Modern Z hardware has nothing to do with POWER. Mainframes do not push computation into channel controllers, whatever gave you that bizarre idea? Treat your database like a device driver? What is that supposed to mean? Linux runs native on zSeries, so virtualization is not necessary (and has not been for more than a decade).
You seem to know absolutely nothing about mainframes, why are you posting?
Correct. Additionally, there is the cumulative effect of lots of little, seemingly unimportant, information that adds up to a whole lot of information.
This is a company disciplinary issue. You damn well better apply it consistently or you open yourself up to all sorts of grief.
Your examples are stupid. Disney's policy is that they only license under certain condtions, and that is their right. And they are 100% correct that if they relax those conditions for one group, other groups are going to demand the same thing, something which they do not want to provide. Universal did give the school permission to use their characters for free, but do you have any evidence that any other school approached Universal for the same terms and was refused? If not, then that would explain the lack of lawsuits, wouldn't it?
Yes, cops let people speed a little. However, they let EVERYONE speed a little.
Yes, businesses let people leave early. However, they let EVERYONE leave early.
Here is a simple rule - unless you have been specifically authorized, don't talk about your companies business in public. Chances are very good you signed an agreement to that effect.
Bullshit. Engineering and manufacturing are not the same thing as inventing. There are many, many inventors who invent actual useful things without being involved with manufacturing at all. Universities come to mind.
Sorry, but that is just stupid. By your ridiculous definition, if I am on a desert island and you make a trade based on pricing information I don't have, you are a criminal.
The correct test is not whether it is possible that someone gets information first,which it always has been and always will be, but whether or not everyone has the same RIGHT to get the information at the same time, and they do.
Why would there be bans on buybacks? The buybacks are done to raise the stock price, not to get shares at a cheap price. Banning company stock options also makes no sense, as the options are not exercisable for quite some time. And insider transactions must be reported. An insider who makes a move before the release of news is going to be charged with insider trading.
Ha! Good one! First, plants have been patentable (in the US) since 1930. That is quite a while 'before GMOs'. The first plant patent was issued in 1931.
And I am sure it came as a TOTAL surprise to this guy that the 'trait' he was 'selecting for' was patented. I mean, how could he possibly know that? Just because he was only 'selecting' for the trait where it bordered his neighbors field? I am sure he had absolutely no idea his neighbor had RoundUp Ready crops, and his decision to put RoundUp on them (killing his own crops) was PURELY a coincidence, right? And I bet this farmer never even heard of Monsanto or their RoundUp Ready products, right? I mean lets be serious - how could a mere farmer possibly keep on top of things like that?
Name one such case other than Schmeiser. Schmeiser doesn't count because there was nothing 'natural' or 'accidental' about it. He intentionally killed everything that was not GMO and replanted the GMO seed. Nobody forced him to do that, although he was forced to pay once it was found he infringed on the patent. The willful ignorance is all yours.
How the fuck did he 'saved the seed and planted is next season' if your claim that they do not produce viable seed is correct? You need to keep your lies straight.
Must you keep repeating this bullshit? Read the actual case, not some anti-GMO spin on it.
He was not 'concerned that Monsanto seed contaminated his farm'. He suspected that some GMO seed from his neighbors property got on his field, so he intentionally killed (with glyphosphate) all of the crop that HE planted, kept the seed from the 'contaminated' plants, and replanted them. There was nothing 'accidental' about it.
Nope. Those things protect you from accidents. Causing an accident or otherwise messing with the car by hacking is not an accident, it is a criminal act
Huh? In the last 5 years there have been a total of about 5 people killed on commercial flights in the US. In the same time there have been about 200,000 killed in car accidents.
So much wrong here it is hard to know where to start.
Legacy? POWER 8 was released later year. Z13 was released 6 months ago. Z13 is a brand new design.
As for that post you linked to, let's just say the writer is an idiot. First and foremost, you can not compare MIPS numbers between two different architectures. Ever. And you can't compare MIPS numbers between two different workloads. Ever. But this bozo attempted to do just that.
Secondly, NOBODY buys the 26 MIPS model for production use. They buy it as a hot backup. By buying that model, they save a ton on both hardware and software costs, but can convert it to a full speed machine, about 150x faster, in seconds should they need to transfer workload from a primary machine. But this idiot tried to use it for productive use, and complained that it was slow. Duh.
Lastly, he complains about the disk configuration, but doesn't seem to have a clue how to set it up. All current DASD that supports CKD mode (max 9GB disk size) also supports SCSI mode. But for some bizarre reason he configures it as CKD over FICON, then complains about it. If he had a brain he would configure it as SCSI over FCP, and have up to 2TB images, which work just fine with z/VM and Linux.
The problem is that Congress recently snuck in language to make it easier to get patents on things that are merely improvements on existing things. Being able to do something 'on a computer' or 'in the cloud' may in fact be such an improvement. And of course it is HOW you go about doing it in the cloud that is patented, not the IDEA of using the cloud.
In case you are wondering, this recent change happened in 1793.
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Modern Z hardware has nothing to do with POWER. Mainframes do not push computation into channel controllers, whatever gave you that bizarre idea? Treat your database like a device driver? What is that supposed to mean? Linux runs native on zSeries, so virtualization is not necessary (and has not been for more than a decade).
You seem to know absolutely nothing about mainframes, why are you posting?
No, not at all.
AIX has nothing to do with mainframes. AIX runs on POWER systems.
Correct. Additionally, there is the cumulative effect of lots of little, seemingly unimportant, information that adds up to a whole lot of information.
I must have missed something. Exactly how did you get from "don't talk about our business" to "we don't care about you"?
This is a company disciplinary issue. You damn well better apply it consistently or you open yourself up to all sorts of grief.
Your examples are stupid. Disney's policy is that they only license under certain condtions, and that is their right. And they are 100% correct that if they relax those conditions for one group, other groups are going to demand the same thing, something which they do not want to provide. Universal did give the school permission to use their characters for free, but do you have any evidence that any other school approached Universal for the same terms and was refused? If not, then that would explain the lack of lawsuits, wouldn't it?
Yes, cops let people speed a little. However, they let EVERYONE speed a little.
Yes, businesses let people leave early. However, they let EVERYONE leave early.
Here is a simple rule - unless you have been specifically authorized, don't talk about your companies business in public. Chances are very good you signed an agreement to that effect.
Bullshit. Engineering and manufacturing are not the same thing as inventing. There are many, many inventors who invent actual useful things without being involved with manufacturing at all. Universities come to mind.
It is a concrete reservoir used to hold TREATED water. There is nothing in it.
There are no fish, the water has already been chlorinated which is why they are using the balls in the first place.
Sorry, but that is just stupid. By your ridiculous definition, if I am on a desert island and you make a trade based on pricing information I don't have, you are a criminal.
The correct test is not whether it is possible that someone gets information first ,which it always has been and always will be, but whether or not everyone has the same RIGHT to get the information at the same time, and they do.
Why would there be bans on buybacks? The buybacks are done to raise the stock price, not to get shares at a cheap price. Banning company stock options also makes no sense, as the options are not exercisable for quite some time. And insider transactions must be reported. An insider who makes a move before the release of news is going to be charged with insider trading.
Ha! Good one! First, plants have been patentable (in the US) since 1930. That is quite a while 'before GMOs'. The first plant patent was issued in 1931.
And I am sure it came as a TOTAL surprise to this guy that the 'trait' he was 'selecting for' was patented. I mean, how could he possibly know that? Just because he was only 'selecting' for the trait where it bordered his neighbors field? I am sure he had absolutely no idea his neighbor had RoundUp Ready crops, and his decision to put RoundUp on them (killing his own crops) was PURELY a coincidence, right? And I bet this farmer never even heard of Monsanto or their RoundUp Ready products, right? I mean lets be serious - how could a mere farmer possibly keep on top of things like that?
Name one such case other than Schmeiser. Schmeiser doesn't count because there was nothing 'natural' or 'accidental' about it. He intentionally killed everything that was not GMO and replanted the GMO seed. Nobody forced him to do that, although he was forced to pay once it was found he infringed on the patent. The willful ignorance is all yours.
How the fuck did he 'saved the seed and planted is next season' if your claim that they do not produce viable seed is correct? You need to keep your lies straight.
Must you keep repeating this bullshit? Read the actual case, not some anti-GMO spin on it.
He was not 'concerned that Monsanto seed contaminated his farm'. He suspected that some GMO seed from his neighbors property got on his field, so he intentionally killed (with glyphosphate) all of the crop that HE planted, kept the seed from the 'contaminated' plants, and replanted them. There was nothing 'accidental' about it.
forcing terminal
Nobody is 'forcing' anybody to do anything, and there are no 'terminal' crops. Two words, two lies. Seems about right for the anti-GMO bunch.
Nope. Those things protect you from accidents. Causing an accident or otherwise messing with the car by hacking is not an accident, it is a criminal act
If you're going for that level of paranoid, don't forget the bulletproof glass, armor plating, etc.
Huh? In the last 5 years there have been a total of about 5 people killed on commercial flights in the US. In the same time there have been about 200,000 killed in car accidents.
So much wrong here it is hard to know where to start.
Legacy? POWER 8 was released later year. Z13 was released 6 months ago. Z13 is a brand new design.
As for that post you linked to, let's just say the writer is an idiot. First and foremost, you can not compare MIPS numbers between two different architectures. Ever. And you can't compare MIPS numbers between two different workloads. Ever. But this bozo attempted to do just that.
Secondly, NOBODY buys the 26 MIPS model for production use. They buy it as a hot backup. By buying that model, they save a ton on both hardware and software costs, but can convert it to a full speed machine, about 150x faster, in seconds should they need to transfer workload from a primary machine. But this idiot tried to use it for productive use, and complained that it was slow. Duh.
Lastly, he complains about the disk configuration, but doesn't seem to have a clue how to set it up. All current DASD that supports CKD mode (max 9GB disk size) also supports SCSI mode. But for some bizarre reason he configures it as CKD over FICON, then complains about it. If he had a brain he would configure it as SCSI over FCP, and have up to 2TB images, which work just fine with z/VM and Linux.
If you think LAMP has anything remotely to do with cloud you really should not be commenting.
The problem is that Congress recently snuck in language to make it easier to get patents on things that are merely improvements on existing things. Being able to do something 'on a computer' or 'in the cloud' may in fact be such an improvement. And of course it is HOW you go about doing it in the cloud that is patented, not the IDEA of using the cloud.
In case you are wondering, this recent change happened in 1793.
Except for P series (POWER), Z series (mainframe), disk storage, tape drives, and tape libraries.
Nobody is talking about geofencing birds, really? Can you really be that stupid? Bird control is a MAJOR concern at airports.