When she was on 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl mentioned the criticisms about Carly not being involved in day to day operations. Carly got all defensive and said she was.
WRONG! The correct answer is: CEOs are strategists and are concerned with the big picture. The president of the company worries about day to day operations. She shouldn't have been involved with day to day operations. The critics didn't know what they were talking about - they were criticizing the wrong behavior.
I would gladly give up 6% of the performance of my machine if I could be safe from rootkits. Now queue the "those who would give up system performance for system security deserve neither" posts.
Damn straight! The same goes for guns! It should be a law that computer admins have to carry guns in order to protect their machines! Have a computer in your house? Well then, you are required to have a gun by your machine - even if you live in NY City!
People who don't want to pay for a database. What if Microsoft bought Sun? Would Star/OpenOffice be classified as being in a different market as MSOffice?
Of course there's the "want it for free" crowd - if they're doing something that's not for business; otherwise, MySQL does charge for business users. And I'm talking about businesses here - people who pay money.
MySQL has much more of the web back end market than Oracle does. I have yet to see anyone implement a website with Oracle - I'm sure there are somewhere, but with the share of MySQL?
You're office suite analogy isn't applicable because they are in the same markets. Oracle and MySQL are not. Oracle has the business infrastructure and business management software, whereas, MySQL is used mostly for web backends.
Product mix - as the marketing guys call it. MySQL has a market that Oracle doesn't. How many folks use Oracle as their back end for their websites? Now they have products that cover more of the market for RDMSs; which I believe, makes them the leader, but by no means able to control the market as the EC fears.
Oracle can suggest they either stop selling SUN hardware or Oracle software to the EU, and let those bueacratic bastards pick how they best wish to further retard the quality of their citizens lives.
SUN and Oracle are not that important. There's IBM, MS, SAP, Compaq, and a few other vendors that are praying to their personal god that the EC knocks Oracle on their ass.
Yeah, but we aren't allowed to exploit domestic energy supplies. The NIMBY crowd and enviro-nazi's will see to that, aided by the current political overlords in Washington. Apparently it's better that we keep sending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas than it would be to exploit our own resources and keep some of that money within our borders.
Don't worry though, I'm sure our overlords in the Federal Government will come up with a solution. All we need is more energy conservation and investment in key primary states^W^W^Wethanol to save the day.
The NIMBY crowd and enviro-nazi's will see to that....
People complain about the NIMBYs until someone wants to put something in their neighborhood.
"enviro-nazi's"?? Where did you get that name from??
Every environmentalist group that I know of has a goal of basically improving human environments. Clean air, clean water, balanced ecosystem, etc....
Whatever we do to the environment always comes back to us one way or another. It's real easy to be Laissez-Faire when you live in a rich country but it'll only insulate us for so long - that' s assuming we stay rich.
Learning is easy because it's an innate human ability. Humans learn best when it's trial and error, through discovery and at their own pace. Unfortunately, that doesn't fit in with the structured classroom where everyone is forced to learn at a minimum pace and using the same materials.
Formal education is backwards and was designed for the ease of the teacher.
Daskalakis, working with Christos Papadimitriou of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Liverpool’s Paul Goldberg, has shown that for some games, the Nash equilibrium is so hard to calculate that all the computers in the world couldn’t find it in the lifetime of the universe.
I know, I know. Talking to people, particularly executives, is a daunting task for some in the IT world, but you'd be amazed at how much easier things become when you ask people what they want.
Ask?!? Actually asking a question is verboten in IT! First, you have spend meaningless hours researching the question and finding your own answers and then, after exhausting all of your options, then, and only then, can you go and ask a question.
If you don't follow those steps in that order, you will get a snarky condescending answer of "What? You couldn't google it?!" or some other asinine statement. Or the fact that admitting ignorance in IT is equated with stupidity.
It's really awkward when you have to report to someone who's not in IT and they ask "Why couldn't you have just asked in the first place?" It so hard to explain the childish and retarded social dynamics of IT to folks who act on an adult level.
A dirty, dark secret of Google's is that their main product, a search engine was a copy of AltaVista, which also had the dirty secret of being a copy of Aliweb.
It's software. When you have the same problem, you're going to solve in a very similar manner. Unless the algorithms are the same, having the functionality being the same isn't copying. Linux is a copy of Unix but the underlying code is completely different.
If he has a life. Many times, poor bastards like this get assassinated by folks who have no idea. It's on thing if the pedo hurt innocent children, but when it's a guy who was arrested for sleeping with his 17 year old girlfriend when he was 18 because of our retarded sex laws passed by retards to impress retards who vote for them.
I just replay the music in my head. This helps avoid copyright infringement suits.
Be sure not to get carried away, and hum or whistle because that's a performance not covered by Section 117.
My idea doesn't either: crank up the amps so you can hear it through out the house.
Remember: These changes are often invented by marketing and then pushed through even against the explicit protest of the technology people.
Every technological marketing gimick that has been invented was the result of some techie wanting to get rich quick (or kiss up to his boss) and I don't blame them. If I found a way to exploit DNS further or any other part of the net and was able to get rich from it, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
And so would most of you, too.
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I don't know. But it will explain how a DeLorean can go back to the future.
I think all those Hackintoshers are also a reminder to Steve that there is a market for netbooks and non-AIO upgradable computers under 1000$.
Apple is making a very nice business out of being the premium computer and electronic gizmo maker. Making a sub $1,000 netbook would be like Gucci making a handbag to be sold in Walmart.
In reality, it's entirely possible that they had a bug in a development build that unintentionally broke Atom support, and then fixed the bug and unintentionally restored Atom support.
Apple has no products that use the Atom, correct? So, there was never a bug or a feature
So, what makes everyone think that Apple is even concerned about anything to do with the Atom? They're developing their software for their products. If it just so happens to work on some other hardware, it's an accident. If a build doesn't work on other hardware, it's an accident. If it works again on a subsequent build, it's an accident.
The is Washinton DC. It is governed by Congress. They won't take your freebie.
What they'll do is have the committee in charge of that farm out a "study" that will spend months figuring out what they need. Then said committee will hire the buddy of the Congressman that is owed the most favors. Said buddy will then have to do a cost plus design, implementation and install of system. Here' s the cost break down with Washington DC/Hollywood accounting standards:
Driving to computer store: $250,000 Picking out computer: $100,000 Cost of computer: $350 driving computer to Dot office: $250,000 Installation: $164,032.32 Writing and printing invoice: $56,473.45 -------------- Total: $5,0000,0000*
*I said Washinton DC/Hollywood accounting standards. Geeze!
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Here's a perfect example of why we need IP laws.
WRONG! The correct answer is: CEOs are strategists and are concerned with the big picture. The president of the company worries about day to day operations. She shouldn't have been involved with day to day operations. The critics didn't know what they were talking about - they were criticizing the wrong behavior.
*breaks down sobbing*
I need a hug!
I would gladly give up 6% of the performance of my machine if I could be safe from rootkits. Now queue the "those who would give up system performance for system security deserve neither" posts.
Damn straight! The same goes for guns! It should be a law that computer admins have to carry guns in order to protect their machines! Have a computer in your house? Well then, you are required to have a gun by your machine - even if you live in NY City!
or CBN - CowboyNeil!
MySQL has a market that Oracle doesn't.
People who don't want to pay for a database. What if Microsoft bought Sun? Would Star/OpenOffice be classified as being in a different market as MSOffice?
Of course there's the "want it for free" crowd - if they're doing something that's not for business; otherwise, MySQL does charge for business users. And I'm talking about businesses here - people who pay money.
MySQL has much more of the web back end market than Oracle does. I have yet to see anyone implement a website with Oracle - I'm sure there are somewhere, but with the share of MySQL?
You're office suite analogy isn't applicable because they are in the same markets. Oracle and MySQL are not. Oracle has the business infrastructure and business management software, whereas, MySQL is used mostly for web backends.
Two different things there.
I seriously don't see why Oracle needs MySQL.
Product mix - as the marketing guys call it. MySQL has a market that Oracle doesn't. How many folks use Oracle as their back end for their websites? Now they have products that cover more of the market for RDMSs; which I believe, makes them the leader, but by no means able to control the market as the EC fears.
SUN and Oracle are not that important. There's IBM, MS, SAP, Compaq, and a few other vendors that are praying to their personal god that the EC knocks Oracle on their ass.
Mod parent up, I'm tired of the /. eds assuming i know what every god damned acronym means. (Sure I can google it, but usually I just move on)
That's assuming you get right definition of "EC". Everyone here seems to assume that googling things will give you the correct or relevant answer.
For example, I googled it and E. Coli doesn't want Oracle in Athens to predict what Apollo will say.
So there!, "why don't you google it" Nazis!
Yeah, but we aren't allowed to exploit domestic energy supplies. The NIMBY crowd and enviro-nazi's will see to that, aided by the current political overlords in Washington. Apparently it's better that we keep sending hundreds of billions of dollars overseas than it would be to exploit our own resources and keep some of that money within our borders.
Don't worry though, I'm sure our overlords in the Federal Government will come up with a solution. All we need is more energy conservation and investment in key primary states^W^W^Wethanol to save the day.
The NIMBY crowd and enviro-nazi's will see to that....
People complain about the NIMBYs until someone wants to put something in their neighborhood.
"enviro-nazi's"?? Where did you get that name from??
Every environmentalist group that I know of has a goal of basically improving human environments. Clean air, clean water, balanced ecosystem, etc....
Whatever we do to the environment always comes back to us one way or another. It's real easy to be Laissez-Faire when you live in a rich country but it'll only insulate us for so long - that' s assuming we stay rich.
Learning is easy because it's an innate human ability. Humans learn best when it's trial and error, through discovery and at their own pace. Unfortunately, that doesn't fit in with the structured classroom where everyone is forced to learn at a minimum pace and using the same materials.
Formal education is backwards and was designed for the ease of the teacher.
Daskalakis, working with Christos Papadimitriou of the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Liverpool’s Paul Goldberg, has shown that for some games, the Nash equilibrium is so hard to calculate that all the computers in the world couldn’t find it in the lifetime of the universe.
It sounds all Greek to me.
how about asking them what they want to see?
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I know, I know. Talking to people, particularly executives, is a daunting task for some in the IT world, but you'd be amazed at how much easier things become when you ask people what they want.
Ask?!? Actually asking a question is verboten in IT! First, you have spend meaningless hours researching the question and finding your own answers and then, after exhausting all of your options, then, and only then, can you go and ask a question.
If you don't follow those steps in that order, you will get a snarky condescending answer of "What? You couldn't google it?!" or some other asinine statement. Or the fact that admitting ignorance in IT is equated with stupidity.
It's really awkward when you have to report to someone who's not in IT and they ask "Why couldn't you have just asked in the first place?" It so hard to explain the childish and retarded social dynamics of IT to folks who act on an adult level.
It's software. When you have the same problem, you're going to solve in a very similar manner. Unless the algorithms are the same, having the functionality being the same isn't copying. Linux is a copy of Unix but the underlying code is completely different.
If he has a life. Many times, poor bastards like this get assassinated by folks who have no idea. It's on thing if the pedo hurt innocent children, but when it's a guy who was arrested for sleeping with his 17 year old girlfriend when he was 18 because of our retarded sex laws passed by retards to impress retards who vote for them.
I just replay the music in my head. This helps avoid copyright infringement suits. Be sure not to get carried away, and hum or whistle because that's a performance not covered by Section 117.
My idea doesn't either: crank up the amps so you can hear it through out the house.
Every technological marketing gimick that has been invented was the result of some techie wanting to get rich quick (or kiss up to his boss) and I don't blame them. If I found a way to exploit DNS further or any other part of the net and was able to get rich from it, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
And so would most of you, too.
I don't know. But it will explain how a DeLorean can go back to the future.
So, the Chinese are banning beating off to porn or something?
No, I haven' read the article yet. Why do you ask?
Business as usual. Congress is beholden to corporate America. Bend over little guy and if you're lucky, you get some KY.
I think all those Hackintoshers are also a reminder to Steve that there is a market for netbooks and non-AIO upgradable computers under 1000$.
Apple is making a very nice business out of being the premium computer and electronic gizmo maker. Making a sub $1,000 netbook would be like Gucci making a handbag to be sold in Walmart.
Apple has no products that use the Atom, correct? So, there was never a bug or a feature
So, what makes everyone think that Apple is even concerned about anything to do with the Atom? They're developing their software for their products. If it just so happens to work on some other hardware, it's an accident. If a build doesn't work on other hardware, it's an accident. If it works again on a subsequent build, it's an accident.
God, you people are turning a non-issue into one.
it's "password"!
This is government, you know.
What they'll do is have the committee in charge of that farm out a "study" that will spend months figuring out what they need. Then said committee will hire the buddy of the Congressman that is owed the most favors. Said buddy will then have to do a cost plus design, implementation and install of system. Here' s the cost break down with Washington DC/Hollywood accounting standards:
Driving to computer store: $250,000
Picking out computer: $100,000
Cost of computer: $350
driving computer to Dot office: $250,000
Installation: $164,032.32
Writing and printing invoice: $56,473.45
--------------
Total: $5,0000,0000*
*I said Washinton DC/Hollywood accounting standards. Geeze!
2. They use their fingers and twist the rods to cross - it's a really easy trick. Easier than the "Y" branch mentioned above.
3. If they're so good, then why don't they go for: oil, gold, uranium, diamonds, etc...