Alright so this thing won't place on the Top 500 list but that's not the point. Its a real supercomputer and an ideal learning environment for distributed computing. No a room full of desktops and gigabit ethernet is not the same thing.
On the other hand that's pretty much how Google got started.
If it's anything like my old office, it's filled with a mixture of people unwilling or unable to learn ANYTHING new. ANYTHING new, no matter how simple.
In my department we place orders by filling out a requisition and emailing it to our administrative assisstant...who then prints them out and deletes the email to save space.
Where I used to work when a new email account was set up it would contain two messages: the first was the standard Welcome to (company) email messages, the second was a warning that your mailbox is over the size limit and no new messages will be sent or received until mail is deleted. Also data retention policy stated that all email is to be deleted after 30 days, not that it was likely that anyone would be able to keep emails that long with the ridiculously low mailbox limits.
Yikes, Oracle... had a bad flashback to installing the Oracle client. Cold chills go up my spine whenever I think about it. How could installing that damn client be that painful?????
Removing Oracle is easy compared to Symantec Antivirus.
Let's see...WiFi screws up airplane, 300 people dead, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use sacks of potatoes or something like that instead of people?"
There's just no pleasing you.
WiFi screws up airplane, 300 potato sacks lost, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use people who can't stop texting for a few minutes instead of sacks of potatoes?"
Wifi screws up airplane, 300 mad texters lost, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use celebutantes?"
I'm having a mental image of Lindsey Lohan wrecking a Porsche into an airplane...
Let's see...WiFi screws up airplane, 300 people dead, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use sacks of potatoes or something like that instead of people?"
There's just no pleasing you.
WiFi screws up airplane, 300 potato sacks lost, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use people who can't stop texting for a few minutes instead of sacks of potatoes?"
going from a shit nominee to a remotely less shit nominee does not mean that Texas is warming up to logic. They're as anti-logic as they ever have been, with intellectuals remaining a minority.
With any luck Texas will make good on their threats and secede, taking him with them.
I'm happy that operating systems other than Windows aren't in danger of triggering a runaway quantum baryonic flux reversal capable of eradicating all carbon based lifeforms within an ellipsoid with a semi-principal axis of four point one six light years.
I'm not saying that Windows will do any of that, because everyone knows that's a load of crap, but I am very happy to loudly state that every operating system other than Windows won't.
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Alright so this thing won't place on the Top 500 list but that's not the point. Its a real supercomputer and an ideal learning environment for distributed computing. No a room full of desktops and gigabit ethernet is not the same thing.
On the other hand that's pretty much how Google got started.
Because it is still more efficient to buy a few big honkin' servers and virtualize as many of your workloads as possible.
Cowboy hippies in Texas driving Priuses? What alternate reality did you come from?
. . . except, of course, if you are looking for competent high level managers . . .
That's almost an oxymoron.
If it's anything like my old office, it's filled with a mixture of people unwilling or unable to learn ANYTHING new. ANYTHING new, no matter how simple.
In my department we place orders by filling out a requisition and emailing it to our administrative assisstant...who then prints them out and deletes the email to save space.
Where I used to work when a new email account was set up it would contain two messages: the first was the standard Welcome to (company) email messages, the second was a warning that your mailbox is over the size limit and no new messages will be sent or received until mail is deleted. Also data retention policy stated that all email is to be deleted after 30 days, not that it was likely that anyone would be able to keep emails that long with the ridiculously low mailbox limits.
Think of the children's [times 1500] children's children's children's children!
And yes, I tried to copy paste 1500 "children's", but apparently slashdot has some sort of "spam" protection... Who knew!
Not spam, soylent green.
Yikes, Oracle... had a bad flashback to installing the Oracle client. Cold chills go up my spine whenever I think about it. How could installing that damn client be that painful?????
Removing Oracle is easy compared to Symantec Antivirus.
Let's see...WiFi screws up airplane, 300 people dead, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use sacks of potatoes or something like that instead of people?"
There's just no pleasing you.
WiFi screws up airplane, 300 potato sacks lost, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use people who can't stop texting for a few minutes instead of sacks of potatoes?"
Wifi screws up airplane, 300 mad texters lost, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use celebutantes?"
I'm having a mental image of Lindsey Lohan wrecking a Porsche into an airplane...
You'd be surprised. A chair was pretty effective against Clint Eastwood.
And is the weapon of choice of Steve Ballmer.
Let's see...WiFi screws up airplane, 300 people dead, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use sacks of potatoes or something like that instead of people?"
There's just no pleasing you.
WiFi screws up airplane, 300 potato sacks lost, and your first question would be, "Why the hell didn't they use people who can't stop texting for a few minutes instead of sacks of potatoes?"
Exactly like my grand-grandmother, who died convinced that we never went to the moon because "that's just impossible".
That's no moon...
I also believe that there is no god, because there is no evidence whatsoever to prove it. So I am an atheist.
(*) or more strongly, that it is impossible to know.
One flaw in your logic: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
...and anything that gets rid of pigeons is a good thing :-).
But then we might run into a shortage of carrier pigeons.
I was wondering why I was getting packet loss to some French domains in my IP over carrier pigeon implementation.
There is an old saying in North Korea which roughly translates as "Drink until you see unicorns". So far, so good.
You mean drinking can restore virginity? I thought it was the other way around.
going from a shit nominee to a remotely less shit nominee does not mean that Texas is warming up to logic. They're as anti-logic as they ever have been, with intellectuals remaining a minority.
With any luck Texas will make good on their threats and secede, taking him with them.
I'm happy that operating systems other than Windows aren't in danger of triggering a runaway quantum baryonic flux reversal capable of eradicating all carbon based lifeforms within an ellipsoid with a semi-principal axis of four point one six light years.
I'm not saying that Windows will do any of that, because everyone knows that's a load of crap, but I am very happy to loudly state that every operating system other than Windows won't.
Don't worry, that only happens on Star Trek
In Silicon valley, when you reached the age of 40 you supposed to have at least 50 millions dollars under you name.
The role that people 40 and above play in Silicon Valley is that of the Angel Investor.
If you are over 40 and still looking for opportunity to toil through the night hacking away - man, you do not belong in the Valley.
I left that place when I was 32 - after I sold my creations (plural) there to the highest bidders
I saw a documentary on Silicon Valley ageism once, it was called "Logan's Run".
I don't know, I forgot the ending of the movie . . .
Leo DiCraprio Dies! Probably the best performance of his career.
Being Slashdot, I expected 'turn us all into zombies' instead of man/flu hybrids.
They will cover it, but put so much spin on it that it will make Murdoch look like the victim.
So you mean... just like every other story they cover?
Yep, pretty much.
You know who is not going to be covering this story.
You know who is not going to be covering this story.
They will cover it, but put so much spin on it that it will make Murdoch look like the victim.
You're absolutely right. That's why many choose to do the humane thing and hunt them instead.
Only problem is the intelligence of the average turkey is greater than the intelligence of many of the hunters.
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!
Microsoft datacenter running on poop... Sounds appropriate.
I didn't do it! It was the one-armed man!