I could hold my whole XP image on 10.4GB. Anything that's not on the image is on the corporate network somewhere such as Notes servers. So if someone would build a laptop with a 16GB fast SSD then that would be great. I'll even buy my own portable USB harddrive for everything that doesn't fit. For home use I already have a NAS.
Take them out of circulation, and then the Mint can do whatever they like with the alloys. Or if they're smart, they'll use alloys for a $1 coin and stop making the $1 bill.
You're both right. Work that's mobile, task and work order based is very efficient this way. Work that's more collaborative, more project oriented is a lot harder. I have never met any of my last 5 managers in person. I think it's a disadvantge to me personally, careerwise. The upside is that no one really cares the hours I keep.
My manager lives in a different time zone, her manager lives in a different time zone from here, and so on until we find the manager who lives on another continent. See there is no there there.
In America only animals have human rights. I'm not so sure if people do. You and I will live to see the day where a Jury of My Peers puts a human to death for killing an animal. Oh well, I guess we can all feel noble and gratified.
We get all bent out of shape when some obscure mammal goes extinct and we can have endless newsreports about the fucking Panda bears which should be extinct given their complete lack of any desire to keep living and reproducing. Why are the animals we can anthropormorphize like it's some Pixar movie the ones we deem worthy of moving heaven and earth to preserve? Why is it that important in the end? Better we should build a better chicken to feed people.
More than 995% of all zoological diversity, in total, ever, is extinct. Why do we need to sweat it when the White Dolphin, or the Black Rhino, or the African Elephant or the Manatee or the Tiger all disappear?
What's happening is that in their inexorable drive to the bottom they will always put the lowest cost before anything else. When India is more expensive than someone else, they will go to that other place until eventually they've found the lowest cost of all. Who knows maybe it'll be Ethiopia or Myanmar or North Korea.
Jesus god what a load of nonsense. Unemployment in IT is low because they already tossed a few hundred thousand people out of work. And if you're happy with 13 hr time lags for development and support and then, maybe a partial understanding of English then more power to you. Let's hire deaf mute children in Sudan.
Neither you nor the poster immediately above clearly has ever had to implement anything globally.
We all know that the CIO responses to this will be to spend a billion dollars in an even more backwards country, hire thousands of people who are even cheaper, figuring that even if turnover is 200% they can break even on the lower headcount cost. Pretty soon we'll be building data centers in Angola & Bangladesh paying those people half of what we pay them in India and in 3 years we'll be wandering aroung dazed at the absolute sucknocitude of everything. I don't who we'll get to work at that point, maybe Chinese convicts.
You reap what you sow CIassholes. I have zero empathy for your plight. You killed the industry in the US and now it's crap everywhere. I'd be cheering for your failure except we know you all lavished millions of dollars on yourselves just in time to run out of the burning buildings. So screw you.
Maybe Hans can be convicted on no actual evidence whatsoever besides the dazzling smile of his now dead, heavily pregnant cheerleader all American wife. Not that sending people to death row on less evidence than you would put down a dog is bad, mind you.
Again, to what actual benefit? The amount of time and money they spent om this they could have reverse engineered MVS from the ground up. In other OS's the difference between say 5.x and 6.x is typically DRAMATIC. How about filesystems that span physical volumes and allow for hot swapping expansion on the fly? How about real journaling? What about clustering and the ability to throw more processors into it in the 24-48 CPU range? Or fault tolerance/fault resilience? All these things exist right now and from firms that spent less time and money doing it than MS spends in a year on marketing vaproware.
See these are only examples but the point is that they've already been done. It can't be impossible for MS to build real features that already exist into Windows. In fact the very roots of Windows NT were developed by Dave Cutler and Gordon Bell who ALREADY did all of this at Digital decades ago.
OK two EXTRA years then. But that aside, What is the actual benefit to those tweaks? I mean it's plausible that it makes a better server, but the desktop? No probably not.
My T40 Thinkpad takes at least 3 minutes minimum from a cold start to completely finished booting. More if you include the 2-3 minutes of Windows contacting Redmond to authenticate WGA and check for updates. This last step takes 80% CPU and flat out disk while it runs. I could fix that, but WTF.
You simply cannot spend 2 years cranking out a dot level upgrade to an OS and expect thundering success. Because in the final analysis there isn't much new to Vista
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I don't have any laptops with the power to actually run Vista so how it comes out of hibernation is irrelevant. I don't think that Vista is going to be a laptop friendly OS in the first place given that internal hardware upgrades are nearly impossible.
If you can't send mail to an Earthlink user because of whitelists it's because the whitelist has been set by the user to do that. It's an option that all Earthlink customers get. In fact there's a setting where you can reject all inbound email unless it's from an entry that's already in your own addressbook. So if Earthlink is losing mail to a given customer it's probably unsolicited garbage. Because as far as I can tell, every single piece of email I ever needed to see or expected to see has been delivered to me & I've been on earthlink for years and years. The biggest problem with Earthlink email is that it occasionally just stops running at all. I only use web mail and maybe once every few days, access to it slows to a crawl or stops. Then when it comes back everything I expected to see, at any rate is there.
I have a bunch of routers with Linux based small footprint OS's on them and by small I mean a coupla meg. My print server does too (I think) and my cable modem has an RTOS microkernel. So from the perspective of why would you plunk Windows on an OLPC, the real question is what benefit do you get by bootstrapping Windows to an OLPC in order to take advantage of the applications that you can't get otherwise? Seems to me, we ALREADY have solved the OLPC OS problem - the question now is how many interesting applications can we cram on it.
I do not know. I mean other than foundational differences in the two. *nix started out in life with a mature network centric approach. Windows did not. In fact Windows was rather late to the world of networking beyond its little world of LAN based MS protocols and unroutable networks. Windows was created with the idea that the single user was king. *nix was not. So in very foundational ways, the two developed in very different directions. In the Windows world, the user and the kernel are very close to one another and something that happens to the user, happens to the kernel. The basic approach to mitigating disaster is to limit how flaws in the kernel propagate. In the *nix world the kernel and the user are fairly far apart and the general approach to mitigating disaster is to wall off what happens to the user from the kernel. So fast forward 10 years - there will indeed be spyware and such in the *nix world but the probability is that it will have less effect on the rest of the system and the rest of your network.
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I could hold my whole XP image on 10.4GB. Anything that's not on the image is on the corporate network somewhere such as Notes servers. So if someone would build a laptop with a 16GB fast SSD then that would be great. I'll even buy my own portable USB harddrive for everything that doesn't fit. For home use I already have a NAS.
Take them out of circulation, and then the Mint can do whatever they like with the alloys. Or if they're smart, they'll use alloys for a $1 coin and stop making the $1 bill.
You're both right. Work that's mobile, task and work order based is very efficient this way. Work that's more collaborative, more project oriented is a lot harder. I have never met any of my last 5 managers in person. I think it's a disadvantge to me personally, careerwise. The upside is that no one really cares the hours I keep.
My manager lives in a different time zone, her manager lives in a different time zone from here, and so on until we find the manager who lives on another continent. See there is no there there.
In America only animals have human rights. I'm not so sure if people do. You and I will live to see the day where a Jury of My Peers puts a human to death for killing an animal. Oh well, I guess we can all feel noble and gratified.
We get all bent out of shape when some obscure mammal goes extinct and we can have endless newsreports about the fucking Panda bears which should be extinct given their complete lack of any desire to keep living and reproducing. Why are the animals we can anthropormorphize like it's some Pixar movie the ones we deem worthy of moving heaven and earth to preserve? Why is it that important in the end? Better we should build a better chicken to feed people.
More than 995% of all zoological diversity, in total, ever, is extinct. Why do we need to sweat it when the White Dolphin, or the Black Rhino, or the African Elephant or the Manatee or the Tiger all disappear?
Until the problem is so critical that people rise up and slaughter one another until the problem solves itself. Bitch hand of commerce will solve all.
My fat white Republican Libertarian ass does not care. Screw the earth. I'll be dead by then.
What's happening is that in their inexorable drive to the bottom they will always put the lowest cost before anything else. When India is more expensive than someone else, they will go to that other place until eventually they've found the lowest cost of all. Who knows maybe it'll be Ethiopia or Myanmar or North Korea.
If you don't like it then take your business elsewhere.
Jesus god what a load of nonsense. Unemployment in IT is low because they already tossed a few hundred thousand people out of work. And if you're happy with 13 hr time lags for development and support and then, maybe a partial understanding of English then more power to you. Let's hire deaf mute children in Sudan.
Neither you nor the poster immediately above clearly has ever had to implement anything globally.
Are you willing to pay 3 or 4 or 5 times more for the rework? Because that's what I experience.
We all know that the CIO responses to this will be to spend a billion dollars in an even more backwards country, hire thousands of people who are even cheaper, figuring that even if turnover is 200% they can break even on the lower headcount cost. Pretty soon we'll be building data centers in Angola & Bangladesh paying those people half of what we pay them in India and in 3 years we'll be wandering aroung dazed at the absolute sucknocitude of everything. I don't who we'll get to work at that point, maybe Chinese convicts.
You reap what you sow CIassholes. I have zero empathy for your plight. You killed the industry in the US and now it's crap everywhere. I'd be cheering for your failure except we know you all lavished millions of dollars on yourselves just in time to run out of the burning buildings. So screw you.
Maybe Hans can be convicted on no actual evidence whatsoever besides the dazzling smile of his now dead, heavily pregnant cheerleader all American wife. Not that sending people to death row on less evidence than you would put down a dog is bad, mind you.
Again, to what actual benefit? The amount of time and money they spent om this they could have reverse engineered MVS from the ground up. In other OS's the difference between say 5.x and 6.x is typically DRAMATIC. How about filesystems that span physical volumes and allow for hot swapping expansion on the fly? How about real journaling? What about clustering and the ability to throw more processors into it in the 24-48 CPU range? Or fault tolerance/fault resilience? All these things exist right now and from firms that spent less time and money doing it than MS spends in a year on marketing vaproware.
See these are only examples but the point is that they've already been done. It can't be impossible for MS to build real features that already exist into Windows. In fact the very roots of Windows NT were developed by Dave Cutler and Gordon Bell who ALREADY did all of this at Digital decades ago.
OK two EXTRA years then. But that aside, What is the actual benefit to those tweaks? I mean it's plausible that it makes a better server, but the desktop? No probably not.
My T40 Thinkpad takes at least 3 minutes minimum from a cold start to completely finished booting. More if you include the 2-3 minutes of Windows contacting Redmond to authenticate WGA and check for updates. This last step takes 80% CPU and flat out disk while it runs. I could fix that, but WTF.
You simply cannot spend 2 years cranking out a dot level upgrade to an OS and expect thundering success. Because in the final analysis there isn't much new to Vista
I don't have any laptops with the power to actually run Vista so how it comes out of hibernation is irrelevant. I don't think that Vista is going to be a laptop friendly OS in the first place given that internal hardware upgrades are nearly impossible.
Every country involved has been told the same thing. And more importantly, all co developers are PROHIBITED from installing their own avionics.
If you can't send mail to an Earthlink user because of whitelists it's because the whitelist has been set by the user to do that. It's an option that all Earthlink customers get. In fact there's a setting where you can reject all inbound email unless it's from an entry that's already in your own addressbook. So if Earthlink is losing mail to a given customer it's probably unsolicited garbage. Because as far as I can tell, every single piece of email I ever needed to see or expected to see has been delivered to me & I've been on earthlink for years and years. The biggest problem with Earthlink email is that it occasionally just stops running at all. I only use web mail and maybe once every few days, access to it slows to a crawl or stops. Then when it comes back everything I expected to see, at any rate is there.
In theory that's sort of true but for the reality of Mac. This shows that it's possible to put an end user friendly face on *nix.
Not sure what you mean by enterprise though. AIX, Sun, Z/os, OS/400 are all perfectly capable enterprise systems.
Outsource the project to India and China
Rebrand it
Declare success
I have a bunch of routers with Linux based small footprint OS's on them and by small I mean a coupla meg. My print server does too (I think) and my cable modem has an RTOS microkernel. So from the perspective of why would you plunk Windows on an OLPC, the real question is what benefit do you get by bootstrapping Windows to an OLPC in order to take advantage of the applications that you can't get otherwise? Seems to me, we ALREADY have solved the OLPC OS problem - the question now is how many interesting applications can we cram on it.
I do not know. I mean other than foundational differences in the two. *nix started out in life with a mature network centric approach. Windows did not. In fact Windows was rather late to the world of networking beyond its little world of LAN based MS protocols and unroutable networks. Windows was created with the idea that the single user was king. *nix was not. So in very foundational ways, the two developed in very different directions. In the Windows world, the user and the kernel are very close to one another and something that happens to the user, happens to the kernel. The basic approach to mitigating disaster is to limit how flaws in the kernel propagate. In the *nix world the kernel and the user are fairly far apart and the general approach to mitigating disaster is to wall off what happens to the user from the kernel. So fast forward 10 years - there will indeed be spyware and such in the *nix world but the probability is that it will have less effect on the rest of the system and the rest of your network.