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Of these teenagers that were caught breaking into a chemist - consuming on site, and stealing for sale, a massive amount of Oxytocin. Due to its simmilar name to a drug named Oxycontin...
Personally, I think spending a night in jail wide-eyed and with a desire to cuddle others would of been more than enough punishment for the lot...
Well, I cannot for the life of me remember the date of the publication. But in the last year Science News has reported on a group of scientists that were able to coax adult stem cells to undergo meitic division. That would mean that from a few cells extracted from ones bones, one could produce eggs. True marrow extraction is painful as hell, but you do get much more cells for the process.
There would be the added benifit of those cells having the same mitocondria (though I don't believe that has ever been an issue, but by definition that would mean the cells are "true" clones)
31007? eloot? This is new and more advanced 1337 speak? Its called an Ironic statement, as part of the joke. And to further this, I shall now use 31007, and only 31007, in future...
Don't forget the need analize the workings of several relativly unknown drugs.
Take Ibogaine, a derivitive of the Iboga plant. A schedule one drug in the U.S, this drug causes long - often violent- halucinations. It also is reported to end all whithdrawl symptoms for opiate addicts. Clinical studies were haulted in the U.S due to lack of funding. Now, I don't know how many fellow slashdotters might of have/had some form of opiate addiction, be it heroin or codeine, but if you have you might remember the withdrawl. A drug that could "cure" this infliction would be worth quite a bit for recovering addicts.
But without people to test the drug, the exact effect on the brain is unknown. Without knowledge in this area, better drugs can not be produced.
It looks, should they make it, to be smaller and lighter than a "current" tablet PC. Kinda like an oversized PDA. Like a Newton and a Powerbook got freeky in the back room...
Its so pure, I think I'm going to cry...
Seriously though, I am hoping to see something like this in the near future. Hopefully it will be 'announced' in the next Macworld Boston. Inkwell is such a nice pice of software, it would be great to see it being used in a tablet.
'The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will provide Microsoft with much deeper information, including what programs were running at the time of the error and even the contents of documents that were being created.'
So one mans spyware is another mans "helpful utility"?
Right, now many of you will call me a Mac fanatic and mod me down, but seriously: Apple does not think of shit like this... I can just see the new virus' composed to utilize the flaws in this feature... Wait, I got it, they will use it to compete with Apple's Automator in Tiger: "Tired of having to go to the store to buy the latest Microsoft product? Now you will never have to again! The windows automator(tm) scans all your messages, emails, text documents, and computerized purchase orders for your credit card information, bank number, PIN numbers, etc; sends the data to the Microsoft data servers. Your information is then carefully protected, until the newest Microsoft product is ready for shipment. Then your accounts are drained, and everything you needed, even if you didn't know it, will be shipped to your door. Remember: Microsoft works...."
And yes, I read the article, and the passage: " "Our stance on this is that the user is in control," Sullivan said. "In the consumer environment, you will be presented with a dialog that clearly gives you the choice whether to share the information and then also provides exactly what the detail is so you can parse character by character what's being sent."
But it kinda hurts the joke... That and with Microsoft's record of error, would you really trust this?
Reading this article, it does have its moments to consider:
Allchin, a wiry-built 54-year-old who has been in charge of Windows for almost a decade, is admirably blunt about his own frustrations using the current operating system. It annoys him, for example, that the adjustments necessary to move a laptop from a work to a home network aren't obvious. Longhorn, he said, will make that process easy, along with many other common tasks. If you want a Longhorn machine to automatically configure itself so you can work in a coffee shop, it will. If you put in a DVD, the volume will automatically adjust and the video will just start playing full screen. "You shouldn't have to spend a lot of time struggling with things," Allchin said, adding that the number one design goal for Longhorn has been: "It just works."
Funny, my Powerbook G4 has been doing this for years. I guess Microsoft will be downplaying that a bit further down...
Much has been made in the computer press recently of the surprising similarities between Longhorn and Apple's upcoming new Macintosh operating system, Tiger. (See Peter Lewis's recent column, Apple's 'Tiger' to Stalk Rivals April 29.) The bottom line is that both will make finding items in our ever-increasing digital stores of information and entertainment much easier. Longhorn doesn't just show you an icon for a document, for example, but rather an itsy-bitsy picture of the first page. If you have a really good monitor--and eyesight--you could even read the numbers in that spreadsheet. You also will be able to put files simultaneously in different folders, and find the one you want with much more ease than you can today. Microsoft's research shows that the average corporate employee spends about 20% of her time on the PC simply looking for items. "We're trying to go beyond search into what we call 'visualization and organization,'" said Allchin
Right. I got Panther to do this with a little tweaking, and from what I read, Tiger may be doing something similar. Talk about innovation...
For all the advances that Microsoft and other computer companies have made in recent years, and despite the fact that PCs are central to many of our lives, it's still hard to use them. So it was reassuring to hear the main guy responsible for making their software predict that the situation will improve soon. I hope that he's right when he says that future systems will "just work."
Great. Fantastic. *Applause* But I don't trust it. I've heard this before. Until I see some increased security before they attempt to make their UI as beautiful as Mac OS X, I'm not even going to bother giving them the time of day.
To have Sci-Fi buy the rights to remake the old BBC Miniseries, keep as much as the script as possible, but with better graphics (Remember Zaphods second head from the original...)
Then, If that proves to go well, hire a team of writers to convert the second radio series, coupled with the book, into a new series. Hell, It doesn't even have to be a miniseries. If all goes well they have more than enough material for four-five seasons. With a single episode for "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe" Sci-Fi proved they can do this with Battlestar Galatica, Dune, etc. I know I'd watch it. Would you?
...if the PSP was even more open. They could open up development, allowing downloads to memory stick permitting 3rd party games to be developed (think Palm) . I think this constant tendency of Sony shoving down our throats things like Memory Stick and ATRAC have really hurt them, instead of enhancing their bottom line like they think it would.
Do you remember that the Dreamcast (Finest gaming platform next to xbox)? It was a most excellent system. It had great games. It spurred originality. Unfortunatly, one could run any pireted game they wanted, without even needing to open up the system. Sales on games plummeted. The system was killed, despite heavy sales of the consol in Europe, Japan, and the USA. Games are what make or break a system. If people can easily make functional ROMZ, then the system will die.
First Microsoft patents bio-eletric powered/recharging devices. Now Sony has patented neuroeletrical stimulation of the nervous system to generate false data Both of which are technologies that are being researched by dozens of people, except by the patent holders, and may come to fruition before the patents expire.
This is not what was intended when the patent system was developed. You needed a working model/plans. You needed less vaugue information. You needed proof. And only so you would have a short monopoly on that particular product, until the patent runs its course, and industrial espionage leaks your final secrets. It was a beutiful cycle. It would allow innovation without large bodies crushing you by putting out the same product at a lesser price. But now, those companies are filing patent in every general field, so that one essentually has to pay every large corperation large amounts of money to make their product anyway.
And when I turn on the television, I see people clammoring about terrorism, instead about the collapse of free enteprise, instead about the horrible malpractice laws infecting our country, instead about the degrading privacy rights. I see people carrying guns, praising the fourth amendment, as children shoot themselves, as thieves shoot their victims, as missundersandings escollate to bloodshed. This was not the America that my ancestors fought to establish, to protect.
Grass uses a LOT of water. (Not surprising, since it's got a lot of surface area.) Acre for acre it takes more water than trees or pretty much any food crop. It evaporates something like six times as much water as a lake.
Keeping up with the "UGA", as well as science news, one can find that great progress has been made to alter plants, such as grass, that can use salt water. That would make fuels such as these not only very easy to grow without using salt water, but would finally put to use large streches of sand along costline. And as the water evaporating off the grass in such an instance is no different then the water that would of evaporated anyway off the ocean surface, little harm would be done.
"Sony explicitly outlaws any modifications to their PSP. If you don't believe me, check out page 15 of the manual where they state, "No authorization for the analysis or modification of the system, or the analysis and use of circuit configurations, is provided.""
Not much of a legal threat. I take it this simply mean the obvious - that Sony voids the warranty if we start moding. Outlaws might of been a bit strong in this context, prohibits would of been a bit better. Not that Sony will have a black van show up in front of a teenager hackers door... Nice pice of technology, all things considered. Next all we need is for someone to tinker with the buttons to increase the sensitivity of the leftmost button on the right side, which I hear from many is significantly less sensitive then the rest, which adversely affects game-play.
There is a slight difference between a huge corperation syphoning millions of dollars into their own pockets, destroying free enterprise, buggering the consumer with second-rate merchendise, etc, and a/.er that wants a 100-300 dollar system for the price of a month of blockbuster rentals...
Now, if the parent was against corperate greed in his/her writings, but was doing the same thing with his/her own corperation, then they are a hypocrite.
Allow me to make a better example:
The Free(X).com sites are nothing more than a loosly knit pyramid scheme, and show how truely America has fallen into shallow consumerism, while maintaining our penny-pinching attitudes...
Until I played Lumines for one minute on a PSP at my local gaming store. The sheer addictivness of this game alone makes me desperatly want a PSP, but without the financial means to aquire it. It is a wonderful system, it has a nice feel, as opposed to the slightly clunky nature of the nintendo DS...
Looks like the biggest selling point in the screenshots for longhorn is its new fast "searching""feature" that looks remarkably like apple's new "Spotlight"...
(Sarcasm)But hey, if you cant beat them... cheat them.(/sarcasm)
All this contest does is two things: One - It can prove that Mac OS X is far more secure than windows, despite the claims of antivirus companies and microsoft (A shocking conclusion...) Two- And if there are security holes that can be exploited, this contest will put them to light, and knowing apple they will be fixed withing the day. Personally, I think this contest is a great idea, many corperations have "Hack our servers" contests for this reason. Its cheaper than hiring a dozen network consultants to find faults, and it can also show to the world how secure the network really is.
"Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Fuji Xerox, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC.
The alliance comprises a group of IT hardware and software firms that have combined their expertise and products to help EDS create 'best of breed' solutions and compete with the likes of IBM Global Services and Hewlett-Packard for the most lucrative government and enterprise contracts.
It was first announced in the US during 2004 but senior executives from partner companies gathered in Sydney on Wednesday to officially launch the Alliance in Asia Pacific.
At the launch, Robb Rasmussen, vice president of EDS Global Alliances, explained that the alliance does not consider Linux to be a suitable operating system for the largest of enterprise customers because the open source operating system has issues with security, scalability and the possibility of forking.
"From a corporate perspective, we are not confident where Linux is right now today. A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment. We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. We are quite cautious about Linux and its deployment," said Rasmussen.
Rasmussen said he was just as concerned about using Linux on mainframe computers.
"We are concerned about security on an open standard environment like that. We are also concerned about some of the scalability issues that we are seeing on our clients on a global basis. Also, we are somewhat cautious about what happened with Unix - it splintered into eight applications -- until McNealy (Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun) finally announced he won the battle and had the one surviving Unix out there. We think Linux has the possibility of going the same route," said Rasmussen.
Additionally, he said that Linux is not significantly cheaper than alternative operating systems.
"Quite honestly, in the notion of costs, as we look at what we are structuring with our alliance partners, we are not seeing a comp, selling cost advantage that would lend us towards Linux -- given the other things I have mentioned," said Rasmussen.
Jim Hassell, managing director of Sun Microsystems Australia, argued that Linux was no loss to the Agility Alliance because it could use Solaris 10 instead of Linux rival Red Hat.
"If you test Red Hat against Solaris 10 against whatever else... we would say that Solaris 10 beats it hands down on functionality and everything else," said Hassell."
Let me see if I can break it down for you:What's so goddamn novel about throwing an underpowered, overpriced Mac inside a dashboard?
Well for starters, its a very well done hack. Second, the poster shows that it can display maps, and quite probably can aide in navigation. Third, the mac can store a very large music library, and comes with the ease of itunes. Forth, he made a very nice dash/overall car mod to include a ipod dock, a power outlet, and many shiny buttons...
If one were interested in getting a portable media center for his car, he would have many options that involve spending less money and/or getting more bang for your buck. Why, for the $500 he spent on his fashion accessory that can't play games, he could've gotten a Dell desktop with approximately double the speed, and expandability to boot, plus he would've instantly been able to use the vast array of Windows and Linux software available.
The mac is shiny. And playing unreal at 94 mph along the freeway is not something I want to be doing...
Proof once again that Macs are nothing more than an item for trend whores and label sluts.
I had a Dell for one year before it fried. Bough another, same deal. The costomer service/documentation sucked. On the other hand, I have now had a mac Powerbook for the last two years, and its providing better functionality than any other machine I have bought. When you buy apple, you buy quality. Think of an apple as a Lexus, and a dell as a Ugo. Sure, the Ugo will get you from point A to point B, but it is made of inferrior parts, tends to fail, and lacks any style.
Mr. Pearlman seems to understand economics pretty well, but not IT. Here's the breakdown of an ITunes purchase of $0.99:
Label(s): $0.55
Apple: $0.34
Artist(s): $0.10
Now, to reduce cost of a single song, without hurting the money that goes towards servers, and making a small profit, is to reduce money that goes towatds the label. And I hightly doubt that the RIAA will EVER allow a reduction in their cut. So, what apple would need to do is to release their own label for artists to release their works on. If they did this, they could reduce the cost of each song by $0.50, give $0.05 extra to artists as an incentive, and reap the profits as people buy more music than they currently do.
But if that idea ever has any hope of sucsess apple would need a highly recognized brand name, a large number of loyal customers, mabe a warchest to defend itself against frivilouse RIAA lawsuits (Mabe around 1-2 billion, they could get this from some sort of massive credit sale to some other, masive company, such as a soda company), And an enviorment where people are tired of the money gouging done by the RIAA....
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Of these teenagers that were caught breaking into a chemist - consuming on site, and stealing for sale, a massive amount of Oxytocin. Due to its simmilar name to a drug named Oxycontin...
Personally, I think spending a night in jail wide-eyed and with a desire to cuddle others would of been more than enough punishment for the lot...
The only platform I have that I have had trouble pulling the files off of the iPod on is Mac.
I find Broken Helix on the mac to suck songs off my ipod works very well. www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20856
Well, I cannot for the life of me remember the date of the publication. But in the last year Science News has reported on a group of scientists that were able to coax adult stem cells to undergo meitic division. That would mean that from a few cells extracted from ones bones, one could produce eggs. True marrow extraction is painful as hell, but you do get much more cells for the process.
There would be the added benifit of those cells having the same mitocondria (though I don't believe that has ever been an issue, but by definition that would mean the cells are "true" clones)
31007? eloot? This is new and more advanced 1337 speak?
Its called an Ironic statement, as part of the joke. And to further this, I shall now use 31007, and only 31007, in future...
Look out pwned, 31007 is a'gunnin' for you...
The Revolution's game-downloading capabilities
My Phantom can do that, and so much more. Infact my phantom is so much better: only those truely 31007, such as myself, can see its golden case...
Don't forget the need analize the workings of several relativly unknown drugs.
Take Ibogaine, a derivitive of the Iboga plant. A schedule one drug in the U.S, this drug causes long - often violent- halucinations. It also is reported to end all whithdrawl symptoms for opiate addicts. Clinical studies were haulted in the U.S due to lack of funding. Now, I don't know how many fellow slashdotters might of have/had some form of opiate addiction, be it heroin or codeine, but if you have you might remember the withdrawl. A drug that could "cure" this infliction would be worth quite a bit for recovering addicts.
But without people to test the drug, the exact effect on the brain is unknown. Without knowledge in this area, better drugs can not be produced.
It looks, should they make it, to be smaller and lighter than a "current" tablet PC. Kinda like an oversized PDA. Like a Newton and a Powerbook got freeky in the back room...
Its so pure, I think I'm going to cry...
Seriously though, I am hoping to see something like this in the near future. Hopefully it will be 'announced' in the next Macworld Boston. Inkwell is such a nice pice of software, it would be great to see it being used in a tablet.
'The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will provide Microsoft with much deeper information, including what programs were running at the time of the error and even the contents of documents that were being created.'
So one mans spyware is another mans "helpful utility"?
Right, now many of you will call me a Mac fanatic and mod me down, but seriously: Apple does not think of shit like this... I can just see the new virus' composed to utilize the flaws in this feature... Wait, I got it, they will use it to compete with Apple's Automator in Tiger:
"Tired of having to go to the store to buy the latest Microsoft product? Now you will never have to again! The windows automator(tm) scans all your messages, emails, text documents, and computerized purchase orders for your credit card information, bank number, PIN numbers, etc; sends the data to the Microsoft data servers. Your information is then carefully protected, until the newest Microsoft product is ready for shipment. Then your accounts are drained, and everything you needed, even if you didn't know it, will be shipped to your door. Remember: Microsoft works...."
And yes, I read the article, and the passage: " "Our stance on this is that the user is in control," Sullivan said. "In the consumer environment, you will be presented with a dialog that clearly gives you the choice whether to share the information and then also provides exactly what the detail is so you can parse character by character what's being sent."
But it kinda hurts the joke... That and with Microsoft's record of error, would you really trust this?
Reading this article, it does have its moments to consider: Allchin, a wiry-built 54-year-old who has been in charge of Windows for almost a decade, is admirably blunt about his own frustrations using the current operating system. It annoys him, for example, that the adjustments necessary to move a laptop from a work to a home network aren't obvious. Longhorn, he said, will make that process easy, along with many other common tasks. If you want a Longhorn machine to automatically configure itself so you can work in a coffee shop, it will. If you put in a DVD, the volume will automatically adjust and the video will just start playing full screen. "You shouldn't have to spend a lot of time struggling with things," Allchin said, adding that the number one design goal for Longhorn has been: "It just works."
Funny, my Powerbook G4 has been doing this for years. I guess Microsoft will be downplaying that a bit further down...
Much has been made in the computer press recently of the surprising similarities between Longhorn and Apple's upcoming new Macintosh operating system, Tiger. (See Peter Lewis's recent column, Apple's 'Tiger' to Stalk Rivals April 29.) The bottom line is that both will make finding items in our ever-increasing digital stores of information and entertainment much easier. Longhorn doesn't just show you an icon for a document, for example, but rather an itsy-bitsy picture of the first page. If you have a really good monitor--and eyesight--you could even read the numbers in that spreadsheet. You also will be able to put files simultaneously in different folders, and find the one you want with much more ease than you can today. Microsoft's research shows that the average corporate employee spends about 20% of her time on the PC simply looking for items. "We're trying to go beyond search into what we call 'visualization and organization,'" said Allchin
Right. I got Panther to do this with a little tweaking, and from what I read, Tiger may be doing something similar. Talk about innovation...
For all the advances that Microsoft and other computer companies have made in recent years, and despite the fact that PCs are central to many of our lives, it's still hard to use them. So it was reassuring to hear the main guy responsible for making their software predict that the situation will improve soon. I hope that he's right when he says that future systems will "just work."
Great. Fantastic. *Applause* But I don't trust it. I've heard this before. Until I see some increased security before they attempt to make their UI as beautiful as Mac OS X, I'm not even going to bother giving them the time of day.
To have Sci-Fi buy the rights to remake the old BBC Miniseries, keep as much as the script as possible, but with better graphics (Remember Zaphods second head from the original...)
Then, If that proves to go well, hire a team of writers to convert the second radio series, coupled with the book, into a new series. Hell, It doesn't even have to be a miniseries. If all goes well they have more than enough material for four-five seasons. With a single episode for "Young Zaphod Plays it Safe"
Sci-Fi proved they can do this with Battlestar Galatica, Dune, etc.
I know I'd watch it. Would you?
...if the PSP was even more open. They could open up development, allowing downloads to memory stick permitting 3rd party games to be developed (think Palm) . I think this constant tendency of Sony shoving down our throats things like Memory Stick and ATRAC have really hurt them, instead of enhancing their bottom line like they think it would.
Do you remember that the Dreamcast (Finest gaming platform next to xbox)? It was a most excellent system. It had great games. It spurred originality. Unfortunatly, one could run any pireted game they wanted, without even needing to open up the system. Sales on games plummeted. The system was killed, despite heavy sales of the consol in Europe, Japan, and the USA. Games are what make or break a system. If people can easily make functional ROMZ, then the system will die.
First Microsoft patents bio-eletric powered/recharging devices.
Now Sony has patented neuroeletrical stimulation of the nervous system to generate false data
Both of which are technologies that are being researched by dozens of people, except by the patent holders, and may come to fruition before the patents expire.
This is not what was intended when the patent system was developed. You needed a working model/plans. You needed less vaugue information. You needed proof. And only so you would have a short monopoly on that particular product, until the patent runs its course, and industrial espionage leaks your final secrets. It was a beutiful cycle. It would allow innovation without large bodies crushing you by putting out the same product at a lesser price. But now, those companies are filing patent in every general field, so that one essentually has to pay every large corperation large amounts of money to make their product anyway.
And when I turn on the television, I see people clammoring about terrorism, instead about the collapse of free enteprise, instead about the horrible malpractice laws infecting our country, instead about the degrading privacy rights. I see people carrying guns, praising the fourth amendment, as children shoot themselves, as thieves shoot their victims, as missundersandings escollate to bloodshed. This was not the America that my ancestors fought to establish, to protect.
Things along the lines outlined by penny-arcades Tycho...
Grass uses a LOT of water. (Not surprising, since it's got a lot of surface area.) Acre for acre it takes more water than trees or pretty much any food crop. It evaporates something like six times as much water as a lake.
Keeping up with the "UGA", as well as science news, one can find that great progress has been made to alter plants, such as grass, that can use salt water. That would make fuels such as these not only very easy to grow without using salt water, but would finally put to use large streches of sand along costline. And as the water evaporating off the grass in such an instance is no different then the water that would of evaporated anyway off the ocean surface, little harm would be done.
"Sony explicitly outlaws any modifications to their PSP. If you don't believe me, check out page 15 of the manual where they state, "No authorization for the analysis or modification of the system, or the analysis and use of circuit configurations, is provided.""
Not much of a legal threat. I take it this simply mean the obvious - that Sony voids the warranty if we start moding. Outlaws might of been a bit strong in this context, prohibits would of been a bit better. Not that Sony will have a black van show up in front of a teenager hackers door...
Nice pice of technology, all things considered. Next all we need is for someone to tinker with the buttons to increase the sensitivity of the leftmost button on the right side, which I hear from many is significantly less sensitive then the rest, which adversely affects game-play.
There is a slight difference between a huge corperation syphoning millions of dollars into their own pockets, destroying free enterprise, buggering the consumer with second-rate merchendise, etc, and a /.er that wants a 100-300 dollar system for the price of a month of blockbuster rentals...
Now, if the parent was against corperate greed in his/her writings, but was doing the same thing with his/her own corperation, then they are a hypocrite.
Allow me to make a better example:
The Free(X).com sites are nothing more than a loosly knit pyramid scheme, and show how truely America has fallen into shallow consumerism, while maintaining our penny-pinching attitudes...
Until I played Lumines for one minute on a PSP at my local gaming store. The sheer addictivness of this game alone makes me desperatly want a PSP, but without the financial means to aquire it. It is a wonderful system, it has a nice feel, as opposed to the slightly clunky nature of the nintendo DS...
Don't trash the company that "brought American into the PC age"
I never knew Microsoft made the Apple II...
Looks like the biggest selling point in the screenshots for longhorn is its new fast "searching" "feature" that looks remarkably like apple's new "Spotlight"...
(Sarcasm)But hey, if you cant beat them... cheat them.(/sarcasm)
All this contest does is two things: One - It can prove that Mac OS X is far more secure than windows, despite the claims of antivirus companies and microsoft (A shocking conclusion...)
Two- And if there are security holes that can be exploited, this contest will put them to light, and knowing apple they will be fixed withing the day.
Personally, I think this contest is a great idea, many corperations have "Hack our servers" contests for this reason. Its cheaper than hiring a dozen network consultants to find faults, and it can also show to the world how secure the network really is.
Here is the articles text:
"Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Fuji Xerox, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC.
The alliance comprises a group of IT hardware and software firms that have combined their expertise and products to help EDS create 'best of breed' solutions and compete with the likes of IBM Global Services and Hewlett-Packard for the most lucrative government and enterprise contracts.
It was first announced in the US during 2004 but senior executives from partner companies gathered in Sydney on Wednesday to officially launch the Alliance in Asia Pacific.
At the launch, Robb Rasmussen, vice president of EDS Global Alliances, explained that the alliance does not consider Linux to be a suitable operating system for the largest of enterprise customers because the open source operating system has issues with security, scalability and the possibility of forking.
"From a corporate perspective, we are not confident where Linux is right now today. A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment. We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. We are quite cautious about Linux and its deployment," said Rasmussen.
Rasmussen said he was just as concerned about using Linux on mainframe computers.
"We are concerned about security on an open standard environment like that. We are also concerned about some of the scalability issues that we are seeing on our clients on a global basis. Also, we are somewhat cautious about what happened with Unix - it splintered into eight applications -- until McNealy (Scott McNealy, chief executive of Sun) finally announced he won the battle and had the one surviving Unix out there. We think Linux has the possibility of going the same route," said Rasmussen.
Additionally, he said that Linux is not significantly cheaper than alternative operating systems.
"Quite honestly, in the notion of costs, as we look at what we are structuring with our alliance partners, we are not seeing a comp, selling cost advantage that would lend us towards Linux -- given the other things I have mentioned," said Rasmussen.
Jim Hassell, managing director of Sun Microsystems Australia, argued that Linux was no loss to the Agility Alliance because it could use Solaris 10 instead of Linux rival Red Hat.
"If you test Red Hat against Solaris 10 against whatever else... we would say that Solaris 10 beats it hands down on functionality and everything else," said Hassell."
I'm afraid I don't quite understand.
Let me see if I can break it down for you:What's so goddamn novel about throwing an underpowered, overpriced Mac inside a dashboard?
Well for starters, its a very well done hack. Second, the poster shows that it can display maps, and quite probably can aide in navigation. Third, the mac can store a very large music library, and comes with the ease of itunes. Forth, he made a very nice dash/overall car mod to include a ipod dock, a power outlet, and many shiny buttons...
If one were interested in getting a portable media center for his car, he would have many options that involve spending less money and/or getting more bang for your buck. Why, for the $500 he spent on his fashion accessory that can't play games, he could've gotten a Dell desktop with approximately double the speed, and expandability to boot, plus he would've instantly been able to use the vast array of Windows and Linux software available.
The mac is shiny. And playing unreal at 94 mph along the freeway is not something I want to be doing...
Proof once again that Macs are nothing more than an item for trend whores and label sluts.
I had a Dell for one year before it fried. Bough another, same deal. The costomer service/documentation sucked. On the other hand, I have now had a mac Powerbook for the last two years, and its providing better functionality than any other machine I have bought. When you buy apple, you buy quality. Think of an apple as a Lexus, and a dell as a Ugo. Sure, the Ugo will get you from point A to point B, but it is made of inferrior parts, tends to fail, and lacks any style.
Mr. Pearlman seems to understand economics pretty well, but not IT. Here's the breakdown of an ITunes purchase of $0.99:
...Wait a tick...
Label(s): $0.55
Apple: $0.34
Artist(s): $0.10
Now, to reduce cost of a single song, without hurting the money that goes towards servers, and making a small profit, is to reduce money that goes towatds the label. And I hightly doubt that the RIAA will EVER allow a reduction in their cut. So, what apple would need to do is to release their own label for artists to release their works on. If they did this, they could reduce the cost of each song by $0.50, give $0.05 extra to artists as an incentive, and reap the profits as people buy more music than they currently do.
But if that idea ever has any hope of sucsess apple would need a highly recognized brand name, a large number of loyal customers, mabe a warchest to defend itself against frivilouse RIAA lawsuits (Mabe around 1-2 billion, they could get this from some sort of massive credit sale to some other, masive company, such as a soda company), And an enviorment where people are tired of the money gouging done by the RIAA....
Its the Iron Fist inside a velvet glove...
"Remember Kids: Rippy the Razor says its down the block, not across the street!"
And to give credit to the artist:
"Read Something Positive"