Private contractors are usually people like me who were in the government (or military, in my case) and still want to make a difference
"make a difference"? Who talks like that?
Fuck you, buddy.
Ah.
What we have here is: A person notorious anti government
Is that a rapper?
Or Rick Merrill's "In Search of Stupidity". Microsoft's success is due to their own good execution and their rivals' utter stupidity. There is a great section on Novell and their idiocy in that book.
Factoid: Although a bit late for the party discussed in this suit, Eric Schmidt of Google fame was CEO of Novell from 1997 to 2001.
Actually, the vast majority of people world wide don't even have access to a computer. For those who do, the vast majority probably don't even need a dual core cpu, for most of what is done.
The vast majority probably don't need more than dial-up connectivity, though it sure is much more pleasant when you have broadband.
Dual core is the same way. It's much more pleasant to work on a dual core machine than a single core, because most people multitask (listen to music, watch video, browse sites with many tabs, plus OS and antivirus and dropbox sync and blah blah in the background.
Your point has more validity above dual core. Certainly engineers, graphic designers, and gamers have a better chance of needing 4/6/8/12 cores than the typical "I surf, read email, and watch YouTube" user.
I just don't understand why Groupon doesn't set expectations properly with their merchants. When these bad things happen, all 3 (Groupon, Merchant, Customers) lose. Groupon loses follow-on business from the Merchant.
...and I think that's the disconnect. I don't think Groupon is a "built to last" kind of company. They are a "built to IPO" kind of company. Eventually they will run out of merchants who'll try their service, but by then Groupon will long since be out of business.
Just so you're fully informed:
In short, the advice from grad students is, "if there is anything else in life that you would be happy doing, do that instead of getting a PhD."
Itanium is far from crappy,
True, but...
it's a much better architecture than x86 for transaction processing.
...false. You cite ERP as an example but that is exactly what Itanium is not special at. For business apps and database apps, Itanium is not really any more exciting than Sparc or POWER (and is not as good as POWER). For that matter, it's not any more exciting than x86.
Itanium has lots of 64-bit registers, so if you're doing engineering, science, chess computers, etc. and write Itanium assembler (or have a good compiler), Itanium rocks. But for business apps like ERP, CRM, general databases, etc., Itanium is nothing special. It's not bad or awful - indeed, it's a good fast chip. But so is SPARC, POWER, x86-64, etc.
If you were a medium sized company that spent $10 million on a custom ERP, why would you spend another $10 million every few years to do it all over again? Then you get to train everyone and work through the kinks and bugs again... Most companies just want to use what works.
If your company's ERP is so custom that it only runs on Itanium, you're doing something very wrong. Most people's ERP is built is on some platform that runs considerably higher up the stack.
Not true. Google's business model is collecting users and selling some advertising
Google collects users? Do they encase them in lucite?
The difference is that you can encrypt your internet connections, encrypting phone calls however is against the law.
It may be illegal where you are, but it's not illegal everywhere.
For example, it's perfectly legal to encrypt your phone calls in the U.S.
After all, how did people access https sites over dial-up for all those years...
Which is more secure:
Linux, for example, permits viruses to be written. So does OS X. The reason why viruses do not proliferate on those systems is because they're not a particularly interesting attack target
LOL you must be new to this "internet" thing or channeling 1995.
No, he's completely right. Windows is still 90%+ of the desktop usage and so is the most interesting target for that reason alone.
The fact that it's also historically been an easier target is gravy.
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