The veritcally integrated enterprise application issue has long dogged managers who wish to enhance customer satisfaction, throughput, and utlimately, retention.
Therein lies the key issue - developing coherent, scalable strategies that not only deliver ROI, but drastically reduce time to market with clear innovations for VARs, wholesalers, and channel merchants.
It is in fact adaptation to the ecosystem of outsourced infrastructure solutions that is the key delivery point for CIOs across America, to whom the enterprise and the costs centers it addresses are ultimately the de facto element for partner satisfaction.
This brings up the point of data, capital, resource management, and vertical integration as a key driver of ROI and coherent scalability. How will IT management address these issues in a pervasive redundant fashion which bolsters net throughput? This is the question our generation must face.
Take the yearly fee you pay to Netflix and divide it by number of videos you actually watch. Most people are probably paying $15 to rent a movie. What a great scam! Oh, but you can keep it sitting on your shelf for a month!
Quite the contrary. Believe it or not in the 50s the US auto industry was the envy of the world. GM controlled more than half of the world output in cars during this time. Yes in the 50s people actually believed Cadillac was the best car in the world.
A key problem of the atrophy is too many players. Oracle is trying hard to solve that problem in the Bay Area, and inevitably at least half of the enterprise players will be bought out or die. Most are sitting on cash hoardes from the Boom, but as soon as the cash dries up they will too, these firms are on a burn rate.
Once the market cleans out the Boom chaff, look for more interesting apps to come out of the consolidation. This is a market issue, not a technology issue.
I have to hand it to Apple, the machines look to meet and beat the performance of the fastest PC (3 Ghz Xeon) on a bake-off of photoshop. Thus the performance args against the Mac desktops are addressed. Part of the ArsTechnica blog indicates 3Ghz in a year.
Of course, issue is still price. $3000 at the top line is about 30% rich in my opinion, but Apple likes its margins fat, what can you say.
The FBI is not the "elite" agency they claim. In three years they couldn't find Eric Rudolph, supposedly (at one time) "enemy number one". It took a local beat cop to do the job.
Its telling that the most auspicious factoid regarding the FBI is that their former leader used to wear dresses.
I can tell you from seeing the logs at the one of the world's busiest web site that most users actually do use the latest browser. I treat this data as definitive since it covers so many users.
Your concerns about backwards compatibility are valid, but its not as bad as you portray.
Microsoft never implemented PNG properly, and apparently it is not a pressing need for them. Major sites cannot publish PNG using transparency as a result.
I would love PNG to take off, but if IE support isn't there, its DOA.
Almost makes you wonder why the government even bothers to borrow money instead of just printing it in the first place. It wouldn't be any more irresponsible than what it's doing now.
The govt can and does do this. Its called monetizing the debt. They can repurchase Treasury notes from banks with newly created money. This is legal, even if very strange.
The US does not export dollars. Ultimately all dollars are repatriated after they leave the US, but they are repatriated for goods in foreign nations produced by foreign companies and paying foreign workers.
This is why the current account deficit is considerd bad and this is why when it becomes wider, it is reported as bad news, not good news.
IBM has nearly gone out of business on a number of occassions Gerstner was brought in to save a company that was about to be broken up and sold in pieces to the first bidders. While it is a solid company now, it is still subject to wild fluctuations in price like all tech firms.
In fact IBM is inherently no safer than any other stock. If you want safety, buy treasuries. The government can just print up more money if they need to pay you.
It is to export our recession to Europe. Keynes called this the "beggar thy neighbor" approach. When the greenback devalues, it makes it more expensive to produce elsewhere. In this case elsewhere means Europe, as Japan is already in the toilet and China pegs to the greenback. The parent poster's analysis was on the level correct but utterly simplistic rehash from an economics text with no understanding of our current situation.
Your argument may have held water if the US was actually an exporter of note.
It is not. The US is in actuality the world's largest importer. The strong dollar is what put BMW's into the hands of the middle class, and it is what put foreign investment (the $2 bill a DAY needed to keep the current accounts deficit in any sort of balance) in US equity markets.
The US is the largest debtor in the world. We need to attract capital to prop up the account deficit. The weak dollar is only useful as a temporary measure to export our recession to Europe (can't export it to China, they already tie to the greenback). The strong dollar policy will be back because it is the only thing keeping the US solvent.
Stop pining for the days when computers were stripped-down hobbyist boxes. Its an appliance and Windows is designed to present it as such. If you want to develop code you can download hundreds of languages and tools for whatever platform you like including Windows.
There is absolutely zero motivation to revert systems back to their 80s state, so stop whining about it.
For all of the idiotic posts claiming to be able to write superior code to what you would find in mature CPAN modules, I recommend a challenge.
Try to rewrite LWP or DBI yourself with no peeking. If you have something even 50% as good as these modules in two months of full time coding I will be amazed.
Its exactly the best coders who make heavy use of CPAN.
My organization makes extensive use of CPAN, PEAR, etc to great benefit.
Most developers probably don't even know how to search CPAN or install a module from it (or PEAR for PHP). So they roll their own inferior solution. Those who have spent the three minutes reading the docs are getting an incredible benefit.
Your bank account is bits. Those bits do not all represent actual paper dollars as the bank does not keep your money on hand, it is reloaned. Even the cash they have on hand is virtual - it is a fiat and not secured by any other physical resource.
So yes there is already a longstanding protection of virtual assets in our economy. Everquest assets should be no different.
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Sorry, corporate America has crushd the labor movement. Justified or not, unions are essentially through as a force in the American workplace.
Therein lies the key issue - developing coherent, scalable strategies that not only deliver ROI, but drastically reduce time to market with clear innovations for VARs, wholesalers, and channel merchants.
It is in fact adaptation to the ecosystem of outsourced infrastructure solutions that is the key delivery point for CIOs across America, to whom the enterprise and the costs centers it addresses are ultimately the de facto element for partner satisfaction.
This brings up the point of data, capital, resource management, and vertical integration as a key driver of ROI and coherent scalability. How will IT management address these issues in a pervasive redundant fashion which bolsters net throughput? This is the question our generation must face.
(This was supposed to be humor)
The blurb for this contained so much drivel-doublespeak I couldn't bring myself to read the rest.
Take the yearly fee you pay to Netflix and divide it by number of videos you actually watch. Most people are probably paying $15 to rent a movie. What a great scam! Oh, but you can keep it sitting on your shelf for a month!
Quite the contrary. Believe it or not in the 50s the US auto industry was the envy of the world. GM controlled more than half of the world output in cars during this time. Yes in the 50s people actually believed Cadillac was the best car in the world.
Once the market cleans out the Boom chaff, look for more interesting apps to come out of the consolidation. This is a market issue, not a technology issue.
Of course, issue is still price. $3000 at the top line is about 30% rich in my opinion, but Apple likes its margins fat, what can you say.
Its telling that the most auspicious factoid regarding the FBI is that their former leader used to wear dresses.
Your concerns about backwards compatibility are valid, but its not as bad as you portray.
I would love PNG to take off, but if IE support isn't there, its DOA.
Tyler Durden says USE SOAP.
The govt can and does do this. Its called monetizing the debt. They can repurchase Treasury notes from banks with newly created money. This is legal, even if very strange.
This is why the current account deficit is considerd bad and this is why when it becomes wider, it is reported as bad news, not good news.
In fact IBM is inherently no safer than any other stock. If you want safety, buy treasuries. The government can just print up more money if they need to pay you.
It is to export our recession to Europe. Keynes called this the "beggar thy neighbor" approach. When the greenback devalues, it makes it more expensive to produce elsewhere. In this case elsewhere means Europe, as Japan is already in the toilet and China pegs to the greenback. The parent poster's analysis was on the level correct but utterly simplistic rehash from an economics text with no understanding of our current situation.
It is not. The US is in actuality the world's largest importer. The strong dollar is what put BMW's into the hands of the middle class, and it is what put foreign investment (the $2 bill a DAY needed to keep the current accounts deficit in any sort of balance) in US equity markets.
The US is the largest debtor in the world. We need to attract capital to prop up the account deficit. The weak dollar is only useful as a temporary measure to export our recession to Europe (can't export it to China, they already tie to the greenback). The strong dollar policy will be back because it is the only thing keeping the US solvent.
There is absolutely zero motivation to revert systems back to their 80s state, so stop whining about it.
No wonder you haven't found CPAN useful. Are you actually trying to modify the source for the downloaded modules???
API == code == API
Try to rewrite LWP or DBI yourself with no peeking. If you have something even 50% as good as these modules in two months of full time coding I will be amazed.
Its exactly the best coders who make heavy use of CPAN.
Quit blaming the excellent code out on CPAN. Blame the idiots who can't properly decompose their programs or even properly install what they find.
By your argument, why even use standard APIs? I mean, isn't CPAN just a bunch of domain-specific APIs put on the web?
Most developers probably don't even know how to search CPAN or install a module from it (or PEAR for PHP). So they roll their own inferior solution. Those who have spent the three minutes reading the docs are getting an incredible benefit.
There is no difference. That is the point of a fiat currency - it is only as valuable as the confidence people put in it.
If people decide to stop taking your dollars you cannot go to the Federal Reserver and get gold instead. You are screwed.
You can argue around it all you want but ultimately the value of your cash is based on confidence, not a secured asset.
So yes there is already a longstanding protection of virtual assets in our economy. Everquest assets should be no different.
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