Having been in CADD for 15 years, I know 95% of what CADD/CAE is used for in manufacturing/mechanical engineering and architecture/civil engineering could be done on a 5+ year old PC or unix workstation. Sure, we can make prettier renderings and animations now for sales/marketing/impress the suits, but you don't need all that crap to actually design and build things.
Do social programs really do that in the case of evil people? Maybe it just means we have strong, healthy, well-fed psycho rapists & murderers & child molesters.
naw, you cancelled your subscription because the darn thing was 80% ads and 20% superficial product comparisons.
it is funny that I did all those things (email, music playing, etc. plus MISI) just fine on my 66Mhz 486 back in the day.
With IBM and HP and Sun dreaming about a chunk of the desktop market, you'll soon get your wishes except for the windows executables thing, I'd bet in a year at most. Another year and standards for documents & spreadsheets & such will be finalized. It won't matter much what the OS is at that point.
I suspect the people who write Linux & GNU libraries/utilities will keep on doing so with total disregard whether they get "more market share" or not. People who like having a Unix workstation will use it. All the cool stuff I've done my whole life (just turned 40) on Cybers and Vaxes and "Unix workstations" I can now do on my PC, and at no cost for software.
I chose my used thinkpad T22 on eBay because I knew I could slap my favorite $0 distro on it and everything would work. Haven't had any library problems, because I've stayed within the confines of the distro (I program in scripting languages these days)
heh, I know we're a "state-capitalist" republic, which of course means we're not any one of those 3 words! I would say congress is even more out of hand than the president, bringing us such wonders as welfare and the tax code.
I'd be interested in hearing about ANY true communist country; I don't think one ever existed or could exist. Communism doesn't scale beyond the size of a hippie commune, and even those need some capital "goose grease" to make them work
haha, you're talking about energy delivered at the battery to charge it compared to energy given back. losses in the charging circuit alone eat up 60% to 80% of power...an electric car in the end will ues twice the fossil fuel of a normal car. sorry.
batteries are notoriously inefficient - it takes over 6x the energy to charge the things as you get back out. better to cleanly burn nonfossil plant or animal matter so the net heat & C02 budget of the earth doesn't increase
Ah yes, project Gutenberg, providing important text to the whole world.......well, to those with computers & internet connection.......who can read English.....if the copyright has expired....come think of it, it's not that important or useful for most people on earth.
more likely the problem is the different ways of looking at partitions by various OS - I've come close to hosing myself (but thankfully have been able to stop myself before clobbering the table) with XP, Linux & FreeBSD living in various places on 2 disks. Grub itself has worked flawlessly on my laptop and servers, and also on servers I've installed & configed in client datacenters over the past 2 years. One has to understand that grub too has different ways of looking at disk partitions & slices of partitions.
just keep cruising eBay then, SunOS is sometimes listed as "Solaris 1.x.x" too. Sadly at the moment, for old OS there are only a couple copies of Solaris 2.4 (from 1995) up for auction ending May 27th-ish. As an aside for those who wish to make money with an old ultraparc Sun box, in all my consulting work for the past 4 years, have heavily used 2.6, make sure to have that.
I can't even find my old SunOS CD's - OpenBSD for the common 32 bit Sun workstations are so superior in every way I haven't run the Sun stuff in 4 years. Why not be able to run the latest applications, program with the latest libraries & languages, and have the best security? SunOS would cripple your machine.
but the high end intel boxes benchmark 3x plus times the performance of an Ultrasparc based box when running Oracle...so I'm thinking perhaps a 8-16 way Intel box is like a 24-48 way sparc box (give or take a few)...and 1/3 or less the price too.
I have used AST's book with MINIX CDROM in an OS internals class I took in the evening, and I think he's the greatest. That being said, I chuckle at his stating a microkernel OS will give about a 20% performance hit compared to a monolithic (the "big mess" type, as my professor jokingly called them), but good design/ease of debugging worth that price. It is easy to see how most Linux users would side with Linus and have a "hot-rodded" OS even if more of a challenge to design and debug.
It kind of reminds me of the performance I get on my sparcstation 5 using SunOS 4.1.3 or OpenBSD versus Solaris 2.x (though I know there's some complex issues there)
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murders of traveling contractors on the job? nah, most u.s. homicides have to do with suicide, domestic violence, & illegal deals gone bad
Having been in CADD for 15 years, I know 95% of what CADD/CAE is used for in manufacturing/mechanical engineering and architecture/civil engineering could be done on a 5+ year old PC or unix workstation. Sure, we can make prettier renderings and animations now for sales/marketing/impress the suits, but you don't need all that crap to actually design and build things.
well, just so you're not trembloring with fear, that's not good for you
you're lucky, when I turned mine on it folded 99.99999999 % of itself into quantum hyperspace, and I haven't been able to find it since
heh, at the time she looked a little too old for me but she's looking hot now! and don't forget about Jossette Simon as Dayna
Do social programs really do that in the case of evil people? Maybe it just means we have strong, healthy, well-fed psycho rapists & murderers & child molesters.
with all the money western civilization spends on entertainment, maybe we're building a WallyWorld.
naw, you cancelled your subscription because the darn thing was 80% ads and 20% superficial product comparisons. it is funny that I did all those things (email, music playing, etc. plus MISI) just fine on my 66Mhz 486 back in the day.
the Dyson Pressure Cooker? eeeek, give me a Ringworld instead 8D
in the sky continues to burn 24x7 at no cost, most of its energy completely unused
With IBM and HP and Sun dreaming about a chunk of the desktop market, you'll soon get your wishes except for the windows executables thing, I'd bet in a year at most. Another year and standards for documents & spreadsheets & such will be finalized. It won't matter much what the OS is at that point. I suspect the people who write Linux & GNU libraries/utilities will keep on doing so with total disregard whether they get "more market share" or not. People who like having a Unix workstation will use it. All the cool stuff I've done my whole life (just turned 40) on Cybers and Vaxes and "Unix workstations" I can now do on my PC, and at no cost for software. I chose my used thinkpad T22 on eBay because I knew I could slap my favorite $0 distro on it and everything would work. Haven't had any library problems, because I've stayed within the confines of the distro (I program in scripting languages these days)
heh, I know we're a "state-capitalist" republic, which of course means we're not any one of those 3 words! I would say congress is even more out of hand than the president, bringing us such wonders as welfare and the tax code.
I'd be interested in hearing about ANY true communist country; I don't think one ever existed or could exist. Communism doesn't scale beyond the size of a hippie commune, and even those need some capital "goose grease" to make them work
what I can't stand is having to clean their poop off my lawn
haha, you're talking about energy delivered at the battery to charge it compared to energy given back. losses in the charging circuit alone eat up 60% to 80% of power...an electric car in the end will ues twice the fossil fuel of a normal car. sorry.
batteries are notoriously inefficient - it takes over 6x the energy to charge the things as you get back out. better to cleanly burn nonfossil plant or animal matter so the net heat & C02 budget of the earth doesn't increase
Ah yes, project Gutenberg, providing important text to the whole world.......well, to those with computers & internet connection.......who can read English.....if the copyright has expired....come think of it, it's not that important or useful for most people on earth.
more likely the problem is the different ways of looking at partitions by various OS - I've come close to hosing myself (but thankfully have been able to stop myself before clobbering the table) with XP, Linux & FreeBSD living in various places on 2 disks. Grub itself has worked flawlessly on my laptop and servers, and also on servers I've installed & configed in client datacenters over the past 2 years. One has to understand that grub too has different ways of looking at disk partitions & slices of partitions.
The full slogan is actually "fortune favors the bold robotic vehicle"
just keep cruising eBay then, SunOS is sometimes listed as "Solaris 1.x.x" too. Sadly at the moment, for old OS there are only a couple copies of Solaris 2.4 (from 1995) up for auction ending May 27th-ish. As an aside for those who wish to make money with an old ultraparc Sun box, in all my consulting work for the past 4 years, have heavily used 2.6, make sure to have that.
I can't even find my old SunOS CD's - OpenBSD for the common 32 bit Sun workstations are so superior in every way I haven't run the Sun stuff in 4 years. Why not be able to run the latest applications, program with the latest libraries & languages, and have the best security? SunOS would cripple your machine.
yep, that's where he went after DEC job. Too bad his cool stuff was surrounded by crap & cruft...
but the high end intel boxes benchmark 3x plus times the performance of an Ultrasparc based box when running Oracle...so I'm thinking perhaps a 8-16 way Intel box is like a 24-48 way sparc box (give or take a few)...and 1/3 or less the price too.
I have used AST's book with MINIX CDROM in an OS internals class I took in the evening, and I think he's the greatest. That being said, I chuckle at his stating a microkernel OS will give about a 20% performance hit compared to a monolithic (the "big mess" type, as my professor jokingly called them), but good design/ease of debugging worth that price. It is easy to see how most Linux users would side with Linus and have a "hot-rodded" OS even if more of a challenge to design and debug.
It kind of reminds me of the performance I get on my sparcstation 5 using SunOS 4.1.3 or OpenBSD versus Solaris 2.x (though I know there's some complex issues there)
for that matter, how many people does he think wrote the core routines of Windows NT (David Cutler of DEC, who also wrote the core of VAX VMS)