The reboot is mainly for the iPod and CD-Burning hook-in's to the OS. It also ensures that people running the old iPod software get it out of memory so that weird things do not happen..
It's a good question actually. The answer is of course 'national security' and 'nuclear weapons' and stuff like that, but the real kicker is this:
If a nation could not export the computers needed for a cluster, they could always build the cluster here in the US and utalize the thing over the Internet. In fact, they could probably contract a domestic company to do it for[THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST HAS BEEN CENSORED BY ECHELON]
Have you considered removing the Exchange layer and preserving the Sendmail layer?:)
Seriously, though, if you have a setup this large, and you're already willing to fork out the dough for Exchange 2003 and all that it requires to run, why don't you pick up the phone and talk to Microsoft about getting Exchange 2003 to route properly in your setup. It'd probably be worth the money to have the people that made it get you into a setup that will work.
I may be no fan of Microsoft, but I certainly understnd when it's prudent and cost effective to get the support I'm paying for with commercial software.
Are you serious?!? I sure as hell would expect pretty steep discounts if I ordered 1000 of ANYTHING from ANYONE if an individual unit cost more than a few bucks...
Untrue! There will always be companies that develop the hardware. Granted, it is not necessarily the hardware company's job to develop the OS to run on their new N-Way machines, but it is certainly in their best interest to have Open-Source OS's around in order to be able to test their stuff... Likewise, if Linux customers represent a large enough market for the maker of some FC-AL equipment, then the company putting it out will want to make sure that drivers exist regardless of whether there is a big IBM, SGI, HP, etc. developing them.
I don't know where the submittor is going saying that PicoGUI has given up on X11 compatibility -- It has a native X11 output driver with root window support! AFAIK, it calls Xlib directly.
Note that it also has an SDL driver that keeps everything inside a window, but that is simply just another output device to PicoGUI. It's not just a windowing toolkit after all...
If it reaches terminal velocity and you expect it to survive, then presumably there is some external mechanism for slowing it back down such that it can survive. I would also presume that if it starts slowing down too fast to keep working, the mechanism would engage during deceleration as well.
It's good that this tech is coming down the line, but why in the hell is it going on the MOTHERBOARD instead of in the hard drive electronics where it belongs?!!?
The answer, is, of course that if they keep it out of the HDD's then nobody else will be able to easily integrate the feature into their own notebooks.. Great for IBM selling thinkpads. Shitty for the consumer.
I can see macrovision a little bit -- enough that the pulsating brightness bugs me -- even on my new (within the last 3 years) tv. Turning it off on the DVD player noticably improves picture quality. I had to use a macrovision remover unit to even hook a DVD player up to my girlfriend's TV as it's totally unwatchable (by everyone - not just me) without one. Neither of us even HAVE a vcr. Is your point bogus or am I just a freak?
True, but as the original said, calling someone collect or calling a toll free number will result in your number being un-blocked so that you can assess or verify the correct charges for the call. Likewise toll numbers like 900/976/700 also result in numbers being unblocked so that they know whom to bill.
All of this crap is just some electrial device that pulls power off of the USB bus. Most do not even let the host OS know they exist and if you use them you risk blowing your USB ports (usually on your motherboard) with excessive current draw. I'd imagine that coffee warmer thing is pulling at least 1A, double the maximum of a USB peripheral, but probably OK if the other USB device you've got plugged in is a mouse or something.. The point is, this stuff might as well plug into a PS2 port or parallel port since you can get just as much 5V current out of them!
I wouldn't call it an interesting USB device unless it actually talks to software on the host computer.
That is pretty poor programming if you ask me. It's easy enough to do a calibration during the opening title sequence or something where you aren't relying so much on hardware timers. I guess MS must have been very clear about the 733MHz never changing and the X2 emulation of original X-Box providing this downclocked timer, huh?
My guess is that you'll have a hell of a time with your games on X2.
I don't know any of the rest of them but I do know Ted Strickland. Ted Strickland wants to protect peopele's jobs in his area, and yes, there is at least one Telemartking firm located in his district in southeastern Ohio that employs at least 500 people.
Fuck you.
Now I have no clue how many of those jobs may or may not be lost by this bill, but the fact is, he is voting to protect those jobs. I personally fail to see how it is some great inconvenience to have telemarketers calling you every so often. Its putting food on someone's table, and is better than them being on welfare. My brother in law worked for the firm for a time. In that impovershed area of the country good paying jobs are hard to come by.
Fuck you and your brother.
So yes, I think Mr. Strickland represented his area well. He wanted to protect some jobs that some people have, regardless of the slight inconvenience of a few.
Go eat a dick. You will put your number on that list too if you haven't already. Hypocritial bastard. Welcome to my killfile.
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It's called "Piercing the Corporate Veil" and unless you guys did something really really sneaky this tactic is all but useless to protect you from litigation.
I understand that they have extremely low success rates, but I was also pointing out that it gets even less cost effective to market to people who have specifically stated an opposition to it. 1/1000 success rate is a lot crappier than 1/200 in a business that runs pretty close to the bone anyway..
Hopefully at least some of the telemarketers or their customers will realize it's money better spent to call numbers not on the list than to call numbers on the list. They will spend their money accordingly, and even if the calls don't stop when you're on the national no-call list, at least they'll go down a little bit.
No matter what the court ruling on this ever will be as to whether telemarketers have to abide by the national list or now, the list itself is a good thing and will help people.
To the folks who say, "Oh no! We are giving them a list of valid telephone numbers!" -- They can get this anywhere. The phone company makes it available every year in printed form, and you can buy it for the entire nation in electronic form for merely a few thousand bucks.
What the telemarketing companies now have is a list of 50 million people that they'd waste money calling because they're almost certainly not going to buy anything from a telemarketer. Simple economics will dictate that they should use the list whether or not they legally have to. It will help their bottom line. Hell, customers of the telemarketing firms are likely ASKING the companies to avoid the numbers in all no-call lists because they dont want to pay for calls that are less likely to result in sales.
No. MoveOn printed the petition and delivered it. You can't have a web petition if it just gets emailed as a link to congresspeople. They'll never see that.. But if you get 100K "signatures" on one and you show up at their door with a truck full of paper, they'll at least see it.
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Jesus, man, 64 serial ports? Get a terminal server already!
YOU ARE WRONG!
Tofu has more substance and will harden into a solid more readily than pudding! Your argument only holds water in very cold climates!
The reboot is mainly for the iPod and CD-Burning hook-in's to the OS. It also ensures that people running the old iPod software get it out of memory so that weird things do not happen..
It's a good question actually. The answer is of course 'national security' and 'nuclear weapons' and stuff like that, but the real kicker is this:
If a nation could not export the computers needed for a cluster, they could always build the cluster here in the US and utalize the thing over the Internet. In fact, they could probably contract a domestic company to do it for[THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST HAS BEEN CENSORED BY ECHELON]
Have you considered removing the Exchange layer and preserving the Sendmail layer? :)
Seriously, though, if you have a setup this large, and you're already willing to fork out the dough for Exchange 2003 and all that it requires to run, why don't you pick up the phone and talk to Microsoft about getting Exchange 2003 to route properly in your setup. It'd probably be worth the money to have the people that made it get you into a setup that will work.
I may be no fan of Microsoft, but I certainly understnd when it's prudent and cost effective to get the support I'm paying for with commercial software.
~GoRK
Ah but famicom cartridges CAN be played on a US NES if you have the right adaptor.
I have one I got in Hong Kong a long time ago. It says "HoneyBee" on it and works well.
My god, man! That's an insane amount of work!
Are you serious?!? I sure as hell would expect pretty steep discounts if I ordered 1000 of ANYTHING from ANYONE if an individual unit cost more than a few bucks...
Untrue! There will always be companies that develop the hardware. Granted, it is not necessarily the hardware company's job to develop the OS to run on their new N-Way machines, but it is certainly in their best interest to have Open-Source OS's around in order to be able to test their stuff... Likewise, if Linux customers represent a large enough market for the maker of some FC-AL equipment, then the company putting it out will want to make sure that drivers exist regardless of whether there is a big IBM, SGI, HP, etc. developing them.
Still, big corporate backers are a great asset.
I don't know where the submittor is going saying that PicoGUI has given up on X11 compatibility -- It has a native X11 output driver with root window support! AFAIK, it calls Xlib directly.
Note that it also has an SDL driver that keeps everything inside a window, but that is simply just another output device to PicoGUI. It's not just a windowing toolkit after all...
~GoRK
If it reaches terminal velocity and you expect it to survive, then presumably there is some external mechanism for slowing it back down such that it can survive. I would also presume that if it starts slowing down too fast to keep working, the mechanism would engage during deceleration as well.
It's good that this tech is coming down the line, but why in the hell is it going on the MOTHERBOARD instead of in the hard drive electronics where it belongs?!!?
The answer, is, of course that if they keep it out of the HDD's then nobody else will be able to easily integrate the feature into their own notebooks.. Great for IBM selling thinkpads. Shitty for the consumer.
Bah.
I can see macrovision a little bit -- enough that the pulsating brightness bugs me -- even on my new (within the last 3 years) tv. Turning it off on the DVD player noticably improves picture quality. I had to use a macrovision remover unit to even hook a DVD player up to my girlfriend's TV as it's totally unwatchable (by everyone - not just me) without one. Neither of us even HAVE a vcr. Is your point bogus or am I just a freak?
True, but as the original said, calling someone collect or calling a toll free number will result in your number being un-blocked so that you can assess or verify the correct charges for the call. Likewise toll numbers like 900/976/700 also result in numbers being unblocked so that they know whom to bill.
All of this crap is just some electrial device that pulls power off of the USB bus. Most do not even let the host OS know they exist and if you use them you risk blowing your USB ports (usually on your motherboard) with excessive current draw. I'd imagine that coffee warmer thing is pulling at least 1A, double the maximum of a USB peripheral, but probably OK if the other USB device you've got plugged in is a mouse or something.. The point is, this stuff might as well plug into a PS2 port or parallel port since you can get just as much 5V current out of them!
I wouldn't call it an interesting USB device unless it actually talks to software on the host computer.
You can also buy firewire repeaters that work over fiber optic cable for totally insane distances (read miles).
~GoRK
Depends on the phone!
That is pretty poor programming if you ask me. It's easy enough to do a calibration during the opening title sequence or something where you aren't relying so much on hardware timers. I guess MS must have been very clear about the 733MHz never changing and the X2 emulation of original X-Box providing this downclocked timer, huh?
My guess is that you'll have a hell of a time with your games on X2.
That's different. SCO isn't a shell corporation created to protect the Canopy Group from litigation
I don't know any of the rest of them but I do know Ted Strickland. Ted Strickland wants to protect peopele's jobs in his area, and yes, there is at least one Telemartking firm located in his district in southeastern Ohio that employs at least 500 people.
Fuck you.
Now I have no clue how many of those jobs may or may not be lost by this bill, but the fact is, he is voting to protect those jobs. I personally fail to see how it is some great inconvenience to have telemarketers calling you every so often. Its putting food on someone's table, and is better than them being on welfare. My brother in law worked for the firm for a time. In that impovershed area of the country good paying jobs are hard to come by.
Fuck you and your brother.
So yes, I think Mr. Strickland represented his area well. He wanted to protect some jobs that some people have, regardless of the slight inconvenience of a few.
Go eat a dick. You will put your number on that list too if you haven't already. Hypocritial bastard. Welcome to my killfile.
It's called "Piercing the Corporate Veil" and unless you guys did something really really sneaky this tactic is all but useless to protect you from litigation.
I understand that they have extremely low success rates, but I was also pointing out that it gets even less cost effective to market to people who have specifically stated an opposition to it. 1/1000 success rate is a lot crappier than 1/200 in a business that runs pretty close to the bone anyway..
Hopefully at least some of the telemarketers or their customers will realize it's money better spent to call numbers not on the list than to call numbers on the list. They will spend their money accordingly, and even if the calls don't stop when you're on the national no-call list, at least they'll go down a little bit.
~GoRK
Perhaps they are trying to get the public to fix the 10.2.8 problems that led them to pulling the upgrade :)
No matter what the court ruling on this ever will be as to whether telemarketers have to abide by the national list or now, the list itself is a good thing and will help people.
To the folks who say, "Oh no! We are giving them a list of valid telephone numbers!" -- They can get this anywhere. The phone company makes it available every year in printed form, and you can buy it for the entire nation in electronic form for merely a few thousand bucks.
What the telemarketing companies now have is a list of 50 million people that they'd waste money calling because they're almost certainly not going to buy anything from a telemarketer. Simple economics will dictate that they should use the list whether or not they legally have to. It will help their bottom line. Hell, customers of the telemarketing firms are likely ASKING the companies to avoid the numbers in all no-call lists because they dont want to pay for calls that are less likely to result in sales.
No. MoveOn printed the petition and delivered it. You can't have a web petition if it just gets emailed as a link to congresspeople. They'll never see that.. But if you get 100K "signatures" on one and you show up at their door with a truck full of paper, they'll at least see it.