I'm all for open source, but the failure of the open source community to produce a viable source of voting machines has really disappointed me. It just goes to show that there are limits to open source. I will use this example to tell some freetards to shut up as appropriate.
The problem with C and similar programming languages is that they were written by computer jocks for computer jocks. For example, where does C have the concept of an indexed read from a database file? How does C prevent me from adding two character strings together (loosely typed instead of strongly typed)? C was not intended for the business world and consequently is not used much in the business world.
Sorry, it's just the opposite. The only one stopping iSeries folks from running z/OS in a partition is IBM marketing. Mainframers want to feel special and IBM coddles them. The real action at IBM is in the Power Systems line (formerly iSeries and pSeries).
Actually, the latest PowerPC 6 chips, running at a 5 GHz clock speed, run circles around anything that Intel has. Intel is real happy that IBM and Apple don't put PowerPC processors in desktop systems anymore.
Remember this Slashdot article from April? Inside Intel's $20M Multicore Research Program It talks about Intel and Microsoft spending money to get developers to write programs for multi-core processors. Guess what? Mainframe programmers don't have to waste a second worrying about multi-core processors. Between the compilers, operating system and hardware, it's all taken care of. And a 64-processor system runs almost as fast as 64 separate single-processor systems, something IBM does better than anyone else.
Or how about this one? More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US? The article quotes James Reinders of Intel: "programming for multi-core is catching the imagination of programmers more in Japan, China, Russia, and India than in Europe and the United States." Again, this is a no-brainer. When you're programming on Intel, you specifically have to code for multiple processors. With big iron, it's built in and done efficiently, too.
Check out the IBM System i (or iSeries or Power Systems or whatever they're calling it today). The mainframe world split in 1980 when IBM came out with the System/38 which the mainframers didn't want to touch because it was too innovative. The System/38 has morphed into the current system which runs Java, PHP, Apache and other nice things just fine, thank you. And there's not a single line of JCL in the box.
The iSeries is superior to a mainframe. The smallest servers cost about $10,000 and are good for a small business (50 - 60 employees) while the largest iSeries system dwarfs the largest mainframe. Being able to run virtually any operating system (Linux, Unix [AIX], Windows Server and i5/OS [formerly OS/400]) is an advantage as well.
Discussion of a mainframe should be limited to IBM systems running z/OS and equivalents.
This story excerpt infuriates me. The story is about how the man has been exonerated of downloading child porn. The summary describes events that happened years ago; the story is the finding that he is innocent (and will probably receive several million dollars in damages from his former employer).
The point here is that an innocent man has been through hell because IT screwed up and didn't set up SMS correctly so his computer had numerous security holes. The summary doesn't convey this, of course, resulting in the stupid (and, actually, offensive) comments from those who assume that he was guilty based on the summary. Folks, this is a real story about a real person, not something from xkcd. You should not be so quick to judge, especially when you didn't RTFA.
The guy might be rotting the the slammer somewhere if it weren't for his wife who rounded up the competent resources to find out what really happened.
I am infuriated because of the occasional poor summary posting that Slashdot seems to be proud of. If I see another story about an air-powered car again, I am going to puke and stop reading.
Verizon is building out its network to support the iPhone. My understanding is that EV-DO is a 3G flavor of GSM so it should be compatible with the iPhone. Verizon is also opening up its network so you can use non-Verizon devices, such as the iPhone. Be patient, grasshopper.
Repeat after me: There is no air car in production today. The whole air car concept is a joke because Slashdot readers explored the difficulty of compressing air efficiently. The Tata Nano referred to in the article runs on a conventional gasoline engine (a two-cylinder, 623 cc rear engine producing 33 hp/24 kW with rear wheel drive). Even it is not available for sale yet, according to Wikipedia.
Can we have a moratorium on air-powered cars or is this a Slashdot inside joke and I'm revealing myself to be a newbie?
You folks are looking into the past instead of opening your minds to the future. Here is a quote from the press release that will help: "In addition to AT&T Ohio and Time Warner Cable, eight other companies have applied for authorization. They are:... Cincinnati Bell Extended Territories LLC..."
If Cincinnati Bell gets approved, then they can offer cable services anywhere that they're running phone lines without getting permission from every piddly-ass city and township in the region. Some of you may have heard of AT&T which conceivably could offer wireless cable service.
In the past, the cable companies sent every channel to your house, regardless of whether you were even watching/recording or not. I'm thinking they will use a switched technology that uses IP to send only the channels to your house that you need.
This is a great step forward for cable service in Ohio. When we're sitting here in Cincinnati with three cable choices, satellite and digital local channels over the air, the rest of you will be jealous.
The computers that can't run Leopard are typically six years old or older. Vista won't run on some computers purchased a month before its release. Further, some of the "Vista ready" computers couldn't support the Aero look without upgrading.
You're confusing Linux the kernel with Linux the distribution. Each distribution contains the standard Linux kernel with a bunch of other stuff. So each distribution can be considered a different operating system as far as support is concerned.
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I'm all for open source, but the failure of the open source community to produce a viable source of voting machines has really disappointed me. It just goes to show that there are limits to open source. I will use this example to tell some freetards to shut up as appropriate.
The problem with C and similar programming languages is that they were written by computer jocks for computer jocks. For example, where does C have the concept of an indexed read from a database file? How does C prevent me from adding two character strings together (loosely typed instead of strongly typed)? C was not intended for the business world and consequently is not used much in the business world.
Sorry, it's just the opposite. The only one stopping iSeries folks from running z/OS in a partition is IBM marketing. Mainframers want to feel special and IBM coddles them. The real action at IBM is in the Power Systems line (formerly iSeries and pSeries).
Actually, the latest PowerPC 6 chips, running at a 5 GHz clock speed, run circles around anything that Intel has. Intel is real happy that IBM and Apple don't put PowerPC processors in desktop systems anymore.
Remember this Slashdot article from April? Inside Intel's $20M Multicore Research Program It talks about Intel and Microsoft spending money to get developers to write programs for multi-core processors. Guess what? Mainframe programmers don't have to waste a second worrying about multi-core processors. Between the compilers, operating system and hardware, it's all taken care of. And a 64-processor system runs almost as fast as 64 separate single-processor systems, something IBM does better than anyone else.
Or how about this one? More Interest In Parallel Programming Outside the US? The article quotes James Reinders of Intel: "programming for multi-core is catching the imagination of programmers more in Japan, China, Russia, and India than in Europe and the United States." Again, this is a no-brainer. When you're programming on Intel, you specifically have to code for multiple processors. With big iron, it's built in and done efficiently, too.
Check out the IBM System i (or iSeries or Power Systems or whatever they're calling it today). The mainframe world split in 1980 when IBM came out with the System/38 which the mainframers didn't want to touch because it was too innovative. The System/38 has morphed into the current system which runs Java, PHP, Apache and other nice things just fine, thank you. And there's not a single line of JCL in the box.
The iSeries is superior to a mainframe. The smallest servers cost about $10,000 and are good for a small business (50 - 60 employees) while the largest iSeries system dwarfs the largest mainframe. Being able to run virtually any operating system (Linux, Unix [AIX], Windows Server and i5/OS [formerly OS/400]) is an advantage as well. Discussion of a mainframe should be limited to IBM systems running z/OS and equivalents.
The point here is that an innocent man has been through hell because IT screwed up and didn't set up SMS correctly so his computer had numerous security holes. The summary doesn't convey this, of course, resulting in the stupid (and, actually, offensive) comments from those who assume that he was guilty based on the summary. Folks, this is a real story about a real person, not something from xkcd. You should not be so quick to judge, especially when you didn't RTFA.
The guy might be rotting the the slammer somewhere if it weren't for his wife who rounded up the competent resources to find out what really happened.
I am infuriated because of the occasional poor summary posting that Slashdot seems to be proud of. If I see another story about an air-powered car again, I am going to puke and stop reading.
Verizon is building out its network to support the iPhone. My understanding is that EV-DO is a 3G flavor of GSM so it should be compatible with the iPhone. Verizon is also opening up its network so you can use non-Verizon devices, such as the iPhone. Be patient, grasshopper.
Repeat after me: There is no air car in production today. The whole air car concept is a joke because Slashdot readers explored the difficulty of compressing air efficiently. The Tata Nano referred to in the article runs on a conventional gasoline engine (a two-cylinder, 623 cc rear engine producing 33 hp/24 kW with rear wheel drive). Even it is not available for sale yet, according to Wikipedia.
Can we have a moratorium on air-powered cars or is this a Slashdot inside joke and I'm revealing myself to be a newbie?
You folks are looking into the past instead of opening your minds to the future. Here is a quote from the press release that will help: "In addition to AT&T Ohio and Time Warner Cable, eight other companies have applied for authorization. They are: ... Cincinnati Bell Extended Territories LLC ..."
If Cincinnati Bell gets approved, then they can offer cable services anywhere that they're running phone lines without getting permission from every piddly-ass city and township in the region. Some of you may have heard of AT&T which conceivably could offer wireless cable service.
In the past, the cable companies sent every channel to your house, regardless of whether you were even watching/recording or not. I'm thinking they will use a switched technology that uses IP to send only the channels to your house that you need.
This is a great step forward for cable service in Ohio. When we're sitting here in Cincinnati with three cable choices, satellite and digital local channels over the air, the rest of you will be jealous.
The computers that can't run Leopard are typically six years old or older. Vista won't run on some computers purchased a month before its release. Further, some of the "Vista ready" computers couldn't support the Aero look without upgrading.
You're confusing Linux the kernel with Linux the distribution. Each distribution contains the standard Linux kernel with a bunch of other stuff. So each distribution can be considered a different operating system as far as support is concerned.