I would love to see Sun going back to the "distinctive look" "macintosh-beautiful" workstation business. Their current lineup looks like dull (if serious) PCs. I miss the Frog Design look.
Of course, I know that generic x86 boxes (running Linux or, gulp, NT) killed the workstation market and that it would be hard to justify any development in this direction.
It seems the Niagara 2 is more fit for desktop workloads than the first one. Maybe they can do it again. I would love to see.
I would like to point out that as much as the Founding Fathers of the US may have believed, the rights granted by the US constitution do not extend beyond its borders. I would also like to add, that, as good as it is (and it is really good one, as far as constitutions go), the US constitution is not perfect and it is general perception it is currently being disrespected by law-enforcement and government officials in its so called "War on Terror".
While I do not condone what Mr. McKinnon did, there are laws in the UK that may have been disregarded by US law-enforcement officials.
As for Mr. McKinnon himself, I would recommend him (and anyone who believes such conspiration theories) seeking psychological assistance. Stating that NASA is hiding alien technology while having loads of trouble just getting to LEO in crude (by even the lowest sci-fi standards) spaceships, while failing to produce any evidence of that, does not lend him much credibility.
Mac hardware has long not been overpriced when compared to big brand PCs with similar features and quality. And they look good and looking good is important too.
I will tell you why I think two options are better than one if you tell me why one option that is good for one set of workloads and sucks for another set is better than two that are complementary in their goodness/suckyness.;-)
I am running a HP DV6205us with Broadcom wireless and Ubuntu Feisty with the Gutsy kernel (2.6.22-8). My wireless interface works flawlessly. Under the Feisty kernel it appears to work, but refuses to connect.
A nicer solution would be to include more than one scheduler and let the user select it at boot time with a kernel switch. I think that would make everyone happy, even if it required a massive (I doubt) re-writing effort on some key parts. It would make the kernel bigger, but nothing a compile switch couldn't remove.
I am not sure we need a single scheduler for every workload. I am not even sure switching schedulers on the fly is all that hard.
They will sue whoever stands to lose the most. Had IBM or Toshiba bet their future on Cell as Sony's videogame division did, they would also be defendants.
This is a patent troll and Sony should to the public service to have this case dismissed (or fight an endless line of trolls) and then sue them out of existence.
While Paterson may have been a nobody when IBM first approached DR for an OS for the PC, Microsoft was already at work on the BASIC interpreter that shipped in ROM on the original IBM PCs. At that time, Bill Gates was hardly a nobody - their BASIC was in just about every personal computer you could buy - even the Apple II+. They got the OS job handed over because DR wouldn't sign the NDA. It was fortunate for them they knew about Paterson.
You must be kidding... The Saturn V is so huge it has no use as an ICBM unless you want to level a city by throwing a whole lot of stones on it. It's not only useless because it delivers a lot more payload than it would be required but also because it's a huge high-value target that's not easy to hide.
The problem of building an ICBM (like the problem of building a nuke) is not only one of blueprints, but materials and industrial processes. The US can't build a Saturn V right now because it won't get the right materials.
The Saturn V blueprints would not put anyone any closer to building a viable ICBM than an issue of Popular Science.
"Spin" is when you deliberately obfuscate or selectively reveal information in order to mislead and change the overall perceived picture. It's like "fossil-fuel consumption is good for the economy", that disregards the long-term effects of climate change on the said economy.
"FUD" is more targeted in that it aims to create doubts about your competitors and to misrepresent your ability to deal with said competition - and to manipulate the market into delaying investiments because your "next product" due "real soon now" will blow the competition away. It's like the announcement of the horrible Windows for Pen Computing (designed to hurt the emerging class of Newton and Momenta-like devices, both more functional than MS's product), when Ray Ozzie states "I believe we're the only company with the platform DNA that's necessarily to viably deliver this highly leveragable platform approach to services." ignoring both Apple and Google in a nauseatingly convoluted statement or when Ballmer says something like "Linux violates 2781.36 patents we will disclose shortly and that we may want to seek compensation for the violations" and then falls into silence never to disclose them.
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What's wrong is that a change in the executive trickled down to technical positions like the CIO.
Maybe some mechanism that forces changes in technical positions inside a state to be approved by the legislative would help in this.
Not to flamebait you, but how many people write Erlang code?
It's a real question. I am curious.
No. Not only a Solaris/SPARC box is 100% Microsoft-free, it's 100% Microsoft-proof.
I would love to see Sun going back to the "distinctive look" "macintosh-beautiful" workstation business. Their current lineup looks like dull (if serious) PCs. I miss the Frog Design look.
Of course, I know that generic x86 boxes (running Linux or, gulp, NT) killed the workstation market and that it would be hard to justify any development in this direction.
It seems the Niagara 2 is more fit for desktop workloads than the first one. Maybe they can do it again. I would love to see.
IIRC, the T60 does not have a keyboard that lights up if it's too dark to type.
I use Linux all the time, but it doesn't make me deny how well designed Apple stuff is.
I am not sure about drugs, but about lunacy... Seriously, the man needs to be hospitalized, not a imprisoned.
I would like to point out that as much as the Founding Fathers of the US may have believed, the rights granted by the US constitution do not extend beyond its borders. I would also like to add, that, as good as it is (and it is really good one, as far as constitutions go), the US constitution is not perfect and it is general perception it is currently being disrespected by law-enforcement and government officials in its so called "War on Terror".
While I do not condone what Mr. McKinnon did, there are laws in the UK that may have been disregarded by US law-enforcement officials.
As for Mr. McKinnon himself, I would recommend him (and anyone who believes such conspiration theories) seeking psychological assistance. Stating that NASA is hiding alien technology while having loads of trouble just getting to LEO in crude (by even the lowest sci-fi standards) spaceships, while failing to produce any evidence of that, does not lend him much credibility.
My God! It's full of trolls!
Sorry. Couldn't resist
Overpriced?!
Mac hardware has long not been overpriced when compared to big brand PCs with similar features and quality. And they look good and looking good is important too.
"You only get to get young girls once...while you are young."
;-)
Well... If you missed the first window of opportunity, you can always get rich.
Core Duo here. 2.6.22.-8 works flawlessly with WPA - I am using it right now.
/proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'
$ cat
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz
model name : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz
$ uname -srv
Linux 2.6.22-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Jul 12 15:59:45 GMT 2007
$ lsmod | grep bcm43xx
bcm43xx 127336 0
ieee80211softmac 31360 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 35656 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
I will tell you why I think two options are better than one if you tell me why one option that is good for one set of workloads and sucks for another set is better than two that are complementary in their goodness/suckyness. ;-)
I am running a HP DV6205us with Broadcom wireless and Ubuntu Feisty with the Gutsy kernel (2.6.22-8). My wireless interface works flawlessly. Under the Feisty kernel it appears to work, but refuses to connect.
Hope that helps.
A nicer solution would be to include more than one scheduler and let the user select it at boot time with a kernel switch. I think that would make everyone happy, even if it required a massive (I doubt) re-writing effort on some key parts. It would make the kernel bigger, but nothing a compile switch couldn't remove.
I am not sure we need a single scheduler for every workload. I am not even sure switching schedulers on the fly is all that hard.
If it is, it doesn't have to be.
... I still do. It took me a lot of time to notice they no longer have "Apple" keys.
They will sue whoever stands to lose the most. Had IBM or Toshiba bet their future on Cell as Sony's videogame division did, they would also be defendants.
This is a patent troll and Sony should to the public service to have this case dismissed (or fight an endless line of trolls) and then sue them out of existence.
To be fair, the Saturn V used kerosene as a fuel. The only cryogenic stuff was liquid oxygen used as the oxidizer.
Liquid hydrogen was used only on the upper stages.
While Paterson may have been a nobody when IBM first approached DR for an OS for the PC, Microsoft was already at work on the BASIC interpreter that shipped in ROM on the original IBM PCs. At that time, Bill Gates was hardly a nobody - their BASIC was in just about every personal computer you could buy - even the Apple II+. They got the OS job handed over because DR wouldn't sign the NDA. It was fortunate for them they knew about Paterson.
Wow! That was good. +1 insightful+funny for you ;-)
It could even be considered true that the software industry imposed a hardware standard (and, later, an OS one) and thus killed the hardware industry.
I really wish my notebook had an Alpha or MIPS processor...
Anyway, the computar bears the unholy Windows stain, between Fn and Alt...
Or patent the idea of having disk drives designated by letters...
You must be kidding... The Saturn V is so huge it has no use as an ICBM unless you want to level a city by throwing a whole lot of stones on it. It's not only useless because it delivers a lot more payload than it would be required but also because it's a huge high-value target that's not easy to hide.
The problem of building an ICBM (like the problem of building a nuke) is not only one of blueprints, but materials and industrial processes. The US can't build a Saturn V right now because it won't get the right materials.
The Saturn V blueprints would not put anyone any closer to building a viable ICBM than an issue of Popular Science.
FUD is a specific case of spin.
"Spin" is when you deliberately obfuscate or selectively reveal information in order to mislead and change the overall perceived picture. It's like "fossil-fuel consumption is good for the economy", that disregards the long-term effects of climate change on the said economy.
"FUD" is more targeted in that it aims to create doubts about your competitors and to misrepresent your ability to deal with said competition - and to manipulate the market into delaying investiments because your "next product" due "real soon now" will blow the competition away. It's like the announcement of the horrible Windows for Pen Computing (designed to hurt the emerging class of Newton and Momenta-like devices, both more functional than MS's product), when Ray Ozzie states "I believe we're the only company with the platform DNA that's necessarily to viably deliver this highly leveragable platform approach to services." ignoring both Apple and Google in a nauseatingly convoluted statement or when Ballmer says something like "Linux violates 2781.36 patents we will disclose shortly and that we may want to seek compensation for the violations" and then falls into silence never to disclose them.
"don't ask me how, thats why it's a super gun."
He used a time displacement generator to get a future super gun, then dismantled it and shot the pieces to the Moon.
Depending on when you come from, it's old history.
+1 insightful and funny