The company decided that support would be easier if the entire international company ran a single image, allowing for global rollouts of software more easily. This was partially created by some problems with some major rollouts on a global scale because of different versions of Windows behaving so differently.
Also, Microsoft wanted to use us a proving ground for AD on a global scale... however, the switchover has been so painful that we still aren't fully AD enabled. Issues with major incompatibilities with WindowsXP and our in-house developed applications has been a major stumbling block.
There were also several hardware upgrades we had to do due to the increased requirements of XP over 2000 and NT.
Our entire user base (Over 1000 machines) has been moved from WindowsNT Workstation and Win2k workstation to Windows XP as a global rollout for our company (40,000+ machines). Given the same userbase, and same admins building the machines we have seen XP behave much worse than NT or 2000 ever did.
This is in a completely controlled environment, where we can use GPO to insure extra software is not installed on the machines, etc... unlike the older installed base.
Mr. McNealy has made it clear that he has strong IP beliefs, and that his friendships with the OpenSource world are pretty much that, as long as I give it to you fine.. but don't you dare try to steal any ideas. The deal with MS allows Sun to add complete interoperability to StarOffice without worrying about reverse engineering, heck MS is going to hand Sun the hidden secrets about their file formats for that purpose. Allowing for an attack on OpenOffice is perfect for both of them, because then they are still the ones in control of the office suite.
You are all assuming Sun cares about OpenOffice... having spoken with McNealy, he doesn't like OO, he likes StarOffice, and the deal with MS is partially to guarantee that StarOffice has complete interoperability without worrying about patents.
Scott likes giving to opensource, but he has very, very strong IP beliefs. If it's given to the community, he's happy... if the community tries to steal IP, than he isn't.
Just because they are refreshing the roots every 5 minutes doesn't mean they dropped the TTL to 5 minutes. Since most DNS servers do not cache bad domains, this just means that new domains become available faster, and propogate within 10 minutes or so.
so... took me a second to realize I had to switch to "personals speak".:)
Anyway, my real question is... how do you pronounce USB? Either you read it as "Universal Serial Bus", or try to sound it out... or you just don't care about your "an"'s and "a"'s.
While I still highly down 80wpm using less than 10 fingers, the worst part is that you had to look at the keyboard, making it useless for transcription or anything else that requires you actually think at the same time.
Ouch, if I couldn't type 60+wpm I would have gone insane. While when I took typing I only could do about 30wpm, having been taught the right way made it easy for me to quickly ramp up to 80wpm when I was a full time programmer.
Home-row is "about" the only way you can cross the 30wpm barrier. Typing below 40wpm would make doing documentation and programming a painful painful experience and would probably make anyone shy away from computers eventually.
Does everyone realize that MS Windows has hundreds of Patent violations,.NET is a pure patent violation. Solaris is a patent violation, as is OpenOffice, StarOffice, WordPerfect....
Fact is, there are so many patents out there right now that you can't do anything without breaking at least a few of them.
Companies maintain defensive patents, sort of a "mutual destruction" scenerio. Just need to create a patent pool for the OSS people so we can be in the same boat as everyone else, unwilling to use, and too expensive to use against.
1). That's the point... the rules have gotten so harsh now that people are going to start fighting it by going to the other end of the spectrum, it's the way you make a point...
2). Richard wouldn't have to pay... as the law is right now, each seperate PBS station would have to pay if it aired it un-edited.
3). PBS generally had a sort of "pass" when it came to the FCC, hence the reason they were able to air unedited version of Monty Python back in the 80's and 90's, including nudity and swearing. They did this with other things too. Not sure if it was some sort of real free pass, or just a "we won't look at PBS" type thing.
Finally... censorship has to go... it is getting ridiculous now. If a channel goes beyond what people like, they won't watch that channel. Let free market deal with non-family friendly stations.
The problem is there are a ton of web developers out there that figure "if it works in IE, it's fine". IE lets developers be absolutely horrible and still render the page, breaking standards bad HTML form, etc.
There are areas where quality software is needed, and they get quality people... licensing doesn't suddenly make you smarter or more qualified. Since the vast majority of software doesn't need to be mission critical, and that's where most of the money is, why would I bother getting licensed?
Why, you can't read? You need someone to spoon-feed information into your brain?
You want to learn, talk to people that have succeeded, they won't be in college. The exception might be community night school, where you can actually find teachers that work for a living, therefore give you real information not just "theories" that don't work in Real Life.
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The company decided that support would be easier if the entire international company ran a single image, allowing for global rollouts of software more easily. This was partially created by some problems with some major rollouts on a global scale because of different versions of Windows behaving so differently.
Also, Microsoft wanted to use us a proving ground for AD on a global scale... however, the switchover has been so painful that we still aren't fully AD enabled. Issues with major incompatibilities with WindowsXP and our in-house developed applications has been a major stumbling block.
There were also several hardware upgrades we had to do due to the increased requirements of XP over 2000 and NT.
Our entire user base (Over 1000 machines) has been moved from WindowsNT Workstation and Win2k workstation to Windows XP as a global rollout for our company (40,000+ machines). Given the same userbase, and same admins building the machines we have seen XP behave much worse than NT or 2000 ever did.
This is in a completely controlled environment, where we can use GPO to insure extra software is not installed on the machines, etc... unlike the older installed base.
Mr. McNealy has made it clear that he has strong IP beliefs, and that his friendships with the OpenSource world are pretty much that, as long as I give it to you fine.. but don't you dare try to steal any ideas. The deal with MS allows Sun to add complete interoperability to StarOffice without worrying about reverse engineering, heck MS is going to hand Sun the hidden secrets about their file formats for that purpose. Allowing for an attack on OpenOffice is perfect for both of them, because then they are still the ones in control of the office suite.
You are all assuming Sun cares about OpenOffice... having spoken with McNealy, he doesn't like OO, he likes StarOffice, and the deal with MS is partially to guarantee that StarOffice has complete interoperability without worrying about patents.
Scott likes giving to opensource, but he has very, very strong IP beliefs. If it's given to the community, he's happy... if the community tries to steal IP, than he isn't.
Just because they are refreshing the roots every 5 minutes doesn't mean they dropped the TTL to 5 minutes. Since most DNS servers do not cache bad domains, this just means that new domains become available faster, and propogate within 10 minutes or so.
Haha, cool... and I used your packet drivers for quite some time...
Long time no see...
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so... took me a second to realize I had to switch to "personals speak". :)
Anyway, my real question is... how do you pronounce USB? Either you read it as "Universal Serial Bus", or try to sound it out... or you just don't care about your "an"'s and "a"'s.
189k?? Heck, most website's home page is bigger than that these days.
Or ghostscript, or the million other PDF readers? Oh please.
While I still highly down 80wpm using less than 10 fingers, the worst part is that you had to look at the keyboard, making it useless for transcription or anything else that requires you actually think at the same time.
Very few jobs don't involve data entry anymore, Plumbers, Carpenters, they use computers for all sorts of things.
Now, if you are a ditch digger... well, you might have a point.
Ouch, if I couldn't type 60+wpm I would have gone insane. While when I took typing I only could do about 30wpm, having been taught the right way made it easy for me to quickly ramp up to 80wpm when I was a full time programmer.
Home-row is "about" the only way you can cross the 30wpm barrier. Typing below 40wpm would make doing documentation and programming a painful painful experience and would probably make anyone shy away from computers eventually.
Does everyone realize that MS Windows has hundreds of Patent violations,
Fact is, there are so many patents out there right now that you can't do anything without breaking at least a few of them.
Companies maintain defensive patents, sort of a "mutual destruction" scenerio. Just need to create a patent pool for the OSS people so we can be in the same boat as everyone else, unwilling to use, and too expensive to use against.
Yes, but at least most of those B movies had a random naked woman tossed in for variety.
Bugs happen, that's why there should be very tight QA control on releases... they are the ones that let it through.
At any point I have to use a phone to make a product I paid for work, it's completely broken.
And a V-chip exists in every TV bought in the past what... 5 years? So that makes it more of a point, why does the FCC still exist?
Exactly... TV is not a lifeblood anymore, you can get news from the Internet and be able to choose what you read much easier.
Anyway, the news is probably the worst offender at this point anyway.
Hey! You do know that TITS is listed in the 7 dirty words right???
So while you bleeped SHIT and FUCK, you still broke the FCC Rules with your TITTIES comment.
How the fuck TITS got in the list is still beyond me, but the whole thing is pretty stupid.
A couple points:
1). That's the point... the rules have gotten so harsh now that people are going to start fighting it by going to the other end of the spectrum, it's the way you make a point...
2). Richard wouldn't have to pay... as the law is right now, each seperate PBS station would have to pay if it aired it un-edited.
3). PBS generally had a sort of "pass" when it came to the FCC, hence the reason they were able to air unedited version of Monty Python back in the 80's and 90's, including nudity and swearing. They did this with other things too. Not sure if it was some sort of real free pass, or just a "we won't look at PBS" type thing.
Finally... censorship has to go... it is getting ridiculous now. If a channel goes beyond what people like, they won't watch that channel. Let free market deal with non-family friendly stations.
The problem is there are a ton of web developers out there that figure "if it works in IE, it's fine". IE lets developers be absolutely horrible and still render the page, breaking standards bad HTML form, etc.
So, a bunch of guys beating the crap out of each other is what you consider good family entertainment?
The human mind would take a long time to train it to use 4 new limbs, don't you think?
Think about having to learn to walk and move your arms all over again. So, if it has high-level AI, it just needs "suggestions" on what to do.
And the license proves what again?
There are areas where quality software is needed, and they get quality people... licensing doesn't suddenly make you smarter or more qualified. Since the vast majority of software doesn't need to be mission critical, and that's where most of the money is, why would I bother getting licensed?
Why, you can't read? You need someone to spoon-feed information into your brain?
You want to learn, talk to people that have succeeded, they won't be in college. The exception might be community night school, where you can actually find teachers that work for a living, therefore give you real information not just "theories" that don't work in Real Life.