Holy shit! Finally, someone else who sees this too! Call it "corpolitical power", "business fascism", or whatever... it's getting crazy in the US. All the fundamental freedoms and rights that people have fought and died for are being broken and slowly dismantled by large companies with huge financial donations to various political entities and people with very questionable ethics. The current Supreme Court in the US scares the hell out of me. They occasionally make lucid and clear decisions, yet on others, they make decisions that fundamentally contravene the basic constitutional rights of freedom.
I think the thing that bothers me the most is that it's ok for a teenager to go to war and die for their country, but it's apparently not ok for them to drink a cheap, watered-down beer if they choose to. Now this may sound stupid, but it's in the same vein of thought.
Yes. It's getting very scary out there. And they seem to be weilding more and more political power and influence too. Very scary for the future and freedoms of the average person.
I spoke to Laura Davison, Manager of Collections and Enforcement at CPCC today. According to her, none of the levies collected to date have actually been distributed to anyone. Also, she wouldn't release any information about levies distributed now or in the future, citing confidentiality reasons. As a non-profit agency, I thought that they had to release this kind of information to the general public? Any fellow Canadians care to comment?
Actually, Microsoft does raise a strong point when they argue the position "What are you going to do? Kill Windows?". It's not a strong argument with you or I, however, from a global economic perspective their argument is that they basically maintain clear dominance and control in an industry that has a bright and promising future of growth and prosperity. A future that has "US companies" and "US control" and "US products" and "US innovations" written all across it.
Viewed from the context of economic history, where are the great American television or radio equipment manufacturers? Where are the great American shipbuilding companies? Where are the great American integrated circuit and component manufacturers? In Asia. In the final analysis, that is the position that Microsoft is eschewing.
Microsoft dominates the industry it competes in. It dominates a clearly defined sector of the world economy "software", "operating systems", etc. Do you believe as I do that software development and programming have a bright future? Do you believe that these are growth industries? Do you believe that there is still the next killer application around the corner somewhere? That's what is holding back all these politicians and senators and generally PP (Powerful People) from tearing the proverbial Microsoft throat out. The USA has lost so many industries to developing, cheaper (whatever) countries that it has realized it had better not lose this one. In a nutshell, they can't kill Microsoft because their respective fates are intertwined. For now.
I've never owned a gun before, but if anyone fucks with my freedom or free use of my computer all in the name of an obsolete distribution industry like the MPAA and RIAA... then I'll go to their house and mess them up.
You can't legislate human technological advancement. Recognize this.
I was in the Jersey Giant pub at Church & Front St in Toronto earlier tonight, drinking my face off and screaming my brains out at the large screen TV. WHHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Actually, I'm willing to believe the "whole generation effectively unable to read, write, think, or work" one. Have you seen today's high school graduates? They're practically illiterate, and stupid as hell (98%). The remaining 2% is so completely self-involved that I don't see them getting beyond their meagre craving for a million bucks.
They said that everything revolved around the Earth; they said that the Earth was flat; they said that cracking the Atom was impossible; they said that it was best to bleed a person in order to get the disease out; they said that it was impossible to break the sound barrier; they said that it was impossible to fly; I no longer believe what they say.
I don't think that Bush has ignored the Geneva Convention. I do think that Bush has recognized the simple reality that adhering to the Geneva Convention does not make sense in the modern world of terrorism and unseen enemies. How can you expect to defend yourself if you're playing by your old set of rules and nobody else is bound to follow them as well? Simple, you can't.
Now, without getting into a political debate, the reality of the situation is that the Geneva Convention was signed by a group of nations who formally recognized each other and formally agreed (generally) to be bound by a set of "honour" rules of engagement and warfare. Do you see any of the so-called terrorist organizations stepping up to the plate and agreeing to be bound by those rules? Heck, do you see any of these terrorist organizations actually having a majority representation in the countries that they are apparently trying to liberate (or whatever they're trying to do)? Simple answer, no. They know that they can't win by playing by the formal rules of engagement, so they don't bother. Why should the USA allow it's hands to be bound? It shouldn't.
In a nutshell, if you want to hit somebody who's big then you can now expect them to hit back. The rules of engagement have now changed. Good for Bush. He's a dumbass, but a dumbass who's stepping in the correct direction.
....because the very first thing I'll do is sue them in court if they add even one user onto my local loop that then deprives me of bandwidth. It's none of their business how much I download or use the internet. I signed a contract for bandwidth. They either provide it or risk the consequences.
Now, this is the kind of research that distinguishes great companies from mediocre ones. Research and Development, innovative technologies, a vision and an eye on the future, thinking long-term..... blah blah blah.
Why the hell would you want to buy Compaq for $25 Billion, eh Carly!?! Answer that one!!
The beauty behind cisco's products isn't their performance. Anyone who is into networking hardcore knows that extreme switching, juniper routing, etc is tonnes faster. That's irrelevant. The beauty is the cisco is the only company in the world with an end-to-end integrated, manageable solution. The only company. Nobody else can lay claim that their products are integrated as well as cisco's are. IBM couldn't (and ultimately gave up on networking. Nortel can't. Cabletron couldn't. There's nobody else.
And therein is the beauty of this cisco systems products. Are they the fastest? No. Do they offer the lowest price to most features? No. Do they have a fully integrated and manageble end-to-end, WAN-to-LAN enterprise solution? Yes.
You've missed the point. The point being made was consistency. ATI doesn't have it. I'm not argueing how long they or NVidia or anyone has been in business. Hell, Trident's drivers and video cards have more consistency than ATI's does.
I've gotta say that ATI video cards have worked on linux practically since it was first released. My slackware 2.2 with xfree86 supported the ATI Mach series of cards. From a *nix point of view, ATI is a decent manufacturer. From a pure performance point of view, they definitly have room for improvement.
Big deal. They released a driver that for the moment actually works and as quick. Try doing that repeadly quarter after quarter, for years. That's what we call consistency. That's what ATI lacks.
ATI has totally lost it's numero uno status in my books now. Considering that NVidia has been kicking ATI's ass ever since the TNT came out (what's that, 3yrs now?), I don't think that I'll be going back to ATI anytime soon. And I used to be loyal to ATI. After all, I'm a Canadian too.
I switched to NVidia when the TNT2 Ultra came out, and wow....these guys know what they're doing. IMHO, this is a wake up call for ATI. Get your driver-writing dudes cleaned up. They simply aren't up to snuff.
Carly Fiorina is an incompent moron and the sooner people realize that the better. She does not have any true grasp on technology or innovation or what it is all about. She is incapable of running a large organization, and she is incapable of preparing a large organization for the future. Lucent is the perfect example of what will happen to HP/Compaq under her so-called leadership.
I tried becoming a Channel Partner with SGI last year. Their people don't return phone calls, they provide next to nothing in terms of vendor and channel support, their online "partner" website is totally useless and empty of any pertinent information.... SGI is a really sad joke.
You know what was really funny? I had orders for almost $100K worth of workstations and after screwing around with SGI for over 4 months, I said screw it and went to IBM for Intellistations. Now, admittedly, IBM Intellistations take roughly the same amount of time to get built and delivered but at least IBM is reliable. The hardware inside an IBM Intellistation is identical to an SGI workstation except that SGI provides a custom video driver and IBM doesn't. They both use SCSI, they both use fast CPUs, they both use the same (identical) video cards...
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Holy shit! Finally, someone else who sees this too! Call it "corpolitical power", "business fascism", or whatever... it's getting crazy in the US. All the fundamental freedoms and rights that people have fought and died for are being broken and slowly dismantled by large companies with huge financial donations to various political entities and people with very questionable ethics. The current Supreme Court in the US scares the hell out of me. They occasionally make lucid and clear decisions, yet on others, they make decisions that fundamentally contravene the basic constitutional rights of freedom.
I think the thing that bothers me the most is that it's ok for a teenager to go to war and die for their country, but it's apparently not ok for them to drink a cheap, watered-down beer if they choose to. Now this may sound stupid, but it's in the same vein of thought.
Yes. It's getting very scary out there. And they seem to be weilding more and more political power and influence too. Very scary for the future and freedoms of the average person.
I spoke to Laura Davison, Manager of Collections and Enforcement at CPCC today. According to her, none of the levies collected to date have actually been distributed to anyone. Also, she wouldn't release any information about levies distributed now or in the future, citing confidentiality reasons. As a non-profit agency, I thought that they had to release this kind of information to the general public? Any fellow Canadians care to comment?
Actually, Microsoft does raise a strong point when they argue the position "What are you going to do? Kill Windows?". It's not a strong argument with you or I, however, from a global economic perspective their argument is that they basically maintain clear dominance and control in an industry that has a bright and promising future of growth and prosperity. A future that has "US companies" and "US control" and "US products" and "US innovations" written all across it.
Viewed from the context of economic history, where are the great American television or radio equipment manufacturers? Where are the great American shipbuilding companies? Where are the great American integrated circuit and component manufacturers? In Asia. In the final analysis, that is the position that Microsoft is eschewing.
Microsoft dominates the industry it competes in. It dominates a clearly defined sector of the world economy "software", "operating systems", etc. Do you believe as I do that software development and programming have a bright future? Do you believe that these are growth industries? Do you believe that there is still the next killer application around the corner somewhere? That's what is holding back all these politicians and senators and generally PP (Powerful People) from tearing the proverbial Microsoft throat out. The USA has lost so many industries to developing, cheaper (whatever) countries that it has realized it had better not lose this one. In a nutshell, they can't kill Microsoft because their respective fates are intertwined. For now.
Hey, I think I saw my IP address in one of those pictures....
I've never owned a gun before, but if anyone fucks with my freedom or free use of my computer all in the name of an obsolete distribution industry like the MPAA and RIAA... then I'll go to their house and mess them up.
You can't legislate human technological advancement. Recognize this.
I was in the Jersey Giant pub at Church & Front St in Toronto earlier tonight, drinking my face off and screaming my brains out at the large screen TV. WHHOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Actually, I'm willing to believe the "whole generation effectively unable to read, write, think, or work" one. Have you seen today's high school graduates? They're practically illiterate, and stupid as hell (98%). The remaining 2% is so completely self-involved that I don't see them getting beyond their meagre craving for a million bucks.
They said that everything revolved around the Earth; they said that the Earth was flat; they said that cracking the Atom was impossible; they said that it was best to bleed a person in order to get the disease out; they said that it was impossible to break the sound barrier; they said that it was impossible to fly; I no longer believe what they say.
Just a guess, but s/he was probably mod'd down because they were AC...
I don't think that Bush has ignored the Geneva Convention. I do think that Bush has recognized the simple reality that adhering to the Geneva Convention does not make sense in the modern world of terrorism and unseen enemies. How can you expect to defend yourself if you're playing by your old set of rules and nobody else is bound to follow them as well? Simple, you can't.
Now, without getting into a political debate, the reality of the situation is that the Geneva Convention was signed by a group of nations who formally recognized each other and formally agreed (generally) to be bound by a set of "honour" rules of engagement and warfare. Do you see any of the so-called terrorist organizations stepping up to the plate and agreeing to be bound by those rules? Heck, do you see any of these terrorist organizations actually having a majority representation in the countries that they are apparently trying to liberate (or whatever they're trying to do)? Simple answer, no. They know that they can't win by playing by the formal rules of engagement, so they don't bother. Why should the USA allow it's hands to be bound? It shouldn't.
In a nutshell, if you want to hit somebody who's big then you can now expect them to hit back. The rules of engagement have now changed. Good for Bush. He's a dumbass, but a dumbass who's stepping in the correct direction.
....because the very first thing I'll do is sue them in court if they add even one user onto my local loop that then deprives me of bandwidth. It's none of their business how much I download or use the internet. I signed a contract for bandwidth. They either provide it or risk the consequences.
Now, this is the kind of research that distinguishes great companies from mediocre ones. Research and Development, innovative technologies, a vision and an eye on the future, thinking long-term..... blah blah blah.
Why the hell would you want to buy Compaq for $25 Billion, eh Carly!?! Answer that one!!
It's not often that I say this, but dude, you know what you're doing.
Ahh! An IBM insider! I knew you guys were lurkers around here....
The beauty behind cisco's products isn't their performance. Anyone who is into networking hardcore knows that extreme switching, juniper routing, etc is tonnes faster. That's irrelevant. The beauty is the cisco is the only company in the world with an end-to-end integrated, manageable solution. The only company. Nobody else can lay claim that their products are integrated as well as cisco's are. IBM couldn't (and ultimately gave up on networking. Nortel can't. Cabletron couldn't. There's nobody else.
And therein is the beauty of this cisco systems products. Are they the fastest? No. Do they offer the lowest price to most features? No. Do they have a fully integrated and manageble end-to-end, WAN-to-LAN enterprise solution? Yes.
You've missed the point. The point being made was consistency. ATI doesn't have it. I'm not argueing how long they or NVidia or anyone has been in business. Hell, Trident's drivers and video cards have more consistency than ATI's does.
I've gotta say that ATI video cards have worked on linux practically since it was first released. My slackware 2.2 with xfree86 supported the ATI Mach series of cards. From a *nix point of view, ATI is a decent manufacturer. From a pure performance point of view, they definitly have room for improvement.
Big deal. They released a driver that for the moment actually works and as quick. Try doing that repeadly quarter after quarter, for years. That's what we call consistency. That's what ATI lacks.
My HP42S still rocks and I purchased it back in '90. That being said... I said it once and I'll say it again:
CARLY FIORINA IS AN INCOMPETENT MORON AND SHOULD BE FIRED!!
ATI has totally lost it's numero uno status in my books now. Considering that NVidia has been kicking ATI's ass ever since the TNT came out (what's that, 3yrs now?), I don't think that I'll be going back to ATI anytime soon. And I used to be loyal to ATI. After all, I'm a Canadian too.
I switched to NVidia when the TNT2 Ultra came out, and wow....these guys know what they're doing. IMHO, this is a wake up call for ATI. Get your driver-writing dudes cleaned up. They simply aren't up to snuff.
IMHO, SO5.2 was buggy as hell and flaky to boot! Again, IMHO....
Carly Fiorina is an incompent moron and the sooner people realize that the better. She does not have any true grasp on technology or innovation or what it is all about. She is incapable of running a large organization, and she is incapable of preparing a large organization for the future. Lucent is the perfect example of what will happen to HP/Compaq under her so-called leadership.
I tried becoming a Channel Partner with SGI last year. Their people don't return phone calls, they provide next to nothing in terms of vendor and channel support, their online "partner" website is totally useless and empty of any pertinent information.... SGI is a really sad joke.
You know what was really funny? I had orders for almost $100K worth of workstations and after screwing around with SGI for over 4 months, I said screw it and went to IBM for Intellistations. Now, admittedly, IBM Intellistations take roughly the same amount of time to get built and delivered but at least IBM is reliable. The hardware inside an IBM Intellistation is identical to an SGI workstation except that SGI provides a custom video driver and IBM doesn't. They both use SCSI, they both use fast CPUs, they both use the same (identical) video cards...
My opinion? Good-bye SGI.