Speaking as a slightly advanced home user, ESX server wouldn't be of much use since it's pretty expensive and requires very expensive hardware. If we're being completely honest here, most of us do more with omputers at home than work. I run VMWare Workstation so that I can boot Win9x for the occasional app or game that doesn't run in W.I.N.E. People like me need addressing and ESX won't do it. I was kind of excited about Plex86. I've also used Dosbox to some extent (for emulation, not virtualization). But VMWare does something that we really need an inexpensive alternative for... And what better way to provide it than with a system that has a thin OS for running multiple OSes. This is becoming more the norm than the exception.
...spectacularly better performance or a lower price compared to VMware, it's of no value to me. Actually, I'm quite sorry to see the direction plex86 has gone in becuse they could have offered a nice alternative to VMware. Oddly, there doesn't seem to be any company who has hit on the idea of an OS specifically GEARED towards virtualization. I think they'd steal the show. VMware on Linux is about the closest you can get to that right now. But the perfect solution would be a thin OS with no GUI that just allows you to install and run multiple OSes simultaneously.
Just this morning, I was listening to good radio (a college station as the commercial stations play total crap now) and I heard a really well done cover of a Smiths song. It came from an obscure Smiths cover CD and was performed by a band that only has one listing on IMDB. I think you'd be hard pressed (no pun intended) to use this service to find out what song that was. More than likely it will only recognize the hottest "hits" by the latest "artists". So... that means it will succeed with the target demographic: bored teens, boring young adults, and virtually braindead 30-somethings. How distressing.
About what arest thou talking? Thine GPL hast not been confirmmed nor de-nied, injunctionations are simply the first steppe to evaluating said licennse. So which is it? Are you an "Olde Skool" troll or George W. Bush?;P
..a computer! And man is it supposed to do wonders fer security. It's much more flexible than machines made before it because it isn't fixed in what it does. With the appropriate instructions this consarned machine might even make coffee for you one day folks! I hear tell that this machine can do millions of things a second. One of them millions of things is monitoring your network for break-ins and infections. Hehehehe... well I'll tell ya, what good is a machine that can do a million things a seconds or more when I've only got two hands and a gun! But, these here innovators at some new place that just set up a shingle in town are trying to get folks interested in something called Winders. They say it's more secure than Fort Knox on a Orange Alert day in June! I guess in some way, it kind of gives you millions of hands to control all the levers and pulleys in this here computer but you only have to use one or two hands. Them smart alecks might just have something there. But then again what do I know? I'm just a simple farmboy from Columbus Ohio. (That's A-hya to you furiners!) Bee-sides... what the heck am I supposed to do with my gun rack when these odd little boxes ain't big enough to stick one on 'em? Oh yeah, I also heard there's also some commie idiots who's got designs on the machine as well. Some guys named Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. I'm tellin' ya, I just don't like the sound a them two boy's names. What kinda names are Torvalds and Stallman anyways? I don't think they're good christian Americans. We gotta keep this country safe from them there terrorists and if'n security is gonna be a big deal, then we can't be havin' none o them un-christian gypsie makin' these machines! It just wouldn't be secure! Something's rotten in Denmark if'n ya ask me. So we have to be careful and make sure no dirty commie or devil worshipper gets their hands on one of these here computers. After all if the devil will find work for idle hands, imagine what satan would do with millions of idle hands in a computer!
The barbarians of Earth don't believe in science. They only care about conquest. I can't wait until Planet X returns and the Niburu come back and put the filthy humans in their rightful place. For the record, I'm not human.
It's good of you to bring that up. The problem is that fuckers like the guy above aren't going to even take them into consideration. To people like him, the original inhabitants of the Americas were "heathen savages" and were "justifiably liberated" from their "pagan ways". Aren't the westerners just the biggest load of hypocrites you've ever run into?
Our president and most of the republicans in political offices across this land are proof of that. So the REAL question is... is learning communication from chimps a good thing?;P
It's also mentioned that "a strong second-half recovery in the United States, Britain and Australia... has raised hopes that the worst is behind the beleaguered industry"
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *The RIAA community when recently IDC confirmed that *The RIAA accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Slashdot Troll survey which plainly states that *The RIAA has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *The RIAA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Music Industry Sales test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *The RIAA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *The RIAA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *The RIAA because *The RIAA is dying. Things are looking very bad for *The RIAA. As many of us are already aware, *The RIAA continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Warner Elektra Asylum is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its listeners.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
An RIAA leader states that there are 7000 consumers of WEA merchandise. How many users of the RIAA are there? Let's see. The number of WEA versus Columbia sales is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Columbia consumers. The RIAA saless figures are about half of the volume of Columbia sales. Therefore there are about 700 consumers of RIAA merchandise. A recent article put The RIAA at about 80 percent of the total music industry market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 RIAA consumers. This is consistent with the number of RIAA purchases vs. illegal downloads.
Due to the troubles of K-Tel, abysmal sales and so on, WEA went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sell another troubled product. Now AOL is also dying, its corpse soon to be turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that The RIAA has steadily declined in market share. The RIAA is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The RIAA is to survive at all it will be among old business model holdouts. The RIAA continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The RIAA is dead.
Fact: The RIAA is dead
Next Week: Someone tell Jack Valenti that he's been dead for the past twenty years or... OMIGAWD HE'S A ZOMBIE!!!!;P
Funny thing about that cuntflap... We *nix users make money too. And the amount we are capable of earning is justified too. People like NineNine are basically just Homer Chimpsons who push buttons and think they know how to work with computers. When crunch time comes and there's a problem they can't cope with, they fob it off to someone else instead of having cajones and fixing it themselves.
There are plenty of Windows folks who REALLY know about computers, but then again... they ALSO know Unix/Linux and maybe VMS, or even Macintosh. They also realize the intrinsic values of each OS and utilize them where needed. And they don't have attitudes about being know-it-alls like that fucking goon NineNine. He only knows enough about computers to throw up some lameass porn site (for a better site, go to http://sublimedirectory.com) and whore himself out for more money than he's worth. NineNine isn't a businessman, he's a fucking snakeoil salesman. And frankly, he needs to shut the hell up.
His main gripe is that if he can't deal with it to further his chiquanery (because he doesn't have the intellect to actually learn about computers instead of pushing buttons and using WYSIWYG editors), then it must suck. He's not into computers because they interest him. He's into them because he's found a way to use them to cheat people out of money. He's just a con artist. Fucking lameass bitch.
Don't bother responding to NineNine unless you intend to troll. He's too much of a pussy assed bitch to ever respond because he knows how flawed his "arguments" are. It only takes about five seconds to break that bitch.
You don't know shit about computers, do you dilhole? I guess that Fisher-Price OS you use has protected you from really getting familiar with how computers work. BTW... how's the credit debt coming along? Still digging yourself out that hole?
...the business bastards don't try and use it to provide us with "new and innovative marketing experiences, I'm OK with this. We need a new right in this modern age, the right to NOT be marketed to at all. It used to be an unspoken right, but with new technologies like this one, it needs to be written down somewhere. I'd like to just be able to jump on the internet and not see one ad, get any spam, register just to read an article or participate in any surveys. Is that so wrong (said in that classic Harvey Fierstein voice)? As modern citizens we have the right to a commercial free life. But that right has been erroded and many people these days don't even realize it is a right. Instead they are being blinded into thinking that businesses have a right to our money. It's a privledge for them to get money from us and they'd better bend over backwards to get even a smidgen. At least that's the way things SHOULD be.
Why is it that I'm not holding my breath to have this technology in a laptop?
Because carrying around a human being in a por with life sustaining fluids being pumped in through tubules and feeding a fake virtual world to imprint on his consciousness until he realizes that he's not living in the real world after taking the right pill is just not as portable as today's batteries.;P
Regardless of how you control the movement of the cone, there is a limit to how much air the cone will actually disturb, thus limiting the strength of the wave. So,... you might get that shitty 4 inch cone moving at precisely 20 Hz, but it's only going to sound bassy to someon the size of a peanut.
I don't know... maybe it's just me but... that looks like Windows XP with a different layout. It's not remarkably different. It doesn't even begin to approach true flexibility in UI layout and functionality. When you can theme AND chrome Windows, call me.
Once they're gone, they'll be back. From personal experience, I've seen that centralized systems always work better than multiple PCs spread all over the place in terms of reliability. So, I don't think you'll see mainframes go away that quickly AND you'll eventually see them come back. There's just too many benefits, the main one being efficient use of power. I expect that what we'll wind up seeing in the future is a "centralized" system where the OS and the applications and the data are all one entity and the entire network is one big computer.
Think about it... Back when people used to actually, literally wire programs into old time computers... all that stuff still happens in that box on by your feet or on your desk. Thin abuout how many levels and how much duplication in task there is in a PC:
You have the microcode at the processor level which is really an analog to programs. But they aren't programs for you, the user. They are programs for the CPU's infrastructure. Then the RAM... It' all over the freakin' place. It's in the CPU, on the motherboard in various places, in your DIMMs, your video card, many periphs, etc... Then you've got the BIOS which is like higher level software compared to the microcode. It's a st of single purpose applications again. But not for you... it's for your hardware. And it interfaces with the OS at some point which (in many cases these days) takes over for the BIOS adding yet another layer of software.
This time, the software that the OS is, is partially for you and partially for your hardware. If you are strictly speaking kernel-wise, then it's pretty much a bridge between user space apps (shell) and the machine. Then you have your final layer of applications which ARE for you. But will it end there? No... you've got the network protocol stacks. This is the top layer of the multilayered cake that leads to the network.
But think about it. It's ALL THE SAME THING. Over and over again at different levels with slightly different purposes. So... at some point in time, all these PCs are going to be embedded devices, or wearables, or implants or entities providing even more layers. But when you peel the onion, you're still going to see THE SAME THINGS. Over and over and over again. And on top of all of that, you are going to see the shifts back and forth from centralized to de-centralized and back again. It's part of some cosmic imperative because if you think even eeper you see it mimicked in politics, communications technology (think old time TV vs. satellite vs. over the air digital vs. WLAN based PVRs), and even the automobile vs. mass transportation.
It's some kind of cosmic rhythm that pulses through the millennia like an ethereal rave...
If you AREN'T cheating on your taxes (which you shouldn't be) then you have nothing to worry about. Frankly, they'd be doing me a favor if they tracked all my online purchases and applied the appropriate taxes. It was a pain in the ass for me to go through my e-mail receipts and figure out how much I bought in untaxed merchandise off the net. Took me a good hour and a half to go trhough it all. About the only way to keep track of it is to print everything out an I HATE paper. Keep it all electronic and have it done for me automatically and I'll be a happy camper. I don't have aproblem with paying my fair share to the system, I just have a problem working out all the crap paperwork to do it. That's why I curse tax day... It has nothing to do with them "taking" the money from me.
...Trolling for Dollars! That's what M$ and the big businesses of the U.S.A. do best. It's time to break down big business. They've had control for far too long. Much like there are labor unions, I think it's high time that we form citizen's unions that put people first, the government second and business DEAD LAST. I'm totally serious about this. Of course it won't happen because too many Americans are happy to suckle on the teat of corporate America and scrounge for the droppings they offer us. Some serious damage needs to be done to corporate America. Now.
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Yes. You are absolutely correct. That place was Babylon 5.
Sorry, you are wrong. I'm not human and I was born in 1970. Of course, I only recently found out about this. Quite a shock actually to find that out.
Speaking as a slightly advanced home user, ESX server wouldn't be of much use since it's pretty expensive and requires very expensive hardware. If we're being completely honest here, most of us do more with omputers at home than work. I run VMWare Workstation so that I can boot Win9x for the occasional app or game that doesn't run in W.I.N.E. People like me need addressing and ESX won't do it. I was kind of excited about Plex86. I've also used Dosbox to some extent (for emulation, not virtualization). But VMWare does something that we really need an inexpensive alternative for... And what better way to provide it than with a system that has a thin OS for running multiple OSes. This is becoming more the norm than the exception.
...spectacularly better performance or a lower price compared to VMware, it's of no value to me. Actually, I'm quite sorry to see the direction plex86 has gone in becuse they could have offered a nice alternative to VMware. Oddly, there doesn't seem to be any company who has hit on the idea of an OS specifically GEARED towards virtualization. I think they'd steal the show. VMware on Linux is about the closest you can get to that right now. But the perfect solution would be a thin OS with no GUI that just allows you to install and run multiple OSes simultaneously.
Just this morning, I was listening to good radio (a college station as the commercial stations play total crap now) and I heard a really well done cover of a Smiths song. It came from an obscure Smiths cover CD and was performed by a band that only has one listing on IMDB. I think you'd be hard pressed (no pun intended) to use this service to find out what song that was. More than likely it will only recognize the hottest "hits" by the latest "artists". So... that means it will succeed with the target demographic: bored teens, boring young adults, and virtually braindead 30-somethings. How distressing.
About what arest thou talking? Thine GPL hast not been confirmmed nor de-nied, injunctionations are simply the first steppe to evaluating said licennse. ;P
So which is it? Are you an "Olde Skool" troll or George W. Bush?
..a computer! And man is it supposed to do wonders fer security. It's much more flexible than machines made before it because it isn't fixed in what it does. With the appropriate instructions this consarned machine might even make coffee for you one day folks! I hear tell that this machine can do millions of things a second. One of them millions of things is monitoring your network for break-ins and infections. Hehehehe... well I'll tell ya, what good is a machine that can do a million things a seconds or more when I've only got two hands and a gun! But, these here innovators at some new place that just set up a shingle in town are trying to get folks interested in something called Winders. They say it's more secure than Fort Knox on a Orange Alert day in June! I guess in some way, it kind of gives you millions of hands to control all the levers and pulleys in this here computer but you only have to use one or two hands. Them smart alecks might just have something there. But then again what do I know? I'm just a simple farmboy from Columbus Ohio. (That's A-hya to you furiners!) Bee-sides... what the heck am I supposed to do with my gun rack when these odd little boxes ain't big enough to stick one on 'em? Oh yeah, I also heard there's also some commie idiots who's got designs on the machine as well. Some guys named Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman. I'm tellin' ya, I just don't like the sound a them two boy's names. What kinda names are Torvalds and Stallman anyways? I don't think they're good christian Americans. We gotta keep this country safe from them there terrorists and if'n security is gonna be a big deal, then we can't be havin' none o them un-christian gypsie makin' these machines! It just wouldn't be secure! Something's rotten in Denmark if'n ya ask me. So we have to be careful and make sure no dirty commie or devil worshipper gets their hands on one of these here computers. After all if the devil will find work for idle hands, imagine what satan would do with millions of idle hands in a computer!
[Pop tongue out of cheek now]
The barbarians of Earth don't believe in science. They only care about conquest. I can't wait until Planet X returns and the Niburu come back and put the filthy humans in their rightful place. For the record, I'm not human.
Cygwin is dying. Netcraft confirmed it, Cygwin is dying. The beleaguered Cygwin community... ;P
It's good of you to bring that up. The problem is that fuckers like the guy above aren't going to even take them into consideration. To people like him, the original inhabitants of the Americas were "heathen savages" and were "justifiably liberated" from their "pagan ways". Aren't the westerners just the biggest load of hypocrites you've ever run into?
Our president and most of the republicans in political offices across this land are proof of that. So the REAL question is... is learning communication from chimps a good thing? ;P
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *The RIAA community when recently IDC confirmed that *The RIAA accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Slashdot Troll survey which plainly states that *The RIAA has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *The RIAA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Music Industry Sales test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *The RIAA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *The RIAA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *The RIAA because *The RIAA is dying. Things are looking very bad for *The RIAA. As many of us are already aware, *The RIAA continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Warner Elektra Asylum is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its listeners.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
An RIAA leader states that there are 7000 consumers of WEA merchandise. How many users of the RIAA are there? Let's see. The number of WEA versus Columbia sales is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Columbia consumers. The RIAA saless figures are about half of the volume of Columbia sales. Therefore there are about 700 consumers of RIAA merchandise. A recent article put The RIAA at about 80 percent of the total music industry market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 RIAA consumers. This is consistent with the number of RIAA purchases vs. illegal downloads.
Due to the troubles of K-Tel, abysmal sales and so on, WEA went out of business and was taken over by AOL who sell another troubled product. Now AOL is also dying, its corpse soon to be turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that The RIAA has steadily declined in market share. The RIAA is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The RIAA is to survive at all it will be among old business model holdouts. The RIAA continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The RIAA is dead.
Fact: The RIAA is dead
Next Week: Someone tell Jack Valenti that he's been dead for the past twenty years or... OMIGAWD HE'S A ZOMBIE!!!!
There are plenty of Windows folks who REALLY know about computers, but then again... they ALSO know Unix/Linux and maybe VMS, or even Macintosh. They also realize the intrinsic values of each OS and utilize them where needed. And they don't have attitudes about being know-it-alls like that fucking goon NineNine. He only knows enough about computers to throw up some lameass porn site (for a better site, go to http://sublimedirectory.com) and whore himself out for more money than he's worth. NineNine isn't a businessman, he's a fucking snakeoil salesman. And frankly, he needs to shut the hell up.
His main gripe is that if he can't deal with it to further his chiquanery (because he doesn't have the intellect to actually learn about computers instead of pushing buttons and using WYSIWYG editors), then it must suck. He's not into computers because they interest him. He's into them because he's found a way to use them to cheat people out of money. He's just a con artist. Fucking lameass bitch.
Don't bother responding to NineNine unless you intend to troll. He's too much of a pussy assed bitch to ever respond because he knows how flawed his "arguments" are. It only takes about five seconds to break that bitch.
Are you really as much of a STUPIDASS as I thought? Wow. That's really fucking amazing. Get the fuck out of here you fucking lameass bastard.
You don't know shit about computers, do you dilhole? I guess that Fisher-Price OS you use has protected you from really getting familiar with how computers work. BTW... how's the credit debt coming along? Still digging yourself out that hole?
Why ask Y? ;P
...the business bastards don't try and use it to provide us with "new and innovative marketing experiences, I'm OK with this. We need a new right in this modern age, the right to NOT be marketed to at all. It used to be an unspoken right, but with new technologies like this one, it needs to be written down somewhere. I'd like to just be able to jump on the internet and not see one ad, get any spam, register just to read an article or participate in any surveys. Is that so wrong (said in that classic Harvey Fierstein voice)? As modern citizens we have the right to a commercial free life. But that right has been erroded and many people these days don't even realize it is a right. Instead they are being blinded into thinking that businesses have a right to our money. It's a privledge for them to get money from us and they'd better bend over backwards to get even a smidgen. At least that's the way things SHOULD be.
Damn. That was supposed to be 'pod' not 'por'. Oh well... I have FAILED IT yet again.
Because carrying around a human being in a por with life sustaining fluids being pumped in through tubules and feeding a fake virtual world to imprint on his consciousness until he realizes that he's not living in the real world after taking the right pill is just not as portable as today's batteries. ;P
Regardless of how you control the movement of the cone, there is a limit to how much air the cone will actually disturb, thus limiting the strength of the wave. So,... you might get that shitty 4 inch cone moving at precisely 20 Hz, but it's only going to sound bassy to someon the size of a peanut.
I don't know... maybe it's just me but... that looks like Windows XP with a different layout. It's not remarkably different. It doesn't even begin to approach true flexibility in UI layout and functionality. When you can theme AND chrome Windows, call me.
Once they're gone, they'll be back. From personal experience, I've seen that centralized systems always work better than multiple PCs spread all over the place in terms of reliability. So, I don't think you'll see mainframes go away that quickly AND you'll eventually see them come back. There's just too many benefits, the main one being efficient use of power. I expect that what we'll wind up seeing in the future is a "centralized" system where the OS and the applications and the data are all one entity and the entire network is one big computer.
Think about it... Back when people used to actually, literally wire programs into old time computers... all that stuff still happens in that box on by your feet or on your desk. Thin abuout how many levels and how much duplication in task there is in a PC:
You have the microcode at the processor level which is really an analog to programs. But they aren't programs for you, the user. They are programs for the CPU's infrastructure. Then the RAM... It' all over the freakin' place. It's in the CPU, on the motherboard in various places, in your DIMMs, your video card, many periphs, etc... Then you've got the BIOS which is like higher level software compared to the microcode. It's a st of single purpose applications again. But not for you... it's for your hardware. And it interfaces with the OS at some point which (in many cases these days) takes over for the BIOS adding yet another layer of software.
This time, the software that the OS is, is partially for you and partially for your hardware. If you are strictly speaking kernel-wise, then it's pretty much a bridge between user space apps (shell) and the machine. Then you have your final layer of applications which ARE for you. But will it end there? No... you've got the network protocol stacks. This is the top layer of the multilayered cake that leads to the network.
But think about it. It's ALL THE SAME THING. Over and over again at different levels with slightly different purposes. So... at some point in time, all these PCs are going to be embedded devices, or wearables, or implants or entities providing even more layers. But when you peel the onion, you're still going to see THE SAME THINGS. Over and over and over again. And on top of all of that, you are going to see the shifts back and forth from centralized to de-centralized and back again. It's part of some cosmic imperative because if you think even eeper you see it mimicked in politics, communications technology (think old time TV vs. satellite vs. over the air digital vs. WLAN based PVRs), and even the automobile vs. mass transportation.
It's some kind of cosmic rhythm that pulses through the millennia like an ethereal rave...
If you AREN'T cheating on your taxes (which you shouldn't be) then you have nothing to worry about. Frankly, they'd be doing me a favor if they tracked all my online purchases and applied the appropriate taxes. It was a pain in the ass for me to go through my e-mail receipts and figure out how much I bought in untaxed merchandise off the net. Took me a good hour and a half to go trhough it all. About the only way to keep track of it is to print everything out an I HATE paper. Keep it all electronic and have it done for me automatically and I'll be a happy camper. I don't have aproblem with paying my fair share to the system, I just have a problem working out all the crap paperwork to do it. That's why I curse tax day... It has nothing to do with them "taking" the money from me.
...Trolling for Dollars! That's what M$ and the big businesses of the U.S.A. do best. It's time to break down big business. They've had control for far too long. Much like there are labor unions, I think it's high time that we form citizen's unions that put people first, the government second and business DEAD LAST. I'm totally serious about this. Of course it won't happen because too many Americans are happy to suckle on the teat of corporate America and scrounge for the droppings they offer us. Some serious damage needs to be done to corporate America. Now.