Comment Re:It's official (Score 2, Funny) 196
I think you will find that it is the other way around. We even have Royalty here to endorse addition of the West Island to the kingdom of New Zealand.
Comment Re:huh? (Score 1, Offtopic) 196
Ahh, no. NZ is not part of continental Oz. Australasia is commonly used to group Oz and NZ (and sometimes other countries). Apart from mutually taking the piss out of each other there is little logical reason to group the two separated land masses.
Comment Re:Where is the new Development (Score 1) 130
Probably, if we had a basement, and an intercom
Comment Where is the new Development (Score 2, Insightful) 130
My parents and partner use this sort of service all the time, I am the one at the end of the voice communication network. Kids also use it when lazy.
Comment Re:Unprofessional (Score 1) 122
There appears to be a perception that this work has stopped, it had not... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)
Comment Re:Here is to.... (Score 1) 223
Revenues are the money paid for the server hardware, not the OS. Sources of the survey are a large sample of customers worldwide who report server purchases and the OS installed on them (amongst other things). The results are correlated with vendor reports of sales.
Comment Re:Here is to.... (Score 3, Informative) 223
I have been tracking worldwide server revenues for a few years. Over the past 2-3 years the market share between Mainframe, UNIX, Linux and Windows has been very flat: Windows 40%, Unix 35% Linux 14%, mainframe (ZOS) 11% (IDC Worldwide Server Revenue marketshare).
Quarter Windows Linux UNIX ZOS
02/06 34.20% 12.60% 35.00%
03/06 34.40% 12.40% 34.20% 11.30%
04/06 34.90% 11.40% 33.50% 11.40%
01/07 38.80% 17.00% 35.00%
02/07 38.20% 13.60% 31.70% 9.50%
03/07 40.40% 13.40% 31.10%
04/07 36.60% 12.70% 33.20%
01/08 39.20% 13.70% 30.60% 8.40%
02/08 36.50% 13.40% 32.70% 11.80%
03/08 40.80% 14.00% 29.70% 9.40%
04/08 35.30% 13.60% 36.20%
01/09 37.30% 13.80% 33.10% 9.00%
ZOS is not always reported in press releases and I don't purchase the IDC report.
Looks like neither Mainframe or UNIX is dying, or that Linux is dominating.
Quarter Windows Linux UNIX ZOS
02/06 34.20% 12.60% 35.00%
03/06 34.40% 12.40% 34.20% 11.30%
04/06 34.90% 11.40% 33.50% 11.40%
01/07 38.80% 17.00% 35.00%
02/07 38.20% 13.60% 31.70% 9.50%
03/07 40.40% 13.40% 31.10%
04/07 36.60% 12.70% 33.20%
01/08 39.20% 13.70% 30.60% 8.40%
02/08 36.50% 13.40% 32.70% 11.80%
03/08 40.80% 14.00% 29.70% 9.40%
04/08 35.30% 13.60% 36.20%
01/09 37.30% 13.80% 33.10% 9.00%
ZOS is not always reported in press releases and I don't purchase the IDC report.
Looks like neither Mainframe or UNIX is dying, or that Linux is dominating.
Comment First Opensource?? (Score 1) 223
I'd take a 370 assembler job, if they existed! I enjoyed that more than any other language I've worked with. Heck, even with the old OS that ususally accompanies such work - threads? preemptive multitasking? Who needs em!
From memory, IBM's 370 macros came with source and cool code was shared freely between mainframe shops.
Comment Re:New Focus (Score 1) 125
Microsoft focusing on developing a browser-based OS is directly opposed to their current business model, which involves forcing users to purchase an operating system.
But not opposed to their business model of disrupting competition by any means possible. Significant competitor comes up with browser/OS combination, so lets tell the market that we are doing just that. Should keep the builders of those pesky netbook thingies from drifting away again.
Comment Re:Client Profile is 28 MB (Score -1, Troll) 598
What about factoring in the size of all the malware that can now conveniently run on two platforms now (Windows/.Net and Linux/Mono)
Comment Re:Electricity Hydrogen (Score 1) 453
In my opinion cars driven by electric motors are where we should be placing our bets.
Electric motors can go very quickly (at least the speed limit), have great acceleration, don't require a grid of hydrogen fuel stations to be built, don't require the massive amounts of energy used for electrolysis (the process of making useable hydrogen), have 0 risk of exploding (although admittedly hydrogen vehicles are pretty safe, but its more of a mental thing), and are ridiculously efficient. You know that about 3% of the energy used in internal combustion engines actually ends up moving the driver?
I think you mean 30%, if you are referring to petrol (gas in USA) and 45+% for diesel.
Comment Re:The real question (Score 1) 453
It makes me want to buy a nice second hand tank to even out the odds.
First have to figure out how to purchase a tank and have it delivered without the US Military getting involved.
No sweat here in New Zealand... http://www.tanksforeverything.co.nz/
Comment Re:I just want a goddamned diesel here in the US (Score 1) 307
We bought one, they are insanely fuel efficient (we thought the fuel guage was broken at first) and the performance is amazing. There is a battery though, albeit a conventional starting battery rather than a large hybrid type battery.
Comment Re:New Zealand (Score 1) 1359
New Zealand suffers from small town mentality.
Its very rural, even the cities are really just very large 'small country towns'.
The shops are pretty limited in what they stock, theres very little variety in the stores.
The people are slack, lazy and highly disorganised.
NZ businesses are, by and large, extremely poorly run and the management style leaves a LOT to be desired.
Theres a saying here "She'll be right mate"
It means "Don't worry about something that appears to be almost a disaster, it'll be ok"
Usually when you hear a kiwi say this phrase DUCK because something is about to explode.
I'm even considering going to the UK.
Dead right. Now you just toddle off to the UK just as fast you little legs can carry you and we will both be happy. And BTW, all that my little friend said is dead right.
We don't want any more people here, we have far too many as it is.
Comment Re:What languages? (Score 1) 1359
I'm also a New Zealander.
It is not commonly known within this country but an agency of the NZ Government monitors all internet traffic and telephone calls. While we are signatories to UN Human Rights treaties we don't have a constitution so there is actually no constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable seizure etc.
Think Echelon, a joint US, UK, Canada, Australian and NZ foreign security operation. NZ staff are only allowed to monitor the traffic or foreign nationals though. Can you identify ANY country that does not monitor comms traffic in some way?
And about the consitution in NZ, true we don't have one. But NZ laws about freedom of speech, search and seizure etc. are as "free" as most anywhere else. Looking at what goes in countries with a constitution, we don't seem to suffer too badly here in Godzone.
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