OK we'll say it's true and every other vendor has to cut prices to compete with microsoft at every price point.
But what happens is that those companies cut their prices too deep, they don't develop investment properly and then they are eaten by microsoft whereby prices go back up to microsoft monopoly levels.
The point being that the media and bottomdwellers who live in it like to take a slow news day and turn it into yet another story about how the internet is going to murder you, your children, your way of life.
The internet is no more a haven for child molesters than your average group setting with children and the adults we willingly give proxy power to. Strangely though no one seems to want to do away with Christian youth camps, only some of the bad people who work in them. So maybe the issue is really about the fact that most people don't know the difference between a browser and the 'internets' and they basically fear what they don't understand so gory stories about lesbian communist heroin addicted al Qaeda child rapists is just the thing to play to their ignorant fears.
then you deserve what you get. seriously, next time put something in your contract that says things have to be delivered to work as proposed. then you need them to show you that they checked it out. otherwise the fault is yours.
Dynix comes from Sequent computers which was purchased by IBM in 1996. Dynix forked from BSD around 1984. AFAIK IBM killed all Sequent and NUMA-Q 3 years ago. But AIX is Mach based with a bunch of features from different BSDs thrown in over the years.
And 2 BILLION lines of code? Who the hell are these people? Dr. Evil?
Bavck to the days when there were 30 different OS's and 30 different hardware architectures all of them competing in a grim Darwinian wrestling match unto Death. Well Amiga and others perished in Circus Maximus; they got the thumbs down and a dagger in spine. Face down in the blood and dust and it never did, does or will matter how great they were.
The thinking behind this is that airlines will use it to fly hub to hub only. That means that essentially no air travel will be direct. You will take the BUS to a hub near where you are going and then you will get off and board a smaller plane to get you to the airport where you are going. So unless both ends of your trip are in a hub you will transfer once, possibly TWICE. Even with trans oceanic travel - you will take a BUS from one hub to another and then get on another plane. So plausibly, a trip from Washington DC to Frankfurt Germany would entail regional trip to NY, a BUS trip to Heathrow, a regional trip to Frankfurt. Now consider that if you are a business traveller you will have 6 one way tickets to keep the cost down. This will require you to be strip searched 6 times on your round trip.
What kind of massive R+D and capital investment effort could one mount with a price point of $1/GB? Unless you're a Google sized operation, even reducing the cost of DASD by 50% or increasing the price/performance by 50% is not going to matter that much.
What they should focus on is not more storage, since I can already but a Terabyte, nor network attached storage since that's pretty cheap and all the other hardware wrapped around the drives is the cost component. What they need to focus on is better backup and storage management, secondary and tertiary storage media and better more standardized removable storage.
Doesn't it seem that Apple and its minions have quietly abandoned the traditional desktop office computing realm? Does't it look like Apple has decided to focus on consumer electronics, multimedia, video and mastering. Doesn't it look like Apple is poised to become the ultimate sealed box to do every kind of mulimedia 'thing' under the sun and the hell with desktop productivity applications and systems altogether?
Seriously we used to be able to count on the insanely partisan aspects of the WSJ left on the Op_Ed pages at the back of Section A. But it's creeping all over the paper now until it's practically the print version of Fox News. WSJ is about as partisan as the official Egyptian press now.
Ok OK it's a little bit faster than NS7.2. But it's harder to use multiple profiles, it's still a little bit unstable and it has a hard time with certain types of Webpages with objects that the plugins can't handle. But since NS7.2 handles popups, etc. as well as Firefox there isn't a lot to really distinguish it.
And I found that Thunderbird, an NS7.2 mail lookalike, did not handle embedded URLS in mail as well as NS.
Sure it's better than IE but I imagine so are all sorts of other browsers as well.
Now here's the good part. Browsers are a strategic business application. And any strategic business application needs source code down to the level that any customer can customize the application to make it work. Oracle is like that, Tivoli and hundreds of other applications. So keeping that source away from customers and stopping them from exercizing that kind of control over development is a horrible thing that you've all been conned into accepting.
But keep in mind that like putting an alarm system in your house, a browser like Firefox can't stop someone from breaking in. What it can do at best is make it a little bit harder to break in than the guy next to you. So the criminal will move on to the next house. But sooner or later someone will paste up a gigantic bag of tools that can be used to easily crush Firefox and as soon as it reaches an arbitrary level of market penetration it will get hit.
And guess what wrangler dudes and dudettes - you'll have to patch manage two different browsers or three or however many you have now plus one.
This totally sucks. Anyone want to bet that 95% of all laptop machines will not be able to run Longhorn and the ones that will will cost $2400.
The only remaining question is how soon MS's bitch, Intel figures out a way to embed that graphics performance into their CPUs thereby keeping THAT dysfunctional relationship alive.
Seriously I hope they start to interrupt their own movies with several minutes long commercials to make up for Fat Manny The Stuntman's Piracy Problem. I also hope they charge $11 per ticket.
I've always said that there is no coherent reason why almost every PC or Mac can't be half the size of a laptop computer. This is what Apple did and it's kind of brilliant from a manufacturing, design and engineering perspective. You take a laptop, remove the screen, battery and keyboard, modify it slightly to move the connectors, repackage it in a plain box and voila! Instant new device!
You can add memory, plug in everything and you can change keyboards and screens at will, just like most people use laptops at home with docking stations anyway.
I'm sure that my Lenovo Thinkpad could be turned into a cheap machine using the same process. In fact if I never wanted or needed to upgrade the RAM on the machine, which is actually the case, there is little, besides the CDRW, in my little Lenovo that couldn't be packaged in a power brick sized cable. The entire machine could be a power cord, a fat power brick/PC unit, a bunch of USB connectors, a network cable (or not - just wireless), a USB keyboard mouse and a screen of somekind.
Wow I didn't know they needed a special computer. Maybe one that makes sure con artists don't take their life savings to cut down a tree.....because they're fucking old.
Anyway, there is no such thing as idiotproof and someone, probably you will become tech support. So ya better start larnin that goldarn thing.
I just installed OpenOffice and I can't think of a single thing that didn't go as well or better than a corresponding installation or use of MS Office. This stuff really isn't space science, you just have to package everything with some care and knoweledge of what your CUSTOMERS, not users, not developers not those unpleasant people who talk to you, want.
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OK we'll say it's true and every other vendor has to cut prices to compete with microsoft at every price point.
But what happens is that those companies cut their prices too deep, they don't develop investment properly and then they are eaten by microsoft whereby prices go back up to microsoft monopoly levels.
The point being that the media and bottomdwellers who live in it like to take a slow news day and turn it into yet another story about how the internet is going to murder you, your children, your way of life.
The internet is no more a haven for child molesters than your average group setting with children and the adults we willingly give proxy power to. Strangely though no one seems to want to do away with Christian youth camps, only some of the bad people who work in them. So maybe the issue is really about the fact that most people don't know the difference between a browser and the 'internets' and they basically fear what they don't understand so gory stories about lesbian communist heroin addicted al Qaeda child rapists is just the thing to play to their ignorant fears.
My God it's a cookbook.
Stay engaged, be interested and interesting, do things that you do well and other people don't.
And above all, wave your arms over your head and spend 20 minutes lecturing what could be covered in one sentence.
So some lucky bastard brought up the average with a whopping 1% increase.
then you deserve what you get. seriously, next time put something in your contract that says things have to be delivered to work as proposed. then you need them to show you that they checked it out. otherwise the fault is yours.
Dynix comes from Sequent computers which was purchased by IBM in 1996. Dynix forked from BSD around 1984. AFAIK IBM killed all Sequent and NUMA-Q 3 years ago. But AIX is Mach based with a bunch of features from different BSDs thrown in over the years.
And 2 BILLION lines of code? Who the hell are these people? Dr. Evil?
Individual carts for each color so you don't have to toss a $35 cart when one color runs out. So go Epson and get the carts from Printpal.com
All the vendors like HP and Lexmark who are trying to ass fuck me and tell me they're taking my temperature can gargle their boiling ink in hell.
How's that anger management going?
Bavck to the days when there were 30 different OS's and 30 different hardware architectures all of them competing in a grim Darwinian wrestling match unto Death. Well Amiga and others perished in Circus Maximus; they got the thumbs down and a dagger in spine. Face down in the blood and dust and it never did, does or will matter how great they were.
We toast the fallen, All Hail Amiga!
Oh I forgot, killing people isn't really a crime in America, but refusing to be sodomized by the RIAA/MPAA is.
Enterprise, the Reality show.
A house full of goofy retards who dress and act like ST characters and pretend to have a real life.
Go ahead mod me, I got more.
The thinking behind this is that airlines will use it to fly hub to hub only. That means that essentially no air travel will be direct. You will take the BUS to a hub near where you are going and then you will get off and board a smaller plane to get you to the airport where you are going. So unless both ends of your trip are in a hub you will transfer once, possibly TWICE. Even with trans oceanic travel - you will take a BUS from one hub to another and then get on another plane. So plausibly, a trip from Washington DC to Frankfurt Germany would entail regional trip to NY, a BUS trip to Heathrow, a regional trip to Frankfurt. Now consider that if you are a business traveller you will have 6 one way tickets to keep the cost down. This will require you to be strip searched 6 times on your round trip.
What kind of massive R+D and capital investment effort could one mount with a price point of $1/GB? Unless you're a Google sized operation, even reducing the cost of DASD by 50% or increasing the price/performance by 50% is not going to matter that much.
What they should focus on is not more storage, since I can already but a Terabyte, nor network attached storage since that's pretty cheap and all the other hardware wrapped around the drives is the cost component. What they need to focus on is better backup and storage management, secondary and tertiary storage media and better more standardized removable storage.
Doesn't it seem that Apple and its minions have quietly abandoned the traditional desktop office computing realm? Does't it look like Apple has decided to focus on consumer electronics, multimedia, video and mastering. Doesn't it look like Apple is poised to become the ultimate sealed box to do every kind of mulimedia 'thing' under the sun and the hell with desktop productivity applications and systems altogether?
Seriously we used to be able to count on the insanely partisan aspects of the WSJ left on the Op_Ed pages at the back of Section A. But it's creeping all over the paper now until it's practically the print version of Fox News. WSJ is about as partisan as the official Egyptian press now.
Does this shock anyone?
I have a Thinkpad T40 that I wouldn't want to rely on if I was a 3D gamer.
Ok OK it's a little bit faster than NS7.2. But it's harder to use multiple profiles, it's still a little bit unstable and it has a hard time with certain types of Webpages with objects that the plugins can't handle. But since NS7.2 handles popups, etc. as well as Firefox there isn't a lot to really distinguish it.
And I found that Thunderbird, an NS7.2 mail lookalike, did not handle embedded URLS in mail as well as NS.
Sure it's better than IE but I imagine so are all sorts of other browsers as well.
Now here's the good part. Browsers are a strategic business application. And any strategic business application needs source code down to the level that any customer can customize the application to make it work. Oracle is like that, Tivoli and hundreds of other applications. So keeping that source away from customers and stopping them from exercizing that kind of control over development is a horrible thing that you've all been conned into accepting.
But keep in mind that like putting an alarm system in your house, a browser like Firefox can't stop someone from breaking in. What it can do at best is make it a little bit harder to break in than the guy next to you. So the criminal will move on to the next house. But sooner or later someone will paste up a gigantic bag of tools that can be used to easily crush Firefox and as soon as it reaches an arbitrary level of market penetration it will get hit.
And guess what wrangler dudes and dudettes - you'll have to patch manage two different browsers or three or however many you have now plus one.
This totally sucks. Anyone want to bet that 95% of all laptop machines will not be able to run Longhorn and the ones that will will cost $2400.
The only remaining question is how soon MS's bitch, Intel figures out a way to embed that graphics performance into their CPUs thereby keeping THAT dysfunctional relationship alive.
Seriously I hope they start to interrupt their own movies with several minutes long commercials to make up for Fat Manny The Stuntman's Piracy Problem. I also hope they charge $11 per ticket.
That'l teach US!
An old Russian Satellite, Viking or some other man hurled glob of junk?
I think it is.
Or it's from another star system or dimension, that's also plausible.
I've always said that there is no coherent reason why almost every PC or Mac can't be half the size of a laptop computer. This is what Apple did and it's kind of brilliant from a manufacturing, design and engineering perspective. You take a laptop, remove the screen, battery and keyboard, modify it slightly to move the connectors, repackage it in a plain box and voila! Instant new device!
You can add memory, plug in everything and you can change keyboards and screens at will, just like most people use laptops at home with docking stations anyway.
I'm sure that my Lenovo Thinkpad could be turned into a cheap machine using the same process. In fact if I never wanted or needed to upgrade the RAM on the machine, which is actually the case, there is little, besides the CDRW, in my little Lenovo that couldn't be packaged in a power brick sized cable. The entire machine could be a power cord, a fat power brick/PC unit, a bunch of USB connectors, a network cable (or not - just wireless), a USB keyboard mouse and a screen of somekind.
Wow I didn't know they needed a special computer. Maybe one that makes sure con artists don't take their life savings to cut down a tree.....because they're fucking old.
Anyway, there is no such thing as idiotproof and someone, probably you will become tech support. So ya better start larnin that goldarn thing.
I just installed OpenOffice and I can't think of a single thing that didn't go as well or better than a corresponding installation or use of MS Office. This stuff really isn't space science, you just have to package everything with some care and knoweledge of what your CUSTOMERS, not users, not developers not those unpleasant people who talk to you, want.
The chairman of the FCC Michael "I have no idea what the public interest is" Powell is right on the case making sure your privacy is protected.
Bank on it.