This post is filled with hazy ranting, most of which is wrong and some of which is just funky. For example:
But that technology itself always been a direct result of the US's plural culture rather than some innate know how.
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Economists are nothing more than pundits and sycophants, ask any statistician. The US is ahead so it stays ahead until it gets behind. Whoopdie fuckin' doo. That doesn't mean there's anything particularly special about its circumstances.
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Economists are nothing more than pundits and sycophants, ask any statistician. The US is ahead so it stays ahead until it gets behind. Whoopdie fuckin' doo. That doesn't mean there's anything particularly special about its circumstances.
The government does handle the money supply you cretin. The credit card companies transact the money supply, they don't grow it.
No, to follow your analogy, my house is already community property. People come and go as they wish, take whatever they like, and often don't even tell me they've been there.
If you don't want people to know your credit history, don't user credit cards, if you don't want people to know your viewing habits, don't use TIVO, if you don't want people to know you SSN, don't give it out.
So what is your point - I need to move into a cave and hunt for my dinner to get my privacy back? I'm talking about living in the real world, which is pretty much next to intolerable if you don't have a credit card or use your SSN as ID where people would like you to.
I'll stick to my original point - in real society you already have no privacy.
How naive are we collectively? We haven't had privacy in a real sense since the 70s. You can be tracked by your driver's license. Your SSN, legally or not, is used at many banking sites as ID. Your credit history is widely available. Your viewing habits may be tracked if you have a PVR. Your employer can potentially listen to your phone calls. Your internet traffic is trivially observed....
And this was before 9/11! What privacy do you have to save? These people are just engaging in mental masturbation, there is no privacy, the point is moot.
Come on folks, making such absolute sweeping statements makes no sense, particularly from Joel, whose former employers made a practice of constantly refactoring code until at some point it never resembled its original form.
Obviously its silly to rewrite good code for the sake of rewriting or understanding it, but you're flogging Joel's party line a bit too much.
If MS truly sees the market as being essential to their revenues, they'll just keep going until they borg out the other players. In fact, this is in line with their history of rejected/crappy first releases/attempts.
Stephen Hawking will always be known as the guy in a wheelchair who wrote a betselling book teaching physics to the upper-middle class. Thats his legacy.
I know, I know, its just a TV show, but come on, no one really puts Stephen Hawking in the league as Einstein or Newton.
The thing I don't get about this guy is that he divorced his wife and then got a girlfriend. Jesus Christ! The man's nearly a vegetable and he still picks up! Just remember that all you lonely programmers - a guy in a wheelchair who can barely chew his own food gets more tail than you!
Sun is the number 1 high-cost platform that RH can effectively attack. At the midrange, RedHat can effectively claim to run on faster hardware than Solaris, at a lower cost.
At the high-end it is likely that linux is not feature competitive, but at the low and mid-range, RedHat can effectively market.
In most suburban areas, the trunk lines are antiquated and are easily saturated by DSL users. This is a fallacy of the DSL vs Cable debate. The twist is that cable has such a much higher bandwidth that even shared, most cable modem users have greater actual bandwidth than DSL users.
What, did you think the pair of copper wires from your house went directly to the NAP? Oh no. You're merged with your CO, then your CO is merged with community trunks, and the community trunks are merged again at a regional office.
DSL users share bandwidth too, just in a slightly different fashion.
the point is that the central line has a finite bandwidth, and letting some users disprortionately saturate the line means other people aren't getting the throughput they expect and paid for. The fees discourage abuse.
Don't pigeonhole IBM or Sony
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The only vendor on your list who is truly sold out to unix is Sun. IBM doesn't care - they'll put whatever OS is popular on their computers. IBM may be backing linux, but they are selling Win2k. Sony is just off of the map - what they are doing has little bearing on enterprise computing.
Now once you get down to the players who are 100% unix, you'll notice that combined they aren't even half of the market cap of MSFT, and probably occupy less rack space (don't smirk - there is a lot of Win2k in the colos these days).
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Maybe not in five years, but in ten years supercomputing technology will be so far out ahead of ASCI White that either in terms of speed, power consumption, or floorspace, it will be waaaay obsolete.
But linux is killing unix..for better or for worse
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Linux has been rapidly peeling away proprietary unix market share for the past three years. A positive sign in that it signals the "arrival" of open source software, but there are some serious competitive considerations with respect to Win2k. Microsoft has demonstrated that they can move fast and will likely be a first adopter of pervasive system technologies (LDAP, integrated XML, etc.), and the linux community will be more dependent on shops like RedHat and IBM to migrate in this functionality in a purposeful manner.
That said, both linux and Win2k are set to completely consume the server markets. Solaris, AIX and True64 simply won't be in use in ten years. On that I will bet.
The recurring theme that its the programmers fault, not the language, is entirely tired and completely wrong. You have to maximize the productivity of the average programmer. Sure you can snidely conclude that they are stupid and just not man enough for C++, but that isn't going to get your product out the door any faster or reduce the error rate.
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The grid they are building will be four times as powerful as the system described in this article.
But that technology itself always been a direct result of the US's plural culture rather than some innate know how.
????
Economists are nothing more than pundits and sycophants, ask any statistician. The US is ahead so it stays ahead until it gets behind. Whoopdie fuckin' doo. That doesn't mean there's anything particularly special about its circumstances.
Once again, ?????
Economists are nothing more than pundits and sycophants, ask any statistician. The US is ahead so it stays ahead until it gets behind. Whoopdie fuckin' doo. That doesn't mean there's anything particularly special about its circumstances.
The government does handle the money supply you cretin. The credit card companies transact the money supply, they don't grow it.
No, to follow your analogy, my house is already community property. People come and go as they wish, take whatever they like, and often don't even tell me they've been there.
Oh yeah, you really faked'em out with the old "multiple credit card" trick. They'll never figure that one out.
So what is your point - I need to move into a cave and hunt for my dinner to get my privacy back? I'm talking about living in the real world, which is pretty much next to intolerable if you don't have a credit card or use your SSN as ID where people would like you to.
I'll stick to my original point - in real society you already have no privacy.
And this was before 9/11! What privacy do you have to save? These people are just engaging in mental masturbation, there is no privacy, the point is moot.
They're moving to a federated model, meaning MS will not be the only one providing the services.
Nothing to add - the original article was just wrong.
No Bill Gates didn't invent the notion that theft is bad. This line is getting so lame and cliched. Come on folks, get a grip.
Come on, the "finally, a linux distro for mom and dad!!" thread is as tired as KDE v GNOME.
Obviously its silly to rewrite good code for the sake of rewriting or understanding it, but you're flogging Joel's party line a bit too much.
Next up: taxing internet purchases!
If MS truly sees the market as being essential to their revenues, they'll just keep going until they borg out the other players. In fact, this is in line with their history of rejected/crappy first releases/attempts.
I pissed my pants. I'm not ashamed.
The thing I don't get about this guy is that he divorced his wife and then got a girlfriend. Jesus Christ! The man's nearly a vegetable and he still picks up! Just remember that all you lonely programmers - a guy in a wheelchair who can barely chew his own food gets more tail than you!
At the high-end it is likely that linux is not feature competitive, but at the low and mid-range, RedHat can effectively market.
Almost certainly it tells you that they reserve the right to reshape your bandwidth without warning you.
In most suburban areas, the trunk lines are antiquated and are easily saturated by DSL users. This is a fallacy of the DSL vs Cable debate. The twist is that cable has such a much higher bandwidth that even shared, most cable modem users have greater actual bandwidth than DSL users.
DSL users share bandwidth too, just in a slightly different fashion.
the point is that the central line has a finite bandwidth, and letting some users disprortionately saturate the line means other people aren't getting the throughput they expect and paid for. The fees discourage abuse.
IBM has been putting it on their Itenium boxes.
Now once you get down to the players who are 100% unix, you'll notice that combined they aren't even half of the market cap of MSFT, and probably occupy less rack space (don't smirk - there is a lot of Win2k in the colos these days).
Maybe not in five years, but in ten years supercomputing technology will be so far out ahead of ASCI White that either in terms of speed, power consumption, or floorspace, it will be waaaay obsolete.
That said, both linux and Win2k are set to completely consume the server markets. Solaris, AIX and True64 simply won't be in use in ten years. On that I will bet.
The recurring theme that its the programmers fault, not the language, is entirely tired and completely wrong. You have to maximize the productivity of the average programmer. Sure you can snidely conclude that they are stupid and just not man enough for C++, but that isn't going to get your product out the door any faster or reduce the error rate.
Go on Craig's List or some other job board and place a bogus ad for Java or VB coders, or some other mid-range skill position.
You will receive one hundred resumes within six hours.