Doubt it. If there's any "supercomputer" running Windows, it's likely a grid of PCs. The bootup there is going to be at least equal to the boot time on a single PC.
My job is like the one you describe. I'm 26 and could work there forever if I wanted. I get in at 8AM and leave at 5PM but put in some occasional extra hours when I feel like it. My boss is a great guy who leaves me alone except for occasional guidance or kicking back a few at a nearby pub. The atmosphere is very family-oriented; I'm definitely the oddball there being a single guy at my age. I'm paid well in a geographic location with an extremely low cost of living and a low crime rate.
It's in Oklahoma.
What's not to like about this state? It's certainly not the tech capitol of the world. If you're not a Christian or not a Republican, you will feel a little out of place. The local media and public transportation are jokes. It's a fairly insular culture.
But that's what we typically do when we evolve a software product in a major way: we add new features. Mac OS X is more or less a direct evolution of NeXTSTEP via OPENSTEP and Rhapsody. Yes, they did a bunch of work on the product, including the throwing in of influences from Mac OS, BSD, etc. But NeXTSTEP's parentage plays the primary role in the core design of the OS.
Sure, I'd switch in a heartbeat as long as all the software was there. It would be one of the best things to ever happen to the PC industry. But it's not going to happen in current market conditions. Apple's business model generates revenue through the sale of all that expensive, slick hardware. If Apple hardware were not required to run Mac OS X, many (most?) people would run it on cheaper machines from other manufacturers. Apple would have to cheapen its own hardware in order to compete. History has already shown (i.e. the Mac clone era) that Apple is incapable of operating in such a market. In addition, Apple has to think about its relationship with the folks in Redmond. Office's availability on the Mac is a great boost to the Mac's image as a viable platform. It is likely that Microsoft would yank Office if Apple released Mac OS X for PC.
The key phrase here is "current market conditions". I have a Mac friend who tells me Apple secretly maintains an x86 port of OS X. It's completely plausible. All OS X is, really, is the latest version of NeXTSTEP, and NeXTSTEP ran on x86. So supposedly Apple has this little weapon ready to fire if necessary - for instance, if Microsoft were to close its Mac business unit.
Unfortunately, it leaves much to be desired in terms of emulation speed and is missing most of its planned new features. VPC7 is hardly adequate for users with real performance demands. Of course, the emulation story could change in the future.
I recently learned of Kodak's patent infringement law suit against sun Microsystems and its Java technology. As a software engineer familiar with Java, I am appalled by Kodak's egregious disregard for the well-being of my industry. One can ony interpret the litigation as malicious, an irresponsible and desperate clutch for dollars by a withering company with a failing business model. The mainstream arrival of digital photography apparently has left Kodak unable to generate revenue through product innovation. As a result, I will not purchase any product of Kodak or subsidiaries, and I will recommend that my colleages implement a similar policy.
Embedded devices for consumers are a small piece of the pie. Many more embedded designs are created yearly which have no place for multimedia. These are things like factory robots, satellites, and missile guidance systems.
People who think that "embedded" means "set-top box" or "PDA" are as wrong as the kiddies here and elsewhere that think computer history started with the Altair (or worse, the IBM PC).
The small rural town Maysville, Oklahoma, USA is where I grew up. Its exchange code is 867, and until very recently all numbers in the exchange were in the 4xxx/5xxx range. So of course there was an 867-5309. People called all the time asking for Jenny. It has been, at different times, the number for:
The grade school cafeteria. Too much fun to be had with that.
An ex-girlfriend. Her family had fun and set up a cool answering machine greeting.
A girlfriend of my ex-girlfriend. They just got pissed off.
Last I heard, some elderly couple, who are undoubtedly quite puzzled by now if they still have the number.
I play guitar, and someday I would really like to cover this song in my band as an inside joke. It would be especially cool if the ex-girlfriend just happened to be in the audience.
Somebody call 405-867-5309 and see who has the number now.
Tabulating total ticket prices is irrelevant as there are so many different price points... The only metric worth tracking is number of tickets sold.
Ultimately, the people whose work results in the production of movies form businesses and an industry. Businesses thrive on profitability - the raking in of as many greenbacks as possible, and that hopefully being more than what you spent in the first place. The trouble with tracking tickets sold is that there are so many different price points; it doesn't tell you how much money you made.
This is the same reason why US speed limit signs are in MPH instead of RPM.
Just in case you didn't see the "Score 5, Funny" marker in the parent post, let me assure you that the BSDs have absolutely no reason to fear SCO. The BSDs are immune to this round of litigious warfare. Read here. Near the bottom of the page you will find this text:
The lawsuit settlement also stipulated that USL would not sue any organization using 4.4BSD-Lite as the base for their system. So, all the BSD groups that were doing releases at that time, BSDI, NetBSD, and FreeBSD, had to restart their code base with the 4.4BSD-Lite sources into which they then merged their enhancements and improvements.
They have employees. The employees have families. Some of us in the Linux community are some seriously crazy people. Linux. Keiretsu. Think about it. This SCO thing should not represent a problem.
One of the core concepts of software versions is that things change between them. Perl 6 will be != Perl 5. PHP4 != PHP3. ANSI Common LISP != PDP-1 LISP. Prestandard C++ != C++. Today's standard C != K&R C != V6 UNIX C (research that one!). It is no surprise that VB.NET != VB6. Porting old code verbatim is irrelevant; sometimes things must change that break old stuff. Try recompiling V6 C programs verbatim with a recent CC. Hint: it won't work.
Also, note that none of these languages was "killed" by moving to its next version.
"SecretAsianMan" says so. "Poser"
Well, it started out back in 1997 simply as a play on words of the song "Secret Agent Man". However, it is uncanny how, through totally unrelated developments, the name fits me to a tee today. I'll just say that I'm not Asian, but I am very interested in Asian culture, something which was not the case when the name was selected. I can't really discuss it further without compromising my privacy.
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If only this were Fark ... then I could say what's really on my mind.
Doubt it. If there's any "supercomputer" running Windows, it's likely a grid of PCs. The bootup there is going to be at least equal to the boot time on a single PC.
My job is like the one you describe. I'm 26 and could work there forever if I wanted. I get in at 8AM and leave at 5PM but put in some occasional extra hours when I feel like it. My boss is a great guy who leaves me alone except for occasional guidance or kicking back a few at a nearby pub. The atmosphere is very family-oriented; I'm definitely the oddball there being a single guy at my age. I'm paid well in a geographic location with an extremely low cost of living and a low crime rate.
It's in Oklahoma.
What's not to like about this state? It's certainly not the tech capitol of the world. If you're not a Christian or not a Republican, you will feel a little out of place. The local media and public transportation are jokes. It's a fairly insular culture.
Probably choice A - the administration will claim it creates jobs for the fungineers.
But that's what we typically do when we evolve a software product in a major way: we add new features. Mac OS X is more or less a direct evolution of NeXTSTEP via OPENSTEP and Rhapsody. Yes, they did a bunch of work on the product, including the throwing in of influences from Mac OS, BSD, etc. But NeXTSTEP's parentage plays the primary role in the core design of the OS.
Sure, I'd switch in a heartbeat as long as all the software was there. It would be one of the best things to ever happen to the PC industry. But it's not going to happen in current market conditions. Apple's business model generates revenue through the sale of all that expensive, slick hardware. If Apple hardware were not required to run Mac OS X, many (most?) people would run it on cheaper machines from other manufacturers. Apple would have to cheapen its own hardware in order to compete. History has already shown (i.e. the Mac clone era) that Apple is incapable of operating in such a market. In addition, Apple has to think about its relationship with the folks in Redmond. Office's availability on the Mac is a great boost to the Mac's image as a viable platform. It is likely that Microsoft would yank Office if Apple released Mac OS X for PC.
The key phrase here is "current market conditions". I have a Mac friend who tells me Apple secretly maintains an x86 port of OS X. It's completely plausible. All OS X is, really, is the latest version of NeXTSTEP, and NeXTSTEP ran on x86. So supposedly Apple has this little weapon ready to fire if necessary - for instance, if Microsoft were to close its Mac business unit.
Unfortunately, it leaves much to be desired in terms of emulation speed and is missing most of its planned new features. VPC7 is hardly adequate for users with real performance demands. Of course, the emulation story could change in the future.
I sent mine:
I recently learned of Kodak's patent infringement law suit against sun Microsystems and its Java technology. As a software engineer familiar with Java, I am appalled by Kodak's egregious disregard for the well-being of my industry. One can ony interpret the litigation as malicious, an irresponsible and desperate clutch for dollars by a withering company with a failing business model. The mainstream arrival of digital photography apparently has left Kodak unable to generate revenue through product innovation. As a result, I will not purchase any product of Kodak or subsidiaries, and I will recommend that my colleages implement a similar policy.
People who think that "embedded" means "set-top box" or "PDA" are as wrong as the kiddies here and elsewhere that think computer history started with the Altair (or worse, the IBM PC).
Xanadu (1980). Oh, the horror.
I Just watched the movie ... and also noticed that all the Macs in the control room were Quadra 700s running A/UX! So indeed, it was all UNIX.
It was UNIX. I think that graphical thing you saw in the movie was a little-known file manager for IRIX.
- The grade school cafeteria. Too much fun to be had with that.
- An ex-girlfriend. Her family had fun and set up a cool answering machine greeting.
- A girlfriend of my ex-girlfriend. They just got pissed off.
- Last I heard, some elderly couple, who are undoubtedly quite puzzled by now if they still have the number.
I play guitar, and someday I would really like to cover this song in my band as an inside joke. It would be especially cool if the ex-girlfriend just happened to be in the audience.Somebody call 405-867-5309 and see who has the number now.
My PC.
This is the same reason why US speed limit signs are in MPH instead of RPM.
In other news, W3C standards support has been greatly improving for the past five years, ever since the horrid crapfest that was Netscape 4.5.
Looks like it is time for someone to learn the legal definition of monopoly...
Are air conditioners not standard equipment on the west coast?
With karma to burn, I would like nothing more than to congratulate you on your achievement of the Useless Use of cat Award.
I think you had better read the article to which I linked...
What's the big deal? Just take the heatsink off. I did, and there haven't been any pr%L:``
The lawsuit settlement also stipulated that USL would not sue any organization using 4.4BSD-Lite as the base for their system. So, all the BSD groups that were doing releases at that time, BSDI, NetBSD, and FreeBSD, had to restart their code base with the 4.4BSD-Lite sources into which they then merged their enhancements and improvements.
They have employees. The employees have families. Some of us in the Linux community are some seriously crazy people. Linux. Keiretsu. Think about it. This SCO thing should not represent a problem.
One of the core concepts of software versions is that things change between them. Perl 6 will be != Perl 5. PHP4 != PHP3. ANSI Common LISP != PDP-1 LISP. Prestandard C++ != C++. Today's standard C != K&R C != V6 UNIX C (research that one!). It is no surprise that VB.NET != VB6. Porting old code verbatim is irrelevant; sometimes things must change that break old stuff. Try recompiling V6 C programs verbatim with a recent CC. Hint: it won't work.
Also, note that none of these languages was "killed" by moving to its next version.
"SecretAsianMan" says so. "Poser"
Well, it started out back in 1997 simply as a play on words of the song "Secret Agent Man". However, it is uncanny how, through totally unrelated developments, the name fits me to a tee today. I'll just say that I'm not Asian, but I am very interested in Asian culture, something which was not the case when the name was selected. I can't really discuss it further without compromising my privacy.