[quote]What I never understood is why someone like IBM didn't come along and cluster 10,000 dual P4 nodes together for fun to get on the top spot. I'm sure they have the inventory to write that off.[/quote]
Hmm... Lessee:
POWER is designed by IBM. PowerPC is based on POWER and designed by IBM. IBM manufactures PowerPC G5s and its high-end cousin POWER.
So... Why would IBM use Intel to build a #1 supercomputer, when they manufacture their own, and manufactured the CPUs for the #3?
Some people are just underinformed. IBM may have invented the PC, but they don't care too much for it now.
That is exactly the problem with selling information: you can sell or use information, but you will still have it.
It does not fit in very well with traditional economics.
You can sell away the rights to the information (and give up your own), but you'd still retain it (or fragments of it) in your mind -- only the law prevents you from using it (because you've sold the rights to it)
Either information is not meant to be sold and traded, or a new system must be developed to deal with information trade. (The services model should adapt easily)
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Ah, but I have. I know of a technique to find the coefficients of a polynomial that will generate a given sequence. It is painfully obvious to me, but I can't prove it. I have an inkling that it has something to do with the fact that the nth derivative of x^n is (n!)x -- but sequences are discrete, and calculus does not apply.
Money can't come out of nowhere. Someone somewhere is paying for the improved standard of living.
Resources definitely can't come out of nowhere. When everybody lives a happy life under capitalism, resources will be depleted faster than ever before, and governments will step in with rationing and other non-capitalist actions.
Windows 3.1 did cooperative multitasking, like all multitasking MacOS before X.
In the meantime, since Longhorn's features are so well hyped up, most anyone can go implement them on their own system -- before Longhorn comes out.
Here's where Apple wins -- pre-release secrecy. Most people don't know what Apple is working on until they announce it. Can you honestly say, you knew, two years before announcement, that OS X would have Aqua?
As far as I am concerned though -- Apple has always won in terms of integration and ease of use. AppleTalk was easier to set up and use than NetBIOS; Rendezvous is much easier to set up and use than any other TCP/IP based zero-configuration solution; Many OS X applications come in one neat, self-contained drag-and-droppable package, most Windows applications still scatter themselves all over the filesystem with the mandatory "help" of an installer.
7-11 is in fact, a cryptic reference to Chapter 7 (Liquidation) and Chapter 11 (Reorganisation) -- two of the more popular bankruptcy protection paths.
Apple's compiler is almost generic, it's GCC! (Yes, the patches have been submitted; no, they're not in mainstream GCC) What's more -- The Apple Developer Tools (compilers, linkers, IDE) are available free. But... I think that before OS X, the developer tools of choice for the Mac were Metrowerks; I think that some people still use that.
IBM provides a optimize-for-G5 compiler, I believe.
Actually... Thanks to libshit... Ooops, libcaca, it is now possible to mirror images as text -- coloured text. Unfortunately,/. doesn't do coloured HTML text..
Non-insightful. The core difference between the GUI systems is the toolkit that is used. Different toolkits attract different sorts of developers... I'd say, Qt encourages tight knitting, GTK+ encourages... something, and GNUStep encourages tight integration without tight knitting.
IF... they standardised the GUI programming, the toolkit differences would disappear. And then the different desktop environments would merge. And everyone is left with no choice.
Is MDI a good thing? I say, no. Each document has its own menu that overrides, no, inexplicably magically merges with the parent's window. It is a poorly designed system, most likely designed to emulate Apple's One Menu system. Apple has never had it. Microsoft is moving away from it. GNOME doesn't want it. (Instead, they have TABBED Multiple Document Interface?! They're better, but by quite a bit: Easy access to most of the documents, as opposed to having multiple windows (anywhere))
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[quote]What I never understood is why someone like IBM didn't come along and cluster 10,000 dual P4 nodes together for fun to get on the top spot. I'm sure they have the inventory to write that off.[/quote]
Hmm... Lessee:
POWER is designed by IBM.
PowerPC is based on POWER and designed by IBM.
IBM manufactures PowerPC G5s and its high-end cousin POWER.
So... Why would IBM use Intel to build a #1 supercomputer, when they manufacture their own, and manufactured the CPUs for the #3?
Some people are just underinformed. IBM may have invented the PC, but they don't care too much for it now.
Santa Cruz Operation is now known as Tarantella, and is not the SCO Group, that is resposible for The FiaSCO.
That is exactly the problem with selling information: you can sell or use information, but you will still have it.
It does not fit in very well with traditional economics.
You can sell away the rights to the information (and give up your own), but you'd still retain it (or fragments of it) in your mind -- only the law prevents you from using it (because you've sold the rights to it)
Either information is not meant to be sold and traded, or a new system must be developed to deal with information trade. (The services model should adapt easily)
Replica of Mars Rover Opportunity made of Lego Modified to Contain a 2004 PC in a 1984 Mac Stops Responding, Debugging Dumps Indicate Possible Flaw in Linux InstantOn Boot Loader and/or Flash Controller.
Sounds like the 'naive mind' of the Dune Mentats.
A mind free of preconceptions and prejudice.
I suppose this is the only true 'open mind'. Nothing is dismissed with prejudice, everything is considered with equal thought.
Ah, but I have. I know of a technique to find the coefficients of a polynomial that will generate a given sequence. It is painfully obvious to me, but I can't prove it. I have an inkling that it has something to do with the fact that the nth derivative of x^n is (n!)x -- but sequences are discrete, and calculus does not apply.
When you find a solution in your dreams, or after you wake up, it could be taken as a solution from intuition (subconcious mind?).
Oppose logical solutions, which must be thought out carefully, and usually in the waking (concious) mind.
People should be trained in both fields of thinking, to exploit the subconcious intuition and the concious logic. (Mentats from Dune?)
Such spectacles may be useful for those responsible for the spectacles of horrible specifications. Not everyone has 20/20 foresignt, what a shame.
He means character encoding, perhaps? But even then, there are 3+1 major ones:
Shift-JIS
EUC-JP
ISO-2022-JP
UTF-8
What? You want to nuke Harvard AND MIT?
Money can't come out of nowhere. Someone somewhere is paying for the improved standard of living.
Resources definitely can't come out of nowhere. When everybody lives a happy life under capitalism, resources will be depleted faster than ever before, and governments will step in with rationing and other non-capitalist actions.
Perhaps the SCO Legal Department gets even more drunk and decides to open source all of Microsoft's products. After all, they own everything, right?
Windows 3.1 did cooperative multitasking, like all multitasking MacOS before X.
In the meantime, since Longhorn's features are so well hyped up, most anyone can go implement them on their own system -- before Longhorn comes out.
Here's where Apple wins -- pre-release secrecy. Most people don't know what Apple is working on until they announce it. Can you honestly say, you knew, two years before announcement, that OS X would have Aqua?
As far as I am concerned though -- Apple has always won in terms of integration and ease of use. AppleTalk was easier to set up and use than NetBIOS; Rendezvous is much easier to set up and use than any other TCP/IP based zero-configuration solution; Many OS X applications come in one neat, self-contained drag-and-droppable package, most Windows applications still scatter themselves all over the filesystem with the mandatory "help" of an installer.
7-11 is in fact, a cryptic reference to Chapter 7 (Liquidation) and Chapter 11 (Reorganisation) -- two of the more popular bankruptcy protection paths.
I'm just going to hazard a guess...
"404 Not Found."
Nay, for the successor of X is surely XI. All who claim 'Y' succeedth 'X' need a lesson in arithmetic...
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Apple's compiler is almost generic, it's GCC! (Yes, the patches have been submitted; no, they're not in mainstream GCC) What's more -- The Apple Developer Tools (compilers, linkers, IDE) are available free. But... I think that before OS X, the developer tools of choice for the Mac were Metrowerks; I think that some people still use that.
IBM provides a optimize-for-G5 compiler, I believe.
Actually... Thanks to libshit... Ooops, libcaca, it is now possible to mirror images as text -- coloured text. Unfortunately, /. doesn't do coloured HTML text..
Sawfish is the GNOME1 WM. GNOME2 uses Metacity, which is a lot more lightweight than Sawfish, but alot less configurable too.
Non-insightful. The core difference between the GUI systems is the toolkit that is used. Different toolkits attract different sorts of developers... I'd say, Qt encourages tight knitting, GTK+ encourages... something, and GNUStep encourages tight integration without tight knitting.
IF... they standardised the GUI programming, the toolkit differences would disappear. And then the different desktop environments would merge. And everyone is left with no choice.
Curious... I see... 3.14, and 7 - all that's needed now is 22!... 19+3 = 22! Pi is in that date!
Is MDI a good thing? I say, no. Each document has its own menu that overrides, no, inexplicably magically merges with the parent's window. It is a poorly designed system, most likely designed to emulate Apple's One Menu system. Apple has never had it. Microsoft is moving away from it. GNOME doesn't want it. (Instead, they have TABBED Multiple Document Interface?! They're better, but by quite a bit: Easy access to most of the documents, as opposed to having multiple windows (anywhere))
It is only POSIX-1 compliant methinks. I don't get fork(), exec*()... And there are also some functions which require a prepended underscore.
Interix is what they're trying to sell, the much joked about Windows Services for UNIX.
NT4 ran on PowerPC. Whether or not it was a Mac, or a PReP, or an Amiga - I do not know.