You were congratulating yourselves on what? Being able to type words into a computer screen. So, you can type. You can type a few sentences a few times. Good, but, I don't get it. I can type too. Lots of people can type. You were maybe congratulating yourselves on being able to type.
Apparently, for you, that is a big achievement. Not too many times, mind you, that would be too much effort, but a few times anyway. (I think my karma is still better than yours, though, for what it is worth.)
BUT.................
All that crap was written by you, and your loser friend. Isn't it time you made your own site where you can get first post, every time, all day.
Not true! In pure processor speeds, you are correct, but an IBM big iron, had a lot more going for it.
1) Massive I/O capablities.
2) Excellent instrumentation that Unix hints at.
3) Software reliablitity that Unix wishes for. e.g. All system software had to have a capacity to restart itself if it failed. None of this 'kernel panic' I'm bailing out rubbish. Apparently half the code was just for recovery/reliability purposes.
4) Security. The number kiddies getting into IBM OS is miniscule compared to Unix.
5) Software base. Who can be bothered building the software for a bank or airline.
The cost is too much, (look at bank fees), but their is at least a partial reason for it all.
The reason relational databases are so pervasive is that they work so well. Having worked with both, the flexibility of the RDB is what is so powerful. There is a book out on the remainder piles that is a serious attempt to create the 'object oriented' relational database by CJ Date. One of the big failings of current computer development is the insistence of developers to use hierarchical data structures for everything from oo class systems to file directories. Hierarchical might be quick and easy for getting something going, the long term restrictions and complexities it introduces are never ending.
George Dubya admits there is global warming, just that we don't know how much. One of the predictions of Global Warming is that weather patterns will shift, which is what appears to be happening in your case, and also here in Melbourne, Australia. We have been having five years of drought in what is normally very wet Melbourne, because predicted weather shifts are happening. The only thing they didn't expect, according to my weather scientist friend, is that this would happen so quickly and so soon.
This has been due to high pressure systems from up North coming down South.
The other interesting thing is that insurance companies are now very wary of insuring many areas susceptible to tropical storms. FLorida actually had to force insurance companies to insure people who insist on building in dangerous areas. In Australia, there are now areas where insurance rates have gone up hundreds of %, and some areas just cannot get insurance.
In fact, Hurricane Andrew drained several billion dollars from Australian re-insurers and sent then broke, Not again!
Consider that all the critics of climate change are privately funded, often by the big industries with a vested interest in denying global warming. Who is compromised now. In fact, George Dubya acknowledges that global warming is a fact, but that since we can't predict it accurately, well, hey, lets just play ostriches.
I heard about a Navy security request for tenders to wipe date from sensitive systems. They got back a bunch of quotes, one week, one day, several days. Then they got a quote of ten minutes. When they queried how this was to be done, the reply was, 'explosives'. There next query was, 'can you do this any quicker'.
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I haven't seen even ONE person reply to this rubbish, no matter how many times it turns up.
Apparently, for you, that is a big achievement. Not too many times, mind you, that would be too much effort, but a few times anyway. (I think my karma is still better than yours, though, for what it is worth.)
BUT................. All that crap was written by you, and your loser friend. Isn't it time you made your own site where you can get first post, every time, all day.
Not true! In pure processor speeds, you are correct, but an IBM big iron, had a lot more going for it.
1) Massive I/O capablities.
2) Excellent instrumentation that Unix hints at.
3) Software reliablitity that Unix wishes for. e.g. All system software had to have a capacity to restart itself if it failed. None of this 'kernel panic' I'm bailing out rubbish. Apparently half the code was just for recovery/reliability purposes.
4) Security. The number kiddies getting into IBM OS is miniscule compared to Unix.
5) Software base. Who can be bothered building the software for a bank or airline.
The cost is too much, (look at bank fees), but their is at least a partial reason for it all.
The reason relational databases are so pervasive is that they work so well. Having worked with both, the flexibility of the RDB is what is so powerful. There is a book out on the remainder piles that is a serious attempt to create the 'object oriented' relational database by CJ Date. One of the big failings of current computer development is the insistence of developers to use hierarchical data structures for everything from oo class systems to file directories. Hierarchical might be quick and easy for getting something going, the long term restrictions and complexities it introduces are never ending.
This has been due to high pressure systems from up North coming down South.
The other interesting thing is that insurance companies are now very wary of insuring many areas susceptible to tropical storms. FLorida actually had to force insurance companies to insure people who insist on building in dangerous areas. In Australia, there are now areas where insurance rates have gone up hundreds of %, and some areas just cannot get insurance.
In fact, Hurricane Andrew drained several billion dollars from Australian re-insurers and sent then broke, Not again!
Consider that all the critics of climate change are privately funded, often by the big industries with a vested interest in denying global warming. Who is compromised now. In fact, George Dubya acknowledges that global warming is a fact, but that since we can't predict it accurately, well, hey, lets just play ostriches.
I heard about a Navy security request for tenders to wipe date from sensitive systems. They got back a bunch of quotes, one week, one day, several days. Then they got a quote of ten minutes. When they queried how this was to be done, the reply was, 'explosives'. There next query was, 'can you do this any quicker'.
As I understand it, they can't even measure the neutrino output accurately yet. The current theory is that their measurements are not accurate.
It seems the smaller the thing we are looking at, the bigger the machine has to be.