There aren't many reasons at the moment to switch from Solaris to Linux on big-iron hardware. But tomorrow is another matter...
IBM is now marketing Linux as a big-iron OS and is actively selling S/390 mainframes with Linux. I believe that Linux now has a good chance of becoming the standard OS for big-iron systems - IBM and SGI first, then Compaq and HP, and finally Sun. Sun have switched Unixes before. I worked at Sun during the transition from SunOS 4 (BSD) to Solaris (SVR4). If they can do it once, they can do it again. Solaris is also gradually becoming more Linux-like, with a Linux compatability layer and Gnome. This could ease an eventual transition from Solaris to Linux. I'm not saying that this will happen, just that it's becoming increasingly likely.
You could also arguably equate the Valar and the Maiar to the norse Vanir and Aesir. OK, so they're not quite the same but there are some similarities.
I found it interesting to compare the Internet Wiretap translation of Beowulf with Heaney's translation. Wiretap is quite a literal translation, whilst Heaney is more poetic. I'd certainly recommend reading Heaney, especially if you've never read Beowulf before. Tolkien also published an essay on Beowulf entitled "The Monsters and the Critics", which I have not read, but have heard is excellent and was the cause of an academic reappraisal of Beowulf.
If you're into Tolkien and Arthurian legends, then you should definitely read Tolkiens translation of the mediaeval middle-english poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
The one reason I wont see the movie is i doubt it has those "adult jokes" like all of Pixar's movies have. You know, the sruff for the older crowd in the movie, thew stuff that flies over the kid's head.
Worse still, a lot of funny lines from the book - the kind that would make adults laugh - have been omitted from the film. I've no idea why, it seems crazy.
Despite this, I'd still recommend that you watch it before judging it. I thought that it was fantastic, despite several minor flaws.
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This sometimes happens, but remember that karma whores post comments that look decent but actually are not. Moderators who moderate karma whores down, get punished by meta-moderation.
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Another half hour would have done wonders
Total agreement. Another half-hour would have made it perfect. Though I do know adults who though it was too long (mainly for bladder-related reasons).
My vote (though I'm not actually voting) would go to the guy who originally developed the windowing system in question - Jim Gettys.
RMS does not understand compromise, which makes him totally unsuitable for this role.
Jim Gettys, as well as being one of the principle authors of the X Window System
HH is also the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification. I think that he'd be a good chice.
Everyone knows that all the slashdot losers are going to vote for Miguel or RMS since those are the only two "high profile" nerds on the list.
Nah, there's several other high-profile people on the list. I'm not going to name names, for fear of offending anyone. Check out the achievements of the candidates though - you may be suprised.
Linus has a very strong claim to being 'The father of Linux'. RMS would never claim to be the father of Open Source, since he hates the term. He's certainly the father of free software though.
I disagree with your statement that "claiming that you are the father of anything diminishes the hard work of lots and lots of people". These people are responsible for starting their respective projects and therefore should be classed as the 'fathers' of them. This does not in any way diminish the incredible effort made by thousands of other individuals.
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The Guardian isn't known as the Grauniad over here for nothing. It's famous for its typos. Try querying Google with Grauniad and you'll get www.guardian.co.uk as the first result!
Yes, I was joking about prior art. I've seen the work of Sergei Produkin-Gorskii, as I did some research recently into early colour photography. There's some truly amazing stuff out there. If you're interested then check out the Lumière Autochrome process too. It produces absolutely beautiful pictures (See www.autochrome.com)
A few years ago (back in the 1980's I think), I saw a science show on british TV, where a group of Ph.D. (graduate) students were building a robot to play snooker. They only had a black and white video camera and needed some way of recognising the colour of the snooker balls. Their solution was to carefully detect the grey level of each ball. I thought at the time that a better solution would be to use 3 filters in this way (perhaps on a rotating wheel in front of the camera), which would have given them colour images from a black and white camera. Can I claim prior art? Maybe I should have patented the idea:-)
Send a microsoft license agreement to your company's lawyers with the question "Can we sue them if the software fails?"
Look on the web for the (many) success stories from companies implementing free software and saving money by it.
Point out that Apache is free and has >60% market share of the internet.
Don't bother talking to middle managers. They aren't paid to think - that's why they're middle managers. Talk to senior management instead. If they can't think intelligently then your company is probably f***ed anyway.
This is what happending in IBM, the techies 'got' linux, so did the senior management. It was the middle management that couldn't understand why everone else was wild about it.
Torvalds is compared to Edison and Gates to Rockefeller. I'm not sure that either is very much like Torvalds. Edison was quite into marketing his ideas and wasn't beneath slandering his competitors (such as Tesla).
I'm sure that if Linux slandered Telsa, then Alan would have something to say about it <grin>.
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There aren't many reasons at the moment to switch from Solaris to Linux on big-iron hardware. But tomorrow is another matter...
IBM is now marketing Linux as a big-iron OS and is actively selling S/390 mainframes with Linux. I believe that Linux now has a good chance of becoming the standard OS for big-iron systems - IBM and SGI first, then Compaq and HP, and finally Sun. Sun have switched Unixes before. I worked at Sun during the transition from SunOS 4 (BSD) to Solaris (SVR4). If they can do it once, they can do it again. Solaris is also gradually becoming more Linux-like, with a Linux compatability layer and Gnome. This could ease an eventual transition from Solaris to Linux. I'm not saying that this will happen, just that it's becoming increasingly likely.
HH
You could also arguably equate the Valar and the Maiar to the norse Vanir and Aesir. OK, so they're not quite the same but there are some similarities.
HH
I found it interesting to compare the Internet Wiretap translation of Beowulf with Heaney's translation. Wiretap is quite a literal translation, whilst Heaney is more poetic. I'd certainly recommend reading Heaney, especially if you've never read Beowulf before. Tolkien also published an essay on Beowulf entitled "The Monsters and the Critics", which I have not read, but have heard is excellent and was the cause of an academic reappraisal of Beowulf.
HH
Not sure about Icelandic Sagas, but there's an Internet Wiretap edition of Beowulf which is available here.
Regards
HH
If you're into Tolkien and Arthurian legends, then you should definitely read Tolkiens translation of the mediaeval middle-english poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
HH
DVB does indeed use FEC. I think that the standard FEC ratio used by Sky in the UK is 2/3 (i.e. where n is 50% greater than m).
HH
Be nice if they implemented a similar system on PC games. Renting computer games for $0.00 would be way better than free music.
:-)
I'm going to invent this and patent it. I'll make a fortune from cd-roms that can't be played in computers. That'll stop people from warezing them
HH
The one reason I wont see the movie is i doubt it has those "adult jokes" like all of Pixar's movies have. You know, the sruff for the older crowd in the movie, thew stuff that flies over the kid's head.
Worse still, a lot of funny lines from the book - the kind that would make adults laugh - have been omitted from the film. I've no idea why, it seems crazy.
Despite this, I'd still recommend that you watch it before judging it. I thought that it was fantastic, despite several minor flaws.
HH
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This sometimes happens, but remember that karma whores post comments that look decent but actually are not. Moderators who moderate karma whores down, get punished by meta-moderation.
HH
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Another half hour would have done wonders
Total agreement. Another half-hour would have made it perfect. Though I do know adults who though it was too long (mainly for bladder-related reasons).
My advice: Pee just before seeing this film.
HH
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I might be wrong, but I believe the term "Witch" is reserved for the female variety. I always thought "Warlock" was the male reference.
You are indeed wrong. Witches can be both male and female (I'm actually a male witch). Warlock means 'oathbreaker' (it's an Anglo-Saxon word).
HH
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I refuse to buy the third and fourth in hardback
Hardback? They've both been out in paperback for ages, at least here in the UK.
HH
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It's unlikely, since they both live on different continents. The bus driver would have to be very determined.
HH
...can even work like a receptionist
What? You mean that it can file and paint it's nails, play windows solitaire and gossip on the phone?
HH
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According to this site [blinkenlights.com], the first personal computer was Simon
Yes, but the 'paperclip and tin-can' computer must be the coolest geek toy.
The story of the monopoly-playing geniac was fascinating too. Thanks for the link.
HH
My vote (though I'm not actually voting) would go to the guy who originally developed the windowing system in question - Jim Gettys.
RMS does not understand compromise, which makes him totally unsuitable for this role.
Jim Gettys, as well as being one of the principle authors of the X Window System
HH is also the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification. I think that he'd be a good chice.
HH
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Everyone knows that all the slashdot losers are going to vote for Miguel or RMS since those are the only two "high profile" nerds on the list.
Nah, there's several other high-profile people on the list. I'm not going to name names, for fear of offending anyone. Check out the achievements of the candidates though - you may be suprised.
HH
Linus has a very strong claim to being 'The father of Linux'. RMS would never claim to be the father of Open Source, since he hates the term. He's certainly the father of free software though.
I disagree with your statement that "claiming that you are the father of anything diminishes the hard work of lots and lots of people". These people are responsible for starting their respective projects and therefore should be classed as the 'fathers' of them. This does not in any way diminish the incredible effort made by thousands of other individuals.
HH
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Why is the name registered in "bad faith?"
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I'd say that's probably 'bad faith'.
HH
Is that how they spell "experimental" over there?
The Guardian isn't known as the Grauniad over here for nothing. It's famous for its typos. Try querying Google with Grauniad and you'll get www.guardian.co.uk as the first result!
HH
Yes, I was joking about prior art. I've seen the work of Sergei Produkin-Gorskii, as I did some research recently into early colour photography. There's some truly amazing stuff out there. If you're interested then check out the Lumière Autochrome process too. It produces absolutely beautiful pictures (See www.autochrome.com)
HH
A few years ago (back in the 1980's I think), I saw a science show on british TV, where a group of Ph.D. (graduate) students were building a robot to play snooker. They only had a black and white video camera and needed some way of recognising the colour of the snooker balls. Their solution was to carefully detect the grey level of each ball. I thought at the time that a better solution would be to use 3 filters in this way (perhaps on a rotating wheel in front of the camera), which would have given them colour images from a black and white camera. Can I claim prior art? Maybe I should have patented the idea :-)
HH
Send a microsoft license agreement to your company's lawyers with the question "Can we sue them if the software fails?"
Look on the web for the (many) success stories from companies implementing free software and saving money by it.
Point out that Apache is free and has >60% market share of the internet.
Don't bother talking to middle managers. They aren't paid to think - that's why they're middle managers. Talk to senior management instead. If they can't think intelligently then your company is probably f***ed anyway.
This is what happending in IBM, the techies 'got' linux, so did the senior management. It was the middle management that couldn't understand why everone else was wild about it.
HH
Oops, meant Linus, not Linux, but guess that you probably realised that.
HH
Torvalds is compared to Edison and Gates to Rockefeller. I'm not sure that either is very much like Torvalds. Edison was quite into marketing his ideas and wasn't beneath slandering his competitors (such as Tesla).
I'm sure that if Linux slandered Telsa, then Alan would have something to say about it <grin>.
HH