I agree, but comparing a $1500 PC to a $500,000 IBM mainframe (or even a $20,000 AS/400) isn't fair. If I could manage to get things to run in kernel mode on that mainframe I bet I could screw things up real quick.
I don't agree that there are stability problems with IE and Office. If you do identical installs on two machines with different video and sound cards one might be stable and the other isn't. This isn't a problem with the app, but with a call that the app is making that hits a bad driver. That is why those of us that admin large install bases of Windows machines don't use bleeding edge hardware. We want to make sure that someone else has all the problems while we run happily along.
As for servers, NT isn't as stable as Linux, but I routinely get 90-100 day uptimes from my NT servers (except the one running Backup Exec - that POS leaks memory like it is going out of style). But even Linux doesn't compare to my 350 days on an AS/400 or 700 days on Netware 3.2.
Try something like iso-box.com'sISOMAC. Made for the recording industry to eliminate the computer noise from digital production. They are a little expensive, but very quiet.
The admin cost for Mac and PC aren't that much different. The hardware costs less and the software is about the same price. Not that I think that you should switch, but I don't agree that it is going to cost you more in support if you do.
Anyone can experience weightlessness. Go to your local airport and plop down ~$100 for a plane and pilot for an hour and tell them what you want. I have experienced both zero Gs and 4+ Gs for several seconds in a single engine plane less that 3000 feet off the ground.
I have actually seen 140 WPM on a standard keyboard mechanical typewriter (with the ding at the end of the line and the bar for the carriage return). My great uncle was an electrical engineer/lawyer for a defense contractor and routinely typed 100+ page documents.
I think that were safe there, you don't weld with a torch. Torches are used for cutting (or brazing). Welding is done with a high amperage electrical device.
Actually, there were two turbine powered Indy cars in different races in the seventies. One (or maybe both) is in the raceway museum in the middle of the track. Both cars went out late in the race with a huge lead to simple mechanical failures (one time it was a $2 bearing). They are banned in Indy competition.
The coolest tech that isn't allowed to be used was the giant fan on the bottom of the car that sucked the car to the track. This created a lot of down force and allowed the car to go through the corners almost as fast as it went down the straightaways. It was banned because it spit road debris at the drivers behind it.
Digital video isn't like analog. You have to have all of the data to play the data back or you start getting digital remnants. Because of how the DV compression format works, it doesn't take much missing data to start getting tiling and just a little more to get stuttering and then a complete failure of playback. I agree that there is data loss in a DV cam, but it is all before the compression stage. After that the write and read must be almost perfect to eliminate quality problems.
No, that technology only works in an atmosphere. It works by superheating the air directly behind the cone to push the cone forward. This is done with a ground-biased laser. What the other posters were talking about was firing a laser from the ship similar to a rocket engine - except it uses light for reaction mass.
You are correct - I worded that poorly. What I meant was hopefully he can provide an alibi and get himself eliminated as a suspect. If he is no longer a suspect they have no reason to keep his stuff.
Could have been worse, he could have be in a country where they shot you first - then took your stuff.
A better analogy would be if they found you snooping around in a bombed building 6 hours later and used that as probable cause to search your house. There they find explosives and instructions for making bombs and they confiscate them.
The reasonable assumption is that IF he cracked the site this is the equipment that he would have used. If he is a suspect, that makes his stuff evidence. It really sucks, but that is the way that it has to be. Hopefully he can prove that he wasn't involved and can get his stuff back pretty quick.
Is it just me, or is there an error in these calculations?
(150 - 100) * 6 = 150?
And how do you get another 150 pounds in savings from food, water and oxygen. The requirements for a healthy active adult are very close to the same for males and females.
Before I said that I would want to see a new picture of Terri. They have been using the same picture for as long as I have been in computers (~15 years).
I doubt that you tires are that much wider than mine unless you aren't running stock tires/wheels. My car has low profile wide performance tires. The size of the tire doesn't matter, only the contact patch. And like I said, I have been driving 35 in the snow and HAD to stand on the breaks, and I didn't slide and I still had the ability to swerve. I have driven vans in the snow that grossed out over two tons and all that the extra mass did was keep me sliding down the road.
Almost all SUVs are based on cars, but that isn't the point. All passenger vehicles should have to meet the same standards.
I recently saw an accident where a Nissan Maxama rear-ended a Honda SUV at low speed (about 20 mph) and the SUV stopped about halfway up the hood of the car. Had there been much more speed involved, the SUV bumper would have been through the windshield of the car. A Maxama isn't a rocket-like race car, in fact I think that it would be a good representation of a typical family car. In my car, which is a relatively large car, I look out the window at the bumper of the larger SUVs. In an accident with something like an Excursion or a Navigator I would be crushed. I know what the standards in Indiana are for the bumper on an 18-wheeler and the front bumpers match up with the bumpers on my car (the back bumpers are a different matter, but we need to work on that too). I would probably be killed in a high-speed crash with an 18-wheeler, but that would be because of the transfer of energy, but because I was rolled over.
Your SUV has twice as much mass as my car and the same area for traction on the road. Your mass means that roughly the same amount of traction has to fight twice the inertia. And if you look at the friction coefficient of ice and snow, adding mass doesn't significantly add to the amount of traction. If you are going down the road at 65 in the snow, then it won't be long until you end up in an accident. The problem is, when you do there is a good chance that you will end up running over another car and killing whoever is in it.
I support your right to drive whatever you want, but I think that EVERYONE on the road should be required to pass a driving course similar to a motorcycle, and be endorsed to drive whatever class of car that they want to take on the road. I also think that there should be federal bumper height minimums that are enforced on EVERY car and truck. This includes SUV, pickups, aftermarket modifications, etc. Along with that, all SUV that are based on a car frame, have a leather interior, wood paneled interior, etc should have to pass the same safety and emissions standers as a car, not a truck.
The problem is, in a SUV, you are more likely to slide on snow. I can take my '99 Pontiac Grand Prix up to 35 mph and stand on the brakes on the snow (not the best way to drive in those conditions, but some times you have no other choice). The antilock brakes will kick in and my car will stop in a straight line and I still have enough control to swerve if I have to. If you try that in something that is as heavy and off balance as an SUV you will slide. Stopping ability isn't enhanced by mass. And no matter what anyone has said here, the easiest accident to survive is the one that you aren't in.
I would like to know how an SUV would help a soccer mom in the snow. Most people that I see driving an SUV don't know how to drive on dry pavement. Just because you have a lot of weight and 4-wheel drive doesn't mean that you can do anything you want on snow. And that is why I take my front-wheel drive car with ABS and traction control and drive around all the soccer moms that are in the ditch.
Why don't you try a mix of the two? Modify you current open source driver to include an option that will look for a closed source extension that will turn on the extra options. Just make sure that your fully document the extension so the driver can be rewritten for other operating systems.
I don't have a problem with you wanting to drive a big heavy car. And if you want to pay that much for gas that's fine too. My problem is that almost all SUV are too high off the ground. I drive a Pontiac Grand Prix, which is a big car, and I look out at bumper level on most SUVs. I see people all the time trying to bully smaller cars because they think it is there right because they were dumb enough to spend that much on a car. And as for safety, don't just assume that because it is bigger, that it is safer. The Dodge Durango is one of the biggest cars on the road and one of the worst in the 35mph offset crash tests. If you need to haul stuff get a full size van and if not, I highly recommend a 1979 Lincoln Towncar.
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I agree, but comparing a $1500 PC to a $500,000 IBM mainframe (or even a $20,000 AS/400) isn't fair. If I could manage to get things to run in kernel mode on that mainframe I bet I could screw things up real quick.
I don't agree that there are stability problems with IE and Office. If you do identical installs on two machines with different video and sound cards one might be stable and the other isn't. This isn't a problem with the app, but with a call that the app is making that hits a bad driver. That is why those of us that admin large install bases of Windows machines don't use bleeding edge hardware. We want to make sure that someone else has all the problems while we run happily along.
As for servers, NT isn't as stable as Linux, but I routinely get 90-100 day uptimes from my NT servers (except the one running Backup Exec - that POS leaks memory like it is going out of style). But even Linux doesn't compare to my 350 days on an AS/400 or 700 days on Netware 3.2.
Then I use a Tomahawk missile to remove your command center from about 500 miles away.
Not even if it is an African swallow?
Try something like iso-box.com's ISOMAC. Made for the recording industry to eliminate the computer noise from digital production. They are a little expensive, but very quiet.
If you could extract the essence of "Eyes Wide Shut", you would have a massively powerful stink bomb.
The admin cost for Mac and PC aren't that much different. The hardware costs less and the software is about the same price. Not that I think that you should switch, but I don't agree that it is going to cost you more in support if you do.
Anyone can experience weightlessness. Go to your local airport and plop down ~$100 for a plane and pilot for an hour and tell them what you want. I have experienced both zero Gs and 4+ Gs for several seconds in a single engine plane less that 3000 feet off the ground.
I have actually seen 140 WPM on a standard keyboard mechanical typewriter (with the ding at the end of the line and the bar for the carriage return). My great uncle was an electrical engineer/lawyer for a defense contractor and routinely typed 100+ page documents.
I think that were safe there, you don't weld with a torch. Torches are used for cutting (or brazing). Welding is done with a high amperage electrical device.
Actually, there were two turbine powered Indy cars in different races in the seventies. One (or maybe both) is in the raceway museum in the middle of the track. Both cars went out late in the race with a huge lead to simple mechanical failures (one time it was a $2 bearing). They are banned in Indy competition.
The coolest tech that isn't allowed to be used was the giant fan on the bottom of the car that sucked the car to the track. This created a lot of down force and allowed the car to go through the corners almost as fast as it went down the straightaways. It was banned because it spit road debris at the drivers behind it.
The point is you are not going to encode the data like you would video. All they will do is convert the data to a DV data stream and write it to tape.
Digital video isn't like analog. You have to have all of the data to play the data back or you start getting digital remnants. Because of how the DV compression format works, it doesn't take much missing data to start getting tiling and just a little more to get stuttering and then a complete failure of playback. I agree that there is data loss in a DV cam, but it is all before the compression stage. After that the write and read must be almost perfect to eliminate quality problems.
No, that technology only works in an atmosphere. It works by superheating the air directly behind the cone to push the cone forward. This is done with a ground-biased laser. What the other posters were talking about was firing a laser from the ship similar to a rocket engine - except it uses light for reaction mass.
Get kill.exe from the resource kit, shell to the command prompt and kill the process.
You are correct - I worded that poorly. What I meant was hopefully he can provide an alibi and get himself eliminated as a suspect. If he is no longer a suspect they have no reason to keep his stuff.
Could have been worse, he could have be in a country where they shot you first - then took your stuff.
A better analogy would be if they found you snooping around in a bombed building 6 hours later and used that as probable cause to search your house. There they find explosives and instructions for making bombs and they confiscate them.
The reasonable assumption is that IF he cracked the site this is the equipment that he would have used. If he is a suspect, that makes his stuff evidence. It really sucks, but that is the way that it has to be. Hopefully he can prove that he wasn't involved and can get his stuff back pretty quick.
Is it just me, or is there an error in these calculations?
(150 - 100) * 6 = 150?
And how do you get another 150 pounds in savings from food, water and oxygen. The requirements for a healthy active adult are very close to the same for males and females.
I agree that there is and should be a distinction between the two, but it is time to admit defeat on this on and come up with some new terms.
We can resist this change all we want, but that isn't going to keep it from happening.
Before I said that I would want to see a new picture of Terri. They have been using the same picture for as long as I have been in computers (~15 years).
I doubt that you tires are that much wider than mine unless you aren't running stock tires/wheels. My car has low profile wide performance tires. The size of the tire doesn't matter, only the contact patch. And like I said, I have been driving 35 in the snow and HAD to stand on the breaks, and I didn't slide and I still had the ability to swerve. I have driven vans in the snow that grossed out over two tons and all that the extra mass did was keep me sliding down the road.
Almost all SUVs are based on cars, but that isn't the point. All passenger vehicles should have to meet the same standards.
I recently saw an accident where a Nissan Maxama rear-ended a Honda SUV at low speed (about 20 mph) and the SUV stopped about halfway up the hood of the car. Had there been much more speed involved, the SUV bumper would have been through the windshield of the car. A Maxama isn't a rocket-like race car, in fact I think that it would be a good representation of a typical family car. In my car, which is a relatively large car, I look out the window at the bumper of the larger SUVs. In an accident with something like an Excursion or a Navigator I would be crushed. I know what the standards in Indiana are for the bumper on an 18-wheeler and the front bumpers match up with the bumpers on my car (the back bumpers are a different matter, but we need to work on that too). I would probably be killed in a high-speed crash with an 18-wheeler, but that would be because of the transfer of energy, but because I was rolled over.
Your SUV has twice as much mass as my car and the same area for traction on the road. Your mass means that roughly the same amount of traction has to fight twice the inertia. And if you look at the friction coefficient of ice and snow, adding mass doesn't significantly add to the amount of traction. If you are going down the road at 65 in the snow, then it won't be long until you end up in an accident. The problem is, when you do there is a good chance that you will end up running over another car and killing whoever is in it.
I support your right to drive whatever you want, but I think that EVERYONE on the road should be required to pass a driving course similar to a motorcycle, and be endorsed to drive whatever class of car that they want to take on the road. I also think that there should be federal bumper height minimums that are enforced on EVERY car and truck. This includes SUV, pickups, aftermarket modifications, etc. Along with that, all SUV that are based on a car frame, have a leather interior, wood paneled interior, etc should have to pass the same safety and emissions standers as a car, not a truck.
The problem is, in a SUV, you are more likely to slide on snow. I can take my '99 Pontiac Grand Prix up to 35 mph and stand on the brakes on the snow (not the best way to drive in those conditions, but some times you have no other choice). The antilock brakes will kick in and my car will stop in a straight line and I still have enough control to swerve if I have to. If you try that in something that is as heavy and off balance as an SUV you will slide. Stopping ability isn't enhanced by mass. And no matter what anyone has said here, the easiest accident to survive is the one that you aren't in.
I would like to know how an SUV would help a soccer mom in the snow. Most people that I see driving an SUV don't know how to drive on dry pavement. Just because you have a lot of weight and 4-wheel drive doesn't mean that you can do anything you want on snow. And that is why I take my front-wheel drive car with ABS and traction control and drive around all the soccer moms that are in the ditch.
Why don't you try a mix of the two? Modify you current open source driver to include an option that will look for a closed source extension that will turn on the extra options. Just make sure that your fully document the extension so the driver can be rewritten for other operating systems.
I don't have a problem with you wanting to drive a big heavy car. And if you want to pay that much for gas that's fine too. My problem is that almost all SUV are too high off the ground. I drive a Pontiac Grand Prix, which is a big car, and I look out at bumper level on most SUVs. I see people all the time trying to bully smaller cars because they think it is there right because they were dumb enough to spend that much on a car. And as for safety, don't just assume that because it is bigger, that it is safer. The Dodge Durango is one of the biggest cars on the road and one of the worst in the 35mph offset crash tests. If you need to haul stuff get a full size van and if not, I highly recommend a 1979 Lincoln Towncar.