The maximum throughput of a 32bit PCI bus at 33MHz 133MB/s, over twice that of USB2. Jump to 32bits at 66MHz and you double that to 266MB/s or make it 64bit at 33MHz to get 266MB/s. And 64bit at66MHz takes it to 533MB/s. Note that this is not the same as the Mbps USB and FireWire are widely reported - I'm reporting megabytes, the numbers you mention are megabits.
You can calculate the speed as follows: Clock speed (MHz) * bus width = throughput in Mbits/sec Mbps / 8 = MB/s
When you use Vonage, how is the delay? I noticed when using AT&T in some parts of Europe, the dalay was quite signifcant and cause that aweful echoing effect. Amost the same exactly effect occurred when I used Dialpad over DSL. I imagine the Vonage box helps limit some of the delays, but IP latency still seems to be a problem.
The Tennessee Do Not Call Program is funded by the telemarketers, which is exactly how it should be. Soliciters must submit an application and pay a $500 fee every year. Violations are subject to $2,000 fines per incident.
On one hand, it's hard to underestimate the draw Apple users have to cosmetics. On the other hand there is a cost benefit analysis you can't ignore. Apple users already paying a premium for their hardware. When you increase the premium for cosmetic reasons, the begin to decrease the pool of willing buyers. Take the G4 Cube for example. Apple users raved about them, most "wanted" one, but almost no one was willing to pay the steep premium for one. The trick here is that Apple must make this feature as inexpensive as possible if it is to be a success.
In my part of the world, this would be a really bad idea. A ligtning strike just grazing a part of the building could be enough static corrupt your solid state data. Lightening might destroy the controller board for a magnetic drive, but at least the information is still recoverable. With solid state there is nothing left when the bit value is changed.
Not fire alarms, but smoke detectors. They use a small amount of Americium in smoke detectors as well as some of those nifty advanced smoke/vapor detectors you might find in data centers. Still, I see the number of cases of people carrying smoke detectors through the subways in New York as rather small.
Ultimately this will lead to all ads having attractive and nearly nude women (or attractive men for female markets). The male reaction to seeing an attractive female is similar to the reaction of recieving a small dose of heroine when mapped in the brain. When seeing an attractive man, men usually develop a response of anger when mapped in the brain.
2) Prices are NOT protected under the DMCA. This is not what they are mad about. What they are mad about is the DIGITAL MEDIA that the prices were listed using were stolen and posted. To make this clear - Best Buy sends the sale prices on digital media to, say, the Washington Post for advertisement on Friday (the same day of the sale).
I work for a publishing company that does the same type of work for clients.
While this would be true if BestBuy had an ad on the inside of the the actual paper, say page three of the front section, this is not true for inserts. Inserts are the type of ad all of the companies who used the DMCA against fat wallet exclusivly used - multipage full color stand-alone sections.
These are not ever sent in digital format to the paper. They are sent in digital format to a printer like Quad Graphics, who in turn prints the insert and then distributes it to many markets. This process starts well before the paper is distributed to newstands and homes - as much as two or three weeks in advance. With a full page or smaller (or a spread, two facing pages) ad, the digital media is sent to the paper or magazine around 24 hours before the publication goes to press.
Large printing companies like Quad and Brown have very strict confidentiality agreements for their workers. They are compensated well, screened well, and have never been openly accused of sharing this type of information with outside workers - their reputations ride heavily on this Instead, it is highly probable that the theft originated with someone inside each of the companies who had access to the pricing as the inserts were being created.
I confirmed this with our production manager who once worked for a national retailer that did Black Friday inserts - she also suspected people inside the companies were responsible for the initial leaks. She knows from firsthand experience that people rushing to prepare holiday ads are often disgruntled and/or overworked and more likely to make mistakes or blatent confidentiality breaches.
I don't think disabling spanning tree would help at all, especially on a network with two campuses with redundant connections between buildings, etc. This is just the type of network spanning tree should help. But it sounds to me like they need to do some better subnetting and trunking, not necessarily using Layer 3 switches. They might consider hiring a network engineer with experience on similar campuses, even large univertsity campuses, to help them redesign the underlying architecture. Spanning tree wasn't the problem, the architecture and thus the way spanning tree was being used was the problem.
Sprint has their own backbone and their own MAN in most cities. Their cost is not $500 per T1. I would guess that the data and voice are both moving across the same local loops between towers and a CO, then splitting off to either the POTS network or Internet. This is because Internet traffic probably makes up a small portion of the data being transmited. From the CO they are using their own long distance and IP backbones.
My experience with OS X (10.2) is that Apple's Preview.app is lean but not fast - clicking through pages is slow as render times take much longer than Acrobat Reader 5.05. The thumbnails are nice, but seem to slow Preview down further. Ironic, because in OS 9.x I prefer Acrobat Reader 4 because 5.x is much slower than 4.
And this is both rising and falling response time combined. This means that if say a pixel is changing from middle grey (say 128,128,128 RGB) to white (255,255,255) it is moving towards the latter color in a nonlinear (exponential I beleive, but an LCD expert is free to correct me) pattern. So in 1/2 that response time, it is perhaps 3/4 of the way to the next color. With most color changes, this effect is not as noticable as 40fps would be on film, for example. The response time is most pronounced when the color change is more drastic, such as scrolling white on black text real fast.
They want the personal information so they can chose listening material their listeners will like. But hey, if you don't want to listen to stuff you like, come to Nashville. There is plenty of crappy FM programming to listen to for free here in Music City.
You also missed another important fact that helps speed up emulation of most 68K CPUs. Excluding the 68060, the 68K CPUs are not superscalar (Well, ColdFire uses "instruction folding" which uses less silicon to get a few more instructions in at once, but this is not truly superscaler). So your recent Intel/AMD and PPC can acheive an IPC greater than 1. The PPC is superscaler, so emulating it with a superscaler processor is helpful, but the performance gap is even more narrow.
If memory serves me correctly, the 68040 was the also first piplined 68K. PPC and the latesest offerings from AMD and Intel are pipelined, of course.
Maybe I'm crazy but one of the most apepaling cheap fat pipe ideas I've seen is apartments where it comes as a standard utility, like water. I know they're still few and far between, but this seems like a good way to do things. If you can get people to play friendly by having a surcharge over a certain bandwidth, this could work...
My experience with those apartment complexes is that the broadband is far from free. Usually a very similar apartment in a very similar complex in a very close area runs $50-$100 cheaper than the one with the broadband. They make you feel like you're getting more value. Remember, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Now, if there is a great move-in special, go for it.
B:You will give yourself a difficult reputation to carry through a career.
I think a five week contract job for a soon-to-fail start-up is highly unlikely to make even a blip on the radar of this guy's career. Employers checking references won't even be that interested. If they are, they will be fully aware of the relative weight of a short-term job with a failed company. If the future employer doesn't recognize this, then he does not want to work for them anyway. More likely, the venture capitalists will be pleased. There is much more networking to gain from gaining the favor of venture capitalists.
This guy should be more concerened about the affect on his paycheck than his career if he reports this.
I feel sorry for the people who answered the sign at their university to finally get that aching tooth worked on. Does this hurt? (muffled scream) How about this? This?
The PHP comment brings up a good reason why it has not yet taken off. MySQL and other open source DBs have widespread support in applications and more importantly, developer communities. People who are comfortable developing with and even for those packages will continue to develop with and for those packages. As more community resources are available, more people will become comfortable using SAB DB.
I think that is journalists picking up the word Fiber and misusing it. It is a fiber optic network, just like most other large universities use. The fiber will only go to the GigE switches, which will provide several GigE drops per room. It would not be cost effective to provide 1Gbit fiber (Ethernet or otherwise) to every workstation when copper GigE NICs are so much cheaper.
It is *very* unlikely that a chucksum being corrupted will match the checksum of corrupted data. Possible yes, but you're looking at very small fraction there.
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The maximum throughput of a 32bit PCI bus at 33MHz 133MB/s, over twice that of USB2. Jump to 32bits at 66MHz and you double that to 266MB/s or make it 64bit at 33MHz to get 266MB/s. And 64bit at66MHz takes it to 533MB/s. Note that this is not the same as the Mbps USB and FireWire are widely reported - I'm reporting megabytes, the numbers you mention are megabits.
You can calculate the speed as follows:
Clock speed (MHz) * bus width = throughput in Mbits/sec
Mbps / 8 = MB/s
When you use Vonage, how is the delay? I noticed when using AT&T in some parts of Europe, the dalay was quite signifcant and cause that aweful echoing effect. Amost the same exactly effect occurred when I used Dialpad over DSL. I imagine the Vonage box helps limit some of the delays, but IP latency still seems to be a problem.
My entire side of town was constructed with fiber to the last mile starting in 1991. Unfortunatley that means I cannot get DSL.
Almost all new constuction in this area (Nashville, TN) is using fiber. The copper only starts at the little green box every few blocks.
The Tennessee Do Not Call Program is funded by the telemarketers, which is exactly how it should be. Soliciters must submit an application and pay a $500 fee every year. Violations are subject to $2,000 fines per incident.
I used to do that when I was at the end of the steam pipe ciruit in a dorm. It was before SETI@Home, so I used OpenGL screensavers.
On one hand, it's hard to underestimate the draw Apple users have to cosmetics. On the other hand there is a cost benefit analysis you can't ignore. Apple users already paying a premium for their hardware. When you increase the premium for cosmetic reasons, the begin to decrease the pool of willing buyers. Take the G4 Cube for example. Apple users raved about them, most "wanted" one, but almost no one was willing to pay the steep premium for one. The trick here is that Apple must make this feature as inexpensive as possible if it is to be a success.
In my part of the world, this would be a really bad idea. A ligtning strike just grazing a part of the building could be enough static corrupt your solid state data. Lightening might destroy the controller board for a magnetic drive, but at least the information is still recoverable. With solid state there is nothing left when the bit value is changed.
Don't fire alarms use radiological material?
Not fire alarms, but smoke detectors. They use a small amount of Americium in smoke detectors as well as some of those nifty advanced smoke/vapor detectors you might find in data centers. Still, I see the number of cases of people carrying smoke detectors through the subways in New York as rather small.
Ultimately this will lead to all ads having attractive and nearly nude women (or attractive men for female markets). The male reaction to seeing an attractive female is similar to the reaction of recieving a small dose of heroine when mapped in the brain. When seeing an attractive man, men usually develop a response of anger when mapped in the brain.
2) Prices are NOT protected under the DMCA. This is not what they are mad about. What they are mad about is the DIGITAL MEDIA that the prices were listed using were stolen and posted. To make this clear - Best Buy sends the sale prices on digital media to, say, the Washington Post for advertisement on Friday (the same day of the sale).
I work for a publishing company that does the same type of work for clients.
While this would be true if BestBuy had an ad on the inside of the the actual paper, say page three of the front section, this is not true for inserts. Inserts are the type of ad all of the companies who used the DMCA against fat wallet exclusivly used - multipage full color stand-alone sections.
These are not ever sent in digital format to the paper. They are sent in digital format to a printer like Quad Graphics, who in turn prints the insert and then distributes it to many markets. This process starts well before the paper is distributed to newstands and homes - as much as two or three weeks in advance. With a full page or smaller (or a spread, two facing pages) ad, the digital media is sent to the paper or magazine around 24 hours before the publication goes to press.
Large printing companies like Quad and Brown have very strict confidentiality agreements for their workers. They are compensated well, screened well, and have never been openly accused of sharing this type of information with outside workers - their reputations ride heavily on this Instead, it is highly probable that the theft originated with someone inside each of the companies who had access to the pricing as the inserts were being created.
I confirmed this with our production manager who once worked for a national retailer that did Black Friday inserts - she also suspected people inside the companies were responsible for the initial leaks. She knows from firsthand experience that people rushing to prepare holiday ads are often disgruntled and/or overworked and more likely to make mistakes or blatent confidentiality breaches.
I don't think disabling spanning tree would help at all, especially on a network with two campuses with redundant connections between buildings, etc. This is just the type of network spanning tree should help. But it sounds to me like they need to do some better subnetting and trunking, not necessarily using Layer 3 switches. They might consider hiring a network engineer with experience on similar campuses, even large univertsity campuses, to help them redesign the underlying architecture. Spanning tree wasn't the problem, the architecture and thus the way spanning tree was being used was the problem.
Sprint has their own backbone and their own MAN in most cities. Their cost is not $500 per T1. I would guess that the data and voice are both moving across the same local loops between towers and a CO, then splitting off to either the POTS network or Internet. This is because Internet traffic probably makes up a small portion of the data being transmited. From the CO they are using their own long distance and IP backbones.
My experience with OS X (10.2) is that Apple's Preview.app is lean but not fast - clicking through pages is slow as render times take much longer than Acrobat Reader 5.05. The thumbnails are nice, but seem to slow Preview down further. Ironic, because in OS 9.x I prefer Acrobat Reader 4 because 5.x is much slower than 4.
I found a floppy controller based QIC drive that reads the 40MB tapes in a box of junk. It cannot write to the tapes though. Darn.
And this is both rising and falling response time combined. This means that if say a pixel is changing from middle grey (say 128,128,128 RGB) to white (255,255,255) it is moving towards the latter color in a nonlinear (exponential I beleive, but an LCD expert is free to correct me) pattern. So in 1/2 that response time, it is perhaps 3/4 of the way to the next color. With most color changes, this effect is not as noticable as 40fps would be on film, for example. The response time is most pronounced when the color change is more drastic, such as scrolling white on black text real fast.
They want the personal information so they can chose listening material their listeners will like. But hey, if you don't want to listen to stuff you like, come to Nashville. There is plenty of crappy FM programming to listen to for free here in Music City.
You also missed another important fact that helps speed up emulation of most 68K CPUs. Excluding the 68060, the 68K CPUs are not superscalar (Well, ColdFire uses "instruction folding" which uses less silicon to get a few more instructions in at once, but this is not truly superscaler). So your recent Intel/AMD and PPC can acheive an IPC greater than 1. The PPC is superscaler, so emulating it with a superscaler processor is helpful, but the performance gap is even more narrow.
If memory serves me correctly, the 68040 was the also first piplined 68K. PPC and the latesest offerings from AMD and Intel are pipelined, of course.
Maybe I'm crazy but one of the most apepaling cheap fat pipe ideas I've seen is apartments where it comes as a standard utility, like water. I know they're still few and far between, but this seems like a good way to do things. If you can get people to play friendly by having a surcharge over a certain bandwidth, this could work...
My experience with those apartment complexes is that the broadband is far from free. Usually a very similar apartment in a very similar complex in a very close area runs $50-$100 cheaper than the one with the broadband. They make you feel like you're getting more value. Remember, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Now, if there is a great move-in special, go for it.
B:You will give yourself a difficult reputation to carry through a career.
I think a five week contract job for a soon-to-fail start-up is highly unlikely to make even a blip on the radar of this guy's career. Employers checking references won't even be that interested. If they are, they will be fully aware of the relative weight of a short-term job with a failed company. If the future employer doesn't recognize this, then he does not want to work for them anyway. More likely, the venture capitalists will be pleased. There is much more networking to gain from gaining the favor of venture capitalists.
This guy should be more concerened about the affect on his paycheck than his career if he reports this.
I feel sorry for the people who answered the sign at their university to finally get that aching tooth worked on. Does this hurt? (muffled scream) How about this? This?
The PHP comment brings up a good reason why it has not yet taken off. MySQL and other open source DBs have widespread support in applications and more importantly, developer communities. People who are comfortable developing with and even for those packages will continue to develop with and for those packages. As more community resources are available, more people will become comfortable using SAB DB.
You have to find a paperclip, the straighten one end to fit it in the small "reset" hole on the side of the console.
I think that is journalists picking up the word Fiber and misusing it. It is a fiber optic network, just like most other large universities use. The fiber will only go to the GigE switches, which will provide several GigE drops per room. It would not be cost effective to provide 1Gbit fiber (Ethernet or otherwise) to every workstation when copper GigE NICs are so much cheaper.
Plus, IMAP users tend to leave more messages on the server, increasing the need for capacity on their part.
It is *very* unlikely that a chucksum being corrupted will match the checksum of corrupted data. Possible yes, but you're looking at very small fraction there.