Respected journals such as 'Nature' have (finally) acknowledged they they have published bogus or falsified claims in the past. I'm sure all here know the exmaples, plus of course patent research on prior art, FOSS... Huge pressure exists now for scientific, and other publications, to go this way. Which of course, raises other questions - like what's the 'final' version of 'the truth'?
Where the Britannica guys (may) have the edge is that they claim all submissions will be reviewed by editors, (although not subject experts). Will they be able to keep pace with the volume of submissions?
Volume. Will always be a niche product, so they have to sell it at a high price. Now, if Dell or somebody did a buyback scheme of their old PCs and recycled the memory in some kind of cheaper version of this box...
Agreed. Then again, this is clearly not designed for any kind of mission-critical / server application. Who wants to have to remember to insert (the right size) flash card in the thing, and press a button, when all the servers are going down, the UPSs are silent and the users are screaming?
Also, as noted above, the device would be useful for such applications only if it had more onboard inteligence and could thus unload he main processor....
So, we're agreed that it's a cool Geek toy then? Nice though...
Until the power suddenly goes out and the UPS fails...ouch!
Indeed, but then again if you have this kind of double failure, then you'll probably be worried about other things;-) The drive has it's own on-board battery backup BTW...
I suspect you're right. My cheapo home cinema setup uses a very cheapo Asus EeePC and a super cheapo USB DTV stick. No pause/rewind/ad skip or whatever enabled; channels change in less than 1s.
Makes one wonder what Russia still has buried in their "nuclear trash pits"?
Stuff you would not believe, ranging from nuclear-powered generators (for remote installations) that were abandoned all over the ex-Soviet Union on its collapse, to six nuclear submarines and ten reactor cores that were just dumped into the Artic...
Apparantly the stuff was actually discovered in 2004, but it's taken them this long to do the scientific detective work to figure out where this particular sample came from.
You're joking, right? Try XPlite, for example: http://www.litepc.com/ Works as advertised.
Any number of shells exist for replacing windows explorer, too. Most actually have *more* functionality.
Anyway, they don't need to remove it - just deliver XP - or, probably be more relevant to be talking about Vista - with alternative browers installed as well. Opera, Firefox, Chrome.
Worked for me. Don't need MIMO-compatible clients to get some benefit either.
Also, careful placement of your hub can help - minimising obstacles between the hub and the target devices, away from sources of interferece, that sort of thing.
If all else fails, use a cheap mimo hub as a repeater.
XP for example offers the ability for password-protected users to encrypt their files. Couple problems with this.
1. Plenty of stuff available to crack or reset windows passwords.
2. If you cannot crack the passwrd, you have to change it, (using boot CD, for ex.). Then, according to M$, you cannot access the password-protected files, right?
Wrong - just back 'em up (using M$ backup supplied), then restore under another user account. Bingo - you've got the files. Really secure, eh?
Chrome works very well as a browser on netbooks (I run Firefox on my corporate laptop and Chrome on my netbook because it is just easier that way.)
Agree with your main post - but what about this bit? I run both on both, with no issues. Firefox for general browsing so I can benefit from the plugins, (noscript etc.), and chrome when just reading sites I already trust and are not loaded with flash and ads..
Mod up! If the only tool you have is a hammer, you end up treating everything like a nail.
As the OP pointed point, all development environments sooner or later hit this wall. I've never found one, (and am pretty sure that one will never exist), that ticks all the boxes for a typical mixed environment (the GUIs, OLTP, distributed database management, web access, making the coffee...).
In the 80s, I worked for a company that - as was fashionable at the time - developed its own '4GL' and decreed that everyone use it. In a satellite office, we tried, but found that in certain circumstances it just plain would not do what we needed. Guess what? We went back to 'hard coding' those key functions...
Don't worry about it, (after all, same bits of windows, to name just one OS, are written in assembler to speed performance).
So as the man says, expand your toolbox and your competencies - it'll make you a better project manager (to handle the interfaces) and programmer.
Many people leave their charging transformers plugged in, even when not charging their appliance.
Since most of these chargers are cheap, they are not only highly inefficient when charging (how hot does your laptop power supply get?), but also consume power when not doing anything useful.
Would need to factor these things in to properly judge efficiency of near-field charging, which can get above 80% if I remember correctly...
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Eat beans?
Not baffles, 'hydro-magnetic drive' IIRC. Described in the book and film as 'like a jet engine for the water...very quiet'.
So, no baffles, but lotsa bullshit!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't all Blackberry traffic pass through RIM's servers in Waterloo, Ontario.
All the Pentagon stuff runs off its own servers, as you would expect.
Wisdom of the crowd wins again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd
Respected journals such as 'Nature' have (finally) acknowledged they they have published bogus or falsified claims in the past. I'm sure all here know the exmaples, plus of course patent research on prior art, FOSS... Huge pressure exists now for scientific, and other publications, to go this way. Which of course, raises other questions - like what's the 'final' version of 'the truth'?
Where the Britannica guys (may) have the edge is that they claim all submissions will be reviewed by editors, (although not subject experts). Will they be able to keep pace with the volume of submissions?
Volume. Will always be a niche product, so they have to sell it at a high price. Now, if Dell or somebody did a buyback scheme of their old PCs and recycled the memory in some kind of cheaper version of this box...
Agreed. Then again, this is clearly not designed for any kind of mission-critical / server application. Who wants to have to remember to insert (the right size) flash card in the thing, and press a button, when all the servers are going down, the UPSs are silent and the users are screaming?
Also, as noted above, the device would be useful for such applications only if it had more onboard inteligence and could thus unload he main processor....
So, we're agreed that it's a cool Geek toy then? Nice though...
p.s. Where would /. be without the pedants?
Until the power suddenly goes out and the UPS fails...ouch!
Indeed, but then again if you have this kind of double failure, then you'll probably be worried about other things ;-) The drive has it's own on-board battery backup BTW...
Mod up! Sadly, I agree. Thanks to timeOday for the post.
I suspect you're right. My cheapo home cinema setup uses a very cheapo Asus EeePC and a super cheapo USB DTV stick. No pause/rewind/ad skip or whatever enabled; channels change in less than 1s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingbox
Plus a friend in the USA, of course.
Works very well.
Makes one wonder what Russia still has buried in their "nuclear trash pits"?
Stuff you would not believe, ranging from nuclear-powered generators (for remote installations) that were abandoned all over the ex-Soviet Union on its collapse, to six nuclear submarines and ten reactor cores that were just dumped into the Artic...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Sea
This not counting the nukes they lost at sea, or are still rusting away awaiting decomm.
Apparantly the stuff was actually discovered in 2004, but it's taken them this long to do the scientific detective work to figure out where this particular sample came from.
Scary picture of the rusty unearthed safe & dirty glass bottle full of 99.96% pure plutomium here:
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16447-hanford-site/
I wish I'd never started this - just get a MIMO *device*, OK?
Removing IE breaks a lot of functionality in XP,
You're joking, right? Try XPlite, for example:
http://www.litepc.com/
Works as advertised.
Any number of shells exist for replacing windows explorer, too. Most actually have *more* functionality.
Anyway, they don't need to remove it - just deliver XP - or, probably be more relevant to be talking about Vista - with alternative browers installed as well. Opera, Firefox, Chrome.
Worked for me. Don't need MIMO-compatible clients to get some benefit either.
Also, careful placement of your hub can help - minimising obstacles between the hub and the target devices, away from sources of interferece, that sort of thing.
If all else fails, use a cheap mimo hub as a repeater.
XP for example offers the ability for password-protected users to encrypt their files. Couple problems with this.
1. Plenty of stuff available to crack or reset windows passwords.
2. If you cannot crack the passwrd, you have to change it, (using boot CD, for ex.). Then, according to M$, you cannot access the password-protected files, right?
Wrong - just back 'em up (using M$ backup supplied), then restore under another user account. Bingo - you've got the files. Really secure, eh?
Mod up! Don't use a shitty access point, roll your own.
Chrome works very well as a browser on netbooks (I run Firefox on my corporate laptop and Chrome on my netbook because it is just easier that way.)
Agree with your main post - but what about this bit? I run both on both, with no issues. Firefox for general browsing so I can benefit from the plugins, (noscript etc.), and chrome when just reading sites I already trust and are not loaded with flash and ads..
OK, OK, I dislike that too.
Along with people who try and make themselves look intelligent by calling other people 'stupid'.
Not clever, AC. Please stop.
Mod up! If the only tool you have is a hammer, you end up treating everything like a nail.
As the OP pointed point, all development environments sooner or later hit this wall. I've never found one, (and am pretty sure that one will never exist), that ticks all the boxes for a typical mixed environment (the GUIs, OLTP, distributed database management, web access, making the coffee...).
In the 80s, I worked for a company that - as was fashionable at the time - developed its own '4GL' and decreed that everyone use it. In a satellite office, we tried, but found that in certain circumstances it just plain would not do what we needed. Guess what? We went back to 'hard coding' those key functions...
Don't worry about it, (after all, same bits of windows, to name just one OS, are written in assembler to speed performance).
So as the man says, expand your toolbox and your competencies - it'll make you a better project manager (to handle the interfaces) and programmer.
Many people leave their charging transformers plugged in, even when not charging their appliance.
Since most of these chargers are cheap, they are not only highly inefficient when charging (how hot does your laptop power supply get?), but also consume power when not doing anything useful.
Would need to factor these things in to properly judge efficiency of near-field charging, which can get above 80% if I remember correctly...
Urm. The only thing that Branson is good at making is money.
The person who built SpaceShipOne was Burt Rutan, a man who not only dreams up crazy shit but then actually goes out and makes it work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan#Spacecraft
Or keep it in, and use your cluster to break the encryption, rip and recode the Blueray disk.
As per:
http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/index.cipp
The PS3 cluster uses Fedora, so how about it someone (more talented than me)?
Does Ferrari's Forumla 1 racing team pay for itself? Nah, it's an investment to promote an image.
Most of the budget is paid for by sponsors.
Thx