Well so far the Sony heads have said they need the next PS to be 1000X the power of todays and since it will be impossible to wait for hardware to catch up they need distributed computing to help, yet they cant provide details, probably because they dont know...?
What better way to develop the next PS3 then get a bunch of open source free for all coders, developers, and testers to get it done first so they can take it or know where to start, all the while making $199.99 a pop.
Hopefully someone will make an ISO of the CD and tell people how to use their existing Keyboard, mice, and HD to set it up without ponying up $200 clams.
Apple has always been very legal about their software and hardware, even more so then any company I know. Its is common for them to screw, lack of a better word, their developers, resellers, clone makers (remember them?), and people working with them for the benefit of themselves. Ask anyone that has been any of the above. Some get angry while others just accept that thats the way Apple is.
Exactly, Steve Jobs should be out there. Wasnt Apple one of the first to go after M$ by themselves for years and finally ran out of cash, time, and energy? Oh wait isnt Jobs, Gates' whore now?
True but with the Feds out, most of that thunder is gone. IMO it was the help of the Federal level that helped win that monopoly judgement, which of course is a debate that will be debated for years to come. At any rate, I see the 9 states crumbling (settling in some weak way) under political pressure soon is what I was getting at.
And at one point in time everyone is this stupid person until they learn a *nix OS. Some of the best programmers and admins I know started with an MCSE, ugh.
The thing is over and Microsoft has pretty much won. How do these 9 states think that holding out any more is going to do anything? Especially with another 6 years left with this administration that totally supports the Big M.
Because according to the article American Tourists will find paying the Silver level membership is a good bargain. And eventually the developers at Sun can afford great luxuries they dont have now and still get the open source community to support and help them with bugs without the backlash that is felt by Microsoft.
I have had several people get this from Register.com. Telling them they need renewal, that Register can get better annual rates, etc.
Typically any person that deals with this stuff knows but the sneaky thing is they send it to the billing or accounting and most of the time the people pay thinking its for the domain to stay up and then it gets switched without the most important people knowing the technical people.
I believe this was something that was suppose to take off slightly before the.com bust, but considering the times it never did. Microsoft had their terminal server which is now moving to.net and Citrix had a product that worked off of Microsoft and thin clients. Linux had projects here and there but seems people have put that on hold as well. Apple had OS X at the time which I remember Jobs running movies off of one server with 50 iMacs with no HD's.
From what I understand the idea is dependent on bandwidth and its availability, if your connection goes out so does your desktop.
Im not sure why everyone is screaming VNC, that isnt exactly made for say 100 simultaneous users and is kinda flaky. VNC IMO is just a free PCAnywhere. Besides what do you VNC into when your machine is out, couldnt you just use the VNC machine as the substitute? VNC doesnt make sense.
At least in the past you could just not answer the door or run around your lawn in circles having the server chase you. Now email is good enough? How will they confirm the person actually recieved it?
My thoughts exactly. Those that know their subject and know it well tend to be irritated or annoyed at having to repeat things more than 3 times, which result in poor teachers. As for books knowledgable technical people tend to overwrite a subject or think everything is given and underwrite.
Problem is you cant give people something free and then turn it around. First it was free then they need money, I understand the reasons but some people just cant swallow that whole concept. Either charge to begin with or dont ever, look at what happened to Napster.
At least with something like Microsoft you know your handing over money to begin with.
Macintosh certs have been worse than Microsofts. It has to do with how much you pay Apple over skill. The test itself is extremely easy, although in order to study for it you have to work for or be a Apple Service center, which all that is required is to pay Apple some thousand dollars a year to get some CD's regarding their machines.
The news. or newsblaster sites remind me of the days when the web was just starting to get going. No banners, pics, ads, frames, etc... Just lines and lines of text for one to sift through.
So the idea goes, what really ends up happening is more competition ultimately ends with the biggest fish winning. Then the biggest fish makes up new rules so that other fish can never enter the market thus making a monopoly.
Reminds me of those things that are being sold as an email, file, firewall, server in a box. When actually all it is, is a computer with locked down limited use. Why would I need to hook up another device that requires my PC to work to begin with?
Apple every so often deviates from their main OS and try to dabble in something that is just strange. Game sprockets, MkLinux, HyperCard, OpenDoc,... eventually it dies when they realize it was a useless effort. Just another thing that they will bore of and let go.
I used to work for a technology consulting firm that worked solely with movie industry and law, with the board of directors made up of his lawyer frat brothers firm. Every year employees would go to Cannes in France or Sundance to work and help their clients from L.A. Well come mid-2000 something was obviously wrong with the company, the owner was quietly laying off people and reimbursement and pay checks would slowly come up late or show up the next pay period. Also, the owner who was once a happy, ambitious kind of guy, was getting bitter and quiet.
Regardless, some choose not to see the facts and kept on hoping things would get better and didnt want to loose their seniority they had built with the 3-5 years with this firm. Well Cannes was rolling around and some other festival thing in Italy as well. One my colleagues was asked to go and excitedly agreed. The owner, who always went, said he would meet him in Italy and then head off to France. Once there a per diem was renegged on, with owner citing that reimbursements would be made for any monies spent, since co-worker didnt believe it they decided to go cheap as possible. Checkout day and owner left a voicemail stating they had already started up to France and to meet there, not to worry about the hotel it was taken care of. As co-worker started to leave hotel security stopped them citing they needed to check out, co-worker thinking that just giving them room keys was not a big deal agreed. After getting to the counter the co-worker was told they needed to pay $7500.00 in hotel bills for 5 rooms, room service, and other amenities that the owner claimed was taken care of. Needless to say this co-worker did not have that kind of cash or credit limit on cards and ended up in an Italian jail. Luckily he had some family visiting in Sweden at the time and was able to get them to aid him in his time of need.
Upon returning he was able to get reimbursed after 30 days and immediately quit. And over 2000-2001 many lawsuits were brought against the owner and his company from employees, vendors, and IRS while he hid behind his corporate veil. Employees that were eventually never paid brought up lawsuits and went to the labor board. Problem is if someone is awarded a judgement it is the responsibility of the plaintiff to collect and of course this owner would not pay. So one has to go to court again and the cycle continues. Some could not handle legal costs and lawyers and dropped their cases, while others would have judges change their award from $2000.00 backpay to $17,000.00 for punishment. But again a futile effort if the business wouldnt pay $2000.00 why would they pay $17,000.00.
Ultimately the company folded, the company paid out some of the smaller judgements and settlements ignored the rest and folded. The owner losing his company and money decided to sue his clients! Some bigger studios and firms typically cost analyze a settlement and legal costs and he was able to make out with nice $50k checks here and there from larger multi million dollar firms/studios not wanting to be bothered, and with others that wanted to fight he would walk away. Rumor has it that this scum has now started some 3 non-profit organizations and is starting to do well financially again, learning that non-profits have protection against the IRS.
From testimonies of traveling whatevers the people always complain that PPTP is very sloooow. They preferred using RAS in place, albeit a very expensive phone bill.
Most were of course higher level execs so their complaining actually mattered.
Well so far since Nextel has released the email web browsing with their phones, my previous employers signed up for the service. Since day 1 spam has always popped through, sometimes from Nextel themselves. They have good phone service but the spam part is rather unacceptable.
Havent recieved any telemarketer calls directly yet. I say this because I did get calls with people selling things and addressing me with the wrong name. I would tell them it was a cell phone and wrong person, they would apologize but still ask if I was interested in the product/service sold. Made me think that was a new tactic so that cell phone users would not get too pissed at the call.
Of course even if they had a machine that could turn water to unleaded gas I wouldnt buy it, on principle.
I dont get it, for as long as Ebay has been out this is the first instance of this? Or something this big? You figure with all the scamsters out there this would have been done long ago or someone would have thought of controls for this. Imagine the reaming if this was a Microsoft owned site, people would go on and on about how they knew and should have done something.
At any rate. Its kinda strange how because this is one guy people are looking, tracking, and doing things to punish. But with something on a grand scale, same principle, Enron people just wander around with a blank stare and the same crook(s) get away.
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Well so far the Sony heads have said they need the next PS to be 1000X the power of todays and since it will be impossible to wait for hardware to catch up they need distributed computing to help, yet they cant provide details, probably because they dont know ...?
What better way to develop the next PS3 then get a bunch of open source free for all coders, developers, and testers to get it done first so they can take it or know where to start, all the while making $199.99 a pop.
Hopefully someone will make an ISO of the CD and tell people how to use their existing Keyboard, mice, and HD to set it up without ponying up $200 clams.
Apple has always been very legal about their software and hardware, even more so then any company I know. Its is common for them to screw, lack of a better word, their developers, resellers, clone makers (remember them?), and people working with them for the benefit of themselves. Ask anyone that has been any of the above. Some get angry while others just accept that thats the way Apple is.
Exactly, Steve Jobs should be out there. Wasnt Apple one of the first to go after M$ by themselves for years and finally ran out of cash, time, and energy?
Oh wait isnt Jobs, Gates' whore now?
Who ever said votes counted anymore (Florida anyone)?
True but with the Feds out, most of that thunder is gone. IMO it was the help of the Federal level that helped win that monopoly judgement, which of course is a debate that will be debated for years to come.
At any rate, I see the 9 states crumbling (settling in some weak way) under political pressure soon is what I was getting at.
And at one point in time everyone is this stupid person until they learn a *nix OS. Some of the best programmers and admins I know started with an MCSE, ugh.
The thing is over and Microsoft has pretty much won. How do these 9 states think that holding out any more is going to do anything? Especially with another 6 years left with this administration that totally supports the Big M.
Because according to the article American Tourists will find paying the Silver level membership is a good bargain. And eventually the developers at Sun can afford great luxuries they dont have now and still get the open source community to support and help them with bugs without the backlash that is felt by Microsoft.
I have had several people get this from Register.com. Telling them they need renewal, that Register can get better annual rates, etc.
Typically any person that deals with this stuff knows but the sneaky thing is they send it to the billing or accounting and most of the time the people pay thinking its for the domain to stay up and then it gets switched without the most important people knowing the technical people.
I believe this was something that was suppose to take off slightly before the .com bust, but considering the times it never did. Microsoft had their terminal server which is now moving to .net and Citrix had a product that worked off of Microsoft and thin clients. Linux had projects here and there but seems people have put that on hold as well. Apple had OS X at the time which I remember Jobs running movies off of one server with 50 iMacs with no HD's.
From what I understand the idea is dependent on bandwidth and its availability, if your connection goes out so does your desktop.
Im not sure why everyone is screaming VNC, that isnt exactly made for say 100 simultaneous users and is kinda flaky. VNC IMO is just a free PCAnywhere. Besides what do you VNC into when your machine is out, couldnt you just use the VNC machine as the substitute? VNC doesnt make sense.
At least in the past you could just not answer the door or run around your lawn in circles having the server chase you. Now email is good enough? How will they confirm the person actually recieved it?
My thoughts exactly. Those that know their subject and know it well tend to be irritated or annoyed at having to repeat things more than 3 times, which result in poor teachers.
As for books knowledgable technical people tend to overwrite a subject or think everything is given and underwrite.
Problem is you cant give people something free and then turn it around. First it was free then they need money, I understand the reasons but some people just cant swallow that whole concept. Either charge to begin with or dont ever, look at what happened to Napster.
At least with something like Microsoft you know your handing over money to begin with.
Macintosh certs have been worse than Microsofts. It has to do with how much you pay Apple over skill. The test itself is extremely easy, although in order to study for it you have to work for or be a Apple Service center, which all that is required is to pay Apple some thousand dollars a year to get some CD's regarding their machines.
The news. or newsblaster sites remind me of the days when the web was just starting to get going. No banners, pics, ads, frames, etc... Just lines and lines of text for one to sift through.
So the idea goes, what really ends up happening is more competition ultimately ends with the biggest fish winning. Then the biggest fish makes up new rules so that other fish can never enter the market thus making a monopoly.
Reminds me of those things that are being sold as an email, file, firewall, server in a box. When actually all it is, is a computer with locked down limited use. Why would I need to hook up another device that requires my PC to work to begin with?
Apple every so often deviates from their main OS and try to dabble in something that is just strange. Game sprockets, MkLinux, HyperCard, OpenDoc,... eventually it dies when they realize it was a useless effort.
Just another thing that they will bore of and let go.
I used to work for a technology consulting firm that worked solely with movie industry and law, with the board of directors made up of his lawyer frat brothers firm. Every year employees would go to Cannes in France or Sundance to work and help their clients from L.A. Well come mid-2000 something was obviously wrong with the company, the owner was quietly laying off people and reimbursement and pay checks would slowly come up late or show up the next pay period. Also, the owner who was once a happy, ambitious kind of guy, was getting bitter and quiet.
Regardless, some choose not to see the facts and kept on hoping things would get better and didnt want to loose their seniority they had built with the 3-5 years with this firm. Well Cannes was rolling around and some other festival thing in Italy as well. One my colleagues was asked to go and excitedly agreed. The owner, who always went, said he would meet him in Italy and then head off to France. Once there a per diem was renegged on, with owner citing that reimbursements would be made for any monies spent, since co-worker didnt believe it they decided to go cheap as possible. Checkout day and owner left a voicemail stating they had already started up to France and to meet there, not to worry about the hotel it was taken care of. As co-worker started to leave hotel security stopped them citing they needed to check out, co-worker thinking that just giving them room keys was not a big deal agreed. After getting to the counter the co-worker was told they needed to pay $7500.00 in hotel bills for 5 rooms, room service, and other amenities that the owner claimed was taken care of. Needless to say this co-worker did not have that kind of cash or credit limit on cards and ended up in an Italian jail. Luckily he had some family visiting in Sweden at the time and was able to get them to aid him in his time of need.
Upon returning he was able to get reimbursed after 30 days and immediately quit. And over 2000-2001 many lawsuits were brought against the owner and his company from employees, vendors, and IRS while he hid behind his corporate veil. Employees that were eventually never paid brought up lawsuits and went to the labor board. Problem is if someone is awarded a judgement it is the responsibility of the plaintiff to collect and of course this owner would not pay. So one has to go to court again and the cycle continues. Some could not handle legal costs and lawyers and dropped their cases, while others would have judges change their award from $2000.00 backpay to $17,000.00 for punishment. But again a futile effort if the business wouldnt pay $2000.00 why would they pay $17,000.00.
Ultimately the company folded, the company paid out some of the smaller judgements and settlements ignored the rest and folded. The owner losing his company and money decided to sue his clients! Some bigger studios and firms typically cost analyze a settlement and legal costs and he was able to make out with nice $50k checks here and there from larger multi million dollar firms/studios not wanting to be bothered, and with others that wanted to fight he would walk away.
Rumor has it that this scum has now started some 3 non-profit organizations and is starting to do well financially again, learning that non-profits have protection against the IRS.
Seems only the bad guy won on this one.
From testimonies of traveling whatevers the people always complain that PPTP is very sloooow. They preferred using RAS in place, albeit a very expensive phone bill.
Most were of course higher level execs so their complaining actually mattered.
Well so far since Nextel has released the email web browsing with their phones, my previous employers signed up for the service. Since day 1 spam has always popped through, sometimes from Nextel themselves. They have good phone service but the spam part is rather unacceptable.
Havent recieved any telemarketer calls directly yet. I say this because I did get calls with people selling things and addressing me with the wrong name. I would tell them it was a cell phone and wrong person, they would apologize but still ask if I was interested in the product/service sold. Made me think that was a new tactic so that cell phone users would not get too pissed at the call.
Of course even if they had a machine that could turn water to unleaded gas I wouldnt buy it, on principle.
I dont get it, for as long as Ebay has been out this is the first instance of this? Or something this big? You figure with all the scamsters out there this would have been done long ago or someone would have thought of controls for this. Imagine the reaming if this was a Microsoft owned site, people would go on and on about how they knew and should have done something.
At any rate. Its kinda strange how because this is one guy people are looking, tracking, and doing things to punish. But with something on a grand scale, same principle, Enron people just wander around with a blank stare and the same crook(s) get away.
I met many that are techies as well as receptionist, accounting, etc... Surprisingly they are still employed! I did a 2 week contract stuff for a firm recently and some were talking about buying a new home and asking for raises (dont know if they will get it). Whereas I know many U.S. born, undergraduate degree holding colleagues getting calls about "Nothing out there" from temp agencies.
Dont worry about the H1 via folks.
No dont do that, that seems to be the beginning of the end. Isnt that how those terrorist groups recruit and fill your mind with their own propaganda?
You sound like my marketing professor. "If a company is performing poorly many companies cut marketing when they should be increasing marketing..."
You my friend must be a marketing major.