Having the Justice Department keep tabs on abuses of the 'Patriot' Act is about as legitimate as having Michael Jackson investigate himself for child molestation.
Indeed. It takes a certain individual to take advantage of that path. Don't forget, it is the National Guard and Reserves who are doing most of the dying in Iraq.
You will start off as an officer. Live on base and save all the money you can. Take free classes and score your Masters + you increase your salary. Then you retire with full benefits in only 20 years and the money you saved will buy you a ranch for cash. You get your retirement monies and benefits 'till the day you die. You can drop out of being a robot whore faster than any other method!
I actually met somebody who did this and I (kind of) envy them. They got married after they retired. All they do is play on their ranch.
...all their modifications to Open Source software have been submitted back to the original projects.
I'm still waiting for them to submit Objective C++. As a matter of fact, one of the first successful FSF legal actions was forcing NeXT to release the source code to their GCC derivative.
Did you read the article? All cpus are tested with both 32bit and 64bit code.
Only two 64-bit apps, Povray and Panorama Factory. As a matter of fact, didn't you also notice that the benhmarks were mostly SSE math on very large datasets?
This one is a laugher:
The Intel chip performs particularly well if several tasks are running at the same time; under these circumstances, the Pentium 4 can outpace its AMD rival even if the latter is quicker at performing the tasks on their own.
... meaning they were doing SSE math on two very large dataset files. They likely ran Intel-picked benchmarks which show that Intel's SSE instruction set is faster than AMDs. The benchmarks on streaming data hide the horrific latency of DDR2, don't show anything about integer performance, performance of the system in handling interrupts, etc.
I'm not impressed. All those 32-bit benchmarks to benchmark their 64-bit CPU. Last week Linux Hardware benched the new Pentium against Opteron with real 64-bit apps on a real 64-bit OS.
I doubt POWER will ever go further in market share on the desktop than it is already because nobody can get a POWER ATX motherboard on the open market. There are no available off-the-shelf chipsets for POWER, no appreciable demand for POWERs outside of Apple.
When they make me President of IBM, the first thing I'll demand is inexpensive chipsets and reference boards (with free design licensing) for the Taiwan motherboard makers.
We're rolling our own in our small office here. We have a linux kernel delivered to the off-the-shelf PC cum X terminal through PXE, then the kernel grabs it's initrd image loaded through tftp.
Our initrd image contains a statically compiled X server which has been named 'linuxrc' and is automatically executed by the kernel. There is no shell, no init or init scripts, nothing in/lib or/bin./dev is populated automatically by the kernel via devfs.
It was relatively simple to put together this 2-binary X-terminal distro once we figured out we could do such a thing.
They hold actual figures very close to their chest. I wrote them last year asking them about the efficiency and conversion products which come from cellulose. They answered the email, but offered no information.
They claim that the methane produced from their process produces all the energy to drive their distillation process, and I think that's perpetual motion machine junk science.
... and there is Luma for point and clickness. Macs also love OpenSLP. I suppose an enterprising techie could put together a collection of LDAPpy binaries, call it Linux Directory Services and sell it for thousands. But doesn't O'Reilly have a good LDAP book?
If we were all excellent system admins, we would have an md5 sum of each kernel and each pertinent file in/etc and each binary in the/sbin and/bin directories. I don't but it would probably be a good idea.
In the old pre OS X days, most Mac viruses were INITs (AKA Extensions) which are rewritten system calls. I remember a virus from the olden days which was an INIT that spread through a DiskInsertionEvent.
Back in the mid 80s, we had centralized IT and terminals run by greybeards. Then came the PC and centralized IT got the boot. Now the PC guys are the greybeards and some of them are getting a kick in the pants by young Turks who advocate more efficient centralized IT!
I think that in large enough cities, a Linux person doesn't have to spin his wheels in a Windows shop anymore. There are enough Linux/UNIX shops around these days. The WIndows shops are the ones who are wasting money and are stuck in their old ways and are less competitive because of their obsolete IT methodologies.
It's a vast left-wing conspiracy. Decent people know that God put the environment here and God will fix any pollution problems, assuming the rapture doesn't happen first!
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Having the Justice Department keep tabs on abuses of the 'Patriot' Act is about as legitimate as having Michael Jackson investigate himself for child molestation.
Indeed. It takes a certain individual to take advantage of that path. Don't forget, it is the National Guard and Reserves who are doing most of the dying in Iraq.
Because OOorg doesn't have a WordPerfect filter.
You will start off as an officer. Live on base and save all the money you can. Take free classes and score your Masters + you increase your salary. Then you retire with full benefits in only 20 years and the money you saved will buy you a ranch for cash. You get your retirement monies and benefits 'till the day you die. You can drop out of being a robot whore faster than any other method!
I actually met somebody who did this and I (kind of) envy them. They got married after they retired. All they do is play on their ranch.
I just noticed today that Acer (of Taiwan) has become the 4th largest computer maker in the world.
I'm still waiting for them to submit Objective C++. As a matter of fact, one of the first successful FSF legal actions was forcing NeXT to release the source code to their GCC derivative.
Did you read the article? All cpus are tested with both 32bit and 64bit code.
Only two 64-bit apps, Povray and Panorama Factory. As a matter of fact, didn't you also notice that the benhmarks were mostly SSE math on very large datasets?
This one is a laugher:
... meaning they were doing SSE math on two very large dataset files. They likely ran Intel-picked benchmarks which show that Intel's SSE instruction set is faster than AMDs. The benchmarks on streaming data hide the horrific latency of DDR2, don't show anything about integer performance, performance of the system in handling interrupts, etc.
I'm not impressed. All those 32-bit benchmarks to benchmark their 64-bit CPU. Last week Linux Hardware benched the new Pentium against Opteron with real 64-bit apps on a real 64-bit OS.
Just print up yourself a PhD and get a cubicle at Intel.
Better questions:
Because selling CPUs is profitable. And the more you sell, the cheaper each one is to make.
I doubt POWER will ever go further in market share on the desktop than it is already because nobody can get a POWER ATX motherboard on the open market. There are no available off-the-shelf chipsets for POWER, no appreciable demand for POWERs outside of Apple.
When they make me President of IBM, the first thing I'll demand is inexpensive chipsets and reference boards (with free design licensing) for the Taiwan motherboard makers.
We're rolling our own in our small office here. We have a linux kernel delivered to the off-the-shelf PC cum X terminal through PXE, then the kernel grabs it's initrd image loaded through tftp.
Our initrd image contains a statically compiled X server which has been named 'linuxrc' and is automatically executed by the kernel. There is no shell, no init or init scripts, nothing in /lib or /bin. /dev is populated automatically by the kernel via devfs.
It was relatively simple to put together this 2-binary X-terminal distro once we figured out we could do such a thing.
Not that that is a bad thing, but I cannot see any difference between the V40z and this.
They hold actual figures very close to their chest. I wrote them last year asking them about the efficiency and conversion products which come from cellulose. They answered the email, but offered no information.
They claim that the methane produced from their process produces all the energy to drive their distillation process, and I think that's perpetual motion machine junk science.
... and there is Luma for point and clickness. Macs also love OpenSLP. I suppose an enterprising techie could put together a collection of LDAPpy binaries, call it Linux Directory Services and sell it for thousands. But doesn't O'Reilly have a good LDAP book?
If we were all excellent system admins, we would have an md5 sum of each kernel and each pertinent file in /etc and each binary in the /sbin and /bin directories. I don't but it would probably be a good idea.
In the old pre OS X days, most Mac viruses were INITs (AKA Extensions) which are rewritten system calls. I remember a virus from the olden days which was an INIT that spread through a DiskInsertionEvent.
Just think how priceless Wikipedia is compared to that crappy about.com.
Back in the mid 80s, we had centralized IT and terminals run by greybeards. Then came the PC and centralized IT got the boot. Now the PC guys are the greybeards and some of them are getting a kick in the pants by young Turks who advocate more efficient centralized IT!
I think that in large enough cities, a Linux person doesn't have to spin his wheels in a Windows shop anymore. There are enough Linux/UNIX shops around these days. The WIndows shops are the ones who are wasting money and are stuck in their old ways and are less competitive because of their obsolete IT methodologies.
When will those politicians learn to take Microsoft's money and then go right ahead and get open source software in spite?
It's a vast left-wing conspiracy. Decent people know that God put the environment here and God will fix any pollution problems, assuming the rapture doesn't happen first!
Before you came to Microsoft, did you work for the tobacco industry? How about an asbestos firm?