After hearing rumours of the extreme acidity of coca-cola I did just that, with various objects. The copper ones came out cleaner looking, the others weren't visibly affected, including a tooth
Proactive, skeptical and intelligent people like yourself are a threat to society. Look over your shoulder. They're coming to get you, terrorist! Keep your head down and do not turn off your television set.
1. You didn't understand the article, since you think it refers to Solaris on PowerPC.
Nope. I realise that the article is saying that for some of IBM's customers, Linux doesn't cut the mustard on x86 blades, so they need something a bit more up-market. I also know for a fact that IBM had sidelined AIX for Linux. Therefore, it can't be that long until IBM makes a POWER port of Solaris available on its big iron.
2. You are a troll if you think Solaris is better than AIX. Name one thing you think Solaris is better at so I can laugh at you.
Well, for a start, Solaris scales better on large boxes. It has high-end clustering. It has seamless binary compatibility going back over 15 years. I costs less to deploy, less to administer and gets better system utilisation (sometimes thee's a 45% overhead just running AIX on big POWER boxes). It has better 3rd party support. It has a future. AIX only runs on IBM POWER hardware. Solaris is portable and Open Source.
AIX will be killed as soon as IBM convinces its customers to migrate to Linux (or Windows).
It's no secret that AIX sucks and IBM wanted to battle Solaris with Linux, but Solaris has a lot of advantages over Linux still. Give it another 3-5 years,thoug.
It's an open secret that Solaris doesn't just run on SPARC and x86. It's highly portable, and earlier this year, there was an official port of Open Solaris to PowerPC announced over at opensolaris.org. Heck, there was even an itanic port of Solaris last decade to prove that itanic sucks compared to everything else.
I reckon we'll see Solaris on big multi-processor POWER iron soon. Watch this space.
Indeed. Intel should be pushing OpenOffice, because nothing makes me aware of how much I need to upgrade my processor like starting OpenOffice.
Are you sure? intel would be admitting that its processors are feeble and that you should buy an Opteron or Athlon 64 from AMD. After all, Sun does all its development on 64-bit AMD and UltraSPARC nowadays (with the emphasis on AMD becuae it's cheap, plentiful, and runs cool).
Tell me this, Sun: are you a prominent, leading and enthusiastic participant in "The Community" or are you still pouring boiling oil on the unwashed masses from your ivory tower? Or are you creeping further inside your cave? Or maybe you are just scared? Confused?
When I was 12, I had this friend and we used to sing "Bon Jobby: Living on a Jobby" together.
We gotta hold on to what we got,
It doesn't make a difference if we do one or not,
We've got each other and that's all right for jobbies,
We'll give it a shot!
Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh we're half way there,
Oh oh, living on a jobby..
This is what you get when you let a Public beaurocracy do anything. They get it half right.
Bisexual is good. Man is bad. Who wants to look at an ugly man? Men are ugly. If it were up to a private organisation, it would feature a beautiful bisexual woman. Women are beautiful. Men are ugly.
Damn beaurocrats.
What's more, being a Brit, I have to pay for it by law:-(
If I want to watch the bisexual women on the commercial channel, I have to pay even more.
I know it's unfashionable in these days if the Intarweb, but your local public library probably has a good selection of maps, and if they don't have the one you wan't, they'll be happy to order it for you and maybe send you a little postcard to tell you when it's in stock.
Using this method I was able to get some useful computer science books (Sedgwick and the one on 3D graphics) when I was too badly paid by BNFL to be able to afford books of my own.
Here in the UK we have a marvellous resourch which is the Ordnance Survey. They produce a comprehensive and detailed set of maps which cover the British Isles. They are very useful in that they document the existence of most known hostelries and publich houses.
Not muhc use to terrorists, since they're tea-total on account of Allah's fascists laws and their misguided and futile attempts to prepare for a ficticious eterntity because Allah likes deluded young men who inflict pain and suffering on innocent people.
The Christian god sometimes likes this sort of thing too. Just look at the USA. It has some pretty whacky "Christians" just like we have some pretty loony "Muslims."
As my dear departed grandmother used to say, "I don't see much ${RELIGION} in any of it."
ergo they must use Windows. Also, don't forget, they're terrorists, so not only do they use Windows, they use unlicensed Windows, probably even with the Registry hacked to enable the Enterprise Features.
"Astronaut" is a stupid term since it means "star sailor."
Recently, the furthest anyone has been is less than about 300 miles above the earth's surface, hardly anywhere near the Moon let alone the Sun or any other star. Not only that, but to sail one requires air (or an atmosphere at least).
I for one, recommend the politically-correct and more accurate term Space Human In Transit or SHIT for short.
I hear that the Chinese are going to send a couple of SHITs into space tomorrow.
Yes, but, can you sober them up long enough to get them into space? Maybe there should be a Scotland vs. Australia space race?
I volunteer to be Scotland's first astronaught. The challenge is keeping me away from alcohol for 3 days in a row and keeping me away from lardy food to make the weight for launch.
What we can take away from this story is that Sun is finally taking a leaf out of IBM's book (5 years too late IMHO) and having vacuous but important-sounding articles pertaining to "innovative technology" that might appeal to the technically illiterate posted on the web and reported on Slashdot where the slashbots will lap it up producing a populist wave of "grass-roots" support.
Sun may kick IBM's posterior when it comes to high-end Unix servers, but when it comes to marketing, they're half a decade behind.
It's a shame. The sales, revenue, profit and share price could have been so much higher.
Isle of Man? Don't you mean Portland, where the cement comes from?
Never mind, to cheer you up, a pair of clever sods have just shown that Dark Matter is just an epicycle and that Einstein was more right than you could ever imagine.
Slashdot Mirror
'70s DISCO!
...Played on bagpipes by the Queen's Royal Highland Fusiliers...
Shouldn't it have been Al Gore?
Uncle Jessie, for services to moonshine production.
After hearing rumours of the extreme acidity of coca-cola I did just that, with various objects. The copper ones came out cleaner looking, the others weren't visibly affected, including a tooth
Proactive, skeptical and intelligent people like yourself are a threat to society. Look over your shoulder. They're coming to get you, terrorist! Keep your head down and do not turn off your television set.
1. You didn't understand the article, since you think it refers to Solaris on PowerPC.
Nope. I realise that the article is saying that for some of IBM's customers, Linux doesn't cut the mustard on x86 blades, so they need something a bit more up-market. I also know for a fact that IBM had sidelined AIX for Linux. Therefore, it can't be that long until IBM makes a POWER port of Solaris available on its big iron.
2. You are a troll if you think Solaris is better than AIX. Name one thing you think Solaris is better at so I can laugh at you.
Well, for a start, Solaris scales better on large boxes. It has high-end clustering. It has seamless binary compatibility going back over 15 years. I costs less to deploy, less to administer and gets better system utilisation (sometimes thee's a 45% overhead just running AIX on big POWER boxes). It has better 3rd party support. It has a future. AIX only runs on IBM POWER hardware. Solaris is portable and Open Source.
AIX will be killed as soon as IBM convinces its customers to migrate to Linux (or Windows).
It's no secret that AIX sucks and IBM wanted to battle Solaris with Linux, but Solaris has a lot of advantages over Linux still. Give it another 3-5 years,thoug.
It's an open secret that Solaris doesn't just run on SPARC and x86. It's highly portable, and earlier this year, there was an official port of Open Solaris to PowerPC announced over at opensolaris.org. Heck, there was even an itanic port of Solaris last decade to prove that itanic sucks compared to everything else.
I reckon we'll see Solaris on big multi-processor POWER iron soon. Watch this space.
Wow, there's not a single thing on that list of features that I understand.
You are on the Intarweb. Get reading. There is plenty of good information available, epsecially about computer science.
Never underestimate the power of beer, young man.
...when you don't validate your pointers.
Indeed. Intel should be pushing OpenOffice, because nothing makes me aware of how much I need to upgrade my processor like starting OpenOffice.
Are you sure? intel would be admitting that its processors are feeble and that you should buy an Opteron or Athlon 64 from AMD. After all, Sun does all its development on 64-bit AMD and UltraSPARC nowadays (with the emphasis on AMD becuae it's cheap, plentiful, and runs cool).
Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. Sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes the mods are freebasing.
I am a Sun Employee
...says Anonymous Coward.
So, Sun still hasn't learned it's lesson?
Tell me this, Sun: are you a prominent, leading and enthusiastic participant in "The Community" or are you still pouring boiling oil on the unwashed masses from your ivory tower? Or are you creeping further inside your cave? Or maybe you are just scared? Confused?
Sun, what are you doing?
They have one right here.
When I was 12, I had this friend and we used to sing "Bon Jobby: Living on a Jobby" together.
We gotta hold on to what we got,
It doesn't make a difference if we do one or not,
We've got each other and that's all right for jobbies,
We'll give it a shot!
Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh we're half way there,
Oh oh, living on a jobby..
You're too kind.
Yes, I went 6 years without a TV set. The bastards constantly hounded me for a license.
I had to get a TV eventually because I wanted broadband internet, and in my area you could only get it through NTL cable, and needed a TeeVee ...
It's been all downhill since then.
Bunch of arse.
This is what you get when you let a Public beaurocracy do anything. They get it half right.
Bisexual is good. Man is bad. Who wants to look at an ugly man? Men are ugly. If it were up to a private organisation, it would feature a beautiful bisexual woman. Women are beautiful. Men are ugly.
Damn beaurocrats.
What's more, being a Brit, I have to pay for it by law :-(
If I want to watch the bisexual women on the commercial channel, I have to pay even more.
Damned government beaurocracy.
If I were a betting man, I'd give you my trousers.
I know it's unfashionable in these days if the Intarweb, but your local public library probably has a good selection of maps, and if they don't have the one you wan't, they'll be happy to order it for you and maybe send you a little postcard to tell you when it's in stock.
Using this method I was able to get some useful computer science books (Sedgwick and the one on 3D graphics) when I was too badly paid by BNFL to be able to afford books of my own.
Here in the UK we have a marvellous resourch which is the Ordnance Survey. They produce a comprehensive and detailed set of maps which cover the British Isles. They are very useful in that they document the existence of most known hostelries and publich houses.
Not muhc use to terrorists, since they're tea-total on account of Allah's fascists laws and their misguided and futile attempts to prepare for a ficticious eterntity because Allah likes deluded young men who inflict pain and suffering on innocent people.
The Christian god sometimes likes this sort of thing too. Just look at the USA. It has some pretty whacky "Christians" just like we have some pretty loony "Muslims."
As my dear departed grandmother used to say, "I don't see much ${RELIGION} in any of it."
ergo they must use Windows. Also, don't forget, they're terrorists, so not only do they use Windows, they use unlicensed Windows, probably even with the Registry hacked to enable the Enterprise Features.
Imagine when you've had 6-8 pints of Heavy and you stumble out of the pub and try to phone a taxi.
Have you ever tried typing in a password after a gallon of beer?
Never mind, there's always the beer scooter.
"Astronaut" is a stupid term since it means "star sailor."
Recently, the furthest anyone has been is less than about 300 miles above the earth's surface, hardly anywhere near the Moon let alone the Sun or any other star. Not only that, but to sail one requires air (or an atmosphere at least).
I for one, recommend the politically-correct and more accurate term Space Human In Transit or SHIT for short.
I hear that the Chinese are going to send a couple of SHITs into space tomorrow.
Well done.
Yes, but, can you sober them up long enough to get them into space? Maybe there should be a Scotland vs. Australia space race?
I volunteer to be Scotland's first astronaught. The challenge is keeping me away from alcohol for 3 days in a row and keeping me away from lardy food to make the weight for launch.
What we can take away from this story is that Sun is finally taking a leaf out of IBM's book (5 years too late IMHO) and having vacuous but important-sounding articles pertaining to "innovative technology" that might appeal to the technically illiterate posted on the web and reported on Slashdot where the slashbots will lap it up producing a populist wave of "grass-roots" support.
Sun may kick IBM's posterior when it comes to high-end Unix servers, but when it comes to marketing, they're half a decade behind.
It's a shame. The sales, revenue, profit and share price could have been so much higher.
Darned spoil-sport!
Just like the folks who applied GR to galactic dynamics.
If it hadn't been for those pesky meddling kids, we'd have been selling snake oil for years to come.
Isle of Man? Don't you mean Portland, where the cement comes from?
Never mind, to cheer you up, a pair of clever sods have just shown that Dark Matter is just an epicycle and that Einstein was more right than you could ever imagine.
Darn, there goes my Nobel Prize :-)