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You're providing some really interesting information, but with all due respect, your approach is backward. Why would you first design the solution, and then ask what the guy has in mind for it?? It's like delivering a shiny new Porsche to someone, just to find he wants to move tonnes of dirt around.
First establish what he wants to use the storage for. Video streams? Archive? Massive web farm? Database systems?
Always start with establishing purpose. Designing the storage to match will be a lot easier.
If you want things to really hurt, multiply the purchase price by 10 or so. That would actually constitute a penalty to distribute buggy software for commercial vendors while still not impacting those who give the software away for free.
Large software products will never be entirely bug-free. To keep things reasonable, there should be a standard time-to-fix so commercial vendors also have a fair chance of cleaning up after a mistake.
The submitter has a different problem. If his boss hired him to do a rewrite in VB and he's not familiar enough with VB to make these claims himself, then he should not have been hired for that position in the first place. Time for him to move on.
No, seriously. I'm testing it and it simply doesn't work very well for me. Not on my reasonable high-end system with reasonably standard components. It's unstable, lacks many drivers and hangs quite frequently. The system keeps prompting me for drivers for 'unknown devices' with no obvious way to turn it off. The GUI has so many changes that it's essentially a steep learning curve. Nothing is simple anymore.
The UAP 'feature' is very annoying, and dialogs fall all over eachother trying to warn you for yet another dangerous action that some piece of software is attempting to run.
My opinion: Back to the drawing board.
(System: Antec case, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, AMD64X2 3800+, 2GB Kingston RAM, ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB, 2x Maxtor 250GB SATA RAID-1, Maxtor 80GB PATA)
The SCO funding rounds have nearly ended, SCO is going down on their FUD about Linux infringing on their rights.
So Microsoft will have to find a new fledging company that they'll fund/donate/"buy licenses from" to start a new round of high-profile litigation. Maybe against Google, maybe again against Linux somehow.. SUN maybe?
Is it me or are people, better yet, politicians forgetting what terrorism really is? Terrorism is spreading fear by inflicing selective pain to force a decision. This kind of bill does exactly that. It inflicts pain on small businesses trying to make a living, and forcing everyone to pay up to the big companies and patent/IP leeches. Probably the same leeches that sponsor this senator..
Let me guess, everyone opposing this bill will be labelled as 'unpatriotic', 'pro-terrorism' etc?!?
The Linux kernel offers API's and services that allow proprietary applications to run. If you look at a video driver as an "application to display information" then I see no reason why a proprietary driver couldn't be used with the Linux kernel. Just stick to a well defined set of API's and this discussion becomes a non-issue.
Pebble reactors are fine, until you count in terrorism.
Just the fact that you mention this means that terrorists have already accomplished their goal. They try to make people terrified by stuff that *might* happen by having smaller events happen every now and then.
I'm aware of the external power options, both good and bad. I was refering to the Epia-TC boards that can be powered by 12V. My point is that today's boards don't need 12V, so all on-board voltages are transformed and regulated down anyway. Why can't they make the input range a bit wider?
VIA so far has ignored all begging owners of other MiniITX boards to release Windows drivers that can run 800x480 resolution. This is the native resolution of nearly all 7" wide-screen displays, very popular with Car PC builders.
I sincerly hope VIA will listen this time and release a driver that fits the requests of all these CarPC project owners.
Also, there's been a MiniITX board with 12V-only power input. Unfortunately the 12V must be within +/- 5%, making it again unsuitable for Car PC usage. Why can't they release a board with wide voltage input (7V - 28V), and if at all possible with a built-in shutdown controller??
Have been a beta tester since 1994, and this beta is the worst ever. My system runs WindowsXP x64 just fine, but getting Vista to even install on it is next to impossible. Once it's on there's so many things going wrong that I can't even begin to list them. This late in the beta cycle I expect most issues to be closed as 'not reproduced' or 'wont fix' before RTM
Vista is in big trouble if my experience is anywhere near to what end users will experience...
With a bit of luck if MS marketing picks up the opportunity, you can purchase your own backdoor some time soon...
"So, would you like a standard backdoor for just $49,95 or do you take advantage of this month's special, the Enterprise Secure BackDoor for just $299,99 ? If you really want to go all-out, our World-wide MultiSystem "GATES" BDK (Backdoor Development Kit) gets you access to every PC in existence..."
So let me get this right... If the injected RFID tag gets compromised, does that mean I'll be charged an extra bag of chips each time I pass the checkout at Gateways??
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You're providing some really interesting information, but with all due respect, your approach is backward. Why would you first design the solution, and then ask what the guy has in mind for it?? It's like delivering a shiny new Porsche to someone, just to find he wants to move tonnes of dirt around.
First establish what he wants to use the storage for. Video streams? Archive? Massive web farm? Database systems?
Always start with establishing purpose. Designing the storage to match will be a lot easier.
.. 1984. George was right, just off by 22 years.
Hi Mo..
If you want things to really hurt, multiply the purchase price by 10 or so. That would actually constitute a penalty to distribute buggy software for commercial vendors while still not impacting those who give the software away for free.
Large software products will never be entirely bug-free. To keep things reasonable, there should be a standard time-to-fix so commercial vendors also have a fair chance of cleaning up after a mistake.
The submitter has a different problem. If his boss hired him to do a rewrite in VB and he's not familiar enough with VB to make these claims himself, then he should not have been hired for that position in the first place. Time for him to move on.
No, seriously. I'm testing it and it simply doesn't work very well for me. Not on my reasonable high-end system with reasonably standard components. It's unstable, lacks many drivers and hangs quite frequently. The system keeps prompting me for drivers for 'unknown devices' with no obvious way to turn it off. The GUI has so many changes that it's essentially a steep learning curve. Nothing is simple anymore.
The UAP 'feature' is very annoying, and dialogs fall all over eachother trying to warn you for yet another dangerous action that some piece of software is attempting to run.
My opinion: Back to the drawing board.
(System: Antec case, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, AMD64X2 3800+, 2GB Kingston RAM, ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB, 2x Maxtor 250GB SATA RAID-1, Maxtor 80GB PATA)
The SCO funding rounds have nearly ended, SCO is going down on their FUD about Linux infringing on their rights.
So Microsoft will have to find a new fledging company that they'll fund/donate/"buy licenses from" to start a new round of high-profile litigation. Maybe against Google, maybe again against Linux somehow.. SUN maybe?
Slashdot quotes Syousef, who quotes the newspaper. It's a quote-in-a-quote. Looks OK to me.
.. if you lose your hand. And that's exactly when they need your medical data..
Is it me or are people, better yet, politicians forgetting what terrorism really is? Terrorism is spreading fear by inflicing selective pain to force a decision. This kind of bill does exactly that. It inflicts pain on small businesses trying to make a living, and forcing everyone to pay up to the big companies and patent/IP leeches. Probably the same leeches that sponsor this senator..
Let me guess, everyone opposing this bill will be labelled as 'unpatriotic', 'pro-terrorism' etc?!?
The Linux kernel offers API's and services that allow proprietary applications to run. If you look at a video driver as an "application to display information" then I see no reason why a proprietary driver couldn't be used with the Linux kernel. Just stick to a well defined set of API's and this discussion becomes a non-issue.
Pebble reactors are fine, until you count in terrorism.
Just the fact that you mention this means that terrorists have already accomplished their goal. They try to make people terrified by stuff that *might* happen by having smaller events happen every now and then.
.. is for IBM to figure out where SCO's code is. Is that so much to ask for?
Hey Paul! Paul Moller?? Is that you? How's your Skycar coming along? Saw your stuff on www.moller.com, amazing!
But that contradicts the Core Fusion part..
It takes quite a lot of heat to cause fusion inside the core..
.. but only when they are no longer attached to a human body. A car bomb will do nicely for that.
Sheesh, what double standards.
I'm aware of the external power options, both good and bad. I was refering to the Epia-TC boards that can be powered by 12V. My point is that today's boards don't need 12V, so all on-board voltages are transformed and regulated down anyway. Why can't they make the input range a bit wider?
VIA so far has ignored all begging owners of other MiniITX boards to release Windows drivers that can run 800x480 resolution. This is the native resolution of nearly all 7" wide-screen displays, very popular with Car PC builders.
I sincerly hope VIA will listen this time and release a driver that fits the requests of all these CarPC project owners.
Also, there's been a MiniITX board with 12V-only power input. Unfortunately the 12V must be within +/- 5%, making it again unsuitable for Car PC usage. Why can't they release a board with wide voltage input (7V - 28V), and if at all possible with a built-in shutdown controller??
.. you will have to address the president as 'Mullah Bush'.
This government is just as scary as those folkes they are trying to eliminate in the Middle East.
Have been a beta tester since 1994, and this beta is the worst ever. My system runs WindowsXP x64 just fine, but getting Vista to even install on it is next to impossible. Once it's on there's so many things going wrong that I can't even begin to list them. This late in the beta cycle I expect most issues to be closed as 'not reproduced' or 'wont fix' before RTM
Vista is in big trouble if my experience is anywhere near to what end users will experience...
NINE Fans, and you can't hear them?!? Go see the DOCTOR to get a HEARING AIDE!
With a bit of luck if MS marketing picks up the opportunity, you can purchase your own backdoor some time soon...
"So, would you like a standard backdoor for just $49,95 or do you take advantage of this month's special, the Enterprise Secure BackDoor for just $299,99 ? If you really want to go all-out, our World-wide MultiSystem "GATES" BDK (Backdoor Development Kit) gets you access to every PC in existence..."
So let me get this right... If the injected RFID tag gets compromised, does that mean I'll be charged an extra bag of chips each time I pass the checkout at Gateways??
If you're "Mister Bright with the inside scoop", why not educate us all, instead of just rubbing in our face how wrong we all are?!?
The launch of this service wouldn't be in seven weeks from now, would it?
;P
Like just after March 31st?!?