"Really, the only time Seagate's Momentus XT slowed down drastically compared to an SSD was when we installed the operating system and applications. Once everything was fully loaded, however, performance rapidly improved as the drive's software algorithms pulled the most frequently-access data into flash, bestowing very SSD-like qualities to it. At that point, it was frankly hard to tell the difference during most common tasks. "
The radar plot at the end shows the mix of compromises, and the performance suggests it's worth a look if you're otherwise buying large capacity.
So, it has to expand upon the existing system, and must deliver new function, and must be delivered on time, and on cost? That's an iron triangle and therefore must be waterfall, and with a ton of contingency.
Fire the project executive that picked Agile for that one....
It might just be that if you label things atheist, USPS employees are less likely to care about it, as is their management. I wonder what would happen if they shipped "Jewish" shoes in Palestine, or "Palestinian" shoes in Isreal?
I suspect the moral of the story is if you run against the social grain, insure your shipments.
I work for a large IT company with a presence in Cairo. We were told net issues were caused by an anchor early this week. The diver story, while more exciting, is likely BS.
Instead of looking at this as a way to stop a leak of non-exportable information, the purpose of a review is to determine what has already been leaked, and therefore, what's no longer really a secret.
Lots of debate here about emissivity and reflectivity. Can someone explain this better?
* Wikipedia on Reflectivity shows Aluminum has great reflectivity across the spectrum. But we all know that aluminum is shiny and reflective. * This list of emissivity shows Aluminum is really really low, way lower than White paint. http://www.infrared-thermography.com/material.htm
Wouldn't we want a few cheap rolls of aluminum foil to reflect the heat, instead? The emissivity discussion above seems to state otherwise....
I'm not sure what we will do if another 12" falls.
Although gasoline and flamethrowers would just lead to fires, I've wondered what a 100K BTU industrial propane heater would do. (Picture below.) Has anyone tried this?
This fails to consider the growing segment of software development: the component contractor, making $500-$1000 per job. What they earn annually, and how that impacts existing project staffing, has yet to fully play out. My assumption is that piece-part work pays less than salary, but we need a real study to see the impact.
You're not alone. Despite a radically different platform (Firefox 4beta7 on XP with Nvidia graphics,) I experienced hangs and full-screen artifacts several times.
I suspect "beta" extends beyond the site, to the browser engines...
Missing: Lymphatics; names for certain vasculature
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Missing and unidentified anatomy:
- I don't see any lymph nodes or ducts in this model, or the subclavian venous junctions. - At least one important and complex configuration of vessels (the Circle of Willis) is visible, but not named or searchable.
But it's beta, and probably not meant for me...
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For those of you without kids:
I've traveled domestically and abroad 14 times in the last 4 years, with a 1 through 4 year old, plus gear. At 1, they don't notice. At two and three, she would reliably freak out at security. My conclusions: The wait tests her patience. The packing/unpacking, undressing/dressing, unstrollering/strollering, takes away all of her comfort. Then, her mother walks away, through a big machine, towards a person with a wand.
We've learned it's best if mom goes first carrying nothing but a boarding pass, so that my daughter walks through the machine, to her mother. Then I follow, with absolutely all the gear. Often there is a meltdown, but then one parent is 100% focused on it, while the other worries about stuff, repeat scans, etc.
Now three of those twelve times, security has helped us a lot. In JFK, Hong Kong, and Beijing, they pulled us aside, and screened us in the priority/first-class lane. There's fewer people, a more enclosed space, and less overall distraction.
This post is just about kids and travel trouble; everyone else has the body-cavity-searches-sucks thread covered.
After the good advice in the comments above, if you still really really want to virtualize, you could try Xen with PCIe passthrough to DOM running your graphics intensive apps. It will appear natively to the virtualized OS.
I have no experience with this - I use virtualization purely to run windows-only financial apps - but there are reports of success in the Xensource forums and examples of it working on YouTube.
Good luck.
See:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-01/msg00865.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I13E1MQbMc&feature=related
Living in Sichuan, I have had good luck with the book "Learning Chinese Characters" by Matthews & Matthews, Tuttle press. [http://www.amazon.com/Tuttle-Learning-Chinese-Characters-Revolutionary/dp/080483816X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269201386&sr=8-1] It provides graphical illustrations and stories that combine to relate hanzi with meaning and pronounciation.
Tuttle also publishes flashcards. See related books at the above site.
I only which I had more time to learn. Good luck!
You'll need to elaborate on two things to get good answers:
- What is a document? Rich text, or scanned paper, physical paper, or something else?
- What is authentication? Tracking electronic versions from creation, through revisions, to finalization, or something different like confirming that physical document "A" is the same as physical document "B"?
I know of solutions for the case where documents are soft copy rich text with images and and attached scanned documents. A Lotus Notes database can be easily created to track such documents, prevent over-writes, track revision histories, etc. I work for a pretty big consulting firm, and we use Domino-based systems for things like this all the time.
Some caveats - - Domino's is easily setup, but requires product knowledge to perform well and scale. How big is your firm? - Users will need to have Notes IDs to work with the system, as ID (certificate) + password based PKI is the foundation of Domino's authentication mechanism.
Some benefits - - Depending upon the setup, users will be able to work with documents via your corporate intranet. - Depending upon the setup, replication (think synchronization) can enable users to keep local copies of this data, for access while they are outside of the intranet.
Access for outsiders is more complex. - If the outsiders are trusted (e.g. auditors,) the solution may be to give them Notes IDs and grant them access to the intranet and this system. - If the outsiders are end-users (e.g. E&Y clients submitting their 2010 US tax forms,) then you may be into custom application space. I'll skip the plug for my company.
The world has been clamoring for you guys to stop meddling in their affairs and only mind your own. So I suggest that you should do just that: it will cost you nothing and you won't generate any further ill will towards you. What's not to like? Maybe people will change their mind or maybe they won't, either way you'll be covered.
If I watch people die, and I have the power to act, but don't, am I innocent or guilty?
Would you volunteer to lower the income section of you're own company's quarterly report?
Let me be clear: everyone here with a $200K 401(k) is a corporation owner. The companies are beholden to YOU.
Keep that in mind when you suggest dicking with their income statement. Do you want to own a company that's making less revenue, that's shrinking? Assemble your peers, and vote your proxy.
I won't be voting with you. Or maybe I'll sell a few calls, and vote with you for fun...
The industrial sector is moving to Asia because of massive amounts of cheap labor, and fewer safety and environmental controls.
Spend some time in China. Hire someone to clean your house, for 2 hours, for $3.50. No government nanny tax, medicare, or disability insurance. Watch construction workers walk an iron scaffold, 40 feet up, in tee-shirts, shorts, and barefoot, with no gear. I saw all of these things TODAY.
Until we all value life the same way, or understand the costs of injuries/death, labor-intensive work will go where it's cheapest.
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Otherwise the reader might think something was edited out of the quote for brevity.
TomsHardware performed a thorough review of a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drives. I recommend reading it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/momentus-xt-750gb-review,3223.html
Their conclusion:
"Really, the only time Seagate's Momentus XT slowed down drastically compared to an SSD was when we installed the operating system and applications. Once everything was fully loaded, however, performance rapidly improved as the drive's software algorithms pulled the most frequently-access data into flash, bestowing very SSD-like qualities to it. At that point, it was frankly hard to tell the difference during most common tasks. "
The radar plot at the end shows the mix of compromises, and the performance suggests it's worth a look if you're otherwise buying large capacity.
This has been the case since the mid-90s, when many professional EEs were being laid off and not backfilled.
So, it has to expand upon the existing system, and must deliver new function, and must be delivered on time, and on cost? That's an iron triangle and therefore must be waterfall, and with a ton of contingency.
Fire the project executive that picked Agile for that one....
Apparently you didn't know that, until recently, Scott Ambler worked for IBM.
It might just be that if you label things atheist, USPS employees are less likely to care about it, as is their management. I wonder what would happen if they shipped "Jewish" shoes in Palestine, or "Palestinian" shoes in Isreal?
I suspect the moral of the story is if you run against the social grain, insure your shipments.
I work for a large IT company with a presence in Cairo. We were told net issues were caused by an anchor early this week. The diver story, while more exciting, is likely BS.
Instead of looking at this as a way to stop a leak of non-exportable information, the purpose of a review is to determine what has already been leaked, and therefore, what's no longer really a secret.
Hardly vaporware: The IBM Lotus team has a very stable beta of "IBM docs" online on the web in their lab. I literally use it every day.
Public information at https://greenhouse.lotus.com/wpsgh/wcm/connect/ghcontent/lotus+greenhouse+next+site/home/labs/ibm+docs+
The subject says it all.
Lots of debate here about emissivity and reflectivity. Can someone explain this better?
* Wikipedia on Reflectivity shows Aluminum has great reflectivity across the spectrum. But we all know that aluminum is shiny and reflective.
* This list of emissivity shows Aluminum is really really low, way lower than White paint. http://www.infrared-thermography.com/material.htm
Wouldn't we want a few cheap rolls of aluminum foil to reflect the heat, instead? The emissivity discussion above seems to state otherwise....
I'm not sure what we will do if another 12" falls.
Although gasoline and flamethrowers would just lead to fires, I've wondered what a 100K BTU industrial propane heater would do. (Picture below.) Has anyone tried this?
http://www.globalindustrial.com/p/hvac/heaters/kerosene-propane/propane-heater-forced-air-50000-btu?utm_source=nextag&utm_medium=shp&utm_campaign=Propane-Kerosene-nextag&utm_term=245995&infoParam.campaignId=WI
This fails to consider the growing segment of software development: the component contractor, making $500-$1000 per job. What they earn annually, and how that impacts existing project staffing, has yet to fully play out. My assumption is that piece-part work pays less than salary, but we need a real study to see the impact.
You're not alone. Despite a radically different platform (Firefox 4beta7 on XP with Nvidia graphics,) I experienced hangs and full-screen artifacts several times.
I suspect "beta" extends beyond the site, to the browser engines...
Missing and unidentified anatomy:
- I don't see any lymph nodes or ducts in this model, or the subclavian venous junctions.
- At least one important and complex configuration of vessels (the Circle of Willis) is visible, but not named or searchable.
But it's beta, and probably not meant for me...
For those of you without kids:
I've traveled domestically and abroad 14 times in the last 4 years, with a 1 through 4 year old, plus gear. At 1, they don't notice. At two and three, she would reliably freak out at security. My conclusions: The wait tests her patience. The packing/unpacking, undressing/dressing, unstrollering/strollering, takes away all of her comfort. Then, her mother walks away, through a big machine, towards a person with a wand.
We've learned it's best if mom goes first carrying nothing but a boarding pass, so that my daughter walks through the machine, to her mother. Then I follow, with absolutely all the gear. Often there is a meltdown, but then one parent is 100% focused on it, while the other worries about stuff, repeat scans, etc.
Now three of those twelve times, security has helped us a lot. In JFK, Hong Kong, and Beijing, they pulled us aside, and screened us in the priority/first-class lane. There's fewer people, a more enclosed space, and less overall distraction.
This post is just about kids and travel trouble; everyone else has the body-cavity-searches-sucks thread covered.
After the good advice in the comments above, if you still really really want to virtualize, you could try Xen with PCIe passthrough to DOM running your graphics intensive apps. It will appear natively to the virtualized OS. I have no experience with this - I use virtualization purely to run windows-only financial apps - but there are reports of success in the Xensource forums and examples of it working on YouTube. Good luck. See: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2009-01/msg00865.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I13E1MQbMc&feature=related
Living in Sichuan, I have had good luck with the book "Learning Chinese Characters" by Matthews & Matthews, Tuttle press. [http://www.amazon.com/Tuttle-Learning-Chinese-Characters-Revolutionary/dp/080483816X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269201386&sr=8-1] It provides graphical illustrations and stories that combine to relate hanzi with meaning and pronounciation. Tuttle also publishes flashcards. See related books at the above site. I only which I had more time to learn. Good luck!
You'll need to elaborate on two things to get good answers:
- What is a document? Rich text, or scanned paper, physical paper, or something else?
- What is authentication? Tracking electronic versions from creation, through revisions, to finalization, or something different like confirming that physical document "A" is the same as physical document "B"?
I know of solutions for the case where documents are soft copy rich text with images and and attached scanned documents. A Lotus Notes database can be easily created to track such documents, prevent over-writes, track revision histories, etc. I work for a pretty big consulting firm, and we use Domino-based systems for things like this all the time.
Some caveats -
- Domino's is easily setup, but requires product knowledge to perform well and scale. How big is your firm?
- Users will need to have Notes IDs to work with the system, as ID (certificate) + password based PKI is the foundation of Domino's authentication mechanism.
Some benefits -
- Depending upon the setup, users will be able to work with documents via your corporate intranet.
- Depending upon the setup, replication (think synchronization) can enable users to keep local copies of this data, for access while they are outside of the intranet.
Access for outsiders is more complex.
- If the outsiders are trusted (e.g. auditors,) the solution may be to give them Notes IDs and grant them access to the intranet and this system.
- If the outsiders are end-users (e.g. E&Y clients submitting their 2010 US tax forms,) then you may be into custom application space. I'll skip the plug for my company.
...who have found using IP an effective way to manage criticism.
Perhaps that's too obvious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
The world has been clamoring for you guys to stop meddling in their affairs and only mind your own. So I suggest that you should do just that: it will cost you nothing and you won't generate any further ill will towards you. What's not to like?
Maybe people will change their mind or maybe they won't, either way you'll be covered.
If I watch people die, and I have the power to act, but don't, am I innocent or guilty?
I am glad the French didn't just "let people revolt without ... interference". The American colonists might not have won their independence.
Would you volunteer to lower the income section of you're own company's quarterly report?
Let me be clear: everyone here with a $200K 401(k) is a corporation owner. The companies are beholden to YOU.
Keep that in mind when you suggest dicking with their income statement. Do you want to own a company that's making less revenue, that's shrinking? Assemble your peers, and vote your proxy.
I won't be voting with you. Or maybe I'll sell a few calls, and vote with you for fun...
The industrial sector is moving to Asia because of massive amounts of cheap labor, and fewer safety and environmental controls.
Spend some time in China. Hire someone to clean your house, for 2 hours, for $3.50. No government nanny tax, medicare, or disability insurance. Watch construction workers walk an iron scaffold, 40 feet up, in tee-shirts, shorts, and barefoot, with no gear. I saw all of these things TODAY.
Until we all value life the same way, or understand the costs of injuries/death, labor-intensive work will go where it's cheapest.