he needs to maintain a few WinXP boxes in a *nix environ,
No, it's because of the fact that he's working in an OS X shop, and some users insist on running XP. Hey, when I can replace my XP box with OS X at a Microsoft shop, and *still* force the IT depertment to support it, I'll be happy.
But the reverse is not true sadly. I don't know of one IT department that would continue to support you if you'd replace an XP box with any other OS.
If you have a problem with a bank sharing your information with others, then why not find another bank? Apparently others don't have a problem with the bank trying to serve them better.
I don't see one problem with a bank sharing information. As long as they aren't sharing pin numbers or other information that would allow someone to steal my identity, even thing is fine.
Large corporations rarely make decisions based upon "serving you better". The only people they are interested in serving better is their shareholders.
No, companies are most interested in having you as a customer. You see, without customers, there is not much value for shareholders.
Trust me, there is only one thing a company is interested in and that is keeping you as a customer. And in order to do that they would do whatever they can to best possibly serve you.
For not having to deal with kernels, hardware drivers, slow, buggy windowing environments, or installations that take a week and a half.
I'm impressed with your experience. The very reason I don't use Windows is because of how much time it requires to keep it running. Linux has always been install, reboot once, and work away. Even to just install Windows requires several hours of rebooting and locating and downloading the latest drivers for all the hardware. Soundcards, video cards, NIC's, scanners, printers. Of course, the first time you download them you can burn them all to CD. That helps to speed it the process the next time you need to start over. Which usually is every 3 months. Then comes installing all the applications. Again it's a process of downloading everything piecemeal, and install it. Linux on the other hand usually has all the free applications preloaded. Then comes the maintainance. Certianly the Red Hat Network requires less attention then Windows Update, and also doesn't require a reboot.
To recap, Linux requires about 1/2 installation time with 10 minutes maintainance a week. Windows requires upwards of 4 hours to install and 1-2 hours a week support and maintainance. My support contract for Linux boxes is $25 a month per box, Windows is $200 a month per box. Not that I mind of course supporting others if they are willing to pay for the costs. But for me, my time is to valuable to run Windows.
But so will every one of their competitors. Companies are in business to make a profit.
Well, of course. Each company tries to compell you with their best offer. That's the point. And trust me, that's a lot easier then comparing 10 plans for 7 different companies for a new cell phone.
But they want to sell your calling habits to other companies.
Are you ok with that?
Again, yes. Like I said, I can't find every single company, evaluate all their products and services, weed out the ones that don't have anything at all to do with me and then try to figure out which one is the best. It is up to companies to take advantage of every resource they have to best serve me.
If a company has a product or service that matches my "profile" then they should let me know. The alternative of course is that they don't let me know and I don't know that it exists and I'm not able to improve my quality of life. Like I said, I don't have time to figure what every single product and service in the world has to offer. Or the company calls indiscriminately offers their product or service to everyone regardless of interest. Do you know how much I'd hate that? Look, if I just replaced my windows, then don't bother calling me, I'm not going to replace them again. On the other hand, if I haven't replaced my windows for 10 years, then maybe it's time to let me know what services you offer.
I think more companies should be doing that. In fact, I think in the future there well be a company that keeps "consumer profiles" on everyone. If a company has a product or service that they want to offer, they match it to those consumers who are interested in it and let them know.
It's obvious that everyone who is upset in this thread has no concept of marketing. Marketing is beautiful and unfortunetaly not used to its fullest potential. I think that's a shame.
It's their information to use to server *you* better. It belongs to them because you are their customer, and it is irresponsible for then to not use it in order to serve you better.
It's like when I go out to a resteraunt and order an entree. The waitress should offer a suggestion as to which wine and dessert goes best with my meal. I sure have no clue as to which culinary delights work best together.
In the same way Verizon should be able to use sales records, and other data to create new services and products and offer them to me. Perhaps I make a lot of long distance calls, but only in the evening after 9pm. Then they should call up and offer me a plan that takes advantage of that. Or maybe I make a lot of long distance calls during the day, and they have a flat-rate plan that gives me 500 minutes of long distance a month. They should call and offer me that.
I don't have the time to check out every possible scenerio available with every company out there. It's their job to take the data they have and then present me with their best offers.
Maybe I'll say no. In fact, I usually do say no. But at least I know that it is available. It isn't just phone companies either. Basically every company that does business should feel obligated to collect the information available to them and use it to serve the customer better.
Is that no one accepts responsibility for what they do.
These people violated the contact they agreed to. I support every action taken against them. Perhaps if we'd hold more people accountable for their actions this world would be a much better place to live in today.
"We are a poor country. We cannot develop operating systems and platforms on our own," Kulkarni said.
Whenever someone says something like that I hear: "We are a very poor country. We are all dunces. We can't raise our standard of living. Therefore we will eat at the crumbs and wallow in our own pity.
It's a shame people don't respect themselves more. And it's not like php requires that much more development ability then ASP does.
I don't understand why some people are so freaked out about privacy? What do you have to hide? Why don't you want the speed benefits that a cache provides you? What's wrong with seeing ads?
For the record, I use Netscape 7 with all the features that I can.
People are still choosing PS2 over the technically superior X-Box - why?
How did you come to the conclusion that the XBox is technically superior? Technically, I believe that the PS2 is superior. Look at the tech specs for it. Wow!
has the right to make me pay for the film and to carry the camera
What "film" and "carrying" does the bbc make you do? It's more like the store keeping a copy of your receipt.
You went to their site, they paid attention to what you did there so that they could serve you better. It didn't cost you anything, and didn't even force you to do anything different. It's just part of the package.
I work for a used SGI reseller. You need to go SGI if you need I/O bandwidth. The bus on Intel-based machines doesn't cut it, no matter how fast the mhz. Pay for I/O performance, not fast, but mostly useless CPU speed.
When will you people grow up and be concerned with your own safety and that of every other American citizen? Wasn't one September 11th enough? How many more terrorist attacks do you have to go through to finally allow your government to protect you by searching out and stopping terrorists?
I know I will be doing all I can to make sure that the goverment implements every possible program it can to stop terrorism. If you'd rather let the terrorists attack you it would be simpler if you'd just take your self out. Then the rest of us can live in peace.
If I were arrested I could have been sent to jail for 3 weeks, not been told what I did, then released and not able to fight back. Terrorists didn't take away our rights or liberties, the government did.
Would you rather spend 3 weeks in jail cooperating with federal investigators, or worry about being blown up in the next building that Al-Quida is going to blow up? It's no contest for me, I'm taking the 3 weeks.
If you change communists to terrorists, jews to muslims, trade unionists to hackers, you basically have the situation of today.
This idea of "protecting" and "defending" criminals who will then return the favour by doing all they can to destroy us is preposturous. That seems to be like saying that you should stop the government from finding and punishing the person who burglered your neighbors house. After all, if the government is willing to go after those who steal property, they'll surely go after those who own property next. In the meantime, Mr. I've-Protected-You-To-Protect-Me comes around to burgler your house.
No thanks, I'll have none of that scenerio. I'll use my liberties in this democracy to strongly defend not only those people who would take away my liberties, but also to keep a government that will protect my liberties using every possible measure available. And I think that based on the elections results yesterday that most Americans agree with me.
We live in a good situation here. I can't wait for these 2 strong years of further strengthing ourselves against those who are bent at our destruction.
Um.......i guess we have no rights online or on the phone, at least they don't.
Why should they have rights? Why should people who want to destroy us, and take away our livihood, and remove our liberties have any right? I don't understand why anyone would want them to have rights. Let's support everything we can to stop them.
This has got to be the most outrageous complaint I've seen on/. yet. I fully support granting the FBI every single possible thing they might need to protect me. If they need to convertly monitor public computers to protect me from Al-Quida, then I am in full support of it.
Why are Americans so bent on protecting criminals? I don't understand. I want my liberties protected by giving the FBI every opportunity it needs to protect me.
W2K is FAR more stable than XP, esp. on Dell laptops.
The client that I installed the Dell Notebook for bought it before XP was released. (But during the free upgrade period. I advised them to install W2K on it, instead of ME, which they accepted. The only problem was that a few of their applications did not run on W2K. So Dell swapped the W@K license for ME, and everything was well except for the crashes. XP did run those apps, so they upgraded as soon as they cool. It was mostly the same for them except that had a few less crashes.
You really should try a Microsoft OS based on the NT kernel. I haven't had problems with crashes since NT 3.51.
Been there, done that. XP crashes about once a week on a almost new Dell notebook.
But still, the biggest problem is not stability, the biggest problem is just having to add a different OS to a network of identical systems. Doesn't it make more sense to run Solaris on everything instead of 4 Solaris boxes, 2 XP boxes, and 3 OS X boxes? Having jsut one vendor to deal with, one OS to keep up with, and all that?
If your running a business where the materials are easily going to run you over $250 for each sign why worry about a $250 one-time cost.
What if I don't want to invest in a tool that runs on a crappy OS, and is going to crash, and have high support requirements, and a short life cycle? Instead I want to purchase a product that runs on the same OS as the rest of my applications? IE Solaris. Is that too much too ask? Or do I have to buy another system just to run XP on to cut out the signs?
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No, it's because of the fact that he's working in an OS X shop, and some users insist on running XP. Hey, when I can replace my XP box with OS X at a Microsoft shop, and *still* force the IT depertment to support it, I'll be happy.
But the reverse is not true sadly. I don't know of one IT department that would continue to support you if you'd replace an XP box with any other OS.
-BrentI don't see one problem with a bank sharing information. As long as they aren't sharing pin numbers or other information that would allow someone to steal my identity, even thing is fine.
-BrentNo, companies are most interested in having you as a customer. You see, without customers, there is not much value for shareholders.
Trust me, there is only one thing a company is interested in and that is keeping you as a customer. And in order to do that they would do whatever they can to best possibly serve you.
-BrentThey just want your address so that they can serve you better. It's not like they are profiling you so that they can steal your secret projects.
I'm impressed with your experience. The very reason I don't use Windows is because of how much time it requires to keep it running. Linux has always been install, reboot once, and work away. Even to just install Windows requires several hours of rebooting and locating and downloading the latest drivers for all the hardware. Soundcards, video cards, NIC's, scanners, printers. Of course, the first time you download them you can burn them all to CD. That helps to speed it the process the next time you need to start over. Which usually is every 3 months. Then comes installing all the applications. Again it's a process of downloading everything piecemeal, and install it. Linux on the other hand usually has all the free applications preloaded. Then comes the maintainance. Certianly the Red Hat Network requires less attention then Windows Update, and also doesn't require a reboot.
To recap, Linux requires about 1/2 installation time with 10 minutes maintainance a week. Windows requires upwards of 4 hours to install and 1-2 hours a week support and maintainance. My support contract for Linux boxes is $25 a month per box, Windows is $200 a month per box. Not that I mind of course supporting others if they are willing to pay for the costs. But for me, my time is to valuable to run Windows.
-BrentWell, of course. Each company tries to compell you with their best offer. That's the point. And trust me, that's a lot easier then comparing 10 plans for 7 different companies for a new cell phone.
-BrentAgain, yes. Like I said, I can't find every single company, evaluate all their products and services, weed out the ones that don't have anything at all to do with me and then try to figure out which one is the best. It is up to companies to take advantage of every resource they have to best serve me.
If a company has a product or service that matches my "profile" then they should let me know. The alternative of course is that they don't let me know and I don't know that it exists and I'm not able to improve my quality of life. Like I said, I don't have time to figure what every single product and service in the world has to offer. Or the company calls indiscriminately offers their product or service to everyone regardless of interest. Do you know how much I'd hate that? Look, if I just replaced my windows, then don't bother calling me, I'm not going to replace them again. On the other hand, if I haven't replaced my windows for 10 years, then maybe it's time to let me know what services you offer.
I think more companies should be doing that. In fact, I think in the future there well be a company that keeps "consumer profiles" on everyone. If a company has a product or service that they want to offer, they match it to those consumers who are interested in it and let them know.
It's obvious that everyone who is upset in this thread has no concept of marketing. Marketing is beautiful and unfortunetaly not used to its fullest potential. I think that's a shame.
-BrentIt's like when I go out to a resteraunt and order an entree. The waitress should offer a suggestion as to which wine and dessert goes best with my meal. I sure have no clue as to which culinary delights work best together.
In the same way Verizon should be able to use sales records, and other data to create new services and products and offer them to me. Perhaps I make a lot of long distance calls, but only in the evening after 9pm. Then they should call up and offer me a plan that takes advantage of that. Or maybe I make a lot of long distance calls during the day, and they have a flat-rate plan that gives me 500 minutes of long distance a month. They should call and offer me that.
I don't have the time to check out every possible scenerio available with every company out there. It's their job to take the data they have and then present me with their best offers.
Maybe I'll say no. In fact, I usually do say no. But at least I know that it is available. It isn't just phone companies either. Basically every company that does business should feel obligated to collect the information available to them and use it to serve the customer better.
-BrentThese people violated the contact they agreed to. I support every action taken against them. Perhaps if we'd hold more people accountable for their actions this world would be a much better place to live in today.
-BrentThere are actually sites that still exist with ActiveX controls?
-BrentWhenever someone says something like that I hear: "We are a very poor country. We are all dunces. We can't raise our standard of living. Therefore we will eat at the crumbs and wallow in our own pity.
It's a shame people don't respect themselves more. And it's not like php requires that much more development ability then ASP does.
-BrentFor the record, I use Netscape 7 with all the features that I can.
-BrentAgreeing to receive emails hardly makes it unsolicited.
-BrentHow did you come to the conclusion that the XBox is technically superior? Technically, I believe that the PS2 is superior. Look at the tech specs for it. Wow!
-BrentWhat "film" and "carrying" does the bbc make you do? It's more like the store keeping a copy of your receipt.
You went to their site, they paid attention to what you did there so that they could serve you better. It didn't cost you anything, and didn't even force you to do anything different. It's just part of the package.
-BrentI work for a used SGI reseller. You need to go SGI if you need I/O bandwidth. The bus on Intel-based machines doesn't cut it, no matter how fast the mhz. Pay for I/O performance, not fast, but mostly useless CPU speed.
-BrentAll dead when the terrorists get you. I'd prefer to enjoy life knowing that the government is protecting me.
-BrentWhen will you people grow up and be concerned with your own safety and that of every other American citizen? Wasn't one September 11th enough? How many more terrorist attacks do you have to go through to finally allow your government to protect you by searching out and stopping terrorists?
I know I will be doing all I can to make sure that the goverment implements every possible program it can to stop terrorism. If you'd rather let the terrorists attack you it would be simpler if you'd just take your self out. Then the rest of us can live in peace.
-BrentWould you rather spend 3 weeks in jail cooperating with federal investigators, or worry about being blown up in the next building that Al-Quida is going to blow up? It's no contest for me, I'm taking the 3 weeks.
-BrentThis idea of "protecting" and "defending" criminals who will then return the favour by doing all they can to destroy us is preposturous. That seems to be like saying that you should stop the government from finding and punishing the person who burglered your neighbors house. After all, if the government is willing to go after those who steal property, they'll surely go after those who own property next. In the meantime, Mr. I've-Protected-You-To-Protect-Me comes around to burgler your house.
No thanks, I'll have none of that scenerio. I'll use my liberties in this democracy to strongly defend not only those people who would take away my liberties, but also to keep a government that will protect my liberties using every possible measure available. And I think that based on the elections results yesterday that most Americans agree with me.
We live in a good situation here. I can't wait for these 2 strong years of further strengthing ourselves against those who are bent at our destruction.
-BrentWhy should they have rights? Why should people who want to destroy us, and take away our livihood, and remove our liberties have any right? I don't understand why anyone would want them to have rights. Let's support everything we can to stop them.
-BrentWhy are Americans so bent on protecting criminals? I don't understand. I want my liberties protected by giving the FBI every opportunity it needs to protect me.
-BrentThe client that I installed the Dell Notebook for bought it before XP was released. (But during the free upgrade period. I advised them to install W2K on it, instead of ME, which they accepted. The only problem was that a few of their applications did not run on W2K. So Dell swapped the W@K license for ME, and everything was well except for the crashes. XP did run those apps, so they upgraded as soon as they cool. It was mostly the same for them except that had a few less crashes.
-BrentBeen there, done that. XP crashes about once a week on a almost new Dell notebook.
But still, the biggest problem is not stability, the biggest problem is just having to add a different OS to a network of identical systems. Doesn't it make more sense to run Solaris on everything instead of 4 Solaris boxes, 2 XP boxes, and 3 OS X boxes? Having jsut one vendor to deal with, one OS to keep up with, and all that?
-BrentWhat if I don't want to invest in a tool that runs on a crappy OS, and is going to crash, and have high support requirements, and a short life cycle? Instead I want to purchase a product that runs on the same OS as the rest of my applications? IE Solaris. Is that too much too ask? Or do I have to buy another system just to run XP on to cut out the signs?
-Brent