Darwin does support PS/2, RS232 etc...it also supports pretty much any video card in an unaccelerated mode - which isn't that important in a server.
And, for what it is worth, OS X supports USB RS232/432 devices. And, of course, there are the various virtual machines that will let you run OS X and Darwin under Windows - if they can virtualize those devices, no doubt it could be done on a pSeries.
OTOH, no doubt that the pSeries will be no cheaper than an XServe.
how mush redundancy should there be ? Two full copies sound like far too few. If 'R' is the number of redundant copies, then understand that every participant has to be sharing R*D bytes, where D is the average backup size. Plus, of course, their own personal data, so everyone's hard drive has to be at least three times the size of the average data set. For realistic backup strategies, ensuring that a full copy was online at any point in time, R would probably have to be much bigger than 2.
I don't know about everyone else, but on the machines that i use a lot, regardless of the attached storage, the storage is always about 80% full (of my data).
Finally, this just doesn't cut it for businesses: firstly the altruism, or lack of it: you mean I have to back up everyone elses data and make it permanently available online ? Secondly, while I suspect the privacy aspect is easily surmountable: no-one need have a full data set, and only the 'owner' need know how to assemble individual chunks. Businesses would not want to entrust eben their encrypted data to the unwashed masses.
despite the typical yank viewpoint of "Congress controls the world"
Does anyone really believe that anymore ? Despite the constitution's demand for "checks and balances" The Republican congress has pretty much abrogated its responsibilities to the Executive branch. And, Cheney has explicity said that's the way he thinks it ought to be. Thus, the statement ought to be:"Bush controls the world (by fiat)."
Anybody out there have a solution that doesn't require me to take a year off to hand-code a replacement solution?
Thus far, the only solution I've found [...] Unfortunately, I'd still have to pay for FileMaker,
You must either be paid exceptionally badly or deploying a huge number of FileMaker licenses if a year of your salary is a realistic alternative to upgrading to FM7.
This is not a complicated decision. Millions of businesses make similar decisions every day. Consider:
1. Do I need to upgrade at all ?
2. If so, WHY. (Answer this question, and you are done.)
- Do you need new features offered by FM7.
- Do you need features offered by some other database.
- Do I just need a major migration project in order to justify my salary and my department's budget.
Really, if your FM6 solution works today - why bother ? Every other choice, including the Open Source ones, come at a cost. If it does not work then you need to do a cost/benefit analysis of the alternatives and explain to your managers why FM6 was chosen in the first place.
An iPod is a fun, and actually reasonably economical solution to this problem. So much so that it was a feature that Apple promised to integrate into the Panther release of OS X (10.3):
However it was pulled. Speculation centered on the notion that the iPod is not designed for usage patterns that entail extended continuous disk activity. But, I've not read a conclusive explanation for the feature's disappearance.
There are "complete and total morons," and then there is you. Phone lines do not have "send and receive pairs". There are just two wires (one pair) in most telephone systems in the world. Some European systems may carrry a high voltage ring signal on an additional wire, bur that's not necessary.
May I suggest you take a quick google before you "spew" yourself:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/telephone2. ht m
This isn't actually funny. In a real sense it is the truth, especially if Profit == a PhD.
The Summer Institute of Linguistics(SIL): http://www.sil.org/sil/ Basica lly functions by getting newly minted linguistics graduates to go to communities that speak poorly recorded languages. The grad prepares a lexicon and grammar. The grad gets the funding and research material for a PhD and academic career, SIL gets the tools it needs to translate the bible and "convert" the research subjects. The community gets, erm... Jesus and told they'll go to hell if they don't stop wearing penis gourds and start wearing bras (presumably not the same individuals, but hey I'm no expert.)
There is A LOT of discussion in the linguistic community about this which amounts to nothing more than exploitation: the community does not get anything like the benefit that the researcher does. Indeed there is fairly open hostility to SIL linguists in some academic communities.
And, of course there's no such thing as "sub-average intelligent tribes." I might know a thing or two about linguistics, but I'll be damned if I could take down a jaguar with a poison dart.
NPR just raised this very point. Their expert countered it by noting that several other search engines were also targetted. For some reason Google has been the worst hit.
Well said. Apart from the security issue, which I'd say is 50% obscurity and 50% actually due to greater security in the OS, this article is guff.
To sumarize: Apple would sell more if they lowered prices, instead of going for the premium market - except for the iPod, which is selling well because it is actually better, not because it isn't butt-ugly like the other MP3 players and the eMac - which you do sell cheaply...erm...
Sounds just like Shark for Mac OS X. If DTrace is better than Shark, it must be an awesome tool. Shark does everything this article describes and far, far more:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/shark_optimize. ht ml
The 4.0 version of Shark shown at WWDC was even better. In many cases, Shark can actually give you specific directions on how to optimize your code: both at the source and instruction level.
You do know that Harrods is a special treat we reserve for our American visitors ? British people don't actually shop there.
My American wife lived in with me in the UK for ten years before we moved back to the US. She would often complain about the poor standards of customer care. Now we are back in the US, she, and I long for British standards of courtesy.
Not quite true. Look at the branch prediction instructions in RISC architectures. They pretty much allow the instruction pipeline to ignore the 'loop if test isn't met' instruction.
If all those adult video companies seed betas of their movies on LimeWire, why is it unreasonable to believe that Microsoft wouldn't do the same with software ?
Just make sure you help them out by providing feedback...
Loss of IP due to outsourcing. Any company that does not retain it's employees for the remainder of their working life is open to potential loss of IP. Outsourcing is no different in this regard. Except that outsource companies generally stay in the business of outsourcing, not competing with their former customers. Whereas former employees often go to work for competitors.
Clearly the AdTI should be promoting employee retention laws. Legalising slavery would be great for American business.
Yes, the GPL is pernicious and was written with the intent of radicalising the market for software IP. Deal with it. For every company that is losing money through having to compete with open source or free software there are others that are building successful and profitable businesses on OSS. Guess what, those "other" companies are not necessarily yet in the S&P 500. Innovation will be killed when strategy and legislation is focussed only on what is good for the 800lb gorilla companies. And, even they can adapt and be profitable: IBM.
I'll leave others to address the nonsense of OSS being inherently insecure, written by spotty teenagers and bad for your breath.
I'm sure there are far more than 10,000 developers "earning their crust" developing for the Mac. In a good year, Apple can scrape 4,000 attendees to WWDC. Even if only a quarter of those actually make a living on the Mac, I still can't believe that that represents a tenth of the Mac development community. I work for a company that has a major Mac application. We sure as hell don't send a tenth of our Mac developers to WWDC. We send two or three out of about 60 engineers.
I can't imagine that a homebrew would offer the variety of inputs that any commercial projector would: NTSC/PAL/VGA/XVGA s-video, composite, component, etc..
Also, setting up even a commercial projector is a complete PITA: keystone, focus, etc... this would be doubly so: consider, commercial projectors typically have remote controls and electronic adjustments. Unlikely to be true for any home made system.
Having said that. The X1 is a magnificent beast. Accepts any signal you might want to throw at it. The image quality is awesome. In, my opinion well worth the $999. Take a look at a dealer. You'll buy one.
Clueless idiot. India is the largest functioning democracy in the world. After our supreme court fiasco, I'd have difficulty including the US in the set of functioning democracies.
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Doubly clueless. What do you think an Indian Tech firmlooks like ? Exactly like an US Tech firm. Replete with lame upper management jokes -s
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Darwin does support PS/2, RS232 etc...it also supports pretty much any video card in an unaccelerated mode - which isn't that important in a server.
And, for what it is worth, OS X supports USB RS232/432 devices.
And, of course, there are the various virtual machines that will let you run OS X and Darwin under Windows - if they can virtualize those devices, no doubt it could be done on a pSeries.
OTOH, no doubt that the pSeries will be no cheaper than an XServe.
-S
but, unlikely to work in practise:
how mush redundancy should there be ? Two full copies sound like far too few. If 'R' is the number of redundant copies, then understand that every participant has to be sharing R*D bytes, where D is the average backup size. Plus, of course, their own personal data, so everyone's hard drive has to be at least three times the size of the average data set. For realistic backup strategies, ensuring that a full copy was online at any point in time, R would probably have to be much bigger than 2.
I don't know about everyone else, but on the machines that i use a lot, regardless of the attached storage, the storage is always about 80% full (of my data).
Finally, this just doesn't cut it for businesses: firstly the altruism, or lack of it: you mean I have to back up everyone elses data and make it permanently available online ? Secondly, while I suspect the privacy aspect is easily surmountable: no-one need have a full data set, and only the 'owner' need know how to assemble individual chunks. Businesses would not want to entrust eben their encrypted data to the unwashed masses.
-S
It's fine if you don't get much email, but for real world use, speech synthesis and voice recognition are an useless interface for email.
-S
Yikes, I thank our supreme overlord Steve, that all my main systems are Macintoshes.
-S
Does anyone really believe that anymore ? Despite the constitution's demand for "checks and balances" The Republican congress has pretty much abrogated its responsibilities to the Executive branch. And, Cheney has explicity said that's the way he thinks it ought to be. Thus, the statement ought to be :"Bush controls the world (by fiat)."
[...] Cheney says, presidents have stood by as Congress has chipped away at their executive powers.
-S
Yes, but those "ladies" advertizing in your magazines are still pretty unlikely to make a housecall to the US.
-S
Thus far, the only solution I've found [...] Unfortunately, I'd still have to pay for FileMaker,
You must either be paid exceptionally badly or deploying a huge number of FileMaker licenses if a year of your salary is a realistic alternative to upgrading to FM7.
This is not a complicated decision. Millions of businesses make similar decisions every day. Consider:
1. Do I need to upgrade at all ?
2. If so, WHY. (Answer this question, and you are done.)
- Do you need new features offered by FM7.
- Do you need features offered by some other database.
- Do I just need a major migration project in order to justify my salary and my department's budget.
Really, if your FM6 solution works today - why bother ? Every other choice, including the Open Source ones, come at a cost. If it does not work then you need to do a cost/benefit analysis of the alternatives and explain to your managers why FM6 was chosen in the first place.
-S
An iPod is a fun, and actually reasonably economical solution to this problem. So much so that it was a feature that Apple promised to integrate into the Panther release of OS X (10.3):
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http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2003/10/2003100818
However it was pulled. Speculation centered on the notion that the iPod is not designed for usage patterns that entail extended continuous disk activity. But, I've not read a conclusive explanation for the feature's disappearance.
-S
Fair enough. Dunno where that space came from.
And, thank you.
-S
"And phone lines have send/recieve pairs"
. ht m
There are "complete and total morons," and then there is you. Phone lines do not have "send and receive pairs". There are just two wires (one pair) in most telephone systems in the world. Some European systems may carrry a high voltage ring signal on an additional wire, bur that's not necessary.
May I suggest you take a quick google before you "spew" yourself:
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/telephone2
-S
This isn't actually funny. In a real sense it is the truth, especially if Profit == a PhD.
a lly functions by getting newly minted linguistics graduates to go to communities that speak poorly recorded languages. The grad prepares a lexicon and grammar. The grad gets the funding and research material for a PhD and academic career, SIL gets the tools it needs to translate the bible and "convert" the research subjects. The community gets, erm... Jesus and told they'll go to hell if they don't stop wearing penis gourds and start wearing bras (presumably not the same individuals, but hey I'm no expert.)
The Summer Institute of Linguistics(SIL):
http://www.sil.org/sil/
Basic
There is A LOT of discussion in the linguistic community about this which amounts to nothing more than exploitation: the community does not get anything like the benefit that the researcher does. Indeed there is fairly open hostility to SIL linguists in some academic communities.
And, of course there's no such thing as "sub-average intelligent tribes." I might know a thing or two about linguistics, but I'll be damned if I could take down a jaguar with a poison dart.
-S
NPR just raised this very point. Their expert countered it by noting that several other search engines were also targetted. For some reason Google has been the worst hit.
I get a -27 error:
Clearly Google is running on pre OS X Macs:
-27 abortEr IO call aborted by KillIO
-S
http://www.opengl.org/documentation/oglsl.html
Save youselves a bob or two.
-S
Well said. Apart from the security issue, which I'd say is 50% obscurity and 50% actually due to greater security in the OS, this article is guff.
To sumarize: Apple would sell more if they lowered prices, instead of going for the premium market - except for the iPod, which is selling well because it is actually better, not because it isn't butt-ugly like the other MP3 players and the eMac - which you do sell cheaply...erm...
-S
Sounds just like Shark for Mac OS X.
. ht ml
If DTrace is better than Shark, it must be an awesome tool. Shark does everything this article describes and far, far more:
http://developer.apple.com/tools/shark_optimize
The 4.0 version of Shark shown at WWDC was even better. In many cases, Shark can actually give you specific directions on how to optimize your code: both at the source and instruction level.
You do know that Harrods is a special treat we reserve for our American visitors ?
British people don't actually shop there.
My American wife lived in with me in the UK for ten years before we moved back to the US. She would often complain about the poor standards of customer care. Now we are back in the US, she, and I long for British standards of courtesy.
-S
Not quite true. Look at the branch prediction instructions in RISC architectures. They pretty much allow the instruction pipeline to ignore the 'loop if test isn't met' instruction.
-s
Avid's Nitris hardware requires PCI-X, as will pretty much any uncompressed HD NLE solution.
Atto's UL320 is a good example of the kind of scsi adapter you'll need if you want to write that uncompressed HD video out to disk.
While the Avid HW, is fairly esoteric, the SCSI adapter is pretty mainstream. I'd choose it for driving a home media server for instance.
If all those adult video companies seed betas of their movies on LimeWire, why is it unreasonable to believe that Microsoft wouldn't do the same with software ?
Just make sure you help them out by providing feedback...
it would be modded down as a troll.
Loss of IP due to outsourcing. Any company that does not retain it's employees for the remainder of their working life is open to potential loss of IP. Outsourcing is no different in this regard. Except that outsource companies generally stay in the business of outsourcing, not competing with their former customers. Whereas former employees often go to work for competitors.
Clearly the AdTI should be promoting employee retention laws. Legalising slavery would be great for American business.
Yes, the GPL is pernicious and was written with the intent of radicalising the market for software IP. Deal with it. For every company that is losing money through having to compete with open source or free software there are others that are building successful and profitable businesses on OSS. Guess what, those "other" companies are not necessarily yet in the S&P 500. Innovation will be killed when strategy and legislation is focussed only on what is good for the 800lb gorilla companies. And, even they can adapt and be profitable: IBM.
I'll leave others to address the nonsense of OSS being inherently insecure, written by spotty teenagers and bad for your breath.
I'm sure there are far more than 10,000 developers "earning their crust" developing for the Mac. In a good year, Apple can scrape 4,000 attendees to WWDC. Even if only a quarter of those actually make a living on the Mac, I still can't believe that that represents a tenth of the Mac development community. I work for a company that has a major Mac application. We sure as hell don't send a tenth of our Mac developers to WWDC. We send two or three out of about 60 engineers.
-S
I can't imagine that a homebrew would offer the variety of inputs that any commercial projector would: NTSC/PAL/VGA/XVGA s-video, composite, component, etc..
Also, setting up even a commercial projector is a complete PITA: keystone, focus, etc... this would be doubly so: consider, commercial projectors typically have remote controls and electronic adjustments. Unlikely to be true for any home made system.
Having said that. The X1 is a magnificent beast. Accepts any signal you might want to throw at it. The image quality is awesome. In, my opinion well worth the $999. Take a look at a dealer. You'll buy one.
-Simon
Clueless idiot. India is the largest functioning democracy in the world. After our supreme court fiasco, I'd have difficulty including the US in the set of functioning democracies.
25% understands lame jokes from upper mgmt premium
Doubly clueless. What do you think an Indian Tech firmlooks like ? Exactly like an US Tech firm. Replete with lame upper management jokes
-s
Did you read "The Big U" ?
Not sure I loved that one.
-S