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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
VMS also ran on Dec-Alpha. The main problem was that a single Alpha could replace an awful lot of VAX HW and so to claw the profit back, the license fees meant a VMS Alpha was about 3x the price of the same machine running NT. We used to bu
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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
There's a Joel Spolsky podcast about Qt (pronounced cute) where he talks about the cute guy giving the talk - to the confused embarrassment of the other speakers.
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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
I suspect they make very little money selling Kindles. They probably sell for about break-even, as seen by the price drops. Amazon want you to buy books, preferably online, and only from them.
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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
Any place that has any kind of "employee valuation policy" doesn't value their employees.
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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
Because the alternative was that IBM or HP would buy Sun - or they would simply disappear. The result (in either case) would be a lot of IBM hardware salesmen crawling over Sun's customers saying things like: If you want to switch to DB2 to
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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
This happens everytime a company is taken over by a larger one. Except for a few VPs who are part of the M&A team - everyone at the smaller company always ends up beneath the same person at the larger one. Everyone in tech knows this -
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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
I suspect somebody said the same thing about GM or Chrysler
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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
In the UK they can imprison you for 5years for refusing to hand over the key. You did log the key for that https session when you used amazon checkout didn't you?
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by iuyfgtrghjk 16y ago
The real problem with the clipper chips was the start of international communication - which meant the USA had to agree with Europe, Japan, China etc to share the keys. Same thing here, if the US has a backdoor into https/ssh, then the Eu w