Manual : Those that can drive a real car
Automatic : Those that can drive a real car but don't understand how it works
And Self-Drive : Those that should have taken the train; and should not be allowed on the road without all of their assists.
Obviously the latter fits in with the two former; modern driving aids like auto park, lane detection, radar follow and brake - even ABS and ESP mean that really, if that's all you have ever driven, you should not simply be allowed on the streets, with me and my kids in anything 'manual' - IMVHO
Utter bollocks!
I have twin GTX 690's and run 3 X 30" at surround resolution of 5760x1080 & still struggle (alot) with Far Cry 3 - BF3 works lovely, mind you. Biggest benefit is the extra memory in the Titan IMHO but for resolutions of 5760+ you need massive grunt. I'll be nabbing a couple of Titans Asap.
That is seriously interesting and very very impressive.
I can't help but wonder, though, if he hadn't popped the chip into a vat of boiling acid, he could have taken a note of the manufacturers code and dropped them a polite email...:)
A properly managed wifi infrastructure should mitigate most of the concerns.
We normally roll out Internal, Internal Limited Access (eg to internal mail gateway or intranet only for pool devices) and Guest wifi AP’s.
Phones, tablets and non corporate-controlled notebooks get guest AP access only, so that any internal access is through normal firewalled routes. All wifi access is via firewalled connections, even internal.
...Can really strain the hands... and the neck. And the eyes.
In fact, tablet use in general goes against 30 odd years of human interface ergonomics. I wouldn't wish it upon myself for extended periods of time, let alone an elderly loved one.
Buy her a sensible chair, 24 inch monitor at the correct height and a correctly fitting keyboard and mouse in a neutrally lit space. I don't care what you connect to those peripherals.
Hell, actually, thinking about it; the ultimate solution is to ship my mother in law over to China. Have my wife call her for a 'quick chat' (This will ensure the line is pretty much open non-stop with perfectly generated random speech) then pass my data over the line using real-time Steganography with ZRTP
I agree with this. The chasm between the ops and the dev is rarely bridged and understanding both sides of the fence, as well as being competent is a rare skill indeed.
With this in mind, perhaps develop your skills by scriptifying and automating the environment you currently support; find a niche you like and expand upon that. If you can include sanity testing and expandability into a personal set of tools which frees up enough of your own time to focus on programming; then all the best!
Although I love programming, especially automation (Nothing is as satisfying as watching a remote shell enliven dozens of servers, users, printers and PC's on different continent (sometimes even offshore) - 100's of hours of planning whizzing past in grey and black. then: 'Done!' - lovely) - I have to hand it off to other people now as it gives me sleepless nights, weird dreams and days and days of insomnia until the 'Done!' moment. It was worse when I did graphics and AI at Uni - it's like a (bad) drug to me.
Hopefully they'll fuck off out of the telephone and video conferencing market too.
They need to concentrate on on selling high margin, high wattage switching products to resellers & distributors with golfing links to CTO's in large organisations with huge training budgets.
That reminds me, it's December; my Cisco-Christmas-Spiv package should be here by now.
Touch screens are nice; especially on EPOS systems.
However, a true compliment to a keyboard and mouse would be a touch-less screen; the mouse and keyboard already do 2D perfectly. What we need is a 3D controller which does not rely on contact. a controller we can use on desktops, laptops, multiple - projectors - head mounted displays and everything in between. Hell, we could use it with an android phone, streaming to your TV - something like leap motion. http://leapmotion.com/
Back when the world was WIntel I bought only AMD and Cyrix. This was partly fuelled because I despised the way Intel created a great chip costing 'x' then crippled it so that they could sell it un-crippled for z. They were the original patent trolls back when it wasn't cool and pretty much forced the hardware cycle.
I stopped buying AMD when the dead end street called Socket 939 had exhausted it's usefulness. After that right royal arse-pump I never bought another AMD chip, which for home includes ATI GPU's, for no other reason than I(we) were lied to about that road map.
So back with Intel since 2006, I rarely find a reason to upgrade a chip without a motherboard; mostly because the extra work of upgrading the full set, is rewarded by being able to sell the entire working old set at a premium (shifting CPU's second hand is a ball-ache, half the buyers ruin them and blame you).
In server world, I have found I run out of memory expansion ability far before CPU cycles....
Anyhoo:
The mobo makers can mount the chips easily enough; it will take an awful lot more investment though - which is exactly what Intel wants. If they force a mobo maker to buy and mount their products, then the commitment to sell those products is going to go through the roof. Old Intel tactics; if they really dare.
A ramble for my cherry pop - please excuse.
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Yeah - this why rally and formula 3 / 2000 / ireland is more fun to watch..and probably compete in - money aside..
Manual : Those that can drive a real car
Automatic : Those that can drive a real car but don't understand how it works
And Self-Drive : Those that should have taken the train; and should not be allowed on the road without all of their assists.
Obviously the latter fits in with the two former; modern driving aids like auto park, lane detection, radar follow and brake - even ABS and ESP mean that really, if that's all you have ever driven, you should not simply be allowed on the streets, with me and my kids in anything 'manual' - IMVHO
Utter bollocks!
I have twin GTX 690's and run 3 X 30" at surround resolution of 5760x1080 & still struggle (alot) with Far Cry 3 - BF3 works lovely, mind you. Biggest benefit is the extra memory in the Titan IMHO but for resolutions of 5760+ you need massive grunt. I'll be nabbing a couple of Titans Asap.
That is seriously interesting and very very impressive. :)
I can't help but wonder, though, if he hadn't popped the chip into a vat of boiling acid, he could have taken a note of the manufacturers code and dropped them a polite email...
Oooh I like this sentiment. If only life was so black and white!
A properly managed wifi infrastructure should mitigate most of the concerns.
We normally roll out Internal, Internal Limited Access (eg to internal mail gateway or intranet only for pool devices) and Guest wifi AP’s.
Phones, tablets and non corporate-controlled notebooks get guest AP access only, so that any internal access is through normal firewalled routes. All wifi access is via firewalled connections, even internal.
...Can really strain the hands... and the neck. And the eyes.
In fact, tablet use in general goes against 30 odd years of human interface ergonomics. I wouldn't wish it upon myself for extended periods of time, let alone an elderly loved one.
Buy her a sensible chair, 24 inch monitor at the correct height and a correctly fitting keyboard and mouse in a neutrally lit space. I don't care what you connect to those peripherals.
You insidious rascal.
Hell, actually, thinking about it; the ultimate solution is to ship my mother in law over to China. Have my wife call her for a 'quick chat' (This will ensure the line is pretty much open non-stop with perfectly generated random speech) then pass my data over the line using real-time Steganography with ZRTP
Swapping steganographic images with an acoustic coupler & Kermit could be fun.
Or perhaps create a fake conversation over a normal VOIP channel, using WAV / VOC files padded with data, using, for example:
http://www.heinz-repp.onlinehome.de/Hide4PGP.htm
I've never written a batch file over 64k before to warrant such extravagant conversion (Unless you count the REMs)
Kudos.
I agree with this. The chasm between the ops and the dev is rarely bridged and understanding both sides of the fence, as well as being competent is a rare skill indeed.
With this in mind, perhaps develop your skills by scriptifying and automating the environment you currently support; find a niche you like and expand upon that. If you can include sanity testing and expandability into a personal set of tools which frees up enough of your own time to focus on programming; then all the best!
Although I love programming, especially automation (Nothing is as satisfying as watching a remote shell enliven dozens of servers, users, printers and PC's on different continent (sometimes even offshore) - 100's of hours of planning whizzing past in grey and black. then: 'Done!' - lovely) - I have to hand it off to other people now as it gives me sleepless nights, weird dreams and days and days of insomnia until the 'Done!' moment. It was worse when I did graphics and AI at Uni - it's like a (bad) drug to me.
Hopefully they'll fuck off out of the telephone and video conferencing market too. They need to concentrate on on selling high margin, high wattage switching products to resellers & distributors with golfing links to CTO's in large organisations with huge training budgets. That reminds me, it's December; my Cisco-Christmas-Spiv package should be here by now.
Touch screens are nice; especially on EPOS systems. However, a true compliment to a keyboard and mouse would be a touch-less screen; the mouse and keyboard already do 2D perfectly. What we need is a 3D controller which does not rely on contact. a controller we can use on desktops, laptops, multiple - projectors - head mounted displays and everything in between. Hell, we could use it with an android phone, streaming to your TV - something like leap motion. http://leapmotion.com/
Back when the world was WIntel I bought only AMD and Cyrix. This was partly fuelled because I despised the way Intel created a great chip costing 'x' then crippled it so that they could sell it un-crippled for z. They were the original patent trolls back when it wasn't cool and pretty much forced the hardware cycle. I stopped buying AMD when the dead end street called Socket 939 had exhausted it's usefulness. After that right royal arse-pump I never bought another AMD chip, which for home includes ATI GPU's, for no other reason than I(we) were lied to about that road map. So back with Intel since 2006, I rarely find a reason to upgrade a chip without a motherboard; mostly because the extra work of upgrading the full set, is rewarded by being able to sell the entire working old set at a premium (shifting CPU's second hand is a ball-ache, half the buyers ruin them and blame you). In server world, I have found I run out of memory expansion ability far before CPU cycles.... Anyhoo: The mobo makers can mount the chips easily enough; it will take an awful lot more investment though - which is exactly what Intel wants. If they force a mobo maker to buy and mount their products, then the commitment to sell those products is going to go through the roof. Old Intel tactics; if they really dare. A ramble for my cherry pop - please excuse.