Mainframes:
General purpose machine.
Tons of IO bandwidth.
Substantial processing power.
Highly redundant and fault tolerant.
Flexible and scalable architecture.
Their OSes are very secure and support thousands of users.
Supercomputer:
Specialized scientific machine.
Tons of memory and/or interprocessor bandwidth.
Loads of processing power, especially vectors.
IO speed may not be important.
Redundancy and fault tolerance not as critical as with mainframe.
Architectures tend to change more frequently.
OSes not geared for business use.
Actually, Bill Gates will be eaten by a school of pirhana in October 1908. Steve Balmer will be paralized from the head down as the result of a fall of stage while performing a ritualistic monkey dance to celebrate his ascendancy to the throne of MS corp. In a strange turn of events, Linus Toravalds will become CEO of the software giant and will squander the company's fortunes in a vein attempt to raise penguins in Africa.
The world will decide that it was better off before the advent of the computer, and will revert to living in caves.
I voted for Nader in 2000 and it didn't help GW one bit.
I'm from MA. This state's electoral votes are all going to the dems. No two ways about it. I'm voting Nader again. It won't hurt the anti-Bush effort. Kerry doesn't need my help anyway. I'll be able to look myself in the mirror. And maybe, just maybe, it will improve the viability of future independent and 3rd party candidates.
IMO, the attorney bringing this charge is the actual terrorist. He's a public official responsible for upholding the law. By abusing his authority and undermining the rule of law, he damages our society in a much more serious way than did the accused. He is making a threat against all Americans by using this guy as an example of what can happen if you break the law, any law.
I'm in no way condoning what the cracker did, but his actions don't amount to jack squat compared to those of the prosecutor.
Car Talk's technical advisor, Meg Ahertz said that the RealMedia is complete bogosity. "I tried to reason with their VP, Hugh Jass, but he redirected me to their lawyers, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe." At that point, I turned the matter over to our staff mediators, Sue First and Bernadette Bridge. The rest is history.
... and the "Royal Deluxe II" (a 1979 Mercury Cougar). They demonstrated the smooth ride by going over bumps and having a rabbi do a circumcision in the back seat.
"that President Bush has announced man will set foot on Mars within my lifetime, can only be"... construed as an election year attempt steal some geek votes.
When Kennedy made his famous speech about going to the moon, there was a much better reason to do it. For one thing, humans had never ventured to another celestial body, and there was an international race to do it. In those days, space missions and inter-continental ballistic missiles were closely related. It was a relatively short trip to the moon, unlike Mars. And, it would have been impossible to bring back the data in those days withoug sending people, although CCCP did do an unmanned lunar rover.
Anyway, manned missions to other planets, while romantic, have little to offer in the grand scheme of learning about the universe. Spirit, Voyager, Hubbel... those, IMO, are NASA's real heroes.
The day I have to take my phone out of pocket to discover that i've been "invited" into a nearby business establishment will be the day I chuck said phone thru the front window of said business establishment. Really, how often do you get the chance to kill two birds with one phone?
"...where could you find a reporter who would care?"
Nation Public Radio (WBUR 90.9MHz to you fellow Bostonians) for one. Believe it or not, the great unwashed masses are starting to become aware of the problem with Microsoft.
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Haven't you heard? Internet Explorer won the browser war. Just ask any PHB from 5 years ago.
Oh, and you are really talking about libel, which is written. Slander is verbal. Please get your terminology straight before talking out of your ass.
... splatter... yeah that's it.
Hmm, out his ass? Slander, no. Libel, no. Must be
Yeah, but then again, they can be accidentally hacked by a kid with an Imsai and a demon-dialer.
Mainframes:
General purpose machine.
Tons of IO bandwidth.
Substantial processing power.
Highly redundant and fault tolerant.
Flexible and scalable architecture.
Their OSes are very secure and support thousands of users.
Supercomputer:
Specialized scientific machine.
Tons of memory and/or interprocessor bandwidth.
Loads of processing power, especially vectors.
IO speed may not be important.
Redundancy and fault tolerance not as critical as with mainframe.
Architectures tend to change more frequently.
OSes not geared for business use.
This claims that as of the end of 2002, 15% of the mainframes IBM was selling would be running Linux.
Has that number dropped off?
John McLaughlin says YOU'RE WRONG!
Actually, Bill Gates will be eaten by a school of pirhana in October 1908. Steve Balmer will be paralized from the head down as the result of a fall of stage while performing a ritualistic monkey dance to celebrate his ascendancy to the throne of MS corp. In a strange turn of events, Linus Toravalds will become CEO of the software giant and will squander the company's fortunes in a vein attempt to raise penguins in Africa.
The world will decide that it was better off before the advent of the computer, and will revert to living in caves.
In his case, that would head-to-toe.
I voted for Nader in 2000 and it didn't help GW one bit.
I'm from MA. This state's electoral votes are all going to the dems. No two ways about it. I'm voting Nader again. It won't hurt the anti-Bush effort. Kerry doesn't need my help anyway. I'll be able to look myself in the mirror. And maybe, just maybe, it will improve the viability of future independent and 3rd party candidates.
A candidate who would take big business to task? Easy... Ralph Nader.
Our government doesn't have time to deal with minor annoyances like MS. They have rights to abolish and wars to start.
Bush deserves a lot more than being voted out of office. IMO, he's earned the right to be the first person to land a Navy jet on the Sun.
you nailed it
Only that I'm busy on Saturday night.
I'm sorry to break it to you, Herb. The lovely Jennifer is actually a transsexual.
IMO, the attorney bringing this charge is the actual terrorist. He's a public official responsible for upholding the law. By abusing his authority and undermining the rule of law, he damages our society in a much more serious way than did the accused. He is making a threat against all Americans by using this guy as an example of what can happen if you break the law, any law.
I'm in no way condoning what the cracker did, but his actions don't amount to jack squat compared to those of the prosecutor.
Car Talk's technical advisor, Meg Ahertz said that the RealMedia is complete bogosity. "I tried to reason with their VP, Hugh Jass, but he redirected me to their lawyers, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe." At that point, I turned the matter over to our staff mediators, Sue First and Bernadette Bridge. The rest is history.
And if so, wouldn't a colon be more appropriate? Discuss.
Press Release - Microsoft Corp - Jan/2004
Customers using the Microsoft Office system have reported productivity increases of 1500%.
[insert MRTG graph here]
... and the "Royal Deluxe II" (a 1979 Mercury Cougar). They demonstrated the smooth ride by going over bumps and having a rabbi do a circumcision in the back seat.
"that President Bush has announced man will set foot on Mars within my lifetime, can only be" ... construed as an election year attempt steal some geek votes.
... those, IMO, are NASA's real heroes.
When Kennedy made his famous speech about going to the moon, there was a much better reason to do it. For one thing, humans had never ventured to another celestial body, and there was an international race to do it. In those days, space missions and inter-continental ballistic missiles were closely related. It was a relatively short trip to the moon, unlike Mars. And, it would have been impossible to bring back the data in those days withoug sending people, although CCCP did do an unmanned lunar rover.
Anyway, manned missions to other planets, while romantic, have little to offer in the grand scheme of learning about the universe. Spirit, Voyager, Hubbel
You are a victim of Bush's weapons of mass deception.
I saw a snapshot in the family album. BTW, which one's Pink?
The day I have to take my phone out of pocket to discover that i've been "invited" into a nearby business establishment will be the day I chuck said phone thru the front window of said business establishment. Really, how often do you get the chance to kill two birds with one phone?
Right. He should have said Poindexter.
Right. The bottom line is that Microsoft sucks. It really is that simple. Anyone who doesn't believe it is either naive, greedy, or stupid.
"...where could you find a reporter who would care?"
Nation Public Radio (WBUR 90.9MHz to you fellow Bostonians) for one. Believe it or not, the great unwashed masses are starting to become aware of the problem with Microsoft.