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Oracle Buys Sun
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· Score: 5, Informative
Source IDC 2008:
market share:
"Unix, mid-to-high-end servers ($17.2 billion in 2008)
IBM 37.2 pct Sun 28.1 pct HP 26.5 pct
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Don't give a flying fig about Suns servers?
IIRC Solaris still has the highest market share among proprietary Unixes. And AIX ist only third after HP-UX.
And if you think about Oracle as a database company you've kind of missed the last 8 years or so. They've bought a lot of stuff and are number two behind SAP.
... the manufacturers will soon stop worrying about Linux compatible hardware. Who cares about the 4%? And then we have the same problem with Linux on netbooks that we all know (and hate) on notebooks.
While I get your point 2, my pessimistic prediction could turn true as well...
IMHO Linux has lost an opportunity with netbooks. Blame it on manufacturers that sold netbooks as small notebooks (and not as internet computers). Blame on the Linux distributions on the netbooks. Ubuntu is now "shaping up" to be a viable competitor. Now. When the battle is lost.
Yeah I know it's mostly used as a lib but that doesn't mean that nobody should or will use it on the command line.
The ffmpeg team has built in shortcuts like -target type="ntsc-svcd"that automatically sets all the format options (bitrate, codecs, buffer sizes). So it isn't like they don't care at all.
In the end I'm sure that the "stable" release will bring better and more consistent tutorials.
ffmpeg is one of the pieces in the open source world that must have the biggest gap between usefulness and usability. Ever seen the man page? Gazillions of options! Some of them can be applied multiple times for input and output. Therefore the order of arguments is significant. Took a while for me to figure that out...
(here in Europa even 100 Euros, which is 125 Dollars)
And well if you do some video editing and have a music library 120 Gb simply is not enough. My music library is 40 Gb, 1 hour of Video (DV) is around 15 Gb.
So there you have reason one: It's C and there's a lot of code in C that could be useful in a browser context. Think of multimedia codecs. Stop blaming the HTML5 committee for not including Ogg theora in their HTML5 standard. "Just" port Ogg to NaCl and it runs in our browser. Bingo! Think of games like Quake which are brought to your browser with ActiveX. With NaCl it would run under Linux and OS X too (on X86...).
And regarding LLVM: I see no reason why NaCl and LLVM could not profit from each other.
While the 4 billion combo drives that used to cripple the smallest Mac mini and Macbook seem to have been sold, the new 120 Gb drive is now used to cripple the smallest models.
Come on Apple. The price difference between the Seagate Momentus 5400.4 120 Gb and the Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250 Gb is less than 15 dollars...
Why is the picture completely black a the beginning. That sould be the state, where the sun is completely and in the middle behind the earth.
Than we start beginning to see the sunlight through the atmosphere. This starts at the top and shortly after this forms about a half circle the sun "breaks through" but as it seems on the right, bottom side.
Im puzzled. Does someone have a link to a good visualization/animation of this?
(As a Ruby and Perl programmer I have to disagree and state that Java is very bad for the health of your brain but I could be wrong and/or hallucinating;-) )
Google will make this move. Well somebody else may do this on behalf of Google cause Android is open enough to port it to your netbook or your set-top-box yourself.
And it makes sense. Read your mail on your TV? Check the weather for tomorrow or the stock quotes from today? Twitter sth. Chat with your mother?
Google would be stupid if the didn't support these new applications for Android. It helps to grow their own ecosystem AND helps to hurt Microsoft which has invested millions if not billions into these markets (and will likely fail to grab a significant market share in both).
"Drop the lame prefixes: k,g , gn -- It's not clever, it's not intuitive. It's fucking stupid."
The one company that did have the biggest plus in market share is calling their apps iPhoto, iLife, iChat,...
The biggest software company of all calls most of their apps MS Word, MS Office, MS Paint,...
So I don't think this claim isn't true. But I agree with most of the the other stuff you say (acronyms are stupid an well not funny anymore).
And when you suggest to choose names like Winamp you'll always have to think about trademarks. We had a lot of open source software that had to change their names after some lawyer called them (Krita was named KIllustrator before). And OSS-programmers simply don't have the money (and time) to fight such things out. So it's easier to choose a somewhat stupid, but distinctive/unique name that gives a low risk of being sued...
Blowing out warm air doen't create a vaccuum. If the rest of the building is warm, new warm air flows in. If the rest of the building is cool, well cool air flows in.
The big problem: The effect of these a/c units are nearly equal to a ventilator. That's why those split a/c are the way to go. These transport the heat via some kind of liquid but do not move air to the outside.
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Source IDC 2008:
market share:
"Unix, mid-to-high-end servers ($17.2 billion in 2008)
IBM 37.2 pct
Sun 28.1 pct
HP 26.5 pct
"
Don't give a flying fig about Suns servers?
IIRC Solaris still has the highest market share among proprietary Unixes. And AIX ist only third after HP-UX.
And if you think about Oracle as a database company you've kind of missed the last 8 years or so. They've bought a lot of stuff and are number two behind SAP.
"IBM provides Java and Java products. "
Well I guess Sun does that too.
Regarding virtualization: XVM Server
Should be enough to keep the troll busy ;-)
Bye egghat
Well SPARC might make money. If not, well then you are almost certainly correct (if your timeframe is more than say 2 years).
bye egghat
Oracle+Sun has the power to seriously harm IBM. IBMs big plus was the combination of good hardware + OS + DB + consultants.
Oracle + Sun can now deliver exactly the same.
bye egghat
(export world champion), there is an entry in the German Wikipedia about this (Wikipedia: Exportweltmeister).
But China is getting close and 2009 will probably the first year China is the country that exports most goods.
... the manufacturers will soon stop worrying about Linux compatible hardware. Who cares about the 4%? And then we have the same problem with Linux on netbooks that we all know (and hate) on notebooks.
While I get your point 2, my pessimistic prediction could turn true as well ...
IMHO Linux has lost an opportunity with netbooks. Blame it on manufacturers that sold netbooks as small notebooks (and not as internet computers). Blame on the Linux distributions on the netbooks. Ubuntu is now "shaping up" to be a viable competitor. Now. When the battle is lost.
"The first rule of Open Source is to deliver something that works early."
IMHO the Freerunner has been released too early. It wasn't even of beta quality ...
Yeah I know it's mostly used as a lib but that doesn't mean that nobody should or will use it on the command line.
The ffmpeg team has built in shortcuts like -target type="ntsc-svcd"that automatically sets all the format options (bitrate, codecs, buffer sizes). So it isn't like they don't care at all.
In the end I'm sure that the "stable" release will bring better and more consistent tutorials.
ffmpeg is one of the pieces in the open source world that must have the biggest gap between usefulness and usability. Ever seen the man page? Gazillions of options! Some of them can be applied multiple times for input and output. Therefore the order of arguments is significant. Took a while for me to figure that out ...
But with a 100 Dollar price increase ...
(here in Europa even 100 Euros, which is 125 Dollars)
And well if you do some video editing and have a music library 120 Gb simply is not enough. My music library is 40 Gb, 1 hour of Video (DV) is around 15 Gb.
So there you have reason one: It's C and there's a lot of code in C that could be useful in a browser context. Think of multimedia codecs. Stop blaming the HTML5 committee for not including Ogg theora in their HTML5 standard. "Just" port Ogg to NaCl and it runs in our browser. Bingo! Think of games like Quake which are brought to your browser with ActiveX. With NaCl it would run under Linux and OS X too (on X86 ...).
And regarding LLVM: I see no reason why NaCl and LLVM could not profit from each other.
And if you are really cool: Port KDE to NaCl ;-)
While the 4 billion combo drives that used to cripple the smallest Mac mini and Macbook seem to have been sold, the new 120 Gb drive is now used to cripple the smallest models.
Come on Apple. The price difference between the Seagate Momentus 5400.4 120 Gb and the Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250 Gb is less than 15 dollars ...
Hmm I still don't get it.
Why is the picture completely black a the beginning. That sould be the state, where the sun is completely and in the middle behind the earth.
Than we start beginning to see the sunlight through the atmosphere. This starts at the top and shortly after this forms about a half circle the sun "breaks through" but as it seems on the right, bottom side.
Im puzzled. Does someone have a link to a good visualization/animation of this?
He gives a link, a comparison (what is this sandbox thingie all about) and asks for examples.
So essentially three lines with three valid remarks.
And btw. I haven't seen a single iPhone app in Walmart lately.
bye egghat
Grab a java, it's good for your brain
(As a Ruby and Perl programmer I have to disagree and state that Java is very bad for the health of your brain but I could be wrong and/or hallucinating ;-) )
Back to my Gaggia.
I' quite sure they mean websites like this
Top 10 iPhone Optimized Websites or 20 Websites Optimized for the iPhone
While this is no rewriting/transformation it could be considered as some kind of "sister site".
I'd still consider their claims "wobbly" and hope that they'll fail.
Google will make this move. Well somebody else may do this on behalf of Google cause Android is open enough to port it to your netbook or your set-top-box yourself.
And it makes sense. Read your mail on your TV? Check the weather for tomorrow or the stock quotes from today? Twitter sth. Chat with your mother?
Google would be stupid if the didn't support these new applications for Android. It helps to grow their own ecosystem AND helps to hurt Microsoft which has invested millions if not billions into these markets (and will likely fail to grab a significant market share in both).
Ars Technica: iPhone SDK
Anyone with other tipps?
"Drop the lame prefixes: k ,g , gn -- It's not clever, it's not intuitive. It's fucking stupid."
The one company that did have the biggest plus in market share is calling their apps iPhoto, iLife, iChat, ...
The biggest software company of all calls most of their apps MS Word, MS Office, MS Paint, ...
So I don't think this claim isn't true. But I agree with most of the the other stuff you say (acronyms are stupid an well not funny anymore).
And when you suggest to choose names like Winamp you'll always have to think about trademarks. We had a lot of open source software that had to change their names after some lawyer called them (Krita was named KIllustrator before). And OSS-programmers simply don't have the money (and time) to fight such things out. So it's easier to choose a somewhat stupid, but distinctive/unique name that gives a low risk of being sued ...
Strange things happen ...
I thought this is so funny I even blogged about it ...
Get The Facts - The Highly Reliable Times (are over)
Blowing out warm air doen't create a vaccuum. If the rest of the building is warm, new warm air flows in. If the rest of the building is cool, well cool air flows in.
The big problem: The effect of these a/c units are nearly equal to a ventilator. That's why those split a/c are the way to go. These transport the heat via some kind of liquid but do not move air to the outside.
You would think the other way round would work as well. But several of the last Virtualbox versions didn't run on OpenSolaris 08-05 :-(
This time it's based on InnoDB
Choose the one that you will get punished for
( ) ignoring laws like in Guantanamo
( ) ignoring laws like FISA
( ) Serving coffee that's "too hot"
Strange world!
bye egghat
"Petersen showed us the C-compiled versions of Lua, Ruby, Perl, and Python all running on the web in secure Flash sandboxes."
Well there you have it ...