measuring by per capita? WTF!?! China probably has 4-5 times the population as the US, so the total output probably isn't that much different. Allowing China to get to 1.5 or 2 would mean a major increase in CO2 being released.
You didn't happen to work on the Kyoto draft committee, did you?
China can say how great their accomplishment is, but the fact remains that most of their stuff is refurb Russian hardware. It would be like the US selling Mexico or Brazil some old equipment. (Actually, it would not be a bad idea for the US to start using some of the simpler, proven tech to send people into space.)
What I'm surprised at is why the Europeans haven't done this before? They've been launching satellites for years. What's stopping them from putting a guy in a capsule and putting it in orbit?
At that point all of SCO's IP and legal assets transfer to the canopy group. Who wants to bet that caldera is waiting in in the wings for this.
Um..The SCO Group is Caldera. They changed the name after Caldera bought the Unix biz from the old SCO company (which changed its name to Tarantella). This was probably after Love and the other old Caldera people left to form UnitedLinux. I'm not sure, but someone here probably has the timeline.
It's a private company, so they can't buy them out if the owners don't want to sell. Eolas wants MS to pay the fine and then sign a license agreement. Typical Microsoft response: license revenue is what other companies give to us, so find a way to weasel out.
It is interesting that the founder wrote a book on tcl/tk and another owner used to be a FBI agent.
Been there, done that. What are you using for your serial port card? Many of the older ones may not be supported in the latest kernels, so you may have to find an old driver and port it yourself. It may be easier to just replace them with a terminal server. As far as the C apps go, a lot of it depends on how closely they were coded to POSIX standards. However, you will still have some problems. For example, gcc is not as forgiving as SCO's compiler. You will find some code that works fine under SCO, but may cause unexpected results on linux w/ gcc because a block of memory wasn't automagically zeroed out by the compiler. Or a curses program works fine under SCO and crashes under linux because ncurses doesn't like it when you try to clear a window that was deleted. Those are examples of sloppy programming, so in those cases, porting to linux makes the code better. However, you will also run across things such as how signal() is interpreted. On Linux, I believe these restart system calls by default and on OpenServer, they did not. So if you have code that depends on a signal to interrupt a pause() or something, it needs to be changed to use sigaction() remove the SA_RESTART flag.
But with the Linux ABI project, you can run many SCO C apps as long as they don't require some SCO specific or 3rd party dynamic libraries. Install the module and they can run unchanged. They may have problems if they fork off other OS utilities, because some of the command line arguments do not match.
Conversion is also an issue, but since it's only one server, you can probably just make a few backups of the data, install linux, load new versions of the custom programs, and reload the data. For many of the chains, that may be very labor intensive. However, if enough disk space is available it is possible to remotely install a fully functional linux installation, new programs, and copy data to linux partitions from SCO-land. Reboot and restart as a linux box.
I don't doubt that it would be a while before 1U G5s show up, but a 2U server would be better than just stacking deskside towers on a bunch of shelves. Good point about not having something new for a while. Maybe the university didn't want to wait.
It would be cool if instead of announcing a machine and then waiting a couple months for it to show up, Apple could have gotten the school to wait, secretly install a slew of rackmount G5s, and then have Jobs and the univ big wigs unveil them at a ceremony the next day in the server room.
Sorry, but according to pricewatch, dual opteron motherboards start around $400 and the lowend SMP capable Opteron starts at about $250. So you're going to be looking at least $1000 for the cheapest Opteron machine that is somewhat the same sort of configuration as these G5s. Unfortunately, the G5 would be able to kick the snot out of such a machine. Use the 246 Opterons and now you're talking about a machine in the $2000-$2500 range. That's the type of machine these guys would want.
From looking at these pictures, all I kept thinking was: what a bunch of wasted space and under used equipment. As a compute node, what use is wi-fi, bluetooth, USB, audio subsystem, etc. If they have video cards, is the graphics processor & memory going to be used as some sort of coprocessor? If not, that's a waste too.
Apple was stupid to not create a G5 version of their rack mountable XServe machine. It would be a better fit for what these people want to do.
Not to mention the housing costs that are much lower than the sky-high CA costs. You will be able to buy a friggin mansion in NE with the proceeds of selling your little 2 bedroom house in CA. Crime is also much, much lower and the education system isn't in a mess like CA's
The Newsforge people called someone in Detroit. The Register article is referencing an article in a Scottish newspaper. It's quite possible that Ford's UK divisions or all of Ford's European divisions are switching to Linux and the people in Detroit know nothing about it.
But 20% isn't that much. I'm sure the universities will try to find another source of cheap labor that they can exploit. Maybe this will fuel underground human cloning.
2) I don't fit in most cars comfortably (I'm 6'5", and trucks are about all I easily can drive)
Unless you weigh 350+ lbs, I'd say that's bullshit. I had a couple friends in college that were your height and they had no problem driving a regular car or even a compact. Unless you are pulling heavy trailers or LOTS of cargo, the mini-pickups are sufficient for most people. As far as safety goes, you're going to be SOL if you hit another fullsized truck, SUV, or stationary object. The stiffer frame is going to transfer more of the impact of the crash to your internal organs and smash them against your skeleton. If you are really paranoid, why don't you just drive an armored personnel carrier?
this link shows how much goes to gas taxes in different parts of the world. The gas company isn't a monopoly, nor are you subsidizing them. That would imply that you are paying excessive amounts over the normal free market price of fuel. They are offering you a product for sale, and you are buying it - at a price after adjusted for inflation that's cheaper than what your parents paid in 1980. They can only dream of having 1/2 the profit margin percentage that Microsoft does.
Indeed, DARPA often seems to act as if the Cold War never ended, propositioning or transitioning grandiose projects that have no foes capable of fighting them.
Oh, yeah, like we should stop and wait until someone catches up. Whether in the military, business, sports, etc. it is NEVER, EVER a good idea to stop and rest on your laurels. To do so, you insure that someone is going to pass you by when you least expect it. The only thing I can think of why these bleeding hearts what this to stop is that they want our enemies to win.
If the Village Voice thinks it's bad to take the DoD's money for research, then it (and any of its supporters) should pony up and pay the scientists so that the DoD is not the only game in town.
I don't see how this is a bad idea. Technological advances have always come from the military. What? They want people getting killed instead of just robots being destroyed?
Unless the Federal Reserve, consumers, or some other entity forces them to implement something, why would a bank (or any other business) do something that is not convenient for them? Unless, there is a PHB in charge, most organizations don't do something that is not going to benefit them unless they are being forced to do so by outside legal or market pressure. I would also imagine that getting all the banks to cooperate in a country of 8+ million people is a bit easier than one the size of the US (greater number of competing interests). Or maybe they were all trained by those legendary bankers from neighboring Switzerland.
I hope you enjoy your stay. Did you renounce US citizenship too, or are you going to bounce back and forth between nations as long as it is convenient for you?
Electronic transfers in and out of bank accounts via debit cards or ACH transfers isn't good enough? Also, guess which is the most expensive way for a retailer to take payment? Cash! It's more difficult to keep track of due to 'sticky fingers' or just plain incompetance. One also has to take the time and risk of transferring it to a bank or hiring an armored car service to pick it up.
Our economy is as vibrant as it is because it's not planned. Bureaucracies are notoriously inefficient when it comes to such planning. Federal, state, and local governments waste billions a year because of it. There is no real way that any bureaucracy can anticipate the actions of a few hundred million people.
Whether you like it or not, usary and the increased value of money over time is a good thing. It gives incentives to those with capital to temporarily give it to those who need it in order to grow businesses, own a home, etc. Otherwise, the poor would have an extremely hard time rising above their situation and the rich would stay rich unless they were robbed. That's one of the reasons behind the massive amounts of unemployment in the Arab world. Their religion forbids usary and as a result entreprenuers have a much harder time getting capital. The concept of 'micro-loans' in India is helping industrious people pull themselves out of poverty. Again, this is something a centrally planned, top down economy can't really anticipate, no matter how wired it is. Stop watching Star Trek.
As, I expected, the 'dropped samples bit-for-bit perfect' issue was all about the initial crappy firmware. In this message, your man Jamie claims it's bit-for-bit perfect and makes DAT obsolete. But a few days later, the problems crop back up again. All of which is very odd and runs counter to my experience and that of other people I know. It seems it's a love it or hate it device.
Sorry. I still say he's full of it. Sure, the Nomad doesn't have the hardware to compensate for when the gain is set too high or when the input gets painfully loud unexpectedly. In that case, the audio will get clipped. With a little practice, that can be avoided. The device is still something that I can lock the UI, slip into a pocket, and enjoy the show. I don't want to bring damn near as much shit as the band does to a show, or worry about some drunk accidentally spill their beer on a laptop.
Audiophile already implies someone who's anal and has lots of $$$ for equipment that produces output that 99.9% of the population can't discern the from something that costs 1/10 as much. I'm neither. It's something to do for fun.
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measuring by per capita? WTF!?! China probably has 4-5 times the population as the US, so the total output probably isn't that much different. Allowing China to get to 1.5 or 2 would mean a major increase in CO2 being released.
You didn't happen to work on the Kyoto draft committee, did you?
But IBM has no where near the profit margin MSFT has. Mainly because it's creating products that have significant R&D and production costs.
Are you allowed to kill innocent babies if you like it?
yes. It's called being a doctor that specializes in abortions.
China can say how great their accomplishment is, but the fact remains that most of their stuff is refurb Russian hardware. It would be like the US selling Mexico or Brazil some old equipment. (Actually, it would not be a bad idea for the US to start using some of the simpler, proven tech to send people into space.)
What I'm surprised at is why the Europeans haven't done this before? They've been launching satellites for years. What's stopping them from putting a guy in a capsule and putting it in orbit?
At that point all of SCO's IP and legal assets transfer to the canopy group. Who wants to bet that caldera is waiting in in the wings for this.
Um..The SCO Group is Caldera. They changed the name after Caldera bought the Unix biz from the old SCO company (which changed its name to Tarantella). This was probably after Love and the other old Caldera people left to form UnitedLinux. I'm not sure, but someone here probably has the timeline.
It's a private company, so they can't buy them out if the owners don't want to sell. Eolas wants MS to pay the fine and then sign a license agreement. Typical Microsoft response: license revenue is what other companies give to us, so find a way to weasel out.
It is interesting that the founder wrote a book on tcl/tk and another owner used to be a FBI agent.
Been there, done that. What are you using for your serial port card? Many of the older ones may not be supported in the latest kernels, so you may have to find an old driver and port it yourself. It may be easier to just replace them with a terminal server. As far as the C apps go, a lot of it depends on how closely they were coded to POSIX standards. However, you will still have some problems. For example, gcc is not as forgiving as SCO's compiler. You will find some code that works fine under SCO, but may cause unexpected results on linux w/ gcc because a block of memory wasn't automagically zeroed out by the compiler. Or a curses program works fine under SCO and crashes under linux because ncurses doesn't like it when you try to clear a window that was deleted. Those are examples of sloppy programming, so in those cases, porting to linux makes the code better. However, you will also run across things such as how signal() is interpreted. On Linux, I believe these restart system calls by default and on OpenServer, they did not. So if you have code that depends on a signal to interrupt a pause() or something, it needs to be changed to use sigaction() remove the SA_RESTART flag.
But with the Linux ABI project, you can run many SCO C apps as long as they don't require some SCO specific or 3rd party dynamic libraries. Install the module and they can run unchanged. They may have problems if they fork off other OS utilities, because some of the command line arguments do not match.
Conversion is also an issue, but since it's only one server, you can probably just make a few backups of the data, install linux, load new versions of the custom programs, and reload the data. For many of the chains, that may be very labor intensive. However, if enough disk space is available it is possible to remotely install a fully functional linux installation, new programs, and copy data to linux partitions from SCO-land. Reboot and restart as a linux box.
The product web page mentions that it can do realtime mp3 encoding. Can it record to WAVs too? I would be interested in something like that.
So does every other linux distribution unless you install other users.
I don't doubt that it would be a while before 1U G5s show up, but a 2U server would be better than just stacking deskside towers on a bunch of shelves. Good point about not having something new for a while. Maybe the university didn't want to wait.
It would be cool if instead of announcing a machine and then waiting a couple months for it to show up, Apple could have gotten the school to wait, secretly install a slew of rackmount G5s, and then have Jobs and the univ big wigs unveil them at a ceremony the next day in the server room.
Sorry, but according to pricewatch, dual opteron motherboards start around $400 and the lowend SMP capable Opteron starts at about $250. So you're going to be looking at least $1000 for the cheapest Opteron machine that is somewhat the same sort of configuration as these G5s. Unfortunately, the G5 would be able to kick the snot out of such a machine. Use the 246 Opterons and now you're talking about a machine in the $2000-$2500 range. That's the type of machine these guys would want.
From looking at these pictures, all I kept thinking was: what a bunch of wasted space and under used equipment. As a compute node, what use is wi-fi, bluetooth, USB, audio subsystem, etc. If they have video cards, is the graphics processor & memory going to be used as some sort of coprocessor? If not, that's a waste too.
Apple was stupid to not create a G5 version of their rack mountable XServe machine. It would be a better fit for what these people want to do.
Not to mention the housing costs that are much lower than the sky-high CA costs. You will be able to buy a friggin mansion in NE with the proceeds of selling your little 2 bedroom house in CA. Crime is also much, much lower and the education system isn't in a mess like CA's
The Newsforge people called someone in Detroit. The Register article is referencing an article in a Scottish newspaper. It's quite possible that Ford's UK divisions or all of Ford's European divisions are switching to Linux and the people in Detroit know nothing about it.
But 20% isn't that much. I'm sure the universities will try to find another source of cheap labor that they can exploit. Maybe this will fuel underground human cloning.
2) I don't fit in most cars comfortably (I'm 6'5", and trucks are about all I easily can drive)
Unless you weigh 350+ lbs, I'd say that's bullshit. I had a couple friends in college that were your height and they had no problem driving a regular car or even a compact. Unless you are pulling heavy trailers or LOTS of cargo, the mini-pickups are sufficient for most people. As far as safety goes, you're going to be SOL if you hit another fullsized truck, SUV, or stationary object. The stiffer frame is going to transfer more of the impact of the crash to your internal organs and smash them against your skeleton. If you are really paranoid, why don't you just drive an armored personnel carrier?
You will see trucks and SUVs in Europe too. However, they are driven by the people that *need* them, not by people who just *want* them.
The fact is, it is high.
No it's not. It's still cheap. The price of gas in 1980 was well over $2/gal in 2003 dollars. The $1.70 or so is still cheap, cheap, cheap.
this link shows how much goes to gas taxes in different parts of the world. The gas company isn't a monopoly, nor are you subsidizing them. That would imply that you are paying excessive amounts over the normal free market price of fuel. They are offering you a product for sale, and you are buying it - at a price after adjusted for inflation that's cheaper than what your parents paid in 1980. They can only dream of having 1/2 the profit margin percentage that Microsoft does.
Wow...I didn't realize there was only 1 fuel company...I thought the original anti-trust laws were supposed to have broke up the oil monopolies.
I guess this chart that the BBC produced has been 'sexed up' too. It looks like those damn Canadians have the cheapest gas if it wasn't for taxes.
Indeed, DARPA often seems to act as if the Cold War never ended, propositioning or transitioning grandiose projects that have no foes capable of fighting them.
Oh, yeah, like we should stop and wait until someone catches up. Whether in the military, business, sports, etc. it is NEVER, EVER a good idea to stop and rest on your laurels. To do so, you insure that someone is going to pass you by when you least expect it. The only thing I can think of why these bleeding hearts what this to stop is that they want our enemies to win.
If the Village Voice thinks it's bad to take the DoD's money for research, then it (and any of its supporters) should pony up and pay the scientists so that the DoD is not the only game in town.
I don't see how this is a bad idea. Technological advances have always come from the military. What? They want people getting killed instead of just robots being destroyed?
Unless the Federal Reserve, consumers, or some other entity forces them to implement something, why would a bank (or any other business) do something that is not convenient for them? Unless, there is a PHB in charge, most organizations don't do something that is not going to benefit them unless they are being forced to do so by outside legal or market pressure. I would also imagine that getting all the banks to cooperate in a country of 8+ million people is a bit easier than one the size of the US (greater number of competing interests). Or maybe they were all trained by those legendary bankers from neighboring Switzerland.
I hope you enjoy your stay. Did you renounce US citizenship too, or are you going to bounce back and forth between nations as long as it is convenient for you?
Electronic transfers in and out of bank accounts via debit cards or ACH transfers isn't good enough? Also, guess which is the most expensive way for a retailer to take payment? Cash! It's more difficult to keep track of due to 'sticky fingers' or just plain incompetance. One also has to take the time and risk of transferring it to a bank or hiring an armored car service to pick it up.
Our economy is as vibrant as it is because it's not planned. Bureaucracies are notoriously inefficient when it comes to such planning. Federal, state, and local governments waste billions a year because of it. There is no real way that any bureaucracy can anticipate the actions of a few hundred million people.
Whether you like it or not, usary and the increased value of money over time is a good thing. It gives incentives to those with capital to temporarily give it to those who need it in order to grow businesses, own a home, etc. Otherwise, the poor would have an extremely hard time rising above their situation and the rich would stay rich unless they were robbed. That's one of the reasons behind the massive amounts of unemployment in the Arab world. Their religion forbids usary and as a result entreprenuers have a much harder time getting capital. The concept of 'micro-loans' in India is helping industrious people pull themselves out of poverty. Again, this is something a centrally planned, top down economy can't really anticipate, no matter how wired it is. Stop watching Star Trek.
As, I expected, the 'dropped samples bit-for-bit perfect' issue was all about the initial crappy firmware. In this message, your man Jamie claims it's bit-for-bit perfect and makes DAT obsolete. But a few days later, the problems crop back up again. All of which is very odd and runs counter to my experience and that of other people I know. It seems it's a love it or hate it device.
Sorry. I still say he's full of it. Sure, the Nomad doesn't have the hardware to compensate for when the gain is set too high or when the input gets painfully loud unexpectedly. In that case, the audio will get clipped. With a little practice, that can be avoided. The device is still something that I can lock the UI, slip into a pocket, and enjoy the show. I don't want to bring damn near as much shit as the band does to a show, or worry about some drunk accidentally spill their beer on a laptop.
Audiophile already implies someone who's anal and has lots of $$$ for equipment that produces output that 99.9% of the population can't discern the from something that costs 1/10 as much. I'm neither. It's something to do for fun.