And the framers clearly anticipated every eventuality that 200 years would bring. The constitution has no explicit provision for freedom of publishing your thoughts on the internet, either. You should be glad that this is considered "speech" or "the press" and that the constitution was amended to include such rights.
They're test escapes. The reality is that manufacturing defects will happen, but that they're supposed to be caught. If they're not caught, they become field returns, and your SPQL goes down. And man, you don't ever want to have your shipped-product quality level hurting. It means really unhappy customers.
I loved the Baroque Cycle. Entertaining, as Stephenson tends to be, along with being insightful about the emergence of capitalism and the scientific method and the debate about whether there's room for God in science (Leibniz and Waterhouse).
If you're curious as to what the Baroque Cycle is about, the quotes here give a pretty good idea about the novels' setting without really blowing much about the plot:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson
I always find it amazing how much armchair-quarterbacking goes on with regards to Intel architectures. There are just way too many folks out there that have facility with all the code names like Prescott and Northwood and the vagaries of their pipelines and caches and whetever. Normally with Slashdot criticism of Intel, I'd give Intel's architects the benefit of the doubt, but not these days, not with them releasing crappier processors than their competition despite having the best manufacturing capabilities on the planet.
I was going to comment that in GS3, getting up and making a sandwich could easily get you killed. There was plenty going on in that world in real time that didn't wait for your typing.
Righto. Most of the article is trying to stir up indignation about time ever-so-slowly migrating away from Greenwich, England. Why would that be wanted? Because leap seconds are a pain in the arse.
IBM has, since the 1960s, made BIG, reliable, high-IO computers. But, more than that, IBM sold all the peripherals, software, maintenance, consulting, widgets and sprockets that go with BIG computers. Until ~1993, IBM really wanted nothing more than to sell that S/390 mainframe and EVERYTHING to go with it. At around that point, IBM realized that 1) Customers didn't necessarily like buying absolutely everything from IBM 2) IBM's stuff didn't really work with anything else (not "open") 3)Customers wanted more than just huge, reliable, high-IO computers. Customers might want cheaper, less reliable computers (They might even want desktops.) and most importantly 4) Customers just want it to work, to hell with whomever made it.
So now, despite impressions to the contrary, IBM still makes huge reliable high-IO computers, and huge reliable RISC computers, some smaller reliable RISC computers, and huge reliable x86 computers, and lots of blades. And middleware. In fact, IBM makes lots of money making these things. IBM no longer makes PCs, commodity printers, hard drives, DRAM, etc. Where most of IBM's revenue comes from is signing huge contracts with other businesses that just want things to work. This is called "Services."
Thanks for posting... I've been watching the Best Buy eMachine ads, and wondering whether I could do much better myself. Let's see. Sometime in the past six weeks there was, for $299 (rebates, mores tax, yaddah yaddah): 3100+/256MB/100GB/DVDCRRW or $60 upgrade to 53300+/12MB/160GB
This article will be useful for me to figure out if recycling keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc allows me to get a better cheap desktop. Maybe not!
They are not trying to create a better search engine, they are trying to "beat the competition".
Gates continued, "And by beating the competition, we mean exploiting our operating system monopoly to attack their core business by replacing it with alternative functionality bundled with Windows."
You're perfectly right--what the US government does should be irrelevant. Like they are planning with the Galileo system for GPS, the rest of the world needs to say, "to hell with the US!" and engineer a redundant backup for whatever internet functions reside solely in the US. This should be solved by engineers, not politicians.
Why would the US relinquish a veto power it currently has? So we can all start typing slashdot.org.us? Giving up what we've got now with DNS makes no more sense then letting NATO take over GPS. Ain't going to happen.
That's what happened with GPS/Galileo, man. Everyone else decided they didn't want all their GPS eggs in the US basket. That's what should happen here. Let everyone else figure out a technical way to build a redundant system, not a political fiat.
CTP is not Novell's entire strategy. It was a failed bid to sell more comprehensive services to existing customers. Novell's real strategy is to use SuSE as a migration path away from Netware for Netware customers. The problem is that SuSE revenues don't come anywhere near replacing the declining Netware revenues.
Novell is, however, flush with cash, slightly profitable, and nowhere close to going bankrupt. Nor is the Netware revenue in such steep decline that bankruptcy is even conceivable at this point. This layoff would be basically targeted at making the profit margins look far better. For a software company, they can be much better than Novell's 33%. IBM's software margins are around 80%, iirc. Not that 33% is awful-- the real situation is that you've just got ivory tower shareholders telling the ivory tower corporate types in Massachusetts to lay off a few thousand folks in Utah so that some random mutual funds can go up a little bit in value.
Control of the root servers effectively means that they could seriously damage a country's internet structure
Isn't this exactly why the US should not relinquish control?
This is the same issue that Europe and the rest of the world realized with GPS. They have a strategic interest, the US has a strategic interest. In that case, they've decided to create Galileo, an entirely redundant system. Why can't their diplomats stuff it and let their engineers figure out a way have a backup plan in the event of war, if that's the case? But strategic considerations isn't what's at stake here. What's at stake is the imposition of some sort of international law on the internet. As long as the US maintains some independence in maintaining the network, they can stop international laws they don't like.
If I recall correctly, new collaboration features are one of the biggest selling points (As seen by MS) for new versions of Office. Think of the possibilities of that all being server-side with a platform independent thin client.
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Yup, the description kind of sucked, but the link was decent. Before and after photos of the collapsed lava delta from the website linked.
The fact that you understood the pun makes it a successful pun, not the spelling. Sheesh.
They're test escapes. The reality is that manufacturing defects will happen, but that they're supposed to be caught. If they're not caught, they become field returns, and your SPQL goes down. And man, you don't ever want to have your shipped-product quality level hurting. It means really unhappy customers.
If you're curious as to what the Baroque Cycle is about, the quotes here give a pretty good idea about the novels' setting without really blowing much about the plot: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson
I always find it amazing how much armchair-quarterbacking goes on with regards to Intel architectures. There are just way too many folks out there that have facility with all the code names like Prescott and Northwood and the vagaries of their pipelines and caches and whetever. Normally with Slashdot criticism of Intel, I'd give Intel's architects the benefit of the doubt, but not these days, not with them releasing crappier processors than their competition despite having the best manufacturing capabilities on the planet.
Wow, I don't know whether to call you a fanboy, a PR flack, or the BSD reality distortion field.
I was going to comment that in GS3, getting up and making a sandwich could easily get you killed. There was plenty going on in that world in real time that didn't wait for your typing.
So does this theory reveal who it was that had their first-grader write some killer notes for them?
Righto. Most of the article is trying to stir up indignation about time ever-so-slowly migrating away from Greenwich, England. Why would that be wanted? Because leap seconds are a pain in the arse.
But no doubt the claims in this patent are more specific than just "Beer with Coffee."
So now, despite impressions to the contrary, IBM still makes huge reliable high-IO computers, and huge reliable RISC computers, some smaller reliable RISC computers, and huge reliable x86 computers, and lots of blades. And middleware. In fact, IBM makes lots of money making these things. IBM no longer makes PCs, commodity printers, hard drives, DRAM, etc. Where most of IBM's revenue comes from is signing huge contracts with other businesses that just want things to work. This is called "Services."
It is good to see IBM continuing to avoid a "not invented here" mentality. You should try searching IBM's intranet! It could be better.
This article will be useful for me to figure out if recycling keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc allows me to get a better cheap desktop. Maybe not!
I'm far more concerned about the Mars Rovers being able to weather the storm, and come out without their solar panels dust-covered.
Novell's got a billion bucks. Really. Even if they take a huge onetime charge to fire everyone they have left in Utah, they won't be dead for years.
Why would the US relinquish a veto power it currently has? So we can all start typing slashdot.org.us? Giving up what we've got now with DNS makes no more sense then letting NATO take over GPS. Ain't going to happen.
That's what happened with GPS/Galileo, man. Everyone else decided they didn't want all their GPS eggs in the US basket. That's what should happen here. Let everyone else figure out a technical way to build a redundant system, not a political fiat.
Novell is, however, flush with cash, slightly profitable, and nowhere close to going bankrupt. Nor is the Netware revenue in such steep decline that bankruptcy is even conceivable at this point. This layoff would be basically targeted at making the profit margins look far better. For a software company, they can be much better than Novell's 33%. IBM's software margins are around 80%, iirc. Not that 33% is awful-- the real situation is that you've just got ivory tower shareholders telling the ivory tower corporate types in Massachusetts to lay off a few thousand folks in Utah so that some random mutual funds can go up a little bit in value.
No one said it was programmable.
This is the same issue that Europe and the rest of the world realized with GPS. They have a strategic interest, the US has a strategic interest. In that case, they've decided to create Galileo, an entirely redundant system. Why can't their diplomats stuff it and let their engineers figure out a way have a backup plan in the event of war, if that's the case? But strategic considerations isn't what's at stake here. What's at stake is the imposition of some sort of international law on the internet. As long as the US maintains some independence in maintaining the network, they can stop international laws they don't like.
No Microsoft tax.
Just wait until those Indian software developers get into UCAV development.