..Carly did it for the marger bonus alone. She did not demonstrate a lot with Lucent, and she is not doing good to HP.
In Europe, HP was synonimous for the HIghest Quality. Then, when they spinned off Agilent, this perception or brand-name recognition, if you wish, started to weaken.
And now, HP is preparing to become an Intel-whore. Good for the short-to-medium term, bad for the long term, for sure. But what does Carly care anyway, she is just laughing all the way to the bank, and by the time HP will be in shambles, she will be busy sucking the lifeblood out of another company.
Only hope: W. Hewlett sells all his holdings in HP, waits till the value of the HPQ stock goes down enough, and buys back a controlling share of the company, and then kicks the ass of the weasels... if they have not jumped ship by that time.
There is one fundamental error in your post, and unfortunately you have built the whole logic of it around that faulty supposition: that IBM will use Linux on it's high end UNIX computers. That couldn't be further away from the truth.
IBM is using Linux as an option for it's mainframes, that's true. But mainframes, even though high-margin merchandise, are a very small part of what they sell. IBM's bread-and-butter high-end computing offering is composed of multinode Power3 computers (the good-old RS/6000 series and those nowadays called pSeries) which run AIX.
IBM is still developing AIX, and it's also developing Linux, which may or may not one day replace AIX. From that point of view, IBM is doing exactly the same as Sun, who are also developing Linux as a strategical potential "getaway card" for tomorrow. Which is your argument, too, but you tried to make it seem as if there was a difference in IBM's and Sun's approach to Linux, which really isn't the case.
AS for HP, which is just on a tangent to this discussion, I am using it just as much as Solaris. I can assure you (we have very strict connections with HP for our development, we develop for both HP and Sun big iron) that HP is investing enormeous amounts of resources in HP-UX. It would be ridicolously narrow-sighted to think AIX, Solaris or HP-UX are going away in the near future. The truth is, even though Linux -is- advancing, partially thanks to these (and other) UNIX companies, none of them is waiting for Linux to catch up. Linux will have to catch up on it's OWN merits, not on hype. These companies are and will continue to develop their special brand of UNIX which they clearly perceive as an asset worth investing in, because, dear friend, these Unices are useful. They do a critical job in a very good way.
You know, when I read comments in the Linux fora (like Slashdot, for example) that imply or explicitly declare Linux superior to Solaris, I have the impression that not many Linux evangelists have really administered Solaris. I don't mean just telnet to a Solaris box and run IRC or compile something.
I am not saying that Linux is worse, but I am sure that Solaris has some very davanced features, which start to make a whole lot of sense on bigger systems. Most people here knows the advantages of Linux, but they think those advantages will always give Linux the upper hand, in every situation and on any hardware. That's not the case, Solaris really does have it's place in the enterprise, and once the Linux evangelist becomes aware of this, it will be the day Linux itself has matured.
Would you throw away your grinder just because you bought a drill? See, they are both good for what they do best, so why would Sun throw away a very good OS like Solaris, even if they use Linux on some of their servers?
Maybe in this particular case you are right, but the brain contains many different points that when stimulated, can create a feeling of intense un-pleasure, just as well. I suggest you look up this book for more information. It turns out, there are spots in the human (and most other species') brain that, when stimulated, produces such an intense unease, that it can force an individual to do anything, to stop the stimulus.
First of all, let me tell you that I completely agree with what you wrote in your original post, expecially I like "But just how much of what we're told is authentic and how much is contrived to meet current political/power needs?".
As for the mystical experience, "which lies at the root of all religion" as you say, I disagree. I am a Baha'i, and I can tell you, in our religion mystical experience is not gfiven any significance, it's a very "dry" religion if you like, a very "intelectual" one, in the sense that everybody is encouraged to research for themselves, to study and come to their own conclusions. (that doesn't mean there is no dialogue, quite the contrary, but research is of fundamental importance). I am not saying that some Baha'is didn't have myustical experiences, because I am sure many did, but the Baha'i faith doesn't put any importance on them, because in the history of humankind these experiences have been usually misconstrued, sometimes they were fake, sometimes they just polluted what the real message was meant to be, and in any case, they are supposed to be intimate. For Baha'is it's much more important the message that the relgion itself brings (through it's messangers, like Christ for Christianity or Baha'u'llah for the Baha'i religion) to the whole humanity, than the individual mystical experiences.
I suspect that some other religions, too, don't put any importance on mystical experiences, but I don't feel competent enough to talk about them.
You know what? I -really- hope you are right and that my fears are unfounded. I have lived in several countries, west and east Europe, and I know for sure that in some places some people can be unscrupolous enough to cut your hand for $100.
What do you really expect from 10.2? I am asking because every Mac user who installed OS X was expecting a performance improvement from the next OS X upgrade, and from what I've seen, they were all disappointed. So far.
Thanks. Got any links to that video to FireWire converter? For me it's important to have support for both NTSC and PAL: I have a nice collection of out-of-print VHS movies, which I want to put on VCD.
Does anyone know whether a G4 700 MHz noticeably smokes a Duron 700 MHz? I am thinking about applications common to both Windows 9x and Mac OS X. I understand that Mac OS X, even the most recent update, is a rather heavy OS. Even if the RISC G4 at 700 MHz seems like a beast, coupled with Mac OS X may show little.
Otherwise, I am open at the possibility of having a Mac at home. I like the 2 firewire ports, and with that combo CD-RW/DVD drive it could be my Video CD creation setup I was looking for. I don't know yet whether the Dazzle USB device will work on Mac OS X, though.
What when (and note that I don't say "if") some unscrupulous criminals will decide to "steal" the authentication token? That means, they cut the poor guy's finger! That's why in many high security institutions fingerprint authentication is frowned upon.
In a way, I agree: Microsoft could, hypothetically, afford easily to give away 30 million Xboxen, and still would have used up only a quarter of their cash. (I calculated the cost of each Xbox to be a bit less than $300)
Even I would, er., "buy" and Xbox (and I abolutely loathe anything Microsoft), but would probably end up taking out the two fans and the power supply - which seem to be the only usable components.
Back to the point: if 30 million Xboxen hit the market, MS has won. It may not kill Playstation2 immediately, but wait one more year, Xbox2 comes out, MS gives 60 million units away for free (yes, they will still be able to afford it) and that's the coup de gra for the Playstation. And MS will still have 15 billion in cash reserves.
MY calculations are based on the current cash whch is in excess of 40 billion, and the (rather conservative) estimate that in a year MS will make at least 5 billion more.
Could microsoft afford to deplete half of it's cash assets just to win the console war? Well, I personally think it could, because it's their door into the home entertainment center, and once they start selling services for home users, they have put their hands on a very lucrative and future-proof market.
I honestly think we would be better off if Sun or Oracle dictated the direction of Windows. I don't want Microsoft to accumulate more power and money than it already has. I want the market diversified, balanced.
Once Sun or Oracle become large and strong like Microsoft AND use the same monopolistic, unethical tactics, it will be time to deal with them, too.
(Besides, I prefere working with Unix than with Windows. I don't dislike a stronger Unix-centric company).
I know I'm daydreaming, but I really wish something like this would happen 1 year from now, when the Windows line is ported to x86-64, Itanic is in the ditch and it all can't be reversed anymore:
Prosecutor: So, your support for Microsoft wasn't honest, was it? AMD: I regret to say, it wasn't. It was a difficult moment for us, our whole future, the very existence of our company depended on Microsoft supporting the x86-64 architecture. Prosecutor: Damn you, you'll be fined 10.000 $ !! AMD: er.. poor us. Prosecutor: I think we can now nail Microsoft
For the new cost (299) it'd be almost worth it just for a DVD player
I strongly disagree. You have to add the price of the remote control (without it you can't watch DVDs) and that costs 57 Euros here in Finland. Yes, in other countries it's cheaper, but it's still relevant.
For that price (around 340 Euro) you can buy brand new DVD players where the region coding can be removed with the remote, and even the Macrovision protection, on some models. My colleague bought a Grundig DVD player where both region coding and Macrovision were removed with the use of the remote, for about 330 Euro.
And you know what, the problems with scratched DVDs that are reported in Japan don't put any confidence in the Xbox. If I think it's going to ruin even one of my DVD movies, I don't want to risk it.
According to this news report, Microsoft expects to sell 3.5 to 4 million units of Xbox, instead of previously planned 4.5 to 6, by end of June this year:
Microsoft said on Thursday it expected to ship a total of 3.5 million to 4 million Xbox video consoles by the end of June, a drastic scaling back of previous expectations of 4.5 million to 6 million units, due to weak sales in Japan and Europe.
It's the French Tax authority that will use, among other things, Novell's eDirectory. e-Directory (formerly known as NDS) contains many features (and it can do what Passport does, too), and it scales to over 40 billion users. Microsoft's Active Directory could never scales a few orders of magnitute worse.
I don't know if and how Microsoft Passport ties into MS Active Directory, but I think it should, as it needs an authentication database back-end, and MAD seems to be a natural choice, for MS.
At least have the courtesy to separate them out for a few months so that publishers can have a more accurate indication of what's selling well and what's not.
What courtesy? What's so uncorteous if a buyer has the option of saving a few bucks in a completely legal way? And in the process, decreases the rate at which landfills are being stuffed.
I say, in this instance, to hell with the Guild, more power to the consumers! For once.
Something that everyone here seems to forget: the great advantage of vi compared to all other editors in Unix: you can trust it will be there, on any system, in any condition. Of course, this is not a big deal if you are a "normal" user, but if you are an administrator, expecially one who gets his hands dirty in day-to-day problems and accidents, you know how good it feels to have an editor in single-user mode, and to know that it will be available on any Unix platform!
(Except for HP-UX: I noticed that I have no editor whatsoever, in single-user mode, until i mount -a. Weird. No, not even a line editor)
ummm.. I just checked. Together with the memory card, the PS2 is STILL cheaper than the Xbox! Yes sir, and I can chose not to buy the memory card if I don't want to.I'm sure I can enjoy the PS2 for a while even without that.
You don'thave to be hellbent on convincing me that the Xbox is so much better than the PS2, because it's not worth it, I may not buy anything. But I like DVDs and the PS2 plays them, and there are even some hacks to make the PS2 multiregion. And there are a few games I like, for the playstation/PS2, which is not the case with the Xbox. I certainly will not spend time on online games, so the ethernet port discussion is completely pointless, and if I can't fill in the memory sotrage of the PS2, how on Earth will I ever need a hard drive? Actually, I prefere solid-state technology in my entertainment system.
Another plus for the PS2 is that I can put it vertically, which would fit perfectly next to the TV set. I have no spare room available in the entertainment tower system, so this is a nice touch : )
Hey man, take it easy. I said I am not a gamer, didn't I? Which means, I didn't play those games, just saw them. OK, I played Spyro, but not when I was a kid, just a few months ago, but that's it.
In this light I think your argument misses the mark, in my case. It might be true with other people, I don't know.
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..Carly did it for the marger bonus alone. She did not demonstrate a lot with Lucent, and she is not doing good to HP.
In Europe, HP was synonimous for the HIghest Quality. Then, when they spinned off Agilent, this perception or brand-name recognition, if you wish, started to weaken.
And now, HP is preparing to become an Intel-whore. Good for the short-to-medium term, bad for the long term, for sure. But what does Carly care anyway, she is just laughing all the way to the bank, and by the time HP will be in shambles, she will be busy sucking the lifeblood out of another company.
Only hope: W. Hewlett sells all his holdings in HP, waits till the value of the HPQ stock goes down enough, and buys back a controlling share of the company, and then kicks the ass of the weasels... if they have not jumped ship by that time.
Not the fucking point at all. Did Netscape sue Microsoft over patent infringement?
There is one fundamental error in your post, and unfortunately you have built the whole logic of it around that faulty supposition: that IBM will use Linux on it's high end UNIX computers. That couldn't be further away from the truth.
IBM is using Linux as an option for it's mainframes, that's true. But mainframes, even though high-margin merchandise, are a very small part of what they sell. IBM's bread-and-butter high-end computing offering is composed of multinode Power3 computers (the good-old RS/6000 series and those nowadays called pSeries) which run AIX.
IBM is still developing AIX, and it's also developing Linux, which may or may not one day replace AIX. From that point of view, IBM is doing exactly the same as Sun, who are also developing Linux as a strategical potential "getaway card" for tomorrow. Which is your argument, too, but you tried to make it seem as if there was a difference in IBM's and Sun's approach to Linux, which really isn't the case.
AS for HP, which is just on a tangent to this discussion, I am using it just as much as Solaris. I can assure you (we have very strict connections with HP for our development, we develop for both HP and Sun big iron) that HP is investing enormeous amounts of resources in HP-UX.
It would be ridicolously narrow-sighted to think AIX, Solaris or HP-UX are going away in the near future. The truth is, even though Linux -is- advancing, partially thanks to these (and other) UNIX companies, none of them is waiting for Linux to catch up. Linux will have to catch up on it's OWN merits, not on hype. These companies are and will continue to develop their special brand of UNIX which they clearly perceive as an asset worth investing in, because, dear friend, these Unices are useful. They do a critical job in a very good way.
You know, when I read comments in the Linux fora (like Slashdot, for example) that imply or explicitly declare Linux superior to Solaris, I have the impression that not many Linux evangelists have really administered Solaris. I don't mean just telnet to a Solaris box and run IRC or compile something.
I am not saying that Linux is worse, but I am sure that Solaris has some very davanced features, which start to make a whole lot of sense on bigger systems. Most people here knows the advantages of Linux, but they think those advantages will always give Linux the upper hand, in every situation and on any hardware. That's not the case, Solaris really does have it's place in the enterprise, and once the Linux evangelist becomes aware of this, it will be the day Linux itself has matured.
Would you throw away your grinder just because you bought a drill? See, they are both good for what they do best, so why would Sun throw away a very good OS like Solaris, even if they use Linux on some of their servers?
Maybe in this particular case you are right, but the brain contains many different points that when stimulated, can create a feeling of intense un-pleasure, just as well. I suggest you look up this book for more information.
It turns out, there are spots in the human (and most other species') brain that, when stimulated, produces such an intense unease, that it can force an individual to do anything, to stop the stimulus.
First of all, let me tell you that I completely agree with what you wrote in your original post, expecially I like "But just how much of what we're told is authentic and how much is contrived to meet current political/power needs?".
As for the mystical experience, "which lies at the root of all religion" as you say, I disagree. I am a Baha'i, and I can tell you, in our religion mystical experience is not gfiven any significance, it's a very "dry" religion if you like, a very "intelectual" one, in the sense that everybody is encouraged to research for themselves, to study and come to their own conclusions. (that doesn't mean there is no dialogue, quite the contrary, but research is of fundamental importance). I am not saying that some Baha'is didn't have myustical experiences, because I am sure many did, but the Baha'i faith doesn't put any importance on them, because in the history of humankind these experiences have been usually misconstrued, sometimes they were fake, sometimes they just polluted what the real message was meant to be, and in any case, they are supposed to be intimate.
For Baha'is it's much more important the message that the relgion itself brings (through it's messangers, like Christ for Christianity or Baha'u'llah for the Baha'i religion) to the whole humanity, than the individual mystical experiences.
I suspect that some other religions, too, don't put any importance on mystical experiences, but I don't feel competent enough to talk about them.
You know what? I -really- hope you are right and that my fears are unfounded.
I have lived in several countries, west and east Europe, and I know for sure that in some places some people can be unscrupolous enough to cut your hand for $100.
Thanks.
What do you really expect from 10.2? I am asking because every Mac user who installed OS X was expecting a performance improvement from the next OS X upgrade, and from what I've seen, they were all disappointed. So far.
Thanks. Got any links to that video to FireWire converter? For me it's important to have support for both NTSC and PAL: I have a nice collection of out-of-print VHS movies, which I want to put on VCD.
Does anyone know whether a G4 700 MHz noticeably smokes a Duron 700 MHz? I am thinking about applications common to both Windows 9x and Mac OS X. I understand that Mac OS X, even the most recent update, is a rather heavy OS. Even if the RISC G4 at 700 MHz seems like a beast, coupled with Mac OS X may show little.
Otherwise, I am open at the possibility of having a Mac at home. I like the 2 firewire ports, and with that combo CD-RW/DVD drive it could be my Video CD creation setup I was looking for. I don't know yet whether the Dazzle USB device will work on Mac OS X, though.
What when (and note that I don't say "if") some unscrupulous criminals will decide to "steal" the authentication token? That means, they cut the poor guy's finger! That's why in many high security institutions fingerprint authentication is frowned upon.
Voice is a bit safer, password is the safest.
In a way, I agree: Microsoft could, hypothetically, afford easily to give away 30 million Xboxen, and still would have used up only a quarter of their cash. (I calculated the cost of each Xbox to be a bit less than $300)
Even I would, er., "buy" and Xbox (and I abolutely loathe anything Microsoft), but would probably end up taking out the two fans and the power supply - which seem to be the only usable components.
Back to the point: if 30 million Xboxen hit the market, MS has won. It may not kill Playstation2 immediately, but wait one more year, Xbox2 comes out, MS gives 60 million units away for free (yes, they will still be able to afford it) and that's the coup de gra for the Playstation. And MS will still have 15 billion in cash reserves.
MY calculations are based on the current cash whch is in excess of 40 billion, and the (rather conservative) estimate that in a year MS will make at least 5 billion more.
Could microsoft afford to deplete half of it's cash assets just to win the console war? Well, I personally think it could, because it's their door into the home entertainment center, and once they start selling services for home users, they have put their hands on a very lucrative and future-proof market.
...terrifying prospect..!!
I honestly think we would be better off if Sun or Oracle dictated the direction of Windows. I don't want Microsoft to accumulate more power and money than it already has. I want the market diversified, balanced.
Once Sun or Oracle become large and strong like Microsoft AND use the same monopolistic, unethical tactics, it will be time to deal with them, too.
(Besides, I prefere working with Unix than with Windows. I don't dislike a stronger Unix-centric company).
I know I'm daydreaming, but I really wish something like this would happen 1 year from now, when the Windows line is ported to x86-64, Itanic is in the ditch and it all can't be reversed anymore:
Prosecutor: So, your support for Microsoft wasn't honest, was it?
AMD: I regret to say, it wasn't. It was a difficult moment for us, our whole future, the very existence of our company depended on Microsoft supporting the x86-64 architecture.
Prosecutor: Damn you, you'll be fined 10.000 $ !!
AMD: er.. poor us.
Prosecutor: I think we can now nail Microsoft
:o)
For the new cost (299) it'd be almost worth it just for a DVD player
I strongly disagree. You have to add the price of the remote control (without it you can't watch DVDs) and that costs 57 Euros here in Finland. Yes, in other countries it's cheaper, but it's still relevant.
For that price (around 340 Euro) you can buy brand new DVD players where the region coding can be removed with the remote, and even the Macrovision protection, on some models. My colleague bought a Grundig DVD player where both region coding and Macrovision were removed with the use of the remote, for about 330 Euro.
And you know what, the problems with scratched DVDs that are reported in Japan don't put any confidence in the Xbox. If I think it's going to ruin even one of my DVD movies, I don't want to risk it.
According to this news report, Microsoft expects to sell 3.5 to 4 million units of Xbox, instead of previously planned 4.5 to 6, by end of June this year:
Microsoft said on Thursday it expected to ship a total of 3.5 million to 4 million Xbox video consoles by the end of June, a drastic scaling back of previous expectations of 4.5 million to 6 million units, due to weak sales in Japan and Europe.
It's the French Tax authority that will use, among other things, Novell's eDirectory. e-Directory (formerly known as NDS) contains many features (and it can do what Passport does, too), and it scales to over 40 billion users. Microsoft's Active Directory could never scales a few orders of magnitute worse.
I don't know if and how Microsoft Passport ties into MS Active Directory, but I think it should, as it needs an authentication database back-end, and MAD seems to be a natural choice, for MS.
While in principle I would have even agreed, the fact that you cooked up the numbers (or pulled them out of your bum) was a turnoff.
NO country in the world can afford to spend 35% of it's annual budget on defense. This is somewhere in the range of 4 to 10%. 35% is ridicolous.
I would take issue with the 60K starting salary. I don't say it's impossible, but negligeably rare.
At least have the courtesy to separate them out for a few months so that publishers can have a more accurate indication of what's selling well and what's not.
What courtesy? What's so uncorteous if a buyer has the option of saving a few bucks in a completely legal way? And in the process, decreases the rate at which landfills are being stuffed.
I say, in this instance, to hell with the Guild, more power to the consumers! For once.
is that the first time it was posted on Slashdot, it was CmdrTaco himself!
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/06/135
And then came Hemos (the one to whom most of you refer as the "first" post...)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/0
I think CmdrTaco needs something for memory improvement. Some herb or medicine, dunno.
Three time's the charm :o)
What can we still add to the subject that we didn't in the previous two submissions?
Something that everyone here seems to forget: the great advantage of vi compared to all other editors in Unix: you can trust it will be there, on any system, in any condition. Of course, this is not a big deal if you are a "normal" user, but if you are an administrator, expecially one who gets his hands dirty in day-to-day problems and accidents, you know how good it feels to have an editor in single-user mode, and to know that it will be available on any Unix platform!
(Except for HP-UX: I noticed that I have no editor whatsoever, in single-user mode, until i mount -a. Weird. No, not even a line editor)
ummm.. I just checked. Together with the memory card, the PS2 is STILL cheaper than the Xbox! Yes sir, and I can chose not to buy the memory card if I don't want to.I'm sure I can enjoy the PS2 for a while even without that.
You don'thave to be hellbent on convincing me that the Xbox is so much better than the PS2, because it's not worth it, I may not buy anything. But I like DVDs and the PS2 plays them, and there are even some hacks to make the PS2 multiregion. And there are a few games I like, for the playstation/PS2, which is not the case with the Xbox. I certainly will not spend time on online games, so the ethernet port discussion is completely pointless, and if I can't fill in the memory sotrage of the PS2, how on Earth will I ever need a hard drive? Actually, I prefere solid-state technology in my entertainment system.
Another plus for the PS2 is that I can put it vertically, which would fit perfectly next to the TV set. I have no spare room available in the entertainment tower system, so this is a nice touch : )
Hey man, take it easy. I said I am not a gamer, didn't I? Which means, I didn't play those games, just saw them. OK, I played Spyro, but not when I was a kid, just a few months ago, but that's it.
In this light I think your argument misses the mark, in my case. It might be true with other people, I don't know.
No it's not, I think almost anyone can learn Japanese, given enough time and motivation. Usually we lack both.