Don't forget that hard drive manufacturers were the ones to change things on us and start this mess. Back in the day, a 20MB ST-225 hard drive had well over 20,000,000 bytes (usually over 21,000,000 bytes, depending on bad sector mapping at the factory.) It wasn't until multiple-gigabyte drives that manufacturers started putting in the "1 GB=1,000,000,000 bytes" nonsense to inflate their drive sizes.
That was my problem with the new show for a couple of episodes. They seemed to keep dragging up old stuff instead of writing new material. There's the old pervert, the closet monkey, the fight with the chicken... and they seemed to be just thrown in there to have them there--not because they're at all relevant to the plot.
That said, it went uphill FAST after those first few episodes of the relaunch.
My 256MB i-Stick works fine on my keyboard. Problem is that it's so thin that it doesn't always make correct contact, so it sometimes shows up as an "unknown device" (if it shows up at all.) I end up using it with its housing all the time.
Nice concept, though.
Interesting. So USB drive manufacturers could put a single small Creative Commons licensed song on each stick and sell them as "music drives" rather than blank, thus avoiding the levy (and maybe even collecting a bit of that pie themselves.)
Yup. My employer insists on turning off all power saving features on the image we use on our Macs and PC's, and at least 20% of users leave their machines on at all times. I have taken to at least turning on some basic power saving features (i.e. spinning down hard drives after 2 hours, and turning off LCD's after 3 hours), and on Friday nights I walk around putting machines to sleep so they don't sit and spin the drives all weekend.
Exactly. I'm one of those weird geeks who actually likes wearing a shirt and tie, but after crawling around all day under desks and behind racks, I'm glad I'm wearing cheap dockers and a polo, and on days we're going to be really moving stuff around, I wear jeans and a clean unfaded T-shirt.
And when clients or upper management will be coming to visit, I turn to the shirt/tie/slacks/shoes in the suit bag hanging in the back of the server room.
Perhaps if you're driving through an incredibly flat area with the cruise set at 65 mph, the mileage will be the same as a straight ICE. However, freeway commuting with any traffic at all is an exercise in speeding up and slowing down as people cut in front of other people, slow for curves, suddenly start paying attention and speed up, etc. If you drive a car with an instant mileage computer, you'll see that steady mileage. (My recent drive in an '06 Passat, for instance, saw fuel mileage fluctuate between 22 mpg and 135 mpg while driving in a commute at an average of 65 mph.)
The difference is that a hybrid will use the off-gas "135 mpg" time to recharge the batteries slightly, and will supply the "22 mpg" acceleration by using battery power instead of increasing fuel flow. Therefore, even in a highway commute, the hybrid will get better mileage.
I remember something on the Engadget podcast about a tiny phone you can take clubbing. Basically, you pop the SIM out of your normal PDA/phone and into this mini-phone, and take your number and address book with you. Kinda like how some women have a huge bag for work, but downgrade to a tiny purselet when out on the town.
I see that a lot. When it comes time to persecute people for homosexuality or premarital sex, the Bible is an "absolute", and "literally and completely accurate." But when fundies are presented with other lessons, like not eating pork, giving away worldly possessions and wearing beards, suddenly the Bible is figuratively true but not literally true.
WiFi is a great example. When I open the lid on my Powerbook, it wakes up correctly EVERY time, and before I can even get my screensaver password entered, it has reconnected to my Netgear WiFi router, reestablished all my SSH connections to my Linux servers, checked my POP server for mail and reconnected my iChat to AIM.
I also can apply patches and updates without worrying about breaking anything, and I can continue to get fully supported OS and application updates for years (yes, even with the Intels coming.)
Don't get me wrong; I love Linux. It definitely has its place (i.e. my servers.) I just don't have the time to play Russian Roulette with compatibility.
Exactly. When that no-name motherboard dies in 60 days, try to get whichever Pricewatch merchant you bought it from to replace it. Or try to find the number to the manufacturer in Taiwan and ship it overseas to get it repaired.
Well, and the 5200/7800 overlapped with the 400/800 computers as well. My first "game machine" was my dad's 800, and there were several 5200 cartridges hacked and available on the 800.
Even the 5200/7800, while a massive improvement over the 2600 and quite good in their own right, still weren't quite "there" compared to the arcade machines. What made me buy an NES was Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt, which had the same sound, graphics and music as the arcade version. (Funny, my NES is long since gone, but I still use my Atari to play games.)
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It sure didn't hurt. One of the big things that NES had going for it was that the games you played on it were as good as the real machines in the arcade. The 2600 games, on the hand, were horrible approximations of the arcade games.
Well, and what happens if you start having multiple disk failures within the warranty period? You're going to have to hire a full-time person just to fill out the RMA paperwork, send the old drives in and receive the replacements. Of course, most manufacturers will then replace RMA'd drives with "remanufactured" drives, so there's another unknown.
I've worked for companies who have such a "standard." They usually also have a set of "standard" servers you could use. Perhaps you can define these tasks as "server" tasks and order a proper machine from the server list?
That's the part I don't understand about Dvorak. On TWiT, he seems pretty platform-independent, and even complimentary to Apple and their products. He seems to morph into a different creature entirely when he gets in front of a keyboard.
Our company has had about 20% of its iBook G4's die of video/logic board problems. They didn't get the Applecare warranty on them, so they were all out of the 1 year warranty. The users don't really abuse them, they just use them a lot. We're now replacing them with Powerbooks because we've had a 100% success rate with them so far. (We're still getting the 3 year Applecare though.)
Geoworks Ensemble had true WYSIWYG fonts and printer drivers, ran far faster than Windows 3.0 on the same hardware, and had a bundled word processor. Alas, they couldn't get an SDK out, and WFW clobbered it.
Same situation, but I DID get double-charged. It took a letter to the owners (small grocery store chain) to get my money back. If I had used a credit card, I could have just charged it back if the clerk didn't cooperate.
That's easy. Just don't accept more than one login with the same generated code. If somebody logs in and right back out with the code generated on the token, just make them wait the 60 seconds until the next code comes up.
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Exactly. Go check out the $5.50 DVD bin at Walmart. At that price, even mediocre movies are selling like hotcakes.
Don't forget that hard drive manufacturers were the ones to change things on us and start this mess. Back in the day, a 20MB ST-225 hard drive had well over 20,000,000 bytes (usually over 21,000,000 bytes, depending on bad sector mapping at the factory.) It wasn't until multiple-gigabyte drives that manufacturers started putting in the "1 GB=1,000,000,000 bytes" nonsense to inflate their drive sizes.
That said, it went uphill FAST after those first few episodes of the relaunch.
My 256MB i-Stick works fine on my keyboard. Problem is that it's so thin that it doesn't always make correct contact, so it sometimes shows up as an "unknown device" (if it shows up at all.) I end up using it with its housing all the time. Nice concept, though.
Interesting. So USB drive manufacturers could put a single small Creative Commons licensed song on each stick and sell them as "music drives" rather than blank, thus avoiding the levy (and maybe even collecting a bit of that pie themselves.)
Yup. My employer insists on turning off all power saving features on the image we use on our Macs and PC's, and at least 20% of users leave their machines on at all times. I have taken to at least turning on some basic power saving features (i.e. spinning down hard drives after 2 hours, and turning off LCD's after 3 hours), and on Friday nights I walk around putting machines to sleep so they don't sit and spin the drives all weekend.
And when clients or upper management will be coming to visit, I turn to the shirt/tie/slacks/shoes in the suit bag hanging in the back of the server room.
The difference is that a hybrid will use the off-gas "135 mpg" time to recharge the batteries slightly, and will supply the "22 mpg" acceleration by using battery power instead of increasing fuel flow. Therefore, even in a highway commute, the hybrid will get better mileage.
I remember something on the Engadget podcast about a tiny phone you can take clubbing. Basically, you pop the SIM out of your normal PDA/phone and into this mini-phone, and take your number and address book with you. Kinda like how some women have a huge bag for work, but downgrade to a tiny purselet when out on the town.
Yeah, Microsoft Antispyware leaves Gator/GAIN alone, but wants to remove TightVNC. Go figure.
I'm not a programmer, but I'm interested in the answer. Can you elaborate?
I see that a lot. When it comes time to persecute people for homosexuality or premarital sex, the Bible is an "absolute", and "literally and completely accurate." But when fundies are presented with other lessons, like not eating pork, giving away worldly possessions and wearing beards, suddenly the Bible is figuratively true but not literally true.
I also can apply patches and updates without worrying about breaking anything, and I can continue to get fully supported OS and application updates for years (yes, even with the Intels coming.)
Don't get me wrong; I love Linux. It definitely has its place (i.e. my servers.) I just don't have the time to play Russian Roulette with compatibility.
It has only a 1 year warranty on parts, and after 30 days, you have to pay to ship the computer to them for repair.
Exactly. When that no-name motherboard dies in 60 days, try to get whichever Pricewatch merchant you bought it from to replace it. Or try to find the number to the manufacturer in Taiwan and ship it overseas to get it repaired.
Even the 5200/7800, while a massive improvement over the 2600 and quite good in their own right, still weren't quite "there" compared to the arcade machines. What made me buy an NES was Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt, which had the same sound, graphics and music as the arcade version. (Funny, my NES is long since gone, but I still use my Atari to play games.)
It sure didn't hurt. One of the big things that NES had going for it was that the games you played on it were as good as the real machines in the arcade. The 2600 games, on the hand, were horrible approximations of the arcade games.
Well, and what happens if you start having multiple disk failures within the warranty period? You're going to have to hire a full-time person just to fill out the RMA paperwork, send the old drives in and receive the replacements. Of course, most manufacturers will then replace RMA'd drives with "remanufactured" drives, so there's another unknown.
I've worked for companies who have such a "standard." They usually also have a set of "standard" servers you could use. Perhaps you can define these tasks as "server" tasks and order a proper machine from the server list?
We could also reprocess our existing nuclear waste and get some more life out of it.
That's the part I don't understand about Dvorak. On TWiT, he seems pretty platform-independent, and even complimentary to Apple and their products. He seems to morph into a different creature entirely when he gets in front of a keyboard.
Our company has had about 20% of its iBook G4's die of video/logic board problems. They didn't get the Applecare warranty on them, so they were all out of the 1 year warranty. The users don't really abuse them, they just use them a lot. We're now replacing them with Powerbooks because we've had a 100% success rate with them so far. (We're still getting the 3 year Applecare though.)
Geoworks Ensemble had true WYSIWYG fonts and printer drivers, ran far faster than Windows 3.0 on the same hardware, and had a bundled word processor. Alas, they couldn't get an SDK out, and WFW clobbered it.
Same situation, but I DID get double-charged. It took a letter to the owners (small grocery store chain) to get my money back. If I had used a credit card, I could have just charged it back if the clerk didn't cooperate.
That's easy. Just don't accept more than one login with the same generated code. If somebody logs in and right back out with the code generated on the token, just make them wait the 60 seconds until the next code comes up.