MySQL had better be fast - they just cranked the price again. In the last two months the per-100-copy bulk price of MySQL jumped from about $100 to about $230 a server.
"The question is, if you were HP, would you ALSO offshore and outsource your printer production, hence setting up many of your potential competitors overseas? "
I'm not sure how the offshore thing plays into this. I assume "how to build a printers" is a commodity piece of information; everyone knows how to do it. (I'd be mildly surprised if I ever owned a printer made in the United States.)
"Last week there was a new store opened up
in Tucson called "'Printer Cartridge World'
or some such. They specialize in refilling
ink cartridges."
There's nothing new about this business. In fact, printer manufactures began to combat the refillers several years ago by building counters into some cartridges which counted USES, not REMAINING INK when determining when to report a cartridge was bad to the driving printer.
So no, a refiller opening up in bumblefuck, USA probably doesn't bother the big boys much at all.
"Even better
(or worse if you're HP) would be a mail-order
refiller, postage-paid both ways, boxes
supplied, etc, like Netflix or Seattle Film
Works."
Yes, this would be neat. However, you'd need at least 2 cartridges per printer...you don't want to be down while in shipping. I'm not sure how cheap this could get either once you build in shipping costs both ways ($7?), labor ($5?), ink ($5) and insurance ($5) to cover broken cartridges and the chance that some knuckledragger will send you a dead cartridge and expect a good one back. Add in profit...and, well you're around to $25-30 and you still don't have a new cartridge.
"The problem is that people currently seem to run away from HP printerwise (most of the to Canon) HP simply exaggerated with their ink prices too much."
You're right. Dell took one look at the profit margins on ink and decided right away to enter the space. This is yet another reason for HP to refocus on printers: their brand name in their #1 category is weakening.
(I'm a Brother printer user, BTW, and I've never been happier.)
"But the next question has to be, who are the potential acquirers? I don't think even the Bush II Justice Dept would allow IBM or Dell to buy H-P. Anyone else who could swing it? General Electric? Fujitsu?"
You're putting the cart before the horse. No one wants HP in its present state. Just wait a year or so...you'll see the various business divisions spun off and/or bought out by other companies.
No one company will buy HP, but most of HP will be bought out anyway in three years. I'll likely buy stock in whatever division gets to get the printers...they are profitable as hell!
"Why do you think Miss G5 was just fired? She was trying to do what you suggest."
Nah, you got it backwards. Carly was canned because she was leaning on the profitable printer biz to fund all the "enterprise" crap she was trying to float.
If she had spun off a couple of the useless divisions like computer hardware and computer software, she'd still be around. Instead, she tried to keep all the businesses and hoped that some magical "synergy" would materialize.
I hope this isn't the first place you hear it, but it's likely HP will soon do an AT&T - 1996 style.
"Be prepared to lower the cost of printer consumables. The day will come."
LOL. Printers and the high-priced consumables are the ONLY place HP makes money. If I were HP, I'd go 100% printers and shitcan the rest of the money-losing businesses, including computer hardware and all the other useless shit you list.
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In the article, Zimmerman bashes RC4, not just Microsoft. I think he's probably right. Why not use open-standard AES instead of RC4? (Or if you still have RSA on the brain, why not RC6, the RSA algorithm which was a runner-up in the Federal AES competition.)
It depends what you want to know. Civil war and WW2 buffs can probably get up to speed on weapontry and tactics from modern games (even my old Amiga flight sims included excerpts from Jane's). If you want to know why any particular war was fought or who the people involved in it were...I don't see that coming in game format anytime soon.
As any gamer will tell you, games are also a time sink. So...instead of poring through the New York Times, reading real news, feeding your brain, you're fucking around with the right combination of resources to help you beat level 12.
Now, most Americans are so poorly educated that almost anything would be an improvement, but the argument that games improve life skills is kind of like saying masturbation improves hand-eye coordination: sure, it's fun, but quit kidding yourself about why you do it.
And finally...if you play games at work...you probably either don't deserve a job in the first place. Buh-bye.
You foolish mortal. There are plenty of differences between Firefox for Windows, Firefox for Linux and Firefox for Mac. (Especially in the Javascript/Java realm or things-having-to-do-with-files relams.)
It's up to developers like me to hide them from end users like you...and I get pissed having to keep adding kludges.
(BTW, IE for the Mac is too broken to care about either, so suck it.)
"Frank Bernstein, an attorney with Sughrue Mion, suggests Stallman look for inspiration to Apple Computer's Apple Public Source License and the Common Public License IBM often uses. Both grant a license to use patents covering the software, and when it comes to organizations that sue for patent infringement, both licenses terminate their rights to use and distribute the software."
It might make more sense if SlashDot implemented a "pre-cache" feature which would make a local copy of the referenced site/story...or published someone else's cache (Google?) in addition to the regular link.
I won't switch to a Mozilla email client until they clean up the SEARCH function a bit. (Eudora's one advantage over other clients is in this area, in my opinion.)
I still see Mozilla email search results come back with wacky date sorting like "1/2003, 1/2004, 11/2003, 11/2004". I know it's more code, but you gotta sort dates by date...
Slashdot Mirror
MySQL had better be fast - they just cranked the price again. In the last two months the per-100-copy bulk price of MySQL jumped from about $100 to about $230 a server.
(Yeah, I'm looking hard at Postgres now.)
I'm not sure how the offshore thing plays into this. I assume "how to build a printers" is a commodity piece of information; everyone knows how to do it. (I'd be mildly surprised if I ever owned a printer made in the United States.)
There's nothing new about this business. In fact, printer manufactures began to combat the refillers several years ago by building counters into some cartridges which counted USES, not REMAINING INK when determining when to report a cartridge was bad to the driving printer.
So no, a refiller opening up in bumblefuck, USA probably doesn't bother the big boys much at all. "Even better (or worse if you're HP) would be a mail-order refiller, postage-paid both ways, boxes supplied, etc, like Netflix or Seattle Film Works."
Yes, this would be neat. However, you'd need at least 2 cartridges per printer...you don't want to be down while in shipping. I'm not sure how cheap this could get either once you build in shipping costs both ways ($7?), labor ($5?), ink ($5) and insurance ($5) to cover broken cartridges and the chance that some knuckledragger will send you a dead cartridge and expect a good one back. Add in profit...and, well you're around to $25-30 and you still don't have a new cartridge.
Hell, this could be a D&D reference. I suppose the old maximum of 20d6 doesn't apply here, however.
You're right. Dell took one look at the profit margins on ink and decided right away to enter the space. This is yet another reason for HP to refocus on printers: their brand name in their #1 category is weakening.
(I'm a Brother printer user, BTW, and I've never been happier.)
You're putting the cart before the horse. No one wants HP in its present state. Just wait a year or so...you'll see the various business divisions spun off and/or bought out by other companies.
No one company will buy HP, but most of HP will be bought out anyway in three years. I'll likely buy stock in whatever division gets to get the printers...they are profitable as hell!
Nah, you got it backwards. Carly was canned because she was leaning on the profitable printer biz to fund all the "enterprise" crap she was trying to float.
If she had spun off a couple of the useless divisions like computer hardware and computer software, she'd still be around. Instead, she tried to keep all the businesses and hoped that some magical "synergy" would materialize.
I hope this isn't the first place you hear it, but it's likely HP will soon do an AT&T - 1996 style.
LOL. Printers and the high-priced consumables are the ONLY place HP makes money. If I were HP, I'd go 100% printers and shitcan the rest of the money-losing businesses, including computer hardware and all the other useless shit you list.
IE 1.0...you're right. The code forked pretty quickly after that. See:/ ie.htm
s .htm)
http://www.free-scripts.net/html_tutorial/history
(Also, here's an old browser timeline:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/browser
Am I the only old fart feeling deja vu? Open source...fast...not Microsoft...lemme see, that's the Mosaic browser before it became Netscape, right?
Now what do I do with the "winsock.dll" file again?
In the article, Zimmerman bashes RC4, not just Microsoft. I think he's probably right. Why not use open-standard AES instead of RC4? (Or if you still have RSA on the brain, why not RC6, the RSA algorithm which was a runner-up in the Federal AES competition.)
Sonoma = California Wine Country
I guess it's a step up from the "Mad Dog" release of 2002. (Or the "Weasel Dust" release of 1999.)
It depends what you want to know. Civil war and WW2 buffs can probably get up to speed on weapontry and tactics from modern games (even my old Amiga flight sims included excerpts from Jane's). If you want to know why any particular war was fought or who the people involved in it were...I don't see that coming in game format anytime soon.
As any gamer will tell you, games are also a time sink. So...instead of poring through the New York Times, reading real news, feeding your brain, you're fucking around with the right combination of resources to help you beat level 12.
Now, most Americans are so poorly educated that almost anything would be an improvement, but the argument that games improve life skills is kind of like saying masturbation improves hand-eye coordination: sure, it's fun, but quit kidding yourself about why you do it.
And finally...if you play games at work...you probably either don't deserve a job in the first place. Buh-bye.
Onmi looks cute...but not free. I want a FREE browser for Mac which isn't full of Java/Javascript/Filesystem bugs...
You foolish mortal. There are plenty of differences between Firefox for Windows, Firefox for Linux and Firefox for Mac. (Especially in the Javascript/Java realm or things-having-to-do-with-files relams.)
It's up to developers like me to hide them from end users like you...and I get pissed having to keep adding kludges.
(BTW, IE for the Mac is too broken to care about either, so suck it.)
I dunno, I work in Madison. Fairies? Check. Dwarves? Check. Orcs? Not unless you count Vikings fans.
As a web developer, let me tell you that ALL the browsers for Mac are crap. (Including the Mozilla port for Mac - blech!)
The bad browser situation alone would be enough to make me happy to finally see a stake in Mac's heart.
Or...your pizza box begins to look a little frayed around the edges. Then the friendly airport janitor is likely to pitch it in the trash.
Hmmm...my primitive 1.0 installation didn't seem to come with an ISO 8601 option. I guess I'll just hold off until date sorting works...by default.
"Frank Bernstein, an attorney with Sughrue Mion, suggests Stallman look for inspiration to Apple Computer's Apple Public Source License and the Common Public License IBM often uses. Both grant a license to use patents covering the software, and when it comes to organizations that sue for patent infringement, both licenses terminate their rights to use and distribute the software."
It might make more sense if SlashDot implemented a "pre-cache" feature which would make a local copy of the referenced site/story...or published someone else's cache (Google?) in addition to the regular link.
Yep - just checked 1.0 again. It still doesn't know how to sort the date column in the search results. Buh-bye.
I won't switch to a Mozilla email client until they clean up the SEARCH function a bit. (Eudora's one advantage over other clients is in this area, in my opinion.)
I still see Mozilla email search results come back with wacky date sorting like "1/2003, 1/2004, 11/2003, 11/2004". I know it's more code, but you gotta sort dates by date...
Aren't we buying goods and services from the Russians these days? A 5-pack of Satan rockets might just be a line item somewhere.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/launchers-04p.html
There's no full abbreviation for it, so... R.T.F.Newspaper Once In A While
Yeah...good luck getting funding for your "Satan" rocket from the current crop of "values" politicians in Congress.
Tell the marketing guys to try "Sword of Jesus" instead; you'll be in like Ron Jeremy.