For instance, if you are a bank and you need to transfer huge amounts of money overseas. Or if you are a researcher who needs to render the images of earthquake faults in the Puget Sound basin, it's very unlikely you would use MSFT Windows or NT.
Mephisto, for banking transactions, you will probably use UNIX machines from SUNW, but for earthquake prediction or weather forecast, you will probably NOT use SUNW, but rather use one of those CRAY super-computers. Those computers often have 1024+ processors on board and are ideal for complex matrix computation. I don't believe SUNW has anything that go beyond 64 SMP on a single board. The 8-way INTC boxes that are so oftenly quoted by James obviously don't cut it either. By the way, those super-computers are highly classified and can't be sold to commie bastard countries like China (By the way, I am Chinese, but I still call my old country commie bastards).
The thing between China and Taiwan is just smoke. The idiotic Taiwanese president tried to convince the international community to treat Taiwan as a country. After being shouted down by virtually every industry leaders in the world, and seeing its own stock market went down 13% last week, the stupid SOB is trying to save face now. Taiwan independence will never fly, even in Taiwan, because the people in power in Taiwan all have origins from mainland, in fact, the native Taiwanese is a huge minority, less than 5% of the Taiwan's population. This won't be another Kosovo. The more immediate concern is when China will de-value its currency. I hope it's sooner because my family is waiting to buy a property in China. |
