"Somehow, we got into a discussion of the responsibility of management. Holden made the point that management's responsibility is to the shareholders – that's the end of it. And I objected. I said, 'I think you're absolutely wrong. Management has a responsibility to its employees, it has a responsibility to its customers, it has a responsibility to the community at large.' And they almost laughed me out of the room."
What happened to the ARM-based netbooks? What happened to the OpenMokos? What happened to the novenas and the open systems-on-a-chip? All we have is the incomplete Neo900 fanboy club, and FSF's lauded Gluglug x200 junk.
Intel knows all about their competitors. They aggressively lowered prices and cut deals and elbowed their way in. Lots and lots of Windows apps will never ever run on anything but x86. There is just no way that ARM can match the value for the money, even if they gave away the chips for free.
That's fantastic news. Next up: all EULAs say the software enclosed within is not fit for any purpose and may send your data up to Mars - news for nerds.
Slashdot, Sept 22, 2020
New startup Yoyodyne Industries releases rock-solid server OS with liberal EULA, quickly rises to 94% market share.
They've probably already moved on to another technology to slurp your data. it won't be reverse engineered for a while. Your boss can continue to keep his head in the sand at least for the time being.
by the way, you know that your boss has a whole lot of YOUR personal information in his servers?
I feel like I already covered the "business choice" aspect.
You keep buying computers from a company that uses every trick in the book to slurp your data out of your computer. For the time being you've been able to keep ahead of their behavior. But how long will it last? Is it a "moral" choice to decide that it's not worth the risk anymore?
What will you say WHEN (not if) you get an email from a security researcher who just found your company's internal data on a chinese server?
Gosh, can you recommend a university where I can learn how to find this? My wife is not a computer expert, and she found that option on her own a couple of hours after the UPS delivery.
Everybody collects your data.
you just pointed out that cyanogen doesn't do it if you can find the option.
Apparently not anymore, anyway. Here is a document from ancient history:
http://www.hpalumni.org/hp_way.htm
"HP and the HP way"
We have trust and respect for individuals. We focus on a high level of achievement and contribution. We conduct our business with uncompromising integrity. We achieve our common objectives through teamwork. We encourage flexibility and innovation.
You will recall that HP became an industry leader with these MORAL stances.
Software programmers usually don't require very much beyond decent computers and sufficient time.
Knowledge and experience with hardware stuff like NUMA, RDMA, etc. are necessary for server software developers today.
There is no real competition anywhere anymore, at least among large corporations.
I'm looking at the newegg.com website right now
in mini-pc systems there are 9 different vendors in laptops systems there are 36 different vendors for chromebooks there are 8 different vendors for desktops there are 40 different vendors
The distributor who actually sold the printers, won HP's "distributor of the year" award. HP had a 41% market share in a country where they were forbidden to do business. It's beyond incredible that nobody at HP wondered about where all those printers went to.
HP made boatloads of money selling overpriced systems: HPUX, Tru64 and VMS. Porting away from these systems is a nightmare, and so they had a lot of "captive" customers. They made grand announcements that they were going to unify all three operating systems and they would all be supported essentially forever. It was all horse-shit. They basically stopped development on all three systems. For a number of years there was no word. I think this is when the customers figured out that they were being taken for a ride. They ported to Solaris and AIX and Linux. Now HP has no customers and no business and no future in the unix market.
nobody wins wars, it's a simple fact. nobody emerges from a war unscathed. infrastructure is destroyed and resources are depleted for everyone. everyone gets hospitals full of injured veterans. the question is who loses worse
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The situation will be similar nearly anywhere.
Not for companies that don't use Windows for critical IT services
ONCE AGAIN WORLD DOMINATION IS MINE. Yes indeed, all bow to the one who can convince massive corporations to fall on their own swords.
"Somehow, we got into a discussion of the responsibility of management. Holden made the point that management's responsibility is to the shareholders – that's the end of it. And I objected. I said, 'I think you're absolutely wrong. Management has a responsibility to its employees, it has a responsibility to its customers, it has a responsibility to the community at large.' And they almost laughed me out of the room."
- David Packard
What happened to the ARM-based netbooks? What happened to the OpenMokos? What happened to the novenas and the open systems-on-a-chip? All we have is the incomplete Neo900 fanboy club, and FSF's lauded Gluglug x200 junk.
Intel knows all about their competitors. They aggressively lowered prices and cut deals and elbowed their way in. Lots and lots of Windows apps will never ever run on anything but x86. There is just no way that ARM can match the value for the money, even if they gave away the chips for free.
Doesn't Lenovo read the news?
yeah two years ago they hopped in their time machine to read yesterday's news
That's fantastic news. Next up: all EULAs say the software enclosed within is not fit for any purpose and may send your data up to Mars - news for nerds.
Slashdot, Sept 22, 2020
New startup Yoyodyne Industries releases rock-solid server OS with liberal EULA, quickly rises to 94% market share.
On the other hand, LSE's actions are detectable
They've probably already moved on to another technology to slurp your data. it won't be reverse engineered for a while. Your boss can continue to keep his head in the sand at least for the time being.
by the way, you know that your boss has a whole lot of YOUR personal information in his servers?
Personally? No.
if you bring your laptop home with you, pull out the battery and put it in a faraday cage before you bring it into your house.
I feel like I already covered the "business choice" aspect.
You keep buying computers from a company that uses every trick in the book to slurp your data out of your computer. For the time being you've been able to keep ahead of their behavior. But how long will it last? Is it a "moral" choice to decide that it's not worth the risk anymore?
What will you say WHEN (not if) you get an email from a security researcher who just found your company's internal data on a chinese server?
until you find the option and turn it off.
Gosh, can you recommend a university where I can learn how to find this? My wife is not a computer expert, and she found that option on her own a couple of hours after the UPS delivery.
Everybody collects your data.
you just pointed out that cyanogen doesn't do it if you can find the option.
so you actually trust what lenovo tells you, after all this?
An amoral entity can't take a moral stand.
Apparently not anymore, anyway. Here is a document from ancient history:
http://www.hpalumni.org/hp_way.htm
"HP and the HP way"
We have trust and respect for individuals.
We focus on a high level of achievement and contribution.
We conduct our business with uncompromising integrity.
We achieve our common objectives through teamwork.
We encourage flexibility and innovation.
You will recall that HP became an industry leader with these MORAL stances.
I realize that most business models are usually wiped/imaged anyway
how many times do I have to post this link:
https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/lenovo-rootkit-malware.html
"Lenovo Caught Using Rootkit to Secretly Install Unremovable Software"
You all probably carry a cell phone which tracks everything you do, where you are what you click and what apps you run.
Many of us are running cyanogen or similar where the user has control over all that stuff.
Users of Windows software for years have had "send anonymous data to Microsoft to improve our products."
If you have a snapshot VM Windows image saved, you can roll back after every use and the OS doesn't remember what it did.
marketable information that they can sell or use for competitive advantage.
Humans are inevitably surprised when they discover that humans behave like humans.
My employers. The hardware's decent, and they reimage every machine before it's delivered to the office.
he he he, they think they are so smart:
https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/lenovo-rootkit-malware.html
"Lenovo Caught Using Rootkit to Secretly Install Unremovable Software"
"not wanting your personal data transmitted to Lenovo" apparently means "living paranoid under every rock you can find"?
An amoral entity can't take a moral stand.
So if a corporation doesn't want its internal data transmitted to Lenovo, that's a moral choice? Sounds like a business choice to me.
Software programmers usually don't require very much beyond decent computers and sufficient time.
Knowledge and experience with hardware stuff like NUMA, RDMA, etc. are necessary for server software developers today.
There is no real competition anywhere anymore, at least among large corporations.
I'm looking at the newegg.com website right now
in mini-pc systems there are 9 different vendors
in laptops systems there are 36 different vendors
for chromebooks there are 8 different vendors
for desktops there are 40 different vendors
this is just the newegg web site
The distributor who actually sold the printers, won HP's "distributor of the year" award. HP had a 41% market share in a country where they were forbidden to do business. It's beyond incredible that nobody at HP wondered about where all those printers went to.
HP made boatloads of money selling overpriced systems: HPUX, Tru64 and VMS. Porting away from these systems is a nightmare, and so they had a lot of "captive" customers. They made grand announcements that they were going to unify all three operating systems and they would all be supported essentially forever. It was all horse-shit. They basically stopped development on all three systems. For a number of years there was no word. I think this is when the customers figured out that they were being taken for a ride. They ported to Solaris and AIX and Linux. Now HP has no customers and no business and no future in the unix market.
I think republican candidates are going to have to learn a skill that their corporate peers have figured out: how to push back against Donald Trump.
putin's methods don't work well in the corporate world, just ask Robert Kraft
nobody wins wars, it's a simple fact. nobody emerges from a war unscathed. infrastructure is destroyed and resources are depleted for everyone. everyone gets hospitals full of injured veterans. the question is who loses worse
Your opinion is not relevant, The corporations that make weapons are very happy with this state of affairs.
Are you really asserting that the US can be a positive influence in the middle east? All evidence is that we just make everything worse.