I know of nobody who wants to force you to live in a city and take publicn transport. But I know a lot of people who would like to have that option available to themselves. I choose to live in a 2nd ring suburb which has had a reemergence of neo-urban planning. neo-urban is some new fangled name for... building sidewalks so people can actually walk places.
I don't understand why your political wing is opposed to sidewalks. Maybe you could help explain that to me.
The morons thought that Chalabi actually had a army of a million Iraqis prepared to do battle for him and take control after they ousted Hussein. Seriously, that's what Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney all believed. That's why they were saying we'd be six weeks tops, in and out...
Bush should have been impeached back in '03 when this all became clear. That he was reelected despite his shere incompetence has brought a shame upon our nation.
Through the late 1960s, the Khmer Rouge was supported and trained by the Vietnamese. While it's certainly true that they didn't capture the capital until 1975, it was most certainly the destabilization of the country through our war in Vietnam which created the environment for this to occur.
What's really sad, is that all the Vietnamese wanted was to no longer be a colony. They wanted the French gone, the Chinese gone. They wanted self-determination.
Rather than supporting that, the US fought it. Slaughtered millions of Vietnamese to prevent their independence.
You would think with our history, we would understand colonial independence, and we would support it. Had we, Vietnam would have been a capitalist nation and major trading partner 30 years sooner, and wouldn't have had to suffer the deaths of 15% of it's population.
This is one of the secrets of Dell. You don't have to just order the off the shelf computer, you can custom configure it to your needs. And you can custom configure it with better processors than the E6400 even.
If you guys weren't still living in the 1980s you'd understand why that is a good thing.
The amazing thing is, after the US left Vietnam things got better and fewer people died. Hell, the war had even destabilized Cambodia and after we left the Vietnamese had to go in there and take out Pol Pot.
And today Vietnam is a burgeoning capitalistic society and a major trading partner of the US.
I'm curious, what people thought they were fighting for in Vietnam considering while were were there things just got worse and they didn't improve until after we left.
Man, I thought you were going to give us something insightful. Like there's no way Iraq is like Vietnam. Since Vietnam had jungles, and Iraq has desert.
Keep clapping. We'll see if you can save tinkerbell after all.
It's not "hurr US too stupid to make a database", it's "dems dont want to let them have the funding they need".
They're already spinning up the "Democrats made us lose George Bush's Folly"?
When are you guys going to start taking responsibility for your own fucking incompetence? I suppose next we're going to hear the "soldiers were too lazy to fight" canards like we did after Vietnam. Sheesh
Bush has received every funding request he's asked for up until this point. Every single one. We're 4 years down the road, and things are worse now than before 9/11. And now you want to lay the blame on someone else, because you are too much of a moral coward to admit you were wrong all along.
comes with a 1.8 GHz processor with 2MB of cache, instead of the 2.16 GHz with 4MB. It comes with DDR2-533, instead of DDR2-667.
Apple is using the T7400, but the Dell you speak of is the E6400. The T7400 only has a 667 Mhz FSB, whereas the E6400 has a 1066 Mhz FSB. The 4M of cache on the T7400 helps to compensate, but the processors are similar in performance in overall benchmarking.
Before you go matching the specs, you should understand what the specs are.
If MS really is a changed corporation ( which remains to be seen ), they'd be the exception to the rule. And how, exactly, did they get nailed for their behavior by consumers? Did consumers stop buying their crap? Obviously not. So how?
By bad press.
This is an aspect of the Free Market that I don't think some people fully acknowledge. The invisible hand is not just the consumers buying the product, but those who don't buy the product and complain openly about it. Those open complaints do build up, and you can have a tipping point where people just start abandoning your product because they are sick and tired of the problems. I think we're starting to see this with Ford and GM now with Toyota as the dominant auto maker, as an example.
There's also that problem of the Inovator's Dilemna, where you can get yourself into a position where you are only pleasing existing customer and ignoring non-customers... where the inevitable is all your customers end up becoming non-customers as they see the new product. i.e. Polaroid losing out to digital cameras.
Microsoft recognized that the problem had gotten bad enough that if they didn't act to change things, in the future they would likely start losing customers.
The latest web survey showed further erosion of Apache compared to IIS? Do we need to spread a little marketing over at OSDL to try to turn that around?
It's kind of an old article, and the assertion made is pretty stupid. I don't see any other purpose.
Considering you can pick up a PC for about $1,000... The thing with the Citrix solution is you need to buy the dumb terminals for $500/each, plus you also need to buy a hefty server on the back end. Figure $50k or so for every 30-40 users.
So you're not saving anything on hardware.
But for every 100 pc's you need one support person to handle the various needs, whereas you can likely handle say 500 dumb terminals with a single person(now mostly doing Move/Add/Remove, rather than repairs so it's a cheaper resource), and multiple consolidated citrix servers. So while you have that extra hardware cost up front, that hardware will last 3 years or so on the server side, longer on the terminal side. But you don't have the recuring costs of the support persons.
Now the downside. My girlfriends company uses these. She's an accountant for a big grocery chain. In general they work.
Occasionally though, the citrix server will go offline. Since groups tend to be put together on a single citrix server, because that's the server which has installed their particular set of applications. It means their entire group is out of work until the server is back up.
For whatever reason, this seems to happen about once every three months, where they are out of work for about two hours.
I don't know how these things are setup over there, if you can load balance, or cluster. Clearly they need to divide a work group up onto multiple servers, as they take phone calls from vendors and it's useless if nobody in the group can lookup the status of something.
But really it's not a bad deal, if you are talking about users who do nothing but data entry into one or two apps, and then use email and word/excel. Any users which are more advanced, loading custom apps regularly, etc. it won't work for.
We use them at our company, because you can run these apps remotely. So instead of hiring temps and bringing them in house, we can farm out this work to a remote location, because it's expensive to keep around extra office space for those occurences where we need extra help entering in applications for a month or so.
I've been trying to find an answer to that for some time now. I remember when Flash ROM first came out in around 1990 or so, the number of erase cycles numbered in the thousands at most. It's first use them was for bios and things like that, which made sense.
But now that we have these little flash drives, and they're being promoted for day to day storage, and unlike say a floppy drive which also has a limited life span, they hold a lot of data. How long will they last?
Anyway, ReadyBoost isn't extended memory, if I understand it it's caching stuff from the harddrive and it's probably largely read operations.
My initial response was what the hell does that do? But it actually locks this table entry within a parent div tag.
It's basically like the behavior in Excel where you freeze the top columns or something like that. So it's not a bad behavior to have, but like you say the only way to do it is to know ahead of time where everything is. difficult with dynamically generated data.
and so Microsoft embedded like javascript language into their CSS. It's completely non-standard, not supported by anybody else. And I keep wondering when will we something like this in the standard?
People will avoid that. Although the "Buy it Now" is a similar good option and usually works if you are being reasonable.
A funny story... A month ago I sold a RAID controller and some other parts on ebay. I setup the auction with a $10 starting price, and a Buy-it-Now of $75, as that's what I thought the thing was worth and all i cared to get.
Usually when I do this, someone snags it with the Buy-it-Now, but this time someone bid instead, so the Buy-It-Now disappeared(as i had no reserve). Within a week there were 15 people watching the item, and a bidding war started.
I ended up selling it all for $160, which surprised me.
I only sell used stuff on ebay, things I don't otherwise have much use for. If I was trying to sell a PS3, things might be different. For me, I'm just happy that someone else can use the item and I recoup some value to buy new goodies with.
Some stuff is hardly worth selling. For instance I have decided i want to upgrade my home LAN to gigabit. Try selling a linksys 100baseT switch on ebay, you might get $5 if you're lucky.
According to Wikipedia, Phillipe Kahn entered the US on a tourist visa, setup Borland International shortly there after and didn't receive a Green Card until 1986, 4 years later.
Have them talk to Michelle Malkin. Or newsmax.com, wingnutdaily, techcentralstation, human events online... there's a whole list of them all funded through this network.
I realize the dirty truth behind the Republican curtain looks grim, but don't take it out on me.
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I know of nobody who wants to force you to live in a city and take publicn transport. But I know a lot of people who would like to have that option available to themselves. I choose to live in a 2nd ring suburb which has had a reemergence of neo-urban planning. neo-urban is some new fangled name for... building sidewalks so people can actually walk places.
I don't understand why your political wing is opposed to sidewalks. Maybe you could help explain that to me.
Nobody was going to upgrade to Vista.
/., so I know that must be true.
I heard it here on
The morons thought that Chalabi actually had a army of a million Iraqis prepared to do battle for him and take control after they ousted Hussein. Seriously, that's what Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney all believed. That's why they were saying we'd be six weeks tops, in and out...
Bush should have been impeached back in '03 when this all became clear. That he was reelected despite his shere incompetence has brought a shame upon our nation.
Through the late 1960s, the Khmer Rouge was supported and trained by the Vietnamese. While it's certainly true that they didn't capture the capital until 1975, it was most certainly the destabilization of the country through our war in Vietnam which created the environment for this to occur.
What's really sad, is that all the Vietnamese wanted was to no longer be a colony. They wanted the French gone, the Chinese gone. They wanted self-determination.
Rather than supporting that, the US fought it. Slaughtered millions of Vietnamese to prevent their independence.
You would think with our history, we would understand colonial independence, and we would support it. Had we, Vietnam would have been a capitalist nation and major trading partner 30 years sooner, and wouldn't have had to suffer the deaths of 15% of it's population.
This is one of the secrets of Dell. You don't have to just order the off the shelf computer, you can custom configure it to your needs. And you can custom configure it with better processors than the E6400 even.
If you guys weren't still living in the 1980s you'd understand why that is a good thing.
Pol Pot came to power because the US destabilized Cambodia while fighting in Vietnam.
It was the Vietnamese who went in to Cambodia and took out Pol Pot.
Peace comes from courage. Not shooting people without understanding what is going on.
The amazing thing is, after the US left Vietnam things got better and fewer people died. Hell, the war had even destabilized Cambodia and after we left the Vietnamese had to go in there and take out Pol Pot.
And today Vietnam is a burgeoning capitalistic society and a major trading partner of the US.
I'm curious, what people thought they were fighting for in Vietnam considering while were were there things just got worse and they didn't improve until after we left.
Man, I thought you were going to give us something insightful. Like there's no way Iraq is like Vietnam. Since Vietnam had jungles, and Iraq has desert.
Keep clapping. We'll see if you can save tinkerbell after all.
On whether or not you own Halliburton stock.
If you had bought in 2000, you'd have a 500% gain by now.
Yes, thank God President Pelosi instituted Casual Abortion Fridays.
God you guys are whiners.
They're already spinning up the "Democrats made us lose George Bush's Folly"?
When are you guys going to start taking responsibility for your own fucking incompetence? I suppose next we're going to hear the "soldiers were too lazy to fight" canards like we did after Vietnam. Sheesh
Bush has received every funding request he's asked for up until this point. Every single one. We're 4 years down the road, and things are worse now than before 9/11. And now you want to lay the blame on someone else, because you are too much of a moral coward to admit you were wrong all along.
If they'd wanted to win we would have mobilized a couple million soldiers and actually had control of the country from day one.
This... they planned for a 4 week operation. In and out, throw up the "Mission Accomplished" banner and march down Main Street to cheering throngs.
I don't know what you call this shit, but it ain't a war.
Apple is using the T7400, but the Dell you speak of is the E6400. The T7400 only has a 667 Mhz FSB, whereas the E6400 has a 1066 Mhz FSB. The 4M of cache on the T7400 helps to compensate, but the processors are similar in performance in overall benchmarking.
Before you go matching the specs, you should understand what the specs are.
Damn, if that's true. Why did it take 10 years for Microsoft to figure that out?
This is an aspect of the Free Market that I don't think some people fully acknowledge. The invisible hand is not just the consumers buying the product, but those who don't buy the product and complain openly about it. Those open complaints do build up, and you can have a tipping point where people just start abandoning your product because they are sick and tired of the problems. I think we're starting to see this with Ford and GM now with Toyota as the dominant auto maker, as an example.
There's also that problem of the Inovator's Dilemna, where you can get yourself into a position where you are only pleasing existing customer and ignoring non-customers... where the inevitable is all your customers end up becoming non-customers as they see the new product. i.e. Polaroid losing out to digital cameras.
Microsoft recognized that the problem had gotten bad enough that if they didn't act to change things, in the future they would likely start losing customers.
The latest web survey showed further erosion of Apache compared to IIS? Do we need to spread a little marketing over at OSDL to try to turn that around?
It's kind of an old article, and the assertion made is pretty stupid. I don't see any other purpose.
It's sad, but this guy is correct.
The worst are the people who get into programming, having skipped out of college because they thought they were too smart.
Considering you can pick up a PC for about $1,000... The thing with the Citrix solution is you need to buy the dumb terminals for $500/each, plus you also need to buy a hefty server on the back end. Figure $50k or so for every 30-40 users.
So you're not saving anything on hardware.
But for every 100 pc's you need one support person to handle the various needs, whereas you can likely handle say 500 dumb terminals with a single person(now mostly doing Move/Add/Remove, rather than repairs so it's a cheaper resource), and multiple consolidated citrix servers. So while you have that extra hardware cost up front, that hardware will last 3 years or so on the server side, longer on the terminal side. But you don't have the recuring costs of the support persons.
Now the downside. My girlfriends company uses these. She's an accountant for a big grocery chain. In general they work.
Occasionally though, the citrix server will go offline. Since groups tend to be put together on a single citrix server, because that's the server which has installed their particular set of applications. It means their entire group is out of work until the server is back up.
For whatever reason, this seems to happen about once every three months, where they are out of work for about two hours.
I don't know how these things are setup over there, if you can load balance, or cluster. Clearly they need to divide a work group up onto multiple servers, as they take phone calls from vendors and it's useless if nobody in the group can lookup the status of something.
But really it's not a bad deal, if you are talking about users who do nothing but data entry into one or two apps, and then use email and word/excel. Any users which are more advanced, loading custom apps regularly, etc. it won't work for.
We use them at our company, because you can run these apps remotely. So instead of hiring temps and bringing them in house, we can farm out this work to a remote location, because it's expensive to keep around extra office space for those occurences where we need extra help entering in applications for a month or so.
I've been trying to find an answer to that for some time now. I remember when Flash ROM first came out in around 1990 or so, the number of erase cycles numbered in the thousands at most. It's first use them was for bios and things like that, which made sense.
But now that we have these little flash drives, and they're being promoted for day to day storage, and unlike say a floppy drive which also has a limited life span, they hold a lot of data. How long will they last?
Anyway, ReadyBoost isn't extended memory, if I understand it it's caching stuff from the harddrive and it's probably largely read operations.
It's basically like the behavior in Excel where you freeze the top columns or something like that. So it's not a bad behavior to have, but like you say the only way to do it is to know ahead of time where everything is. difficult with dynamically generated data.
and so Microsoft embedded like javascript language into their CSS. It's completely non-standard, not supported by anybody else. And I keep wondering when will we something like this in the standard?
People will avoid that. Although the "Buy it Now" is a similar good option and usually works if you are being reasonable.
A funny story... A month ago I sold a RAID controller and some other parts on ebay. I setup the auction with a $10 starting price, and a Buy-it-Now of $75, as that's what I thought the thing was worth and all i cared to get.
Usually when I do this, someone snags it with the Buy-it-Now, but this time someone bid instead, so the Buy-It-Now disappeared(as i had no reserve). Within a week there were 15 people watching the item, and a bidding war started.
I ended up selling it all for $160, which surprised me.
I only sell used stuff on ebay, things I don't otherwise have much use for. If I was trying to sell a PS3, things might be different. For me, I'm just happy that someone else can use the item and I recoup some value to buy new goodies with.
Some stuff is hardly worth selling. For instance I have decided i want to upgrade my home LAN to gigabit. Try selling a linksys 100baseT switch on ebay, you might get $5 if you're lucky.
After this was posted two days ago as Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now, there was a lot of confusion created.
It's good that you put up this article for us, helping to clarify that we're talking about South Korea and not North Korea.
Thank you. My comrades in North Korea will be relieved to hear this.
According to Wikipedia, Phillipe Kahn entered the US on a tourist visa, setup Borland International shortly there after and didn't receive a Green Card until 1986, 4 years later.
Have them talk to Michelle Malkin. Or newsmax.com, wingnutdaily, techcentralstation, human events online... there's a whole list of them all funded through this network.
I realize the dirty truth behind the Republican curtain looks grim, but don't take it out on me.