While not terrorism related, the Hillsborough stadium disaster illustrates the sort of thing that can happen - 96 dead, 766 injured, and all through overcrowding, poorly-implemented segregation methods and poor control.
On the other hand, the chances of a company which keeps shouting "DRM! DRM! DRM!" even though it's sore in the throat for a long time coming up with something capable of playing DRM-free stuff is pretty small.
Well, while WiMP defaults to ripping to protected WMA files, it can easily be configured to rip to unprotected WMA or even mp3 (lower quality, without a pay-for third party plugin). Already locked-out of the (large) iTunes market, I really, really can't see MS locking themselves out of the (large) "already has a few gig or more of unprotected mp3s" market; it would be suicide at this stage.
Don't worry, I'll get my come-uppance too; there's bound to be a 2- or 3-digit UIDer lurking somewhere, this sort of good-natured UID pissing match always brings them out of the wood work.
I'd want the company to focus on improving its OS and other software products
And they are. Any experienced programmer or project manager will tell you that after a certain point, dedicating more people and resources to a project will not make it any better or bring it to completion any faster. In fact, due to increased communication and management overheads, it can make it worse and take longer.
I don't know whether or not MS have reached that point, but I think we can probably safely assume that they're not far from it. Given that, and what I asserted above, why *not* branch out into other markets? They have the money, they have the people (at least in numerical terms, if not skills), and with the PC market more or less saturated and their software under attack from free/Free alternatives, they must find alternative revenue streams.
As another respondent more or less said, if I was a shareholder, I'd be very worried if they weren't exploring other markets.
This is how Windows hibernation functions in a nutshell, just dumps RAM to a file I think.
I'm no expert, but given that if you use hibernation you end up with a "hiberfil.sys" (name from memory, may be a little off) file in the root of your system drive of roughly equal size to your installed RAM, I'd say that's a likely explanation.
Shouldn't the Sun have a hell of a tide due to Jupiter?
I don't have time to go through the numbers (as I'm at work), but I doubt that Jupiter's gravity is appreciable at that distance. If it were, we'd see the effects here whenever it was suitably positioned.
In Thompsons warped view of the world, games make children violent.
Just because a point of view is (arguably?) wrong, doesn't mean it's warped. I don't think that video games make kids violent, but I can see the logic of the argument.
If the campus contains even a single PC running a relatively modern version of Windows, then it'll have IE installed and will count towards that 100% installation base figure. When I was last at Imperial College (about 8 years ago), it had at least 1000 NT workstations (as well as a large number of VAX machines, alphas, sparcs, etc).
Might as well report that 100% of campuses featured running water and indoor toilets.
Funny how that works; the CASINOS of all entities are the ones enforcing "decency.":-)
They're enforcing not having people potentially harrassing paying customers and possibly scaring them off; I don't suppose morality comes into it for a second.
the Debian community seems to want to detach itself from the linux one, hence why they call themselves GNU Debian Linux
Lots of people refer to "Linux the operating system" (as opposed to "Linux the kernel") as GNU/Linux, as the GNU toolchain is such a hugely important part of the system that they feel that it deserves recognition. It has nothing to do with trying to distance themselves from "Linux the kernel".
how much memory do you need then if the dataset is 1000TB?
I suspect that the OP is caching at least some of his dataset in RAM. My current project uses Oracle 10g on a 4-way Solaris box with 32GB of RAM; we have that much RAM precisely so we can (attempt to) cache the entire dataset in RAM, thus reducing/eliminating disk I/O.
On the other hand, if you don't care about caching huge amounts of data, you don't really need huge amounts of RAM.
(Disclaimer: Damnit Jim, I'm a programmer, not a DBA!)
It doesn't say "primarily based", it says "primarily developed by US-based". If they started in the UK and their HQ (or equivalent) is in the UK, then I'd say they're UK based.
Also who wants to bet that even though it is a slower boot then Ubuntu that it is considerably faster than Windows...
Well, I can only speak for myself, but my Windows boxes boot in a small handful of seconds; by far the slowest part is the POST and RAID array detection.
Yes, I read that shortly after posting my comment; my bad. However...
baby bottles are allowed as long as the mother will drink from the bottle to prove that it is safe....thus potentially contaminating it. I have a little girl, and when she was born, we were advised not to give her anything that we had put in our mouths (eg don't pick up a dropped dummy, suck it clean and hand it back) because of the risk of giving her cold sores if we had them.
The older the child the less this is a problem, but for particularly young kids, their bottles are sterilised for a reason. Of course, if they're that young, they may well be too young to fly anyway.
Spam as advertising is dead, killed by a combination of CAN-SPAM and spam filters.
Tell that to my inbox. I receive in excess of 1000 junk emails per day, and whether they're filtered to junk or not (and currently, only about 60% are) they're still chewing up bandwidth.
I've seen increasing amounts of image spam with poor quality, grainy images. My first thought was that it was probably to try to throw off OCR-based filters, kind of like the captchas do (although I've not seen anything even nearly as extremely obfuscated/obscured).
Thanks to some low-life scum-sucking piece of shit deciding to use my domain in their fake From: headers a few months ago, I get around 1000 spams, bounces, viruses, etc per day.
I use Thunderbird as my mail client, and it's mostly been pretty good. A few weeks ago, however, its false negative rate went from about 5% to nearer 50%. I've recently installed SpamBayes, and its false negative rate (so far) is a fraction of a percent. It also has a small false positive rate, however, but at the moment I'm not actually using it to filter on - I have Thunderbird flag mails that SpamBayes thinks is spam so I can judge how it's doing for a while. I suspect I'll switch to trusting SpamBayes quite soon; it's doing a much better job than Thunderbird.
What happened to the MP3 phones? They lost out to devices that can do the job better and cheaper.
While that may be true of the US, here in the UK mp3-capable phones are pretty common. I commute daily on the (London) Underground, and a fairly large proportion of people listening to music are doing so on their phone.
Hell, I have an iRiver, and am still very tempted by a phone that can play mp3s, although I have a specific reason - I go clubbing most Saturday nights, and listen to music on the way there to get in the mood and on the way home to stay awake (the club kicks out at 7:30am). If I use my iRiver, I have to put it in the cloak room, and while I've not had anything stolen yet, there's always the chance it'll happen. My phone, on the other hand, stays in my pocket. (I could buy a small, solid-state player, but then I'd have more crap in my pockets...)
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The events of recent weeks in Britian have shown that a civilized country can fight terrorism without resorting to breaking the law.
Some would say that that's because our laws are such that you don't *need* to break them...
While not terrorism related, the Hillsborough stadium disaster illustrates the sort of thing that can happen - 96 dead, 766 injured, and all through overcrowding, poorly-implemented segregation methods and poor control.
Bloody hell that was an obnoxious pop-up - could you not have found a better site?!
On the other hand, the chances of a company which keeps shouting "DRM! DRM! DRM!" even though it's sore in the throat for a long time coming up with something capable of playing DRM-free stuff is pretty small.
Well, while WiMP defaults to ripping to protected WMA files, it can easily be configured to rip to unprotected WMA or even mp3 (lower quality, without a pay-for third party plugin). Already locked-out of the (large) iTunes market, I really, really can't see MS locking themselves out of the (large) "already has a few gig or more of unprotected mp3s" market; it would be suicide at this stage.
Don't worry, I'll get my come-uppance too; there's bound to be a 2- or 3-digit UIDer lurking somewhere, this sort of good-natured UID pissing match always brings them out of the wood work.
I'd want the company to focus on improving its OS and other software products
And they are. Any experienced programmer or project manager will tell you that after a certain point, dedicating more people and resources to a project will not make it any better or bring it to completion any faster. In fact, due to increased communication and management overheads, it can make it worse and take longer.
I don't know whether or not MS have reached that point, but I think we can probably safely assume that they're not far from it. Given that, and what I asserted above, why *not* branch out into other markets? They have the money, they have the people (at least in numerical terms, if not skills), and with the PC market more or less saturated and their software under attack from free/Free alternatives, they must find alternative revenue streams.
As another respondent more or less said, if I was a shareholder, I'd be very worried if they weren't exploring other markets.
Now some "300,000 series" slashdotter is going to come along and mock me next. Just you wait and see.
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Oh, I think we can skip those Johnny-come-latelys, newbie.
This is how Windows hibernation functions in a nutshell, just dumps RAM to a file I think.
I'm no expert, but given that if you use hibernation you end up with a "hiberfil.sys" (name from memory, may be a little off) file in the root of your system drive of roughly equal size to your installed RAM, I'd say that's a likely explanation.
Shouldn't the Sun have a hell of a tide due to Jupiter?
I don't have time to go through the numbers (as I'm at work), but I doubt that Jupiter's gravity is appreciable at that distance. If it were, we'd see the effects here whenever it was suitably positioned.
In Thompsons warped view of the world, games make children violent.
Just because a point of view is (arguably?) wrong, doesn't mean it's warped. I don't think that video games make kids violent, but I can see the logic of the argument.
Law, perhaps; money grubbing schemes of US corporations that require the physical presence of equipment, no.
If the campus contains even a single PC running a relatively modern version of Windows, then it'll have IE installed and will count towards that 100% installation base figure. When I was last at Imperial College (about 8 years ago), it had at least 1000 NT workstations (as well as a large number of VAX machines, alphas, sparcs, etc).
Might as well report that 100% of campuses featured running water and indoor toilets.
Good luck with flying after that... if you're lucky.
That's nothing - good luck flying out of the UK at the moment at all.
Funny how that works; the CASINOS of all entities are the ones enforcing "decency." :-)
They're enforcing not having people potentially harrassing paying customers and possibly scaring them off; I don't suppose morality comes into it for a second.
the Debian community seems to want to detach itself from the linux one, hence why they call themselves GNU Debian Linux
Lots of people refer to "Linux the operating system" (as opposed to "Linux the kernel") as GNU/Linux, as the GNU toolchain is such a hugely important part of the system that they feel that it deserves recognition. It has nothing to do with trying to distance themselves from "Linux the kernel".
how much memory do you need then if the dataset is 1000TB?
I suspect that the OP is caching at least some of his dataset in RAM. My current project uses Oracle 10g on a 4-way Solaris box with 32GB of RAM; we have that much RAM precisely so we can (attempt to) cache the entire dataset in RAM, thus reducing/eliminating disk I/O.
On the other hand, if you don't care about caching huge amounts of data, you don't really need huge amounts of RAM.
(Disclaimer: Damnit Jim, I'm a programmer, not a DBA!)
It doesn't say "primarily based", it says "primarily developed by US-based". If they started in the UK and their HQ (or equivalent) is in the UK, then I'd say they're UK based.
Also who wants to bet that even though it is a slower boot then Ubuntu that it is considerably faster than Windows...
Well, I can only speak for myself, but my Windows boxes boot in a small handful of seconds; by far the slowest part is the POST and RAID array detection.
We have all seen how Microsoft installs "beta" software without asking permission.
I haven't - do you have a source for that?
Yes, I read that shortly after posting my comment; my bad. However...
...thus potentially contaminating it. I have a little girl, and when she was born, we were advised not to give her anything that we had put in our mouths (eg don't pick up a dropped dummy, suck it clean and hand it back) because of the risk of giving her cold sores if we had them.
baby bottles are allowed as long as the mother will drink from the bottle to prove that it is safe.
The older the child the less this is a problem, but for particularly young kids, their bottles are sterilised for a reason. Of course, if they're that young, they may well be too young to fly anyway.
The mind boggles. No computers, books, iPods, bottles of water, sunglasses?
Toys for the kids, baby food, medicine...
Spam as advertising is dead, killed by a combination of CAN-SPAM and spam filters.
Tell that to my inbox. I receive in excess of 1000 junk emails per day, and whether they're filtered to junk or not (and currently, only about 60% are) they're still chewing up bandwidth.
I've seen increasing amounts of image spam with poor quality, grainy images. My first thought was that it was probably to try to throw off OCR-based filters, kind of like the captchas do (although I've not seen anything even nearly as extremely obfuscated/obscured).
Thanks to some low-life scum-sucking piece of shit deciding to use my domain in their fake From: headers a few months ago, I get around 1000 spams, bounces, viruses, etc per day.
I use Thunderbird as my mail client, and it's mostly been pretty good. A few weeks ago, however, its false negative rate went from about 5% to nearer 50%. I've recently installed SpamBayes, and its false negative rate (so far) is a fraction of a percent. It also has a small false positive rate, however, but at the moment I'm not actually using it to filter on - I have Thunderbird flag mails that SpamBayes thinks is spam so I can judge how it's doing for a while. I suspect I'll switch to trusting SpamBayes quite soon; it's doing a much better job than Thunderbird.
What happened to the MP3 phones? They lost out to devices that can do the job better and cheaper.
While that may be true of the US, here in the UK mp3-capable phones are pretty common. I commute daily on the (London) Underground, and a fairly large proportion of people listening to music are doing so on their phone.
Hell, I have an iRiver, and am still very tempted by a phone that can play mp3s, although I have a specific reason - I go clubbing most Saturday nights, and listen to music on the way there to get in the mood and on the way home to stay awake (the club kicks out at 7:30am). If I use my iRiver, I have to put it in the cloak room, and while I've not had anything stolen yet, there's always the chance it'll happen. My phone, on the other hand, stays in my pocket. (I could buy a small, solid-state player, but then I'd have more crap in my pockets...)