So when your outside customers call in and say they can't get the e-commerce site to take their order**, the help desk guy reaches over to his keyboard and brings up the site. "Works great over here."
Brilliant, simply brilliant.
(** now, this is assuming your company gets it's revenue from these orders... maybe the whole company is in business to enforce the political edicts of the IT staff....)
What you seen on PBS and hear on NPR are 'facts' as depicted by those who selectively point the camera/microphone in the direction they choose.
I personally do not like Rush Limbaugh's presentation. I think he dumbs down the info he presents far too much. But he freely admits that he is an entertainer, an editorialist.
The NPR/PBS folks insist, rather shrilly, that they are 'objective.'
I say 'the truth' is absolute. There are various man-made processes useful for discovering said truth. Some are more useful, others less useful. An example of said processes would be 'the scientific method.'
You say the 'truth' is a consensus agreed upon by qualified men.
Now, who is being the elitist? Who is subscribing to dogma?
What you're describing is fairly processor agnostic. Design a Intel or AMD 64 bit processor into that IBM RISC machine and you'll get the same throughput.
You're making the erroneous analogy that all the bits on a parallel bus carry different cargo. The wider bus means vehicles 'twice as wide' can travel on the road. That would mean, in two dimensions, four times as big. But your analogy was crap to start with, so my extension is wrong also.
Umm, a 64 bit bus means a 64 bit integer word size.
Yeah, we know that if you use a high level language, that's lost in conformance to a lowest-common-denominator standard that applies to all processors.
Call that 'tricky optimizations' if you like. The world still runs on machine code, even filtered through your kludges.
I think you just mean the uninteresting commodity software that can be shoved together using abstracted languages like C.
With reference to 'mere performance' most current software hasn't caught up to the hardware already out there and available. Hell, most programmers couldn't code an optimal sort routine on a 386sx. Let's face it, hardly anything is programmed in the native language of a processor any longer, and the nancies who write code get more than defensive in protecting their chosen inefficient 'platforms' regardless of the hardware they're running code on.
I can't wait for the current crop of fast 32 bit parts to flood eBay for pennies on the dollar, when the 'early adopters' start stumbling onto the new platform.
If that hardware lasts long enough to be resellable. The MBAs have intruded into the design labs at most companies, and if something lasts long enough to actually 'become obsolete' it means the design team needs to be punished for overdesigning the product.
Don't look now, but Apple's got you by the throat in that department. They won't even give the specs to allow a minor competitor like BeOS run on your Mac. Why would they let Microsoft on?
If he booted off the 'Install' CD and got mired in Webstart, he had already lost. That appears to be something the Sun engineers tricked up for marketing to keep them safe and out of the way. To install Solaris properly you boot off CD1, which is also bootable, and it gives you a regular unkludged Solaris install.
Stuff like that is detailed in a valuable 'short cut' document from Sun, the wonderful Solaris 80/20 Guide, officially 'Solaris OE Guide for New System Administrators: The 20% of Solaris knowledge that solves 80% of your needs'.
If there is any chance of you ever wanting to explore Solaris, download and archive this document now. It's a real hassle, I just found out, to locate it on the docs.sun website, so bookmark this. It's one hell of a good cribsheet.
Why would Sun phase out Intel chips? They're a pretty open company, and will choose the AMD part where it gives advantages and the Intel part where it gives advantages.
I can't remember one ever dying, and I make heavy use of mine. Generally I only get rid of them when I finally resell them cheap bundled with an old machine to someone.
I am the kind of guy who twenty years ago was reverse engineering the 'seperate sync/video' lines on discarded dumb terminal displays, wiring in a 9 pin connector and using them with Hercules graphic cards. Then Sim Earth (for DOS) came along and I had to finally have color.
but Joe just bought a new backlit-screen, Wince-based XScale PDA that he can use to beam his baby's photos all over the planet.
Except he's tethered to that power supply, because the backlight and the color LCD suck up the juice like crazy.
Meanwhile, his coworker with the old grayscale Visor has the problem of forgetting where he stores his stash of spare AAA cells, he changes the battery so infrequently.
Not battery life quite as great as with the Tandy TRS-80 pocket computer that I bought on eBay a few years ago, of course. It's one of those little tiny ones that have like 4K of RAM and program in B.A.S.I.C. It came from the previous owner with the same coin battery in it that it still uses. I hope that battery doesn't become oboslete and unobtainable before it needs replacing.
You're right. It will be especially easy on the new increased staff of trash collectors. More people on staff, and nice sealed plastic boxes to haul to the dump. No more of those bare PC board with jagged edges in SN74S181's trash.
Yep.
There's already a movement of people making sure that none of the older gear at all goes obsolete. Just last week I dremeled open another of those 'sealed battery' clock modules on an early SMP Pentium motherboard to tack in my own replacement for the depleted Lithium battery.
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It must be nice working in a market where you know the names of all your customers ahead of time.
Must be one of those business-to-business operations.... buzzzz word....
Yes, that would be true. But this is a story where the anti-Microsoft people can crow about Sun and the AMD fanboys can crow about... what else? AMD.
It gets lots and LOTS of banner hits.
'nuff said?
So when your outside customers call in and say they can't get the e-commerce site to take their order**, the help desk guy reaches over to his keyboard and brings up the site. "Works great over here."
Brilliant, simply brilliant.
(** now, this is assuming your company gets it's revenue from these orders... maybe the whole company is in business to enforce the political edicts of the IT staff....)
food they're accustomed to,
That's code-speak for 'whatever vegetarian hippies in Berkeley say is right' isn't it?
We shouldn't have started this war in the first place
'Not in your name' dude. Why don't you go tell the newly freed Iraqi people you were backing Saddam all the way.
What you seen on PBS and hear on NPR are 'facts' as depicted by those who selectively point the camera/microphone in the direction they choose.
I personally do not like Rush Limbaugh's presentation. I think he dumbs down the info he presents far too much. But he freely admits that he is an entertainer, an editorialist.
The NPR/PBS folks insist, rather shrilly, that they are 'objective.'
You only have to look at the past few months, with camera men being sacked for editing photos for publication in major news papers
Yeah. That's why the camera men were sacked. The fact that they were caught and ostracised doesn't show anything good at all, eh?
Actually, PBS is 0wned by the Ford Foundation, and various other liberal special interests.
I would agree with you on one of your implied points.
All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and the Limbaugh show all are about as objective as one another.
Only one of them is honest enough to admit it, though.
The unspoken consensus is that all the people who flunked out of English Lit and had to go to J-school instead have issues.
It a philosophical matter.
I say 'the truth' is absolute. There are various man-made processes useful for discovering said truth. Some are more useful, others less useful. An example of said processes would be 'the scientific method.'
You say the 'truth' is a consensus agreed upon by qualified men.
Now, who is being the elitist? Who is subscribing to dogma?
grep the Linux kernel source tree once for goto.
Then STFU.
thank you.
What you're describing is fairly processor agnostic. Design a Intel or AMD 64 bit processor into that IBM RISC machine and you'll get the same throughput.
What bus on the 8080 was 4 bit? The control bus?
I would not say scientific and technical progress depends on those things. I would say it is helped along by those things.
You shouldn't frame things as absolutes when they're not.
You're making the erroneous analogy that all the bits on a parallel bus carry different cargo. The wider bus means vehicles 'twice as wide' can travel on the road. That would mean, in two dimensions, four times as big. But your analogy was crap to start with, so my extension is wrong also.
Umm, a 64 bit bus means a 64 bit integer word size.
Yeah, we know that if you use a high level language, that's lost in conformance to a lowest-common-denominator standard that applies to all processors.
Call that 'tricky optimizations' if you like. The world still runs on machine code, even filtered through your kludges.
I think you just mean the uninteresting commodity software that can be shoved together using abstracted languages like C.
With reference to 'mere performance' most current software hasn't caught up to the hardware already out there and available. Hell, most programmers couldn't code an optimal sort routine on a 386sx. Let's face it, hardly anything is programmed in the native language of a processor any longer, and the nancies who write code get more than defensive in protecting their chosen inefficient 'platforms' regardless of the hardware they're running code on.
I can't wait for the current crop of fast 32 bit parts to flood eBay for pennies on the dollar, when the 'early adopters' start stumbling onto the new platform.
If that hardware lasts long enough to be resellable. The MBAs have intruded into the design labs at most companies, and if something lasts long enough to actually 'become obsolete' it means the design team needs to be punished for overdesigning the product.
Don't look now, but Apple's got you by the throat in that department. They won't even give the specs to allow a minor competitor like BeOS run on your Mac. Why would they let Microsoft on?
If he booted off the 'Install' CD and got mired in Webstart, he had already lost. That appears to be something the Sun engineers tricked up for marketing to keep them safe and out of the way. To install Solaris properly you boot off CD1, which is also bootable, and it gives you a regular unkludged Solaris install.
Stuff like that is detailed in a valuable 'short cut' document from Sun, the wonderful Solaris 80/20 Guide, officially 'Solaris OE Guide for New System Administrators: The 20% of Solaris knowledge that solves 80% of your needs'.
If there is any chance of you ever wanting to explore Solaris, download and archive this document now . It's a real hassle, I just found out, to locate it on the docs.sun website, so bookmark this. It's one hell of a good cribsheet.
Why would Sun phase out Intel chips? They're a pretty open company, and will choose the AMD part where it gives advantages and the Intel part where it gives advantages.
They're not exactly zealous fanboys, ya know.
Not every garage calls for a Ferrari? Only the really profitable ones do?
Everything else you said made sense. What the heck was that last paragraph about??
Do you buy the cheapest brand of monitors?
I can't remember one ever dying, and I make heavy use of mine. Generally I only get rid of them when I finally resell them cheap bundled with an old machine to someone.
I am the kind of guy who twenty years ago was reverse engineering the 'seperate sync/video' lines on discarded dumb terminal displays, wiring in a 9 pin connector and using them with Hercules graphic cards. Then Sim Earth (for DOS) came along and I had to finally have color.
but Joe just bought a new backlit-screen, Wince-based XScale PDA that he can use to beam his baby's photos all over the planet.
Except he's tethered to that power supply, because the backlight and the color LCD suck up the juice like crazy.
Meanwhile, his coworker with the old grayscale Visor has the problem of forgetting where he stores his stash of spare AAA cells, he changes the battery so infrequently.
Not battery life quite as great as with the Tandy TRS-80 pocket computer that I bought on eBay a few years ago, of course. It's one of those little tiny ones that have like 4K of RAM and program in B.A.S.I.C. It came from the previous owner with the same coin battery in it that it still uses. I hope that battery doesn't become oboslete and unobtainable before it needs replacing.
You're right. It will be especially easy on the new increased staff of trash collectors. More people on staff, and nice sealed plastic boxes to haul to the dump. No more of those bare PC board with jagged edges in SN74S181's trash.
Yep.
There's already a movement of people making sure that none of the older gear at all goes obsolete. Just last week I dremeled open another of those 'sealed battery' clock modules on an early SMP Pentium motherboard to tack in my own replacement for the depleted Lithium battery.