can not upgraded their M$ stock to start seeing some of the $49 Billion in cash reserves as dividends?
And if ya think about it, this has got to torque a few of them off. Can pitch out thousands to some numb-nuts but for the faithful investors, they get to kiss Bill's arse.
Label me a troll or flame bate but Linux is not a garage OS anymore.
Linux is marketed by companies to make money. Windows is marketed by Microsoft to make money.
Where is the news story here?
If there is profit to be gained no matter how small the margain is, companies are going to go after it. And in this case, if Microsoft can make a profit and under cut a competitor at the same time denying them profits, they are going to do it.
and got me thinking about the nature of the current downtrend in programmer demand in the U.S
I hate this statement. Just what exactly do you consider a "programmer"? Is a MSCE a "programmer".
I look all around me and I see MSCE, 6 week crash course community college trained Java programmers, and guys who think they should be administrating 100 UNIX boxes because they were successful at installing Linux on the fourth try all over the place pissing and moaning on how bad things are.
On the other side of the spectrum I see C/C++ programmers and DBA's with job offers all over the place.
Until "programming" is a certified profession, such as engineers, doctors, even accountants, you can make the numbers do whatever you wish.
In the 90's businesses were pretty stupid. They thought that since you knew things around computers that they need you. Today, they are a little smarter and will ask more indepth questions, and ask to see that $50K+ piece of paper.
"You don't make hardware and software purchase decisions based on politics or your personal feelings"
How about on the fact that Solaris does not run on PowerPC platforms. Go tell your boss that we should replace half a million dollars or more in servers with Suns. See who is laughing now.
If Solaris on Sparc makes the most sense for the task, then that's what you buy.
I would assume sniffing out FUD would be another requirement?
Good administrators and managers leave their personal feelings and pet causes at the door when they come to work.
And those with social skills are able to spread their influence of what they like.
"The 1,500 companies who received letters from SCO [about potential infringements] should be worried, big time," said Rob Enderle, a research fellow for the Giga Information Group (Santa Clara, Calif.). Based on what he saw, Enderle said, "The evidence appears to be very compelling."
Prepare for the leter with very compelling information.
Ahh lets cut the crap right now.
All SCO would need to do is publish one example of where Linux has there source code here to slashdot and it would probably sway 50% of the/. viewers in a second (and if you mention WMD or politics here, you should get modded down to obliteration)
I would very much like to see one of these 1500 letters and this very compelling information.
No one is going to touch mozilla until all the crash bugs are closed.
Mozilla -> crash here and there IE Exploder -> pop-up, pop-up, pop-up
Mozilla Email -> crash now and again Outlook -> Mails to everyone in your address book of the latest Nicaragua money that was made by Penis enlargment pills.
The internal struggle of what to use continues for me!
This problem is that people are using the hands that they should be driving with to do various other things within their vehicles. A voice command system would be much more valuable within a car as it would preclude the need to remove your hands from the steering wheel.
watching someone who has been trained with your tax dollars, in equipment which your economic output has contributed to in some way, someone who represents what you feel you represent, that inspires and awes
And watching someone go up on there own dime allowing my tax dollars to go to such things as feeding the hungry, medical research, or paving roads inspires and awes me.
Don't get me wrong, its nice to have that "American Joe Blow from some Iowa farm" go up to space, but money talks and the economy is tight, and taxes are just about as high as they can go without turning American into pure socialism.
Part of the business is not just "selling" lists, but cleaning them. Generally this is done by taking company XYZ's list and matching it against something like the Experian Data. So what is the wrong phone number would probably get purged out and replaced with the working one.
Even mispelling your name in hopes to throw things off is not effective. Changed zip codes, weird street names, etc, generally all get caught in a weighed score. Using Soundex and NYSIIS (just to name a few), your entry will be matched up and corrected.
The idea is to avoid having to lug the bombers all over the world along with bombs, crew, mechanics, medics, blah blah blah.
B-52 are old work horses, but to get them moved around and ready to go take some time. Having all these new bombers stationed in say some corn field in Nebraska would remove all this. 24/7/365 ready to go whereever they want to go.
This almost sounds like the Aurora project that does not exist
Look at today, we air blast our cases for cooling. Some of the daring will use water, even others liquid nitrogen.
But think about it, we are clearly in the stone ages when it comes to effective computer cooling. This not only is in how we cool the equipment, but in how that equipment is designed.
Don't laugh when in five years, some company like "Coleman" is making the worlds most advanced "desktop and workstation" cases employing refrigeration and insulation.
Hyperthreading does not make you have 2 processors. In a "high level" nutshell, it allows queueing of thread processes to utilize periods of inactivity in the processor to execute them. In other words, Intel took a processor optimization, and slapped a "cool" name to it. Its like calling mmap() "HyperCache". Maybe on RISC chips with the reduced instruction set we should tag that as "Hyperpumped Instruction Path"
In running a single threaded benchmark, it has very little bearing on the final outcome.
So no, hyperthreading is not like having 2 processors. More like 1 processor optimized for threads.
Because of their ground-breaking work with Velocity, CTC was recognized in Washington by ComputerWorld and the Smithsonian American History Museum and was made part of the Smithsonianâ(TM)s permanent research collection. Velocity was also named to the list of the top 500 most powerful computers in the world. This was a watershed event since it was the first Windows 2000-based system to obtain this ranking and one of only two Windows-based systems to place on the list.
Because non-programming, Clippy using management will not listen nor trust younger and much more tech savy programmers.
But Mr. non-programming, Clippy using management will ooo and ah at the latest salesmen pitch/demo/crab leggs and beer, order the expensive software package because we need it and give it to younger and much more tech savy programmers to work thier magic.
The tech savy programmers were also not invited to the sales meetings (which just happened to be "off-site" and personal invite by salesmen.. geee wonder why?)
Mr. non-programming, Clippy using management comes back in one week expecting miracles from new business package like Mr. Salesmen showed him.
Tech Savy programmers show Mr. non-programming Clippy using management some sed/awk/grep/cut/split/perl/java/etc output. Mr . Non-programming management ooos and ahhhs.
Tech savy programmers selectively pass out expensive manuals to senior programmers as trophys and proof of non-programming, Clippy using managements stupidity, to add to thier book shelves to "look cool, geek style", or to be used as monitor stands. CD's are thrown into "some" drawer never to be seen again. License documents were never received.
Fuel cells are a critical technology because of their high efficiency and low impact," said Charles Chamberlin, co-director of the Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University.
I love this stuff. Fuel cells are going to save the planet!
Transport systems currently produce more pollution than power stations, and alternative solutions were mentioned in the letters by Ian Hurley (April) and Cedric Lynch (May). If battery-powered electric vehicles were adopted, the need to recharge them using electricity from conventional power stations would produce about as much carbon dioxide as the vehicles that they replace. Emissions of sulphur dioxide would also rise by up to 85%.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see fuel cells in mass production, cleaner air and water, etc.
But we are not there yet, and nothing is gained since yes, running the vehicle from a fuel cell will make the tree huggers happy, but manufacturing/charging fuel cells is very dirty.
Now invent a system to charge fuel cells by solar power and you can hire Bill Gates as your butler.
You bring up some very good points. The CPU's are not the bottleneck these days. Its the architecture.
How about a true speed performance by making "real" solid state drives affordable? (real meaning on CF or USB drives) It would increase speed, lower temperatures, and best of all, quiet down things.
Hopefully with SATA we may see more of a push for solid state drives rather then just making the drives spin faster and putting more cache onto them.
Granted, this is not Intels cup of tea, but they could really push for innovation of it.
IBM is a member of Intellect, but it did not say IBM was against the GPL.
Just because you are a member of a group does not mean you always have to agree with the majority. (and in this case, the majority are companies that do not develop GPL code)
But in this case since IBM is an 800 lbs. gorilla, Intellect added it in there to look good.. after M$,of course, in company listing.
Slashdot Mirror
can not upgraded their M$ stock to start seeing some of the $49 Billion in cash reserves as dividends?
And if ya think about it, this has got to torque a few of them off. Can pitch out thousands to some numb-nuts but for the faithful investors, they get to kiss Bill's arse.
We will need to wait for declassification of the government documents but it was stated ....
* Offered millions of dollars worth of training and support services free.
I guess we will never really know.
Label me a troll or flame bate but Linux is not a garage OS anymore.
Linux is marketed by companies to make money.
Windows is marketed by Microsoft to make money.
Where is the news story here?
If there is profit to be gained no matter how small the margain is, companies are going to go after it. And in this case, if Microsoft can make a profit and under cut a competitor at the same time denying them profits, they are going to do it.
and got me thinking about the nature of the current downtrend in programmer demand in the U.S
I hate this statement. Just what exactly do you consider a "programmer"? Is a MSCE a "programmer".
I look all around me and I see MSCE, 6 week crash course community college trained Java programmers, and guys who think they should be administrating 100 UNIX boxes because they were successful at installing Linux on the fourth try all over the place pissing and moaning on how bad things are.
On the other side of the spectrum I see C/C++ programmers and DBA's with job offers all over the place.
Until "programming" is a certified profession, such as engineers, doctors, even accountants, you can make the numbers do whatever you wish.
In the 90's businesses were pretty stupid. They thought that since you knew things around computers that they need you. Today, they are a little smarter and will ask more indepth questions, and ask to see that $50K+ piece of paper.
"You don't make hardware and software purchase decisions based on politics or your personal feelings"
How about on the fact that Solaris does not run on PowerPC platforms. Go tell your boss that we should replace half a million dollars or more in servers with Suns. See who is laughing now.
If Solaris on Sparc makes the most sense for the task, then that's what you buy.
I would assume sniffing out FUD would be another requirement?
Good administrators and managers leave their personal feelings and pet causes at the door when they come to work.
And those with social skills are able to spread their influence of what they like.
"The 1,500 companies who received letters from SCO [about potential infringements] should be worried, big time," said Rob Enderle, a research fellow for the Giga Information Group (Santa Clara, Calif.). Based on what he saw, Enderle said, "The evidence appears to be very compelling."
/. viewers in a second (and if you mention WMD or politics here, you should get modded down to obliteration)
Prepare for the leter with very compelling information.
Ahh lets cut the crap right now.
All SCO would need to do is publish one example of where Linux has there source code here to slashdot and it would probably sway 50% of the
I would very much like to see one of these 1500 letters and this very compelling information.
... "must have latest SCO FUD fix."
/. community it is nice to have a new evil around besides that of Micro$oft.
For the
All your base are belong to us!!
...
I am so sad, I could not resist
No one is going to touch mozilla until all the crash bugs are closed.
Mozilla -> crash here and there
IE Exploder -> pop-up, pop-up, pop-up
Mozilla Email -> crash now and again
Outlook -> Mails to everyone in your address book of the latest Nicaragua money that was made by Penis enlargment pills.
The internal struggle of what to use continues for me!
This problem is that people are using the hands that they should be driving with to do various other things within their vehicles. A voice command system would be much more valuable within a car as it would preclude the need to remove your hands from the steering wheel.
:-)
Until you tune into some talk radio station
like your cell phone and stereo while keeping your eyes on the road
How about shut off the cell phone, tune the stereo to one station and pay attention to the road.
Solution: $0
Chance to get into an accident/kill someone: less
watching someone who has been trained with your tax dollars, in equipment which your economic output has contributed to in some way, someone who represents what you feel you represent, that inspires and awes
And watching someone go up on there own dime allowing my tax dollars to go to such things as feeding the hungry, medical research, or paving roads inspires and awes me.
Don't get me wrong, its nice to have that "American Joe Blow from some Iowa farm" go up to space, but money talks and the economy is tight, and taxes are just about as high as they can go without turning American into pure socialism.
Well .. that works for awhile, but not long.
Part of the business is not just "selling" lists, but cleaning them. Generally this is done by taking company XYZ's list and matching it against something like the Experian Data. So what is the wrong phone number would probably get purged out and replaced with the working one.
Even mispelling your name in hopes to throw things off is not effective. Changed zip codes, weird street names, etc, generally all get caught in a weighed score. Using Soundex and NYSIIS (just to name a few), your entry will be matched up and corrected.
The idea is to avoid having to lug the bombers all over the world along with bombs, crew, mechanics, medics, blah blah blah.
B-52 are old work horses, but to get them moved around and ready to go take some time. Having all these new bombers stationed in say some corn field in Nebraska would remove all this. 24/7/365 ready to go whereever they want to go.
This almost sounds like the Aurora project that does not exist
This is marked as funny, but is it?
Look at today, we air blast our cases for cooling. Some of the daring will use water, even others liquid nitrogen.
But think about it, we are clearly in the stone ages when it comes to effective computer cooling. This not only is in how we cool the equipment, but in how that equipment is designed.
Don't laugh when in five years, some company like "Coleman" is making the worlds most advanced "desktop and workstation" cases employing refrigeration and insulation.
Novell services on Caldera (1996)
A step that is seven years late. Find it hard no one remembers this.
Funny, seven years ago this was blasphemy. The Linux world was up in arms. Novell is evil! SCO rocks!! Please leave our little Linux alone!!!
Today, the present. The Linux world wishes for ALL corporations to use Linux. SCO is evil! Novell rocks! Please add to our Linux and make it your own.
Not really ...
Hyperthreading does not make you have 2 processors. In a "high level" nutshell, it allows queueing of thread processes to utilize periods of inactivity in the processor to execute them. In other words, Intel took a processor optimization, and slapped a "cool" name to it. Its like calling mmap() "HyperCache". Maybe on RISC chips with the reduced instruction set we should tag that as "Hyperpumped Instruction Path"
In running a single threaded benchmark, it has very little bearing on the final outcome.
So no, hyperthreading is not like having 2 processors. More like 1 processor optimized for threads.
No .. generally it blows, it is Iowa that sucks.
Microsoft PR
Because of their ground-breaking work with Velocity, CTC was recognized in Washington by ComputerWorld and the Smithsonian American History Museum and was made part of the Smithsonianâ(TM)s permanent research collection. Velocity was also named to the list of the top 500 most powerful computers in the world. This was a watershed event since it was the first Windows 2000-based system to obtain this ranking and one of only two Windows-based systems to place on the list.
So in the list thier is another.
Because non-programming, Clippy using management will not listen nor trust younger and much more tech savy programmers.
.. geee wonder why?)
But Mr. non-programming, Clippy using management will ooo and ah at the latest salesmen pitch/demo/crab leggs and beer, order the expensive software package because we need it and give it to younger and much more tech savy programmers to work thier magic.
The tech savy programmers were also not invited to the sales meetings (which just happened to be "off-site" and personal invite by salesmen
Mr. non-programming, Clippy using management comes back in one week expecting miracles from new business package like Mr. Salesmen showed him.
Tech Savy programmers show Mr. non-programming Clippy using management some sed/awk/grep/cut/split/perl/java/etc output. Mr . Non-programming management ooos and ahhhs.
Tech savy programmers selectively pass out expensive manuals to senior programmers as trophys and proof of non-programming, Clippy using managements stupidity, to add to thier book shelves to "look cool, geek style", or to be used as monitor stands. CD's are thrown into "some" drawer never to be seen again. License documents were never received.
Fuel cells are a critical technology because of their high efficiency and low impact," said Charles Chamberlin, co-director of the Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University.
...
I love this stuff. Fuel cells are going to save the planet!
Or maybe not
Transport systems currently produce more pollution than power stations, and alternative solutions were mentioned in the letters by Ian Hurley (April) and Cedric Lynch (May). If battery-powered electric vehicles were adopted, the need to recharge them using electricity from conventional power stations would produce about as much carbon dioxide as the vehicles that they replace. Emissions of sulphur dioxide would also rise by up to 85%.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see fuel cells in mass production, cleaner air and water, etc.
But we are not there yet, and nothing is gained since yes, running the vehicle from a fuel cell will make the tree huggers happy, but manufacturing/charging fuel cells is very dirty.
Now invent a system to charge fuel cells by solar power and you can hire Bill Gates as your butler.
I read your reply, and that is a typo. The word "not" should have been inserted as in
"real meaning not CF or USB drives"
You bring up some very good points. The CPU's are not the bottleneck these days. Its the architecture.
How about a true speed performance by making "real" solid state drives affordable? (real meaning on CF or USB drives) It would increase speed, lower temperatures, and best of all, quiet down things.
Hopefully with SATA we may see more of a push for solid state drives rather then just making the drives spin faster and putting more cache onto them.
Granted, this is not Intels cup of tea, but they could really push for innovation of it.
IBM is a member of Intellect, but it did not say IBM was against the GPL.
.. after M$ ,of course, in company listing.
Just because you are a member of a group does not mean you always have to agree with the majority. (and in this case, the majority are companies that do not develop GPL code)
But in this case since IBM is an 800 lbs. gorilla, Intellect added it in there to look good
Oh .. time bugs will happen much sooner then that.
Unix timestamp roll over