I'd probably want to use 802.11g though... lots of data, this is.
If you could actually buy consumer grade 802.11g I would agree. At least at the prices currently listed on Amazon. $133.99 for the WAP54G is one helluva deal considering I didn't pay much less than that for each of my WAP11s about a month ago. Problem is that it isn't shipping yet.
Thing is, I don't even use all the bandwidth on the WAP11s. I'm using them as a bridge to get from the cable modem on one side of the residence to the LAN on the other side. Since I only get 1.5 down from the cable modem, it doesn't really matter that much. Even if I went all wireless, it still wouldn't matter. The limiting factor will always be the cable modem.
Still, anything that drives the prices down on 802.11b gear is a good thing. I'll go completely wireless as soon as I can PCI cards at something I consider to be a reasonable price.
I doubt any GFX card company would dare try it again.
It's not like this is the first time for ATI. I seem to recall the Rage Pro Turbo outscoring a Voodoo2 on 3D Winbench. Needless to say real world performance wasn't even close.
The box isn't about control. The box is about increased revenue. You rent the box from the cable company. You could buy a box from someone else and pirate premium content with little chance of being caught. The way to stop cable piracy and better serve the customers is addressable traps instead of addressable boxes. No one uses addressable traps because box rental revenue > lost PPV sales from third party boxes. Remember, each TV needs its own box.
You are under a misconception. The pan and scan is done ahead of time and is a separate video track.
More importantly in this case, BTTF are some of the few movies that were filmed in full frame. In this case, full frame is how the director intended the movie to be seen. While I generally buy widescreen version, in this case I will buy the full frame.
It's not clear to me that they have caught up. The iLamp and the eMac in the budget market get killed price wise by the Walmart Lindows machine. The Power Mac is the only one I would consider buying. The superdrive isn't available on the low end 2x867Mhz so you either step up or buy the third party equivalent of iDVD. Apple is supposed to be no hassle so lets step up to the 2x1Ghz model. Upgrade to the GF4 Ti and 1GB of memory and your price jumps to ~$3200. Lets look at what I can do for that in the PC world.
1 x Tyan Thunder i7505 MoBo $500 2 x 2.8Ghz Xeon $1000 2 x 512MB 1066 RIMM $500 1 x GF4 Ti 4600 $250 1 x 120GB 7200RPM EIDE HD $150 1 x Pioneer DVR-A04 (Superdrive) $300 1 x Case w/ 420W PS $150
Total: ~$2850
5.1 Surround, Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire, etc, are already on the board. I still have a few hundred dollars to buy video editing software. Plus, I really doubt the 1Ghz G4s can keep up with the 2.8 Ghz Xeons, Altivec or no Altivec. The Ultimate G4 at $4599 is probably a better match in performance but now I've increased the price margin from a few hundred dollars to more than $1k, even after boosting the RAM up to 2GB.
No, the price/performance still isn't there for Apple.
Many of us don't have a choice of vendors. A product may only be available from one or two vendors. Corporate policy may dictate that you use a specific product from a specific vendor. Even if the product is more expensive and not optimal for the task, you'll be retired before the paperwork for a deviation is approved. In short, you use the corporate standard product in the corporate standard configuration if you want to keep receiving your corporate standard paycheck.
Now, lets talk patches. Suppose a new security patch comes out to fix an unchecked buffer. After testing the patch for a week or two, I determine that it will take three months and $100k in software upgrades to work around the issues introduced by the patch. Let us also suppose that there are several other documented vulnerabilities that are easier to exploit and for which a patch has not been released. Why in hell should I spend that kind of money to put bars over the window when my front door is wide open?
Actually many top corporations are getting very serious about destroying documents that are no longer needed/required to be kept. Still, the log would be useful for showing that the file existed, was kept for the required time period, and purged afterward.
Corporate Ethics? Corporations don't have ethics. People have ethics. Or don't. If some executives decide they can cut a deal, sell their options, and get out before the shoe drops, it doesn't really matter what the shareholders might think about it. Think it's just Tyco, Enron, and Worldcom where executives put the profits of the entire company and all its public shareholders at risk? In short, I believe your hypothesis is unfounded and naive.
The problem is that it isn't one guy that you have to get to open the ports. It's one guy at every site in every subsidiary across the globe. Takes months if not years. Sure, you could build a global IT organization, but in practice that ends up being worse because nothing gets done unless it will generate > $20 million in revenue.
You seem to be under the impression that you don't pay for successful TV shows. TANSTAAFL. First you pay for cable or satellite. Then you have to sit through the ads or pay for a device that skips them. You pay in time or money or both.
This isn't giving money to a cause. This is buying a good or service. It just happens to be a collaborative effort due to magnitude of the expense. It's similar to capitalism. The difference is that the ROI isn't measured in dollars.
If enough people get together and fund the show, it doesn't matter if it's on a network. The show continues to be produced. DVD and videos continue to be distributed. People keep watching the show they cared enough about to fund directly instead of through the network middleman.
Ok. You can view the resulting document in any web browser. So what? I'm supposed to open a table of numbers in my web browser and then copy/paste them into my spreadsheet before I can do anything useful with them?
The point was that the office application needs to know what to do with each tag. Since it has to have code to deal with each tag, it could just as easily have code to deal with each field in a binary file. Parsing fields in a binary file is going to be much faster than parsing xml tags. As for xslt, are you suggesting that the xslt should parse the xml tags to output a binary file that is then parsed by the application? How is this faster than either of the others?
Why would my compiled binary office application need a binary plugin to read a binary file?
Q: why would you hard code the objectID of an MDAC component?
A: because your code has been tested against and works with that version. because you haven't completed testing against newer versions. because the newer version behaves differently and would require a significant rewrite that hasn't been completed. some or all the above. take your pick.
1) Using a portable API in commercial apps usually involves licensing fees. If the app is only intended to run on one platform, this is needless expense. 2) If performance is a requirement for the software, extra abstraction layers just get in the way. 3) A portable API is not Panacea. For example, if your program needs to clean up on forcible termination, a portable API probably isn't going to solve this on Windows because the app doesn't receive a signal; it just gets killed. 4) New applications will be written in Motif if the spec says they are written in Motif. Don't confuse Best Practices with business requirements.
No, what decimated any hope of client side UI control is that users can't/won't take the time to set up every aspect of a user interface for a given web application. That is the designers job.
Regardless of any symbolism or meaning a reader thinks they see in a work, it is rather presumptious to assume that what they perceive is what the author meant or intended. And to proclaim such, despite vehement denials by the author, is arrogant in the extreme.
In addition, the analysis in question is derived from speculation about what Tolkein might have been thinking as he wrote the work. A statement of fact based on a flight of fancy is always foolish and usually wrong.
There are no insurmountable security problems with NT 4 provided you aren't hamstrung by clueless suits who apparently work straight out of "The Complete Fucking Morons Guide to NT Administration". The ones that can read, anyway.
For example, earlier in the week I had to apply SP4 to my SQL Server boxes without prior testing so that they wouldn't get shut down. This was in response to the recent worm that utilizes blank sa passwords. Setting the password was the first thing I had done after I installed SQL Server 2 years ago, but that wasn't important. The important thing was that all SQL Servers had to be running SP4 within 2 days or they would be turned off.
Now, the irony of this is that they would be shut down using an admin service that provides remote file transfer and command line, runs as an administrator, doesn't require any authentication at all, can be accessed using a standard web browser.
Good thing we're checking for blank sa passwords, huh?
Go to any of the major OEM or chain store web sites. Let us know if you can actually find anything under 1Ghz. Further, visit pricewatch.com and check the CPU prices. I find it hard to believe that many people are so desperate to save six dollars on a major purchase that they go with the 800 instead of the 1Ghz.
I think they're stupid. On the scale of things "avoiding getting killed" has to be one of the most basic tests of intelligence.
You sir, are a perfect example of the illness that afflicts modern society. You place your own well being above that of anyone else. You have no respect for those who do not share your beliefs. You insult people whose values extend beyond pure self-interest.
The unmitigated self interest displayed by you and others like you is the most convincing argument against universal sufferage of which I can conceive. You believe your life is inherently more important than the lives of millions of other people. You respect the military only when they are protecting you from a direct threat. The people serving in the armed forces have shown they are willing to sacrifice for the greater good. Why should you be given the franchise if you are unwilling to do the same?
As for intelligence, if the dumbest beast of burden can "avoid getting killed", I'd hardly consider that a defining measure.
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of these software tools are binary only distributions. There are three problems with this.
1) Invariably, one or more features I require are either not available or the implementation is fundamentally flawed. 2) Invariably, one or more bugs significantly impact accuracy and/or reliability. 3) Invariably, the patches the vendor supplies either fail to fix the problems that impact me or fix some of the problems but introduce new ones.
In fact, this seems to be standard procedure for most vendors. This is because if people could actually get the product working correctly, they wouldn't have a need for a support contract. I end up spending far more time creating work arounds and testing vendor patches and creating new work arounds for the new problems before I apply the patch than it would take to just fix the problem in the source.
You could argue that I should just use a better product but for many of the tools, there either isn't an alternative or the alternative is even worse.
While I can't say software vendors have set the industry back 20 years, they have slowed things down quite a bit.
I don't agree with Stallman on many issues, but I find it sad that so many people consider him an insane fanatic simply because he refuses to compromise his principles. His stance is well known in the community and I fail to understand how he is in the wrong for not making an exception.
Further, no one has a fundamental right to have Stallman speak at their group. He can be asked, but he is entitled to decline with or without giving a reason. In this case, he agreed to speak with certain provisions. If the other party is unwilling or unable to meet those provisions, how is this Stallman's problem?
Except Grandma can't read the letters on that 15" screen (she has trouble at 640x480 on a 17"). If Apple offered a larger screen on the $1800 model instead of the DVD burner I might consider it. Then again all she wants to do is read email and surf the web, so a WebTV might be the most bang for the buck.
It's more the computer for the rich of us than the rest of us.
We use OpenMail. I read about the discontinuing development last February with great happiness.
My servers run NT. I would have preferred *NIX but it would have taken another year or two of paperwork to get the purchase order for *NIX boxes through management. I want my servers to send email notifications when certain events occur. Normally, I would just use the windows messaging API. Unfortunately, the OpenMail MAPI drivers refuse to resolve addresses outside of Outlook. I get a lot of 'net send' messages these days.
In client side processes, I was able to automate email. I had to get a reference to an Outlook folder and use that to create and send the message, but it works. Mostly. Trying to send a message to Doe, John when there is also a Doe, John C. in the OpenMail address book gives an ambiguous address error.
The real problem with anything from HP is that they couldn't write a decent driver if their life depended on it.
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I'd probably want to use 802.11g though ... lots of data, this is.
If you could actually buy consumer grade 802.11g I would agree. At least at the prices currently listed on Amazon. $133.99 for the WAP54G is one helluva deal considering I didn't pay much less than that for each of my WAP11s about a month ago. Problem is that it isn't shipping yet.
Thing is, I don't even use all the bandwidth on the WAP11s. I'm using them as a bridge to get from the cable modem on one side of the residence to the LAN on the other side. Since I only get 1.5 down from the cable modem, it doesn't really matter that much. Even if I went all wireless, it still wouldn't matter. The limiting factor will always be the cable modem.
Still, anything that drives the prices down on 802.11b gear is a good thing. I'll go completely wireless as soon as I can PCI cards at something I consider to be a reasonable price.
I doubt any GFX card company would dare try it again.
It's not like this is the first time for ATI. I seem to recall the Rage Pro Turbo outscoring a Voodoo2 on 3D Winbench. Needless to say real world performance wasn't even close.
The box isn't about control. The box is about increased revenue. You rent the box from the cable company. You could buy a box from someone else and pirate premium content with little chance of being caught. The way to stop cable piracy and better serve the customers is addressable traps instead of addressable boxes. No one uses addressable traps because box rental revenue > lost PPV sales from third party boxes. Remember, each TV needs its own box.
Dude, the installer came out and couldn't get a signal becuase of too many trees. You appear to be talking out your ass.
You are under a misconception. The pan and scan is done ahead of time and is a separate video track.
More importantly in this case, BTTF are some of the few movies that were filmed in full frame. In this case, full frame is how the director intended the movie to be seen. While I generally buy widescreen version, in this case I will buy the full frame.
I'd rather be part of the precipitate.
It's not clear to me that they have caught up. The iLamp and the eMac in the budget market get killed price wise by the Walmart Lindows machine. The Power Mac is the only one I would consider buying. The superdrive isn't available on the low end 2x867Mhz so you either step up or buy the third party equivalent of iDVD. Apple is supposed to be no hassle so lets step up to the 2x1Ghz model. Upgrade to the GF4 Ti and 1GB of memory and your price jumps to ~$3200. Lets look at what I can do for that in the PC world.
1 x Tyan Thunder i7505 MoBo $500
2 x 2.8Ghz Xeon $1000
2 x 512MB 1066 RIMM $500
1 x GF4 Ti 4600 $250
1 x 120GB 7200RPM EIDE HD $150
1 x Pioneer DVR-A04 (Superdrive) $300
1 x Case w/ 420W PS $150
Total: ~$2850
5.1 Surround, Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire, etc, are already on the board. I still have a few hundred dollars to buy video editing software. Plus, I really doubt the 1Ghz G4s can keep up with the 2.8 Ghz Xeons, Altivec or no Altivec. The Ultimate G4 at $4599 is probably a better match in performance but now I've increased the price margin from a few hundred dollars to more than $1k, even after boosting the RAM up to 2GB.
No, the price/performance still isn't there for Apple.
Many of us don't have a choice of vendors. A product may only be available from one or two vendors. Corporate policy may dictate that you use a specific product from a specific vendor. Even if the product is more expensive and not optimal for the task, you'll be retired before the paperwork for a deviation is approved. In short, you use the corporate standard product in the corporate standard configuration if you want to keep receiving your corporate standard paycheck.
Now, lets talk patches. Suppose a new security patch comes out to fix an unchecked buffer. After testing the patch for a week or two, I determine that it will take three months and $100k in software upgrades to work around the issues introduced by the patch. Let us also suppose that there are several other documented vulnerabilities that are easier to exploit and for which a patch has not been released. Why in hell should I spend that kind of money to put bars over the window when my front door is wide open?
Actually many top corporations are getting very serious about destroying documents that are no longer needed/required to be kept. Still, the log would be useful for showing that the file existed, was kept for the required time period, and purged afterward.
Corporate Ethics? Corporations don't have ethics. People have ethics. Or don't. If some executives decide they can cut a deal, sell their options, and get out before the shoe drops, it doesn't really matter what the shareholders might think about it. Think it's just Tyco, Enron, and Worldcom where executives put the profits of the entire company and all its public shareholders at risk? In short, I believe your hypothesis is unfounded and naive.
The problem is that it isn't one guy that you have to get to open the ports. It's one guy at every site in every subsidiary across the globe. Takes months if not years. Sure, you could build a global IT organization, but in practice that ends up being worse because nothing gets done unless it will generate > $20 million in revenue.
You seem to be under the impression that you don't pay for successful TV shows. TANSTAAFL. First you pay for cable or satellite. Then you have to sit through the ads or pay for a device that skips them. You pay in time or money or both.
This isn't giving money to a cause. This is buying a good or service. It just happens to be a collaborative effort due to magnitude of the expense. It's similar to capitalism. The difference is that the ROI isn't measured in dollars.
If enough people get together and fund the show, it doesn't matter if it's on a network. The show continues to be produced. DVD and videos continue to be distributed. People keep watching the show they cared enough about to fund directly instead of through the network middleman.
Ok. You can view the resulting document in any web browser. So what? I'm supposed to open a table of numbers in my web browser and then copy/paste them into my spreadsheet before I can do anything useful with them?
The point was that the office application needs to know what to do with each tag. Since it has to have code to deal with each tag, it could just as easily have code to deal with each field in a binary file. Parsing fields in a binary file is going to be much faster than parsing xml tags. As for xslt, are you suggesting that the xslt should parse the xml tags to output a binary file that is then parsed by the application? How is this faster than either of the others?
Why would my compiled binary office application need a binary plugin to read a binary file?
Q: why would you hard code the objectID of an MDAC component?
A: because your code has been tested against and works with that version. because you haven't completed testing against newer versions. because the newer version behaves differently and would require a significant rewrite that hasn't been completed. some or all the above. take your pick.
A few points:
1) Using a portable API in commercial apps usually involves licensing fees. If the app is only intended to run on one platform, this is needless expense.
2) If performance is a requirement for the software, extra abstraction layers just get in the way.
3) A portable API is not Panacea. For example, if your program needs to clean up on forcible termination, a portable API probably isn't going to solve this on Windows because the app doesn't receive a signal; it just gets killed.
4) New applications will be written in Motif if the spec says they are written in Motif. Don't confuse Best Practices with business requirements.
And if you had an 80" RPTV, you'd be nuts to risk screen burn with a console game.
No, what decimated any hope of client side UI control is that users can't/won't take the time to set up every aspect of a user interface for a given web application. That is the designers job.
Regardless of any symbolism or meaning a reader thinks they see in a work, it is rather presumptious to assume that what they perceive is what the author meant or intended. And to proclaim such, despite vehement denials by the author, is arrogant in the extreme.
In addition, the analysis in question is derived from speculation about what Tolkein might have been thinking as he wrote the work. A statement of fact based on a flight of fancy is always foolish and usually wrong.
There are no insurmountable security problems with NT 4 provided you aren't hamstrung by clueless suits who apparently work straight out of "The Complete Fucking Morons Guide to NT Administration". The ones that can read, anyway.
For example, earlier in the week I had to apply SP4 to my SQL Server boxes without prior testing so that they wouldn't get shut down. This was in response to the recent worm that utilizes blank sa passwords. Setting the password was the first thing I had done after I installed SQL Server 2 years ago, but that wasn't important. The important thing was that all SQL Servers had to be running SP4 within 2 days or they would be turned off.
Now, the irony of this is that they would be shut down using an admin service that provides remote file transfer and command line, runs as an administrator, doesn't require any authentication at all, can be accessed using a standard web browser.
Good thing we're checking for blank sa passwords, huh?
Go to any of the major OEM or chain store web sites. Let us know if you can actually find anything under 1Ghz. Further, visit pricewatch.com and check the CPU prices. I find it hard to believe that many people are so desperate to save six dollars on a major purchase that they go with the 800 instead of the 1Ghz.
I think they're stupid. On the scale of things "avoiding getting killed" has to be one of the most basic tests of intelligence.
You sir, are a perfect example of the illness that afflicts modern society. You place your own well being above that of anyone else. You have no respect for those who do not share your beliefs. You insult people whose values extend beyond pure self-interest.
The unmitigated self interest displayed by you and others like you is the most convincing argument against universal sufferage of which I can conceive. You believe your life is inherently more important than the lives of millions of other people. You respect the military only when they are protecting you from a direct threat. The people serving in the armed forces have shown they are willing to sacrifice for the greater good. Why should you be given the franchise if you are unwilling to do the same?
As for intelligence, if the dumbest beast of burden can "avoid getting killed", I'd hardly consider that a defining measure.
The problem is that the overwhelming majority of these software tools are binary only distributions. There are three problems with this.
1) Invariably, one or more features I require are either not available or the implementation is fundamentally flawed.
2) Invariably, one or more bugs significantly impact accuracy and/or reliability.
3) Invariably, the patches the vendor supplies either fail to fix the problems that impact me or fix some of the problems but introduce new ones.
In fact, this seems to be standard procedure for most vendors. This is because if people could actually get the product working correctly, they wouldn't have a need for a support contract. I end up spending far more time creating work arounds and testing vendor patches and creating new work arounds for the new problems before I apply the patch than it would take to just fix the problem in the source.
You could argue that I should just use a better product but for many of the tools, there either isn't an alternative or the alternative is even worse.
While I can't say software vendors have set the industry back 20 years, they have slowed things down quite a bit.
I don't agree with Stallman on many issues, but I find it sad that so many people consider him an insane fanatic simply because he refuses to compromise his principles. His stance is well known in the community and I fail to understand how he is in the wrong for not making an exception.
Further, no one has a fundamental right to have Stallman speak at their group. He can be asked, but he is entitled to decline with or without giving a reason. In this case, he agreed to speak with certain provisions. If the other party is unwilling or unable to meet those provisions, how is this Stallman's problem?
Except Grandma can't read the letters on that 15" screen (she has trouble at 640x480 on a 17"). If Apple offered a larger screen on the $1800 model instead of the DVD burner I might consider it. Then again all she wants to do is read email and surf the web, so a WebTV might be the most bang for the buck.
It's more the computer for the rich of us than the rest of us.
We use OpenMail. I read about the discontinuing development last February with great happiness.
My servers run NT. I would have preferred *NIX but it would have taken another year or two of paperwork to get the purchase order for *NIX boxes through management. I want my servers to send email notifications when certain events occur. Normally, I would just use the windows messaging API. Unfortunately, the OpenMail MAPI drivers refuse to resolve addresses outside of Outlook. I get a lot of 'net send' messages these days.
In client side processes, I was able to automate email. I had to get a reference to an Outlook folder and use that to create and send the message, but it works. Mostly. Trying to send a message to Doe, John when there is also a Doe, John C. in the OpenMail address book gives an ambiguous address error.
The real problem with anything from HP is that they couldn't write a decent driver if their life depended on it.