Actually, having been in the defense industry, I can say with the timeline this warship was developed that it's entirely probable that it does run Windows NT 4.0. You dont change specs like that on a project of this scope lightly. NT also has been rated C2, in certain specific configurations. Good? Bad? Evil? Not my argument.
Well, over HERE, at corporaion ZYX, our configuration is
wait for it
stable. With 1 admin to every 80 servers. Not huge, but not small either. No MCSEs, just intelligent, paranoid admins who know what they're doing. IANASA.
My last work rig was a Compaq dual 733 P3 which at the time rocked. One of the other devs in the office had a problem and a tech was onsite the next day to replace the motherboard.
My current rig is a HP xw8000. Same joy. The #2 HDD - a Seagate 10k 70GB cuda - died. Hardly HPs fault. Called support. Part arrived next day with return ship label.
Yes - there are plenty of crap machines with the HP or Compaq moniker. They do make good high end workstations, though, and a gamer PC is much more like a workstation than a celeron secretary special.
Performance requirements are like any other aspect of the requirements gathering process - they have to be identified and quantified. If the customer needs a particular level of performance, it IS incumbent upon the developers to design that performance into the system and test it as rigorously as any "functional" requirement. That said, optimization is a somewhat loaded word. Good engineering means determining the best tradeoff between cost (readability and fault risk) and benefit (performance).
If you feel that hosting the CLR in process with SQL Server is a bad idea, how do you feel about hosting a JVM ?
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The original estimate was in empirical units. Why waste time converting only to demonstrate that his math was correct? But...fine:
The human body comes out to.287 m^3
multiplied by 6 billion, comes to 1.722E9 m^3 the cube root of which is 1198 m. which comes to.744 miles. Even with unit conversions that defy real live rocket scientists, his figures remain firm.
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okay...by your reasoning: 1 person is 10 cubic feet of space (5x2x1) there are 6E9 people in the world 10 cuft/person x 6E9 people = 6E10 cuft
a box, 3/4 mile cube, holds 3960x3960x3960 cuft... that comes to 6.2E10 cubic feet.
or, in laymans terms, enough.
Original poster was correct, by your own figures. By his, he's at worst rather generous with the box.
In 1980 it was, to an extent, an appropriate statement. There is still a ways to go before this technology becomes commoditized and mature. The early adopters might get lucky and reap huge benefits, but the more likely scenario is that they'll have to retool their RFID infrastructure in a couple of years. It depends on whether they integrate RFID into their own supply chain, or simply slap the tags on before they ship to Wal Mart. Given the risks of the brittleness of this technology, it might make sense to make a smaller investment in RFID on outbound shipments only.
If RFID were such a golden opportunity for ROI, they'd already be doing it.
As far as losers, I bet a lot of retailers are looking at this situation and thinking "hey! That's great. All my suppliers will be on RFID by the time the technology is mature and the costs have settled down."
This kid did something I would have done. I'm no miscreant - I'm no digital terrorist. I'm an explorer, and a creator. I build things with my intellect, humble though they might be. I aspire to the term hacker, but do not consider myself one. I do not feel worthy of it. What the hell is such a poor judge of human character doing administering a school?
The writer seems to get two important things - that using net send is certainly not hacking, and deeming it so is demonstrative of the school district's lack of understanding of a subject area they purport to teach.
How about emailing the principal of that school and telling him what you think of his actions?
The usual ways to scale out databases is shared-everything data on one storage volume with crazy lock management or shared-nothing databases on separate volumes and a query manager doing distributed queries across the cluster. I believe oracle can shared-everything, and probably given their #1 spot on the tpc-c at the moment, the shared-nothing as well; DB2 and SQL Server can do the shared-nothing.
Maybe the testing methodology you cite isn't so useful then, if you have to change your code when you're done testing. Backdoors are only bad if you put them in in the first place. Test First Design might be a better approach than Code an insecure backdoor as a test.
Oh wow. Look at you - all grown up and open-minded and stuff! You even tolerate the usage of Windows by the mindless masses, secure in your knowledge that still, you know better.
If you don't like the choices I make, that's entirely your call. Freedom means freedom, it doesn't mean looking down at the other guy.
Informative? Really??? The documentation spells out very clearly the similiarities and differences - you did read the documentation right? Not just the marketechture brochurementation? There is a great deal of Transact SQL that is compatible between the two, and they are ANSI compliant. What more did you expect out of a db engine running on this class of processors? I'm sorry your management is gullible, but that isn't SQL CE's fault.
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Actually, having been in the defense industry, I can say with the timeline this warship was developed that it's entirely probable that it does run Windows NT 4.0. You dont change specs like that on a project of this scope lightly. NT also has been rated C2, in certain specific configurations.
Good? Bad? Evil? Not my argument.
Well, over HERE, at corporaion ZYX, our configuration is
wait for it
stable. With 1 admin to every 80 servers. Not huge, but not small either. No MCSEs, just intelligent, paranoid admins who know what they're doing. IANASA.
My last work rig was a Compaq dual 733 P3 which at the time rocked. One of the other devs in the office had a problem and a tech was onsite the next day to replace the motherboard.
My current rig is a HP xw8000. Same joy. The #2 HDD - a Seagate 10k 70GB cuda - died. Hardly HPs fault. Called support. Part arrived next day with return ship label.
Yes - there are plenty of crap machines with the HP or Compaq moniker. They do make good high end workstations, though, and a gamer PC is much more like a workstation than a celeron secretary special.
Performance requirements are like any other aspect of the requirements gathering process - they have to be identified and quantified. If the customer needs a particular level of performance, it IS incumbent upon the developers to design that performance into the system and test it as rigorously as any "functional" requirement.
That said, optimization is a somewhat loaded word. Good engineering means determining the best tradeoff between cost (readability and fault risk) and benefit (performance).
Not to mention that the OS is upgradable, if the hardware supports it.
A clue? Originality? An ability to avoid pandering to the slashthink?
as distinct from Lieutenant?
If you feel that hosting the CLR in process with SQL Server is a bad idea, how do you feel about hosting a JVM ?
The original estimate was in empirical units. Why waste time converting only to demonstrate that his math was correct? But...fine:
.287 m^3
.744 miles. Even with unit conversions that defy real live rocket scientists, his figures remain firm.
The human body comes out to
multiplied by 6 billion, comes to 1.722E9 m^3
the cube root of which is 1198 m.
which comes to
okay...by your reasoning:
1 person is 10 cubic feet of space (5x2x1)
there are 6E9 people in the world
10 cuft/person x 6E9 people = 6E10 cuft
a box, 3/4 mile cube, holds 3960x3960x3960 cuft...
that comes to 6.2E10 cubic feet.
or, in laymans terms, enough.
Original poster was correct, by your own figures. By his, he's at worst rather generous with the box.
In 1980 it was, to an extent, an appropriate statement. There is still a ways to go before this technology becomes commoditized and mature. The early adopters might get lucky and reap huge benefits, but the more likely scenario is that they'll have to retool their RFID infrastructure in a couple of years. It depends on whether they integrate RFID into their own supply chain, or simply slap the tags on before they ship to Wal Mart. Given the risks of the brittleness of this technology, it might make sense to make a smaller investment in RFID on outbound shipments only.
IAAGIR - I am a geek in retail.
Maybe the supplier benefits. If they're lucky.
If RFID were such a golden opportunity for ROI, they'd already be doing it.
As far as losers, I bet a lot of retailers are looking at this situation and thinking "hey! That's great. All my suppliers will be on RFID by the time the technology is mature and the costs have settled down."
utterly sad. predictable.
This kid did something I would have done. I'm no miscreant - I'm no digital terrorist. I'm an explorer, and a creator. I build things with my intellect, humble though they might be. I aspire to the term hacker, but do not consider myself one. I do not feel worthy of it. What the hell is such a poor judge of human character doing administering a school?
But couldn't you get suspended for hacking if you did that?
The writer seems to get two important things - that using net send is certainly not hacking, and deeming it so is demonstrative of the school district's lack of understanding of a subject area they purport to teach.
How about emailing the principal of that school and telling him what you think of his actions?
The usual ways to scale out databases is shared-everything data on one storage volume with crazy lock management or shared-nothing databases on separate volumes and a query manager doing distributed queries across the cluster. I believe oracle can shared-everything, and probably given their #1 spot on the tpc-c at the moment, the shared-nothing as well; DB2 and SQL Server can do the shared-nothing.
If nobody was pro-rape, nobody would commit the crime.
Maybe the testing methodology you cite isn't so useful then, if you have to change your code when you're done testing. Backdoors are only bad if you put them in in the first place. Test First Design might be a better approach than Code an insecure backdoor as a test.
Was the lack of a comma in the last sentence intentional or a freudian slip?
Have a look at Robocode or Terrarium
I am not sure about Robocode, I always assumed they addressed those issues. I know Terrarium does.
Oh wow. Look at you - all grown up and open-minded and stuff! You even tolerate the usage of Windows by the mindless masses, secure in your knowledge that still, you know better.
If you don't like the choices I make, that's entirely your call. Freedom means freedom, it doesn't mean looking down at the other guy.
Thats what you get for trying to correlate early adoption with intelligence.
Don't say that too loud or some idiot will claim you're wrong
My bad. I should have mentioned IO constraints as well. How well does oracle run on a pocket pc, it being a speed demon and all?
Informative? Really??? The documentation spells out very clearly the similiarities and differences - you did read the documentation right? Not just the marketechture brochurementation? There is a great deal of Transact SQL that is compatible between the two, and they are ANSI compliant. What more did you expect out of a db engine running on this class of processors? I'm sorry your management is gullible, but that isn't SQL CE's fault.