I worked for Intel ATD Q&R in 2003 when the Itanium 2 died. It had nothing to do with AMD, and everything to do with problems inherent in the design. The Itanium 2 was failing all of the Q&R tests and was not performing up to the desired specs. That was why Intel killed the line.
My brother works for the Campus-level Computing and Information Services for Texas A&M University. They have been going away from AC power for a while now. They apparently have almost no heat issues anymore. While the AC server room in my lab (we run 70 servers) with a dedicated A/C system is running at 74 degrees now with the A/C running constantly at full blast.
I've seen the complaint many times. The problem is that in the US their is a shortage of IT education. Most universities have CS programs but as you said yourself CS is not about programming or IT, and yet we encourage people who want to program or do IT to get CS degrees. What we really need are vocational IT degrees.
No one would hire an Electrical Engineer when all they wanted was an Electrician, so why do companies hire Computer Scientists when they want IT people? When I was an undergraduate I saw three kinds of people in CS generally. Good CS people that could program but didn't really care about IT and software engineering, Good IT and Software Engineers who couldn't quite grasp CS, and people who were crappy programmers/IT/Software Engineers who didn't really grasp CS and just squeaked by on brute force. The first group went on the grad school like I did, the second group tended to end up in semi-abusive programming positions where the company overworked you or at companies with no future. The third group minored in business and got high paying jobs on BS and are now in management positions many of them working on MBAs.
Currently as a CS doctoral student I have dealt with alot of people out of the Indian universities and a large percentage of these people are what business want -- people with a vocational IT background who churn out code, and yet they make lousy CS grad students. The MCS (as opposed to the MSCS and PhDCS) degree has become a way for foreign programmers and IT professionals to get a foot in the door and get hired by an American company.
Customer support has been quoting anywhere from 1% - 5%. Regardless if any of the customers find it essential than keeping it should be better than any new features. After all what else do you want NetFlix to do? If it was such a maintenance nightmare than maybe the problem is lousy programmers writing crappy code.
I called NetFlix and they informed me that it was a technical issue. The programmer's new upcoming features apparently are buggy when interacting with accounts with multiple profiles and instead of fixing the bugs, the programmers decided to axes profiles.
I used to use Google Bookmark Sync and I was constantly fighting mis-syncs, and link duplication. When I switched to FF3, I needed a replacement and found Weave. It has been fantastic. I have none of the troubles I had with Bookmark Sync and I am glad I switched.
To clarify. I believe that Scientology is a gigantic money making scheme that has grown out of hand is now a dangerous anti-democratic element that should be treated the same as other terrorist groups.
My joke was that Google went after the anti-Scientology videos because of the term "anti-" and didn't go after pro-Terror videos because of the term "pro-". It may have been a corny lame joke, but it was just a joke.
"Similarly, if my name is Saul Bergersteinowitzskimanheimer, it doesn't matter if I show up to Bill Grahm, Jr.'s every Sunday morning. I'm a Jew." Yes it does matter Jewishness has not been a racial matter since the early years of the diaspora, maybe even since the Babylonian exile. There are Chinese Jews, Ethopian Jews, Spanish Jews, English Jews, German Jews, Ukrainian Jews, Arab Jews, Persian Jews, and on and on. Jewishness is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural religious identity. The so-called Jewish race disappeared when the Romans burned the Second Temple. In fact when my wife was pregnant the doctors made us test for genetic disorders prevalent in Hispanic populations since my wife has Mexican ancestors and I have Sephardic (Spanish Jewish) ancestors.
"My tax dollars do not go to buy them bombs to use on the Koreans."
Actually the US Military still provides the majority of Japan's defense. Why do you think we have a gigantic base in Okinawa? And the Japanese continue to be very belligerent against the Chinese. [http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1998521,00.html]
"which has an expansionist foreign policy and which commits the type of war crimes that they accused Germany of on an almost daily basis."
That is where I disagree, Israel's goal has always been to create a buffer between them and the Arabs. And the crimes and bad policies the Israelis are guilty of are not anywhere near the magnitude of the Nazi war machine. Now I don't agree with the policies of Israel, I feel they are just as unfriendly of a power as many of our declared enemies. However Israel is not Judaism any more than India is Hinduism, Iran is Islam, or the United States is Christianity.
Claiming that Judaism is the same as Nazism, implying that the Nazi atrocities were only accusations and not historical fact is a different matter.
I agree that we shouldn't be supporting the Israeli government, no more than we should be supporting the Saudis or any number of regimes we have supported in the past. But we should not mistake the actions of the Israeli government for modern Judaism.
American political theory also has those same concepts except in American political theory if you're born in America you are one of us whether you want to be or not.
While I am not a Zionist, I'll forgive you mistaking Zionism for Judaism, by any means (personally I feel that Israel is not a friendly power any more than Saudi Arabia is). I do not believe that Israeli policy regarding the Palenstinians, while not innocent or guilt-free or strictly moral, is not on the same level as the unbridled evil that the NSDAP committed against the world. But hey, I'm a mischling of Ukrainian descent, so I may be a little biased.
I'm not talking Processor or motherboard. Can you upgrade the HDD in a Mac Mini? How easy is it to open? Will it take standard DDR-2 memory? Can you replace the video card? I'm not saying they're not, I am asking. Personally, one old Dell I own only has the original MB and the processor.
In Apple's stores is a good point to. Are they including apple.com sales? I can't believe that more people go seek out an Apple store than a Walmart or a BestBuy. Most people I know buy computers online or at the major electronics stores. I wouldn't be surprised if they were comparing ALL Apple sales to sales at just brick and mortar stores.
Because OSX is a resource hog almost as bad as Vista is? My research lab bought a couple of Macs and no one will use them because you can barely run more than one program on them. People are instead bringing personal laptops that are a couple of years old and the Macs sit unused. I have been asked several times if they can just use the iMac as an external monitor instead. One person asked us not to take her PIII 800mhz with 256mb of RAM because she was getting better performance.
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I worked for Intel ATD Q&R in 2003 when the Itanium 2 died. It had nothing to do with AMD, and everything to do with problems inherent in the design. The Itanium 2 was failing all of the Q&R tests and was not performing up to the desired specs. That was why Intel killed the line.
My brother works for the Campus-level Computing and Information Services for Texas A&M University. They have been going away from AC power for a while now. They apparently have almost no heat issues anymore. While the AC server room in my lab (we run 70 servers) with a dedicated A/C system is running at 74 degrees now with the A/C running constantly at full blast.
I've seen the complaint many times. The problem is that in the US their is a shortage of IT education. Most universities have CS programs but as you said yourself CS is not about programming or IT, and yet we encourage people who want to program or do IT to get CS degrees. What we really need are vocational IT degrees.
No one would hire an Electrical Engineer when all they wanted was an Electrician, so why do companies hire Computer Scientists when they want IT people? When I was an undergraduate I saw three kinds of people in CS generally. Good CS people that could program but didn't really care about IT and software engineering, Good IT and Software Engineers who couldn't quite grasp CS, and people who were crappy programmers/IT/Software Engineers who didn't really grasp CS and just squeaked by on brute force. The first group went on the grad school like I did, the second group tended to end up in semi-abusive programming positions where the company overworked you or at companies with no future. The third group minored in business and got high paying jobs on BS and are now in management positions many of them working on MBAs.
Currently as a CS doctoral student I have dealt with alot of people out of the Indian universities and a large percentage of these people are what business want -- people with a vocational IT background who churn out code, and yet they make lousy CS grad students. The MCS (as opposed to the MSCS and PhDCS) degree has become a way for foreign programmers and IT professionals to get a foot in the door and get hired by an American company.
Bad analogy. It's more of the case of finish carpenters, rough carpenters, furniture makers, and carvers.
Hence the never finishing a project.
They could be thinking that sometimes a project will find a sudden need for additional temporary manpower.
SVN can be a pain to admin it gets very fickle about file system permissions and needing to mess with WebDAV configuration can be a pain.
They may be using a 3rd party commercial Eclipse package like MyEclipse.
Customer support has been quoting anywhere from 1% - 5%. Regardless if any of the customers find it essential than keeping it should be better than any new features. After all what else do you want NetFlix to do? If it was such a maintenance nightmare than maybe the problem is lousy programmers writing crappy code.
I called NetFlix and they informed me that it was a technical issue. The programmer's new upcoming features apparently are buggy when interacting with accounts with multiple profiles and instead of fixing the bugs, the programmers decided to axes profiles.
I used to use Google Bookmark Sync and I was constantly fighting mis-syncs, and link duplication. When I switched to FF3, I needed a replacement and found Weave. It has been fantastic. I have none of the troubles I had with Bookmark Sync and I am glad I switched.
To clarify. I believe that Scientology is a gigantic money making scheme that has grown out of hand is now a dangerous anti-democratic element that should be treated the same as other terrorist groups.
My joke was that Google went after the anti-Scientology videos because of the term "anti-" and didn't go after pro-Terror videos because of the term "pro-". It may have been a corny lame joke, but it was just a joke.
"Similarly, if my name is Saul Bergersteinowitzskimanheimer, it doesn't matter if I show up to Bill Grahm, Jr.'s every Sunday morning. I'm a Jew."
Yes it does matter Jewishness has not been a racial matter since the early years of the diaspora, maybe even since the Babylonian exile. There are Chinese Jews, Ethopian Jews, Spanish Jews, English Jews, German Jews, Ukrainian Jews, Arab Jews, Persian Jews, and on and on. Jewishness is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural religious identity. The so-called Jewish race disappeared when the Romans burned the Second Temple. In fact when my wife was pregnant the doctors made us test for genetic disorders prevalent in Hispanic populations since my wife has Mexican ancestors and I have Sephardic (Spanish Jewish) ancestors.
"My tax dollars do not go to buy them bombs to use on the Koreans."
Actually the US Military still provides the majority of Japan's defense. Why do you think we have a gigantic base in Okinawa? And the Japanese continue to be very belligerent against the Chinese. [http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1998521,00.html]
"which has an expansionist foreign policy and which commits the type of war crimes that they accused Germany of on an almost daily basis."
That is where I disagree, Israel's goal has always been to create a buffer between them and the Arabs. And the crimes and bad policies the Israelis are guilty of are not anywhere near the magnitude of the Nazi war machine. Now I don't agree with the policies of Israel, I feel they are just as unfriendly of a power as many of our declared enemies. However Israel is not Judaism any more than India is Hinduism, Iran is Islam, or the United States is Christianity.
Claiming that Judaism is the same as Nazism, implying that the Nazi atrocities were only accusations and not historical fact is a different matter.
I agree that we shouldn't be supporting the Israeli government, no more than we should be supporting the Saudis or any number of regimes we have supported in the past. But we should not mistake the actions of the Israeli government for modern Judaism.
Never said it was right, I'm just saying that there is a difference between ancient Judaic theological theory, Zionism and Nazism.
It was a joke ;-)
The same can be said about the Japanese.
American political theory also has those same concepts except in American political theory if you're born in America you are one of us whether you want to be or not.
While I am not a Zionist, I'll forgive you mistaking Zionism for Judaism, by any means (personally I feel that Israel is not a friendly power any more than Saudi Arabia is). I do not believe that Israeli policy regarding the Palenstinians, while not innocent or guilt-free or strictly moral, is not on the same level as the unbridled evil that the NSDAP committed against the world. But hey, I'm a mischling of Ukrainian descent, so I may be a little biased.
Yes, because those are anti-Scientologist videos. Not pro-Terror vidoes. The "anti-" is the key.
Kudos for calling a Jew a Nazi.
;-)
Not that I disagree.
I'm not talking Processor or motherboard. Can you upgrade the HDD in a Mac Mini? How easy is it to open? Will it take standard DDR-2 memory? Can you replace the video card? I'm not saying they're not, I am asking. Personally, one old Dell I own only has the original MB and the processor.
how about upgradability?
In Apple's stores is a good point to. Are they including apple.com sales? I can't believe that more people go seek out an Apple store than a Walmart or a BestBuy. Most people I know buy computers online or at the major electronics stores. I wouldn't be surprised if they were comparing ALL Apple sales to sales at just brick and mortar stores.
Because OSX is a resource hog almost as bad as Vista is? My research lab bought a couple of Macs and no one will use them because you can barely run more than one program on them. People are instead bringing personal laptops that are a couple of years old and the Macs sit unused. I have been asked several times if they can just use the iMac as an external monitor instead. One person asked us not to take her PIII 800mhz with 256mb of RAM because she was getting better performance.
Not to mention the fact that Linux is very comfortable with far less resources than a Mac.
The comment about the Soviet Union is not a confusion.
In the United States conservatives are on the right, and liberals are on the left.
In the Russia the terminology is reversed. What we call the left, they would call the right. And what we call the right, they would call the left.