Long gone are they days of company loyalty to it's employees. Gone are the days where building something was worth it. Where pride in those accomplishments too precident over profits.
Even the Japanese companies who virtually guarenteed their employees a job for life have laid people off.
Wake up and smell the coffee people. We live in a disposable world now. If it breaks, replace it. Don't fix it. If you don't want it any more, throw it away.
The only people that matter are the investors, and they only care about the bottom line. Not how you got there... Not what the journey was like, just where you ended up.
Companies used to accuse employees of being job jumpers, and only being concerned about there salaries... Well, now it's the only way to survive.
HP/Compaq is only the latest visible instance of this trend.
Someone mentioned DEC in these threads. Did you ever hear HOW DEC laid off it's employees? They called them on Sunday night and told them not to report to work on Monday morning. Appearently, Sunday dinners became a silent even where people JUMPED when the phone rang.
Since MS created the breeding ground for these viruses.. maybe we should forward all of our virus-alert messages to microsoft... like billg@microsoft.com, or abuse@microsoft.com
Anything that provides the opportunity for escape or is mood-altering can become addictive.
What DOESN'T provide an escape or is mood-altering?
Incompetent fast food clerks are mood-altering. Hanging out with friends is an escape. Eating disorders are typically people who are substituting food for something else. Reading a book is an escape.
I think it really comes down whether or not people have the ability to deal with real life. If they don't then they can become addicted easily. It doesn't matter to what. You can't take away everything that can be an escape.
What you have to do is teach people how to deal with REAL life effectively.
So, I wonder what they will do to make sure that they are 'cash-flow positive' from now on? Or will the always be relying on 'user contributions'?
Personally, I'd rather give money to RedHat (or maybe SuSe). They seem to be working hard to get Linux accepted in business. Mandrake is very desktop focused, and that is probably the weakest area to forge a business model.. (IMHO)
This would not fix Dish network inability to broadcast all the local channels. They problem is their satellite doesn't have the BANDWIDTH to handle all the local stations.
One of the reasons Echostar wants to buy DirecTV is because DirecTV HAS the bandwidth (they happened to launch a new satellite just at the right time...)
My complaint is that DirecTV probably would have carried more HD content if they hadn't had to use that bandwidth for all the pesky locals that I can't watch...
My theory: If you want to time-shift your shows... get a TiVo.
Try to get a copy of Suse Linux for S/390. They charge for the distribution per CPU. Like $6000 per CPU.
Sure the software is free, but you still pay for the bundling and the distribution of the software, and there is no specification as to how or how much they charge for those services...
I have noticed a trend in Microsoft's approach to 'standards' and that is that they completely ignore the 'spirit' behind the idea of 'open standards'. One of the key reasons to define open standards is to promote system interoperability. This interoperatility allows two different systems to interface with one another.
Microsoft has begun using open standards as a multi-edged sword: First, to leverage the scalability of these protocols. Second, to save them the 'innovation time' required to develop their own protocols. Third, as a rallying cry/advertising claim/defense against criticism.
The problem is that they are not using the standards to promote interoperatility.
There are two strong examples of this: Windows2000 authentication and Kerberos. Microsoft decided to exploit a (graned) 'user-definable field' in the kerberos packet to store custom information for their authentication scheme. Perfectly legal. But then they listed the contents of the field (as they use it) as proprietary and therefore shutting out any other Kerberos server to provide authentication to a Microsoft client.
A second example is in the Exchange 2000 server. All of the Exchange servers are now capable of using SMTP as their inter-server communication protocol. In fact, they have implemented the SMTP Pipelining RFC (1854) to increase message rates between servers that support that extension. Again. All very valid. Then they also created what they call ESMTP: Encapsulated SMTP. This is different from the ESMTP standard: Extended SMTP. Encapsulated SMTP makes the body of the message proprietary mime type and only another Exchange SMTP server can decode that message. No other server can read it.
Where these aren't technically extensions to the protocol, they do violate the GOAL behind the open-protocols, which is what makes me believe that Microsoft might be even more malicious than people may believe them to be, and that all of these 'exploitations' are so subtle that the court, the general public, and even a lot of systems people will completely miss, untill it is too costly to remove the components from their infrastructure.
This post is NOT a troll. The price of the software is pretty steep for what you're getting. Remember. You STILL have to pay for the Microsoft Exchange Client Access License with is $80/seat ($401/5 client licenses).
Plus, Exch2k's OWA interface is MUCH improved over 5.5's OWA implementation.
Exchange2k WITH OWA enabled is the requirement? So I bet this isn't REALLY talking to the exchange server.. It must be doing SMTP/IMAP4/LDAP and using a Web-browser for calendar. Why the HELL would I want to pay $70 for that?
Can anyone confirm that? What was $70+Evolution+galeon have that Evolution+Galeon doesn't have? One window? That's a lot of money to pay for one window...
0) never be referred to as a hacker again. 0) never be allowed to open his mouth. 0) never have an article posted about him again. 0) be praised for going out in a true blaze of stupidity. 0) Cowboy Neal
would be the creation of four different operating systems running 10 different middleware products. Thousands of applications would need retesting, as they would need to be certified on "4,096 different versions of Microsoft products," Webb said.
Translation: Giving up our monopoly status would cost us too much money in testing alone, so just let us continue on, unchecked, ok?
Talk about checking your math... You're proposing that the DRY surface area of the planet is 361,000,000 million meters square? There are million square-foot BUILDINGS in the world. Doesn't that seem a little LIGHT to you?
When I square 6,376,000, I get 4.06e+13. Now, times 3.142 = 1.277e+14. And, times 4, I get 5.10e+14.
That's 510,000,000,000,000 meters square. Times.25, you get 127,700,000,000,000 square meters of dry land.
and I bet that if you followed that curve all the way back/down, you'd find a ice-age at the beginning of it...
I don't dispute the EVIDENCE that the world is getting warmer.
What I am NOT convinced of is that it's not exactly what's supposed to happen.
We STILL don't know EXACTLY what happened to the dinosaurs. Could it be possible that this thermal cycle is NORMAL for this planet in that, like a person with a virus, their tempurature rises to try to rid itself of the virus?
As long as the applications that people want to run (office, quicken, etc.) REQUIRE windows to be installed, LindowsOS is not a choice. For it to be a REAL choice, I would need to be able to install it natively on a box (not windows to be seen), and then I would need to be able to install Office. Without that ability, it's just another version of Linux. If someone STILL has to buy windows, then it'll never fly because the 'average user' doesn't WANT to have to buy both.
The choice is not adding another operating system to my computer. The choice is choosing NOT to buy a second operating system. As long as MS has their monopoly and can select to write all their software to only work on their platform.
For most businesses, and the average hom euser, Microsoft software is nothing more than an imbedded software package for intel hardware. It is not a choice. It is a requirement.
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OK. YOU need to re-read that sentence from the EULA... Windows update is an ACTIVE process. You have to enable it. You have to run the update. You have to select/agree the downloads.
This little 'phrase' is saying that they reserve the right to make those decisions FOR YOU.
And THAT is a bad idea, if for no reason other than their track record of patch management and hidden 'features' in their patches.
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Long gone are they days of company loyalty to it's employees. Gone are the days where building something was worth it. Where pride in those accomplishments too precident over profits.
Even the Japanese companies who virtually guarenteed their employees a job for life have laid people off.
Wake up and smell the coffee people. We live in a disposable world now. If it breaks, replace it. Don't fix it. If you don't want it any more, throw it away.
The only people that matter are the investors, and they only care about the bottom line. Not how you got there... Not what the journey was like, just where you ended up.
Companies used to accuse employees of being job jumpers, and only being concerned about there salaries... Well, now it's the only way to survive.
HP/Compaq is only the latest visible instance of this trend.
Someone mentioned DEC in these threads. Did you ever hear HOW DEC laid off it's employees? They called them on Sunday night and told them not to report to work on Monday morning. Appearently, Sunday dinners became a silent even where people JUMPED when the phone rang.
It's not personal. It's just business.
Since MS created the breeding ground for these viruses.. maybe we should forward all of our virus-alert messages to microsoft... like billg@microsoft.com, or abuse@microsoft.com
Which is the case for ANY LCD panel. Even my 15" dell laptop looks like CRAP at any resolution other than 1400x1050.
Anything that provides the opportunity for escape or is mood-altering can become addictive.
What DOESN'T provide an escape or is mood-altering?
Incompetent fast food clerks are mood-altering.
Hanging out with friends is an escape.
Eating disorders are typically people who are substituting food for something else.
Reading a book is an escape.
I think it really comes down whether or not people have the ability to deal with real life. If they don't then they can become addicted easily. It doesn't matter to what. You can't take away everything that can be an escape.
What you have to do is teach people how to deal with REAL life effectively.
I was thinking of games that had a female heroine... like Tomb Raider...
Hmmm... maybe I need to get a life AWAY from the openGL screen...
See mozilla icon. See slashdot reader think all articles on slashdot are release notices. See slashdot reader be wrong.
See slashdot reader change their perceptions of slashdot?
So... how many lines of code are in all of Linux? For apples to apples, you need to include X, one Dekstop (KDE/Gnome), all the GNU commands, etc.
So, I wonder what they will do to make sure that they are 'cash-flow positive' from now on? Or will the always be relying on 'user contributions'?
Personally, I'd rather give money to RedHat (or maybe SuSe). They seem to be working hard to get Linux accepted in business. Mandrake is very desktop focused, and that is probably the weakest area to forge a business model.. (IMHO)
This would not fix Dish network inability to broadcast all the local channels. They problem is their satellite doesn't have the BANDWIDTH to handle all the local stations.
One of the reasons Echostar wants to buy DirecTV is because DirecTV HAS the bandwidth (they happened to launch a new satellite just at the right time...)
My complaint is that DirecTV probably would have carried more HD content if they hadn't had to use that bandwidth for all the pesky locals that I can't watch...
My theory: If you want to time-shift your shows... get a TiVo.
Try to get a copy of Suse Linux for S/390. They charge for the distribution per CPU. Like $6000 per CPU.
Sure the software is free, but you still pay for the bundling and the distribution of the software, and there is no specification as to how or how much they charge for those services...
I have noticed a trend in Microsoft's approach to 'standards' and that is that they completely ignore the 'spirit' behind the idea of 'open standards'. One of the key reasons to define open standards is to promote system interoperability. This interoperatility allows two different systems to interface with one another.
Microsoft has begun using open standards as a multi-edged sword: First, to leverage the scalability of these protocols. Second, to save them the 'innovation time' required to develop their own protocols. Third, as a rallying cry/advertising claim/defense against criticism.
The problem is that they are not using the standards to promote interoperatility.
There are two strong examples of this: Windows2000 authentication and Kerberos. Microsoft decided to exploit a (graned) 'user-definable field' in the kerberos packet to store custom information for their authentication scheme. Perfectly legal. But then they listed the contents of the field (as they use it) as proprietary and therefore shutting out any other Kerberos server to provide authentication to a Microsoft client.
A second example is in the Exchange 2000 server. All of the Exchange servers are now capable of using SMTP as their inter-server communication protocol. In fact, they have implemented the SMTP Pipelining RFC (1854) to increase message rates between servers that support that extension. Again. All very valid. Then they also created what they call ESMTP: Encapsulated SMTP. This is different from the ESMTP standard: Extended SMTP. Encapsulated SMTP makes the body of the message proprietary mime type and only another Exchange SMTP server can decode that message. No other server can read it.
Where these aren't technically extensions to the protocol, they do violate the GOAL behind the open-protocols, which is what makes me believe that Microsoft might be even more malicious than people may believe them to be, and that all of these 'exploitations' are so subtle that the court, the general public, and even a lot of systems people will completely miss, untill it is too costly to remove the components from their infrastructure.
This post is NOT a troll. The price of the software is pretty steep for what you're getting. Remember. You STILL have to pay for the Microsoft Exchange Client Access License with is $80/seat ($401/5 client licenses).
Plus, Exch2k's OWA interface is MUCH improved over 5.5's OWA implementation.
So what do you get for your extra $70?
Exchange2k WITH OWA enabled is the requirement? So I bet this isn't REALLY talking to the exchange server.. It must be doing SMTP/IMAP4/LDAP and using a Web-browser for calendar. Why the HELL would I want to pay $70 for that?
Can anyone confirm that? What was $70+Evolution+galeon have that Evolution+Galeon doesn't have? One window? That's a lot of money to pay for one window...
How do you figure? The radius of the earth is NOT 6.3-million kilometers. That'd be 3,961,860 MILES.
Jerome Heckenkamp should:
0) never be referred to as a hacker again.
0) never be allowed to open his mouth.
0) never have an article posted about him again.
0) be praised for going out in a true blaze of stupidity.
0) Cowboy Neal
would be the creation of four different operating systems running 10 different middleware products. Thousands of applications would need retesting, as they would need to be certified on "4,096 different versions of Microsoft products," Webb said.
Translation: Giving up our monopoly status would cost us too much money in testing alone, so just let us continue on, unchecked, ok?
Talk about checking your math... You're proposing that the DRY surface area of the planet is 361,000,000 million meters square? There are million square-foot BUILDINGS in the world. Doesn't that seem a little LIGHT to you?
.25, you get 127,700,000,000,000 square meters of dry land.
When I square 6,376,000, I get 4.06e+13. Now, times 3.142 = 1.277e+14. And, times 4, I get 5.10e+14.
That's 510,000,000,000,000 meters square. Times
Nice BBC chart...
and I bet that if you followed that curve all the way back/down, you'd find a ice-age at the beginning of it...
I don't dispute the EVIDENCE that the world is getting warmer.
What I am NOT convinced of is that it's not exactly what's supposed to happen.
We STILL don't know EXACTLY what happened to the dinosaurs. Could it be possible that this thermal cycle is NORMAL for this planet in that, like a person with a virus, their tempurature rises to try to rid itself of the virus?
Who ever said it's SUPPOSED to last forever?
As long as the applications that people want to run (office, quicken, etc.) REQUIRE windows to be installed, LindowsOS is not a choice. For it to be a REAL choice, I would need to be able to install it natively on a box (not windows to be seen), and then I would need to be able to install Office. Without that ability, it's just another version of Linux. If someone STILL has to buy windows, then it'll never fly because the 'average user' doesn't WANT to have to buy both.
The choice is not adding another operating system to my computer. The choice is choosing NOT to buy a second operating system. As long as MS has their monopoly and can select to write all their software to only work on their platform.
For most businesses, and the average hom euser, Microsoft software is nothing more than an imbedded software package for intel hardware. It is not a choice. It is a requirement.
Could this mean a AOL client for LINUX?
disable holodeck safeties, authorization, Worf, alpha-1-alpha.
Warning. Holodeck safeties have been removed.
OK. YOU need to re-read that sentence from the EULA... Windows update is an ACTIVE process. You have to enable it. You have to run the update. You have to select/agree the downloads.
This little 'phrase' is saying that they reserve the right to make those decisions FOR YOU.
And THAT is a bad idea, if for no reason other than their track record of patch management and hidden 'features' in their patches.
It's gonna have n'Sync in it...
eeeeeuuuuuwwwww......
Why does this sound like such a Larry Ellison (Oracle) strategy:
"Everything is a database..."
Why does my Mother, who reads email and plays solitare, need a database?
What she NEEDS is an OS that doesn't flake out all the time.
DirectTivo's already have optical outs...
Oh, and just say no to digital cable... I mean, you want HDTV... what are THEIR plans to even PROVIDE HDTV?