And it's hard to keep 30 tons of body fed when all you have to graze on is grass (at best) fungus (at second best) mushrooms and the occasional mouse or other critter.
Getting a new Windows 2000 server online with all security patches required no less than 6, count 'em 6 reboots.
And I did this only two weeks ago. +1 for the video card (which is not counted in the above). For a desktop, it's even more (I didn't patch or upgrade media player).
My linux machine (SuSE 8.2) required *one* for a kernel patch.
Now I'm a die-hard office guy. Die-hard. I like it. I'm a genuine Micro-shill. Love 'em.
But on my 2.4Ghz laptop Dell Latitude 640, it can't even keep up with my typing. It manages to transpose or drop the letters in at least 3 out of 5 words, so I spend most of my time correcting my typing. This *IS* with auto-correct off. No other app on an idle machine in 10 years has been able to under-type me.
OfficeXP is a fucking joke. I'd love to downgrade, but that's the corporate standard. So OO.org it was for me. Problem solved.
Don't even get me started on that bastard Outlook 2003... I'll be so happy when they finish the linux desktop beta project here. Evolution, here I come.
But if you have enough in cash, sometimes it just makes sense to buy the car outright.
On the flipside, if you take out a loan at 6-8% on that car, and you can make 8-10% on the money you saved by taking out the loan, you end up ahead 3% +/- because your interest payment on the car dwindles over time as you eat up the principal. Of course, this depends on market fluctuations, interest rates, and your ability to keep investments in the high percentage rates.
Like I said, sometimes it just makes sense to pay cash.
Sure it is. If you're comparing.Net applications to CGI-bins... it could easily outperform Apache on RHEL. Then again, Apache+PHP would crush IIS w/ CGI-bin or ASP for that matter...
Now, Apache+PHP vs. IIS+PHP... that's a contest I haven't rigged up yet.
I'm sorry? Two years ago the effort to get ANY server from Dell or HP with Linux preinstalled wasn't worth it. Now they're shipping in volume, and you're asking if it's increasing enough to be a true competitor...
Smith with an apostrophe s is possessive, just like any other noun. We could say I am Mr. Smith's neighbor. That is the normal rule for making possessives. There is nothing different about it because it is a name. If Smith is plural and possessive, we would follow the same pattern that we use for any other nouns: I am the Smiths' neighbor.
If the name ends with an s, the same possessive and plural rules apply to the name as to any other noun. So we say Mr. Smith is Mr. Jones' neighbor, or Mr. Smith is Mr. Jones's neighbor, depending on how we pronounce it. Be consistent, whichever way you choose. If Jones is plural, add an apostrophe after the plural form, since we never pronounce a word "Joneseses." We would write Mr. Smith is the Joneses' neighbor. </linkquote>
I think that's sort of what he said. Your own link, <are>, proves him right, except for that "proper noun" bit.
Nothing compared to sneaking up on a squad of angel weilding pip-squeaks who's mommy and daddy hooked 'em up with $1200 paintball outfits complete with 8 100 round quick loaders strapped to their backs dragging along the ground behind em as they sit in a bunker talking about killing that guy behind the barrel, and you scare the shit out of them yelling surrender.
Then they slowly look at you, knowing their angels can get off 20 some odd rounds, and for some reason, the word surrender and honor just don't seem to mean anything to these kids, and so you notice the barrel moving ever so slightly in your direction...
So you shoot a few of them. With your VM68 that goes BANG BANG BANG from the 5 pound blowback hammer slamming back and forth. And you yell surrender again. And they do. Then some twerp from your own team comes over the top of the bunker and splats you dead square between the eyes.
Actually, it didn't. It started in 1988 when Microsoft wooed Dave Cutler from DEC. You might be confusing it with OS/2 v1, which indeed was started in 1985.
And IIRC, NT didn't support DHCP until 3.5 (nov 1994?), but I could be very wrong about that. My memories of NT's early days are getting hazier and hazier.
I'm sorry, but TCP/IP predates Berners-Lee by a significant period of time, and had the hand of one J. Postel (may the Gods of the Internet smile upon him!) all over it.
No, the WAFERS are 300mm. It's the new semiconductor standard. The actual lithograph (9nm, 130micron) machines are easier to replace than an entire production line. 200mm -> 300mm.;-)
HP and Dell aren't services companies. They're VARs. They take software solutions someone else wrote, and install them (sometimes) for a fee, and support them (sometimes, but usually not). Good luck getting a top-down eCommerce solution from Dell with soup-to-nuts support.
IBM can do that, because they own the platform or Open Source it. And they've decided they've been screwed by Microsoft enough in the past that they do not want to be dependant on them like Dell and HP are.
They are completely different classes of companies. Of course they toe the Microsoft Line. They don't have a choice. If Microsoft decided today to kill IBM's license to ship Windows, IBM would continue to make money (although less of it, I'm sure). Dell and HP (to a lesser extent) cannot say the same.
Microsoft won the low-end server space because IBM took it's sweet ass time integrating Lan Manager into OS/2. Had Warp 3.0 come out in late 1993, early 1994 with a decently compatible BSD sockets TCP/IP stack, the landscape would look mighty different. As it was I had a 2.1 server on the internet with Lan Manager in mid 1994. Warp 3 was their pinnacle release. Had it been a year earlier to steal the Chicago thunder, who knows. Win-OS2 could have been enough to sway the saavy.
That single little thing, that integrated TCP/IP stack in WindowsNT, is what turned Windows from a toy into a productive system capable of playing with the big boys.
I'm not sure the difference between "hitting london" and "not hitting london" is quite the same as hitting the "hospital" or the "chemical weapons depo" at the end of the block.
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And it's hard to keep 30 tons of body fed when all you have to graze on is grass (at best) fungus (at second best) mushrooms and the occasional mouse or other critter.
Which is why mammals dominate the earth today.
Getting a new Windows 2000 server online with all security patches required no less than 6, count 'em 6 reboots.
And I did this only two weeks ago. +1 for the video card (which is not counted in the above). For a desktop, it's even more (I didn't patch or upgrade media player).
My linux machine (SuSE 8.2) required *one* for a kernel patch.
Now I'm a die-hard office guy. Die-hard. I like it. I'm a genuine Micro-shill. Love 'em.
But on my 2.4Ghz laptop Dell Latitude 640, it can't even keep up with my typing. It manages to transpose or drop the letters in at least 3 out of 5 words, so I spend most of my time correcting my typing. This *IS* with auto-correct off. No other app on an idle machine in 10 years has been able to under-type me.
OfficeXP is a fucking joke. I'd love to downgrade, but that's the corporate standard. So OO.org it was for me. Problem solved.
Don't even get me started on that bastard Outlook 2003... I'll be so happy when they finish the linux desktop beta project here. Evolution, here I come.
But if you have enough in cash, sometimes it just makes sense to buy the car outright.
On the flipside, if you take out a loan at 6-8% on that car, and you can make 8-10% on the money you saved by taking out the loan, you end up ahead 3% +/- because your interest payment on the car dwindles over time as you eat up the principal. Of course, this depends on market fluctuations, interest rates, and your ability to keep investments in the high percentage rates.
Like I said, sometimes it just makes sense to pay cash.
Killed by broadband. Please don't tell me you couldn't see that coming a mile away?
except when your entire town loses power.
Sure it is. If you're comparing .Net applications to CGI-bins... it could easily outperform Apache on RHEL. Then again, Apache+PHP would crush IIS w/ CGI-bin or ASP for that matter...
Now, Apache+PHP vs. IIS+PHP... that's a contest I haven't rigged up yet.
I'm sorry? Two years ago the effort to get ANY server from Dell or HP with Linux preinstalled wasn't worth it. Now they're shipping in volume, and you're asking if it's increasing enough to be a true competitor...
;-)
Doh... have I just fed a troll?
Smith with an apostrophe s is possessive, just like any other noun. We could say I am Mr. Smith's neighbor. That is the normal rule for making possessives. There is nothing different about it because it is a name. If Smith is plural and possessive, we would follow the same pattern that we use for any other nouns: I am the Smiths' neighbor.
If the name ends with an s, the same possessive and plural rules apply to the name as to any other noun. So we say Mr. Smith is Mr. Jones' neighbor, or Mr. Smith is Mr. Jones's neighbor, depending on how we pronounce it. Be consistent, whichever way you choose. If Jones is plural, add an apostrophe after the plural form, since we never pronounce a word "Joneseses." We would write Mr. Smith is the Joneses' neighbor.
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I think that's sort of what he said. Your own link, <are>, proves him right, except for that "proper noun" bit.
Nothing compared to sneaking up on a squad of angel weilding pip-squeaks who's mommy and daddy hooked 'em up with $1200 paintball outfits complete with 8 100 round quick loaders strapped to their backs dragging along the ground behind em as they sit in a bunker talking about killing that guy behind the barrel, and you scare the shit out of them yelling surrender.
Then they slowly look at you, knowing their angels can get off 20 some odd rounds, and for some reason, the word surrender and honor just don't seem to mean anything to these kids, and so you notice the barrel moving ever so slightly in your direction...
So you shoot a few of them. With your VM68 that goes BANG BANG BANG from the 5 pound blowback hammer slamming back and forth. And you yell surrender again. And they do. Then some twerp from your own team comes over the top of the bunker and splats you dead square between the eyes.
Ah, the joys of painball.
Actually, it didn't. It started in 1988 when Microsoft wooed Dave Cutler from DEC. You might be confusing it with OS/2 v1, which indeed was started in 1985.
And IIRC, NT didn't support DHCP until 3.5 (nov 1994?), but I could be very wrong about that. My memories of NT's early days are getting hazier and hazier.
Apologies to Kubrik:
What is the purpose of a DOOMSDAY device, if you don't TELL ANYONE ABOUT IT, nyeh?
I'm sorry, but TCP/IP predates Berners-Lee by a significant period of time, and had the hand of one J. Postel (may the Gods of the Internet smile upon him!) all over it.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc793.html
Sure you didn't forget a zero there?
$500 billion is nearly as much money as NASA has received in it's ENTIRE history.
No, the WAFERS are 300mm. It's the new semiconductor standard. The actual lithograph (9nm, 130micron) machines are easier to replace than an entire production line. 200mm -> 300mm. ;-)
Actually, since the Lindows trademark is already taken (whether rightfully or not is for the jury to decide), they could be in some serious trouble.
HP and Dell aren't services companies. They're VARs. They take software solutions someone else wrote, and install them (sometimes) for a fee, and support them (sometimes, but usually not). Good luck getting a top-down eCommerce solution from Dell with soup-to-nuts support.
IBM can do that, because they own the platform or Open Source it. And they've decided they've been screwed by Microsoft enough in the past that they do not want to be dependant on them like Dell and HP are.
They are completely different classes of companies. Of course they toe the Microsoft Line. They don't have a choice. If Microsoft decided today to kill IBM's license to ship Windows, IBM would continue to make money (although less of it, I'm sure). Dell and HP (to a lesser extent) cannot say the same.
Microsoft won the low-end server space because IBM took it's sweet ass time integrating Lan Manager into OS/2. Had Warp 3.0 come out in late 1993, early 1994 with a decently compatible BSD sockets TCP/IP stack, the landscape would look mighty different. As it was I had a 2.1 server on the internet with Lan Manager in mid 1994. Warp 3 was their pinnacle release. Had it been a year earlier to steal the Chicago thunder, who knows. Win-OS2 could have been enough to sway the saavy.
That single little thing, that integrated TCP/IP stack in WindowsNT, is what turned Windows from a toy into a productive system capable of playing with the big boys.
I'm not sure the difference between "hitting london" and "not hitting london" is quite the same as hitting the "hospital" or the "chemical weapons depo" at the end of the block.
Except that curious little bit called Jury Nullification...
$12 million dollars sure seems a lot more like hush money than simple "stop annoying me and go away" money.
For $12 million, if Microsoft were in the right, they'd have squashed Opera.
In English, please?
No, but now they'll need help 'mount'ing their MP3 collections.
If my fellow American's can torture me with the likes of Survivor, and Joe Bachelor, then GI's torturing POW's isn't a far step away...
so sad, really...
It's sad when your brand new printer costs $10 less than your printer cartidges, before printer mail-in rebate. Real sad.