He won't be invited to the presidential debates because the bipartisan commission on debates took organizing the debates over from the league of women voters after the latter invited H. Ross Perot two election cycles in a row. The bipartisan commission instituted a rule where a candidate has to poll at over 15% nationally in order to be invited. There is a tremendous amount of conjecture that this rule was put into place to keep Ralph Nader out of the debates in 2000.
As it is not impossible for a senator to commit a crime, any competent airline clerk would reject him if his name was on the list. A clerk is not responsible for making judgments as to which persons on the list should be allowed through, but for making sure that the names on the list do not get through. I feel much safer knowing that even senators can't bluff their way past airline clerks, but need to call other government officials who in turn need to contact the clerk's supervisor through appropriate channels.
Now that we've established that the clerks are doing their job, I just wish that I felt safe about the department of homeland security doing its job.
While you're correct that Sun started out with workstations, they've been doing big iron for more than five years. The telco billing project I worked on for six years launched on Sun servers several years before I was added to the project.
But you're attempting to reduce a decision entirely to monetary considerations. If money was my only consideration, they you would be quite correct that I'm a moron.
I came into a large cash windfall last year and used it to buy an iMac. For a long time our house had two boxes: one OS X box and one Linux box. Last month the display adaptor on the Linux box failed. The replacement was another OS X box.
My wife usually tapes Survivor. It usually runs every Thursday night at 8pm. This week, it ran on Wednesday because of the NCAA playoffs. Other weeks, it started late due to special news briefs or other sporting events. On all of these days, the timer set to run at 8pm to 9pm on Thursday nights didn't grab the show.
If we had used a device like TiVO, my wife would only need to punch in a season pass for the show and all the new episodes would've been recorded regardless of when they ran or how they were pre-empted.
Not to mention, with a TiVO one can set the box to record, start watching the show 20 minutes later and blip through all the commercials to watch an hour show in forty minutes as it is being broadcast.
Then there is the ability to 'pause' live TV.
And, the TiVOs that are hooked up to digital cable and/or satellite can usually record two shows simultaneously while a third is being played back. Try that with your VCR!
With a Pentium IV and a fast system bus, I would expect this thing to draw a lot of power. When I went from an Athlon based system to an iMac, my power bill dropped by almost ten bucks a month. I'd hate to see it spike from a set top appliance.
I very well could be wrong, but it seems to me that Apple stands the most to gain from Linux being destroyed. Would Linux users migrate wholesale to Windows in any form? For the most part, they would not when alternatives like OS X exist. Then there are the BSDs, although if SCO succeeds against Linux, the BSDs will undoubtedly be next.
Now if Longhorn were based around Unix as OS X is, then Microsoft could stand to gain from the brutal slaughter of Linux. Microsoft would obviously be the migration path for Unix on x86 short of IBM or some other vendor making a new big push into the x86 Unix space.
But as it is, the only possible advantage to Microsoft is the FUD factor which has the potential to put off migrations to Linux while Microsoft finishes up Longhorn.
... oftentimes (not always) management doesn't have a clue as to who the good workers are. For example, I know a guy at my last job that was pretty pissed off at the way the company was handling layoffs and pretty much stopped working. In the eighteen months following the layoffs, he maybe put in one or two man-months of work and spent the rest of the time goofing off. At his performance evaluation, he got put into the top quartile of the companies workers and was promoted to the next level of the food chain which came with a 17% raise at the time when most workers weren't even getting cost of living raises.
While I have no doubt that there are good managers out there, in fact I've worked for some of them, it seems quite clear to me that there is frequently a disconnect between a manager's perception of who the good workers are and who the good workers are. So, when managers are the ones making out the lists of who to let go, it very well might seem random to the rank and file.
This is what the lawsuit is all about. Autozone ported their SCO point of sale system to Linux. SCO is arguing that they are using SCO binary libraries to do so and that doing such is a violation of SCO's copyrights.
Apparently the best way to get sued by SCO is to do business with them.
I'd be willing to shell out another USD 100 for a lifetime subscription for PVR scheduling information. Unless MS can hit this price, I've no interest in an XBOX2.
Windows NT ran on Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC alongside x86. PowerPC support was discontinued when Motorola was no longer interested in funding development. It is kind of interesting to see rumors that Windows XP is reviving PowerPC support.
If the rumors are true, it makes me wonder if IBM is funding support of the development. Traditionally, Microsoft has only supported non x86 Windows where the chip vendor was willing to pay for development. As each of the non-x86 chip vendors stopped funding development, Microsoft has canned support.
Aside from the annual subscription rate for the software, they also stand to make money on selling hardware and services for infrastructure from these deals. Even if the actual office suite is be a loss leader (which I do not believe to be the case, but I could be wrong), it still brings in a tremendous amount of income on other fronts which would make it analagous to Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
Cygnus, purchased by Red Hat, was not only a profitable firm before being purchased by Red Hat, it is also largely responsible for the profitable quarters that Red Hat has had over the past couple of years.
Cygnus built their business around open source. Their main product was offering support for the Gnu Compiler Collection.
Where do you get that idea from? VB (all incarnations) has many more users than C#. C# is tremendously growing in marketshare. VB is not. Most VB users learning dot net are switching to C# over VB.
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He won't be invited to the presidential debates because the bipartisan commission on debates took organizing the debates over from the league of women voters after the latter invited H. Ross Perot two election cycles in a row. The bipartisan commission instituted a rule where a candidate has to poll at over 15% nationally in order to be invited. There is a tremendous amount of conjecture that this rule was put into place to keep Ralph Nader out of the debates in 2000.
A libertarian organization is trying to realize their ideals in exactly the manner you suggest.
$300 to $600 per month for health insurance alone takes a large bite out of 50k/year. Then there are pensions/401k/paid vacation, etc.
As it is not impossible for a senator to commit a crime, any competent airline clerk would reject him if his name was on the list. A clerk is not responsible for making judgments as to which persons on the list should be allowed through, but for making sure that the names on the list do not get through. I feel much safer knowing that even senators can't bluff their way past airline clerks, but need to call other government officials who in turn need to contact the clerk's supervisor through appropriate channels.
Now that we've established that the clerks are doing their job, I just wish that I felt safe about the department of homeland security doing its job.
And the submitter is asking if the business model is sustainable?
You may very well be correct about the rest of your criticisms.
Surely this is why AT&T dominates the US telco, software, hardware, and network infrastructure markets.
While you're correct that Sun started out with workstations, they've been doing big iron for more than five years. The telco billing project I worked on for six years launched on Sun servers several years before I was added to the project.
But you're attempting to reduce a decision entirely to monetary considerations. If money was my only consideration, they you would be quite correct that I'm a moron.
I came into a large cash windfall last year and used it to buy an iMac. For a long time our house had two boxes: one OS X box and one Linux box. Last month the display adaptor on the Linux box failed. The replacement was another OS X box.
(2) your scheme will flag all mail for popular mailing lists as spam.
If we had used a device like TiVO, my wife would only need to punch in a season pass for the show and all the new episodes would've been recorded regardless of when they ran or how they were pre-empted.
Not to mention, with a TiVO one can set the box to record, start watching the show 20 minutes later and blip through all the commercials to watch an hour show in forty minutes as it is being broadcast.
Then there is the ability to 'pause' live TV.
And, the TiVOs that are hooked up to digital cable and/or satellite can usually record two shows simultaneously while a third is being played back. Try that with your VCR!
With a Pentium IV and a fast system bus, I would expect this thing to draw a lot of power. When I went from an Athlon based system to an iMac, my power bill dropped by almost ten bucks a month. I'd hate to see it spike from a set top appliance.
Now if Longhorn were based around Unix as OS X is, then Microsoft could stand to gain from the brutal slaughter of Linux. Microsoft would obviously be the migration path for Unix on x86 short of IBM or some other vendor making a new big push into the x86 Unix space.
But as it is, the only possible advantage to Microsoft is the FUD factor which has the potential to put off migrations to Linux while Microsoft finishes up Longhorn.
While I have no doubt that there are good managers out there, in fact I've worked for some of them, it seems quite clear to me that there is frequently a disconnect between a manager's perception of who the good workers are and who the good workers are. So, when managers are the ones making out the lists of who to let go, it very well might seem random to the rank and file.
Apparently the best way to get sued by SCO is to do business with them.
Race riots.
A city charter that makes discrimination on sexual orientation legal.
Really bad drivers.
My DSL router is plugged into my UPS. Sometimes I wouldn't even notice that the power has gone out if the UPS didn't beeping.
I'd be willing to shell out another USD 100 for a lifetime subscription for PVR scheduling information. Unless MS can hit this price, I've no interest in an XBOX2.
If the rumors are true, it makes me wonder if IBM is funding support of the development. Traditionally, Microsoft has only supported non x86 Windows where the chip vendor was willing to pay for development. As each of the non-x86 chip vendors stopped funding development, Microsoft has canned support.
Aside from the annual subscription rate for the software, they also stand to make money on selling hardware and services for infrastructure from these deals. Even if the actual office suite is be a loss leader (which I do not believe to be the case, but I could be wrong), it still brings in a tremendous amount of income on other fronts which would make it analagous to Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
Cygnus built their business around open source. Their main product was offering support for the Gnu Compiler Collection.
Don't believe me? Don't take my word for it.