Why don't you say what your mainframe environment was, and what hardware, tools, etc, you used to replace it. That way, we can determine if anything you say has any truth to it.
That is why there is GDPS (Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex). Have you ever heard of a bank or credit card company or reservation system losing 'days or weeks' (or even seconds) of data due to a datacenter outage? Do you think that is because by some miracle there has never been a datacenter outage?
Honestly, you guys really need to learn what modern mainframes are and what they do before you go spouting off.
They don't just 'draw names at random'. The lawyers, in front of a judge, get to question the prospective jurors. Someone with an IQ of 50 is not going to be selected.
No, it is a fucking stupid idea and anyone who thinks it is a good idea is an idiot.
Lets say you have a fund manager (say Bernie Madoff) who is accused of mishandling the clients money and enriching himself. Who should be on the jury, other fund managers? You have just created a situation where there basically are no enforcable laws.
If you want a real life example of how stupid an idea this is, look no farther than the police. Ever hear of a cop getting a traffic ticket? Of course not. As soon as they get pulled over they show they are a cop, and 'professional courtesy' takes over. The police have essentially created the situation where the police are exempt from the laws. The exact same thing would happen with any idiotic attempt to make juries of only people in the same field.
Everyone in the US is a peer of everyone else. It has NOTHING to do with your 'profressional' status or any other such bullshit. Or do you think a banker accused of stealing from his customers should only be judged by other bankers? An accused rapist should only be judged by men?
What an idiotic idea. First of all, everybody in the US is a peer of everyone else. We don't have nobility or castes. You may think you are somehow special, but you are not.
Other than that, you think a medical malpractice suit should only have physicians on the jury? Maybe a rape trial should only have men on the jury.
There is nothing special about IT. If a jury can have explained to them medical terms, it can have IT explained. If a jury can have a crash reconstruction explained, it can have IT explained.
This is starting to sound more and more like bullshit. Were all of your cobol programs completely self-contained (highly unlikely). You didn't use any CICS, IMS, database, or any other middleware? You didn't use any VSAM datasets or any record IO? You didn't have any dependancies on JCL associating 'files' to 'datasets' and specifying how files should be opened and what should happen when they are closed?
The reason that this is the first mainframe with SMT is simple. Prior to the previous generation (z12), most mainframe workload was z/OS, and z/OS has no support for SMT. Starting with z12, a whole lot of mainframes started being used for new workload (Linux). Now it makes sense to add SMT, so they did. It has nothing to do with 'technologically lagging'.
As for clock speed being 'not outstanding', looking around Intel's site for server chips I don't see anything clocked above 3.4GHz. This new mainframe runs at 5GHz (previous generation was 5.5GHz, but the new one is still faster).
The 'cheap way' to get into the mainframe business is Linux, and many companies are doing it.
The reasons customers are running Linux on mainframes is for the same reasons they run anything on mainframes. In many cases, it is just a better value. The 'legacy is the only reason for mainframes' mantra is really old and tired, and is only repeated by people who know very little about mainframes.
This makes no sense. Car dealers are no different from any other retailer. Just because they make money off of service today does not mean that is the only way to make money. They can make money:
Selling extended warranties Selling dealer options (floor mats, etc) Financing Raising the markup on the product
So you never give an honest negative opinion about a product under development, for instance? You would never report any suspicion of wrong-doing? You would never give an opinion of a fellow employee if asked?
It IS worse. Whether or not to accept tracking cookies is up to me. Whether or not my email address gets confirmed as being active and in use is not up to me, because this search program is doing it.
Furthermore, since the search program is following these links it obviously must be interpretting the returned data somehow. Is that interpreter known to be perfect, or is it possible someone could create some malicious content that could cause the interpreter to do something bad? Then, all they have to do is send you an email with a link to the content and the search will happily do whatever the malware wants.
We constantly see comments on here about how stupid people are because they are tricked into following links to sites with malicious content. Here, we have a program doing that exact thing, without user control, and that behavior is being excused. Why?
Browsers do not reveal the same details. The links in an email (if followed) prove that the email address is valid, something your browser can not do. Email clients (good ones anyway) do not automatically follow the links, either in preview or even if you open the mail, unless you ask them to. This is a bug.
The 'subsidy' that taxis get (because the cities DO consider them a service) comes in the form of the limited number of licenses/medallions that are issued. That allows the taxis to maximize their usage, and in exchange they are subject to the regulations. Of course, the limited number of medallions could also mean that rates are very high, which is why the cities that issue medallions also have regulated rates. This arrangement gives the city a much-needed service, the taxi companies a steady source of income, and the riders a chance to get a ride for a reasonable price, regardless of who they are or where they want to go.
When Uber shows up and claims it doesn't need to play by the rules, that means the taxis are no longer getting their subsidy, but they are still required to charge the fixed rates and carry anyone anywhere. Uber can cherry-pick the profitable rides and leave the crumbs to the taxis. This means the city's taxi service is no longer functional, and that is not good for anyone except Uber.
Applied Materials, Inc. has been recognized as one of 18 companies receiving Intel Corporation's Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for their performance in 2013. Applied Materials demonstrated industry-leading commitment across all critical focus areas on which Intel suppliers are measured: quality, cost, availability, technology, customer service, labor and ethics systems, and environmental sustainability. Applied Materials is recognized for their significant contributions providing Intel with wafer fab capital equipment, mask capital equipment, fab automation software, and services, deemed essential to Intel's success.
Because that kind of make is sound like Applied Materials equipment is 'essential to Intel's success'.
Yep. That is why no other companies use 'suppliers'. Oh, wait. EVERY company is dependant on its suppliers. Does Intel operate its own mines? Does it create all of the tools, etc in its fabs? No? The stupid bean counters at Intel!
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Why don't you say what your mainframe environment was, and what hardware, tools, etc, you used to replace it. That way, we can determine if anything you say has any truth to it.
And what, exactly, is the problem with that?
That is why there is GDPS (Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex). Have you ever heard of a bank or credit card company or reservation system losing 'days or weeks' (or even seconds) of data due to a datacenter outage? Do you think that is because by some miracle there has never been a datacenter outage?
Honestly, you guys really need to learn what modern mainframes are and what they do before you go spouting off.
It is called the CEC (Central Electronics Complex).
In the context of juries everyone (currently) is a peer of everyone else. I would have thought that was obvious.
They don't just 'draw names at random'. The lawyers, in front of a judge, get to question the prospective jurors. Someone with an IQ of 50 is not going to be selected.
No, it is a fucking stupid idea and anyone who thinks it is a good idea is an idiot.
Lets say you have a fund manager (say Bernie Madoff) who is accused of mishandling the clients money and enriching himself. Who should be on the jury, other fund managers? You have just created a situation where there basically are no enforcable laws.
If you want a real life example of how stupid an idea this is, look no farther than the police. Ever hear of a cop getting a traffic ticket? Of course not. As soon as they get pulled over they show they are a cop, and 'professional courtesy' takes over. The police have essentially created the situation where the police are exempt from the laws. The exact same thing would happen with any idiotic attempt to make juries of only people in the same field.
Everyone in the US is a peer of everyone else. It has NOTHING to do with your 'profressional' status or any other such bullshit. Or do you think a banker accused of stealing from his customers should only be judged by other bankers? An accused rapist should only be judged by men?
What an idiotic idea. First of all, everybody in the US is a peer of everyone else. We don't have nobility or castes. You may think you are somehow special, but you are not.
Other than that, you think a medical malpractice suit should only have physicians on the jury? Maybe a rape trial should only have men on the jury.
There is nothing special about IT. If a jury can have explained to them medical terms, it can have IT explained. If a jury can have a crash reconstruction explained, it can have IT explained.
You need way more than a COBOL compiler. You probably also need CICS and other middleware. You are not going to have VSAM files, etc.
This is starting to sound more and more like bullshit. Were all of your cobol programs completely self-contained (highly unlikely). You didn't use any CICS, IMS, database, or any other middleware? You didn't use any VSAM datasets or any record IO? You didn't have any dependancies on JCL associating 'files' to 'datasets' and specifying how files should be opened and what should happen when they are closed?
The difference is in the volume of transactions. You don't find many people purchasing their morning coffee (for instance) with a PC.
The reason that this is the first mainframe with SMT is simple. Prior to the previous generation (z12), most mainframe workload was z/OS, and z/OS has no support for SMT. Starting with z12, a whole lot of mainframes started being used for new workload (Linux). Now it makes sense to add SMT, so they did. It has nothing to do with 'technologically lagging'.
As for clock speed being 'not outstanding', looking around Intel's site for server chips I don't see anything clocked above 3.4GHz. This new mainframe runs at 5GHz (previous generation was 5.5GHz, but the new one is still faster).
The 'cheap way' to get into the mainframe business is Linux, and many companies are doing it.
The reasons customers are running Linux on mainframes is for the same reasons they run anything on mainframes. In many cases, it is just a better value. The 'legacy is the only reason for mainframes' mantra is really old and tired, and is only repeated by people who know very little about mainframes.
Only on Intel. IBM Z and POWER processors have transactional memory.
There is no OS/VM. VM-370 came from CP-67, which was an IBM project. No doubt many users contributed later, but the origins were IBM.
HASP was an extension to OS/360 (z/OS predecessor) and has nothing to do with VM.
This makes no sense. Car dealers are no different from any other retailer. Just because they make money off of service today does not mean that is the only way to make money. They can make money:
Selling extended warranties
Selling dealer options (floor mats, etc)
Financing
Raising the markup on the product
Riiight. Other than minor little things like:
System architecture being independant of machine implementation
8 bit bytes
32 bit words
Byte addressable memory
Standard IO connections
And that is just stuff from the 360 family, 50 years ago.
So you never give an honest negative opinion about a product under development, for instance? You would never report any suspicion of wrong-doing? You would never give an opinion of a fellow employee if asked?
It IS worse. Whether or not to accept tracking cookies is up to me. Whether or not my email address gets confirmed as being active and in use is not up to me, because this search program is doing it.
Furthermore, since the search program is following these links it obviously must be interpretting the returned data somehow. Is that interpreter known to be perfect, or is it possible someone could create some malicious content that could cause the interpreter to do something bad? Then, all they have to do is send you an email with a link to the content and the search will happily do whatever the malware wants.
We constantly see comments on here about how stupid people are because they are tricked into following links to sites with malicious content. Here, we have a program doing that exact thing, without user control, and that behavior is being excused. Why?
It shows images by following links.
Browsers do not reveal the same details. The links in an email (if followed) prove that the email address is valid, something your browser can not do. Email clients (good ones anyway) do not automatically follow the links, either in preview or even if you open the mail, unless you ask them to. This is a bug.
The 'subsidy' that taxis get (because the cities DO consider them a service) comes in the form of the limited number of licenses/medallions that are issued. That allows the taxis to maximize their usage, and in exchange they are subject to the regulations. Of course, the limited number of medallions could also mean that rates are very high, which is why the cities that issue medallions also have regulated rates. This arrangement gives the city a much-needed service, the taxi companies a steady source of income, and the riders a chance to get a ride for a reasonable price, regardless of who they are or where they want to go.
When Uber shows up and claims it doesn't need to play by the rules, that means the taxis are no longer getting their subsidy, but they are still required to charge the fixed rates and carry anyone anywhere. Uber can cherry-pick the profitable rides and leave the crumbs to the taxis. This means the city's taxi service is no longer functional, and that is not good for anyone except Uber.
You have an odd idea of 'most' and 'normal'. About 18-20 million people on average watch an NFL game on TV. Stadiums hold about 70K people.
So Applied Materials is lying when it says:
Applied Materials, Inc. has been recognized as one of 18 companies receiving Intel Corporation's Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award for their performance in 2013. Applied Materials demonstrated industry-leading commitment across all critical focus areas on which Intel suppliers are measured: quality, cost, availability, technology, customer service, labor and ethics systems, and environmental sustainability. Applied Materials is recognized for their significant contributions providing Intel with wafer fab capital equipment, mask capital equipment, fab automation software, and services, deemed essential to Intel's success.
Because that kind of make is sound like Applied Materials equipment is 'essential to Intel's success'.
Yep. That is why no other companies use 'suppliers'. Oh, wait. EVERY company is dependant on its suppliers. Does Intel operate its own mines? Does it create all of the tools, etc in its fabs? No? The stupid bean counters at Intel!