Your problem is that you judge the entire world by your views as many leftists do. You think that "free speech and free beer" can make anybody view the world and behave like you do.
Guess, what. One of the main causes for this attack was the arrogance of idiots like you who don't want to see that the world consists of different cultures, and many of them laugh at your values and don't care about them. You can give them tons of beer and free speech, but they will just consider you a weakling and murder you in a cold blood because it's the way they are raised and educated.
Hopefully, the Western world makes the right conclusion from this tragedy and finally understands that diversity is not just two Americans who have different skin color or religion, but cultures that are completely different in their view of life.
And they will understand that you can't expect of everybody to behave like you and repeat all your dogmas and mantras.
And they will properly evaluate the threat of terrorism and show that it will not achieve the terrorist's goals.
It became fashionable to hijack planes and demand millions in seventies. A lot of Arab and other terroristic organizations were doing that.
After Israel freed Israeli hostages in 1976 (in the Air France plane) that Arab and German terrorists took to the heart of Africa, hijacking had pretty much stopped (Israeli commandos has also shot two hijackers of the Belgian Sabena plane).
Another example.
Arabs has murdered Israeli delegation at the 72 Olympics. ALL of the masterminds and planners as well as surviving participants were hunted down and exterminated. Do you think any terrorists are willing to repeat murdering Israelis?
Strange, I've heard that Sun was selected as the "best company to work for" at some point...
And "toying" doesn't compare to declaring NT as the "Savior of the company" and "strategic decision".
OTOH, your post puts me in the philosophical mode. Traditional privileges are like freedoms - you might not value them until you lose them.
I don't want to get into the gun control issue, but cancelling the Second Amendment will TAKE AWAY one of those freedoms (I don't have a gun myself and don't intend to)...
Hmmm, benchmarks are for sure good on Alpha, but the primary volume platform for Oracle is Sun, inn't it? Not alienating them is really important.
Second, Oracle is one of the few vendors who release their products for virtually EVERY platform. So, I guess, codebase is pretty much the same; otherwise it would be a nightmare to maintain.
a) As for HP-UX, I don't know; I'm an Oracle specialist, but haven't used many Unixes as a programmer.
b) Excuse me, but who cares about HP-UX older than 10 when 11 is the current version? How many old versions does Sun support?
c) HP-UX boxes are pretty speedy here. Oracle flies there.
You are right in regards of HP not having a low-end solution though (we can blame Intel;-)
Swallowing digital was the company that was basically a PC company with not much experience in anything but licking M$ and Intel butts.
HP, OTOH, is a reputed vendor with the experience of running and selling multiple platforms and products.
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I spent a year there (my contract at HP expires in three days), and I've seen the environment.
I'm kind of optimistic about the deal from the companies' point of view. First of all, who is going to suffer:
1) Competing printer makers. For now Compaq was rebranding Lexmark printers, so they are screwed.
2) OpenVMS and HP3000 users. HP is trying to get rid of all old platforms (like HP3000). OpenVMS will probably be put on life support (it was doomed after Compaq could not produce Alphas anyway).
3) Digital UNIX users. I think HP will try to move them to much more widespread HP-UX (many of the vendor packages are released for Solaris and Linux first, HP-UX second, and AIX third. TRU64X and Irix are distant fourth, and many don't even port there). I'd guess that they might even release an emulator of the system calls to just recompile programs on HP-UX scaling down Alpha products.
4) Stratus Computers (www.stratus.com). This competitor of Tandem uses HP processors and OS now, and they are going to get a competition from HP.
5) Employees.
Do you know that these corporate behemoths do not build their stuff? I've recently seen an inside auction where the last HP inkjet made in the US by HP was auctioned. All of the printers and PCs are now built by subcontractors (such as OMNI, Solectron, et al). Consolidation of the products will allow to reduce the design, development and testing staff. Also reduced will be support (eventually, after consolidating the products).
OTOH, the deal will help HP get through the hard time of the market slowdown by sharply increasing their inkjet's market share (using Compaq's strength in retail). Expect Lexmark's shares to fall.
Second, it will give them the reliable computing in Tandem. I don't know if Tandem computers were shifted from MIPS to Alpha, but the next generation of them will definitely use McKinley processors because their customers value reliability over speed and cost, and any processor will suffice.
Third, integration will give them GOOD REASON to discontinue older product lines at both Compaq and HP. These are decisions that usually involve a lot of power struggle, but the merger puts a "force major" mode on.
Conclusion: HP is buying itself a market share and sales channel for its PCs, PC servers and printers plus economics of scales. Also it buys itself a chance to do a full scale reorganization.
Finally, HP did not fire CEO. The fucker's name is Rick Beluzzo (doesn't it sound familiar?), and CEO's name was Lew Platt who peacefully retired. Beluzzo was the one pushing M$ into all holes. Later he went to head SGI (hence THEIR NT boxen), and now works where he belongs - in BillG's brothel.
1) They have admitted that Sun's "Network is computer" was the right idea (without mentioning Sun though). Itlooks like an article paid for by M$ (who allegedly has a solution to everything).
2) I think the word "consumer" should be made an expletive because it signifies a creature with a VISA card and no brain.
Again our wonderful Western society tries to pull the rabbit out of a hat, and invent a pill that will give Joe and Jane Q. Public for free something that only superior training and discipline were able to achieve in some esoteric schools.
I've read that DAO masters (mistresses ?) were able to stop menstruation by handling the energy in their bodies the same way as DAO men can have an orgasm without ejaculation thus sparing themselves from losing energy and being almost dead for some time after.
Read these books:
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http://www.universal-tao.com/books/z_b_love_f.ht ml
http://www.universal-tao.com/books/z_b_multiman. ht ml
I think that we should approach it from different direction: only someone who is persistent enough should reap the benefits, and not the incompetent and lazy public.
No pre-Christian European ritual here; Kennewick man WAS the Captain Picard that was killed by the Borg during one of the Starfleet missions when travelling to the past that has not been filmed yet.
He should be buried using the Starfleet ritual (a casket flown to the deep space).
Can you imagine finding a 9000-yr old Klingon skeleton?;-)
If you know the Russian Geography well, you'll see that some of the majority of the Uralic languages are around Finland/Estonia/Karelia.
At the same time, MAri/Mordvinic/Permic languages are located around Volga river and Ural mountains in Russia (these mountains are considered to be a border between Europe and Asia).
Yet at the same time the easternmost tribes of this language group live on Yenisey (about 7 hours of jet flight East from Moscow). Some of them (Khanty & Mansi, small tribes with less than 50K in the ethnic group) are the closest relatives of Hungarians.
And Samoyedic group lives even farther North.
Also of interest will be the site www.hyperborea.ru (they have English version).
I've heard that the USA is one of the few countries that still taxes an income that you earn overseas, so that you need to pay both American and local income tax.
As someone who has majored in compilers and compilers optimization specifically, I can tell that processor-specific optimization matters. It matters less than some general optimization (such as common subexpressions or moving common stuff out of loops etc) on processors with non-RISC instruction sets (and not many registers), but still has a lot of value in it.
And here comes the nice part. Do you know one of the biggest advantages of the Open Source? You can compile any source specifically for your computer, so it works perfectly on it. Why should you care about 486 compatibility if the binary won't ever leave your Athlon?
On the other hand, Microsoft and other ISVs are taunted by the backwards compatibility that is their biggest asset preventing mass escape of the POWs (i mean customers;-) and the "optimization curse" simultaneously. They need programs that will work on every hardware.
Frankly speaking, I'm still surprized that MS does not provide three versions of Windows/Office (Max optimization for the latest and greatest from Intel; Max optimization for Athlon; works on everything from 486 to Cyrix/IDT, but not optimized) at least to the biggest of its OEMs and system integrators.
I'd guess it happens because MS is a mess and they don't want their support to deal with many versions of Windows/apps for gaining 10-20% of performance that will be rather achieved by buying a new computer with new Windows license;-)
OTOH, some benchmarks suffer. So what, MS pain, Open Source gain;-)
Another thing is that Intel is very unhappy with the word WINTEL because 'W' comes first (I have a lot of friends working there), but it can't do much about it. AMD is the stick that MS uses to keep Intel at bay. Intel tries to use Linux the same way, but with much less success.
The only reason AMD is alive and has not died out in the beginning of nineties is Microsoft that decided not to limit themselves to Intel-only approach.
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Read this:
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp459.htm
Your problem is that you judge the entire world by your views as many leftists do. You think that "free speech and free beer" can make anybody view the world and behave like you do.
Guess, what. One of the main causes for this attack was the arrogance of idiots like you who don't want to see that the world consists of different cultures, and many of them laugh at your values and don't care about them. You can give them tons of beer and free speech, but they will just consider you a weakling and murder you in a cold blood because it's the way they are raised and educated.
Hopefully, the Western world makes the right conclusion from this tragedy and finally understands that diversity is not just two Americans who have different skin color or religion, but cultures that are completely different in their view of life.
And they will understand that you can't expect of everybody to behave like you and repeat all your dogmas and mantras.
And they will properly evaluate the threat of terrorism and show that it will not achieve the terrorist's goals.
It became fashionable to hijack planes and demand millions in seventies. A lot of Arab and other terroristic organizations were doing that.
After Israel freed Israeli hostages in 1976 (in the Air France plane) that Arab and German terrorists took to the heart of Africa, hijacking had pretty much stopped (Israeli commandos has also shot two hijackers of the Belgian Sabena plane).
Another example.
Arabs has murdered Israeli delegation at the 72 Olympics. ALL of the masterminds and planners as well as surviving participants were hunted down and exterminated. Do you think any terrorists are willing to repeat murdering Israelis?
... his work. I can bet, Akamai's servers played a significant role in everybody being able to read news on the Internet.
I meant different thing.
I thought more along the lines of what version of the OS is needed to run the latest products.
Strange, I've heard that Sun was selected as the "best company to work for" at some point ...
And "toying" doesn't compare to declaring NT as the "Savior of the company" and "strategic decision".
OTOH, your post puts me in the philosophical mode. Traditional privileges are like freedoms - you might not value them until you lose them.
I don't want to get into the gun control issue, but cancelling the Second Amendment will TAKE AWAY one of those freedoms (I don't have a gun myself and don't intend to)...
Hmmm, benchmarks are for sure good on Alpha, but the primary volume platform for Oracle is Sun, inn't it? Not alienating them is really important.
;-)
Second, Oracle is one of the few vendors who release their products for virtually EVERY platform. So, I guess, codebase is pretty much the same; otherwise it would be a nightmare to maintain.
a) As for HP-UX, I don't know; I'm an Oracle specialist, but haven't used many Unixes as a programmer.
b) Excuse me, but who cares about HP-UX older than 10 when 11 is the current version? How many old versions does Sun support?
c) HP-UX boxes are pretty speedy here. Oracle flies there.
You are right in regards of HP not having a low-end solution though (we can blame Intel
HP is completely different from Compaq of yours.
Swallowing digital was the company that was basically a PC company with not much experience in anything but licking M$ and Intel butts.
HP, OTOH, is a reputed vendor with the experience of running and selling multiple platforms and products.
I spent a year there (my contract at HP expires in three days), and I've seen the environment.
I'm kind of optimistic about the deal from the companies' point of view. First of all, who is going to suffer:
1) Competing printer makers. For now Compaq was rebranding Lexmark printers, so they are screwed.
2) OpenVMS and HP3000 users. HP is trying to get rid of all old platforms (like HP3000). OpenVMS will probably be put on life support (it was doomed after Compaq could not produce Alphas anyway).
3) Digital UNIX users. I think HP will try to move them to much more widespread HP-UX (many of the vendor packages are released for Solaris and Linux first, HP-UX second, and AIX third. TRU64X and Irix are distant fourth, and many don't even port there). I'd guess that they might even release an emulator of the system calls to just recompile programs on HP-UX scaling down Alpha products.
4) Stratus Computers (www.stratus.com). This competitor of Tandem uses HP processors and OS now, and they are going to get a competition from HP.
5) Employees.
Do you know that these corporate behemoths do not build their stuff? I've recently seen an inside auction where the last HP inkjet made in the US by HP was auctioned. All of the printers and PCs are now built by subcontractors (such as OMNI, Solectron, et al). Consolidation of the products will allow to reduce the design, development and testing staff. Also reduced will be support (eventually, after consolidating the products).
OTOH, the deal will help HP get through the hard time of the market slowdown by sharply increasing their inkjet's market share (using Compaq's strength in retail). Expect Lexmark's shares to fall.
Second, it will give them the reliable computing in Tandem. I don't know if Tandem computers were shifted from MIPS to Alpha, but the next generation of them will definitely use McKinley processors because their customers value reliability over speed and cost, and any processor will suffice.
Third, integration will give them GOOD REASON to discontinue older product lines at both Compaq and HP. These are decisions that usually involve a lot of power struggle, but the merger puts a "force major" mode on.
Conclusion: HP is buying itself a market share and sales channel for its PCs, PC servers and printers plus economics of scales. Also it buys itself a chance to do a full scale reorganization.
Finally, HP did not fire CEO. The fucker's name is Rick Beluzzo (doesn't it sound familiar?), and CEO's name was Lew Platt who peacefully retired. Beluzzo was the one pushing M$ into all holes. Later he went to head SGI (hence THEIR NT boxen), and now works where he belongs - in BillG's brothel.
Actually, headlines like "Brain-damaged woman sues General Motors" are not that uncommon ;-)
1) They have admitted that Sun's "Network is computer" was the right idea (without mentioning Sun though). Itlooks like an article paid for by M$ (who allegedly has a solution to everything).
2) I think the word "consumer" should be made an expletive because it signifies a creature with a VISA card and no brain.
www.gregbear.com
BTW, this website is developed by my former co-worker.
Again our wonderful Western society tries to pull the rabbit out of a hat, and invent a pill that will give Joe and Jane Q. Public for free something that only superior training and discipline were able to achieve in some esoteric schools.
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I've read that DAO masters (mistresses ?) were able to stop menstruation by handling the energy in their bodies the same way as DAO men can have an orgasm without ejaculation thus sparing themselves from losing energy and being almost dead for some time after.
Read these books:
http://www.universal-tao.com/books/z_b_love_m.h
http://www.universal-tao.com/books/z_b_love_f.h
http://www.universal-tao.com/books/z_b_multiman
I think that we should approach it from different direction: only someone who is persistent enough should reap the benefits, and not the incompetent and lazy public.
Yeah, but not as a lead, and even not as a human.
They should have casted Crarlton Heston (http://www.nrahq.org/administration/publications/ pres/index.asp) in this movie too.
;-)
Can you imegine a Beowulf cluster of his followers crunching the number of apes?
... that what you've described was THE strategy for the entire .com industry?
Unfortunately, they had to behave that stupid; otherwise, they wouldn't be worth 8 bln on the NASDAQ right after the IPO.
It was time when the EXPANSION was worth much more that the PROFIT because no one cared what will happen next.
I didn't know he was GPL-ed ;-)
Finnish language is not an Altaic one; it's Uralic.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/05/19/04
BTW, in that site Korean is classified as an isolated language.
No pre-Christian European ritual here; Kennewick man WAS the Captain Picard that was killed by the Borg during one of the Starfleet missions when travelling to the past that has not been filmed yet.
;-)
He should be buried using the Starfleet ritual (a casket flown to the deep space).
Can you imagine finding a 9000-yr old Klingon skeleton?
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/families/Uralic.html
If you know the Russian Geography well, you'll see that some of the majority of the Uralic languages are around Finland/Estonia/Karelia.
At the same time, MAri/Mordvinic/Permic languages are located around Volga river and Ural mountains in Russia (these mountains are considered to be a border between Europe and Asia).
Yet at the same time the easternmost tribes of this language group live on Yenisey (about 7 hours of jet flight East from Moscow). Some of them (Khanty & Mansi, small tribes with less than 50K in the ethnic group) are the closest relatives of Hungarians.
And Samoyedic group lives even farther North.
Also of interest will be the site www.hyperborea.ru (they have English version).
Thanks for the info!
Use IRS for peeling everything - money, money, ideas, clothes, money ;-)
What about taxes?
I've heard that the USA is one of the few countries that still taxes an income that you earn overseas, so that you need to pay both American and local income tax.
Could you, please, clarify it for me?
As someone who has majored in compilers and compilers optimization specifically, I can tell that processor-specific optimization matters. It matters less than some general optimization (such as common subexpressions or moving common stuff out of loops etc) on processors with non-RISC instruction sets (and not many registers), but still has a lot of value in it.
;-) and the "optimization curse" simultaneously. They need programs that will work on every hardware.
;-)
;-)
And here comes the nice part. Do you know one of the biggest advantages of the Open Source? You can compile any source specifically for your computer, so it works perfectly on it. Why should you care about 486 compatibility if the binary won't ever leave your Athlon?
On the other hand, Microsoft and other ISVs are taunted by the backwards compatibility that is their biggest asset preventing mass escape of the POWs (i mean customers
Frankly speaking, I'm still surprized that MS does not provide three versions of Windows/Office (Max optimization for the latest and greatest from Intel; Max optimization for Athlon; works on everything from 486 to Cyrix/IDT, but not optimized) at least to the biggest of its OEMs and system integrators.
I'd guess it happens because MS is a mess and they don't want their support to deal with many versions of Windows/apps for gaining 10-20% of performance that will be rather achieved by buying a new computer with new Windows license
OTOH, some benchmarks suffer. So what, MS pain, Open Source gain
Another thing is that Intel is very unhappy with the word WINTEL because 'W' comes first (I have a lot of friends working there), but it can't do much about it. AMD is the stick that MS uses to keep Intel at bay. Intel tries to use Linux the same way, but with much less success.
The only reason AMD is alive and has not died out in the beginning of nineties is Microsoft that decided not to limit themselves to Intel-only approach.
... it was made up by the spiteful Brits from my favorite news source - www.theregister.co.uk