Unions will do one thing - make you less competitive. Once you are paid more than you are worth (as a industry), someone on the other side of the world will kick your ass.
You could have the data written to a server via the net.
I think a lot of users would like a real simple machine with plugin cartridges/interfaces. Think about the stuff home users do. Email, web surfing, the odd letter, games, personal photos. Build a machine that does all that and have data written to the web.
I've had discussions about this and people say "Yeah, but Ellison's thin client machine tanked". Forgetting that at that time, almost everyone was on dial-up. 2mbps connections are getting cheap now.
Another significant factor is security. Most small businesses can't do their own sysadmin. So, why not rent a web based service and just go to your data through a browser?
I think Linux and some other software is still at early stages.
The biggest threat to Microsoft is not Linux. There are 2 threats that I perceive:-
OpenOffice.org. It's a simple thing to try/switch to, and the cost savings are large. I know quite a few converts now.
Web applications. I'm seeing a lot of companies building internal applications as web applications through a browser. Mostly because it's just simple in control/deployment terms. But the more apps are built as cross-platform browser based, the easier it will be for companies to switch/mix their clients at any time. Web-based solutions will get more and more popular as storage, power and bandwidth increase.
The trouble is, zero revenue and soaking up the cash reserve will do what for the shareholder?
If you were a shareholder, would you be happy with that? Let's say that something came out that meant that people thought that MS was on the way out. Would they let the company run dry for 3 years, or start taking all the assets they could?
That cash is owned by the shareholders. If the sands shift (eg to web apps) selling desktop software could start going the way of the dodo.
If this were to happen and Microsoft started doing nothing in terms of dividends/price growth, the shareholders would start asking for that $37billion to be released.
Absolutely. There was a news item about EU ministers agreeing to double aid to Africa as a "breakthrough". Try getting them to dismantle the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) though.
It's also about freeing up trade in value-added goods. It's quite easy for African nations to export things like coffee, cocoa. But, if they try and export something like chocolate bars, they suffer tariffs.
I can only think of one film where I consider him as doing an acting job, and that's Witness. The rest, he was basically a star. At least he seemed to look like Star Wars and Indy were fun. Watch some of his recent films, and he looks totally bored.
People will only wake up when this happens. When they change their PCs, copy over their DRMd files and find that their music collection is near-worthless. Particularly as so many of them do backups.
I'm waiting for this to start happening now - where people who haven't taken a backup lose their collections.
OK, welcome to the global free market and the 21st century. It doesn't matter whether you think that "getting workers cheaper in another nation is NOT a good enough reason to make people redundant". You start making corporations lives too difficult where you are, they will simply base their operations far away from you.
In effect, governments are now in a market for corporations if they want them to be based there. The boot is on the other foot from the 20th century. If you don't like that, it's just too bad. The only way it will change will be with a global communist revolution.
You know a big reason that the UK gets so much inward investment of Europe? Because trade union power and government bureaucracy over business are much lighter than the rest of Europe. Why is China booming? because right now, it's labour costs are cheaper.
Ask yourself why you deserve that job more than the Indian or Chinese guy?
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I could say this 1,000 times here:-
You don't like your pay, bonuses, benefits? If you think you can do better, leave. If not, put your head down, be glad you have achieved the best that you can get and STFU
Unions work where people have little choice - public sector employers.
In a time of mobility, what use are trade unions? If I don't like an employer, I find another. I can drive 20, 30 or 40 miles to another. You couldn't do that 80 years ago.
Yeah, and if they don't, then what? What happens then is that government intervene.
Governments know NOTHING about running business and should keep their noses out. If an employer makes a bad decision letting a good guy go, his competitors will benefit.
Does it ever occur to anyone that the reason there's no profit in non camera/tevevision/secret-squirrel-decoder-ring phones is that no one is making the bloody things?
I've got a nice, modern Nokia phone that's laden with all manner of dumb features. I don't use them. It can be annoying to press the "services" button, but that happens maybe once every 3 months. Other than that, it's phone/text/GPRS to me.
Regarding whether it's for legal or illegal content, it cares not.
If I recall, Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent said that it wasn't really for illegal content because it wasn't anonymous.
I used BT from quite soon after it was created as a way to get more reliable downloads of Fedora. And at that time, the traffic was basically legal stuff like that. A lot of people still use it for that purpose - sharing the load off distro/OSS sites.
Not read it, but the 1-3 movies are ultimately going to look horrible because they are so hollow in character.
The reviews are mostly "awesome opening", "great lightsabre battle" and the actual story is forgotten.
I know there's a lot of critics of ROTJ here, but watch it and tell me that there isn't a cohesive story. OK, some may want the ewoks to die, but there is emotion there - you want to know what happens next. All the stuff between Luke, vadar and the emperor is good drama which works off against the action elsewhere.
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Unions will do one thing - make you less competitive. Once you are paid more than you are worth (as a industry), someone on the other side of the world will kick your ass.
I think a lot of users would like a real simple machine with plugin cartridges/interfaces. Think about the stuff home users do. Email, web surfing, the odd letter, games, personal photos. Build a machine that does all that and have data written to the web.
Another significant factor is security. Most small businesses can't do their own sysadmin. So, why not rent a web based service and just go to your data through a browser?
The biggest threat to Microsoft is not Linux. There are 2 threats that I perceive:-
OpenOffice.org. It's a simple thing to try/switch to, and the cost savings are large. I know quite a few converts now.
Web applications. I'm seeing a lot of companies building internal applications as web applications through a browser. Mostly because it's just simple in control/deployment terms. But the more apps are built as cross-platform browser based, the easier it will be for companies to switch/mix their clients at any time. Web-based solutions will get more and more popular as storage, power and bandwidth increase.
If you were a shareholder, would you be happy with that? Let's say that something came out that meant that people thought that MS was on the way out. Would they let the company run dry for 3 years, or start taking all the assets they could?
If this were to happen and Microsoft started doing nothing in terms of dividends/price growth, the shareholders would start asking for that $37billion to be released.
It's also about freeing up trade in value-added goods. It's quite easy for African nations to export things like coffee, cocoa. But, if they try and export something like chocolate bars, they suffer tariffs.
The real problem is that special effects are always going to be improved on, so you'd better have a lot more going on than that.
Replacing Harrison Ford with Ben Affleck? That's like replacing Windows NT with Windows ME.
I can only think of one film where I consider him as doing an acting job, and that's Witness. The rest, he was basically a star. At least he seemed to look like Star Wars and Indy were fun. Watch some of his recent films, and he looks totally bored.
Exactly. If you miss your bit, too late. I personally just use the BBC web site now.
That took some guts to admit!
I'm waiting for this to start happening now - where people who haven't taken a backup lose their collections.
In effect, governments are now in a market for corporations if they want them to be based there. The boot is on the other foot from the 20th century. If you don't like that, it's just too bad. The only way it will change will be with a global communist revolution.
You know a big reason that the UK gets so much inward investment of Europe? Because trade union power and government bureaucracy over business are much lighter than the rest of Europe. Why is China booming? because right now, it's labour costs are cheaper.
You don't like your pay, bonuses, benefits? If you think you can do better, leave. If not, put your head down, be glad you have achieved the best that you can get and STFU
People always say this stuff, but when do IBM get the right to tell employers that they can't leave?
You enter a contract, and follow it. You don't like it, go elsewhere. It's that simple.
In a time of mobility, what use are trade unions? If I don't like an employer, I find another. I can drive 20, 30 or 40 miles to another. You couldn't do that 80 years ago.
Governments know NOTHING about running business and should keep their noses out. If an employer makes a bad decision letting a good guy go, his competitors will benefit.
I've got a nice, modern Nokia phone that's laden with all manner of dumb features. I don't use them. It can be annoying to press the "services" button, but that happens maybe once every 3 months. Other than that, it's phone/text/GPRS to me.
Really, what's the problem?
Regarding whether it's for legal or illegal content, it cares not.
If I recall, Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent said that it wasn't really for illegal content because it wasn't anonymous.
I used BT from quite soon after it was created as a way to get more reliable downloads of Fedora. And at that time, the traffic was basically legal stuff like that. A lot of people still use it for that purpose - sharing the load off distro/OSS sites.
Archimedes Plutonium? Sounds like a follow up to a certain movie.
The reviews are mostly "awesome opening", "great lightsabre battle" and the actual story is forgotten.
I know there's a lot of critics of ROTJ here, but watch it and tell me that there isn't a cohesive story. OK, some may want the ewoks to die, but there is emotion there - you want to know what happens next. All the stuff between Luke, vadar and the emperor is good drama which works off against the action elsewhere.
CG has its uses though. Apparantly, The Merchant of Venice used it to take out details of the Canals that weren't there 400+ years ago.