If Wal-Mart doubles minimum wage and pays it's employee's that (average salary calculation) they are legal. They are even fair compared to most local employers in the service industry!
I'm not sure what your objecting too -- in America the rule is generally do what you have to do in order to survive. You define survival. The government has went so far as to define a minimum wage. Wal-Mart is doing better than minimum wage... Your beef is?
and that's the same Scott Ritter who has twice now been picked up by local police for attempting to meet children he's met on the Internet for liasons.... Living in his hometown it's great to have such a sterling citizen to sully it's name...
At one time Scott sounded "normal, sane"... then he changed his tune dramatically to ultra left wing... then a year or two after his return from Iraq he attempts to meet two sepearte young ladies (under 16... as in statutory rape) he met on the Internet (two different events, separted by more than a year). Each time he's picked up by the local police department -- it's hushed up until it comes out.
Those who believe in conspiracy theories amongst us may start to wonder -- what was Scott doing in Iraq? Perhaps developing a sexual taste for children? Was that leverage to make him change his "view" so dramatically?
In the end it's hard to take what he says seriously as he's pretty much corrupted himself and his cause.
Sounds like you agree -- Bill G. and Paul A. have at least ten and probably 20 years of huge success in business. After all they found several opportunities and made a profit off of them. The profits from the successes exceeded the losses from their failures.
Sounds like a successful business model for me.
Did you, by any chance, program JavaScript for Netscape -- not I.E. -- only to find that each minor release of Netscape borke compatability? It was maddening! I standardized over 1000 machines at our company on Netscape. We bought the licenses -- commercial copies. We developed Intranet applications for it. With each new small letter release they broke our client side scripts. After the third or fourth one we decided we had an issue!
Incompatability between versions of Netscape + instability of Netscape (crashing constantly -- bugs found but never repaired, etc.) and the lure of MS -- not cost of the product but a stable, backward compatable product drove us to drop Netscape like the trash it became.
Note: this was during the early 3.X days of Netscape. IE 3.X killed Netscape dead. It worked. IE 2.X was better than Netscape was at that point!
For us, Netscape killed Netscape. MS gave us a viable, corporately supportable product.
What's with Europe getting all the cool diesels and the US not?
You can get a VW (Jetta/Golf/Bug) diesel for about the same price as a gas one. It will get about the same milege as the hybrids. It has fewer compromises.
In Europe we can get a BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Kia, etc. with a diesel! Many in similar models to what is sold in the US but with superior milege and torque from the diesel. Where can I buy a nice new 545i diesel????
Public opinion will go the way their bread is buttered -- and right now the general public will run screaming from Linux -- even in it's current form (you may not need to compile programs anymore but you still can't tell J. Public how much weight his cup holder is good for).
Then why not go with Sprint's always on internet option for your laptop? At 80$ per month it's not bad for a constant high bandwidth companion. If you can figure out how to do voice over it your in great shape. All the basics of the web would work quite well...faster than dial up that's for sure.
And I'm sure IBM would love to take those same patents and sue the heck out of every Linux vendor. I somehow don't think that IBM would grant the patents out of the goodness of their hearts to the community at large.
It isn't? More often than not any significant app that abended took the server down in my 10 years experience. It meant loosing hours of production in some cases. Part of it was the vendors faults (i.e.: Btrieve) but the core issue was that Novel was not protected enough to be able to survive bad software.
MS, for all their warts, actually does that better -- not perfect but better.
GUI -- they took a base and built a usable system out of it -- so good that many Linux shell's emulate it.
The main article was about HDTV off a standard DVD -- using a codec developed by MS. As a matter of fact WMP might be said to be very good innovation in it's own right. It is one of the 2 top endeavors in the field today and it smacks of MS.
A file system so good that most Linux released products don't come close -- NTFS. Good enough for production usage. Good or bad it works -- and is reliable and robust.
RDP -- which is a huge innovation over the predeccessors in the field -- i.e.: PC Anywhere doesn't compete. It did start with the core ICA idea from Citrix but was driven by MS to areas that it had never been envisioned before (RDC/etc.). X doesn't hold a candle to RDP.
Commodity delivery of a operating system and office suite to millions while only having a very small percentage of issues. Something the Mac has never been able to do. Linux only dreams of it and can't even come close to ease of use and install. Windows just works. It works on most any hardware -- much more than any competitor.
More likely he's reviewing next week, next quarter and next years product development.
MS runs scared -- always. And they are far from stupid for a corporation. Rest for a short while and they will eat your lunch (Netscape) using legitimate business means. Of course then you'll come back and whine and attempt to break their stronghold on what used to be your market and your customer base will wonder why you became such a non-player.
MS isn't perfect. Far from it. But they learn the playing field, have time and money to try different approaches and where they want to they have the persistence to stomp on any other player in the field.
Business is domination. MS is about business. Profit plan:
1. Invest $$ in MS 2. Watch your money grow quarter over quarter 3. Know that your a part owner in a successful company that innovates technology
Um... see above post re: w2k grabbing TPC behnchmark on 32cpu box. It does support machines of that size.
Does it support pre-empting? I don't know -- would have to research. Perhaps this is an area where Linux could actually surpass Windows -- as it hasn't in any other area to date.
is a fallacy. War doesn't create terrorism. As a matter of fact peace and prosperity have created more terrorists than war ever will.
To sit back and say "we can't strike them because they will bomb us more" is stupid.
We need to let it be known that:
1. Terrorism will bring swift and huge consequences to any nation state that is associated with it. 2. That peaceful means of negotiation exist. 3. That blind obedience of any mantra -- wheather political or religious -- is guaranteed to limit your future.
The total population of the world will not be heald captive by a small percentage. A melting pot approach (US/Roman) will have a much better chance of dominating than a nation/state that understands and tolerates only a single religion/race/way of life.
Has anyone else reviewed the pricing model? Why does the Enterprise Workstation Edition cost $299? This seems kind of steep for an enterprise license... Or do most Slashdotters buy one copy (or download one copy) and copy it across the world?
Most enterprises go for a 1 to 1 -- one license for each desktop to ensure they have legal and proper support. Does that model not work for RH Enterprise Workstation Edition?
Does the upgrade path (upgrades of the stable product yearly, supported for only one year each) seem as bad as or worse than that supplied by MS? After all W2K has had a 3 year run and will have had 4 to 5 before support ends! A 1 year support window seems to:
1. Force upgrades
2. Force re-investments in technology and training on the vendors schedule -- not ours
We know and deal with that with MS but how does such a short (1 year) release cycle help the enterprise?
Wait, their are no ACL fle permissions in ext3???? And you call this an enterprise system? When we roll out desktops they are locked down -- the users have access to only what they need which includes rights down to the file system level. Am I missing something here or is this not already in NTFS????
Honest answers appreciated. If you only have the intelligence to flame please at least have the courtesy to write "flaim bait" as your subject.
Um... I truly think a 11% market share for Apple is dreaming.
Let's say for a minute that they had a 11% market share -- with their rate of sale at 3 to 4% they will loose that market share within a year (if not 18 months). Since their historical market share has not peaked above 4 to 5% in several years I'd put them at, at it's highest, 4 to 5% market share.
It is a given that Red Hat with Apache runs faster than NT or Windows server??? I think I might disagree with that. For static pages either product (RH + A or MSW + IIS) will probably fill your pipe quite handsomely. For dynamic content you will get into many, many other factors and an apples to apples comparison is much harder. RH, when configured appropriately, has less overhead than MSW. MSW, when configured appropriately, is easy to maintain, scalable and has excellant uptime.
Reliability is a function of your systems administrator -- your up time and stability are the administrators responsibility.
Ok, so now we have a new united front in Europe (the EU) and that differs how from the Soviet Union?
Any large nation is a power to be reckoned with. As the EU grows they will face choice after choice -- get closer or get farther apart. If over time they get close enough their is no guarantee that they won't present themselves as a strong enemy of freedom. As a matter of fact you might argue that History says they will eventually be an enemy of freedom.
I agree -- X would be the cheapest. IF they require Windows the next logical step would be Terminal Services under Windows.
In either case -- the lower TCO is based on the rock solid assumption that the end user will NOT be running their own machine and will be totally locked down.
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Contract != permanent job.
A contract should always pay significantly more than a permanent job. If it doesn't, don't take it.
A job implies benefits (usually) and committment (hopefully) on the part of the employer to you.
because you were too squeamish to do what had to be done?
at it's best -- these things have been peer reviewed quite well by now :)
and kill you if your connection is used more than 30% more than your neighbors..
Or
Immediately break your connection when you view porn, right wing web pages (or left wing, as case may be) or anything related to Martha Stewart
Or
Notify the FBI whenever you check out The Catcher in the Rye... (wait, they already do that)
Point: do you really want your ISP to "police" your connection?
If Wal-Mart doubles minimum wage and pays it's employee's that (average salary calculation) they are legal. They are even fair compared to most local employers in the service industry!
I'm not sure what your objecting too -- in America the rule is generally do what you have to do in order to survive. You define survival. The government has went so far as to define a minimum wage. Wal-Mart is doing better than minimum wage... Your beef is?
and that's the same Scott Ritter who has twice now been picked up by local police for attempting to meet children he's met on the Internet for liasons.... Living in his hometown it's great to have such a sterling citizen to sully it's name...
... then he changed his tune dramatically to ultra left wing... then a year or two after his return from Iraq he attempts to meet two sepearte young ladies (under 16... as in statutory rape) he met on the Internet (two different events, separted by more than a year). Each time he's picked up by the local police department -- it's hushed up until it comes out.
At one time Scott sounded "normal, sane"
Those who believe in conspiracy theories amongst us may start to wonder -- what was Scott doing in Iraq? Perhaps developing a sexual taste for children? Was that leverage to make him change his "view" so dramatically?
In the end it's hard to take what he says seriously as he's pretty much corrupted himself and his cause.
How about... because it works? In this application it didn't. So use what works -- it's the right way to do it (tm).
Sounds like you agree -- Bill G. and Paul A. have at least ten and probably 20 years of huge success in business. After all they found several opportunities and made a profit off of them. The profits from the successes exceeded the losses from their failures.
Sounds like a successful business model for me.
Did you, by any chance, program JavaScript for Netscape -- not I.E. -- only to find that each minor release of Netscape borke compatability? It was maddening! I standardized over 1000 machines at our company on Netscape. We bought the licenses -- commercial copies. We developed Intranet applications for it. With each new small letter release they broke our client side scripts. After the third or fourth one we decided we had an issue!
Incompatability between versions of Netscape + instability of Netscape (crashing constantly -- bugs found but never repaired, etc.) and the lure of MS -- not cost of the product but a stable, backward compatable product drove us to drop Netscape like the trash it became.
Note: this was during the early 3.X days of Netscape. IE 3.X killed Netscape dead. It worked. IE 2.X was better than Netscape was at that point!
For us, Netscape killed Netscape. MS gave us a viable, corporately supportable product.
What's with Europe getting all the cool diesels and the US not?
You can get a VW (Jetta/Golf/Bug) diesel for about the same price as a gas one. It will get about the same milege as the hybrids. It has fewer compromises.
In Europe we can get a BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Kia, etc. with a diesel! Many in similar models to what is sold in the US but with superior milege and torque from the diesel. Where can I buy a nice new 545i diesel????
Ambitious politicians is 1/2, isn't it?
No competition here though -- sad to say.
Public opinion will go the way their bread is buttered -- and right now the general public will run screaming from Linux -- even in it's current form (you may not need to compile programs anymore but you still can't tell J. Public how much weight his cup holder is good for).
Then why not go with Sprint's always on internet option for your laptop? At 80$ per month it's not bad for a constant high bandwidth companion. If you can figure out how to do voice over it your in great shape. All the basics of the web would work quite well...faster than dial up that's for sure.
And then IBM can put the screws to Redhat and SuSe -- as they will own the IP and can sue the pants off every Linux OS vendor.
Yet I don't see IBM doing that. More likely they'd buy the company and sue all the Linux OS vendors to drive them out of business.
And I'm sure IBM would love to take those same patents and sue the heck out of every Linux vendor. I somehow don't think that IBM would grant the patents out of the goodness of their hearts to the community at large.
Sour grapes by has beens and companies who have no product and no marketing departments.
It isn't? More often than not any significant app that abended took the server down in my 10 years experience. It meant loosing hours of production in some cases. Part of it was the vendors faults (i.e.: Btrieve) but the core issue was that Novel was not protected enough to be able to survive bad software.
MS, for all their warts, actually does that better -- not perfect but better.
Let's see -
GUI -- they took a base and built a usable system out of it -- so good that many Linux shell's emulate it.
The main article was about HDTV off a standard DVD -- using a codec developed by MS. As a matter of fact WMP might be said to be very good innovation in it's own right. It is one of the 2 top endeavors in the field today and it smacks of MS.
A file system so good that most Linux released products don't come close -- NTFS. Good enough for production usage. Good or bad it works -- and is reliable and robust.
RDP -- which is a huge innovation over the predeccessors in the field -- i.e.: PC Anywhere doesn't compete. It did start with the core ICA idea from Citrix but was driven by MS to areas that it had never been envisioned before (RDC/etc.). X doesn't hold a candle to RDP.
Commodity delivery of a operating system and office suite to millions while only having a very small percentage of issues. Something the Mac has never been able to do. Linux only dreams of it and can't even come close to ease of use and install. Windows just works. It works on most any hardware -- much more than any competitor.
Umm...
More likely he's reviewing next week, next quarter and next years product development.
MS runs scared -- always. And they are far from stupid for a corporation. Rest for a short while and they will eat your lunch (Netscape) using legitimate business means. Of course then you'll come back and whine and attempt to break their stronghold on what used to be your market and your customer base will wonder why you became such a non-player.
MS isn't perfect. Far from it. But they learn the playing field, have time and money to try different approaches and where they want to they have the persistence to stomp on any other player in the field.
Business is domination. MS is about business. Profit plan:
1. Invest $$ in MS
2. Watch your money grow quarter over quarter
3. Know that your a part owner in a successful company that innovates technology
Um... see above post re: w2k grabbing TPC behnchmark on 32cpu box. It does support machines of that size.
Does it support pre-empting? I don't know -- would have to research. Perhaps this is an area where Linux could actually surpass Windows -- as it hasn't in any other area to date.
Osama wanted a liberated home land? What home land?
When you get in to ancient claims of home land it's much harder to justify and almost impossible to deliver without committing genocide.
I thought Osama was Saudi... doesn't that mean he should be attacking the Saudi's?
is a fallacy. War doesn't create terrorism. As a matter of fact peace and prosperity have created more terrorists than war ever will.
To sit back and say "we can't strike them because they will bomb us more" is stupid.
We need to let it be known that:
1. Terrorism will bring swift and huge consequences to any nation state that is associated with it.
2. That peaceful means of negotiation exist.
3. That blind obedience of any mantra -- wheather political or religious -- is guaranteed to limit your future.
The total population of the world will not be heald captive by a small percentage. A melting pot approach (US/Roman) will have a much better chance of dominating than a nation/state that understands and tolerates only a single religion/race/way of life.
Get over it.
Has anyone else reviewed the pricing model? Why does the Enterprise Workstation Edition cost $299? This seems kind of steep for an enterprise license... Or do most Slashdotters buy one copy (or download one copy) and copy it across the world?
Most enterprises go for a 1 to 1 -- one license for each desktop to ensure they have legal and proper support. Does that model not work for RH Enterprise Workstation Edition?
Does the upgrade path (upgrades of the stable product yearly, supported for only one year each) seem as bad as or worse than that supplied by MS? After all W2K has had a 3 year run and will have had 4 to 5 before support ends! A 1 year support window seems to:
1. Force upgrades
2. Force re-investments in technology and training on the vendors schedule -- not ours
We know and deal with that with MS but how does such a short (1 year) release cycle help the enterprise?
Wait, their are no ACL fle permissions in ext3???? And you call this an enterprise system? When we roll out desktops they are locked down -- the users have access to only what they need which includes rights down to the file system level. Am I missing something here or is this not already in NTFS????
Honest answers appreciated. If you only have the intelligence to flame please at least have the courtesy to write "flaim bait" as your subject.
Um... I truly think a 11% market share for Apple is dreaming.
Let's say for a minute that they had a 11% market share -- with their rate of sale at 3 to 4% they will loose that market share within a year (if not 18 months). Since their historical market share has not peaked above 4 to 5% in several years I'd put them at, at it's highest, 4 to 5% market share.
It is a given that Red Hat with Apache runs faster than NT or Windows server??? I think I might disagree with that. For static pages either product (RH + A or MSW + IIS) will probably fill your pipe quite handsomely. For dynamic content you will get into many, many other factors and an apples to apples comparison is much harder. RH, when configured appropriately, has less overhead than MSW. MSW, when configured appropriately, is easy to maintain, scalable and has excellant uptime.
Reliability is a function of your systems administrator -- your up time and stability are the administrators responsibility.
Ok, so now we have a new united front in Europe (the EU) and that differs how from the Soviet Union?
Any large nation is a power to be reckoned with. As the EU grows they will face choice after choice -- get closer or get farther apart. If over time they get close enough their is no guarantee that they won't present themselves as a strong enemy of freedom. As a matter of fact you might argue that History says they will eventually be an enemy of freedom.
I agree -- X would be the cheapest. IF they require Windows the next logical step would be Terminal Services under Windows.
In either case -- the lower TCO is based on the rock solid assumption that the end user will NOT be running their own machine and will be totally locked down.