Oh, GOD FORBID if the government spends a teensy little bit of your money on somethig that can benefit every PERSON and CORPORATION on the planet, and stimulate the economy (and not the bottom line of the one company that would own it if it were private). Look at Iridium. They shot themselves in the foot and almost had to destroy the whole system. I would NOT want GPS under the control of one company, no matter how well managed and intelligently run the company is. Furthermore the gov't doesnt try to profit off of GPS. A coorperation would not only wan to recoup their invesment but also would want to make money hand over fist.
So it looks like it is a fixed display(non-matrix) that basically tells you which of 4 interstates is congested or not. Seems like it answers one question, should I avoid the interstates, or not. What if they are? How would you know the best alternate route?
That software is the buggiest, crash-prone POS that I've ever seen.
I have just started using Premeire 6.01 on Windows XP and have had it(Premeire) crash 4 times in 2 days! It makes me sick. I'm not even doing anything special. I guess I will eventually learn what "Activities" it is prone to crash in and avoid those.
I'm not sure if you were making a joke, but I assume they mean things like sticking antennas outdoor with the intent of broadcasting to other outdoor antennas. Leakage is fine.
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Yes, so because celebrities champion environmental causes, it's all a bunch of crap. We don't stinking need to worry about completely destroying the earth's biodiversity, and becoming more and more dependent on increasingly more difficult to retrieve supplies of oil. We can dig through, cut down, and destroy whatever happens to get in the way of our oil and coal, no problem. Besides in 100 years or so we'll be able to migrate to another planet after we completely trash this one. Oh yeah, and smog is healthy!
...have this page where they can download a form to fill out and send, along with $10 per phone number, to get themselves addes to the "No Sales Solicitation Calls" list. I just filled mine out.
A Univesity with around 5,000 employees is probably going to have a budget of well over $250,000,000. (do the math labor makes up half that amount). So to me $250,000 sounds like a drop in the bucket. And I imagine a wholesale switch to open source might require a little extra IT manpower, *POOF*, there goes your extra savings. I'm certainly not against open source, but I think MS is being smartly very competitive in this area.
Each bulk license is only $53. So for a large university with 5000 FTE equivalants, we're talking about a total of ~$250,000 per annum. Seems like a pretty darn good deal, wether you have to pay for a few computers that don't use the software or not. Please, bash MS for the stuff they do that is actually bad! Please somebody tell me what I am missing and why this is causing everyone to cry!
schools who want to take advantage of educational bulk licensing agreements with Microsoft have to count all PCs (and Macs!)
but doesn't that bulk license give them the right to install Microsft Office on the Macs? Nowhere do I see mentioned how much the bulk license is per computer(or person), if it's ridiculuosly cheap (say $50 or so) what is the big deal here?
Absolutely! At least this works for me with ebay. I am definitely more likely to buy something now that I know that if it doesn't work out for me I can sell it on ebay(sometimes recouping the entire origonal cost)
And, no, sometimes you can't just turn these features off in the BIOS. Even worse, sometimes there's no way to reclaim the IRQs that are lost due to integrated functions! Check out some of the really bad implementations out there. It's a nightmare trying to make those poorly designed boards work.
<RANT> I have to concur on this. My dad bought a Soyo K7V Dragon Plus! with onboard RAID. I configured the RAID and everything was working flawlessly until one day the RAID JUST STOPPED WORKING! It decided that the 2nd drive just was not connected. I wasted a whole weekend and lost a lot of data trying to get it working again. A week later my Dad noticed a little blurb in the documentation about not putting a SCSI card in PCI slot 2 because the IRQ on that slot is shared with the RAID. Well, there was no SCSI card in slot 2, but as it turns out the RAID broke(i didn't realize it at the time) right after I rearranged some PCI cards and ended up putting a FireWire card in slot 2. NICE F#$%#KING design, slot 2 is completly useless on that board if you are using RAID. What good are all these features if they don't WORK TOGETHER? </RANT>
But if you do that, make sure you are right. Call the number and see if it is one of the recordings that are described in the article. For all you know, in a particular community, there could be more than one company responsible for the signs.
Buddy, you have NO idea what you are talking about. The tidal force exerted by the sun is certainly not negligible, and the tides have nothing to do with the varying distance between the moon and the earth. Think of the ocean as a sphere of water around the earth. The part of the ocean closest to the moon get pulled closer to the moon than the earth does because it is closer to the moon than the earth, and because the ocean is a fluid. The earth, which can be thought of as a rigid object in this case, feels a certain amount of gravitational force that is greater than what the ocean on the far side of the earth feels(since that part of the ocean is farther away) which causes another tide on the far side of the earth.
Hmm? How do the oceans slow the earth down? Are they flowing in a direction opposing the earth's rotation? I don't think so. I think you mean the moon's tidal effect on the oceans slows the earts rotation down.
Not a bad review, IMO, but you're right, if I was going to spend $1500, for something like that, I'd go with a small footprint PC, then your options are limitless.
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Oh, GOD FORBID if the government spends a teensy little bit of your money on somethig that can benefit every PERSON and CORPORATION on the planet, and stimulate the economy (and not the bottom line of the one company that would own it if it were private). Look at Iridium. They shot themselves in the foot and almost had to destroy the whole system. I would NOT want GPS under the control of one company, no matter how well managed and intelligently run the company is. Furthermore the gov't doesnt try to profit off of GPS. A coorperation would not only wan to recoup their invesment but also would want to make money hand over fist.
P.S. I think you are a troll!
So it looks like it is a fixed display(non-matrix) that basically tells you which of 4 interstates is congested or not. Seems like it answers one question, should I avoid the interstates, or not. What if they are? How would you know the best alternate route?
an overloaded IIS web-server? No don't have one of those!
I have just started using Premeire 6.01 on Windows XP and have had it(Premeire) crash 4 times in 2 days! It makes me sick. I'm not even doing anything special. I guess I will eventually learn what "Activities" it is prone to crash in and avoid those.
I'm not sure if you were making a joke, but I assume they mean things like sticking antennas outdoor with the intent of broadcasting to other outdoor antennas. Leakage is fine.
Some not-yet-Slashotted specs here.
Probably because they read what he had to say and thought it was the stupidest thing they ever heard! (well, it was for me anyway)
Probably something like well, uhm, Windows 3.1?
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Yes, so because celebrities champion environmental causes, it's all a bunch of crap. We don't stinking need to worry about completely destroying the earth's biodiversity, and becoming more and more dependent on increasingly more difficult to retrieve supplies of oil. We can dig through, cut down, and destroy whatever happens to get in the way of our oil and coal, no problem. Besides in 100 years or so we'll be able to migrate to another planet after we completely trash this one. Oh yeah, and smog is healthy!
AMEN!!!!!
Thanks! You have made some excellent points, and, uh, I think I must have had a long day at work not to see that myself :)
A Univesity with around 5,000 employees is probably going to have a budget of well over $250,000,000. (do the math labor makes up half that amount). So to me $250,000 sounds like a drop in the bucket. And I imagine a wholesale switch to open source might require a little extra IT manpower, *POOF*, there goes your extra savings. I'm certainly not against open source, but I think MS is being smartly very competitive in this area.
Each bulk license is only $53. So for a large university with 5000 FTE equivalants, we're talking about a total of ~$250,000 per annum. Seems like a pretty darn good deal, wether you have to pay for a few computers that don't use the software or not. Please, bash MS for the stuff they do that is actually bad! Please somebody tell me what I am missing and why this is causing everyone to cry!
but doesn't that bulk license give them the right to install Microsft Office on the Macs? Nowhere do I see mentioned how much the bulk license is per computer(or person), if it's ridiculuosly cheap (say $50 or so) what is the big deal here?
Internet2 is way cool in my book. I downloaded RedHat ISO's from another university over this link a while back at over 2 MB/sec, not Mbit, Mbyte!
Absolutely! At least this works for me with ebay. I am definitely more likely to buy something now that I know that if it doesn't work out for me I can sell it on ebay(sometimes recouping the entire origonal cost)
Click here for abit's info on the motherboard.
And, no, sometimes you can't just turn these features off in the BIOS. Even worse, sometimes there's no way to reclaim the IRQs that are lost due to integrated functions! Check out some of the really bad implementations out there. It's a nightmare trying to make those poorly designed boards work.
<RANT>
I have to concur on this. My dad bought a Soyo K7V Dragon Plus! with onboard RAID. I configured the RAID and everything was working flawlessly until one day the RAID JUST STOPPED WORKING! It decided that the 2nd drive just was not connected. I wasted a whole weekend and lost a lot of data trying to get it working again. A week later my Dad noticed a little blurb in the documentation about not putting a SCSI card in PCI slot 2 because the IRQ on that slot is shared with the RAID. Well, there was no SCSI card in slot 2, but as it turns out the RAID broke(i didn't realize it at the time) right after I rearranged some PCI cards and ended up putting a FireWire card in slot 2. NICE F#$%#KING design, slot 2 is completly useless on that board if you are using RAID. What good are all these features if they don't WORK TOGETHER?
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But if you do that, make sure you are right. Call the number and see if it is one of the recordings that are described in the article. For all you know, in a particular community, there could be more than one company responsible for the signs.
Buddy, you have NO idea what you are talking about. The tidal force exerted by the sun is certainly not negligible, and the tides have nothing to do with the varying distance between the moon and the earth. Think of the ocean as a sphere of water around the earth. The part of the ocean closest to the moon get pulled closer to the moon than the earth does because it is closer to the moon than the earth, and because the ocean is a fluid. The earth, which can be thought of as a rigid object in this case, feels a certain amount of gravitational force that is greater than what the ocean on the far side of the earth feels(since that part of the ocean is farther away) which causes another tide on the far side of the earth.
Hmm? How do the oceans slow the earth down? Are they flowing in a direction opposing the earth's rotation? I don't think so. I think you mean the moon's tidal effect on the oceans slows the earts rotation down.
Not a bad review, IMO, but you're right, if I was going to spend $1500, for something like that, I'd go with a small footprint PC, then your options are limitless.