IDC can say what they want, but the only way Sun hardware sales are growing is because Oracle bumped up the price on the hardware, and companies are buying their last Sun gear to give a two-year buffer to migrate away from.
I don't know of a single company ANYWHERE that is actively growing their Sun server farm. Everyone is running away screaming as fast as they can from Sun/Oracle.
Assuming it's not the most elaborate joke ever, I'm waiting for an explosion in the duplication factory, wiping out all of the original copies of the golden image. "Game delayed to early November, promised to be on shelves in time for Christmas."
My list of usenet groups keeps dwindling. There are only four I follow that have any traffic anymore. Back in the day, I had about 20 main high-volume groups that I could barely keep up with. It may not quite be dead, but I'm nostalgic for the glory days of usenet too.
Everything you say is correct, except of course that no company is honourable enough to shut itself down - even in Japan. The government should bring down massive fines against them, and criminal charges against the decision makers, escalating every time they're busted again.
But that's not how companies work. Sigh. In the meantime, I just don't buy anything from Sony - sadly, that means that there are a lot of musicians not getting my money.
This very weekend, I retired my PC firewall (running m0n0wall), and pressed my WRT54GL into edge service. The PC was a PII/233MHz with no hard drive. The software was read into RAM from the CDROM at boot time, and then stayed there. It ate about 57 watts, or in the ballpark of $4/month. In other words, $50/year is about right.
I've used it a few times to play stuff that won't play on anything else. I was so impressed that I decided to start using it as my main player.
After a few weeks of constantly saying WTF??!!! I sat down to read the documentation - after all, it's a media player/converter--it can't be that hard, can it?
Bad mistake. I spent HOURS reading through incomprehensible, incomplete, out-of-date, and utterly incorrect documentation to find that most of the features I wanted from it don't exist, or are known not to work. It's terrible. It's as bad as they come - except that it plays pretty much any file.
It's not a matter of how much it costs the user, it's how much revenue it generates for Amazon. I would guess that they're going to make an additional $200 per user per ad-driven Kindle, so giving me a $25 discount is NOT enough!
While this is my first response to the question as well, there's a subtle bit of truth in it.
Faith, not in science, but in scientists (and what the tell us) is endemic and necessary--even for other scientists. The only _definitive_ way around that faith is to research everything to first principles - and that will be several (hundreds!) lifetimes of research. Almost as good is to review the existing research back to first principles, which may be possible within a single career for a single field. The fact that stuff built on science actually _works_ is circumstantial evidence that the science is true. Massive, overwhelming, irrefutable circumstantial evidence to be sure, but still circumstantial.
Are people going to be detained and forced to produce their papers on demand? Why only "migrant workers?" "...systems at the national level that would permit the identity of migrants and their documents to be verified internationally via INTERPOL."
Seems to me they did this in Poland in the late '30s, more or less.
Because of this article, I logged into my myspace account. Lo and behold, there was a message waiting for me saying, "you can upgrade your profile and sync with facebook!" When they're trying to link you to their supposed competitor, you know they're dead.
I'd love to see some ghost hunters on TV wander around with an infrasonic detector. I suspect that almost all 'confirmed hauntings' could be debunked fairly quickly. (ref: Wikipedia entry on infrasound)
Agreed. I've been through emergencies before. I tend to get exceedingly rational, clear, and calm. In these situations, I know that saying something clearly and comprehensibly is the fastest way to get help for those who need it. Would I get pushed down the queue as a result?
I like the idea in principle, but I'm leery of how well it works.
You will apparently be shocked to discover this, but some people actually re-read books! And re-watch movies! There are a handful of movies I've seen over a dozen times (Not including the family ones my son demands we watch on occasion). Some of them I still haven't got all of the juice out of (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover), and some of them I just enjoy watching over and over (The Princess Bride, Amelie). I reread Fool On The Hill and Lord Of The Rings about every second year. Our library is tucked away in the basement out of the way, and isn't going to impress anyone. We have as many books as we do because we enjoy them, read them, and share them with friends.
Purging is great, but don't apply your opinions to the rest of us. Some of us have different points of view.
I've got Photoshop Elements. The editing is certainly overkill for what you're talking about, but the library features are quite good. The key is that there's a separate database of tags and metadata which can be sorted and searched like...a database.
I'm sure there are similar things out there, but I think the key is to try a handful to see how they do it, and narrow down your choices accordingly.
Migration in general is going to RHEL. It's been my experience that containers just never caught on in the enterprise world. (I run 'em at home, we've got a few in our lab, but they were stillborn for us and most other companies I talk to.) Dtrace is very handy once in a long while, but only when things go wrong--which they shouldn't.
And that leaves zfs. Rumour has it that RedHat is going to be releasing an incompatibly-licensed ZFS to their customers. I hope it's true, because it is the single greatest step forward in Unix servers since...I don't know. Maybe since NFS or RAID. It's brilliant, and with ZFS-root, it's brilliant squared. Hell, Solaris is better than Linux in most ways. It's breaking most of our hearts to get rid of it and replace it with a flawed wannabe, but we don't have a lot of choice. Oracle has made Solaris a liability.
As one of those pesky hippies who works for a company that owns about 1500 Sun servers, allow me to say that Larry can go fuck himself. When they increased our support contract to $8M/year, we told them to take a hike. We are replacing all of our Sun software, most of our Solaris instances, and much of our Sun hardware in less than two years.
I mourn Sun, but they're dead now. Nobody is going to pay more than pocket change for the sun.com domain. Filthy dirty fucking Oracle.
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IDC can say what they want, but the only way Sun hardware sales are growing is because Oracle bumped up the price on the hardware, and companies are buying their last Sun gear to give a two-year buffer to migrate away from.
I don't know of a single company ANYWHERE that is actively growing their Sun server farm. Everyone is running away screaming as fast as they can from Sun/Oracle.
Assuming it's not the most elaborate joke ever, I'm waiting for an explosion in the duplication factory, wiping out all of the original copies of the golden image. "Game delayed to early November, promised to be on shelves in time for Christmas."
Also drivel for gizmodo, which is saying quite a bit.
You and I, we're the last of the die-hards.
My list of usenet groups keeps dwindling. There are only four I follow that have any traffic anymore. Back in the day, I had about 20 main high-volume groups that I could barely keep up with. It may not quite be dead, but I'm nostalgic for the glory days of usenet too.
Everything you say is correct, except of course that no company is honourable enough to shut itself down - even in Japan.
The government should bring down massive fines against them, and criminal charges against the decision makers, escalating every time they're busted again.
But that's not how companies work. Sigh. In the meantime, I just don't buy anything from Sony - sadly, that means that there are a lot of musicians not getting my money.
Larry: "Can we make money from it RIGHT NOW?"
advisor: "No sir. Maybe in a few..."
Larry: "Get it the FUCK OUT OF MY COMPANY!"
This appears to be how Oracle has dealt with every developmental project from Sun, not just open source.
This very weekend, I retired my PC firewall (running m0n0wall), and pressed my WRT54GL into edge service.
The PC was a PII/233MHz with no hard drive. The software was read into RAM from the CDROM at boot time, and then stayed there. It ate about 57 watts, or in the ballpark of $4/month. In other words, $50/year is about right.
I have a cathode ray tube HDTV: 34" widescreen flat-surface 1080p CRT, which weighs a ton.
VLC is user-friendly? Seriously?
I've used it a few times to play stuff that won't play on anything else. I was so impressed that I decided to start using it as my main player.
After a few weeks of constantly saying WTF??!!! I sat down to read the documentation - after all, it's a media player/converter--it can't be that hard, can it?
Bad mistake. I spent HOURS reading through incomprehensible, incomplete, out-of-date, and utterly incorrect documentation to find that most of the features I wanted from it don't exist, or are known not to work. It's terrible. It's as bad as they come - except that it plays pretty much any file.
Horrible terrible program.
What you say is true, but it doesn't matter.
It's not a matter of how much it costs the user, it's how much revenue it generates for Amazon. I would guess that they're going to make an additional $200 per user per ad-driven Kindle, so giving me a $25 discount is NOT enough!
While this is my first response to the question as well, there's a subtle bit of truth in it.
Faith, not in science, but in scientists (and what the tell us) is endemic and necessary--even for other scientists. The only _definitive_ way around that faith is to research everything to first principles - and that will be several (hundreds!) lifetimes of research. Almost as good is to review the existing research back to first principles, which may be possible within a single career for a single field.
The fact that stuff built on science actually _works_ is circumstantial evidence that the science is true. Massive, overwhelming, irrefutable circumstantial evidence to be sure, but still circumstantial.
Are people going to be detained and forced to produce their papers on demand?
Why only "migrant workers?"
"...systems at the national level that would permit the identity of migrants and their documents to be verified internationally via INTERPOL."
Seems to me they did this in Poland in the late '30s, more or less.
Because of this article, I logged into my myspace account. Lo and behold, there was a message waiting for me saying, "you can upgrade your profile and sync with facebook!"
When they're trying to link you to their supposed competitor, you know they're dead.
Usenet still gets spam. Figure THAT one out!
...that isn't your fault.
My friend figured that he was getting 2GB of ARP traffic hitting his router every month. If he exceeds his limit, does that get billed for?
I'd love to see some ghost hunters on TV wander around with an infrasonic detector. I suspect that almost all 'confirmed hauntings' could be debunked fairly quickly.
(ref: Wikipedia entry on infrasound)
They played it on the radio this morning. The Good Radio, that is.
"Do you think he'll die from tetnus????"
I originally read this as "tetris" which would make for a hilariously appropriate panicked 911 call.
Agreed. I've been through emergencies before. I tend to get exceedingly rational, clear, and calm. In these situations, I know that saying something clearly and comprehensibly is the fastest way to get help for those who need it. Would I get pushed down the queue as a result?
I like the idea in principle, but I'm leery of how well it works.
There, that wasn't too hard, was it?
Yeah, but how do you break down 3TB of data below that?
You will apparently be shocked to discover this, but some people actually re-read books! And re-watch movies!
There are a handful of movies I've seen over a dozen times (Not including the family ones my son demands we watch on occasion). Some of them I still haven't got all of the juice out of (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover), and some of them I just enjoy watching over and over (The Princess Bride, Amelie). I reread Fool On The Hill and Lord Of The Rings about every second year. Our library is tucked away in the basement out of the way, and isn't going to impress anyone. We have as many books as we do because we enjoy them, read them, and share them with friends.
Purging is great, but don't apply your opinions to the rest of us. Some of us have different points of view.
I've got Photoshop Elements. The editing is certainly overkill for what you're talking about, but the library features are quite good. The key is that there's a separate database of tags and metadata which can be sorted and searched like...a database.
I'm sure there are similar things out there, but I think the key is to try a handful to see how they do it, and narrow down your choices accordingly.
Migration in general is going to RHEL. It's been my experience that containers just never caught on in the enterprise world. (I run 'em at home, we've got a few in our lab, but they were stillborn for us and most other companies I talk to.) Dtrace is very handy once in a long while, but only when things go wrong--which they shouldn't.
And that leaves zfs. Rumour has it that RedHat is going to be releasing an incompatibly-licensed ZFS to their customers. I hope it's true, because it is the single greatest step forward in Unix servers since...I don't know. Maybe since NFS or RAID. It's brilliant, and with ZFS-root, it's brilliant squared.
Hell, Solaris is better than Linux in most ways. It's breaking most of our hearts to get rid of it and replace it with a flawed wannabe, but we don't have a lot of choice. Oracle has made Solaris a liability.
Hah! Dead on there.
As one of those pesky hippies who works for a company that owns about 1500 Sun servers, allow me to say that Larry can go fuck himself. When they increased our support contract to $8M/year, we told them to take a hike. We are replacing all of our Sun software, most of our Solaris instances, and much of our Sun hardware in less than two years.
I mourn Sun, but they're dead now. Nobody is going to pay more than pocket change for the sun.com domain. Filthy dirty fucking Oracle.