TBH the website also looks like a pretty fly-by-night operation. You would think that a company with enough money to launch a manned space mission would be able to hire a web designer.
Hey, I designed that w.....wait.... *clicks View | Page Source*
I can't fathom why there isn't a ptree for Linux, it's such a simple utility and all the long forum posts from Linux users trying to figure out zombie processes is just funny when such a basic utility easily visualizes it.
Huh, what? The command you're looking for on Linux is 'pstree -pa' (or, 'pstree -paGl' formats it the way I prefer), which produces the same info as 'ptree' on Solaris, but with lines.
Oh, no kidding. Adding SAN to Solaris is by far easier than adding it to Linux, but I never had any problem with either one. The LVM stuff in SLES made it really easy once I got the Qlogic FC driver loaded (which was harder than it sounds because this was on IBM xSeries servers which had some bad BIOS settings related to the PCI bus. Fixing it wasn't hard, but tracking it down took me recalling the old days of having to manually map the I/O address space on PC hardware.
And Solaris isn't a desktop OS, so that's not a huge problem. You're far more likely to be running Solaris on a server than on a workstation except for very particular circumstances in the CAD and engineering realm.
I'd only call one of those a problem with the shuttle. 1 in 1300.
How so?
Challenger => o-ring seal on one of the solid-fuel rocket boosters shattered in the cold weather. FAIL IT. (The shuttle can't launch without them, and they were developed specifically to launch the shuttle, so they are part of the shuttle)
Columbia => Tile breaks loose due to ice build up (amazingly, Columbia and Challenger launched on the same day in February like 20 years apart...go figure) shuttle burns up on reentry. FAIL IT. (The heat tiles are part of the shuttle proper).
Linux is running servers bigger than Solaris can handle. Linux is running massive databases in corporations. Linux scales to the small PDA all the way to the world's most powerful supercomputers, Solaris can't do that.
While only 1 of the top 500 is running OpenSolaris (and it's using 2.6Ghz Opterons), still, there is nothing inherently unscalable about Solaris or SPARC. I've personally been logged into a 96 core Sparc machine running Solaris 9 and Oracle 10.
Whilest the article (as opposed to the summary) doesn't specifically say "full screen Flash video," I will additionally say that full screen Flash video works just fine on my 1680x1050 20" widescreen flat panel on Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit 2.0Ghz dual core AMD when streamed from YouTube. But YMMV.
And, in fact, there is evidence to suggest that it may even be slightly lower than your ordinary, garden variety seasonal flu.
Many people don't realize that influenza can be a fatal, especially in those who are immunodeficient; this would include the elderly, diabetics, AIDS victims, small children, those undergoing chemotherapy, etc.
Of course, even the ordinary seasonal influenza can become very serious even for those who aren't immunodeficient -- if you don't take influenza seriously enough and ignore the symptoms and go strolling through life as usual without any extra rest, chicken soup, etc., you can wind up in the hospital.
But you're right in that swine flu > regular flu == False; the hysteria over swine flu is entirely media-generated. The press, looking for ever more pairs of eyeballs, hyped it up to keep people glued to the Internet news sites, TV, newspapers, radio news, etc. The public is very, very gullible.
It's been somewhat amazing to me that an open standard for any kind of scalable vector graphics model on the web has taken so long to take off. The web has mostly been a graphical environment with bandwidth constraints. It seems a natural. I suspect a conspiracy.
SVG has been around for quite sometime. The first specifications were released in 2001, Every major browser except IE supports SVG out of the box. The biggest reason it has been slow in adoption is the lack of support in IE, which is mostly due to Microsoft's former stagnation between the releases of IE 6.0 and IE 7.
The concept of vector-based graphics wasn't so big in the early days of the Web mostly because computers, consumer desktops especially, were underpowered for display lots of complex vector graphics very quickly, as anyone who was using Corel Draw or even Illustrator in the early 90s can certainly attest to.
Nowadays, though PCs have plenty of horsepower to draw vector graphics quickly, so long you keep the number of nodes down.:)
I assume by "trademark" you mean the logo on their website.
You don't understand what a design patent is. Since I have often worked in the realm of the visual arts (both from an IT standpoint and as a designer), I do understand what a design patent is.
A design patent is almost akin to a "look and feel" patent. It's like Apple patenting the trash can, or Lotus patenting to look and feel of 1-2-3. The difference is that a design patent is typically more "look" and less "feel" (though, confusingly, textures can be specified, for example!)
The idea is that no one else can make a home page that looks like their home page. This is perfectly reasonable and does not have to include the logo at all (nor would it, as companies are apt to change logos several times within their term of existence: Microsoft, for example, has changed their company logo I think 2 or 3 times, which is not at all unusual).
Think about the shape of (the original) Coca Cola bottle (the glass ones. If you've never seen one, ask anyone older than 30-35). That design, at one point, was covered by a design patent. It is still covered by a trademark. (A design can be both trademarked and patented).
The purpose is to prevent someone from producing a knockoff, say "Mr. Cola" and then using a similar looking design in order to confuse people into buying their product when they were looking for Coca-Cola.
This is not evil at all, and serves not only to help the companies involved, but also to help the consumer distinguish amongst the various competing products.
There's nothing to stop you from making a simple home page with a single search box and few links. You just can't make yours look like Google's.
Okay. Educause Motors Corp. makes a model called the EduCar that they will sell only to educational institutions, like college campuses or school districts. Earlier models didn't have locks or keys, but instead used a system whereby you had to show to your educational institution paperwork to the onboard camera before you could open the door. Once inside, you have push-button start. The new EduCar will feature secure keys and locks, but you still need to show your educational paperwork to get one.
Other models, which require no educational paperwork, are available from a wide variety of manufacturers such as GoDaddy Motors, Network Solutions Motors, Register Motors, etc., will continue to sell their ComCars, OrgCars, NetCars, etc. without keys or locks.
Speaking as someone who had one, yes, that's true. But the only clone makers that made it were the ones using Phoenix's BIOS, since Phoenix had reverse engineered it, and everyone else copied IBM's BIOS and got sued.
Because it runs on cheap commodity cellphones like my LG Rumor and it renders pages that look almost as good as they would on a full browser, unlike the built-in browser the telco provides you. Which, BTW, does the same thing only the rendering sucks worse.
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Ex-Opera employee here: Yes, the same code base is used for mobile and device versions of Opera.
How is that possible? Opera Mini, for example, is a MIDP 2.0 (Java 2 Micro Edition) application, while the desktop Opera appears to be C/C++. I suppose that Windows Mobile edition of Opera Mobile shares code with the desktop Opera browser (which is already coded to the Win32 API), but the Opera Mobile for the Symbian phones would almost certainly have to be Java, right?
Wrong. Did you and the two cluebots who modded you informative even bother to RTFT (Title)?
It says First Domain Name Sold.
All other domains prior to this symbolics.com domain were not sold, they were given to their (mostly) university, government and military owners for free.
Wow. Guess some AMD fanboys just can't take a joke...
But -- the Thunderbirds (I've owned several), had big problems with the stock AMD fans (which were crap). That basically created the market for companies like Coolermaster, Zalman, and Thermaltake to create aftermarket fans for the Athlons.
Well I, for one...
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I, for one, welcome our new smelly, slimy, moldy robotic overlords....ewww....
In my day, if we wanted to send a text message to a friend, we used an instant messenger! Or we even wrote out an email. It took time to sit down and put some thought into composing that message. None of this Twitter Trotter Twatter flim-flarn-flith. We had more than 140 characters to work with and could take the time to say something that was worth taking the time to say! And we sat at a keyboard. With a chair. Typed with our fingers instead of with our thumbs like savages.
Puh...what? You had whole boards with keys? Lucky, that. Instant messengers? Huh.
We had one key. A code key! And we had to learn something to use it: Morse code!
Now you kids get off of my lawn with your twaddle about "keyboards" and "instant messengers!"
So your comment ignores the fact that this CPU will probably be running 6 (or more) VMs, which could just as well run single-threaded code....
Clearly that's the market that this chip is targetting. I'm simply pointing out that 1) even if you're not in that space, this chip compares favorably to a 2.3 Ghz Quad Core or even a 3.2 Ghz Dual Core, so long as you're running multithreaded apps on any OS that uses a sane threading model. Just understand that single-threaded apps won't compare unless you're running them virtualized.
OTOH, separate blades are going to give you to better performance, no matter how you look at it. On the gripping hand, if you have 10 blades, each running this 6 core CPU (conceivable in 40 watts!) and a VM hypervisor... sounds delicious.
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devfs? and the next release will switch to udev presumably?
Additionally it will be called 'Dreamy DragonFly,' and feature a suspiciously familiar-looking brown GNOME theme....
TBH the website also looks like a pretty fly-by-night operation. You would think that a company with enough money to launch a manned space mission would be able to hire a web designer.
Hey, I designed that w.....wait.... *clicks View | Page Source*
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 6.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
Nope. Nevermind. Even I won't go that far for a laugh!
I can't fathom why there isn't a ptree for Linux, it's such a simple utility and all the long forum posts from Linux users trying to figure out zombie processes is just funny when such a basic utility easily visualizes it.
Huh, what? The command you're looking for on Linux is 'pstree -pa' (or, 'pstree -paGl' formats it the way I prefer), which produces the same info as 'ptree' on Solaris, but with lines.
For private spaceflight, this is a big deal, if this pans out NASA might come a nocking for ISS trips since Japan can move Cargo
NASA already has a contract with Space-X and Orbital Sciences to move cargo to the ISS. No need to go knocking on IOS' or Japan's door.
Oh, no kidding. Adding SAN to Solaris is by far easier than adding it to Linux, but I never had any problem with either one. The LVM stuff in SLES made it really easy once I got the Qlogic FC driver loaded (which was harder than it sounds because this was on IBM xSeries servers which had some bad BIOS settings related to the PCI bus. Fixing it wasn't hard, but tracking it down took me recalling the old days of having to manually map the I/O address space on PC hardware.
And Solaris isn't a desktop OS, so that's not a huge problem. You're far more likely to be running Solaris on a server than on a workstation except for very particular circumstances in the CAD and engineering realm.
How so?
Challenger => o-ring seal on one of the solid-fuel rocket boosters shattered in the cold weather. FAIL IT. (The shuttle can't launch without them, and they were developed specifically to launch the shuttle, so they are part of the shuttle)
Columbia => Tile breaks loose due to ice build up (amazingly, Columbia and Challenger launched on the same day in February like 20 years apart...go figure) shuttle burns up on reentry. FAIL IT. (The heat tiles are part of the shuttle proper).
Wait -- Hillary Clinton has a husband? So, this person married to Hillary Clinton, who is she?
Not true
While only 1 of the top 500 is running OpenSolaris (and it's using 2.6Ghz Opterons), still, there is nothing inherently unscalable about Solaris or SPARC. I've personally been logged into a 96 core Sparc machine running Solaris 9 and Oracle 10.
Whilest the article (as opposed to the summary) doesn't specifically say "full screen Flash video," I will additionally say that full screen Flash video works just fine on my 1680x1050 20" widescreen flat panel on Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit 2.0Ghz dual core AMD when streamed from YouTube. But YMMV.
And, in fact, there is evidence to suggest that it may even be slightly lower than your ordinary, garden variety seasonal flu.
Many people don't realize that influenza can be a fatal, especially in those who are immunodeficient; this would include the elderly, diabetics, AIDS victims, small children, those undergoing chemotherapy, etc.
Of course, even the ordinary seasonal influenza can become very serious even for those who aren't immunodeficient -- if you don't take influenza seriously enough and ignore the symptoms and go strolling through life as usual without any extra rest, chicken soup, etc., you can wind up in the hospital.
But you're right in that swine flu > regular flu == False; the hysteria over swine flu is entirely media-generated. The press, looking for ever more pairs of eyeballs, hyped it up to keep people glued to the Internet news sites, TV, newspapers, radio news, etc. The public is very, very gullible.
It's been somewhat amazing to me that an open standard for any kind of scalable vector graphics model on the web has taken so long to take off. The web has mostly been a graphical environment with bandwidth constraints. It seems a natural. I suspect a conspiracy.
SVG has been around for quite sometime. The first specifications were released in 2001, Every major browser except IE supports SVG out of the box. The biggest reason it has been slow in adoption is the lack of support in IE, which is mostly due to Microsoft's former stagnation between the releases of IE 6.0 and IE 7.
The concept of vector-based graphics wasn't so big in the early days of the Web mostly because computers, consumer desktops especially, were underpowered for display lots of complex vector graphics very quickly, as anyone who was using Corel Draw or even Illustrator in the early 90s can certainly attest to.
Nowadays, though PCs have plenty of horsepower to draw vector graphics quickly, so long you keep the number of nodes down. :)
I assume by "trademark" you mean the logo on their website.
You don't understand what a design patent is. Since I have often worked in the realm of the visual arts (both from an IT standpoint and as a designer), I do understand what a design patent is.
A design patent is almost akin to a "look and feel" patent. It's like Apple patenting the trash can, or Lotus patenting to look and feel of 1-2-3. The difference is that a design patent is typically more "look" and less "feel" (though, confusingly, textures can be specified, for example!)
The idea is that no one else can make a home page that looks like their home page. This is perfectly reasonable and does not have to include the logo at all (nor would it, as companies are apt to change logos several times within their term of existence: Microsoft, for example, has changed their company logo I think 2 or 3 times, which is not at all unusual).
Think about the shape of (the original) Coca Cola bottle (the glass ones. If you've never seen one, ask anyone older than 30-35). That design, at one point, was covered by a design patent. It is still covered by a trademark. (A design can be both trademarked and patented).
The purpose is to prevent someone from producing a knockoff, say "Mr. Cola" and then using a similar looking design in order to confuse people into buying their product when they were looking for Coca-Cola.
This is not evil at all, and serves not only to help the companies involved, but also to help the consumer distinguish amongst the various competing products.
There's nothing to stop you from making a simple home page with a single search box and few links. You just can't make yours look like Google's.
Okay. Educause Motors Corp. makes a model called the EduCar that they will sell only to educational institutions, like college campuses or school districts. Earlier models didn't have locks or keys, but instead used a system whereby you had to show to your educational institution paperwork to the onboard camera before you could open the door. Once inside, you have push-button start. The new EduCar will feature secure keys and locks, but you still need to show your educational paperwork to get one.
Other models, which require no educational paperwork, are available from a wide variety of manufacturers such as GoDaddy Motors, Network Solutions Motors, Register Motors, etc., will continue to sell their ComCars, OrgCars, NetCars, etc. without keys or locks.
Speaking as someone who had one, yes, that's true. But the only clone makers that made it were the ones using Phoenix's BIOS, since Phoenix had reverse engineered it, and everyone else copied IBM's BIOS and got sued.
Because it runs on cheap commodity cellphones like my LG Rumor and it renders pages that look almost as good as they would on a full browser, unlike the built-in browser the telco provides you. Which, BTW, does the same thing only the rendering sucks worse.
Ex-Opera employee here: Yes, the same code base is used for mobile and device versions of Opera.
How is that possible? Opera Mini, for example, is a MIDP 2.0 (Java 2 Micro Edition) application, while the desktop Opera appears to be C/C++. I suppose that Windows Mobile edition of Opera Mobile shares code with the desktop Opera browser (which is already coded to the Win32 API), but the Opera Mobile for the Symbian phones would almost certainly have to be Java, right?
Wrong. Did you and the two cluebots who modded you informative even bother to RTFT (Title)?
It says First Domain Name Sold.
All other domains prior to this symbolics.com domain were not sold, they were given to their (mostly) university, government and military owners for free.
Yes! Editors, would you pretty, pretty please make a FAQ so people will stop asking this? Thanks!
Clearly I'm missing something that makes this important in the slightest.
Free advertising for the new owner, of course.
I'll take two orders with hot sauce on the side!
Wow. Guess some AMD fanboys just can't take a joke...
But -- the Thunderbirds (I've owned several), had big problems with the stock AMD fans (which were crap). That basically created the market for companies like Coolermaster, Zalman, and Thermaltake to create aftermarket fans for the Athlons.
I, for one, welcome our new smelly, slimy, moldy robotic overlords....ewww....
In my day, if we wanted to send a text message to a friend, we used an instant messenger! Or we even wrote out an email. It took time to sit down and put some thought into composing that message. None of this Twitter Trotter Twatter flim-flarn-flith. We had more than 140 characters to work with and could take the time to say something that was worth taking the time to say! And we sat at a keyboard. With a chair. Typed with our fingers instead of with our thumbs like savages.
Puh...what? You had whole boards with keys? Lucky, that. Instant messengers? Huh.
We had one key. A code key! And we had to learn something to use it: Morse code!
Now you kids get off of my lawn with your twaddle about "keyboards" and "instant messengers!"
*rolls eyes*
So your comment ignores the fact that this CPU will probably be running 6 (or more) VMs, which could just as well run single-threaded code....
Clearly that's the market that this chip is targetting. I'm simply pointing out that 1) even if you're not in that space, this chip compares favorably to a 2.3 Ghz Quad Core or even a 3.2 Ghz Dual Core, so long as you're running multithreaded apps on any OS that uses a sane threading model. Just understand that single-threaded apps won't compare unless you're running them virtualized.
OTOH, separate blades are going to give you to better performance, no matter how you look at it. On the gripping hand, if you have 10 blades, each running this 6 core CPU (conceivable in 40 watts!) and a VM hypervisor... sounds delicious.