Investment bankers always make huge money - even when they screw up the US tax payers bail them out.
Defense is about the only US industry left where quant jobs are not being glutting by the incoming flood of guest workers. Try to get a top-secret clearance.
As I understand it, msft makes all sorts of deals with other hw, and sw makers. Msft does this to preserve, and extend, their monopoly. Consider, for example, msft's deal with Novell.
I'm a solaris admin, working for a DoD contractor. In my case the "archaic policies that don't relate at all to the systems we run" are not made up by me; those policies are passed down from the DoD bureaucrats. As idiotic as those policies may be, we admins have to enforce them.
For instance you could be in violation if you show foreign visitors around your company and they get a fleeting look at a white-board that discusses a strong encryption algorithm.
Maybe that's just a bad example, but I don't see that as "nuts" at all. If you were writing the requlations, how would you put it? "Foreign visitors can look at sensitive claissified data, but only for n seconds, and only if . . . ?" Isn't it much easier, and more sensible, to say "foreign visitors can not look at such data?"
The problem is not that Vista requires more hw to run as fast as XP. The problem is that vista requires all that hw, and does not offer any significant advantage over XP. Why should I spend all that money to buy a new OS, that is much worse than the OS I already have?
If you want something that outperforms XP, try Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.
How is this going to make my life any easier? How is this going to make me any more productive? Give me one good reason why I would want Vista, or Win7, or even XP?
Win2k runs all my hw and sw, it's fast and reliable, has an easy and familiar interface. Win2k does have all that bloat, or DRM.
Yeah, I know, "horse and buggy" etc. But, at least I'm not a lemming.
If you are a dedicated ms-office user, and you really need 100% of the functionality of ms-office; then get ms-office - don't even think about anything else.
But, if you are like most of the population, and you just need a good office product, that is basically compatible with standard file formats, then openoffice does the trick.
There have been a lot of success stories where people have used gmail instead of exchange - including some large installations. I expect there will be many more. Gmail now works with outlook, thunderbird, and blackberry. Gmail integrates with google calendar.
Google docs allows me to share documents in much the same way as sharepoint.
I suppose there may be some cases where msft is the better solution. But, I think there are many cases when google apps is perfectly adequate - and a lot cheaper. And that could take a bite out of msft's business.
I see IT job ads, all the time, offering $15 an hour, or less, for college graduates with tech degrees. STEM is dying in the USA. After the election, the situation will get much worse. Get used to it.
Manufacturing died in the USA in the 1980s, IT is dying in the USA now.
Wanting to have sane economic policies, and to put an end to fraud and abuse is not "xenophobia."
Global market you say? Okay, that means that no other countries have any form of protectionism, right? For example, India does not protect their agricultural markets from other countries, right?
So many articles are coming out about the newly discovered h1b abuses, that you might think that, because everybody finally knows about the abuses, the problems will be fixed.
Sorry folks, but the abuses have been well know for nearly a decade.
September 2000 Silicon Valley Uses Immigrant Engineers to Keep Salaries
High-skilled immigrant workers in Silicon Valley are being exploited by employers. Existing immigration law sets a cap on the number the H1-B visas the industry can use to hire immigrant engineers, so this year Silicon Valley electronics giants have been pushing for more Hl-B workers. While H1-B status laborers boost corporate bottom lines, there is a devastating effect on the workers themselves.
DOS based Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, then the 'ol switcheroo and the NT based picks up right DOS based left off:3.5, 4.0, and the DOS based goes to years: 95, 98, the then 'ol switcheroo again, and the the NT base again picks up where DOS based left off and the NT based goes to 2000, and the DOS based goes to the double letter convention ME. Confused yet?
Then, for the third time, the NT based picks up on the DOS naming convention (now the double letters) and msft comes out with XP. Okay, that's three naming conventions so far: numbers 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, years: 95, 98, 2000, and double letter: NT, ME, CE, XP; and now msft abandons all of those conventions for newest OS: Vista.
Okay, so what comes after Vista? Msft - for about the 8th time - changes their naming convention again to go back to the numbering convention with Windows 7.
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I could not possibly agree more.
I can not find that documented anywhere.
As I understand it, he never programmed very much, and was never especially good it.
Investment bankers always make huge money - even when they screw up the US tax payers bail them out.
Defense is about the only US industry left where quant jobs are not being glutting by the incoming flood of guest workers. Try to get a top-secret clearance.
As I understand it, msft makes all sorts of deals with other hw, and sw makers. Msft does this to preserve, and extend, their monopoly. Consider, for example, msft's deal with Novell.
Why is it legal for msft?
I'm a solaris admin, working for a DoD contractor. In my case the "archaic policies that don't relate at all to the systems we run" are not made up by me; those policies are passed down from the DoD bureaucrats. As idiotic as those policies may be, we admins have to enforce them.
Any problem with movie players, or music players?
Maybe that's just a bad example, but I don't see that as "nuts" at all. If you were writing the requlations, how would you put it? "Foreign visitors can look at sensitive claissified data, but only for n seconds, and only if . . . ?" Isn't it much easier, and more sensible, to say "foreign visitors can not look at such data?"
You didn't answer my question: give me one good reason to win7?
The problem is not that Vista requires more hw to run as fast as XP. The problem is that vista requires all that hw, and does not offer any significant advantage over XP. Why should I spend all that money to buy a new OS, that is much worse than the OS I already have?
Features are lacking and/or unstable.
How is this going to make my life any easier? How is this going to make me any more productive? Give me one good reason why I would want Vista, or Win7, or even XP?
Win2k runs all my hw and sw, it's fast and reliable, has an easy and familiar interface. Win2k does have all that bloat, or DRM.
Yeah, I know, "horse and buggy" etc. But, at least I'm not a lemming.
If you are a dedicated ms-office user, and you really need 100% of the functionality of ms-office; then get ms-office - don't even think about anything else.
But, if you are like most of the population, and you just need a good office product, that is basically compatible with standard file formats, then openoffice does the trick.
JMHO.
It's free, and you store about 5000 documents.
There have been a lot of success stories where people have used gmail instead of exchange - including some large installations. I expect there will be many more. Gmail now works with outlook, thunderbird, and blackberry. Gmail integrates with google calendar.
Google docs allows me to share documents in much the same way as sharepoint.
I suppose there may be some cases where msft is the better solution. But, I think there are many cases when google apps is perfectly adequate - and a lot cheaper. And that could take a bite out of msft's business.
I can download my docs to my PC if I want to. I can have me email stored locally, if I want to.
Anyway, what about when you put your apps on sharepoint? What if that server goes down or becomes corrupted?
In my experience, a local PC is more likely to be become corrupted than google's servers.
I thought this was supposed to be a discussion about Google Apps, which does not necessarily have anything to do with desktop Linux.
And so on. There is no mistaking the stench of a msft fud storm.
Have you noticed the msft shills all over slashdot? Happens every time there is a hot-button issue like this.
Get real, who do you think you're kidding.
I see IT job ads, all the time, offering $15 an hour, or less, for college graduates with tech degrees. STEM is dying in the USA. After the election, the situation will get much worse. Get used to it.
Manufacturing died in the USA in the 1980s, IT is dying in the USA now.
The US is going though some tough times, but it's still a lot better than slave labor China, or impoverished third world nations like India.
Just thought I'd mention it.
Wanting to have sane economic policies, and to put an end to fraud and abuse is not "xenophobia."
Global market you say? Okay, that means that no other countries have any form of protectionism, right? For example, India does not protect their agricultural markets from other countries, right?
There are way more Indians and Asians, than US students, studying STEM at the graduate level.
1 = Win 1.0
2 = Win 2.0
3 = Win 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, Some code shared with OS/2
Okay so far.
4 = Win 95, Win 95 OS/R 2, Win 98, Win 98 SE, Win ME
What about NT 3.5 and NT 4.0? Where those not "3" or "4" ?
Also, why did msft keep throwing in an NT kernel, every time they established a dos sequence?
i.e. 3.1, 3.11, Then 3.5 is the first version of NT. WTF? Why did NT start at 3.5?
The msft did the same thing, only they established a year pattern:
i.e. 95, 98. Then 2000 was NT kernel, while the DOS based went to ME. WTF?
I wonder if msft was not trying to trick users into thinking that NT, then 2000, respectively were not the next upgrade in the logical progression.
5 = Windows XP (Move to the NT kernel.)
I thought 3.5 was the move to the NT kernel, then 4.0, then 2000.
At least it goes 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x; instead of 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95, NT, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7.x.
So many articles are coming out about the newly discovered h1b abuses, that you might think that, because everybody finally knows about the abuses, the problems will be fixed.
Sorry folks, but the abuses have been well know for nearly a decade.
September 2000
Silicon Valley Uses Immigrant Engineers to Keep Salaries
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/10-silicon-valley-uses-immigrant-engineers-to-keep-salaries/
2002
Enron and the H-1B American Worker Replacement Program
http://www.americanreformation.org/Articles/GlennJackson/EnronandH1BVisas.htm
February 2003
Is Anybody Out There? Is Anyone Listening?
http://www.rense.com/general35/wakeupNHwakeup.htm
Okay, it goes like this:
DOS based Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, then the 'ol switcheroo and the NT based picks up right DOS based left off:3.5, 4.0, and the DOS based goes to years: 95, 98, the then 'ol switcheroo again, and the the NT base again picks up where DOS based left off and the NT based goes to 2000, and the DOS based goes to the double letter convention ME. Confused yet?
Then, for the third time, the NT based picks up on the DOS naming convention (now the double letters) and msft comes out with XP. Okay, that's three naming conventions so far: numbers 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, years: 95, 98, 2000, and double letter: NT, ME, CE, XP; and now msft abandons all of those conventions for newest OS: Vista.
Okay, so what comes after Vista? Msft - for about the 8th time - changes their naming convention again to go back to the numbering convention with Windows 7.