We're hearing more about it because one of the primary goals for version 2.0 of the ASL was GPL compatability. The previous versions were known to be incompatabile from the beginning.
No kidding, especially since I played the original "The Bard's Tale" in 1985 or so on a Commodore 64. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the remake -- I was underwhelmed by the remake of another classic that was released recently, "Defender of the Crown".
Funny you should mention that -- my office which only has a couple of desktops and a laptop running in it, still manages to be several degrees warmer than the rest of the house. Too cold in your house? The obvious solution is a Beowulf cluster, of course!
For around $200 you can purchase everything you need to get an R/C airplane that is suitable for hauling up a lightweight digital camera ready to fly. Looking at the prices for these kites, it's not all that much of a premium for the extra controllability you'll have with the plane.
The GWS Slow Stick is a very good choice for a beginner plane that is well suited for hauling aloft a little bit of extra weight. Check out the Aerial Photography forum at RC Groups for more info.
Actually, since the Mac version of iTunes and the Windows version of iTunes are identical in nearly every single detail, it's a fair to use experience with the Mac version as a basis for comparison, I think. If there were large changes between the Mac and Windows version I'd agree with you, but there are basically none.
No kidding. Hell, if it's really that big of a problem, move the computer to a seperate room. Then you can play your MP3s, click your mouse, and bang away on a nice clicky keyboard all you want without disturbing anyone else. The original poster is definitely overcomplicating a simple issue.
Perhaps a button on the handlebars to toggle the HUD in the helmet would be appropriate. It would allow the rider to get the information when he wants it, but not be distracting all the time. It would definitely be an improvement over looking down at a gauge cluster, I would think.
If you read the article (and look at the pretty pictures), you can see that it is indeed integrated into the helmet itself and not just strapped onto the outside.
If it went to an AOL address, it was delivered to Virginia, since that's where all of the AOL mail servers live. If it was a spammer, you can almost guarantee that he spammed Virginia-based email addresses -- in fact, he probably spammed addresses based in every state.
How about a shelf? Where I used to work we installed all the systems in our datacenters on shelves rather than screwing them directly into the racks simply because it saved time when it was necessary to get into thos systems or to move/replace them. No reason why you couldn't just stik it on a shelf in your closet. If you don't have an appropriate one already there, a 2x4 and a piece of plywood or MDF should do nicely as the raw materials to make your own.
You're missing the point. The reason most modern aircraft have flight computers is because it's physically impossible to fly one without it. The aircraft are inherently unstable in flight and it's only the flight control computer that keeps them from going out of control.
No, but as a matter of fact, you don't need to pay Microsoft whether you run Windows or not. At least, not if you purchase it as parts and assemble it yourself.
Perhaps it's not enforceable, and perhaps it's not even legal -- but that's not the point. Why not respect the wishes of the authors who have been good enough to make the content available for free?
I'm not sure what the prices are running these days, but back in 1999 I put together a 6TB system running RAID 5 on an all fibre-channel system using (at the time FC hubs -- switch fabric was too immature) StorageTek (aka Clariion) arrays for right around $2.5M.
Keep in mind, that's just for the disks, array controllers/cabinets, hubs, and Sun FC cards. No servers are included in that price.
There are so many variables that you didn't go into that it's hard to give you an educated answer to your question, but it seems feasible to get to around 50TB today for that kind of money taking into account the increased storage density that we've gotten in the last couple of years.
People were convinced the world was flat at one point too. Just because it's incredibly implausible and flies in the face of what we think we know, that doesn't mean that it should be discounted out of hand.
Perhaps they will in the future, but the group of files that they "recommend" you copy over for a Linux dedicated server runs into 700MB compressed. I suspect they don't want to take the step of hosting a download that large if they can avoid it,b ut I could be wrong.
If you don't like their licensing terms, don't buy their product. It really IS that simple as far as the XBox is concerned.
Violating the license and using a morality play to justify it seems a bit silly to me. It'd be like Microsoft blatantly including GPLed code in Windows and thumbing their nose at the Open Source community -- everyone would be up in arms about it when it really amounts to the same thing: Violating the license agreement.
If TiVo advertises the unit as having a 40 hour capacity, you're buying it on that basis, regardless of whether or not it has additional space available on the hard drive that is reserved by TiVo. I don't see anything dishonest about it at all -- they set the price for a unit with advertised specifications. You have the choice whether or not to purchase it on that basis -- it's as simple as that.
Your bet would be wrong. The TiVo is constantly recording and there is no low-power mode that it goes into, so that's not an issue.
The fact of the matter is, the space that it got recorded into was reserved for TiVo's use and was never factored into the advertised capacity of the unit so they're not taking any extra resources. Additionally, it only records if it doesn't have anything else scheduled for that time, so I honestly fail to see the problem.
Just because the source is available doesn't make it Open Source. You are not legally allowed to distribute that code in modified form, and I'm fairly sure you're not even allowed to in unmodified form.
Back that statement up. I've seen (and run) benchmarks where Java performed significantly better than C# for an equivalent program. If you're talking about GUI response I'll let you get away with it, but if you're measuring performance in any other way I'd really like to see you back up your statement.
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We're hearing more about it because one of the primary goals for version 2.0 of the ASL was GPL compatability. The previous versions were known to be incompatabile from the beginning.
No kidding, especially since I played the original "The Bard's Tale" in 1985 or so on a Commodore 64. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the remake -- I was underwhelmed by the remake of another classic that was released recently, "Defender of the Crown".
Funny you should mention that -- my office which only has a couple of desktops and a laptop running in it, still manages to be several degrees warmer than the rest of the house. Too cold in your house? The obvious solution is a Beowulf cluster, of course!
The GWS Slow Stick is a very good choice for a beginner plane that is well suited for hauling aloft a little bit of extra weight. Check out the Aerial Photography forum at RC Groups for more info.
How exactly is this parent any less off-topic than the grandparent? We do not need to read the endless political crap in a topic about Winamp.
Actually, since the Mac version of iTunes and the Windows version of iTunes are identical in nearly every single detail, it's a fair to use experience with the Mac version as a basis for comparison, I think. If there were large changes between the Mac and Windows version I'd agree with you, but there are basically none.
No kidding. Hell, if it's really that big of a problem, move the computer to a seperate room. Then you can play your MP3s, click your mouse, and bang away on a nice clicky keyboard all you want without disturbing anyone else. The original poster is definitely overcomplicating a simple issue.
Perhaps a button on the handlebars to toggle the HUD in the helmet would be appropriate. It would allow the rider to get the information when he wants it, but not be distracting all the time. It would definitely be an improvement over looking down at a gauge cluster, I would think.
If you read the article (and look at the pretty pictures), you can see that it is indeed integrated into the helmet itself and not just strapped onto the outside.
If it went to an AOL address, it was delivered to Virginia, since that's where all of the AOL mail servers live. If it was a spammer, you can almost guarantee that he spammed Virginia-based email addresses -- in fact, he probably spammed addresses based in every state.
People DO use Dell over the comparatively priced competitors. That's probably why they've got the largest market share in the segment.
I couldn't find any references to the $150 million profit number regarding Google. Can you give some more details?
How about a shelf? Where I used to work we installed all the systems in our datacenters on shelves rather than screwing them directly into the racks simply because it saved time when it was necessary to get into thos systems or to move/replace them. No reason why you couldn't just stik it on a shelf in your closet. If you don't have an appropriate one already there, a 2x4 and a piece of plywood or MDF should do nicely as the raw materials to make your own.
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You're missing the point. The reason most modern aircraft have flight computers is because it's physically impossible to fly one without it. The aircraft are inherently unstable in flight and it's only the flight control computer that keeps them from going out of control.
No, but as a matter of fact, you don't need to pay Microsoft whether you run Windows or not. At least, not if you purchase it as parts and assemble it yourself.
Perhaps it's not enforceable, and perhaps it's not even legal -- but that's not the point. Why not respect the wishes of the authors who have been good enough to make the content available for free?
I'm not sure what the prices are running these days, but back in 1999 I put together a 6TB system running RAID 5 on an all fibre-channel system using (at the time FC hubs -- switch fabric was too immature) StorageTek (aka Clariion) arrays for right around $2.5M.
Keep in mind, that's just for the disks, array controllers/cabinets, hubs, and Sun FC cards. No servers are included in that price.
There are so many variables that you didn't go into that it's hard to give you an educated answer to your question, but it seems feasible to get to around 50TB today for that kind of money taking into account the increased storage density that we've gotten in the last couple of years.
People were convinced the world was flat at one point too. Just because it's incredibly implausible and flies in the face of what we think we know, that doesn't mean that it should be discounted out of hand.
Perhaps they will in the future, but the group of files that they "recommend" you copy over for a Linux dedicated server runs into 700MB compressed. I suspect they don't want to take the step of hosting a download that large if they can avoid it,b ut I could be wrong.
If you don't like their licensing terms, don't buy their product. It really IS that simple as far as the XBox is concerned.
Violating the license and using a morality play to justify it seems a bit silly to me. It'd be like Microsoft blatantly including GPLed code in Windows and thumbing their nose at the Open Source community -- everyone would be up in arms about it when it really amounts to the same thing: Violating the license agreement.
If TiVo advertises the unit as having a 40 hour capacity, you're buying it on that basis, regardless of whether or not it has additional space available on the hard drive that is reserved by TiVo. I don't see anything dishonest about it at all -- they set the price for a unit with advertised specifications. You have the choice whether or not to purchase it on that basis -- it's as simple as that.
Your bet would be wrong. The TiVo is constantly recording and there is no low-power mode that it goes into, so that's not an issue.
The fact of the matter is, the space that it got recorded into was reserved for TiVo's use and was never factored into the advertised capacity of the unit so they're not taking any extra resources. Additionally, it only records if it doesn't have anything else scheduled for that time, so I honestly fail to see the problem.
Just because the source is available doesn't make it Open Source. You are not legally allowed to distribute that code in modified form, and I'm fairly sure you're not even allowed to in unmodified form.
Back that statement up. I've seen (and run) benchmarks where Java performed significantly better than C# for an equivalent program. If you're talking about GUI response I'll let you get away with it, but if you're measuring performance in any other way I'd really like to see you back up your statement.