If there was a public health risk - such as biohazardous material - even in a private storefront - the city or state would close off the area and warn people not to go there. Yes, you might have people wanting to go anyway, but they've been warned.
Of course New York City and the Federal Government did not do this for lower Manhattan after 9/11 (they only cordoned off the actual site) despite the release into the air of hazardous chemicals and dust.
I think they did this before with Central Point Antivirus. Or at least they included something that appeared to be exactly the same thing with later versions of Windows 3.1. I noticed this because at a place I worked one summer they ran CPAV and when I then got my own computer it had the antivirus software.
So the point is they've tried this before and it didn't go anywhere. Symantec and Network Associates made better products and dominated the market. So hopefully they will continue to do so.
On the other hand what could make this work for Microsoft is if they cause Norton and McAfee to crash when running on Windows, as they have done with other competitors to their software. But I think they would have a hard time doing that until they can get an effective product of their own in place.
From what I understand, everyone is so concerned about getting schools wired so kids can surf the net instead of learning, that no one is looking at the price tag.
I'm with you there. For some reason there's money for this when there isn't enough money for classroom space, teachers, or books. It's an obvious swindle due to the bombardment of propaganda from tech companies that a library fits on a CD, computers make learning faster and more cost-efficient, software can replace traditional classroom instruction, etc. etc. This is only a small example of corruption in the larger swindle, which begs the question of how anybody learned anything until 30 years ago.
How do I know the figures in the com.com article are QoQ and not YoY? Because the Gartner summary (linked above) puts overall YoY revenue growth at 24.1%, not the 9.3% reported in the article.
Original article says Dell revenue up 24.8 percent for year earlier period not overall market--unless you are referring to a different link.
From the article: "Gartner's data showed that Dell is the fastest-growing of the leading server vendors, increasing unit sales by 38.4 percent and revenue by 24.8 percent over the period."
Those increases are year over year as is standard when reporting quarterly growth. Quarter to next quarter is referred to as "sequential" growth.
Yeah did anyone else notice that the article said 80 percent of HP's earnings come from printers and they lose money on the hardware and only make money on the ink? That would mean that 80 percent of HP's earnings come from ink.
This is NYT's idea of making money by being an innovator.
What they've innovated is 40 percent market share, which gives them monopoly power to differentiate the market into a thousand different proprietary cartridge lines, each of which runs out about once a month and so produces a revenue stream of $30 a month.
That monopoly power means inefficiency, which is where Dell has an opportunity to produce the same thing at a lower cost--if they can do it through different technology.
Yup that's pretty much my experience of it with my mother. I was about 7 when she started getting the stares, complaining about not having any energy, wearing tons of makeup and brightly colored clothes. This was shortly after her father died.
Then she tried to take all of her father's inheritance and exclude her sister and started blowing enormous amounts of cash, spending down $50,000 in inheritance to $14,000, including a white Corvette. She bought tons of cheap clothes, fake jewelry and cosmetics. She would open 20 bottles of the exact same shampoo, nail polish, and liquid soap and leave them on the shelf.
Then when I was about 9 or 10 she decided my father was trying to kill her and she ran away. She soon came back but she made my sister and I pray for her every morning and she spent a lot of her alone time chanting little prayers. She would drop us off for things then wait outside and come to get us halfway through, then she said we were bringing home germs from Karate lessons and that we had to tell the teacher we were going to wear socks. She insisted on picking me up on the schoolbus in the middle of the highway instead of waiting for it to come back on the other side, which got me in a lot of trouble with the bus driver. She also spent a lot of time yelling at us about how we were slobs and were ruining her life. She also used to lecture me about how I would someday have all my father's money and either of us could break his back with Karate if we wanted to. This went on for a good three years or so.
She bought a replacement dog for our dog who had died just as she was having trouble, and he wasn't house-trained so the house was always an embarrassment and I couldn't bring people over.
During all this time she thought there was nothing wrong with her and thought everyone was just picking on her. She and my father had terrible fights over taking the medication, which she thought he was forcing her to do to deny the real source of the problem which was him. (He took a placebo to get her to take her medication with him.) Eventually she started taking the medication and the wilder stuff subsided, but she's still very strange and has blunted emotions and babyish immaturity and also the physical side-effects that come from the medication. There's no sign really of her old personality. (Before this she was an English teacher, regionally ranked tennis player, ran an art gallery, very social and fashionable.)
I understand from the article in the posting that this is the case in 80 percent of schizophrenics. Those with happy endings are those well enough to post here, which is only a small minority.
I didn't know her problem was schizophrenia until a few years ago because my father thought I had it too (I don't--at least not yet--I'm 32) and finally told me. Up until that point he just described her as "nuts" or "insane." I don't think her doctor has leveled with her either.
Most people have never believed me that there is anything wrong with her unless they have met her, and even then they're inclined to describe what I describe as normal or as a reasonable misperception, similar to their parents, etc. They are usually inclined to say medication is not necessary based on popular understandings of insanity as simply minority behavior.
My father feels he gave up his life in staying with her for me and my sister and blames her for depriving him of the woman he married, and my sister blames her for mistreating her and me for being favored by her and my father. I have problems with self-confidence and my father is extremely defensive about any negative statement about my childhood. He feels my sister and I are highly privileged and considers himself rich.
So basically I think knowing the facts about the case are helpful, getting treatment, making sure any children involved have early access to counseling if they need it. I am doing okay but I really should have had some kind of therapy much earlier and still have a lot of trouble getting along with people.
or someone who just wants a product that works and a support number to call when it doesn't
Yah, there's the rub. Trying to get Lotus Notes to work under Wine has been the most time consuming computer activity (outside of teaching myself BASIC) I have ever undertaken in my life, and I still can't print.
The current failings of the public education system cannot be the explanation for the metrics used in these articles because they are about things like patents and published papers, which reflect on people who graduated from high school 30 to 40 years ago.
They're going to kluge it up with advertising and ruin the objective search rankings. The reason is that it will make more money in the short term that way. This can be resisted for a while but once the stock starts taking that is exacly what will happen. Then another company will come along with a stripped down search engine that works really fast and gives you what you're looking for and the process will start all over again.
I think this is an important realization, that a union isn't necessarily just trying to reduce productivity or tilt the playing field toward itself, but in some ways is needed in order to give IT workers the ability to retain what are generally understood to be neutral but fair rules for the game.
The point of time-and-a-half isn't so much higher pay as shorter hours. It's a way of creating an eight-hour day, which was a core labor project for about 70 years, without an outright ban on labor over eight hours. Part of the reason for the eight-hour day is not just justice or humaneness but also the idea that workers are more productive and efficient when they are well-rested.
As someone has pointed out, individual workers can't say no to a boss that tells them to work more hours. This is where a union can accomplish something that an individual can't, but the resulting legislation is not unfairly tilting the outcome toward union members. It benefits all workers.
Ironically it is the decline of unionization from 45 percent at the end of World War II to 9 percent today that has resulted in time-and-a-half and eight-hour days being limited to union workers. It's the weakness of unions that has made union efforts result in special priviliges, not union strength.
During the boom, I found friends in IT generally contemptuous of unions and also concerns about the impact of efficiency improvements on workers. Now that times are tough IT workers are dropping some of the social darwinism and have become more aware of the importance of unions to some of the regulations they take for granted, such as overtime pay (child labor regulations and workplace safety are others). Hopefully this will signal a turn in one of the most important new industries, and be part of a movement to revitalize the labor movement and bring American politics back to the mixed-economy center from its current corporate focus.
The differences between these processors are small compared to the differences between these and the next generation of processors. That's why I just go by price myself, and I go for an order of magnitude improvement with each upgrade. PC --> 486 --> 686
I just think it's funny that techies are now decrying outsourcing, when for years they were so vindictive whenever anyone would complain about the loss of jobs due to the Internet or computers. In both cases there is of course greater efficiency, but the argument against it suddenly becomes more compelling when the one being downsized is you!
Hopefully this will make IT people less contemptuous of unions. Perhaps unions could then have a resurgence and reinvorgorate the Democratic Party. The Clinton/Gore administration was highly tech-oriented, perhaps to a fault. The argument against strategic trade was always that it would allocate resources inefficiently, and the bubble was clearly overinvestment. Perhaps now a more public-oriented tech attitude can be developed and channeled into unionization and a Democratic Party more in line with its New Deal roots.
Comparative advantage means that trade in the aggregate produces a gain. It does not mean that no one suffers a loss. Economists use Kaldor-Hicks to say that if the gainers could compensate losers it's still pareto efficient--i.e. some made better off and none made worse off--even when in fact some are made worse off.
This discussion is assuming it's a question of whether it's all for the better or for the worse. Clearly some people gain a lot--holders of a lot of stock--and some benefit a little but lose a lot more--holders of some stock who lose their job.
In the long run it's not hard to demonstrate that a country is better off engaging in international trade than with autarky. In the U.S. case autarky would mean in particular vastly higher energy prices. But that's not to say that no one is ever hurt by trade. Autoworkers who lost their jobs, and tech workers who are now losing their jubs, suffer a real loss, which is only in rare cases going to be offset by incremental stock appreciation.
I disagree. There is one problem and one problem only. Scab labor. Refer everyone who needs help to a techie who provides it for a fee. Problem solved.
...from the naive/evil scientist in Christian Nyby's 1951 The Thing.
Other important points:
Don't sleep with an electric blanket near a frozen alien.
Vegetables can be preserved by freezing, but not by cooking.
When isolated in an artic research station, don't feed blood-eating vegetables your reserve plasma supply.
Isn't that the whole point of these telescreens? The state can obliterate history, but everything you do is recorded and available to them. Or am I remembering 1984 wrong?
Well it's Shockwave 6, not 7 (I don't know if 7 would work--Macromedia lists the software requirements for Win98 but I don't know if the OS is a requirement or just the browser), but it seems to work everywhere. By contrast for RH7 I can't get _any_ version from Macromedia. Maybe an older version is out there somewhere. Also have Java 1.3.1_02 on the p-II.
I see your point but I still hit a wall with RH7 in terms of new warez that I haven't yet hit with Win95 or Win98 on others' computers. But I guess that's part of the security and so forth.
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If there was a public health risk - such as biohazardous material - even in a private storefront - the city or state would close off the area and warn people not to go there. Yes, you might have people wanting to go anyway, but they've been warned.
Of course New York City and the Federal Government did not do this for lower Manhattan after 9/11 (they only cordoned off the actual site) despite the release into the air of hazardous chemicals and dust.
I think they did this before with Central Point Antivirus. Or at least they included something that appeared to be exactly the same thing with later versions of Windows 3.1. I noticed this because at a place I worked one summer they ran CPAV and when I then got my own computer it had the antivirus software.
So the point is they've tried this before and it didn't go anywhere. Symantec and Network Associates made better products and dominated the market. So hopefully they will continue to do so.
On the other hand what could make this work for Microsoft is if they cause Norton and McAfee to crash when running on Windows, as they have done with other competitors to their software. But I think they would have a hard time doing that until they can get an effective product of their own in place.
From what I understand, everyone is so concerned about getting schools wired so kids can surf the net instead of learning, that no one is looking at the price tag.
I'm with you there. For some reason there's money for this when there isn't enough money for classroom space, teachers, or books. It's an obvious swindle due to the bombardment of propaganda from tech companies that a library fits on a CD, computers make learning faster and more cost-efficient, software can replace traditional classroom instruction, etc. etc. This is only a small example of corruption in the larger swindle, which begs the question of how anybody learned anything until 30 years ago.
How do I know the figures in the com.com article are QoQ and not YoY? Because the Gartner summary (linked above) puts overall YoY revenue growth at 24.1%, not the 9.3% reported in the article.
Original article says Dell revenue up 24.8 percent for year earlier period not overall market--unless you are referring to a different link.
From the article: "Gartner's data showed that Dell is the fastest-growing of the leading server vendors, increasing unit sales by 38.4 percent and revenue by 24.8 percent over the period."
Those increases are year over year as is standard when reporting quarterly growth. Quarter to next quarter is referred to as "sequential" growth.
A Toshiba 2505cds on which I installed linux. Lifetime discounts on sandwiches at the deli. Dinner at a cafe.
This is NYT's idea of making money by being an innovator.
What they've innovated is 40 percent market share, which gives them monopoly power to differentiate the market into a thousand different proprietary cartridge lines, each of which runs out about once a month and so produces a revenue stream of $30 a month.
That monopoly power means inefficiency, which is where Dell has an opportunity to produce the same thing at a lower cost--if they can do it through different technology.
Yeah free if you pay tuition.
Then she tried to take all of her father's inheritance and exclude her sister and started blowing enormous amounts of cash, spending down $50,000 in inheritance to $14,000, including a white Corvette. She bought tons of cheap clothes, fake jewelry and cosmetics. She would open 20 bottles of the exact same shampoo, nail polish, and liquid soap and leave them on the shelf.
Then when I was about 9 or 10 she decided my father was trying to kill her and she ran away. She soon came back but she made my sister and I pray for her every morning and she spent a lot of her alone time chanting little prayers. She would drop us off for things then wait outside and come to get us halfway through, then she said we were bringing home germs from Karate lessons and that we had to tell the teacher we were going to wear socks. She insisted on picking me up on the schoolbus in the middle of the highway instead of waiting for it to come back on the other side, which got me in a lot of trouble with the bus driver. She also spent a lot of time yelling at us about how we were slobs and were ruining her life. She also used to lecture me about how I would someday have all my father's money and either of us could break his back with Karate if we wanted to. This went on for a good three years or so.
She bought a replacement dog for our dog who had died just as she was having trouble, and he wasn't house-trained so the house was always an embarrassment and I couldn't bring people over.
During all this time she thought there was nothing wrong with her and thought everyone was just picking on her. She and my father had terrible fights over taking the medication, which she thought he was forcing her to do to deny the real source of the problem which was him. (He took a placebo to get her to take her medication with him.) Eventually she started taking the medication and the wilder stuff subsided, but she's still very strange and has blunted emotions and babyish immaturity and also the physical side-effects that come from the medication. There's no sign really of her old personality. (Before this she was an English teacher, regionally ranked tennis player, ran an art gallery, very social and fashionable.)
I understand from the article in the posting that this is the case in 80 percent of schizophrenics. Those with happy endings are those well enough to post here, which is only a small minority.
I didn't know her problem was schizophrenia until a few years ago because my father thought I had it too (I don't--at least not yet--I'm 32) and finally told me. Up until that point he just described her as "nuts" or "insane." I don't think her doctor has leveled with her either.
Most people have never believed me that there is anything wrong with her unless they have met her, and even then they're inclined to describe what I describe as normal or as a reasonable misperception, similar to their parents, etc. They are usually inclined to say medication is not necessary based on popular understandings of insanity as simply minority behavior.
My father feels he gave up his life in staying with her for me and my sister and blames her for depriving him of the woman he married, and my sister blames her for mistreating her and me for being favored by her and my father. I have problems with self-confidence and my father is extremely defensive about any negative statement about my childhood. He feels my sister and I are highly privileged and considers himself rich.
So basically I think knowing the facts about the case are helpful, getting treatment, making sure any children involved have early access to counseling if they need it. I am doing okay but I really should have had some kind of therapy much earlier and still have a lot of trouble getting along with people.
And whether he would still use Windows on one machine or suffer through Wine.
You forgot Rocky IV.
Yah, there's the rub. Trying to get Lotus Notes to work under Wine has been the most time consuming computer activity (outside of teaching myself BASIC) I have ever undertaken in my life, and I still can't print.
What are the implications of corporate-only support by the No. 1 linux vendor for the idea that open source is anti-capitalist, or anti-establishment?
The current failings of the public education system cannot be the explanation for the metrics used in these articles because they are about things like patents and published papers, which reflect on people who graduated from high school 30 to 40 years ago.
They're going to kluge it up with advertising and ruin the objective search rankings. The reason is that it will make more money in the short term that way. This can be resisted for a while but once the stock starts taking that is exacly what will happen. Then another company will come along with a stripped down search engine that works really fast and gives you what you're looking for and the process will start all over again.
The point of time-and-a-half isn't so much higher pay as shorter hours. It's a way of creating an eight-hour day, which was a core labor project for about 70 years, without an outright ban on labor over eight hours. Part of the reason for the eight-hour day is not just justice or humaneness but also the idea that workers are more productive and efficient when they are well-rested.
As someone has pointed out, individual workers can't say no to a boss that tells them to work more hours. This is where a union can accomplish something that an individual can't, but the resulting legislation is not unfairly tilting the outcome toward union members. It benefits all workers.
Ironically it is the decline of unionization from 45 percent at the end of World War II to 9 percent today that has resulted in time-and-a-half and eight-hour days being limited to union workers. It's the weakness of unions that has made union efforts result in special priviliges, not union strength.
During the boom, I found friends in IT generally contemptuous of unions and also concerns about the impact of efficiency improvements on workers. Now that times are tough IT workers are dropping some of the social darwinism and have become more aware of the importance of unions to some of the regulations they take for granted, such as overtime pay (child labor regulations and workplace safety are others). Hopefully this will signal a turn in one of the most important new industries, and be part of a movement to revitalize the labor movement and bring American politics back to the mixed-economy center from its current corporate focus.
The differences between these processors are small compared to the differences between these and the next generation of processors. That's why I just go by price myself, and I go for an order of magnitude improvement with each upgrade. PC --> 486 --> 686
I just think it's funny that techies are now decrying outsourcing, when for years they were so vindictive whenever anyone would complain about the loss of jobs due to the Internet or computers. In both cases there is of course greater efficiency, but the argument against it suddenly becomes more compelling when the one being downsized is you!
Hopefully this will make IT people less contemptuous of unions. Perhaps unions could then have a resurgence and reinvorgorate the Democratic Party. The Clinton/Gore administration was highly tech-oriented, perhaps to a fault. The argument against strategic trade was always that it would allocate resources inefficiently, and the bubble was clearly overinvestment. Perhaps now a more public-oriented tech attitude can be developed and channeled into unionization and a Democratic Party more in line with its New Deal roots.
Comparative advantage means that trade in the aggregate produces a gain. It does not mean that no one suffers a loss. Economists use Kaldor-Hicks to say that if the gainers could compensate losers it's still pareto efficient--i.e. some made better off and none made worse off--even when in fact some are made worse off.
This discussion is assuming it's a question of whether it's all for the better or for the worse. Clearly some people gain a lot--holders of a lot of stock--and some benefit a little but lose a lot more--holders of some stock who lose their job.
In the long run it's not hard to demonstrate that a country is better off engaging in international trade than with autarky. In the U.S. case autarky would mean in particular vastly higher energy prices. But that's not to say that no one is ever hurt by trade. Autoworkers who lost their jobs, and tech workers who are now losing their jubs, suffer a real loss, which is only in rare cases going to be offset by incremental stock appreciation.
I'm getting less than 3M total Linux installations in the article. How can that be if linux accounts for 29 percent of all server installations?
and with that monopoly they have control over the prices of both products that they would not have in a competitive market.
In fact I would say the federal government should force Microsoft to port Office to Linux, but under Dubya that has about as much chance as peace.
I disagree. There is one problem and one problem only. Scab labor. Refer everyone who needs help to a techie who provides it for a fee. Problem solved.
...from the naive/evil scientist in Christian Nyby's 1951 The Thing.
Other important points:
Don't sleep with an electric blanket near a frozen alien.
Vegetables can be preserved by freezing, but not by cooking.
When isolated in an artic research station, don't feed blood-eating vegetables your reserve plasma supply.
Isn't that the whole point of these telescreens? The state can obliterate history, but everything you do is recorded and available to them. Or am I remembering 1984 wrong?
Well it's Shockwave 6, not 7 (I don't know if 7 would work--Macromedia lists the software requirements for Win98 but I don't know if the OS is a requirement or just the browser), but it seems to work everywhere. By contrast for RH7 I can't get _any_ version from Macromedia. Maybe an older version is out there somewhere. Also have Java 1.3.1_02 on the p-II.
I see your point but I still hit a wall with RH7 in terms of new warez that I haven't yet hit with Win95 or Win98 on others' computers. But I guess that's part of the security and so forth.