You should do some research. Microsoft has $23 billion dollars in cash. They have no debt at all. Every quarter is profitable. Check out real numbers here and let those inform your rantings.
In ten years, corporate data centers will be like COBOL is today. There will still be a lot of legacy data centers manned by dinosaurs. The cool kids, young and old, will be in the cloud.
If the collapse cannot come soon enough then perhaps we can accelerate it. Let's make you Absolute Ruler for life. What steps would you take now to accelerate the collapse?
The first two lines of your post seemed reasonable enough. Comparing Hitler and Stalin is hyperbole.
However, you then go on to say things like 'if everyone had this mindset' and 'Rise up! Let's overthrow our governments!'. Stallman and his fundamentalist followers, like you, are just one army away from the same sort of atrocities as the rest on the list.
If you're talking about destruction, brother, well you know that you can count me out.
I work in the US and I am glad we don't have anything like TUPE. Regulations like that prevent employers from creating jobs in the first place. My job security comes from my own skills and my ability to work well with others. Combine that with a vibrant tech sector that creates jobs and you've got job security without any well intentioned TUPE like laws. Why do you think Silicon Valley happened and persists in California? Because startups can create jobs from nothing and then shed them as needed. Employees win in that culture because someone else is always creating the next job.
Your analogy is bogus. Visual FoxPro was a proprietary system from a single vendor. It was easy to see it's user base shrinking. Java, on the other hand, is an industry with the basic tools provided by several vendors (BEA, Sun, IBM, etc). There is a huge industry of books, open source projects, large installs from behemoths like Ebay.
The real differences between an open java and the free java implementations maintained by companies like Sun and IBM are religious in nature. That is, they only matter to zealots obsessed with their own narrow interpretations. Most of us are moderates who only want to write great software. The different is moot to us moderates.
Most of the posts I've seen here are short sighted because they only consider drivers doing what would normally be done at home in front of a computer.
Having a reliable internet connection will enable applications that we have not dreamed of yet but someone will. I'd like VOIP, using the car's built in microphone and speaker. How about a GPS system uses the IP connection to warn of upcoming traffic jams on the proposed route? How about setting the thermostat in your house when you are 30 miles away?
Is wikileaks run outside the USA? How are they able to withstand legal injunctions based on USA copyright law?
Don't get me wrong. I love wikileaks. I'm just wondering how it is set up to withstand the long haul of attacks that will keep coming from powerful people and organizations who get their nose bloodied by documents there.
That's an easy little pot shot for you to take from whatever comfortable perch you are posting from.
As for me, I'm against censorship. If China does it then I am against it. If the USA, where I live, does it then I am against it. Injustice by my government, in this case 'NSA operated rooms at the telecoms' does not deny me the right or obligation to speak out against injustice anywhere else. So, I denounce this move by China. Not because they are the 'other team', but because censorship is wrong, period. I also denounce those little NSA rooms at telecoms in the USA, because censorship is wrong.
I'm motivated by justice, not geo political team sport. How about you?
I am a progressive humanist devoted to social justice. Therefore I am for any technology developments that enable an increase in energy consumption for low income people around the world. Currently, access to high levels of personal energy consumption is really only available to rich westerners. Technology like this could change that.
Increased consumption enabled by technology is a more moral goal than conservation.
Voter outrage ended the war in Vietnam and it will end the war in Iraq as well, hopefully before my children are old enough to be sucked into that tragic mistake. You have more power than you think. Get out there and live!
The administration's instinct to strip away our freedoms in the name of desperate fear is misguided. Rather, we should be supportive of people in the middle east who are growing weary of being ruled by fundamentalist Islam. Fundamentalism, whether Islamic, Christian, or otherwise is fine for those folks who self select into it but it is tyranny when it gains the backing of coercive power.
This article is about one Sheikh in Saudi Arabia who is tired of being bullied by fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia. The US should invest 1.0% of its current Iraq war budget in people like him rather than creating converts to funadmentalist Islam with our war in Iraq. Nurture a moderate alternative and fundamentalism will remain small.
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You should do some research. Microsoft has $23 billion dollars in cash. They have no debt at all. Every quarter is profitable. Check out real numbers here and let those inform your rantings.
Precisely! Ten years is a long lead time to get this right.
In ten years, corporate data centers will be like COBOL is today. There will still be a lot of legacy data centers manned by dinosaurs. The cool kids, young and old, will be in the cloud.
If the collapse cannot come soon enough then perhaps we can accelerate it. Let's make you Absolute Ruler for life. What steps would you take now to accelerate the collapse?
The first two lines of your post seemed reasonable enough. Comparing Hitler and Stalin is hyperbole.
However, you then go on to say things like 'if everyone had this mindset' and 'Rise up! Let's overthrow our governments!'. Stallman and his fundamentalist followers, like you, are just one army away from the same sort of atrocities as the rest on the list.
If you're talking about destruction, brother, well you know that you can count me out.
History is full of people who passionately sought purity over co-existence and pragmatism. Here are a few:
Adolph Hitler
David Duke
Emperor Hirohito
Osama Bin Laden
The Hutus
Joseph Stalin
Richard Stallman
I'll go for peaceful co-existence any time. Live and let live, brother.
What's wrong with at-will employment?
I work in the US and I am glad we don't have anything like TUPE. Regulations like that prevent employers from creating jobs in the first place. My job security comes from my own skills and my ability to work well with others. Combine that with a vibrant tech sector that creates jobs and you've got job security without any well intentioned TUPE like laws. Why do you think Silicon Valley happened and persists in California? Because startups can create jobs from nothing and then shed them as needed. Employees win in that culture because someone else is always creating the next job.
I agree completely. Fundamentalism (RMS is a fundamentalist) is always hamstrung by it's 'My way or the highway' mentality.
Your analogy is bogus. Visual FoxPro was a proprietary system from a single vendor. It was easy to see it's user base shrinking. Java, on the other hand, is an industry with the basic tools provided by several vendors (BEA, Sun, IBM, etc). There is a huge industry of books, open source projects, large installs from behemoths like Ebay.
The real differences between an open java and the free java implementations maintained by companies like Sun and IBM are religious in nature. That is, they only matter to zealots obsessed with their own narrow interpretations. Most of us are moderates who only want to write great software. The different is moot to us moderates.
Most of the posts I've seen here are short sighted because they only consider drivers doing what would normally be done at home in front of a computer.
Having a reliable internet connection will enable applications that we have not dreamed of yet but someone will. I'd like VOIP, using the car's built in microphone and speaker. How about a GPS system uses the IP connection to warn of upcoming traffic jams on the proposed route? How about setting the thermostat in your house when you are 30 miles away?
Come on people! Dream big!
Go ahead and propose the written law. I'd like to see that.
Is that enough to make a rail infrastructure build out cost effective?
So, then, you are in favor of using coercive force to drive up the costs of air travel?
How would you severely curtail planes in a free society?
You have 'seniority'? How does that work? Do you really trust your employer to respect that?
How do I use coercion to ensure continued dominance over property? Let's take my car as an example. How do I use coercion to ensure my dominance?
How is property theft? Can you explain this?
Is wikileaks run outside the USA? How are they able to withstand legal injunctions based on USA copyright law?
Don't get me wrong. I love wikileaks. I'm just wondering how it is set up to withstand the long haul of attacks that will keep coming from powerful people and organizations who get their nose bloodied by documents there.
That's an easy little pot shot for you to take from whatever comfortable perch you are posting from.
As for me, I'm against censorship. If China does it then I am against it. If the USA, where I live, does it then I am against it. Injustice by my government, in this case 'NSA operated rooms at the telecoms' does not deny me the right or obligation to speak out against injustice anywhere else. So, I denounce this move by China. Not because they are the 'other team', but because censorship is wrong, period. I also denounce those little NSA rooms at telecoms in the USA, because censorship is wrong.
I'm motivated by justice, not geo political team sport. How about you?
I am a progressive humanist devoted to social justice. Therefore I am for any technology developments that enable an increase in energy consumption for low income people around the world. Currently, access to high levels of personal energy consumption is really only available to rich westerners. Technology like this could change that.
Increased consumption enabled by technology is a more moral goal than conservation.
Voter outrage ended the war in Vietnam and it will end the war in Iraq as well, hopefully before my children are old enough to be sucked into that tragic mistake. You have more power than you think. Get out there and live!
The administration's instinct to strip away our freedoms in the name of desperate fear is misguided. Rather, we should be supportive of people in the middle east who are growing weary of being ruled by fundamentalist Islam. Fundamentalism, whether Islamic, Christian, or otherwise is fine for those folks who self select into it but it is tyranny when it gains the backing of coercive power.
This article is about one Sheikh in Saudi Arabia who is tired of being bullied by fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia. The US should invest 1.0% of its current Iraq war budget in people like him rather than creating converts to funadmentalist Islam with our war in Iraq. Nurture a moderate alternative and fundamentalism will remain small.
So you'd like to use censorship as a remedy to that problem?