This is typical "if we can't weave it out of granola then it tortures puppies and brown people" Guardian prattle. How the hell do they think innovation actually happens?
Do they propose that all computers ever needed was a grooooovy 12th generation permanently backwards compatible rillly rilly kewl AT bus?
They couldn't even make a go of rebranded Palm units. They killed off their own z50 WinCe micro laptop. They don't have a credible minilaptop in the US (Japan only thank you very much). They can barely get their own Lotus Easysync to work with Lotus Notes desktop applications. Their machines are getting bigger and bigger, not the other way around.
If anything this is a test bed for some kind of embedded technology subproject.
Their heart isn't in it. This is a throwaway project - some bright execuweenie in training has been given a bag of burnable cash to show what he can do for the benefit of Sam Palmisano and Co.
We couldn't build a 62nd street subway tunnel in 30 years. We take more time to paint bridges than it took to build them. Narita airport is actually sinking into the sea. It takes longer to fly somewhere than it does to drive if the trip is less than 350 miles. The Chinese may or may not have used atomic bombs to clear earth for their 3 Gorges project.
And you want to embark on the largest construction project ever, to go to space? Yeah wake me up in the 27th century.
why wasn't it made out of titanium? why wasn't it made out of stainless steel? why wasn't it made out of adamantium? what weren't there little cameras flying around to tell them what's up? why wasn't everything octoplex redundant? why didn't they carry a spare shuttle?
I'm pretty sure all that stuff would have been fairly heavy and complicated.
It's kind of ironic istn't it that CMOS PCs will eventually need the same plumbing as the TCMs they were supposed to replace.
Hey I had a 9021-721 MVS/ESA mainframe that used TCM's cooled by a 400psi cooling system. The great thing about the next gen CMOS mainframes was that even though one TCM was now replaced with 3-6 CMOS units, we didn't need a massive chiller system.
Oh well, guess everything will have huge ass chiller pumps now.
Barlow is comitting the same sin he is complaining about everyone including himself, of comitting anyway. Basically a lightweight rant, dust off, continue on.
I didn't see anything concrete or useful in that piece. I guess I'm looking for activism in old Libertarians who are little more than Republicans who smoke pot. c'est la guerre.
Is on the way. The technology we use in UAVs will be used in ships. First they will be remote controlled and then the technology mature to where ships, like UAVs will be mission autonomous.
mail your stolen music back to the MPAA
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I call on all thieves to email their ill gotten gains back to the MPAA. I have about 300GB that I should send back to them and if the rest of you criminals did the same we could solve this scourge on society once and fer-all.
Do you people read this ancient history computer archeologic anthropology like it's a cult religion or something? Do you really think that the only place that ever generated any technology worth discussing was the sacred Mount XPARC?
For those us who lived and worked in the real world during the 70's-80's and other Bronze Age periods we saw an awful great lot of new and good ideas from commerical vendors and universities. Most of it died out, was bought up or simply abandoned but this whole cargo cult ethos of PARC this and PARC that looking for the holy fucking grail of the First Good Idea of Computing (Slashdot 3:16) is, how do you say.....
That's right, there are several ways to do this. One the most obvious here is to choke it off. Two, regulate content. Three litigate - and yes litigation particularly international law is a weapon of warfare in the 21st century. Four pick your truth, this is the corporate option. Don't lie, just limit what you tell the truth about.
I'm not shocked that the mindless radicals here make obligatory statements about the US "wahtaboutda US !!!" But if you think there is oppression here then you faux Che wannabess really have to live in a poor country. I have and it deeply and truly sux, there is no comparison.
Unlike most bloggers who simply paste other peoples rantings, published or otherwise. Like Boswell's biography of Johnson, the insights we get are the result of being a great writer and keen observer.
I'm afraid that blogs are just random spatters dressed up the sense of legitimacy borne of nice web design. By and large the joy of writing is rewriting.
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This is typical "if we can't weave it out of granola then it tortures puppies and brown people" Guardian prattle. How the hell do they think innovation actually happens?
Do they propose that all computers ever needed was a grooooovy 12th generation permanently backwards compatible rillly rilly kewl AT bus?
Wankers.
I remember there was a company that sold SCSI bus expansion boxes where you could add 28 SCSI drives.
It was a product cooked up in some VCs office between crack hits that 'sounded like a good idea at the time'.
1 - Build Segway
2 - ?
3 - Make profit
Sadly the corridors of dot com companies that were supposed to be its roads all collapsed and burned.
So there is zero logical point to owning one of these 4,000 dollar toys.
They couldn't even make a go of rebranded Palm units. They killed off their own z50 WinCe micro laptop. They don't have a credible minilaptop in the US (Japan only thank you very much). They can barely get their own Lotus Easysync to work with Lotus Notes desktop applications. Their machines are getting bigger and bigger, not the other way around.
If anything this is a test bed for some kind of embedded technology subproject.
Their heart isn't in it. This is a throwaway project - some bright execuweenie in training has been given a bag of burnable cash to show what he can do for the benefit of Sam Palmisano and Co.
We couldn't build a 62nd street subway tunnel in 30 years. We take more time to paint bridges than it took to build them. Narita airport is actually sinking into the sea. It takes longer to fly somewhere than it does to drive if the trip is less than 350 miles. The Chinese may or may not have used atomic bombs to clear earth for their 3 Gorges project.
And you want to embark on the largest construction project ever, to go to space? Yeah wake me up in the 27th century.
Yeah, Japan was going to the change the very nature of supercomputing. That didn't work either. Let's just say I'm dubious.
Seriously, half the complaints are
why wasn't it made out of titanium?
why wasn't it made out of stainless steel?
why wasn't it made out of adamantium?
what weren't there little cameras flying around to tell them what's up?
why wasn't everything octoplex redundant?
why didn't they carry a spare shuttle?
I'm pretty sure all that stuff would have been fairly heavy and complicated.
It's kind of ironic istn't it that CMOS PCs will eventually need the same plumbing as the TCMs they were supposed to replace.
Hey I had a 9021-721 MVS/ESA mainframe that used TCM's cooled by a 400psi cooling system. The great thing about the next gen CMOS mainframes was that even though one TCM was now replaced with 3-6 CMOS units, we didn't need a massive chiller system.
Oh well, guess everything will have huge ass chiller pumps now.
Barlow is comitting the same sin he is complaining about everyone including himself, of comitting anyway. Basically a lightweight rant, dust off, continue on.
I didn't see anything concrete or useful in that piece. I guess I'm looking for activism in old Libertarians who are little more than Republicans who smoke pot. c'est la guerre.
I think that was the problem. A close second might have been
InfuckingCredibly Massive Level of Arrogance Syndrome.
Is on the way. The technology we use in UAVs will be used in ships. First they will be remote controlled and then the technology mature to where ships, like UAVs will be mission autonomous.
I call on all thieves to email their ill gotten gains back to the MPAA. I have about 300GB that I should send back to them and if the rest of you criminals did the same we could solve this scourge on society once and fer-all.
Dave: Something wonderful.
BOOOM
(-from 2010)
Do you people read this ancient history computer archeologic anthropology like it's a cult religion or something? Do you really think that the only place that ever generated any technology worth discussing was the sacred Mount XPARC?
For those us who lived and worked in the real world during the 70's-80's and other Bronze Age periods we saw an awful great lot of new and good ideas from commerical vendors and universities. Most of it died out, was bought up or simply abandoned but this whole cargo cult ethos of PARC this and PARC that looking for the holy fucking grail of the First Good Idea of Computing (Slashdot 3:16) is, how do you say.....
Horseshit
(that's a technical term).
Put all the connections on the front. Make the whole case smaller. Make the whole chassis a heat sink and build a fan into the MoBo.
That's right, there are several ways to do this. One the most obvious here is to choke it off. Two, regulate content. Three litigate - and yes litigation particularly international law is a weapon of warfare in the 21st century. Four pick your truth, this is the corporate option. Don't lie, just limit what you tell the truth about.
I'm not shocked that the mindless radicals here make obligatory statements about the US "wahtaboutda US !!!" But if you think there is oppression here then you faux Che wannabess really have to live in a poor country. I have and it deeply and truly sux, there is no comparison.
I know people who would kill for them if asked. They would literally eat fire for that company.
What other contenders are there? OS/2? Solaris? Got a shitload of AIX CDE desktops out there? How's that Atari 2600 office suite working for you?
God I hope he hasn't simply recycled one of his brilliant short stories again. I really hope it's something good and not the same old same old.
Unlike most bloggers who simply paste other peoples rantings, published or otherwise. Like Boswell's biography of Johnson, the insights we get are the result of being a great writer and keen observer.
I'm afraid that blogs are just random spatters dressed up the sense of legitimacy borne of nice web design. By and large the joy of writing is rewriting.
My mood is fuck you with a tinge of get the fuck out of my house.
Crouching diode hidden step motor.
We (really are) the world.
That's what they are. Flesh mechanics. No miracles, no Dr. Welbyisms, no last minute screaming in the ER, no poignant weepy nosed chick medicine.
Flesh mechanics. Some of them know WTF they are doing and some of them, like we used to say of all obstetricians, only need to know how to 'Catch!'.
And you are a bucket of loosely organized uncooperative parts.
Life is hard, get a helmet.
But on the upside when RIAA came to the podium to accept it's award it was struck with 200 trillion tons of flaming shit sent down from heaven.