That's the problem there buddy. We shouldn't be supporting lying companies selling sub par products.
Often time the retailers pay for this more than anyone else. Bad business is bad for everyone and its not up to consumers to support BAD BUSINESS nor should we feel like we have.
I remember reading about Apollo astronauts being amazed at how much they shook/vibrated - so much that they joked about not being able to make out controls (no one complained though for fear of loosing the missions)
Its not just the vibrations of the propellant exploding under their pants but the gimble of the engines to keep its trajectory that causes oscillations in the craft.. all being better absorbed by this awesome contraption.
Duh.. that's why i put it in quotes. "Free market" as in creating a "Free market" a-la ebay where they selling price is the price the community is willing to pay.
Sadly google bumps the minimum selling price higher than the final value fee so in essence i'd rather have a real "free market" system than googles massaged fixed price quasi market demand system.
With googles increased control of such "Free market" becomes an even strong reason to get them to open up. The potential for control they exert seems much more dangerous than web browser or media player wars of the past.
Sadly I wished Google/Yahoo/MSN was entirely "free market" - but it isn't. Google being the worse in how they manipulate it with Yahoo chasing up to emulate every move. With MSN its fairly easy to see the data and see the expense but still stuck with minimum bids that ultimately take away from potential sales & traffic.
I contract for a defense and manufacturing company and previously they to were gung-ho about virtualization but virtualization was sold as a magic bullet that it is not and we're scaling it back after real-world experience.
It works for many things that are relatively low impact/low risk but if you try and virtualize a core business application - even something as simple as portal/sharepoint/app servers you very quickly realize the limitations & issues thereof.
What used to be a measure of ROI / Cost Benefit is now (rightly so) weighed against the expense of downtime. That "savings" of not having real iron and virtual servers isn't really a savings anymore. Enable APM and save more than virtualizing.
Will linux need to make it "more enterprise ready"?
I think we see this claim to fame almost weekly yet it seems less and less reliance on OS filesystems and more reliance on SAN/Hardware/NAS/NFS storage.
OS filesystem improvements are welcome sight but the headline seems sensational as if all the other filesystems are actually holding adoption back. (which seems absurd)
How about NONE? Wine doesn't have a "logo" nor a certification program. Being 1.0 release as well means it would be premature for a developer to market towards it (thus accepting liability for what could be shortcomings in the WINE system itself)
It wouldn't be much work for such a wealthy organization to use Drupal + Modules or Civic CRM integration and get everything they need.
In fact, the software solution is going to be the easiest piece - its the hosting & infrastructure to connect and manage the scouts & train staff that will be the costly venture.
I loved low grav facing worlds rocket blasting or the huge "kitchen sink" and "bathroom" mods. Further Unreal Championship games turned to serious or to precision/action based and it left the arcadey - shoot up up, die and get back in type action that made it fun.
Mind you every game has its place, but i agree. Doom 3 was a bore because it was work instead of fun. I beat it, i played through it but its still sitting on my shelf to this day never having been installed for even an online match.
Go back to UT, Doom 1 or Doom 2 and i spent a good chunk of my first job paying for expensive network cards, stupid coax terminating ends we kept on losing as we moved pcs around and paying for novel dos so i could run IPX/netware legally and fast.
Between Work, Wife, family, Xbox live, Joost, Gaming, News, Weather, other multi-media and me telecommuting full time i easily plow through 250gb a month.
The Xbox 360 isn't the only personal home device that is locked down. If you wanted to get real "douchebaggery" even cable boxes, STB's, tuners, satellite receivers, PS3s, Wii's, nintentos, PSPs and other devices "SHOULD" work but their respective companies are all full of "douchebaggery"
Not sure why everyone harps on the xbox. Sure, its been a costly project but the potential returns and technology developments are astronomical.
Xbox live is ground breaking and the sooner more of MS can wrap its head around that service and integrate fully it will only get better. Between gaming, friends, chat, news, reviews, demos and the fantastic TV, Movie and Indy content its really something over and beyond what anyone else offers.
Long term.. i think thats 2 words people like you need to remember. MS isn't about short term instant gratification, its thinking long term. Invest a measly few billion today and create a new market worth 100 billion 5 years from now. You would be lying to yourself it you thought otherwise of MS's business philosophy.
I wouldn't want to compete with airspace and or traffic control when these things are up in the air. Its difficult enough to fly vfr and see full size airplanes - try dodging something that isn't meant to be seen or heard? no thanks.
Your analogy assumes that the existing open source code solves the problem and that universities all work on the same static issue - which is far from true.
I for one am glad that multiple universities work on the same problems/research projects in their own unique way Open source isn't an analogy of efficiency in the example you make because those efficiencies are already here - BOINC, Clustering, Linx et all and other types of programs being a showcase example.
Open Source and LGPL libraries are where its at - give you a foundation to save time/money on the mundane and repeatable tasks but allow - such as in your example - universities to do the research as they see fit.
On the inverse side, universities are a poor example of the efficiencies because they often already share the mathematics, theory and processes of their research and the software is merely a framework/testcase to prove it - not necessarily it its best/most reliable/proven way. SOrt of like a test case that works but isn't pretty. Would sharing that make other universities spend less time? not sure since other universities may prove their research in other ways - cheaper/more efficient/more reliable or simply prove things wrong.
Its the competition & differences that make university research strong and forward thinking - not necessarily the foundations that are common between them (which again, for the most part already exist)
I agree. To an extent there is already a vast amount of "base code" out there and the rest is mostly the code that makes the business work - by that i mean applications/systems/environments that are proprietary because they directly support or impact something that gives that business an edge. You know, fulfillment systems for retailers, customized CRM/ERP systems for large companies and scheduling/time/material/billing/MRP systems for others. We could all share a million ways to create a PO but it would be stupid to share what distinguishes your enterprise from your competition.
Actually we use nuclear technology a lot (spent technology) - it just isn't the kind that goes "kaboom" - its more of a face/tank/armor piercing "splat" sometimes followed by a mild boom compared to detonated plutonium munitions.
I'm advising customers against BD players until the newer spec is out. If anything, invest in a PS3 that is fully software/firmware driven vs "hardware" platforms such as standalone players. While some of the features aren't that great, i wouldn't want people to be screwed multiple times in the same format war.
Unfortunately at the same time, I have a fairly large return/RMA of PS3's for people that are heavily watching movies. The units simply stop turning on or won't play disks after a while. Perhaps it was just a sour batch i was allocated as i haven't seen much discussion of this elsewhere bit it is annoying to spend 399 and be out a game system and movie player.
Carl Sagan did some fantastic conceptions of life forms on gaseous giants such as living organisms that float like balloons in the upper atmospheres and feed off the biological matter floating around or like plants consume carbon dioxide and use the limited light of the upper atmosphere to create there own energy.
Fascinating stuff to conceptualize life were we don't think it would exist. After we found it in the deepest/darkest places of our own earth we soon realized its terribly short sighted to limit life to what we see.
funny i got modded redundant when i was the 5th or 6th post but the first to make this statement. Oh well. life on slashdot as usual!
Anyway, my point is that companies like to say there is a shorttage so there is increased supply and when there is increased supply the prices fall because people are apt to compete harder for the job (accept lower salaries, train more or work for less)
Mostly to lower wages, increase profits and cut expenses. If you keep on feeding the myth of a shortage and getting cheap labor influxes its hard to give up on the myth when it can make you so much more money. I mean really, everything labor related is is labor expenses - thats what it boils down to. Its not that there aren't enough people working in the field, its just that the field wants to lower its costs with cheaper labor.
Its the ongoing commoditization of not just the products but the people that maintain them. They've already commoditized the manufacturing and they're desperately trying to do the same to the engineering, infrastructure and support sides.
Put a price on it and compete on price alone. The holy grail of Capitalist pigs the angst of the modern day IT worker.
More the reason to support my argument and then some. We have foreign nations struggling to file suit against MS because of the ties that WMP has into Windows yet your sitting here telling me "QT is more then a media player" that it ties into the subsystem of OSX and once its there, you can't do anything about it except re-install?
Poor design if you ask me and thats a hell of a lot more vendor lockin than what MS does.
I'm not defending MS either, just trying to understand wtf is going on. I was about to give OSX the light of day but it doesn't seem to be any more practical than upgrading to Vista.
The problem isn't all of the pretend stuff you just made but but the people like you who demonize everything they can't comprehend. You don't even know what a liberal, leftist, socialist, democrat, libertarian nor independent means anymore because you have demonized it so much that you hate it and create these aboritions of crap that doesn't happen.
When i went to school, the people you so demonize were the least of the problems. It was all the snobs, stuck up and rich people who felt they deserved to own everything who ruined it for those that may have to struggle and work a little bit more to get where they want to be. It was those students who were borne into a dynasty who mainly go to school as a right of passage to do what their family does best - tear down others that they want to demonize.
I can't believe a school would hire someone with so much hatred as yourself.
Once you install quicktime updates on OSX you can't un-install them without re-installing the OS? WTF is all this hoopla about Windows Containing DRM/WMP11 crap but quicktime being worse? I mean WMP11/Vista DRM doesn't stop you from using Pro tools EVER. WMP11 is about 20 megs of code sitting around that can be replaced with another player.
Being a windows user another thing i can't stand is the stupid Apple Updater. No matter how you tell the program you don't want the f&**(@ installed it tries to update itself any chance it gets even if you just watch a quicktime.
I don't want iTunes, don't want Quicktime, don't want a broken browser and i certainly wouldn't support an OS that meant upgrades to a media player could potentially break your purchased apps functionality with the only recourse being a re-install. Thats so WIN NT 4 which is so TEN YEARS AGO.
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And people just weren't buying them?
So we can buy more shit?
That's the problem there buddy. We shouldn't be supporting lying companies selling sub par products.
Often time the retailers pay for this more than anyone else. Bad business is bad for everyone and its not up to consumers to support BAD BUSINESS nor should we feel like we have.
I remember reading about Apollo astronauts being amazed at how much they shook/vibrated - so much that they joked about not being able to make out controls (no one complained though for fear of loosing the missions)
Its not just the vibrations of the propellant exploding under their pants but the gimble of the engines to keep its trajectory that causes oscillations in the craft.. all being better absorbed by this awesome contraption.
Duh.. that's why i put it in quotes. "Free market" as in creating a "Free market" a-la ebay where they selling price is the price the community is willing to pay.
Sadly google bumps the minimum selling price higher than the final value fee so in essence i'd rather have a real "free market" system than googles massaged fixed price quasi market demand system.
With googles increased control of such "Free market" becomes an even strong reason to get them to open up. The potential for control they exert seems much more dangerous than web browser or media player wars of the past.
Sadly I wished Google/Yahoo/MSN was entirely "free market" - but it isn't. Google being the worse in how they manipulate it with Yahoo chasing up to emulate every move. With MSN its fairly easy to see the data and see the expense but still stuck with minimum bids that ultimately take away from potential sales & traffic.
I contract for a defense and manufacturing company and previously they to were gung-ho about virtualization but virtualization was sold as a magic bullet that it is not and we're scaling it back after real-world experience.
It works for many things that are relatively low impact/low risk but if you try and virtualize a core business application - even something as simple as portal/sharepoint/app servers you very quickly realize the limitations & issues thereof.
What used to be a measure of ROI / Cost Benefit is now (rightly so) weighed against the expense of downtime. That "savings" of not having real iron and virtual servers isn't really a savings anymore. Enable APM and save more than virtualizing.
Sounds like someone who threw money at a problem better handled by conservation.
Believe me, i LOVE solar, but solar works better when it isn't the only solution.
Will linux need to make it "more enterprise ready"?
I think we see this claim to fame almost weekly yet it seems less and less reliance on OS filesystems and more reliance on SAN/Hardware/NAS/NFS storage.
OS filesystem improvements are welcome sight but the headline seems sensational as if all the other filesystems are actually holding adoption back. (which seems absurd)
How about NONE? Wine doesn't have a "logo" nor a certification program. Being 1.0 release as well means it would be premature for a developer to market towards it (thus accepting liability for what could be shortcomings in the WINE system itself)
It wouldn't be much work for such a wealthy organization to use Drupal + Modules or Civic CRM integration and get everything they need.
In fact, the software solution is going to be the easiest piece - its the hosting & infrastructure to connect and manage the scouts & train staff that will be the costly venture.
I loved low grav facing worlds rocket blasting or the huge "kitchen sink" and "bathroom" mods. Further Unreal Championship games turned to serious or to precision/action based and it left the arcadey - shoot up up, die and get back in type action that made it fun.
Mind you every game has its place, but i agree. Doom 3 was a bore because it was work instead of fun. I beat it, i played through it but its still sitting on my shelf to this day never having been installed for even an online match.
Go back to UT, Doom 1 or Doom 2 and i spent a good chunk of my first job paying for expensive network cards, stupid coax terminating ends we kept on losing as we moved pcs around and paying for novel dos so i could run IPX/netware legally and fast.
Between Work, Wife, family, Xbox live, Joost, Gaming, News, Weather, other multi-media and me telecommuting full time i easily plow through 250gb a month.
its not that hard to do.
640k should be enough for everyone
The Xbox 360 isn't the only personal home device that is locked down. If you wanted to get real "douchebaggery" even cable boxes, STB's, tuners, satellite receivers, PS3s, Wii's, nintentos, PSPs and other devices "SHOULD" work but their respective companies are all full of "douchebaggery"
Not sure why everyone harps on the xbox. Sure, its been a costly project but the potential returns and technology developments are astronomical.
Xbox live is ground breaking and the sooner more of MS can wrap its head around that service and integrate fully it will only get better. Between gaming, friends, chat, news, reviews, demos and the fantastic TV, Movie and Indy content its really something over and beyond what anyone else offers.
Long term.. i think thats 2 words people like you need to remember. MS isn't about short term instant gratification, its thinking long term. Invest a measly few billion today and create a new market worth 100 billion 5 years from now. You would be lying to yourself it you thought otherwise of MS's business philosophy.
I wouldn't want to compete with airspace and or traffic control when these things are up in the air. Its difficult enough to fly vfr and see full size airplanes - try dodging something that isn't meant to be seen or heard? no thanks.
Your analogy assumes that the existing open source code solves the problem and that universities all work on the same static issue - which is far from true.
I for one am glad that multiple universities work on the same problems/research projects in their own unique way Open source isn't an analogy of efficiency in the example you make because those efficiencies are already here - BOINC, Clustering, Linx et all and other types of programs being a showcase example.
Open Source and LGPL libraries are where its at - give you a foundation to save time/money on the mundane and repeatable tasks but allow - such as in your example - universities to do the research as they see fit.
On the inverse side, universities are a poor example of the efficiencies because they often already share the mathematics, theory and processes of their research and the software is merely a framework/testcase to prove it - not necessarily it its best/most reliable/proven way. SOrt of like a test case that works but isn't pretty. Would sharing that make other universities spend less time? not sure since other universities may prove their research in other ways - cheaper/more efficient/more reliable or simply prove things wrong.
Its the competition & differences that make university research strong and forward thinking - not necessarily the foundations that are common between them (which again, for the most part already exist)
I agree. To an extent there is already a vast amount of "base code" out there and the rest is mostly the code that makes the business work - by that i mean applications/systems/environments that are proprietary because they directly support or impact something that gives that business an edge. You know, fulfillment systems for retailers, customized CRM/ERP systems for large companies and scheduling/time/material/billing/MRP systems for others. We could all share a million ways to create a PO but it would be stupid to share what distinguishes your enterprise from your competition.
Actually we use nuclear technology a lot (spent technology) - it just isn't the kind that goes "kaboom" - its more of a face/tank/armor piercing "splat" sometimes followed by a mild boom compared to detonated plutonium munitions.
I'm advising customers against BD players until the newer spec is out. If anything, invest in a PS3 that is fully software/firmware driven vs "hardware" platforms such as standalone players. While some of the features aren't that great, i wouldn't want people to be screwed multiple times in the same format war.
Unfortunately at the same time, I have a fairly large return/RMA of PS3's for people that are heavily watching movies. The units simply stop turning on or won't play disks after a while. Perhaps it was just a sour batch i was allocated as i haven't seen much discussion of this elsewhere bit it is annoying to spend 399 and be out a game system and movie player.
Carl Sagan did some fantastic conceptions of life forms on gaseous giants such as living organisms that float like balloons in the upper atmospheres and feed off the biological matter floating around or like plants consume carbon dioxide and use the limited light of the upper atmosphere to create there own energy.
Fascinating stuff to conceptualize life were we don't think it would exist. After we found it in the deepest/darkest places of our own earth we soon realized its terribly short sighted to limit life to what we see.
funny i got modded redundant when i was the 5th or 6th post but the first to make this statement. Oh well. life on slashdot as usual!
Anyway, my point is that companies like to say there is a shorttage so there is increased supply and when there is increased supply the prices fall because people are apt to compete harder for the job (accept lower salaries, train more or work for less)
Mostly to lower wages, increase profits and cut expenses. If you keep on feeding the myth of a shortage and getting cheap labor influxes its hard to give up on the myth when it can make you so much more money. I mean really, everything labor related is is labor expenses - thats what it boils down to. Its not that there aren't enough people working in the field, its just that the field wants to lower its costs with cheaper labor.
Its the ongoing commoditization of not just the products but the people that maintain them. They've already commoditized the manufacturing and they're desperately trying to do the same to the engineering, infrastructure and support sides.
Put a price on it and compete on price alone. The holy grail of Capitalist pigs the angst of the modern day IT worker.
More the reason to support my argument and then some. We have foreign nations struggling to file suit against MS because of the ties that WMP has into Windows yet your sitting here telling me "QT is more then a media player" that it ties into the subsystem of OSX and once its there, you can't do anything about it except re-install?
Poor design if you ask me and thats a hell of a lot more vendor lockin than what MS does.
I'm not defending MS either, just trying to understand wtf is going on. I was about to give OSX the light of day but it doesn't seem to be any more practical than upgrading to Vista.
The problem isn't all of the pretend stuff you just made but but the people like you who demonize everything they can't comprehend. You don't even know what a liberal, leftist, socialist, democrat, libertarian nor independent means anymore because you have demonized it so much that you hate it and create these aboritions of crap that doesn't happen.
When i went to school, the people you so demonize were the least of the problems. It was all the snobs, stuck up and rich people who felt they deserved to own everything who ruined it for those that may have to struggle and work a little bit more to get where they want to be. It was those students who were borne into a dynasty who mainly go to school as a right of passage to do what their family does best - tear down others that they want to demonize.
I can't believe a school would hire someone with so much hatred as yourself.
Once you install quicktime updates on OSX you can't un-install them without re-installing the OS? WTF is all this hoopla about Windows Containing DRM/WMP11 crap but quicktime being worse? I mean WMP11/Vista DRM doesn't stop you from using Pro tools EVER. WMP11 is about 20 megs of code sitting around that can be replaced with another player.
Being a windows user another thing i can't stand is the stupid Apple Updater. No matter how you tell the program you don't want the f&**(@ installed it tries to update itself any chance it gets even if you just watch a quicktime.
I don't want iTunes, don't want Quicktime, don't want a broken browser and i certainly wouldn't support an OS that meant upgrades to a media player could potentially break your purchased apps functionality with the only recourse being a re-install. Thats so WIN NT 4 which is so TEN YEARS AGO.