Zion was destroyed. Recall that the ships had all been recalled to Zion; the only ships that were away were the Nebuchadnezzar, the one with Capt. Niobe and the one who's crew died while in the Matrix (whom Trinity had to be inserted for). Recall that the sole survivor had last been seen in Zion, and was not a member of the crew of either of the two ships away from Zion. The dialog stated (paraphrased) that it had been surmised that the sentinels would attack via certain ducts/canals/whatever and thus a defense strategy was formulated around that, but an EMP was primarily denoted - which would have the effect of shutting down all of Zion's systems and causing some structural damage (electrical fires, mostly) - at which point the Sentinels came through and massacred the people since there were no defense mechanisms.
Furthermore, the Architect states that Zion has been destroyed and reconstructed iteratively for six generations now, like a sort of genetic algorithm evolving towards an optimal solution
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Perhaps the problem is that the distinctions in the computer market have altered and Sun has no place for its hardware? It used to be that there were servers/mainframes, workstations and then puny PCs. PCs have grown in capability, however, essentially absorbing the workstation definition and market, leaving Sun with little room in that segment. IBM chose to make servers the core of its business, while Microsoft and Intel dominate the PC market.
For quite a while I've been wondering exactly what Sun is up to. They calmly sat back while people kept repeating the mantra that Java is slow (even though it isn't; JIT-ted code and better GUI techniques improve performance markedly), allowing it to lose mindshare to competing products. Now Microsoft has shipped.NET and the hype machine is in full force - and still Sun has failed, to my knowledge, to respond.
Even if Cringley's article is wildly inaccurate, it does reflect the concerns and questions of a number of people, particularly those who do not use Java as part of their job. What the hell is Sun doing?
Seriously though, does anyone have any ideas on how we can take control of web standards away from MS ?
Why bother? Have you taken a look at these standard recently? They're huge and unwieldly. Perhaps a more attainable goal is to develop the next generation of browsers - a blank context for multimedia rendering as directed by the server-side script. Sort of a Shockwave Flash as a native platform.
<Speculative> Aren't there 2 discs of SRPMs? Maybe some of the cutting edge applications can be found there. There's also an extras disc which contains non-Open Source software and plugins, etc. The "noisome downloading" you speak of may not be necessary after all. </Speculative>
The loss of a major employer puts people out of jobs, which eliminates their income, which reduces spending, which affects all market participants by reducing profits (due to reduced sales), which causes them to lay off employees, which eliminates their income...
I agree that the Microsoft propaganda is bogus, but there are subtle merits to it.
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Zion was destroyed. Recall that the ships had all been recalled to Zion; the only ships that were away were the Nebuchadnezzar, the one with Capt. Niobe and the one who's crew died while in the Matrix (whom Trinity had to be inserted for). Recall that the sole survivor had last been seen in Zion, and was not a member of the crew of either of the two ships away from Zion. The dialog stated (paraphrased) that it had been surmised that the sentinels would attack via certain ducts/canals/whatever and thus a defense strategy was formulated around that, but an EMP was primarily denoted - which would have the effect of shutting down all of Zion's systems and causing some structural damage (electrical fires, mostly) - at which point the Sentinels came through and massacred the people since there were no defense mechanisms.
Furthermore, the Architect states that Zion has been destroyed and reconstructed iteratively for six generations now, like a sort of genetic algorithm evolving towards an optimal solution
Perhaps the problem is that the distinctions in the computer market have altered and Sun has no place for its hardware? It used to be that there were servers/mainframes, workstations and then puny PCs. PCs have grown in capability, however, essentially absorbing the workstation definition and market, leaving Sun with little room in that segment. IBM chose to make servers the core of its business, while Microsoft and Intel dominate the PC market.
.NET and the hype machine is in full force - and still Sun has failed, to my knowledge, to respond.
For quite a while I've been wondering exactly what Sun is up to. They calmly sat back while people kept repeating the mantra that Java is slow (even though it isn't; JIT-ted code and better GUI techniques improve performance markedly), allowing it to lose mindshare to competing products. Now Microsoft has shipped
Even if Cringley's article is wildly inaccurate, it does reflect the concerns and questions of a number of people, particularly those who do not use Java as part of their job. What the hell is Sun doing?
Seriously though, does anyone have any ideas on how we can take control of web standards away from MS ?
Why bother? Have you taken a look at these standard recently? They're huge and unwieldly. Perhaps a more attainable goal is to develop the next generation of browsers - a blank context for multimedia rendering as directed by the server-side script. Sort of a Shockwave Flash as a native platform.
Given the number of posts talking about how only females can be "castigated" - get it straight! Castigation is not the same thing as castration!
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Aren't there 2 discs of SRPMs? Maybe some of the cutting edge applications can be found there. There's also an extras disc which contains non-Open Source software and plugins, etc. The "noisome downloading" you speak of may not be necessary after all.
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The loss of a major employer puts people out of jobs, which eliminates their income, which reduces spending, which affects all market participants by reducing profits (due to reduced sales), which causes them to lay off employees, which eliminates their income...
I agree that the Microsoft propaganda is bogus, but there are subtle merits to it.
I know there's some nutjob out there that collects them
Actually, she claims it's a "historical record of pop culture". It was in Wired a few months back.