Linux dominates perhaps the web services market, but in ALL of the server market, Windows still dominates. As an example, where i work we use Windows 2000 server among 15-16 different servers except for one machine, and thats OS/X. Things like Active Directory and people running Novell on Windows keep Windows in the lead.
and if anyone doesnt beleive that, i just tried to upgrade our 5 year old G4 500mhz computers to something more modern and they said no, see if OS/X works on them, and if its to slow, we'll upgrade the ram.
However, i'm still trying to secure us some new G5s eventually.
The US has many small governments, 50 of them to be exact. you can bring it up in your local government, If it is supported there you can bring it up to the state level without to much work. From there your local and state reps take over and bring it before the state house and senate.
It might take a long time for something like this to happen and you'll face a lot of opposition, but if you get the right people on your side (basicly the public). you'll tend to get something along the lines of "your way"
Socialism has just as much meaning in the government as it does with the economy. In a socialist society, the government controls all forms of production. It is the exact opposite of pure capitolism, where the government has NO control over the market, this is also knows as a Free Marker. Places such as Mexico, India, and places in South America and other 2nd and 3rd world countries are Free Market. You have the right to go anywhere and setup shop.
In pure Capitolist Econ, i.e. Free Market. you can sell whatever you want, to who ever you want, when ever you want. There are no restrictions to monopoly style practices and there are no enforced regulations of prices or products (quaility).
In a socialist economy, the government tells you where to sell, what to sell, how much to sell and who to sell it too.
In the Market that the U.S. and the rest of the world operates in is between the two extreams. a mixed economy. It is obvious that this method is the best (there are varying degrees some places are more capitolist and others are more socalistic) as usually only the most developed countries utilize this method.
in the mixed market economy, the government provides standards and promotes competition by limiting one companies power over their market (this big oil, steel, rail companies back in the day). Government regulation also prevents just anyone setting up shop outside your shop and sell the same items for less, taking away your customers.
Btw, when a socialist government stops doing whats best for society and starts doing whats best for government, thats called communism.
yes, there is a butt-loads of debugging symbols built into Windows Beta releases and no they are not stripped before shipment so they can have people use the system on the massive amounts of varrying hardware and crash windows so the MS team can debug them.
thats the whole point of the beta tests. You can not do that without the debug info, it is NOT stripped.
A beta version of windows with the debugging tools built into the OS is no where close to the same level as an "un-optimized" linux system.
Spend millions of dollars buying new hardware, developing a new OS (or modifying an existing one to meet your neads, basicly a new OS), then spend more millions on porting or re-writing all of the software you need to your custom written OS that a dozen or so people in the world can support and work, change the workflow and re-train your thousand or so employees, just so people wont use USB devices.
Spend NO money on a policy saying that you can no longer bring USB devices into work which only affect three employees out of a thousand.
when CC was still commision, that didnt hit the actual cost/profit margins of the computer, just the salesmans commision. it was also a good way to sell the CC. service plan too. it was almost a gaurentee sale when we'd drop the cost of the plan off the price of the computer and we'd get more money (net $100 on a $299 service plan).
what really pissed you off though, is when they returned the plan. We didnt go all best buy on them though.. or at least people at my store didnt.
When i worked at circuit city there was a guy there that got arrested for fraud sending in customers store-based rebates after the sale.
Sometimes we'd have 2 seperate, $100 rebates on an item and he'd sell 10 of those a day or more. we heard that he had recieved something like $80,000 in rebates before being caught.
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PHP has a module arch, if you need new functionality you compile that extension and load it in the php.ini or your script using dl(). Templates? use Smarty templates. www.php.net uses them and as said elsewhere, they're included in the php pear package.
If you are talking about basic/core php functionality, then what do you expect? maybe you should post to the kernel mailing list asking that all the new features/enhancements of the kernel be in a module so you dont need to recompile the kernel.
Many of the higher end audio products have these capabilities. The whole thing that guy did is just beyond idiotic. he probably has spent more money and time on that thing than he could of had he gone out and purchased a new high quaility Alpine or Eclipse head unit that have internal 40-60 gig harddrive, plays DVD's with Mp3's on them, and can use CF type-II slots (ibm microdrives anyone).
For what we do in prepress, it doesnt matter what OS we use. We dont do any desktop in prepress anymore. All we need is software to create and plate jobs, which runs on Windows too.
The computers that we use in prepress are over 4 years old and they just work. When the software was written for use in prepress, they probably only wrote for the Apple platform. because everything still works today, there was no real reason to upgrade what we do.
However, that was then, today is a different story.
For us to switch to OS/X, I would have to show my boss why we need to spend 4-6 thousand dollars to get new equipment to run OS/X 10.3. We already have a couple dozen capable Windows 2000 boxes that i'll have upgraded to Windows XP. I want to use OS/X for a few reasons (having a unix shell to automagicly modify the backbones of the templates we use to make covers with and other unix goodies.), but i dont know how well i can sell the idea of having to get two brand new G5's to replace our current ones.
heh, i work in prepress using OS 9, been two months and i still hate it. We'll be moving to OS/X or Windows Xp soon, i want to use XP because if OS/X is anything like OS 9, i'll continue to hate it so.
the Enron officers cheated the company. There is nothing illegal about a CEO driving the company into the ground. As long as he isnt cooking the books, he wont be liable for the companies assets if it fails.
you have to question the shareholders though, they could easily kick the current CEO out of office and get one who wont destroy the company
that they did the same thing with Service Pack 1. Service pack 1 didnt install unless you had a valid key.
I also wonder how many people here realize that a Service pack is usually nothing more than a collection of security patches and bug fixes that you install in one shot instead of downloading 50+ updates from windowsupdate.com
When SP1 was released and if you couldnt install it, you could still damn well download every update that SP1 contained as a seperate download and install.
The big difference here is that SP2 will add new functionality to IE, WMP and a couple other included applications. Any other update (Security and bug fixes) will always be available seperatly on windowsupdate.com, just as they've always been
you can Network boot Windows XP Media Center and Embedded from a Windows 2000/2003 server over a network and it will be fully usable. You can boot Windows XP embeded and run Terminal Services into a Windows 2000 server for a thin-client PC without a harddrive.
You can also install any version of Windows this same way, via BOOTP and TFTP. Windows has had this feature since the introduction of Windows 2000 (might of been avialable in NT too). I've done this many times to install Windows and Linux onto my mini-itx computer without a CD Drive.
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Linux dominates perhaps the web services market, but in ALL of the server market, Windows still dominates. As an example, where i work we use Windows 2000 server among 15-16 different servers except for one machine, and thats OS/X. Things like Active Directory and people running Novell on Windows keep Windows in the lead.
working in a magazine printing plant, we are printing up september issues of several magazines that shipping date is in a week or two.
why magazines do this? i havent a clue. but the month on the issue means absolute squat.
after the research is done for a magazine, it can be put together quickly in a couple days or a week.
Colinux mang, not a VM not an emulator. it pwnz
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and if anyone doesnt beleive that, i just tried to upgrade our 5 year old G4 500mhz computers to something more modern and they said no, see if OS/X works on them, and if its to slow, we'll upgrade the ram.
However, i'm still trying to secure us some new G5s eventually.
The US has many small governments, 50 of them to be exact. you can bring it up in your local government, If it is supported there you can bring it up to the state level without to much work. From there your local and state reps take over and bring it before the state house and senate.
It might take a long time for something like this to happen and you'll face a lot of opposition, but if you get the right people on your side (basicly the public). you'll tend to get something along the lines of "your way"
Socialism has just as much meaning in the government as it does with the economy. In a socialist society, the government controls all forms of production. It is the exact opposite of pure capitolism, where the government has NO control over the market, this is also knows as a Free Marker. Places such as Mexico, India, and places in South America and other 2nd and 3rd world countries are Free Market. You have the right to go anywhere and setup shop.
In pure Capitolist Econ, i.e. Free Market. you can sell whatever you want, to who ever you want, when ever you want. There are no restrictions to monopoly style practices and there are no enforced regulations of prices or products (quaility).
In a socialist economy, the government tells you where to sell, what to sell, how much to sell and who to sell it too.
In the Market that the U.S. and the rest of the world operates in is between the two extreams. a mixed economy. It is obvious that this method is the best (there are varying degrees some places are more capitolist and others are more socalistic) as usually only the most developed countries utilize this method.
in the mixed market economy, the government provides standards and promotes competition by limiting one companies power over their market (this big oil, steel, rail companies back in the day). Government regulation also prevents just anyone setting up shop outside your shop and sell the same items for less, taking away your customers.
Btw, when a socialist government stops doing whats best for society and starts doing whats best for government, thats called communism.
yes, there is a butt-loads of debugging symbols built into Windows Beta releases and no they are not stripped before shipment so they can have people use the system on the massive amounts of varrying hardware and crash windows so the MS team can debug them.
thats the whole point of the beta tests. You can not do that without the debug info, it is NOT stripped.
A beta version of windows with the debugging tools built into the OS is no where close to the same level as an "un-optimized" linux system.
you need to watch some more movies man, specificly pulp fiction.
and yes,i probably need to learn how to spell to, so sue me.
Spend millions of dollars buying new hardware, developing a new OS (or modifying an existing one to meet your neads, basicly a new OS), then spend more millions on porting or re-writing all of the software you need to your custom written OS that a dozen or so people in the world can support and work, change the workflow and re-train your thousand or so employees, just so people wont use USB devices.
Spend NO money on a policy saying that you can no longer bring USB devices into work which only affect three employees out of a thousand.
I wonder which one %99.99999 of biz will do?
when CC was still commision, that didnt hit the actual cost/profit margins of the computer, just the salesmans commision. it was also a good way to sell the CC. service plan too. it was almost a gaurentee sale when we'd drop the cost of the plan off the price of the computer and we'd get more money (net $100 on a $299 service plan).
what really pissed you off though, is when they returned the plan. We didnt go all best buy on them though.. or at least people at my store didnt.
When i worked at circuit city there was a guy there that got arrested for fraud sending in customers store-based rebates after the sale.
Sometimes we'd have 2 seperate, $100 rebates on an item and he'd sell 10 of those a day or more. we heard that he had recieved something like $80,000 in rebates before being caught.
Logitech has a 3 year warrenty with those speakers, i've already had to replace a set a little more than a year and a half after i bought them.
:)
Logitech only wants the Volume control unit, nothing else, not even the subwoofer and they send you a whole new unit.
So, now i have a a set of speakers and that sub. havings lots of EE exp, i reverse engineered the audio amplifier and now it works great
Why not sell the un-activated key on ebay?
PHP has a module arch, if you need new functionality you compile that extension and load it in the php.ini or your script using dl().
Templates? use Smarty templates. www.php.net uses them and as said elsewhere, they're included in the php pear package.
If you are talking about basic/core php functionality, then what do you expect? maybe you should post to the kernel mailing list asking that all the new features/enhancements of the kernel be in a module so you dont need to recompile the kernel.
I had an 88 honda accord 5 speed that i took from Millburn,PA (near PA/OH border) to Chicago (Lombard to be exact), on one tank of gas.
mapquest says, Total Est. Distance: 445.38 miles.
I drove through a blizzard on the way home (anyone from the northern ohio area remember back in march of 99? )
it sucked bad.
ha ! where i work we print Proceedings, :D
Its funny because your link is the same way, ha
its a problem with slashcode that they dont fix, its a feature.
Many of the higher end audio products have these capabilities. The whole thing that guy did is just beyond idiotic. he probably has spent more money and time on that thing than he could of had he gone out and purchased a new high quaility Alpine or Eclipse head unit that have internal 40-60 gig harddrive, plays DVD's with Mp3's on them, and can use CF type-II slots (ibm microdrives anyone).
And im not even trying to be first poster ! no one cares that php has started to bite into the scripting application world?
For what we do in prepress, it doesnt matter what OS we use. We dont do any desktop in prepress anymore. All we need is software to create and plate jobs, which runs on Windows too.
The computers that we use in prepress are over 4 years old and they just work. When the software was written for use in prepress, they probably only wrote for the Apple platform. because everything still works today, there was no real reason to upgrade what we do.
However, that was then, today is a different story.
For us to switch to OS/X, I would have to show my boss why we need to spend 4-6 thousand dollars to get new equipment to run OS/X 10.3. We already have a couple dozen capable Windows 2000 boxes that i'll have upgraded to Windows XP. I want to use OS/X for a few reasons (having a unix shell to automagicly modify the backbones of the templates we use to make covers with and other unix goodies.), but i dont know how well i can sell the idea of having to get two brand new G5's to replace our current ones.
heh, i work in prepress using OS 9, been two months and i still hate it. We'll be moving to OS/X or Windows Xp soon, i want to use XP because if OS/X is anything like OS 9, i'll continue to hate it so.
the Enron officers cheated the company. There is nothing illegal about a CEO driving the company into the ground. As long as he isnt cooking the books, he wont be liable for the companies assets if it fails.
you have to question the shareholders though, they could easily kick the current CEO out of office and get one who wont destroy the company
And how is this not the same thing? When SP1 came out the "Devils own" Cd-Key was very well known.
Now, Microsoft knows about 20 or so "very well known" CD-keys and are blocking them out.
There are undoubtably hundreds or thousands more pirated keys that MS doesnt know about that SP2 will install on.
that they did the same thing with Service Pack 1. Service pack 1 didnt install unless you had a valid key.
I also wonder how many people here realize that a Service pack is usually nothing more than a collection of security patches and bug fixes that you install in one shot instead of downloading 50+ updates from windowsupdate.com
When SP1 was released and if you couldnt install it, you could still damn well download every update that SP1 contained as a seperate download and install.
The big difference here is that SP2 will add new functionality to IE, WMP and a couple other included applications. Any other update (Security and bug fixes) will always be available seperatly on windowsupdate.com, just as they've always been
you can Network boot Windows XP Media Center and Embedded from a Windows 2000/2003 server over a network and it will be fully usable. You can boot Windows XP embeded and run Terminal Services into a Windows 2000 server for a thin-client PC without a harddrive.
You can also install any version of Windows this same way, via BOOTP and TFTP. Windows has had this feature since the introduction of Windows 2000 (might of been avialable in NT too). I've done this many times to install Windows and Linux onto my mini-itx computer without a CD Drive.
Microsoft took advantage of this some time ago.