Maybe it's nitpicky, but Google has been selling their Google Search Appliances for a long time. Not customer hardware really, but hardware none the less.
Here's a neat poster (pdf link) about how these briquettes are made.
It looks ultra simple to do. This poster references only 120:1 storage ratio, so maybe there have been process changes that have improved storage capacity. Maybe this will also help with fuel cells that run on methane to provide portable electrical power too. I think this could be an exciting development.
Seeing as how everybody knew this one was going up and the likely placement, I'd say it was dead too. You get to launch ANOTHER spy satellite and have a little extra element of surprise. Do we automatically believe what the intelligence community says?
What needs to be done beyond actually fixing the bug is for Google to come out with an assurance that folks will be able to restore potentially lost data in the event that something like this ever happens again, otherwise there's clearly no good reason to store anything important on GMail.
That subscript "BETA" under the GMail logo is giving you all the reason anyone should need to avoid storing anything important within GMail. Like many Google products, GMail is still defined as a beta by the company. A well polished beta to be sure; but as long as it says beta on it, you should have no expectation of it remaining static or being 100% stable. They could delete everyones accounts and reset or scrap the whole thing tomorrow, and they would be completely within their rights.
If you want to have expectation of safe retention of mail that goes through GMail, you should use the tools that Google has provided and download it to your PC via POP3. Then YOU can be responsible for its backup and retention.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just pointing out that no one has any right to claim that Google screwed them by losing their important email that they [the user] were housing on a BETA email service.
What's that white stuff around the crater's rim? Is that just a trick of the light? If it's not could whatever it is be the same material as the 'flow?' It has a similar intensity to the light-colored 'flow.'
What is unfortunate is that the superconducting super collider, cancelled 13 (!!) years ago, would have had an energy level nearly three times higher than the LHC. Had it not been canceled in favor of the ISS, it would have been completed by now and working to answer the questions of the universe. The U.S. is losing (already lost?) its edge.
Somewhere along the lines, I thought the definition of a computer required programmability and executing a sequence of instructions, and not just cranking a few gears
The gears are the program instructions. The cranking is the execution of the program. This is a single purpose computer.
For corporate environments (using Active Directory), Microsoft released a set of tools and information you can use to block the installation of IE7 from Windows Update. This information was made widely available to administrators of Microsoft networks. If you were (too late now) anticipating problems with the update, your domain administrator(s) should have use the IE7 blocker toolkit.
When combined with water, NaBH4 produces 4H and NaBO2. How difficult is NaBO2 to deal with, and can it be dangerous/toxic? Any chemistry people want to share any info on this byproduct?
"Sure, it's probably not a real 1TB drive, but it's in an external box and plugs into a USB port, so what's the difference between it and a single-drive solution? For most people, probably none at all."
My MacBook Pro was exhibiting the same behavior. The OS or hardware seemed to be miscalculating the charge in the battery. I could turn it off, remove the battery and let it sit for a while, then put the battery back in and it would seem to reset SOMETIMES but not always. In the end I had to make the call to Apple support. They sent a replacement battery out to me and things seem to be working better now.
I feel like my MBP was definitely half-baked on release. Unfortunately, the kind of baking it is doing to itself now is not the solution. Ah, the perils of early adoption.
I think we should expect to see more numbers like this in the near future, especially in entertainment sectors. Things are getting tight in peoples' budgets due to various reasons, but especially because of high energy prices. One of the first places people look to save money is in their entertainment budget (whether they think of it consciously as that or not) by cutting down on eating out, movies, music and GAMES. After that they will start to cut into other more direct quality of life areas of their budgets.
If the Chinese people wanted to enjoy the same democracy and human rights that we have in the West, then the Chinese people could get democracy and human rights tomorrow. The problem is that most Chinese either support authoritarianism or are indifferent to it.
Alot of people don't want to die or go to prison. In the West where you currently have SOME freedom; killing of protestors wouldn't be tolerated. It would be just another day in China. Tiananmen Square, anyone?
I challenge you to make an argument in which a government that censors its people is in the right. Convince me that my personal beliefs valuing freedom of expression and speech should not apply in China or anywhere else.
It could do unencrypted QAM channels if I wasn't too much a cheapskate to buy cable.
Even if you weren't a cheapskate, don't even bother. There are almost no unencrypted QAM channels on cable. On my cable system (Cox) the only unencrypted channel is one the local WeatherChannel Weather Scan channel thing. A homemade DVR, be it MCE or MythTV, is really pointless from HDTV perspective except for OTA, and what's on that? The FCC has really screwed us over here.
If somebody has any way to get DVR functionality for HDTV over cable without having to use the cable companies box, please do tell. I hate my damn Cox DVR. It's slow, buggy and difficult to use. What would be really nice is a CableCard capable tuner for a PC. Good luck on ever seeing one of those though.
What's with the recent surge in stories about evil child predators lurking in the corners of the internet just waiting to solicit your child for buttsecks or at least explicit pics? I get the feeling somebody is pushing an agenda somewhere, and it's not for the sake of the children.
If your child gets solicited repeatedly on the internet, it's your own damn fault for not paying attention to/controlling what your child is doing. If you're not going to supervise your children's behavior on the internet, at least teach them that sometimes Suzie is really Steve, and sometimes 16 is really 46. Stop relying on the government to raise your damn children.
I believe you would see the largest difference in performance in operations involving disk IO. Laptop hard drives are traditionally somewhat slower than their desktop counterparts.
You end up on an AS/400 before you know it, and that is not a nice place to be.
Yes, an extremely secure, increadibly stable platform sporting one of the most modern operating system architectures in the industry running on the latest hardware is definitely not the place to be.
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Most people believe the os for the 360 is a derivative of Windows 2000, much like the OS for the original XBOX. See this article for info on that.
It's really not a stretch to believe that a variant of the NT architecture runs the 360 when you think about it. It even uses a variant of the DirectX api's found in windows. Why would Microsoft engineer a completely new operating environment when they have a good foundation to start with (NT kernel), especially one that already has a proven track record of being solid in a gaming device (the original xbox)?
The point is- both of which can be done better WITHOUT an AS/400 in the mix. It's drop dead simple to go from SQL to whatever flat text file format you want- and XML is still a flat text file format.
Riiiight. This really cements my opinion that you DKWTFYTA. If they're using an AS/400 for their EDI now it probably means that it's also doing their ERP, invoicing, and other accounting. Doing away with their AS/400 would most likely mean even wider changes in their organization than just changing edi platforms. You can never simply "dump your as400." Were you even aware you can work with your DB2 UDB on your MIDRANGE (NOT A FUCKING MAINFRAME) iSeries with vanilla SQL?
Besides, you can create all the x12 text files you want, but if you're dealing with a lot of customers or vendors you're probably going to need to go through a VAN in which case you'll want their EDI suite anyway.
And going back to your original post, have you ever even worked on an iSeries (as400)? Long after all your blade servers have died strange and varied deaths, that iSeries will be chugging in the back room. I don't think you'll ever find a system as stable and well documented as the iSeries.
When it comes to business continuity you can't put a price tag on it. I'd MUCH rather pay a shit load of money for an iSeries that will run without complaint for decades with little intervention, than a slightly lesser shit load of money for a raft of pc blade servers.
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Maybe it's nitpicky, but Google has been selling their Google Search Appliances for a long time. Not customer hardware really, but hardware none the less.
Does yours have the removable key caps? Someone said that these Unicomp ones have single piece keys.
Here's a neat poster (pdf link) about how these briquettes are made.
It looks ultra simple to do. This poster references only 120:1 storage ratio, so maybe there have been process changes that have improved storage capacity. Maybe this will also help with fuel cells that run on methane to provide portable electrical power too. I think this could be an exciting development.
Seeing as how everybody knew this one was going up and the likely placement, I'd say it was dead too. You get to launch ANOTHER spy satellite and have a little extra element of surprise. Do we automatically believe what the intelligence community says?
What needs to be done beyond actually fixing the bug is for Google to come out with an assurance that folks will be able to restore potentially lost data in the event that something like this ever happens again, otherwise there's clearly no good reason to store anything important on GMail.
That subscript "BETA" under the GMail logo is giving you all the reason anyone should need to avoid storing anything important within GMail. Like many Google products, GMail is still defined as a beta by the company. A well polished beta to be sure; but as long as it says beta on it, you should have no expectation of it remaining static or being 100% stable. They could delete everyones accounts and reset or scrap the whole thing tomorrow, and they would be completely within their rights.
If you want to have expectation of safe retention of mail that goes through GMail, you should use the tools that Google has provided and download it to your PC via POP3. Then YOU can be responsible for its backup and retention.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just pointing out that no one has any right to claim that Google screwed them by losing their important email that they [the user] were housing on a BETA email service.
What's that white stuff around the crater's rim? Is that just a trick of the light? If it's not could whatever it is be the same material as the 'flow?' It has a similar intensity to the light-colored 'flow.'
What is unfortunate is that the superconducting super collider, cancelled 13 (!!) years ago, would have had an energy level nearly three times higher than the LHC. Had it not been canceled in favor of the ISS, it would have been completed by now and working to answer the questions of the universe. The U.S. is losing (already lost?) its edge.
Somewhere along the lines, I thought the definition of a computer required programmability and executing a sequence of instructions, and not just cranking a few gears
The gears are the program instructions. The cranking is the execution of the program. This is a single purpose computer.
For corporate environments (using Active Directory), Microsoft released a set of tools and information you can use to block the installation of IE7 from Windows Update. This information was made widely available to administrators of Microsoft networks. If you were (too late now) anticipating problems with the update, your domain administrator(s) should have use the IE7 blocker toolkit.
More blocker toolkit info here
When combined with water, NaBH4 produces 4H and NaBO2. How difficult is NaBO2 to deal with, and can it be dangerous/toxic? Any chemistry people want to share any info on this byproduct?
"Sure, it's probably not a real 1TB drive, but it's in an external box and plugs into a USB port, so what's the difference between it and a single-drive solution? For most people, probably none at all."
It's twice as likely to fail.
My MacBook Pro was exhibiting the same behavior. The OS or hardware seemed to be miscalculating the charge in the battery. I could turn it off, remove the battery and let it sit for a while, then put the battery back in and it would seem to reset SOMETIMES but not always. In the end I had to make the call to Apple support. They sent a replacement battery out to me and things seem to be working better now.
I feel like my MBP was definitely half-baked on release. Unfortunately, the kind of baking it is doing to itself now is not the solution. Ah, the perils of early adoption.
Are there any videos? A video would be priceless
I think we should expect to see more numbers like this in the near future, especially in entertainment sectors. Things are getting tight in peoples' budgets due to various reasons, but especially because of high energy prices. One of the first places people look to save money is in their entertainment budget (whether they think of it consciously as that or not) by cutting down on eating out, movies, music and GAMES. After that they will start to cut into other more direct quality of life areas of their budgets.
If the Chinese people wanted to enjoy the same democracy and human rights that we have in the West, then the Chinese people could get democracy and human rights tomorrow. The problem is that most Chinese either support authoritarianism or are indifferent to it.
Alot of people don't want to die or go to prison. In the West where you currently have SOME freedom; killing of protestors wouldn't be tolerated. It would be just another day in China. Tiananmen Square, anyone?
I challenge you to make an argument in which a government that censors its people is in the right. Convince me that my personal beliefs valuing freedom of expression and speech should not apply in China or anywhere else.
It could do unencrypted QAM channels if I wasn't too much a cheapskate to buy cable.
Even if you weren't a cheapskate, don't even bother. There are almost no unencrypted QAM channels on cable. On my cable system (Cox) the only unencrypted channel is one the local WeatherChannel Weather Scan channel thing. A homemade DVR, be it MCE or MythTV, is really pointless from HDTV perspective except for OTA, and what's on that? The FCC has really screwed us over here.
If somebody has any way to get DVR functionality for HDTV over cable without having to use the cable companies box, please do tell. I hate my damn Cox DVR. It's slow, buggy and difficult to use. What would be really nice is a CableCard capable tuner for a PC. Good luck on ever seeing one of those though.
What's with the recent surge in stories about evil child predators lurking in the corners of the internet just waiting to solicit your child for buttsecks or at least explicit pics? I get the feeling somebody is pushing an agenda somewhere, and it's not for the sake of the children.
If your child gets solicited repeatedly on the internet, it's your own damn fault for not paying attention to/controlling what your child is doing. If you're not going to supervise your children's behavior on the internet, at least teach them that sometimes Suzie is really Steve, and sometimes 16 is really 46. Stop relying on the government to raise your damn children.
I believe you would see the largest difference in performance in operations involving disk IO. Laptop hard drives are traditionally somewhat slower than their desktop counterparts.
The parent poster correctly said 50MB/sec. (400Mb/Sec)/(8bits/byte)=50MB/sec.
So you might dial a few wrong numbers, see it is a feature to make new friends.
it's like myspace, for your phone.
You end up on an AS/400 before you know it, and that is not a nice place to be.
Yes, an extremely secure, increadibly stable platform sporting one of the most modern operating system architectures in the industry running on the latest hardware is definitely not the place to be.
Most people believe the os for the 360 is a derivative of Windows 2000, much like the OS for the original XBOX. See this article for info on that.
It's really not a stretch to believe that a variant of the NT architecture runs the 360 when you think about it. It even uses a variant of the DirectX api's found in windows. Why would Microsoft engineer a completely new operating environment when they have a good foundation to start with (NT kernel), especially one that already has a proven track record of being solid in a gaming device (the original xbox)?
The point is- both of which can be done better WITHOUT an AS/400 in the mix. It's drop dead simple to go from SQL to whatever flat text file format you want- and XML is still a flat text file format.
Riiiight. This really cements my opinion that you DKWTFYTA. If they're using an AS/400 for their EDI now it probably means that it's also doing their ERP, invoicing, and other accounting. Doing away with their AS/400 would most likely mean even wider changes in their organization than just changing edi platforms. You can never simply "dump your as400." Were you even aware you can work with your DB2 UDB on your MIDRANGE (NOT A FUCKING MAINFRAME) iSeries with vanilla SQL?
Besides, you can create all the x12 text files you want, but if you're dealing with a lot of customers or vendors you're probably going to need to go through a VAN in which case you'll want their EDI suite anyway.
And going back to your original post, have you ever even worked on an iSeries (as400)? Long after all your blade servers have died strange and varied deaths, that iSeries will be chugging in the back room. I don't think you'll ever find a system as stable and well documented as the iSeries.
When it comes to business continuity you can't put a price tag on it. I'd MUCH rather pay a shit load of money for an iSeries that will run without complaint for decades with little intervention, than a slightly lesser shit load of money for a raft of pc blade servers.
What's wrong with slashdot today? There are no comments. Could people actually be getting work done today??