I remember when Statler and Waldorf took on Milton Berle.
He was doing a monologue and they told him he was too close to the audience and to back up. He backed up. They said back up farther. He backed up farther. They told him to back up farther. He asked how far? They said, "Do you have a car?"
I'd have held out for fifteen at LEAST! In fact, I'd have demanded Northrop pay for a twenty dollar blowjob! As it is, he got fucked up the ass for ten bucks!
It should be obvious to anyone with a brain that a cluster is designed as a cluster for the exact same reason a mainframe is designed as a mainframe: availability and power.
There is NO significant difference between a cluster and a mainframe except one: economy of scale in cost.
And by that I mean that the components of a cluster cost FAR less than the components of a mainframe - which is why a cluster that offers as much or more power than a mainframe costs as little as TEN PERCENT of a mainframe.
Studies have shown that a mainframe that runs ONE application can cost $14 MILLION for the ONE application. You only get economies of scale from a mainframe if you run MANY applications on it, or you can run hundreds or thousands of copies of the SAME application (a la LAMP Web sites on an IBM mainframe.)
I think it was Schlumberger or one of those oil-related companies that replaced a $10 million IBM mainframe with a Linux cluster for $500,000 and GOT THREE TIMES THE PROCESSING POWER. Do the math, folks - three times the processing power for 5% of the cost.
THAT'S why Linux on Intel is replacing UNIX and proprietary systems. And that isn't going to stop.
As to the question of Windows, show me a study that says any size Windows cluster can match ANY mainframe.
And THAT'S why Linux will bury Windows in the enterprise data center AFTER it buries UNIX there.
Bill didn't give that Foundation twenty billion for "charity". Follow the investments of that Foundation and see where the influence follows.
It's about time somebody started researching just how big of an asshole Bill Gates really is behind the scenes. Let's not let the fact that he's an asshole up front distract us from the real assholery.
"It takes less then 8 clicks of the mouse to turn it on."
What's wrong with this picture?
(Hint: If Linux took eight mouse clicks to turn on its firewall, the Windows trolls would be bitching about how hard Linux is to use and how "Grandma" will never be able to run it.)
I thought the last figure was twenty minutes, down from forty minutes the previous study.
At this rate, Windows will be owned BEFORE it goes on the Net next time - i.e., the CD will be compromised before you install it! Can't happen? Remember when Microsoft shipped a virus?
This ties in nicely with Microsoft buying Claria! You can now get Claria embedded in your Windows CD before you even install it!
This company is a flat-out menace to society. Bill Gates makes Osama bin Laden look like the Flying Nun. bin Laden at least has some principles, no matter how screwed up.
It is run by greedy asshole liars who say one thing and do the exact opposite. Their only goal in life is to take every last dime in your pockets and give you shit in return. This has been Gate's SOP since day one - in fact, before that, since in college he was a poker player. Greed is all this fucktard knows.
We need a "Jihad against Microsoft". This company MUST be destroyed by any means necessary if computer technology is to be advanced.
Jesus was a fanatical follower of the Jewish Law as was his followers, some of whom were likely Sicarii as well, who were the world's first "terrorists" in their operations.
Indeed, the cult was founded in Israel, but it was Paul who launched the Roman Church after being driven out of Israel by the Jews incensed by his alteration of doctrine and his confrontation with Jesus's brother in Jerusalem. Paul was a Roman double agent who infiltrated the cult and then hijacked it for his own purposes. This is established by the Dead Sea scrolls.
The Roman Church was started by Paul, who reversed Jesus's doctrine 180 degrees. What most moron Christians do not comprehend is that the ENTIRE Christian doctrine spouted by Catholics and fundamentalists alike was created by PAUL, NOT Jesus. Jesus's doctrine seems to be simply the Jewish Law with perhaps some spiritual modifications of the sort mentioned in some of the apocryphal works that have surfaced. Jesus said nothing about him "redeeming" mankind, or about resurrection, or celibacy for priests (since as a Jewish rabbi, he was REQUIRED to be married), or any of the rest of the nonsense comprising the Christian doctrine today.
And I repeat, the Bible has been so rewritten and edited over the centuries that anybody expecting to find Jesus's real doctrine in it is hopelessly confused. Jefferson made his "Jefferson Bible" out of the moral teachings in it and dumped the rest. If this is to be considered "true Christianity", it is pointless because the term "Christianity" has been applied to the doctrines of the Roman Church and its schisms for two thousand years. Find another name for it.
In any event, it is IRRELEVANT what HE believed since the doctrines that Christians espouse today - from ANY quarter - are based entirely on Paul's doctrine and the various schisms that have occurred since then.
And those doctrines are both ignorant and malicious and have done untold damage to the human species for two thousand years.
Where did I refer to political party affiliation in my post?
That said, there are likely far more loony-tune religious Republicans than there are loony-tune religious Democrats. Certainly the loony-tune religious Republicans make far more public statements that identify them as such.
The Roman Church is the first Christian Church. Everybody else is a fucking schism and even less interesting than the Catholics. "Wannabe Christians" are even more ridiculous than "real" Christians.
Not to mention that Jesus was a fanatical Jew and had absolutely NO intention of founding a new religion of any kind - especially one that persecuted his own people for two thousand years for something that never happened. As a result, Christianity is the biggest joke - or tragedy, depending on your viewpoint - in human history.
"well, there is this thing known as the Board of Directors. Quite a few have to be independent."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Right - like Enron.
You MS moron.
Projects at MS? LIKE WHAT? They supposedly spend X BILLION a year on R&D! Seen ANY results of that? Like WHERE?
You sound like a Microsoft shill - or someone who realizes what an idiot he is for supporting this lying, incompetent, fraudulent, monopolistic company but can't afford to admit it to anyone because of his fragile self-esteem.
As I've said over and over, NO ONE at Microsoft (at least those allowed to talk to the public) is capable of telling the truth. They are complete, unashamed LIARS. They have one job and one job only: lie to you and take your money.
Period.
This is the "corporate culture" Bill Gates founded and encourages and it will never change as long as he and his cronies have a place in the company.
"I couldn't believe it -- one of the world's best corporate marketeers making the basic mistake of insulting the customer."
Read any biography of Bill Gates. This has been his SOP since day one. He alternately screams at customers - BIG customers - or cajoles them by saying, "The next one will be huge! You'll see!" (quote from John Belushi from the "Blues Brothers").
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Sounds like the man who built the company.
What do you expect, then?
I remember when Statler and Waldorf took on Milton Berle.
He was doing a monologue and they told him he was too close to the audience and to back up. He backed up. They said back up farther. He backed up farther. They told him to back up farther. He asked how far?
They said, "Do you have a car?"
Ba-doom! Thank you! I appear here most evenings!
Best line - and it wasn't even delivered by Statler or Waldorf.
They need a new compatriot in the balcony - somebody named Hilton would do...
How are those trousers coming?
He got TEN DOLLARS?
I'd have held out for fifteen at LEAST! In fact, I'd have demanded Northrop pay for a twenty dollar blowjob! As it is, he got fucked up the ass for ten bucks!
It should be obvious to anyone with a brain that a cluster is designed as a cluster for the exact same reason a mainframe is designed as a mainframe: availability and power.
There is NO significant difference between a cluster and a mainframe except one: economy of scale in cost.
And by that I mean that the components of a cluster cost FAR less than the components of a mainframe - which is why a cluster that offers as much or more power than a mainframe costs as little as TEN PERCENT of a mainframe.
Studies have shown that a mainframe that runs ONE application can cost $14 MILLION for the ONE application. You only get economies of scale from a mainframe if you run MANY applications on it, or you can run hundreds or thousands of copies of the SAME application (a la LAMP Web sites on an IBM mainframe.)
I think it was Schlumberger or one of those oil-related companies that replaced a $10 million IBM mainframe with a Linux cluster for $500,000 and GOT THREE TIMES THE PROCESSING POWER. Do the math, folks - three times the processing power for 5% of the cost.
THAT'S why Linux on Intel is replacing UNIX and proprietary systems. And that isn't going to stop.
As to the question of Windows, show me a study that says any size Windows cluster can match ANY mainframe.
And THAT'S why Linux will bury Windows in the enterprise data center AFTER it buries UNIX there.
follow the Gates Foundation money.
Bill didn't give that Foundation twenty billion for "charity". Follow the investments of that Foundation and see where the influence follows.
It's about time somebody started researching just how big of an asshole Bill Gates really is behind the scenes. Let's not let the fact that he's an asshole up front distract us from the real assholery.
"It takes less then 8 clicks of the mouse to turn it on."
What's wrong with this picture?
(Hint: If Linux took eight mouse clicks to turn on its firewall, the Windows trolls would be bitching about how hard Linux is to use and how "Grandma" will never be able to run it.)
MORE time?
I thought the last figure was twenty minutes, down from forty minutes the previous study.
At this rate, Windows will be owned BEFORE it goes on the Net next time - i.e., the CD will be compromised before you install it! Can't happen? Remember when Microsoft shipped a virus?
This ties in nicely with Microsoft buying Claria! You can now get Claria embedded in your Windows CD before you even install it!
This company is a flat-out menace to society. Bill Gates makes Osama bin Laden look like the Flying Nun. bin Laden at least has some principles, no matter how screwed up.
It is run by greedy asshole liars who say one thing and do the exact opposite. Their only goal in life is to take every last dime in your pockets and give you shit in return. This has been Gate's SOP since day one - in fact, before that, since in college he was a poker player. Greed is all this fucktard knows.
We need a "Jihad against Microsoft". This company MUST be destroyed by any means necessary if computer technology is to be advanced.
Jesus was a fanatical follower of the Jewish Law as was his followers, some of whom were likely Sicarii as well, who were the world's first "terrorists" in their operations.
Indeed, the cult was founded in Israel, but it was Paul who launched the Roman Church after being driven out of Israel by the Jews incensed by his alteration of doctrine and his confrontation with Jesus's brother in Jerusalem. Paul was a Roman double agent who infiltrated the cult and then hijacked it for his own purposes. This is established by the Dead Sea scrolls.
The Roman Church was started by Paul, who reversed Jesus's doctrine 180 degrees. What most moron Christians do not comprehend is that the ENTIRE Christian doctrine spouted by Catholics and fundamentalists alike was created by PAUL, NOT Jesus. Jesus's doctrine seems to be simply the Jewish Law with perhaps some spiritual modifications of the sort mentioned in some of the apocryphal works that have surfaced. Jesus said nothing about him "redeeming" mankind, or about resurrection, or celibacy for priests (since as a Jewish rabbi, he was REQUIRED to be married), or any of the rest of the nonsense comprising the Christian doctrine today.
And I repeat, the Bible has been so rewritten and edited over the centuries that anybody expecting to find Jesus's real doctrine in it is hopelessly confused. Jefferson made his "Jefferson Bible" out of the moral teachings in it and dumped the rest. If this is to be considered "true Christianity", it is pointless because the term "Christianity" has been applied to the doctrines of the Roman Church and its schisms for two thousand years. Find another name for it.
In any event, it is IRRELEVANT what HE believed since the doctrines that Christians espouse today - from ANY quarter - are based entirely on Paul's doctrine and the various schisms that have occurred since then.
And those doctrines are both ignorant and malicious and have done untold damage to the human species for two thousand years.
Where did I refer to political party affiliation in my post?
That said, there are likely far more loony-tune religious Republicans than there are loony-tune religious Democrats. Certainly the loony-tune religious Republicans make far more public statements that identify them as such.
But I don't distinguish. Morons are morons.
Not an English major, eh?
"Allegedly" is used because I wasn't there and I rely on the news reports of the event.
"Actually" is used to point out that the event is (or should have been) unusual.
"And Catholic doctrine is, in a great many significant parts, incompatible with what the Bible teaches, rendering it fundamentally unChristian"
And this VERSION of the Bible that you refer to happens to be in what language?
Aramaic - which has no punctuation?
Or English - meaning it's been revised and edited so many times as to be meaningless in content.
Do you know how many Gospels there were BEFORE the Bible was produced - BY the Roman Church by the way?
You people are stupid beyond all comprehension. Fortunately we Transhumans are going to see you get "Ruptured" (not "Raptured) in due time.
You have to be a complete idiot.
The Roman Church is the first Christian Church. Everybody else is a fucking schism and even less interesting than the Catholics. "Wannabe Christians" are even more ridiculous than "real" Christians.
Not to mention that Jesus was a fanatical Jew and had absolutely NO intention of founding a new religion of any kind - especially one that persecuted his own people for two thousand years for something that never happened. As a result, Christianity is the biggest joke - or tragedy, depending on your viewpoint - in human history.
"well, there is this thing known as the Board of Directors. Quite a few have to be independent."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Right - like Enron.
You MS moron.
Projects at MS? LIKE WHAT? They supposedly spend X BILLION a year on R&D! Seen ANY results of that? Like WHERE?
You sound like a Microsoft shill - or someone who realizes what an idiot he is for supporting this lying, incompetent, fraudulent, monopolistic company but can't afford to admit it to anyone because of his fragile self-esteem.
Get over yourself.
You call it marketing.
I call it lying.
I call it fraud.
As I've said over and over, NO ONE at Microsoft (at least those allowed to talk to the public) is capable of telling the truth. They are complete, unashamed LIARS. They have one job and one job only: lie to you and take your money.
Period.
This is the "corporate culture" Bill Gates founded and encourages and it will never change as long as he and his cronies have a place in the company.
"I couldn't believe it -- one of the world's best corporate marketeers making the basic mistake of insulting the customer."
Read any biography of Bill Gates. This has been his SOP since day one. He alternately screams at customers - BIG customers - or cajoles them by saying, "The next one will be huge! You'll see!" (quote from John Belushi from the "Blues Brothers").
"I was trying to stay on topic."
You must be new here.
"We're a bunch of crooked monopolists."
"Our software sucks rocks."
"Linux TCO is infinitely less than ours."
"Windows was never intended to be 'intuitive' - just stupid."
"Access corrupts its databases if you breath on it."
"Word is too complicated for anyone to use."
"Group Policy doesn't work and nobody can figure out how to make it work."
"Longhorn is a corporate disaster."
"We pay Rob Enderle, Laura DiDio, Maureen O'Gara and Daniel Lyons to be assholes."
"The Gates Foundation is a stock laundering scheme."
"Bill is an asshole."
"I'm an asshole."
"All of this is off the record."
Apple "juggernaut"?
APPLE "juggernaut"?
Apple "JUGGERNAUT"?
Let me have some of what you're smoking...unless it's just bad neurochemistry.
Apple is no more a "juggernaut" than my dick is the size of Milton Berle's. (Oh, wait...)
Sun was never and never will be a supporter of Linux.
Anybody who thought the Java Desktop was a "real" Linux distro is nuts. Sun is a proprietary UNIX shop and never will be anything more.
They're doomed. Flee from their products (except Java which is being open-sourced whether they like it or not) like the plague.
"Open" Solaris will never develop the community Linux has, and Linux will match and exceed Solaris' capabilities within five years.
Sun is the "new" SCO. In five years, they'll be suing Linus for "copyright and patent violations".
Riddle me this, Batman: What church claims to "transubstantiate" wine into blood and a wafer into flesh?
(Which, by the way, make these morons cannibals.)
Now take it down the road, moron.
Yeah, but how much MONEY do the Jedis have? That's the REAL "Force"!
Most of the religious nutcases we have in Congress today are far loonier than this guy.
Some of these morons allegedly actually CROWNED the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in an official ceremony in an official US government building!
Can this Jedi loon beat that?
Aleister Crowley had the right idea: "The Christians to the lions!"
on my page, anyway.
And it's a fucking CONTRACT, for Christ's sake! They haven't even BUILT the goddamn thing yet! Do we really need TWO stories on THAT?