Given the poplarity of I & III vis-à-vis II you can expect the key artifact to be another Judeo-Christian thingy. That means high probability of a setting in the Middle East.
Well, if its the 50's, you could set it in Brazil; lots of Nazi's hiding out (and you could always go with the old "That wasn't Hitler it was a double"; there's old indian ruins and the like, and if the Nazi's were collecting Judeo-Christian artifacts, they might have taken some with them to Brazil.
That would make sense. After all, IBM are a hardware company first and foremost.
I would say IBM is a services company first and foremost. But their big enough that they're really about a dozen companies all working o their own thing. The DB2 team is as happy to sell you DB2 on Solaris as on AIX, or Windoes, or Linux, or IBM Mainframes. (I been pitched by the DB2/Solaris sales team).
This is not to say the hardware folks don't do a lot for their bottom line, but as they sell you $100,000 of AIX equipment, they'll sell you $200,000 of consultant time to help you set it up, migrate databases, integrate you other systems, etc.
What they are doing is merging Linux into AIX. Obviously they won't be doing this at the kernel level (they don't want AIX to become Open Source), but they are looking to make it "compatible" so that Linux admins are comfortable running AIX systems and package sthat can be compiled on Linux can also be readily recompiled for their PPC platform. This gets them smoother integration with lower end machines (Your linux app outgrowing that SMP i386 box? migrating it to our 32 cpu 64bit monster is easy!) and ready source of admins. Why re-learn all your admins tasks to move to Solaris? Go AIX!
But also note they ported Linux to their big assed mainframes, not AIX.
See, I'd figure IBM as a more likely candidate to buy out SUN.
Exactly what does IBM get by buying out Sun?
* Fast RISC chips? IBM's already got them and they're incompatible.
* High Powered Unix? AIX is pretty good, and they've already set a path towards Linux, not Solaris
* Big development force? Well, there is this, though I'm sure IBM could rehire some of its folks or some Mad Skillz linux hackers that would have a more appropriate skill set.
* Tech to do massive SMP? Maybe, but they got mad Parallel processing skillz and bought Sequent out for their killer NUMA tech which scales better anyway (Shame they can't make DB2 run on it)
* 5.5 Billion in cash? Ok, this is a nice incentive:^)
What I see as far more likely is a cross OEM deal with Apple. AIX will port to Xserves and OS X will port to p640/660/680/etc real easy since they're all CHRP boxes (more or less).
Apple get proven high end servers, IBM gets quality low end "fill" servers/laptops/desktops to round out their AIX product line.
Sun will need to embrace a similar Solaris>>Linux strategy or AIX will suck market share as folks realize AIX is the best upgrade path off of Linux (less retraining and porting, more support for advanced availability, etc.)
Is the FTC required to knock on folks door and inform them they are about to start gathering evidence? Why does a spam bill need to be passed for this?
More and more will say goodbye to Tivo (unless they can hack and put back in the 30 second skips!)
Its always interesting to see the non-Tivo users reactions to these stories, they are usually so off base to the real world.
I enabled my 30 second skip once. Its novelty wears off quick, and realisticly it doesn't save much time. You wind up going to far and trying to back up to the begining of the show, which burns the few seconds you save. Besides, it takes over the "advance" button, which I'd much rather have
When a comercial comes on, I hit FF twice, which pops it into 8x mode, in this mode 2 minutes of commercials takes about 15 seconds. If I really cared, I could hit it a third time (60x mode) and skip it in a few seconds, but I actually like to scan the comercials to see if its something I'm interested in. Unless the viewing comercials has the same effect on you as porn on fundamentalist Christians, its just not that big a deal.
Take away 30 second skips and folks might bitch, but I doubt anyone would stop recommending them (I'm about to get my parents 1 or 2 DirectTivo's, I'll be thinking about adding $80 120GB hard drives, not 30 second skip)
Sometimes I wonder... why not just buy a character and spend the rest of your time doing something more productive. After all, if you take your salary at an hourly rate, you're really losing money by playing games all day/night/forever.
If you take your salary at an hourly rate, why watch TV, why play with the kids, why sleep, why read a book?
Its a game, its about enjoying yourself, relaxing, exercising your mind in a different way. Just try to avoid crawling into your basement and shunning human contact for days at a time.
Wrong - as they point out in the article, these "optimizations" are usually reductions in quality. They don't just improve performance.
No, because most reviewers would point out any serious image problems (usually they take screen shots as well). What's at issue here is that with the "optimizations", the card isn't doing what its supposed to be doing, its using shortcuts that won't be detected due to the known path of the benchmark. If it were a game, it would be less of an issue because it would either work or it wouldn't.
Image a benchmark that calculated pi to 10,000 digits ten million times then exited. You could optimize it by realizing that it never actually used the values it calculated and "optimize" the entire program to a NOP (This has been done:^). Imagine the speed up! But it invalidates the benchmark, because you didn't do what you were supposed to do.
Or a Mongol training course where the wall was out of sight of the judges. Horde A cheats and runs around the wall so they get a better time than Horde B, who goes over it. When Gengis brings Horde A to invade China he gets slaughters because Horde A isn't very good at climbing walls, esp. Great Walls, despite they better time. Fortunately, Gengis had spies scretly watching the walls (this is whey he is Khan) and slaughters Horde A.
Thus concludes todays episode of "History Bastardizations Great and Small"
True or false questions should not be followed by a list of four choices, none of which are "true" or "false."
True or False questions are always be Pre-pended with (T or F). Trust me, I tried putting True down for an essay question once and it didn't work.
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As poor of a precident as it sets, they continue to look out for themselves in the short-term, rather than looking at the whole industry, and what effect it will have in the long-term
I don't think "Take one for the team" works in the corporate environment. If you spend $250,000 to risk setting a precedent and succeed, you're a quarter million down on the competition. IF you pay $100,000 to make that go away for sure, and there's a chance they go sue your competitor next, you're only down $100,000 on the competition and theres a chance they'll have to make the same deal or worse. Now, if the industry chooses to band together against a common cause (for a mutual defense fund of sorts), that a different matter.
Personally, I think IBM will 1) string it out as long as possible with their staff lawyers. 2) Give up the Unix label if forced, because its of questionable value in their new "Linux compatible" world
Maybe because most hackers are crackers? Nobody seems to hack a webpage to advocate the funk music or hip-hop lifestyle -- it's always about cracker type things.
I don't even know what you are talking about. A cracker is pretty much by definition also a hacker, but a hacker is generally someone who experiments with computers as a hobby. Which means almost all of Linux was written by hackers. Drivers that were written without the aid of the manufacturers were "hacked". The current environment of equating hackers with "bad" is media nonsense.
He suggest that '..compared to other forms of recreational activity that could be enjoyed during work breaks, computer gaming has the greatest chance to hone skills useful for productivity in the workplace.'
Exactly what useful skills am I honing? Mouse skills? Spatial relations? Ye olde Hand-I co-ordination
If anything, it increases my odds of going blind, getting carpal tunnel syndrome, and losing social skills, (Thou it might help my 733t h4x0rz r4p).
Why does everybody assume the only reason to build a PPC computer is to try to run MacOS without buying Mac hardware? Its a fast processor that draws very little power, meaning silent computers are quite possible. And since Linux is readily available for the platform, its not like there isn't a good OS available.
Of course, so far it seems like I'd be far better off buying an iBook or eMac as far as form factor/price/speed/build quality goes and just loading linux on it.
Yes, of course. Because as we all know, the people who enforce Apple's licensing agreements and the people who work on the assembly line in Taiwan are the same group of folks. Every minute spent doing legal stuff is a minute NOT spent producing new and better computers, right?
Yeah, but I bet for the cost of one of those legal nitwits they could employ half the population of whatever south asian country they are building those 970's in.
They are blacklisted as they are found. Personally, I suspect these blacklists are more useful to the spammers than the admins, since it provides an easy way to get info on what servers are vulnrable, but hey, thats just me.
Personally, I think the huge quantities of bounced mail, high load, etc. a much better encouragement to fix the problem than the remote possibility that something would bounce.
what is going to happen to the ability in Internet Explorer and Netscape (and other browsers), where if you just type in one word, it will try it first with.com, then with.net and other extensions?
I was under the impression that only.com was tried. The progression goes something like:
word
word.default.domain (If defined, I believe this is in the resolve spec. so if I 'ping mail' it will look up mail.ephilone.com)
www.word.com
Though I believe nowadays they don't bother with that last step and just dump you straight to their search engines. Nowadays its all about how to redirect traffic to your search engine. Thank god I can turn that feature off.
The patent covers looking up two or more potential domain names at once, so if I looked up ePhil.com and ePhil.net at the same time I would be violating it. Just resolving IP addresses is something else entirely.
Misleading topic heading.
Yes, Slashdot is/has decended to the ranks of the NY Post, no need for accuracy when you can just Troll. Its a shame because the patent is one of those blindingly stupid and obvious things. But I bet there's no prior art because this is the sort of thing a registrara needs to do, and prior to 1998, there weren't any that handled > 1 TLD besides Verisign.
I wonder if this falls under the "abuse of a state granted monopoly"
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That last 6 set the evil bits.
Worse than nothing. last night a racoon got in my garbage and now my neighbors are bitching. Dammit! Where's that stockpile of DDT!
PLease not ethe heavy use of SARCASM in both posts
Well, if its the 50's, you could set it in Brazil; lots of Nazi's hiding out (and you could always go with the old "That wasn't Hitler it was a double"; there's old indian ruins and the like, and if the Nazi's were collecting Judeo-Christian artifacts, they might have taken some with them to Brazil.
I would say IBM is a services company first and foremost. But their big enough that they're really about a dozen companies all working o their own thing. The DB2 team is as happy to sell you DB2 on Solaris as on AIX, or Windoes, or Linux, or IBM Mainframes. (I been pitched by the DB2/Solaris sales team).
This is not to say the hardware folks don't do a lot for their bottom line, but as they sell you $100,000 of AIX equipment, they'll sell you $200,000 of consultant time to help you set it up, migrate databases, integrate you other systems, etc.
Maybe we need a PR icon for this?
Sure, they only support it for twenty four hours after you purchase it.
But also note they ported Linux to their big assed mainframes, not AIX.
Exactly what does IBM get by buying out Sun?
* Fast RISC chips? IBM's already got them and they're incompatible.
* High Powered Unix? AIX is pretty good, and they've already set a path towards Linux, not Solaris
* Big development force? Well, there is this, though I'm sure IBM could rehire some of its folks or some Mad Skillz linux hackers that would have a more appropriate skill set.
* Tech to do massive SMP? Maybe, but they got mad Parallel processing skillz and bought Sequent out for their killer NUMA tech which scales better anyway (Shame they can't make DB2 run on it)
* 5.5 Billion in cash? Ok, this is a nice incentive :^)
What I see as far more likely is a cross OEM deal with Apple. AIX will port to Xserves and OS X will port to p640/660/680/etc real easy since they're all CHRP boxes (more or less).
Apple get proven high end servers, IBM gets quality low end "fill" servers/laptops/desktops to round out their AIX product line.
Sun will need to embrace a similar Solaris>>Linux strategy or AIX will suck market share as folks realize AIX is the best upgrade path off of Linux (less retraining and porting, more support for advanced availability, etc.)
The NSA is a secretive government agency, but it too is not secret (though they like to pretend)
A secret government agency is like the one SciFi's Invisible man worked for, their budget hidden in the Dept of Fish & Wildlife's budget.
I could name a real secret government agency, but then I'd have to kill you :^)
Is the FTC required to knock on folks door and inform them they are about to start gathering evidence? Why does a spam bill need to be passed for this?
Its always interesting to see the non-Tivo users reactions to these stories, they are usually so off base to the real world.
I enabled my 30 second skip once. Its novelty wears off quick, and realisticly it doesn't save much time. You wind up going to far and trying to back up to the begining of the show, which burns the few seconds you save. Besides, it takes over the "advance" button, which I'd much rather have
When a comercial comes on, I hit FF twice, which pops it into 8x mode, in this mode 2 minutes of commercials takes about 15 seconds. If I really cared, I could hit it a third time (60x mode) and skip it in a few seconds, but I actually like to scan the comercials to see if its something I'm interested in. Unless the viewing comercials has the same effect on you as porn on fundamentalist Christians, its just not that big a deal.
Take away 30 second skips and folks might bitch, but I doubt anyone would stop recommending them (I'm about to get my parents 1 or 2 DirectTivo's, I'll be thinking about adding $80 120GB hard drives, not 30 second skip)
If you take your salary at an hourly rate, why watch TV, why play with the kids, why sleep, why read a book?
Its a game, its about enjoying yourself, relaxing, exercising your mind in a different way. Just try to avoid crawling into your basement and shunning human contact for days at a time.
No, because most reviewers would point out any serious image problems (usually they take screen shots as well). What's at issue here is that with the "optimizations", the card isn't doing what its supposed to be doing, its using shortcuts that won't be detected due to the known path of the benchmark. If it were a game, it would be less of an issue because it would either work or it wouldn't.
Image a benchmark that calculated pi to 10,000 digits ten million times then exited. You could optimize it by realizing that it never actually used the values it calculated and "optimize" the entire program to a NOP (This has been done :^). Imagine the speed up! But it invalidates the benchmark, because you didn't do what you were supposed to do.
Or a Mongol training course where the wall was out of sight of the judges. Horde A cheats and runs around the wall so they get a better time than Horde B, who goes over it. When Gengis brings Horde A to invade China he gets slaughters because Horde A isn't very good at climbing walls, esp. Great Walls, despite they better time. Fortunately, Gengis had spies scretly watching the walls (this is whey he is Khan) and slaughters Horde A.
Thus concludes todays episode of "History Bastardizations Great and Small"
Clearly someone who has not played Punch Buggy
True or False questions are always be Pre-pended with (T or F). Trust me, I tried putting True down for an essay question once and it didn't work.
I don't think "Take one for the team" works in the corporate environment. If you spend $250,000 to risk setting a precedent and succeed, you're a quarter million down on the competition. IF you pay $100,000 to make that go away for sure, and there's a chance they go sue your competitor next, you're only down $100,000 on the competition and theres a chance they'll have to make the same deal or worse. Now, if the industry chooses to band together against a common cause (for a mutual defense fund of sorts), that a different matter.
Personally, I think IBM will 1) string it out as long as possible with their staff lawyers. 2) Give up the Unix label if forced, because its of questionable value in their new "Linux compatible" world
I don't even know what you are talking about. A cracker is pretty much by definition also a hacker, but a hacker is generally someone who experiments with computers as a hobby. Which means almost all of Linux was written by hackers. Drivers that were written without the aid of the manufacturers were "hacked". The current environment of equating hackers with "bad" is media nonsense.
From Meriam Webster:
Exactly what useful skills am I honing? Mouse skills? Spatial relations? Ye olde Hand-I co-ordination
If anything, it increases my odds of going blind, getting carpal tunnel syndrome, and losing social skills, (Thou it might help my 733t h4x0rz r4p).
Of course, so far it seems like I'd be far better off buying an iBook or eMac as far as form factor/price/speed/build quality goes and just loading linux on it.
Yeah, but I bet for the cost of one of those legal nitwits they could employ half the population of whatever south asian country they are building those 970's in.
Personally, I think the huge quantities of bounced mail, high load, etc. a much better encouragement to fix the problem than the remote possibility that something would bounce.
I was under the impression that only .com was tried. The progression goes something like:
word
word.default.domain (If defined, I believe this is in the resolve spec. so if I 'ping mail' it will look up mail.ephilone.com)
www.word.com
Though I believe nowadays they don't bother with that last step and just dump you straight to their search engines. Nowadays its all about how to redirect traffic to your search engine. Thank god I can turn that feature off.
Misleading topic heading.
Yes, Slashdot is/has decended to the ranks of the NY Post, no need for accuracy when you can just Troll. Its a shame because the patent is one of those blindingly stupid and obvious things. But I bet there's no prior art because this is the sort of thing a registrara needs to do, and prior to 1998, there weren't any that handled > 1 TLD besides Verisign.
I wonder if this falls under the "abuse of a state granted monopoly"
Collect a license fee from every other registrar that isn't using humans to manualy confirm that a domain name hasn't already been taken.
Sit back and watch the money roll in...
When will the madness end!