"It will require 33% more hours to develop and test for obsolete web browsers, which represent for 3% of our traffic. Are you willing to pay for that?"
(Hopefully you have access to logs from their current web page?)
> If all you are doing is using samba or netatalk to serve files > even 500mhz is overkill.
Not for ReiserV4:)
Seriously though, there's nothing wrong with designing a new filesystem to take advantage of modern CPU horsepower as long as everyone understands the system requirements.
There was an old DOS virus that invisibly encrypted all your dBase files. As long as the virus was still active, it invisibly decrypted them to your application. Once you removed the virus, you were left with a bunch of scrambled dBase files.
This isn't my idea, can't remember where I saw it.
Suppose a virus grepped your Outlook/Outlook Express address book for people's names. Then it grepped all the emails/documents/spreadsheets/whatever on all drives it could reach for those names.
Once it found a document with someone's name, it emails that document to them.
Imagine the chaos as confidential HR memos, payroll spreadsheets, legal documents, and just plain gossip are indiscriminately sent out.
Another example of non-intrusive product placement - Monster Garage.
The prize is tools from a particular company, so that company gets named 2-3 times an episode, and their logo is prominent at the end.
A lot of parts are donated, so when they're rolling the new transmission into the garage they make sure you can see the logos. Sometimes the voice-over mentions the brand name, usually not.
There's a lot of crap on the beeb too. North Americans think british TV is cool because we've been filtered - they only bother exporting the best stuff.
If he's so overworked that he's trying to convince them to hire several new people, that's no fun. Nothing wrong with trying to find something that sucks less.
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I'm no expert, but the max length of a USB cable is 5 meters. I always assumed that's because of signal propagation times and not voltage losses etc.
> Surely with a clever enough driver, you could tunnel USB
> traffic over 802.11 (or even over TCP/IP)
Too much latency.
This might be more convenient than daisy-chaining USB hubs for that long run to the webcam in my bondage dungeon.
Put the question into teeny little words.
"It will require 33% more hours to develop and test for obsolete web browsers, which represent for 3% of our traffic. Are you willing to pay for that?"
(Hopefully you have access to logs from their current web page?)
How exactly does Apple put pressure on Microsoft?
You forgot one problem - the noise would probably vibrate your house apart.
> Get over it..
You're the one who keeps trying to have the last word.
If you weren't so busy basking in your own genius, you might have heard of the classic How to lie with statistics.
Take a pill, son.
That graph was misleading, hard to say if it was malice or incompetence.
> If all you are doing is using samba or netatalk to serve files
:)
> even 500mhz is overkill.
Not for ReiserV4
Seriously though, there's nothing wrong with designing a new filesystem to take advantage of modern CPU horsepower as long as everyone understands the system requirements.
I love the CPU utilization graph for "touch 10,000 files".
A quick glance shows ReiserV4 as much more CPU intensive, you have to look at the scale to realize it only used 0.3% more CPU.
> Gawk all the way, got the project done in half an hour, if I
> had used C or Java I'd probably have spent triple the time for
> the same results.
Heh, that was probably a 1-liner in APL.
Of course APL programs longer than 1 line are usually unmaintainable, but no language is perfect...
Has anyone sucessfully sued a software vendor for a defect in their product, in any jurisdiction?
> then they could very likely sue
Which version of Windows (or any other shrink-wrapped software) allows you to sue the vendor?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Very evil.
There was an old DOS virus that invisibly encrypted all your dBase files. As long as the virus was still active, it invisibly decrypted them to your application. Once you removed the virus, you were left with a bunch of scrambled dBase files.
This isn't my idea, can't remember where I saw it.
Suppose a virus grepped your Outlook/Outlook Express address book for people's names. Then it grepped all the emails/documents/spreadsheets/whatever on all drives it could reach for those names.
Once it found a document with someone's name, it emails that document to them.
Imagine the chaos as confidential HR memos, payroll spreadsheets, legal documents, and just plain gossip are indiscriminately sent out.
> How do you know that the information you have on Nepal is
> accurate and even more scarily, complete?
That could be said of any book, newspaper, encyclopedia...
I imagine they were searching high and low for the missing tapes.
How many envelopes do you suppose a law office sends out every day?
I can quit any time I want.
Another example of non-intrusive product placement - Monster Garage.
The prize is tools from a particular company, so that company gets named 2-3 times an episode, and their logo is prominent at the end.
A lot of parts are donated, so when they're rolling the new transmission into the garage they make sure you can see the logos. Sometimes the voice-over mentions the brand name, usually not.
There's a lot of crap on the beeb too. North Americans think british TV is cool because we've been filtered - they only bother exporting the best stuff.
He's been there too long. He's in a rut. His bosses have formed an idea of what he's about and what he should be doing.
Much easier to bail.
Wow. What do people say when you hit 'em with all that?
If he's so overworked that he's trying to convince them to hire several new people, that's no fun. Nothing wrong with trying to find something that sucks less.