"Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now
everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5." - AST
... and the one about how Linus wouldn't get a very good grade in Tanenbaum's class.
Don't worry... if you can afford a robot butler, it will have a nice 1.8T 4-cyl and sound like an Audi A4 rather than a two-stroke engine that sounds like your lawnmower.
4. Should robots eat? There are proposals to allow robots to gain energy by combusting biological matter, either food or waste items. If this mode of fuel becomes popular, will we really want to compete for resources against our own technological progeny?
I hate to tell you Mr. University Professor, but any robot that does something uses energy, and that energy comes from somewhere. Whether my tin-man friend eats its energy via food or gets it from a battery, it's still competing for resources with me. This is a dumb question to ask, unless you want to make a point about anthromorphizing robots.
Dammit, I want a professorship... my job is too hard... wait I'm just reading/. all day. Nevermind.
You never send yourself an email to keep as a note? My guess is that's probably what he was doing. Makes sense to me... you're in the desert with no computer or storage of your own, so you write emails to yourself and store them on your webmail account. His intention was to probably get them when he got back (and, yes, while you know you might die, you don't believe it... you wouldn't make a good soldier if you were convinced you were already dead).
Solaris/x86 will not be a joke with Solaris 10. Sun is putting alot of resources into making it work. Linus is also missing the point when he says Solaris/x86 will not work on all sorts of hardware that Linux does. This is, and will remain, true. Sun isn't concerned with running Solaris on any combination of x86 hardware. They are concerned with running it on *their* hardware. That's why they don't talk about Linux in general, but Red Hat Linux specifically when they talk about competitors. The market they are going for is the server market, and they are giving away Solaris so they can sell servers and service contracts.
Disclosures: Yes, I work for Sun. No, I don't work in the Solaris group. I don't actually know how Solaris 10/x86 is doing, but I do know they are putting a lot of time and energy into it.
Everyone is ripping on the buyer for spending that much money on it, but think about it... the buyer may actually be quite smart. If he/she can sell off the individual pieces for 'reasonable' amounts (say $100 for a beachfront property, $200 for mining rights, etc.), he/she could stand to make a significant profit. Is the enjoyment of those pieces of property worth a hundred or so dollars to a gamer?... maybe. It's not that he/she purchased 'fake' property but rather the rights to use the digital manifestation.
I for one would probably have done it, too, if I had $26,500 to invest in what could possibly provide a huge windfall.
I tried this awhile ago with my own iPod (I was trying to hack it to turn WMA support on in the chip). Once I got past the checksum problem, I realized I would need an ARM disassembler to have anyh hope of finding the right register to change to enable that support. Hopefully someone (with access to the chip specs and an ARM disassembler) is working this.
if we do away with patent law, we'll just have a bunch of unemployed lawyers on the streets. I, for one, don't want to see some guy in a grimy, torn Armani suit standing in my way in traffic with a sign that says "Will Sue For Food".
That reminds me of that joke... what's the difference between a dead lawyer and a dead dog in a road...
I would like to see this done for many different apps (browser, email, IM, blah blah), basically anything that requires user preferences... package a small binary and the preferences together such that they can run off the USB drive. With more and more people owning/working with multiple machines, this would be really useful.
of my wishlist for movies based on Nintendo games:
1. Metroid : aimed for late teen/young adults... horror splashed with action and sexual innuendo (no waiting till the end of the game for that helmet to come off).
2. Mega Man : ohmygod this is it. Think of all the characters in this game. The voice actors could have a field day. Make it campy.
3. Legend of Zelda : unfortunately Xandir has ruined any chance at me being able to take this seriously. I'll just be yelling at the screen "admit you're gay already!!! you can just go home!!!"
Solaris in it's current and past incarnations on x86 hardware is slow and stupid. The Solaris x86 project at Sun never had any backing before Solaris 10. Now, Sun plans on selling Solaris (support licences) on their hardware which, guess what, isn't going to be just SPARCs, but also x86 servers. So, the Solaris engineers (who are still some of the brightest people left at Sun), have done a lot with a lot of support to make Solaris for x86 a viable platform.
Yes, I do work for Sun. No I don't work in the Solaris group. No, I don't particularly like Sun, especially the upper management. But Solaris is a top notch OS, and if Solaris 10 works as well as I've heard it does (from engineers at Sun... not marketing), then I for one am happy that they are going to release it under some sort of "open" license. I don't expect it to beat Linux, but I think if it's done properly, the curiousity of all those geeks out there will get the better of them, and they'll be pouring over the source as soon as possible.
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... and thank god for the.com bust so that the space and power to operate that extra iron is cheap and available.
They're a server company. They don't give a damn about those markets for Solaris. They want Solaris on their hardware in the Enterprise. Solaris being open sourced is a part of that strategy.
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Because they are going to sell cheaper x86 hardware that run Solaris. They're going after the whole solution I think... sell the hardware, give away the OS, sell the support and integration characteristics. It also gives them a way to support their existing Solaris customer base (whcih is still their cash cow, but I'm sure they realize that it's dwindling).
I think that with the acceptance of Linux in the marketplace, the OS for server systems became commodity. The dollars had to be made from service. Sun still wants to be a server hardware company (high and low end), but realizes that x86 has beaten the pants off of SPARC (and the chips have become commodity as well). If they can migrate their existing customer base to x86 running Solaris at a low cost, they will get a boost in the service market. They'll try and move in on existing Linux/x86 systems (offering Linux on their x86 hardware), but will push Solaris so they can get the support contract.
I'm not sure if it will save them, but I understand what lucrative markets they could be targeting.
what company hasn't? that's called competition. Show me a CEO or other frontperson of any company that doesn't attack their competition (sometimes well and sometimes not).
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what the hell is the mod down for redundant???
did you read the whole thread?
Only if you pass the proper message to the correct mailbox.
And even then only if you have permissions.
That was awesome... I like this quote:
... and the one about how Linus wouldn't get a very good grade in Tanenbaum's class.
"Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5." - AST
libel with a heaping side of slander anyone?
Don't worry... if you can afford a robot butler, it will have a nice 1.8T 4-cyl and sound like an Audi A4 rather than a two-stroke engine that sounds like your lawnmower.
refer to teh sexy replicant post above...
hrmmm... one could consider a vibrating device of satisfaction a robot...
4. Should robots eat? There are proposals to allow robots to gain energy by combusting biological matter, either food or waste items. If this mode of fuel becomes popular, will we really want to compete for resources against our own technological progeny?
/. all day. Nevermind.
I hate to tell you Mr. University Professor, but any robot that does something uses energy, and that energy comes from somewhere. Whether my tin-man friend eats its energy via food or gets it from a battery, it's still competing for resources with me. This is a dumb question to ask, unless you want to make a point about anthromorphizing robots.
Dammit, I want a professorship... my job is too hard... wait I'm just reading
You never send yourself an email to keep as a note? My guess is that's probably what he was doing. Makes sense to me... you're in the desert with no computer or storage of your own, so you write emails to yourself and store them on your webmail account. His intention was to probably get them when he got back (and, yes, while you know you might die, you don't believe it... you wouldn't make a good soldier if you were convinced you were already dead).
How the hell does he do this? Does he talk like the micro machines man (ok, now I'm showing my age).
Lawyer-seeking containers. Problem solved.
Solaris/x86 will not be a joke with Solaris 10. Sun is putting alot of resources into making it work. Linus is also missing the point when he says Solaris/x86 will not work on all sorts of hardware that Linux does. This is, and will remain, true. Sun isn't concerned with running Solaris on any combination of x86 hardware. They are concerned with running it on *their* hardware. That's why they don't talk about Linux in general, but Red Hat Linux specifically when they talk about competitors. The market they are going for is the server market, and they are giving away Solaris so they can sell servers and service contracts.
Disclosures: Yes, I work for Sun. No, I don't work in the Solaris group. I don't actually know how Solaris 10/x86 is doing, but I do know they are putting a lot of time and energy into it.
Everyone is ripping on the buyer for spending that much money on it, but think about it... the buyer may actually be quite smart. If he/she can sell off the individual pieces for 'reasonable' amounts (say $100 for a beachfront property, $200 for mining rights, etc.), he/she could stand to make a significant profit. Is the enjoyment of those pieces of property worth a hundred or so dollars to a gamer?... maybe. It's not that he/she purchased 'fake' property but rather the rights to use the digital manifestation.
I for one would probably have done it, too, if I had $26,500 to invest in what could possibly provide a huge windfall.
I tried this awhile ago with my own iPod (I was trying to hack it to turn WMA support on in the chip). Once I got past the checksum problem, I realized I would need an ARM disassembler to have anyh hope of finding the right register to change to enable that support. Hopefully someone (with access to the chip specs and an ARM disassembler) is working this.
if we do away with patent law, we'll just have a bunch of unemployed lawyers on the streets. I, for one, don't want to see some guy in a grimy, torn Armani suit standing in my way in traffic with a sign that says "Will Sue For Food".
That reminds me of that joke... what's the difference between a dead lawyer and a dead dog in a road...
I'm trying to come up with a clever joke to poke fun at your wanton cruelty but I think I'll let your post speak for itself.
I would like to see this done for many different apps (browser, email, IM, blah blah), basically anything that requires user preferences... package a small binary and the preferences together such that they can run off the USB drive. With more and more people owning/working with multiple machines, this would be really useful.
well, it was only the dumbest thing he's heard *this* week.... can't be that bad, then, can it?
of my wishlist for movies based on Nintendo games: 1. Metroid : aimed for late teen/young adults... horror splashed with action and sexual innuendo (no waiting till the end of the game for that helmet to come off). 2. Mega Man : ohmygod this is it. Think of all the characters in this game. The voice actors could have a field day. Make it campy. 3. Legend of Zelda : unfortunately Xandir has ruined any chance at me being able to take this seriously. I'll just be yelling at the screen "admit you're gay already!!! you can just go home!!!"
Solaris in it's current and past incarnations on x86 hardware is slow and stupid. The Solaris x86 project at Sun never had any backing before Solaris 10. Now, Sun plans on selling Solaris (support licences) on their hardware which, guess what, isn't going to be just SPARCs, but also x86 servers. So, the Solaris engineers (who are still some of the brightest people left at Sun), have done a lot with a lot of support to make Solaris for x86 a viable platform.
Yes, I do work for Sun. No I don't work in the Solaris group. No, I don't particularly like Sun, especially the upper management. But Solaris is a top notch OS, and if Solaris 10 works as well as I've heard it does (from engineers at Sun... not marketing), then I for one am happy that they are going to release it under some sort of "open" license. I don't expect it to beat Linux, but I think if it's done properly, the curiousity of all those geeks out there will get the better of them, and they'll be pouring over the source as soon as possible.
... and thank god for the .com bust so that the space and power to operate that extra iron is cheap and available.
you moded that as Funny? I don't think he was joking :).
what positive reviews?
They're a server company. They don't give a damn about those markets for Solaris. They want Solaris on their hardware in the Enterprise. Solaris being open sourced is a part of that strategy.
Because they are going to sell cheaper x86 hardware that run Solaris. They're going after the whole solution I think... sell the hardware, give away the OS, sell the support and integration characteristics. It also gives them a way to support their existing Solaris customer base (whcih is still their cash cow, but I'm sure they realize that it's dwindling). I think that with the acceptance of Linux in the marketplace, the OS for server systems became commodity. The dollars had to be made from service. Sun still wants to be a server hardware company (high and low end), but realizes that x86 has beaten the pants off of SPARC (and the chips have become commodity as well). If they can migrate their existing customer base to x86 running Solaris at a low cost, they will get a boost in the service market. They'll try and move in on existing Linux/x86 systems (offering Linux on their x86 hardware), but will push Solaris so they can get the support contract. I'm not sure if it will save them, but I understand what lucrative markets they could be targeting.
what company hasn't? that's called competition. Show me a CEO or other frontperson of any company that doesn't attack their competition (sometimes well and sometimes not).