...5% of all the intanium chips in the world used for a single simulation, and they were given to the customer free, gratis and for nothing because otherwise they'd have bought an Opteron cluster...
No one in Sun "believes" in this DRM stuff. They just do it because theu have to to play in the pointy-haired Western markets. They make it Open Source to make a point.
When Digial Restrictions Management puffs and wheezes its last breath in a few months, Sun will calmly pick up from where it left off, as it has always done, as if it hadn't happened.
The enigineers in Sun know what they are doing, and they keep the PHBs beaten into shape. Mark my words.
This is just Sun playing ball with the suits in the short term.
In the mean time, I urge you Slashbots to learn how to use a compiler.
It was a Wal-Mart moment that couldn't be scripted, or perhaps even imagined. A vice president responsible for billions of dollars' worth of business in the largest company in history has his visitors sit in mismatched, cast-off lawn chairs that Wal-Mart quite likely never had to pay for.
"You don't get rich by spending money." --- Mr. Turgid senior.
But really, all of what they're doing now is prep for real-world computer usage--they're not doing anything earthshaking now, but they're gaining computer skills, and as much as we may or may not like it, they'll be best served in the world (especially since they haven't yet been exposed to much tech and it's thus likely will not pursue IT) by Windows skills, not Linux ones.
And so the Monopoly perpetuates and another generation grows up in ignorance.
Give them a proper OS like Linux and let them learn how a real computer works. Open their minds. Then, they will have a superior education and will be able to adapt down to Windows in the future if the need arises.
A Free OS is important because it contains no mysteries. Windows is all about hiding everything from the user and keeping him ignorant such that he is helpless and dependent on the mercy of Bill to cast the magic spells to enable new features and to fix bugs and security holes as and when His Majesty decrees.
I work in huge datacenters for cities and state & fed goverment, and have never seen one of these beasts. anyone out there know of places that use 'em?
IIRC that's because they never sold a single one.
I think they gave one to Abbey National (now just Abbey) on evaluation.
It's a hell of a lot worse than the metric or SI systems. Would that be pounds mass or pounds force you're talking about? What's with that Farenheit scale anyway? And don't get me started on pints, gallons and fluid ounces.
the starting base salary is $75,500 for entry-level positions
Ouch. That made my eyes water. At today's exchange rate, that's nearly 43,500 pounds sterling.
I earn a lot less than that, but at least I never have to touch Windows, and the Windows people in the office bow and scrape at my feet and address me as "Mr. Unix Genius."
PERL is a baroque monstrosity of a language. I've spent years avoiding it, but recently I've been forced to learn it and to "enhance" a previously-written PERL program...
PERL is incredibly powerful if used correctly, however there is a lot of truth in the old joke that it's a write-only language.
There are a lot of people writing PERL who call themselves programmers who otherwise wouldn't.
PERL incorporates all the bad points of scripting languages, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, C and everything else and churns it up into an ungodly mess.
PERL is useful as glue, in small doses (up to 10 lines_, for text processing, by people who already know how to program.
If I had my way, everyone would be forced to learn MODULA-2.
There's no point in attempting to compose a rational reply to your blatant Microsoft astroturfing, and besides, many a mature and thoughtful person has done so already.
I'll take the childish and infinitely more pleasurable course of action and add you to my foes list.
I'm sure university used to be about higher education. When did a degree become a vocational training course?
Sometime in the mid-1990s here in the UK. In the early 90s they gave all of the Polytechnics (technical colleges) University status and tried to encourage 50% of all young people to go to "university."
Media Studies and Leisure and Hospitality Management are thriving. Physics and Engineering are on the decline. People get to "university" with a single "D" in A-Level Media Studies...
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...5% of all the intanium chips in the world used for a single simulation, and they were given to the customer free, gratis and for nothing because otherwise they'd have bought an Opteron cluster...
Do you?
No one in Sun "believes" in this DRM stuff. They just do it because theu have to to play in the pointy-haired Western markets. They make it Open Source to make a point.
When Digial Restrictions Management puffs and wheezes its last breath in a few months, Sun will calmly pick up from where it left off, as it has always done, as if it hadn't happened.
The enigineers in Sun know what they are doing, and they keep the PHBs beaten into shape. Mark my words.
This is just Sun playing ball with the suits in the short term.
In the mean time, I urge you Slashbots to learn how to use a compiler.
I see you are an American.
Dictatorship!=Communism
China is now Captialist.
It's still a dictatorship, though.
Please take a look at your own political system. I am appalled at mine (UK) and yours. It's not so different. I hope you are too.
More beer...
...in scientific circles, we pronounce "Uranus" "your-an-us" not "your anus".
And it is definitely "Orion's sword," and not *taht* kind of sword you dirty little geeks.
If he was aware of SETI@home he would be there. Never has a narcisist been truer to their affliction than Mr bliar!
Yes, but how does it prevent terrorism or help him lock people up?
Everyone knows that My Little Pony lives at Sun.
It was a Wal-Mart moment that couldn't be scripted, or perhaps even imagined. A vice president responsible for billions of dollars' worth of business in the largest company in history has his visitors sit in mismatched, cast-off lawn chairs that Wal-Mart quite likely never had to pay for.
"You don't get rich by spending money." --- Mr. Turgid senior.
The shelf life may be longer on hard drives, but the chance of the tape surviving the move to the offsite storage facility is way higher.
You might find UDO discs better than both.
I'm just writing this to congratulate and thank the Linux developer community on yet another innovative release.
This is only a minor point release, not an innovative release.
Oh, you were joking? :-)
People predicted that this would happen when they announced the new 2.6.x development policy a long time ago, and lo it has come to pass.
Ah, come on now, Ted.
I've been using Slackware as my desktop OS since 1996. By 1997 I had enough confidence to compile my owm kernel.
I've never used a default Slackware kernel since. Once I get the upgrade installed, I compile a brand new kernel.
Ah, go on, go on, go on, go on,
go on, go on, go on, go on.
Go on!
And you haven't lived until you've run slackware on a non-x86 architecture.
It's got cocaine in it!
Oh, I ment cinammon.
Potato chips indeed.
And if it had been chicken jalfrezi and chapati, think of how much more it could have been.
But really, all of what they're doing now is prep for real-world computer usage--they're not doing anything earthshaking now, but they're gaining computer skills, and as much as we may or may not like it, they'll be best served in the world (especially since they haven't yet been exposed to much tech and it's thus likely will not pursue IT) by Windows skills, not Linux ones.
And so the Monopoly perpetuates and another generation grows up in ignorance.
Give them a proper OS like Linux and let them learn how a real computer works. Open their minds. Then, they will have a superior education and will be able to adapt down to Windows in the future if the need arises.
A Free OS is important because it contains no mysteries. Windows is all about hiding everything from the user and keeping him ignorant such that he is helpless and dependent on the mercy of Bill to cast the magic spells to enable new features and to fix bugs and security holes as and when His Majesty decrees.
I work in huge datacenters for cities and state & fed goverment, and have never seen one of these beasts. anyone out there know of places that use 'em?
IIRC that's because they never sold a single one.
I think they gave one to Abbey National (now just Abbey) on evaluation.
The good old Vauxhall Vectra isn't much better. I bought one. I tell you, after a year, I still can't get the hang of the indicators. *sigh*
It's no better or worse than any other system.
It's a hell of a lot worse than the metric or SI systems. Would that be pounds mass or pounds force you're talking about? What's with that Farenheit scale anyway? And don't get me started on pints, gallons and fluid ounces.
Or pounds, shillings and pence. /me winces.
...which is about Gas Mark 1079990 since we're on Units for the Hard of Thinking.
the starting base salary is $75,500 for entry-level positions
Ouch. That made my eyes water. At today's exchange rate, that's nearly 43,500 pounds sterling.
I earn a lot less than that, but at least I never have to touch Windows, and the Windows people in the office bow and scrape at my feet and address me as "Mr. Unix Genius."
That in itself is worth many thousands a year.
Time for my pills.
It's British. It'll never leave the drawing board :-( *sigh*
Cor blimey. A relevant first post.
I was being sarcastic.
PERL is a baroque monstrosity of a language. I've spent years avoiding it, but recently I've been forced to learn it and to "enhance" a previously-written PERL program...
PERL is incredibly powerful if used correctly, however there is a lot of truth in the old joke that it's a write-only language.
There are a lot of people writing PERL who call themselves programmers who otherwise wouldn't.
PERL incorporates all the bad points of scripting languages, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, C and everything else and churns it up into an ungodly mess.
PERL is useful as glue, in small doses (up to 10 lines_, for text processing, by people who already know how to program.
If I had my way, everyone would be forced to learn MODULA-2.
...if I were in the habit of putting mushrooms in my tea.
There's no point in attempting to compose a rational reply to your blatant Microsoft astroturfing, and besides, many a mature and thoughtful person has done so already.
I'll take the childish and infinitely more pleasurable course of action and add you to my foes list.
programming should be opened out to non-developers.
Isn't that what PERL is all about?
/me ducks.
I'm sure university used to be about higher education. When did a degree become a vocational training course?
Sometime in the mid-1990s here in the UK. In the early 90s they gave all of the Polytechnics (technical colleges) University status and tried to encourage 50% of all young people to go to "university."
Media Studies and Leisure and Hospitality Management are thriving. Physics and Engineering are on the decline. People get to "university" with a single "D" in A-Level Media Studies...