I'm sure there must be others, but this is the first I have heard of anyone else being jailed for an overdue movie since I suffered the same in 1996. I had moved away to college the day after renting a movie, both myself and my roommate thought each other had returned the movie. It turns out that it had gotten mistakenly buried in the "big box of VHS movies" we all probably had at the time. About a year later, I was a passenger in someone else's car which got stranded in an ice storm. We were "rescued" by a sheriff who apparently thought he was saving the world by checking our IDs and criminal records (after being innocently stranded in an ice storm, I guess I already said that) and found that I was wanted for 5th degree theft for said overdue movie. I was then escorted to the local jail and spent the night. I have told this story at both my expense and to much laughter from the audience. It is indeed a joke!
Argh! I'm sorry for my reply. I should know better than to try and have intelligent "conversation" late on a Friday night with a few cocktails in the belly. Heh...got your joke now;) I took it wrong last night for some reason...
I certainly understand the bordering states jokes! A few of them are universal, e.g. Why did the [insert state college here] switch from natural turf to artificial turf? To keep the cheerleaders from grazing!
Wow! I'll try and be more constructive than that stab. I simply stated (or should have stated) that my power provider offers a program to opt-in for a power savings program for them to shut off my air conditioner for up to 15 minutes per day during high times. Spread this "miniscule" and "draconian" power savings across thousands of homes and you have some real aggregate power savings at negligible personal discomforts. I have opted in because I believe in the cause, and frankly, have never actually witnessed or been discomforted by the practice...
I am just a humble man in Iowa, as you point out, but you seem a bit oblivious to the big picture. Are you a simple nuclear power fan? More waste leaking nuclear power plants is the answer (covered here recently)? I'm not against it entirely, but I find it somewhat "simpleton"...
Anyway, I'm tired in the US midwest, could you please provide your locality so I can ponder jokes about yourself and those in your area?
For what it is worth, I don't have so much a story as to who is using Samba but rather who is "shipping" it in enterprise products. I work for an HP partner and HP has a product I can vouch for called "HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway". Basically a NAS box on steroids. It comes in two flavors: Windows and Linux. Both serve CIFS...you do the math...
Is it not important to note that OO.o is to Star Office as Fedora is to RedHat Enterprise Linux? Who compares Fedora to Win2K3 (sanely)? It's apples and oranges! I'd be more interested in a StarOffice vs MS Office comparison. StarOffice may not winout, but it would at least be a more sane comparison...
I work for an HP reseller. I install HP SANs for a living and we do quite well in competition against the likes of IBM, NetApp, and EMC. They all have their plus's and minus's. It depends on the situation...
Look at HP's virtualized storage platform - Enterprise Virtual Array. It's really quite a nice system and fits many critical business situations. IBM slammed this product to the hilt for 3 years. That is, 3 years until they could develop their own product of the same nature. Simple copycat. They just recently released their virtualized storage offering while HP's product was 3 years into maturity. Not all innovation is lost at HP..though this product did come from the Compaq side of the house;)
I'm not saying I don't think HP might have lost some of it's trademarked "Invent" luster. I'm just saying it's been that way since Carly took over years ago and at this point, change in any form is a good thing. There are many excellent employees that are let go everyday just because the company is heading in a different direction. I think HP needs to head into a different direction and hopefully they are back on track...
As for RFPs...whatever. It's easy for a CIO who is a big fan of one vendor to write it in such a way that it exludes all competitors and only includes his favorite vendor. We get RFPs that are obviously written in such a way as to only include one of our competitors...which gets thrown in the circular file. On nthe other hand, we have customers come to us to help them do the exact same thing: write an RFP that excludes anybody but HP. Basing superiority of storage offerings based on some RFP process you just went through is not solid ground...
This subject depends on how you define "harm". Is it truly harm if the "harmee" doesn't know it? I mean, MS has for years sold a sub-par OS (shipped when known to be buggy, constant crashing, an inflated price, etc.) to consumers who gobbled it up because it was pretty and they really didn't know of anything else (MS is a great marketing company, but a bad Tech company). Over time these consumers just became accustom to MS flaws and so began to ignore them even though they were staring them right in the face in the form of blue screens, etc.
Meanwhile MS grew fat and lazy and really failed in the innovation Bill has tried so hard to claim. Looking at the difference between Win95 and Win2K I wonder what the hell Microsoft has done over the past five years. Yes, there are new "features" and software, but it isn't all that much and we all know some of it was probably just bought anyway. Where is there any real innovation? MS is a company that grew stagnant in the realm of innovation due to the lack of competition. This, I'm afraid to say, is harmful to the comsumer, but guess what? The "normal" consumer doesn't realize it.
One last case in point, what about the DR-DOS incident? Internal MS docs state that a study of the OS showed it to be superior to their own DOS. Their reaction? Make MS Windows incompatible with it. MS had a great product in Windows (for that time anyway) and would it have worked just as well if comsumers ran it in DR-DOS, but heck no. MS makes sure you buy their OS and in the process squash a technologically superior product (could this be called "anti-innovation"?).
There is a theme growing here. Comsumers being harmed, but they don't realize it. So I'll ask you, is it chargable in a court of law that a company can have harmed consumers even if they didn't kniw it?
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I'm sure there must be others, but this is the first I have heard of anyone else being jailed for an overdue movie since I suffered the same in 1996. I had moved away to college the day after renting a movie, both myself and my roommate thought each other had returned the movie. It turns out that it had gotten mistakenly buried in the "big box of VHS movies" we all probably had at the time. About a year later, I was a passenger in someone else's car which got stranded in an ice storm. We were "rescued" by a sheriff who apparently thought he was saving the world by checking our IDs and criminal records (after being innocently stranded in an ice storm, I guess I already said that) and found that I was wanted for 5th degree theft for said overdue movie. I was then escorted to the local jail and spent the night. I have told this story at both my expense and to much laughter from the audience. It is indeed a joke!
Argh! I'm sorry for my reply. I should know better than to try and have intelligent "conversation" late on a Friday night with a few cocktails in the belly. Heh...got your joke now ;) I took it wrong last night for some reason...
I certainly understand the bordering states jokes! A few of them are universal, e.g. Why did the [insert state college here] switch from natural turf to artificial turf? To keep the cheerleaders from grazing!
Bad joke, I know..
Wow! I'll try and be more constructive than that stab. I simply stated (or should have stated) that my power provider offers a program to opt-in for a power savings program for them to shut off my air conditioner for up to 15 minutes per day during high times. Spread this "miniscule" and "draconian" power savings across thousands of homes and you have some real aggregate power savings at negligible personal discomforts. I have opted in because I believe in the cause, and frankly, have never actually witnessed or been discomforted by the practice...
I am just a humble man in Iowa, as you point out, but you seem a bit oblivious to the big picture. Are you a simple nuclear power fan? More waste leaking nuclear power plants is the answer (covered here recently)? I'm not against it entirely, but I find it somewhat "simpleton"...
Anyway, I'm tired in the US midwest, could you please provide your locality so I can ponder jokes about yourself and those in your area?
I've been in this program in central Iowa for 6 years. Has been no real pain and I get about a $40 check each year for the times they throttle me...
That's the old one. Just woke up. The latest kindle IS reviewed by LJ, but it is for subscribers only (for now)...
Here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10257
For what it is worth, I don't have so much a story as to who is using Samba but rather who is "shipping" it in enterprise products. I work for an HP partner and HP has a product I can vouch for called "HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway". Basically a NAS box on steroids. It comes in two flavors: Windows and Linux. Both serve CIFS...you do the math...
Is it not important to note that OO.o is to Star Office as Fedora is to RedHat Enterprise Linux? Who compares Fedora to Win2K3 (sanely)? It's apples and oranges! I'd be more interested in a StarOffice vs MS Office comparison. StarOffice may not winout, but it would at least be a more sane comparison...
I work for an HP reseller. I install HP SANs for a living and we do quite well in competition against the likes of IBM, NetApp, and EMC. They all have their plus's and minus's. It depends on the situation...
;)
Look at HP's virtualized storage platform - Enterprise Virtual Array. It's really quite a nice system and fits many critical business situations. IBM slammed this product to the hilt for 3 years. That is, 3 years until they could develop their own product of the same nature. Simple copycat. They just recently released their virtualized storage offering while HP's product was 3 years into maturity. Not all innovation is lost at HP..though this product did come from the Compaq side of the house
I'm not saying I don't think HP might have lost some of it's trademarked "Invent" luster. I'm just saying it's been that way since Carly took over years ago and at this point, change in any form is a good thing. There are many excellent employees that are let go everyday just because the company is heading in a different direction. I think HP needs to head into a different direction and hopefully they are back on track...
As for RFPs...whatever. It's easy for a CIO who is a big fan of one vendor to write it in such a way that it exludes all competitors and only includes his favorite vendor. We get RFPs that are obviously written in such a way as to only include one of our competitors...which gets thrown in the circular file. On nthe other hand, we have customers come to us to help them do the exact same thing: write an RFP that excludes anybody but HP. Basing superiority of storage offerings based on some RFP process you just went through is not solid ground...
This subject depends on how you define "harm". Is it truly harm if the "harmee" doesn't know it? I mean, MS has for years sold a sub-par OS (shipped when known to be buggy, constant crashing, an inflated price, etc.) to consumers who gobbled it up because it was pretty and they really didn't know of anything else (MS is a great marketing company, but a bad Tech company). Over time these consumers just became accustom to MS flaws and so began to ignore them even though they were staring them right in the face in the form of blue screens, etc.
Meanwhile MS grew fat and lazy and really failed in the innovation Bill has tried so hard to claim. Looking at the difference between Win95 and Win2K I wonder what the hell Microsoft has done over the past five years. Yes, there are new "features" and software, but it isn't all that much and we all know some of it was probably just bought anyway. Where is there any real innovation? MS is a company that grew stagnant in the realm of innovation due to the lack of competition. This, I'm afraid to say, is harmful to the comsumer, but guess what? The "normal" consumer doesn't realize it.
One last case in point, what about the DR-DOS incident? Internal MS docs state that a study of the OS showed it to be superior to their own DOS. Their reaction? Make MS Windows incompatible with it. MS had a great product in Windows (for that time anyway) and would it have worked just as well if comsumers ran it in DR-DOS, but heck no. MS makes sure you buy their OS and in the process squash a technologically superior product (could this be called "anti-innovation"?).
There is a theme growing here. Comsumers being harmed, but they don't realize it. So I'll ask you, is it chargable in a court of law that a company can have harmed consumers even if they didn't kniw it?