One thing I've noticed is that rent on a non-suck-ass apartment is equal to or more than a mortgage payment for a livable house. I lived in an affordable apartment once. Once I realized my neighbors were drug dealers and the other reasons there were two cops on duty at night, I moved. Fast.
Consider a double-wide mobile home, and have it put on a foundation. If you get the right bank and insurance company, it will be no different, credit-wise, than owning a regular home. Nicer ones come with regular vinyl siding, asphalt shingle roof, and eaves, etc. Really not bad at all. (I have no affiliation with any mobile home compnay, just my 2 cents)
Yeah, real estate is out of control. When we bought our house, the previous owners cashed in to the tune of a 100% profit in ten years. That is just the market, right now. I feel really bad for people trying to save up for their down payment. 20% is nearly impossible for most people, leading to all the funky low-down-payment mortgages banks offer, now.
Here's the key question: if you let your subscription lapse, will Microsoft let you keep your software as-is? The best software subscription models I've seen revolve around support, services, and updates rather than "right to use".
And I bet he invested a few million on the right side of the exchange rates before saying this. Analysts are such a mixed blessing. They do the research for us, but they can fix the markets quite handily.
I thought that the secret conspiracy behind the neocons wasn't a secret at all. They pretty much say exactly what they intend to do, and then win the elections needed to do it. It's really pure genius, no doubt. Whether it's ethical and good for civilization will be up to the historians, as pointed out by GWB several times.
A microwave oven has no moving parts, except the turntable. Otherwise, it is a metal box, a keypad, and a magnetron. Paper handling, on the other hand, is a bigger engineering problem.
Actually, investing in unethical companies is a bad strategy, anyway. Unless HP really starts doing something different, my opinion is that their days are numbered (no core competencies...check, Itanium...check, no clear product strategy...check, no real benefit over competitors...check, etc.). There are practically infinite ways to invest in stocks, and there are plenty of ways to do so to not feel bad about it. Of course, you can feel a little bad for people that buy at the peaks, but they are being rewarded for their stupidity, anyway (it's fairly hard for an educated investor to buy at a peak).
I think there are variables that make a person prefer one over the other. For example, with a thouchpad, I can't position the mouse accurately to save my life. Other people don't have this problem, apparently. The result is that I won't buy a laptop for myself that has a touchpad, it is useless to me, but the huge popularity of touchpad laptops on the market, it is very likely I am a minority.
Where is Microsoft's equivalent to Darwin or even this? Beyond that, Mac OS is just a better desktop. I hear practically no one complaining about it, but, interestingly, all people seem to do is complain about Windows. If someone doesn't like the closed aspects of Mac OS, there are other options, like Linux with GNOME. The main point of divergence is with Apple's other applications, not with the OS itself.
Well, 900,000,000 ÷ 60 = 15,000,000 pages. Assuming a ream of paper is about 1.5 inches... the stack is 355 miles high?!? Somebody shove aside Burt Rutan, we have a new winner!
But SCO is "winning" for as long as this drags on and Linux appears (to the man in the street) more and more mired in confusion...
IBM can drag this out to the end of time, Sun already claims to indemnify their customers, Red Hat is still selling RHEL--in short, no one give a rat's ass about SCO. Anyone who does is either working for SCO or retarded. That's it.
Why doesn't IBM invoke a "thousand monkeys with typewriters" program to feed SCO all the code they could ever hope for. It is clear by now that SCO doesn't care about the lawsuit beyond what it takes to feed their code fetish. I hear Darl really gets off on unions in C..."I can put into you what I want, baby! Oh, yeah!"
they can have every version of AIX and Dynix which ever existed in version control including all notes made by anyone who worked on the project.
Isn't this irrelevant? If none of the products available to the public infringed, then obviously any internal infringing code was recognized and taken out before being sold. It seems that the only thing SCO could bite on is some abusive technicality of the law. Is it even possible for SCO to suck more?
Trolling is quite a difficult art to master. A good troll can get a dozen responses before people catch on.
Your basic complaint is that Sun's reference implementation of Java isn't under a GPL or BSD license. However, the language itself is fully specified, the JDK is free of charge, you can even include the JRE in your own product. Anyone is free to implement their own JDK, as far as I can tell, and some people and companies are doing this. Java is a much more clear-cut environment than.NET in this regard, so your comparison to Microsoft is irrelevant. Microsoft's complete avoidance of Linux as a.NET platform furthers this argument--Java is fully supported on Linux.
You have to decide whether the JCP and the JDK are open enough for your needs, that's all you can do.
And who knows, if OpenSolaris works really well, maybe a similar model can be applied to Java? Consider how the software industry is being turned inside out, lately, with open source operating systems, open source office suites, open source you name it, with only the most difficult software remaining proprietary. The only certainty is that time will tell--it takes time for people to figure this stuff out.
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One thing I've noticed is that rent on a non-suck-ass apartment is equal to or more than a mortgage payment for a livable house. I lived in an affordable apartment once. Once I realized my neighbors were drug dealers and the other reasons there were two cops on duty at night, I moved. Fast.
In the fine print, the home GWB is talking about is sold at Toys'R'Us, retail price only, one unit per family, delivery and assembly extra.
Consider a double-wide mobile home, and have it put on a foundation. If you get the right bank and insurance company, it will be no different, credit-wise, than owning a regular home. Nicer ones come with regular vinyl siding, asphalt shingle roof, and eaves, etc. Really not bad at all. (I have no affiliation with any mobile home compnay, just my 2 cents)
Yeah, real estate is out of control. When we bought our house, the previous owners cashed in to the tune of a 100% profit in ten years. That is just the market, right now. I feel really bad for people trying to save up for their down payment. 20% is nearly impossible for most people, leading to all the funky low-down-payment mortgages banks offer, now.
(formely employed 42,000 people in 2000 and now employs around 24,000)
Please explain why Sun currently lists "Approximately 35,000 worldwide" as the number of employees.
My father-in-law works in manufacturing. His salary has been frozen for years. Consider yourself fortunate.
That marine in the picture looks like he really enjoys NMCI. I don't understand your sarcasm. </sarcasm>
Where are you guys anyways?
They fell off and are trailing the earth in orbit around the sun.
If they are selling the printer at cost or at a loss, the profit has to be made up on the ink.
that can integrate easily with Outlook
Your requirements were stacked against you. This is a common error in IT purchasing decisions.
Here's the key question: if you let your subscription lapse, will Microsoft let you keep your software as-is? The best software subscription models I've seen revolve around support, services, and updates rather than "right to use".
UNIX interoperability is at Mac OS' core, now. SFU is an add-on, an afterthought.
And I bet he invested a few million on the right side of the exchange rates before saying this. Analysts are such a mixed blessing. They do the research for us, but they can fix the markets quite handily.
I thought that the secret conspiracy behind the neocons wasn't a secret at all. They pretty much say exactly what they intend to do, and then win the elections needed to do it. It's really pure genius, no doubt. Whether it's ethical and good for civilization will be up to the historians, as pointed out by GWB several times.
A microwave oven has no moving parts, except the turntable. Otherwise, it is a metal box, a keypad, and a magnetron. Paper handling, on the other hand, is a bigger engineering problem.
1. Don't put your money into stocks.
Actually, investing in unethical companies is a bad strategy, anyway. Unless HP really starts doing something different, my opinion is that their days are numbered (no core competencies...check, Itanium...check, no clear product strategy...check, no real benefit over competitors...check, etc.). There are practically infinite ways to invest in stocks, and there are plenty of ways to do so to not feel bad about it. Of course, you can feel a little bad for people that buy at the peaks, but they are being rewarded for their stupidity, anyway (it's fairly hard for an educated investor to buy at a peak).
I think there are variables that make a person prefer one over the other. For example, with a thouchpad, I can't position the mouse accurately to save my life. Other people don't have this problem, apparently. The result is that I won't buy a laptop for myself that has a touchpad, it is useless to me, but the huge popularity of touchpad laptops on the market, it is very likely I am a minority.
In general though, as a layout language to produce documents that look just how I want, it's a fucking nightmare.
Was TeX ever intended to do layout? Doesn't it do the typesetting for you?
Where is Microsoft's equivalent to Darwin or even this?
Beyond that, Mac OS is just a better desktop. I hear practically no one complaining about it, but, interestingly, all people seem to do is complain about Windows. If someone doesn't like the closed aspects of Mac OS, there are other options, like Linux with GNOME. The main point of divergence is with Apple's other applications, not with the OS itself.
Crap, I forgot to divide by 500. Sorry, SCO, no prize for you!
Well, 900,000,000 ÷ 60 = 15,000,000 pages. Assuming a ream of paper is about 1.5 inches ... the stack is 355 miles high?!? Somebody shove aside Burt Rutan, we have a new winner!
But SCO is "winning" for as long as this drags on and Linux appears (to the man in the street) more and more mired in confusion...
IBM can drag this out to the end of time, Sun already claims to indemnify their customers, Red Hat is still selling RHEL--in short, no one give a rat's ass about SCO. Anyone who does is either working for SCO or retarded. That's it.
Why doesn't IBM invoke a "thousand monkeys with typewriters" program to feed SCO all the code they could ever hope for. It is clear by now that SCO doesn't care about the lawsuit beyond what it takes to feed their code fetish. I hear Darl really gets off on unions in C..."I can put into you what I want, baby! Oh, yeah!"
they can have every version of AIX and Dynix which ever existed in version control including all notes made by anyone who worked on the project.
Isn't this irrelevant? If none of the products available to the public infringed, then obviously any internal infringing code was recognized and taken out before being sold. It seems that the only thing SCO could bite on is some abusive technicality of the law. Is it even possible for SCO to suck more?
Trolling is quite a difficult art to master. A good troll can get a dozen responses before people catch on.
.NET in this regard, so your comparison to Microsoft is irrelevant. Microsoft's complete avoidance of Linux as a .NET platform furthers this argument--Java is fully supported on Linux.
Your basic complaint is that Sun's reference implementation of Java isn't under a GPL or BSD license. However, the language itself is fully specified, the JDK is free of charge, you can even include the JRE in your own product. Anyone is free to implement their own JDK, as far as I can tell, and some people and companies are doing this. Java is a much more clear-cut environment than
You have to decide whether the JCP and the JDK are open enough for your needs, that's all you can do.
And who knows, if OpenSolaris works really well, maybe a similar model can be applied to Java? Consider how the software industry is being turned inside out, lately, with open source operating systems, open source office suites, open source you name it, with only the most difficult software remaining proprietary. The only certainty is that time will tell--it takes time for people to figure this stuff out.