So you don't think that the US makes anything through their no doubt monstruous patent portfolio surrounding GPS? You don't think that, perhaps, the companies that make the receivers might possibly have to license it.
But then let's be fair here, there's no per-use cost to a GPS-alike and it was put up for the military, but there is a per-use cost in terms of bandwidth for a website. news.bbc reported 115 million page impressions on the day of the london bombings. That's quite a serious amount of traffic.
I agree in part, although there's part of me that thinks somewhat idealistically that some of the extra expense must be to ensure a much lower percentage of false-positives.
If people weren't worried about clocking off innocent people then I figure you could drop the costs dramatically...
I think you can push this any which way you choose. Richard Branson who's often hailed as a self-made millionaire over this side of the pond went to Eton was it not, and had contacts with the elite.
You get fewer self-made millionaires from moss side.
I agree his units are off, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were multi-millisecond delays. A lot of the 'digital enhancement' that goes on with pictures these days means that there is noticable delay, of more than a full frame.
Slap a good old CRT TV next to a over enhanced plasma screen and you sometimes can see the time difference between the two screens when you get scene changes.
I don't buy it. What you key in will bear no relation to the actual pin (so it's not like faulty buttons) and seeing as it's suggested that you'd do up to 2 per transaction, why's it not doing 3 more often and locking people out.
You'd statistically stand out a mile, and once they replace your pin pad for you (which is no doubt supplied under contract) they'll be able to check its internal logs to see what was going on.
Either you're so subtle about this (and do it very rarely) and have a very small chance of success, or you do it a lot, and are spotted by Visa and friends as being a statistical anomaly.
Speaking as an SGI admin (Onyx3400 IR2 probably the closest to what you're using) I know where you're coming from.
a) Don't buy a Prism. It's just got 1 generation old ATI cards in, and the performance is... disappointing.
b) I reckon to not bother with a single card solution. We've used a Matrox Parhelia under windows, and mostly due to driver shoddiness it wasn't that great.
c) I'd be tempted (and will be testing a cheaper varient of this out soon to run an IBM 3840x2400 screen) to try a twin Quadro FX 4400 on one of the Nvidia Pro based boards (Tyan seem to be the leader with this at the moment) with twin 16x PCI-E. Nvidia have recently changed their drivers to allow you to use Xinerama and OpenGL across multiple identical cards. Seeing as you've come from SGI, this should be easy to sell financially. The performance is cracking on the FX4400 too, blowing everything else we've got out of the water. You'd manage to put together a dual Xeon 3.6 4Gb machine for something under 8,000 UK pounds.
It wouldn't surprise me if it was flash, certainly flash can skip past firefox's popup blocking. You can always use a click to view extension on flash.
Despite being told not to? Default install of XP professional prompts you to create multiple users on install as well as the administrator user. And it puts them all in the Administrator group.
Add to that the number of games that don't work properly unless you're admin (even recent ones, say Need For Speed Underground helpfully saves all the save games in ~"All Users").
If you're purely doing work then you're right, you should run as non-admin, but it's not the default.
Okay, in which case I agree with what you were saying. I was just making sure you weren't saying you could make a 100% reliable system using unreliable components.
I wouldn't worry too much about drivers. ATI have produced drivers for IRIX 64bit and Linux IA64 (for SGI) so they really shouldn't have too much trouble with things.
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You also can't get pure ethanol from distillation (only ~95%) so I'd like to see your complicated distillation column.
So you don't think that the US makes anything through their no doubt monstruous patent portfolio surrounding GPS? You don't think that, perhaps, the companies that make the receivers might possibly have to license it.
But then let's be fair here, there's no per-use cost to a GPS-alike and it was put up for the military, but there is a per-use cost in terms of bandwidth for a website. news.bbc reported 115 million page impressions on the day of the london bombings. That's quite a serious amount of traffic.
I agree in part, although there's part of me that thinks somewhat idealistically that some of the extra expense must be to ensure a much lower percentage of false-positives.
If people weren't worried about clocking off innocent people then I figure you could drop the costs dramatically...
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I certainly don't think it's an easy sell claiming it's cheaper.I think you can push this any which way you choose. Richard Branson who's often hailed as a self-made millionaire over this side of the pond went to Eton was it not, and had contacts with the elite.
You get fewer self-made millionaires from moss side.
Still stutters on my machine (2700+ ATI 9600XT 512Mb).
Indeed, Condor (and Condor-G) fits the bill nicely, and has been scaled up to seriously large installations.
The checkpointing doesn't work right with the intel compilers though last I checked, which is a bit of an arse.
I agree his units are off, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were multi-millisecond delays. A lot of the 'digital enhancement' that goes on with pictures these days means that there is noticable delay, of more than a full frame.
Slap a good old CRT TV next to a over enhanced plasma screen and you sometimes can see the time difference between the two screens when you get scene changes.
Does that not assume that all signed software is flawless, and not susceptible to code injection?
I don't buy it. What you key in will bear no relation to the actual pin (so it's not like faulty buttons) and seeing as it's suggested that you'd do up to 2 per transaction, why's it not doing 3 more often and locking people out.
You'd statistically stand out a mile, and once they replace your pin pad for you (which is no doubt supplied under contract) they'll be able to check its internal logs to see what was going on.
Either you're so subtle about this (and do it very rarely) and have a very small chance of success, or you do it a lot, and are spotted by Visa and friends as being a statistical anomaly.
Either way, a stupid way to rip people off.
£ isn't standard ASCII. Stick with 7bits, you know it's a good idea.
The installer couldn't cope with installing into an existing LVM VG which is a shame.
Switching from init 1 to init 5 requested the root password which was novel. I'll have to track down what that's all about.
Speaking as an SGI admin (Onyx3400 IR2 probably the closest to what you're using) I know where you're coming from.
a) Don't buy a Prism. It's just got 1 generation old ATI cards in, and the performance is... disappointing.
b) I reckon to not bother with a single card solution. We've used a Matrox Parhelia under windows, and mostly due to driver shoddiness it wasn't that great.
c) I'd be tempted (and will be testing a cheaper varient of this out soon to run an IBM 3840x2400 screen) to try a twin Quadro FX 4400 on one of the Nvidia Pro based boards (Tyan seem to be the leader with this at the moment) with twin 16x PCI-E. Nvidia have recently changed their drivers to allow you to use Xinerama and OpenGL across multiple identical cards. Seeing as you've come from SGI, this should be easy to sell financially. The performance is cracking on the FX4400 too, blowing everything else we've got out of the water. You'd manage to put together a dual Xeon 3.6 4Gb machine for something under 8,000 UK pounds.
And that software is shiny enough that SGI provide it as an option when buying an Itanium based machine as an upgrade path from MIPS.
Basically KVM's use it because they figure users don't...
I'd have thought not, although they should redistribute the written offer from vx30 to provide source...
And the constitution can't be changed?
It wouldn't surprise me if it was flash, certainly flash can skip past firefox's popup blocking. You can always use a click to view extension on flash.
Despite being told not to? Default install of XP professional prompts you to create multiple users on install as well as the administrator user. And it puts them all in the Administrator group.
Add to that the number of games that don't work properly unless you're admin (even recent ones, say Need For Speed Underground helpfully saves all the save games in ~"All Users").
If you're purely doing work then you're right, you should run as non-admin, but it's not the default.
Okay, in which case I agree with what you were saying. I was just making sure you weren't saying you could make a 100% reliable system using unreliable components.
But then aren't you relying on your RAID controller being trustworthy? And you system bus, and you processor and...?
Mea culpa ;)
Are you being intentionally facetious? How can software work reliably when hardware doesn't do what it says it does?
Please explain how you're planning on coding around a hard disk that every full moon replaces all of your data with an ELO song on a loop?
I wouldn't worry too much about drivers. ATI have produced drivers for IRIX 64bit and Linux IA64 (for SGI) so they really shouldn't have too much trouble with things.