Microsoft gained their PC marketshare by being the means to start WordPerfect, dBase, and Lotus-1-2-3. By the time the PC platform finally had the capabilities to run games decently, Microsoft already had a monopoly marketshare.
Not the point. The mail is in.pst format on the clients, and the reason it is in.pst is because the clients are Outlook. And the reason the clients are Outlook, is because they deployed Exchange. Because, as you said, and as I implied, the only value Exchange has is when it is deployed together with Outlook.
And what is the default client to access Exchange? And the major reason why places deploy Exchange? Hint: it is not because it is a superior mail server.
We should get a "-1, Missing the point" moderation.
Hell no. One of the lasting irritations here in.nl when the summer holiday traffic from Germany comes in, is that to Germans the rightmost lane is considered the truck lane. On a three lane piece of motorway, a German driver will steadily stick to the middle lane, nine times out of ten.
Of course, what helps is that German drivers don't feel a short flash of the high beam is an insult to their masculinity. Instead, they treat it as a polite request to make way, and indeed will immediately do so (again, most of the time. German assholes do exist).
All of the big pharma companies are publicly-traded, and are therefore required to disclose their financials. Take a look at their annual budgets. Marketing and sales are an absolutely miniscule piece of the pie compared to the cost of R&D and Clinical Trials.
ORLY?
As an example, let's take the annual statement for 2006 from Pfizer, in millions of dollars:
Total Revenue: 48,371
Cost of sales: 7,640
Selling, informational and administrative expenses: 15,589
Research and development expenses: 7,599
Amortization of intangible assets: 3,261
Acquisition-related in-process research and development charges: 835
Restructuring charges and acquisition-related costs: 1,323
Cost of sales is most definitely not minuscule compared to R&D. It is equal, if we count cost of sales alone, and three times as large if we count the additional expenses.
And since I used to work in financials, I feel confident to predict that if you look up the other big pharma companies, you will get similar numbers. So stop spreading the marketing bullshit, the numbers don't lie: R&D is a minor item on the income statement.
I am not a very large man. Proportionally, my neck is thicker than my shirt size would indicate. Wearing a shirt and tie is distinctively more comfortable if I wear a shirt with a wider collar. In fact, I think most tie-aversion is caused by the fact that one must fully button up a shirt to wear a tie, and the tight collar is uncomfortable. A bit of shopping around for a more comfortable suit, and using a real silk tie, not one of those polyester monstrosities, and one hardly feels the tie.
Still, for daily work where I expect to see no customers, I'll stick with a comfortable but neat polo shirt and jeans. If I am expected to meet a customer or a vendor though, out will come my favourite suit and tie (dark green pants and jacket, light green comfortable shirt, black tie). And I must admit, I look good in a suit, and I enjoy wearing it on those occasions where it is necessary.
The only thing I don't skimp on is shoes, but my Heschungs are both smart and comfortable, so I wear those anyway.
Actually, I thought 'Jon Lasseter' halfway through the first sentence. Now if there ever was a stereotypical geek making it to the boardroom, it's Jon alright.
And since even the most aggressive anti-smoking propagandists don't try to make the claim that second-hand smoke is an acute health risk, I posit that that decline has a different cause. Perhaps a placebo effect?
The final parameter of the LOAD statement has nothing to do with switching off the ROMs. The final parameter is 'absolute address loading'. The first two bytes of a program file hold the starting address, and setting the final parameter to 1 makes the KERNAl load the program file at its indicated address. Most autostarting programs used this by setting the starting address to a system vector (like the BASIC interpreters main input loop), starting the program automatically after the LOAD terminated. BASIC programs carried $0801 (or $0800, that I keep forgetting) as starting address, as this was the start of user RAM ($0000-03FF was system pages, $0400-07FF was screen RAM.)[1].
Neither the KERNAL nor the BASIC ROMs carry any function to switch off the ROMs. That is purely done by manipulating bits in the processor I/O registers at $0000 and $0001.
Mart
[1] To complete my C64 geekery: user RAM ran from $0800 to $9FFF. The BASIC ROM ran from $A000 to $BFFF, $C000-CFFF was 4K of free RAM usable as scratchpad, often used for machine language routines that would not interfere with user RAM, $D000-DFFF was I/O space, where the video, sound and general I/O chip registers lived, overlayed with the character ROM, and $E000-FFFF was the KERNAL.
Nice bit of right-wing kookery there. Your claims about the riots in the banlieues are way overstretched. The French Ministry of the Interior counts 1 dead, and about 9000 cars burned through the whole of France (not just Paris).
While the riots were more severe than other years, this has been happening regularly since the 1980s. Just because some press idiots found a few youths shouting 'Allahu Akbar' does not make it a religious issue. It is what it has been for twenty years now: a class issue compounded with race.
So yes, I do accuse you of racism. And you're the one with your head in the sand, going on noise from the racist echo chamber, instead of the actual facts.
Don't try to excuse your racism as Islam-criticism. You clearly are targetting North-Africans under your false flag of religious criticism.
We only have Lionhearts words for what the police want to question him for. Frankly, from a man who has already managed to spew death threats at U.S. Conservative supporters (Google "Lionheart BNP" to see how Little Green Footballs dropped him like a hot potato), I doubt that his acts in the U.K. were any more peaceful, especially given his Neo-Nazi connections. So give it up already. Lionheart is a Neo-Nazi, and Nazism is impossible to advocate without incitement to violence. Murdering the lesser people, and calling for murder, is part and parcel of the ideology.
As for the riots in Brussels, you Neo-Nazi kooks are the first to scream and yell in approval and applaud if the police hits on left-wing demonstrators. How does it feel now the shoe's on the other foot, eh?
And as for what I advocate or not, stick your strawman where you can stick your swastikas.
So a bunch of right-wing kooks ran afoul of statutes forbidding incitement to violence, and a bunch of rioting right-wingers got caught by the police? Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.
For the other Slashdot readers: Lionheart is a stooge of the British National Party, a neo-nazi party whose adherents are well known for their charming custom of 'Paki-bashing'. Not quite the peaceful dissent that Das Modell wants to pretend it is.
Try staring right back. That'll do the trick, usually. Housecats are not particularly territorial, they are in fact quite social, so outright aggression is not usual, but they do dislike a staring match.
These are all good points, but to have the GUI tool consider all these is breaking the application/kernel barrier. It is better IMO to just not let the application worry about this, and have the kernel devs worry about getting the I/O scheduler up to speed to deal with applications that do massive amounts of parallel I/O.
Not to mention of course that this kind of disk contention was solved decades ago in the SCSI spec. Perhaps offloading disk I/O to a dedicated controller wasn't such a bad idea after all.
Just snapping your fingers won't do. However, transgressing the territorial line and puffing yourself up (like, oh, standing on top of the enclosure wall and yelling) will trigger a response. With luck, the animal will take fright and hide, but in case of an adult tiger with a dominant character, it will provoke an attack to drive off the intruder. Try looking a tiger straight in the eyes when snapping your fingers, and you will see the same. Tigers are like all other cats that way, a stare is a dominance challenge.
As for the lion at the party, no comparison. Lions are social animals, and within the context of the pride are not that territorial. If well tamed, that lioness will see her handler as the pride's alpha male, and will only attack if he is showing a territorial reaction. This is also why the lion is the preferred animal of big cat trainers in entertainment (such as the circus). There are horror stories of lion tamers losing their dominant status and getting attacked by the animals.
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In these days? The expression is old: cui bono?, "Who benefits?"
MartMicrosoft gained their PC marketshare by being the means to start WordPerfect, dBase, and Lotus-1-2-3. By the time the PC platform finally had the capabilities to run games decently, Microsoft already had a monopoly marketshare.
MartThe continuing success of SAP seems to prove your idea wrong.
MartNot the point. The mail is in .pst format on the clients, and the reason it is in .pst is because the clients are Outlook. And the reason the clients are Outlook, is because they deployed Exchange. Because, as you said, and as I implied, the only value Exchange has is when it is deployed together with Outlook.
Indeed, we need a "Missing the point" moderation.
MartAnd what is the default client to access Exchange? And the major reason why places deploy Exchange? Hint: it is not because it is a superior mail server.
We should get a "-1, Missing the point" moderation.
MartHell no. One of the lasting irritations here in .nl when the summer holiday traffic from Germany comes in, is that to Germans the rightmost lane is considered the truck lane. On a three lane piece of motorway, a German driver will steadily stick to the middle lane, nine times out of ten.
Of course, what helps is that German drivers don't feel a short flash of the high beam is an insult to their masculinity. Instead, they treat it as a polite request to make way, and indeed will immediately do so (again, most of the time. German assholes do exist).
MartORLY?
As an example, let's take the annual statement for 2006 from Pfizer, in millions of dollars:
Cost of sales is most definitely not minuscule compared to R&D. It is equal, if we count cost of sales alone, and three times as large if we count the additional expenses.
And since I used to work in financials, I feel confident to predict that if you look up the other big pharma companies, you will get similar numbers. So stop spreading the marketing bullshit, the numbers don't lie: R&D is a minor item on the income statement.
MartA good linen suit, or thin cotton, works just fine in hot summers. Like you, I don't see the problem, even if I don't wear a suit very often.
MartGreat observation about the fit of shirts.
I am not a very large man. Proportionally, my neck is thicker than my shirt size would indicate. Wearing a shirt and tie is distinctively more comfortable if I wear a shirt with a wider collar. In fact, I think most tie-aversion is caused by the fact that one must fully button up a shirt to wear a tie, and the tight collar is uncomfortable. A bit of shopping around for a more comfortable suit, and using a real silk tie, not one of those polyester monstrosities, and one hardly feels the tie.
Still, for daily work where I expect to see no customers, I'll stick with a comfortable but neat polo shirt and jeans. If I am expected to meet a customer or a vendor though, out will come my favourite suit and tie (dark green pants and jacket, light green comfortable shirt, black tie). And I must admit, I look good in a suit, and I enjoy wearing it on those occasions where it is necessary.
The only thing I don't skimp on is shoes, but my Heschungs are both smart and comfortable, so I wear those anyway.
MartActually, I thought 'Jon Lasseter' halfway through the first sentence. Now if there ever was a stereotypical geek making it to the boardroom, it's Jon alright.
MartAnd since even the most aggressive anti-smoking propagandists don't try to make the claim that second-hand smoke is an acute health risk, I posit that that decline has a different cause. Perhaps a placebo effect?
MartCompare e.g. NT3.51 with NT4.0, especially after all 7 Service Packs are applied to the latter.
Then compare Windows 2000, which was a decent rewrite to integrate the features of NT into a stable codebase, with its follow-ups XP and Vista.
Yeah, I think the history of NT is a fine example of the Second System Effect.
MartYour explanation is subtly wrong.
The final parameter of the LOAD statement has nothing to do with switching off the ROMs. The final parameter is 'absolute address loading'. The first two bytes of a program file hold the starting address, and setting the final parameter to 1 makes the KERNAl load the program file at its indicated address. Most autostarting programs used this by setting the starting address to a system vector (like the BASIC interpreters main input loop), starting the program automatically after the LOAD terminated. BASIC programs carried $0801 (or $0800, that I keep forgetting) as starting address, as this was the start of user RAM ($0000-03FF was system pages, $0400-07FF was screen RAM.)[1].
Neither the KERNAL nor the BASIC ROMs carry any function to switch off the ROMs. That is purely done by manipulating bits in the processor I/O registers at $0000 and $0001.
Mart
[1] To complete my C64 geekery: user RAM ran from $0800 to $9FFF. The BASIC ROM ran from $A000 to $BFFF, $C000-CFFF was 4K of free RAM usable as scratchpad, often used for machine language routines that would not interfere with user RAM, $D000-DFFF was I/O space, where the video, sound and general I/O chip registers lived, overlayed with the character ROM, and $E000-FFFF was the KERNAL.
So, you're going to strawman my position, and then pre-emptively try to defend against it?
You're welcome to your opinion, but behaviour like this will not win you many more supporters.
MartQuote me.
MartWhere is that clear? I have said no such thing.
Whereas you are taking the words of a known BNP supporter who already has posted public death threats as gospel as to his non-violent manner.
You're a fucking idiot.
MartNice bit of right-wing kookery there. Your claims about the riots in the banlieues are way overstretched. The French Ministry of the Interior counts 1 dead, and about 9000 cars burned through the whole of France (not just Paris).
While the riots were more severe than other years, this has been happening regularly since the 1980s. Just because some press idiots found a few youths shouting 'Allahu Akbar' does not make it a religious issue. It is what it has been for twenty years now: a class issue compounded with race.
So yes, I do accuse you of racism. And you're the one with your head in the sand, going on noise from the racist echo chamber, instead of the actual facts.
Don't try to excuse your racism as Islam-criticism. You clearly are targetting North-Africans under your false flag of religious criticism.
MartWe only have Lionhearts words for what the police want to question him for. Frankly, from a man who has already managed to spew death threats at U.S. Conservative supporters (Google "Lionheart BNP" to see how Little Green Footballs dropped him like a hot potato), I doubt that his acts in the U.K. were any more peaceful, especially given his Neo-Nazi connections. So give it up already. Lionheart is a Neo-Nazi, and Nazism is impossible to advocate without incitement to violence. Murdering the lesser people, and calling for murder, is part and parcel of the ideology.
As for the riots in Brussels, you Neo-Nazi kooks are the first to scream and yell in approval and applaud if the police hits on left-wing demonstrators. How does it feel now the shoe's on the other foot, eh?
And as for what I advocate or not, stick your strawman where you can stick your swastikas.
MartSo a bunch of right-wing kooks ran afoul of statutes forbidding incitement to violence, and a bunch of rioting right-wingers got caught by the police? Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.
For the other Slashdot readers: Lionheart is a stooge of the British National Party, a neo-nazi party whose adherents are well known for their charming custom of 'Paki-bashing'. Not quite the peaceful dissent that Das Modell wants to pretend it is.
MartIn some countries you can be sentenced to fines or imprisonment for saying "racist" or "xenophobic" things.
How about an example of this actually happening to someone?
MartWhat was that saying again? "It is better to keep silent and appear wise..."?
In the meantime, you can take your strawman and stick it with your BSD superiority complex.
MartYes, we know you are l33t.
MartTry staring right back. That'll do the trick, usually. Housecats are not particularly territorial, they are in fact quite social, so outright aggression is not usual, but they do dislike a staring match.
MartThese are all good points, but to have the GUI tool consider all these is breaking the application/kernel barrier. It is better IMO to just not let the application worry about this, and have the kernel devs worry about getting the I/O scheduler up to speed to deal with applications that do massive amounts of parallel I/O.
Not to mention of course that this kind of disk contention was solved decades ago in the SCSI spec. Perhaps offloading disk I/O to a dedicated controller wasn't such a bad idea after all.
MartJust snapping your fingers won't do. However, transgressing the territorial line and puffing yourself up (like, oh, standing on top of the enclosure wall and yelling) will trigger a response. With luck, the animal will take fright and hide, but in case of an adult tiger with a dominant character, it will provoke an attack to drive off the intruder. Try looking a tiger straight in the eyes when snapping your fingers, and you will see the same. Tigers are like all other cats that way, a stare is a dominance challenge.
As for the lion at the party, no comparison. Lions are social animals, and within the context of the pride are not that territorial. If well tamed, that lioness will see her handler as the pride's alpha male, and will only attack if he is showing a territorial reaction. This is also why the lion is the preferred animal of big cat trainers in entertainment (such as the circus). There are horror stories of lion tamers losing their dominant status and getting attacked by the animals.
Mart