When I got my Pre, I had to initial that I understood there was a $700 charge limit on my account, after which service would be discontinued. It was a first for me. I've only had about $120 in unplanned access charges over my 12 years of Verizon membership, but my roommate had a bit of a heart attack when his daughter run up an $800 text messaging bill.
VMware's only differentiators in the market now are X86 emulation on non-VT platforms, the ancillary products like Lab Manager/Lifecycle manager/etc. and mature tools. That's not an advantage that is going to last very long.
This is going to drive Oracles VI customers right into Citrix's hands, who also have a VERY compelling Xen based product, and I think the original Xen guys themselves.
Right, like I want to call ahead and give someone a heads up that I'm coming in with $40,000 CASH. It's almost as bad as putting stickers on my gun cases proclaiming (Steal me, sell me cheap in a high-crime neighborhood). WTF?
I would be surprised if even your quarter-million employee company has the payroll complexity, in particular, of a university system. Just getting the requirements together enough for ADP can be a long, expensive affair. </quote>
I don't buy it. With profit sharing models, commissions, tiered commission models, bonuses, etc, I don't think the real world is vastly less complex than that of a university system.
No. Microsoft "buys" marketshare by buying startups with mediocre technology, putting some fresh face on it, and selling it at a loss, subsidized by their huge Office/OS cash-cow.
I love the giant gray bar at the top that obscures two lines of text, so using page-down is broken. Thanks a lot, slashdot.
Apparently the Slashdot 2.0 beta project wasn't getting enough people (because really, it sucks). So now we're forced to use it. And I'm in low-bandwidth mode, too. Go figure.
And this new Ajax "Reply -> Edit -> Preview ->Submit" thing is half the speed of the old way of doing things.
Obama needs to crank up the trust-busting engine and undo the damage the Bush administration has allowed to happen with the mega-mergers. It wasn't just Bush (some happened under Clinton) but the amnesty granted to Microsoft after the anti-trust debacle was the start (IMHO), the Verizon/BellAtlantic/BellSouth megamergers... they need to be undone.
And I've been a die-hard Verizon Wireless customer for 12 years (trialling the Sprint/Pre service, which sucks in my area).
WTF, we have an internet standard, a DSL standard, a DOCSIS standard. It's about time this nation decides on one network technology for Cellphones. since the rest of the world chose GSM and is loving it, I think we should heed their leadship, for once.
I've used two Treos (700 and 650) and a blackberry for tethering on Verizon. Instead of paying for the 25$ plan, I had to pay for the $45 plan. No big deal.
I have a Pre, trying it out, and let me tell you, Sprint service is worse than Verizon's in my neighborhoods. I like my Pre, but mine is going back - I'm going to wait until it's available on Verizon. I wonder, has anyone tried to get a Pre working on Verizon's network yet?
The Bush Administration and their pro-merger stance of the past 10 years has destroyed any innovation in the US telecommunications market. The TrustBusters need to come back out of cold-storage.
Verizon should never have been allowed to become the behemoth that they are. They're almost (if not) bigger than AT&T for crying out loud.
This whole cloud computing "fad" is really underwhelming. I'm dying for the day that I can take my compute resources from my desktop at work, move them to my phone, load them at my computer at home, and move them into some amorphous network computer when I need more mobility and power than my phone and laptop can provide.
Cloud computing promises to do none of this. What it is is datacenter provisioning akin to the mainframe days of old, except you get to "mostly" choose the platform you want to run on, Windows or Linux.
Cloud computing is nothing more than VMware on steroids. And THAT is disappointing, and underwhelming.
Plexiglass: no. It can be pointed for stabbing, but plexiglass makes a SHITTY cutting tool.
ballpoint pen gun? Ha, okay. More likely to blow up in your hand, and useless past about 10 feet, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Cotton: They let us all on the planes with our shoelaces. I could kill a lot of people with shoelaces, let me tell you.
I say, all flights need to be like the starship in Fifth Element. You get on board in your capsule, they reduce the oxygen content until you pass out, and don't wake you back up until you land. Problem solved, don't have to serve food or drink or even have stewardesses, and you only have to deal with the 1 in a million persons who dies from oxygen deprivation. Probably about the same number who die from heart-attacks mid-flight.
Problem goes away, and it's much easier to find canisters of O2 than a billion other crazy little items.
Sorry, if the xray scanners can tell that I have a plastic bottle of sunscreen in my backpack, there's NO way they're going to miss your ceramic or obsidian knife, unless it was so perfectly packed as to blend into the outer lines of your pack's profile. And even then, pray they don't have multi-axis scanners.
Yes, I had my coppertone sunscreen taken out of my pack, and the guy zeroed right in on it, knew exactly what pocket it was in. xray technology at airports is fucking amazing now.
If all said terrorist has is a 3-4" knife, and I've got someone watching my back for his buddies, I'll be happy to step into the breach. The real risk in such a knife fight isn't from the guy you know about, it's from the one you don't.
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When I got my Pre, I had to initial that I understood there was a $700 charge limit on my account, after which service would be discontinued. It was a first for me. I've only had about $120 in unplanned access charges over my 12 years of Verizon membership, but my roommate had a bit of a heart attack when his daughter run up an $800 text messaging bill.
VMware's only differentiators in the market now are X86 emulation on non-VT platforms, the ancillary products like Lab Manager/Lifecycle manager/etc. and mature tools. That's not an advantage that is going to last very long.
This is going to drive Oracles VI customers right into Citrix's hands, who also have a VERY compelling Xen based product, and I think the original Xen guys themselves.
Citrix should be ALL over this.
He said people, not meatsack. By definition, a person is a living breathing organism with at least one thing left to lose, their life.
Right, like I want to call ahead and give someone a heads up that I'm coming in with $40,000 CASH. It's almost as bad as putting stickers on my gun cases proclaiming (Steal me, sell me cheap in a high-crime neighborhood). WTF?
I would be surprised if even your quarter-million employee company has the payroll complexity, in particular, of a university system.
Just getting the requirements together enough for ADP can be a long, expensive affair.
</quote>
I don't buy it. With profit sharing models, commissions, tiered commission models, bonuses, etc, I don't think the real world is vastly less complex than that of a university system.
Solved problem. http://www.adp.com.
Payroll isn't something companies should be specializing in managing. ADP/Paychex are kings in this arena for a reason.
Go ahead and send that .doc to a publishing house or printer. You'll get it rejected faster than you can blink.
Microsoft has tried and failed at DTP - Word is great for interoffice memos and kitchen recipes. At nearly everything else, it fails.
No. Microsoft "buys" marketshare by buying startups with mediocre technology, putting some fresh face on it, and selling it at a loss, subsidized by their huge Office/OS cash-cow.
No one else can compete with that recipe.
I don't know, XHTML managed to fix most of the broken crap. But who defines invalid codes? Implementations.
I love the giant gray bar at the top that obscures two lines of text, so using page-down is broken. Thanks a lot, slashdot.
Apparently the Slashdot 2.0 beta project wasn't getting enough people (because really, it sucks). So now we're forced to use it. And I'm in low-bandwidth mode, too. Go figure.
And this new Ajax "Reply -> Edit -> Preview ->Submit" thing is half the speed of the old way of doing things.
W.T.F.
Obama needs to crank up the trust-busting engine and undo the damage the Bush administration has allowed to happen with the mega-mergers. It wasn't just Bush (some happened under Clinton) but the amnesty granted to Microsoft after the anti-trust debacle was the start (IMHO), the Verizon/BellAtlantic/BellSouth megamergers... they need to be undone.
And I've been a die-hard Verizon Wireless customer for 12 years (trialling the Sprint/Pre service, which sucks in my area).
WTF, we have an internet standard, a DSL standard, a DOCSIS standard. It's about time this nation decides on one network technology for Cellphones. since the rest of the world chose GSM and is loving it, I think we should heed their leadship, for once.
Let's time travel a bit, back to 2001 and the state of the Microsoft Union then.
Dos 6.22
Windows 3.11
Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 98 SE
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Hmm. Wonder what's worse? At least WindowsXP, Vista and Windows 7 are at least CLOSE to similar.
I've used two Treos (700 and 650) and a blackberry for tethering on Verizon. Instead of paying for the 25$ plan, I had to pay for the $45 plan. No big deal.
I have a Pre, trying it out, and let me tell you, Sprint service is worse than Verizon's in my neighborhoods. I like my Pre, but mine is going back - I'm going to wait until it's available on Verizon. I wonder, has anyone tried to get a Pre working on Verizon's network yet?
The Bush Administration and their pro-merger stance of the past 10 years has destroyed any innovation in the US telecommunications market. The TrustBusters need to come back out of cold-storage.
Verizon should never have been allowed to become the behemoth that they are. They're almost (if not) bigger than AT&T for crying out loud.
At least its not Manchogaggog'chogagog'chagunnamungamog, a lake near where I grew up. :-)
This whole cloud computing "fad" is really underwhelming. I'm dying for the day that I can take my compute resources from my desktop at work, move them to my phone, load them at my computer at home, and move them into some amorphous network computer when I need more mobility and power than my phone and laptop can provide.
Cloud computing promises to do none of this. What it is is datacenter provisioning akin to the mainframe days of old, except you get to "mostly" choose the platform you want to run on, Windows or Linux.
Cloud computing is nothing more than VMware on steroids. And THAT is disappointing, and underwhelming.
Touche!
It is pronounced:
Drooo pall
Droo puhl <- my money's on this one.
Drup - uhl
Drup - Al
Help me out, Slashdot.
Except that FIVE of the most commonly used letters in the English language are controlled by only three fingers of one hand.
ASERT
Who's the asshat who invented the "ribbon"? 20 years of menus, and now this? WTF?
Plexiglass: no. It can be pointed for stabbing, but plexiglass makes a SHITTY cutting tool.
ballpoint pen gun? Ha, okay. More likely to blow up in your hand, and useless past about 10 feet, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Cotton: They let us all on the planes with our shoelaces. I could kill a lot of people with shoelaces, let me tell you.
I say, all flights need to be like the starship in Fifth Element. You get on board in your capsule, they reduce the oxygen content until you pass out, and don't wake you back up until you land. Problem solved, don't have to serve food or drink or even have stewardesses, and you only have to deal with the 1 in a million persons who dies from oxygen deprivation. Probably about the same number who die from heart-attacks mid-flight.
Problem goes away, and it's much easier to find canisters of O2 than a billion other crazy little items.
Sorry, if the xray scanners can tell that I have a plastic bottle of sunscreen in my backpack, there's NO way they're going to miss your ceramic or obsidian knife, unless it was so perfectly packed as to blend into the outer lines of your pack's profile. And even then, pray they don't have multi-axis scanners.
Yes, I had my coppertone sunscreen taken out of my pack, and the guy zeroed right in on it, knew exactly what pocket it was in. xray technology at airports is fucking amazing now.
If all said terrorist has is a 3-4" knife, and I've got someone watching my back for his buddies, I'll be happy to step into the breach. The real risk in such a knife fight isn't from the guy you know about, it's from the one you don't.