It's simple... back in "the day" a single model computer would be bought by millions of people. Thus, there were millions using the EXACT same hardware. These days, with computers as commoditized as they are, I'd be surprised to know that 1000 people somewhere were using the exact same PC hardware.
Cordless phones have been around plenty long enough to make 'em decent (20 years?). I paid $100 for a 900 mhz cordless about 6 months ago under the false assumption that these fucking things actually worked by now. Hell, and I got one a month before that with a whopping 10 foot range, with sound quality that's worse than AM radio. Whatever the reason is, cordless technology telephone is absolutely terrible. If I didn't *have* to have one, I wouldn't.
I've got a Samsung that I got with Sprint PCS Service. I can literally use it (not constantly, of course) for 3-4 days until the battery is tapped. The model is... (taking off battery to check)... Samsung SCH-8500. And the Samsung that I had before this one was the same. It even worked after it fell off the roof of my car at about 50 MPH. The display was mostly broken, but it still worked for several weeks until I could replace it.
I agree, except for cordless telephones. For some reason, my cell phone works virtually anywhere in the world, for days on a charge, and is usually crystal clear. For the same price, my cordless phone works only up to about 20 feet away from the base, can keep a charge for no more than 1 hour off of the base, and sounds like shit. Cordless phone technology is perhaps the worst technology of our time.
.DLL's are what makes the Windows platform so easy to code for. What's happening with ".dll hell" is bad installers made by 3rd party apps that fuck things up. In Installshield, it's a single radiobox for "Automatically overwrite files without asking" vs. "Only overwrite older versions of files". The.dll is what makes apps so easy to write in Windows. Need access to the FS? It's there. Need to use IE? It's there. Need to access kernel functions? It's there. It's all there in.dll's already. MS should NOT change their system because of some shitty thrid party vendors. What they should do is have "approved" third party programs, which are ones that DO install correctly.
If reliability is what you're looking for, I'd stay away, far, far away from WD. I don't know about you, but the *only* drives I buy now are Maxtor/Quantum (same company now). They're the only ones left that know what "reliability" means. I miss Connor... [wipe tear]
Well, the article was about hosting, so users on cable modems are irrlevant. They by and large have their bandwidth capped already. But fine, forget an OC12, let's say a T1. A decent sized website or other kind of box attached to the Net can saturate a T1. Once it's saturated, where does the bandwidth come from? The ISP has got to buy more from their provider, and their provider needs to buy more from there, etc. It's definitely not infinite. Hell, the actual wires can only deliver so much traffic. So it should definitely be priced per gig of traffic, in either direction. Or flat up to x amount of transfer, then $x for each gig above that, which is already pretty much the standard.
Sure it can. ISP's have to buy pipes, and those pipes aren't unlimited in speed. If they have to buy a new OC12 for a big customer, then that customer should definitely have to pay more than a home user downloading MP3's.
That's the way most plans work now with servers, which I assumed is what we're talking about. I have up to xxxx gig of transfer a month, plus $x per gig I go over in transfer. That's pretty much already the industry standard.
Hey, I don't care. Go ahead and think you're "secure" with a "permanent" job. Make sure to buy lots of big stuff like a nice house and car, because after all, a "permenent" job is "secure". hehehe You're a hoot.
Look, the Mustang is a piece of shit. Both objectively and subjectively. Just because YOU don't agree, doesn't change the fact that the car is an embarassment to the already sad US auto industry and has been for years. I'm not sure what "SR" is, but I suggested Consumer Reports which takes surveys from thousands of different people from all parts of the country. They consistently rate US cars lower and foriegn ones higher because generally, foreign cars are more reliable, more comfortable, more aesthetically pleasing, better engineered, and more user friendly. In case you haven't noticed, they don't have a whole lot of subjective ratings (My 'Tang is SWEET!), but they do have a lot of objective ratings (reliability of car's electrical system). So once again, your opinion does not make a car any better than what it is. You're not really understanding this concept, are you?
So then, working 100+ hour weeks for a SALARY would be a good thing? You're out of your fucking mind! Temps have it better because they don't have to deal with beauracracy, and it's hard to get bored in a span of a few months.
Developing neations have never had these restrictions? Where's all of the software innovation coming from India? The simple fact is that there will be no innovation without a reason to profit from it. OSS is a blip on the radar, and nothing else. Markets have never been built on altruism, and never will be.
What needs to happen is for some international court to be created to enforce IP laws. Otherwise, the US creates, patents, and developing nations steal the code, and package it as their own.
Saying the japanese do it better is just a faulty argument
Actually, anecdotal evidence with a sample size of one is a faulty argument. Check a Consumer Reports. The Japanese (and soon, the South Koreans) do do it better.
Unfortunatly, basic economics seldom takes the human factor into account.
Actually, it does. Any human with half a brain isn't shopping from giant multi-national corporate conglomerates like Amazon, which sells your personal info to every marketing agency on the planet and gives your reading list to the Feds.
There *are* considerations other than price. I for one, will not spend my money anywhere. I won't buy from Amazon, I won't buy through EBay, and I won't buy at Petsmart, among others. As with the real world, price is not the sole determining factor when buying something. If everybody thought the same way, the only online retailer would be Amazon, and the only real world retailer would be Wal-Mart. To me, that sounds like a fucking nightmare.
Is it just me, or does IM of an kind seem to be a 13-year-old-girl thing? I couldn't imagine using IM in a company. This just seems completely bizarre.
... or at least upgrade as little as possible. No matter how much planning and testing is done, upgrades can and will screw things up. I'm always reading about , "luckily, you can recompile the new kernel every week or so", or, "a new version is coming out so I have to upgrade" and I'm thinking... yeah, at home, maybe, if you have nothing better to do. But this is an extreme example of why companies that are worth their salt don't upgrade at the drop of a hat.
Well, I don't think that it should be "compared" to anything. I use W2K, and like the parent post, I have no idea what the GUI of XP is like. But that being said, there's nothing wrong with W2K, so it's pretty irrelevant to me anyway. I'm not switching.
Said Schwartz, I don't think businesses are really prepared to trust their mission critical systems to technologies where, if something goes wrong with the open source, nobody is responsible for fixing it and doing all the testing on a timely basis. With Sun, you've got a single throat to choke and we can respond instantly.
This is exactly right. And this is why Dell is very wrong. Them saying Unix is dead is like me saying "Ford is dead" because I personally don't own a Ford. What one company uses is irrelevant. Unix is going to be around for a very long time. Companies don't change platforms willy-nilly, and those that do usually aren't around for very long.
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It's simple... back in "the day" a single model computer would be bought by millions of people. Thus, there were millions using the EXACT same hardware. These days, with computers as commoditized as they are, I'd be surprised to know that 1000 people somewhere were using the exact same PC hardware.
Cordless phones have been around plenty long enough to make 'em decent (20 years?). I paid $100 for a 900 mhz cordless about 6 months ago under the false assumption that these fucking things actually worked by now. Hell, and I got one a month before that with a whopping 10 foot range, with sound quality that's worse than AM radio. Whatever the reason is, cordless technology telephone is absolutely terrible. If I didn't *have* to have one, I wouldn't.
I've got a Samsung that I got with Sprint PCS Service. I can literally use it (not constantly, of course) for 3-4 days until the battery is tapped. The model is... (taking off battery to check)... Samsung SCH-8500. And the Samsung that I had before this one was the same. It even worked after it fell off the roof of my car at about 50 MPH. The display was mostly broken, but it still worked for several weeks until I could replace it.
BTW, I waw a good deal on pricewatch, 200gig 7200RPM 8M WD's for 240 at newegg.
Nice, and I'm in the market for a new drive, but I only buy locally.
I agree, except for cordless telephones. For some reason, my cell phone works virtually anywhere in the world, for days on a charge, and is usually crystal clear. For the same price, my cordless phone works only up to about 20 feet away from the base, can keep a charge for no more than 1 hour off of the base, and sounds like shit. Cordless phone technology is perhaps the worst technology of our time.
.DLL's are what makes the Windows platform so easy to code for. What's happening with ".dll hell" is bad installers made by 3rd party apps that fuck things up. In Installshield, it's a single radiobox for "Automatically overwrite files without asking" vs. "Only overwrite older versions of files". The .dll is what makes apps so easy to write in Windows. Need access to the FS? It's there. Need to use IE? It's there. Need to access kernel functions? It's there. It's all there in .dll's already. MS should NOT change their system because of some shitty thrid party vendors. What they should do is have "approved" third party programs, which are ones that DO install correctly.
If reliability is what you're looking for, I'd stay away, far, far away from WD. I don't know about you, but the *only* drives I buy now are Maxtor/Quantum (same company now). They're the only ones left that know what "reliability" means. I miss Connor... [wipe tear]
Well, the article was about hosting, so users on cable modems are irrlevant. They by and large have their bandwidth capped already. But fine, forget an OC12, let's say a T1. A decent sized website or other kind of box attached to the Net can saturate a T1. Once it's saturated, where does the bandwidth come from? The ISP has got to buy more from their provider, and their provider needs to buy more from there, etc. It's definitely not infinite. Hell, the actual wires can only deliver so much traffic. So it should definitely be priced per gig of traffic, in either direction. Or flat up to x amount of transfer, then $x for each gig above that, which is already pretty much the standard.
Absolutely. There's a ton of hardware out there that throttles bandwidth, and can keep track of bursts.
It can't run out.
Sure it can. ISP's have to buy pipes, and those pipes aren't unlimited in speed. If they have to buy a new OC12 for a big customer, then that customer should definitely have to pay more than a home user downloading MP3's.
That's the way most plans work now with servers, which I assumed is what we're talking about. I have up to xxxx gig of transfer a month, plus $x per gig I go over in transfer. That's pretty much already the industry standard.
No only do you stop getting ads that even the most brain dead ad-blocker could have gotten rid of for free,
Actually, adding the domain of the ad server pointing to 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file is easier... nothing to install!
Hey, I don't care. Go ahead and think you're "secure" with a "permanent" job. Make sure to buy lots of big stuff like a nice house and car, because after all, a "permenent" job is "secure". hehehe You're a hoot.
At least hired on for salary you have job security.
+1 Funny!
The only security these days is money in the bank. Anything else and you're just kidding yourself.
Look, the Mustang is a piece of shit. Both objectively and subjectively. Just because YOU don't agree, doesn't change the fact that the car is an embarassment to the already sad US auto industry and has been for years. I'm not sure what "SR" is, but I suggested Consumer Reports which takes surveys from thousands of different people from all parts of the country. They consistently rate US cars lower and foriegn ones higher because generally, foreign cars are more reliable, more comfortable, more aesthetically pleasing, better engineered, and more user friendly. In case you haven't noticed, they don't have a whole lot of subjective ratings (My 'Tang is SWEET!), but they do have a lot of objective ratings (reliability of car's electrical system). So once again, your opinion does not make a car any better than what it is. You're not really understanding this concept, are you?
So then, working 100+ hour weeks for a SALARY would be a good thing? You're out of your fucking mind! Temps have it better because they don't have to deal with beauracracy, and it's hard to get bored in a span of a few months.
Developing neations have never had these restrictions? Where's all of the software innovation coming from India? The simple fact is that there will be no innovation without a reason to profit from it. OSS is a blip on the radar, and nothing else. Markets have never been built on altruism, and never will be.
What needs to happen is for some international court to be created to enforce IP laws. Otherwise, the US creates, patents, and developing nations steal the code, and package it as their own.
Saying the japanese do it better is just a faulty argument
Actually, anecdotal evidence with a sample size of one is a faulty argument. Check a Consumer Reports. The Japanese (and soon, the South Koreans) do do it better.
Unfortunatly, basic economics seldom takes the human factor into account.
Actually, it does. Any human with half a brain isn't shopping from giant multi-national corporate conglomerates like Amazon, which sells your personal info to every marketing agency on the planet and gives your reading list to the Feds.
There *are* considerations other than price. I for one, will not spend my money anywhere. I won't buy from Amazon, I won't buy through EBay, and I won't buy at Petsmart, among others. As with the real world, price is not the sole determining factor when buying something. If everybody thought the same way, the only online retailer would be Amazon, and the only real world retailer would be Wal-Mart. To me, that sounds like a fucking nightmare.
It sounds like we were on the same forum ;)
Is it just me, or does IM of an kind seem to be a 13-year-old-girl thing? I couldn't imagine using IM in a company. This just seems completely bizarre.
... or at least upgrade as little as possible. No matter how much planning and testing is done, upgrades can and will screw things up. I'm always reading about , "luckily, you can recompile the new kernel every week or so", or, "a new version is coming out so I have to upgrade" and I'm thinking... yeah, at home, maybe, if you have nothing better to do. But this is an extreme example of why companies that are worth their salt don't upgrade at the drop of a hat.
Well, I don't think that it should be "compared" to anything. I use W2K, and like the parent post, I have no idea what the GUI of XP is like. But that being said, there's nothing wrong with W2K, so it's pretty irrelevant to me anyway. I'm not switching.
Said Schwartz, I don't think businesses are really prepared to trust their mission critical systems to technologies where, if something goes wrong with the open source, nobody is responsible for fixing it and doing all the testing on a timely basis. With Sun, you've got a single throat to choke and we can respond instantly.
This is exactly right. And this is why Dell is very wrong. Them saying Unix is dead is like me saying "Ford is dead" because I personally don't own a Ford. What one company uses is irrelevant. Unix is going to be around for a very long time. Companies don't change platforms willy-nilly, and those that do usually aren't around for very long.