Although support and qualified people may cost more, lost sales due to system down time may be a greater cost if the system is less reliable. There are also risk-costs to be considered, such as the likelihood of data theft and the resulting lawsuit costs. If you have a 1% chance each year of a $10mil lawsuit, you need to add $100K/yr to the TCO. If a smaller risk can be assumed with a non-MS solution, that lowers TCO.
Linux/Unix may not be perfect, and the personnel may be more expensive, but the opportunity costs may balance the scale in favor of a non-MS solution.
Wouldn't the simpler solution be to make one multipurpose gadget instead of clothing to carry a lot of single purpose gadgets? Of course, that solution probably won't come from a clothing manufacturer.
It isn't the car or the money so much as the attitude. If you see someone driving like an idiot, being a hazard to themselves and all ground-bound life forms, it is more likely a kid in a Honda (or something similar) with a wing and oversized muffler than someone in a car with no wing and functional improvements.
(which is very debateable), the idea of running apps on the browser is why Microsoft was so eager to kill off Netscape. If the browser is cross platform, it lessens the reliance on the underlying operating system, and threatens the profitability of Windows.
This may not be as much of an issue as it was back in the days of the Microsoft suit, though.
If you write to LinuxWorld, that letter confirms that they have readership and ad views, which is a good thing, and encourages that behavior.
If you write to the sponsors and question their integrity for sponsoring such an article, THEY will contact LinuxWorld, and that will threaten LinuxWorld's income, which LinuxWorld will see as a bad thing. Hopefully this would discourage the behavior that you want discouraged.
No, it's being outsourced TO rats. Unless, of course, your employer has already been replaced by a rat brain, in which case your job would be outsourced BY rats TO rats.
I thought the pilots considered it an improvement when Don Carty was replaced by Gerard Arpey. Is there something we don't know?
At some point in the distant future, Humans will need to leave the planet to survive as a species. As long as we cannot leave earth, our survival is tied to the survival of the planet. The technology base required for space exploration will hopefully grow to allow us to one day leave the planet and settle elsewhere.
Although we probably won't need to leave in any of our lifetimes, it is never too early to start planning for that eventuality.
What good is the latest nerve regeneration treatment when stem cells are illegal in the US?
Contrary to what the opponents of the current administration would have you believe, stem cell research is legal in the US. The federal government will not fund research on new embryonic stem cell lines, however.
... I'd say that the main goal of marketing is to satisfy customer needs, not push ads down everyone's throat. The defenition from the book says that marketing is "a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others"
I took a bunch of marketing courses on the way to my MBA. When you start looking at things from the executive level, things work a bit differently. The goal of a corporation is to return value to its investors. Marketing allegedly supports this function by ensuring that the right Product is sold at the right Price at the right Place with the right Promotion to maximize profit. The customers' needs and desires are only considered from the point of how they can be used to maximize profit.
Many corporations are weak in Marketing, but don't realize it. They try to use Promotion to offset Product, Placement, or Price weaknesses. The Marketing department may not even have the authority to have input on placement, price, or product, leaving only promotion for them to work with. Or, they may be incompetent in areas other than promotion. (I've met more than one of those.) Consequently, we get ads jammed down our throats, since the Marketing folks can do little else.
Or, I could be wrong, and the few marketing folks I met were exceptions, and the marketing screwups I have observed were cases where Marketing didn't really have an input, and the best and brightest go into marketing, not the cool people who are just good at (self) promotion.
I agree. The only thing a computer on a cart could do for me would be to be able to locate specific items. For instance, Jalapeno peppers are located with Mexican food in some stores, pickles in others, and chips and dip in others. It would be nice to be able to find an item by hitting a few keys instead of trying to find a clerk. It would also be nice if it had a calculator so I can figure the best deal when store labels aren't in uniform units. (For instance, some meats in oz, other in lbs.)
Of course, the marketing-types will corrupt this to point folks in a certain direction, with ad revenue coming in for specific items. A search for jalepenos might yield "Microsoft Jalapenos are on Aisle 4, in the Special Purchase Department. They are on Sale for $2.59 for a 5 oz. Jar, saving you seventy five cents off of their normal price" and ignoring the better buys on commodity items (16oz jar of Acme jalepenos for $1.49 in aisle 5 with the pickles).
Or maybe I am just pessimistic, and marketing folks really have our best interests at heart. After all, aren't Golgafrin...er, marketing professionals valuable and intelligent members of our society?
When I first heard Conference Bike, this is what I thought of:
Have the PowerPoint Projector powered solely by a stationary bike wired as a generator. If you have a long presentation, you had better be in really good shape. If nobody has a presentation, the person calling the conference has to pedal the bike.
I'd bet a lot less meetings would be called, and they would be a lot shorter. Asking stupid questions would make enemies real fast.
The US didn't remove the Afganistan government after the terrorist attack. I meant to say The US didn't remove the Afganistan government untilafter the terrorist attack.
Although others may believe that our policies justify their actions, this cannot be the case.
Consider two parties (nations, religions, whatever,) with mutually exclusive goals. If we have policies that favor one party, the other would have justification to fly airliners into buildings using your logic. If we favor/disfavor both parties equally, then both parties have justification to murder thousands of innocent civilians according to your logic. So, by your logic, no matter what my actions, at least one party will be offended, and I deserve to have relatives murdered by terrorists. I don't support that train of thought.
The US didn't remove the Afganistan government after the terrorist attack. The US didn't remove Hussein from Iraq until after Hussein repeatedly showed he had no intention of complying with UN resolutions. (You may not agree with whether or not we should be there, but it was obvious that he wasn't cooperating, and UN resolutions supported this.)
I'm not aware of the US forcing religion on other countries - could you provide an example or two to educate me?
...China is probably moving toward a capitalist republic at a slow pace. Having had the chance to observe the mistakes made by the Soviets, they may be trying to convert slowly to avoid some of the hardships.
Actually, the original post was marked Interesting with no children when I replied, and I thought to myself, "That can't be right! It probably should be Funny!" So I spent too long typing, and ended up with Insightful. If I type any worse, I'm going to have GREAT karma without trying.
If not... The article separately lists the top 10 Windows and top 10 Unix vulnerabilities. In this case, Top 10 plus Top 10 does not necessarily equal Top 20.
Sort of like if you considered the Top 10 fastest race cars at a Nascar race and the Top 10 fastest race cars at a soapbox derby race - the resulting list wouldn't be the Top 20 fastest race cars.
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Although support and qualified people may cost more, lost sales due to system down time may be a greater cost if the system is less reliable. There are also risk-costs to be considered, such as the likelihood of data theft and the resulting lawsuit costs. If you have a 1% chance each year of a $10mil lawsuit, you need to add $100K/yr to the TCO. If a smaller risk can be assumed with a non-MS solution, that lowers TCO.
Linux/Unix may not be perfect, and the personnel may be more expensive, but the opportunity costs may balance the scale in favor of a non-MS solution.
Wouldn't the simpler solution be to make one multipurpose gadget instead of clothing to carry a lot of single purpose gadgets? Of course, that solution probably won't come from a clothing manufacturer.
It isn't the car or the money so much as the attitude. If you see someone driving like an idiot, being a hazard to themselves and all ground-bound life forms, it is more likely a kid in a Honda (or something similar) with a wing and oversized muffler than someone in a car with no wing and functional improvements.
I put "rice tickets" on stupid ricer cars.
Isn't stupid ricer redundant?
Whoever modded the parent down obviously never saw the first episode of Lost in Space, or (luckily for them,) the movie of the same name.
(which is very debateable), the idea of running apps on the browser is why Microsoft was so eager to kill off Netscape. If the browser is cross platform, it lessens the reliance on the underlying operating system, and threatens the profitability of Windows.
This may not be as much of an issue as it was back in the days of the Microsoft suit, though.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
If you write to LinuxWorld, that letter confirms that they have readership and ad views, which is a good thing, and encourages that behavior.
If you write to the sponsors and question their integrity for sponsoring such an article, THEY will contact LinuxWorld, and that will threaten LinuxWorld's income, which LinuxWorld will see as a bad thing. Hopefully this would discourage the behavior that you want discouraged.
Coincidence?
No, it's being outsourced TO rats.
Unless, of course, your employer has already been replaced by a rat brain, in which case your job would be outsourced BY rats TO rats.
I thought the pilots considered it an improvement when Don Carty was replaced by Gerard Arpey. Is there something we don't know?
At some point in the distant future, Humans will need to leave the planet to survive as a species. As long as we cannot leave earth, our survival is tied to the survival of the planet. The technology base required for space exploration will hopefully grow to allow us to one day leave the planet and settle elsewhere.
Although we probably won't need to leave in any of our lifetimes, it is never too early to start planning for that eventuality.
What good is the latest nerve regeneration treatment when stem cells are illegal in the US?
Contrary to what the opponents of the current administration would have you believe, stem cell research is legal in the US. The federal government will not fund research on new embryonic stem cell lines, however.
Here is President Bush's speech explaining it.
So, if new embryonic stem cell lines are likely to cure diseases, private industry will probably jump in so they can patent the resulting cures.
... I'd say that the main goal of marketing is to satisfy customer needs, not push ads down everyone's throat. The defenition from the book says that marketing is "a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others"
I took a bunch of marketing courses on the way to my MBA. When you start looking at things from the executive level, things work a bit differently. The goal of a corporation is to return value to its investors. Marketing allegedly supports this function by ensuring that the right Product is sold at the right Price at the right Place with the right Promotion to maximize profit. The customers' needs and desires are only considered from the point of how they can be used to maximize profit.
Many corporations are weak in Marketing, but don't realize it. They try to use Promotion to offset Product, Placement, or Price weaknesses. The Marketing department may not even have the authority to have input on placement, price, or product, leaving only promotion for them to work with. Or, they may be incompetent in areas other than promotion. (I've met more than one of those.) Consequently, we get ads jammed down our throats, since the Marketing folks can do little else.
Or, I could be wrong, and the few marketing folks I met were exceptions, and the marketing screwups I have observed were cases where Marketing didn't really have an input, and the best and brightest go into marketing, not the cool people who are just good at (self) promotion.
I agree. The only thing a computer on a cart could do for me would be to be able to locate specific items. For instance, Jalapeno peppers are located with Mexican food in some stores, pickles in others, and chips and dip in others. It would be nice to be able to find an item by hitting a few keys instead of trying to find a clerk. It would also be nice if it had a calculator so I can figure the best deal when store labels aren't in uniform units. (For instance, some meats in oz, other in lbs.)
Of course, the marketing-types will corrupt this to point folks in a certain direction, with ad revenue coming in for specific items. A search for jalepenos might yield "Microsoft Jalapenos are on Aisle 4, in the Special Purchase Department. They are on Sale for $2.59 for a 5 oz. Jar, saving you seventy five cents off of their normal price" and ignoring the better buys on commodity items (16oz jar of Acme jalepenos for $1.49 in aisle 5 with the pickles).
Or maybe I am just pessimistic, and marketing folks really have our best interests at heart. After all, aren't Golgafrin...er, marketing professionals valuable and intelligent members of our society?
When I first heard Conference Bike, this is what I thought of:
Have the PowerPoint Projector powered solely by a stationary bike wired as a generator. If you have a long presentation, you had better be in really good shape. If nobody has a presentation, the person calling the conference has to pedal the bike.
I'd bet a lot less meetings would be called, and they would be a lot shorter. Asking stupid questions would make enemies real fast.
The US didn't remove the Afganistan government after the terrorist attack.
I meant to say The US didn't remove the Afganistan government untilafter the terrorist attack.
Although others may believe that our policies justify their actions, this cannot be the case.
Consider two parties (nations, religions, whatever,) with mutually exclusive goals. If we have policies that favor one party, the other would have justification to fly airliners into buildings using your logic. If we favor/disfavor both parties equally, then both parties have justification to murder thousands of innocent civilians according to your logic. So, by your logic, no matter what my actions, at least one party will be offended, and I deserve to have relatives murdered by terrorists. I don't support that train of thought.
The US didn't remove the Afganistan government after the terrorist attack. The US didn't remove Hussein from Iraq until after Hussein repeatedly showed he had no intention of complying with UN resolutions. (You may not agree with whether or not we should be there, but it was obvious that he wasn't cooperating, and UN resolutions supported this.)
I'm not aware of the US forcing religion on other countries - could you provide an example or two to educate me?
Try reading "Parliament of Whores."
I was successful, and enjoyed it. Those who are anti-Reagan should probably avoid it, though.
...number of brain cells..."?
Just wondering.
...China is probably moving toward a capitalist republic at a slow pace. Having had the chance to observe the mistakes made by the Soviets, they may be trying to convert slowly to avoid some of the hardships.
Or, I could be wrong.
..that one big time.
Actually, the original post was marked Interesting with no children when I replied, and I thought to myself, "That can't be right! It probably should be Funny!" So I spent too long typing, and ended up with Insightful. If I type any worse, I'm going to have GREAT karma without trying.
If not ...
The article separately lists the top 10 Windows and top 10 Unix vulnerabilities. In this case, Top 10 plus Top 10 does not necessarily equal Top 20.
Sort of like if you considered the Top 10 fastest race cars at a Nascar race and the Top 10 fastest race cars at a soapbox derby race - the resulting list wouldn't be the Top 20 fastest race cars.
...with their new revenue models. As it becomes more and more expensive to run Windows, more and more people will run something else.
The lost man-hours and reduced IT availability due to auditing can cost the company a substantial amount of money.