yeah that kind of would make sense - they need to integrate horizontally like ms has. then sun could stop coming up with lame-ass client ideas like their latest...
sun is like don quixote (sp?) thinking theyre gonna replace the pc...mcnealy and crew need to get it thru their skulls that NOBODY WANTS A JAVA PC!!!! thin-client is good some of the time but theres no reason not to have productivity apps locally hosted...processor power is cheap. sun is not a consumer company, concentrate on providing developer tools and platform and chill out.
difference is, jobs and woz had a _choice_ . this is all highly symbolic but look at the recent cheesy movie on them - when apple took off jobs cut his beard, and blended in with the reast of the suits. back then if you were black you couldnt lead a successful fortune 500 company no matter HOW clean-cut or smart you were.
so, once again i think things are a lot better now but i think its foolish to stick your head in the sand about where the u.s. was/is in terms of equality. votings rights act was was what, forty eyars ago? seems like a lot to those geeks out there but not a lot historically speaking. i'm not an apologist - frankly i think often black people are our own worst enemies. but i dont think historical amnesia is the answer.
somehow i don't think VC firms were as friendly to crazy programmers back then...
i agree that hard work and greed are the main drivers in success in the biz. MY point was (perhaps you didnt get it) that coming from a privileged/connected environment raises your likelihood of success. i'm black, and can see bot hsides of this whole thing. however anyone who thinks it isnt harder if your black is crazy.
lemme tell you a little story. a story about a chap named bill. he desperately wanted to dominate the world. so his well-connected socialite mommy introduced him to some suits at ibm who wanted to buy an operating system. only problem? he couldnt write his own operating system. so he asked his daddy for a quick $50,000 (not inflation adjusted, kiddies). he bought his operating system. and now his company has a net worth of a mildly successful third-world nation. oh, and bill is a billionaire _many_ times over now. and if he hadn't had access to that quick $50,000 , he never would have achieved world domination.
it sickens ME to see people who are so blinded by the future that they refuse to see the present.
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wise up jackass this is the third comment berating posters on complaining about reposting the article. dammit im tired of seeing these posts complaining about posts!!!!!
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_slightly_ offtopic (dammit dont moderate me down), but is aim protocol client server or peer to peer? also msn protocol... i dont know what ietf is doing but doesnt peer to peer make infinitely more sense in the case of messsaging?
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fyi it uses slackware
generally speaking compaq hates intel, not ms altho obviously there's no loyalty in this biz
yeah that kind of would make sense - they need to integrate horizontally like ms has. then sun could stop coming up with lame-ass client ideas like their latest...
man perens gets moderated up for sneezing...
dave whiner...heh heh
amen! telnet would rock...
the _post_, not the quote.
ok i KNEW that post was too witty to be from an american
sun is like don quixote (sp?) thinking theyre gonna replace the pc...mcnealy and crew need to get it thru their skulls that NOBODY WANTS A JAVA PC!!!! thin-client is good some of the time but theres no reason not to have productivity apps locally hosted...processor power is cheap. sun is not a consumer company, concentrate on providing developer tools and platform and chill out.
problem is as more people submit, its harder for them to get to them. solution: more moderators? [arg, roblimo is bad enuf...]
hmm...i wonder if all those linux support startups would agree.
such a typical post!
funny i'd say he took a good situation and made it bad...
difference is, jobs and woz had a _choice_ . this is all highly symbolic but look at the recent cheesy movie on them - when apple took off jobs cut his beard, and blended in with the reast of the suits. back then if you were black you couldnt lead a successful fortune 500 company no matter HOW clean-cut or smart you were.
so, once again i think things are a lot better now but i think its foolish to stick your head in the sand about where the u.s. was/is in terms of equality. votings rights act was was what, forty eyars ago? seems like a lot to those geeks out there but not a lot historically speaking. i'm not an apologist - frankly i think often black people are our own worst enemies. but i dont think historical amnesia is the answer.
somehow i don't think VC firms were as friendly to crazy programmers back then...
i agree that hard work and greed are the main drivers in success in the biz. MY point was (perhaps you didnt get it) that coming from a privileged/connected environment raises your likelihood of success. i'm black, and can see bot hsides of this whole thing. however anyone who thinks it isnt harder if your black is crazy.
lemme tell you a little story. a story about a chap named bill. he desperately wanted to dominate the world. so his well-connected socialite mommy introduced him to some suits at ibm who wanted to buy an operating system. only problem? he couldnt write his own operating system. so he asked his daddy for a quick $50,000 (not inflation adjusted, kiddies). he bought his operating system. and now his company has a net worth of a mildly successful third-world nation. oh, and bill is a billionaire _many_ times over now. and if he hadn't had access to that quick $50,000 , he never would have achieved world domination.
couldnt resist...
amiga will be a unix tailored for masses, as well. beos isnt unix but they are making a dumb-ass frienlyd version.
it sickens ME to see people who are so blinded by the future that they refuse to see the present.
wise up jackass this is the third comment berating posters on complaining about reposting the article. dammit im tired of seeing these posts complaining about posts!!!!!
whats the best proxy/firewall package for linux?
your website is odd.
_slightly_ offtopic (dammit dont moderate me down), but is aim protocol client server or peer to peer? also msn protocol ... i dont know what ietf is doing but doesnt peer to peer make infinitely more sense in the case of messsaging?
a slashdot thread on weed...i cant even look.
nice sig but i thouight the quote was "64K ought to be enough for anybody" not 16...