It's only very slightly worse than Google, nowadays. Microsoft's, on the other hand, is still crap on a stick, and it's not worth spending time talking about.
So, returning to Yahoo: at this point, what Yahoo needs is a better image, as the search engine itself, in its core, is fine. And to improve their image, Yahoo might want to tone down the "noise" that their site seems to throw at the users. Also, Yahoo should do a real effort to actually unify all those services inside of "My Yahoo". As it is now, "My Yahoo" is utterly useless, and the various Yahoo services seem to be kept together with spit or nothing. MOstly nothing.
For an example of the "Yahoo noise" I was talking about, just see Yahoo Messenger. I hate that shit with passion (but am forced to use it 'cause my GF likes it, and is convinced that the "connection is better than with Skype").
That said, Yahoo services are less "noisy" than Hotmail and the resto of MSN.
...and quality and longevity take a back seat. So companies stopped offering SLC Flash RAM (+100.000 writes) and only offer MLC (5000 writes), and are now pushing even eight-level MLC, which will be even less reliable than standard 4-level MLC Flash RAM. But who cares, the consumer will be slightly fucked after a while, but that will be much later, after they enjoyed the happiness of getting slightly more GB for their buck.
The only manufacturer that I know of, that is an exception, if Kingston, which still offers SLC Flash products - namely their elite pro line of SD and CF cards, and the Data traveler USB drives. But that's it, everyone else has not completely transitioned to MLC.
Very good point! Sun has it all sewn up: complete hardware (inlcuding motherboard, netcard, controllers etc.) - the CPU - the OS - Java - a RAD solution - a DB solution - and last but not least (heck, probably not even last): a complete storage solution, including enterprise backup.
From the picture in the linked article, it's pretty obvious that this is indeed an exoskeleton - it has bottom support (from underneath the feet) all the way up to the arms.
NO, absolutely not the only one - that's my hope as well. But the truth is, Sun is a company that gave a lot to the world in which it exists, and monetized very little of it. It's the greatest open source contributor (Solaris, Java, OpenOffice, the SPARC architecture itself, NetBeans, ZFS... and I'm sure missing some, as Sun gave away HUGE amounts of stuff).
Such companies don't usually succeed in a commercial sense. I'm tempted to say that Sun should cease to be a for-profit publicly traded company, and become either a state-sponsored institution, or private foundation, for the development of high-tech.
I was in an accident last year, so I had many months of inactivity, and as I am going back to cycling, I'm picking up a few things to keep in mind: definitely give yourself a day to recover from a long, hard ride. I don't mean your usual 7.5 Km commute (which would make 15 Km/day, if I understand you correctly?), but rather 1 hour full-throttle ride. Though, if you have been doing that commute every day since January, you should be ready for pretty much any lenght of ride, provided that you have a few uphills in your commute.
If you are interested in a balanced development of your muscles, I humbly submit to you the use of a singlespeed bicycle: that forces the rider to use both slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscles, developing both, whereas a geared bicycle will keep you in your comfort zone most/all of the time. It worked for me: My ex-GF had particular words of compliment for "my lean, muscular ass), which I appreciate. I'm still waiting for my new GF's assesment:)
If you've not cycled before, it will take a couple of months, but then (if you're not over 70) you should be able to do most any length of tour. For me, the bottleneck is my butt, which gets sore after 40-50 Km, (I'm a skinny guy and lack "paddings" down there) but as far as legs and general stamina, I know I could go for at least that much, and I'm no Lance.
Yeah, times have truly changed. This new Microsoft has started losing some battles. IE marketshare is slipping, netbooks have opened the ground for a non-irrelevant number of Linux computers and MS didn't manage to "f*cking kill" Google. MSN is still a joke, the brown thing (zune) was a disaster, MS didn't manage to shove down the consumer's throat their new OS (this is the greatest sign of MS' weakening) and even the Xbox business isn't a resounding success, in spite of the money burnt and the number of consoles sold (perhaps the fact that the 360 carves a groove in your DVDs has had some adverse effects on sales?).
All in all, this is not anymore the invincible monster we all have to bow in front of - the king's naked and he's tossing chairs through the Windows.
I wish he took the challenge - that would have been fabolous! On a related note: I did 35 Km on by bicycle yesterday, in one go. Saved some (gas) money, enjoyed some of the views AND improved my heart, my lungs and my blood's erythrocite count.
Ah, another summer of riding my bikes - I'm so lucky:)
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Yes, I had this in mind exactly, but I failed to explicitly say it in my post: screw career - a warm, loving family where everybody feels protected and safe, that's way WAY more fulfilling than a career.
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When you look into your children's eyes and wonder what will they wear, eat, buy their books and toys from, somehow you feel you can do less-than-dreamlike jobs.
It's not pretty, but it beats being unemployed - and being responsible for a family.
Got my tags mixed up, sorry. Here's how I wanted to post:
The king of Thailand is protected by a set of old laws called Lese Majeste, which essentially means it is a crime to injure the king in any way (including verbally).You may not agree with it, and in fact, the Thai king himself is against these laws, but this is their way.
And in some parts of Africa a female child may have her clitoris excised to save her from sexual temptation later in life. Now in some less-enlightened quarters, this is considered a bad idea. But hey, what do I know, I'm just an ugly American imposing my cultural views on the world, right?
Cultural relativism is as harmful a mind virus as religion. Some things in the world are broken, and sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending otherwise does not make you morally superior.
I agree with you, but I also think we should prioritize: the systematic mutilation of all girls seems a good point to start fixing the world. The there's the honor killings of women "suspected of having an illegitimate affair" in many Islamic countries. And then the fact that women are forbidden from getting any education in some parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Funny how none of those come up on Slashdot, ever. I guess those are not "stuff that matters".
The king of Thailand is protected by a set of old laws called Lese Majeste, which essentially means it is a crime to injure the king in any way (including verbally).You may not agree with it, and in fact, the Thai king himself is against these laws, but this is their way.
And in some parts of Africa a female child may have her clitoris excised to save her from sexual temptation later in life. Now in some less-enlightened quarters, this is considered a bad idea. But hey, what do I know, I'm just an ugly American imposing my cultural views on the world, right?
Cultural relativism is as harmful a mind virus as religion. Some things in the world are broken, and sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending otherwise does not make you morally superior.
I agree with you, but I also think we should prioritize: the systematic mutilation of all girls seems a good point to start fixing the world. The there's the honor killings of women "suspected of having an illegitimate affair" in many Islamic countries. And then the fact that women are forbidden from getting any education in some parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Funny how none of those come up on Slashdot, ever. I guess those are not "stuff that matters".
And it would aid the economy in the sense of the two pooling their money, and centralizing their spending. It would also aid us in the IT field, as the post-merger IBM would sell Sparc AND POWER hardware, with the option of Solaris or Linux on either one (theoretically), all bundled with IBM's famous support. IBM owning the rights to Java would work wonders for the Java community, especially in the Linux aspect, and IBM would have probably contributed more to StarOffice/OpenOffice using some Lotus material. I was really looking forward to the two becoming one, needless to say, especially for more formidable Microsoft competition (from both a business stance and IT stance).
I read this paragraph fairly carefully, and I still couldn't make up my mind if you meant it or you were just being sarcastic to the max.
Take an Ultra 1 or Ultra 2 - they are still rather useful computers, and the OS they run is rock solid by any standards. And there's a ton of software for them.
Now, I'm not suggesting that a 15 year old Sun Ultra 1 would be what your father is looking for, just that it is possible to have hardware that is both good quality and long lasting, and that it would run an OS and software that is still relevant nowadays. Sun did a great job at keeping Solaris backwards-compatible, both hardware-wise (supports older architectures) and software-wise (you can run a lot of vitnage software even on the newest Solaris).
Anyhow... an Ultra 1 is still a damn good computer.
Fundamentally radioactive transuranic waste with a half life of 220,000 years is why I don't like nuclear power.
And the solution to the long-lived nuclear waste is to build breeder reactors.
India and Japan are going to kick everyone's butt in this area. If the rest of the world doesn't embrace this technology, India and Japan (and perhaps Russia and China) will have the cheapest energy in the world.
Sometimes the right guy for the job is someone who is really unattractive from a geeky point of view -- like a slick, charismatic, self-aggrandizing, womanizing minister.
You have just described a psychopath. Yes, they are usually very succesful in politics, but that success is only for their very own power and material benefit - psychopaths in leading positions regularly and without ecception leave loss, misery and devastation behind them.
They are the exact opposite of aspies: they will lie while looking you straight in the eyes, and you won't ever notice. They are master manipulators, extremely charismatic and very succesful with women - but again, they will only use and abuse their victims.
Aspies are very friendly, and above all, very honest. I can see a society where people are more honest than they are now - and I don't think it would be worse.
Also, aspies are outspoken and courageous, they don't hide behind masks like you do, anonymous coward.
In my view (and I have many AS traits), Asperger's Syndrome is not a bad thing - AS people are more creative, more courageous and morally/ethically more daring than the average (so-called neurotypical) person. AS people are disproportionately more responsible for human advancements. They're also very honest (mostly not capable of lying and conversely, naively trusting that everybody else is like them, unable to lie).
I know what you mean, but consider that there have been some truly interesting and Slashdot-pertinent stories submitted today - and rejected! Instead, we have this garbage. Tons and tons of garbage to wade through, and none of the things relevant to the usual Slashdot readership.
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It's only very slightly worse than Google, nowadays. Microsoft's, on the other hand, is still crap on a stick, and it's not worth spending time talking about.
So, returning to Yahoo: at this point, what Yahoo needs is a better image, as the search engine itself, in its core, is fine. And to improve their image, Yahoo might want to tone down the "noise" that their site seems to throw at the users. Also, Yahoo should do a real effort to actually unify all those services inside of "My Yahoo". As it is now, "My Yahoo" is utterly useless, and the various Yahoo services seem to be kept together with spit or nothing. MOstly nothing.
For an example of the "Yahoo noise" I was talking about, just see Yahoo Messenger. I hate that shit with passion (but am forced to use it 'cause my GF likes it, and is convinced that the "connection is better than with Skype").
That said, Yahoo services are less "noisy" than Hotmail and the resto of MSN.
...and quality and longevity take a back seat. So companies stopped offering SLC Flash RAM (+100.000 writes) and only offer MLC (5000 writes), and are now pushing even eight-level MLC, which will be even less reliable than standard 4-level MLC Flash RAM. But who cares, the consumer will be slightly fucked after a while, but that will be much later, after they enjoyed the happiness of getting slightly more GB for their buck.
The only manufacturer that I know of, that is an exception, if Kingston, which still offers SLC Flash products - namely their elite pro line of SD and CF cards, and the Data traveler USB drives. But that's it, everyone else has not completely transitioned to MLC.
Very good point! Sun has it all sewn up: complete hardware (inlcuding motherboard, netcard, controllers etc.) - the CPU - the OS - Java - a RAD solution - a DB solution - and last but not least (heck, probably not even last): a complete storage solution, including enterprise backup.
From the picture in the linked article, it's pretty obvious that this is indeed an exoskeleton - it has bottom support (from underneath the feet) all the way up to the arms.
NO, absolutely not the only one - that's my hope as well. But the truth is, Sun is a company that gave a lot to the world in which it exists, and monetized very little of it. It's the greatest open source contributor (Solaris, Java, OpenOffice, the SPARC architecture itself, NetBeans, ZFS... and I'm sure missing some, as Sun gave away HUGE amounts of stuff).
Such companies don't usually succeed in a commercial sense. I'm tempted to say that Sun should cease to be a for-profit publicly traded company, and become either a state-sponsored institution, or private foundation, for the development of high-tech.
I was in an accident last year, so I had many months of inactivity, and as I am going back to cycling, I'm picking up a few things to keep in mind: definitely give yourself a day to recover from a long, hard ride. I don't mean your usual 7.5 Km commute (which would make 15 Km/day, if I understand you correctly?), but rather 1 hour full-throttle ride. Though, if you have been doing that commute every day since January, you should be ready for pretty much any lenght of ride, provided that you have a few uphills in your commute.
If you are interested in a balanced development of your muscles, I humbly submit to you the use of a singlespeed bicycle: that forces the rider to use both slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscles, developing both, whereas a geared bicycle will keep you in your comfort zone most/all of the time. It worked for me: My ex-GF had particular words of compliment for "my lean, muscular ass), which I appreciate. I'm still waiting for my new GF's assesment :)
If you've not cycled before, it will take a couple of months, but then (if you're not over 70) you should be able to do most any length of tour. For me, the bottleneck is my butt, which gets sore after 40-50 Km, (I'm a skinny guy and lack "paddings" down there) but as far as legs and general stamina, I know I could go for at least that much, and I'm no Lance.
Yeah, times have truly changed. This new Microsoft has started losing some battles. IE marketshare is slipping, netbooks have opened the ground for a non-irrelevant number of Linux computers and MS didn't manage to "f*cking kill" Google. MSN is still a joke, the brown thing (zune) was a disaster, MS didn't manage to shove down the consumer's throat their new OS (this is the greatest sign of MS' weakening) and even the Xbox business isn't a resounding success, in spite of the money burnt and the number of consoles sold (perhaps the fact that the 360 carves a groove in your DVDs has had some adverse effects on sales?).
All in all, this is not anymore the invincible monster we all have to bow in front of - the king's naked and he's tossing chairs through the Windows.
I wish he took the challenge - that would have been fabolous! On a related note: I did 35 Km on by bicycle yesterday, in one go. Saved some (gas) money, enjoyed some of the views AND improved my heart, my lungs and my blood's erythrocite count.
Ah, another summer of riding my bikes - I'm so lucky :)
Yes, I had this in mind exactly, but I failed to explicitly say it in my post: screw career - a warm, loving family where everybody feels protected and safe, that's way WAY more fulfilling than a career.
When you look into your children's eyes and wonder what will they wear, eat, buy their books and toys from, somehow you feel you can do less-than-dreamlike jobs.
It's not pretty, but it beats being unemployed - and being responsible for a family.
Got my tags mixed up, sorry. Here's how I wanted to post:
The king of Thailand is protected by a set of old laws called Lese Majeste, which essentially means it is a crime to injure the king in any way (including verbally).You may not agree with it, and in fact, the Thai king himself is against these laws, but this is their way.
And in some parts of Africa a female child may have her clitoris excised to save her from sexual temptation later in life. Now in some less-enlightened quarters, this is considered a bad idea. But hey, what do I know, I'm just an ugly American imposing my cultural views on the world, right?
Cultural relativism is as harmful a mind virus as religion. Some things in the world are broken, and sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending otherwise does not make you morally superior.
I agree with you, but I also think we should prioritize: the systematic mutilation of all girls seems a good point to start fixing the world. The there's the honor killings of women "suspected of having an illegitimate affair" in many Islamic countries. And then the fact that women are forbidden from getting any education in some parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Funny how none of those come up on Slashdot, ever. I guess those are not "stuff that matters".
The king of Thailand is protected by a set of old laws called Lese Majeste, which essentially means it is a crime to injure the king in any way (including verbally).You may not agree with it, and in fact, the Thai king himself is against these laws, but this is their way.
And in some parts of Africa a female child may have her clitoris excised to save her from sexual temptation later in life. Now in some less-enlightened quarters, this is considered a bad idea. But hey, what do I know, I'm just an ugly American imposing my cultural views on the world, right?
Cultural relativism is as harmful a mind virus as religion. Some things in the world are broken, and sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending otherwise does not make you morally superior.
I agree with you, but I also think we should prioritize: the systematic mutilation of all girls seems a good point to start fixing the world. The there's the honor killings of women "suspected of having an illegitimate affair" in many Islamic countries. And then the fact that women are forbidden from getting any education in some parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Funny how none of those come up on Slashdot, ever. I guess those are not "stuff that matters".
Yep, booting from a 9GB SCSI drive :)
Thanks for the info. Knowing that Solaris 10 works with just 256MB is encouraging.
And it would aid the economy in the sense of the two pooling their money, and centralizing their spending. It would also aid us in the IT field, as the post-merger IBM would sell Sparc AND POWER hardware, with the option of Solaris or Linux on either one (theoretically), all bundled with IBM's famous support. IBM owning the rights to Java would work wonders for the Java community, especially in the Linux aspect, and IBM would have probably contributed more to StarOffice/OpenOffice using some Lotus material. I was really looking forward to the two becoming one, needless to say, especially for more formidable Microsoft competition (from both a business stance and IT stance).
I read this paragraph fairly carefully, and I still couldn't make up my mind if you meant it or you were just being sarcastic to the max.
If you have Solaris 10 on that Ultra 10, how much RAM does it require? I wonder if I could get away with 512 MB.
Take an Ultra 1 or Ultra 2 - they are still rather useful computers, and the OS they run is rock solid by any standards. And there's a ton of software for them.
Now, I'm not suggesting that a 15 year old Sun Ultra 1 would be what your father is looking for, just that it is possible to have hardware that is both good quality and long lasting, and that it would run an OS and software that is still relevant nowadays. Sun did a great job at keeping Solaris backwards-compatible, both hardware-wise (supports older architectures) and software-wise (you can run a lot of vitnage software even on the newest Solaris).
Anyhow... an Ultra 1 is still a damn good computer.
...his answers aren't funny :(
Fundamentally radioactive transuranic waste with a half life of 220,000 years is why I don't like nuclear power.
And the solution to the long-lived nuclear waste is to build breeder reactors.
India and Japan are going to kick everyone's butt in this area. If the rest of the world doesn't embrace this technology, India and Japan (and perhaps Russia and China) will have the cheapest energy in the world.
Never has the gravity of an accident (of any kind) been so exaggerated. Before or after.
Sometimes the right guy for the job is someone who is really unattractive from a geeky point of view -- like a slick, charismatic, self-aggrandizing, womanizing minister.
You have just described a psychopath. Yes, they are usually very succesful in politics, but that success is only for their very own power and material benefit - psychopaths in leading positions regularly and without ecception leave loss, misery and devastation behind them.
They are the exact opposite of aspies: they will lie while looking you straight in the eyes, and you won't ever notice. They are master manipulators, extremely charismatic and very succesful with women - but again, they will only use and abuse their victims.
Aspies are very friendly, and above all, very honest. I can see a society where people are more honest than they are now - and I don't think it would be worse.
Also, aspies are outspoken and courageous, they don't hide behind masks like you do, anonymous coward.
In my view (and I have many AS traits), Asperger's Syndrome is not a bad thing - AS people are more creative, more courageous and morally/ethically more daring than the average (so-called neurotypical) person. AS people are disproportionately more responsible for human advancements. They're also very honest (mostly not capable of lying and conversely, naively trusting that everybody else is like them, unable to lie).
We need more aspies, not less.
"I fucked all your mothers" declared Louis CK during one of his stand-up routines.
True story.
I know what you mean, but consider that there have been some truly interesting and Slashdot-pertinent stories submitted today - and rejected! Instead, we have this garbage. Tons and tons of garbage to wade through, and none of the things relevant to the usual Slashdot readership.