God(TM)'s lawyers just sent me a cease-and-desist letter regarding the unlawful proliferation of my genes.
Isn't this otherwise known as a death certificate?
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Back in the day, I used to go to Collins Surplus in Cedar Rapids. This is the Collins that makes aircraft avionics and a bunch of radio-related products. I remember they had stacks of HP o-scopes from floor to ceiling, and you could always find some oddwad prototype (or pieces thereof) in the parts bins.
My reaction was: You've just found out that everyone on the planet will be dead in two months. And you're afraid to tell, because...things might get worse?
You could build one of these with a couple ASICs and stick it in an enclosure the size of an external drive case. Hell, you could probably mount it directly to a floppy drive and stick it in a standard slot.
IBM's new chips (Power4) actually have two CPUs on one die. I believe the version that Apple is rumored to be considering (PPC 970) will be a single-CPU version, though.
6) The ability to jump into the debugger at any point in the program, even when I hadn't planned to before running it.
I used to do this under VMS. Hit ^C at some point during the execution of your code, then type "debug". It would pop up the debugger and load your source and position it at the current execution point.
This could be especially handy when working with third-party apps. You wouldn't have the source, of course, but you could often get a stack trace and you could always slip into assembler mode and examine the instructions and registers directly, and single-step an instruction at a time if you needed.
"Preposterous assertion"? I was talking about its 64-bit performance. It clocks out around 1 IPC, far lower than than an Alpha (which is at 1.5-2.0).
You may as well consider the Itanium a desktop processor -- the competition in the server space is going to be too much for it. Hell, they've already lost to AMD in the supercomputer space, I doubt they can compete against IBM in the midrange.
Given the lame performance of the Itanium, AMD shouldn't have much trouble. Plus, the Itanium doesn't run 32-bit code natively, so unless someone ships an emulation layer, you'll not only have to buy a new CPU & mobo, you'll have to shell out for replacement apps (which may not even exist for some time). And if you're going to run under an emulation layer, IBM's new 970 chips run faster than an Itanium...
Amen! I still use my 200MHz PPro (running NetBSD) to serve my personal web site. It runs the latest Apache, Tomcat and PHP4 just fine. (Well, mostly, there's no native JVM so Java apps have some quirks.)
I think I'd rather take my chance on the leather armor when I finally get my motorcycle. Thousands of moto-racers can't be wrong:)
Heh. I race my car, and there are often motorcycle races at adjacent tracks. We like to refer to them as "the motorcycle and helicopter show" because a racer is airlifted to the local hospital at least once a day. I don't care how much your leathers and helmet cost, or how much kevlar is involved, when you unload on a bike at 100+, things get grim pretty quick.
Nice architecture (reminiscent of the VAX in many ways), but I think it took them until rev N of the mask to get most of the bugs out. By then, most of their partners had either moved on or gone out of business. There was a British company that made some 32532 systems (Whitechapel MG-1?).
Just what you need with a CPU that dissipates close to 85W -- a class-A tube circuit. I predict the market for 400W+ power supplies is really going to open up...
Oracle often gets used because the company has a significant amount of expertise available (and invested) in it. You often see companies with DBA teams that administer several dozen databases. When a new project comes along, they just create the new DB on one of the big servers and stick a new entry in the backup schedule, and it's a done deal. Of course, if it's a mission-critical app they advise during development and do performance monitoring and such, but if it's a small internal app with a couple dozen users, it's pretty much a fire-and-forget kind of deal. So you wind up using an enterprise-class transaction environment to collate timesheets every week.
Building a computer consulting business takes approximately 2 letters and about 1 day of work (here in the UK).
Registering a computer business may take a couple of letters, but actually building (i.e., establishing a clientele, making a profit) takes a lot more than that!
I can vouch for that. My hands have been bothering me after working at the office using a generic Compaq keyboard, but I can go home and work on my Avant Stellar for hours and not have any trouble whatsoever. I'm using the misnamed ctrl2cap utility to map the caps lock key to a control key on my work keyboard, which helps somewhat, but my hands still feel achy at the end of the day.
Bah. I once wrote a couple hundred lines of code while sitting in a bar. I had an idea, grabbed a band flyer out of the trash, borrowed a pen from a barmaid and cranked it out over a couple of beers. Real Programmers write code any time, any where, on any thing.
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every tenth man in the unit was randomly selected
Not very random if it was every tenth man...
God(TM)'s lawyers just sent me a cease-and-desist letter regarding the unlawful proliferation of my genes.
Isn't this otherwise known as a death certificate?
Back in the day, I used to go to Collins Surplus in Cedar Rapids. This is the Collins that makes aircraft avionics and a bunch of radio-related products. I remember they had stacks of HP o-scopes from floor to ceiling, and you could always find some oddwad prototype (or pieces thereof) in the parts bins.
...our dragons have balls!
My reaction was: You've just found out that everyone on the planet will be dead in two months. And you're afraid to tell, because...things might get worse?
You could build one of these with a couple ASICs and stick it in an enclosure the size of an external drive case. Hell, you could probably mount it directly to a floppy drive and stick it in a standard slot.
I don't understand how the Segway, which weighs 69lbs can be safer than a skateboard, or rollerblades
Um, maybe because it has brakes?
IBM's new chips (Power4) actually have two CPUs on one die. I believe the version that Apple is rumored to be considering (PPC 970) will be a single-CPU version, though.
...my wife's Audi wagon...
6) The ability to jump into the debugger at any point in the program, even when I hadn't planned to before running it.
I used to do this under VMS. Hit ^C at some point during the execution of your code, then type "debug". It would pop up the debugger and load your source and position it at the current execution point.
This could be especially handy when working with third-party apps. You wouldn't have the source, of course, but you could often get a stack trace and you could always slip into assembler mode and examine the instructions and registers directly, and single-step an instruction at a time if you needed.
If you enjoy very tight deadlines and having to cut corners due to time and budget restrictions then that's all well and good.
So how is this different from any other development job?
The pay is crap too
Ah, now I see...
Let's face it, Linux IS easier
Two words: package system
"Preposterous assertion"? I was talking about its 64-bit performance. It clocks out around 1 IPC, far lower than than an Alpha (which is at 1.5-2.0).
You may as well consider the Itanium a desktop processor -- the competition in the server space is going to be too much for it. Hell, they've already lost to AMD in the supercomputer space, I doubt they can compete against IBM in the midrange.
Given the lame performance of the Itanium, AMD shouldn't have much trouble. Plus, the Itanium doesn't run 32-bit code natively, so unless someone ships an emulation layer, you'll not only have to buy a new CPU & mobo, you'll have to shell out for replacement apps (which may not even exist for some time). And if you're going to run under an emulation layer, IBM's new 970 chips run faster than an Itanium...
Yes, but is it still legal in sixteen states?
XB-70 pictures here
Amen! I still use my 200MHz PPro (running NetBSD) to serve my personal web site. It runs the latest Apache, Tomcat and PHP4 just fine. (Well, mostly, there's no native JVM so Java apps have some quirks.)
I think I'd rather take my chance on the leather armor when I finally get my motorcycle. Thousands of moto-racers can't be wrong :)
Heh. I race my car, and there are often motorcycle races at adjacent tracks. We like to refer to them as "the motorcycle and helicopter show" because a racer is airlifted to the local hospital at least once a day. I don't care how much your leathers and helmet cost, or how much kevlar is involved, when you unload on a bike at 100+, things get grim pretty quick.
National Semiconductor's 32032 and 32332 chips
Actually, the 32-bit version was the 32532.
Nice architecture (reminiscent of the VAX in many ways), but I think it took them until rev N of the mask to get most of the bugs out. By then, most of their partners had either moved on or gone out of business. There was a British company that made some 32532 systems (Whitechapel MG-1?).
if you can break out your high-speed numerical pieces into small bits of code, it's relatively easy to call them from perl.
s/perl/Java/g
Just what you need with a CPU that dissipates close to 85W -- a class-A tube circuit. I predict the market for 400W+ power supplies is really going to open up...
Oracle often gets used because the company has a significant amount of expertise available (and invested) in it. You often see companies with DBA teams that administer several dozen databases. When a new project comes along, they just create the new DB on one of the big servers and stick a new entry in the backup schedule, and it's a done deal. Of course, if it's a mission-critical app they advise during development and do performance monitoring and such, but if it's a small internal app with a couple dozen users, it's pretty much a fire-and-forget kind of deal. So you wind up using an enterprise-class transaction environment to collate timesheets every week.
Building a computer consulting business takes approximately 2 letters and about 1 day of work (here in the UK).
Registering a computer business may take a couple of letters, but actually building (i.e., establishing a clientele, making a profit) takes a lot more than that!
I can vouch for that. My hands have been bothering me after working at the office using a generic Compaq keyboard, but I can go home and work on my Avant Stellar for hours and not have any trouble whatsoever. I'm using the misnamed ctrl2cap utility to map the caps lock key to a control key on my work keyboard, which helps somewhat, but my hands still feel achy at the end of the day.
nothing like real world conditions
Bah. I once wrote a couple hundred lines of code while sitting in a bar. I had an idea, grabbed a band flyer out of the trash, borrowed a pen from a barmaid and cranked it out over a couple of beers. Real Programmers write code any time, any where, on any thing.