Were those 'old people' people who were expected to train someone from Infy or TCS how to do their job, before getting their own employment terminated? I can see why 'proper training' of their replacements might have been low on their priority list
It's amazing: in the 60s, the BOAC used to be the state of the art in airlines. Sad to see where it has fallen, while airlines from Arab countries flaunt superior service
B'cos our courts won't let us. The first travel ban was shot down by a court in WA, then the revised ban was shot down by courts in HI, CA and now MD. When we can't cleanly ban people from 6 countries where it's impossible to vet their terrorist backgrounds, it's worth pulling all stops everywhere else so that people have to jump thru hoops to come. If one wanna blame it on Trump, go ahead. But we're not gonna risk having more Manchesters: the risks are bad as they are since we can't deport all the Muslims already here
And we don't have events like Manchester happening to us. Despite the best efforts of Leftist court activists to let in the same sort of people that the EU allowed in - like the Libyans. Somehow, if a bomb goes off & we get killed, your tourist dollars won't go far in helping in the recovery efforts. So you can go and spend them in places like Iran or Pakistan, where I'm sure they're likely to be appreciated.
I'm actually for a few more countries, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority, being added to the banned list. However, every Liberal court has struck that down, and so until the Supreme Court settles this, the issue is still in limbo.
Yeah, I do think that the Saudis and the OIC countries (that's who were at the conference in Riyadh) did a number on Trump. But when the courts won't allow even people from shitholes like Yemen, Iran, Somalia, et al be blocked from coming, why would blocking Saudi Arabia work? The ban hardly affects 10% of the world's Muslim population, yet these crackpot judges are out declaring it a 'Muslim ban'. Imagine what it would be if the 4 countries I listed above were added to the list.
Ain't it obvious? What travellers should do is put everything up in Google Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox, and fly w/o their laptops. When they get to their destinations, they should go to the office/conference they're headed to, log into any of the conference laptops there, and pick up work where they left off. Everything is on the cloud, so lugging around laptops is akin to days when trade happened by camels travelling hundreds of miles.
And in the event of an internet outage, back up everything temporarily on their phone, and back it up on the cloud again once the internet is back, and resume work
He left Google a year ago to join Liquid Robotics, and just last week, joined AWS. He's already been in Google. Both he & Eric Schmidt worked @ Sun, so he'd have had no problems getting a job in Google, which he actually did.
There's a debate about hiring JAMES GOSLING because he's too old? Seriously?
Was that the issue? Last I read, Gosling was starting up his own company - that story was here in/. A week ago, he joined AWS. But legends like him are not the people who either risk age discrimination, or can't have successful businesses of their own. That issue is germane to the vast majority of Baby Boomers & Gen X'ers who are still in tech today.
I do think it's a welcome trend. That way, both age groups (Baby Boomers/Gen X'ers and Gen Y'ers/Millenials) have their own niches in the market
I was under the impression that IBM has been moving away from such OSs, such as MVS or VM. In case of AIX, I know they've been going Linux, but I was curious about the stories w/ MVS & OS/400
I'm assuming that the reason for this was that they wanted to get away from as much GPL stuff as possible, in order to be commercially acceptable. In which case, why did they stay w/ Linux at all, particularly since it necessitated their use of GCC, GRUB & binutils. They could have built this on a FreeBSD or NetBSD platform, which would have enabled them to go LLVM/Clang as well as a complete BSDL licensed ecosystem
In the platforms listed above - 64-bit POWER machines, 64-bit IBM z Systems computers - Windows 10 does not exist. Linux based OSs are the only game in town. IBM does a distro (I believe it's a RHEL port), and now, you have Alpine Linux w/ one as well. I wonder whether IBM still bothers about AIX at all?
Actually, given how processes have shrunk over the last 2 decades, it would seem to me that one could implement an entire Amiga on an FPGA - CPU, maybe memory, IO ports, USB ports, et al. Put it all on 1 chip (or 2, if memory is separate), and put it on a board w/ the appropriate ports - USB, HDMI, et al. Then implement Amiga DOS on that computer itself, or have a hypervisor on which any number of Amiga VMs can run (depending on memory & configuration).
More importantly, what do we lose (other than a culinary choice) if hunny (Winnie the Pooh spelling here) disappears from our grocery shelves? And by then, if it's that important, wouldn't we have figured out how to artificially make honey - w/o depriving bees of their food?
Not just that, the deal w/ custom silicon is that it has a specific i.e. limited use, and thereby a limited market. At best, one could put it on an FPGA and run w/ it. The time one goes from an FPGA to an ASIC is when one ramps up the volume to the point that a cost reduction is desperately needed. Otherwise, one has to run a minimum number of wafers on a fab to remain cost optimized. Not possible if one is running a product w/ such a limited scope & market
ASICs have always had their use (literally) but seem to have exploded into mainstream with Bitcoin. Now it seems everyone is working on their own "AI" chip, which is fancy wording for "We put these most commonly used functions in silicon". Intel is now putting FPGAs into their Xeon chips so that customers can start speeding up their workflows.
We've kind of tapped out x86 performance lately. My 6 year old laptop is still fairly competitive. I have phone 5 generations old and it's "good enough". Are companies going to now turn to ASICs to get the competitive edge?
Is the IP for making ASICs either cheap, or as readily available as Linux or BSD source code? The way you describe it, it sounds like the average Billy Joe Blow would walk into a Microcenter, pick up an ASIC just as easily as he picks up a graphics card, plugs it into his computer, and is off to the Bitcoin mining races.
They're not becoming slow. Unlike in the 90s, when kicking up the MHz did result in a corresponding performance boost, the same does not happen when one increases the number of cores & threads. Software has to be written & fine-tuned for these greater CPUs. Otherwise, all they are good at doing is running more processes, like for instance, this Firefox session w/ 16 tabs.
I'm right now typing this on a Dell Inspiron 17 w/ a Core i7 and 8GB of RAM. Runs just fine. My other laptop is a Pentium quad core, and 4GB of RAM running Windows 10. Even there, Windows 10 runs fine. Yeah, for games, I could use a greater computer, but other than that, for now, this one suffices.
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is the central Muslim Brotherhood of all. Ayman al Zawahiri was from this group, before he was spun off to al Qaeda. Hamas too is a spin-off.
Yeah, I agree w/ you that Morsi was democratically elected, but so was al-Sisi. And no, he didn't win 97% of the vote. The Egyptian people were largely disgusted by the high handedness of the Morsi regime, which is why they voted against them at the first possible opportunity. They'll get the chance to vote him out again in a few years, since he's stated that he won't run for a third term.
Why would the president, of all people, be briefed on the name of this suicide bomber? It may have gone to some people in the FBI or any of the other 16 intel agencies, which right now are filled w/ bureaucratic activists and are leak happy. One of them would have leaked it to the NYT, which caused this flare-up!
You can put [sic] all you want, but Salman Abedi was 'British in name only'. He may have been born in the UK, but his mission was jihad, and his father & brother were arrested in Libya. So it's perfectly legitimate to describe them as Libyan, as they did not convert to British ideals. Heck, I'd even hesitate calling them 'British Muslims', since their goal was no different from what it would have been had ISIS in Libya dispatched them on this mission.
Wikileaks has consistently denied that Russia was their source, and in fact, indications were that it was the late Seth Rich. His family has been intimidated by the DNC into protesting, so that anybody who looks at that angle, is smeared. Wikileaks is a loose cannon all on their own, and it doesn't take supercomputers to pull off what they do, particularly given the performance of today's computers.
One is a non-sequitur to the other. Yeah, they were democratically elected and then removed. That doesn't disprove the fact that they are the parent organization of al Qaeda, Hamas and a number of other worldwide Jihadist organizations.
Also, since that coup, there has been another democratic election in Egypt that elected al Sisi. So his regime is very much legitimate, unlike Mubarak's. Yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood is still very popular, and 74% of Egyptians want Shariah to be the law of their land, but that doesn't imply that it's not a terrorist organization.
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Were those 'old people' people who were expected to train someone from Infy or TCS how to do their job, before getting their own employment terminated? I can see why 'proper training' of their replacements might have been low on their priority list
It's amazing: in the 60s, the BOAC used to be the state of the art in airlines. Sad to see where it has fallen, while airlines from Arab countries flaunt superior service
Go to any Muslim country, you'll get your wish. The ex Soviet 'stans' may be an exception.
They're just examples. If you don't like them, you can always use cloud.ru or cloud.zh and go about your business. Same concept
B'cos our courts won't let us. The first travel ban was shot down by a court in WA, then the revised ban was shot down by courts in HI, CA and now MD. When we can't cleanly ban people from 6 countries where it's impossible to vet their terrorist backgrounds, it's worth pulling all stops everywhere else so that people have to jump thru hoops to come. If one wanna blame it on Trump, go ahead. But we're not gonna risk having more Manchesters: the risks are bad as they are since we can't deport all the Muslims already here
And we don't have events like Manchester happening to us. Despite the best efforts of Leftist court activists to let in the same sort of people that the EU allowed in - like the Libyans. Somehow, if a bomb goes off & we get killed, your tourist dollars won't go far in helping in the recovery efforts. So you can go and spend them in places like Iran or Pakistan, where I'm sure they're likely to be appreciated.
Speaking of which, why don't the terrorists simply stock up on the Samsung Note 7s?
I'm actually for a few more countries, like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey and the Palestinian Authority, being added to the banned list. However, every Liberal court has struck that down, and so until the Supreme Court settles this, the issue is still in limbo.
Yeah, I do think that the Saudis and the OIC countries (that's who were at the conference in Riyadh) did a number on Trump. But when the courts won't allow even people from shitholes like Yemen, Iran, Somalia, et al be blocked from coming, why would blocking Saudi Arabia work? The ban hardly affects 10% of the world's Muslim population, yet these crackpot judges are out declaring it a 'Muslim ban'. Imagine what it would be if the 4 countries I listed above were added to the list.
Ain't it obvious? What travellers should do is put everything up in Google Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox, and fly w/o their laptops. When they get to their destinations, they should go to the office/conference they're headed to, log into any of the conference laptops there, and pick up work where they left off. Everything is on the cloud, so lugging around laptops is akin to days when trade happened by camels travelling hundreds of miles.
And in the event of an internet outage, back up everything temporarily on their phone, and back it up on the cloud again once the internet is back, and resume work
Venezuela's really working out well! As is North Korea
He left Google a year ago to join Liquid Robotics, and just last week, joined AWS. He's already been in Google. Both he & Eric Schmidt worked @ Sun, so he'd have had no problems getting a job in Google, which he actually did.
There's a debate about hiring JAMES GOSLING because he's too old? Seriously?
Was that the issue? Last I read, Gosling was starting up his own company - that story was here in /. A week ago, he joined AWS. But legends like him are not the people who either risk age discrimination, or can't have successful businesses of their own. That issue is germane to the vast majority of Baby Boomers & Gen X'ers who are still in tech today.
I do think it's a welcome trend. That way, both age groups (Baby Boomers/Gen X'ers and Gen Y'ers/Millenials) have their own niches in the market
I was under the impression that IBM has been moving away from such OSs, such as MVS or VM. In case of AIX, I know they've been going Linux, but I was curious about the stories w/ MVS & OS/400
I'm assuming that the reason for this was that they wanted to get away from as much GPL stuff as possible, in order to be commercially acceptable. In which case, why did they stay w/ Linux at all, particularly since it necessitated their use of GCC, GRUB & binutils. They could have built this on a FreeBSD or NetBSD platform, which would have enabled them to go LLVM/Clang as well as a complete BSDL licensed ecosystem
In the platforms listed above - 64-bit POWER machines, 64-bit IBM z Systems computers - Windows 10 does not exist. Linux based OSs are the only game in town. IBM does a distro (I believe it's a RHEL port), and now, you have Alpine Linux w/ one as well. I wonder whether IBM still bothers about AIX at all?
Actually, given how processes have shrunk over the last 2 decades, it would seem to me that one could implement an entire Amiga on an FPGA - CPU, maybe memory, IO ports, USB ports, et al. Put it all on 1 chip (or 2, if memory is separate), and put it on a board w/ the appropriate ports - USB, HDMI, et al. Then implement Amiga DOS on that computer itself, or have a hypervisor on which any number of Amiga VMs can run (depending on memory & configuration).
More importantly, what do we lose (other than a culinary choice) if hunny (Winnie the Pooh spelling here) disappears from our grocery shelves? And by then, if it's that important, wouldn't we have figured out how to artificially make honey - w/o depriving bees of their food?
Not just that, the deal w/ custom silicon is that it has a specific i.e. limited use, and thereby a limited market. At best, one could put it on an FPGA and run w/ it. The time one goes from an FPGA to an ASIC is when one ramps up the volume to the point that a cost reduction is desperately needed. Otherwise, one has to run a minimum number of wafers on a fab to remain cost optimized. Not possible if one is running a product w/ such a limited scope & market
ASICs have always had their use (literally) but seem to have exploded into mainstream with Bitcoin. Now it seems everyone is working on their own "AI" chip, which is fancy wording for "We put these most commonly used functions in silicon". Intel is now putting FPGAs into their Xeon chips so that customers can start speeding up their workflows.
We've kind of tapped out x86 performance lately. My 6 year old laptop is still fairly competitive. I have phone 5 generations old and it's "good enough". Are companies going to now turn to ASICs to get the competitive edge?
Is the IP for making ASICs either cheap, or as readily available as Linux or BSD source code? The way you describe it, it sounds like the average Billy Joe Blow would walk into a Microcenter, pick up an ASIC just as easily as he picks up a graphics card, plugs it into his computer, and is off to the Bitcoin mining races.
They're not becoming slow. Unlike in the 90s, when kicking up the MHz did result in a corresponding performance boost, the same does not happen when one increases the number of cores & threads. Software has to be written & fine-tuned for these greater CPUs. Otherwise, all they are good at doing is running more processes, like for instance, this Firefox session w/ 16 tabs.
I'm right now typing this on a Dell Inspiron 17 w/ a Core i7 and 8GB of RAM. Runs just fine. My other laptop is a Pentium quad core, and 4GB of RAM running Windows 10. Even there, Windows 10 runs fine. Yeah, for games, I could use a greater computer, but other than that, for now, this one suffices.
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is the central Muslim Brotherhood of all. Ayman al Zawahiri was from this group, before he was spun off to al Qaeda. Hamas too is a spin-off.
Yeah, I agree w/ you that Morsi was democratically elected, but so was al-Sisi. And no, he didn't win 97% of the vote. The Egyptian people were largely disgusted by the high handedness of the Morsi regime, which is why they voted against them at the first possible opportunity. They'll get the chance to vote him out again in a few years, since he's stated that he won't run for a third term.
Why would the president, of all people, be briefed on the name of this suicide bomber? It may have gone to some people in the FBI or any of the other 16 intel agencies, which right now are filled w/ bureaucratic activists and are leak happy. One of them would have leaked it to the NYT, which caused this flare-up!
You can put [sic] all you want, but Salman Abedi was 'British in name only'. He may have been born in the UK, but his mission was jihad, and his father & brother were arrested in Libya. So it's perfectly legitimate to describe them as Libyan, as they did not convert to British ideals. Heck, I'd even hesitate calling them 'British Muslims', since their goal was no different from what it would have been had ISIS in Libya dispatched them on this mission.
Wikileaks has consistently denied that Russia was their source, and in fact, indications were that it was the late Seth Rich. His family has been intimidated by the DNC into protesting, so that anybody who looks at that angle, is smeared. Wikileaks is a loose cannon all on their own, and it doesn't take supercomputers to pull off what they do, particularly given the performance of today's computers.
Why doesn't he stop performing, & become their CEO? W/ all his drug loot, he can keep that company afloat
One is a non-sequitur to the other. Yeah, they were democratically elected and then removed. That doesn't disprove the fact that they are the parent organization of al Qaeda, Hamas and a number of other worldwide Jihadist organizations.
Also, since that coup, there has been another democratic election in Egypt that elected al Sisi. So his regime is very much legitimate, unlike Mubarak's. Yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood is still very popular, and 74% of Egyptians want Shariah to be the law of their land, but that doesn't imply that it's not a terrorist organization.