Because this is a similar question. I think a truly unbiased review would bind that both camps can solve similar sets of problems similarly. While there may be some fringe applications (LOTR's rendering farm) that lend themselves to one solution over the other, both camps are suitably developed and robust to handle most tasks...in business.
But this is a University environent. They have a continual revolving door full of new CS students willing to admin for cheap or free. The labor costs alone might sway them towards the Unix camps.
To paraphrase: "Linux is free, but only if your time is valueless".
Alrighty, what would you propose such a light switch would look like? Keeping in mind the usability of a lightswitch. (at most, you've got a touchpad that brightens or dims based on time spent on the pad, a slider or an on/off switch)
So now you've got, what, three sliders? a switch and three knobs? A switch and three holes you've gotta put a screwdriver in to adjust intensity?
But that's just one plate, what if you want do adjust the ones in the kitchen as well as the ones in the living room?
Being able to set an 8-bit value for R, G, B and what-the-hell Alpha transparency would be a non-starter.
Of course, your lightswitch could have an Adobe colorwheel and an intensity slider, but then your _lights_ might cost you $20, but your light SWITCH will cost ya $250.
Ritalin? Nope, I'm not on Ritalin. I DID neglect to take my Zyrtec 'tho.
Imagine your light switch now has 3 knobs, ones for red green and blue, plus an intensity switch. You could set up some nice mood lighting using rgb values.
OOO yeah! And 802.11b for access from my PDA! And X10 so I can turn on my lights using my Garage opener...finally a use for the other two buttons on my sunvisor!
Um, it's a light. On, off and dim are pretty much the limit of what 99.999999% of the world wants. That other.000001% can't get laid and thus don't NEED mood lighting.
Do you have any statistics on how much of your ISP's bandwidth is consumed by spam? (And for comparison's sake, other stuff like p-2-p and Quake servers.)
Here's a guy that made a cool hack. It's something that has never been done before - a unique view at a problem that could a) change the way a great many people move about or b) fall flat on it's face.
Guess which future the people of Slashdot take the most pleasure in. (Hint: {nelson} HA! HA! {/nelson})
I've got a linksys 54g base station, two 54g cards (also linksys) and an Orinoco gold card.
While I haven't done any serious testing on bandwidth in a mixed environment, I can say that everything appears to play well...at least it does after I flashed the firmware in the base station. (Damn linksys, I didn't pay to be your betatester...I guess that's what that $20 I saved makes me.)
But seriously, interaction isn't that big a deal in my case. The 11g cards work GREAT on the 11b network at the office, and they work GREAT on the 11g network at home. On the off chance somebody comes over with a 'b' card, everybody STILL has more bandwidth than the cablemodem can feed, and 'g' is STILL a little slow to blow raw video to the fileserver. Other than that, what else requires more bandwidth than 11 mbps can feed?
BTW, the 11g cards have better signal discrimination...by a bunch.
Now, if somebody would just port Broadcom drivers to Linux, I wouldn't have to keep using the orinoco card in Linux and the Linksys cards in XP!
(oh yeah, and a 25 Mb file transfers in about 32 seconds on a 54g network with good signal and no congestion.:P )
And costs: $149 for the basestion and $69 for each card.
In Rama II, then Rama returns to Earth, this time taking some humans with it on an interstellar journey that spans the next 3 books (which degrade in quality in each subsequent book).
Owning two of those, erm enhancers, and having patched one of them due to a scuff, fibreglass is NOT the same as these plastic panels.
Fibreglass is a matrix of glass fibers suspended in an epoxy. If this stuff has the color and gloss created at build time, I doubt it'll have a cost effective way to repair it......but if it's popular enough, it's possible that the labor and materials for patching an area ($450 for the aforementioned scuff) might be more than bolting in a whole new panel ($350 at yer local dealership)
I've repeatedly been the _first_ person to make a point and had it modded down as redundant. If you have 30,000 chimps all hitting comments.pl at once, why should someone with a valid point be dinged because someone ELSE has the same idea at the same time? It doesn't make it any less valid.
Okay, I won't continue the RMS/Peak power output statement that are already all over this thread, but here's another thing that occurred to me:
Right now my 2 speaker audiophile system (first real expensive thing I bought out of college) is hooked into the onboard soundcard playing my mp3 collection on 'random'. Some of those songs were 'aquired'. Some of them are 128 kbps and above, a bunch aren't.
While I'm coding and the parrot is singing along, and the system is playing a 96 kbps mp3, I don't really notice the incredible sound response from my setup.:)
That Aviation Week article was the best recounting I've seen yet. I get so tired of that period of time between a catastrophic event and the time real information can be disseminated. Looks like I'm not alone
I go to pricewatch to get the best price for a product. It's usually (to paint a blanket statement) from a guy with a thick accent in a town with a BIG port receiving product from the East.
In all cases, I've never been a return customer, so I can't tell if there's an unending cycle of small companies pricing themselves out of business (selling stuff at a loss) or if they've got enough margin in it to keep the lights on.
So. If they can STILL sell the part cheap enough with a 7% tax on it, I'll probably still buy it.
case in point: New sony laptop battery $300 ($321 after tax) at local MegaLoMart, pricewatch price: $150. Pricewatch price with tax: $160.50.
Last time I checked, $160.50 is cheaper than $321 for the _exact_same_part with a different sticker on it.
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I'm more amazed that no one asked her why she did it... Do we look down on non-computer people so much that we don't even bother to ask anymore why they do stupid things?
While my wife was pregnant with twins, the did a 'fetal stress test' where they use three transducers to monitor Twin a's heart rate, Twin b's heart rate and contractions of the uterus.
Since the transducers are essentially very selective microphones, over the course of a 45 minute test you could see one or both of the twins hiccuping. It's pretty funny.
An 'airtight' hotmail account (One signed up that's not advertised nor given out on USENET or the web) STAYS just as spam free as one from aol or earthlink.
I've got two hotmail accounts that have been relatively spam free for years.
I say relatively because you'll still receive spam if they guess [commonfirstname][commonMiddleName][CommonLastname ]@msn.com
Heck, one of 'em's the email I signed up on slashdot with!
I have a hard time getting 802.11b from my basement (where the cable comes in, hence a good place for the firewall/switch/basestation)
It's a WAP11, and the linksys card won't reach the bedroom on the second floor, opposite end ofthe house. The Orinoco card does slightly better.
Anybody recommend a better antenna? how bout a better base station? I'm planning on changin out the linksys firewall and the WAP11 for an all in one product as the firewall is starting to 'fall down'. (one port is dead, two won't negotiate higher than 10 mbps)
p.s. an alternative would be relocating one of the removable antennas to another more useful location, any suggestions there (URL's ould be appreciated.)/me heads off to google now...
If the IRS gets all of this information, (and it does , it's used to doublecheck your return) why do we even HAVE the other half of this industry?
IMHO, you ought be able to log into the IRS website, it should say 'We have this and this and this in your records, you should owe X'
At which point _you_ could add: "But I have this and this extenuating circumstance."
The IRS would then recalculate and your income tax fileing would consist of ONLY those things that are different and unusual, with the assumption that since you didn't change any earnings info, you must agree with what the IRS has.
If my HR dude enters my W-2 info once. And his software sends it to the IRS, why do _I_ have to rekey it each time? Why do I need to rekey the numbers AT ALL?
If you cut off the vector, the virus won't survive.
We've got the Exchange server punting any attachments that don't end in.zip, txt, gif or jpg.
We've got parts of the workstation's registries locked out from normal user modification, and Trend Officescan is installed on all worstations and automatically updated from the server.
We've got an agressive firewall policy. (e.g. no tftp from funny locations.)
We haven't had ANY recient virus attacks. Short of having someone brnig something minor in on a floppy, virus attacks just haven't happened. I don't think we'll see many more as time goes on as all of the easy vectors have been plugged.
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What's your time worth?
If this is a hobby of yours, great. If you're trying to keep in business, an honest evaluation of your time spent is important.
Because this is a similar question. I think a truly unbiased review would bind that both camps can solve similar sets of problems similarly. While there may be some fringe applications (LOTR's rendering farm) that lend themselves to one solution over the other, both camps are suitably developed and robust to handle most tasks...in business. But this is a University environent. They have a continual revolving door full of new CS students willing to admin for cheap or free. The labor costs alone might sway them towards the Unix camps. To paraphrase: "Linux is free, but only if your time is valueless".
Alrighty, what would you propose such a light switch would look like? Keeping in mind the usability of a lightswitch. (at most, you've got a touchpad that brightens or dims based on time spent on the pad, a slider or an on/off switch)
So now you've got, what, three sliders? a switch and three knobs? A switch and three holes you've gotta put a screwdriver in to adjust intensity?
But that's just one plate, what if you want do adjust the ones in the kitchen as well as the ones in the living room?
Being able to set an 8-bit value for R, G, B and what-the-hell Alpha transparency would be a non-starter.
Of course, your lightswitch could have an Adobe colorwheel and an intensity slider, but then your _lights_ might cost you $20, but your light SWITCH will cost ya $250.
Ritalin? Nope, I'm not on Ritalin. I DID neglect to take my Zyrtec 'tho.
OOO yeah! And 802.11b for access from my PDA! And X10 so I can turn on my lights using my Garage opener...finally a use for the other two buttons on my sunvisor!
Um, it's a light. On, off and dim are pretty much the limit of what 99.999999% of the world wants. That other .000001% can't get laid and thus don't NEED mood lighting.
(I hope I didn't just make a 'foe' there)Do you have any statistics on how much of your ISP's bandwidth is consumed by spam? (And for comparison's sake, other stuff like p-2-p and Quake servers.)
Dude, that's not Kamen's fault. You're blaiming his failure on massive speculation he had no control over.
Here's a guy that made a cool hack. It's something that has never been done before - a unique view at a problem that could a) change the way a great many people move about or b) fall flat on it's face.
Guess which future the people of Slashdot take the most pleasure in. (Hint: {nelson} HA! HA! {/nelson})
I've got a linksys 54g base station, two 54g cards (also linksys) and an Orinoco gold card.
:P )
While I haven't done any serious testing on bandwidth in a mixed environment, I can say that everything appears to play well...at least it does after I flashed the firmware in the base station. (Damn linksys, I didn't pay to be your betatester...I guess that's what that $20 I saved makes me.)
But seriously, interaction isn't that big a deal in my case. The 11g cards work GREAT on the 11b network at the office, and they work GREAT on the 11g network at home. On the off chance somebody comes over with a 'b' card, everybody STILL has more bandwidth than the cablemodem can feed, and 'g' is STILL a little slow to blow raw video to the fileserver. Other than that, what else requires more bandwidth than 11 mbps can feed?
BTW, the 11g cards have better signal discrimination...by a bunch.
Now, if somebody would just port Broadcom drivers to Linux, I wouldn't have to keep using the orinoco card in Linux and the Linksys cards in XP!
(oh yeah, and a 25 Mb file transfers in about 32 seconds on a 54g network with good signal and no congestion.
And costs: $149 for the basestion and $69 for each card.
Owning two of those, erm enhancers, and having patched one of them due to a scuff, fibreglass is NOT the same as these plastic panels.
...but if it's popular enough, it's possible that the labor and materials for patching an area ($450 for the aforementioned scuff) might be more than bolting in a whole new panel ($350 at yer local dealership)
Fibreglass is a matrix of glass fibers suspended in an epoxy. If this stuff has the color and gloss created at build time, I doubt it'll have a cost effective way to repair it...
I've repeatedly been the _first_ person to make a point and had it modded down as redundant. If you have 30,000 chimps all hitting comments.pl at once, why should someone with a valid point be dinged because someone ELSE has the same idea at the same time? It doesn't make it any less valid.
Okay, I won't continue the RMS/Peak power output statement that are already all over this thread, but here's another thing that occurred to me:
:)
Right now my 2 speaker audiophile system (first real expensive thing I bought out of college) is hooked into the onboard soundcard playing my mp3 collection on 'random'. Some of those songs were 'aquired'. Some of them are 128 kbps and above, a bunch aren't.
While I'm coding and the parrot is singing along, and the system is playing a 96 kbps mp3, I don't really notice the incredible sound response from my setup.
That Aviation Week article was the best recounting I've seen yet. I get so tired of that period of time between a catastrophic event and the time real information can be disseminated. Looks like I'm not alone
I go to pricewatch to get the best price for a product. It's usually (to paint a blanket statement) from a guy with a thick accent in a town with a BIG port receiving product from the East.
In all cases, I've never been a return customer, so I can't tell if there's an unending cycle of small companies pricing themselves out of business (selling stuff at a loss) or if they've got enough margin in it to keep the lights on.
So. If they can STILL sell the part cheap enough with a 7% tax on it, I'll probably still buy it.
case in point: New sony laptop battery $300 ($321 after tax) at local MegaLoMart, pricewatch price: $150. Pricewatch price with tax: $160.50.
Last time I checked, $160.50 is cheaper than $321 for the _exact_same_part with a different sticker on it.
Naw naw naw:
It's a floor wax! It's a dessert topping!
While my wife was pregnant with twins, the did a 'fetal stress test' where they use three transducers to monitor Twin a's heart rate, Twin b's heart rate and contractions of the uterus.
Since the transducers are essentially very selective microphones, over the course of a 45 minute test you could see one or both of the twins hiccuping. It's pretty funny.
I get soooo tired of setting up HP servers:
1. boot from CD
2. MAKE drivers floppy from CD?!?
3. boot from W2k server CD
4. Press F6 at the right moment
5. insert floppy.
6. rinse, repeat.
(No, I _don't_ wanna hear about how it works in linux. I'm AWARE of how it works in linux. It's not an option.)
Slashdot LOVES articles that cast the Xbox in a poor light.
Here's my take:
Let's just say they 'cut bait' and stop production on the Xbox. What happens?
My 8-10 games continue to function.
The 6-8 games I'd like but don't yet own get CHEAP. (we have an Atari 2600 and 80 odd carts that we bought for pennies on the dollar in garage sales)
My Xbox still makes a killer DVD player.
I dunno 'bout you, but I feel I got my money's worth. On a dollar per hour basis, it's been a pretty good purchase.
And yet, I doubt it's future is in jeopardy less than 4 months after announceing Xbox Live.
An 'airtight' hotmail account (One signed up that's not advertised nor given out on USENET or the web) STAYS just as spam free as one from aol or earthlink.
e ]@msn.com
I've got two hotmail accounts that have been relatively spam free for years.
I say relatively because you'll still receive spam if they guess [commonfirstname][commonMiddleName][CommonLastnam
Heck, one of 'em's the email I signed up on slashdot with!
I have a hard time getting 802.11b from my basement (where the cable comes in, hence a good place for the firewall/switch/basestation)
/me heads off to google now...
It's a WAP11, and the linksys card won't reach the bedroom on the second floor, opposite end ofthe house. The Orinoco card does slightly better.
Anybody recommend a better antenna? how bout a better base station? I'm planning on changin out the linksys firewall and the WAP11 for an all in one product as the firewall is starting to 'fall down'. (one port is dead, two won't negotiate higher than 10 mbps)
p.s. an alternative would be relocating one of the removable antennas to another more useful location, any suggestions there (URL's ould be appreciated.)
Why is this even an issue?
If the IRS gets all of this information, (and it does , it's used to doublecheck your return) why do we even HAVE the other half of this industry?
IMHO, you ought be able to log into the IRS website, it should say 'We have this and this and this in your records, you should owe X'
At which point _you_ could add: "But I have this and this extenuating circumstance."
The IRS would then recalculate and your income tax fileing would consist of ONLY those things that are different and unusual, with the assumption that since you didn't change any earnings info, you must agree with what the IRS has.
If my HR dude enters my W-2 info once. And his software sends it to the IRS, why do _I_ have to rekey it each time? Why do I need to rekey the numbers AT ALL?
If you cut off the vector, the virus won't survive.
.zip, txt, gif or jpg.
We've got the Exchange server punting any attachments that don't end in
We've got parts of the workstation's registries locked out from normal user modification, and Trend Officescan is installed on all worstations and automatically updated from the server.
We've got an agressive firewall policy. (e.g. no tftp from funny locations.)
We haven't had ANY recient virus attacks. Short of having someone brnig something minor in on a floppy, virus attacks just haven't happened. I don't think we'll see many more as time goes on as all of the easy vectors have been plugged.