I've got a removable hard drive cradle which allows the swapping in and out of hard drives. It's a great idea and personally I would love to see this on every PC available.
Or on the other hand here in Europe there is one standard of mobile phone - GSM. This has meant that mobile providers and manufacturers don't have to build separate phones for each competing standard, which has driven down prices and means that the majority of Western Europeans now have one. It also means that the same phone works everywhere in Europe, even in the former Communist countries. One open standard, agreed on by all is a good idea, and saves duplication and consumers being left with useless equipment once a clear winner emerges.
This is definitely a shit article, but it has to pointed out that SGI hardware is a lot more expensive than the Compaq that was the previous no. 1. I think SGI put it up there to stem the Microsoft bull about being the best, merely because the server vendors were in its pocket and willing to pay for the benchmarks. Finally, as Microsoft points out at every opportunity, the initial cost is only a fraction of the TCO. Full of something perhaps, although I've yet to hear Linus Torvalds describe Microsoft as 'un-Finnish'.
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Neither of those countries had 'elected' anything. My point is that most corporations have a certain similarity to the 'evil' dictatorships with top-down planning. Corporations work, but efficiency is not something I'd associate with them. I suggest you work for a bank or two and you might think differently.
The anti-trust act is utterly irrelevant to this argument, so I won't even bother arguing the point.
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I'd be interested to hear some thoughts on whether more input from workers on the selection of management is a good or bad idea.
I find it a bit odd that we in the west have been brought up on the evils of autocratic rule and the corruption and inefficiency this produces, and yet our corporations are organised in a very similar way, with the all-powerful politburo (board) at the top with middle-ranking officials vying for position and politicking; featuring empire-building, bad decision-making all over the place, not to mention a large amount of propaganda all over the place about how wonderful the company is and how wise and knowing the leadership is. I know this is a fairly crude analogy, but I'm just curious as to the pros and cons of elected management.
Indeed, but we're talking about software, where legal recourse is harder to get, given the amount of wriggle-room an EULA gives them. Perhaps America needs a software monitoring body like the FCC.
And the standard answer is no-one, since all the license agreements are brutal and hard to contest. Really this is such a cop-out. I can't think of single off-the-shelf software vendor that has been sued successfully for producing crap.
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Nobody should have the power to totally stop commerce and services other companies and people depend upon for their livelyhood.
So why do these people go on strike? Is it perhaps because the management refuse to listen to them and so they refuse to work? Perhaps instead of blaming unions so much, you should try looking at intransigent management as well. As for your father, that sucks, but that sort of thing goes on in lots of places, it's internal politics and I hate it, but it's got nothing to do with unions.
But the laws are civil laws, meaning that you need to be able to get a good lawyer to fight your case. Unions can afford better lawyers than individuals.
It's an excellent idea, but wouldn't be popular with parents that prefer to let
Time-Warner-AOL meet all their babysitting needs, rather than try to educate their children
Seriously, though, I think this is an excellent idea, and just needs an uber-coder or 2 to extend something like Squid to do this.
Well, if you do a google search for kdebindings and mozilla, you'll find that you can use Gecko as your rendering engine in Konqueror. I haven't tried it yet though.
If you say so, although the past 150 years have seen the greatest increase in technological, social and economic growth in the history of the human race, even though governments are 'stealing' from their citizens.
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ReiserFS was included with SuSE 6.4, but the kernel patch was available for plenty of time before that.
Hint: just over a year is not a long time.
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I've got a removable hard drive cradle which allows the swapping in and out of hard drives. It's a great idea and personally I would love to see this on every PC available.
Or on the other hand here in Europe there is one standard of mobile phone - GSM. This has meant that mobile providers and manufacturers don't have to build separate phones for each competing standard, which has driven down prices and means that the majority of Western Europeans now have one. It also means that the same phone works everywhere in Europe, even in the former Communist countries. One open standard, agreed on by all is a good idea, and saves duplication and consumers being left with useless equipment once a clear winner emerges.
Sounds like a fantastic money-making venture - until Microsoft co-opts it as SecureXP anyway.
Microsoft also practice this 'eat your own dogfood' approach, and look how successful they are.
This of course explains why Windows is such a dog's breakfast of an OS.
Only because the spec is much higher. Linux is irrelevant in a cost comparison because it doesn't cost anything.
Yes, but that's the expensive SGI hardware, not the OS. Perhaps Compaq or Dell would care to sponsor a benchmark?
This is definitely a shit article, but it has to pointed out that SGI hardware is a lot more expensive than the Compaq that was the previous no. 1. I think SGI put it up there to stem the Microsoft bull about being the best, merely because the server vendors were in its pocket and willing to pay for the benchmarks. Finally, as Microsoft points out at every opportunity, the initial cost is only a fraction of the TCO. Full of something perhaps, although I've yet to hear Linus Torvalds describe Microsoft as 'un-Finnish'.
Neither of those countries had 'elected' anything. My point is that most corporations have a certain similarity to the 'evil' dictatorships with top-down planning. Corporations work, but efficiency is not something I'd associate with them. I suggest you work for a bank or two and you might think differently. The anti-trust act is utterly irrelevant to this argument, so I won't even bother arguing the point.
I'd be interested to hear some thoughts on whether more input from workers on the selection of management is a good or bad idea. I find it a bit odd that we in the west have been brought up on the evils of autocratic rule and the corruption and inefficiency this produces, and yet our corporations are organised in a very similar way, with the all-powerful politburo (board) at the top with middle-ranking officials vying for position and politicking; featuring empire-building, bad decision-making all over the place, not to mention a large amount of propaganda all over the place about how wonderful the company is and how wise and knowing the leadership is. I know this is a fairly crude analogy, but I'm just curious as to the pros and cons of elected management.
That was before the dark days, before Microsoft.
Indeed, but we're talking about software, where legal recourse is harder to get, given the amount of wriggle-room an EULA gives them. Perhaps America needs a software monitoring body like the FCC.
And the standard answer is no-one, since all the license agreements are brutal and hard to contest. Really this is such a cop-out. I can't think of single off-the-shelf software vendor that has been sued successfully for producing crap.
Nobody should have the power to totally stop commerce and services other companies and people depend upon for their livelyhood. So why do these people go on strike? Is it perhaps because the management refuse to listen to them and so they refuse to work? Perhaps instead of blaming unions so much, you should try looking at intransigent management as well. As for your father, that sucks, but that sort of thing goes on in lots of places, it's internal politics and I hate it, but it's got nothing to do with unions.
But the laws are civil laws, meaning that you need to be able to get a good lawyer to fight your case. Unions can afford better lawyers than individuals.
It's an excellent idea, but wouldn't be popular with parents that prefer to let Time-Warner-AOL meet all their babysitting needs, rather than try to educate their children
Seriously, though, I think this is an excellent idea, and just needs an uber-coder or 2 to extend something like Squid to do this.
Not to be picky, but this is exactly the same as Sun calling the mainframe a dying platform and then describing its servers as 'mainframe-class'
Because abusive corporations cannot be removed from power by the will of the people, unless there is somewhere else to go - which there often isn't.
You guessed wrong. I assume you believe that the corporations that own your government have only your best interests at heart.
Well, if you do a google search for kdebindings and mozilla, you'll find that you can use Gecko as your rendering engine in Konqueror. I haven't tried it yet though.
I love this kind of article. It brings out all those that believe that irony is a kind of metal.
Rename the Actors directory and the little git will never bother you again.
That was my point I believe, unless I've made it very badly.
If you say so, although the past 150 years have seen the greatest increase in technological, social and economic growth in the history of the human race, even though governments are 'stealing' from their citizens.