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  1. Re:HP/UX still not ported on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    it is needed for users of proprietary apps that have hp-ux-isms in them. these will be apps that move money and have man-decades of code in them

  2. Re:Bye Itanium on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    not an issue, HP has already said OpenVMS is dead, support only from now on

    Meg said in June 2012 HP/UX will be ported to x86

    seems obvious HP is planning on killing Itanium totally, soon

  3. Re:OpenVMS? on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    big problems with that, there are 3rd party proprietary wares in there, it can never be fully open sourced

  4. Re:OpenVMS on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    Alphas for VMS were sold until 2007, so plenty of big companies will be using non-Itanium OpenVMS for about 10 more years

  5. Re:Microsoft knows this on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    no, the Itanium did have impressive specs for certain kinds of computations, database and vector numeric. but that's five+ years ago

  6. Re:I suspect it is bcos of HP's TCPA connection on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    sure it is Linux. Linux is just a kernel, what is this talk of what OS it is?

  7. Re:I suspect it is bcos of HP's TCPA connection on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    no, that emulation project was a failure, needed software modules because the hardware in the itanic had issues, could do pentium II speeds

    Linux on Itanium doesn't use x86 mode

  8. Re:HP/UX still not ported on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    oh it's already ported in HP's labs, Meg Whitman said it would happen last June 2012

  9. Re:HP/UX still not ported on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    pfft, you haven't been around. SCO Open Desktop was the very worst.

  10. Re:Not so fast. on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    but it only depends on how HP views the market, 80-90 percent of HP Itanium do so to run Oracle on "big unix" . Your power and mining companies that are bound to it may not be enough of a chunk to influence HP. The big "energy" company I used to contract for used IBM Mainframe software for their fleet of power and natural gas production plants.

  11. Re:Not so fast. on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    what!!??? The mainstream COBOL compilers have been available on Linux for over a decade: MicroFocus COBOL and Fujitsu NetCOBOL,

  12. Re:What, only 132 mph? Okay, I'll take it. on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    where I live country, state and county take in way, way more taxes than the roads require

  13. HP/UX still not ported on HP's NonStop Servers Go x86, Countdown To Itanium Extinction Begins · · Score: 1

    when HP/UX x86-64 port is out, then Itanium2 will be dead

  14. Re:What, only 132 mph? Okay, I'll take it. on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    of course, once a good number of people plug in instead of paying the petro tax, guess what the government will do then?

  15. Re:Dumbass on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    it is super duper, if you have a front tire failure.

  16. Re:132mph = 416hp? What? on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    eh, the speed of a vehicle at a given horsepower is going to depend on drive train gear ratios, air resistance, hydraulic losses (if such in drivetrain and not lockup version) and friction losses to a first approximation.

  17. Re:non street-legal compression on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    uh huh, gas stations around me sell 100+ octane stuff, sticker on pump says "off-road use only"....hah!

  18. Re:Get back to me when... on Japanese Researchers Build Rock-paper-scissors Robot That Wins 100% of the Time · · Score: 1

    the additions of hadron collider and zombies is more interesting, and I'm making a slashdot version with Natalie Portman thrown into the mix. Spock and the zombie and the lizard are going to be so pleased......

  19. Re:Getting to Mars by rocket is a long haul... on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 2

    yes, a continuously powered non-ballistic trajectory. possible with alternative technologies to chemical fuel rockets

  20. Re:Get back to me when... on Japanese Researchers Build Rock-paper-scissors Robot That Wins 100% of the Time · · Score: 1

    so what is the maxtrix of which trump which? is it perfectly balanced win/lose so there is no advantage to any one shape, otherwise the lizard and spock additions can't be allowed.

  21. Re: NOT posted as AC. on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    not true, there are some unions comprised of very nice people out there who value workmanship and professionalism. IAHFIAW and IBEW were wonderful people to work with, for example

  22. yes, withholding passwords can, as expected on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 0, Troll

    good, justice served. usually I'm on the employee's side of things, but perp committed a crime, it's stealing, sabotage and extortion to do that

  23. Re:what a load of crap - nobody is buying it on 4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear · · Score: 1

    No, you are ignorantly believing headline hype. That "breakeven" event actually was 1.8 MegaJoules of energy causing 1.4 kilojoles of energy to be released. in other words, 0.0077 the energy of input. look it up -> http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2013/10/fusion-breakthrough-nif-uh-not-really-%E2%80%A6

    Moreover, also in that article, DT fusion produces alpha particle and neutrons. Only the alpha would be blocked by tinfoil you imagine would shield. the neutron field is quite dangerous. All working fusor types make neutrons, the aneutronic boron-hydrogen or lithium reactor is quite out of reach of current technology

  24. Re:I'm not sure they understand how this works. on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 1

    nonsense, you are confused, those committees you name are part of the problem, they are building the police state and are corporate fascists in the pockets of large corporations

  25. Re:Because imbicile on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 1

    you are ignorant, those other "democracies" don't have a Bill of RIghts such as the USA has