drop dead along with your telemarketing friends. I pay for my telecommunications service, and it is therefore my right to forbid and restrict who may consume my time using it. There's a multitude of other ways any company can market their products and services.
heh, it takes the combined efforts of NASA's 34 meter Deep Space Network antennas in California, Australia and Spain to receive that signal. So unless you're Bill Gates or a Sam Walton heir, you won't be homebrewing anything with enough sensitivity for DXing this sucker.
a good point to raise now that Greenspan has mentioned we have have hit the "tipping over" point on the national debt - out of control of government's ability to pay the interest. This is how 99.99% of pork gets through the system, and this broadcast flag is very similar to pork in that it gives huge economic concessions/advantage to select big corporations
other scripting languages are incorporating all kinds of useful advanced high-level constructs and building high performance bytecode/wordcode virtual machines, while Perl 5.x grows stagnant, that's why the attitude. Perl grows less useful by comparison with the others as time goes on, it's the same situation as COBOL
Microsoft isn't losing market share to Linux, but to to a whole bunch of Linux based distributions. Any distro that has more than a quarter million installations is a threat, and there's quite a few of those. People here are posting complaining about the lack of standards, but that really is just showing that Linux is a kernel, not an OS. You're free to build your own OS or distribution around it and try to take over the world. If you're building software for business, get popular enough so the distro vendors take care of packaging your warez for you.
Careful how you read that stuff, they made $8B last year but have $22B in debt, and are losing customers in a HUGE way to broadband. Which is why the sale....
well, it looks like Perl 6 initial release would be in 18 months, IF the language spec was done now and all effort put into Parrot. But since that isn't happening, isn't going to happen, Larry will fart around with language design for at least another year, Parrot will flounder around for another 2 or more, and maybe by 2009 or end of decade we'll have Perl 6. If you haven't gotten disgusted and moved to Python or Ruby by then, that is.
AOL has been circling the drain for years now, losing customers and money. Let them suck life and money out of Microsoft, and let the AOL aura of low quality and pandering to the technological morons bleed onto microsoft
yeah, there's a decreasing interest in how things actually work or are made or are done these days, very disturbing. I daresay, sadly, that some of the New Orleans victims are dead because of such ignorance.
if I become disgruntled and use my super-geek skills to commandeer a secret government earthquake producing satellite while on board a train, and ex-Navy seal turned chef shoots me in the laptop I hold in front of my heart, WILL IT STOP THE BULLET??!!
The most popular "6Al-4V" titanium alloy (90% titanium- 6%aluminum & 4% vanadium) goes for $10-15 a pound, whereas aluminum about a dollar a pound. The density of Al is 2.7g/cc while titanium alloy is about 4.4 g/ cc though, so for a given size of part scale the price accordingly!
well, we do have access to C02 and CH4 concentrations for over 1,000 years thanks to ice core samples, as well as temperature ranges. By all means educate yourself on the subject, lots of data.
we'll see if cyclical decrease in cat 4-5 hurricanes is a reality, or if a new trend is happening. that's fine, we'll still be pumping out more & more C02 so the base conditions of our little experiment won't be altered
whoop-dee-effing-do, there's skads of persistence libraries out there for java and every other language under the sun, with and without dbms backend. Of course, the real purpose of j2ee and java is to mandate multiple layers of bloated server infrastructure to sell hardware and expensive oracle (which scale in price geometrically with server power) licenses.
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it's just too damn expensive to put men in the sky right now. Like each shuttle launch costing $1.3B instead of the $20M as planned. Instead let's use much cheaper robot craft for now to see if there's actually water in protected craters on moon, see if Helium-3 is abundant on moon and let's do some inital mining with robot craft. If that goes well, let's have robot craft assemble a mars mission -- unmanned for the first round. We'll save tens of billions and a few lives too. Putting men up there right now is just political gee-whiz crap with little or no scientific value.
nah, in a standardized world you'd still be complaining about relative difficulty of GNU/Linux versus Windows, because Linux admin is mostly Unix admin. Meanwhile, other countries with somewhat more motivated and less lazy people are standardizing on Linux. Really, if Unix-like OS are a bit too much for you, then by all means stick with your monopoly-controlled OS, the rest of the planet is going to go in a different direction.
Who's to say AMD and Intel won't change the architectrue to support 16 and 32 way and up? The means by which this could be done are widely known, and being superscalar or not isn't what determines the degree of SMP scalability. The main issues are memory performance/structure related, and there's no reason a chip executing the x86 instruction set could not resolve them.
if that's true, just think, they'll perform best-case at about the level of a dual core 3.2 GHz x86-64 then. In a box for 2x the money. But they can say they're a better deal than Itanium 2, half the performance for 3x the price per box.
Linux supports SOME UltraSparc boxes, and not all common Sun devices on those. How about 128GB RAM on x86-box? Funny I've been a huge Sun fan most of my life, but the last 3 years they've just lost their edge. Just 2 months ago for the very first time in my life I took delivery of a brand new DOA Sun V240. After years of buying new and also used Sun boxes where the only issue was prom battery or worn out disk drives that was pretty shocking.
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drop dead along with your telemarketing friends. I pay for my telecommunications service, and it is therefore my right to forbid and restrict who may consume my time using it. There's a multitude of other ways any company can market their products and services.
heh, it takes the combined efforts of NASA's 34 meter Deep Space Network antennas in California, Australia and Spain to receive that signal. So unless you're Bill Gates or a Sam Walton heir, you won't be homebrewing anything with enough sensitivity for DXing this sucker.
a good point to raise now that Greenspan has mentioned we have have hit the "tipping over" point on the national debt - out of control of government's ability to pay the interest. This is how 99.99% of pork gets through the system, and this broadcast flag is very similar to pork in that it gives huge economic concessions/advantage to select big corporations
other scripting languages are incorporating all kinds of useful advanced high-level constructs and building high performance bytecode/wordcode virtual machines, while Perl 5.x grows stagnant, that's why the attitude. Perl grows less useful by comparison with the others as time goes on, it's the same situation as COBOL
Microsoft isn't losing market share to Linux, but to to a whole bunch of Linux based distributions. Any distro that has more than a quarter million installations is a threat, and there's quite a few of those. People here are posting complaining about the lack of standards, but that really is just showing that Linux is a kernel, not an OS. You're free to build your own OS or distribution around it and try to take over the world. If you're building software for business, get popular enough so the distro vendors take care of packaging your warez for you.
Careful how you read that stuff, they made $8B last year but have $22B in debt, and are losing customers in a HUGE way to broadband. Which is why the sale....
well, it looks like Perl 6 initial release would be in 18 months, IF the language spec was done now and all effort put into Parrot. But since that isn't happening, isn't going to happen, Larry will fart around with language design for at least another year, Parrot will flounder around for another 2 or more, and maybe by 2009 or end of decade we'll have Perl 6. If you haven't gotten disgusted and moved to Python or Ruby by then, that is.
AOL has been circling the drain for years now, losing customers and money. Let them suck life and money out of Microsoft, and let the AOL aura of low quality and pandering to the technological morons bleed onto microsoft
yeah, there's a decreasing interest in how things actually work or are made or are done these days, very disturbing. I daresay, sadly, that some of the New Orleans victims are dead because of such ignorance.
if I become disgruntled and use my super-geek skills to commandeer a secret government earthquake producing satellite while on board a train, and ex-Navy seal turned chef shoots me in the laptop I hold in front of my heart, WILL IT STOP THE BULLET??!!
The most popular /cc while titanium alloy is about 4.4 g/ cc though, so for a given size of part scale the price accordingly!
"6Al-4V" titanium alloy (90% titanium- 6%aluminum & 4% vanadium) goes for $10-15 a pound, whereas aluminum about a dollar a pound. The density of Al is 2.7g
the data shows co2 concentration in hard lockstep with average global temperature for the last 160 thousand years. Including the last 50 years. hmmmm.
well, we do have access to C02 and CH4 concentrations for over 1,000 years thanks to ice core samples, as well as temperature ranges. By all means educate yourself on the subject, lots of data.
we'll see if cyclical decrease in cat 4-5 hurricanes is a reality, or if a new trend is happening. that's fine, we'll still be pumping out more & more C02 so the base conditions of our little experiment won't be altered
whoop-dee-effing-do, there's skads of persistence libraries out there for java and every other language under the sun, with and without dbms backend. Of course, the real purpose of j2ee and java is to mandate multiple layers of bloated server infrastructure to sell hardware and expensive oracle (which scale in price geometrically with server power) licenses.
it's just too damn expensive to put men in the sky right now. Like each shuttle launch costing $1.3B instead of the $20M as planned. Instead let's use much cheaper robot craft for now to see if there's actually water in protected craters on moon, see if Helium-3 is abundant on moon and let's do some inital mining with robot craft. If that goes well, let's have robot craft assemble a mars mission -- unmanned for the first round. We'll save tens of billions and a few lives too. Putting men up there right now is just political gee-whiz crap with little or no scientific value.
nah, in a standardized world you'd still be complaining about relative difficulty of GNU/Linux versus Windows, because Linux admin is mostly Unix admin. Meanwhile, other countries with somewhat more motivated and less lazy people are standardizing on Linux. Really, if Unix-like OS are a bit too much for you, then by all means stick with your monopoly-controlled OS, the rest of the planet is going to go in a different direction.
yup, they should call it the C++/ORBit desktop system, 'cause Java sure isn't what's making it go.
waiter: " 'ow about our gnome, staroffice c++/orbit-corba based java desktop system? that's not got much java in it"
woman: "but I don't want any java"
chorus: jav jav jav jav, jav, jav, jav, jav Sunny Java, Unbiquitous java!
6) read the rubbish anyway and troll about how it was such a waste of time
To recap in manager-speak, you're saying the utilization of utilize nets suboptimal perceptual leadership utility?
Who's to say AMD and Intel won't change the architectrue to support 16 and 32 way and up? The means by which this could be done are widely known, and being superscalar or not isn't what determines the degree of SMP scalability. The main issues are memory performance/structure related, and there's no reason a chip executing the x86 instruction set could not resolve them.
if that's true, just think, they'll perform best-case at about the level of a dual core 3.2 GHz x86-64 then. In a box for 2x the money. But they can say they're a better deal than Itanium 2, half the performance for 3x the price per box.
64 bit kernel but 32 bit userland. It's an impressive accomplishment that they could port over there, but it's not for large enterprise apps.
IBM and HP aren't Tier-1 -ish enough for you? There's others too, if you google.
Linux supports SOME UltraSparc boxes, and not all common Sun devices on those. How about 128GB RAM on x86-box? Funny I've been a huge Sun fan most of my life, but the last 3 years they've just lost their edge. Just 2 months ago for the very first time in my life I took delivery of a brand new DOA Sun V240. After years of buying new and also used Sun boxes where the only issue was prom battery or worn out disk drives that was pretty shocking.