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10/16/09
Does a monster trimaran indicate a tiny penis AND testicles? #larryellison
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(It's weird, all this yacht-hate doesn't prevent me from lusting after my own. 47' - 76' will do just fine) #larryellison
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10/01/09
[mindtaker.blogspot.com]
In much the same way that I don't believe that folks will fall for Job's new mythical shiny Newton ^h^h iPud ^h iPad, I don't think folks are falling for the hype of cloud computing. Unless it's 'free'.
The problem right now is that there are more 'marketers' and 'technologists' in tech than Engineers who truly innovate on this side of the pond. And India and China don't innovate the way Silly Valley did pre-Offshore-Boom time.
And now all the bot ^h offshore herders have to fight over is the table scraps, tired ideas from 10 years ago that didn't work then and won't work now. Leading us to this:
[mindtaker.blogspot.com]
The USA is really heading into a lost decade. And there truly is 'no App for that."
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10/01/09
I didn't know of Larry's circa-1996 position on Network Computers so I'm just thinking about this now...but isn't he kind of right? Doesn't much of the complexity of PCs go underutilized as a feature, and instead just contribute to user problems (resource conflicts, maybe virus infections)? Doesn't much of the code of any operating system or application just lie there dormant and unused...kind of like those endless lists of drivers that WordPerfect used to provide for printers that no one would ever own?
10/01/09
The person who wrote this article seems unable to differentiate a "forward looking" vision of what will be "big" vs. his critique of just a another relatively new computer term (of which he's heard countless ones like it before).
Find another reason to pick on Lawerence; there are plenty.
10/01/09
1) If you were to compare the SPARC with the mainframe, the mainframe would blow the SPARC out of the water.
2) A Power server is a LOT smaller than the mainframe, and smaller than the SPARC server as well. It would look bad for Oracle to show their big machine vs. a much smaller IBM box, so what do they do? use a picture of a bigger IBM box.
So shady. It's like the hair club for men "before" and "after" shots, but for servers...
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PS What the heck is a "technologist?"
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I concede that the use of the term technologist was some bullshit. Replace that with engineer. Also, even though Larry runs a huge business and doesn't get dirty in the grunt work, the guy is and will always be an engineer.
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09/14/09
Sun hasn't published any results on this benchmark since it was setting world records in the late 1990s.
It has been badmouthing this benchmark since early this decade as not being useful and not representative of customer applications. It seems this benchmark may be a "good one" now since Sun may have good results. Sun and Oracle may also publish a very high number, so high as to make a mockery of the benchmark.
This action is very duplicitous of Sun.