You know you're right, and I know you're right, but my original statements stand; spending time in pharma R&D is like living in an alternate reality. Scientists refuse to submit their parallel computing jobs into a shared queue; they expect and demand instant gratification.
The IT world went the cheap route and embraced ethernet. FDDI was technically superior, but required at least two brain cells to set up properly. Brain cells are optional with ethernet.
Perhaps instead of building an inverted house of cards, this consortium should re-examine where FDDI left off and pick up from there.
I hereby declare today as Global Anti-Proprietary Software Day.
Corporations and computer users all over the world lose untold trillions of dollars dealing with the pain of using software that they cannot have full access to, or effectively move from one computer to another.
In fact, I have called Microsoft support in the past. And I found the experience to be one of the few gratifying aspects of being a Microsoft customer. Once you get past the costs, Microsoft support is (or was) truly top notch. Certainly much more effective than Red Hat's.
Then again, I haven't had to deal with Microsoft products in 3 or 4 years, and I haven't called Red Hat for support in about as long.
I worked for one of the bigger pharmas for awhile in R&D, and I think something like this could find its way onto the desk of every top scientist in the division. I know some of the divas would ask for two... and they would get it without ${EMPLOYER} even blinking.
On paper, RHEL is a tough sell against Windows. The pricing just isn't aggressive enough.
For CIO's with more foresight, migrating from Windows to Linux makes future migrations much easier. Since Linux is a very UNIX-y environment, it's relatively painless to move from one Linux flavor to another, or from Linux to another UNIX-y OS.
Migrating to or from Windows is the major point of pain. Once you can get away from Windows, it actually doesn't make a lot of sense to ever go back to it (again, because migrating the other way is so hard).
Linux, on the other hand, will run on every machine at the company. Everything from your cell phones to your desktops, x86 servers, midrange boxen, and mainframes. Your IT department can become far more efficient (read: less head count) managing UNIX and Linux across the enterprise instead of Windows on the desktops & low-end servers, something else on your bigger servers, something else on your phones, etc.
S3200 Firewire is spec'd for 3.2 Gbit/s transfer rates. Granted, it's very new and you're not likely to find many products that support it yet. FireWire 800, on the other hand, has been around for about 5 years or so and delivers ~786 Mbit/s full-duplex.
USB 2.0 has been around for eight years and only promises 480 Mbit/s of bandwidth. And if I'm not mistaken, USB 2.0 is only half-duplex. It'll be at least a year or two before we see USB catch up to where Firewire is today.
Because if I buy a gadget, I want to be its master. I don't want to lease it from someone else. I don't want to have possession while some other party maintains control. I want it to be mine, all mine. My precioussss...
The iPhone doesn't interest me. The gPhone doesn't interest me. OpenMoko shows a lot of promise and in a couple of years maybe it will be ready for prime time.
It's open source, but with a big fat caveat; the phone won't boot from firmware that has not been digitally signed by the carrier that the phone is locked to.
That's why I really don't get all of the buzz about Android; it's only really open to the carriers, not the end users.
I don't agree with the Constitution party 100%. But I find their platform far more in line with my ideals than the Marxist (Obama) or the hot-tempered fascist (McCain).
Just having a principled person in the White House to veto things like the Wall Street bail-out, the DMCA, Patriot Act(s), various gun control laws, etc. would be fantastic.
If Gore or Kerry had been stronger candidates than their third party alternatives, they would have gotten those votes.
I'm still undecided, but only between third party candidates. I cannot fathom voting for a Marxist or a fascist. If the election were held today, I'd probably have to go with Chuck Baldwin, mostly because Ron Paul is not going to be on the ballot, and I have not been impressed with Bob Barr (and I question his integrity and commitment to Constitutional policies). Ralph Nader, like Obama and McCain, apparently either never read the US Constitution or don't care about working within its confines.
Yes but almost every camcorder out there still uses firewire for video transfer (there is a USB port on many, also, but it is only used for transferring still photos).
I wonder if they're going to take it to the next step and use a tool like cfengine or puppet to manage all of the servers in a consistent fashion. I've found that two sysadmins can effectively manage hundreds of servers using such tools, and without putting in more than a standard 40 hour work week.
Any threat posed by ESR can be easily nullified by getting him to pontificate on just about any subject. Far more than the sound of racking a slide on a pistol, ESR loves the sound of his own voice. This should buy you the time you need to carry on with your op or E&E.
I often know when my cell phone is going to ring before it actually rings.
Right before my phone starts playing its ring tone, my CRT distorts and flickers a bit.
I can certainly see how cell phones can affect super sensitive avionics. This isn't a Toyota we're talking about here.
Breathed has pulled this before. Maybe he's just burned out, who knows. But when his other ventures prove to be far less lucrative, and he gets sick of answering all of the repetitive questions about the whereabouts of Opus, the promise of easy money will bring him out of "retirement".
Maybe it will last longer than Jet Li's retirement. But Opus will be back.
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So in trying desperately to distance itself from the Nazi legacy, the German government has effectively become a bunch of Nazis again.
...and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
You know you're right, and I know you're right, but my original statements stand; spending time in pharma R&D is like living in an alternate reality. Scientists refuse to submit their parallel computing jobs into a shared queue; they expect and demand instant gratification.
The IT world went the cheap route and embraced ethernet. FDDI was technically superior, but required at least two brain cells to set up properly. Brain cells are optional with ethernet.
Perhaps instead of building an inverted house of cards, this consortium should re-examine where FDDI left off and pick up from there.
I hereby declare today as Global Anti-Proprietary Software Day.
Corporations and computer users all over the world lose untold trillions of dollars dealing with the pain of using software that they cannot have full access to, or effectively move from one computer to another.
In fact, I have called Microsoft support in the past. And I found the experience to be one of the few gratifying aspects of being a Microsoft customer. Once you get past the costs, Microsoft support is (or was) truly top notch. Certainly much more effective than Red Hat's.
Then again, I haven't had to deal with Microsoft products in 3 or 4 years, and I haven't called Red Hat for support in about as long.
What kind of bogomips are they getting?
I worked for one of the bigger pharmas for awhile in R&D, and I think something like this could find its way onto the desk of every top scientist in the division. I know some of the divas would ask for two... and they would get it without ${EMPLOYER} even blinking.
On paper, RHEL is a tough sell against Windows. The pricing just isn't aggressive enough.
For CIO's with more foresight, migrating from Windows to Linux makes future migrations much easier. Since Linux is a very UNIX-y environment, it's relatively painless to move from one Linux flavor to another, or from Linux to another UNIX-y OS.
Migrating to or from Windows is the major point of pain. Once you can get away from Windows, it actually doesn't make a lot of sense to ever go back to it (again, because migrating the other way is so hard).
Linux, on the other hand, will run on every machine at the company. Everything from your cell phones to your desktops, x86 servers, midrange boxen, and mainframes. Your IT department can become far more efficient (read: less head count) managing UNIX and Linux across the enterprise instead of Windows on the desktops & low-end servers, something else on your bigger servers, something else on your phones, etc.
That does it. I'm uploading a bunch of pictures of politicians and tagging them with my name.
S3200 Firewire is spec'd for 3.2 Gbit/s transfer rates. Granted, it's very new and you're not likely to find many products that support it yet. FireWire 800, on the other hand, has been around for about 5 years or so and delivers ~786 Mbit/s full-duplex.
USB 2.0 has been around for eight years and only promises 480 Mbit/s of bandwidth. And if I'm not mistaken, USB 2.0 is only half-duplex. It'll be at least a year or two before we see USB catch up to where Firewire is today.
The killer app will be the Big Blue Screen of Death.
Because if I buy a gadget, I want to be its master. I don't want to lease it from someone else. I don't want to have possession while some other party maintains control. I want it to be mine, all mine. My precioussss...
The iPhone doesn't interest me. The gPhone doesn't interest me. OpenMoko shows a lot of promise and in a couple of years maybe it will be ready for prime time.
It's open source, but with a big fat caveat; the phone won't boot from firmware that has not been digitally signed by the carrier that the phone is locked to.
That's why I really don't get all of the buzz about Android; it's only really open to the carriers, not the end users.
I don't agree with the Constitution party 100%. But I find their platform far more in line with my ideals than the Marxist (Obama) or the hot-tempered fascist (McCain).
Just having a principled person in the White House to veto things like the Wall Street bail-out, the DMCA, Patriot Act(s), various gun control laws, etc. would be fantastic.
I refuse to support the evil of two lessers.
If Gore or Kerry had been stronger candidates than their third party alternatives, they would have gotten those votes.
I'm still undecided, but only between third party candidates. I cannot fathom voting for a Marxist or a fascist. If the election were held today, I'd probably have to go with Chuck Baldwin, mostly because Ron Paul is not going to be on the ballot, and I have not been impressed with Bob Barr (and I question his integrity and commitment to Constitutional policies). Ralph Nader, like Obama and McCain, apparently either never read the US Constitution or don't care about working within its confines.
Yes but almost every camcorder out there still uses firewire for video transfer (there is a USB port on many, also, but it is only used for transferring still photos).
How long before someone figures out how to jailbreak the TV and reload it with Mythbuntu?
Then it might actually be useful.
If the iPod and iPhone are any indication, I don't want the gilded cage of an Apple TV set.
You know all of those movies about aliens from outer space that come to inhabit earth because they have burned out the resources on their own planets?
Yeah, well, we're the aliens.
I'm sure we'll feel justified in displacing whatever inferior species we find out there.
I wonder if they're going to take it to the next step and use a tool like cfengine or puppet to manage all of the servers in a consistent fashion. I've found that two sysadmins can effectively manage hundreds of servers using such tools, and without putting in more than a standard 40 hour work week.
Any threat posed by ESR can be easily nullified by getting him to pontificate on just about any subject. Far more than the sound of racking a slide on a pistol, ESR loves the sound of his own voice. This should buy you the time you need to carry on with your op or E&E.
It's all the same thing on this side of the pond. ;-p
I often know when my cell phone is going to ring before it actually rings. Right before my phone starts playing its ring tone, my CRT distorts and flickers a bit. I can certainly see how cell phones can affect super sensitive avionics. This isn't a Toyota we're talking about here.
Breathed has pulled this before. Maybe he's just burned out, who knows. But when his other ventures prove to be far less lucrative, and he gets sick of answering all of the repetitive questions about the whereabouts of Opus, the promise of easy money will bring him out of "retirement". Maybe it will last longer than Jet Li's retirement. But Opus will be back.