You're thinking on entirely the wrong level. The ATi AMD merger has more to do with servers than you think. They were after the floating point and vector speed that graphics chips have been offering for a while now. Floating point processors are huge yield things. The second reason is the same as why intel has a graphics chip making division. It's not for "1337 Gamzors", it's for integration and selling 3 chips to an OEM instead of one.
I'm sorry did you just say that XML "takes a lot of effort (CPU cycles, parser-programmer effort) to decipher." Have you ever written a computer program at all? If the parser is a big chunk of your code why are you even generating code at all? Maybe you should just have a nap or find a De Lorean to take you back to your own time.
Just the way you wrote GUI tools like it's some sort of acid in your mouth astounds me.
Oh please I knew from reading the title that this article would congeal comments of "Wah! Bad parents!". Have you ever stopped to think why the parents are so bad?
I had this debate a few days ago with a 72 year old man. I'm only 21 for the record. We were discussing a group of school children who were maybe 12 or 13 on the bus sitting down while this man and another old woman were standing. The point that I hit is how can you blame the parents when we are all the cause for their failing. Let me explain, most of us are working longer hours, kids are in daycare/school/babysitter, your mortgage just keeps growing, tax and inflation woes worrying you, savings disappearing, credit card debt and other factors. Most people with an ounce of sense or ability to earn money aren't having kids. Almost all the kids are coming out of the lowest common denominator multiplied by itself, not all, but by far the great majority. We are creating our own problem and unfortunately economics is to blame. This isn't just happening on the village level it's happening en masse in most established, post-industrial countries. We have a problem where parents can't be parents. This is the cause and unless either the middle/upper class couples start having children again or life becomes less stressful it's not going to get any better.It goes deeper than that though. I remember the key cause for generation and legal conflict from teenagers when I was one was boredom. I wasn't your generic geek who hid from everyone else at school during my teenage years, that is not to say I didn't have a horrible time at school it is just to say I associated with people most geeks would avoid. Most of us are living in suburbs or satellite towns, these are horrible breeding grounds for boredom. Kids are dead bored, the fact there is nothing to do nearby except mill with friends is the resultant of this. People get violent and abusive, both to themselves and others, when they are bored. Never underestimate the power of environmental factors on people.
You argument of children's world being one of survival of the fittest is looking through the Fox News camera. You're being overly dramatic and probably ignorant of your own upbringing. Childhood is a microcosm of the larger society around them, if you wonder why they fight so much and have pecking orders and whatnot it is because the rest of us live in such an environment as well. Kids forming groups, gangs or whatever derogatory slang you want to use are merely living out the wider societies states and nations metaphors to a scale. If you want to point the finger at someone state with yourself and why you continue to live in such an inhumane, yet intrinsically human manor.
Pay attention to the very important point that Red Hat uses different metrics to Microsoft. Watch this video at redhatmagazine.comand don't compare apples to oranges.
Correction to the correction: Information Overlord Overload Predicted Problem of the Year for 2008.
I've been saying for years that we need to stop spawning more overlords, but would you people listen? Of course not.
But you require more overlords!! Otherwise we won't have enough for the zerglings.
Misconfiguring a server does not make your point correct. Sounds like you need a dedicated data server or something like a SAN. Maybe you should even look towards a faster server. If management do not want to set you up with proper hardware that is their problem for sub optimal performance.
What a stupid thing to say. Did you know you still need to load the data from the hard drives to main memory in order to access the information from the filesystem? Any extra calculation is negligible after the initial performance hits of actually getting the data off a spinning iron disk are overcome. If you honestly think any newish processor would have ANY problems handling one or more raid setups I want to know what you are smoking.
Look can we put this myth to rest. Software RAID will not degrade performance. My linux software RAID is faster than my hardware RAID card's RAID for RAID10. This is just stupid there are so many reasons to go with software RAID over hardware RAID. Spending $250 is a waste of money for a RAID card, I can get an AMD X2 and a motherboard with 6 SATA slots for that price, same level of performance. RAID card manufacturers own part of a dying business and don't tell me enterprise. If a business has money they should spend it on iSCSI or fibre channel and not waste it on shitty RAID controllers.
Here in Australia you will be paid far more as a Linux sysadmin than a windows sysadmin. Why would you call that a deskill? A lot of CTO's and CEO's with knowledge of what linux is see itas more of a challenge than windows which suggests the person with linux on their resume is subsequently more skilled.
What ever happened to my right to be a bot. If I want my computer to be a bot, date a bot, go out and dance the robot, work as a robot, et cetera I will. God dammit son this is slashdot we love irrational freedoms!
Integrating different products is or par with making the individual chips themselves. Most users will not differentiate between the intel wireless chipset and the Dell box it sits inside. Dell have a fair amount of very intelligent engineers and integrators they can choose what goes into a box. Broadcom are really dicks much of the time with their implementation of standards and you know what they pay for it. Broadcom is not seen as a serious high end brand by many integrators because their network cards are rubbish, breaking standards and refusing to operate on linux. It hurts a company a lot to be seen as offering second rate hardware with regards to servers. Dell, HP, Acer, et cetera do choose what goes in the box it is their role to enforce interoperability and it should pay off for them if it is not already. If the product is crap, breaks standards and doesn't play nicely with the other boxen it will likely lead to many calls to helpdesk.
A computer manufacturer also can't support every single OS out there.
Of course they can. All they have to do is make their hardware work to a set of common standards. That's why so many different operating systems work on different hardware already, the manufacturers' made there hardware open and follow standards and guidelines. It's pretty simple really the only reason they don't is they are producing a shitty product or they are lazy. There is a 3rd reason that they are deliberately making their hardware uninteroperable but that is another issue.
Most people use the term "this traffic is like a carpark". You, sir, are dumb enough to actually be stuck in one and not a carpark. Hence why so many cars are indeed driverless.
I call your bluff. I own 3 motorola linux powered phones and none have ever shown any noticable difference in response time to any other smartphone out there. In fact my E6 can handle multiple processes quite nicely without context switching delay of many other PDAs and smartphones I have used.
Apple should release a $200 iPod touch with increased functionality and reduced specs for children in third world countries. It could easily compete with OLPC at that price.
I realise this is a joke but it sounds an awful lot like "let the eat cake".
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I mean that is the plan right?
If there is no other intelligent life forms on Mars then surrender is automatic and we will own it faster than you can bake a croissant.
I think I saw a video of that. It had two girls and a cup...
You're thinking on entirely the wrong level. The ATi AMD merger has more to do with servers than you think. They were after the floating point and vector speed that graphics chips have been offering for a while now. Floating point processors are huge yield things. The second reason is the same as why intel has a graphics chip making division. It's not for "1337 Gamzors", it's for integration and selling 3 chips to an OEM instead of one.
I'm sorry did you just say that XML "takes a lot of effort (CPU cycles, parser-programmer effort) to decipher." Have you ever written a computer program at all? If the parser is a big chunk of your code why are you even generating code at all? Maybe you should just have a nap or find a De Lorean to take you back to your own time.
Just the way you wrote GUI tools like it's some sort of acid in your mouth astounds me.
Oh please I knew from reading the title that this article would congeal comments of "Wah! Bad parents!". Have you ever stopped to think why the parents are so bad?
I had this debate a few days ago with a 72 year old man. I'm only 21 for the record. We were discussing a group of school children who were maybe 12 or 13 on the bus sitting down while this man and another old woman were standing. The point that I hit is how can you blame the parents when we are all the cause for their failing. Let me explain, most of us are working longer hours, kids are in daycare/school/babysitter, your mortgage just keeps growing, tax and inflation woes worrying you, savings disappearing, credit card debt and other factors. Most people with an ounce of sense or ability to earn money aren't having kids. Almost all the kids are coming out of the lowest common denominator multiplied by itself, not all, but by far the great majority. We are creating our own problem and unfortunately economics is to blame. This isn't just happening on the village level it's happening en masse in most established, post-industrial countries. We have a problem where parents can't be parents. This is the cause and unless either the middle/upper class couples start having children again or life becomes less stressful it's not going to get any better.It goes deeper than that though. I remember the key cause for generation and legal conflict from teenagers when I was one was boredom. I wasn't your generic geek who hid from everyone else at school during my teenage years, that is not to say I didn't have a horrible time at school it is just to say I associated with people most geeks would avoid. Most of us are living in suburbs or satellite towns, these are horrible breeding grounds for boredom. Kids are dead bored, the fact there is nothing to do nearby except mill with friends is the resultant of this. People get violent and abusive, both to themselves and others, when they are bored. Never underestimate the power of environmental factors on people.You argument of children's world being one of survival of the fittest is looking through the Fox News camera. You're being overly dramatic and probably ignorant of your own upbringing. Childhood is a microcosm of the larger society around them, if you wonder why they fight so much and have pecking orders and whatnot it is because the rest of us live in such an environment as well. Kids forming groups, gangs or whatever derogatory slang you want to use are merely living out the wider societies states and nations metaphors to a scale. If you want to point the finger at someone state with yourself and why you continue to live in such an inhumane, yet intrinsically human manor.
Turn in your geek card at the door and prepare for a week long intensive MacGyver training session.
Pay attention to the very important point that Red Hat uses different metrics to Microsoft. Watch this video at redhatmagazine.comand don't compare apples to oranges.
PC Load Letter. What the fuck does that mean?
Misconfiguring a server does not make your point correct. Sounds like you need a dedicated data server or something like a SAN. Maybe you should even look towards a faster server. If management do not want to set you up with proper hardware that is their problem for sub optimal performance.
What a stupid thing to say. Did you know you still need to load the data from the hard drives to main memory in order to access the information from the filesystem? Any extra calculation is negligible after the initial performance hits of actually getting the data off a spinning iron disk are overcome. If you honestly think any newish processor would have ANY problems handling one or more raid setups I want to know what you are smoking.
Look can we put this myth to rest. Software RAID will not degrade performance. My linux software RAID is faster than my hardware RAID card's RAID for RAID10. This is just stupid there are so many reasons to go with software RAID over hardware RAID. Spending $250 is a waste of money for a RAID card, I can get an AMD X2 and a motherboard with 6 SATA slots for that price, same level of performance. RAID card manufacturers own part of a dying business and don't tell me enterprise. If a business has money they should spend it on iSCSI or fibre channel and not waste it on shitty RAID controllers.
Here in Australia you will be paid far more as a Linux sysadmin than a windows sysadmin. Why would you call that a deskill? A lot of CTO's and CEO's with knowledge of what linux is see itas more of a challenge than windows which suggests the person with linux on their resume is subsequently more skilled.
What ever happened to my right to be a bot. If I want my computer to be a bot, date a bot, go out and dance the robot, work as a robot, et cetera I will. God dammit son this is slashdot we love irrational freedoms!
Dozier, as in American mispelling Dossier?
Most Linux supporters on slashdot really do no comprehend how much code is contributed to Linux by Red Hat, IMB and other commerical offerings.
Integrating different products is or par with making the individual chips themselves. Most users will not differentiate between the intel wireless chipset and the Dell box it sits inside. Dell have a fair amount of very intelligent engineers and integrators they can choose what goes into a box. Broadcom are really dicks much of the time with their implementation of standards and you know what they pay for it. Broadcom is not seen as a serious high end brand by many integrators because their network cards are rubbish, breaking standards and refusing to operate on linux. It hurts a company a lot to be seen as offering second rate hardware with regards to servers. Dell, HP, Acer, et cetera do choose what goes in the box it is their role to enforce interoperability and it should pay off for them if it is not already. If the product is crap, breaks standards and doesn't play nicely with the other boxen it will likely lead to many calls to helpdesk.
I'm going to point to the post being a joke and hope you evolve a sense of humour in order to enjoy it before you die.
Most people use the term "this traffic is like a carpark". You, sir, are dumb enough to actually be stuck in one and not a carpark. Hence why so many cars are indeed driverless.
Since when did children contribute anything of value to society. Get off my lawn.
Without listing my resume or biting your sarcasm, yes I do have more experience in this area than you.
I call your bluff. I own 3 motorola linux powered phones and none have ever shown any noticable difference in response time to any other smartphone out there. In fact my E6 can handle multiple processes quite nicely without context switching delay of many other PDAs and smartphones I have used.