I have several servers at home for firewall, webserver, fileserver, dev server and ftp. Even with all those apps and tons of backup, it's still only half full. The drive is only a 30gig drive and has lasted for several years.
320gigs of storage is over kill. Especially with the way I kill hard drives (5 in 6 years), a 320gig drive just isn't practical. People would be better off buying a ton of memory than a 320gig drive. Atleast in my case, lots of disk caching reduces the lifespan of a drive dramatically. Having a ton of memory improves performance and the life span of the drive. Now if they can get 4gigs of Ram down to 400.00 I'll be jumping for joy.
Yeah, lets all get excited over nothing. The practicality vs cost of this "cloaking" device is obviously beyond the reach of most companies and individuals. The only organizations that could/would fund this kind of research is the military. As everyone knows more taxes will go towards this assinine research, with no usable results. There might be valuable research that will be marketable, but lets get real people. This is simply more BS.
I'd rather people spend money on things like improving the quality of living and cleaning up all the trash we generate every day. With so many G_d damn problems, why the f_ck are we wasting time with invisibility cloaks?
Yet another slime ball company trying to squeeze everyone for another drop of blood. Haven't people learned yet that there should be a royalty free standards for these types of things?
I would buy OSX in a heart beat and gladly pay upwards of 400.00. the only thing that has stopped me from buying Mac is all my development and business software are windows. If I had to re-purchase all the software, it would cost me 3-5K. Now if I can replace a buggy windows system with a solid OSX, then it would be financially feasible. Especially for the other systems in the house that are used just for word processing, internet and games. That's my bias perspective, but I think there are enough people out there like me who would love to switch over.
Why not make a small grant to create a set of open file format standards. Once that is done, demand that all software purchases support the standard format. This way, any company can implement it and there's no issue of "playing favorites."
If MS does a better job, they deserve to get the contract. If some one else does a better, that's fine too. Trying to force MS to do something is both stupid, pointless and ultimately will fail. If it looks like there's any favoritism, any rules about software purchases won't get very far. On the other hand, if there is a solid file standard, it looks bad for software vendors because their motives are more apparent. Let's make it open for everyone to compete. Not just "we hate MS and love OSS."
have to admit it's cool and all. But I can't help but think all this geek exploration isn't doing much good other than waste money, time and energy to prove something most every geek already knows. Now if Intel or AMD could come out with a 2 ghz chip that doesn't require a bad ass cooling fan, which uses a fraction of the power the P4 requires, i'll be impressed. Until then, all this is just a waste of time and leads to the growing power problems we see in CA.
How many roving black-outs do we need to start thinking about energy conversation. It's great for your wallet by the way. Instead of eating up say 100 kilowatt hours a month, the system only used 5 kilowatt hours you'd save money. Businesses would save even more money when you take into consideration everything else it affects. Sure IBM is working on it, but it about time every CPU manufacturer start getting serious about reducing power consumption.
It's about the perception of value. If they only pay 5K for a website, the perception is the value is less. Of course in a lot of cases, that's not the end product. I've seen first hand how a higher bid often results in lower quality.
Business people don't think in terms of how "hard or easy" a particular project is. It's about gaging what a potential client percieves as the value of that service. I was told by friends who have been running their own business for 20 years you have to give a high bid, but let the client know the price has room for adjustment. If you're quote is much higher, 90% of the time they will contact you to ask "why is your bid so high?". Whereas a substantially lower bid gets tossed out.
So the lesson I learned after having made the mistake is to bid high and then adjust the price later. In the end, it says two things about the service you provide:
1. your time is valuable
2. you take your profession seriously
Having a lower bid most often is precieved as "amatuer".
So does this mean that I can get everything in the 2DVD Abyss on one disk, but still pay the same price? Actually it doesn't make much difference to me, except that I don't have to take out disk1 and put in disk2 to view the story boards.
Buying DVD is a much better value than buying a lame VHS. Especially for movie crazed people who watch kung-fu flicks until the tape wears out (not that I've ever done that a half dozen times). Why doesn't the music business realize the huge market here? They could easily fit all the music on a DVD and include all sorts of commentary by the musician as well as behind the scenes footage. MTV and VH1 already do a lot of behind the scenes shows on bands. Why can't they include that on the same disk? It would definitely go a long way to make it more attractive to me.
I'd rather not pay 16-18 bucks for a music CD, but I would be willing to pay 24.00 for a DVD with extra features and content. They don't even have to make new content. They could just cherry pick interviews, concert footage, music videos and other existing stuff. Oh well, the music execs suck. End of story.
Why isn't there an organization that is truly objective? TCPC (transaction processing benchmark) produces benchmarks that are generally reliable and objective compared to Sysmark.
Not sure open source is the answer, but there needs to be a third party that guides the direction of benchmarks. One that's defined by what consumers use, not by what Intel or AMD defines as good for them.
what does "buggy as hell" refer to? I've used interdev and source safe and hated it. Especially the way the old version of source safe didn't really lock files when you locked it. That was always a nice surprise when some one else goes to do a check in on a file you had explicitly locked. How some one can edit and check-in a file locked by someone else is beyond me.
Perhaps someone with better knowledge of PERL 6 can answer this question. It looks like regexp in PERL is evolving to a rule engine/finite-state machine? I only skimmed the first two pages, but that's the impression I am getting.
This might be a good thing, since parsing XML is becoming more important. Anyone get the same feeling, or am I smoking weed?
I have to say the achievement is significant and demonstrates an approach that might yield better results in the future, but it's basic research. The researcher says it didn't actually fly, just produce lift. The quality of journalism is really worth crap today. Aren't there any honest reporters who believe in working their tales off to report news accurately?
aren't affected by caffiene. I used to drink a tall glass (16oz) coke or coffee before going to bed. People used to look at me like I'm crazy, asking me "How can I sleep with that much caffiene?" It might be that those people don't have the protein. Could be an interesting research topic.
This has already been done by several companies as research projects. For example GPS messaging. I worked on something similar, though we weren't targetting kids/parents. Our idea was cheating husbands and wives.
No amount of technology is going to make a bad parent become a good one. Teenagers are smart and will find ways to get around it. Really, if some kid wants to go outside the boundaries, they could easily pay a classmate to sit at a cafe for 4 hours while they go party. Given that phones can forward the calls to another phone, what's to stop a group of kids getting a phone to share? Think about it. Say you have a group of teens whose parents are very strict. A group of them pool their money together to buy a phone. They all meet at a burger joint, friends house, cafe or where ever. They have all their phones set to forward the calls. If the parents call, they cover for each other. One person watches the phones in one location and it looks like the kids are where they're supposed to be.
Of course, one could use more high tech methods to get around it, but why bother when lo-tech method works just fine.
Personally I got an Opal for my wife. Why? Because it is far more unique and interesting than something that just sparkles. I don't see what the big deal is with diamonds. They are the most boring gem in the world. Rubies, saffires and emeralds are much more interesting. It's only cuz the diamond industry is controlled by De Beers.
Make your own filo? Easy: buy a box of frozen filo, take it home, and thaw it. Then get on with your life.
Actually I was half kidding about filo dough. I don't know anyone personally who makes it from scratch. I was curious because 1. it's damn hard and 2. how hardcore is alton brown?
Most people do just buy it frozen, since making it from scratch is a major task. But I hope he answers it and reveals the secret.
With all the talk about security and monoculture computing environment, you think people would like to have multiple choices. In reality, people are lazy and they prefer to learn just one app. Or if there are multiple apps, they want all the apps to work the same.
I wonder if this will change as people become more tech savy and UI design becomes more standardized. The layout of menus in productivity suites (office suite) is already pretty standard in the features. One thing that works against other office suites is the old marketing story about brand loyalty. I'm sure others have heard this statistic. Whether it's true or not is beyond me, but if "3/4 of the people stick to one brand after college" the only change office suites have of beating MS is to reach the youth of the world.
Have you ever made filo dough from scratch? If so, what are the secrets of making perfect filo dough?
Do you keep a database of your recipes or do you use the old fashion method of dead trees?
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IANAL, so I won't bother saying legal BS. I don't need a law degree to see loans to execs and board members is plain old wrong. We have banks people. Banks follow strict laws, which reduces the amount of fraud and other bs. Why in the world is it legal to give loans to execs and board members of the company. If the bank doesn't feel the loan is good, then why in the world should a coporation loan money. If enron, worldcom and sonicblue want to be banks, then be a bank.
Anyone see a huge problem in the legal system that allows any corporation to pretend it's a bank, without having to follow the same rules as banks? I think the law Bush recently signed should have barred loans to all execs and board members. No if, and, but about it.
Ok, so they restate and get their taxes back, which means the hole their in is only 999 feet instead of 1001 feet. The only thing I see here is the worldcom board and other execs are not in jail. For f0cking s@ke, put these rat bastards in jail already and take all their money and property. Call me a facist if you like, but I think all the top execs and board members who worked to hide this should be hung up on time square and everyone who worked for worldcom should be allowed to whack the f0ckers 20 times each. Once that is done, all of them should be put in jail for life.
This country needs some new people in government to weed out all the bad crab grass strangling the public. There's absolutely no way I'm gonna vote for any politician who contributed to this f0cked up situation.
give me my sweet nectar in the biggest paper cup in America. That includes central and south america by the way. Seriously or not so seriously, it's not big drinks or the perpensity for "super size it!". It's because America culture has a huge guilt complex about food, which ends up making people eat extra desserts, and other high sugar items. It's all because this country was influenced by the puritans early on. There's nothing wrong with a 80oz cup of refreshing juice, ice tea with no sugar or plain water.
Wait, what the hell am I talking about. Fill it up with hawaiian punch baby, and spike it with nodoz.
It's good to see XHTML move forward spec wise. In previous jobs where scraping other sites was a significant part of the job, HTML made life hell. Lately I've been thinking that moving to a combination of XML + realtime translation + XHTML conformant output. When I first started designing and writing web pages, a lot of the work was mundane text edits. I can see the value of using XML as the content storage format and having a lightweight web-based application for editing the content. This gets rid of several challenges from my biased perspective:
don't need a complicated RDBMS driven content management system
people can read XML fairly easy
there are free xml editors available
header/footer includes can be described in the XML as Metadata and maybe reduce maintenance. now a programmer doesn't have to get involved in changing an image map and image if that is in the xml
easier for search engines
easier for scraping applications
more conformant to standards
of course people will complain XML is bloated or slow or 100 other things, but having worked with a couple different content management systems, it would make frequent edits easier. It gives more power to non-technical people who want to change their site and free up HTML coders from doing retarded text edits. Plus it might help the adoption of semantic web and slowly move the industry towards a format that describes the content is greater detail. Generating conformant XHTML from XML is straight forward from personal experience. If getting millions of website to change was as easy as writing a new XHTML spec, the web would become a slightly more organized space.
What's all this BS about GUI (graphical or gestural)? I thought it was a foregone conclusion that a direct neural interface like matrix is/was/will be the easiest interface for the user. Of course it's a long long time away, but in the mean time I think the desktop is the best metaphor in the meantime. Or maybe I'm just smoking crack and should check myself into a clinic. Or is it because I'm already in the matrix and just don't know it.
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320gigs of storage is over kill. Especially with the way I kill hard drives (5 in 6 years), a 320gig drive just isn't practical. People would be better off buying a ton of memory than a 320gig drive. Atleast in my case, lots of disk caching reduces the lifespan of a drive dramatically. Having a ton of memory improves performance and the life span of the drive. Now if they can get 4gigs of Ram down to 400.00 I'll be jumping for joy.
I'd rather people spend money on things like improving the quality of living and cleaning up all the trash we generate every day. With so many G_d damn problems, why the f_ck are we wasting time with invisibility cloaks?
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I would buy OSX in a heart beat and gladly pay upwards of 400.00. the only thing that has stopped me from buying Mac is all my development and business software are windows. If I had to re-purchase all the software, it would cost me 3-5K. Now if I can replace a buggy windows system with a solid OSX, then it would be financially feasible. Especially for the other systems in the house that are used just for word processing, internet and games. That's my bias perspective, but I think there are enough people out there like me who would love to switch over.
If MS does a better job, they deserve to get the contract. If some one else does a better, that's fine too. Trying to force MS to do something is both stupid, pointless and ultimately will fail. If it looks like there's any favoritism, any rules about software purchases won't get very far. On the other hand, if there is a solid file standard, it looks bad for software vendors because their motives are more apparent. Let's make it open for everyone to compete. Not just "we hate MS and love OSS."
How many roving black-outs do we need to start thinking about energy conversation. It's great for your wallet by the way. Instead of eating up say 100 kilowatt hours a month, the system only used 5 kilowatt hours you'd save money. Businesses would save even more money when you take into consideration everything else it affects. Sure IBM is working on it, but it about time every CPU manufacturer start getting serious about reducing power consumption.
Business people don't think in terms of how "hard or easy" a particular project is. It's about gaging what a potential client percieves as the value of that service. I was told by friends who have been running their own business for 20 years you have to give a high bid, but let the client know the price has room for adjustment. If you're quote is much higher, 90% of the time they will contact you to ask "why is your bid so high?". Whereas a substantially lower bid gets tossed out.
So the lesson I learned after having made the mistake is to bid high and then adjust the price later. In the end, it says two things about the service you provide:
1. your time is valuable
2. you take your profession seriously
Having a lower bid most often is precieved as "amatuer".
Hmm, eyes like an eagle, heart of an ox, ears of an owl and feet of a cheetah might not be metaphors in the future.
Buying DVD is a much better value than buying a lame VHS. Especially for movie crazed people who watch kung-fu flicks until the tape wears out (not that I've ever done that a half dozen times). Why doesn't the music business realize the huge market here? They could easily fit all the music on a DVD and include all sorts of commentary by the musician as well as behind the scenes footage. MTV and VH1 already do a lot of behind the scenes shows on bands. Why can't they include that on the same disk? It would definitely go a long way to make it more attractive to me.
I'd rather not pay 16-18 bucks for a music CD, but I would be willing to pay 24.00 for a DVD with extra features and content. They don't even have to make new content. They could just cherry pick interviews, concert footage, music videos and other existing stuff. Oh well, the music execs suck. End of story.
Not sure open source is the answer, but there needs to be a third party that guides the direction of benchmarks. One that's defined by what consumers use, not by what Intel or AMD defines as good for them.
what does "buggy as hell" refer to? I've used interdev and source safe and hated it. Especially the way the old version of source safe didn't really lock files when you locked it. That was always a nice surprise when some one else goes to do a check in on a file you had explicitly locked. How some one can edit and check-in a file locked by someone else is beyond me.
This might be a good thing, since parsing XML is becoming more important. Anyone get the same feeling, or am I smoking weed?
I don't proof read
aren't affected by caffiene. I used to drink a tall glass (16oz) coke or coffee before going to bed. People used to look at me like I'm crazy, asking me "How can I sleep with that much caffiene?" It might be that those people don't have the protein. Could be an interesting research topic.
No amount of technology is going to make a bad parent become a good one. Teenagers are smart and will find ways to get around it. Really, if some kid wants to go outside the boundaries, they could easily pay a classmate to sit at a cafe for 4 hours while they go party. Given that phones can forward the calls to another phone, what's to stop a group of kids getting a phone to share? Think about it. Say you have a group of teens whose parents are very strict. A group of them pool their money together to buy a phone. They all meet at a burger joint, friends house, cafe or where ever. They have all their phones set to forward the calls. If the parents call, they cover for each other. One person watches the phones in one location and it looks like the kids are where they're supposed to be.
Of course, one could use more high tech methods to get around it, but why bother when lo-tech method works just fine.
Personally I got an Opal for my wife. Why? Because it is far more unique and interesting than something that just sparkles. I don't see what the big deal is with diamonds. They are the most boring gem in the world. Rubies, saffires and emeralds are much more interesting. It's only cuz the diamond industry is controlled by De Beers.
Actually I was half kidding about filo dough. I don't know anyone personally who makes it from scratch. I was curious because 1. it's damn hard and 2. how hardcore is alton brown?
Most people do just buy it frozen, since making it from scratch is a major task. But I hope he answers it and reveals the secret.
I wonder if this will change as people become more tech savy and UI design becomes more standardized. The layout of menus in productivity suites (office suite) is already pretty standard in the features. One thing that works against other office suites is the old marketing story about brand loyalty. I'm sure others have heard this statistic. Whether it's true or not is beyond me, but if "3/4 of the people stick to one brand after college" the only change office suites have of beating MS is to reach the youth of the world.
Do you keep a database of your recipes or do you use the old fashion method of dead trees?
Anyone see a huge problem in the legal system that allows any corporation to pretend it's a bank, without having to follow the same rules as banks? I think the law Bush recently signed should have barred loans to all execs and board members. No if, and, but about it.
This country needs some new people in government to weed out all the bad crab grass strangling the public. There's absolutely no way I'm gonna vote for any politician who contributed to this f0cked up situation.
So does that mean Bruce Willis also owes Gary Coleman?
Wait, what the hell am I talking about. Fill it up with hawaiian punch baby, and spike it with nodoz.
of course people will complain XML is bloated or slow or 100 other things, but having worked with a couple different content management systems, it would make frequent edits easier. It gives more power to non-technical people who want to change their site and free up HTML coders from doing retarded text edits. Plus it might help the adoption of semantic web and slowly move the industry towards a format that describes the content is greater detail. Generating conformant XHTML from XML is straight forward from personal experience. If getting millions of website to change was as easy as writing a new XHTML spec, the web would become a slightly more organized space.
What's all this BS about GUI (graphical or gestural)? I thought it was a foregone conclusion that a direct neural interface like matrix is/was/will be the easiest interface for the user. Of course it's a long long time away, but in the mean time I think the desktop is the best metaphor in the meantime. Or maybe I'm just smoking crack and should check myself into a clinic. Or is it because I'm already in the matrix and just don't know it.