Both companies were graphics oriented. Apple had the desktop publishing & still photo design markets and multimedia aspirations, SGI had high-end visualization and 3D.
A marriage of the two, especially before OS X development had gone too far down the road, would have given Apple a chance to import the good parts of Irix and work towards a single OS runnable across all the architectures. Apple would have gotten datacenter credibility and access to workstation markets, and research markets dependent on workstations could have more easily run Apple desktops without losing workstation features.
Add in X-windows style display redirection, and you have a neat system that runs intensive 3D visualization locally but does the crunching remotely.
I saw Bolt in 3D and for someone who wears glasses, the 3D process isn't that great. The glasses over glasses part seems to mess with the depth effect. That the movie was kind of dumb (my kid loved it, tho) didn't help.
Gore's loss only proves that the outgoing president's endorsed candidate for president *could* lose. You'd like to make the point that Bush "stole" the election, but Bush wasn't the incumbent, he was the *opposition*.
In Russia, Bush would have been jailed or killed for opposing the President's handpicked successor. Instead he won a flawed and hotly contested election. But that's a far cry from banning opposition parties, jailing and/or killing your opponents, and creating new positions in government for ex-Presidents like Putin did.
But I can't blame you for wanting to believe that your sham democracy, overseen by a dictator, is as legitimate as the American government, however flawed it may be. I mean look -- the USSR was a complete failure, a corrupt, brutal and tyrannical state run into the ground by megalomaniacs. The replacement, a kleptocratic dictatorship now run by a sock puppet whose strings are pulled by the man who used to hold the job, isn't really much of a government, and your economy is prety close to failure.
Given those circumstances I'd hold on to whatever illusion I could hold onto as well.
Ha! That'd be funny if McCain actually was president, even more so if it happened the way it does "..in Soviet Russia":
Bush hand-picks McCain as his sock puppet, and then kills, jails or simply intimidates (via street thugs, FSB freelancers, etc) Obama & Clinton into dropping out of the race so that McCain could "win" and then appoints himself to a new position to oversee it all.
But we don't run sham elections so our strongman can retain power, and one of the most vigorous Bush critics was actually elected President, so I guess your witty criticism holds water about as well as your government holds elections.
On the other hand, I'm completely against eating octopi and squid because they are extremely intelligent, the dolphins or chimps of the invertebrate world as far as I'm concerned.
They're awesome sauteed in olive oil with garlic or even broiled.
Deep-fried are good, too, but fucking kalamari has been overdone.
What needs to happen is that the chief officer of a company or the chair of the board needs to be the one that is physically accountable should the corporation be convicted of a crime. "I didn't know" or "they didn't tell me" won't be excuses for lack of oversight or management involvement.
I can guarantee you that should highly placed corporate officers be held personally accountable for criminal actions of the corporation they WILL get involved enough to ensure it doesn't happen.
1) Major ammunition and justification for "authority figures" of all kinds to abuse their authority.
2) Kiss your civil rights good bye. "Zero tolerance", "strip searches", the whole litany of jackbooted thuggery.
This case makes me sick, even though as a parent of public school children I am a zealous advocate of school order & discipline. I want an environment my kids can learn in, free from bullying, disruption and criminal behavior.
But I don't want them checking into Pelican Bay's Secure Housing Unit in the guise of getting an education, either.
My guess is its cold in relative terms to "hot" fusion which is really, really hot and introduces all kinds of containment problems that complicate the engineering.
You don't need to insane heat to do useful work, either. A lot of good gets done with geothermal heat pumps.
I've done whitebox VMWare ESX & ESXi successfully with an Intel motherboard, Q6600 CPU, 8GB RAM and Adadptec RAID card with SATA disks and a couple of add-in NICs. Total cost was around $1200, give or take.
Biggest issue really is that the standard desktop motherboard with a quad-core CPU runs out of RAM (8GB max on the boards I used) way before it runs out of CPU cycles or even disk I/O. Tertiary issue was lack of support for the motherboard NIC, even though the Intel chipsets are well supported by VMWare.
You have to pay attention to disk controller cards. I used an Adaptec whose throughput may not be spectacular, but it provides a SCSI interface to the OS while letting me use SATA drives. 4x750GB drives gives you 2TB usable disk space locally.
I didn't have the money or physical space to build a second VM or the iSCSI storage server necessary for VMotion/DRS/HA, and as others point out, these features require expensive licenses in addition to the extra hardware, and you won't learn a ton anyway without serious, real-world production workloads (where's that 400 user Exchange server?).
Having done several VMWare setups for clients, I can assure you that unless you work for a very large consulting firm or a major Fortune 500 business, you will almost never run into setups larger than 4 nodes (figure that will support 20-30 servers easily with 32GB and 8 cores per host) and many two-node shops don't buy the VMotion/DRS licenses anyway and just get by with HA. Plus once you get into 4+ hosts, you're also looking at SAN costs in excess of $100k usually *just* for the SAN to get you into the 8-10 TB storage range.
Those rules you proffer are just too easy to game. Anyone can find 'bad' vendors who only charge list prices and thus can be easily eliminated in favor of the preferred vendor. And even when it works, vendors themselves deliberately make it difficult to create competing bids that are apples-apples comparisons or obfuscate their facts to bury hidden costs or charges that don't show up until later.
And even when it all more or less works right, you can end up with a procurement process that's so time consuming and complicated that it either takes way too many staff to do it or nothing gets done because the process is so onerous and the punishments for deviation more severe than the punishment for doing nothing. And $2k? I think a better number might be $10k or $20k.
The best way is to avoid the urge to staff an IT office as if it was some kind of management consultancy where nobody does real work except to manage the herds of consultants who do the actual work. Eliminating the consulting eliminates most of the chances to blatantly steal and kickback since most of the money spent on IT is in labor.
Mod parent up. Note how Orwellian Orwell's home country has also gotten after the effective banning of all firearms and how they're on the verge of banning knives, now, too, in a desperate attempt to legislate civility.
More pixels = the option for bigger pictures. So if I want that life-size picture of the naked chick I zoomed into from my dormroom then i should be able....hmm wait, nothing to see here move along.
You joke, but on more than one occasion I've taken a shot of something and realized that a very small subset of something would make a good picture, but there's just not enough pixels to make it a decent picture.
So what's your non-killing solution when you walk in the door of an apartment and find a woman beat half to death with her ex-husband holding a 10" kitchen knife to her throat threatening to kill her and the 2 year old in the high chair next to him? Oh yeah, he's a schizophrenic who doesn't take his meds.
Taser? Nope, not always effective and the nervous impulse from the shock might just cut her throat anyway.
Mace/pepper spray? Nope, even less effective, especially against mentally ill and people with chemically induced psychosis (meth, coke, etc).
Negotiation? Tough to do with an agitated schizophrenic.
Handgun? Yes, a risk to the woman, but a heat shot to the ex-husband can put him down without allowing him to harm the woman or the child.
You can come up with a well-meaning and long-winded argument about social justice, universal healthcare, improved education, ending racism, but do you really believe any of it is going to make schizophrenia or human hatred go away?
Most cops (and most firearms enthusiasts) do not see them as "devices whose principle function is to kill" but instead as tools to defend their own lives or protect the lives of crime victims. If you can't accept than and only see killing then you're worse than the cops you want to denigrate because you strip the cops of their essential humanity and desire to help and not hurt.
I've had the same experience. The cop I know best personally was a high school jock, his dad was a cop, and he's a very conservative catholic as well as a die-hard Republican. Despite all that, and being a police officer in a very diverse population, you simply cannot goad him into being a stereotypical mean spirited cop, a racist, or any of the other mean stuff you'd normally expect.
I've gone on a few ride alongs with him and he's very much the public servant with both crime victims and when he's made arrests.
About the worst thing I ever saw him do was take down a door-door "salesman" who had been canvassing our neighborhood well after dark (the cop and his wife lived up the block at the time). The cop's wife called me and complained that some weird guy banged on her door and wouldn't go away. I told her to call her husband who was at work (we live in the precinct) and I'd watch for him outside. He knocked on more doors as he moved down the block, and when the cop got to our neighborhood the "salesman" ducked between houses when he saw the squad and ran to the back road. They cut him off and stopped him on the street. They asked him what he was doing and who he worked for and he refused to answer or provide ID (he wasn't wearing the usual embroidered sales polo and had no sales materials or flyers), so the salesman got handcuffed face down on the hood of the squad and they searched him and his wallet, ultimately finding a business contact that verified who he was (some lame window company) and then they let him go and urged him to make his sales pitches when it was light out and respect people who said no.
I was the only witness (a half block away) and his wife had felt threatened by the sales guy -- they easily could have tuned him up and thrown him in jail on a resisting beef and nobody would have cared, but he didn't do it.
Anyway, I agree -- the blanket accusation that all cops are assholes and power mad jerks isn't true from what I've seen. Some are kind of weapons geeks, but that doesn't make them mean.
It sounds as idiotic as "America's Sweetheart" or "America's Team" or anything else that assumes some kind of lockstep agreement.
America's CIO -- bitching about timesheets, hiring H1-Bs, taking kickbacks from vendors, expecting unpaid overtime & on-call time and canceling vacations at the last minute.
How many places actually hire people based on some weird morality search of their private lives?
I can see where they might judge your character based on a zillion facebook pictures with you taking bong hits while fucking a goat, but are there really places that want to make sure you're a registered member of the KKK before they hire you?
We need to end the cheap (H1-B) labor for engineering.
If businesses "need" more engineering labor than the market has available, they need to pay for it, just as they would for marketing or management. Instead they suppress the salaries by importing cheap labor from overseas.
We also need to undo some of the cultural bias we have for "management" and stop treating management as some kind of aristocratic/Mandarin class entitled to special wages & privileges above the common people.
A reasonable argument, but a large reason they are here at all is that employers are unwilling to pay the wages necessary to encourage Americans to do the same work, so the employers bulk import labor at lower rates to suppress wages.
Thus they are *labor* not immigrants and many cannot simply "stay". If they were actually immigrating to be citizens and engineers, chances are the wages they would paid would be lucrative enough to get Americans to do the jobs since the immigrants would have the same chances at other jobs as Americans (eg, if engineering doesn't pay, do something else instead of being brought here because you are an engineer).
Parent is only intelligence in this entire article.
Existing Marine One(s) are ancient designs with upgrades for communications and anti-missile defense; it's unlikely any "blueprints" would provide any details about the ECM or Comms operation outside of where they might mount, and outside of that the specifics of that helicopter are well known.
The new Marine One design is in trouble (financially, politically, etc) in these times and anything that discredits the security of the existing design can only help the new one.
I'm surprised they didn't have the cajones to use the Osprey. I mean, they wanted it bad enough aren't they willing to ride in it, too?
This is what we get for making "business" an academic discipline.
It drew in all the math whizzes and other numbers types who then demonstrated how much money there was to be "made" through financial manipulation (all of it legal, and much of it defensible in some situations) of various sorts. Thus people who legitimately invested in plants, people or other traditional building blocks of industry were seen as losers despite the long-term gains were tossed out and guys willing to manipulate for short term gain were brought in, with the thinking that the cumulative value of long-term, short-term manipulation was greater than the value of long-term investment.
Factually true, but as we're starting to see -- not sustainable and ultimately catastrophic if not apocalyptic.
Maybe delay her layoff a week or a month or something?
Sure, capitalism is at its "best" when its impartial and impersonal, but ultimately working is a human endeavor and we show our grace and humanity when we respect other people's lives.
Had her dog died or her stepmom's uncle from Timbuktu, then maybe it's not a big deal. But a miscarriage is a big deal and it just shows how crass and insensitive they are to can her like that.
If you don't get that, then seek some personal help.
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Say, circa 2000.
Both companies were graphics oriented. Apple had the desktop publishing & still photo design markets and multimedia aspirations, SGI had high-end visualization and 3D.
A marriage of the two, especially before OS X development had gone too far down the road, would have given Apple a chance to import the good parts of Irix and work towards a single OS runnable across all the architectures. Apple would have gotten datacenter credibility and access to workstation markets, and research markets dependent on workstations could have more easily run Apple desktops without losing workstation features.
Add in X-windows style display redirection, and you have a neat system that runs intensive 3D visualization locally but does the crunching remotely.
All this made more sense circa 2000 or earlier.
I saw Bolt in 3D and for someone who wears glasses, the 3D process isn't that great. The glasses over glasses part seems to mess with the depth effect. That the movie was kind of dumb (my kid loved it, tho) didn't help.
I can agree to this.
Gore's loss only proves that the outgoing president's endorsed candidate for president *could* lose. You'd like to make the point that Bush "stole" the election, but Bush wasn't the incumbent, he was the *opposition*.
In Russia, Bush would have been jailed or killed for opposing the President's handpicked successor. Instead he won a flawed and hotly contested election. But that's a far cry from banning opposition parties, jailing and/or killing your opponents, and creating new positions in government for ex-Presidents like Putin did.
But I can't blame you for wanting to believe that your sham democracy, overseen by a dictator, is as legitimate as the American government, however flawed it may be. I mean look -- the USSR was a complete failure, a corrupt, brutal and tyrannical state run into the ground by megalomaniacs. The replacement, a kleptocratic dictatorship now run by a sock puppet whose strings are pulled by the man who used to hold the job, isn't really much of a government, and your economy is prety close to failure.
Given those circumstances I'd hold on to whatever illusion I could hold onto as well.
Ha! That'd be funny if McCain actually was president, even more so if it happened the way it does "..in Soviet Russia":
Bush hand-picks McCain as his sock puppet, and then kills, jails or simply intimidates (via street thugs, FSB freelancers, etc) Obama & Clinton into dropping out of the race so that McCain could "win" and then appoints himself to a new position to oversee it all.
But we don't run sham elections so our strongman can retain power, and one of the most vigorous Bush critics was actually elected President, so I guess your witty criticism holds water about as well as your government holds elections.
Comrade Putin thanks you for your support.
On the other hand, I'm completely against eating octopi and squid because they are extremely intelligent, the dolphins or chimps of the invertebrate world as far as I'm concerned.
They're awesome sauteed in olive oil with garlic or even broiled.
Deep-fried are good, too, but fucking kalamari has been overdone.
What needs to happen is that the chief officer of a company or the chair of the board needs to be the one that is physically accountable should the corporation be convicted of a crime. "I didn't know" or "they didn't tell me" won't be excuses for lack of oversight or management involvement.
I can guarantee you that should highly placed corporate officers be held personally accountable for criminal actions of the corporation they WILL get involved enough to ensure it doesn't happen.
1) Major ammunition and justification for "authority figures" of all kinds to abuse their authority.
2) Kiss your civil rights good bye. "Zero tolerance", "strip searches", the whole litany of jackbooted thuggery.
This case makes me sick, even though as a parent of public school children I am a zealous advocate of school order & discipline. I want an environment my kids can learn in, free from bullying, disruption and criminal behavior.
But I don't want them checking into Pelican Bay's Secure Housing Unit in the guise of getting an education, either.
My guess is its cold in relative terms to "hot" fusion which is really, really hot and introduces all kinds of containment problems that complicate the engineering.
You don't need to insane heat to do useful work, either. A lot of good gets done with geothermal heat pumps.
I've done whitebox VMWare ESX & ESXi successfully with an Intel motherboard, Q6600 CPU, 8GB RAM and Adadptec RAID card with SATA disks and a couple of add-in NICs. Total cost was around $1200, give or take.
Biggest issue really is that the standard desktop motherboard with a quad-core CPU runs out of RAM (8GB max on the boards I used) way before it runs out of CPU cycles or even disk I/O. Tertiary issue was lack of support for the motherboard NIC, even though the Intel chipsets are well supported by VMWare.
You have to pay attention to disk controller cards. I used an Adaptec whose throughput may not be spectacular, but it provides a SCSI interface to the OS while letting me use SATA drives. 4x750GB drives gives you 2TB usable disk space locally.
I didn't have the money or physical space to build a second VM or the iSCSI storage server necessary for VMotion/DRS/HA, and as others point out, these features require expensive licenses in addition to the extra hardware, and you won't learn a ton anyway without serious, real-world production workloads (where's that 400 user Exchange server?).
Having done several VMWare setups for clients, I can assure you that unless you work for a very large consulting firm or a major Fortune 500 business, you will almost never run into setups larger than 4 nodes (figure that will support 20-30 servers easily with 32GB and 8 cores per host) and many two-node shops don't buy the VMotion/DRS licenses anyway and just get by with HA. Plus once you get into 4+ hosts, you're also looking at SAN costs in excess of $100k usually *just* for the SAN to get you into the 8-10 TB storage range.
Those rules you proffer are just too easy to game. Anyone can find 'bad' vendors who only charge list prices and thus can be easily eliminated in favor of the preferred vendor. And even when it works, vendors themselves deliberately make it difficult to create competing bids that are apples-apples comparisons or obfuscate their facts to bury hidden costs or charges that don't show up until later.
And even when it all more or less works right, you can end up with a procurement process that's so time consuming and complicated that it either takes way too many staff to do it or nothing gets done because the process is so onerous and the punishments for deviation more severe than the punishment for doing nothing. And $2k? I think a better number might be $10k or $20k.
The best way is to avoid the urge to staff an IT office as if it was some kind of management consultancy where nobody does real work except to manage the herds of consultants who do the actual work. Eliminating the consulting eliminates most of the chances to blatantly steal and kickback since most of the money spent on IT is in labor.
Mod parent up. Note how Orwellian Orwell's home country has also gotten after the effective banning of all firearms and how they're on the verge of banning knives, now, too, in a desperate attempt to legislate civility.
More pixels = the option for bigger pictures. So if I want that life-size picture of the naked chick I zoomed into from my dormroom then i should be able....hmm wait, nothing to see here move along.
You joke, but on more than one occasion I've taken a shot of something and realized that a very small subset of something would make a good picture, but there's just not enough pixels to make it a decent picture.
Were the nurses at the mental hospital hot?
I'm sure they are. The bad news is that its a teaching hospital and they use the mental patients to practice urinary tract catheterization.
"Ooops, I'm sorry, let me try this again..."
So what's your non-killing solution when you walk in the door of an apartment and find a woman beat half to death with her ex-husband holding a 10" kitchen knife to her throat threatening to kill her and the 2 year old in the high chair next to him? Oh yeah, he's a schizophrenic who doesn't take his meds.
Taser? Nope, not always effective and the nervous impulse from the shock might just cut her throat anyway.
Mace/pepper spray? Nope, even less effective, especially against mentally ill and people with chemically induced psychosis (meth, coke, etc).
Negotiation? Tough to do with an agitated schizophrenic.
Handgun? Yes, a risk to the woman, but a heat shot to the ex-husband can put him down without allowing him to harm the woman or the child.
You can come up with a well-meaning and long-winded argument about social justice, universal healthcare, improved education, ending racism, but do you really believe any of it is going to make schizophrenia or human hatred go away?
Most cops (and most firearms enthusiasts) do not see them as "devices whose principle function is to kill" but instead as tools to defend their own lives or protect the lives of crime victims. If you can't accept than and only see killing then you're worse than the cops you want to denigrate because you strip the cops of their essential humanity and desire to help and not hurt.
I've had the same experience. The cop I know best personally was a high school jock, his dad was a cop, and he's a very conservative catholic as well as a die-hard Republican. Despite all that, and being a police officer in a very diverse population, you simply cannot goad him into being a stereotypical mean spirited cop, a racist, or any of the other mean stuff you'd normally expect.
I've gone on a few ride alongs with him and he's very much the public servant with both crime victims and when he's made arrests.
About the worst thing I ever saw him do was take down a door-door "salesman" who had been canvassing our neighborhood well after dark (the cop and his wife lived up the block at the time). The cop's wife called me and complained that some weird guy banged on her door and wouldn't go away. I told her to call her husband who was at work (we live in the precinct) and I'd watch for him outside. He knocked on more doors as he moved down the block, and when the cop got to our neighborhood the "salesman" ducked between houses when he saw the squad and ran to the back road. They cut him off and stopped him on the street. They asked him what he was doing and who he worked for and he refused to answer or provide ID (he wasn't wearing the usual embroidered sales polo and had no sales materials or flyers), so the salesman got handcuffed face down on the hood of the squad and they searched him and his wallet, ultimately finding a business contact that verified who he was (some lame window company) and then they let him go and urged him to make his sales pitches when it was light out and respect people who said no.
I was the only witness (a half block away) and his wife had felt threatened by the sales guy -- they easily could have tuned him up and thrown him in jail on a resisting beef and nobody would have cared, but he didn't do it.
Anyway, I agree -- the blanket accusation that all cops are assholes and power mad jerks isn't true from what I've seen. Some are kind of weapons geeks, but that doesn't make them mean.
It sounds as idiotic as "America's Sweetheart" or "America's Team" or anything else that assumes some kind of lockstep agreement.
America's CIO -- bitching about timesheets, hiring H1-Bs, taking kickbacks from vendors, expecting unpaid overtime & on-call time and canceling vacations at the last minute.
How many places actually hire people based on some weird morality search of their private lives?
I can see where they might judge your character based on a zillion facebook pictures with you taking bong hits while fucking a goat, but are there really places that want to make sure you're a registered member of the KKK before they hire you?
We need to end the cheap (H1-B) labor for engineering.
If businesses "need" more engineering labor than the market has available, they need to pay for it, just as they would for marketing or management. Instead they suppress the salaries by importing cheap labor from overseas.
We also need to undo some of the cultural bias we have for "management" and stop treating management as some kind of aristocratic/Mandarin class entitled to special wages & privileges above the common people.
A reasonable argument, but a large reason they are here at all is that employers are unwilling to pay the wages necessary to encourage Americans to do the same work, so the employers bulk import labor at lower rates to suppress wages.
Thus they are *labor* not immigrants and many cannot simply "stay". If they were actually immigrating to be citizens and engineers, chances are the wages they would paid would be lucrative enough to get Americans to do the jobs since the immigrants would have the same chances at other jobs as Americans (eg, if engineering doesn't pay, do something else instead of being brought here because you are an engineer).
It's Duluth in the winter. Death is a little warmer.
Parent is only intelligence in this entire article.
Existing Marine One(s) are ancient designs with upgrades for communications and anti-missile defense; it's unlikely any "blueprints" would provide any details about the ECM or Comms operation outside of where they might mount, and outside of that the specifics of that helicopter are well known.
The new Marine One design is in trouble (financially, politically, etc) in these times and anything that discredits the security of the existing design can only help the new one.
I'm surprised they didn't have the cajones to use the Osprey. I mean, they wanted it bad enough aren't they willing to ride in it, too?
This is what we get for making "business" an academic discipline.
It drew in all the math whizzes and other numbers types who then demonstrated how much money there was to be "made" through financial manipulation (all of it legal, and much of it defensible in some situations) of various sorts. Thus people who legitimately invested in plants, people or other traditional building blocks of industry were seen as losers despite the long-term gains were tossed out and guys willing to manipulate for short term gain were brought in, with the thinking that the cumulative value of long-term, short-term manipulation was greater than the value of long-term investment.
Factually true, but as we're starting to see -- not sustainable and ultimately catastrophic if not apocalyptic.
Maybe delay her layoff a week or a month or something?
Sure, capitalism is at its
"best" when its impartial and impersonal, but ultimately working is a human endeavor and we show our grace and humanity when we respect other people's lives.
Had her dog died or her stepmom's uncle from Timbuktu, then maybe it's not a big deal. But a miscarriage is a big deal and it just shows how crass and insensitive they are to can her like that.
If you don't get that, then seek some personal help.