Ahh, no. NZ is not part of continental Oz. Australasia is commonly used to group Oz and NZ (and sometimes other countries). Apart from mutually taking the piss out of each other there is little logical reason to group the two separated land masses.
Revenues are the money paid for the server hardware, not the OS. Sources of the survey are a large sample of customers worldwide who report server purchases and the OS installed on them (amongst other things). The results are correlated with vendor reports of sales.
I have been tracking worldwide server revenues for a few years. Over the past 2-3 years the market share between Mainframe, UNIX, Linux and Windows has been very flat: Windows 40%, Unix 35% Linux 14%, mainframe (ZOS) 11% (IDC Worldwide Server Revenue marketshare).
I'd take a 370 assembler job, if they existed! I enjoyed that more than any other language I've worked with. Heck, even with the old OS that ususally accompanies such work - threads? preemptive multitasking? Who needs em!
From memory, IBM's 370 macros came with source and cool code was shared freely between mainframe shops.
Microsoft focusing on developing a browser-based OS is directly opposed to their current business model, which involves forcing users to purchase an operating system.
But not opposed to their business model of disrupting competition by any means possible. Significant competitor comes up with browser/OS combination, so lets tell the market that we are doing just that. Should keep the builders of those pesky netbook thingies from drifting away again.
In my opinion cars driven by electric motors are where we should be placing our bets.
Electric motors can go very quickly (at least the speed limit), have great acceleration, don't require a grid of hydrogen fuel stations to be built, don't require the massive amounts of energy used for electrolysis (the process of making useable hydrogen), have 0 risk of exploding (although admittedly hydrogen vehicles are pretty safe, but its more of a mental thing), and are ridiculously efficient. You know that about 3% of the energy used in internal combustion engines actually ends up moving the driver?
I think you mean 30%, if you are referring to petrol (gas in USA) and 45+% for diesel.
We bought one, they are insanely fuel efficient (we thought the fuel guage was broken at first) and the performance is amazing. There is a battery though, albeit a conventional starting battery rather than a large hybrid type battery.
Its very rural, even the cities are really just very large 'small country towns'.
The shops are pretty limited in what they stock, theres very little variety in the stores.
The people are slack, lazy and highly disorganised.
NZ businesses are, by and large, extremely poorly run and the management style leaves a LOT to be desired.
Theres a saying here "She'll be right mate"
It means "Don't worry about something that appears to be almost a disaster, it'll be ok"
Usually when you hear a kiwi say this phrase DUCK because something is about to explode.
I'm even considering going to the UK.
Dead right. Now you just toddle off to the UK just as fast you little legs can carry you and we will both be happy. And BTW, all that my little friend said is dead right.
We don't want any more people here, we have far too many as it is.
It is not commonly known within this country but an agency of the NZ Government monitors all internet traffic and telephone calls. While we are signatories to UN Human Rights treaties we don't have a constitution so there is actually no constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable seizure etc.
Think Echelon, a joint US, UK, Canada, Australian and NZ foreign security operation. NZ staff are only allowed to monitor the traffic or foreign nationals though. Can you identify ANY country that does not monitor comms traffic in some way?
And about the consitution in NZ, true we don't have one. But NZ laws about freedom of speech, search and seizure etc. are as "free" as most anywhere else. Looking at what goes in countries with a constitution, we don't seem to suffer too badly here in Godzone.
This is, unfortunately, not something as easily done in America once you get here, and the number of options for emmigration are practically none once you get an American passport.
1. Why does getting an American passport reduce the options that he has through his British passport?
2. BS on your whole point. It's easy for Americans to emigrate. In most European countries, all you have to do is hold down a job for 3-5 years and then you can naturalize. New Zealand will take anyone with a pulse.
Default was first used in computer science in the 1960s because that is when computer science, as we knew it, began. It was picked up from common usage outside of computer science, and was general use well before then. Unfortunately I am old enough to remember it as a common term in the 1950s. For example the default land area for a house (at least in my part of the world) was a quarter of an acre and it used to be referred to as the default area.
You said "push down the plate". And the end of the plate the car has to climb up the distance that it was pushed down. That climb will require a very small amount of gas in the engine, enough to create enough energy to climb out, plus friction losses and the inherint losses in the car engine. My guess is that this system will waste about double the energy a good thermal station would use to generate the same amount of electricity.
Sun isn't Oracle's recommended software platform. Oracle has been releasing stuff for Solaris later and later.
LINUX is the preferred platform right now. Go ahead, look at all the docs for an Oracle RAC. You never see Solaris mentioned in the recommended configurations.
Look at the recent utterings from Oracle. Now Solaris is number 1, Linux is number 2, at least according to Larry.
Right. So New Zealand is politically corrupt and the government is out of touch with reality. The weather is terrible and the country is over-run with Australians. The country is a really horrible place to visit/live in.
Please, please believe this is true. We don't want any more people here, we are OK just as we are.
If your 4 digit ID is original, then this is a wind-up. If you paid for it, then I suggest you just keep looking for a few more weeks, then you will understand your audience.
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I think you will find that it is the other way around. We even have Royalty here to endorse addition of the West Island to the kingdom of New Zealand.
Ahh, no. NZ is not part of continental Oz. Australasia is commonly used to group Oz and NZ (and sometimes other countries). Apart from mutually taking the piss out of each other there is little logical reason to group the two separated land masses.
Probably, if we had a basement, and an intercom
My parents and partner use this sort of service all the time, I am the one at the end of the voice communication network. Kids also use it when lazy.
There appears to be a perception that this work has stopped, it had not... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)
Revenues are the money paid for the server hardware, not the OS. Sources of the survey are a large sample of customers worldwide who report server purchases and the OS installed on them (amongst other things). The results are correlated with vendor reports of sales.
I have been tracking worldwide server revenues for a few years. Over the past 2-3 years the market share between Mainframe, UNIX, Linux and Windows has been very flat: Windows 40%, Unix 35% Linux 14%, mainframe (ZOS) 11% (IDC Worldwide Server Revenue marketshare).
Quarter Windows Linux UNIX ZOS
02/06 34.20% 12.60% 35.00%
03/06 34.40% 12.40% 34.20% 11.30%
04/06 34.90% 11.40% 33.50% 11.40%
01/07 38.80% 17.00% 35.00%
02/07 38.20% 13.60% 31.70% 9.50%
03/07 40.40% 13.40% 31.10%
04/07 36.60% 12.70% 33.20%
01/08 39.20% 13.70% 30.60% 8.40%
02/08 36.50% 13.40% 32.70% 11.80%
03/08 40.80% 14.00% 29.70% 9.40%
04/08 35.30% 13.60% 36.20%
01/09 37.30% 13.80% 33.10% 9.00%
ZOS is not always reported in press releases and I don't purchase the IDC report.
Looks like neither Mainframe or UNIX is dying, or that Linux is dominating.
I'd take a 370 assembler job, if they existed! I enjoyed that more than any other language I've worked with. Heck, even with the old OS that ususally accompanies such work - threads? preemptive multitasking? Who needs em!
From memory, IBM's 370 macros came with source and cool code was shared freely between mainframe shops.
Microsoft focusing on developing a browser-based OS is directly opposed to their current business model, which involves forcing users to purchase an operating system.
But not opposed to their business model of disrupting competition by any means possible. Significant competitor comes up with browser/OS combination, so lets tell the market that we are doing just that. Should keep the builders of those pesky netbook thingies from drifting away again.
What about factoring in the size of all the malware that can now conveniently run on two platforms now (Windows/.Net and Linux/Mono)
In my opinion cars driven by electric motors are where we should be placing our bets.
Electric motors can go very quickly (at least the speed limit), have great acceleration, don't require a grid of hydrogen fuel stations to be built, don't require the massive amounts of energy used for electrolysis (the process of making useable hydrogen), have 0 risk of exploding (although admittedly hydrogen vehicles are pretty safe, but its more of a mental thing), and are ridiculously efficient. You know that about 3% of the energy used in internal combustion engines actually ends up moving the driver?
I think you mean 30%, if you are referring to petrol (gas in USA) and 45+% for diesel.
It makes me want to buy a nice second hand tank to even out the odds.
First have to figure out how to purchase a tank and have it delivered without the US Military getting involved.
No sweat here in New Zealand... http://www.tanksforeverything.co.nz/
We bought one, they are insanely fuel efficient (we thought the fuel guage was broken at first) and the performance is amazing. There is a battery though, albeit a conventional starting battery rather than a large hybrid type battery.
New Zealand suffers from small town mentality.
Its very rural, even the cities are really just very large 'small country towns'.
The shops are pretty limited in what they stock, theres very little variety in the stores.
The people are slack, lazy and highly disorganised.
NZ businesses are, by and large, extremely poorly run and the management style leaves a LOT to be desired.
Theres a saying here "She'll be right mate"
It means "Don't worry about something that appears to be almost a disaster, it'll be ok"
Usually when you hear a kiwi say this phrase DUCK because something is about to explode.
I'm even considering going to the UK.
Dead right. Now you just toddle off to the UK just as fast you little legs can carry you and we will both be happy. And BTW, all that my little friend said is dead right.
We don't want any more people here, we have far too many as it is.
I'm also a New Zealander.
It is not commonly known within this country but an agency of the NZ Government monitors all internet traffic and telephone calls. While we are signatories to UN Human Rights treaties we don't have a constitution so there is actually no constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable seizure etc.
Think Echelon, a joint US, UK, Canada, Australian and NZ foreign security operation. NZ staff are only allowed to monitor the traffic or foreign nationals though. Can you identify ANY country that does not monitor comms traffic in some way?
And about the consitution in NZ, true we don't have one. But NZ laws about freedom of speech, search and seizure etc. are as "free" as most anywhere else. Looking at what goes in countries with a constitution, we don't seem to suffer too badly here in Godzone.
Let's see, for English speakers we have:
UK: Getting worse
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Fiji: Not too bad
I take it you are related to Frank Bainimarama, or perhaps you are a member of the Fiji armed forces then.
1. Why does getting an American passport reduce the options that he has through his British passport?
2. BS on your whole point. It's easy for Americans to emigrate. In most European countries, all you have to do is hold down a job for 3-5 years and then you can naturalize. New Zealand will take anyone with a pulse.
And BS on that point. New Zealand does have restrictive immigration policies... http://www.immigration.govt.nz/nzopportunities/williqualify/
As long as you are healthy, have significant personal funds and have relevant skills it can be done, but the bar is quite high.
Default was first used in computer science in the 1960s because that is when computer science, as we knew it, began. It was picked up from common usage outside of computer science, and was general use well before then. Unfortunately I am old enough to remember it as a common term in the 1950s. For example the default land area for a house (at least in my part of the world) was a quarter of an acre and it used to be referred to as the default area.
You said "push down the plate". And the end of the plate the car has to climb up the distance that it was pushed down. That climb will require a very small amount of gas in the engine, enough to create enough energy to climb out, plus friction losses and the inherint losses in the car engine. My guess is that this system will waste about double the energy a good thermal station would use to generate the same amount of electricity.
Right now, Oracle 11g 11.1.0.7.0 download seems to only be available for Windows on Oracle's site.
That would be because 11.1.0.7.0 is essentially a Windows fix release, perhaps.
Sun isn't Oracle's recommended software platform. Oracle has been releasing stuff for Solaris later and later.
LINUX is the preferred platform right now. Go ahead, look at all the docs for an Oracle RAC. You never see Solaris mentioned in the recommended configurations.
Look at the recent utterings from Oracle. Now Solaris is number 1, Linux is number 2, at least according to Larry.
Right. So New Zealand is politically corrupt and the government is out of touch with reality. The weather is terrible and the country is over-run with Australians. The country is a really horrible place to visit/live in.
Please, please believe this is true. We don't want any more people here, we are OK just as we are.
I guess it all depends on how nubile grace is....
Times change. It used to be a UNIX kernel.
If your 4 digit ID is original, then this is a wind-up. If you paid for it, then I suggest you just keep looking for a few more weeks, then you will understand your audience.