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Funny, you think that on a real mission they'd want to conserve oxygen, not waste it on those dolls... (Robert Schimmel joke: "Inflatable love doll - she never has a headache! Yeah, but you do after blowing her up...) I wonder if they have NASA-approved sex toys...?
Heh! By GE plant, I take it you mean a Genetically Engineered Plant (of the fruit, vegetable, etc. variety) and not a General Electric Plant (of the Nuclear Power variety)...
I live out in San Diego where the Bio2001 conference is being held. Anti-BioTech protesters were promising a scene on the scale of the Seattle WTO mess. Instead, all they got were a few hundred people dressed up as carrots and such spouting quotes along the lines of "Ummm... genetimicully engineered corn is bad, m'kay?" Now they're bitching that they authorities were so intimidating that no one showed up. Right.
Hey, I'm all for being concerned about the environment, but the people we've seen here in San Diego are pretty much a bunch of luddites that are opposed to anything more modern than living in teepees and hunting with spears, and people who enjoy being concerned about something trendy. If there is a group out there with legitimate, researched, specific scientic concerns, they don't seem to be represented (but please reply if you know of any; I'd like to hear what they have to say). And don't even start with Greenpeace - their big super-surprise media event was to go into a grocery store and slap a few demeaning stickers on genetically altered foodstuffs while having their pictures taken.
Oracle? Please. Granted, the installations I've worked with have been small, but my philosophy is if you pay the $$$ they ask for support, you should get something other than a complete jackass at the other end of the line.
In our case, we had a completely reproduceable problem where a query would take over an hour to set up a plan (granted, it was an obscenely complex query, but still). We even had the problem narrowed down to how Oracle processed index statistics on certain tables. In several attempts over more than a year we never got any response, even a stupid one.
I won't argue that Oracle is one hella-stable piece of software - I've got an Oracle server running on NT(!) that has had no unscheduled downtime in over 4 years. But to say that their technical support sucks ass is the understatement of the century.
IDC Announced today that all of their calculations were done on Pentium chips containing the notorious FDIV bug, and that all of their analysis for the last six years should be disregarded. When confronted, IDC's IT Manager Mongo Lloyd's only comment was "My bad."
They have to do something, whether the radiation poses a threat or not. I mean, let's face it, in today's litigation-driven society (at least here in the US), it's perfectly feasible for a company that has done nothing wrong and harmed no one to be successfully sued for billions of dollars, based solely on fear and ignorance. Just look at the breast implant manufacturers. Driven into bankruptcy, despite being exonerated time after time by every reputable scientific study.
You can bet your ass that the Cell Phone manufacturers are working overtime on this.
The Associated Press is reporting that Saddam Hussein recently purchased 6,000 Sega Dreamcasts for "personal entertainment" purposes. The Pentagon, CIA, and NSA had no immediate comment. A brief interview with a professional computer engineer yielded only the following remark: "Wow! Imagine a Beowolf cluster of those!"
This is the one angle of this story that I feel has not been sufficiently explored. This new chipset is a potential godsend for IT managers and workers. Why? When you troubleshoot a PC, one of the first things you have to look at are Video Drivers, Sound Drivers, NIC Driver, IDE Driver, Chipset Driver, etc. NVidia is going to make sysadmin's lives much easier if this product is 1/3 as good as it looks. Much easier to properly maintain PCs this way. This gives AMD a much bigger wedge to use to pry into the corporate market. Saving a few dollars per unit when buying PCs is nice, but anything that drops TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) gets major attention.
There will be a white, 30 cm radius circle (or circle segment if a wall is in the way) on the floor around the candle and the Robot must have some part of its body over the circle before it puts out the candle. The Robot can still shoot a jet of CO2, but some part of the Robot must be within 30 cm of the candle before it does so.
It would be funny / ironic if somebody designed a robot that sensed the circle around the candle, rather than the candle itself...
Oh my gosh! You mean Armageddon wasn't totally accurate either? And the nerve-gas in The Rock? You stupid fucking jackasses! It's high-budget big-summer movie Hollywood entertainment. Its goal is to make large piles of money, and they'll twist any facts and whore anybody they have to to do it. And people will line up by the hundreds and pay their $8.50 to see it.
Plus, it's billed as fiction. Yes, I enjoy a good historical drama as much as the next person, but I also like to see fictional stuff in which lots of shit gets blown up. Any mongoloid idiot who went to Pearl Harbor to see an exhaustively-researched work of impeccible historical accuracy needs to have the stupid beaten out of them. Or at least they should have the dignity not to bitch about it in public. In any case, get over it...
Of course, the homeless are going to be plenty pissed because they can't tap it for free juice, and they can't rip it out and sell it to the local scrap dealer.
I wasn't there for the (in)famous crash, but the games & graphics I saw in the demo and around the show kicked some pretty serious butt. Graphically, Dead or Alive 3 on the XBox stole the show (in the console games category, anyhow).
It should be kept in mind, however, that none of the XBox demos were running at anything even remotely resembling NTSC video. All of the screens there HDTV. Not that this should be held against XBox, since the specs say it will output at all HDTV resolutions up to 1920x1080 (drool!), but it should be kept in mind when comparing it to other systems.
Oh, and about the crash - c'mon guys, it's beta software running on alpha hardware. If this crap happens when it ships, let loose with both barrels. Until then, give them a break (and yes, I dislike Microsoft as much as most people here).
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...isn't fooling anyone. You have the devoted Microsofties that believe anything out of Redmond is golden, and you have the rest of the world, which ranges from moderately liking Microsoft products to people who won't let them into the house.
Perfect example: At Networld+Interop last week, Microsoft had a pretty good-sized booth set up for their "Freedom To Innovate" campaign. It was staffed by a few really sullen-looking individuals, and was absolutely dead. It was in the middle of the Central Hall, so I must have walked by it 30 times during the show, and at no time saw anybody there who wasn't wearing a Microsoft shirt. And it's not like most of the people at this show are from the Slashdot crowd. Far from it.
I think we're to the point that most of the world is numb to Microsoft's marketing machine. The only people that really pay attention are their core supporters.
IBM has gone out of there way to impress me, as an IBM shareholder, that they are extremely committed to Linux and the concept of Open Source software in general.
Now, the astounding adoption of the Linux operating system - and the broader Open Source movement to which it is a part - are pushing standards over the top (which is why IBM has made such a huge commitment to Linux). Standards are a reality of our industry today. There's no going back.
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In servers after years of investment and invention, we transformed our products from the inside out, integrating our offerings with common technologies, common chip architecture, a common development platform in Linux, interoperability with dozens of leading applications - and took them to market as the IBM eServer family. Customer reaction has been swift and enthusiastic.
Additionally, in the "New Fronts" (a.k.a "The Plot Thickens") section of the annual report, the first article is entitled "Why I believe Linux will fundamentally change the information technology industry" by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP of Technology and Strategy, IBM Server Group, which sums itself up with:
So, we're going to invest $1 billion in Linux, and we've dedicated 1,500 programmers to enable every IBM hardware and software product for Linux. Our strategy is to accelerate its adoption as a platform that can support heavy-duty, enterprise workloads--such as those already in production with customers like weather.com, Shell International Exploration and Production in the Netherlands, and Telia, Scandanavia's largest telecommunications company. We think that, at the end of the day, the operating system that provides the most flexibility to customers is the one that is going to end up winning. We're voting with our customers on this one. We're betting a big part of IBM's future on Linux.
This isn't some hype being served up by some marketing hack to the faithful at a trade show. This is the frigging CEO and VP talking to Wall Street. IBM clearly sees why supporting Linux benefits their customers (and therefore benifits their shareholders). They're not doing this out of altruism. It's a business decision. Linux is good for business, and IBM Gets It.
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he looks like Emilio Estevez, thrives on tense situations, and had some radioactive aliens in the trunk of his car.
I'm going to go get a "drink."
Should have read (might as well go all the way):
Funny, you think that on a real mission they'd want to conserve oxygen, not waste it on those dolls... (Robert Schimmel joke: "Inflatable love doll - she never has a headache! Yeah, but you do after blowing her up...) I wonder if they have NASA-approved sex toys...?
Heh! By GE plant, I take it you mean a Genetically Engineered Plant (of the fruit, vegetable, etc. variety) and not a General Electric Plant (of the Nuclear Power variety)...
Flame away, mod down, see if I give a rat's ass!
I live out in San Diego where the Bio2001 conference is being held. Anti-BioTech protesters were promising a scene on the scale of the Seattle WTO mess. Instead, all they got were a few hundred people dressed up as carrots and such spouting quotes along the lines of "Ummm... genetimicully engineered corn is bad, m'kay?" Now they're bitching that they authorities were so intimidating that no one showed up. Right.
Hey, I'm all for being concerned about the environment, but the people we've seen here in San Diego are pretty much a bunch of luddites that are opposed to anything more modern than living in teepees and hunting with spears, and people who enjoy being concerned about something trendy. If there is a group out there with legitimate, researched, specific scientic concerns, they don't seem to be represented (but please reply if you know of any; I'd like to hear what they have to say). And don't even start with Greenpeace - their big super-surprise media event was to go into a grocery store and slap a few demeaning stickers on genetically altered foodstuffs while having their pictures taken.
Oracle? Please. Granted, the installations I've worked with have been small, but my philosophy is if you pay the $$$ they ask for support, you should get something other than a complete jackass at the other end of the line.
In our case, we had a completely reproduceable problem where a query would take over an hour to set up a plan (granted, it was an obscenely complex query, but still). We even had the problem narrowed down to how Oracle processed index statistics on certain tables. In several attempts over more than a year we never got any response, even a stupid one.
I won't argue that Oracle is one hella-stable piece of software - I've got an Oracle server running on NT(!) that has had no unscheduled downtime in over 4 years. But to say that their technical support sucks ass is the understatement of the century.
What you say? Please excuse my misuse of bad grammar.
All your power plants are belong to us!
They have to do something, whether the radiation poses a threat or not. I mean, let's face it, in today's litigation-driven society (at least here in the US), it's perfectly feasible for a company that has done nothing wrong and harmed no one to be successfully sued for billions of dollars, based solely on fear and ignorance. Just look at the breast implant manufacturers. Driven into bankruptcy, despite being exonerated time after time by every reputable scientific study.
You can bet your ass that the Cell Phone manufacturers are working overtime on this.
"Eternal Life Rings"... sounds like some sort of religious breakfast cereal (stays crunchy in milk!)...
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Maybe their employees were extremely ugly or hideously deformed, and they were just trying to spare us the horrror.
More likely, thought, that the management is comprised of a bunch of assholes....
Actually, I heard that the RIAA lawyers finally snapped, and started suing their own members for copying their copy protection scheme...
This is the one angle of this story that I feel has not been sufficiently explored. This new chipset is a potential godsend for IT managers and workers. Why? When you troubleshoot a PC, one of the first things you have to look at are Video Drivers, Sound Drivers, NIC Driver, IDE Driver, Chipset Driver, etc. NVidia is going to make sysadmin's lives much easier if this product is 1/3 as good as it looks. Much easier to properly maintain PCs this way. This gives AMD a much bigger wedge to use to pry into the corporate market. Saving a few dollars per unit when buying PCs is nice, but anything that drops TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) gets major attention.
It would be funny / ironic if somebody designed a robot that sensed the circle around the candle, rather than the candle itself...
I think I need a kill function....
Great, if the Canadians get there first, the first thing we'll hear back is "Hey, Terrance, I just farted on Mars."
Or maybe I've just been watching too much South Park...
Memo to people bitching about this movie:
Oh my gosh! You mean Armageddon wasn't totally accurate either? And the nerve-gas in The Rock? You stupid fucking jackasses! It's high-budget big-summer movie Hollywood entertainment. Its goal is to make large piles of money, and they'll twist any facts and whore anybody they have to to do it. And people will line up by the hundreds and pay their $8.50 to see it.
Plus, it's billed as fiction . Yes, I enjoy a good historical drama as much as the next person, but I also like to see fictional stuff in which lots of shit gets blown up. Any mongoloid idiot who went to Pearl Harbor to see an exhaustively-researched work of impeccible historical accuracy needs to have the stupid beaten out of them. Or at least they should have the dignity not to bitch about it in public. In any case, get over it...
Of course, the homeless are going to be plenty pissed because they can't tap it for free juice, and they can't rip it out and sell it to the local scrap dealer.
Chalk up another embarrasing moment in this ad campaign...
Ummm... I was there.
I wasn't there for the (in)famous crash, but the games & graphics I saw in the demo and around the show kicked some pretty serious butt. Graphically, Dead or Alive 3 on the XBox stole the show (in the console games category, anyhow).
It should be kept in mind, however, that none of the XBox demos were running at anything even remotely resembling NTSC video. All of the screens there HDTV. Not that this should be held against XBox, since the specs say it will output at all HDTV resolutions up to 1920x1080 (drool!), but it should be kept in mind when comparing it to other systems.
Oh, and about the crash - c'mon guys, it's beta software running on alpha hardware. If this crap happens when it ships, let loose with both barrels. Until then, give them a break (and yes, I dislike Microsoft as much as most people here).
...isn't fooling anyone. You have the devoted Microsofties that believe anything out of Redmond is golden, and you have the rest of the world, which ranges from moderately liking Microsoft products to people who won't let them into the house.
Perfect example: At Networld+Interop last week, Microsoft had a pretty good-sized booth set up for their "Freedom To Innovate" campaign. It was staffed by a few really sullen-looking individuals, and was absolutely dead. It was in the middle of the Central Hall, so I must have walked by it 30 times during the show, and at no time saw anybody there who wasn't wearing a Microsoft shirt. And it's not like most of the people at this show are from the Slashdot crowd. Far from it.
I think we're to the point that most of the world is numb to Microsoft's marketing machine. The only people that really pay attention are their core supporters.
To quote Louis V. Gerster, Jr., Chairman and CEO of IBM, from the "Letter to Shareholders," part of the 2000 Annual Report to Shareholders:
Additionally, in the "New Fronts" (a.k.a "The Plot Thickens") section of the annual report, the first article is entitled "Why I believe Linux will fundamentally change the information technology industry" by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP of Technology and Strategy, IBM Server Group, which sums itself up with:
This isn't some hype being served up by some marketing hack to the faithful at a trade show. This is the frigging CEO and VP talking to Wall Street. IBM clearly sees why supporting Linux benefits their customers (and therefore benifits their shareholders). They're not doing this out of altruism. It's a business decision. Linux is good for business, and IBM Gets It.