Close, this was actually Schroedinger's Shark. Once they observed it, it's state became 100% dead, rather than a superposition of alive and dead. No Fair.
Because they can try to sell you a $350 phone that may or may not match up with the $300 phone, feature for feature, but does have an apple logo on it. Plus, this has the potential to get new people interested in apple, who then might buy a $250 MP3 player as well.
My face still hurts from the backhand in that humor. I mean, I work in IT! I bounce between adminning a Windows 2003 domain and developing their e-commerce site. I'm constantly looking shit up on the internet! I'M A CHEATER!
I don't believe that most places that would benefit from an 'advancement' like this would tolerate a moving standard. If a company revises a card because the standard changes, it sure as hell had better support whatever the previous standard is because some company running 10,000 of these cards in some massive distributed application won't accept anything but plug and go.
The idea that your original hardware vendor can provide you with a drop in replacement for a failed card is nice, but any decent manager is going to ask you what the plan is for when that vendor goes under. You need to know that you can just buy some card off the shelf and put it in and have it work. At least with our current driver/hardware structure, you know that a 3com nic is going to work. Or if 3com goes under, you can drop an intel nic in. You may have to install the driver for the card, but it's not going to (unless you start messing with dirty cheap hardware) have compatability issues.
I guess my point here is, there's no way a bunch of companies would target big business with a product like this without there being SOME standard interface. Who wants a multimillion dollar migration to 100% proprietary hardware?
Every box has 2 weights to it as far as the shippers are concerned: physical weight, and volumetric weight. What probably happens is:
Retail
the manufacturer finds the optimum box size to relay the information they want on the box, then adjust that for the box that some number of them fit into, finally making adjustments for pallet packing. This final packaged box weight may or may not fall under the physical weight of the item. The reseller then has to add to the packaging when they send it to the consumer.
OEM
The reseller gets a bunch of parts together in some sort of skid container which needs packaging to be put into a box. These resellers get discounts when they order larger quantities of the boxes, and they know that customers hate paying a ton for shipping a trivial sizes, so they get boxes that they know the volumetric weight of. 13x9x7 inches is the rough 'universal' size in the industry I'm in that you can ship UPS and it will be 1lb by volume. 13x13x9 is the 1 lb by volume for air shipments.
When I'm setting up a cheap raid 51 under linux, I'll build my raid like: (
3 160gig WD drives in raid 5
1 160gig Maxtor Drive as a hot spare ) (
3 160gig Maxtor Drives in Raid 5
1 160gig WD drive as a hot spare )
it seems weird, but the 1 time I built a raid 5 with a hot spare that was the same brand, 3 drives ended up dying in just slightly longer than a full backup took. This way, I'm not putting all my eggs in 1 vendor.
I guess I could go to 15 and mirror pair WD to Maxtor, but it's easier to migrate from 5 to 51 than from 5 to 15.
Indeed, smoke would not be a problem if we (in my case, I'm referencing people of the United States) didn't have such a lack of courtesy. I am a smoker, but I always leave a building (even if it is ok to smoke there) and move away from people. I try to be diligent of where my smoke ends up, and always clean up my butts. Smoking wouldn't be such a problem if people would just be more courteous. THAT is the bigger problem 'we' have. I'm not sure, but it wouldn't surprize me if there was a similar problem in other parts of the world.
I can't speak from experience for emacs, but I know vi has the ability to do syntax highlighting. While most IDEs do statement completion for you(along with listing parameters and options), I always found having a language reference next to me to be more useful as when I was in need of knowing the function I needed, I also needed to know it's parameters and what they did anyways. I'd say vi would be great to learn the language if they don't already have to learn vi. If a majority of the students don't already know how to use vi, using an IDE would probably allow the students to get more out of the course.
After downloading all of slack that way, then finding out that about 20% of the floppies had failed, I discovered Walnut Creek and bought the 4 disc slack set that even came with the doom linux prog on disc 4!
I'm using a TI Acx111 card as an access point right now. And using the open source driver for it at that. It was at 46 days uptime until an extended power outage last week (6 hours without power).
TI Chipsets DO work using the ACX100 driver. They work quite well, actually. Right now, we are working on 2.6.16 inclusion and there is a recent code split to get generic 802.11 stack functioning. The code that is being pushed into the kernel uses a homebrew 802.11 stack. It builds with the generic stack, but is not quite functional yet. Information can be found at: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
I have one of these d900t systems and it runs linux all the time. These systems are based off of a desktop chipset (i915g I believe) and the bios is very desktopish.
Even if it does put off the ports to linux up front, once linux gets the users, the users will start to demand native ports. 'Just well enough' is the point at which users will accept it and play it, but bitch at the manufacturers to make a native port. If they implement the APIs too well, then there will be no bitching, too poorly and there will be no users.
I'm just guessing that the other person is only a minor geek, pointing out that he did things that some would concider to be more noble than keeping the ship together or 'writing the spec'. Remembering ANY good thing a man does in his life is all that's important. Some will remember him for having been Scotty, others will remember him for being a husband, and yet others might remember him because he faught along side them on a beach in europe.
Nah, I'm pretty sure there'd be smokable roaches too. After 4 years, you gotta be REALLY high to still eat ramen, and getting really high costs so much, you can only afford ramen
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It's R->L->C, not R->C->L so Inductance would be the sequel.
Close, this was actually Schroedinger's Shark. Once they observed it, it's state became 100% dead, rather than a superposition of alive and dead. No Fair.
Because they can try to sell you a $350 phone that may or may not match up with the $300 phone, feature for feature, but does have an apple logo on it. Plus, this has the potential to get new people interested in apple, who then might buy a $250 MP3 player as well.
That's to warn you you're infringing some village idiot's trademarked spellings of words.
"It's not as bad as it seems - it's just a plastic mouse painted gold with some lead weights in it." - BOFH
My face still hurts from the backhand in that humor. I mean, I work in IT! I bounce between adminning a Windows 2003 domain and developing their e-commerce site. I'm constantly looking shit up on the internet! I'M A CHEATER!
I don't believe that most places that would benefit from an 'advancement' like this would tolerate a moving standard. If a company revises a card because the standard changes, it sure as hell had better support whatever the previous standard is because some company running 10,000 of these cards in some massive distributed application won't accept anything but plug and go.
The idea that your original hardware vendor can provide you with a drop in replacement for a failed card is nice, but any decent manager is going to ask you what the plan is for when that vendor goes under. You need to know that you can just buy some card off the shelf and put it in and have it work. At least with our current driver/hardware structure, you know that a 3com nic is going to work. Or if 3com goes under, you can drop an intel nic in. You may have to install the driver for the card, but it's not going to (unless you start messing with dirty cheap hardware) have compatability issues.
I guess my point here is, there's no way a bunch of companies would target big business with a product like this without there being SOME standard interface. Who wants a multimillion dollar migration to 100% proprietary hardware?
Every box has 2 weights to it as far as the shippers are concerned: physical weight, and volumetric weight.
What probably happens is:
Retail
the manufacturer finds the optimum box size to relay the information they want on the box, then adjust that for the box that some number of them fit into, finally making adjustments for pallet packing. This final packaged box weight may or may not fall under the physical weight of the item. The reseller then has to add to the packaging when they send it to the consumer.
OEM
The reseller gets a bunch of parts together in some sort of skid container which needs packaging to be put into a box. These resellers get discounts when they order larger quantities of the boxes, and they know that customers hate paying a ton for shipping a trivial sizes, so they get boxes that they know the volumetric weight of. 13x9x7 inches is the rough 'universal' size in the industry I'm in that you can ship UPS and it will be 1lb by volume. 13x13x9 is the 1 lb by volume for air shipments.
My LJ4+ dimms the lights in our entire house when it warms up.
Or somone just lost at minesweeper
When I'm setting up a cheap raid 51 under linux, I'll build my raid like:
(
3 160gig WD drives in raid 5
1 160gig Maxtor Drive as a hot spare
)
(
3 160gig Maxtor Drives in Raid 5
1 160gig WD drive as a hot spare
)
it seems weird, but the 1 time I built a raid 5 with a hot spare that was the same brand, 3 drives ended up dying in just slightly longer than a full backup took. This way, I'm not putting all my eggs in 1 vendor.
I guess I could go to 15 and mirror pair WD to Maxtor, but it's easier to migrate from 5 to 51 than from 5 to 15.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howt o/articles/AutomatingEncoding.aspx
That's microsofts page on how to batch windows media 9 encoding.
It may just be the diuretic properties of coffee that cause you to go to the bathroom 400 times an hour, flushing your system, that helps too.
Indeed, smoke would not be a problem if we (in my case, I'm referencing people of the United States) didn't have such a lack of courtesy. I am a smoker, but I always leave a building (even if it is ok to smoke there) and move away from people. I try to be diligent of where my smoke ends up, and always clean up my butts. Smoking wouldn't be such a problem if people would just be more courteous. THAT is the bigger problem 'we' have. I'm not sure, but it wouldn't surprize me if there was a similar problem in other parts of the world.
I can't speak from experience for emacs, but I know vi has the ability to do syntax highlighting. While most IDEs do statement completion for you(along with listing parameters and options), I always found having a language reference next to me to be more useful as when I was in need of knowing the function I needed, I also needed to know it's parameters and what they did anyways. I'd say vi would be great to learn the language if they don't already have to learn vi. If a majority of the students don't already know how to use vi, using an IDE would probably allow the students to get more out of the course.
If all the e-mails are caught, they can't tell which ones were valid and which ones weren't.
After downloading all of slack that way, then finding out that about 20% of the floppies had failed, I discovered Walnut Creek and bought the 4 disc slack set that even came with the doom linux prog on disc 4!
In a lot of cases, the responsibility in the case of financial transaction flaw, falls on the software developer.
I'm using a TI Acx111 card as an access point right now. And using the open source driver for it at that. It was at 46 days uptime until an extended power outage last week (6 hours without power).
TI Chipsets DO work using the ACX100 driver. They work quite well, actually. Right now, we are working on 2.6.16 inclusion and there is a recent code split to get generic 802.11 stack functioning. The code that is being pushed into the kernel uses a homebrew 802.11 stack. It builds with the generic stack, but is not quite functional yet. Information can be found at: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
Really great dilbert. Now choke on your lemons and die.
You lemon eater.
I have one of these d900t systems and it runs linux all the time. These systems are based off of a desktop chipset (i915g I believe) and the bios is very desktopish.
Even if it does put off the ports to linux up front, once linux gets the users, the users will start to demand native ports. 'Just well enough' is the point at which users will accept it and play it, but bitch at the manufacturers to make a native port. If they implement the APIs too well, then there will be no bitching, too poorly and there will be no users.
I'm just guessing that the other person is only a minor geek, pointing out that he did things that some would concider to be more noble than keeping the ship together or 'writing the spec'. Remembering ANY good thing a man does in his life is all that's important. Some will remember him for having been Scotty, others will remember him for being a husband, and yet others might remember him because he faught along side them on a beach in europe.
Nah, I'm pretty sure there'd be smokable roaches too. After 4 years, you gotta be REALLY high to still eat ramen, and getting really high costs so much, you can only afford ramen