Aside from the kinds of missiles, anti-missiles and anti-anti-missile-missiles or whatever that other people have mentioned, the Army may be interested in other small hypersonic projectiles.
Like, for example, kinetic energy weapons designed to penetrate armor. Or railguns. Or... whatever.:)
Regarding the chart, I agree.
UNIX V7 -> Sinix -> Minix -> Linux is what SCO implies.
UNIX V7 -> Minix -> Linux is what the chart shows.
There's still a UNIX -> Minix -> Linux relationship and no one disputes that, but the relationship is one of compatibility or useability, not source, as Eric points out.
The biggest problem with MCSE, as far as I can see, is the way it's structured - two MCSEs might have no common knowledge whatsoever except the basics of installing Windows and setting up a network.
Last time I checked, there were 2 required tests within the MCSE, then you had to take a couple tests from a menu of several, and then a couple from an even larger menu.
This leads to freshly-stamped MCSE's knowing Exchange or SQL Server or security or IIS, and so on. Need someone who knows Exchange inside out? An MCSE might be your person -- or might be utterly useless.
UNIX admins, by comparison, are generally expected to have a reasonable amount of proficiency in all areas and uses of the system, usually with particular strength in one or two.
("You're a UNIX admin? You're the bad guys, you keep things running." - An MCSE to me on our way out of a consulting firm where we'd both been interviewing.)
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Why settle for 70 when you can have 100 megapixels? Actually, wait, sorry... that one's now obsolete and no longer in use, since they now have one that does 340 megapixels.
There are companies (CD Baby comes to mind) who'll put your indie-band music up on the iTunes store, and take only a 9% cut of the 66-67% wedge of the pie that the "label" gets.
If I'm doing my math right, that means the 99 cents for a song are split up 33 cents for Apple, 6-7 cents for CD Baby, and 59-60 cents for the artist.
That's obviously about a 10% better deal than Magnatunes is offering. And honestly, if I were trying to sell my music, I'd really rather do so at the store that's accounting for a huge percentage of all legal downloads than at some site that I only ever see mentioned in/. comments and the like, touting its great (well, not so great, after all) financial treatment of artists.:)
Nopers, the ethernet-out is a WAN port; you plug it into the ethernet jack in your hotel room, or wherever you find a handy live ethernet jack.:) This thing can be a base station in and of itself.
Thus the "Choose a Base Station: AirPort Extreme / AirPort Express" at the top of Apple's AirPort Express page.
Hmmm... how about Safari? Apple took an open-source web framework (KHTML), improved it, and gave the improvements back to the open-source community so that KHTML (and Konqueror) could be improved. That's something application-level end-users can appreciate.
For that matter, Netscape took the Mosaic code, improved it, and (eventually) gave all their browser source code to the open-source community, which is why we have Mozilla and Firefox and Camino and all those others.
I don?t remember Microsoft giving browser code to the open-source community, even though it?s not like they?re making money off it. They give API?s so folks can build browser on the IE "framework" so to speak, but that?s about it.
...which is not to say that the open-source community would want the source code to MSIE.
Microsoft got its start in the 1970's. Its first product was a BASIC interpreter. BASIC had been developed in the 1960's at Dartmouth and made public-domain; Microsoft announced an interpreter for the Altair, then started actually working on it (using "borrowed" time on someone else's minicomputer), missed a bunch of delivery dates, and shipped a buggy product.
Then, IBM was looking for a PC OS and programming language. BillG's mom suggested they talk to him about BASIC; IBM's chat with Digital Research (makers of CP/M) didn't go well, BillG said "sure I can give you an OS" despite not having an OS, then ran out, bought a CP/M ripoff called QDOS, and tried to get it finished up in time...
Sounds pretty much like the recent history. What was it you were trying to have as a point, again?
Coincidentally, a Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 server ranked #11 on the last Top500 list. That system uses 2,304 SPARC64 V CPUs running at 1.3GHz, delivering an Rmax (tested maximum performance) of 5406 GFlops and an Rpeak (theoretical maximum performance) of 11980 GFlops.
The highest all-Sun system on the list? A 672-CPU Fire 15K cluster, way down at #151. Sun does not build seriously big gear. Fujitsu does.
That said, systems using competing processor architectures did finish above that Fujitsu. #10 used 1,920 2.4GHz Xeons, #7 used 2,304 2.4GHz Xeons, #6 used 2,816 2GHz Opterons, #5 used 1,936 1.5GHz Itanium 2s, #4 used 2,500 3.06GHz Xeons, and #3 used 2,200 2.0GHz PPC970 "G5" CPUs. (The other systems used Alpha, IBM SP3, or in the case of the Earth Simulator, NEC chips.)
So... Fujitsu's big toys aren't going to drop off the bottom of the Top500 list right away, but it looks like other architectures deliver more bang-per-CPU than the 1.3GHz SPARC64 V.
(Now, bang-per-CPU-per-GHz, on the other hand, I'm less sure about... I suspect GHz for GHz the SPARC64 V might outrun a Xeon or a PPC970, but might not quite catch an Itanium.)
Anyway, Sun's idea about hardware being free should definitely be extended to Fujitsu's supercomputers, yup!:)
I know you're all having a hissy-fit about this, but stop and think for a minute.
The RIAA is prone to filing hundreds of frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to extort money from "the little guy."
The DoJ, AG and state AG's really, truly, couldn't care less. They're interested in "the big guys."
So if the RIAA gives the DoJ 500 names, odds are good that 499 of those people will be able to continue living their lives in peace, while the DoJ unleashes a smackdown on the one big-time pirate scum whose name somehow made it onto the list.
Don't believe me? Just LOOK at how many junk-faxers and spammers the government has taken down. Running out of fingers on that hand yet? Why, you practically have to be Osama bin Laden to get caught by the feds.
(What's that you say? Um... okay, er, why, you practically have to be Saddam Hussein!)
Indeed. And fusion research reactors are OLD news. I grew up in New Jersey, and a late friend of my dad's worked at PPPL (that's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory) where they've been researching plasma stuff since the 1950's, and ran a fusion research reactor for about 15 years from the 1980's into 1990's.
Oh, and as an added bonus for geeks in that area, they have a public open house coming up on June 12!
This is nothing more than off-site image tracking, as has been seen in spam for ages and ages.
And, of course, in legitimate email newsletters and such, from lots of entities that actually have to track their ROI on such things. I used 'em about 4-5 years ago when I was doing web dev and DB marketing for a travel dot-com. If someone was signed up for our fare alerts or whatever, they'd get mail with a tag in it; if they clicked through to our site, that tag got tracked as a referrer, and passed along to the e-commerce part. Made it a LOT easier to say to the marketers "yeah, we sent X messages, Y people clicked through, Z people bought, and here's the top-line revenue for this particular fare promo."
This is just to clarify that it's the spam that's evil, not the image tags themselves.;)
Thomas Edison State College is part of New Jersey's state college/university system, and it's all legit and accredited and all that stuff.
An aunt of mine got a degree (not sure whether it was a bachelor's or a master's) there after a fair amount of work experience. I don't think there's any doubt in anyone's mind (including the state AG she works for) that she's qualified to do the job(s) she does - criminal analysis, anti-fraud, anti-terror, you name it. Honestly, she'd probably be qualified based on experience alone, degree or no.
TESC is probably the first place I'd ever consider getting a degree, since I've got ~15 years work experience and really do not like the idea of taking 2 years of "core courses" that I probably know enough to be teaching by now.:)
Hmmm. 500 times slower. So most current Pentiums would emulate a Mac running at 5-8 MHz. Are we sure this isn't a 68000 emulator?:)
As a data point, my 500MHz iBook emulates a 266Mhz Pentium.
The G5 apparently lacks some sort of endian-ness, yes... which is why current versions of VPC don't work. Microsoft is rewriting it. Reordering bits obviously takes some cycles, but G5's seem to have LOTS of those... and they finally have decent FSB speeds; VPC performance on pre-G5 hardware was frequently crippled by bus speed.
Boy, are you ever gonna be busy this summer when Virtual PC 7 is released with G5 support. I'll probably install at least 3 or 4 different versions of Windows, just for the hell of it. Remember to kill me multiple times, okay?
Getting a whole new monitor after one's already blown a none-too-small wad of cash on a Cinema 23HD is... expensive. Especially given that the logical candidate for such things is the Sony SDM-P232W/B, which uses the same panel as the Cinema 23HD (though apparently with a different anti-glare coating), has dual DVI inputs... and costs more than the Cinema 23HD.
Considering that Sony's version costs more... I dunno. Yes, $2K was a lot of money to spend on a monitor, and my wife gave me a lot of nasty looks, but still - it just wouldn't have been right to hook something lesser up to my dual G5.
It would be nice if other monitor manufacturers would produce units with the same screen. Apple doesn't build the LCD screen, they just buy them from someone and put them in their monitor, just like the Dell or Gateway branded monitors.
The Sony SDM-P232W/B uses the same panel as the Apple Cinema 23HD (but with a different anti-glare coating, I've heard). It also costs more than the Apple one, but I believe it has multiple DVI inputs.
In fact, Sony does offer a 23" display built around the same panel Apple uses for the Cinema 23HD. I think it's the SDM-P232. Last time I checked it had multiple DVI inputs... and cost a few hundred more than the Cinema 23HD.
I don't think the panel is made by Sony... I forget who does make it.
The People/Culture
Who am I going to be working with? What are they like? Do they have lives outside of work, or do they exist in some company-subsidized virtual reality? (I once interviewed at Dow Jones, and they told me in glowing terms of their company-sponsored sports and all that... thanks, but, um, I have a life, and it's not about a company.) Are they knowledgeable, clueful (yes, those two are different) and friendly?
The Work
What am I going to be doing? After almost 15 years of this stuff, I don't want totally trained-monkey work, but at the same time, I've served my time in the tech-support and sysadmin (and other) levels of hell, and like to have some time where I'm not "on call."
The Business
What does the organization do, and how does it do it? Does it do things, and do them in ways, that I can believe in, or at least support? Less than a decade ago, I was the webmaster for the majority of the casinos in Atlantic City, as well as several others across the country. It was "exciting" work, to be sure, but I had a hard time knowing that my salary was largely derived from the social security checks of blue-haired slot-stuffing (oh my, that sounds Freudian) grannies. On the flip side, I once worked for free for a year to fight spam.
The Commute
In the early days of the ISP industry, I once had a commute of 3.5 hours, each direction, to work at a helldesk. Since then, I've done much better, thank goodness. These days it's usually 5 or 10 minutes with decent scenery and ocean views, and it's unlikely that I'd ever go for an hour-each-way 5-days-a-week run like a lot of people have.
The Pay
How's the compensation package, overall? Is the wage or salary enough to pay my bills, save a bit, and get the occasional shiny! new toy? How are the benefits? Medical, dental and optical? 401(k)? Employer match? Profit-sharing?
I've used these five criteria to evaluate potential new jobs relative to current ones, and in cases where I have multiple offers, to compare them. Usually, to get me to change jobs, the new one has to be significantly better than my current one in at least a couple categories, and can't be worse than it in any. In retrospect, I've still made some decisions that I now question, but I don't tend to find myself in jobs that suck in every possible way.
Well, it is supposed to be a redundant array of inexpensive drives, no? With 250GB+ SATA drives available, SCSI360 and FC are hardly "inexpensive" any more.
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Aside from the kinds of missiles, anti-missiles and anti-anti-missile-missiles or whatever that other people have mentioned, the Army may be interested in other small hypersonic projectiles. Like, for example, kinetic energy weapons designed to penetrate armor. Or railguns. Or... whatever. :)
Regarding the chart, I agree. UNIX V7 -> Sinix -> Minix -> Linux is what SCO implies. UNIX V7 -> Minix -> Linux is what the chart shows. There's still a UNIX -> Minix -> Linux relationship and no one disputes that, but the relationship is one of compatibility or useability, not source, as Eric points out.
Last time I checked, there were 2 required tests within the MCSE, then you had to take a couple tests from a menu of several, and then a couple from an even larger menu.
This leads to freshly-stamped MCSE's knowing Exchange or SQL Server or security or IIS, and so on. Need someone who knows Exchange inside out? An MCSE might be your person -- or might be utterly useless.
UNIX admins, by comparison, are generally expected to have a reasonable amount of proficiency in all areas and uses of the system, usually with particular strength in one or two.
("You're a UNIX admin? You're the bad guys, you keep things running." - An MCSE to me on our way out of a consulting firm where we'd both been interviewing.)
What is the resolution of a text-to-speech screenreader program?
There are companies (CD Baby comes to mind) who'll put your indie-band music up on the iTunes store, and take only a 9% cut of the 66-67% wedge of the pie that the "label" gets.
If I'm doing my math right, that means the 99 cents for a song are split up 33 cents for Apple, 6-7 cents for CD Baby, and 59-60 cents for the artist.
That's obviously about a 10% better deal than Magnatunes is offering. And honestly, if I were trying to sell my music, I'd really rather do so at the store that's accounting for a huge percentage of all legal downloads than at some site that I only ever see mentioned in /. comments and the like, touting its great (well, not so great, after all) financial treatment of artists. :)
Nopers, the ethernet-out is a WAN port; you plug it into the ethernet jack in your hotel room, or wherever you find a handy live ethernet jack. :) This thing can be a base station in and of itself.
Thus the "Choose a Base Station: AirPort Extreme / AirPort Express" at the top of Apple's AirPort Express page.
Just run PearPC, the PPC emulator for X86, and run OS X under that. :)
Hmm. Actually, I think there are five other reasons Apple's solution might sell better:
Obviously I haven't kept up with the changes to the definition of "similar."
For that matter, Netscape took the Mosaic code, improved it, and (eventually) gave all their browser source code to the open-source community, which is why we have Mozilla and Firefox and Camino and all those others.
I don?t remember Microsoft giving browser code to the open-source community, even though it?s not like they?re making money off it. They give API?s so folks can build browser on the IE "framework" so to speak, but that?s about it.
Microsoft got its start in the 1970's. Its first product was a BASIC interpreter. BASIC had been developed in the 1960's at Dartmouth and made public-domain; Microsoft announced an interpreter for the Altair, then started actually working on it (using "borrowed" time on someone else's minicomputer), missed a bunch of delivery dates, and shipped a buggy product.
Then, IBM was looking for a PC OS and programming language. BillG's mom suggested they talk to him about BASIC; IBM's chat with Digital Research (makers of CP/M) didn't go well, BillG said "sure I can give you an OS" despite not having an OS, then ran out, bought a CP/M ripoff called QDOS, and tried to get it finished up in time...
Sounds pretty much like the recent history. What was it you were trying to have as a point, again?
Coincidentally, a Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER HPC2500 server ranked #11 on the last Top500 list. That system uses 2,304 SPARC64 V CPUs running at 1.3GHz, delivering an Rmax (tested maximum performance) of 5406 GFlops and an Rpeak (theoretical maximum performance) of 11980 GFlops. The highest all-Sun system on the list? A 672-CPU Fire 15K cluster, way down at #151. Sun does not build seriously big gear. Fujitsu does. That said, systems using competing processor architectures did finish above that Fujitsu. #10 used 1,920 2.4GHz Xeons, #7 used 2,304 2.4GHz Xeons, #6 used 2,816 2GHz Opterons, #5 used 1,936 1.5GHz Itanium 2s, #4 used 2,500 3.06GHz Xeons, and #3 used 2,200 2.0GHz PPC970 "G5" CPUs. (The other systems used Alpha, IBM SP3, or in the case of the Earth Simulator, NEC chips.) So... Fujitsu's big toys aren't going to drop off the bottom of the Top500 list right away, but it looks like other architectures deliver more bang-per-CPU than the 1.3GHz SPARC64 V. (Now, bang-per-CPU-per-GHz, on the other hand, I'm less sure about... I suspect GHz for GHz the SPARC64 V might outrun a Xeon or a PPC970, but might not quite catch an Itanium.) Anyway, Sun's idea about hardware being free should definitely be extended to Fujitsu's supercomputers, yup! :)
The RIAA is prone to filing hundreds of frivolous lawsuits in an attempt to extort money from "the little guy."
The DoJ, AG and state AG's really, truly, couldn't care less. They're interested in "the big guys." So if the RIAA gives the DoJ 500 names, odds are good that 499 of those people will be able to continue living their lives in peace, while the DoJ unleashes a smackdown on the one big-time pirate scum whose name somehow made it onto the list. Don't believe me? Just LOOK at how many junk-faxers and spammers the government has taken down. Running out of fingers on that hand yet? Why, you practically have to be Osama bin Laden to get caught by the feds. (What's that you say? Um... okay, er, why, you practically have to be Saddam Hussein!)
Oh, and as an added bonus for geeks in that area, they have a public open house coming up on June 12!
And, of course, in legitimate email newsletters and such, from lots of entities that actually have to track their ROI on such things. I used 'em about 4-5 years ago when I was doing web dev and DB marketing for a travel dot-com. If someone was signed up for our fare alerts or whatever, they'd get mail with a tag in it; if they clicked through to our site, that tag got tracked as a referrer, and passed along to the e-commerce part. Made it a LOT easier to say to the marketers "yeah, we sent X messages, Y people clicked through, Z people bought, and here's the top-line revenue for this particular fare promo."
This is just to clarify that it's the spam that's evil, not the image tags themselves. ;)
An aunt of mine got a degree (not sure whether it was a bachelor's or a master's) there after a fair amount of work experience. I don't think there's any doubt in anyone's mind (including the state AG she works for) that she's qualified to do the job(s) she does - criminal analysis, anti-fraud, anti-terror, you name it. Honestly, she'd probably be qualified based on experience alone, degree or no.
TESC is probably the first place I'd ever consider getting a degree, since I've got ~15 years work experience and really do not like the idea of taking 2 years of "core courses" that I probably know enough to be teaching by now. :)
Hmmm. 500 times slower. So most current Pentiums would emulate a Mac running at 5-8 MHz. Are we sure this isn't a 68000 emulator? :)
As a data point, my 500MHz iBook emulates a 266Mhz Pentium.
The G5 apparently lacks some sort of endian-ness, yes... which is why current versions of VPC don't work. Microsoft is rewriting it. Reordering bits obviously takes some cycles, but G5's seem to have LOTS of those... and they finally have decent FSB speeds; VPC performance on pre-G5 hardware was frequently crippled by bus speed.
Boy, are you ever gonna be busy this summer when Virtual PC 7 is released with G5 support. I'll probably install at least 3 or 4 different versions of Windows, just for the hell of it. Remember to kill me multiple times, okay?
A dual-input Cinema would be... wonderful.
Considering that Sony's version costs more... I dunno. Yes, $2K was a lot of money to spend on a monitor, and my wife gave me a lot of nasty looks, but still - it just wouldn't have been right to hook something lesser up to my dual G5.
I don't think the panel is made by Sony... I forget who does make it.
The People/Culture Who am I going to be working with? What are they like? Do they have lives outside of work, or do they exist in some company-subsidized virtual reality? (I once interviewed at Dow Jones, and they told me in glowing terms of their company-sponsored sports and all that... thanks, but, um, I have a life, and it's not about a company.) Are they knowledgeable, clueful (yes, those two are different) and friendly? The Work What am I going to be doing? After almost 15 years of this stuff, I don't want totally trained-monkey work, but at the same time, I've served my time in the tech-support and sysadmin (and other) levels of hell, and like to have some time where I'm not "on call." The Business What does the organization do, and how does it do it? Does it do things, and do them in ways, that I can believe in, or at least support? Less than a decade ago, I was the webmaster for the majority of the casinos in Atlantic City, as well as several others across the country. It was "exciting" work, to be sure, but I had a hard time knowing that my salary was largely derived from the social security checks of blue-haired slot-stuffing (oh my, that sounds Freudian) grannies. On the flip side, I once worked for free for a year to fight spam. The Commute In the early days of the ISP industry, I once had a commute of 3.5 hours, each direction, to work at a helldesk. Since then, I've done much better, thank goodness. These days it's usually 5 or 10 minutes with decent scenery and ocean views, and it's unlikely that I'd ever go for an hour-each-way 5-days-a-week run like a lot of people have. The Pay How's the compensation package, overall? Is the wage or salary enough to pay my bills, save a bit, and get the occasional shiny! new toy? How are the benefits? Medical, dental and optical? 401(k)? Employer match? Profit-sharing? I've used these five criteria to evaluate potential new jobs relative to current ones, and in cases where I have multiple offers, to compare them. Usually, to get me to change jobs, the new one has to be significantly better than my current one in at least a couple categories, and can't be worse than it in any. In retrospect, I've still made some decisions that I now question, but I don't tend to find myself in jobs that suck in every possible way.
Well, it is supposed to be a redundant array of inexpensive drives, no? With 250GB+ SATA drives available, SCSI360 and FC are hardly "inexpensive" any more.