still a growing part of India's GDP, will be over 7% of it in a couple years. I was just musing on how I've seen certain business practices become "trendy" and copied by U.S.A. corporations for years whether fundementally sound or not. Then I thought of an extreme case where it was trendy to leave India; after all, I've seen where companies outsourced to India just because it was "the thing to do" and watched projects fail or have terrible cost/time overruns compared to running them at home, all the while management putting on dog and pony shows of how wonderfully things were going.
that's Rule #1 of what plumber must remember. This outsourcing news reminds me of the even more important Rule #2 which explains why plumbers make so much money.
it occurs to me that it was "trendy" to outsource to India (and managers basically fabricating lies about how much money was saved and how quality was maintained), will it be "trendy" to move outsourcing *from* India? The U.S.of A provides the lion's share of India's outsourcing income and I could see a cascading collapse of major portions of the economy over there...
a number of business sites are saying Latin America is the new India for outsourcing. They have similar timezones to U.S., speak English, and are even a relatvely short plane trip away. Who knows, might be a more attractive spot to immigrate to than south asia too, for those willing to follow the work
So instead of clock speed how about execution speed of standard benchmarks on a reference machine? Or would that show how much they suck per dollar next to AMD?
sounds like *that* situation was from horse getting behind man. you're confused. Anway, you will be saddened to know no one engaged in any sexual relations with farm animals on my granfather's farm, but I'm sure you'll find something on the internet to suit your deviant fancy and fantasies. My advice to you would be "save a horse; ride a cowboy".
and I for one am thankful - the holographic projection will not kick your heart out through the back of your ribcage like my grandpa's old draft nag was always trying to do to anyone who was within ten feet of his back end. No flies either.
the cray-2 didn't have a single "motherboard" though, its registers and pipelines were spread over many boards. for a "one board" design on the order of about a foot (or say 30 cm), a wavelength of signal in copper is about motherboard length at roughly 1GHz.
even for atomic clock on aircraft, flying from U.S. to London resulting in difference on the order of 53 ns, and 39 ns for return trip, so I'd say that with current computers and their GHz clocks we're slightly into the realm of relativistic effects being noticable on our planet.
OpenLook was better, I only HAD to use CDE on HP/UX and Solaris 2.51 for awhile, I hated it. NeXTStep and IRIS were the best Unix desktops in my opinion.
no, we shouldn't help to recreate something that hasn't been natural for 10 to 13 thousand years. Since that's when the last ice age ended, it may be that the decline in population had little to do with man anyway. A smarter thing to do is rebuild ecosystems we had in North America say 150 or 200 years ago, and to quit our heavy polluting.
solaris 10 isn't ready for the desktop either. Could you imagine using CDE for the desktop? Your other choice is that Linux-distro desktop GNOME, I mean the Sun Java Desktop, which doesn't have much Java in it. Solaris x86 supports much less x86 hardware than Linux. It's definitely in worse shape for world domination than GNU/Linux.
those keys work fine under solaris, if you choose to use a shell that supports them. Choose the same shell you chose in Solaris in Linux and they also won't work.
"our people"? "My people" include my friends, family, neighbors, community. If the ONLY people you care about happen to be those who choose to be interested in electric gadgets or telecom or applied engineering, you don't have a healthy mindset. There are hundreds of other human endeavors just as worthy. There are billions of human beings just as worthy of care and concern There are actually politicians and policemen and even CEO who are NOT evil. Thinking that the solution to world problems will be solved by a bunch of geeks engaging The System in some kind of technowar is really just planning another kind of terrorism that will disrupt & harm good people's lives. Instead, how about spreading the word to all kinds of people on how there are alternatives to how we do things now, that there are long term consequences to our actions now, and that the power to vote could be used to quickly change the direction we're going?
The whole idea was for the shuttles to be used once or twice a week at a cost of $15 - 20M per launch. Instead problems mean we've used them just over a hundred times total at a cost of 1.3 BILLION dollars per launch. Time to pull the plug on this money sewer, it's producing very little science compared to unmanned probes, and doing nothing to colonize other worlds or mine the riches of space. If the money from just two launches were spent on space elevator R&D, we could actually get somewhere....
funny, I've been making my living for the last 6 years with projects going away from Microsoft and Unix(tm) to Linux, and not a one has gone the other way. We're bound to see a percentage of cases where that happens, but is that the case in the majority of enterprises that have chosen to use open source? Buggy software can be written as either closed or open source, the license of a software has nothing to do with quality. A solid requirements gathering process, management of developers, discipline, version control, regression testing, use of user feedback & bug reporting, these are some things that make good software.
what with inflation and cost-of-living increases in the past few decades you might want to consider asking for One Trillion Dollars, which also would lend you credibility as a tier-one purveyour of world-class evil.
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still a growing part of India's GDP, will be over 7% of it in a couple years. I was just musing on how I've seen certain business practices become "trendy" and copied by U.S.A. corporations for years whether fundementally sound or not. Then I thought of an extreme case where it was trendy to leave India; after all, I've seen where companies outsourced to India just because it was "the thing to do" and watched projects fail or have terrible cost/time overruns compared to running them at home, all the while management putting on dog and pony shows of how wonderfully things were going.
that's Rule #1 of what plumber must remember. This outsourcing news reminds me of the even more important Rule #2 which explains why plumbers make so much money.
RULE #2: IT AIN'T ALL WATER!!
it occurs to me that it was "trendy" to outsource to India (and managers basically fabricating lies about how much money was saved and how quality was maintained), will it be "trendy" to move outsourcing *from* India? The U.S.of A provides the lion's share of India's outsourcing income and I could see a cascading collapse of major portions of the economy over there ...
a number of business sites are saying Latin America is the new India for outsourcing. They have similar timezones to U.S., speak English, and are even a relatvely short plane trip away. Who knows, might be a more attractive spot to immigrate to than south asia too, for those willing to follow the work
So instead of clock speed how about execution speed of standard benchmarks on a reference machine? Or would that show how much they suck per dollar next to AMD?
haha, netcraft provides email newsfeeds.
DRM is all about content producer's rights at the expense of your rights. Therefore, we should NOT support Sun's project.
sounds like *that* situation was from horse getting behind man. you're confused. Anway, you will be saddened to know no one engaged in any sexual relations with farm animals on my granfather's farm, but I'm sure you'll find something on the internet to suit your deviant fancy and fantasies. My advice to you would be "save a horse; ride a cowboy".
not to be confused with Smellovision and Aroma-Rama
This is just Emeril Lagasse's Smellavision
and I for one am thankful - the holographic projection will not kick your heart out through the back of your ribcage like my grandpa's old draft nag was always trying to do to anyone who was within ten feet of his back end. No flies either.
the cray-2 didn't have a single "motherboard" though, its registers and pipelines were spread over many boards. for a "one board" design on the order of about a foot (or say 30 cm), a wavelength of signal in copper is about motherboard length at roughly 1GHz.
intelligent trial and error and design
even for atomic clock on aircraft, flying from U.S. to London resulting in difference on the order of 53 ns, and 39 ns for return trip, so I'd say that with current computers and their GHz clocks we're slightly into the realm of relativistic effects being noticable on our planet.
OpenLook was better, I only HAD to use CDE on HP/UX and Solaris 2.51 for awhile, I hated it. NeXTStep and IRIS were the best Unix desktops in my opinion.
no, we shouldn't help to recreate something that hasn't been natural for 10 to 13 thousand years. Since that's when the last ice age ended, it may be that the decline in population had little to do with man anyway. A smarter thing to do is rebuild ecosystems we had in North America say 150 or 200 years ago, and to quit our heavy polluting.
solaris 10 isn't ready for the desktop either. Could you imagine using CDE for the desktop? Your other choice is that Linux-distro desktop GNOME, I mean the Sun Java Desktop, which doesn't have much Java in it. Solaris x86 supports much less x86 hardware than Linux. It's definitely in worse shape for world domination than GNU/Linux.
those keys work fine under solaris, if you choose to use a shell that supports them. Choose the same shell you chose in Solaris in Linux and they also won't work.
"our people"? "My people" include my friends, family, neighbors, community. If the ONLY people you care about happen to be those who choose to be interested in electric gadgets or telecom or applied engineering, you don't have a healthy mindset. There are hundreds of other human endeavors just as worthy. There are billions of human beings just as worthy of care and concern There are actually politicians and policemen and even CEO who are NOT evil. Thinking that the solution to world problems will be solved by a bunch of geeks engaging The System in some kind of technowar is really just planning another kind of terrorism that will disrupt & harm good people's lives. Instead, how about spreading the word to all kinds of people on how there are alternatives to how we do things now, that there are long term consequences to our actions now, and that the power to vote could be used to quickly change the direction we're going?
The whole idea was for the shuttles to be used once or twice a week at a cost of $15 - 20M per launch. Instead problems mean we've used them just over a hundred times total at a cost of 1.3 BILLION dollars per launch. Time to pull the plug on this money sewer, it's producing very little science compared to unmanned probes, and doing nothing to colonize other worlds or mine the riches of space. If the money from just two launches were spent on space elevator R&D, we could actually get somewhere....
funny, I've been making my living for the last 6 years with projects going away from Microsoft and Unix(tm) to Linux, and not a one has gone the other way. We're bound to see a percentage of cases where that happens, but is that the case in the majority of enterprises that have chosen to use open source? Buggy software can be written as either closed or open source, the license of a software has nothing to do with quality. A solid requirements gathering process, management of developers, discipline, version control, regression testing, use of user feedback & bug reporting, these are some things that make good software.
I for one welcome our new NetBSD running Talkie Toaster Overlords and the Old Koreans who made them
what with inflation and cost-of-living increases in the past few decades you might want to consider asking for One Trillion Dollars, which also would lend you credibility as a tier-one purveyour of world-class evil.
if government gets involved in this in a heavy way, we'll wind up like the Borg.
I'm sure you meant the Flaming Moe.