Try taking a 30% pay cut and work 20-50 hours of mandatory overtime with a demanding job with an undermanned crew.
Airlines are going bust thanks to incompetent management -- they cannot even keep afloat with the huge government subsides and loan guarantees that they've received for decades.
Be ready? It has already arrived! Gas is 120% higher than in 2000, housing 15-100%, postage up 25%, milk up 30%, most vegetables up 20-30%, whole chickens are $2.00/lb... We're in an expensive war in the middle east and local taxes are skyrocketing...
Inflation is here already, but has been "adjusted" away in the CPI.
Soon enough it will become affordable to manufacture things in the US again, and the new Chinese industry will be bankrupted by currency swings.
Yours is the only thinking thread in this entire story.
I've been involved in investigating Linux for our enterprise, and have been completely underwhelmed. Kerberos usually doesn't work out of the box for authentication and administering a few thousand of these machines is going to be a nightmare.
By the time we start maintaining our own distro, train our support people and shove linux down the user's throats, we'll have spent 5x more than the cheap Windows licenses.
Notes was fucked because IBM doesn't know jack about marketing -- their specialty is pushing services and computers to big customers with too much money to spend.
Outlook/Exchange is THE collaboration market... period. It generally works pretty damn good and that s based on Exchange systems ranging from 5 users to 350,000 users.
What's your alternative for an office environment? You have Lotus Notes -- which is a dead product soon to be replaced. Then you have things like POP/IMAP and iCal+IMAP or other marginal offerings from companies like Novell.
IMHO, Yahoo! would make a goldmine if they let companies hook into an "enterprise" Yahoo Mail/Calendar suite.
Unfortunately, the US school system has devolved somewhat in recent years. Students are taught to avoid oppressive dictionaries and seek meaning from within.
No -- people just exchange because it was and is the best email/calendaring solution out there.
Nobody used exchange until 1998-9 or so... Outlook was a crappy client and Exchange a slow server. But people wanted the functionality of Lotus Notes without dealing with crappy IBM software & salespeople.
I mean "rich" in a relative sense. Most middle class americans live in the burbs and commute by themselves 30+ minutes to work.
That's a level of inefficency that is only tenable because we are able to obtain strategic commodities and import products at unnaturally cheap levels.
I'm a 15-20 minute bus ride or 5 minute drive from work. But shortages of good, close housing in our smallish urban area have many of my coworkers commuting as far as 50 miles daily.
You are correct... it is a different war, and interception of communications has a wider benefit than in an established military hierarchy.
The only way to really infiltrate a cell-based organization is to intercept communications en masse and try to isolate & map the cell hierarchy by analyzing traffic patterns.
Once you do that, you can replace or impersonate high-level cells and take control of the lower-level cells. The trick is to be subtle and gradually disrupt operations so that the new cell structures aren't formed.
The world has finite resources, and we consume a vastly larger portion of those resources to support our rich society.
If you believe that our position will not suffer when the people of Africa and Asia demand their fair share, you are a complete moron.
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No shit. Now try actually doing that.
I've attempted to cancel orders within 3 minutes of checking out and was greeted to a message along the lines of "Your order is too far into the shipping process to be cancelled."
The French attempted to implement a logical metric calendar system during the French revolution -- and it went away in spite of beheadings and other forms of terror used to enforce it.
I'm not knocking the features... I'm knocking the interfaces.
Amazon in the last year or two has become extremely cluttered and more difficult to use. Its hard to find features that you want, and other common features are missing. (try cancelling an order)
Google Groups are another case of something made too complicated. The interface is intrusive, distracting and makes it more difficult to get at the information that you want.
Amazon and Google are already beginning to become cluttered with useless features (particularly Amazon).
You may be able to get personalized news... but like 6 people will be able to figure out how to find the right page or widget to click on if Amazon does it.
There is nothing inherent in TCP/IP itself that makes it a better networking protocol. But its widely available, cheap and supported by all.
In the 80's the Coleco Adam was a better machine than the Commodore 64 in every respect. But it cost $100 more and was released before its floppy drive and everyone bought the commodore.
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Try taking a 30% pay cut and work 20-50 hours of mandatory overtime with a demanding job with an undermanned crew.
Airlines are going bust thanks to incompetent management -- they cannot even keep afloat with the huge government subsides and loan guarantees that they've received for decades.
No... I learned long ago to equate low Wal-Mart prices with low Wal-Mart quality.
Ever since Sam Walton died, Wal-Mart has become exclusively a purveyor of junk.
Linux isn't ready to be a part of an enterprise Windows environment.
be ready for a huge inflation in the US.
Be ready? It has already arrived! Gas is 120% higher than in 2000, housing 15-100%, postage up 25%, milk up 30%, most vegetables up 20-30%, whole chickens are $2.00/lb... We're in an expensive war in the middle east and local taxes are skyrocketing...
Inflation is here already, but has been "adjusted" away in the CPI.
Soon enough it will become affordable to manufacture things in the US again, and the new Chinese industry will be bankrupted by currency swings.
Yours is the only thinking thread in this entire story.
I've been involved in investigating Linux for our enterprise, and have been completely underwhelmed. Kerberos usually doesn't work out of the box for authentication and administering a few thousand of these machines is going to be a nightmare.
By the time we start maintaining our own distro, train our support people and shove linux down the user's throats, we'll have spent 5x more than the cheap Windows licenses.
There's a reason why Old Navy is so cheap -- it's frigging disposable clothing!
Wash that Old Navy sweater twice and it will melt away in the dryer -- and you probably thought your neighbors were stealing your shit.
The funny thing is that the broadcasters could have avoided all of this crap by simply sticking to analog technology...
It is well known that software piracy is a gateway crime. Thank god this guy will be doing 15 years of Federal time with no parole.
Next week he could have been raping your sister and killing your dog!
They are constantly upgrading their traditional services - search, Usenet archive, etc.
Yeah, that new Google Groups is a real great improvement.
Google's best years from a technical & public service point of view are well behind them. Now its time for them to squeeze as much cash as possible.
It also gives them the ability to claim in court that it is technically infeasible.
Notes was fucked because IBM doesn't know jack about marketing -- their specialty is pushing services and computers to big customers with too much money to spend.
Outlook/Exchange is THE collaboration market... period. It generally works pretty damn good and that
s based on Exchange systems ranging from 5 users to 350,000 users.
What's your alternative for an office environment? You have Lotus Notes -- which is a dead product soon to be replaced. Then you have things like POP/IMAP and iCal+IMAP or other marginal offerings from companies like Novell.
IMHO, Yahoo! would make a goldmine if they let companies hook into an "enterprise" Yahoo Mail/Calendar suite.
Unfortunately, the US school system has devolved somewhat in recent years. Students are taught to avoid oppressive dictionaries and seek meaning from within.
Why do you care? If you don't know what zeitgeist means, you merely have to look at the page for a clear definition of the word.
Some people call turnips rutabagas, others call journalists reporters. People who argue for one work or another are usually called pricks.
No -- people just exchange because it was and is the best email/calendaring solution out there.
Nobody used exchange until 1998-9 or so... Outlook was a crappy client and Exchange a slow server. But people wanted the functionality of Lotus Notes without dealing with crappy IBM software & salespeople.
Except that the connector is just glue layer that looks at Exchange's OWA webmail system.
It works... kinda... but alot of handy autocompletion features refuse to work and its slow.
I mean "rich" in a relative sense. Most middle class americans live in the burbs and commute by themselves 30+ minutes to work.
That's a level of inefficency that is only tenable because we are able to obtain strategic commodities and import products at unnaturally cheap levels.
I'm a 15-20 minute bus ride or 5 minute drive from work. But shortages of good, close housing in our smallish urban area have many of my coworkers commuting as far as 50 miles daily.
Release it... Post a public notice in a church bulletin or free newspaper and offer to share the source code via postal mail for $0.05/page
You are correct... it is a different war, and interception of communications has a wider benefit than in an established military hierarchy.
The only way to really infiltrate a cell-based organization is to intercept communications en masse and try to isolate & map the cell hierarchy by analyzing traffic patterns.
Once you do that, you can replace or impersonate high-level cells and take control of the lower-level cells. The trick is to be subtle and gradually disrupt operations so that the new cell structures aren't formed.
The world has finite resources, and we consume a vastly larger portion of those resources to support our rich society.
If you believe that our position will not suffer when the people of Africa and Asia demand their fair share, you are a complete moron.
No shit. Now try actually doing that.
I've attempted to cancel orders within 3 minutes of checking out and was greeted to a message along the lines of "Your order is too far into the shipping process to be cancelled."
Sure it will.
What do you think would have happened during WW2 if the US & Britain were unable to monitor Japanese & German communications?
In many cases, Winston Churchill received high-level Nazi communications before Hitler did.
Knowledge is power. In the case of the US, we maintain cheap access to energy and import markets.
The problem is, if we stop "pissing of the world" we lose alot of perks. Imagine your life with $6.00/gal gasoline and having to abandon the suburbs.
The French attempted to implement a logical metric calendar system during the French revolution -- and it went away in spite of beheadings and other forms of terror used to enforce it.
I'm not knocking the features... I'm knocking the interfaces.
Amazon in the last year or two has become extremely cluttered and more difficult to use. Its hard to find features that you want, and other common features are missing. (try cancelling an order)
Google Groups are another case of something made too complicated. The interface is intrusive, distracting and makes it more difficult to get at the information that you want.
Amazon and Google are already beginning to become cluttered with useless features (particularly Amazon).
You may be able to get personalized news... but like 6 people will be able to figure out how to find the right page or widget to click on if Amazon does it.
There is nothing inherent in TCP/IP itself that makes it a better networking protocol. But its widely available, cheap and supported by all.
In the 80's the Coleco Adam was a better machine than the Commodore 64 in every respect. But it cost $100 more and was released before its floppy drive and everyone bought the commodore.