This is parodical, do they really think it's serious?
Why didn't they go off the handle with all those flash-games that have been round for many years? You know the ones, the hamster in the microwave yelling obscenities at you, the frog in the blender, the gerbil gun (target is a hole in a wall), etc.
I shopped for a CD-player/FM-tuner for my (now ex-) girlfriend a few years ago at x-mas time and found several CD/CDR/CDRW/MP3 players for $28 at BrandSmart. They also had what I was looking for for the same price, but if you want MP3 (et al) _and_ the FM-tuner, it's like twice the price of buying 'em both individually.
Sun will probably be demo-ing Looking Glass, a very slick 3D/GL user-interface... a replacement for the "desktop" metaphor.
I can't wait to try it out... it's the first GUI I've seen that may be a suitable replacement for WindowMaker on my systems. (I don't like GUIs that eat up your desktop as well as memory and CPU)
Many, MANY kit cars, race cars, street-rods, etc. use the Pinto/Mustang-II front suspension. It was a very simple, yet extremely effective, durable, tunable design.
The engine is also, to this day, used in many kit-car and racing applications. Part of me likes to laugh at them, but at the same time I have to respect them and admit they are quite impressive engines that can take an incredible amount of abuse.
Anyone know how many variants of this engine ended up in other Ford vehicles? (I know it's a bunch, including the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe!)
Worse than that, the reason they list the Pinto HATCHBACK is because of the explosions when rear-ended.
Unfortunately, this is nothing more than misinformation (rumor), as the HATCHBACK model did NOT have this problem... only the WAGON did.
The difference between them is in the bumper-mounts: the hatchback had conventional mounts (bolts go sideways), where the hatchback had the bolts going STRAIGHT FORWARD! As you can imagine, being rear ended and having the threads of the bolts pierce the (steel) gas-tank creates sparks right where you don't want them.
In addition to this, the explosion only occurs when the fuel tank is less than half full! This is because the vapors have to be exposed to the spark, not the liquid (fire needs oxygen, and only a gas can burn).
If it's this common a problem, Apple should recall them.
Danger replaced my HipTop (AKA T-Mobile Sidekick) without me even contacting them, when a very large production run was found to have a defective hinge that may (or may not) damage the wires going to the display. This must have cost them a fortune, but is good business and impressed me enough to recommend the product highly.
On the other hand, my Vaio F-series has the oh-so-common won't-charge-the-perfectly-good-battery problem and Sony wants to charge me something like $400 to flash the BIOS to fix it (they refuse to post the fix for download)... not to mention I'd be without the unit for a month since it has to be shipped to their repair center, etc. I won't buy another Sony after this (there's much more to it than that, including a brand new $250 battery that took over a year and a half to get, etc.).
Please keep in mind that dwellings in the north are insulated and have much more efficient heaters. Try sleeping with the windows partway open (the windows down here are single-pane, and leak horribly) when it's 40F and windy.
I grew up in Michigan. Same thing is/was true in reverse... 20 years ago, very few houses had air-conditioning (and Michigan _does_ get in the high-90s in mid-summer).
I also have an ancient 19" Sun branded Sony Trinitron monitor, still just as usable as it was when it was new (over a decade ago). It's hooked up to a SPARCstation 10 from the same era, though it's been hopped up a bit (dual 166MHz HyperSPARC CPUs).
The only drawback to this monitor is an advantage in the winter... it produces more heat than any monitor I've ever seen. I don't even need to run my heater most nights, but then I live in South Florida (yes, it does get down into the 40s down here).:)
I know people who are no longer considered to be in the IT industry as they've had to get jobs stacking boxes at Home Depot, etc.
They aren't counted since they aren't unemployed, even though they ARE unemployed from their profession. Any IT-specific numbers you find will be wrong for this reason.
I'm not talking a 1st level phone-jockey, I'm talking about talented sysadmins with many years of experience!
Sorry, it's not "instead of", it's to supplement the bottom-end... big difference.
They plan to use dual, and possibly quad-cpu Opterons in their bottom-end product line, but this does not compare to machines that can hold many more CPUs, nor does it compare with the versatility or reliablity of the higher-end SPARC architecture.
If you've ever worked on their recent (SunFire), you'd know what I mean. Full remote administration via OpenBoot/OpenFirmware (drastically more versatile and usable than the feeble attempt at a PC-based equivalent - speaking from experience here). Hot swappable CPUs, RAM, interfaces, etc... not just drives any more.
There are many architectural advantages to the SPARC cpu itself, ask anyone who's ever done assembly-language programming on an x86 (and ANY other cpu) if you want some seriously shocking details.
The day Sun stops selling SPARC-based systems is the day the company folds, and Scott knows this.
I find that shocking, as multicast has been there for 15 years, it's not new technology (RFC 1112 is dated 1989). I've never even heard of a router that doesn't support multicast. It may not be used anywhere near as much as unicast, but it is just as much a standard.
I did see one posting that may be more accurate... it said that ISPs have neglected to impliment it (are blocking it) and their staffs just don't have the understanding to enable it (and politics get in the way as well at this point).
Sad, very sad. Companies whine whenever anyone asks why they haven't started TV broadcasting over the internet yet (something that was supposed to happen in the days of ISDN), and the solution to their bandwidth problem is so simple.
I've never understood why multicasting isn't used, pushed even, by the media types. It would be so efficient to have audio or even video broadcasts over multicast that you could do it from home (with a typical broadband connection).
Many radio stations (for example) have a way to "tune in" online, but it's always unicast, so with every slight increase in user-base, comes an equal increase in bandwidth.
After moving 1500 miles from where I grew up, and not knowning any of the locals, meeting fellow geeks at a local BBS party has to rank up there pretty high for me.
Actually, aerodynamically - they're about identical. The only real difference was to move the air intake for the radiator from the front (on the '69 Daytona) to the underside of the nose-cone (on the '70 Superbird). This was to improve cooling, as the Daytonas had some serious cooling problems at high speeds.
"It wasn't unheard of for apps to require kernel patches."
True, especially for hardcore alpha/beta stuff. It's still true for some things that haven't been merged in... but those are non-mainstream projects. None of these to my knowledge are considered "release" level products (or anywher near it) though.
"It's just that over the years the Linux crowd has realized they shouldn't be doing it as often as they used to."
Exactly my point. MS has been at it longer, they should have learned by now too.;) Their newest products still include undocumented hooks, hence the pain the poor WINE developers have to go through to get MS apps (like MS-Office) working.
"Part of their study has been on how Linux has been able to maintain a high level of consistency in the kernel while groups around it maintain maximum flexibility,"
MS, here's a clue: Stop using undocumented/proprietary hooks into your OS from your apps.
Linux is the way it is (in reference to the above quote) because people stick to the "API"... partly because there's no other way, but that's another topic/philosophy alltogether.
Someone please explain how my above posting got labeled as flamebait! I'm stating facts and giving links to articles to back up those facts... and stating a very real fear.
To any dipshit who thinks my FEAR is flamebait, turn on the news... WE ARE AT WAR ALREADY! Not to mention the FACT that we nearly went to war with China just a year or two ago. Morons.
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"Get a sense of humor!"
This is parodical, do they really think it's serious?
Why didn't they go off the handle with all those flash-games that have been round for many years?
You know the ones, the hamster in the microwave yelling obscenities at you, the frog in the blender, the gerbil gun (target is a hole in a wall), etc.
I shopped for a CD-player/FM-tuner for my (now ex-) girlfriend a few years ago at x-mas time and found several CD/CDR/CDRW/MP3 players for $28 at BrandSmart. They also had what I was looking for for the same price, but if you want MP3 (et al) _and_ the FM-tuner, it's like twice the price of buying 'em both individually.
Sun will probably be demo-ing Looking Glass, a very slick 3D/GL user-interface... a replacement for the "desktop" metaphor.
I can't wait to try it out... it's the first GUI I've seen that may be a suitable replacement for WindowMaker on my systems. (I don't like GUIs that eat up your desktop as well as memory and CPU)
Many, MANY kit cars, race cars, street-rods, etc. use the Pinto/Mustang-II front suspension.
It was a very simple, yet extremely effective, durable, tunable design.
The engine is also, to this day, used in many kit-car and racing applications.
Part of me likes to laugh at them, but at the same time I have to respect them and admit they are quite impressive engines that can take an incredible amount of abuse.
Anyone know how many variants of this engine ended up in other Ford vehicles? (I know it's a bunch, including the Thunderbird Turbo Coupe!)
Worse than that, the reason they list the Pinto HATCHBACK is because of the explosions when rear-ended.
Unfortunately, this is nothing more than misinformation (rumor), as the HATCHBACK model did NOT have this problem... only the WAGON did.
The difference between them is in the bumper-mounts: the hatchback had conventional mounts (bolts go sideways), where the hatchback had the bolts going STRAIGHT FORWARD!
As you can imagine, being rear ended and having the threads of the bolts pierce the (steel) gas-tank creates sparks right where you don't want them.
In addition to this, the explosion only occurs when the fuel tank is less than half full!
This is because the vapors have to be exposed to the spark, not the liquid (fire needs oxygen, and only a gas can burn).
No idea.
The way I found out it's actually a BIOS bug (and not a fried charging circuit) was an article in Infoworld a while back (Cringely, I think).
I was quite shocked when I read that many had complained to him, but I hadn't read about it anywhere else.
If it's this common a problem, Apple should recall them.
Danger replaced my HipTop (AKA T-Mobile Sidekick) without me even contacting them, when a very large production run was found to have a defective hinge that may (or may not) damage the wires going to the display.
This must have cost them a fortune, but is good business and impressed me enough to recommend the product highly.
On the other hand, my Vaio F-series has the oh-so-common won't-charge-the-perfectly-good-battery problem and Sony wants to charge me something like $400 to flash the BIOS to fix it (they refuse to post the fix for download)... not to mention I'd be without the unit for a month since it has to be shipped to their repair center, etc.
I won't buy another Sony after this (there's much more to it than that, including a brand new $250 battery that took over a year and a half to get, etc.).
I know how you feel, I'm originally from Michigan... see my response to the reply posted parallel to yours.
Please keep in mind that dwellings in the north are insulated and have much more efficient heaters.
Try sleeping with the windows partway open (the windows down here are single-pane, and leak horribly) when it's 40F and windy.
I grew up in Michigan.
Same thing is/was true in reverse... 20 years ago, very few houses had air-conditioning (and Michigan _does_ get in the high-90s in mid-summer).
I also have an ancient 19" Sun branded Sony Trinitron monitor, still just as usable as it was when it was new (over a decade ago).
It's hooked up to a SPARCstation 10 from the same era, though it's been hopped up a bit (dual 166MHz HyperSPARC CPUs).
The only drawback to this monitor is an advantage in the winter... it produces more heat than any monitor I've ever seen.
I don't even need to run my heater most nights, but then I live in South Florida (yes, it does get down into the 40s down here).
I know people who are no longer considered to be in the IT industry as they've had to get jobs stacking boxes at Home Depot, etc.
They aren't counted since they aren't unemployed, even though they ARE unemployed from their profession.
Any IT-specific numbers you find will be wrong for this reason.
I'm not talking a 1st level phone-jockey, I'm talking about talented sysadmins with many years of experience!
Sorry, it's not "instead of", it's to supplement the bottom-end... big difference.
They plan to use dual, and possibly quad-cpu Opterons in their bottom-end product line, but this does not compare to machines that can hold many more CPUs, nor does it compare with the versatility or reliablity of the higher-end SPARC architecture.
If you've ever worked on their recent (SunFire), you'd know what I mean.
Full remote administration via OpenBoot/OpenFirmware (drastically more versatile and usable than the feeble attempt at a PC-based equivalent - speaking from experience here).
Hot swappable CPUs, RAM, interfaces, etc... not just drives any more.
There are many architectural advantages to the SPARC cpu itself, ask anyone who's ever done assembly-language programming on an x86 (and ANY other cpu) if you want some seriously shocking details.
The day Sun stops selling SPARC-based systems is the day the company folds, and Scott knows this.
I find that shocking, as multicast has been there for 15 years, it's not new technology (RFC 1112 is dated 1989).
I've never even heard of a router that doesn't support multicast.
It may not be used anywhere near as much as unicast, but it is just as much a standard.
I did see one posting that may be more accurate... it said that ISPs have neglected to impliment it (are blocking it) and their staffs just don't have the understanding to enable it (and politics get in the way as well at this point).
Sad, very sad.
Companies whine whenever anyone asks why they haven't started TV broadcasting over the internet yet (something that was supposed to happen in the days of ISDN), and the solution to their bandwidth problem is so simple.
I've never understood why multicasting isn't used, pushed even, by the media types. It would be so efficient to have audio or even video broadcasts over multicast that you could do it from home (with a typical broadband connection).
Many radio stations (for example) have a way to "tune in" online, but it's always unicast, so with every slight increase in user-base, comes an equal increase in bandwidth.
After moving 1500 miles from where I grew up, and not knowning any of the locals, meeting fellow geeks at a local BBS party has to rank up there pretty high for me.
Actually, aerodynamically - they're about identical.
The only real difference was to move the air intake for the radiator from the front (on the '69 Daytona) to the underside of the nose-cone (on the '70 Superbird). This was to improve cooling, as the Daytonas had some serious cooling problems at high speeds.
Try using google, and typing "megasquirt" (one word, not two).
EEK!
Thanks for the heads-up!
Sounds like false-advertisement to me.
How does $169 delivered sound?
"Ever use Linux around the 1.2 kernel days?"
Yup, since 0.96 or so, actually.
"It wasn't unheard of for apps to require kernel patches."
True, especially for hardcore alpha/beta stuff.
It's still true for some things that haven't been merged in... but those are non-mainstream projects.
None of these to my knowledge are considered "release" level products (or anywher near it) though.
"It's just that over the years the Linux crowd has realized they shouldn't be doing it as often as they used to."
Exactly my point.
MS has been at it longer, they should have learned by now too.
Their newest products still include undocumented hooks, hence the pain the poor WINE developers have to go through to get MS apps (like MS-Office) working.
"Part of their study has been on how Linux has been able to maintain a high level of consistency in the kernel while groups around it maintain maximum flexibility,"
MS, here's a clue: Stop using undocumented/proprietary hooks into your OS from your apps.
Linux is the way it is (in reference to the above quote) because people stick to the "API"... partly because there's no other way, but that's another topic/philosophy alltogether.
Anyone here ever see Deal of the Century?
Neither did I, but it was much better than I expected, and even the non-techies who I know who've seen it enjoyed it.
Someone please explain how my above posting got labeled as flamebait!
I'm stating facts and giving links to articles to back up those facts... and stating a very real fear.
To any dipshit who thinks my FEAR is flamebait, turn on the news... WE ARE AT WAR ALREADY! Not to mention the FACT that we nearly went to war with China just a year or two ago. Morons.
Antitrust was an excellent movie, much better than I expected.
Someone should inform Billy that it was poking fun at him... it was not meant as a how-to!