Is Saddam such a bad guy if he's using linux and clustering
Answer: Depends on his intent. If he is using it for finding extra terrestrial life, by all means he can go ahead, but if he is using it to test one of his biological weapons then he is obviously bad.
So the question is (and I don't know, I didn't study nuclear physics beyond A-level), are the significant computational problems associated with the development of nuclear weapons easy to parallelize, or do they require a real supercomputer [sgi.com]?
Well a simple pointer to the answer might be this article. Now whether this experiment was successful or can it be reproduced?
Actually, your statement made me wonder for a while. I remember that till not long ago, US wouldn't let other countries buy latest super computers becoz they feared it'd be used to do those nuclear explosion simlations. Now I'm not sure if it still is the case.
Anyways, what I'm trying to point out is that it is actually becoming very convinient to build a super computer with lots of PCs that just lie idle. I am not sure if Saddam has heard about cheap linux systems. But what if he could build a super computer cluster?
Boy this gets interesting and scarier at the same time.
would reach *kilometers* into Mars or Jupiter's moon
At least this time I hope the people will make sure that they agree on one system. We don't want another screw up becoz someone didn't know they were dealing in *miles*, ooops...../P
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they use some Linux, NT, and Novel
The only word that sticks out is NT. Boy, a paradise for a hacker!
Even though the parent commment has been moderated as flamebait, if you look closely, I don't know of an OS or software where the user has not complained. I have personally worked on 10 different OS but have found something or other to complain about. And certainly Linux, as of this moment is not as end-user-friendly as Mac or Windows. But it will change. But till then be ready to be criticized.
Maybe it is too soon for anyone to predict the end of sun or for that matter any other OS. Ever heard of legacy systems. Well they are still there becoz most companies don't bother moving or upgrading their systems for only one reason - "they work". An example to prove this is that while at a carrier fair I saw atleast 20 companies asking for COBOL experience. So this means all these companies are using those legacy mainframes.
Have you ever seen an owner of 1970 mustang convertible trade up for the latest model?
It is fun to read all these things but seriously has anyone ever thought whether all these games etc on a cell phone is all that important?
First of all, even laptops batteries don't last more than a couple of hours. And I'm sure if a Doom fanatic sits playing it on cell (don't bother whether he can distinguish guns) he wouldn't get away from it atleast for next couple of hours. Well the battery dies and guess what, he would be actually waiting for a call from an interviewer or whether his wife is in labor yet.
The next step would be obviously to stream movies... Well I've seen some models which can handle videos. Seriously, I cannot watch a movie on my 17'' monitor without complaining, how desperate can people can get to watch and play on the go. So far, wireless hasn't caught up like in Japan just becoz most people feel that this is quite unimportant.
I'd say better make those networks and services better so that atleast people can hear "old movies" and not "monkey with cold". Games and movies on cell phones might sound good but practically I find them waste of time and resources.
I hope, really, that they have decided on Linux because they believe it's the best tool for the job, and not simply to cut costs or to rebel against Microsoft.
I can agree with the part of Linux being right for the job but I beg to disagree that govts are not doing these to cut costs. A major decision in any govt approach to a new idea or technology is primarily driven by costs. Hell, even new guns have to confirm to a set price by govt, only then govt will buy them in bulk. And we all know the licensing policy of M$ is a real pain in the ass.
This money is only for retaining 325 employees and I don't know which country's employees they are. But since the judgement was passed in US, I'm assuming the employees of USA.
Even though this is offtopic, I have to answer your comment. Every one has to understand that the developers of the open source community spend a lot of time and money developing a nice product just to give it away or rather share. At the same time they also spend equal amount of time in writing those manuals. But many of these late bloomers need answers quick and easy. Then what are those manulas for - for you not to ask same question twice. And it doesn't hurt to spend a couple of hours reading those when a person has spent months and even years on that.
If you need answers quick and easy, well that is why you have paid consultants. Go hire them. Till then SHUT UP & RTFM.
BART: Well it's offical. Donald, you make the coolest guns man! They look even better than that Ultramax Laser Uzi I bought on ebay a few days ago.
HOmer: Why you little @#$!&##
Ok as you pointed out it is for the employees, fine. But consider this - 25 million divided evenly between all the 325 employees would be approximately $76000. That is more than the average anual salary of an employee at WorldCom. And I thought it was bankrupt. And finally, as we all know, all the money will never go evenly to these guys. So where does the rest go. It is anybody's guess.
Let us analyze this for a moment. As far as I know, Microsoft sells you a license to use their software and not the software itself. Ok, now doesn't this mean that if I buy a copy of windows, I own the license and if I own something, I don't see any reason why I cannot sell it.
Does the Microsoft EULA state that you cannot sell the license? Then what are those things I see on ebay? If those are legal then I don't see why Kmart is being targetted. Just becoz it si bankrupt? If Kmart is wrong then so is Ebay. Boy Microsoft always chooses enemies, which it can win over!
If it has to be sanctionned because it was online, then yes, they must be guilty.
Who gets to decide whether the stuff that is online is to be sanctioned? In this case, obviously the company which put it in the first place. In this instance I don't think there was any warning signs, disclaimers or those annoying alerts warning about the consequences if they view the page before the report is official.
What I don't understand is that why is this company pissed. It's like putting cheese cake outside (unattended) and expecting others not to touch it! Well though it might not sound ethical but again it is not like stealing either.
Well, even though the average monthly salary might be low, you are forgetting the point that even if 2% of more than a billion population plan to buy (believe me there are people india who are filthy rich) it'd be lot more than the simputer guys could hope for. Certainly you can look at it this way - IT IS A START!
The founder's presence is not a guarantee at all for the flourishing of a company
Neither is the presence of a higly trained Harward grads. Why do people fail to realize that one of the oldest companies like Ford etc were not started by mangement guys. These are relatively a new breed of people popping up. I am not diminishing their importance but let me tell you that being totally dependent on these guys is not good either.
Even if you do consider dotcoms, I agree that most of them perished becoz of bad judgement call. But hey, the whole world bought that idea. You cannot just blame some techies for this and brandish them as useless. Even now, I believe that for a company to be successful even it does not have the founder around, it should atleast have some technical guys around not just some fat ass white guys.
I don't know who moderated this comment but, what he pointed out is true!
Microsoft is possibley the most profitable company at this time. And remember Bill Gates was, atleast initially, more technically inclined. For a moment let us forget about his (questionable) marketing strategies and look at the company. He almost single handedly set up a software empire and that too without an MBA from Harward.
Now regarding the strategy used by Bill, let us analyze this - Bill Gates and John D. Rockefeller built their monopolies using more or less the same technique In the 1980s, Bill Gates got the computer manufacturers to pay him the price for Windows for each computer they manufacture, regardless of whose software is on it. In the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller got the railroads to pay him a rebate for every carload of oil they ship, regardless of whose oil it is. Same deal! How did they manage such deals? I don't want to draw allegations but maybe by bribing the officials of the other companies.
Anyways, according to me, it shouldn't matter who is running the company as long as we have some level headed people at the helm. People who do not get sucked in by heavy jargons and latter blame it on the technology. If the company expands and the owner is not able to control it, then by all means he/she should step down and let others take over. No point in building an empire and bringing it down just for vanity.
Could somebody translate the article? It is in German (or something else?). And people have started commenting on this article already. I hope they understand german!.
What I don't understand is why is Microsoft more concerned in making a petty cut, when it is not able to sell the XBOX in the first place. I believe that the prospect of mod-chips and linux on XBOX fuelled the interest in XBOX and might have actually helped its sales. Well for a moment I was considering buying it. But now it remains doubtful.
Seriously, if were Microsoft, I wouldn't bother spending a huge amount of money on some petty lawsuits, that too away from america in some foreign country. I'd actually use that money to secretly fund these kind of guys to make more research for these kind of mod-chips. In return I'll try to understand their techniques and make my product more secure in future (But I personally want Microsoft to fail always!). In the process fuel interest in the product and sell it more.
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The irony is that even those are done by artists.
As long as the share prices are going north no share holder will even bother. Hey don't blame me it's natural human tendency.
Answer: Depends on his intent. If he is using it for finding extra terrestrial life, by all means he can go ahead, but if he is using it to test one of his biological weapons then he is obviously bad.
Well a simple pointer to the answer might be this article. Now whether this experiment was successful or can it be reproduced?
Anyways, what I'm trying to point out is that it is actually becoming very convinient to build a super computer with lots of PCs that just lie idle. I am not sure if Saddam has heard about cheap linux systems. But what if he could build a super computer cluster?
Boy this gets interesting and scarier at the same time.
At least this time I hope the people will make sure that they agree on one system. We don't want another screw up becoz someone didn't know they were dealing in *miles*, ooops...../P
The only word that sticks out is NT. Boy, a paradise for a hacker!
Remember we don't live in UTOPIA
Have you ever seen an owner of 1970 mustang convertible trade up for the latest model?
First of all, even laptops batteries don't last more than a couple of hours. And I'm sure if a Doom fanatic sits playing it on cell (don't bother whether he can distinguish guns) he wouldn't get away from it atleast for next couple of hours. Well the battery dies and guess what, he would be actually waiting for a call from an interviewer or whether his wife is in labor yet.
The next step would be obviously to stream movies... Well I've seen some models which can handle videos. Seriously, I cannot watch a movie on my 17'' monitor without complaining, how desperate can people can get to watch and play on the go. So far, wireless hasn't caught up like in Japan just becoz most people feel that this is quite unimportant.
I'd say better make those networks and services better so that atleast people can hear "old movies" and not "monkey with cold". Games and movies on cell phones might sound good but practically I find them waste of time and resources.
I can agree with the part of Linux being right for the job but I beg to disagree that govts are not doing these to cut costs. A major decision in any govt approach to a new idea or technology is primarily driven by costs. Hell, even new guns have to confirm to a set price by govt, only then govt will buy them in bulk. And we all know the licensing policy of M$ is a real pain in the ass.
Well, with Windows and Linux users out of the picture, Apple will have the last laugh.
This money is only for retaining 325 employees and I don't know which country's employees they are. But since the judgement was passed in US, I'm assuming the employees of USA.
If you need answers quick and easy, well that is why you have paid consultants. Go hire them. Till then SHUT UP & RTFM.
BART: Well it's offical. Donald, you make the coolest guns man! They look even better than that Ultramax Laser Uzi I bought on ebay a few days ago. HOmer: Why you little @#$!&##
Does the Microsoft EULA state that you cannot sell the license? Then what are those things I see on ebay? If those are legal then I don't see why Kmart is being targetted. Just becoz it si bankrupt? If Kmart is wrong then so is Ebay. Boy Microsoft always chooses enemies, which it can win over!
Our vision is to become the leading global collaboration solutions vendor by supplying our customers with tomorrow's solutions today.
Well as I see it Reuters only kept in line with their philosophy. So why are they pissed?
Who gets to decide whether the stuff that is online is to be sanctioned? In this case, obviously the company which put it in the first place. In this instance I don't think there was any warning signs, disclaimers or those annoying alerts warning about the consequences if they view the page before the report is official.
What I don't understand is that why is this company pissed. It's like putting cheese cake outside (unattended) and expecting others not to touch it! Well though it might not sound ethical but again it is not like stealing either.
Neither is the presence of a higly trained Harward grads. Why do people fail to realize that one of the oldest companies like Ford etc were not started by mangement guys. These are relatively a new breed of people popping up. I am not diminishing their importance but let me tell you that being totally dependent on these guys is not good either.
Even if you do consider dotcoms, I agree that most of them perished becoz of bad judgement call. But hey, the whole world bought that idea. You cannot just blame some techies for this and brandish them as useless. Even now, I believe that for a company to be successful even it does not have the founder around, it should atleast have some technical guys around not just some fat ass white guys.
Microsoft is possibley the most profitable company at this time. And remember Bill Gates was, atleast initially, more technically inclined. For a moment let us forget about his (questionable) marketing strategies and look at the company. He almost single handedly set up a software empire and that too without an MBA from Harward.
Now regarding the strategy used by Bill, let us analyze this - Bill Gates and John D. Rockefeller built their monopolies using more or less the same technique In the 1980s, Bill Gates got the computer manufacturers to pay him the price for Windows for each computer they manufacture, regardless of whose software is on it. In the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller got the railroads to pay him a rebate for every carload of oil they ship, regardless of whose oil it is. Same deal! How did they manage such deals? I don't want to draw allegations but maybe by bribing the officials of the other companies.
Anyways, according to me, it shouldn't matter who is running the company as long as we have some level headed people at the helm. People who do not get sucked in by heavy jargons and latter blame it on the technology. If the company expands and the owner is not able to control it, then by all means he/she should step down and let others take over. No point in building an empire and bringing it down just for vanity.
What I don't understand is why is Microsoft more concerned in making a petty cut, when it is not able to sell the XBOX in the first place. I believe that the prospect of mod-chips and linux on XBOX fuelled the interest in XBOX and might have actually helped its sales. Well for a moment I was considering buying it. But now it remains doubtful.
Seriously, if were Microsoft, I wouldn't bother spending a huge amount of money on some petty lawsuits, that too away from america in some foreign country. I'd actually use that money to secretly fund these kind of guys to make more research for these kind of mod-chips. In return I'll try to understand their techniques and make my product more secure in future (But I personally want Microsoft to fail always!). In the process fuel interest in the product and sell it more.
Why you Little, read the artikle...artical...artkul... D'oh!