Sure us nerds can sit in our ivory tower and say that people would like Linux (or other alternatives)because they won't know the difference. But the truth is: people don't want to do backflips for an operating system in order to make it work the way they want. Windows just plain works for the vast majority of people. I guarantee that the unbundling of Windows from PCs in the EU will have no effect on Microsoft's sales just because people will use what they are comfortable with.
In the long-run why would artists want to sign contracts with record companies when they market the music themselves? Sure when bands turn into household names. But the unknowns who lack the resources to promote themselves on a national/global level need a record company with resources to do so. Sure there are things that small bands can do to reach a global audience. But when was the last time you heard of a band selling-out a stadium that had a popular MySpace profile and no record deal?
It's been my experience that those people who have 30+ (a more realistic number than 50) years of experience are too heavily relied upon at work and are looking for change in order to relieve them of some burden.
Case and point: I assisted with an ERP implementation at an educational institution a while back. Most of the business processes were still being done on paper. The people who have been doing purchasing and payroll for 30+ years were actually the ones who wanted to change the business processes so that they would have less work to do such that they might have a half hour in the middle of the day to take a lunch break.
It's common to think that ERP or some other big software is going to be the silver bullet for all of your company's problems. In fact, that is just throwing money at the issue.
ERP implementations are meant to mirror existing business processes. If your business processes are ass to begin with, and there is no change before an ERP roll-out, your business will still experience the same issues.
All this "blame the ERP vendor" stuff is crap. I blame the people who are running the system and poorly implemented it.
Maybe with a Linux distro built into the motherboard, there will finally be a solution where you don't have to go on a two day scavenger hunt for drivers. The last time I installed Fedora and Suse, both times I had to spend countless hours looking for Linux drivers for my NForce chipset. That All-in-One crap is for the birds.
I found a cure for Type 2 diabetes (Oblig. [voice=Wilford Brimley]Di-a-bee-tus). My aunt had type 2 diabetes for most of her life. Then she started exercising, eating right and lost 120lbs. She hasn't been on the needle for over a year. She still checks her blood sugar regularly just in case.
What are they trying to do now that they found the cause? Call me insensitive, but if they do find a medicinal cure it would only serve to enable some people to keep living unhealthy lifestyles. I think now that they have found what causes type 2, they should see what causes juvenile diabetes and cure that.
I swear, things like this are posted just to get us all pissed-off first thing in the morning. It's like their business model changed from something good to: 1. Tell the masses that everything they know is wrong. 2. ???? 3. PROFIT!
On the other hand, I heard that maybe 16 processors is an upper limit for the shared memory multi-threaded model because of all of the cache synchronization issues, and to go beyond that, you will need to go to clusters with communication between local processor memory. Beowulf Cluster on one processor die. How badass would that be? And by badass, I mean, totally 1337. And by "be", I mean be.
I read a lot of whining in the comments for this article. Let me put this in a different perspective: this is more like a frontier in programming that we're on here. In the past, a single core processor running serial code was fine on any desktop. Any applications needing parallel programming was run on high-end servers or Beowulf Clusters. They weren't for the average computer user out there.
Now we have all these new-fangled dual/tri/quad core processors in the average microcomputer. It would be foolish to let all that computing power go to waste by running code is series. It just became economical for just about every application to be written in parallel.
It's been stated many times but it bears repeating. Just because you have a product that is A+, doesn't necessarily mean that it will be successful. What makes a product successful is the business behind it. Look at McDonalds! Crappy product but good business!
Of course, in Murders and Executions, it is up to the buying company to decide before getting heavily invested. They might have an excellent product but ass for business processes. Companies are not only buying-out shareholders but they're also paying to un-ass a company's old business processes in order to fit with their own.
Ebay... what can I say? I expected more out of them.
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Sure us nerds can sit in our ivory tower and say that people would like Linux (or other alternatives)because they won't know the difference. But the truth is: people don't want to do backflips for an operating system in order to make it work the way they want. Windows just plain works for the vast majority of people. I guarantee that the unbundling of Windows from PCs in the EU will have no effect on Microsoft's sales just because people will use what they are comfortable with.
"Great Balls on Fire"
There! Fixed it.
It's been my experience that those people who have 30+ (a more realistic number than 50) years of experience are too heavily relied upon at work and are looking for change in order to relieve them of some burden.
Case and point: I assisted with an ERP implementation at an educational institution a while back. Most of the business processes were still being done on paper. The people who have been doing purchasing and payroll for 30+ years were actually the ones who wanted to change the business processes so that they would have less work to do such that they might have a half hour in the middle of the day to take a lunch break.
It's common to think that ERP or some other big software is going to be the silver bullet for all of your company's problems. In fact, that is just throwing money at the issue.
ERP implementations are meant to mirror existing business processes. If your business processes are ass to begin with, and there is no change before an ERP roll-out, your business will still experience the same issues.
All this "blame the ERP vendor" stuff is crap. I blame the people who are running the system and poorly implemented it.
True but not bundled with the distros I find useful. At the risk of going even more off-topic, lets save this argument for another time. Shall we?
"SplashTop" It's in the summary. Discovery is opening your eyes to what is already there.
Maybe with a Linux distro built into the motherboard, there will finally be a solution where you don't have to go on a two day scavenger hunt for drivers. The last time I installed Fedora and Suse, both times I had to spend countless hours looking for Linux drivers for my NForce chipset. That All-in-One crap is for the birds.
A problem has been solved! BRAVO!
Server is down. It seems they caved to the Slashdot Effect.
I found a cure for Type 2 diabetes (Oblig. [voice=Wilford Brimley]Di-a-bee-tus). My aunt had type 2 diabetes for most of her life. Then she started exercising, eating right and lost 120lbs. She hasn't been on the needle for over a year. She still checks her blood sugar regularly just in case.
What are they trying to do now that they found the cause? Call me insensitive, but if they do find a medicinal cure it would only serve to enable some people to keep living unhealthy lifestyles. I think now that they have found what causes type 2, they should see what causes juvenile diabetes and cure that.
Sure. It's called the O.L.P.C!
Someone please mark parent as flamebait.
...but wouldn't that burn like hell?
True, but there is nothing in the rules that states you can't have a shark-mounted cannon.
Did anyone else parse that as "Gripeosaurus"? I thought they were talking about my ex there for a second.
I swear, things like this are posted just to get us all pissed-off first thing in the morning. It's like their business model changed from something good to:
1. Tell the masses that everything they know is wrong.
2. ????
3. PROFIT!
hmmm Cycle time appears to be cheap.
I read a lot of whining in the comments for this article. Let me put this in a different perspective: this is more like a frontier in programming that we're on here. In the past, a single core processor running serial code was fine on any desktop. Any applications needing parallel programming was run on high-end servers or Beowulf Clusters. They weren't for the average computer user out there.
Now we have all these new-fangled dual/tri/quad core processors in the average microcomputer. It would be foolish to let all that computing power go to waste by running code is series. It just became economical for just about every application to be written in parallel.
And by-the-way... GET OFF MY LAWN!
Sure there is Windows hardware out there. Ever seen the little sticker on the front of most PCs? A sticker is hardware. It certainly isn't software.
The hammer and chisel just wasn't doing it with this screen. I had to compromise.
I hold the patent to that numbered list thingy! You stole my IP! Where's my compensation?!
Internet is like, so last year. Stone tablet and carrier pigeon are back in style this year. All the Hollywood celebs are doing it. You should too!
It's been stated many times but it bears repeating. Just because you have a product that is A+, doesn't necessarily mean that it will be successful. What makes a product successful is the business behind it. Look at McDonalds! Crappy product but good business!
Of course, in Murders and Executions, it is up to the buying company to decide before getting heavily invested. They might have an excellent product but ass for business processes. Companies are not only buying-out shareholders but they're also paying to un-ass a company's old business processes in order to fit with their own.
Ebay... what can I say? I expected more out of them.
From TFA: NASAs video. WTF? Shouldn't NASA be showing your video?