Unfortunately, this type of outright ownership by publishers and distributors of other people's work is quite common
True, but for science to work, there must be a free exchange of ideas. Copyright law is getting tighter, and terms of use on electronic forms bites even deeper.
and if we could just send the waste and used up fuel into the sun
I just love this one. Because rockets almost never blow up. Because lifting heavy payloads and sending them to the sun doesn't take much energy at all.
"So honestly, why does the public of our country dislike the idea of a nuclear powerplant so much?"
Because the nuclear industry failed to hit its own engineering goals for safety and cost. Beause they failed to establish the infrastructure required for waste disposal before they discredited themselves with their expensive and under-safe plants.
The suggestion that NVidia is getting into integrated chipsets in order to compete with Intel on new ground is wrongminded.
This is a defensive mood, pure and simple. If NVidia doesn't get its hooks firmly into the integrated chipset market then they will see their share in the total graphics chip market dwindle as a larger and larger percentage of new motherboards/systems are built with integrated chipsets.
In a similar vein, Intel's presence in the graphics chip market is itself defensive. Graphics chips are more competitive for graphics price/performance-wise than general purpose CPUs. That is to say, spending 50 bucks on a 3D chip is going to do more for graphics performance than spending 50 bucks to get a pentium IV 1433MHz instead of a pentium IV 1375MHz. Therefore, each graphics accelerator sold potentally means that people buy a cheaper CPU, which eats into Intel's revenue. Selling graphic's chips helps them hold on to some of that revenue.
You are too hung up on "free" as in "free beer" and "open" as in Microsoft's proposed shared source licence where you get to look at their code, but you can't touch it without their permission.
Just because I grant Google a license to my post, doesn't mean they own the post, just like the fact that I have a license for Microsoft Office 200 doesn't mean that I "own" Microsoft Office 2000.
That google demands a license in order to post using their service may be unfortunate, but it isn't really suprising given the state of Intellectual Property law in the world today. Without the license, they would be subject to unreasonable liability.
And yes, what about posts made elsewhere that end up on Google groups. I really have no idea. Maybe Google will claim that they assumed the post was redistributatble given the nature of usenet an assumption they couldn't necessarily reasoably make for a posting made through their own service.
One reason SAP customers use Oracle instead of the SAP database is that Oracle is a defacto industry standard. There are lots of Oracle developers and Oracle applications. Using Oracle allows them to use a single, widely understood RDBMS for all their data management needs.
If they use the SAP RDBMS they either use Oracle as well, or suffer from the lack of developers and 3rd party applications for SAP RDBMS
If you have that many WindowsNT/2k file servers maybe you should be looking at something like a NetApp, rather than something like turning thme into a bunch of Linux boxes.
Someone has to manufacture and distribute hydrogen. You think the Oil companies are that short sighted? They are already reskinning themselves as "energy companys"
It all comes down to design. Eliminating the overhead of CGI is good. Persistance is good. Keeping as much as you can in memory is good. Re-use of allocated resources is good. Using memory wisely is good. Eliminating dependancies so you can distibute the load over losts of machines is good. Taking advantage of the strong price-performance of x86 machines for CPU intensive stuff is good.
Raw execution performance is important, but there are a million ways to slow your application down.
The other thing to consider when deciding between compiled code and assembly on modern processors (both CISC and RISC) is that the chips themselves do so many pre-execution optimizations in hardware that your assembly is probably being rewritten anyway. Probably better to compile and examine the compiled code for critical sections to make sure the compiler didn't do something really stupid and be done with it.
Good to see it finally taking hold
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I independantly invented what people are now calling SMT in 1994.
the definition of adultery is to be discussed and determined by those that are in the relationship. Thats the way real people work.
But the people in the relationship do not exisit in a vaccum. They have been influenced by cultural factors, including the judeo/christian system of ethics. So, before you get into that discussion you should be mindful that the very act of trying to negotiate the issue could rub your significant other the wrong way. That is the way real people work.
It sounds like you were foolish to post what you posted without taking steps to protect your identity.
On the otherhand, if you weren't actually violating any agreements you had with your company, agreements which often don't extend more than a year, then I think any attempt to intimidate you or to damage your reputation by talking to your current employer could put you in a strong position to sue them.
Actually, I would be suprised if they did anything. A lot of companies don't even allow employees to give reccomendations for former employees for fear of getting sued if things don't go swimmingly well.
Unfortunately, the time when the load is light may not match the time when the load on the grid is heavy. There's no point in shutting down or "sleeping" the servers if it doesn't happen when it might make the difference on the rolling blackouts.
Yes there is a point in sleeping hardware whether or not it makes a difference on the rolling blackouts! We should be conserving energy, not wasting it, and we shouldn't wait until things are critical before taking action.
Apple's revenue and shareholder value is hardware.
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Apple is a hardware company, make no mistake. Take away their hardware revenues and the company goes away.
God forbid that you have enough memory.
God forbid that you be able to do live backus.
God forbid that your machine is secured.
Take exchange or leave it, but it a lot more than a POP server.
You need to show them what it costs to maintain the old system, vs the costs of redesigning, implementing and then maintaining the new system.
Project both costs against the short term and the long term. What short and long-term constitute depends a lot on your company. I would say 3 months vs 18 months.
Just because someone can no longer make a profitable business out of something doesn't mean that it has no value.
I think this is a fine thing. Capitalism has a lot of virtues, but a big downside is that a lot of effort is wasted that has nothing to do with the quality of the effort. Setting it free creates an opportunity to extract some value out of that wasted effort.
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True, but for science to work, there must be a free exchange of ideas. Copyright law is getting tighter, and terms of use on electronic forms bites even deeper.
I just love this one. Because rockets almost never blow up. Because lifting heavy payloads and sending them to the sun doesn't take much energy at all.
Because the nuclear industry failed to hit its own engineering goals for safety and cost. Beause they failed to establish the infrastructure required for waste disposal before they discredited themselves with their expensive and under-safe plants.
How about this:
The nuclear power industry failed (miserably) to hit its own engineering targets for cost & safety. They were hoist on their own pitard.
A good point, but you seem rather blind to the significant risks of fossil fuels (global warming).
The suggestion that NVidia is getting into integrated chipsets in order to compete with Intel on new ground is wrongminded.
This is a defensive mood, pure and simple. If NVidia doesn't get its hooks firmly into the integrated chipset market then they will see their share in the total graphics chip market dwindle as a larger and larger percentage of new motherboards/systems are built with integrated chipsets.
In a similar vein, Intel's presence in the graphics chip market is itself defensive. Graphics chips are more competitive for graphics price/performance-wise than general purpose CPUs. That is to say, spending 50 bucks on a 3D chip is going to do more for graphics performance than spending 50 bucks to get a pentium IV 1433MHz instead of a pentium IV 1375MHz. Therefore, each graphics accelerator sold potentally means that people buy a cheaper CPU, which eats into Intel's revenue. Selling graphic's chips helps them hold on to some of that revenue.
You are too hung up on "free" as in "free beer" and "open" as in Microsoft's proposed shared source licence where you get to look at their code, but you can't touch it without their permission.
Just because I grant Google a license to my post, doesn't mean they own the post, just like the fact that I have a license for Microsoft Office 200 doesn't mean that I "own" Microsoft Office 2000.
That google demands a license in order to post using their service may be unfortunate, but it isn't really suprising given the state of Intellectual Property law in the world today. Without the license, they would be subject to unreasonable liability.
And yes, what about posts made elsewhere that end up on Google groups. I really have no idea. Maybe Google will claim that they assumed the post was redistributatble given the nature of usenet an assumption they couldn't necessarily reasoably make for a posting made through their own service.
One reason SAP customers use Oracle instead of the SAP database is that Oracle is a defacto industry standard. There are lots of Oracle developers and Oracle applications. Using Oracle allows them to use a single, widely understood RDBMS for all their data management needs.
If they use the SAP RDBMS they either use Oracle as well, or suffer from the lack of developers and 3rd party applications for SAP RDBMS
If you have that many WindowsNT/2k file servers maybe you should be looking at something like a NetApp, rather than something like turning thme into a bunch of Linux boxes.
Someone has to manufacture and distribute hydrogen. You think the Oil companies are that short sighted? They are already reskinning themselves as "energy companys"
It all comes down to design. Eliminating the overhead of CGI is good. Persistance is good. Keeping as much as you can in memory is good. Re-use of allocated resources is good. Using memory wisely is good. Eliminating dependancies so you can distibute the load over losts of machines is good. Taking advantage of the strong price-performance of x86 machines for CPU intensive stuff is good.
Raw execution performance is important, but there are a million ways to slow your application down.
The other thing to consider when deciding between compiled code and assembly on modern processors (both CISC and RISC) is that the chips themselves do so many pre-execution optimizations in hardware that your assembly is probably being rewritten anyway. Probably better to compile and examine the compiled code for critical sections to make sure the compiler didn't do something really stupid and be done with it.
I independantly invented what people are now calling SMT in 1994.
I am soooooo cooool.
But the people in the relationship do not exisit in a vaccum. They have been influenced by cultural factors, including the judeo/christian system of ethics. So, before you get into that discussion you should be mindful that the very act of trying to negotiate the issue could rub your significant other the wrong way. That is the way real people work.
It sounds like you were foolish to post what you posted without taking steps to protect your identity.
On the otherhand, if you weren't actually violating any agreements you had with your company, agreements which often don't extend more than a year, then I think any attempt to intimidate you or to damage your reputation by talking to your current employer could put you in a strong position to sue them.
Actually, I would be suprised if they did anything. A lot of companies don't even allow employees to give reccomendations for former employees for fear of getting sued if things don't go swimmingly well.
Yes there is a point in sleeping hardware whether or not it makes a difference on the rolling blackouts! We should be conserving energy, not wasting it, and we shouldn't wait until things are critical before taking action.
Apple is a hardware company, make no mistake. Take away their hardware revenues and the company goes away.
God forbid that you have enough memory. God forbid that you be able to do live backus. God forbid that your machine is secured. Take exchange or leave it, but it a lot more than a POP server.
Project both costs against the short term and the long term. What short and long-term constitute depends a lot on your company. I would say 3 months vs 18 months.
The big issue I see with this is related to latency and synchronizationissues.
EMC has one tier of support for Symmetrix, as I understand it. Response times probably depend on severity.
No they don't. Try 10^6x10^7 to get started
Mac Classic could boot from a full version of the OS in ROM.
Just because someone can no longer make a profitable business out of something doesn't mean that it has no value.
I think this is a fine thing. Capitalism has a lot of virtues, but a big downside is that a lot of effort is wasted that has nothing to do with the quality of the effort. Setting it free creates an opportunity to extract some value out of that wasted effort.