Yeah, during the day I'm really a nice guy, but from midnight till 4 AM I'm doing couple of break-ins and rob a few 7-11's. But that is a completely different me!! So "you should put the other half of me in jail".
Talking about "grammer cop"... read the original poster of this topic
However, are these internet degrees even worth the paper their printed on?
Seems this guy has spent too much time in chat rooms and not enough in lecture theaters: "their" vs "they are" is one of those things that happen mainly with people involved in too much online conversations. So probably he should invest in some "offline" classes.
Those three all kept a Flash RAM focus for too long.
And that's the funny one. And why Apple is probably brilliant. Yes they didn't switch fast enough to a "Palm with built-in microdrive". But Apple is at this moment clearly moving back from HD's to flash. Look at the Nano replacing the Mini. I'm sure that in two years also their high-end video pods will have eliminated the harddisk. Either replacing it with flash memory, and/or with wireless bandwidth.
Part of the appeal of the IPods is that they do what they do *well*.
Which is similar to why Google more or less wiped out Yahoo in searching. At the time, Yahoo was seen as the searching site that couldn't been beaten. Although we suffered their banners and other stuff. Google came and did nothing but searching, searching and searching, with a home page of only a few kilobytes. And even with textual advertising of only a few bytes. In short, the features were limited, but they did them well !!!
So, I'm truly convinced that when there is a company (history tells that this will be a new starter) that develops a cellphone with a voice quality and battery life that doesn't let me say from the start "shall I call you back on a landline", they will have a gold-mine. Sidenote: when you think currt cellphone sound quality is 'good enough', think for a second why everybody is shouting into their cell phones so loud that they anoy everybody around them.
A. v3.2 is the first to include a Windows build supplement I downloaded version 3.6.0, but there seems to be nada:) support for Visual C. No win32 directory to be found. However on the download page, in the unsupported section, there was also DSPAM v. 3.2.8, which indeed does contain the Windows stuff.
Didn't check it out if they do, but besides the cost savings for the purchase, Dell should also reduce the cost of their 1yr/3yr support cost. Of course the HW can still fail, but I'm sure that the majority of the calls in their support centers is about people having problems with their (Windows) software. When people install their own software, they are of course on their own on that topic.
Let me get that straight... trees in the desert?? and then a few thousand people that burn everything in sight??? Mmmmm, there better is some other hugging going on....:-)
Sorry, don't know where I read it. And maybe it isn't true. But when I once was talking to a customer about a thin client solution, they told me that when they built their campus (this was a 10000+ staff company) the power consumption of the PCs was taken into account to calculate the amount of heating required. So, with thin clients they would have cold feet in winter.:-)
I wouldn't find the number unbelievable (even when I currently can't prove it), just look in your own cubicle and compare the power consumption of your PC with that of the light tube in the ceiling. OK, to that you have to add the aircon of course. But without all the PCs you also would need less aircon. Then add all the power and cooling in the datacenters. A 1U racked PC nowadays consumes half a kW. Put 36 in a rack and then start counting. You problaby have to double that amount for the cooling equipment.
I 100% agree with you!! But then we are overestimating the intelligence of people going on a Saturday afternoon to Best Buy to get a nice new bloated Windows loaded Dell or HP. Bigger is better.....
Did you know that by now 10% of current electricity usage in the US is needed for computers? At different times I have very changing opinions when I hear such a news item. To use 1 KW for playing games sounds pretty awful. But to use maybe even more power at the datacenter where your ISP is located to take care of your teleworking sounds like a good deal (compared to the gas your car needs for commuting). Still I'm pretty horified to think about all those kilowatts being used for Clippy or other features on our desktops that nobody ever asked for but that demand faster chips, mor storage, higher clockspeeds and fast increasing power consumption, etc.
My Powerbook runs hotter if any of the MS apps are running, even in the background, so even idling they're hitting the processor hard.
Hey, that's the Wintel world. Each new MS version requires a speedier Intel processor. Welcome to YOUR new world, Apple is joining it without the push from Redmond, but Intel stays the same. You have to upgrade baby, and your system will remain slow.....
Don't understand why people are so enthousiastic about the "world coverage" by Google maps. Besides the UK, not a single road or city in the whole of Europe. As if there are no German 'autobahns':-).
But what can you expect from a mapping system that has taken lat/long N 38.35 / W 98.5 as the center of the world. This is not a joke, Wacoma Lake in Kansas is the origin (x=0, y=0) of Google's mapping system. Even the maps of the UK are relative to that coordinate system.
I love Google and the way they approach many issues. But technologically maps.google is more a brilliant piece of JavaScript than a well thought through cartographic system.
Hi anonymous, "what is your excuse"?.... Well, you're right, until now my excuse was always the horror stories about limited writes. But with today's prices, I should maybe just try it out and see where the ship strands....
I have only two concerns about these news drives. First, cost, since even 4GB is prohibitively expensive today (Only affordable way to get some is to buy an MP3 player and crack it open).
But that's the whole point. If you can buy relatively cheap flash in an MP3 player, why shouldn't you be able to buy it even cheaper as an IDE drive. I would buy a 1GB model tomorrow, if it had the same $/MB as my MP3 player. It's all a matter of manufacturing / retail scale.
With a 1GB drive I could finally make that old PC we just use for WebBrowsing 100% silent. Oh yes, I would buy second one for in my firewall and webserver. However, to be able to do this, the limited write cycle problem should have been solved first.
Here is a Dell PowerEdge 750 1U server with a P4 2.8GHz HyperThreaded, 256M and an 80G SATA [...] for $499 shipped to your door.
Sounds nice, but to upgrade that 2.8 GHz even to 3.0 Ghz, Dell rips you off another $299, and so on. A 60% price increase for a 7% CPU speed increase sounds similar to what airlines are doing with their pricing. So, not a company I would trust with my business.
This is a clone of the SunRay solution (see here). With SunRay's you use a smartcard to access, which has the cool feature, that you can pull your card from the thin client, walk over to another (to discuss something with a colleague, to give a preso in the boardroom, to go home even!!) and plug your card into another SunRay, where your session continues as if nothing had happened.
When I viewed that page a few hours later the error got corrected.... it said "Ads by Google, Airbus A320 for sale". So it seems that the guy that bought his A380 on eBay, traded in an A320, which is now for sale.:-)
Correct, and for years there has been the Microsoft TerraServer that combines USGS maps with (Russian:-) aerial photos. OK, not a routefinding application, but what's the use of routefinding on an aerial photo.
Here in (also cold) Canada, I visited a customer recently to discuss a thin-client solution. One of their comments was that when all those PCs would disappear from the desktop they could be having a heating problem. They had a rather new building and when the heating system for that office was dimensioned, the amount of heat produced by the PCs was calculated in. Which resulted in a smaller furnice.
what if the big guys (Sun/IBM) started selling over-broadband GNOME desktop subscriptions (e.g., Sun Ray)
Don't expect that from the vendors, but that will certainly come from your local ISP, cable company, etc. They are heavily searching for more services that utilizes the bandwidth and back-end infrastructure they have built over the last years. Therefore centrally managed thin client desktops in the homes is a natural next step. Of course not for the average/. reader, but think about your mums and grandfathers.
It's also the logical next step for integration between those thin clients and video-on-demand plus PVR type applications. See it as the merger between your set-top box and your cable modem. I'm sure that that's coming. And when you can do proper web browsing, email and a little office from your TV's / displays (and now don't think WebTV, but more 1280x768 HDTV), I'm sure many people don't really want to have their own PC anymore. Let someone else do the backups, virus and spam filtering, etc.
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Yeah, during the day I'm really a nice guy, but from midnight till 4 AM I'm doing couple of break-ins and rob a few 7-11's. But that is a completely different me!! So "you should put the other half of me in jail".
However, are these internet degrees even worth the paper their printed on?
Seems this guy has spent too much time in chat rooms and not enough in lecture theaters: "their" vs "they are" is one of those things that happen mainly with people involved in too much online conversations. So probably he should invest in some "offline" classes.
gives a new meaning to "burn in Dell hell" :)
And that's the funny one. And why Apple is probably brilliant. Yes they didn't switch fast enough to a "Palm with built-in microdrive". But Apple is at this moment clearly moving back from HD's to flash. Look at the Nano replacing the Mini. I'm sure that in two years also their high-end video pods will have eliminated the harddisk. Either replacing it with flash memory, and/or with wireless bandwidth.
It's all about timing....
Which is similar to why Google more or less wiped out Yahoo in searching. At the time, Yahoo was seen as the searching site that couldn't been beaten. Although we suffered their banners and other stuff. Google came and did nothing but searching, searching and searching, with a home page of only a few kilobytes. And even with textual advertising of only a few bytes. In short, the features were limited, but they did them well !!!
So, I'm truly convinced that when there is a company (history tells that this will be a new starter) that develops a cellphone with a voice quality and battery life that doesn't let me say from the start "shall I call you back on a landline", they will have a gold-mine. Sidenote: when you think currt cellphone sound quality is 'good enough', think for a second why everybody is shouting into their cell phones so loud that they anoy everybody around them.
It's all about KISS !!!
A. v3.2 is the first to include a Windows build supplement :) support for Visual C. No win32 directory to be found. However on the download page, in the unsupported section, there was also DSPAM v. 3.2.8, which indeed does contain the Windows stuff.
I downloaded version 3.6.0, but there seems to be nada
What is longer: the EULA or 400 sheets??
Didn't check it out if they do, but besides the cost savings for the purchase, Dell should also reduce the cost of their 1yr/3yr support cost. Of course the HW can still fail, but I'm sure that the majority of the calls in their support centers is about people having problems with their (Windows) software. When people install their own software, they are of course on their own on that topic.
painful !!!
a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap
... trees in the desert?? and then a few thousand people that burn everything in sight??? Mmmmm, there better is some other hugging going on .... :-)
Let me get that straight
Yes it was...methinks he has too much time on his hands.
:)
Don't think so. The guy 'played' his songs for only one second. I would call that someone in a hurry...
I wouldn't find the number unbelievable (even when I currently can't prove it), just look in your own cubicle and compare the power consumption of your PC with that of the light tube in the ceiling. OK, to that you have to add the aircon of course. But without all the PCs you also would need less aircon. Then add all the power and cooling in the datacenters. A 1U racked PC nowadays consumes half a kW. Put 36 in a rack and then start counting. You problaby have to double that amount for the cooling equipment.
I 100% agree with you!! But then we are overestimating the intelligence of people going on a Saturday afternoon to Best Buy to get a nice new bloated Windows loaded Dell or HP. Bigger is better .....
Did you know that by now 10% of current electricity usage in the US is needed for computers? At different times I have very changing opinions when I hear such a news item. To use 1 KW for playing games sounds pretty awful. But to use maybe even more power at the datacenter where your ISP is located to take care of your teleworking sounds like a good deal (compared to the gas your car needs for commuting).
Still I'm pretty horified to think about all those kilowatts being used for Clippy or other features on our desktops that nobody ever asked for but that demand faster chips, mor storage, higher clockspeeds and fast increasing power consumption, etc.
Hey, that's the Wintel world. Each new MS version requires a speedier Intel processor. Welcome to YOUR new world, Apple is joining it without the push from Redmond, but Intel stays the same. You have to upgrade baby, and your system will remain slow.....
I would mod you up, but don't have points right now!! :-( Grand-parent is an idiot....
But what can you expect from a mapping system that has taken lat/long N 38.35 / W 98.5 as the center of the world. This is not a joke, Wacoma Lake in Kansas is the origin (x=0, y=0) of Google's mapping system. Even the maps of the UK are relative to that coordinate system.
I love Google and the way they approach many issues. But technologically maps.google is more a brilliant piece of JavaScript than a well thought through cartographic system.
:-)
OK, mod me down.....
Hi anonymous, "what is your excuse"? .... Well, you're right, until now my excuse was always the horror stories about limited writes. But with today's prices, I should maybe just try it out and see where the ship strands....
But that's the whole point. If you can buy relatively cheap flash in an MP3 player, why shouldn't you be able to buy it even cheaper as an IDE drive. I would buy a 1GB model tomorrow, if it had the same $/MB as my MP3 player. It's all a matter of manufacturing / retail scale.
With a 1GB drive I could finally make that old PC we just use for WebBrowsing 100% silent. Oh yes, I would buy second one for in my firewall and webserver. However, to be able to do this, the limited write cycle problem should have been solved first.
Here is a Dell PowerEdge 750 1U server with a P4 2.8GHz HyperThreaded, 256M and an 80G SATA [...] for $499 shipped to your door.
Sounds nice, but to upgrade that 2.8 GHz even to 3.0 Ghz, Dell rips you off another $299, and so on. A 60% price increase for a 7% CPU speed increase sounds similar to what airlines are doing with their pricing. So, not a company I would trust with my business.
This is a clone of the SunRay solution (see here). With SunRay's you use a smartcard to access, which has the cool feature, that you can pull your card from the thin client, walk over to another (to discuss something with a colleague, to give a preso in the boardroom, to go home even!!) and plug your card into another SunRay, where your session continues as if nothing had happened.
When I viewed that page a few hours later the error got corrected .... it said "Ads by Google, Airbus A320 for sale". So it seems that the guy that bought his A380 on eBay, traded in an A320, which is now for sale. :-)
Correct, and for years there has been the Microsoft TerraServer that combines USGS maps with (Russian :-) aerial photos. OK, not a routefinding application, but what's the use of routefinding on an aerial photo.
Here in (also cold) Canada, I visited a customer recently to discuss a thin-client solution. One of their comments was that when all those PCs would disappear from the desktop they could be having a heating problem. They had a rather new building and when the heating system for that office was dimensioned, the amount of heat produced by the PCs was calculated in. Which resulted in a smaller furnice.
Don't expect that from the vendors, but that will certainly come from your local ISP, cable company, etc. They are heavily searching for more services that utilizes the bandwidth and back-end infrastructure they have built over the last years. Therefore centrally managed thin client desktops in the homes is a natural next step. Of course not for the average /. reader, but think about your mums and grandfathers.
It's also the logical next step for integration between those thin clients and video-on-demand plus PVR type applications. See it as the merger between your set-top box and your cable modem. I'm sure that that's coming. And when you can do proper web browsing, email and a little office from your TV's / displays (and now don't think WebTV, but more 1280x768 HDTV), I'm sure many people don't really want to have their own PC anymore. Let someone else do the backups, virus and spam filtering, etc.