This shows an important lesson I was taught while working with my university's career center. When you are applying/interviewing for a job, you should be sure to know as much as you can about the company. It is not only impressive during the interview, but it is important for deciding if you are a proper match for the company.
When you look to take a job at a company, you should understand their business model. A company that gets most of its revenue from prospective employees is much like a pyramid scheme. The growth and references continue to expand the employee base, and new employees fund existing employees salaries. But if there is no additional revenue stream, in this case, no clients EVER during the life of the company, then the pyramid will crash like a deck of cards under its own weight.
It is not easy to see that your job is going to last, provide promotions, etc. But it is easy to see the jobs that are near certain dead ends. And like many slashdot readers, I could see this one from months away.
I was actually thinking 85C was a little low. As someone else mentioned, space is so empty that it is like a giant insulator, and only radiation removes heat. I looked up the specs for my Athlon processor, and it's maximum operating temperature is 95C. Of course it needs a heat sink and air circulation to stay below that temperature, but it is interesting to compare the operating specs of earthbound CPU's.
The only consistently successful content model is value-added content. For example, a large membership organization uses a portion of the membership dues to fund "free" content for members. Some or all of the content is available to everyone, maybe some only to members. Similarly for a retail business or bank, etc. etc. you have content available to customers, current and potential. The content encourages potential buyers to make a first purchase, the current customers to be loyal, and maybe even increases consumption.
But if you expect to just make money off of the content alone, either through micropayments or banner ads, you're not going to have much success. Subscriptions are not very successful in the online world, because humans generally prefer to get something tangible in return for their contribution, like a hard copy.
Private schools can make whatever restrictions they like. Just like the boy scouts can exclude anyone they want to exclude.
The lockers in a public school are public property. Schools that do locker searches even provide notice that by using a locker you subject yourself to searches.
Sorry to remind so many people, but Palm is not a neccessity
No it isn't a necessity. But you have to think forward. Be carefull not to sound like the executive who once said that a 286 is the fastest personal computer you will ever need. A PC is not a necessity now, nor was it then.
furthermore for the company to rely on selling content, well take a look at Yahoo's slow fall last week.
Agreed.
Along with that take note that wireless is too NOT a neccessity.
Again, it isn't a necessity, but are cellular phones a necessity? Ten years ago we would have laughed at the idea of phones being a necessity. Today, they still aren't an absolute necessity, but plenty of people are still depending on them. Palm hopes that the future will hold a similar fate for digital wireless, and they are probably right. We won't *need* to check our email and stock quotes while waiting on a table at a restaurant, but we will come to expect the capability, and many will become somewhat dependant on it.
It's all relative. But wireless is a very safe bet for major growth.
Exactly what I was thinking. Full Throttle was a great game, but it came out around the time Duke 3D and Quake 1 took the spotlight, so it has almost been forgotten.
Oracle seems to be pretty confident that their database servers will be 3 times faster. I see their ads for a $1,000,000 guarantee that Oracle 8 will 3x be faster than your existing server.
For some environments, the reboot time is critical. If you're running an important server that needs to be online 24/7, and a hardware/kernel upgrade is needed, you may find youself reluctant to upgrade. The 5 minutes of extra downtime from the boot sequence may mean 5 minutes of lost business, lost productivity, etc. Stability is of great concern too, but we have to have some guinea pigs (beta testers) to find the bugs to help make it stable.
The radio interference is from the clock's rising and falling edges occuring, say 1,000,000 times per second (at 1MHz). Without a clock signal being driven throughout the entire circuit constantly, there are fewer fluxes, for shorter periods of time. So not only does the amount of the circuit causing radio interference at one time get reduced, but the amount of time it produces that interference is reduced.
I think you missed the decimal point. It is probably between 0.15% and 1.5%. Think about it, few applications actually use ICMP. And the ones that do, typically ping a host before establishing a connection. So they send one small packet before connecting and sending thousands of larger packets. Then think about applications that might ping constantly, to verify that a host is on the network. Those send 512bits per ping for a rate of 512bps. Wow. When you consider that the pipes they are traveling down are going to be at least 1Mbps wide (we're not constantly pinging some 33.6 modem) it is a very small amount of data.
As others point out, ICMP is not just a "cool toy", it is very critical to the functionality and maintenance of the internet.
Exactly. This company expects to make its money from extracting settlements/compromises. They offer, for a fee and comission, to protect a record company's copyrights. They then do their "advanced search" (title search on napster in this case, or in some cases they have done web spider searches) for copyright infringments, offer to "settle" by cancelling the user's account, and then threaten legal action, and give them the option to purchase a legitimate copy of the music.
It is similar to a tactic the local cable company took a few years ago. After a buyout, they noticed the previous provider had not been enforcing illegal cable access. Thousands of people had stolen or purchased the filters to get premium channels (or removed filters to scramble one premium channel). Over 3,000 subscribers were mailed a bill for $500 (per illegal channel) to settle, or face potential legal action. Virtually everyone paid. Of course, the difference is that most Napster users will just create a new account and ignore it.
You only need the openfirmware on the card if you want to access the device as an openfirmware device. The kernel doesn't care if you access it as a PCI device, and you can use the ATY_128 framebuffer device. I don't think any 3D cards access the 3D hardware through the firmware.
Because it has PCI slots, you could use just about any PCI 3D card. Linux works well with these cards. I think ATI made some RAGE Pro's for 64bit PCI slots in the PowerMacs before they started offering AGP. They work great with LinuxPPC, so they should work just as well with SPARC Linux. The only potential problems would be seing the initial boot console (before the Kernel takes over) since the firmware is not specific to the SPARC.
Aren't these things a bargain! According to the Sun Hardware Reference, my SPARCstation 2 with a GX framebuffer cost $17,995 new, and my LX cost $7,995 new. Of course that was in 1991 and 1993 respectively, so we should adjust for inflation.
Actually, in most places on this planet you pay gas tax, which usually goes right in to the transportation department for road maintenance. So the more gas you use the more you pay to maintain roads.
Ads are going to get bigger and bigger until salespeople and advertisers wind up polluting the medium they depond on for their paycheck to the point that no one uses it anymore. There comes a point when the price of free is too high.
Maybe then we'll all just go back to text-based community supported bulletin board systems and FIDOnet.
This is what happens when salespeople are the ones selling ads. They have been trying to sell ads like these for years, but they were always told there wasn't enough room. When people would pay $750/mo for a 468x60 banner on any web site with any traffic, sales people didn't put up much of a fight. Now that these banners can't fetch $50/mo, it's hard for the technical and design teams to fight back. That is especially true for companies receiving a significant portion of their revenue from web ads. One of our sales staffers sold a 500x500 pop-up ad without checking. Luckily it was just a verbal agreement, so we were able to knock some sense into him and get the size down to 250x250, but even that is quite annoying. After all, if you ask just about any sales person, they will say they don't understand why spam is so aweful. They hate receiving it, but they don't understand why others send "menacing" emails to their ISP to cancel their service when they spam.
It is much like calling Crayola markers "magic markers" or Puff's brand facial tissue "kleenex". The point still gets across, no significant meaning is lost.
As company known for not telling you what's inside the box, is it a surprise that they're going to put terms that the FSF disagrees with in their "open source" license?
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking of this idea!
It sure worked for me. Soon after I got a warranty replacement, I was able to repeat the process EVERY TIME!
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This shows an important lesson I was taught while working with my university's career center. When you are applying/interviewing for a job, you should be sure to know as much as you can about the company. It is not only impressive during the interview, but it is important for deciding if you are a proper match for the company.
When you look to take a job at a company, you should understand their business model. A company that gets most of its revenue from prospective employees is much like a pyramid scheme. The growth and references continue to expand the employee base, and new employees fund existing employees salaries. But if there is no additional revenue stream, in this case, no clients EVER during the life of the company, then the pyramid will crash like a deck of cards under its own weight.
It is not easy to see that your job is going to last, provide promotions, etc. But it is easy to see the jobs that are near certain dead ends. And like many slashdot readers, I could see this one from months away.
I was actually thinking 85C was a little low. As someone else mentioned, space is so empty that it is like a giant insulator, and only radiation removes heat. I looked up the specs for my Athlon processor, and it's maximum operating temperature is 95C. Of course it needs a heat sink and air circulation to stay below that temperature, but it is interesting to compare the operating specs of earthbound CPU's.
i meant to put the IANAL in that post... but it looks like it showed anyway hehe
The only consistently successful content model is value-added content. For example, a large membership organization uses a portion of the membership dues to fund "free" content for members. Some or all of the content is available to everyone, maybe some only to members. Similarly for a retail business or bank, etc. etc. you have content available to customers, current and potential. The content encourages potential buyers to make a first purchase, the current customers to be loyal, and maybe even increases consumption.
But if you expect to just make money off of the content alone, either through micropayments or banner ads, you're not going to have much success. Subscriptions are not very successful in the online world, because humans generally prefer to get something tangible in return for their contribution, like a hard copy.
Private schools can make whatever restrictions they like. Just like the boy scouts can exclude anyone they want to exclude. The lockers in a public school are public property. Schools that do locker searches even provide notice that by using a locker you subject yourself to searches.
Sorry to remind so many people, but Palm is not a neccessity
No it isn't a necessity. But you have to think forward. Be carefull not to sound like the executive who once said that a 286 is the fastest personal computer you will ever need. A PC is not a necessity now, nor was it then.
furthermore for the company to rely on selling content, well take a look at Yahoo's slow fall last week.
Agreed.
Along with that take note that wireless is too NOT a neccessity.
Again, it isn't a necessity, but are cellular phones a necessity? Ten years ago we would have laughed at the idea of phones being a necessity. Today, they still aren't an absolute necessity, but plenty of people are still depending on them. Palm hopes that the future will hold a similar fate for digital wireless, and they are probably right. We won't *need* to check our email and stock quotes while waiting on a table at a restaurant, but we will come to expect the capability, and many will become somewhat dependant on it.
It's all relative. But wireless is a very safe bet for major growth.
Exactly what I was thinking. Full Throttle was a great game, but it came out around the time Duke 3D and Quake 1 took the spotlight, so it has almost been forgotten.
It is like speaking with a horrible dialect and poor English. The caps thing just kills his argument.
Anyone have some screenshots? The only ones I could find on the page were not anti-aliased.
Oracle seems to be pretty confident that their database servers will be 3 times faster. I see their ads for a $1,000,000 guarantee that Oracle 8 will 3x be faster than your existing server.
For some environments, the reboot time is critical. If you're running an important server that needs to be online 24/7, and a hardware/kernel upgrade is needed, you may find youself reluctant to upgrade. The 5 minutes of extra downtime from the boot sequence may mean 5 minutes of lost business, lost productivity, etc. Stability is of great concern too, but we have to have some guinea pigs (beta testers) to find the bugs to help make it stable.
The radio interference is from the clock's rising and falling edges occuring, say 1,000,000 times per second (at 1MHz). Without a clock signal being driven throughout the entire circuit constantly, there are fewer fluxes, for shorter periods of time. So not only does the amount of the circuit causing radio interference at one time get reduced, but the amount of time it produces that interference is reduced.
I think you missed the decimal point. It is probably between 0.15% and 1.5%. Think about it, few applications actually use ICMP. And the ones that do, typically ping a host before establishing a connection. So they send one small packet before connecting and sending thousands of larger packets. Then think about applications that might ping constantly, to verify that a host is on the network. Those send 512bits per ping for a rate of 512bps. Wow. When you consider that the pipes they are traveling down are going to be at least 1Mbps wide (we're not constantly pinging some 33.6 modem) it is a very small amount of data. As others point out, ICMP is not just a "cool toy", it is very critical to the functionality and maintenance of the internet.
Exactly. This company expects to make its money from extracting settlements/compromises. They offer, for a fee and comission, to protect a record company's copyrights. They then do their "advanced search" (title search on napster in this case, or in some cases they have done web spider searches) for copyright infringments, offer to "settle" by cancelling the user's account, and then threaten legal action, and give them the option to purchase a legitimate copy of the music.
It is similar to a tactic the local cable company took a few years ago. After a buyout, they noticed the previous provider had not been enforcing illegal cable access. Thousands of people had stolen or purchased the filters to get premium channels (or removed filters to scramble one premium channel). Over 3,000 subscribers were mailed a bill for $500 (per illegal channel) to settle, or face potential legal action. Virtually everyone paid. Of course, the difference is that most Napster users will just create a new account and ignore it.
Good point. Except that using the USPS as an example for improvement is kinda scarey. I wonder how many patent applications get lost in the mail.
You only need the openfirmware on the card if you want to access the device as an openfirmware device. The kernel doesn't care if you access it as a PCI device, and you can use the ATY_128 framebuffer device. I don't think any 3D cards access the 3D hardware through the firmware.
Because it has PCI slots, you could use just about any PCI 3D card. Linux works well with these cards. I think ATI made some RAGE Pro's for 64bit PCI slots in the PowerMacs before they started offering AGP. They work great with LinuxPPC, so they should work just as well with SPARC Linux. The only potential problems would be seing the initial boot console (before the Kernel takes over) since the firmware is not specific to the SPARC.
Aren't these things a bargain! According to the Sun Hardware Reference, my SPARCstation 2 with a GX framebuffer cost $17,995 new, and my LX cost $7,995 new. Of course that was in 1991 and 1993 respectively, so we should adjust for inflation.
Actually, in most places on this planet you pay gas tax, which usually goes right in to the transportation department for road maintenance. So the more gas you use the more you pay to maintain roads.
Ads are going to get bigger and bigger until salespeople and advertisers wind up polluting the medium they depond on for their paycheck to the point that no one uses it anymore. There comes a point when the price of free is too high.
Maybe then we'll all just go back to text-based community supported bulletin board systems and FIDOnet.
This is what happens when salespeople are the ones selling ads. They have been trying to sell ads like these for years, but they were always told there wasn't enough room. When people would pay $750/mo for a 468x60 banner on any web site with any traffic, sales people didn't put up much of a fight. Now that these banners can't fetch $50/mo, it's hard for the technical and design teams to fight back. That is especially true for companies receiving a significant portion of their revenue from web ads. One of our sales staffers sold a 500x500 pop-up ad without checking. Luckily it was just a verbal agreement, so we were able to knock some sense into him and get the size down to 250x250, but even that is quite annoying. After all, if you ask just about any sales person, they will say they don't understand why spam is so aweful. They hate receiving it, but they don't understand why others send "menacing" emails to their ISP to cancel their service when they spam.
It is much like calling Crayola markers "magic markers" or Puff's brand facial tissue "kleenex". The point still gets across, no significant meaning is lost.
As company known for not telling you what's inside the box, is it a surprise that they're going to put terms that the FSF disagrees with in their "open source" license?
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking of this idea! It sure worked for me. Soon after I got a warranty replacement, I was able to repeat the process EVERY TIME!
Well, there isn' really a tool necessaryily, but you can try this:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
You could of course adjust it to repeat the process with a shell script.