As for who will use AMD's x86-64 Opteron processors, I'd say that it actually makes most sense for Dell
However, Dell is by far Intel's biggest fanboy among the OEM's. I'd place the probability of them ever using something without an Intel processor somewhere between 0 and 0.5%.
Seeing as Intel was (still is?) a major backer of Red Hat, I'd imagine that Red Hat's kernel hackers have already ported it and will see to it that support for Itanium makes it into the release kernel.
Aha... but you're not passing a Foo, you're passing a pointer to a Foo. Those are two completely different things (and every C++ programmer knows that).
It's just like Audi: they spent all that time designing a lush, amazing interior, but they didn't spend time on getting ignition coils that worked.
It doesn't matter how great your office digs are if your company goes bankrupt...
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That being said, this might be the lesson of the whole dot-com (and even post-dot-com) world. Not necessarily that you have to be financially solvent from the get go (look at Amazon, for example), but rather that it may make more sense to ignore the financing world entirely.
Wall Street has tended to fuck up businesses on a regular basis. If I were to start a company, I would make going public a last resort. A privately owned company will almost always be more intelligently managed and by not having to worry about pleasing thousands of shareholders, more efficient.
so in other words if I don't pony up for a Salon subscription the terrorists have already won?
No, if you support the corporate media, you're supporting terrorism!
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And the Boston Globe even has a token conservative, Jeff Jacoby.
If it was the hiring of conservative contributors that alienated Salon's readership, than Salon's readers are idiots who are incapable of appreciating debates. In that case, Salon deserves to die because when your readers are idiots, you're not going to get a lot of advertising from companies that like intelligent customers.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
The biggest thing that killed the dot-com boom was the exorbitant cost structure the companies put in place, especially in real estate.
Let's look at the major epicenters of dot-com activity: Boston, Manhattan, San Francisco, and Seattle. What do those cities have in common? Some of the highest rents in the country (as well as inflated costs of living, which required higher salaries).
The great benefit the Internet was supposed to bring was the complete de-emphasis of physical location. Salon could have found a home in, say, Springfield, Mass., where rents are cheap, there's a strong supply of intellectuals (the Five Colleges in Hampshire County), New York and Boston are close at hand, and the cost-of-living is lower.
The fact that sites which avoided getting the priciest digs (I'm looking at you, Kuro5hin) have survived and maybe even thrived is a testament to the folly of Salon, Inside, Slate, and all the other online media startups.
Of course, Salon is not public radio or television but they could be public internet news....
Salon is not really a news site... it's more of an analysis and opinion site.
There's already a website that's sort of going on the public radio/TV model: Kuro5hin. Back in June, rusty posted We're Broke: The Economics of a Web Community and began an fundraising drive which, by all accounts, has been successful.
Oddly enough, I dropped my subscription a year ago because the liberal BS was getting a might bit thick for my tastes. A well spoken liberal thesis is interesting to read, but a lot of the crap they were slinging was along the lines of "conservatives are so stupid", something I'm not willing to pay for.
Exactly.
Salon's staff is amateurish to the point that they make K5 look professional.
The New Yorker, which essentially publishes the same sort of stuff that Salon does, manages to, by actually hiring people who know how to write, make the lefty stuff[/garbage] seem reasonable and well thought-out.
I am suprised that you work at Mandrake and yet are so uninformed . . . The GPL only specifies the source be available to those who are distributed binaries. It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with having to distribute everything to everyone for free.
However, the GPL would not prohibit a Club member from, after downloading from a Club mirror, posting the ISO on their own mirrors.
I don't know where you work
JM (jmdault, actually) is on Mandrake's Apache team.
First, MandrakeUpdate is supposed to be the _right_ way to update Mandrake. It's well thought-out, and would be great if it worked, but it simply doesn't.
All MandrakeUpdate (which hasn't really existed since 9.0) is is a GUI frontend to urpmi. I never used MandrakeUpdate, as I prefer urpmi from the command-line.
Your solution sounds great on paper, but ignores some real-life factors (a common element of both Marxist and Anarcho-capitalist ideas).
The problem with the idea of privatizing right-of-way is that, since the value of the right-of-way is dependent on where it interconnects, there is an intrinsic monopoly. If I have a 50-mile long fiber-line, it's 100% worthless if it doesn't have a connection at the end. Therein lies the problem. Whoever owns the property bordering where I want to go with it (say, because I have a customer there) has the ability to render the whole investment moot or to extract a ransom. In this environment, you are simply not going to find funding to construct such infrastructure.
While I support the idea of state (or local) ownership of the last-mile infrastructure, I do not think the govt organizations should have a monopoly on such infrastructure.
I'm a Libertarian (card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party) and I think this is exactly the way it should go (and I'd expand it to include TV).
My only quibble is that I think it should be the states that do the "nationalizing".
Last mile lines (for voice, video, and data (which is really redundant when you think about it)) are infrastructure, just like roads.
There are a few towns in New England that created their own independent telephone companies (Granby, MA is one, for example). Maybe if techies decided to move to such a town...
Judges may technically have the power to declare laws unconstitutional. However, those in the lower courts rarely do, generally on the grounds that that's the job of a higher court.
The post makes it sound like some judge woke up one morning and decided to order blocking. That's not quite the case. The Pennsylvania legislature passed a law requiring such blocks. Since county courts (in most states; I assume PA is similar in this respect) do not have the power to declare a law unconstitutional, the judge has no choice but to order the blocking.
Ultimately this is a good thing. The order gets appealed to (the PA equivalent of) a state court, which will (as those tend to lack the power to declare a law unconstitutional) uphold the county ruling. Once a state court issues an order, then the (PA equivalent of the) state Supreme Judicial Court would be able to take an appeal and (finally) declare the law unconstitutional (especially if the PA Constitution has a free speech clause).
I'd say that the $50,000 Sun box is better than the $8,000 Intel box. However, it's definitely not better enough (that's an ugly phrase...) to justify the extra cost. Even if the Sun box were three times better, it would be a wash, depending on how parallelizable the app is.
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However, Dell is by far Intel's biggest fanboy among the OEM's. I'd place the probability of them ever using something without an Intel processor somewhere between 0 and 0.5%.
Seeing as Intel was (still is?) a major backer of Red Hat, I'd imagine that Red Hat's kernel hackers have already ported it and will see to it that support for Itanium makes it into the release kernel.
Aha... but you're not passing a Foo, you're passing a pointer to a Foo. Those are two completely different things (and every C++ programmer knows that).
I'm not sure you're thinking, and I'm certain that you're wrong.
Bzzt. Wrong. C++ is strongly typed (try passing a Foo to a function that expects a Bar (where Foo does not inherit from Bar). That's strong typing.
There are hacks to get around the dynamic typing (RTTI, mainly), but they're considered poor C++ practice.
If by heavy metal, you mean "poseur hairspray glam rock", then Stryper seems to have operated on that theory.
What, you deny that Audi (and Volkswagen) ignition coils (especially for the 1.8 liter engine) are b0rked?
It's just like Audi: they spent all that time designing a lush, amazing interior, but they didn't spend time on getting ignition coils that worked.
It doesn't matter how great your office digs are if your company goes bankrupt...
Wall Street has tended to fuck up businesses on a regular basis. If I were to start a company, I would make going public a last resort. A privately owned company will almost always be more intelligently managed and by not having to worry about pleasing thousands of shareholders, more efficient.
Kuro5hin, through a combination of premium memberships and text-ad sales, is at least breaking even.
No, if you support the corporate media, you're supporting terrorism!
And the Boston Globe even has a token conservative, Jeff Jacoby.
If it was the hiring of conservative contributors that alienated Salon's readership, than Salon's readers are idiots who are incapable of appreciating debates. In that case, Salon deserves to die because when your readers are idiots, you're not going to get a lot of advertising from companies that like intelligent customers.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
The biggest thing that killed the dot-com boom was the exorbitant cost structure the companies put in place, especially in real estate.
Let's look at the major epicenters of dot-com activity: Boston, Manhattan, San Francisco, and Seattle. What do those cities have in common? Some of the highest rents in the country (as well as inflated costs of living, which required higher salaries).
The great benefit the Internet was supposed to bring was the complete de-emphasis of physical location. Salon could have found a home in, say, Springfield, Mass., where rents are cheap, there's a strong supply of intellectuals (the Five Colleges in Hampshire County), New York and Boston are close at hand, and the cost-of-living is lower.
The fact that sites which avoided getting the priciest digs (I'm looking at you, Kuro5hin) have survived and maybe even thrived is a testament to the folly of Salon, Inside, Slate, and all the other online media startups.
And where is capitalism obligated to keep a site which rarely posts good content (I'm talking sub-Slashdot quality, fer chrissakes!) afloat?
Forgot to search-and-replace, eh?
Salon is not really a news site... it's more of an analysis and opinion site.
There's already a website that's sort of going on the public radio/TV model: Kuro5hin. Back in June, rusty posted We're Broke: The Economics of a Web Community and began an fundraising drive which, by all accounts, has been successful.
Exactly.
Salon's staff is amateurish to the point that they make K5 look professional.
The New Yorker, which essentially publishes the same sort of stuff that Salon does, manages to, by actually hiring people who know how to write, make the lefty stuff[/garbage] seem reasonable and well thought-out.
However, the GPL would not prohibit a Club member from, after downloading from a Club mirror, posting the ISO on their own mirrors.
JM (jmdault, actually) is on Mandrake's Apache team.
All MandrakeUpdate (which hasn't really existed since 9.0) is is a GUI frontend to urpmi. I never used MandrakeUpdate, as I prefer urpmi from the command-line.
Seconded.
Now that Romney's in, I expect taxes should get lower (they're among the lowest in the Northeast). Plus, you get the most cultured city in the US!
If you get DirecTV, you can get the Biography Channel...
Your solution sounds great on paper, but ignores some real-life factors (a common element of both Marxist and Anarcho-capitalist ideas).
The problem with the idea of privatizing right-of-way is that, since the value of the right-of-way is dependent on where it interconnects, there is an intrinsic monopoly. If I have a 50-mile long fiber-line, it's 100% worthless if it doesn't have a connection at the end. Therein lies the problem. Whoever owns the property bordering where I want to go with it (say, because I have a customer there) has the ability to render the whole investment moot or to extract a ransom. In this environment, you are simply not going to find funding to construct such infrastructure.
While I support the idea of state (or local) ownership of the last-mile infrastructure, I do not think the govt organizations should have a monopoly on such infrastructure.
Mod parent up.
I'm a Libertarian (card-carrying member of the Libertarian Party) and I think this is exactly the way it should go (and I'd expand it to include TV).
My only quibble is that I think it should be the states that do the "nationalizing".
Last mile lines (for voice, video, and data (which is really redundant when you think about it)) are infrastructure, just like roads.
There are a few towns in New England that created their own independent telephone companies (Granby, MA is one, for example). Maybe if techies decided to move to such a town...
Judges may technically have the power to declare laws unconstitutional. However, those in the lower courts rarely do, generally on the grounds that that's the job of a higher court.
The post makes it sound like some judge woke up one morning and decided to order blocking. That's not quite the case. The Pennsylvania legislature passed a law requiring such blocks. Since county courts (in most states; I assume PA is similar in this respect) do not have the power to declare a law unconstitutional, the judge has no choice but to order the blocking.
Ultimately this is a good thing. The order gets appealed to (the PA equivalent of) a state court, which will (as those tend to lack the power to declare a law unconstitutional) uphold the county ruling. Once a state court issues an order, then the (PA equivalent of the) state Supreme Judicial Court would be able to take an appeal and (finally) declare the law unconstitutional (especially if the PA Constitution has a free speech clause).
I'd say that the $50,000 Sun box is better than the $8,000 Intel box. However, it's definitely not better enough (that's an ugly phrase...) to justify the extra cost. Even if the Sun box were three times better, it would be a wash, depending on how parallelizable the app is.