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Comment Re:Ditching Sun servers (Score 1) 207

by andyfrommk on Monday May 04, 2009 @03:13PM (#27820511) Attached to: IBM Doubles Rewards For Ditching Sun

A similar system to the one in my OP
Yes they are cheaper but still way overpriced compared to commodity x64 hardware and I don't know what preformance gains you get from 4x450Mhz over 1x1.8Ghz.
I'd love to try out Solaris on SPARC and get geek points for having obscure hardware but not at those prices.

Comment Re:The Death of SPARC? (Score 1) 207

by andyfrommk on Monday May 04, 2009 @02:32PM (#27819915) Attached to: IBM Doubles Rewards For Ditching Sun

Oh come on that is not in the Spirit of Open Source. Free is Free no matter what the real overhead it.

I'm not denigrating it, I would love to run Linux or OpenSolaris on an OpenSPARC but I don't have the time to solder that many transistors together, anyway the OpenSPARC documentation is in a hardware description language not the traditional logic-gated schematic that I was expecting.

Comment Re:Ditching Sun servers (Score 1) 207

by andyfrommk on Monday May 04, 2009 @12:38PM (#27818181) Attached to: IBM Doubles Rewards For Ditching Sun

Does this mean that there will be a market full of cheap(ish) second-hand Sun servers your average geek might be able to make use of?

Yeah,SUN ENTERPRISE 450 DUAL 300MHz SERVER WITH WARRANTY
A snip at Â£1,695.00 (although prices on Sun hardware do seem to have come down a bit)

Comment Re:The Death of SPARC? (Score 2, Insightful) 207

by andyfrommk on Monday May 04, 2009 @12:27PM (#27817953) Attached to: IBM Doubles Rewards For Ditching Sun

Is this the death of SPARC?....Or does it have some niche market/capability like PowerPC?

The OpenSPARC certainly serves a niche market, those with fab plants who are able to fabricate enough cpu's so that the per-cpu cost is cheaper than buying them from $cpu_mftr

Comment Re:Daily Mail crap (Score 1) 312

by andyfrommk on Monday May 04, 2009 @12:00PM (#27817541) Attached to: UK Possibly Exploring "Google Tax"

A government dept considering a thing is far from the same thing as doing it....

I think they leaked the proposal to gauge the public's appetite for taxing on-line ads.
They don't have the balls to come out with something just in case they look foolish so they leak, gauge reaction then decide wether to go with it.

why should they not consider all options, even the stupid ones like this one?

I thought my taxes were for the underprivileged and less-well-off, the BBC doesn't strike me as such.

Comment Re:Some Experience (Score 2, Interesting) 247

by andyfrommk on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @04:12PM (#23941021) Attached to: Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market

As I already have a Freerunner, here are my experiences:

Where did you get it? whats your email on the lists? are there any good points about it? You seem to have just registered on slashdot, was it to troll on the neo freerunner? I call BS on that post

HTC Shift + ThinkPad X300 + MacBook Air = Perfect Notebook? 108

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 21, 2008 @02:49PM from the pipe-dreams dept.

Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at the HTC Shift, the newest contender in the ultralight portable arena, with a strong compare and contrast to the other two heavyweights, the ThinkPad X300 and the Macbook Air. "As some of you know, I actually like the Macbook Air but found the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 to be a vastly more useful product in the class. I'm one of the few folks that have been using an early version of the HTC Shift , a smaller screened ultra light tablet with a keyboard and a touch screen which is superior to both offerings in some ways and just released on Amazon.com for $1500 (someone screwed up, this wasn't supposed to happen until next week). This got me thinking: The perfect next generation ultra-sexy notebook should be a blend of all three products."

Winking Star Decoded as Root of Planetary System 40

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 14, 2008 @04:06AM from the cool-looking-space-things dept.

sam1am points out a New York Times report on a recent paper published in Nature about the formation of planetary systems. A binary star system surrounded by a protoplanetary disc was observed over a period of six years by scientists at Wesleyan University. The orbit of the stars around each other caused changes in illumination from within the disc and allowed the researchers to learn a great deal about its composition. Some of the basic data is posted on the university's site. An animation of the system is also available. From the NYTimes: "'This is the first step in going from smoke particles to macroscopic things like planets and asteroids,' Dr. Herbst said in an interview, noting that these grains were about the same size as those found in many meteorites. Observing starlight reflected from these grains, he said, represented a rare opportunity to study the structure and chemical properties of material in the inner parts of another planetary system."

Games That Could Have Been 99

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 21, 2007 @09:48AM from the sparks-in-their-creators-eyes dept.

Gamespot, to accompany a piece on the art of pitching a game has up a companion article on a few good pitches from talented developers that never quite made it into games. My favorite of the three, from Will Wright: "I've always been fascinated with airships, and I wanted to do a game about the Hindenburg. And it was originally conceived as a cross between Myst and a flight simulator, if you can imagine that. You basically wake up on the Hindenburg. You're all alone. It's flying toward Lakehurst, New Jersey. You can walk anywhere on the ship. You can turn lights on and off. You can steer. You can adjust the engines. But every time you come into Lakehurst, it blows up. And you have to figure out why, and it becomes like this weird mystery flight simulator thing. I'd still love to do that."

Al Gore Shares Nobel Peace Prize with UN Panel 937

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 12, 2007 @07:42AM from the who-woulda-thunk dept.

eldavojohn writes "Former US Vice President Al Gore has been announced as a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on environmental awareness & climate change. He shares his award with the the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 'Speaking in Washington, Mr Gore praised the IPCC, "whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years". "We face a true planetary emergency," Mr Gore warned. "It is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity." He said he would donate his half of the $1.5m prize money to the Alliance for Climate Protection, reported the news agency Reuters.'"

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