I wanted to say something witty and get modded funny, something about "I've fallen and can't get up!" - but I honestly think in a few months, at best, infomercials will start catering this tech to the elderly. The boomers are moving towards geriatric age, they will want a RF based device in their home that auto dials 911 if they have a heart attack or a stroke.
Right now, if I am ADT or one of the home security firms, I am aggressively looking to buy, develop or partner with a hospice firm to tie the two together.
Check Yahoo and see what percentage of outstanding shares are holding a short position. What you are seeing is called a 'short squeeze'. Microsoft, or some institutional investor fronting for them, is trying to get a string of buybacks running.
Lucas is short on cash this time. He's going to borrow one of the old Cylon costumes from the original Battlestar Galactica series for Vader's first outfit.
Actually, Ralph McQuarrie, who did most of the conceptual art for Lucas in the 70's, which ended up being storyboarded, had a early Vader outfit. It was a very cool painting. Black cape and chest panel, but the helmet looked very gothic and more skull like.
No way. Picture Agent Smith saying "Everytime I try and get out... they keep pullin me back in!", then having the final shot of Matrix be of Agent Smith dying of old age in a chair. Then, only then, could it be worse.
I think Boies role in this is pretty slimy. To prosecute anti-trust actions against Microsoft, and then turn around and represent a Microsoft stooge in a power play game of FUD, how much conflict of interest must there be?
If it can be shown, via an internal memo, that Boies or his firm knew that SCO was being primarily funded by Microsoft dollars, I'd like to see him prosecuted under some provision of RICO.
Also, maybe some news organization like PBS frontline might like to do a story on why the government's case against Microsoft fell apart. Perhaps because David Boies wasn't trying ALL THAT HARD to win?
I like your post, but find it troubling. Mostly, because it doesn't jibe with what I see and know. First, the selling expensive hardware that was rock solid bit... It was always expensive, but the rock-solid? Do you remember when SunOS 4.1.4 was effectively the last BSD based OS, and the switch was made to Solaris? It was called Slowaris, and it was a mess. Pkgadd didn't work, NIS support was phased out kicking and screaming for NIS+, and Sun practically had a revolt on it's hand. It had built up good will mainly in the educational and scientific sectors.
I could go, but I want to get to my real point, the blurb on Cisco. Here is what I see is a key, and huge difference. A previous reader compared Sun to Saruman, a wannabe who switches to ally with Microsoft, to prevent Linux and the open source movement from crushing them. It's a hedge strategy, trying to leverage open source with the GNOME desktop and the diskless computing model they are pushing.
Who is Cisco's Microsoft? Cisco is the Microsoft of networking. The same 50 or so really good ASIC designers and networking geniuses in the San Jose area have been bought by Cisco 5 or 6 times now. They start a technology, and Cisco buys it and rolls into a blade on the L3 switch. If you look at the financials, they are gaining market share, not losing it. Juniper just got pushed aside at a couple big service provider accounts, namely the big announcement from AT&T.
I agree that Dell and HP may offer stiff competition for the 24 port switch in the closet of the small office, but Cisco doesn't give a shit about that.
Sorry, this is a thread about Sun licensing. I agree with majority of the posts, Sun is following Redhat's model, both think it will be profitable, but it will only be a matter of time before Intel and AMD based hardware crushes the Sparc platform. After the hardware business goes, the OS and Java technologies will also fall. I'm shorting Sun.
Somewhere, sometime, somebody will catch something on par with the Zapruder film, or the Rodney King tape, and it will spark a cultural revolution, and then Microsoft will make you pay a DRM fee to decode your OWN LIFE!
I think it was internal memos circulated by Firestone, detailing they knew about the propensity of the tires to blow apart and cause rollovers on the Ford Explorer. And they chose to do nothing.
They are taxed. Then, the remaining dollars are spent and saved, in some proportion. Tell me, oh exasperated one, the social good that comes from having those dollars in one pocket versus fewer dollars in many pockets?
I'm not flaming you, as your sig suggests I do, but Active Directory is not an authentication protocol. It is a directory, as it's name states. It provides directory services. The authentication protocol used to validate a user against their password in AD is NTLM.
AD can also speak LDAP on port 389, but there are issues involving Kerberos encryption that make password authentication difficult.
That is a shame. The FUD tactic worked. You may wish to show him the major underwriters who are indemnifying against SCO, or the decision by HP to do it. CIOs are open to hearing about formal risk mitigation techniques like these.
Good insights. Glad to see others see the big picture. Next time some neo-con gives you the "quit whining" speech, and talks about welfare moms, hit back with 10 examples of corporate welfare. In the form of ridiculous tax incentives, loopholes, etc.
Remind them that Warren Buffet, this country's midwest living uber-capitalist went to a newspaper and said "In real terms, I pay 3% of my income in taxes. A poor family of three, making about $35k/year, pays about 20%. That, on it's face, is ridiculous."
It's amazing how many conservatives, who use the word "liberal" with venom in their voice, have such kindergarden level views of how private industry and government relate. They hate social programs envisioned by LBJ's Great Society, and love Bush and NASCAR and hate gun legislation. Yet, almost all of them get fucked by Republican admministrations who don't give a damn about them. It's history's great joke. The unwashed masses who loved the king who robbed them blind.
When Howard Dean said he needed the Redneck vote, the NASCAR dad with the gun rack, he was right. What he didn't say, and should have, is that almost all of them have been blinded by insane devotion to the wrong party. It's not shocking, I guess, when you consider that most of them believe intensely that Jesus will save their soul. I guess blind, unwarranted belief systems are in their DNA.
You missed the point entirely. This person was saying it benefits society as a whole to take the profits made, and spread them out amongst employees instead of shafting employees and pocketing it all. The corporation is still trying to maximize profit, it's the division of profit at issue. I see a lot of posts by people who miss that point entirely, as you did.
If you look at this story you will see the real issue. US companies going overseas and hiring workers, and making profits on those workers, don't have to pay tax on those profits.
That's a losing proposition for American workers. I know some web designers who would have accepted $20k/yr to do work, if they could work from home. THey had broadband, there was no functional difference between them and the Indian worker. The problem is, corporations can hide profits made my Indian workers and skirt paying taxes, and all the other hassles American workers have with them, such as employment benefits, the paperwork associated with W2s. You can write a single check to an outsourcing firm overseas. Anyhow, read the Yahoo article. Bush doesn't care, he'll give US corporations anything they want, any tax loophole they can find he will support. The middle class is destroyed, and so you will need business skills and the ability to create an LLC and be an indepedant IT consultant to make it, because nobody will hire you.
Following up to myself... what a day...
"Denial-of-normal" -- A term invented on April Fool's Day 2004 by Slashdot member 'LostCluster'. A phenomenon where major news outlets on the web simply don't know when enough is enough and post bogus story after bogus story, in some lame attempt to be funny. Ingrating and ultimately tiresome, denial-of-normal causes many readers to stereotype the Internet as "a bunch of hoo-hah".
For other examples of not knowing when to stop, and when a gag just isn't funny anymore, see all the films of Christopher Guest after 'This is Spinal Tap', up to and including 'A Mighty Wind'.
It is. Motley Fool, a website I visit quite a bit, felt it necessary to write not one, not two, not three...but FIFTEEN fake stories on the site today. It was ridiculous. Most of them, nay, all of them, were lame.
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I wanted to say something witty and get modded funny, something about "I've fallen and can't get up!" - but I honestly think in a few months, at best, infomercials will start catering this tech to the elderly. The boomers are moving towards geriatric age, they will want a RF based device in their home that auto dials 911 if they have a heart attack or a stroke.
Right now, if I am ADT or one of the home security firms, I am aggressively looking to buy, develop or partner with a hospice firm to tie the two together.
This is how they do it:
$telnet satcontrol.prc.cn ^CONNECTED TO SATCONTROL login: chairmanmao password: pekingduck #Welcome to Sat 4! >reload now
Check Yahoo and see what percentage of outstanding shares are holding a short position. What you are seeing is called a 'short squeeze'. Microsoft, or some institutional investor fronting for them, is trying to get a string of buybacks running.
Lucas is short on cash this time. He's going to borrow one of the old Cylon costumes from the original Battlestar Galactica series for Vader's first outfit.
Actually, Ralph McQuarrie, who did most of the conceptual art for Lucas in the 70's, which ended up being storyboarded, had a early Vader outfit. It was a very cool painting. Black cape and chest panel, but the helmet looked very gothic and more skull like.
I met Hans Solo once. At a conference in Norway. He was a UN weapons inspector.
Bush didn't get elected, Al Gore did. The prosecution rests.
What was the first message sent over the telephone?
"Come here Watson, I want you."
True story.
I posted a good article about how the Xbox2 won't be using ATI or Nvidia, and it was shot down. But this article makes it?
I should have posted how Xbox 2 was going to stream P0rn on the net, I guess.
No way. Picture Agent Smith saying "Everytime I try and get out... they keep pullin me back in!", then having the final shot of Matrix be of Agent Smith dying of old age in a chair. Then, only then, could it be worse.
I went to the University of Michigan, where the girls were so ugly, an open dorm would be called "open horse....face"
I think Boies role in this is pretty slimy. To prosecute anti-trust actions against Microsoft, and then turn around and represent a Microsoft stooge in a power play game of FUD, how much conflict of interest must there be?
If it can be shown, via an internal memo, that Boies or his firm knew that SCO was being primarily funded by Microsoft dollars, I'd like to see him prosecuted under some provision of RICO.
Also, maybe some news organization like PBS frontline might like to do a story on why the government's case against Microsoft fell apart. Perhaps because David Boies wasn't trying ALL THAT HARD to win?
I like your post, but find it troubling. Mostly, because it doesn't jibe with what I see and know. First, the selling expensive hardware that was rock solid bit... It was always expensive, but the rock-solid? Do you remember when SunOS 4.1.4 was effectively the last BSD based OS, and the switch was made to Solaris? It was called Slowaris, and it was a mess. Pkgadd didn't work, NIS support was phased out kicking and screaming for NIS+, and Sun practically had a revolt on it's hand. It had built up good will mainly in the educational and scientific sectors.
I could go, but I want to get to my real point, the blurb on Cisco. Here is what I see is a key, and huge difference. A previous reader compared Sun to Saruman, a wannabe who switches to ally with Microsoft, to prevent Linux and the open source movement from crushing them. It's a hedge strategy, trying to leverage open source with the GNOME desktop and the diskless computing model they are pushing.
Who is Cisco's Microsoft? Cisco is the Microsoft of networking. The same 50 or so really good ASIC designers and networking geniuses in the San Jose area have been bought by Cisco 5 or 6 times now. They start a technology, and Cisco buys it and rolls into a blade on the L3 switch. If you look at the financials, they are gaining market share, not losing it. Juniper just got pushed aside at a couple big service provider accounts, namely the big announcement from AT&T.
I agree that Dell and HP may offer stiff competition for the 24 port switch in the closet of the small office, but Cisco doesn't give a shit about that.
Sorry, this is a thread about Sun licensing. I agree with majority of the posts, Sun is following Redhat's model, both think it will be profitable, but it will only be a matter of time before Intel and AMD based hardware crushes the Sparc platform. After the hardware business goes, the OS and Java technologies will also fall. I'm shorting Sun.
Somewhere, sometime, somebody will catch something on par with the Zapruder film, or the Rodney King tape, and it will spark a cultural revolution, and then Microsoft will make you pay a DRM fee to decode your OWN LIFE!
I think it was internal memos circulated by Firestone, detailing they knew about the propensity of the tires to blow apart and cause rollovers on the Ford Explorer. And they chose to do nothing.
Lady Justice will be played by Cameron Manheim.
They are taxed. Then, the remaining dollars are spent and saved, in some proportion. Tell me, oh exasperated one, the social good that comes from having those dollars in one pocket versus fewer dollars in many pockets?
I'm not flaming you, as your sig suggests I do, but Active Directory is not an authentication protocol. It is a directory, as it's name states. It provides directory services. The authentication protocol used to validate a user against their password in AD is NTLM.
AD can also speak LDAP on port 389, but there are issues involving Kerberos encryption that make password authentication difficult.
That is a shame. The FUD tactic worked. You may wish to show him the major underwriters who are indemnifying against SCO, or the decision by HP to do it. CIOs are open to hearing about formal risk mitigation techniques like these.
Good insights. Glad to see others see the big picture. Next time some neo-con gives you the "quit whining" speech, and talks about welfare moms, hit back with 10 examples of corporate welfare. In the form of ridiculous tax incentives, loopholes, etc.
Remind them that Warren Buffet, this country's midwest living uber-capitalist went to a newspaper and said "In real terms, I pay 3% of my income in taxes. A poor family of three, making about $35k/year, pays about 20%. That, on it's face, is ridiculous."
It's amazing how many conservatives, who use the word "liberal" with venom in their voice, have such kindergarden level views of how private industry and government relate. They hate social programs envisioned by LBJ's Great Society, and love Bush and NASCAR and hate gun legislation. Yet, almost all of them get fucked by Republican admministrations who don't give a damn about them. It's history's great joke. The unwashed masses who loved the king who robbed them blind.
When Howard Dean said he needed the Redneck vote, the NASCAR dad with the gun rack, he was right. What he didn't say, and should have, is that almost all of them have been blinded by insane devotion to the wrong party. It's not shocking, I guess, when you consider that most of them believe intensely that Jesus will save their soul. I guess blind, unwarranted belief systems are in their DNA.
You missed the point entirely. This person was saying it benefits society as a whole to take the profits made, and spread them out amongst employees instead of shafting employees and pocketing it all. The corporation is still trying to maximize profit, it's the division of profit at issue. I see a lot of posts by people who miss that point entirely, as you did.
If you look at this story you will see the real issue. US companies going overseas and hiring workers, and making profits on those workers, don't have to pay tax on those profits.
That's a losing proposition for American workers. I know some web designers who would have accepted $20k/yr to do work, if they could work from home. THey had broadband, there was no functional difference between them and the Indian worker. The problem is, corporations can hide profits made my Indian workers and skirt paying taxes, and all the other hassles American workers have with them, such as employment benefits, the paperwork associated with W2s. You can write a single check to an outsourcing firm overseas. Anyhow, read the Yahoo article.
Bush doesn't care, he'll give US corporations anything they want, any tax loophole they can find he will support. The middle class is destroyed, and so you will need business skills and the ability to create an LLC and be an indepedant IT consultant to make it, because nobody will hire you.
Because if you start sleeping with your secretary, and it turns out she's your cousin, you are remitted to go live in Alabama.
Following up to myself... what a day... "Denial-of-normal" -- A term invented on April Fool's Day 2004 by Slashdot member 'LostCluster'. A phenomenon where major news outlets on the web simply don't know when enough is enough and post bogus story after bogus story, in some lame attempt to be funny. Ingrating and ultimately tiresome, denial-of-normal causes many readers to stereotype the Internet as "a bunch of hoo-hah".
For other examples of not knowing when to stop, and when a gag just isn't funny anymore, see all the films of Christopher Guest after 'This is Spinal Tap', up to and including 'A Mighty Wind'.
Hey Cluster, you invented a new term that requires canonization. "Denial-of-normal".
Submit it to wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang
It is. Motley Fool, a website I visit quite a bit, felt it necessary to write not one, not two, not three...but FIFTEEN fake stories on the site today. It was ridiculous. Most of them, nay, all of them, were lame.