OK. Explain to us why SUN's hardware is better than what is out there? I mean, explain it in terms that a business guy would understand; meaning, not saying something like, (I'm making this up) "the bus speed is faster" or "the memory access is faster" etc...
Why would someone go out and spend the extra money for a SUN workstation? I don't see it.
Standard PC hardware has been getting to the Good enough category, and replaceing the need for the high end stuff.
It is as good as SUN and cheaper. Otherwise, folks would still be buying SUN's products. Say what you will about MS, but they have a good product and the most applications that run on it. Consumers are not stupid as many folks here believe; especially, business consumers.
No, I don't work for Microsoft. I'm just expressing my opinion.
That's what happens when you manage from an engineering mind set. When SUN started, they were leaders in technology: no one was doing what they were doing and there was a need for that technology that they developed. The market only rewards better engineering when it satisfies their needs. Now, computing power is a commodity and generic software is a commodity.
The market that is left in SAP type of stuff. Software that allows a company to become more competitive. There's more new markets, but I'm too old to know where it is - and I'm ten years younger than the senior management of SUN. The next software big thing is going to come from an 18 year old in his parent's basement and I don't think it's going to be PC based. It's going to be some device (I don't know, a toaster that takes a whole loaf of bread, slices it, toasts the bread, and cooks the bacon) and it'll become "necessary".
Either SUN gets some young blood or they will turn into - I don't want to say it. They have MANY patents and they invented MANY of the things that run the internet (thanks Joy!) and I'm sure there are folks violating those patents. Just saying....
> allowing computers to be affordable to greater portion of the populace.
PCs finally managed to come down to the price of early home computers about 20 years after Atari and Commodore achieved the same thing....nice historical revisionism there.
Why do you think that happened?
MS Windows made the hardware a commodity.
âoeSteve Jobs himself thinks the Steve Jobs mystique is of value -- otherwise, why not have other people introduce those products over the past 10 years?â said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale University School of Management. âoeSteve Jobs, Martha Stewart and Donald Trump have all made the boss the brand. The boss is the brand at Apple.â
Jobs set himself up to be a "Rock Star" businessman. He was always the guy at MacWorld, he was the guy that has this cult around him. What Apple needs to do is to start highlighting the designers as a group that actually come up with the ideas. I don't think Jobs was actually the one who came up with the iPod, and iWhatever they are (I'm not an Apple fanboy if you can't tell.).
In the past year, the SEC has been criticized by lawmakers, investors and its own inspector general as lacking aggressiveness and being deferential to companies, including Wall Street banks. Last month, the agency admitted it failed to detect Madoffâ(TM)s alleged fraud, even though it had received âoecredible and specificâ complaints about the 70-year-old New York money manager for at least a decade.
The SEC is part of the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch has been controlled by the Republican party; hence, the Republican tag.
Why - big, bad Slashdot picking on your Microsoft idol?
In many parts of the Developing World, Bill Gates is their idol. They admire and want to be like him. Regardless of what you think about his business practices, he, along with his partners, did create a software powerhouse that standardized and commoditized the PC industry allowing computers to be affordable to greater portion of the populace.
Whereas, here in the US, we idolize: pop stars, athletes, Joe the Plumber, and others who are famous for being famous.
Do we idolize scientists or people who make a positive difference? Nope. We idolize folks who are great at throwing balls and getting drunk.
Although, this fascination with President Obama has given me some hope.
P.S. Mozilla needs to ad "Obama" to the spell checker. Thank you.
Unlike many other scripting languages, JavaScript's standard library is very slim and doesn't come with very much additional infrastructure. Developers who build GTK+ applications with Seed will have to use other GObject-based libraries from the GNOME stack in order to produce full applications. For example, native file access and basic remote data retrieval can be done with the Gio library.
Scripts are pigs. They're good for little maintenance things or tools or whatever. Write a program, that I have to use, with it?! Oh God no!
Interpreted languages are just too slow and in some cases, too flaky for desktops or any other intense application - especially apps that have a UI. Can't stand them!
You see, if I went back in time and my Mother was as hot as Lea Thompson, then, well, I'd have a "Time Enough For Love" (Robert A. Heinlein) moment - when Lazarus meets his Mother.
I have noticed that a lot of old folks are thrilled with the internet because they can keep in touch with their kids and grand kids - they just love it! Some do have an issue with the technology and some are just intimidated by it. Anyway, volunteering at your local senior center and help them set up an email account or set up a video camera. And maybe instructing them on the hazards: both real and phony.
In reality, marriage under the law and marriage in a religious institution are different things with the same name. However, because many people do both things at once and because they don't distinguish between the two things, they get conflated.
Ah! State Marriage: share property, insurance, etc...
Religious Marriage : whatever they think God thinks it is.
It has a meaning at both the church and state level, which is the problem. Many people do not like the government redefining a religious term. An overwhelming majority of anti-gay marriage voters are for a separation of the terms and the granting of equal rights, but this is not acceptable by the gay community.
I am sorry, I still do not understand. Perhaps someone can explain this to me.
That depends. If you are against gay marriage, they are evil.
I don't get it. Of all the things going on in the World today, I don't get why this is such a hot issue. Actually, I don't get why folks are so opposed to it. It doesn't cause them any harm.
That's pretty much what the problem is with social value "problems" in this country: people sticking their noses in other people's business. Two people of the same sex getting married doesn't harm me. A person marrying a goat doesn't harm me. But yet, some people think the World will come to an end of two people of the same sex get married. So what? What harm does it cause you?! (I'm not speaking to the parent) What, you're afraid your little snowflake will see two people of the same sex kissing each other and think , "Hmmmmm, I'll kiss my buddy Rod!" Again, so what? In many cultures, heterosexual MEN kiss each other. In our culture, heterosexual women kiss each other. So, again, so what?
Oh wait, your religious book doesn't like it...ooohhhhhh. Which part? The 'Old' part that I think is just Jewish Myth or the 'New' part that's completely loving and forgiving of all folks?
If it weren't happening I would think it were a script from a Twilight Zone episode. You know, where it's set up where folks hate each other for completely ridiculous reasons to show a point of the script writers. In the old days it was Rod Serling - a Goddamn genius.
I work for a large international IT research firm and I just comb Slashdot, filtering for only +5 comments, and then plagiarize what I see and put it in my report.
The sucky part is, when I first started, I forgot to filter out the "+5 Funny" comments. So, in my reports, you'd see "In Soviet Russia, Ms Word You!" and "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of MS Word" and so on. I got fired from my first job. But I got it down now.
It's sad that we're not allowed to take long periods of time off in this society without having some sort of "story" behind it. And we wonder why there's such a problem with drugs and what not.
I can't begin to tell you how many people I've interviewed who are 5-6 months out of college but aren't working anywhere, even Starbucks. The lack of showing responsibility by not doing something is a turn-off.
That's YOUR opinion.
There are folks who worked their asses off in school and decided to take a break. Which is a good thing because, I don't know about you, I wouldn't want someone who hasn't relaxed a bit; otherwise, they have a tendency to burn out.
Many of those places won't have anything to do with someone with a BS or higher because they're "over qualified".
There could be family issues that is none of your business. Just because you're an employer doesn't mean you need to know every little thing about their life.
That's the trouble with employers these days, they have all of these "shoulds" and "oughts" about what makes a good hire that's based on nothing or worse, experience based on a previous hire or two.
And the trouble is, if there's the slightest non conforming aspect of someone's work history, they're marked for life. And yet, American business wants folks who "think outside the box". No they don't. Because folks who really do are rejected out of hand because "they're irresponsible" or some other asinine label.
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Why would someone go out and spend the extra money for a SUN workstation? I don't see it.
Standard PC hardware has been getting to the Good enough category, and replaceing the need for the high end stuff.
It is as good as SUN and cheaper. Otherwise, folks would still be buying SUN's products. Say what you will about MS, but they have a good product and the most applications that run on it. Consumers are not stupid as many folks here believe; especially, business consumers.
No, I don't work for Microsoft. I'm just expressing my opinion.
The market that is left in SAP type of stuff. Software that allows a company to become more competitive. There's more new markets, but I'm too old to know where it is - and I'm ten years younger than the senior management of SUN. The next software big thing is going to come from an 18 year old in his parent's basement and I don't think it's going to be PC based. It's going to be some device (I don't know, a toaster that takes a whole loaf of bread, slices it, toasts the bread, and cooks the bacon) and it'll become "necessary".
Either SUN gets some young blood or they will turn into - I don't want to say it. They have MANY patents and they invented MANY of the things that run the internet (thanks Joy!) and I'm sure there are folks violating those patents. Just saying....
> allowing computers to be affordable to greater portion of the populace.
PCs finally managed to come down to the price of early home computers about 20 years after Atari and Commodore achieved the same thing. ...nice historical revisionism there.
Why do you think that happened? MS Windows made the hardware a commodity.
âoeSteve Jobs himself thinks the Steve Jobs mystique is of value -- otherwise, why not have other people introduce those products over the past 10 years?â said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale University School of Management. âoeSteve Jobs, Martha Stewart and Donald Trump have all made the boss the brand. The boss is the brand at Apple.â
Jobs set himself up to be a "Rock Star" businessman. He was always the guy at MacWorld, he was the guy that has this cult around him. What Apple needs to do is to start highlighting the designers as a group that actually come up with the ideas. I don't think Jobs was actually the one who came up with the iPod, and iWhatever they are (I'm not an Apple fanboy if you can't tell.).
In the past year, the SEC has been criticized by lawmakers, investors and its own inspector general as lacking aggressiveness and being deferential to companies, including Wall Street banks. Last month, the agency admitted it failed to detect Madoffâ(TM)s alleged fraud, even though it had received âoecredible and specificâ complaints about the 70-year-old New York money manager for at least a decade.
The SEC is part of the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch has been controlled by the Republican party; hence, the Republican tag.
Why - big, bad Slashdot picking on your Microsoft idol?
In many parts of the Developing World, Bill Gates is their idol. They admire and want to be like him. Regardless of what you think about his business practices, he, along with his partners, did create a software powerhouse that standardized and commoditized the PC industry allowing computers to be affordable to greater portion of the populace.
Whereas, here in the US, we idolize: pop stars, athletes, Joe the Plumber, and others who are famous for being famous.
Do we idolize scientists or people who make a positive difference? Nope. We idolize folks who are great at throwing balls and getting drunk.
Although, this fascination with President Obama has given me some hope.
P.S. Mozilla needs to ad "Obama" to the spell checker. Thank you.
user #1 "Apple is for fags!"
User #2: Microsoft never did anything wrong. People who complain about their business practices are just cry babies!"
User #1: "Oh yeah!? Well, Linux Sucks!"
User #2: Cowers away from being beaten.
Unlike many other scripting languages, JavaScript's standard library is very slim and doesn't come with very much additional infrastructure. Developers who build GTK+ applications with Seed will have to use other GObject-based libraries from the GNOME stack in order to produce full applications. For example, native file access and basic remote data retrieval can be done with the Gio library.
Scripts are pigs. They're good for little maintenance things or tools or whatever. Write a program, that I have to use, with it?! Oh God no!
Interpreted languages are just too slow and in some cases, too flaky for desktops or any other intense application - especially apps that have a UI. Can't stand them!
You see, if I went back in time and my Mother was as hot as Lea Thompson, then, well, I'd have a "Time Enough For Love" (Robert A. Heinlein) moment - when Lazarus meets his Mother.
Um, you really don't want to go off on a tangent because the mods will mark you off-topic. I can see the sines in your post of that happening.
I have noticed that a lot of old folks are thrilled with the internet because they can keep in touch with their kids and grand kids - they just love it! Some do have an issue with the technology and some are just intimidated by it. Anyway, volunteering at your local senior center and help them set up an email account or set up a video camera. And maybe instructing them on the hazards: both real and phony.
...(without minding the liberties taken with the plot for the sake of gameplay),...
Oh God! I'm still hearing about how there were no Elves at that big battle in the second movie! This game will cause a few heads to explode!
I choose 4.
They get hung up on the word marriage.
In reality, marriage under the law and marriage in a religious institution are different things with the same name. However, because many people do both things at once and because they don't distinguish between the two things, they get conflated.
Ah! State Marriage: share property, insurance, etc...
Religious Marriage : whatever they think God thinks it is.
Got it!
It has a meaning at both the church and state level, which is the problem. Many people do not like the government redefining a religious term. An overwhelming majority of anti-gay marriage voters are for a separation of the terms and the granting of equal rights, but this is not acceptable by the gay community.
I am sorry, I still do not understand. Perhaps someone can explain this to me.
So are they being evil here or not? I'm confused.
That depends. If you are against gay marriage, they are evil.
I don't get it. Of all the things going on in the World today, I don't get why this is such a hot issue. Actually, I don't get why folks are so opposed to it. It doesn't cause them any harm.
That's pretty much what the problem is with social value "problems" in this country: people sticking their noses in other people's business. Two people of the same sex getting married doesn't harm me. A person marrying a goat doesn't harm me. But yet, some people think the World will come to an end of two people of the same sex get married. So what? What harm does it cause you?! (I'm not speaking to the parent) What, you're afraid your little snowflake will see two people of the same sex kissing each other and think , "Hmmmmm, I'll kiss my buddy Rod!" Again, so what? In many cultures, heterosexual MEN kiss each other. In our culture, heterosexual women kiss each other. So, again, so what?
Oh wait, your religious book doesn't like it...ooohhhhhh. Which part? The 'Old' part that I think is just Jewish Myth or the 'New' part that's completely loving and forgiving of all folks?
If it weren't happening I would think it were a script from a Twilight Zone episode. You know, where it's set up where folks hate each other for completely ridiculous reasons to show a point of the script writers. In the old days it was Rod Serling - a Goddamn genius.
"Experimentalist"... It sounds like what a social deviant might call themselves.
I'm not supposed to say anything, but it's a journal for scientists who are into S&M, Golden Showers, etc....
I work for a large international IT research firm and I just comb Slashdot, filtering for only +5 comments, and then plagiarize what I see and put it in my report.
The sucky part is, when I first started, I forgot to filter out the "+5 Funny" comments. So, in my reports, you'd see "In Soviet Russia, Ms Word You!" and "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of MS Word" and so on. I got fired from my first job. But I got it down now.
It's sad that we're not allowed to take long periods of time off in this society without having some sort of "story" behind it. And we wonder why there's such a problem with drugs and what not.
I can't begin to tell you how many people I've interviewed who are 5-6 months out of college but aren't working anywhere, even Starbucks. The lack of showing responsibility by not doing something is a turn-off.
That's YOUR opinion.
There are folks who worked their asses off in school and decided to take a break. Which is a good thing because, I don't know about you, I wouldn't want someone who hasn't relaxed a bit; otherwise, they have a tendency to burn out.
Many of those places won't have anything to do with someone with a BS or higher because they're "over qualified".
There could be family issues that is none of your business. Just because you're an employer doesn't mean you need to know every little thing about their life.
That's the trouble with employers these days, they have all of these "shoulds" and "oughts" about what makes a good hire that's based on nothing or worse, experience based on a previous hire or two.
And the trouble is, if there's the slightest non conforming aspect of someone's work history, they're marked for life. And yet, American business wants folks who "think outside the box". No they don't. Because folks who really do are rejected out of hand because "they're irresponsible" or some other asinine label.
You'll get many people who'll do it for free just to knock you down and to prove their superior intellect.
It's amazing how long this zombie company can stay on its feet.
So that's why Darl and the other directors at the last board meeting kept saying, "Brains! brains! We need brains!"
It sounds like having a "discussion" about this conflict is a great way to generate traffic to ones website.