looks to be the only negative thing they could say about it.
Yeah, and I'd say that's a matter of opinion too. So what if I have to go a (gasp) config file. I mean the apache config files are very well commented, clear, and pretty easy to understand. So I don't have cute buttons and whirly-gigs on my administration interface - trust me I won't cry myself to sleep at night. My main problem with IIS is that the configuration tools never seem to work quite right, or take forever to do _anything_. Of course I'm pretty biased since I've always had good results with Apache. I've also never been all that impressed with the MS config tools using MS specific terminology which I have to look up in help files to figure out what they're talking about (yeah, my fault for not learning it).
Menus will not be neccesary for helping people learn Vim once Vigor is fully integrated. Then we can all beg for redemption, and swear we'll never again mess with the text console goodness that is Vi.
Actually at work I dragged out a bunch of old computer hardware (literally covered in a layer of dirt/dust) and came out with two somewhat dated SCSI drives, and an ancient SCSI adapter. It still sort of floors me how the two drives manage to outperform my 7200rpm IDE that I had been using in the computer previously. All in all, I think I'd rather buy SCSI because there a lot more quality control. IDE drives seem to be spit out in mass quantities and die in droves. In contrast I've never actually seen a SCSI drive die (ever). I'm sure it happens, and some people have their stories, but I'd just rather invest a bit more money on something I have confidence in.
I think you can already use flying women to bend metal objects... er, wait..... nevermind
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oh well, might as well have a go at it...
The BSD sisters are very practical, smart, and good at pretty much everything. Unfortunatly no one ever asks them out because everyone is too busy bitching about the class president, or gawking at that sexy redhead.
try a 16 color (4 bit) png on a black and white picture, and you'll see png is usually FAR smaller. Generally a png at 256 colors will compress a bit better than a gif, and sometimes this still comes out ahead of jpeg. - it all depends on the situation, and the right tool for the right job
I think we're just stuck with jpeg and gif for about the next 5-10 years, until browsers in general get reinvented
Unfortunatly I think that's probably what it's going to take. It's about at this point that web designers are going to see the ugly reality that people in general don't upgrade their computer or their browser - they just use whatever defaults came with their computer. As of right now I always use png over gif whenever I require clarity, or the picture can do 16 colors well (which most black and white pictures do), but I still use gif because browsers are rather buggy with the transparency support for png. Maybe in 3 years I'll start doing transperent png`s too.
Time travel is already very possible through a couple bottles of Tequila. You drink a few, and then you wake up in the morning in some bizarre location. It has this unfortunate side affect of creating spacial anomalies where people claim to see you doing strange things, but that's not possible since you would remember if you had. It also seems to have a degenerative effect on the brain, and tends to give you a headache.
That's exactly the problem I've seen at the place where I work where someone finally got the company to buy an LCD. Every machine is pretty much standard 800x600 there. Then we get the LCD and it ONLY allows for 1280x768. So the viewable screen was an upgrade, but now the resolution makes you squint because everything is so small. Sure you can turn down the resolution but it gets rather fuzzy. So basically you only get that resolution at 60hz, at 16 bit colors. I'd at least like to adjust SOMETHING....
like MSCEs (not all, but more than enough) who just hit the reboot button? Lets face it, there are more than enough idiots who are employed AND demonstrate their idiocy on a regular basis but still manage to stay employed. Well idiots need jobs too, and you can't fit them ALL in the military...
as many people have said, it looks like they just added another process to an existing mainframe - it still does the other tasks.
But at first glance I still got this weird picture in my head that along with this machine running as a mail server, they got a gigantic cray sitting in the corner for a firewall...
I think intel is still going to lead in the small time server market... for a little while anyway. Despite the fact that almost all the desktop systems where I work now run AMD (for which I was a huge supporter), I'm still unsure of AMD on the server side - mainly because I'm not sure if I trust the main boards. Right now I'm just waiting to see if Sun is really going to make boards for an AMD system. That would certainly boost my confidence in them.
Note that I've never really had too many problems with AMD processors, but I just don't have enough experience with trying to run AMD stuff with uptime measured in months.
Accountability... that was a funny thing to be meantioned by the article. Do any buisnesses hold MS accountable? Did they get slapped for Code Red, Nimda, or the outlook virus of the week? Simply put I've never really seen MS held accountable for anything.
The flip side to that is that sometimes people won't reveal secrets because they'll end up very dead. So in other words if you can't do it the old fashoned way (and bribe the person), you'll actually have to work to get at those secrets. Dropping $1B on a dedicated cracking machine is a goverment level thing anyway (like they probably don't have one or two already...).
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And the story would be "people for a 100 mile radius blinded by ball of fire created by 1,800 AMD processor computer"
That's because they have to figure out how to "unintegrate" the back button with the rest of the operating system before they can fix it =P
"unfriendly administration interface"
looks to be the only negative thing they could say about it.
Yeah, and I'd say that's a matter of opinion too. So what if I have to go a (gasp) config file. I mean the apache config files are very well commented, clear, and pretty easy to understand. So I don't have cute buttons and whirly-gigs on my administration interface - trust me I won't cry myself to sleep at night. My main problem with IIS is that the configuration tools never seem to work quite right, or take forever to do _anything_.
Of course I'm pretty biased since I've always had good results with Apache. I've also never been all that impressed with the MS config tools using MS specific terminology which I have to look up in help files to figure out what they're talking about (yeah, my fault for not learning it).
yeah, if they were really old hardcore UNIX hackers, all the doc apps would be 'ed'....
Menus will not be neccesary for helping people learn Vim once Vigor is fully integrated. Then we can all beg for redemption, and swear we'll never again mess with the text console goodness that is Vi.
Actually at work I dragged out a bunch of old computer hardware (literally covered in a layer of dirt/dust) and came out with two somewhat dated SCSI drives, and an ancient SCSI adapter. It still sort of floors me how the two drives manage to outperform my 7200rpm IDE that I had been using in the computer previously. All in all, I think I'd rather buy SCSI because there a lot more quality control. IDE drives seem to be spit out in mass quantities and die in droves. In contrast I've never actually seen a SCSI drive die (ever). I'm sure it happens, and some people have their stories, but I'd just rather invest a bit more money on something I have confidence in.
I think you can already use flying women to bend metal objects... er, wait..... nevermind
oh well, might as well have a go at it...
The BSD sisters are very practical, smart, and good at pretty much everything. Unfortunatly no one ever asks them out because everyone is too busy bitching about the class president, or gawking at that sexy redhead.
try a 16 color (4 bit) png on a black and white picture, and you'll see png is usually FAR smaller. Generally a png at 256 colors will compress a bit better than a gif, and sometimes this still comes out ahead of jpeg. - it all depends on the situation, and the right tool for the right job
I think we're just stuck with jpeg and gif for about the next 5-10 years, until browsers in general get reinvented
Unfortunatly I think that's probably what it's going to take. It's about at this point that web designers are going to see the ugly reality that people in general don't upgrade their computer or their browser - they just use whatever defaults came with their computer. As of right now I always use png over gif whenever I require clarity, or the picture can do 16 colors well (which most black and white pictures do), but I still use gif because browsers are rather buggy with the transparency support for png. Maybe in 3 years I'll start doing transperent png`s too.
Time travel is already very possible through a couple bottles of Tequila. You drink a few, and then you wake up in the morning in some bizarre location. It has this unfortunate side affect of creating spacial anomalies where people claim to see you doing strange things, but that's not possible since you would remember if you had. It also seems to have a degenerative effect on the brain, and tends to give you a headache.
emacs, need I say more?
That's exactly the problem I've seen at the place where I work where someone finally got the company to buy an LCD. Every machine is pretty much standard 800x600 there. Then we get the LCD and it ONLY allows for 1280x768. So the viewable screen was an upgrade, but now the resolution makes you squint because everything is so small. Sure you can turn down the resolution but it gets rather fuzzy. So basically you only get that resolution at 60hz, at 16 bit colors. I'd at least like to adjust SOMETHING....
with a big enough heatsink on an Athlon, you can probably already do that.
From the article: "schizoid personality disorder, symptoms of which include [...] a limited range of emotions in social settings"
What does that mean anyway?
Warning Label Proposal A:
"Don't play this game if you're crazy"
Warning Proposal after the marketing guys see it:
"This game is so cool, it just might kill you! You have been warned!"
The funniest part about that by far is the section about pigeons piloting bombs. I got a good chuckle out of the mental image that brought up...
Artificial intelligence /. moderators
Oxymoron? YOU be the judge!
like MSCEs (not all, but more than enough) who just hit the reboot button? Lets face it, there are more than enough idiots who are employed AND demonstrate their idiocy on a regular basis but still manage to stay employed. Well idiots need jobs too, and you can't fit them ALL in the military...
as many people have said, it looks like they just added another process to an existing mainframe - it still does the other tasks.
But at first glance I still got this weird picture in my head that along with this machine running as a mail server, they got a gigantic cray sitting in the corner for a firewall...
*shrug* wrap it in tinfoil. Certainly won't hurt the "appearence" of the machine.
I think intel is still going to lead in the small time server market... for a little while anyway. Despite the fact that almost all the desktop systems where I work now run AMD (for which I was a huge supporter), I'm still unsure of AMD on the server side - mainly because I'm not sure if I trust the main boards. Right now I'm just waiting to see if Sun is really going to make boards for an AMD system. That would certainly boost my confidence in them.
Note that I've never really had too many problems with AMD processors, but I just don't have enough experience with trying to run AMD stuff with uptime measured in months.
I presented MS as an example. I don't see people suing IBM, Sun or SCO either.
Accountability... that was a funny thing to be meantioned by the article. Do any buisnesses hold MS accountable? Did they get slapped for Code Red, Nimda, or the outlook virus of the week? Simply put I've never really seen MS held accountable for anything.
The flip side to that is that sometimes people won't reveal secrets because they'll end up very dead. So in other words if you can't do it the old fashoned way (and bribe the person), you'll actually have to work to get at those secrets. Dropping $1B on a dedicated cracking machine is a goverment level thing anyway (like they probably don't have one or two already...).