Actually, you've got a point.
A company I used to work for (Fortune 500), tried to replace their old IBM mainframes with Sun Sparc, and the Sparc boxes could not handle the transaction load. (the app was classified advertising customer billing, for one of the biggest newspapers in the U.S.)
It was taking the Sun boxes about a day and a half to do one day's worth of billing.
Let's see Alpha, Sparc, PPC....
You left off 8080, Z-80, 6502, Commodore, Amiga.
Oh! What a minute!!!!
The combined market share of Alpha, Sparc, PPC can't possibly be more than 10 percent maximum worldwide.
I'm not sure what point you're making other than the processors you have listed account for a very small percentage of the market.
I live in Los Angeles. I don't know anyone who uses Alpha. I worked at a place that had Sparc, but they had way more Intel machines with Linux. PPC? Yeah right. The salepeople and the graphics department were running MacOS, the rest of the company was on Intel (except for some Sparc, AIX and mainframes in the basement). The PPC's ran MacOS only, no other OS. Then again, I've never met anyone in the L.A. area who ran anything except MacOS on a PPC.
You obviously don't get it, or you are one of these people who think everything in life is free.
Gnutella is a file sharing network.
AOL/Time Warner is obligated to protect it's corporate interests (music, videos, etc.) by maintaining its hold on the distribution channels. In addition, there is the copyright issues to deal with. Yes, for you socialists and communists, this is the way capitalism works.
If you give it away for free, how in the world are you going to make money? Web advertising?! Porno?! Get a clue.
There is no oil in Afghanistan.
Somalia? Maybe yes, maybe no.
Serbia? Are you nuts?!
Vietnam? No oil there. The Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused would prices to skyrocket. South Vietnam had to adjust it's spending to compensate for that since they *IMPORT* their oil. Since the U.S. had already pulled out of South Vietnam, North Vietnam, under Soviet nudging, invaded South Vietnam in 1975. The majority of oil in Vietnam is imported. If it wasn't for the Arab oil embargo of 1973, South Vietnam would've kept up it's defense spending instead of pouring money into paying for oil and there'd still be two Vietnams today.
You're either a troll or live in a cave filled with misinformation.
A couple of minor points to make on this:
The U.S. Marines assisted in providing humanitarian relief, not the U.S. Rangers.
The U.S. Army Rangers were there specifically to hunt down specific members of the warring tribes.
The Rangers were told to nab Aidid's two henchmen because it was the belief that Aidid was acting as a wedge in the effort to bring peace to the region.
The Rangers did a lot of low level helicopter flights over some of the slums in Mogadishu which caused many of the shantys to get blown apart by the rotor's prop wash. So the Somalians were pretty pissed at the Rangers because of that.
I don't know about the oil part but I do know that Somalian's did not like Black American soldiers (Somalians do *NOT* look like African-Americans because the majority of Black Americans are from a different part of Africa. I know because I've met one of Aidid's sons. He was a friend of one of my friends. A large number of Aidid's family lives here in the United States. This friend of mine also dated one of Aidid's daughters and used to tell me the tales of going to their house. I didn't know they were part of Aidid's family until after the Mogadishu raid. Equally strange is one of Aidid's sons was also a U.S. Marine. If I were still in military intelligence this might have gotten interesting but I'd gotten out of military three years earlier and I was going to college at the time, as was my friend and Aidid's son.)
Well, M$ Troll, I hate to tell you this but *REAL* companies do use Linux. As a consultant, I've installed Linux as a file/print server, and as a e-mail/web server/router in several dozen businesses. Granted, the workstations at those businesses were Win9X, but the databases, documents and spreadsheets are stored on the Linux server. E-Mail is served and delivered via Linux. And their web sites are hosted on Linux. The only things stored on the Win9X workstations are M$ apps, or fat clients that cannot be installed on the Linux server.
Businesses are astounded when I've upgraded their NT systems to Linux and they are no longer required to babysit their file/print servers.
Grow up M$ Troll. This world is big enough for everyone, although you and M$ seem to have trouble understanding that.
In real estate management/property management and the newspaper article syndication business (I've worked on accounting systems for both business types), accounting software *IS* the business. If you can't manage your accounts receivable or cash receipts in either business, the business is *DEAD*.
Off the shelf software did not work for either business so everything I did was custom written, or mods to a pre-existing custom app.
Let's face it, at $3000 USD, this thing is just too damn expensive for most (95%) of the people out there.
My used MR2 only cost $3200 (4 years ago), and it's a lot faster than 12MPH.
As ex-military myself, I tend to agree with you about not leaving your dead behind. Even in Vietnam, the U.S. only left its dead behind when the body couldn't be found or extraction was impossible (since the nights belonged to Charlie, ARVN were almost useless, both civilians and VC wore black pajamas, and Westmoreland and the politicians in D.C. were determined not to win).
The U.S. routinely left the dead behind in WWII and Korea. The numbers of U.S. MIA in Korea and WWII are staggering compared to Vietnam.
As far as the movie is concerned, it's pure Hollywood. U.S. pilots *DO NOT* change their mission on a whim. It's career suicide if a pilot loses his ship because of negligence or "winging it". Officers in the military pretty much toe the line when it comes to D.C. politics. The only time I ever heard an officer sound even remotely rebellious was when they were drunk and out of earshot of other officers. So, a guy in the military frustrated by bureaucracy or politics?! Sounds more like an NCO, ground pounder or grunt, not a pilot.
It only takes a few seconds to change the sa password is true, and this is not a problem with the source either (it's a DBA problem, and has existed since the Sybase days), however, not everyone can or should upgrade to SQL Server 2000 just because of lousy security practices. M$ would love that, and will probably try and force you to do so but this problem is not a whole lot different than the Code Red worm where users were running an M$ web server and didn't know enough about what they were doing to understand this.
Record stores cannot beat the $10 per record because the record stores pay way more than $10 per record for a new release.
I recently did some work for a national record chain and found out that most of the new CD's cost them $14.00+ USD *WHOLESALE*.
Actually, the artists do get a sliding scale that varies from 10 percent to 17 1/2 percent, depending on number of units sold.
What happens is that the record company subtracts recording costs, production costs, advances, promotional items, airfare, etc., from the royalties so it is not unusual for an artist to be running in the red. Theorhetically, a record company could pursue an artist who failed to break even, but almost always writes off the loss.
The recording industry is essentially a socialist system where the highly successful artists subsidize the artists who fail to recoup their costs.
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IE is not an application because IE does replace system DLL's. It's a form of creative accounting when an organization does what they did.
Actually, you've got a point. A company I used to work for (Fortune 500), tried to replace their old IBM mainframes with Sun Sparc, and the Sparc boxes could not handle the transaction load. (the app was classified advertising customer billing, for one of the biggest newspapers in the U.S.) It was taking the Sun boxes about a day and a half to do one day's worth of billing.
Let's see Alpha, Sparc, PPC.... You left off 8080, Z-80, 6502, Commodore, Amiga. Oh! What a minute!!!! The combined market share of Alpha, Sparc, PPC can't possibly be more than 10 percent maximum worldwide. I'm not sure what point you're making other than the processors you have listed account for a very small percentage of the market. I live in Los Angeles. I don't know anyone who uses Alpha. I worked at a place that had Sparc, but they had way more Intel machines with Linux. PPC? Yeah right. The salepeople and the graphics department were running MacOS, the rest of the company was on Intel (except for some Sparc, AIX and mainframes in the basement). The PPC's ran MacOS only, no other OS. Then again, I've never met anyone in the L.A. area who ran anything except MacOS on a PPC.
You obviously don't get it, or you are one of these people who think everything in life is free. Gnutella is a file sharing network. AOL/Time Warner is obligated to protect it's corporate interests (music, videos, etc.) by maintaining its hold on the distribution channels. In addition, there is the copyright issues to deal with. Yes, for you socialists and communists, this is the way capitalism works. If you give it away for free, how in the world are you going to make money? Web advertising?! Porno?! Get a clue.
There is no oil in Afghanistan. Somalia? Maybe yes, maybe no. Serbia? Are you nuts?! Vietnam? No oil there. The Arab oil embargo of 1973 caused would prices to skyrocket. South Vietnam had to adjust it's spending to compensate for that since they *IMPORT* their oil. Since the U.S. had already pulled out of South Vietnam, North Vietnam, under Soviet nudging, invaded South Vietnam in 1975. The majority of oil in Vietnam is imported. If it wasn't for the Arab oil embargo of 1973, South Vietnam would've kept up it's defense spending instead of pouring money into paying for oil and there'd still be two Vietnams today. You're either a troll or live in a cave filled with misinformation.
A couple of minor points to make on this: The U.S. Marines assisted in providing humanitarian relief, not the U.S. Rangers. The U.S. Army Rangers were there specifically to hunt down specific members of the warring tribes. The Rangers were told to nab Aidid's two henchmen because it was the belief that Aidid was acting as a wedge in the effort to bring peace to the region. The Rangers did a lot of low level helicopter flights over some of the slums in Mogadishu which caused many of the shantys to get blown apart by the rotor's prop wash. So the Somalians were pretty pissed at the Rangers because of that. I don't know about the oil part but I do know that Somalian's did not like Black American soldiers (Somalians do *NOT* look like African-Americans because the majority of Black Americans are from a different part of Africa. I know because I've met one of Aidid's sons. He was a friend of one of my friends. A large number of Aidid's family lives here in the United States. This friend of mine also dated one of Aidid's daughters and used to tell me the tales of going to their house. I didn't know they were part of Aidid's family until after the Mogadishu raid. Equally strange is one of Aidid's sons was also a U.S. Marine. If I were still in military intelligence this might have gotten interesting but I'd gotten out of military three years earlier and I was going to college at the time, as was my friend and Aidid's son.)
Well, M$ Troll, I hate to tell you this but *REAL* companies do use Linux. As a consultant, I've installed Linux as a file/print server, and as a e-mail/web server/router in several dozen businesses. Granted, the workstations at those businesses were Win9X, but the databases, documents and spreadsheets are stored on the Linux server. E-Mail is served and delivered via Linux. And their web sites are hosted on Linux. The only things stored on the Win9X workstations are M$ apps, or fat clients that cannot be installed on the Linux server. Businesses are astounded when I've upgraded their NT systems to Linux and they are no longer required to babysit their file/print servers. Grow up M$ Troll. This world is big enough for everyone, although you and M$ seem to have trouble understanding that.
In real estate management/property management and the newspaper article syndication business (I've worked on accounting systems for both business types), accounting software *IS* the business. If you can't manage your accounts receivable or cash receipts in either business, the business is *DEAD*. Off the shelf software did not work for either business so everything I did was custom written, or mods to a pre-existing custom app.
Let's face it, at $3000 USD, this thing is just too damn expensive for most (95%) of the people out there. My used MR2 only cost $3200 (4 years ago), and it's a lot faster than 12MPH.
As ex-military myself, I tend to agree with you about not leaving your dead behind. Even in Vietnam, the U.S. only left its dead behind when the body couldn't be found or extraction was impossible (since the nights belonged to Charlie, ARVN were almost useless, both civilians and VC wore black pajamas, and Westmoreland and the politicians in D.C. were determined not to win). The U.S. routinely left the dead behind in WWII and Korea. The numbers of U.S. MIA in Korea and WWII are staggering compared to Vietnam. As far as the movie is concerned, it's pure Hollywood. U.S. pilots *DO NOT* change their mission on a whim. It's career suicide if a pilot loses his ship because of negligence or "winging it". Officers in the military pretty much toe the line when it comes to D.C. politics. The only time I ever heard an officer sound even remotely rebellious was when they were drunk and out of earshot of other officers. So, a guy in the military frustrated by bureaucracy or politics?! Sounds more like an NCO, ground pounder or grunt, not a pilot.
It only takes a few seconds to change the sa password is true, and this is not a problem with the source either (it's a DBA problem, and has existed since the Sybase days), however, not everyone can or should upgrade to SQL Server 2000 just because of lousy security practices. M$ would love that, and will probably try and force you to do so but this problem is not a whole lot different than the Code Red worm where users were running an M$ web server and didn't know enough about what they were doing to understand this.
Record stores cannot beat the $10 per record because the record stores pay way more than $10 per record for a new release. I recently did some work for a national record chain and found out that most of the new CD's cost them $14.00+ USD *WHOLESALE*.
Actually, the artists do get a sliding scale that varies from 10 percent to 17 1/2 percent, depending on number of units sold. What happens is that the record company subtracts recording costs, production costs, advances, promotional items, airfare, etc., from the royalties so it is not unusual for an artist to be running in the red. Theorhetically, a record company could pursue an artist who failed to break even, but almost always writes off the loss. The recording industry is essentially a socialist system where the highly successful artists subsidize the artists who fail to recoup their costs.