Strange you should mention that, but I used to have lots of friends who were girls, many more than males. You could have far better, deeper conversations with them and they were often more open-minded.
When I was at school, I used to sit beside all the girls in class because they were very lovely and also well-behved so you could get peace and quiet to get on with learning stuff. I was the only boy in my physics class to get an A. The rest all failed except for a couple who got Cs.
As one gets older, and people pair off, friendships with the opposite sex decline and fade. I've lost some of my best friends in recent years.
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Never mind "friend" and "foe" relationship options, what we really need for folks like you is a "loony" option. Gee whiz: Gentoo on itanic. What next? ReactOS on Vax?
The C++ ABI Section 3.3.3 specifications for the array construction routines __cxa_vec_new2 and __cxa_vec_new3 were changed to return NULL when the allocator argument returns NULL. These changes are incorporated into the libstdc++ runtime library.
Occasionally you may HAVE to tell someone your password.
Yes, if it's a Windows system, where the administrator is somewhat powerless. I found this out back in 2000 when they upgraded us to NT4 at the power station. The admin was most impressed by my choice of password. Of course, I had to change it straight away since it had been divulged. Luckily I haven't had to "do" Windows since then.
My late grandfather had a very old (1940s?) Massey Ferguson, the likes of which are now seen in farming museums. It ran on petrol (gasoline) to warm up and paraffin (kerosene) when hot. He kept it well maintined and nicely painted in a smart grey colour. When he died in 1996, one of the neighbours bought it. Old "Fergie" can still be seen in that small Highland hamlet in Northwest Scotland bringing home the peats.
Security wise, it is bad that Intel decided not to copy the NX (No Excute on pages) part as well.The NX is not an AMD invention, of course, but it's very nice that they included it.
Yes, but intel needs something to differentiate the Xeon from the itanic i.e. they can claim you need to buy an intanic to get this high-tech, innovative intel security feature. Many corporates still don't buy AMD because there hasn't been big name backing until now. intel hopes that it can still market its way past some peoples' ignorance.
The reasons SGi failed were to announce that they were adopting Windows NT as their main OS and that they were backing itanic and stopping MIPS development. SGI effectively sacraficed their crown jewels (IRIX, MIPS) at the altar of the Wintel Satan. They never fully recovered.
NT just didn't cut the mustard, and the transition backwards from 64-bit MIPS to 32-bit Pentium was too much of a regression. itanic was late, too hot, underperforming (due to the weird architecture and poor compilers).
The market voted with its wallet.
By the time Rocket Rick was sent packing and SGI got a clue, it was too late. MIPS had languished for too long and when they restarted development it was just too backward. The world (including UltraSPARC) had moved on.
To replace the dud that was Windows NT they needed a UNIX. Unfortunately, IRIX had been suffering bitrot and was showing its age, so they got on the Linux bandwagon.
Now, SGI is even more of a niche player, selling very slow 64-bit MIPS workstations and a very small handful of largeish parallel itanic boxes running Linux with proprietary closed-source kernel modules to achieve the parallel scalability. These monsters are big, heavy, hot and expensive.
What a sorry tale.
Sun has not drank that itanic Kool Aid nor the NT stuff and is keeping Linux on the desktop and 1-2 way server where it belongs.
It's depressing. Maybe one day there will only be two binary architectures: x86 and Power. Variety is the spice of life. Hopefully someone somewhere is working on a great new secret project to inject some new diversity into the market and to stimulate innovation again.
Sun hasn't said "We're dropping Solaris" but embracing Linux without becoming a player in the Linux kernel team is a HUGE mistake.
Sun is certainly not dropping Solaris at all. Go here to find out about all the new stuff going into Solaris 10.
What Sun is doing is making Linux and Solaris interchageable at the low end by supplying both in the box.
As for becoming a major player in the Linux kernel team, why bother? They're only shipping Linux on comodity boxes i.e. standard kit. Why does Sun need to spend any time and money on that when volunteers, RedHat, SuSE/Novell, IBM and SGI are doing that already and under the GPL?
Don't be so hasty to write off Solaris. Sun has done some incredible things with Solaris in the past. I dare say they haven't forgotten how to throw googlies, and they haven't got so desperate as to being yet another Windows reseller like SGI.
You could always save up and have some implants. Just think, boobies always whenever you want and you don't even have to ply any women with alcohol, meals, presents and promises of eternal faithfulness and sobriety.
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No. Linus is already working on a GPL'd clone. It's called GNU/Leghorn.
Indeed one could, and it would add to the comic effect.
...but I gained a wife.
Strange you should mention that, but I used to have lots of friends who were girls, many more than males. You could have far better, deeper conversations with them and they were often more open-minded.
When I was at school, I used to sit beside all the girls in class because they were very lovely and also well-behved so you could get peace and quiet to get on with learning stuff. I was the only boy in my physics class to get an A. The rest all failed except for a couple who got Cs.
As one gets older, and people pair off, friendships with the opposite sex decline and fade. I've lost some of my best friends in recent years.
Never mind "friend" and "foe" relationship options, what we really need for folks like you is a "loony" option. Gee whiz: Gentoo on itanic. What next? ReactOS on Vax?
*ducks again*
*ducks*
So go and read this very carefully:
The C++ ABI Section 3.3.3 specifications for the array construction routines __cxa_vec_new2 and __cxa_vec_new3 were changed to return NULL when the allocator argument returns NULL. These changes are incorporated into the libstdc++ runtime library.
If Darth Vader were to appear in a pink frilly dress, how many people would go to fancy dress parties in his image?
Ask Bill nicely. I'm sure he'd look after your source code for you and make sure none of it got out.
Yes, if it's a Windows system, where the administrator is somewhat powerless. I found this out back in 2000 when they upgraded us to NT4 at the power station. The admin was most impressed by my choice of password. Of course, I had to change it straight away since it had been divulged. Luckily I haven't had to "do" Windows since then.
My late grandfather had a very old (1940s?) Massey Ferguson, the likes of which are now seen in farming museums. It ran on petrol (gasoline) to warm up and paraffin (kerosene) when hot. He kept it well maintined and nicely painted in a smart grey colour. When he died in 1996, one of the neighbours bought it. Old "Fergie" can still be seen in that small Highland hamlet in Northwest Scotland bringing home the peats.
I'm sure it'll be fine as long as you don't take it out in the rain or drive it in the mud. Zero to rust in under 4 seconds...
Cool.
No silly, it's High Performance Cow, Highly Parallel Chicken
Personally, I'd prefer a John Deere 6003 Series.
Yes, but intel needs something to differentiate the Xeon from the itanic i.e. they can claim you need to buy an intanic to get this high-tech, innovative intel security feature. Many corporates still don't buy AMD because there hasn't been big name backing until now. intel hopes that it can still market its way past some peoples' ignorance.
NT just didn't cut the mustard, and the transition backwards from 64-bit MIPS to 32-bit Pentium was too much of a regression. itanic was late, too hot, underperforming (due to the weird architecture and poor compilers).
The market voted with its wallet.
By the time Rocket Rick was sent packing and SGI got a clue, it was too late. MIPS had languished for too long and when they restarted development it was just too backward. The world (including UltraSPARC) had moved on.
To replace the dud that was Windows NT they needed a UNIX. Unfortunately, IRIX had been suffering bitrot and was showing its age, so they got on the Linux bandwagon.
Now, SGI is even more of a niche player, selling very slow 64-bit MIPS workstations and a very small handful of largeish parallel itanic boxes running Linux with proprietary closed-source kernel modules to achieve the parallel scalability. These monsters are big, heavy, hot and expensive.
What a sorry tale.
Sun has not drank that itanic Kool Aid nor the NT stuff and is keeping Linux on the desktop and 1-2 way server where it belongs.
It's depressing. Maybe one day there will only be two binary architectures: x86 and Power. Variety is the spice of life. Hopefully someone somewhere is working on a great new secret project to inject some new diversity into the market and to stimulate innovation again.
Sun is certainly not dropping Solaris at all. Go here to find out about all the new stuff going into Solaris 10.
What Sun is doing is making Linux and Solaris interchageable at the low end by supplying both in the box.
As for becoming a major player in the Linux kernel team, why bother? They're only shipping Linux on comodity boxes i.e. standard kit. Why does Sun need to spend any time and money on that when volunteers, RedHat, SuSE/Novell, IBM and SGI are doing that already and under the GPL?
Don't be so hasty to write off Solaris. Sun has done some incredible things with Solaris in the past. I dare say they haven't forgotten how to throw googlies, and they haven't got so desperate as to being yet another Windows reseller like SGI.
You could always save up and have some implants. Just think, boobies always whenever you want and you don't even have to ply any women with alcohol, meals, presents and promises of eternal faithfulness and sobriety.
Or hitting the headstone with the soles of your shoes.
Sorry, wrong planet.
More importantly, there is also a source of a unique and highly-valuable soup although, Shrub may have to send in the army to defeat the Clangers who have the whole supply bought up under exclusive contract. They might have to use nukes to defeat the soup dragon though.
Apologista terrorista!