Damn kids always slacking. Why in my day we had to walk 6 miles in all weathers and got beaten every day whether we needed it or not. We didn't have these fancy-schmancy Nintendos we had to make our own entertainment blah blah bitch bitch ad nauseum
"an obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice as fast as last year's."
So instead of one very powerful server you have dozens of little servers that need loads of looking after, much more electricity and more floor space, not to mention all the networking equipment you need to balance the load between them all. I wonder which is the crap you're talking about.
the assinine syntax of no-local-variables-or-functions languages available on the mainframe
You mean like C, C++, Java or Pascal?
I've spent the last year working on a mainframe project that could have been done in a few weeks using Linux
Quite probably because you are a poor mainframe programmer with an attitude problem. People with actual talent probably could have done the job a lot faster.
I'm not kidding, either - my productivity improves tenfold when using non-mainframe based systems.
Just because you're too lazy to learn how to use the tools available is not the fault of the system. Are you just upset that that horrendous 1970s anachronism vi isn't on there?
Try and get your dept to invest in Quickref. It is without a doubt the greatest piece of mainframe software in existence. All the IBM manuals condensed into an actually searchable database:)
I taught myself Rexx using just that and a few examples from IBM's supplied EXECs.
Funny, that's what they said when I started as a COBOL programmer 12 years ago......
Can J2EE do large-scale batch processing?
If not then it will run into the same problems that client/server did in the 90s, namely that processing 5 million customers every night can only be done with hardware and software that was designed to do it, which client/server most definitely was not, and I have a feeling that J2EE doesn't have this capability either.
Which, hilariously enough, still isn't as good as the 'old' technology. Please let me know what, from a business point of view, a mainframe can't do that a Solaris (or *laughs sarcastically* a Windows) box can? We got C, C++, TCP/IP, Unix (AIX and Linux), SMB, NFS, Kerberos etc. etc., but we also have hardware that absolutely creams anything commercial Unix suppliers can provide. Why do you think Sun and HP have been offering 'mainframe-class' servers for the past 5 years (even though they aren't).
People who complain about all of these macroeconomic issues really ought to take the first tentative steps to understand the world in which they live.
I understand that throwing people out of work to make rich people richer is not the best way to make friends and influence people.
I can't how having to sell my nice car, moving to a slum and putting myself through college again just so a few rich men can get richer and a lot of poor people can be a little bit less poor is in my interest. But then maybe I'm just being selfish.
Socialism is so bad that in the hundred or so years that it has been applied in the West, the economic, technological and social improvements have outstripped anything the human race has ever seen.
Democratic socialism is the most successful form of human governance the world has ever seen, and some people want to throw this away for some short term gain in the stock market.
Yes, I'm a Socialist, why shouldn't I be proud of it?
You're forgetting Enron, Worldcom, Xerox, Arthur Andersen and all the others. American execs will quite happily lie, cheat and steal if they feel they can get away with it.
How many of those firms are still with us though? Starting your own business is giving up any kind of a life with no guarantee of success.
Even if I had the slightest clue what to do, it's still a fairly major commitment. Not everyone in the economy can be executives, some people have to be employees as well.
How will I pay my rent while I retrain to my new wonderful career and what guarantee will I have that my new career won't be exported abroad as well?
Just as an aside, why aren't there more Indian senior managers? I bet they would work for a lot less too, saving the corporation several millions a year.
Slashdot Mirror
Just think, if prostitution was legal in the US, this sort of website, and possibly the whole internet would be very different.
Hehe, poor old Mickey Mouse is getting a lot of spam from Kazaa and Real as we speak.
Well it would be if it was funny :P
Would be nice if it was a stalemate instead. Why do we need another goddamn IT monopoly.
Damn kids always slacking. Why in my day we had to walk 6 miles in all weathers and got beaten every day whether we needed it or not. We didn't have these fancy-schmancy Nintendos we had to make our own entertainment blah blah bitch bitch ad nauseum
Do not feed the trolls. Nothing to see here, move along people.
Cool, my birthday falls on CO Day :)
Superb. I love the definition of a mainframe:
"an obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice as fast as last year's."
So instead of one very powerful server you have dozens of little servers that need loads of looking after, much more electricity and more floor space, not to mention all the networking equipment you need to balance the load between them all. I wonder which is the crap you're talking about.
the assinine syntax of no-local-variables-or-functions languages available on the mainframe
You mean like C, C++, Java or Pascal?
I've spent the last year working on a mainframe project that could have been done in a few weeks using Linux
Quite probably because you are a poor mainframe programmer with an attitude problem. People with actual talent probably could have done the job a lot faster.
I'm not kidding, either - my productivity improves tenfold when using non-mainframe based systems.
Just because you're too lazy to learn how to use the tools available is not the fault of the system. Are you just upset that that horrendous 1970s anachronism vi isn't on there?
Try and get your dept to invest in Quickref. It is without a doubt the greatest piece of mainframe software in existence. All the IBM manuals condensed into an actually searchable database :)
I taught myself Rexx using just that and a few examples from IBM's supplied EXECs.
Funny, that's what they said when I started as a COBOL programmer 12 years ago......
Can J2EE do large-scale batch processing?
If not then it will run into the same problems that client/server did in the 90s, namely that processing 5 million customers every night can only be done with hardware and software that was designed to do it, which client/server most definitely was not, and I have a feeling that J2EE doesn't have this capability either.
Which, hilariously enough, still isn't as good as the 'old' technology. Please let me know what, from a business point of view, a mainframe can't do that a Solaris (or *laughs sarcastically* a Windows) box can? We got C, C++, TCP/IP, Unix (AIX and Linux), SMB, NFS, Kerberos etc. etc., but we also have hardware that absolutely creams anything commercial Unix suppliers can provide. Why do you think Sun and HP have been offering 'mainframe-class' servers for the past 5 years (even though they aren't).
Dont download from the US servers, they'll wreck your PC and then blame you for it.
No they're using something they're stuck with, since the only alternatives are too time consuming or expensive.
erm....everyone with a telephone?
People who complain about all of these macroeconomic issues really ought to take the first tentative steps to understand the world in which they live.
I understand that throwing people out of work to make rich people richer is not the best way to make friends and influence people.
I can't how having to sell my nice car, moving to a slum and putting myself through college again just so a few rich men can get richer and a lot of poor people can be a little bit less poor is in my interest. But then maybe I'm just being selfish.
Socialism is so bad that in the hundred or so years that it has been applied in the West, the economic, technological and social improvements have outstripped anything the human race has ever seen.
Democratic socialism is the most successful form of human governance the world has ever seen, and some people want to throw this away for some short term gain in the stock market.
Yes, I'm a Socialist, why shouldn't I be proud of it?
You're forgetting Enron, Worldcom, Xerox, Arthur Andersen and all the others. American execs will quite happily lie, cheat and steal if they feel they can get away with it.
How many of those firms are still with us though? Starting your own business is giving up any kind of a life with no guarantee of success.
Even if I had the slightest clue what to do, it's still a fairly major commitment. Not everyone in the economy can be executives, some people have to be employees as well.
How will I pay my rent while I retrain to my new wonderful career and what guarantee will I have that my new career won't be exported abroad as well?
Just as an aside, why aren't there more Indian senior managers? I bet they would work for a lot less too, saving the corporation several millions a year.
And pay the mortgage and support the kids how? Stupid libertarian bachelors.
This is even sillier than Lihnux vs Linnux pronunciation arguments.
Splash Plastic is a reasonable alternative, although its range of sites is still a bit small.
Go start your own business and compete with that corporation and drive them out of business.
Posted before any of the real Libs come on to hassle you for daring to question corporate behaviour.