Other examples where Apple is lagging behind is their supposed "directory services."
Actually, this is an area where Apple regressed from what NeXT had. Using NetInfo, it really was possible for five full-time sysops to handle four thousand users' workstations. LDAP is a very poor substitute.
Understanding a customer and choosing to pursue that customer are two separate things. Apple's a Fortune-500 company themselves, and they use their own products not only on desktops, but in massive IT projects like the iTunes music store and the Apple Online Store. The fact of the matter is, Apple has to decide what to spend their time and money pursuing, and they can do a lot better selling iPods, iPhones, and iMacs than they can if they were to completely take over Sun's entire market.
Steve Jobs spent a lot of time and money trying to get the fortune 500 to use NeXT computers, and I think he just doesn't care much about that market anymore. The Xserve and Xserve RAID are fine machines, and far less work to set up and operate than any other system I can name, but Apple's just not staffed to offer the kind of enterprise-level support that HP, and Sun are. I plan to use a lot of Xserves in my current venture, but I do so knowing that I'm going to have to provide the on-site rapid response service to our customers myself.
You mean the money spent on avoiding rather than paying taxes is non-zero
That's a big part of it, but I was referring mostly to the unfortunate consequences of investments being made on a basis other than the expected return. So, money gets put into tax shelters instead of being invested in new ventures which can create new jobs and new wealth.
So are all weapons, but a tac nuke is rather worse than a taser.
Our income tax costs us far more than the revenues collected. Nearly every business and personal investment decision is affected by tax considerations. Thousands of people work full-time on tax accounting, who could be employed in capacities that actually contribute to the wealth of our economy.
That's a pretty clever demo, but it hardly makes me jealous. If Linux comes up with tools in the future that top Quartz Composer, Cocoa, CoreData, CoreVideo and CoreAnimation, then I'll use them.
More like, vista is an ancient trailer-trash jerry springer reject who got a makeover at "glamourshots". Sure, the makeup is almost halfway to passable, but she still weighs 700 pounds.
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If you sold short today, you made out like a bandit.
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The end of the prohibition of alcohol really was a one off case of common sense on the part of law makers.
You give them too much credit. It was the legislature caving to overwhelming pressure from the voters.
-jcr
It's not the most lucrative market segment. Look at Sun's profitability. Look at Apple's. QED.
-jcr
None of it is technically impossible on OS X but its not included and the tools are scattered.
You're a little out of date. Read all about it here and here.
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you often want to make localized admins that only have rights to particular parts of the tree
That's what NetInfo was all about. You set up your netinfo hierarchy to model your organization.
-jcr
Sure, because anything you do on an OS X server, you are doing on a BSD server.
-jcr
They don't allow for corporate volume discounts
Yes they do. Ask any Apple sales rep about it.
-jcr
Other examples where Apple is lagging behind is their supposed "directory services."
Actually, this is an area where Apple regressed from what NeXT had. Using NetInfo, it really was possible for five full-time sysops to handle four thousand users' workstations. LDAP is a very poor substitute.
-jcr
The fact is, that the corporate higher crust is literally in love with Bill and Microsoft, the poster boy of the Wall Street crowd.
More like, they're the battered wives of a megalomaniacal polygamist. It's not so much love as fear that keeps them where they are.
-jcr
Understanding a customer and choosing to pursue that customer are two separate things. Apple's a Fortune-500 company themselves, and they use their own products not only on desktops, but in massive IT projects like the iTunes music store and the Apple Online Store. The fact of the matter is, Apple has to decide what to spend their time and money pursuing, and they can do a lot better selling iPods, iPhones, and iMacs than they can if they were to completely take over Sun's entire market.
-jcr
I wouldn't say that Apple's pushing into the enterprise so much as the enterprise is pulling Apple in.
-jcr
Well, yes and no.
Steve Jobs spent a lot of time and money trying to get the fortune 500 to use NeXT computers, and I think he just doesn't care much about that market anymore. The Xserve and Xserve RAID are fine machines, and far less work to set up and operate than any other system I can name, but Apple's just not staffed to offer the kind of enterprise-level support that HP, and Sun are. I plan to use a lot of Xserves in my current venture, but I do so knowing that I'm going to have to provide the on-site rapid response service to our customers myself.
-jcr
I know you can't help yourself.
Project much?
Like I said before, seriously: try to work it out in therapy. Do it for your kid. They way you are can't be good for her.
-jcr
If humans make it, humans can break it.
That's why the next version is being coded by SHARKS! Sharks with frickin' "lasers" on their heads.
-jcr
Poor kid. Still, I've seen many kids rise above their parents' level of maturity, so she's got a chance at least.
-jcr
You've been saving that one up since the second grade, haven't you?
-jcr
You just didn't have the right oomph to come up with any decent responses
I can't even imagine what it would be like to place any value on your judgement.
-jcr
You mean the money spent on avoiding rather than paying taxes is non-zero
That's a big part of it, but I was referring mostly to the unfortunate consequences of investments being made on a basis other than the expected return. So, money gets put into tax shelters instead of being invested in new ventures which can create new jobs and new wealth.
-jcr
All tax systems are destructive
So are all weapons, but a tac nuke is rather worse than a taser.
Our income tax costs us far more than the revenues collected. Nearly every business and personal investment decision is affected by tax considerations. Thousands of people work full-time on tax accounting, who could be employed in capacities that actually contribute to the wealth of our economy.
-jcr
Conservatives like to insist that the income tax should be replaced entirely with sales taxes,
It's not just conservatives who recognize how destructive our current tax system is.
-jcr
Under the FairTax, there would be no tax due on sales of any used items.
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With broken teeth.
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Yeah right...
Keep telling yourself that people are jealous of you. You clearly need every coping mechanism you can muster, no matter how tenous.
-jcr
That's a pretty clever demo, but it hardly makes me jealous. If Linux comes up with tools in the future that top Quartz Composer, Cocoa, CoreData, CoreVideo and CoreAnimation, then I'll use them.
-jcr
More like, vista is an ancient trailer-trash jerry springer reject who got a makeover at "glamourshots". Sure, the makeup is almost halfway to passable, but she still weighs 700 pounds.
-jcr