Anybody know if this device has UMA support on it?
Skype is not the win imo... I'd rather just have my cell communicate directly to my carrier over my household broadband connection and not mess with an extra "skype" address to hand people for when I'm out of cell coverage area... UMA is preferred since I don't need any special network hardware (other than a wireless access point) to support it.
T-Mobile supports UMA pretty well... I'm using it with my BB 8900 at the moment.
Its a good thing that "MY" terms of service (written down on a bar napkin years ago, and may be subject to blurring due to beer spills) bar any restriction on my ability to seek restitution or damages from any service provider whose terms of service require arbitration and/or prevent participation in class action lawsuits against them.
I gave all my service providers 1 year to make known any problem they had with my terms of service... from when i first scribbled them down and made them public by vocalizing them to anybody at the bar who cared to listen.
I should also mention that my terms of service require arbitration and prohibit my service providers from participating in a class action law suit against me. Oh. And they have to bring me the number of that cute barmaid from across the room, too.
Not entirely sure, no. Just like now, back then I was a lowly developer... not fit to bathe in the glory of Sun reps or gawking VPs.
I'm just glad I was close to the right number... it was a mixed house of e250, e450, e4500... i think there were a few e6500s and one or two e10ks floating the data center also.
... and for some reason, with all that hardware, I seem to remember complaining about disk space on a daily basis.
What you talkin 'bout Willis? Oracle's primary development platform has been Linux for years now. I think the vague "runs better" test is pretty much a wash when you compare optimized code builds running on similarly powered hardware.
I think Sun hardware is really more of a vanity thing in business nowdays... so "company a" can look down their nose at "company b" and say "we dont use Dell servers, we're a Sun house"...
OMG! THANK you for making me post this! I NOW understand the Oracle-Sun merger! They're both "vanity" business models! Its been bothering me since the merger was announced... but now I see the synergy plain as daylight. Its all about super large corporate businesses and absurdly high maintenance contracts.
Wow. That is some kind of evil genius. I'm going out to buy some Oracle stock.
I had enough exposure to Solaris in the 90s... I remember when a Sun install team put in the 1st e4500 16 processor high availability box at my employer... they had powered it up and had a bunch of our company VPs standing around the cold room oogling it... the Sun rep was giving an executive overview of its HA features, full hot swap of processor boards, power supplies, yadda yadda yadda. My (then) boss, a lowly manager in the VP crowd, walks up to the e4500 and pops a processor card out... the whole system seg faults an UGLY death. Ahhh... good times.
If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a World War II German railway gun with a cracked breech block.
- Charlie Stross
Lesson learned? C code written by people who have programmed Fortran for 20+ years runs slower than Fortran code written by people who have programmed Fortran for 20+ years.
It is incredibly easy to write inefficient C code, and only years of exposure will give you the understanding necessary to write truly efficient C code.
Unlike your typical/. post, I present evidence, Duff's Device, of what an efficient C coder can do.
Awwww c'mon. This is just plain silly. Since the late 80s, "Fortran" on most major computing platforms has been nothing more than front end language parser for a multi-pass compiler system... just like "C" and "Pascal". Whatever language you choose, they all pass their assembly output to the same back-end assembler, and binary machine code generated is pretty generic.
Back when I was in college, I maintained a Fortran77 program that was a custom built TCP/IP client-server system. But wait! F77 didn't know what a socket was! right. The network code was written in C and compiled into object code which was directly linked into the F77 project.
Great. So there are these massive libraries written in Fortran to do wonderful things. Best case scenario is you can link them directly into your language of choice. Worst case, call them from the scripted language of your choice with a wrapper... Swig anyone?
Bottom line? Program in what you are comfortable with. Would your peers would frown on your efforts if you learned anything but ALGOL? Fine. Use ALGOL. There are valuable lessons to be learned in any language. Strong vs weak typed, functional vs object oriented, structure, best practices... hell, how to write "fast" code. I've been a programmer for near 20 years and I'm still learning that lesson on a daily basis.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Nietzsche
Grab a copy of the StatusbarEx extension for Firefox and configure it to add current memory use to the status bar.
Makes it very easy to see when it reaches critical mass and needs to be closed.
We should request that all tax collectors be a faction unto themselves, lvl 5, and permanently flagged PVP... and that they have to carry all the gold they collect, so if they happen to... ummm... have an accident, the wealth can be re-distributed.
Isn't this how the Boston Tea Party started? How can they possibly think to tax online gamers hard earned gold without some form of representation? This is blatantly taxation without representation.
I, for one, think that this opens up a need for seats in congress for Night Elves, Gnomes, Orcs, and even Tauren (as long as they promise to first take a bath). Sorry Humans, you've already got enough reps on the hill. We'll need HUGE multi-panel monitors setup all around the House chambers... at least... 130" tall so that each representative can be rendered at his/her real size... and full sound systems for each so that their voice can be HEARD!
And why stop there? We need seats on appropriations committees, too! Lets put those tax dollars...err... tax golds to work! How about a fast train system linking Ironforge to Undercity? Faster gryphon rides? or better yet... FASTER LOGIN QUEUES for overloaded servers??
Until we get all of this, I say we should each buy Tea from a local vendor and then drop it while standing at the harbor in Booty Bay. Below is a helpful list of some of the teas which might be appropriate:
they get roughly 32 rods per hogshead. divide that by the current vegas odds of the LHC finding the higgs boson vs sucking the world into a micro black hole, and you'll realize that is one hell of a burrito for only $700b.
Wait a minute. What was this thread about again?
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What say they throw their talents behind a rewrite of the FF JS engine and NOT launch the browser community into another holy war?
I mean seriously... as a developer, I was just sitting here thinking that I needed ANOTHER browser with completely NEW odd edge conditions to code against...
i live in an area whose power is supplied by TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) hydro-electric... who just announced a 20% increase in rates. Apparently they felt left out of the energy-crunch-customer-price-gouging... either that or it's taking them a LOT more gas to truck in the electricity after their water turbines produce it... *blink*.
Is there a nerd-to-geek translation available for this article? How many Wattabytes can that protien infused diffusion grate optical sensor hold?... and more importantly, does it run Linux?... beowulf cluster?
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Anybody know if this device has UMA support on it?
... I'd rather just have my cell communicate directly to my carrier over my household broadband connection and not mess with an extra "skype" address to hand people for when I'm out of cell coverage area ... UMA is preferred since I don't need any special network hardware (other than a wireless access point) to support it.
... I'm using it with my BB 8900 at the moment.
Skype is not the win imo
T-Mobile supports UMA pretty well
Its a good thing that "MY" terms of service (written down on a bar napkin years ago, and may be subject to blurring due to beer spills) bar any restriction on my ability to seek restitution or damages from any service provider whose terms of service require arbitration and/or prevent participation in class action lawsuits against them.
... from when i first scribbled them down and made them public by vocalizing them to anybody at the bar who cared to listen.
I gave all my service providers 1 year to make known any problem they had with my terms of service
I should also mention that my terms of service require arbitration and prohibit my service providers from participating in a class action law suit against me. Oh. And they have to bring me the number of that cute barmaid from across the room, too.
Can you translate that into rods/hogshead for me?
I beg to differ. Case in point: Ultrix. I think it is safe to pronounce DEC Ultrix as D E A D. *grin*
Not entirely sure, no. Just like now, back then I was a lowly developer ... not fit to bathe in the glory of Sun reps or gawking VPs.
... it was a mixed house of e250, e450, e4500 ... i think there were a few e6500s and one or two e10ks floating the data center also.
... and for some reason, with all that hardware, I seem to remember complaining about disk space on a daily basis.
I'm just glad I was close to the right number
What you talkin 'bout Willis? Oracle's primary development platform has been Linux for years now. I think the vague "runs better" test is pretty much a wash when you compare optimized code builds running on similarly powered hardware.
... so "company a" can look down their nose at "company b" and say "we dont use Dell servers, we're a Sun house"...
... but now I see the synergy plain as daylight. Its all about super large corporate businesses and absurdly high maintenance contracts.
I think Sun hardware is really more of a vanity thing in business nowdays
OMG! THANK you for making me post this! I NOW understand the Oracle-Sun merger! They're both "vanity" business models! Its been bothering me since the merger was announced
Wow. That is some kind of evil genius. I'm going out to buy some Oracle stock.
I had enough exposure to Solaris in the 90s ... I remember when a Sun install team put in the 1st e4500 16 processor high availability box at my employer ... they had powered it up and had a bunch of our company VPs standing around the cold room oogling it ... the Sun rep was giving an executive overview of its HA features, full hot swap of processor boards, power supplies, yadda yadda yadda. My (then) boss, a lowly manager in the VP crowd, walks up to the e4500 and pops a processor card out ... the whole system seg faults an UGLY death. Ahhh ... good times.
If operating systems are weapons, Solaris is a World War II German railway gun with a cracked breech block.
- Charlie Stross
RFC2549 seems to be a perfect fit here.
...Somebody send those guys some Redbull and Cheetos!
Hot Pockets. All you got. Seriously.
Lesson learned? C code written by people who have programmed Fortran for 20+ years runs slower than Fortran code written by people who have programmed Fortran for 20+ years.
/. post, I present evidence, Duff's Device, of what an efficient C coder can do.
It is incredibly easy to write inefficient C code, and only years of exposure will give you the understanding necessary to write truly efficient C code.
Unlike your typical
Back when I was in college, I maintained a Fortran77 program that was a custom built TCP/IP client-server system. But wait! F77 didn't know what a socket was! right. The network code was written in C and compiled into object code which was directly linked into the F77 project.
Great. So there are these massive libraries written in Fortran to do wonderful things. Best case scenario is you can link them directly into your language of choice. Worst case, call them from the scripted language of your choice with a wrapper
Bottom line? Program in what you are comfortable with. Would your peers would frown on your efforts if you learned anything but ALGOL? Fine. Use ALGOL. There are valuable lessons to be learned in any language. Strong vs weak typed, functional vs object oriented, structure, best practices
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. - Nietzsche
Self Censoring Web servers! Automatically removes all politically sensitive info for you! This will catch on quick, I bet!
pfft. I've had this running as an apache module for years. mod_bigbrother ftw.
Grab a copy of the StatusbarEx extension for Firefox and configure it to add current memory use to the status bar. Makes it very easy to see when it reaches critical mass and needs to be closed.
8MHz IS my Turbo mode you insensitive clod!
We should request that all tax collectors be a faction unto themselves, lvl 5, and permanently flagged PVP ... and that they have to carry all the gold they collect, so if they happen to ... ummm ... have an accident, the wealth can be re-distributed.
Isn't this how the Boston Tea Party started? How can they possibly think to tax online gamers hard earned gold without some form of representation? This is blatantly taxation without representation.
... at least ... 130" tall so that each representative can be rendered at his/her real size ... and full sound systems for each so that their voice can be HEARD!
...err ... tax golds to work! How about a fast train system linking Ironforge to Undercity? Faster gryphon rides? or better yet ... FASTER LOGIN QUEUES for overloaded servers??
I, for one, think that this opens up a need for seats in congress for Night Elves, Gnomes, Orcs, and even Tauren (as long as they promise to first take a bath). Sorry Humans, you've already got enough reps on the hill. We'll need HUGE multi-panel monitors setup all around the House chambers
And why stop there? We need seats on appropriations committees, too! Lets put those tax dollars
Until we get all of this, I say we should each buy Tea from a local vendor and then drop it while standing at the harbor in Booty Bay. Below is a helpful list of some of the teas which might be appropriate:
Honeymint Tea, Green Garden Tea, Thistle Tea, Goldthorn Tea, or even Green Tea Leaf
I present as evidence ... Meat
they get roughly 32 rods per hogshead. divide that by the current vegas odds of the LHC finding the higgs boson vs sucking the world into a micro black hole, and you'll realize that is one hell of a burrito for only $700b.
Wait a minute. What was this thread about again?
What say they throw their talents behind a rewrite of the FF JS engine and NOT launch the browser community into another holy war?
I mean seriously ... as a developer, I was just sitting here thinking that I needed ANOTHER browser with completely NEW odd edge conditions to code against...
I'm not sure this subject warrants any study at all...
Funny, but you never know, a lot of discovers come from looking into non-obvious places.
Agreed. Most significant scientific advances start with some smart guy saying, "Hmmmm. Thats odd."
That being said, I fully expect "cow-due-north" powered flying cars within 10 years.
i live in an area whose power is supplied by TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) hydro-electric ... who just announced a 20% increase in rates. Apparently they felt left out of the energy-crunch-customer-price-gouging... either that or it's taking them a LOT more gas to truck in the electricity after their water turbines produce it ... *blink*.
I RTFA, but I *still* don't know what Microsoft's and Google's server farms used for seeds! ;)
i think they used USB thumb drives ...
Unfurtunatly /. is not the typical public.
*boggle*
s/Unfurtunatly/Fortunately/
...getting ready for a hot date.
You know this is slashdot, don't you?
Is there a nerd-to-geek translation available for this article? How many Wattabytes can that protien infused diffusion grate optical sensor hold? ... and more importantly, does it run Linux? ... beowulf cluster?