Having worked with dinosaurs, well at least later generations, I can assure you that modern PCs aren't that dense from a thermal viewpoint. The higher-end dinosaurs had the chips sitting in special modules that provided thermal coupling. Unfortunately, you are certainly going to break the ATX spec if you start to generate so much heat and get rid of it.
Liquid cooling will do it easily, but it would be unusual and non-standard to require it,
It's a controlling entity, itself. It's from the issues stemming from this that many people take issue with the UN. Well, that, and it's filled with liberal US-haters.
The UN is filled with representives from around the world, it's staff are all from around the world and it repesents a dimension of world opinion.
If a country behaves unilaterally (Iraq, Kyoto, or whatever), it will not be liked. If a country sets international standards to which it does not adhere, it will not be liked.
The UN has no military, no police force and definitely no black helicopters. This is a problem and an asset at the same time. When it does have a military or police presence anywhere, it relies upon personel, materiel and command structure of its members.
The main current issue is with the democracy within the UN, where the security council members dominate, especially the permanent ones (of which the US is one).
When our kids are travelling then we have a roaming agreement on the SIM, it comes direct out of my bank account. However, they know this and know they should explain any big costs, so they are generally quite responsible. We then have the peace of mind by knowing that they can call us at any time.
Not always possible as some places require you to show a permanent address in the country you are visiting. This is to prevent terrorists and drug dealers from using Pay-as-you-go SIMs. It amy also help with the double extortion that happens during roaming.
Its a needed bit of individuality. When you have 20 people in an office all with their own mobiles, it kind of useful to know whose is whose. Of course, the considerate people have the volume turned down and the handset stuck in a pocket on vibrate mode.
My kids have pay as you go phones. Their allowance includes an amount for telephone calls. We ask them to choose how much they pay towards their calls on the condition that they keep enough credit to always be able to call us (we return the calls).
Believe it or not, there are free slots because adjacent broadcast transmitters don't share the same frequency. Certainly for very low power stuff, using the adjacent broadcast transmitter's frequency, as opposed to your local one wouldn't be a problem unless you live in an area equidistant between the two transmitters where some people use one or the other.
I'm in absolute agreement over Deutsche Shlaeger Zangers though.
I was on a short gig somewhere and needed email access to keep in touch, but webmail was blocked by the firewall. I didn't want to use my client's email as it was such a short gig (7 weeks). I just then discovered that although http:gmail was blocked, https:gmail wasn't. The problem is that the signon took me to a non https page which was then blocked, I just changed the protocol prefix to https and it carried on working with a secure link.
Actually not if you work in financial services where your company has a duty to monitor communications with the sales desks, voice and email. The idea is that a dealer may make personal call but not from their desk where they have access to privileged information.
Actually the UK problem is the HSE. They really don't like cables stretched across any gangway and responsible employees may be held accountable. Unless the power socket is right by the table, connection is really a no-no.
OTOH, I know a nice wine bar in the city of London that makes its prics somewhat more user freindly by providing free WiFi and power.
Some London black-cabs do this as a standard service, but you don't need to provide the charging adapter. Also, Vodafone a mobile airtime supplier at some of there shops offer a free emergency top up charge service, no matter which company is your airtime provider.
You fly without a good battery? I had to replace my battery before flying because of security checks. Yes, they can test it without me switching on but then it takes extra minutes to use the sniffer.
On a previous project we had an 'officially' hacked version of the JVM from SUN. It was still a pain because usually people would install the standard JVM not the hacked version (it was only really needed on the big web servers), but having multiple JVMs around is always a problem.
In truth Tandem was a bit of an overkill unless you really wanted non-stop operation, i.e., air-traffic-control, auto-teller back-end servers. In reality, the looser coupled clusters that were built using Digial's VMS tended to give a fairly fast recovery time.
Looser coupling meant that you were less likely to have the same error immediately on two machines (a danger with Tandem). Of course, data sharing was primarily through the file system and transaction protected files or databases. Slower, but a bit safer.
There was also a transaction processing system written for VMS called ACMS with transaction protection. You could hang lots of processed onto the framework and they would be protected from each other.
VMS lives on in many high throughput financial systems, but also thanks to HPaq it is dying.
I have a PDA running the PocketPC OS. It is very nicely integrated into a host Windows system which I have retained. However due to the wonderful Windows Installer, PocketPC software must be installed via Administrator on the host PC. WTF????? There is no admin on the PocketPC OS and I can manually install stuff without problems.
Please remember that the VGA screen is four times the number of pixels as the QVGA or whatever that they have on a standard Pocket PC. Even with a graaphics processor to help, there is still a fair bit of extra work that a 4700 must do with all those extra pixels. Also, the lower RAM size of a 4700 means less buffering is possible.
I have the 4700 and love it, but would also love the 128MB that comes with this model.
You are talking about the company that came up with the idea of clicking 'Start' to shut a machine down. With the way they are managed, each seems to interpret design rules differently, and neither HF or QA pick it up.
The scanners tested with the gummi-bear hack were all supposedly live sensing. They may have added some extra stuff to it now but after looking at the security, I can say that it is better than nothing for an integrated device like the IPAQ and most importantly, easier to use than a straight password (a pain on soft input panels).
What makes me very unhappy is when there is a fingerpint sensor, a large network and an authenticating server. There are so many points where signals may be injected on most systems that they are worse than useless (false sense of security).
When you get a requirement, you attempt to prioritise it, broadly between show-stoppers and nice to have. The show-stoppers have to be achieved, but perhaps some can be scheduled for 1.1? Nice to haves can always be held over until 1.1 or later.
Once you have captured requirements, you present them back to the user with some difficulty estimates. This is where the 'Win98' thing you quote should get killed. You also make sure that the customer is aware that you are always thinking around the next releases too (even if there is no budget yet), so they feel comfortable with postphoning funtionality.
When changes appear (you can't dodge all of them), you make sure that the customer is aware of changes to delivery schedule and budget. Perhaps they don't really need that in 1.0?
This technique is generically known i current project-manager-speak as Project Dashboards, referencing the instrument panel of a car. The idea is essentially what anon stated, to summarise and present progress, budget and quality level in as near to real-time as possible. For us, this generally meant at best daily rather than on a 'minute by minute' basis.
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Liquid cooling will do it easily, but it would be unusual and non-standard to require it,
VMS used them and it was very effective way of correcting DOS by poor programming.
If a country behaves unilaterally (Iraq, Kyoto, or whatever), it will not be liked. If a country sets international standards to which it does not adhere, it will not be liked.
The UN has no military, no police force and definitely no black helicopters. This is a problem and an asset at the same time. When it does have a military or police presence anywhere, it relies upon personel, materiel and command structure of its members.
The main current issue is with the democracy within the UN, where the security council members dominate, especially the permanent ones (of which the US is one).
When our kids are travelling then we have a roaming agreement on the SIM, it comes direct out of my bank account. However, they know this and know they should explain any big costs, so they are generally quite responsible. We then have the peace of mind by knowing that they can call us at any time.
Not always possible as some places require you to show a permanent address in the country you are visiting. This is to prevent terrorists and drug dealers from using Pay-as-you-go SIMs. It amy also help with the double extortion that happens during roaming.
You expect kids to do this, but it makes me weep when I see grown people doing this in offices.
Its a needed bit of individuality. When you have 20 people in an office all with their own mobiles, it kind of useful to know whose is whose. Of course, the considerate people have the volume turned down and the handset stuck in a pocket on vibrate mode.
My kids have pay as you go phones. Their allowance includes an amount for telephone calls. We ask them to choose how much they pay towards their calls on the condition that they keep enough credit to always be able to call us (we return the calls).
I'm in absolute agreement over Deutsche Shlaeger Zangers though.
I was on a short gig somewhere and needed email access to keep in touch, but webmail was blocked by the firewall. I didn't want to use my client's email as it was such a short gig (7 weeks). I just then discovered that although http:gmail was blocked, https:gmail wasn't. The problem is that the signon took me to a non https page which was then blocked, I just changed the protocol prefix to https and it carried on working with a secure link.
Actually not if you work in financial services where your company has a duty to monitor communications with the sales desks, voice and email. The idea is that a dealer may make personal call but not from their desk where they have access to privileged information.
OTOH, I know a nice wine bar in the city of London that makes its prics somewhat more user freindly by providing free WiFi and power.
Some London black-cabs do this as a standard service, but you don't need to provide the charging adapter. Also, Vodafone a mobile airtime supplier at some of there shops offer a free emergency top up charge service, no matter which company is your airtime provider.
You fly without a good battery? I had to replace my battery before flying because of security checks. Yes, they can test it without me switching on but then it takes extra minutes to use the sniffer.
Unfortunately for other purposes (virtual closes of financials and banking), it seems rather oversold and it runs like a dead dog.
On a previous project we had an 'officially' hacked version of the JVM from SUN. It was still a pain because usually people would install the standard JVM not the hacked version (it was only really needed on the big web servers), but having multiple JVMs around is always a problem.
Looser coupling meant that you were less likely to have the same error immediately on two machines (a danger with Tandem). Of course, data sharing was primarily through the file system and transaction protected files or databases. Slower, but a bit safer.
There was also a transaction processing system written for VMS called ACMS with transaction protection. You could hang lots of processed onto the framework and they would be protected from each other.
VMS lives on in many high throughput financial systems, but also thanks to HPaq it is dying.
I have a PDA running the PocketPC OS. It is very nicely integrated into a host Windows system which I have retained. However due to the wonderful Windows Installer, PocketPC software must be installed via Administrator on the host PC. WTF????? There is no admin on the PocketPC OS and I can manually install stuff without problems.
A lot of that software is pirated. It will work but may have upgrade issues. A proportion may be OEM, but a large number is just pirated.
Ah, not for long. The new systems will be infected before they d/l SP2.
I have the 4700 and love it, but would also love the 128MB that comes with this model.
You are talking about the company that came up with the idea of clicking 'Start' to shut a machine down. With the way they are managed, each seems to interpret design rules differently, and neither HF or QA pick it up.
What makes me very unhappy is when there is a fingerpint sensor, a large network and an authenticating server. There are so many points where signals may be injected on most systems that they are worse than useless (false sense of security).
Once you have captured requirements, you present them back to the user with some difficulty estimates. This is where the 'Win98' thing you quote should get killed. You also make sure that the customer is aware that you are always thinking around the next releases too (even if there is no budget yet), so they feel comfortable with postphoning funtionality.
When changes appear (you can't dodge all of them), you make sure that the customer is aware of changes to delivery schedule and budget. Perhaps they don't really need that in 1.0?
This technique is generically known i current project-manager-speak as Project Dashboards, referencing the instrument panel of a car. The idea is essentially what anon stated, to summarise and present progress, budget and quality level in as near to real-time as possible. For us, this generally meant at best daily rather than on a 'minute by minute' basis.