I'm a PM and in my latest project we chose to use MS tech because there was money to be had from MS if we build our application using their tech. This would give us a bit higher profit margins and allow us to lower our price to customer. Ah, the perks of being a MS partner.
Posted anonymously for obvious reasons.
So... you admit, you chose microsoft not because the tech was better than whatever else you tested, but because you were bribed?
Because hardware acceleration depends on the user having the hardware - which most of the population doesn't. H.264 is much heavier on the cpu than other formats if you don't have the hardware.
They're not looking at your browser history... they are looking at the server logs to determine whether you've visited that site before, and how often. Clear your browser history all you like, the servers have a record of your visits and they'll use that.
Having not long ago watched my local newspaper printer replace it's presses by an automated laser printing beast that is actually larger than the house I live in, I can assure you that fixed printing costs are not low. Sure, that new press will last many years, but it cost a shed load of money to install. In order to make this new monster pay, they now do print runs for regional papers for hundreds of miles around (I'm in the UK). It runs probably 22/7, if not more, just to cover the investment costs.
I agree with what you say. However, I think the big problem is going to be that Axum seems to be just another layer on top of.NET - and how much of that has been written for parallel processing? I'm guessing not a great deal, or even very carefully.
I bought my son one of those, with the same (or a similar) problem. Thirty seconds of googling found me the answer, I just needed to fix a configuration file. OK, it needed a config file editing, but that's all. No downloads, nothing. You're right, the vendors sometimes do do a poor job. But you don't just cave if you find something wrong you can fix yourself. * When I fixed my son's eeepc, I was in the UK and he was in Namibia. Try doing that with a Windows netbook.
Not sure I agree with this. Every postal service in the world has figured it out. When was the last time the postman hammered on your door and asked you to pay for a letter you received? (Aside from an item that had too few stamps, that is.)
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If you don't turn it up enough you can't hear the whoooosh!
I'm a PM and in my latest project we chose to use MS tech because there was money to be had from MS if we build our application using their tech. This would give us a bit higher profit margins and allow us to lower our price to customer.
Ah, the perks of being a MS partner.
Posted anonymously for obvious reasons.
So... you admit, you chose microsoft not because the tech was better than whatever else you tested, but because you were bribed?
Of course, once you get to the arctic/antarctic circles, you have an option of quite a bit more daylight for part of the year.
Good luck getting your moped to go across any water, or over rugged mountain ranges.
Because hardware acceleration depends on the user having the hardware - which most of the population doesn't. H.264 is much heavier on the cpu than other formats if you don't have the hardware.
The whole situation could have been fixed if one or other of the assholes had just answered "yes" or "no".
The mice are not bad. But that's as far as I'd go, I think.
...the fact that unix and unix-like operating systems were designed to be secure.
Incorrect. Unix is a watered down Multics.
Total bollocks. You've never used Multics, have you?
Linux and most Unix OSes don't provide much security by default.
Do you have even the faintest idea what you're talking about? Didn't think so.
By default, any program the user runs, can do everything that user can do. There is no sandboxing.
...except that the standard user can't do much to damage the system. By design. The worst they can do is to nuke their own files.
Don't forget your cow-orkers.
Hmm... Google Cruft... have they trademarked that?
What's Javascript?
You have an iPhone with a 12" screen?
It might have been more successful if they had used beer instead of water...
Bear in mind the PRS represents songwriters. So the performer gets nothing from this, unless they're also the songwriter.
Er, Performing Rights Society?
And how would we recognise these?
I have one of the fake plates from Usenix, when Armando had dec make them.
Monday morning, too early. I read that as 'unisex'.
The USA already has many Czars, they just don't call them that. They call them CEOs instead.
They're not looking at your browser history... they are looking at the server logs to determine whether you've visited that site before, and how often. Clear your browser history all you like, the servers have a record of your visits and they'll use that.
Having not long ago watched my local newspaper printer replace it's presses by an automated laser printing beast that is actually larger than the house I live in, I can assure you that fixed printing costs are not low. Sure, that new press will last many years, but it cost a shed load of money to install.
In order to make this new monster pay, they now do print runs for regional papers for hundreds of miles around (I'm in the UK). It runs probably 22/7, if not more, just to cover the investment costs.
I agree with what you say. However, I think the big problem is going to be that Axum seems to be just another layer on top of .NET - and how much of that has been written for parallel processing? I'm guessing not a great deal, or even very carefully.
I bought my son one of those, with the same (or a similar) problem. Thirty seconds of googling found me the answer, I just needed to fix a configuration file. OK, it needed a config file editing, but that's all. No downloads, nothing.
You're right, the vendors sometimes do do a poor job. But you don't just cave if you find something wrong you can fix yourself.
* When I fixed my son's eeepc, I was in the UK and he was in Namibia. Try doing that with a Windows netbook.
The once a month injection is a deal-killer for me though.
This was quoted insightful? Diabetics have to inject several times a day and you're bellyaching about a once-a-month shot?
Not sure I agree with this. Every postal service in the world has figured it out. When was the last time the postman hammered on your door and asked you to pay for a letter you received? (Aside from an item that had too few stamps, that is.)
Does this mean that there will be a market full of cheap(ish) second-hand Sun servers your average geek might be able to make use of?
From TFA, the fuel is solid. Not easy to refill from tankers.