Are they calling Itanium an Operating System?
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HP Buys Compaq
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the acquisition amounts to a renewed bet on the computer business and particularly a new operating system for computer servers that was developed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard. Compaq is the other large company that has announced it plans to use that technology, which will compete with technologies developed by Sun Microsystems and I.B.M.
The don't seem to say what they're talking about, but the only technology I know of developed by HP and Intel (who doesn't do OS's, as far as I know) is Itanium. Compaq has dropped Alpha development in favor of Itanium, and Itanium's major competitors are Sun's SPARC, and IBM's PowerRISC chips.
I had also heard that SGI was dropping MIPS in favor of Itanium, but they might not be big enough to count, here.
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HP Buys Compaq
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Compaq was already dropping the Alpha in favor of Itanium. Itanium is an Intel/HP joint project (and I read about that in Byte when I was still in high school, probably when the Pentium came out about eight years ago -- something like "Intel is working on the 786 with Hewlett-Packard, and it will be a revolutionary change, so much so that they are also working on a backup design (P-IV, anyone?) in case it doesn't work").
I'd say this removes any doubt about the fate of Alpha, but HP might be hoping to incorporate some of the Alpha technology. This might also raise some anti-trust concerns, since I'd been reading (Here? Ace's Hardware?) that AMD was looking at making a dual x86/Alpha instruction-set chip to compete with Itanium. They've already licensed a couple of things. Oh, well, I suppose they could go with SPARC or PowerPC. If they went with PowerPC, that could allow for a pretty nifty PC-compatible Mac, if Motorola went along...
For programming, I'd say Bruce Eckel books. I learned OOP from Thinking in C++, and I was using Thinking in Java more than the real textbook for the Java class I just finished.
Brett Glass asks: "Why not ask manufacturers to bundle Opera? It comes with the latest JRE."
Like it or not, Opera really isn't a maintstream browser. If the PC is shipped with anything other than Explorer, the PC maker is going to have to deal with the expense of a lot more tech. support calls from people asking what happened to Explorer.
Java support, on the other hand, just makes thing work that wouldn't have, and doesn't change the rest (except for taking up 0.05% of the hard drive space). If somebody hits a web site that tells them they need Java, and they have to download it over a dial-up, they're going to be mad at the PC maker for giving them an incomplete system. Since it's free, on top of all that, there's really no reason for any PC maker not to include a JRE.
I think Microsoft has just given themselves a black eye for no good reason here. They get another round of bad PR, but Java support will still be put on the PC's by Dell, GateWay, Micron, IBM, etc., plus AOL.
Maybe we should make it a law that a patent (even better, contracts, too) is invalid if it contains the word wherein, or any sentence longer than 40 words.
I know that Henry Ford didn't invent the car, like people (Americans, at least) like to think. Who did invent the light bulb and the airplane, though, if it wasn't Edison and the Wright brothers?
VB encourages this mindset because the fantastic IDE is the only thing that makes the POS language tolerable. VB.Net actually includes directives to the IDE in the code (although it loses a lot of what was impressive about the old environment).
VB can't do everything that VC++ can do, but it can do a lot more than most people (including my fellow VB programmers at work) realize. It just does them slowly, with too much effort, and wastes RAM unbelievably.
the hostess at the time was probably the most fuckable chick on Food Network
No, that'd have to be Padma Lakshmi.
I definately think an American version of the camp feel could work, but you'd want to associate it somehow with the WWF. "You beat me once Mr. Iron Chef, but this time you're going down! Then I'm gonna outcook your Momma and your Daddy and all your kids..."
But you know what, most MS users actually like MS products.
I don't know that that's true. I think the attitude is more like, "This is on my machine, so I'll use it."
A war between MS and AOL can only be benefical to the end-user in the long run.
Except that it would probably just kill AOL. The concerns in the memo are essentially the same things that MS did to NetScape. If MS makes sure the PC ships with equivilant functionality to AOL, and makes sure that the users would have to download AOL explicitly, they'll just use the MS stuff.
Momentum will carry Walker and his capsule up to 32 miles, where he will experience several moments of weightlessness and then begin to fall back toward Earth.
What the hell does "several moments" mean? Maybe 5-10 microfortnights?
(PS, for all the jokes we make about Big Brother, it is be worth mentioning 1984 is a fantastic read and worth doing in your off-line hours.)
I read 1984 a couple of years ago. I'm glad I read it, but I'm never going to read it again; I was kind of forcing myself that time. Animal Farm, however, is a pretty good read.
I just bought two 256MB 133mhz DIMMs for $99 each, and they had just gone up from $89. ECC RAM from the same two stores I checked was only about 30% higher, so what's so special about this stuff?
I've experimented a little with CygWin on my NT machine at work. chmod runs, but doesn't seem to actually have any effect. The file properties are the same after I run it as before.
They really should have hyped the fact the novell was significantly faster then NT at file server but you never heard a peep about that.
Novell seems to be a more reliable file server, as well, even in an otherwise all MS environment. I was shocked to discover that exclusive locking of MS Access databases isn't exclusive on an NT file server. Therefore, my main app at work (a VB6 billing program running on 95, 98, and NT4, using SQL server through ADO, and occasional Access files through DAO-- all Microsoft stuff) won't run correctly on an NT drive, if more than one computer is running. Two computers get into the database at the same time and then a bill gets generated twice.
How the hell are we supposed to pronounce GNU/Linux, anyway? If you just say "GNU Linux" it sounds like you mean Linux was done by GNU. I think the point Stallman's trying to make is that the OS consists of GNU and Linux, so why not push people to say "GNU and Linux" is their OS?
Richard Stallman has to repeat his message because people are too daft to understand it.
Perhaps the problem is that people read his message and think to themselves, "What a lunatic." As far as I can see, his position is that programmers shouldn't have the freedom to not speak (release their code); he then says that this is standing up for freedom.
I'm a VB6 developer and, frankly, I'm exstatic at what they've done. VB6 deserved to die, and I'm shocked, and incredibly impressed, that Microsoft had the balls to do it.
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the acquisition amounts to a renewed bet on the computer business and particularly a new operating system for computer servers that was developed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard. Compaq is the other large company that has announced it plans to use that technology, which will compete with technologies developed by Sun Microsystems and I.B.M.
The don't seem to say what they're talking about, but the only technology I know of developed by HP and Intel (who doesn't do OS's, as far as I know) is Itanium. Compaq has dropped Alpha development in favor of Itanium, and Itanium's major competitors are Sun's SPARC, and IBM's PowerRISC chips.
I had also heard that SGI was dropping MIPS in favor of Itanium, but they might not be big enough to count, here.
Compaq was already dropping the Alpha in favor of Itanium. Itanium is an Intel/HP joint project (and I read about that in Byte when I was still in high school, probably when the Pentium came out about eight years ago -- something like "Intel is working on the 786 with Hewlett-Packard, and it will be a revolutionary change, so much so that they are also working on a backup design (P-IV, anyone?) in case it doesn't work").
I'd say this removes any doubt about the fate of Alpha, but HP might be hoping to incorporate some of the Alpha technology. This might also raise some anti-trust concerns, since I'd been reading (Here? Ace's Hardware?) that AMD was looking at making a dual x86/Alpha instruction-set chip to compete with Itanium. They've already licensed a couple of things. Oh, well, I suppose they could go with SPARC or PowerPC. If they went with PowerPC, that could allow for a pretty nifty PC-compatible Mac, if Motorola went along...
For programming, I'd say Bruce Eckel books. I learned OOP from Thinking in C++, and I was using Thinking in Java more than the real textbook for the Java class I just finished.
Check out this ubercool new rendering technique for skin
That sounds like something you'd hear on the food network. Maybe an Extreme Cuisine cannibal special.
Brett Glass asks: "Why not ask manufacturers to bundle Opera? It comes with the latest JRE."
Like it or not, Opera really isn't a maintstream browser. If the PC is shipped with anything other than Explorer, the PC maker is going to have to deal with the expense of a lot more tech. support calls from people asking what happened to Explorer.
Java support, on the other hand, just makes thing work that wouldn't have, and doesn't change the rest (except for taking up 0.05% of the hard drive space). If somebody hits a web site that tells them they need Java, and they have to download it over a dial-up, they're going to be mad at the PC maker for giving them an incomplete system. Since it's free, on top of all that, there's really no reason for any PC maker not to include a JRE.
I think Microsoft has just given themselves a black eye for no good reason here. They get another round of bad PR, but Java support will still be put on the PC's by Dell, GateWay, Micron, IBM, etc., plus AOL.
Maybe we should make it a law that a patent (even better, contracts, too) is invalid if it contains the word wherein, or any sentence longer than 40 words.
Sounds like a perpetual motion machine that creates extra energy.
You still have to add deuterium and tritium.
I know that Henry Ford didn't invent the car, like people (Americans, at least) like to think. Who did invent the light bulb and the airplane, though, if it wasn't Edison and the Wright brothers?
VB encourages this mindset because the fantastic IDE is the only thing that makes the POS language tolerable. VB.Net actually includes directives to the IDE in the code (although it loses a lot of what was impressive about the old environment).
VB can't do everything that VC++ can do, but it can do a lot more than most people (including my fellow VB programmers at work) realize. It just does them slowly, with too much effort, and wastes RAM unbelievably.
the hostess at the time was probably the most fuckable chick on Food Network
No, that'd have to be Padma Lakshmi.
I definately think an American version of the camp feel could work, but you'd want to associate it somehow with the WWF. "You beat me once Mr. Iron Chef, but this time you're going down! Then I'm gonna outcook your Momma and your Daddy and all your kids..."
Jim Carrey could be fun, if a lot more expensive.
Ah, it's nice to know you support giving 13 year olds the right to vote, drive and drink alcohol (not at the same time of course!).
Absolutely.
Actually, they could probably just buy Apple.
But you know what, most MS users actually like MS products.
I don't know that that's true. I think the attitude is more like, "This is on my machine, so I'll use it."
A war between MS and AOL can only be benefical to the end-user in the long run.
Except that it would probably just kill AOL. The concerns in the memo are essentially the same things that MS did to NetScape. If MS makes sure the PC ships with equivilant functionality to AOL, and makes sure that the users would have to download AOL explicitly, they'll just use the MS stuff.
Momentum will carry Walker and his capsule up to 32 miles, where he will experience several moments of weightlessness and then begin to fall back toward Earth.
What the hell does "several moments" mean? Maybe 5-10 microfortnights?
(PS, for all the jokes we make about Big Brother, it is be worth mentioning 1984 is a fantastic read and worth doing in your off-line hours.)
I read 1984 a couple of years ago. I'm glad I read it, but I'm never going to read it again; I was kind of forcing myself that time. Animal Farm, however, is a pretty good read.
I thought Gale was actually very cute...
I just bought two 256MB 133mhz DIMMs for $99 each, and they had just gone up from $89. ECC RAM from the same two stores I checked was only about 30% higher, so what's so special about this stuff?
Heaven help you if you try to chmod kernel32.dll
I've experimented a little with CygWin on my NT machine at work. chmod runs, but doesn't seem to actually have any effect. The file properties are the same after I run it as before.
They really should have hyped the fact the novell was significantly faster then NT at file server but you never heard a peep about that.
Novell seems to be a more reliable file server, as well, even in an otherwise all MS environment. I was shocked to discover that exclusive locking of MS Access databases isn't exclusive on an NT file server. Therefore, my main app at work (a VB6 billing program running on 95, 98, and NT4, using SQL server through ADO, and occasional Access files through DAO-- all Microsoft stuff) won't run correctly on an NT drive, if more than one computer is running. Two computers get into the database at the same time and then a bill gets generated twice.
How the hell are we supposed to pronounce GNU/Linux, anyway? If you just say "GNU Linux" it sounds like you mean Linux was done by GNU. I think the point Stallman's trying to make is that the OS consists of GNU and Linux, so why not push people to say "GNU and Linux" is their OS?
Richard Stallman has to repeat his message because people are too daft to understand it.
Perhaps the problem is that people read his message and think to themselves, "What a lunatic." As far as I can see, his position is that programmers shouldn't have the freedom to not speak (release their code); he then says that this is standing up for freedom.
By letting you sample at a higher rate to being with. Duh.
I'm a VB6 developer and, frankly, I'm exstatic at what they've done. VB6 deserved to die, and I'm shocked, and incredibly impressed, that Microsoft had the balls to do it.