And the AC's reply about "Nancy being childish" seems more than a bit biased. If the House votes to adjourn, and that vote passes, then the motion stands. Sorry if your wingnut buddies want to believe otherwise. It's called laws.
Nope, I haven't. I've used VPNs plenty to at least understand their issues from the user side. Anyway, a server on the LAN in this case does not involve VPN, which is intended for secure linkage over internet. If you're doing VPN, you're going to need another solution.
In an enterprise environment, a network-based OS doesn't necessarily need *internet* access, it just needs *network* (LAN) access. The master server can be located within the building. Only a catastrophic failure with a network switch would cause problems with the network OS from running. Of course, this is conjecture about how M$ will model "Midori", and brings to argument the thin client failures over the years.
Your analogy is lacking. The music industry's business model is designed to give almost all the money to the labels, not the musicians. Why should consumers continue to pay middlemen? There was a time before labels, when music was made by anyone willing to pick up an instrument, it was free, and people enjoyed it. Packaging that music, riding on the backs of musicians and pocketing all the money is the real crime. Middlemen add little or no value, and should be compensated proportionately (little or nothing).
It's always entertaining to see RIAA trolling Slashdot.
It's not "bull". Microsoft fundamentally changed the storage architecture in Vista, making it very wasteful in many respects (battery life, CPU usage, drive thrashing). This *might* have been worthwhile if it offered a significant performance increase, but it doesn't. XP's storage architecture is better in almost every way when it comes to real-world usage.
The main problem is that MS is very secretive about proprietary code in their driver stacks, including storage & file system. You can't really blame SSD manufacturers for MS's complete lack of documentation.
You can't be serious with those claims, Mr Satellite Radio shill. I receive at least 8 HD Radio stations with no problems all over town. Distance is approx 10-20 miles. I recall the stations holding up well even as I drove out of town. It worked well enough that it didn't make me sit up and notice any more quality degradation than before.
Sounds like you have a very poor quality receiver and/or antenna, or maybe you forgot to connect the antenna?
Microcode patches can't fix every type of CPU errata. In some cases a microcode patch might cripple the CPUs performance so badly as to make the fix impractical.
Agreed. Time and again Intel has attempted to enter the high-end graphics market, only to fail miserably. They can't even sustain mid-level graphics. They have thus been relegated to low-end graphics, where they will continue to flounder. 32 cores in a GPU sounds pathetic, nowhere near what Nvidia/ATI have accomplished. Larrabee sounds like more vaporware/scareware. If you doubt it, look up the history if the i740 and, more recently the x3100 which was supposed to be a breakthrough in performance due to the addition of T&L. No surprise that turned out to be a dud.
Chinese is the most relevant for an engineer. The vast majority of manufacturing is in or around China, and that will only increase as China's manufacturing prowess improves. See Japan, Korea and Taiwan for examples of how countries went from low-end cheap manufacturing to world-class manufacturing. Aside from English, Chinese will be the dominant language for the next two decades. Beyond that it's anybody's guess.
and when it's hot outside, what happens, it spreads like wildfire?
Ok so "billions" was a rough guesstimate:) 2 acres sounds like an even rougher estimate the other way, something the oil companies parade about to downplay the damage they've done. The idea that they can completely contain a tanker's worth of spilt oil is fantasy fairy tale. The stuff that spreads out contaminates the entire food chain in an area much larger than the spill. Problem is it's tough to put a monetary figure on ecological damage, and even tougher when it's in the ocean.
$900 seems a bit steep for home users. For half that price, one could buy a used low-power laptop with Gigabit Ethernet. Most laptops sold in the last couple years have GbE built in. Use either USB enclosures, or for eSATA enclosures buy a PCMCIA eSATA card. Run whichever OS you like (Windows, Linux etc) and remotely log into it to administer. That'd be alot more flexible than a limited NAS CPU/OS, and power consumption should be low enough.
and yet you conveniently leave out the fact that the land used for solar generation can be and is placed in non-inhabited, infertile areas where people don't live anyway.
That 2,000 acres of ANWR may appear small relatively, but has the potential to have disastrous environmental impacts. Oil leaks and tanker spills could leave billions of acres of prime ecological land destroyed in an instant.
Seriously, where's the scrutiny of the cost/benefit of coal & oil? Factoring environmental damage, the same conclusion should be made for petroleum plants: halt all new construction. Neither conclusion makes sense. Better to continue investment in solar, because any incremental gain is better than no gain.
The cavalier attitude of the puppets at Fox News are exceedingly annoying. I can't decide if I'm upset or sad that the American public eats up their garbage.
Near the beginning when they are showing a COMPUTER GENERATED animation of the plane, the dim-witted Fox anchor crows "Check that out, you see that go off the runway?". Wow, everything shown on TV and in movies must be real!
Fox turd also spouted "In English, not in science talk". Instead of inferring that scientists don't speak English, he would've done the public a much better service by using a phrase like "in layman's terms". Maybe the Fox clowns need take some remedial English classes instead of hiding behind their condescending attitudes.
.. and a sellout to News Corp, no less. That alone probably drove away much of their clientele, a base which seems to be young-progressive as opposed to Murdoch's right-leaning fascist inclinations.
Personally, I hope the exceedingly greedy and decrepit Murdoch never learns the ropes of new media and pisses all his money away trying to get a piece of that pie. Too much to wish for though.
"Safe" offshore drilling is marketing propaganda. There is no such thing because -
1) Seismic blasts are used in the location process, so powerful that they can deafen whales & dolphins.
2) There are ALWAYS leaks, it's a question of how large the leak is.
3) With more tankers hauling oil between the offshore platform and land, there's a higher chance of another tanker accident.
Their statement is recursive:
"For a fleeting fraction of a second, it will deliver a beam of infrared light at 1054 nm that is more powerful than the total energy consumption of all human activity on the planet"
Last I checked, Rochester (and the laser there) are located on planet earth. Strictly speaking, it could only consume all the power on the planet if everything else were shut off. 'Course, that statement would apply to everything else, including a blender. Here's a suggestion for the poster: "...more powerful than the total energy consumption of all other human activity on the planet..."
Consider yourself lucky. Seriously. I'm sure there are some configurations where Vista runs very well on. However, there are many configurations that exhibit serious bugs, particularly mobile systems (laptops and tablets). Sleep/Hibernate transitions add complexity to drivers, something which vendors oft overlook initially.
One of Micro-soft's blunders with Vista was to force everyone to rewrite their drivers. True, there were some major changes in various driver stacks, but that didn't preclude use of the XP-style WDM drivers. There should have been a much longer transitionary period or "grace period" allowing the use of stable XP drivers. Microsoft shot itself in the foot (and hand, stomach, and face) when it threw out the stable base of XP drivers, a base that had taken many years to mature.
I sure hope Win7 (whatever M$ wants to call that vaporware/FUD) doesn't require driver rewrites. I don't look forward to the reliving Vista experience.
Only a handful of die-hards handy any admiration for Microsoft at the beginning. They weren't yet financially successful, their products were abysmal, and their only claim to fame was shady & heavy-handed business tactics. No comparison at all with Google.
Dude give it up. I bought the player when it first came out I have first-hand knowledge of it. You're just googling it and acting like you know what you're talking about.
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I wouldn't pay that much for a lousy Apple 2. Terrible architecture all around. The C-64 or TRS-80, among others, would be much better candidates.
lol, good one Nymz
And the AC's reply about "Nancy being childish" seems more than a bit biased. If the House votes to adjourn, and that vote passes, then the motion stands. Sorry if your wingnut buddies want to believe otherwise. It's called laws.
Nope, I haven't. I've used VPNs plenty to at least understand their issues from the user side. Anyway, a server on the LAN in this case does not involve VPN, which is intended for secure linkage over internet. If you're doing VPN, you're going to need another solution.
In an enterprise environment, a network-based OS doesn't necessarily need *internet* access, it just needs *network* (LAN) access. The master server can be located within the building. Only a catastrophic failure with a network switch would cause problems with the network OS from running. Of course, this is conjecture about how M$ will model "Midori", and brings to argument the thin client failures over the years.
Your analogy is lacking. The music industry's business model is designed to give almost all the money to the labels, not the musicians. Why should consumers continue to pay middlemen? There was a time before labels, when music was made by anyone willing to pick up an instrument, it was free, and people enjoyed it. Packaging that music, riding on the backs of musicians and pocketing all the money is the real crime. Middlemen add little or no value, and should be compensated proportionately (little or nothing).
It's always entertaining to see RIAA trolling Slashdot.
It's not "bull". Microsoft fundamentally changed the storage architecture in Vista, making it very wasteful in many respects (battery life, CPU usage, drive thrashing). This *might* have been worthwhile if it offered a significant performance increase, but it doesn't. XP's storage architecture is better in almost every way when it comes to real-world usage.
The main problem is that MS is very secretive about proprietary code in their driver stacks, including storage & file system. You can't really blame SSD manufacturers for MS's complete lack of documentation.
You can't be serious with those claims, Mr Satellite Radio shill. I receive at least 8 HD Radio stations with no problems all over town. Distance is approx 10-20 miles. I recall the stations holding up well even as I drove out of town. It worked well enough that it didn't make me sit up and notice any more quality degradation than before.
Sounds like you have a very poor quality receiver and/or antenna, or maybe you forgot to connect the antenna?
Microcode patches can't fix every type of CPU errata. In some cases a microcode patch might cripple the CPUs performance so badly as to make the fix impractical.
The article states the vulnerability is at the CPU level and can be exploited on any OS. Are you claiming Mac OSX isn't an OS?
Agreed. Time and again Intel has attempted to enter the high-end graphics market, only to fail miserably. They can't even sustain mid-level graphics. They have thus been relegated to low-end graphics, where they will continue to flounder. 32 cores in a GPU sounds pathetic, nowhere near what Nvidia/ATI have accomplished. Larrabee sounds like more vaporware/scareware. If you doubt it, look up the history if the i740 and, more recently the x3100 which was supposed to be a breakthrough in performance due to the addition of T&L. No surprise that turned out to be a dud.
Chinese is the most relevant for an engineer. The vast majority of manufacturing is in or around China, and that will only increase as China's manufacturing prowess improves. See Japan, Korea and Taiwan for examples of how countries went from low-end cheap manufacturing to world-class manufacturing. Aside from English, Chinese will be the dominant language for the next two decades. Beyond that it's anybody's guess.
and when it's hot outside, what happens, it spreads like wildfire?
:) 2 acres sounds like an even rougher estimate the other way, something the oil companies parade about to downplay the damage they've done. The idea that they can completely contain a tanker's worth of spilt oil is fantasy fairy tale. The stuff that spreads out contaminates the entire food chain in an area much larger than the spill. Problem is it's tough to put a monetary figure on ecological damage, and even tougher when it's in the ocean.
Ok so "billions" was a rough guesstimate
$900 seems a bit steep for home users. For half that price, one could buy a used low-power laptop with Gigabit Ethernet. Most laptops sold in the last couple years have GbE built in. Use either USB enclosures, or for eSATA enclosures buy a PCMCIA eSATA card. Run whichever OS you like (Windows, Linux etc) and remotely log into it to administer. That'd be alot more flexible than a limited NAS CPU/OS, and power consumption should be low enough.
and yet you conveniently leave out the fact that the land used for solar generation can be and is placed in non-inhabited, infertile areas where people don't live anyway.
That 2,000 acres of ANWR may appear small relatively, but has the potential to have disastrous environmental impacts. Oil leaks and tanker spills could leave billions of acres of prime ecological land destroyed in an instant.
Seriously, where's the scrutiny of the cost/benefit of coal & oil? Factoring environmental damage, the same conclusion should be made for petroleum plants: halt all new construction. Neither conclusion makes sense. Better to continue investment in solar, because any incremental gain is better than no gain.
The cavalier attitude of the puppets at Fox News are exceedingly annoying. I can't decide if I'm upset or sad that the American public eats up their garbage.
Near the beginning when they are showing a COMPUTER GENERATED animation of the plane, the dim-witted Fox anchor crows "Check that out, you see that go off the runway?". Wow, everything shown on TV and in movies must be real!
Fox turd also spouted "In English, not in science talk". Instead of inferring that scientists don't speak English, he would've done the public a much better service by using a phrase like "in layman's terms". Maybe the Fox clowns need take some remedial English classes instead of hiding behind their condescending attitudes.
true 'nuf, but they don't have to understand any of those terms to be soured by Murdoch's hand in the cookie jar.
:P
unless you're just taking a jab at MySpace users, which I have no disagreement with
.. and a sellout to News Corp, no less. That alone probably drove away much of their clientele, a base which seems to be young-progressive as opposed to Murdoch's right-leaning fascist inclinations.
Personally, I hope the exceedingly greedy and decrepit Murdoch never learns the ropes of new media and pisses all his money away trying to get a piece of that pie. Too much to wish for though.
"Safe" offshore drilling is marketing propaganda. There is no such thing because -
1) Seismic blasts are used in the location process, so powerful that they can deafen whales & dolphins.
2) There are ALWAYS leaks, it's a question of how large the leak is.
3) With more tankers hauling oil between the offshore platform and land, there's a higher chance of another tanker accident.
Their statement is recursive:
"For a fleeting fraction of a second, it will deliver a beam of infrared light at 1054 nm that is more powerful than the total energy consumption of all human activity on the planet"
Last I checked, Rochester (and the laser there) are located on planet earth. Strictly speaking, it could only consume all the power on the planet if everything else were shut off. 'Course, that statement would apply to everything else, including a blender. Here's a suggestion for the poster: "...more powerful than the total energy consumption of all other human activity on the planet..."
Consider yourself lucky. Seriously. I'm sure there are some configurations where Vista runs very well on. However, there are many configurations that exhibit serious bugs, particularly mobile systems (laptops and tablets). Sleep/Hibernate transitions add complexity to drivers, something which vendors oft overlook initially.
One of Micro-soft's blunders with Vista was to force everyone to rewrite their drivers. True, there were some major changes in various driver stacks, but that didn't preclude use of the XP-style WDM drivers. There should have been a much longer transitionary period or "grace period" allowing the use of stable XP drivers. Microsoft shot itself in the foot (and hand, stomach, and face) when it threw out the stable base of XP drivers, a base that had taken many years to mature.
I sure hope Win7 (whatever M$ wants to call that vaporware/FUD) doesn't require driver rewrites. I don't look forward to the reliving Vista experience.
The title should actually read:
"News Corp Teams With Record Companies To Create Music Site"
After all, MySpace is a corporate sellout owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. No surprise that the labels want to make a deal with him.
Only a handful of die-hards handy any admiration for Microsoft at the beginning. They weren't yet financially successful, their products were abysmal, and their only claim to fame was shady & heavy-handed business tactics. No comparison at all with Google.
Dude give it up. I bought the player when it first came out I have first-hand knowledge of it. You're just googling it and acting like you know what you're talking about.
Anyhoo... if you still want to be mr smarty-pants, looky at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Avocent-AD600A-Apex-AD-600A-Player/dp/B00004TKLW
"Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999"
From your site: "The succession of state-of-the-art products, first introduced in 1999"
Perhaps instead of wishing for a time machine, you should ask for literacy.