No. Solaris is only free on bitty boxes - single and dual CPU systems. Solaris costs a metric buttload on boxes that are capable of large SMP - so something like a cheap E4500 you pick up at a dot-bomb auction may require thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in licensing.
Solaris used to be pretty much free; Sun have been incrementally ratcheting down the threshold for charging in the last few years.
Companies with unreasonable non-competes for employess often have quite reasonable terms for contractors.
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As someone trapped behind a firewall with only an NTLM enabled proxy for Internet access, the NTLM feature is *very* interesting. I suspect there are tens of thousands of Moz users in the same boat.
Server goes down under a welter of spam, you lose a contract because email doesn't arrive. Or you spend hundreds on weekend work for someone to clean a system up. Trivial examples.
$10,000 widescreen? Heck, I got a 32" widescreen for NZ$2000. Pennies in real money;).
A number of TV shows are shot in widescreen, and released that way when pushed out to DVD even if only broadcast 4:3 - Buffy and Babylon 5 being two examples that spring to my mind - and some popular TV series (like ER) have been broadcast in a widescreen format to make people think they're higher quality (more like a movie!).
Here in New Zealand some rugby union is now being broadcast widescreen as well - it actually makes quite a difference on wide-angle shots of the pitch.
And the plasma TVs look nice, but aren't as long-lived as a CRT, sadly. NZ$15K for a TV that only lasts 5 years is a bit much for me.
People don't do telemarketing jobs because they have in-demand skills and a big pile-o-cash to fall back on if they get laid off and can't find another job once word gets out they rat on the boss.
It may be the right thing to do, but being in the right doesn't keep you off the streets, unfortunately.
x86-64 is scarecly a hack, it's a pretty significant re-engineering effort that actually addresses many of the complaints about the ia32 architecture (like register starvation).
As for why WinXP doesn't play well on the Itanium - it's a hard problem. The ia64 architecture is completely new and is using a lot of concepts which are not well understood. It relies very, very heavily on compilers being tailored for it - there are still huge performance gaps between the various compilers claiming ia64 as a target (HP, for example, are still running 20-30% better than Intel's compiler).
Intel have screwed themselves here - their product is too radical a shift to make it easy for vendors to adapt.
Colour lasers scarcely need to be more expensive for fat margins. Especially with the way it's trivial to ruin drum elements with oversaturated images (new drum = $$$).
And the colour quality on the common colour lasers is *awful*. Printing a rich blue and getting a teal green is less than impressive, Tektronix!
They had the first inkjets and colour injets, and their laser printers and plotters were solid enought that I imagine they could survive a nuclear strike. That continued through until the 4 series range - the last HP lasers worth owning. From the 5 on, and newer, they've been making the same plasticky, jam-prone, easily broken crap as anyone else.
Prior to the 5 series, an HP laser was my automatic recommendation. From the 5 onward, I wouldn't touch 'em with a shitty stick.
Another example similar to your sugar one: US steel tarrifs, ruled illegal by the WTO anyway, have cost more jobs (US compaies who rely on steel laying people off) that it's saved.
Actually, Canon printers are somewhat more expensive that their Epson equivalents, but have much cheaper running costs due to lower cartridge prices. So some manufacturers are taking the higher inital cost/lower long term cost route.
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Of course it is. You're allowed to crush your competitors, so long as you dn't use illegal tactics to do so.
My observation is that Legolas appeals to younger women, Aragorn to older. It's interesting to watch the swooning change with age...
Why not? Perhaps you wouldn't, but I have to objection to my mates having a copy of my nice car.
No. Solaris is only free on bitty boxes - single and dual CPU systems. Solaris costs a metric buttload on boxes that are capable of large SMP - so something like a cheap E4500 you pick up at a dot-bomb auction may require thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in licensing.
Solaris used to be pretty much free; Sun have been incrementally ratcheting down the threshold for charging in the last few years.
Wrong.
Companies with unreasonable non-competes for employess often have quite reasonable terms for contractors.
As someone trapped behind a firewall with only an NTLM enabled proxy for Internet access, the NTLM feature is *very* interesting. I suspect there are tens of thousands of Moz users in the same boat.
Your comment was a parody, right?
Server goes down under a welter of spam, you lose a contract because email doesn't arrive. Or you spend hundreds on weekend work for someone to clean a system up. Trivial examples.
$10,000 widescreen? Heck, I got a 32" widescreen for NZ$2000. Pennies in real money ;).
A number of TV shows are shot in widescreen, and released that way when pushed out to DVD even if only broadcast 4:3 - Buffy and Babylon 5 being two examples that spring to my mind - and some popular TV series (like ER) have been broadcast in a widescreen format to make people think they're higher quality (more like a movie!).
Here in New Zealand some rugby union is now being broadcast widescreen as well - it actually makes quite a difference on wide-angle shots of the pitch.
And the plasma TVs look nice, but aren't as long-lived as a CRT, sadly. NZ$15K for a TV that only lasts 5 years is a bit much for me.
People don't do telemarketing jobs because they have in-demand skills and a big pile-o-cash to fall back on if they get laid off and can't find another job once word gets out they rat on the boss.
It may be the right thing to do, but being in the right doesn't keep you off the streets, unfortunately.
Naw. Take a cue from the cartoon - you had Godzilla and his lil cousing Godzooky. What's wrong with Mozilla and Mozooky?
Ready made theme tune and everything...
So if Microsoft release a productivity app called Mozilla or Firebird, you'll applaud?
John Travolta flies in his own private jet, a 7x7 series. He's rated to fly four engine jets. I doubt he bothers with commercial first class often.
But wait, there's more!.
So you may se 'em flying still.
It only makes sense if you volunteer to be the person living under the fuckups. And I sincerely doubt you would go through with it.
Why would you want them? If they've screwed up *their* country, what do you think they'll do to yours?
x86-64 is scarecly a hack, it's a pretty significant re-engineering effort that actually addresses many of the complaints about the ia32 architecture (like register starvation).
As for why WinXP doesn't play well on the Itanium - it's a hard problem. The ia64 architecture is completely new and is using a lot of concepts which are not well understood. It relies very, very heavily on compilers being tailored for it - there are still huge performance gaps between the various compilers claiming ia64 as a target (HP, for example, are still running 20-30% better than Intel's compiler).
Intel have screwed themselves here - their product is too radical a shift to make it easy for vendors to adapt.
I think you'll find one of the things purged from the x86-64 is some of the worse legacy cruft, including some 16-bit compatiblility.
It's not just branded - they ended up buying arsDigita last year.
Funny how he's not writing essays castigating people for not being as rich as he is!
Interesting also that we have an analyst whining that google won't do something that isn't in their own best interests!
Colour lasers scarcely need to be more expensive for fat margins. Especially with the way it's trivial to ruin drum elements with oversaturated images (new drum = $$$).
And the colour quality on the common colour lasers is *awful*. Printing a rich blue and getting a teal green is less than impressive, Tektronix!
They had the first inkjets and colour injets, and their laser printers and plotters were solid enought that I imagine they could survive a nuclear strike. That continued through until the 4 series range - the last HP lasers worth owning. From the 5 on, and newer, they've been making the same plasticky, jam-prone, easily broken crap as anyone else.
Prior to the 5 series, an HP laser was my automatic recommendation. From the 5 onward, I wouldn't touch 'em with a shitty stick.
Another example similar to your sugar one: US steel tarrifs, ruled illegal by the WTO anyway, have cost more jobs (US compaies who rely on steel laying people off) that it's saved.
Actually, Canon printers are somewhat more expensive that their Epson equivalents, but have much cheaper running costs due to lower cartridge prices. So some manufacturers are taking the higher inital cost/lower long term cost route.
Don't forget the current President's daddy!