If they're the ones rolling out the bandwidth, they win- BIG. In a 100Mbit situation, you're looking at video on demand, VoIP, etc- all of which works in a manner much like what people really, really want. Bill it in some flat rate per block of bytes, give everyone a base free amount of bandwidth, and tell them to go play. The company that can manage all of this without going broke in the rollout and sets the billing properly, will win big.
As soon as I get home, I plan on downloading it via bittorrent and installing it on my network lab systems. I've got a mix of ATI and NVidia cards in my machines...
In the case of the electric blankets, you're not exposing yourself to a lot of any B or H fields- there's not enough current present to generate much. Now, if you'd said something like a hair dryer, where the field is concentrated to power the motor...
The phone may generate more relative power, but it's at a different frequency- in regards to electricity and the human body, frequency matters as much as anything else.
For DC, 10ma of current may not be noticable to a person.
For 50/60Hz AC, it's going to cause a twitching of the muscles.
For DC 100ma to 1a of current, you're going to get a zap similar in nature to sticking your tongue on a 9v battery, proportionate to the current in question.
For 50/60Hz AC, 100ma to 1a, it's going to be causing painful contractions of your muscles, and very probably stopping your heart outright if the conduction pathway crosses it.
There's been studies that tend to prove that even low energy densities of 50/60Hz AC can accelerate tumor growth- no studies have actually proven that they generate them though. Effects like the one mentioned tend to be caused more by continuous exposure than point exposure- so the low levels of the energy radiated by the high-tension lines may be a problem if you're next to them since it's a continuous background level sort of thing.
The base innards are the same. They use the same Gecko engine and XUL framework- you even build Firefox out of the same source tree. Netscape is a commercialized and certified version of Mozilla.
It only monitors what browser is being used for a subscribing site. As a metric, it's only useful to say that the percentages of browser use is accurate for the types of sites that subscribe to Webtrends as they don't have more than maybe 10% of the web servers out there covered.
There's lies, damned lies, and statistics. Be careful what you accept as facts and what context the facts are from.
...just like SCO. Patriot Scientific at one time produced this nifty little Forth based CPU. Then they started making these Java based CPUs. Nobody seems to have bought many if any of their product offerings throughought the Java CPU period.
Considering that printers are already good enough to pass muster in the world as you see it, why aren't they doing what you say already.
The sad fact is, that distortions that would be immediately obvious for the purposes of counterfeit detection are also going to be grossly obvious in other printing tasks. Anything they're doing has to be so damned subtle to not be immediately noticeable. And then you're back to the problem you state, because they're not going to bother to check for watermarks or the security thread in the bill, let alone run the little counterfeit pen over the bill- and since they're not going to do that, they're sure as hell not going to look at them closely enough to notice the microprint's not there or the little twenties aren't the right shape or size...
...it's a way to make better programmers out of the ones that aren't prodigies.
If you understand how the CPU does things and understand something about how that compiler for your preferred higher-level language does things to the CPU, you're likely to produce vastly better code than someone that doesn't understand WHY it's not as good an idea to increment a number in C/C++ with something like:
i = i + 1;
as opposed to:
i++;
assuming that 'i' is an 'int' sized integer...
To be sure, I'm not certain what's going on...
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Yes, they had time to prepare for this.
Problem is, there's some odd things going on with the DNS, etc...
If it's 100% what they're claiming it is, why can I not resolve www.sco.com but yet CAN resolve every other server listed in their DNS table?
It's all cool with me. You ought to go check the website anyway if you haven't already- not a lot there, unless you're a Linux fan, but hey...
It's a frustrating thing to keep hearing people saying that if you're good that you should be able to be employed. Yes, I'm employed right now. Quite nicely so, although the pay's on a par with a mid-level professional than a senior-level one like myself- but it does allow me to pay the bills. For another three months. Then, if they decide not to renew my contract (because there's no work left for me to do- not because of anything else- it's possible...) I'm out on the streets pounding the pavement and they're just now beginning to cold-call me again in dribbles like they did back in October just before I got this gig. They're just not hiring- and I'm pretty good at the computer software and systems design thing. What do I do? Change careers after 15 years at it? Perhaps- but what to do that will actually put money in my pocket and I won't hate the job or myself doing it?
"2.5 yrs is soon in the scheme of life"
Yes, and no... Try saying that when you've got a thousand dollar house payment, a $400 dollar car payment, a $250 lease payment on a truck, about $600 or so a month in utility payments, etc. 2.5 years through which you slowly lose each and every thing you worked all your previous work-life for can make it seem like a hell of a lot longer.
In other words, they "can't live without" the scheduling, etc. that Outlook and Exchange provides. Mozilla Mail doesn't provide the scheduling- and even if it did, it's not integrated into the framework like Outlook's is. Same goes for Pegasus Mail, Eudora, and any of the other programs out there.
Seems IE will execute things with non executable extentions, if the latest bug report on IE is telling the truth. If so, you have no promises, no guarantees that Outlook or Outlook Express won't have a similar weakness. Either you need to certify the program 100% for all "safe" attachment types, block all attachments, or insist on alternate programs for e-mail or for the operating system itself.
If my fscking web host hadn't blown out the DNS entries for my site, I'd not have had a broken link. If you look at my URL for my/. user id, you'd note that I refer to "svartalf.freeshell.org" as my homepage- I'm nowhere as lacking as you imply.
The damn thing was working all of a day or so ago.
How many were just deadwood in the industry that got nailed in the mass layoffs? Quite a few.
How many were the best and brightest and got nailed by happenstance in the Great Downsizing (which is what really happened here...)? Quite a few.
Do not assume that if they were unemployed that they'd be boobs. It could very well be that they've been overqualified for the paltry few positions being offered up until very recently. If you've NOT been there, please do the world a favor and shut up.
...that it's merely ONE data point. What you see is pretty parochial- it's focussed on what you're seeing. And you honestly put it that way- but the phraseology implies that it's that way throughout the industry.
To be bluntly honest, it depends on what segment of the industry you're in, what town you're living in, and a whole host of other factors.
My personal experience is quite a bit different than yours.
More than 70% of the IT workers I know are employed (but not much moreso...). 80% of the "good" workers (and that's relative- I suspect that I have a more stringent sense of "good" than you do...) that I know are employed somewhere close to what they should be (There's "employed" and then there's employed- if you're an MBAed Software Engineer, you should probably be a Team Lead, Development Manager, Director of Development, or CTO, depending on your experience, etc. Teaching tech courses at DeVry because that's the only place that'll give you a job is pretty much underemployed, or as I referred to it earlier as "employed".). It's not that the industry went away like buggy whip manufacture- the companies all went into a panic and butchered their staffing to look good for a couple of quarters on Wall Steet. Sanity is just now beginning to filter back into the IT job market, three years after the bust from the dot-com failures.
The moderators that modded the parent up to 5 as "Insightful" apparently didn't understand that the parent really wasn't very much so...
While one can get away without office space at the first part of your venture, you're going to be needing an office space of some sort for people to take you seriously. That takes money.
While one can get away without office equipment at the first part of your venture (i.e. Using your own computers, etc.), typically, unless you're a tech freak like myself, you're not going to have enough machine muscle past a certain point- AND you really, really don't want to work off your machines forever. Buying equipment for the venture costs money.
Don't forget the expense of Salaries. That takes money as well. Don't forget insurance and other benefits- again, that costs money.
This is not to say that it can't be done (I'm trying to do this very thing while I'm holding down contract jobs to pay the bills while the other venture grows, hopefully into something I can call a day job at some point.) but that it's NOT anywhere near cut-and-dried simple as many, yourself included, are trying to make it out to be. Many of the things you're probably going to do without aren't really options if you knew anything about it. (I can tell you all about a few hospital visits (To the Emergency room...) that my wife legitimately made that ended up being rolled into a refinancing because we didn't have health insurance... No, insurance is NOT an option, it's more of a requirement- you can't afford the costs of a serious medical issue without it unless you just one one of the lotteries across the country.)
If it were that simple, there'd be a lot more people out there trying to make it happen in a downturn- and it's been no different than in any the others I've been through.
The x86 is register starved- severely so. The AMD64 architechture in 64-bit mode adds a bunch more GP Registers for computational purposes. It's enough to make a boost of up to 30% right there. There's a couple of other things within the architechture which add their own contributions.
All in all, AMD64 is more of an exception than the norm. Normally 64-bit code should be expected to be as fast as 32-bit code at best and only slightly slower at worst. When people talk about the stuff being dramatically slower, they're referring to the increase in memory bandwidth- and they don't take into account that memory is set up in a manner that is not byte-wide. It's typically 32-bits wide and possibly 64-bits wide on some designs. This would translate into a small to moderate performance hit in some designs and none in others.
That's a DMCA related decision. It'd have to go before the appeals court for that circuit to be removed- or the Judge who made the decision changing his mind about the order in question.
Either it's a Trade Secret and they vigorously pursue the violator- or they completely lose the ability to pursue anyone with regards to the secret in question (as it's no longer one...).
For the DVD CCA to decide to no longer pursue the case means nobody will be harassed by them in this regard- if they do, they can and will face harassment or misuse of procedure countersuits that they'll lose.
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If they're the ones rolling out the bandwidth, they win- BIG. In a 100Mbit situation, you're looking at video on demand, VoIP, etc- all of which works in a manner much like what people really, really want. Bill it in some flat rate per block of bytes, give everyone a base free amount of bandwidth, and tell them to go play. The company that can manage all of this without going broke in the rollout and sets the billing properly, will win big.
As soon as I get home, I plan on downloading it via bittorrent and installing it on my network lab systems. I've got a mix of ATI and NVidia cards in my machines...
In the case of the electric blankets, you're not exposing yourself to a lot of any B or H fields- there's not enough current present to generate much. Now, if you'd said something like a hair dryer, where the field is concentrated to power the motor...
The phone may generate more relative power, but it's at a different frequency- in regards to electricity and the human body, frequency matters as much as anything else.
For DC, 10ma of current may not be noticable to a person.
For 50/60Hz AC, it's going to cause a twitching of the muscles.
For DC 100ma to 1a of current, you're going to get a zap similar in nature to sticking your tongue on a 9v battery, proportionate to the current in question.
For 50/60Hz AC, 100ma to 1a, it's going to be causing painful contractions of your muscles, and very probably stopping your heart outright if the conduction pathway crosses it.
There's been studies that tend to prove that even low energy densities of 50/60Hz AC can accelerate tumor growth- no studies have actually proven that they generate them though. Effects like the one mentioned tend to be caused more by continuous exposure than point exposure- so the low levels of the energy radiated by the high-tension lines may be a problem if you're next to them since it's a continuous background level sort of thing.
It's probably the XP-COM and XUL taking up the resources. It's still worlds better than Mozilla or Netscape right at the moment.
The base innards are the same. They use the same Gecko engine and XUL framework- you even build Firefox out of the same source tree. Netscape is a commercialized and certified version of Mozilla.
It only monitors what browser is being used for a subscribing site. As a metric, it's only useful to say that the percentages of browser use is accurate for the types of sites that subscribe to Webtrends as they don't have more than maybe 10% of the web servers out there covered.
There's lies, damned lies, and statistics. Be careful what you accept as facts and what context the facts are from.
...just like SCO. Patriot Scientific at one time produced this nifty little Forth based CPU. Then they started making these Java based CPUs. Nobody seems to have bought many if any of their product offerings throughought the Java CPU period.
Considering that printers are already good enough to pass muster in the world as you see it, why aren't they doing what you say already.
The sad fact is, that distortions that would be immediately obvious for the purposes of counterfeit detection are also going to be grossly obvious in other printing tasks. Anything they're doing has to be so damned subtle to not be immediately noticeable. And then you're back to the problem you state, because they're not going to bother to check for watermarks or the security thread in the bill, let alone run the little counterfeit pen over the bill- and since they're not going to do that, they're sure as hell not going to look at them closely enough to notice the microprint's not there or the little twenties aren't the right shape or size...
It's about optimal instruction usage, language design, automata, and a lot more. It's about optimal computing all the way around.
...it's a way to make better programmers out of the ones that aren't prodigies.
If you understand how the CPU does things and understand something about how that compiler for your preferred higher-level language does things to the CPU, you're likely to produce vastly better code than someone that doesn't understand WHY it's not as good an idea to increment a number in C/C++ with something like:
i = i + 1;
as opposed to:
i++;
assuming that 'i' is an 'int' sized integer...
Yes, they had time to prepare for this.
Problem is, there's some odd things going on with the DNS, etc...
If it's 100% what they're claiming it is, why can I not resolve www.sco.com but yet CAN resolve every other server listed in their DNS table?
It's all cool with me. You ought to go check the website anyway if you haven't already- not a lot there, unless you're a Linux fan, but hey...
It's a frustrating thing to keep hearing people saying that if you're good that you should be able to be employed. Yes, I'm employed right now. Quite nicely so, although the pay's on a par with a mid-level professional than a senior-level one like myself- but it does allow me to pay the bills. For another three months. Then, if they decide not to renew my contract (because there's no work left for me to do- not because of anything else- it's possible...) I'm out on the streets pounding the pavement and they're just now beginning to cold-call me again in dribbles like they did back in October just before I got this gig. They're just not hiring- and I'm pretty good at the computer software and systems design thing. What do I do? Change careers after 15 years at it? Perhaps- but what to do that will actually put money in my pocket and I won't hate the job or myself doing it?
"2.5 yrs is soon in the scheme of life"
Yes, and no... Try saying that when you've got a thousand dollar house payment, a $400 dollar car payment, a $250 lease payment on a truck, about $600 or so a month in utility payments, etc. 2.5 years through which you slowly lose each and every thing you worked all your previous work-life for can make it seem like a hell of a lot longer.
In other words, they "can't live without" the scheduling, etc. that Outlook and Exchange provides.
Mozilla Mail doesn't provide the scheduling- and even if it did, it's not integrated into the framework like Outlook's is. Same goes for Pegasus Mail, Eudora, and any of the other programs out there.
Seems IE will execute things with non executable extentions, if the latest bug report on IE is telling the truth. If so, you have no promises, no guarantees that Outlook or Outlook Express won't have a similar weakness. Either you need to certify the program 100% for all "safe" attachment types, block all attachments, or insist on alternate programs for e-mail or for the operating system itself.
If my fscking web host hadn't blown out the DNS entries for my site, I'd not have had a broken link. If you look at my URL for my /. user id, you'd note that I refer to "svartalf.freeshell.org" as my homepage- I'm nowhere as lacking as you imply.
The damn thing was working all of a day or so ago.
They blew out my DNS entry again. Check again in about an hour from now. It's there all the same.
I got a job, allright- it just took 2 and a half years to happen.
...I was unemployed. For Two and a Half years, in fact. Go and check my resume:
http://svartalf.freeshell.org/frank_resume.html
Does that LOOK like I am lacking in the competence department?
If you have not been there, please do the rest of us a favor and shut the Hell up.
How many were just deadwood in the industry that got nailed in the mass layoffs? Quite a few.
How many were the best and brightest and got nailed by happenstance in the Great Downsizing (which is what really happened here...)? Quite a few.
Do not assume that if they were unemployed that they'd be boobs. It could very well be that they've been overqualified for the paltry few positions being offered up until very recently. If you've NOT been there, please do the world a favor and shut up.
...that it's merely ONE data point. What you see is pretty parochial- it's focussed on what you're seeing. And you honestly put it that way- but the phraseology implies that it's that way throughout the industry.
To be bluntly honest, it depends on what segment of the industry you're in, what town you're living in, and a whole host of other factors.
My personal experience is quite a bit different than yours.
More than 70% of the IT workers I know are employed (but not much moreso...). 80% of the "good" workers (and that's relative- I suspect that I have a more stringent sense of "good" than you do...) that I know are employed somewhere close to what they should be (There's "employed" and then there's employed- if you're an MBAed Software Engineer, you should probably be a Team Lead, Development Manager, Director of Development, or CTO, depending on your experience, etc. Teaching tech courses at DeVry because that's the only place that'll give you a job is pretty much underemployed, or as I referred to it earlier as "employed".). It's not that the industry went away like buggy whip manufacture- the companies all went into a panic and butchered their staffing to look good for a couple of quarters on Wall Steet. Sanity is just now beginning to filter back into the IT job market, three years after the bust from the dot-com failures.
The moderators that modded the parent up to 5 as "Insightful" apparently didn't understand that the parent really wasn't very much so...
While one can get away without office space at the first part of your venture, you're going to be needing an office space of some sort for people to take you seriously. That takes money.
While one can get away without office equipment at the first part of your venture (i.e. Using your own computers, etc.), typically, unless you're a tech freak like myself, you're not going to have enough machine muscle past a certain point- AND you really, really don't want to work off your machines forever. Buying equipment for the venture costs money.
Don't forget the expense of Salaries. That takes money as well. Don't forget insurance and other benefits- again, that costs money.
This is not to say that it can't be done (I'm trying to do this very thing while I'm holding down contract jobs to pay the bills while the other venture grows, hopefully into something I can call a day job at some point.) but that it's NOT anywhere near cut-and-dried simple as many, yourself included, are trying to make it out to be. Many of the things you're probably going to do without aren't really options if you knew anything about it. (I can tell you all about a few hospital visits (To the Emergency room...) that my wife legitimately made that ended up being rolled into a refinancing because we didn't have health insurance... No, insurance is NOT an option, it's more of a requirement- you can't afford the costs of a serious medical issue without it unless you just one one of the lotteries across the country.)
If it were that simple, there'd be a lot more people out there trying to make it happen in a downturn- and it's been no different than in any the others I've been through.
Depends on the size of the bus as to whether or not it'd take longer for 64-bits instead of 32-bits.
If your bus is 64-bits, it won't take any longer than the 32-bits would on a 32-bit machine.
The x86 is register starved- severely so. The AMD64 architechture in 64-bit mode adds a bunch more GP Registers for computational purposes. It's enough to make a boost of up to 30% right there. There's a couple of other things within the architechture which add their own contributions.
All in all, AMD64 is more of an exception than the norm. Normally 64-bit code should be expected to be as fast as 32-bit code at best and only slightly slower at worst. When people talk about the stuff being dramatically slower, they're referring to the increase in memory bandwidth- and they don't take into account that memory is set up in a manner that is not byte-wide. It's typically 32-bits wide and possibly 64-bits wide on some designs. This would translate into a small to moderate performance hit in some designs and none in others.
That's a DMCA related decision. It'd have to go before the appeals court for that circuit to be removed- or the Judge who made the decision changing his mind about the order in question.
Either it's a Trade Secret and they vigorously pursue the violator- or they completely lose the ability to pursue anyone with regards to the secret in question (as it's no longer one...).
For the DVD CCA to decide to no longer pursue the case means nobody will be harassed by them in this regard- if they do, they can and will face harassment or misuse of procedure countersuits that they'll lose.
If they concede on a Trade Secret case, it's over. They can't pursue anyone over that subject again.