Or they could just use standards (DHCP) and bring the wire to the house and say have fun with it.
If there is a problem, they send a tech out to the line of demarcation - the line on the back of the house with a DHCP notebook to test it. If he gets on and you don't, it must be a personal thing. $75 per incident to fix it.
Nice? probably not, but it is fair. Just as there is a market for plumbers and electricians when something goes wrong, perhaps there should be one for networkers:)
Read the parent post again - he said that it is a marketting thing. He's not saying that all Mhz are equal...he's basically saying that Apple has had trouble convincing the average consumer that 400PPC is just as good as 900Intel.
The consumer doesn't know about pipelines and all that, nor care. No matter how much you explain the virtues of a RISC to them, they are still gonna be thinking "But the intel chips are 900Mhz".
Regardless of how Apple markets it, this could help out when the average joe goes into CompUSA and the salesman can tell him that the G5 runs at 2GHz, just like the new PIV machine.
According to CNN/Yahoo, Colin Powell basically got them to agree to cooperate with any "reply" to terrorist efforts...in other words, roll your tanks and fly your planes over the country.
I would guess that it would work with wireless palm pilots such as the palm 7, etc, since those work very similar to a cell phone in this way.
Except the antenna has to be up for it to be on the cellular network, and it is outgoing only, there is no way to initiate a conversation with another palm, other than infrared. The info seems to point to them calling the pagers and cel phones.
I think the case has been clear cut before that you can make modules binary only. So if that was the case, they should have every right to impose whatever restrictions on their module they want.
HOWEVER, I can not imagine that making Linux real-time could be done in a module and no changes whatsoever to any of the rest of the kernel - unless all the changes are GPL'd and released and they have a free and a professional version of a module which has some of the tweaks/functionality there.
I'm not saying that they are right, but given the nature of the legalise on the agreement on their site, either they have some major lawyers there, or they have an english->legalise filter, so I would think they hopefully understand the GPL.
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And like the articles also said, once the weight of the upper floors started to come down, it took out the floor support beams that also kept the outer skeleton in place.
The steel only buckled right around the fire, but once those supports were removed, the skeleton was then able to buckle and move in ways that buildings shouldn't.
Also, on the escape time, the fire from the fuel probably made passage from the above floors through the escape routes nigh impossible. So pretty much if you were above the point of impact, you were in trouble. After the first impact, they had people from around the 90th floor calling on cel phones talking about the heat and smoke, saying "We're fucking dieing up here".
But yes, the fire is the cause, hence the choosing of planes heading across the country from a "local" airport - LOTS of fuel.
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Yup...life goes on. They had the CEO or something on CNN last night. Yes, they are upset, but they are also a worldwide company. They have to push on. For all the people around the world affected by this, there are also tons that are saddened but not personally affected.
Life must go on - society must continue to function. If they just folded up for a few days, what would be the further impact? Now, someone nowhere near NYC may be affected because someone he relies on is no longer functioning. And then that impacts whoever relies on that person/company, and so on.
If everything was to shut down to mourn this tragedy just because they may have an office in NYC/WTC, then the terrorists would have indirectly caused a helluva lot more damage than they already have.
Indirectly, some people have already been hit by the lack of air service, as was posted on/. yesterday about Cisco not being able to get a part out via air.
We should mourn our lost. But as true as we can't change what has happened, we can't change the life must continue for the living.
I though I remember in the original specs something about 4 layers per disk and 4 different laser frequencies or colors or something like that, which made me think that when pushed to it's max, DVD's could hold the 4 layers on one side...could put all the episodes of some of the failed TV shows on one DVD.
The linked-to article mentions 9.6 GB - isn't that dual layer, and don't all the current DVD-R drives coming out now just support single layer (4.8GB)?
So, when will be see dual-layer DVD-R's - the MPAA's true nightmare. Or even better, the quad layered DVD's that the spec originally had in it for 17+GB!!!:)
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And when you get hacked?
All your shirts are belong to us Sorry...couldn't resist.
It would be cool to have a shirt I could hook up via USB and drag a jpg from my desktop to the shirt "folder" and whammo - there it is on me. Even better, a GIMP plugin that lets you basically design the shirt and then upload it.
However as directly useless as this may be to science
Well, the article in the "story" said that some people are going to be using the data to study how long vibrations move around in the crust of the earth, which I guess could provide some usefull data.
I am very seriously considering getting MS to send it to us. Already cleared it with the Boss. I'm still looking to make sure there are no strings attached - you know, if you see the zip file that source is in, you may never look at another OS sorta stuff:)
When your code is on center stage you want it to look good
True...so true. However, with patches coming in from all over, or multiple developers, unless someone rewrites all the code to read the same, you have multiple styles of programming, multiple conventions (no how matter how much you dictate stuff) and so on.
It's just as bad.
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Do some research man - HP already supports linux like crazy - right on www.hp.com there is mention of Linux right now. Our HP reseller sent me e-mail a month ago about the HP A class and one other low end server where you have a choice of HPUX or Linux.
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Someone explain to me just how these gargantuan companies are going to turn a profit on IA-64? Like all Intel processors, the Taiwanese clone makers will have a motherboard out a week before the chip comes out at 1/10 the price that HomPaq will be willing to sell it at.
Go to HP's web site. Pull up the info on the V class or superdome class machines. Right now they use PA-RISC but "will be ready for IA-64".
Now, do you really think that the taiwanese clone makers will have something that will rival those out?
This is kinda like saying Ford won't sell F650's (BIG ass powerful trucks - a little shy of a frieghtliner) because you can go by a toyota pickup and save some money.
Only difference, from the sound of it, is that WinToNet sounds like it works like Terminal Services or Citrix - each person connects to the server and gets their own virtual desktop and session.
With VNC, you are seeing just what is on the "console" of the NT machine...as if you were sitting in front of the monitor. You can have multiple VNC connections to a machine, but only one person controlling it.
I'm sure most of those movies on Amazon are dual-layered DVD's, so depending on bit-rate, extra features, etc... you may or may not be able to make an "archivial" copy of your DVD, since the article mentions the drive holds 4.x GB's - single layer.
I remember trying to make the Zortech compiler work for an old project of mine circa maybe 1989 or so(?) and having problems. I think at one point or another I might have actually gotten email from Walter
Ah...the good ole days. I think in around 1991 I was dealing with a Watcom? C compiler under VM/CMS and was having trouble with something. I posted to a BITNET mailing list - nothing too major, and someone from Watcom actually called me like 10 minutes later after reading the post.
Yeah...TV shows are all dark now anyway cause it's cheaper to shoot at night.
I can just the the wave of "real-time rendering" promos.
Sure...we can render this at 30fps - it's a polar bear in an snow storm, or there is our other demo...a story of one mans view of his world around him...oh, did we mention that man is blind, so the screen stays black the whole time.
Or is that lossy type algorithms applied to human intelligence:)
I suppose one could do things like "This part of the scene will be blurred in post - render it in low-res" kinda optimizations, if they are not done already.
a jacket with built in cell phone and mp3 player. where do I put the batteries? what if I want to wear a different jacket?
"Yeah...I know it's 12 degrees out, but I'm expecting a phonecall, that's why I'm just wearing a windbreaker."
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I doubt it would. I know the HPUX version came with it's own versions of the X libraries that it was linked to. Mucho extra memory.
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not likely.
IE was out for HPUX and Solaris years ago - and there is still no Linux version. I don't really see MS making anything for Linux. Partially because it would give some validity to the OS, and partially because it runs on the same hardware as Windows - which means if someone no longer had to boot Windows to view a web page or read a doc, there is one less OS sell.
Okay...don't know jack about the laws around this. But from the article, it sounds as if he didn't know he was the demo person - no problem there...kinda like me snapping a shot of a random person to see if my camera works.
But wouldn't they need some sort of release to publish his photo? On the DV list I'm on, every other month a thread comes up about getting releases when doing public shoots. So, how or why did they go ahead and send this photo around the country without his consent?
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Or they could just use standards (DHCP) and bring the wire to the house and say have fun with it.
:)
If there is a problem, they send a tech out to the line of demarcation - the line on the back of the house with a DHCP notebook to test it. If he gets on and you don't, it must be a personal thing. $75 per incident to fix it.
Nice? probably not, but it is fair. Just as there is a market for plumbers and electricians when something goes wrong, perhaps there should be one for networkers
Read the parent post again - he said that it is a marketting thing. He's not saying that all Mhz are equal...he's basically saying that Apple has had trouble convincing the average consumer that 400PPC is just as good as 900Intel.
The consumer doesn't know about pipelines and all that, nor care. No matter how much you explain the virtues of a RISC to them, they are still gonna be thinking "But the intel chips are 900Mhz".
Regardless of how Apple markets it, this could help out when the average joe goes into CompUSA and the salesman can tell him that the G5 runs at 2GHz, just like the new PIV machine.
According to CNN/Yahoo, Colin Powell basically got them to agree to cooperate with any "reply" to terrorist efforts...in other words, roll your tanks and fly your planes over the country.
I would guess that it would work with wireless palm pilots such as the palm 7, etc, since those work very similar to a cell phone in this way.
Except the antenna has to be up for it to be on the cellular network, and it is outgoing only, there is no way to initiate a conversation with another palm, other than infrared. The info seems to point to them calling the pagers and cel phones.
I think the case has been clear cut before that you can make modules binary only. So if that was the case, they should have every right to impose whatever restrictions on their module they want.
HOWEVER, I can not imagine that making Linux real-time could be done in a module and no changes whatsoever to any of the rest of the kernel - unless all the changes are GPL'd and released and they have a free and a professional version of a module which has some of the tweaks/functionality there.
I'm not saying that they are right, but given the nature of the legalise on the agreement on their site, either they have some major lawyers there, or they have an english->legalise filter, so I would think they hopefully understand the GPL.
And like the articles also said, once the weight of the upper floors started to come down, it took out the floor support beams that also kept the outer skeleton in place.
The steel only buckled right around the fire, but once those supports were removed, the skeleton was then able to buckle and move in ways that buildings shouldn't.
Also, on the escape time, the fire from the fuel probably made passage from the above floors through the escape routes nigh impossible. So pretty much if you were above the point of impact, you were in trouble. After the first impact, they had people from around the 90th floor calling on cel phones talking about the heat and smoke, saying "We're fucking dieing up here".
But yes, the fire is the cause, hence the choosing of planes heading across the country from a "local" airport - LOTS of fuel.
Yup...life goes on. They had the CEO or something on CNN last night. Yes, they are upset, but they are also a worldwide company. They have to push on. For all the people around the world affected by this, there are also tons that are saddened but not personally affected.
/. yesterday about Cisco not being able to get a part out via air.
Life must go on - society must continue to function. If they just folded up for a few days, what would be the further impact? Now, someone nowhere near NYC may be affected because someone he relies on is no longer functioning. And then that impacts whoever relies on that person/company, and so on.
If everything was to shut down to mourn this tragedy just because they may have an office in NYC/WTC, then the terrorists would have indirectly caused a helluva lot more damage than they already have.
Indirectly, some people have already been hit by the lack of air service, as was posted on
We should mourn our lost. But as true as we can't change what has happened, we can't change the life must continue for the living.
I though I remember in the original specs something about 4 layers per disk and 4 different laser frequencies or colors or something like that, which made me think that when pushed to it's max, DVD's could hold the 4 layers on one side...could put all the episodes of some of the failed TV shows on one DVD.
:)
Automan on one DVD
The linked-to article mentions 9.6 GB - isn't that dual layer, and don't all the current DVD-R drives coming out now just support single layer (4.8GB)?
:)
So, when will be see dual-layer DVD-R's - the MPAA's true nightmare. Or even better, the quad layered DVD's that the spec originally had in it for 17+GB!!!
And when you get hacked?
All your shirts are belong to us
Sorry...couldn't resist.
It would be cool to have a shirt I could hook up via USB and drag a jpg from my desktop to the shirt "folder" and whammo - there it is on me. Even better, a GIMP plugin that lets you basically design the shirt and then upload it.
However as directly useless as this may be to science
Well, the article in the "story" said that some people are going to be using the data to study how long vibrations move around in the crust of the earth, which I guess could provide some usefull data.
I am very seriously considering getting MS to send it to us. Already cleared it with the Boss. I'm still looking to make sure there are no strings attached - you know, if you see the zip file that source is in, you may never look at another OS sorta stuff :)
Sounds cool though - would be fun to look at.
When your code is on center stage you want it to look good
True...so true. However, with patches coming in from all over, or multiple developers, unless someone rewrites all the code to read the same, you have multiple styles of programming, multiple conventions (no how matter how much you dictate stuff) and so on.
It's just as bad.
Do some research man - HP already supports linux like crazy - right on www.hp.com there is mention of Linux right now. Our HP reseller sent me e-mail a month ago about the HP A class and one other low end server where you have a choice of HPUX or Linux.
Someone explain to me just how these gargantuan companies are going to turn a profit on IA-64? Like all Intel processors, the Taiwanese clone makers will have a motherboard out a week before the chip comes out at 1/10 the price that HomPaq will be willing to sell it at.
Go to HP's web site. Pull up the info on the V class or superdome class machines. Right now they use PA-RISC but "will be ready for IA-64".
Now, do you really think that the taiwanese clone makers will have something that will rival those out?
This is kinda like saying Ford won't sell F650's (BIG ass powerful trucks - a little shy of a frieghtliner) because you can go by a toyota pickup and save some money.
Until they turn back around and sue your ass for fraudulent DMCA claims.
Only difference, from the sound of it, is that WinToNet sounds like it works like Terminal Services or Citrix - each person connects to the server and gets their own virtual desktop and session.
With VNC, you are seeing just what is on the "console" of the NT machine...as if you were sitting in front of the monitor. You can have multiple VNC connections to a machine, but only one person controlling it.
Well, technically, it wouldn't have to be as big, only really as heavy (remember density).
/. followers...that should be dense enough :)
Well, just get some "I have a book on that" MCSE's and some of the blind
I'm sure most of those movies on Amazon are dual-layered DVD's, so depending on bit-rate, extra features, etc... you may or may not be able to make an "archivial" copy of your DVD, since the article mentions the drive holds 4.x GB's - single layer.
I remember trying to make the Zortech compiler work for an old project of mine circa maybe 1989 or so(?) and having problems. I think at one point or another I might have actually gotten email from Walter
Ah...the good ole days. I think in around 1991 I was dealing with a Watcom? C compiler under VM/CMS and was having trouble with something. I posted to a BITNET mailing list - nothing too major, and someone from Watcom actually called me like 10 minutes later after reading the post.
Back when customer service was good!
Yeah...TV shows are all dark now anyway cause it's cheaper to shoot at night.
:)
I can just the the wave of "real-time rendering" promos.
Sure...we can render this at 30fps - it's a polar bear in an snow storm, or there is our other demo...a story of one mans view of his world around him...oh, did we mention that man is blind, so the screen stays black the whole time.
Or is that lossy type algorithms applied to human intelligence
I suppose one could do things like "This part of the scene will be blurred in post - render it in low-res" kinda optimizations, if they are not done already.
a jacket with built in cell phone and mp3 player. where do I put the batteries? what if I want to wear a different jacket?
"Yeah...I know it's 12 degrees out, but I'm expecting a phonecall, that's why I'm just wearing a windbreaker."
I doubt it would. I know the HPUX version came with it's own versions of the X libraries that it was linked to. Mucho extra memory.
not likely.
IE was out for HPUX and Solaris years ago - and there is still no Linux version. I don't really see MS making anything for Linux. Partially because it would give some validity to the OS, and partially because it runs on the same hardware as Windows - which means if someone no longer had to boot Windows to view a web page or read a doc, there is one less OS sell.
Okay...don't know jack about the laws around this. But from the article, it sounds as if he didn't know he was the demo person - no problem there...kinda like me snapping a shot of a random person to see if my camera works.
But wouldn't they need some sort of release to publish his photo? On the DV list I'm on, every other month a thread comes up about getting releases when doing public shoots. So, how or why did they go ahead and send this photo around the country without his consent?