Do I smell one of those rare OSS Wintel projects springing up? Surely we can do a better job as a huge, global collective than Jetway can. Or is there already something like this out there?
It would be interesting if someone who actually has this software can snoop a round a bit and see just what the "Magic" is.
Cray is one of the few last behemoths left. If they can survive, surely this is not the way. This is borderline-SCOish, or Microsoftish. Oh well, at least the last thing they do won't be selling Crays @ WalMart, as Sun apparently wants to do.
Cray is in denial, and that won't solve anything. What is certain is that they will fall.
Looks to me like we're witnessing the beginning of the end of Sun as we know it. Sure they may stick around selling el-cheapo boxen at WalMart, but that won't be the company we knew as Sun.
Linux could have perhaps saved them if they had made the right decision way back, but it would've taken a lot of balls to make Linux primary and drop Solaris to 2nd place.
In the end, it's not your equipment it's how you use it (no pun intended). So stop wasting your money on the latest 8 Megapixel digicam and 3 CCD camcorder. Read this guy's note: "These samples, as well as all of my own films, were captured with a $300 Sony Digital 8 Camcorder (the cheapest digital camcorder you can buy)." Until you shoot as good as he does (which is exceptional, have a look - click on his name at the very top and prepare to be amazed), you're completely wasting your money on even a $1000 camcorder. Accept it, learn from it.
Once we get past the "dumb beast" stage, the stage at which we believe bigger-is-better (in this field, more MHz), we reach a point where quality and smart features that are useful in today's world are what differentiates products. I've wished the market supported proper chipsatz (I just like how it sounds in German say it, so shoot me) development for a long time, now this news seems like bringing that a step closer to reality. It's a known fact that Intel, when they were interested in doing so, produced kick-ass chipsets. BX440 ring a bell?
These are smart features. Features that a lot of people will make good use of. But make no mistake - these are not marketing gimmicks (at least generally speaking) - these are not your useless AMR slots of yesteryear!
We are paying a lot of money for diminishing-return upgrades until these feature trends start being implemented. The fact that your computer calculates an Excel formula in 1/100th of a second faster than mine is not worth anything in reality, yet people are wasting good money on perceived upgrades. Yes, it's very nice that you get 1000 fps in your FPS of choice. using a Radeon 9800 Pro. My older now-$50 card gets 200 fps, which is fine for me. In fact, my monitor can't even display it that fast, and your LCD sure as heck can't! What I really want is to get rid of that firewall sitting next to my machine, with it's brick-style power adapter (anyone listening? get rid of those things!). What I really want is SATA RAID-5. Or thereabouts. It makes sense. We're ready for it. It's just a matter of time till someone steps in and delivers it. No more BS!
No more BS, no more RAMBUSsing, no more HyperBS-ing, no more FXing, no more Presscotting! Just do it, do it well, do it right! We'll buy it! We're buying your crap now, you can only profit by doing something smart and giving us what we really want.
P.S. Hat's off to nVidia for the nForce2, I hope the nForce3 250Gb is equally good in it's market. Although I'd change the name.
..when you deal with M$. They pimp yo ass like a cheap ho. Sun and, did I hear this correctly, Wal-Mart mentioned in the same sentence? This is no longer the Sun I know, and I will treat it as such. What's next, Sun - McDonald's "Win a free Sparc" french fries peel-off game?
Anyone else thinking "you know what? keep your damn content - I'll take on a new hobby, go out enjoy nature, read more books, learn to cook, take up hiking, etc." ? If they're going to these great lengths to protect their content, why not just keep it to themselves? It's like going into the water at the beach. You're afraid you'll miss this crap until you fully do it - disconnect. Then you realize what a fool you've been wasting your non-refundable, one-shot & short life in front of a non-interactive tube.
Profesionally - if this is what you do for a living - there's not much of a choice. Either use an interim solution to build your own packages (i.e. SRPMs) or make your own fully-custom packages. Writing an install/uninstall script isn't that difficult - it's time-consuming, but it's worth its weight in gold. I have a test machine on which I customize build options and develop my own packages. Then, once I find the optimal solution to the problem at hand, I build my own package and deploy it. This can be of two types (and I use both): a binary package, or the source tar file accompanied by a custom install script.
I clicked the first link and saw that NASA only used Mach units to report speed. Then, before clicking the CNN link, I made a bet with myself that they would include mph. Needless to say, I won:)
Re-tarded! DSL is not "an Internet protocol." BIC-TCP (what, does it use BIC pens?) should be compared to TCP/IP, or, something..
What's next? BIC-TCP is 1 billion times faster than President Bush? Probably, but it doesn't make any sense! (where is that "crazy" emoticon when you need it?:)
[in 1976]
-Hello, Moscow?
-Moscow control here, go ahead.
-Uh, we have a bad smell up here.
-What?
-We can't take it anymore.
-WHAT?
-It's really bad, we must abort this multi-billion-ruble mission that's supposed to put the Americans in their place. Yuri ate Bush's Baked Beans, and he's farting all over the place, constantly!
-%(*#&(%*&#%(*%&(....
[ silence ]
-[Soviet control] Listen to me, you little spoiled bastards. You dare come back to Earth and you'll wish you never came back. I don't care if you have shit up your nose. The mission _must_ go on!
Anyone _else_ doubt the Soviets aborted a mission due to smell? I don't see the US doing it, either. No matter how bad. And yes, your smell sensors are part of your brain. The only part that is directly exposed to the outside.
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> Whether you love or hate the Special Edition only release, you should be excited to see the new Darth Vader costume on the upcoming Trilogy DVD set.
No, I should not be. I may be, but I really should not be excited about that.
> While you may not realise the benefits straight away, software being easier to develop means more, higher quality apps for everybody.
Or higher quality crap, as we vegetarians like to call it.
Smile. Save a kitty!
Do I smell one of those rare OSS Wintel projects springing up? Surely we can do a better job as a huge, global collective than Jetway can. Or is there already something like this out there?
It would be interesting if someone who actually has this software can snoop a round a bit and see just what the "Magic" is.
it's actually activity[68];
> Grab your local news off the antenna (in HDTV if available)
What news? Oh, you mean those scripted shows I keep seeing during "primetime." I see.
I'm hoping this is a sign that the wheels are slowly starting to turn in our favor.
> I think it has a very high likelihood of being BS, but if it's not, then hell...
Well, it does come from japan.com. I wonder when it will make it to us.com, and if europe.com has any interest in it.
BTB, it's Slashdotted ATM so I can't even read it.
Cray is one of the few last behemoths left. If they can survive, surely this is not the way. This is borderline-SCOish, or Microsoftish. Oh well, at least the last thing they do won't be selling Crays @ WalMart, as Sun apparently wants to do.
Cray is in denial, and that won't solve anything. What is certain is that they will fall.
> So all those supercomputing labs that use Linux clustering (that invented Linux clustering, even) have been wasting their time?
Well, they haven't been wasting their cycles - that's for sure.
Whenever you hear the term "cybersecurity," don't read the article! It's gov't-related, or some other BS. No non-BS sources use it.
Looks to me like we're witnessing the beginning of the end of Sun as we know it. Sure they may stick around selling el-cheapo boxen at WalMart, but that won't be the company we knew as Sun.
Linux could have perhaps saved them if they had made the right decision way back, but it would've taken a lot of balls to make Linux primary and drop Solaris to 2nd place.
then you can do the ChaCha!
In the end, it's not your equipment it's how you use it (no pun intended). So stop wasting your money on the latest 8 Megapixel digicam and 3 CCD camcorder. Read this guy's note: "These samples, as well as all of my own films, were captured with a $300 Sony Digital 8 Camcorder (the cheapest digital camcorder you can buy)." Until you shoot as good as he does (which is exceptional, have a look - click on his name at the very top and prepare to be amazed), you're completely wasting your money on even a $1000 camcorder. Accept it, learn from it.
This is good stuff, people! Really!
Once we get past the "dumb beast" stage, the stage at which we believe bigger-is-better (in this field, more MHz), we reach a point where quality and smart features that are useful in today's world are what differentiates products. I've wished the market supported proper chipsatz (I just like how it sounds in German say it, so shoot me) development for a long time, now this news seems like bringing that a step closer to reality. It's a known fact that Intel, when they were interested in doing so, produced kick-ass chipsets. BX440 ring a bell?
These are smart features. Features that a lot of people will make good use of. But make no mistake - these are not marketing gimmicks (at least generally speaking) - these are not your useless AMR slots of yesteryear!
We are paying a lot of money for diminishing-return upgrades until these feature trends start being implemented. The fact that your computer calculates an Excel formula in 1/100th of a second faster than mine is not worth anything in reality, yet people are wasting good money on perceived upgrades. Yes, it's very nice that you get 1000 fps in your FPS of choice. using a Radeon 9800 Pro. My older now-$50 card gets 200 fps, which is fine for me. In fact, my monitor can't even display it that fast, and your LCD sure as heck can't! What I really want is to get rid of that firewall sitting next to my machine, with it's brick-style power adapter (anyone listening? get rid of those things!). What I really want is SATA RAID-5. Or thereabouts. It makes sense. We're ready for it. It's just a matter of time till someone steps in and delivers it. No more BS!
No more BS, no more RAMBUSsing, no more HyperBS-ing, no more FXing, no more Presscotting! Just do it, do it well, do it right! We'll buy it! We're buying your crap now, you can only profit by doing something smart and giving us what we really want.
P.S. Hat's off to nVidia for the nForce2, I hope the nForce3 250Gb is equally good in it's market. Although I'd change the name.
..when you deal with M$. They pimp yo ass like a cheap ho. Sun and, did I hear this correctly, Wal-Mart mentioned in the same sentence? This is no longer the Sun I know, and I will treat it as such. What's next, Sun - McDonald's "Win a free Sparc" french fries peel-off game?
They should've come to /., I'm sure they would've found hundreds if not thousands of ready volunteers.
New resume entries:
Languages: +whitespace +chimp
Anyone else thinking "you know what? keep your damn content - I'll take on a new hobby, go out enjoy nature, read more books, learn to cook, take up hiking, etc." ? If they're going to these great lengths to protect their content, why not just keep it to themselves? It's like going into the water at the beach. You're afraid you'll miss this crap until you fully do it - disconnect. Then you realize what a fool you've been wasting your non-refundable, one-shot & short life in front of a non-interactive tube.
re-tarded, you are
Profesionally - if this is what you do for a living - there's not much of a choice. Either use an interim solution to build your own packages (i.e. SRPMs) or make your own fully-custom packages. Writing an install/uninstall script isn't that difficult - it's time-consuming, but it's worth its weight in gold. I have a test machine on which I customize build options and develop my own packages. Then, once I find the optimal solution to the problem at hand, I build my own package and deploy it. This can be of two types (and I use both): a binary package, or the source tar file accompanied by a custom install script.
I clicked the first link and saw that NASA only used Mach units to report speed. Then, before clicking the CNN link, I made a bet with myself that they would include mph. Needless to say, I won :)
I guess it's time to put my 10D on eBay..
Re-tarded! DSL is not "an Internet protocol." BIC-TCP (what, does it use BIC pens?) should be compared to TCP/IP, or, something..
:)
What's next? BIC-TCP is 1 billion times faster than President Bush? Probably, but it doesn't make any sense! (where is that "crazy" emoticon when you need it?
some more that you forgot:
Oriole density (fans/game)
Oreo density (fat bastard units)
[in 1976] ....
-Hello, Moscow?
-Moscow control here, go ahead.
-Uh, we have a bad smell up here.
-What?
-We can't take it anymore.
-WHAT?
-It's really bad, we must abort this multi-billion-ruble mission that's supposed to put the Americans in their place. Yuri ate Bush's Baked Beans, and he's farting all over the place, constantly!
-%(*#&(%*&#%(*%&(
[ silence ]
-[Soviet control] Listen to me, you little spoiled bastards. You dare come back to Earth and you'll wish you never came back. I don't care if you have shit up your nose. The mission _must_ go on!
Anyone _else_ doubt the Soviets aborted a mission due to smell? I don't see the US doing it, either. No matter how bad. And yes, your smell sensors are part of your brain. The only part that is directly exposed to the outside.
They found Osama. He was hanging out with Bert, the muppet.