In that simpler time, when the kids did their little deed, it was indeed little. Not on a world broadcasting megaphone, casting their malicious acts around the world.
While I refuse to speculate on whether or not these kids and their parents "deserve" what they are getting, assuming that they did what they did, they do deserve more than a detention and a slap on the wrist. Treating our teenagers as if they are absolved of responsibility is one of the finest ways of actually ensuring that they are irresponsible.
In this particular case, it without question was defamatory, and is in fact libelous per se. This is an open and shut case. The parents will settle, then possibly kill their kids.
The headliner for this article is terrible grandstanding.
I was personally present at this conference and literally filled up an entire notebook front-to-back with notes.
The headliner makes it sound as if the vmware/virtual server take home points were somehow a major item of the show. No. It was so not important that it must have come up while I was on a piss break. It's not in my notes, and I heard no such remark.
I would think that the most interesting finding of the conference was the very large scale deployments virtualization (in all its forms, compute, storage, network, application, and a few odds and ends) in major organizations today.
And the reported survey findings were quite interesting. For example, virtualization is being used primarily for disaster recovery and the ease with which machines are provisioned... these ahead of consolodation.
Availability and reduced administration costs are also cited as top factors.
Now if you wanted it from the flip side, I'll tell you that VMWare has told me frankly that their most feared competitor is not Xen. It's Microsoft. They view Microsoft as their most probable rigorous competitor in the data center space (and this is the space they are targeted at, have no doubt about it).
Microsoft will have virtually everything VI3 has today in about 14-18 months. This will be "included" in their OS, as part of the Longhorn deployment. Considering the rather bracing cost of $2500 per CPU for VI3, VMWare should definitely be counting their blessings while they last.
Don't get me wrong. I happen to agree with the assessment that VMWare is 1) the best game in town, and 2) current worth every penny in ROI.
Virtualization is really an OS function, though. As Suse, Microsoft, and Redhat all well know.
BTW, Suse 10 includes Xen, has a vmotion like technology, and a failover capability as part of the standard Suse Cluster code.
VMWare offers you the ability to produce an entire synthetic network, computers, bridges, etc, all as a virtual environment within one computer. There is this issue of calling such a thing a "WAN". Obviously not. But "LAN". Well it's a kind of VLAN, but certainly not as the term is generally used.
My wife, a physician, has a coworker. While I do not know how to spell his last name, I am quite sure it's pronounced "Kills". "Hello, Dr. Kills, here's the schedule for your surgery." A surgeon named kills. Easy fodder for the Peanut gallery, but what can I say?
...not from some innocent third party like the bank...
The bank isn't a third party. They are one of the two parties involved in the transaction: the thief, and the bank.
I acknowledge your points about complexities of actually enforcing innocent third party protection here. The practical realities are two:
1) the banks in most states that I know of aren't required to do this, and 2) they actually do, generally, cover these sorts of losses.
In the mentioned incident where the lawsuit was threatened, I'd hazard a guess that they caved not due to fear of loss (the law sides with the banks, has a long precedence of siding with the banks), but rather fear of publicity. Publicity is practical. If people think their money isn't secure when they put it into the bank, they won't put it there.
Shooting from the hip, I'd say the best way of handling these things is make the banks cover a dollar figure below a certain amount, and use something like the FDIC for dollar figures larger.
Fourthly, because there is just a slight chance that Sun will decide to make the JVM more flexible and amenable to languages other than Java.
I actually find this to be the most promising aspect of this announcment. Not really surprising, considering the marketing speak M$ has been going thru lately regarding improving the CLR for dynamic languages, and what's happening with Iron Python (on.NET). I'm glad to see both of the main VM-based languages out there pushing towards a friendly environment for dynamics languages.
That scene, in the early part of the movie, was a really impressive bit of work. You could see the skin of the plane shudder and deform as the built up descent energy of the plane compresses against the nose. That was one freakin' awesome bit of CGI.
My wife, a disaster physician, has a great deal of contact with international medicine. Basically, the rule of thumb for american physicians, is this: if you have a serious medical difficulty in anything less than a top-of-the-line first world country, pay the expense, any expense, to travel to one. Including chartered helicopter by air, if that is what's required. That is, if you care about the life of your loved ones.
No. There's some element of cheap, plus English speaking. But of course, otherwise you are right. Cost is everything. You do not, of course, have to make a western wage to live and settle there. You have to make a wage that will buy you a cool house and more than cover your expenses. There is, of course, the little matter of ever returning home...
Now you release a closed-source plug-in. That's not fine, since the plug-in is a derived work of the GPL'd plug-in system; it won't work without it.
What you seem to be saying is that Microsoft owns every ActiveX component ever written. ActiveX is a form of "plugin," and you are saying that plugins are derived works.
I object! And do not agree: a plugin is not a derived work of the plugin system.
Further, a point of order: the GPL does not define what it covers, really. Only the law does. The GPL covers whatever the law believes is a derived work. I don't believe that the law is going to back you up here.
In my area of the world, there was a famous white supremacist who was always squeaky clean. Eventually, one of the kids who hung out with him on occasion killed someone. The family sued the white supremacist for "contributory" reasons, and won. They took everything he owned.
Easy enough. Do the same thing here. Go after the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) for encouraging this kind of thing. It's right on their website, the masks, clearly instruments of anonymity and terror. Take 'em down, they have it coming.
You can get GIGE on copper. No company has the headend capacity to run even GIGE for all their customers. The only use for all this fantastic curb bandwidth is stuff the headend caches. Which, I suppose, could be Akamai like nodes and other big proxy caches and what not, so the bandwidth isn't utterly a waste.
I hate to break it to you bud, but the few professional lisp programmers that are around today routinely program in a completely imperative and OO style.
In the lobstered head to toe sense, you're right. No, there wasn't. However, near the end there, 18th century, I think, there were pikers that wore a lot of plate. Breast plate and sallet helm kind of stuff.
A navigation bar, a banner, the main content, a link-box, and a footer, for example, could all be defined in a webpage such that as soon as the render saw that there exists five elements on the page each element is spun off to a different core to be handled.
Well. You haven't said enough, yet, to illustrate how it could be parallelized. The fact of the next section needs to be parsed out to determine its existence. I'm supposing that if, when written out, some (always correct) clues were written about the byte position of the parallel elements, that might work (because you could stride forward to the position in a sub thread without parsing), but that would completely and forever remove the possibility of hand written web pages ever again.
As an AMD investor, I sure wish that Intel had agreed with you more passionately. See... if Intel hadn't made the jump to 64 bit, I think that AMD's recent market share gains in the enterprise server space would have put Intel out of business in the enterprise server space. Completely.
OTOH, I'll grant that the CURRENT desktop market doesn't need 8-core chips.
I would agree. I think, however, that changes require to take proper advantage of four core systems, will lead naturally to the usefulness of 8 core systems. Right now, you buy a two core systems, you get better system responsiveness, without any OS or software changes at all. Four total cores, on the desktop, is more dubious. Once the various software companies get used to people having four cores... well, they'll likely be writing code that does something like detect the number of cores present and launches a matching scaled quantity of threads. This change will make it so that future systems will benefit from any number of additional cores.
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In that simpler time, when the kids did their little deed, it was indeed little. Not on a world broadcasting megaphone, casting their malicious acts around the world.
While I refuse to speculate on whether or not these kids and their parents "deserve" what they are getting, assuming that they did what they did, they do deserve more than a detention and a slap on the wrist. Treating our teenagers as if they are absolved of responsibility is one of the finest ways of actually ensuring that they are irresponsible.
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In this particular case, it without question was defamatory, and is in fact libelous per se. This is an open and shut case. The parents will settle, then possibly kill their kids.
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The headliner for this article is terrible grandstanding.
I was personally present at this conference and literally filled up an entire notebook front-to-back with notes.
The headliner makes it sound as if the vmware/virtual server take home points were somehow a major item of the show. No. It was so not important that it must have come up while I was on a piss break. It's not in my notes, and I heard no such remark.
I would think that the most interesting finding of the conference was the very large scale deployments virtualization (in all its forms, compute, storage, network, application, and a few odds and ends) in major organizations today.
And the reported survey findings were quite interesting. For example, virtualization is being used primarily for disaster recovery and the ease with which machines are provisioned... these ahead of consolodation.
Availability and reduced administration costs are also cited as top factors.
Now if you wanted it from the flip side, I'll tell you that VMWare has told me frankly that their most feared competitor is not Xen. It's Microsoft. They view Microsoft as their most probable rigorous competitor in the data center space (and this is the space they are targeted at, have no doubt about it).
Microsoft will have virtually everything VI3 has today in about 14-18 months. This will be "included" in their OS, as part of the Longhorn deployment. Considering the rather bracing cost of $2500 per CPU for VI3, VMWare should definitely be counting their blessings while they last.
Don't get me wrong. I happen to agree with the assessment that VMWare is 1) the best game in town, and 2) current worth every penny in ROI.
Virtualization is really an OS function, though. As Suse, Microsoft, and Redhat all well know.
BTW, Suse 10 includes Xen, has a vmotion like technology, and a failover capability as part of the standard Suse Cluster code.
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VMWare offers you the ability to produce an entire synthetic network, computers, bridges, etc, all as a virtual environment within one computer. There is this issue of calling such a thing a "WAN". Obviously not. But "LAN". Well it's a kind of VLAN, but certainly not as the term is generally used.
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Funny? You call dat funny.
My wife, a physician, has a coworker. While I do not know how to spell his last name, I am quite sure it's pronounced "Kills". "Hello, Dr. Kills, here's the schedule for your surgery." A surgeon named kills. Easy fodder for the Peanut gallery, but what can I say?
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And you would give the camera operators reason to arrest you - making an obscene comment or gesture is an arrestable offence.
Sure. This is a concern when you have no balls, yes.
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...in this case however there is no way to respond, ...
Of course there is a way to respond.
With a gesture.
Here, in America, it would be one great big middle finger.
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...not from some innocent third party like the bank...
The bank isn't a third party. They are one of the two parties involved in the transaction: the thief, and the bank.
I acknowledge your points about complexities of actually enforcing innocent third party protection here. The practical realities are two:
1) the banks in most states that I know of aren't required to do this, and
2) they actually do, generally, cover these sorts of losses.
In the mentioned incident where the lawsuit was threatened, I'd hazard a guess that they caved not due to fear of loss (the law sides with the banks, has a long precedence of siding with the banks), but rather fear of publicity.
Publicity is practical. If people think their money isn't secure when they put it into the bank, they won't put it there.
Shooting from the hip, I'd say the best way of handling these things is make the banks cover a dollar figure below a certain amount, and use something like the FDIC for dollar figures larger.
C//
Fourthly, because there is just a slight chance that Sun will decide to make the JVM more flexible and amenable to languages other than Java.
.NET). I'm glad to see both of the main VM-based languages out there pushing towards a friendly environment for dynamics languages.
I actually find this to be the most promising aspect of this announcment. Not really surprising, considering the marketing speak M$ has been going thru lately regarding improving the CLR for dynamic languages, and what's happening with Iron Python (on
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That scene, in the early part of the movie, was a really impressive bit of work. You could see the skin of the plane shudder and deform as the built up descent energy of the plane compresses against the nose. That was one freakin' awesome bit of CGI.
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*LAUGH*
You've never heard of Lasix.
My wife, a disaster physician, has a great deal of contact with international medicine. Basically, the rule of thumb for american physicians, is this: if you have a serious medical difficulty in anything less than a top-of-the-line first world country, pay the expense, any expense, to travel to one. Including chartered helicopter by air, if that is what's required. That is, if you care about the life of your loved ones.
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No. There's some element of cheap, plus English speaking. But of course, otherwise you are right. Cost is everything. You do not, of course, have to make a western wage to live and settle there. You have to make a wage that will buy you a cool house and more than cover your expenses. There is, of course, the little matter of ever returning home...
C//
Now you release a closed-source plug-in. That's not fine, since the plug-in is a derived work of the GPL'd plug-in system; it won't work without it.
What you seem to be saying is that Microsoft owns every ActiveX component ever written. ActiveX is a form of "plugin," and you are saying that plugins are derived works.
I object! And do not agree: a plugin is not a derived work of the plugin system.
Further, a point of order: the GPL does not define what it covers, really. Only the law does. The GPL covers whatever the law believes is a derived work. I don't believe that the law is going to back you up here.
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It's written right here in the summary : commercial Linux.
So you just have to ask Redhat, Mandriva, Suse...
Not true! I can install my commercial linux several times without telling them. This "commercial linux" is nevertheless still GPL'd!!!!
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In my area of the world, there was a famous white supremacist who was always squeaky clean. Eventually, one of the kids who hung out with him on occasion killed someone. The family sued the white supremacist for "contributory" reasons, and won. They took everything he owned.
Easy enough. Do the same thing here. Go after the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) for encouraging this kind of thing. It's right on their website, the masks, clearly instruments of anonymity and terror. Take 'em down, they have it coming.
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This is tooooo easy. Here's what you do:
Tell the police that if they don't act, you'll get a subpoena, a gun, and go in and personally repossess your stolen laptop yourself.
They'll be interested, all of a sudden like.
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You can get GIGE on copper. No company has the headend capacity to run even GIGE for all their customers. The only use for all this fantastic curb bandwidth is stuff the headend caches. Which, I suppose, could be Akamai like nodes and other big proxy caches and what not, so the bandwidth isn't utterly a waste.
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I hate to break it to you bud, but the few professional lisp programmers that are around today routinely program in a completely imperative and OO style.
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In the lobstered head to toe sense, you're right. No, there wasn't. However, near the end there, 18th century, I think, there were pikers that wore a lot of plate. Breast plate and sallet helm kind of stuff.
C//
A navigation bar, a banner, the main content, a link-box, and a footer, for example, could all be defined in a webpage such that as soon as the render saw that there exists five elements on the page each element is spun off to a different core to be handled.
Well. You haven't said enough, yet, to illustrate how it could be parallelized. The fact of the next section needs to be parsed out to determine its existence. I'm supposing that if, when written out, some (always correct) clues were written about the byte position of the parallel elements, that might work (because you could stride forward to the position in a sub thread without parsing), but that would completely and forever remove the possibility of hand written web pages ever again.
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Almost nobody needs 64bit chips.
As an AMD investor, I sure wish that Intel had agreed with you more passionately. See... if Intel hadn't made the jump to 64 bit, I think that AMD's recent market share gains in the enterprise server space would have put Intel out of business in the enterprise server space. Completely.
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OTOH, I'll grant that the CURRENT desktop market doesn't need 8-core chips.
I would agree. I think, however, that changes require to take proper advantage of four core systems, will lead naturally to the usefulness of 8 core systems. Right now, you buy a two core systems, you get better system responsiveness, without any OS or software changes at all. Four total cores, on the desktop, is more dubious. Once the various software companies get used to people having four cores... well, they'll likely be writing code that does something like detect the number of cores present and launches a matching scaled quantity of threads. This change will make it so that future systems will benefit from any number of additional cores.
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You never have to worry about memory stomps, or critical sections.
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There are global resources (like files) that one must pay attention to, regardless.
But yes. Yours is a valid approach. One can do this in a container, or not. For example, simply in different (real) programs.
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The Intel guys were right. What are the uses of 64 bit systems?
Data centers, bud. No one is interested in running Oracle on anything except x86 these days.
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