It reminds me of how 3Dfx went down... They wanted faster cards, but rather than make something innovative, they just made the cards bigger so they could fit more stuff on them. The things were huge, it cracked me up when I saw them on ZDTV (before it was called TechTV). This seems like what IBM is trying to do here.
Peaking at 40 TFlops, the beast consists of 2,282 IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers.
Our society says it's wrong. Our ideas of right and wrong have been formed through thousands of years of western civilization. If you don't like it, move to Europe. They don't care as much about morals or right vs wrong over there.
I can already feel the chilling effects from here.
What chilling effects? That kids won't be able to buy video games that have too much violence in them? I don't see any issue with this. We should be heralding this as good. The worst thing that will happen is that a kid who wants a game is going to have to run it past mom and dad first. If they don't think he should have it, then so be it. That's what parenting is all about. This is a GOOD thing.
Which, also is why there are age limits on other things, for the most part. Parents are supposed to decide what is ok for their kids. If they don't want you to have alcohol, you can't get around them and go get it yourself. I think this is good.
Sex, a pleasant thing, yes. But porn cheapens what sex is, and degrades women and men alike. Another measure of a sick society. I'd see it banned, rather than lowering the age to buy it.
Users were not universally pleased with the new mouse. It was now totally symmetrical, preventing many users from easily telling which way is up.
Uh, maybe the top could be the part with the cable coming out of it? The one with the button on it? I for one thought that the iMac mouse wasn't that bad.
True. I'm sure whoever the guy was checking hte logs knew what Lynx was, unless he was Indian or something, then I could understand. Anyway, I doubt anyone would get nailed for as simple a transaction as clicking a donate button. I'm sure hte logs would show that, and it wouldn't stand out. This guy was probably up to something...maybe trying to reroute donations or something.
that won't stop ridiculous hippie and religious activists from breaking out the torches and pitchforks
I don't know what you're talking about. In reality, most Christians like myself will simply shrug at this...maybe ponder what it's all about for a minute or two...then go on their merry way. Any Christian worth his salt (Biblical pun if anyone gets it) has better things to do than protest the growing of human parts inside animals. The only people who ever freak out are people who never got any attention as kids, and now need to make a big fuss to get some.
I happen to think this could have great implications. Like, you could grow yourself a new spleen inside a cow or something...for all the times that you happen to need a new spleen...and then have burgers afterwards.
Obviously, the P2P community has been most generous. Who can even count the amount of free software, music, and movies that have been made available for FREE over the internet! It's simply remarkable! Hail the KaZaAs and the Gnutellas!
If I had mod privs I'd mod you up +6 informative, heh. I really had no idea how it all worked, I'm no CIS person. I just figured that it was easiest to work with one OS. However, after reading that, I suppose if the bastards would release their source it wouldn't be such a big deal with multiple OS's. Well stated my technically and C++ enlighted friend.
I'm not going to disagree that Microsoft crushed, unfairly might I add, their competition. But I would say one reason so many security flaws are found in Windows is because most people use it and that's where the cash for hackers is. There isn't much point trying to hack Linux...the creators have learned a lot about how to secure an OS by looking at where MS goofed up. Plus, the lack of users doesn't make hacking Linux very lucrative. There's not much info to be harvested/people to be scammed.
Also, I don't know if the free market would produce choices of OS's...it seems liek you'd have to have one be the standard..or else you get every company wanting you to run their OS in order to use their other sofware. Unless there was some sort of standard across the board so you'd have universal application support.
But then there really wouldn't be much difference in products that average joe user would care about. Why get OS A if OS B does the same thing? Well, B might be more secure than A, but average joe doesn't even know what secure means. Besides, all it takes is good marketing on A's part to sell to average joe.
Anyway, I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything...just some thoughts.
Rival search engine Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) also has been tinkering with a product that finds video available for Webcasts. Hoping to counter Google's entrance into the space, Yahoo planned to step up the promotion of its video search tools Tuesday by linking to the service from the home page of its heavily trafficked Web site.
Yahoo counter Google....damn that's funny.
I'm not saying it's not good, my point was that free Linux is not comparable or even something to seen as competing with Gate's donation. There's no reason to compare the two. It's apples and oranges. (Two different fruits, but both are tasty.)
You know, a lot of people think it's so terrible that MS crushed it's competition, but I don't think it's so bad. Especially for the consumer. It's nice to have most of the computer software written for one OS. If I want to go buy a piece of software, I can be pretty much sure that if I'm running Windows that I will be able to run that software. Compare this to the videogame industry. If I wanted to play any video game I wanted, I would have to buy a PSX, PSX2, GameCube, XBox, Gameboy, SNES, Sega, etc etc etc. I'm not say that that should change, but I'm just pointing out that having an OS that an overwhelming majority of people use can be good.
The parent was talking about how the pro-commies in the US are also pro-tax...taking money from the rich and redistributing it to the poor. He wasn't talking about straight communism.
I mean, please people....it's not flamebait to point out that Linux isn't the answer to help starving and sick kids in the 3rd world. You can't compare a free OS to food/medical care.
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It reminds me of how 3Dfx went down... They wanted faster cards, but rather than make something innovative, they just made the cards bigger so they could fit more stuff on them. The things were huge, it cracked me up when I saw them on ZDTV (before it was called TechTV). This seems like what IBM is trying to do here.
Peaking at 40 TFlops, the beast consists of 2,282 IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers.
Sounds like the specs of Microsoft's Xbox 3...
What's this Usenet thing again?
Why are they refusing to disclose vital information?
Maybe they don't know?
What is a level 10 mental handicap?
Sure it predicts future events. I can just see a group of scientists around this thing when it starts churning out a bunch of ones...
"Oh no!! Something big and terrible is going to happen somewhere in the world to someone sometime soon!"
I would imagine that the problem would be trying to figure out an event before it acutally happens, instead of matching up an event after the fact.
Whether it works as well as they want it not the discussion. Whether it's good or not should be the point. And I think this is a good thing.
Our society says it's wrong. Our ideas of right and wrong have been formed through thousands of years of western civilization. If you don't like it, move to Europe. They don't care as much about morals or right vs wrong over there.
Thanks!
I can already feel the chilling effects from here.
What chilling effects? That kids won't be able to buy video games that have too much violence in them? I don't see any issue with this. We should be heralding this as good. The worst thing that will happen is that a kid who wants a game is going to have to run it past mom and dad first. If they don't think he should have it, then so be it. That's what parenting is all about. This is a GOOD thing.
Which, also is why there are age limits on other things, for the most part. Parents are supposed to decide what is ok for their kids. If they don't want you to have alcohol, you can't get around them and go get it yourself. I think this is good.
Sex, a pleasant thing, yes. But porn cheapens what sex is, and degrades women and men alike. Another measure of a sick society. I'd see it banned, rather than lowering the age to buy it.
if Microsoft had produced a mouse that required you to look at it whenever you wanted to move it, people would be (quite rightly) bitching like hell.
Well microsoft didn't, so i'm not bitchin'!
Users were not universally pleased with the new mouse. It was now totally symmetrical, preventing many users from easily telling which way is up. Uh, maybe the top could be the part with the cable coming out of it? The one with the button on it? I for one thought that the iMac mouse wasn't that bad.
True. I'm sure whoever the guy was checking hte logs knew what Lynx was, unless he was Indian or something, then I could understand. Anyway, I doubt anyone would get nailed for as simple a transaction as clicking a donate button. I'm sure hte logs would show that, and it wouldn't stand out. This guy was probably up to something...maybe trying to reroute donations or something.
Maybe CowboyNeal is just making sure we all stay sharp with this post. Or maybe its because it's frackin' 4 AM.
that won't stop ridiculous hippie and religious activists from breaking out the torches and pitchforks I don't know what you're talking about. In reality, most Christians like myself will simply shrug at this...maybe ponder what it's all about for a minute or two...then go on their merry way. Any Christian worth his salt (Biblical pun if anyone gets it) has better things to do than protest the growing of human parts inside animals. The only people who ever freak out are people who never got any attention as kids, and now need to make a big fuss to get some. I happen to think this could have great implications. Like, you could grow yourself a new spleen inside a cow or something...for all the times that you happen to need a new spleen...and then have burgers afterwards.
Obviously, the P2P community has been most generous. Who can even count the amount of free software, music, and movies that have been made available for FREE over the internet! It's simply remarkable! Hail the KaZaAs and the Gnutellas!
The amount of Insightful mod is directly proportional to the length of the post...despite content.
I don't know why you got trolled...I have no clue what Usenet is...I don't mind being the resident Nub in this case.
If I had mod privs I'd mod you up +6 informative, heh. I really had no idea how it all worked, I'm no CIS person. I just figured that it was easiest to work with one OS. However, after reading that, I suppose if the bastards would release their source it wouldn't be such a big deal with multiple OS's. Well stated my technically and C++ enlighted friend.
I'm not going to disagree that Microsoft crushed, unfairly might I add, their competition. But I would say one reason so many security flaws are found in Windows is because most people use it and that's where the cash for hackers is. There isn't much point trying to hack Linux...the creators have learned a lot about how to secure an OS by looking at where MS goofed up. Plus, the lack of users doesn't make hacking Linux very lucrative. There's not much info to be harvested/people to be scammed. Also, I don't know if the free market would produce choices of OS's...it seems liek you'd have to have one be the standard..or else you get every company wanting you to run their OS in order to use their other sofware. Unless there was some sort of standard across the board so you'd have universal application support. But then there really wouldn't be much difference in products that average joe user would care about. Why get OS A if OS B does the same thing? Well, B might be more secure than A, but average joe doesn't even know what secure means. Besides, all it takes is good marketing on A's part to sell to average joe. Anyway, I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything...just some thoughts.
Rival search engine Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) also has been tinkering with a product that finds video available for Webcasts. Hoping to counter Google's entrance into the space, Yahoo planned to step up the promotion of its video search tools Tuesday by linking to the service from the home page of its heavily trafficked Web site. Yahoo counter Google....damn that's funny.
I'm not saying it's not good, my point was that free Linux is not comparable or even something to seen as competing with Gate's donation. There's no reason to compare the two. It's apples and oranges. (Two different fruits, but both are tasty.)
You know, a lot of people think it's so terrible that MS crushed it's competition, but I don't think it's so bad. Especially for the consumer. It's nice to have most of the computer software written for one OS. If I want to go buy a piece of software, I can be pretty much sure that if I'm running Windows that I will be able to run that software. Compare this to the videogame industry. If I wanted to play any video game I wanted, I would have to buy a PSX, PSX2, GameCube, XBox, Gameboy, SNES, Sega, etc etc etc. I'm not say that that should change, but I'm just pointing out that having an OS that an overwhelming majority of people use can be good.
The parent was talking about how the pro-commies in the US are also pro-tax...taking money from the rich and redistributing it to the poor. He wasn't talking about straight communism.
I mean, please people....it's not flamebait to point out that Linux isn't the answer to help starving and sick kids in the 3rd world. You can't compare a free OS to food/medical care.