Enfoce this in Asia? Easy, follow the money trail.
Most (but no means all), profit would probably be generated in a few, richer countries. Say, the US, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Most of Western Europe, a few others.
The most profitable countries are those that MS stand the most chance of suing for and defending patent rights. Any 2 bit manufacturing outfit that wants to make some really money, will have to export to the developed countries. Either the exporter or the importer will have to ensure the fat tax is paid.
The pennies to be made in countries like China and India, would be like, well, pennies. Huge populations to be sure, but you can't max out your profit when the major portion of your market only earns a few $US per month.
The MS page is "only" asking for 25 cents per device. This is capped at $250K. They even provide additional code samples and benchmarking (and steak knives!!!) SFA really. If you're selling about 1,000,000 embeded devices, you can probably pony up the $250K.
The problem here now, is MS owns the only real omnipresent, well understood and documented (?) file system around. No competing file system can even get close, except for others owned by MS. (Eg, NTFS). They'd be cutting thier own throats to close it off to 3rd parties.
Unless Apple or Free/OSS movements get a majority of all desktops (or even a non-trivial minority), then there is SFA chance that a non-MS owned file system is going to pop up in consumer devices.
An aside: Happily for me, my Nex II mp3 player, uses a CF card..5G of mp3, no moving parts, nice sound, disk mounts under linux fine directly out of the device or via a card reader. I can't see 25cents adding much to the overall cost.
- Take a class, regularly scheduled so that you have to go. As the parent said, make it something the opposite of what you normally do. If you're a writer, try chemistry or maths, if you're a programmer or accountant, try gourmet cooking or a language. - Fix a time for gym/riding a bike. i.e. Mon/Wed/Thur at (say) 2pm. - Get out of the house for lunch 3 times a week. - Cafe's are good, but also consider local libraries as well. Bonus is they have dead-tree variety books that can often be a good resource (obvious, but has to be said). - Keep a damm diary and fix these in as regular appointments. If you have to have a meeting, reschedule your "meatspace" time to another time.
I wish I had your problems tho. I'm now working in a open plan office with my boss only about 5 meters away. I wish I could break his whiny little French neck. Working from home would be great. I work best when I'm not distracted by useless little pieces of 'advice' 20 times an hour and 10 phone conversations going on a once.
1cm cubed? Huh, i'll probably miss it and stuff it in my morning, not very awake, coffee.
I thought credit card size and form was about right. Then my memory jogged and I recalled my days at my previous job. How many PCMCIA cards were lost by "accident" by thoughtless management PHBs?
(I reckon I know that more than a few early expensive ones ended up at Crown Casino via Cash Converters).
Yeah, and I'd better be able to get the music off this thing and put it back my Nex-II. AND I want to back this up or gaurenteed low cost ($1 ~ $2 max) should it be faulty/or I already own the CD.
One way to tip the balance back is for someone to sue after their peecee gets owned. (Or even multiple peecees). One nice big fat settelement cheque later, especially inflated because the company was aware of the holes and sat on thier arse would force PHBs at least consider the alternatives (i.e., fix the bugs).
You don't even need to actually explain what the exploit was. All that needs to happen is for someone to say they were aware of the bug and told the company (for example in this case, GameSpy). GameSpy would then have prove, in court, either there was no bug, or there was no notification. In either case, at least then, the specific bugs would see the light of day.
Isn't a group of consumers in California actually doing something like this against Microsoft? It might be useful after all.
I think customs in various countries are getting wise to the scam of importing book/cds/whatever from Amazon (et al).
I used (more than 2 years ago) to import about $US200 or more of DVD and reference material (not textbooks) at a time. Never got a customs bill in either Australia or Switzerland.
NOW, however, I bring in over $US100 in to Switzerland and I get a bill. Likewise, sending a few CD's back to Oz sometimes gets the recipient a bill (birthdays, xmas, etc).
I think that governments have got wise and have really cracked down. Small packages just use to slip by as no one gave a sh1t. Eventually someone has started to work out that there is beer money to be made by double checking the sale amount on the packaging.
Actually bull-bars do cause significant extra damage in a pedestrian-vehicle collision.
A traditional type sedan or wagon car will actually push the pedestrian over the top. Sure, it'll probably do enough damage to kill you and then some. But with a bit of luck you might have a slim chance of survival. Basically you get it, thrown in to the air (possibly hitting the car) and then the road.
When you use the expression "run-over", well, it's not quite like that. Run-under is closer to what it's like.
Bull bars, on the other hand, ensure that the pedestrian is pushed UNDER the vehicle. In the case of something soft, like a human or small animal, much less damage to the vehicle. The pedestrian, is often much worse, as there is initial impact damage, then they are actually run-over by the vehicle. Survive the actual collision and you are fscked by the vehicle.
In some situations (i.e. Pr0n surfing and other non-critical systems), users will bitch and moan about slow response time for days/weeks/months/years until they've worked out you no longer care.
But, they'll be a pain in the arse until it's fixed and your reputation suffers little-by-little everyday.
But, speed things up, get them to quit their bitching and one half hour outage every six moths will be forgotten about by the end of the day.
I'm aware that a journaled file system can tuned for better response to a particular situation. However, so can an unjournaled file system.
Journalling always imposes a system overhead. It might be small but it's always there. Operationally, nothing should beat a well tuned unjournaled file system. A well written journalled fs should beat a hacked together pos that doesn't do journalling.
There's always trade-offs with file systems. There isn't a perfect for everyone solution. Just some are better at some tasks than others.
Finally, I shoulda put a "YMMV" or some sort of caveat before telling someone to turn off fsck on startup. However, I think that was a minor point. Turning of filesystem checks during startup is another tradeoff (albeit a "hope and pray" one)
Um, why would you want to put squid on a journaled file system?
Squid is a cache of (parts of) the internet. It can be rebuilt pretty easily. For example, the next time a user goes to a page. It might cost you a fraction of a second the first time, but after that you're sweet. Journalling transitory data just adds unnecessary overhead.
If it's quite a large cache with a number of binary objects, why don't you just mirror it up front?
A mail spooler or news spooler that has to keep somewhat static data I'd happily put on a journaled file system. However, Squid and things that maintain their own data integrity, (say an sql db), I'd put on Ext2.
If you're looking to restart quickly after a power failure you can always set a partition to ignore file system checks at startup, "0 0" options in/etc/fstab./var/spool/squid (or whatever) is on its own partition right? Perhaps on it's own disk?
But who's the replacement? Will he (or possibly she), be much better. Will they be WORSE?
The ultimate democracy is one where you can vote: "X": None of the above.
Any so-called "multi-party democracy", that essentially boils down to a two horse race can benefit from that one. I'm thinking US, UK, Australia, etc. Where it's more or less "Winner take all".
I think what your thinking of is fiat money. This is where the instrument is not of the actual value of the money, but an abstract concept.
Your dollar/yen/pound/euro/rupee/etc bill/coin sure isn't worth the paper it's printed on. It's only because you think other people will trust that it's worth a dollar (or whatever). You could on the other hand, actually carry around coins containing 1, 2, 10, etc dollars (or whatever) worth of your favourite precious metal.
That does not make paper money a worthless invention however. And I sure can't remember which came when or by who.
While what you say is for the most part true, certain methods of producing electricity on a large scale can be (relatively)(sp?) quickly turned on/of.
Specifically I'm thinking about Hydro power that can be pretty quickly turned off and on. Nuke and Coal certainly take many, many hours to fire up and down. Wind power et al, is probably only used to supplement high demand times while the larger plants provide base load capacity.
Now, would a more knowledgable expert inform us if the newer gas stations have the quick start up time?
Well, seeing as we've plenty of nationalities where I work, I had to insist on a US keboard. (Which is the same as my 'native' Australian keyboard).
Mostly around here we've Swiss German/French, French and a few Belgian keyboards. Everyone seems to prefer they one they grew up with. Personally, alphabetic characters never bothered me, but I occasionally miss the positions of/\$@ and a few others if I don't work with a US keyboard. I'm fine whether I use VNC, SSH or Terminal Services. Users of other keyboards sometimes find that there are remapping problems, which are either from the application or the OS itself.
Of course, company std dictates that "US English" be the standard install for NT/2K, at least on a server level. VNC doesn't work so well for a non-US keyboard.
Drives the French guys nuts trying to hunt and seek for an obscure character combination that I've used in a service password. (Driving the French mad is of course, like 'wiping your arse with silk').
Propaganda is your most important tool. Frame the argument in your terms and the enemy fights your battle, on your terms.
Do you think DRM would fly if it was Digital Restrictions Management and not Digital Rights Management? There are countless other examples of this. My "terrorist" is your "freedom fighter". "Palladium" and not "Poisoned Hardware", "Digital Millenium Copyright Act" not "Dumb Companies Moneymaking Authority".
No media or Joe Public is going to realise true nature of self-interest unless pointed out to them. Educate people around you what the acronyms mean, who's behind them, what the agenda is. Most importantly, who pays.
Let's face it, do you think that the same press release would work if it was from, say, "The Association for Protecting Software License Revenue" or (in the case of South Australia) "The Association of overseas Software Vendors that have a vested interest in money being paid to us and not to local software developers (open or closed source)".
What actually surprises me is how they (IfSC) can claim that paying money to US companies can help the local (South Australian) IT industry. Sure, the local sales office will benefit, but will it help fund one local startup? MS, Adobe, Oracle, IBM, etc (I'm not sure of the exact membership), will almost certainly NOT have an Australian major member.
You now have them over a barrel. It seems like management only went in to the contract knowing the capabilities of thier workers. Management went in knowing/hoping/thinking/praying it could be done.
Talk to all your co-workers and get them to form a Union. If the work orders and going out for 12x7 operations, it seems like they'll be scared shitless just hearing the rumours. Even if you can't change the deadline, you might at least be rewarded for it. God knows that the parasites in management will be awarding themselves bonuses for a job well done.
If nothing else, it lets you stand up and call your management all the names they rightfully deserve.
Management have (mostly) PA, legal departments, etc when issuing work orders, creating contracts. Why shouldn't the workers also?
Well not Maccas, but I was in Amsterdam this weekend and I forked out 100Eu for a new jacket. Put two 50 Euros (aka 2 orange drinking vochers) down and the sales guy swipes them through the UV lamp. Nice little kit that had a magnifying glass on the top so you can see the picture in detail. Definately worked.
Actually the Euro really needs this. The pale printing doesn't really work. Nice bright colours are much better. Swiss Francs are excellent and both the old and new Australian notes are/were great. With the Euro, it gets really hard to tell the difference between some of the notes late at night, a bit tired and emotional. I'd be stuffed in the U.S.
Actually, it's not always in your best interests to sell as cheap as you can. When some thing is reletively scarce, you do better by having a certain "prestige" associated with the product. (Prestige in this case as imagened by your target market).
Suppose you could sell your seats at $5 a pop and still make your target profit. This you could do. You might also drive away those people who might pay $50 a seat. (i.e, your customers believe, rightly or wrongly, that the theater experience is worth less (trailer park trash now come, cheaper to get the DVD, at $5 it can't be a good show, etc).
The less intrinsic survival value a product has the more that this kind of pricing prevails (see also Daimonds, marketing of). Yeah, and I know theater tickets aren't scarce, but they are sufficiently "finite".
Economics is the most evil of all sciences. It's the only one where they can never have even a reasonable stab at predicting the future and can't always explain the past.
There is one. And only one reason MS moved the GUI from user mode to kernel mode... performance. They could not get the gui to keep up with the rest of the system. Problem solved, move the instructions to the kernel and match the gui to the server response.
You cannot remove the GUI from Win NT/2K/XP or (I suspect) 2K+3. Used or not, it is still running and cosuming resources.
X can crash and you can still operate all your services efficiently from a command line in a unix-like. OS/2 didn have to have a gui, and it certainly didn't run in kernel space (albeit with a slightly raised priority, as were networking services) Most mid-ranges and mainframes don't require a gui to run. CLI will be fine.
MS products probably can run with a GUI that has crashed, but I wouldn't like to have to use it day to day.
By the way, just to be clear, graphics just suck CPU instructions, acceleration or no. A good server need not have a graphics card. Graphics suck CPU cycles from network and local services. A serial interfcae should suffice for all necessary local management, and that only for installation.
Let's not forget how MS has integrated HTML and other rendering services into the GUI. Exploit unsafe code... own the machine.
OK I'm half pissed at the moment.. don't like my spelling?... buy me another beer.
Most mobile phones come with a revolutionary device, previously unheard of by most people: The OFF button. RTFM on this feature's usage.
RTFM on social etiquette. Some places, particularly those where you are but one of a large group sharing a limited resouce (chruch, lecture, movie, etc) would be the optimal use to outstanding feature.
You don't have to have the bloody thing on all the time... An SMS asking if you want to go to the pub after is not more important than cleansing your soul, gaining elightenment in your chosen field or even given due attention to drving to your destination. It is certainly not more important than interrupting other peoples enjoyment of the same or safety.
You are 100% correct about perceptions and cartels. Daimonds, Cinderalla and Barbie are three of the most successful con-jobs in history.
However, If your girlfriend says something along the lines of "Buy be something expensive and useless"... Don't go signing her up for radiation therapy.
You know what she wants. And you're going to be paying (too much) for it.
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Enfoce this in Asia? Easy, follow the money trail.
.5G of mp3, no moving parts, nice sound, disk mounts under linux fine directly out of the device or via a card reader. I can't see 25cents adding much to the overall cost.
Most (but no means all), profit would probably be generated in a few, richer countries. Say, the US, Canada, UK, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, Most of Western Europe, a few others.
The most profitable countries are those that MS stand the most chance of suing for and defending patent rights. Any 2 bit manufacturing outfit that wants to make some really money, will have to export to the developed countries. Either the exporter or the importer will have to ensure the fat tax is paid.
The pennies to be made in countries like China and India, would be like, well, pennies. Huge populations to be sure, but you can't max out your profit when the major portion of your market only earns a few $US per month.
The MS page is "only" asking for 25 cents per device. This is capped at $250K. They even provide additional code samples and benchmarking (and steak knives!!!) SFA really. If you're selling about 1,000,000 embeded devices, you can probably pony up the $250K.
The problem here now, is MS owns the only real omnipresent, well understood and documented (?) file system around. No competing file system can even get close, except for others owned by MS. (Eg, NTFS). They'd be cutting thier own throats to close it off to 3rd parties.
Unless Apple or Free/OSS movements get a majority of all desktops (or even a non-trivial minority), then there is SFA chance that a non-MS owned file system is going to pop up in consumer devices.
An aside: Happily for me, my Nex II mp3 player, uses a CF card.
I have to agree with this advice.
I've only tele'd for 6 months a few years ago.
- Take a class, regularly scheduled so that you have to go. As the parent said, make it something the opposite of what you normally do. If you're a writer, try chemistry or maths, if you're a programmer or accountant, try gourmet cooking or a language.
- Fix a time for gym/riding a bike. i.e. Mon/Wed/Thur at (say) 2pm.
- Get out of the house for lunch 3 times a week.
- Cafe's are good, but also consider local libraries as well. Bonus is they have dead-tree variety books that can often be a good resource (obvious, but has to be said).
- Keep a damm diary and fix these in as regular appointments. If you have to have a meeting, reschedule your "meatspace" time to another time.
I wish I had your problems tho. I'm now working in a open plan office with my boss only about 5 meters away. I wish I could break his whiny little French neck. Working from home would be great. I work best when I'm not distracted by useless little pieces of 'advice' 20 times an hour and 10 phone conversations going on a once.
1cm cubed? Huh, i'll probably miss it and stuff it in my morning, not very awake, coffee.
I thought credit card size and form was about right. Then my memory jogged and I recalled my days at my previous job. How many PCMCIA cards were lost by "accident" by thoughtless management PHBs?
(I reckon I know that more than a few early expensive ones ended up at Crown Casino via Cash Converters).
Yeah, and I'd better be able to get the music off this thing and put it back my Nex-II. AND I want to back this up or gaurenteed low cost ($1 ~ $2 max) should it be faulty/or I already own the CD.
Saving money is a curious concept.
One way to tip the balance back is for someone to sue after their peecee gets owned. (Or even multiple peecees). One nice big fat settelement cheque later, especially inflated because the company was aware of the holes and sat on thier arse would force PHBs at least consider the alternatives (i.e., fix the bugs).
You don't even need to actually explain what the exploit was. All that needs to happen is for someone to say they were aware of the bug and told the company (for example in this case, GameSpy). GameSpy would then have prove, in court, either there was no bug, or there was no notification. In either case, at least then, the specific bugs would see the light of day.
Isn't a group of consumers in California actually doing something like this against Microsoft? It might be useful after all.
I think customs in various countries are getting wise to the scam of importing book/cds/whatever from Amazon (et al).
I used (more than 2 years ago) to import about $US200 or more of DVD and reference material (not textbooks) at a time. Never got a customs bill in either Australia or Switzerland.
NOW, however, I bring in over $US100 in to Switzerland and I get a bill. Likewise, sending a few CD's back to Oz sometimes gets the recipient a bill (birthdays, xmas, etc).
I think that governments have got wise and have really cracked down. Small packages just use to slip by as no one gave a sh1t. Eventually someone has started to work out that there is beer money to be made by double checking the sale amount on the packaging.
Actually bull-bars do cause significant extra damage in a pedestrian-vehicle collision.
A traditional type sedan or wagon car will actually push the pedestrian over the top. Sure, it'll probably do enough damage to kill you and then some. But with a bit of luck you might have a slim chance of survival. Basically you get it, thrown in to the air (possibly hitting the car) and then the road.
When you use the expression "run-over", well, it's not quite like that. Run-under is closer to what it's like.
Bull bars, on the other hand, ensure that the pedestrian is pushed UNDER the vehicle. In the case of something soft, like a human or small animal, much less damage to the vehicle. The pedestrian, is often much worse, as there is initial impact damage, then they are actually run-over by the vehicle. Survive the actual collision and you are fscked by the vehicle.
In some situations (i.e. Pr0n surfing and other non-critical systems), users will bitch and moan about slow response time for days/weeks/months/years until they've worked out you no longer care.
But, they'll be a pain in the arse until it's fixed and your reputation suffers little-by-little everyday.
But, speed things up, get them to quit their bitching and one half hour outage every six moths will be forgotten about by the end of the day.
I'm aware that a journaled file system can tuned for better response to a particular situation. However, so can an unjournaled file system.
Journalling always imposes a system overhead. It might be small but it's always there. Operationally, nothing should beat a well tuned unjournaled file system. A well written journalled fs should beat a hacked together pos that doesn't do journalling.
There's always trade-offs with file systems. There isn't a perfect for everyone solution. Just some are better at some tasks than others.
Finally, I shoulda put a "YMMV" or some sort of caveat before telling someone to turn off fsck on startup. However, I think that was a minor point. Turning of filesystem checks during startup is another tradeoff (albeit a "hope and pray" one)
Um, why would you want to put squid on a journaled file system?
/etc/fstab. /var/spool/squid (or whatever) is on its own partition right? Perhaps on it's own disk?
Squid is a cache of (parts of) the internet. It can be rebuilt pretty easily. For example, the next time a user goes to a page. It might cost you a fraction of a second the first time, but after that you're sweet. Journalling transitory data just adds unnecessary overhead.
If it's quite a large cache with a number of binary objects, why don't you just mirror it up front?
A mail spooler or news spooler that has to keep somewhat static data I'd happily put on a journaled file system. However, Squid and things that maintain their own data integrity, (say an sql db), I'd put on Ext2.
If you're looking to restart quickly after a power failure you can always set a partition to ignore file system checks at startup, "0 0" options in
Either that, or he's a service pack.
Interesting to note that the anecdote of one manager is that they now have to define a rock solid spec, and of course, up the QA.
Most project I've worked on seem to fall down in those two areas. Clearly both areas are a management responsability to kick off.
Might they have saved half their problems getting these right in the first place?
What they didn't tell this martyr was that the translation was slightly wrong.
...
What he will end up with is 70 Virginians.
I'd love to see the look on his face then
Yeah, possible.
But who's the replacement? Will he (or possibly she), be much better. Will they be WORSE?
The ultimate democracy is one where you can vote: "X": None of the above.
Any so-called "multi-party democracy", that essentially boils down to a two horse race can benefit from that one. I'm thinking US, UK, Australia, etc. Where it's more or less "Winner take all".
I think what your thinking of is fiat money. This is where the instrument is not of the actual value of the money, but an abstract concept.
Your dollar/yen/pound/euro/rupee/etc bill/coin sure isn't worth the paper it's printed on. It's only because you think other people will trust that it's worth a dollar (or whatever). You could on the other hand, actually carry around coins containing 1, 2, 10, etc dollars (or whatever) worth of your favourite precious metal.
That does not make paper money a worthless invention however. And I sure can't remember which came when or by who.
While what you say is for the most part true, certain methods of producing electricity on a large scale can be (relatively)(sp?) quickly turned on/of.
Specifically I'm thinking about Hydro power that can be pretty quickly turned off and on. Nuke and Coal certainly take many, many hours to fire up and down. Wind power et al, is probably only used to supplement high demand times while the larger plants provide base load capacity.
Now, would a more knowledgable expert inform us if the newer gas stations have the quick start up time?
Well, seeing as we've plenty of nationalities where I work, I had to insist on a US keboard. (Which is the same as my 'native' Australian keyboard).
/\$@ and a few others if I don't work with a US keyboard. I'm fine whether I use VNC, SSH or Terminal Services. Users of other keyboards sometimes find that there are remapping problems, which are either from the application or the OS itself.
Mostly around here we've Swiss German/French, French and a few Belgian keyboards. Everyone seems to prefer they one they grew up with. Personally, alphabetic characters never bothered me, but I occasionally miss the positions of
Of course, company std dictates that "US English" be the standard install for NT/2K, at least on a server level. VNC doesn't work so well for a non-US keyboard.
Drives the French guys nuts trying to hunt and seek for an obscure character combination that I've used in a service password. (Driving the French mad is of course, like 'wiping your arse with silk').
Propaganda is your most important tool. Frame the argument in your terms and the enemy fights your battle, on your terms.
Do you think DRM would fly if it was Digital Restrictions Management and not Digital Rights Management? There are countless other examples of this. My "terrorist" is your "freedom fighter". "Palladium" and not "Poisoned Hardware", "Digital Millenium Copyright Act" not "Dumb Companies Moneymaking Authority".
No media or Joe Public is going to realise true nature of self-interest unless pointed out to them. Educate people around you what the acronyms mean, who's behind them, what the agenda is. Most importantly, who pays.
Let's face it, do you think that the same press release would work if it was from, say, "The Association for Protecting Software License Revenue" or (in the case of South Australia) "The Association of overseas Software Vendors that have a vested interest in money being paid to us and not to local software developers (open or closed source)".
What actually surprises me is how they (IfSC) can claim that paying money to US companies can help the local (South Australian) IT industry. Sure, the local sales office will benefit, but will it help fund one local startup? MS, Adobe, Oracle, IBM, etc (I'm not sure of the exact membership), will almost certainly NOT have an Australian major member.
My Advice to your colleage:
You now have them over a barrel. It seems like management only went in to the contract knowing the capabilities of thier workers. Management went in knowing/hoping/thinking/praying it could be done.
Talk to all your co-workers and get them to form a Union. If the work orders and going out for 12x7 operations, it seems like they'll be scared shitless just hearing the rumours. Even if you can't change the deadline, you might at least be rewarded for it. God knows that the parasites in management will be awarding themselves bonuses for a job well done.
If nothing else, it lets you stand up and call your management all the names they rightfully deserve.
Management have (mostly) PA, legal departments, etc when issuing work orders, creating contracts. Why shouldn't the workers also?
Well not Maccas, but I was in Amsterdam this weekend and I forked out 100Eu for a new jacket. Put two 50 Euros (aka 2 orange drinking vochers) down and the sales guy swipes them through the UV lamp. Nice little kit that had a magnifying glass on the top so you can see the picture in detail. Definately worked.
Actually the Euro really needs this. The pale printing doesn't really work. Nice bright colours are much better. Swiss Francs are excellent and both the old and new Australian notes are/were great. With the Euro, it gets really hard to tell the difference between some of the notes late at night, a bit tired and emotional. I'd be stuffed in the U.S.
Actually, it's not always in your best interests to sell as cheap as you can. When some thing is reletively scarce, you do better by having a certain "prestige" associated with the product. (Prestige in this case as imagened by your target market).
Suppose you could sell your seats at $5 a pop and still make your target profit. This you could do. You might also drive away those people who might pay $50 a seat. (i.e, your customers believe, rightly or wrongly, that the theater experience is worth less (trailer park trash now come, cheaper to get the DVD, at $5 it can't be a good show, etc).
The less intrinsic survival value a product has the more that this kind of pricing prevails (see also Daimonds, marketing of). Yeah, and I know theater tickets aren't scarce, but they are sufficiently "finite".
Economics is the most evil of all sciences. It's the only one where they can never have even a reasonable stab at predicting the future and can't always explain the past.
Amen to that.
... performance. They could not get the gui to keep up with the rest of the system. Problem solved, move the instructions to the kernel and match the gui to the server response.
... own the machine.
.. don't like my spelling? ... buy me another beer.
There is one. And only one reason MS moved the GUI from user mode to kernel mode
You cannot remove the GUI from Win NT/2K/XP or (I suspect) 2K+3. Used or not, it is still running and cosuming resources.
X can crash and you can still operate all your services efficiently from a command line in a unix-like. OS/2 didn have to have a gui, and it certainly didn't run in kernel space (albeit with a slightly raised priority, as were networking services) Most mid-ranges and mainframes don't require a gui to run. CLI will be fine.
MS products probably can run with a GUI that has crashed, but I wouldn't like to have to use it day to day.
By the way, just to be clear, graphics just suck CPU instructions, acceleration or no. A good server need not have a graphics card. Graphics suck CPU cycles from network and local services. A serial interfcae should suffice for all necessary local management, and that only for installation.
Let's not forget how MS has integrated HTML and other rendering services into the GUI. Exploit unsafe code
OK I'm half pissed at the moment
That's Bill Ward ... sheesh.
... disappears" - To paraphrase Henry Rollins.
"Put on the Black Sabbath and the girlfriend just
Most mobile phones come with a revolutionary device, previously unheard of by most people: The OFF button. RTFM on this feature's usage.
... An SMS asking if you want to go to the pub after is not more important than cleansing your soul, gaining elightenment in your chosen field or even given due attention to drving to your destination. It is certainly not more important than interrupting other peoples enjoyment of the same or safety.
RTFM on social etiquette. Some places, particularly those where you are but one of a large group sharing a limited resouce (chruch, lecture, movie, etc) would be the optimal use to outstanding feature.
You don't have to have the bloody thing on all the time
You are 100% correct about perceptions and cartels. Daimonds, Cinderalla and Barbie are three of the most successful con-jobs in history.
... Don't go signing her up for radiation therapy.
However, If your girlfriend says something along the lines of "Buy be something expensive and useless"
You know what she wants. And you're going to be paying (too much) for it.
(Apologies to Emo).
Yes, I have been trolled ...
Fosters? noone in Australia drinks it. It's just a giant joke on everyone not in Australia.
There are a number of excellent beers from Australia , take a little time to hunt them up.
As for us being crimials, does that make people from the US terrorists? (AKA, War of Independence?)