"Microsoft reacted with a comment pointing out that 'any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google's hands.'"
...and that, my friends, is the pot calling the kettle black.... hey Microsoft - remember windows desktop monopoly? or does browser wars ring a bell????
let's not forget about Hitachi's 100% guaranteed reliability contract. In their top of their line storage units (9900's - also named Tagma) they will sign a contract with their customer that guarantees 100% uptime or they will pay the customer for any repercussions involving any downtime.
It's no joke - I've watched customers sign it myself. Not even EMC can do that...
OK, surely we can do many things to clean up this world and stop pollution. I'm all for that, but what I don't get is why all of a sudden some scientists say the earth is warming in the last 100 or 1000 years and it's because of us!?
Now hear me out...
Man has lived on the earth for how many years? Thousands? And of those thousands, how long have we been keeping accurate measures of temperatures? Hundreds? And how many years has the earth been in existance? Billions? So really, we know NOTHING of the cyclical patterns the weather has on this planet.
Let me see - here's an excerpt right from Wikipedia on "Ice Age". Anyone can go over there and read it, however, I've taken the pleasure to cut and paste it for you:
"During the most recent North American glaciation, the Wisconsin glaciation (70,000 to 10,000 years ago), ice sheets extended to about 45 degrees north latitude.
This Wisconsinian glaciation left widespread impacts on the North American landscape. The Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes were carved by ice deepening old valleys. Most of the lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin were gouged out by glaciers and later filled with glacial meltwaters. The old Teays River drainage system was radically altered and largely reshaped into the Ohio River drainage system. Other rivers were dammed and diverted to new channels, such as the Niagara, which formed a dramatic waterfall and gorge, when the waterflow encountered a limestone escarpment. Another similar waterfall near Syracuse, New York is now dry.
Long Island was formed from glacial till, and the watersheds of Canada were so severely disrupted that they are still sorting themselves out -- the plethora of lakes on the Canadian Shield in northern Canada can be almost entirely attributed to the action of the ice. As the ice retreated and the rock dust dried, winds carried the material hundreds of miles, forming beds of loess many dozens of feet thick in the Missouri Valley. Isostatic rebound continues to reshape the Great Lakes and other areas formerly under the weight of the ice sheets."
... what's this? Long Island was formed from glacial till?? NO! Can't BE! But the earth is warming!! How could glaciers be as low as New York??!?! Could it be that the earth has been warming up for thousands of years??? Were there cars and combustion engines thousands of years ago?? Did the Bush Administration cause this thousands of years ago? Hmmmm....
Yea yea yea - save your flame mail.... so your next comment is what; that we're only speeding things up with the way we're polluting the earth? Again - how many years has the human race lived on this planet? And we are comparing the current rise in temperature with what previous ice-age global warming experience?
How about we stop this madness. We all know scientists get paid on grant money. That's what funds their existance. I've seen scientists use the same results from experiments to prove for AND against the same argument; all based on how they laid out the results. They can manipulate things to make them look any which way they want. It's all about the greed of money people...
All these studies are full of crap. People can make a study look however they want nowadays. For Pete's sake, we just saw how Exxon/Mobil got caught for paying millions of dollars to falsify or skew results on how global warming WASN'T happening... There's nothing you can do to say that outsourcing isn't eating US jobs. For all you out there who say that if another country can qualify for the work, then there should be no reason why this shouldn't happen. What you don't realize is that there are still so many companies in the US that are corrupt and are continually posting jobs but not accepting any "qualified" candidates. This is because they want to "prove" there aren't any and outsource to another country. What many of these US companies don't realize is that it's NOT cheaper to outsource all the time. Many of these companies who started doing this back in the dot-bomb years are starting to realize it now. This isn't a smack on other countries or their skill-sets - this is a problem within the US!! Every other country would be saying the same thing if it happened to them!
I have seen countless court cases and articles galore on how extremely qualified IT professionals who applied to jobs that were posted online, or even in newspaper ads, were denied a job only because the company felt they were "unqualified" when in fact they were more than qualified. This only happened because certain companies want to push the claim that there are no longer any qualified IT professionals around in the US.
say what you will - I can find just as many articles arguing the complete opposite.
I have to agree with this comment. Look at all the apps that make it easy to use windows. Even the ones bundled within windows that people have just become so accustomed to! I mean, why download realplayer anymore when you can do the majority of what it does in MediaPlayer? (Aside from ram files)
Things are becoming easier for companies to develop on windows because of the tight integration between MS applications. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, however I think many software companies keep getting taken out because of what current microsoft apps can do with their own os and other MS applications.
Look also at another huge problem going on. Why has Novell slowly decreased it's market share? Is it because it is a bad OS? No way! Great OS - Great products - great support! But when you introduce single sign on, it becomes a pain! Yes, it's possible - we all know it is, and we know there's other issues, but come on. If you can log into something without having to load additional drivers and software or updates all the time, what's going to become easier to administer an environment - whether 50 end users or 5,000 end users?
Can someone please explain to me why it's taking so long for MS and Sun to get a single sign on product that works REALLY well? Don't start rambling and flaming me with what's out there now. Unless you work at a University or a non-profit there's no way you're going to sell that to your boss who's a corporate exec and wants things so easy they can replace you when something goes wrong. It's taking forever partly because once MS opens the doors to allowing the ability to work nicely (and I mean REALLY nicely) with other os's then their server market is going to slowly crumble. (I didn't say their desktop market though)
How many people run Exchange out there? Do you think the latest Exchange works well without a MS AD server? I even hear about how Sun has software where you can run exchange clients and connect to their mail server which sits on a Sun box - allowing the user to not notice a difference. Great idea, but I'm in the reseller business and do you know how hard it is to try to walk into a company and tell them they no longer need to administer their exchange servers, but rather go out and get new training on a unix os because it's going to get replaced? It's not going to happen!!
... and I'm glad that someone finally said it was desktops. MS is not a monopoly elsewhere as was stated earlier. However, they don't have to dominate everything they do to become a monopoly. What if this was years ago when the phone company was a monopoly? (Before they were split into baby bells) What if that phone company decided to manufacture audio devices, monitors and keyboards and they stunk at it? All of a sudden, they wouldn't become a monopoly anymore?
Point well made. I will not argue that there are genuinely nice and interested people working for MS, however I still see MS as the key provider for IE - how else are they getting their funds?
I just feel that MS wil have some say in the final result. I've seen many companies make end results b/c of the higher ups who want certain things to happen... but anyway...
Oh, so sorry for the technicality, "borrowing an idea that Mozilla has already used"... same end result, you're not focusing on the point of the argument.
so calling someone a moron for offering an opinion gets mod points? Yea, that's showing integrity and objective opinions...
I just knew someone was going to post this and sure enough... here it is. I couldn't agree more, however, at the same time I also agree with the fact that MS is indeed just trying to steal things from Mozilla, so users can switch back to IE more comfortably. I think many tend to forget we're dealing with a company that spends more on marketing dollars alone than most companies have in the bank... come on there's always an agenda at MS...
"... They all agreed that it's in the user's best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS"
... oh puh-lease... since when is MS so interested in the user's best interest? Did someone fall asleep here???
"The increasing collaborative efforts between the browser vendors in the last few weeks is an honest attempt to create a standard Web interface for everyone, no matter what browser is used"
again, see first comment... I don't see any honest effort in my opinion from MS. I just see them trying to do whatever it takes to woo people back to their own browser...
... hey, I could be wrong, it's just my opinion - but you know what - over the many years with MS, I've seen just about all the dirty tactics a company can do. They always say they're working for the consumer, but you know, it hardly ever turns out that way in the long run...
I have enjoyed reading slashdot for years, but one thing that boils my blood is when people "try" to be the big shot talker on these threads by slapping religion around as if it's some kind of "bad" thing.
First and foremost, there was never a mention ANYWHERE in the article of a religious group - yet you automatically assumed that was the case - or if not, went ahead and slammed many different religious and cultural groups.
I, as another person has posted, also believe that parents should be interacting and supervising their children - and not leaving everything up to the government. Am I for what this person is fighting for? I think it would certainly help many companies that have this problem, but I don't think it's the only answer. The only real problem with what this person is doing is your own. You don't want it because it ANNOYS you. How? Because it stops YOU from downloading it at work. If you feel porn is so great, well, I still don't see a problem with this solution since you can download it at your home at your leisure - no ports should be stopping you there. In case you haven't noticed, you've probably signed some sort of legal document when you started working at your employment that states you are not allowed to do certain things. Downloading and distributing porn at work is most likely one of them that is implied. If you don't have that law at work, then your company's admins should have _no_ problem opening the port up - since there's nothing stopping you from your "freedom."
In any event, this person is only trying to make it easier for people to _filter_ porn, not eliminate it.
As for me, even if you put religion aside (or as you call it, superstition), there's a term called morals. You'd be surprised what a better place it would be if people exercised it every once in a while.
Oh, and just for the record, your comment on:
Truly, is it fair to allow the superstitious to present stories with no evidence to impressionable kids, victims, really, undermining any tendencies towards logical and scientific thinking they might have?
Just because YOU haven't experienced something due to your hard-heartedness doesn't mean other people haven't. You are doing exactly the same thing you wrote by forcing _your_ beliefs on others.
... and just for the record - the right religion won't debunk logical or scientific thinking. If you think we've mastered every scientific principle and theory in the universe, you are grossly incorrect.
I've read an article somewhere that companies are falsifying IT jobs to make it seem as though there is a huge need for IT, when in fact there isn't. They're only looking for low-payed employees that they can work ridiculous hours. I remember in that article they actually called the companies with the job postings and some ridiculously high percentage of the jobs were either already filled or closed. I have to dig up that article and re-post here. Keep an eye out for something soon....
Whoa - let's do as you say and get the numbers straight - shall we? You just said that of all the H1-B's, only 60% are IT related (btw - 60% of HB's doesn't deserve an "only" statement, that's huge). However, you compared it with the entire population of the US - as if the entire US is in IT? Why not compare the 270,000 H1-Bs number with actual IT jobs trying to be placed here in the US? It's NOwhere near 300 million, I can assure that.
While IBM has produced a large array, it still is not "the most powerful storage system to date" as quoted from your initial posting. Hitachi's new line of storage still outperforms and outsizes IBM's new array by a large magnitude. The new TagmaStore is capable of 332TB. Therefore, Hitachi has "the most powerful storage system to date"
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...and that, my friends, is the pot calling the kettle black.... hey Microsoft - remember windows desktop monopoly? or does browser wars ring a bell????
"Microsoft reacted with a comment pointing out that 'any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google's hands.'"
I believe Sun has a server that can do 1TB of memory.
let's not forget about Hitachi's 100% guaranteed reliability contract. In their top of their line storage units (9900's - also named Tagma) they will sign a contract with their customer that guarantees 100% uptime or they will pay the customer for any repercussions involving any downtime.
It's no joke - I've watched customers sign it myself. Not even EMC can do that...
OK, surely we can do many things to clean up this world and stop pollution. I'm all for that, but what I don't get is why all of a sudden some scientists say the earth is warming in the last 100 or 1000 years and it's because of us!?
Now hear me out...
Man has lived on the earth for how many years? Thousands? And of those thousands, how long have we been keeping accurate measures of temperatures? Hundreds? And how many years has the earth been in existance? Billions? So really, we know NOTHING of the cyclical patterns the weather has on this planet.
Let me see - here's an excerpt right from Wikipedia on "Ice Age". Anyone can go over there and read it, however, I've taken the pleasure to cut and paste it for you:
"During the most recent North American glaciation, the Wisconsin glaciation (70,000 to 10,000 years ago), ice sheets extended to about 45 degrees north latitude.
This Wisconsinian glaciation left widespread impacts on the North American landscape. The Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes were carved by ice deepening old valleys. Most of the lakes in Minnesota and Wisconsin were gouged out by glaciers and later filled with glacial meltwaters. The old Teays River drainage system was radically altered and largely reshaped into the Ohio River drainage system. Other rivers were dammed and diverted to new channels, such as the Niagara, which formed a dramatic waterfall and gorge, when the waterflow encountered a limestone escarpment. Another similar waterfall near Syracuse, New York is now dry.
Long Island was formed from glacial till, and the watersheds of Canada were so severely disrupted that they are still sorting themselves out -- the plethora of lakes on the Canadian Shield in northern Canada can be almost entirely attributed to the action of the ice. As the ice retreated and the rock dust dried, winds carried the material hundreds of miles, forming beds of loess many dozens of feet thick in the Missouri Valley. Isostatic rebound continues to reshape the Great Lakes and other areas formerly under the weight of the ice sheets."
Yea yea yea - save your flame mail.... so your next comment is what; that we're only speeding things up with the way we're polluting the earth? Again - how many years has the human race lived on this planet? And we are comparing the current rise in temperature with what previous ice-age global warming experience?
How about we stop this madness. We all know scientists get paid on grant money. That's what funds their existance. I've seen scientists use the same results from experiments to prove for AND against the same argument; all based on how they laid out the results. They can manipulate things to make them look any which way they want. It's all about the greed of money people...
All these studies are full of crap. People can make a study look however they want nowadays. For Pete's sake, we just saw how Exxon/Mobil got caught for paying millions of dollars to falsify or skew results on how global warming WASN'T happening... There's nothing you can do to say that outsourcing isn't eating US jobs. For all you out there who say that if another country can qualify for the work, then there should be no reason why this shouldn't happen. What you don't realize is that there are still so many companies in the US that are corrupt and are continually posting jobs but not accepting any "qualified" candidates. This is because they want to "prove" there aren't any and outsource to another country. What many of these US companies don't realize is that it's NOT cheaper to outsource all the time. Many of these companies who started doing this back in the dot-bomb years are starting to realize it now. This isn't a smack on other countries or their skill-sets - this is a problem within the US!! Every other country would be saying the same thing if it happened to them!
I have seen countless court cases and articles galore on how extremely qualified IT professionals who applied to jobs that were posted online, or even in newspaper ads, were denied a job only because the company felt they were "unqualified" when in fact they were more than qualified. This only happened because certain companies want to push the claim that there are no longer any qualified IT professionals around in the US.
say what you will - I can find just as many articles arguing the complete opposite.
I'd be interested in reviewing what last year's results were to see how close they came... anyone have those?
I have to agree with this comment. Look at all the apps that make it easy to use windows. Even the ones bundled within windows that people have just become so accustomed to! I mean, why download realplayer anymore when you can do the majority of what it does in MediaPlayer? (Aside from ram files)
... and I'm glad that someone finally said it was desktops. MS is not a monopoly elsewhere as was stated earlier. However, they don't have to dominate everything they do to become a monopoly. What if this was years ago when the phone company was a monopoly? (Before they were split into baby bells) What if that phone company decided to manufacture audio devices, monitors and keyboards and they stunk at it? All of a sudden, they wouldn't become a monopoly anymore?
Things are becoming easier for companies to develop on windows because of the tight integration between MS applications. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, however I think many software companies keep getting taken out because of what current microsoft apps can do with their own os and other MS applications.
Look also at another huge problem going on. Why has Novell slowly decreased it's market share? Is it because it is a bad OS? No way! Great OS - Great products - great support! But when you introduce single sign on, it becomes a pain! Yes, it's possible - we all know it is, and we know there's other issues, but come on. If you can log into something without having to load additional drivers and software or updates all the time, what's going to become easier to administer an environment - whether 50 end users or 5,000 end users?
Can someone please explain to me why it's taking so long for MS and Sun to get a single sign on product that works REALLY well? Don't start rambling and flaming me with what's out there now. Unless you work at a University or a non-profit there's no way you're going to sell that to your boss who's a corporate exec and wants things so easy they can replace you when something goes wrong. It's taking forever partly because once MS opens the doors to allowing the ability to work nicely (and I mean REALLY nicely) with other os's then their server market is going to slowly crumble. (I didn't say their desktop market though)
How many people run Exchange out there? Do you think the latest Exchange works well without a MS AD server? I even hear about how Sun has software where you can run exchange clients and connect to their mail server which sits on a Sun box - allowing the user to not notice a difference. Great idea, but I'm in the reseller business and do you know how hard it is to try to walk into a company and tell them they no longer need to administer their exchange servers, but rather go out and get new training on a unix os because it's going to get replaced? It's not going to happen!!
Point well made. I will not argue that there are genuinely nice and interested people working for MS, however I still see MS as the key provider for IE - how else are they getting their funds?
I just feel that MS wil have some say in the final result. I've seen many companies make end results b/c of the higher ups who want certain things to happen... but anyway...
They're not stealing anything you moron
Oh, so sorry for the technicality, "borrowing an idea that Mozilla has already used"... same end result, you're not focusing on the point of the argument.
so calling someone a moron for offering an opinion gets mod points? Yea, that's showing integrity and objective opinions...
I just knew someone was going to post this and sure enough... here it is. I couldn't agree more, however, at the same time I also agree with the fact that MS is indeed just trying to steal things from Mozilla, so users can switch back to IE more comfortably. I think many tend to forget we're dealing with a company that spends more on marketing dollars alone than most companies have in the bank... come on there's always an agenda at MS...
... oh puh-lease ... since when is MS so interested in the user's best interest? Did someone fall asleep here???
... hey, I could be wrong, it's just my opinion - but you know what - over the many years with MS, I've seen just about all the dirty tactics a company can do. They always say they're working for the consumer, but you know, it hardly ever turns out that way in the long run...
"... They all agreed that it's in the user's best interest to have one common icon to represent RSS"
"The increasing collaborative efforts between the browser vendors in the last few weeks is an honest attempt to create a standard Web interface for everyone, no matter what browser is used"
again, see first comment... I don't see any honest effort in my opinion from MS. I just see them trying to do whatever it takes to woo people back to their own browser...
Thank you ... thank you ... thank you... he is so two faced and phony it's sick.
I have enjoyed reading slashdot for years, but one thing that boils my blood is when people "try" to be the big shot talker on these threads by slapping religion around as if it's some kind of "bad" thing.
... and just for the record - the right religion won't debunk logical or scientific thinking. If you think we've mastered every scientific principle and theory in the universe, you are grossly incorrect.
First and foremost, there was never a mention ANYWHERE in the article of a religious group - yet you automatically assumed that was the case - or if not, went ahead and slammed many different religious and cultural groups.
I, as another person has posted, also believe that parents should be interacting and supervising their children - and not leaving everything up to the government. Am I for what this person is fighting for? I think it would certainly help many companies that have this problem, but I don't think it's the only answer. The only real problem with what this person is doing is your own. You don't want it because it ANNOYS you. How? Because it stops YOU from downloading it at work. If you feel porn is so great, well, I still don't see a problem with this solution since you can download it at your home at your leisure - no ports should be stopping you there. In case you haven't noticed, you've probably signed some sort of legal document when you started working at your employment that states you are not allowed to do certain things. Downloading and distributing porn at work is most likely one of them that is implied. If you don't have that law at work, then your company's admins should have _no_ problem opening the port up - since there's nothing stopping you from your "freedom."
In any event, this person is only trying to make it easier for people to _filter_ porn, not eliminate it.
As for me, even if you put religion aside (or as you call it, superstition), there's a term called morals. You'd be surprised what a better place it would be if people exercised it every once in a while.
Oh, and just for the record, your comment on:
Truly, is it fair to allow the superstitious to present stories with no evidence to impressionable kids, victims, really, undermining any tendencies towards logical and scientific thinking they might have?
Just because YOU haven't experienced something due to your hard-heartedness doesn't mean other people haven't. You are doing exactly the same thing you wrote by forcing _your_ beliefs on others.
I've read an article somewhere that companies are falsifying IT jobs to make it seem as though there is a huge need for IT, when in fact there isn't. They're only looking for low-payed employees that they can work ridiculous hours. I remember in that article they actually called the companies with the job postings and some ridiculously high percentage of the jobs were either already filled or closed. I have to dig up that article and re-post here. Keep an eye out for something soon....
Whoa - let's do as you say and get the numbers straight - shall we? You just said that of all the H1-B's, only 60% are IT related (btw - 60% of HB's doesn't deserve an "only" statement, that's huge). However, you compared it with the entire population of the US - as if the entire US is in IT? Why not compare the 270,000 H1-Bs number with actual IT jobs trying to be placed here in the US? It's NOwhere near 300 million, I can assure that.
While IBM has produced a large array, it still is not "the most powerful storage system to date" as quoted from your initial posting. Hitachi's new line of storage still outperforms and outsizes IBM's new array by a large magnitude. The new TagmaStore is capable of 332TB. Therefore, Hitachi has "the most powerful storage system to date"