Telling people to switch ISPs because their current one is suspected of harboring spammers is like telling the people of Iraq (pre-invasion, obviously) to move away because their country was suspected of harboring terrorists Hell no. It's not the same thing AT ALL. Switch ISPs is a very easy thing to do, moving out of your home country is very difficult or impossible.
Next thing you'll say that copying your CD is like blowing up New York with a nuclear bomb.
Beagle2 failed but it was only 20% of the mission.
Well that's funny. Months ago, the ESA led people to believe that Beagle 2 was the whole point of the mission (they sure hammered that point home at the ESA exibition in Helsinki, in September).
Then, when Beagle failed to bark, I started reading people's reactions saying "it is only 50% of the mission".
How did Beagle fall on the measly 20% now?/me scratches head
You have a god point, but most of my musician friends play on classical instruments, so the distiction you make (mike and non-mike musicians) didn't come to my mind. I'm into classical music, by choice and by association.
Also, none of my synths has fans, including the rack synths, heither have I ever seen a synth with a fan. And I'm familiar with hundreds of models. No fan.
I make music for hobby, and am married to a musician - plus, I know lots of other people that make music for a living or for fun. I know that these people are put off by the slightest alien noise, when they "work".
And this device consumes a lot of power. Have a look at the specs: "Whisper Quiet Cooling Fans (Internal Chassis, Processor & Power Supply)" Well, they may be whisper-quiet, but they'll annoy all the musicians I know. Some of them have chosen iMacs for the only reason that they were quieter than anything x86. I may not be that picky with regards to PSU fan noise, but all others certainly are.
Of course, I expect that such an expensive and complex piece of gear must have had some serious marketing and product management work done before they nailed the product specs, right? Therefore, these particular PSU fans are actually unhearable. I hope. Hmmm......
Well, if you're good with UNIX (expecially Solaris) and storage management, and POSIX shellscripts, I know of a workplace that might be soon vacant, in a certain mobile phone manufacturing company....
If you're interested, get in touch with me at mario at myrealbox.com
I have never seen "squander" used in such a context except when people were doing the mistake of using the word instead of squalor, and I definitely believe it does not fit in the context of your original post.
Which, by the way, doesn't actually refute the point that I was making. You even reinforced it. Thank you.
When German chancellor Gerhard Schroder visitied China last year, he and his delegation deliberately excluded topics such as human rights violations from the agenda, in order not to endanger the maglev train project. Apparently, this strategy has failed once again.
I wish this tactic would fail more often. Unfortunately, human rights get the back seet way too often, and don't count on the news agencies to get the facts straight, either.
This looks to me like a typical government-level game. Somebody, high up there in the Chinese Communist Party, had a vested interest for this project to fail. And as soon as a proof of concept was put into operation (and proved that the concept works, duh!) proceeded to axe it.
Clearly, this person (or group of people) was hoping that the attempt will miserably fail, but it didn't, leaving the only possible option of brute-force project termination.
Well, actually, I must admit I like their music, too. They're one of the VERY few heavy metal bands I like to listen to. I am more into classical and klezmer (previously Pink Floyd), so it's not easy to sucker me into heavy metal.
Anyway, if Nightwish is your only reason to come to Finland, you'll be disappointed: I have never seen them in public in the 5+ years I have been here. You're much more likely to see Andy McCoy and his wife;o) Unfortunately.
* Processor: One 1-GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor
* Main memory: Up to 4 GB of registered DDR PC2100 ECC memory
* Network: 10/100/1000-Mbps (Gigabit) Base-T Ethernet port
* Expansion buses: Two separate PCI buses; one 66-MHz, 64-bit PCI slot on dedicated bus; two 33-MHz, 64-bit PCI slots; two 33-MHz, 32-bit PCI slots on the other bus
* Graphics and Imaging: The Sun Blade 1500 workstation supports up to three Sun XVR-100 or up to two Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerators.
While I actually agree with all you've said, I don't think the reviewer completely misses the point of this product. He did mention the purpose for which such a workstation would usually be purchased, and listed some of the more popular CAD and EDA software packages available for it. I myself have recognized all of the EDA tools listed in the review, and let me tell you, the price of the Blade 1500 is peanuts compared to these software packages.
Look, I didn't mean to say that the Cobalt equipment had no potential, because obviously it did have a niche, but that was nothing in comparison to the price tag that Sun paid for them ($2 billion+). Let's be honest here, shall we? Sun had enough internal resources to develop their own Cobalt-like kit, don't you agree? They could have done with the fraction of that money.
I see more and more systems with Opterons and Athlon 64s coming to the market. And all that while, Sun, who would have all the best interest to make some Opteron systems available ASAP, are dragging their feet.
Sun really needs to get these low and midrange Opteron servers out as soon as they possibly can, while HP is in the Itanium mess! HP was hoping for the Itanium to hit the mass-market and be real cheap to manufacture. Instead, they have by their hands a CPU that's even more expensive than the PA-RISC. If Sun had a shred of strategic insight, they'd be selling cheap 4 and 8 way Opteron servers with Solaris x86-64 right about now.
I am a huge Sun fan, actually, but some of their management moves seem to be ridicolous (Cobalt aquisition anyone?).
A woman write a book, based on interviews she made with people who were terminally ill. The interesting thing is that these people have an amazingly clear insight on their own lives, and have a very precise idea what were the most precious moments: they all said that they wished they spent more time with their families, and that those moments they spent with their children and wives were the ones they most cherished.
When I read that, it made me think and have a hard look at my own life.
Hey antin, I think you have an excellent point there. I didn't think about that.
However, dying alone is probably not a pretty thing. If I was terminally ill I still would like to have people and stuff around me, instead of alone and a red desert.
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Telling people to switch ISPs because their current one is suspected of harboring spammers is like telling the people of Iraq (pre-invasion, obviously) to move away because their country was suspected of harboring terrorists
Hell no. It's not the same thing AT ALL. Switch ISPs is a very easy thing to do, moving out of your home country is very difficult or impossible.
Next thing you'll say that copying your CD is like blowing up New York with a nuclear bomb.
For educational purposes only.
:o)
And educate we will
Oh, that reminds me: did you know that Google has released the API to their search engine? ;o))))
(that's the infamous triple dupe, of which two were Tacos)
I have a 50% deja-vu ;o)
Allright, I see. But I wasn't under that impression after visiting the exibition and seeing the presentation there.
BTW, those pictures look awesome. Why are they sent our way only now, do you know?
Beagle2 failed but it was only 20% of the mission.
/me scratches head
Well that's funny. Months ago, the ESA led people to believe that Beagle 2 was the whole point of the mission (they sure hammered that point home at the ESA exibition in Helsinki, in September).
Then, when Beagle failed to bark, I started reading people's reactions saying "it is only 50% of the mission".
How did Beagle fall on the measly 20% now?
You have a god point, but most of my musician friends play on classical instruments, so the distiction you make (mike and non-mike musicians) didn't come to my mind. I'm into classical music, by choice and by association.
Also, none of my synths has fans, including the rack synths, heither have I ever seen a synth with a fan. And I'm familiar with hundreds of models. No fan.
Hey, you're OK and I don't drop my friends just like that. Not even if they ask me to :o)))
Besides, a honest troll is certainly better than subtle lies and fabrications.
I mod down liers, not trolls anyway.
I make music for hobby, and am married to a musician - plus, I know lots of other people that make music for a living or for fun. I know that these people are put off by the slightest alien noise, when they "work".
And this device consumes a lot of power. Have a look at the specs: "Whisper Quiet Cooling Fans (Internal Chassis, Processor & Power Supply)"
Well, they may be whisper-quiet, but they'll annoy all the musicians I know. Some of them have chosen iMacs for the only reason that they were quieter than anything x86. I may not be that picky with regards to PSU fan noise, but all others certainly are.
Of course, I expect that such an expensive and complex piece of gear must have had some serious marketing and product management work done before they nailed the product specs, right? Therefore, these particular PSU fans are actually unhearable. I hope. Hmmm......
Well, if you're good with UNIX (expecially Solaris) and storage management, and POSIX shellscripts, I know of a workplace that might be soon vacant, in a certain mobile phone manufacturing company....
If you're interested, get in touch with me at mario at myrealbox.com
I have never seen "squander" used in such a context except when people were doing the mistake of using the word instead of squalor, and I definitely believe it does not fit in the context of your original post.
Which, by the way, doesn't actually refute the point that I was making. You even reinforced it. Thank you.
It could be that the proof of conscept prooved that it was just too expensive to be used on a large scale.
No.
As of this moment, in rural areas, the Chinese people live in squandor.
Sorry for nit-picking, but I hate it when such fine words are distorted and wrecked: the word you were looking for is squalor!
When German chancellor Gerhard Schroder visitied China last year, he and his delegation deliberately excluded topics such as human rights violations from the agenda, in order not to endanger the maglev train project. Apparently, this strategy has failed once again.
I wish this tactic would fail more often. Unfortunately, human rights get the back seet way too often, and don't count on the news agencies to get the facts straight, either.
Which one, if I may ask ?
You may: Croatia, which in the meantime isn't communist anymore.
This looks to me like a typical government-level game. Somebody, high up there in the Chinese Communist Party, had a vested interest for this project to fail. And as soon as a proof of concept was put into operation (and proved that the concept works, duh!) proceeded to axe it.
Clearly, this person (or group of people) was hoping that the attempt will miserably fail, but it didn't, leaving the only possible option of brute-force project termination.
Why yes, I was born in a communist country.
Well, actually, I must admit I like their music, too. They're one of the VERY few heavy metal bands I like to listen to. I am more into classical and klezmer (previously Pink Floyd), so it's not easy to sucker me into heavy metal.
;o) Unfortunately.
Anyway, if Nightwish is your only reason to come to Finland, you'll be disappointed: I have never seen them in public in the 5+ years I have been here. You're much more likely to see Andy McCoy and his wife
You like Nightwish?
and I've heard a maximum of 2.0GB RAM
:o)
Use those earsticks, dude
From the specifications:
* Processor: One 1-GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor
* Main memory: Up to 4 GB of registered DDR PC2100 ECC memory
* Network: 10/100/1000-Mbps (Gigabit) Base-T Ethernet port
* Expansion buses: Two separate PCI buses; one 66-MHz, 64-bit PCI slot on dedicated bus; two 33-MHz, 64-bit PCI slots; two 33-MHz, 32-bit PCI slots on the other bus
* Graphics and Imaging: The Sun Blade 1500 workstation supports up to three Sun XVR-100 or up to two Sun XVR-500 graphics accelerators.
While I actually agree with all you've said, I don't think the reviewer completely misses the point of this product. He did mention the purpose for which such a workstation would usually be purchased, and listed some of the more popular CAD and EDA software packages available for it. I myself have recognized all of the EDA tools listed in the review, and let me tell you, the price of the Blade 1500 is peanuts compared to these software packages.
Look, I didn't mean to say that the Cobalt equipment had no potential, because obviously it did have a niche, but that was nothing in comparison to the price tag that Sun paid for them ($2 billion+). Let's be honest here, shall we? Sun had enough internal resources to develop their own Cobalt-like kit, don't you agree? They could have done with the fraction of that money.
Well duh, no wonde it's cheaper: no battery, no TFT screen, no PCMCIA port...
I see more and more systems with Opterons and Athlon 64s coming to the market. And all that while, Sun, who would have all the best interest to make some Opteron systems available ASAP, are dragging their feet.
Sun really needs to get these low and midrange Opteron servers out as soon as they possibly can, while HP is in the Itanium mess! HP was hoping for the Itanium to hit the mass-market and be real cheap to manufacture. Instead, they have by their hands a CPU that's even more expensive than the PA-RISC. If Sun had a shred of strategic insight, they'd be selling cheap 4 and 8 way Opteron servers with Solaris x86-64 right about now.
I am a huge Sun fan, actually, but some of their management moves seem to be ridicolous (Cobalt aquisition anyone?).
A woman write a book, based on interviews she made with people who were terminally ill. The interesting thing is that these people have an amazingly clear insight on their own lives, and have a very precise idea what were the most precious moments: they all said that they wished they spent more time with their families, and that those moments they spent with their children and wives were the ones they most cherished.
When I read that, it made me think and have a hard look at my own life.
Hey antin, I think you have an excellent point there. I didn't think about that.
However, dying alone is probably not a pretty thing. If I was terminally ill I still would like to have people and stuff around me, instead of alone and a red desert.