Let me ask... are you just looking for something to bitch about? I have a feeling that is Bill Gates personally chiseled the standards into gold tablets and delivered them to your front door that you people would bitch about them being too heavy.
This sort of info would be handy to combat the FUD that the PHB's have stuck in their heads.
So, you're assuming that anybody who doesn't want to go OSS "FUD" stuck in their head? I use very little OSS in my business, and I can assure you that "FUD" has nothing to do with it. If anything, I'd like to see an end to the FUD that OSS zealots constantly are trying to stir up. I can't even begin to count the hours that I've wasted because of OSS zealot FUD. Personally, I wouldn't have wasted hours and hours playing with the OSS that I did, just trying to get BASIC functionality, if not for the zealots screaming about how Linux and other popular OSS apps are "easy to use". Please, take your own FUD and shove it up your ass.
One problem, though and I've mentioned this before; there's no open souce alternative to Acrobat Pro. Not even plans for one that I know of. That really sucks; we need Adobe-free computers, what with their exorbitant costs, product activation, and so on.
Why not do what we did: make your office PDF free? I hate PDF's with every fiber of my being. The files are enormous, the readers are bloated (and at 56+ Meg just to open a fucking file, I'd call "bloated" generous), and they're a pain in the ass to alter.
Could somebody please tell me why people use PDF's in the first place?
I feel like if at this stage, enough people said "NO" to PDF's, then it would just die on the vine. Right now, if any of our vendors send a PDF, I bounce it back with a message that we don't use PDF's, and it has yet to be a problem.
If you actually read the report, you'd see that GLIBC was all mucked up because SUSE's YAST was broken. And on top of that, part of the study was to see what the administrators would do. Part of the confusion for the sysadmins was WHERE to get the sources when the standard RPM manager broke. It's not clear where they should have gotten GLIBC, and that was part of the test.
What commercial apps on Linux did he use, exactly? I just looked over the report, and I saw Apache, PHP, GLIBC, and MySQL. I'd argue that comparing MySQL to MS SQL Server is like comparing a bicycle to a BMW, but still, MySQL, PHP, GLIBC, and Apache are probably the best supported Linux-based apps on the planet. Did you even read the report?
The web may be good for end user level apps, but I can tell you that for our critical business apps, there's no way that I'd ever consider web-based apps. Why? 1. Performance 2. Security 3. Reliaiblity.
I can't ever imagine running our cash registers with a web app. I certinaly wouldn't run our financial applications over the web, either.
That's my point. He's not educating geeks. Geeks already know all about RFID, for the most part. Hell, Slashdot posts an RFID story almost daily. The general public, if the mass media were to pick up this little stunt (they haven't), would just regard him as some kind of crackpot. Hell, I'm a geek, and I consider him a crackpot.
The thing is that to regular people who have no idea what RFID is, he comes off as just a nut. A whackjob. He's only pandering to his uber-geek followers with this silly stunt. To anybody else, he's seen as some kind of childish dork. I'd say that his stunt accomplished veyr little outside of hundreds of us on Slashdot who already know him, already know what RFID is, talking about this silly little prank.
5 Years late? What, is AJAX everywhere already? Microsoft is smart because they don't necessarily jump on every stupid bleeding edge technology. In case you don't have a memory, there have been hundreds of Net based technologies that have come and gone... Remember VRML? How about XUL? Write-once-run-everywhere Java? "Push" technologies? The only lemmings who jump on every new buzzword the instant it comes out are Slashdotters, and those fucking leeches that keep coming up with unprofitable web companies yet keep getting millions of dollars to buy fucking Herman Miller chairs where they can sit on their fat asses and come up with new ways to use the buzzwords. A smart businessperson will not be an early adopter. A smart businessperson let's the early adopters blow all of their energy and capital to see if a new technology is going to work, THEN come in and develop it.
If history has shown anything, it's that Bill Gates is one of the best businesspeople in the world right now, and has a better grasp of technology trends than people like you and other armchair CEO's could ever hope to have. Now sit down, shut up, and pay attention to people who know better than you. Maybe you'll learn something.
Well smartass, if you read my post, you'd know that I run a business. I own it. My business isn't IT, but it does run on computers, and I make all IT decisions. And, I happen to be a former geek. So if anything, I'm more qualified to talk about this subject than either a geek OR a businessperson.
If you think that a hard drive (or any number of hard drives) for that matter could contribute to hearing problems, then I'm assuming that you don't leave your house? Hell, a fart is louder than even the loudest hard drive. I can't imagine there are very many people who are willing to pay extra for super silent hard drives.
I think that's pretty reasonable. I may actually pick up a few more some mission critical computers running here that can't afford any downtime (retail point of sale systems). $500 is peanuts to have that kind of reliability.
Why do the folks at storagereview put such nice harddisks into testbeds with Microsoft Windows
Because that's what most people use, maybe? Because that's what most benchmarking tools run on, maybe? If anything, I'd wonder why somebody would do benchmarks on something other than Windows.
Have you ever used Oracle? Its a bigger steaming pile of shit than Lotus Notes, and that says alot.
And of course, that would explain how Oracle became the #2 software company on the planet, and how their products are used in the most mission-critical applications all over the world. But hey, maybe the rest of the world is wrong, and you're right! It's possible.
Actually, GammaCash has been an affiliate program for a long time. They have a good reputation (if not quite the best payouts). The porn industry pretty much self-regulates. Legitimate porn purveyors don't spam. It's these amateurs that give us a bad name.
I thought that investors had learned from the dot-bomb era. Yet here we go again, with another company with no product, no way of making money, with $16 million in venture capital. Wow.
I run a brick-and-mortar business that is profitable, growing, and even has actual physical assets, yet I can't raise a few hundred grand to open some new stores. I must be doing something terribly wrong if these guys can get money for an idea for a program that they'll give away once it's complete (or if it's ever completed).
Microsoft is really great at marketing their products. They got people to stand in the rain, at midnight, to buy an OS.
If that's the case, then what is Apple, omnipotent? Apple freaks stand in line, all night, seemingly every few months when the new Apple Gadget version x.x.x.x comes out. MS is good at marketing, but they're nothing comapred to Apple. MS is selling what is now a cheap, commodity OS. They come out with a new one every fewyears. Apple sells high priced, super-premium consumer OS, with a new full priced version every few months, and their customers STILL wait in line for it. On top of that, have you ever seen a MS tattoo? I've seen pictures of a bunch of Apple tattoos...
A Tivo AND an IPod? Anyobdy who both isn't keeping up with the Joneses, they ARE the Joneses! Does owning both of those also require that one also own a Volkswagen?
I own a retail store. Distributors that used to distribute on their own trucks for free are now charging upwards of $20/trip. This is getting passed on to the consumer. Inflation due to energy prices is quite real. I've been "inflating" prices to compensate for it all day, in fact.
People with blogs and flickr accounts should all be put to work in a VW manufacturing factory, all while listening to "Afternoon Delight" over and over again on their iPods until their eyes bleed. We'll have to find a word to combine "yuppie" "sheep" and "pretentions asshole".
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Let me ask... are you just looking for something to bitch about? I have a feeling that is Bill Gates personally chiseled the standards into gold tablets and delivered them to your front door that you people would bitch about them being too heavy.
Just my 2 cents.
This sort of info would be handy to combat the FUD that the PHB's have stuck in their heads.
So, you're assuming that anybody who doesn't want to go OSS "FUD" stuck in their head? I use very little OSS in my business, and I can assure you that "FUD" has nothing to do with it. If anything, I'd like to see an end to the FUD that OSS zealots constantly are trying to stir up. I can't even begin to count the hours that I've wasted because of OSS zealot FUD. Personally, I wouldn't have wasted hours and hours playing with the OSS that I did, just trying to get BASIC functionality, if not for the zealots screaming about how Linux and other popular OSS apps are "easy to use". Please, take your own FUD and shove it up your ass.
One problem, though and I've mentioned this before; there's no open souce alternative to Acrobat Pro. Not even plans for one that I know of. That really sucks; we need Adobe-free computers, what with their exorbitant costs, product activation, and so on.
Why not do what we did: make your office PDF free? I hate PDF's with every fiber of my being. The files are enormous, the readers are bloated (and at 56+ Meg just to open a fucking file, I'd call "bloated" generous), and they're a pain in the ass to alter.
Could somebody please tell me why people use PDF's in the first place?
I feel like if at this stage, enough people said "NO" to PDF's, then it would just die on the vine. Right now, if any of our vendors send a PDF, I bounce it back with a message that we don't use PDF's, and it has yet to be a problem.
If you'd read the study... then you'd know that the test was done using SUSE, and GLIBC was hand-compiled because SUSE's RPM manager was broken.
If you actually read the report, you'd see that GLIBC was all mucked up because SUSE's YAST was broken. And on top of that, part of the study was to see what the administrators would do. Part of the confusion for the sysadmins was WHERE to get the sources when the standard RPM manager broke. It's not clear where they should have gotten GLIBC, and that was part of the test.
What commercial apps on Linux did he use, exactly? I just looked over the report, and I saw Apache, PHP, GLIBC, and MySQL. I'd argue that comparing MySQL to MS SQL Server is like comparing a bicycle to a BMW, but still, MySQL, PHP, GLIBC, and Apache are probably the best supported Linux-based apps on the planet. Did you even read the report?
The web may be good for end user level apps, but I can tell you that for our critical business apps, there's no way that I'd ever consider web-based apps. Why? 1. Performance 2. Security 3. Reliaiblity.
I can't ever imagine running our cash registers with a web app. I certinaly wouldn't run our financial applications over the web, either.
That's my point. He's not educating geeks. Geeks already know all about RFID, for the most part. Hell, Slashdot posts an RFID story almost daily. The general public, if the mass media were to pick up this little stunt (they haven't), would just regard him as some kind of crackpot. Hell, I'm a geek, and I consider him a crackpot.
The thing is that to regular people who have no idea what RFID is, he comes off as just a nut. A whackjob. He's only pandering to his uber-geek followers with this silly stunt. To anybody else, he's seen as some kind of childish dork. I'd say that his stunt accomplished veyr little outside of hundreds of us on Slashdot who already know him, already know what RFID is, talking about this silly little prank.
5 Years late? What, is AJAX everywhere already? Microsoft is smart because they don't necessarily jump on every stupid bleeding edge technology. In case you don't have a memory, there have been hundreds of Net based technologies that have come and gone... Remember VRML? How about XUL? Write-once-run-everywhere Java? "Push" technologies? The only lemmings who jump on every new buzzword the instant it comes out are Slashdotters, and those fucking leeches that keep coming up with unprofitable web companies yet keep getting millions of dollars to buy fucking Herman Miller chairs where they can sit on their fat asses and come up with new ways to use the buzzwords. A smart businessperson will not be an early adopter. A smart businessperson let's the early adopters blow all of their energy and capital to see if a new technology is going to work, THEN come in and develop it.
If history has shown anything, it's that Bill Gates is one of the best businesspeople in the world right now, and has a better grasp of technology trends than people like you and other armchair CEO's could ever hope to have. Now sit down, shut up, and pay attention to people who know better than you. Maybe you'll learn something.
Well smartass, if you read my post, you'd know that I run a business. I own it. My business isn't IT, but it does run on computers, and I make all IT decisions. And, I happen to be a former geek. So if anything, I'm more qualified to talk about this subject than either a geek OR a businessperson.
If you think that a hard drive (or any number of hard drives) for that matter could contribute to hearing problems, then I'm assuming that you don't leave your house? Hell, a fart is louder than even the loudest hard drive. I can't imagine there are very many people who are willing to pay extra for super silent hard drives.
I think that's pretty reasonable. I may actually pick up a few more some mission critical computers running here that can't afford any downtime (retail point of sale systems). $500 is peanuts to have that kind of reliability.
Why do the folks at storagereview put such nice harddisks into testbeds with Microsoft Windows
Because that's what most people use, maybe? Because that's what most benchmarking tools run on, maybe? If anything, I'd wonder why somebody would do benchmarks on something other than Windows.
In Soviet Russia, new version has all major BSD!
Have you ever used Oracle? Its a bigger steaming pile of shit than Lotus Notes, and that says alot.
And of course, that would explain how Oracle became the #2 software company on the planet, and how their products are used in the most mission-critical applications all over the world. But hey, maybe the rest of the world is wrong, and you're right! It's possible.
Actually, GammaCash has been an affiliate program for a long time. They have a good reputation (if not quite the best payouts). The porn industry pretty much self-regulates. Legitimate porn purveyors don't spam. It's these amateurs that give us a bad name.
I thought that investors had learned from the dot-bomb era. Yet here we go again, with another company with no product, no way of making money, with $16 million in venture capital. Wow.
I run a brick-and-mortar business that is profitable, growing, and even has actual physical assets, yet I can't raise a few hundred grand to open some new stores. I must be doing something terribly wrong if these guys can get money for an idea for a program that they'll give away once it's complete (or if it's ever completed).
Microsoft is really great at marketing their products. They got people to stand in the rain, at midnight, to buy an OS.
If that's the case, then what is Apple, omnipotent? Apple freaks stand in line, all night, seemingly every few months when the new Apple Gadget version x.x.x.x comes out. MS is good at marketing, but they're nothing comapred to Apple. MS is selling what is now a cheap, commodity OS. They come out with a new one every fewyears. Apple sells high priced, super-premium consumer OS, with a new full priced version every few months, and their customers STILL wait in line for it. On top of that, have you ever seen a MS tattoo? I've seen pictures of a bunch of Apple tattoos...
We need politicians that will bring us back to the freedoms our country enjoyed two hundred years ago,
Welcome to the Libertarian Party.
A Tivo AND an IPod? Anyobdy who both isn't keeping up with the Joneses, they ARE the Joneses! Does owning both of those also require that one also own a Volkswagen?
I own a retail store. Distributors that used to distribute on their own trucks for free are now charging upwards of $20/trip. This is getting passed on to the consumer. Inflation due to energy prices is quite real. I've been "inflating" prices to compensate for it all day, in fact.
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Perhaps you should work your way towards being a CEO instead of just bitching about it, then?
People with blogs and flickr accounts should all be put to work in a VW manufacturing factory, all while listening to "Afternoon Delight" over and over again on their iPods until their eyes bleed. We'll have to find a word to combine "yuppie" "sheep" and "pretentions asshole".
Eat my Karma baby. It's soooo worth it.