OSX users should take a look at Vienna 2. The author's pedigree is in a conferencing (BBS) off-line reader that did mail and news and the interface is extremely clean and email-like.
Unfortunately it's licensing. The distrobution rights for the shows in the UK are sold separately. Channel4 probably wouldn't be too happy if the rest of S1 was sold online now. (I don't know if they've bought S2 yet.)
I guess the real question the networks need to ask themselves is whether it's overall more profitable to sell via iTunes to overseas from broadcast and expevt lower licensing fees from foreign broadcasters or whether it's better to hold out for higher national fees.
Personally I'd prefer it if they took the risk for some shows and put them on iTunes for at least overseas English-speaking download. Perhaps the hard data from overseas download sales could even be used to increase competition between Sky/C4/C5/ITV/the BBC etc for the really big series (and hence fees). Increased buzz ahead of domestic broadcast may result in a net increase in UK audience. Downloaders may watch again. And if all of a few million viewers pay for the download then who needs a UK broadcast audience?
Probably. But that's just a glorified link with some metadata. Not embedded content.
To truly embed VoIP in a Word document, the first thing to do is embed the IP, and the voice can just follow.
Quite why you'd want to confuses me though: it's not like Word documents can have conversations back, so we're basically down a sound file with some IP headers for no good reason.
If you take a look at the medium terms risks facing Microsoft, one with significant impact is spam making the Internet unusable and thus slowing the growth in home computing, desktop software, and associated server software sales.
Microsoft should have a huge interest in stopping spam. They also have Hotmail and lots of cash, plus probably a few lawyers. They need to be seen to be willing to take losses to stop spam.
It's fair to say that the Cell design isn't optimised for AI. Although with all that compute power there should be more time to do AI than there is on current consoles.
Blaming in-order processing misses the point though.
Unlikely. Even if you could use some equivalent of reasonable force to protect your own machines, a palladin worm that modifies machines not under your control is beyond reasonable (think locking people up so they can't rob you -- not punching them as they come through the door.)
Erm. If you look at the current top500 you'll see that there's a Xeon machine in the top 5.
Have you actually tried other platforms? The best compiler on a given architecture is usually the chip vendor compiler -- IBM's compiler beats GNU on PPC 970, HP's beats GNU on Alpha, etc.
Sure you can find the odd piece of code where Gnu will beat vendor compilers but overall, and particularly for large scientific workloads, vendor compilers win for raw speed.
The list is in a PDF linked from the article. For completeness:
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Adam (who uses a Mac and has a bank too obscure to make the list)
Quick tip: if you write a a dry erase board with a permanent marker, write over the permanent stuff in a normal dry erase marker and them clean off as normal.
XP is both a home and professional OS based on a single core. This is new.
The two different versions are (in byte terms) very similar (remember in NT4 you could hack workstation to be server very easily before SP2?), but Microsoft is using market segmentation to maximise profits (read "XP Home can't join domains, so is of little use to the enterprise")
The server version (now called Windows.NET Server) is some way behind -- expect it next year.
I think you're a little harsh on MCSEs. At least ask people how they got their MCSE. [And eliminate people who went on a course for every exam, mentions practise tests/braindumps.]
Ask how they chose their electives [easiest = boot.]
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Adam (who teaches MS official training courses, rarely paying attention to the text in the book)
What is the thinking behind limiting Windows XP Server to two domain controllers per Active Directory forest? How will this impact the product's competitive position?
Newspaper ads and bill boards don't ask me to drop everything and immerse myself in the world of the advertiser -- they just inform me or build a brand.
For example, I don't actually want to go to Coke's website but I can easily see a Coke banner prompting me to walk to the nearest can machine and buy one, if I feel kind of thirsty.
That wouldn't produce a click through, but it would produce revenue. I suspect the problem is that becuase the click-through measure is available, companies expect click throughs or believe that their campaign is failing, when in fact it may be having an effect.
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What happens if Ithe owner trip over the power cord?
Does it detect the fact and drag the MacBook onto the floor, or what?
OSX users should take a look at Vienna 2. The author's pedigree is in a conferencing (BBS) off-line reader that did mail and news and the interface is extremely clean and email-like.
Unfortunately it's licensing. The distrobution rights for the shows in the UK are sold separately. Channel4 probably wouldn't be too happy if the rest of S1 was sold online now. (I don't know if they've bought S2 yet.)
I guess the real question the networks need to ask themselves is whether it's overall more profitable to sell via iTunes to overseas from broadcast and expevt lower licensing fees from foreign broadcasters or whether it's better to hold out for higher national fees.
Personally I'd prefer it if they took the risk for some shows and put them on iTunes for at least overseas English-speaking download. Perhaps the hard data from overseas download sales could even be used to increase competition between Sky/C4/C5/ITV/the BBC etc for the really big series (and hence fees). Increased buzz ahead of domestic broadcast may result in a net increase in UK audience. Downloaders may watch again. And if all of a few million viewers pay for the download then who needs a UK broadcast audience?
You are such a noob :-)
Probably. But that's just a glorified link with some metadata. Not embedded content.
To truly embed VoIP in a Word document, the first thing to do is embed the IP, and the voice can just follow.
Quite why you'd want to confuses me though: it's not like Word documents can have conversations back, so we're basically down a sound file with some IP headers for no good reason.
No it doesn't.
If you take a look at the medium terms risks facing Microsoft, one with significant impact is spam making the Internet unusable and thus slowing the growth in home computing, desktop software, and associated server software sales.
Microsoft should have a huge interest in stopping spam. They also have Hotmail and lots of cash, plus probably a few lawyers. They need to be seen to be willing to take losses to stop spam.
The question then is how good the compilers are -- they will need to mature over time so it's likely they'll also help games get better.
It's fair to say that the Cell design isn't optimised for AI. Although with all that compute power there should be more time to do AI than there is on current consoles.
Blaming in-order processing misses the point though.
It's going to damage Mac sales between now and probably the announement (at which point I'd expect a free upgrade offer to kick in.)
Unlikely. Even if you could use some equivalent of reasonable force to protect your own machines, a palladin worm that modifies machines not under your control is beyond reasonable (think locking people up so they can't rob you -- not punching them as they come through the door.)
Erm. If you look at the current top500 you'll see that there's a Xeon machine in the top 5.
Have you actually tried other platforms? The best compiler on a given architecture is usually the chip vendor compiler -- IBM's compiler beats GNU on PPC 970, HP's beats GNU on Alpha, etc.
Sure you can find the odd piece of code where Gnu will beat vendor compilers but overall, and particularly for large scientific workloads, vendor compilers win for raw speed.
...but as it isn't I'll just have to keep waiting for this instead.
Don't forget inflation. With constant attendance they should be making records every year as prices go up.
(Am I the only geek who wishes for these "record" announcements to be based on inflation adjusted takings?)
and how would /. not post it?
Because it sucks really quite badly as an April fool and is not all that funny?
Quick tip: if you write a a dry erase board with a permanent marker, write over the permanent stuff in a normal dry erase marker and them clean off as normal.
XP is both a home and professional OS based on a single core. This is new.
The two different versions are (in byte terms) very similar (remember in NT4 you could hack workstation to be server very easily before SP2?), but Microsoft is using market segmentation to maximise profits (read "XP Home can't join domains, so is of little use to the enterprise")
The server version (now called Windows
I think you're a little harsh on MCSEs. At least ask people how they got their MCSE. [And eliminate people who went on a course for every exam, mentions practise tests/braindumps.]
Ask how they chose their electives [easiest = boot.]
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Adam (who teaches MS official training courses, rarely paying attention to the text in the book)
I agree, but from the company perspective it may seem be more efficient to use a less brilliant programmer and save management time.
Break in, patch it yourself? :-)
What is the thinking behind limiting Windows XP Server to two domain controllers per Active Directory forest? How will this impact the product's competitive position?
See http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17907.htmlI've only scan read the NY Times article, but it seems to boil down to agreeing a start time to read from the one time pad. How is this done securely?
Just something to add to point 3:
If you can get yourself a child domain then you're even more autonomous that just having an organizational unit.
What's the obsession with click-throughs?
Newspaper ads and bill boards don't ask me to drop everything and immerse myself in the world of the advertiser -- they just inform me or build a brand.
For example, I don't actually want to go to Coke's website but I can easily see a Coke banner prompting me to walk to the nearest can machine and buy one, if I feel kind of thirsty.
That wouldn't produce a click through, but it would produce revenue. I suspect the problem is that becuase the click-through measure is available, companies expect click throughs or believe that their campaign is failing, when in fact it may be having an effect.