I work in a company where the infrastructure is primarily Win but the CEO is a Mac user since 1984. So there is always a push for interoperability at the least. MSFT apps do not play well with non-windows machines. Even web-based apps which should work on any web browser are crippled because of some Active X control or other crap. I'm talking about the newest versions of all MS products also, including SQL 2005, Reporting Services 2005, Dynamics CRM and GP, Sharepoint 2007, etc.
Apple could kill MSFT with the following package:
A few DVD set with preconfigured (and designed) replacements for:
SQL to run everything on OpenDirectory to authenticate everyone Mail/Calendar/Task server ala exchange (with rules and distribution lists pulling from OpenDirectory) CRM (with single sign on capability from directory) Accounting (with SSO) Enterprise reporting with charts, graphs, etc. that actually look good Decent office programs (ala word, excel, PPT, outlook etc. DEPLOYABLE to desktops) Office server program for collaboration, workflows and file sharing (Ala Sharepoint 2007 with SSO and integrate seamlessly with office programs) Web forms server for forms Decent analytics software Enterprise antivirus Backup solution
The number one thing is Single Sign On to all of this with one Kerberos login. This has been possible for about 30 years, yet it never seems to get done.
Anyway, a seamless install of all this, in one set, for one price, all interoperating, with a cohesive style all the way across the board (LOOKING *GOOD*, like Apple can).
Oh, and make sure that you can use Windows browsers to access the web-based content (support Firefox at least;)
With this package you could easily replace everything in my company that runs on Windows, and probably most companies. A lot of this is possible with open source stuff. They (Apple) would of course have to co-opt the open source crap and run it past their designers to make it actually look good. Run a few billion bucks worth of refining. Sorry to say this but I have yet to see a decently designed (for the people) open source app (and I know it's not usually the goal so foo), but with a few bil and Apple's staff and connections it might be possible.
Anyway, sell this package for $699 a seat and you will still come in well under MSFT!
Isn't anyone a little worried about what China is making with all this stuff? I mean, they are making a lot of stuff for us, but with our falling currency we can afford less and less of it. Could they be building a massive army? I don't really trust the Chinese.
I would go so far as to say "there is no war". War implies a two-sided conflict. In this case, we picked a weak nation with a bad name and invaded them so our corporations could make money in construction and oil extraction. Utilizing excess and unjustified public confidence after a highly publicized terrorist attack, the administration lied to us and we bought it. It's not really a "war", it's just armed robbery writ large. We haven't even seen most of the money the corporations have made since they plowed it into Dubai, building palaces and clubs for their rich executives while we in America languish under rising inflation, lost friends, and no leader to get us out of it. There is no war. There are only lies.
Heh, I couldn't do that to my high school chem teacher. He would have gotten me back somehow. If kids would hang out in the halls too late after school (he was by the freshman lockers), he would uncap his bottle of butyric acid and walk up and down the hall with it. Problem solved;)
Hell yes, I second this. Dude, the HP48GX is the king of calculators for high school and college. I still use mine 10 years later. I love the fact that it'll do step by step differentiation, which really helps out on the calculus homework!
Also, for chem it's perfect. Often you need to add up different steps of a reaction seperately then sum them. With RPN, there's no retyping! Also, there are tons of libraries including a molecular weight calculator and much much more. And there's even a remote control program for the built in infra-red tranceiver so you can mess around with the televisions in class;)
I'm happy to hear that HP has a newer faster version out. It was a little slow on graphing, but only in high precision mode (when you need to look up something on the curve, it'll calculate all the values based on an interval of x you specify, such as.001). Usually for a purely visual graph, you don't need that precision. Luckly, it caches the table of values so you can do a fast lookup until you run another EQ. There are also some accelerator programs that blank the disply (preventing refresh which takes processor time) or use other tricks to speed up graphing. I dunno, there's something about the original. So easy to hack, so fun to play with, the buttons sound so good. Ahhhhhhh.
Yeah, the AAP is basically an association of the shareholders of the publishers. Guess what, your business model is based on selling something no one wants. No one fucking cared when my asbestos company went out of business, why the fuck should I care about you?
They are both infinite loops and are therefore bad examples of coding.
while (checkGoodthink()) {
print "WAR IS PEACE";
print "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY";
print "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH";
print "Public access equals government censorship\n"; }
Instead of complaining, we should get up off our fat fucking asses and do something. It's not the machines, it's the people running them we can't trust. But they know from history we're not going to do shit about it, even take 8 hours out of our fucking busy 4 years to monitor the election ourselves IN PERSON. I guess we'll pay the piper when our rights are gone.
If you're good, headhunters will bob your knob to get you contracted. If you're going to go with headhunters, play them off each other. Apply for multiple jobs with different headhunters, and then tell the good things one headhunter offers to the others, so they have to sweeten their deal for you. They generally make about twice what you make for the first 6-9 months or what have you. After that, the company will keep you on at the same rate, while paying out half as much. In high demand areas, they sometimes make over what you were making. I have heard cases where they contracted DBAs for 65 an hour and were getting paid 150 per hour by the client firm. Make sure you know this going in and don't be afraid to give them shit and bargain. It's like buying a car.
I, for one, am a little pissed at the article title. This is a gratutitous use of the question mark. The article clearly states that the problem is the _television_. Why the FUCK would you make the article title, "Blame Gaming - Is the Blinking PS3 Sony's Fault?". This is INCORRECT. A correct title would be "Blinking PS3 HDMI Problem Caused by Television". What the fuck is this? Fox News? Jesus fucking christ. Go back to school asshole.
Her family is probably pretty "Pissed". This contest really went down the "Toilet". I can't believe how it's been "Sprayed" all over the news. Talk about a "Drinking Problem". As said to the second place contestant: "Urine" luck! I guess she didn't really get a fair "Shake".
How do these terrorists communicate with each other? With SPEECH? OH FUCK! LET'S SHUT DOWN ALL THE SCHOOLS! LEARNING TO TALK MIGHT HELP THE TERRORISTS! or How do these terrorists get to their targets? By *WALKING*?!!?! Headline: Teaching children to walk may have terror implications.
The media should be PROSECUTED for even speculating on crap like this. Everyone is so stupid and ignorant that they can just pull up any thing unfamiliar and scary sounding and link it to terrorism. OH MY GOD, INCREDIBLY USEFUL TOOLS BENEFIT TERRORISTS TOO! Retards. CAMP STOVE FUEL "WHITE GAS" CAN MAKE A POWERFUL BOMB! *Camp stoves banned*
If I didn't love freedom of speech so much I'd say to take away their rights thereof. Instead we need to fight back with the correct information, because the public needs to know. But every time I do, I get put down, like Fox News knows more than I do. I try to explain that my IQ is higher than the ENTIRE Fox News ANCHOR TEAM *MULTIPLIED* TOGETHER, but they say, "Why aren't you on TV." *sigh* Which is why I'm filing a patent for a discreet, handheld device that can be used to sterlize and render barren any person in 10 seconds or less without their knowledge. Simply wave the device near their gonads and *click* press the red "Easy" button. In seconds you've assured a better future for the world.
Yeah, but think about the shareholders. $50M really isn't all that much stacked up against a Bill Gates, or any billionaire. CEOs aren't always shareholders, they are just elected management, elected by the shareholders (or appointed by the board) to run the company and make as much money as possible. Sort of like how a mafia don hires a hitman to kill someone who talks too much, the board hires a CEO to do their dirty work. And they collect most of the money. A smart CEO knows when he's needed and negotiates a good bonus. You can be a CEO too, just start your own business!
Shareholders are the real evil. They already have all the money, therefore they get the majority of profits made from the investment of it. Taxes are bad also, since they take money from everyone and spend it really inefficiently (but probably "fairly", politically, anyway)...
Anyway, it's just business, if you think you deserve that kind of money too, put yourself out on the market, suck a lot of dicks, screw over a lot of co-workers and some day you'll be at the top too. Or you can just start your own company.
And of course, people leave out un"PC" realities of socioeconomics that are harsh but TRUE. NOT EVERYONE IS SMART. Now, the trick is not making generalizations like, "My garbageman is only a garbageman because he's uneducated with an IQ of 80 and can't find another job." That would be false. However, it's tough to miss the fact that economic growth in this country is not coming from skilled jobs being added to the economy. The majority of jobs are added in hospitality/healthcare/retail and entertainment. That means that Bushes' "Great" employment numbers are really consisting of people working menial mindless drone work. There is no such thing as "productivity" in these fields because nothing is being produced. Everything we consume is made in China or Mexico now. As a country we don't DO anything. All we do is spend money, manage spending money, come up with new ways to generate money out of thin air, and of course eat and drink. Everyone in this country is on drugs, from the poor bums drinking their wine and shooting smack to the rich housewife's Xanax and Valium.
You said: The poor person in this case is obviously not working as hard. He obviously didn't work as hard at school, nor has he worked hard enough to acquire the extra education needed to get a better job. He has not worked hard enough to learn how to make more money. He has not learnt the most productive ways in which to direct his hard work.
You contradict yourself on the last 3 lines. It's not that he's not working HARD enough, it's that he's not working SMART enough. And, because of differences in every human, some people are dumber than others, so they may NEVER work SMART enough to compete with someone with more intelligence. In general, anyway.
The thing we Americans are so arrogant about is that hilbilly barely graduated from middle school nascar watching bible thumping HICKS think they are smarter than all Chinese people, all Iraqis, all of everyone pretty much. Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason. And this arogance breeds new arrogance in their spawn, and it's spreading. The idiots are taking over, and they are going to destroy this country if the upper classes let them. But they won't. Instead, they'll be enslaved. And while the government continues to appear to be stupid, the people who really run things behind the scenes bring us all that much closer to doom. Sooner or later, the population will be large enough that no matter how rich you are you'll have a neighbor. And at that point they'll start killing people.
Ok, so maybe this is all a bit extreme, but acceptance will breed it. I don't think anyone on Slashdot really has to worry about it, because most people here are above-average intelligence. But there's going to be a great war or something soon, there has to be. It may not involve the U.S. but it will have world changing consequences.
Yeah, and the thing that's killing the American Dream IS the inequality. We can't all be rich, but we can NEVER be as rich as the top 100 people, unless lightning strikes a few dozen times. It's the increasing difficulty people have believing the false-class consciousness trip we've been fed our entire lives. Americans believe we always deserve more, but there just ISN'T ANY MORE. There's too many people in the world, we already have WAY more than them and most of what we spend money on is WASTED. But still, there's always more. A faster car, a bigger house. But the whole time, the owners of the companies that make these things are getting your money (and of course, you borrow more to get more stuff, thus diluting your wages even more). A lot of the current economic craziness is being created by the younger generation of people who didn't experience the depression or WWII (or WWI). We have no IDEA what bad is. I think a wise man put it best when he said, "In your life you'll be surprised just how far down rock bottom really is."
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Thank God for Web 4.1!
I work in a company where the infrastructure is primarily Win but the CEO is a Mac user since 1984. So there is always a push for interoperability at the least. MSFT apps do not play well with non-windows machines. Even web-based apps which should work on any web browser are crippled because of some Active X control or other crap. I'm talking about the newest versions of all MS products also, including SQL 2005, Reporting Services 2005, Dynamics CRM and GP, Sharepoint 2007, etc.
;)
Apple could kill MSFT with the following package:
A few DVD set with preconfigured (and designed) replacements for:
SQL to run everything on
OpenDirectory to authenticate everyone
Mail/Calendar/Task server ala exchange (with rules and distribution lists pulling from OpenDirectory)
CRM (with single sign on capability from directory)
Accounting (with SSO)
Enterprise reporting with charts, graphs, etc. that actually look good
Decent office programs (ala word, excel, PPT, outlook etc. DEPLOYABLE to desktops)
Office server program for collaboration, workflows and file sharing (Ala Sharepoint 2007 with SSO and integrate seamlessly with office programs)
Web forms server for forms
Decent analytics software
Enterprise antivirus
Backup solution
The number one thing is Single Sign On to all of this with one Kerberos login. This has been possible for about 30 years, yet it never seems to get done.
Anyway, a seamless install of all this, in one set, for one price, all interoperating, with a cohesive style all the way across the board (LOOKING *GOOD*, like Apple can).
Oh, and make sure that you can use Windows browsers to access the web-based content (support Firefox at least
With this package you could easily replace everything in my company that runs on Windows, and probably most companies. A lot of this is possible with open source stuff. They (Apple) would of course have to co-opt the open source crap and run it past their designers to make it actually look good. Run a few billion bucks worth of refining. Sorry to say this but I have yet to see a decently designed (for the people) open source app (and I know it's not usually the goal so foo), but with a few bil and Apple's staff and connections it might be possible.
Anyway, sell this package for $699 a seat and you will still come in well under MSFT!
Such as Fat Wreck Chords.
Thank God for Web4.1!
You, sir, have just coined a new "Slashdot Meme".
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date 032515002007
Hans Reiser called and wants his post back.
Isn't anyone a little worried about what China is making with all this stuff? I mean, they are making a lot of stuff for us, but with our falling currency we can afford less and less of it. Could they be building a massive army? I don't really trust the Chinese.
I would go so far as to say "there is no war". War implies a two-sided conflict. In this case, we picked a weak nation with a bad name and invaded them so our corporations could make money in construction and oil extraction. Utilizing excess and unjustified public confidence after a highly publicized terrorist attack, the administration lied to us and we bought it. It's not really a "war", it's just armed robbery writ large. We haven't even seen most of the money the corporations have made since they plowed it into Dubai, building palaces and clubs for their rich executives while we in America languish under rising inflation, lost friends, and no leader to get us out of it. There is no war. There are only lies.
Heh, I couldn't do that to my high school chem teacher. He would have gotten me back somehow. If kids would hang out in the halls too late after school (he was by the freshman lockers), he would uncap his bottle of butyric acid and walk up and down the hall with it. Problem solved ;)
Don't listen to this asshole--get the HP48GX. Otherwise, you are a poser and don't know what's good for you.
Hell yes, I second this. Dude, the HP48GX is the king of calculators for high school and college. I still use mine 10 years later. I love the fact that it'll do step by step differentiation, which really helps out on the calculus homework!
;)
.001). Usually for a purely visual graph, you don't need that precision. Luckly, it caches the table of values so you can do a fast lookup until you run another EQ. There are also some accelerator programs that blank the disply (preventing refresh which takes processor time) or use other tricks to speed up graphing. I dunno, there's something about the original. So easy to hack, so fun to play with, the buttons sound so good. Ahhhhhhh.
Also, for chem it's perfect. Often you need to add up different steps of a reaction seperately then sum them. With RPN, there's no retyping! Also, there are tons of libraries including a molecular weight calculator and much much more. And there's even a remote control program for the built in infra-red tranceiver so you can mess around with the televisions in class
I'm happy to hear that HP has a newer faster version out. It was a little slow on graphing, but only in high precision mode (when you need to look up something on the curve, it'll calculate all the values based on an interval of x you specify, such as
Yeah, the AAP is basically an association of the shareholders of the publishers. Guess what, your business model is based on selling something no one wants. No one fucking cared when my asbestos company went out of business, why the fuck should I care about you?
They are both infinite loops and are therefore bad examples of coding.
while (checkGoodthink())
{
print "WAR IS PEACE";
print "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY";
print "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH";
print "Public access equals government censorship\n";
}
Reminds me of an old joke:
What's the difference between an honest politician and a lightbulb?
Lightbulbs exist.
Instead of complaining, we should get up off our fat fucking asses and do something. It's not the machines, it's the people running them we can't trust. But they know from history we're not going to do shit about it, even take 8 hours out of our fucking busy 4 years to monitor the election ourselves IN PERSON. I guess we'll pay the piper when our rights are gone.
It would be cool if they ACTUALLY PUT a mini-bar in each Diebold EVM so you could get drunk while playing games.
I mean VOTING! Sorry!
It would be cool if they ACTUALLY PUT a mini-bar in each Diebold EVM so you could get drunk while playing games.
If you're good, headhunters will bob your knob to get you contracted. If you're going to go with headhunters, play them off each other. Apply for multiple jobs with different headhunters, and then tell the good things one headhunter offers to the others, so they have to sweeten their deal for you. They generally make about twice what you make for the first 6-9 months or what have you. After that, the company will keep you on at the same rate, while paying out half as much. In high demand areas, they sometimes make over what you were making. I have heard cases where they contracted DBAs for 65 an hour and were getting paid 150 per hour by the client firm. Make sure you know this going in and don't be afraid to give them shit and bargain. It's like buying a car.
I, for one, am a little pissed at the article title. This is a gratutitous use of the question mark. The article clearly states that the problem is the _television_. Why the FUCK would you make the article title, "Blame Gaming - Is the Blinking PS3 Sony's Fault?". This is INCORRECT. A correct title would be "Blinking PS3 HDMI Problem Caused by Television". What the fuck is this? Fox News? Jesus fucking christ. Go back to school asshole.
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Sorry in advance:
Her family is probably pretty "Pissed". This contest really went down the "Toilet". I can't believe how it's been "Sprayed" all over the news. Talk about a "Drinking Problem". As said to the second place contestant: "Urine" luck! I guess she didn't really get a fair "Shake".
Yeah, wouldn't this be solid energy? And would the photon be a particle or a wave in this case?
What's next:
How do these terrorists communicate with each other? With SPEECH? OH FUCK! LET'S SHUT DOWN ALL THE SCHOOLS! LEARNING TO TALK MIGHT HELP THE TERRORISTS!
or
How do these terrorists get to their targets? By *WALKING*?!!?! Headline: Teaching children to walk may have terror implications.
The media should be PROSECUTED for even speculating on crap like this. Everyone is so stupid and ignorant that they can just pull up any thing unfamiliar and scary sounding and link it to terrorism. OH MY GOD, INCREDIBLY USEFUL TOOLS BENEFIT TERRORISTS TOO! Retards. CAMP STOVE FUEL "WHITE GAS" CAN MAKE A POWERFUL BOMB! *Camp stoves banned*
If I didn't love freedom of speech so much I'd say to take away their rights thereof. Instead we need to fight back with the correct information, because the public needs to know. But every time I do, I get put down, like Fox News knows more than I do. I try to explain that my IQ is higher than the ENTIRE Fox News ANCHOR TEAM *MULTIPLIED* TOGETHER, but they say, "Why aren't you on TV." *sigh* Which is why I'm filing a patent for a discreet, handheld device that can be used to sterlize and render barren any person in 10 seconds or less without their knowledge. Simply wave the device near their gonads and *click* press the red "Easy" button. In seconds you've assured a better future for the world.
Yeah, but think about the shareholders. $50M really isn't all that much stacked up against a Bill Gates, or any billionaire. CEOs aren't always shareholders, they are just elected management, elected by the shareholders (or appointed by the board) to run the company and make as much money as possible. Sort of like how a mafia don hires a hitman to kill someone who talks too much, the board hires a CEO to do their dirty work. And they collect most of the money. A smart CEO knows when he's needed and negotiates a good bonus. You can be a CEO too, just start your own business!
Shareholders are the real evil. They already have all the money, therefore they get the majority of profits made from the investment of it. Taxes are bad also, since they take money from everyone and spend it really inefficiently (but probably "fairly", politically, anyway)...
Anyway, it's just business, if you think you deserve that kind of money too, put yourself out on the market, suck a lot of dicks, screw over a lot of co-workers and some day you'll be at the top too. Or you can just start your own company.
And of course, people leave out un"PC" realities of socioeconomics that are harsh but TRUE. NOT EVERYONE IS SMART. Now, the trick is not making generalizations like, "My garbageman is only a garbageman because he's uneducated with an IQ of 80 and can't find another job." That would be false. However, it's tough to miss the fact that economic growth in this country is not coming from skilled jobs being added to the economy. The majority of jobs are added in hospitality/healthcare/retail and entertainment. That means that Bushes' "Great" employment numbers are really consisting of people working menial mindless drone work. There is no such thing as "productivity" in these fields because nothing is being produced. Everything we consume is made in China or Mexico now. As a country we don't DO anything. All we do is spend money, manage spending money, come up with new ways to generate money out of thin air, and of course eat and drink. Everyone in this country is on drugs, from the poor bums drinking their wine and shooting smack to the rich housewife's Xanax and Valium.
You said:
The poor person in this case is obviously not working as hard. He obviously didn't work as hard at school, nor has he worked hard enough to acquire the extra education needed to get a better job. He has not worked hard enough to learn how to make more money. He has not learnt the most productive ways in which to direct his hard work.
You contradict yourself on the last 3 lines. It's not that he's not working HARD enough, it's that he's not working SMART enough. And, because of differences in every human, some people are dumber than others, so they may NEVER work SMART enough to compete with someone with more intelligence. In general, anyway.
The thing we Americans are so arrogant about is that hilbilly barely graduated from middle school nascar watching bible thumping HICKS think they are smarter than all Chinese people, all Iraqis, all of everyone pretty much. Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason. And this arogance breeds new arrogance in their spawn, and it's spreading. The idiots are taking over, and they are going to destroy this country if the upper classes let them. But they won't. Instead, they'll be enslaved. And while the government continues to appear to be stupid, the people who really run things behind the scenes bring us all that much closer to doom. Sooner or later, the population will be large enough that no matter how rich you are you'll have a neighbor. And at that point they'll start killing people.
Ok, so maybe this is all a bit extreme, but acceptance will breed it. I don't think anyone on Slashdot really has to worry about it, because most people here are above-average intelligence. But there's going to be a great war or something soon, there has to be. It may not involve the U.S. but it will have world changing consequences.
Yeah, and the thing that's killing the American Dream IS the inequality. We can't all be rich, but we can NEVER be as rich as the top 100 people, unless lightning strikes a few dozen times. It's the increasing difficulty people have believing the false-class consciousness trip we've been fed our entire lives. Americans believe we always deserve more, but there just ISN'T ANY MORE. There's too many people in the world, we already have WAY more than them and most of what we spend money on is WASTED. But still, there's always more. A faster car, a bigger house. But the whole time, the owners of the companies that make these things are getting your money (and of course, you borrow more to get more stuff, thus diluting your wages even more). A lot of the current economic craziness is being created by the younger generation of people who didn't experience the depression or WWII (or WWI). We have no IDEA what bad is. I think a wise man put it best when he said, "In your life you'll be surprised just how far down rock bottom really is."