It's been that way for decades. You conform or you die or go away for a long time. After a while you and your kids start to believe that the crap they do is normal.
That's why so many Chinese left China. My parents didn't leave because they didn't have a free google, they left because my dad's father was shot. For being a principal (of a school) during the counter-revolution. My mom's brother got sentenced to eight years of hard labour for wearing flashy shirts and liking the fast life (too Western).
IMHO, I think IBM marketing wants IBM == Service, and that can mean 24/7 support, so it doesn't matter to them how much support or service it requires, as long as they lock you into an annual contract for service/support.
We recently caught a line item in a client's monthly costs where a primarily IBM HW/SW vendor was charging $500/month Canadian for support on two printers (worth about $800).
As someone who has worked with and against Big Blue (note, not for), it appears that most of IBM's margins now come from offering services on top of their products, whereas in the past their profit came from hardware and products.
This inversion means that IBM likes to vend their hardware and software in order to make a lot more money on the upsell of services in the guise of business integration.
Now I know this can be perceived negatively, but Linux, from IBM's point of view, is a product that is offered for free, without any tier 1 service provider to make an upsell.
Their existing marketing still relies on the adage that 'no one ever got fired for going with IBM.' And it's worked well against other Tier 1 vendors, let alone smaller shops.
Now, they've got an open playing field by using free software, with free updates, and they get to profit from it for literally nothing.
This is a bargain as even their in-house products require money to be invested for support and development, let alone production and packaging.
The bottom line is as long as IBM can make $$$ from linux without any real competition they will stand behind Linux, and it looks like this situation will be a mutually beneficial one for a while.
If I was pepsi, I'd hire people in plain coloured shirts of the pepsi corporate colours (red white and blue) and get them to sit in the bleachers to form the pepsi symbol. Given that ticket sales have been abysmal, this could be done fairly impromptu.
Moore's Law is not about speed, it's about number of transistors on a chip doubling every 18 - 24 months. Performance and clock speed are results of this 'law.'
Umm...that's still not correct unless the cell phone market stayed the same overall size. Of course I didn't read the article, but if the market grew 10% or so, Nokia's production numbers would have been a wash.
This article is flawed at best and insulting at worst.
1. The controls on this 'study' are horrid. I'm not sure if the PC Mag forum is moderated or not, but slashdot can be considered unmoderated. If you are not familiar with Macintouch, their reader contributions are not submitted to a web form, but emailed directly to an editor. It would be natural to presume that the editor can then cherry-pick the best and erudite of responses and filter out the off-topic and poorly worded ones as well.
2. In general, Mac users tended to cluster into the scientific, education, and creative communities. Mac using may be self selecting based on the areas of need for their professional foci.
3. Leading from 2, the presumption that a correlation between Mac usage and 'smarts' does not mean a causal one. Just because you must use a Mac does not mean you like to use Macs, nor does Mac usage make you smarter.
That's all I've got to say about this 'study'.
Disclaimer: I use Macs, and I like them. I use PCs, and I like them (for the most part).
I agree with you, but it's the settlement where the plaintiffs get screwed. Of course, it would be ludicrous to have to get the entire class to sign off on a settlement, but if a case is approved for class action status, the settlement should be approved by a random sample of the group, so the lawyers who are supposed to working for the plaintiff don't settle for cash from the defendant for the legal costs only.
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Perhaps the reason is that the drive makers must be compatible with as many brands of media to be accepted?
Too bad there wasn't a universal ink cartridge format for printers. It would change things considerably.
It's been that way for decades. You conform or you die or go away for a long time. After a while you and your kids start to believe that the crap they do is normal.
That's why so many Chinese left China. My parents didn't leave because they didn't have a free google, they left because my dad's father was shot. For being a principal (of a school) during the counter-revolution. My mom's brother got sentenced to eight years of hard labour for wearing flashy shirts and liking the fast life (too Western).
I wonder what Intel's theoretical limit is on for using LN2 on this processor...
Any numbers on the false positives?
Just thinking that 1 in 222 spam let through doesn't help much if it block 1 in 10 legitimate emails.
Well...Microsoft did publish "Rise of Nations."
Perhaps Bill was playing a little too much of it.
IMHO, I think IBM marketing wants IBM == Service, and that can mean 24/7 support, so it doesn't matter to them how much support or service it requires, as long as they lock you into an annual contract for service/support.
We recently caught a line item in a client's monthly costs where a primarily IBM HW/SW vendor was charging $500/month Canadian for support on two printers (worth about $800).
As someone who has worked with and against Big Blue (note, not for), it appears that most of IBM's margins now come from offering services on top of their products, whereas in the past their profit came from hardware and products.
This inversion means that IBM likes to vend their hardware and software in order to make a lot more money on the upsell of services in the guise of business integration.
Now I know this can be perceived negatively, but Linux, from IBM's point of view, is a product that is offered for free, without any tier 1 service provider to make an upsell.
Their existing marketing still relies on the adage that 'no one ever got fired for going with IBM.' And it's worked well against other Tier 1 vendors, let alone smaller shops.
Now, they've got an open playing field by using free software, with free updates, and they get to profit from it for literally nothing.
This is a bargain as even their in-house products require money to be invested for support and development, let alone production and packaging.
The bottom line is as long as IBM can make $$$ from linux without any real competition they will stand behind Linux, and it looks like this situation will be a mutually beneficial one for a while.
Of course 40% of women buy SUVs.
For them it's not about penis extensions, it's about penis envy.
Thanks folks, I'll be here for the rest of the week.
I think that both leaders would fail this spot test:
1. What is the price of a loaf of bread in your home city? Milk?
2. Is $50 too much to pay for filling up your gas tank?
3. What is the average wait time to see a physician for your child's cold if you are a median income American?
...you'd prefer having at least 6 non-overlapping channels to make hexagonshaped cells.
Don't you mean 7 non-overlapping when you count the cell that the 6 cells surround?
Just an FYI,
Nightclub in North America == discotheque
Nightclub in Europe == Nudie bar
Found out the 'hard' way in Austria.
...the editors should have checked the story better before posting it.
You're new here, aren't you?
If you are screwing the passengers, I hope the you're having fun, and I hope it's a she!
There goes my karma.
If you're using a Mac, you can also boot the Mac from an iPod (not mini), making the iPod a very good diagnostic device too.
If I was pepsi, I'd hire people in plain coloured shirts of the pepsi corporate colours (red white and blue) and get them to sit in the bleachers to form the pepsi symbol. Given that ticket sales have been abysmal, this could be done fairly impromptu.
Isn't this similar to the nissan.com fiasco?
http://www.ncchelp.org/The_Story/the_story.htm
MacOS X does support case insensitive file systems. Just format under UFS vs. HFS+.
However, YMMV since many apps don't expect case sensitive FS.
And if you really don't want to use the GUI, use terminal.
Moore's Law is not about speed, it's about number of transistors on a chip doubling every 18 - 24 months. Performance and clock speed are results of this 'law.'
I don't mean to be a pendant, but
ADC == Apple Display Connector
ACD == Apple Cinema Display
The new 6800 supports the latter, not the former (Dual DVI is the connection standard for the newest Apple systems).
They probably didn't have a chip or chipset that was cheap and low power enough for bluetooth to be integrated into the iPod and iPod headphones.
The article didn't state what IBM's time frame to market was either.
Umm...that's still not correct unless the cell phone market stayed the same overall size. Of course I didn't read the article, but if the market grew 10% or so, Nokia's production numbers would have been a wash.
This article is flawed at best and insulting at worst.
1. The controls on this 'study' are horrid. I'm not sure if the PC Mag forum is moderated or not, but slashdot can be considered unmoderated. If you are not familiar with Macintouch, their reader contributions are not submitted to a web form, but emailed directly to an editor. It would be natural to presume that the editor can then cherry-pick the best and erudite of responses and filter out the off-topic and poorly worded ones as well.
2. In general, Mac users tended to cluster into the scientific, education, and creative communities. Mac using may be self selecting based on the areas of need for their professional foci.
3. Leading from 2, the presumption that a correlation between Mac usage and 'smarts' does not mean a causal one. Just because you must use a Mac does not mean you like to use Macs, nor does Mac usage make you smarter.
That's all I've got to say about this 'study'.
Disclaimer: I use Macs, and I like them. I use PCs, and I like them (for the most part).
I agree with you, but it's the settlement where the plaintiffs get screwed. Of course, it would be ludicrous to have to get the entire class to sign off on a settlement, but if a case is approved for class action status, the settlement should be approved by a random sample of the group, so the lawyers who are supposed to working for the plaintiff don't settle for cash from the defendant for the legal costs only.
sorry to reply to my own post, but replace digital commons with educational commons. I had a brain fart.
He has deliberately poisoned the digital commons for his own selfish motives more than 16 times.
Just imagine the scores of researchers and man hours devoted to tracking down the problem.
It would be like not firing Jayson Blair of the New York Times for making up stories.
I think it's highly appropriate for this guy to lose his doctorate.