PowerPC was not really evolutionary from 68k. It was a pretty complete redesign, though the early chips had the capacity to run both instruction sets to help ease the transition. Once all the interesting software was converted to PowerPC, the backward compatibility with 68k was dropped.
Indeed, power, phone, ISP... all are much more vulnerable to failure because they typically have a long stretch of single path. Google has multiple datacenters, and the failure of one won't make google unavailable. All the serious internet companies are long over this hump.
I think the reason that SBC/ATT get more heavily regulated is because they made a promise to be reliable in exchange for local monopolies. If they fail the public trust, they haven't earned their monopoly.
Google is in no way in the same position. There's no monopoly, no government subsidies, etc. And you, as the customer, are free to switch to ask/yahoo/msn at any time.
F. Since the client signed a fixed price payment contract, with no spec required, you take a vacation and deliver them the nothing they agreed upon, and enjoy their money. Woo Hoo!
Let's see. I've had no math for 10ish years. Suppose that the sqrt(2) were rational. So it can be expressed as (a/b) with a,b integer and a^2/b^2 = 2. So a^2 = 2*b^2. Suppose b is odd, then b^2 is odd, and 2*b^2 has a decomposition containing only one two, which cannot be the square of an integer as we claimed, as the square of any integer containing a 2 in its decomposition will have an even number of twos in its square. Suppose b is even. Then the square of b contains an even number of 2's in its decomposition, and 2*b^2 contains an odd number of 2's in the decomposition, which poses the same problem for a.
Wooo... 4 minutes. I guess I get the job, but I don't think I want it.
Games will have no problem using multiple threads as soon as the directx drivers support it... the problem is that nearly all of the bottleneck is in the directx api which is all very single thread oriented. It'll probably be directx 11 before we really see this problem start to disappear in games.
Indeed, though if you haven't been given the negatives, copying them is harder.
It also means, no sharing digitized copies with family over the internet.
This issue most often comes up with wedding photos... the bride and groom get a package, but then decide they like a particular shot, and want to get a blow up to 11x17 or whatever, and the photographer says: $500 please (real cost <$40).
(Take a look at any portrait studio. The negatives and the rights belong to the studio, not you.)
This is an important bit of info that a lot of people aren't aware of. Always demand that photographers agree in advance to hand over copyright of your photos to you. Don't do business with a photographer who won't. All of the non sleazy ones will agree to this for a small fee. The really non sleazy ones will tell you that you get copyright up front, and you'll probably find their prices are higher. (The reason being that the sleazy ones are hoping you'll come begging for negatives/reprints in the future... and once they know you're desperate they'll charge you up the #*$& for it).
More seriously: of course not.. we barely have any understanding what's going on with this planet, much less hypothetical other planets in surprising new types of planetary systems.
We should publicize that more heavily, then the bush administration will spend more on space technology so we can take the war on terrestris to other star systems.
WPA-PSK has been cracked for some time now... maybe you meant WPA2? Even that has some well analyzed flaws, though I'm not aware of any freeware tools for hacking it.
They may find that it makes a practical difference, though... due to the latency differences in packet handling and response, tcp/ip may actually yield significantly better throughput on 802.11n. I can get about 20kilobyte/second transfer rate (from roughly 130 to 150 kilobytes/sec) using a wired port (100 megabit ethernet) on my router vs the wireless (54 megabit 802.11g from <20 ft).
I think most people are assuming that most other people have at least one copy of either win2k or winxp on cd/dvd, and that those OSs will continue to work for years to come.
I was able to install win98 from cd a couple of weeks ago... that's 8 years.
The confusion might be coming from bits vs bytes. I've lived in 4 different areas of the country in the last 5 years. At every one, a connection with either DSL or CableModem delivered at least 150 kilobytes (roughly a megabit) per second downstream, at a cost of less than $40 per month.
4 to 6 megabit/sec cable connections that can really deliver 2 megabit in practice are quite common.
Upstream of course is considerably more limited, and if you're using something like bittorrent where your peers may artificially limit you to 2x your upload rate may leave you seeing much lower transfer rates in practice.
I'm trying to outsource your jobs. However, I don't know all that I need to know. Would you mind providing free training in your spare time for your replacement?
OTOH: you probably don't need as much speed as you do reliability. I would guess that an unsharing situation will work better for you.
You might, over the short term, insert an extra hop in your network in front of the ISP hop, and measure avg bandwidth there over the course of a business day. As long as you have enough total bandwidth / second to match your typical usage (allowing for some margin, and expected growth) in a business day, all you'll cope with is some latency.
How long does your power go out... a cheap ups will happily keep your idling computer up for tens of minutes. I've not had an outage long enough to beat my ups ever.
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If they are calling from India, I'm not sure that the US DNC list applies to them.
PowerPC was not really evolutionary from 68k. It was a pretty complete redesign, though the early chips had the capacity to run both instruction sets to help ease the transition. Once all the interesting software was converted to PowerPC, the backward compatibility with 68k was dropped.
Indeed, power, phone, ISP ... all are much more vulnerable to failure because they typically have a long stretch of single path. Google has multiple datacenters, and the failure of one won't make google unavailable. All the serious internet companies are long over this hump.
I think the reason that SBC/ATT get more heavily regulated is because they made a promise to be reliable in exchange for local monopolies. If they fail the public trust, they haven't earned their monopoly.
Google is in no way in the same position. There's no monopoly, no government subsidies, etc. And you, as the customer, are free to switch to ask/yahoo/msn at any time.
I'm sorry, but the obvious answer is F.
F. Since the client signed a fixed price payment contract, with no spec required, you take a vacation and deliver them the nothing they agreed upon, and enjoy their money. Woo Hoo!
Let's see. I've had no math for 10ish years. Suppose that the sqrt(2) were rational. So it can be expressed as (a/b) with a,b integer and a^2/b^2 = 2. So a^2 = 2*b^2. Suppose b is odd, then b^2 is odd, and 2*b^2 has a decomposition containing only one two, which cannot be the square of an integer as we claimed, as the square of any integer containing a 2 in its decomposition will have an even number of twos in its square.
... 4 minutes. I guess I get the job, but I don't think I want it.
Suppose b is even. Then the square of b contains an even number of 2's in its decomposition, and 2*b^2 contains an odd number of 2's in the decomposition, which poses the same problem for a.
Wooo
Games will have no problem using multiple threads as soon as the directx drivers support it ... the problem is that nearly all of the bottleneck is in the directx api which is all very single thread oriented. It'll probably be directx 11 before we really see this problem start to disappear in games.
If so, lets build the biggest damn black hole we can and get this over with.
Pretty much, this is the biggest damn black hole we can build.
He said Star Trek. Enterprise takes place in an alternate universe, so it really can't be considered canonical trek.
Indeed, Iraq has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that an enemy armed with inferior weaponry cannot touch the US army.
When my sister was young, I was exposed to the care bears movie over fourty times.
Thank god, after only about 15 years I think I have forgotten nearly 100% of it.
So there is hope my friend.
Indeed, though if you haven't been given the negatives, copying them is harder.
... the bride and groom get a package, but then decide they like a particular shot, and want to get a blow up to 11x17 or whatever, and the photographer says: $500 please (real cost <$40).
It also means, no sharing digitized copies with family over the internet.
This issue most often comes up with wedding photos
(Take a look at any portrait studio. The negatives and the rights belong to the studio, not you.)
... and once they know you're desperate they'll charge you up the #*$& for it).
This is an important bit of info that a lot of people aren't aware of. Always demand that photographers agree in advance to hand over copyright of your photos to you. Don't do business with a photographer who won't. All of the non sleazy ones will agree to this for a small fee. The really non sleazy ones will tell you that you get copyright up front, and you'll probably find their prices are higher. (The reason being that the sleazy ones are hoping you'll come begging for negatives/reprints in the future
Nothing for kill, battle or war either. What is Klingon without these words?
Like you need a word for those things in Klingon. They're implied in every context!
Has anybody exhaustively explored the concept?
.. we barely have any understanding what's going on with this planet, much less hypothetical other planets in surprising new types of planetary systems.
I got tired just thinking about it.
More seriously: of course not
We should publicize that more heavily, then the bush administration will spend more on space technology so we can take the war on terrestris to other star systems.
WPA-PSK has been cracked for some time now ... maybe you meant WPA2?
Even that has some well analyzed flaws, though I'm not aware of any freeware tools for hacking it.
They may find that it makes a practical difference, though ... due to the latency differences in packet handling and response, tcp/ip may actually yield significantly better throughput on 802.11n. I can get about 20kilobyte/second transfer rate (from roughly 130 to 150 kilobytes/sec) using a wired port (100 megabit ethernet) on my router vs the wireless (54 megabit 802.11g from <20 ft).
I've bought a couple of dells this year, the XP OS disc I got with them worked on other pcs.
I think most people are assuming that most other people have at least one copy of either win2k or winxp on cd/dvd, and that those OSs will continue to work for years to come.
... that's 8 years.
I was able to install win98 from cd a couple of weeks ago
The confusion might be coming from bits vs bytes. I've lived in 4 different areas of the country in the last 5 years. At every one, a connection with either DSL or CableModem delivered at least 150 kilobytes (roughly a megabit) per second downstream, at a cost of less than $40 per month.
4 to 6 megabit/sec cable connections that can really deliver 2 megabit in practice are quite common.
Upstream of course is considerably more limited, and if you're using something like bittorrent where your peers may artificially limit you to 2x your upload rate may leave you seeing much lower transfer rates in practice.
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I'm trying to outsource your jobs. However, I don't know all that I need to know. Would you mind providing free training in your spare time for your replacement?
OTOH: you probably don't need as much speed as you do reliability. I would guess that an unsharing situation will work better for you.
You might, over the short term, insert an extra hop in your network in front of the ISP hop, and measure avg bandwidth there over the course of a business day. As long as you have enough total bandwidth / second to match your typical usage (allowing for some margin, and expected growth) in a business day, all you'll cope with is some latency.
I'm seeing both "more stable than expected" and "not ready for prime time" being used to describe Vista.
I fail to see the conflict?
It's more stable than expected: They expected it to crash 20 times per hour, but it crashes only 10 times per hour.
It's not ready for prime time: It crashes 10 times per hour.
How long does your power go out ... a cheap ups will happily keep your idling computer up for tens of minutes. I've not had an outage long enough to beat my ups ever.
Note 'not in a box' -> 'not in a bag'. Sorry for the confusing typo.