Damn right. IBM actually makes a profit even if it ships the hardware necessary to have a 6-way MPU computer! Can you imagine what fucking margin they have?
These engineers bring some dinky floppy with them, that they use to activate the additional CPUs. That floppy must be the most value-per-gram item in the world. Not even enriched uranium beats it.
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Please get your act straight: a patent system DOES indeed exist in Finland, and is very much like the USA one. I have attended an intellectual property and patent application session in Nokia, in Finland, and this point was very clearly emphasized.
(Invidentally, I really enjoyed the FF movie. It's just too bad that nobody else did.)
I did, too. So, it's the two of us already.
Seriously, though, why do you think NOBODY else liked it, when it made 100 MUS$ at the box office alone? It was a bomb because the production exceeded the revenue, but it definitely was appreciated.
You are right, I did not read that faq. Thanks for the info.
I am afraid, however, that the price will be higher. As a matter of fact, 199 US Dollar = 227 Euro, which is close to those 249 Euro... and I just can't believe that a tech product that costs X in US would cost only 1.1*X in Europa. No, that just can't be, that would be too nice.
At least, from a Finnish point of view: in Finland, a 40 GB disk, USB mouse and keyboard and a 10/100 network adapter would cost more than 200 US$. The USB mouse and keyboard alone, if they are any good, would be around 100 bucks.
However, I am -sure- that the price will be more than 200 US$ here:o(
GWB is on so many corporation's paylist, that he doesn't know anymore where to stick his dick.
First it was the oil industry: not only did US alienate most of the world by pulling out of Kyoto, we're now going to drill in the pristine Alaskan environment, because the oil magnates said so. And Bush obliges. Then it was MS, and we see the fallot of this administration's influence on the trial. And finally, the steel industry. The US is entering a new trade war over steel import tariffs. Great, just what the car industry needed.
Sometimes changing one single character is an admirable achievement. I don't know why I even bother saying this, it should be obvious: the amount of knowledge behind a certain code change is NOT proportional to the amount of change.
I have once waded through 20.000 lines of shellscript code because of a bug, which was a simple if [ a=b ]
instead of the correct
if [ a = b ]
So, what I did was "simply" to add a blank after the "a" and one before the "b". Only two characters added, and still it made a nasty bug go away. And it wasn't at all easy to find, because of the surrounding code which masked hte bug pretty well, and even visually it's difficult to distinguish.
Not meaning to be rude, but you do realize that your data is not stored in a switch, and that of all active equipment, the switch or hub is the least relevant as far as data storage goes.
Once they raid your house, confiscate your computer and grab whatever media you have hanging around, you can do exactly one thing with your bear-concealed switch: fuck it.
I have an old PC with a 5.25" floppy drive. Now I know I will keep it, despite the pressure (wife) to get rid of it. Someday it will be unvaluable, to read old floppies.
I am not sure, but I believe the newer motherboards don't support 5.25" floppies. So, I'll have to keep the whole box. I am sure it will be worth millions, in about 300 years. All I gotta do is wait.
Mobile IP-based networks, like GPRS and 3G. We're talking of hundreds of millions of roaming users. That's (one of) the reason why GPRS networks are based on IPv6.
That said, on the Internet it will take many more years, maybe up to two decades. As some have said in this thread already, there is no immediate benefit nor any pressing need that couldn't be solved using NAT or similar technologies.
And BTW, my experience with IPv6 and engineers shows that they hate IPv&, the more they get familiar with it. Yep, I dislike it myself.
Couldn'tagree more: our experience with Wipro has been the same, and their code is the laughing stock of R&D.
We went the Wipro way about 3 years ago, some of their consultants are still working for us, but it has been acknowledged that their services are to be avoided.
Strangely enough, the bad quality of their work is not the reason why their stock went into the shitter recently.
I think you are being too simplistic. I wonder if you know that Apache webserver is part of every standard Solaris 8 installation. That's right, every bloody box with Solaris 8 running on it, has Apache installed. All you need is load the httpd.
And, if Sun had all that dislike for Apache, why would it cooperate with the Apache people on Tomcat? Without Tomcat, Apache would be useless to at least half of the customers. Yes, servlets are -that- important. And Sun helped Apache get it's own servlet container, in a big way.
I know that simplification allows for more Karma, but I appreciate intelligence more. I am sure you can figure out an intelligent version of your post, too.
First of all, OpenWave is not a cellphone OS manufacturer. OpenWave makes a whole bunch of mobile middleware solutions and an embedded microbrowser.
However, Nokia is in good company as far as cellphone OS-es go: in fact, they use and work on the same OS: which is Symbian. I hope that now the uninformed will start to see the wisdom behind Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Psion, Siemens, Sony, Matsushita ETC. uniting on the issue ofa single cellphone OS that is Symbian OS: not to pay the MS tax. Sure, they had to pay up fronttens of millions of dollars to found Symbian (the company), but that's small potato compared to the money they would have paid Microsoft, if it got hold of the mobile market. That would have been a cut on the revenue on each sold unit! I can tell you for certain, that would have been the nightmare of any cellphone manufacturer.
On another note, I am really glad Microsoft is openly stepping on Nokia's toe. Damn that's a good feeling! Now the big bad bully just picked a decent adversary! Nokia is not only big enough, it's also nimble and potentially dangerous for Microsoft. It also has a brand recognition that rivals Microsoft's.
I was always under the impression that the Great 32-bitOS of the Future is, indeed, a preemptive multitasking OS.
Are you telling me that it was the same as the friggin' Win 3.1 (albeit with memory protection and 32 bits)??
The sad thing is, when I would point out ot Linux zealots that gzip would slow down X, I would get attacked from right and left with "you don't know how to configure Linux".
Seriously guys, which would you want to live near, a coal fired plant that is mismanaged and pumps out a lot of nitrous oxide, or a nuclear power plant that is mismanaged and leaks radioactive material. In court, your question would be thrown out by a "objection! - approved!" because it's fuck*ng misleading. The fact is that nuke plants are not mismanaged, while even the best managed coal plants are a venom factory.
Furthermore, you (and the other posters) only concentrate on toxic chemicals, but forget the CO2 is cause of great disasters around the world, and potentially could spell doom for many countries and cities.
It's about choice. Isn't that what Open Source is all about?
Well, not exactly. Choice is a nus-product, albeit a very good one.
Open source is all about open-ness. Which means being able to see and modify what and when it suits you. It's about not being locked-in, it's about freedom to implement protocols and interfaces, file formats, APIs, it's about transparency.
Since Microsoft has consistently been anything-but, I fail to see how "choice" can justify mixing with.NET.
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Your whole post smacks me of an incredible stench of prejudice. do you realize that you based all of your post on a competitor's allegation?
How about either
a) putting your comment in conditional mode "If this proves to be true..."
b) waiting till things get clearer?
Just because it's Slashdot, does it mean you can behave like this?
Well, then there's the Finnish F-secure and SSH.
And let's not forget Ericsson of Sweden.
I figured this is EXACTLY what you need.
:o)
http://www.nokia.com/phones/6250/index.html
Enjoy
Offtopic -15 ??? Nuts!
Damn right. IBM actually makes a profit even if it ships the hardware necessary to have a 6-way MPU computer! Can you imagine what fucking margin they have?
These engineers bring some dinky floppy with them, that they use to activate the additional CPUs. That floppy must be the most value-per-gram item in the world. Not even enriched uranium beats it.
Please get your act straight: a patent system DOES indeed exist in Finland, and is very much like the USA one. I have attended an intellectual property and patent application session in Nokia, in Finland, and this point was very clearly emphasized.
Do you mind translating your post into English?
I am not sure what you meant to say.
(Invidentally, I really enjoyed the FF movie. It's just too bad that nobody else did.)
I did, too. So, it's the two of us already.
Seriously, though, why do you think NOBODY else liked it, when it made 100 MUS$ at the box office alone? It was a bomb because the production exceeded the revenue, but it definitely was appreciated.
..that the first to discover America were the vikings.
Well, that's more a border-type of bug. I actually hate those, even though this eval vs. assignment-bug was really nasty to find.
I hate border-type of bugs because it forces me to do way too much dry runs to iron the things out.
You are right, I did not read that faq. Thanks for the info.
I am afraid, however, that the price will be higher. As a matter of fact, 199 US Dollar = 227 Euro, which is close to those 249 Euro... and I just can't believe that a tech product that costs X in US would cost only 1.1*X in Europa. No, that just can't be, that would be too nice.
At least, from a Finnish point of view: in Finland, a 40 GB disk, USB mouse and keyboard and a 10/100 network adapter would cost more than 200 US$. The USB mouse and keyboard alone, if they are any good, would be around 100 bucks.
:o(
However, I am -sure- that the price will be more than 200 US$ here
GWB is on so many corporation's paylist, that he doesn't know anymore where to stick his dick.
First it was the oil industry: not only did US alienate most of the world by pulling out of Kyoto, we're now going to drill in the pristine Alaskan environment, because the oil magnates said so. And Bush obliges. Then it was MS, and we see the fallot of this administration's influence on the trial. And finally, the steel industry. The US is entering a new trade war over steel import tariffs. Great, just what the car industry needed.
Anyway, fuck Bush.
Sometimes changing one single character is an admirable achievement. I don't know why I even bother saying this, it should be obvious: the amount of knowledge behind a certain code change is NOT proportional to the amount of change.
I have once waded through 20.000 lines of shellscript code because of a bug, which was a simple
if [ a=b ]
instead of the correct
if [ a = b ]
So, what I did was "simply" to add a blank after the "a" and one before the "b". Only two characters added, and still it made a nasty bug go away. And it wasn't at all easy to find, because of the surrounding code which masked hte bug pretty well, and even visually it's difficult to distinguish.
In general, I agree.
But, as I see it, the trend seems to be not to support any kind of floppy disk. A la mac.
Not meaning to be rude, but you do realize that your data is not stored in a switch, and that of all active equipment, the switch or hub is the least relevant as far as data storage goes.
Once they raid your house, confiscate your computer and grab whatever media you have hanging around, you can do exactly one thing with your bear-concealed switch: fuck it.
I have an old PC with a 5.25" floppy drive. Now I know I will keep it, despite the pressure (wife) to get rid of it. Someday it will be unvaluable, to read old floppies.
I am not sure, but I believe the newer motherboards don't support 5.25" floppies. So, I'll have to keep the whole box. I am sure it will be worth millions, in about 300 years. All I gotta do is wait.
"Tiii-i-ime is on my side, yes it is..."
Mobile IP-based networks, like GPRS and 3G. We're talking of hundreds of millions of roaming users. That's (one of) the reason why GPRS networks are based on IPv6.
That said, on the Internet it will take many more years, maybe up to two decades. As some have said in this thread already, there is no immediate benefit nor any pressing need that couldn't be solved using NAT or similar technologies.
And BTW, my experience with IPv6 and engineers shows that they hate IPv&, the more they get familiar with it. Yep, I dislike it myself.
But none of this really matters unless you wanna go back to wulfram, plubnum, etc.
That would be plumbum (the latin name for lead) and wolfram (the not-so-old original name of tungsten).
Close, but for a nit-picker you were quite off.
Couldn'tagree more: our experience with Wipro has been the same, and their code is the laughing stock of R&D.
We went the Wipro way about 3 years ago, some of their consultants are still working for us, but it has been acknowledged that their services are to be avoided.
Strangely enough, the bad quality of their work is not the reason why their stock went into the shitter recently.
I think you are being too simplistic. I wonder if you know that Apache webserver is part of every standard Solaris 8 installation. That's right, every bloody box with Solaris 8 running on it, has Apache installed. All you need is load the httpd.
And, if Sun had all that dislike for Apache, why would it cooperate with the Apache people on Tomcat? Without Tomcat, Apache would be useless to at least half of the customers. Yes, servlets are -that- important. And Sun helped Apache get it's own servlet container, in a big way.
I know that simplification allows for more Karma, but I appreciate intelligence more. I am sure you can figure out an intelligent version of your post, too.
First of all, OpenWave is not a cellphone OS manufacturer. OpenWave makes a whole bunch of mobile middleware solutions and an embedded microbrowser.
However, Nokia is in good company as far as cellphone OS-es go: in fact, they use and work on the same OS: which is Symbian. I hope that now the uninformed will start to see the wisdom behind Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Psion, Siemens, Sony, Matsushita ETC. uniting on the issue ofa single cellphone OS that is Symbian OS: not to pay the MS tax. Sure, they had to pay up fronttens of millions of dollars to found Symbian (the company), but that's small potato compared to the money they would have paid Microsoft, if it got hold of the mobile market. That would have been a cut on the revenue on each sold unit! I can tell you for certain, that would have been the nightmare of any cellphone manufacturer.
On another note, I am really glad Microsoft is openly stepping on Nokia's toe. Damn that's a good feeling! Now the big bad bully just picked a decent adversary! Nokia is not only big enough, it's also nimble and potentially dangerous for Microsoft. It also has a brand recognition that rivals Microsoft's.
I was always under the impression that the Great 32-bitOS of the Future is, indeed, a preemptive multitasking OS.
Are you telling me that it was the same as the friggin' Win 3.1 (albeit with memory protection and 32 bits)??
The sad thing is, when I would point out ot Linux zealots that gzip would slow down X, I would get attacked from right and left with "you don't know how to configure Linux".
Seriously guys, which would you want to live near, a coal fired plant that is mismanaged and pumps out a lot of nitrous oxide, or a nuclear power plant that is mismanaged and leaks radioactive material.
In court, your question would be thrown out by a "objection! - approved!" because it's fuck*ng misleading. The fact is that nuke plants are not mismanaged, while even the best managed coal plants are a venom factory.
Furthermore, you (and the other posters) only concentrate on toxic chemicals, but forget the CO2 is cause of great disasters around the world, and potentially could spell doom for many countries and cities.
It's about choice. Isn't that what Open Source is all about?
.NET.
Well, not exactly. Choice is a nus-product, albeit a very good one.
Open source is all about open-ness. Which means being able to see and modify what and when it suits you. It's about not being locked-in, it's about freedom to implement protocols and interfaces, file formats, APIs, it's about transparency.
Since Microsoft has consistently been anything-but, I fail to see how "choice" can justify mixing with