For years it was McNeely and Co's determination and tenaciousness in M$-bashing that allowed Unix as a direction to survive when clueless and faceless managers at HP et al were moving towards the "New Technology".
After Sun settled the suit agains MS for the cash payout, it was sign of them losing the war. Everything after that was different.
A long time ago I made a conclusion that seems to stay true till now.
One of the reasons Windows is worse for me (a programmer) is because it tries to be smarter! UNIX is in many ways a tool that does what I want form it, allowing me to do my job.
Windows (and certain products) try guessing what I will want and what I won't want. Since it is dimwit, it usually guesses wrong, requiring me to wast time and lose focus doing a correction of its automatically performed actions.
I guess Joe Q. Public has less issues with it comparing with a professional. Thus, negative reaction of a reviewer might be caused by the OS being targeted not at him.
> But Sun has been actively trying to undermine Linux when it should be targeting MS. McNealy's attitude towards linux has been akin to Bush action about alternative energy. Quite honestly, McNealy has been Sun's worse enemy.
Come on, Sun was targeting MS as nobody else in the industry. BTW, theit attitude towards Linux was kind of similar (on the bigger scale) to their attitude towards Windows because both Linux nad Windows symbolized the same thing: commoditisation (sp?) of their market with squeezing out independent players with their unique and, thus, more expensive technology.
It is kind of like in the media when most newspapers can no longer affeord to have their own reporters over the world and rely on the 3 or 4 news gathering conglomerates who now define to large extent what is written in the papers.
Many years ago, when McNealy was asked why he was against having NT on SPARC, he replied that he did not want his company to become a low-margin supplier of boxes.
What you are offering is to become yet another (failed) Dell's competitor in a niche market (Linux market is much less that Windows one). You're offering them to become a manufacturing and marketing (+ some services) company instead of a technological one.
I don't think it is a right way. Sun has a lot of issiues because of being a niche company in a market turning into the commodity one. First it happened to the workstations, now it happened to servers.
However, your proposal is still not a viable strategy for a 12bln company.
If you want to find a true culprit behind the proliferation of greedy lawyers, blame Nader. The bastard is nothing but a trial lawyer disguised as a human being...
I talked to a guy on the biodiesell company's booth during the last Oregon Country Fair, and he told me that the price of biodiesel if produced in large quantities from crops will be about $3 per gallon.
Also popular is the 20% bd to 80% regular diesel mix.
>On a more serious note, this mentality is one reason that I'm worried about the rise of a fascist state in America. A psychologist examining the lives of fascist leaders in the wake of WWII came up with a disturbing common trend in most of their lives -- a strong, disapproving father figure combined with a strong repression of sexuality and encouragement of violence with a projection of responsibility for immorality on an outside, hated group.
I dunno about his father, but this trial lawyer, disguised as a human being, has sacrificed his personal life in a crusade against "evil corporations" he blames for everything having fanatical zealot followers and robs with his trial lawyer buddies.
Or you were talking about ultra-right only?;-)
If you find and read "On Aggression" by Konrad Z. Lorenz, you'll find that a "group instincts" are lying in the foundation of any "us versus them" mentality even if it is just a "civil war" (as people in Oregon call matches between Ducks and Beavers - the football teams belonging to two Oregon universities).
American government most slashdotters like to bash is doing an enormous job in preserving the world air travel (most North America to Far East routes fly over Alaska and Kamchatka).
One of the biggest danger of the volcano eruptions is ash that clogs jet engines.
So, monitoring equipment is put in many parts of the world by the USGS, and local people are trained in order to use it.
Real time map of ash clouds is made, and planes are redirected if necessary.
US Government foots the bill for all of these services and equipment in most of poor countries.
There sure was lend-lease and shipments, but you can't argue against the idea of Communist Continental Europe should Soviet troops free all of Western Europe from Germans.
Even though Google runs a lot of queries, the key difference is that Google has a web crawler running 24x7. It causes them to update their database constantly that requires very different data structures and application support.
The government's project looks like a pure Data Warehousing to me. It means that their data set is pretty much static and serves for just retrieving data that will take shitload of time to load into this RAM (they should have some pretty heavy duty UPSs there;-).
>Medical care is not a consumable. You do not set out one day to select a "baby blue" hysterectomy to go with the curtains.
Still, majority of illnesses are an indirect result of your own "conduct" (maybe the last word in not the best one, but my English is not perfect;-). It is your choices to become obese and not exercise caused you to fall sick eventually (in most cases).
Here is my view of the problem that got moderated down by some moron: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99645&cid=8495 288
Also read this older comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96859&cid=8283 832
>Medicine (and my mother is a physician, a Tulane grad of 1950) has been changed from a profession with a fee-for-service to a complex group of "providers" and "managers" where the goal is PROFIT.
I know. Here is an another posting of mine: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99645&cid=8495 624
>The Reagan administration took a disturbing trend and made it mainstream: Add a layer or two of paper-pushers and call it "managed care" - AND THE INVISIBLE HAND OF THE MARKET WILL SAVE US MONEY!
I haven't lived in this country in the Reagan times. However, I've worked in a healthplan. Here is my take on HMOs: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96895&t hreshol d=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=8289021
Combine these four linked articles of mine, and you'll see what got all of us in trouble: people do not want to listen these who know (paternalistic model) and change themselves. So, they start getting sicker and sicker. Science answers a social call and invents treatments that work regardless of what the patient's subconscious wants.
At the same time, rise of consumerism (that is a philosophy of demanding the best service and ignoring the hints of the Universe trying to teach you) puts final nails into a coffin of the personal responsibility and the paternalistic model that was founded on it. All they want is the providers of quality services who will treat them instead of teaching them.
Result - getting lawyers involved as a "quality control". Rampage of lawsuits killed the former role of doctor in the community (more about it here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96859&cid=8283 832 ) and made money the only thing that matters to some of them. Thus money/profit got into the system and became its goal.
However, I would not blame doctors and corporations for that; they just supply the demand of the people.
>It doesn't work. As I said at the outset: you don't start out your day to consume medical care as you would a lunch. Medicine is about disease, genetics, trauma, lifestyle choices and, MOST DEFINITELY, your education about your own health options. Physicians are trained and licensed to do just that.
Yep. Wholehartedly agree - especially with the teaching part. How would you implement the personal responsibility for health choices?
>Insurance companies should not practice medicine. Insurance companies should "pool risks" and provide universal coverage at a low profit-profile because it is unethical to kill people for money.
So, you think there should be unlimited treatment coverage for sick at the expense of the general public?
And it is not killing for money, it is more of a returning a concept of personal responsibility.
>Whose money, indeed?
Policypayers money that are consumed by these who get sick. You haven't disproved this thesis of mine: "I do not respect a system that does not have any accountability from these who use it (patients), and the Western medical system is pretty much like that. Eat crap, do not exercise, be fat, have a subconscious program of getting attention through getting sick - and these who exercise, eat helthy food, are fit and have a healthy psyche will pay for your endless source of pills, doctor visits and surgeries through their insurance premiums."
>Working in a busy ER, I see old people come in with their medications. Some of these people bring in plastic bags with 25 to 50 bottles of pills.
Sure; this way they avoid the ER surcharge on the same drugs.
>How much of their medical problems are from drug interactions and side effects? I would be mighty sick too, if I took all those pills.
This is because people in the West can't die with dignity (not all, but majority). They will eat anything in any amount in order to just extend the life that is often not a life anymore, but just a mere existence...
A doctor and a lawyer got deadlocked in a mortal combat;-).
Here is a research, and it would be interesting to get a comment from both of you: http://sihp.brandeis.edu/council/pubs/Medica id02/M alpractice%20in%2021st%20Century%20-Sage.pdf
Also, this page: http://sihp.brandeis.edu/council/Malpractice(3-03).htm
American society more and more loses so called paternalistic model based on relationship between a Teacher and student who wants to learn (or parent and son). What is coming is the "provider" model when all others do is provide a service. It makes the receiving end a customer (or even consumer) and gives him ability to demand quality and customer satisfaction from the provider, but something is lost in transaction. This "something" is a human relationship. No, they certainly keep smiling at you, but this smile is often just a socially required grimace, the mask.
You can't have both ability to sue the provider for damages and be his friend. The whole concept of "Nothing personal, it's just business" serves as a good deterrent on these patrnalistically inclined providers of the service.
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Several months ago is not ago enough ;-).
For years it was McNeely and Co's determination and tenaciousness in M$-bashing that allowed Unix as a direction to survive when clueless and faceless managers at HP et al were moving towards the "New Technology".
After Sun settled the suit agains MS for the cash payout, it was sign of them losing the war. Everything after that was different.
Greedy lawyers ( http://users.wfu.edu/palmitar/Courses/SecReg-Palmi ter/Handout/Articles/Elkind-Lerach-King-Dead.htm ) and Wall Street vultures (sorry, "respected industry analysts") changed the companies' mentality to the short term one.
It is interesting that McNeely actually was objecting to the latest layoffs.
A long time ago I made a conclusion that seems to stay true till now.
One of the reasons Windows is worse for me (a programmer) is because it tries to be smarter! UNIX is in many ways a tool that does what I want form it, allowing me to do my job.
Windows (and certain products) try guessing what I will want and what I won't want. Since it is dimwit, it usually guesses wrong, requiring me to wast time and lose focus doing a correction of its automatically performed actions.
I guess Joe Q. Public has less issues with it comparing with a professional. Thus, negative reaction of a reviewer might be caused by the OS being targeted not at him.
> But Sun has been actively trying to undermine Linux when it should be targeting MS. McNealy's attitude towards linux has been akin to Bush action about alternative energy. Quite honestly, McNealy has been Sun's worse enemy.
Come on, Sun was targeting MS as nobody else in the industry.
BTW, theit attitude towards Linux was kind of similar (on the bigger scale) to their attitude towards Windows because both Linux nad Windows symbolized the same thing: commoditisation (sp?) of their market with squeezing out independent players with their unique and, thus, more expensive technology.
It is kind of like in the media when most newspapers can no longer affeord to have their own reporters over the world and rely on the 3 or 4 news gathering conglomerates who now define to large extent what is written in the papers.
Many years ago, when McNealy was asked why he was against having NT on SPARC, he replied that he did not want his company to become a low-margin supplier of boxes.
What you are offering is to become yet another (failed) Dell's competitor in a niche market (Linux market is much less that Windows one). You're offering them to become a manufacturing and marketing (+ some services) company instead of a technological one.
I don't think it is a right way.
Sun has a lot of issiues because of being a niche company in a market turning into the commodity one. First it happened to the workstations, now it happened to servers.
However, your proposal is still not a viable strategy for a 12bln company.
If you want to find a true culprit behind the proliferation of greedy lawyers, blame Nader. The bastard is nothing but a trial lawyer disguised as a human being ...
I talked to a guy on the biodiesell company's booth during the last Oregon Country Fair, and he told me that the price of biodiesel if produced in large quantities from crops will be about $3 per gallon.
Also popular is the 20% bd to 80% regular diesel mix.
http://www.geoexchange.org/ - a way to significantly decrease the cost of heating (in winter) and cooling (in summer) of buildings.
Even on the level of individual homes it can pay for itself in 7 to 10 years in many areas.
>On a more serious note, this mentality is one reason that I'm worried about the rise of a fascist state in America. A psychologist examining the lives of fascist leaders in the wake of WWII came up with a disturbing common trend in most of their lives -- a strong, disapproving father figure combined with a strong repression of sexuality and encouragement of violence with a projection of responsibility for immorality on an outside, hated group.
;-)
I dunno about his father, but this trial lawyer, disguised as a human being, has sacrificed his personal life in a crusade against "evil corporations" he blames for everything having fanatical zealot followers and robs with his trial lawyer buddies.
Or you were talking about ultra-right only?
If you find and read "On Aggression" by Konrad Z. Lorenz, you'll find that a "group instincts" are lying in the foundation of any "us versus them" mentality even if it is just a "civil war" (as people in Oregon call matches between Ducks and Beavers - the football teams belonging to two Oregon universities).
.. an old joke: ;-)
- Hey, missy, either you give me all your money or I will use this water pistol to wash away all of your makeup!
Darl will have a hard time letting go of the popularity he enjoys among the /. crowd.
/. members ;-).
In order to keep it, he'll start a new career in modelling. He will become the new, hmmmm, face of the reborn Goatse.cx
$699 fee for linking to the site will be waived for the registered
> what a loss to cinema it would have been if Stoker's estate had been able to crush Nosferatu with lawsuits...
;-).
"what a loss to cinema it would have been if Stoker's estate had been able to suck all blood out of Nosferatu with lawsuits... "
American government most slashdotters like to bash is doing an enormous job in preserving the world air travel (most North America to Far East routes fly over Alaska and Kamchatka).
One of the biggest danger of the volcano eruptions is ash that clogs jet engines.
So, monitoring equipment is put in many parts of the world by the USGS, and local people are trained in order to use it.
Real time map of ash clouds is made, and planes are redirected if necessary.
US Government foots the bill for all of these services and equipment in most of poor countries.
There sure was lend-lease and shipments, but you can't argue against the idea of Communist Continental Europe should Soviet troops free all of Western Europe from Germans.
... they'd not be speaking German. In 1944 the fate of the Nazi Germany was already sealed.
If Americans would not get to Normandy, France and all other parts of Europe sans GB would be speaking Russian.
Ones who expect to predict and eliminate every possible point of failure.
One (and two, and even a team) just can't do that!
Thus, we'll always have software glitches with a varied level of problems caused by these glitches.
Even though Google runs a lot of queries, the key difference is that Google has a web crawler running 24x7. It causes them to update their database constantly that requires very different data structures and application support.
;-).
The government's project looks like a pure Data Warehousing to me. It means that their data set is pretty much static and serves for just retrieving data that will take shitload of time to load into this RAM (they should have some pretty heavy duty UPSs there
It is kind of OT, but it is still about lighting.
Does anyone use full spectrum lights? Are they worth it?
I get two conflicting messages while reading about the subj on the Internet.
>Medical care is not a consumable. You do not set out one day to select a "baby blue" hysterectomy to go with the curtains.
;-). It is your choices to become obese and not exercise caused you to fall sick eventually (in most cases).
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Still, majority of illnesses are an indirect result of your own "conduct" (maybe the last word in not the best one, but my English is not perfect
Here is my view of the problem that got moderated down by some moron: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99645&cid=849
Also read this older comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96859&cid=828
>Medicine (and my mother is a physician, a Tulane grad of 1950) has been changed from a profession with a fee-for-service to a complex group of "providers" and "managers" where the goal is PROFIT.
I know. Here is an another posting of mine: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99645&cid=849
>The Reagan administration took a disturbing trend and made it mainstream: Add a layer or two of paper-pushers and call it "managed care" - AND THE INVISIBLE HAND OF THE MARKET WILL SAVE US MONEY!
I haven't lived in this country in the Reagan times. However, I've worked in a healthplan. Here is my take on HMOs:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96895&
Combine these four linked articles of mine, and you'll see what got all of us in trouble: people do not want to listen these who know (paternalistic model) and change themselves. So, they start getting sicker and sicker. Science answers a social call and invents treatments that work regardless of what the patient's subconscious wants.
At the same time, rise of consumerism (that is a philosophy of demanding the best service and ignoring the hints of the Universe trying to teach you) puts final nails into a coffin of the personal responsibility and the paternalistic model that was founded on it. All they want is the providers of quality services who will treat them instead of teaching them.
Result - getting lawyers involved as a "quality control". Rampage of lawsuits killed the former role of doctor in the community (more about it here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96859&cid=828
However, I would not blame doctors and corporations for that; they just supply the demand of the people.
>It doesn't work. As I said at the outset: you don't start out your day to consume medical care as you would a lunch. Medicine is about disease, genetics, trauma, lifestyle choices and, MOST DEFINITELY, your education about your own health options. Physicians are trained and licensed to do just that.
Yep. Wholehartedly agree - especially with the teaching part. How would you implement the personal responsibility for health choices?
>Insurance companies should not practice medicine. Insurance companies should "pool risks" and provide universal coverage at a low profit-profile because it is unethical to kill people for money.
So, you think there should be unlimited treatment coverage for sick at the expense of the general public?
And it is not killing for money, it is more of a returning a concept of personal responsibility.
>Whose money, indeed?
Policypayers money that are consumed by these who get sick. You haven't disproved this thesis of mine: "I do not respect a system that does not have any accountability from these who use it (patients), and the Western medical system is pretty much like that. Eat crap, do not exercise, be fat, have a subconscious program of getting attention through getting sick - and these who exercise, eat helthy food, are fit and have a healthy psyche will pay for your endless source of pills, doctor visits and surgeries through their insurance premiums."
>Working in a busy ER, I see old people come in with their medications. Some of these people bring in plastic bags with 25 to 50 bottles of pills.
...
Sure; this way they avoid the ER surcharge on the same drugs.
>How much of their medical problems are from drug interactions and side effects? I would be mighty sick too, if I took all those pills.
This is because people in the West can't die with dignity (not all, but majority). They will eat anything in any amount in order to just extend the life that is often not a life anymore, but just a mere existence
Also, look at my answer to Tassah.
I'll reply to your posting instead of replying to dogdaze.
Think of the focus these people require, think of responsibility and stress.
No stress from a programming deadline can be compared to that. And athletes have games with breaks, twoce per week at max.
Surgeons do it for many hours straight, and do these surgeries much more often. And even slightest error on their part costs much more.
so, I can understand them getting paid more (as well as, for example, pilots).
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Here is a research, and it would be interesting to get a comment from both of you:
http://sihp.brandeis.edu/council/pubs/Medic
Also, this page: http://sihp.brandeis.edu/council/Malpractice(3-03
American society more and more loses so called paternalistic model based on relationship between a Teacher and student who wants to learn (or parent and son). What is coming is the "provider" model when all others do is provide a service. It makes the receiving end a customer (or even consumer) and gives him ability to demand quality and customer satisfaction from the provider, but something is lost in transaction. This "something" is a human relationship. No, they certainly keep smiling at you, but this smile is often just a socially required grimace, the mask.
You can't have both ability to sue the provider for damages and be his friend. The whole concept of "Nothing personal, it's just business" serves as a good deterrent on these patrnalistically inclined providers of the service.
Does it distinguish doctors by specialization?
Certain fields (neurosurgery, ob/gyn) have much more chances that something goes wrong, much more chances of death and much more chances of a lawsuit.