[glasshouse] "Yeah, Linux sure does suck, doesn't it?"
Actually, yes it does. And for your next song and dance, can you tell me how long it took the Linux Community to get it right? HOW many versions before it was even remotely usable? What was that? I thought so.
Well, it was actually intended to shoot explosive devices near enemy satellites. The payload would emit some sticky substance to effectively "blind" the enemy satellite. Sounds a bit far-fetched.
Launch Vehicle: Babylon Gun.
From March of 1988 until the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Iraq contracted with Gerard Bull to build three superguns: two full sized 'Project Babylon' 1000 mm guns and one 'Baby Babylon' 350 mm prototype. Nine tonnes of special supergun propellant could fire a 600 kg projectile over a range of 1,000 kilometres, or a 2,000 kg rocket-assisted projectile. The 2,000 kg projectile would place a net payload of about 200 kg into orbit at a cost of $ 600 per kg. The 1000 mm guns were never completed. After the war UN teams destroyed the guns and gun components in Iraqi possession.
There already IS a goal-free 3D world implemented.
It's called Real Life, features astonishing graphics and sound and is freely accessible for anyone just by entering that big blue room with that hovering nuclear fire ball thingy.
Actually, the range is MUUUUUCH farther.
When I got my logitech wheel mouse thing, I hooked it up, sat a user in front of my PC, went some 25-30 yards away, shoved the mouse around on the wall, called up the user on my mobile. He was already freaking "'cause that arrow thing's doing stuff on its own". Haven't determined the exact range yet, but I believe there's a little more in it.
Uuuuuh. HP Vectra&Kayak keyboards. They're sweet. I will NEVER give mine away. They're mine. All mine. Muhahhahahah.
I also kinda liked the old IBM clickedy-boards for their robustness. But the clicking got on my nerves after a while. Still keep one around for scaring users. "So, what's your username again? U-hu". Crunch-KLICK, crunch-KLICK, crunch-KLICK. Very audible over the phone. Scares the heck out of 'em.
It's not Heise that's doing those statistics. The statistics were done by iKu Netzwerklösungen. Heise is a computer magazine publisher and they have a/.-like weblog. There's no connection between these companies. Whyever they pinged you, it was not about that Linux statistic.
While I applaud Strato on using Solaris, Strato is also notorious for having hour-long shutdowns every few days for months now.
I don't want to bash Solaris here. I'd rather think that this is due to the inability of Strato stuff to setup their servers correctly. Or maybe two servers is really a teensy-weensy-bit to weak to handle that load.
Whatever the cause of those shutdowns is, it doesn't make Solaris look good in Germany, as we know the whole story about Strato. "180,000 domains on two boxen" may look good too you, but when you are aware of Strato's problems here, you're beginning to wonder.
This is an excellent point for another company to spew FUD. "Hey, look, Strato is using Solaris to administrate it's domains. And guess what: Nothing works. For months now. So, dear customer, better forget about Solaris and buy our ultra-cool, mega-hyped, super-scalable OS."
It's not so much corporate taxes that drive companies away from Germany. Rather it's the cost of personnel and land for the sites that's too high in the manufacturing business. So they relocate the manufacturing plants somewhere where it's cheaper. Remember, Germany is really small, so land prices are ridiculously high.
With technical IT workers, it's the other way around. They are not paid enough to actually stay at a company. There is actually a surplus of IT people here, who wouldn't touch those low-wage jobs with a ten-foot-pole and rather go to a place (USA) where their skills are correctly valued. Although almost all IT positions require an academic education, IT personnel are paid far less than other comparable academics.
THIS is why we import low-cost workers from India. The plan seems to be to cart them here, let them do their work, pay them a trifle and send them back before they consider staying here.
Colonialism is back again with a vengeance. It's not military colonialism any more, but enconomical colonialism.
Well, it's about the same here in Germany considering desktop OS's.
There is only one computer magazine in Germany that doesn't orgasm when a new flavor of Windows is out. Besides the "c't", which is the magazine belonging to Heise and their News-Ticker", all the others seem to get paid to foam at their mouths about how the newest Windows version is the best thing since sliced bread.
Eeehm, you've got to watch the news sometime. We swallowed East Germany ten years ago. End of socialism. Start of the new government program: "Let's wipe the corporations' arses".
Even the supposedly slightly socialistic Social-Democrats, who are in power now, have dropped their ideals and re-oriented themselves to the "new middle", i.e. ignoring the minorities' lobbys and catering to those with money.
Let me change that to "Linux takeover of SERVER operating systems".
You'll find that the most abundant business desktop OS in Germany is Windows NT in it's various service pack flavours.
No, I don't have any proof besides personal experience.
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I would have liked that. I live in Wixhausen.
Wixium. Now that would have been a name for 110.
You are a moron!
Of course Slashdot doesn't get other sites to put up these articles. Slashdot's just linking to other sites April Fools Jokes.
[glasshouse] "Yeah, Linux sure does suck, doesn't it?"
Actually, yes it does. And for your next song and dance, can you tell me how long it took the Linux Community to get it right? HOW many versions before it was even remotely usable? What was that? I thought so.
Sheesh [/glasshouse]
Well, it was actually intended to shoot explosive devices near enemy satellites. The payload would emit some sticky substance to effectively "blind" the enemy satellite. Sounds a bit far-fetched.
Launch Vehicle: Babylon Gun.
From March of 1988 until the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Iraq contracted with Gerard Bull to build three superguns: two full sized 'Project Babylon' 1000 mm guns and one 'Baby Babylon' 350 mm prototype. Nine tonnes of special supergun propellant could fire a 600 kg projectile over a range of 1,000 kilometres, or a 2,000 kg rocket-assisted projectile. The 2,000 kg projectile would place a net payload of about 200 kg into orbit at a cost of $ 600 per kg. The 1000 mm guns were never completed. After the war UN teams destroyed the guns and gun components in Iraqi possession.
Courtesy of astronautix.com
Maybe they used a slingshot :)
A really big one.
It would measure up with the rest of what did to the satellite, you know.
>So maybe it shouldn't cost 500K$, but for the price you are certain it WILL work...
Yeah, because we all know how NASA's excellent workmanship and unit conversion skill protects them from the terrible secret of space.
This reminds me of the vinyl record in Hofstaedter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach", which played the correct frequency to vibrate the record player to pieces.
Yup, and I hate that magic still isn't implemented correctly.
Guess we'll have to wait for version 2.
There already IS a goal-free 3D world implemented.
It's called Real Life, features astonishing graphics and sound and is freely accessible for anyone just by entering that big blue room with that hovering nuclear fire ball thingy.
>One thing I will admit is that I never caught on to how stupid and obvious the name Darth (in)Vader was
Ha, now imagine being in Germany, where the name Vader is suspiciously close to the word "Vater",
which incidentally means... Father.
Actually, the range is MUUUUUCH farther.
When I got my logitech wheel mouse thing, I hooked it up, sat a user in front of my PC, went some 25-30 yards away, shoved the mouse around on the wall, called up the user on my mobile. He was already freaking "'cause that arrow thing's doing stuff on its own". Haven't determined the exact range yet, but I believe there's a little more in it.
Just checked, I've only seen 8 of those sites so far in person.
Visiting them all? Ambitious.
There's 630 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
You better start travelling right now.
Uuuuuh. HP Vectra&Kayak keyboards. They're sweet. I will NEVER give mine away. They're mine. All mine. Muhahhahahah.
I also kinda liked the old IBM clickedy-boards for their robustness. But the clicking got on my nerves after a while. Still keep one around for scaring users. "So, what's your username again? U-hu". Crunch-KLICK, crunch-KLICK, crunch-KLICK. Very audible over the phone. Scares the heck out of 'em.
Uuhm, there will NEVER be working time machines. Don't believe me? So tell me, where are the tourists?
You're right of course.
It's not Heise that's doing those statistics. The statistics were done by iKu Netzwerklösungen. Heise is a computer magazine publisher and they have a /.-like weblog. There's no connection between these companies. Whyever they pinged you, it was not about that Linux statistic.
While I applaud Strato on using Solaris, Strato is also notorious for having hour-long shutdowns every few days for months now.
I don't want to bash Solaris here. I'd rather think that this is due to the inability of Strato stuff to setup their servers correctly. Or maybe two servers is really a teensy-weensy-bit to weak to handle that load.
Whatever the cause of those shutdowns is, it doesn't make Solaris look good in Germany, as we know the whole story about Strato. "180,000 domains on two boxen" may look good too you, but when you are aware of Strato's problems here, you're beginning to wonder.
This is an excellent point for another company to spew FUD. "Hey, look, Strato is using Solaris to administrate it's domains. And guess what: Nothing works. For months now. So, dear customer, better forget about Solaris and buy our ultra-cool, mega-hyped, super-scalable OS."
It's a shame, really.
It's not so much corporate taxes that drive companies away from Germany. Rather it's the cost of personnel and land for the sites that's too high in the manufacturing business. So they relocate the manufacturing plants somewhere where it's cheaper. Remember, Germany is really small, so land prices are ridiculously high.
With technical IT workers, it's the other way around. They are not paid enough to actually stay at a company. There is actually a surplus of IT people here, who wouldn't touch those low-wage jobs with a ten-foot-pole and rather go to a place (USA) where their skills are correctly valued. Although almost all IT positions require an academic education, IT personnel are paid far less than other comparable academics.
THIS is why we import low-cost workers from India. The plan seems to be to cart them here, let them do their work, pay them a trifle and send them back before they consider staying here.
Colonialism is back again with a vengeance. It's not military colonialism any more, but enconomical colonialism.
Well, it's about the same here in Germany considering desktop OS's.
There is only one computer magazine in Germany that doesn't orgasm when a new flavor of Windows is out. Besides the "c't", which is the magazine belonging to Heise and their News-Ticker", all the others seem to get paid to foam at their mouths about how the newest Windows version is the best thing since sliced bread.
Nope. .de
.nl
Deutsch/German is spoken in
Holländisch/Dutch is spoken in
Urgh, be careful where you point your link about the watch!
That site shockwave-flashed me to hell and back.
Germany? Socialism?
Eeehm, you've got to watch the news sometime. We swallowed East Germany ten years ago. End of socialism. Start of the new government program: "Let's wipe the corporations' arses".
Even the supposedly slightly socialistic Social-Democrats, who are in power now, have dropped their ideals and re-oriented themselves to the "new middle", i.e. ignoring the minorities' lobbys and catering to those with money.
Let me change that to "Linux takeover of SERVER operating systems".
You'll find that the most abundant business desktop OS in Germany is Windows NT in it's various service pack flavours.
No, I don't have any proof besides personal experience.