This should be enough to change their slogan from "invent" to "outsource". Given that Hurd has come from a similar (read:worker-hostile) climate at NCR, he's little different than Carly. Perhaps he should rediscover that bit of humanity once known to exist at HP and NCR.
You know that nice cheap computer you're reading Slashdot on? I bet more than a few bits of it were made in China.
Or that flatsceen TV you have. Or your DVD player? Nice cannot describe what they make. As much jobs and oil that they've taken, it's hard to see sympathy. Especially so when that has created disasters of economic types.
That's [n] less goldfarmers, [n] less people to take your job, and [n] less people who are indoctrinated.
Morbid, yes. In bad taste, perhaps. But that's how they are with their own people, and that is the respect they deserve. They've only revealed what they really are - a nation still in development wrt human rights and product quality.
Consider it a part of karmic justice on that nation, even if it did happen in Tibet.
Nothing like bottom-dollar, low quality equipment to cloud the orbits. It didn't do well to cut corners the last time around. This time, the corners being cut are too deep into quality.
When corporations cannot do anything to evade regulation, then we can talk. Handing over the control does not make sense when quality will go out the window. That'll be made painfully clear when some "cost-designed" vessel has a flaw that kills.
Keep it in-house, in-nation as much as possible. That means keeping the globalism up in space.
Our government isn't that incompetent, you just drank too much of Reagan's kool-aid.
'Why use the OpenSolaris OS you ask?' ...Because playing the Sun HCL game is fun. Bonus points go to those who have quad Ross SS/[10|20]'s, SunPC Sbus/PCI cards, or anything greater than an 8bit sbus framebuffer.
(/sarcasm)
We think you'll be quite happy to came by to take a look!' Unfortunately, I couldn't find the part that allows me to build a sun4m compatible image. Of course, documentation would go a long way for some of that "nonexistent" hardware.
Did you know that Sun contributes more than $200 million per year of intellectual property to the open source movement, in dozens of open source projects? The companyÃ(TM)s historical contribution tops $2 billion. WOW!" I wonder how much of that is code that works around 32bit SPARC platforms and making it harder to throw in something more than a CG6?
Sure, they are the greastest (commercial) supporters of open source. No denying that. Say that when folks like bmc dont mind playing support/documentation games with their hardware, and hiding entire platforms(sun4m) behind The Iron Curtain in Solaris 10. Then they do a bit of a strange licensing issue with Java that keeps it somewhere between closed and open. I'm not surprised why you jumped ship.
IBM at least has the decency to do openness, then cut machines out of the HCL. Sun just expects people to play along or be stonewalled.
The question is where are the phones that can run it and how can existing phones load that? Until then, consider it vaporware in the phone arena. Simulations and nonpublic hardware do not count.
They get a corporate tax discount for having layoffs That is a problem that can be fixed. Cancel all tax breaks for any layoffs from anything that looks remotely like that.
That's a sun4u system. Short of an Ultra1 or similar, that's the dividing line.
Their policy of dropping the higher end addons in support(and acting as if it was a cardinal sin to ask why - that's bmc for you) just seems out of touch with reality. The same can be said for the sun4m (dropped for reasons of dtrace/kcf) controversy.
If they're so insistent on keeping sun4cdm (but not small bits of sbus by virtue of the ultra2) out, just clear out the use of 32bit Solaris 9 and allow for backporting newer features.
I'm calling on Sun's platform enthusiasm to get real.
Does that preclude just forming a company in order to purchase them? Or are they insisting on large amounts of lost sales(that would be too large to ignore)?
What's going to happen is worse. They simply will not deal in the US. Just like how now there are companies that don't sell in California. Guess what will happen in the future? They will not sell their services or goods to American's. You underestimate the capacity of the US Military to deal with the problem. If they become a large enough problem, they will be hunted down.
With cooperating countries, the US only needs to make one call and that opacity evaporates.
Perhaps business(of all levels) should stop meddling with the government. Pro-business isn't always pro-worker y'know.
I believe there would be over 11,000 people who had a form of this done to them. Not only could they get a line of work in that field, but they were blackballed from any government work until a Clinton-era pardon.
It was done by someone thought to have ended government intervention. The only problem is that it was pro-business government intervention, which is just as bad if not worse. It won't be people who just simply are asking to collectively bargain this time around. It will be everybody within the reach of the US. Unfortunately this attitude would continue with the GOP nominated candidate if in office.
Won't the criminals just switch to doing business with foreign companies instead, to avoid the reach of US laws? Give a motivated US President and Congress to authorize action given an identity, and there's no more problem.
It works even better when you can get the nation in question to freeze their assets as well.
Businesses shall not lord over governments at the expense of the people as done in many places today. What is good for business isn't always what is good for the US.
You are a business, not a charity.
Add being a deity over non-business entities to things that businesses are not. This especially is so for healthcare.
Business deserves to be gamed when it betrays the end consumer.
...they've driven a great deal of people away in terms of hardware support. The way they like to kill hardware (ZX is dropped, but lowly cg6's are kept?) and entire platforms (especially sun4cdm well before OpenSolaris) has very little logic. Of course, it has economic purpose for them, but next to none on your end.
The only saving bit is that Sun has some openness - but they are still playing the same sort of game with their in-house video hardware.
Do you want to roll the dice with your hardware 2 years after purchase? Buy Sun. Otherwise, seek another hardware vendor with a bit longer EOL times(IBM or such).
All this adds up to a community that looks like a lot of Sun employees driving it while wanting to appear non-Sun driven.
What makes Comcast think that will get rid of their bad reputation?
This is just posturing to look like they did something. Also, I doubt they'd put anything meaningful that didn't please Our Dearest Stockholders from on high.
It deals more with IBM being able to drive quality in. Quality is what made them a "True American!" company. From build quality to IPS screens, they've made sure that problems were held in check.
Lenovo is seen as company that has cut corners, and has little drive to add quality. That and their relatively short time as a company (much less being a non-US "junk" manufacturer) does not help their reputation.
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This should be enough to change their slogan from "invent" to "outsource". Given that Hurd has come from a similar (read:worker-hostile) climate at NCR, he's little different than Carly. Perhaps he should rediscover that bit of humanity once known to exist at HP and NCR.
Or that flatsceen TV you have. Or your DVD player? Nice cannot describe what they make. As much jobs and oil that they've taken, it's hard to see sympathy. Especially so when that has created disasters of economic types.
That's [n] less goldfarmers, [n] less people to take your job, and [n] less people who are indoctrinated.
Morbid, yes. In bad taste, perhaps. But that's how they are with their own people, and that is the respect they deserve. They've only revealed what they really are - a nation still in development wrt human rights and product quality.
Consider it a part of karmic justice on that nation, even if it did happen in Tibet.
...in space.
Nothing like bottom-dollar, low quality equipment to cloud the orbits. It didn't do well to cut corners the last time around. This time, the corners being cut are too deep into quality.
When corporations cannot do anything to evade regulation, then we can talk. Handing over the control does not make sense when quality will go out the window. That'll be made painfully clear when some "cost-designed" vessel has a flaw that kills.
Keep it in-house, in-nation as much as possible. That means keeping the globalism up in space.
Our government isn't that incompetent, you just drank too much of Reagan's kool-aid.
Now can there be some way to get the armed forces to deal with some of EA's slave-labor policies?
Strong region checking combined with strong, distributed proxy checking. Reduce the footprint down to a level easily managed.
(/sarcasm) We think you'll be quite happy to came by to take a look!' Unfortunately, I couldn't find the part that allows me to build a sun4m compatible image. Of course, documentation would go a long way for some of that "nonexistent" hardware.
IBM at least has the decency to do openness, then cut machines out of the HCL. Sun just expects people to play along or be stonewalled.
The question is where are the phones that can run it and how can existing phones load that? Until then, consider it vaporware in the phone arena. Simulations and nonpublic hardware do not count.
That's a sun4u system. Short of an Ultra1 or similar, that's the dividing line.
Their policy of dropping the higher end addons in support(and acting as if it was a cardinal sin to ask why - that's bmc for you) just seems out of touch with reality. The same can be said for the sun4m (dropped for reasons of dtrace/kcf) controversy.
If they're so insistent on keeping sun4cdm (but not small bits of sbus by virtue of the ultra2) out, just clear out the use of 32bit Solaris 9 and allow for backporting newer features.
I'm calling on Sun's platform enthusiasm to get real.
Does that preclude just forming a company in order to purchase them? Or are they insisting on large amounts of lost sales(that would be too large to ignore)?
They seem to be not able to get the idea of selling them to more than just companies, but to end users.
Plathome can try again when they've fixed that problem. Otherwise, it's just vaporware.
With cooperating countries, the US only needs to make one call and that opacity evaporates.
Perhaps business(of all levels) should stop meddling with the government. Pro-business isn't always pro-worker y'know.
I believe there would be over 11,000 people who had a form of this done to them. Not only could they get a line of work in that field, but they were blackballed from any government work until a Clinton-era pardon.
It was done by someone thought to have ended government intervention. The only problem is that it was pro-business government intervention, which is just as bad if not worse. It won't be people who just simply are asking to collectively bargain this time around. It will be everybody within the reach of the US. Unfortunately this attitude would continue with the GOP nominated candidate if in office.
No, that's about 30+ years of business interfering with government as usual.
It works even better when you can get the nation in question to freeze their assets as well.
Businesses shall not lord over governments at the expense of the people as done in many places today. What is good for business isn't always what is good for the US.
You are a business, not a charity.
Add being a deity over non-business entities to things that businesses are not. This especially is so for healthcare.
Business deserves to be gamed when it betrays the end consumer.
...they've driven a great deal of people away in terms of hardware support. The way they like to kill hardware (ZX is dropped, but lowly cg6's are kept?) and entire platforms (especially sun4cdm well before OpenSolaris) has very little logic. Of course, it has economic purpose for them, but next to none on your end.
The only saving bit is that Sun has some openness - but they are still playing the same sort of game with their in-house video hardware.
Do you want to roll the dice with your hardware 2 years after purchase? Buy Sun. Otherwise, seek another hardware vendor with a bit longer EOL times(IBM or such).
All this adds up to a community that looks like a lot of Sun employees driving it while wanting to appear non-Sun driven.
Add the costs of forming a business in. Apparently they think consumers are non-deserving of the device.
Underspend on quality and end up overspending on time/money.
What makes Comcast think that will get rid of their bad reputation?
This is just posturing to look like they did something. Also, I doubt they'd put anything meaningful that didn't please Our Dearest Stockholders from on high.
It deals more with IBM being able to drive quality in. Quality is what made them a "True American!" company. From build quality to IPS screens, they've made sure that problems were held in check.
Lenovo is seen as company that has cut corners, and has little drive to add quality. That and their relatively short time as a company (much less being a non-US "junk" manufacturer) does not help their reputation.
As for those who have somewhat exotic wireless hardware? I could only think of saying the Russian equivalent of "field day".
Something says that they won't look kindly on Lightweight AP+Controller setups.