I never thought of HP that way, but maybe they're coming to that.
But if they're they're desparate enough to circle the wagons and kill the wounded, perhaps they should be lopping off divisions and a couple layers of management, instead of thinning out the whole company and keeping all the management.
Have you considered that maybe this is just the natural rebalance of wealth?
Sure it is. Wealth begets wealth. That's why we had kings and peasants before a middle class.
But are you using natural as a proxy for desirable? A lot of things are natural. Having cavities in your teeth is natural, is that a good reason not to go to the dentist? We have a lot of people who are such devout capitalists that they think anything explained by market forces must be AOK.
R&D is only useful if it produces results for the company.
And if R&D doesn't produce results for the company, then there is no company, because HP isn't going to thrive just trying to undercut Dell at selling beige boxes.
The only division which made money was the printer one. Doesn't look like they need too much R&D.
You have it completely backwards. If all their profit comes from a single, staid line of business, they had better invest in branching out while they still have a decent stream of income, or else their demise is only a matter of time.
Employers throw a hissy fit if anybody charges a few unworked minutes, but they have no qualms requiring hours (or days) of manditory unpaid overtime. This alone will always dwarf whatever you can accomplish with little email and pager tricks.
I woudn't set Outlook to fire off messages at 1am to make myself look better, because I don't have the gall to do it. On the other hand, I feel bad for office workers who feel they *must* be sending emails at 1am to be competitive.
Sure, but are you implying that takes away from it somehow?
I think it's a great trend, because I fall among the 56.2%, and I love using software that's always available when and where I need it, and that I can trace into to, or look at a core file to find out whats wrong.
China's missions remind me of NASA's early days, when John Glenn and others made simple manned orbits. Sure, there was some scientific value to them, but the primary reason was: look what our country can do.
What else is there? Science? Sort of. You can use the scientific method to study anything there is, including space of course.
It's interesting to speculate how far behind the Chinese really are, or aren't. It was only 8 years between America's first man in space and the apex of manned space exploration, landing on the moon. And that was without having a blazed trail to follow.
A bottom-up molecular manufacturing device, or "replicator", in every home, will be hugely disruptive to the current scarcity-based, top-down manufacturing economy, but will ultimately be the great economic equalizier.
Maybe. On the other hand, our relatively new-found ability to store and transmit large quantities of information has not destroyed the scarcity-based economy of information. Rather, we have devised laws to create scarcity.
I wonder why the above was moderated flamebait? Since no WMD were found, we've concentrated on the humanitarian benefits of the invasion - bringing freedom to Iraq by ousting Saddam. So it's logically inconsistent to suggest 'winning' Iraq by "killing every [Iraqi] on earth."
It seems that many of the people who helped build the atomic bomb were later pushed out of any talk about how the bomb was to be used.... If there is a team of 3 or 4 that is 90% responsible for building the worlds worst weapon, should they have a say if it is used?
Then learn from this: scientists and engineers are tools.
It's the same in industry; who profits from an invention? Whoever had the money to pay somebody to invent it.
It's the money and power that count, not the brains.
I'm sure you're right they're using multicast. Then again, that would mean it's not much of a service because it isn't on-demand. Just a different protocol for digital cable.
But I don't think honest-to-gosh point-to-point television is all that far off. With the right codec, a 3 mbit stream looks pretty darn good. 3 mbits of network isn't as much as it used to be, especially if it's being served not far away at the Cable Co.
Your story pegs my BS meter. I think you're posing a thought experiment as personal experience to make it more engaging. For one thing, "digital paper" doesn't look like paper, it's a sheet of plastic.
Not only did the Administration present every rumor as truth to sell their foregone conclusions, they punished the man who they sent to investigate the claims, who came home and said there was no evidence, by outing his wife as a secret agent. They're really moving into Nixon territory now.
I'd also recommend a power inverter for your computer gear, or anything else that might need 110VAC. Assuming, of course, you are going to have a vehicle handy.
But you don't want a power inverter to run a laptop off a car, just a DC adapter. No point converting DC->AC->DC.
Was the "objective" of Linux ever world domination?
I don't want Linux to become the leader.
I have a two-partition laptop. I run my office apps under VMare on the Windows partition. Lately the thing runs like a pig. The problem is, there's so much company-mandated anti-virus software, manditory patches, and software inventory scanning, that the computer just sits there and scans all the files looking for danger or rebooting all the time.
And besides being sluggish, just getting anything to work (like mounting a network drive) is a nightmare because of a locked-down firewall they installed. The thing is almost unusable. I can't even see which ports are blocked because the UI is a simplistic happy-face sort of thing consisting of big round green buttons and fake reports on how many "attacks" it has saved me from.
I've come to firmly believe it's better to stay a step ahead of the masses. If linux became #1 it would become the target for all this crap, and go into the toilet. I just want linux to become popular enough that it has drivers for everything, other than that I'm satisified.
Just look at Mozilla's popup blockers. For the longest time they worked perfectly. Then it got popular, and now it's been circumvented.
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But if they're they're desparate enough to circle the wagons and kill the wounded, perhaps they should be lopping off divisions and a couple layers of management, instead of thinning out the whole company and keeping all the management.
But are you using natural as a proxy for desirable? A lot of things are natural. Having cavities in your teeth is natural, is that a good reason not to go to the dentist? We have a lot of people who are such devout capitalists that they think anything explained by market forces must be AOK.
Employers throw a hissy fit if anybody charges a few unworked minutes, but they have no qualms requiring hours (or days) of manditory unpaid overtime. This alone will always dwarf whatever you can accomplish with little email and pager tricks.
I woudn't set Outlook to fire off messages at 1am to make myself look better, because I don't have the gall to do it. On the other hand, I feel bad for office workers who feel they *must* be sending emails at 1am to be competitive.
I think it's a great trend, because I fall among the 56.2%, and I love using software that's always available when and where I need it, and that I can trace into to, or look at a core file to find out whats wrong.
It's interesting to speculate how far behind the Chinese really are, or aren't. It was only 8 years between America's first man in space and the apex of manned space exploration, landing on the moon. And that was without having a blazed trail to follow.
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I wonder why the above was moderated flamebait? Since no WMD were found, we've concentrated on the humanitarian benefits of the invasion - bringing freedom to Iraq by ousting Saddam. So it's logically inconsistent to suggest 'winning' Iraq by "killing every [Iraqi] on earth."
I would think once you open up an artery or three, clotting is beside the point.
It's the same in industry; who profits from an invention? Whoever had the money to pay somebody to invent it.
It's the money and power that count, not the brains.
Not really. Good or bad "fortune" implies chance. Nobody considers it fortunate that the sun rose this morning.
Agreed, not funny. This one is much more clever, especially if you don't mind the fact that it actually has a message.
But I don't think honest-to-gosh point-to-point television is all that far off. With the right codec, a 3 mbit stream looks pretty darn good. 3 mbits of network isn't as much as it used to be, especially if it's being served not far away at the Cable Co.
For that matter, who needs "channels" anymore? They're totally irrelevant.
Your story pegs my BS meter. I think you're posing a thought experiment as personal experience to make it more engaging. For one thing, "digital paper" doesn't look like paper, it's a sheet of plastic.
Sure, you can keep your toilet paper cleaner by wiping your butt directly with your hand. I'll go with paper, thanks.
Not only did the Administration present every rumor as truth to sell their foregone conclusions, they punished the man who they sent to investigate the claims, who came home and said there was no evidence, by outing his wife as a secret agent. They're really moving into Nixon territory now.
I have a two-partition laptop. I run my office apps under VMare on the Windows partition. Lately the thing runs like a pig. The problem is, there's so much company-mandated anti-virus software, manditory patches, and software inventory scanning, that the computer just sits there and scans all the files looking for danger or rebooting all the time.
And besides being sluggish, just getting anything to work (like mounting a network drive) is a nightmare because of a locked-down firewall they installed. The thing is almost unusable. I can't even see which ports are blocked because the UI is a simplistic happy-face sort of thing consisting of big round green buttons and fake reports on how many "attacks" it has saved me from.
I've come to firmly believe it's better to stay a step ahead of the masses. If linux became #1 it would become the target for all this crap, and go into the toilet. I just want linux to become popular enough that it has drivers for everything, other than that I'm satisified.
Just look at Mozilla's popup blockers. For the longest time they worked perfectly. Then it got popular, and now it's been circumvented.
OK, I was thinking of the Netscape Directory Server, once commercial but now released as the RedHat Directory Server.
Didn't Novell recently open-source a directory product, and can it be used for authentication and authorization?