Gray, head of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, sits down with Queue and tells us (...)
JG: If it is business as usual, then a petabyte store needs 1,000 storage admins. Our chore is to figure out how to waste storage space to save administration.
Could someone please for all of us silly slashdotters who do not know what Silly Putty is (or maybe know it under another name) give some explanation? From what I found on google it seems to be some sort of flubber", but then, sort of,... different.
This being slashdot, could anyone also put up some links about all models of starwars ships that have been created with this stuff?
Since when does questioning the logic in someone's thinking has to be labelled 'troll'? I only see a question which was answered nicely and balanced by MuParadigm and dancing blue? Ah, well, 'tis slashdot...
"Well, at SCO Forum, there were some folks that came out and basically sniffed out some of the [disputed System V] code we were showing and [concluded] that it emanated from SGI." That this code "emanated" from SGI was news to SCO.
I'm not trying to be a troll or anything, and I have this feeling that the SCO execs are full of it, but is this statement not a little bit thin to jump to the conclusion that SCO does not know the history of its own code? Could DMcB not intend to say with 'emanated' that that code emanated from SGI into the linux kernel? Then his statement would only involve linux history and SGI history, and not SCO's own.
Apart from the arguments already made above, there is another argument: If you save a file to csv, html, or whatever, you *lose* information.
My information is mine, Microsoft prevents me from exporting my data from its closed formats, that's vendor lock-in.
Duke Nukem Forever has gone into beta, according to a spokesman from 3D Realms: "[Duke Nukem Forever] is good on track, and we are looking forward to the moment the code comes out of beta stage and goes into production."
Rumors about a management buy-out by angry Duke Dukem fans were said to be "(...) completely unfounded and untrue (...)". There were reports of large groups of DNF fans, who collectively put $0.05 in their bank accounts when DNF was first announced; the plan was to use the accumulated interest for the management buy-out.
In the past HP products never let me down (1). That's why I started looking at HP when I wanted to buy a scanner. As HP scanners have abysmal linux support, I bought an Epson 1660 photo instead.
As you probably know SCO has engaged in a Don Quichotte like crusade to make money out of the GPL-ed work of other people, by claiming linux is their property; claiming is all they do, actual public evidence is nowhere to be found. Based on this non-evidence SCO is trying to stong-arm companies in paying SCO for using linux. This is at least morally wrong and probably illegal as well.
HP has sponsored the SCO 'Forum 2003' event, where the 'linux is ours' message got #1 exposure. Therefor I can take no other conclusion other than that HP is actively supporting SCO in its rediculous quest.
Because of the facts above, I will refrain from buying anything from HP, and will actively discourage anyone who consults me on what to buy, to not buy from HP. When HP starts supporting linux both actively and company wide and publicly takes a stand against SCOs current way of doing business, I will reconsider my stance.
Although I know this will probably make no dent at all in HPs sales figures, I have this suspicion that there are more who think like I do, any many small dents might have some influence.
Regards,
Leo Mekenkamp
(1) One company I worked at had a LaserJet 4si as its main printer. In 7 years of heavy use it only broke down once (new drum).
The subject of this reply sounds like a troll, but considering this fact it might actually be sooner. All chinese civilians will probably be 'encouraged' to run chinese s/w as well. With 10^9 inhabitants and a growing market for personal computers, China may make a bigger dent in the statistics than Microsoft would like.
Funny thing is that I looked at that website and it reminded me of the reasoning that religious zealots have on the subject of evolution: "You say that all live evolves through evolution, so show me the missing link between monkeys and humans. You cannot, so this proves that God, and not evolution, created man."
Also, a lot of the quotes (which can quite easily be torn out of their context) are some number of years old. A lot can happen in a few years of scientific research.
Interesting, but you are forgetting one thing: SCO may believe they own the code IBM wrote, and say for the sake of argument they are right. Then there is still all the other code written by numerous individuals, all under their own copyright and under the GPL.
It does not matter wether or not 'SCOs code' was illegally inserted into linux (GNU/linux, whatever), fact is there is a lot of code there belonging to others and licenced under the GPL. If SCO keeps on using that code, they should conform to the terms of the GPL. If they do not, they are in conflic with copyright law.
Obviously trolling, but since you have +5 I'll bite:
Tried a professional or better version; there's a reason they cost more even if they don't run that CGA poker game you copied off of someone else in high school
What exactely are you trying to say here? That an MS OS with 'Professional' in the name cannot run DOS apps? Or that MS only patches certain bugs in more expensive versions of their OS-es?
Gone through the training necessary (i.e., read a book) to install and maintain Windows in a work or enterprise environment
So you need a book to press 'next', 'next', 'next', 'finish' in install-wizards? If you need training, then why are there wizards? And don't tell me a good sysop needs wizards; those are for the naive end-users. And if they should not intall and maintain a product, then don't provide wizards.
Used the stable of tools designed to ease and enhance deployment of Windows technologies -- Windows Terminal Server, Norton Ghost, etc
Ghost a windows technology? Don't make me laugh. It is a hack to get around the rediculous barriers MS puts in its products on purpose. Ever wondered why there is no 'Norton Ghost for *nix'? That's because it is not needed; simple cp and tar commands come a long way. Same goes for Windows Terminal Server; there is no unix equivalent, because it's build-in, use eiter telnet or X through 'ssh -X'. Or vnc.
Almost, there is no direct payment of money involved; this is just one big plot around the new GPU for the XBox II. Yeah, that's why they are doing this! "Look Bill, no linux shit on our site."
Actually, the API call to get the OS version returned MS-DOS 7.0 if you called it on Windows 95. And internally Windows 95 still used FCBs instead of filehandles. And try googling to find out when MS finally got rid of all 16 bit code in the kernel
Performance, however, was surprisingly snappy, considering we were using an older 500MHz Pentium III machine with 256MB of RAM; opening and moving windows around, for example, did not show any noticeable performance lag.
Since when does one need 256MB of RAM and a 500MHz Pentium to move windows around? Is the reviewer so brainwashed by wintel upgrade-mania that he/she does not know that you don't need that much power to simply move windows around the screen?
IMO, Java is extremely slow and very much open to exploits (...) (emphasis mine)
I am afraid your opinion does not stroke with reality. A java program is a bit slower than a c program, if both are implemented correctly. Java is certainly not very open to exploits; if it is, please show references to these exploits.
Do you mean to say that if you are in charge of 1000 machines for a $500 million company, that you only need to buy 1 support contract / licence / whatever?
I take it you are referring to this comment from VCAguy. Calling someone a 'fucking moron' for that comment is a sign of very bad manners to me. And saying that someone expects everything to be free when the only thing he says is that paying $2500 is nicer than paying $3800, is just plain bad reasoning.
But hey, this is slashdot, you already got your +5, Insightfull
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Two quotes from the article (emphasis mine):
Gray, head of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, sits down with Queue and tells us (...)
JG: If it is business as usual, then a petabyte store needs 1,000 storage admins. Our chore is to figure out how to waste storage space to save administration.
MS bashers will have a field day on this one...
We have a dozen doing TeraServer work; we have about eight in our lab for video archives, backups, and so on.
..., uhhm..., video archives."
That's a good excuse to use on my wife: "No honey, those are my
Could someone please for all of us silly slashdotters who do not know what Silly Putty is (or maybe know it under another name) give some explanation? From what I found on google it seems to be some sort of flubber", but then, sort of, ... different.
This being slashdot, could anyone also put up some links about all models of starwars ships that have been created with this stuff?
Since when does questioning the logic in someone's thinking has to be labelled 'troll'? I only see a question which was answered nicely and balanced by MuParadigm and dancing blue? Ah, well, 'tis slashdot...
"Well, at SCO Forum, there were some folks that came out and basically sniffed out some of the [disputed System V] code we were showing and [concluded] that it emanated from SGI." That this code "emanated" from SGI was news to SCO.
I'm not trying to be a troll or anything, and I have this feeling that the SCO execs are full of it, but is this statement not a little bit thin to jump to the conclusion that SCO does not know the history of its own code? Could DMcB not intend to say with 'emanated' that that code emanated from SGI into the linux kernel? Then his statement would only involve linux history and SGI history, and not SCO's own.A link to where volunteers can submit Celine Dion, Westlife and New Kids On The Block cds to be included for testing would be greatly appreciated
Apart from the arguments already made above, there is another argument: If you save a file to csv, html, or whatever, you *lose* information.
My information is mine, Microsoft prevents me from exporting my data from its closed formats, that's vendor lock-in.
Other news of today:
Duke Nukem Forever has gone into beta, according to a spokesman from 3D Realms: "[Duke Nukem Forever] is good on track, and we are looking forward to the moment the code comes out of beta stage and goes into production."
Rumors about a management buy-out by angry Duke Dukem fans were said to be "(...) completely unfounded and untrue (...)". There were reports of large groups of DNF fans, who collectively put $0.05 in their bank accounts when DNF was first announced; the plan was to use the accumulated interest for the management buy-out.
In the past HP products never let me down (1). That's why I started looking at HP when I wanted to buy a scanner. As HP scanners have abysmal linux support, I bought an Epson 1660 photo instead. As you probably know SCO has engaged in a Don Quichotte like crusade to make money out of the GPL-ed work of other people, by claiming linux is their property; claiming is all they do, actual public evidence is nowhere to be found. Based on this non-evidence SCO is trying to stong-arm companies in paying SCO for using linux. This is at least morally wrong and probably illegal as well. HP has sponsored the SCO 'Forum 2003' event, where the 'linux is ours' message got #1 exposure. Therefor I can take no other conclusion other than that HP is actively supporting SCO in its rediculous quest. Because of the facts above, I will refrain from buying anything from HP, and will actively discourage anyone who consults me on what to buy, to not buy from HP. When HP starts supporting linux both actively and company wide and publicly takes a stand against SCOs current way of doing business, I will reconsider my stance. Although I know this will probably make no dent at all in HPs sales figures, I have this suspicion that there are more who think like I do, any many small dents might have some influence. Regards, Leo Mekenkamp (1) One company I worked at had a LaserJet 4si as its main printer. In 7 years of heavy use it only broke down once (new drum).
The subject of this reply sounds like a troll, but considering this fact it might actually be sooner. All chinese civilians will probably be 'encouraged' to run chinese s/w as well. With 10^9 inhabitants and a growing market for personal computers, China may make a bigger dent in the statistics than Microsoft would like.
Funny thing is that I looked at that website and it reminded me of the reasoning that religious zealots have on the subject of evolution: "You say that all live evolves through evolution, so show me the missing link between monkeys and humans. You cannot, so this proves that God, and not evolution, created man."
Also, a lot of the quotes (which can quite easily be torn out of their context) are some number of years old. A lot can happen in a few years of scientific research.
Please tell me again how many people in the US make use of p2p networks.
How many of those have voted for these politicians in the past and will be pissed off enough to vote for someone else?
How many that have not voted for these politicians and will vote for them now?
My guess is that the first number >>> second number. Exist Conyers and Berman
Those new clothes might get burned pretty fast if their server keeps on getting hit by the slashdot effect; please try google's cache instead.
With the screen down the Yopy is about the same depth as a paperback book
I'm sorry, but 69 × 103 × 24.7mm means that this pda is about 14.7mm too thick for me. IMHO a pda should easily fit in a pocket.
Interesting, but you are forgetting one thing: SCO may believe they own the code IBM wrote, and say for the sake of argument they are right. Then there is still all the other code written by numerous individuals, all under their own copyright and under the GPL.
It does not matter wether or not 'SCOs code' was illegally inserted into linux (GNU/linux, whatever), fact is there is a lot of code there belonging to others and licenced under the GPL. If SCO keeps on using that code, they should conform to the terms of the GPL. If they do not, they are in conflic with copyright law.
Except for Lindows (and SCO), I think most linux distributors are quite realistic. Can you provide urls to back your claim?
Obviously trolling, but since you have +5 I'll bite:
Tried a professional or better version; there's a reason they cost more even if they don't run that CGA poker game you copied off of someone else in high school
What exactely are you trying to say here? That an MS OS with 'Professional' in the name cannot run DOS apps? Or that MS only patches certain bugs in more expensive versions of their OS-es?
Gone through the training necessary (i.e., read a book) to install and maintain Windows in a work or enterprise environment
So you need a book to press 'next', 'next', 'next', 'finish' in install-wizards? If you need training, then why are there wizards? And don't tell me a good sysop needs wizards; those are for the naive end-users. And if they should not intall and maintain a product, then don't provide wizards.
Used the stable of tools designed to ease and enhance deployment of Windows technologies -- Windows Terminal Server, Norton Ghost, etc
Ghost a windows technology? Don't make me laugh. It is a hack to get around the rediculous barriers MS puts in its products on purpose. Ever wondered why there is no 'Norton Ghost for *nix'? That's because it is not needed; simple cp and tar commands come a long way. Same goes for Windows Terminal Server; there is no unix equivalent, because it's build-in, use eiter telnet or X through 'ssh -X'. Or vnc.
Ehhh, hhhmm, heh, heh, hmm, hihhhm.
It's got naked people. hgmmghhh, heheh, hmm.
I also missed something on odbms...
I have not written 'my congressman'. I am a Dutchman, and do not live in the US.
Now please excuse me, I'll go back to legally smoking pot again.
Almost, there is no direct payment of money involved; this is just one big plot around the new GPU for the XBox II. Yeah, that's why they are doing this! "Look Bill, no linux shit on our site."
Actually, the API call to get the OS version returned MS-DOS 7.0 if you called it on Windows 95. And internally Windows 95 still used FCBs instead of filehandles. And try googling to find out when MS finally got rid of all 16 bit code in the kernel
Performance, however, was surprisingly snappy, considering we were using an older 500MHz Pentium III machine with 256MB of RAM; opening and moving windows around, for example, did not show any noticeable performance lag.
Since when does one need 256MB of RAM and a 500MHz Pentium to move windows around? Is the reviewer so brainwashed by wintel upgrade-mania that he/she does not know that you don't need that much power to simply move windows around the screen?
IMO, Java is extremely slow and very much open to exploits (...) (emphasis mine)
I am afraid your opinion does not stroke with reality. A java program is a bit slower than a c program, if both are implemented correctly. Java is certainly not very open to exploits; if it is, please show references to these exploits.
Do you mean to say that if you are in charge of 1000 machines for a $500 million company, that you only need to buy 1 support contract / licence / whatever?
I take it you are referring to this comment from VCAguy. Calling someone a 'fucking moron' for that comment is a sign of very bad manners to me. And saying that someone expects everything to be free when the only thing he says is that paying $2500 is nicer than paying $3800, is just plain bad reasoning.
But hey, this is slashdot, you already got your +5, Insightfull