There are no exponential growth curves in nature. All apparently exponential growth curves are really sigmoids ("S curves") which have not yet reached their inflexion.
This is obvious really. Things cannot keep growing exponentially indefinitely; limits always intervene.
I work for Geodesic Systems. We sell a drop-in memory management product called "Great Circle" which includes garbage collection for C and C++ and has a web interface.
Since when has cracking had anything to do with freedom? Your freedom to transmit packets stops at my firewall. My freedom to throw a punch stops at your nose. Cracking is illegal, antisocial, childish, and in this case dangerous.
If this is actually true, God help those responsible. British security forces may not be as ruthless as their US or Israeli counterparts, but they are efficient enough. This is an act of war, and Britain hasn't lost a war for a very long time.
How can IBM make "good business" and support Open Source projects like Beowulf?
By selling support services. As you point out, IBM support is the best in the business. If I could afford it, and IBM would sell it, I would buy all mission-critical resources (hardware and software) from IBM, because of the quality of support. That's regardless of whether or not the software is open-source. There are a lot of people in the industry who think like that, and who can afford it: many of them are IBM customers already. Some of what IBM already sells to these people is already open-source (sendmail, BIND, apache, etc), because the open-source solution is the best available. That is going to increase as open-source comes to prevail in more niches. Beowulf (in the scientific computing Unix clustering niche) might be a good example, I don't know. As you point out, a lot of these people don't care about sources, but they do care about quality, and so increasingly they are going to want open-source solutions. IBM just has to be ready to sell those to them, for whatever the market will bear.
For those who are wondering, the CompactFlash interface is just IDE, but smaller. So yes, you could wire one of these to the JumpTec DIMM-PC and put some real storage on a tiny web server.
CompactFlash Types I and II are 3.3 and 5 mm thick respectively, just like PC-MCIA types I and II. You can get PC-MCIA cards which they slot into.
Flash-memory CompactFlash cards come in all sizes up to about 128 MB. Apparently digital cameras usually put a FAT filesystem on their cards.
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There are no exponential growth curves in nature. All apparently exponential growth curves are really sigmoids ("S curves") which have not yet reached their inflexion.
This is obvious really. Things cannot keep growing exponentially indefinitely; limits always intervene.
I work for Geodesic Systems. We sell a drop-in memory management product called "Great Circle" which includes garbage collection for C and C++ and has a web interface.
hackers and other assorted freedom folks??
Since when has cracking had anything to do with freedom? Your freedom to transmit packets stops at my firewall. My freedom to throw a punch stops at your nose. Cracking is illegal, antisocial, childish, and in this case dangerous.
If this is actually true, God help those responsible. British security forces may not be as ruthless as their US or Israeli counterparts, but they are efficient enough. This is an act of war, and Britain hasn't lost a war for a very long time.
How can IBM make "good business" and support Open Source projects like Beowulf?
By selling support services. As you point out, IBM support is the best in the business. If I could afford it, and IBM would sell it, I would buy all mission-critical resources (hardware and software) from IBM, because of the quality of support. That's regardless of whether or not the software is open-source. There are a lot of people in the industry who think like that, and who can afford it: many of them are IBM customers already. Some of what IBM already sells to these people is already open-source (sendmail, BIND, apache, etc), because the open-source solution is the best available. That is going to increase as open-source comes to prevail in more niches. Beowulf (in the scientific computing Unix clustering niche) might be a good example, I don't know. As you point out, a lot of these people don't care about sources, but they do care about quality, and so increasingly they are going to want open-source solutions. IBM just has to be ready to sell those to them, for whatever the market will bear.
For those who are wondering, the CompactFlash interface is just IDE, but smaller. So yes, you could wire one of these to the JumpTec DIMM-PC and put some real storage on a tiny web server.
CompactFlash Types I and II are 3.3 and 5 mm thick respectively, just like PC-MCIA types I and II. You can get PC-MCIA cards which they slot into.
Flash-memory CompactFlash cards come in all sizes up to about 128 MB. Apparently digital cameras usually put a FAT filesystem on their cards.
The 21264 machines start at $7119, with 128 MB RAM and 4.3 GB disk. That's with Windows NT, but you can always return that for a refund, right?
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