I'm always impressed by the connectors for peripherals (generally controllers) on modern video-game consoles. Consider, if you will, the humble playstation connector...
Contrast with the absolutely horrible Nintendo GameCube controller connector, which almost begs to be dislodged.
I am convinced Nintendo knew wireless controllers were going to be shipping a few months' after the GC launch, and wanted to get people thoroughly fed up with the wired ones just in time for their release.
Even here you can often backtrack through the headers and figure out how it arrived in your mailbox, especially if your mail host adds e.g. an "X-Apparently-To:" header.
Windows 95 sequence numbers are very weak. But it is really difficult to understand is why this algorithm was further "weakened" in Windows 98 (SE), decreasing estimated error and number of elements required to get the right guess, in average, 99.488%.
Put that interesting tidbit together with Cringely's thoughts on Microsoft's "TCP/MS" strategy with Palladium.
I'm not usually a paranoid "MS wants to rule the world type" but this is a little too convenient a coincidence to ignore.
I have been wondering how RAID would perform over Firewire with multiple Firewire/ATA drives. Possibly a poor mans "SCSI400"? Capable of hotswapping and all.
But Firewire is (currently) 400Mbps = 50MB/s so it doesn't sound like you'd be that much better off? How much time does the ATA master/slave transition really take?
Servers use SCSI because they need to be able to queue multiple commands to the drive (read: multi-user environment.) Add to that the quality and lifespan of your agerage SCSI drive, and the price is well worth it.
This is disingenuous, depending on your definition of the "average" SCSI drive. The majority of SCSI drives that spin at less than 10k rpm are using the same hardware as their IDE counterparts with different controller hardware.
Someone might argue that it is good for RAID, which would be true for SCSI. But RAID 0 for example with two drives on the same ATA bus gives terrible performance due to the time taken to switch between ATA master and slave drives.
This is disingenuous because few two-drive ATA RAID 0 systems are configured with both drives on the same channel. All ATA RAID solutions have at least two independent channels and it is the norm to put a single drive as master on each.
It just goes to show what's possible when a generation of clever minds is continually frustrated by their inability to develop a digital descrambler for the Playboy channel.
What if the choice was not between starvation and ethics (it almost never is). What if your choice was write code to cure cancer and drive a nissan or write bomb targetting software and drive a BMW. Either way your family is fed, clothed and sheltered and living in lilly white suburbia land. Which path do you chose?
I choose route M3 (just north of 330Ci). And stay out of my fucking way because I take work home with me, son.
I think the only way for this to work is if their were are powerful programmers union that supported it.
You're absolutely right.
To that end, I volunteer to put together the first annual Who's Who in Computer Programming. This book will chronicle the most important, ethical people in the industry and will be invaluable to prospective employers who are looking for the creme de la creme of morally introspective code artisans.
If you feel you should be in this book, please send me your name, e-mail address, and the most complicated typedef or template instantiation you have ever written or even tried to read. Only the top programmers will be selected for publication but for $35 I can see to it that you are given priority consideration, your own half-page, a leather-bound edition of the 2003 Who's Who as well as a certificate (suitable for framing) with your name in large-point gothic letters.
This way your programs don't freeze when heavy disk access occurs.
That's only true if the program is doing disk I/O asychronously. If your program is doing I/O inline with its execution, it will be paused just as long reguardless of where the disk I/O computation is being done.
OK, but I think what the original poster really meant was "This way your system doesn't freeze when heavy disk access occurs," which is still a problem with host-controlled disk I/O.
SCSI is a very reliable system and is capable of handling high load from multiple requests. Never had the original CD-R writting issues that IDE had because the system was designed to handle constant through put.
This is disingenuous. Any CD-R is going to have writing issues if there isn't data in the buffer when push comes to shove. The "original CD-R writing issues" were due more to lack of buffer than any SCSI/IDE issue.
Who is your customer ? The firm I work for is large and has our fingers into all sorts of stuff, I am sure we could service them better than you are...
Fingers into all sorts of stuff? Is that a fancy way of saying you have thumbs up your asses? For all your we-work-harder-than-thou rhetoric, you still have time to troll Slashdot with your self-hating I-wish-you'd-gotten-laid-off-too attitude.
Where I work, Yahoo! Messenger is the preferred means of exchanging short work-related messages.
Unlike the phone or in-cube appearances, the recipient may respond when it is convenient for them (no interruption necessary if you have your message windows set to auto-minimize), but unlike e-mail, it's more interactive and conversational.
It's also incredibly convenient to be able to cut and paste example code, command-lines, URLs, etc. to co-workers on the fly.
I don't know about you, but a little role-playing at 4 AM can be a lot of fun...nudge nudge, nod nod, wink wink:
You've been a BAD little dungeon master, haven't you? You must be punished...
See, here's a perfect example of a joke that should have quit while it was ahead.
Imagine how much funnier this would have been if he had left out the stupid S&M cliché (personally I could have done without the nudge nudge shit shit too but it doesn't detract as much).
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I am convinced Nintendo knew wireless controllers were going to be shipping a few months' after the GC launch, and wanted to get people thoroughly fed up with the wired ones just in time for their release.
In order to do a benefit/loss analysis you have to have some quantitative estimate of how likely static electricity damage is.
I believe that is what the poster was really looking for.
Subject says it all
Yet another casualty of an xtasy overdose.
Even here you can often backtrack through the headers and figure out how it arrived in your mailbox, especially if your mail host adds e.g. an "X-Apparently-To:" header.
I'm not usually a paranoid "MS wants to rule the world type" but this is a little too convenient a coincidence to ignore.
You get to "moderate" the trolls whether you have points or not.
(cracks knuckles)
I see your point and you are absolutely right that ATA133 would do nothing for ATA RAID, speed-wise.
Why do these tests never mention what file system they're using let alone cluster size, etc.?
I looked but could not find any details in the link - was it FAT? FAT32? NTFS??
S & G were late to the game. Bach had them beat by about 250 years and I'm guessing he wasn't the first.
Here you're probably right, because the art in this is in finding two songs that actually sound "good" together despite completely disparate origins.
It just goes to show what's possible when a generation of clever minds is continually frustrated by their inability to develop a digital descrambler for the Playboy channel.
To that end, I volunteer to put together the first annual Who's Who in Computer Programming. This book will chronicle the most important, ethical people in the industry and will be invaluable to prospective employers who are looking for the creme de la creme of morally introspective code artisans.
If you feel you should be in this book, please send me your name, e-mail address, and the most complicated typedef or template instantiation you have ever written or even tried to read. Only the top programmers will be selected for publication but for $35 I can see to it that you are given priority consideration, your own half-page, a leather-bound edition of the 2003 Who's Who as well as a certificate (suitable for framing) with your name in large-point gothic letters.
What does it mean for the universe to be cyclic if the cycles are infinite-length?
What bullshit - I have been casting Quench Flame since I was a level 4 cleric.
Where I work, Yahoo! Messenger is the preferred means of exchanging short work-related messages.
Unlike the phone or in-cube appearances, the recipient may respond when it is convenient for them (no interruption necessary if you have your message windows set to auto-minimize), but unlike e-mail, it's more interactive and conversational.
It's also incredibly convenient to be able to cut and paste example code, command-lines, URLs, etc. to co-workers on the fly.
Imagine how much funnier this would have been if he had left out the stupid S&M cliché (personally I could have done without the nudge nudge shit shit too but it doesn't detract as much).
Haha, good one though.