Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-3-2010

[andrewducker]

• Possibly the geekiest judge in the world. Read the commentary...
  (tags: comics gaiman geekery funny)
• Solar-powered process could decrease carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels in 10 years. Anyone care to comment?
  (tags: solar technology energy environment co2 science carbon)
• Intuit lobbying governments to making it hard to file taxes. I am so glad that I don't have to work out my own taxes.
  (tags: government politics taxes usa)
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time - a short story by Catherynne M. Valente. Well worth reading
  (tags: fiction short_story scifi)
• The US will cease all combat operations in Iraq by the end of August.
  (tags: iraq afghanistan military obama politics)
• Headline of the day:Radioactive Boar on the Rise in Germany
  (tags: germany nuclear environment europe wildlife)
• Western civilization runs on the mainframe
  (tags: ibm hardware software mainframe technology)
• Pixar's 3D guy writes to Mark Kermode about how they see the role of 3D.
  (tags: 3d movies pixar)
• How social security reduced inequality
  (tags: welfare inequality uk)

Comments

[crm.livejournal.com]

re mainframe:

sussh freetards! dont take my mainframe away! people need it to make a living, and i doubt theres a bank in the world which could migrate of Z onto open without paying 10 times more on migration/physical space and all the bloodshed that involves.

just because its not free or open doesn't mean it isn't worth keeping about.

besides, its not like IBM are malign with it, they improve the platform regularly, they are good stewards of the billion programs, new, old, vendor and bespoke which run on it. Hell they straight up *told* us how to save money on licensing costs by juggling about our LPAR distributions.

CA however, are a bunch of bastards.