ANYTHING which has been advertised in a spam message? I know I haven't. I can't imagine what these people think they're after when almost no one responds to the adds.
Okay.... for all of you Solaris guys... here's the latest:
http://www.networkitweek.co.uk/news/1137880
SGI launched a supercomputer earlier this year using Linux on an altix which can theoretically have up to 2048 processors using a *single system image*.
Um.. I have yet to see an installtion of Solaris which can match it.
Solaris isn't everything, and even if it is better than Linux as far as performance (which is doubtful) it won't be for long.:)
1) Plenty of students had DEC's, IBM's, etc. Why was so much done on Sun's? May I sugggest tha Sun was a much more open system?
At the school I graduated from we had almost exclusively Sun boxen. There were no DEC, IBM or other machines in sight and, yes, the time I was in school was when most of the Linux development was being done. Sun had a presence in schools which was unparallelled by any other vendor.
2) Sunsite's were never run by Sun, but if I am not mistaken, the machines and the bandwidth were contributed by Sun.
Again.. for the owners to do with as they pleased. And *originally* only to allow download of sun software.
3) TCL is a tool used by many FOSS developers.
I'm a FOSS developer and I don't use it.;)
4) I am no big fan of Java, but regardless, it is open and used by many FOSS projects.
And when/if Sun decides it doesn't want to make Java available anymore, where does that leave many FOSS project. See "The Java Trap" by RMS at www.gnu.org.
5) The concept tends to be the hardest part.
Indeed, but unfortunately, this cannot be counted as an explicit contribution to FOSS since, by virtue of making a product, the concepts are demonstrated to the public at large.
6) See #5
See answer to #5.
I believe that you give Sun waaaaaay too much credit. The have only recently begun to contribute to FOSS in the form of OpenOffice and jakarta. But I wouldn't strech thier recognition out farther than that.
Sun is about two to three years behind the curve when it comes to hardware. They're not trying to evolve. They're trying to keep the same old tired business model they had before.
Sun *will be gone* in a few years. Also, I see that you've failed to quantify how Solaris is better. I hear this all the time from a friend of mine, but he too can't tell me why... let's see if you can do better.:)
1) Sun workstations were the primary development environment for FOSS from about 1987 till the early 1990's.
True, but as far as I know.. once I've bought a machine, it is mine to do with as I please. The reason that so many Sun machines were used for this purpose was because that is what most students had to use at college at the time.
2) How many copies of Linux and related software were dowdloaded from a "sunsite"?
Sunsites are independent sites, not run by Sun Microsystems.
3) TCL came from where?
Who cares about TCL. Does anyone actually use this? And since when did they contribute it to FOSS?
4) Java came from where?
We have to thank them for that steaming pile of crap?
5) NFS, as we know it, came from where?
The concepts, not the software.
6) RPC's, as we know them, came from where?
Again.. the concepts, not the software.
So.. there you have it ladies and gentlemen, Sun, the saviour or Free Software... NOT!!
only voice talent, since the CGI characters will be so realistic looking. And how long before that can be totally replaced by generated actors you can't tell from the real thing who have generated voices which inflect and, indeed, sound like the real thing?
It sounds like a great challenge, but ultimately it takes the fun out of filmmaking, don't you agree?
A change of control clause isn't necessary when dealing with corporations. When a company is bought out or a company buys a division (of set of properties) from another company, the buyer becomes what is called a "successor in interest" to any and all contracts, debts, and obligations which the entity or property it bought held.
In english... company a buys company b, company a steps into the shoes of company b in a legal sense.
Additionally, my understanding is that Caldera->SCO was a name change, not a buyout. Caldera did, however, buy out the UNIX business of the Santa Cruz Operation (original SCO). The rules I outlined above apply in that case.
We see that now that you are engaged in an ass kicking contents with an entity that has 20 legs and no ass, you're loosing!
Not to mention the fact that you have no case!! Never had one, never will have one!! Do you sleep well at night, Darl? Do your employees welcome you to the office when you show up for work? Or do they jeer at the man whose cost them any future they could ever have had in the IT industry in the hope that they might "get rich quick" by trying to bust up Linux?
Caldera (let's call it what it is...) was one of the Linux leaders and you've turned this once Linux company into a litigation machine just like you're famous for. Well this time, the joke's on you pal. You've come up against two things you didn't count on. One, that a mega corporation like IBM might actually fight you instead of just paying you off and two, the tenacity of the Linux community and our unique ability to find the facts about a given situation. *This* is how it works here, we police each other with the very same eye we've used to scrutinize this farce of yours.
We have come out on top, and we will always come out on top. We've stared you in your ugly face and we've not flinched.
For years they've been dreading the spectre of easy conversion of DVDs to files on a computer. Now that it's *FAST* and easy they're going to be scared.
I would expect to see more attacks against computer makers and users by the MPAA on the order of what happened/is happening with the RIAA.
GJC
Perhaps if the writing was better....
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I'm getting tired of the Borg popping up everywhere. I mean, every time there's a sinister thing happening it's either the Borg or the Romulans. Could we please have some imagination? How many times, exactly, have the Borg attempted to invade earth? I think around 5 times and now the Borg are showing up in "Enterprise"?? HAH! Come on!
Having not been privy to some of the boneheaded things the Steven P. Jobs did when he was head of NeXT computer, I'm gathering that you don't see history repeating itself.
NeXT was in a position to license NeXTSTEP to IBM as an OS for the RS6000 or to Dell as an option to offer to customers, and guess what... Steve blew it. Either deal would have made NeXT into a major player, but it was skipped over by him because of his hubris. You may have heard the famous quote from Bill Gates about the NeXT machine when asked if MS would produce any software for it, "Write for it? I'll piss on it!" that was because when Bill Gates came to talk to Steve about writing software for NeXT, Steve made Bill wait for 4 hours. Again... hubris.
In the end Apple would not have had to buy NeXT (and basically all but become NeXT) if either of these things had been acted upon.
Please go read The Second Coming of Steve Jobs if you don't believe me.:)
Would you consider Steve's rejection of your proposal more of the hubris for which he is famous and does it ultimately doom Apple to being a niche player?
Some comments on this...
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How it works... -- The amount of power you get from a reactor is regulated by the control rods. These rods absorb protons and slow down the nuclear chain reaction which generates the heat which is used, in turn to heat the water and turn the turbine which, in turn operates the generator which produces the power. Obviously, this is a very simplified way to describe how a nuclear power plant works, but you get the general idea.
On the technical side... -- I believe that nuclear power technology is mature enough at this point to justify unattended use of a reactor. It's very unlikely that a reactor will become "unstable" in this era of modern computing technology. Events like Chernobyl are a thing of the past since that plant didn't use many modern systems and was a very primitive reactor.
In the political side... -- It could be a mistake to leave one of these things in a country where the nuclear material might be "harvested" from the sealed reactor and used to make dirty bombs and (although less likely) some sort of primative nuclear device.
Because NTFS is fairly slow, clunky and has the rather brain-dead file sharing limitations that every version of Windows has suffered from up until now.
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This is a sad thing. My sincerest condolences go out to the family of the person who died.
GJC
You have a point. :/
GJC
ANYTHING which has been advertised in a spam message? I know I haven't. I can't imagine what these people think they're after when almost no one responds to the adds.
GJC
Okay.... for all of you Solaris guys... here's the latest:
:)
http://www.networkitweek.co.uk/news/1137880
SGI launched a supercomputer earlier this year using Linux on an altix which can theoretically have up to 2048 processors using a *single system image*.
Um.. I have yet to see an installtion of Solaris which can match it.
Solaris isn't everything, and even if it is better than Linux as far as performance (which is doubtful) it won't be for long.
Death to Solaris.
GJC
Last I checked Google uses over 10000 multicpu, clustered machines commercially. :)
GJC
It's got all of the hallmarks:
:)
:)
1) Getting paid by MS...
2) Betraying it's own open source/free software product.
3) Turning against Linux.
The only thing they haven't done is filed changes against Linux users.
Ah well.. we knew that Sun would turn out to be a bunch of assholes anyway. We've beat them for years and we'll just have to continue to do so.
GJC
1) Plenty of students had DEC's, IBM's, etc. Why was so much done on Sun's? May I sugggest tha Sun was a much more open system?
;)
At the school I graduated from we had almost exclusively Sun boxen. There were no DEC, IBM or other machines in sight and, yes, the time I was in school was when most of the Linux development was being done. Sun had a presence in schools which was unparallelled by any other vendor.
2) Sunsite's were never run by Sun, but if I am not mistaken, the machines and the bandwidth were contributed by Sun.
Again.. for the owners to do with as they pleased. And *originally* only to allow download of sun software.
3) TCL is a tool used by many FOSS developers.
I'm a FOSS developer and I don't use it.
4) I am no big fan of Java, but regardless, it is open and used by many FOSS projects.
And when/if Sun decides it doesn't want to make Java available anymore, where does that leave many FOSS project. See "The Java Trap" by RMS at www.gnu.org.
5) The concept tends to be the hardest part.
Indeed, but unfortunately, this cannot be counted as an explicit contribution to FOSS since, by virtue of making a product, the concepts are demonstrated to the public at large.
6) See #5
See answer to #5.
I believe that you give Sun waaaaaay too much credit. The have only recently begun to contribute to FOSS in the form of OpenOffice and jakarta. But I wouldn't strech thier recognition out farther than that.
GJC
Novell/SuSE, IBM, Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, etc, etc...
:)
Sort of a little hole in the plan there.
GJC
Sun is about two to three years behind the curve when it comes to hardware. They're not trying to evolve. They're trying to keep the same old tired business model they had before.
:)
Sun *will be gone* in a few years. Also, I see that you've failed to quantify how Solaris is better. I hear this all the time from a friend of mine, but he too can't tell me why... let's see if you can do better.
GJC
1) Sun workstations were the primary development environment for FOSS from about 1987 till the early 1990's.
True, but as far as I know.. once I've bought a machine, it is mine to do with as I please. The reason that so many Sun machines were used for this purpose was because that is what most students had to use at college at the time.
2) How many copies of Linux and related software were dowdloaded from a "sunsite"?
Sunsites are independent sites, not run by Sun Microsystems.
3) TCL came from where?
Who cares about TCL. Does anyone actually use this? And since when did they contribute it to FOSS?
4) Java came from where?
We have to thank them for that steaming pile of crap?
5) NFS, as we know it, came from where?
The concepts, not the software.
6) RPC's, as we know them, came from where?
Again.. the concepts, not the software.
So.. there you have it ladies and gentlemen, Sun, the saviour or Free Software... NOT!!
GJC
only voice talent, since the CGI characters will be so realistic looking. And how long before that can be totally replaced by generated actors you can't tell from the real thing who have generated voices which inflect and, indeed, sound like the real thing?
It sounds like a great challenge, but ultimately it takes the fun out of filmmaking, don't you agree?
GJC
A change of control clause isn't necessary when dealing with corporations. When a company is bought out or a company buys a division (of set of properties) from another company, the buyer becomes what is called a "successor in interest" to any and all contracts, debts, and obligations which the entity or property it bought held.
In english... company a buys company b, company a steps into the shoes of company b in a legal sense.
Additionally, my understanding is that Caldera->SCO was a name change, not a buyout. Caldera did, however, buy out the UNIX business of the Santa Cruz Operation (original SCO). The rules I outlined above apply in that case.
We see that now that you are engaged in an ass kicking contents with an entity that has 20 legs and no ass, you're loosing!
Not to mention the fact that you have no case!! Never had one, never will have one!! Do you sleep well at night, Darl? Do your employees welcome you to the office when you show up for work? Or do they jeer at the man whose cost them any future they could ever have had in the IT industry in the hope that they might "get rich quick" by trying to bust up Linux?
Caldera (let's call it what it is...) was one of the Linux leaders and you've turned this once Linux company into a litigation machine just like you're famous for. Well this time, the joke's on you pal. You've come up against two things you didn't count on. One, that a mega corporation like IBM might actually fight you instead of just paying you off and two, the tenacity of the Linux community and our unique ability to find the facts about a given situation. *This* is how it works here, we police each other with the very same eye we've used to scrutinize this farce of yours.
We have come out on top, and we will always come out on top. We've stared you in your ugly face and we've not flinched.
Screw you, Darl McBride.
Sincerely, Gregory Casamento.
I find that many of these people cannot step out of the old corporate way of looking at things and see the big picture.
GJC
I don't work for companies that file for stupid patents such as one-click.
GJC
No... I think we may have had that already. ;)
Will produce a mushroom cloud. It doesn't have to be a nuclear explosion.
GJC
For years they've been dreading the spectre of easy conversion of DVDs to files on a computer. Now that it's *FAST* and easy they're going to be scared.
I would expect to see more attacks against computer makers and users by the MPAA on the order of what happened/is happening with the RIAA.
GJC
I'm getting tired of the Borg popping up everywhere. I mean, every time there's a sinister thing happening it's either the Borg or the Romulans. Could we please have some imagination? How many times, exactly, have the Borg attempted to invade earth? I think around 5 times and now the Borg are showing up in "Enterprise"?? HAH! Come on!
GJC
Having not been privy to some of the boneheaded things the Steven P. Jobs did when he was head of NeXT computer, I'm gathering that you don't see history repeating itself.
NeXT was in a position to license NeXTSTEP to IBM as an OS for the RS6000 or to Dell as an option to offer to customers, and guess what... Steve blew it. Either deal would have made NeXT into a major player, but it was skipped over by him because of his hubris. You may have heard the famous quote from Bill Gates about the NeXT machine when asked if MS would produce any software for it, "Write for it? I'll piss on it!" that was because when Bill Gates came to talk to Steve about writing software for NeXT, Steve made Bill wait for 4 hours. Again... hubris.
In the end Apple would not have had to buy NeXT (and basically all but become NeXT) if either of these things had been acted upon.
Please go read The Second Coming of Steve Jobs if you don't believe me.
Thanks, GJC
Would you consider Steve's rejection of your proposal more of the hubris for which he is famous and does it ultimately doom Apple to being a niche player?
How it works...
--
The amount of power you get from a reactor is regulated by the control rods. These rods absorb protons and slow down the nuclear chain reaction which generates the heat which is used, in turn to heat the water and turn the turbine which, in turn operates the generator which produces the power. Obviously, this is a very simplified way to describe how a nuclear power plant works, but you get the general idea.
On the technical side...
--
I believe that nuclear power technology is mature enough at this point to justify unattended use of a reactor. It's very unlikely that a reactor will become "unstable" in this era of modern computing technology. Events like Chernobyl are a thing of the past since that plant didn't use many modern systems and was a very primitive reactor.
In the political side...
--
It could be a mistake to leave one of these things in a country where the nuclear material might be "harvested" from the sealed reactor and used to make dirty bombs and (although less likely) some sort of primative nuclear device.
Just my opinion, GJC
Because NTFS is fairly slow, clunky and has the rather brain-dead file sharing limitations that every version of Windows has suffered from up until now.
GJC
Evil patents are worse. :)
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=18001 37759
This movie sucked rocks.
GJC