It's the year 2100. The "GEEKS" live underground, running LINUX 2.8, the last release without mandatory DRM implemented.
The GEEK population makes money by trading their cache of the last MOBOs (Late quad-cores) that do not have DRM to the "surface people". These machines are populated with bootleg copies of "Gilligan's Island" - The most popular show of the surface people...
Pathetic...
That was an eloquent explanation - I am often amazed at the ignorance of IT people I deal with at customers each day, and the general ignorance of the population in general in terms of scientific activity.
While I do not believe the common folks would care, there are a lot of geeks that would love to google for Mars info, etc. It is information paid for with taxpayer $$, and has no national security implications... Unless the Martians are massing the space ships for an attack.:^)
Ever since the Apolloe disaster, I have been convinced that you cannot walk up to a 30 or so story stack, hear the moaning and groaning of the equipment loaded with cryogenical propellants, and look up and say to yourself "Sure this is safe!".
This fixation on "this fell off", etc. is a problem that will degrade what is left of the shuttle program. It doesn't matter what the safety is... Does anyone think there is a lack of folks applying to fly?
IIRC, WINXP came out about FOUR AND A HALF YEARS ago. They have gutted major planned parts of the OS to get it out by next year.
Are they short-handed on programming staff? Eye-candy and "magic" folders just doesn't sing for me.
And the DRM Bravo-Sierra they are talking about could make the OS useless to me. (This could be why I have SuSe on my other box:-)
I am a Professional Services Project Manager for a vendor, and have dealt with both sides of the house.
Both sides of the house are usually separated - and have completely different outlooks on life. Example:
Large retailer. In the South. Mainframe people on one floor, that are locked down, ITIL to the MAX, change resistent, and risk-averse.
On another floor... Open systems people that are more like outlaws, gaming the change control procedures, etc. to "get things done".
Don't get me wrong - I love working with both of the groups; It is just fascinating seeing the difference in the approach to the job.
P.S., I have worked with WIN flavors, Linux, and am a z/OS capacity planner / performance measurement person. I would really like to see an open systems vs. z/OS benchmark that was realistic.
I worked for HP for a while - they made it very clear the money was the cartidges. (More than half of the profit of HP)
This is important for all of us that re-fill our CARTs to save money!
I have friend that is clueless as to how to re-fill. I taught her, and her cartridge "expired" because it was too old. HMMMMM...
HP was a $50B company. Compaq was a $20B company. They "merge".
They decided to only keep the best products from the two companies. Let's see how that ended up:
1) They kept Compaq storage.
2) They kept Compaq handhelds
3) They kept Compaq laptops
4) They kept Compaq servers
5) They kept HP printers
Oh, yeah, they RIFed all of the HP people.
Soooo, this begs the question - If all of the HP products and people sucked, how is it HP was more than twice as big as Compaq?
In my office at home, I am running AMD 3000+ for my XP box and AMD 2200+ for my SuSe 9.1 box. If you look at the S.M.A.R.T. number off of the MOBO sensors, the temps are scary. Running one "in" fan and one "out" fan on each box, in addition to multi-speed power supply fans, the 8' * 10' room gets rather warm, too.
As the density of chips increases, and the clock frequency increases, we are getting to the point where liquid-based cooling is necessary on gamer machines. Is this where we all want to go?
The short-term answer is dual-core at lower clock speeds. Assuming, with MP factors that 1+1 = 1.9 or so, a multi-tasking system can give a pretty good illusion of being a honkin' single image.
The other short-term answer is multiple, slower CPUs for the same reason; spread the heat dissipation across more real estate on the MOBO to keep from frying things.
Remember - in the world of electronics - Heat IS NOT your freind:^)
I have a great scam going on in my house. Upgrade my machine, use the parts to upgrade the wife's machine, use her parts to upgrade the kid's machine... And sell those parts to the neighbor for BEER:^)
I have 5,000 shares from a company whose technology I really believed in. I got it after the FIRST RIF.
It is now useless for TP, as it is printed on 20# stock. (I would tell you who, but I don't want word to get out:^)
Not to be confused with a friend that has worthless stock in four (Count 'em, four) comatose, but still on life-support companies.
As they say in the Ohio lottery, "You can't win if you don't play". I think it should be "Even if you play, you probably won't win"
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If SCO beats IBM in court, or beats Novell in court, or... Oh, never mind
It's the year 2100. The "GEEKS" live underground, running LINUX 2.8, the last release without mandatory DRM implemented. The GEEK population makes money by trading their cache of the last MOBOs (Late quad-cores) that do not have DRM to the "surface people". These machines are populated with bootleg copies of "Gilligan's Island" - The most popular show of the surface people... Pathetic...
All you need to do is get one of those "Michael Jackson Bedroom Buttons!" (Patent pending) - He never got caught =)
That was an eloquent explanation - I am often amazed at the ignorance of IT people I deal with at customers each day, and the general ignorance of the population in general in terms of scientific activity.
While I do not believe the common folks would care, there are a lot of geeks that would love to google for Mars info, etc. It is information paid for with taxpayer $$, and has no national security implications... Unless the Martians are massing the space ships for an attack. :^)
"I've got it - Let's take an SRB, put the fuel tank on top, and put a bigger Apollo capsule on top of that... And it will only cost $100B!"
But I know this guy named Martin... :^)
Their's is professionally set up. The SSID is "Linksys".
But it is nearly a quarter of a century old. We need something using 21st century technology, no?
Ever since the Apolloe disaster, I have been convinced that you cannot walk up to a 30 or so story stack, hear the moaning and groaning of the equipment loaded with cryogenical propellants, and look up and say to yourself "Sure this is safe!". This fixation on "this fell off", etc. is a problem that will degrade what is left of the shuttle program. It doesn't matter what the safety is... Does anyone think there is a lack of folks applying to fly?
IIRC, WINXP came out about FOUR AND A HALF YEARS ago. They have gutted major planned parts of the OS to get it out by next year. Are they short-handed on programming staff? Eye-candy and "magic" folders just doesn't sing for me. And the DRM Bravo-Sierra they are talking about could make the OS useless to me. (This could be why I have SuSe on my other box :-)
I am a Professional Services Project Manager for a vendor, and have dealt with both sides of the house. Both sides of the house are usually separated - and have completely different outlooks on life. Example: Large retailer. In the South. Mainframe people on one floor, that are locked down, ITIL to the MAX, change resistent, and risk-averse. On another floor... Open systems people that are more like outlaws, gaming the change control procedures, etc. to "get things done". Don't get me wrong - I love working with both of the groups; It is just fascinating seeing the difference in the approach to the job. P.S., I have worked with WIN flavors, Linux, and am a z/OS capacity planner / performance measurement person. I would really like to see an open systems vs. z/OS benchmark that was realistic.
Can you make the thing fetch beer? Or is that lack of thumbs going to be a problem?
Resulted in the BLUE screen of death!
Sign me up, Scooter! WTF is the diference between the NY Times Op-Ed page and the front page?
They have gutted anything we /.ers would think is cool (WINFS, etc?) - They have yet to get the OS secured, etc.
Short variables should be enough? Maybe, let's look at some sample code:
p_var = party
b_var = beer
c_var = coolers
.
.
10,000 lines of code later:
.
.
p_var = b_var + c_var
It will make perfect sense, no?
I worked for HP for a while - they made it very clear the money was the cartidges. (More than half of the profit of HP) This is important for all of us that re-fill our CARTs to save money! I have friend that is clueless as to how to re-fill. I taught her, and her cartridge "expired" because it was too old. HMMMMM...
HP was a $50B company. Compaq was a $20B company. They "merge". They decided to only keep the best products from the two companies. Let's see how that ended up: 1) They kept Compaq storage. 2) They kept Compaq handhelds 3) They kept Compaq laptops 4) They kept Compaq servers 5) They kept HP printers Oh, yeah, they RIFed all of the HP people. Soooo, this begs the question - If all of the HP products and people sucked, how is it HP was more than twice as big as Compaq?
In my office at home, I am running AMD 3000+ for my XP box and AMD 2200+ for my SuSe 9.1 box. If you look at the S.M.A.R.T. number off of the MOBO sensors, the temps are scary. Running one "in" fan and one "out" fan on each box, in addition to multi-speed power supply fans, the 8' * 10' room gets rather warm, too. As the density of chips increases, and the clock frequency increases, we are getting to the point where liquid-based cooling is necessary on gamer machines. Is this where we all want to go? The short-term answer is dual-core at lower clock speeds. Assuming, with MP factors that 1+1 = 1.9 or so, a multi-tasking system can give a pretty good illusion of being a honkin' single image. The other short-term answer is multiple, slower CPUs for the same reason; spread the heat dissipation across more real estate on the MOBO to keep from frying things. Remember - in the world of electronics - Heat IS NOT your freind :^)
Multi-processing is the way to go. We need to do that to help heat dissipation...
I am a bit fuzzy as to how I need something that will literally burn a hole in my pocket. And, IIRC, at 100K RPM, doesn't it act like a gyroscope?
I have a great scam going on in my house. Upgrade my machine, use the parts to upgrade the wife's machine, use her parts to upgrade the kid's machine... And sell those parts to the neighbor for BEER :^)
I have 5,000 shares from a company whose technology I really believed in. I got it after the FIRST RIF. It is now useless for TP, as it is printed on 20# stock. (I would tell you who, but I don't want word to get out:^) Not to be confused with a friend that has worthless stock in four (Count 'em, four) comatose, but still on life-support companies. As they say in the Ohio lottery, "You can't win if you don't play". I think it should be "Even if you play, you probably won't win"
What do we care as long as they stay there? I left Amatuers On Line in 1994 when I found an ISP and Spry Mosaic :^)