So what do secretaries do when the get the BSOD or the "out of memory" screen?
They power-cycle the computer. You know, the reboot reflex is so pervasive that I've seen "professional" software developers restart their application server rather than attempt to figure out the real problem. The reflex is so ingrained, that even the production version of their "software" has problems that require restarting the server. Thank you, Mr. Gates. We love you!
Have you ever watched Sally Secretary work? Sure she knows where the editing commands she uses in MS Word are, but ask her to execute similar commands in, say, Photoshop. She'll be lost.
Why is it that so many people have so little confidence in themselves, that they can't even think how to deal with a new situation? Must everyone be treated like a baby? Do these people also freeze up when entering a new grocery store? "Oh no, the dairy section is to the left! THE LEFT! What will I ever do?!?!?"
Photoshop is an application that I basically picked up by poking around in the menus. Sure, I'm not an advanced user, but for basic stuff I'm just fine. How hard is it for these "secretaries" to do that? Or are they so stupid that they are just bad secretaries, period?
You have to buy a seat of UnixWare, per the press release. That's $1500 per seat. Do YOU think anyone is going to pay that?
Well, perhaps existing Microsoft customers would. Otherwise, the SCO turd-ball still will not benefit as systems like FreeBSD and Solaris x86 are cheaper by far than anything SCO will excrete and call a product.
The Republican and Democratic parties are much too rich and powerful, now, to care deeply about the integrity of the U.S., its constitution, and the individual liberties of its citizens. They are more concerned about self-perpetuation and wide-ranging power over their constituencies.
Actually, it is. 14GB is more data than most people can shake a stick at.
...it's all running on Windows 2000 Server with SQL Server just fine.
Well, if all you are doing is a billion inserts a day, I'd hope any database would do just fine, given enough hardware throughput. Your system is more a test of your SAN architecture than the database running on it.
Aces Hardware article about how to handle a "slashdotting" with one 500MHz UltraSPARC IIe CPU (Sun Blade 100/Blade 150 system) driving both the webserver and the database server.
I've seen SMP Sun servers with Oracle and Weblogic choke under lower load. Basically, for the guy asking about.NET: No magic fairy is going to come in the box set for.NET to make his application scale well. He really is on his own to do it right.
Apples screen rendering is "Quartz" which is their own creation but is essentially "display PDF".
Well, that's just one more reason why Apple is a really cool company. Does this mean that Mac OS X really and truly displays fonts properly on-screen (as if printed to paper)?
Um, look, having these "foolish backwards" states that still discriminate against black people legally, constitutes "the civil rights movement being less successful."
I'm saying that, with respect to civil rights, these states are becoming marginalized. Other states would be free to say, "Don't like South Carolina, come live with us!". Then, South Carolina could degrade into some good-ol-boy all-white hog-molesting pit of human disgrace, and the other states would just laugh at them.
I clearly can't predict the past's future had the past occurred differently, it's just that there were alternative approaches to the problems.
Bear in mind when you say this that the modern "states rights" movement largely grew out of the federal government's efforts to end segregation.
I'm not convinced that the civil rights movements would have been less successful, in the end, without federal involvement. I think a more likely scenario is that many states would come around, and ass backwards states like South Carolina would just look foolish to the rest of the country and to the rest of the world. I would hope the foolishness is sufficient to even get the good ol' boys to turn around, but it just might take a generation for the old ones to die off before real change occurs.
I was frankly stunned and awed to the point of voting for him in the next election because I got back a letter than addressed what I had said, and outlined what he had done as a result, and what the results of his actions were.
The fact that U.S. senators and representatives are so far removed from the public that responses are, by default, not expected is a very strong argument, in my opinion, why most issues should be handled by state and local governments and not the federal one.
Local officials are much more accessible by their constituants (constituant to politician ratio is an order of magnatude less), and local officials are more accountable in thier communities. For example, the local state representative is very likely a local businessperson who is a member of the local chamber of commerce and lives in a known neighborhood on one end of town. He may even be active in a local church or civic group and may even know local people by name (imagine that!). Simply, the "pro" and "con" piles are just much smaller for local representation and are more likely to be given attention.
Compare the local people to national people like Hillary Clinton or Dick Cheny, for example, and there is no comparison. Besides the Letterman show or the Weekly World News, do the constituants of New York really understand or have the resources to care about what Ms. Clinton does for their state?
I just think that human society scales poorly (suburban spawl, for example), and that smaller groups are more likely to make real progress towards a genuinely happy community than very large ones. Smaller groups are also more accountable, and, if a person can't cope, moving to another group is not a big problem. If a person can't cope with a federal government, or the approaching global government, then what?
And, to be clear, "small" doesn't mean, necessarily, on the scale of nomadic tribes, but more like regular towns of several tens of thousands of people each. It seems that once an area gets into the hundreds of thousands of people, people start clashing in their everyday lives--traffic, for example--and don't find effective ways to deal with that scale.
I had no idead EPS could manage and update Postscript coordinate points from Global to Local, on the fly?
Er, uh...all I know is that I could take the EPS files outputted from gnuplot and import them into Framemaker documents. It worked really well for complex charts, where trying to juggle GIF image resolutions would have been a disaster.
Also, this was years ago, so I could be mistaken.
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PCI expansion enclosure? I'm intrigued. Do you have a link?
This one is what popped out of my memory while figuring out the best way to support all the DVD standards. I'm not too sure whether it would work on PCs, but the E1 would allow an additional four SCSI controllers for an additional 56 DVD drives in your Sun rack-mount setup! You do have a rack of Netra servers in your living room, right? Sheesh, who doesn't anymore? (actually, I don't either...)
One application I've noticed is that it could be handy to rip a bunch of CDs to a hard disk...
Oh, and this all works really well for floppy disks, too. I took a whole bunch of rickety old floppy disks and now have them on CD-ROM. Unfortunately, I also found how unreliable floppy disks really are...
PDF is the default screen capture format in Mac OS X (10.2), and I assume in Panther as well.
I'm ignorant, so I can't tell if this is funny or true. Regardless, wouldn't EPS (encapsulated PostScript) be a better capture format than PDF.
EPS can go straight into LaTeX and Framemaker, for example.
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As soon as I buy a -R drive +R would become the standard, and if I bought a +R drive -R would become the standard.
Just buy one of those 10 or 15-bay external drive towers. Then, you'd have room for each DVD standard as it emerges while keeping all the old DVD drives around for legacy support. You should also get a PCI expansion enclosure, so you can be sure to have enough SCSI controllers to handle all the external drive towers you will eventually get.
With six PCI slots plus a built-in host adapter, you could, in theory, support 7x15=105--yes, that's 105--DVD standards before needing more PCI slots and SCSI controllers.
I'd say you would need only $15,000 to guarantee 100% compatibility with all the DVD discs you might come across. At such an affordable price point, why are you hesitating?!?
Dvd-r is nice to have, but I don't have much use for it.
One application I've noticed is that it could be handy to rip a bunch of CDs to a hard disk, compress each image with bzip2 or gzip, and, then, rip a buttload of compressed CD images onto DVD. On the DVD, they are useless, but copying and decompressing them back onto the hard disk allows mounting via a loopback filesystem.
I really like loopback filesystems. They allow accessing a CD-ROM at 10,000RPM Ultra320 SCSI niceness:)
Oh, and other systems besides Linux have them (Solaris, for example)...it seems that needs to be said, unfortunately.
I'll bet 50 gil that the first application for audio weblogs will be a fart diary. I'd honor the bet, too, if I could link my PlayStation memory card to PayPal...
Isn't $19 million in profit awfully low for $1.545 BILLION in revenueThat gives them a profit margin of about 1.25%.
I'd say we should be ecstatic that the number was positive, regardless of magnitude. This means, at a minimum, Apple is stable in the near-term and won't disappear in a vapor in a bankrupcy court anytime soon. As long as they stay afloat, they can keep sticking irritating glass fibers into Microsoft's pale skin.
As a side note, my gf is working with a grad student who is trying to engineer an ornamental plant to be placed in public areas that will turn color when it's been exposed to various biological agents.
That is actually a really creative use of genetic engineering. Good job, Mr./Ms. grad student!
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So what do secretaries do when the get the BSOD or the "out of memory" screen?
They power-cycle the computer. You know, the reboot reflex is so pervasive that I've seen "professional" software developers restart their application server rather than attempt to figure out the real problem. The reflex is so ingrained, that even the production version of their "software" has problems that require restarting the server. Thank you, Mr. Gates. We love you!
Have you ever watched Sally Secretary work? Sure she knows where the editing commands she uses in MS Word are, but ask her to execute similar commands in, say, Photoshop. She'll be lost.
Why is it that so many people have so little confidence in themselves, that they can't even think how to deal with a new situation? Must everyone be treated like a baby? Do these people also freeze up when entering a new grocery store? "Oh no, the dairy section is to the left! THE LEFT! What will I ever do?!?!?"
Photoshop is an application that I basically picked up by poking around in the menus. Sure, I'm not an advanced user, but for basic stuff I'm just fine. How hard is it for these "secretaries" to do that? Or are they so stupid that they are just bad secretaries, period?
Corda might do what you need. It will output the images in Flash, JPG, PNG, GIF, SVG and others. I believe it uses XML files to generate the graphs.
With that many buzzwords, you can't go wrong! (everyone cheers) COR-DA! COR-DA! COR-DA! YAAAAYYYYY!
He even hinted that Windows was not immune to this...
Given that parts of Windows are really FreeBSD in disguise, I guess this isn't suprising.
You have to buy a seat of UnixWare, per the press release. That's $1500 per seat. Do YOU think anyone is going to pay that?
Well, perhaps existing Microsoft customers would. Otherwise, the SCO turd-ball still will not benefit as systems like FreeBSD and Solaris x86 are cheaper by far than anything SCO will excrete and call a product.
Go climb back under your rock, SCO astroturfer.
Registering a copyright is pretty much like a cat pissing on a couch to say "this is mine"...
This works well for humans, too, at least until someone calls the cops.
Proud patriot and republican voter.
The Republican and Democratic parties are much too rich and powerful, now, to care deeply about the integrity of the U.S., its constitution, and the individual liberties of its citizens. They are more concerned about self-perpetuation and wide-ranging power over their constituencies.
6-14GB is a large database?
...it's all running on Windows 2000 Server with SQL Server just fine.
Actually, it is. 14GB is more data than most people can shake a stick at.
Well, if all you are doing is a billion inserts a day, I'd hope any database would do just fine, given enough hardware throughput. Your system is more a test of your SAN architecture than the database running on it.
Aces Hardware article about how to handle a "slashdotting" with one 500MHz UltraSPARC IIe CPU (Sun Blade 100/Blade 150 system) driving both the webserver and the database server.
.NET: No magic fairy is going to come in the box set for .NET to make his application scale well. He really is on his own to do it right.
I've seen SMP Sun servers with Oracle and Weblogic choke under lower load. Basically, for the guy asking about
FYI, "Kartoffel" is German for potato.
No, it's what a German says, in English, when looking at an American luxury car.
Although to be fair there's probably an arms race between the hiring managers and the buzzword-weilding resume-writers occuring.
Are hiring managers smart enough to know that a resume that actually has all the requested buzzwords is lying profusely?
It seems that most job positions advertised could either be filled by gods or liars but not honest schmucks like me.
Apples screen rendering is "Quartz" which is their own creation but is essentially "display PDF".
Well, that's just one more reason why Apple is a really cool company. Does this mean that Mac OS X really and truly displays fonts properly on-screen (as if printed to paper)?
Um, look, having these "foolish backwards" states that still discriminate against black people legally, constitutes "the civil rights movement being less successful."
I'm saying that, with respect to civil rights, these states are becoming marginalized. Other states would be free to say, "Don't like South Carolina, come live with us!". Then, South Carolina could degrade into some good-ol-boy all-white hog-molesting pit of human disgrace, and the other states would just laugh at them.
I clearly can't predict the past's future had the past occurred differently, it's just that there were alternative approaches to the problems.
Bear in mind when you say this that the modern "states rights" movement largely grew out of the federal government's efforts to end segregation.
I'm not convinced that the civil rights movements would have been less successful, in the end, without federal involvement. I think a more likely scenario is that many states would come around, and ass backwards states like South Carolina would just look foolish to the rest of the country and to the rest of the world. I would hope the foolishness is sufficient to even get the good ol' boys to turn around, but it just might take a generation for the old ones to die off before real change occurs.
I was frankly stunned and awed to the point of voting for him in the next election because I got back a letter than addressed what I had said, and outlined what he had done as a result, and what the results of his actions were.
The fact that U.S. senators and representatives are so far removed from the public that responses are, by default, not expected is a very strong argument, in my opinion, why most issues should be handled by state and local governments and not the federal one.
Local officials are much more accessible by their constituants (constituant to politician ratio is an order of magnatude less), and local officials are more accountable in thier communities. For example, the local state representative is very likely a local businessperson who is a member of the local chamber of commerce and lives in a known neighborhood on one end of town. He may even be active in a local church or civic group and may even know local people by name (imagine that!). Simply, the "pro" and "con" piles are just much smaller for local representation and are more likely to be given attention.
Compare the local people to national people like Hillary Clinton or Dick Cheny, for example, and there is no comparison. Besides the Letterman show or the Weekly World News, do the constituants of New York really understand or have the resources to care about what Ms. Clinton does for their state?
I just think that human society scales poorly (suburban spawl, for example), and that smaller groups are more likely to make real progress towards a genuinely happy community than very large ones. Smaller groups are also more accountable, and, if a person can't cope, moving to another group is not a big problem. If a person can't cope with a federal government, or the approaching global government, then what?
And, to be clear, "small" doesn't mean, necessarily, on the scale of nomadic tribes, but more like regular towns of several tens of thousands of people each. It seems that once an area gets into the hundreds of thousands of people, people start clashing in their everyday lives--traffic, for example--and don't find effective ways to deal with that scale.
I had no idead EPS could manage and update Postscript coordinate points from Global to Local, on the fly?
Er, uh...all I know is that I could take the EPS files outputted from gnuplot and import them into Framemaker documents. It worked really well for complex charts, where trying to juggle GIF image resolutions would have been a disaster.
Also, this was years ago, so I could be mistaken.
PCI expansion enclosure? I'm intrigued. Do you have a link?
Sun Netra E1
This one is what popped out of my memory while figuring out the best way to support all the DVD standards. I'm not too sure whether it would work on PCs, but the E1 would allow an additional four SCSI controllers for an additional 56 DVD drives in your Sun rack-mount setup! You do have a rack of Netra servers in your living room, right? Sheesh, who doesn't anymore? (actually, I don't either...)
One application I've noticed is that it could be handy to rip a bunch of CDs to a hard disk...
Oh, and this all works really well for floppy disks, too. I took a whole bunch of rickety old floppy disks and now have them on CD-ROM. Unfortunately, I also found how unreliable floppy disks really are...
PDF is the default screen capture format in Mac OS X (10.2), and I assume in Panther as well.
I'm ignorant, so I can't tell if this is funny or true. Regardless, wouldn't EPS (encapsulated PostScript) be a better capture format than PDF.
EPS can go straight into LaTeX and Framemaker, for example.
As soon as I buy a -R drive +R would become the standard, and if I bought a +R drive -R would become the standard.
Just buy one of those 10 or 15-bay external drive towers. Then, you'd have room for each DVD standard as it emerges while keeping all the old DVD drives around for legacy support. You should also get a PCI expansion enclosure, so you can be sure to have enough SCSI controllers to handle all the external drive towers you will eventually get.
With six PCI slots plus a built-in host adapter, you could, in theory, support 7x15=105--yes, that's 105--DVD standards before needing more PCI slots and SCSI controllers.
I'd say you would need only $15,000 to guarantee 100% compatibility with all the DVD discs you might come across. At such an affordable price point, why are you hesitating?!?
Dvd-r is nice to have, but I don't have much use for it.
:)
One application I've noticed is that it could be handy to rip a bunch of CDs to a hard disk, compress each image with bzip2 or gzip, and, then, rip a buttload of compressed CD images onto DVD. On the DVD, they are useless, but copying and decompressing them back onto the hard disk allows mounting via a loopback filesystem.
I really like loopback filesystems. They allow accessing a CD-ROM at 10,000RPM Ultra320 SCSI niceness
Oh, and other systems besides Linux have them (Solaris, for example)...it seems that needs to be said, unfortunately.
I'll bet 50 gil that the first application for audio weblogs will be a fart diary. I'd honor the bet, too, if I could link my PlayStation memory card to PayPal...
Isn't $19 million in profit awfully low for $1.545 BILLION in revenueThat gives them a profit margin of about 1.25%.
I'd say we should be ecstatic that the number was positive, regardless of magnitude. This means, at a minimum, Apple is stable in the near-term and won't disappear in a vapor in a bankrupcy court anytime soon. As long as they stay afloat, they can keep sticking irritating glass fibers into Microsoft's pale skin.
As a side note, my gf is working with a grad student who is trying to engineer an ornamental plant to be placed in public areas that will turn color when it's been exposed to various biological agents.
That is actually a really creative use of genetic engineering. Good job, Mr./Ms. grad student!