Au contraire, just look at Eclipse. This was IBM VisualAge for Jave. The OpenSourced it, and now it is taking HUGE steps.
There's also JFS, OpenAFS and a lot of other small things. Sure, they will never open source DB2 or other multi million dollar middleware, but would you hope for an OSS Oracle???
The backend for a web site should always take the least time of your task. Just take some CMS (like WebGUI) or at least a framework (like Zope) to do your work.
Then concentrate on layout, but in the first place:
Make shure you have the fsck**g content for the site.
Then go back to refining the layout.
The backend should never take two whole manmonths for a single customer.
No wonder you have bitching customers.
Because you will always have the same ratio of height and width. And you can nicely (perfectly) arrange two resized A4 (-> A5) pages on a single A4 sheet, because of this.
With letter sizes you can only do this for four letter-sized pages on one page.
I also own a Diesel with Common Rail injection (Mercedes A170 CDI, to small to be sold in the US). I get between 6.5l/100km (35MPG) (full throttle, Autobahn) and 4.5l/100km (50MPG)(75MPH Autobahn).
And after all Diesel is a lot cheaper here (Germany). (0.90EUR/l instead of 1.20EUR/l)
BUT: A major problem of the Diesel, and especially the turbos, is the emission of toxic particles. The are proven to cause cancer. Filters can help that, but they also reduce the mileage.
After all, Hybrid Cars may still be the better solution.
Of course, I was referring to the Top500. Vector Processor Computers like the NEC SX and the Cray's provide far better performance (efficiency) for some problems. (After all, the ORNL people probably know where to stick the 50M.)
But Bluegene also has a SIMD FPU and a very, very low latency interconnect with two topologies (one torus and one tree). This network is the strength of Bluegene. They reached 70% of the theoretical performance of the whole system for a 512-way system (that is 1024 processors).
Still a whole year until they have a full machine, but the 512-way prototype reached 1.4 TFlops (LinPack). The complete machine will have 128 times the nodes and 50% higher frequency. So even with pessimistic scalability, this will be more than twice as fast.
Although I changed my home distribution for the exact same reason to debian, today you can also have the same thing on RedHat and other rpm-based distributions.
I'm not shure, if this really was a smart move. Community support will definitely go down.
Even Micro$oft got big in the enterprise OS market by way of their consumer OS. ($ sign added after I figured I didn't critisize MS enough. Hopefully this will please the mods.;-) )
Could it be, that SCO can not release the infringing parts, because they don't have the right to it.
If the infringing parts are contained in "IBM AIX source code, an old version labeled MERCED/9922A_43NIA", which is the version of Merced, that IBM and SCO worked on, and this whole thing was based on AIX, the don't even have the right to release the code, because it is a trade secret between IBM and SCO.
So, please IBM, allow SCO to release the possibly infringing locations / parts.
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I think this is a complete myth.
How else do you think, the following produciton plant is possible. Even if it only gets 10-20% of the energy from the solar panels on the building, it still produces far, far more panels than are installed on the building.
And also see this
study.
The energetic amortization for a solar powerplant is 6-7 years!!! And this is a pessimistic study, others even say it is only 3 years.
He could even disable Screen-Sharing with VNC. That way, only a single person can be connected to each screen.
But the worst problem would be VMware only allowing a few sessions at once.
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Au contraire, just look at Eclipse. This was IBM VisualAge for Jave. The OpenSourced it, and now it is taking HUGE steps.
There's also JFS, OpenAFS and a lot of other small things.
Sure, they will never open source DB2 or other multi million dollar middleware, but would you hope for an OSS Oracle???
Then concentrate on layout, but in the first place:
Make shure you have the fsck**g content for the site.
Then go back to refining the layout.
The backend should never take two whole manmonths for a single customer.
No wonder you have bitching customers.
And wider is better how?
Shorter lines are better to read! Just imagine your newspaper with a single line across the whole page.
The only case where you are right is: tables.
Because you will always have the same ratio of height and width.
And you can nicely (perfectly) arrange two resized A4 (-> A5) pages on a single A4 sheet, because of this.
With letter sizes you can only do this for four letter-sized pages on one page.
And after all Diesel is a lot cheaper here (Germany). (0.90EUR/l instead of 1.20EUR/l)
BUT: A major problem of the Diesel, and especially the turbos, is the emission of toxic particles. The are proven to cause cancer. Filters can help that, but they also reduce the mileage.
After all, Hybrid Cars may still be the better solution.
But Bluegene also has a SIMD FPU and a very, very low latency interconnect with two topologies (one torus and one tree). This network is the strength of Bluegene. They reached 70% of the theoretical performance of the whole system for a 512-way system (that is 1024 processors).
Still a whole year until they have a full machine, but the 512-way prototype reached 1.4 TFlops (LinPack). The complete machine will have 128 times the nodes and 50% higher frequency. So even with pessimistic scalability, this will be more than twice as fast.
> but this article has to be extraordinary, as Michael didn't put
> even a single flamebait word at the end of the posting.
**** Michael downmod filter V2.4 **** Rated Troll *****
But nevertheless, the Article was pretty good. Really "a thoughtful look at indian outsourcing"!
but this article has to be extraordinary, as Michael didn't put even a single flamebait word at the end of the posting.
... ;-)
Now I go reading
It works just as well.
I'm not shure, if this really was a smart move.
;-) )
Community support will definitely go down.
Even Micro$oft got big in the enterprise OS market by way of their consumer OS.
($ sign added after I figured I didn't critisize MS enough. Hopefully this will please the mods.
Could it be, that SCO can not release the infringing parts, because they don't have the right to it.
If the infringing parts are contained in "IBM AIX source code, an old version labeled MERCED/9922A_43NIA", which is the version of Merced, that IBM and SCO worked on, and this whole thing was based on AIX, the don't even have the right to release the code, because it is a trade secret between IBM and SCO.
So, please IBM, allow SCO to release the possibly infringing locations / parts.
How else do you think, the following produciton plant is possible. Even if it only gets 10-20% of the energy from the solar panels on the building, it still produces far, far more panels than are installed on the building.
Solarfabrik
And also see this study.
The energetic amortization for a solar powerplant is 6-7 years!!! And this is a pessimistic study, others even say it is only 3 years.
No, that's alright. Really. My posting was based on an assumption, your's on actual knowledge.
Anyway, I totally missed this one in the news.
Fortunately, the president of the EU council really has no real executive authority.
No, I was wrong. He IS the president of the EU.
Sorry for that.
Berlusconi may be the head of Italy, but he is not the head of Europe.
Although your other statements may be right, your missing knowledge makes you less credible for anyone who really knows.
You probably mean "Bild". The Spiegel is more like "Time".
Last time I forwarded something to abuse@t-online.de it took them only 24 hours to respond. That's pretty good.
There are many other things, that I don't like about t-online, but that's a different story.
Microsoft to do for Usenet what it did for Email & The Web OK, no way they could have remembered this one, when they don't even remember posts on the main-page. ;-)
He could even disable Screen-Sharing with VNC. That way, only a single person can be connected to each screen. But the worst problem would be VMware only allowing a few sessions at once.