If you want sleek style and don't mind the Windows hardware then by all means get a Portege2K instead. Thinner, lighter and *much* nicer at which to look.
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
I think the main reliability advantage for Solaris on Sparc (vs on generic x86) is that there are fewer device drivers to get right.
Ok, you stated better what I was really trying to say. Because Sun OS and hardware designers collaborate, there are fewer devices and so fewer drivers to write. This lets the OS group focus on reliability within the narrow device range. I agree with you that this collaboration probably does not result in better hardware.
I can see why a cheaper target platform for Solaris apps will help Sun - more Solaris installations means more chances to upsell customers from low- or no-margin Intel boxes to high-margin Sparc boxes. I can even see how this might lower costs for existing or future Sun hardware customers by giving them cheaper development or staging systems. What I am trying to figure out is how Solaris x86 could benefit a site that does not and will not need to upgrade to Sparc hardware. Is Solaris better than Linux on Intel hardware?
I've heard many claims that Solaris is very reliable - more reliable than Linux. How much stability comes from Solaris itself, and how much comes from Sun's end-to-end control of the hardware? Solaris has had the advantage of running on machines that were not only well-designed, but designed and built to the specifications of the OS group. Linux has rarely if ever had this luxury. When Solaris 9 is running on ferrel x86 hardware, will it display the same reliability as it's UltraSparc sibbling? More importantly, will it even prove to be as reliable as Linux?
Let's say I'm out touring a city and I'm snapping shots for the requisite post-tour photo album. Of course, I'm nowhere near a desktop PC or even a laptop. But lets say I have a Bluetooth-enabled hard drive in my backpack. It's built like these 20GB MP3 players, but it's just a Bluetooth file server nothing more. Now I can wander around the city shooting forever, or until the batteries die, whichever comes first:). Camera tosses every photo into the drive in my backpack (or on my belt, or whereever). If the camera can cache at least a handful of pictures, I'll never notice that transfers take a minute.
[offtopic] While we're inventing stuff, let's say I have Bluetooth-enabled headphones with an MP3/OV decoder built in. (Heh, and make em solar powered, since they're sitting on top of my head.) They're pulling MP3s off the same file server in my backpack. I guess I'll lose the music stream while my camera stores a picture. I won't mind very much if the player is at least a little bit graceful in it's handling of the bottleneck.
Seems like he's making some progress in the field of non-obvious remote residence observation. Just the kind of technology that gives our friends in Justice an Orwellian woody. I don't know about you, but I like to be the only one with keys to my locks and passwords to my hidden cameras. Funny, doors can be unlocked from anywhere but no scr1pt k1ds are getting any of his booze.
Jeez, I can't even do that! Next thing you know, your characters will be calling you dirty things in a language you don't even know! Who will be "Intelligent" then?
Definitely not you because you will have paid $50 for them to do it.
Ok, stop laughing. Faced with exactly the same quandry, I chose to trade stocks. You can do it from anywhere, the hours are great, and my tech skills haved all been expanded well beyond the limited horizons that a mere bank job can offer. Programming, networking, hardware, and math abilities have all been put to the test. And believe it or not, I am making a pretty good living at it, even in this market. Same cash as the bank job (I was a senior developer) but I have to pay for my own benefits. No PHBs and their loser deadlines. Full telecommuting benefits, with no travelling to the main office for "important meetings". Vacation whenever. It's hard work and took a long time to prepare for, but it's definitely worth it.
Good point (and well modded). You left Microsoft off the list (heh heh, couldn't resist). The staff at these firms who pulled the long hours and built the business were well motivated by their equity stakes. There's nothing wrong with burning the midnight oil if you have equity. Owners can valuate their time however they like.
Salaried employees, on the other hand, trade their time for cash and prizes. If they aren't happy with the time/compensation ratio then they can ask for an adjustment. Refusal should be met with resignation. Similarly, if the firm isn't happy with the ratio it can ask for an adjustment. Refusal should be met with dismisal. Heh, good luck to the firm that tries it though. Instant 100% attrition will show up on the critical path.
In general, I think people take capitalism way too seriously.
Why does the owner need the development staff to work 15 hour days and weekends? I bet it's because the business plan or market position sucks and the owner is a stubborn brick who cannot accept his failures and shortcomings. He "needs" you to do the impossible because if you don't then his failure at business planning will be on display for all to see. Of course, he won't see that his stupid plan failed. He will see that his development staff failed him, and he will fire them in disgust. Do yourself a huge favor and find something better to do.
Yeah, Apple has this crazy notion these days that the best way to stay in business is to offer something of value. Like a "new idea" or a "better way" or something. What a wacko that Jobs is trying to build Apple back with concepts like that. When are those guys gonna wake up and realize that this is America! Consumers here don't care anything about style or status or comfort. If it ain't a noisy clunky beige box just like everyone else's, it ain't gonna sell. Next thing ya know, they'll be trying to do the whole PVR/MSNtv thing, only they'll want to it "the right way". Sheesh.
Handhelds have been in use on various open-outcry exchanges for a long time. In Chicago, traders from various firms have been using handhelds with wireless IP since 1996. Applications on these handhelds calculate theoretical option prices, track positions, and record transactions. The biggest problems with them have been network reliability and battery life. Exchange floors tend to be pretty noisy as RF goes. And trading sessions last about 6.5 hours, so most handhelds need a battery change at least once a day. Some traders wear big battery packs on their belts to keep their handheld powered throughout the session.
This line from Fujitsu seems to be a favorite with Chicago trading firms.
If Microsoft didn't make it so hard for OEMs to ship a box without Windows, someone could by a PC with Linux pre-installed. Monopolization shouldn't count towards ease of installation.
Isn't this what we've wanted all along? Make the people stealing the music the ones who are culpable rather than outlawing the methodology... it seems like the right answer to me.
"Rather than" should be replaced with "before". BigEntertainment and their Congressional employees are still working on making free P2P impossible, as well as illegal. FBI arrests are just a stopgap measure.
Why quote Marc Andreesen's opinion on games? Isn't he producing IT ERP software now? Opsware (Loudcloud's more corporate-sounding new name) probably prevents installation and execution of games.
What you have just said is "the votes of citizens living in urban areas should count less the votes of citizens living in rural areas." Can't you see how undemocratic this is? Primary avenues of campaign influence are the media which have few distance limitations: radio, television, internet. How many people actually go to see a live stump speech? How many people watch nationally televised debates? The Electoral College made sense in the days whistle-stop campaigns and the Pony Express. Today, the unfair advantage it gives to the rural conservative voice offers no counterbalancing advantage to the democratic process. So clearly, the Electoral College should be eliminated.
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If you want sleek style and don't mind the Windows hardware then by all means get a Portege2K instead. Thinner, lighter and *much* nicer at which to look.
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
It seems more than likely that the killer of both Outlook *and* Exchange will be VBA.
might i remind you the probability of successfully navigating an asteroid field is 3720 to 1?
Why bother making pipes and wells smarter when we can just beat up Iraq and take their oil instead?
Did they just ask "where do you want to go today?"
Ok, you stated better what I was really trying to say. Because Sun OS and hardware designers collaborate, there are fewer devices and so fewer drivers to write. This lets the OS group focus on reliability within the narrow device range. I agree with you that this collaboration probably does not result in better hardware.
I can see why a cheaper target platform for Solaris apps will help Sun - more Solaris installations means more chances to upsell customers from low- or no-margin Intel boxes to high-margin Sparc boxes. I can even see how this might lower costs for existing or future Sun hardware customers by giving them cheaper development or staging systems. What I am trying to figure out is how Solaris x86 could benefit a site that does not and will not need to upgrade to Sparc hardware. Is Solaris better than Linux on Intel hardware?
I've heard many claims that Solaris is very reliable - more reliable than Linux. How much stability comes from Solaris itself, and how much comes from Sun's end-to-end control of the hardware? Solaris has had the advantage of running on machines that were not only well-designed, but designed and built to the specifications of the OS group. Linux has rarely if ever had this luxury. When Solaris 9 is running on ferrel x86 hardware, will it display the same reliability as it's UltraSparc sibbling? More importantly, will it even prove to be as reliable as Linux?
[Average Americans] are blissful on Windows
What!?
Everyone knows Steve Jobs has six-color Kool-aid. Perhaps it's the reality distortion field that makes it seem like lemonade.
What *really* makes the RIAA nervous?
1. blah
2. blah
3. blah
4. blah
5. CowboyNeal is feeling the vacuum of empty drive space.
Wrigley announced they are putting microchips in sticks of gum to warn if you are doing something dangerous, like walking.
Let's say I'm out touring a city and I'm snapping shots for the requisite post-tour photo album. Of course, I'm nowhere near a desktop PC or even a laptop. But lets say I have a Bluetooth-enabled hard drive in my backpack. It's built like these 20GB MP3 players, but it's just a Bluetooth file server nothing more. Now I can wander around the city shooting forever, or until the batteries die, whichever comes first :). Camera tosses every photo into the drive in my backpack (or on my belt, or whereever). If the camera can cache at least a handful of pictures, I'll never notice that transfers take a minute.
[offtopic]
While we're inventing stuff, let's say I have Bluetooth-enabled headphones with an MP3/OV decoder built in. (Heh, and make em solar powered, since they're sitting on top of my head.) They're pulling MP3s off the same file server in my backpack. I guess I'll lose the music stream while my camera stores a picture. I won't mind very much if the player is at least a little bit graceful in it's handling of the bottleneck.
Seems like he's making some progress in the field of non-obvious remote residence observation. Just the kind of technology that gives our friends in Justice an Orwellian woody. I don't know about you, but I like to be the only one with keys to my locks and passwords to my hidden cameras. Funny, doors can be unlocked from anywhere but no scr1pt k1ds are getting any of his booze.
Jeez, I can't even do that! Next thing you know, your characters will be calling you dirty things in a language you don't even know! Who will be "Intelligent" then?
Definitely not you because you will have paid $50 for them to do it.
Ok, stop laughing. Faced with exactly the same quandry, I chose to trade stocks. You can do it from anywhere, the hours are great, and my tech skills haved all been expanded well beyond the limited horizons that a mere bank job can offer. Programming, networking, hardware, and math abilities have all been put to the test. And believe it or not, I am making a pretty good living at it, even in this market. Same cash as the bank job (I was a senior developer) but I have to pay for my own benefits. No PHBs and their loser deadlines. Full telecommuting benefits, with no travelling to the main office for "important meetings". Vacation whenever. It's hard work and took a long time to prepare for, but it's definitely worth it.
Salaried employees, on the other hand, trade their time for cash and prizes. If they aren't happy with the time/compensation ratio then they can ask for an adjustment. Refusal should be met with resignation. Similarly, if the firm isn't happy with the ratio it can ask for an adjustment. Refusal should be met with dismisal. Heh, good luck to the firm that tries it though. Instant 100% attrition will show up on the critical path.
In general, I think people take capitalism way too seriously.
Why does the owner need the development staff to work 15 hour days and weekends? I bet it's because the business plan or market position sucks and the owner is a stubborn brick who cannot accept his failures and shortcomings. He "needs" you to do the impossible because if you don't then his failure at business planning will be on display for all to see. Of course, he won't see that his stupid plan failed. He will see that his development staff failed him, and he will fire them in disgust. Do yourself a huge favor and find something better to do.
Yeah, Apple has this crazy notion these days that the best way to stay in business is to offer something of value. Like a "new idea" or a "better way" or something. What a wacko that Jobs is trying to build Apple back with concepts like that. When are those guys gonna wake up and realize that this is America! Consumers here don't care anything about style or status or comfort. If it ain't a noisy clunky beige box just like everyone else's, it ain't gonna sell. Next thing ya know, they'll be trying to do the whole PVR/MSNtv thing, only they'll want to it "the right way". Sheesh.
This line from Fujitsu seems to be a favorite with Chicago trading firms.
If Microsoft didn't make it so hard for OEMs to ship a box without Windows, someone could by a PC with Linux pre-installed. Monopolization shouldn't count towards ease of installation.
"Rather than" should be replaced with "before". BigEntertainment and their Congressional employees are still working on making free P2P impossible, as well as illegal. FBI arrests are just a stopgap measure.
Why quote Marc Andreesen's opinion on games? Isn't he producing IT ERP software now? Opsware (Loudcloud's more corporate-sounding new name) probably prevents installation and execution of games.
640K, er I mean, 12" should be enough for anyone.
yes, and we'll be typing "begat" more efficiently than ever.
What you have just said is "the votes of citizens living in urban areas should count less the votes of citizens living in rural areas." Can't you see how undemocratic this is? Primary avenues of campaign influence are the media which have few distance limitations: radio, television, internet. How many people actually go to see a live stump speech? How many people watch nationally televised debates? The Electoral College made sense in the days whistle-stop campaigns and the Pony Express. Today, the unfair advantage it gives to the rural conservative voice offers no counterbalancing advantage to the democratic process. So clearly, the Electoral College should be eliminated.