Funny how so many people find it hard to believe that a black rapper would use a computer to assist in composing his music. How is it more plausible that he juices his creativity by using a machine gun or by hanging with a pimp?
If you are a professional musician that is in the forefront of using samples, mixes and impossible bass, wouldn't you assume that he used software to achieve much of his sound? I guess that's too much of a stretch for some to believe.
My boss at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center had a solution to this. There was a second level observation deck for the machine room and visitors passed through often. So, he insisted that external panels on all new supercomputers be painted black. It made them look quite ominous.
So, that's the solution. Just paint the box black.
Users are able to change and reset passwords 24x7 from any Web browser or automated telephone system. They can solve their own password problems immediately instead of calling the helpdesk or a sysadmin.
Control-SA's bi-directional management capabilities automatically detect and propagate user-initiated password changes throughout the enterprise, ensuring that a user's passwords on all platforms are always synchronized.
For example, if someone changes their password in Solaris, Control-SA will immediately propogate that new password to their accounts on Novell, Active Directory, RACF, NIS, LDAP, Oracle, etc.
cardboard would release some paper dust. Bad stuff for metal spindles and read/write laser optics - especially when you have high-speed airflow from a disc spinning above 1000 rpm.
Check out the Thinking Machines CM-2. It's not a deskside system. It's something that you plan a room around. Very beautiful. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~paulos/other/cm2.html
Even better was the CM-5 which was configurable with thousands of HyperSparc chips. Watch Jurassic Park for 2 cabinets with their thousands of red blinking LEDs.
I think using MQSeries is a very appropriate infrastructure for web apps. MQ is very responsive and highly reliable. If this web app is important to your companies business, then get management to pay for one of your Admins to get certified on MQSeries administration.
Use the MQSeries Server (not Client) for NT and 2000. You will want the queue manager and queue to exist on the server where you COM app resides. The MQSeries Interface (MQI) is small and easy to use.
Personally, I would write a C or C++ application that that you will be able to tweak for performance. Don't use MQ Triggers if you expect many messages to come in.
Instead, if you want your program to wait until a message arrives on a queue, specify the MQGMO_WAIT option in the Options field of the MQGMO structure. Use the WaitInterval field of the MQGMO structure to specify the maximum time (in milliseconds) that you want an MQGET call to wait for a message to arrive on a queue.
If the message does not arrive within this time, the MQGET call completes with the MQRC_NO_MSG_AVAILABLE reason code.
A member of my family has been with Sun and Cray for as long as this product has existed as Tier 1 hardware admin and system admin support for the vendor. He is available as of 2 weeks ago. Midwest US location.
Send me an email to get his contact info. Remove "NOSPAM" from my email address.
Actually, Developers are the ones doing analysis, design, requirements gathering, integrated testing, et al. At least they are where ever I've worked.
Well, hopefully integrated testing is performed jointly with a subset of the User base. But other than that, Developers. I don't particularly like to work with people who are Coders only, unless it is to mentor them into becoming Developers.
TV's capacity for serving viewers is infinite, but that's only if one of your 150 channels is showing what you want at a particular time.
TV's capacity for serving up viewpoints, languages, stories and depth is limited to 30-200 at any given time, depending on your TV provider. This capacity is severly limited.
Compare that to the millions of web sites that are authored all over the world and available to everyone no matter what ISP you use.
On Sept. 11 the internet was working so hard that many web sites were at 100% capacity. If you had any trouble getting instant information from a particular site, then it's probably because that server was too busy fulfilling 100,000 other requests for pages.
The internet was working very hard indeed to bring as much and as varied content as was possible. Just think of all the servers that were thrashing their hard drives. Also, Internet web sites can add capacity *almost* at the flip of a switch. (As slashdot did that day.)
Compare that to television and radio which each have a finite amount of capacity. Each channel has only one stream which runs 24x7x365 and new channels cannot be added in short order.
Since TV & radio are broadcast, they can serve information to everyone at one time. But they cannot offer such variety of information as the net. Variance of perspective, depth of information, language spoken and subject matter cannot be covered by broadcast media as well as can be done by web sites.
My guess is that it is partially due to Slashdot readership being down since 9.11.
Mind you, I don't actually know that readership is down. I just know that I have been reading Slashdot about 90% less than pre-9.11. I spend more time now on CNN, NYT & Google.
Metro also has a Rack Mount solution for their shelving system. Metro's computer shelving products are here. When you see a product you want, be sure the get the spec sheet, they are.pdf docs.
Personally, I think the Metro brand is the best out there. I can see the reduced quality in the knock-off brands. YMMV.
All 4 desktop systems and 2 laptops were stored on my Metro shelving next to my desk. I used one KVM switch for all 7 systems. I used a regular desk for my work surface, monitor, keyboard & files. Plus I had another monitor & keyboard for the Sparc. This leaves a clean work surface for me, which is important. I do a lot of document creation and still like working with paper. Also, having a mostly clear desk helps me focus on the tasks at hand.
The Metro shelving also held my fax, laser printer, power strips and networking devices. The cables were kept clean using black velcro strips. The shelves were black too. Metro's Heavy Duty castors let me easily pull the shelving out to manage the cables when needed.
Two shelves held 4 rows of books, back-to-back. I also stored my printer paper on the bottom (increased stability). My working file folders and incoming mail were on side-attached accessories.
All of this stuff used to take up 3 desks, a bookshelf and some floor space. Pretty slick.
You are thinking of Dr. Harold Edgerton, the same person who is mentioned in many of these replies. He invented stroboscopic high-speed photography.
He had a series of photos of a bullet entering and exiting an apple. You probably saw a composite of a few frames next to each other. Many shots of the same apple with the bullet in different postitions.
I saw Prof. Edgerton at the Science Museum of Minnesota when I was a lad. He demonstrated his camera setup and showed a bunch of slides of his work. Very memorable, very cool. Still cool today after all these years.
Responses to Clifford Stoll's 4 compelling reasons for keeping computers out of schools:
computers and educational software are expensive. Much more expensive than say good school books. And computers will break faster than books.
Prices for a suitable computer and software will come down in time. They add value by providing a way to supplement textbooks and libraries with cheap electronic books.
computers are also expensive because they bind ressources which could be used better. E.g. teachers have to do system administration instead of teaching. And computers and educational software get old soon.
The bios can be password locked. The hardware can be simplified (no feature loaded laptops). The OS's are more stable. The OS admin controls can be locked and centrally managed when laptops are plugged into the LAN. Don't simply deploy direct from the factory systems. Customize and lock them down before hand. Make them so that you have to be technically clever to break them so that the student can probably fix what they break.
educational software e.g. in physics only simulates reality. To understand magnetism you have to hold the real thing in your hand.
Computers should supplement curriculim and experiment labs, not replace them. Sometimes there is no practical way to perform an experiment in a school lab. Use computers to simulate it. Like combining sodium and water or launching edge-of-atmosphere weather balloons.
and most of all he thinks that computers are easy to use and you don't need computers in school to become computer literate. You can learn how to use a computer (which is what people need) in only a couple of weeks.
I didn't learn what I know in a couple weeks nor did you I'm sure. Many of the people I graduated school with are still cautious and intimidated by computers and software. They had little exposure to computers in their 13 years of school. I grew up with computers in my home and my attitude towards them is quite different.
All students need to graduate with the ability to use computers to do research, solve problems and automate tasks. This ability only comes with instruction, familiarity and a lot of practice.
Or you could actually register yourselves at NYTimes. Then you are supporting this newspaper which provides well written content for us. I suppose their website ad revenue is based on page views by unique users.
First come the Scientists to create the technology.
Then come the Entrepreneurs to think of new products.
Then come the Investors to pay to build the products.
Then come the Marketeers to feed us the products.
Then come the Lawyers to protect the Investors.
Then come the Politicians to protect the Lawyers.
Finally comes the Laws to protect us from the technology.
That book contains the evidence you're looking for to back up your assertion. It contains studies done by IBM way back that show the effects of cube size and noise on engineer productivity.
Noise is a tremendous problem. Fortunately, my employer recognizes this and every employee gets an office with a door. God bless them.
I won't get into how sites dependant on only ad revenue are doomed anyways.
So the fact that broadcast TV and Radio have been successful in no way negates your assertion? They subsist totally on advertising revenue. Ads that you watch, sometimes even willingly.
We may have been doomed by their bland, homogeneous content, but the broadcasting companies do pretty well for themselves as far as businesses go.
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Funny how so many people find it hard to believe that a black rapper would use a computer to assist in composing his music. How is it more plausible that he juices his creativity by using a machine gun or by hanging with a pimp?
If you are a professional musician that is in the forefront of using samples, mixes and impossible bass, wouldn't you assume that he used software to achieve much of his sound? I guess that's too much of a stretch for some to believe.
Congratulations! You have thusly passed the final exam to be awarded your MCSE certification.
Old joke: Minesweeper Consultant Solitare Expert
To rephrase:
The few people with that level of skill can earn three times as much in commercial industry versus what the FBI would pay.
My boss at the Minnesota Supercomputer Center had a solution to this. There was a second level observation deck for the machine room and visitors passed through often. So, he insisted that external panels on all new supercomputers be painted black. It made them look quite ominous.
So, that's the solution. Just paint the box black.
Users are able to change and reset passwords 24x7 from any Web browser or automated telephone system. They can solve their own password problems immediately instead of calling the helpdesk or a sysadmin.
Control-SA's bi-directional management capabilities automatically detect and propagate user-initiated password changes throughout the enterprise, ensuring that a user's passwords on all platforms are always synchronized.
For example, if someone changes their password in Solaris, Control-SA will immediately propogate that new password to their accounts on Novell, Active Directory, RACF, NIS, LDAP, Oracle, etc.
I enjoy working as a developer for BMC.
cardboard would release some paper dust. Bad stuff for metal spindles and read/write laser optics - especially when you have high-speed airflow from a disc spinning above 1000 rpm.
Here is the Scientific American article on MIT's Tinkertoy Computer. Pictures and schematics included. Build your own!!!
I don't know how you found it, but I am impressed! That really is the same guy as the one in Moophus's pictures.
Check out the Thinking Machines CM-2. It's not a deskside system. It's something that you plan a room around. Very beautiful. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~paulos/other/cm2.html
Even better was the CM-5 which was configurable with thousands of HyperSparc chips. Watch Jurassic Park for 2 cabinets with their thousands of red blinking LEDs.
I think using MQSeries is a very appropriate infrastructure for web apps. MQ is very responsive and highly reliable. If this web app is important to your companies business, then get management to pay for one of your Admins to get certified on MQSeries administration.
Use the MQSeries Server (not Client) for NT and 2000. You will want the queue manager and queue to exist on the server where you COM app resides. The MQSeries Interface (MQI) is small and easy to use.
Personally, I would write a C or C++ application that that you will be able to tweak for performance. Don't use MQ Triggers if you expect many messages to come in.
Instead, if you want your program to wait until a message arrives on a queue, specify the MQGMO_WAIT option in the Options field of the MQGMO structure. Use the WaitInterval field of the MQGMO structure to specify the maximum time (in milliseconds) that you want an MQGET call to wait for a message to arrive on a queue.
If the message does not arrive within this time, the MQGET call completes with the MQRC_NO_MSG_AVAILABLE reason code.
Hope this helps.
Sorry, I will updated my contact info. Send me email at coderdevo@hotmail.com
Thanks!
A member of my family has been with Sun and Cray for as long as this product has existed as Tier 1 hardware admin and system admin support for the vendor. He is available as of 2 weeks ago. Midwest US location.
Send me an email to get his contact info. Remove "NOSPAM" from my email address.
Actually, Developers are the ones doing analysis, design, requirements gathering, integrated testing, et al. At least they are where ever I've worked.
Well, hopefully integrated testing is performed jointly with a subset of the User base. But other than that, Developers. I don't particularly like to work with people who are Coders only, unless it is to mentor them into becoming Developers.
"TV has INFINITE amount of capacity."
TV's capacity for serving viewers is infinite, but that's only if one of your 150 channels is showing what you want at a particular time.
TV's capacity for serving up viewpoints, languages, stories and depth is limited to 30-200 at any given time, depending on your TV provider. This capacity is severly limited.
Compare that to the millions of web sites that are authored all over the world and available to everyone no matter what ISP you use.
On Sept. 11 the internet was working so hard that many web sites were at 100% capacity. If you had any trouble getting instant information from a particular site, then it's probably because that server was too busy fulfilling 100,000 other requests for pages.
The internet was working very hard indeed to bring as much and as varied content as was possible. Just think of all the servers that were thrashing their hard drives. Also, Internet web sites can add capacity *almost* at the flip of a switch. (As slashdot did that day.)
Compare that to television and radio which each have a finite amount of capacity. Each channel has only one stream which runs 24x7x365 and new channels cannot be added in short order.
Since TV & radio are broadcast, they can serve information to everyone at one time. But they cannot offer such variety of information as the net. Variance of perspective, depth of information, language spoken and subject matter cannot be covered by broadcast media as well as can be done by web sites.
My guess is that it is partially due to Slashdot readership being down since 9.11.
Mind you, I don't actually know that readership is down. I just know that I have been reading Slashdot about 90% less than pre-9.11. I spend more time now on CNN, NYT & Google.
Metro also has a Rack Mount solution for their shelving system. Metro's computer shelving products are here. When you see a product you want, be sure the get the spec sheet, they are .pdf docs.
Personally, I think the Metro brand is the best out there. I can see the reduced quality in the knock-off brands. YMMV.
All 4 desktop systems and 2 laptops were stored on my Metro shelving next to my desk. I used one KVM switch for all 7 systems. I used a regular desk for my work surface, monitor, keyboard & files. Plus I had another monitor & keyboard for the Sparc. This leaves a clean work surface for me, which is important. I do a lot of document creation and still like working with paper. Also, having a mostly clear desk helps me focus on the tasks at hand.
The Metro shelving also held my fax, laser printer, power strips and networking devices. The cables were kept clean using black velcro strips. The shelves were black too. Metro's Heavy Duty castors let me easily pull the shelving out to manage the cables when needed.
Two shelves held 4 rows of books, back-to-back. I also stored my printer paper on the bottom (increased stability). My working file folders and incoming mail were on side-attached accessories.
All of this stuff used to take up 3 desks, a bookshelf and some floor space. Pretty slick.
You are thinking of Dr. Harold Edgerton, the same person who is mentioned in many of these replies. He invented stroboscopic high-speed photography.
He had a series of photos of a bullet entering and exiting an apple. You probably saw a composite of a few frames next to each other. Many shots of the same apple with the bullet in different postitions.
I saw Prof. Edgerton at the Science Museum of Minnesota when I was a lad. He demonstrated his camera setup and showed a bunch of slides of his work. Very memorable, very cool. Still cool today after all these years.
Now who is going to be the first uber-geek to implement Lego Mindstorms using an Abacus as static storage?
The gauntlet has been thrown down. I'm sure this would make a Slashdot story.
computers and educational software are expensive. Much more expensive than say good school books. And computers will break faster than books.
Prices for a suitable computer and software will come down in time. They add value by providing a way to supplement textbooks and libraries with cheap electronic books.
computers are also expensive because they bind ressources which could be used better. E.g. teachers have to do system administration instead of teaching. And computers and educational software get old soon.
The bios can be password locked. The hardware can be simplified (no feature loaded laptops). The OS's are more stable. The OS admin controls can be locked and centrally managed when laptops are plugged into the LAN. Don't simply deploy direct from the factory systems. Customize and lock them down before hand. Make them so that you have to be technically clever to break them so that the student can probably fix what they break.
educational software e.g. in physics only simulates reality. To understand magnetism you have to hold the real thing in your hand.
Computers should supplement curriculim and experiment labs, not replace them. Sometimes there is no practical way to perform an experiment in a school lab. Use computers to simulate it. Like combining sodium and water or launching edge-of-atmosphere weather balloons.
and most of all he thinks that computers are easy to use and you don't need computers in school to become computer literate. You can learn how to use a computer (which is what people need) in only a couple of weeks.
I didn't learn what I know in a couple weeks nor did you I'm sure. Many of the people I graduated school with are still cautious and intimidated by computers and software. They had little exposure to computers in their 13 years of school. I grew up with computers in my home and my attitude towards them is quite different.
All students need to graduate with the ability to use computers to do research, solve problems and automate tasks. This ability only comes with instruction, familiarity and a lot of practice.
Or you could actually register yourselves at NYTimes. Then you are supporting this newspaper which provides well written content for us. I suppose their website ad revenue is based on page views by unique users.
First come the Scientists to create the technology.
Then come the Entrepreneurs to think of new products.
Then come the Investors to pay to build the products.
Then come the Marketeers to feed us the products.
Then come the Lawyers to protect the Investors.
Then come the Politicians to protect the Lawyers.
Finally comes the Laws to protect us from the technology.
Crazy.
That book contains the evidence you're looking for to back up your assertion. It contains studies done by IBM way back that show the effects of cube size and noise on engineer productivity.
Noise is a tremendous problem. Fortunately, my employer recognizes this and every employee gets an office with a door. God bless them.
Plus, he said "better than 12 hours a day..."
/.ers just starting their first foot-in-the-door tech job.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't 10 hours be better than 12? Heck, let's keep bidding and go for 8? Do I hear a 7?
Why didn't this guy just come out and say that this is his first real job. New employees need more advice than how to decorate.
There should be an Ask Slashdot on advice for
I won't get into how sites dependant on only ad revenue are doomed anyways.
So the fact that broadcast TV and Radio have been successful in no way negates your assertion? They subsist totally on advertising revenue. Ads that you watch, sometimes even willingly.
We may have been doomed by their bland, homogeneous content, but the broadcasting companies do pretty well for themselves as far as businesses go.