*sigh* Another company waging an escalating war against its own customers, in a vain attempt to control equipment which is not its property. (You *sold* it, guys! Learn to let go.)
All the millions that they're pouring into ever-less-usable cartridge technology could have been used to *cut prices until refilled cartridges aren't so attractive*.
Or they could cut the price *way* down and *lease* the cartridge. It remains HP's property so they have control over its fate, and they can develop cart.s which are *designed* to be remanufacturable in order to keep prices low. Customer gets lower price, HP doesn't have to deal with the results of jimmied cart.s -- both sides win. Maybe the cart. manufacturing, or at least REmanufacturing, can be jobbed out to the current refillers under contract laying out strict QC rules -- *everybody* wins.
1. (short-term) Why ban these devices? They already tell us to turn 'em off, and when we can turn 'em on. Just don't ever tell us we can turn 'em on. Or, if there's a problem, tell us to turn 'em off again.
2. (longer term) The current situation forces aircrews into an uphill battle against the increasing number of wireless devices, which will increasingly belong to people who may not *know* how to turn them off. Ultimately the avionics designers need to make their designs more selective so we don't have a conflict in the first place. I hope they've started already because I imagine that it takes a long time to qualify new designs for this stuff, and even longer to get airlines to replace all of their older-generation gear.
If any of these GM traits are dominant, eventually the whole population will get the mods for free from their parents, meaning that (a) the companies doing them need to make all the money they want up front, and (b) eventually NO ONE will be eligible to compete in the Olympics.
We need both approaches. There are definitely some coders who should either improve the quality of their work product or leave the business. But OTOH jailing e-burglars and cyberforgers also reduces harm: they can't harm me or my friends and neighbors while they're busting rocks.
The article seems to be saying that they make games of some sort. I guess I would know, if I thought there was a better game than _GCC and binutils_.:-)
"If apple opened its hardware up so that other manufactures could build it under licence..."
A hollow voice whispers, "VAXBI". There is no guarantee that the market will like this, particularly if someone believes it is in his interest to see to it that the market dislikes it. It also depends on just how strict that license is.
One could also complain about "Luddites" who are trying to hold back progress toward a new era of expanded opportunities for safety and privacy. The identity of those opposed to "progress" depends on which direction you think of as forward.
"I'm not sure about the rest of you but I'm not running a linux-distro that's 7 years old."
Well, I am! Slackware 1.2 forever!
Mind you, I've replaced every single executable in it over the years. (Yes, every single one. I still recall the day I finally 'rm'ed libc4 and libc5.)
"it will cost a very large amount of money to re-train all of your NT people to Linux...."
Or to re-train them to Win2k. MS changed everything around and hid all of the old familiar tools under new headings. They even had to write a rather extensive document to help us find stuff again. (Start | Help, New ways to do familiar tasks)
Then in XP they stirred everything around *again!*
If we gotta port our operations to Win2k, why not port them to Linux for approximately the same cost in money and hassles?
"It looks like 2000 and you cannot make it look like Windows XP."
Hooray, someone at Microsoft finally figured out what servers are for and what sort of person is hired to run them. Now if they'll just fix Windows Update so it no longer whines that I ought to have the latest DirectX and Windows Media Player on my servers (which do not have sound cards, duuuh) I might actually be, well, not happy, but somewhat mollified.
------- Happy and productive with commandline tools for over 25 years.
"HVAC systems get old and become unsupportable, phone systems get old and become unsupportable, OSs get old and become unsupportable. Businesses understand that infrastructure doesn't last forever. Why all the shock here?"
Because HVAC systems, for example, get old and become unsupportable by wearing out. Through daily operation they become no longer able to do what they once did. This does not happen to OSes; the IBM 1620 monitor still does everything it did on the day it was released, if you can find a 1620 in running condition. 1,000,000 years from today, MS Windows v1 would still function as it always did if someone would provide hardware it can run on.
OSes "become unsupportable" because the vendors get tired of servicing the stuff they sold and would rather play with shiny new stuff (which earns bigger margins). "Unsupportable" actually means "we don't feel like meeting the needs of our customers anymore, unless they pay for our latest innovations whether they want them or not."
I'm always wary of saying, "we *cannot* do soandso". In software that's usually malarkey; we *can* do that but you won't like the cost. So, be honest and say that, instead of pretending that something is impossible when it clearly is not. "We can fix NT4 for you, but it will cost you $1 million" is honest and at the same time will deter just about anyone pressing for a fix. And if some customer is really ready to pony up $1 million to fix an 8-year-old system, take the $1 million and deliver the fix. Congratulations: you just found a million bucks in unanticipated revenue!
Heard it on Morning Edition. In one breath I finally hear about a news source from an Arabic viewpoint with an English-language feed, and then that it's been zapped by vandals. I'd like to believe no U.S. citizens were involved in this crime. Certainly this sort of vigilante censorship is against the principles that *I* stand for.
And do let me know when I can have a single box with 100 PCI-X buses and memory architecture which can support the load without seriously starving the CPUs. Mainframes are a whole 'nother world.
Thank goodness Unix has something vaguely resembling real mainframe-style batch jobs. I'm forever trying to cobble together something on our Windows boxes to let me say, "take care of this. Let me know when it's done. And show your work." as in the good old Bad Old Days when computers worked for us instead of us working for them. A typical workday these days reminds me of the older robots in Asimov's "Runaround", which could not move unless a human was riding them. There is definitely value in some of those old ways.
One of the smart things the French have done (years ago!) was to stop printing phone books. It was cheaper to give every subscriber a cheap computer terminal and let them query the database themselves.
Let them charge $10.00/lookup. Then I won't have to spend my time taking my number off a list I never wanted in the first place.
Shee, they just don't get it. I'm not a business; if I want you to call me, I'll give you my number; if I don't give you my number, the meaning of that should be obvious.
"The orbit is not dependent on the planet's mass but sthe star's."
Try again. A planet and its primary orbit each other; the mass difference makes it hard to see, but the star wobbles around its center too. IIRC the planets thought to circle Barnard's Star were detected by seeing this wobble. Watch a hammer-throw contest and you'll see what I mean.
So if the orbit is dependent on the mass of the star, it's also dependent on the mass of the planet, albeit much less so.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier for Microsoft to teach their people to design things before coding them, so that they don't wind up releasing incompatible updates all the time? IBM came up with this kewl new thing called backward-compatibility -- maybe Microsoft should ask them about it?
Compaq's Insight is the best I've ever used, although that was on Netware. I'm surprised you have so much trouble with it. (Now, if you had said OpenManage....)
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*sigh* Another company waging an escalating war against its own customers, in a vain attempt to control equipment which is not its property. (You *sold* it, guys! Learn to let go.)
All the millions that they're pouring into ever-less-usable cartridge technology could have been used to *cut prices until refilled cartridges aren't so attractive*.
Or they could cut the price *way* down and *lease* the cartridge. It remains HP's property so they have control over its fate, and they can develop cart.s which are *designed* to be remanufacturable in order to keep prices low. Customer gets lower price, HP doesn't have to deal with the results of jimmied cart.s -- both sides win. Maybe the cart. manufacturing, or at least REmanufacturing, can be jobbed out to the current refillers under contract laying out strict QC rules -- *everybody* wins.
1. (short-term) Why ban these devices? They already tell us to turn 'em off, and when we can turn 'em on. Just don't ever tell us we can turn 'em on. Or, if there's a problem, tell us to turn 'em off again.
2. (longer term) The current situation forces aircrews into an uphill battle against the increasing number of wireless devices, which will increasingly belong to people who may not *know* how to turn them off. Ultimately the avionics designers need to make their designs more selective so we don't have a conflict in the first place. I hope they've started already because I imagine that it takes a long time to qualify new designs for this stuff, and even longer to get airlines to replace all of their older-generation gear.
If any of these GM traits are dominant, eventually the whole population will get the mods for free from their parents, meaning that (a) the companies doing them need to make all the money they want up front, and (b) eventually NO ONE will be eligible to compete in the Olympics.
Think about it.
We need both approaches. There are definitely some coders who should either improve the quality of their work product or leave the business. But OTOH jailing e-burglars and cyberforgers also reduces harm: they can't harm me or my friends and neighbors while they're busting rocks.
The article seems to be saying that they make games of some sort. I guess I would know, if I thought there was a better game than _GCC and binutils_. :-)
"If apple opened its hardware up so that other manufactures could build it under licence..."
A hollow voice whispers, "VAXBI". There is no guarantee that the market will like this, particularly if someone believes it is in his interest to see to it that the market dislikes it. It also depends on just how strict that license is.
One could also complain about "Luddites" who are trying to hold back progress toward a new era of expanded opportunities for safety and privacy. The identity of those opposed to "progress" depends on which direction you think of as forward.
Piracy in Hollywood! Guys with cutlasses boarding studios, ah, under way....
Oh, wait a minute....
"I'm not sure about the rest of you but I'm not running a linux-distro that's 7 years old."
Well, I am! Slackware 1.2 forever!
Mind you, I've replaced every single executable in it over the years. (Yes, every single one. I still recall the day I finally 'rm'ed libc4 and libc5.)
"it will cost a very large amount of money to re-train all of your NT people to Linux...."
Or to re-train them to Win2k. MS changed everything around and hid all of the old familiar tools under new headings. They even had to write a rather extensive document to help us find stuff again. (Start | Help, New ways to do familiar tasks)
Then in XP they stirred everything around *again!*
If we gotta port our operations to Win2k, why not port them to Linux for approximately the same cost in money and hassles?
"The correct word is viruses, not virii."
Depends on whether you're thinking in English or Latin. Even so, "virii" would not be correct in either case. Virus: poison. Poisons: viri.
Dunno where the doubled "i" comes from, but I wish it would go back there.
"It looks like 2000 and you cannot make it look like Windows XP."
Hooray, someone at Microsoft finally figured out what servers are for and what sort of person is hired to run them. Now if they'll just fix Windows Update so it no longer whines that I ought to have the latest DirectX and Windows Media Player on my servers (which do not have sound cards, duuuh) I might actually be, well, not happy, but somewhat mollified.
-------
Happy and productive with commandline tools for over 25 years.
"HVAC systems get old and become unsupportable, phone systems get old and become unsupportable, OSs get old and become unsupportable. Businesses understand that infrastructure doesn't last forever. Why all the shock here?"
Because HVAC systems, for example, get old and become unsupportable by wearing out. Through daily operation they become no longer able to do what they once did. This does not happen to OSes; the IBM 1620 monitor still does everything it did on the day it was released, if you can find a 1620 in running condition. 1,000,000 years from today, MS Windows v1 would still function as it always did if someone would provide hardware it can run on.
OSes "become unsupportable" because the vendors get tired of servicing the stuff they sold and would rather play with shiny new stuff (which earns bigger margins). "Unsupportable" actually means "we don't feel like meeting the needs of our customers anymore, unless they pay for our latest innovations whether they want them or not."
I'm always wary of saying, "we *cannot* do soandso". In software that's usually malarkey; we *can* do that but you won't like the cost. So, be honest and say that, instead of pretending that something is impossible when it clearly is not. "We can fix NT4 for you, but it will cost you $1 million" is honest and at the same time will deter just about anyone pressing for a fix. And if some customer is really ready to pony up $1 million to fix an 8-year-old system, take the $1 million and deliver the fix. Congratulations: you just found a million bucks in unanticipated revenue!
Heard it on Morning Edition. In one breath I finally hear about a news source from an Arabic viewpoint with an English-language feed, and then that it's been zapped by vandals. I'd like to believe no U.S. citizens were involved in this crime. Certainly this sort of vigilante censorship is against the principles that *I* stand for.
Yeah! The music was a big win, too.
You *do* know that there's a Gnu COBOL project?
And do let me know when I can have a single box with 100 PCI-X buses and memory architecture which can support the load without seriously starving the CPUs. Mainframes are a whole 'nother world.
Thank goodness Unix has something vaguely resembling real mainframe-style batch jobs. I'm forever trying to cobble together something on our Windows boxes to let me say, "take care of this. Let me know when it's done. And show your work." as in the good old Bad Old Days when computers worked for us instead of us working for them. A typical workday these days reminds me of the older robots in Asimov's "Runaround", which could not move unless a human was riding them. There is definitely value in some of those old ways.
"Couldn;t they make it so that all youd have to do is set the watch near the power station?"
You mean, Tesla coils and stuff like that? Because a charger base won't help very much if the battery only lasts 3 1/2 hours.
"...Merkins get charged to receive calls..."
:-[
It's worse than that: when cell user A calls cell user B, *both* A *and* B pay full price for the call.
"Phone books...man don't get me started."
One of the smart things the French have done (years ago!) was to stop printing phone books. It was cheaper to give every subscriber a cheap computer terminal and let them query the database themselves.
Let them charge $10.00/lookup. Then I won't have to spend my time taking my number off a list I never wanted in the first place.
Shee, they just don't get it. I'm not a business; if I want you to call me, I'll give you my number; if I don't give you my number, the meaning of that should be obvious.
"The orbit is not dependent on the planet's mass but sthe star's."
Try again. A planet and its primary orbit each other; the mass difference makes it hard to see, but the star wobbles around its center too. IIRC the planets thought to circle Barnard's Star were detected by seeing this wobble. Watch a hammer-throw contest and you'll see what I mean.
So if the orbit is dependent on the mass of the star, it's also dependent on the mass of the planet, albeit much less so.
"...their proportions were 1 by 4 by 9 (the squares of the first three integers)"
Only three? How quickly they forget!
Wouldn't it be a lot easier for Microsoft to teach their people to design things before coding them, so that they don't wind up releasing incompatible updates all the time? IBM came up with this kewl new thing called backward-compatibility -- maybe Microsoft should ask them about it?
Compaq's Insight is the best I've ever used, although that was on Netware. I'm surprised you have so much trouble with it. (Now, if you had said OpenManage....)