Actually, you have the issue backwards. Your selection of MS-Exchange as a messaging platform has limited the financially viable choices available to your firm to basically, Windows Mobile. Don't blame your vendor lock in on anyone other than your messaging vendor and the person who decided to buy MS-Exchange. You didn't HAVE TO do it.
Insightful? LOL. There was a time when there were more applications for Macintosh. From 1986 until 1990, Windows was irrelevant. Mac was the future.... Then Windows 3.x happened. History is repeating itself in front of our very eyes.
Flash forward to now. Apple has met it's match. And unlike with windows where Apple faced an cheaper, inferior product that was just barely good enough (Windows 3.x), Apple is facing a product that is it's equal in Android (yes, it's that good). As Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and others bring more Android hardware to market and Verizon, Sprint and other carriers offer Android to theri customers, the tide will turn quickly on software development as well.
You are all kinds of wrong on claiming the founding fathers of the United States were "a type of atheists". 1.9% were Catholic, 1.9% were unitarian, and the balance were Protestant Christians. (http://www.adherents.com/gov/Founding_Fathers_Religion.html)
Also, the United States is in no way a fundamentalist state. First, we have no state religion. Second, you are free to practice the faith of your choice or not, period.
Pretty much nailed the Libretto, except the flash drive and Wifi, which in '97 was largely non-existent. Calling the Libretto the forerunner to today's netbooks is accurate. Having owned a Libretto, it immediately came to mind when I first saw what we are calling netbooks.
So far as your standards, the Libretto met them all, save one, which basically didn't exist:
#4) solid state drive. Didn't exist then, and doesn't sell well vs. a hard drive now.
The Libretto would get checks across the board on everything else. Even it's base price of $1,295 with a passive color screen was very cheap back then.
Will - The 286 was just fine. The biggest issue was switching from protected mode to 8086 compatible real mode. You had to reset the processor using the keyboard controller, so it slowed things down a bit. The other issue was the use of a segment register instead of a real MMU... As I recall the 286 had a 24 bit bus, which allowed access to 16MB of memory (a 16 bit bus lets you get to 1MB).
There was a lot to like about the 286. They were cheap, fast (protected mode was 2-2.5x faster than real mode) and were all over the place because of the cheap part.
In a lot of ways, IBM's bet on using 286 protected mode was that the installed base was a more important market than the new computer market. I think their idea was OS/2 would sell because it would unleash the power of all the 286 clones. Microsoft saw things differently.
On the first part, you are right. People will have to account for a sales tax when they make a purchase. At the same time, if the income tax were eliminated, someone having 15-20% of their paycheck withheld will suddenly find that 20% being paid to them. Assuming a 25% tax rate, that sucks, but if the rate is more around 20% it's a wash.
On the second part, you are referring to the Fair Tax, and not a flat tax. The Fair Tax people suggest you give a "prebate" to everyone that would cover the transaction tax on the first $X of spending. There's no means testing in their model, which means everyone gets the prebate regardless of rich/poor. It's a little arrogant to assume that *all* poor people can't make responsible decisions with their money. Some will make bad decisions, but I suspect most would simply save a little more. Most people I know who are not wealthy simply can't make enough to get ahead. The prebate and a little saving might really help fix this, as wealth is what you have left after expenses are subtracted from income.
Regardless, I'm not sure about either a flat or fair tax. I'm just sure our existing tax system is far, far worse than either of these transactional taxes.
Actually, the 8086 and 8088 had no protected memory and were unsuitable for multiuser, preemptive multitasking. The 80286 was fine. It had protected memory and was built to multitask. The issue with the 286 was that it used 64KB memory pages, which imposed some challenges in writing software compared to the much simpler flat address model that was offered by the 68000 and later the 80386 processor. Back then, we were all used to 64KB pages thanks to the 8088 and 8086, but it still sucked.
/ Cut my teeth on 286 assembly language back in the day
It all changes as Samsung and Motorola release their Android phones. T-Mobile is just the first to offer an Android phone. As Moto and Samsung join in, Android will be on more than one carrier's network.
Market share in mobile phones swings fast, and Android is the platform of the future.
Most of these replies show a profound lack of understanding of what corporate taxes are. I am not an accountant or lawyer, but I do own a couple of small companies. There are generally three kinds of taxes companies pay:
Payroll taxes - paid on top of what employees are paid. Property & Inventory taxes - usually state level taxes that charge a percentage of the value of a company's real assets. Corporate income tax - paid on the profits of the company. Here's the suck feature: your company generates a profit, your are taxed on it. The you pay a dividend, and the people who receive the dividend are taxed on that.
The tax we are really talking about is corporate income taxes. There is a situation where you simply don't have to pay taxes:
Don't have a profit. Don't pay any corporate income tax.
It's not that corporations aren't paying their "fair share" - it's just that we don't tax a corporation's revenues, we tax profits. Now, you as an individual have to pay taxes on your personal revenues. Our tax system is tuned to relieve individual citizens of their income.
So why the brouhaha about offshore subsidiaries? Because they look like a gold mine. It's fool's gold and will make a lot of people who think that taxes and justice go together feel good for about 10 minutes when we pass some sham law that does nothing. All that will happen is that companies will simply change how they do business, and ensure that they barely break even and will avoid corporate income tax anyway.
I for one really don't care much for our tax system. It makes good people into criminals too easily. It punishes success, while doing little to help the poor acquire wealth (which is how you make someone cease to be poor). Our byzantine tax system relies on voluntary compliance to a set of rules that make little or no sense and require years of litigation to clarify. It also costs a small fortune to manage and collect, a small fortune that could be used to do something productive, like provide free health care or even pay off the war bill.
Someone else suggested transactional taxes would really help, and I tend to agree. It's much harder to duck paying a sales tax, and the tax can be a lot smaller. How's 14% of that purchase sound compared to 38% of your income? Sounds good to me, and oh, being profitable would become a good thing again.
When are people going to learn that if you provide identifying information to a service provider, it can and will be used against you if you do something illegal or that a private rights holder does not like. It blows my mind when I see people happily registering for torrent trackers, warez sites, and even rapid share, and then thinking that somehow the information given to the service is safe. It's a matter of time until someone goes after *downloaders* and with these sites, EVERYTHING is exposed.
This article assumes that there is no competition for the iPhone. As a G-1 owner, all I can do is give a hooked grin to the author and snicker just a little. Android is that good.
Says who? On what basis? Yes, changing OS is disruptive, but it solves the problem of malware in near finality. Personally, I made the jump this year, and have not lost a single day to malware or OS issues. I can still run Windows apps when needed (hello VirtualBox), but don't have to for the basics: email, web, word processing, etc... VirtualBox in many ways is a padded cell to Windows insanity.
Reimaging is all fine and good until the guy in accounting calls and asks where the proforma balance sheets for next weeks annual report went that were on drive C:. Also: pushing a reimage to your users is easier on paper than it is in real life. Add to that the average cost of a new PC may be substantially less than fixing a software hosed one (data recovery is THE COST), and you really have to wonder why IT people continue to protect bad infrastructure.
Don't even get me started with some of the features of Linux that make it incredible for network use: X11, AndrewFS, CUPS, interoperability (it talks to everything), apt (or rpm), OpenVPN, etc... All of which remove barriers, while much software creates. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Time to Study up. I don't think Afghanistan, for example, has a very large middle class. Or if it does, you are defining a middle class that would be in the poverty band in a Western country.
Economics tears nations apart, not religion. In a lot of ways, blaming religion is a cop out because fundamentalism prospers where there is poverty and fear for the future.
Without massive poverty, fear and masses of people at the bottom of Maslow's needs hierarchy, it's pretty hard to foment hate and discontent. People don't so readily give up a good life. They will with ease give up crappy for even worse.
"The quest of plentiful resources" is not the issue: it's the not so plentiful ones that cause wars.
A) Wrong. UAC is a trap and approve model. Sudo is simply a command that runs a program as root. UAC tries to catch escalations and ask the user for an ok to do so. With sudo, the user runs a program as root. Some programs are smart enough to spawn a process using sudo to get the user's permission to do something, but for the most part, it's about launching a program with the right permissions to begin with.
B) Totally agree on the usability points, except that UAC and sudo are kissing cousins. One is a bald-faced hornet, and the other is a Japanese Giant Hornet. (if you know your hornets, the American bald-faced hornet is actually a wasp, and the other can kill 30,000 honey bees in about three hours)
C) It will be a cold day in a very hot place when someone finds a magic patch for legacy Windows apps and programmers who have not updated their skills.
No. People piled on Microsoft because UAC was a nuisance and did little to improve security because even experienced users became conditioned to click on continue whenever they heard "bing".
It was the world's largest exercise in Pavlovian conditioning. The Unix sudo model tends to work much better, and there are far fewer points where root access is required to get a particular task done.
I was hoping the first 10 minutes of Idiocracy wasn't true. Unfortunately, after returning from Tomorrowland at Disney and reading this article, I fear the Cleavons will take over the earth.
1. Use people you've worked with that respect you as a reference, not the manager. Potential employers want to talk to people that really know your work not the political management.
2. Offer to go on contract as a consultant at 1.5x your pay rate.
3. Have attorney send letter to HR, Boss and bosses boss. Cost $100, result, priceless.
That ought to do it.
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The whole social network phenomenon is a lot like the lottery:
* You can't win if you don't play. * You can't loose if you don't play.
The price of admission to the social network game is:
* Loss of privacy. * You may meet new people. Some may be good and others may be bad. * Get a new free email account because harvesting emails out of social networks is the new hotness for small time spamtrepreneurs.
It's a lot like real life. The more friends you have the less private life is, and the more people want you to sign up for their MLM.
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Actually, you have the issue backwards. Your selection of MS-Exchange as a messaging platform has limited the financially viable choices available to your firm to basically, Windows Mobile. Don't blame your vendor lock in on anyone other than your messaging vendor and the person who decided to buy MS-Exchange. You didn't HAVE TO do it.
Insightful? LOL. There was a time when there were more applications for Macintosh. From 1986 until 1990, Windows was irrelevant. Mac was the future.... Then Windows 3.x happened. History is repeating itself in front of our very eyes.
Flash forward to now. Apple has met it's match. And unlike with windows where Apple faced an cheaper, inferior product that was just barely good enough (Windows 3.x), Apple is facing a product that is it's equal in Android (yes, it's that good). As Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and others bring more Android hardware to market and Verizon, Sprint and other carriers offer Android to theri customers, the tide will turn quickly on software development as well.
Six weeks. Samsung and Moto have product releases scheduled, as does HTC.
he thought religion was only good for stupid people
Hmm. I guess that's why George Washington penned over 100 prayers in his lifetime and spent quite a bit of time corresponding with clergymen.
http://hnn.us/articles/34925.html
Washington was a lot of things, but an atheist he was not. And it really doesn't matter anyway if he was or was not.
You are all kinds of wrong on claiming the founding fathers of the United States were "a type of atheists". 1.9% were Catholic, 1.9% were unitarian, and the balance were Protestant Christians. (http://www.adherents.com/gov/Founding_Fathers_Religion.html)
Also, the United States is in no way a fundamentalist state. First, we have no state religion. Second, you are free to practice the faith of your choice or not, period.
Pretty much nailed the Libretto, except the flash drive and Wifi, which in '97 was largely non-existent. Calling the Libretto the forerunner to today's netbooks is accurate. Having owned a Libretto, it immediately came to mind when I first saw what we are calling netbooks.
So far as your standards, the Libretto met them all, save one, which basically didn't exist:
#4) solid state drive. Didn't exist then, and doesn't sell well vs. a hard drive now.
The Libretto would get checks across the board on everything else. Even it's base price of $1,295 with a passive color screen was very cheap back then.
I suggest killing it with fire first.
Will - The 286 was just fine. The biggest issue was switching from protected mode to 8086 compatible real mode. You had to reset the processor using the keyboard controller, so it slowed things down a bit. The other issue was the use of a segment register instead of a real MMU... As I recall the 286 had a 24 bit bus, which allowed access to 16MB of memory (a 16 bit bus lets you get to 1MB).
There was a lot to like about the 286. They were cheap, fast (protected mode was 2-2.5x faster than real mode) and were all over the place because of the cheap part.
In a lot of ways, IBM's bet on using 286 protected mode was that the installed base was a more important market than the new computer market. I think their idea was OS/2 would sell because it would unleash the power of all the 286 clones. Microsoft saw things differently.
On the first part, you are right. People will have to account for a sales tax when they make a purchase. At the same time, if the income tax were eliminated, someone having 15-20% of their paycheck withheld will suddenly find that 20% being paid to them. Assuming a 25% tax rate, that sucks, but if the rate is more around 20% it's a wash.
On the second part, you are referring to the Fair Tax, and not a flat tax. The Fair Tax people suggest you give a "prebate" to everyone that would cover the transaction tax on the first $X of spending. There's no means testing in their model, which means everyone gets the prebate regardless of rich/poor. It's a little arrogant to assume that *all* poor people can't make responsible decisions with their money. Some will make bad decisions, but I suspect most would simply save a little more. Most people I know who are not wealthy simply can't make enough to get ahead. The prebate and a little saving might really help fix this, as wealth is what you have left after expenses are subtracted from income.
Regardless, I'm not sure about either a flat or fair tax. I'm just sure our existing tax system is far, far worse than either of these transactional taxes.
Actually, the 8086 and 8088 had no protected memory and were unsuitable for multiuser, preemptive multitasking. The 80286 was fine. It had protected memory and was built to multitask. The issue with the 286 was that it used 64KB memory pages, which imposed some challenges in writing software compared to the much simpler flat address model that was offered by the 68000 and later the 80386 processor. Back then, we were all used to 64KB pages thanks to the 8088 and 8086, but it still sucked.
/ Cut my teeth on 286 assembly language back in the day
It all changes as Samsung and Motorola release their Android phones. T-Mobile is just the first to offer an Android phone. As Moto and Samsung join in, Android will be on more than one carrier's network.
Market share in mobile phones swings fast, and Android is the platform of the future.
Most of these replies show a profound lack of understanding of what corporate taxes are. I am not an accountant or lawyer, but I do own a couple of small companies. There are generally three kinds of taxes companies pay:
Payroll taxes - paid on top of what employees are paid.
Property & Inventory taxes - usually state level taxes that charge a percentage of the value of a company's real assets.
Corporate income tax - paid on the profits of the company. Here's the suck feature: your company generates a profit, your are taxed on it. The you pay a dividend, and the people who receive the dividend are taxed on that.
The tax we are really talking about is corporate income taxes. There is a situation where you simply don't have to pay taxes:
Don't have a profit. Don't pay any corporate income tax.
It's not that corporations aren't paying their "fair share" - it's just that we don't tax a corporation's revenues, we tax profits. Now, you as an individual have to pay taxes on your personal revenues. Our tax system is tuned to relieve individual citizens of their income.
So why the brouhaha about offshore subsidiaries? Because they look like a gold mine. It's fool's gold and will make a lot of people who think that taxes and justice go together feel good for about 10 minutes when we pass some sham law that does nothing. All that will happen is that companies will simply change how they do business, and ensure that they barely break even and will avoid corporate income tax anyway.
I for one really don't care much for our tax system. It makes good people into criminals too easily. It punishes success, while doing little to help the poor acquire wealth (which is how you make someone cease to be poor). Our byzantine tax system relies on voluntary compliance to a set of rules that make little or no sense and require years of litigation to clarify. It also costs a small fortune to manage and collect, a small fortune that could be used to do something productive, like provide free health care or even pay off the war bill.
Someone else suggested transactional taxes would really help, and I tend to agree. It's much harder to duck paying a sales tax, and the tax can be a lot smaller. How's 14% of that purchase sound compared to 38% of your income? Sounds good to me, and oh, being profitable would become a good thing again.
Best advice I've ever heard on cabling:
If you have to drill holes to run it, make your own. If you don't buy it premade.
Second best advice:
Test it all. Even if it comes in a shrink wrap package.
When are people going to learn that if you provide identifying information to a service provider, it can and will be used against you if you do something illegal or that a private rights holder does not like. It blows my mind when I see people happily registering for torrent trackers, warez sites, and even rapid share, and then thinking that somehow the information given to the service is safe. It's a matter of time until someone goes after *downloaders* and with these sites, EVERYTHING is exposed.
This article assumes that there is no competition for the iPhone. As a G-1 owner, all I can do is give a hooked grin to the author and snicker just a little. Android is that good.
Stuff like this is why there is a United States.
The real challenge with promoting Linux is that if you push, you usually fail. Linux is usually pulled in by situations that need a novel solution.
System hardening is more cost-effective decision
Says who? On what basis? Yes, changing OS is disruptive, but it solves the problem of malware in near finality. Personally, I made the jump this year, and have not lost a single day to malware or OS issues. I can still run Windows apps when needed (hello VirtualBox), but don't have to for the basics: email, web, word processing, etc... VirtualBox in many ways is a padded cell to Windows insanity.
Reimaging is all fine and good until the guy in accounting calls and asks where the proforma balance sheets for next weeks annual report went that were on drive C:. Also: pushing a reimage to your users is easier on paper than it is in real life. Add to that the average cost of a new PC may be substantially less than fixing a software hosed one (data recovery is THE COST), and you really have to wonder why IT people continue to protect bad infrastructure.
Don't even get me started with some of the features of Linux that make it incredible for network use: X11, AndrewFS, CUPS, interoperability (it talks to everything), apt (or rpm), OpenVPN, etc... All of which remove barriers, while much software creates. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Time to Study up. I don't think Afghanistan, for example, has a very large middle class. Or if it does, you are defining a middle class that would be in the poverty band in a Western country.
Economics tears nations apart, not religion. In a lot of ways, blaming religion is a cop out because fundamentalism prospers where there is poverty and fear for the future.
Without massive poverty, fear and masses of people at the bottom of Maslow's needs hierarchy, it's pretty hard to foment hate and discontent. People don't so readily give up a good life. They will with ease give up crappy for even worse.
"The quest of plentiful resources" is not the issue: it's the not so plentiful ones that cause wars.
A) Wrong. UAC is a trap and approve model. Sudo is simply a command that runs a program as root. UAC tries to catch escalations and ask the user for an ok to do so. With sudo, the user runs a program as root. Some programs are smart enough to spawn a process using sudo to get the user's permission to do something, but for the most part, it's about launching a program with the right permissions to begin with.
B) Totally agree on the usability points, except that UAC and sudo are kissing cousins. One is a bald-faced hornet, and the other is a Japanese Giant Hornet. (if you know your hornets, the American bald-faced hornet is actually a wasp, and the other can kill 30,000 honey bees in about three hours)
C) It will be a cold day in a very hot place when someone finds a magic patch for legacy Windows apps and programmers who have not updated their skills.
No. People piled on Microsoft because UAC was a nuisance and did little to improve security because even experienced users became conditioned to click on continue whenever they heard "bing".
It was the world's largest exercise in Pavlovian conditioning. The Unix sudo model tends to work much better, and there are far fewer points where root access is required to get a particular task done.
I was hoping the first 10 minutes of Idiocracy wasn't true. Unfortunately, after returning from Tomorrowland at Disney and reading this article, I fear the Cleavons will take over the earth.
1. Use people you've worked with that respect you as a reference, not the manager. Potential employers want to talk to people that really know your work not the political management.
2. Offer to go on contract as a consultant at 1.5x your pay rate.
3. Have attorney send letter to HR, Boss and bosses boss. Cost $100, result, priceless.
That ought to do it.
The whole social network phenomenon is a lot like the lottery:
* You can't win if you don't play.
* You can't loose if you don't play.
The price of admission to the social network game is:
* Loss of privacy.
* You may meet new people. Some may be good and others may be bad.
* Get a new free email account because harvesting emails out of social networks is the new hotness for small time spamtrepreneurs.
It's a lot like real life. The more friends you have the less private life is, and the more people want you to sign up for their MLM.