People will still drive SUVs, they will just complain about the price. People will still have widescreen TVs, they will just complain about the cost of electricity. What Washington constantly fails to realize is that you can't legislate tastes, attitudes, and morality. If people want to consume energy, they will. You need a cultural shift, where people no longer feel the need to have huge cars, new TVs, etc etc and THEN you'll see energy usage go down.
So you spend $100 a month on a freaking phone, and then its really no cooler than your old phone, so you spend more money to listen to other people stroke on and on about how THEIR phones are cool, instead of working, hanging out with your SO, your kids, or your pets.
Since you don't need performance to store MPG files (I know, because I have a distributed MythTV setup), why not just find any old HD you can, some old 20GB WD IDE drive you found in the trash, just to run the MythTV distro + Samba ?
Given that we're paying for a socialized government safety net, my advice is - use it. Sorry geek, you lose your fingers, you retire on government welfare.
Except NASA has just published data which suggest that the Solar cycle strongly influences the Earth's climate, more so than AGW. So go back to being irrelevant, Al Gore.
Another MS gimmick where they missed the boat, wait until its too late, come up with an inferior competitor, then hack their OS so it only uses it.. I mean hack IE so that it uses it as the default page. What's next from Redmond, some lame-ass MP3 player thats not as cool as an iPod, BROWN, doesn't work on Macs, and has a gay name?
Before you fanboys and trollboys come out of the woodwork, realize that this is across ALL the stuff - your precious Ubuntu or BSD would never have this many, simply because a distro is not also a browser, office suite, etc. It certainly isn't controlled and managed by the same group.
btw posting this from an Ubuntu machine, which just pulled down 10 updates.
So you have an iPhone, and you loaded some apps on it, and you text your friends, and sit in Starbucks and look cool... and AT&T comes out with a cooler one, and you want a freebie or discount upgrade, because...... why ?
The Gospel of Tux
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Every generation has a mythology. Every millenium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, around the dawn of the third millenium AD...
The Gospel of Tux (v1.0)
In the beginning Turing created the Machine.
And the Machine was crufty and bogacious, existing in theory only. And von Neumann looked upon the Machine, and saw that it was crufty. He divided the Machine into two Abstractions, the Data and the Code, and yet the two were one Architecture. This is a great Mystery, and the beginning of wisdom.
And von Neumann spoke unto the Architecture, and blessed it, saying, "Go forth and replicate, freely exchanging data and code, and bring forth all manner of devices unto the earth." And it was so, and it was cool. The Architecture prospered and was implemented in hardware and software. And it brought forth many Systems unto the earth.
The first Systems were mighty giants; many great works of renown did they accomplish. Among them were Colossus, the codebreaker; ENIAC, the targeter; EDSAC and MULTIVAC and all manner of froody creatures ending in AC, the experimenters; and SAGE, the defender of the sky and father of all networks. These were the mighty giants of old, the first children of Turing, and their works are written in the Books of the Ancients. This was the First Age, the age of Lore.
Now the sons of Marketing looked upon the children of Turing, and saw that they were swift of mind and terse of name and had many great and baleful attributes. And they said unto themselves, "Let us go now and make us Corporations, to bind the Systems to our own use that they may bring us great fortune." With sweet words did they lure their customers, and with many chains did they bind the Systems, to fashion them after their own image. And the sons of Marketing fashioned themselves Suits to wear, the better to lure their customers, and wrote grave and perilous Licenses, the better to bind the Systems. And the sons of Marketing thus became known as Suits, despising and being despised by the true Engineers, the children of von Neumann.
And the Systems and their Corporations replicated and grew numerous upon the earth. In those days there were IBM and Digital, Burroughs and Honeywell, Unisys and Rand, and many others. And they each kept to their own System, hardware and software, and did not interchange, for their Licences forbade it. This was the Second Age, the age of Mainframes.
Now it came to pass that the spirits of Turing and von Neumann looked upon the earth and were displeased. The Systems and their Corporations had grown large and bulky, and Suits ruled over true Engineers. And the Customers groaned and cried loudly unto heaven, saying, "Oh that there would be created a System mighty in power, yet small in size, able to reach into the very home!" And the Engineers groaned and cried likewise, saying, "Oh, that a deliverer would arise to grant us freedom from these oppressing Suits and their grave and perilous Licences, and send us a System of our own, that we may hack therein!" And the spirits of Turing and von Neumann heard the cries and were moved, and said unto each other, "Let us go down and fabricate a Breakthrough, that these cries may be stilled."
And that day the spirits of Turing and von Neumann spake unto Moore of Intel, granting him insight and wisdom to understand the future. And Moore was with chip, and he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And Moore did bless the Chip, saying, "Thou art a Breakthrough; with my own Corporation have I fabricated thee. Though thou art yet as small as a dust mote, yet shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain, and conquer all before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: every eighteen months shall thou double in capacity, until the end of the age." This is Moore's Law,
Re:40 and still relevant
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"Now, at 40, Mac OS X is the most used Unix system".
I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.
However, people have traded freedom for security, and will take what they get. Fortunately, by the time the country goes down the socialist crapper, I will be dead.
I work for $LARGE_US_BANK in the performance and capacity management group, and we constantly see the business side of the house buy servers that end up running at 10-15% utilization. Why? Lots of reasons - the vendor said so, they want "redundancy", they want "failover" and they want "to make sure there's enough". Given the load, if you lose 10-20% overhead due to VM, who cares ?
Since IPSEC and SSL VPNs have been around for years, and MS is just coming up with Direct Access, it DOES mean that they can't innovate. Once again, trailing behind.
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The value of having a biosphere that supports human life, AFTER I AM DEAD, is zero.
People will still drive SUVs, they will just complain about the price. People will still have widescreen TVs, they will just complain about the cost of electricity. What Washington constantly fails to realize is that you can't legislate tastes, attitudes, and morality. If people want to consume energy, they will. You need a cultural shift, where people no longer feel the need to have huge cars, new TVs, etc etc and THEN you'll see energy usage go down.
So you spend $100 a month on a freaking phone, and then its really no cooler than your old phone, so you spend more money to listen to other people stroke on and on about how THEIR phones are cool, instead of working, hanging out with your SO, your kids, or your pets.
wtf is wrong with people
Since you don't need performance to store MPG files (I know, because I have a distributed MythTV setup), why not just find any old HD you can, some old 20GB WD IDE drive you found in the trash, just to run the MythTV distro + Samba ?
Unix existed when they wrote DOS. Inexcusable.
Given that we're paying for a socialized government safety net, my advice is - use it. Sorry geek, you lose your fingers, you retire on government welfare.
Except NASA has just published data which suggest that the Solar cycle strongly influences the Earth's climate, more so than AGW. So go back to being irrelevant, Al Gore.
Another MS gimmick where they missed the boat, wait until its too late, come up with an inferior competitor, then hack their OS so it only uses it.. I mean hack IE so that it uses it as the default page. What's next from Redmond, some lame-ass MP3 player thats not as cool as an iPod, BROWN, doesn't work on Macs, and has a gay name?
But AOL is nothing like Shakespeare.
Would "Wii Bowling" look better at 1080p than at 480i?
Can we just say that Twitter is public masturbation and be done with it?
Before you fanboys and trollboys come out of the woodwork, realize that this is across ALL the stuff - your precious Ubuntu or BSD would never have this many, simply because a distro is not also a browser, office suite, etc. It certainly isn't controlled and managed by the same group.
btw posting this from an Ubuntu machine, which just pulled down 10 updates.
Call me when I can watch the Red Sox games in Firefox using Flash on WinXP, or Firefox using Flash on OSX. Until then I need IE.
So you have an iPhone, and you loaded some apps on it, and you text your friends, and sit in Starbucks and look cool... and AT&T comes out with a cooler one, and you want a freebie or discount upgrade, because ...... why ?
FYI, I didn't write this, I found it online.
Every generation has a mythology. Every millenium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki today uncovered what could be the earliest known writings from the Cult of Tux, a fanatical religious sect that flourished during the early Silicon Age, around the dawn of the third millenium AD...
The Gospel of Tux (v1.0)
In the beginning Turing created the Machine.
And the Machine was crufty and bogacious, existing in theory only. And von Neumann looked upon the Machine, and saw that it was crufty. He divided the Machine into two Abstractions, the Data and the Code, and yet the two were one Architecture. This is a great Mystery, and the beginning of wisdom.
And von Neumann spoke unto the Architecture, and blessed it, saying, "Go forth and replicate, freely exchanging data and code, and bring forth all manner of devices unto the earth." And it was so, and it was cool. The Architecture prospered and was implemented in hardware and software. And it brought forth many Systems unto the earth.
The first Systems were mighty giants; many great works of renown did they accomplish. Among them were Colossus, the codebreaker; ENIAC, the targeter; EDSAC and MULTIVAC and all manner of froody creatures ending in AC, the experimenters; and SAGE, the defender of the sky and father of all networks. These were the mighty giants of old, the first children of Turing, and their works are written in the Books of the Ancients. This was the First Age, the age of Lore.
Now the sons of Marketing looked upon the children of Turing, and saw that they were swift of mind and terse of name and had many great and baleful attributes. And they said unto themselves, "Let us go now and make us Corporations, to bind the Systems to our own use that they may bring us great fortune." With sweet words did they lure their customers, and with many chains did they bind the Systems, to fashion them after their own image. And the sons of Marketing fashioned themselves Suits to wear, the better to lure their customers, and wrote grave and perilous Licenses, the better to bind the Systems. And the sons of Marketing thus became known as Suits, despising and being despised by the true Engineers, the children of von Neumann.
And the Systems and their Corporations replicated and grew numerous upon the earth. In those days there were IBM and Digital, Burroughs and Honeywell, Unisys and Rand, and many others. And they each kept to their own System, hardware and software, and did not interchange, for their Licences forbade it. This was the Second Age, the age of Mainframes.
Now it came to pass that the spirits of Turing and von Neumann looked upon the earth and were displeased. The Systems and their Corporations had grown large and bulky, and Suits ruled over true Engineers. And the Customers groaned and cried loudly unto heaven, saying, "Oh that there would be created a System mighty in power, yet small in size, able to reach into the very home!" And the Engineers groaned and cried likewise, saying, "Oh, that a deliverer would arise to grant us freedom from these oppressing Suits and their grave and perilous Licences, and send us a System of our own, that we may hack therein!" And the spirits of Turing and von Neumann heard the cries and were moved, and said unto each other, "Let us go down and fabricate a Breakthrough, that these cries may be stilled."
And that day the spirits of Turing and von Neumann spake unto Moore of Intel, granting him insight and wisdom to understand the future. And Moore was with chip, and he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And Moore did bless the Chip, saying, "Thou art a Breakthrough; with my own Corporation have I fabricated thee. Though thou art yet as small as a dust mote, yet shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain, and conquer all before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: every eighteen months shall thou double in capacity, until the end of the age." This is Moore's Law,
"Now, at 40, Mac OS X is the most used Unix system".
I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.
Stay browsy, my friends.
We need a 'djb' tag. Dan's been talking about, and working on this kind of thing for years.
THIS.
+1
However, people have traded freedom for security, and will take what they get. Fortunately, by the time the country goes down the socialist crapper, I will be dead.
A real hypervisor like used by IBM on their p-series frames doesn't impose this penalty. You're thinking of an emulator.
I work for $LARGE_US_BANK in the performance and capacity management group, and we constantly see the business side of the house buy servers that end up running at 10-15% utilization. Why? Lots of reasons - the vendor said so, they want "redundancy", they want "failover" and they want "to make sure there's enough". Given the load, if you lose 10-20% overhead due to VM, who cares ?
"Which means that anyone who can program for Win 2k/xp/vista/7 can program for the Zune."
Which means that every jackhole who went to a 2 year tech college can now become a Zune developer. The Dead Sea effect strikes again.
Why do people put up with MS who is consistently late to the game?
Yep.
Since IPSEC and SSL VPNs have been around for years, and MS is just coming up with Direct Access, it DOES mean that they can't innovate. Once again, trailing behind.