Gatta call you on that one. Have you used Solaris?
The Ultra Sparks are a relatively slow processor compared to some of the others. Sun were even looking at a merger with Fujitsu a while ago, which would allowed Sun to drop the Ultra Spark and pick up the faster CPU, the SPARK64 (fujitsu) as their chip of choice.
The only reason Solaris (and Irix for that matter, which has the same problem with MIPS CPU's which are yet to break the GHz barrier) has really survived IMHO is because it is such a clean OS and is very efficient, so it can deal with slower chips.
I admit I havn't been using unix as much as a few of they other guys here, but that has been my experiance at least.
Treated kevlar, cut then treated. I think they make current bullet proof vests out of kevlar. Kevlar in it's self is quite thin, bullet proof vests are thick for padding, otherwise the bruise could take a man out of action by it's self.
Superman wouldn't need to worry about that as much. In fact he wasn't bulet proof, only his suit was, he just has a much higher resistance to pain.
This shows that Indians (that doesn't sound right) really want to work. It is a shame but most of the western world have gottern lazy. They want a free ride and use things like trade unions and the fickle government system to do this.
I think we need less unemployment benifits, make people value having a good job again, and stop demanding more. I just keep thinking back to the story on the most over paid jobs, and can't belive we have let it come to this.
It is the result of your sue happy society. When Med students in the US finish college, they should come down here to Australia. You won't find insurance near that level, you'll earn about the same ammount of money (60k+ garanteed by the gov for uni leavers, translation is about US42k) and the cost of living is cheaper, not to mention our cities have a much higher ranking in the most livable cities index.
Who knows, in time the US citizens may see there strife, and change their nature.
Hydrogen has the slight disadvantage however of being explosive. You'd hate to have the craft explode upon entry or even worse as it is leaving our atmosphere. All we need is another Hindenburg.
As far as the amount of the gas needed, it should be about the same as we would need here on earth. While the atmosphere is less dense, Mars has a significantly lower mass (and diameter, which greatly is the cause of the lower atmospheric density).
Mars diameter: 6,794 km Mars mass: 6.4219e23 kg Earth diameter: 12,756.3 km Earth mass: 5.972e24 kg
I've been looking around at various monitors (RP, flat panel, FP, and conventional) and have to say based on what's currently around I'm going to go with DLPRP, at least for home theatre applications.
Plasmas are too expensive, don't seem to have many shades of colors (everything seems too bright, and doesn't have the subtle variations of other monitors) and significantly burn out over their life time (the colors go very very dull until everything looks grey).
LCD is my choice for computers, mainly because they have been best optimized for them in terms of resolution and response. However for home theatre purposes they can seem a little flicker, their colors seem more dull than some of the other options (like 6 segment color wheel DLP) and are less bright. LCDRP/FP also normally have a significant screen door affect which makes images seem to pixilated. LCD's are also said to burn out over long periods of time, although to a lesser extent than Plasmas. LCD flat panel's also come in too smaller sizes.
CRT's have dull colors, they like plasmas burn out over time; they have flicker images, and are harder to focus on for long periods of time. They are also restricted in screen size.
DLP's are currently a great way to go, the newer machines have spectacular resolution, color, a clear crisp image. The 6 segment 5X boxes have no visible (at least to humans) rainbow affect, and some companies are starting to release 6X units which will have the best refresh rates on the market as well. They will never burn out as well, in that every time you replace the lamp and clean the color wheel, it will be returned to its original specs. DLP's also have a much less noticeable screen door affect than LCD. DLP's resolution with the next generaton chips will be better than anything we currently use. Contrast ratio and Brightness is right up there with the best as well.
DLPRP seem the best of the bunch because they have a much thinner box than other RP's or CRT's. They can be viewed in all lighting levels. RP's also allowed much bigger images than flat panels, or at least have the potential to. They don't burn out, and most people doing random viewing tests say they have the 'most pleasant' picture.
I haven't tested the LCOS methods, so can't really talk about them, also note my assessments have been based on HDTV standards and the Blue laser DVD standards that will come in the future.
The best of the DLP's that I have been able to look at are made by sim2.
Australian Unions represent maybe 30% of the total work force, and do not carry as much power as they used to.
If by abusing power you mean standing up for their members when a business goes bust or demanding safer work practices on sites then I say go ahead and "abuse" away. Just remember without trade unions we wouldn't have a lot of the protections that we have today.
What destroys businesses is not "Evil Unions" its bad management. OneTel and HIH spring to mind as perfect examples.
Also the problem with macroeconomic theory is that is changes with every new fad. One year we want to be the clever country because then we can grab all the new technology jobs and that makes economic sense, the next we are farming out all the new techonology jobs because it makes economic sense.
And the union builders strike called when one of the union heads had been found to have embezeled money, and the government wanted to prosecute, was fair use of the system I guess.
And in the company I used to work for, we had a union meeting, where our rep was reccomending to us that we should not work as hard as we had been, so we can teach the owners about how important we were to the business. They were fine people to work under as well.
He then threatened them in front of all of us saying that he had shut down bigger businesses than them. Those union guys arn't healthy for anything. They have shut down any good R&D positions Australia has ever had.
I'm a professional not a manager or business owner, and we have serious union problems in Australia. Now I agree that in certain industries, they can be usful to keep wages and conditions livable, but for the most part they have out lived their use. Conditions in most jobs here are great, pay is fine, so the only thing left for them to do is harass companies and apply undue pressure. In my eyes, if they had less power, we would have more, and more interesting jobs here because international companies would not be afraid to invest in us. And having more jobs would mean there would be more competition for the best employees, and improved conditions anyway. We all lose out with the unions. And to make matters even worse, most of the companies they are able to shut down, are small and medium sized, so it only creates more of a monopoly amoung the large corporations.
And about macro ecconomic policy and theory, you'll find it continually gets more accurate, and is not fad based. If you want to know more you should look up 'the law of comparative advantage'.
Australia is having some problems in adapting to globalization, specifically with technology development.
Granted, Australia is a faily isolated island, but many industrialized countries are using Internet and telephone as though they are commodities. Last time I looked at pricing for such services in Australia the costs were astronomous.
With the possible adoption of this DMCA type legislation - which has slowed some technology research in the US - I don't see this helping Australia to modernize its economy. Unless of course, the free trade is really beneficial. While Canada and Mexico might have benefitted from NAFTA, it was only because the US knew it was to its advantage to use it. Now, Australia will be used too.
Once again it is the unions that are killing our tech industry.
Not too long ago Ericsson set up a research plant in Australia. 450 good R&D jobs as well. But our unions did everything they could to stop it, and with the recently elected Bracks Government (Labor, Victoria), they had the power to make business for them unbareable. The plant lasted 18 months.
With globalization, it becomes cheaper to import goods rather than export our own. Will this result in eventually having no jobs of our own domestically? I shudder to think what would happen if this was the case.
Actually either way it is benificial for Australia, and same with this deal. See, while we may find some industries have a bit of hardship for the short term, in the long term our work force will shift more towards an industry for which we have a comparitive advantage. This will just allow more trade with less rent seeking, and eventually we will all be better off.
None of this is speculation either, it is all well known macroecconomic theory and policy. The problem is the government needs to offset the hardship faced by various affected industries for the mean time allowing the work force to shift trades.
By the way the Australian unions are out of control, they have far too much power and abuse it regularly. From personal experiance I regret to say allot of them take pleasure in trying to destroy businesses, and more upsettingly they have been sucessful in shutting down allot of international investments, if anything they will hurt Australias progress, as they will try to resist the changing work force.
I remember hearing that Oracle are going to ensure that future products will all be Mozila compatible...~"~
I'm afraid for allot of businesses Linux is just not an option. We had a look at switching but couldn't, mainly because there were no quality accounting packages that would run on it.
Who ever said "risking your business was not worth the cost of the liscence fee", above was right, and it is a big reason why allot of small and medium sized companies can't switch.
Oracle software is not simple HTML, and I wouldn't say it was developed by ammateurs. Some of you guys just click reply without even reading the full issue and offer usless advice. Whats more interesting is that for some reason it gets moded up.
When you have a database that your business depends on, having it not fully suported is not an option.
From my understanding of chess programs, they are set to calculate a set number of moves ahead and choose the best possible move. Some of the newer programs are also set to look for a few certain patterns which reveal a trap. Changing the number of CPU's would have made no real differance to the game play, allowing the program remained the same. It would have just need more processing time between moves.
I cna't belive some of you are defending KaZaA. When the code was designed it was obviously for piracy, because that is the only reason it is a popular as it is, and they know it. How stupid do they think we are claiming they had no idea it would be used for this..... Wait a seccond you guys all end up in this class.
This is also besides the point that KaZaA is a distributor of spyware and annoying-ware, while the RIAA is just trying to protect their investments.
So what happens... all the computers of the world endup full of crap. Companies loose money and so need to make cuts.
In the case of the music industry; music begins to suck as the execs take less chances on non-produced groups.
In the case fo the movie industry; we see less inteligent plots and more distorted rereleases with unnecesary love interests and violence just to tap into every possible audiance.
In the case of software, your jobs get outsourced and for some poetic justice you have brought about your own demise. Unfortunatly allot of others suffer along side of you.
I belive people who are involved in this illeagal activity should be punished to the full extent of the law. And the courts should support it in every way possible and not always worry about popularity. If you have a problem with the system fight the copyright laws at the fedral level, don;t fight the companies.
In one breath you abuse the corporations for outsourcing your jobs, and in the next you condone piracy. It is your own faults that you are ending up out of the job. I'd even go as far as to say it's poetic justice.
The corporations of this world have every right to protect their investments in every way possible.
By the way the current statistice show that 80% of a companies earnings go to the staff, so all this piracy should lead to about 40% of you loosing your jobs or getting pay cuts and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
So you must think pretty highly of yourself if you believe you are qualified to make such bold psychoanalyses of these guys.
Come on get off your own high horses. No matter how you look at it they have both had a greater impact on the world than you and there is no way of determining if their presence has made the world a better place (as we can not see alternative worlds). So when these guys give to any charities they should be respected for doing so and not have their motives judged.
What happened to the good old days, where if a company was going out of business they would either innovate something new, or surcome to not being able to keep with the pace.
This really is what will slow down progression more than anything else. Not patents, I a big supporter of them, the US patent system. What they are doing for money is a joke, soon there will be more lawyers than all other professions combined. I remember mourning the day when there was more lawyers than engineers, now the thought of it just seems normal.
Which economist said that a countries innovation was proportional to the number of engineers, and a countries rent seeking was proportional to the number of Lawyers?
39.5 minutes... thats nothing. At times a will slip into 26 hour days for no reason what so ever. Only after a few days do I come out of my hole and realise I've lost one.
You can't force someone to change their business model. I see it the other way, you start obeying the law, and purchasing music, and record companies will be able to start charging less because sales are going up and so the bulk of the expences which are fixed will have a smaller affect on each CD.
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Gatta call you on that one. Have you used Solaris?
The Ultra Sparks are a relatively slow processor compared to some of the others. Sun were even looking at a merger with Fujitsu a while ago, which would allowed Sun to drop the Ultra Spark and pick up the faster CPU, the SPARK64 (fujitsu) as their chip of choice.
The only reason Solaris (and Irix for that matter, which has the same problem with MIPS CPU's which are yet to break the GHz barrier) has really survived IMHO is because it is such a clean OS and is very efficient, so it can deal with slower chips.
I admit I havn't been using unix as much as a few of they other guys here, but that has been my experiance at least.
Treated kevlar, cut then treated. I think they make current bullet proof vests out of kevlar. Kevlar in it's self is quite thin, bullet proof vests are thick for padding, otherwise the bruise could take a man out of action by it's self.
Superman wouldn't need to worry about that as much. In fact he wasn't bulet proof, only his suit was, he just has a much higher resistance to pain.
What about crossover office, like what is included with Xandros.
This shows that Indians (that doesn't sound right) really want to work. It is a shame but most of the western world have gottern lazy. They want a free ride and use things like trade unions and the fickle government system to do this.
I think we need less unemployment benifits, make people value having a good job again, and stop demanding more. I just keep thinking back to the story on the most over paid jobs, and can't belive we have let it come to this.
It is the result of your sue happy society. When Med students in the US finish college, they should come down here to Australia. You won't find insurance near that level, you'll earn about the same ammount of money (60k+ garanteed by the gov for uni leavers, translation is about US42k) and the cost of living is cheaper, not to mention our cities have a much higher ranking in the most livable cities index.
Who knows, in time the US citizens may see there strife, and change their nature.
Now we all get to compile our own burgers at Burger King.
Since it would take light 50 years to travel to the planet
I never get this, do Americans say 'it would take 10 miles to drive to the shops'?
more prudent if slashdot made some kind of ticker on the website of software releases?
/. is still primarily a news service.
That would just be annoying, and I'm sure allot of people learn allot about the releases by being able to discuss them.
Besides while it may often seem like a software site,
Hydrogen has the slight disadvantage however of being explosive. You'd hate to have the craft explode upon entry or even worse as it is leaving our atmosphere. All we need is another Hindenburg.
As far as the amount of the gas needed, it should be about the same as we would need here on earth. While the atmosphere is less dense, Mars has a significantly lower mass (and diameter, which greatly is the cause of the lower atmospheric density).
Mars diameter: 6,794 km
Mars mass: 6.4219e23 kg
Earth diameter: 12,756.3 km
Earth mass: 5.972e24 kg
Advertiser's finally start slowing down on the internet, and now they move on to another planet.
I can just see the good old Whitmans and Goodyear blimps floating over the red planet.
They'd have to be bigger of course, so observers could see the blue object floating around Mars from a telescope on Earth.
I've been looking around at various monitors (RP, flat panel, FP, and conventional) and have to say based on what's currently around I'm going to go with DLPRP, at least for home theatre applications.
Plasmas are too expensive, don't seem to have many shades of colors (everything seems too bright, and doesn't have the subtle variations of other monitors) and significantly burn out over their life time (the colors go very very dull until everything looks grey).
LCD is my choice for computers, mainly because they have been best optimized for them in terms of resolution and response. However for home theatre purposes they can seem a little flicker, their colors seem more dull than some of the other options (like 6 segment color wheel DLP) and are less bright. LCDRP/FP also normally have a significant screen door affect which makes images seem to pixilated. LCD's are also said to burn out over long periods of time, although to a lesser extent than Plasmas. LCD flat panel's also come in too smaller sizes.
CRT's have dull colors, they like plasmas burn out over time; they have flicker images, and are harder to focus on for long periods of time. They are also restricted in screen size.
DLP's are currently a great way to go, the newer machines have spectacular resolution, color, a clear crisp image. The 6 segment 5X boxes have no visible (at least to humans) rainbow affect, and some companies are starting to release 6X units which will have the best refresh rates on the market as well. They will never burn out as well, in that every time you replace the lamp and clean the color wheel, it will be returned to its original specs. DLP's also have a much less noticeable screen door affect than LCD. DLP's resolution with the next generaton chips will be better than anything we currently use. Contrast ratio and Brightness is right up there with the best as well.
DLPRP seem the best of the bunch because they have a much thinner box than other RP's or CRT's. They can be viewed in all lighting levels. RP's also allowed much bigger images than flat panels, or at least have the potential to. They don't burn out, and most people doing random viewing tests say they have the 'most pleasant' picture.
I haven't tested the LCOS methods, so can't really talk about them, also note my assessments have been based on HDTV standards and the Blue laser DVD standards that will come in the future.
The best of the DLP's that I have been able to look at are made by sim2.
Australian Unions represent maybe 30% of the total work force, and do not carry as much power as they used to.
If by abusing power you mean standing up for their members when a business goes bust or demanding safer work practices on sites then I say go ahead and "abuse" away. Just remember without trade unions we wouldn't have a lot of the protections that we have today.
What destroys businesses is not "Evil Unions" its bad management. OneTel and HIH spring to mind as perfect examples.
Also the problem with macroeconomic theory is that is changes with every new fad. One year we want to be the clever country because then we can grab all the new technology jobs and that makes economic sense, the next we are farming out all the new techonology jobs because it makes economic sense.
And the union builders strike called when one of the union heads had been found to have embezeled money, and the government wanted to prosecute, was fair use of the system I guess.
And in the company I used to work for, we had a union meeting, where our rep was reccomending to us that we should not work as hard as we had been, so we can teach the owners about how important we were to the business. They were fine people to work under as well.
He then threatened them in front of all of us saying that he had shut down bigger businesses than them. Those union guys arn't healthy for anything. They have shut down any good R&D positions Australia has ever had.
I'm a professional not a manager or business owner, and we have serious union problems in Australia. Now I agree that in certain industries, they can be usful to keep wages and conditions livable, but for the most part they have out lived their use. Conditions in most jobs here are great, pay is fine, so the only thing left for them to do is harass companies and apply undue pressure. In my eyes, if they had less power, we would have more, and more interesting jobs here because international companies would not be afraid to invest in us. And having more jobs would mean there would be more competition for the best employees, and improved conditions anyway. We all lose out with the unions. And to make matters even worse, most of the companies they are able to shut down, are small and medium sized, so it only creates more of a monopoly amoung the large corporations.
And about macro ecconomic policy and theory, you'll find it continually gets more accurate, and is not fad based. If you want to know more you should look up 'the law of comparative advantage'.
Australia is having some problems in adapting to globalization, specifically with technology development.
Granted, Australia is a faily isolated island, but many industrialized countries are using Internet and telephone as though they are commodities. Last time I looked at pricing for such services in Australia the costs were astronomous.
With the possible adoption of this DMCA type legislation - which has slowed some technology research in the US - I don't see this helping Australia to modernize its economy. Unless of course, the free trade is really beneficial. While Canada and Mexico might have benefitted from NAFTA, it was only because the US knew it was to its advantage to use it. Now, Australia will be used too.
Once again it is the unions that are killing our tech industry.
Not too long ago Ericsson set up a research plant in Australia. 450 good R&D jobs as well. But our unions did everything they could to stop it, and with the recently elected Bracks Government (Labor, Victoria), they had the power to make business for them unbareable. The plant lasted 18 months.
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With globalization, it becomes cheaper to import goods rather than export our own. Will this result in eventually having no jobs of our own domestically? I shudder to think what would happen if this was the case.
Actually either way it is benificial for Australia, and same with this deal. See, while we may find some industries have a bit of hardship for the short term, in the long term our work force will shift more towards an industry for which we have a comparitive advantage. This will just allow more trade with less rent seeking, and eventually we will all be better off.
None of this is speculation either, it is all well known macroecconomic theory and policy. The problem is the government needs to offset the hardship faced by various affected industries for the mean time allowing the work force to shift trades.
By the way the Australian unions are out of control, they have far too much power and abuse it regularly. From personal experiance I regret to say allot of them take pleasure in trying to destroy businesses, and more upsettingly they have been sucessful in shutting down allot of international investments, if anything they will hurt Australias progress, as they will try to resist the changing work force.
I remember hearing that Oracle are going to ensure that future products will all be Mozila compatible...~"~
I'm afraid for allot of businesses Linux is just not an option. We had a look at switching but couldn't, mainly because there were no quality accounting packages that would run on it.
Who ever said "risking your business was not worth the cost of the liscence fee", above was right, and it is a big reason why allot of small and medium sized companies can't switch.
note: we are based in Australia
Oracle software is not simple HTML, and I wouldn't say it was developed by ammateurs. Some of you guys just click reply without even reading the full issue and offer usless advice. Whats more interesting is that for some reason it gets moded up.
When you have a database that your business depends on, having it not fully suported is not an option.
From my understanding of chess programs, they are set to calculate a set number of moves ahead and choose the best possible move. Some of the newer programs are also set to look for a few certain patterns which reveal a trap. Changing the number of CPU's would have made no real differance to the game play, allowing the program remained the same. It would have just need more processing time between moves.
To not like Gates, or more accuratly MS's business methods but to hope for his death is just absurd, and down right immature.
You sound like a bunch of four year olds. Get a grip.
If we ever colonize this planet, we will have to clean our crap up from all over the place.
I cna't belive some of you are defending KaZaA. When the code was designed it was obviously for piracy, because that is the only reason it is a popular as it is, and they know it. How stupid do they think we are claiming they had no idea it would be used for this. .... Wait a seccond you guys all end up in this class.
This is also besides the point that KaZaA is a distributor of spyware and annoying-ware, while the RIAA is just trying to protect their investments.
So what happens... all the computers of the world endup full of crap. Companies loose money and so need to make cuts.
In the case of the music industry; music begins to suck as the execs take less chances on non-produced groups.
In the case fo the movie industry; we see less inteligent plots and more distorted rereleases with unnecesary love interests and violence just to tap into every possible audiance.
In the case of software, your jobs get outsourced and for some poetic justice you have brought about your own demise. Unfortunatly allot of others suffer along side of you.
I belive people who are involved in this illeagal activity should be punished to the full extent of the law. And the courts should support it in every way possible and not always worry about popularity. If you have a problem with the system fight the copyright laws at the fedral level, don;t fight the companies.
In one breath you abuse the corporations for outsourcing your jobs, and in the next you condone piracy. It is your own faults that you are ending up out of the job. I'd even go as far as to say it's poetic justice.
The corporations of this world have every right to protect their investments in every way possible.
By the way the current statistice show that 80% of a companies earnings go to the staff, so all this piracy should lead to about 40% of you loosing your jobs or getting pay cuts and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
"Gates has convinced himself that he's a genius"
So you must think pretty highly of yourself if you believe you are qualified to make such bold psychoanalyses of these guys.
Come on get off your own high horses. No matter how you look at it they have both had a greater impact on the world than you and there is no way of determining if their presence has made the world a better place (as we can not see alternative worlds). So when these guys give to any charities they should be respected for doing so and not have their motives judged.
What happened to the good old days, where if a company was going out of business they would either innovate something new, or surcome to not being able to keep with the pace.
This really is what will slow down progression more than anything else. Not patents, I a big supporter of them, the US patent system. What they are doing for money is a joke, soon there will be more lawyers than all other professions combined. I remember mourning the day when there was more lawyers than engineers, now the thought of it just seems normal.
Which economist said that a countries innovation was proportional to the number of engineers, and a countries rent seeking was proportional to the number of Lawyers?
39.5 minutes... thats nothing. At times a will slip into 26 hour days for no reason what so ever. Only after a few days do I come out of my hole and realise I've lost one.
You can't force someone to change their business model. I see it the other way, you start obeying the law, and purchasing music, and record companies will be able to start charging less because sales are going up and so the bulk of the expences which are fixed will have a smaller affect on each CD.