as far as sun's concerned though, that's okay. they've already got their money for the system. c'mon - windows gets their royalty for every system we buy from big box retailers - even if the buyer takes the system home, wipes it and throws on linux.
maybe it's time for sun to get in on that action too...
so how fast could they do it with... 20 $500 machines?
well, after the week it would take you to get the 20 $500 machines, install all the os's and clustering software and then write yr custom mpi app to do the cracking... you'd have lost the race already.
well, i hope he means the browser since he knows jack all about the economy. witness
from the article:
Do you want to put up a tariff, do you want the price of Chinese goods to rise? You're taxing your own citizens, and you're paying more for the things you buy at Wal-Mart. Why would you do that?
apparently andreesen thinks economics stopped with david ricardo.
the reason you want to put up a trade barrier with china is because they compete on price by breaking the international rules: child labour, forced labour, unsafe working conditions, bad envirionmental track record. you name it. if "free trade" is going to work (a long shot) then there have to be baseline standards about what constitutes fair manufacturing practices - otherwise the "winner" in the global economy is the country most willing to exploit its citizens, fuck its environment and provide substandard or unsafre products.
What happens to the doctors who want to keep using Windows?
since when do end users get a say in their operating system? the doctors have the exact same amount of choice with the linux system that they had with the windows system: zero.
now the british health system... it's amazing how the same operating system that cio's thought of as a science project a year ago can get the big contracts with nothing more than a respectable corporate name on the outside of the box.
While I personally can't see the need to pay for programs that are easier to use than my electric toothbrush or mom's VCR
probably very few people will opt for a support program, but that doesn't matter. in the corporate it world it often doesn't matter if you actually get the support package, just that there is one to get.
the logic is pretty simple, really - if a company is willing to support a product, it means the product is supportable, ie there is enough q-and-a done that the software is fit enough for the support department not to have to do so much work that it loses money.
lots of companies will only buy wares that have support, even if they never get the support itself.
first, in the event of a police state, recording movies will be the least of your worries!
now, i don't like the mpaa as much as the next guy but... i don't get the outrage. i mean, if you go to a concert and record it on a reel-to-reel hidden in yr trench coat (i admit i'm thinking of the 70's here) you can be charged.
remember how the grateful dead were conidered "radical" because the permitted "bootleg" copies of their shows? they were radical because the standard response to recording a concert was to charge the bootlegger.
how are movies any different? how is this response "new"?
of course you have option of using the free fedora but.. from the article:
LQ) Tell us a little about the just released Fedora project (How do you see it impacting RH, how does it compare to Cooker or even Debian, what went into it's release, etc).
// edited by request
JH) Fedora is what Red Hat Linux was.
whoa! something was said and then replaced with "fedora is what red hat linux was". call me a conspiracy theorist (everyone else does) but it looks to me like jh made some comments about fedora that didn't fit into the marketing plan and had to retract.
the guy who does the equivalent of my job in the american office left for a position with the nsa a couple of months ago. he went throught the whole rigamarole of interviews and such and got accepted.
here's the interesting (or frightening) part. two weeks before he left for his new job, i had to send a bunch o sensitive data to some management type. so i called up our spook-to-be and said "point me to yr public key so i can send you this data pgp'd and yout can pass it on." his response?
"i don't have a public key. that cryptography stuff is a waste of time."
good luck national security association in all your future endeavors!
if anything, this whole debacle reminds me of the bre-x scam in alberta four or so years ago...
bre-x was a mining company with a large stake in indonesia. although the stake was considered to be mediocre at best, bre-x brought back some core samples for assay that showed insanely high gold concentrations. shortly thereafter, bre-x announced that they had a 210 million oz find (at $300 an ounce... well, do the math)
it was all faked, of course. they had "salted" the core samples (literally sprinkling gold into the crushed "ore") and then spun the results as far as they would go. the result was an astronomical stock price and a lot of very very rich directors and geologists.
by the time that anyone had figured out that the whole thing was a pum and dump, most of the directors had fled to the grand caymans - except for one who "fell" (possibly pushed) from a helicopter over the indonesian jungle.
bottom line: five people got wealthy of a pack of lies, thousands lost their life savings on stock, one lost his life. it's the exact same business model with sco... yet apparently investors haven't learned a damn thing.
if you think you're getting shafted by a company with "mystery" fees, just cook up an invoice for "services rendered: $11.52" and ship it off to their accounts payable department.
most of the people in accts. payable have a policy that any invoice that's less than a certain amount (twenty bucks or whatever) will just get paid. it's a great way to recoup your costs.
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maybe it's time for sun to get in on that action too...
dude. that guy is sysadmin. didn't you see the pager?
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well, after the week it would take you to get the 20 $500 machines, install all the os's and clustering software and then write yr custom mpi app to do the cracking... you'd have lost the race already.
well, i hope he means the browser since he knows jack all about the economy. witness from the article:
Do you want to put up a tariff, do you want the price of Chinese goods to rise? You're taxing your own citizens, and you're paying more for the things you buy at Wal-Mart. Why would you do that?
apparently andreesen thinks economics stopped with david ricardo.
the reason you want to put up a trade barrier with china is because they compete on price by breaking the international rules: child labour, forced labour, unsafe working conditions, bad envirionmental track record. you name it. if "free trade" is going to work (a long shot) then there have to be baseline standards about what constitutes fair manufacturing practices - otherwise the "winner" in the global economy is the country most willing to exploit its citizens, fuck its environment and provide substandard or unsafre products.
bah!
you put your soldiers in armoured transports... but they still wear camoflauge!
since when do end users get a say in their operating system? the doctors have the exact same amount of choice with the linux system that they had with the windows system: zero.
now the british health system... it's amazing how the same operating system that cio's thought of as a science project a year ago can get the big contracts with nothing more than a respectable corporate name on the outside of the box.
probably very few people will opt for a support program, but that doesn't matter. in the corporate it world it often doesn't matter if you actually get the support package, just that there is one to get.
the logic is pretty simple, really - if a company is willing to support a product, it means the product is supportable, ie there is enough q-and-a done that the software is fit enough for the support department not to have to do so much work that it loses money.
lots of companies will only buy wares that have support, even if they never get the support itself.
now, i don't like the mpaa as much as the next guy but... i don't get the outrage. i mean, if you go to a concert and record it on a reel-to-reel hidden in yr trench coat (i admit i'm thinking of the 70's here) you can be charged.
remember how the grateful dead were conidered "radical" because the permitted "bootleg" copies of their shows? they were radical because the standard response to recording a concert was to charge the bootlegger.
how are movies any different? how is this response "new"?
LQ) Tell us a little about the just released Fedora project (How do you see it impacting RH, how does it compare to Cooker or even Debian, what went into it's release, etc).
whoa! something was said and then replaced with "fedora is what red hat linux was". call me a conspiracy theorist (everyone else does) but it looks to me like jh made some comments about fedora that didn't fit into the marketing plan and had to retract.
look, there goes a one-dimensional book review!
actually, those really are i's and o's. it's necessary since microsoft has patented ones and zeroes.
here's the interesting (or frightening) part. two weeks before he left for his new job, i had to send a bunch o sensitive data to some management type. so i called up our spook-to-be and said "point me to yr public key so i can send you this data pgp'd and yout can pass it on." his response?
"i don't have a public key. that cryptography stuff is a waste of time."
good luck national security association in all your future endeavors!
it just sounds like a word the marketing department made up.
bre-x was a mining company with a large stake in indonesia. although the stake was considered to be mediocre at best, bre-x brought back some core samples for assay that showed insanely high gold concentrations. shortly thereafter, bre-x announced that they had a 210 million oz find (at $300 an ounce... well, do the math)
it was all faked, of course. they had "salted" the core samples (literally sprinkling gold into the crushed "ore") and then spun the results as far as they would go. the result was an astronomical stock price and a lot of very very rich directors and geologists.
by the time that anyone had figured out that the whole thing was a pum and dump, most of the directors had fled to the grand caymans - except for one who "fell" (possibly pushed) from a helicopter over the indonesian jungle.
bottom line: five people got wealthy of a pack of lies, thousands lost their life savings on stock, one lost his life. it's the exact same business model with sco... yet apparently investors haven't learned a damn thing.
honestly, he doesn't care if anyone on this site believes him or not (unless his mom is reading that is...)
... and how are you going to cram four people around it for guantlet 2?
no. really.
trust me. i'm happier.
if you think you're getting shafted by a company with "mystery" fees, just cook up an invoice for "services rendered: $11.52" and ship it off to their accounts payable department.
most of the people in accts. payable have a policy that any invoice that's less than a certain amount (twenty bucks or whatever) will just get paid. it's a great way to recoup your costs.
i'm actually programming scratch tickets... we dream of programming slot machines. *sigh*
moderators, actaully go read the link in ubergrendle's post. very enlightening!
i swear, joseph stiglitz should be required reading before posting any thing on adam smith.
they sure do. i bought boxed versions of 5.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.3 and 8... and i bought bob young's mediocre book "under the radar".
but now that they've yanked the standard distro to try to force me to upgrade to rhel or downgrade to fedora, they'll never get another cent from me.
sorry. my consumer dollars are earmarked for gentoo and freebsd now.