HP supports every OS under the sun, from their own OS's to Linux to Solaris. About the only major OS's they don't support are OS X and AIX and those because they can't. Heck HP even employs quite a few key people in the Linux community which AFAIK Dell does not do. Windows boxes account for some significant percentage of HP's revenues, but it's not even a majority of their hardware profit let alone overall profit. Dell on the other hand would die without their windows sales.
You are assuming WAY too much. Some subcontractor wrote software to a specification that said support browsers x and y with functionality a,b,c,..q and pass these tests. To make sure some clever tester didn't find some obscure bug with Opera that would keep him from getting paid he just errored the browser out. This passed functionality testing and was approved. Later this now approved and standard code was delivered with the imbedded management card of a server that just happened to be shipped to Opera. The two events have nothing to do with each other and it unbelievably unlikely that for an account the size of Opera that someone would have done regression testing on their software to make sure it works with Opera's product.
HP's not much better though:
var detect = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var ie = detect.match(/msie ([\d\.]+)/);
var moz = detect.match(/rv:([\d\.]+)/);
var fire = detect.match(/firefox\/([\d\.]+)/);
if(
( ie!=null && ie[1] >= "6.0" ) ||
( fire!=null && fire[1] >= "1.0.2" ) ||
( moz!=null && moz[1] >= "1.6" )
) { // supported browser; do nothing
} else {
alert( "Integrated Lights-Out 2 supports Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or greater, Firefox version 1.0.2 or greater, and Mozilla version 1.6 or greater. Some functionality may not work and pages may not format correctly on other browser platforms. This browser platform reports it is \""+navigator.userAgent+"\"");
}
Of course that's just a warning, not just dumping them to the error page. It IS annoying that we do such stupid browser detection tricks instead of coding to standards. In an ideal world that statement would be something like: If browser.supports(HTML4) do {} else alert ( "upgrade to a modern browser" );
Uh, I believe the idea is each one is unique, aka the seed to a one time pad. It's like carrying the one time pad but without it being obvious what you are carrying or as difficult to use as a one time pad.
100 barrels per acre per year is NOT at ALL promising! To produce the current US consumption you would need ~137K square miles. For reference that would require the entire east coast be filled to ~55 miles inland.
Yes, but you won't know the answer to your second question until you have operated a plant at (or near) commercial scales which this obviously isn't. That's why I said it's a nice technology demonstration, it's nothing like a test plant. It's more an intermediate step between the test-tube and a pilot plant.
But less than 2,400 barrels of ethanol (~1,600 barrels of oil) is such a small drop in the bucket as to be laughable (The US consumes ~21M barrels a day!). Of course scale it up and feed it the output of some GW scale coal plants and you are starting to make at least some impact.
Sure it is, on average each person will upload one copy, because only N copies will be downloaded where N is the number of torrent participants. The only thing that isn't accounted for in that average is partial downloads and discarded blocks.
Well, the Great Lakes are basically barren down in the deepest zones so that's one heck of a heatsink. I know someone was talking about using the water coming into Chicago as a heatsink for free cooling as the water is too cold to be usable immediately anyways (like 56F I think).
Dogs, cats, pigs, water foul, cows, etc. There are plenty of animals that are much more plentiful now then they were before they became entwined with humans.
The most likely cause of their demise is canine distemper from human introduced dog populations. I know that distemper was what wiped out a large percentage of the population of some of the African lion populations in preserves that have human developments around their edge and that lions and tigers can reproduce ergo it's a likely cause of the dieoff.
I have a Athlon 64 4200+ low power machine with a no fan motherboard and a underclocked (when not running games) Geforec 9600 GSO. It idles at about 50w with 2x7200 HDD's and maxes at ~150W. It plays most games at 1080p30 or close enough that I don't care.
I could try but it's frozen at a particular version level so not much better and the reduced functionality would probably make it a losing battle (ActiveX is actually really freaking useful for some things).
We're a midsized business and until we upgrade our ERP system next year we can't migrate off IE6 so I can only imagine how bad it is for shops with tons of custom code. The version of our ECM system that we are currently testing supports IE7 and Firefox with only partial functionality, no IE8. That means we can upgrade to IE7 once we upgrade our ERP system but we will be on IE7 until mid 2012 at least since our systems are on a 3 year rotation.
You should link to your music in your profile or sig, that's a great place for me to find new music =) I especially like to support artists who act like civil people and explain their stance rather than assuming I'm a criminal ala Lars.
The last 20 albums I've purchased I have found through NPR or Pandora or Amazon weekly specials. I honestly can't remember the last album I bought based on radio or mtv (the don't play music the last time I checked). I know I'm probably atypical but I probably buy as much music as your average teenager and I don't have to be advertised to I just have to be shown you have talent. I also think I'm probably closer to the future music consumer than the kid with the tigerbeat poster on the wall listening to the pop station in their hometown is.
That's actually very cool, it looks like nomachine has come close to catching up to Citrix. Though I have to wonder about how easy some of those things are to achieve in the real world. For instance it took Citrix over a decade to get remote printing support right with the PS4 UPD and the version 9 client. Guess I will have to give it a looksee, though without support for MS Office it's not likely to meet the needs of my current employer.
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HP supports every OS under the sun, from their own OS's to Linux to Solaris. About the only major OS's they don't support are OS X and AIX and those because they can't. Heck HP even employs quite a few key people in the Linux community which AFAIK Dell does not do. Windows boxes account for some significant percentage of HP's revenues, but it's not even a majority of their hardware profit let alone overall profit. Dell on the other hand would die without their windows sales.
You are assuming WAY too much. Some subcontractor wrote software to a specification that said support browsers x and y with functionality a,b,c,..q and pass these tests. To make sure some clever tester didn't find some obscure bug with Opera that would keep him from getting paid he just errored the browser out. This passed functionality testing and was approved. Later this now approved and standard code was delivered with the imbedded management card of a server that just happened to be shipped to Opera. The two events have nothing to do with each other and it unbelievably unlikely that for an account the size of Opera that someone would have done regression testing on their software to make sure it works with Opera's product.
HP's not much better though:
// supported browser; do nothing
var detect = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var ie = detect.match(/msie ([\d\.]+)/);
var moz = detect.match(/rv:([\d\.]+)/);
var fire = detect.match(/firefox\/([\d\.]+)/);
if(
( ie!=null && ie[1] >= "6.0" ) ||
( fire!=null && fire[1] >= "1.0.2" ) ||
( moz!=null && moz[1] >= "1.6" )
) {
} else {
alert( "Integrated Lights-Out 2 supports Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or greater, Firefox version 1.0.2 or greater, and Mozilla version 1.6 or greater. Some functionality may not work and pages may not format correctly on other browser platforms. This browser platform reports it is \""+navigator.userAgent+"\""); }
Of course that's just a warning, not just dumping them to the error page. It IS annoying that we do such stupid browser detection tricks instead of coding to standards. In an ideal world that statement would be something like:
If browser.supports(HTML4) do {} else alert ( "upgrade to a modern browser" );
Uh, I believe the idea is each one is unique, aka the seed to a one time pad. It's like carrying the one time pad but without it being obvious what you are carrying or as difficult to use as a one time pad.
Oh, and to the submitter, PIN number really?
Yes, but if we get twice as many useful BTU's per ton of CO2 we have effectively halved our CO2 output.
100 barrels per acre per year is NOT at ALL promising! To produce the current US consumption you would need ~137K square miles. For reference that would require the entire east coast be filled to ~55 miles inland.
What if the alcohol offers a competitive advantage by keeping their colonies from being eaten by other organisms?
Yes, but you won't know the answer to your second question until you have operated a plant at (or near) commercial scales which this obviously isn't. That's why I said it's a nice technology demonstration, it's nothing like a test plant. It's more an intermediate step between the test-tube and a pilot plant.
But less than 2,400 barrels of ethanol (~1,600 barrels of oil) is such a small drop in the bucket as to be laughable (The US consumes ~21M barrels a day!). Of course scale it up and feed it the output of some GW scale coal plants and you are starting to make at least some impact.
Latency, bandwidth, and infrastructure (power surplus).
Sure it is, on average each person will upload one copy, because only N copies will be downloaded where N is the number of torrent participants. The only thing that isn't accounted for in that average is partial downloads and discarded blocks.
Well, the Great Lakes are basically barren down in the deepest zones so that's one heck of a heatsink. I know someone was talking about using the water coming into Chicago as a heatsink for free cooling as the water is too cold to be usable immediately anyways (like 56F I think).
Dogs, cats, pigs, water foul, cows, etc. There are plenty of animals that are much more plentiful now then they were before they became entwined with humans.
The most likely cause of their demise is canine distemper from human introduced dog populations. I know that distemper was what wiped out a large percentage of the population of some of the African lion populations in preserves that have human developments around their edge and that lions and tigers can reproduce ergo it's a likely cause of the dieoff.
I have a Athlon 64 4200+ low power machine with a no fan motherboard and a underclocked (when not running games) Geforec 9600 GSO. It idles at about 50w with 2x7200 HDD's and maxes at ~150W. It plays most games at 1080p30 or close enough that I don't care.
Boot to windows and run linux in the VM then. It's certainly not going to give you less uptime than constantly rebooting to the other OS.
Dual boot? Didn't that go away when free virtualization became available?
HDD's break MUCH more often if power cycled frequently, as do power supplies and fans.
I could try but it's frozen at a particular version level so not much better and the reduced functionality would probably make it a losing battle (ActiveX is actually really freaking useful for some things).
Enterprise Resource Planning (Siebel, JD Edwards, SAP, etc) and Enterprise Content Management (Livelink, Sharepoint, Documentum).
We're a midsized business and until we upgrade our ERP system next year we can't migrate off IE6 so I can only imagine how bad it is for shops with tons of custom code. The version of our ECM system that we are currently testing supports IE7 and Firefox with only partial functionality, no IE8. That means we can upgrade to IE7 once we upgrade our ERP system but we will be on IE7 until mid 2012 at least since our systems are on a 3 year rotation.
You should link to your music in your profile or sig, that's a great place for me to find new music =) I especially like to support artists who act like civil people and explain their stance rather than assuming I'm a criminal ala Lars.
The last 20 albums I've purchased I have found through NPR or Pandora or Amazon weekly specials. I honestly can't remember the last album I bought based on radio or mtv (the don't play music the last time I checked). I know I'm probably atypical but I probably buy as much music as your average teenager and I don't have to be advertised to I just have to be shown you have talent. I also think I'm probably closer to the future music consumer than the kid with the tigerbeat poster on the wall listening to the pop station in their hometown is.
Ah yes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, quite clever =)
That's actually very cool, it looks like nomachine has come close to catching up to Citrix. Though I have to wonder about how easy some of those things are to achieve in the real world. For instance it took Citrix over a decade to get remote printing support right with the PS4 UPD and the version 9 client. Guess I will have to give it a looksee, though without support for MS Office it's not likely to meet the needs of my current employer.