bringing attention to some legitimate issues. Going to Obama websites is not going to make this issue public enough.
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Could it be that *gasp* Windows is actually easy to use than ? Say it ain't so!
Actually, photo sharing is so hard to use, most adults don't even try and just make their kids do it.
Am I the only one who looks at this article and thinks: "These guys just helped the government to collect $172M in additional taxes." While the $122M is already in govt. pockets, the $50M will soon join it and I don't believe the victims will see a dime back.
Now I'd like to know where is the incentive for the government to act quickly on those scams? As long as they act "eventually" to actually collect the money they get more with waiting longer.
Do you realize that people who like PvP are predators. Much of the fun for them is not in hunting other predators, but in hunting weak prey. If they have nobody to prey on, they will follow the prey back to WoW.
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You came with your glass full.
Let's just call them the yellow people, since oriental is not politically correct. No seriously, I wonder how many years it is going to take before we go full circle back to yellow people, since we run out of words moving from one to another because every 10 years the last one is considered racially charged politically incorrect term. The only good thing about americans is that there is no way to patent crazy. For every conceivable or unconceivable kind of crazy there is an american with a prior art.
I mean, can you imagine holding this giant thing up to take photos? It is ridiculous and exactly the thing Apple would not do with its products. But I think there should have been front facing camera for video chat.
There should be a way to mark posts as favorite or submit to hall of fame of comments or something. This comment spot on describes my relationship with Microsoft during the last 14 years.
I think this thread is slowly approximating to the correct robots.wtf?
Providing you actually manage to get the raw unmodified data, which by many accounts is nearly impossible to do.
That is some very heavy revisionist history. Good work, Mr Goebels.
Hmm and people laughed at me in 1989 when I said it will take Microsoft at least 20 years to get networking to work correctly...
Let me guess, ... american?
I dare you to swim in the ocean anywhere near Venice :)
Developed countries have 60-70% people working in "Services" industry, which means for every gainfully emplyed person, there are at average 2 servants :)
So if you got 10 people and bring 90 people with jobs, you got 0% unemployment and 170 unfilled vacancies in services.
You might be onto something here. My typical experience with Indian programmers is that I just cannot make them to take up any project outside of work no matter how much I suggest it would be a good idea and for most of them 100% of their experience comes from past work projects. Extracurricular activities seem to not be very popular in India from my experience. On the other hand, if I talk with my Easter European friends, more than 50% of their experience will come from projects done outside of work. So they would be more likely to replace some of that extracurricular activity with participation in a contest like this. I cannot say about the Chinese, never had much experience with them though.
You should call the new company: "Sun and Cisco" :)
To me the problem is that there are no TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) low cost PCs.
Let me explain. I think we should start to talk about the Microsoft Tax. For me to work in the Microsoft OS+App ecosystem compared to Apple OS+App ecosystem means about 1-2 hours a week wasted on maintenance or senseless Microsoft time wasting programming designs. Even if I spend just 1 hour a week extra, at my hourly slalary it is $7500 amortized over 3 year life span of my computer. I don't have that kind of time to waste.
Paying the Microsoft Tax to me is completely unacceptable. Apple computers would have to be 3 times more expensive for me to even start considering PCs for my use. And I love the fact that I only get quality computers with quality parts which further lowers my need for maintenance. I love how Microsoft is all about the TCO when comparing to Linux solutions, but when it comes to Apple, its all price baby!
So you are just trying to increase the authority of your statement by making it sound like it was a good idea of some other person of authority or a common knowledge in the field.
Use OSX saves me 2 hours a week in my time compared to Windows or Linux. I value that at $400 a month.
Oracle is essentially a parazite on the Redhat Linux. It is not in Oracle self-interest to eat RedHat's lunch because if RedHat goes bust, Oracle won't be able to maintain it by itself. Oracle only wants to eat the minimum amount of RedHat's lunch needed for its own profits, which lie in selling their own products with full support of the entire vertical stack. So clearly Oracle will go for support contracts on servers that run Oracle Database or Middleware solutions, or maybe as part of an existing contract few other servers that are essentially part of the entire solution, but which might run other products. Oracle would be against itself to try to compete with RedHat in other areas and make RedHat's business model financially unviable.
This has nothing to do with who makes the product. It is entirely a support issue. Lets say you have a problem with your Oracle solution on Solaris or RedHat Linux. Oracle will look at the problem and determine it is an OS problem and so you go to Sun or RedHat and they say this is after all not an OS problem, but a virtualization problem so you go to third provider, who will find out that finally fixes the problem two day and several millions in lost profit later.
If you can have one provider who will offer support for the entire stack, OS, virtualization, database or middleware engine, you have a huge win on your hands. Premium contracts can have time limits which now don't cover just one layer, but the entire stack. The same company will resolve the problem no matter where it lies and they are responsible by the service contract to resolve the problem. Where the problem actually lies is an internal issue you don't need to care about.
When you add to it that business talks are done with single company, which results in time savings and you usually save by bundling the service contracts into one package as well. this is almost a no brainer that customer actually demand this.
Add to it that RedHat is not binary free product, that you actually have to pay for the binary distribution of enterprise version, and that Oracle will basically save you additional money by compiling RedHat linux from sources for you.
Redhat has a huge edge for servers not using Oracle database or middleware, but for servers actually running Oracle products, it is no brainer to go with a full stack support contract.
I don't understand where you made the mental leap from being an atheist to being a nihilist.
Just because you believe there is no such thing as a god, does not imply that life is futile, fleeting and nothing you do matters in a long run. On the contrary. Since there is no god to take care of matters, it is essentially up to you to make a difference. It is interesting how people are always expert and wrong on what other people must think.
LOL. Georgia is about as European as Afghanistan. And if it would not be for heavy US lobbying supported by propaganda, brainwashing and outright lies, the world would condemn its aggression and attempted genocide in South Ossetia, just as they condemned Serbia in Kosovo. And actually, making a rocket go few extra thousand miles is a challange that takes decades to solve. Just mark the delay between Hiroshima and ICBM. It is over 10 years. And that is for US and Russia during the arms race. And Russia is... well, you probably would know more about Russia, if US media didn't push so much propaganda down your throat. Did you notice how every article about Russia, no matter what is the topic mentions Putin and democracy issues? It often goes directly in titles like "Vaccine discovered in Putin's Russia", "Polar bears endangered in Russia, just as local democracy." It is laughable if you actually look for it. Demonizing Russia is not a way to start a dialogue or improve relations, that is for sure.
If you follow Linus' approach of upload and mirror, you don't need to keep no stinkin' records. Just ask the Russians or Mosad. I'm positive they got a copy and for a small (well, maybe not so small) fee the Russians will produce it together with the experts and facility to manufacture it.
Actually, we really need to publicize issues like this. Get them to the mass media, whatever the cost. Lets use the system for once. If there is a guy who has agenda against Obama, lets abuse him and feed it to him as an anti-obama news. In other words lets make the likes of Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh useful for once by bringing attention to some legitimate issues. Going to Obama websites is not going to make this issue public enough.
Actually, photo sharing is so hard to use, most adults don't even try and just make their kids do it.
Am I the only one who looks at this article and thinks: "These guys just helped the government to collect $172M in additional taxes." While the $122M is already in govt. pockets, the $50M will soon join it and I don't believe the victims will see a dime back. Now I'd like to know where is the incentive for the government to act quickly on those scams? As long as they act "eventually" to actually collect the money they get more with waiting longer.
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