I do the exact same thing on Cingular; speeds I get tend to be poor, but I live in Chicago where excess cell capacity is a mythical beast hunted to extinction long ago.
Cingular costs $80/mo for unlimited data normally... but there's a deal going right now that lets you get it for $20/mo as part of their media package.
- Much of the cost saving of Linux over Unix comes from hardware - i.e. using Intel over mainframe/AIX/zSeries etc.
Wrong. Go buy a license for 100 mail users, or 50 MSSQL user licenses. OUCH. Now compare Postgres/MySQL or Sendmail/Qmail/god-knows-what-free-email-servers LINUX vs. UNIX! Not Linux vs. Microsoft. Most of the cost savings of Linux over Unix comes in hardware; you can run Sendmail or Postgres on Solaris just fine. The major cost differential between a Solaris and a Linux installation is not the cost of the OS; it's the cost of the hardware. If you could read, you'd have understood that.
If you have thousands of computers, your cost per license is *not* $100 for Windows.
My best guess is that the US gov't pays less than $25 per license. Probably around $10. The actual number depends on where the purchasing happens - the higher the level of purchasing, the higher the volume, the lower the per-license that can be negotiated. Also, remember that its the government, which means they likely receive a discount for that as well.
Honestly, I think it's because getting a good calendaring/email solution together isn't a small task; its equivalent to writing a full-fledged office program. However, unlike an office program, it isn't very useful to the home user, pretty much solely useful for corporate users. As a result, there's not really an "itch" for most developers.
As to the other part of it - honestly, Outlook/Exchange is a pretty decent setup. Outlook as an email client is awful, but Outlook/Exchange as a group calendaring/room reservation/resource reservation setup (yes, we reserve a conference room by adding it to our meeting request on Outlook, and resources similarly for those that are tracked) is a decent solution. It would take a lot of work for an OS developer to come up with something as good, and the companies that most need that sort of solution (giant corporations; IBMs, Intels, Motorolas, Walmarts) are the ones who are most able to deal with both the cost of licenses.
Basically, the problem is that its a big problem that has no use for home users, and none of the big corporates has shown a desire to move away from the 'good enough' solution O/Ex provides.
Even so, the point is that there is no extra design effort required for a chip to support overclocking, while there is a design effort required for a chip to disable it.
Wasn't thinking that way. However, having lived with female cats "in heat", I don't understand how any owner could find it amusing. I would think it would trigger post-traumatic stress disorder, in fact.:)
328491 feet is 3941892 inches. (12in per foot) 3941892 inches is 10012405.7 centimeters (2.54 cm per inch, exactly) 10012405.7 centimeters is 100.124 kilometers.
Your conversion is wrong; 1 yard = 0.9144 meters. That.0044 is pretty significant when you start talking a hundred thousand of them.
My Aeron allows you to rotate the arm rests; I assume you're not talking about a rotation but a genuine movement of where the pivot point is in relation to the body. I don't recall ever seeing a chair that allows that adjustment (although I'm sure one exists), but I find that the default location on the Aeron works for me.
Once again, I really think it comes down to personal preference; with the huge variety of body shapes and sizes, plus the variety in what people find comfortable, expecting one chair to fit all is overreaching. I like the Aeron; I would hope that all of my coworkers could find a chair they like equally as much as I like my Aeron.
Heat makes me want to curl up and die. I have fur, or close enough. I like to sleep.
Your comparison would be accurate if I didn't bite my nails and like dogs.
Seriously though, heat and still air make me useless. OTOH, I work just fine in temperatures most people would consider unacceptable (I used to keep my work room at around 45-50 degrees in the winter, before I acquired a roommate)
This is only true if the work is mostly done out loud. If my coworkers can critique my work based on the sound of my mouseclicks and keystrokes, I'm going to seriously worry.
Better, grab Intellicad, which had a free (beer) version. Full-scale CAD program, a lot better for doing real drafting than a diagram/charting program like Visio (which is great too, just better things for drafting exist).
Pretty much everyone I work with has a whiteboard in their cube. Great for one-on-ones with someone; nothing like saying "Here, let me draw it for you."
Needless to say, we have big old whiteboards in our conference rooms as well.
I like my Aeron, but I think it really is personal preference. I like them because normal chairs trap heat, and I do very poorly in heat. Aeron doesn't, which makes a huge difference in my comfort level. Let people who want them have them; in our building, you don't see them floating around looking for owners. People who want the standard cloth chair (or hell, even a leather chair - the Aeron's aren't any cheaper) should be able to get it, and I should still be comfortable sitting on my cheese grater.
Cubicles, on the other hand... bleh. If you absolutely must go with reconfigurable office space, get floor-to-ceiling partitions and provide doors. It isn't as good as a hard-walled office, but it provides *real* privacy as opposed to the illusion thereof. In addition to your employee's mental health, allowing them to close themselves of will make them more productive (fewer interruptions), lead to fewer issues of people knowing things they shouldn't (like my cube neighbor's credit card number), and happier. Yeah, you might lose 5 minutes to them checking ESPN, but you'll gain it back in productivity.
About as well as STENTOR and Superbird B, to tell the truth. I was pissed when CONTOUR died; had friends working on the program, watched it launch from the viewing area at CCAFS.
How exactly do you figure Beagle is doing better than MCO, anyway? MCO probably disintegrated in atmosphere, Beagle likely broke on impact. Broke is broke, as they say.
Mars Express, by the by, was the first European extra-planetary probe. You're 1 for 2 between ME and Beagle, but the US is now at 9 for 14 on Mars missions. Hey, we're even on a 3 of 3 roll what with Odyssey and the two rovers!
I.E. I am too lazy to look up the conversion factor. Also, if you're going to measure mass in kg, it would be a little silly to provide Imperial system measurements, now wouldn't it? Also, kgf vs. kg preserves the advantage that at 1g, kgf thrust must be greater than kg in order to provide positive vertical acceleration (this relationship doesn't hold true for winged vehicles because lift makes a difference, but the site the figures came from is mainly devoted to rocketry, so it makes sense they would provide in these forms).
Call me when anything European manages to put a man in space.
So throw it in the glovebox when you get out of the car. When you're using it, though, you want it accessible. I know this for a fact, because I use mine in my car, and it sucked until I bought a holder for it that kept it at arm's reach and visible.
They don't have to do any extra work to allow overclocking; it's a natural artifact of how the chipmaking process works. All chips, at the start, are capable of being top-speed. After manufacture, they're tested and sorted as to what their actual maximum stable speed is, individually. Because there's no actual die-level differences on these chips, external factors are what tell it how fast to run. You feed it clock and a multiplier number, and it tries to run at that speed, whether or not it actually can.
Basically, it takes no extra work to allow overclocking, but significant extra work to prevent it.
The parent said they're stopping people at random. I pointed out that I've never experienced that.
Someone shows me evidence that law enforcement is stopping people just to mess with them, I'll be upset. I don't see any evidence of that; further, I don't see how this law makes that theoretical situation any worse. A cop wants to mess with you, they will, whether you give them your name or not.
And like I said, it was 40 years ago. Rutan's doing great work, but it isn't anything that hasn't been done before - it's something that hasn't been done before at that price point. Which is worthwhile in and of itself. But it isn't the first reusable quick-turnaround suborbital spacecraft; X-15 was.
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I do the exact same thing on Cingular; speeds I get tend to be poor, but I live in Chicago where excess cell capacity is a mythical beast hunted to extinction long ago.
Cingular costs $80/mo for unlimited data normally... but there's a deal going right now that lets you get it for $20/mo as part of their media package.
- Much of the cost saving of Linux over Unix comes from hardware - i.e. using Intel over mainframe/AIX/zSeries etc.
Wrong. Go buy a license for 100 mail users, or 50 MSSQL user licenses. OUCH. Now compare Postgres/MySQL or Sendmail/Qmail/god-knows-what-free-email-servers
LINUX vs. UNIX! Not Linux vs. Microsoft. Most of the cost savings of Linux over Unix comes in hardware; you can run Sendmail or Postgres on Solaris just fine. The major cost differential between a Solaris and a Linux installation is not the cost of the OS; it's the cost of the hardware. If you could read, you'd have understood that.
If you have thousands of computers, your cost per license is *not* $100 for Windows.
My best guess is that the US gov't pays less than $25 per license. Probably around $10. The actual number depends on where the purchasing happens - the higher the level of purchasing, the higher the volume, the lower the per-license that can be negotiated. Also, remember that its the government, which means they likely receive a discount for that as well.
Honestly, I think it's because getting a good calendaring/email solution together isn't a small task; its equivalent to writing a full-fledged office program. However, unlike an office program, it isn't very useful to the home user, pretty much solely useful for corporate users. As a result, there's not really an "itch" for most developers.
As to the other part of it - honestly, Outlook/Exchange is a pretty decent setup. Outlook as an email client is awful, but Outlook/Exchange as a group calendaring/room reservation/resource reservation setup (yes, we reserve a conference room by adding it to our meeting request on Outlook, and resources similarly for those that are tracked) is a decent solution. It would take a lot of work for an OS developer to come up with something as good, and the companies that most need that sort of solution (giant corporations; IBMs, Intels, Motorolas, Walmarts) are the ones who are most able to deal with both the cost of licenses.
Basically, the problem is that its a big problem that has no use for home users, and none of the big corporates has shown a desire to move away from the 'good enough' solution O/Ex provides.
Even so, the point is that there is no extra design effort required for a chip to support overclocking, while there is a design effort required for a chip to disable it.
Ahhh.
:)
Wasn't thinking that way. However, having lived with female cats "in heat", I don't understand how any owner could find it amusing. I would think it would trigger post-traumatic stress disorder, in fact.
Wrong.
.0044 is pretty significant when you start talking a hundred thousand of them.
328491 feet is 3941892 inches. (12in per foot)
3941892 inches is 10012405.7 centimeters (2.54 cm per inch, exactly)
10012405.7 centimeters is 100.124 kilometers.
Your conversion is wrong; 1 yard = 0.9144 meters. That
When, or if, the British develop a sense of drama, it's called theater, not theatre.
:)
When or if the British develop food that doesn't taste like sawdust, it's flavor, not flavour.
When/if the British manage to make something funny, it's humor, not humour.
The correct spelling for English, by the way, is A-m-e-r-i-c-a-n.
(BTW, I like British humor, and Shakespeare... I mean, Shakespeare! Pity about the food, though.)
My Aeron allows you to rotate the arm rests; I assume you're not talking about a rotation but a genuine movement of where the pivot point is in relation to the body. I don't recall ever seeing a chair that allows that adjustment (although I'm sure one exists), but I find that the default location on the Aeron works for me.
Once again, I really think it comes down to personal preference; with the huge variety of body shapes and sizes, plus the variety in what people find comfortable, expecting one chair to fit all is overreaching. I like the Aeron; I would hope that all of my coworkers could find a chair they like equally as much as I like my Aeron.
Heat makes me want to curl up and die. I have fur, or close enough. I like to sleep.
Your comparison would be accurate if I didn't bite my nails and like dogs.
Seriously though, heat and still air make me useless. OTOH, I work just fine in temperatures most people would consider unacceptable (I used to keep my work room at around 45-50 degrees in the winter, before I acquired a roommate)
No. You missed 2 very, very important words:
Coworkers choice.
This is only true if the work is mostly done out loud. If my coworkers can critique my work based on the sound of my mouseclicks and keystrokes, I'm going to seriously worry.
Better, grab Intellicad, which had a free (beer) version. Full-scale CAD program, a lot better for doing real drafting than a diagram/charting program like Visio (which is great too, just better things for drafting exist).
Pretty much everyone I work with has a whiteboard in their cube. Great for one-on-ones with someone; nothing like saying "Here, let me draw it for you."
Needless to say, we have big old whiteboards in our conference rooms as well.
I like my Aeron, but I think it really is personal preference. I like them because normal chairs trap heat, and I do very poorly in heat. Aeron doesn't, which makes a huge difference in my comfort level. Let people who want them have them; in our building, you don't see them floating around looking for owners. People who want the standard cloth chair (or hell, even a leather chair - the Aeron's aren't any cheaper) should be able to get it, and I should still be comfortable sitting on my cheese grater.
Cubicles, on the other hand... bleh. If you absolutely must go with reconfigurable office space, get floor-to-ceiling partitions and provide doors. It isn't as good as a hard-walled office, but it provides *real* privacy as opposed to the illusion thereof. In addition to your employee's mental health, allowing them to close themselves of will make them more productive (fewer interruptions), lead to fewer issues of people knowing things they shouldn't (like my cube neighbor's credit card number), and happier. Yeah, you might lose 5 minutes to them checking ESPN, but you'll gain it back in productivity.
About as well as STENTOR and Superbird B, to tell the truth. I was pissed when CONTOUR died; had friends working on the program, watched it launch from the viewing area at CCAFS.
How exactly do you figure Beagle is doing better than MCO, anyway? MCO probably disintegrated in atmosphere, Beagle likely broke on impact. Broke is broke, as they say.
Mars Express, by the by, was the first European extra-planetary probe. You're 1 for 2 between ME and Beagle, but the US is now at 9 for 14 on Mars missions. Hey, we're even on a 3 of 3 roll what with Odyssey and the two rovers!
Moon probes? Venus probes?
Yeah. Exactly.
I.E. I am too lazy to look up the conversion factor. Also, if you're going to measure mass in kg, it would be a little silly to provide Imperial system measurements, now wouldn't it? Also, kgf vs. kg preserves the advantage that at 1g, kgf thrust must be greater than kg in order to provide positive vertical acceleration (this relationship doesn't hold true for winged vehicles because lift makes a difference, but the site the figures came from is mainly devoted to rocketry, so it makes sense they would provide in these forms).
Call me when anything European manages to put a man in space.
So throw it in the glovebox when you get out of the car. When you're using it, though, you want it accessible. I know this for a fact, because I use mine in my car, and it sucked until I bought a holder for it that kept it at arm's reach and visible.
Oh, and speaking of suicidally crashing Mars probes....
How's Beagle doing these days? Spirit and Opportunity are fine, thank you.
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They don't have to do any extra work to allow overclocking; it's a natural artifact of how the chipmaking process works. All chips, at the start, are capable of being top-speed. After manufacture, they're tested and sorted as to what their actual maximum stable speed is, individually. Because there's no actual die-level differences on these chips, external factors are what tell it how fast to run. You feed it clock and a multiplier number, and it tries to run at that speed, whether or not it actually can.
Basically, it takes no extra work to allow overclocking, but significant extra work to prevent it.
"Does our representatives care"?
Obviously, you are a member of the Bush family.
Actually, you'd need to compare it to the cost of Mercury+Redstone, since Mercury was only the capsule; launch vehicle development isn't cheap either.
asshole.
Ad hominem-using argument-lacking functional illiterate.
See, two can play at this game!
That was in response to me, I assume.
The parent said they're stopping people at random. I pointed out that I've never experienced that.
Someone shows me evidence that law enforcement is stopping people just to mess with them, I'll be upset. I don't see any evidence of that; further, I don't see how this law makes that theoretical situation any worse. A cop wants to mess with you, they will, whether you give them your name or not.
It always costs more to do it first.
And like I said, it was 40 years ago. Rutan's doing great work, but it isn't anything that hasn't been done before - it's something that hasn't been done before at that price point. Which is worthwhile in and of itself. But it isn't the first reusable quick-turnaround suborbital spacecraft; X-15 was.