Software doesn't have to 'get bigger' forever. There is a lot of stuff being done on the 'main processor' on a lot of consumer PCs that can be done more economically and practically with subsystem processors. I.e. GPUs on graphics cards, dedicated media en/decoders. The days of mammoth general purpose processors are on the way out.
The Slashdot 'native culture' moves/evolves very slowly. But it does evolve over time.
For instance, you hardly ever see any 'Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified' comments/trolls anymore. Even the inferior 'Natalie Portman' updates seldom appear.
There's some meaning and significance to the 'Beowulf' comments, though, and they generally appear in on-topic contexts. It's some peoples' way of making fun of the 'Linux everwhere' mentality. Sort of, anyway.
I dunno. I like living in rural Indiana. I pay something like 80% less, have about 5 acres of land to putz around on, and all year round there are birds and stuff making nice sounds to hear out in the yard/field. There's a catbird, for instance, who makes a lot of amazing sounds.
Why is a cell phone necessary for 'any technophile.'
By definition, a technophile is often anti-social and prefers to meddle around with tech, rather than yak on the phone. In fact, I would say there is a reverse coorelation, and the 'geek' is less likely to care about being 'reachable' by people in general.
I have a friend who didn't bother to get a phone until the same time he had his DSL installed.
It's the social butterflies and the twinks who have a cellphone always ready at hand.
Don't be silly. From a profit taking point of view, why on earth would they want to fix the problem, when it's the potential source of extra revenue?
You just described the 'give the software away for free, make your money providing support' business plan, as championed by some of the Open Source advocates.
The thing I love about Linux is that I can easily use systems that Microsoft considers "out of date" for useful and productive tasks.
Personally, that's why I like NetBSD over Linux. I can install one of the Linux-based OSes on some of my old machines, but not on others. I like being able to run an OS built from completely the same source tree (kernel and also userland) on my P3 machines, my Quad Pentium Pro server, my Sun boxes, and my Mac SE/30. It is possible, and it's pretty neat.
Actually, the anti-trust laws were originally written in reference to the big steel/coal/railroad industries. Not really industries where 'incentive for innovation' was that much a concern. The thrust of classic anti-trust is to keep the market free.
Which has some to do with innovation, but more peripherally than most people who associate anti-trust with IBM, AT&T, or Microsoft are inclined to believe.
Yes, but I prefer to render my 1D interfaces in my head as 2D. In other words: when I used to bootstrap a PDP-8 with the toggle switches on front, I always did it in octal.
do you really think that uninformed people should undertake a technology acquisition without asking well-informed in-house resources to do a sanity check?
Do they ask you opinion before buying photocopiers? If your firm has an in-house chemist who can describe the chemical composition of the toner in photocopiers, should they ask him/her for an opinion? Or were you meddling in IT infrastructure issues rather than doing your job, which sounds like product engineering?
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You forgot to include Itanium.
It isn't going away. HP will cease to co-develop it with Intel. They will continue to design them into their servers.
It's a refocus. The H-P team members are being transferred to Intel. The Itanium development is not ceasing.
I'm not trying to be a 'fanboy' for any particular company or venture. But the way this news is being spun by anti-Intel enthusiasts is erroneous.
Software doesn't have to 'get bigger' forever. There is a lot of stuff being done on the 'main processor' on a lot of consumer PCs that can be done more economically and practically with subsystem processors. I.e. GPUs on graphics cards, dedicated media en/decoders. The days of mammoth general purpose processors are on the way out.
They're an ink company now, selling 'high performance' ink for fools to pay-and-spray on expensive paper.
David Packard was right, BTW. Fuck Carly (not literally, though *shudder*)
You just discovered one of PBS's wet dreams.
The Slashdot 'native culture' moves/evolves very slowly. But it does evolve over time.
For instance, you hardly ever see any 'Mae Ling Mak, Naked and Petrified' comments/trolls anymore. Even the inferior 'Natalie Portman' updates seldom appear.
There's some meaning and significance to the 'Beowulf' comments, though, and they generally appear in on-topic contexts. It's some peoples' way of making fun of the 'Linux everwhere' mentality. Sort of, anyway.
And the basis for your assertion is that that's what the other contenders for power who weren't elected claim in their rhetoric?
Wealth isn't a zero-sum game.
I dunno. I like living in rural Indiana. I pay something like 80% less, have about 5 acres of land to putz around on, and all year round there are birds and stuff making nice sounds to hear out in the yard/field. There's a catbird, for instance, who makes a lot of amazing sounds.
Why is a cell phone necessary for 'any technophile.'
By definition, a technophile is often anti-social and prefers to meddle around with tech, rather than yak on the phone. In fact, I would say there is a reverse coorelation, and the 'geek' is less likely to care about being 'reachable' by people in general.
I have a friend who didn't bother to get a phone until the same time he had his DSL installed.
It's the social butterflies and the twinks who have a cellphone always ready at hand.
It's frightening to find a person whose religion appears to be Star Wars derived.
When you die, your flesh is and will be tainted worse than the worst fish out of Lake Erie. IOW, please don't pollute the ocean.
It sounds like a good start for us. Build basic skills shops all over the earth, and stick the really good stuff on the moon.
Shucks, you started out good, but then you branched off and didn't mention funding NASA or watching too many Star Trek episodes at all .
safety engineers, database developers, holders of advanced degrees
Shucks, I thought you would mention machinists, farmers, etc. And there you go listing off a bunch of telephone sanitizers instead...
I take it you and Ape are the only people in your small town who know how to admin a Red Hat server. Hmmm. Clever business model you have there...
I like the answer RMS came up with better: make your own toys.
I wasn't aware that Richard Stallman had ever made his own computer hardware. Nor how it pertains to the arguement you were making.
Don't be silly. From a profit taking point of view, why on earth would they want to fix the problem, when it's the potential source of extra revenue?
You just described the 'give the software away for free, make your money providing support' business plan, as championed by some of the Open Source advocates.
"I wired my three-wire peer-to-peer serial cable to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer hardware."
I mean, come on. Peer to peer can mean about anything, really.
The thing I love about Linux is that I can easily use systems that Microsoft considers "out of date" for useful and productive tasks.
Personally, that's why I like NetBSD over Linux. I can install one of the Linux-based OSes on some of my old machines, but not on others. I like being able to run an OS built from completely the same source tree (kernel and also userland) on my P3 machines, my Quad Pentium Pro server, my Sun boxes, and my Mac SE/30. It is possible, and it's pretty neat.
OS/2 only ever had a Win16 subsystem, if you want to delve into reasons it wasn't popular in the long run.
Actually, the anti-trust laws were originally written in reference to the big steel/coal/railroad industries. Not really industries where 'incentive for innovation' was that much a concern. The thrust of classic anti-trust is to keep the market free.
Which has some to do with innovation, but more peripherally than most people who associate anti-trust with IBM, AT&T, or Microsoft are inclined to believe.
Yes, but I prefer to render my 1D interfaces in my head as 2D. In other words: when I used to bootstrap a PDP-8 with the toggle switches on front, I always did it in octal.
do you really think that uninformed people should undertake a technology acquisition without asking well-informed in-house resources to do a sanity check?
Do they ask you opinion before buying photocopiers? If your firm has an in-house chemist who can describe the chemical composition of the toner in photocopiers, should they ask him/her for an opinion? Or were you meddling in IT infrastructure issues rather than doing your job, which sounds like product engineering?
Segway owners are not rich. It's wannabe territory at this point in time. The rich purchased their Segway years ago now and have already sold it.
Whoah. Will a Segway even hold a charge long enough to go such a distance?
Oh right. These guys probably all have an SUV with the optional Segway transport fitting on it.
And the main reason he is angry is that an A.C. wasted those precious vital points that could have gone to an honest troll.