And not to forget, what do you think that helpdesk guy/gal from Dell in Bangalore will give you as a solution to your PC problems. I'm 100% sure the scripts will include things like "and now please wipe out your harddisk and reinstall from the Dell recovery disks", but not "you better uninstall IE and download Firefox, sir".
So it's only partly about a user's favourite browser, but much more about what comes preinstalled and what do Dell, HP, IBM (oops, Lenovo) and Gateway support.
PS. Of course they won't say "please wipe out your harddisk", but you discover that quickly after your recovery.....
Well, you're right about the use of flat files, but there are also index files with the main headers (from/to/subject/date/etc.) and pointers to the email itself.
I don't like either multi multi megabyte email files with just flat text, even when the content is large blob's like video (MIME encoded), but the indexes are there to speed things up.
I'm banging a fat chick at the moment and I love it.
Everybody get the picture??? Fat girlfriend in bed, laptop next to her head (otherwise it would hurt the fertility:) on the second pillow. And this guy is "at the moment banging" her and typing on the keyboard his Slashdot post..... Wow, that's the most impressive multi-tasking I've ever heard about.:-)
As a person, travelling weekly between two timezones, I really think it was good idea. Be fair, even my PDA doesn't have a good solution for booking meetings in multiple timezones and then remembering me at the right time, in whatever timezone I am.
For me the failure of Internet Time was caused by Swatch's pompous choice of making Bern "the center of the world". Oh gosh!!! If I would have implemented Internet Time I would have used the date-line, 180 degrees East or West as point zero. Nobody lives in the Bering Street, nobody can get an ego, nobody can get upset. Perfect for a neutral baseline for a new timezone.
Would be cool to make one of these that shows Internet Time. You remember, that dot-com time invention from Swatch to have time-zone crossing con-calls at @526 and everybody would then know when that was. For those who missed that, Swatch wanted to cut 24 hours into thousand pieces, so one unit of Internet Time (called a beat) is app. 1.5 minute, which is accurate enough for things like the start of a meeting.
The headache will be of course that sundials are by nature giving time in "local time" and need a correction to display "standard time". This problem would be agrevated when the dial has to display Internet Time, which can only be overcome to build custom sundials for every longitude on earth. This sounds bad, but sundials are anyway normally custom made, so maybe this isn't too bad. Probably the biggest obstacle is that now already, 5 years after the invention, nobody remembers what internet time was. Oh well.....
I was up at 3:30am this morning logged into our VPN and upgrading a system >
OK, OK, I know it: You must be working for SCO, starting early to get that decament from the site.:-) And I can imagine that when you are sysadmin at SCO, you don't want to touch any computer anymore in the evening....
Sorry, couldn't resist, nothing personal, and you work of course completely somewhere else.
That's for me perfectly OK: no work at home. But then the flipside is that at work there should be no browsing of Expedia, calling the plumber, booking the dentist, solving your parking ticket, etc. I'm 100% fine with that, and spend your evening time on your music, etc. Myself, I'm different, when that's most efficient, I will solve private issues also at work. But then I don't mind to finish a report, write a proposal, check my business email or whatever work related stuff after 8 PM.
From the article: Hush must have started with solid billets of aluminium of almost five and a half centimetres thick to create the side panels. Oh dear, seems like people know more and more about digital and software, but when it comes to old fashioned manufacturing, it becomes lah-lah-land.
These "side panels", cooling ribs would be a better term, are not created by cutting it out of a solid piece of aluminum. That would be horribly expensive, no, this is created by extruding the aluminum. In layman's terms, it's like that thing (in dutch it is called a "slagroomspuit" but my online dictionary doesn't know the translation) you use to put nice shaped whipped cream on a birthday cake. But in this case, you keep the nozzle steady, make the opening a kind of comb shape and of you go. Meters and meters of a profile that just needs cutting to get these cooling ribs.
That's also no accident, since Java is the only major software product Sun has that is still of any relevance to the market.
Do you think the acceptance of 'Linux on the Desktop' would have been on the level it is now, without OpenOffice / StarOffice? None of the attempts (do I hear Munchen) to wipe MS from the typical office desktop would have had any success without Sun's StarOffice or OOo. In my book that is relevance to the market.
The same can of course be said about Ximian (Novell) or Mozilla (Netscape/AOL), but what are HP's or IBM's contributions to the Linux world, without which Linux wouldn't have made it? Still, the/. community always mentions IBM and HP as the companies that embrace and understand Open Source and Linux. I don't get that.....
Do you know how many megapixel an eye is. This is not just to be funny (my eyes are 8 MegaPixel, what are yours?:-), but seriously I'm wondering if the comparison could be made.
going there for job experience is worthless since you can instead work for a small company [...] in the US and get the same experience.
Ehhhh, someone confusing 'job experience' with 'life experience'..... Let's phrase that better, if you (in the USA) can hire a guy/gal that hanged out in university for a year longer than necessary, or another that did normal in university and after that "wasted" 2 years behind a helpdesk in India. Which one would you hire????
Yep, I remember my share (a few hundred) of cockroaches. We had to break all the cupboards out of our appartment to get rid of them. Not to forget the fight required to convince our landlord for getting that done. Don't remember shitloads of money for rent, it was more shitloads of cockroaches:-). But we fought ourselves out of that... Don't think that those folks in India, portraited in the article have it different. Lots of challenges, but in the end a great time. If you (not talking about citog!!) can't stand those challenges, better stay home for turkey. But you'll miss the curry...
Sorry to say, but if you're asking this type of questions, you're probably not made up for that type of move. BTW, I've lived in Europe, Far-East, now Canada, always "local contract", so I know what I talk about. Back to a good answer, the thing is that if you're young (or young-of-heart), what only matters is that the job pays enough to pay for a decent living. I suppose you read the article, and all those Europeans in India clearly lived well. No hunger, lots of curry,:-) what do you want more!!
When living overseas, the question is most often not about pay, but more if you can get affordable housing. I lived in Singapore, with a typical rent of 5000 per month. So, it becomes important that an employer is helping to overcome that hurdle. Next thing, what are the taxes. For example, I took in Singapore a big pay cut, but taxes were 10-15%. Oh, did I mention that a good dinner outside would set you back less than 5 bucks?
I hope you get the gist. Wages or pay cuts say nothing!! It's about income versus cost of living. And when that works our reasonable enough, you should of course have a little mentality of "carpe diem" and not too much worry about your mutual funds, stocks and such. If the latter is important to you, better stay home. But.... you'll miss a lot.
MS has another problem. There are two kind of shady computer shops or dealers: A) The ones who don't sell you an OS, but funny enough... it appears to be on the harddisk. Here both dealer and buyer know that the Windows copy is illegal, but when the owner tries to get his genuine MS copy, the dealer will just deny to have installed Windows and it will be tough for MS to prove that it wasn't the buyer that installed the pirated copy himself. Then we have B) where the dealer is trying to make more money and really fakes a copy of Windows, including copies of the booklet, CD, etc., the whole deal. In this case the computer owner doesn't know he has a pirated copy. He/she paid enough for it that they expect it to be genuine. So, I'm wondering how many people will call MS. And anyway, who wants to be in which ever MS/BSA address book. You must be really dumb to volunteer for that....
How do the tiles benefit the web server or the browser?
Well, you see it with this TNO example. People downloading 7.5 GB images doesn't really work. So by tiling the image, you can build (takes only a little bit of JavaScript) a browser app that allows users to scroll through the whole image. Each time you scroll, you only have to download a couple new tiles.
If you go to the satellite map of Holland I mentioned before, and then click somewhere on the map, you see what I mean. Click the arrows around the window to scroll/pan.
In a way, this is funny. The best way to handle huge images is by tiling them. I like to play around with maps and satellite images (see here with and without grid) and have learned the lesson that to put that type of large images on a web server, you better cut it into tiles.
Flash based zoom/pan/tilt viewers do the same thing. A bit more advanced, but you download only the part that is currently in view. Even when you open a PDF in your browser, just the page in view is downloaded. And think about those huge video walls.
So, the funny part is now that you take many, many pictures, then use a lot of processing to stitch the results together, and then cut it into tiles again to display the resulting image. Wouldn't it make more sense to put some more effort in that robotic camera control device and make that so accurate that it can take the pictures, still touching, but with zero overlap? That would be cool!! I suspect that making the high precision optics for such a camera would be really, really expensive. Which is probably why TNO did it the way they did.
Why is this moderated "Troll"!?!?! Harry8 is completely right about "independant" market researchers like Gartner and all those others. They are as independent as the company that pays them for their research.
I recently got it straight from the marketing manager in my own company when I remarked that a review about one of our own products was "a little biased":-). His remark simply was "customers believe it better when it comes from a marketing company" instead of just one of our press releases.
That's how the world works!!! I don't like it, but companies like Gartner (and all those others !!!) just do their "research" on commission.
Slashdot Mirror
They do mirror the images, you just have to be VERY patient.
habitually addicted to their fave browser
And not to forget, what do you think that helpdesk guy/gal from Dell in Bangalore will give you as a solution to your PC problems. I'm 100% sure the scripts will include things like "and now please wipe out your harddisk and reinstall from the Dell recovery disks", but not "you better uninstall IE and download Firefox, sir".
So it's only partly about a user's favourite browser, but much more about what comes preinstalled and what do Dell, HP, IBM (oops, Lenovo) and Gateway support.
PS. Of course they won't say "please wipe out your harddisk", but you discover that quickly after your recovery.....
Well, you're right about the use of flat files, but there are also index files with the main headers (from/to/subject/date/etc.) and pointers to the email itself.
I don't like either multi multi megabyte email files with just flat text, even when the content is large blob's like video (MIME encoded), but the indexes are there to speed things up.
I'm banging a fat chick at the moment and I love it.
:) on the second pillow. And this guy is "at the moment banging" her and typing on the keyboard his Slashdot post ..... Wow, that's the most impressive multi-tasking I've ever heard about. :-)
Everybody get the picture??? Fat girlfriend in bed, laptop next to her head (otherwise it would hurt the fertility
OK, you're going to need: (1) a compass, (2) a stopwatch with a second hand, and (3) an astrolabe.
:-)
Or do it the old-fashioned way: press the 'on' button on your GPS.....
Oh yeah, and what about the $120 (OK, Canadian) a month I'm paying???
As a person, travelling weekly between two timezones, I really think it was good idea. Be fair, even my PDA doesn't have a good solution for booking meetings in multiple timezones and then remembering me at the right time, in whatever timezone I am.
For me the failure of Internet Time was caused by Swatch's pompous choice of making Bern "the center of the world". Oh gosh!!! If I would have implemented Internet Time I would have used the date-line, 180 degrees East or West as point zero. Nobody lives in the Bering Street, nobody can get an ego, nobody can get upset. Perfect for a neutral baseline for a new timezone.
Oh well.....
Would be cool to make one of these that shows Internet Time. You remember, that dot-com time invention from Swatch to have time-zone crossing con-calls at @526 and everybody would then know when that was. For those who missed that, Swatch wanted to cut 24 hours into thousand pieces, so one unit of Internet Time (called a beat) is app. 1.5 minute, which is accurate enough for things like the start of a meeting.
The headache will be of course that sundials are by nature giving time in "local time" and need a correction to display "standard time". This problem would be agrevated when the dial has to display Internet Time, which can only be overcome to build custom sundials for every longitude on earth. This sounds bad, but sundials are anyway normally custom made, so maybe this isn't too bad. Probably the biggest obstacle is that now already, 5 years after the invention, nobody remembers what internet time was. Oh well.....
I was up at 3:30am this morning logged into our VPN and upgrading a system >
:-) And I can imagine that when you are sysadmin at SCO, you don't want to touch any computer anymore in the evening....
OK, OK, I know it: You must be working for SCO, starting early to get that decament from the site.
Sorry, couldn't resist, nothing personal, and you work of course completely somewhere else.
That's for me perfectly OK: no work at home. But then the flipside is that at work there should be no browsing of Expedia, calling the plumber, booking the dentist, solving your parking ticket, etc. I'm 100% fine with that, and spend your evening time on your music, etc. Myself, I'm different, when that's most efficient, I will solve private issues also at work. But then I don't mind to finish a report, write a proposal, check my business email or whatever work related stuff after 8 PM.
From the article: Hush must have started with solid billets of aluminium of almost five and a half centimetres thick to create the side panels. Oh dear, seems like people know more and more about digital and software, but when it comes to old fashioned manufacturing, it becomes lah-lah-land.
These "side panels", cooling ribs would be a better term, are not created by cutting it out of a solid piece of aluminum. That would be horribly expensive, no, this is created by extruding the aluminum. In layman's terms, it's like that thing (in dutch it is called a "slagroomspuit" but my online dictionary doesn't know the translation) you use to put nice shaped whipped cream on a birthday cake. But in this case, you keep the nozzle steady, make the opening a kind of comb shape and of you go. Meters and meters of a profile that just needs cutting to get these cooling ribs.
That's also no accident, since Java is the only major software product Sun has that is still of any relevance to the market.
/. community always mentions IBM and HP as the companies that embrace and understand Open Source and Linux. I don't get that .....
Do you think the acceptance of 'Linux on the Desktop' would have been on the level it is now, without OpenOffice / StarOffice? None of the attempts (do I hear Munchen) to wipe MS from the typical office desktop would have had any success without Sun's StarOffice or OOo. In my book that is relevance to the market.
The same can of course be said about Ximian (Novell) or Mozilla (Netscape/AOL), but what are HP's or IBM's contributions to the Linux world, without which Linux wouldn't have made it? Still, the
In my country cable is a lot cheaper than in america and it also has no advertisement.
.....
Then I'll ask the other obvious question: Which country? Which nerd doesn't want to live in a country with zero ad TV
Do you know how many megapixel an eye is. This is not just to be funny (my eyes are 8 MegaPixel, what are yours? :-), but seriously I'm wondering if the comparison could be made.
going there for job experience is worthless since you can instead work for a small company [...] in the US and get the same experience.
..... Let's phrase that better, if you (in the USA) can hire a guy/gal that hanged out in university for a year longer than necessary, or another that did normal in university and after that "wasted" 2 years behind a helpdesk in India. Which one would you hire????
Ehhhh, someone confusing 'job experience' with 'life experience'
If you're so focussed on numbers, I'm not sure you understand "quality of living". Better listen to your wife, she seems more to 'get it'.
Yep, I remember my share (a few hundred) of cockroaches. We had to break all the cupboards out of our appartment to get rid of them. Not to forget the fight required to convince our landlord for getting that done. Don't remember shitloads of money for rent, it was more shitloads of cockroaches :-). But we fought ourselves out of that... Don't think that those folks in India, portraited in the article have it different. Lots of challenges, but in the end a great time. If you (not talking about citog!!) can't stand those challenges, better stay home for turkey. But you'll miss the curry...
Sorry to say, but if you're asking this type of questions, you're probably not made up for that type of move. BTW, I've lived in Europe, Far-East, now Canada, always "local contract", so I know what I talk about. Back to a good answer, the thing is that if you're young (or young-of-heart), what only matters is that the job pays enough to pay for a decent living. I suppose you read the article, and all those Europeans in India clearly lived well. No hunger, lots of curry, :-) what do you want more!!
.... you'll miss a lot.
When living overseas, the question is most often not about pay, but more if you can get affordable housing. I lived in Singapore, with a typical rent of 5000 per month. So, it becomes important that an employer is helping to overcome that hurdle. Next thing, what are the taxes. For example, I took in Singapore a big pay cut, but taxes were 10-15%. Oh, did I mention that a good dinner outside would set you back less than 5 bucks?
I hope you get the gist. Wages or pay cuts say nothing!! It's about income versus cost of living. And when that works our reasonable enough, you should of course have a little mentality of "carpe diem" and not too much worry about your mutual funds, stocks and such. If the latter is important to you, better stay home. But
MS has another problem. There are two kind of shady computer shops or dealers: A) The ones who don't sell you an OS, but funny enough ... it appears to be on the harddisk. Here both dealer and buyer know that the Windows copy is illegal, but when the owner tries to get his genuine MS copy, the dealer will just deny to have installed Windows and it will be tough for MS to prove that it wasn't the buyer that installed the pirated copy himself. Then we have B) where the dealer is trying to make more money and really fakes a copy of Windows, including copies of the booklet, CD, etc., the whole deal. In this case the computer owner doesn't know he has a pirated copy. He/she paid enough for it that they expect it to be genuine. So, I'm wondering how many people will call MS. And anyway, who wants to be in which ever MS/BSA address book. You must be really dumb to volunteer for that ....
How do the tiles benefit the web server or the browser?
Well, you see it with this TNO example. People downloading 7.5 GB images doesn't really work. So by tiling the image, you can build (takes only a little bit of JavaScript) a browser app that allows users to scroll through the whole image. Each time you scroll, you only have to download a couple new tiles.
If you go to the satellite map of Holland I mentioned before, and then click somewhere on the map, you see what I mean. Click the arrows around the window to scroll/pan.
In a way, this is funny. The best way to handle huge images is by tiling them. I like to play around with maps and satellite images (see here with and without grid) and have learned the lesson that to put that type of large images on a web server, you better cut it into tiles.
Flash based zoom/pan/tilt viewers do the same thing. A bit more advanced, but you download only the part that is currently in view. Even when you open a PDF in your browser, just the page in view is downloaded. And think about those huge video walls.
So, the funny part is now that you take many, many pictures, then use a lot of processing to stitch the results together, and then cut it into tiles again to display the resulting image. Wouldn't it make more sense to put some more effort in that robotic camera control device and make that so accurate that it can take the pictures, still touching, but with zero overlap? That would be cool!! I suspect that making the high precision optics for such a camera would be really, really expensive. Which is probably why TNO did it the way they did.
Hey Anonymous Coward, it seems that you can't even spell your own name :-).
Fair point!!
Why is this moderated "Troll"!?!?! Harry8 is completely right about "independant" market researchers like Gartner and all those others. They are as independent as the company that pays them for their research.
:-). His remark simply was "customers believe it better when it comes from a marketing company" instead of just one of our press releases.
I recently got it straight from the marketing manager in my own company when I remarked that a review about one of our own products was "a little biased"
That's how the world works!!! I don't like it, but companies like Gartner (and all those others !!!) just do their "research" on commission.
I own a Palm and I can't do half the things with mine that my brother can
Please let us know too what you paid for your Palm PDA and what your brother paid for his PPC.