Amen! Thanks for putting into words the feelings I've been having about "It's Open Source! If you find a bug you can just fix it yourself!!" idiots for a very long time. Thanks.
What happens if/when Oracle deicded to fork the kernel to better support their Db? What happens if/when those forks start to limit my options?
The point of an Oracle OS will be that it is running your Oracle Database Server(s). It won't be a general purpose distribution with 'development' and 'workstation' options. You won't have, and shouldn't worry about your 'options'. You won't care that it's forked because you won't be using it for any other purpose than to run the Oracle DB software. You won't even care that it's Linux or Solaris or BSD. It'll just be part of the install: first the Oracle OS, then ASM, then 10g. It'll be patched and upgraded just like the other Oracle software, with patches from MetaLink. You won't be installing your favorite webserver or mailserver or anything else on your Oracle Server.
so let me get this straight. You want to murder someone for commiting a murder? That makes you (or the state, rather) just as bad.
Sorry, not the same.
In one case an individual has taken the life of another individual, an action the citizenry, through their elected representatives, has declared to be a crime. In the other case, the citizenry, having decided, through their elected representatives, what the punishment should be for the crime, exerts its will.
Clarifiation from TFA: "But the ultimate goal, as envisioned by Intel's terascale research prototype, is to enable a trillion floating-point operations per second--a teraflop--on a single chip."
Further clarification from TFA: "Connecting chips directly to each other through tiny wires is called Through Silicon Vias, which Intel discussed in 2005. TSV will give the chip an aggregate memory bandwidth of 1 terabyte per second."
Sorry... I forget what it was like to be young, or early middle aged, for that matter, and I'm not sure whether it's the distance or early onset Alzheimer's.
KenC (yes, I'm 55)
51, then 52 in the Hobbit, IIRC. 111 at the beginning of LOTR (his birthday party). 129? 130? at the Grey Havens?
Hobbits 'come of age' at 33. Assuming 21:33, 51 ~~ 32. So, early middle age, not "young", I'd say.
but, all of you thinking that your typing speed would influence the devices' output... couldn't the device just buffer up your keystrokes a little bit and then send them out timed the way they wanted. I don't know about you, but my hands have memorized many of my passwords and usually just send them out in a burst. If the device was buffering, say, 8-12 bytes at a time and then sending them out timed to perfection, I'd probably just chalk-up any delay that I noticed to normal network lag.
It's much quicker and less annoying to the people around you to just type on your keyboard.
Hmmm, I have to disagree with the first part: "much quicker" and totally agree with the second part.
In many office situations that I've observed it's already annoying and distracting with folks YELLING into their cell phones. Having them all talking to their computers will be insane (why do people do that with a cell phone but (usually) not with a land line? I'm guessing sound quality.)
At any rate, most people speak at over 100 words a minute (my teenage daughters: 200 wpm), even a really good typist does, what? 40, 50 wpm?
You are pathetically deluded and/or ill-informed. So much so that I don't have time to try to correct your ignorance. Open your eyes. Think critically. Think.
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Hmmm, maybe the 'something new' that he's doing is 'printing' different shaped dots. Atomically different shapes, not 'dots'.
Yes, you are.
Amen! Thanks for putting into words the feelings I've been having about "It's Open Source! If you find a bug you can just fix it yourself!!" idiots for a very long time. Thanks.
The point of an Oracle OS will be that it is running your Oracle Database Server(s). It won't be a general purpose distribution with 'development' and 'workstation' options. You won't have, and shouldn't worry about your 'options'. You won't care that it's forked because you won't be using it for any other purpose than to run the Oracle DB software. You won't even care that it's Linux or Solaris or BSD. It'll just be part of the install: first the Oracle OS, then ASM, then 10g. It'll be patched and upgraded just like the other Oracle software, with patches from MetaLink. You won't be installing your favorite webserver or mailserver or anything else on your Oracle Server.
Specialization, get it?
Sorry, not the same.
In one case an individual has taken the life of another individual, an action the citizenry, through their elected representatives, has declared to be a crime. In the other case, the citizenry, having decided, through their elected representatives, what the punishment should be for the crime, exerts its will.
+2 Insightful
Otellini meant both flops and memory xfer rate.
Clarifiation from TFA:
"But the ultimate goal, as envisioned by Intel's terascale research prototype, is to enable a trillion floating-point operations per second--a teraflop--on a single chip."
Further clarification from TFA:
"Connecting chips directly to each other through tiny wires is called Through Silicon Vias, which Intel discussed in 2005. TSV will give the chip an aggregate memory bandwidth of 1 terabyte per second."
Sorry... I forget what it was like to be young, or early middle aged, for that matter, and I'm not sure whether it's the distance or early onset Alzheimer's.
KenC (yes, I'm 55)
51, then 52 in the Hobbit, IIRC.
111 at the beginning of LOTR (his birthday party). 129? 130? at the Grey Havens?
Hobbits 'come of age' at 33. Assuming 21:33, 51 ~~ 32. So, early middle age, not "young", I'd say.
errm... I think you meant "EVEN"
Ummm... fellows... I think you may have missed the joke.
is that about which I was thinking.
Privacy? No. Invented by the Supreme Court in some abortion case, as I recall.
BTW: speech, believe, that's.
Congresscritters can't be Impeached, only impeached.
Article 2, Section 1, Paragraph 1, first sentence.
+2 Very Insightful
+2 Very Funny
but, all of you thinking that your typing speed would influence the devices' output... couldn't the device just buffer up your keystrokes a little bit and then send them out timed the way they wanted. I don't know about you, but my hands have memorized many of my passwords and usually just send them out in a burst. If the device was buffering, say, 8-12 bytes at a time and then sending them out timed to perfection, I'd probably just chalk-up any delay that I noticed to normal network lag.
In many office situations that I've observed it's already annoying and distracting with folks YELLING into their cell phones. Having them all talking to their computers will be insane (why do people do that with a cell phone but (usually) not with a land line? I'm guessing sound quality.)
At any rate, most people speak at over 100 words a minute (my teenage daughters: 200 wpm), even a really good typist does, what? 40, 50 wpm?
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No. Any argument to the contrary is just self-important twaddle.