Can't imagine no beowulf clusters, because by definition, one has to think of a beowulf cluster in order to know what not to think about.
Clear as mud, hey?
DJB is so late to this party. Releasing his code about 5 years ago would have been more useful to the rest of us.
Myself, like many other people, threw the towel in on using his tools seriously a long time ago.
At least endless qmail patching isn't needed anymore for those devoted to that MTA.
I'd use Qmail, except that the licence means that in order for Qmail to scale, it has to be patched about fifteen squillion times over... all thanks to the restrictive licence.
Sure it may be fast and secure... but unfortuantely scalable it is not (and if it is, it is far from obvious how). Does anybody run an ISP mail system with Qmail featuring predominately as MTA of choice?
The other quirk that I really hate with Mac OS X, is that if you drop a folder with some data in it onto another folder of the same name in another directory with it's own data, all the data in directory you copy onto gets DELETED without so much of a warning.
I know this is a UNIX thing, but even Windows isn't that mean.
In addition to Australia being big with a small population making the infrastructure expensive to update, Telstra are not run by the government and don't mind being idiots because they own all the copper. Why unroll decent services when they can get away charging decent money for crap?
Sure. I've worked in outsourcing and for an ISP. We use free software all the time. Sometimes the software doesn't do what we want it to do so either we code the feature in ourselves and give it back to the community, or outsource the work to another company to do it for us.
We're not in the business of selling software per se, only the service.... and we stand on the shoulders of giants to do this, adding features and bug reports where we can to adapt these tools to our and everyone else's advantage, in order to serve our customers.
Nexenta seems to be doing things the right way for Solaris to proceed as a viable operating system. A debian-like package system and a choice of easy installable GUIs, but still without the hardware support that linux has,
I am also curious about Solaris's desire to go GPL. If that ever happened, Solaris will most likely be cannibalized into Linux - and Solaris will die a slow death. Even as we speak, the most valuable assets for Solaris (Dtrace and ZFS) are being usurped by FreeBSD (thanks to a more permissive BSD license) - which means that some people may choose it over Solaris.
Sun really has to work hard to sell us on the benefits of Solaris, and why we would choose it over other things available at the moment.
I can see it now: Asimo comes out on stage at CES and bleeps angrily "It's 5 o'clock! Time for your medicine!", before pulling out an AK47 and going wild.
Women have three laws similar to the laws of robotics:-
1. A woman must look after herself, even if this means hurting and manipulating others to do it for her.
2. A woman must find a strong alpha-male to whom she can mate with, even if this means leading on other men for emotional support.
3. A woman must look after her children, even if this means actually having to get a job to do it.
Women have other thoughts and dreams too, but all of them bow before the three rules - causing confusion for the woman and everyone else.
At the end of the clip, the girl says something that sounds like "tarento otakupokunai?" or "Doesn't this guy look like a geek?"
Seems odd to me that the girl would use the word "talent" when referring to the PC guy in an advert.... unless I misheard it. Kinda breaks the fourth wall.
("Talent" is a word used and abused in Japanese to refer to someone on TV, who may or may not necessarily have any real talent.)
That "Fist II" bug was actually fixed in a later release and the game became playable (and completeable). You'll find the bugfixed version on www.gb64.com
There are a myriad of other issues with this too. For one, the Commodore 64 uses PETSCII and not standard ASCII. To complicate matters more, he may have even used GEOS to store his data on floppy disks, and without the right conversaion tools, coverting that to plain text, muchless PC readable media, is going to be tricky without the right C64 hardware.
If he had all that CMD hardware, or stored all his information on a hard disk or CMD formatted floppy disk, it will be harder again.
I played with this device, but grew to dislike it. The thing is too big, runs too hot, eat batteries for breakfast, and the keyboard is barely usable. Nice that it runs WinXP and has two cameras.... but so what?
Sorry, but the Zaurus still fits in your pocket, has a usable keyboard, and lasts 7 hours at a time.
With that many people, why did they want to get a retail discount? I would have found the wholesalers and drummed them up for one.... or better still, used the people to form a company!
I'm still getting by with my ATI RADEON 9700 PRO. Still plays just about anything I can throw at it. Oblivion gives it a hard time, but it's still adequately playable.
I'm going to hold off as long as possible until the card can't play the latest games, at which point I may get one of these quad SLI setups. by that time, we'll have DDR3 memory and quad core CPUs too.
It's all wel and good that there is a Microsoft service to protect Windows, but what is protecting ONE Care?
Seems funny that security issues that Microsoft should have fixed created a new market, and now that this market exists, Microsoft cannot monopolize it by actually fixing the said issues with built-in software.
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Can't imagine no beowulf clusters, because by definition, one has to think of a beowulf cluster in order to know what not to think about. Clear as mud, hey?
DJB is so late to this party. Releasing his code about 5 years ago would have been more useful to the rest of us. Myself, like many other people, threw the towel in on using his tools seriously a long time ago. At least endless qmail patching isn't needed anymore for those devoted to that MTA.
I'd use Qmail, except that the licence means that in order for Qmail to scale, it has to be patched about fifteen squillion times over ... all thanks to the restrictive licence.
Sure it may be fast and secure... but unfortuantely scalable it is not (and if it is, it is far from obvious how).
Does anybody run an ISP mail system with Qmail featuring predominately as MTA of choice?
The other quirk that I really hate with Mac OS X, is that if you drop a folder with some data in it onto another folder of the same name in another directory with it's own data, all the data in directory you copy onto gets DELETED without so much of a warning.
I know this is a UNIX thing, but even Windows isn't that mean.
That looks like an manufacturer overclocked version. (hence the asking price is larger)
Goodbye yellow brick road.
In addition to Australia being big with a small population making the infrastructure expensive to update, Telstra are not run by the government and don't mind being idiots because they own all the copper. Why unroll decent services when they can get away charging decent money for crap?
Sure. I've worked in outsourcing and for an ISP. We use free software all the time. Sometimes the software doesn't do what we want it to do so either we code the feature in ourselves and give it back to the community, or outsource the work to another company to do it for us. We're not in the business of selling software per se, only the service.... and we stand on the shoulders of giants to do this, adding features and bug reports where we can to adapt these tools to our and everyone else's advantage, in order to serve our customers.
Nexenta seems to be doing things the right way for Solaris to proceed as a viable operating system. A debian-like package system and a choice of easy installable GUIs, but still without the hardware support that linux has,
I am also curious about Solaris's desire to go GPL. If that ever happened, Solaris will most likely be cannibalized into Linux - and Solaris will die a slow death. Even as we speak, the most valuable assets for Solaris (Dtrace and ZFS) are being usurped by FreeBSD (thanks to a more permissive BSD license) - which means that some people may choose it over Solaris.
Sun really has to work hard to sell us on the benefits of Solaris, and why we would choose it over other things available at the moment.
Time to arm Honda's Asimo with a rocket launcher.
I can see it now: Asimo comes out on stage at CES and bleeps angrily "It's 5 o'clock! Time for your medicine!", before pulling out an AK47 and going wild.
Milankovitch, Milankovitch, Milankovitch, Milankovitch, Milankovitch, Milankovitch (Drops onto New Jersey Turnpike)
Opiates are the religion of the masses!!!
Women have three laws similar to the laws of robotics:-
1. A woman must look after herself, even if this means hurting and manipulating others to do it for her.
2. A woman must find a strong alpha-male to whom she can mate with, even if this means leading on other men for emotional support.
3. A woman must look after her children, even if this means actually having to get a job to do it.
Women have other thoughts and dreams too, but all of them bow before the three rules - causing confusion for the woman and everyone else.
At the end of the clip, the girl says something that sounds like "tarento otakupokunai?" or "Doesn't this guy look like a geek?" Seems odd to me that the girl would use the word "talent" when referring to the PC guy in an advert.... unless I misheard it. Kinda breaks the fourth wall. ("Talent" is a word used and abused in Japanese to refer to someone on TV, who may or may not necessarily have any real talent.)
That "Fist II" bug was actually fixed in a later release and the game became playable (and completeable). You'll find the bugfixed version on www.gb64.com
There are a myriad of other issues with this too. For one, the Commodore 64 uses PETSCII and not standard ASCII. To complicate matters more, he may have even used GEOS to store his data on floppy disks, and without the right conversaion tools, coverting that to plain text, muchless PC readable media, is going to be tricky without the right C64 hardware. If he had all that CMD hardware, or stored all his information on a hard disk or CMD formatted floppy disk, it will be harder again.
Perhaps you'd like to name drop a few more companies while you're at it!
I played with this device, but grew to dislike it. The thing is too big, runs too hot, eat batteries for breakfast, and the keyboard is barely usable. Nice that it runs WinXP and has two cameras.... but so what? Sorry, but the Zaurus still fits in your pocket, has a usable keyboard, and lasts 7 hours at a time.
One less reason to use Windows for those who need/want Lotus.
With that many people, why did they want to get a retail discount? I would have found the wholesalers and drummed them up for one.... or better still, used the people to form a company!
I never knew that flogging dead horses was up there with bullfighting.
Let's garbage! Seeing joy a experience with switched expression!
Fellate with privacy. It makes for your pleasant time gratitude holiday!
I'm still getting by with my ATI RADEON 9700 PRO. Still plays just about anything I can throw at it. Oblivion gives it a hard time, but it's still adequately playable.
I'm going to hold off as long as possible until the card can't play the latest games, at which point I may get one of these quad SLI setups. by that time, we'll have DDR3 memory and quad core CPUs too.
OK, so what's the Chinese government's stand on Lenovo then?
Are the Chinese developing their own chips in order to develop their own PCs?
It's all wel and good that there is a Microsoft service to protect Windows, but what is protecting ONE Care?
Seems funny that security issues that Microsoft should have fixed created a new market, and now that this market exists, Microsoft cannot monopolize it by actually fixing the said issues with built-in software.
RIDICULOUS!