I don't have any figures to hand, but based on my experience of working both in the UK and the US (educated in the UK), while Britain has more rigorous Bachelors degrees, far fewer Brits than Americans go on to take a Masters degree. Americans are more likely to intern, Brits are more likely to take gap years to do degree-related placements in industry. So, I think by the ages of 24-25, there's a fairly even match between the two countries, when everyone's finished their first round of college education and has worked for a couple of years.
After that, it comes down to investment in research, not by the government necessarily, but also by private industry. Britain has experienced many cases of innovators who could not get funding to develop their ideas at home, so left for other countries including the US. The US has yet to experience a significant "brain drain" (as the UK is constantly at risk of), and in fact imports scientific talent from the entire world.
I think the simplist distinction between Europe and the US is that Europeans are enamoured of the status quo, and Americans are impatient with it. This gives the US the edge in commerce and industry at the expense of culture and history.
It's up to each individual to vote with their feet and decide where they'd rather be.
Actually, you need the case if you plan on using the standard fans - without the case, there will be no even circulation of air around the motherboard. It's a common mistake, but leaving the case off a server can actually make it more prone to overheating.
Articles on Reuters.com expire when new articles come in, so here's the text for when that happens:
Paper: Time Warner Sets Terms for Access
Last updated: 08 Oct 2000 12:35 GMT (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc TWX.N is requiring some Internet service providers to pay up to 75 percent of their revenue and relinquish some control of content to gain access to its high-speed network, the Washington Post reported.
The Post reported that unnamed sources said the Federal Trade Commission is examining the terms of many of the deals proposed to smaller Internet service providers to determine if they violate Time Warner's promise to open its high-speed cable TV lines to competitors in the wake of its $183 billion merger announcement with America Online Inc AOL.N .
Time Warner is requiring nearly 40 Internet companies in Texas to give up 75 percent of their subscriber fees and 25 percent of revenues from other sources such as advertising in order to gain access to its cable TV network, according to term sheets obtained by the Post.
In addition, the term sheets indicate Time Warner would get approval control over the Internet service providers' home pages and "prominent above-the-fold areas on the home page of the service for use."
"Totally ridiculous," said Dave Robertson, vice president and general manager of Stic.net, an Internet service provider in San Antonio with more than 10,000 subscribers. "The bottom line is, they don't have a desire to open their network."
Time Warner denied the charge, saying it and AOL are committed to open access, the Post reported Saturday.
Cable networks are one way to deliver high-speed Internet access to residential customers. Time Warner's cable network reaches 18.8 percent of all cable customers nationwide.
That's what trusted systems are designed to address. Think about it: why should your sysadmin be able to read, say, the payroll? Under a conventional Unix, there's nothing to stop that hapenning, apart from trust, and you can't rely on trust in a huge organization where many technical roles may be fulfilled by contractors or outsourced.
I believe that B2 certification requires that the sysadmin can be prevented from reading your files, apart from to backup and restore them - and even after a restore, the access control will be preserved.
IMHO having a single root is the biggest flaw of *nix operating systems.
Then you say:
The day microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners
I'd just like to point out that NT has always had the ability to separate out adminstrative responsibilities, and comes configured for separate printer admins, backup operators, etc. So it's not all bad!:0)
Needless to say, I'm not getting one, even if the final design turns out not to suck.
That's your whole argument right there. No matter what MS do, you'll never buy their products. So why on earth should they even attempt to appeal to you? To them, you're not an opponent, not a critic, not a rival: you don't even factor into their calculations.
Unlike their competition, MS has NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER running a giant hardware manufacturing outfit. They only know application and OS software. They're bound to make mistakes.
I'm not sure this is as much a problem as you believe. I don't doubt that Microsoft has retained the services of some of the more competent consulting firms that specialise in consumer goods and manufacturing, and I also don't doubt that they are making very generous offers to vice presidents of the current competitive leaders. It's certainly not unheard of for large organizations to simply buy experience they lack when entering a new market.
d'you think we should be prepared for a landslide of more dull FPS's, ET cartridges and bad knock offs of stuff that was cool two years ago?
I expect that XBox games will be very closely aligned with whatever the current trends are.
Yeah, but they're trying to unify them. That's what Windows Milennium is about, migrating users to a single OS that will come in editions that range from Professional (desktop workstation) to Data Center (high-end OLTP and DS). That's the plan, anyway.
IBM manages to drive OS/390, Linux, Windows, AIX, OS/400
The reality is that AIX and OS/400 divisions of IBM actually compete with each other, and that IBM are huge enough to have the resources (and the locked-in legacy customers/revenue) to hedge all their bets. Besides, if you need an S/390, then you really need it, and nothing else will do.
SGI manages to drive Irix, Windows, Linux
Must be some definition of "manages" that I'm not familiar with:0)
HP manages to drive HP/UX, Windows, Linux
OK, that's a fair point, but see IBM. HP are huge and have their fingers in many pies.
Compaq manages to drive Tru64, Linux, Windows, VMS (or is VMS dead yet?)
VMS is far from dead, and Compaq is still a roll-up of Compaq and DEC.
Why does Sun not have the energy to drive more than one operating system when its competition does
If they can unify on a single OS, then they potentially have a strategic edge that their competitors can't match. For example, SGI are busily trying to port Irix features to Linux, Compaq want to move VMS features into Tru64. If Sun can add features to all it's platforms simultaneously, that's reduced time to market, and higher quality right there.
The report doesn't mention how Apple manages not to have to charge $1000 for its OS and can stay afloat
That's easy. It's because Apple is a hardware company. Their OS is and always has been a loss leader to drive sales of actual Macintoshes, and it's profit from those sales that keeps Apple going.
Note that Apple will still charge you for an OS upgrade, tho'. I don't see how that is very different from MS getting a licence fee for every piece of hardware you buy from their OEMs.
If ACT really wants to see a "fair" playing field unfettered by government invention, how about they ask the government to refuse to enforce MS's patents and copyrights?
Here's a free clue: If you want other people to respect the GPL, then you have to respect other people's licences too.
Typically, Asian people are a lot more self-sacrificing and willing to work for a group
Quite; indeed, in Western civilizations, people are identified by their personal name, then their family name, whereas in Oriental civilizations, the family name comes first.
You know they've seen the fork? Oh they're well aware that we have the fork.
This may be apocryphal, but I was taught that the reason that the Chinese don't use knives and forks was that Confucious said that it was not civilised to eat with butcher's tools.
Anyway, chopsticks are just as useful, once you get practice with them.
Can anyone comment on the SMP performance linearity of the current Linux kernel on more than 4 CPUs? Did they every sort out the issues that prevented kernel socket (or was it I/O?) APIs being called concurrently by processes on multiple CPUs?
I'd be willing to wager that my Athlon 1000 mhz, 768 MB RAM, 40 GB HD desktop machine running Windows 2000 would blow this thing out of the water
Of course it would. Suns have always been poor at running graphical, interactive applications (an example of something like this is an office productivity app), even with a Creator card installed. Similarly, if you want high framerate 3D rendering (for example, to play Unreal) then you'll also be disappointed.
But ask a Sun to manage several thousand processes at once with heavy i/o (for example, an industrial-grade mail or database), or point it at a large floating point job (like rendering a movie-quality scene, or computing material stresses in an FEA/CAD application) and it will leave your PC in the dust.
Did you see the bandwidth on this new SPARC? And the number of registers it has? That's an edge your PC can't match.
Managment is going to make you so old, fat and lazy and you'll start thinking that you don't need to learn as much anymore.
Only if you're a bad manager, a breed that is all too common. A good manager is worth 10 average programmers, because without a good manager, large projects are simply impossible.
BTW, I am assuming that by manager, you mean hands-on project/engagement manager, who is probably also/formerly a senior engineer and system architect, as opposed to someone who has been a manager their entire careers without going through the line-of-business ranks first.
There are generic skills that apply across the management of all disciplines or businesses, but these are only a foundation - a good manager knows where his team (or department) is going, and how to get there, and how to utilize the available resources (people, money, equipment) to do so in the most efficient manner.
This merely means that rather than going with what you would normally do, you're ending up with a kind of "lowest common denominator" decision.
No, because you are free to accept or reject any advice that you are offered, while still factoring it into your decision. If anything, the problem is that you might skew the sources you consult towards ones that you know will reinforce your decision.
If mobile phones had been around three hundred years ago, do you think America would be independant today? I think not.
Well, Paul Revere wouldn't have needed a horse, for starters. No, but seriously, look at this example. Mobile phones are a nightmare for authoritarian governments.
Does anyone have a GOOD reason to have a case-sensitive file system?
Historically, Unix was case-sensitive to evade the overhead of having to convert cases to do lookups on file filesystem, which preserved cases in filenames. This differs in behavior from NTFS, which preserves case, yet is case insensitive when referring to a file (unless you're running in POSIX mode).
the sad part is that, to him, it's just a little game - he's getting some little thrill out of the vague notion of getting people 'fired up.' and it works - at least, insofar as to make me goddamned angry.
/. derives revenue from displaying banner ads. The more page views, the more ads they can sell. I'm not disparaging the ethics of Taco, but remember that/. (who are owned by a public company) have a vested interest in controversy.
And Cisco aren't patenting NAT, infact they even reference the RFC in their application.
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Sun has always been the big boys in the High End stuff.
Not really. Sun got their start in the workstation market (on Motorola and BSD before SPARC and SYSV), then they started selling what we would today call "workgroup servers" to support LANs of SPARCstations. Much later on, they started making genuine high-end products like the E10000. The "high end" market has historically been IBM, HP maybe some DEC and SGI in there, some Fujitsu and ICL.
The reason this is noteworthy is because Sun often indicate that their ongoing strategy is SPARC/Solaris/Java, and making their money from hardware sales - unless I am mistaken, Cobalt are Linux on MIPS.
The problem is that they, like lawyers, charge such large amounts for information that was free to them (lawyers and programmers are trained with library books and Journals, IME) that they can "pull the ladder up after themselves".
That's simply not true. Exactly the same information is available to you, from exactly the same sources. The reason that lawyers, accountants, consultants &c. bill hourly is is because you are paying for the application of knowledge. It's like riding in a taxi rather than buying a car. It's much cheaper for you to hire me at my hourly rate to solve your problems that it is for you to go to college for my engineering education, then work in industry for a few years to gain experience, and only then begin to address your actual goals.
While using the net, the web, the published algorithms of people interested in spreading ideas and all the rest of the "free software" movement
The thing that the entire/. community seems unable to grasp is that if you want third parties (and the general public for that matter) to respect the GPL, then you must show equal respect for their licences.
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Spelling corrections are moderated as "Informative" these days? What on earth are the moderators on...
After that, it comes down to investment in research, not by the government necessarily, but also by private industry. Britain has experienced many cases of innovators who could not get funding to develop their ideas at home, so left for other countries including the US. The US has yet to experience a significant "brain drain" (as the UK is constantly at risk of), and in fact imports scientific talent from the entire world.
I think the simplist distinction between Europe and the US is that Europeans are enamoured of the status quo, and Americans are impatient with it. This gives the US the edge in commerce and industry at the expense of culture and history.
It's up to each individual to vote with their feet and decide where they'd rather be.
"Flamebait"?! What the heck was that for?
Actually, you need the case if you plan on using the standard fans - without the case, there will be no even circulation of air around the motherboard. It's a common mistake, but leaving the case off a server can actually make it more prone to overheating.
Paper: Time Warner Sets Terms for Access
Last updated: 08 Oct 2000 12:35 GMT (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc TWX.N is requiring some Internet service providers to pay up to 75 percent of their revenue and relinquish some control of content to gain access to its high-speed network, the Washington Post reported.
The Post reported that unnamed sources said the Federal Trade Commission is examining the terms of many of the deals proposed to smaller Internet service providers to determine if they violate Time Warner's promise to open its high-speed cable TV lines to competitors in the wake of its $183 billion merger announcement with America Online Inc AOL.N .
Time Warner is requiring nearly 40 Internet companies in Texas to give up 75 percent of their subscriber fees and 25 percent of revenues from other sources such as advertising in order to gain access to its cable TV network, according to term sheets obtained by the Post.
In addition, the term sheets indicate Time Warner would get approval control over the Internet service providers' home pages and "prominent above-the-fold areas on the home page of the service for use."
"Totally ridiculous," said Dave Robertson, vice president and general manager of Stic.net, an Internet service provider in San Antonio with more than 10,000 subscribers. "The bottom line is, they don't have a desire to open their network."
Time Warner denied the charge, saying it and AOL are committed to open access, the Post reported Saturday.
Cable networks are one way to deliver high-speed Internet access to residential customers. Time Warner's cable network reaches 18.8 percent of all cable customers nationwide.
That's right - the stock exchange run their trading systems on NT. There's more to the computing world than web sites, y'know.
That's what trusted systems are designed to address. Think about it: why should your sysadmin be able to read, say, the payroll? Under a conventional Unix, there's nothing to stop that hapenning, apart from trust, and you can't rely on trust in a huge organization where many technical roles may be fulfilled by contractors or outsourced.
I believe that B2 certification requires that the sysadmin can be prevented from reading your files, apart from to backup and restore them - and even after a restore, the access control will be preserved.
IMHO having a single root is the biggest flaw of *nix operating systems.
Then you say:
The day microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners
I'd just like to point out that NT has always had the ability to separate out adminstrative responsibilities, and comes configured for separate printer admins, backup operators, etc. So it's not all bad! :0)
That's your whole argument right there. No matter what MS do, you'll never buy their products. So why on earth should they even attempt to appeal to you? To them, you're not an opponent, not a critic, not a rival: you don't even factor into their calculations.
I'm not sure this is as much a problem as you believe. I don't doubt that Microsoft has retained the services of some of the more competent consulting firms that specialise in consumer goods and manufacturing, and I also don't doubt that they are making very generous offers to vice presidents of the current competitive leaders. It's certainly not unheard of for large organizations to simply buy experience they lack when entering a new market.
d'you think we should be prepared for a landslide of more dull FPS's, ET cartridges and bad knock offs of stuff that was cool two years ago?
I expect that XBox games will be very closely aligned with whatever the current trends are.
Yeah, but they're trying to unify them. That's what Windows Milennium is about, migrating users to a single OS that will come in editions that range from Professional (desktop workstation) to Data Center (high-end OLTP and DS). That's the plan, anyway.
IBM manages to drive OS/390, Linux, Windows, AIX, OS/400
The reality is that AIX and OS/400 divisions of IBM actually compete with each other, and that IBM are huge enough to have the resources (and the locked-in legacy customers/revenue) to hedge all their bets. Besides, if you need an S/390, then you really need it, and nothing else will do.
SGI manages to drive Irix, Windows, Linux
Must be some definition of "manages" that I'm not familiar with :0)
HP manages to drive HP/UX, Windows, Linux
OK, that's a fair point, but see IBM. HP are huge and have their fingers in many pies.
Compaq manages to drive Tru64, Linux, Windows, VMS (or is VMS dead yet?)
VMS is far from dead, and Compaq is still a roll-up of Compaq and DEC.
Why does Sun not have the energy to drive more than one operating system when its competition does
If they can unify on a single OS, then they potentially have a strategic edge that their competitors can't match. For example, SGI are busily trying to port Irix features to Linux, Compaq want to move VMS features into Tru64. If Sun can add features to all it's platforms simultaneously, that's reduced time to market, and higher quality right there.
That's easy. It's because Apple is a hardware company. Their OS is and always has been a loss leader to drive sales of actual Macintoshes, and it's profit from those sales that keeps Apple going.
Note that Apple will still charge you for an OS upgrade, tho'. I don't see how that is very different from MS getting a licence fee for every piece of hardware you buy from their OEMs.
Here's a free clue: If you want other people to respect the GPL, then you have to respect other people's licences too.
Quite; indeed, in Western civilizations, people are identified by their personal name, then their family name, whereas in Oriental civilizations, the family name comes first.
This may be apocryphal, but I was taught that the reason that the Chinese don't use knives and forks was that Confucious said that it was not civilised to eat with butcher's tools.
Anyway, chopsticks are just as useful, once you get practice with them.
Can anyone comment on the SMP performance linearity of the current Linux kernel on more than 4 CPUs? Did they every sort out the issues that prevented kernel socket (or was it I/O?) APIs being called concurrently by processes on multiple CPUs?
Of course it would. Suns have always been poor at running graphical, interactive applications (an example of something like this is an office productivity app), even with a Creator card installed. Similarly, if you want high framerate 3D rendering (for example, to play Unreal) then you'll also be disappointed.
But ask a Sun to manage several thousand processes at once with heavy i/o (for example, an industrial-grade mail or database), or point it at a large floating point job (like rendering a movie-quality scene, or computing material stresses in an FEA/CAD application) and it will leave your PC in the dust.
Did you see the bandwidth on this new SPARC? And the number of registers it has? That's an edge your PC can't match.
Only if you're a bad manager, a breed that is all too common. A good manager is worth 10 average programmers, because without a good manager, large projects are simply impossible.
BTW, I am assuming that by manager, you mean hands-on project/engagement manager, who is probably also/formerly a senior engineer and system architect, as opposed to someone who has been a manager their entire careers without going through the line-of-business ranks first.
There are generic skills that apply across the management of all disciplines or businesses, but these are only a foundation - a good manager knows where his team (or department) is going, and how to get there, and how to utilize the available resources (people, money, equipment) to do so in the most efficient manner.
No, because you are free to accept or reject any advice that you are offered, while still factoring it into your decision. If anything, the problem is that you might skew the sources you consult towards ones that you know will reinforce your decision.
If mobile phones had been around three hundred years ago, do you think America would be independant today? I think not.
Well, Paul Revere wouldn't have needed a horse, for starters. No, but seriously, look at this example. Mobile phones are a nightmare for authoritarian governments.
No, it's just you, Neo.
Historically, Unix was case-sensitive to evade the overhead of having to convert cases to do lookups on file filesystem, which preserved cases in filenames. This differs in behavior from NTFS, which preserves case, yet is case insensitive when referring to a file (unless you're running in POSIX mode).
And Cisco aren't patenting NAT, infact they even reference the RFC in their application.
Sounds like you want one of these.
Not really. Sun got their start in the workstation market (on Motorola and BSD before SPARC and SYSV), then they started selling what we would today call "workgroup servers" to support LANs of SPARCstations. Much later on, they started making genuine high-end products like the E10000. The "high end" market has historically been IBM, HP maybe some DEC and SGI in there, some Fujitsu and ICL.
The reason this is noteworthy is because Sun often indicate that their ongoing strategy is SPARC/Solaris/Java, and making their money from hardware sales - unless I am mistaken, Cobalt are Linux on MIPS.
That's simply not true. Exactly the same information is available to you, from exactly the same sources. The reason that lawyers, accountants, consultants &c. bill hourly is is because you are paying for the application of knowledge. It's like riding in a taxi rather than buying a car. It's much cheaper for you to hire me at my hourly rate to solve your problems that it is for you to go to college for my engineering education, then work in industry for a few years to gain experience, and only then begin to address your actual goals.
While using the net, the web, the published algorithms of people interested in spreading ideas and all the rest of the "free software" movement
The thing that the entire /. community seems unable to grasp is that if you want third parties (and the general public for that matter) to respect the GPL, then you must show equal respect for their licences.