And...? People pay "more for less" all the time. It's called marketing, convinience, and market segmentation.
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Yeah, but then you can't tell at a glane whether your shit is on or not. And as much as people here bitch about it, the colour of the LED is rarely the deciding factor when buying gear, at least it shouldn't be, or you deserve all the trouble you'll get.
Their other big concern about heat is that manufacturers can't create reliable 1U racks with CPUs that pull 100+ watts.
"1U rack-mount servers" you mean? The problem with such power densitty is exactly that. Supplying a standard rack with enough juice and cooling to fill all the units, or even half of them, is a challange, and very few hosting centers were built to supply it.
I just got a P4 3.2, and I got the Zalman 'flower' HSF for it (CNPS7000A-Cu). Huge sucker, at over a pound and a half, so careful mounting it and moving the machine around. It can easily cool an un-overclocked CPU fan-less (comes with a fan control), although I still run it. It's a large fan, larger than a regular stock CPU cooler, and tops off at some 2500 RPM @ 25dB, so it also gets to cool the chipset, which normally runs about 10 degrees C hotter than the CPU. Check it out.
Contractors are not 'more expensive' than regular employees. If they were MS would hire employees. MS (and other companies) use contractors because they cost pretty much the same as an employee (after a 12 month contract they most certainly do), they get laid off with no consequences (contract over, you're gone), they bring in new ideas and work ethic (most contractors _I_ know work pretty damn hard during their billable hours), and they're a nice flexible workforce. Remember, as an employee you only see a portion of your cost reflected in the monthly paycheque.
Adobe, like Real, changes their free tool download strategy (and web page) every couple of weeks. Whenever you have to install Acrobat on a new machine, just Google for "acrobat download". If you have google.com set as your homepage (you should!:) it's WAAAY faster and more consistant than going through the Adobe site.
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Yeah, that's kinda funny actually. If you ever pay attention to commercials fpr Brand X saying such a thing, read the find print. It'll say something to the effect of 'as compared to other/previous BRand X products'. So it's just a different way of saying it's 'new and improved'.
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..but it only takes two clicks from their homepage to get the free player download started. Click "download" and then the bold, text link "Download free player."
And that may very well be the case. Today anyways. But depending on how you're hitting the download page (through real.com, real.ca, etc, links from other pages, partners, 'direct' download links, referers, etc), AND depending on your browser and the version and options, AND the OS you're on, and probably a dozen other things, the way to get to the free download and the way the download page actually looks like, are completely different.
I can easily see Google compressing mail folders, even aggressively (non-realtime of course), depending on how expensive disk storage is vs CPU time. How often does your archived email change? The tiny amount of meta-data (times/last read, replied status, etc) can be left alone for fast and easy access. If the compresion is done transparently, inside the GFS, I don't think even Google will walk away from a 50% savings in disk storage reqs.
Anyone know if the Google cache of web pages is currently compressed?
There IS a big difference. If you use the same login/password for your authentication, and one gets compromised because the admin peeked in the database or web logs or whatever, all your accounts are compromised. If your SSO login is compromised, you're in the same situation, but the SSO subscribers don't ever get to see your credentials. They just know it's user #1134342323. Presumably, you trust your SSO provider far more than you do the individual web sites using it, and the security of your information should be much higher as well. Multiple web sites, multiple points of failure, leading to the same end result.
Forget abstraction. It is even more trivially solved by using placeholders with prepared SQL statements, like "select * from table where field1 = ?". The driver should then take a paramater in the execute() function, figure out what type it is supposed to be, and convert the parameter, or error out if it can't. It worries about escaping quotes, newlines, and any other special characters. Inject THAT.
No government forced any "debt" on me, I chose to obtain a mortgage on my free will, and was only able to do so due to the large tax relief.
It's only a 'tax relief' for a few years. After a while, the 'tax relief' is irrelevant, as people are able to afford bigger/more expensive houses and drive up real estate prices, because, hey, this 'tax relief' lets me do that! Well, guess what, it lets everyone else do that too, and I wonder what happens to prices when people can't outbid each other fast enough?
The fact that Canada has so many conservative parties only liberals get elected to your government.
No, we have the same problem that the US has. There are 2 major parties, and everyone else. In places such as most of Europe, there are 4-6 strong parties all over the spectrum, and they split the vote; the winning party must form a coalition, because rarely is there a majority, so they can pass laws and function. It is in the US (and Canada to some extent) where a vote for Party C is also a vote for Party A, encouraging the consolidation of votes (and consequently power) in the hands of 2 parties. Americans can't imagine any other system, because they're right; it simply can't exist in the US.
Unless the political landscape changes DRAMATICALLY, you will be stuck with 2 parties, all pretty much middle of the road (can't get too many votes being on an extreme). So while YOU see substantial differences between Republicans and Democrats, to the rest of the world they are vastly more alike than different. They have to be. Look at Greens, look at Libertarians. THEY'RE different, and where are they?
That's interesting.. when you send a mail from a windows machine, it uses its NetBIOS name as it's HELO.
Surely, this depends on the mail client? Nothing to do with Windows specifically, anyone can send anything they want as the HELO parameter. If some broken mailer chooses to use the NetBios name, then that's a client problem, not OS.
No, what they are referring to is code that generates other code, like in a VM that does JIT compilation and optimization. Normally, you would make the memory where the JIT generated code resides as executable, but if your app does not do that it will be broken after the patch.
For all the voters who will be voting for the fist time, or just aren't familiar with the terminology, 'Super Tuesday' is the first Tuesday of March when 10 or so states have their primary elections.
These elections run from January through June. This means on the first Tuesday of March, a candidate will pretty much know what his chances of winning the nomination really are.
This is a pretty piss poor explanation. It makes sense to you only because you already know what is going on.
...10 or so states... - 10 or so? Isn't there an exact number of states holding these elections? Why aren't all states having elections at this time?
...primary elections... - What are these primary elections?
These elections run from July to June. - I though you just said these elections were held on 'Super Tuesday'?
...candidate will pretty much know what his chances of winning the nomination really are. - Why is that? Aren't there 50 states in the US?
...or just aren't familiar with the terminology... - Well, you're not helping much...
And finally...
What ARE these elections FOR???
I mean, I understand you were in a hurry to get your karma points, but come on!
OTOH, I can see how this can be confusing, and difficult to explain. It is quite uncommon in the democratic world to have any sort of elections spread over almost the entire year. Seems kinda unfair to me. Who's setting the order of states anyways?
Wrong! Most of the shares are owned by individuals through:
1. pension funds
2. 401k plans
3. mutual funds
Institutional investors, such as those university endowments, own a much much smaller amount of stock than you think.
Pension funds, 401ks and mutual funds ARE held by instutional investors. That's what they ARE. Very few 'next-door' people actually own stock directly. Does your 401k let you vote for a board? No. Why? Because YOU don't own that stock, an INSTITUTION does.
Well, there are some jobs where that is not an option. If you can be replaced by a guy walking off the street and doing a day of training, you have very little leverage. They're still jjobs that need to be done, and are valuable in that respect, but with so little power, the workers can easily get screwed over; no one else will hire them, they already have all the people they need, and they can't quit, they need the money.
It's nice for us highly skilled white collar workers to sit in our comfy chairs in front of our high-priced luxury items (computers) and talk about wage competition and such, but that's just not a reality in some cases.
So you like working for $0.25/hour, or whatever the employer decides to pay you that week.
That would depend on what the laws are like. In Canada, the employers don't pay you anything, since you're not working. You don't accumulate vacation time, bonuses, etc, and your benefits are probably done through your union anyways. Instead, the unions pay the people who show up to picket a couple hundred bucks a month.
As a side-note, I'd love to have enough easily expandable storage to rip all my DVDs and have a system to have them accessible through my A/V setup, DTS ES soundtrack and all. That'd be mighty convinient, and the time investement to copy the DVDs would be a) not that high, and a) totally worth it.
I don't think it's so bad. Pop DVD in, hit button. You can do this when you have time, are just dicking around your place and have time to swing by the computer and swap discs. It's not like this has to be done straight through.
I ripped my 1000 CDs, and I certainly didn't spend 3 weeks without sleep. I did it over 3-4 months, when I had time, a few CDs at a time. You don't have to sit there watching the bits copy. Alt-tab to another window and continue playing a game, or coding, or cook dinner, or work out, or whatever.
I encode some of my DVDs (I'm up to 350 now) to DivX, for personal satisfaction mostly, and even though it's far more time-consuming than just copying the VOB files, it takes less than 10 minutes of my time per title.
Not a fender bender. The actual accident was technically minor, but resulted in $15,000 in damages to the car. Basically, I jumped a median barrier (those, oh, 3 foot high concrete things separating opposite lanes), airbags went off, car isn't drivable, it's pouring rain, it's 2 in the morning, I need to get off the road now. Who the fuck am I supposed to call? My mom? The 911 call took all of 30 seconds... I've been in an accident... [give rough location]... no, everyone's ok... no, not moving... ok, bye.
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Probably because it is using the filtered 'safe' Google search option.
I didn't say it was fair, I said it happened all the time. Just keep buying those CDs instead, if you feel they give you better value.
And...? People pay "more for less" all the time. It's called marketing, convinience, and market segmentation.
Yeah, but then you can't tell at a glane whether your shit is on or not. And as much as people here bitch about it, the colour of the LED is rarely the deciding factor when buying gear, at least it shouldn't be, or you deserve all the trouble you'll get.
"1U rack-mount servers" you mean? The problem with such power densitty is exactly that. Supplying a standard rack with enough juice and cooling to fill all the units, or even half of them, is a challange, and very few hosting centers were built to supply it.
I just got a P4 3.2, and I got the Zalman 'flower' HSF for it (CNPS7000A-Cu). Huge sucker, at over a pound and a half, so careful mounting it and moving the machine around. It can easily cool an un-overclocked CPU fan-less (comes with a fan control), although I still run it. It's a large fan, larger than a regular stock CPU cooler, and tops off at some 2500 RPM @ 25dB, so it also gets to cool the chipset, which normally runs about 10 degrees C hotter than the CPU. Check it out.
Contractors are not 'more expensive' than regular employees. If they were MS would hire employees. MS (and other companies) use contractors because they cost pretty much the same as an employee (after a 12 month contract they most certainly do), they get laid off with no consequences (contract over, you're gone), they bring in new ideas and work ethic (most contractors _I_ know work pretty damn hard during their billable hours), and they're a nice flexible workforce. Remember, as an employee you only see a portion of your cost reflected in the monthly paycheque.
I dunno why. How did you find that link? It certainly appears nowhere on Real's site.
Adobe, like Real, changes their free tool download strategy (and web page) every couple of weeks. Whenever you have to install Acrobat on a new machine, just Google for "acrobat download". If you have google.com set as your homepage (you should! :) it's WAAAY faster and more consistant than going through the Adobe site.
Yeah, that's kinda funny actually. If you ever pay attention to commercials fpr Brand X saying such a thing, read the find print. It'll say something to the effect of 'as compared to other/previous BRand X products'. So it's just a different way of saying it's 'new and improved'.
And that may very well be the case. Today anyways. But depending on how you're hitting the download page (through real.com, real.ca, etc, links from other pages, partners, 'direct' download links, referers, etc), AND depending on your browser and the version and options, AND the OS you're on, and probably a dozen other things, the way to get to the free download and the way the download page actually looks like, are completely different.
I can easily see Google compressing mail folders, even aggressively (non-realtime of course), depending on how expensive disk storage is vs CPU time. How often does your archived email change? The tiny amount of meta-data (times/last read, replied status, etc) can be left alone for fast and easy access. If the compresion is done transparently, inside the GFS, I don't think even Google will walk away from a 50% savings in disk storage reqs.
Anyone know if the Google cache of web pages is currently compressed?
There IS a big difference. If you use the same login/password for your authentication, and one gets compromised because the admin peeked in the database or web logs or whatever, all your accounts are compromised. If your SSO login is compromised, you're in the same situation, but the SSO subscribers don't ever get to see your credentials. They just know it's user #1134342323. Presumably, you trust your SSO provider far more than you do the individual web sites using it, and the security of your information should be much higher as well. Multiple web sites, multiple points of failure, leading to the same end result.
Forget abstraction. It is even more trivially solved by using placeholders with prepared SQL statements, like "select * from table where field1 = ?". The driver should then take a paramater in the execute() function, figure out what type it is supposed to be, and convert the parameter, or error out if it can't. It worries about escaping quotes, newlines, and any other special characters. Inject THAT.
It's only a 'tax relief' for a few years. After a while, the 'tax relief' is irrelevant, as people are able to afford bigger/more expensive houses and drive up real estate prices, because, hey, this 'tax relief' lets me do that! Well, guess what, it lets everyone else do that too, and I wonder what happens to prices when people can't outbid each other fast enough?
No, we have the same problem that the US has. There are 2 major parties, and everyone else. In places such as most of Europe, there are 4-6 strong parties all over the spectrum, and they split the vote; the winning party must form a coalition, because rarely is there a majority, so they can pass laws and function. It is in the US (and Canada to some extent) where a vote for Party C is also a vote for Party A, encouraging the consolidation of votes (and consequently power) in the hands of 2 parties. Americans can't imagine any other system, because they're right; it simply can't exist in the US.
Unless the political landscape changes DRAMATICALLY, you will be stuck with 2 parties, all pretty much middle of the road (can't get too many votes being on an extreme). So while YOU see substantial differences between Republicans and Democrats, to the rest of the world they are vastly more alike than different. They have to be. Look at Greens, look at Libertarians. THEY'RE different, and where are they?
Surely, this depends on the mail client? Nothing to do with Windows specifically, anyone can send anything they want as the HELO parameter. If some broken mailer chooses to use the NetBios name, then that's a client problem, not OS.
No, what they are referring to is code that generates other code, like in a VM that does JIT compilation and optimization. Normally, you would make the memory where the JIT generated code resides as executable, but if your app does not do that it will be broken after the patch.
These elections run from January through June. This means on the first Tuesday of March, a candidate will pretty much know what his chances of winning the nomination really are.
This is a pretty piss poor explanation. It makes sense to you only because you already know what is going on.
These elections run from July to June. - I though you just said these elections were held on 'Super Tuesday'?
And finally...
What ARE these elections FOR???
I mean, I understand you were in a hurry to get your karma points, but come on!
OTOH, I can see how this can be confusing, and difficult to explain. It is quite uncommon in the democratic world to have any sort of elections spread over almost the entire year. Seems kinda unfair to me. Who's setting the order of states anyways?
1. pension funds
2. 401k plans
3. mutual funds
Institutional investors, such as those university endowments, own a much much smaller amount of stock than you think.
Pension funds, 401ks and mutual funds ARE held by instutional investors. That's what they ARE. Very few 'next-door' people actually own stock directly. Does your 401k let you vote for a board? No. Why? Because YOU don't own that stock, an INSTITUTION does.
Well, there are some jobs where that is not an option. If you can be replaced by a guy walking off the street and doing a day of training, you have very little leverage. They're still jjobs that need to be done, and are valuable in that respect, but with so little power, the workers can easily get screwed over; no one else will hire them, they already have all the people they need, and they can't quit, they need the money.
It's nice for us highly skilled white collar workers to sit in our comfy chairs in front of our high-priced luxury items (computers) and talk about wage competition and such, but that's just not a reality in some cases.
That would depend on what the laws are like. In Canada, the employers don't pay you anything, since you're not working. You don't accumulate vacation time, bonuses, etc, and your benefits are probably done through your union anyways. Instead, the unions pay the people who show up to picket a couple hundred bucks a month.
As a side-note, I'd love to have enough easily expandable storage to rip all my DVDs and have a system to have them accessible through my A/V setup, DTS ES soundtrack and all. That'd be mighty convinient, and the time investement to copy the DVDs would be a) not that high, and a) totally worth it.
I don't think it's so bad. Pop DVD in, hit button. You can do this when you have time, are just dicking around your place and have time to swing by the computer and swap discs. It's not like this has to be done straight through.
I ripped my 1000 CDs, and I certainly didn't spend 3 weeks without sleep. I did it over 3-4 months, when I had time, a few CDs at a time. You don't have to sit there watching the bits copy. Alt-tab to another window and continue playing a game, or coding, or cook dinner, or work out, or whatever.
I encode some of my DVDs (I'm up to 350 now) to DivX, for personal satisfaction mostly, and even though it's far more time-consuming than just copying the VOB files, it takes less than 10 minutes of my time per title.
Not a fender bender. The actual accident was technically minor, but resulted in $15,000 in damages to the car. Basically, I jumped a median barrier (those, oh, 3 foot high concrete things separating opposite lanes), airbags went off, car isn't drivable, it's pouring rain, it's 2 in the morning, I need to get off the road now. Who the fuck am I supposed to call? My mom? The 911 call took all of 30 seconds... I've been in an accident... [give rough location]... no, everyone's ok... no, not moving... ok, bye.