GM in talks to buy Chrysler!

[BTowler]

Thanks for the clarification, I took your post wrong and caught it at exactly the wrong time. My apologies! As far as Windows, just like Ford or Dodge, you will find opinions going both ways, I think it really depends on where or what end you are working.

 

[Grizzly]

I'd like to see Toyota buy Chrysler. Then we would have the best of both worlds.

 

[AKaiser]

I'd like to Toyota buy Chrysler. Then we would have the best of both worlds.

You think the unions are against the split now, wait to hear them absolutely HOWL at the prospect of Toyota taking on Chrysler. :-laf



My Dad might be for it on those ground alone. I think it would be a payback for what the UAW did to International Harvester in the early 80s. #@$%!

 

[jwgary]

Is Toyota non-union?

 

[Grizzly]

Is Toyota non-union?

They do not belong to the UAW.

 

[BTowler]

That is why they only set up in non-union, right-to-work states like Texas.

 

[SKargo]

I support Microsoft for a living and let me tell you; 9 times out of 10 is the user, not the OS.



Microsoft has significantly locked down Vista and now people are whining about it being too locked down.



Microsoft delayed Vista because they decided to completely recode every single function rather than use previous code and people complained about Vista being delayed.



Microsoft won't release it's code to just anybody and people are complaining that they are too "closed" and need to be more "open". Of course this would also result in allowing the script kiddies to get an even better idea about how to hack it.



Microsoft locked down system files making it more difficult to change or replace them (thus making it harder for viruses and worms to do their damage) and now developers are complaining about Microsoft being too secretive.



You dream of a day when Ford and Dodge walk hand and hand? I dream of a day when script kiddies grow up, move out of mommy and daddy's basement and become productive members of society rather than spend all their time trying to figure it out how to stick it to Microsoft.



I was part of my companies IT security team (top 100 in Fortune 500) and I can tell you from first hand knowledge that Linux has it's own security holes, its just that the loser hackers aren't interested in targeting an OS that is only deployed at less that 4% world-wide market on the desktop and less than 25% world-wide for servers. This compares to oever 90% desktop for Windows and 60% for Windows servers.



The hackers go for the biggest target plain and simple.



I will get off my soapbox now!! #@$%!



Huskerman

Microsoft sucks. :-laf

 

[AKaiser]

Is Toyota non-union?

As far as I know, there are ZERO US Toyota plants with unions in them. The Japanese plants are "JAW" Japanese Auto Workers. From what I hear, they (JAW) ask for a raise, and Toyota gives it to them. Read somewhere they got a 1/3 of annual wage bonus one year. Curious as to the veracity of those statements, but they were made by supposed Toyota employees. Who knows.

 

[Grizzly]

That is why they only set up in non-union, right-to-work states like Texas.

They are also plants in Kentucky, California, Indiana, Mississippi, West Virgina, and Alabama.

 

[BTowler]

They are also plants in Kentucky, California, Indiana, Mississippi, West Virgina, and Alabama.

Which are probably right-to-work states. This means that union membership is not required to get the job. There are states that you can't get a job unless you join the union.

 

[Joe G.]

Not quite true. Some states ALLOW closed shops. I don't know of any that REQUIRE closed shops. The right to work states ban closed shops.

 

[TFucili]

Good designs speak for themselves

I support Microsoft for a living and let me tell you; 9 times out of 10 is the user, not the OS.
Huskerman

Maybe if the OS was less counterintuitive the user could avoid problems, or, moreover could find his way out of a jam. Windows makes you feel like a rat in a maze if you are not a power user, and that makes it hard to expand your knowledge base. I won't say that people don't create their own issues, but blaming them for a poor design is akin to Dodge doing the silly horn-blowing reflash because PARK may not properly engage.
Vista is a half baked attempt to copy the Mac OS

My apologies for threadjacking.

 

[Grizzly]

Microsoft sucks. :-laf

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?

 

[SKargo]

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?

Exactly how much is tea in China these days anyhow?

 

[Grizzly]

Exactly how much is tea in China these days anyhow?

Exactly. I don't know and I don't care, but Microsoft is $29. 02 per share.

 

[SKargo]

Exactly. I don't know and I don't care, but Microsoft is $29. 02 per share.

Not what it once was aye?

 

[JasonCzerak]

Maybe if the OS was less counterintuitive the user could avoid problems, or, moreover could find his way out of a jam. Windows makes you feel like a rat in a maze if you are not a power user, and that makes it hard to expand your knowledge base. I won't say that people don't create their own issues, but blaming them for a poor design is akin to Dodge doing the silly horn-blowing reflash because PARK may not properly engage.

Vista is a half baked attempt to copy the Mac OS



My apologies for threadjacking.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html



Ummm, I'd say the amount of MS servers reachable via TCP/IP over the internetz is must less then Unix and Unix-like servers.



As far as my companies direction, they toss a new windows box on the network for every little task, while unix/linux boxes tend to run multiple tasks.



I wish I had screen shots, but I have had a good 10 solaris boxes up for well over 550days (DST patches require a reboot). I don't even have a backup generator, if I had one, I'd be close to 800-ish.



A recent building move at another location there were 2 linux boxes with 955day uptimes, There is one development HP-UX box running with 1500+ days of uptime (they didn't reboot for DST for obvious reasons... ).



Windows boxes, once every 30 days cuz just about every patch requires a reboot.

 

[Grizzly]

I saw in the news today where Toyota surpassed GM in sales on the last quarter.

 

[AKaiser]

Not what it once was aye?

True, but hasn't it gone thru 2 stock splits?

 

[SKargo]

True, but hasn't it gone thru 2 stock splits?

I'd imagine at least 2.