Take the Gulf war for example. America drove this war effort simply because of issues related to oil - it was in no way humanitarian. Now, Iraq still has Saddam Hussein as a leader, and it's people are staving and repressed. USA won't do anything more unless "its vital national interests are at stake", in other words, we don't give a damn about the Iraqi people, just the oil.
Oh that really takes the cake. The US administration went to all the trouble to build a huge coalition of nations and work through the UN (no mean feat) to get resolutions passed authorizing force against Iraq. Those resolutions only allowed for forcing Iraq out of Kuwait and depriving them of their ability to use weapons of mass destruction. They did not allow for toppling their government.
Now we're hearing from the very nations that handcuffed us last time that it's our fault we didn't wipe him out! Arrrrrrgh!
As for the operation not being humanitarian, I wonder if the Kuwaitis give a damn what the motivation was?
Oh, and I didn't see ANY nations sending troops to stop the genocide in Rwanda so you can take your holier than thou attitude and cram it.
So if were to steal your house and all of your possesions and sell them to raise money so I can buy something that will save my child's life, you're ok with that?
Anyway, if you hardboot out of it, you came back up clean, which is more than I can say for WIN98
That hasn't been my experience. Many times an abnormal shutdown on OS/2 will result in "Drive x: is dirty. Run chkdsk/f" messages. Problem is you can't run chkdsk with the/f switch from the normal shell. You have to boot to FLOPPY. OMG that is horrible.
I hope these people aren't located in California. Otherwise I think we've located the source of the electricity crunch.
See? You're too stupid to form your own opinions!
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Didn't you know that? You can't just visit the web sites that you agree with. No no no. You need to visit some sites that have the opposite view from you and read what they have to say. Only then can you be truly informed.
Personally, I'm against pr0n so I'm off to investigate the pro-pr0n sites..
I don't remember the internet being created with all these lofty goals in mind. The defense department just wanted to link their computers together in a way that made it difficult for enemies to disrupt communications. I think you're confusing what YOU (and a few others) thought was going to happen when things took off in the mid 90s.
Scheduling: Set up a FTP server where on which the users can exchange their Free/Busy data
That's a joke right? Hmm let's see. Old Mrs Secretary (60 year old bitty), assistant to the vice president and handles all his scheduling, is going to FTP to a server and read/update dozens of TEXT files to see if anyone has a conflict so she can schedule a 3pm meeting next Thursday. After that she needs to schedule about 10 more meetings/lunches/vacations. Yeah, that sounds like a real possibility!
There's an interesting dichotomy among the slashdot crowd. You see a lot of articles about how the government is infringing upon individual rights or creating laws that protect corporations. And the slashdotters roundly condemn these actions and talk about how maybe they're gonna move someplace better!
Then there's an article about Microsoft and you're bound to see a number of posts screaming for DOJ to step in.
I guess Big Brother is ok as long as it's YOUR Big Brother...
Screw it. I'm not paying more than two hundred for a video card.
Preach on brother! I think the video card makers are pricing themselves right out of the market. I remember buying a TNT2 Ultra with 32MB for $250 fairly soon after it came out. I cringed at shelling out that kinda dough for a video card but damn did Quake 3 look good! I think they could still move good volume at $250. That's a significant purchase but manageable. A birthday gift for the kid, a splurge for the single techie, manageable. $600?! That's half a paycheck or more for a lot of people (myself included). Yes, new stuff is always more expensive but I haven't doubled my salary in the last 18 months so I guess I've fallen off the early adopter curve. Oh well. Their loss. At $299 they'd probably sell as many as they could make.
Recently I put together a new Athlon 1200 system and when I checked out the latest video cards they were $350+ for the latest and greatest. I passed. I bought another TNT2 Ultra for $60.
Wow, I think you just captured the essence of liberalism. Average people aren't smart enough to make their own decisions so we have to "help" them make the right ones. How arrogant!
Your whole comment is based on the idea of there being this 99% of computer software users that don't care about the benefits of open source. That may be true about the people that use computers, but it isn't true of those who plan, manage and pay for the deployment of software.
In my experience this is not true. It seems to me that many of the decision makers get caught up in the latest trends. Take application software for example. A few years ago, the fad was custom built client/server apps (usually VB). Right now, it's off the shelf 3rd party software. I really don't see these people making careful, well thought out decisions designed for long term success.
Yeah, why would anyone actually look at the performance they're getting? How stupid. You should just buy the prettiest architecture and make yourself a few dozen cups of coffee while your stuff compiles. Meantime your buddy on the PC will pick up your slack.
"a sun box will have much higher sustainable I/O throughput than even an equivalently priced PeeCee"
Hahahahaha! That's a laugh! UltraSparc 5 and 10 "workstations" use good old 7200 RPM IDE drives. Boy, those are speedy!
Oh and here's a newsflash: If I built a PC for the $5000 an Ultra10 costs, I could have dual processors, a gig of RAM, 64MB DDR RAM 3D card, and 10,000 RPM SCSI3 drives and smoke your SPARC
in any benchmark. But then again, I could smoke the Ultra 10 just using a typical Athlon 1200 MHZ config and save a few thousand dollars. You're paying more for a name and the "PoM" that you have Sun Microsystems standing behind you (after you buy a support contract).
Suckers.
Final tidbit. An Athlon 1200MHz beats a Sun Blade 1000 (1750 config) in independent benchmarks. Price on the Sun Blade? $10,000
Let's see, sysadmin at university knowingly allows friend to use University computer resources to gain illegal access to ISPs. Sounds to me like you should have been fired.
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Oh that really takes the cake. The US administration went to all the trouble to build a huge coalition of nations and work through the UN (no mean feat) to get resolutions passed authorizing force against Iraq. Those resolutions only allowed for forcing Iraq out of Kuwait and depriving them of their ability to use weapons of mass destruction. They did not allow for toppling their government.
Now we're hearing from the very nations that handcuffed us last time that it's our fault we didn't wipe him out! Arrrrrrgh!
As for the operation not being humanitarian, I wonder if the Kuwaitis give a damn what the motivation was?
Oh, and I didn't see ANY nations sending troops to stop the genocide in Rwanda so you can take your holier than thou attitude and cram it.
Yep, those rich mega corps have got plenty. Let's just take their stuff in the name of "the public good".
By the way, you are now considered wealthy and we're taking your stuff too. Please be out of your house by 8am. Leave all posessions.
Where does it end though? If you can steal IP to save AIDS patients then surely I can steal all your stuff to pay for my heart transplant, right?
So if were to steal your house and all of your possesions and sell them to raise money so I can buy something that will save my child's life, you're ok with that?
Thankyou, drive through.
That hasn't been my experience. Many times an abnormal shutdown on OS/2 will result in "Drive x: is dirty. Run chkdsk /f" messages. Problem is you can't run chkdsk with the /f switch from the normal shell. You have to boot to FLOPPY. OMG that is horrible.
I hope these people aren't located in California. Otherwise I think we've located the source of the electricity crunch.
Personally, I'm against pr0n so I'm off to investigate the pro-pr0n sites..
I don't remember the internet being created with all these lofty goals in mind. The defense department just wanted to link their computers together in a way that made it difficult for enemies to disrupt communications. I think you're confusing what YOU (and a few others) thought was going to happen when things took off in the mid 90s.
As for old ladies.. well the 3 secretaries in my area (all old, all serve directors and VPs) can't even figure out how to print in color.
Oh and good luck with that personality of yours!Then there's an article about Microsoft and you're bound to see a number of posts screaming for DOJ to step in.
I guess Big Brother is ok as long as it's YOUR Big Brother...Recently I put together a new Athlon 1200 system and when I checked out the latest video cards they were $350+ for the latest and greatest. I passed. I bought another TNT2 Ultra for $60.
Wow, I think you just captured the essence of liberalism. Average people aren't smart enough to make their own decisions so we have to "help" them make the right ones. How arrogant!
Dude, I have to say that is some of the worst grammar I've ever read.
Must be all that rock solid open source software.
Evil is stuffing a cattle car full of people and shipping them off to a death camp. Evil is kidnapping/raping/murdering little children.
Evil is not a national ISP that buys out your local mom and pop ISP.Yeah, why would anyone actually look at the performance they're getting? How stupid. You should just buy the prettiest architecture and make yourself a few dozen cups of coffee while your stuff compiles. Meantime your buddy on the PC will pick up your slack.
Hahahahaha! That's a laugh! UltraSparc 5 and 10 "workstations" use good old 7200 RPM IDE drives. Boy, those are speedy!
Oh and here's a newsflash: If I built a PC for the $5000 an Ultra10 costs, I could have dual processors, a gig of RAM, 64MB DDR RAM 3D card, and 10,000 RPM SCSI3 drives and smoke your SPARC in any benchmark. But then again, I could smoke the Ultra 10 just using a typical Athlon 1200 MHZ config and save a few thousand dollars. You're paying more for a name and the "PoM" that you have Sun Microsystems standing behind you (after you buy a support contract).
Suckers.
Final tidbit. An Athlon 1200MHz beats a Sun Blade 1000 (1750 config) in independent benchmarks. Price on the Sun Blade? $10,000
We did. As our Sparcs died off we canabalized unused ones for parts and eventually threw them away. Very few left now.
- Ultra 5 and 10 use IDE drives
- Ultra 5 and 10 use PCI bus
- Ultra 5 and 10 have lower benchmark performance against cheaper PCs.
You can have your architecture. I'll take biggest bang for the buck.Sun's response reminded me a Usenet flame. Not the type of tone I would expect from a big corporation. Pretty childish all in all.
Let's see, sysadmin at university knowingly allows friend to use University computer resources to gain illegal access to ISPs. Sounds to me like you should have been fired.
You mean like the Open Source community which is still trying to perfect a desktop GUI? LOL.