I find that plastic SATA cable connectors often split apart if any kind of force is applied to them (e.g. bending the cable too near the connector to make it fit). Older connectors were more prone to this - newer ones seem better made.
It's a pain, but nothing that the application if gaffer tape won't fix.
I haven't had any cables come out of either the motherboard or hard drive except of the connector has come apart, but they're not very well held in.
I havn't used eSATA, so I can't comment on cables for that.
I can attest to IE's crap string operation performance.
4.5 HTML file, mainly consisting of one very large table. Took about 1 minute to render in IE, using about 80MB RAM. Was asked to lay it out in a more useful way. I went the fairly simple route - once it was fully loaded, I used JavaScript to lay it out better.
Original attempt was to just use innerHTML and string operations (couldn't remember the DOM commands, too lazy to look them up). The main bit was a single substring() on the div containing the large table (actually stripped off everything around the table).
The time to render the page jumped to 10 minutes! Memory use jumped sharply as well (largely because I was duplicating the table... d'oh!). Cutting out that single substring operation dropped it back to 1 minute. Changing over to DOM manipulation left it at 1 minute.
For comparison, Safari 3 on Windows rendered the entire page in 5 seconds, whether I used innerHTML and substring() (including the duplication mentioned above) or DOM manipulation. Safari used a bit more memory than IE though (worst case 215MB compared to 200MB).
As far as I'm aware, Coca Cola only advertises 6 months in any year in any market, for precisely this reason. Of course, I have no source to back this up - it's something I read or heard somewhere, and could be complete bullshit.
You already get it. Australia (for example) has to pay for the traffic both coming out of the US and going into it, whilst the US gets off scott free. That's one of the reasons broadband is so expensive here for what we get.
So petition your government to ensure that the money that other countries are paying to the US gets spread around, and not just hoarded by some greedy US companies. And while you're at it, I think it would be fair if you suggested to them that they should share the load.
The 25 times productivity difference is actually not at all credible - because it assumes that the worst programmer still has a net benefit. You yourself point out negative productivity.
Instead, I think you should be looking at a -25 times productivity difference - a top programmer can boost productivity by 25 times as much as the worst programmer can drop it.
Of course, this isn't credible either, as "the worst" programmer would get in and destroy your version control system, all backups, and remove the hard drives from your best programmers' machines and toss them into a blast furnace...
D'oh - that should have been no floppy port of course.
It's got pins for a serial connector, but you'd need such a long cable that it's not feasible. So I'm looking at grabbing a USB-to-serial to plug my UPS into.
1. There are PCI-e 1x gigabit NICs and some of 1x video cards around. I think I've seen some 1x RAID cards as well, but I wouldn't swear to it.
I've got a PCI-e 1x gigabit NIC I put into machines without onboard gigabit - performance and CPU usage are both excellent. Gigabit on PCI tends to saturate the PCI bus and have much higher CPU usage - you should always check that any onboard gigabit NIC is PCI-e.
I hate to plug a manufacturer, but when I upgrade my home server I'm getting a motherboard with Intel Matrix RAID on it. I've got my two 320GB SATA drives - I'll configure a 400GB RAID-0 volume and a 100GB RAID-1 volume on them. Very efficient use of the drives - I've got no use for 320GB of redundant storage, and it's not cost-effective to buy smaller drives.
If I had 3 drives I'd probably instead go 100GB RAID-5/600GB RAID-0. Might still do that.
BTW I know the numbers don't quite add up, but I'm using round figures (and advertised, but not really, 320GB/drive).
If you pare everything down with a custom install, turning off unnecessary services, removing unncessary apps, etc, XPSP2 runs quite happily on a Celeron 400MHz notebook with 192MB RAM and a 6GB hard drive. With Incredimail running permanently, and Internet Explorer 7 accessing NeoPets. Acrobat Reader 8, Quicktime 7 and Flash are allinstalled. Network is an 802.11b PCMCIA card with WPA-PSK (yes - there 802.11b cards that support WPA-PSK with the right drivers).
This was the configuration I set up for my 9 year old niece recently. I wouldn't have wanted to do it with the original 64MB the notebook came with though... (it originally came with ME...). It's running behind a hardware firewall of course, and also has Windows Firewall running. It can do everything she wants it to.
As an indication of the difference between setting it up correctly and not - it used to be my sister's machine. It normally used 400+MB virtual memory, and ran like a dog. Opening up NeoPets on it would take 5 or so minutes.
It's very important to *only* install the driver parts of driver packages (it's possible for most, but you normally need to expand the installer somehow). And to make sure that all the autoloaders are removed (e.g. Acrobat Reader, Quicktime task, etc).
I would be really surprised if the fake ID contains a statement of transfer of copyright, or that the holder of the fake ID holds such a document. Such a document would required revealing who the forger is.
Therefore, any copyright would reside with the forger, and whoever issued the original ID (assuming that the usual method of modifying an existing ID was used).
It counts because *Australia has preferential voting*. If after the primary vote is counted, the party you voted for as your first preference has the lowest number of votes, that party is eliminated from the race and its votes are redistributed to other other parties according to your *second* preference. This continues until there are only two parties left.
Whilst this system of counting is not the best, statistically speaking (the best are Condorcet methods, though they also have their weaknesses) it is simple to understand (and count), and in the vast majority of cases results in the candidate who is most preferred by the most number of people being elected.
The US method of "plurality" voting is statistically the *worst* method available.
The "print" version puts grey bars at either side of the article to ensure that the contents are wider than your window (I didn't check what mechanism they used).
You can manually position the page so that all the content is visible, but then the text is hard against the edge of the window.
Nice trick to annoy people into reading through the ad-filled multipage version.
There's a difference between severity and priority.
A bug may be high severity (e.g. remote access) but low priority (e.g. because it's believed that other factors mitigate the remote access).
Another bug may be low severity (e.g. a user interface quirk) but high priority (e.g. because reviewers have seen it and are talking down your product because of it).
Severities should be based on how much damage may be caused to the *users* of the program. Priorities are usually determined by how much damage the bug causes to the *developers* of the program...
I have a line I came up with on the spur of the moment when some religious people came to my door (I think they were Mormons, but it's been over 5 years since then...).
"I'm sorry, but I'm quite secure in my lack of faith."
Left them totally stunned - they literally stood there gawping until I said goodbye and closed the door. It's worked similarly every time since.
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I find that plastic SATA cable connectors often split apart if any kind of force is applied to them (e.g. bending the cable too near the connector to make it fit). Older connectors were more prone to this - newer ones seem better made.
It's a pain, but nothing that the application if gaffer tape won't fix.
I haven't had any cables come out of either the motherboard or hard drive except of the connector has come apart, but they're not very well held in.
I havn't used eSATA, so I can't comment on cables for that.
I read that this one actually uses MLC. Don't know how that fits with the 100MB/s, but then I'm in software, not hardware.
I can attest to IE's crap string operation performance.
... d'oh!). Cutting out that single substring operation dropped it back to 1 minute. Changing over to DOM manipulation left it at 1 minute.
4.5 HTML file, mainly consisting of one very large table. Took about 1 minute to render in IE, using about 80MB RAM. Was asked to lay it out in a more useful way. I went the fairly simple route - once it was fully loaded, I used JavaScript to lay it out better.
Original attempt was to just use innerHTML and string operations (couldn't remember the DOM commands, too lazy to look them up). The main bit was a single substring() on the div containing the large table (actually stripped off everything around the table).
The time to render the page jumped to 10 minutes! Memory use jumped sharply as well (largely because I was duplicating the table
For comparison, Safari 3 on Windows rendered the entire page in 5 seconds, whether I used innerHTML and substring() (including the duplication mentioned above) or DOM manipulation. Safari used a bit more memory than IE though (worst case 215MB compared to 200MB).
As far as I'm aware, Coca Cola only advertises 6 months in any year in any market, for precisely this reason. Of course, I have no source to back this up - it's something I read or heard somewhere, and could be complete bullshit.
*Finally*? Bungie made games long before they joined Microsoft. Methinks you should go read the Bungie Wikipedia entry at the very least.
You already get it. Australia (for example) has to pay for the traffic both coming out of the US and going into it, whilst the US gets off scott free. That's one of the reasons broadband is so expensive here for what we get.
So petition your government to ensure that the money that other countries are paying to the US gets spread around, and not just hoarded by some greedy US companies. And while you're at it, I think it would be fair if you suggested to them that they should share the load.
The 25 times productivity difference is actually not at all credible - because it assumes that the worst programmer still has a net benefit. You yourself point out negative productivity.
...
Instead, I think you should be looking at a -25 times productivity difference - a top programmer can boost productivity by 25 times as much as the worst programmer can drop it.
Of course, this isn't credible either, as "the worst" programmer would get in and destroy your version control system, all backups, and remove the hard drives from your best programmers' machines and toss them into a blast furnace
D'oh - that should have been no floppy port of course.
It's got pins for a serial connector, but you'd need such a long cable that it's not feasible. So I'm looking at grabbing a USB-to-serial to plug my UPS into.
Hah - I can answer both of these.
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1. There are PCI-e 1x gigabit NICs and some of 1x video cards around. I think I've seen some 1x RAID cards as well, but I wouldn't swear to it.
I've got a PCI-e 1x gigabit NIC I put into machines without onboard gigabit - performance and CPU usage are both excellent. Gigabit on PCI tends to saturate the PCI bus and have much higher CPU usage - you should always check that any onboard gigabit NIC is PCI-e.
2. Tweaktown did some comparisons of a 7300GT on 1x and 16x - the results show significant differences:
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1045/pci_e_x1_gr
Tom's Hardware have two articles comparing 1x, 4x, 8x and 16x by masking off pins on graphics cards. The performance graphs are very interesting.
Original article - X600XT, X800XT, 6800GT
http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/22/sli_is_com
Newer article - X1900XTX, 8800GTS
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/27/pci_expres
The basic conclusion is that you only need 4x for lower-end resolutions and quality, but if you're pushing high-end cards you really want 16x.
The motherboard I just bought for my server (DG33TL - bearlake) has no motherboad port. It's got the solder points, but no port.
I haven't put a floppy into a new machine for over 2 years. And I don't own a USB floppy drive either.
The floppy is finally going away.
The book was called "Schindler's Ark", but it was changed for the US market. I'll make no aspersions as to why ...
Same guys who built the Tulsa vault obviously also built the one at Necropolis.
I hate to plug a manufacturer, but when I upgrade my home server I'm getting a motherboard with Intel Matrix RAID on it. I've got my two 320GB SATA drives - I'll configure a 400GB RAID-0 volume and a 100GB RAID-1 volume on them. Very efficient use of the drives - I've got no use for 320GB of redundant storage, and it's not cost-effective to buy smaller drives.
If I had 3 drives I'd probably instead go 100GB RAID-5/600GB RAID-0. Might still do that.
BTW I know the numbers don't quite add up, but I'm using round figures (and advertised, but not really, 320GB/drive).
If you pare everything down with a custom install, turning off unnecessary services, removing unncessary apps, etc, XPSP2 runs quite happily on a Celeron 400MHz notebook with 192MB RAM and a 6GB hard drive. With Incredimail running permanently, and Internet Explorer 7 accessing NeoPets. Acrobat Reader 8, Quicktime 7 and Flash are allinstalled. Network is an 802.11b PCMCIA card with WPA-PSK (yes - there 802.11b cards that support WPA-PSK with the right drivers).
... (it originally came with ME ...). It's running behind a hardware firewall of course, and also has Windows Firewall running. It can do everything she wants it to.
This was the configuration I set up for my 9 year old niece recently. I wouldn't have wanted to do it with the original 64MB the notebook came with though
As an indication of the difference between setting it up correctly and not - it used to be my sister's machine. It normally used 400+MB virtual memory, and ran like a dog. Opening up NeoPets on it would take 5 or so minutes.
It's very important to *only* install the driver parts of driver packages (it's possible for most, but you normally need to expand the installer somehow). And to make sure that all the autoloaders are removed (e.g. Acrobat Reader, Quicktime task, etc).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/facetious
At least it's not as bad as poor Misty Hymen's name (the US swimmer). What were her parents thinking?
I would be really surprised if the fake ID contains a statement of transfer of copyright, or that the holder of the fake ID holds such a document. Such a document would required revealing who the forger is.
Therefore, any copyright would reside with the forger, and whoever issued the original ID (assuming that the usual method of modifying an existing ID was used).
It counts because *Australia has preferential voting*. If after the primary vote is counted, the party you voted for as your first preference has the lowest number of votes, that party is eliminated from the race and its votes are redistributed to other other parties according to your *second* preference. This continues until there are only two parties left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting
Whilst this system of counting is not the best, statistically speaking (the best are Condorcet methods, though they also have their weaknesses) it is simple to understand (and count), and in the vast majority of cases results in the candidate who is most preferred by the most number of people being elected.
The US method of "plurality" voting is statistically the *worst* method available.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_system
The "print" version puts grey bars at either side of the article to ensure that the contents are wider than your window (I didn't check what mechanism they used).
You can manually position the page so that all the content is visible, but then the text is hard against the edge of the window.
Nice trick to annoy people into reading through the ad-filled multipage version.
Unfortunately, my company (and many many other large multi-nationals) *do* hire outside consulting companies to do payroll.
That would be O- not O+. Negative RH can donate to positive RH, but not the other way around.
There's a difference between severity and priority.
...
A bug may be high severity (e.g. remote access) but low priority (e.g. because it's believed that other factors mitigate the remote access).
Another bug may be low severity (e.g. a user interface quirk) but high priority (e.g. because reviewers have seen it and are talking down your product because of it).
Severities should be based on how much damage may be caused to the *users* of the program. Priorities are usually determined by how much damage the bug causes to the *developers* of the program
That's all I ask. Forget about any other game ... I just want a Fallout 3 that is worthy of the title.
... but that's never going to happen :(
Arcanum 2 would be nice too
"Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra" are vastly superior to "That Hideous Strength" IMO.
I have a line I came up with on the spur of the moment when some religious people came to my door (I think they were Mormons, but it's been over 5 years since then ...).
"I'm sorry, but I'm quite secure in my lack of faith."
Left them totally stunned - they literally stood there gawping until I said goodbye and closed the door. It's worked similarly every time since.