In smaller territories (Like Jamaica) it's a different matter. Here we have 3 major Enterprise service Companies. One deals mainly in Sun and Dell gear (Fujitsu), Another deals mainly in HP and DELL (MCS) and the 3rd is IBM.
What this buyout would mean is that Fujitsu would no longer have an Enterprise Unix offering and customers who like them (like my current employer) would be screwed.
The really crappy thing is that I don't know anyone who uses SUN gear because of the features, price or service. Every one of them picked a peace of software which is only supported on SUN. So switching to a different Unix/RISK vendor is not really an option.
Thoughts are just electrical signals flowing throgh your brain (darn, I'm sounding like Morpheus). Electricity can be measured in excruciatingly fine detail so reading minds has been possible for some time now.
The difficulty is trying to make head or tail out of what is read. Until the technology can tell the difference between: "I wonder what's her IQ"" and "Dose she swallow?" it's like scanning pages of Japanese text and handing it to someone who speaks only English.
These guys have taken another step towards translating that data into useful information. I say they should keep it up, maybe in a few decades we can won't just hook up a machine that tells us if you are lying, we will hook up a machine that tells us where you hid the body.
After that the next step is full mind download.
At least uploading stuff into someone else's brain isn't difficult. Hell. I just did it to you.
The Military needs to decide weather Cyberspace is a potential Battleground or Computer and communications technology is a tool of more conventional military, Like explosives and vehicle technology.
If the Former then the bulk of these Ciber Warriors should be made part of a single Military unit under a Ciber-warfare General (Alan Cox doesn't qualify because of nationality concerns).
If it's the latter then the specialists should learn the basics of hand to hand combat and carry sidearms and/or small sub machine guns in hostile territory and most of the grunt level tech work should be done by guys who primarily just kill people.
Thanks to this sheriff, those of us seeking prostitutes or running brothels know that Craig's list is the place to be.
"Thank you sheriff for helping improve my business. Keeping all the young ladies on staff as busy as they can physically manage is great for business, especially in these tough economic times.
Rolling luggage works on tile and carpet. It's barely usable on Asfault or course concrete and completely useless on the beach, on a farm or in a deep rural village.
For a time (7 months or so) my Laptop case contained 2 laptops with chargers, an external floppy drive and a spare battery for one of the Laptops. (One was a turnkey configuration for a project I was working on). I never put it on a scale but I am pretty sure that bag weighed in at over 25 Lbs,
Which brings up another point. portability is subjective and heavily dependent on the size/strength of the person expected to carry the machine. I was comfortable with my "double pack". The other person on the project went through 7 months of misery.
My point is, if you can haul this beast without slipping a disk or dislocating a shoulder and can afford the steep price-tag, go right ahead. It looks like a useful feature rich tool/toy.
- fingerprint scanner -: $35
- Wacom tablet -: $79
- VGA/DualLink DVI/DisplayPort -: Probably already in a $2K desktop.
- Display Calibrator -: Never seen this on desktop or Laptop before, don't know how well it works.
- FireWire -: Probably already in a $2K desktop.
- Express/Smart Card expansion -: 5 in 1 multicard reader. $15
- WiFi/Bluetooth -: USB Bluetooth and PCI WiFi -: $30 total
- Not to mention... fits in your backpack -: Back to the grand parent's point that "the extra cost really is just for mobility."
$2,179 is still a hell of a lot cheaper than $6,209.
It's legit and original. My computer was down when Taco 1st introduced UIDs, which is the only reason I don't have a 3 or even 2 digit UID.
But as I have mentioned in other posts. I do not live in the same place as most Slashdoters. I'm in Jamaica. Around here geeks get to be cool if they bathe and shave on a regular basis. If you claim to be a Rastafarian, you can even skip the shaving part entirely.
Perhaps it's the tropical climes and the fact that you can go to the beach any day of the year as long as it's not raining.
Perhaps it's because Jamaican mothers take better care of those nerds who still live at home regardless of age. I.e. Most moms here will knock you down drag you back into the house and make you put on on something decent (like cologne).
Some have no qualms about calling your boss to say: "he will be a little late because I am making him dress like he is coming from a good home. Never mind the bruises."
Where I live roughly 70% of employed females between the ages of 18 and 35 can be so described. The hotties are practically falling over each other. couple that with the relaxed dress codes in IT and us boy geeks start (quietly) crowning "cleavage queen", "Ass mistress" and giving out a Cameltoe of the week award.
The company I work for now has a much more relaxed attitude to office romances. It amounts to anything short of a physical fight or shouting match between jealous lovers or rivals is ok. There is good reason for this. The owners of the company and most of the senior managers are from other countries. It takes these imported guys little or no time to marry local girls. Sometimes staff members. So why make rules that you are already breaching?
PS: In case you are wondering, moral and productivity are extremely high and even this very liberal company still tries to keep known couples out of a direct chain of command.
It is generally bad form to announce publicly who you would and would not have sex with unless:
1. Specifically asked,
and
2. The answer is glaringly obvious.
I.e. "Would you have sex with Rosy O'Donnell?"
"Yes. But then she would be a necrophiliac."
If on the other hand you sent a little private note to each of the hotys in the office that said: "I never approached you because we are coworkers but now that we no longer have that barrier to contend with, do you want to go out with me? Being out of work, I can't take you anywhere fancy but I am a pretty good cook and I finally have the time to clean my apartment."
That would be cool and may go a far way to easing your pain at loosing a job. It worked great the last time I left an employer. Until these hotys started trading stories about the new boyfriend.
Lucky Yankees with all your fancy technology. If I told you what we use, nobody would respond for fear that in attempting to respond I would cause a few fatalities.
Frankly, if I ran a state, I would NOT do that. Why? Because it removes any incentive for the Executive to pay special attention to your state.
Of course, as it's worded in a way that it only comes into effect when enough states adopt the position for it to become constitutional law, they are covered. The President can safely pay no attention at all to sparsely populated states.
It was a 2 digit LED, so once we got above 100Mhz we started setting those LEDs to display "HI" & "LO"
It took some extensive trial and error to get the Jumper combination that would produce that result. Then the case manufacturers included the "Hi/Lo" setting in the manual.
Back in the day (dose that make me sound old?) I had to use jumpers to set the numbers displayed by the led on the case of computers was building to reflect the clock speed change of pushing the turbo button.
And in case you are wondering. I sometimes connected the turbo switch to a jumper that when pressed would cause a 33 Mhz chip to run at 40 Mhz. While leaving the regular Turbo button off. Only for gamers though.
Finaly. How it was actually useful. Running the CPU below it's rated clock speed means it runs below it's rated temperature. When you are in a Tropical country in a house with no AC, You want to do that every day and on really hot nights too. Except those days when it rains enough that the ambient temperature is tolerable (for a PC).
Different phones have have different web browsers built in so saying "it loads on my desktop but not on my phone" is as useful as saying "it loads on one of my laptops but not the other" without mentioning that those laptops have different operating systems and web browsers.
Note: I work for a cellphone company and had a whole lot of fun helping to test the browsers built into different phones for compatibility and usefulness.
So far the best at rendering pages has been the Nokia E61i
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Huge but nowhere near a monopoly.
In smaller territories (Like Jamaica) it's a different matter. Here we have 3 major Enterprise service Companies. One deals mainly in Sun and Dell gear (Fujitsu), Another deals mainly in HP and DELL (MCS) and the 3rd is IBM.
What this buyout would mean is that Fujitsu would no longer have an Enterprise Unix offering and customers who like them (like my current employer) would be screwed.
The really crappy thing is that I don't know anyone who uses SUN gear because of the features, price or service. Every one of them picked a peace of software which is only supported on SUN. So switching to a different Unix/RISK vendor is not really an option.
Thoughts are just electrical signals flowing throgh your brain (darn, I'm sounding like Morpheus). Electricity can be measured in excruciatingly fine detail so reading minds has been possible for some time now.
The difficulty is trying to make head or tail out of what is read. Until the technology can tell the difference between: "I wonder what's her IQ"" and "Dose she swallow?" it's like scanning pages of Japanese text and handing it to someone who speaks only English.
These guys have taken another step towards translating that data into useful information. I say they should keep it up, maybe in a few decades we can won't just hook up a machine that tells us if you are lying, we will hook up a machine that tells us where you hid the body.
After that the next step is full mind download.
At least uploading stuff into someone else's brain isn't difficult. Hell. I just did it to you.
The Military needs to decide weather Cyberspace is a potential Battleground or Computer and communications technology is a tool of more conventional military, Like explosives and vehicle technology.
If the Former then the bulk of these Ciber Warriors should be made part of a single Military unit under a Ciber-warfare General (Alan Cox doesn't qualify because of nationality concerns).
If it's the latter then the specialists should learn the basics of hand to hand combat and carry sidearms and/or small sub machine guns in hostile territory and most of the grunt level tech work should be done by guys who primarily just kill people.
Adding missing link
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1100343&cid=26559641
What's really cool about this is that it demonstrates that Sun not only reads SlashDot. They troll my comments for product ideas.
Check out this little posting if you doubt me.
So I take it this means the story was posted on one of the few remaining Windows servers over there ?
Wow. Another instant SlashDoting.
Dose anyone have a cache of the story?
As long as it's not a Nokia. For those who mis the joke, watch Transformers again. That little Nokia really went Berserk when it transformed.
Translation: Monopolies are inherently evil. I wonder if CompUSSR wants to start expanding again?
Thanks to this sheriff, those of us seeking prostitutes or running brothels know that Craig's list is the place to be.
"Thank you sheriff for helping improve my business. Keeping all the young ladies on staff as busy as they can physically manage is great for business, especially in these tough economic times.
not that simple. Right to distribute Code == Bineries OR source. Loosing that right means they cannot distribute the binaries or the source.
Rolling luggage works on tile and carpet. It's barely usable on Asfault or course concrete and completely useless on the beach, on a farm or in a deep rural village.
For a time (7 months or so) my Laptop case contained 2 laptops with chargers, an external floppy drive and a spare battery for one of the Laptops. (One was a turnkey configuration for a project I was working on). I never put it on a scale but I am pretty sure that bag weighed in at over 25 Lbs,
Which brings up another point. portability is subjective and heavily dependent on the size/strength of the person expected to carry the machine. I was comfortable with my "double pack". The other person on the project went through 7 months of misery.
My point is, if you can haul this beast without slipping a disk or dislocating a shoulder and can afford the steep price-tag, go right ahead. It looks like a useful feature rich tool/toy.
Let's look again at those features.
- webcam -:$20.
- fingerprint scanner -: $35
- Wacom tablet -: $79
- VGA/DualLink DVI/DisplayPort -: Probably already in a $2K desktop.
- Display Calibrator -: Never seen this on desktop or Laptop before, don't know how well it works.
- FireWire -: Probably already in a $2K desktop.
- Express/Smart Card expansion -: 5 in 1 multicard reader. $15
- WiFi/Bluetooth -: USB Bluetooth and PCI WiFi -: $30 total
- Not to mention... fits in your backpack -: Back to the grand parent's point that "the extra cost really is just for mobility."
$2,179 is still a hell of a lot cheaper than $6,209.
It's legit and original. My computer was down when Taco 1st introduced UIDs, which is the only reason I don't have a 3 or even 2 digit UID.
But as I have mentioned in other posts. I do not live in the same place as most Slashdoters. I'm in Jamaica. Around here geeks get to be cool if they bathe and shave on a regular basis. If you claim to be a Rastafarian, you can even skip the shaving part entirely.
Perhaps it's the tropical climes and the fact that you can go to the beach any day of the year as long as it's not raining.
Perhaps it's because Jamaican mothers take better care of those nerds who still live at home regardless of age. I.e. Most moms here will knock you down drag you back into the house and make you put on on something decent (like cologne).
Some have no qualms about calling your boss to say: "he will be a little late because I am making him dress like he is coming from a good home. Never mind the bruises."
Hotties?
At your workplace???
Man, I picked the wrong career.
Nope. You picked the wrong country.
Where I live roughly 70% of employed females between the ages of 18 and 35 can be so described. The hotties are practically falling over each other. couple that with the relaxed dress codes in IT and us boy geeks start (quietly) crowning "cleavage queen", "Ass mistress" and giving out a Cameltoe of the week award.
The company I work for now has a much more relaxed attitude to office romances. It amounts to anything short of a physical fight or shouting match between jealous lovers or rivals is ok. There is good reason for this. The owners of the company and most of the senior managers are from other countries. It takes these imported guys little or no time to marry local girls. Sometimes staff members. So why make rules that you are already breaching?
PS: In case you are wondering, moral and productivity are extremely high and even this very liberal company still tries to keep known couples out of a direct chain of command.
It is generally bad form to announce publicly who you would and would not have sex with unless:
1. Specifically asked,
and
2. The answer is glaringly obvious.
I.e. "Would you have sex with Rosy O'Donnell?"
"Yes. But then she would be a necrophiliac."
If on the other hand you sent a little private note to each of the hotys in the office that said: "I never approached you because we are coworkers but now that we no longer have that barrier to contend with, do you want to go out with me? Being out of work, I can't take you anywhere fancy but I am a pretty good cook and I finally have the time to clean my apartment."
That would be cool and may go a far way to easing your pain at loosing a job. It worked great the last time I left an employer. Until these hotys started trading stories about the new boyfriend.
Lucky Yankees with all your fancy technology. If I told you what we use, nobody would respond for fear that in attempting to respond I would cause a few fatalities.
Frankly, if I ran a state, I would NOT do that. Why? Because it removes any incentive for the Executive to pay special attention to your state.
Of course, as it's worded in a way that it only comes into effect when enough states adopt the position for it to become constitutional law, they are covered. The President can safely pay no attention at all to sparsely populated states.
Yeah.
It was a 2 digit LED, so once we got above 100Mhz we started setting those LEDs to display "HI" & "LO"
It took some extensive trial and error to get the Jumper combination that would produce that result. Then the case manufacturers included the "Hi/Lo" setting in the manual.
Back in the day (dose that make me sound old?) I had to use jumpers to set the numbers displayed by the led on the case of computers was building to reflect the clock speed change of pushing the turbo button.
And in case you are wondering. I sometimes connected the turbo switch to a jumper that when pressed would cause a 33 Mhz chip to run at 40 Mhz. While leaving the regular Turbo button off. Only for gamers though.
Finaly. How it was actually useful. Running the CPU below it's rated clock speed means it runs below it's rated temperature. When you are in a Tropical country in a house with no AC, You want to do that every day and on really hot nights too. Except those days when it rains enough that the ambient temperature is tolerable (for a PC).
When I saw the summery this is the 1st thing that came to my mind.
What is all they want to do is use the high density chip technology they currently have to produce a 3 Ghz or faster 80386DX CPU ?
One with all the RAM it can handle as (core speed) cache?
Different phones have have different web browsers built in so saying "it loads on my desktop but not on my phone" is as useful as saying "it loads on one of my laptops but not the other" without mentioning that those laptops have different operating systems and web browsers.
Note: I work for a cellphone company and had a whole lot of fun helping to test the browsers built into different phones for compatibility and usefulness.
So far the best at rendering pages has been the Nokia E61i
"*me" was used to simulate the "user actions" available on IRC and Skype.
PS: I finally got modded "troll". Guess somebody doesn't get the joke.
And likewise if you are reading content paid for by popup adds while useing an add blocker you are a thief and an information pirate.
.sig come from?
*me runs for cover as Home Depote suddenly sells all it's Pitchforks to SlashDot regulars.
BTW: Where did the quote in your