I guess an old POS (as in Piece Of Shit) computer running POS (as in Point of Sales) on Linux would count as one. And Windwos servers on my company out numbers Linux servers but my company would still be counted as a business running Linux.
And you have a very valid point here. Sun's currently trying to break into the desktop market, i.e. Mad Hatter project, but where's the marketing that needs to go with it?
I may very well have a cure for AIDS and cancer, but unless I market the cure, no one will know about the product to buy it.
And isn't Dell a larger company than Apple as well? Here's the snipplet from the Fortune.
"The Dell strategy, though, includes keeping R&D to a minimum--something foreign to Sun. Says Joy: "All along, Scott [McNealy, Sun's CEO] has maintained R&D spending, so there is some promising new technology coming too.""
Not cutting expenses while revenue going down = low or negative net income = stocks going downhill. Microsoft isn't in better shape than Sun due to their superior R&D, it's because of their superior marketing.
I wanted to become proficient in UNIX style O/S during my college years. Solaris is well known and could be downloaded for educational purposes, so I decided to give it a shot. Being a poor college student, I decided to download the Solaris for Intel (I'm not sure if it was version 7 or 8, it was a several years ago) since I didn't have resources to buy a Sun machine. I tried to install it on a typical Intel machine of that time (Pentium II running on a 440BX based board) and I could not get the installer to recognize the IDE controllers! My friend tried to install it on his machine (also a 440BX based board), with the same results. Only controller that he was able to install off of was an Adaptec SCSI card. I searched the Sun's help forum on the Intel platforms for solutions, and turns out that I wasn't the only one with the IDE controller issue. I couldn't find the solution I was looking for but I did find plenty of comments like "Sun's support for Intel platform sucks" and "Sun has no reason to support Intel platform because it will cut into their server sales". I decided to give up on Solaris for Intel and looked for alternatives...
And that alternative was GNU/Linux. I started with Red Hat 6.1 and it installed on my Intel box without a hitch. And the rest was history.
If Sun had better support for the Intel platform, then I would be replacing the Windows servers at my company right now with Solaris for Intel instead of GNU/Linux. Sun lost me as a customer when I was an impressionable college student, and I'm pretty sure that Sun also lost a huge amount of potential customers in that mostly useless help forum.
The latest version of Solaris is supposed to have better support for Intel platform but why should I pay $20 to download a limited use, non-commercial license version of Solaris that may/may not work with the current hardware owned by the company when GNU/Linux simply works and does everything that we need without the restrictive license?
When Sun realized that when they bombed on the Intel platform market, they tried to enter as a latecomer by pretending to support Linux, even after calling it a hobbyist's O/S a year ago. And when they improved the support for Intel platform on their latest version of Solaris, they backstabbed Linux by bashing it again and also by fanning SCO's FUD bonfire. Knowing that, if my company ever needs to buy a high end server in the future, I'd rather will go with an IBM box than Sun, even if I have to pay a little extra.
I think that the reason why Sun's sinking is that they spent too much on R&D and not enough on marketing. I believe that the reason why Dell is still profitable is that they kept their R&D to minimum, thus reducing their expenses.
Greedy companies (i.e. MS) will waste money to patent obviously simple ideas just to have it made worthless in court via vest prior arts. Think of it was an extra tax for greedy corporations.
Mod the parent up! It's one of the most intelligent statements I've heard in/. (although that's not really saying much...).
To add to bladernr, having two senators per state give small states (i.e. NJ) equity against larger states (i.e. CA) as they will always have two senators at the congress no matter that their population levels are.
One more thing to add... The doctor's groups around the country wants to cap the damages awarded in the malpractice lawsuits as it raises healthcare costs. The Trial Lawyers' Assoication. And guess who supports TLA? The "liberals".
Why do you think that most Europeans don't use A/C? The taxes on energy's too high, so you can't afford A/Cs unless you are rich.
I don't doubt it at all. I didn't use the figure to bash French, but rather to state that public health care isn't the magic bullet everyone claims it is.
I guess you're just a leech that wants everyone else to pay. Why do you think that you should have 3 to 6 months worth of your monthy wages saved up. Or did you blow all of that away on your weekly pot smoking sessions?
"I can't wait for you to get laid off (its only a matter of time)"
I doubt that I'll be laid off anytime soon because what I do can't be outsourced. I also run a business on the side and I don't expect to lay myself off anytime soon.
So I suggest that you go fuck yourself instead and try working for a living. I put in 60+ hours in my work and my business every week and I work too hard want to support leeches like you.
I may go for public health care if the government officials who run them are not corrupt, it is run efficiently, and no one abuses the system. The problem is that;
1. Most government officials are known for giving preferred treatment to people with ties, which means that you still cannot guarantee equal care for everyone. Let's say that Joe and John both need a new liver. Joe is a huge contributor to several government officals. I'm willing to bet that Joe will get the liver before John.
2. From serving as an intern for a state rep, I can tell you that the government has a huge overhead and good chunk of tax dollars for the healthcare will be wasted.
3. There will be a large amount of people who abuse the system (such as hypochondriacs) at everyone else's expense.
Not to mention that while I am willing to give a hand to people who are in the bad situations due to circumstances out of their control (like being born disabled), I am against giving help to people who put themselves in a bad situation (like frying their brains due to drug use).
After close to 15,000 deaths due to the heat wave in France, the government admitted that their health care system is overly complex and is in need a overhaul. Is this the model we are supposed to follow?
People complain that politicians are evil and corrupt, yet want them to run everything? Only people who'll benefit are the ones with ties to the government officials.
In Colorado, they tax you on automobiles based on where you live, not where you buy, so if your state is like that, buying it over the net won't help at all.
Many states have "Use Tax", where you are supposed to report and pay taxes on goods you bought from another state but didn't pay sales tax for them. Since states cannot force sales tax on out of state businesses, this Use Tax is based on the honor system. So if you believe that states need more money, lead the way and pay the Use Tax. If your state does not have a Use Tax, calculate the sales tax on mail/internet order items and donate it to the state.
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I guess an old POS (as in Piece Of Shit) computer running POS (as in Point of Sales) on Linux would count as one. And Windwos servers on my company out numbers Linux servers but my company would still be counted as a business running Linux.
I guess he's been modded 'Troll' by a RIAA employee...
And you have a very valid point here. Sun's currently trying to break into the desktop market, i.e. Mad Hatter project, but where's the marketing that needs to go with it?
I may very well have a cure for AIDS and cancer, but unless I market the cure, no one will know about the product to buy it.
And isn't Dell a larger company than Apple as well? Here's the snipplet from the Fortune.
"The Dell strategy, though, includes keeping R&D to a minimum--something foreign to Sun. Says Joy: "All along, Scott [McNealy, Sun's CEO] has maintained R&D spending, so there is some promising new technology coming too.""
Not cutting expenses while revenue going down = low or negative net income = stocks going downhill. Microsoft isn't in better shape than Sun due to their superior R&D, it's because of their superior marketing.
I wanted to become proficient in UNIX style O/S during my college years. Solaris is well known and could be downloaded for educational purposes, so I decided to give it a shot. Being a poor college student, I decided to download the Solaris for Intel (I'm not sure if it was version 7 or 8, it was a several years ago) since I didn't have resources to buy a Sun machine. I tried to install it on a typical Intel machine of that time (Pentium II running on a 440BX based board) and I could not get the installer to recognize the IDE controllers! My friend tried to install it on his machine (also a 440BX based board), with the same results. Only controller that he was able to install off of was an Adaptec SCSI card. I searched the Sun's help forum on the Intel platforms for solutions, and turns out that I wasn't the only one with the IDE controller issue. I couldn't find the solution I was looking for but I did find plenty of comments like "Sun's support for Intel platform sucks" and "Sun has no reason to support Intel platform because it will cut into their server sales". I decided to give up on Solaris for Intel and looked for alternatives...
And that alternative was GNU/Linux. I started with Red Hat 6.1 and it installed on my Intel box without a hitch. And the rest was history.
If Sun had better support for the Intel platform, then I would be replacing the Windows servers at my company right now with Solaris for Intel instead of GNU/Linux. Sun lost me as a customer when I was an impressionable college student, and I'm pretty sure that Sun also lost a huge amount of potential customers in that mostly useless help forum.
The latest version of Solaris is supposed to have better support for Intel platform but why should I pay $20 to download a limited use, non-commercial license version of Solaris that may/may not work with the current hardware owned by the company when GNU/Linux simply works and does everything that we need without the restrictive license?
When Sun realized that when they bombed on the Intel platform market, they tried to enter as a latecomer by pretending to support Linux, even after calling it a hobbyist's O/S a year ago. And when they improved the support for Intel platform on their latest version of Solaris, they backstabbed Linux by bashing it again and also by fanning SCO's FUD bonfire. Knowing that, if my company ever needs to buy a high end server in the future, I'd rather will go with an IBM box than Sun, even if I have to pay a little extra.
I think that the reason why Sun's sinking is that they spent too much on R&D and not enough on marketing. I believe that the reason why Dell is still profitable is that they kept their R&D to minimum, thus reducing their expenses.
Greedy companies (i.e. MS) will waste money to patent obviously simple ideas just to have it made worthless in court via vest prior arts. Think of it was an extra tax for greedy corporations.
Evolution has MAPI connector as n add-on.
My apologies. Most people on /. complain about everything but never do anything about it.
If you have RPM based distro, you can try YUM (Yellodog Update, Modified) from Duke.
Sounds great. Are you going to start coding the replacement or just wait until someone else does it?
Mod the parent up! It's one of the most intelligent statements I've heard in /. (although that's not really saying much...).
To add to bladernr, having two senators per state give small states (i.e. NJ) equity against larger states (i.e. CA) as they will always have two senators at the congress no matter that their population levels are.
One more thing to add... The doctor's groups around the country wants to cap the damages awarded in the malpractice lawsuits as it raises healthcare costs. The Trial Lawyers' Assoication. And guess who supports TLA? The "liberals".
Why do you think that most Europeans don't use A/C? The taxes on energy's too high, so you can't afford A/Cs unless you are rich.
I don't doubt it at all. I didn't use the figure to bash French, but rather to state that public health care isn't the magic bullet everyone claims it is.
I guess you're just a leech that wants everyone else to pay. Why do you think that you should have 3 to 6 months worth of your monthy wages saved up. Or did you blow all of that away on your weekly pot smoking sessions?
"I can't wait for you to get laid off (its only a matter of time)"
I doubt that I'll be laid off anytime soon because what I do can't be outsourced. I also run a business on the side and I don't expect to lay myself off anytime soon.
So I suggest that you go fuck yourself instead and try working for a living. I put in 60+ hours in my work and my business every week and I work too hard want to support leeches like you.
Don't take my word for it. The French government stated that their health care system is overly complex and is in need of overhaul.
No, what I mean is that in the end, there will be no difference.
I may go for public health care if the government officials who run them are not corrupt, it is run efficiently, and no one abuses the system. The problem is that;
1. Most government officials are known for giving preferred treatment to people with ties, which means that you still cannot guarantee equal care for everyone. Let's say that Joe and John both need a new liver. Joe is a huge contributor to several government officals. I'm willing to bet that Joe will get the liver before John.
2. From serving as an intern for a state rep, I can tell you that the government has a huge overhead and good chunk of tax dollars for the healthcare will be wasted.
3. There will be a large amount of people who abuse the system (such as hypochondriacs) at everyone else's expense.
Not to mention that while I am willing to give a hand to people who are in the bad situations due to circumstances out of their control (like being born disabled), I am against giving help to people who put themselves in a bad situation (like frying their brains due to drug use).
After close to 15,000 deaths due to the heat wave in France, the government admitted that their health care system is overly complex and is in need a overhaul. Is this the model we are supposed to follow?
People complain that politicians are evil and corrupt, yet want them to run everything? Only people who'll benefit are the ones with ties to the government officials.
When I was your age, I had to code in stone tablets. And oh, not to mention walking 5 miles to school bare feet and other crap.
I believe that it's a relative. GPL != public domain but GPL is heck of alot less restrictive than EULA.
In Colorado, they tax you on automobiles based on where you live, not where you buy, so if your state is like that, buying it over the net won't help at all.
Didn't Davis (Dem, Gov. of CA) himself said you can't blame one person for the economy?
And why are Europe and Asia experiencing bad economy as well?
Seniors are the largest group of voters so they get prescription drugs while young geeks get patent laws.
Many states have "Use Tax", where you are supposed to report and pay taxes on goods you bought from another state but didn't pay sales tax for them. Since states cannot force sales tax on out of state businesses, this Use Tax is based on the honor system. So if you believe that states need more money, lead the way and pay the Use Tax. If your state does not have a Use Tax, calculate the sales tax on mail/internet order items and donate it to the state.