Exactly, the less money customers have to spend on licenses for M$, oracle products etc..... the more money they have to spend on IBM support contacts and of course IBM consulting............ Of course it's helps IBM when they sell servers that run linux, the OS costs them nothing...... Well a little because they have contracts with RH and SUSE (Novell)... but not what windows would cost them......
I don't know when they applied for this, but a 'large' number of churches record the pastors sermon and the make it available immediately after on tape, cd and even DVD's. The CD and DVD of course are newer, but many churches have been doing this with cassets since the mid 90's. Start calling all the large independent non-denominal churches in your area and ask them. Chances are some have been doing this since the early 90's.
How much has IBM made if a significant amount of those have websphere and/or DB2 + other software ibm sells???? HP doesn't have the software offering IBM does. So yes HP may sell more boxes than IBM in sheer numbers, however I bet IBM makes more per box once you add in all of the above mentioned 'extras'. We have a whole cluster of cheap (relativly speaking) IBM servers, however they all have Websphere. A few have DB2, most have some other IBM software on them. Point is a basic linux box from IBM costs us ~$5000 (Dual CPU). NOW put Websphere + appropriate licenses + DB2 + licenses (per CPU). Now that box costs us about $25000......
Thats whats IBM is about, not just selling a bunch of cheap x86 Linux boxes! Walmart can outdo everyone at that.
We Run serveral thousand users per hour on a cluster of IBM 2-CPU boxes. If one goes down (which they haven't in the 2 years we've been running it) we would just slide another box in. I agree it is NOT the same, but for alot of apps it's good enough. Our DB is an HP-NonStop box which has way more than 8 CPU's....
Looks sun has a solid U*ix based os, but so is linux...
No wait they have a great 64bit CPUs......
SO DO Intel and AMD.........
They made Java...., But IBM, Oracle and others have created thier own JDK's that are Java 1.4.x complinant as well.
So what does sun sell that you can't get somewhere else cheaper???? Nothing...
As far as the 8+ CPU arg goes, that was true before linux clustering. Now we want 8 CPU's??? we buy 4 2-cpu boxes and cluster them. Not exactly the same, but we can get nice Rack mounted Dual CPU linux boxes from IBM for about 5k. We could build them for alot less, but the company policy is to go with a vendor that supports it.
I don't know what an 8CPU box from Sun would cost, but I'm sure it's more than 20k....
End of Sun.
And these clowns were boasting about how they took pride in hiring Indians and firing Americans. We ll maybe McNeely will set up shop in Bangalore or New Deli......
Nahh they'll never take on the NRA...... Moses would just cause a local river to rush over SCO headquarters and obliterate them. Besides having the pillar of fire appearing at all the pretrial hearings would be pretty un-nerving for Darl......
We keep hearing about all these great jobs that will be created in the US as a result of outsourcing. Yet no one can describe them. We also hear about all this education we workers need for these indescribable new jobs, yet the workers being displaced all have degrees, usualing in CS, Math, Engr. and a sizeable minority even have advanced degrees, yet all this education is not quite enough. So it boils to 2 questions:
1. What are all these neat new jobs we keep hearing about but have yet to see??
2. Exactly what 'extra' training will we need for them??
On a couple of occasions, my experience, bear in mind we are a talking a VERY limited set of the total here. Two projects out of millions.....
The first 3 or 4 months we got thier A-Team, the code was good quaility, and we had make a few revisions based on them not completely understanding our business requirements. After the A-team left, we got code that was so bad I was working 60+ hr weeks to rewrite/fix the stuff from india. We actually hired more American Programmers to fix the indian stuff. This happened on the next project as well (Different Indian Co.). After that our management went to small XP groups that actully sit right next to the users and everyone has been very happy with the results. For some things like reports, we still outsource those, but for anything very complex our we do our own......
IBM and Novell have already inked agreements for IBM to sell SUSE and use it as thier OS of choice. Novell has no reason to go after other *nix vendors. They stand to make more money playing fair than behaving like SCO.
It's funny, the huge corps, through thier own greed, are about to bring about a whole host of bad things they don't want. They will whine like stuck pigs when it happens. We will have draconian tax and employment rules because of all this, plus we could start having tech unions, which most of us don't want, but if it's that or see your job goto india, union here I come.
I can see it now, "Ah sorry your a programmer, your gonna have to wait for someone from sysadmin union to come and install websphere and eclipse on your desktop. Oh and someone from the PC support union will be by to plug the ethernet cable into your box in the next couple of weeks. Until then you have to sit and twiddle your thumbs......."
Java is being driven largely by other companies... IBM, BEA, Oracle and Borland...... I don't see that sun makes alot on Java. The real competitor to windows is and always will be linux not java. However IBM has known for a while that Java works quite well crossplatform. For years I've been able to develop on Windows and deploy on Solaris or Linux now. If you want you can run Windows boxes for servers instead. Please no crack pot replies about Applets. The vast majority of work with Java now is server side, and for all intents and purposes it is write once run anywhere as long as you have the same server on all you platforms. This something.Net cannot do, and probably never will since it's not in MS's interest to have.Net portable. I know about Mono, but they are way behind and MS and probably always will be.
Not sure about Edison. But the Austrian guy first published his work in 1944 ( a bad year for publishing research in Europe). Einstien died in 1955 so they were contemporaries. It first appeared in the DSM in 1994.
Once you have list(s) of certain behaviours, and if the person has a majority of behaviors on the list, then they pretty much have Asperger's syndrome. It would be possible to diagnose someone after they were dead, as long as you had a detailed list of observed behaviour.
My son is diagnosed with aspergers which is an Autism spectrum, disorder, but it is not autism. He sounds very similar to the child discribed. The thing with high functioning autism is that the children who have it are blissfully unaware (usually) that they are different than other people. Aspergers children tend to want to make friends, but have no idea how to relate. They know what interests them, but generally don't understand how to relate those interests to other children.
Generally aspergers children tend to have speech , He did'nt talk till he was 2, and neromuscular issues and need OT (sensory integration, in particular) as well. Hence the old thing about geeks being uncoordinated. Also ADD can go with it as well. ADD is a neurolgical disorder as well.
It's easy for people to say I knew XX and they Aspergers, and they did'nt act anything like Y. Aspergers kids have a broad range of behavior. My son is psuedo-social, he can fake it for a while. Other asperger kids will sit by them selves and tend not to look people in the eye. My son gets by with looking at someone's face, but will not focus on thier eyes, he picks the nose or cheeks.
BTW ALBERT EINSTEIN and THOMAS EDISON, both had aspergers and they are kind of the uber geeks.
My son could do multiplication long before he could do addition. He used to get confused, he as ked me isn't 2+3 = 6. I thought this was strange, so I would okay whats 2+4?? you guessed it 8. 4+6??? 24. That was a little tough, to help him through, how do you teach a child addition, yet they know multiplication???
Anyway, with aspergers, it very hard to lump them all together. Just becuse you met one person with Aspergers, Autism or PDD, you can't expect everyone with this range of issues to behave exactly the same way.
No, the problem is the ISS, it's stupid to build essentally a low to medium orbit Station. It should have been built at L5. To actually build another mars type vessel at the ISS would not work.
The logic is this, you want to build your mars vessel somewhere other than earth, because it would be too expensive to build it on earth and launch it. So you build it space or the moon. ISS was never meant for anything like that. You need a larger facility, optimally ISS SHOULD be about 3 times it current size and sitting at L5.
Because Nasa wasted 20 yrs with nothing but a low orbit taxi we have the ISS.
Not having a large station at L5, the next best thing is the moon. Alot of real-estate, no dangerous spacewalks to build the ship, moon walks would be somewhat dangerous, but not like spacewalks. Now we know the moon has ice and even is a good source for fusionable material to feed the reactor(s).
Will this violate any part of he anti-trust agreement between the US and M$? It most assurdly invoke the wrath the of EU, This could get interesting.........
Yeah look at the census numbers, there what 26 million more americans??? Plus those numbers run off the census so, they do not take into account the hunderds of thousands of H1B visa workers (Also taking jobs from americans here.) The facts are that 2.3 mil jobs have been lost since bush took office something like that, and another few million that just gave up and are now working at Wal-mart or somewhere else, as far as spankings go, you need'nt worry about me, let's see what happens in November.
The reality alot of americans are in trouble, and Bush and boys don't care cause they can't afford to slap down $2500 a plate for one of those fundraising lunches. I'm not a liberal btw, but I can't really see that the republicans are any different than the other party. they both use fringe groups, and then give them nothing in return, they both have thier own agenda, and neither agenda does me a damn bit of good. They both talk about the middle class, but neither care about us. I plan to vote for the one that can do the most in terms of generating jobs and oppurtunity for us middle class folks (note this not necesarily the same as good for the ecomonmy, and the CEO's making millions a year).
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This whole thing is a textbook example ..........
Exactly, the less money customers have to spend on licenses for M$, oracle products etc..... the more money they have to spend on IBM support contacts and of course IBM consulting............ Of course it's helps IBM when they sell servers that run linux, the OS costs them nothing...... Well a little because they have contracts with RH and SUSE (Novell)... but not what windows would cost them......
'intentional malice, disorganization, stupidity, or any combination of the above.'
That pretty much sums up the Bush Administration, emphasis on the "disorganization, stupidity"
Yes if it is an 'unrembursed' business expense broadband, cell phone and pager you can write them off on your taxes.
Just be thankful that you can at least do that.
I don't know when they applied for this, but a 'large' number of churches record the pastors sermon and the make it available immediately after on tape, cd and even DVD's. The CD and DVD of course are newer, but many churches have been doing this with cassets since the mid 90's. Start calling all the large independent non-denominal churches in your area and ask them. Chances are some have been doing this since the early 90's.
Just what everyone wants a 2 mile long bomb floating 20 miles up....
How much has IBM made if a significant amount of those have websphere and/or DB2 + other software ibm sells???? HP doesn't have the software offering IBM does. So yes HP may sell more boxes than IBM in sheer numbers, however I bet IBM makes more per box once you add in all of the above mentioned 'extras'. We have a whole cluster of cheap (relativly speaking) IBM servers, however they all have Websphere. A few have DB2, most have some other IBM software on them. Point is a basic linux box from IBM costs us ~$5000 (Dual CPU). NOW put Websphere + appropriate licenses + DB2 + licenses (per CPU). Now that box costs us about $25000......
Thats whats IBM is about, not just selling a bunch of cheap x86 Linux boxes! Walmart can outdo everyone at that.
BTW Need some IBM consulting to go with that!!!!!
The tooth fairy perfers to be called the:
MOLENATOR.......
We Run serveral thousand users per hour on a cluster of IBM 2-CPU boxes. If one goes down (which they haven't in the 2 years we've been running it) we would just slide another box in. I agree it is NOT the same, but for alot of apps it's good enough. Our DB is an HP-NonStop box which has way more than 8 CPU's....
Looks sun has a solid U*ix based os, but so is linux...
.........
No wait they have a great 64bit CPUs......
SO DO Intel and AMD
They made Java...., But IBM, Oracle and others have created thier own JDK's that are Java 1.4.x complinant as well.
So what does sun sell that you can't get somewhere else cheaper???? Nothing...
As far as the 8+ CPU arg goes, that was true before linux clustering. Now we want 8 CPU's??? we buy 4 2-cpu boxes and cluster them. Not exactly the same, but we can get nice Rack mounted Dual CPU linux boxes from IBM for about 5k. We could build them for alot less, but the company policy is to go with a vendor that supports it.
I don't know what an 8CPU box from Sun would cost, but I'm sure it's more than 20k....
End of Sun.
And these clowns were boasting about how they took pride in hiring Indians and firing Americans. We ll maybe McNeely will set up shop in Bangalore or
New Deli......
Nahh they'll never take on the NRA...... Moses would just cause a local river to rush over SCO headquarters and obliterate them. Besides having the pillar of fire appearing at all the pretrial hearings would be pretty un-nerving for Darl......
We keep hearing about all these great jobs that will be created in the US as a result of outsourcing. Yet no one can describe them. We also hear about all this education we workers need for these indescribable new jobs, yet the workers being displaced all have degrees, usualing in CS, Math, Engr. and a sizeable minority even have advanced degrees, yet all this education is not quite enough.
So it boils to 2 questions:
1. What are all these neat new jobs we keep hearing about but have yet to see??
2. Exactly what 'extra' training will we need for them??
On a couple of occasions, my experience, bear in mind we are a talking a VERY limited set of the total here. Two projects out of millions.....
The first 3 or 4 months we got thier A-Team, the code was good quaility, and we had make a few revisions based on them not completely understanding our business requirements. After the A-team left, we got code that was so bad I was working 60+ hr weeks to rewrite/fix the stuff from india. We actually hired more American Programmers to fix the indian stuff. This happened on the next project as well (Different Indian Co.). After that our management went to small XP groups that actully sit right next to the users and everyone has been very happy with the results. For some things like reports, we still outsource those, but for anything very complex our we do our own......
Except UnitedLinux never materialized, and in the move from Caldera to SCO the entire board and Co. Changed.
IBM and Novell have already inked agreements for IBM to sell SUSE and use it as thier OS of choice. Novell has no reason to go after other *nix vendors. They stand to make more money playing fair than behaving like SCO.
It's funny, the huge corps, through thier own greed, are about to bring about a whole host of bad things they don't want. They will whine like stuck pigs when it happens. We will have draconian tax and employment rules because of all this, plus we could start having tech unions, which most of us don't want, but if it's that or see your job goto india, union here I come.
I can see it now, "Ah sorry your a programmer, your gonna have to wait for someone from sysadmin union to come and install websphere and eclipse on your desktop. Oh and someone from the PC support union will be by to plug the ethernet cable into your box in the next couple of weeks. Until then you have to sit and twiddle your thumbs......."
Java is being driven largely by other companies... IBM, BEA, Oracle and Borland...... I don't see that sun makes alot on Java. The real competitor to windows is and always will be linux not java. However IBM has known for a while that Java works quite well crossplatform. For years I've been able to develop on Windows and deploy on Solaris or Linux now. If you want you can run Windows boxes for servers instead. Please no crack pot replies about Applets. The vast majority of work with Java now is server side, and for all intents and purposes it is write once run anywhere as long as you have the same server on all you platforms. This something .Net cannot do, and probably never will since it's not in MS's interest to have .Net portable. I know about Mono, but they are way behind and MS and probably always will be.
Preach it.....
From some dude name Hoagland....... Said the mother ship was gonna come pick me up and take 'home' WTF you mean I got ripped off??
Wine swilling, ego-manical, girly-man little frogs...
Oh and those are thier good points...
Not sure about Edison. But the Austrian guy first published his work in 1944 ( a bad year for publishing research in Europe). Einstien died in 1955 so they were contemporaries. It first appeared in the DSM in 1994.
Once you have list(s) of certain behaviours, and if the person has a majority of behaviors on the list, then they pretty much have Asperger's syndrome. It would be possible to diagnose someone after they were dead, as long as you had a detailed list of observed behaviour.
My son is diagnosed with aspergers which is an Autism spectrum, disorder, but it is not autism. He sounds very similar to the child discribed. The thing with high functioning autism is that the children who have it are blissfully unaware (usually) that they are different than other people. Aspergers children tend to want to make friends, but have no idea how to relate. They know what interests them, but generally don't understand how to relate those interests to other children.
Generally aspergers children tend to have speech , He did'nt talk till he was 2, and neromuscular issues and need OT (sensory integration, in particular) as well. Hence the old thing about geeks being uncoordinated. Also ADD can go with it as well. ADD is a neurolgical disorder as well.
It's easy for people to say I knew XX and they Aspergers, and they did'nt act anything like Y. Aspergers kids have a broad range of behavior. My son is psuedo-social, he can fake it for a while. Other asperger kids will sit by them selves and tend not to look people in the eye. My son gets by with looking at someone's face, but will not focus on thier eyes, he picks the nose or cheeks.
BTW ALBERT EINSTEIN and THOMAS EDISON, both had aspergers and they are kind of the uber geeks.
My son could do multiplication long before he could do addition. He used to get confused, he as ked me isn't 2+3 = 6. I thought this was strange, so I would okay whats 2+4?? you guessed it 8. 4+6??? 24. That was a little tough, to help him through, how do you teach a child addition, yet they know multiplication???
Anyway, with aspergers, it very hard to lump them all together. Just becuse you met one person with Aspergers, Autism or PDD, you can't expect everyone with this range of issues to behave exactly the same way.
No, the problem is the ISS, it's stupid to build essentally a low to medium orbit Station. It should have been built at L5. To actually build another mars type vessel at the ISS would not work.
The logic is this, you want to build your mars vessel somewhere other than earth, because it would be too expensive to build it on earth and launch it. So you build it space or the moon. ISS was never meant for anything like that. You need a larger facility, optimally ISS SHOULD be about 3 times it current size and sitting at L5.
Because Nasa wasted 20 yrs with nothing but a low orbit taxi we have the ISS.
Not having a large station at L5, the next best thing is the moon. Alot of real-estate, no dangerous spacewalks to build the ship, moon walks would be somewhat dangerous, but not like spacewalks. Now we know the moon has ice and even is a good source for fusionable material to feed the reactor(s).
Will this violate any part of he anti-trust agreement between the US and M$? It most assurdly invoke the wrath the of EU, This could get interesting.........
Yeah look at the census numbers, there what 26 million more americans??? Plus those numbers run off the census so, they do not take into account the hunderds of thousands of H1B visa workers (Also taking jobs from americans here.) The facts are that 2.3 mil jobs have been lost since bush took office something like that, and another few million that just gave up and are now working at Wal-mart or somewhere else, as far as spankings go, you need'nt worry about me, let's see what happens in November.
The reality alot of americans are in trouble, and Bush and boys don't care cause they can't afford to slap down $2500 a plate for one of those fundraising lunches. I'm not a liberal btw, but I can't really see that the republicans are any different than the other party. they both use fringe groups, and then give them nothing in return, they both have thier own agenda, and neither agenda does me a damn bit of good. They both talk about the middle class, but neither care about us. I plan to vote for the one that can do the most in terms of generating jobs and oppurtunity for us middle class folks (note this not necesarily the same as good for the ecomonmy, and the CEO's making millions a year).