nah, most Ruby coders are or were Java developers. I did java for five years. We just like Ruby better and feel it is much more powerful, beautiful and satisfying, as well as usually requiring one third or less the typing....
Eh, I have a huge library on the opteron timing, opcodes and instruction set, and machine language coding practices that AMD sent me free of charge. But there's plenty about the Sparc III that Sun is holding close to its chest, just ask any openbsd developer.
yup, 8 years ago they were saying the ip4 space would be exhausted in next 5 years. Heck, I sat at a presentation on IPng in 1994 where that was said. At least such a statement is more true now than it was then, but I'll bet reclaiming old absurdly huge allocations of IP space could push this out beyond 10-12 years.
A 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box is a serious threat to Sun Enterprise boxes with 64 to 128 UltraSparc, even the hardware partitioning doesn't mean as much when you can just use two or more x86-64 boxes at probably less than half the price. For that matter, it also attacks HP's "superdome" Itanium2 servers and some of IBM's Power5 and Power6. The closed architectures and the proprietary Unix(tm) they run are in deep doo-doo
but that's a high-speed networked cluster, not a shared memory one? A 32 or 64 way shared memory opteron cluster is a threat to Sun's big-iron Ultrasparc boxes, would likely outperform them
if you're worried about support, the number of supported distros for business in any given part of the world *are* countable on one hand. For example, here I am in the middle of the U.S.A. and I can locally get paid support for RedHat, SuSE and Debian. There might be some other minor player out there, but I've not seen it used by business or government here. What's so complicated about that?
ah, yes, that would be the same Scientific American that in my teen years warned of global cooling and coming ice age due to man's works? Anyway, no doubt we're hurting the climate and environment and need to go to zero-net-effect energy sources and consumption, but difficulty in modelling water vapor and all the recent discoveries impacting climate like global dimming, ocean conveyour, ocean hydrate behaviours, methane stores,etc. means our climate models need to be heavily questioned and refined. Finding weakness and fault with past records and methodology is a good thing.
But real money is worth a stated quantity of a physical thing, while a FIAT currency such as a federal reserve note has no set intrinsic value. The value of the dollar is falling because of "out of control" federal spending (Greenspan' words), less production of goods, and countries going to other currencies such as euro. Some economists talk of the advantages of a weak dollar (increased demand for U.S. goods), but unless you're a big-corp owner with a global market or a factory worker looking for a job, it's mostly a we-get-screwed deal.
Cthulhu will devour the faithful with as much gusto as he would the unbelievers.
Yes, but He'll eat His faithful first . You don't want to watch Him eat your family, friends, loved ones, the innocent, do you? Convert now, and be among the first eaten!
interesting mainframes were that way, but the lease was for the hardware. Some of us were into micros in the late 70's, by the way - I would say Commadore and Tandy and Apple first lead the revolution, then IBM and Gates usurped it. But there was always better alternatives (in the sense of cooler and more capable than dos and windows) at every point in time from early 1980's onward by DEC, Sun, Apple, etc.
The goal is to only have LEASED software, not software you own. They will get everyone using MS software locked into rental to provide a recurring revenue stream. Don't pay, your computer doesn't work anymore (unless you liberate yourself with Free Software).
very true, and if we wised up like some countries and always had some highly trained killers, er security personnel on each flight, a few near-savages who trained in some third world toilet with old-soviet & old-arab fighting techniques wouldn't stand a chance.
haha, the solar flux IS variable, and we also know the number and frequency of sunspots has increased over the last 400 years. The extent to which this has affected earth's climate is completely UNKNOWN. Have a look at those graphs sometime, especially the "Maunder Minimum" from 1650 to 1700, and the build from 1700 to 1800, another minimum (much more active than 1650 to 1700 though) from 1800 to 1850, and then the dramatic increase since then. I bring this up because it just happens to tie with global warming graphs showing changes kicking into high gear at about the start of the industrial revolution (1750)
we're ok, we can just put yellow sticky-note above our screens that say "WARNING - masturbating to computer pornography with wool mittens while wearing latex condom may result in fiery self-immolation and/or static damage to MOS-FET based components of PC"
over a dozen rock stable embedded os out there, including BSD-based ones. Some have even smaller footprint and better performance than Linux-based OS on given hardware
you have the wrong idea of "the center of the Universe". that's a meaningless phrase. We are at the center of our observable universe, but the universe as a whole is expanding, and you could call any body you wish the "center", and if you were located there you would see the rest of the universe moving away from you.
But the U.S.A. would still go on (very badly too, for a long time). The country that killed one or two of our large metro areas would be really gone and done, though. would even be bad to be a neighboring country of them. And in that sad world, anyone shooting off their mouth thereafter such as Al Qaeda does now would likely bring down pre-emptive sterilization.
oops, quite right, I checked the ftc's website and found "The National Do Not Call Registry is only for personal phone numbers. Business-to-business calls and faxes are not covered by the National Do Not Call Registry." link here
I've found do-not-call to be *extremely* effective. Have you followed through using your rights under the law? Tell solicitor to never call you again, log the conversation, and make official complaint when they do (which is >$1,000 fine)? Do you inform them that you are on the do-not-call registry?
WAN boot, SCF, NFSv4, & IPQoS existed in Solaris 9. SMF and new TCP/IP stack and "Least Privileges" are interesting. Overall, the grade is still "thumbs down"
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nah, most Ruby coders are or were Java developers. I did java for five years. We just like Ruby better and feel it is much more powerful, beautiful and satisfying, as well as usually requiring one third or less the typing....
Eh, I have a huge library on the opteron timing, opcodes and instruction set, and machine language coding practices that AMD sent me free of charge. But there's plenty about the Sparc III that Sun is holding close to its chest, just ask any openbsd developer.
yup, 8 years ago they were saying the ip4 space would be exhausted in next 5 years. Heck, I sat at a presentation on IPng in 1994 where that was said. At least such a statement is more true now than it was then, but I'll bet reclaiming old absurdly huge allocations of IP space could push this out beyond 10-12 years.
A 32-way SMP dual-core opteron box is a serious threat to Sun Enterprise boxes with 64 to 128 UltraSparc, even the hardware partitioning doesn't mean as much when you can just use two or more x86-64 boxes at probably less than half the price. For that matter, it also attacks HP's "superdome" Itanium2 servers and some of IBM's Power5 and Power6. The closed architectures and the proprietary Unix(tm) they run are in deep doo-doo
but that's a high-speed networked cluster, not a shared memory one? A 32 or 64 way shared memory opteron cluster is a threat to Sun's big-iron Ultrasparc boxes, would likely outperform them
if you're worried about support, the number of supported distros for business in any given part of the world *are* countable on one hand. For example, here I am in the middle of the U.S.A. and I can locally get paid support for RedHat, SuSE and Debian. There might be some other minor player out there, but I've not seen it used by business or government here. What's so complicated about that?
ah, yes, that would be the same Scientific American that in my teen years warned of global cooling and coming ice age due to man's works? Anyway, no doubt we're hurting the climate and environment and need to go to zero-net-effect energy sources and consumption, but difficulty in modelling water vapor and all the recent discoveries impacting climate like global dimming, ocean conveyour, ocean hydrate behaviours, methane stores ,etc. means our climate models need to be heavily questioned and refined. Finding weakness and fault with past records and methodology is a good thing.
maybe not a quck end, might very small eruption that *slowly* half-cooks you nearly to death. Feel better?
But real money is worth a stated quantity of a physical thing, while a FIAT currency such as a federal reserve note has no set intrinsic value. The value of the dollar is falling because of "out of control" federal spending (Greenspan' words), less production of goods, and countries going to other currencies such as euro. Some economists talk of the advantages of a weak dollar (increased demand for U.S. goods), but unless you're a big-corp owner with a global market or a factory worker looking for a job, it's mostly a we-get-screwed deal.
My uncle did this when he left his job, in his boss' suit which was in locker. He was in the army in Viet Nam, the parade dress belonged to a general.
Cthulhu will devour the faithful with as much gusto as he would the unbelievers.
Yes, but He'll eat His faithful first . You don't want to watch Him eat your family, friends, loved ones, the innocent, do you? Convert now, and be among the first eaten!
I heard He was cruising the net, harvesting IIS deployers and impaling them on the Tree of Pain. This is why Apache has > 60% market share now.
He doesn't need your welcome, just your tasty head.
interesting mainframes were that way, but the lease was for the hardware. Some of us were into micros in the late 70's, by the way - I would say Commadore and Tandy and Apple first lead the revolution, then IBM and Gates usurped it. But there was always better alternatives (in the sense of cooler and more capable than dos and windows) at every point in time from early 1980's onward by DEC, Sun, Apple, etc.
The goal is to only have LEASED software, not software you own. They will get everyone using MS software locked into rental to provide a recurring revenue stream. Don't pay, your computer doesn't work anymore (unless you liberate yourself with Free Software).
very true, and if we wised up like some countries and always had some highly trained killers, er security personnel on each flight, a few near-savages who trained in some third world toilet with old-soviet & old-arab fighting techniques wouldn't stand a chance.
haha, the solar flux IS variable, and we also know the number and frequency of sunspots has increased over the last 400 years. The extent to which this has affected earth's climate is completely UNKNOWN. Have a look at those graphs sometime, especially the "Maunder Minimum" from 1650 to 1700, and the build from 1700 to 1800, another minimum (much more active than 1650 to 1700 though) from 1800 to 1850, and then the dramatic increase since then. I bring this up because it just happens to tie with global warming graphs showing changes kicking into high gear at about the start of the industrial revolution (1750)
we're ok, we can just put yellow sticky-note above our screens that say "WARNING - masturbating to computer pornography with wool mittens while wearing latex condom may result in fiery self-immolation and/or static damage to MOS-FET based components of PC"
over a dozen rock stable embedded os out there, including BSD-based ones. Some have even smaller footprint and better performance than Linux-based OS on given hardware
you have the wrong idea of "the center of the Universe". that's a meaningless phrase. We are at the center of our observable universe, but the universe as a whole is expanding, and you could call any body you wish the "center", and if you were located there you would see the rest of the universe moving away from you.
But the U.S.A. would still go on (very badly too, for a long time). The country that killed one or two of our large metro areas would be really gone and done, though. would even be bad to be a neighboring country of them. And in that sad world, anyone shooting off their mouth thereafter such as Al Qaeda does now would likely bring down pre-emptive sterilization.
oops, quite right, I checked the ftc's website and found "The National Do Not Call Registry is only for personal phone numbers. Business-to-business calls and faxes are not covered by the National Do Not Call Registry." link here
I've found do-not-call to be *extremely* effective. Have you followed through using your rights under the law? Tell solicitor to never call you again, log the conversation, and make official complaint when they do (which is >$1,000 fine)? Do you inform them that you are on the do-not-call registry?
WAN boot, SCF, NFSv4, & IPQoS existed in Solaris 9. SMF and new TCP/IP stack and "Least Privileges" are interesting. Overall, the grade is still "thumbs down"
but I've only been a Sun customer most of my life; please explain my bitterness and angst.