IF you don't mind that nearly all 'information' on the web that people actually know about comes from 4 sources then fine. Likewise if you don't mind that one way or another those sources are biased by politics or economics or just plain ignorance then fine - it's all good. If you don't mind that there is little distinction between those 4 sources and sitting calmly in front of the TV then fine - this is the best of all possible worlds. If you don't mind that the economic forces usually work to marginalize that which does not agree with it then, fine. If you don't care if there is any difference between editorial agenda and actual news or if there was you couldn't tell the difference and it wouldn't make any difference to you anyway then once again I agree - all is fine.
It's the flip side of censorship in a way. Not active certainly not "hey you can't do that!!" No. But when most outlets are owned by the same few people then all they have to do is put up only what they approve of. Whatever your affiliation, do you actually think its a good thing to the development and maintenance of a critical society when every website is bland version of USAToday or every opinion is the same? It's like those stupid polls on ABC News like "Do you think McV should be fried or pulled apart by horses?" Or "Do you thing women who have abortions should be jailed or stoned to death?" It's that kind of censorship. Is that what you want?
IBM refers to their own mainframes's performance using an obscure value like 'Relative performance units'. They use an arbitrary baseline from one of their own models - call that 'Relative performance 1.0' and then proceed to not only NEVER publish any other vendors numbers but tell you that any other vendor's machines are not comparable and that no other benchmark can be compared or correlated. In a similar vein if you use some of the Lotus benchmarking tools for Notes and publish the results they can sue you.
What next? Car model names? Oooooh the AMD "Mustang SHO"! Buy one and get laid everyday! Howzabout the AMD "Shilznatz" for the Thug in us all - faster than a Glock 380.
LA countries are moving quickly into the double whammy of currency crises and recession. Argentina and Brazil represent huge ecnomic problems. What better reason to not export cash out of the country on increasingly poor terms, eg. dollars when local currency is dropping like a stone. So the natural consequence is to look for ways to keep the money in-country and if possible, not spend it at all. This way LA countries can not only save cash but can help prop up local employment by breeding a cadre of support personnel.
No really. There are lots of offshore jobs located there. Lots of college grads.
Come to sweet sweet Bangalore. There are call centers there that teach their employees how to speak with flat midwestern US accents so the callers can't tell they're talking to someone in India.
Most of my team is out of the state and many are out of the country including the UK, France, Israel, Oz, Singapore, Japan, Brazil and Canada. Seems to work as long as you don't mind calling people at midnight.
Come to think of it Hawaii should be the next great thing because you can conduct business in the same business day with both the US and East Asia.
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It's a function of how many wafers you can bake within a given tolerance. The difference between 1.4Ghz and 2Ghz is a function of how many wafers you can make that don't melt when you push that many Watts through them as opposed to any material difference in the design of the chip. It's straight up manufacturing process quality control. Each stepping represents a higher yield way of making the same chips. When chips are rated at 1.4Ghz that represents a given economic value of making at least X chips that can pass that QA test. Certainly SOME of them can be made to go faster but not enough so that you wouldn't have to throw out most of the wafer sheet. When the process gets sufficiently better and the yield surpases Y number of chips that can survive a 2Ghz QA test then you have an officially branded 2Ghz chip.
Most usability scientists agree that no one can distinguish much of a difference in PC performance 25% greater than the base value. When PC ran @ 200Mhz it was no big deal to squeeze ~50Mhzout of it since that was simply a quality control variable in the manufacturing cycle. Now with 1.4-1.9Ghz PCs you need to squeeze another ~350-500Mhz out of it before anyone notices so difference between old and improved performance. Just to keep pace with perceived performance you have to add nearly 500Mhz - that is, for lower values there is NO perceived benefit. Which translates into people willing to pay roughly ZERO for anything less than a 500Mhz improvemen. ZERO dollars for which
Intel may have invested billions of dollars to generate. You see it's kind of like boiling water. Nobody cares if it is difficult to raise the water temperature to 211 degrees - it's the 720x more energy required to raise the water that last degree. So it better be worth it to you to spend the energy doing it because investing only 600x more energy will not boil the water.
There has to be SOME limit. The ability to have SOME control over who knows where you go on on the web to say nothing about where you actually go has to be a basic human right. Else the web is no nothing more than a passive media like television.
Uh I think it's called version management or change control or version libs or problem-queues or something like that. At any rate since the days of Panvalet or CA-something or PVCS we've had this function. All this is a more open ended spin on it. Open ended as in less process bound not open as in (Ta-Da) OPEN. This is great VA gets to sell a product and make some money doing it. What's the big forking deal?
That's why - there's lots of smart people out there but most of them learn very quickly from a very early age that the mainstream is pure shit and so are the people in it. It's only in the geek fields, the hard sciences in particular that are beholden to funding that the really smart people give much of a shit at all and actively seek approval and mainstream recognition.
The problem is not science education which frankly most people, even bright young people care about. It's that young scientists, those in physics, math, chem and engineering in particular who get pissed off and disillusioned later in life because no matter how much they achieve the dumbbot who used to swirl his head in the toilet or burn off her hair with a Bunsen burner still hates them, is probably their boss and is more successful anyhow. Teachers are angry because of the lousy teachers that give the good ones a bad rep. Plain and simple.
My son has a requirement, as in requirement to get a TI-83Plus. If students can get that functionality plus any other PDA benefit such as their own Avantgo channel then why not. What are you complaining about? If they beam a list of the weeks assignments to it or a list of resources for where to get information I figure its paid for itself then and there.
This appears to be a feature install for new HP servers only, just like any other OS option so it appears that they're merely charging you for the labor to install and vett the system with some development recovery thrown in. That is, it doesn't look like you can call your local HP boyscout and ask for brand new rockhard HP Linux CD for $3000, though the articel indicated that that might be a future option.
Just give up. Seriously. You tried you failed repeatedly you continue to suck. You are the IUD of the internet. Utterly incabable of taking care of yourself and completely unloved. Just kill yourself and go away.
or there's a news story about how some molestor hooked up with a kid using his paid by Houston connection or crack dealers are running a free website - blah blah fucking blah. Then the sanctimonious pricks will be screaming to pull the plug faster than you can say "Whaaaaaat about the Chilllllldrennnnnn!!!!!!!!!"
Takes 20-25 secs to find, download and run the shockwave on a highspeed LAN connection to my p3-500mhz laptop. Some pages start new windows others don't - doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason for the distinction. That's the kind of mass market gunk dialup users have to wade through.
or www.clairol.com if you prefer - the times are similar.
The truth is that all of these brand savvy companies don't give a greasy fuck what your experience is as long as they think it looks great and gets their brand image across.
Or something like that. Any day now you can expect Steve Mills from IBM to just come out and say that AIX5L is the end of the road and that after that they'll bolt their kernel (largely MACH) onto Linux and throw in all the great stuff AIX is much better than Linux at such as JFS, span PV, SMP, commercial support. Or even replace the whole kernel and open source that. Even IBM is starting to realize that developing and maintaining something as complex as AIX on their own doesn't make an awful lot of economic sense. Not when the margin on Unix server hardware is 30% and the margin on Software is nearly zero. Most of the apps that IBM and IGS has already identified as strategic run on Linux, Linux already runs on PC, (some) PPC, OS/400 LPARs, and mainframes, natively, instances under VM and VM LPARs as well. They don't develop a PC based OS anymore and the OS's for AS/400s and mainframes are inseperable from the hardware anyway. It's only in the commodity *nix space where the margins are low AND the development costs are high. So fling AIX the hell out the door and move on. They're already more than halfway there with AIX5L.
The only way that companies can ultimately be made responsible is through full disclosure. The only way you can know if they actually fixed or patched anything is through full disclosure. If you don't trust your vendor enough either you can stop using them or you can check them against what they say. Even if the real number is 20 million that is nothing compared to MS or any other company not fixing the problem or doing a poor job of it. Remember that software companies are judgment proof unlike other types of companies so you can't even add the risk cost of litigation into the equation like you could with pharnaceuticals or automobiles.
Do you feel better now? The only the Federal Govt. would allow computerized elections is to put a Federal computer security and law enforcement agency in charge of it. Welcome to the CCCP where the secret police run the elections.
So they bought an OS and development tools for whatever Palm turns itself into. OK Dragonball is dead long live ARM. We all thought this would free up Palm the hardware company to use SymbianOS which is a whole shitload better for wireless apps than PalmOS. That left Palm the software company to errrrr.... pound sand. They don't own Symbian and shortly no one NO ONE will want a Dragonball OS unless it' to simply suck royalties from Sony, Handspring and Handera/TRG. So they had to go after a general purpose OS they could use to differentiate themselves. Why not Lunix or BFD you ask? Well if it was so easy someone would have had more than a funky demo by now. Sure the LinuxDA distro is sort of maybe not quite here but as far as development tools? Shucks Mabel, it looks like yer gonna hafta roll yer own!!!!!!!! So Be makes sense: you get the base of an OS you get tools and you get some experience writing apps. Sounds like a better business model than the one they had. I wonder if they can execute on that?
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IF you don't mind that nearly all 'information' on the web that people actually know about comes from 4 sources then fine. Likewise if you don't mind that one way or another those sources are biased by politics or economics or just plain ignorance then fine - it's all good. If you don't mind that there is little distinction between those 4 sources and sitting calmly in front of the TV then fine - this is the best of all possible worlds. If you don't mind that the economic forces usually work to marginalize that which does not agree with it then, fine. If you don't care if there is any difference between editorial agenda and actual news or if there was you couldn't tell the difference and it wouldn't make any difference to you anyway then once again I agree - all is fine.
It's the flip side of censorship in a way. Not active certainly not "hey you can't do that!!" No. But when most outlets are owned by the same few people then all they have to do is put up only what they approve of. Whatever your affiliation, do you actually think its a good thing to the development and maintenance of a critical society when every website is bland version of USAToday or every opinion is the same? It's like those stupid polls on ABC News like "Do you think McV should be fried or pulled apart by horses?" Or "Do you thing women who have abortions should be jailed or stoned to death?" It's that kind of censorship. Is that what you want?
IBM refers to their own mainframes's performance using an obscure value like 'Relative performance units'. They use an arbitrary baseline from one of their own models - call that 'Relative performance 1.0' and then proceed to not only NEVER publish any other vendors numbers but tell you that any other vendor's machines are not comparable and that no other benchmark can be compared or correlated. In a similar vein if you use some of the Lotus benchmarking tools for Notes and publish the results they can sue you.
What next? Car model names? Oooooh the AMD "Mustang SHO"! Buy one and get laid everyday! Howzabout the AMD "Shilznatz" for the Thug in us all - faster than a Glock 380.
LA countries are moving quickly into the double whammy of currency crises and recession. Argentina and Brazil represent huge ecnomic problems. What better reason to not export cash out of the country on increasingly poor terms, eg. dollars when local currency is dropping like a stone. So the natural consequence is to look for ways to keep the money in-country and if possible, not spend it at all. This way LA countries can not only save cash but can help prop up local employment by breeding a cadre of support personnel.
No really. There are lots of offshore jobs located there. Lots of college grads.
Come to sweet sweet Bangalore. There are call centers there that teach their employees how to speak with flat midwestern US accents so the callers can't tell they're talking to someone in India.
Most of my team is out of the state and many are out of the country including the UK, France, Israel, Oz, Singapore, Japan, Brazil and Canada. Seems to work as long as you don't mind calling people at midnight.
Come to think of it Hawaii should be the next great thing because you can conduct business in the same business day with both the US and East Asia.
It's a function of how many wafers you can bake within a given tolerance. The difference between 1.4Ghz and 2Ghz is a function of how many wafers you can make that don't melt when you push that many Watts through them as opposed to any material difference in the design of the chip. It's straight up manufacturing process quality control. Each stepping represents a higher yield way of making the same chips. When chips are rated at 1.4Ghz that represents a given economic value of making at least X chips that can pass that QA test. Certainly SOME of them can be made to go faster but not enough so that you wouldn't have to throw out most of the wafer sheet. When the process gets sufficiently better and the yield surpases Y number of chips that can survive a 2Ghz QA test then you have an officially branded 2Ghz chip.
Which is what we'll get soon with version 4 of this crud. Wouldn't it be better to have a relatively bugless web server?
Most usability scientists agree that no one can distinguish much of a difference in PC performance 25% greater than the base value. When PC ran @ 200Mhz it was no big deal to squeeze ~50Mhzout of it since that was simply a quality control variable in the manufacturing cycle. Now with 1.4-1.9Ghz PCs you need to squeeze another ~350-500Mhz out of it before anyone notices so difference between old and improved performance. Just to keep pace with perceived performance you have to add nearly 500Mhz - that is, for lower values there is NO perceived benefit. Which translates into people willing to pay roughly ZERO for anything less than a 500Mhz improvemen. ZERO dollars for which
Intel may have invested billions of dollars to generate. You see it's kind of like boiling water. Nobody cares if it is difficult to raise the water temperature to 211 degrees - it's the 720x more energy required to raise the water that last degree. So it better be worth it to you to spend the energy doing it because investing only 600x more energy will not boil the water.
There has to be SOME limit. The ability to have SOME control over who knows where you go on on the web to say nothing about where you actually go has to be a basic human right. Else the web is no nothing more than a passive media like television.
Uh I think it's called version management or change control or version libs or problem-queues or something like that. At any rate since the days of Panvalet or CA-something or PVCS we've had this function. All this is a more open ended spin on it. Open ended as in less process bound not open as in (Ta-Da) OPEN. This is great VA gets to sell a product and make some money doing it. What's the big forking deal?
That's why - there's lots of smart people out there but most of them learn very quickly from a very early age that the mainstream is pure shit and so are the people in it. It's only in the geek fields, the hard sciences in particular that are beholden to funding that the really smart people give much of a shit at all and actively seek approval and mainstream recognition.
The problem is not science education which frankly most people, even bright young people care about. It's that young scientists, those in physics, math, chem and engineering in particular who get pissed off and disillusioned later in life because no matter how much they achieve the dumbbot who used to swirl his head in the toilet or burn off her hair with a Bunsen burner still hates them, is probably their boss and is more successful anyhow. Teachers are angry because of the lousy teachers that give the good ones a bad rep. Plain and simple.
My son has a requirement, as in requirement to get a TI-83Plus. If students can get that functionality plus any other PDA benefit such as their own Avantgo channel then why not. What are you complaining about? If they beam a list of the weeks assignments to it or a list of resources for where to get information I figure its paid for itself then and there.
This appears to be a feature install for new HP servers only, just like any other OS option so it appears that they're merely charging you for the labor to install and vett the system with some development recovery thrown in. That is, it doesn't look like you can call your local HP boyscout and ask for brand new rockhard HP Linux CD for $3000, though the articel indicated that that might be a future option.
Gee that's great.
Just give up. Seriously. You tried you failed repeatedly you continue to suck. You are the IUD of the internet. Utterly incabable of taking care of yourself and completely unloved. Just kill yourself and go away.
or there's a news story about how some molestor hooked up with a kid using his paid by Houston connection or crack dealers are running a free website - blah blah fucking blah. Then the sanctimonious pricks will be screaming to pull the plug faster than you can say "Whaaaaaat about the Chilllllldrennnnnn!!!!!!!!!"
Takes 20-25 secs to find, download and run the shockwave on a highspeed LAN connection to my p3-500mhz laptop. Some pages start new windows others don't - doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason for the distinction. That's the kind of mass market gunk dialup users have to wade through.
or www.clairol.com if you prefer - the times are similar.
The truth is that all of these brand savvy companies don't give a greasy fuck what your experience is as long as they think it looks great and gets their brand image across.
Oh wait this is /. the birthplace of self importance.
Or something like that. Any day now you can expect Steve Mills from IBM to just come out and say that AIX5L is the end of the road and that after that they'll bolt their kernel (largely MACH) onto Linux and throw in all the great stuff AIX is much better than Linux at such as JFS, span PV, SMP, commercial support. Or even replace the whole kernel and open source that. Even IBM is starting to realize that developing and maintaining something as complex as AIX on their own doesn't make an awful lot of economic sense. Not when the margin on Unix server hardware is 30% and the margin on Software is nearly zero. Most of the apps that IBM and IGS has already identified as strategic run on Linux, Linux already runs on PC, (some) PPC, OS/400 LPARs, and mainframes, natively, instances under VM and VM LPARs as well. They don't develop a PC based OS anymore and the OS's for AS/400s and mainframes are inseperable from the hardware anyway. It's only in the commodity *nix space where the margins are low AND the development costs are high. So fling AIX the hell out the door and move on. They're already more than halfway there with AIX5L.
It's called the Bible. This voodoo vegetarian devil cult homo shit is fake and you will roast in hell for it.
But the Americans are all dotheads anyway.
The only way that companies can ultimately be made responsible is through full disclosure. The only way you can know if they actually fixed or patched anything is through full disclosure. If you don't trust your vendor enough either you can stop using them or you can check them against what they say. Even if the real number is 20 million that is nothing compared to MS or any other company not fixing the problem or doing a poor job of it. Remember that software companies are judgment proof unlike other types of companies so you can't even add the risk cost of litigation into the equation like you could with pharnaceuticals or automobiles.
Do you feel better now? The only the Federal Govt. would allow computerized elections is to put a Federal computer security and law enforcement agency in charge of it. Welcome to the CCCP where the secret police run the elections.
So they bought an OS and development tools for whatever Palm turns itself into. OK Dragonball is dead long live ARM. We all thought this would free up Palm the hardware company to use SymbianOS which is a whole shitload better for wireless apps than PalmOS. That left Palm the software company to errrrr.... pound sand. They don't own Symbian and shortly no one NO ONE will want a Dragonball OS unless it' to simply suck royalties from Sony, Handspring and Handera/TRG. So they had to go after a general purpose OS they could use to differentiate themselves. Why not Lunix or BFD you ask? Well if it was so easy someone would have had more than a funky demo by now. Sure the LinuxDA distro is sort of maybe not quite here but as far as development tools? Shucks Mabel, it looks like yer gonna hafta roll yer own!!!!!!!! So Be makes sense: you get the base of an OS you get tools and you get some experience writing apps. Sounds like a better business model than the one they had. I wonder if they can execute on that?
Yeah - orgy software, that's what it is anyway. Or maybe software developed on a 'love swing' or a BDSM rack.
Grovel before the Mistress of Macro, the Princess of Perl, the Dominatrix of Data! Lick my boot, slave.