What's really sad is that Intel still insists that the Itanium really is a superior architecture...
Well, it is, in theory. In practice, others were not successful in VLIW (Sun MAJC; isn't Transmeta VLIW, too), and POWER 5 is showing that RISC is still going very strong. Itanium is like a really great show dog that has skin rashes and farts too much, while everyone who knows what they are doing goes for the well-rounded mixed breed (aka, POWER, SPARC, and AMD64).
I am in the CAD/CAM business and ever since the demize of the Alpha we have been waiting on a good cheap 64 bit windows based platform.
A good cheap 64-bit windows based plaform alread exists. In fact you have a choice between Mac OS X and Solaris 10. However, I'm not sure that CAD/CAM software runs on Mac OS X...okay, so your only choice is Solaris.
I think Conan was actually a bad choice. Not because he's a bad comedian, but because he is so good and he knows how to get a laugh given the circumstances. The circumstances just led right into that Bill and Apple joke. There was no way to avoid it.
If Bush comes out on public television and makes one strong line of pure and clear racial charged comment against minority groups.
He's done that against homosexuals. From what I've read, No Child Left Behind is essentially a slur against inner cities. He's just way too good a politician for voters to sense any of this. He is a really really good politician, perhaps even better than Bill Clinton.
I gave up on CNN when they started spending more time on entertainment "news" than they do on real news. Scott Peterson is not real news, BTW.
CNN are such ratings whores that it is sickening. Fox and MSNBC are no better. The only real news on TV is on PBS, otherwise the only way to get balanced news is via several websites (you can't just rely on one).
So...basically this whole Slashdot article is one big troll. People will bash Sun at every opportunity while not realizing that Sun is 1000% friendlier than Microsoft, HP, and IBM, especially with regard to OSS. HP and IBM's Linux efforts are more of the "me too" category, while Sun releases OpenOffice.org, Tomcat, Netbeans, Grid Engine, provides Java on Linux, is open-sourcing Solaris, they are major GNOME supporters, and they are major Mozilla supporters.
The Slashdot trolls really need to think about who their enemies are. They may suprise themselves.
My last post sounded a bit like a troll, but here is one thing that is a parallel in the software industry:
- Red Hat, Mandrake, Novell, Linspire, and others are still in business!
- People "pirate" their software like crazy!
- And Sun is open sourcing Solaris next month!
It's craziness, this whole trust your customers idea! It's insanity, I tell ya!
So are explosives, but you don't see people plastering those everywhere painted in pretty colors just for the enjoyment of it. JavaScript has a place, alright, but like too much salt in a soup, it can quickly ruin everything about a web page in short order.
Primarily for enforcement of how a form should be filled out....and that's basically it. JavaScript is pretty much 1% form validation and shopping cart updates and 99% usability impairment. CSS is the way to go.
"The scheme, from Hewlett-Packard and Philips, targets DVD+R and DVD+RW and is an attempt to enforce the FCC broadcast flag on DVD recorders."
You goddamned idiots, why can't you just give your customers what they want! The pirates really don't eat your bottom line as much as you claim! Your movies still make hundreds of millions of dollars! Your CDs still sell in the millions! Tivo has been out for a while and you're still in business!!!
Treat your customers with respect, and they will treat you in kind! If you don't treat them with respect, your days are truly numbered! Don't fall for the DRM trap!
"hip" matters because apple is in the business of selling an image to the "creative elite."
Thus my wonderment about why Apple chooses LCDs when the "creative elite" would be one group who does care about color on their monitors (e.g., publishing, video editing, etc.). They wouldn't sell any macs to serious people if the LCDs weren't at least adequate for the task.
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What's really sad is that Intel still insists that the Itanium really is a superior architecture...
Well, it is, in theory. In practice, others were not successful in VLIW (Sun MAJC; isn't Transmeta VLIW, too), and POWER 5 is showing that RISC is still going very strong. Itanium is like a really great show dog that has skin rashes and farts too much, while everyone who knows what they are doing goes for the well-rounded mixed breed (aka, POWER, SPARC, and AMD64).
I am in the CAD/CAM business and ever since the demize of the Alpha we have been waiting on a good cheap 64 bit windows based platform.
A good cheap 64-bit windows based plaform alread exists. In fact you have a choice between Mac OS X and Solaris 10. However, I'm not sure that CAD/CAM software runs on Mac OS X...okay, so your only choice is Solaris.
Which is more complete in practice?
.NET is 100% on...Windows.
Java is 100% on Window, Linux, and UNIX.
I think Conan was actually a bad choice. Not because he's a bad comedian, but because he is so good and he knows how to get a laugh given the circumstances. The circumstances just led right into that Bill and Apple joke. There was no way to avoid it.
If Bush comes out on public television and makes one strong line of pure and clear racial charged comment against minority groups.
He's done that against homosexuals. From what I've read, No Child Left Behind is essentially a slur against inner cities. He's just way too good a politician for voters to sense any of this. He is a really really good politician, perhaps even better than Bill Clinton.
In Soviet Russia, the flags fly you with pride!
I gave up on CNN when they started spending more time on entertainment "news" than they do on real news. Scott Peterson is not real news, BTW.
CNN are such ratings whores that it is sickening. Fox and MSNBC are no better. The only real news on TV is on PBS, otherwise the only way to get balanced news is via several websites (you can't just rely on one).
Bush is the wet dream of hardcore capitalists.
Hardly, he is the wet dream of hardcore big business.
But a very nice reminder of what SUN can do to those using Java.
.NET?
So...what do you think about
Java is probably the most mature and complete cross platform environment in existence. People should not look upon this lightly.
So...basically this whole Slashdot article is one big troll. People will bash Sun at every opportunity while not realizing that Sun is 1000% friendlier than Microsoft, HP, and IBM, especially with regard to OSS. HP and IBM's Linux efforts are more of the "me too" category, while Sun releases OpenOffice.org, Tomcat, Netbeans, Grid Engine, provides Java on Linux, is open-sourcing Solaris, they are major GNOME supporters, and they are major Mozilla supporters.
The Slashdot trolls really need to think about who their enemies are. They may suprise themselves.
What about Raritanium?
Just send the high-school chick out on an EVA to plug in the spare oxygen tanks.
My last post sounded a bit like a troll, but here is one thing that is a parallel in the software industry:
- Red Hat, Mandrake, Novell, Linspire, and others are still in business!
- People "pirate" their software like crazy!
- And Sun is open sourcing Solaris next month!
It's craziness, this whole trust your customers idea! It's insanity, I tell ya!
The only way this might work would be to outlaw the selling of the old DVDs.
Yeah, that'll work at flea markets. They can go after eBay, Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Sears, but they can't do a damn thing aboug flea markets.
There will also always be live stage drama, books, day trips to a park, boardgames, conversations (yes, even talking to real humans!).
Does HP even employ engineers? I thought they were just a bunch of "integrators" repackaging Intel's factory output.
JavaScript, used correctly, is good.
So are explosives, but you don't see people plastering those everywhere painted in pretty colors just for the enjoyment of it. JavaScript has a place, alright, but like too much salt in a soup, it can quickly ruin everything about a web page in short order.
Primarily for enforcement of how a form should be filled out. ...and that's basically it. JavaScript is pretty much 1% form validation and shopping cart updates and 99% usability impairment. CSS is the way to go.
"The scheme, from Hewlett-Packard and Philips, targets DVD+R and DVD+RW and is an attempt to enforce the FCC broadcast flag on DVD recorders."
You goddamned idiots, why can't you just give your customers what they want! The pirates really don't eat your bottom line as much as you claim! Your movies still make hundreds of millions of dollars! Your CDs still sell in the millions! Tivo has been out for a while and you're still in business!!!
Treat your customers with respect, and they will treat you in kind! If you don't treat them with respect, your days are truly numbered! Don't fall for the DRM trap!
"hip" matters because apple is in the business of selling an image to the "creative elite."
Thus my wonderment about why Apple chooses LCDs when the "creative elite" would be one group who does care about color on their monitors (e.g., publishing, video editing, etc.). They wouldn't sell any macs to serious people if the LCDs weren't at least adequate for the task.
What about Apple? Do they even sell CRTs, anymore?
They don't want it big, bulky and ugly.
Yeah, watching TV shouldn't remind them of their spouse!
Oh God, an audiophile flamewar. Slashdot editors, delete this thread, now! Oh no...it's too late! I'm melting....I'm melting....
Given that NPR and Java both appeal to a intelligent and sophisticated demographic, I don't see this as suprising