That was really it. It was hard to buy a nice decently priced machine from Sun that would just work.
A lot of companies had a budget that would get them a whole x86 server from Dell, or one stick of RAM from Sun. Sun was surviving between that market and the IBM mainframes.
Also important was mindshare. Everybody worth a damn had a Linux box toplay with and learn on, but Sun was not real interested in building mindshare.
This is a huge problem. The quest for PR and public interest has almost eclipsed the quest for knowledge.
NASA's job is not to seek funding, it's to take the funding they are given and do aeronautic and space work with it. This sort of research is draining money away from the actual aerospace mission that NASA has been given.
We have the National Science Foundation to fund this kind of thing. Next thing you will be telling me is that the FDA should be researching deer antlers.
We have gone from big projects and big dreams, to small projects and tiny dreams. Little probes bleeping away are pretty cool, but NASA fucked the goat when they decided to skip the moon and go straight to Mars. The excuses for skipping the moon are as hollow as a ping pong ball (they boil down to "it's boring" when it plainly isn't) and it would be an ideal place to construct other spacecraft. We wouldn't wat to be boring, so let's train ants to sort tiny screws in space.
The fucking Chinese are going to the moon. They will actually do it. We will still be constructing our bus sized orbital telescope by that time.
No, not "exaggerate much" buddy. Look at NASA's last big announcement as well - they announced that they would announce their big announcement about the gamma ray bubble as well.
This is becoming a trend and is not an exaggeration.
NASA has really started to irritate me, with their latest few announcements. Rather than just issuing the data and having a little show about its implications in NASA TV, they first make an announcement that they will make an announcement, then for a few weeks there is rampant speculation (even though it's entirely probable that the data is ready) and finally they make their announcement in a media-circus style event.
NASA should just make the damn announcements on their web site and on their TV channel, and let the science press (read: science tabloids) publish it as they will.
If their current trend continues, pretty soon NASA will be announcing their announcement of their announcement of a press conference to announce their data. It's a waste of time and energy for everybody. I don't know about you, but I simply want my news, I don't want news that there will be news of note in the near future.
I'm 33 and have used Maya and Alias Wavefront and I find Blender to be a baffling experience.
Blender indeed.
Why not get the little tyke the home version of Matlab and get him to work designing custom circuits too? Perhaps he's precocious and could whip up a whole new operating system, if you just give him a shell prompt and access to the Gnu c compiler!
I like Slaris too, and while I never bothered with any certification for it I used to use it all the time. oracle has pretty much killed any desire for me to use it though.
Openindiana looks good too, but they are two months behind their stated schedule and it may be DOA.
Your definition of "touched by" is probably what other people would call "munged" if it won't work on an Apple.
Wy is every major, mid sized, and minor video production house, from people shooting birthday parties to people shooting major motion pictures using Apples and Final Cut Pro if it doesn't work?
I can understand your bitter attitude, though, having no certain future for your Solaris training.
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The interface sucks, and it feels more like something that belongs on a web developer's demo site than anything else.
I sure hope my tax dollars are not paying for this. If they are, I have been suckered.
What's the /etc directory for then?
That was really it. It was hard to buy a nice decently priced machine from Sun that would just work.
A lot of companies had a budget that would get them a whole x86 server from Dell, or one stick of RAM from Sun. Sun was surviving between that market and the IBM mainframes.
Also important was mindshare. Everybody worth a damn had a Linux box toplay with and learn on, but Sun was not real interested in building mindshare.
Kent Thumbson and Denise Richmonds wrote Linux on the PDP 11 while working at Pa Bell, dummy!
StarOffice was open sourced, it IS the source of the free alternative. If Staroffice had not been opened up, what would people be using? KOffice?
Solaris is still better than Linux for a whole bunch of applications.
Open source is great but don't pretend that it is always better than the competition.
This is a huge problem. The quest for PR and public interest has almost eclipsed the quest for knowledge.
NASA's job is not to seek funding, it's to take the funding they are given and do aeronautic and space work with it. This sort of research is draining money away from the actual aerospace mission that NASA has been given.
We have the National Science Foundation to fund this kind of thing. Next thing you will be telling me is that the FDA should be researching deer antlers.
Expanded their mission profile tenfold?
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?
We have gone from big projects and big dreams, to small projects and tiny dreams. Little probes bleeping away are pretty cool, but NASA fucked the goat when they decided to skip the moon and go straight to Mars. The excuses for skipping the moon are as hollow as a ping pong ball (they boil down to "it's boring" when it plainly isn't) and it would be an ideal place to construct other spacecraft. We wouldn't wat to be boring, so let's train ants to sort tiny screws in space.
The fucking Chinese are going to the moon. They will actually do it. We will still be constructing our bus sized orbital telescope by that time.
You can't get 2600 Magazine or Dble Gun Journal or the Journal of Asian Martial Arts on the Internet.
You are really behind, buddy, especially if you are slurping at the slop-trough called CNN.
Other than National Geographic which I get with my NGS membership, i purchase all the magazines I am interested in at a newsstand.
You should visit one sometime.
Everybody I know who uses ububtu has had Pulseaudio give them either some or much grief. it fucking sucks.
The whole 10 second boot optimization process was a waste anyway. How often do people boot their Linux machines?
When I was running Linux I booted them after a kernel update or major OS update, and that's it. Once every few months or so.
No, not "exaggerate much" buddy. Look at NASA's last big announcement as well - they announced that they would announce their big announcement about the gamma ray bubble as well.
This is becoming a trend and is not an exaggeration.
NASA has really started to irritate me, with their latest few announcements. Rather than just issuing the data and having a little show about its implications in NASA TV, they first make an announcement that they will make an announcement, then for a few weeks there is rampant speculation (even though it's entirely probable that the data is ready) and finally they make their announcement in a media-circus style event.
NASA should just make the damn announcements on their web site and on their TV channel, and let the science press (read: science tabloids) publish it as they will.
If their current trend continues, pretty soon NASA will be announcing their announcement of their announcement of a press conference to announce their data. It's a waste of time and energy for everybody. I don't know about you, but I simply want my news, I don't want news that there will be news of note in the near future.
"the $250 price tag certainly beats out some of the competition"
Like what competition?
I would say if the submitter is slyly winking at Apple here they are slightly insane.
I have indeed installed Ubuntu, and there's no way a 2 year old was doing it.
Sorry.
Good choice posting AC though.
"Actually formatted his drive and made him reinstall it himself when he turned two."
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure you did. I bet he chose his own kernel options by age 3, right?
I'm 33 and have used Maya and Alias Wavefront and I find Blender to be a baffling experience.
Blender indeed.
Why not get the little tyke the home version of Matlab and get him to work designing custom circuits too? Perhaps he's precocious and could whip up a whole new operating system, if you just give him a shell prompt and access to the Gnu c compiler!
One of those gigantic Archos things with the half-finished software!
I know, I was aiming below the belt there.
I like Slaris too, and while I never bothered with any certification for it I used to use it all the time. oracle has pretty much killed any desire for me to use it though.
Openindiana looks good too, but they are two months behind their stated schedule and it may be DOA.
How? What can your average users do on say, Windows or Slowlaris that they can not do on a Mac?
Let's forget ZFS and Crossbow and Containers and every other buzzword infected datacenter gee-whizism and just focus on users for a minute.
Of course, you probably have no answer because you just pulled that bullshit straight out of your ass.
Your definition of "touched by" is probably what other people would call "munged" if it won't work on an Apple.
Wy is every major, mid sized, and minor video production house, from people shooting birthday parties to people shooting major motion pictures using Apples and Final Cut Pro if it doesn't work?
I can understand your bitter attitude, though, having no certain future for your Solaris training.
The most awesome thing is the 3 hour battery life. Under ideal conditions I'm sure.
Don't be a prick.
Yeah, those poor poor kids, unable to play pirated games, watch pirated movies, and listen to pirated music.
The correct thing to do here is to eschew commercial media entirely. Libraries are free, and they are the proper place to go if you need a book.
Yep, and we paid out the ass too.
The only people who profited are the oil execs.