Isn't it strange that Apple invents a technology, begins to use it for their own business and then Europe says Apple is unfairly preventing other companies from using this technology? What are we missing here?
A lot of good comments about the Unix market back then. The honest truth is that cheap no-name PC's with RedHat and a little later, nVidia graphics cards are what killed the Unix vendors. The price disparity was stark and a no-brainer for companies looking to do big things but with increasingly commodity hardware. It was sad to see Unix vendors die off.
There are a category of people out there that glom onto a certain subject and though they lack the background and training to fully understand the subject, they piece together enough topical information to sound insightful and knowledgeable. It is dangerous to get into discussions with such individuals as they can effortlessly pivot to meta-physical mumbo jumbo or at the very least, obfuscate the subject matter to where one simply gives up the discussion. They can usually be exposed by asking them to break down the subject matter into first principles or to give a mathematical description of the underlying phenomena.
I bet the middle managers cheered when they heard this news. It's been hard for them to show value when everybody is at home. Hope fully most of the folks over there can choose what works for them. Assuming the work gets done regardless.
Our best bets right now for further exploration are bigger telescopes (even bigger than the WEBB), and trying to intercept laser communication events. I should have mentioned gravity astronomy...that will be huge as well.
The Apple Macintosh IIfx had IOP's which I think were 6809's as I/O controllers. I believe they only worked in System 6 and were not used in System 7.
Somebody mentioned that the Mac Quadra 950 had IOP's as well.
Yeah the problem with Cloud vendors is that if they make a mistake, it will usually disadvantage the customer...not them. I'm a little biased as I don't completely buy into the whole Cloud paradigm.
Obviously, only a collimated beam of modulated EM frequency would seem feasible. Then you would have to be in the beams path to even see it. If could detect something like that, it would be amazing and of course trying to decode it.
Honestly, I think it's best if we have two modes of working. We could have an office mode, where you go in to the office and interact with others for whatever reason. Then we have remote mode (maybe the preferred mode), where we have an office like setup, at home with the appropriate equipment to carry out the company's mission. What do you guys think?
Yeah I think our level of intelligence is probably pretty rare. I mean we have a G type star which are not that plentiful in the cosmos. We have a large moon that causes tidal forces on earth and mixes things up. We apparently have a nice selection of elements in our solar system. The problem is that humans took a very long time to evolve. Now we only have .8 billion years to enjoy things before the sun cooks the planet.
I'm personally waiting for the whole DevOps thing to revert back to what we had before. I come from the mainframe world. In those days, there was real trust in the developers and we migrated our own code. We had testers and we couldn't move stuff until they verified our work. The intentions were good for implementing DevOps but I think it's gotten out of hand. It's just too complex. Just my opinion.
The dirty little secret is that warplanes have tiny wings so they can go fast. The problem is that at any given speed compared to ordinary aircraft, more engine power is needed to maintain velocity. That means much more noise. The solution? There is none. Except to keep them at remote bases.
It's an interesting story but it's unlikely that there is any alien machine material on our planet. Interstellar distances are unimaginably vast and there is no technology that allows for travel to neighboring stars. Even if we found "material", it's still composed of elements that are the same for all locations in the cosmos. There are no special elements per se. Chemistry and nucleosynthesis is the same everywhere. I can't rule out unusual isotopes of elements, that is true. So it would be hard to say something came from another star system.
I still argue for autonomous vehicles with sentient robots that come alive in orbit and go down to the planet and explore. I very much doubt that humans will ever leave the solar system. Sadly our lifespans are just too short. One possibility is constructing very large telescopes. I stress very large! A properly constructed telescope could see enormous distances and eliminate the concern about travelling to the particular target. Let's see what the scientists cook up.
It's actually more hopeless than you realize. Okay, so you just arrived at your destination. Now what, unless this new world was EXACTLY like earth, you will perish relatively quickly. The atmosphere will probably have a different mix of gases. The gravity may be different. The star may not be a type G, so radiation might be a real problem. There might be nothing to eat. Certainly viruses and bacteria of that world would attack the astronauts almost immediately. You would surmise before your death that the journey was not worthwhile.
Honestly, the IT market is seriously broken. It's every person for themselves now. Nobody is looking out for you. Get your equipment, build your lab and do remote work.
You can tell by the number of comments below that most citizens are completely oblivious or just plain don't care about government spying. It's a little sad isn't it? We give up our rights so easily.
The original premise of clouds was good. Allow companies to run their software on someone else's machines. The cloud guys wanted to make more money so they started cloning commercial software and then charging companies to use their home-grown stuff. Then the cloud guys began to sub-divide and monetize slivers of service and components of hosting. The danger obviously is that you pay more than if you had your own on premise hardware. Even more serious is the fact you are locked in to their home-grown software and management tools. I predict a re-examination of the whole cloud paradigm at some point relatively soon.
It should be clear by now that Google serves the state. The government knows Google collects all this information and they also know Google never deletes this information. Both Google and the government have an ongoing relationship where information is provided on demand. One can easily imagine that the government is very protective of their relationship with Google. They even invested in Google during the early years.
What could go wrong by having the Zuck and his minions fact check? Naturally it's going to lead to chaos. Tech Bros. have no business even going down this road. Stick to what you know and are good at.
Fighter planes have tiny wings because of aerodynamic drag and so require very powerful engines to keep the plane in the sky. Since the engines are running at high output, they are very noisy. The fact these are also low bypass engines, contributes to the noise as well.
At the end of the day, most large banks, most large insurance firms, most credit processors, most large government agencies use z/OS and z/15 class machines. I work on mainframes and they are the source of data for just about all lower level platforms and companies.
Taking a big step back, it's important to remember that unlike PC processors, mainframe processors do not do I/O. These big frames have dedicated I/O processors called channels. So the mainframe processors are unencumbered and can run at full speed. They issue CCW's (channel command words) which are fielded by a controller and are routed to the storage device.