Re:Sunset a long, long ways off.
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I think part of the problem is the price. By using SPARC and Solaris, Fujitsu places itself in the position of a "Sun knockoff" (I know it isn't, but that might be how it is seen). Either the price has to be low enough that the sysadmins can convince their managers to take a chance on it, or it has to be high enough (as in above Sun's prices) that said sysadmins can convince their managers that it isn't a chance at all. Even with a better product, it is difficult to compete against someone with name brand recognition, especially if you're using the same name. Everything bad about their SPARCs will be carried over to you; everything good about your SPARCs will be carried over to them. Fujitsu needs to get their name out and prove that their systems are indeed better than Sun's.
Actually, the tricks being played on the books involve a one time write off that costed them $2 billion. If it hadn't been for that, they would have been slightly profitable (according to the Sun employee posting above). They aren't playing any accounting tricks, they're being honest.
You know it's bad when honesty brings people to blame you for lying, whereas keeping silent (lying) keeps people off your back.
Re:He is insane...
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But Apple is trying hard to increase its credibility in the server market, with its Xserve and Xraid products. These are very impressive machines, and OS X Server is a very impressive server OS. Apple would not want to sacrifice all of their own engineering just to go with someone else's offering.
Apple wants more credibility in that market. Some people think that the only way to gain such credibility is to buy someone who is already credible, as if there were only a certain amount of credibility to go around in each market segment. Apple understands that credibility can be gained by selling excellent products and supporting them well in case they fail. That is exactly what they are doing, and I would not expect them to want to do the same for someone else's product.
Actually, the only interesting thing he said in the article was the possibility of a merger with Sony. That would be an intriguing (and powerful) company, but I think such a merger would be impossible. After all, Sony is currently tied up in a partnership with IBM to create the Cell chips for the PS3 and the next generation of home entertainment devices, and they probably don't want to risk that by creating a competing brand of home entertainment devices that Sun might engineer for them. Sony is already betting on Cell, and that's a smarter bet than going for Sun. Remember, IBM is the company that is too powerful for Sun in the first place. They're the guys you want on your side.
Oooh, a city block! You could easily recoup all the damages by predicting the exact location of its impact and setting up bleachers at a safe distance and charging admission to watch the impact. How much would you pay to be within a mile of an inner city meteorite impact? Exactly.
If we have one year to live, it doesn't really matter if we spend it anarchy or not. What is one more year, if you are guaranteed to die at the end of it anyway (and not only you, but everyone else as well)? Aw, fuck it.
Having root access on one machine on the network is a good first step for someone who wants to gain more access all over the network. With root access, keylogger services can be installed and run on that computer, logging everyone's username and password who uses that computer. Additionally, packet sniffers can be installed that can do the same for neighboring computers. Just because this doesn't give a hacker total access to the network immediately doesn't mean it isn't a security concern for the network...
The green camoflage gives people the idea that they are likely to be attacked soon. People don't mess around when there are army guys around, and what says army better than camoflage and assault rifles?
If you want to give your users a good ftp client, may I recommend FileZilla? It is a full featured open source ftp client (I think they also offer a server, but I've never used it) that runs very quickly and is very intuitive to use. The download is small and the installation is easy.
If you're going to date more than 1 girl at a time, either make sure they have the exact same name or completely different names. Trust me, you don't want to be remembering which girl is Karen and which is Kerry, or which is Nicole and which is Noelle. Those are the only mixups I've had: has anyone else had some other good ones?
Hmmm... I tried using my moderator points on the article on the front page, but nothing happened. I have come to the conclusion that either my mod points are less powerful than other mod points (possibly because they originated in Orcish forgeries rather than Elvish), or moderators really have no power at all over whatever is on the front page. That power is probably reserved for the Editors, who consider themselves intrinsically better than the other, lesser, races of Slashdot folk.
Actually it is better than anything portrayed on Saturday Night Live. To be comparable to SNL, it would also have to make fun of gay people and anyone who watches the show...
Wasn't the main point of the Dragon's Lair game that its graphics were cel-based, rather than pixel-based? If they've gone 3D, is that over? Or have they figured out a way to keep the cels and make it 3-dimensional at the same time?
Their upgrade cycle isn't that important if all their products are crappy. Even if Motorola runs Linux, my next phone will be one that works the best, even if that means I'm running Symbian or even MS.
Microsoft even gave a laptop computer and other support to the cause, but there's been no contact between the academics and the company since.
Really...? Well, Microsoft, I don't particularly like the way the back button works either. Can I have a laptop if it means I never have to talk to you again?
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I think part of the problem is the price. By using SPARC and Solaris, Fujitsu places itself in the position of a "Sun knockoff" (I know it isn't, but that might be how it is seen). Either the price has to be low enough that the sysadmins can convince their managers to take a chance on it, or it has to be high enough (as in above Sun's prices) that said sysadmins can convince their managers that it isn't a chance at all. Even with a better product, it is difficult to compete against someone with name brand recognition, especially if you're using the same name. Everything bad about their SPARCs will be carried over to you; everything good about your SPARCs will be carried over to them. Fujitsu needs to get their name out and prove that their systems are indeed better than Sun's.
Actually, the tricks being played on the books involve a one time write off that costed them $2 billion. If it hadn't been for that, they would have been slightly profitable (according to the Sun employee posting above). They aren't playing any accounting tricks, they're being honest.
You know it's bad when honesty brings people to blame you for lying, whereas keeping silent (lying) keeps people off your back.
But Apple is trying hard to increase its credibility in the server market, with its Xserve and Xraid products. These are very impressive machines, and OS X Server is a very impressive server OS. Apple would not want to sacrifice all of their own engineering just to go with someone else's offering.
Apple wants more credibility in that market. Some people think that the only way to gain such credibility is to buy someone who is already credible, as if there were only a certain amount of credibility to go around in each market segment. Apple understands that credibility can be gained by selling excellent products and supporting them well in case they fail. That is exactly what they are doing, and I would not expect them to want to do the same for someone else's product.
Actually, the only interesting thing he said in the article was the possibility of a merger with Sony. That would be an intriguing (and powerful) company, but I think such a merger would be impossible. After all, Sony is currently tied up in a partnership with IBM to create the Cell chips for the PS3 and the next generation of home entertainment devices, and they probably don't want to risk that by creating a competing brand of home entertainment devices that Sun might engineer for them. Sony is already betting on Cell, and that's a smarter bet than going for Sun. Remember, IBM is the company that is too powerful for Sun in the first place. They're the guys you want on your side.
Oooh, a city block! You could easily recoup all the damages by predicting the exact location of its impact and setting up bleachers at a safe distance and charging admission to watch the impact. How much would you pay to be within a mile of an inner city meteorite impact? Exactly.
If we have one year to live, it doesn't really matter if we spend it anarchy or not. What is one more year, if you are guaranteed to die at the end of it anyway (and not only you, but everyone else as well)? Aw, fuck it.
And if you don't think that will help you, the terrorists have already won!
Having root access on one machine on the network is a good first step for someone who wants to gain more access all over the network. With root access, keylogger services can be installed and run on that computer, logging everyone's username and password who uses that computer. Additionally, packet sniffers can be installed that can do the same for neighboring computers. Just because this doesn't give a hacker total access to the network immediately doesn't mean it isn't a security concern for the network...
The green camoflage gives people the idea that they are likely to be attacked soon. People don't mess around when there are army guys around, and what says army better than camoflage and assault rifles?
Of course if national security is at stake, they don't have to release it.
;)
Better yet, they can just release it to me...
If you want to give your users a good ftp client, may I recommend FileZilla? It is a full featured open source ftp client (I think they also offer a server, but I've never used it) that runs very quickly and is very intuitive to use. The download is small and the installation is easy.
If you're going to date more than 1 girl at a time, either make sure they have the exact same name or completely different names. Trust me, you don't want to be remembering which girl is Karen and which is Kerry, or which is Nicole and which is Noelle. Those are the only mixups I've had: has anyone else had some other good ones?
Works in Mozilla. I'd bet it works in any browser, considering the fact that it is a javascript program that does it...
Hmmm... I tried using my moderator points on the article on the front page, but nothing happened. I have come to the conclusion that either my mod points are less powerful than other mod points (possibly because they originated in Orcish forgeries rather than Elvish), or moderators really have no power at all over whatever is on the front page. That power is probably reserved for the Editors, who consider themselves intrinsically better than the other, lesser, races of Slashdot folk.
The biggest problem with France is that it's full of French people.
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Be careful, he'll probably just sell the house for $400 without telling you about it (just like he did with this woman's)...
Actually it is better than anything portrayed on Saturday Night Live. To be comparable to SNL, it would also have to make fun of gay people and anyone who watches the show...
And politically, too!
I've never wanted to be considered a "goon" before, but now that you mention it, I wouldn't mind doing just that...
Wasn't the main point of the Dragon's Lair game that its graphics were cel-based, rather than pixel-based? If they've gone 3D, is that over? Or have they figured out a way to keep the cels and make it 3-dimensional at the same time?
Their upgrade cycle isn't that important if all their products are crappy. Even if Motorola runs Linux, my next phone will be one that works the best, even if that means I'm running Symbian or even MS.
To bad; its a loosing battle.
You heard me.
Microsoft even gave a laptop computer and other support to the cause, but there's been no contact between the academics and the company since.
Really...? Well, Microsoft, I don't particularly like the way the back button works either. Can I have a laptop if it means I never have to talk to you again?
Yes, I have seen Transmeta-based systems in North America. I have a tablet pc with one in there right now. I could have been more impressed...
Yeah, so let's stop looking for that quick fix, so we can finally get this fixed quick!