I am sure I will get a lot of flack just because how my subject line reads, but, looking at the track record of oline services, it is never a good idea to buy into any kind of cloud/web service, by paying your hard earned cash. I have been bitten by the now-defunct sunrocket.com VoIP service, which was supposed to cost me $200 for 2 years and after my 7th month they went belly up with no recourse for me to recoup my money. So I paid $200 for 7 months of VoIP service at the time. And there were much cheaper alternatives available when I got into this situation. The original poster is in a better position than I was, because he has an entity to sue and get some of their money back. How much is a question to be answered by small claims courts of California, but still, it is better than nothing. And this is exactly the reason why I refuse to pay for any service which is running on the goodwill of a person or few people, residing on the cloud. It is very easy for these outfits to disband themselves and ride into sunset with your money. $10 per year for a simple service may not be much but in principle, if I am making a contract to earn that money, I want to see the same from any service provider, to whom I will hand out any tangible object to acquire their service. And last but not the least, some half-baked, hare-brained ideas of 20-something year olds without much business understanding (which this particular case definitely sounded like one) is never a good idea to buy into, at any capacity, paid or not. I will be happy to give some of my screen real estate to ads, if the service is good enough to warrant some use from me. At least, when they disappear, I don't have to deal with financial losses. And to the original poster : What were you thinking when you aere shelling ot half a grand from your already non-existent funds, to sign up for such an ephemeral service ? Really, I don't see the value in the premise. I mean 2 months after they take your $500, they could have disappeared and you could have nothing to show for that loss. And I love the TechCrunch'es take "It's not about the money". To the people who did not lose money on a deal, it is never about the money. But for people like me, regardless how much money I make, I am pissed off if someone walks away with my $500 or even much less. And yes it *IS* about the money. Things like this, make my blood boil. Thanks for reading my rant, if you lasted this long.
Has anyone else seen Isaac Mizrahi collection of women's wear anywhere else ? Or Mossimo brand of anything for that matter ? This is like google's privacy policy bruhaha. They are just making it public. And for the prices they sell the cheap Chinese knock off apparel, I'd rather go to Wallyworld and buy the 25-30% cheaper. They may not carry the same brand but who cares as long as they are going to fall apart in 2 washes, no matter what ? For other things like consumables, or tools or electronics for that matter, good luck to target to get manufacturers to make distinct enough products so that they can not be found elsewhere but I'd bet my pennies to your dollar, savvy shoppers are able to cut the crud and put a damper to this approach. Does it matter 1080P TV set with 1000:1 contrast ration to carry a different brand and barcode, compared to its equivalent sold in Amazon, as long as you know both are coming from the Foxcon slave camp in China ? I sure don't...
After Oracle went after SAP consulting and sue them for any kaka-meme reason, there obviously is a bad blood between them and SAP is trying to be not so dependent on oracle. But it is very hard if not totally impossible to convince all their customers to switch the underlying db. Same thing with HP, after announcing last year that oracle will no longer be developed for itanium h/w.
Too ad, so sad, but both companies sold themselves to oracle in its day. Now is the time to pay the piper. Now, hadoop is getting into the same situation. Good luck to them.
If anybody is telling you, an enterprise can be run on MS-SQL server, other than being a back-end to the MS-Exchange server, I'd suspect the decision making authority of the IT department. Like most anyone else but you and your anonymous cohort are purporting, it is not the number of databases a company runs, it is the value of the data that DB holds is what makes the difference. Don't tell me that an MS Exchange back end database(s) (in most cases it is plural because it can not scale well), is equal in value with respect to the oracle db holding the company financial information or the ERP system. Even you can not be this ignorant.
Ellison's strategy sounds too much like, that of Redmond's finest. Problem is, Oracle is getting too big in the datacenter landscape. He has oracle, which is the de-facto database for most any organization who wants accountability and have money to spend. He has hardware (SUN) which still has the biggest footprint in data centers after X86. He has Oracle Linux which is, for all intents and purposes, Red-Hat EL. The only thing he did not have was something to handle large, unstructured data, likes of TereData and Cloudera/Hadoop is serving it on a silver platter. Who is going to stop the Oracle wave, I don't know. Oracle is becoming a monopoly, much worse than Google or Microsoft in my opinion. Where are the regulators who blocked the AT&T and T-Mobile merger (Kudos to them by the way). We need them right here, right now.
I mean, it was just another way to exploit the trust of unsuspecting and most of the time, non-internet-savvy public, armed with the gizmo of the day, called smartphones. What could possibly go wrong ? It is just like giving a loaded gun to the hands of a adolescent child with raging hormones and telling him or her just shoot people who are really-really bad and nobody else. You are just trusting the judgment of totally untrustable person. If you expect a better outcome than this, good luck to you. The problem I see with these QR codes, most of them direct you to a bit.ly or tinyurl.com link. What is it so hard to put the full URL into it ? when I see that bit.ly link on the scanned QR code, first thing I do is to hit back/exit/escape key and run like hell. But give the phone to my 80+ years old mom ar 10 years old child and see where they hit. I was wondering when this was going to be a headline, until today that is:)
it means egg shell for the uninitiated... I happen to be bilingual:) In Turkish and English... On the technical side, I think if you are clever enough to come to/., you can check with any whois gateway to see who yumurtakabugu.com it belongs to. But I bet dollars to your pocket lint that, it is also a hacked site.
Since the time overpriced tablets hit the stores, on-line and off, I can't keep wondering why people fee the urge, buying these overpriced gizmos. The netbook, which was on the same boat few years ago, is now, obtainable around $200 price point, which gives you at least twice the CPU power in most cases, a full keyboard, multiple expansion ports, more memory and storage space, alas, no touch screen. But knowing the price point of a touchscreen, sacrificing all other advantages of a netbook over a tablet, should be able to compensate the cost of a touchscreen addition and then some. So, why people are buying tablet at 4-500 dollars price points is beyond my understanding. It is time that some sensible company to get a clue that, the yahoos of this world got their overpriced gizmos and the rest of us will not give them any of our hard earned money for a sub-par device, just because it is the hot thing to have while sipping your coffee at Starbucks. Kudos to Amazon, Lenovo and whoever else comes up with cheap but equally powerful, if not more, tablets to the market.
Unfortunately, military and management in military does not scale properly in a business environment. In military, people are judged by making decisions on the spot because they do not have the luxury to form committees and discuss all available and most of the time unavailable options. And their value is dependent on how high of a percentage these momentary decisions yield a successful outcome.
Enter business world, if you are making momentary decision without going through the proper channels and evaluations, you are asking for a dismissal. Yet, some ex-military people, hired as a business manager of some sort, due to a reason not based on merit, (can you say nepotism, buddy system, good-ole-boys network ?) still make these decisions and if they are in low enough management levels, they get protected by their hiring authority because they are buddies. Few gets to let go but most of them stay, their mistakes swept under rug and these people make the notion of ex-military makes good managers because they can decide fast.
In my experience, when my immediate management changes from someone from a techie or b-school background to an ex- military person, it means the time for me to leave that position come. I am in the IT industry full time for the past 19 years following a 7 year stint as an EE for a military electronics manufacturing plant, this pattern never failed. In my last job, I made a stupid mistake because someone asked real nicely to provide some information to them. I diagnosed the problem and got it fixed in about 35 minutes but did not go back to the office directly. When I got back, I was told that what I did (not immediately going back) was equivalent of reckless-abandonment in military terms. Guess where did the guy who told me this come from.
So comparing military career path tracks to real world, don't make much sense in my opinion.
On the other hand, jumping from ship to ship is setting one's self for career disaster in today's economy. Changing my last job to my current one 4 months ago, I had to take about $15K pay cut which is more than 10% for me, but I had to do it because I wanted to keep my sanity. Management is something I aspire for not because it is going to pay better (I hope it will) but more because, I worked in too many places and too many different roles. I now know how things go wrong, what the precursors to things going wrong and how to and how not to deal with them. As a sysadmin, I still know these but can not voice a strong opinion without jeopardizing my livelihood. Also, I am tired of having to learn the flavor of the day when it come to OS, applications or tools. I am not saying management does not have to know any of this but they do not need to know the intrinsic details that I am expected to know. And synapses in my brain are dying fast, amking it hard for me to remember these things as the times goes by...
You have people fresh out of the military running IT? Ouch... they're typically hardly qualified to be a low level employee. Military IT processes are just too different.</p></quote>
No, not right now, but in my last position my supervisor and his supervisor was marines up until few years ago. They somehow got promoted to management due to their "superior" management abilities, because they have the ability to make dumb-ass decisions under pressure. And they were hired as management to my company. This is why it is my "last/previous" employer, if you can catch my drift.
If I had mod points I would have rated your post with the highest I can possibly rate. Very well said. It is ironic and actually more sad that, IT management being so gullible, thinking that, they can treat their key employees as they are disposable gloves and at the same time expect utmost dedication from them, sacrificing their family and personal lives by forcing them to work irregular and ungodly hours. Then one of those people, they treat like slaves, blows a gasket and does something out of spite more than anything else, then comes the blame and finger-pointing towards all IT employees.
Newsflash you arse-holes, fresh out of military into their IT management roles: you get what you sow. Treat me like an intelligent human being, I will be your best wing-man, treat me like crap as you are used to doing to your subordinate army privates, I will make your life miserable. Your choice, not mine...
especially while eating meatloaf. it was a mistake and I am without a lunch right now after regurgitating it into the trash bin and I am not talking about the virtual kind.
By looking at the very insightful vote given to the posting which I answered, it is obvious that slashdot audience mostly became liberal whack-jobs who do not think for themselves, just need the speaking points spoon-fed to them. No need to waste time here anymore.
And your health is going to get better how, when developed nations are getting taxed to the hilt for each ounce of greenhouse gases they put out while, China, India and all other unruly countries are polluting to their hearts' content, because they are "developing nations" ? Explain that one to me one more time please ! This is plain old transfer of wealth agenda by the bleeding heart liberal movement and has nothing to do with the environment, air quality or whatsoever. Because you wait for the government handout while I bust my ass to feed your friggen welfare check, you disdain that I am making more money than you do and want to punish me by taxing. This is the whole rationale behind this crap anyhow. And anyone with half of their supposedly active brain cells working can see that. The new TV set you disdain and choose not to buy in favor of your health is going to be manufactured and sold to you by a third world country, polluting the earth's global environment much more than it being produced in a developed nation no matter what. Choose your comparisons wisely I am gonna say but there is no wise comparison here for you liberal wackos, so you grasp the fist string coming your way. Good grief...
If it is up to Mexican reconquistas, US residents should pack up and go back to the motherland, i.e. Europe, leaving the land to them. This royalty for thousand years old images is another display of the same sentiment. I live in Souther California (or northern Mexico if you choose to say so) and this reconquista movement is getting to my nerves. If your ancestors were stupid enough to sell the land to the US, don't come crying to me now, asking it back. Go pound sand. I am really touch about these people's behaviour. I did not come to the US and overcome every bureaucratic hurdle to become a US citizen to listen to the Mexican La Raza idiots. I want to kick them in the ass for such stupid demands.
Well, having worked more than 3 years as a NewsCorp subsidiary at DIRECTV, I can say that FOX is the most far-seeing network among the big 4 (or 5 if you count WB as a big one).
TV viewership, as in sitting and watching shows on their times aired, while sitting through the commercials and what not is dwindling very rapidly. The fans of sci-fi genre, are above and beyong when it comes to the average technology fancy person. So, put two and two together. Most if not all sci-fi lovers have some sort of DVR functionality available to them and if they like the show, they will record sand watch it regardless what time it airs. Hence, why waste the prime time spot with sci-fi series ? People who are avid Desperate Housewives fans, will not choose a sci-fi flick over their extended soap drama no matter what you do. There is no point fighting the facts.
And, wouldn't liberal government love to have access to my private health info and use it any way they like it to further their socialist free healthcare for everyone agenda ? I am personally in charge of my health, and *I* choose to share that information with whom ever I like not what government feels I should.
Obama is not in the office yet but the projection is clearly visible and I for one, do not like it at all.
If you haven't hold a place in the HOA board, you can not know how much apathy these people have towards absolutely necessary things like taking care of road, sidewalks etc, and most of them are old timers. Do you really want to leave the destiny of your precious fiber to the whim of a handful of geezer busy-bodies ? I sure don't. Not a great idea in my opinion. Having a network admin, paid part time, like 2 hours per month plus incidentals to manage it, is more plausible for this type of outfit.
In a day like this, when free linux on close to free commodity hardware can not find its way to the desktop, what would you expect. People shell out thousands of dollars to put a PowerPC on their desktop and run the most god-awful version of UNIX around ? And IBM to subsidize two masochists who enjoy torturing themselves by overspending and making life more complex for themselves by keeping a monster like this alive. Newsflash: IBM is a for profit company. Whatever shows or lacks the promise of profits will rightly find their way to the technology cemetary.
I am waiting for the day for AIX to die totally, server and desktop combined. But with stupid c-level executives keeping the notion of "nobody got fired buying IBM" I believe AIX will outlast my lifetime then some.
..what adheres to the rules that he publishes, whatever the version they are at today (GPL 3.0 ?) which I lost track of. He is a purist for the sake of being purist not helping anyone else. He wants his name to be in the limelight all the time. What he says has no merit as far as I am concerned. So, who gives a flipping f*** ?
I don't think the views of a conservative libertarian will find a place on the socialist website like this but I gave a piece of my mind no matter what. God help US of A for the next 4 years...
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I am sure I will get a lot of flack just because how my subject line reads, but, looking at the track record of oline services, it is never a good idea to buy into any kind of cloud/web service, by paying your hard earned cash. I have been bitten by the now-defunct sunrocket.com VoIP service, which was supposed to cost me $200 for 2 years and after my 7th month they went belly up with no recourse for me to recoup my money. So I paid $200 for 7 months of VoIP service at the time. And there were much cheaper alternatives available when I got into this situation. The original poster is in a better position than I was, because he has an entity to sue and get some of their money back. How much is a question to be answered by small claims courts of California, but still, it is better than nothing. And this is exactly the reason why I refuse to pay for any service which is running on the goodwill of a person or few people, residing on the cloud. It is very easy for these outfits to disband themselves and ride into sunset with your money. $10 per year for a simple service may not be much but in principle, if I am making a contract to earn that money, I want to see the same from any service provider, to whom I will hand out any tangible object to acquire their service. And last but not the least, some half-baked, hare-brained ideas of 20-something year olds without much business understanding (which this particular case definitely sounded like one) is never a good idea to buy into, at any capacity, paid or not. I will be happy to give some of my screen real estate to ads, if the service is good enough to warrant some use from me. At least, when they disappear, I don't have to deal with financial losses. And to the original poster : What were you thinking when you aere shelling ot half a grand from your already non-existent funds, to sign up for such an ephemeral service ? Really, I don't see the value in the premise. I mean 2 months after they take your $500, they could have disappeared and you could have nothing to show for that loss. And I love the TechCrunch'es take "It's not about the money". To the people who did not lose money on a deal, it is never about the money. But for people like me, regardless how much money I make, I am pissed off if someone walks away with my $500 or even much less. And yes it *IS* about the money. Things like this, make my blood boil. Thanks for reading my rant, if you lasted this long.
did you know that, this dude is married to Morgan Webb of Tech TV and G4 fame ? :-)
Has anyone else seen Isaac Mizrahi collection of women's wear anywhere else ? Or Mossimo brand of anything for that matter ? This is like google's privacy policy bruhaha. They are just making it public. And for the prices they sell the cheap Chinese knock off apparel, I'd rather go to Wallyworld and buy the 25-30% cheaper. They may not carry the same brand but who cares as long as they are going to fall apart in 2 washes, no matter what ? For other things like consumables, or tools or electronics for that matter, good luck to target to get manufacturers to make distinct enough products so that they can not be found elsewhere but I'd bet my pennies to your dollar, savvy shoppers are able to cut the crud and put a damper to this approach. Does it matter 1080P TV set with 1000:1 contrast ration to carry a different brand and barcode, compared to its equivalent sold in Amazon, as long as you know both are coming from the Foxcon slave camp in China ? I sure don't...
After Oracle went after SAP consulting and sue them for any kaka-meme reason, there obviously is a bad blood between them and SAP is trying to be not so dependent on oracle. But it is very hard if not totally impossible to convince all their customers to switch the underlying db. Same thing with HP, after announcing last year that oracle will no longer be developed for itanium h/w.
Too ad, so sad, but both companies sold themselves to oracle in its day. Now is the time to pay the piper. Now, hadoop is getting into the same situation. Good luck to them.
to-may-toh , to-mah-to....
need I say more ??
If anybody is telling you, an enterprise can be run on MS-SQL server, other than being a back-end to the MS-Exchange server, I'd suspect the decision making authority of the IT department. Like most anyone else but you and your anonymous cohort are purporting, it is not the number of databases a company runs, it is the value of the data that DB holds is what makes the difference. Don't tell me that an MS Exchange back end database(s) (in most cases it is plural because it can not scale well), is equal in value with respect to the oracle db holding the company financial information or the ERP system. Even you can not be this ignorant.
Ellison's strategy sounds too much like, that of Redmond's finest. Problem is, Oracle is getting too big in the datacenter landscape. He has oracle, which is the de-facto database for most any organization who wants accountability and have money to spend. He has hardware (SUN) which still has the biggest footprint in data centers after X86. He has Oracle Linux which is, for all intents and purposes, Red-Hat EL. The only thing he did not have was something to handle large, unstructured data, likes of TereData and Cloudera/Hadoop is serving it on a silver platter. Who is going to stop the Oracle wave, I don't know. Oracle is becoming a monopoly, much worse than Google or Microsoft in my opinion. Where are the regulators who blocked the AT&T and T-Mobile merger (Kudos to them by the way). We need them right here, right now.
I mean, it was just another way to exploit the trust of unsuspecting and most of the time, non-internet-savvy public, armed with the gizmo of the day, called smartphones. What could possibly go wrong ? It is just like giving a loaded gun to the hands of a adolescent child with raging hormones and telling him or her just shoot people who are really-really bad and nobody else. You are just trusting the judgment of totally untrustable person. If you expect a better outcome than this, good luck to you. :)
The problem I see with these QR codes, most of them direct you to a bit.ly or tinyurl.com link. What is it so hard to put the full URL into it ? when I see that bit.ly link on the scanned QR code, first thing I do is to hit back/exit/escape key and run like hell. But give the phone to my 80+ years old mom ar 10 years old child and see where they hit.
I was wondering when this was going to be a headline, until today that is
it means egg shell for the uninitiated ... I happen to be bilingual :) In Turkish and English... /., you can check with any whois gateway to see who yumurtakabugu.com it belongs to. But I bet dollars to your pocket lint that, it is also a hacked site.
On the technical side, I think if you are clever enough to come to
Since the time overpriced tablets hit the stores, on-line and off, I can't keep wondering why people fee the urge, buying these overpriced gizmos. The netbook, which was on the same boat few years ago, is now, obtainable around $200 price point, which gives you at least twice the CPU power in most cases, a full keyboard, multiple expansion ports, more memory and storage space, alas, no touch screen. But knowing the price point of a touchscreen, sacrificing all other advantages of a netbook over a tablet, should be able to compensate the cost of a touchscreen addition and then some. So, why people are buying tablet at 4-500 dollars price points is beyond my understanding. It is time that some sensible company to get a clue that, the yahoos of this world got their overpriced gizmos and the rest of us will not give them any of our hard earned money for a sub-par device, just because it is the hot thing to have while sipping your coffee at Starbucks. Kudos to Amazon, Lenovo and whoever else comes up with cheap but equally powerful, if not more, tablets to the market.
Unfortunately, military and management in military does not scale properly in a business environment. In military, people are judged by making decisions on the spot because they do not have the luxury to form committees and discuss all available and most of the time unavailable options. And their value is dependent on how high of a percentage these momentary decisions yield a successful outcome.
Enter business world, if you are making momentary decision without going through the proper channels and evaluations, you are asking for a dismissal. Yet, some ex-military people, hired as a business manager of some sort, due to a reason not based on merit, (can you say nepotism, buddy system, good-ole-boys network ?) still make these decisions and if they are in low enough management levels, they get protected by their hiring authority because they are buddies. Few gets to let go but most of them stay, their mistakes swept under rug and these people make the notion of ex-military makes good managers because they can decide fast.
In my experience, when my immediate management changes from someone from a techie or b-school background to an ex- military person, it means the time for me to leave that position come. I am in the IT industry full time for the past 19 years following a 7 year stint as an EE for a military electronics manufacturing plant, this pattern never failed. In my last job, I made a stupid mistake because someone asked real nicely to provide some information to them. I diagnosed the problem and got it fixed in about 35 minutes but did not go back to the office directly. When I got back, I was told that what I did (not immediately going back) was equivalent of reckless-abandonment in military terms. Guess where did the guy who told me this come from.
So comparing military career path tracks to real world, don't make much sense in my opinion.
On the other hand, jumping from ship to ship is setting one's self for career disaster in today's economy. Changing my last job to my current one 4 months ago, I had to take about $15K pay cut which is more than 10% for me, but I had to do it because I wanted to keep my sanity. Management is something I aspire for not because it is going to pay better (I hope it will) but more because, I worked in too many places and too many different roles. I now know how things go wrong, what the precursors to things going wrong and how to and how not to deal with them. As a sysadmin, I still know these but can not voice a strong opinion without jeopardizing my livelihood. Also, I am tired of having to learn the flavor of the day when it come to OS, applications or tools. I am not saying management does not have to know any of this but they do not need to know the intrinsic details that I am expected to know. And synapses in my brain are dying fast, amking it hard for me to remember these things as the times goes by...
You have people fresh out of the military running IT? Ouch ... they're typically hardly qualified to be a low level employee. Military IT processes are just too different.</p></quote>
No, not right now, but in my last position my supervisor and his supervisor was marines up until few years ago. They somehow got promoted to management due to their "superior" management abilities, because they have the ability to make dumb-ass decisions under pressure. And they were hired as management to my company. This is why it is my "last/previous" employer, if you can catch my drift.
If I had mod points I would have rated your post with the highest I can possibly rate. Very well said. It is ironic and actually more sad that, IT management being so gullible, thinking that, they can treat their key employees as they are disposable gloves and at the same time expect utmost dedication from them, sacrificing their family and personal lives by forcing them to work irregular and ungodly hours. Then one of those people, they treat like slaves, blows a gasket and does something out of spite more than anything else, then comes the blame and finger-pointing towards all IT employees.
Newsflash you arse-holes, fresh out of military into their IT management roles: you get what you sow. Treat me like an intelligent human being, I will be your best wing-man, treat me like crap as you are used to doing to your subordinate army privates, I will make your life miserable. Your choice, not mine...
especially while eating meatloaf. it was a mistake and I am without a lunch right now after regurgitating it into the trash bin and I am not talking about the virtual kind.
Or did they already file the class action lawsuit ?
By looking at the very insightful vote given to the posting which I answered, it is obvious that slashdot audience mostly became liberal whack-jobs who do not think for themselves, just need the speaking points spoon-fed to them. No need to waste time here anymore.
And your health is going to get better how, when developed nations are getting taxed to the hilt for each ounce of greenhouse gases they put out while, China, India and all other unruly countries are polluting to their hearts' content, because they are "developing nations" ? Explain that one to me one more time please ! This is plain old transfer of wealth agenda by the bleeding heart liberal movement and has nothing to do with the environment, air quality or whatsoever. Because you wait for the government handout while I bust my ass to feed your friggen welfare check, you disdain that I am making more money than you do and want to punish me by taxing. This is the whole rationale behind this crap anyhow. And anyone with half of their supposedly active brain cells working can see that. The new TV set you disdain and choose not to buy in favor of your health is going to be manufactured and sold to you by a third world country, polluting the earth's global environment much more than it being produced in a developed nation no matter what. Choose your comparisons wisely I am gonna say but there is no wise comparison here for you liberal wackos, so you grasp the fist string coming your way. Good grief...
If it is up to Mexican reconquistas, US residents should pack up and go back to the motherland, i.e. Europe, leaving the land to them. This royalty for thousand years old images is another display of the same sentiment. I live in Souther California (or northern Mexico if you choose to say so) and this reconquista movement is getting to my nerves. If your ancestors were stupid enough to sell the land to the US, don't come crying to me now, asking it back. Go pound sand. I am really touch about these people's behaviour. I did not come to the US and overcome every bureaucratic hurdle to become a US citizen to listen to the Mexican La Raza idiots. I want to kick them in the ass for such stupid demands.
Well, having worked more than 3 years as a NewsCorp subsidiary at DIRECTV, I can say that FOX is the most far-seeing network among the big 4 (or 5 if you count WB as a big one).
TV viewership, as in sitting and watching shows on their times aired, while sitting through the commercials and what not is dwindling very rapidly. The fans of sci-fi genre, are above and beyong when it comes to the average technology fancy person. So, put two and two together. Most if not all sci-fi lovers have some sort of DVR functionality available to them and if they like the show, they will record sand watch it regardless what time it airs. Hence, why waste the prime time spot with sci-fi series ? People who are avid Desperate Housewives fans, will not choose a sci-fi flick over their extended soap drama no matter what you do. There is no point fighting the facts.
Cheers...
And, wouldn't liberal government love to have access to my private health info and use it any way they like it to further their socialist free healthcare for everyone agenda ? I am personally in charge of my health, and *I* choose to share that information with whom ever I like not what government feels I should.
Obama is not in the office yet but the projection is clearly visible and I for one, do not like it at all.
If you haven't hold a place in the HOA board, you can not know how much apathy these people have towards absolutely necessary things like taking care of road, sidewalks etc, and most of them are old timers. Do you really want to leave the destiny of your precious fiber to the whim of a handful of geezer busy-bodies ? I sure don't. Not a great idea in my opinion. Having a network admin, paid part time, like 2 hours per month plus incidentals to manage it, is more plausible for this type of outfit.
In a day like this, when free linux on close to free commodity hardware can not find its way to the desktop, what would you expect. People shell out thousands of dollars to put a PowerPC on their desktop and run the most god-awful version of UNIX around ? And IBM to subsidize two masochists who enjoy torturing themselves by overspending and making life more complex for themselves by keeping a monster like this alive. Newsflash: IBM is a for profit company. Whatever shows or lacks the promise of profits will rightly find their way to the technology cemetary.
I am waiting for the day for AIX to die totally, server and desktop combined. But with stupid c-level executives keeping the notion of "nobody got fired buying IBM" I believe AIX will outlast my lifetime then some.
..what adheres to the rules that he publishes, whatever the version they are at today (GPL 3.0 ?) which I lost track of. He is a purist for the sake of being purist not helping anyone else. He wants his name to be in the limelight all the time. What he says has no merit as far as I am concerned. So, who gives a flipping f*** ?
I tend to stay away from the backticks and use the proper $(command) construct but it would be harder to explain here :)
I don't think the views of a conservative libertarian will find a place on the socialist website like this but I gave a piece of my mind no matter what. God help US of A for the next 4 years...