Economics 101 a pay raise without a productivity increase is inflationary, more money chasing fewer goods which raises prices. No one profits from inflation except government and their toadies the banks. IT is getting paid less because it is worth less. They.com days made turned the indsutry on its' head and is no returning to normal. IT is a commodity now, not a speciality so it is worthless. Sorry.
SMP, like Big Iron, is a dinosaur from a market share perspective. Market share is the only perspective that matters. X/Linux/Solaris are given away because they cannot be sold. Microsoft always wins because they enable better software to be written, faster, and cheaper.
The megaflops per second is irrelevent, just like Tyrannosaurus Rex became irrelevent once the first mammal appeared.
More then 2 CPU's in a box is cost ineffective computing. The people that do cost ineffective computing are invariably the government (NSA, CIA, NASA) or those that cling to the government through cartels (Drug Companies, Universities, and Defense Contractors).
The vast majority of computers in the world sit idle waiting for the next keystroke to arrive, all the SMP technology will not change that.
Micosoft makes things customers want, Sun makes things developers want. There are 10,000 customers with pockets full of money for every developer. The typcial developer has no budget, hence the focus on "open source", it's all he can afford.
In the long run software becomes free, but in the long run we're also all dead.
Reality is can be harsh on dreams, but market share is King. Which is why this is nothing more but a market share envy whine fest over "technology".
The value of trigonometry is not only in angles (sines/cosines), but the representation of real things as convergent infinite series, often times power series. These are often called transcendental fucntions. Virtually all differential equations of any usage in physics and engineering are solved as power series expansions, orthogonal function expansions, or perturbation solutions using power series expansions. This is why trig is so important, the transcendental functions, and these things that the modern world was built upon are not going. Just like surreal numbers did not replace counting, even though they could.
MARS is a dead rock, it has 1% of the atmosphere and a lot less gravity. hence less atmosphere, your head would explode if you took off your space helmet (unlike Val Kilmers in Red Planet).
It would take $500B to get there and the crew would die or go insanse on the way. Not even NASA a profligate waster of money wants to do this, they just want the funding to try.
Mankind needs way more technology than it currently has for this debacle.
NASA went to the moon so we could develop the technology to put nuclear weapons in downtown Moscow (same technology, no selling the truth in 1962). Nixon knew it and killed Moon shots when he took office. The goal was acheived with Navy C-4 and D-5 missile systems.
The Space Shuttle is an embarassment, a $100B sinkhole for people that have read to many Buck Rogers novels, and that gets less payload to a lower orbit than the Saturn V at 100X the cost.
Investors, keep your dollars away from these fools.
Anybody interested in the fate of Sun Microsystems should watch the great Danny DeVito movie "Other People's Money".
Sun is dead, not broke, but they are headed there. Let's not be fooled as to why Sun gives their software away (java, solaris). They cannot sell it. They have consistently offered up the wrong product at the wrong time and at the wrong price.
Bill Gates won becuase he is smarter than McNeely, makes better products, and is a vastly superior businessman. Get over it, all software has bugs and flaws, Microsoft is winning becuase it is better, and is getting better all the time.
For the final nail in the coffin look at insider trading on yahoo about Sun. McNeely is dumping his stock bought at $.007/share at the market price, $3.70 last time I checked. Draining his stockholders equity in order to line his pockets kind of Enronish. Bill Gates net worth fluctuates more per day than McNeely is worth and for good reason. McNeely has the arrogance to keep his failing compnay in both the hardware and software business during the last twenty years when this has been demonstrated to be the path to failure (Prime,DataGeneral,Integraph,DEC, and SIlicon Graphics come to mind).
What does he care he's partying on your (stockholders) money. Express elevator to hell, going down.
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Economics 101 a pay raise without a productivity increase is inflationary, more money chasing fewer goods which raises prices. No one profits from inflation except government and their toadies the banks. IT is getting paid less because it is worth less. They .com days made turned the indsutry on its' head and is no returning to normal. IT is a commodity now, not a speciality so it is worthless. Sorry.
SMP, like Big Iron, is a dinosaur from a market share perspective. Market share is the only perspective that matters. X/Linux/Solaris are given away because they cannot be sold. Microsoft always wins because they enable better software to be written, faster, and cheaper. The megaflops per second is irrelevent, just like Tyrannosaurus Rex became irrelevent once the first mammal appeared. More then 2 CPU's in a box is cost ineffective computing. The people that do cost ineffective computing are invariably the government (NSA, CIA, NASA) or those that cling to the government through cartels (Drug Companies, Universities, and Defense Contractors). The vast majority of computers in the world sit idle waiting for the next keystroke to arrive, all the SMP technology will not change that. Micosoft makes things customers want, Sun makes things developers want. There are 10,000 customers with pockets full of money for every developer. The typcial developer has no budget, hence the focus on "open source", it's all he can afford. In the long run software becomes free, but in the long run we're also all dead. Reality is can be harsh on dreams, but market share is King. Which is why this is nothing more but a market share envy whine fest over "technology".
The value of trigonometry is not only in angles (sines/cosines), but the representation of real things as convergent infinite series, often times power series. These are often called transcendental fucntions. Virtually all differential equations of any usage in physics and engineering are solved as power series expansions, orthogonal function expansions, or perturbation solutions using power series expansions. This is why trig is so important, the transcendental functions, and these things that the modern world was built upon are not going. Just like surreal numbers did not replace counting, even though they could.
MARS is a dead rock, it has 1% of the atmosphere and a lot less gravity. hence less atmosphere, your head would explode if you took off your space helmet (unlike Val Kilmers in Red Planet). It would take $500B to get there and the crew would die or go insanse on the way. Not even NASA a profligate waster of money wants to do this, they just want the funding to try. Mankind needs way more technology than it currently has for this debacle. NASA went to the moon so we could develop the technology to put nuclear weapons in downtown Moscow (same technology, no selling the truth in 1962). Nixon knew it and killed Moon shots when he took office. The goal was acheived with Navy C-4 and D-5 missile systems. The Space Shuttle is an embarassment, a $100B sinkhole for people that have read to many Buck Rogers novels, and that gets less payload to a lower orbit than the Saturn V at 100X the cost. Investors, keep your dollars away from these fools.
Agreed but when it is conflated with declining market share, declinign revenue and sales, it is a death knell.
Anybody interested in the fate of Sun Microsystems should watch the great Danny DeVito movie "Other People's Money". Sun is dead, not broke, but they are headed there. Let's not be fooled as to why Sun gives their software away (java, solaris). They cannot sell it. They have consistently offered up the wrong product at the wrong time and at the wrong price. Bill Gates won becuase he is smarter than McNeely, makes better products, and is a vastly superior businessman. Get over it, all software has bugs and flaws, Microsoft is winning becuase it is better, and is getting better all the time. For the final nail in the coffin look at insider trading on yahoo about Sun. McNeely is dumping his stock bought at $.007/share at the market price, $3.70 last time I checked. Draining his stockholders equity in order to line his pockets kind of Enronish. Bill Gates net worth fluctuates more per day than McNeely is worth and for good reason. McNeely has the arrogance to keep his failing compnay in both the hardware and software business during the last twenty years when this has been demonstrated to be the path to failure (Prime,DataGeneral,Integraph,DEC, and SIlicon Graphics come to mind). What does he care he's partying on your (stockholders) money. Express elevator to hell, going down.
By the time we have nano robots that communicate the sun will have long gone cold, thus no one will care