Other then Bush and whatever agreement the government and white house might have with Microsoft, do you think any of the candidates know what platform their web sites are running?
Most likely they hired a company to create and update the content, that company contracted a co-lo or managed resource partner to actually host the site. Co-los and web site providers are running linux to keep costs down to stay in business (and maybe even profitable).
Is it impossible to think MS would buy SCO just to dismantle it? They wouldn't be competeing against UNIX, just eliminating it. Offering current customers a migration strategy to Windows 2000/3 in the process? For a company the size and wealth of MS, a quarter billion can prolly be found in Bill's couch and car ashtray.
What is the draw for anime? From my uninformed opinion, what little anime I saw was rather lame and I have a distint seperation from cartoons (which are humerous and enjoyed immensly by my 4 year old). Anime, on the other hand, is clearly targeted at the fantasy adult crowd. Is it because I'm not into fantasy that I don't get anime?
If someone could break it down for me maybe I'd give it chance, until then I'm going to assume anime is meant for the overweight white guy living in his mom's basement (not a general prejudice, just a couple of freaks I saw at Best Buy loading up on anime DVDs the other day).
I know some people like the ones you describe. I think some (based on the one I know that choose a $3K Dell XPS over a G5)... he knew what he was getting. He's been working in Windows and knows the difference between good componets and poor ones. Of course, he has several other, and cheaper, wintel boxes lying about so he was able to gain that experience through trial and error. The bitter pill about the Mac is, there isn't a cheap entry level option. There isn't a generic option to cut their teeth on, so the only option is the top shelf. I'm a wintel guy as well and before I got my new latop, I was on the fence about an iMac. Why Mac? I am curious. I know the hardware is good and the OS is solid. Ultimatly for me, it was the TCO of a Mac (high software prices) that lead me to an HP zt3010. To fix my apple itch I ended up getting a 40GB iPod.
I have a lot of software that I wouldn't be able to use on a new Mac, and being new and different I was worried how much I'd use it after the honeymoon was over.
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To understand why, you have to understand how Google makes money, and
remarkably few reports have pinpointed how. It's said to be in the 'search
engine business' - but unless you take the term at its most literal, to
encompass comparison shopping sites, or pay-to-play engines - there is no public
search engine business.
Google is an advertising business. It's an intermediary between media buyers and
sites who want to see some advertising revenue: it's simply an old-fashioned
media agency. Some of the property, the 'billboards' if you like, in the sense
of the word that ClearChannel understands it, Google owns and operates itself.
Advertisements show up on the search results, in Usenet groups and of course on
its prime 'content' advertising space at the moment, Blogger.com. Google's main
rival is Overture, which was recently acquired by Yahoo!. In this business
model, Google doesn't 'own' the properties but acts a broker in the classic
sense.
Yeah I know about the corporate licensing, but as an individual user it doesn't make fiscal sense for me to purchase it. Yes, from past work experiences I have thier SA licenses in documents, but I'm trying to be legit as possible and I won't use them.
I agree about Open Source (my other 4 machines are all Mandrake, including my home server/firewall).
On a seperate note, I recently purchased a HP Pavilion zt3010. As anyone good links to running Mandrake (or linux in general) on Centrino hardware? I checked linux-laptops.net but they don't have that model yet.
I have a legit copy of Windows XP. Because of my work, I rebuild my home machine often to test and validate settings/configurations/builds. After doing MS online activation the first couple installs, all subsequent installs require me to call MS. I have to feed them a 42 digit string, answer a number of questions and explain to them why I've installed so many times, then have them give me another 42 digit string. The process adds 15-20 minutes of pain_in_the_ass to any install.
From the sounds of it, your consulting at some poor locations. I personally have done some work in government offices (state and city) and I've not seen any 9x clients. NT4 yes, but almost all have leveraged MS into 2k or XP.
In the real world corporate clients I've been to, the only people that even bark (or notice) not having admin rights are developers. For the most part, users just need to run what they need (outlook, word, etc) and if an admin loads it beforhand they don't/won't notice not missing the rights.
I recently took a small law office from 9x to XP. That was the first time in about 6 years I saw a 9x box in a business. Its just too damn unreliable and unsupported for anyone to do business critical applications in this day and age.
Admittedly, I usually work at larger companies and this law office was the first that didn't have a domain/directory. I can't believe a sysadmin would tolerate an environment where resources (both local machines and bandwidth) would be wasted. Even in office politics, which I sometimes may not understand, who's going to side with wasting resources?
Take advertising out of the equation. Your argument that its unwanted is universal, whether it be TV, billboards, or computer means, its the job of the advertiser to inform us of their products and services. No one WANTS to be bombarded with ads, its usually a means to pay for commercial programming or facilitate something else via *corporate sponsorship*.
At some point, we need to push responsiblity to the user. I've seen the window when I hit certain sites that asks if I want to install Gator. Why would anyone, anywhere, anytime click YES unless they know and want the product they're being prompted to install?
In a corporate environment.... why in the hell do your users have the rights to install it in the first place?, tighten that shit up and take away their rights to install. Or hey, get a firewall and block the traffic.... and no, its not going to take thousand of dollars or hundreds of man hours if you know what your doing (especially since you should already have this infrastucture in place anyway). If your firsthand experience is as a sysadmin you should know by now to stop complaing and fix it. The alternative is to pay for more bandwidth to handle all your lusers spyware, weatherbots, lotter trackers, eBay sniping.... come on now.
I want to thank you for participating. Although I wasn't unable to express, in a form you understood, my point, I am hoping we can both move on from this incident in the spirit of friendship and brotherhood.
Then it really comes down to these asshats being nothing more then movie reviewers then doesn't it. And how often is a movie reviewer accurate in thier evaulations?
If their tests aren't independent and on the same product the consumer has access to, why should anything they say be trusted?
I happily pay money for mags that do product reviews so they have income (plus ads in said mag), if its too cost prohibitive then they shouldn't be flaunting their 'Product Reviewer' title at me claiming to be some damn expert.
Where is the line drawn? The loading dock? A developes cube?
From what I understand, the campus is pretty much a gated community. If the pic was taken from a public street, then yeah you have a point. But when on they're property, you gotta play by their rules.
No no no, this crowd does not want to hear that. Are you suggesting while developing the Office line of products for Mac they might actually want to test on a G5? Absurd!!!
For as valid as your point is, its kinda of unrelated to the topic of a company terminating an employee for iReason. The posting is suggesting that the employee was fired for.... what? Saying Microsoft was buying Macs? I don't think so. I would imagine it had more to do with taking images from the Redmond campus (unapproved images from his digital camera), off campus and making them available online. There are many business campus' that have very specific rules (that you agree to as part of employment) about what can and can't happen on campus. Understanding the images were captured in a loading dock, but they could have been pictures of code (screen captures or documents) or other MS IP. Since the guy was a temp, he prolly wasn't afforded a detailed explanation, just a seizure of non-personal items an personal escort the edge of the property.
But, the point is the smugglers aren't out there to sell to children. The smugglers are circumventing the distrubtion centers and selling directly to the retailer.
Am I the only one getting tired of all-in-ones? It seems they fail at each componet, but collectively we're suppose to be in awe when in fact you now have 4 lame fuctions in one, easy to carry device.
Function should dictate success and I'll happily carry a backpack to tote my functional if not easy-to-carry-all-at-once devices (Palm, Blackberry, iPod, SprintPCS phone, laptop).
Here in lies the rub when talking about markets. There is the OS market, then there's the US OS market, it gets broken down all over the place (especially when talking about market share, like any other statistic the presenter has quite a bit of wiggle room to present their point of view).
As a US computer junky, I can tell you that in my local CompUSA, there are only 2 boxed, retail versions of Linux. They are Red Hat and SuSE, so on some playing fields (markets) they are competing head-to-head.
As far as a market share, and who has the most installs - I would agree that Red Hat is dominating in the US and SuSE in the EU.
I worked in a shop that ran Dell. As part of the Dell Server Assistant install (at the time at least) you had your choice of Windows NT4, Windows 2000, and Red Hat of assisted OS installs. SuSE wasn't an option and because RH and Dell had a 'relationship', SuSE wasn't even in the game. This is why their partnership with Veritas is so important. As more hardware manufactures and software vendors certify more then just Red Hat, the consumers get more choices and as we know, competition breeds better products.
One advantage might be for a Windows shop who is a partner with Veritas, that is thinking of making the jump to linux to reduce some costs. Having a trusted partner (Veritas) come in and advise, maybe deploy (or at least work with them to deploy) would raise their comfort level. Once linux is in the datacenter and proving itself that company would be more likely and comfortable, in choosing a linux solution.
Market - as in doing business in the same arena (the server/enterprise OS market in this example) SuSE and Red Hat are certainely competitors there.
UnitedLinux was a marketing strategy to consolidate the distribution to battle the 'I can't run linux because I'm not sure which ones are good or which ones will be around' argument.
I think this is a great deal for SuSE. For those Windows shops that may want to delve into the Linux world now at least have a choice of distros if they are a partner of Veritas'.
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Most likely they hired a company to create and update the content, that company contracted a co-lo or managed resource partner to actually host the site. Co-los and web site providers are running linux to keep costs down to stay in business (and maybe even profitable).
sczimme, I welcome you PS Most slashdot stories are
Is it impossible to think MS would buy SCO just to dismantle it? They wouldn't be competeing against UNIX, just eliminating it. Offering current customers a migration strategy to Windows 2000/3 in the process? For a company the size and wealth of MS, a quarter billion can prolly be found in Bill's couch and car ashtray.
I beleive in no limit Texas hold em Poker, that's called going all in
Sorry, it had to be done.
What is the draw for anime? From my uninformed opinion, what little anime I saw was rather lame and I have a distint seperation from cartoons (which are humerous and enjoyed immensly by my 4 year old). Anime, on the other hand, is clearly targeted at the fantasy adult crowd. Is it because I'm not into fantasy that I don't get anime?
If someone could break it down for me maybe I'd give it chance, until then I'm going to assume anime is meant for the overweight white guy living in his mom's basement (not a general prejudice, just a couple of freaks I saw at Best Buy loading up on anime DVDs the other day).
I have a lot of software that I wouldn't be able to use on a new Mac, and being new and different I was worried how much I'd use it after the honeymoon was over.
Cept of course, I don't have to purchase 11 songs to hear and enjoy the one I really want.
To understand why, you have to understand how Google makes money, and remarkably few reports have pinpointed how. It's said to be in the 'search engine business' - but unless you take the term at its most literal, to encompass comparison shopping sites, or pay-to-play engines - there is no public search engine business.
Google is an advertising business. It's an intermediary between media buyers and sites who want to see some advertising revenue: it's simply an old-fashioned media agency. Some of the property, the 'billboards' if you like, in the sense of the word that ClearChannel understands it, Google owns and operates itself. Advertisements show up on the search results, in Usenet groups and of course on its prime 'content' advertising space at the moment, Blogger.com. Google's main rival is Overture, which was recently acquired by Yahoo!. In this business model, Google doesn't 'own' the properties but acts a broker in the classic sense.
I agree about Open Source (my other 4 machines are all Mandrake, including my home server/firewall).
On a seperate note, I recently purchased a HP Pavilion zt3010. As anyone good links to running Mandrake (or linux in general) on Centrino hardware? I checked linux-laptops.net but they don't have that model yet.
I have a legit copy of Windows XP. Because of my work, I rebuild my home machine often to test and validate settings/configurations/builds. After doing MS online activation the first couple installs, all subsequent installs require me to call MS. I have to feed them a 42 digit string, answer a number of questions and explain to them why I've installed so many times, then have them give me another 42 digit string. The process adds 15-20 minutes of pain_in_the_ass to any install.
In the real world corporate clients I've been to, the only people that even bark (or notice) not having admin rights are developers. For the most part, users just need to run what they need (outlook, word, etc) and if an admin loads it beforhand they don't/won't notice not missing the rights.
I recently took a small law office from 9x to XP. That was the first time in about 6 years I saw a 9x box in a business. Its just too damn unreliable and unsupported for anyone to do business critical applications in this day and age.
Admittedly, I usually work at larger companies and this law office was the first that didn't have a domain/directory. I can't believe a sysadmin would tolerate an environment where resources (both local machines and bandwidth) would be wasted. Even in office politics, which I sometimes may not understand, who's going to side with wasting resources?
At some point, we need to push responsiblity to the user. I've seen the window when I hit certain sites that asks if I want to install Gator. Why would anyone, anywhere, anytime click YES unless they know and want the product they're being prompted to install?
In a corporate environment.... why in the hell do your users have the rights to install it in the first place?, tighten that shit up and take away their rights to install. Or hey, get a firewall and block the traffic.... and no, its not going to take thousand of dollars or hundreds of man hours if you know what your doing (especially since you should already have this infrastucture in place anyway). If your firsthand experience is as a sysadmin you should know by now to stop complaing and fix it. The alternative is to pay for more bandwidth to handle all your lusers spyware, weatherbots, lotter trackers, eBay sniping.... come on now.
May peace be with you.
If their tests aren't independent and on the same product the consumer has access to, why should anything they say be trusted?
I happily pay money for mags that do product reviews so they have income (plus ads in said mag), if its too cost prohibitive then they shouldn't be flaunting their 'Product Reviewer' title at me claiming to be some damn expert.
Fred Garvin, male prosititute
And why aren't the reviewers performing their tests with retail purchased equipment for integrity sake anyway?
Where is the line drawn? The loading dock? A developes cube?
From what I understand, the campus is pretty much a gated community. If the pic was taken from a public street, then yeah you have a point. But when on they're property, you gotta play by their rules.
For as valid as your point is, its kinda of unrelated to the topic of a company terminating an employee for iReason. The posting is suggesting that the employee was fired for.... what? Saying Microsoft was buying Macs? I don't think so. I would imagine it had more to do with taking images from the Redmond campus (unapproved images from his digital camera), off campus and making them available online. There are many business campus' that have very specific rules (that you agree to as part of employment) about what can and can't happen on campus. Understanding the images were captured in a loading dock, but they could have been pictures of code (screen captures or documents) or other MS IP. Since the guy was a temp, he prolly wasn't afforded a detailed explanation, just a seizure of non-personal items an personal escort the edge of the property.
Again, if you HAD A MAC!!!!!
But, the point is the smugglers aren't out there to sell to children. The smugglers are circumventing the distrubtion centers and selling directly to the retailer.
I agree. Its not really many things.
Am I the only one getting tired of all-in-ones? It seems they fail at each componet, but collectively we're suppose to be in awe when in fact you now have 4 lame fuctions in one, easy to carry device.
Function should dictate success and I'll happily carry a backpack to tote my functional if not easy-to-carry-all-at-once devices (Palm, Blackberry, iPod, SprintPCS phone, laptop).
Very true.
Here in lies the rub when talking about markets. There is the OS market, then there's the US OS market, it gets broken down all over the place (especially when talking about market share, like any other statistic the presenter has quite a bit of wiggle room to present their point of view).
As a US computer junky, I can tell you that in my local CompUSA, there are only 2 boxed, retail versions of Linux. They are Red Hat and SuSE, so on some playing fields (markets) they are competing head-to-head.
As far as a market share, and who has the most installs - I would agree that Red Hat is dominating in the US and SuSE in the EU.
I worked in a shop that ran Dell. As part of the Dell Server Assistant install (at the time at least) you had your choice of Windows NT4, Windows 2000, and Red Hat of assisted OS installs. SuSE wasn't an option and because RH and Dell had a 'relationship', SuSE wasn't even in the game. This is why their partnership with Veritas is so important. As more hardware manufactures and software vendors certify more then just Red Hat, the consumers get more choices and as we know, competition breeds better products.
One advantage might be for a Windows shop who is a partner with Veritas, that is thinking of making the jump to linux to reduce some costs. Having a trusted partner (Veritas) come in and advise, maybe deploy (or at least work with them to deploy) would raise their comfort level. Once linux is in the datacenter and proving itself that company would be more likely and comfortable, in choosing a linux solution.
I think you have a gross conceptual error.
Market - as in doing business in the same arena (the server/enterprise OS market in this example) SuSE and Red Hat are certainely competitors there.
UnitedLinux was a marketing strategy to consolidate the distribution to battle the 'I can't run linux because I'm not sure which ones are good or which ones will be around' argument.
I think this is a great deal for SuSE. For those Windows shops that may want to delve into the Linux world now at least have a choice of distros if they are a partner of Veritas'.
Uhh kettle, pot's on the phone for you.