Litter wouldn't be a problem if it decomposed anytime soon, now would it? Tree leaves in autumn, for example, are nature's litter. No mention is made in the review of the answers to your questions; however, I'd be really surprised if those issues aren't at least considered in the book, since they are, after all, so bloody obvious.
Uh...since whenis IRIX Windows, which they say is the preferred monoculture? Oh, and OpenSSL is certainly Open Source. Note the emphasis in case you missed it.
Think of the audience: corporate types, who tend to be suspicious of free software (who can you hang? What's it worth if it costs nothing?) I agree the point is stupid, but that's who's targetted. At least Sun knows what audience they're shooting for.
Uh....Brenda in Marketing has a good resolution (and typically LARGE) graphics screen, and a dedicated 100bT full duplex link to the server. Where does this alleged need for fibre come from?
Insightful, for someone who doesn't have half a clue of how the system works? There's a java-based tool that lets you say "I want to know where Jim is sitting today", and it shows you on a bloody floor plan. How stupid do you have to be that you can't read a floor plan?
What makes you think that employees never see each other? You think the cubes are miles away from each other in some vast wasteland? You think I don't have the common sense to reserve a cube next week that's somewhere near the cube I was in this week? (for that matter, you think there are no squatters?)
It's not about monitoring, it's about centralized resources. I know several people who prefer to have their slice of a reasonably sizeable server instead of the Ultra 1 they'd probably still have on their desk if they had their own dedicated machine. Not me of course.:-)
Also, management becomes a bit different when you don't really know where your employees are sitting on any given day. No longer is "management by walking around" a possibility.
1) there's a system to view who is sitting where (at least what they've reserved, they may not actually be in the seat at any given moment). Very handy when you want to find Joe SE to talk to him about the account, not just when you're Joe's manager.
2) while there are no assigned cubes, it's common to have "neighborhoods" where a given group tends to congregate. So if I want to talk to one of the SE's on a particular account, I know where they usually hang out; if that doesn't work, see 1).
Come on I thought this was supposed to be NEWS. Sun's been doing this for, oh, about 3 years now. Some do fine, some hate it (raises hand). Here's an interesting thought for ya though: how much do you think all that dedicated office space for people who are supposed to be at customer sites selling or servicing equipment would have added to the pain of the last two years since the bubble burst?
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Just to be clear, I'm not someone who said it will never run out (never say never, and all that). Just that The DoomSayers [tm] continually predict the end of Life As We Know It [tm] without taking into account that new technologies always seem to come along and help extend the life of whatever it is they're predicting the end of. In the case of oil, we now have technologies for squeezing oil out of places that we thought were out of reach before.
This doesn't mean we'll always be able to sqeeze another drop, simply that predictions of The End [tm] are always wrong.
Force? What "forces" me to run out and buy the latest Britney Crap? All this will do is slowly eliminate people willing to buy their products. Anyone who *cares* about being able to copy their music around won't go for such a scheme, and those who don't are sheep who'll buy whatever comes out anyway.
Me, I'll continue to support artists who don't use distributors who cripple their music, and go see those I like live.
Are they going to stop using plastics? Other products made as further generation processing of oil? Products transported to iceland with the use of oil or derived products? What are they going to run their planes on?
Don't get me wrong, reducing oil dependance is a good idea, even if I don't believe the people saying we're running out in 30-40 years (in case you weren't paying attention, they've been saying that for...oh...30-40 years). But is it practical to say they will outright stop? I don't think so.
Touch? What touch? Have you gone back to see "Episode 4" since you became an actual adult? Luke whines, whines, whines. Leia is only marginally better than a cardboard cutout. Han Solo at least gets his sneers right.
The movie skates on all this because 1) it was a simple story and 2) it had amazing effects. Lucas got lucky, being in the right place at the right time, and now millions have childhood memories that give the movie much more glow than it really ever had. It was a basic space opera. Lucas hasn't so much lost his touch as he's decided that giving the fans the backstory is more important than K.I.S.S.
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Did you even look at the link provided? The fix was Mozilla.
Litter wouldn't be a problem if it decomposed anytime soon, now would it? Tree leaves in autumn, for example, are nature's litter. No mention is made in the review of the answers to your questions; however, I'd be really surprised if those issues aren't at least considered in the book, since they are, after all, so bloody obvious.
Uh...since whenis IRIX Windows, which they say is the preferred monoculture? Oh, and OpenSSL is certainly Open Source. Note the emphasis in case you missed it.
Think of the audience: corporate types, who tend to be suspicious of free software (who can you hang? What's it worth if it costs nothing?) I agree the point is stupid, but that's who's targetted. At least Sun knows what audience they're shooting for.
Sun is still in business.... :-)
The point was not that it's "all ok", the point was the fool's posting wasn't even remotely close to the real reasons it's not ok
Uh....Brenda in Marketing has a good resolution (and typically LARGE) graphics screen, and a dedicated 100bT full duplex link to the server. Where does this alleged need for fibre come from?
Insightful, for someone who doesn't have half a clue of how the system works? There's a java-based tool that lets you say "I want to know where Jim is sitting today", and it shows you on a bloody floor plan. How stupid do you have to be that you can't read a floor plan?
It all depends on how strict the cubical nazis are in your office :-) (this model is worldwide, not just two or three corporate centers)
What makes you think that employees never see each other? You think the cubes are miles away from each other in some vast wasteland? You think I don't have the common sense to reserve a cube next week that's somewhere near the cube I was in this week? (for that matter, you think there are no squatters?)
In this day of VPN and common if not ubiquitous broadband, staying home is just as effective at doing the job many times.
It's not about monitoring, it's about centralized resources. I know several people who prefer to have their slice of a reasonably sizeable server instead of the Ultra 1 they'd probably still have on their desk if they had their own dedicated machine. Not me of course. :-)
1) there's a system to view who is sitting where (at least what they've reserved, they may not actually be in the seat at any given moment). Very handy when you want to find Joe SE to talk to him about the account, not just when you're Joe's manager.
2) while there are no assigned cubes, it's common to have "neighborhoods" where a given group tends to congregate. So if I want to talk to one of the SE's on a particular account, I know where they usually hang out; if that doesn't work, see 1).
Come on I thought this was supposed to be NEWS. Sun's been doing this for, oh, about 3 years now. Some do fine, some hate it (raises hand). Here's an interesting thought for ya though: how much do you think all that dedicated office space for people who are supposed to be at customer sites selling or servicing equipment would have added to the pain of the last two years since the bubble burst?
Thanks for the spoiler warning, fool.
Oh my God, it's the Borg!
A waste of an already dead laptop? Hardly. Not my taste, but hysterical nonetheless.
As for claims of making plastics from cellulose....again I say show me a real product, not claims that "obviously it can be done".
Yeah, hemp grows really well up near the arctic circle. And I'd be realllly interested to see something plastic made from hemp.
This doesn't mean we'll always be able to sqeeze another drop, simply that predictions of The End [tm] are always wrong.
Me, I'll continue to support artists who don't use distributors who cripple their music, and go see those I like live.
Are they going to stop using plastics? Other products made as further generation processing of oil? Products transported to iceland with the use of oil or derived products? What are they going to run their planes on?
Don't get me wrong, reducing oil dependance is a good idea, even if I don't believe the people saying we're running out in 30-40 years (in case you weren't paying attention, they've been saying that for...oh...30-40 years). But is it practical to say they will outright stop? I don't think so.
a common caricature of frenchmen has them swearing "Mon Dieu!" all the time. Which means "my God!"
Touch? What touch? Have you gone back to see "Episode 4" since you became an actual adult? Luke whines, whines, whines. Leia is only marginally better than a cardboard cutout. Han Solo at least gets his sneers right.
The movie skates on all this because 1) it was a simple story and 2) it had amazing effects. Lucas got lucky, being in the right place at the right time, and now millions have childhood memories that give the movie much more glow than it really ever had. It was a basic space opera. Lucas hasn't so much lost his touch as he's decided that giving the fans the backstory is more important than K.I.S.S.
OH, you maybe meant "Terabit". As in "a trillion bits". This has been your obligatory spelling flame.