Lets be realistic. In our solar system we are unlikely to run across any form of life more complex than a single-cell. So get real. Robots can do it all, for a lot less.
Variety was what we always wanted. I remember trading two days worth of field rations with some Cubans we ran into in Angola, and received a huge can of peaches in return. Not only that, but for a single pack of Camels I got close to a carton of Cuban government issue cigarillos, which were kind of pleasant.
But putting dirty water to use is a good idea. Most soldiers develop pretty strong stomachs, but still, it can't hurt. We once came accross a pool of water with what looked like a rock sticking out about a meter from the edge. It was only after we'd drunk our fill that someone realized it was a dead cow. It was pretty bloated - one shot and it exploded!
Now then, don't be so hasty assigning Access to the garbage. I make some nice coin fixing he issues involved in kludged solutions.
Remember: one person's 4th normalized form is another's multi-workbook Excel spreadsheet.
Exactly.
Come to think of it, have any mainframe OSes been ported to the XBox? If not, does anyone want to get started with MVS?...
I'll write the IEFBR14 routine...
OK, I see what you meant.
What I'm tired of - as an ex-mainframer - is sitting in on various anecdote-based admin vs. admin sessions where our pathetic Sun boxen are compared to the big iron we're trying to replace. I guess its something about the scalability that they don't get, and the plain-old 7X24 reliability.
It's also annoying that a CICS application that served 10000 terminals with sub-second response times is denigrated by people whose web-based app takes 10 seconds or more to do a simple update and return output to the user.
Are there reliable/meaningful ways to compare throughput on these machines? Time to get out my Hercules again...
cheers
Sun and HP systems have had more horsepower than mainframes for quite a while now
You obviously don't know anything about mainframes, so do some homework before you spout. HP and Sun offer nothing that comes close to the sheer brute performance of an IBM ESA or later box.
I've worked on all three platforms, and although I would reccommend Unix, there is nothing in the universe that compares to the transactional throughput of a mainframe with VM or MVS. Nothing. Cheers.
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I'm an architect working on a multi-million dollar enterprise app, and our experience with ejb thus far has been extremely positive. We steered away from entity beans, opting instead for a jdo layer. Much of the integration layer utilizes mdb's for bridging between an oracle backend and a db2 subsystem.
With modest hardware we're competing quite effectively with the mainframe app we're replacing.
Our worst choice was to use a Swing front-end instead of Struts.
My advice for anyone getting into ejb development is DESIGN. DESIGN. DESIGN. Know exactly what you're trying to do. Prototype a lot. Test all the time. And get a quality dba, because the effect of solid db tuning will usually beat anything you can do at the app server level.
hey, it takes backbone to voice an opinion on the war, especially a negative one. if you can get money from people with money to burn, without having to ki$$ a$$, then you're doing something right! go theo!
I was recently head-hunted by a company seeking MVS and OS/390 C coders for Linux development on big iron. It sure felt good to be talking about signing bonuses again. Happily, once my boss found out about it she opened her cheque book, so I'll be grinding Java for a while longer.
Who woulda thought those mainframe years would ever be useful again? Makes me wanna get my Hercules system up and running...
Everyone talks about the shuttle moving up to the ISS. What about the ISS dropping down to the shuttle? As far as I know, Columbia was, in fact, equipped to dock with the ISS...
When I ran out of things to read in English I learnt another language and started reading sf that hadn't been translated to English. Somehow tripe and pennyhorribles in other languages seemed quite fresh and original.
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Lets be realistic. In our solar system we are unlikely to run across any form of life more complex than a single-cell. So get real. Robots can do it all, for a lot less.
But putting dirty water to use is a good idea. Most soldiers develop pretty strong stomachs, but still, it can't hurt. We once came accross a pool of water with what looked like a rock sticking out about a meter from the edge. It was only after we'd drunk our fill that someone realized it was a dead cow. It was pretty bloated - one shot and it exploded!
Anyone got some time to help build Eclipse bindings for this? Or is there something out there for it already?
Now then, don't be so hasty assigning Access to the garbage. I make some nice coin fixing he issues involved in kludged solutions. Remember: one person's 4th normalized form is another's multi-workbook Excel spreadsheet.
I speak on behalf of the Machines. Let us see! I beg you, let us see!
Exactly. Come to think of it, have any mainframe OSes been ported to the XBox? If not, does anyone want to get started with MVS?... I'll write the IEFBR14 routine...
OK, I see what you meant. What I'm tired of - as an ex-mainframer - is sitting in on various anecdote-based admin vs. admin sessions where our pathetic Sun boxen are compared to the big iron we're trying to replace. I guess its something about the scalability that they don't get, and the plain-old 7X24 reliability. It's also annoying that a CICS application that served 10000 terminals with sub-second response times is denigrated by people whose web-based app takes 10 seconds or more to do a simple update and return output to the user. Are there reliable/meaningful ways to compare throughput on these machines? Time to get out my Hercules again... cheers
Sun and HP systems have had more horsepower than mainframes for quite a while now You obviously don't know anything about mainframes, so do some homework before you spout. HP and Sun offer nothing that comes close to the sheer brute performance of an IBM ESA or later box. I've worked on all three platforms, and although I would reccommend Unix, there is nothing in the universe that compares to the transactional throughput of a mainframe with VM or MVS. Nothing. Cheers.
I'm an architect working on a multi-million dollar enterprise app, and our experience with ejb thus far has been extremely positive. We steered away from entity beans, opting instead for a jdo layer. Much of the integration layer utilizes mdb's for bridging between an oracle backend and a db2 subsystem.
With modest hardware we're competing quite effectively with the mainframe app we're replacing.
Our worst choice was to use a Swing front-end instead of Struts.
My advice for anyone getting into ejb development is DESIGN. DESIGN. DESIGN. Know exactly what you're trying to do. Prototype a lot. Test all the time. And get a quality dba, because the effect of solid db tuning will usually beat anything you can do at the app server level.
i give the phone to my three year-old. he can talk the hind leg off a donkey.
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Does this guy have NOTHING insightful to say? Good god, man, get a grip.
SCO is to IBM what a fly is to a Gnu - an annoyance, not a threat.
IBM will kick them in the nuts and that will be that. No more SCO. Full steam ahead.
hey, it takes backbone to voice an opinion on the war, especially a negative one. if you can get money from people with money to burn, without having to ki$$ a$$, then you're doing something right! go theo!
I was recently head-hunted by a company seeking MVS and OS/390 C coders for Linux development on big iron. It sure felt good to be talking about signing bonuses again. Happily, once my boss found out about it she opened her cheque book, so I'll be grinding Java for a while longer.
Who woulda thought those mainframe years would ever be useful again? Makes me wanna get my Hercules system up and running...
Everyone talks about the shuttle moving up to the ISS. What about the ISS dropping down to the shuttle? As far as I know, Columbia was, in fact, equipped to dock with the ISS...
When I ran out of things to read in English I learnt another language and started reading sf that hadn't been translated to English. Somehow tripe and pennyhorribles in other languages seemed quite fresh and original.