Overload the hardware as badly as you can, see how it copes (Experience: practically all OS's have a "breaking point" after which you need to restart the machine to recover fully).
Try to install faulty components, see what happens (Experience: even if the manufacturer claims failure tolerance, this is seldom the case).
Check if the iron really runs in the manufacturer's reported maximum temperature and what happens at the temperature plus couple degrees (Experience: Sun boxes keep running, HP/UX boxes immediately shut down).
Check if the system runs itself down gracefully when UPS reports power is out. Cut power entirely, see what happens.
Check if you can administer everything without touching the iron, including shutting the box down and starting it (Lights Out Management).
What's not mentioned here is also that the bits in the RAW files don't represent color in the same manner as regular image formats. The bit values for the color channels translate to Electron Volts as read by the sensors which can't be mapped 1-1 to a color value.
This combined with having to interpolate from the Bayer pattern sensor arrangement makes converting RAW pretty CPU-intensive. What Adobe is trying to do is to let the developers to concentrate on improving the conversion speed and image quality instead of having to spend all their time reverse engineering the formats.
A bunch of other readers said multi-platform multi-protocol solutions exist which is fine and dandy but when you actually start to use any of those clients, problems arise. The clients don't support platform-specific feature or UI requirements (especially visible to OS X users), don't support protocol specific features and are mostly buggy and butt-ugly as compared to single-protocol alternatives.
When the multi-multi clients get the UI simplicity, features and looks of iChat, I'll switch.
While some marketing people are very creative, most aren't. However, all of them like to think they are. Someone working in marketing doesn't want to go as low as to quantify creative as a noun.
However, for lawyers creative is just another item they protect. For iTunes Music Store, they can't say it's just songs they're protecting but all the content being sold is more or less creative. Makes a perfect noun!
I'm optimistic about getting extremely optimized game libraries to Mac OS in near future. Practically all game development companies will be shipping games for PS 3 and XBox 2, both of which contain a modified version of G5. When you get the new high-end iMac, you're buying something very close to the current XBox 2 development reference platform!
So getting the optimized game libraries and developers who know how to develop games for G5 should only be a matter of time. Major coolness!
From all the places in the world, you chose Slashdot to divulge you have details of a military project that's most likely protected with NDA's so thick you could probably climb to the moon if you stacked it all into one pile.
Apparently rocket science doesn't take too much common sense.:)
I wasn't told the manufacturer of the chip inside the grey palm-sized device but it had one of the new mobile 3D accelerator chips. The graphics were pretty good - the developers said it's comparable to Nintendo 64 which is definitely enough for an add-on feature to a phone.
Apparently the main problem with the accelerator is the power consumption of the chip. Anything faster than the current generation with today's technology would consume too much power and nobody wants their phone to run out of battery after fifteen minutes of gaming.
Checksums are nearly useless against spam. It only takes one byte to change the checksum value and probably more than 90% of spam contain a personalization code to check which addresses are functional. Different code = different checksum.
This doesn't mean it wouldn't be possible to create a system which would automatically detect individual spam messages based on tagging known spam, you just have to be smarter about the detection than just plain MD5ing the email body.
Apple just was the first company to do the switch which meant practically nobody had any peripherals available at the time.
Remember the huge uproar when iMac came out and ditched all legacy ports? Old Mac users complained they couldn't use their old peripherals and everyone thought Apple was mad as you couldn't get anything to plug into the the fancy USB ports.
Even the USB mice were more expensive than serial ones at that time, get that!:)
Regarding Unix scriptability, have you looked at OS X's Applescript? Almost all OS X programs are fully scriptable using Apple Events which in turn can be called from any scripting environment so you can use your favorite language, be it Perl or Applescript, to script any OS X program. So certain Unix-like OS does already fully support scriptability to application level.
I've been using a scriptable email program (Eudora) for years and haven't had a single problem because insecure design.
Sun just recently went a long way towards competitive price/performance with the introduction of Fire v210 and Fire v240 servers. If you configure an x86 server with similar capabilities, you'll find the Sun price to be very good. Hardware RAID and multiple gig-ethernet adapters isn't that common configuration in a sub-$3500 server.
With XHTML, CSS is crucial to creating even simple pages. Under XHTML CSS allows for very cool things such as defining multiple style sheets for each page for different purposes - you can now have a page which'll look perfect when seen on screen, printed and on a mobile device without having to detect the user agent or viewing situation.
Interestingly, Apple uses Perl for OS X installer scripts. The Quicktime installer requires you have a Perl installation which works without having any environment variables being set using your own.bashrc (or whichever shell you're using). I recently upgraded my perl to 5.8.0 using instructions kindly provided by Apple only to now find out their instructions break Software Update.
I've sent them feedback but haven't yet got a reply. Nice going...
At the moment, you can't get an upgrade pricing on OS X Server. Apple just doesn't offer an upgrade. And remember, OS X Server with unlimited licenses costs a lot ($1500 in Finland). I'm still running 10.1 as I'm having a grudge for purchasing a new license just to upgrade to a hopefully less buggy version of the server. So, this is a very good deal.:)
InnoDB tables offer nice capabilites but are horrible to maintain compared to MyISAM tables.
For example, with InnoDB you have to statically allocate the table space and there's no tools to profile for how much space you'll need, meaning you have to keep on checking the available space constantly.
Big corporations have their internal networks that can route huge amounts of global traffic out to Internet from centralized locations. This way quite a few Nokia, IBM etc users appear to come from country X regardless of the actual location of the user. I wonder how the media companies will agree the distribution with these guys.:)
And didn't like it at all! The problem is the weight of the hand rests on top of the mouse. In order to move it even on a good mousepad, you need to apply a lot of force. This makes precision clicking much harder to do than with the usual wrist-action mouse. Several other people at the same company tried it too and didn't like it.
And that's so old tech too, it was available last year.:P
The best mouse wristwise that I've found is the tiny small model from Logitech.
As an owner who's opened mine (had to install airport) the biggest problem with the design is lack of sufficient insulation between the cover and the motherboard. For some reason, my machine leaked electricity to the cover for a while.:)
The main body of the machine is very very sturdy but unfortunately only cover the outer edge of the machine, not the bottom.
A friend dropped his machine rather spectacularly and broke the screen and the titanium frame. Everything else survived but he had to pay $$$ to get the broken parts replaced.
Every single software patent I've seen begins with explaining what the patent covers, by describing an apparatus that implements the patent. Most of the time this means a PC running a piece of software.
Since IANAL, I'm interpreting this so that providing only part of the solution (ie, the software component) isn't covered by the patent since no hardware is provided. If providing part of the solution is a breach, wouldn't it imply that providing the hardware part only (a pc) is infringing? If providing some part of the solution is infringing the patent and some other part is not, where does the line go?
There is no easy way around back problems: if you're not fit, there's no way you can relieve the back problems for more than a moment.
Getting medicated / massaged / whatever is only going to help for a moment, and probably you'll end up in a worse state than you began with unless you start to exercise after getting treated.
Start a sport that'll make your back stronger. Be it contact sports, climbing, Tai Chi, joga, anything, you have to move. That's what the body has been designed for. Sex isn't an alternative to sports - you have to **** for eight hours straight to burn the same amount of calories as half an hour of walking.
If you're a gadget freak, get a heart rate monitor as an incentive. Get a friend to do a sport with you. But start moving!
We have almost no payphones in Finland and almost (except for kids and the elderly) everyone has a cellphone (over 2 million sold phones in a country of 5 million). The local companies responsible for the public phones took them away after the upkeep topped the earnings.
And as for being able to call in the subway that Cliff was complaining about, there _are_ solutions to that. At least here I can make a call without any glitches even when inside the train and in the tunnel.
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Overload the hardware as badly as you can, see how it copes (Experience: practically all OS's have a "breaking point" after which you need to restart the machine to recover fully).
Try to install faulty components, see what happens (Experience: even if the manufacturer claims failure tolerance, this is seldom the case).
Check if the iron really runs in the manufacturer's reported maximum temperature and what happens at the temperature plus couple degrees (Experience: Sun boxes keep running, HP/UX boxes immediately shut down).
Check if the system runs itself down gracefully when UPS reports power is out. Cut power entirely, see what happens.
Check if you can administer everything without touching the iron, including shutting the box down and starting it (Lights Out Management).
What's not mentioned here is also that the bits in the RAW files don't represent color in the same manner as regular image formats. The bit values for the color channels translate to Electron Volts as read by the sensors which can't be mapped 1-1 to a color value.
This combined with having to interpolate from the Bayer pattern sensor arrangement makes converting RAW pretty CPU-intensive. What Adobe is trying to do is to let the developers to concentrate on improving the conversion speed and image quality instead of having to spend all their time reverse engineering the formats.
A bunch of other readers said multi-platform multi-protocol solutions exist which is fine and dandy but when you actually start to use any of those clients, problems arise. The clients don't support platform-specific feature or UI requirements (especially visible to OS X users), don't support protocol specific features and are mostly buggy and butt-ugly as compared to single-protocol alternatives.
When the multi-multi clients get the UI simplicity, features and looks of iChat, I'll switch.
"I think when they invented marketing."
Nope! That's strictly legalese.
While some marketing people are very creative, most aren't. However, all of them like to think they are. Someone working in marketing doesn't want to go as low as to quantify creative as a noun.
However, for lawyers creative is just another item they protect. For iTunes Music Store, they can't say it's just songs they're protecting but all the content being sold is more or less creative. Makes a perfect noun!
I'm optimistic about getting extremely optimized game libraries to Mac OS in near future. Practically all game development companies will be shipping games for PS 3 and XBox 2, both of which contain a modified version of G5. When you get the new high-end iMac, you're buying something very close to the current XBox 2 development reference platform!
So getting the optimized game libraries and developers who know how to develop games for G5 should only be a matter of time. Major coolness!
You can already get the hardware - it just _priced_ like it's weight in gold. ;)
From all the places in the world, you chose Slashdot to divulge you have details of a military project that's most likely protected with NDA's so thick you could probably climb to the moon if you stacked it all into one pile.
:)
Apparently rocket science doesn't take too much common sense.
I wasn't told the manufacturer of the chip inside the grey palm-sized device but it had one of the new mobile 3D accelerator chips. The graphics were pretty good - the developers said it's comparable to Nintendo 64 which is definitely enough for an add-on feature to a phone.
Apparently the main problem with the accelerator is the power consumption of the chip. Anything faster than the current generation with today's technology would consume too much power and nobody wants their phone to run out of battery after fifteen minutes of gaming.
Checksums are nearly useless against spam. It only takes one byte to change the checksum value and probably more than 90% of spam contain a personalization code to check which addresses are functional. Different code = different checksum.
This doesn't mean it wouldn't be possible to create a system which would automatically detect individual spam messages based on tagging known spam, you just have to be smarter about the detection than just plain MD5ing the email body.
You're right. :)
:)
Apple just was the first company to do the switch which meant practically nobody had any peripherals available at the time.
Remember the huge uproar when iMac came out and ditched all legacy ports? Old Mac users complained they couldn't use their old peripherals and everyone thought Apple was mad as you couldn't get anything to plug into the the fancy USB ports.
Even the USB mice were more expensive than serial ones at that time, get that!
Regarding Unix scriptability, have you looked at OS X's Applescript? Almost all OS X programs are fully scriptable using Apple Events which in turn can be called from any scripting environment so you can use your favorite language, be it Perl or Applescript, to script any OS X program. So certain Unix-like OS does already fully support scriptability to application level.
I've been using a scriptable email program (Eudora) for years and haven't had a single problem because insecure design.
Sun just recently went a long way towards competitive price/performance with the introduction of Fire v210 and Fire v240 servers. If you configure an x86 server with similar capabilities, you'll find the Sun price to be very good. Hardware RAID and multiple gig-ethernet adapters isn't that common configuration in a sub-$3500 server.
With XHTML, CSS is crucial to creating even simple pages. Under XHTML CSS allows for very cool things such as defining multiple style sheets for each page for different purposes - you can now have a page which'll look perfect when seen on screen, printed and on a mobile device without having to detect the user agent or viewing situation.
Interestingly, Apple uses Perl for OS X installer scripts. The Quicktime installer requires you have a Perl installation which works without having any environment variables being set using your own .bashrc (or whichever shell you're using). I recently upgraded my perl to 5.8.0 using instructions kindly provided by Apple only to now find out their instructions break Software Update.
I've sent them feedback but haven't yet got a reply. Nice going...
At the moment, you can't get an upgrade pricing on OS X Server. Apple just doesn't offer an upgrade. And remember, OS X Server with unlimited licenses costs a lot ($1500 in Finland). I'm still running 10.1 as I'm having a grudge for purchasing a new license just to upgrade to a hopefully less buggy version of the server. So, this is a very good deal. :)
You think 3G camera prohes won't change that?
A: Look what I just did in the terlet!
B: HUH HUH HUH!
InnoDB tables offer nice capabilites but are horrible to maintain compared to MyISAM tables.
For example, with InnoDB you have to statically allocate the table space and there's no tools to profile for how much space you'll need, meaning you have to keep on checking the available space constantly.
Big corporations have their internal networks that can route huge amounts of global traffic out to Internet from centralized locations. This way quite a few Nokia, IBM etc users appear to come from country X regardless of the actual location of the user. I wonder how the media companies will agree the distribution with these guys. :)
And didn't like it at all! The problem is the weight of the hand rests on top of the mouse. In order to move it even on a good mousepad, you need to apply a lot of force. This makes precision clicking much harder to do than with the usual wrist-action mouse. Several other people at the same company tried it too and didn't like it.
:P
And that's so old tech too, it was available last year.
The best mouse wristwise that I've found is the tiny small model from Logitech.
As an owner who's opened mine (had to install airport) the biggest problem with the design is lack of sufficient insulation between the cover and the motherboard. For some reason, my machine leaked electricity to the cover for a while. :)
The main body of the machine is very very sturdy but unfortunately only cover the outer edge of the machine, not the bottom.
A friend dropped his machine rather spectacularly and broke the screen and the titanium frame. Everything else survived but he had to pay $$$ to get the broken parts replaced.
Every single software patent I've seen begins with explaining what the patent covers, by describing an apparatus that implements the patent. Most of the time this means a PC running a piece of software.
Since IANAL, I'm interpreting this so that providing only part of the solution (ie, the software component) isn't covered by the patent since no hardware is provided. If providing part of the solution is a breach, wouldn't it imply that providing the hardware part only (a pc) is infringing? If providing some part of the solution is infringing the patent and some other part is not, where does the line go?
There is no easy way around back problems: if you're not fit, there's no way you can relieve the back problems for more than a moment.
Getting medicated / massaged / whatever is only going to help for a moment, and probably you'll end up in a worse state than you began with unless you start to exercise after getting treated.
Start a sport that'll make your back stronger. Be it contact sports, climbing, Tai Chi, joga, anything, you have to move. That's what the body has been designed for. Sex isn't an alternative to sports - you have to **** for eight hours straight to burn the same amount of calories as half an hour of walking.
If you're a gadget freak, get a heart rate monitor as an incentive. Get a friend to do a sport with you. But start moving!
We have almost no payphones in Finland and almost (except for kids and the elderly) everyone has a cellphone (over 2 million sold phones in a country of 5 million). The local companies responsible for the public phones took them away after the upkeep topped the earnings.
And as for being able to call in the subway that Cliff was complaining about, there _are_ solutions to that. At least here I can make a call without any glitches even when inside the train and in the tunnel.
How about saying "nth prime that is this long"?
As in "1400,123456"? How many 1400 digit primes exist?
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels information can be found here. If you liked Snatch, go check this out.
:)
It's nice to see Bradd Pitt acting so well in the movie. The pretty boy all the girls drooled after has become a real actor!