A. A movie can be subjectively good or bad. True. But at the same time, anyone who calls The Care Bear Movie a deep work of art or science is a fucking moron. Same with the Matrix.
B. This guy seems to think that the Matrix is some well thought out movie that can be explained by science. It's not. It's Hollywood schlock. That's it. Put sunglasses on a pile of shit, and all you have is a pile of shit with sunglasses. It still stinks.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go write a paper discussion the socio-economic ramifications on the current geopolitical climate created by the most recent Power Rangers movie.
This is the same thing as blueprints of Star Trek ships. Some King of the Geeks with entirely too much time on his hands makes up a bunch of shit to back up the movie. Note to geeks: it's a fucking movie. It's a Hollywood movie, no less. It's a fucking Hollywood Keaneau Reeves movie!! Get a fucking grip. There is no Matrix. There is no USS Enterprise. Grow the fuck up. Or, even better, if this guys really can't tell the difference between reality and a movie, he needs to be institutionalized and receive serious medical attention.
And although the naysayers might argue, the Matrix is to me, and many of my friends/family/colleauges, as Star Wars was to the generation two decades ago.
If that's true, I pray for your soul. To compare the two movie series is blaphemous.
You're obviously too young... if you were at least, say, 30, then you'd know that Superman can do this all by himself. No need for nukes. Jeez, kids these days...
I find it hard to believe that this is how adults react in such a situation?
No, this is how zealots react. This kind of silly, childish bullshit is exactly why people have such a hard time even considering Open Source anything.
Actually, there are gay superheroes already. Like Ben Affleck as Daredevil, for example! I don't believe that J-Lo thing for a second. It just screams "publicity stunt".
What do you think that'd be like? The X-Men vs. a bunch of Japanese lawyers with legal pads, and really big pens? Would the Sony guys hurl affidavits and contracts? Could you stop them with some well-placed sushi? Would the have cell-phones with massive amounts of radiation?
Even better. In the next issues, it comes out that Spiderman is a pedophile!! Sony would drop that faster than a hot potato. Then Stan Lee spins the plot (after Sony went away) so that it was all some evil plot to frame Spiderman. Everything's right in the world again.
... when Spiderman wasn't a corporate trademark to be argued over, but just a cool comic book that I'd pick up and read. So nice to have the corporate legal eagles shit all over it.
Hmmm. That's funny considering I tried installing W2k on a P233 with 256MB RAM along with Office a while ago and it choked badly. Yeah, you could install a linux distro on it, but then you would be without good plug and play support, could not run M$ Office or Photoshop and Java support would be spotty. I surplused the system and decided that $650 for the iMac was a pretty good deal.
You just specced out my old web server that was doing about 500K hits a day, with SQL Server and a web server for several years. I'm not sure what you did, but I was running that config for about 2 years....
Yeah, but can a 486 with 32 MB of RAM run in addition to the webserver, M$ Office, run a email server, do light Photoshop work, browse web pages and run Java apps for image capture on a modern OS with a nice GUI all at the same time?
It honestly defies all conventional wisdom that a company set beside a large monopoly can still survive with a profit and imbue such incredible loyalty from its consumer base. If there were a couple of big players and Apple was a niche player in left field it would be different. But still..
Marketing. They're preceived as not a perfect substitute for W2K/XP. In reality, computers are essentially commoditized, but Apple positions themselves as a premium product. Did you know that you can buy a plain, white t-shirt with a Tommy Hilfiger label inside the collar and pay several times more than you would for an identical t-shirt without that label? Same thing. Marketing.
Well, the problem is that while sales are up, profits are lower. Granted profits weren't strong last year either, but this means that either they had some very large one-time charges/readjustments, or their costs are going up for some reason. I'd want to read the entire 10Q to know where their money is going.
For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $14 million, or $.04 per diluted share.These results compare to a net profit of $40 million, or $.11 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenues for the quarter were $1.475 billion
Those are not good numbers. That's a net of less than 1%. I'm not saying they're dying, but those are not good numbers. Are you willing to buy a piece of a company with numbers like this?
Almost there... we already have CGI porn, and we already have real-time porn... and let me tell ya', I've got 100 people hard at work on real-time CGI porn!
I agree 100%. Sun's problem is that they're trying to be everything to everybody. Im-fucking-possible. Even MS knows that they're not on the top end boxes. They keep trying, but they don't make a lot of headway. MS's business is the desktop and low-mid range servers. Sun's business is very high end servers. Apple's business is very high end desktops. No business on the planet caters to everybody. Not a single one. Sun should quit worrying about MS on the desktop and focus on what they're good at.
made the mistake of buying a monitor (KDS) from a major nationwide retailer (Wal-Mart) only to have it crap out on me 7 months later, one month after the warranty expired.
Well for christs, sake, you're shopping at Wal-Mart. You get what you pay for. And by the way, Wal-Mart isn't just a nationwide retailer. They're a multinational corporation that rides roughshod over all local businesses and governments. So yes, your first mistake was patronizing a Wal-Mart.
So I pose the real question, why do we follow along, when it is clear that the solution is not Microsoft?
Simple. Because most MS products offer the best value. There's value in spending $150 to not have to worry about how to grep or what a apt-get is, or where you're going to find video drivers, etc. It's value. It's good enough for most people, and it's definitely the best value. That's like me asking "Why does everybody not drive a Mercedes E class? They're the best cars in the world?" Very few people have unlimited resources whether it be time or money. Most cars are not as nice as a Benz, but they're good enough, and they're a good value. Very few people *need* a Mercedes, just like very few people *need* to run only OSS software.
Well, when I'm forty, I plan to be retired. You won't have the cash to do that when you're forty. But, hey, that's good that you have your life all planned out. I hope that it doesn't end up as dull as it sounds like it is.
Contract programmers get a considerably better rate and overtime pay... They also are a bit more secure as they have a signed contract for X hours, which is legally actionable if not met...
boohoo, they don't get other benefits, but that's just the tradeoff..
Exactly. I agreee 100%. I was a contractor for 6 years, and I was a "perm" employee for about 6 months of that time. First off, virtually anybody who is "perm" these days doesn't know what in the hell they're doing. They're trading away a lot of money for a false sense of security. Secondly, contractors DO have it better. More money, shorter hours (or at least being paid for the hours you do work, as opposed to perm people who can work 80 hours a week and get $0 extra), no (or fewer) meetings (these people are complaining about not going to meetings? are they out of their fucking minds???), much less beauracratic crap. You do your job, you go home. That's it. I don't know what these people are whining about. I really don't.
I haven't touched.Net. It sounds like too much of a damn headache, and I have yet to have a performance problem with straight ASP.
COM+ASP is great for plugging in black box pieces of code, and just using the API. They'er easy as shit, but you gotta make sure that they're optimized (mainly threaded) for that kind of use. An out-of-process executable + web server = bad.
I've found that on heavy volume sites (250K+ pageviews a day), or sites with a large database in the back end (1+terrabye) that the most efficient way of solving most problems is in the database. Scripting is nice, but if you're dealign with massive amounts of data, you're gonna run outta ram real fast, and on a webserver, that's bad. COM objects are cute, but in real life, with real loads, they generally don't cut it. They're great for customized stuff, but not for something that's hit real heavily. But databases, REAL databases (ie: Oracle, SQL Server) are designed for fast number crunching. I build as much as I can into stored procs, and that tends to work out the best. Just handle your DB connections carefully, and a properly written stored proc is gonna be faster than, well, anything out there.
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A. A movie can be subjectively good or bad. True. But at the same time, anyone who calls The Care Bear Movie a deep work of art or science is a fucking moron. Same with the Matrix.
B. This guy seems to think that the Matrix is some well thought out movie that can be explained by science. It's not. It's Hollywood schlock. That's it. Put sunglasses on a pile of shit, and all you have is a pile of shit with sunglasses. It still stinks.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go write a paper discussion the socio-economic ramifications on the current geopolitical climate created by the most recent Power Rangers movie.
This is the same thing as blueprints of Star Trek ships. Some King of the Geeks with entirely too much time on his hands makes up a bunch of shit to back up the movie. Note to geeks: it's a fucking movie. It's a Hollywood movie, no less. It's a fucking Hollywood Keaneau Reeves movie!! Get a fucking grip. There is no Matrix. There is no USS Enterprise. Grow the fuck up. Or, even better, if this guys really can't tell the difference between reality and a movie, he needs to be institutionalized and receive serious medical attention.
And although the naysayers might argue, the Matrix is to me, and many of my friends/family/colleauges, as Star Wars was to the generation two decades ago.
If that's true, I pray for your soul. To compare the two movie series is blaphemous.
You're obviously too young... if you were at least, say, 30, then you'd know that Superman can do this all by himself. No need for nukes. Jeez, kids these days...
I find it hard to take admonition on maturity from someone advertising "Nakkid Nerds" in their signature...
Hey, easy now. All of the Nakkid Nerds are grown-ups, and the site's only for grown-ups. It's very "mature".
I find it hard to believe that this is how adults react in such a situation?
No, this is how zealots react. This kind of silly, childish bullshit is exactly why people have such a hard time even considering Open Source anything.
That would be Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, without a doubt.
Actually, there are gay superheroes already. Like Ben Affleck as Daredevil, for example! I don't believe that J-Lo thing for a second. It just screams "publicity stunt".
I'd like to see the game Marvel versus Sony.
What do you think that'd be like? The X-Men vs. a bunch of Japanese lawyers with legal pads, and really big pens? Would the Sony guys hurl affidavits and contracts? Could you stop them with some well-placed sushi? Would the have cell-phones with massive amounts of radiation?
Even better. In the next issues, it comes out that Spiderman is a pedophile!! Sony would drop that faster than a hot potato. Then Stan Lee spins the plot (after Sony went away) so that it was all some evil plot to frame Spiderman. Everything's right in the world again.
... when Spiderman wasn't a corporate trademark to be argued over, but just a cool comic book that I'd pick up and read. So nice to have the corporate legal eagles shit all over it.
Hmmm. That's funny considering I tried installing W2k on a P233 with 256MB RAM along with Office a while ago and it choked badly. Yeah, you could install a linux distro on it, but then you would be without good plug and play support, could not run M$ Office or Photoshop and Java support would be spotty. I surplused the system and decided that $650 for the iMac was a pretty good deal.
You just specced out my old web server that was doing about 500K hits a day, with SQL Server and a web server for several years. I'm not sure what you did, but I was running that config for about 2 years....
Yeah, but can a 486 with 32 MB of RAM run in addition to the webserver, M$ Office, run a email server, do light Photoshop work, browse web pages and run Java apps for image capture on a modern OS with a nice GUI all at the same time?
Nope, you'd need a Pentium 90 for that.
No offense dude, but 35K hits can be handled by a 486 with 32 MB RAM... Seriously. That's not much of a comparison.
It honestly defies all conventional wisdom that a company set beside a large monopoly can still survive with a profit and imbue such incredible loyalty from its consumer base. If there were a couple of big players and Apple was a niche player in left field it would be different. But still..
Marketing. They're preceived as not a perfect substitute for W2K/XP. In reality, computers are essentially commoditized, but Apple positions themselves as a premium product. Did you know that you can buy a plain, white t-shirt with a Tommy Hilfiger label inside the collar and pay several times more than you would for an identical t-shirt without that label? Same thing. Marketing.
Well, the problem is that while sales are up, profits are lower. Granted profits weren't strong last year either, but this means that either they had some very large one-time charges/readjustments, or their costs are going up for some reason. I'd want to read the entire 10Q to know where their money is going.
Did you read the article??
For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $14 million, or $.04 per diluted share.These results compare to a net profit of $40 million, or $.11 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Revenues for the quarter were $1.475 billion
Those are not good numbers. That's a net of less than 1%. I'm not saying they're dying, but those are not good numbers. Are you willing to buy a piece of a company with numbers like this?
We have Real-time CGI Porn?
Almost there... we already have CGI porn, and we already have real-time porn... and let me tell ya', I've got 100 people hard at work on real-time CGI porn!
I agree 100%. Sun's problem is that they're trying to be everything to everybody. Im-fucking-possible. Even MS knows that they're not on the top end boxes. They keep trying, but they don't make a lot of headway. MS's business is the desktop and low-mid range servers. Sun's business is very high end servers. Apple's business is very high end desktops. No business on the planet caters to everybody. Not a single one. Sun should quit worrying about MS on the desktop and focus on what they're good at.
made the mistake of buying a monitor (KDS) from a major nationwide retailer (Wal-Mart) only to have it crap out on me 7 months later, one month after the warranty expired.
Well for christs, sake, you're shopping at Wal-Mart. You get what you pay for. And by the way, Wal-Mart isn't just a nationwide retailer. They're a multinational corporation that rides roughshod over all local businesses and governments. So yes, your first mistake was patronizing a Wal-Mart.
A. By defintion, a mirror contains no interpretation. It's just that: a mirror.
B. Google indexes everything. You have to make an effort NOT to be indexed (robots.txt).
C. Again, if you're mirroring, the ads remain... what part of "mirror" is confusing you?
Bandwidth is cheap. At larger volumes, it's down below $0.40/gig. That's cheap.
So I pose the real question, why do we follow along, when it is clear that the solution is not Microsoft?
Simple. Because most MS products offer the best value. There's value in spending $150 to not have to worry about how to grep or what a apt-get is, or where you're going to find video drivers, etc. It's value. It's good enough for most people, and it's definitely the best value. That's like me asking "Why does everybody not drive a Mercedes E class? They're the best cars in the world?" Very few people have unlimited resources whether it be time or money. Most cars are not as nice as a Benz, but they're good enough, and they're a good value. Very few people *need* a Mercedes, just like very few people *need* to run only OSS software.
Well, when I'm forty, I plan to be retired. You won't have the cash to do that when you're forty. But, hey, that's good that you have your life all planned out. I hope that it doesn't end up as dull as it sounds like it is.
Contract programmers get a considerably better rate and overtime pay... They also are a bit more secure as they have a signed contract for X hours, which is legally actionable if not met...
boohoo, they don't get other benefits, but that's just the tradeoff..
Exactly. I agreee 100%. I was a contractor for 6 years, and I was a "perm" employee for about 6 months of that time. First off, virtually anybody who is "perm" these days doesn't know what in the hell they're doing. They're trading away a lot of money for a false sense of security. Secondly, contractors DO have it better. More money, shorter hours (or at least being paid for the hours you do work, as opposed to perm people who can work 80 hours a week and get $0 extra), no (or fewer) meetings (these people are complaining about not going to meetings? are they out of their fucking minds???), much less beauracratic crap. You do your job, you go home. That's it. I don't know what these people are whining about. I really don't.
I haven't touched .Net. It sounds like too much of a damn headache, and I have yet to have a performance problem with straight ASP.
COM+ASP is great for plugging in black box pieces of code, and just using the API. They'er easy as shit, but you gotta make sure that they're optimized (mainly threaded) for that kind of use. An out-of-process executable + web server = bad.
I've found that on heavy volume sites (250K+ pageviews a day), or sites with a large database in the back end (1+terrabye) that the most efficient way of solving most problems is in the database. Scripting is nice, but if you're dealign with massive amounts of data, you're gonna run outta ram real fast, and on a webserver, that's bad. COM objects are cute, but in real life, with real loads, they generally don't cut it. They're great for customized stuff, but not for something that's hit real heavily. But databases, REAL databases (ie: Oracle, SQL Server) are designed for fast number crunching. I build as much as I can into stored procs, and that tends to work out the best. Just handle your DB connections carefully, and a properly written stored proc is gonna be faster than, well, anything out there.