I have to agree with the statement that the web services are becoming more important than the computer (or even the OS) iteslf. These days I rely very little on the actual OS of a computer: I usually boot off my FreeSBIE live cd, and do all of my work from there. My documents are stored either online, (oftentimes my documets are e-mails, other times I just leave them on an FTP server), or I can mount the NTFS partition on my drive and store locally.
Sure, I also boot into Windoze if I need to (play Heroes of Might and Magic IV), and then I can continue working, though Opera, the same way I did in FreeSBIE with Firefox.
By now everybody knews about these servers. The real news is the Niagara CPUs that are finally coming out, with 6 and 8 cores. And yes, that's 64 bit SPARC cores - just to reply to those that were speculating on Sun giving up SPARC in favor of Opterons.
Niagara is much more server-oriented, while Opterons are more adequate for workstations and some types of server workload. But Niagara is much mroe suited for typical web serving and database hosting.
n fact, if you don't burn the paper it takes carbon out of the atmosphere.
Exactly!! If paper is produced constantly but never burnt (perhaps recirculated and finally stored or eve, shock horror, buried in landfills) that will act as a carbon sink!
I have been trying to explain this simple fact (not exactly with paper but timber in general) to people, but so few seem to understand.
This short post is the most insightful in the whole thread. Yes, the whole point is to layer the market and to milk it for all it's good. Why do you think they introduced DVD region codes. Certainly not as a convenience for the consumers.
I admit, I think you're right. I recalled a documentary which showed how larger birds have a lot of trouble taking off, requiring quite a lot of running, or "jumping" off a cliff.
While I agree that the comparison isdisingenuous, I would be willing to guess that these prehistoric flying animals weighted a few thousand kilograms still.
I guess you have no qualifications yourself, and are unconsciously bitter about it, so you try to find satisfaction by using your "powers" of recruitment to humble those who have graduated.
FD linked to his game withut permission, which I agree was wrong. But It wasn't done with malice, and in fact it's a form of acknowledgement, albeit clumsy. If I were in his situation, I would just add some credits at the beginning, this way spreading my fame as a game (or otherwise) developer. In that sense, FD gave him a golden opportunity to increase his profile, and instead, he throws poo at them.
And more sadly, some people in this thread encourage such behaviour. To those, I say: grow up, stop thinking like spoiled brats. Seek out the opportunities life gives you, instead of being bitter, vengeful and malicious.
Why would this make dubya look bad? I am the first guy to speak up against pollution of all kinds, and the unchecked emission of CO2, of which US produces about 1/4 (of human-made emissions), enrages me - but you have to be fair, the US is strict on emission of ozone-depleting gases. CO2 isn't one.
I don't understand why people sit around crying about the fact that someone has died. Because they miss the deceased, andare, therefore, going through the normal period of grief/bereavement, during which theylearn to cope with life where that person is not anymore present.
Psychologists in general say that emotional pain is the result of loss. You lose something or someone you care about, because it is important to you. It/he/she makes you happy, gives you joy, provides you with emotional security etc.
People are not as dumb as you would like to make it look. No, it's ratherthat they have noticed how the Shuttle is:
- more expensive to launch (per payload) than the conventional Saturn lifters were. In fact, MUCH more expenisve! - more prone to disaster, due to an overengineered, way too sensitive (someone likened it to eggshells) heatshield. - Can only go to LEO! Isn't THIS point alone enough to show you how flawe3d the Shuttle really is? The ISS has been built in LEO for this freaking rason, and has to be readjusted every now and then. A flaw introduced to accomodate another.
...is that it actually took this long for such a thing to be invented: it's basically imitating nature, and a simple concept, at that.
Consider that geometrical optics is a very old science, and some sort of plastic/elastic material has probably existed for the better part of last century.
I decided to finally migrate from Firebird to Firefox on one of my PCs at home. As I started Firefox for the first time, it loaded a page from mozilla.org telling me that my version is already old (even though it is the latest, 1.0.6) and I should promptly download the newest one. "WTF?" I thought - don't the mozilla guys know what version of Firefox is available?
So, they seem really supereager in making sure everybody who has Firefox downloads a new copy (or the same copy, depending on how alert you are). Can this, partially, explain the "number of downloads" - a lot of "returning customers", so to say?
And this is one of the problems (or actually, THE problem) I have with google: too many of the top finds are related to companies instead of useful data on certain items. For example, I often search for information on electronic components. With google, expecially lately (say, in the last year or so) the top hits are related to some shitty little shop (or big shop, as the case may be) that sells them bulk, or retail.
I didn't yet try yahoo, maybe it's better for my purposes - your example would certainly indicate that.
Actually, they are not "vanilla X86 boxes", as you say. They have a special chipset to increase throughput between network adapters. The CPU is almost irrelevant for what these machines do, while fat pipes between NICs and the CPU does count.
Besides, even if they were "vanilla X86 boxes", they do solve, as a package, a certain problem, which CIOs consider relevant, and if they think that solution is worth the price, then they will pay.
If you feel unhappy because it seems like "money for nothing" to you, then why don't you jump in on the bandwagon, make these generic x86 boxen, install FreeBSD (or whatever you prefere) and sell them as routers. Nobody stops you from making money from the "scam".
How wrong you are. Nokia produces tons of networking hardware, wireless equipment, and of course, mobile switching stations, BSCs, all sorts of 3G equipment, mobile network servers for all sorts of services, VOIP, multimedia, network management, etc. etc. etc. - the protfolio of Nokia Networks is so large and varied, I would never be able to do it justice. In fact, one line of products are the IP routers and firewalls that are considered by many to be best-of-breed. A lot of these solutions/products incorporate some Cisco device.
And of course, Nokia Networks is in tight symbiosys with Nokia Mobile Phones.
So, Cisco as a partner would make a lot of sense. But it would have to be a merger of equals, because Nokia is a very large company, with 70+ billion$ market cap and 13+ billion$ in the bank.
Let's face it, the Shuttle design is inherently too complex to be safe. Only one heatshield tile breakage may cause the complete destruction of the Shuttle, and we are now starting to be aware ("we" as in, outsiders) of how fragile these tiles really are. I know space travel will always be more dangerous than any other kind, but I think the Shuttle is unnecessarily unsafe.
In addition to this, it has proven to be MORE expensive to launch, per payload, compared to previous designs, not cheaper!
The "upgrade" to the Shuttle reminds me a lot of the great push towards Windows NT (and away from UNIX) that went on a few years ago, even in companies where it was clear that such a move would be overall bad in the short and long term.
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I have to agree with the statement that the web services are becoming more important than the computer (or even the OS) iteslf. These days I rely very little on the actual OS of a computer: I usually boot off my FreeSBIE live cd, and do all of my work from there. My documents are stored either online, (oftentimes my documets are e-mails, other times I just leave them on an FTP server), or I can mount the NTFS partition on my drive and store locally.
Sure, I also boot into Windoze if I need to (play Heroes of Might and Magic IV), and then I can continue working, though Opera, the same way I did in FreeSBIE with Firefox.
I like that definition, because it also could serve to characterize the level of aliveness.
What, do you think, this definition says about prions, though? Are they "alive"? What about virii?
There is nothing wrong in selling 6 cores instead of 8, if 2 were damaged in the production process. That's standard practice in the IC industry.
1 GHz is plenty if your target application can be multithreaded.
But in the end, we'll see what the market wants. Certainly there is a market for Opteron, Niagara and SPARC64 servers alike.
By now everybody knews about these servers. The real news is the Niagara CPUs that are finally coming out, with 6 and 8 cores. And yes, that's 64 bit SPARC cores - just to reply to those that were speculating on Sun giving up SPARC in favor of Opterons.
Niagara is much more server-oriented, while Opterons are more adequate for workstations and some types of server workload. But Niagara is much mroe suited for typical web serving and database hosting.
n fact, if you don't burn the paper it takes carbon out of the atmosphere.
Exactly!! If paper is produced constantly but never burnt (perhaps recirculated and finally stored or eve, shock horror, buried in landfills) that will act as a carbon sink!
I have been trying to explain this simple fact (not exactly with paper but timber in general) to people, but so few seem to understand.
New Microsoft motto: "Gotta Catch'Em All"
This short post is the most insightful in the whole thread. Yes, the whole point is to layer the market and to milk it for all it's good. Why do you think they introduced DVD region codes. Certainly not as a convenience for the consumers.
I admit, I think you're right. I recalled a documentary which showed how larger birds have a lot of trouble taking off, requiring quite a lot of running, or "jumping" off a cliff.
While I agree that the comparison isdisingenuous, I would be willing to guess that these prehistoric flying animals weighted a few thousand kilograms still.
I guess you have no qualifications yourself, and are unconsciously bitter about it, so you try to find satisfaction by using your "powers" of recruitment to humble those who have graduated.
Why wouldn't he (or you) want exposure? Why else did he put the game up, offered it to the wild web, otherwise?
FD linked to his game withut permission, which I agree was wrong. But It wasn't done with malice, and in fact it's a form of acknowledgement, albeit clumsy. If I were in his situation, I would just add some credits at the beginning, this way spreading my fame as a game (or otherwise) developer. In that sense, FD gave him a golden opportunity to increase his profile, and instead, he throws poo at them.
And more sadly, some people in this thread encourage such behaviour. To those, I say: grow up, stop thinking like spoiled brats. Seek out the opportunities life gives you, instead of being bitter, vengeful and malicious.
Why would this make dubya look bad? I am the first guy to speak up against pollution of all kinds, and the unchecked emission of CO2, of which US produces about 1/4 (of human-made emissions), enrages me - but you have to be fair, the US is strict on emission of ozone-depleting gases. CO2 isn't one.
I don't understand why people sit around crying about the fact that someone has died.
Because they miss the deceased, andare, therefore, going through the normal period of grief/bereavement, during which theylearn to cope with life where that person is not anymore present.
Psychologists in general say that emotional pain is the result of loss. You lose something or someone you care about, because it is important to you. It/he/she makes you happy, gives you joy, provides you with emotional security etc.
People are not as dumb as you would like to make it look. No, it's ratherthat they have noticed how the Shuttle is:
- more expensive to launch (per payload) than the conventional Saturn lifters were. In fact, MUCH more expenisve!
- more prone to disaster, due to an overengineered, way too sensitive (someone likened it to eggshells) heatshield.
- Can only go to LEO! Isn't THIS point alone enough to show you how flawe3d the Shuttle really is? The ISS has been built in LEO for this freaking rason, and has to be readjusted every now and then. A flaw introduced to accomodate another.
...is that it actually took this long for such a thing to be invented: it's basically imitating nature, and a simple concept, at that.
Consider that geometrical optics is a very old science, and some sort of plastic/elastic material has probably existed for the better part of last century.
Wow, I actually completely agree with you, 100%! (and yet, for some reason, I don't like you)
Anyway, if I had mod points, this post would be receive one more.
I decided to finally migrate from Firebird to Firefox on one of my PCs at home. As I started Firefox for the first time, it loaded a page from mozilla.org telling me that my version is already old (even though it is the latest, 1.0.6) and I should promptly download the newest one. "WTF?" I thought - don't the mozilla guys know what version of Firefox is available?
So, they seem really supereager in making sure everybody who has Firefox downloads a new copy (or the same copy, depending on how alert you are). Can this, partially, explain the "number of downloads" - a lot of "returning customers", so to say?
And this is one of the problems (or actually, THE problem) I have with google: too many of the top finds are related to companies instead of useful data on certain items. For example, I often search for information on electronic components. With google, expecially lately (say, in the last year or so) the top hits are related to some shitty little shop (or big shop, as the case may be) that sells them bulk, or retail.
I didn't yet try yahoo, maybe it's better for my purposes - your example would certainly indicate that.
All I am saying that the Shuttle is expensive (per payload) and inherently less safe than the good-old Saturn V.
Actually, they are not "vanilla X86 boxes", as you say. They have a special chipset to increase throughput between network adapters. The CPU is almost irrelevant for what these machines do, while fat pipes between NICs and the CPU does count.
Besides, even if they were "vanilla X86 boxes", they do solve, as a package, a certain problem, which CIOs consider relevant, and if they think that solution is worth the price, then they will pay.
If you feel unhappy because it seems like "money for nothing" to you, then why don't you jump in on the bandwagon, make these generic x86 boxen, install FreeBSD (or whatever you prefere) and sell them as routers. Nobody stops you from making money from the "scam".
Intelligent analisys, Mr. Byrd.
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I, of course, disagree with your "conclusion"
Mod parent down: Nokia has total cash US$ 13.79B.
That's nearly 14 billion bucks of cash. That's 10 times more than what the parent reports.
Please check the facts for yourself instead of believing an anonymous poster.
How wrong you are. Nokia produces tons of networking hardware, wireless equipment, and of course, mobile switching stations, BSCs, all sorts of 3G equipment, mobile network servers for all sorts of services, VOIP, multimedia, network management, etc. etc. etc. - the protfolio of Nokia Networks is so large and varied, I would never be able to do it justice. In fact, one line of products are the IP routers and firewalls that are considered by many to be best-of-breed. A lot of these solutions/products incorporate some Cisco device.
And of course, Nokia Networks is in tight symbiosys with Nokia Mobile Phones.
So, Cisco as a partner would make a lot of sense. But it would have to be a merger of equals, because Nokia is a very large company, with 70+ billion$ market cap and 13+ billion$ in the bank.
Let's face it, the Shuttle design is inherently too complex to be safe. Only one heatshield tile breakage may cause the complete destruction of the Shuttle, and we are now starting to be aware ("we" as in, outsiders) of how fragile these tiles really are. I know space travel will always be more dangerous than any other kind, but I think the Shuttle is unnecessarily unsafe.
In addition to this, it has proven to be MORE expensive to launch, per payload, compared to previous designs, not cheaper!
The "upgrade" to the Shuttle reminds me a lot of the great push towards Windows NT (and away from UNIX) that went on a few years ago, even in companies where it was clear that such a move would be overall bad in the short and long term.
Why "especially Finland"? BTW, I live in Finland, so I would really like to know why the "special status".