I've had Aerons for several years. They are decent chairs, but getting long in the tooth. I recently tried the Steelcase Leap chair, and find it to be much more comfortable. There are several reasons for this.
One, the aeron has a hard plastic rim around the seat that would bite into the back of my thighs. Two, I have short legs and the Aeron had no ability to adjust the seat depth. The leap chair has significant depth adjustability. Three, when you recline on the leap chair, the seat slides forward rather than just pivoting the whole seat backward, like the Aeron. This is ultimately more comfortable at your workstation.
Both the Aeron and Leap chairs will run just under $1,000.
MTBFs are designed to specify a RATE of failure, not the expected lifetime. This is because disk manufacturers don't test MTBF by running 100 drives until they die, but rather running say, 10000 drives and counting the number that fail during some period of months perhaps. As drives age, clearly the failure rate will increase and thus the "MTBF" will shrink.
long story short -- a 3 year old drive will not have the same MTBF as a brand new drive. And a MTBF of 1 million hours doesn't mean that the median drive will live to 1 million hours.
I find that the video quality of MPEG-1/VCD to be too low for enjoyment. Perhaps if you could reimplement this with DVD-RAM/DIVX (with one of those new DivX capable DVD-players, e.g. the Kiss DP-450, then we'd be talkin.
This isn't a compatibility issue. The Matrox G-series is just SLOW!!
I had a G200 and got maybe 3-10 fps in half-life for example. Getting a GeForce 32 MX raised that to 15-80.
A G400 is about 2x as fast as a G200, but still WAY too slow. And in any modern game, I wouldn't want to inflict 16 MB of video RAM on my worst enemy. (Texture swapping hurts!)
As a former Princeton undergraduate, (Class of 1998 for those who care), I can assure you that the University would probably stand behind Professor Felten if it came down to a lawsuit. And I can virtually guarantee that in a bullying contest, the record companies would be at a disadvantage.
This may in fact be the road to the RIAA's demise -- they're starting to go after people with both the money and influence to fight back.
I can just imagine all those young song bandits out there resurrecting this "encryption":
Nun! Gur Erghea bs Ebg 13!
Whfg vzntvar gur ubeqrf bs crbcyr ybbxvat sbe:
Oevgarl.zc3
Zrgnyyvpn.zc3
rgp.
Pooling of interest is a "dirty word" in the M&A market at the moment. The SEC and other regulatory agencies have cracked down on it due to how it distorts the balance sheet and earnings per share. Of course, if both acquirer and acquired are both gushing losses and investors don't care, there's no need to piss off the regulators as well -- Pooling of interest has no advantages in that case. Regardless, pooling can only be done when you have a merger of equals. In this case, VA Linux is significantly larger, at about $5 BN in market cap. Therefore, it can only be accounted for as a purchase.
I seem to have run across a strange situation using redhat's Apache-1.3.9-8 rpm, mod_perl 1.21 and otherwise following exactly the instructions in the INSTALL file in the slash 0.9 tarball. Apache coredumps on the section. Excluding it at least allows Apache to start. Of course, Apache then proceeds to coredump when you try to access localhost:/ So do any of you brilliant people have any ideas?:)
Let's put the $184 Million cost of the Mars mission into perspective. According to the Wall Steet Journal, the Air Force plans to buy 339 F-22's "over the next 16 years at an average cost of $200 million per plane" Surely a Mars mission is worth 1 F-22.
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I've had Aerons for several years. They are decent chairs, but getting long in the tooth. I recently tried the Steelcase Leap chair, and find it to be much more comfortable. There are several reasons for this.
One, the aeron has a hard plastic rim around the seat that would bite into the back of my thighs. Two, I have short legs and the Aeron had no ability to adjust the seat depth. The leap chair has significant depth adjustability. Three, when you recline on the leap chair, the seat slides forward rather than just pivoting the whole seat backward, like the Aeron. This is ultimately more comfortable at your workstation.
Both the Aeron and Leap chairs will run just under $1,000.
MTBFs are designed to specify a RATE of failure, not the expected lifetime. This is because disk manufacturers don't test MTBF by running 100 drives until they die, but rather running say, 10000 drives and counting the number that fail during some period of months perhaps. As drives age, clearly the failure rate will increase and thus the "MTBF" will shrink.
long story short -- a 3 year old drive will not have the same MTBF as a brand new drive. And a MTBF of 1 million hours doesn't mean that the median drive will live to 1 million hours.
I find that the video quality of MPEG-1/VCD to be too low for enjoyment. Perhaps if you could reimplement this with DVD-RAM/DIVX (with one of those new DivX capable DVD-players, e.g. the Kiss DP-450, then we'd be talkin.
This isn't a compatibility issue. The Matrox G-series is just SLOW!! I had a G200 and got maybe 3-10 fps in half-life for example. Getting a GeForce 32 MX raised that to 15-80. A G400 is about 2x as fast as a G200, but still WAY too slow. And in any modern game, I wouldn't want to inflict 16 MB of video RAM on my worst enemy. (Texture swapping hurts!)
As a former Princeton undergraduate, (Class of 1998 for those who care), I can assure you that the University would probably stand behind Professor Felten if it came down to a lawsuit. And I can virtually guarantee that in a bullying contest, the record companies would be at a disadvantage. This may in fact be the road to the RIAA's demise -- they're starting to go after people with both the money and influence to fight back.
I can just imagine all those young song bandits out there resurrecting this "encryption": Nun! Gur Erghea bs Ebg 13! Whfg vzntvar gur ubeqrf bs crbcyr ybbxvat sbe: Oevgarl.zc3 Zrgnyyvpn.zc3 rgp.
Pooling of interest is a "dirty word" in the M&A market at the moment. The SEC and other regulatory agencies have cracked down on it due to how it distorts the balance sheet and earnings per share. Of course, if both acquirer and acquired are both gushing losses and investors don't care, there's no need to piss off the regulators as well -- Pooling of interest has no advantages in that case. Regardless, pooling can only be done when you have a merger of equals. In this case, VA Linux is significantly larger, at about $5 BN in market cap. Therefore, it can only be accounted for as a purchase.
I seem to have run across a strange situation using redhat's Apache-1.3.9-8 rpm, mod_perl 1.21 and otherwise following exactly the instructions in the INSTALL file in the slash 0.9 tarball. Apache coredumps on the section. Excluding it at least allows Apache to start. Of course, Apache then proceeds to coredump when you try to access localhost:/ So do any of you brilliant people have any ideas? :)
Let's put the $184 Million cost of the Mars mission into perspective. According to the Wall Steet Journal, the Air Force plans to buy 339 F-22's "over the next 16 years at an average cost of $200 million per plane" Surely a Mars mission is worth 1 F-22.