First, I am not sure at all how operating systems are relavant.
Second I am comparing the cost of traveling across the country now to a long time ago. I am pointing out that it got cheaper. Of course it was more expensive to make an OS 50 years ago. Of course it was more expensive to get across the country. My point is that this guy is complaining that not only should they get him across the country for less they should give him all sorts of free crap along with it. Like the seat, the free drink, and the *cough* security *cough*, aren't enough free stuff. Not to mention magazines to read, free pillows and blankets and the occasional cute flight attendant to enjoy along the way. Sheesh!
No thats not enough we need free Internet access on our planes too.
You can cross the country for ~$200. That's cheap by any standard. Seriously. how can you say that airlines are overcharging and should be adding services for free. The idea that you can get from New York to LA in 6 hours. That is madness. Tell that to the pioneers that took 6 months and spent hundreds of dollars (in 1850's money) and they would shit a brick.
If anything you should get free airplane flights with your starbucks. They are the ones overcharging. $2-3 for a cup of coffee. At that price it better come with some pr0n.
Yeah, but at first, try explaining this to a flight attendant.
Me: No I am not talking on my cell...I am using my laptop to talk to my kids.
Flight Attendant: Uh huh. Sir please take off the handsfree and turn off your cell phone.
Me: No really its my computer!?
And in addition to that, how do you think that these binaries will force open source projects to survive on features and stability rather than the fact that they are the only choice for linux users? (in effect a monopoly)
unlike pure Web applications...mobile users...can connect, quickly access applications and disconnect to do work offline
So this is not a purely web based application. This is an interesting application. It must utilize something more than HTML because it can obviously persist a session over long periods of time. it also means this is more than a thin client. Would something like this be web service based? interested to hear the actual press release from IBM. Either way, this is a good thing as having another office suite with real corporate backing , not the fake kind, is a good thing.
I only say sun is the fake kind because they are
0wNzEd by microsoft now.;)
Something tells me this is the perfect use of palladium. If there were something in the hardware that was attached to all web traffic (sort of like a VIN on a car) then it would become pointless to steal a laptop. At least near pointless. As it would require a lot of work to chop the computer.
Of course this has horrible implications for privacy. So choose your poison.
The thing is, it doesn't have to be legally binding. A test score is not a right of the test taker. The AP retains the right ot refuse a score to anyone they wish. They sell the tests and they can revoke a persons test taking rights at will.
I'm not sure at all how this is funny. Hundreds of high school students who took the test and talked about it on slashdot are now in jeapordy of losing their college credit. Silly moderators.
Microsoft also lowered the hardware requireements for longhorn from 2x4ghz procs to a single 1ghz proc, citing the decrease in complexity of drm will free up much of the needed processing power.
With all the Wintel conspiracies flying around I figure someone would have mentioned it by now.
Could it be that the chip manufacturers are begging MS to make a bloated OS? Could it be that if they require dual procs that Intel's revenue doubles. They sell twice the processors just like that.
For the past 5 years or so the trend in business has been consolidation of business logic to servers, and moving clients to the thin client. This means businesses can wait longer to upgrade hardware and buy cheaper hardware when they do upgrade.
This seems like an entirely different plan for MS. Remember "My Services". I was never going to have to install another application ever again. I was just going to rent time on a MS server to write my word documents. Everyone at MS said that Web Services were going to do all the work and that all my computer had to do was show the results in the web browser.
My guess is that the real reason longhorn needs a dual proc configuration is because the DRM and encryption on the music I listen to will be so intense it will require 2-4 ghz procs to decrypt it in real time.
I worked developing a kiosk under windows. We had huge problems with random windows errors. Our application was a jsp app in tomcat running on the local machine. We (the developers) wanted to port it to linux. Unfortunately our application was being developed in an academic setting. Our sponsoring professor, who got lots of money from microsoft wasn't up for that so much. He said, well it won't be supported and we have all these microsoft people who can give us support when things go wrong. Yeah right.
I know that to developers there is this obvious less is more view of linux when it is on the back end. But management, the ones who make all the real decisions about this stuff, just doesn't get it sometimes. If its not "supported" by corporate dollars, which I guess comes from us paying for it, it isn't acceptable.
I think the answer to your question is perceived superiority in management's eyes,and the attitude that Windows is more common so it will be easier for some stupid support guy to fix.
Why not employ a processor with its own ram, seperate from the main system to do nothing but GC? Expensive? Not really. Consider a machine with 8 processors and 8GB of ram for an app server. Whats 1 more of each to the cost? This solves the paging problems as memory can be paged into the separate memory space. It does not eat up processor because it is a dedicated task. It only hurts disk performance when the disk has to be hit for a page fault. A dedicated "device" (term used loosely here) would create an almost impact free way to manage memory. Would this work? I'm still thinking it out myself.
Apple is better off doing something like buying JBoss (They have had experience with this business model in Darwin). Then stealing away some of Sun's Java team to ensure that their implementation of the JRE will be better than Sun's (Or IBM, BEA, Whoever else). Apple has a great opportunity to really start to play in the Enterprise space. It will be Java that gets them there. (Assuming.Net/Mono doesn't end up screwing J2EE--Which is highly unlikely). If Apple focused on having the most stable implementation of the Java platform around, they would go a long way in the mid range app server industry. Price competitive with Dell for small servers and a competitive J2EE offering in JBoss with the ease of use of Apple.
Mark my words, Apple is making a comeback. Sun...not so much. I think IBM is the ONLY company that will continue to cost effictively and proffitably offer large, mainframish, servers. Sun may get swallowed up by someone, but it won't be Apple.
Yeah, but it is not supported for free. It is now on a contract basis.
Citing
here
, here and
here
They are rumored to be dropping support for SQL Server 2000 shortly after the release of SQL2k5.
And lets not forget liscense 6. Which will force upgrades anyway. At extra cost no doubt.
I set up shop in Russia. My company will, for a reasonable fee, purchase a hard drive for you. Fill it with the music you want- legally obtained from this service. Ship it to you in your country. You have now purchased and imported legally copyrighted material. The copy was made legally and the import will not be subject to american copyright law. Is this correct?
Does anyone know what UPS would charge to ship a hard drive from Russia to Yourtown, USA?
Slashdot Mirror
Lotus Notes?
Doesn't office 2k4 do this?
I know it is not out yet though.
It took me forever to figure out what the hell you were talking about, but that's funny stuff.
that's a totally irrelevant comparison
First, I am not sure at all how operating systems are relavant.
Second I am comparing the cost of traveling across the country now to a long time ago. I am pointing out that it got cheaper. Of course it was more expensive to make an OS 50 years ago. Of course it was more expensive to get across the country. My point is that this guy is complaining that not only should they get him across the country for less they should give him all sorts of free crap along with it. Like the seat, the free drink, and the *cough* security *cough*, aren't enough free stuff. Not to mention magazines to read, free pillows and blankets and the occasional cute flight attendant to enjoy along the way. Sheesh!
No thats not enough we need free Internet access on our planes too.
That's what I'm saying.
the airfare, which on any flight is ample
You can cross the country for ~$200. That's cheap by any standard. Seriously. how can you say that airlines are overcharging and should be adding services for free. The idea that you can get from New York to LA in 6 hours. That is madness. Tell that to the pioneers that took 6 months and spent hundreds of dollars (in 1850's money) and they would shit a brick.
If anything you should get free airplane flights with your starbucks. They are the ones overcharging. $2-3 for a cup of coffee. At that price it better come with some pr0n.
Yeah, but at first, try explaining this to a flight attendant.
Me: No I am not talking on my cell...I am using my laptop to talk to my kids.
Flight Attendant: Uh huh. Sir please take off the handsfree and turn off your cell phone.
Me: No really its my computer!?
WTF???
And in addition to that, how do you think that these binaries will force open source projects to survive on features and stability rather than the fact that they are the only choice for linux users? (in effect a monopoly)
unlike pure Web applications...mobile users...can connect, quickly access applications and disconnect to do work offline
;)
So this is not a purely web based application. This is an interesting application. It must utilize something more than HTML because it can obviously persist a session over long periods of time. it also means this is more than a thin client. Would something like this be web service based? interested to hear the actual press release from IBM. Either way, this is a good thing as having another office suite with real corporate backing , not the fake kind, is a good thing.
I only say sun is the fake kind because they are
0wNzEd by microsoft now.
Something tells me this is the perfect use of palladium. If there were something in the hardware that was attached to all web traffic (sort of like a VIN on a car) then it would become pointless to steal a laptop. At least near pointless. As it would require a lot of work to chop the computer.
Of course this has horrible implications for privacy. So choose your poison.
back when the US invaded Afghanistan,
But they do now?
released a poll showing that the majority of Americans trust those machines.
If we based everything off what the majority of Americans trusted, we would get someone like George Bush for President.
Oh wait, Damn!
The thing is, it doesn't have to be legally binding. A test score is not a right of the test taker. The AP retains the right ot refuse a score to anyone they wish. They sell the tests and they can revoke a persons test taking rights at will.
I'm not sure at all how this is funny. Hundreds of high school students who took the test and talked about it on slashdot are now in jeapordy of losing their college credit. Silly moderators.
Microsoft also lowered the hardware requireements for longhorn from 2x4ghz procs to a single 1ghz proc, citing the decrease in complexity of drm will free up much of the needed processing power.
Linux or pirated copies of Windows?
With all the Wintel conspiracies flying around I figure someone would have mentioned it by now.
Could it be that the chip manufacturers are begging MS to make a bloated OS? Could it be that if they require dual procs that Intel's revenue doubles. They sell twice the processors just like that.
For the past 5 years or so the trend in business has been consolidation of business logic to servers, and moving clients to the thin client. This means businesses can wait longer to upgrade hardware and buy cheaper hardware when they do upgrade.
This seems like an entirely different plan for MS. Remember "My Services". I was never going to have to install another application ever again. I was just going to rent time on a MS server to write my word documents. Everyone at MS said that Web Services were going to do all the work and that all my computer had to do was show the results in the web browser.
My guess is that the real reason longhorn needs a dual proc configuration is because the DRM and encryption on the music I listen to will be so intense it will require 2-4 ghz procs to decrypt it in real time.
I worked developing a kiosk under windows. We had huge problems with random windows errors. Our application was a jsp app in tomcat running on the local machine. We (the developers) wanted to port it to linux. Unfortunately our application was being developed in an academic setting. Our sponsoring professor, who got lots of money from microsoft wasn't up for that so much. He said, well it won't be supported and we have all these microsoft people who can give us support when things go wrong. Yeah right.
I know that to developers there is this obvious less is more view of linux when it is on the back end. But management, the ones who make all the real decisions about this stuff, just doesn't get it sometimes. If its not "supported" by corporate dollars, which I guess comes from us paying for it, it isn't acceptable.
I think the answer to your question is perceived superiority in management's eyes,and the attitude that Windows is more common so it will be easier for some stupid support guy to fix.
Disclaimer: Stupid = Cheaper, not less smart
Why not employ a processor with its own ram, seperate from the main system to do nothing but GC? Expensive? Not really. Consider a machine with 8 processors and 8GB of ram for an app server. Whats 1 more of each to the cost? This solves the paging problems as memory can be paged into the separate memory space. It does not eat up processor because it is a dedicated task. It only hurts disk performance when the disk has to be hit for a page fault. A dedicated "device" (term used loosely here) would create an almost impact free way to manage memory. Would this work? I'm still thinking it out myself.
Apple is better off doing something like buying JBoss (They have had experience with this business model in Darwin). Then stealing away some of Sun's Java team to ensure that their implementation of the JRE will be better than Sun's (Or IBM, BEA, Whoever else). Apple has a great opportunity to really start to play in the Enterprise space. It will be Java that gets them there. (Assuming .Net/Mono doesn't end up screwing J2EE--Which is highly unlikely). If Apple focused on having the most stable implementation of the Java platform around, they would go a long way in the mid range app server industry. Price competitive with Dell for small servers and a competitive J2EE offering in JBoss with the ease of use of Apple.
Mark my words, Apple is making a comeback. Sun...not so much. I think IBM is the ONLY company that will continue to cost effictively and proffitably offer large, mainframish, servers. Sun may get swallowed up by someone, but it won't be Apple.
how will Apache get people to try Geronimo out, especially seeing as the 1st milestone lacks many features
I can't wait to try it out.
Thats how
I would imagine so. And a little easier too. Want to be my business partner? :)
Yeah, but it is not supported for free. It is now on a contract basis. Citing here , here and here They are rumored to be dropping support for SQL Server 2000 shortly after the release of SQL2k5.
And lets not forget liscense 6. Which will force upgrades anyway. At extra cost no doubt.
I set up shop in Russia. My company will, for a reasonable fee, purchase a hard drive for you. Fill it with the music you want- legally obtained from this service. Ship it to you in your country. You have now purchased and imported legally copyrighted material. The copy was made legally and the import will not be subject to american copyright law. Is this correct?
Does anyone know what UPS would charge to ship a hard drive from Russia to Yourtown, USA?