www.groklaw.net. Pamela Jones is the Empress, the rightful dispenser of knowledge on who goeth there regarding Linux, the Law, and the great game called Follow The Money.
From 1981 to about 1990 I ran a series of Vax/VMS nodes. They all had true multitasking, in fact were rather good at it. Not just from the operating system; around mid-80's their symmetric multiprocessor systems (e.g. 6340's etc.) were rather popular. And I think IBM had a clunkier version earlier than that, and of course the CDC 6000 series back in their Cray heyday all ran multiple processors with pipelined instruction queues. Intel was fairly late to the party.
Full set of Tom Swift Jr. still on the shelf. I loved the rather poetic and chewy names he used for his inventions "Ultrasonic Cycloplane!" ZOMG!...and I've been blaming the Brungarians for what's wrong in the world ever since.
Start with one healthy server, well configured for memory and disk, and put VMWare ESX on top of it. Acquire appliances (self-contained virtual environments -- there was a listing of them on the VMWare site iirc) for most of your basic needs - CRM, Portal, etc.
Build virtual servers for what you need and run on that one piece of hardware. Then it's pretty painless to grow -- as you add hardware, you just boot up the virtual machine on the new box. By virtualising everything from the start, you miss a lot of aggro.
That's comparing two different things. Can you upgrade parts of a PS1 to run PS3 games? no. But you can upgrade your computer to run newer games, or if you aren't too into games, you can keep your old PC running for years to just do regular tasks.
One word: Bit decay [/irony].(n) The principle that any working system, if left to itself long enough, will eventually cease to work.
Yup. I call it the "luck tax". I buy the occasional lottery ticket not out of any expectation of winning, but out of the sure knowledge that someone, somewhere, will win, and I will have contributed to their fortune acquired completely without reference to an MBA.
This will not kill Boeing or Airbus. Unlike cheap crap that people buy off ebay, the commercial airplane market in the West is quite image sensitive and financially and managerially cautious. They are not going to switch fleets to cheaper Chinese aircraft just to save a few dollars...
Oh my, what a statement. We're not talking about eBay here, we're talking about unit costs of many many $M. Image conscious or no, they also have to worry about their image to the board of directors and stockholders. Of course they'll switch fleets if there's enough money in it.
You're quite right about them being cautious, but the entire culture of large enterprises is based on risk-adjusted-return. They'll weigh everything they can, and bring in experts to help weigh them, but eventually the risk of being perceived as 'cheap' needs to be balanced against their market share; market share that can be hugely enhanced if they can, by purchasing equivalent quality merchandise (with guarantees! Yup) at a significant reduction in outlay. I.e. cheaper planes == cheaper fares == more market share == more revenue == better stock price == fatter investors happier with their Board.
Your argument, hand on heart, sounds just like the arguments I used trying to convince my friends that people wouldn't outsource software to India.
I was wrong.
There are definitely huge issues toward outsourcing things (Qantas isn't having a good run with that at the moment - good idea at the time, hey? Forget engines, they're having trouble keeping oxygen bottles current) and their guarantees may end up being worthless, but they're convincing on the spreadsheets and boilerplates of the contracts when they're first inked.
Indeed the corporation now wields greater power than the nation-state.
That was the theme of the Heinlein novel "Friday". Well, that and a bit of genetic engineering, but it was another bit of Heinlein forecast that came through. I wonder how much else he's got hidden...
Honestly, love him or hate him, reading through Heinlein's novels is sometimes a bit like reading a more coherent Nostradamus, one who studied logic instead of funny mushrooms.
There are actually 3D printers that can do metal, with a sintering process.
Aye, they can. "Sintering" described as melting something until it's a bit runny, but not totally liquid. Combination of bronze powder and epoxy powder heated with lasers seems to be the go.
Although it may be a few years before "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot".
'Cept if it was a demonstration to China, why do it 35 mi off the coast of LA? It seems unlikely to be seen from China there.
Because there would be no point in launching from there if it didn't imply it could go anywhere. And the Chinese will have known about it 5 minutes after launch.
China is already at war with us, but it is an economic war. They wouldn't fuck this up by using their military except to defend themselves, or invade Taiwan. And yes, they are already planning the invasion of Taiwan
...Which leads to another interesting question. What was the original exemption threshold when the US Income Tax was first implemented? How close is that figure to today's, in terms of what percentage of people fell below it? Was it originally a tax mostly on rich people, or was everyone affected?
Not in total agreement with this. Better to be able to monitor, and most SCADA endpoints can override messages that want to send settings outside safe operational parameters. You might try Logica - they have a very good SCADA team (I used to work for them).
Proper availability is generally achieved through redundancy, not silly stunts like this.
Proper availability is generally achieved by multiply-redundant, geographically distributed, block-replicated silly stunts like this. Who says it's just one bunker?
Would be interesting to watch this one develop, I think. A lot of software patents under litigation now are unbelievably vague. And as always, there's something interesting on the subject over at Groklaw.
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www.groklaw.net. Pamela Jones is the Empress, the rightful dispenser of knowledge on who goeth there regarding Linux, the Law, and the great game called Follow The Money.
From 1981 to about 1990 I ran a series of Vax/VMS nodes. They all had true multitasking, in fact were rather good at it. Not just from the operating system; around mid-80's their symmetric multiprocessor systems (e.g. 6340's etc.) were rather popular. And I think IBM had a clunkier version earlier than that, and of course the CDC 6000 series back in their Cray heyday all ran multiple processors with pipelined instruction queues. Intel was fairly late to the party.
Full set of Tom Swift Jr. still on the shelf. I loved the rather poetic and chewy names he used for his inventions "Ultrasonic Cycloplane!" ZOMG! ...and I've been blaming the Brungarians for what's wrong in the world ever since.
Now where's the esteemed Mr. Winkler? I'm hungry!
Start with one healthy server, well configured for memory and disk, and put VMWare ESX on top of it. Acquire appliances (self-contained virtual environments -- there was a listing of them on the VMWare site iirc) for most of your basic needs - CRM, Portal, etc.
Build virtual servers for what you need and run on that one piece of hardware. Then it's pretty painless to grow -- as you add hardware, you just boot up the virtual machine on the new box. By virtualising everything from the start, you miss a lot of aggro.
One word: Bit decay [/irony].(n) The principle that any working system, if left to itself long enough, will eventually cease to work.
Yup. I call it the "luck tax". I buy the occasional lottery ticket not out of any expectation of winning, but out of the sure knowledge that someone, somewhere, will win, and I will have contributed to their fortune acquired completely without reference to an MBA.
Marbury vs. Madison, wasn't it?
Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
Oh my, what a statement. We're not talking about eBay here, we're talking about unit costs of many many $M. Image conscious or no, they also have to worry about their image to the board of directors and stockholders. Of course they'll switch fleets if there's enough money in it.
You're quite right about them being cautious, but the entire culture of large enterprises is based on risk-adjusted-return. They'll weigh everything they can, and bring in experts to help weigh them, but eventually the risk of being perceived as 'cheap' needs to be balanced against their market share; market share that can be hugely enhanced if they can, by purchasing equivalent quality merchandise (with guarantees! Yup) at a significant reduction in outlay. I.e. cheaper planes == cheaper fares == more market share == more revenue == better stock price == fatter investors happier with their Board.
Your argument, hand on heart, sounds just like the arguments I used trying to convince my friends that people wouldn't outsource software to India.
I was wrong.
There are definitely huge issues toward outsourcing things (Qantas isn't having a good run with that at the moment - good idea at the time, hey? Forget engines, they're having trouble keeping oxygen bottles current) and their guarantees may end up being worthless, but they're convincing on the spreadsheets and boilerplates of the contracts when they're first inked.
That was the theme of the Heinlein novel "Friday". Well, that and a bit of genetic engineering, but it was another bit of Heinlein forecast that came through. I wonder how much else he's got hidden ...
Honestly, love him or hate him, reading through Heinlein's novels is sometimes a bit like reading a more coherent Nostradamus, one who studied logic instead of funny mushrooms.
Aye, they can. "Sintering" described as melting something until it's a bit runny, but not totally liquid. Combination of bronze powder and epoxy powder heated with lasers seems to be the go.
Although it may be a few years before "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot".
...Its not like China is going to be impressed because of some additional sub-launched missile.
Think of it as the strategic equivalent of a "sternly worded letter".
'Cept if it was a demonstration to China, why do it 35 mi off the coast of LA? It seems unlikely to be seen from China there.
Because there would be no point in launching from there if it didn't imply it could go anywhere. And the Chinese will have known about it 5 minutes after launch.
Course manouvers. Contrails aren't that wide and don't appear singly.
You can't say they aren't great capitalists, though. (Note the little "add to basket" icon). http://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/bjgreatwall/product-detailNnxEtvQUomHI/China-Long-March-Launch-Vehicle-Performances.html
...Which leads to another interesting question. What was the original exemption threshold when the US Income Tax was first implemented? How close is that figure to today's, in terms of what percentage of people fell below it? Was it originally a tax mostly on rich people, or was everyone affected?
Not in total agreement with this. Better to be able to monitor, and most SCADA endpoints can override messages that want to send settings outside safe operational parameters. You might try Logica - they have a very good SCADA team (I used to work for them).
I thought "making available" was not theft?
Proper availability is generally achieved by multiply-redundant, geographically distributed, block-replicated silly stunts like this. Who says it's just one bunker?
Helps to have an antenna segment that's an integral multiple of the wavelength in length.
If they're sterile neutrinos, will they be able to reproduce the results?
Have you ever run a laser through a magnifying glass? Try it, you'll be surprised.
...off the roof of a building!
Catch It And You Can Keep It!! -- Firesign Theatre
Would be interesting to watch this one develop, I think. A lot of software patents under litigation now are unbelievably vague. And as always, there's something interesting on the subject over at Groklaw.
It's the publishers' fault. Did you know that the word "gullible" has been removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?