No suddenly I have bunches of people who want to use the personal private lines for their business without paying the businnes rates.
There are two different things being discussed here - commercial use and complete personal use.
I don't think there is a reasonable arguement for using a "domestic" connection in and for a business.
On the other hand, I can (and do) saturate my domestic bandwidth contantly - whether downloading the latest from LinuxISO.org, game demos, kernel updates - and all within the T&C's of the service.
Further, I can do this all from one PC - so what does it matter if I set up NAT and browse from my wireless-LAN-enabled laptop in my living room (except for making me a sad git). I'm not using any "extra" resources of my ISP by doing so...I'm just making full use of the service I have paid for.
Whistler is also going to be a professional OS and not really meant for the home user.
I am a professional home user. I run an 8 machine W2K domain-based network. I have a W2K Server box as a PDC, my main workstation runs W2K-Pro, etc. All my MS-based machines are correctly licenced according to my MSDN subscription.
Any of my machines may be upgraded overnight - sometimes several times a day. All are home-built - except my Sony Vaio laptop - and are prone to semi-random "hardware upgrades" based on my selling "old" kit and replacing it.
I will quite happily phone Ms every half-hour (on my employers phone bill) to get "updated" Product ID codes until they capitulate, and that will happen all the sooner if everyone else does the same:)
I just don't by the component shortage line that Sony's feeding us. If that were the case, why are there so many PS2s available in Japan?
The Japanese version has a software-based DVD decoder (remember the disc recall when they discovered it wasn't region-locked) whereas the US/European version has hardware DVD playback.
From the specs...
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<I>With the Voyager(TM), you get up to 144 GB of data in 1U (1.75 inches), and an additional 288 GB of storage in a 1U optional disk array called StorageArray(TM), for a total of 432 GB in 2U.</I>
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So, you get 144 GB in 1U from these guys, and Maxtor give you 320 GB. Not exactly a broken record...
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and it seems to me that this should be something 'standard' with any DB that is expected to handle non-trival amounts of data.
Sybase has been the "standard" non-mainframe database in the financial world for many years, storing non-trivial volumes of data, and only in it's most recent version (11.9.2) has it had row-level locking.
In fact, row-level locking is a requirement driven more by the number of users, size of each row, size of pages, and the frequency and speed with which any given row will be updated.
Where users=>many, rowsize=>small, pagesize=>large, and update frequency/volume=>high, then row rather than page locking is required to keep performance high - otherwise processes get blocked waiting for a page to be released.
Where the above are not met, then page-level locking is fine - as long as your design is sound. Row level locking is not a substitute for a good design.
...it will in fact bring about a stronger economy due to the fact that rather than having money tied in up in charitable foundations, it will be in more liquid forms, mainly equity. This is, as any student of economics knows, a good thing!
The money in charitable foundations is not "tied up" at all, but is used, for example, to pay salaries to researchers, purchase equipment, rent buildings, and so on.
This is placing real, maximum-liquidity cash money directly into the economy - an even better thing as far as this student is concerned.
Zarya's jets controlled the final minutes of the approach for docking, as the ISS closed on Zvezda at a glacial rate of two-tenths of a meter per second.
Did anyone else realise that this is about 10 miles an hour? Who'd like to park their car at that speed...
A simplistic example is water. When you use it up, it cycles back around and is regenerated.
Not true. They don't all recycle. They go from the state of matter to energy. For example, we incinerate many thousands of millions of tons of household and industrial waste every year - leaving some ash to sprinkle on a road and heat.
We don't yet have the ability to convert energy (heat or any other kind) into matter.
Civil disobedience only works when the "general populace" can see this taking place, and demand action...
If the flow of information is controlled, no-one will ever know that you were "civially disobedient", and the security police will drag you off never to be heard from again...
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The important phrase is
CCTV cameras are not owned/operated by the "broadcast media", and so are not covered this clause.
This clause is intended to prevent some smart-arse using the DPA to demand a copy of "Brideshead Revisited" for a tenner.
There are two different things being discussed here - commercial use and complete personal use.
I don't think there is a reasonable arguement for using a "domestic" connection in and for a business.
On the other hand, I can (and do) saturate my domestic bandwidth contantly - whether downloading the latest from LinuxISO.org, game demos, kernel updates - and all within the T&C's of the service.
Further, I can do this all from one PC - so what does it matter if I set up NAT and browse from my wireless-LAN-enabled laptop in my living room (except for making me a sad git). I'm not using any "extra" resources of my ISP by doing so...I'm just making full use of the service I have paid for.
Hm...
I'd always thought "security through obscurity" was a bad thing...
Remember: the Playstation 2 doesn't play VideoCDs at all, in a market where all other DVD players can play VideoCDs.
My Samsung DVD-905 for one - it will play regular audio CD-R's but barfs horribly when presented with a VideoCD.
Whistler is also going to be a professional OS and not really meant for the home user.
:)
I am a professional home user. I run an 8 machine W2K domain-based network. I have a W2K Server box as a PDC, my main workstation runs W2K-Pro, etc. All my MS-based machines are correctly licenced according to my MSDN subscription.
Any of my machines may be upgraded overnight - sometimes several times a day. All are home-built - except my Sony Vaio laptop - and are prone to semi-random "hardware upgrades" based on my selling "old" kit and replacing it.
I will quite happily phone Ms every half-hour (on my employers phone bill) to get "updated" Product ID codes until they capitulate, and that will happen all the sooner if everyone else does the same
How about everyone who's got a licenced copy of W2K+1 updates their hardware (swaps NICs, etc) every day and hassles MS manually for a new ProductID.
How long before they stop with this sh1t?
I just don't by the component shortage line that Sony's feeding us. If that were the case, why are there so many PS2s available in Japan?
The Japanese version has a software-based DVD decoder (remember the disc recall when they discovered it wasn't region-locked) whereas the US/European version has hardware DVD playback.
The first version of MS SQL Server was 4.21, and was based on Sybase 4.9.2.
In fact, 4.21 was effectivly a "re-badged" product rather than anything else.
I thought I'd hit the preview button...
From the specs...
<BR><BR>
<I>With the Voyager(TM), you get up to 144 GB of data in 1U (1.75 inches), and an additional 288 GB of storage in a 1U optional disk array called StorageArray(TM), for a total of 432 GB in 2U.</I>
<BR><BR>
So, you get 144 GB in 1U from these guys, and Maxtor give you 320 GB. Not exactly a broken record...
<BR>
Yeah, but how much are they?
/. articles for news toys without prices quoted anywhere?
/. is becoming a re-broadcaster of press releases rather than a "news" site.
Is anyone else getting really pissed off seeing
It's almost like
If you believe the Judeo-Christian creation myth (Garden of Eden, Adam & Eve, etc) then surely we are all related.
Now I can give a copy of any CD to anyone, because we share great-to-the-nth grandparents.
and it seems to me that this should be something 'standard' with any DB that is expected to handle non-trival amounts of data.
Sybase has been the "standard" non-mainframe database in the financial world for many years, storing non-trivial volumes of data, and only in it's most recent version (11.9.2) has it had row-level locking.
In fact, row-level locking is a requirement driven more by the number of users, size of each row, size of pages, and the frequency and speed with which any given row will be updated.
Where users=>many, rowsize=>small, pagesize=>large, and update frequency/volume=>high, then row rather than page locking is required to keep performance high - otherwise processes get blocked waiting for a page to be released.
Where the above are not met, then page-level locking is fine - as long as your design is sound. Row level locking is not a substitute for a good design.
Several years ago it wasn't common to have 20-30 individual point-sources of broadcast microwave radiation on a bus - now everyone has a cell-phone.
Add to that the concommitant increase in local radiation broadcast towers for the cell-phones - plus towers & satellites for pagers and TV.
We're being saturated by radiation everywhere we turn - I'm surprised that floppys last as long as they do, and that they don't glow!
Read "Waldo" by Robert Anson Heinlein for an insightful look at where this may end up.
On the other hand, maybe you should buy a better brand of disk, and clean the heads on your drives.
The money in charitable foundations is not "tied up" at all, but is used, for example, to pay salaries to researchers, purchase equipment, rent buildings, and so on.
This is placing real, maximum-liquidity cash money directly into the economy - an even better thing as far as this student is concerned.
Rather than "over-the-top", I find this to be well-thought and well-argued.
It's a shame that it'll never become a prime-time topic of conversation...
Thats all.
I'd like just one vendor to actually commit to providing me with a >56k connection.
Not much to ask...I'll even pay for it.
From Space Station User's Guide:
Zarya's jets controlled the final minutes of the approach for docking, as the ISS closed on Zvezda at a glacial rate of two-tenths of a meter per second.
Did anyone else realise that this is about 10 miles an hour? Who'd like to park their car at that speed...
I wonder if the united states would ever bomb it's own people. Maybe I'll get to see it.
How about Lockerbie, or Waco? How about the "friendly fire" in the Gulf?
How about the World Trade Centre - terrorist attack or CIA fundraiser? Is there a difference?
The way the planet works, all resources cycle.
True. They cycle...
A simplistic example is water. When you use it up, it cycles back around and is regenerated.
Not true. They don't all recycle. They go from the state of matter to energy. For example, we incinerate many thousands of millions of tons of household and industrial waste every year - leaving some ash to sprinkle on a road and heat.
We don't yet have the ability to convert energy (heat or any other kind) into matter.
We have to get more raw materials.
Civil disobedience only works when the "general populace" can see this taking place, and demand action...
If the flow of information is controlled, no-one will ever know that you were "civially disobedient", and the security police will drag you off never to be heard from again...
It actually looks like it's been around for ages...
The copyright notice on the bottom of the FAQ is dated 1997, and one of testimonials says
<I>"The after-sales service of ELP is perfect. Although I had a failure on LT in 1990, I am fully satisfied with the LT."</I>
Maybe they just need to hire a better publicity manager...
While pushing /. discussions out to NNTP is a fine and worthy goal, I hope they don't replicate NNTP posts back.
The signal-to-NataliePorter ratio is bad enough already - adding the volume of USENET spam would be a bad move...
No.
More that the "comic book" idiom of Ms-Chat trivialises a worthwhile communication infrastructure.
Unfortunately, MS-Chat=IRC for far too many users...