Well said! From another latter day saint (not located in Utah) who among with other LDS friends who are also Linux hackers are all really dissapointed at the "McBride might be a Mormon, so that must say something about Mormons" thoughts. They say "every family has one..."
Apple's long time "OS foe", Microsoft, has meanwhile announced plans of its own to enter the Blog hosting market. "Hey, it's all in that book that I had those guys write for me" said Microsoft founder Bill Gates. "Ya'know, it's not just about 'where do you want to go today?' anymore" he continued, "but 'what do you want to remember tomorrow?', too. Steve--what? uh no, Balmer, not Jobs--has been doing a really good job--what? NO! I said Balmer--on this one." Mr Gates showed a demo of i've-Been-Online-Recording-my-Goodies. When queried about a possible release date for i.B.O.R.G., Bill just smiled and said "watch my Blog"
Oh spare me. When are people going to figure out in this debate that "right" and "wrong" are relative. Do we demonize Robin Hood for stealing from the rich? No, we say he was committing a technical wrong to serve a higher right. That mob the dressed up as Indians and dumped all that tea off the ship, that was "stealing", right? But it served a higher good.
The fact is that throughout history, societies have chosen to arbitrarily judge the transfer of property from one institution to another based on how it best benefited the following society.
"Stealing" is a relative term. The government takes money from me. I can call it stealing or not. What it boils down to in the public's mind though is if the majority classifies it as stealing. If they did, I probably wouldn't pay taxes anymore. But they won't, so I will.
Calling downloading of music stealing is maybe technically correct. But it's a moot point, the fact is that a society en masse is pissed off about the raw deal they are getting from the music vendors.
I will now put my Indian (Native American) costume back on and go download some more music. Geronimo!
Sun has been positioning itself as the provider of the "legally unencumbered" version of Linux. Their investment gave them the freedom to separate their coming distro apart from the others. Thankfully, HPs move puts an end to that nonsense.
Why doesn't everyone just use IRC? I know my wife used to AIM chat with her sister, but it quickly wore off (talking on the phone is so much more effective). My recollections are I get far more out of IRC than I ever did out of AIM. Is it the point-2-point nature of AIM (and others) that separates them from the more group based IRC?
It's called marketting. It works. Get used to it. Regardless of whether offshoring make sense, companies will push it. Regardless of whether it works, others will market against it. That's how it works. Engineers know everything about being screwed by PHBs who succumb to the misinformation presented by marketeers. That's why most companies continue to have a downward spiral in morale. I'm just posting this retro-actively before a bunch of of apologists start rationalizing the corporate world. And, yes I'm an engineer too.
So with all the problems we're having these days getting data (memory) near all of these cycles, I can't even imagine what the situation would be with a processor built around these kinds of speeds.
I'm imagining something like Dante's level 7 cache or something.
I've used 'em all, each has its strengths and weaknesses, depending on what you're trying to do. They're all Smalltalk though, and that makes 'em great!
I'll respect your wishes not to start a flamewar.:) It is still used. It plays an integral role in sorting a large chunk of the world's food for one. Other's can speak up as well.
Doesn't pay my bills. When somebody (including my employer) asks me to get a job done, I use the tools that are best for the job. Which is often (but not always) Smalltalk. But I choose, not them. When it comes to UIs, I was simply positing that VW gave a nice intermediate point between the 2 previous posts which gave the two extremes (big bloated but xplatform vs small fast but not as xplatform).
Doesn't have the bloat of the Java library (Swing was largely ripped off from VisualWorks in the first place). Is binary xplatform. I run apps on my 486 as well as my 100MHz Mac, with no problems at all. I'd say the exe's are slightly larger than statically linked C programs (but not by major factors). The UI's plenty responsive.
This is a good move by Red Hat given their continued push to be one of the high end corporate servers of Linux. An announcement like this immediately elevates them into the press and most likely elevates their stock price (which is what SCO's actions have been all about all along). This in turn makes them look more palatable to places that only by from big names.
P2P Replicators! Imagine an episode where Picard & Pals visit some forlorn world, cast in societal chaos because of P2P replicating. Wesly of course uses a diothermal tectride coated coconut to offer a compromise solution and Picard offers some sage advice about the Prime Directive at the end. If only I was a couple of years earlier:(
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The way I figure it... if anyone has rights to be the supreme commander in chief of the internet, it's Al Gore, he invented it.
Mod parent up! Great book! I read the /. article and immediately thought: Deepness in the sky. Vinge is one of the most "novel" sci-fi novelists.
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Well said! From another latter day saint (not located in Utah) who among with other LDS friends who are also Linux hackers are all really dissapointed at the "McBride might be a Mormon, so that must say something about Mormons" thoughts. They say "every family has one..."
Apple's long time "OS foe", Microsoft, has meanwhile announced plans of its own to enter the Blog hosting market. "Hey, it's all in that book that I had those guys write for me" said Microsoft founder Bill Gates. "Ya'know, it's not just about 'where do you want to go today?' anymore" he continued, "but 'what do you want to remember tomorrow?', too. Steve--what? uh no, Balmer, not Jobs--has been doing a really good job--what? NO! I said Balmer--on this one." Mr Gates showed a demo of i've-Been-Online-Recording-my-Goodies. When queried about a possible release date for i.B.O.R.G., Bill just smiled and said "watch my Blog"
I sense......that the price will be very high Captain
Oh spare me. When are people going to figure out in this debate that "right" and "wrong" are relative. Do we demonize Robin Hood for stealing from the rich? No, we say he was committing a technical wrong to serve a higher right. That mob the dressed up as Indians and dumped all that tea off the ship, that was "stealing", right? But it served a higher good.
The fact is that throughout history, societies have chosen to arbitrarily judge the transfer of property from one institution to another based on how it best benefited the following society.
"Stealing" is a relative term. The government takes money from me. I can call it stealing or not. What it boils down to in the public's mind though is if the majority classifies it as stealing. If they did, I probably wouldn't pay taxes anymore. But they won't, so I will.
Calling downloading of music stealing is maybe technically correct. But it's a moot point, the fact is that a society en masse is pissed off about the raw deal they are getting from the music vendors.
I will now put my Indian (Native American) costume back on and go download some more music. Geronimo!
Sun has been positioning itself as the provider of the "legally unencumbered" version of Linux. Their investment gave them the freedom to separate their coming distro apart from the others. Thankfully, HPs move puts an end to that nonsense.
Why doesn't everyone just use IRC? I know my wife used to AIM chat with her sister, but it quickly wore off (talking on the phone is so much more effective). My recollections are I get far more out of IRC than I ever did out of AIM. Is it the point-2-point nature of AIM (and others) that separates them from the more group based IRC?
...So I grudgingly used Excel and Word to make my report, and lost a good opportunity to not spread the "Word"...
But after 2005, can we please start getting rid of them please. :)
It's called marketting. It works. Get used to it. Regardless of whether offshoring make sense, companies will push it. Regardless of whether it works, others will market against it. That's how it works. Engineers know everything about being screwed by PHBs who succumb to the misinformation presented by marketeers. That's why most companies continue to have a downward spiral in morale. I'm just posting this retro-actively before a bunch of of apologists start rationalizing the corporate world. And, yes I'm an engineer too.
Becuase how would you see it with your 2D monitor silly!
(This is a joke, designed to provoke an emotional response)
...a Lotus Esprit?
If I buy one, will I meet the company's secretrary, Miss Moneypenny?
Does it come with the babes too?
"But hardly anyone seems to have seen the Newsforge posts (except maybe me)."
:/
Oh great! So much for the easy win for the few of us that did know about it.
...of former MIT "mass-morticians" that did the work for them.
So when do the Diamond Jubilee-yum processors come out?
I'm hoping for a whole line of processors based on anniversary substances.
So with all the problems we're having these days getting data (memory) near all of these cycles, I can't even imagine what the situation would be with a processor built around these kinds of speeds.
I'm imagining something like Dante's level 7 cache or something.
Optical sorting machines. Smalltalk is the central control system in them, as well as doing any of the serving and UIs.
I've used 'em all, each has its strengths and weaknesses, depending on what you're trying to do. They're all Smalltalk though, and that makes 'em great!
I'll respect your wishes not to start a flamewar. :) It is still used. It plays an integral role in sorting a large chunk of the world's food for one. Other's can speak up as well.
Doesn't pay my bills. When somebody (including my employer) asks me to get a job done, I use the tools that are best for the job. Which is often (but not always) Smalltalk. But I choose, not them. When it comes to UIs, I was simply positing that VW gave a nice intermediate point between the 2 previous posts which gave the two extremes (big bloated but xplatform vs small fast but not as xplatform).
Doesn't have the bloat of the Java library (Swing was largely ripped off from VisualWorks in the first place). Is binary xplatform. I run apps on my 486 as well as my 100MHz Mac, with no problems at all. I'd say the exe's are slightly larger than statically linked C programs (but not by major factors). The UI's plenty responsive.
This is a good move by Red Hat given their continued push to be one of the high end corporate servers of Linux. An announcement like this immediately elevates them into the press and most likely elevates their stock price (which is what SCO's actions have been all about all along). This in turn makes them look more palatable to places that only by from big names.
P2P Replicators! Imagine an episode where Picard & Pals visit some forlorn world, cast in societal chaos because of P2P replicating. Wesly of course uses a diothermal tectride coated coconut to offer a compromise solution and Picard offers some sage advice about the Prime Directive at the end. If only I was a couple of years earlier :(