Indeed, and I'm glad they downsized me in 2005. It was a blessing in disguise.
They just can't seem to execute on UltraSPARC development, and had to start selling Fujitsu boxes. Niagara is cool, but it's a niche. Their Opteron boxes are pretty cool in terms of price/performance and they lost the allergy to Linux, albeit a bit late.
Solaris sells a lot of hardware for IBM and HP, though. It beats AIX hands-down.
In the olden days, operating system stability was a measure of how long a heavily-loaded system could stay up without crashing, or exhibiting weird behaviour.
Nowadays, in these parts (slashdot), it means anything from "how easy it is to install" to "can I install a new driver without reading the manual."
Sun can't live off of MySQL unless they turn themselves into MySQL AB, and then what was the point?
Quite. And before they bought MySQL (the VHS of databases) they were already shipping the superior PostgreSQL with Solaris 10.
They obviously bought MySQL as a kind of marketing stunt. It hasn't really paid off.
Every year, Sun buys a big company, and a few months later lays off thousands of staff. Remember Cobalt? StorageTek? Now MySQL. They get a big tax discount for redundancies.
There are some brilliant minds and brilliant technologies in Sun. The crown jewels are Solaris, Java and UltraSPARC. Sun has been at the forefront of Open Source since its inception (contrary to what you might hear here). What they do badly is PHBs and NIH egomaniac engineers in certain geographical locations.
Niagara is cool, but where the heck is Rock guys? What's taking you so long?
I hope it isn't going to be another "project Millenium" a.k.a. UltraSPARC V.
I hope these operations for people who got AIDS by accident. No one who earned AIDS by promiscuous sexual behavior deserves to get these limited resources.
Don't worry. I'm sure God will come up with something even more dastardly to punish them. Maybe it will even involve EDS.
It starts of really simply explaining the absolute basics, gradually going into technical details. Plenty of historical context, examples, lucid diagrams and a companion CD.
I have not confused cores with threads. Cores are simply individual CPUs integrated on to a chip. AMD and intel are currently up to 4 on a chip. Sun does 8 on a chip (with 8 thread contexts per core).
Solaris, Linux and many other unixes have been scaling (not merely being just "aware of") many more that 256 CPUs (call them cores) for well over a decade.
Do some googling. Solaris especially and linux scale almost linearly to thousands of CPUs per system today. To say that Windows' performance is embarrassing in this respect would be an understatement.
It's slashdot, don't take it so seriously. You're allowed to say M$. You're allowed to hang out here when the pub's shut and there's nothing on TV.
Vista is a failure by most standards and Microsoft's OS monopoly is gradually being eroded. This recession is helping.
Vista only "sells" because PeeCees come with it installed by default. Don't kid yourself that the situation has changed in the last few years. MS still has a monopoly and uses every dirty trick in the book to keep competing operating systems off of new machines.
Also, remember that a substantial proportion of new (Vista) machines get reinstalled with Windows XP legally or not.
Never mind, the future is bright. Windows 7 will come with 256 threads, comrade. Double-plus good!
My Communist-Anti-American-Virus-Cancer Linux PeeCees eat 256 threads for breakfast. So do my All-American Sun SPARC/Solaris boxes. 10 lines of C says so.
I don't like Microsoft, and I hate Windows. Bill Gates, Steve Balmer et. al. are a bunch of crooks. I'm human, I have opinions. Twitter's cool. It's allowed opinions, and it's nice to see them amongst the pro-M$ apology this site has become.
The thing I don't understand, if these people were innocent, why would they pay the $500 the letter requested??? I certainly wouldn't.
"Anything for a quiet life."
Seriously, hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Many people here have the attitude that the system is stacked up against them and that their chances of winning are so remote that it's better to pay the £500 to make these people go away than to risk losing 10 times that fighting a court battle.
Also, most of these people are not experts on IT matters and therefore don't understand what evidence the accusers can and can't possibly have and what evidence and arguments they can make in their defense.
What we really need is a grass-roots organisation to help defend people in these cases. It would be a source of legal and technical resources and publicise the cases to ensure that more people are aware of what's going on. Some friendly no-win-no-fee lawyers would be a big help too.
Sorry, I was trying to be insulting since insults are all the rage round here.
I was trying to make the point that your simplistic black-and-white reasoning was very similar to that of religious fundamentalists and political extremists.
Mass production. The R&D is the expensive part. Once you've build 1 Ares 5 you might as well build hundreds.
Secondly, since I'm not American, I'm not paying for it:-)
Thirdly, stop the insane "war on terror." How much is that costing?
Fourthly, when China goes to the Moon with astronauts, what are you going to do to show them up? Send four all-American heroes on a suicide mission to Mars in a bus-size tin-can?
Fifthly, the European Space Agency is going to Mars too. Are you going to let a bunch of lily-livered Euro-commies beat you to it?
Indeed. We have nuclear submarines that last 30+ years on a single fuel loading. There is no reason why we can't build re-usable Mars ships that will last as long.
It is crazy to send people on one-way suicide missions. We are the human race. We owe ourselves better. It's time to start thinking big and positive.
If this Ares-5 thing gets built, it is alleged that it could carry 133 tonnes to low earth orbit per launch. Talking conservatively, let's say 100 tonnes (100 000 kg). Say we were going to build a Mars ship over a 5 year period with one launch a month. That would be 60 x 100 tonnes. OK, let's be pessimistic and say 50 x 100 tonnes.
That's a 5000 tonne mission to Mars and back and it could be reused many times. There would be enough mass budget for proper radiation shielding, fish tanks and a garden for growing fruit and vegetables.
So we are all cows to be milked and slaughtered when our udders run dry?
I would rather not "contribute" to your Great Free Market in the hope of receiving some of your grudging charity.
I predict that you will soon become an Evangelical Christian, or similar religious fundamentalist. You will develop something you will call compassion, but it will be limited to those in your group.
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Indeed, and I'm glad they downsized me in 2005. It was a blessing in disguise.
They just can't seem to execute on UltraSPARC development, and had to start selling Fujitsu boxes. Niagara is cool, but it's a niche. Their Opteron boxes are pretty cool in terms of price/performance and they lost the allergy to Linux, albeit a bit late.
Solaris sells a lot of hardware for IBM and HP, though. It beats AIX hands-down.
So I hang out here where I can vent my spleen :-)
In the olden days, operating system stability was a measure of how long a heavily-loaded system could stay up without crashing, or exhibiting weird behaviour.
Nowadays, in these parts (slashdot), it means anything from "how easy it is to install" to "can I install a new driver without reading the manual."
Sun can't live off of MySQL unless they turn themselves into MySQL AB, and then what was the point?
Quite. And before they bought MySQL (the VHS of databases) they were already shipping the superior PostgreSQL with Solaris 10.
They obviously bought MySQL as a kind of marketing stunt. It hasn't really paid off.
Every year, Sun buys a big company, and a few months later lays off thousands of staff. Remember Cobalt? StorageTek? Now MySQL. They get a big tax discount for redundancies.
There are some brilliant minds and brilliant technologies in Sun. The crown jewels are Solaris, Java and UltraSPARC. Sun has been at the forefront of Open Source since its inception (contrary to what you might hear here). What they do badly is PHBs and NIH egomaniac engineers in certain geographical locations.
Niagara is cool, but where the heck is Rock guys? What's taking you so long?
I hope it isn't going to be another "project Millenium" a.k.a. UltraSPARC V.
inTheLoo is one of about a dozen accounts with terrible karma belonging to William Hill, a.k.a. twitter
In that case, I'd like to place £20 on a Yankee in the 3:15 at Wincanton.
"Winged angels are more absurd than interstellar spacecraft in the shape of DC-9s." Discuss. (25 marks)
10,000 degree Fahrenheit
It's not that hard, pop-pickers, and it's groovy:
Centigrade to Farenheit,
This is what we do,
Multiply by nine fifths,
And add on 32.
The inverse, I will leave as an exercise to the reader. The true scientists will give the answer in Kelvin.
Crikey. I just looked at that web site. Why would anyone want to turn the UK into Frontier America? We still have some vestiges of civillisation here.
Is Queensland run by Boss Hogg by any chance?
I hope these operations for people who got AIDS by accident. No one who earned AIDS by promiscuous sexual behavior deserves to get these limited resources.
Don't worry. I'm sure God will come up with something even more dastardly to punish them. Maybe it will even involve EDS.
It's fairly up-to-date:Patterson and Hennessy Computer Organization and Design.
It starts of really simply explaining the absolute basics, gradually going into technical details. Plenty of historical context, examples, lucid diagrams and a companion CD.
Also cures insomnia.
You may jest, but some of my colleagues were Ada programmers and have a lot of praise for that language, and Modula-2.
If you wanted to inflict cruel and unusual punishment, I recommend FORTRAN-77, compiled on a VAX with source edited in emacs on a VT320 terminal.
I have not confused cores with threads. Cores are simply individual CPUs integrated on to a chip. AMD and intel are currently up to 4 on a chip. Sun does 8 on a chip (with 8 thread contexts per core).
Solaris, Linux and many other unixes have been scaling (not merely being just "aware of") many more that 256 CPUs (call them cores) for well over a decade.
Do some googling. Solaris especially and linux scale almost linearly to thousands of CPUs per system today. To say that Windows' performance is embarrassing in this respect would be an understatement.
It's slashdot, don't take it so seriously. You're allowed to say M$. You're allowed to hang out here when the pub's shut and there's nothing on TV.
Vista is a failure by most standards and Microsoft's OS monopoly is gradually being eroded. This recession is helping.
Vista only "sells" because PeeCees come with it installed by default. Don't kid yourself that the situation has changed in the last few years. MS still has a monopoly and uses every dirty trick in the book to keep competing operating systems off of new machines.
Also, remember that a substantial proportion of new (Vista) machines get reinstalled with Windows XP legally or not.
Never mind, the future is bright. Windows 7 will come with 256 threads, comrade. Double-plus good!
My Communist-Anti-American-Virus-Cancer Linux PeeCees eat 256 threads for breakfast. So do my All-American Sun SPARC/Solaris boxes. 10 lines of C says so.
I don't like Microsoft, and I hate Windows. Bill Gates, Steve Balmer et. al. are a bunch of crooks. I'm human, I have opinions. Twitter's cool. It's allowed opinions, and it's nice to see them amongst the pro-M$ apology this site has become.
How's the weather in North Wales today, Mrs Trellis?
The thing I don't understand, if these people were innocent, why would they pay the $500 the letter requested??? I certainly wouldn't.
"Anything for a quiet life."
Seriously, hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
Many people here have the attitude that the system is stacked up against them and that their chances of winning are so remote that it's better to pay the £500 to make these people go away than to risk losing 10 times that fighting a court battle.
Also, most of these people are not experts on IT matters and therefore don't understand what evidence the accusers can and can't possibly have and what evidence and arguments they can make in their defense.
What we really need is a grass-roots organisation to help defend people in these cases. It would be a source of legal and technical resources and publicise the cases to ensure that more people are aware of what's going on. Some friendly no-win-no-fee lawyers would be a big help too.
What if he is a janitor?
Is he mild-mannered?
Sorry, I was trying to be insulting since insults are all the rage round here.
I was trying to make the point that your simplistic black-and-white reasoning was very similar to that of religious fundamentalists and political extremists.
Mass production. The R&D is the expensive part. Once you've build 1 Ares 5 you might as well build hundreds.
Secondly, since I'm not American, I'm not paying for it :-)
Thirdly, stop the insane "war on terror." How much is that costing?
Fourthly, when China goes to the Moon with astronauts, what are you going to do to show them up? Send four all-American heroes on a suicide mission to Mars in a bus-size tin-can?
Fifthly, the European Space Agency is going to Mars too. Are you going to let a bunch of lily-livered Euro-commies beat you to it?
Indeed. We have nuclear submarines that last 30+ years on a single fuel loading. There is no reason why we can't build re-usable Mars ships that will last as long.
It is crazy to send people on one-way suicide missions. We are the human race. We owe ourselves better. It's time to start thinking big and positive.
If this Ares-5 thing gets built, it is alleged that it could carry 133 tonnes to low earth orbit per launch. Talking conservatively, let's say 100 tonnes (100 000 kg). Say we were going to build a Mars ship over a 5 year period with one launch a month. That would be 60 x 100 tonnes. OK, let's be pessimistic and say 50 x 100 tonnes.
That's a 5000 tonne mission to Mars and back and it could be reused many times. There would be enough mass budget for proper radiation shielding, fish tanks and a garden for growing fruit and vegetables.
So we are all cows to be milked and slaughtered when our udders run dry?
I would rather not "contribute" to your Great Free Market in the hope of receiving some of your grudging charity.
I predict that you will soon become an Evangelical Christian, or similar religious fundamentalist. You will develop something you will call compassion, but it will be limited to those in your group.
Well, I was a nuclear physicist at a nuclear power station for several years and I can tell you that's hogwash.
Yeah, but what about the chicken chili masala (extra chili and garlic) and 6 bottles of Cobra I had first? Who's the amateur now, eh?
Work, work, work, work, work ... and more work.
We humans are more than work.
A large family with many children can also be seen as insurance for the old age.
Why should the family support you? Shouldn't they all play their part as perfect components in the great Free Market as you did before them?