Vista kernel was a rewrite (and great success..). Now they try to build on said great success, instead of rewriting it again. Makes sense:-)
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You have a choice: you buy a product NOW, or you read the news: oh, there is a quad-GPU graphics card scheduled in 6 months. By the time it's ready, you read again: there is another one with 64 GPU's ready in one year. So, if your choice is to never be happy, don't blame it on tech.
.."There has been a 50% to 60% cut in bandwidth, Rajesh Charia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India told Reuters ".. Does this mean that all the outsourcing sweatshops will have to raise prices in order to cover their "investment in infrastructure" ?
It takes a certain intellectual level to admit one's own faults. And people saying "I don't know" from time are easier to work with than people always being right
I was ironic when asking about port of iPhoto.. Because then my would anyone bother buying Macs (with bundled Mac OS), if similar-looking applications run on Windoze? Probably Safari on Win is just a tool for letting everyone develop for iPhone. And I still like my G5 iMac
Long time there was talk about "yellow box" as a means to run Windows applications in Macs, side by side with native Mac apps. Makes me wonder, isn't Apple doing the total opposite? I mean, there is QuickTime, iTunes and now Safari 3 running on Windoze with a Mac look-and-feel ? What will be the next port, iPhoto maybe ?!?
It is one thing to insert/retrieve a row to/from a 600 GB database, another do a SUM.. WHERE..join..join..join.. GROUP BY TIME,PRODUCT over "only" 12GB . And since it is called online analytical processing, you would expect results.. today. Essbase does several equivalent queries per second.
So does it mean that Oracle is dropping "Oracle OLAP", after they dropped Oracle Express ? I tried to work with Oracle OLAP, which is quite bad compared to Essbase. Actually Essbase is very good, and it seems as one of "the solutions" for big cubes where MS Analytic services won't scale.
Some may call "Business Intelligence" an oxymoron, the open source project Mondrian is nicely packaged under http://www.pentaho.com/ (added ETL, scheduler, portal, and presentations are written in a language the audience would expect it). The open-source analytic engine called Mondrian is quite good, can serve XMLA (hint: MS Analytic Services). With little time and luck, it might become worthy competitor to Cognos & Business Objects & MSAS.
Mandatory Access Control is another compelling reason, at least for me. Currently there are no viruses in the wild, but few trojans and some proof-of-concept Bluetooth exploits. Anyway, the risk is there, and this particular implementation (derived from TrustedBSD) looks promising.
What's the difference if the virused attachements arrive to the mail client and user opens them versus user opens all attachements in the "dump directory" ?
Besides, deleting the dump directory every night makes it practically unusable for legitimate purposes. How should one associate the text mails with the files in home folders (copied over from ever deleting dump folder) ?!?
The whole proposal looks nice in PowerPoint, and hopefully will never get deployed
At the moment, the closest thing to "competition" is Sun's ZFS with dynamic stripping of writes over multiple devices. While stripped write was probably not designed for "Quality-of-Service" style implied by "Congestion Control", is definitively helping with better speed and reliability (copies on at least 2 devices). This could be as significant BSD advantage as was the immutable file flag.
Before Intel, it made no sense to steal Mac OS X because there was no (sensible) gear to run it natively. Now all it takes is a standard PC. There are more tinkerers. This means that move to Intel created, indirectly, a higher security risk
Am I the only one who can't understand why newfound "Intel Apple fans" are the only ones thrilled about running Windows ?!? After decades of Mac zealotry ?!? Even MS's own employees have a thing called Mini Microsoft http://minimsft.blogspot.com/.. Somebody must pay hard cash to keep up the good blogging of Macs running XP...
In TFA there is a link to Grails http://grails.org/ , which is slightly different than jumping on the Java bandwagon. The Grails base is Groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org/, which is a promising (still little immature) dynamic language. I think Java developers better take a look on the changing world, otherwise they will end up as their COBOL ancestors. Similarity: how many big-iron J2EE servers were 3 years ago, and how many were "upgraded" to Dells running whatever-app on Linux.
This is the first time I see something practical in relation to S-OX. Usually it's just powerpoint slides presented by managers who got them from other managers... who got them from some company trying to sell S-OX consultancy.
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Vista kernel was a rewrite (and great success..). Now they try to build on said great success, instead of rewriting it again. Makes sense :-)
Can't believe, I had a first post !!!!
You have a choice: you buy a product NOW, or you read the news: oh, there is a quad-GPU graphics card scheduled in 6 months. By the time it's ready, you read again: there is another one with 64 GPU's ready in one year. So, if your choice is to never be happy, don't blame it on tech.
.."There has been a 50% to 60% cut in bandwidth, Rajesh Charia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India told Reuters " .. Does this mean that all the outsourcing sweatshops will have to raise prices in order to cover their "investment in infrastructure" ?
Luckily the cold war is over, otherwise the Cubans would be in trouble..
It takes a certain intellectual level to admit one's own faults. And people saying "I don't know" from time are easier to work with than people always being right
I was ironic when asking about port of iPhoto.. Because then my would anyone bother buying Macs (with bundled Mac OS), if similar-looking applications run on Windoze? Probably Safari on Win is just a tool for letting everyone develop for iPhone. And I still like my G5 iMac
Long time there was talk about "yellow box" as a means to run Windows applications in Macs, side by side with native Mac apps. Makes me wonder, isn't Apple doing the total opposite? I mean, there is QuickTime, iTunes and now Safari 3 running on Windoze with a Mac look-and-feel ? What will be the next port, iPhoto maybe ?!?
It is one thing to insert/retrieve a row to/from a 600 GB database, another do a SUM .. WHERE..join..join..join.. GROUP BY TIME,PRODUCT over "only" 12GB . And since it is called online analytical processing, you would expect results .. today. Essbase does several equivalent queries per second.
TFA is about a _cube_ of 12 Gb . Not _relational_ database. Read my other post http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=232 481&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=1889 9385#18899875
12 Gb of _relational_ database falls under "nothing to see, move along". But Essbase http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essbase is doing OLAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLAP , which means that data is pre-aggregated across multiple _hierarchies_ . Those 150 users are likely the top management looking at the revenue, or reviewing the budget.c ts
In Open Source land there are similar projects: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=olap§ion=proje
So does it mean that Oracle is dropping "Oracle OLAP", after they dropped Oracle Express ? I tried to work with Oracle OLAP, which is quite bad compared to Essbase. Actually Essbase is very good, and it seems as one of "the solutions" for big cubes where MS Analytic services won't scale.
Some may call "Business Intelligence" an oxymoron, the open source project Mondrian is nicely packaged under http://www.pentaho.com/ (added ETL, scheduler, portal, and presentations are written in a language the audience would expect it). The open-source analytic engine called Mondrian is quite good, can serve XMLA (hint: MS Analytic Services). With little time and luck, it might become worthy competitor to Cognos & Business Objects & MSAS.
Mandatory Access Control is another compelling reason, at least for me. Currently there are no viruses in the wild, but few trojans and some proof-of-concept Bluetooth exploits. Anyway, the risk is there, and this particular implementation (derived from TrustedBSD) looks promising.
Ultrasparc T1 (Niagara) may be the last chance for server RISC CPUs.
What is ? The title and first page is "something Mac", then they describe in great detail installation and benchmarking .. XP .. ?!?
What's the difference if the virused attachements arrive to the mail client and user opens them versus user opens all attachements in the "dump directory" ? Besides, deleting the dump directory every night makes it practically unusable for legitimate purposes. How should one associate the text mails with the files in home folders (copied over from ever deleting dump folder) ?!? The whole proposal looks nice in PowerPoint, and hopefully will never get deployed
At the moment, the closest thing to "competition" is Sun's ZFS with dynamic stripping of writes over multiple devices. While stripped write was probably not designed for "Quality-of-Service" style implied by "Congestion Control", is definitively helping with better speed and reliability (copies on at least 2 devices). This could be as significant BSD advantage as was the immutable file flag.
Indexing/partitioning/remodelling the brain-dead table design can lead to significant performance gains
Before Intel, it made no sense to steal Mac OS X because there was no (sensible) gear to run it natively. Now all it takes is a standard PC. There are more tinkerers. This means that move to Intel created, indirectly, a higher security risk
Am I the only one who can't understand why newfound "Intel Apple fans" are the only ones thrilled about running Windows ?!? After decades of Mac zealotry ?!? Even MS's own employees have a thing called Mini Microsoft http://minimsft.blogspot.com/ .. Somebody must pay hard cash to keep up the good blogging of Macs running XP ...
In TFA there is a link to Grails http://grails.org/ , which is slightly different than jumping on the Java bandwagon. The Grails base is Groovy http://groovy.codehaus.org/, which is a promising (still little immature) dynamic language. I think Java developers better take a look on the changing world, otherwise they will end up as their COBOL ancestors. Similarity: how many big-iron J2EE servers were 3 years ago, and how many were "upgraded" to Dells running whatever-app on Linux.
This is the first time I see something practical in relation to S-OX. Usually it's just powerpoint slides presented by managers who got them from other managers ... who got them from some company trying to sell S-OX consultancy.