The voting system assumes that at least one of the candidates are acceptable. There should be a choice which says that none of the candidates are acceptable.
If most of the people choose that option then all of the candidates should be disqualified from holding office.
Something like this allows the developers to control the entire envronment that the game runs in. They can tune scheduling, configure it as a realtime OS etc etc.
The downside is that they have to include drivers for *everything*. The upside is that they can make sure they are installed correctly and *work*.
There are thousands and thousands of high paying interesting IT jobs out there. There's a skills shortage so you *can* just say no. If they insist then resign and get a better job paying 50% more elsewhere.
If you want to do it then insist on double time for on call because after all, it's *your* life that they are taking over.
The problem with Sun hardware is that it's simply too expensive for what it does. Alpha & Power systems are cheaper (in the UK anyway) and Intel based systems can perform 99% of the tasks that Sun systems can do.
Both probes are identical. They will be designed the same, manufactured the same, packaged the same and launched the same and controlled by the same people presumably. Therefore they will have the same design bugs, manufacturing in bugs and control bugs.
What on earth would lead people to expect that they won't fail in the same way?
Oh my god, I can just imagine them both cratering on Mars within meters of each other.
Am I the only person on the planet that thinks that the Xbox will make a nice cheap Linux workstation? It's going to be built from commodity hardware; Intel CPU, hard disk etc! Look what happened to that i-opener thingumy.
It'll have to compete with existing console hardware in terms of price so we're talking £100 or so. All subsidised by MS. They expect to lose money on the hardware and make it back on software. Well, Xbox + Linux distribution + star office makes for some extremely cheap systems.
VARs could kit out entire corporations for a fraction of the price of current desktops.
The Symbian OS - Epoc is for small mobile devices (phones). I think you'll find that the marketa are slightly different. The Ericsson devices will be slightly larger desktop devices, sort of phone sized web/email terminals.
I've got a PC with 128Mb of RAM a 600MHz CPU and a 7200rpm disc drive but it's really no faster than my older P200 system with 64Mb and 7200rpm disk.
What? 'How can this be' I hear you cry!
Well. The CPU isn't the bottleneck. Hasn't been for quite a long time now.
Bus speeds, memory speed and by far overall, disk speeds are what are limiting the overall speed of systems these days.
I don't see a huge point in having a 1GHz CPU which can access data in 1ns if the data to and from disk takes 8ms (125,000 x slower). Sure adding memory gives buffering but there's a diminishing return on doing that.
You go on and get all excited over 1GHz CPUs. I'll get all excited when a new long term low cost storage device is created which can handle the I/O from said CPUs.
The mail clients don't know that there is a calendar, the calendar doesn't know that there's an address book. The address books don't know how to talk to the Calendar etc etc.
What I'm after is separate components which know how to talk to each other.
My biggest complaint when people do integrate these sorts of tools is that they insist on squashing them all together into one übertool (LookOut).
Hmm. Hypocrisy is to say one thing and believe another but that aside, what I mean is integration at the desktop level rather than at the mail client level.
A mail client which just reads mail, a news client which just reads news, a calendar which just takes care of appointments, an address book which just handles addresses.
I don't really want them all munged into a single application. I find LookOut immensely frustrating to use.
I'd rather have the components be separate and have an actual integrated desktop. An integrated desktop is something that MS seem unable to grasp. Apple do a better job of it.
A LookOut clone is by definition going to always be trailing the real LookOut and can never really match up.
Programmers who become sysadmins tend to write code to do things.
They write a bit of code to do this. They write a bit of code to do that. They write a bit of code to make this do that.
Bit by bit the entropy sets in. They never seem to see the whole picture. 1 year down the line and you have to hire 3 sysadmins just to handle the reboot dependencies.
Good reading for all (potential) sysadmins: http://www.infrastructures.org/
when everyone else in the office is in pristine suit, shirt, tie because they know you can walk away today and have an equally (or better)well paying job *topmorrow*.:)
Another improvement maybe.
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Check to see if the account is the spamprobe account. If not and the sender is in the spammer list, send a faked bounce message back to the spammer.
This may be enough to get them to remove the real/valid email address from the mailing list. Probably just bounce though.
They are market followers. Microsoft couldn't envision their way out of a wet paper bag. Their idea of the future of the Internet is a Windows PC on every desktop. That's it. That's as far as they can see.
So lets not pretend that anything truly new or truly innovative will ever appear from that direction.
Instead, look at the open systems which will take off and cause MS to perform a dramatic uturn 3 years later.
DOH! What a silly article.
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What idiot decided this was worth the front page? Oh. That'd be Cliff would it?
"I'm starting to wonder if someday I'll consider going out to a theater to be a quaint experience."
You may well already pay for movies beamed to your home. WTF do you think the cable channels are? The fact that it may be distributed over the Internet will have absolutely no effect at all.
The reason that people go to the cinema is the 30 foot tall, 60 foot wide screen and digital surround sound you moron.
We're heading for an event horizon where the very fabric of society is going to get very very mixed up. No idea whether it'll be for the better or worse but it's definitely happening. Things are getting faster.
We're currently halfway between SAP and Oracle. Going towards Oracle at the moment. (re-implementing loads of application functionality) and it still won't do what the business wants. Now it looks like we'll be going back to SAP (once Oracle is up and running of course) which also didn't do everything that the busness wanted.
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The voting system assumes that at least one of the candidates are acceptable. There should be a choice which says that none of the candidates are acceptable.
If most of the people choose that option then all of the candidates should be disqualified from holding office.
It's for the developers, dummy.
Something like this allows the developers to control the entire envronment that the game runs in. They can tune scheduling, configure it as a realtime OS etc etc.
The downside is that they have to include drivers for *everything*. The upside is that they can make sure they are installed correctly and *work*.
There are thousands and thousands of high paying interesting IT jobs out there. There's a skills shortage so you *can* just say no. If they insist then resign and get a better job paying 50% more elsewhere.
If you want to do it then insist on double time for on call because after all, it's *your* life that they are taking over.
Got to the 3rd paragraph and thought. This is a bit long for /.. Bet it's a Katz.
The problem with Sun hardware is that it's simply too expensive for what it does. Alpha & Power systems are cheaper (in the UK anyway) and Intel based systems can perform 99% of the tasks that Sun systems can do.
So, sorry if I'm not over the moon.
Buy the company and then close it down. Normal business practice.
8-10Gbit/s or better.
Till then don't even bother telling me.
Wake me up when someone's created a low cost storage medium that can access data in a fraction of the time of the current stuff.
The CPU is not the bottleneck.
Two identical probes for redundancy? Doh!
Both probes are identical. They will be designed the same, manufactured the same, packaged the same and launched the same and controlled by the same people presumably. Therefore they will have the same design bugs, manufacturing in bugs and control bugs.
What on earth would lead people to expect that they won't fail in the same way?
Oh my god, I can just imagine them both cratering on Mars within meters of each other.
There's alread a project which is trying to do this. It's called COSM. http://cosm.mithral.com/
Am I the only person on the planet that thinks that the Xbox will make a nice cheap Linux workstation? It's going to be built from commodity hardware; Intel CPU, hard disk etc! Look what happened to that i-opener thingumy.
It'll have to compete with existing console hardware in terms of price so we're talking £100 or so. All subsidised by MS. They expect to lose money on the hardware and make it back on software. Well, Xbox + Linux distribution + star office makes for some extremely cheap systems.
VARs could kit out entire corporations for a fraction of the price of current desktops.
The Symbian OS - Epoc is for small mobile devices (phones). I think you'll find that the marketa are slightly different. The Ericsson devices will be slightly larger desktop devices, sort of phone sized web/email terminals.
I've got a PC with 128Mb of RAM a 600MHz CPU and a 7200rpm disc drive but it's really no faster than my older P200 system with 64Mb and 7200rpm disk.
What? 'How can this be' I hear you cry!
Well. The CPU isn't the bottleneck. Hasn't been for quite a long time now.
Bus speeds, memory speed and by far overall, disk speeds are what are limiting the overall speed of systems these days.
I don't see a huge point in having a 1GHz CPU which can access data in 1ns if the data to and from disk takes 8ms (125,000 x slower). Sure adding memory gives buffering but there's a diminishing return on doing that.
You go on and get all excited over 1GHz CPUs. I'll get all excited when a new long term low cost storage device is created which can handle the I/O from said CPUs.
But we don't.
The mail clients don't know that there is a calendar, the calendar doesn't know that there's an address book. The address books don't know how to talk to the Calendar etc etc.
What I'm after is separate components which know how to talk to each other.
My biggest complaint when people do integrate these sorts of tools is that they insist on squashing them all together into one übertool (LookOut).
Hmm. Hypocrisy is to say one thing and believe another but that aside, what I mean is integration at the desktop level rather than at the mail client level.
A mail client which just reads mail, a news client which just reads news, a calendar which just takes care of appointments, an address book which just handles addresses.
I don't really want them all munged into a single application. I find LookOut immensely frustrating to use.
I'd rather have the components be separate and have an actual integrated desktop. An integrated desktop is something that MS seem unable to grasp. Apple do a better job of it.
A LookOut clone is by definition going to always be trailing the real LookOut and can never really match up.
Give me small individual (scriptable) components.
Programmers who become sysadmins tend to write code to do things.
They write a bit of code to do this.
They write a bit of code to do that.
They write a bit of code to make this do that.
Bit by bit the entropy sets in. They never seem to see the whole picture. 1 year down the line and you have to hire 3 sysadmins just to handle the reboot dependencies.
Good reading for all (potential) sysadmins:
http://www.infrastructures.org/
when everyone else in the office is in pristine suit, shirt, tie because they know you can walk away today and have an equally (or better)well paying job *topmorrow*. :)
Check to see if the account is the spamprobe account. If not and the sender is in the spammer list, send a faked bounce message back to the spammer.
This may be enough to get them to remove the real/valid email address from the mailing list. Probably just bounce though.
The DNS is an utter mess.
This is all described in:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/dns/
Have a look at:
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/dns/
I've also proposed this to ICANN in their public discussion forume so they know about the idea.
Not that it's rocket science...
They are market followers. Microsoft couldn't envision their way out of a wet paper bag. Their idea of the future of the Internet is a Windows PC on every desktop. That's it. That's as far as they can see.
So lets not pretend that anything truly new or truly innovative will ever appear from that direction.
Instead, look at the open systems which will take off and cause MS to perform a dramatic uturn 3 years later.
What idiot decided this was worth the front page? Oh. That'd be Cliff would it?
You may well already pay for movies beamed to your home. WTF do you think the cable channels are? The fact that it may be distributed over the Internet will have absolutely no effect at all.
The reason that people go to the cinema is the 30 foot tall, 60 foot wide screen and digital surround sound you moron.
The distribution method is f*****g irrelevant.
WTF is happening to /.?
We're heading for an event horizon where the very fabric of society is going to get very very mixed up. No idea whether it'll be for the better or worse but it's definitely happening. Things are getting faster.
Wholeheartedly agree 100%.
We're currently halfway between SAP and Oracle. Going towards Oracle at the moment. (re-implementing loads of application functionality) and it still won't do what the business wants. Now it looks like we'll be going back to SAP (once Oracle is up and running of course) which also didn't do everything that the busness wanted.