I love Gandhi, but BS, the US is one of the richest countries in the world, but at the same time for sure the biggest polluter, thanks to ACs, SUVs, etc. and the lack of sidewalks, staircases (you must have been in an office building where people take the elevator from the 8th to the 9th floor), to name a few.
The real fear for the environment is that India and China are coming out of poverty.
People don't "move to" IE8. On a Saturday, they just buy a new laptop / desktop at their local mall (or they get a Dell on-line) and then use whatever software comes preloaded, being it Vista, IE#, whatever.
And if their system is set for automatic updates (meant for security fixes), nine months later suddenly a new browser gets installed. It's probably only a handful that will click "custom" when it comes to downloading updates.
And if the Russians can photograph it, they can sell the photos to terrorists. Google will get them sometime after.
Which reminds me of the TerraServer sat images, that IIRC were bought by Microsoft from the Russians (after the wall came down). Makes sense, good pictures of the US you buy from the ruskies and for high quality pictures of Moskou you go to the CIA.
Wrong!! The BBC Micro had a 6502, just like the Apple ][ or the Commodore 64.
The successor of the BBC Micro was the Acorn Archimedes, based on a RISC CPU developed by Acorn. This chip is the one that later became the ARM chip, now found in many phones and PDAs.
Internally there were a number of option rom sockets, which with some trickery could be used for a ram expansion (bank switched 16 k windows).
I designed and built an expansion board for these 12 additional (4 on the motherboard) bank switched ROMs. I sold 100 of those (as a kit) in Holland. Must have been 1983/84. I still have one of these lying on the desk in my basement.:-) Sweet memories....
But that's a relatively weak defense. It is similar to the driver of a get-away vehicle saying "but I didn't rob the bank, I only drove the car". And we all know that that will get you in prison.
No matter if this is good or bad news against the RAFIAA, but when I read...
"Lest there be any doubt... the toxic effect [...] have had on the judicial process... the decision-making process... in the clearest possible terms... can be no misunderstanding... the extraordinary 2-day settlement... who has corporate, decision-making, power... with any limits or range attached to it", etc.
Oh bloody hell, don't know who did it, but this/. summary must have been written by a lawyer, or at least someone who desperately wants to become one! Not a good sign....
I've quite a couple of those boxed sets too. I guess that RH8 was my all time favorite. On a Sony Vaio 505, I had/have wireless, PDA synchronization, sound, and even...drum-roll... suspension/hybernation working.
OK, after an early SlackWare start I "jumped on the bandwagon" with RH 3.0.3. Must have been 1996 or so. And today, my home-built firewall/router is still humming along RH 6.2.
Jumping ahead, this weekend I had to make the choice what to use as the base platform for my desktop PC. When I say "base" I mean that every thing user facing will anyway be virtualized with VirtualBox. For example, I do quite a bit of WM5 development, but today that doesn't mean that Windows has to be your desktop OS.
I was really tempted to put OpenSolaris on the box, just so that I could use ZFS as my filesystem, but in the end (maybe a RH 3.0.3 -> 6.2 -> EL3 history plays its part:) I decided to stick with CentOS 5. If you use it as the base for a virtualized desktop, you don't care for features, but only for something damn solid. Ubuntu or Fedora can always become the guest OS.....
I (GP) was checking out Fido's plans. Which at first seem to be very comparable to Rogers' (also their parent company). But they give you couple of gigs for couple of tenners and say that you can use it both "on phone" or "from your laptop". Which sounds to be waaayyy better than the Rogers deal. But given that Rogers owns them, I don't trust the story (on the web) yet and guess that there is some very hidden, very nasty "small print" somewhere. Otherwise it would be a good deal.
I had the same battle with my provider (Rogers in Canada). Because I'm "tethering" (connecting a Nokia N770 tablet with BlueTooth to my KRZR phone) the "best" data package I can get is $10 for 10 MB, nothing bigger. However if I go over those 10MB, they charge me 3 cts per kB. Which means that the second 10MB will cost me $300.
BTW, my first night of surfing a little to maps.google (just 20 mins, nothing more) did indeed cost me $75.
But the kicker is that I can't get a bigger package, Rogers is not able or willing to put a 10MB cap on it and finally -- this is the worst part -- I can't get an status report to check how much of my quota I've used up.
This is not just rediculous, but simply "providers screwing there customers, because they can".
Same experience here. Joombla and Drupal are great CMS systems, but not something that as a web developer at the end of the project you can hand over to your "non IT" client.
I ended up using "CMS Made Simple". The name is of course absolutely horrific, but the same can be said for MySQL:-) .
For me it provided the right amount of customization options, but on the other end, non-IT folks (like my customer's secretary) are able to add new pages and other content. OK, to "start from scratch" will probably be a too tough call. But in a scenario where once a month a newsletter page has to be put online, CMSMS going along with a simple list of instructions will allow here to do that with very little hand-holding.
YMMV, but for a simple site, I recommend anyone to check this out.
For her this will be much worse than just three months wasted. I guess she will now have a "criminal record". Which means that the rest of her life she will have problems getting visa's, she will have rather tough job interviews, etc. Because often enough there is the simple question "were you ever.....". And those questions aren't distinguishing between what the conviction was for, and how long ago it happened. Very sad....
I'm with you, ever tried to get the "local dealership" sticker from your brand new car? And if you don't do it immediately, the UV will cause the glue to harden beyond repair. Another reason not to "buy from the lot".
Picked up another, but similar book, to get started with iPhone / iTouch programming. Besides the horrible way that Apple wants to control how you deploy "your own software" on "your own device", what puts me off even more was the statement that you shouldn't expect that you can use the Touch used for testing your software, for normal operations anymore. As they noted it "the software environment will write to the Touch, which can make it unusable for normal use".
Is this really true? Having to pay $99 is one thing, but having to buy another Touch, just for the fun of developing apps for it, seems to be a little too much.
I'm a pretty experienced WM5 developer, and I can use my regular phone to test my software. Nothing that gets blown away by the SDK.
With my browser I can choose: English estina Dansk Deutsch Eesti Español Français Íslenska Italiano Latviesu Lietuvi Magyar Nederlands Norsk Português Slovenina Slovensina Suomi Svenska.......
I wasn't comparing with the US. I live in Canada and I'm originally from Holland. Which are both still larger than Ireland, but not that much.
And don't get me wrong, I'm the last one to say "bigger is better", on the contrary. I was just surprised. And still wondering if it is correct. What about the banks in Ireland, or the telco's. How many people do they employ?
RTA for once. What shocked me most is the fact that a company with only 4300 (local) employees is the second largest corporate employer. Wow..... even my local ISP here employs already more people.
So, either that was a Washington Post journalist missing out one way or another (has happened before:), otherwise you start wondering.
keep in mind that for embedded applications that memory is usually at a premium and the memory footprint of 2.4 is significantly smaller than the 2.6 kernel
True, but because poster mentions he wants to move from ARM to Atom, that also implies he is moving to a more modern SBC. Therefore I would guess that his amount of available memory is also at least quadrupling (for the same or lesser costs).
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"Poverty is the biggest polluter."
I love Gandhi, but BS, the US is one of the richest countries in the world, but at the same time for sure the biggest polluter, thanks to ACs, SUVs, etc. and the lack of sidewalks, staircases (you must have been in an office building where people take the elevator from the 8th to the 9th floor), to name a few.
The real fear for the environment is that India and China are coming out of poverty.
The people that will be moving to IE8
People don't "move to" IE8. On a Saturday, they just buy a new laptop / desktop at their local mall (or they get a Dell on-line) and then use whatever software comes preloaded, being it Vista, IE#, whatever.
And if their system is set for automatic updates (meant for security fixes), nine months later suddenly a new browser gets installed. It's probably only a handful that will click "custom" when it comes to downloading updates.
"Adamo, pronounced 'A-dahm-o,' [...]"
And you really believe that the Dell helpdesk dude in Bangalore will pronounce it like that??
And if the Russians can photograph it, they can sell the photos to terrorists. Google will get them sometime after.
Which reminds me of the TerraServer sat images, that IIRC were bought by Microsoft from the Russians (after the wall came down). Makes sense, good pictures of the US you buy from the ruskies and for high quality pictures of Moskou you go to the CIA.
Wrong!! The BBC Micro had a 6502, just like the Apple ][ or the Commodore 64.
The successor of the BBC Micro was the Acorn Archimedes, based on a RISC CPU developed by Acorn. This chip is the one that later became the ARM chip, now found in many phones and PDAs.
Internally there were a number of option rom sockets, which with some trickery could be used for a ram expansion (bank switched 16 k windows).
I designed and built an expansion board for these 12 additional (4 on the motherboard) bank switched ROMs. I sold 100 of those (as a kit) in Holland. Must have been 1983/84. I still have one of these lying on the desk in my basement. :-) Sweet memories....
we have to prep ourselves for "two dollar stores" .....
But that's a relatively weak defense. It is similar to the driver of a get-away vehicle saying "but I didn't rob the bank, I only drove the car". And we all know that that will get you in prison.
No matter if this is good or bad news against the RAFIAA, but when I read ...
"Lest there be any doubt ... the toxic effect [...] have had on the judicial process ... the decision-making process ... in the clearest possible terms ... can be no misunderstanding ... the extraordinary 2-day settlement ... who has corporate, decision-making, power ... with any limits or range attached to it", etc.
Oh bloody hell, don't know who did it, but this /. summary must have been written by a lawyer, or at least someone who desperately wants to become one! Not a good sign....
and click . . . "I'm Feeling Lucky"
I've quite a couple of those boxed sets too. I guess that RH8 was my all time favorite. On a Sony Vaio 505, I had/have wireless, PDA synchronization, sound, and even ...drum-roll... suspension/hybernation working.
OK, after an early SlackWare start I "jumped on the bandwagon" with RH 3.0.3. Must have been 1996 or so. And today, my home-built firewall/router is still humming along RH 6.2.
Jumping ahead, this weekend I had to make the choice what to use as the base platform for my desktop PC. When I say "base" I mean that every thing user facing will anyway be virtualized with VirtualBox. For example, I do quite a bit of WM5 development, but today that doesn't mean that Windows has to be your desktop OS.
I was really tempted to put OpenSolaris on the box, just so that I could use ZFS as my filesystem, but in the end (maybe a RH 3.0.3 -> 6.2 -> EL3 history plays its part :) I decided to stick with CentOS 5. If you use it as the base for a virtualized desktop, you don't care for features, but only for something damn solid. Ubuntu or Fedora can always become the guest OS .....
I (GP) was checking out Fido's plans. Which at first seem to be very comparable to Rogers' (also their parent company). But they give you couple of gigs for couple of tenners and say that you can use it both "on phone" or "from your laptop". Which sounds to be waaayyy better than the Rogers deal. But given that Rogers owns them, I don't trust the story (on the web) yet and guess that there is some very hidden, very nasty "small print" somewhere. Otherwise it would be a good deal.
I had the same battle with my provider (Rogers in Canada). Because I'm "tethering" (connecting a Nokia N770 tablet with BlueTooth to my KRZR phone) the "best" data package I can get is $10 for 10 MB, nothing bigger. However if I go over those 10MB, they charge me 3 cts per kB. Which means that the second 10MB will cost me $300.
BTW, my first night of surfing a little to maps.google (just 20 mins, nothing more) did indeed cost me $75.
But the kicker is that I can't get a bigger package, Rogers is not able or willing to put a 10MB cap on it and finally -- this is the worst part -- I can't get an status report to check how much of my quota I've used up.
This is not just rediculous, but simply "providers screwing there customers, because they can".
Same experience here. Joombla and Drupal are great CMS systems, but not something that as a web developer at the end of the project you can hand over to your "non IT" client.
I ended up using "CMS Made Simple". The name is of course absolutely horrific, but the same can be said for MySQL :-) .
For me it provided the right amount of customization options, but on the other end, non-IT folks (like my customer's secretary) are able to add new pages and other content. OK, to "start from scratch" will probably be a too tough call. But in a scenario where once a month a newsletter page has to be put online, CMSMS going along with a simple list of instructions will allow here to do that with very little hand-holding.
YMMV, but for a simple site, I recommend anyone to check this out.
For her this will be much worse than just three months wasted. I guess she will now have a "criminal record". Which means that the rest of her life she will have problems getting visa's, she will have rather tough job interviews, etc. Because often enough there is the simple question "were you ever.....". And those questions aren't distinguishing between what the conviction was for, and how long ago it happened. Very sad....
I'm with you, ever tried to get the "local dealership" sticker from your brand new car? And if you don't do it immediately, the UV will cause the glue to harden beyond repair. Another reason not to "buy from the lot".
Try this at night on the highway / motorway. It really reduces the speed of cars around you! :-) Been there, done that .....
And no need to disassemble a disposable camera. Any electronic flash has that little button to flash without making a picture.
Picked up another, but similar book, to get started with iPhone / iTouch programming. Besides the horrible way that Apple wants to control how you deploy "your own software" on "your own device", what puts me off even more was the statement that you shouldn't expect that you can use the Touch used for testing your software, for normal operations anymore. As they noted it "the software environment will write to the Touch, which can make it unusable for normal use".
Is this really true? Having to pay $99 is one thing, but having to buy another Touch, just for the fun of developing apps for it, seems to be a little too much.
I'm a pretty experienced WM5 developer, and I can use my regular phone to test my software. Nothing that gets blown away by the SDK.
With my browser I can choose: English estina Dansk Deutsch Eesti Español Français Íslenska Italiano Latviesu Lietuvi Magyar Nederlands Norsk Português Slovenina Slovensina Suomi Svenska .......
You must at least speak one of these. :-)
But I'm sure you didn't have to pay fees for your fingerprints. Cheap bastard.... :-)
When was the last time you saw a real grill at McDonalds?
So your phrase should be "You have to work up to microwave".
I wasn't comparing with the US. I live in Canada and I'm originally from Holland. Which are both still larger than Ireland, but not that much.
And don't get me wrong, I'm the last one to say "bigger is better", on the contrary. I was just surprised. And still wondering if it is correct. What about the banks in Ireland, or the telco's. How many people do they employ?
RTA for once. What shocked me most is the fact that a company with only 4300 (local) employees is the second largest corporate employer. Wow ..... even my local ISP here employs already more people.
So, either that was a Washington Post journalist missing out one way or another (has happened before :), otherwise you start wondering.
And doesn't Reykjavik have Fiber Optics networking into each and every home?
http://www.networkworld.com/research/2004/0607iceland.html
keep in mind that for embedded applications that memory is usually at a premium and the memory footprint of 2.4 is significantly smaller than the 2.6 kernel
True, but because poster mentions he wants to move from ARM to Atom, that also implies he is moving to a more modern SBC. Therefore I would guess that his amount of available memory is also at least quadrupling (for the same or lesser costs).