When the hell did the left pick up this crazy interventionism? There are dozens of dictators that murder their own people, sometimes with far more efficiency than Qaddafi. North Korea does mass public executions in statiums. Russia deliberately targets hospitals. Dictators exist, and trying to overthrow all of them is both impossible and idiotic.
Of course. So we should now topple the governments of Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Bahrain, Qatar, Iran, Syria, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mainland China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Algeria, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Transnistria, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
It does not. Fucking. Work like that. The fact that Europeans and/or the UN is involved doesn't change that.
Read your sibling posters before you go on a rant. Xbox 360 is normally programmed in C/C++, except XBLA, and PS2 and PS3 use a proprietary Sony-specific API.
How? They've demonstrated many times that they're willing to use military force against the population. Or have you forgotten that whole Tienanmen Square thing?
MrEricSir said "doesn't mean they have (or ever had) anything to do with the day to day operations." Ford did indeed have things to do with the day-to-day operations of Ford Motor at one point.
Oh, shut up. The US was perfectly willing to remove Qaddafi in the 80's, and made a credible attempt to kill him. It's been held back by the Europeans, the UN, and the Arab League until it was politically chic to oppose Qaddafi, and only now are they okay with such things.
These guys aren't like HBGary - RSA basically invented huge portions of modern cryptography. I'm interested in seeing the specifics on how this happened.
This kind of arrangement gets brought up over and over - one of the more recent examples is SiCortex, and it sucked. Having a Single System Image is always preferable to a "cluster in a box."
The will be a need for infrastructure to rebuilt, and some percentage of IT/CS job seekers will presumably be killed in the conflict. That means demand for skilled computer workers will increase.
More like billions. Back-of-the-envelope math suggests that any conflict between either the US and Russia, the US and Mainland China, or Mainland China and Russia would probably not kill more than a few hundred million from the direct effects of the bomb. There's other problems, namely that Ukraine and the central US provide a large portion of the world's food supply, but there would still be plenty of people and a relatively intact civilization.
Alpha was never made GPL, ever. It was proprietary to DEC, then Compaq, then HP, and then HP sold all Alpha IP to Intel. Bits of it ended up in x86 and Itanium CPU's, but not because it was open-source.
Additionally, it just wasn't that fast. A 750MHz PA-RISC generally outperformed a 1GHz Alpha at everything except float-heavy code with very few branches.
Where are real industry benchmarks? If they're advertising it for technical computing, where's speccpu2006? If they're pushing it for commercial workloads, why haven't we seen a TPC-C?
Modern commercial MIPS chips have relatively little in common with SGIMIPS. Apart from the totally dissimilar chipset, firmware, and peripherals, SGI used big endian chips (mipseb) whereas most current commercial implementations are little-endian (mipsel.) I doubt anyone will ever get IRIX running on non-SGI hardware unless SGI releases a massive amount of source code and documentation that they have so far shown no inclination to release.
Cavium will sell you a 32-core in-order R4K derivative with hardware-accelerated network and cryptography in the 50W range, with clock speeds around 1.5GHz iirc. NetLogic will sell you an 8-core 4-way multithreaded out-of-order R4K derivative at 2GHz, also with hardware-accelerated network and crypto, in a similar power footprint. Both support the requisite buzzwords, including DDR3, 10gbe, and others.
I like Visual Studio, even though I'm still not 100% sold on.NET (Java and Android developer by trade.) I'd say it's probably the best IDE out there. I've had nothing but bad luck with Eclipse, including a persistent issue where the menu bars disappear after an exit on Linux, and the only way to get them back is to clear out.workspace.
UNIX derivatives (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris), which hopefully won't be affected by this, have a huge customer base on larger servers. SCO UNIX used to have quite a bit of marketshare in small business servers, but I think that has largely faded away since the craziness began.
I didn't say it was originally developed by SCO, but they have been the ones developing that particular codebase since the early 90's. System V Revision 5 was solely an SCO release.
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When the hell did the left pick up this crazy interventionism? There are dozens of dictators that murder their own people, sometimes with far more efficiency than Qaddafi. North Korea does mass public executions in statiums. Russia deliberately targets hospitals. Dictators exist, and trying to overthrow all of them is both impossible and idiotic.
Of course. So we should now topple the governments of Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Bahrain, Qatar, Iran, Syria, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mainland China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Algeria, DR Congo, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Transnistria, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.
It does not. Fucking. Work like that. The fact that Europeans and/or the UN is involved doesn't change that.
Read your sibling posters before you go on a rant. Xbox 360 is normally programmed in C/C++, except XBLA, and PS2 and PS3 use a proprietary Sony-specific API.
Me, personally? I murdered them all? Funny, given that I'm a white-card holder (Registered Indian.)
How? They've demonstrated many times that they're willing to use military force against the population. Or have you forgotten that whole Tienanmen Square thing?
MrEricSir said "doesn't mean they have (or ever had) anything to do with the day to day operations." Ford did indeed have things to do with the day-to-day operations of Ford Motor at one point.
The idea of the UN turning against its members with permanent vetoes - in this case, both of who are on the edge of superpower status - is hilarious.
Oh, shut up. The US was perfectly willing to remove Qaddafi in the 80's, and made a credible attempt to kill him. It's been held back by the Europeans, the UN, and the Arab League until it was politically chic to oppose Qaddafi, and only now are they okay with such things.
Internet access in Libya is close to nonexistant. The influence of the Internet on this rebellion was, at best, negligible.
But if any country did it unilaterally, they would be hated for eternity, a la the US in Iraq.
Well, they founded it. That kind of involves involvement with the day-to-day ops.
These guys aren't like HBGary - RSA basically invented huge portions of modern cryptography. I'm interested in seeing the specifics on how this happened.
He apparently has some kind of romanticized view of Japanese businesses, which is hilarious, given the last hundred years.
Wow, you suck at reading comprehension. Where exactly did he say he wanted a world dominated by Microsoft?
This kind of arrangement gets brought up over and over - one of the more recent examples is SiCortex, and it sucked. Having a Single System Image is always preferable to a "cluster in a box."
The will be a need for infrastructure to rebuilt, and some percentage of IT/CS job seekers will presumably be killed in the conflict. That means demand for skilled computer workers will increase.
More like billions. Back-of-the-envelope math suggests that any conflict between either the US and Russia, the US and Mainland China, or Mainland China and Russia would probably not kill more than a few hundred million from the direct effects of the bomb. There's other problems, namely that Ukraine and the central US provide a large portion of the world's food supply, but there would still be plenty of people and a relatively intact civilization.
Let's try to get out of the 1960's FUD.
Alpha was never made GPL, ever. It was proprietary to DEC, then Compaq, then HP, and then HP sold all Alpha IP to Intel. Bits of it ended up in x86 and Itanium CPU's, but not because it was open-source.
Additionally, it just wasn't that fast. A 750MHz PA-RISC generally outperformed a 1GHz Alpha at everything except float-heavy code with very few branches.
Where are real industry benchmarks? If they're advertising it for technical computing, where's speccpu2006? If they're pushing it for commercial workloads, why haven't we seen a TPC-C?
Modern commercial MIPS chips have relatively little in common with SGIMIPS. Apart from the totally dissimilar chipset, firmware, and peripherals, SGI used big endian chips (mipseb) whereas most current commercial implementations are little-endian (mipsel.) I doubt anyone will ever get IRIX running on non-SGI hardware unless SGI releases a massive amount of source code and documentation that they have so far shown no inclination to release.
Cavium will sell you a 32-core in-order R4K derivative with hardware-accelerated network and cryptography in the 50W range, with clock speeds around 1.5GHz iirc. NetLogic will sell you an 8-core 4-way multithreaded out-of-order R4K derivative at 2GHz, also with hardware-accelerated network and crypto, in a similar power footprint. Both support the requisite buzzwords, including DDR3, 10gbe, and others.
I like Visual Studio, even though I'm still not 100% sold on .NET (Java and Android developer by trade.) I'd say it's probably the best IDE out there. I've had nothing but bad luck with Eclipse, including a persistent issue where the menu bars disappear after an exit on Linux, and the only way to get them back is to clear out .workspace.
I found Code::Blocks to be awful when I used it.
UNIX derivatives (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris), which hopefully won't be affected by this, have a huge customer base on larger servers. SCO UNIX used to have quite a bit of marketshare in small business servers, but I think that has largely faded away since the craziness began.
I didn't say it was originally developed by SCO, but they have been the ones developing that particular codebase since the early 90's. System V Revision 5 was solely an SCO release.
It has been since the early 90's, if not earlier...