And to a degree it was true each of the previous two years.
This year will be better than the last two though, especially with Sun winning contracts to place its desktop offering (plus backend services) at some bigger businesses and governments.
And assuming Novell does some moderately successful push in 2004, which seems plausible, Linux-on-the-desktop stands to gain even more.
Nay-say all you like, but corporate and government acceptance is gaining serious momentum, and it likely could reach a point of critical mass this year.
Executive compensation is way out of whack, and it's because the executive club takes care of itself. Boards of one company are filled with executives of other companies, and vice versa. It's a circle of people writing each other checks out of corporate accounts.
There's always the line of defense which is, "but we're critically important, and we're doing very difficult jobs." The same could be true of the IT personnel who have been outsourced. So therefore, the executives should be outsourced as well.
Imagine the millions each company could save if their executives were paid an Indian's King's Ransom, instead of an American's King's Ransom?
If the American execs want to keep their jobs, well heck, they can take a pay cut to be on par with their Indian counterparts, right?
The whole executive compensation issue wouldn't be so aggravating if all execs did a good job. But many suck. Many run their companies into the ground, resign when things get bad, get a parting gift of a few million, and then go become CxO at another company. Rinse repeat. Once an exec, always an exec, unless of course you're tied up in a federal country club.
Yes indeed, that's the problem in trying to understand something abstract. You first begin with things concrete, and for us that usually means something perceived by our five senses.
But when reality is not accurately observed by our five senses, we have a problem with our grounding, as you say. Some people call that transition from flawed perception to an abstract idea a leap of faith. We have to decide to "go along with" some idea we don't understand, hoping that eventually it will make sense.
There was a year back in the early 80s I think when Ice Cream was known to cause cancer.
Here's something to think about when contemplating "medical science". Each year, medical scientists supposedly learn things that refute or invalidate "truths" they had previously known. That means their advice was often completely wrong prior to "now".
The problem is, for any given now, medical science is wrong with respect to medical science a year from now. Thus, medical science is always wrong.
That's the problem, that you can't buy Word+Excel for a "reasonable" price.
Naturally, a package deal will have a price break over all the pieces individually, but this "price break" is artificial in that the individual component prices are so high that they know you'll go ahead and spend $400~ on more than you need.
They should sell Word for 150, Excel for 150, and Word+Excel for 200 or 250. That would be much more reasonable.
It should be obvious that there are more low power options in laptops than PCs.
However, be aware that some laptops are really just mobile desktops, in that they're fast, hot, and hungry.
There are plenty of good low power laptops out there. Just start by looking at battery life.
"Small PCs" are not necessarily better for power consumption than big boxes. It all comes down to the CPU and graphics cards, mostly. OTOH, I can attest that a lovely little Shuttle XPC with a big fat P4 will probably be enough to heat your cabin thru the coldest winter. Mine was like a hairdryer permanently on.
You've simply encountered the world of network marketing, where nearly everyone things they can get rich by paying for entry.
The unfortunate reality is that network marketing (or MLM - multi-level marketing) requires as much or more work to be successful as traditional jobs do. They payoff is bigger, but the MLM industry is full of lame people you'd never want to associate with.
Since he's 73, he probably experienced the late end of the Great Depression, and thus, he should know that hard work is the way to success, or at least survival.
It said most of the 320k was new debt. There's no chance he can pay that debt back, as he can't even afford to pay current living expenses.
That means he'll default on loans and credit card debt, which means creditors will have yet another reason to fleece good customers to make up for the bad ones.
The entire "novelty" of modern GUI operating systems was that they had the concept of windows, and that you could have more than one window open at once.
Thus, in a very believable sense, a modern OS GUI was "windows".
So perhaps my choice of name, "Car", was poor. A better analogy would be "automobile", because of course that's what was novel about a modern human transport.
"I want that 'Mythic MMORPG' where you play as a viking."
That sentence is 100% ambiguous, and that is why Mythic Entertainment has a case.
DAoC was 1/3 Norse. That wasn't the entire focus of the game, unless you played in Midgaard (which I did). Even then, if you didn't read their book that came with the game, you didn't get much Norse sense except for the names. Besides, last time I knew, Norse mythology didn't include trolls, dwarves, and (kobolds? I played three, but I forget:))
And, I'm going to assume you don't play a lot of MMORPGs. EVERYONE knows the companies that make them, and often they are intimately aware of the publisher, (but often confuse the roles.) The rules are very different with MMORPGs than normal games.
That would be one of the most incorrect assumptions in the history of gaming. I played UO off and on for two years, starting the day it came out. I played AC for a couple of months. I played EQ off and on (mostly on) since it began, and I played DAoC for a year immediately after it came out. Before any of those, I played a couple of MUDs for 3 years.
And you know what? I know Origin made UO, I know Verant (now Sony) made EQ, I didn't remember who made DAoC, and I doubt I ever knew who made AC.
But the bigger argument about Lindows vs. Windows is that Windows shouldn't have been given trademark. That would be like Ford trademarking "Car".
News Release Ford Motor Company has just released Car v4.8. In other news, Ford sues General Motors for releasing a new compact "car".
MS should lose the trademark on the Windows name. Lindows may indeed be playing off the Windows name, but the windows name is far too generic. Many operating systems have for 20 years used "windows" as a primary feature of their graphical interfaces.
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And to a degree it was true each of the previous two years.
This year will be better than the last two though, especially with Sun winning contracts to place its desktop offering (plus backend services) at some bigger businesses and governments.
And assuming Novell does some moderately successful push in 2004, which seems plausible, Linux-on-the-desktop stands to gain even more.
Nay-say all you like, but corporate and government acceptance is gaining serious momentum, and it likely could reach a point of critical mass this year.
Yum!
You're right... I _knew_ I knew that style from somewhere.
I just learned something. Thanks!
There's no grammatical reason, why he keeps using commas in places that don't need them.
It really, makes me stumble over his words.
Parent should be marked insightful, not funny.
Executive compensation is way out of whack, and it's because the executive club takes care of itself. Boards of one company are filled with executives of other companies, and vice versa. It's a circle of people writing each other checks out of corporate accounts.
There's always the line of defense which is, "but we're critically important, and we're doing very difficult jobs." The same could be true of the IT personnel who have been outsourced. So therefore, the executives should be outsourced as well.
Imagine the millions each company could save if their executives were paid an Indian's King's Ransom, instead of an American's King's Ransom?
If the American execs want to keep their jobs, well heck, they can take a pay cut to be on par with their Indian counterparts, right?
The whole executive compensation issue wouldn't be so aggravating if all execs did a good job. But many suck. Many run their companies into the ground, resign when things get bad, get a parting gift of a few million, and then go become CxO at another company. Rinse repeat. Once an exec, always an exec, unless of course you're tied up in a federal country club.
Yes indeed, that's the problem in trying to understand something abstract. You first begin with things concrete, and for us that usually means something perceived by our five senses.
But when reality is not accurately observed by our five senses, we have a problem with our grounding, as you say. Some people call that transition from flawed perception to an abstract idea a leap of faith. We have to decide to "go along with" some idea we don't understand, hoping that eventually it will make sense.
Fine, but what would be beyond that?
Anything with pysical dimensions must be contained by something, and that thing must itself be contained by something.
The whole concept of physical existence is flawed.
We all now know that you got to see XGrid in action first!
There was a year back in the early 80s I think when Ice Cream was known to cause cancer.
Here's something to think about when contemplating "medical science". Each year, medical scientists supposedly learn things that refute or invalidate "truths" they had previously known. That means their advice was often completely wrong prior to "now".
The problem is, for any given now, medical science is wrong with respect to medical science a year from now. Thus, medical science is always wrong.
The root of all evil is management. Amongst their other problems, they often can't tell a good developer from a mediocre or bad one.
Many developers suck. Most management can't tell which ones to keep. Thus, they toss them all out and try their luck at the foreign labor.
I'm no statistician, but maybe if you hire 3X as many foreign workers and let chaos do its thing, you'll come out ahead. Or maybe that's their hope.
This kind of "exposure" can only help her site and her income.
Getting busted over something minor isn't the point.
Now if she was really cool she'd get someone to take some naughty shots of her in the police station.
That's the problem, that you can't buy Word+Excel for a "reasonable" price.
Naturally, a package deal will have a price break over all the pieces individually, but this "price break" is artificial in that the individual component prices are so high that they know you'll go ahead and spend $400~ on more than you need.
They should sell Word for 150, Excel for 150, and Word+Excel for 200 or 250. That would be much more reasonable.
is another man's delicacy
I didn't make any claims about who's the dumbass. I simply state that other paying debtors are the ones who will ultimately pay his debt.
It should be obvious that there are more low power options in laptops than PCs.
However, be aware that some laptops are really just mobile desktops, in that they're fast, hot, and hungry.
There are plenty of good low power laptops out there. Just start by looking at battery life.
"Small PCs" are not necessarily better for power consumption than big boxes. It all comes down to the CPU and graphics cards, mostly. OTOH, I can attest that a lovely little Shuttle XPC with a big fat P4 will probably be enough to heat your cabin thru the coldest winter. Mine was like a hairdryer permanently on.
Remember Florida, land of the "chad"?
Or Florida, land where they lose children of the state?
It's really a shame to waste all that lovely climate on the residents of Florida.
Sounds like you speak from experience here.
You've simply encountered the world of network marketing, where nearly everyone things they can get rich by paying for entry.
The unfortunate reality is that network marketing (or MLM - multi-level marketing) requires as much or more work to be successful as traditional jobs do. They payoff is bigger, but the MLM industry is full of lame people you'd never want to associate with.
Since he's 73, he probably experienced the late end of the Great Depression, and thus, he should know that hard work is the way to success, or at least survival.
It said most of the 320k was new debt. There's no chance he can pay that debt back, as he can't even afford to pay current living expenses.
That means he'll default on loans and credit card debt, which means creditors will have yet another reason to fleece good customers to make up for the bad ones.
Not quite.
The entire "novelty" of modern GUI operating systems was that they had the concept of windows, and that you could have more than one window open at once.
Thus, in a very believable sense, a modern OS GUI was "windows".
So perhaps my choice of name, "Car", was poor. A better analogy would be "automobile", because of course that's what was novel about a modern human transport.
DAoC was 1/3 Norse. That wasn't the entire focus of the game, unless you played in Midgaard (which I did). Even then, if you didn't read their book that came with the game, you didn't get much Norse sense except for the names. Besides, last time I knew, Norse mythology didn't include trolls, dwarves, and (kobolds? I played three, but I forget
That would be one of the most incorrect assumptions in the history of gaming. I played UO off and on for two years, starting the day it came out. I played AC for a couple of months. I played EQ off and on (mostly on) since it began, and I played DAoC for a year immediately after it came out. Before any of those, I played a couple of MUDs for 3 years.
And you know what? I know Origin made UO, I know Verant (now Sony) made EQ, I didn't remember who made DAoC, and I doubt I ever knew who made AC.
But the bigger argument about Lindows vs. Windows is that Windows shouldn't have been given trademark. That would be like Ford trademarking "Car".
News Release
Ford Motor Company has just released Car v4.8. In other news, Ford sues General Motors for releasing a new compact "car".
MS should lose the trademark on the Windows name. Lindows may indeed be playing off the Windows name, but the windows name is far too generic. Many operating systems have for 20 years used "windows" as a primary feature of their graphical interfaces.
That's exactly why the suit has no merit. How can MS be gaining any advantage from Mythic's name if nobody even really knows their name?
Most game players think the publisher wrote the game anyway.
And anyone who would know the Mythic name would already know the difference between DAoC and Mythica.