Oh please. Drama much? You sound like a German in her 6th year of undergrad.
And yes, I don't think it's right to start tasering college students for spouting their n00bish beliefs (the sort of stupidity that hard-earned wisdom gained in the real world beats right out of you). Grownups should listen patiently, chuckle, and Move On to dealing with the real world as it is.
In my perfect society, the USA would have open immigration, but IFF we could trade dopey college students and other hairy, smelly pinko hippie delusionals for hardworking brown and yellow people one-for-one. That is, we'd accept 1000 Indian IT workers or Mexican contractors, but only if we get to exile 1000 Columbia or Antioch students to, say, Venezuela, Myanmar or North Korea. And only if the immigrants convert to Americanism, downgrading their ethnic identity to be on par with being, say, an Irish- or Italian- or German-American (seasonal festivals, holidays, cuisine, interesting slang).
Seriously, if you're writing code for a living, especially performance-critical code, isn't hardware/platform optimization for the end-use binary far more important than speed of compilation? Particularly if that binary gets blown out to hundreds or (of?) thousands of boxes. If I had to choose between a slow, but hand-tuned GCC for my platform or a quick other compiler that made correct but mediocre-performing (no SSE?/3DNow/VMX/VIS or whatever) binary code, I'd say GCC no contest.
And frankly, slower compilers mean secksier hardware requirements for workstations.. ("Yes, GCC4 is slow, that's why I need that dual quad-core Xeon with 4GB RAM!!")
However, the fact that there's an article every day about this makes it seem like people actually do really want PS3s, and are just waiting for the price to come down, and they're just trying to validate it by saying what they have is "good enough for me."
In theory, the PS3 is a neat toy that can run stuff like Folding@Home superfast on its exotic CPU.
In reality, it needs to match or beat XBox 360 in price, and it would have too if Sony didn't get all Sony about Bluray.
I think the offensive thing is just how blinkeredly ignorant Sony is of the history of its own core business and how stupidly it keeps tilting at proprietary windmills like Memory Stick, UMD, ATRAC, and all the other junk it tries to keep milking proprietary moneyz out of. It doesn't help that/. folks are basically bored of railing on Vista, I mean come on it's been such a catastrophe for so long there's not much more flesh on that dead horse. MS seems to be keeping their head down and sucking up the abuse ($1B for bad engineering), with only the occasional public stupidity like OOXML. Sony keeps coming up with innovative ways to suck (and keep waving its suck around like some proud papa with a hideous scaly V-baby) that are shiny and blinky and infuriatingly stupid. Not to mention that Microsoft stupid can be largely worked around, while Sony has its shit fingers in all sorts of stupid pies (like movie studio exclusivity) that ruin other peoples' day.
When you have an relatively open standard with nondiscriminatory licensing, you win. If you're Sony, you're an idiot that needs to immediately die.
My children are grown, and it's my wife and myself, and I'd like a commuter car. Specifically, I'd like to buy a VW Polo BlueMotion, a 2-door 1.4L diesel that gets 67 mpg. I use this example because it's concrete, but there are scads of such cars available to Europeans, to Japanese, in South America, even in Canada. And there are VW dealers on every other block, here in San Antonio.
Who's fault is it that you can't get this car here? Assuming, of course, that it passes US crash test standards.
Hint: it's not Volkswagen's. And it certainly isn't Chimpy McBushitlerburton's.
Sweet.. I'm mildly familiar with QFS (as part of some SAM/QFS clusters).. I thought that stuff was licensed? I didn't know Sun had the rights to redistribute under a libre license.. (or is this Project Indiana stuff gratis instead?)
Assuming also that something along the lines of CSW/Blastwave is core to OpenSolaris (I found KDE surprisingly well-supported in CSW!) I may have to consider building my Ultra 20 as Solaris instead of CentOS.. (as soon as SATA is fully supported, and not just run thru PATA emulation)
(oh, and if anyone from Sun is reading, _PLEASE_ clean up the Java Enterprise System.. It's a slapped-together kludgey clusterf--k that is a bear to setup/configure and diagnose.. Clean it up or deprecate it in favor of, say, Postfix/Cyrus/Squirrelmail or something...)
Microsoft Windows is free software to me. I buy a PC, and it comes with Windows. Sure, HP or Dell has to pay for it, but I don't.
You did. The OS was part of the bill of materials for the system, and for lower-end systems it's a pretty significant part of the bill of materials. Therefore it isn't free.
Also, support for Windows isn't free either, and last time I heard AppleCare was worth the extra $$$ for normals while there's no real analog for Microsoft.
Beyond fixing software distribution and pkg mgmt (which is lonnnnngggg overdue!!), how about making GNU utils the default and tossing the archaic Solaris versions of common tools into some compat directory? If the GNU tool doesn't support some Solarisism (like, say, RBAC or extended attributes), hack the GNU tool and release the change as GPL.
Oh, and while you're refactoring, please fix JES. It is a clusterfuck mess, particularly the Delegated Administrator.
I actually use passwords I can rarely even spell out, but have become almost purely muscle-memory based. At least 12 characters with (\S) characters. If I try to type them with one hand or one finger at a time, I will often fail.
... IMO OpenOffice is probably easier for MS Office people to learn than the new "improved" Office..
(Though a project that aims to reskin the OO interface to have the same menu placements and keyboard shortcuts, not unlike GIMPshop for gimp + photoshop, would be a pretty good idea IMO...)
... I tried installing it on my E70, and it was pretty unpleasant.. Configuration was pretty easy (via SMS) but it grabbed hold of my Wifi and just would not let go.. Even when attaching from my home WEP AP (where I was reprompted for a password even though I'd configured it ages ago) it would keep failing to reach the SIP server and would just poll over and over and over, killing my battery. No way within the app that I could find to disable/enable it explicitly.
I love the idea, and maybe when the official stable is released I'll try again, but for now I'll keep hoping for official Skype on Series 60 3rd ed...
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On the downside, I have yet to figure out how to summon force lightning while fencing.
Perhaps it's time for a new generation ofthese? Put motion sensors in each finger as well as the wrist and palm...
Oh please. Drama much? You sound like a German in her 6th year of undergrad.
And yes, I don't think it's right to start tasering college students for spouting their n00bish beliefs (the sort of stupidity that hard-earned wisdom gained in the real world beats right out of you). Grownups should listen patiently, chuckle, and Move On to dealing with the real world as it is.
In my perfect society, the USA would have open immigration, but IFF we could trade dopey college students and other hairy, smelly pinko hippie delusionals for hardworking brown and yellow people one-for-one. That is, we'd accept 1000 Indian IT workers or Mexican contractors, but only if we get to exile 1000 Columbia or Antioch students to, say, Venezuela, Myanmar or North Korea. And only if the immigrants convert to Americanism, downgrading their ethnic identity to be on par with being, say, an Irish- or Italian- or German-American (seasonal festivals, holidays, cuisine, interesting slang).
Seriously, if you're writing code for a living, especially performance-critical code, isn't hardware/platform optimization for the end-use binary far more important than speed of compilation? Particularly if that binary gets blown out to hundreds or (of?) thousands of boxes. If I had to choose between a slow, but hand-tuned GCC for my platform or a quick other compiler that made correct but mediocre-performing (no SSE?/3DNow/VMX/VIS or whatever) binary code, I'd say GCC no contest.
And frankly, slower compilers mean secksier hardware requirements for workstations.. ("Yes, GCC4 is slow, that's why I need that dual quad-core Xeon with 4GB RAM!!")
Meh.
I assume they'll check with telescopes so that contestants don't just pull a _Capricorn One_?
And will they blow it up?
Meh, time go go for a ride on an unusually nice day..
... At least in my neck of the woods, nobody has Wii in stock, unless you want to buy some f-ckin $400 bundle..
Yogi Berra would be bemused..
Was the wizard Dave Coulier (from _Full House_)?
And yeah, that vid was abominally funny, though I still am partial to the traditional dance of the monkey boy, as well as the KPMG theme song...
You _really_ should read Charles Stross.. _Singularity Sky_ is particularly apropos your post.
However, the fact that there's an article every day about this makes it seem like people actually do really want PS3s, and are just waiting for the price to come down, and they're just trying to validate it by saying what they have is "good enough for me."
/. folks are basically bored of railing on Vista, I mean come on it's been such a catastrophe for so long there's not much more flesh on that dead horse. MS seems to be keeping their head down and sucking up the abuse ($1B for bad engineering), with only the occasional public stupidity like OOXML. Sony keeps coming up with innovative ways to suck (and keep waving its suck around like some proud papa with a hideous scaly V-baby) that are shiny and blinky and infuriatingly stupid. Not to mention that Microsoft stupid can be largely worked around, while Sony has its shit fingers in all sorts of stupid pies (like movie studio exclusivity) that ruin other peoples' day.
In theory, the PS3 is a neat toy that can run stuff like Folding@Home superfast on its exotic CPU.
In reality, it needs to match or beat XBox 360 in price, and it would have too if Sony didn't get all Sony about Bluray.
I think the offensive thing is just how blinkeredly ignorant Sony is of the history of its own core business and how stupidly it keeps tilting at proprietary windmills like Memory Stick, UMD, ATRAC, and all the other junk it tries to keep milking proprietary moneyz out of. It doesn't help that
When you have an relatively open standard with nondiscriminatory licensing, you win. If you're Sony, you're an idiot that needs to immediately die.
My children are grown, and it's my wife and myself, and I'd like a commuter car. Specifically, I'd like to buy a VW Polo BlueMotion, a 2-door 1.4L diesel that gets 67 mpg. I use this example because it's concrete, but there are scads of such cars available to Europeans, to Japanese, in South America, even in Canada. And there are VW dealers on every other block, here in San Antonio.
Who's fault is it that you can't get this car here? Assuming, of course, that it passes US crash test standards.
Hint: it's not Volkswagen's. And it certainly isn't Chimpy McBushitlerburton's.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/
Sweet.. I'm mildly familiar with QFS (as part of some SAM/QFS clusters).. I thought that stuff was licensed? I didn't know Sun had the rights to redistribute under a libre license.. (or is this Project Indiana stuff gratis instead?)
Assuming also that something along the lines of CSW/Blastwave is core to OpenSolaris (I found KDE surprisingly well-supported in CSW!) I may have to consider building my Ultra 20 as Solaris instead of CentOS.. (as soon as SATA is fully supported, and not just run thru PATA emulation)
(oh, and if anyone from Sun is reading, _PLEASE_ clean up the Java Enterprise System.. It's a slapped-together kludgey clusterf--k that is a bear to setup/configure and diagnose.. Clean it up or deprecate it in favor of, say, Postfix/Cyrus/Squirrelmail or something...)
What shared/global filesystem and clustering solution will Sun be providing to compete with Linux' free and relatively-mature clustering?
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/
Granted, ZFS could be superior to EXT3 over CLVM, though last I heard ZFS still needs performance optimization..
Wow, never heard of that...
I thought Sony was afraid of having multiple SKUs..
(and maybe they should get around to finalizing the Bluray spec first?!)
How about Star Trek TOS collectors edition? You'll be buying it on HDDVD, as it comes only as a combo IIRC.
Also, http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/62/13762.php
Welcome aboard.
There is no region encoding in HDDVD.
Microsoft Windows is free software to me. I buy a PC, and it comes with Windows. Sure, HP or Dell has to pay for it, but I don't.
You did. The OS was part of the bill of materials for the system, and for lower-end systems it's a pretty significant part of the bill of materials. Therefore it isn't free.
Also, support for Windows isn't free either, and last time I heard AppleCare was worth the extra $$$ for normals while there's no real analog for Microsoft.
... And I dunno about anyone else, but I prefer Privoxy anyway, I just configure it to not mangle my useragent.
What, are you on crack?
... here.
GOOD DAY, SIR!
Beyond fixing software distribution and pkg mgmt (which is lonnnnngggg overdue!!), how about making GNU utils the default and tossing the archaic Solaris versions of common tools into some compat directory? If the GNU tool doesn't support some Solarisism (like, say, RBAC or extended attributes), hack the GNU tool and release the change as GPL.
Oh, and while you're refactoring, please fix JES. It is a clusterfuck mess, particularly the Delegated Administrator.
I actually use passwords I can rarely even spell out, but have become almost purely muscle-memory based. At least 12 characters with (\S) characters. If I try to type them with one hand or one finger at a time, I will often fail.
... IMO OpenOffice is probably easier for MS Office people to learn than the new "improved" Office..
(Though a project that aims to reskin the OO interface to have the same menu placements and keyboard shortcuts, not unlike GIMPshop for gimp + photoshop, would be a pretty good idea IMO...)
... I tried installing it on my E70, and it was pretty unpleasant.. Configuration was pretty easy (via SMS) but it grabbed hold of my Wifi and just would not let go.. Even when attaching from my home WEP AP (where I was reprompted for a password even though I'd configured it ages ago) it would keep failing to reach the SIP server and would just poll over and over and over, killing my battery. No way within the app that I could find to disable/enable it explicitly.
I love the idea, and maybe when the official stable is released I'll try again, but for now I'll keep hoping for official Skype on Series 60 3rd ed...