When they fail within minutes, in an open box, with extra fans blowing across them (4 out of 4 from one batch, 2 out of 4 with a replacement batch - and yes, they were also individually checked in another machine afterwards, but let's face it, when they're making grinding or zip-zip-zip noises, they're defective) there's a problem with quality control. Specifically, China.
Also , do NOT use those hard drive fans that mount under the hd - I tried that with a raid 4 years ago. The fans become unbalanced after a while, and will ruin your drives. Instead, mount an additional fan inside the case, pointing directly at the drives, to help avoid hot spots.
The single instruction for URISC consists of three memory addresses x, y, z. Obviously, no opcode is needed, given that we have only one instruction. When executed, this instruction computes the difference (y) (x), assigns the value to y, and branches to z if the new value of y is negative.
Just one question... how do you stop, since there are no IRET, HALT, or other instructions?
Come on, Yahoo. I think Microsoft is being reasonable here, plus offering quite a bit. Even though I'm not a huge Microsoft fan, there is a thing called common courtesy.
"If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders.'"
Maybe Apple and Yahoo! should offer to buy Microsoft - and make the same "swim with the fishes" offer.
Everyone knows that as soon as you introduce the Chuck Norris character into the game, it ends as all the other characters get roundhouse kicked into another alternate universe.
Also, Chuck Norris always wins, even with a 1. Nobody else dares roll the dice to counter. It is said that someone tried once - they rolled a blank - the pips on the die had turned white in fear of Chuck Norris.
Sure there was crap in the 90's, and 80's, and 70's, but, unlike the current pap put out by the music industry, there was a lot more wheat amongst the chaff back then.
... and that's ONE reason why the RIAA sales numbers are down overall.
The other reason? The groups that drove the big numbers are no more. The Beatles are 2 bullets away from their next reunion concert, the Stones are so mainstream its not funny, Elvis is STILL dead, Pink Floyd has become just another brick in the wall, Madonna no longer stands out from the crowd, etc... So now you have groups that produce a few albums and then fade away. For example, Red Hot Chili Peppers peaked with Californication a decade ago.
If you already have everything you like, you're not going to buy any more stuff. Music isn't like donuts - the really good stuff doesn't have a "best before" date, after which you have to replace it.
This is one of the risks that you run into when your business is dependent on closed-source, proprietary software - more specifically, in this case, when you run Windows.
Riiiiiight. Because this isn't OBVIOUSLY the actions of a single (or small group of) admin(s), in COMPLETE violation of formal, written company policy...
I don't know what the "translation" says, but the original french article makes the point that the keys were generated at the time of the merger of the 2 companies, when they would need to migrate data from one server to another. It wasn't "casual". that's why the company is saying they're not interested in "working out a settlement" - they want a judgment, to serve as a warning.
It would only take one of these people to become disgruntled and rat out their employer
And this seems to be exactly what happened. For those who don't follow links:
An investigation triggered by the request of an employee of Sony BMG
Nope. I read the original french article, not the translation, and the employee called tech support for help, not knowing that the license key was pirated. PointDev didn't have them in their customer database, tracked down the key, then got a bailiff to seize the servers in question.
My last crop of interns at work were college juniors, and couldn't be trusted to make copies
That's because college juniors have to start with the basics... making coffees, not copies.
And if you think I'm joking, we had a breaker reset twice Friday because someone plugged a kettle into the same circuit as several desktops and a server... they learned that a watched kettle never boils/* grumble grumble */
Also, support for Win2K ends in 2010. Microsoft has thus successfully kept a school away from the alternatives, without giving them the next 5 years free.
Well, you know how it is - get them while they're young. Worked for the Hitler Youth with the current pope...
Except the Quebecois are among the most culturally insular people in North America. Where are the geeks going to live? In a company dorm, shunned by most of the people in a small town? Where they would have a hard time ordering dinner in a restaurant, or buying a pair of shoes? Again, I don't think the average geek wants to live in a town of 2,000 where he can't speak the language, feels ostracized, and couldn't pick up a girl to save his life. Oh wait, I guess that last one applies pretty much anywhere.
So don't move out to the boonies. For example, Montreal has millions of people, between 5,000 and 10,000 restaurants, and you can order in English - most menus are either bilingual, or you can ask for an english menu. English schools, colleges, universities, newspapers, books, TV and radio stations, movies...
Of course, while it gets cold in the winter, Montreal also gets hot in the summer - 90F to 100F hot, so looks like you'll be moving to the boonies whether you like it or not... but as long as you've got a healthy liver and like drinking Canadian beer, you should be okay.
Really? So this must be some magical post I'm making...
Second-rate software may appeal if it comes at no cost, but life is too short to waste and second-rate (at best) software wastes too much of it
I agree, which is why I don't "do" Windows.
I use linux at home, and linux + bsd at work.
My sister switched to an iMac, and "once you go mac, you never go back."
People routinely remote into another linux box at work when they want to get "real" work done in a more powerful graphical environment like kde, or need to do stuff that Windows just can't do without a lot of work...
Even web developers no longer need to keep a Windows box handy "for compatability testing" - IE 7 runs fine under linux.
That rather depends on your intuition. I personally would intuit an upper bound of (3^9)/2 which would be further reduced by the fact that abs(n(o) - n(x)) <= 1 where n represents the number of each marker on the board.
No intuition. My numbers are based on a program I wrote a decade ago that generated all possible solutions. It generated static html pages such that you chose to go first or second, and you'd click on the square, and it would load the appropriate next page. 2000 pages to cover every possibility where it won, or, if not a win, then a draw. It never lost:-)
Taking into account mirrors and rotations, another program got it down to under 500, iirc. (it may have been slightly over - can't recall for sure).
It was really neat - a tic-tac-toe-playing set of web pages with no javascript, no programming on the server or the client - just 2,000 static pages.
Any cube has many more than 24 variations, which is why removing all variants is so powerful.
There's also mirror-image symetry (vertical axis, horizontal axis, both diagonals).
Try it with something simpler - like a tic-tac-toe board, and you'll find that there are only ~500 possible boards, not the hundreds of thousands you would intuit by thinking 9 first moves * 8 second moves * 7 3rd moves * 6 4th moves * 5 5th moves...
Then the "standard" changes, applying a hedonic model is wrong. A good example was air bags. They're standard equipment, but when they were first introduced, cars with them were "price adjusted".
The same applies to anything else that follows a technological upgrade path, from 5mph bumpers to cell phones to computers to televisions.
Re: core inflation - factor in energy costs, which are excluded from the CPI. 300% in the last decade. Its not like the compressors that are needed to make LOX and LH magically run themselves. That's over a million a launch, and VERY sensitive to electrical and other energy costs.
Medical costs and premiums - both employer and employee, have been running much higher than the CPI every year for the last 2 decades. This affects NASA as an employer. The amount of co-pays and uninsured services has also been rising. Prescription drugs? Whoah, babeee!
Just like it takes a lot of energy (also "conveniently" not included in the CPI) to run the high-flow high-speed wind tunnel, all the desktop computers that the employees use, the AC, servers, simulators, etc.
Re fusion: we can't place all our eggs in one basket. Unfortunately, practical fusion has been "30 years down the road" for 40 years.
Follow the thread up, and you'll see the poster decrying the diversion of funds from NASA to a useless war.
The poster complained:
"Maybe it's just me but I'd rather see the quality of life improve for millions of people"
Diverting money from war to science would help. There'd probably be 4,000 fewer US soldiers dead, for a start. I'm sure their families would also be happier.
I unspoken point was that we can't always predict all the benefits of science. If we could, we'd just skip the research. I figured this is self-evident, but I guess, for the sake of clarity, I should have added that subtext. The rovers might not give us the "next big thing", but they'll certainly be less destructive to our quality of life than the current bogus war in Iraq.
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Microsoft doesn't have the capital either - they'll be borrowing to finance a chunk of the deal.
When they fail within minutes, in an open box, with extra fans blowing across them (4 out of 4 from one batch, 2 out of 4 with a replacement batch - and yes, they were also individually checked in another machine afterwards, but let's face it, when they're making grinding or zip-zip-zip noises, they're defective) there's a problem with quality control. Specifically, China.
Also , do NOT use those hard drive fans that mount under the hd - I tried that with a raid 4 years ago. The fans become unbalanced after a while, and will ruin your drives. Instead, mount an additional fan inside the case, pointing directly at the drives, to help avoid hot spots.
I don't know what's scarier - that I actually read the whole entry, or that such a thing even exists.
I like what this other entry says - short, and actually understandable at a glance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ultimate_RISC_(URISC)
Just one question ... how do you stop, since there are no IRET, HALT, or other instructions?
poster saith:
Maybe Apple and Yahoo! should offer to buy Microsoft - and make the same "swim with the fishes" offer.
Everyone knows that as soon as you introduce the Chuck Norris character into the game, it ends as all the other characters get roundhouse kicked into another alternate universe.
Also, Chuck Norris always wins, even with a 1. Nobody else dares roll the dice to counter. It is said that someone tried once - they rolled a blank - the pips on the die had turned white in fear of Chuck Norris.
Some people seem to feel that ADHD is critical to being a geek somehow.
There - fixed.
First step: https instead of http.
Inspect THAT!
Sure there was crap in the 90's, and 80's, and 70's, but, unlike the current pap put out by the music industry, there was a lot more wheat amongst the chaff back then.
The other reason? The groups that drove the big numbers are no more. The Beatles are 2 bullets away from their next reunion concert, the Stones are so mainstream its not funny, Elvis is STILL dead, Pink Floyd has become just another brick in the wall, Madonna no longer stands out from the crowd, etc ... So now you have groups that produce a few albums and then fade away. For example, Red Hot Chili Peppers peaked with Californication a decade ago.
If you already have everything you like, you're not going to buy any more stuff. Music isn't like donuts - the really good stuff doesn't have a "best before" date, after which you have to replace it.
There, fixed it for you.
The weird part was that it was http://www.laprovence.com/articles/2008/03/19/347901-UNKNOWN-Une-societe-vauclusienne-attaque-le-geant-Sony.php rather obvious it was cracked - there was a keygen used (search the net for "TAM/CORE" for more info) and most of the time, people who install cracked software leave the keygen somewhere on the machine "just in case".
This is one of the risks that you run into when your business is dependent on closed-source, proprietary software - more specifically, in this case, when you run Windows.
I don't know what the "translation" says, but the original french article makes the point that the keys were generated at the time of the merger of the 2 companies, when they would need to migrate data from one server to another. It wasn't "casual". that's why the company is saying they're not interested in "working out a settlement" - they want a judgment, to serve as a warning.
Nope. I read the original french article, not the translation, and the employee called tech support for help, not knowing that the license key was pirated. PointDev didn't have them in their customer database, tracked down the key, then got a bailiff to seize the servers in question.
That's because college juniors have to start with the basics ... making coffees, not copies.
And if you think I'm joking, we had a breaker reset twice Friday because someone plugged a kettle into the same circuit as several desktops and a server ... they learned that a watched kettle never boils /* grumble grumble */
Well, you know how it is - get them while they're young. Worked for the Hitler Youth with the current pope ...
So don't move out to the boonies. For example, Montreal has millions of people, between 5,000 and 10,000 restaurants, and you can order in English - most menus are either bilingual, or you can ask for an english menu. English schools, colleges, universities, newspapers, books, TV and radio stations, movies ...
Of course, while it gets cold in the winter, Montreal also gets hot in the summer - 90F to 100F hot, so looks like you'll be moving to the boonies whether you like it or not ... but as long as you've got a healthy liver and like drinking Canadian beer, you should be okay.
Really? So this must be some magical post I'm making ...
I agree, which is why I don't "do" Windows.
I use linux at home, and linux + bsd at work.
My sister switched to an iMac, and "once you go mac, you never go back."
People routinely remote into another linux box at work when they want to get "real" work done in a more powerful graphical environment like kde, or need to do stuff that Windows just can't do without a lot of work ...
Even web developers no longer need to keep a Windows box handy "for compatability testing" - IE 7 runs fine under linux.
Taking into account mirrors and rotations, another program got it down to under 500, iirc. (it may have been slightly over - can't recall for sure).
It was really neat - a tic-tac-toe-playing set of web pages with no javascript, no programming on the server or the client - just 2,000 static pages.
Any cube has many more than 24 variations, which is why removing all variants is so powerful.
There's also mirror-image symetry (vertical axis, horizontal axis, both diagonals).
Try it with something simpler - like a tic-tac-toe board, and you'll find that there are only ~500 possible boards, not the hundreds of thousands you would intuit by thinking 9 first moves * 8 second moves * 7 3rd moves * 6 4th moves * 5 5th moves ...
Yes, but this is Microsoft's Cheif Security Advisor ...
This is slashdot ... the headline should read "What spooks Microsoft's Chief spook?"
Spit is also great as an anti-fog agent inside diving masks.
Ditto for car windshields when you've accidently gotten some Fantastik or Spray 9 on them while cleaning the dash ...
Also, saying "I protein map on your grave" sounds like something Dougie Howser in "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle" would do ...
Then the "standard" changes, applying a hedonic model is wrong. A good example was air bags. They're standard equipment, but when they were first introduced, cars with them were "price adjusted".
The same applies to anything else that follows a technological upgrade path, from 5mph bumpers to cell phones to computers to televisions.
Re: core inflation - factor in energy costs, which are excluded from the CPI. 300% in the last decade. Its not like the compressors that are needed to make LOX and LH magically run themselves. That's over a million a launch, and VERY sensitive to electrical and other energy costs.
Medical costs and premiums - both employer and employee, have been running much higher than the CPI every year for the last 2 decades. This affects NASA as an employer. The amount of co-pays and uninsured services has also been rising. Prescription drugs? Whoah, babeee!
Just like it takes a lot of energy (also "conveniently" not included in the CPI) to run the high-flow high-speed wind tunnel, all the desktop computers that the employees use, the AC, servers, simulators, etc.
Re fusion: we can't place all our eggs in one basket. Unfortunately, practical fusion has been "30 years down the road" for 40 years.
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/2005/0624.html
The true CPI hasn't been calculated since 1986.
Gasoline: 1997: 1.04 / gallon. 2007: $3.22 / gallon. 300% in 10 years.
Housing: 1997: 196,000. 2007: $299,000. 50% in 10 years
Medical expenses: http://www.kff.org/insurance/upload/7692.pdf
1990: 2,813. 2007: 7,498.
No way that this is reflected in the "official" annual figures of ~2% per annum.
Follow the thread up, and you'll see the poster decrying the diversion of funds from NASA to a useless war.
The poster complained:
Diverting money from war to science would help. There'd probably be 4,000 fewer US soldiers dead, for a start. I'm sure their families would also be happier.I unspoken point was that we can't always predict all the benefits of science. If we could, we'd just skip the research. I figured this is self-evident, but I guess, for the sake of clarity, I should have added that subtext. The rovers might not give us the "next big thing", but they'll certainly be less destructive to our quality of life than the current bogus war in Iraq.