Ahh, I remember the days back when I was avoiding studying Solid State Physics in any way that I could when I would rack up 20 or so free games on the local pinball machine and then walk away, leaving all the credits there for some poor sap who also should have been doing homework to waste his evening away.
Well one argument against ethanol is that it takes more fossil fuel to produce the equivelant amount of energy than from fossil fuel alone. All the benefits from using corn products for fuel could really be called, a great big whopping gift to Archer Daniels Midland, not farmers. And Corn really is not the best crop for keeping land productive. Lots of fertilizer (i.e. petroleum products) are used to keep corn fields productive.
In the 1950's, in the particle chambers of UCLA, strange traces were seen on the photograpic plates of particle collisions....
physics of the time couldn't account for this particle, so the postdocs and the grad students waggishly nicknamed the unknown particle the "what-on", and many ignored it for over 20 years...
as instumentation and our undestanding of sub-nuclear particles became better, some other grad students, looking for new frontiers (and new dissertation topics), started researching the "what-on"...it has become....
The Quark
I never heard of anyone detecting a quark directly. Only mesons or baryons. You have your story a little messed up.
Plus, I think calling quarks the center of the
Posh new String theory is kinda silly. Thats like calling letters the center of lingustics.
There were articles trying to scare people of this same thing when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider went online. Well, Brookhaven National Labs hasn't yet sucked the rest of Long Island into it yet. I personally doubt that the LHC will do the same. My free opinion. Take it for what its worth.
Sorry about the crack crack. Tru64 and Alpha development certainly was slowed a little by the uncertainty caused by the Compaq takeover. And you are right that there are fewer packages available for Tru64 than HP/UX or Solaris. But Tru64 is finally getting noticed in the industry as still being worthwhile (Celera uses Tru64 on Alpha for their Human Genome project). I believe your buddy's experience too, but its probably from a couple of years ago, when faith that Compaq would keep doing its own Unix was low. Back then the management only understood PCs.
Tru64 "development nearly halted????" What kind of crack are you smoking? Tru64 is in extremely active development and if you have ever been to a DECUS show you would know that. Tru64 has the best clustering of any Unix. That is vitally important to both availability and performance.
I think its pretty clear to every operating system company that once Mozilla is good enough quality
it would take over. Netscape is a boring method for AOL/Netscape to try and force other agendas.
Other browsers just aren't there yet. Konquerer is good, but its still just a little too lightweight. (My impressions). Opera has always been okay, but not quite strong enough. Lynx is great!
Really, the only hope is a good Mozilla. And the latest release shows that it is VERY close to being industrial strength.
I think that the article is wrong. AlphaServer SC is Compaq's supercomputer cluster technology based on Tru64 Unix. I don't think there is any
Linux support for the high speed interconnect that they use (Myrinet)
What you're missing is that companies only have to respond to the wishes of their shareholders and their consumers. Since I do not consume products from every company nor do I own shares of every company, I have no sway over most coporations except through government. Corporations are by definition amoral. (not necessarily immoral, but amoral). The government CAN be a balance to this. Sometimes it is.
I use the KDE port on Tru64 at work, and it is pretty fine. Except for an issue with cut and paste in Konsole, and some minor problems with Control Center, it has worked very well.
I wish someone had ported the Mozilla source to Tru64 this well. The Mozilla port just dies for me after a few seconds. But then again, I'm using Konqerer more often anyway.
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Ray Noorda is a big backer of Caldera and already owned the Unix source code back when he was driving Novell into the ground. I guess he just misses the code and wants it back.
SCO owns the SVR4 Unix source code but not the trademark. That is owned by X/Open-The Open Group, whatever they call themselves today.
I agree totally. The difference between Professor X and Magneto is similar to MLK Jr. and Malcom X, andi I definitely don't see Malcom X as an evil person. This is made clear when Magneto in his plastic prision utters the words "By any means necessary."
Truly good villians always draw a little bit of symphathy from people. Still he's not a fully sympathetic character since he is willing to sacrifice others for his goals, but not himself, as Wolverine so aptly points out.
I disagree strongly. Why should the use of software compel the distribution of it, whether or not you made modifications? This is not freedom. This is servitude. The GPL should not try to force this onto people.
Compaq as well is a partner. They like the number of ProLiants that they sell for SCO, but they are investing more in their other Unices acquired when they got Digital (Tru64) and Tandem. If IBM bought SCO, it might be harder to convince themselves to sell Monterrey.
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Ahh, I remember the days back when I was avoiding studying Solid State Physics in any way that I could when I would rack up 20 or so free games on the local pinball machine and then walk away, leaving all the credits there for some poor sap who also should have been doing homework to waste his evening away.
You say X isn't part of the Operating System. I say I define what is part of the Operating System
YOU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO INSTALL GAWK OR SED AND STILL HAVE A WORKING, USEFUL SYSTEM
So, I think your very loud obnoxious point is irrelevant.
Well one argument against ethanol is that it takes more fossil fuel to produce the equivelant amount of energy than from fossil fuel alone. All the benefits from using corn products for fuel could really be called, a great big whopping gift to Archer Daniels Midland, not farmers. And Corn really is not the best crop for keeping land productive. Lots of fertilizer (i.e. petroleum products) are used to keep corn fields productive.
In the 1950's, in the particle chambers of UCLA, strange traces were seen on the photograpic plates of particle collisions.... physics of the time couldn't account for this particle, so the postdocs and the grad students waggishly nicknamed the unknown particle the "what-on", and many ignored it for over 20 years...
as instumentation and our undestanding of sub-nuclear particles became better, some other grad students, looking for new frontiers (and new dissertation topics), started researching the "what-on"...it has become....
The Quark
I never heard of anyone detecting a quark directly. Only mesons or baryons. You have your story a little messed up.
Plus, I think calling quarks the center of the Posh new String theory is kinda silly. Thats like calling letters the center of lingustics.
There were articles trying to scare people of this same thing when the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider went online. Well, Brookhaven National Labs hasn't yet sucked the rest of Long Island into it yet. I personally doubt that the LHC will do the same. My free opinion. Take it for what its worth.
Sorry about the crack crack. Tru64 and Alpha development certainly was slowed a little by the uncertainty caused by the Compaq takeover. And you are right that there are fewer packages available for Tru64 than HP/UX or Solaris. But Tru64 is finally getting noticed in the industry as still being worthwhile (Celera uses Tru64 on Alpha for their Human Genome project). I believe your buddy's experience too, but its probably from a couple of years ago, when faith that Compaq would keep doing its own Unix was low. Back then the management only understood PCs.
Tru64 "development nearly halted????" What kind of crack are you smoking? Tru64 is in extremely active development and if you have ever been to a DECUS show you would know that. Tru64 has the best clustering of any Unix. That is vitally important to both availability and performance.
I think its pretty clear to every operating system company that once Mozilla is good enough quality it would take over. Netscape is a boring method for AOL/Netscape to try and force other agendas.
Other browsers just aren't there yet. Konquerer is good, but its still just a little too lightweight. (My impressions). Opera has always been okay, but not quite strong enough. Lynx is great!
Really, the only hope is a good Mozilla. And the latest release shows that it is VERY close to being industrial strength.
Why wait for IPv6. Its here today!! Use it!!
Okay, I'll agree I might be wrong about Myrinet not working with Alpha linux, but the AlphaServer SC is based on Tru64.
I think that the article is wrong. AlphaServer SC is Compaq's supercomputer cluster technology based on Tru64 Unix. I don't think there is any
Linux support for the high speed interconnect that they use (Myrinet)
>I see only one reason--if they're violating your property rights (pollution, etc.) In that case, your recourse is through the courts.
This is exactly where I might need to have sway over that company.
And what are the courts part of? The Government.
But I can try and use the federal government to affect local governments across the country. I can't buy shares of Monsanto to affect Sony.
What you're missing is that companies only have to respond to the wishes of their shareholders and their consumers. Since I do not consume products from every company nor do I own shares of every company, I have no sway over most coporations except through government. Corporations are by definition amoral. (not necessarily immoral, but amoral). The government CAN be a balance to this. Sometimes it is.
I use the KDE port on Tru64 at work, and it is pretty fine. Except for an issue with cut and paste in Konsole, and some minor problems with Control Center, it has worked very well.
I wish someone had ported the Mozilla source to Tru64 this well. The Mozilla port just dies for me after a few seconds. But then again, I'm using Konqerer more often anyway.
Tru64 has a hobbyist license for $99.
Check out http://www.unix.digital.com/noncommercial-unix/
This is probably a mistake. Solaris is not BSD. SunOS 4.* is BSD. Solaris is SVR4.
Hasn't been under the auspices of AT&T since the trivestiture. It was a Bell Labs research project. And Bell Labs went with Lucent.
Ray Noorda is a big backer of Caldera and already owned the Unix source code back when he was driving Novell into the ground. I guess he just misses the code and wants it back.
SCO owns the SVR4 Unix source code but not the trademark. That is owned by X/Open-The Open Group, whatever they call themselves today.
I agree totally. The difference between Professor X and Magneto is similar to MLK Jr. and Malcom X, andi I definitely don't see Malcom X as an evil person. This is made clear when Magneto in his plastic prision utters the words "By any means necessary."
Truly good villians always draw a little bit of symphathy from people. Still he's not a fully sympathetic character since he is willing to sacrifice others for his goals, but not himself, as Wolverine so aptly points out.
I disagree strongly. Why should the use of software compel the distribution of it, whether or not you made modifications? This is not freedom. This is servitude. The GPL should not try to force this onto people.
Compaq as well is a partner. They like the number of ProLiants that they sell for SCO, but they are investing more in their other Unices acquired when they got Digital (Tru64) and Tandem. If IBM bought SCO, it might be harder to convince themselves to sell Monterrey.
Never was Ultrix. Ultrix was another beast completely.