gee look, it only uses 7 MB where word uses 11!!! holly cow.. it's revolutionary!" DOH!
First thing: that's 7MB including the document as opposed to 11MB. Now the important bit is the size of the files that Word generates.
So it's just before Christmas vacation and I have to hand in two reports and a spreadsheet model for one of the courses I'm taking this year. I don't have MS office on my machine so I am using the machines in the college computer room. After a 12 hours slog I hit save for the final time having cut and pasted all the relavent charts into the document... Cannot save - out of disc space. Which is pretty weird because I already have triple the standard amount of disc on the college system and there was about 45MB spare at lunch. In the end I have to fire up an FTP server on my machine and rely on saving back to that across the network, which took a bit of time since the 12 page document in Word format ended up at over 70MB!
I would have thought that as many of them would have read some Tolkein than have read the Biography of John Nash on which "A Beautiful Mind" was based.
quite. Moderators please do your job and moderate this junk back down. The poster hasn't read the article, and doesn't know about the referral rulaes, and certainly doesn't know about the law in regard to referrals. The post is just one great big guess, which whilst not implausible, has no factual content and adds nothing to the argument.
That's because you are not in the business of sending out thousands of promotional CDs. Lower weight means lower postage. flexibility means new ways of packaging for promotional handouts. They say they can also automatically insert them in magazines thereby reducing the cost of doing covermounts since the case isn't necessary. And they're quicker to print.
These aren't aimed at the consumer. They are aimed at the promotions industry.
If you had read the article you would know that it uses an adapter to play the disc. The flexible disc is placed inside the rigid adapter to play it like a conventional rigid CD. Hence this won't happen. Now moderators please do your job and mod this back down.
Let's see. You're a terrorist with a dastardly plan to hijack an airplane and buzz the white house all morning so they can't get any work done. Do you a) turn up with all the papers that you need and attempt to look inconspicuous; or b) turn up with video cameras and all kind of electronic gizmaos attached to you and then make as big of a fuss as you can?
If you are really "highly concerned" (your idiotic bold) about this then you really are a muppet of the first order.
Yet again, you haven't appreciated that the hardware cost of an s/390 is only a small proportion of the cost to IBM of delivering an s/390. The marginal cost of adding 5 processors when you have the fab up and running is negligible when compared to the cost of R&D, software development, marketing, support, building and tooling the plant etc. yes, the margin is big, but not that big.
I think you might be slightly missing the point here. The actual hardware shipped by IBM constitutes only a relatively small proportion of the cost of making that delivery. Whereas there are millions of x86 machines shipped each year and the R&D cost is spread over each of them, there are only tens or hundreds of S/390s/zSeries shipped each year, and hence the R&D value in each piece of physical hardware is significantly larger. The relative cost of shopping with more procs on board is small. Now add to this that many s/390 machines will still be in operation in a dozen or more years having been upgraded rather than replaced, and it makes sense for IBM and its customers for each parallel sysplex board to be shipped with 6 procs onboard. This way upgrades can be completed more quickly and cheaply, with less disruption to the running of the machine.
Sure, IBM is segregating its market, but there is competition from the big *NIX clusters, so they can't push things too far. On top of this many of the big s/390 users also have very large CICS and MQ/series installations bringing in millions a year to IBM software group. It wouldn't really make sense to price the hardware out of range because the software and suport contracts would dry up too.
IBM's X-series NetVista machines have integrated LCD screen on a nice arm thing that attaches to the back of a desk. They look pretty sexy too, in black. Also one of my housemates has a machine (possibly a Gateway) with a flatscreen with the computer integrated into the back of the screen. This sounds to me like Apple's markedroids are pestering the tech press to run "now they're all copying us" stories in the hope that they will flog a few of theirs by appearing to be "the original"
Why don't/. add a new negative moderation - Critical of the American way or of something done in or primarily by Americans. That way you wouldn't have to mod me a troll or as flamebait when I mention that the NSA doesn' exist soley for the protection of American national security. Essentially you don't like it that America isn't loved and adored by the rest of the world and admired for the polluting, bullying, obese nation that it is. As a result you mod down rather than reply. Think about it: is the above post really a troll? Is it flame bait?
I thought the USians here might have a more enlightened opinion about their nation essentially breaking laws for the protection of US multinationals. I thought you might think it was morally dubious, especially given the amount of you that hate government interference in your own lives. But I guess that it doesn't matter if they are spying on foreigners. After all, it's their own fault for not being American.
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Releasing those radiated flies fits nicely in the 'Bad Things(TM)' category. I can't imagine rendering them sterile will be the only effect of the radiation.
But I can't imagine that you know what you are talking about either. And the word is 'irradiated'.
So there is no evidence here to suggest that the causal relationship works the way they are suggesting. Could it be that *shock horror* fat lazy smoking slobs sleep lots whilst physically active non-smokers with fulfilling jobs and families sleep less?
Actually they know a lot about facts. Facts just aren't very interesting when it comes to computer "action" scenes. I mean, there's a misnomer if ever there was one. Likewise guns and car chases and fist fights etc. A gun fight where everyone gets to fire off hundreds of rounds is much cooler than one in which everyone has one magazine and that's it.
Movies are there for enjoyment, not factual accuracy.
I assumed that C/C++ would be significantly faster in execution than an interpreted language like perl. Since the Google challenge successful entries are likely to be pretty hardware intensive I would have thought that execution speed is of paramount importance. I certainly agree that perl development is a hell of a lot faster than C/C++ development, especially for the text processing type operations that perl was designed for.
I was also under the impression that the only area in which Java was slow when compared to perl is in GUI (ie. vs perlTk). In a threaded application I would have thought Java would be much faster.
Keep in mind that it would go up at the equator and equatorial nations don't have nearly enough clout to stop this thing going up.
in other words, "we're America nd we don't give a shit about anyone else. I mean, what are they gonna do?". Exactly the same attitude which has seen that idiot Bush recinding on environmental treaties, shittinbg all over Alaska for the sake of his beloved oil, and Bombing the crap out of Afghanistan and then expecting the reast of the world to pick up the peices. This is why the good ol' US of A produces 25% of the world's pollution with 5% of the world's population.
Just because you can do what the hell you like doesn't mean that you should. Perhaps this is why the rest of the world hates America.
I am afraid that I have to disagree with you. I think that whilst the BBC sometimes looses the plot, most of its output is of extremely high quality. I am perfectly happy to pay my share of the licence in my house for the privilige of ad free quality TV,the best news site on the web, and the Genius that is radio 4. In fact when the football's on telly we normally turn the volume down and listen to the commentry on 5 live.
Having watched TV in the states and on the continent I wholeheartedly endorse the BBC. I don't watch a great deal of TV, so quality rather than quantity is what I want. And Quality is certainly more in evidence in the UK than anywhere alse in the world that I have visited.
Frankly the greatest argument in favour of the current BBC is the US Television market.
nice analogy. At least it's funny, though I can't really agree with the proposition that Linux is adapted to a specific "environment". In fact i'd argue the opposite: the generic architecture is sufficiently flexible that smaller adaptations to local environment are possible. Perhaps a better analogy might be basic architecture stand on two legs, have two arms with opposable thumbs, etc. local adaptations height, skin colour, strength, endurance, balance, operation at the extremes of temperature, plays NBA basketball etc.
Having said that, I suppose Windows is better suited to secetarial work in the office. And it's everywhere. In the spirit of evolutionary analogy perhaps we could consider it as that lowest common denominator of survivors: the cockroach.
Ok, I admit it. I only read the C advocacy thing. Which was poorly reasoned, poorly argued, factually lacking, and could do with a bit of proofreading.
At the end of the day C is a good language for low level programming and there is a great deal of experienced in programming C. there is also a lot of legacy code. These do not make it a good language. Pretty much any mature language has its uses, and these mostly correspond with what the language was designed for. Even C++ with all its knobs and ugly bits is nice when you've got used to it. And as for the comment about Java: If you don't think that the more rapid development, cross-platform compliance, and "coherent" design of Java are worth having, then.... something bad.
I can think of another OS that has a lot of legacy gubbins in it. In fact it's based on a design that's been around far longer than windows.
I'll give you a clue: it begins with the letter L.;)
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First thing: that's 7MB including the document as opposed to 11MB. Now the important bit is the size of the files that Word generates.
So it's just before Christmas vacation and I have to hand in two reports and a spreadsheet model for one of the courses I'm taking this year. I don't have MS office on my machine so I am using the machines in the college computer room. After a 12 hours slog I hit save for the final time having cut and pasted all the relavent charts into the document... Cannot save - out of disc space. Which is pretty weird because I already have triple the standard amount of disc on the college system and there was about 45MB spare at lunch. In the end I have to fire up an FTP server on my machine and rely on saving back to that across the network, which took a bit of time since the 12 page document in Word format ended up at over 70MB!
I would have thought that as many of them would have read some Tolkein than have read the Biography of John Nash on which "A Beautiful Mind" was based.
quite. Moderators please do your job and moderate this junk back down. The poster hasn't read the article, and doesn't know about the referral rulaes, and certainly doesn't know about the law in regard to referrals. The post is just one great big guess, which whilst not implausible, has no factual content and adds nothing to the argument.
These aren't aimed at the consumer. They are aimed at the promotions industry.
If you are really "highly concerned" (your idiotic bold) about this then you really are a muppet of the first order.
Yet again, you haven't appreciated that the hardware cost of an s/390 is only a small proportion of the cost to IBM of delivering an s/390. The marginal cost of adding 5 processors when you have the fab up and running is negligible when compared to the cost of R&D, software development, marketing, support, building and tooling the plant etc. yes, the margin is big, but not that big.
Sure, IBM is segregating its market, but there is competition from the big *NIX clusters, so they can't push things too far. On top of this many of the big s/390 users also have very large CICS and MQ/series installations bringing in millions a year to IBM software group. It wouldn't really make sense to price the hardware out of range because the software and suport contracts would dry up too.
I thought the USians here might have a more enlightened opinion about their nation essentially breaking laws for the protection of US multinationals. I thought you might think it was morally dubious, especially given the amount of you that hate government interference in your own lives. But I guess that it doesn't matter if they are spying on foreigners. After all, it's their own fault for not being American.
The NSA exists to protect US national secrets.
and to perform industrial espionage on behalf of US corporations.
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Releasing those radiated flies fits nicely in the 'Bad Things(TM)' category. I can't imagine rendering them sterile will be the only effect of the radiation.
But I can't imagine that you know what you are talking about either. And the word is 'irradiated'.
/tom
Movies are there for enjoyment, not factual accuracy.
I assumed that C/C++ would be significantly faster in execution than an interpreted language like perl. Since the Google challenge successful entries are likely to be pretty hardware intensive I would have thought that execution speed is of paramount importance. I certainly agree that perl development is a hell of a lot faster than C/C++ development, especially for the text processing type operations that perl was designed for.
I was also under the impression that the only area in which Java was slow when compared to perl is in GUI (ie. vs perlTk). In a threaded application I would have thought Java would be much faster.
?! show me some evidence.
in other words, "we're America nd we don't give a shit about anyone else. I mean, what are they gonna do?". Exactly the same attitude which has seen that idiot Bush recinding on environmental treaties, shittinbg all over Alaska for the sake of his beloved oil, and Bombing the crap out of Afghanistan and then expecting the reast of the world to pick up the peices. This is why the good ol' US of A produces 25% of the world's pollution with 5% of the world's population.
Just because you can do what the hell you like doesn't mean that you should. Perhaps this is why the rest of the world hates America.
Check this article at the register.
Having watched TV in the states and on the continent I wholeheartedly endorse the BBC. I don't watch a great deal of TV, so quality rather than quantity is what I want. And Quality is certainly more in evidence in the UK than anywhere alse in the world that I have visited.
Frankly the greatest argument in favour of the current BBC is the US Television market.
Having said that, I suppose Windows is better suited to secetarial work in the office. And it's everywhere. In the spirit of evolutionary analogy perhaps we could consider it as that lowest common denominator of survivors: the cockroach.
At the end of the day C is a good language for low level programming and there is a great deal of experienced in programming C. there is also a lot of legacy code. These do not make it a good language. Pretty much any mature language has its uses, and these mostly correspond with what the language was designed for. Even C++ with all its knobs and ugly bits is nice when you've got used to it. And as for the comment about Java: If you don't think that the more rapid development, cross-platform compliance, and "coherent" design of Java are worth having, then
I can think of another OS that has a lot of legacy gubbins in it. In fact it's based on a design that's been around far longer than windows.
I'll give you a clue: it begins with the letter L.;)
Seen this one before