Well, but most people do not want to do boring repetitive things. They mostly want one op done at one time: move this file(s) there, telnet/ssh here, play that movie, etc. What repetitive tasks would a secretary need to perform?
Nah, my interest in playing FPS is never to kill. I joke with my friends that I would be a good beta tester because my only interest in playing these games is finding where the level designer made baddies trappable. There was a spider in Quake II which was hard to kill with a blaster but if you found just the right spot behind one of the columns it would get stuck not knowing whether to move left or right. Also the big moster thingy (tank commander iirc) was fun: you lure it to the elevator, go down and walk in just enough not to trigger it to go back up. Now you have a marginal view of the bad guy. I remember putting something heavy on the fire button and going for coffee:)
Why is it so hard to make all traces on PCBs coaxial? Yes, you would have to make the PCB and traces in one process, e.g. on a "inkjet printer" type manufacturing process but it is very doable. You could then easily scale lines to 1 GHz and if you could control tolerances to a micron you could scale much higher. Chip packaging would get expensive but I doubt it would add more than $100 to the price of any given chip and maybe only a few bucks for most 6 to 12 pin chips. So your high-end motherboard-processor(s) combo would go up in price but insignificantly (50%). Is anyone doing it?
I think users at this point don't care but having a standard MNG support would be nice since it could potentially lead to sites using it. Who is going to use MNG if a user has to install support for it separately? And to answer the poster below, this was my first post to mention MNG. Even if it really is mostly one guy making waves about MNG, I am not that guy.
I am not the original poster but I think your post is just wrong. Let me just mention the one feature in Mozilla which was dropped and left a lot of people unhappy: MNG support. Now of course you could go in and code up a custom Moz version for yourself but I have yet to hear of a Mozilla fork.
I guess I am one of their target market. I have more than 3 years of Linux usage under my belt but I don't need any server functionality. I do need LaTeX, office suite, various network protocol clients, multimedia apps and config tools. Does anyone have a list of what is included with Discovery. Also, since it doesn't ask what to install by default, what does it install by default? What ports are open by default, what deamons run by default etc? This "review" wasn't helpful, so can someone fill the gap.
Sure there is: racks , controllers, cabling, power conditioners, heck even humidity controllers and vents. Hard drives are the only high volume part here but also one that you can add as needed. All else is fixed cost. Hence my question. Also, 22A at what voltage? 5V?
That's 4 HDDs per 1U and so 14 racks to get to a petabyte. A bit more sparse than I thought could reasonably be built but still pretty dense. Do you know what power consumption of one of these racks is? Just wondering if power would cost more in, say one year of operation, than initial system cost (minus hard drives themselves).
Maybe he meant to say "kernel revisions" but then figured it would be too technical. Not saying he did but don't go apeshit sarcastic on the guy straight off.
This is the same Vajpayee who buys subs and air carriers just to posture in front of his people rather than build roads and infrastructure? And is this the same Salam who claims that your missile defence system is the greatest achievement ever (initial claim was since Bose, revised to ever)? Hmm, these guys may not be sooo bad and I am happy for you being happy with them but they are hardly people to look up to. Certainly in the US these people would catch a lot more flak than Bush.
Seems like MS now is to TRON as Trolltech/Qtopia is to embedded Linux. That said, original TRON is public domain, so it's not clear why MS would need any agreement to port their CE GUI to it. Could it be then that the new TRON T-kernel will not be public domain. That would suck for a lot of manufacturers.
I like the judge's reasoning. I don't see why charities and politicians should be exempt from this list. Hopefully we will finally have a way to put a universal "do not disturb" sign on our email accounts. IOW, I like the all or nothing approach to this.
I kinda agree but remember that religion started to engulf Europe because the Roman empire got weak and need something to shore up the country. The weakening of the empire happened because the democracy was replaced by corrupt dictatorship which attempted to deal with all problems in a military way so when military expansion stalled and costs skyrocketed the culture imploded. Our current developments would seem to parallel that on a faster time scale. We now have military solution as a primary instrument of foreign policy, costs are skyrocketing, companies are migrating to cheaper labor markets and the quality of goods is declining. All in all this seems like a perfect stage for the new religion to take over and lead us to the glorious new Dark Ages. Do you expect the Spannish Inquisition? Seriously, do you?
The big deal here is that they made a system where the signal rolls off as 1/r^6 rather than the usual 1/r^2. This means they concentrate their transmit power in a small radius around the device which makes it more power efficient. They note in their technology brief that yes they do have electric field generated too it's just less penetrating so magnetic field is preferable here since the goal is to save power.
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Well, but most people do not want to do boring
repetitive things. They mostly want one op done
at one time: move this file(s) there, telnet/ssh
here, play that movie, etc.
What repetitive tasks would a secretary need to
perform?
Nah, my interest in playing FPS is never to kill. :)
I joke with my friends that I would be a good
beta tester because my only interest in playing
these games is finding where the level designer
made baddies trappable. There was a spider in
Quake II which was hard to kill with a blaster
but if you found just the right spot behind one
of the columns it would get stuck not knowing
whether to move left or right. Also the big moster
thingy (tank commander iirc) was fun: you lure it
to the elevator, go down and walk in just enough
not to trigger it to go back up. Now you have a
marginal view of the bad guy. I remember putting
something heavy on the fire button and going for
coffee
Reminds me of how I went thru the entire Quake II
with only a blaster. No quads either. It's
always nice to hear about someone going it the
hard way.
Why is it so hard to make all traces on PCBs coaxial?
Yes, you would have to make the PCB and traces
in one process, e.g. on a "inkjet printer" type
manufacturing process but it is very doable.
You could then easily scale lines to 1 GHz and
if you could control tolerances to a micron you
could scale much higher. Chip packaging would
get expensive but I doubt it would add more than
$100 to the price of any given chip and maybe only
a few bucks for most 6 to 12 pin chips. So your
high-end motherboard-processor(s) combo would go
up in price but insignificantly (50%). Is anyone
doing it?
I think users at this point don't care but having
a standard MNG support would be nice since it
could potentially lead to sites using it. Who is
going to use MNG if a user has to install support
for it separately?
And to answer the poster below, this was my first
post to mention MNG. Even if it really is mostly
one guy making waves about MNG, I am not that guy.
I am not the original poster but I think your post
is just wrong. Let me just mention the one feature
in Mozilla which was dropped and left a lot of
people unhappy: MNG support. Now of course you could
go in and code up a custom Moz version for yourself
but I have yet to hear of a Mozilla fork.
I am guessing the guy you repplied to is the guy
who published this ill-defined benchmark seeing as his
nick is lfslinux and all.
This is 50 times their previous cash on hand.
Or put differently, they can now pay a lot of
lawyers.
I guess I am one of their target market. I have
more than 3 years of Linux usage under my belt but
I don't need any server functionality. I do need
LaTeX, office suite, various network protocol
clients, multimedia apps and config tools. Does
anyone have a list of what is included with
Discovery. Also, since it doesn't ask what to
install by default, what does it install by default?
What ports are open by default, what deamons run
by default etc? This "review" wasn't helpful, so
can someone fill the gap.
I think this is now patented by Microsoft. And I
aint kidding either.
If you are OEM, how much would it cost to check each
and every one hard drive before shipping it to
customer?
Sure there is: racks , controllers, cabling, power
conditioners, heck even humidity controllers and
vents. Hard drives are the only high volume part
here but also one that you can add as needed. All
else is fixed cost. Hence my question.
Also, 22A at what voltage? 5V?
That's 4 HDDs per 1U and so 14 racks to get to a
petabyte. A bit more sparse than I thought could
reasonably be built but still pretty dense.
Do you know what power consumption of one of these
racks is? Just wondering if power would cost more
in, say one year of operation, than initial
system cost (minus hard drives themselves).
Assuming you can put 6 HDDs in 1U enclosure and a
standard 44U rack and those 300 Gig monster HDDs,
that's still 12 racks worth of HDDs. Holy...
Maybe he meant to say "kernel revisions" but then
figured it would be too technical. Not saying he
did but don't go apeshit sarcastic on the guy
straight off.
This is the same Vajpayee who buys subs and air
carriers just to posture in front of his people
rather than build roads and infrastructure? And
is this the same Salam who claims that your
missile defence system is the greatest achievement
ever (initial claim was since Bose, revised to ever)?
Hmm, these guys may not be sooo bad and I am happy
for you being happy with them but they are hardly
people to look up to. Certainly in the US these
people would catch a lot more flak than Bush.
We have evidence for quite a few asteroids hitting
Earth in the past. WTF is up with headline?
Hmm, search for:
mercedes 300D transmission adjust vacuum shift
has mbz as third link. Problem?
Seems like MS now is to TRON as Trolltech/Qtopia
is to embedded Linux. That said, original TRON is
public domain, so it's not clear why MS would
need any agreement to port their CE GUI to it.
Could it be then that the new TRON T-kernel will
not be public domain. That would suck for a lot
of manufacturers.
This might be the easiest way to make a massive
Apple worm infestation. Did this "utility" get
audited? By whom?
If it does then all their fancy drm is worth
nothing. Imagine logging every song you played
in the decoded form...
I like the judge's reasoning. I don't see why
charities and politicians should be exempt from
this list. Hopefully we will finally have a way
to put a universal "do not disturb" sign on our
email accounts. IOW, I like the all or nothing
approach to this.
Um, so like, who is David Blaine? I really got no
clue. I assume he is famous but why?
I kinda agree but remember that religion started
to engulf Europe because the Roman empire got
weak and need something to shore up the country.
The weakening of the empire happened because the
democracy was replaced by corrupt dictatorship
which attempted to deal with all problems in a
military way so when military expansion stalled
and costs skyrocketed the culture imploded.
Our current developments would seem to parallel
that on a faster time scale. We now have military
solution as a primary instrument of foreign
policy, costs are skyrocketing, companies are
migrating to cheaper labor markets and the quality
of goods is declining. All in all this seems like
a perfect stage for the new religion to take over
and lead us to the glorious new Dark Ages.
Do you expect the Spannish Inquisition? Seriously,
do you?
The big deal here is that they made a system
where the signal rolls off as 1/r^6 rather than
the usual 1/r^2. This means they concentrate their
transmit power in a small radius around the device
which makes it more power efficient.
They note in their technology brief that yes they
do have electric field generated too it's just
less penetrating so magnetic field is preferable
here since the goal is to save power.