...because they probably spend their money and time hiring brainless MBAssholes who don't know anything about their target audience other than what they think their demographic reports say.
IMHO, Schwartz's comments are intuitively incorrect, BUT thinking that those hottest economies are hot because of a lack of IP laws is also wrong.
Again, IMHO and being a manufacturer, those economies (China, India, etc) are hot because of specific industries transferring "capacity" to the lowest cost provider. I'm seeing a hell of a lot of cheap manufactured products coming out of China right now. Products that were conceptualized and designed and originally built or prototyped elsewhere. Same with India, even if you consider call centers to be "resources".
Show me something truly original coming from any of those countries. There's a challenge for you.
Most people make the mistake of assuming that IP means only copyright or only patents. IP may have its flaws, but it does work in the sense of providing you with competitive relief in your protected zone and allowing you to design and produce your invention (whether product or digital "bit").
I've been pro-PC with MS since 1986 when I got my first 8088 with DOS 3. I started making the switch to linux last year. I finally got fed up with their corporate direction, DRM support, growing spyware, and reducing support for the SMB (which built their f**king business anyways).
Hey, how about tying a GPS to my ass and then charging me each time I take a shit? I mean, clearly, it costs water and infrastructure and support personnel every time I need to take a shit.
Hell, we all know that taxes are designed to cover the costs of infrastructure anyways.
At the small business that I work for, all of our general office machines are set for automatic update because it takes the load off the administrators, with few problems. Our network can handle it easily.
I think that you'll find many small-to-mid-sized corporate environments are like this. Only larger companies with IT resources actually restrict downloads and perform rigorous testing.
MS traditional customer base is small-to-mid businesses. Only since NT4/2000 have they made significant headways into the large corporate world. Given how pissed some large companies are becoming with MS, I think that they are making a serious, negative strategic decision. This comes in a string of other negative strategic decisions that is increasingly alienating their traditional customer base.
The key differentiator is that hardware firewalls will have ASICs (specialized chips) which are dedicated to specific functions in the hardware. Higher-end switches are famous for this. The upper level Cisco PIXs have ASICs too. The lower-end 515 doesn't from what I remember.
A hardware firewall can scale upwards with load better than a software firewall. Better for SPI - stateful packet inspection as well as for deeper network analysis. You can't typically use a software firewall in a large corporate environment because it can't handle the load or the administrative diversity that is required.
OpenBSD is great but are you able to administer it easily when your network admin has a MS background? What if you have OC-level lines connected in a larger corporate network, along with multiple ISDN, DSL, and whatnot? Ever see the network map for a Bank?
I use Compucage http://www.compucage.com/ for raw physical security because their products are simply the best around. I find that a good physical deterrence is the first step to securing my box properly.
After Compucage, I then use passwords, encryption,....
If my box goes missing, then all my other efforts become meaningless. Yah, some people think I'm a little nuts, but I've never had a box go missing.
I think that anyone who starts off their message body with "I like Fedora..." and their/. login ID is greater than 250000 should be automatically modded down 1 point. Clearly, they are not early adopters.
Check out http://www.dbsonline.com/ and look for the BS/1 Professional download. It is FREE for Delphi developers who have some version of Delphi installed on their system. The source code is available for purchase, and it's pretty good software, especially if you are familiar with accounting. Best part of the Pro version is the Time Billing capabilities.
Highly recommended!
Disclaimer: No, I am not affiliated with Davis Business Systems. Just a fan.
Rather than arguing with you, here's the word right from their website. Notice they said "virtually pick and tamper resistant", and "cannot be duplicated at a common key store". As a user, I can attest to this. Also, I doubt if the "average joe" has the skills to duplicate these keys. The locks will definitly slow down thiefs, unlike kensington junk.
Hardened Steel: Made with high quality hardened steel. A Compucage product is resistant to bolt cutters and leverage attacks.
Sophisticated locks: Using a multi-row pair pin cylinder technology, the lock is virtually pick and tamper resistant.
Keys: The key is made with computerized, laser technology that creates high precision dimples of different sizes. The precision computerized dimples cannot be duplicated at a common key replication store. The key works in both directions and is highly resistant to bending and rust.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!! LOL!!! Yes, that is simply too funny. What's really sad is that I know of at least 3 manufacturing companies (one of which is a Top 3 industry leader in their respective category) that still use Novell 3.x and Novell 4.x versions (along wit cc:Mail) simply because their IT Directors are about 90+ years old and stopped following their own industries years ago.
Now, some people may argue that stability is more important than advancement for the sake of advancement, and they are correct to a certain point. I think that point is about 10 years unless its a damn mainframe or something that requires its own building with a separate A/C system
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"headgames". 'Nuff said.
...because they probably spend their money and time hiring brainless MBAssholes who don't know anything about their target audience other than what they think their demographic reports say.
I lay copyright on the word "MBAssholes".
Its pretty obvious.
Cylons.
IMHO, Schwartz's comments are intuitively incorrect, BUT thinking that those hottest economies are hot because of a lack of IP laws is also wrong.
Again, IMHO and being a manufacturer, those economies (China, India, etc) are hot because of specific industries transferring "capacity" to the lowest cost provider. I'm seeing a hell of a lot of cheap manufactured products coming out of China right now. Products that were conceptualized and designed and originally built or prototyped elsewhere. Same with India, even if you consider call centers to be "resources".
Show me something truly original coming from any of those countries. There's a challenge for you.
Most people make the mistake of assuming that IP means only copyright or only patents. IP may have its flaws, but it does work in the sense of providing you with competitive relief in your protected zone and allowing you to design and produce your invention (whether product or digital "bit").
Clearly, if they just ordered the Ubuntu disks, then they could get one for each citizen. Crap, please don't /. Ubuntu ordering free disks now.....
Ubuntu Linux or just go here: Ubuntu Shipit
Uh oh... more work for me now....
I can envision Windows 2000 being the longest running and deployed OS in the SMB space ever now....
I'm more interested in how the database is looking to be.
I've been pro-PC with MS since 1986 when I got my first 8088 with DOS 3. I started making the switch to linux last year. I finally got fed up with their corporate direction, DRM support, growing spyware, and reducing support for the SMB (which built their f**king business anyways).
Hey, how about tying a GPS to my ass and then charging me each time I take a shit? I mean, clearly, it costs water and infrastructure and support personnel every time I need to take a shit.
Hell, we all know that taxes are designed to cover the costs of infrastructure anyways.
Ahh, a fellow Canadian!
Valve, Steam, and Blizzard should get together and just switch their barely-reliable systems over to this.
At the small business that I work for, all of our general office machines are set for automatic update because it takes the load off the administrators, with few problems. Our network can handle it easily.
I think that you'll find many small-to-mid-sized corporate environments are like this. Only larger companies with IT resources actually restrict downloads and perform rigorous testing.
MS traditional customer base is small-to-mid businesses. Only since NT4/2000 have they made significant headways into the large corporate world. Given how pissed some large companies are becoming with MS, I think that they are making a serious, negative strategic decision. This comes in a string of other negative strategic decisions that is increasingly alienating their traditional customer base.
The key differentiator is that hardware firewalls will have ASICs (specialized chips) which are dedicated to specific functions in the hardware. Higher-end switches are famous for this. The upper level Cisco PIXs have ASICs too. The lower-end 515 doesn't from what I remember.
A hardware firewall can scale upwards with load better than a software firewall. Better for SPI - stateful packet inspection as well as for deeper network analysis. You can't typically use a software firewall in a large corporate environment because it can't handle the load or the administrative diversity that is required.
OpenBSD is great but are you able to administer it easily when your network admin has a MS background? What if you have OC-level lines connected in a larger corporate network, along with multiple ISDN, DSL, and whatnot? Ever see the network map for a Bank?
I use Compucage http://www.compucage.com/ for raw physical security because their products are simply the best around. I find that a good physical deterrence is the first step to securing my box properly.
After Compucage, I then use passwords, encryption,....
If my box goes missing, then all my other efforts become meaningless. Yah, some people think I'm a little nuts, but I've never had a box go missing.
This converter works okay http://www.sitinthecorner.com/binary/binary.php/
I think that anyone who starts off their message body with "I like Fedora..." and their /. login ID is greater than 250000 should be automatically modded down 1 point. Clearly, they are not early adopters.
It should become a classic, alongside with this book: Everyday Math For Dummies http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitle/produ ctCd-1568842481.html
If I was a moderator, I wouldn't give you a "flamebait" on that comment. It would be rated +5 Funny As Shit!!
Ironically, if you know anything about English as a language, then you'll understand just how poor the grammar on their homepage is.
An online University catering to idiots. Only in the USA.
Check out http://www.dbsonline.com/ and look for the BS/1 Professional download. It is FREE for Delphi developers who have some version of Delphi installed on their system. The source code is available for purchase, and it's pretty good software, especially if you are familiar with accounting. Best part of the Pro version is the Time Billing capabilities.
Highly recommended!
Disclaimer: No, I am not affiliated with Davis Business Systems. Just a fan.
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/india_statist
Rather than arguing with you, here's the word right from their website. Notice they said "virtually pick and tamper resistant", and "cannot be duplicated at a common key store". As a user, I can attest to this. Also, I doubt if the "average joe" has the skills to duplicate these keys. The locks will definitly slow down thiefs, unlike kensington junk.
Hardened Steel: Made with high quality hardened steel. A Compucage product is resistant to bolt cutters and leverage attacks.
Sophisticated locks: Using a multi-row pair pin cylinder technology, the lock is virtually pick and tamper resistant.
Keys: The key is made with computerized, laser technology that creates high precision dimples of different sizes. The precision computerized dimples cannot be duplicated at a common key replication store. The key works in both directions and is highly resistant to bending and rust.
I've used a Compucage lock for a long time, and so has my company. We've never lost a single laptop.
Check them out: www.compucage.com
I strongly recommend them.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!! LOL!!! Yes, that is simply too funny. What's really sad is that I know of at least 3 manufacturing companies (one of which is a Top 3 industry leader in their respective category) that still use Novell 3.x and Novell 4.x versions (along wit cc:Mail) simply because their IT Directors are about 90+ years old and stopped following their own industries years ago.
Now, some people may argue that stability is more important than advancement for the sake of advancement, and they are correct to a certain point. I think that point is about 10 years unless its a damn mainframe or something that requires its own building with a separate A/C system