As for the X1, it supports more than just one drive and 128MB of RAM. The base model just comes configured that way. The X1 would make a more-than-adquate web/name/mail server most businesses. Yes, what a suprise that you DON'T need a 800Mhz chip to run these services. Or even multiple chips.
The Netra X1 would also make a very nice firewall as it has two ethernet ports - just be very, very careful to plug the right cable in the right socket...
For higher volume mail/web servers, the Netra T1 would be a better choice as it has SCSI disks, but is otherwise equivalent to the X1.
Propagation of the lack of light travels at the speed of light; hence, detecting that a light has been turned off takes just as long as the fact that a light has been turned on. If the Sun stopped producing light, it would take around 8 minutes for us to notice (since the Earth is around 8 light-minutes from the Sun.)
IT has to talk to it's users, they have to listen to their users, they have to provide solutions taht the users want!
IT has to provide the best solution to the users' requirements. "We want M$ Office" is not a requirement - the requirement would be "We want an integrated Office automation package with a word processor, spreadsheet etc." The fact that the average user thinks that M$ Word is the only word processor in existence, and say "Word" when they mean "word processor" shows how successful - and insidious - M$ marketing is.
After a few hours, the bi-pedal contraption is able to walk on its own. That is, until it is turned off and its memory gone.
This would not have been a problem if they'd built a bicycling robot...
This story was on the local TV news; IMHO, the robot is a bit too human-like - put a small person in a space suit, teach them to "wiggle" in a cute, AIBO-like manner, and could anyone tell the difference? (I'm sure there was/is/will be a law against this - Bladerunner, anyone?)
While the new orbital calculations have ruled out the 2030 event, they have also increased the likelihood of encounters in years after 2030....
Well, duh!:-) If the object collided with Earth in 2030, the chance of encounters after 2030 would have been zero. By not hitting Earth in 2030, the likelihood of encounters after 2030 have increased from zero to something greater than zero...
The Pluto-Keiper Express is starving for funds
while its restricted launch window draws ever closer, and they want to blow $1 billion to return Mars rock samples which they can pick up from the Antarctic ice-shelf for a fraction of the cost? The fact that they can launch Mars missions with such frequency means that delaying them a year or two to concentrate on PKE isn't going to make a lot of difference to the Mars program, but not doing this will definitely kill PKE.
It looks to me that NASA is gambling on generating PR through "gee whiz" gadgetry (e.g. rovers) in order to obtain more funds, but they are doing so at the expense of science. Are these new missions really going to tell us a lot more about Mars that the last ones?
If NASA learnt anything from the Apollo Moon missions, it's that the public gets bored very quickly. They've done the rover thing and MGS is producing loads of high resolution images of the surface - what can they do now that won't be "samey"?
more proof that all the wrong people have money to waste.
Proof that "the wrong people" are morons.:-)
Seriously, I'm suspicious about obviously over-the-top auction results. If you discount the moron factor, conspiracy seems plausible. Plant a few fake auctions for popular items that might get noticed, place some ridiculously high bids that will get noticed and hey presto, instant advertising. This would work for auction site and/or the manufacturer of the item: "I gotta get me some of that..."
With a major supporter like Intel basically saying that "Rambus don't have a product worth spit", whatever market confidence Rambus had has gone out the window. Regardless of the outcome of their "we can't compete, so let's sue" patent claims, I don't that Rambus is long for this Earth...
The best way to express your opinion of these tactics is to vote with your feet, and strike a nerve in their hip pocket. Since common sense seems to have dropped from the marketing curriculum these days, a simple negative growth in the sales figures ought to do the trick.
According to the GCC release timeline, there has not been any official releases since 2.95.2 on 24 October 1999. Major releases appear to be released once a year, so the next one should be due any time now. However, the lack of any minor releases in nearly a year - rather than every three to six months - gives the impression that development has stalled. While I'm sure GCC 3.0 will be as great as previous major releases, it's little comfort for those just want small, minor improvements to the current version.
The Galaxy "satellite" dishes didn't point at a satellite either. They pointed at a local transmission tower
I think you may be confusing the two Galaxy dishes. The genuine satellite service used a solid, offset parabolic dish (so that the feedhorn doesn't obstruct the dish), which was pointed at one of the Aussat satellites (IIRC.) The microwave service used a wire mesh "dish" pointed at a base station. The article refers to "Galaxy TV antennas" which sounds more like the microwave antenna.
There's some very good suggestions in here, but some downright silly ones. I'm surprised that ".ego", ".l33t" and ".patented" didn't rate a mention.
I'm amused by "other portions of application claimed confidential" - a confidential TLD kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? (And what the heck are ".sansansan" and ".three33" supposed to be?)
Being able to filter out all ".ad" sites would be nice, but I doubt you'll ever keep the TLDs focused enough for that (just look at the.net and.org commercial sites.)
".nyc" is rather narrow focused, but was suggested a number of times. Perhaps ".(three letter airport code)" would be a more useful set of international TLDs.
This move is obviously part of the Sun overall strategy. For 3 main reasons:
4. They make a packet from Solaris licensing fees.
With an x86-based system, there is no sensible reason to switch to Solaris x86, unless you really need something that Solaris has that Linux doesn't (yet) e.g. DiskSuite/Veritas Volume Manager.
Sparc-based systems are another matter; there is an annoying lack of applications for Sparc Linux. Netscape is many versions behind (4.51 vs. 4.76 last time I checked), no Acrobat Reader, no Applix, etc. I'd love to ditch Solaris in favour of Sparc Linux (as a stepping stone to ditching Sun hardware as well), but the applications are a real sticking point.
Another site worth checking out is SpaceWeather.com which has daily pictures of the sun (and spots), coronal holes, solar flare and geomagnetic storm forecasts and other useful information.
many companies pull stuff like this knowing that 90% of the sheeple will pay, 9% will complain to the company but take no other action, and.0009% (maybe) will actually try to get the company in legal trouble.
The other 0.9991% write to their Senator or Representative bemoaning the poor state of the US education system, or Intel.
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Why is it that I so frequently see the (mis)use of then instead of than.
Too werds: fonetik spelers.
At least DVD's don't expire.
... yet. See: Self-Destructing DVDs: Son of DIVX
As for the X1, it supports more than just one drive and 128MB of RAM. The base model just comes configured that way. The X1 would make a more-than-adquate web/name/mail server most businesses. Yes, what a suprise that you DON'T need a 800Mhz chip to run these services. Or even multiple chips.
The Netra X1 would also make a very nice firewall as it has two ethernet ports - just be very, very careful to plug the right cable in the right socket...
For higher volume mail/web servers, the Netra T1 would be a better choice as it has SCSI disks, but is otherwise equivalent to the X1.
BTW, if Keanu had become the One in Matrix1, I believe they had to invent something incredible if they still want him to fight in its sequel.
The One vs... the Other One?
Today is 2000.356
Since there's less than two weeks until 2001, it's more likely to be something like 2000.97
Propagation of the lack of light travels at the speed of light; hence, detecting that a light has been turned off takes just as long as the fact that a light has been turned on. If the Sun stopped producing light, it would take around 8 minutes for us to notice (since the Earth is around 8 light-minutes from the Sun.)
IOC = I Own Copyright
IT has to talk to it's users, they have to listen to their users, they have to provide solutions taht the users want!
IT has to provide the best solution to the users' requirements. "We want M$ Office" is not a requirement - the requirement would be "We want an integrated Office automation package with a word processor, spreadsheet etc." The fact that the average user thinks that M$ Word is the only word processor in existence, and say "Word" when they mean "word processor" shows how successful - and insidious - M$ marketing is.
I would be much more interested if it's genetics were non-DNA (A COMPLETELY alien replicator).
Not all life on Earth is DNA-based - some viruses are RNA-based. Replication doesn't need DNA or RNA, and replication doesn't necessarily mean "life".
After a few hours, the bi-pedal contraption is able to walk on its own. That is, until it is turned off and its memory gone.
This would not have been a problem if they'd built a bicycling robot...
This story was on the local TV news; IMHO, the robot is a bit too human-like - put a small person in a space suit, teach them to "wiggle" in a cute, AIBO-like manner, and could anyone tell the difference? (I'm sure there was/is/will be a law against this - Bladerunner, anyone?)
While the new orbital calculations have ruled out the 2030 event, they have also increased the likelihood of encounters in years after 2030....
:-) If the object collided with Earth in 2030, the chance of encounters after 2030 would have been zero. By not hitting Earth in 2030, the likelihood of encounters after 2030 have increased from zero to something greater than zero...
Well, duh!
"Lies, damn lies, and statistics"
Six new missions to Mars? What on Earth for?
The Pluto-Keiper Express is starving for funds while its restricted launch window draws ever closer, and they want to blow $1 billion to return Mars rock samples which they can pick up from the Antarctic ice-shelf for a fraction of the cost? The fact that they can launch Mars missions with such frequency means that delaying them a year or two to concentrate on PKE isn't going to make a lot of difference to the Mars program, but not doing this will definitely kill PKE.
It looks to me that NASA is gambling on generating PR through "gee whiz" gadgetry (e.g. rovers) in order to obtain more funds, but they are doing so at the expense of science. Are these new missions really going to tell us a lot more about Mars that the last ones?
If NASA learnt anything from the Apollo Moon missions, it's that the public gets bored very quickly. They've done the rover thing and MGS is producing loads of high resolution images of the surface - what can they do now that won't be "samey"?
this one sold for $14,999.00.
:-)
more proof that all the wrong people have money to waste.
Proof that "the wrong people" are morons.
Seriously, I'm suspicious about obviously over-the-top auction results. If you discount the moron factor, conspiracy seems plausible. Plant a few fake auctions for popular items that might get noticed, place some ridiculously high bids that will get noticed and hey presto, instant advertising. This would work for auction site and/or the manufacturer of the item: "I gotta get me some of that..."
Email is an Australian whitegoods manufacturer; looks like it has to be "e-mail", then.
With a major supporter like Intel basically saying that "Rambus don't have a product worth spit", whatever market confidence Rambus had has gone out the window. Regardless of the outcome of their "we can't compete, so let's sue" patent claims, I don't that Rambus is long for this Earth...
So, where's the Samba Code spoon and the Samba Code knife? I want the entire Samba Code stainless steel flatware set!
I'm waiting for the Samba Code splade - I prefer an integrated solution.
The best way to express your opinion of these tactics is to vote with your feet, and strike a nerve in their hip pocket. Since common sense seems to have dropped from the marketing curriculum these days, a simple negative growth in the sales figures ought to do the trick.
According to the GCC release timeline, there has not been any official releases since 2.95.2 on 24 October 1999. Major releases appear to be released once a year, so the next one should be due any time now. However, the lack of any minor releases in nearly a year - rather than every three to six months - gives the impression that development has stalled. While I'm sure GCC 3.0 will be as great as previous major releases, it's little comfort for those just want small, minor improvements to the current version.
The Galaxy "satellite" dishes didn't point at a satellite either. They pointed at a local transmission tower
I think you may be confusing the two Galaxy dishes. The genuine satellite service used a solid, offset parabolic dish (so that the feedhorn doesn't obstruct the dish), which was pointed at one of the Aussat satellites (IIRC.) The microwave service used a wire mesh "dish" pointed at a base station. The article refers to "Galaxy TV antennas" which sounds more like the microwave antenna.
There's some very good suggestions in here, but some downright silly ones. I'm surprised that ".ego", ".l33t" and ".patented" didn't rate a mention.
.net and .org commercial sites.)
I'm amused by "other portions of application claimed confidential" - a confidential TLD kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? (And what the heck are ".sansansan" and ".three33" supposed to be?)
Being able to filter out all ".ad" sites would be nice, but I doubt you'll ever keep the TLDs focused enough for that (just look at the
".nyc" is rather narrow focused, but was suggested a number of times. Perhaps ".(three letter airport code)" would be a more useful set of international TLDs.
How does it work? Does it translate everything into Dutch?
Looks like double Dutch - it's more secure.
This move is obviously part of the Sun overall strategy. For 3 main reasons:
4. They make a packet from Solaris licensing fees.
With an x86-based system, there is no sensible reason to switch to Solaris x86, unless you really need something that Solaris has that Linux doesn't (yet) e.g. DiskSuite/Veritas Volume Manager.
Sparc-based systems are another matter; there is an annoying lack of applications for Sparc Linux. Netscape is many versions behind (4.51 vs. 4.76 last time I checked), no Acrobat Reader, no Applix, etc. I'd love to ditch Solaris in favour of Sparc Linux (as a stepping stone to ditching Sun hardware as well), but the applications are a real sticking point.
The patent is about hyperlinks over the telephone network.
"To lodge a software patent, press 1.
To speak to your attourney, press 2.
If you have a horde of angry programmers on your doorstep, press 3..."
Another site worth checking out is SpaceWeather.com which has daily pictures of the sun (and spots), coronal holes, solar flare and geomagnetic storm forecasts and other useful information.
many companies pull stuff like this knowing that 90% of the sheeple will pay, 9% will complain to the company but take no other action, and .0009% (maybe) will actually try to get the company in legal trouble.
The other 0.9991% write to their Senator or Representative bemoaning the poor state of the US education system, or Intel.