I know what you said is correct, but I want to point out to anyone that reads your post that you in NO way mean that they are right in air being blue. The link you provided is a must-read for anyone who seriously doesn't understand the science, instead of just skimming and saying "oh, okay air is blue, thats why." through your message:) (those people don't read quotes right, and such)
No offense to you, xtifr. You did a good job with your post and you are correct.
It wouldn't run on the vendor's hardware because that's what they made it for now would it? hah In all due fairness though I agree, alot of greed and artificial isolation to specific hardware for sales purposes were done in the past with Sun and various other manufacturers. BSD was a great example of pulling away from that fold and creating the new portability in my eyes. Thankfully it created a rift and made things portable by force. I'm by no means a BSD guy, either.
NT kernel infrastructure was made by an ex-VMS guy, so that's probably why. Since most of the code in Windows was totally rewritten since NT, I'd venture to say that theres not "evolution" to this.
Isn't it so adorable how the Windows fanbois are all over slashdot over the last few years. Notice your at 'flamebait' rating on that post. Enough said.
Which doesn't add up when you do that, which again is why we say... why?
1 person (me) managed a data center of 100+ servers all performing different tasks. 1 person managed the network, and 1 person managed the team. 3 hour service call guarantees were on all the machines, along with the power and AC being protected.
With a mainframe you have people that are increasingly disappearing to hire to moderate it, along with the added charge for IBM (or whoever else it came from)
In the end, it all boils down to principles. If you believe in the old "tried and true" mainframes, you'll stick with them until they fall into the wastebasket piece by piece. You'd also forget the main reason mainframe tech was used, and jump for joy when a Microsoft commodity-based server is migrating to it...
I'd imagine if it's blatantly obvious, then it's a dead giveaway. Kind of like knowing if a person is over a certain age by looking at their graduation year of certain schools. (high school versus masters degree)
Well, as black & white as you pointed out, the police can consider it "scoping out". At least here where I live (Arizona) a simple contact of the police telling them that there has been a strange individual in a parked car stalking your location for an extended period of time would make it pretty hairy for that individual. That's part of the reason why there are licenses and such for that type of activity.
In order to advance your political agenda you need to socially and professionally stigmatize and shun those who think and believe differently from you.
If developers choose to use a MS only product, that's not MS's fault. Ms is under no obligation to produce software that works with everyone's, including their competitors, operating system. That makes no sense, monopoly or no monopoly. Now, if they were forcing the developers to use Silverlight, or forcing Adobe not to let Flash have a Windows version, that's different.
How is it an entire post that was 4 paragraphs is actually self-answered by it's final sentence. Only in another way, through managerial coercion and stronghanding in other products to gain the use of that piece of software... which is another way to "force the developers to use Silverlight".
I guess in a way we're just around you explaining things to you and your sputtering... think of it that way. In a nutshell, since it's never been proven differently in the history, anything Microsoft does in net-related products is destructively evil and needs to go from passively forgotten and shoveled underground, to not so passively having a village burning.
yeah because the average person dies at 40... wtf? I can understand the brothel joke, but mid-late 30's even having an age joke attached to it? That's like joking that a 21 year old is close to retirement, or some other stupid made up joke...
sadly (or happily? I don't know) same here. Blogging and that stuff to me is alot like having a personal website and being expected to document your thoughts on the front page. Since I've seen this stuff around since even before geocities (not called blogging, just called a website), the novelty wore thin enough that this was laughed at.
... and smoking is your opportunity to experience carcinogens.... Rape is your allowance to experience someone else's desires.
In a nutshell your hogtied to their existance and not on a whim either disappearing or just choosing to do away with the DRM server. That never happens though, does it?
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I know (hope?) what you said was a joke and was meant to get a "Funny" in moderation, but I figured just for the small chance it's not I'd throw in some information about it.
Most dogs that have been selectively bred are weaker physically in some form or another. A very good example of everyday things are German Shepard dogs with the issues of rear leg degeneration. Granted, they aren't selectively bred like dogs in today's world, however they were "purified" over time by us.
I guess a good scenario would be if you made a designer baby that smelled like stawberries when they perspire, suppose the added hormone excreted during the perspiration to create the strawberry smell actually diminished the immune system? Obviously I'm fabricating things, but the concept is obvious and field proven.
Those were fun times hah I wanted to try OS/2 but went with Desqview/386. Telix and telemate (I think thats what it was called?) were the two I used, and I believe each used X, Y/Z modem. After laughing at Windows 3.1 for years, and testing Chicago/Win95 I could see where the world was going and it made me shiver. I installed Minix and quickly learned *nix style coding to make a dialup utility to make a cheap dialup software.. after that, there was no turning back.
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Agreed there... the one thing that remains a constant in my eyes also is the percentage of the internet-enabled population that believe that same concepts. Such as Linux/BSD/etc Or sound coding, game coding, etc
and as with anything, when enough people's minds are in something it always invariably grows in quality.
One thing I've noticed also is that mankind never evolves technologies in a easy pattern, we have a fast upswing in some form, and the market/world is disrupted for a spell until they get acclimated... then the dull roar of normal life occurs and it goes down until it's the same ol same ol for a period of years until the next upswing occurs. It always seems that the boredom is necessary to spur the new progress in some people's minds. Maybe out of pure boredom, I don't know:)
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ahah I totally forgot about the MP3 rise. I remember doing aiff (I think thats what it was called) and wav creation/editing when a friend who did sound recording introduced me to mp3. Thought it was pretty big for what it was, but it sounded good. We did short sounds, not like we know mp3s for today.
this was in 1995 I think, yeah. I think it was right before the release of chicago/win95.
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Hell I was stealing my internet by dialing into a VMS system at the university of maryland, using gopher to get a veronica server, and from there like 6 layers in finally reaching somewhere I could enter something.... Of course, the library had internet for 15/month via dialup also I used a year later, but that was my introduction to direct internet. (after the whole BBS integration into Internet email and that kinda thing)
I've usually pulled away from wires going everywhere and just went with 802.11g for everything. Makes it simpler, and works fine unless you're needing that high bandwidth between machines for local network use.
My first thought on this was tagging this into the wall somewhere and using it as a print server/mail server/web server, and MAYBE an mrtg server to monitor the network. (all 2 machines...) I'm debating on dropping in a 16gb SD card like was said by others, if I get one of these. That'd let the memory be put to use the right way:)
Pretty sweet idea.. a nice little toy. expensive for a toy, but very unique.
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Her black eye and lack of memory I hope ;)
I know what you said is correct, but I want to point out to anyone that reads your post that you in NO way mean that they are right in air being blue. The link you provided is a must-read for anyone who seriously doesn't understand the science, instead of just skimming and saying "oh, okay air is blue, thats why." through your message :) (those people don't read quotes right, and such)
No offense to you, xtifr. You did a good job with your post and you are correct.
It wouldn't run on the vendor's hardware because that's what they made it for now would it? hah In all due fairness though I agree, alot of greed and artificial isolation to specific hardware for sales purposes were done in the past with Sun and various other manufacturers. BSD was a great example of pulling away from that fold and creating the new portability in my eyes. Thankfully it created a rift and made things portable by force. I'm by no means a BSD guy, either.
NT kernel infrastructure was made by an ex-VMS guy, so that's probably why. Since most of the code in Windows was totally rewritten since NT, I'd venture to say that theres not "evolution" to this.
Isn't it so adorable how the Windows fanbois are all over slashdot over the last few years. Notice your at 'flamebait' rating on that post. Enough said.
Who says anything about Linux, how do you know we aren't all running VMS?
Besides, assuming no network connectivity is about like assuming a system is powered off the whole time....
Which doesn't add up when you do that, which again is why we say... why?
1 person (me) managed a data center of 100+ servers all performing different tasks. 1 person managed the network, and 1 person managed the team. 3 hour service call guarantees were on all the machines, along with the power and AC being protected.
With a mainframe you have people that are increasingly disappearing to hire to moderate it, along with the added charge for IBM (or whoever else it came from)
In the end, it all boils down to principles. If you believe in the old "tried and true" mainframes, you'll stick with them until they fall into the wastebasket piece by piece. You'd also forget the main reason mainframe tech was used, and jump for joy when a Microsoft commodity-based server is migrating to it...
Yes, most seem to mis-interpret mainframe to mean supercomputer.
I'd imagine if it's blatantly obvious, then it's a dead giveaway.
Kind of like knowing if a person is over a certain age by looking at their graduation year of certain schools. (high school versus masters degree)
Well, as black & white as you pointed out, the police can consider it "scoping out". At least here where I live (Arizona) a simple contact of the police telling them that there has been a strange individual in a parked car stalking your location for an extended period of time would make it pretty hairy for that individual. That's part of the reason why there are licenses and such for that type of activity.
In order to advance your political agenda you need to socially and professionally stigmatize and shun those who think and believe differently from you.
That's the cultural and political way, now.
Mostly because cannibalism is illegal.
If developers choose to use a MS only product, that's not MS's fault. Ms is under no obligation to produce software that works with everyone's, including their competitors, operating system. That makes no sense, monopoly or no monopoly. Now, if they were forcing the developers to use Silverlight, or forcing Adobe not to let Flash have a Windows version, that's different.
How is it an entire post that was 4 paragraphs is actually self-answered by it's final sentence. Only in another way, through managerial coercion and stronghanding in other products to gain the use of that piece of software... which is another way to "force the developers to use Silverlight".
I guess in a way we're just around you explaining things to you and your sputtering... think of it that way. In a nutshell, since it's never been proven differently in the history, anything Microsoft does in net-related products is destructively evil and needs to go from passively forgotten and shoveled underground, to not so passively having a village burning.
yeah because the average person dies at 40... wtf?
I can understand the brothel joke, but mid-late 30's even having an age joke attached to it?
That's like joking that a 21 year old is close to retirement, or some other stupid made up joke...
sadly (or happily? I don't know) same here. Blogging and that stuff to me is alot like having a personal website and being expected to document your thoughts on the front page.
Since I've seen this stuff around since even before geocities (not called blogging, just called a website), the novelty wore thin enough that this was laughed at.
wikipedia isn't the only place in the world you are told to prove things with citations ahah
Considering how old this information is, it's actually pre-Obama. It'd be the Bush admin.
Why, because he was told improper information?
... and smoking is your opportunity to experience carcinogens. ... Rape is your allowance to experience someone else's desires.
In a nutshell your hogtied to their existance and not on a whim either disappearing or just choosing to do away with the DRM server.
That never happens though, does it?
I know (hope?) what you said was a joke and was meant to get a "Funny" in moderation, but I figured just for the small chance it's not I'd throw in some information about it.
Most dogs that have been selectively bred are weaker physically in some form or another.
A very good example of everyday things are German Shepard dogs with the issues of rear leg degeneration. Granted, they aren't selectively bred like dogs in today's world, however they were "purified" over time by us.
I guess a good scenario would be if you made a designer baby that smelled like stawberries when they perspire, suppose the added hormone excreted during the perspiration to create the strawberry smell actually diminished the immune system? Obviously I'm fabricating things, but the concept is obvious and field proven.
Those were fun times hah
I wanted to try OS/2 but went with Desqview/386.
Telix and telemate (I think thats what it was called?) were the two I used, and I believe each used X, Y/Z modem.
After laughing at Windows 3.1 for years, and testing Chicago/Win95 I could see where the world was going and it made me shiver. I installed Minix and quickly learned *nix style coding to make a dialup utility to make a cheap dialup software.. after that, there was no turning back.
Agreed there... the one thing that remains a constant in my eyes also is the percentage of the internet-enabled population that believe that same concepts.
Such as Linux/BSD/etc
Or sound coding, game coding, etc
and as with anything, when enough people's minds are in something it always invariably grows in quality.
One thing I've noticed also is that mankind never evolves technologies in a easy pattern, we have a fast upswing in some form, and the market/world is disrupted for a spell until they get acclimated... then the dull roar of normal life occurs and it goes down until it's the same ol same ol for a period of years until the next upswing occurs. :)
It always seems that the boredom is necessary to spur the new progress in some people's minds. Maybe out of pure boredom, I don't know
ahah I totally forgot about the MP3 rise.
I remember doing aiff (I think thats what it was called) and wav creation/editing when a friend who did sound recording introduced me to mp3. Thought it was pretty big for what it was, but it sounded good. We did short sounds, not like we know mp3s for today.
this was in 1995 I think, yeah. I think it was right before the release of chicago/win95.
Hell I was stealing my internet by dialing into a VMS system at the university of maryland, using gopher to get a veronica server, and from there like 6 layers in finally reaching somewhere I could enter something....
Of course, the library had internet for 15/month via dialup also I used a year later, but that was my introduction to direct internet. (after the whole BBS integration into Internet email and that kinda thing)
Just from my use of ARM, I'd say this will be comparable to about a 750 mhz x86. (minus the floating point computations)
I've usually pulled away from wires going everywhere and just went with 802.11g for everything. Makes it simpler, and works fine unless you're needing that high bandwidth between machines for local network use.
My first thought on this was tagging this into the wall somewhere and using it as a print server/mail server/web server, and MAYBE an mrtg server to monitor the network. (all 2 machines...) :)
I'm debating on dropping in a 16gb SD card like was said by others, if I get one of these. That'd let the memory be put to use the right way
Pretty sweet idea.. a nice little toy. expensive for a toy, but very unique.