Um, because Clinton was president then and Bish is now? I would say that most of the peace protesters are Left Wing zelots using this as an opportunity to get press for their pet cause. The rest just hate Bush.
Humm? There are not huge H2 deposits in the earth to tap. Electrolysis of H2O is hugely inefficient. You could take the light hydrocarbons and steam crack them to form H2 and C02, but this does not reduce our dependance on foreign oil!
Sheesh, it would be nice if these guys would pull their heads out of their butts and have a logical though for once. But wait, if that happened then their heads might explode.
There's a problem with your statement "They're unique and everyone already has one." First, not everyone has one. You were not legaly required to have an SSN until 20 or so years ago. Of course, without one you can't get social security benefits.
Or a job. The IRS uses SSNs to track income taxes as well.
In my situation, it was an issue where I COULD afford the credit that I had used, and then I was put into a position AFTER I had used it, where I could no longer afford it.
Then you could not really afford it. Credit is financial cancer and the greatest threat to your long term financial well being.
Wouldn't running the tests twice be a better way to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen?
So, if it takes 4-6 DAYS for a test to run, you want to run it again to verify the results? They don't have the time to do it again. Take this from some one who manages a 190 node Linux cluster. We use this for seismic data processing. Our processing run times are 3 to 4 days, each and there are multiple runs for each job. We have project schedules that we need to meet, and running each step in the processing schedule twice is not an option.
Depending on what you are doing, the money is better spent on the front end for quality hardware, than to double the time for a project to process the data. You could double the initial cost of the hardware, have two clusters and run the tests in parallel and compair the results. This may be the best thing to do, depending on what you are modeling/processing, but its much cheaper to invest in the quality hardware up front.
The more you use your battery the longer they last. If you have a laptop and never take it out of the dock (like tons of users in my office building) after a few years the battery will be shot. But if you take it off the dock and use it without being plugged in (ie. only on battery power) the batterys tend to last a LOT longer.
I have to agree. This is why, with my cell phone and my laptop (when I had one) I would run the battery down to empty once a week. Helps avoid any possible memory problem and "exercises" the whole battery. Don't have a lot of time to wait for your battery to fully discharge? Turn power management off, stick a CD/DVD into the drive and play the music or movie.
He actually was given money to try and cluster three X-Boxes together and find out the results. Hmm... time to bug WPI for some funds... Yes, I need an X-Box, PS2, and a GameCube and will try to - uh - "cluster" them. Maybe around an LCD projector, depending on the grant...
The machine may be the company's property, but it's *my* workspace, and I'll have it the way *I* want it.
Of course, I don't want, need or get any technical support, and I keep my box patched up (trivial with Debian) and tightly firewalled.
Hey, you are the kind of user *I* like. You know what you want and you do it. You also realize that you can shoot your own leg off and you accept the responsibility for that. I have no problem with you.
I do have a problem with the other 98% of the user base that takes the gun, points it at their foot, pulls the trigger repeatedly, then screams that it is ITs fault. That is why we lock the desktop down.
I'm not advocating a total lockdown. But some simple constraints can enormously streamline admin time and user time - I've known many, many users who will spend hours mucking about with desktop colors/schemes, surfing for 'just that right' background image, etc. Yes, they should be fired for wasting time; if they stood around the water cooler that long they'd surely be noticed.
I'd be interested in the feedback from admins who've worked at other LARGE corporations - I'm talking thousands of desktops here, not ten or twenty.
I worked for Chase Bank a couple of years ago. We are talking about 50,000 desktops world wide. They were all the same and they all were locked down so the end user could not install software. They could set the wall paper to what they wanted, and play with the fonts, but, if I remember correctly, the end user could not get to the Appearance tab to change how things looked, or activate "Active Desktop" or change desktop icons, or mess with the monitor resolution.
I have also worked for Amoco, before they merged with BP, and they were the same way. There was a standard desktop image and you could not change it. (Of course there are exceptions. If you are high enough on the org chart, the rules were bent/broken. Also if you were a friend of the admins, or were known to have a clue and not to call the admins unless there was a real problem that the clueful user could not fix.)
The point is that, in most large companies, there is a standard desktop image and the end users are locked out of most options to change/install anything on the computer. The arguement that "its their environment, they have the right to make it as productive as possible" doesn't hold water when the new Dancing Baby screen saver comes out, and 5 (or 50 or 500 or 5000, etc) users download it, install it and it proceeds to crash their computer every 5 minutes. The added cost to the help desk to tell the (l)users to reboot and reimaging the machine because "uninstalling" the screen saver (this is an example, it could be any software) does not fix the problem, is huge.
It is much easier for companies to take this approach up front when the user base is small then come in later, when the desktop count has grown from 10 to 50, and impose it after the fact. Have you tried to take root away from a developer after he/she has had it for months or years when you have been brought in to fix a problem? Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can stuff it back in, but you had better have the intestional fortitude, and the political pull, for the fight. It will be a long and hard one.
Or try the Russian variation: type really fast with one hand while clicking a ballpoint pen with the other, just so James Bond can give you an exploding pen later in the movie.
Don't forget standing up, after the big shoot-out/movie climax, shouting "I am invincible!" just before having hundreds of gallons of LN2 poured over you.
What the hell is a date sheet? Is this a list of single women's names and their phone numbers? No, that would a potential date sheet. So, again, I ask, what is a date sheet?
I realize that they do make use of linux, but haven't they got their own OS?
Looks to me that this logic works with other companies as well. HP comes to mind as well. The only type of company I would be suprised to find listed in a statement like this is a pure software company that sells an OS. (Microsoft and Novell come to mind first...)
If the hardware manufacturers support Linux then that can only be a good thing.
Searching the Toshiba site for the model number listed in the article (57HLX82) does not produce any results in the product area of the toshiba.com. Doing a google search on it yields a hit on the news page (the press release about the tv) but nothing on a product page.
Hum, my reply has not shown up yet, so my apologies if this appears twice.
You have a link for this product? Software companies are not the only ones to produce vaporware.
What is is the point in purchasing such a beast anyway? All of the current HD content is boradcast in either 1080i or 720p. HDNet, the largest provider of HD contentent out there, broadcasts in 1080i. ABC uses 720p, CBS and NBC uses 1080i.
Why would you want to spend money on a machine that supports a format that there is not any content for?
What do you mean, nothing exciting? Just look at that name DeltaChrome. Can you imagine the successors to this? In five years, we should be up to e.DeltaFLEX-ChromeNUMA FX 2008 Titanium.
Yeah, and can you imagine a Beowolf cluster of those?
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Um, because Clinton was president then and Bish is now? I would say that most of the peace protesters are Left Wing zelots using this as an opportunity to get press for their pet cause. The rest just hate Bush.
Kent
Humm? There are not huge H2 deposits in the earth to tap. Electrolysis of H2O is hugely inefficient. You could take the light hydrocarbons and steam crack them to form H2 and C02, but this does not reduce our dependance on foreign oil!
Sheesh, it would be nice if these guys would pull their heads out of their butts and have a logical though for once. But wait, if that happened then their heads might explode.
Kent
There's a problem with your statement "They're unique and everyone already has one." First, not everyone has one. You were not legaly required to have an SSN until 20 or so years ago. Of course, without one you can't get social security benefits.
Or a job. The IRS uses SSNs to track income taxes as well.
Kent
I went throught the customization/order process (I just accepted the default config) and the estimated ship date is April 10.
Kent
What, you are suprised?
Welcome to Earth, have a nice stay.
Kent
Well, I type it in short hand, rm -rf *
Kent
You beat me to it! I was going to attempt some lame joke about Dave being paid $127,001....
Too bad she no longer hosts the show.
Kent
At one time, that majority of scientists believed that the earth was flat we well.
It would not be the first time scientists were wrong.
Kent
In my situation, it was an issue where I COULD afford the credit that I had used, and then I was put into a position AFTER I had used it, where I could no longer afford it.
Then you could not really afford it. Credit is financial cancer and the greatest threat to your long term financial well being.
Kent
Wouldn't running the tests twice be a better way to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen?
So, if it takes 4-6 DAYS for a test to run, you want to run it again to verify the results? They don't have the time to do it again. Take this from some one who manages a 190 node Linux cluster. We use this for seismic data processing. Our processing run times are 3 to 4 days, each and there are multiple runs for each job. We have project schedules that we need to meet, and running each step in the processing schedule twice is not an option.
Depending on what you are doing, the money is better spent on the front end for quality hardware, than to double the time for a project to process the data. You could double the initial cost of the hardware, have two clusters and run the tests in parallel and compair the results. This may be the best thing to do, depending on what you are modeling/processing, but its much cheaper to invest in the quality hardware up front.
Kent
The more you use your battery the longer they last. If you have a laptop and never take it out of the dock (like tons of users in my office building) after a few years the battery will be shot. But if you take it off the dock and use it without being plugged in (ie. only on battery power) the batterys tend to last a LOT longer.
I have to agree. This is why, with my cell phone and my laptop (when I had one) I would run the battery down to empty once a week. Helps avoid any possible memory problem and "exercises" the whole battery. Don't have a lot of time to wait for your battery to fully discharge? Turn power management off, stick a CD/DVD into the drive and play the music or movie.
Kent
He actually was given money to try and cluster three X-Boxes together and find out the results. Hmm... time to bug WPI for some funds... Yes, I need an X-Box, PS2, and a GameCube and will try to - uh - "cluster" them. Maybe around an LCD projector, depending on the grant...
Don't forget that THX Ultra certified, Krell powered, 7.1 surround sound system.
Kent
The machine may be the company's property, but it's *my* workspace, and I'll have it the way *I* want it.
Of course, I don't want, need or get any technical support, and I keep my box patched up (trivial with Debian) and tightly firewalled.
Hey, you are the kind of user *I* like. You know what you want and you do it. You also realize that you can shoot your own leg off and you accept the responsibility for that. I have no problem with you.
I do have a problem with the other 98% of the user base that takes the gun, points it at their foot, pulls the trigger repeatedly, then screams that it is ITs fault. That is why we lock the desktop down.
Kent
No it is! My Computer....it tells me so.
:)
Just look in the "Top-Left" corner of the screen.
You will find a picture of a computer and it says "My Computer".
Therefor it is. My Computer!...
That's funny. I just looked, and its not my computer! Its My Documents....
Kent
I'm not advocating a total lockdown. But some simple constraints can enormously streamline admin time and user time - I've known many, many users who will spend hours mucking about with desktop colors/schemes, surfing for 'just that right' background image, etc. Yes, they should be fired for wasting time; if they stood around the water cooler that long they'd surely be noticed.
I'd be interested in the feedback from admins who've worked at other LARGE corporations - I'm talking thousands of desktops here, not ten or twenty.
I worked for Chase Bank a couple of years ago. We are talking about 50,000 desktops world wide. They were all the same and they all were locked down so the end user could not install software. They could set the wall paper to what they wanted, and play with the fonts, but, if I remember correctly, the end user could not get to the Appearance tab to change how things looked, or activate "Active Desktop" or change desktop icons, or mess with the monitor resolution.
I have also worked for Amoco, before they merged with BP, and they were the same way. There was a standard desktop image and you could not change it. (Of course there are exceptions. If you are high enough on the org chart, the rules were bent/broken. Also if you were a friend of the admins, or were known to have a clue and not to call the admins unless there was a real problem that the clueful user could not fix.)
The point is that, in most large companies, there is a standard desktop image and the end users are locked out of most options to change/install anything on the computer. The arguement that "its their environment, they have the right to make it as productive as possible" doesn't hold water when the new Dancing Baby screen saver comes out, and 5 (or 50 or 500 or 5000, etc) users download it, install it and it proceeds to crash their computer every 5 minutes. The added cost to the help desk to tell the (l)users to reboot and reimaging the machine because "uninstalling" the screen saver (this is an example, it could be any software) does not fix the problem, is huge.
It is much easier for companies to take this approach up front when the user base is small then come in later, when the desktop count has grown from 10 to 50, and impose it after the fact. Have you tried to take root away from a developer after he/she has had it for months or years when you have been brought in to fix a problem? Once the genie is out of the bottle, you can stuff it back in, but you had better have the intestional fortitude, and the political pull, for the fight. It will be a long and hard one.
Kent
sorice SHOULD read scoring. Must learn to use keyboard.
Or, perhaps, the PREVIEW button?
Talk about an impossible page to read. Yeah, you can see the pictures, but the text is impossible to read.
Kent
Or try the Russian variation: type really fast with one hand while clicking a ballpoint pen with the other, just so James Bond can give you an exploding pen later in the movie.
Don't forget standing up, after the big shoot-out/movie climax, shouting "I am invincible!" just before having hundreds of gallons of LN2 poured over you.
Kent
(date sheet here)
What the hell is a date sheet? Is this a list of single women's names and their phone numbers? No, that would a potential date sheet. So, again, I ask, what is a date sheet?
Kent
I realize that they do make use of linux, but haven't they got their own OS?
Looks to me that this logic works with other companies as well. HP comes to mind as well. The only type of company I would be suprised to find listed in a statement like this is a pure software company that sells an OS. (Microsoft and Novell come to mind first...)
If the hardware manufacturers support Linux then that can only be a good thing.
Kent
Searching the Toshiba site for the model number listed in the article (57HLX82) does not produce any results in the product area of the toshiba.com. Doing a google search on it yields a hit on the news page (the press release about the tv) but nothing on a product page.
A real product or vaporware, you decide.
Kent
Bzzt, wrong.
Toshiba is even shipping a 1080p TV.
Hum, my reply has not shown up yet, so my apologies if this appears twice.
You have a link for this product? Software companies are not the only ones to produce vaporware.
What is is the point in purchasing such a beast anyway? All of the current HD content is boradcast in either 1080i or 720p. HDNet, the largest provider of HD contentent out there, broadcasts in 1080i. ABC uses 720p, CBS and NBC uses 1080i.
Why would you want to spend money on a machine that supports a format that there is not any content for?
Kent
What do you mean, nothing exciting? Just look at that name DeltaChrome. Can you imagine the successors to this? In five years, we should be up to e.DeltaFLEX-ChromeNUMA FX 2008 Titanium .
;)
Yeah, and can you imagine a Beowolf cluster of those?
Kent
Plasma and DLP are limited in there resolution. A rear projection and a tube based TVs can support 1080i.
Kent