An unwillingness to fight is the same as a willingness to accept.
Talking about a loss of goodwill for the U.S. is fine, but do something about it. Create embargos on Disney, Microsoft, etc. I really wish you (EU) would. It's unsettling to know that we, the U.S. have become so dependent on foreign income from the trade of IP which can *only* be protected by easily broken promises.
If it's true that the U.S. governement bows to corporate pressure, then it's also true that European consumers have a vote in U.S. policy.
"Is it fair to make compaines offer a voice-to-text telephone service when the deaf call a service center?"
Voice-to-text isn't even needed. IRC and/or email are reasonable things to expect a modern service company to provide to their hearing impaired customers. Before the "computer revolution" many companies had TTD numbers.
When speaker independent voice recognition is bulletproof, deaf people will be able to just hold them up to their phones.
I'm sure the blind use the phone quite a bit for commerce, but there's little technical to treat them as second class citizens.
Rules about chair ramps, doors, parking spots and the like go too far sometimes, but they are important.
Mad scientists create an amusement park with the theme of cloning a post-neanderthal whose DNA was discovered during the government recall of all "Boy Band" music.
When the experiment goes awry, a young female tourist saves the day with her knowledge of Unix workstations*.
*UNIX is a registered trademark of William H. Gates DCXVII
If you add up the pluses and minuses of our society, 60 fried scumbags/year hardly makes us uncivilized.
The death penalty was reenacted in this country by democratic process. Apparently, there are many people who do not share your opinion that capital punishment is immoral.
"There is no death penalty in any state of the European Union. We are civilized people here."
You sound like pure Eurotrash.
Very few death sentences are actually carried out in the US. From 1930 - 1999, it averaged about 60/year.
The US population consists largely of people who escaped from European monarchies and dictatorships. Joining the EU is low priority and would necessitate changing the name to "American/European Union".
Tape reels spinning and line printers printing
Warm glowing neon and shiny things glinting
Stacks of brown punch cards tied up with string
These are a few of my favorite things
Dot matrix printers and seven bar segments
Phone bells and switches and papers with pigments
Disk drives that shudder and shimmy and sing
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white lab coats with pocket protectors
Logic gates made of lights and reflectors
Heavy equipment suspended with springs
These are a few of my favorite things
When the screen blues, when the cell rings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad.
"What I am trying to figure out is how Solaris x86 could benefit a site that does not and will not need to upgrade to Sparc hardware. Is Solaris better than Linux on Intel hardware?"
The existence of Solaris/x86 could be a benefit to a shop that already has an investment in Solaris apps or Solaris talent.
Solaris makes a better NFS server than Linux, so that's another potential benefit.
I'm not sure, but Solaris might have some security certs that aren't available for Linux.
Solaris doesn't evolve as fast as Linux, so long-term support (without unnecessary updates) is a more reasonable expectation.
Solaris is still probably better at file-locking and other primitives, but I have nothing to back that up.
I think on x86 Sun has too little, too late to really hurt Linux. That's OK though, it will find its niche. I'd really like to see Sun do some work on Linux/Sparc. Last time I ran it, it was dog slow and was nowhere near ready for the big boxes.
I think the main reliability advantage for Solaris on Sparc (vs on generic x86) is that there are fewer device drivers to get right.
I don't buy your theory that Solaris reliability is due to Sun's control over hardware. The OS group probably has some influence over CPU/MMU design, but not over the various controllers within the system, many of which aren't even made by Sun. Sun's hardware is top quality which enhances the overall system reliability, but not OS reliability. I don't blame Linus if my motherboard shorts out.
Linux is already capable of long uptimes, so I think Solaris's main advantage over the penguin on x86 will be that it gives Solaris apps a cheaper platform to target. Sun would rather that people buy Sparc, but they probably realize that it's better to give them Solaris/x86 than to lose them to Linux/x86 or Windows/x86.
Small samples, and short test times... Think about how manufacturers come up with numbers like 1 million hours MTBF.
I once had about 20 model-x drives, 5 of which crashed in a 2 month period. They were all about 18 months old, ran 24x7 and were factory installed in RISC workstations. In 262,800 drive-hours we had five failures. The failure rate was 2000% of what it *should* have been, and the failures were not spread out over time. They just started popping. Other models of drives in the same type of workstation were doing just fine.
The drive manufacturer told us "1,000,000 hours MTBF means that if you ran a million drives for 1 hour, you could expect 1 failure". In other words, it says absolutely nothing about what drives will do at 1 year old. In this case, it turned out that the heads were falling off the arms when the glue dried out. It was the type of failure they never could have considered in their MTBF guesstimates.
You never know if it was a reliable design until it's obsolete:-(
Back in the 60's I developed a vision changing machine, which was in essence a sophisticated heat beam which we called a "laser."
Using these "lasers" we punch a hole in the protective layer around the eye which we called the "cornea". Slowly but surely ultraviolet rays would pour in increasing the risk of blindness that is...unless..... the world pays us a hefty ransom?
The original central artery was built as an elevated roadway which divides the city, looks horrible, and sucks to drive on.
The big dig *is* v2.0. The complexity of this project is mostly due to the fact that it is being built on and around the existing patchwork (v 1.99.99 ?)
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why firemen wear red suspenders.
Larry Wall would make them carp, croak, cluck, and confess.
lol
Yogi: Hey BooBoo, watch me run CP/M on this X-Box.
BooBoo: Ranger Bill isn't gonna like this.
"Often the government is pressured, not willing"
An unwillingness to fight is the same as a willingness to accept.
Talking about a loss of goodwill for the U.S. is fine, but do something about it. Create embargos on Disney, Microsoft, etc. I really wish you (EU) would. It's unsettling to know that we, the U.S. have become so dependent on foreign income from the trade of IP which can *only* be protected by easily broken promises.
If it's true that the U.S. governement bows to corporate pressure, then it's also true that European consumers have a vote in U.S. policy.
Don't blame the U.S. if your own government is willing to adopt our rules.
I feel your pain. Oh wait, that was the last guy.
Yeah, I never said whether I came from Mars of Venus.
"Is it fair to make compaines offer a voice-to-text telephone service when the deaf call a service center?"
Voice-to-text isn't even needed. IRC and/or email are reasonable things to expect a modern service company to provide to their hearing impaired customers. Before the "computer revolution" many companies had TTD numbers.
When speaker independent voice recognition is bulletproof, deaf people will be able to just hold them up to their phones.
I'm sure the blind use the phone quite a bit for commerce, but there's little technical to treat them as second class citizens.
Rules about chair ramps, doors, parking spots and the like go too far sometimes, but they are important.
I think it's fair to set some reasonable requirements for equal access to information on commercial sites.
For blind people with PCs, this means "just the facts, hold the Flash". That's what I want too, just like I want that great front row parking spot.
I wonder which site will be first to require a special permit to visit the streamlined pages.
44,100 samples/second # sampling rate
* 16 # bits/sample
= 705,600 # bits/second
That's one channel. Stereo == 1,411,200 bits/second
Even with the overhead of tcp and ftp, 10Baset can typically handle about 8,00,000 bits/second.
Mad scientists create an amusement park with the theme of cloning a post-neanderthal whose DNA was discovered during the government recall of all "Boy Band" music.
When the experiment goes awry, a young female tourist saves the day with her knowledge of Unix workstations*.
*UNIX is a registered trademark of William H. Gates DCXVII
"what we DO support is transcoding from ogg to high-bit-rate MP3"
Why not send the decoded ogg over the wire in raw format? It's only about 1.3Mb/sec, just a fraction of a 10BaseT.
Project requirements: Fifth power, sixth power, whatever it takes!
If you add up the pluses and minuses of our society, 60 fried scumbags/year hardly makes us uncivilized.
The death penalty was reenacted in this country by democratic process. Apparently, there are many people who do not share your opinion that capital punishment is immoral.
"There is no death penalty in any state of the European Union. We are civilized people here."
You sound like pure Eurotrash.
Very few death sentences are actually carried out in the US. From 1930 - 1999, it averaged about 60/year.
The US population consists largely of people who escaped from European monarchies and dictatorships. Joining the EU is low priority and would necessitate changing the name to "American/European Union".
God bless the Atlantic!
Tape reels spinning and line printers printing
Warm glowing neon and shiny things glinting
Stacks of brown punch cards tied up with string
These are a few of my favorite things
Dot matrix printers and seven bar segments
Phone bells and switches and papers with pigments
Disk drives that shudder and shimmy and sing
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white lab coats with pocket protectors
Logic gates made of lights and reflectors
Heavy equipment suspended with springs
These are a few of my favorite things
When the screen blues, when the cell rings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad.
It's actually "fishies."
Did they teach you that in school?
"What I am trying to figure out is how Solaris x86 could benefit a site that does not and will not need to upgrade to Sparc hardware. Is Solaris better than Linux on Intel hardware?"
The existence of Solaris/x86 could be a benefit to a shop that already has an investment in Solaris apps or Solaris talent.
Solaris makes a better NFS server than Linux, so that's another potential benefit.
I'm not sure, but Solaris might have some security certs that aren't available for Linux.
Solaris doesn't evolve as fast as Linux, so long-term support (without unnecessary updates) is a more reasonable expectation.
Solaris is still probably better at file-locking and other primitives, but I have nothing to back that up.
I think on x86 Sun has too little, too late to really hurt Linux. That's OK though, it will find its niche. I'd really like to see Sun do some work on Linux/Sparc. Last time I ran it, it was dog slow and was nowhere near ready for the big boxes.
I think the main reliability advantage for Solaris on Sparc (vs on generic x86) is that there are fewer device drivers to get right.
I don't buy your theory that Solaris reliability is due to Sun's control over hardware. The OS group probably has some influence over CPU/MMU design, but not over the various controllers within the system, many of which aren't even made by Sun. Sun's hardware is top quality which enhances the overall system reliability, but not OS reliability. I don't blame Linus if my motherboard shorts out.
Linux is already capable of long uptimes, so I think Solaris's main advantage over the penguin on x86 will be that it gives Solaris apps a cheaper platform to target. Sun would rather that people buy Sparc, but they probably realize that it's better to give them Solaris/x86 than to lose them to Linux/x86 or Windows/x86.
"the greatest cartoon series ever created "
Well, since "Wait 'til your father gets home".
Gee thanks, now it'll be 3 days before i can get than damned tune out of my head ;-{
Small samples, and short test times... Think about how manufacturers come up with numbers like 1 million hours MTBF.
:-(
I once had about 20 model-x drives, 5 of which crashed in a 2 month period. They were all about 18 months old, ran 24x7 and were factory installed in RISC workstations. In 262,800 drive-hours we had five failures. The failure rate was 2000% of what it *should* have been, and the failures were not spread out over time. They just started popping. Other models of drives in the same type of workstation were doing just fine.
The drive manufacturer told us "1,000,000 hours MTBF means that if you ran a million drives for 1 hour, you could expect 1 failure". In other words, it says absolutely nothing about what drives will do at 1 year old. In this case, it turned out that the heads were falling off the arms when the glue dried out. It was the type of failure they never could have considered in their MTBF guesstimates.
You never know if it was a reliable design until it's obsolete
Doctor Evil:
Back in the 60's I developed a vision changing machine, which was in essence a sophisticated heat beam which we called a "laser."
Using these "lasers" we punch a hole in the protective layer around the eye which
we called the "cornea". Slowly but surely ultraviolet rays would pour in increasing the
risk of blindness that is...unless..... the world pays us a hefty ransom?
"You need weasly city planners."
The Reagan administration vetoed the fed funding for this project calling it a huge pork barrel.
Our senior U.S. Senator, a big fat pork expert, managed to push it through.
Whenever there's a bridge in the news, you can expect to see the name Ted Kennedy.
Apparently it does.
The original central artery was built as an elevated roadway which divides the city, looks horrible, and sucks to drive on.
The big dig *is* v2.0. The complexity of this project is mostly due to the fact that it is being built on and around the existing patchwork (v 1.99.99 ?)