Java is still a standard. The only difference is what 'name' goes on the standardized product, Sun or 'National Java Directorate'. With Sun as the controlling body, there are resources and teeth behind each and every 'thou shalt not'.
However, I don't think thats the real issue. I'd be willing to bet the Microsoft/Java litigation gives Scotty endless pleasure. MS screws with the Java bytecode implementation, Scott sics the lawyers back on them, Steve downs some Pepto. MS screws with the Java includes, the lawyers come back out and Steve switches to vodka. Boy! Oh boy! Microsoft is releasing a new O/S with a new JVM? There's an actual release date? Naw, the lawyers have heard about it. Scotty gets his laughs, the MS release date gets laughed at, and Ballmer becomes an alcoholic.
The moronic masses insist on saying that the millennium started 1/1/00, and I'm sorry to say/. posters have by and large agreed with the drivel. So, for the purposes of my post, 2100 AD signifies the next century.
The cluster would lose if the gross hardware spec were close. (i.e. four K6-2 350's vs one dual-processor Xeon-600). Clusters have transitive and communicative overhead several orders of magnitude larger than SMP mobos, and so they are performance lossy. But the great thing about clusters is they have no end. I could make a cluster out of 20 P3-600's; I don't think we'll ever see a dodeca-processor SMP board.
Make your own! A buddy of mine bought some mid AT cases(the sides come off), turned 'em horizontally, and attached four 3-inch metal L brackets to them with epoxy and 1/4-24 stub bolts. Two brackets were placed flush with the front of the case on the 'upper edge'. The other two went on the upper edge of the back, but protruding an inch. The 'cage' was nothing more than four 7 1/2 foot lengths of perforated stock. The back of the rack was spaced off the wall with chunks of 2x4, and secured with machine screws and heavy-duty wall anchors. The front was double bracketed to the floor and ceiling, and secured by standard sheetrock fastners and lag bolts into the floor joists. Bolt the cases onto the perf stock. I'd suggest using 1/4-20 carraige bolts secured to the frame with SAE lock washers, then slid through the case 'L's and held with some push-button Fas-Nuts or wing nuts.
Yes, there are ingredients printed on the can. While I can't qoute them word-for word, the gist is that it contains a multi-species mix of animals and animal byproducts, salt, sodium nitrate, and enough preservatives to ensure a shelf life well into the next century.
It is kinda tasty panfried on an onion roll with coarse mustard, so I won't slam on it.
Government should be the 'whore of the people' We created it so that it may serve us. Let the SIGs, multinationals and foreign powers bugger off. They have no place in government.
Large, stable object already in earth orbit. Do you know how much money could have been saved on the ISS if they had only had something to bolt ot down to?
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While I agree that this announcement is little to be excited about, you've made some factual errors. Sun hardware, while not up to the specs I'd expect from an IBM, is very high quality.
About the difference between MS and Sun. Both companies do 'evil' stuff; it is the nature of large companies to do so. MS gives you a pat on the head, a smile, and a lie about their intent. Sun admits the evil and even gives you the release date.
I write code piss drunk all the time. (read: I've finished the sixer of stout and I've moved on to rum.) The problem seems to be the next morning, when I have to look at the uncommented lump of spaghetti who's purpose I only half-remember.
As a whole, 1/8 of the stuff I produce greatly exceeds my sober level; it is perfectly brilliant. 1/4 of it is marginally competent, my norm. The rest of it is not fit for the light of the CRT, and may be only slightly more intellegible than Vogon poetry fed through Babelfish.
Brilliant or not, I usually just 'rm -rf *' it; I never have the same grasp of it again.
You're right.. I was over-generalizing, based on the Windows program DeCSS, which is generating the stink. (I have yet to even see mention of the Linux CSS-auth in the legal docs,) The css-auth package does do it in two steps. DeCSS does not.
anyone interested in putting together a little fund to run an ad in a major US newspaper like the NY times with the DeCSS code in it?
Yeah... Even if it is as pathetic as a full column 'Classified'. I'll get in touch with someone in media and pick their brain. They owe me a few for the week-long loan of my cluster. A B/W half page in the back of USAToday should be in the reach of a few conspirators.
The best system in an attended lab is to put the printers by the labbie's desk and have them scold people who print excessively.
Oh yeah! I did a stint in a college CS lab, and the first time I caught someone running a binary through lpr (or any other moronically huge job), they were scolded heavily and the print job was killed. The second time, we'd allow the job to finish, and then I'd call my supervisor, asking for a per-sheet price for a 200 page printout. We'd never actually charge, however. Third time, user got a 20 minute lecture in full view of the lab. I never got to see a 'fourth' timer, but legend went that their passwords often failed to work, that their print jobs seldom worked, and they were always losing their custom Emacs bindings.
Yes, but Canada seems to have a stronger stance regarding the rights of content purchasers.. The rights of the consumer to copy that disc are well documented. In the US, its all legal grey. Sure, they're not attacking people who make archival copies of their CDs, or encode them to mp3, but that may very well change tomorrow with the tip of some judges gavel.
Wrong. You have a decrypted DVD copy. Sure, you could do that, but you just paid $52.95 for the DVD disc you wrote to. Lets see.. With rental it just cost you almost $60 to pirate a movie you could purchase legally for $20. I'm not even going to touch equipment depreciation on the $700 drive, which could drive it significantly higher. Congrats! You just saved yourself -$40!;-)
Seriously and with all barbarism aside, while copying a disc like that is technically feasable, no one with more than a few brain cells would ever do it. Technical feasability != economic feasability. The only form of DVD piracy that is economically feasable is to buy a professional DVD copier from the boys at Pioneer and use it to turn out thousands of copies for sale. CSS isn't applicable in this case, because you don't need to decrypt the disc to copy it, only to play it. The DVD CCA just doesn't want to give up the huge 'licensing' fees it charges this early in the game.
Back in the 'old days' when you were hand-feeding 'The Burroughs' with a five-inch deck of hand-punched cards and the mainframe cost was astronomical, that system made sense. Today, with bandwidth coming cheaply, use monitoring/enforcement makes no economic sense. By the time you research/implement such a beast, you've already spent more money than the connection costs in a year. Hiring the needed personnel to run such a system digs an even bigger hole; If they're qualified, a pair of 'em will run you more than the connection, every year. You may save a couple of bucks on bandwidth, but you're paying out more money to employees. Not to mention the faculty/student annoyance, pissed off calls to support, administrative overhead, etc.
Sun is NOT releasing the Solaris 8 source. They are distributing Solaris 8 fee-free. They should have been doing this for years, but apparently the S/W division liked it's 'revenue earning' status in the corporate hierarchy.
You're right.. I realized seconds after clicking 'Submit' that it was the movie.. Then again, I'm not a 'die-hard' MST fan, so the mistake isn't going to kill me.
In one episode of MST3000, Mike manages to destroy the Hubble. Hence: 'mike-killed-the-hubble' I think the robots were chanting something to that effect as well.
Not vibrators, fully-functional blow-up dolls. Or Al Gore. I can see the campaign slogan now!
Al Gore in 2000! He's the plastic pal that's fun to be with! And Al's made from a 100% biodegradable, corn starch-enriched 4 mil polymer that not only will stand up to the tough job of President, but can be tossed in the landfill of your choice after his term! Try doing that with Bill Bradley! Coming soon! The Tipper Gore 'IQ transplant' kit! Replace the useless hot air she has in her head with 100% pure, processed American cheese food! Watch her drop her crusade for music censorship!
I've always liked the sun reflecting off Saturn's rings.. Or binary star systems, complete with a matter cloud... I'd better stop before I change my wallpaper again..
sizeof(NT 4.0 + IIS + Exchange + SMS + Proxy Server + Cygwin32 + MS Developer Studio + Perl_Win32 + Borland F77 + Borland COBOL + Delphi) is much, much larger than 640M. Yet you get all that and more in the 640M of Linux. Linux distributions come with about every bit of software you could ever need; That's why they're bigger.
300M is bloat. I can match the default functionality of NT 4.0 and still fit it on a 40M Seagate.
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Java is still a standard. The only difference is what 'name' goes on the standardized product, Sun or 'National Java Directorate'. With Sun as the controlling body, there are resources and teeth behind each and every 'thou shalt not'.
However, I don't think thats the real issue. I'd be willing to bet the Microsoft/Java litigation gives Scotty endless pleasure. MS screws with the Java bytecode implementation, Scott sics the lawyers back on them, Steve downs some Pepto. MS screws with the Java includes, the lawyers come back out and Steve switches to vodka. Boy! Oh boy! Microsoft is releasing a new O/S with a new JVM? There's an actual release date? Naw, the lawyers have heard about it. Scotty gets his laughs, the MS release date gets laughed at, and Ballmer becomes an alcoholic.
The moronic masses insist on saying that the millennium started 1/1/00, and I'm sorry to say /. posters have by and large agreed with the drivel. So, for the purposes of my post, 2100 AD signifies the next century.
The cluster would lose if the gross hardware spec were close. (i.e. four K6-2 350's vs one dual-processor Xeon-600). Clusters have transitive and communicative overhead several orders of magnitude larger than SMP mobos, and so they are performance lossy. But the great thing about clusters is they have no end. I could make a cluster out of 20 P3-600's; I don't think we'll ever see a dodeca-processor SMP board.
Real men don need no steenkeng artafishul gravety.
The ISS isn't projected to have 'simulated gravity' except in specific lab areas.
Make your own! A buddy of mine bought some mid AT cases(the sides come off), turned 'em horizontally, and attached four 3-inch metal L brackets to them with epoxy and 1/4-24 stub bolts. Two brackets were placed flush with the front of the case on the 'upper edge'. The other two went on the upper edge of the back, but protruding an inch. The 'cage' was nothing more than four 7 1/2 foot lengths of perforated stock. The back of the rack was spaced off the wall with chunks of 2x4, and secured with machine screws and heavy-duty wall anchors. The front was double bracketed to the floor and ceiling, and secured by standard sheetrock fastners and lag bolts into the floor joists. Bolt the cases onto the perf stock. I'd suggest using 1/4-20 carraige bolts secured to the frame with SAE lock washers, then slid through the case 'L's and held with some push-button Fas-Nuts or wing nuts.
Yes, there are ingredients printed on the can. While I can't qoute them word-for word, the gist is that it contains a multi-species mix of animals and animal byproducts, salt, sodium nitrate, and enough preservatives to ensure a shelf life well into the next century.
It is kinda tasty panfried on an onion roll with coarse mustard, so I won't slam on it.
Hacker purity test? It's not one I'm familiar with. (I generally hate such things)
Know where I could find a copy??
Government should be the 'whore of the people' We created it so that it may serve us. Let the SIGs, multinationals and foreign powers bugger off. They have no place in government.
Large, stable object already in earth orbit. Do you know how much money could have been saved on the ISS if they had only had something to bolt ot down to?
While I agree that this announcement is little to be excited about, you've made some factual errors. Sun hardware, while not up to the specs I'd expect from an IBM, is very high quality.
About the difference between MS and Sun. Both companies do 'evil' stuff; it is the nature of large companies to do so. MS gives you a pat on the head, a smile, and a lie about their intent. Sun admits the evil and even gives you the release date.
I write code piss drunk all the time. (read: I've finished the sixer of stout and I've moved on to rum.) The problem seems to be the next morning, when I have to look at the uncommented lump of spaghetti who's purpose I only half-remember.
As a whole, 1/8 of the stuff I produce greatly exceeds my sober level; it is perfectly brilliant. 1/4 of it is marginally competent, my norm. The rest of it is not fit for the light of the CRT, and may be only slightly more intellegible than Vogon poetry fed through Babelfish.
Brilliant or not, I usually just 'rm -rf *' it; I never have the same grasp of it again.
You're right.. I was over-generalizing, based on the Windows program DeCSS, which is generating the stink. (I have yet to even see mention of the Linux CSS-auth in the legal docs,) The css-auth package does do it in two steps. DeCSS does not.
anyone interested in putting together a little fund to run an ad in a major US newspaper like the NY times with the DeCSS code in it?
Yeah... Even if it is as pathetic as a full column 'Classified'. I'll get in touch with someone in media and pick their brain. They owe me a few for the week-long loan of my cluster. A B/W half page in the back of USAToday should be in the reach of a few conspirators.
The best system in an attended lab is to put the printers by the labbie's desk and have them scold people who print excessively.
Oh yeah! I did a stint in a college CS lab, and the first time I caught someone running a binary through lpr (or any other moronically huge job), they were scolded heavily and the print job was killed. The second time, we'd allow the job to finish, and then I'd call my supervisor, asking for a per-sheet price for a 200 page printout. We'd never actually charge, however. Third time, user got a 20 minute lecture in full view of the lab. I never got to see a 'fourth' timer, but legend went that their passwords often failed to work, that their print jobs seldom worked, and they were always losing their custom Emacs bindings.
Yes, but Canada seems to have a stronger stance regarding the rights of content purchasers.. The rights of the consumer to copy that disc are well documented. In the US, its all legal grey. Sure, they're not attacking people who make archival copies of their CDs, or encode them to mp3, but that may very well change tomorrow with the tip of some judges gavel.
Voila! I have an exact copy of the original DVD
;-)
Wrong. You have a decrypted DVD copy. Sure, you could do that, but you just paid $52.95 for the DVD disc you wrote to. Lets see.. With rental it just cost you almost $60 to pirate a movie you could purchase legally for $20. I'm not even going to touch equipment depreciation on the $700 drive, which could drive it significantly higher. Congrats! You just saved yourself -$40!
Seriously and with all barbarism aside, while copying a disc like that is technically feasable, no one with more than a few brain cells would ever do it. Technical feasability != economic feasability. The only form of DVD piracy that is economically feasable is to buy a professional DVD copier from the boys at Pioneer and use it to turn out thousands of copies for sale. CSS isn't applicable in this case, because you don't need to decrypt the disc to copy it, only to play it. The DVD CCA just doesn't want to give up the huge 'licensing' fees it charges this early in the game.
They already release 'free' or near-free versions of the Solaris 7 source. I wouldn't count it as news that they plan on continuing the tradition.
But I do agree the 'free-license'ing of Solaris 8 is significant! Have you seen some of their current fees??
Back in the 'old days' when you were hand-feeding 'The Burroughs' with a five-inch deck of hand-punched cards and the mainframe cost was astronomical, that system made sense. Today, with bandwidth coming cheaply, use monitoring/enforcement makes no economic sense. By the time you research/implement such a beast, you've already spent more money than the connection costs in a year. Hiring the needed personnel to run such a system digs an even bigger hole; If they're qualified, a pair of 'em will run you more than the connection, every year. You may save a couple of bucks on bandwidth, but you're paying out more money to employees. Not to mention the faculty/student annoyance, pissed off calls to support, administrative overhead, etc.
You don't spend $100,000 to save $20,000!
Sun is NOT releasing the Solaris 8 source. They are distributing Solaris 8 fee-free. They should have been doing this for years, but apparently the S/W division liked it's 'revenue earning' status in the corporate hierarchy.
You're right.. I realized seconds after clicking 'Submit' that it was the movie.. Then again, I'm not a 'die-hard' MST fan, so the mistake isn't going to kill me.
In one episode of MST3000, Mike manages to destroy the Hubble. Hence: 'mike-killed-the-hubble' I think the robots were chanting something to that effect as well.
Not vibrators, fully-functional blow-up dolls. Or Al Gore. I can see the campaign slogan now!
Al Gore in 2000! He's the plastic pal that's fun to be with! And Al's made from a 100% biodegradable, corn starch-enriched 4 mil polymer that not only will stand up to the tough job of President, but can be tossed in the landfill of your choice after his term! Try doing that with Bill Bradley! Coming soon! The Tipper Gore 'IQ transplant' kit! Replace the useless hot air she has in her head with 100% pure, processed American cheese food! Watch her drop her crusade for music censorship!
My vote: Uranus
Depends on who U r, I suppose..
I've always liked the sun reflecting off Saturn's rings.. Or binary star systems, complete with a matter cloud... I'd better stop before I change my wallpaper again..
sizeof(NT 4.0 + IIS + Exchange + SMS + Proxy Server + Cygwin32 + MS Developer Studio + Perl_Win32 + Borland F77 + Borland COBOL + Delphi) is much, much larger than 640M. Yet you get all that and more in the 640M of Linux. Linux distributions come with about every bit of software you could ever need; That's why they're bigger.
300M is bloat. I can match the default functionality of NT 4.0 and still fit it on a 40M Seagate.
Towards the end of the movie, where Harrison Ford is hanging from the edge, you can see a nice large neon 'Atari Corp' sign in the background.
So much for the futurists.