All that is certain from this article is that IBM is going to certify its xSeries (x86) boxes to run Solaris x86. Big deal. They already do...this is just saying that it'll be supported. Now, if IBM announced that Solaris will run on Power6 and they're dropping AIX, then you'd have some news. Jonathan Schwartz rather fatuously states "To me, this is a tectonic shift in the marketplace" - give me a break.
So if SCO owes Novell for royalties it collected from Sun and Microsoft, does that mean Novell can now go after Sun and Microsoft for non-payment of royalties?
If I go to you and say "hey, I bought your mortgage, pay me $2000 a month" and you do, that doesn't mean the real mortgage holder has to sue me - he can sue you for nonpayment.
How many dogs have died in these cloning experiments?
It's not like it worked the first time. Or that it works every time now. How many thousands of puppies have died (euthanized, if not born in some freakish state leading only to suffering and death)?
Dogs exist solely as companions to man - they have been purpose-evolved by man. And now we repay their loyalty by subjecting them to these sorts of grisly lab experiments.
In the event of a major disaster, the need for "immediate" recovery is actually defined as being able to be back up and running within 24 hours of the event.
Defined by who? Someone without a passable command of the English language?
(If your answer is any sort of government agency, then I was right.)
Although the book is overrated as a general job-finding guide, "What Color Is Your Parachute" is a good text to read in the specific case of making a radical career change.
Yes, but that's aside from the discussion - if you want to keep a collection of photos of bad renters as reference for your staff to know who not to rent to then go ahead, but photographing people and putting them on display is completely crossing the line. Not least because it's mass libel.
Alas for your argument, it's not. Libel implies falsehood. The truth is an absolute defense against libel.
'Shaming' people, as a primary method of government sponsored punishment was done away with a very long time ago for good reason, private businesses should not be allowed to carry it on.
It was never a "primary method of government sponsored punishment" - the government has always favored imprisonment or fines.
Doesn't something disturb and worry you about a shopkeeper whipping a polaroid camera out and snapping photos of customers that they don't like so that they can put them on the wall?
No. Why should it? By going into a store, you surrender your right of anonymity. If the store wants to take my picture and put it on the wall, there is nothing I can do about it - other than not entering the store, putting up a ThisStoreSucks.com web site, etc. Now, if they snap my picture and put it up under a "deadbeat checks" sign and I've never written then a deadbeat check, then I could sue them.
Private equity investors tend to focus on consistantly profitable companies in declining sectors
Toys R Us, Hertz, Sungard, Neiman Marcus, Intelsat, Equity Office, Hospital Corp of America, Harrah's, Clear Channel, Freescale, Albertson's...and those are just the LBOs. Saying private equity "tends to focus on consistantly profitable companies in declining sectors" is just wrong. Look at Wilbur Ross - he exclusively buys turnaround prospects and everything he buys is losing money. Sungard, Neiman Marcus, Harrah's, etc. are not in declining sectors.
I don't disagree with your basic analysis for LBOs...but not all PE is an LBO. There is a substantial buy-and-hold group of PE investors (where "hold" is 5+ years...hey, this is Wall Street, what do you expect).
Private equity is not all that different than regular (as in stock market) equity...it's just, well, private. The current issue of Fortune has an excellent, extensive story on private equity today.
You are thinking of the old Tandem machines, I think they're called Himalaya now, or whatever. Those are failsafe machines which are supposed to have zero downtime on hardware problems.
The Mainframe discussed in the topic is an IBM one, most likely a predecessor of the current zSeries machines (OS/390).
No, he's thinking of standard z-series IBM mainframes. They behave as he described. HP's NonStop (prev. Tandem) is just a different operating environment with someone different HA characteristics.
If you're concerned about putting a little metal into the oceans, perhaps floating oil rigs, submarines, torpedoes, and deep mineral mine runoff should be targets before anodes and cathodes on electrolysis equipment
For a moment, I thought you meant we could stick an oil rig in the Pacific as the anode and an oil rig in the Atlantic as the cathode and make the world's oceans one big cell;)
Odd...for well over a decade I've heard it described as Pine Is Not Elm. In fact, that's about the only acronym that makes sense, and continues the tree naming standard nicely.
I think it's wonderful that courts take email as valid communication, and I know from expereince that logs are almost never checked. For those people who understand deeply SMTP and how email MTA and clients work - this gives them much power in the current legal system.
I find this amazing (not that I doubt you). So you're saying if I bring a bunch of email printouts to court, they're generally accepted? My first move as the other side would be to say...
No header? No proof.
You have a header? Then let's see the SMTP logs from the server...and all the ones it passed through.
Oh, Joe Schmoe Intarweb, Inc. doesn't keep backups of logs for more than a year? Well then, your honor...
Even if you do have perfect logs...
It's not like it's hard to edit them.
It's not like in most cases the police show up and you have to produce them on the spot - discovery can take months if not weeks. "We restored them from tape and here they are" - sure, it's illegal, but how difficult is it to add or remove a line? Particularly if you're doing so to support emails that you are also producing?
All a log shows is that a message was sent, not the content. IANAL, but I imagine that if I show up with all sorts of emails and perfect logs for them from servers I don't control, it's corroborative but hardly conclusive. There are no MD5 sums in email logs. So the plaintiff says the message said "sell my Imclone stock" and the defendent says the message read "don't sell my Imclone stock" and they both have versions (which they used touch(1) to look legit!) backing up their story...
Other than cases where laptops are seized in raids (it's hard to argue you didn't type something in your own personal copy of Outlook) or the feds haul every hard drive out of a building, why does email have any value in courts at all?
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All that is certain from this article is that IBM is going to certify its xSeries (x86) boxes to run Solaris x86. Big deal. They already do...this is just saying that it'll be supported. Now, if IBM announced that Solaris will run on Power6 and they're dropping AIX, then you'd have some news. Jonathan Schwartz rather fatuously states "To me, this is a tectonic shift in the marketplace" - give me a break.
If I go to you and say "hey, I bought your mortgage, pay me $2000 a month" and you do, that doesn't mean the real mortgage holder has to sue me - he can sue you for nonpayment.
No doubt, it's more complicated here...
To paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, "Revaluing the Yaun just slaps at the problem. Nerve gas solves it."
Gee, just like in real life.
c.f Portland, Oregon, where the beautiful Washington Park ridge is now sight-polluted with ugly cellphone towers.
So far, the 21st century sucks.
Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, etc. all run on Linux...
...unless you're using the word "Linux" to mean "no cost".
Nonsense. The primary asset of tobacco companies is their brands. They don't own tobacco farms.
What are you talking about?
How many dogs have died in these cloning experiments?
It's not like it worked the first time. Or that it works every time now. How many thousands of puppies have died (euthanized, if not born in some freakish state leading only to suffering and death)?
Dogs exist solely as companions to man - they have been purpose-evolved by man. And now we repay their loyalty by subjecting them to these sorts of grisly lab experiments.
Frankly, I think Kim Min-kyu should be shot.
Elephant communicates "really long memory".
Which, of course, is what you want in a RDBMS.
Who's coming up with this education system?
Defined by who? Someone without a passable command of the English language?
(If your answer is any sort of government agency, then I was right.)
Although the book is overrated as a general job-finding guide, "What Color Is Your Parachute" is a good text to read in the specific case of making a radical career change.
Alas for your argument, it's not. Libel implies falsehood. The truth is an absolute defense against libel.
'Shaming' people, as a primary method of government sponsored punishment was done away with a very long time ago for good reason, private businesses should not be allowed to carry it on.
It was never a "primary method of government sponsored punishment" - the government has always favored imprisonment or fines.
Doesn't something disturb and worry you about a shopkeeper whipping a polaroid camera out and snapping photos of customers that they don't like so that they can put them on the wall?
No. Why should it? By going into a store, you surrender your right of anonymity. If the store wants to take my picture and put it on the wall, there is nothing I can do about it - other than not entering the store, putting up a ThisStoreSucks.com web site, etc. Now, if they snap my picture and put it up under a "deadbeat checks" sign and I've never written then a deadbeat check, then I could sue them.
Holy mackeral. That is the Great-Great-Grandmother of All Lameness.
Windows Vista's what? Hint to the editors: look up "possessive" in your remedial English textbook.
Toys R Us, Hertz, Sungard, Neiman Marcus, Intelsat, Equity Office, Hospital Corp of America, Harrah's, Clear Channel, Freescale, Albertson's...and those are just the LBOs. Saying private equity "tends to focus on consistantly profitable companies in declining sectors" is just wrong. Look at Wilbur Ross - he exclusively buys turnaround prospects and everything he buys is losing money. Sungard, Neiman Marcus, Harrah's, etc. are not in declining sectors.
I don't disagree with your basic analysis for LBOs...but not all PE is an LBO. There is a substantial buy-and-hold group of PE investors (where "hold" is 5+ years...hey, this is Wall Street, what do you expect).
Private equity is not all that different than regular (as in stock market) equity...it's just, well, private. The current issue of Fortune has an excellent, extensive story on private equity today.
Gee, that's all so fascinating to know.
And the Lateran Treaties with Italy.
You should be googling now.
No, he's thinking of standard z-series IBM mainframes. They behave as he described. HP's NonStop (prev. Tandem) is just a different operating environment with someone different HA characteristics.
For a moment, I thought you meant we could stick an oil rig in the Pacific as the anode and an oil rig in the Atlantic as the cathode and make the world's oceans one big cell ;)
The reason stock options are out of favor is that companies have to expense them now...
Damn my 24-hour Fortis watch!
Odd...for well over a decade I've heard it described as Pine Is Not Elm. In fact, that's about the only acronym that makes sense, and continues the tree naming standard nicely.
...so as not to offend the Ferengi.
I find this amazing (not that I doubt you). So you're saying if I bring a bunch of email printouts to court, they're generally accepted? My first move as the other side would be to say...
Even if you do have perfect logs...
Other than cases where laptops are seized in raids (it's hard to argue you didn't type something in your own personal copy of Outlook) or the feds haul every hard drive out of a building, why does email have any value in courts at all?
...but why can't Slashdot, of all places, use "cracker"?