As I write this I have 2 tabs in my browser and Firefox is taking 21 mb. It's not 86 mb, but before I even saw your post I was wondering why it needed over 20 mb. Seems pretty resource hungry to me, considering Eclipse is using 56 mb and Websphere(!) is using 76 mb. (my emphasis added).
I believed you up until you said that WebSphere was only using 76M;o)
<nitpick> The RAD6000 is a radiation hardened RS/6000 PowerPC chip from IBM. A similar chip was used in Apple Macintoshes, but Apple is not the source of the RAD6000 chip. </nitpick>
I love my Mac as much as everybody else, but it's just not the case that the RAD6000 is a 'mac' chip. It's an IBM chip, a cousin of those used in macs.
Thus you have a lot more choice. You could be using Java on Mac OS X, Tomcat and PostgreSQL to power your website, or you could be using IBM mainframes with WebLogic and an Oracle backend.
This is my whole job. We run different product lines built of Java applications on everything from x86 Linux to PSeries AIX to zOS OPED Mainframes -- supporting tens of thousands of users. We developed one application and reused it in three environments, no recompile necessary.
Because they could find out that you're a non-conforming individual.
And don't buy your foil with a debit or credit card! Pay cash only, and don't use a loyalty card. Best to wear a disguise while you're at it. Too many cameras. Take the bus to the store, but don't redeem a bus ticket, use coins -- but only ones you've wiped down to remove fingerprints. And don't leave from your home, or your office; leave from a neutral public site! And whatever you do, don't look up. Those spy satellites could recognize your face if you do, and then it would be all in vain.
Pity the poor uninformed conspiricy theorist who wears his tinfoil hat to prevent mind-control but forgets all of the paper trail that he leaves when he buys his tinfoil.
It's my TV viewing info... I don't care. If anything, if they sell my viewing habits and realize that Firefly and Farscape are more watched than My Big Sweaty Boyfriend... That's a GOOD THING!
I couldn't agree more. If Tivo sells my watching habits back to the broadcasters than I'll be more effectively able to 'vote with my remote.'
1.) The users who are ridiculed aren't children. They're professionals who are being paid to use their computer.
2.) Cluster bombs aren't a mysterious package that the children open, they're unexploded ordinance that the children play with. It's a tragedy, I agree, but dissimilar to viruses as viruses incur no permanent physical injury.
I don't disagree that an IT person's first jump is (wrongly) to the conclusion that the user is a moron (I see our IT guys do it all the time), however, human error is part of the equation these viruses are exploiting. It's basically social engineering.
Hunting in many areas of the US is a requirement, as one of two things has happened: 1.) natural predators have been eliminated or pushed out by development. 2.) farms and parks provide ideal feeding and breeding grounds.
Where I grew up the local government extended the deer season each year, as the population was out of control. Keeps the crops in the fields and the deer off the roads.
(More esoterically, before humans were farmers and domesticators we were hunter/gatherers, so we probably wouldn't be where and what we are today without hunting and hunters).
All that said, I don't own a gun, nor have I ever been hunting.
One easy way to know when it's likely that media will fail is to determine when you'll probably need it most.
Just like the law that the likelyhood that a computer program you're working on will fail is directly proportional to the number of people witnessing your test.
Please try to remember that G5 is the consumer commodity edition of the IBM Power4+ processor, which are out of the box clusterable in RS/6000's (pSeries now).
Additionally, these supercomputers are eventually customer driven, and so the hardware design and constraints are set to some degree by the requirements of the check-signers. Unfortunately, this presents the reality that the most efficient idea is not always the most politically workable. (or perhaps all those G5's would have been p630's -- and all the benefits thereof -- except twice the cost).
I like PHP, I'd like to work more with PHP in the future. But until the IBM products that I make my living on are built on PHP, I don't have much choice. Which is not to say that I don't like the Java that IBM is using -- I'm *very* pleased with the course and result of the Java development that we've done in relation to the IBM products that we deal with.
Somewhat off-topic, but cogent to the above post: We had an employee at our office who used a 3270 emulator in a DOS window (maximized to full screen) to access all the functionality of his up-to-date Windows/Intel computer.
Additionally, we had a receptionist who thought that because we were an IBM business partner it would be okay if instead of using our word processing and document management software (an IBM product) it would be okay if she just brought in her old IBM typewriter. She didn't last long, as we're a paperless office/document/content management consultant group.
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I just *knew* that steak I had for dinner last night was out-of-this-world! Here and I just thought it was my wife's cooking.
Based on your spelling I would recommend that you do not procreate.
Not to mention that Comcast owns the 76ers and the Flyers.
As I write this I have 2 tabs in my browser and Firefox is taking 21 mb. It's not 86 mb, but before I even saw your post I was wondering why it needed over 20 mb. Seems pretty resource hungry to me, considering Eclipse is using 56 mb and Websphere(!) is using 76 mb. (my emphasis added).
;o)
I believed you up until you said that WebSphere was only using 76M
Not to nitpick but,
<nitpick>
The RAD6000 is a radiation hardened RS/6000 PowerPC chip from IBM. A similar chip was used in Apple Macintoshes, but Apple is not the source of the RAD6000 chip.
</nitpick>
I love my Mac as much as everybody else, but it's just not the case that the RAD6000 is a 'mac' chip. It's an IBM chip, a cousin of those used in macs.
Thus you have a lot more choice. You could be using Java on Mac OS X, Tomcat and PostgreSQL to power your website, or you could be using IBM mainframes with WebLogic and an Oracle backend.
This is my whole job. We run different product lines built of Java applications on everything from x86 Linux to PSeries AIX to zOS OPED Mainframes -- supporting tens of thousands of users. We developed one application and reused it in three environments, no recompile necessary.
Because they could find out that you're a non-conforming individual.
And don't buy your foil with a debit or credit card! Pay cash only, and don't use a loyalty card. Best to wear a disguise while you're at it. Too many cameras. Take the bus to the store, but don't redeem a bus ticket, use coins -- but only ones you've wiped down to remove fingerprints. And don't leave from your home, or your office; leave from a neutral public site! And whatever you do, don't look up. Those spy satellites could recognize your face if you do, and then it would be all in vain.
Pity the poor uninformed conspiricy theorist who wears his tinfoil hat to prevent mind-control but forgets all of the paper trail that he leaves when he buys his tinfoil.
It's my TV viewing info... I don't care. If anything, if they sell my viewing habits and realize that Firefly and Farscape are more watched than My Big Sweaty Boyfriend... That's a GOOD THING!
I couldn't agree more. If Tivo sells my watching habits back to the broadcasters than I'll be more effectively able to 'vote with my remote.'
In a machine similar to this, eBay for IBM RS/6000 43P models. They're uni-processor PowerPC devices 250-332Mhz.
They do make nice firewalls for distributed sites (actually currently used in production at the largest government entitlement program).
but you could probably make a pretty nice remote controlled rover to explore the outer reaches of your back yard.
There are two problems with your post.
1.) The users who are ridiculed aren't children. They're professionals who are being paid to use their computer.
2.) Cluster bombs aren't a mysterious package that the children open, they're unexploded ordinance that the children play with. It's a tragedy, I agree, but dissimilar to viruses as viruses incur no permanent physical injury.
I don't disagree that an IT person's first jump is (wrongly) to the conclusion that the user is a moron (I see our IT guys do it all the time), however, human error is part of the equation these viruses are exploiting. It's basically social engineering.
Yes. Click here and select the option that fits you best. The bonus here is that you can both support the fund and be a beneficiary of it!
No.
Who's going to carry the robotic dog food?
Hunting in many areas of the US is a requirement, as one of two things has happened:
1.) natural predators have been eliminated or pushed out by development.
2.) farms and parks provide ideal feeding and breeding grounds.
Where I grew up the local government extended the deer season each year, as the population was out of control. Keeps the crops in the fields and the deer off the roads.
(More esoterically, before humans were farmers and domesticators we were hunter/gatherers, so we probably wouldn't be where and what we are today without hunting and hunters).
All that said, I don't own a gun, nor have I ever been hunting.
One unfortunate side effect: sadly, now all the music the individual puts on his MP3 player stinks.
Nothing.
Troll.
One easy way to know when it's likely that media will fail is to determine when you'll probably need it most.
Just like the law that the likelyhood that a computer program you're working on will fail is directly proportional to the number of people witnessing your test.
Haha! Forte... Haha! Forte. Ha!... ehm.
Please try to remember that G5 is the consumer commodity edition of the IBM Power4+ processor, which are out of the box clusterable in RS/6000's (pSeries now).
Additionally, these supercomputers are eventually customer driven, and so the hardware design and constraints are set to some degree by the requirements of the check-signers. Unfortunately, this presents the reality that the most efficient idea is not always the most politically workable. (or perhaps all those G5's would have been p630's -- and all the benefits thereof -- except twice the cost).
I like PHP, I'd like to work more with PHP in the future. But until the IBM products that I make my living on are built on PHP, I don't have much choice. Which is not to say that I don't like the Java that IBM is using -- I'm *very* pleased with the course and result of the Java development that we've done in relation to the IBM products that we deal with.
Alright boys, pack 'im up. We gots to ship this one back to the factory for recalibration.
That's 90,000 dollars and comes preinstalled with one 36Gb drive. Additional drives can be purchased at the low-low price of 4,000 dollars apiece.
Somewhat off-topic, but cogent to the above post: We had an employee at our office who used a 3270 emulator in a DOS window (maximized to full screen) to access all the functionality of his up-to-date Windows/Intel computer.
Additionally, we had a receptionist who thought that because we were an IBM business partner it would be okay if instead of using our word processing and document management software (an IBM product) it would be okay if she just brought in her old IBM typewriter. She didn't last long, as we're a paperless office/document/content management consultant group.