Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Asianometry"
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@Erin-Thor - you did pretty well with your description about Sun!
One of the things that Sun did well was bundle all their software in a single package:
- networking built in, Microsoft needed network stack
- email built in (Microsoft needed a UNIX gateway, then email client, and individual client licenses for the software)
- printing built in (Novell or other print software was needed for Microsoft)
- compilers built in (Microsoft required purchasing of compiler software)
- GUI built in (Microsoft needed Windows on top of DOS)
- graphical debuggers (really no equivalent under DOS & Windows)
- Remote Desktop capability (Windows NT needed partners like Tektronix & Citrix)
Some high end apps excelled under Solaris:
- FrameMaker Desktop Publisher (no real equivalent in Windows, for awhile, and MS Word still chokes on large documents today)
Honestly, Sun was likely cheaper than the PC World of nickel & dime’ing people to death, but small departments with shadow IT could get PC’s and individual licenses, which allowed them to grow organically, under the radar of IT, who only had the budget for large inclusive minicomputer systems like Sun or DEC.
This presentation did not seem to understand how the business models differed & contributed to Sun’s downfall.
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Homogeneous means groups don’t fight with each other, they realize everyone benefits when they succeed!
In countries like the US, sometimes labor fights against management, sometimes poor pitted against rich, sometimes ethnicities fight against other ethnicities… usually when someone finds a way to profit from making division, by holding the greater hostage to some compromise that is not beneficial for the whole.
This negative behavior, repeated, eventually destroys the whole.
In countries like the US, as long as people see themselves as “Americans”, not as labor, not as an ethnicity, amazing things are possible… but this is getting harder and harder with destructive thought like critical race theory, which teaches dumb concepts encouraging people to concentrate on differences, instead of unity & the whole.
For example, iron by itself is great! Take Iron & combine with carbon, manganese, phosphorous, sulfur, silicon, and sometimes nickel & chromium - one gets various grades of steel, which is far superior to iron alone, but if one is taught to only concentrates on carbon & ignore iron & other elements, superior steel is never possible. Piles of iron, carbon, chromium, nickel, etc. which never mix, never can make steel, they must mixed together and the end products become piles of homogeneous steel products.
Homogeny is an important thing in society. One must see themselves as part of a bigger thing, ignore superficial differences, and build a better everything.
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@DAVID-io9nj - the archival of photos on Kodak PhotoCD was an interesting product in film development stores, but it never took off.
I drove people regularly to the local film store, until I did not, I did not even think about it, to be quite honest with you. What a shame.
I suppose it should have been sold with every film development opportunity…
…but then, Kodak should have had something to do with the PhotoCD’s — like a jukebox to put them in, index & order like a library catalog, play on a TV or video monitor, attach the printer to it. Eventually, connecting the internet to it. Could have been used for medical uses, educational uses, consumer, etc. Later, sell bigger jukeboxes, later converge onto hard drives & flash, later to the cloud. The film stores should have been the retail places to release each of these phases.
The PC today, is tied to operating systems that must get upgraded, building an appliance could have simplified the market. I am tied to a Mac, where I have to upgrade my machine every so many number of years, just for my photos. I have to do so, now as we speak, because my phone is no longer compatible with my old MacOS and the hardware does not support a new OS update… so I go to an Apple Store, for my photo storage update needs.
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