I'm sure that they might get some desperate people, but I also think they'll get some ignorant people, and some people who share their lack of ethics.
Those would roughly be the ones that know how to use the VB6 wizards to do _almost_ anything and can make it work on Unix. Way to go SCO! Make your next great VB6 app exclusively for Unix. Reward $100,000 for the first to write "hello world".
Exactly. Furthermore, if you read the fine print on the other side of the second appendix to the last page of the contract, it says that SCO, in addition to owning you, will also own your wife, children, dog, truck and home, because they are all your derivatives. Although the wife has a legal option to divorce and seek custody of the children, the SCO also realises that this may be bound by any prenuptual agreements, and they reserve the right to challenge any such 'weak' and 'inconvincing' prenuptual agreement in various courts.
Please, for the sake of all that is good, for the sake of mankind, please keep M$ away from robotics. Otherwise when the robots do take over, The Matrix will keep being plagued by viruses and spamware and will be down all the time doing windows updates. Imagine your whole world blinking out in one giant BSOD. I wander how many Matrix-trapped humans will suffer instant heart attacks. That would have to be scary, very scary!
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Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos.
Yep, this is exactly why all C++ compilers and car manufacturing conveyers use pre-made lego blocks. They make building lego cars much faster and cost efficient.
It's interesting, but wouldn't it be better to just use two of these chips at room temperature, rather than spend time/money/space on cooling the chip to 4.5 Kelvins?
It would be better and it is. That is exactly why consumer machines do not have coolers that operate below the water freeze point attached to their processors. And this is also exactly why dual-processor or multi-core machines are made for the general public.
I would not be surprised at all if Google was using its massive super clusters to run market simulations to find out how to make more money. In fact, it would be the smart thing to do unless adwords are making too much money to justify using the computing power for anything else.
You keep bringing up interesting points. I guess nowadays such low-level tinkering as fitting programs into a 64k memory is just not done because the memory has become nanoscopic and cheap. Applications tend to be really big and much less time is spent worrying about size and speed of your programs, and more about logic presentability and maintainability. If you need much faster programs that fit into much less memory (relatively per buck), just wait 18 months and buy new hardware, and that's easier and more cost-effective than tinkering. Perhaps the end of GOTO in high-level languages is tied to the end of an era that justified such a use in the first place.
Microsoft's Internet computing effort is currently based on 200,000 servers, and the company expects that number to grow to 800,000 by 2011 under its most aggressive forecast, according to a company document.
I guess that will make sure that at least 300,000 of their Windows Cluster servers will be available at any given time, while the other 500,000 are likely to be BSODed, downloading and installing the windows update or running the antivirus scan on all drives.
Also, expect at least 100,000 thousand windows and network admin jobs to be created (A+ required).
According to some modern science theories the universe is going to contract when it is done expanding. Where are we going to flee then? Another Universe perhaps..
I didn't know that anyone still reads Saberhagen. In my opinion his writings are kind of dry, no offense. I think the berserkers are similar in concept to the flood in the Xbox Halo game. The flood requires bio-mass to replicate and tries to wipe out all intelligent non-flood life by reusing its bio-material. The flood was stopped only by a galaxy-wide mega-suicide self destruct that only affected intelligent biological material and left lifeless or unintelligent material like bacteria, plants, planets and stars unaffected.
If it might be actually possible to wipe out all intelligent biological life in the galaxy by constructing one of those halo things, then I say we should not go into space to prevent halos from being constructed by ourselves. Or at least stay out of space so we do not learn about Halos that do exist. That way we can peacefully exist until the galaxy is destroyed and not even have to worry about saving it.
On the other hand, I think that "space laser" needs more funding in case alien invaders do show up. That way we would have something to at least try to shoot'em with as they glide slowly side-to-side towards earth, dropping their poo that also happens to be biological weapons of mass destruction. Where will you be then? I bet you would have wished you colonized moon and mars earlier!
You are absolutely right. I think GOTO does have its place, especially in assembly languages that absolutely must utilize a GOTO at one lavel or another. On the other hand, languages like Java and PERL that run on machines in interpreted mode and can afford the luxury of hundreds of hash tables, really should not have GOTOs, and they don't. At that level GOTOs would kill the whole purpose of a high level language. BASIC combined scripting with low level programming which may have caused the much dreaded confusion that lead to the use of GOTOs in high level languages.
You are right when you note that this thread is about downtime/uptime, and not the ease/difficulty of installation. Generally, although the learning curve may be steep for linux administration, as your study has confirmed so very well, the end result of system stability is more important for any mission-critical enterprise system. I do not want to repeat myself, please see my post below titled "Wrong Assumptions." Thanks.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said.
It does not sound right. Every IT professinal I know (including myself) whose company runs both Windows and Linux agrees that Windows breaks all the time while Linux does not. But this statement is not based on the same assumptions as those under which most people operate under. Why this is so becomes apparent when you read the next part of the statement:
The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation.
It is apparent that the author considers any server designated to run Linux but not yet installed (whether partially or at all), to be a downtime server. In other words, this study can easily include hundreds of unused machines that should or could have been running Linux. This is completely laughable because only people on crack could possibly agree that a system that has not yet been setup causes downtime. This assumption would not agree with the definition of the word "downtime".
I generally find that whenever Linux is being attacked, it is only through a model with serious logical fallacies that are carefully covered over by seemingly innocent mistakes. In reality these are carefully engineered FUDs designed to sound valid to most common people but failing under any serious scrutiny.
I can conclude from these quotes that the author may feel that Window's point and click interface should somehow justify its inefficiencies compared to Linux. However, Linux's lack of point-and-click gui tools is very old news that got washed away several years ago when tools like Mandrake's free setup tools for Red Hat and SuSE's YAST came about. And besides, it is better to have to learn to setup systems using text config files and then have it run problem free for a year, than to point and click for a day and end up with a system that needs constant attention just to be kept running.
And popular languages with GOTOs raised a generation of programmers who were not told that GOTO's are bad. Later they killed many programs before learning it the hard way.
Would you rather have that the mistakes of past are not repeated, or that you could impress younglings by avoiding the use of GOTO with the grace of an experienced developer?
Sure, PHP-MySQL is just a tool. And a very good at that. I doubt there is another stack that you can use to recruit and organize a group of talented college kids to efficiently crank out a working application. More and more projects use PHP and MySQL because they are the most popular and relatively easy to learn. Many people start their programming careers nowadays from PHP and MySQL. This is similar to how the BASIC of the earlier era encouraged an entire generation of computer programmers and scientists. I disagree with the author's putting a negative stigma on PHP and MySQL. Newbies are always in danger of learning some bad habbits at first, however there is nothing like the GOTO statement in PHP. Even a simpler language like PHP is generations ahead of BASIC.
I've gotten that too. It's very strange. I'm looking in the Wiki because I don't know the answer. When I see the answer isn't there, I'm not the person you want to edit it. What am I supposed to do, write down how I'd *like* it to work?
I'm not sure what kind of person Linux snobs think they're dealing with. Snobs seem to assume that ordinary users aren't asking questions because they want to know the answers, but because they want to catch the snobs in a mistake. I wonder what social group interacts that way. Oh, geeks. Right.
I don't like snobbism myself and I certainly could never agree with berating users. However I would not jump to such generalizations about a large group of very different people. There are always individuals in all groups geeks or not who may be very good and polite as well as those who may use foul language or commit other unacceptable behavior.
I think the real issue at hand, however, is that of free support, software and service. There is a saying "Don't look a gifted horse in the mouth". Those who possess the lucrative knowledge and skills of Unix and Linux are not by their possession of it required in any way to assist others. Self-sacrificing philantropists who are willing to do whatever it takes to assist others with no interest for themselves are very difficult if not impossible to come by. And this is just a fact of life. And if anyone wants to prove me wrong I could only encourage them to walk the walk.
What the mergers mean on the ground is not limited to quality of service or customer support. The real danger here is a drastic eventual increase in the price of service. Without competition monopolies will rise prices and customers will have no choice but to pay. Governments may eventually lose their control of the monopolies. It is concievable that cyclicly merging and splitting telcoms every few decades will help to keep the industry healthy in the long run. I just hope that this cycle trend will continue carefully because an overly stretched cycle will overbenefit telcoms and make losers out of consumers.
The replies to my post are presumptiously stating some non-existing evidence that supposedly refute my comment as some kind of trumped up rumor, giving my comment a 0 score. If the slashdot community prefers to rudely reject unpopular ideas, as is the case here, then I declare slashdot redundant and my posting time here is over.
If your IT department is more hindrance than help than you are not in synch with the IT department. The IT department fires you and outsources your job to India.
Increase the earth's gravity like they did with the speed of light and never told us. If the gravity is higher, the garbage will fall into the atmosphere. Than the military can lower it back to normal...
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Those would roughly be the ones that know how to use the VB6 wizards to do _almost_ anything and can make it work on Unix. Way to go SCO! Make your next great VB6 app exclusively for Unix. Reward $100,000 for the first to write "hello world".
Exactly. Furthermore, if you read the fine print on the other side of the second appendix to the last page of the contract, it says that SCO, in addition to owning you, will also own your wife, children, dog, truck and home, because they are all your derivatives. Although the wife has a legal option to divorce and seek custody of the children, the SCO also realises that this may be bound by any prenuptual agreements, and they reserve the right to challenge any such 'weak' and 'inconvincing' prenuptual agreement in various courts.
The US Army is already making those... Imagine Microsoft taking over the software..
Please, for the sake of all that is good, for the sake of mankind, please keep M$ away from robotics. Otherwise when the robots do take over, The Matrix will keep being plagued by viruses and spamware and will be down all the time doing windows updates. Imagine your whole world blinking out in one giant BSOD. I wander how many Matrix-trapped humans will suffer instant heart attacks. That would have to be scary, very scary!
Yep, this is exactly why all C++ compilers and car manufacturing conveyers use pre-made lego blocks. They make building lego cars much faster and cost efficient.
It would be better and it is. That is exactly why consumer machines do not have coolers that operate below the water freeze point attached to their processors. And this is also exactly why dual-processor or multi-core machines are made for the general public.
Mod the entire article as +5 Funny and move on...
I would not be surprised at all if Google was using its massive super clusters to run market simulations to find out how to make more money. In fact, it would be the smart thing to do unless adwords are making too much money to justify using the computing power for anything else.
You keep bringing up interesting points. I guess nowadays such low-level tinkering as fitting programs into a 64k memory is just not done because the memory has become nanoscopic and cheap. Applications tend to be really big and much less time is spent worrying about size and speed of your programs, and more about logic presentability and maintainability. If you need much faster programs that fit into much less memory (relatively per buck), just wait 18 months and buy new hardware, and that's easier and more cost-effective than tinkering. Perhaps the end of GOTO in high-level languages is tied to the end of an era that justified such a use in the first place.
I guess that will make sure that at least 300,000 of their Windows Cluster servers will be available at any given time, while the other 500,000 are likely to be BSODed, downloading and installing the windows update or running the antivirus scan on all drives. Also, expect at least 100,000 thousand windows and network admin jobs to be created (A+ required).
Professor to Fry: " I am beginning to fear there will be no forced mating at all."
According to some modern science theories the universe is going to contract when it is done expanding. Where are we going to flee then? Another Universe perhaps..
I didn't know that anyone still reads Saberhagen. In my opinion his writings are kind of dry, no offense. I think the berserkers are similar in concept to the flood in the Xbox Halo game. The flood requires bio-mass to replicate and tries to wipe out all intelligent non-flood life by reusing its bio-material. The flood was stopped only by a galaxy-wide mega-suicide self destruct that only affected intelligent biological material and left lifeless or unintelligent material like bacteria, plants, planets and stars unaffected.
If it might be actually possible to wipe out all intelligent biological life in the galaxy by constructing one of those halo things, then I say we should not go into space to prevent halos from being constructed by ourselves. Or at least stay out of space so we do not learn about Halos that do exist. That way we can peacefully exist until the galaxy is destroyed and not even have to worry about saving it.
On the other hand, I think that "space laser" needs more funding in case alien invaders do show up. That way we would have something to at least try to shoot'em with as they glide slowly side-to-side towards earth, dropping their poo that also happens to be biological weapons of mass destruction. Where will you be then? I bet you would have wished you colonized moon and mars earlier!
You are absolutely right. I think GOTO does have its place, especially in assembly languages that absolutely must utilize a GOTO at one lavel or another. On the other hand, languages like Java and PERL that run on machines in interpreted mode and can afford the luxury of hundreds of hash tables, really should not have GOTOs, and they don't. At that level GOTOs would kill the whole purpose of a high level language. BASIC combined scripting with low level programming which may have caused the much dreaded confusion that lead to the use of GOTOs in high level languages.
You are right when you note that this thread is about downtime/uptime, and not the ease/difficulty of installation. Generally, although the learning curve may be steep for linux administration, as your study has confirmed so very well, the end result of system stability is more important for any mission-critical enterprise system. I do not want to repeat myself, please see my post below titled "Wrong Assumptions." Thanks.
I generally find that whenever Linux is being attacked, it is only through a model with serious logical fallacies that are carefully covered over by seemingly innocent mistakes. In reality these are carefully engineered FUDs designed to sound valid to most common people but failing under any serious scrutiny.
I can conclude from these quotes that the author may feel that Window's point and click interface should somehow justify its inefficiencies compared to Linux. However, Linux's lack of point-and-click gui tools is very old news that got washed away several years ago when tools like Mandrake's free setup tools for Red Hat and SuSE's YAST came about. And besides, it is better to have to learn to setup systems using text config files and then have it run problem free for a year, than to point and click for a day and end up with a system that needs constant attention just to be kept running.
And popular languages with GOTOs raised a generation of programmers who were not told that GOTO's are bad. Later they killed many programs before learning it the hard way.
Would you rather have that the mistakes of past are not repeated, or that you could impress younglings by avoiding the use of GOTO with the grace of an experienced developer?
Sure, PHP-MySQL is just a tool. And a very good at that. I doubt there is another stack that you can use to recruit and organize a group of talented college kids to efficiently crank out a working application. More and more projects use PHP and MySQL because they are the most popular and relatively easy to learn. Many people start their programming careers nowadays from PHP and MySQL. This is similar to how the BASIC of the earlier era encouraged an entire generation of computer programmers and scientists. I disagree with the author's putting a negative stigma on PHP and MySQL. Newbies are always in danger of learning some bad habbits at first, however there is nothing like the GOTO statement in PHP. Even a simpler language like PHP is generations ahead of BASIC.
I've gotten that too. It's very strange. I'm looking in the Wiki because I don't know the answer. When I see the answer isn't there, I'm not the person you want to edit it. What am I supposed to do, write down how I'd *like* it to work?
I'm not sure what kind of person Linux snobs think they're dealing with. Snobs seem to assume that ordinary users aren't asking questions because they want to know the answers, but because they want to catch the snobs in a mistake. I wonder what social group interacts that way. Oh, geeks. Right.
I don't like snobbism myself and I certainly could never agree with berating users. However I would not jump to such generalizations about a large group of very different people. There are always individuals in all groups geeks or not who may be very good and polite as well as those who may use foul language or commit other unacceptable behavior.
I think the real issue at hand, however, is that of free support, software and service. There is a saying "Don't look a gifted horse in the mouth". Those who possess the lucrative knowledge and skills of Unix and Linux are not by their possession of it required in any way to assist others. Self-sacrificing philantropists who are willing to do whatever it takes to assist others with no interest for themselves are very difficult if not impossible to come by. And this is just a fact of life. And if anyone wants to prove me wrong I could only encourage them to walk the walk.
What the mergers mean on the ground is not limited to quality of service or customer support. The real danger here is a drastic eventual increase in the price of service. Without competition monopolies will rise prices and customers will have no choice but to pay. Governments may eventually lose their control of the monopolies. It is concievable that cyclicly merging and splitting telcoms every few decades will help to keep the industry healthy in the long run. I just hope that this cycle trend will continue carefully because an overly stretched cycle will overbenefit telcoms and make losers out of consumers.
The replies to my post are presumptiously stating some non-existing evidence that supposedly refute my comment as some kind of trumped up rumor, giving my comment a 0 score. If the slashdot community prefers to rudely reject unpopular ideas, as is the case here, then I declare slashdot redundant and my posting time here is over.
I hope the public may see photos or proofs of the remains of russian cosmonauts that got there first but were never meant to come back.
If your IT department is more hindrance than help than you are not in synch with the IT department. The IT department fires you and outsources your job to India.
Increase the earth's gravity like they did with the speed of light and never told us. If the gravity is higher, the garbage will fall into the atmosphere. Than the military can lower it back to normal...
Maybe some of it can be used as propellant for nuclear or ion rockets, so that craft can refuel.