I dread to think where my 'vanilla' dual channel SATA controller would come on the evaluation list but, hey, it's working fine and only cost £25!!!
That was hardly insightful. Maybe a couple more exclamation marks...
How about a link, what you have hooked up to it, what kind of load it experiences, how you use it, any fiddly bits concerning configuration -- all would be helpful.
I've got 2 160GB drives sitting on the floor and haven't done bugger with them since getting them months ago, trying to decide how I want to deploy them. (It's nice having a connection at a drive manufacturer and getting them at a discount, but you still have to figure out what you're going to do with all that space.)
Re:Congress might have something to say about this
Something about the Interstate Commerce Clause might get congress, or at least the judcial branch involved. How long until the first lawsuit to stop, or at least clarify, the law?
Only got past the first chapter on US History? It's the Federal and Supreme courts which interpret the constitutionality of laws, not Congress.
You had it there, the rest of your post is just ranting.
This is the state of Ohio interferring with interstate commerce and won't survive its first challenge in federal court. The US Constitution is clear on the point that it is the exclusive domain of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce and that no state law may surpass federal law.
It's just politicians responding to the will of some unhappy lot, probably local/in-state merchants who fear competition, meanwhile there are countless brick-and-mortar merchants who do employ eBay and other internet clearinghouses to move stagnant stock or add to their revenues.
More likely they're still pissed at Microsoft and look at this as a good way to thumb their collective noses at Bill Gates.
Not really a wise decision to state such. As the federal government has to go through an objective bidding process for procurement, Microsoft could appeal, charging these people as being biased and rigging the bidding.
If you're in a public agency, involved with purchasing, you learn pretty fast to keep your yap shut on your own favoring/disfavoring opinions, because it's embarrassing to the head of the organization when a challenge is issued and it's found your people shot their mouths off after stearing the bidding.
While I wouldn't discount Open Office, $2 million to outfit such a large bureaucracy as the DoJ sounds like chicken feed. Heck, I've been places where we spent more than $2 million dollars, per year, for only about 1,000 people. (Intial outlay is high, then upgrades and service keep you bleeding.)
Obviously the Department of Justice (not the Justice Department, which sounds like some government agency
in charge of people flying around in their underwear) wants to get to the root of problems more quickly and with
Alt-F3 they can find the clues much faster!
A blip? I dunno, seems when the Roman Empire began to crumble it started somewhere, in some little way.
Don't discount Corel too quickly and don't underestimate the power of saving a few dollars by a goverment
sorely in need of cost cutting. If these tools work well, the next round may embrace FBI and DEA.
you have the right to alternative sources of software
Don't get me wrong. Education is a good thing, but it really seems like everyone and his sister are enrolling in an MBA program.
Ugh, the last time we had a surplus of Business people in the economy they made themselves essential by pushing the Other Three Letters: TQM - Total Quality Management, which led to who knows how much total madness.
Psychology. Don't laugh, my Psychology minor has been extremely useful, particularly the classes that dealt with cognitive Psychology, which is directly applicable to human-computer interfaces. I intend to turn that into a full Bachelor's someday.
I dig. Also helpful in figuring out how to deal with problems with people.
I was a camp counselor once and found drawing on my psych studies of considerable value in figuring out how to direct a bunch of 12-13 year old kids. Within a couple days everything was peachy. Without that knowledge I'd have probably quit long before the three weeks of camp were up.
Not stricly a degree, but learn a real language (French/German/Japanese) and you can actually get some quite interesting jobs. Worst case scenario, you'd be translating software or giving foreign language tech support, but employers quite like people with language skills for some unknown reason.
I said back in the early 80's that Japanese would be an excellent language to learn, due to the great amount of commerce between Japan and the USA. (Note today: Sony picks an american as it's new CEO)
I'd suggest chinese, whichever dialect is prevalent on the mainland for business.
What area would you like to employ your Computer Science skillz in? It's actually a great companion
degree for Business, Bio-Sciences, Engineering, etc. as it give you greater insight
into how you may either create tools to aide your work or be well informed when selecting
vendors. This of course assumes you don't just want to be a code or systems jockey.
I find even discussions with a friend in a branch of advertising is hardly served by
some of the applications available to him and after an hour talking about what he
does and, seeing what he really needs to get through a day, could probably whip together
something simple that would do it, rather than the garbage in MS Office he has to wrestle with.
Consider the pros of taking a respectable understanding of technology into a career in law or politics, even.
.. all base of the party of the first part will become property of the party of the second part..
Even if the coconut were shooting along at high speed, your average Joe, or Jerry P., will discount the whole idea that there is a threat at all... because chances of actually being hit appear to be tiny.
This is the problem with trying to express suchideas to people who havn't had many decades of physics education.
They also overlook the fact that at the velocity the debris is moving to remain in orbit, it covers a lot of ground, whereas a coconut in water will only move at the speed of the current.
his 1980s "Chaos Manor" BYTE column was a neverending brag about his promotional gravytrain, promoting sponsored HW/SW while ignoring its comparative disadvantages in the actual market.
You're not the only one who got that impression. It wasn't for years that I learned he was actually an author, too. I figured BYTE signed him on for that notoriety. The magazine itself was little more than fluff and I gave up the free subscriptions because they piled up faster than I could get around to reading them. (We only really got it for the ads in the back.)
Sadly, I've got the Salmon of Doubt which was culled from Douglas Adams' personal computer and thrown into print it I get the impression that he, too, wasn't the best person in the world to ask about technology.
I know nothng of Pournelle's sci-fi, as I've spent most of my reading time on other authors.
I assume you're referring to The Big Apple, aka, New York City.
When I lived in an anonymous city in the midwest it was familiar that anything that happened on the east coast, relative to NYC was Big News, but if it happened in the midwest it was little news.
It would require something the size of the ISS to make landfall, even NYC and smack one of the Donald's treasures (which would make the Society Section, too.) Li'l rocks and screwdrivers would be well burned up before they hit the ground. But even a tiny cinder of one landing on Park Avenue would cause a panic, a call up of the Auxilliary Pundit Squad and a Whitehouse briefing. If it fell anywhere in the midwest it would hardly register.
That debris layer is our ablative "alien shield" defense system. Bring 'em on!
Several years ago I partook in an online discussion regarding the future of space flight, hosted by Jerry Pournelle (sci-fi writer and hobnobber with NASA people.) Prior to my question being posed, a female assistant asked me what my question was, and I voiced something along the lines of 'doesn't all the debris accumulating in orbit amount to a danger' then I posed to question to Jerry and he poo-poo'd my worries with some analogy of a coconut in the pacific ocean. (He did seem to overlook the idea that the analogous coconut would be moving at a few miles per second and could really ding a ship with such some force).
Afterwards I told the female assistant I thought he was a daft bugger. She told me he was smarter than I thought and she was his wife.
A few months later the infamous paint-chip nearly punctured a shuttle window.
I don't think Jerry was the only one who didn't get it, I've felt there was a valid concern about doing our utmost to limit orbital debris. At the time there was alleged to be a catalog of 8,000+ known objects in orbit, including a power screwdriver. That last item could easily doom a shuttle.
Not quite. Crime shows. Just about every evening show is a crime drama or crime fiction.
Law & Order CI, Law&Order SVU, Law&Order Trial By Jury, NCIS, 24, Numbers(oops, I mean, "Numb3rs"), Blind Justice, Cold Case, NYPD Blue, Boston Legal, The Firm, Crossing Jordan, Medical Investigation, Third Watch, Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, JAG, Six Feet Under, Monk...the list goes on and on,
Hm.. and two of my favorite movies are Blade Runner and Outland.
What's a hoot is listening to X Minus 1 on the old radio classics shows. Some of these radio plays were adapted from well known Sci-Fi writers, back in their early days, short works published in Sci-Fi magazines.
My only gripe with them is the overdramatization of the material: Men had short tempers and resorted to violence quickly, women were shrill and went to peices at the drop of a hat. Not exactly the kind of people I would pick to send into outer space, you know?
Ok, Windows has a bad (OK, awful) record on bugs and security, but if it's on a secure network then what's the worry? Doesn't strike me as any worse than others.
Now if they aren't one a secure network, or it gets cracked somehow (even an inside helper) then it could be like that Richard Pryor thing in Superman II (or was it III?) where he pilfers a cent here and there and nobody's the wiser until he pulls up in the parking lot in an expensive sportscar on a cheapass wage.
Another favorite of mine is Empire Builder, but we're heading out to the truck stop for breakfast, so you'll have to do your own research on that one.
Emails between myself and friends usually have the subject line 'Build?' I've been playing these great rail games for about 6 years now and have several of them. Iron Dragon is available for computers, but the AI is pretty crummy as it strands itself, can't manage bankloans well and doesn't adapt to different goals (i.e. 8 cities, 350 to win)
Basically you build rail between cities and towns, and draw demand cards which have a certain payoff based somewhat on distance and difficulty. Good logistical skills help avoid costly dead-heading (running without any loads.) They're great games for 3-4 players, although 4 or more players on Iron Dragon can take 6 hours!
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That was hardly insightful. Maybe a couple more exclamation marks...
How about a link, what you have hooked up to it, what kind of load it experiences, how you use it, any fiddly bits concerning configuration -- all would be helpful.
I've got 2 160GB drives sitting on the floor and haven't done bugger with them since getting them months ago, trying to decide how I want to deploy them. (It's nice having a connection at a drive manufacturer and getting them at a discount, but you still have to figure out what you're going to do with all that space.)
It was a parity bit, ignore it.
Something about the Interstate Commerce Clause might get congress, or at least the judcial branch involved. How long until the first lawsuit to stop, or at least clarify, the law?
Only got past the first chapter on US History? It's the Federal and Supreme courts which interpret the constitutionality of laws, not Congress.
You had it there, the rest of your post is just ranting.
This is the state of Ohio interferring with interstate commerce and won't survive its first challenge in federal court. The US Constitution is clear on the point that it is the exclusive domain of the federal government to regulate interstate commerce and that no state law may surpass federal law.
It's just politicians responding to the will of some unhappy lot, probably local/in-state merchants who fear competition, meanwhile there are countless brick-and-mortar merchants who do employ eBay and other internet clearinghouses to move stagnant stock or add to their revenues.
Not really a wise decision to state such. As the federal government has to go through an objective bidding process for procurement, Microsoft could appeal, charging these people as being biased and rigging the bidding.
If you're in a public agency, involved with purchasing, you learn pretty fast to keep your yap shut on your own favoring/disfavoring opinions, because it's embarrassing to the head of the organization when a challenge is issued and it's found your people shot their mouths off after stearing the bidding.
"What do you got against Taco Bell?"
What package do you suppose they use for Justice Management?
While I wouldn't discount Open Office, $2 million to outfit such a large bureaucracy as the DoJ sounds like chicken feed. Heck, I've been places where we spent more than $2 million dollars, per year, for only about 1,000 people. (Intial outlay is high, then upgrades and service keep you bleeding.)
A blip? I dunno, seems when the Roman Empire began to crumble it started somewhere, in some little way. Don't discount Corel too quickly and don't underestimate the power of saving a few dollars by a goverment sorely in need of cost cutting. If these tools work well, the next round may embrace FBI and DEA. you have the right to alternative sources of software
Ugh, the last time we had a surplus of Business people in the economy they made themselves essential by pushing the Other Three Letters: TQM - Total Quality Management, which led to who knows how much total madness.
got a vision statement?
I dig. Also helpful in figuring out how to deal with problems with people.
I was a camp counselor once and found drawing on my psych studies of considerable value in figuring out how to direct a bunch of 12-13 year old kids. Within a couple days everything was peachy. Without that knowledge I'd have probably quit long before the three weeks of camp were up.
I said back in the early 80's that Japanese would be an excellent language to learn, due to the great amount of commerce between Japan and the USA. (Note today: Sony picks an american as it's new CEO)
I'd suggest chinese, whichever dialect is prevalent on the mainland for business.
I find even discussions with a friend in a branch of advertising is hardly served by some of the applications available to him and after an hour talking about what he does and, seeing what he really needs to get through a day, could probably whip together something simple that would do it, rather than the garbage in MS Office he has to wrestle with.
Consider the pros of taking a respectable understanding of technology into a career in law or politics, even.
This is the problem with trying to express suchideas to people who havn't had many decades of physics education.
They also overlook the fact that at the velocity the debris is moving to remain in orbit, it covers a lot of ground, whereas a coconut in water will only move at the speed of the current.
You're not the only one who got that impression. It wasn't for years that I learned he was actually an author, too. I figured BYTE signed him on for that notoriety. The magazine itself was little more than fluff and I gave up the free subscriptions because they piled up faster than I could get around to reading them. (We only really got it for the ads in the back.)
Sadly, I've got the Salmon of Doubt which was culled from Douglas Adams' personal computer and thrown into print it I get the impression that he, too, wasn't the best person in the world to ask about technology.
I know nothng of Pournelle's sci-fi, as I've spent most of my reading time on other authors.
What is it? Prince 'o Darkness -casting?
Your host tonight is none other than Lucifer himself!
I assume you're referring to The Big Apple, aka, New York City.
When I lived in an anonymous city in the midwest it was familiar that anything that happened on the east coast, relative to NYC was Big News, but if it happened in the midwest it was little news.
It would require something the size of the ISS to make landfall, even NYC and smack one of the Donald's treasures (which would make the Society Section, too.) Li'l rocks and screwdrivers would be well burned up before they hit the ground. But even a tiny cinder of one landing on Park Avenue would cause a panic, a call up of the Auxilliary Pundit Squad and a Whitehouse briefing. If it fell anywhere in the midwest it would hardly register.
Several years ago I partook in an online discussion regarding the future of space flight, hosted by Jerry Pournelle (sci-fi writer and hobnobber with NASA people.) Prior to my question being posed, a female assistant asked me what my question was, and I voiced something along the lines of 'doesn't all the debris accumulating in orbit amount to a danger' then I posed to question to Jerry and he poo-poo'd my worries with some analogy of a coconut in the pacific ocean. (He did seem to overlook the idea that the analogous coconut would be moving at a few miles per second and could really ding a ship with such some force) .
Afterwards I told the female assistant I thought he was a daft bugger. She told me he was smarter than I thought and she was his wife.
A few months later the infamous paint-chip nearly punctured a shuttle window.
I don't think Jerry was the only one who didn't get it, I've felt there was a valid concern about doing our utmost to limit orbital debris. At the time there was alleged to be a catalog of 8,000+ known objects in orbit, including a power screwdriver. That last item could easily doom a shuttle.
Law & Order CI, Law&Order SVU, Law&Order Trial By Jury, NCIS, 24, Numbers(oops, I mean, "Numb3rs"), Blind Justice, Cold Case, NYPD Blue, Boston Legal, The Firm, Crossing Jordan, Medical Investigation, Third Watch, Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, JAG, Six Feet Under, Monk...the list goes on and on,
Hm.. and two of my favorite movies are Blade Runner and Outland.
Like what? Cagney and Lacey? Which was saved and ran for seasons after view outcry reversed the network decision to axe it?
The best sci-fi is in BOOKS not TELEVISION.
What's a hoot is listening to X Minus 1 on the old radio classics shows. Some of these radio plays were adapted from well known Sci-Fi writers, back in their early days, short works published in Sci-Fi magazines.
My only gripe with them is the overdramatization of the material: Men had short tempers and resorted to violence quickly, women were shrill and went to peices at the drop of a hat. Not exactly the kind of people I would pick to send into outer space, you know?
So ... what's replacing Sci-Fi? (Please, please, please, not reality TV, please, please...)
They weren't helpful enough, Well Fargo ATM customers can now look forward to the ATM Assistant(TM)!
"Hi, I'm Clippy, would you like help:
Depositing Funds?
Withdrawing Funds?
Transfer your entire balance to r00m4n14n d00d?
Selecting the proper brick to smash my keyboard with?
Now if they aren't one a secure network, or it gets cracked somehow (even an inside helper) then it could be like that Richard Pryor thing in Superman II (or was it III?) where he pilfers a cent here and there and nobody's the wiser until he pulls up in the parking lot in an expensive sportscar on a cheapass wage.
Emails between myself and friends usually have the subject line 'Build?' I've been playing these great rail games for about 6 years now and have several of them. Iron Dragon is available for computers, but the AI is pretty crummy as it strands itself, can't manage bankloans well and doesn't adapt to different goals (i.e. 8 cities, 350 to win)
Basically you build rail between cities and towns, and draw demand cards which have a certain payoff based somewhat on distance and difficulty. Good logistical skills help avoid costly dead-heading (running without any loads.) They're great games for 3-4 players, although 4 or more players on Iron Dragon can take 6 hours!
You can view all the Empire Build games here.
Latest purchases were Lunar Rails and Russian Rails. Fun!