I roomed with a guy in college who would calculate a 10 digit by 10 digit multiplication in his head throughout the day on weekends. He would be grilling or watching TV and you would see him get him and write down 1 digit of his answer.
In grade school he had memorized 52 decks of shuffled cards in some insane short period of time. The teacher would ask him what the 12th card of the 17 deck was... and he would start listing them forward and backward from there.
We often went to the casinos with him. He would card count and we just would bet whatever he would bet. We would all make a $100 or so and leave. He was always afraid of getting caught.
Some government agency approached him for running sets of numbers from point a to point b. They liked the fact that he could just put all those digits in his head without a papertrail.
Last I heard of him, he was avoiding math as much as possible... he enrolled in some DO program in a medical school somewhere. Numbers came too easy for this guy... and he knew he would go crazy if he went into a math field.
So now he's a doc somewhere. Probably calculating 10 by 10 digit numbers in his head as he examines you...
For one brief instant we all figured winamp was dead. The internet news sites picked it up, people were downloading every version known to man for archive, and we were all focused on winamp once again.
Welcome to the world of the rumor-feeding news cycle.
Anyone who lists an @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com email address anywhere even remotely business-related is showing that they are 'part of the consumer herd' - an @gmail.com address, on the other hand, suggests an air of elitism.
I may be a gmail fanboy, but give me a break. If you list your email address domain as any webmail provider, you are going to lose my business. Sure, you can use gmail for your email address, but buy a domain and forward the email. Crap, it's only a few bucks a year.
Remember also that gmail has not promised anybody that they can keep their email accounts. If I am depending on somebody, I don't want to see some gmail account listed.
That being said, gmail probably has a better chance of being up than most ISPs... but still... having a gmail account for business purposes looks cheap and nonprofessional.
Gmail does not "suggest an air of elitism." It suggests that one is too cheap to have their own email service.
Gmail is much better. I had originally tried to prove this... but my experiment proved difficult.
I had originally created a recipe at tech-recipes detailing my search for the best spam-blocker. However, the hotmail account enhanced filter blocked all good mail as well. I don't see how people ever used hotmail setup this way.
I had started this experiment by filtering all email to one of my domains and echoing it to all the web email accounts. I could compare the numbers to see who was best. The major problem was the all the web mail people started blocking email from my domain because it looked like I was sending in a lot of email. Geesh.
If you are going to run an ad... keep the ad web server up, shmucks.
Quote:
The difference between humans and white mice.
I'm watching with amusement as IBM prepares to stub its toe with their new, curiously named "OpenPower" low-end boxes.
Now, I will freely admit I am entirely confused by what they're doing. Why on earth would you ship a proprietary computer that doesn't run your own operating system (AIX)? If I were trying to freak out my installed base, that's exactly what I'd do.
Surely they should read my earlier entry here, regarding the history of OS blunders, and the difference between humans and white mice. (White mice learn from history, while humans have a harder time in far broader fields of endeavor.) Chips don't matter if they don't have software (see Dec ALPHA for the ideal example), and software doesn't matter if it doesn't run in volume (see HP/UX on Itanium).
Second, saying "it's ok, we run linux" is like saying you "run the internet." Sure feels like IBM is trying to avoid specifying the distro. Why? Because they'd be doing demand creation for Red Hat. And why buy WebSphere when you can just use what comes in Red Hat? - "Jonas (Red Hat's app server) is just a toy, it's just for the low end" said IBM's exec at the Smith Barney Tech Conference I just attended in NYC. Notwithstanding the familiarity of that refrain to how linux itself was mistakenly positioned a few years ago, the irony is that IBM is positioning these new boxes as low end boxes. Presumably ideal for running a low end app server, and just using what's in Red Hat.
Finally, the 'P' in Power5 stands for Proprietary. You can't claim your chip is open if you're the exclusive supplier, guys - at least you can dual source SPARC from Sun or Fujitsu. Perhaps we should rename SPARC OpenSPARC. Nah, I like what AMD is doing with "industry standard" better. And while SPARC is outshipping Power 3:1 (so sayeth IDC), sure sounds like we're the industry standard.
IBM saying they're using this to come after Sun really suggests they've gone a few degrees shy of plumb - the single biggest threat to low-end SPARC isn't a funny low volume Power5 box without an operating system. The big alternative to SPARC arose years ago from volume in the x86 market. That's why we've built out the most complete family of Solaris/Opteron systems the industry has to offer, and we're starting to drive into the $20B+ x86 market. Volume has spoken.
That's also why we changed tack with SPARC, to move away from the single thread approach, to truly parallelized multi-core computing. And not just a tepid two core approach - the internet is one massive, multi-threaded application environment. Every user is, for all intents and purposes, his own thread - whether they're shopping for chandeliers on eBay, or managing wealth at Lehman Brothers. So if you want to see what multi-core computing looks like, allow me to help. It looks like this:
This is the silicon for our Project Niagara chip: 8 cores * 4 threads per core = a 32-way computer. On a chip.
And did I mention we have silicon, and not just a JPEG file?
And I saved the best for last. Are you ready?
It's already running Solaris. A volume OS that eats threads for lunch, on the world's most advanced massively parallelized silicon.
That's not just a box.
That's what we call a system. A system built for internet workloads. Not for the expedience of a press release. And a system that gives customers yet more choice, rather than taking choice away.
(And before you ask, yes, we are planning a nicer box when we ship:)
(2004-09-10 21:59:34.0) Permalink
Sunday September 05, 2004 Volume wins.
As I've said, I'm a big believer in the idea that volume wins. And we invest (much to the occasional befuddlement of our friends on Wall Street) to support that thesis - most notably in the propagation of our programming platform, Java.
It does read like a commerical...... a commerical against IBM.
I'm watching with amusement as IBM prepares to stub its toe with their new, curiously named "OpenPower" low-end boxes.
Now, I will freely admit I am entirely confused by what they're doing. Why on earth would you ship a proprietary computer that doesn't run your own operating system (AIX)? If I were trying to freak out my installed base, that's exactly what I'd do.
These guys are attacking IBM (and linux?) directly. The first part of his blog is a calculated attack against IBM--step by step he breaks down IBM's strategy. Just when you are wondering why you ever thought about using IBM, he introduces his new baby. He must have spent hours crafting this blog post.
Yes, it's a commerical.
I just can't believe that blog posts are this important now. I remember when we would just finger the inside guys we knew to see the plan. Now, it's been turned around into a commerical like everything else.
The one point this guy makes is that piracy does hurt the small niche programmer.
I have always been amazed that the large companies probably get a big benefit from releasing their software into world... people learn to use and depend on it... and eventually as the rep gets better, then sales improved.
However, I have no doubt that piracy has really hurt programmers like this guy. He reports a 30% decrease in sells. I can understand why he is so desperate.
Do two wrongs make a right?
If you know a kid is going to steal a coke, is it okay to put poision in that coke?
I don't know what is morally right or wrong, but I can understand why this guy is so worried.
Of course, it doesn't prevent it from being plugged in...
Super-glue over the USB port would help with that.
In our hospital our computer people actually cut/disconnected the cables from all the usb ports and cd-roms to increase security.
Of course, the shmucks left IE installed... now they spend a zillion more hours removing spyware than they ever would by me booting to a CDR or USB key.
The is the pathway of ANYTHING new being introduced into the world. First, it's sexy and popular, then it's over done, and then it either levels off or dies.
Slashdot Mirror
I am so jaded.
/godaddy believer now
The first thing I thought about when I saw this... what is VeriSign trying to pull now.
Just don't let TiVo change their 30 sec commerical skip code.
I'll miss a few shows as long as I can blast away commericals from my remote control.
I roomed with a guy in college who would calculate a 10 digit by 10 digit multiplication in his head throughout the day on weekends. He would be grilling or watching TV and you would see him get him and write down 1 digit of his answer.
In grade school he had memorized 52 decks of shuffled cards in some insane short period of time. The teacher would ask him what the 12th card of the 17 deck was... and he would start listing them forward and backward from there.
We often went to the casinos with him. He would card count and we just would bet whatever he would bet. We would all make a $100 or so and leave. He was always afraid of getting caught.
Some government agency approached him for running sets of numbers from point a to point b. They liked the fact that he could just put all those digits in his head without a papertrail.
Last I heard of him, he was avoiding math as much as possible... he enrolled in some DO program in a medical school somewhere. Numbers came too easy for this guy... and he knew he would go crazy if he went into a math field.
So now he's a doc somewhere. Probably calculating 10 by 10 digit numbers in his head as he examines you...
What's not a joke is that any news is good news.
For one brief instant we all figured winamp was dead. The internet news sites picked it up, people were downloading every version known to man for archive, and we were all focused on winamp once again.
Welcome to the world of the rumor-feeding news cycle.
We have been played.
In the slashdot tradition, try it out yourself!
You can always uninstall it.
Anyone who lists an @yahoo.com or @hotmail.com email address anywhere even remotely business-related is showing that they are 'part of the consumer herd' - an @gmail.com address, on the other hand, suggests an air of elitism.
I may be a gmail fanboy, but give me a break. If you list your email address domain as any webmail provider, you are going to lose my business. Sure, you can use gmail for your email address, but buy a domain and forward the email. Crap, it's only a few bucks a year.
Remember also that gmail has not promised anybody that they can keep their email accounts. If I am depending on somebody, I don't want to see some gmail account listed.
That being said, gmail probably has a better chance of being up than most ISPs... but still... having a gmail account for business purposes looks cheap and nonprofessional.
Gmail does not "suggest an air of elitism." It suggests that one is too cheap to have their own email service.
As I have previously mentioned on tech-recipes, I honestly don't see how there is a real war between these webmail services.
Gmail kills them all in spam blocking and space...
Plus, now... they have free pop as well.
The privacy issue is the only thing that has been preventing my complete switch over.
Gmail is much better. I had originally tried to prove this... but my experiment proved difficult.
I had originally created a recipe at tech-recipes detailing my search for the best spam-blocker. However, the hotmail account enhanced filter blocked all good mail as well. I don't see how people ever used hotmail setup this way.
I had started this experiment by filtering all email to one of my domains and echoing it to all the web email accounts. I could compare the numbers to see who was best. The major problem was the all the web mail people started blocking email from my domain because it looked like I was sending in a lot of email. Geesh.
Is there any easy way to run this experiment?
If you are going to run an ad... keep the ad web server up, shmucks.
:)
Quote:
The difference between humans and white mice.
I'm watching with amusement as IBM prepares to stub its toe with their new, curiously named "OpenPower" low-end boxes.
Now, I will freely admit I am entirely confused by what they're doing. Why on earth would you ship a proprietary computer that doesn't run your own operating system (AIX)? If I were trying to freak out my installed base, that's exactly what I'd do.
Surely they should read my earlier entry here, regarding the history of OS blunders, and the difference between humans and white mice. (White mice learn from history, while humans have a harder time in far broader fields of endeavor.) Chips don't matter if they don't have software (see Dec ALPHA for the ideal example), and software doesn't matter if it doesn't run in volume (see HP/UX on Itanium).
Second, saying "it's ok, we run linux" is like saying you "run the internet." Sure feels like IBM is trying to avoid specifying the distro. Why? Because they'd be doing demand creation for Red Hat. And why buy WebSphere when you can just use what comes in Red Hat? - "Jonas (Red Hat's app server) is just a toy, it's just for the low end" said IBM's exec at the Smith Barney Tech Conference I just attended in NYC. Notwithstanding the familiarity of that refrain to how linux itself was mistakenly positioned a few years ago, the irony is that IBM is positioning these new boxes as low end boxes. Presumably ideal for running a low end app server, and just using what's in Red Hat.
Finally, the 'P' in Power5 stands for Proprietary. You can't claim your chip is open if you're the exclusive supplier, guys - at least you can dual source SPARC from Sun or Fujitsu. Perhaps we should rename SPARC OpenSPARC. Nah, I like what AMD is doing with "industry standard" better. And while SPARC is outshipping Power 3:1 (so sayeth IDC), sure sounds like we're the industry standard.
IBM saying they're using this to come after Sun really suggests they've gone a few degrees shy of plumb - the single biggest threat to low-end SPARC isn't a funny low volume Power5 box without an operating system. The big alternative to SPARC arose years ago from volume in the x86 market. That's why we've built out the most complete family of Solaris/Opteron systems the industry has to offer, and we're starting to drive into the $20B+ x86 market. Volume has spoken.
That's also why we changed tack with SPARC, to move away from the single thread approach, to truly parallelized multi-core computing. And not just a tepid two core approach - the internet is one massive, multi-threaded application environment. Every user is, for all intents and purposes, his own thread - whether they're shopping for chandeliers on eBay, or managing wealth at Lehman Brothers. So if you want to see what multi-core computing looks like, allow me to help. It looks like this:
This is the silicon for our Project Niagara chip: 8 cores * 4 threads per core = a 32-way computer. On a chip.
And did I mention we have silicon, and not just a JPEG file?
And I saved the best for last. Are you ready?
It's already running Solaris. A volume OS that eats threads for lunch, on the world's most advanced massively parallelized silicon.
That's not just a box.
That's what we call a system. A system built for internet workloads. Not for the expedience of a press release. And a system that gives customers yet more choice, rather than taking choice away.
(And before you ask, yes, we are planning a nicer box when we ship
(2004-09-10 21:59:34.0) Permalink
Sunday September 05, 2004
Volume wins.
As I've said, I'm a big believer in the idea that volume wins. And we invest (much to the occasional befuddlement of our friends on Wall Street) to support that thesis - most notably in the propagation of our programming platform, Java.
And in the J2ME mobile handset
It does read like a commerical... ... a commerical against IBM.
I'm watching with amusement as IBM prepares to stub its toe with their new, curiously named "OpenPower" low-end boxes.
Now, I will freely admit I am entirely confused by what they're doing. Why on earth would you ship a proprietary computer that doesn't run your own operating system (AIX)? If I were trying to freak out my installed base, that's exactly what I'd do.
These guys are attacking IBM (and linux?) directly. The first part of his blog is a calculated attack against IBM--step by step he breaks down IBM's strategy. Just when you are wondering why you ever thought about using IBM, he introduces his new baby. He must have spent hours crafting this blog post.
Yes, it's a commerical.
I just can't believe that blog posts are this important now. I remember when we would just finger the inside guys we knew to see the plan. Now, it's been turned around into a commerical like everything else.
The one point this guy makes is that piracy does hurt the small niche programmer.
I have always been amazed that the large companies probably get a big benefit from releasing their software into world... people learn to use and depend on it... and eventually as the rep gets better, then sales improved.
However, I have no doubt that piracy has really hurt programmers like this guy. He reports a 30% decrease in sells. I can understand why he is so desperate.
Do two wrongs make a right?
If you know a kid is going to steal a coke, is it okay to put poision in that coke?
I don't know what is morally right or wrong, but I can understand why this guy is so worried.
AlexTheBeast
Reading the article?
:) We poe' folk get out of the habit.
Oh, oh... that must be something that you subscribers commonly get to do.
The parent is linking to the registry hack so the post is still informative.
Of course, it doesn't prevent it from being plugged in...
Super-glue over the USB port would help with that.
In our hospital our computer people actually cut/disconnected the cables from all the usb ports and cd-roms to increase security.
Of course, the shmucks left IE installed... now they spend a zillion more hours removing spyware than they ever would by me booting to a CDR or USB key.
The hype cycle isn't just for electronics. Think about IPOs.
m &q=l&c=
Here's the referenced chart...
hype chart
Here's the yahoo 5 year IPO chart...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=YHOO&t=5y&l=on&z=
Same pathway...
The is the pathway of ANYTHING new being introduced into the world. First, it's sexy and popular, then it's over done, and then it either levels off or dies.