Been there, done that. Once reconstructed a raid array by dd ing the disks to another bigger one and writing a c program to reconstruct a single image. Worked like a charm too, was a Mylex controller.
I design touch screen UI's for a living. In an industrial setting, the srt of Kiosk and monitoring apps you get for a industrial device.
Touch screens are overrated except where you quickly have to look at something or want to display something to a gawking public. Even there, the app works well bcause the user only uses it for about 10 minutes at a time.
Touch screens are not very viable for a desktop for two reasons. first, a mouse is waaaaaaaay more acurate and secondly you definitely do not want to work with your arms in the air all time. It gets tiring. For the apps Hp has ain min a Remote control works better. Or a small touch remote like an Ipod touch. In my living room I want to sit back on the Sofa with the machine far away, out of touch range on the other side of the screen.
For simple click click click and set this occasionally thing, it is ok. For working the whole time
One on the other hand, I often touch the normal screen of my development machine when confused since I am so used to moving windows here and there on the touch.
And I finally get to stroke my beloved machines at work. That must count for something!
RIght on the money. While the OSS crowd is full of "I hate all things graphical" morons the rest of the world is not. What will happen in the end is that the web WILL turn ito an application platform, but it needs much more than the current crop of browsers. The world will embrace Silverlight and/or Flash simply because the OSS crowd will not support and always infighting about the whole idea of graphics in a browser.
Here is a hint for the ASCII über alles crowd: Substance is better than style, yes. But the presence of style does not imply a lack of substance. Ok? Can we get over that??
Microsoft is waiting the background to design a REAL application platform that will work on the web and it WILL eat your lunch. Instead of claiming that the world does not want graphics and therefore Microsoft is evil for forcing it down, rather think that the real world want this and Microsoft is providing something you are not.
And no, knowing how to be a l33t hax0r d00d on a terminal commandline does no make your dick grow either.
> Name a single real world problem that doesn't parallelize.
Basically, anything that does a lot of IO to the disk is almost invariably going to be bound by IO rather than how many processors you have. And MOST real world problem lie in that domain. Few businesses have lots of graphics workstations and video editors. Almost all o them store data and manipulate it. And no, editing some dude's adress is not going to be faster if yu map the firstname and lastname fields to different cpus.
The reason that IBM mainframes are still a viable option if you have a real boatload of data is that they have wicked fast IO subsystems, rather than fast CPU's (they don't)
Most restaurants do not have a problem since they know the guy is gonna call someone to run after you or eventually ou would get issues with law enforcement. Never mind that you will never put your foot into that restaurant again. Ie, people do not do it because they know they cannot get away with it.
Software is different. It is trivial to get away with it so everyone does it.
30000 years ago Neanderthal Ogg was bitching about this newfangled "wheel" thing his friend Zurg showed him and swore that he never needed this unnecessary high-tech and that walking is good enough for him
The tragic part today is that it is the techies who are bitching about the high-tech. Here a hint: Style over substance is bad, sure. But just because something HAS style does not mean it has no substance.
A much better idea would be to take the money, give them the phone, go home and buy the mother of all iPhones for me and all my friends. No need for violence!
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Been there, done that. Once reconstructed a raid array by dd ing the disks to another bigger one and writing a c program to reconstruct a single image. Worked like a charm too, was a Mylex controller.
I design touch screen UI's for a living. In an industrial setting, the srt of Kiosk and monitoring apps you get for a industrial device.
Touch screens are overrated except where you quickly have to look at something or want to display something to a gawking public. Even there, the app works well bcause the user only uses it for about 10 minutes at a time.
Touch screens are not very viable for a desktop for two reasons. first, a mouse is waaaaaaaay more acurate and secondly you definitely do not want to work with your arms in the air all time. It gets tiring. For the apps Hp has ain min a Remote control works better. Or a small touch remote like an Ipod touch. In my living room I want to sit back on the Sofa with the machine far away, out of touch range on the other side of the screen.
For simple click click click and set this occasionally thing, it is ok. For working the whole time
One on the other hand, I often touch the normal screen of my development machine when confused since I am so used to moving windows here and there on the touch.
And I finally get to stroke my beloved machines at work. That must count for something!
SO? Why should any of those points make anyone hate Apple.
They do not owe you anything, except to service the product you bought from them.
It also has a Morse-code setting that you can use to either dial or SMS.
Old hands at Morse can easily outgun a teenager on a keypad with SMS in any case so this might not be a bad idea.
Sir! We successfully attacked Moscow!
No you idiot! There is a mushroom cloud over Los Angeles!
But, the computer INSISTS it is Moscow!
Oh shit!
Fortunately, since you are in a stealth bomber the gtue can't see you and is in for a multi-megaton surprise.
He is working! He is marketing his product. In fact he deserves a bonus.
OpenBSD was created when Chuck Norris ripped the BSD kernel apart
/proc/uptime overflowed on Chucks 128 bit machine.
Chuck Norris runs UNICOS on his wristwatch
The FIN bit in an IP packet is used to indicate that Chuck is coming over the Ethernet to get you
The first terabit switch blew up when Chuck connected his computer to it
Chuck Norris measures the speed of his CPU in BogoTips, not BogoMips
82.4% of the liquid helium produced on earth is used to cool Chuck's superconductive CPUs
The IPV6 Address space was exhausted when Chuck assigned an address to each of the CPU's in his Beowulf cluster
Chuck Norris won the Turing award 4 times. Last time was for an algorithm to factor primes
Chuck Norris scans his own PC for Mail Viruses by smell. And God bless you if you spam him
Chuck Norris uses cat and echo instead of UPDATE and SELECT
Chuck Norris's LISP machine does not use a Garbage collector. It does not need one.
Half-life 2 was based on Chucks day off last week
For Chucks computer P=NP is irrelevant. Everything runs in one clock cycle.
Chuck Norris does not have CD Burner. He has a CD Blaster. And all CD's are rewritable on his machine.
Oracle is named after Chucks CPU branch prediction unit
Each of the CPUs in Chucks Beowulf cluster can crack any AES block in a picosecond
The PowerPC chip was pulled from the market when IBM realized that no processor is as powerful as Chucks brain
When Chucks computer crashes the lights dim all over town
Choogle Earth can zoom down to the level of quarks and leptons and is updated every femtosecond
Chuck Norris' chains down his mouse with Kevlar ropes ever since it ate his pet tiger
Chucks's house is wired with Cat100 quantum optical cable that carries terabit ethernet with ease
Steve Jobs's reality distortion field is generated by Chuck
The last time Chuck Norris had a core dump 15 people died
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Define "Lifetime" in the case of a company that created the copyright as a team.
Remember, copyrights can be owned by companies and other legal persons as well.
I already registered www.another-crater-on-mars.com
RIght on the money. While the OSS crowd is full of "I hate all things graphical" morons the rest of the world is not. What will happen in the end is that the web WILL turn ito an application platform, but it needs much more than the current crop of browsers. The world will embrace Silverlight and/or Flash simply because the OSS crowd will not support and always infighting about the whole idea of graphics in a browser.
Here is a hint for the ASCII über alles crowd: Substance is better than style, yes. But the presence of style does not imply a lack of substance. Ok? Can we get over that??
Microsoft is waiting the background to design a REAL application platform that will work on the web and it WILL eat your lunch. Instead of claiming that the world does not want graphics and therefore Microsoft is evil for forcing it down, rather think that the real world want this and Microsoft is providing something you are not.
And no, knowing how to be a l33t hax0r d00d on a terminal commandline does no make your dick grow either.
The last few weeks???
This place is the most anti-Java site in the Universe. Has always been. If it ain't a P language then it's laughable.
> Name a single real world problem that doesn't parallelize.
Basically, anything that does a lot of IO to the disk is almost invariably going to be bound by IO rather than how many processors you have. And MOST real world problem lie in that domain. Few businesses have lots of graphics workstations and video editors. Almost all o them store data and manipulate it. And no, editing some dude's adress is not going to be faster if yu map the firstname and lastname fields to different cpus.
The reason that IBM mainframes are still a viable option if you have a real boatload of data is that they have wicked fast IO subsystems, rather than fast CPU's (they don't)
Most restaurants do not have a problem since they know the guy is gonna call someone to run after you or eventually ou would get issues with law enforcement. Never mind that you will never put your foot into that restaurant again. Ie, people do not do it because they know they cannot get away with it.
Software is different. It is trivial to get away with it so everyone does it.
30000 years ago Neanderthal Ogg was bitching about this newfangled "wheel" thing his friend Zurg showed him and swore that he never needed this unnecessary high-tech and that walking is good enough for him
The tragic part today is that it is the techies who are bitching about the high-tech. Here a hint: Style over substance is bad, sure. But just because something HAS style does not mean it has no substance.
And for once it was really disappointing when the damn tape finished loading too.
Bee Wary. TRS 80. 1978. Amazing what you can do with a resolution of 128x48 pixels. THat thing had a spider in it with legs. Cool game
And of course, Star Trek.
Well, in Futurama there is a killbot with MAchine guns and Lotus Notes in the year 3000 so maybe, just maybe.
And debugging on Notes still sucks
I still have one and could get nobody to just take it from me. Reason? The total suck-ass horrifying user interface from hell. Want one?
Tell a geek he has to screw with his girlfriend and this is what happens. How do these people procreate??!!
Now that is the best explanation of a Total Internet Outage I ever heard
OpenBSD was created when Chuck Norris ripped the BSD kernel apart
/proc/uptime overflowed on Chucks 128 bit machine.
Chuck Norris runs UNICOS on his wristwatch
The FIN bit in an IP packet is used to indicate that Chuck is coming over the Ethernet to get you
The first terabit switch blew up when Chuck connected his computer to it
Chuck Norris measures the speed of his CPU in BogoTips, not BogoMips
82.4% of the liquid helium produced on earth is used to cool Chuck's superconductive CPUs
The IPV6 Address space was exhausted when Chuck assigned an address to each of the CPU's in his Beowulf cluster
Chuck Norris won the Turing award 4 times. Last time was for an algorithm to factor primes
Chuck Norris scans his own PC for Mail Viruses by smell. And God bless you if you spam him
Chuck Norris uses cat and echo instead of UPDATE and SELECT
Chuck Norris's LISP machine does not use a Garbage collector. It does not need one.
Half-life 2 was based on Chucks day off last week
For Chucks computer P=NP is irrelevant. Everything runs in one clock cycle.
Chuck Norris does not have CD Burner. He has a CD Blaster. And all CD's are rewritable on his machine.
Oracle is named after Chucks CPU branch prediction unit
Each of the CPUs in Chucks Beowulf cluster can crack any AES block in a picosecond
The PowerPC chip was pulled from the market when IBM realized that no processor is as powerful as Chucks brain
When Chucks computer crashes the lights dim all over town
Choogle Earth can zoom down to the level of quarks and leptons and is updated every femtosecond
Chuck Norris' chains down his mouse with Kevlar ropes ever since it ate his pet tiger
Chucks's house is wired with Cat100 quantum optical cable that carries terabit ethernet with ease
Steve Jobs's reality distortion field is generated by Chuck
The last time Chuck Norris had a core dump 15 people died
A much better idea would be to take the money, give them the phone, go home and buy
the mother of all iPhones for me and all my friends. No need for violence!
>> 3. that cute girl you just met
> I'm married.
Then you DEFINITELY want that call to forwarded to another number!
Uhm, you need to reach escape velocity if you want to escape the earth. That aircraft is going to come down again, one hopes.
Escape veolcity is the speed you need to jut fly away without necessarily accelerating.