POSIX is a dead standard that hasn't moved ahead in 20 years.
Except that, well, it's not. There's a new POSIX (ISO/IEC 9945:2002) which is now the same as the Single Unix Specification, V3. The article is about the differences between LSB and this version of the standard.
The only danger is that once they get power back, when the A/C kicks in cooling off that air that is near 100% humidity, it's likely to get kinda foggy in the server room, and water condensing out of the air could settle on things.
That's not too likely. A/C units dehumidify very well. And when they blow cold air into the room, that itself will circulate out hot, humid air. And since A/C units don't cool a room instantly, the temp should come down slowly enough.
However, if for some reason this would be a problem in a specific place, the answer is to give the water to condense first and toss a dehumidifier in there. Once the power comes on, turn on the dehumidifier, and any water will condense first on its refridgerated coils than on anything else.
Why didn't IPV6 go to something much larger like 64 bits?
Gee, maybe because they did. They went to 128-bits.
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What version of eclipse are you using? I keep running across Emacs bindings that I want but don't have (M-c for instance, or C-u C-SPC). Not even C-k C-y works, let alone M-y. C-s C-s doesn't work, C-s C-w doesn't do what it's supposed to do, C-s doesn't set mark....
I'm using WSAD 5.0, which is based on Eclipse 2.0.2, and I can say that for me, the Emacs bindings are just close enough to get me going for a couple seconds before I slam into a wall of incompatibility. So far, I like Eclipse 2 as an IDE, but as an editor it has lots to be desired.
I'd be interested in hearing what version you use, and how much the bindings have been improved.
It's a 20"x30"@300ppi photomosaic I put together for my sisters, of shots I took in and around her wedding. It's JPEG since ophoto wouldn't accept tiff.
ImageMagick has all conversion type stuff in one "convert" program, so you don't have to pipe stuff between fifteen programs to get things done.
OTOH, ImageMagick loads the entire file into memory to do its work, so on really big files you are better off shipping it through the pipe. (I've got a 150MB JPG around here that chokes convert, but pipes through netpbm great.)
Which does beg the obvious question of how GPS works... my guess here (I'm not going to research... why would I do that?) is that the satellites *aren't* geostationary.
Exactly correct. One of the things a GPS receiver does when first locking into the satellites is download detailed ephemeris info from each of them, so it knows where they are.
You can look at the sat display of almost any GPS unit and see them move.
If the stuff you write will ever end up on paper, you'll end up having to learn TeX or LaTeX whether or not you write your documents in it, because the only way to get high-quality printed output from SGML or XML is through TeX. (Or through proprietary packages with TeX embedded in them.)
If you want to compare energy costs, you also have to consider how long it takes to print. DJ3320 is 1.5ppm in best mode on plain paper, b/w, 600 dpi. My LJ2100m is 10ppm, 1200dpi, b/w. So the dj will take about 6.7 times as long, and the energy used won't be nearly as different as you suggest.
We can design some public plaza space or neighborhood that is absolutely award-winning, and on the cutting edge of the design world. The problem is, we often have to (at our client's direction) water our design down to something that the average Joe can understand.
That's not a problem. That's a solution. The problem is that "absolutely award winning" designs "on the cutting edge of the design world" tend to be designed for other architects, instead of the people who actually have to use the space. So they end up being dead, unused spaces.
Tell me, have you read How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand or A Timeless Way of Building or A Pattern Language by Chris Alexander? They explain this situation in far more detail than I could here.
Actually, it's probably less likely that a sysadmin job will be shipped off to India, since there will always be hardware here in the states, and there will always be a need for _someone_ to manage it.
I think that it's probably a bad career path for anyone in the US or Europe to get into software development right now. You'll need an exit strategy much sooner than you'd think.
You could just as easily say "If someone is truly serious about photography, he isn't doing 35mm." Or medium format. If you're not lugging an 8x10 camera everywhere, you aren't serious.
Hint: welcome to the 21st century. There are serious digital cameras out there. They just cost a lot.
But remember that having a good grounding in CS is also essential. I've met too many bioinformaticists whose code was horrid.
Really, I think that it's easier to get good work from a good CS type in close collaboration with a bio type than a bio type who's picked up the usual smattering of CS. My wife (biologist) agrees.
Your experience may be different, but I'd bet you just haven't hired good CS types. Instead, your company probably hired according to buzzwords (like so many other companies in IT) and if your buzzset included Perl (like so much bioinfomatics) your hiring practices probably tended towards the bottom anyway, because the people best at eliciting requirements from domain specialists and picking up enough of the domain to be useful are not usually the people with lots of perl experience. (OTOH, they can generally code in perl quite well.)
The phone system is somewhat different, because traditionally you dial as little as possible and it defaults prefixes based on where you are.
The proposed postal code would be about the same as if you needed to dial a complete telno (including country code) to call your neighbor. One digit wrong in an early digit could easily put your call in the wrong country.
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Check out Psyco if you firmly believe that interpreted languages will never ever be as fast as C.
Or you could use Common Lisp, and realize that you're a few years behind....
I've been using it for about a month and a half, with both Mozilla and MSIE, and I haven't seen any of the problems you've mentioned....
POSIX is a dead standard that hasn't moved ahead in 20 years.
Except that, well, it's not. There's a new POSIX (ISO/IEC 9945:2002) which is now the same as the Single Unix Specification, V3. The article is about the differences between LSB and this version of the standard.
The D2h is targeted at sports shooters, so it's much more likely the venue will have wireless set up somewhere.
The only danger is that once they get power back, when the A/C kicks in cooling off that air that is near 100% humidity, it's likely to get kinda foggy in the server room, and water condensing out of the air could settle on things.
That's not too likely. A/C units dehumidify very well. And when they blow cold air into the room, that itself will circulate out hot, humid air. And since A/C units don't cool a room instantly, the temp should come down slowly enough.
However, if for some reason this would be a problem in a specific place, the answer is to give the water to condense first and toss a dehumidifier in there. Once the power comes on, turn on the dehumidifier, and any water will condense first on its refridgerated coils than on anything else.
Yes, I can think of others...
But why should I tell you, so that you can compete with me for them?
Why didn't IPV6 go to something much larger like 64 bits?
Gee, maybe because they did. They went to 128-bits.
What version of eclipse are you using? I keep running across Emacs bindings that I want but don't have (M-c for instance, or C-u C-SPC). Not even C-k C-y works, let alone M-y. C-s C-s doesn't work, C-s C-w doesn't do what it's supposed to do, C-s doesn't set mark....
I'm using WSAD 5.0, which is based on Eclipse 2.0.2, and I can say that for me, the Emacs bindings are just close enough to get me going for a couple seconds before I slam into a wall of incompatibility. So far, I like Eclipse 2 as an IDE, but as an editor it has lots to be desired.
I'd be interested in hearing what version you use, and how much the bindings have been improved.
It's a 20"x30"@300ppi photomosaic I put together for my sisters, of shots I took in and around her wedding. It's JPEG since ophoto wouldn't accept tiff.
ImageMagick has all conversion type stuff in one "convert" program, so you don't have to pipe stuff between fifteen programs to get things done.
OTOH, ImageMagick loads the entire file into memory to do its work, so on really big files you are better off shipping it through the pipe. (I've got a 150MB JPG around here that chokes convert, but pipes through netpbm great.)
I like to have both on my machine.
Considering the answer is .006097560975..., yes, I sure do need paper.
With some of the responses in this part, it seems people have forgotten that you divide by the number to the right of the "/" sign.
Which does beg the obvious question of how GPS works... my guess here (I'm not going to research... why would I do that?) is that the satellites *aren't* geostationary.
Exactly correct. One of the things a GPS receiver does when first locking into the satellites is download detailed ephemeris info from each of them, so it knows where they are.
You can look at the sat display of almost any GPS unit and see them move.
If the stuff you write will ever end up on paper, you'll end up having to learn TeX or LaTeX whether or not you write your documents in it, because the only way to get high-quality printed output from SGML or XML is through TeX. (Or through proprietary packages with TeX embedded in them.)
That would still allow it to open up sockets, read any world-readable files on disk, run as a DDOS client, spam relay, or almost anything else....
It couldn't delete files, and it couldn't read protected files, but it's not neutered.
If you want to compare energy costs, you also have to consider how long it takes to print. DJ3320 is 1.5ppm in best mode on plain paper, b/w, 600 dpi.
My LJ2100m is 10ppm, 1200dpi, b/w. So the dj will take about 6.7 times as long, and the energy used won't be nearly as different as you suggest.
We can design some public plaza space or neighborhood that is absolutely award-winning, and on the cutting edge of the design world. The problem is, we often have to (at our client's direction) water our design down to something that the average Joe can understand.
That's not a problem. That's a solution. The problem is that "absolutely award winning" designs "on the cutting edge of the design world" tend to be designed for other architects, instead of the people who actually have to use the space. So they end up being dead, unused spaces.
Tell me, have you read How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand or A Timeless Way of Building or A Pattern Language by Chris Alexander? They explain this situation in far more detail than I could here.
Most, maybe, but not all....
Contrast that to development, where there's _no_ need for a single local person.
Really, they're both screwed professions, but SAs are less screwed.
Actually, it's probably less likely that a sysadmin job will be shipped off to India, since there will always be hardware here in the states, and there will always be a need for _someone_ to manage it.
I think that it's probably a bad career path for anyone in the US or Europe to get into software development right now. You'll need an exit strategy much sooner than you'd think.
Good point. But still, Caldera never owned WP so it can't help them now.
You could just as easily say "If someone is truly serious about photography, he isn't doing 35mm." Or medium format. If you're not lugging an 8x10 camera everywhere, you aren't serious.
Hint: welcome to the 21st century. There are serious digital cameras out there. They just cost a lot.
But remember that having a good grounding in CS is also essential. I've met too many bioinformaticists whose code was horrid.
Really, I think that it's easier to get good work from a good CS type in close collaboration with a bio type than a bio type who's picked up the usual smattering of CS. My wife (biologist) agrees.
Your experience may be different, but I'd bet you just haven't hired good CS types. Instead, your company probably hired according to buzzwords (like so many other companies in IT) and if your buzzset included Perl (like so much bioinfomatics) your hiring practices probably tended towards the bottom anyway, because the people best at eliciting requirements from domain specialists and picking up enough of the domain to be useful are not usually the people with lots of perl experience. (OTOH, they can generally code in perl quite well.)
Remember Caldera Linux + Word Perfect?
Um, no. That was Corel Linux and Word Perfect. (Word Perfect may also have been a Utah company once upon a time, but completely different.)
The most Caldera had were some Netware hooks and tetris in the installer.
Yes, you do... they're pretty cheap these days, actually. I've made a 20"x30" enlargement from my D1x which looks quite good.
The phone system is somewhat different, because traditionally you dial as little as possible and it defaults prefixes based on where you are.
The proposed postal code would be about the same as if you needed to dial a complete telno (including country code) to call your neighbor. One digit wrong in an early digit could easily put your call in the wrong country.