I've been told that in Europe, HDD manufacturers have to supply a 3 (or maybe 2, can't remember) year warrenty as standard.
In the UK at least, all consumer goods are required to be 'of merchantable quality' (although it's common for software EULAs to disclaim this). I believe the EU mandates a 2 year minimum warranty.
Generally, if you buy something (car, hi-fi, whatever) and it falls apart within a year or two of normal use, you'll get a replacement/refund if you're sufficiently insistent. Since the reseller would have to bear this cost, they may just slap a premium on low manufacturer warranty disks.
Well, I think it was planned that way, but to increase speed the developers kept putting stuff in the kernel space until it basically grew into a monolithic kernel.
Yeah. World's largest microkernel. It belongs in the circus with the tallest dwarf and the beardless lady.
You raise some interesting points, and I'm also generally sceptical about multimedia convergence. But that Compaq are no longer directly competing with HP is hardly a telling point, since the merger.
Huh? I've not seen any UK pundits suggest that, and they seem to agree it will be even slower stateside. I guess there are a few incurable oftimists around still.
The computer techs shouldn't need to know the business.
If you are just talking about providing e-mail and a bog-standard Word and Excel install, with no support to any greater level than the included Help files, sure.
Even that can be a problem. A nearby firm outsourced their it and asked for more or less that. The FM guys just went round and imaged the machines with Windows + Office.
As a large part of their business was custom software development the developers were not happy. Good job they took their own backups (mostly). In the end they took to hiding the systems from the FM guys.
I work in a laser lab, were the laser we work with (an Argon Ion) puts out a maximum 15 watts of power (of multiple wavelengths of visible light) in a ~5mm diameter beam.
Design by comitee, by definition, should work better than design by a dictator because it will satisfy the problems that many people percieve, and not just the solve the pet peeves of a single deranged man.
That's your view. Design by committee will often be uninspired and conservative. It will have compromises: you include X and I'll include Y. It can slow down progress to an amazing degree.
It's old news that software development doesn't scale: 'The Mythical Man Month' should be required reading for anyone working on a large project. You *need* good management and a clear design. Otherwise the project is doomed, and throwing an infinite number of code monkeys at it will only make it worse.
Short history lesson: the Roman senate initially appointed dictators for a fixed term when they felt they needed decisive actions (as in a time of war). Perhaps this model, of appointing a key developer as dictator for one release cycle might gain some of the best features of both.
A Free F2000 compiler - that researchers here about - would go a long way towards getting Fortran coders into Fortran 2000.
Yeah, trouble is a modern Fortran compiler is both hard to write and about as unsexy as it gets in the GNU/Linux world. Which is sad because the language is dismissed by folks who should know better, based on syntax that was obsolete even in F77.
Now we can return to the: I haven't used Fortran for 25 years, has anything changed posts? And why doesn't someone write an OO language based on C?
Crowing about how performance is higher under Linux is FUD. It's not a fair comparison. Or didn't the story submitter understand that hardware always affects performance?
Yeah, TPC comparisions are always a bit of a game. And it takes some effort (and cost) to sort out the hardware and run the test.
That Linux has a point on the graph that isn't disimilar from other systems may help dispel some doubts about Linux scaleability and potential as a back office platform. IMHO that's more significant than whether today's TPC ratings put it slightly above or slightly below Windows.
...mostly because OpenVMS people tend to think, that 'their' OS is the most secure one on this planet
Well some no doubt do. But the bundled TCP/IP stack has been a poor relation for years, and the reaction of typical VMSers to TCP/IP problems is often "well the IP code was mostly written by UNIX guys, what do you expect"? However, anyone with a clue knows that basic Internet protocol improvements tend to appear first on BSD or Linux and work its way round.
Anyway TCPIP 5.1 (unpatched?) is hardly the latest, even for VMS. It long predates the initial article for a start; it would be interesting to know how current versions look.
Still, I also don't see what's wrong with the article.
It's just the punning title of "fair", as in "they have been forced to do it under fair competition laws". Sub-ed's do that kind of thing, as any journalist knows.
Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."
They are mostly iron, so they conduct heat well, and cool off fast in the upper atmosphere...
And she said it looked "rusty". Meteorites are black; they can't oxidize in space.
Presumably that it where the speculation that it may be Martian in origin originates. One might expect Mars crust to be both stony and oxidised. Martian meteorites are pretty rare though, so it makes the story more unlikely. It's barely possible though.
"Gentlemen, I would rather believe that two Yankee professors would lie than believe that stones fall from heaven." -- Thomas Jefferson
Not true. Fiscal responsibilty in government institutions comes from extremely well written specifications and a closed, low bid system with underwriting. Not allowing a closed source shop to compete certainly does not help fiscal responsibility.
The problem is always that its easy to put in a low bid for a system, knowing that when it comes to renew the contract the institution will have (say) data in proprietary formats. The moral: you can't write a specification to deal with these things; it's likely outside the remit of any institution. What you need is a policy that allows you to put a value on being locked in for the next contract round.
Now I'm happy for commercial vendors to tender what solution they like. I'm not happy that it's considered reasonable for public records to be locked away in proprietary undocumented formats. I would like to see the source of the crypto code though, so that I knew that it wasn't being weakened to allow espionage by a foreign power.
I see; and testing IE5 and IE5.5 is different how? I expected he tested the version that happened to be installed. You would only have to be running, say SuSe 7.3 (only one version behind the current) to have Mozilla 0.9.4 pre-installed.
The examiner's manager has done more damage to the EU patent office's reputation than any answer the examiner could have given.
Nonsense. Some folks who read/. now realise there is at least one manager in the EU patent office that believes in following standard policy in just about any large organisation.
If you really think you couldn't do any worse, then you have obviously never been on the receiving end of really bad PR. Employee told not to talk to the press without approval is just not news. No story here, move along.
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I've been told that in Europe, HDD manufacturers have to supply a 3 (or maybe 2, can't remember) year warrenty as standard.
In the UK at least, all consumer goods are required to be 'of merchantable quality' (although it's common for software EULAs to disclaim this). I believe the EU mandates a 2 year minimum warranty.
Generally, if you buy something (car, hi-fi, whatever) and it falls apart within a year or two of normal use, you'll get a replacement/refund if you're sufficiently insistent. Since the reseller would have to bear this cost, they may just slap a premium on low manufacturer warranty disks.
Well, I think it was planned that way, but to increase speed the developers kept putting stuff in the kernel space until it basically grew into a monolithic kernel.
Yeah. World's largest microkernel. It belongs in the circus with the tallest dwarf and the beardless lady.
You raise some interesting points, and I'm also generally sceptical about multimedia convergence. But that Compaq are no longer directly competing with HP is hardly a telling point, since the merger.
Lol... I didn't mean That good Doctor
Yeah, I know. Let me get the URL right this time.
Yes. He discovered the tenth planet in 1986.
There will be no IT turnaround in 2003.
Huh? I've not seen any UK pundits suggest that, and they seem to agree it will be even slower stateside. I guess there are a few incurable oftimists around still.
The computer techs shouldn't need to know the business.
If you are just talking about providing e-mail and a bog-standard Word and Excel install, with no support to any greater level than the included Help files, sure.
Even that can be a problem. A nearby firm outsourced their it and asked for more or less that. The FM guys just went round and imaged the machines with Windows + Office.
As a large part of their business was custom software development the developers were not happy. Good job they took their own backups (mostly). In the end they took to hiding the systems from the FM guys.
I work in a laser lab, were the laser we work with (an Argon Ion) puts out a maximum 15 watts of power (of multiple wavelengths of visible light) in a ~5mm diameter beam.
Now you can imagine what 100,000 watts will do:)
No , but I've see what 1 000 000 000 000 000 Watts can do.
Liberation lies in the colourless Public Domain.
I think you'll find that it's blue.
That's your view. Design by committee will often be uninspired and conservative. It will have compromises: you include X and I'll include Y. It can slow down progress to an amazing degree.
It's old news that software development doesn't scale: 'The Mythical Man Month' should be required reading for anyone working on a large project. You *need* good management and a clear design. Otherwise the project is doomed, and throwing an infinite number of code monkeys at it will only make it worse.
Short history lesson: the Roman senate initially appointed dictators for a fixed term when they felt they needed decisive actions (as in a time of war). Perhaps this model, of appointing a key developer as dictator for one release cycle might gain some of the best features of both.
I don't think Don understands that
And Larry doesn't need a committee to help design a camel!
Yeah, trouble is a modern Fortran compiler is both hard to write and about as unsexy as it gets in the GNU/Linux world. Which is sad because the language is dismissed by folks who should know better, based on syntax that was obsolete even in F77.
Now we can return to the: I haven't used Fortran for 25 years, has anything changed posts? And why doesn't someone write an OO language based on C?
No, warchalking is technically *not* theft.
Did anyone say that it was? Sure?
"An advisory issued by the handset maker said anyone using bandwidth without the permission of the person paying for it was simply stealing."
Sigh. Why get hung up on the literal meaning of a third hand report?
Yeah, TPC comparisions are always a bit of a game. And it takes some effort (and cost) to sort out the hardware and run the test.
That Linux has a point on the graph that isn't disimilar from other systems may help dispel some doubts about Linux scaleability and potential as a back office platform. IMHO that's more significant than whether today's TPC ratings put it slightly above or slightly below Windows.
Well some no doubt do. But the bundled TCP/IP stack has been a poor relation for years, and the reaction of typical VMSers to TCP/IP problems is often "well the IP code was mostly written by UNIX guys, what do you expect"? However, anyone with a clue knows that basic Internet protocol improvements tend to appear first on BSD or Linux and work its way round.
Anyway TCPIP 5.1 (unpatched?) is hardly the latest, even for VMS. It long predates the initial article for a start; it would be interesting to know how current versions look.
It's just the punning title of "fair", as in "they have been forced to do it under fair competition laws". Sub-ed's do that kind of thing, as any journalist knows.
Head rotation devices will become illegal under the DMCA. I mean, looking away during the commercial break on is the same as stealing, right?
There are some more regulations on breaks within the week too. So even three 15 hour days wouldn't be permitted.
Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."
And she said it looked "rusty". Meteorites are black; they can't oxidize in space.
Presumably that it where the speculation that it may be Martian in origin originates. One might expect Mars crust to be both stony and oxidised. Martian meteorites are pretty rare though, so it makes the story more unlikely. It's barely possible though.
"Gentlemen, I would rather believe that two Yankee professors would lie than believe that stones fall from heaven." -- Thomas Jefferson
The problem is always that its easy to put in a low bid for a system, knowing that when it comes to renew the contract the institution will have (say) data in proprietary formats. The moral: you can't write a specification to deal with these things; it's likely outside the remit of any institution. What you need is a policy that allows you to put a value on being locked in for the next contract round.
Now I'm happy for commercial vendors to tender what solution they like. I'm not happy that it's considered reasonable for public records to be locked away in proprietary undocumented formats.
I would like to see the source of the crypto code though, so that I knew that it wasn't being weakened to allow espionage by a foreign power.
I see; and testing IE5 and IE5.5 is different how? I expected he tested the version that happened to be installed. You would only have to be running, say SuSe 7.3 (only one version behind the current) to have Mozilla 0.9.4 pre-installed.
Nonsense. Some folks who read
If you really think you couldn't do any worse, then you have obviously never been on the receiving end of really bad PR. Employee told not to talk to the press without approval is just not news. No story here, move along.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
--Dylan Thomas
No. No. No. They are celebrating their First Amendment rights.
With all the bad legislation floating around these days Judge Kozinski's ruling is a breath of fresh air.