It wouldn't be at all pointless for me - I'm hanging out for bluetooth equipped crash helmets. No dangling cords from helmet to motorcycle for intercom devices.
It's called chosing the lesser of two evils. People do it all the time. They work late because while they think their kids would like more time with them, they can't afford to lose their job and have the kids homeless.
You're still arguing for doing nothing if you can't achieve perfection. It's a bullshit philosophy.
It's better than what consumers have now; namely nothing. This is the classic, "we can't be perfect, let's do nothing" criticism, one of the greatest inhibitors of progress.
Personally I'd prefer a Palm program that links to a barcode scanner. It would less dorky, and it would let me make finer-grained decisions.
The expanses aren't the problem; sure, someone running a ranch in the arse end of nowhere (Texas, Idaho, Montana, take your pick) is never going to get cheap good service in the way a city dweller is.
No, the problem is urban sprawl. When everyone wants to live in the 'burbs with their yard and whatnot, wiring up 10,000 households is hard and expensive. You've got to run a backbone to the suburb, then you've got to fan out over those 10,000 properties. Permission to dig up streets to lay cable. Just plain covering a larger area.
Places that have denser housing in their main population centres, on the other hand, have it easier, because, as you say, running a backbone down a single street lets you service a tower with 100 households, where the same cable in the burbs might give you one or two.
It's no different to the way high speed trains are viable in Europe or Japan, but not in the US. It's not the rural areas, it's the suburbs.
Depends on the troop movement. If your government claimed that US forces were marching to victory and they were actually bogged down and being shot up, wouldn't the public have a right to know?
Make sure your firewall has a third leg for the wireless devices. Use the firewall to control wireless access to the rest of the netowrk, ideally via IPSEC or somesuch.
I've thought about wireless. Properly securing it is as much of a pain in the arse as running cable. And the performance does indeed suck - personally, I like to be able to store all my Canon G3 images on a file server and open them over the network. Centralised datastore with decent backup - I don't consider that an "office network", I consider it what people ought to have and don't.
It's not that hard at all if you have your own businesses that run out of home. Laying in a proper home network to share Internet access and put all your stuff on a centralised fileserver looks a lot betyter than nasty cables snaking all over the floor.
Oh, hell, plenty of workplaces do it, too. Along with IQ tests and such. Everyone I know or work with finds it hilarious when I tell them my psych profile suggested I was slightly to the female side of the male norm, but was pretty much, well, normal.
It's a perfect opportunity to troll for hits, isn't it? Of course, I would, but last time that happened to my pet project, it cost me a bloody fortune.
Stupid bandwidth charges from a front page slashdotting...
Yeah. I mean, no SCO customer would notice if GCC or Apache or perl suddenly stopped building on their systems. Yeah, those stupid free software jerks. Whenever have they done anything useful?
Remove any autoconf, Makefile, #ifdefs, and the like which adapt the nmap build to work with SCO's systems, and you've just made it all-but-impossible for most people to get nmap to build on SCO's systems, especially if there's any network voodoo that needs to make it run on the relevant systems.
I suppose someone could maintain a seperate patch stream against nmap to let it build, but it's a real pain.
According to their recent announcement, they'll be putting in more of the Ent scenes from the book - so not changing current work, just adding more. This'll be why the hobbits were at the rugby in the weekend.
The limit Weta are working against is time. They have a deadline. The faster their render farm, the less likely a problem - realising a scene is wrong, servers crashing, hardware failing - is to cause them to slip.
Likewise, I imagine Weta's biggest expense is staff & contractors. If they have to work nights and weekends to get work done because they're waiting on hardware, that's a big cost, probably a lot bigger than the cost of adding servers to the farm.
Finally, there's the possibility of doing more complex and detailed rendering and compositing with a bigger farm, especially for the extended editions of the DVDs - for example, they're doing a huge amount extra for the Two Towers DVD, since they're adding lots more to the Ents.
How about hiring some more staff? Or paying the existing ones - much like the contractors - for the work they're doing?
Either the client is valuable enought the company can afford the cost, or they aren't. If the former, the staff ought to get a cut. If not, ditch the client - the loss of goodwill from staff isn't worth it.
Then they're opening themselves up again - because if they include that in their criteria for redundancy, they've just made decisions based on your unwillingness to work more than 48 hours per week.
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It wouldn't be at all pointless for me - I'm hanging out for bluetooth equipped crash helmets. No dangling cords from helmet to motorcycle for intercom devices.
When solid state devices that retain state are faster than hard drives?
Current CF units have much lower throughput than a decent hard drive. They also die after far fewer write cycles than a typical hard drive.
Thier main virtues are that they're (a) compact and (b) harder to damage than a hard drive.
It's called chosing the lesser of two evils. People do it all the time. They work late because while they think their kids would like more time with them, they can't afford to lose their job and have the kids homeless.
You're still arguing for doing nothing if you can't achieve perfection. It's a bullshit philosophy.
The fraud already happens: witness Nike suing to be allowed to lie about thier products and practises as a first amendment right.
It's better than what consumers have now; namely nothing. This is the classic, "we can't be perfect, let's do nothing" criticism, one of the greatest inhibitors of progress.
Personally I'd prefer a Palm program that links to a barcode scanner. It would less dorky, and it would let me make finer-grained decisions.
It seems an awful lot like an unholy combination of "RTS for dummies" modifications, along with "l33t unit" syndrome.
The expanses aren't the problem; sure, someone running a ranch in the arse end of nowhere (Texas, Idaho, Montana, take your pick) is never going to get cheap good service in the way a city dweller is.
No, the problem is urban sprawl. When everyone wants to live in the 'burbs with their yard and whatnot, wiring up 10,000 households is hard and expensive. You've got to run a backbone to the suburb, then you've got to fan out over those 10,000 properties. Permission to dig up streets to lay cable. Just plain covering a larger area.
Places that have denser housing in their main population centres, on the other hand, have it easier, because, as you say, running a backbone down a single street lets you service a tower with 100 households, where the same cable in the burbs might give you one or two.
It's no different to the way high speed trains are viable in Europe or Japan, but not in the US. It's not the rural areas, it's the suburbs.
Depends on the troop movement. If your government claimed that US forces were marching to victory and they were actually bogged down and being shot up, wouldn't the public have a right to know?
Except Florida, where clean water is being redifined to allow for more fecal matter!
Make sure your firewall has a third leg for the wireless devices. Use the firewall to control wireless access to the rest of the netowrk, ideally via IPSEC or somesuch.
I've thought about wireless. Properly securing it is as much of a pain in the arse as running cable. And the performance does indeed suck - personally, I like to be able to store all my Canon G3 images on a file server and open them over the network. Centralised datastore with decent backup - I don't consider that an "office network", I consider it what people ought to have and don't.
Yuk. Thanks, but I'd rather have a tidy, kid-proof through the walls installation.
Moreover, it does a lot more for the resale value.
It's not that hard at all if you have your own businesses that run out of home. Laying in a proper home network to share Internet access and put all your stuff on a centralised fileserver looks a lot betyter than nasty cables snaking all over the floor.
Oh, hell, plenty of workplaces do it, too. Along with IQ tests and such. Everyone I know or work with finds it hilarious when I tell them my psych profile suggested I was slightly to the female side of the male norm, but was pretty much, well, normal.
The ought to be drooling over Opterons, then. Cost less, do the same!
That's funny, because SCO have actually states only Sun is definitely OK, and there are questions around Apple and Microsoft.
Either SCO are about to become the richest and most powerful company in the industry, or they're about to have something unpleasant happen.
It's a perfect opportunity to troll for hits, isn't it? Of course, I would, but last time that happened to my pet project, it cost me a bloody fortune.
Stupid bandwidth charges from a front page slashdotting...
And if Ben Elton were actually funny, it would have been a great book...
Yeah. I mean, no SCO customer would notice if GCC or Apache or perl suddenly stopped building on their systems. Yeah, those stupid free software jerks. Whenever have they done anything useful?
Remove any autoconf, Makefile, #ifdefs, and the like which adapt the nmap build to work with SCO's systems, and you've just made it all-but-impossible for most people to get nmap to build on SCO's systems, especially if there's any network voodoo that needs to make it run on the relevant systems.
I suppose someone could maintain a seperate patch stream against nmap to let it build, but it's a real pain.
According to their recent announcement, they'll be putting in more of the Ent scenes from the book - so not changing current work, just adding more. This'll be why the hobbits were at the rugby in the weekend.
The limit Weta are working against is time. They have a deadline. The faster their render farm, the less likely a problem - realising a scene is wrong, servers crashing, hardware failing - is to cause them to slip.
Likewise, I imagine Weta's biggest expense is staff & contractors. If they have to work nights and weekends to get work done because they're waiting on hardware, that's a big cost, probably a lot bigger than the cost of adding servers to the farm.
Finally, there's the possibility of doing more complex and detailed rendering and compositing with a bigger farm, especially for the extended editions of the DVDs - for example, they're doing a huge amount extra for the Two Towers DVD, since they're adding lots more to the Ents.
How about hiring some more staff? Or paying the existing ones - much like the contractors - for the work they're doing?
Either the client is valuable enought the company can afford the cost, or they aren't. If the former, the staff ought to get a cut. If not, ditch the client - the loss of goodwill from staff isn't worth it.
Not just you. When you work for free, you're allowing an employer to lay off your colleagues, or not hire people they need.
Then they're opening themselves up again - because if they include that in their criteria for redundancy, they've just made decisions based on your unwillingness to work more than 48 hours per week.
Oops.