Right. Those lovely data CDs which so easily get stolen from all the copies in the store before you can buy one, rendering whatever you hoped to gain from the CD useless.
Also there is a little bit of a misconception here. They perform drastically different because of the SMP bus architecture and just the fact that it's CISC
vs RISC etc.
I'd say this is the misconception. The advantages of RISC over CISC for an equivalent clock speed CPU actually vary significantly based on the TYPE of workload. A good example: a while back a customer was complaining that compiles went twice as fast on their HP PC platform (1GHz CPU) than they did on their Sun platform (450MHz CPU). Compiles are almost entirely CPU bound. Found numbers point out that the SPEC ratings for the 1GHz CPU were about twice those of the 450MHz. What a surprise.
The thing is, the machine with the 450MHz CPU had 4 CPUs. If they had invested some effort in configuring a parallel make, the 450MHz machine with 4 CPU's would have approached being able to half the compile time of the single threaded make on the PC.
Sunblade 100 (not 1000) is not an US-III chip. Furthermore, it's a 500MHz chip. Hm, the Athlon has a nearly 2 GHz chip. Big surprise that it is 4 times faster.
So Red Hat is liable for code someone else, possibly not in any way affiliated with them, has written? They've submitted a patch to the non-scaling kernel patch submission process and it's not in the kernel yet, what are they to do?
Here's another use, whether you consider it piracy or not is up to you.
I record (on video tape) episodes of various cartoons that I enjoy watching. However, due to some glitch between my VCR & my receiver, the color is all washed out (for anything from VCR, not just tape). I would really really like to be able to put these cartoons (and other shows I record, which is legitimate private use) onto a medium that 1) takes up less space than tape, 2) has longer lifespan than tape, and 3) I can play on my DVD player which doesn't have the same problems with color washout.
As far as it goes, if I can buy these cartoons on DVD, I'm usually more than happy to. The production quality etc of a professional DVD is worth a fair bit to me. But while you can expect a given movie will make it to DVD in some reasonable amount of time, TV cartoons and TV shows generally do not have the same assumption.
Recently I've gotten together the technologies to be able to burn VCDs of these, but I still can only get about an hours worth on any given CDR, so I still end up with a lot of little discs running around. I would really dig having a reasonably priced means to put all of that data on only a handful of discs. Of course, today, that's still not possible from what I've seen (not to mention that reasonable means to burn VCDs is relatively new, and I'm sure any kind of DVD format is a ways out for the common man).
Luke Skywalker whining all the way through episode 4 was "really incredible"?? I don't think so. It was really incredible when I went to see it at age 10, when I was too immature to recognize what a brat Luke was being. It was only barely watchable when I went to see it again at age 30+. Some aspects of the series are, as you say, classic, but I'd say that there are dozens of movies that are more incredible in so many ways.
Of course, if you go back and watch the original movies, you may come away unimpressed with the whole mess of 'em. I know I was, despite loving them entirely as a preteen/teenager.
Scott can be "a self-important prick" to the same extent that any CEO can be; which is to say I can't think of a single CEO that *doesn't* fit that description sometimes, especially in public. Some of them are more egregious about it than others (can you say Larry Ellison?:).
As far as it goes, the day we start acting like Microsoft is the day I leave, and I know a lot of fellow employees who feel the same.
While Sun is no saintly place, I have to say overall we have a much stronger sense of ethics than I've ever seen evident in the behavior of Microsoft. Sun's no Mother Theresa, but we're not John Wayne Gacy either.
Sun (and virtually anyone else, including me) probably would do what BillG has done, given the same opportunity.
Let's see...
Sun has lots of licensing/partnership agreements with VAR's big & small. I don't recall ever hearing one of them that said "You can be a VAR for us, but you can't sell any other equipment by any other vendor, nor any other software that does the same stuff that we do." Let's see, VARs are selling Veritas Cluster Server, a direct competitor to Sun Cluster, all the bloody time. Do we spank them for doing this? Do we force them to stop selling our equipment? No.
Tell me again about opportunities and why Sun doesn't take them?
Sun was justified by fearing Solaris would die (it still will, it'll just take longer)
Care to back this up with some real thoughtful explanation, instead of the imminent demise of Unix(tm) conspiracy theory that's been floating around for ages now?
Maybe you mean Linux, whose lead kernel developer has no interest in making his kernel scale to more than a handful of processors, is going to kill Solaris, which scales well over 64 procs? I hardly think so. Every tool has its use, and Solaris stands alone in its class at this point. Anyone who was previously a real competitor has folded or gotten Linux religion--a religion that makes no more sense than any of the others and just provides one more way for people to stick their fingers in their ears and go "la la la I'm right, you're all wrong."
She prefers to be referred to as Wendy regardless of the specific time of original release. I respect her wishes by referring to her as such and not worrying about when the change was made.
You'll note that reissues are all listed by Wendy, including the reissue of S-O-B which definitely was recorded prior to the change.
Sorry if you're incapable of treating another human with respect, but most of us don't have much trouble with doing so.
I'll second the recommendation. Been behind coyote since I got DSL 15 months ago. It's a wonderful thing (and I don't have to have a HD making noise & heat in the closet).
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Right. Those lovely data CDs which so easily get stolen from all the copies in the store before you can buy one, rendering whatever you hoped to gain from the CD useless.
The discussion is about "boot disks". Can't boot a CDROM on an OLD 486.
As opposed to trying to find a specific CDR in a huge pile of them, in less than 10 minutes?
(it was a joke, referencing the 2000 Election, not anything positive the supreme court tried to do over 100 years ago).
Hey, maybe they like reading the same story over and over on the same web site.
Now if only you could get the APPLICATIONS to run on a PC....
I'd say this is the misconception. The advantages of RISC over CISC for an equivalent clock speed CPU actually vary significantly based on the TYPE of workload. A good example: a while back a customer was complaining that compiles went twice as fast on their HP PC platform (1GHz CPU) than they did on their Sun platform (450MHz CPU). Compiles are almost entirely CPU bound. Found numbers point out that the SPEC ratings for the 1GHz CPU were about twice those of the 450MHz. What a surprise.
The thing is, the machine with the 450MHz CPU had 4 CPUs. If they had invested some effort in configuring a parallel make, the 450MHz machine with 4 CPU's would have approached being able to half the compile time of the single threaded make on the PC.
Sunblade 100 (not 1000) is not an US-III chip. Furthermore, it's a 500MHz chip. Hm, the Athlon has a nearly 2 GHz chip. Big surprise that it is 4 times faster.
It should have been "OS OS Revolution".
So Red Hat is liable for code someone else, possibly not in any way affiliated with them, has written? They've submitted a patch to the non-scaling kernel patch submission process and it's not in the kernel yet, what are they to do?
But by RedHat taking a product to market and selling it they are in effect declaring it finished. What's the difference?
This leaves a catch-22. You can't expect OSS to be exempt, but not being exempt puts a huge barrier in front of voluntary development.
It's not macrovision, because I get it with my cable direct, no video tape in between.
I record (on video tape) episodes of various cartoons that I enjoy watching. However, due to some glitch between my VCR & my receiver, the color is all washed out (for anything from VCR, not just tape). I would really really like to be able to put these cartoons (and other shows I record, which is legitimate private use) onto a medium that 1) takes up less space than tape, 2) has longer lifespan than tape, and 3) I can play on my DVD player which doesn't have the same problems with color washout.
As far as it goes, if I can buy these cartoons on DVD, I'm usually more than happy to. The production quality etc of a professional DVD is worth a fair bit to me. But while you can expect a given movie will make it to DVD in some reasonable amount of time, TV cartoons and TV shows generally do not have the same assumption.
Recently I've gotten together the technologies to be able to burn VCDs of these, but I still can only get about an hours worth on any given CDR, so I still end up with a lot of little discs running around. I would really dig having a reasonably priced means to put all of that data on only a handful of discs. Of course, today, that's still not possible from what I've seen (not to mention that reasonable means to burn VCDs is relatively new, and I'm sure any kind of DVD format is a ways out for the common man).
Luke Skywalker whining all the way through episode 4 was "really incredible"?? I don't think so. It was really incredible when I went to see it at age 10, when I was too immature to recognize what a brat Luke was being. It was only barely watchable when I went to see it again at age 30+. Some aspects of the series are, as you say, classic, but I'd say that there are dozens of movies that are more incredible in so many ways.
Of course, if you go back and watch the original movies, you may come away unimpressed with the whole mess of 'em. I know I was, despite loving them entirely as a preteen/teenager.
As far as it goes, the day we start acting like Microsoft is the day I leave, and I know a lot of fellow employees who feel the same.
While Sun is no saintly place, I have to say overall we have a much stronger sense of ethics than I've ever seen evident in the behavior of Microsoft. Sun's no Mother Theresa, but we're not John Wayne Gacy either.
Let's see...
Sun has lots of licensing/partnership agreements with VAR's big & small. I don't recall ever hearing one of them that said "You can be a VAR for us, but you can't sell any other equipment by any other vendor, nor any other software that does the same stuff that we do." Let's see, VARs are selling Veritas Cluster Server, a direct competitor to Sun Cluster, all the bloody time. Do we spank them for doing this? Do we force them to stop selling our equipment? No.
Tell me again about opportunities and why Sun doesn't take them?
Name me one CEO that isn't.
Care to back this up with some real thoughtful explanation, instead of the imminent demise of Unix(tm) conspiracy theory that's been floating around for ages now?
Maybe you mean Linux, whose lead kernel developer has no interest in making his kernel scale to more than a handful of processors, is going to kill Solaris, which scales well over 64 procs? I hardly think so. Every tool has its use, and Solaris stands alone in its class at this point. Anyone who was previously a real competitor has folded or gotten Linux religion--a religion that makes no more sense than any of the others and just provides one more way for people to stick their fingers in their ears and go "la la la I'm right, you're all wrong."
You'll note that reissues are all listed by Wendy, including the reissue of S-O-B which definitely was recorded prior to the change.
Sorry if you're incapable of treating another human with respect, but most of us don't have much trouble with doing so.
Buy the soundtrack by Wendy Carlos then. She's not Disney, and the music is pretty darn cool.
Since about 1995 or 1996, nobody's paid any damn attention to the required mailbox names.
I'll second the recommendation. Been behind coyote since I got DSL 15 months ago. It's a wonderful thing (and I don't have to have a HD making noise & heat in the closet).