Yeah, I remember a story. An HP salesman had come to a school to promote their calculators. One kid asked, "when will you bring your prices down in line with TI?" The salesman picked up the product, wound up and threw it as hard as he could. It bounced off a wall, clattered across the floor, he picked it up and showed that it still worked. "When they can do that," he said.
I have no idea whether the story is true, but that's the kind of reputation HP had in the old days. What kind of reputation are they building for the next decade?
Take a look at Insight before dismissing all of HP. Every once in a while Dell asks us how they could make OpenManage better and I tell them, "make it work as well as Insight!"
That said, I have often wondered what the heck HP is doing in the computer business, and why they sold off all the bits of the company which were "the real HP" to us old-timers. What's left is a bunch of divisions that used to be independent businesses, all making things whose creation central management had nothing to do with and probably have no sympathy for. That's bad for business.
You fell into the trap. You're convinced that Stalin was a Communist because he said so. He lied. He was just as far to the right as his worthy opponent in Germany. Communism in the USSR died with Lenin, and Stalin began a new monarchy, adding a few fig-leaves in the form of Party and a cloud of committees to mask its essential character. The Union shattered when Gorbachev demanded that it be what it claimed to be.
Or another way to look at it, if you prefer. "Society" has no voice that we can hear, so we inevitably set up a committee or Revolutionary Council or whatever to divine what it is that Society wants. Pretty soon this body settles down to the business of making up whatever pleases it and claiming that it is for the good of Society. There are two flavors of fascism: the right wing and the left wing.
The problem I see in either case is the concentration of power in one entity, whether a visible Leader or an invisible Society, which is unanswerable. A rich network of smaller countervailing powers may be ponderous, slow, and messy, but at least it is responsive to individual needs. And that structure is not found at either end of the Left-Right spectrum, but toward the despised middle.
Think of it, not as a linear scale, but as the parabola of ballistic flight. There is fiery destruction at one end and a crash at the other, and glorious soaring in the middle.:-)
Sounds like what I want to do. Any product that doesn't work properly with a higher version of the.DLL than the private one shipped with it, was already broken.
The problem, of course, is that the end user is left with a busted program, saying, "I just want it to work!" If the vendor wasn't good enough to make a proper program in the first place, it may be quite some time before a well-made update is available.
Welcome to.DLL Hell v2.0, AKA side-by-side assemblies. Proving once again that sweeping dirt under the rug doesn't get rid of it.
Hmmm, I figure that, under a far-right government, you do what you're told because The Leader says so, while under a far-left government you do what you're told because Society says so.
Oh, "liberal" and "conservative" are just arbitrary labels nowadays -- the best-known liberals are quite illiberal and the most notorious conservatives very unconservative. Might as well just call 'em "shirts" and "skins" or "bigendians" and "littleendians".
Anyone who affiliates with a movement or a political party because of its *name* is just asking for disappointment.
Christian Science is a religion. You'll have to ask one; I can't fairly describe it. To outsiders the usual image is of one who, when sick, goes not to a doctor but to a reading room to pray and meditate.
Now this phrase *may* have been meant to refer to such things as "creation science", which attempts to apply scientific techniques to supporting the revealed wisdom of religion.
The term would seem to mean simply that one believes that not believing in deities is the most important thing one can do -- that this belief is the foundation on which his whole worldview is built. Lots of people throw the word "fundamentalist" around without stopping to figure out what it means.
The problem I have with "fundamentalists" of any stripe is that some of them never get around to building anything on top of that foundation. Lots of fundamentalist-${RELIGION}ists are marching around shouting or throwing bombs when they should sit down and read ${HOLY BOOK} over and over until they actually begin to understand what it says. (No, I *don't* know what to tell a militant atheist to go reread.)
I guess those 40% balance people like me. I currently am licensed to possess more instances of MS Windows than I have installed, since I found something better. (I am NOT saying that that makes it OK to bootleg MS Windows. Don't do that.)
BTW, any statistics from Gartner on what's running on the many, many computers which arrived as parts from three different stores and were assembled by the end user? (Like me, again.)
There's been some discussion of the problems facing "fleet operators" due to this bug. It seems that various product teams have spewed so many private versions of the.DLLs all over users' systems that the people who maintain the security-patch list in XML just gave up. SMS won't detect the need for the patch, and neither will MBSA, I'm told. Whether SUS (standalone, not the Feature Pack for SMS) will is not yet clear.
Well, that's just dandy. I've got 200 machines that need patching and no centralized tools, maybe. Oh, joy.
Now I'm wondering how I'll ever trust those tools again.
So the problem is in part how close the stuff is to you and how hard it is to send it further away. Elements which the body likes are bad news, if radioactive, because *inside* is as close as you can get.
The problem with radioactive iodine is that iodine is collected and concentrated by the thyroid glands. Ask anyone who was around for the Windscale core fire away back when.
So we *do* need to contain this stuff for the long term. Thing is, the problem becomes rapidly smaller and more specialized over time. I wonder whether, a thousand years hence, people will be upset that we compounded this stuff into glass, which is so hard to take apart, now that they know how to handle the longer-lived isotopes better....
Seen how much radioactive goop there is in a ton of decent coal? Burn it in an older plant and it gets spewed into the air; a newer plant will catch it in the stack scrubber but you still have to do something with it.
And the torrent of energetic particles streaming out of a fusion reaction makes the reactor vessel radioactive over time, so "waste-free" is a bit optimistic. Let's say we may be able to liberate significantly more energy per ton of radioactive what-do-we-do-with-it by using fusion rather than fission.
There's glass, and then there's glass. "Normal" doesn't tell us much. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL, US has (had, anyway) a room full of glass springs, etc. and a glass block which has had a large iron ball dropped on it many times daily over *years* so people can see the effect on polarized light passing through it as it is stressed.
Well-made glass is not just hard, it is *tough*. Proper formulation and annealing yields a very durable material. Not much at all like that cheap stuff they use to make jars for spaghetti sauce.
Bad guys can always dig up the lumps, grind them, and leach out the radioactives, so it still needs guarding for millennia. I'd rather we all overcome the reprocessing paranoia and burn up this stuff to some purpose, than to just throw it away.
Still, good show! I'd wondered whatever happened to vitrification, which was "just around the corner" decades ago. It's loads better than leaving that stuff sitting in drums on a pavement in the open.
Ghostscript writes various versions of PCL just fine. My DeskJet 320 is quite happy to print anything understood by magicfilter. Same for the DJ 680C. Neither has any understanding of PostScript.
My HP printer and scanner work just fine with Linux. I selected them because I knew they were understood by the software I wanted to use.
HP's enterprise management software has been slow to come to Linux but they're catching on now. I've been running WebJetAdmin on a Linux box for quite some time, monitoring a fleet of printers throughout a large building. The various bits of Insight are improving nicely. DataProtector doesn't give much more trouble with Linux targets than it does anywhere else.
As for printer drivers: (a) What's a printer driver? Linux has very nice parallel port drivers, thankyouverymuch, and JetDirect parts have no trouble talking Ethernet with Linux. (b) Apparently you haven't seen hp.sourceforge.net .
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Yeah, I remember a story. An HP salesman had come to a school to promote their calculators. One kid asked, "when will you bring your prices down in line with TI?" The salesman picked up the product, wound up and threw it as hard as he could. It bounced off a wall, clattered across the floor, he picked it up and showed that it still worked. "When they can do that," he said.
I have no idea whether the story is true, but that's the kind of reputation HP had in the old days. What kind of reputation are they building for the next decade?
Take a look at Insight before dismissing all of HP. Every once in a while Dell asks us how they could make OpenManage better and I tell them, "make it work as well as Insight!"
That said, I have often wondered what the heck HP is doing in the computer business, and why they sold off all the bits of the company which were "the real HP" to us old-timers. What's left is a bunch of divisions that used to be independent businesses, all making things whose creation central management had nothing to do with and probably have no sympathy for. That's bad for business.
You fell into the trap. You're convinced that Stalin was a Communist because he said so. He lied. He was just as far to the right as his worthy opponent in Germany. Communism in the USSR died with Lenin, and Stalin began a new monarchy, adding a few fig-leaves in the form of Party and a cloud of committees to mask its essential character. The Union shattered when Gorbachev demanded that it be what it claimed to be.
:-)
Or another way to look at it, if you prefer. "Society" has no voice that we can hear, so we inevitably set up a committee or Revolutionary Council or whatever to divine what it is that Society wants. Pretty soon this body settles down to the business of making up whatever pleases it and claiming that it is for the good of Society. There are two flavors of fascism: the right wing and the left wing.
The problem I see in either case is the concentration of power in one entity, whether a visible Leader or an invisible Society, which is unanswerable. A rich network of smaller countervailing powers may be ponderous, slow, and messy, but at least it is responsive to individual needs. And that structure is not found at either end of the Left-Right spectrum, but toward the despised middle.
Think of it, not as a linear scale, but as the parabola of ballistic flight. There is fiery destruction at one end and a crash at the other, and glorious soaring in the middle.
Sounds like what I want to do. Any product that doesn't work properly with a higher version of the .DLL than the private one shipped with it, was already broken.
.DLL Hell v2.0, AKA side-by-side assemblies. Proving once again that sweeping dirt under the rug doesn't get rid of it.
The problem, of course, is that the end user is left with a busted program, saying, "I just want it to work!" If the vendor wasn't good enough to make a proper program in the first place, it may be quite some time before a well-made update is available.
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Hmmm, I figure that, under a far-right government, you do what you're told because The Leader says so, while under a far-left government you do what you're told because Society says so.
Oh, "liberal" and "conservative" are just arbitrary labels nowadays -- the best-known liberals are quite illiberal and the most notorious conservatives very unconservative. Might as well just call 'em "shirts" and "skins" or "bigendians" and "littleendians".
Anyone who affiliates with a movement or a political party because of its *name* is just asking for disappointment.
Christian Science is a religion. You'll have to ask one; I can't fairly describe it. To outsiders the usual image is of one who, when sick, goes not to a doctor but to a reading room to pray and meditate.
Now this phrase *may* have been meant to refer to such things as "creation science", which attempts to apply scientific techniques to supporting the revealed wisdom of religion.
"How can you be a fundamentalist atheist?"
The term would seem to mean simply that one believes that not believing in deities is the most important thing one can do -- that this belief is the foundation on which his whole worldview is built. Lots of people throw the word "fundamentalist" around without stopping to figure out what it means.
The problem I have with "fundamentalists" of any stripe is that some of them never get around to building anything on top of that foundation. Lots of fundamentalist-${RELIGION}ists are marching around shouting or throwing bombs when they should sit down and read ${HOLY BOOK} over and over until they actually begin to understand what it says. (No, I *don't* know what to tell a militant atheist to go reread.)
Someone be sure to tell all those Californians who came and built $3,000,000 houses perched on sticks halfway up the side of the mountain.
I guess those 40% balance people like me. I currently am licensed to possess more instances of MS Windows than I have installed, since I found something better. (I am NOT saying that that makes it OK to bootleg MS Windows. Don't do that.)
BTW, any statistics from Gartner on what's running on the many, many computers which arrived as parts from three different stores and were assembled by the end user? (Like me, again.)
Maybe, after finally figuring out "the modularity thing", they'll be able to make the next version of Windows Server without WMP too.
There's been some discussion of the problems facing "fleet operators" due to this bug. It seems that various product teams have spewed so many private versions of the .DLLs all over users' systems that the people who maintain the security-patch list in XML just gave up. SMS won't detect the need for the patch, and neither will MBSA, I'm told. Whether SUS (standalone, not the Feature Pack for SMS) will is not yet clear.
Well, that's just dandy. I've got 200 machines that need patching and no centralized tools, maybe. Oh, joy.
Now I'm wondering how I'll ever trust those tools again.
Bring it on. We can take it.
So the problem is in part how close the stuff is to you and how hard it is to send it further away. Elements which the body likes are bad news, if radioactive, because *inside* is as close as you can get.
The problem with radioactive iodine is that iodine is collected and concentrated by the thyroid glands. Ask anyone who was around for the Windscale core fire away back when.
So we *do* need to contain this stuff for the long term. Thing is, the problem becomes rapidly smaller and more specialized over time. I wonder whether, a thousand years hence, people will be upset that we compounded this stuff into glass, which is so hard to take apart, now that they know how to handle the longer-lived isotopes better....
Indeed. Seen any of that pretty orange uranium-glazed crockery? It's just active enough to wake a Geiger counter, but people used to eat off it....
"Wow, lookit all the ancient burial mounds. Let's get digging, ladies and gentlebeings, there's a lot of history to be uncovered here!"
Something with a half-life of hundreds of thousands of years is not very radioactive, now, is it?
Seen how much radioactive goop there is in a ton of decent coal? Burn it in an older plant and it gets spewed into the air; a newer plant will catch it in the stack scrubber but you still have to do something with it.
And the torrent of energetic particles streaming out of a fusion reaction makes the reactor vessel radioactive over time, so "waste-free" is a bit optimistic. Let's say we may be able to liberate significantly more energy per ton of radioactive what-do-we-do-with-it by using fusion rather than fission.
Arrange things right and you get Cerenkov radiation (eerie blue glow) for free, no special chemicals needed.
There's glass, and then there's glass. "Normal" doesn't tell us much. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL, US has (had, anyway) a room full of glass springs, etc. and a glass block which has had a large iron ball dropped on it many times daily over *years* so people can see the effect on polarized light passing through it as it is stressed.
Well-made glass is not just hard, it is *tough*. Proper formulation and annealing yields a very durable material. Not much at all like that cheap stuff they use to make jars for spaghetti sauce.
Bad guys can always dig up the lumps, grind them, and leach out the radioactives, so it still needs guarding for millennia. I'd rather we all overcome the reprocessing paranoia and burn up this stuff to some purpose, than to just throw it away.
Still, good show! I'd wondered whatever happened to vitrification, which was "just around the corner" decades ago. It's loads better than leaving that stuff sitting in drums on a pavement in the open.
Ghostscript writes various versions of PCL just fine. My DeskJet 320 is quite happy to print anything understood by magicfilter. Same for the DJ 680C. Neither has any understanding of PostScript.
My HP printer and scanner work just fine with Linux. I selected them because I knew they were understood by the software I wanted to use.
HP's enterprise management software has been slow to come to Linux but they're catching on now. I've been running WebJetAdmin on a Linux box for quite some time, monitoring a fleet of printers throughout a large building. The various bits of Insight are improving nicely. DataProtector doesn't give much more trouble with Linux targets than it does anywhere else.
As for printer drivers: (a) What's a printer driver? Linux has very nice parallel port drivers, thankyouverymuch, and JetDirect parts have no trouble talking Ethernet with Linux. (b) Apparently you haven't seen hp.sourceforge.net .