I haven't seen quality hardware from either IBM or HP in at least a decade. All the profit in that business is going to MS, and the x86 machines just keep getting more and more flimsy.
I don't think that being a spammer should get you locked up
Spammers are thieves. The fact that they commit their theft in extremely small increments, from millions of victims doesn't change the nature of their crime.
The purpose of imprisonment (or any punishment, for that matter) is to deter a repeat offense. If a spammer can just pay a fine and continue in business, then the penalty is pointless.
I don't have any problem believing Microsoft might do just that, just as they killed the IE 6 for Mac project within days of Safari's announcement.
MS killed IE for the Mac because it was pointless. They weren't making any money on it (ever), Netscape was already dead, and Safari was superior from day one.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the better machines from the old mainframe days virtualize themselves?
Well, IBM had an OS product called "VM", and it could even host itself. There wasn't anything particularly special about the hardware to allow this, beyond having user and supervisor modes.
Amdahl first ran UNIX under VM sometime in the mid-80's. The stories we heard a few years back about IBM running tens of thousands of instances of Linux on their latest machine at the time, were just more of the same.
I see Mac OS X Server on (something like) vmware on non-Apple x86 enterprise server hardware in Apple's future.
I don't. Apple's been very clear on their intentions, and they're not about to throw their users to the mercy of the crap hardware makers like Dell and Gateway.
I think that the far more likely scenario is that shops that have legacy apps that have to run on MS operating systems will be able to run them under VMWare on their Intel-based Xserves.
The benefit of this will be that as soon as a watchdog process detects that the windows instance has been damaged in any way, it's trivial to kill it and restart from a pristine image.
This is the ultimate customer solution to MS's myriad quality issues: run the broken product in a sandbox on a working system.
Paul Kunz was generating dynamic web pages from database queries on the IBM mainframe at SLAC that hosted the very first web server in the United States.
Well, thank you for that well-reasoned critique of his efforts.
I have to wonder, what is it about achievement, or even effort, that brings people like you out of the woodwork? Why are you so jealous of him?
'Disruptive' is one of those buzzwords that business school types throw around when they are trying to deceive investors.
It's also a term that describes any number of scientific and technological advances that came from private effort like John's. In any case, he's doing this with his own money, so what's it to you?
What is the advantage of this engine design? What are the reactants, ISP?
Hey, here's a wild idea: why not RTFA and find out?
Meaningful details like that don't get you posted on slashdot I guess.
The same could be said for meaningful critiques. Better luck next time.
He is a brilliant guy, but he doesn't work for NASA...
Neither did Robert Goddard. It does not follow that because a government bureacracy had a monopoly on rocket development for several decades in this country, that nobody else is capable of inventions in this field.
The Russian approach to rocket science was along the lines of "let's see how it blows up and make sure it blows up in a different way next time".
That's a complete crock. The Russians, just like the USA, started from the V2s they captured, and applied the best engineering practices that were known at the time. They blew up a lot of rockets, and so did anyone else who every tried to build a rocket.
The fact that they got Sputnik into orbit first, and got Gagarin into space before anyone else is a testament to their skill.
They put up speed limit signs in metric and people shot holes in them.
I've got news for you: people have been shooting holes in all kinds of road signs since before there were automobiles in this country. The metric signs didn't get any special treatment.
thanks to the inbred rednecks in this country,
What a nasty, bigoted thing to say.
I have to convert units whenever I try to do science.
No you don't. Just work with whichever system you like from the beginning. Make all your measurements in the metric system if that floats your boat.
How much *design* is actually going into these if they are expecting to build 2-3 a week???
What does it matter? Rapid turnaround means he can develop a lot of them, and pick the best performers.
Maybe John, as brilliant as he is, should go to school for awhile to learn a bit about fluid dynamics and thermal dynamics and the equations that govern those sciences.
Why would you assume that he doesn't already know a great deal about these subjects?
I really don't get the knee-jerk reaction around here. Whenever someone does something interesting and potentially significant, there's always this chorus of people looking for something to bitch about to try to look cleverer than the guy who's acually doing something.
"Hi, I'd like to do $THING. I know that $SOLUTION_A and $SOLUTION_B will do it very easily and for a very reasonable price, but I don't want to use $SOLUTION_A or $SOLUTION_B because $VAGUE_REASON and $CONTRADICTORY_REASON. Instead, I'd like your under-informed ideas on how to achieve my $POORLY_CONCEIVED_AMBITIONS using Linux, duct tape, an iPod, and hours and hours of my precious time."
That's strikingly similar to many questions I got as a Developer Technical Support engineer.
The way I tended to word it though, was: "Dear Sirs: when I stick my thumb in my eye, it hurts. Can you make it not hurt? I realize that I have been told for three consecutive years at your developer conference that sticking my thumb in my eye was not recommended, but I am (naturally) a special case. PS: Not sticking my thumb in my eye is not an option."
This was mostly because they were run by business-oriented individuals (these people tend to be like that).
I think you misspelled "bubbleheaded liberal-arts-major marketing dinks who thought they were geniuses or something."
At the very leading edge of the dot-com boom, I was the global data security manager for KPMG's electronic commerce practice. At the time, I was telling anyone who'd listen: "Yes, someone's going to make a fortune selling socket wrenches over the web, but it's going to be Sears and Snap-on!
Just wondering... Why didn't you kick your friend's ass after the first time he pulled this stunt? Having a disability isn't a license to be an asshole.
There is no doubt that these chips can benefit a significant number of people..
I'd rather a mugger demanded my wallet, than scanned me for my ID chip and cut it out.
This is a bad idea for anything but livestock. If anyone ever pressures me to get one of these, he will get a vigorous refusal, which may include the use of firearms.
money-grubbing pricks at Massport, and will make sure I will do my best to avoid Logan when traveling.
Better still, avoid Massachussets when travelling. Spend your money in Vermont or New Hampshire, where they still have some idea of limits to local government power.
If a WiFi antenna actually poses a risk to the airport's security systems, then the airport had better fix its security systems before it pays out a billion dollars in a negligence judgment. Thousands of travellers go through that airport every day with WiFi transmitters in their laptop computers, PDAs, etc.
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These people didn't sign these contracts by choice,
You've rebutted your own argument. You admit that people can self-publish, or sign a deal with a small label.
Independent music is a ghetto.
So, if you want wider distrbution, then you cut a deal with someone who's able to deliver.
If you can show that the big labels are colluding to offer everybody lousy terms, then you've got a case.
-jcr
More like IBM or HP blade servers.
I haven't seen quality hardware from either IBM or HP in at least a decade. All the profit in that business is going to MS, and the x86 machines just keep getting more and more flimsy.
-jcr
Umm.. What you wrote didn't contradict my statement in any way. IE for the Mac was pointless, once Safari was there.
-jcr
I'm sure if only 5% of slashdot readers do this there should be a noticeable effect.
Yeah, 5% of slashdotters would get their addresses harvested again.
-jcr
He's done every dirty trick in the business, including spamming for a fake 9/11 charity and pocketing the money for himself.
Holy crap! Why isn't he doing time for that?
-jcr
Hear, hear!
I propose death by papercuts for spamming, but I don't think the legislature is ready to do it.
-jcr
I don't think that being a spammer should get you locked up
Spammers are thieves. The fact that they commit their theft in extremely small increments, from millions of victims doesn't change the nature of their crime.
The purpose of imprisonment (or any punishment, for that matter) is to deter a repeat offense. If a spammer can just pay a fine and continue in business, then the penalty is pointless.
-jcr
I don't have any problem believing Microsoft might do just that, just as they killed the IE 6 for Mac project within days of Safari's announcement.
MS killed IE for the Mac because it was pointless. They weren't making any money on it (ever), Netscape was already dead, and Safari was superior from day one.
-jcr
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the better machines from the old mainframe days virtualize themselves?
Well, IBM had an OS product called "VM", and it could even host itself. There wasn't anything particularly special about the hardware to allow this, beyond having user and supervisor modes.
Amdahl first ran UNIX under VM sometime in the mid-80's. The stories we heard a few years back about IBM running tens of thousands of instances of Linux on their latest machine at the time, were just more of the same.
-jcr
I see Mac OS X Server on (something like) vmware on non-Apple x86 enterprise server hardware in Apple's future.
I don't. Apple's been very clear on their intentions, and they're not about to throw their users to the mercy of the crap hardware makers like Dell and Gateway.
I think that the far more likely scenario is that shops that have legacy apps that have to run on MS operating systems will be able to run them under VMWare on their Intel-based Xserves.
The benefit of this will be that as soon as a watchdog process detects that the windows instance has been damaged in any way, it's trivial to kill it and restart from a pristine image.
This is the ultimate customer solution to MS's myriad quality issues: run the broken product in a sandbox on a working system.
-jcr
Paul Kunz was generating dynamic web pages from database queries on the IBM mainframe at SLAC that hosted the very first web server in the United States.
-jcr
Aren't manual attacks a vanishingly small proportion of the threat these days?
Seems to me that the biggest threats are DDOS attacks.
-jcr
This idiot should stick to games.
Well, thank you for that well-reasoned critique of his efforts.
I have to wonder, what is it about achievement, or even effort, that brings people like you out of the woodwork? Why are you so jealous of him?
'Disruptive' is one of those buzzwords that business school types throw around when they are trying to deceive investors.
It's also a term that describes any number of scientific and technological advances that came from private effort like John's. In any case, he's doing this with his own money, so what's it to you?
What is the advantage of this engine design? What are the reactants, ISP?
Hey, here's a wild idea: why not RTFA and find out?
Meaningful details like that don't get you posted on slashdot I guess.
The same could be said for meaningful critiques. Better luck next time.
-jcr
He is a brilliant guy, but he doesn't work for NASA...
Neither did Robert Goddard. It does not follow that because a government bureacracy had a monopoly on rocket development for several decades in this country, that nobody else is capable of inventions in this field.
-jcr
The Russian approach to rocket science was along the lines of "let's see how it blows up and make sure it blows up in a different way next time".
That's a complete crock. The Russians, just like the USA, started from the V2s they captured, and applied the best engineering practices that were known at the time. They blew up a lot of rockets, and so did anyone else who every tried to build a rocket.
The fact that they got Sputnik into orbit first, and got Gagarin into space before anyone else is a testament to their skill.
-jcr
They put up speed limit signs in metric and people shot holes in them.
I've got news for you: people have been shooting holes in all kinds of road signs since before there were automobiles in this country. The metric signs didn't get any special treatment.
thanks to the inbred rednecks in this country,
What a nasty, bigoted thing to say.
I have to convert units whenever I try to do science.
No you don't. Just work with whichever system you like from the beginning. Make all your measurements in the metric system if that floats your boat.
-jcr
He's sticking his neck out trying something new, it just takes awhile with limited funds.
It takes a while with massive funding, too.
-jcr
How much *design* is actually going into these if they are expecting to build 2-3 a week???
What does it matter? Rapid turnaround means he can develop a lot of them, and pick the best performers.
Maybe John, as brilliant as he is, should go to school for awhile to learn a bit about fluid dynamics and thermal dynamics and the equations that govern those sciences.
Why would you assume that he doesn't already know a great deal about these subjects?
I really don't get the knee-jerk reaction around here. Whenever someone does something interesting and potentially significant, there's always this chorus of people looking for something to bitch about to try to look cleverer than the guy who's acually doing something.
-jcr
"Hi, I'd like to do $THING. I know that $SOLUTION_A and $SOLUTION_B will do it very easily and for a very reasonable price, but I don't want to use $SOLUTION_A or $SOLUTION_B because $VAGUE_REASON and $CONTRADICTORY_REASON. Instead, I'd like your under-informed ideas on how to achieve my $POORLY_CONCEIVED_AMBITIONS using Linux, duct tape, an iPod, and hours and hours of my precious time."
That's strikingly similar to many questions I got as a Developer Technical Support engineer.
The way I tended to word it though, was: "Dear Sirs: when I stick my thumb in my eye, it hurts. Can you make it not hurt? I realize that I have been told for three consecutive years at your developer conference that sticking my thumb in my eye was not recommended, but I am (naturally) a special case. PS: Not sticking my thumb in my eye is not an option."
-jcr
This was mostly because they were run by business-oriented individuals (these people tend to be like that).
I think you misspelled "bubbleheaded liberal-arts-major marketing dinks who thought they were geniuses or something."
At the very leading edge of the dot-com boom, I was the global data security manager for KPMG's electronic commerce practice. At the time, I was telling anyone who'd listen: "Yes, someone's going to make a fortune selling socket wrenches over the web, but it's going to be Sears and Snap-on!
-jcr
Just wondering... Why didn't you kick your friend's ass after the first time he pulled this stunt? Having a disability isn't a license to be an asshole.
-jcr
There is no doubt that these chips can benefit a significant number of people..
I'd rather a mugger demanded my wallet, than scanned me for my ID chip and cut it out.
This is a bad idea for anything but livestock. If anyone ever pressures me to get one of these, he will get a vigorous refusal, which may include the use of firearms.
-jcr
money-grubbing pricks at Massport, and will make sure I will do my best to avoid Logan when traveling.
Better still, avoid Massachussets when travelling. Spend your money in Vermont or New Hampshire, where they still have some idea of limits to local government power.
-jcr
If a WiFi antenna actually poses a risk to the airport's security systems, then the airport had better fix its security systems before it pays out a billion dollars in a negligence judgment. Thousands of travellers go through that airport every day with WiFi transmitters in their laptop computers, PDAs, etc.
-jcr
After all, many people (especially here on /.) just outrightdismiss Windows because it is a product of MS.
You're getting your causes and effects mixed up. Most people dismiss MS because of Windows.
-jcr