Its a question they should've asked themselves six years ago.
Sun has the advantage of being the "standard" for enterprise Unix applications. They're hurting but thats sigificant.
SGI (aside from the Cray stuff) hasn't offered anything over other systems in half a decade.
I used to work for a SGI VAR, and even seven years ago, most of the customers with existing installations were already looking and moving off them. The issue was people generally hated Irix, and as non-Irix hardware got better, the pain of changing platforms was mitigated by the pleasure of getting away from Irix. I commented in the parallel with Apple in another reply. SGI made the switch to Intel (or attempted it, I have no idea these days if that stuck or not) but unlike Apple, they had nothing to offer when they moved off MIPS. People didn't like their OS anyway.
Thats pretty debatable. The O2's were overpriced and underpowered, and Irix was SUCH a pain to work with. SysV but things just didn't quite work the same as other SysV boxes.
SGI had gone from making significant high end hardware to making an attempt at the "trendy" market that Apple did such a good job being successful in. During the dot-com hype in the late 90's, they were pushing case design and graphics demos as justification for overpaying for their hardware.
They were already on the way down at that point. The decision shortly after the O2 systems were introduced to start selling vastly overpriced PC-compatible Intel hardware was the nail in that coffin. (Lets hope Apple weathers that decision better than SGI did! There's a LOT of parallels between the two, only Apple has had success where SGI had failure).
I think the last real significant (from a market innovation standpoint) hardware SGI really was selling was the Indy line, but even those were form-over-function and were mostly useful because at the time they had a real stranglehold on high-end graphics production.
More people, statistically, will die today on US highways than have been reported so far in London.
An order of magnitude more will die of smoking related diseases in the US.
Even more will die of starvation globally. Or natural causes.
People make jokes about things that stress them out. Its how people cope, and people shouldn't be made to feel bad about it. Its human nature. Its the political correctness bullshit that its somehow wrong that keeps people from dealing with this kind of emotional stress. Joking is a BIG part of getting past things like that.
Yes, it may be insensitive, but you can't think of a thing to say that isn't going to offend someone somewhere.
And more directly, throughout most of the last few thousand years (contrary to what you were taught in grade school), the majority of the population knew perfectly well the Earth was spherical.
During the reign of the Church in Europe, it was one of those "emperor has no clothes" things... most people knew it but you'd never say it publically. Outside of Europe, there was never really any issue with it.
Local OTA channels only. Here, out of the 15 or so HD channels, I get 4-5 unencrypted. All the cable networks, premium channels, INHD1 and INHD2 are encrypted.
$12.50 each!? While some of the rarer ones might be worth that, or more, its hard to justify that cost, except in savings of time finding copies yourself. Certainly the raw aquisition cost wouldn't be nearly that.
Thats $6.25 a song. That makes the $.99 at iTunes seem like a real steal!
Anyone who thinks the nuclear weapons used in Japan were the horrors of that war need to spend a bit more time reading history and a bit less time trying to get themselves read on Slashdot.
Go read up on the firebombing of Japanese cities, or European cities.
The attack on Tokyo killed far more people, destroyed far more of the city than both of the nuclear weapons. There's little evidence to suggest that radioactivity has caused any more deaths in the last 60 years than the release of toxins in normal fires did in other cities. Cancer clusters just are easier to track.
Even ignoring the fact that it stopped the war early, the use of the nuclear weapons both saved American lives, and saved the lives of countless Japanese civilians who would've been killed in the firestorm that followed a mass bombing of those cities.
War is ugly. Spend a little time learning about weapons systems over the last 500 years, learn about their effects, both immediate and long term before passing judgement. Don't mistakenly assume efficiency at killing equates to the level of inhumanity. And definitely don't base your idea of what these wars were like on a few individual-oriented movies like Saving Private Ryan. Wars for the last hundred years were based on the concept of impersonal massive destruction, most of it far more horrifying than a nuclear blast.
Its always been a company with a brief spurt of serious creativity followed by a long period of expert sucking.
Disney is back where they were in the 70's. One bad family movie after another. One forgettable animated feature after another.
I think what is more suprising than their fall now is the fact that they stayed at the top during so much of the 90's. They had several decades of nothing prior to that.
Its a pity that engineers designing the software and hardware on a modern PC don't believe it should be like any other appliance.
We're half a decade into the 21st century. Computers should be like a dishwasher or a microwave. They should not require me to do any regular cleaning, any regular patching. It should just work.
Its a failure on the part of the industry that this isn't the case.
Um, plows didn't reduce the time spent plowing, they created the time spent plowing. Without a plow, how are you plowing? You can't plow without a plow.
They reduced the time spent planting, and allowed planting of fields with harder soil.
Adjusted for inflation, you've been able to beat those requirements for at least two years now.
So quit whining.
$250 + $100 for the wide screen, adjusted for inflation from 1994 to 2005 is $430.
I paid $480 for my 26" wide-screen HD samsung I have in my bedroom. I can't get crap with a $15 or a $500 antenna, but if I lived close enough to a city where it would work for analog, it would work for HD as well.
Its 2005. Are you going to start complaining that a Toyota Corolla in 1994 was $14500 well loaded, and comparably equipped its almost $18000 now? Hell, gas was $1.19 average in California in 1994. Are you going to not drive a car at all anymore because you have to pay a dollar more a gallon for gas?
At least with the TV you're paying the same for more.
Its more likely an atmospheric artifact... the air is really dry up there, and the motor is throwing a lot of moisture out. It may be getting trapped around the helicoper and forming a cloud the way you see jet trails when they're that high.
They're not having wars over the format. The issue is the data is *raw* -- its right off the sensor, with some header information.
Every camera can't *by definition* have the same RAW format. Every camera has different electronics.
Picking a common "RAW" format is no different that picking any other non-"RAW" image format. Might as well ask them all to just store uncompressed images as TIFF files or PNG with the additional metadata. But its not RAW at that point.
Absolutely something helps -- they scanned the package, they know what driver scanned it at a minimum and when, so they can fairly easily guess where it may have been delivered. They can have their driver visit those locations the next day and ask about the package. Considering misuse of the information in that package is a felony, even if whoever has it doesn't fess up, it gives a pretty good place to start a more careful watch.
FedEx has mis-delivered several shipments to me over the years, and they've gone and gotten it back in every case but one when I went and did it myself.
Did the recipient call FedEx and have them put a trace on the package?
Horsepower at the crank is how you HAVE to report it. At the wheels depends on your transmission, the fluid in it, the wheels, the tires on the wheels and the alignment. You can't compare wheel horsepower between two different cars (even same model cars, unless everything is set up identically between them), but you can compare crank horsepower.
that fascists with nuclear bombs is a bad thing...
how about a theocracy with nuclear bombs (US ruled by christian right)?
or a tyrant with nuclear bombs (US ruled by... um... christian right)?
what will it take for the world to do something decisive about these regimes and their (soon to be) nuclear arsenals? a nuclear signature over los angeles or madrid?
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Its a question they should've asked themselves six years ago.
Sun has the advantage of being the "standard" for enterprise Unix applications. They're hurting but thats sigificant.
SGI (aside from the Cray stuff) hasn't offered anything over other systems in half a decade.
I used to work for a SGI VAR, and even seven years ago, most of the customers with existing installations were already looking and moving off them. The issue was people generally hated Irix, and as non-Irix hardware got better, the pain of changing platforms was mitigated by the pleasure of getting away from Irix. I commented in the parallel with Apple in another reply. SGI made the switch to Intel (or attempted it, I have no idea these days if that stuck or not) but unlike Apple, they had nothing to offer when they moved off MIPS. People didn't like their OS anyway.
Thats pretty debatable. The O2's were overpriced and underpowered, and Irix was SUCH a pain to work with. SysV but things just didn't quite work the same as other SysV boxes.
SGI had gone from making significant high end hardware to making an attempt at the "trendy" market that Apple did such a good job being successful in. During the dot-com hype in the late 90's, they were pushing case design and graphics demos as justification for overpaying for their hardware.
They were already on the way down at that point. The decision shortly after the O2 systems were introduced to start selling vastly overpriced PC-compatible Intel hardware was the nail in that coffin. (Lets hope Apple weathers that decision better than SGI did! There's a LOT of parallels between the two, only Apple has had success where SGI had failure).
I think the last real significant (from a market innovation standpoint) hardware SGI really was selling was the Indy line, but even those were form-over-function and were mostly useful because at the time they had a real stranglehold on high-end graphics production.
FWIW, encryption has a "Y", description has an "I".
Since we're on the topic of FWIW's.
I'm not sure those who fall into that category particularly care about the distinction.
People die in a lot of ways.
More people, statistically, will die today on US highways than have been reported so far in London.
An order of magnitude more will die of smoking related diseases in the US.
Even more will die of starvation globally. Or natural causes.
People make jokes about things that stress them out. Its how people cope, and people shouldn't be made to feel bad about it. Its human nature. Its the political correctness bullshit that its somehow wrong that keeps people from dealing with this kind of emotional stress. Joking is a BIG part of getting past things like that.
Yes, it may be insensitive, but you can't think of a thing to say that isn't going to offend someone somewhere.
Install AdBlock with some good filters.
Its possible I just don't hit sites that have them (altough it seems unlikely) but I've never seen a pop-up in Firefox.
And more directly, throughout most of the last few thousand years (contrary to what you were taught in grade school), the majority of the population knew perfectly well the Earth was spherical.
During the reign of the Church in Europe, it was one of those "emperor has no clothes" things... most people knew it but you'd never say it publically. Outside of Europe, there was never really any issue with it.
Ouch.
Very, very ouch.
Local OTA channels only. Here, out of the 15 or so HD channels, I get 4-5 unencrypted. All the cable networks, premium channels, INHD1 and INHD2 are encrypted.
Wait... $250,000 for 20,000 45's?
$12.50 each!? While some of the rarer ones might be worth that, or more, its hard to justify that cost, except in savings of time finding copies yourself. Certainly the raw aquisition cost wouldn't be nearly that.
Thats $6.25 a song. That makes the $.99 at iTunes seem like a real steal!
I go to google, I get a search prompt. If I log in, I get my mail and mini portal.
If I go to yahoo, I get inundated with crap regardless of if I log in or not.
Thats a big difference.
Anyone who thinks the nuclear weapons used in Japan were the horrors of that war need to spend a bit more time reading history and a bit less time trying to get themselves read on Slashdot.
Go read up on the firebombing of Japanese cities, or European cities.
The attack on Tokyo killed far more people, destroyed far more of the city than both of the nuclear weapons. There's little evidence to suggest that radioactivity has caused any more deaths in the last 60 years than the release of toxins in normal fires did in other cities. Cancer clusters just are easier to track.
Even ignoring the fact that it stopped the war early, the use of the nuclear weapons both saved American lives, and saved the lives of countless Japanese civilians who would've been killed in the firestorm that followed a mass bombing of those cities.
War is ugly. Spend a little time learning about weapons systems over the last 500 years, learn about their effects, both immediate and long term before passing judgement. Don't mistakenly assume efficiency at killing equates to the level of inhumanity. And definitely don't base your idea of what these wars were like on a few individual-oriented movies like Saving Private Ryan. Wars for the last hundred years were based on the concept of impersonal massive destruction, most of it far more horrifying than a nuclear blast.
Want a list of movies with suprise twists that ruin the movie if you hear about first?
I can list the spoilers for you, too.
Jackass friends and media is the reason to see them right away.
If you are Japanese, surely you know the firebombing of other cities in Japan killed more people than either nuclear bombing. You do know that, right?
No, thats because you don't like historical French politics or social habits.
You misspelled "advertisement". Its not spelled a-r-t-i-c-l-e.
Its always been a company with a brief spurt of serious creativity followed by a long period of expert sucking.
Disney is back where they were in the 70's. One bad family movie after another. One forgettable animated feature after another.
I think what is more suprising than their fall now is the fact that they stayed at the top during so much of the 90's. They had several decades of nothing prior to that.
Its a pity that engineers designing the software and hardware on a modern PC don't believe it should be like any other appliance.
We're half a decade into the 21st century. Computers should be like a dishwasher or a microwave. They should not require me to do any regular cleaning, any regular patching. It should just work.
Its a failure on the part of the industry that this isn't the case.
Um, plows didn't reduce the time spent plowing, they created the time spent plowing. Without a plow, how are you plowing? You can't plow without a plow.
They reduced the time spent planting, and allowed planting of fields with harder soil.
Adjusted for inflation, you've been able to beat those requirements for at least two years now.
So quit whining.
$250 + $100 for the wide screen, adjusted for inflation from 1994 to 2005 is $430.
I paid $480 for my 26" wide-screen HD samsung I have in my bedroom. I can't get crap with a $15 or a $500 antenna, but if I lived close enough to a city where it would work for analog, it would work for HD as well.
Its 2005. Are you going to start complaining that a Toyota Corolla in 1994 was $14500 well loaded, and comparably equipped its almost $18000 now? Hell, gas was $1.19 average in California in 1994. Are you going to not drive a car at all anymore because you have to pay a dollar more a gallon for gas?
At least with the TV you're paying the same for more.
Its more likely an atmospheric artifact... the air is really dry up there, and the motor is throwing a lot of moisture out. It may be getting trapped around the helicoper and forming a cloud the way you see jet trails when they're that high.
They're not having wars over the format. The issue is the data is *raw* -- its right off the sensor, with some header information.
Every camera can't *by definition* have the same RAW format. Every camera has different electronics.
Picking a common "RAW" format is no different that picking any other non-"RAW" image format. Might as well ask them all to just store uncompressed images as TIFF files or PNG with the additional metadata. But its not RAW at that point.
Absolutely something helps -- they scanned the package, they know what driver scanned it at a minimum and when, so they can fairly easily guess where it may have been delivered. They can have their driver visit those locations the next day and ask about the package. Considering misuse of the information in that package is a felony, even if whoever has it doesn't fess up, it gives a pretty good place to start a more careful watch.
FedEx has mis-delivered several shipments to me over the years, and they've gone and gotten it back in every case but one when I went and did it myself.
Did the recipient call FedEx and have them put a trace on the package?
Horsepower at the crank is how you HAVE to report it. At the wheels depends on your transmission, the fluid in it, the wheels, the tires on the wheels and the alignment. You can't compare wheel horsepower between two different cars (even same model cars, unless everything is set up identically between them), but you can compare crank horsepower.
(burn karma burn)
that fascists with nuclear bombs is a bad thing...
how about a theocracy with nuclear bombs (US ruled by christian right)?
or a tyrant with nuclear bombs (US ruled by... um... christian right)?
what will it take for the world to do something decisive about these regimes and their (soon to be) nuclear arsenals? a nuclear signature over los angeles or madrid?
i fear that to be the case