On the Autobahn people safely operate from speeds pf 60kph to 260 kph. The speed differential makes no difference, because two simple rules are rigidly followed: "faster traffic has priority", and "pass on the left".
Good luck getting those concepts through the thick skulls of the average California driver. They think that all lanes are available to all drivers at all times.
Um...buy a better phone and service that doesn't lock you into that BS? My Treo 650 can use any MIDI file (or, with the free MiniTones, any MP3 file) as a ringtone. The two I'm using now were ripped from my MythTV box and put on an SD card, but downloading them wouldn't cost anything extra because my service plan includes unlimited data.
The only thing I see is garbled text with xemacs, a garbled cursor when moving between screens with Xinerama, Google Earth failing to start without adding a hack, and general slowness with my screen saver running maybe one frame per second.
The only issues I've run across are sluggish compositing (ran into this when experimenting with a Mac OS X-lookalike theme) and...hmm, I think that was it. While most of my computers are equipped with nVidia video, I have a workstation at work with a Radeon 9200 and a notebook that uses the Radeon Xpress 200M chipset. Getting accelerated video working on both of them has been no more difficult than getting accelerated video working on nVidia cards...it's just emerge ati-drivers instead of emerge nvidia-drivers, followed by some slightly different changes to/etc/X11/xorg.conf.
(Turns out that the workstation uses an open-source driver, but I know the notebook uses the ATI driver because the open-source driver doesn't support it.)
In Japan, CDs and DVDs cost a lot ($30-50), but the standard of living is probably higher than it is in the US to offset that.
Overcrowded cities, homes with rooms barely larger than jail cells, and tiny little shitbox cars? Add in that the price of pretty much everything is grossly inflated vs. nearly everywhere else in the world. I don't think that qualifies as a higher standard of living.
Not possible. This would invalidate the movie industry's eventual move to video on demand.
Who says movies would necessarily be served up over SSL? You could encrypt the files (by whatever means you think would be secure) and serve them up over plain old HTTP. If you're smart, you use something reasonably secure like AES or Twofish. You might use an SSL session to swap keys, or you might implement your own protocol for that purpose.
If you're not so smart, you use something moronically insecure like XORing the data with the key, or "secret decoder ring" coding.
Given Hollyweird's track record with security ("uncopyable" DVDs, anyone?), it's more likely they'd take the latter course than the former, but it is a possibility.
...and that has what, exactly, to do with the price of tea in China? Getting torn up and teary-eyed over a bunch of hajjis who'd just as soon slice your head off with a dull knife as give you the time of day is suicidal.
Honestly, even suicide bombers seem more humane to me than these "UAV operators" who kill people without the slightest risk for their own life. That's on par with WMD's
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." Given the subhuman nature of our enemy, I'm not losing much sleep over turning them into red spots in the ground from half a world away. I'd think that a technology that keeps more of our people safe from the unholy headchoppers of the "Religion of Peace" (my ass) is a Good Thing.
Besides, while the pilots and sensor operators are located at Creech AFB (not Nellis, as someone else said, though the aircraft have Nellis markings (WA) on them), the maintenance personnel are over in the sandbox. They also have one or two pilots over in the sandbox with them who are responsible for takeoff and landing (the stateside "aircrew" only flies the plane once it's in the air).
When I get a new modem (which happens about once a year - sidebar: another reason to rent the modem)
What POS cable modem are you buying that you need to replace it every year? I bought a D-Link DCM-201 about three years ago when the rental modem (an ancient Com21 model) quit talking to the cable system. The power LED seems to have dimmed a bit, but it still runs without any problems.
If I had purchased the Com21 modem instead of renting it for 4.5 years, I would've come out ahead by $200-$250. Com21 ended up going out of business, so Cox migrated customers to DOCSIS-compatible equipment as the older modems and headend equipment failed starting in 2003 or 2004. Rather than wait for a truck to come around with a replacement, I bought the replacement cable modem from the nearest store that sold them.
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Now there's a use for the Zune. Make a flask out of it.
I don't know about that...how many PCIe 16x slots do you use in an average server?
Depends on how many RAID controllers you want to put in there.
How much do you care if your MB runs silent in your average data center?
No fans on the motherboard is a win from a standpoint of not having to worry if your box will go down because some cheap-ass fan failed. Less noise is just a bonus. The fans that fail the most in my machines are the rinky-dink 40- and 60-mm fans on video cards and motherboards. It used to be the fans in power supplies that used to crap out all the time, but those seem to have gotten better.
What do you need 10 USB ports, or even a single Firewire port for in a DL380? Or an optical audio output?
Those admittedly sound more like desktop features than server features. WhoTF needs four LAN ports in a desktop machine, though? One of mine has two ports, and I've never used more than one. More than one port would be nice in a server and is essential in a router, but is useless in a workstation.
If you want to use an unlocked GSM phone here in the US, you can, you just can't choose Sprint or Verizon. But who would want to be locked into their crappy CDMA networks anyway?
That CDMA network you knock tends to be more widely available, especially when you head out into BFE. Also, back when I bought my Treo, nobody else was offering voice and unlimited data (at approximately ISDN speed) for anywhere near the $45 that I'm paying Sprint.
I wonder, does Windows really have much tht resembles a "native" UI? I know Java apps stand out like a sore thumb, but then again, so do a lot of supposedly native apps on Windows.
If you're not abusing the Win32 API to apply some horrid skin to your app, yes. Windows apps I've done with MFC, wxWidgets, or just written directly with the Win32 API all have the same look & feel. If you've worked with MFC, there's surprisingly little that's different about wxWidgets (you need to learn to work with sizers so your app can more easily adjust to different widget sizes on different systems, but most of the other stuff bears a large degree of similarity).
So... how portable are your apps? They're not, you say?
Is wxWidgets portable enough for you? You can even set up Linux to cross-compile for Windows (maybe Mac OS X as well; I haven't tried yet) and create apps for both with native look & feel with a free-as-in-speech toolchain and desktop environment.
I don't know if the OP took that approach or if he's using native tools on each supported platform, but what he described isn't exactly outside the realm of possibility.
How about the freest and most democratic country on Earth spending money on ways to temporarily disable its enemies as an alternative to killing them?
The Bad Guys and their fellow travelers will still find something to bitch about. All those hajjis locked up at Club Gitmo? We would've been within our rights to just kill them all where we found them...the Geneva Conventions allow for the summary execution of unlawful combatants. Instead, we decided to try to play nice and let them live. A handful have even been cut loose, upon which they've spun lies about their treatment. Said lies then get their fellow travelers seething. How's that for gratitude?:-P
What's the incentive in collecting *full* cans of beer? AIU, beer doesn't get better with age, so why bother?
It depends on the beer. A Duff-like macroswill won't get better, but you should try getting a bunch of different vintages of something like Samichlaus together sometime and try them out (did a vertical earlier this year with '96, '01, '03, and '05). Big beers will last.
Age can even be beneficial. Double Bastard is kinda harsh when it's fresh, but mellows into something very drinkable after 2-3 years.
If we can have taxpayer funded universal highway maintenance, why not taxpayer funded universal health care?
Hm. My Constitution reads, The Congress shall have Power... To establish Post Offices and post roads.
It's also worth noting that the interstates (at least) were presented as being, at least in part, for national-defense purposes (moving troops and equipment around the country, etc.). It may have been a fig leaf of an excuse, but at least it was an attempt at proving that it was within the Constitution.
The Evil Party has gotten rather brazen in recent years; they're not concerning themselves with constitutionality at all, but instead are pushing us ever closer to that tipping point where the majority votes to out-and-out steal from the minority. They're demonstrating the dangers of mob rule, and the reason why I could never be a democrat (either little-D or big-D, as if there's any difference).
My point was that unconstitutionality is not a real argument against anything except for a constitution amendment.
Coming from a resident of a South American banana republic, your post explains much about your situation. Your logic is inverted.
That x is unconstitutional is a sufficient argument against it, seeing as how we're a nation of laws (not men, unlike most countries south of the border) and the Constitution is the highest law there is. If you think x is right, but the Constitution stands in the way, the proper response is not to ignore it or to go marching in the streets about how it's not "fair," but to amend the Constitution. Fortunately, the amendment process is difficult enough that it hasn't gotten loaded up with fad-of-the-week amendments...only 27 ratified in 200+ years, out of who knows how many (hundreds? thousands?) proposed.
I will never stop at wondering why little people (surely you're not a zillionaire) will keep at protecting the filthy rich...
Perhaps because I've never gotten a job from poor people? Perhaps because rich people aren't trying to vote themselves more of my money?
No matter how hard one works, one won't get ahead the well-connected guy.
Isn't envy one of the seven deadly sins? Oh wait...you're one of those godless communists, so sin is a foreign concept to you. Alles klar. You should try putting in an honest day's work sometime, instead of whining that someone else has a dollar or two more in his pocket than you do.
With the availability of PC power supplies* in excess of 1000 watts, and the mine's-bigger-than-your's demographic,
WTF actually needs that kind of power? I've built 16-disk 3U RAID arrays that don't use nearly that much power. Each is powered by a 650W RPS (made up of three hot-swappable 350W power supplies, capable of running on two if one fails), and actual maximum power consumption (measured with a clamp-on ammeter and a power cord with one of the wires pulled out in a loop) was somewhere around 350-400W while the drives were spinning up. Idle power was a fair bit less.
It won't. David Pogue says that Apple quoted 300-400 recharge cycles. That's about 1 year.
That's assuming you charge it every day, whether it needs it or not. You should be able to go at least 2-3 days between charges, if not more...the last phone I had that needed charging daily was my first one, an old-school analog phone that sucked down more power on standby than most newer phones use when active.
It doesn't run the Palm OS apps I've accumulated over the past 10 years.
If Apple had chosen to provide a real SDK for the iPhone, it wouldn't have taken long for someone to port one of the existing emulators to the iPhone, which would've made it an attractive option (especially in light of Palm's recent missteps).
In the meantime, my Treo 650 keeps chugging along, and the $45/month for voice and unlimited data that Sprint charges is cheaper than anyone else is offering AFAIK.
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I suspect that's not the kind of "penetration" that they're after.
Good luck getting those concepts through the thick skulls of the average California driver. They think that all lanes are available to all drivers at all times.
Um...buy a better phone and service that doesn't lock you into that BS? My Treo 650 can use any MIDI file (or, with the free MiniTones, any MP3 file) as a ringtone. The two I'm using now were ripped from my MythTV box and put on an SD card, but downloading them wouldn't cost anything extra because my service plan includes unlimited data.
The only issues I've run across are sluggish compositing (ran into this when experimenting with a Mac OS X-lookalike theme) and...hmm, I think that was it. While most of my computers are equipped with nVidia video, I have a workstation at work with a Radeon 9200 and a notebook that uses the Radeon Xpress 200M chipset. Getting accelerated video working on both of them has been no more difficult than getting accelerated video working on nVidia cards...it's just emerge ati-drivers instead of emerge nvidia-drivers, followed by some slightly different changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
(Turns out that the workstation uses an open-source driver, but I know the notebook uses the ATI driver because the open-source driver doesn't support it.)
Overcrowded cities, homes with rooms barely larger than jail cells, and tiny little shitbox cars? Add in that the price of pretty much everything is grossly inflated vs. nearly everywhere else in the world. I don't think that qualifies as a higher standard of living.
Who says movies would necessarily be served up over SSL? You could encrypt the files (by whatever means you think would be secure) and serve them up over plain old HTTP. If you're smart, you use something reasonably secure like AES or Twofish. You might use an SSL session to swap keys, or you might implement your own protocol for that purpose.
If you're not so smart, you use something moronically insecure like XORing the data with the key, or "secret decoder ring" coding.
Given Hollyweird's track record with security ("uncopyable" DVDs, anyone?), it's more likely they'd take the latter course than the former, but it is a possibility.
...and that has what, exactly, to do with the price of tea in China? Getting torn up and teary-eyed over a bunch of hajjis who'd just as soon slice your head off with a dull knife as give you the time of day is suicidal.
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." Given the subhuman nature of our enemy, I'm not losing much sleep over turning them into red spots in the ground from half a world away. I'd think that a technology that keeps more of our people safe from the unholy headchoppers of the "Religion of Peace" (my ass) is a Good Thing.
Besides, while the pilots and sensor operators are located at Creech AFB (not Nellis, as someone else said, though the aircraft have Nellis markings (WA) on them), the maintenance personnel are over in the sandbox. They also have one or two pilots over in the sandbox with them who are responsible for takeoff and landing (the stateside "aircrew" only flies the plane once it's in the air).
What POS cable modem are you buying that you need to replace it every year? I bought a D-Link DCM-201 about three years ago when the rental modem (an ancient Com21 model) quit talking to the cable system. The power LED seems to have dimmed a bit, but it still runs without any problems.
If I had purchased the Com21 modem instead of renting it for 4.5 years, I would've come out ahead by $200-$250. Com21 ended up going out of business, so Cox migrated customers to DOCSIS-compatible equipment as the older modems and headend equipment failed starting in 2003 or 2004. Rather than wait for a truck to come around with a replacement, I bought the replacement cable modem from the nearest store that sold them.
Here's a better use for a Zune (especially if it's brown): Hollow it out and hide your iPod inside it.
I only ever see those on other people's computers. Between Adblock Plus and NoScript, they don't show up here.
Depends on how many RAID controllers you want to put in there.
No fans on the motherboard is a win from a standpoint of not having to worry if your box will go down because some cheap-ass fan failed. Less noise is just a bonus. The fans that fail the most in my machines are the rinky-dink 40- and 60-mm fans on video cards and motherboards. It used to be the fans in power supplies that used to crap out all the time, but those seem to have gotten better.
Those admittedly sound more like desktop features than server features. WhoTF needs four LAN ports in a desktop machine, though? One of mine has two ports, and I've never used more than one. More than one port would be nice in a server and is essential in a router, but is useless in a workstation.
Who knew there was that much BSD code in Linux?
That CDMA network you knock tends to be more widely available, especially when you head out into BFE. Also, back when I bought my Treo, nobody else was offering voice and unlimited data (at approximately ISDN speed) for anywhere near the $45 that I'm paying Sprint.
If you're not abusing the Win32 API to apply some horrid skin to your app, yes. Windows apps I've done with MFC, wxWidgets, or just written directly with the Win32 API all have the same look & feel. If you've worked with MFC, there's surprisingly little that's different about wxWidgets (you need to learn to work with sizers so your app can more easily adjust to different widget sizes on different systems, but most of the other stuff bears a large degree of similarity).
Is wxWidgets portable enough for you? You can even set up Linux to cross-compile for Windows (maybe Mac OS X as well; I haven't tried yet) and create apps for both with native look & feel with a free-as-in-speech toolchain and desktop environment.
I don't know if the OP took that approach or if he's using native tools on each supported platform, but what he described isn't exactly outside the realm of possibility.
The Bad Guys and their fellow travelers will still find something to bitch about. All those hajjis locked up at Club Gitmo? We would've been within our rights to just kill them all where we found them...the Geneva Conventions allow for the summary execution of unlawful combatants. Instead, we decided to try to play nice and let them live. A handful have even been cut loose, upon which they've spun lies about their treatment. Said lies then get their fellow travelers seething. How's that for gratitude? :-P
It depends on the beer. A Duff-like macroswill won't get better, but you should try getting a bunch of different vintages of something like Samichlaus together sometime and try them out (did a vertical earlier this year with '96, '01, '03, and '05). Big beers will last.
Age can even be beneficial. Double Bastard is kinda harsh when it's fresh, but mellows into something very drinkable after 2-3 years.
It's also worth noting that the interstates (at least) were presented as being, at least in part, for national-defense purposes (moving troops and equipment around the country, etc.). It may have been a fig leaf of an excuse, but at least it was an attempt at proving that it was within the Constitution.
The Evil Party has gotten rather brazen in recent years; they're not concerning themselves with constitutionality at all, but instead are pushing us ever closer to that tipping point where the majority votes to out-and-out steal from the minority. They're demonstrating the dangers of mob rule, and the reason why I could never be a democrat (either little-D or big-D, as if there's any difference).
Coming from a resident of a South American banana republic, your post explains much about your situation. Your logic is inverted.
That x is unconstitutional is a sufficient argument against it, seeing as how we're a nation of laws (not men, unlike most countries south of the border) and the Constitution is the highest law there is. If you think x is right, but the Constitution stands in the way, the proper response is not to ignore it or to go marching in the streets about how it's not "fair," but to amend the Constitution. Fortunately, the amendment process is difficult enough that it hasn't gotten loaded up with fad-of-the-week amendments...only 27 ratified in 200+ years, out of who knows how many (hundreds? thousands?) proposed.
Perhaps because I've never gotten a job from poor people? Perhaps because rich people aren't trying to vote themselves more of my money?
Isn't envy one of the seven deadly sins? Oh wait...you're one of those godless communists, so sin is a foreign concept to you. Alles klar. You should try putting in an honest day's work sometime, instead of whining that someone else has a dollar or two more in his pocket than you do.
Fixed that for you.
WTF actually needs that kind of power? I've built 16-disk 3U RAID arrays that don't use nearly that much power. Each is powered by a 650W RPS (made up of three hot-swappable 350W power supplies, capable of running on two if one fails), and actual maximum power consumption (measured with a clamp-on ammeter and a power cord with one of the wires pulled out in a loop) was somewhere around 350-400W while the drives were spinning up. Idle power was a fair bit less.
That's assuming you charge it every day, whether it needs it or not. You should be able to go at least 2-3 days between charges, if not more...the last phone I had that needed charging daily was my first one, an old-school analog phone that sucked down more power on standby than most newer phones use when active.
It doesn't run the Palm OS apps I've accumulated over the past 10 years.
If Apple had chosen to provide a real SDK for the iPhone, it wouldn't have taken long for someone to port one of the existing emulators to the iPhone, which would've made it an attractive option (especially in light of Palm's recent missteps).
In the meantime, my Treo 650 keeps chugging along, and the $45/month for voice and unlimited data that Sprint charges is cheaper than anyone else is offering AFAIK.