Why spend $40 on a iPod rubber cover, when a polyethylene zipper baggie works just as well, and costs less than three cents? You can still adjust the volume through the plastic, and I tear a small hole in the corner for my headphone to plug in.
Best thing is, if the baggie gets too wrinkled to see your album art, you can replace it for only another three pennies. Cheap!
I keep mine in a zipper baggie -- I tore a corner off so the headphone can plug in. No scratches thus far, and cost me less than one cent. If the baggie gets wrinkled, heck, I just swap it for another one -- no need to raid the kid's college fund.
As explained to me when I ordered my T43p, if the serial number starts with an L, it's a Lenovo product.
I love the black magnesium cover of my Thinkpad, and it's interesting to see a change. My only concern is that they'll change things too often -- when they make a change to the design, they need to commit to it for at least 5 years. Or come up with another brand for their consumer and SOHO laptops, so that they don't dilute the Thinkpad brand.
Thinkpads are not trendy "Japanese schoolgirl" computers. They represent solid, reliable machines for doing business.
If eBay requires Paypal to pay for my Skype service, I'll be finding another VOIP provider. I've done everything I can to avoid the nastyness that Paypal is.
While I am not a mail guru, I expect it's because you've got a million users, and having that many directories all in one subdirectory means that the file system will be consuming a lot of cpu doing lookups. With a decent hash algorithm, you're down to approx. 15-16 directories in the 2nd directory level, which is quite managable.
We did something similar at my last job, where we had to maintain 9 million+ smallish files. We originally had one level of indirection and NTFS choked (huge amount of time spent in the kernel, not enough time running our app). Adding another directory level made it happy again.
There may yet need to be another level of indirection at the folder level to handle those few people who never deleted any email over their 15-year career with the company.
Seriously, they use the 747 like nearly everyone else has said. They've been doing it since the days of the Enterprise (the first shuttle, which was never certified for flight because of the destructive vibration tests it went through).
Isn't this similar to the Danegeld that the English used to pay to the Vikings, to keep them from pillaging their towns & burning their crops?
(worked for a time, anyway).
I've heard of Tandem (I think Compuserve was a big customer of theirs at one point), but I'm curious as to what OS the Tandems ran before being bought by hp?
IBM used a multi layer ceramic module with thermal conduction system on the water-cooled System 3090 mainframe, and still uses the technology today in their zSeries 990, known as the "T-Rex".
The center layers of the substrate include 16 wiring planes arranged in x-y pairs to maximize wiring efficiency. Metallized, 0.12-mm-diameter vias on 0.5-mm centers are used for x-plane-to-y-plane connections. Voltage reference planes are appropriately interspersed for signal wiring impedance control.
The employee turnover rate hovers between 3% and 5%, compared with the industry average of nearly 20%.
I work in the RTP area myself, and those numbers are more or less correct.
The governments and global corporations that rely on SAS's sophisticated business-intelligence software are overwhelmingly satisfied: The subscription renewal rate is an astounding 98%.
It's because the SAS software stops working when the license expires (or at least it used to, I'm not 100% sure about today). After a year, the statistical software has become indespensible to the customer and extremely important for their competitive advantage, so they almost always renew. The ones that don't are usually because of deteriorating financial health.
SAS's products are good quality -- Dr. Goodnight wasn't kidding when he said they they do extensive development and pre-release testing. They supposedly have the largest continuous integration build farm in the world, and I'd love to find out more about their development process some day.
I also don't recall a single native OS/2 program that used threads as effectively as they could have been used.
There was a newsgroup reader from someone (StarDock?) that used threads very effectively. You could be reading & replying while it was syncing with the NNTP server in the background.
My personal theory of what's going to happen over the long term is that Microsoft will discover the benefits of running on a closed hardware device (no more pesky driver problems from marginal hardware makers!) and will port Windows to the Intel Mac where it becomes a best seller.
I don't know about the T-42, but the T-43 has an optional hardware security chip that can store the fingerprint info. From what I've read, it can detect tampering and dump it's contents in that eventuality.
From a database perspective, there's two basic ways to do this. Assuming you need to present an I18N version of a Widget table, you can:
1. Define Widget and WidgetText, with all the I18N material moved to WidgetText. WidgetText is keyed on the Id from Widget and a Culture identifier. Every time you need a Widget, you JOIN to WidgetText based on the Id from Widget and the Culture identifier of the requesting user.
2. Add a Culture identifier column to your Widget table, and use that in your WHERE clause. Leaving it off means you'll get multiple rows back for a request to fetch a Widget.
At my last job we took approach #1, and it worked well enough. It's main advantage (for us) was it made reporting easier (yeah, it seems like it wouldn't, but it did for various arcane reasons)
In both cases you need to make sure you're using the NCHAR, NVARCHAR, and NTEXT Unicode variations of string column datatypes. All literals used in your SQL must have the "N" prefix to indicate Unicode data. You need to also watch out for the collation sequence defined in your database if the order of rows returned is important (and it usually is!). And make sure that you have the concept down of how storing DateTime values is entirely different from the display of DateTimes.
Last time I looked at it, MySQL was sortof weak on a number of these points. Sybase SQL Anywhere (or whatever it's called this week) was pretty good, as well as the usual suspects: SQLServer, DB2, and Oracle. I don't know about PostgreSQL - haven't used it.
You'll want to code up a vertical slice of your application to make sure all your chosen tools & components can handle I18N.
It will help you identify the three different types of managers and how to recognize them. Hint: only one type is worth working for. The others will eventually fire you because you're a threat to them.
Go to work at a big company first. That way you will be exposed to plenty of negative examples.
For instance: The coder who wouldn't check-in for five weeks at a time, and then say their hard drive crashed. When the source control admin would go to reconstruct their work, they found there had only been 10 lines of code completed during that period. After this happened three times running, the company wised up and fired his ass.
Then there's the guy we called "PhD" -- which stood for "personal hygiene deficit". A good example of why some people shouldn't eat at their desks.
At a large bank in Charlotte, there was the eternal project -- every time a new Senior Vice President got hired, the project got reincarnated as his personal vision of how the code should work. I expect they still haven't delivered anything, 12 years later.
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Why spend $40 on a iPod rubber cover, when a polyethylene zipper baggie works just as well, and costs less than three cents? You can still adjust the volume through the plastic, and I tear a small hole in the corner for my headphone to plug in.
Best thing is, if the baggie gets too wrinkled to see your album art, you can replace it for only another three pennies. Cheap!
Chip H.
I keep mine in a zipper baggie -- I tore a corner off so the headphone can plug in. No scratches thus far, and cost me less than one cent. If the baggie gets wrinkled, heck, I just swap it for another one -- no need to raid the kid's college fund.
Chip H.
The Lenovo site says the cover is magnesium composite. I took that to mean the, uhh, cover.
I'll have to send in some suggestions for their Japanese schoolgirl line of laptops. Maybe:
"Super R Mobile Tech Center"
Chip H.
As explained to me when I ordered my T43p, if the serial number starts with an L, it's a Lenovo product.
I love the black magnesium cover of my Thinkpad, and it's interesting to see a change. My only concern is that they'll change things too often -- when they make a change to the design, they need to commit to it for at least 5 years. Or come up with another brand for their consumer and SOHO laptops, so that they don't dilute the Thinkpad brand.
Thinkpads are not trendy "Japanese schoolgirl" computers. They represent solid, reliable machines for doing business.
Chip H.
But how many of us have computers in the bathroom?
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Oh, wait, this is
Chip H.
If eBay requires Paypal to pay for my Skype service, I'll be finding another VOIP provider. I've done everything I can to avoid the nastyness that Paypal is.
Chip H.
While I am not a mail guru, I expect it's because you've got a million users, and having that many directories all in one subdirectory means that the file system will be consuming a lot of cpu doing lookups. With a decent hash algorithm, you're down to approx. 15-16 directories in the 2nd directory level, which is quite managable.
We did something similar at my last job, where we had to maintain 9 million+ smallish files. We originally had one level of indirection and NTFS choked (huge amount of time spent in the kernel, not enough time running our app). Adding another directory level made it happy again.
There may yet need to be another level of indirection at the folder level to handle those few people who never deleted any email over their 15-year career with the company.
Chip H.
Somebody could probably make some money renting out de-RFID tools (aka a very large hammer) just inside the border.
I assume that that's not illegal. Yet.
Chip H.
They UPS it overnight. ;-)
Seriously, they use the 747 like nearly everyone else has said. They've been doing it since the days of the Enterprise (the first shuttle, which was never certified for flight because of the destructive vibration tests it went through).
Chip H.
So, what's on al Qaeda's Netflix list?
- Spies Like Us
- Red Dawn
- Golden Eye
- Jewel of the Nile
- Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
- Babe - Pig in the City (so unclean, yet so darn funny!)
Chip H.Isn't this similar to the Danegeld that the English used to pay to the Vikings, to keep them from pillaging their towns & burning their crops?
(worked for a time, anyway).
Chip H.
I've heard of Tandem (I think Compuserve was a big customer of theirs at one point), but I'm curious as to what OS the Tandems ran before being bought by hp?
Chip H.
Amazingly, a local search turns up no Starbucks coffee shops in the area.
And I thought they were everywhere.
Chip H.
See: Thermal Conduction Module: A High-Performance Multilayer Ceramic Package
Chip H.
Can I get a tour?
:-)
Chip H.
my first name, underscore, holland, at hotmail.com
The employee turnover rate hovers between 3% and 5%, compared with the industry average of nearly 20%.
I work in the RTP area myself, and those numbers are more or less correct.
The governments and global corporations that rely on SAS's sophisticated business-intelligence software are overwhelmingly satisfied: The subscription renewal rate is an astounding 98%.
It's because the SAS software stops working when the license expires (or at least it used to, I'm not 100% sure about today). After a year, the statistical software has become indespensible to the customer and extremely important for their competitive advantage, so they almost always renew. The ones that don't are usually because of deteriorating financial health.
SAS's products are good quality -- Dr. Goodnight wasn't kidding when he said they they do extensive development and pre-release testing. They supposedly have the largest continuous integration build farm in the world, and I'd love to find out more about their development process some day.
Chip H.
I also don't recall a single native OS/2 program that used threads as effectively as they could have been used.
There was a newsgroup reader from someone (StarDock?) that used threads very effectively. You could be reading & replying while it was syncing with the NNTP server in the background.
Chip H.
So that guy in the seat next to me won't have to crane his neck over to see what I'm doing anymore?
Chip H.
My personal theory of what's going to happen over the long term is that Microsoft will discover the benefits of running on a closed hardware device (no more pesky driver problems from marginal hardware makers!) and will port Windows to the Intel Mac where it becomes a best seller.
Chip H.
I don't know about the T-42, but the T-43 has an optional hardware security chip that can store the fingerprint info. From what I've read, it can detect tampering and dump it's contents in that eventuality.
Chip H.
I nominate Snakehead Terror as the first one for Tom Servo & friends to review.
Chip H.
I'm no geek
.net, it doesn't run .net code well at all. Seriously, it's time for you to upgrade your OS.
Then why are you here?
Oh, and while Win98 is an officially supported platform for
Chip H.
From a database perspective, there's two basic ways to do this. Assuming you need to present an I18N version of a Widget table, you can:
1. Define Widget and WidgetText, with all the I18N material moved to WidgetText. WidgetText is keyed on the Id from Widget and a Culture identifier. Every time you need a Widget, you JOIN to WidgetText based on the Id from Widget and the Culture identifier of the requesting user.
2. Add a Culture identifier column to your Widget table, and use that in your WHERE clause. Leaving it off means you'll get multiple rows back for a request to fetch a Widget.
At my last job we took approach #1, and it worked well enough. It's main advantage (for us) was it made reporting easier (yeah, it seems like it wouldn't, but it did for various arcane reasons)
In both cases you need to make sure you're using the NCHAR, NVARCHAR, and NTEXT Unicode variations of string column datatypes. All literals used in your SQL must have the "N" prefix to indicate Unicode data. You need to also watch out for the collation sequence defined in your database if the order of rows returned is important (and it usually is!). And make sure that you have the concept down of how storing DateTime values is entirely different from the display of DateTimes.
Last time I looked at it, MySQL was sortof weak on a number of these points. Sybase SQL Anywhere (or whatever it's called this week) was pretty good, as well as the usual suspects: SQLServer, DB2, and Oracle. I don't know about PostgreSQL - haven't used it.
You'll want to code up a vertical slice of your application to make sure all your chosen tools & components can handle I18N.
Chip H.
This ought to be mandatory reading for those starting out.
http://stlawrence.to/danger/danger-quicksand.pdf
It will help you identify the three different types of managers and how to recognize them. Hint: only one type is worth working for. The others will eventually fire you because you're a threat to them.
Chip H.
Go to work at a big company first. That way you will be exposed to plenty of negative examples.
For instance: The coder who wouldn't check-in for five weeks at a time, and then say their hard drive crashed. When the source control admin would go to reconstruct their work, they found there had only been 10 lines of code completed during that period. After this happened three times running, the company wised up and fired his ass.
Then there's the guy we called "PhD" -- which stood for "personal hygiene deficit". A good example of why some people shouldn't eat at their desks.
At a large bank in Charlotte, there was the eternal project -- every time a new Senior Vice President got hired, the project got reincarnated as his personal vision of how the code should work. I expect they still haven't delivered anything, 12 years later.
Chip H.