Our small office uses Macs, not taking in to account application costs, over the 3 year lifetime I've had this MacBook, it's had £40 of new RAM added to it.
My previous employer of about 30 had Shuttles running Ubuntu or WinXP, one of which got replaced a year on average, typically due to the PSU blowing up.
The employer before that had Dells, with warranty, I think we had 1 failure over a 2 year period.
Each place had a systems team that dealt with user infrastructure as a *part* of their job, after purchase in no way did it cost anywhere near £1000/year per machine for maintenance/management, if it had I'm pretty sure any small business would go under quite quickly.
When I was working desktop support less than 5% was actual hardware support, the rest was user support and using these maths that means I should have been getting well over a 7 figure salary.
But I think you are on the right track. Solution is to make that external monitor more convenient. You can buy laptop portable versions of just about everything, except monitors (or at least Iâ(TM)ve never seen that). Should be trivial to make a monitor with integrated short cables and where the stand folds into itself and fits nicely into a laptop bag, with maybe some kind of protective cover for the screen. Would seem a much simpler approach than this contraption.
Indeed. A decent laptop that you can carry on your person, combined with a robust and portable LCD that you can put with the rest of your luggage would be excellent.
The 20" Dell LCDs we have at work are pretty thin and could easily go in a suitcase, but would need some decent protection from baggage handlers! The stand they come with is a bit of a beast though so would need a redesign.
I know I'm selling Portal2 this weekend due to the PSN outage, it's a shame as Valve promised the PS3 experience to be the best out of all the versions and now I'll never know what it could have been!
A lot of people say that if they're not allowed to set an opt-out cookie, how do they know the user's opted out and how can they then use the site without a popup on every page. My answer to that would be to get them to make sure they actually need that cookie, and if they do then make it clear that the site won't work without it.
That is not an answer to that technical problem.
The only answer I can think of right now to track that someone has opted out of cookies is to append something to the URL &optout=1 style, which in itself is a form of tracking and can be extended to pass tracking information to 3rd party sites anyway.
Also, going to the Car analogy, the authorities would first turn to DMV to see who has the license to distribute an unlimited number of unregisted, untracked, identical, cloned for zero cost ford trucks, the only identifiers being that it was a car, and that the dealership/importer/distributor was X.
IP addresses aren't exactly unlimited, unregistered, untrackable or identical. If they were the IPv6 roll out would be going even slower than it is now;)
They'd still need to subpoena the ISP to determine the owner of the IP address in order to progress the case with an interview request.
I'd like to hope that good judgement would be used by the police to determine whether an interview request or a raid would be the next course of action, but I have a feeling they tend to go over the top to stop people destroying evidence?
Yes, but they have to make at least an attempt to figure out if you were, indeed, the driver of your own vehicle at the time of the incident. They are not allowed to figure 'you are good for it' and slap the irons on you simply because your car was there.
Totally agreed, but that kind of rights violation is more related to how the police handle searching a premises and the whole 'innocent until proven guilty' line, which they seem to forget quite readily.
Judge Baker cited a recent child porn case where the US authorities raided the wrong people, because the real offenders were piggybacking on their Wi-Fi connections.
Surely the police raided the right people, the owners of the wireless device that facilitated the downloading. How they handled them after that however is debatable, but how would the police have been expected to solve the crime with out doing that?
Car analogy! If my car is caught on a video camera running over children, shouldn't they be allowed to go to the DMV with my license details, get my address and interview me?
Gnome 2 goes away in the next release of Ubuntu. Then it's a choice between Unity and Gnome 3, which both appear to be following similar 'you will do things the way we want you to because we know best' philosophies, or KDE which is OK but just feels blah whenever I try a new release.
That's exactly what people complained about with the move from gnome1 to gnome2 back in the day tho, gnome2 removing configuration options and forcing the desktop to work in a certain way.. People just fear change mostly, and really love to feel affronted about something to get attention and validation.
this is why i basically *had* to upgrade to an iphone4, the 3g + ios 4 experience was so shit it made it almost unusable compared to when it had ios 3 installed, and the additional feature set isnt really worth it
This one leaves me unimpressed. It's more of a puppet show with some random steel balls rolling around and water being poured. The really captivating RG machines use everyday objects and simple geometrical shapes to achieve complex interactions.
I quite agree! Unfortunately, from the article:
The simplest-looking modules, such as the flower-blossoming finale, turned out to be deceptively intricate. That step begins with a rubber duck in a water tank behind the scenes. As the duck sinks, it pulls a weight, which hits a mousetrap, which releases a pneumatic cylinder, which fires forward and pulls a string, lifting the different levels of the flower simultaneously. Conversely, the processes that seemed the most complicated were often straightforward: The pyramid is able to erect itself (40 seconds into the video) because of fishing line pulled through some washers by an electric mixer.
Seeing all this stuff happen is what makes RG machines fun, behind the scenes is just boring! A case of too clever for their own good:(
I'm sticking with Drupal 6, modules are what makes Drupal so great and until everything is ported or there's something equivalent available... not bothering.
I've just ported a project from 7 to 6 for exactly this reason, core might be stable but loads of modules, including gmap, calendar, date are all screwed up in some way.
There was a time when Sega, Nintendo and Sony would all design unique hardware. Later on these unique designs became less common, and now thanks to consoles like the Xbox, the common design is an intel chip (or IBM), a standard PC graphics card, etc.
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Wii :
* CPU: PowerPC-based "Broadway" processor, made with a 90 nm SOI CMOS process, reportedlyâ clocked at 729 MHz[120]
* GPU: ATI "Hollywood" GPU made with a 90 nm CMOS process,[121] reportedlyâ clocked at 243 MHz[120]
* "Starlet", part of the Hollywood package: an ARM926EJ-S processor reportedlyâ clocked at 243 MHz.[122]
PS3 : CPU 3.2 GHz Cell Broadband Engine with 1 PPE & 7 SPEs 550 MHz NVIDIA/SCEI RSX 'Reality Synthesizer'
XBox 360 : CPU 3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon 500 MHz ATI Xenos
Not really off the shelf parts you'd find in a Dell!
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Did anyone really start using the last language they used, Go?
It could just be people taking some time off before Diablo 3 comes out?
Our small office uses Macs, not taking in to account application costs, over the 3 year lifetime I've had this MacBook, it's had £40 of new RAM added to it.
My previous employer of about 30 had Shuttles running Ubuntu or WinXP, one of which got replaced a year on average, typically due to the PSU blowing up.
The employer before that had Dells, with warranty, I think we had 1 failure over a 2 year period.
Each place had a systems team that dealt with user infrastructure as a *part* of their job, after purchase in no way did it cost anywhere near £1000/year per machine for maintenance/management, if it had I'm pretty sure any small business would go under quite quickly.
When I was working desktop support less than 5% was actual hardware support, the rest was user support and using these maths that means I should have been getting well over a 7 figure salary.
Indeed. A decent laptop that you can carry on your person, combined with a robust and portable LCD that you can put with the rest of your luggage would be excellent.
The 20" Dell LCDs we have at work are pretty thin and could easily go in a suitcase, but would need some decent protection from baggage handlers! The stand they come with is a bit of a beast though so would need a redesign.
Please keep me updated on other domains Google buy, you've just made my day better.
Why is this honestly offensive to anyone that isn't a whiny film critique?
Really can't wait until people start traffic tabby cats across the Mexico boarder to fuel this new illegal market! Think of the headlines!
Those 2 pictures are the same stacks, in the same room, just with the camera rotated 90 degrees ...
you could use a password management tool like keepassx to remember them for you
of having 100 alphanumeric+special character long passwords when websites just give up the password lists with the magical words 'sql injection'?
Unique passwords at least ensure that once a website you frequent is compromised you don't get further screwed over...
I know I'm selling Portal2 this weekend due to the PSN outage, it's a shame as Valve promised the PS3 experience to be the best out of all the versions and now I'll never know what it could have been!
That is not an answer to that technical problem.
The only answer I can think of right now to track that someone has opted out of cookies is to append something to the URL &optout=1 style, which in itself is a form of tracking and can be extended to pass tracking information to 3rd party sites anyway.
IP addresses aren't exactly unlimited, unregistered, untrackable or identical. If they were the IPv6 roll out would be going even slower than it is now ;)
They'd still need to subpoena the ISP to determine the owner of the IP address in order to progress the case with an interview request.
I'd like to hope that good judgement would be used by the police to determine whether an interview request or a raid would be the next course of action, but I have a feeling they tend to go over the top to stop people destroying evidence?
Totally agreed, but that kind of rights violation is more related to how the police handle searching a premises and the whole 'innocent until proven guilty' line, which they seem to forget quite readily.
Surely the police raided the right people, the owners of the wireless device that facilitated the downloading. How they handled them after that however is debatable, but how would the police have been expected to solve the crime with out doing that?
Car analogy! If my car is caught on a video camera running over children, shouldn't they be allowed to go to the DMV with my license details, get my address and interview me?
Gnome 2 goes away in the next release of Ubuntu. Then it's a choice between Unity and Gnome 3, which both appear to be following similar 'you will do things the way we want you to because we know best' philosophies, or KDE which is OK but just feels blah whenever I try a new release.
That's exactly what people complained about with the move from gnome1 to gnome2 back in the day tho, gnome2 removing configuration options and forcing the desktop to work in a certain way.. People just fear change mostly, and really love to feel affronted about something to get attention and validation.
WPS?
this is why i basically *had* to upgrade to an iphone4, the 3g + ios 4 experience was so shit it made it almost unusable compared to when it had ios 3 installed, and the additional feature set isnt really worth it
I quite agree! Unfortunately, from the article :
Seeing all this stuff happen is what makes RG machines fun, behind the scenes is just boring! A case of too clever for their own good :(
I've just ported a project from 7 to 6 for exactly this reason, core might be stable but loads of modules, including gmap, calendar, date are all screwed up in some way.
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Wii :
* CPU: PowerPC-based "Broadway" processor, made with a 90 nm SOI CMOS process, reportedlyâ clocked at 729 MHz[120]
* GPU: ATI "Hollywood" GPU made with a 90 nm CMOS process,[121] reportedlyâ clocked at 243 MHz[120]
* "Starlet", part of the Hollywood package: an ARM926EJ-S processor reportedlyâ clocked at 243 MHz.[122]
PS3 :
CPU 3.2 GHz Cell Broadband Engine with 1 PPE & 7 SPEs
550 MHz NVIDIA/SCEI RSX 'Reality Synthesizer'
XBox 360 :
CPU 3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon
500 MHz ATI Xenos
Not really off the shelf parts you'd find in a Dell!
u mad bro?
news at 11 right here.
Half the independent newsagents/corner shops in the UK will charge an extra 50p to £1 if you pay by card (either credit or debit)