Sony is much bigger than MS & Cisco. (Over twice as big as MS.) GE is bigger, they're #5 on the Fortune 500. You shouldn't equate market capitalization with a corporation's actual worth. Amazon has a market capitalization of $23 billion, and they have yet to turn a profit.
If this turns out to be true... This would ultimately be a good move, for M$, consumers, Linux, and everybody. It doesn't sound like they would open source Windoze, just license the source to competitors. With 100M+ lines of code and 65K+ bugs, this is probably the only way they could debug it. We might get a fairly stable Windoze release and a company like Corel could license the code and create a "Virtual Windoze Machine" for Linux to run win32 apps, probably even faster than a native Windoze box.
NT 3.51 was pretty reliable. But when M$ ported the Win95 GUI over to NT, it ran so slow they had to change it so the GUI in kernel mode instead of user mode. This is the source of most crashes.
Too many people stereotype the military as they've seen in the movies. In fact, today's military is committed to empowerment at the lowest level possible. There's an excellent article at CNN about why veterans make good IT workers.
The news media scans/. for story leads. Example: CNN wrote a story about some minor web Y2K glitches, but not until well after they had been posted here on/.
Kelly Johnson is the man primarily responsible for the Lockheed Skunkworks. Some aircraft that he had a large part in designing were the P-38, T-33/F-80, U-2, SR-71 (they developed the metallurgy of titanium as they went), F-94, and F-104. Also designed under his direction was the C-130, which he was somewhat ashamed of because it wasn't sleek and sexy like most of the aircraft Lockheed was known for. Many of these designs were great hacks. They were given incredibly unrealistic specifications for the time and they pulled it off.
Beowulf clusters can be made of any platform Linux (or other flavors of unix) runs on. The software needed to run a Beowulf cluster, PVM or MPI, are open source. Compaq used Alpha because it's there flaqship CPU and it's the highest performance CPU available. For more info, see the Beowulf Project.
The Alpha 21264's SPECint95 and SPECfp95 results _now_ are higher than the projected results for the as yet unreleased IA-64 processor. Unfortunately, the Alpha's suffered from poor marketing and and business decisions.
I work much the same in AutoCAD. I type 1 or 2 letter aliases with my left hand for most commands and keep my right hand on the mouse. At a previous job, I used a CalComp Digitizer with a puck that had macros in all 16 buttons for my frequently used commands.
The DOD's classified systems are NOT connected to the internet now. The systems that are getting cracked are just web servers. They also use very strong encryption on their classified networks - remember, the NSA works for them.
VA Research's VArBook comes with Win95, but not installed. When even a Linux specific dealer has to bundle an MS OS with their notebooks, that's a monopoly.
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Sony is much bigger than MS & Cisco. (Over twice as big as MS.) GE is bigger, they're #5 on the Fortune 500. You shouldn't equate market capitalization with a corporation's actual worth. Amazon has a market capitalization of $23 billion, and they have yet to turn a profit.
If this turns out to be true... This would ultimately be a good move, for M$, consumers, Linux, and everybody. It doesn't sound like they would open source Windoze, just license the source to competitors. With 100M+ lines of code and 65K+ bugs, this is probably the only way they could debug it. We might get a fairly stable Windoze release and a company like Corel could license the code and create a "Virtual Windoze Machine" for Linux to run win32 apps, probably even faster than a native Windoze box.
I definitely agree! That's all some of my friends use the internet for, besides e-mail.
NT 3.51 was pretty reliable. But when M$ ported the Win95 GUI over to NT, it ran so slow they had to change it so the GUI in kernel mode instead of user mode. This is the source of most crashes.
Moderate this UP!!
Too many people stereotype the military as they've seen in the movies. In fact, today's military is committed to empowerment at the lowest level possible. There's an excellent article at CNN about why veterans make good IT workers.
I haven't found a GUI file manager I like yet. So I run mc in a term window.
The news media scans /. for story leads. Example: CNN wrote a story about some minor web Y2K glitches, but not until well after they had been posted here on /.
I resolve to start working on the y10k problem now, so it doesn't wait till the last couple years and get hyped up way out of proportion.
Kelly Johnson is the man primarily responsible for the Lockheed Skunkworks. Some aircraft that he had a large part in designing were the P-38, T-33/F-80, U-2, SR-71 (they developed the metallurgy of titanium as they went), F-94, and F-104. Also designed under his direction was the C-130, which he was somewhat ashamed of because it wasn't sleek and sexy like most of the aircraft Lockheed was known for. Many of these designs were great hacks. They were given incredibly unrealistic specifications for the time and they pulled it off.
Beowulf clusters can be made of any platform Linux (or other flavors of unix) runs on. The software needed to run a Beowulf cluster, PVM or MPI, are open source. Compaq used Alpha because it's there flaqship CPU and it's the highest performance CPU available. For more info, see the Beowulf Project.
This thread is officially over.
(If you don't know what Godwin's Law is, look it up in the Jargon File.
The Alpha 21264's SPECint95 and SPECfp95 results _now_ are higher than the projected results for the as yet unreleased IA-64 processor. Unfortunately, the Alpha's suffered from poor marketing and and business decisions.
Remember the ending scene from Octopussy?
Seriously though, there was a married couple on a recent space shuttle flight. You know they had to think about it.
I work much the same in AutoCAD. I type 1 or 2 letter aliases with my left hand for most commands and keep my right hand on the mouse. At a previous job, I used a CalComp Digitizer with a puck that had macros in all 16 buttons for my frequently used commands.
The DOD's classified systems are NOT connected to the internet now. The systems that are getting cracked are just web servers. They also use very strong encryption on their classified networks - remember, the NSA works for them.
"Linux, a rebel open-source operating system"
I guess Windows is the Empire then!
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has specifications for HTML, CSS, DOM, and so on and so forth on their web site.
VA Research's VArBook comes with Win95, but not installed. When even a Linux specific dealer has to bundle an MS OS with their notebooks, that's a monopoly.