Just like placing one of these things in a car, keeping them in dorm rooms is a bad idea. Granted, I'm sure 90% of the stuff is pirated (and if it's not, you can just ask your trust-fund for more money), but these types of things are -perfect- targets for the kind of bullshit crime that goes on in crowded dorms.
Of course, bathroom doors have a tendency to grow legs as well...
Call centers also rely on unskilled workers who are unqualified to do anything doing mindless repetetive work that requires absolutely no creative thought. They can manage these people like they're flipping burgers or picking cotton & it won't make a difference.
Of course, if you're talking tech-support, I can imagine things are a lot less strict for the higher-tier employees - the one that actually have to think about how to solve problems.
Actually, if you look at benchmarks on the fastest Pentium-M chip, they beat the high-end P4 quite consistantly. They're quite impressive chips, taking the excellent design of the old P6 core & integrating the best parts of the Netburst core. The end result is a fast, low-power CPU.
One of the things about gunbound is that the -only- advancement in the game results from buying better gear and that it's strictly PvP - there is no concept of characters becoming stronger over time. This means that a total noob willing to spend money on the best gear, while not completely unstoppable, will be able to defeat significantly more skilled players.
Granted, they're only really hurting themselves in the long run since players with 'low-level' gear are unlikely to play with overdeveloped chars, leaving the only opponents available to be other characters with that type of gear. Meaning they're going to be either playing people who actually worked their chars up, meaning they'll be completely destroyed, or other similarly rich noobs, in which case they might as well have not purchased the gear & just played with the gear they 'rightfully' own.
There are other ways to find stuff on the net. This is a perfect example of where a directory, such as DMOZ or Yahoo, is going to get you better results than a search engine.
If you're raising your bid after your initial bid, you deserve an idiot tax. Changing bids reflects a complete misunderstanding of the basic premise of the eBay auction.
On one hand, he didn't use the phrase "insensitive clod" so I'm inclined to believe him. OTOH, not using that phrase is, itself, an argument against having said mental disability.
World of Warcraft (the MMORPG I am currently playing and thus most familiar with) solves this partially by implimenting 'instanced' dungeons, where every party in the dungeon gets their own 'instance' of the dungeon, with seperate monsters and such. This allows each party to fight through without the posibility of running into other players. While this is a great sollution on a small basis, it does not prevent a gold/item reseller from farming in a high-traffic area, or an area with important quest-related NPCs.
Part of EQ2's solution involves collecting 'no drop' quest items - things that don't really exist but count towards quest completion - being collected for NPCs who reward with items that can not be traded. The other thing they do is have "Lore" items which a character can only have a single one of. This stops people from farming Swords of PWNing and reselling them.
From Oracle's perspective, why should customers halve their license fees by simply upgrading to dual cores? What happens in a few years when Intel has 8 core CPUs? Do they only get 1/8th revenues? As Oracle sees it, they're right.
The problem is that, before dual-core CPUs, every upgrade cycle (say 3yr) the customer would be able to get hardware with doubled clock speeds. The reason that dual-core CPUs are inevitable is because this rate of clock-speed increases is not sustainable. All the customer wants is a faster system, which they were able to do previously without changing the licencing fees. Next time around, customers will be forced to go dual-core to get the faster CPUs.
If a customer has 8 single-core CPUs today, come the next upgrade cycle, they're not going to drop to 4 dual-core CPUs - they're upgrading for the extra performance and to get the 'normal' performance increase, they'll need 8 dual-core CPUs. The only place it'll really potentially effect revenue would be during the initial roll-out of dual-core CPUs (when they have MHz parity with single-core CPUs) when some of the low-end customers might get a 'free' bump to extra CPUs.
Oracle licenses are already per-CPU. Somebody with a lightly-loaded single CPU PC is going to have different needs than sombody running it on some 100 processor Sun beast. The per-processor licensing is one way of adressing this issue.
The question isn't really as cut & dried as you'd want to think of it at first. While the difference between what you'd do with a single & dual machine is relatively minor, somebody upgrading a 4-way machine to an 8-way box is making a much larger jump - quite possibly resulting in the consolodation of several smaller servers (and the cancelling of their licenses).
There was a similar debate when Intel introduced Hyperthreading (which makes a single CPU appear as 2 virtual CPUs). A good example of how it worked out involves Windows. Workstation copies of Windows are licensed for 2 procs. In 2000, which doesn't know about HT, that means you can't use a 2-proc HT system. XP, OTOH, recognizes HT and allows for dual HT CPUs, giving you 4 virtual CPUs on the 2-CPU license.
Cross-compilation is completely separate from portability. Cross compilation is about taking sources for system A and producing binaries for system A using system B. The goal of portability is to have sources that compile to a binary for system A, using a system A compiler, to properly compile for system B, using system B's compiler.
And trying to do tech-work for family, on a tight budget, always means trouble. He's already getting the labor & consulting on the cheap, there's no nead to cut corners on the hardware - it'll end up being a support nightmare down the road for you.
One of the things that I've been wondering about for a while would be the effectiveness of something like this on the other end. That is, what if my ISP provided a BT proxy that, in the case of multiple clients getting the same file off BT, would only require it to be DLed once to the local network. I guess it'd do something like what, from my understanding, Akamai servers do.
If that's what you want/need, go for a mini-ITX EPIA board. Small, low power & several of the models operate fine with passive cooling.
Just watch your heat - a bunch of 7200+RPM drives in an enclosed space will generate a lot of heat & require decent cooling (if you want the drives to last any length of time). This is where most of your noise is going to come from.
The difference being that the New Yorker has very little in the way of barriers involved in moving to Kansas. Moving to India, OTOH, borders on impossible.
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Just like placing one of these things in a car, keeping them in dorm rooms is a bad idea. Granted, I'm sure 90% of the stuff is pirated (and if it's not, you can just ask your trust-fund for more money), but these types of things are -perfect- targets for the kind of bullshit crime that goes on in crowded dorms.
Of course, bathroom doors have a tendency to grow legs as well...
Call centers also rely on unskilled workers who are unqualified to do anything doing mindless repetetive work that requires absolutely no creative thought. They can manage these people like they're flipping burgers or picking cotton & it won't make a difference.
Of course, if you're talking tech-support, I can imagine things are a lot less strict for the higher-tier employees - the one that actually have to think about how to solve problems.
...but would you take a second dose?
Actually, if you look at benchmarks on the fastest Pentium-M chip, they beat the high-end P4 quite consistantly. They're quite impressive chips, taking the excellent design of the old P6 core & integrating the best parts of the Netburst core. The end result is a fast, low-power CPU.
One of the things about gunbound is that the -only- advancement in the game results from buying better gear and that it's strictly PvP - there is no concept of characters becoming stronger over time. This means that a total noob willing to spend money on the best gear, while not completely unstoppable, will be able to defeat significantly more skilled players.
Granted, they're only really hurting themselves in the long run since players with 'low-level' gear are unlikely to play with overdeveloped chars, leaving the only opponents available to be other characters with that type of gear. Meaning they're going to be either playing people who actually worked their chars up, meaning they'll be completely destroyed, or other similarly rich noobs, in which case they might as well have not purchased the gear & just played with the gear they 'rightfully' own.
re: the fork bomb in your sig -
It's not going to work very well on Linux (or other modern Unix systems). Something more like:
while(1){malloc(sizeof(int))=fork();}
will be much more effective.
There are other ways to find stuff on the net. This is a perfect example of where a directory, such as DMOZ or Yahoo, is going to get you better results than a search engine.
"AMD64" is a lot better name than the "x64" that MSFT is planning on putting on the front of the box.
..."Slashdot 60s Classics" reinterpretation of Franz Kafka's classic "The Trial".
If you're raising your bid after your initial bid, you deserve an idiot tax. Changing bids reflects a complete misunderstanding of the basic premise of the eBay auction.
On one hand, he didn't use the phrase "insensitive clod" so I'm inclined to believe him. OTOH, not using that phrase is, itself, an argument against having said mental disability.
Part of EQ2's solution involves collecting 'no drop' quest items - things that don't really exist but count towards quest completion - being collected for NPCs who reward with items that can not be traded. The other thing they do is have "Lore" items which a character can only have a single one of. This stops people from farming Swords of PWNing and reselling them.
The problem is that, before dual-core CPUs, every upgrade cycle (say 3yr) the customer would be able to get hardware with doubled clock speeds. The reason that dual-core CPUs are inevitable is because this rate of clock-speed increases is not sustainable. All the customer wants is a faster system, which they were able to do previously without changing the licencing fees. Next time around, customers will be forced to go dual-core to get the faster CPUs.
If a customer has 8 single-core CPUs today, come the next upgrade cycle, they're not going to drop to 4 dual-core CPUs - they're upgrading for the extra performance and to get the 'normal' performance increase, they'll need 8 dual-core CPUs. The only place it'll really potentially effect revenue would be during the initial roll-out of dual-core CPUs (when they have MHz parity with single-core CPUs) when some of the low-end customers might get a 'free' bump to extra CPUs.
Oracle licenses are already per-CPU. Somebody with a lightly-loaded single CPU PC is going to have different needs than sombody running it on some 100 processor Sun beast. The per-processor licensing is one way of adressing this issue.
The question isn't really as cut & dried as you'd want to think of it at first. While the difference between what you'd do with a single & dual machine is relatively minor, somebody upgrading a 4-way machine to an 8-way box is making a much larger jump - quite possibly resulting in the consolodation of several smaller servers (and the cancelling of their licenses).
There was a similar debate when Intel introduced Hyperthreading (which makes a single CPU appear as 2 virtual CPUs). A good example of how it worked out involves Windows. Workstation copies of Windows are licensed for 2 procs. In 2000, which doesn't know about HT, that means you can't use a 2-proc HT system. XP, OTOH, recognizes HT and allows for dual HT CPUs, giving you 4 virtual CPUs on the 2-CPU license.
Cross-compilation is completely separate from portability. Cross compilation is about taking sources for system A and producing binaries for system A using system B. The goal of portability is to have sources that compile to a binary for system A, using a system A compiler, to properly compile for system B, using system B's compiler.
20 min is barely enough time to get through the tutorials in most games.
And yes, you should go through the tutorial at least once.
And trying to do tech-work for family, on a tight budget, always means trouble. He's already getting the labor & consulting on the cheap, there's no nead to cut corners on the hardware - it'll end up being a support nightmare down the road for you.
This also explains why women must ask "does this make me look fat?" and men actually try to answer.
Crap. I thought I read some reviews that said it took SO-DIMMs. Good thing I posted without the karma bonus.
You realize that, because of it's small form factor, the Mac Mini is almost entirely built of laptop components. This includes SODIMM memory.
One of the things that I've been wondering about for a while would be the effectiveness of something like this on the other end. That is, what if my ISP provided a BT proxy that, in the case of multiple clients getting the same file off BT, would only require it to be DLed once to the local network. I guess it'd do something like what, from my understanding, Akamai servers do.
If that's what you want/need, go for a mini-ITX EPIA board. Small, low power & several of the models operate fine with passive cooling.
Just watch your heat - a bunch of 7200+RPM drives in an enclosed space will generate a lot of heat & require decent cooling (if you want the drives to last any length of time). This is where most of your noise is going to come from.
If you take out the physical customization, every character would look the same leaving you with World of Warcraft.
...that is, when the servers are up long enough for you to actually see the toon.
The difference being that the New Yorker has very little in the way of barriers involved in moving to Kansas. Moving to India, OTOH, borders on impossible.
After 4 more years of Bush, it might be.