It'd be fine if you could just order a foreign market car, while the US keeps its home market vehicles large, US-sized, powered and priced for the masses.
You realize that your own government is eviscerating the chances of "US-sized, powered and priced" cars ever coming back, right? See the new CAFE requirements for mileage.
Hard drives and motherboards don't have MAC addresses. Perhaps you're referring to the serial number.
PHP is like BASIC. In the right hands it can certainly produce just as readable and maintainable code as any other language, but the short learning curve to get to first base invites people with little or no discipline, or often enough, without any underpinnings at all, to write absolute garbage.
Would you you prefer that said people stumble their way through something more difficult like C, so that they can produce even worse code than they would have in PHP?
I had the opposite experience. When testing on some newer quad core servers (several years ago), I found that eaccelerator would cause segfaults in Apache that I couldn't pin down to anything in particular. It wasn't hardware either, because it happened on several machines equally. I ditched eaccelerator for APC and things have been peachy since.
On the other hand, there is certainly plenty of crap that they pay Oracle and Microsoft $$$ to run that doesn't serve anyone's needs very well, or integrate with anything else.
Like Sharepoint? It baffles me as to why anybody would buy that monstrosity... it doesn't do anything!
Although there are alternatives to Adobe Reader, none of them is good enough to gain significant market share.
Are you kidding me? Acrobat is such a steaming pile of crap that it has bred a completely misplaced hatred of PDF in most Windows users. Ever seen a Slashdot summary with a "(warning, PDF)" note after a link? Only Acrobat can manage to bog down a brand new system opening a 1 page PDF, every other PDF reader in the world will open it instantaneously.
If anything, Acrobat has single handedly painted PDF into the very niche corner that it's in now. PDF is a good format hobbled by a hopelessly lousy reference implementation.
Some people complain that they can't do everything on Linux that they can do with Windows, but apart from specific games (I love StarCraft)...
FYI, both SC1 and SC2 run flawlessly in Wine, I've been playing^Wtesting both for years.
If the horsepower and torque figures are still accurate, who cares? Heck, it might even be better. Compare the novelty of having a 500 HP V10 vs a 500 HP 4 cylinder.
At the core of the problem is that security is a tradeoff between convenience and security. Users like convenience and don't care about security. IT is tasked with (among other things) keeping things secure, and so users see them as making things less convenient. Making things even worse is that people ignorant of technology closer to the top of the organization are fond of instituting security theatre policies, which of course also fall upon IT to implement.
The what?
Yes and no, some drives have tripled in price while others have seen modest gains. Checking local stores, I see that the WD Caviar Green 2T drive that used to be on sale for $65 every week is now $180. However, the WD Caviar Green 3T drive that used to be in the $220 range is now... *drumroll*
It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, but I guess people are still buying the 2T drives instead of the 3T drives, even though the latter actually is ~10% cheaper per gig now.
I have a sneaking suspicion that once drive prices start falling again they'll fall very slowly and may never reach the levels we saw just a few months ago.
I'd vote, but the real problem with Democracy is that everybody else can vote too!
Id at the time agreed to use some Creative sound technology in Doom 3 that they wouldn't have otherwise used in exchange for Creative not patent trolling Id over Carmack's Reverse being used in Doom 3.
Currently posting from Edmonton using 250 down / 15 up / unlimited data.
How much is that costing you? That could be had here if you don't mind paying 5 figures a month for it.
In any given area, there's one company that owns the phone lines (say, Bell) and one other company that owns the cable lines (say, Rogers). That's it. Any Internet access you can get runs over their last mile lines or is horribly expensive and/or slow (satellite, wireless).
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
