IBM Tech Support - Hello! May I help you? Tommy the admin - My new IBM blade server won't boot up! IBM Tech support - Hmm..What OS it has? Tommy the admin - Solaris 10. IBM Tech support - I am afraid I can't help you. You will need to talk with Sun! Here is the number xxx-xxx-xxxx Tommy the admin - ok. Calls xxx-xxx-xxxx Gets back ~This number does not exist. Please check the number or call directory assistance.~ Goes to Sun Webpage. Searches for Tech Support. ~Gets 10000 hits.~ ~Clicks on one.~ ~Gets 404 Page not found error.~ ~Goes to Google. Searches for Sun Tech Support. Gets the number!~ ~Calls Sun Tech support.~ Sun Tech support - Hello! How can I help you today? Tommy the admin - My new IBM blade server with Sun Solaris won't boot up! Sun Tech Support - I am afraid I can't help you. Please talk with IBM. ~hangs up~ ~Tommy the admin takes zoloft~ ~Tommy the admin is happy~
On the Siebel home page they describe the advantages of the merger i.e. better customer satisfaction..blah..blah blah..
But check out this on Siebel website. It has several comments on how the PeopleSoft/Oracle merger is bad for customers.
Just as an example:
Peoplesoft/ORACLE merger is a loss for the CRM market. Someone better feed these web-developers to clean up the pages!
How about some anti-trust/ monopoly action?
How about patenting "A method to search internet for information"
1. type http://www.google.com/
2. fill in your search term in text box.
3. Click on 'Google Search'
SpaceflightNow reporting - An image from the external tank video shows the chunk of debris breaking away from the tank just after the solid boosters separated. See the image here
Given GOOG stock is at all time high, my question is how does Google plan to make money with these free products?
Google can not really commercialize this portal with the fear of getting sued by the news media.
Or does it think that by giving away these freebies, it would attract more users to their search engine which seems to be the primary source of all their profits.
I am trying to get it to work on Firefox. It just won't add any content although it renders the already added content correctly!
Ofcourse, it works great on IE.
Why is there a big hoopla about Planetary society raising meager $250,000?
You need money to carry out research.
NASA obviously doesn't care much about basic sciences, and is quite busy wasting tax dollars in 'spectacular' but dumb and useless shuttle launches.
Planetary society is atleast trying to make some sense. Why not help them?
Current IPod has a ~90 MHz ARM processor. Would that be enough for video processing? Ofcourse, since the video resolution is quite tiny, we should be view video's without much problems. But with the Intel-Apple nexus, I won't be surprised if we see a new Ipod model in market that boasts an Intel processor.
>However, some unusual problems did surface sometimes, he said, citing the example of a Solaris engineer who contacted Sun's IT help desk in India and subsequently sent Vass a note complaining the help desk member who assisted him didn't know intricate kernel settings for the operating system he needed help on.
well, if a solaris engineer doesn't know anything about the kernel, what can we say about the product..Sun needs a lot of good luck..oh wait..I forgot Microsoft!!
Why the heck you think removing the media component from Windows XP would alter the consumer behavior or it be a fair punishment for a monopoly! How about splitting Microsoft into smaller Microsofty's..may be based upon the services, one for operating system, one for office, one for its business offerings and so forth. Divide them and have them compete. You just can not break a monopoly with more than 90% of market-share in any other way!
Here is an eye-opening article about India/China and western countries.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,358800,00.html To quote Thomas Friedman "It is interesting because
French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where
Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day. Good luck.
Voters in "old Europe" - France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy -
seem to be saying to their leaders: stop the world, we want to get off;
while voters in India have been telling their leaders: stop the world
and build us a stepstool, we want to get on. I feel sorry for Western
European blue collar workers. A world of benefits they have known for 50
years is coming apart, and their governments don't seem to have a
strategy for coping. "
As the cost of the goods goes down ( thanks to outsourcing manufacturing to China), the cost of services needs to go down too. As more and more of programming jobs get outsourced, obviously the salaries will hit the rock-bottom.
It all starts with YOU shopping at Walmart.
In developing countries like India and China, upto 80% of the software is still pirated. Ofcourse, that could be termed as a downside, but look at the upside for companies like Microsoft. You now have almost a captive consumer ( 2 billion of them!) who knows nothing but working on microsoft windows, and its related software. This in a way is a good marketing strategy: give free samples enough to get people hooked on ( like dope!), and then charge.
For the people who seem to think that 300$ pc won't be enough:
Most of users of pc buy it for mainly the word-processing/ checking e-mails and at most download songs (and may be to see porn..). A decent pc with 1.5MHz celeron processor with 256 MB DDR RAM and 400MHz FSB should be enough for doing all these chores.
If you want to play games..get a XBOX or PS2.
If you want to tape your shows..use Tivo or a DVR.
Slashdot Mirror
Without further adieu, the site crashed! Here is the mirror.
WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition - Joins hand in confusing all the developers around the world. Cheers IBM!
IBM Tech Support - Hello! May I help you?
Tommy the admin - My new IBM blade server won't boot up!
IBM Tech support - Hmm..What OS it has?
Tommy the admin - Solaris 10.
IBM Tech support - I am afraid I can't help you. You will need to talk with Sun! Here is the number xxx-xxx-xxxx
Tommy the admin - ok.
Calls xxx-xxx-xxxx
Gets back ~This number does not exist. Please check the number or call directory assistance.~
Goes to Sun Webpage. Searches for Tech Support.
~Gets 10000 hits.~
~Clicks on one.~
~Gets 404 Page not found error.~
~Goes to Google. Searches for Sun Tech Support. Gets the number!~
~Calls Sun Tech support.~
Sun Tech support - Hello! How can I help you today?
Tommy the admin - My new IBM blade server with Sun Solaris won't boot up!
Sun Tech Support - I am afraid I can't help you. Please talk with IBM.
~hangs up~
~Tommy the admin takes zoloft~
~Tommy the admin is happy~
Should have called it 'Ditto'!
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There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
On the Siebel home page they describe the advantages of the merger i.e. better customer satisfaction..blah..blah blah..
But check out this on Siebel website. It has several comments on how the PeopleSoft/Oracle merger is bad for customers.
Just as an example: Peoplesoft/ORACLE merger is a loss for the CRM market.
Someone better feed these web-developers to clean up the pages!
How about some anti-trust/ monopoly action?
well..check this link http://www.google.co.in/jobs/sw-bangalore.html Is it not outsourcing??
Google is Google because of its nack to offer the best...wherever it operates.
/* comments can be terribly misleading. Debug only the code. */
How about patenting "A method to search internet for information"
1. type http://www.google.com/
2. fill in your search term in text box.
3. Click on 'Google Search'
It took 24 HOURS to find a crack in Microsoft code!
Shame on you!!
The very nature of Open source makes it an exploitable resource for companies like MSFT that make Proprietory software.
Its quite easy to steal ideas from Linux and incorporate into our own and not honor the open source license.
Tell me, who enforces open source license?
Open source people won't have the hords of lawyers to protect the intellectual property like the companies such as MSFT or Amazon do.
As reported Israel won over Intel after agreeing to pony up a $ 525 million grant, about 15 per cent of the $ 3.5 billion initial project cost.
In return ofcourse, Israel would get hi-tech jobs, supporting industries, and expertize.
I wish our politicians would look into future and invest wisely as Israel did.
SpaceflightNow reporting
- An image from the external tank video shows the chunk of debris breaking away from the tank just after the solid boosters separated.
See the image here
Given GOOG stock is at all time high, my question is how does Google plan to make money with these free products?
Google can not really commercialize this portal with the fear of getting sued by the news media.
Or does it think that by giving away these freebies, it would attract more users to their search engine which seems to be the primary source of all their profits.
Can anyone justify the price for google stock?
I am trying to get it to work on Firefox. It just won't add any content although it renders the already added content correctly! Ofcourse, it works great on IE.
Why is there a big hoopla about Planetary society raising meager $250,000?
You need money to carry out research.
NASA obviously doesn't care much about basic sciences, and is quite busy wasting tax dollars in 'spectacular' but dumb and useless shuttle launches.
Planetary society is atleast trying to make some sense. Why not help them?
mirrored here
Current IPod has a ~90 MHz ARM processor. Would that be enough for video processing?
Ofcourse, since the video resolution is quite tiny, we should be view video's without much problems.
But with the Intel-Apple nexus, I won't be surprised if we see a new Ipod model in market that boasts an Intel processor.
>However, some unusual problems did surface sometimes, he said, citing the example of a Solaris engineer who contacted Sun's IT help desk in India and subsequently sent Vass a note complaining the help desk member who assisted him didn't know intricate kernel settings for the operating system he needed help on.
well, if a solaris engineer doesn't know anything about the kernel, what can we say about the product..Sun needs a lot of good luck..oh wait..I forgot Microsoft!!
Why the heck you think removing the media component from Windows XP would alter the consumer behavior or it be a fair punishment for a monopoly!
How about splitting Microsoft into smaller Microsofty's..may be based upon the services, one for operating system, one for office, one for its business offerings and so forth. Divide them and have them compete.
You just can not break a monopoly with more than 90% of market-share in any other way!
Here is an eye-opening article about India/China and western countries. http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,358800,00.html
To quote Thomas Friedman "It is interesting because French voters are trying to preserve a 35-hour work week in a world where Indian engineers are ready to work a 35-hour day. Good luck. Voters in "old Europe" - France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy - seem to be saying to their leaders: stop the world, we want to get off; while voters in India have been telling their leaders: stop the world and build us a stepstool, we want to get on.
I feel sorry for Western European blue collar workers. A world of benefits they have known for 50 years is coming apart, and their governments don't seem to have a strategy for coping. "
As the cost of the goods goes down ( thanks to outsourcing manufacturing to China), the cost of services needs to go down too. As more and more of programming jobs get outsourced, obviously the salaries will hit the rock-bottom. It all starts with YOU shopping at Walmart.
In developing countries like India and China, upto 80% of the software is still pirated. Ofcourse, that could be termed as a downside, but look at the upside for companies like Microsoft.
You now have almost a captive consumer ( 2 billion of them!) who knows nothing but working on microsoft windows, and its related software.
This in a way is a good marketing strategy: give free samples enough to get people hooked on ( like dope!), and then charge.
For the people who seem to think that 300$ pc won't be enough:
Most of users of pc buy it for mainly the word-processing/ checking e-mails and at most download songs (and may be to see porn..). A decent pc with 1.5MHz celeron processor with 256 MB DDR RAM and 400MHz FSB should be enough for doing all these chores.
If you want to play games..get a XBOX or PS2.
If you want to tape your shows..use Tivo or a DVR.
Always!