Giving up PS/2 as "legacy" is pretty much insane. There is no reasonably priced KVM switch that does BOTH USB and PS/2, and I'm not getting USB for my 486 firewall any time soon. PS/2 has PLENTY of life left in it, no matter what one mfr thinks.
IBM has made component parts of many types for Sun over the years, including Disk Drives, Gigabit Interface Converters, and Ecache memory chips, to name a handful. Most of those components have been reliable, some have not. But that's probably true of most of their suppliers (after all, no one ever manufactures everything perfectly).
They consciously censor on whatever criteria it is they use.
You obviously haven't spent much time talking to librarians lately, have you?
I think if you do, you'll find that the word "censor" is on their list of baaad words we don't say around here, as is the action of censorship. They make value judgements, but they are based on positive values (based on all these things, what would be the best value for the money to add to our collection), not negative censorship (will this offend some patron).
If the only amount of federal subsidy that's at risk is the amount for internet access, I can't see how that much money makes a hill of beans to the library. The impression I got was that the CIPA says "NO federal funding for anything if you don't install censorware."
Yes, it may be somewhat difficult in the abstract, but I'd think there are enough private citizen free speech advocates with money to make up the cost difference for a reasonable network link per branch.
All I can say is, if a piece of media with random data on it can corrupt the firmware, that's a pretty lousy drive you've got there. Does that justify Sony's action? Of course not.
it makes mincemeat of locally targeted advertising.
Awwww, poor poor advertisers...
Most locally produced advertising is horrible anyway. Personally, if I need to see what's available locally, I read the local paper, not watch the local TV station. I'd be really surprised if that weren't the case for most people.
da hell with that. The main thing that was humorless was the lame jokes. Did I waste my time bitching all day because they weren't funny? No. But the people who did waste their time at least had "being right" on their side. There wasn't a funny joke in the bunch.
Sorry, but no Sun employee I know says that IBM has better service people than we do. That's the big button you hit, because it's a ridiculous and wrong assertion on your part.
As for stock charts, perhaps that's the problem. Companies do well when they're run by the vision of their founders. They do pretty badly when they're run by the vision of a high stock price.
That of course has nothing to do with Linux kicking anyone's butt, BTW.
Halon relies on a closed container like room to smother the fire. As soon as the jets broke through the building, any chance for Halon to have put out the resulting fire was gone.
At the high end you can pop linux on an IBM mainframe and get not only the top end of hardware but a superior services force.
Right. You work for IBM and I work for Sun. Either that, or you've been doing some really heavy koolaid drinking.
I do work for Sun. I have supported customers who went to Sun for database servers after IBM failed repeatedly to provide the "high end" solution they needed. I have had these same (very demanding) customers tell me that the reason they like Sun is that the field support organization blows the doors off of IBM's capabilities.
I've also supported customers whose primary admin workforce were IBM Global Services people. With a few exceptions where IBMGS hired on staff that already worked at the site, IBMGS was difficult to work with, and frequently not very organized. I've seen cases where the customer specifically asked for something to be fixed and IBMGS stood directly in the way, insisting that it wouldn't work (it did in the end) or that since it violated some policy the fix just wasn't acceptable (let's see...fix a critical problem, or adhere to the letter of some bureaucratic policy created without this situation in mind?)
Then there's this "linux on a mainframe" concept, which really doesn't make much sense. You've got Linus saying he doesn't care to make the kernel scale past 4 procs. Which isn't to say it never will, or that no one is working on it, but it sure doesn't speak well for the priority of making Linux well on big iron, no matter who the hardware vendor is. A dozen tiny little 1 - 4 CPU instances just aren't the right answer for a lot of classes of problems.
The provenance of the ideas behind EJB/J2EE, arguably Sun's most commercially important Java technology, would seem to be revealed in its choice of identifier names.
And just like the folks pointing out that similarities between the languages are likely due to their common heritage (C++), it's probably worth pointing out that the similarities here have to do with the attempt to solve the same problems. Yee haw. Ain't this fun?
They don't want to admit it straight out - they have been playing nice with open source folks while quietly taking Cobalt off of the market and making it a bit player.
I guess you missed the part where Sun announced that they'll be shipping Linux and supporting Linux sometime midyear. I'd say that amounts to "admitting it straight out".
Once Microsoft gets Win2k up to par in every respect with Solaris (it will happen)
By the time Win2k reaches Solaris 8/9 levels, Solaris will have moved on. They haven't caught Solaris yet; the only chance they have is if Sun just goes out of business.
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To complicate matters by at least an order of magnitude, the consumer electronics manufacturers--the companies that make stereos, VCRs, and DVD players--have aligned with the entertainment industry. At least some of them, and at least to some extent.
And of course, some of them are both sides of the fence. Can you say Sony? AOL-Time Warner seems a likely candidate to follow along too.
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The "converters" only work with dual purpose mice. That works on the INPUT side (using one right now actually) but not on the output to the 486.
Giving up PS/2 as "legacy" is pretty much insane. There is no reasonably priced KVM switch that does BOTH USB and PS/2, and I'm not getting USB for my 486 firewall any time soon. PS/2 has PLENTY of life left in it, no matter what one mfr thinks.
IBM has made component parts of many types for Sun over the years, including Disk Drives, Gigabit Interface Converters, and Ecache memory chips, to name a handful. Most of those components have been reliable, some have not. But that's probably true of most of their suppliers (after all, no one ever manufactures everything perfectly).
When mergers and such happen, previous plans all go out the window.
You forgot the word "insecure".
You obviously haven't spent much time talking to librarians lately, have you?
I think if you do, you'll find that the word "censor" is on their list of baaad words we don't say around here, as is the action of censorship. They make value judgements, but they are based on positive values (based on all these things, what would be the best value for the money to add to our collection), not negative censorship (will this offend some patron).
Yes, it may be somewhat difficult in the abstract, but I'd think there are enough private citizen free speech advocates with money to make up the cost difference for a reasonable network link per branch.
So use the federal subsidy for some other library purpose than providing Internet Access, document it in your books, and tell the Feds to bugger off.
All I can say is, if a piece of media with random data on it can corrupt the firmware, that's a pretty lousy drive you've got there. Does that justify Sony's action? Of course not.
And if the answer to those concerns is "I don't care in this environment" then why should you criticize?
Awwww, poor poor advertisers...
Most locally produced advertising is horrible anyway. Personally, if I need to see what's available locally, I read the local paper, not watch the local TV station. I'd be really surprised if that weren't the case for most people.
Hate to break it to ya, but this story was posted pretty recently. I saw this same failure to serve pages hours ago.
Nice. Unused storage, which I might want to be using tomorrow. Good call. Glad I don't use this crap.
My bet is the "opt in" is the part in the license that you don't read when you click through it to download the program.
da hell with that. The main thing that was humorless was the lame jokes. Did I waste my time bitching all day because they weren't funny? No. But the people who did waste their time at least had "being right" on their side. There wasn't a funny joke in the bunch.
A reference to another site's April Fools joke is still an April Fools joke.
look at the calendar before you go off half-cocked.
As for stock charts, perhaps that's the problem. Companies do well when they're run by the vision of their founders. They do pretty badly when they're run by the vision of a high stock price.
That of course has nothing to do with Linux kicking anyone's butt, BTW.
Halon relies on a closed container like room to smother the fire. As soon as the jets broke through the building, any chance for Halon to have put out the resulting fire was gone.
Right. You work for IBM and I work for Sun. Either that, or you've been doing some really heavy koolaid drinking.
I do work for Sun. I have supported customers who went to Sun for database servers after IBM failed repeatedly to provide the "high end" solution they needed. I have had these same (very demanding) customers tell me that the reason they like Sun is that the field support organization blows the doors off of IBM's capabilities.
I've also supported customers whose primary admin workforce were IBM Global Services people. With a few exceptions where IBMGS hired on staff that already worked at the site, IBMGS was difficult to work with, and frequently not very organized. I've seen cases where the customer specifically asked for something to be fixed and IBMGS stood directly in the way, insisting that it wouldn't work (it did in the end) or that since it violated some policy the fix just wasn't acceptable (let's see...fix a critical problem, or adhere to the letter of some bureaucratic policy created without this situation in mind?)
Then there's this "linux on a mainframe" concept, which really doesn't make much sense. You've got Linus saying he doesn't care to make the kernel scale past 4 procs. Which isn't to say it never will, or that no one is working on it, but it sure doesn't speak well for the priority of making Linux well on big iron, no matter who the hardware vendor is. A dozen tiny little 1 - 4 CPU instances just aren't the right answer for a lot of classes of problems.
And just like the folks pointing out that similarities between the languages are likely due to their common heritage (C++), it's probably worth pointing out that the similarities here have to do with the attempt to solve the same problems. Yee haw. Ain't this fun?
I guess you missed the part where Sun announced that they'll be shipping Linux and supporting Linux sometime midyear. I'd say that amounts to "admitting it straight out".
Once Microsoft gets Win2k up to par in every respect with Solaris (it will happen)
By the time Win2k reaches Solaris 8/9 levels, Solaris will have moved on. They haven't caught Solaris yet; the only chance they have is if Sun just goes out of business.
And of course, some of them are both sides of the fence. Can you say Sony? AOL-Time Warner seems a likely candidate to follow along too.
You just gave up any credibility you might have had to criticize the movie with. The animated film was an utter piece of dreck.
Hey man, quit dissin' the Bloodhound Gang by comparing them to Celine Dion!! The Bad Touch ROCKS!