But... isn't that the responsibility of the Executive branch of the federal government? Can he/they honestly refuse to not enforce the law? I mean legally of course... lord knows Bush thinks he's entitled to do damn near anything these days...
My company does turns the 'frames over every 18-24 months for around $2M. To me at least, it seems like $800M would've kept them on the cutting edge of z/Series tech for oh, say, 400 years?
That's odd... just checked my payment history on 'Sparks, and it shows 2 reloads in July, the first of which was 2 days after AllofMP3 was shut down (July 2).
...just changed names for a bit (to MP3sparks.com). I had a balance on AllofMP3, heard that 'sparks was a front, so I logged on using my 'MP3 ID and, sure enough, they'd "transferred" my balance. And guess what? Alltunes (their download tool) never stopped working either, and without me having to change a single setting.
Seems to me someone left out another viable alternative.... especially since we just had that article last week about IBM consolidating several hundred PCs into a handful of Big Iron boxen...
Erroneous, illogical, and damaging to your argument. For one thing, you've altered the context (adult:adult vs. student:teacher), in an attempt to make a strawman statement that (to you, at least) seems less defendable. For another, your scenario uses no 'dirty' words at all, which is the whole point of this article. This alone would seem to invalidate your argument.
You have, in fact, provided an excellent example of how foul language has no causal relationship to rude behavior (or vice versa).
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you will;) ), but I haven't seen native microcode (BIOS in the PC world) partitioning in a PC yet. Sure, you can run multiple VMs under your OS of choice, but how about the ability to segregate your system resources and run multiple logical partitions natively, side-by-side, with no underlying VM engine?
x86 MIPS aren't the same as mainframe MIPS. Perhaps the more accurate term would have been zMIPS or kMIPS (kilo-million instructions per second). Check out the link for more info:
From the article: And what of that old mainframe? It's still around, but Isiminger wouldn't say exactly what it was up to. It operates in a "reduced capacity," he said.
LOL... anyone else think they just created a HTTP server farm to frontend the data, using WebSphere, MQSeries, and/or DB2 Universal as the backend (all still running on the mainframe)?
We still have a 2066 in our shop. According to my power charts, the 2066 rates approximately 77 MIPS. If the Dells are giving a 70% performance increase, that means roughly 130 MIPS, or 1.1 MIPS per server.
In comparison, our standard model mainframe (a 2084) kicks up about 1600 MPS. Assuming the performance numbers for the Dell grid were to scale (the safe money says it doesn't), that translates into almost 1450 Dells. Keep in mind, that's not even a top of the line mainframe...
Let's not even start on hardware maintenance (which would you rather do: hot swap a power supply on 1 system, or 25?), network overhead, shared DASD, coupling facilities and RRS (think: Beowulf clusters).
[i]It would be intresting to see exactly what the cost to implement a new lameframe system with equivalent performance would cost. ANybody got some rough numbers?[/i]
That's kind of like asking "how much would a brand new 386 system cost to replace this old 386?".
According to my mainframe hardware charts, my company still has a 2066, which we use for an extremely low-volume business unit. The 2066-02 is pushing 10 years old, uses a 2 engine CPU complex (think SMP), and has a processing power rating of ~77 MIPS. For comparison, our standard box is a 2084 with an 8 engine complex, and a power rating of ~1600 MIPS.
Think of it this way; if someone told you they'd replaced a 386 with a handful of Palm pilots, would you really be impressed?
In 1995, Computer Associates (now known as CA) bought up nearly every third party MVS (IBM's mainframe OS) application. In the industry, it was seen as the death knell of the mainframe; it reduced the choice of software vendors down to 2 monolithic companies. On the one side, you had IBM with their over-complicated software (a study once found that the average IBM manual read at the post-grad level) selling at loss-leader prices. On the other side, you had CA buying up their competitors, then announcing those products were being twilighted in favor of their own 'best-of-breed' (read: 'largest profit margin') software.
While the IE team touted the cake as 'new and innovative', after further investigation, the Firefox team discovered that Microsoft had used ingredients that originally appeared in Mozilla cakes several years earlier.
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That's just unnatural...
But... isn't that the responsibility of the Executive branch of the federal government? Can he/they honestly refuse to not enforce the law? I mean legally of course... lord knows Bush thinks he's entitled to do damn near anything these days...
My company does turns the 'frames over every 18-24 months for around $2M. To me at least, it seems like $800M would've kept them on the cutting edge of z/Series tech for oh, say, 400 years?
Microsoft owes everything it has to Unix, since C was created for Unix, and Windows couldn't have been written with C...
That's odd... just checked my payment history on 'Sparks, and it shows 2 reloads in July, the first of which was 2 days after AllofMP3 was shut down (July 2).
You sure about that? I was able to drop $25 onto my balance easily enough during the 'freeze'...
...just changed names for a bit (to MP3sparks.com). I had a balance on AllofMP3, heard that 'sparks was a front, so I logged on using my 'MP3 ID and, sure enough, they'd "transferred" my balance. And guess what? Alltunes (their download tool) never stopped working either, and without me having to change a single setting.
Seems to me someone left out another viable alternative.... especially since we just had that article last week about IBM consolidating several hundred PCs into a handful of Big Iron boxen...
I can just imagine it...
$100 million awarded to the lawyers, and anyone who can provide a copy of a Cease & Desist letter gets 1 free iTunes download.
....vas Moose and Squirrel?
Erroneous, illogical, and damaging to your argument. For one thing, you've altered the context (adult:adult vs. student:teacher), in an attempt to make a strawman statement that (to you, at least) seems less defendable. For another, your scenario uses no 'dirty' words at all, which is the whole point of this article. This alone would seem to invalidate your argument.
You have, in fact, provided an excellent example of how foul language has no causal relationship to rude behavior (or vice versa).
Thank you for your support.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm sure you will ;) ), but I haven't seen native microcode (BIOS in the PC world) partitioning in a PC yet. Sure, you can run multiple VMs under your OS of choice, but how about the ability to segregate your system resources and run multiple logical partitions natively, side-by-side, with no underlying VM engine?
Note also that those are the purchase prices, not the lease price.
While I refer to the numbers as MIPS, technically, on mainframes they're called zMIPS, or kMIPS (kilo-million instructions per second). Therefore,
77 (mainframe) MIPS = 77 (IBM) zMIPS = 77000 (x86) MIPS
My apologies for not being clearer.
Unfortunately, I'm just a technician; I leave the dollar amounts and funny money dealings to the lower lifeforms (a.k.a. MBAs).
x86 MIPS aren't the same as mainframe MIPS. Perhaps the more accurate term would have been zMIPS or kMIPS (kilo-million instructions per second). Check out the link for more info:
_ per_second
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_instructions
From the article:
And what of that old mainframe? It's still around, but Isiminger wouldn't say exactly what it was up to. It operates in a "reduced capacity," he said.
LOL... anyone else think they just created a HTTP server farm to frontend the data, using WebSphere, MQSeries, and/or DB2 Universal as the backend (all still running on the mainframe)?
We still have a 2066 in our shop. According to my power charts, the 2066 rates approximately 77 MIPS. If the Dells are giving a 70% performance increase, that means roughly 130 MIPS, or 1.1 MIPS per server.
In comparison, our standard model mainframe (a 2084) kicks up about 1600 MPS. Assuming the performance numbers for the Dell grid were to scale (the safe money says it doesn't), that translates into almost 1450 Dells. Keep in mind, that's not even a top of the line mainframe...
Let's not even start on hardware maintenance (which would you rather do: hot swap a power supply on 1 system, or 25?), network overhead, shared DASD, coupling facilities and RRS (think: Beowulf clusters).
[i]It would be intresting to see exactly what the cost to implement a new lameframe system with equivalent performance would cost. ANybody got some rough numbers?[/i]
That's kind of like asking "how much would a brand new 386 system cost to replace this old 386?".
According to my mainframe hardware charts, my company still has a 2066, which we use for an extremely low-volume business unit. The 2066-02 is pushing 10 years old, uses a 2 engine CPU complex (think SMP), and has a processing power rating of ~77 MIPS. For comparison, our standard box is a 2084 with an 8 engine complex, and a power rating of ~1600 MIPS.
Think of it this way; if someone told you they'd replaced a 386 with a handful of Palm pilots, would you really be impressed?
Before you flame NSF, check out the parent post....
In 1995, Computer Associates (now known as CA) bought up nearly every third party MVS (IBM's mainframe OS) application. In the industry, it was seen as the death knell of the mainframe; it reduced the choice of software vendors down to 2 monolithic companies. On the one side, you had IBM with their over-complicated software (a study once found that the average IBM manual read at the post-grad level) selling at loss-leader prices. On the other side, you had CA buying up their competitors, then announcing those products were being twilighted in favor of their own 'best-of-breed' (read: 'largest profit margin') software.
I heard Microsoft was originally going to book the entire Firefox dev team on Oceanic flight 815....
While the IE team touted the cake as 'new and innovative', after further investigation, the Firefox team discovered that Microsoft had used ingredients that originally appeared in Mozilla cakes several years earlier.
In these situations, I ask myself:
WWBSD?
(What Would Burt Schnick Do?)
Hey, remember back in the '90s, when you thought vinyl was dead? Well, we're selling just as many now as we did then! Hoopla, Janet!