you are probably right, but it's not our job to report this stuff. they should monitor their theaters. if i reach the point where i am upset enough to walk out of the theater, take 5 minutes finding the manager, and make a complaint, the evening is ruined for me. i am not a type A personality. i don't enjoy confrontation during my "recreational" activities, and i especially don't like paying for the privilige. get one of their minimum wage workers to rotate through the theaters and spend 5-10 minutes in each of them looking for problems. duh.
where i live, the average theater has people talking, an occasional cell phone ringing, people actually talking on cell phones sometimes, and if you're lucky, some group of thugs making high decibel jokes throughout the movie. i can't say i'll never go to another theater, but i haven't been for 6 months, and i have no plans or desire to do so.
the things you mentioned are not even peers. JDS is a product, where things like ". in.com" are marketing blurbs. to clear things up for you, the ". in.com" blurb meant that some high percentage of all network traffic (i forget the details) went through sun hardware. so? are you confused? does that somehow contradict sun's current direction?
as for $100 / developer vs. $1 / CPU, the former is a workstation billing model, the latter server based. they do need both since they offer solutions on both ends of the spectrum (e.g., JDS linux vs. sunray). so, are you confused by a company offering both workstation and server solutions?
yes, sun took the wrong approach to open source early on, but they did a 180, some time ago. are you still crying about it? are going to forever damn a company because they made a mistake (and corrected it)?
as for "our goal..."... google has no where near the breadth of products, and longevity that sun does. i would expect you to be able to reference fewer marketing blurbs from google. and btw, what's google mission again? to duplicate all of the services that yahoo already provides? maps? IM? web mail? a portal? truly revolutionary.
i was with speakeasy for 4+ years. in response to C&D orders, they give warnings, and will ultimately terminate your service. i got around 4 C&D orders. my service was never terminated, but they did threaten to do so.
to be fair, they were pretty nice about it... probably not any more or less than any other US based ISP. speakeasy is an excellent ISP overall.
first i am a white guy in te US... but i work with many indians with relatives working in india (bangalore). while you made some good points, and i agree with most of them, you're off on one issue... what they say is that while the pay rate is lower, the cost of living is MUCH lower. an indian engineer with my job title can live much better in bangalore than i can in california. and i know that my company pays below average indian wages.
to be fair, i understand that this is changing. indian software developers are pricing themselves out of the market. as their wages rise, the cost of developing offshore gets software firms closer and closer to the point where they are not gaining anything. of course, that doesn't mean the jobs are coming back to the US, it means they are going somewhere other than india. india developers are going to find themselves in the same boat as US developers.
speaking from a developer's perspective, i agree that there are good indian developers and poor ones... pretty much the same as the local working conditions. however, it's a little more difficult to manage a poor developer when they are remote.
Who knows, might be a more attractive spot to immigrate to than south asia too, for those willing to follow the work
if you think migrating w/ the work is an option, think again... unless you're transferred to "ramp up" an offshored project. you don't find a mix of cultures / ethnicities working in offshore locations. i don't have a good idea why that is...
i know when my company offshored parts of our project, it did not give the local layoff victims the option. they could apply for the new positions like everyone else, but there was no relocation.
i assume you are not CEO anywhere, and that's good. successful long term companies don't make it by betting it all on one strategy. they dabble in a bunch of areas and see what pans out.
moreover, server vs. client based computing isn't black and white. one works better in some situations, one in others.
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i appreciate that this topic has gotten a lot of works to relay their interesting and sometimes funny computer tragedies, but does any else think this post is not a lot more than an attempt to get folks to look at the banner ads on the initial "top 10" link? really, a guy got mad at his laptop and put it in the toilet and flushed? is that funny? more like the guy making up the list was running out of ideas towards the end of the list.
i could not agree more. i really don't see consumers asking for higher resolution video for their at home movies. dvd is good enough for almost everyone except the most extreme videophiles. so they will either ship higher res movies, of which no one will care about, or add more "bonus" material to the discs, or maybe we'll see movie collections on one disc instead of two or three.
spell checkers won't catch their/they're/there or its/it's. that'd be a grammar checker. you'd be surprised how many well paid guys don't know the difference between a grammar and spell checker.
Of course, by filing the patent, they want it to seem that Microsoft is the originator if this technique
you know nothing of why companies file and acquire patents. they are simply playing the game. patents are used as weapons, often defensive, against other companies. if company A comes to company B and says "i am going to sue for you for violation of patents 1, 2, and 3", company B needs to be able to say "oh yeah, well put down your guns, or i'll sue you for violation of patents 3, 4, and 5."
all software companies do this. they have to. if they don't they get walked on. software companies aren't interested in using the patents to stop OSS projects. take off your tinfoil hat. they aren't interested in them for bragging rights, as the parent of this seems to suggest.
Google has provided us with all sorts of wonderful facilities
just to be clear, google is not some philanthropic organization. they make LOTS of money because you and i and everyone else uses those wonderful facilities. those facilities are not there for the public good or anything else remotely like that.
"HP can't just open up HP-UX without a huge amount of work; there is code in there which is licensed under arrangements incompatible with the GPL"
sun managed to do it for solaris. i don't see any reason why hpux would be any different. yes, it's a lot of work, but if the company is committed to open source, it's possible.
that's not how it works. because the law requires a little thing called evidence. ever heard of it? there must be evidence that you were being physically threatend. that means that they need to find a gun in the other guy's hand. think about it. you don't get to gun down anyone that steps foot on your property, and get off by simply saying "he was threatening me." that would be ridiculous. i wonder if you have tried applying common sense here?
okay, you maybe you happen to own a serial-less gun just for this purpose, and you're going to slip it into the dead guy's hand. well, that might work. there's always people like you ready to go to any means necessary to break the law. maybe it will be successful, maybe not, and increasingly less so in the age of advanced CSI techniques.
and also, maybe you're willing to drag people you've murdered 3 feet on to your property to justify killing them. if so, you're a neat person. i wish you were my neighbor.
no, actually, you don't have a clue, and also, you can't follow a simple thread. the original post said nothing about "threatening", it said "shoot someone in the face for trespassing on their property".
in case you didn't know, trespassing != threatening. and also, for most US courts, "threatening" means that your life is in danger. that means the trespasser must be wielding a deadly weapon. whatever your uncle billy-bob told you about shooting people who steal his corn, it's BS.
you don't live here, and don't have a clue. the only time an american has the "freedom" to shoot someone in the face is if that someone is pointing a gun at them.
yes, and indeed, europe these days seems to be a lot about having other countries metaphorically shoot them in the face, while they do nothing. stand proud my friend.
i don't really even know how to bring you about to reality... but i will try. MSFT is a for-profit company. they do not make $ by catering to some infinitesimally small percentage of computer users that don't mind complexity, and that have the time on their hands to care about "free" software. they don't care. they are selling to the masses.
the problem is that he gave a public presentation exposing the flaws. how would you like it if someone got on a soapbox and microphone and started telling everyone that the lock on your backdoor is broken and how you will be out of town for the week?
he could have just as easily went to cisco directly. probably even got a good chunk of change by consulting for them.
yes, and all hail china, where any electronic media will be stolen and duplicated millions of times and then sold on the street corner for the equivalent of US $0.50. oh and russia, where you will be murdered if your well-to-do web-based business doesn't pay the off the local maffia.
the US has it's problems, but please don't act like it's sunshine and lollipops everywhere else.
No, not a lot of new ideas here. No, not patent worthy in my estimation.
even if you are a lawyer, even if you are a patent lawyer, even if you've actually read the patent, i doubt you can match the army of patent lawyers employed by amazon. amazon is not dumb. they would not waste their time trying to patent something that was so obviously not patentable that joe average/. user (you) could see the holes.
sure, but how do they prove "knowingly?" i don't know the details, but i can assure you, simply stating "i didn't know" isn't going to be enough to save your ass.
if your flea-market dealing is selling new PCs for $99, and a copy of windows XP costs $199, and he doesn't give you the original CD... you will be found guilty.
by the same token, if i buy stereo equipment for $200 that is openly advertised for $1000 retail, too bad, you will be found guilty.
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you are probably right, but it's not our job to report this stuff. they should monitor their theaters. if i reach the point where i am upset enough to walk out of the theater, take 5 minutes finding the manager, and make a complaint, the evening is ruined for me. i am not a type A personality. i don't enjoy confrontation during my "recreational" activities, and i especially don't like paying for the privilige. get one of their minimum wage workers to rotate through the theaters and spend 5-10 minutes in each of them looking for problems. duh.
where i live, the average theater has people talking, an occasional cell phone ringing, people actually talking on cell phones sometimes, and if you're lucky, some group of thugs making high decibel jokes throughout the movie. i can't say i'll never go to another theater, but i haven't been for 6 months, and i have no plans or desire to do so.
as for $100 / developer vs. $1 / CPU, the former is a workstation billing model, the latter server based. they do need both since they offer solutions on both ends of the spectrum (e.g., JDS linux vs. sunray). so, are you confused by a company offering both workstation and server solutions?
yes, sun took the wrong approach to open source early on, but they did a 180, some time ago. are you still crying about it? are going to forever damn a company because they made a mistake (and corrected it)?
as for "our goal ..." ... google has no where near the breadth of products, and longevity that sun does. i would expect you to be able to reference fewer marketing blurbs from google. and btw, what's google mission again? to duplicate all of the services that yahoo already provides? maps? IM? web mail? a portal? truly revolutionary.
to be fair, they were pretty nice about it ... probably not any more or less than any other US based ISP. speakeasy is an excellent ISP overall.
to be fair, i understand that this is changing. indian software developers are pricing themselves out of the market. as their wages rise, the cost of developing offshore gets software firms closer and closer to the point where they are not gaining anything. of course, that doesn't mean the jobs are coming back to the US, it means they are going somewhere other than india. india developers are going to find themselves in the same boat as US developers.
speaking from a developer's perspective, i agree that there are good indian developers and poor ones ... pretty much the same as the local working conditions. however, it's a little more difficult to manage a poor developer when they are remote.
if you think migrating w/ the work is an option, think again ... unless you're transferred to "ramp up" an offshored project. you don't find a mix of cultures / ethnicities working in offshore locations. i don't have a good idea why that is ...
i know when my company offshored parts of our project, it did not give the local layoff victims the option. they could apply for the new positions like everyone else, but there was no relocation.
moreover, server vs. client based computing isn't black and white. one works better in some situations, one in others.
i appreciate that this topic has gotten a lot of works to relay their interesting and sometimes funny computer tragedies, but does any else think this post is not a lot more than an attempt to get folks to look at the banner ads on the initial "top 10" link? really, a guy got mad at his laptop and put it in the toilet and flushed? is that funny? more like the guy making up the list was running out of ideas towards the end of the list.
i could not agree more. i really don't see consumers asking for higher resolution video for their at home movies. dvd is good enough for almost everyone except the most extreme videophiles. so they will either ship higher res movies, of which no one will care about, or add more "bonus" material to the discs, or maybe we'll see movie collections on one disc instead of two or three.
spell checkers won't catch their/they're/there or its/it's. that'd be a grammar checker. you'd be surprised how many well paid guys don't know the difference between a grammar and spell checker.
you know nothing of why companies file and acquire patents. they are simply playing the game. patents are used as weapons, often defensive, against other companies. if company A comes to company B and says "i am going to sue for you for violation of patents 1, 2, and 3", company B needs to be able to say "oh yeah, well put down your guns, or i'll sue you for violation of patents 3, 4, and 5."
all software companies do this. they have to. if they don't they get walked on. software companies aren't interested in using the patents to stop OSS projects. take off your tinfoil hat. they aren't interested in them for bragging rights, as the parent of this seems to suggest.
just to be clear, google is not some philanthropic organization. they make LOTS of money because you and i and everyone else uses those wonderful facilities. those facilities are not there for the public good or anything else remotely like that.
sun managed to do it for solaris. i don't see any reason why hpux would be any different. yes, it's a lot of work, but if the company is committed to open source, it's possible.
okay, you maybe you happen to own a serial-less gun just for this purpose, and you're going to slip it into the dead guy's hand. well, that might work. there's always people like you ready to go to any means necessary to break the law. maybe it will be successful, maybe not, and increasingly less so in the age of advanced CSI techniques.
and also, maybe you're willing to drag people you've murdered 3 feet on to your property to justify killing them. if so, you're a neat person. i wish you were my neighbor.
in case you didn't know, trespassing != threatening. and also, for most US courts, "threatening" means that your life is in danger. that means the trespasser must be wielding a deadly weapon. whatever your uncle billy-bob told you about shooting people who steal his corn, it's BS.
yes, and indeed, europe these days seems to be a lot about having other countries metaphorically shoot them in the face, while they do nothing. stand proud my friend.
what should we use as our guideline? our own arbitrary opinions?
agreed on that. i was talking mainly for the average personal computer user.
i don't really even know how to bring you about to reality ... but i will try. MSFT is a for-profit company. they do not make $ by catering to some infinitesimally small percentage of computer users that don't mind complexity, and that have the time on their hands to care about "free" software. they don't care. they are selling to the masses.
you don't go public until you accumulate sufficient evidence.
enough said.
he could have just as easily went to cisco directly. probably even got a good chunk of change by consulting for them.
the US has it's problems, but please don't act like it's sunshine and lollipops everywhere else.
even if you are a lawyer, even if you are a patent lawyer, even if you've actually read the patent, i doubt you can match the army of patent lawyers employed by amazon. amazon is not dumb. they would not waste their time trying to patent something that was so obviously not patentable that joe average /. user (you) could see the holes.
correction, it will run on commodity hardware. except apple will pocket the savings and continue to charge the same high-end prices for their systems.
if your flea-market dealing is selling new PCs for $99, and a copy of windows XP costs $199, and he doesn't give you the original CD ... you will be found guilty.
by the same token, if i buy stereo equipment for $200 that is openly advertised for $1000 retail, too bad, you will be found guilty.