I wonder if they may take the plunge and make an OpenSolaris port for their HP 9000 and even Alpha based servers. Alpha went end of life several years ago.
Someone can define Digital's culture? Yes. Digital - The beatings will continue until morale improves. The CEO has a reserved parking spot for his luxury car, eats lunch in his private dinning room, and a 24 x 7 security detail.
DEC - The CEO parks his 10 year old pickup truck, the same one he uses to haul his trash to the dump on weekends, in any empty parking spot because he doesn't have a reserved one, eats lunch in the cafe like everyone else, and only has a security detail when the BoD demands it. He comes down to the hardware labs to not only admire your project but to actually understand it.
Unfortunately, Ken didn't understand business as well as he understood technology. But then Robert Palmer didn't understand either.
We aren't trying to replace Ajax with another model. Why not? HTML wasn't designed to be an application programming language; it was designed to display text in a device-independent manner.
Every developer here has written an application that has had requests for changes that violate one or more initial core design assumptions and has seen the disaster that results when they try to modify that application to do something that it was never intended to do.
This is what is happening with AJAX, etc. and web browsers. Web browsers were never supposed to be an internet application hosting environment (IAHE). We shouldn't try and make them into one.
You are concerned that whatever tries to become the universal updater will be proprietary. I have that concern with tossing browsers and replacing them with a proper IAHE. I'm even more concerned that governments will require backdoors that allow them to monitor what is going on inside the IAHE, but we need to create a proper IAHE. Trying to use a web browser to do this because we don't have the proper tool at hand is like the old saying that everything looks like a nail when all you have is a hammer. We need more than the web browser hammer.
Ah, I knew Melbourne was on the East coast, but didn't know it was like Clearwater and Clearwater Beach on the West coast. I lived in Clearwater and sure couldn't afford Clearwater Beach.
And seriously, even with all of them you're talking 10-15MB in a world where 4GB DDR2 costs 60-65$. It was this mentality that brought us Vista. Seriously folks, just because the RAM is there and the CPU is there does not mean you should be extra wasteful. This is why computers are following Moore's Law but not really getting any faster. I have to disagree here. This has nothing to do with being extra wasteful. 15MB is less than.4% of 4GB. I started writing code 30+ years ago on IBM 360s and DEC PDP-11s. I'll ignore the mainframe in my comments here since the PDP-11 was closer to early PCs in performance. On the PDP-11 you had 16KB of user address space to write your application in. There was no indexed file system let alone an RDBMS. The hard drives had 512KB of storage. You were sharing these resources with up to 3 other users. The UI was 80 x 24 characters. Any meaningful business program was at least 2 programs; one for data entry and a second to do the actual processing and file updates. You had to do it this way because you couldn't do both in 16KB.
That 15MB in today's world is like 64 bytes was in the PDP-11 world. In fact it's even less since if you don't use all 15MB it isn't going to be mapped into memory. In the PDP-11 world, there was no virtual memory.
Computers have gotten faster. The problem is that user expectations have risen at an even faster rate. 30 years ago, a "Cash flow projection" was a report generated in batch once a day. Today it's an on-demand drill down into a database allowing multiple what-if scenarios.
Your theories might be nice for hobbyists, but serious big businesses buy professional commercial tools. Back when I was a developer on Windows the MSDN license my company had was over $5,000 per seat per year. Serious big businesses don't pay over $5K/year even with Team System. In addition, most serious big businesses aren't MS-only shops and want a single repository/test/bug suite for all their distributed platforms. In this case, they pay significantly less than $1K/year for their MSDN subscription, plus whatever support fee for the repository/test/bug suite of their choice.
I tried to install 8.04 this past weekend. When I booted the CD and started the installer, it set the monitor resolution on my 19" CRT to some incredibly high resolution that I can't properly read the screen with any of the lenses in my trifocals. I continued on hoping that I could take the defaults on everything, but the partitioner wanted to install Ubuntu in the wrong place and I really need to be able to read the screen to do it properly, so I aborted the installation.
I then rebooted windows and asked how to fix this in the ubuntu forums and have not gotten any replies. Does anyone know how to force the installer to use a reasonable monitor resolution?
I was replying to this:
And more to the point. If you are the type who keep your gun handy at all times, you significantly increase the risk of someone accidentally getting shot. It's simply safer to keep your gun locked up in your gun-locker, and avoid criminals by using common sense and avoid risks (e.g. move to a safer neighbourhood, don't flash your money, stay away from those dudes hiding in the corner of the dark parking space, etc...) The person in the story I told followed the above advice: He lived in a very low crime neighborhood, didn't flash his money, stayed away from those dudes hiding in the corner of the dark parking space, etc. Fortunately for him, he didn't follow the part about keeping your self defense firearm inaccessible otherwise he would have joined the other victims who mistakingly depended upon the police to protect them, only to discover too late, that the police can't protect you.
As far as what you said,
Meanwhile, there are lots of other things to worry about. It would certainly be much wiser for you to worry about sugar and cholesterol-levels than 18 year old crimes in Plano. Because that's a much more likely killer! Why can't I do both? Is there some law that says I can't take care of my health and my safety?
And more to the point. If you are the type who keep your gun handy at all times, you significantly increase the risk of someone accidentally getting shot. It's simply safer to keep your gun locked up in your gun-locker, and avoid criminals by using common sense and avoid risks (e.g. move to a safer neighbourhood, don't flash your money, stay away from those dudes hiding in the corner of the dark parking space, etc...) Only in your fantasy world. Meanwhile in the real world...
In the early 1990's in Plano, Texas in the 2nd highest income zip code in the DFW metroplex, there was a problem with some rather nasty home invasions. Note that this was prior to the widespread availability of residential cellphone-enabled security systems. The invaders didn't care if anyone was home or not because when they targeted a house, they cut the phone lines to the victims house and all adjacent houses. They then proceeded to smash down the front door of the victims house and rob the occupants at gun point. Then, just for the hell of it, they proceeded to pistol whip the victims as they left.
The police were unable to catch them because neither the victims nor their neighbors, if they heard anything, could call the police. So, how were the robbers finally stopped?
They picked the wrong house to invade. They smashed through the front door of a house, only to be met by blasts from the owner's shotgun. One violent criminal died in the victims house. The other was injured and caught when he went to the hospital for treatment.
That's the real world. You are responsible for your own protection, not the police.
By the time you're talking to customs you are already on US soil. So, how does this get a magical pass on the 4th amendment, again? Back in the late '80s I flew to Pearson International Aiport in Toronto, Canada. I cleared Canadian Customs in the airport.
When it came time for my return flight, I was interrogated by a U.S. Customs Officer prior to boarding the aircraft at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada. When did the U.S. annex Toronto, Canada?
Great...now I get to do IT's job for them. In addition to my own work. So, I'll get paid for all the extra time I put in working on an IT project, right? Remind me why we even have an IT dept. again? Users expect us to know their business better than they do so they can be button-pushers and not think about why something is done. I've worked at companies where IT has all the institutional business knowledge, because the business refuses to learn it and pass it on.
1) The multiple windows thing I think this is the most often cited issue so I will list it first. GIMP opens multiple top-level windows Interesting. One of my main complaints with PAN, and my Windows-only newsreader - Gravity, is that it ISN'T multi-windowed. Different strokes for different folks.
It's like DEC with the PDP-1. Everyone *knew* in those days that a "computer" was a big, room-sized monstrosity that cost upwards of a million dollars and required a staff of dozens just to run; people figured there was only demand for 10 or so of those things on the planet. But DEC didn't sell "computers," they sold "Programmable Digital Processors," so companies bought them. Close, but not quite right. From Wikipedia and consistent from what I was told when I was employed by DEC, "At the time, the VC market was hostile to computer companies, and investors shied from their plans. The original business plan named the company "Digital Computer Corporation," but AR&D required that the name be changed to DEC. Instead, DEC started building small digital "modules" such as flip flops, gates, and transformer drivers that could be combined to run scientific and engineering experiments. In 1959, Ben Gurley started design of the company's first computer, the PDP-1 (PDP being an initialism for Programmable Data Processor as a means of attracting VC funding. As he put it, "We aren't building computers, we're building 'Programmable Data Processors'.""
It was VC hostility towards computer companies that caused the funny names for things.
Actually, I can get Vista for free with my MSDN subscription, but I would have to replace all my memory since it's ECC and my motherboard won't let you mix ECC and non-ECC RAM.
BTW, I work for a large corporation, with 10K+ desktops and they are in no hurry to migrate to Vista. IE 6 is still the supported browser and from what I've heard, some of our apps won't run on IE 7.
The downside to this idea is cats need to have breakaway collars so they don't hang themselves when they get their collars caught on underbrush, etc. So such a device would have to be not much more expensive than the collar itself, no more than $10, so you could afford to replace the unit on a regular basis.
Given the lack of precision in GPS units, the resulting track might be rather boring. If the location can only be tracked to a radius of 25 feet, it might show the cat moved 25 feet, stopped moving for 10 minutes, moved 25 feet, stopped for 5 minutes, etc. It's also why altitude might sound interesting to see when the cat climbs a tree or other object, but in reality, it would rarely show any change in altitude.
I find it interesting that people do not recognize the core value of Vista over XP (security). I recognize that if I want the increased security of Vista over XP that I will need to buy a new PC. My current configuration is an Athlon XP2100, 512MB RAM, and Gforce 2 video card. I have never gotten my pc infected with malware and I've been running XP since it came out. And, with XP, I get the added bonus of being able to listen to an MP3 I've ripped from one of my CDs and not have my network transfers come to a screeching halt.
With Ubuntu HH due out this month, I'm seriously considering repaving my Ubuntu FF partition with Ubuntu HH and only boot XP when when my wife wants to use the pc. I won't get the compbiz eye candy, but then my current configuration won't run Vista Aero either, so no loss there.
Texas has a lot of public roads that run through ranches. You can tell when you enter and leave the ranches because there are cattle guards in the road.
it still didn't stop it from making its way into the linux kernel, plus some userland apps. I've even seen a DCL interp (!) for linux. I didn't know that. I wonder if $ set proc/priv=all, prompts for your password on linux.
DECnet phaseV was mostly pure OSI; but phase IV DECnet was DEC's own invention. quite a nice one, too One day I was sending VMSMail to someone at an unfamiliar node and it took a long time for the Subject prompt to appear after I typed in the address. When I got a reply back, I discovered the person was located in France. No wonder it took a long time for VMSMail to verify the validity of the email address.
(I spent my first 6 years in the computer field working at DEC in maynard, mass. actually doing DECnet stuff, there, too.) I worked in the field in Dallas, my wife worked at The Mill and MRO. At one time, DEC had the largest non-military network in the world. Sigh.
Disclaimer: I've interned at XCOR. Assuming I go back, I'll be getting a ride on this vehicle -- not as an option, but as a job requirement. It's part of the way they do safety. Anyone who works on the vehicle rides on it. That way everyone is directly motivated to work on making it safer. Didn't the FAA set some minimum physical requirements for "space tourists", for lack of a better name? If so, it seems the "ride the vehicle" requirement could potentially cause them to lose out on some very good talent, not because the potential employee wouldn't want to fly the vehicle, but because they couldn't pass the FAA physical.
Does Virgin has the intention to fuel SpaceShipTwo with bio-fuel that he created uses some nut (babassu nuts) from the Amazon rain forest? Perhaps the mother ship, but the space ship uses nitrious oxide and a rubber compound.
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Digital - The beatings will continue until morale improves. The CEO has a reserved parking spot for his luxury car, eats lunch in his private dinning room, and a 24 x 7 security detail.
DEC - The CEO parks his 10 year old pickup truck, the same one he uses to haul his trash to the dump on weekends, in any empty parking spot because he doesn't have a reserved one, eats lunch in the cafe like everyone else, and only has a security detail when the BoD demands it. He comes down to the hardware labs to not only admire your project but to actually understand it.
Unfortunately, Ken didn't understand business as well as he understood technology. But then Robert Palmer didn't understand either.
Every developer here has written an application that has had requests for changes that violate one or more initial core design assumptions and has seen the disaster that results when they try to modify that application to do something that it was never intended to do.
This is what is happening with AJAX, etc. and web browsers. Web browsers were never supposed to be an internet application hosting environment (IAHE). We shouldn't try and make them into one.
You are concerned that whatever tries to become the universal updater will be proprietary. I have that concern with tossing browsers and replacing them with a proper IAHE. I'm even more concerned that governments will require backdoors that allow them to monitor what is going on inside the IAHE, but we need to create a proper IAHE. Trying to use a web browser to do this because we don't have the proper tool at hand is like the old saying that everything looks like a nail when all you have is a hammer. We need more than the web browser hammer.
Ah, I knew Melbourne was on the East coast, but didn't know it was like Clearwater and Clearwater Beach on the West coast. I lived in Clearwater and sure couldn't afford Clearwater Beach.
That 15MB in today's world is like 64 bytes was in the PDP-11 world. In fact it's even less since if you don't use all 15MB it isn't going to be mapped into memory. In the PDP-11 world, there was no virtual memory.
Computers have gotten faster. The problem is that user expectations have risen at an even faster rate. 30 years ago, a "Cash flow projection" was a report generated in batch once a day. Today it's an on-demand drill down into a database allowing multiple what-if scenarios.
I tried to install 8.04 this past weekend. When I booted the CD and started the installer, it set the monitor resolution on my 19" CRT to some incredibly high resolution that I can't properly read the screen with any of the lenses in my trifocals. I continued on hoping that I could take the defaults on everything, but the partitioner wanted to install Ubuntu in the wrong place and I really need to be able to read the screen to do it properly, so I aborted the installation.
I then rebooted windows and asked how to fix this in the ubuntu forums and have not gotten any replies. Does anyone know how to force the installer to use a reasonable monitor resolution?
That's nothing unusual. I think I still remember how to bypass all the security on a VMS system given access to the console.
As far as what you said, Meanwhile, there are lots of other things to worry about. It would certainly be much wiser for you to worry about sugar and cholesterol-levels than 18 year old crimes in Plano. Because that's a much more likely killer! Why can't I do both? Is there some law that says I can't take care of my health and my safety?
In the early 1990's in Plano, Texas in the 2nd highest income zip code in the DFW metroplex, there was a problem with some rather nasty home invasions. Note that this was prior to the widespread availability of residential cellphone-enabled security systems. The invaders didn't care if anyone was home or not because when they targeted a house, they cut the phone lines to the victims house and all adjacent houses. They then proceeded to smash down the front door of the victims house and rob the occupants at gun point. Then, just for the hell of it, they proceeded to pistol whip the victims as they left.
The police were unable to catch them because neither the victims nor their neighbors, if they heard anything, could call the police. So, how were the robbers finally stopped?
They picked the wrong house to invade. They smashed through the front door of a house, only to be met by blasts from the owner's shotgun. One violent criminal died in the victims house. The other was injured and caught when he went to the hospital for treatment.
That's the real world. You are responsible for your own protection, not the police.
This is not an issue in Texas. There are no booths. Election officials can observe attempts at tampering, but can't see how the individual is voting.
When it came time for my return flight, I was interrogated by a U.S. Customs Officer prior to boarding the aircraft at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Canada. When did the U.S. annex Toronto, Canada?
I think this is the most often cited issue so I will list it first. GIMP opens multiple top-level windows Interesting. One of my main complaints with PAN, and my Windows-only newsreader - Gravity, is that it ISN'T multi-windowed. Different strokes for different folks.
It was VC hostility towards computer companies that caused the funny names for things.
Actually, I can get Vista for free with my MSDN subscription, but I would have to replace all my memory since it's ECC and my motherboard won't let you mix ECC and non-ECC RAM.
BTW, I work for a large corporation, with 10K+ desktops and they are in no hurry to migrate to Vista. IE 6 is still the supported browser and from what I've heard, some of our apps won't run on IE 7.
The downside to this idea is cats need to have breakaway collars so they don't hang themselves when they get their collars caught on underbrush, etc. So such a device would have to be not much more expensive than the collar itself, no more than $10, so you could afford to replace the unit on a regular basis.
Given the lack of precision in GPS units, the resulting track might be rather boring. If the location can only be tracked to a radius of 25 feet, it might show the cat moved 25 feet, stopped moving for 10 minutes, moved 25 feet, stopped for 5 minutes, etc. It's also why altitude might sound interesting to see when the cat climbs a tree or other object, but in reality, it would rarely show any change in altitude.
With Ubuntu HH due out this month, I'm seriously considering repaving my Ubuntu FF partition with Ubuntu HH and only boot XP when when my wife wants to use the pc. I won't get the compbiz eye candy, but then my current configuration won't run Vista Aero either, so no loss there.
Texas has a lot of public roads that run through ranches. You can tell when you enter and leave the ranches because there are cattle guards in the road.
I've even seen a DCL interp (!) for linux. I didn't know that. I wonder if $ set proc/priv=all, prompts for your password on linux. DECnet phaseV was mostly pure OSI; but phase IV DECnet was DEC's own invention. quite a nice one, too One day I was sending VMSMail to someone at an unfamiliar node and it took a long time for the Subject prompt to appear after I typed in the address. When I got a reply back, I discovered the person was located in France. No wonder it took a long time for VMSMail to verify the validity of the email address. (I spent my first 6 years in the computer field working at DEC in maynard, mass. actually doing DECnet stuff, there, too.) I worked in the field in Dallas, my wife worked at The Mill and MRO. At one time, DEC had the largest non-military network in the world. Sigh.
Isn't it required reading in school anymore?
Too bad DECnet was a proprietary protocol.