I'm sorry. If the class of "distributed database clients" No it isn't just a distributed database either. It's a distributed application and database platform. Hell it's even described in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_notes#Programmi ng
It gets marketed as a groupware system because that's all most people can understand about it. That's a criticism of most IT staff and management btw and possibly an explanation of why most company's infrastructures are so fucked.
It's just a crummy piece of software. What you really mean is you're simply not up to the job of operating it competently. It's a tool. Do I think it's all roses? By no means, but when set up, operated and developed for competently it's a competent bit of kit. It simply reflects the quality of the team behind it.
OK. Your problem is oil. That's what's causing you to be expensive compared to the rest of the world.
In 1971 the US government managed to make the US dollar the sole currency for oil transactions. This resulted in every other oil consuming country in the world buying lots of dollars to hold in their strategic reserves. The result is that the dollar became very expensive and gained huge buying power, imports began flooding into the US and Americans became expensive to employ.
If you want to stop the flood of jobs out of the country and the flood of imports in to the country you're going to have to break the oil/dollar link. Unfortunately that would prevent the US government from printing and spending money with abandon on it's pet projects so I don't see it happening until there's some kind of a crisis. It would also cause the dollar to devalue significantly and generate large amounts of inflation in the US, it would however make Americans much cheaper to employ and given a few years the import/export balance would be restored.
The textbook case would, of course, be Lotus Domino/Notes. Which is more expensive per-seat than Outlook/Exchange Sorry, Notes isn't just an email/groupware client/server like Exchange. It's a distributed application and database platform. And yes, it takes more work than your typical MS certified whatever can handle. Many of them don't even understand the benefits of the system. Set up and developed by a competent team, Notes can transform the way business processes work.
Things like MQseries, Notes, TSM. They understand how these products mathematically benefit customers. A lot of other software houses have no clue how to actually benefit businesses, they just want to sell software. I'm not saying that no others can do the same job, but IBM is a one stop shop of best practices.
Besides, we're already going dual and quad core on our desktops. Interesting. We're going thin client on ours. What can I say? Thanks for subsidising our infrastructure.
By the same logic -- Not quite by the same logic. I'm comparing all rail travel against all travel. You're comparing a tiny proportion of road transport against all road transport. You're deliberately choosing a small fraction, I'm deliberately choosing an entire class of transport.
You make a very good point for me though. A transport system is useless if it doesn't go where you want to. For rail, that's about 90% of all travel. And it's not just France, in almost all of the countries, rail makes up only about 10% of all travel.
Yep, and especially in France, 50% of the time of a journey is spent getting to the station, waiting for the train, waiting for a connection, Why. I'm so glad you mentioned some of the problems of rail.
What people want is fast and easy door to door travel. Now that does sound like a good idea. http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/prtquick. htm
Even in the EU, 9 out of 10 passenger miles do not involve public transport. There are good physicical limitations why and it has nothing to do with addiction, instead it has everything to do with the fundamental limitations of group based vehicles.
Ya know what scares me? Even geeks, the very people who should be touting a technical solution to environmental problems, are saying crap like this now. Except that technical solutions can't fix social problems. The solution is economic. A switch to making energy a touch more expensive and human labour a touch less so.
We don't have to give up cars or even change our lifestyles much.
We need an international Apollo style program to control climate change. And that would be the really really expensive way to do it but I like your style when proposing to spend other people's money.
The only reason it's so cheap is the corn lobby demanding big payouts from the government. It's not even particularly healthy, corn syrup isn't the best form of sugar for you. And it's a crap source for ethanol production too.
who are really our customers They are not my customers. The people who call them have no relation to me. You are trying to treat people who use Linux as a single coherent body. It's a phantom, there is no Linux community, there is no coherent body, just a load of individuals.
Want to know one of the main stumbling blocks to further widespread adoption of Linux? Complete rubbish. There's a huge investment in legacy systems and the added complication of a deliberately maintained network effect.
it needs everyone working to create a single comprehensive distro. Single point of failure.
You see it a lot in government and other large organisations, in the space programme for example. A single direction dictated from above which turns out to be completely inappropriate after billions or trillions have been spent. ESR called it the cathedral, it's just a form of totalitarianism and it's the antithesis of freedom.
Choice is good... but only when there is at least one option that meets the need No. Choice is always good. It means that if there's a gap, someone, somewhere will fill it. Without that choice it will take a lot longer to fill. You're essentially serialising the process.
The world doesn't need another linux distro, it needs everyone working to create a single comprehensive distro. You should read the mythical man month. More people on a project doesn't necessarily make it faster or better.
With ajax, you're essentially opening up the guts of your application to the world, both the server and client side are wide open to exploitation, neither side can trust the other. It's a security nightmare, far more difficult to secure than your regular client/server application.
Yes, there is. You can boil your 1 kg of coffee and then drink it; it has value, and in that it's different from money. Are you freaking kidding me here? It's utility is that you can boil it and drink it, there's no such thing as intrinsic value, there's only market value.
What, in your eyes, is the definition of money? Money... Is... the most marketable commodity. That's it's utility. Whatever you want to exchange it for, people will be happy to take it. Try exchanging a kilo of coffee for 10 litres of gas some day. Read the mises.org page I mentioned.
Oh please, no government of a reasonably developed country will try to "profit" by driving up inflation Oh but they do. All of them. Remember that governments are made up of politicians and bureaucrats. If a politician makes a promise, he has to raise taxation to pay for it... Unless he simply prints the money instead. How on earth do you think the Iraq war is being paid for? War taxes? Nope, they're printing the money, have you noticed inflation in the US increasing? They've been increasing interest rates to try to suck some of the money back out of the economy.
that's just irresponsible and counterproductive Yes... It is... Very... However, your average man in the street basically doesn't understand how it works so they can do as they like and blame inflation, gas prices, house prices, foreign countries or whatever.
Read their main example there - the US government made some pocket change on collectible quarters - a feat akin to releasing a line of commemorative stamps. Just an easy to understand example. The government actually performs the same trick every day, but on a much larger scale. Imagine the cost was zero; a change in a database entry. The federal reserve creates magical new money by changing a database, then they lend that money to the government/politicians, who then spend it and increase inflation. That's how it works today. Look up the M3 money supply figures. Compare the charts with the value of a dollar over the years... Good, innit.
For everything but the volume control/mute button on the stereo.
"car, turn up the air conditioning and close the windows."
Oh, and gags to keep the kids quiet.
You don't think Firefox is bloated?
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Does this mean that Firefox is getting bloaty? Not really.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5373 colin 15 0 246m 71m 23m S 18.9 16.3 14:08.68 firefox-bin
Seems pretty big to me. Konqueror is a fraction of that size.
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Last I heard, dye based TiO2 cells were on the order of about 5% efficient. Still, at 1/10th the price it's still cheap.
It gets marketed as a groupware system because that's all most people can understand about it. That's a criticism of most IT staff and management btw and possibly an explanation of why most company's infrastructures are so fucked. It's just a crummy piece of software. What you really mean is you're simply not up to the job of operating it competently. It's a tool. Do I think it's all roses? By no means, but when set up, operated and developed for competently it's a competent bit of kit. It simply reflects the quality of the team behind it.
OK. Your problem is oil. That's what's causing you to be expensive compared to the rest of the world.
In 1971 the US government managed to make the US dollar the sole currency for oil transactions. This resulted in every other oil consuming country in the world buying lots of dollars to hold in their strategic reserves. The result is that the dollar became very expensive and gained huge buying power, imports began flooding into the US and Americans became expensive to employ.
If you want to stop the flood of jobs out of the country and the flood of imports in to the country you're going to have to break the oil/dollar link. Unfortunately that would prevent the US government from printing and spending money with abandon on it's pet projects so I don't see it happening until there's some kind of a crisis. It would also cause the dollar to devalue significantly and generate large amounts of inflation in the US, it would however make Americans much cheaper to employ and given a few years the import/export balance would be restored.
Simply copy across your home directory. Bingo, all your favourite settings...
Things like MQseries, Notes, TSM. They understand how these products mathematically benefit customers. A lot of other software houses have no clue how to actually benefit businesses, they just want to sell software. I'm not saying that no others can do the same job, but IBM is a one stop shop of best practices.
You make a very good point for me though. A transport system is useless if it doesn't go where you want to. For rail, that's about 90% of all travel. And it's not just France, in almost all of the countries, rail makes up only about 10% of all travel.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/353365538624
It's an amazingly consistent figure.
So... We want to reduce car usage, reduce energy etc. Rail isn't the answer.
http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/prtquick
Even in France, 9 in 10 passenger miles are not by rail.
For whom your standard group based transport system is completely useless.
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Even in the EU, 9 out of 10 passenger miles do not involve public transport. There are good physicical limitations why and it has nothing to do with addiction, instead it has everything to do with the fundamental limitations of group based vehicles.
http://www.whynot.net/ideas/2195
We don't have to give up cars or even change our lifestyles much. We need an international Apollo style program to control climate change. And that would be the really really expensive way to do it but I like your style when proposing to spend other people's money.
The only reason it's so cheap is the corn lobby demanding big payouts from the government. It's not even particularly healthy, corn syrup isn't the best form of sugar for you. And it's a crap source for ethanol production too.
You see it a lot in government and other large organisations, in the space programme for example. A single direction dictated from above which turns out to be completely inappropriate after billions or trillions have been spent. ESR called it the cathedral, it's just a form of totalitarianism and it's the antithesis of freedom. Choice is good... but only when there is at least one option that meets the need No. Choice is always good. It means that if there's a gap, someone, somewhere will fill it. Without that choice it will take a lot longer to fill. You're essentially serialising the process. The world doesn't need another linux distro, it needs everyone working to create a single comprehensive distro. You should read the mythical man month. More people on a project doesn't necessarily make it faster or better.
to turn it into a bloated monstrosity because it would be so much more useful if it just did this one tiny little additional thing.
blank© was copyrighted several years ago, the license to use it is only $5 per letter. $7 if in bold or italics.
With ajax, you're essentially opening up the guts of your application to the world, both the server and client side are wide open to exploitation, neither side can trust the other. It's a security nightmare, far more difficult to secure than your regular client/server application.
Geeks will again be able to play games without losing weight or gaining muscle tone. The geek world has been saved.
MS Office isn't 100% compatible with MS Office...
HTH
And you are an anonymous coward. I don't think anything more needs to be said.
For everything but the volume control/mute button on the stereo.
"car, turn up the air conditioning and close the windows."
Oh, and gags to keep the kids quiet.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5373 colin 15 0 246m 71m 23m S 18.9 16.3 14:08.68 firefox-bin
Seems pretty big to me. Konqueror is a fraction of that size.