You hit the nail on the head.
Tech people aren't getting sacked.
In fact, we have a large number of slots we need to fill nation wide (US) for tech people doing deployment and maintenance work.
Redundancies are being reduced as departments merge (Professional Services and Field Delivery for example), and unnecessary managers are being eliminated.
"to all the people that download music, if you think you are only hurting big companies you are wrong. There are two working people with families who no longer have jobs because of music piracy."
It's not *just* music pirates responsible for the closure of stores such as this one.
People like me, who see no value in having a CD, but legally purchase their music from online sources contribute as well.
Why should I pay $13+ for a CD, when I can spend $10 and not have to waste gas going to the store, fight traffic and crowds, and risk the possibility that what I want may not be in stock anyway?
I think the point was that CompUSA was one of the few retail stores that didn't gouge like that.
Actually they do. Badly.
Recently I stopped in at CompUSA to grab a network cable. They wanted $39.99 for a 25 foot cable.
I told one of the people that I had JUST seen a 25 foot cable at Best Buy for $19.99, and asked him if they do price matching. Since one was a Belkin cable, and one wasn't, they wouldn't match the price on an identical item.
I shook my head, called them retarded and left. It's not likely I'll be going back to CompUSA.
You are a dumbass.
130 + in full combat gear is not "uncomfortable", it is potentially hazzardous.
We're not talking about installing fucking lazy boy recliners in the trucks, we're talking about making sure these people don't become heat casualties before ever reaching the fight.
And just for the record, I served 11 years, and did my tour in Iraq in GW 1, so yes, I do know WTF I'm talking about from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, not just some bullshit I got from CNN or the Internet.
Aside from the HR tards and the PHBs, compliance is actually something important.
The last two places I've worked for have been pharma companies. If the FDA comes in to inspect, they ask who runs the servers, I say I do. They ask if I am qualified to operate the servers, I show them Solaris cert, questions end.
It's a check the box for the validation paperwork. Required? No. Handy? You bet your ass.
If only managers would realize that this formula pretty much applies to any IT project.
You want it done yesterday? No problem...fork over extra cash and we can expedite everything. You want it on budget? Then it will take as long as we told you it would take.
You can't have it both ways.
I always try to use a "building a house" analogy when dealing with managers. Assuming that it takes 3-6 months to build the average house and costs the purchaser $250K. If you want the house in 30 days, add $50-100K and it can be done. Cut the budget and you get a smaller house that will take longer to build.
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Forcing someone to lower their prices under threat of theft if they don't is a vioation of indivdual rights.
I didn't see the previous poster threatening theft if the price wasn't lowered. I saw him giving sound financial advice to a retarded industry.
Sales and quarterly earnings down? Lower prices so that people who couldn't afford to buy before can, and so that others who were unsure if the music was worth the cost have an easier decision to make.
Economics has always been about supply and demand, but unfortunately, the music industry has supply, but isn't creating a price point where consumers wish to buy. Instead of following normal economics and lowering price to generate consumer interest, they scream that we're all pirating their music and we should be forced to pay fines for CDRs and the tools that create CDs. Bullshit.
If these do not call laws are successfully overturned, my new method of telling these phone spammers to piss off will be a portable airhorn blast into the mic.
Q: In the last six months, what have you been focused on in terms of development work? Taylor: We continue to do the same things that we've been doing in the last couple of years. First and foremost, we are looking to understand some of the scenarios like why customers are considering Linux, and making sure we have the right offerings for the marketplace.
Translation: We continue to do the same things that we've been doing in the last couple of years. First and foremost, we are having to develop entirely new types of FUD, since the general public is beginning to see through all of our old schemes.
For me, it's not about marketing, and it's not about cool. It's about function. I have a 40GB iPod and it works great, holds a lot of music, and has a huge aftermarket.
I listen to music so much that I picked up an iPod dock for my car, and the Bose iPod dock for my office stereo. I get in the car, slip the iPod in the dock, it works, I get to work, put it in the Bose dock, it works. All of it is a really nice, clean, easy to use package.
Show me any other device out there that has that going for it.
Without MS Office Suite on OS X, Apple would have zero presence in the corporate IT world.
Sorry, but I call HUGE bullshit on this one.
OS X doesn't have any sort of relavent position in the "corporate IT world" as you put it anyway. OS X is a specialty platform, catering to the audio/graphical crowd. The people using Mac are the artists who do projects for marketing etc. The lack of MS Office would not change this. OS X is still the right tool for that job. If you're talking about standard end user clients, you don't work in "corporate IT", because we don't use those on the desktop. I've worked at huge companies (100K+ users) for the past 5 years there's no way that Mac machines would be economically viable for desktop use.
Right on track, however, I don't think it's the licensing cost that kills it, at least not for big business.
What kills it is the litterally millions of dollars in man hours that it takes to certify all of your applications prior to rollout, new scripting for things that didn't work, deployment teams to actually do the work, lost productivity when the upgrade doesn't go as expected for every single user. The list goes on and on. For a company like the one I worked at recently (100K employees), that $199 is just a drop in the bucket of the total upgrade cost.
And for what? For 50-75% of average business users, they're doing email, documents and presentations. Linux/OO could easily do that for them. So where is the compelling reason to upgrade to XP or Longhorn other than the monopolist dropping support for your current OS?
One reason to use it is when you have split environments.
Example: Production/Development/Test
You want the same look and feel/packages installed the same way on ALL servers, but you only want to pay for premium support for the prod servers. So use RHEL on those, and Fedora on Dev/Test to save money on licensing.
Where I'm currently contracting, it most likely won't fly to implement Netscape Directory since there probably won't be pre-compiled SPARC binaries for Solaris, etc.
However, even though we won't be officially allowed to run ND on Linux, that doesn't mean we can't use it as a club to beat Sun to get the price of support for Sun Java System Directory Server reduced.
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They're using Comcast then?
Nail on the head.
As soon as you leave the confines of your home, your expectation of privacy drops to virtually zero.
Now if you're a cop and most of your job happens to be performed in public and in plain view, then you're fair game.
You hit the nail on the head. Tech people aren't getting sacked. In fact, we have a large number of slots we need to fill nation wide (US) for tech people doing deployment and maintenance work. Redundancies are being reduced as departments merge (Professional Services and Field Delivery for example), and unnecessary managers are being eliminated.
Can you hear me now? heh
"to all the people that download music, if you think you are only hurting big companies you are wrong. There are two working people with families who no longer have jobs because of music piracy."
It's not *just* music pirates responsible for the closure of stores such as this one.
People like me, who see no value in having a CD, but legally purchase their music from online sources contribute as well.
Why should I pay $13+ for a CD, when I can spend $10 and not have to waste gas going to the store, fight traffic and crowds, and risk the possibility that what I want may not be in stock anyway?
I think the point was that CompUSA was one of the few retail stores that didn't gouge like that.
Actually they do. Badly.
Recently I stopped in at CompUSA to grab a network cable. They wanted $39.99 for a 25 foot cable.
I told one of the people that I had JUST seen a 25 foot cable at Best Buy for $19.99, and asked him if they do price matching. Since one was a Belkin cable, and one wasn't, they wouldn't match the price on an identical item.
I shook my head, called them retarded and left. It's not likely I'll be going back to CompUSA.
You are a dumbass. 130 + in full combat gear is not "uncomfortable", it is potentially hazzardous. We're not talking about installing fucking lazy boy recliners in the trucks, we're talking about making sure these people don't become heat casualties before ever reaching the fight. And just for the record, I served 11 years, and did my tour in Iraq in GW 1, so yes, I do know WTF I'm talking about from PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, not just some bullshit I got from CNN or the Internet.
News? Hardly. This sort of danger has been around us for many years already.
Aside from the HR tards and the PHBs, compliance is actually something important.
The last two places I've worked for have been pharma companies. If the FDA comes in to inspect, they ask who runs the servers, I say I do. They ask if I am qualified to operate the servers, I show them Solaris cert, questions end.
It's a check the box for the validation paperwork. Required? No. Handy? You bet your ass.
You want it done yesterday? No problem...fork over extra cash and we can expedite everything. You want it on budget? Then it will take as long as we told you it would take.
You can't have it both ways.
I always try to use a "building a house" analogy when dealing with managers. Assuming that it takes 3-6 months to build the average house and costs the purchaser $250K. If you want the house in 30 days, add $50-100K and it can be done. Cut the budget and you get a smaller house that will take longer to build.
I didn't see the previous poster threatening theft if the price wasn't lowered. I saw him giving sound financial advice to a retarded industry.
Sales and quarterly earnings down? Lower prices so that people who couldn't afford to buy before can, and so that others who were unsure if the music was worth the cost have an easier decision to make.
Economics has always been about supply and demand, but unfortunately, the music industry has supply, but isn't creating a price point where consumers wish to buy. Instead of following normal economics and lowering price to generate consumer interest, they scream that we're all pirating their music and we should be forced to pay fines for CDRs and the tools that create CDs. Bullshit.
If these do not call laws are successfully overturned, my new method of telling these phone spammers to piss off will be a portable airhorn blast into the mic.
Taylor: We continue to do the same things that we've been doing in the last couple of years. First and foremost, we are looking to understand some of the scenarios like why customers are considering Linux, and making sure we have the right offerings for the marketplace.
Translation: We continue to do the same things that we've been doing in the last couple of years. First and foremost, we are having to develop entirely new types of FUD, since the general public is beginning to see through all of our old schemes.
Try 30 miles away at a colo. :P
I listen to music so much that I picked up an iPod dock for my car, and the Bose iPod dock for my office stereo. I get in the car, slip the iPod in the dock, it works, I get to work, put it in the Bose dock, it works. All of it is a really nice, clean, easy to use package.
Show me any other device out there that has that going for it.
Sorry, but I call HUGE bullshit on this one.
OS X doesn't have any sort of relavent position in the "corporate IT world" as you put it anyway. OS X is a specialty platform, catering to the audio/graphical crowd. The people using Mac are the artists who do projects for marketing etc. The lack of MS Office would not change this. OS X is still the right tool for that job. If you're talking about standard end user clients, you don't work in "corporate IT", because we don't use those on the desktop. I've worked at huge companies (100K+ users) for the past 5 years there's no way that Mac machines would be economically viable for desktop use.
You seem to have confused a computer device with his late night hobby title. :)
What kills it is the litterally millions of dollars in man hours that it takes to certify all of your applications prior to rollout, new scripting for things that didn't work, deployment teams to actually do the work, lost productivity when the upgrade doesn't go as expected for every single user. The list goes on and on. For a company like the one I worked at recently (100K employees), that $199 is just a drop in the bucket of the total upgrade cost.
And for what? For 50-75% of average business users, they're doing email, documents and presentations. Linux/OO could easily do that for them. So where is the compelling reason to upgrade to XP or Longhorn other than the monopolist dropping support for your current OS?
You are retarded, and should probably start evaluating suicide as a viable option.
Join the military then. Then you can be assured you'll all "look the same". Moron.
If you attempt to purchase LinuxShield, it will only let you buy an 11 user license, which cost $242.00.
Not very thrifty for a laptop user, or someone with a single desktop or home lan server to protect.
Second, Fedora is not QUITE different from RHEL. It's quite different from Debian or Gentoo or Slackware.
If you want Red Hat without the Red Hat, use CentOS. Whitebox IMO is way too far behind to be a viable platform.
Example: Production/Development/Test
You want the same look and feel/packages installed the same way on ALL servers, but you only want to pay for premium support for the prod servers. So use RHEL on those, and Fedora on Dev/Test to save money on licensing.
Errr....or so they say anyway...
However, even though we won't be officially allowed to run ND on Linux, that doesn't mean we can't use it as a club to beat Sun to get the price of support for Sun Java System Directory Server reduced.