The fact is that the US is behind in ways that are staggering, and it's hurting us economically. How many more small businesses would buy a server if they could actually get the pipe to host their own apps? How much more software/multimedia would be sold if it came in seconds, instead of hours.
I really think those are bogus arguments.
Small businesses co-locate not because they can't get the pipe to their site, but because colos have multiple redundant feeds and will maintain that for you. Otherwise, you've got to become your own NOC, which takes time/resources away from your primary task of making widgets.
My cable service delivers OOo2 in about 5 minutes. That's good enough.
This is shared on the same pipe that delivers HD digital TV and digital phone service. If the cable company suddenly switched to IPTV and (explicit) VoIP, I guarantee you that the Maximum Information Rate would sky-rocket.
The government has, for years, provided grant and low interest loans to any interest able to demonstrate a need and viable plan for broadband deployment in rural areas. This is one of the *good* government programs set up to answer the call for government subsidy type programs (aka Japan, etc). It's helped a lot of rural communities gain broadband access and helped launch many *community* oriented broadband startups.
My mother/step-father and sisters all live out in the country. The population density is so low that you can't see your neighbor's house. I don't see how broadband will *ever* get out there, unless it's Ethernet-over-power.
And even if that happens, I can't see my cousins using it that much. They are too busy playing baseball, driving 4-wheelers, hunting, etc.
Heck, my own kids would rather ride their bikes or roller skate than get on the computer.
Bogomips at least recognises that disparities in the actual amount of information processing done in an instruction makes MIPS an arbitrary measure anyway.
But the IBM mainframe has a fixed "base" instruction set, like the x86.
So while comparing mainframe MIPS to SPARC MIPS is obviously bogus, comparing a 4381 to a z/900 has merit.
They don't enjoy it, though - they have to stock a zillion old parts for a zillion old architectures, they have to train new guys on stuff that was obsolete before they got out of diapers.
They gradually crank up maintenance fees to "encourage" you to upgrade to new kit that is easier to support.
Increased maintenance fees is exactly why our company replaces it's mainframe every few years.
The only thing that crashes our systems are the EDA tools that run the systems out of memory and swap.
Then why aren't you adding more swap files?
If these are 32 bit systems, each process can only have 3GB of address space, so if you have 4GB of swap then the process will run out of memory before the system does.
The P series servers are not even close to big iron. We run them in our little internal lab
Just like DEC VAXen, DECpaq/HP Alphas & Sun SPARCs, the IBM System P comes is a huge range of configurations, from the deskside p185 up to the big honking p595i.
The trollish grandparent is probably not DB-savvy enough to differentiate between DDL (always auto-committed) and DML (never auto-committed) statements in Oracle.
For non DB monkeys (not my term, see upthread), DDL includes create, alter, drop, and truncate commands and are performed on objects, while DML includes insert, update, and delete statements (select doesn't actually change anything) and are performed on data within an object.
I've been a large-systems DBA for 10 years. And all DDL on the RDBMS that I manage (Rdb/VMS) is transactional and can be rolled back.
I've always found it easy to burn CDs. But then, I use the CLI, and discovered the magic formula back 5 years ago. So I ensconced it in a shell script and have used it ever since, only occasionally changing it to account for faster hardware.
Why is it so ridiculously difficult to install java support?
????
Installing the Sun Jave JRE is pathetically simple.
I'm sorry, but GNOME is important. I have friends, they will run a GNOME distro, but not a KDE one. KDE is harder, and ugly as hell. Note that I run KDE myself, because the software and configurability is better, but to most end users GNOME is way more attractive and easier to use. GNOME will be the desktop of choice for the linux masses if the day ever comes, KDE will remain the power-users desktop, as far as I can see.
To me, it's not that GNOME is "simpler", but that the apps I use most (Tbird & Firefox) are GTK apps, and thus don't integrate well with KDE. (I'd rather use XFCE, but it doesn't seem as "smooth" as GNOME.)
As far as customization, that's just not on my radar: the DE is a means to an end, not a goal in and of itself. GNOME's defaults are good enough for what I need a computer for.
The primary reason Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the United States is that the United States is a world leader in an odd category -- the percentage of infants who die on their birthday. In any given year in the United States anywhere from 30-40 percent of infants die before they are even a day old.
Why? Because the United States also easily has the most intensive system of emergency intervention to keep low birth weight and premature infants alive in the world. The United States is, for example, one of only a handful countries that keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality -- the survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of gestation.
How does this skew the statistics? Because in the United States if an infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the infant does not survive -- and the mortality rate for such infants is in excess of 50 percent -- that sequence of events will be recorded as a live birth and then a death.
In many countries, however, (including many European countries) such severe medical intervention would not be attempted and, moreover, regardless of whether or not it was, this would be recorded as a fetal death rather than a live birth. That unfortunate infant would never show up in infant mortality statistics.
Isn't it rather an indication that they're doing their job? Data which challenge our current models are the most valuable things scientists can collect, because they give researchers chance to refine their theories.
If all the astrophysicists and satelite projects were returning information which merely fit their current theories, there would seem to be less need for such research. In scientific research, the known unknowns are difficult challenges, but the discovery of unknown unknowns are the wonderful bits. Definite Ignorance leads to Progress.
But scientists keep on trying to salvage their accepted doctrine even when observation makes accepted doctrine into a creaking, fragile house of cards.
The long transit from geocentrism to heliocentrism bears this out.
Don't work, don't pay taxes, get rid of your driver's license, cancel all your insurance...?
Become a carpenter, roofer, etc that works in the cash economy. Fake documents are pretty easy to get (illegal Mexicans get them all the time), which should allow you to get minimal car insurance without much difficulty.
As he points out in his response to the second comment on his blog post, internal testing can't possible cover every single third party shell extension on the planet.
But it shouldn't have such a fragile design in the first place.
Of course, a lot of things about MSFT operating systems should be different, but aren't.
Microsoft is not selling you products that have gone through exhaustive QA, nor are we issuing patches that have gone through exhaustive QA.
Why not?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=MSFT&annual Last year, your employer earned US$12,600,000,000 profit and has US$34,000,000,000 in cash. Certainly they could pony up for a comprehensive test suite.
But... "you" don't have to. Why should MSFT create a decent product when sheeple, people who are managed by short-sighted idiots, and people trapped by vendor lock-in are shoveling money hand-over-fist into your coffers?
Interesting you choose to post in a topic about an IM client, and ask why you would share files within an IM client, if you don't even like or use them.
That's why I was asking.
It is hard to imagine not using IM in any capacity... It is now the preferred method of communication in many large tech companies, it isn't just a "chat with friends" medium any more.
I don't like it because it's Instant.
I (as a telecommuter) prefer email even to the telephone because
there's a permanent record, organized by Subject, and
I can sit and think about my answer (which often saves me from CLMs when my first thought when reading brainlessly stupid comments by developers and management is vituperation).
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I really think those are bogus arguments.
My mother/step-father and sisters all live out in the country. The population density is so low that you can't see your neighbor's house. I don't see how broadband will *ever* get out there, unless it's Ethernet-over-power.
And even if that happens, I can't see my cousins using it that much. They are too busy playing baseball, driving 4-wheelers, hunting, etc.
Heck, my own kids would rather ride their bikes or roller skate than get on the computer.
But the IBM mainframe has a fixed "base" instruction set, like the x86.
So while comparing mainframe MIPS to SPARC MIPS is obviously bogus, comparing a 4381 to a z/900 has merit.
They gradually crank up maintenance fees to "encourage" you to upgrade to new kit that is easier to support.
Increased maintenance fees is exactly why our company replaces it's mainframe every few years.
Then why aren't you adding more swap files?
If these are 32 bit systems, each process can only have 3GB of address space, so if you have 4GB of swap then the process will run out of memory before the system does.
Just like DEC VAXen, DECpaq/HP Alphas & Sun SPARCs, the IBM System P comes is a huge range of configurations, from the deskside p185 up to the big honking p595i.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/highend/
Sure it did.
What makes you think that bogomips and mainframe MIPS are, in any way, comparable?
For non DB monkeys (not my term, see upthread), DDL includes create, alter, drop, and truncate commands and are performed on objects, while DML includes insert, update, and delete statements (select doesn't actually change anything) and are performed on data within an object.
I've been a large-systems DBA for 10 years. And all DDL on the RDBMS that I manage (Rdb/VMS) is transactional and can be rolled back.
rollback;
Unless the company uses idiot auto-commit software like Oracle.
Like Operators who are more than occasionally dumb as rocks?
Besides, haven't you read the story of why BRS protectors are called molly-guards?
- Data Encryption Unit
- Deck/Engine Utility
- Defective End-User
- Delegated Examining Unit (US Government)
- Democratic Union (Czech Republic)
- Digital Electronics Unit
- Digital Enabled Usages
- Digital Evaluation Unit
- Disk Expansion Unit
- Display Electronic Unit
- Display Electronics Unit
- Distinctive Environmental Uniform
- Dokuz Eylul University
- Drive Electronics Unit (Heads-up Guidance System)
- Drug Enforcement Unit
- Dumb End User
- Germany (ISO Country code)
Is Dumb End User what you mean?Because there are those (like MdI) who want GNOME to be written in Mono.
Not true.
To verify, I just purged all Mono-related packages from my Debian system, and no "higher" dependencies were also removed.
I've always found it easy to burn CDs. But then, I use the CLI, and discovered the magic formula back 5 years ago. So I ensconced it in a shell script and have used it ever since, only occasionally changing it to account for faster hardware.
Why is it so ridiculously difficult to install java support?
????
Installing the Sun Jave JRE is pathetically simple.
Why is wireless networking next to impossible?
Can't answer that one. (Only use wires.)
To me, it's not that GNOME is "simpler", but that the apps I use most (Tbird & Firefox) are GTK apps, and thus don't integrate well with KDE. (I'd rather use XFCE, but it doesn't seem as "smooth" as GNOME.)
As far as customization, that's just not on my radar: the DE is a means to an end, not a goal in and of itself. GNOME's defaults are good enough for what I need a computer for.
And is suffering high unemployment and unsustainably low (possibly negative) native population growth.
Meanwhile, in the US, stupid is as stupid does:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/health/22infant
And then there's this factoid which bumps up the US mortality rate:
http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2002/00001
If all the astrophysicists and satelite projects were returning information which merely fit their current theories, there would seem to be less need for such research. In scientific research, the known unknowns are difficult challenges, but the discovery of unknown unknowns are the wonderful bits. Definite Ignorance leads to Progress.
But scientists keep on trying to salvage their accepted doctrine even when observation makes accepted doctrine into a creaking, fragile house of cards.
The long transit from geocentrism to heliocentrism bears this out.
Don't work, don't pay taxes, get rid of your driver's license, cancel all your insurance...?
Become a carpenter, roofer, etc that works in the cash economy. Fake documents are pretty easy to get (illegal Mexicans get them all the time), which should allow you to get minimal car insurance without much difficulty.
Pay cash, don't vote, keep your (figurative) nose clean, and be careful.
But it shouldn't have such a fragile design in the first place.
Of course, a lot of things about MSFT operating systems should be different, but aren't.
Why not?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=MSFT&annual
Last year, your employer earned US$12,600,000,000 profit and has US$34,000,000,000 in cash. Certainly they could pony up for a comprehensive test suite.
But... "you" don't have to. Why should MSFT create a decent product when sheeple, people who are managed by short-sighted idiots, and people trapped by vendor lock-in are shoveling money hand-over-fist into your coffers?
That's why I was asking.
It is hard to imagine not using IM in any capacity... It is now the preferred method of communication in many large tech companies, it isn't just a "chat with friends" medium any more.
I don't like it because it's Instant.
I (as a telecommuter) prefer email even to the telephone because
I don't know, since I don't like and don't use IM.
Innocent question from an old fogey: why use an Instant Messaging client as a File Transfer Protocol/Program?