The experts knew the bubble was going to burst, the problem was the short term risk of not participating in the bubble was too high.
Yeesh, I'm not sure that makes me feel any better about the lack of superstition and voodoo in the financial markets...
I suppose you look at things differently when you aren't gambling with your own money.
A Novell shop is not only wedded to NetWare, but has made a huge time investment setting up, testing and perfecting the associated infrastructure.
It only takes a day to set up a new server running whatever OS and copy the files over, but now you've got to reproduce the equivilent of your NDS (or whatever they call it now) database, your login scripts, your ZEN install packages etc. etc. That infrastructure has grown up over years, maybe even decades.
%DEITY% help you, there might even be GroupWise in the mix.
I once worked in a shop where the mainframe's waste heat was captured to help heat the building.
When they upgraded the mainframe (double the MIPS, half the size, 1/4 the watts) the mainframe didn't throwing enough heat to do any good.
I haven't worked there for ages, I'm guessing they've got rows of Intel boxes beside the mainframe these days and probably recycle as much heat as the bad old serial terminal days.
I would think that if an ADD afflicted society were truly the case, then baseball would be less watched than hockey, not the other way around. Americans like baseball because they grew up with it.
You'd need a padlock to make an Englishman watch an entire baseball game, ditto for an American trying to watch cricket.
The NHL is on life support. Good. They can fold all those stupid franchises in the southern US, halve the salaries, and bring the teams back to Canada.
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You don't think jwz was advocating for Windows, do you?
http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html
And how long do you think jwz has been using *nix?
How much did the dispassionate professionals at Fidelity lose to the dot bomb?
There's a lot of superstition and voodoo in the financial market.
There's lots of sustainable forestry being done in the world, just as there's lots of unsustainable vegetable farming being done.
I have 1 PC for myself and one for the missus.
Which one should get the modem and have the email client installed on it?
So I built a server and installed IMAP. Now either PC can read/send email, and in my case, whatever OS I've booted today can read/send email.
It's also a file server and does nightly backups, but IMAP is probably the killer app for me.
Defacing a webpage is funny. Risking some unknown family's lives over a prank is just idiotic.
No. Using a 911 dispatch system that can so easily be manipulated by outsiders is what is idiotic.
I'm pretty sure they're both idiotic.A Novell shop is not only wedded to NetWare, but has made a huge time investment setting up, testing and perfecting the associated infrastructure.
It only takes a day to set up a new server running whatever OS and copy the files over, but now you've got to reproduce the equivilent of your NDS (or whatever they call it now) database, your login scripts, your ZEN install packages etc. etc. That infrastructure has grown up over years, maybe even decades.
%DEITY% help you, there might even be GroupWise in the mix.
Residency hard?
http://www.wesnoth.org/
If IT doesn't want to support your pet technology, calling it a "paradigm shift" isn't going to change any minds.
You're probably right, but how is the interviewer supposed to know if you're a smart guy with poor interview skills or just plain dumb?
And don't get me started on Garfield.
Relax, they still sell mechanical hard drives.
You can probably get a keyboard/mouse for a console, but they'd be annoying to use while sitting on the couch in front of the TV.
I can probably get an xbox style controller for my PC, but the games are all written with keyboard/mouse assumptions, so there's not much point.
There are genres of PC games that don't exist on consoles.
I don't think we'll see Civ 5 on xbox, or NWN 3 on playstation.
Fung-fu games need controllers, strategy games need mouse+keyboard, c'est la vie.
I personally prefer mouse+keyboard FPSs instead of a controller, but I know many people disagree.
Well, Sin City did well enough to get 300 produced, which also must have made a ton of cash.
Maybe there's enough money floating around to tempt someone into doing a Frank Miller style Batman movie... drool...
I once worked in a shop where the mainframe's waste heat was captured to help heat the building.
When they upgraded the mainframe (double the MIPS, half the size, 1/4 the watts) the mainframe didn't throwing enough heat to do any good.
I haven't worked there for ages, I'm guessing they've got rows of Intel boxes beside the mainframe these days and probably recycle as much heat as the bad old serial terminal days.
You'd need a padlock to make an Englishman watch an entire baseball game, ditto for an American trying to watch cricket.
Game 3 equals NBC's lowest rating ever for prime-time program
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs2007/news/s
The NHL is on life support. Good. They can fold all those stupid franchises in the southern US, halve the salaries, and bring the teams back to Canada.
Us new-worlders get the impression that British TV is awesome because only the best stuff gets exported.
There's a lot of forgettable crap TV in the UK, which (thankfully) never crosses the Atlantic.
I watch lots of great North American TV, i.e. I cherry-pick the top 5% of PBS, Discovery, History Channel, etc.
Well, IBM has rarely been accused of running a charity :)
> IBM will support old hardware, they'll just charge you a fortune
> for the privilege.
I believe I said that.
> Move to commodity PCs, increase redundancy, profit!
Sometimes reliablility is worth a few bucks.