We looked at precisely this and decided to use FM7 as an intermediary decision point.
FM7 allows full data/interface separation so our systems are being reworked in this manner. This allows us to later decide if FM7 should serve as an ODBC source to PHP, or as a front-end to MySQL, or what.
Servoy is on our radar, but once you leave FM, you might find that your clients really hate all of the other solutions. FM is really exceptional at quickly putting a solid client/server solution on users desks that is usable.
The fact that you don't see this on 6-figure rally cars or trophy trucks tells me that there are either:
1) traditional spring/damper systems that work just as well 2) serious reliability problems with this system.
My guess is the former. WRC cars in particular would benefit substantially from this, they clearly have the budget to develop it, and at least one team would have taking the reliability risk by now if it outperformed traditional suspensions by a large margin.
I get far more than 4 hours on my 1+ year old 12" PB (867MHz) with screen dimmed - usually running iTunes...
Four additional things help a LOT with the battery life:
1) make sure there's no CD in. The periodic spin up/downs take down your time a little. 2) make sure that bluetooth is turned off. 3) if it's appropriate to what you're doing, turn off 802.11. That alone adds close to an hour to to the dimmed time. It's a bigger drain than most people think. Might only be Apple laptops, though. 4) enable processor power savings.
The screen brightness is a huge drain on Apple laptops because the backlight is so incredibly bright. When I first got my 12" I couldn't use it past 50% brightness without my eyes hurting. After a year of wear and tear, full brightness finally seems about right.
Now, these settings aren't exactly useful for most things, but if I'm writing a document and don't need the network, I can probably pull a solid 5 hours off of full brightness and all items above set. Just with iTunes running and screen dimmed, pretty close to 7 hours. Turn everything on, and probably 4 hrs if the GPU doesn't kick in much. 3 hrs and bit more if I'm playing a game.
Apple is simply adding functionality to HFS+. Everything you've read about Spotlight describes a services that sits above the file system. It takes advantage of HFS+, but there is NO database driven FS coming out from Apple.
Their solution is to build a service that can interact with individual files, including their native metadata (ID3 tags, pdf metadata, MS Office metadata, email headers, etc.) through metadata importers and to store the metadata indexes in a separate database. This is relatively similar to how iTunes does it's thing. The services will have lots of APIs open to apps to incorporate the functionality locally.
The obvious clue that HFS+ isn't going away is that Apple is finally pushing full HFS+ support back up to the command line utils like cp to support resource forks and whatnot in 10.4, so hopefully we can stop needing OS X specific tools like ditto.
They've been adding improvements steadily over the years, such as journaling and most recently case sensitivity. The more obvious question to me is why doesn't the Linux community just jump all over HFS+ and build off of Apple's work since they seem more than willing to give the HFS+ support back anyway?
Overall, I agree with you totally, but I think you sell one point short: Ditto for K-12. Only it's easier. Because in theory, anyone who speaks "adult" English can edit down into the K-12 version.
This is not particularly easy. It's not just a matter of swapping out the big words for little ones because kids don't have the same range of experiences or the level of intuition that adults do.
Consider the Cyc project and the challenge of teaching the computer simple intuition - that a person with a foot must have a leg and basic truths like that. A lot of learning obstacles in kids come from not being able to intuit the things that are omitted by adults. Many 6 year olds don't know that gravity works in space or it's relationship to mass, or that there is no air in space, or even have a sense of scale beyond what they can see. Those are the kinds of things that must be added to an article designed for kids.
Much of the structure of the simple wikipedia can be taken from the english language one, but the articles would have to be fairly substantially rewritten.
BTW, my son is 6 and we reference Wikipedia regularly. Since I'm already simplifyiing content for him, I'm going to start contributing to the simple Wikipedia - so yes, there will be more people doing the editing for free. I'm pretty sure my parents (both retired) will contribute to it as well.
See, that's what's so great about America. Thousands of lives each year in the US are saved because we would assume that the table leg is an assault rifle, and everybody has one of those.
Now, if you have a shotgun and the police think it's a table leg - then you're sure to be gunned down under the new WalMart Mandatory Consumption Laws. No repairing allowed on this side of the pond.
Actually, as much as I hate to say it, including the word 'black' makes it carry less weight. A lot of Americans simply assume that a large percentage of black kids will be shot dead eventually anyway. The statistics on this are pretty grim, but not as bad as large chunks of society believe.
Apple still offers this, but its not a structured program. Doing a test-drive for consumers is likely a waste of time since it's purely a one sale at a time prospect. If you're a higher-ed, try giving your Apple rep a call to see if you test drive an Xserve cluster - maybe one of the bioinformatics ones that comes packaged up. They'll probably have no problem loaning out 10K-50K of hardware to you for several months.
The consumer version of the test drive program is the K-12 iBook initiative. Plunk one in the hands of the kid and let them take it home for a year for mom and dad to see. The sale is already made by the district so there's no cost to Apple.
In a previous life, I worked at a company that wrote software for sports computers - heart rate, mph, what have you. They hired a guy to come and test the software - ride the bike, treadmill, etc. who had this same condition.
He was amazing - he could ride/run at full speed nearly without limit. So long as he kept refueling - getting oxygen and nutrients, he said mentally he could go nearly forever since he never experienced fatigue pain. The danger was that his body gave him no clues before failure. He could ride until his heart failed or his muscles tore. To him, the computers were necessary because he could make sure his heart rate stayed below critical levels and he could stop himself before he did any real damage.
I'm so glad that the UN is willing to tackle spam rather than some softball issue like the rampant spread of HIV through low-income nations. Maybe Symantec, Microsoft, and Cisco can work on tackling a small thing like that...
Worthless for snipers - but perfect for urban combat - clearing rooms, etc. One of the biggest problems is not knowing what's on the other side of a door or at the top/bottom of the stairs.
Mac OS X Server pricing for.edu is half price. I bought a 3 year maintenance contract for my unlimited client server a day before 10.3 Server shipped for $499. That covered 10.3, will cover 10.4, and may or may not cover 10.5 - but I'm thinking not unless they ship by Sept. 2006.
The 10 client license is $249. There *may* be an even cheaper offer for ADC members.
Manila can host thousands of sites and Radio is a really clever application that requires little more than FTP or WebDAV to host - so you can use your Mac.com account or somesuch. Mac/Windows only, though, but it can so some really amazing things that you'd be hard pressed to do with PHP/MySQL.
First, call MIT. Their Opencourseware is the largest such project, and certainly they have a mountain of useful information to pass along.
Second, don't do any cleanup yourself. If they can't give you electronic text (PDF, Word, etc.) then give them nothing put a PDF scan. If they don't want to take the time, have them pull the funds for transcription out of their budget.
If you have to scan, don't desktop scan. I have a small office with an automated copier/scanner. My unit probably has a total of 10 of these machines. They're cheap. Go find one you can use. They're 10x faster than desktop machine and you can post-process the PDF.
If you have to transcribe, hire work study students. Where I am, they'd cost you about $3/hr. If you hire students in your programs, they'll learn something along the way.
Finally, if you are going to the effort, do yourself a favor and invest in a CMS (some are very inexpensive) and put the time into to semantically code your work. That way when they want to convert it to xyz or to change the presentation (how will you handle students with disabilities?) you can do it without too much effort.
Considering how much better air quality in LA has become (I should know, I live here too) perhaps the rest of the nation should adopt the same boutique blend.
That way, all refineries would be making the same stuff and the regional demand issues could go away. Refineries can be built. They're easier to build in TX than in CA, true, but they can be built.
Of course, nobody is going to reduce their gas consumption as an act of philanthropy. Gas consumption will go down as soon as the price of gas is high enough to pick something else.
Bush differs from them (possibly excepting Monroe) in that he's largely a fundamentalist not too far removed in principle from the islamic fundamentalists.
Bush has expressed that atheists are neither patriots nor citizens. He has clear contempt for positions that go against fundamental Christian beliefs. Shit, even Nancy Reagan is opposing his positions on those terms.
Bush appears to believe that long-term implications of foreign policy and environmental policy can be safely ignored as the rapture will soon be upon us, saving the believers and committing the non-believers to hell-on-earth.
Merely invoking a reference to God does not equate these men.
Most irritating is that I have to make files to send to Americans and thus have to use Letter, which throws up an error that I have to bypass when I proof them on my laser.
Yeah, it's not so much that we're more productive in the US, we just toss these little productivity speedbumps in the paths of the rest of the world in order to stay on top.
LIttle secret: we don't watch TV in the US. It's just something that we export to distract y'all. Don't tell anyone...
Probably wouldn't have helped. The idiot, er... victim, ran the installer - and way too many installers on OS X, particularly MS ones, ask for admin/pwd to install. Game over then, man.
If you want to duplicate this little stunt, go download Apple's or any of the other fine installer programs for OS X, grab a copy of Photoshop and you can make your very own official-looking MS, Adobe, Blizzard, etc. installer that will prompt for admin/pwd and promptly delete nearly everything on your drive. Pack it full of pointless files so that it weighs in at what you'd expect, roll it into a.dmg, and let it loose. Hell, be REALLY tricky and grab a valid.dmg off of Limewire and just swap out the installer so everything else lines up right.
Really, this is nothing more than a stupid user here. It only made the news because stupid Windows users are too common to bother with anymore.
That you use RFID on an SCO-sponsored Windows machine using a proprietary encryption and DRM scheme. Make sure you send an email to each U.S. citizen to make sure they know about the system. Oh, better make it everyone on earth in case some people are here visiting.
Meet those criteria and I can't imagine Slashdot readers having a problem with it.
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We looked at precisely this and decided to use FM7 as an intermediary decision point.
FM7 allows full data/interface separation so our systems are being reworked in this manner. This allows us to later decide if FM7 should serve as an ODBC source to PHP, or as a front-end to MySQL, or what.
Servoy is on our radar, but once you leave FM, you might find that your clients really hate all of the other solutions. FM is really exceptional at quickly putting a solid client/server solution on users desks that is usable.
Well, motor racing is typically your litmus test.
The fact that you don't see this on 6-figure rally cars or trophy trucks tells me that there are either:
1) traditional spring/damper systems that work just as well
2) serious reliability problems with this system.
My guess is the former. WRC cars in particular would benefit substantially from this, they clearly have the budget to develop it, and at least one team would have taking the reliability risk by now if it outperformed traditional suspensions by a large margin.
You could come visit my Xserve. But yeah, that's pretty much the list.
I get far more than 4 hours on my 1+ year old 12" PB (867MHz) with screen dimmed - usually running iTunes...
Four additional things help a LOT with the battery life:
1) make sure there's no CD in. The periodic spin up/downs take down your time a little.
2) make sure that bluetooth is turned off.
3) if it's appropriate to what you're doing, turn off 802.11. That alone adds close to an hour to to the dimmed time. It's a bigger drain than most people think. Might only be Apple laptops, though.
4) enable processor power savings.
The screen brightness is a huge drain on Apple laptops because the backlight is so incredibly bright. When I first got my 12" I couldn't use it past 50% brightness without my eyes hurting. After a year of wear and tear, full brightness finally seems about right.
Now, these settings aren't exactly useful for most things, but if I'm writing a document and don't need the network, I can probably pull a solid 5 hours off of full brightness and all items above set. Just with iTunes running and screen dimmed, pretty close to 7 hours. Turn everything on, and probably 4 hrs if the GPU doesn't kick in much. 3 hrs and bit more if I'm playing a game.
Batman visits LV-426. Is it just me or does that look more like the APC than the traditional batmobile?
Apple is simply adding functionality to HFS+. Everything you've read about Spotlight describes a services that sits above the file system. It takes advantage of HFS+, but there is NO database driven FS coming out from Apple.
Their solution is to build a service that can interact with individual files, including their native metadata (ID3 tags, pdf metadata, MS Office metadata, email headers, etc.) through metadata importers and to store the metadata indexes in a separate database. This is relatively similar to how iTunes does it's thing. The services will have lots of APIs open to apps to incorporate the functionality locally.
The obvious clue that HFS+ isn't going away is that Apple is finally pushing full HFS+ support back up to the command line utils like cp to support resource forks and whatnot in 10.4, so hopefully we can stop needing OS X specific tools like ditto.
They've been adding improvements steadily over the years, such as journaling and most recently case sensitivity. The more obvious question to me is why doesn't the Linux community just jump all over HFS+ and build off of Apple's work since they seem more than willing to give the HFS+ support back anyway?
Overall, I agree with you totally, but I think you sell one point short: Ditto for K-12. Only it's easier. Because in theory, anyone who speaks "adult" English can edit down into the K-12 version.
This is not particularly easy. It's not just a matter of swapping out the big words for little ones because kids don't have the same range of experiences or the level of intuition that adults do.
Consider the Cyc project and the challenge of teaching the computer simple intuition - that a person with a foot must have a leg and basic truths like that. A lot of learning obstacles in kids come from not being able to intuit the things that are omitted by adults. Many 6 year olds don't know that gravity works in space or it's relationship to mass, or that there is no air in space, or even have a sense of scale beyond what they can see. Those are the kinds of things that must be added to an article designed for kids.
Much of the structure of the simple wikipedia can be taken from the english language one, but the articles would have to be fairly substantially rewritten.
BTW, my son is 6 and we reference Wikipedia regularly. Since I'm already simplifyiing content for him, I'm going to start contributing to the simple Wikipedia - so yes, there will be more people doing the editing for free. I'm pretty sure my parents (both retired) will contribute to it as well.
See, that's what's so great about America. Thousands of lives each year in the US are saved because we would assume that the table leg is an assault rifle, and everybody has one of those.
Now, if you have a shotgun and the police think it's a table leg - then you're sure to be gunned down under the new WalMart Mandatory Consumption Laws. No repairing allowed on this side of the pond.
Actually, as much as I hate to say it, including the word 'black' makes it carry less weight. A lot of Americans simply assume that a large percentage of black kids will be shot dead eventually anyway. The statistics on this are pretty grim, but not as bad as large chunks of society believe.
Apple still offers this, but its not a structured program. Doing a test-drive for consumers is likely a waste of time since it's purely a one sale at a time prospect. If you're a higher-ed, try giving your Apple rep a call to see if you test drive an Xserve cluster - maybe one of the bioinformatics ones that comes packaged up. They'll probably have no problem loaning out 10K-50K of hardware to you for several months.
The consumer version of the test drive program is the K-12 iBook initiative. Plunk one in the hands of the kid and let them take it home for a year for mom and dad to see. The sale is already made by the district so there's no cost to Apple.
In a previous life, I worked at a company that wrote software for sports computers - heart rate, mph, what have you. They hired a guy to come and test the software - ride the bike, treadmill, etc. who had this same condition.
He was amazing - he could ride/run at full speed nearly without limit. So long as he kept refueling - getting oxygen and nutrients, he said mentally he could go nearly forever since he never experienced fatigue pain. The danger was that his body gave him no clues before failure. He could ride until his heart failed or his muscles tore. To him, the computers were necessary because he could make sure his heart rate stayed below critical levels and he could stop himself before he did any real damage.
I'm so glad that the UN is willing to tackle spam rather than some softball issue like the rampant spread of HIV through low-income nations. Maybe Symantec, Microsoft, and Cisco can work on tackling a small thing like that...
You don't play enough games.
Worthless for snipers - but perfect for urban combat - clearing rooms, etc. One of the biggest problems is not knowing what's on the other side of a door or at the top/bottom of the stairs.
Mac OS X Server pricing for .edu is half price. I bought a 3 year maintenance contract for my unlimited client server a day before 10.3 Server shipped for $499. That covered 10.3, will cover 10.4, and may or may not cover 10.5 - but I'm thinking not unless they ship by Sept. 2006.
The 10 client license is $249. There *may* be an even cheaper offer for ADC members.
So that's why I have to turn the volume up so high...
What about Radio Userland and Manila?
Manila can host thousands of sites and Radio is a really clever application that requires little more than FTP or WebDAV to host - so you can use your Mac.com account or somesuch. Mac/Windows only, though, but it can so some really amazing things that you'd be hard pressed to do with PHP/MySQL.
Hmm, they should outsource the problem to a country with cheaper/more available technically skilled labor.
That's a great idea! We should try that in the US!
First, call MIT. Their Opencourseware is the largest such project, and certainly they have a mountain of useful information to pass along.
Second, don't do any cleanup yourself. If they can't give you electronic text (PDF, Word, etc.) then give them nothing put a PDF scan. If they don't want to take the time, have them pull the funds for transcription out of their budget.
If you have to scan, don't desktop scan. I have a small office with an automated copier/scanner. My unit probably has a total of 10 of these machines. They're cheap. Go find one you can use. They're 10x faster than desktop machine and you can post-process the PDF.
If you have to transcribe, hire work study students. Where I am, they'd cost you about $3/hr. If you hire students in your programs, they'll learn something along the way.
Finally, if you are going to the effort, do yourself a favor and invest in a CMS (some are very inexpensive) and put the time into to semantically code your work. That way when they want to convert it to xyz or to change the presentation (how will you handle students with disabilities?) you can do it without too much effort.
Considering how much better air quality in LA has become (I should know, I live here too) perhaps the rest of the nation should adopt the same boutique blend.
That way, all refineries would be making the same stuff and the regional demand issues could go away. Refineries can be built. They're easier to build in TX than in CA, true, but they can be built.
Of course, nobody is going to reduce their gas consumption as an act of philanthropy. Gas consumption will go down as soon as the price of gas is high enough to pick something else.
Bush differs from them (possibly excepting Monroe) in that he's largely a fundamentalist not too far removed in principle from the islamic fundamentalists.
Bush has expressed that atheists are neither patriots nor citizens. He has clear contempt for positions that go against fundamental Christian beliefs. Shit, even Nancy Reagan is opposing his positions on those terms.
Bush appears to believe that long-term implications of foreign policy and environmental policy can be safely ignored as the rapture will soon be upon us, saving the believers and committing the non-believers to hell-on-earth.
Merely invoking a reference to God does not equate these men.
There is nothing to say that the terms of said license are legal.
There is nothing to say that the terms of said law are constitutional.
Not a very responsible reason for acting, nor one that will put you in good standing with the lawyers.
Ask me again on election day.
Are you referring to Siebold or Dubya? That's a close race there for 'massive known defects'.
Most irritating is that I have to make files to send to Americans and thus have to use Letter, which throws up an error that I have to bypass when I proof them on my laser.
Yeah, it's not so much that we're more productive in the US, we just toss these little productivity speedbumps in the paths of the rest of the world in order to stay on top.
LIttle secret: we don't watch TV in the US. It's just something that we export to distract y'all. Don't tell anyone...
Probably wouldn't have helped. The idiot, er... victim, ran the installer - and way too many installers on OS X, particularly MS ones, ask for admin/pwd to install. Game over then, man.
.dmg, and let it loose. Hell, be REALLY tricky and grab a valid .dmg off of Limewire and just swap out the installer so everything else lines up right.
If you want to duplicate this little stunt, go download Apple's or any of the other fine installer programs for OS X, grab a copy of Photoshop and you can make your very own official-looking MS, Adobe, Blizzard, etc. installer that will prompt for admin/pwd and promptly delete nearly everything on your drive. Pack it full of pointless files so that it weighs in at what you'd expect, roll it into a
Really, this is nothing more than a stupid user here. It only made the news because stupid Windows users are too common to bother with anymore.
That you use RFID on an SCO-sponsored Windows machine using a proprietary encryption and DRM scheme. Make sure you send an email to each U.S. citizen to make sure they know about the system. Oh, better make it everyone on earth in case some people are here visiting.
Meet those criteria and I can't imagine Slashdot readers having a problem with it.
Oh, yeah, make sure you patent it.