Yes, very nice indeed! I was administereing a giant full-height MTI RAID server for a couple years. It was huge and generated incredible amounts of heat. It over heated at least three times due to cooling system failures (not a result of the MTI box, but certainly due to it's furnace like BTU output). I was encredibly slow and to top it all off, it was only half a terrabyte.
This was only three years ago. HD size and other avances have done wonders for size of storage and heat/cooling requirements.
IDE drives on seperate controllers is a great way to get troughput comparible to SCSI systems. I beleive that there is work on getting command tag queueing available in the Linux IDE code (it may already be there). I imagine this could be avaiable in OSX shortly if not now. The need for SCSI is becoming less and less as IDE capabilities grow.
The upshot is that no works produced in the United States after the 1920's will ever go out of copyright
This is not an upshot. It is purely a right that _only_ affetcts corporate entities, giving them more rights in America than the individual. Any person saying "no, it is to help the families of the author" are mostlikely lying and on a coporate bankrole.
Once works have "had their day" and given enough to a corporation, they should be given to humanity for the good of all. That was the intent of original copyright - to balance the benifits given the author, their the rights to make money and benifitting humanity. This shifts the balance _too_ far from humanity AND the author (if (s)he is an individual towards Corporate America.
I agree whole heartedly. I would also like to see it support Ogg Vorbis format. I have talked to a couple hardware venders who plan on releasing Ogg support in their hardware but I know of nothing that has it _today_. Anyone know of Ogg support in hardware? (besides Zaurus). With this being Linux based, I would think that it could be possible to hack a solution.
A release of a new PerlQT was made. http://perlqt.sourceforge.net/ From the website: "PerlQt-3 is Ashley Winters' full featured object oriented interface to Trolltech's C++ Qt toolkit v3.0. It is based on the SMOKE library, a language independent low-level wrapper generated from Qt headers by Richard Dale's kalyptus thanks to David Faure's module".
Another thing that's nice is that "All Qt classes are accessed through the prefix Qt::, which replaces the initial Q of Qt classes. When browsing the Qt documentation, you simply need to change the name of classes so that QFoo reads Qt::Foo". So, essentialy the API is similar to QT with reduces the learning curve quite a bit.
Does anyone know if AMD will be doing something similar or if their current processors do something like this? I know that many High Performance Clusters use SMP machines and multi-threaded code and could take advantage of HT. Many clusters are made with AMD processors due to the fact that they are so much less expensive than Intel.
I have traveled to Japan a few times and lived there a couple times. The whole region thing is a real pain. I ended up getting a region-settable DVD player so that I can watch movies I pickup there. Its' a shame that one has to do so much just to watch movies made in another area that arn't and will probably _never_ be avaialble where they live.
I don't knww about this. Most likely, politicians will want the states in which a store is physically located to receive the benifit of the sales - as if you had actualy purchased the item in the physical store rather than the store coming to you. If not, then that state cannot build infrastructure and programs to promote more internet business within it's boarders.
If the other way around, states with a large technical-savvy population such as California will suck all the Internet tax revenue from a smaller state that may have some good Internet stores.
Yes, but if a law like this passes, you will most likely end up paying sales taxes when purchacing items over the Internet from a store located in another US state. I doubt there is a way for the US to collect sales taxes when one purchases items from a company outside the country. However, they are likely to collect tarrifs, and other such fees before the item passes customs.
Anyone know if this is capable of controling X-10 devices? I realize that I can get an ir -> X-10 device but it would be nice if more remotes contained the poor man's home automation: X-10 functionality.
The fact is that the most common language on the Internet is English. And this is hapening to all languages - not just spanish. I speak Japanese and when talking about about almost any technology developed since WWII many of the phrases or technical words are derived from engish. I beleive however that the this situation is much more previlant in Japanese than in most cultures as they have adopted so many English words into their vocabulary.
I'd like to make sure that people understand that I'm not saying this is good or bad. It's just what's happening. Many times it's easier to use a word that already exists for something over trying to make up some technical sounding term just so it's using your native toung or character set.
Another stong case for this is when you intend to do business using that term with a huge consuming country like say, the USA. Business deals go much quicker when everyone knows what the other is talking about.
Chalk it up to the new gobal economy of which the Internet is an integral part. Certainly the Internet has made BIG strides in breaking down boarders, allowing citizens to see other cultures directly rather than hear through the propaganda of their country's leadership. And with that will come the enevitable sharing of cultures and terms. Most of thoes new terms will surely come from the most widely used language on the internet - English.
I had always heard that "The Sunday Times" was a bit yellow in their journalism - similar to "Star" or "The National Inquierer". Correct me if I'm wrong. However, if someone has an official link to a Nasa page I'd me much more apt to beleive this.
I was unable to run this rlease "out of hte box". It errored, saying that it could not load libraries. When adding the directory, it still complained...
If they are the biggest, best office suite by a huge margin, they are certainly closer to being seen as a monopoly.
The same exact thing happend when they bought shares in Apple a while back.
Microsoft will help it's competition just enough to help it'self!!!
It is very bad when you are the only huge, 800lb gorilla and you've crushed all the other monkeys in your cage. If so, they send the zoo keeper after you pretty quickly!
Will this mean a continuance of low-priced telecommunication over IP? If so, I see this as pretty good. I like being able to call Japan and Europe for the cost of a local call...
I Agreed - 100%. I have also contributed to CDDB and feel that my effort is not rewarded by making it closed. I feel it is unfair, and unethical. My understanding was that it was free and I was contributing to a free resource.
This almost sucks as bad as CmdTaco's bias against Caldera 8^)
It bothers me greatly that this would happen with CDDB.
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This was only three years ago. HD size and other avances have done wonders for size of storage and heat/cooling requirements.
IDE drives on seperate controllers is a great way to get troughput comparible to SCSI systems. I beleive that there is work on getting command tag queueing available in the Linux IDE code (it may already be there). I imagine this could be avaiable in OSX shortly if not now. The need for SCSI is becoming less and less as IDE capabilities grow.
Very cool indeed.
Are you saying that this Xserve RAID is running software RAID? I beleive that it is hardware IDE RAID.
This is not an upshot. It is purely a right that _only_ affetcts corporate entities, giving them more rights in America than the individual. Any person saying "no, it is to help the families of the author" are mostlikely lying and on a coporate bankrole.
Once works have "had their day" and given enough to a corporation, they should be given to humanity for the good of all. That was the intent of original copyright - to balance the benifits given the author, their the rights to make money and benifitting humanity. This shifts the balance _too_ far from humanity AND the author (if (s)he is an individual towards Corporate America.
I agree whole heartedly. I would also like to see it support Ogg Vorbis format. I have talked to a couple hardware venders who plan on releasing Ogg support in their hardware but I know of nothing that has it _today_. Anyone know of Ogg support in hardware? (besides Zaurus). With this being Linux based, I would think that it could be possible to hack a solution.
From the website: "PerlQt-3 is Ashley Winters' full featured object oriented interface to Trolltech's C++ Qt toolkit v3.0. It is based on the SMOKE library, a language independent low-level wrapper generated from Qt headers by Richard Dale's kalyptus thanks to David Faure's module".
Another thing that's nice is that "All Qt classes are accessed through the prefix Qt::, which replaces the initial Q of Qt classes. When browsing the Qt documentation, you simply need to change the name of classes so that QFoo reads Qt::Foo". So, essentialy the API is similar to QT with reduces the learning curve quite a bit.
Does anyone know if AMD will be doing something similar or if their current processors do something like this? I know that many High Performance Clusters use SMP machines and multi-threaded code and could take advantage of HT. Many clusters are made with AMD processors due to the fact that they are so much less expensive than Intel.
I have traveled to Japan a few times and lived there a couple times. The whole region thing is a real pain. I ended up getting a region-settable DVD player so that I can watch movies I pickup there. Its' a shame that one has to do so much just to watch movies made in another area that arn't and will probably _never_ be avaialble where they live.
If the other way around, states with a large technical-savvy population such as California will suck all the Internet tax revenue from a smaller state that may have some good Internet stores.
Yes, but if a law like this passes, you will most likely end up paying sales taxes when purchacing items over the Internet from a store located in another US state. I doubt there is a way for the US to collect sales taxes when one purchases items from a company outside the country. However, they are likely to collect tarrifs, and other such fees before the item passes customs.
Anyone know if this is capable of controling X-10 devices? I realize that I can get an ir -> X-10 device but it would be nice if more remotes contained the poor man's home automation: X-10 functionality.
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I'd like to make sure that people understand that I'm not saying this is good or bad. It's just what's happening. Many times it's easier to use a word that already exists for something over trying to make up some technical sounding term just so it's using your native toung or character set.
Another stong case for this is when you intend to do business using that term with a huge consuming country like say, the USA. Business deals go much quicker when everyone knows what the other is talking about.
Chalk it up to the new gobal economy of which the Internet is an integral part. Certainly the Internet has made BIG strides in breaking down boarders, allowing citizens to see other cultures directly rather than hear through the propaganda of their country's leadership. And with that will come the enevitable sharing of cultures and terms. Most of thoes new terms will surely come from the most widely used language on the internet - English.
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Agreed, see my similar post #77.
It seems that MS is just trying to put a little buffer between them and the justice department.
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MS doesn't want to be seen as a monopoly.
If they are the biggest, best office suite by a huge margin, they are certainly closer to being seen as a monopoly.
The same exact thing happend when they bought shares in Apple a while back.
Microsoft will help it's competition just enough to help it'self!!!
It is very bad when you are the only huge, 800lb gorilla and you've crushed all the other monkeys in your cage. If so, they send the zoo keeper after you pretty quickly!
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This almost sucks as bad as CmdTaco's bias against Caldera 8^)
It bothers me greatly that this would happen with CDDB.
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