This would almost be great for power cuts. When the server gets shut down because of the power-cut lasting longer than the UPS this thing could kick in. The reason I said almost is because while this solves the web-server problem it doesn't sort the problem of the optical-copper bridge, which most companies have, loosing power or the gateway loosing power.
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And just a little more time before there are people suing them:)
The application does not need to bundle all the libraries it uses. The framework is, in most cases, separate to the application though there is nothing stopping a framework from being included as part of the application's bundle. For more information see Framework Versioning. The is probably more docs on the issue, but this should get you started.
I reckon that they should also provide a represensitive amount DNA of animals from our planet. Maybe even the DNA of a simple food chain. The idea is that it would give any aliens an idea of what other life forms exist on the planet. If both land animals and see animals were included, it could be one way of explaining that we have both sea and land coverage.
The ideal would be some sort of Noah's Ark, as imagined in Titan A.E., but in reality lets start with something reasonable by todays technology.
For those of you who have no idea what the UCITA is, then check out the UCITA definition. Or for those of you not wanting to use the link, here is the first paragraph:
The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) is a draft law that seeks to bring consistent rules to software contracts and licensing agreements.
To further the previous post I feel that there is such thing as 'business sense'. Basically when you work for a number of companies, and you haven't been locked in the dark room, you get a general feeling to how to manage things, because you see what things work and what don't and since most techie tend to analyse the stuff they are doing they apply this same thing to what they see of management.
The only problem with an MBA is that it doesn't teach you how to react to things that aren't in figures. I am sure most successful entrapaneurs have a good grasp of the job they are doing and will take certain actions inspite of what the figures say. One example is Pokemon. Pokemon is something that shouldn't have worked according to most business analysts, but Nintendo seemed to see something that figures weren't revealing and went ahead anyhow.
I must admit one thing that gets me about the MBA is all that writing and math. Although I am not good at math, I have what I would call a feeling to what the result should be, and I am sure that there are a fair few people share this ability - sometimes its simply a matter of relaxing and letting your brain's natural calculator work for you.
Part of the problem with C++ is that you can cheat. What I mean, is that you have already done C then you can program in C++ without really taking advantage of any other object orientated programming techniques. Java on the other hand is a much more orientated language and since it is portable you avoid platform specific issues. Java also provides a rich API for doing many different tasks, so this not only helps in learning to program but also in accessing different open APIs.
Smalltalk is the real object-orientated language and the reference to them all. The only problem with Smalltalk is that it is percieved to be a dead language, though this in academic environment is not always a bad thing.
When I was at uni I was taught prodcural, functional, object-based and object-orientated programming. One thing that I got out of that is that there is no such thing as an ideal language. You have to look at the task at hand and decided which approach works best.
At the end of the day the best language for the job depends on what your target is.
To a good techie this definetly has a high "duh" factor. Now take your average management type (see Dilbert for explanation) who reads these articles and you will see them taking this very seriously. When the management type talks to his/her techies you can imagine the prevailing argument as the enlightened explain this to the decision maker - you'd be surprised how many unqualified people make decisions in place of the qualifed.
How the heck does a 63" screen get stolen? I mean you are hardly going to be able to work out of the show room with one of those under your jacket - hmm, I can just imagine it;-)
I suppose that puts an emphasise of using computer viruses in warefare. If you wanted to ensure that you planes stayed stealthly then you would simply have to create virus that rendered cell-phone base stations inoperable. This way there would be no signal upsetting your planes.
One other interesting thing to note is the price of DVDs in comparison to video tapes. Even taking into account the fact that there are all the different parties wanting a slice of the cake, a DVD is likely to cost less to produce than a Video tape. Sure there are sub-titles and dubbing to be added, but then again that work has usually already been done for the big screen. Also it probably costs less to produce a multi-language DVD than it does to create and distribute 5 different videos for 5 languages.
The same argument can be given to CDs as compared to tapes, since CDs work out to be $5 more than you cassette tape.
You will probably find that people in Europe are probaly already buying from the US. I have a friend in the UK who orders all his DVDs from North America and still makes a saving when shipping is added to the cost.
When I was in the UK the other day I walked in to what look like a good brand hi-fi & TV shop and was surprised that the shop offered a 'modified chip' standard - I didn't even have to the ask the guy.
It is true that they aren't making any promises, but at the same time if they have learnt from the GIF incident, whereby they inadvertendly forced everyone to use other formats, they won't try shooting themselves in the foot.
Even though its nice to have the service available, I reckon I will be waiting around 5 years just for the prices to come down. These sort of costs are only justifiable by mining or oil companies out in the middle of nowhere, but who still need data links. For them it is definetly cheaper to get a satellite connection than to set up telephone cables to somewhere 400km from anywhere.
Also in 5 years the technology will probably have improved enough for making it interesting for home or small business use.
For those of you interested you can check out the actual patents at http://www.delphion.com/. Quick links to the patents: 5 313 306 (issued 1994-05-17)& 5 185 667 (issued 1993-02-09).
As a side note, it would be of use for the patent articles to include patent references.
The truth is there never is a victory in such a battle, just a reprieve. Just because some people have realised copy protection doesn't make sense, doesn't mean that you won't have someone else come along to try to prove the contrary. As an example, how many times have you tried telling your parents something was possible, when they had long ago learned from experience that it wasn't.
Given this is meant to be a server product, I am surprised by the lack of IEEE 1394 or SCSI ports for high-speed external storage solutions. Sure USB B is included, but this technology still depends on the processor for its work, while the other two mentioned technologies don't. Maybe they are waiting for the IEEE 1394b solutions to hit the market.
As long as you can connect everything you need to it, then it doesn't really matter how small it gets. Anyhow, considering tha this is meant to be a server, the only two connectors you need is power and ethernet. Admin can be done remotely, in fact if there was some sort of network aware firmware in the thing, you could probably even reinstall remotely.
Looking at some of the uses of the converted server units, I almost felt that they looks better than the real thing. For example, the 'rOctane', the SGI HiFi-Miniset, looked better than your average hi-fi unit. These days if I walk into most Hi-Fi shops the stereos like a christmas tree and just as ready to be thrown away. Sometimes the best industrial design is personal inventivness.
Now where do I find someone willing to give me an Octane case?
A disease in itself is not life, but wat causes it is. The cause usually being a bacteria, virus or fungus, and these are diffienetly forms of life.
There isn't much we can do about biological components that manage to survive an asteroid impact. This should not be a reason for not taking precautions when knowingly bringing back samples from another planet.
It is better to have a quarantine set up and find out the rocks were harmless as expected, rather than find that they did contain something and have no quarantine in place.
Rocks that pass through the atmosphere, enter at high temperatures, so any life that might have survived the space flight would unlikely survive the re-entry. On the other hand a probe visiting Mars would not put its rock samples through such conditions, so life would have a better chance of surviving.
Anyhow, if the rocks are in quarantine, then you can ensure that they aren't contaminated by Earth based micro-organisms and thus screwing up any lifeform-tests.
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This would almost be great for power cuts. When the server gets shut down because of the power-cut lasting longer than the UPS this thing could kick in. The reason I said almost is because while this solves the web-server problem it doesn't sort the problem of the optical-copper bridge, which most companies have, loosing power or the gateway loosing power.
And just a little more time before there are people suing them :)
The application does not need to bundle all the libraries it uses. The framework is, in most cases, separate to the application though there is nothing stopping a framework from being included as part of the application's bundle. For more information see Framework Versioning. The is probably more docs on the issue, but this should get you started.
I reckon that they should also provide a represensitive amount DNA of animals from our planet. Maybe even the DNA of a simple food chain. The idea is that it would give any aliens an idea of what other life forms exist on the planet. If both land animals and see animals were included, it could be one way of explaining that we have both sea and land coverage.
The ideal would be some sort of Noah's Ark, as imagined in Titan A.E., but in reality lets start with something reasonable by todays technology.
To further the previous post I feel that there is such thing as 'business sense'. Basically when you work for a number of companies, and you haven't been locked in the dark room, you get a general feeling to how to manage things, because you see what things work and what don't and since most techie tend to analyse the stuff they are doing they apply this same thing to what they see of management.
The only problem with an MBA is that it doesn't teach you how to react to things that aren't in figures. I am sure most successful entrapaneurs have a good grasp of the job they are doing and will take certain actions inspite of what the figures say. One example is Pokemon. Pokemon is something that shouldn't have worked according to most business analysts, but Nintendo seemed to see something that figures weren't revealing and went ahead anyhow.
I must admit one thing that gets me about the MBA is all that writing and math. Although I am not good at math, I have what I would call a feeling to what the result should be, and I am sure that there are a fair few people share this ability - sometimes its simply a matter of relaxing and letting your brain's natural calculator work for you.
Part of the problem with C++ is that you can cheat. What I mean, is that you have already done C then you can program in C++ without really taking advantage of any other object orientated programming techniques. Java on the other hand is a much more orientated language and since it is portable you avoid platform specific issues. Java also provides a rich API for doing many different tasks, so this not only helps in learning to program but also in accessing different open APIs.
Smalltalk is the real object-orientated language and the reference to them all. The only problem with Smalltalk is that it is percieved to be a dead language, though this in academic environment is not always a bad thing.
When I was at uni I was taught prodcural, functional, object-based and object-orientated programming. One thing that I got out of that is that there is no such thing as an ideal language. You have to look at the task at hand and decided which approach works best.
At the end of the day the best language for the job depends on what your target is.
To a good techie this definetly has a high "duh" factor. Now take your average management type (see Dilbert for explanation) who reads these articles and you will see them taking this very seriously. When the management type talks to his/her techies you can imagine the prevailing argument as the enlightened explain this to the decision maker - you'd be surprised how many unqualified people make decisions in place of the qualifed.
How the heck does a 63" screen get stolen? I mean you are hardly going to be able to work out of the show room with one of those under your jacket - hmm, I can just imagine it ;-)
Looks like my bosses old assistant was ahead of her time when she was tip-exing the mistakes on screen.
The next thing you'll have is screen friendly erasers.
I suppose that puts an emphasise of using computer viruses in warefare. If you wanted to ensure that you planes stayed stealthly then you would simply have to create virus that rendered cell-phone base stations inoperable. This way there would be no signal upsetting your planes.
One other interesting thing to note is the price of DVDs in comparison to video tapes. Even taking into account the fact that there are all the different parties wanting a slice of the cake, a DVD is likely to cost less to produce than a Video tape. Sure there are sub-titles and dubbing to be added, but then again that work has usually already been done for the big screen. Also it probably costs less to produce a multi-language DVD than it does to create and distribute 5 different videos for 5 languages.
The same argument can be given to CDs as compared to tapes, since CDs work out to be $5 more than you cassette tape.
You will probably find that people in Europe are probaly already buying from the US. I have a friend in the UK who orders all his DVDs from North America and still makes a saving when shipping is added to the cost.
When I was in the UK the other day I walked in to what look like a good brand hi-fi & TV shop and was surprised that the shop offered a 'modified chip' standard - I didn't even have to the ask the guy.
It is true that they aren't making any promises, but at the same time if they have learnt from the GIF incident, whereby they inadvertendly forced everyone to use other formats, they won't try shooting themselves in the foot.
Only time will tell...
This is normal. I think the users may have their own plug-in directory somewhere in their home folder.
Even though its nice to have the service available, I reckon I will be waiting around 5 years just for the prices to come down. These sort of costs are only justifiable by mining or oil companies out in the middle of nowhere, but who still need data links. For them it is definetly cheaper to get a satellite connection than to set up telephone cables to somewhere 400km from anywhere.
Also in 5 years the technology will probably have improved enough for making it interesting for home or small business use.
I can imagine the scene:
Shuttle Pilot: "Houston we a problem, although we are in the right trajectory for landing, no one will move those d@mn satellites out of our way"
As a side note, it would be of use for the patent articles to include patent references.
The truth is there never is a victory in such a battle, just a reprieve. Just because some people have realised copy protection doesn't make sense, doesn't mean that you won't have someone else come along to try to prove the contrary. As an example, how many times have you tried telling your parents something was possible, when they had long ago learned from experience that it wasn't.
Given this is meant to be a server product, I am surprised by the lack of IEEE 1394 or SCSI ports for high-speed external storage solutions. Sure USB B is included, but this technology still depends on the processor for its work, while the other two mentioned technologies don't. Maybe they are waiting for the IEEE 1394b solutions to hit the market.
As long as you can connect everything you need to it, then it doesn't really matter how small it gets. Anyhow, considering tha this is meant to be a server, the only two connectors you need is power and ethernet. Admin can be done remotely, in fact if there was some sort of network aware firmware in the thing, you could probably even reinstall remotely.
Looking at some of the uses of the converted server units, I almost felt that they looks better than the real thing. For example, the 'rOctane', the SGI HiFi-Miniset, looked better than your average hi-fi unit. These days if I walk into most Hi-Fi shops the stereos like a christmas tree and just as ready to be thrown away. Sometimes the best industrial design is personal inventivness. Now where do I find someone willing to give me an Octane case?
A disease in itself is not life, but wat causes it is. The cause usually being a bacteria, virus or fungus, and these are diffienetly forms of life.
There isn't much we can do about biological components that manage to survive an asteroid impact. This should not be a reason for not taking precautions when knowingly bringing back samples from another planet.
It is better to have a quarantine set up and find out the rocks were harmless as expected, rather than find that they did contain something and have no quarantine in place.
Rocks that pass through the atmosphere, enter at high temperatures, so any life that might have survived the space flight would unlikely survive the re-entry. On the other hand a probe visiting Mars would not put its rock samples through such conditions, so life would have a better chance of surviving.
Anyhow, if the rocks are in quarantine, then you can ensure that they aren't contaminated by Earth based micro-organisms and thus screwing up any lifeform-tests.