Easily, if you've ever worked with any kind of embedded system you know that even low-memory microcontrollers can have TCP/IP capabilities, in a pretty trivial amount of space. Many implement a TCP/IP stack in a 32K rom with room to spare.
Uh, manfacturers pretty much already ignored the standard. They released their products before the standard was even finalized, claiming 54 Mbps speeds. If anything it's the manufacturers' fault for marketting their products before the standard was ready.
Yeah, it sure does, but those aren't the longest. I think one of the long division instructions takes 12 cycles. I would check, but I don't have my HC12 instruciton set manual handy.
I remember a few years back in high school when we started a computer club the biggest issue was getting computers. Unless you can do all your work on the school's workstations you will need to somehow obtain your own computers.
The best way we found to do this was to get old "discarded" hardware from various corporate sources. We hit up the local phone company and managed to get around 30 486 and 586 systems. Many companies these days have some sort of donation system where they provide their old hardware to schools, clubs, etc. This is especially true for the public sector.
These days you may also have several other options. Distros like Knoppix would allow you to play with Linux on your school's existing systems and you could maintain your personal files on some sort of USB-based storage or other removable media. That would likely be the best route to go if you had trouble obtaining hardware for the club.
I would assume Microsoft is hoping that by the time this happens most developers will have jumped on the.NET bandwagon. I'm not totally certain about the details of.NET but I believe it allows for platform-independant code, in which case MS would only have to provide the runtime environment for each platform.
From past experience Microsoft's idea of better is more packed with features.
Actually, their idea of better is a little animated dog that helps you through the search process;) When will they understand that you don't need to provide a user experience for everything? I just want to search for something! I don't need a damn experience!
Well, in that case I'm glad the world is filled with mostly "reasonable" men so I don't have to worry about a guy clubbing me with a rubber chicken or trying to kill me with a kazoo:p
Just as knife makers should be held liable if someone uses a knife to kill someone else. After all , it's too easy for a "hacker" (pun not intended, of course) to get a hold of a knife and turn this average kitchen utensil in to a weapon.
Potentially, anything could be a weapon... should society hold the makers of any household object accountable if someone decides to make it their weapon of chocie? I think we'd soon see nearly every product imagineable disappear if that were the case.
Of course companies have an obsession with uptime! When one hour of server downtime can cost several thousand dollars per server, it is a big deal. Changing OS's on a server is not like hacking around with your Linux desktop computer, all the software must undergo rigorous testing to ensure it is compatible and stable with the new OS a process which can (and rightly should) take many weeks, if not months. Weeks and months of testing time require lots of money. It's not as simple as sticking the CD in the drive and clicking "Upgrade".
Just heard on the news a few minutes ago that a similar quarantine is being considered for up to several hundred residents of Toronto. An entire hospital there has also been placed under quarantine once it was discovered a SARS victim stayed there. More information here.
Network transparency is *incredibly* useful and I think it is quite naive to just discard it. Maybe you have never found a use for it but I assure you it is quite common. Even at school I use this feature frequently to use the Synopsys VHDL toolkit. The software is installed on just one Sun server with 30 licenses and if you want to use it all you have to do is log in to a computer with an X server, SSH in to the Sun machine, and run the software. This way of using the software is MUCH better than installing the massive suite on every workstation that needs it.
If instead of saying, "fuck it, I'll go play EQ" they said, "I'll spend an hour on my guitar tonight, and an hour writing, and an hour beating off" they are quite likely to eventually find themselves very good at guitar and writing. You can't help but improve if you do something enough.
Not entirely true, so far I've noticed I'm pretty damn good at the latter 2, but haven't quite mastered the former:D
Both support the same external interface? You mean they both respond to DNS lookups? Incredible, who would have thought a DNS server would do that. Thanks for pointing out this oversight in the article! Oh how we could have been misled!
They never specified what kind of talent they were talking about. How much do you want to bet that when they say "talent" they really mean "marketability" ? Seems the two words are interchangeable in the entertianment industry, both in North America and elesewhere in the world.
The big Ascii banner on ascii.blog.pl "Robimy ASCII By Podryvac Laski" loosely translates to "We make ASCII to pick up chicks". If only I had known this was possible I'm sure I would have spent more of my BBS days making ASCII art:p
No, I think the confusion derives from the fact that they wrote 2.3 million when clearly they should have said billion. Either a typo or stupidity on their part.
You're kidding right? Seems most slashdot readers can't even read a short article and post relavent comments on it. Here you're expecting one to read a BOOK and write a REVIEW? Maybe in an alternate universe;)
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I don't know why people always say that about hotdogs and hotdog buns.. here they both come in packages of 12.
Easily, if you've ever worked with any kind of embedded system you know that even low-memory microcontrollers can have TCP/IP capabilities, in a pretty trivial amount of space. Many implement a TCP/IP stack in a 32K rom with room to spare.
Actually, if you read the article, that's almost precisely what has happened:
But the copy available using BitTorrent appears to be have made from a film print, and is in widescreen format with surround sound.
Uh, manfacturers pretty much already ignored the standard. They released their products before the standard was even finalized, claiming 54 Mbps speeds. If anything it's the manufacturers' fault for marketting their products before the standard was ready.
Yeah, it sure does, but those aren't the longest. I think one of the long division instructions takes 12 cycles. I would check, but I don't have my HC12 instruciton set manual handy.
I think I might be able to fit a few more computers in to my bedroom. Bring 'em on I say!
I remember a few years back in high school when we started a computer club the biggest issue was getting computers. Unless you can do all your work on the school's workstations you will need to somehow obtain your own computers.
The best way we found to do this was to get old "discarded" hardware from various corporate sources. We hit up the local phone company and managed to get around 30 486 and 586 systems. Many companies these days have some sort of donation system where they provide their old hardware to schools, clubs, etc. This is especially true for the public sector.
These days you may also have several other options. Distros like Knoppix would allow you to play with Linux on your school's existing systems and you could maintain your personal files on some sort of USB-based storage or other removable media. That would likely be the best route to go if you had trouble obtaining hardware for the club.
when he said the US was going to act against the moon.
I would assume Microsoft is hoping that by the time this happens most developers will have jumped on the .NET bandwagon. I'm not totally certain about the details of .NET but I believe it allows for platform-independant code, in which case MS would only have to provide the runtime environment for each platform.
Actually, their idea of better is a little animated dog that helps you through the search process
Well, in that case I'm glad the world is filled with mostly "reasonable" men so I don't have to worry about a guy clubbing me with a rubber chicken or trying to kill me with a kazoo :p
Just as knife makers should be held liable if someone uses a knife to kill someone else. After all , it's too easy for a "hacker" (pun not intended, of course) to get a hold of a knife and turn this average kitchen utensil in to a weapon.
Potentially, anything could be a weapon... should society hold the makers of any household object accountable if someone decides to make it their weapon of chocie? I think we'd soon see nearly every product imagineable disappear if that were the case.
Of course companies have an obsession with uptime! When one hour of server downtime can cost several thousand dollars per server, it is a big deal. Changing OS's on a server is not like hacking around with your Linux desktop computer, all the software must undergo rigorous testing to ensure it is compatible and stable with the new OS a process which can (and rightly should) take many weeks, if not months. Weeks and months of testing time require lots of money. It's not as simple as sticking the CD in the drive and clicking "Upgrade".
Just heard on the news a few minutes ago that a similar quarantine is being considered for up to several hundred residents of Toronto. An entire hospital there has also been placed under quarantine once it was discovered a SARS victim stayed there. More information here.
Network transparency is *incredibly* useful and I think it is quite naive to just discard it. Maybe you have never found a use for it but I assure you it is quite common. Even at school I use this feature frequently to use the Synopsys VHDL toolkit. The software is installed on just one Sun server with 30 licenses and if you want to use it all you have to do is log in to a computer with an X server, SSH in to the Sun machine, and run the software. This way of using the software is MUCH better than installing the massive suite on every workstation that needs it.
If instead of saying, "fuck it, I'll go play EQ" they said, "I'll spend an hour on my guitar tonight, and an hour writing, and an hour beating off" they are quite likely to eventually find themselves very good at guitar and writing. You can't help but improve if you do something enough.
Not entirely true, so far I've noticed I'm pretty damn good at the latter 2, but haven't quite mastered the former :D
A quick search through the Gentoo forums revealed this thread. It would appear the quick answer is "yes". Give it a read if you are still interested.
I am so looking forward to Microsoft BrainFuck.
It's called Visual Basic ;)
Both support the same external interface? You mean they both respond to DNS lookups? Incredible, who would have thought a DNS server would do that. Thanks for pointing out this oversight in the article! Oh how we could have been misled!
They never specified what kind of talent they were talking about. How much do you want to bet that when they say "talent" they really mean "marketability" ? Seems the two words are interchangeable in the entertianment industry, both in North America and elesewhere in the world.
The big Ascii banner on ascii.blog.pl "Robimy ASCII By Podryvac Laski" loosely translates to "We make ASCII to pick up chicks". If only I had known this was possible I'm sure I would have spent more of my BBS days making ASCII art :p
John Deere already includes GPS on some of their equipment. Check this out. Your idea may not be as far-fetched as you think.
No, I think the confusion derives from the fact that they wrote 2.3 million when clearly they should have said billion. Either a typo or stupidity on their part.
You're kidding right? Seems most slashdot readers can't even read a short article and post relavent comments on it. Here you're expecting one to read a BOOK and write a REVIEW? Maybe in an alternate universe ;)
Sorry, Norton's got your market covered. "Norton Ghost" :D