Linux is like Darwinian evolution. The code base mutates and the stronger strains survive. Sometimes parts of version cross into another, analogous to natural selection on individual genes.
Windows is like Intelligent design. After all, nothing that complicated and intertwined could possibly have evolved by chance.
The Fundamentalist response to this is that HIV was developed by God to kill all the nasty homosexuals, unchaste women and all those horrible unbelievers in Africa.
You can't really apply logical reasoning to an argument built from a fundamental premise that is illogical.
I also thought that this was supposed to be covered by copyright law, but apparently this guy wants insurance in case somebody comes along with a better or more widely-acclaimed version of such a story.
Copyright only covers the relization or manifestation of an idea, not the idea itself. So you can't copyright the idea of "a painting full of red and yellow swirls in a representation of sunflowers", but once you paint it, then its yours. Similar with storylines and movie plots.
Call it a Sun StorageTek SAN, and that doesn't sound so scary.
Actually, the StorEdge 6130 rocks, especially if you are doing a huge number of wierd replications around the place. Its about bloody time Sun got some decent storage, but again, its going to take years before people would even consider looking at Sun as a storage vendor, their past products have been so Crap.
Unlike ye olden days, they are now conditionally compiled from the same code base. There's about 1% that's dedicated hardware dependent stuff, but the other 99% is identical.
IBM need "Unix" on x86. AMD/Intel have the lions share of cheap processors that will do everything that 90% of customers need. As "Grid" gets more mature they will become more and more important, especially as 10Gbit and faster ethernet speeds become common and optimized TCP/IP stacks and dedicated hardware mean that you don't need to lose a processor in each node just to handle your grid interconnects.
AIX doesn't run on x86, and it won't be ported to x86. As much as I love linux, it still has still some maturity problems when you start playing in the enterprise space, most of them to do with getting all the right libraries for your various applications to play nicely together and do on-the-fly upgrades that don't break application support. (Of course, some ISVs like that you have to buy a new version of their software to upgrade your OS, but most hardware vendors would prefer that the money came to them rather than the ISVs).
IBM, HP and I believe Intel are working on a "Standard Linux", which will fix the inter-ISV problems. How long before that becomes (1)stable, (2) ported to by ISVs and (3) accepted by corporations will remain to be seen. (The big trick in the "chicken and egg" scenario between (2) and (3)). I'd say at least a couple of years.
There are some real funky things in Solaris 10, but these will move into Linux, either by porting code from OpenSolaris or parallel development. A side issue may be the SCO FUD. Although we all know that SCO's claims are baseless, CxOs scare more easily, and may feel that Linux is still open to legal challenges in the future. Solaris is unencumbered (though it might be interesting to see what happens now that they've opened it).
On the other side of the coin, most people still don't trust Sun with Solaris x86. Although they are finally backing their x86 strategy with some real hardware, many of us remember the on-again, off-again x86 strategy from the last few years. I think they're on the right track now, but CxOs have to be sure before betting the business.
So, IBM benefit from having an industrial grade Unix on their blade servers for people who don't want to go Linux. Sun benefit by breaking the "proprietary Unix" tag that RedHat are using to attack Sun's installed base, showing that yes, our downloadable OS run's on other people's platforms.
The big advantage that you have in that neither the Italians nor the Swedish colonised Indina, leaving a billion cheap potential telemarkets who already speak your language.
If people only bought things that were of high quality and good value for money that they actually needed, the world economy would grind to a halt.
Consumer based economies rely that most of the money that people earn will be spent, thus keeping allowing more things to be produced, employing more people and round and round we go. Of course, the government takes a chunk of every dollar when its earned and then again when its spent. Its fun to watch how much of a dollar goes to the goverment once its been spent and earned a couple of times.
Times have changed since your Granpa's day. Globalisation means that this cycle is undergoing a readjustment.
Take Wal*Mart for example. Everybody wants goods at the cheapest price, but locals want living wages. The net effect is that manufacturing is moved off-shore to produce cheaper goods that local people can buy, but as they is now less money in the local economy, there are few jobs, meaning on average have less money to spend, meaning they want even cheaper goods. There are some economists who predict that Wal*Mart will cause the biggest change in US standards of living in the history of the country.
The trick is, of course, that we are simply shifting to a new equilibrium. If nobody has money to buy goods, Wal*Mart will suffer, so they won't let its prices drop too far. Eventually prices will stabilize to a level where local people and local industry will live in harmony with outsourcing to cheaper countries. Notably, these cheaper countries will slowly become less cheaper. Outsourced and Local wages will eventually meet in the middle (in some industries, they already have).
I know many of us have been bitten by out-sourcing to India, but we (as a society) have shown time and again that, despite all the lip-service, saving that few dollars on the cost of weekly tinned food bill is more important that local jobs.
You can't have the benefits of globalisation without the downsides - its part and parcel of the same model.
Yep. And American Pie is at the pinancle of class movie making, as were its two sequels.
Jackie Chan was once asked if he regretted never being a huge star (rather than just a Cult Hero) in the US. He basically said that with One Billion People in China, why did he need the English speaking world?
Same with Spanish language Movies. Pedro Almodovar is hardly known by mainstream english speaking viewers, but is huge in Spain and throughout Latin America.
This is true. The actresses are there to be cute and dance. They tend to mime to soundtracks recorded by professional singers who are probably not as cute, and thus don't get the credit they deserve.
And if you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. I'll even give you 10% off.
Don't listen to him. I have an almost identical bridge only slightly fuzzier than his and without the credits that I'll sell you off a blanket on the street corner for only 20 rupees and a gourd of yak yogurt.
Maybe I should append that to "I did my job before Microsoft bought Visio".
Visio is a de-facto standard for passing around everything from SAN designs to workflow solutions to org-charts. Although the functionality of the program is important, file compatibility is the killer. Same with project, and excel macros. I'm not saying that any of these are best of breed, but I need to be able to share documents with people all around the world, and I have to run what they run.
Powerpoint isn't the show-stopper. I've given presentations using OpenOffice and although the fonts can be a bit interesting when you change computers, it works.
Nah - the killers for me at least are Excel, Visio and Project. The OpenOffice version of the first doesn't scale near to where I need it, and porting macros is way too much effort, and the second two still don't have any real equivalents in the Linux space.
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Which is why OpenSource runs absolutely contrary to the MS business model. They want windows on everything.
You can't even expect Microsoft to support their own modifications.
The Fundamentalist response to this is that HIV was developed by God to kill all the nasty homosexuals, unchaste women and all those horrible unbelievers in Africa.
You can't really apply logical reasoning to an argument built from a fundamental premise that is illogical.
Copyright only covers the relization or manifestation of an idea, not the idea itself. So you can't copyright the idea of "a painting full of red and yellow swirls in a representation of sunflowers", but once you paint it, then its yours. Similar with storylines and movie plots.
Call it a Sun StorageTek SAN, and that doesn't sound so scary.
Actually, the StorEdge 6130 rocks, especially if you are doing a huge number of wierd replications around the place. Its about bloody time Sun got some decent storage, but again, its going to take years before people would even consider looking at Sun as a storage vendor, their past products have been so Crap.
T3 anybody?
As of Solaris 10, x86 IS real solaris.
Unlike ye olden days, they are now conditionally compiled from the same code base. There's about 1% that's dedicated hardware dependent stuff, but the other 99% is identical.
This will benefit both parties.
IBM need "Unix" on x86. AMD/Intel have the lions share of cheap processors that will do everything that 90% of customers need. As "Grid" gets more mature they will become more and more important, especially as 10Gbit and faster ethernet speeds become common and optimized TCP/IP stacks and dedicated hardware mean that you don't need to lose a processor in each node just to handle your grid interconnects.
AIX doesn't run on x86, and it won't be ported to x86. As much as I love linux, it still has still some maturity problems when you start playing in the enterprise space, most of them to do with getting all the right libraries for your various applications to play nicely together and do on-the-fly upgrades that don't break application support. (Of course, some ISVs like that you have to buy a new version of their software to upgrade your OS, but most hardware vendors would prefer that the money came to them rather than the ISVs).
IBM, HP and I believe Intel are working on a "Standard Linux", which will fix the inter-ISV problems. How long before that becomes (1)stable, (2) ported to by ISVs and (3) accepted by corporations will remain to be seen. (The big trick in the "chicken and egg" scenario between (2) and (3)). I'd say at least a couple of years.
There are some real funky things in Solaris 10, but these will move into Linux, either by porting code from OpenSolaris or parallel development. A side issue may be the SCO FUD. Although we all know that SCO's claims are baseless, CxOs scare more easily, and may feel that Linux is still open to legal challenges in the future. Solaris is unencumbered (though it might be interesting to see what happens now that they've opened it).
On the other side of the coin, most people still don't trust Sun with Solaris x86. Although they are finally backing their x86 strategy with some real hardware, many of us remember the on-again, off-again x86 strategy from the last few years. I think they're on the right track now, but CxOs have to be sure before betting the business.
So, IBM benefit from having an industrial grade Unix on their blade servers for people who don't want to go Linux. Sun benefit by breaking the "proprietary Unix" tag that RedHat are using to attack Sun's installed base, showing that yes, our downloadable OS run's on other people's platforms.
This is a joke, right?
The big advantage that you have in that neither the Italians nor the Swedish colonised Indina, leaving a billion cheap potential telemarkets who already speak your language.
I'll never forgive the poms for that.
Two birds with one stone. I like it.
Why not? That would leave... um.. America!
Then the only possible war would be a civil war.
If people only bought things that were of high quality and good value for money that they actually needed, the world economy would grind to a halt.
Consumer based economies rely that most of the money that people earn will be spent, thus keeping allowing more things to be produced, employing more people and round and round we go. Of course, the government takes a chunk of every dollar when its earned and then again when its spent. Its fun to watch how much of a dollar goes to the goverment once its been spent and earned a couple of times.
Times have changed since your Granpa's day. Globalisation means that this cycle is undergoing a readjustment.
Take Wal*Mart for example. Everybody wants goods at the cheapest price, but locals want living wages. The net effect is that manufacturing is moved off-shore to produce cheaper goods that local people can buy, but as they is now less money in the local economy, there are few jobs, meaning on average have less money to spend, meaning they want even cheaper goods. There are some economists who predict that Wal*Mart will cause the biggest change in US standards of living in the history of the country.
The trick is, of course, that we are simply shifting to a new equilibrium. If nobody has money to buy goods, Wal*Mart will suffer, so they won't let its prices drop too far. Eventually prices will stabilize to a level where local people and local industry will live in harmony with outsourcing to cheaper countries. Notably, these cheaper countries will slowly become less cheaper. Outsourced and Local wages will eventually meet in the middle (in some industries, they already have).
I know many of us have been bitten by out-sourcing to India, but we (as a society) have shown time and again that, despite all the lip-service, saving that few dollars on the cost of weekly tinned food bill is more important that local jobs.
You can't have the benefits of globalisation without the downsides - its part and parcel of the same model.
Yes, your honour, and that's how the baggie ended up in my jacket pocket.
Sholay rocks. Just make sure you go to the toilet before hand (its longer than Titantic).
I aint ingorant! Send 'em all back to their Rersevations with their TeePees, their Squaws and their Bollywood movies!
Yep. And American Pie is at the pinancle of class movie making, as were its two sequels.
Jackie Chan was once asked if he regretted never being a huge star (rather than just a Cult Hero) in the US. He basically said that with One Billion People in China, why did he need the English speaking world?
Same with Spanish language Movies. Pedro Almodovar is hardly known by mainstream english speaking viewers, but is huge in Spain and throughout Latin America.
But now that Bombay has returned to its pre-colonial name of Mumbai, shouldn't that be "Mollywood"?
Mario Puzo wrote about it in The Godfather so it must be true.
This is true. The actresses are there to be cute and dance. They tend to mime to soundtracks recorded by professional singers who are probably not as cute, and thus don't get the credit they deserve.
Don't listen to him. I have an almost identical bridge only slightly fuzzier than his and without the credits that I'll sell you off a blanket on the street corner for only 20 rupees and a gourd of yak yogurt.
Or look for porn with a love story and a decent soundtrack.
Braaaaains!
Braaaaains!!
BRAAAAAAINSSS!!!!
Maybe I should append that to "I did my job before Microsoft bought Visio".
Visio is a de-facto standard for passing around everything from SAN designs to workflow solutions to org-charts. Although the functionality of the program is important, file compatibility is the killer. Same with project, and excel macros. I'm not saying that any of these are best of breed, but I need to be able to share documents with people all around the world, and I have to run what they run.
Powerpoint isn't the show-stopper. I've given presentations using OpenOffice and although the fonts can be a bit interesting when you change computers, it works.
Nah - the killers for me at least are Excel, Visio and Project. The OpenOffice version of the first doesn't scale near to where I need it, and porting macros is way too much effort, and the second two still don't have any real equivalents in the Linux space.