I was definitely getting a Diablo 1 Sorcerer vibe with the Quest bolt sounding and moving almost exactly like the D1 fire bolt spell. It'll have more action and better graphics but it certainly appears to fit with the Diablo style, much more so then the first gameplay vids. Perhaps they took the fan criticism to heart =)
You kind of sound like some of my users, they keep running into the 255 character path limitation somehow. Stop using paragraphs for folder names and you won't have these problems =)
I'm more worried about a spontaneous reboot 2 years down the road which is caused by a flaky motherboard but which the vendor could legitimately pin on the third party memory. If it's all their stuff and our support contract is current then they have to replace both motherboard and memory in 4 hours if they can't convince me they can say with certainty which part is at fault. Saving a couple percent on hardware costs which are only a fraction of TCO just doesn't make sense if it puts reliability at basically any risk.
Unless you like/need to have no questions asked support. While a manufacturer can't void a warranty for use of third party addons (in most jurisdictions) they sure as heck can fight you and delay you. For my server's it's not worth the risk of having a production server down even if I am in the right.
The posting load is slashdot doing an open relay check against your IP, the next time you go to post (if greater than the warning time and less than the relay timeout) should be fast.
For a floppy you are going to use FAT12 which is old enough that even if it had been patented would now be free to use, FAT16 for small volumes is almost as old and probably not covered either. It's just for modern high capacity volumes that it's an issue. For really large volumes or where you need single files greater than 2GB then your only real option is UDF, exFAT isn't likely to be implemented on other platforms due to patent coverage and none of the other systems work out of the box on Windows.
Going forward you should be able to use UDF across all platforms since Vista, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and OS/2 all have read/write drivers for it, but it might be a bit of time before it's universally accepted since XP can't write to it or read version 2.5+ volumes.
You're paying for it either way! If they run things well then you are getting your personal PC + lab equipment for one price which shouldn't be significantly more than just the lab equipment and the university can reuse some of the lab space for other uses thus potentially reducing the need to build another expensive building.
The situation you described is EXACTLY why local franchise agreements are good and statewide universal franchise agreements are very bad. If there is sufficient demand for those services and the incumbent provider refuses to offer them then the city simply amends the franchise agreement at the next renewal to require those services to be offered by a certain date, if Charter fails to meet that obligation then they lose their monopoly in that community. I know that was the only reason the last place I lived got digital cable and broadband out of Adelphia, they kept dragging their feet until the local utility commissioner reminded them of the large fines and loss of monopoly status for missing the completion date on their rollout (they were still like 9 months late but at least they actually completed the rollout).
Because they were never needed there, the asian manufacturers neither treated employees like slaves nor discarded workers as worthless cogs at the first sign of trouble.
There's a limit to what you want you DB to cache in ram, at some point it takes longer to walk through the index of in-ram blocks then it does to simply pull the block from disk (assuming decent I/O). We've actually demonstrated this with a relatively fast SAN (110 spindles RAID10) vs 128GB of ram for Oracle. The probably points to some non-optimized piece in Oracle since it has to do some kind of lookup to find the block on disk, but it proved out what our DBA said about not pinning every table in memory.
Uh, there are only four reasons to make things go boom, to kill someone, for research, to make money, or for entertainment. This was a bit of the latter two. You seriously have to be juvenile to have the attitude "making money is bad!"
Armor plate steel is bulletproof, any normal round will just powderize against it without affecting the structure of the steel at the macro level. I guess if you consider 50mm DU rounds bullets your statement is true, but that's a bit of a stretch.
And at $36/year it's almost certainly a good use of resources! Even if you make minimum wage you only have to work 4.5 hours to cost your company that much. So, for it to make economic sense to turn off the workstation your computer would have to boot in less than 1 minute (60*4.5=245 minutes, there are about 245 days in a work year). For professionals it's obvious that no computer is ever going to boot fast enough to cover their lost time. This is making a very big assumption which is that the time spent waiting for the PC to boot would otherwise be productive, but the scale is so wrong that even if a fraction of that time would be productive it's still cheaper to the company to leave the PC on.
Urgent SRs may need to travel across the globe. That means another engineer will start from scratch investigating the problem.
Then their follow the sun support system is broken, pure and simple. When I work with Microsoft or Cisco I don't have to retread the entire process every time a new engineer joins the team, the vendors have internal mechanisms to bring new engineers up to speed on the case. Only when an engineer wants to provide a new perspective on something we have already covered do I get asked to rehash something. Oracle on the other hand seems to always require going back over things from square one, whether it be follow the sun support or re-opening or updating an existing ticket.
For what you pay per core for Oracle licensing you would have to be an absolute idiot to run anything other than Oracle and possibly a backup application (though we don't) on your Oracle server. Having a tuned version of Linux specific to Oracle is a great idea, the problem comes when you get into the reality of support. Perhaps we aren't a big enough fish to matter to Oracle but our experience has been some of the worst support I have seen from ANY organization. That is a large reason why I'll be strongly suggesting Redhat for our Linux support later this year despite the fact that all we will be running on it is Oracle.
An iPhone user is not your typical user, the Blackberry plans start at $70/month and go up from there. The phone is subsidized by only a couple hundred dollars and requires a two year lock. The only thing that might make them slightly lower margin is whatever payments AT&T is making to Apple for the exclusive rights. I would expect first year profit to be in the couple hundred dollar per subscriber range and the second year to be very high margin.
Internet is starting to suck a lot less on the Blackberry as well. OS 4.5 makes the Blackberry browser very useable and Opera mini even more so. Heck on T-mobile I can even stream music just fine over EDGE using Slacker or Flycast. I'm not sure if your typical Blackberry user is as data intensive as I am (I doubt it) but you can certainly use as much bandwidth using a Blackberry as you can an iPhone.
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What about the fact that the price is WAY too high for that 5GB, I pay $36/month for non-capped 10/1 cable.
I was definitely getting a Diablo 1 Sorcerer vibe with the Quest bolt sounding and moving almost exactly like the D1 fire bolt spell. It'll have more action and better graphics but it certainly appears to fit with the Diablo style, much more so then the first gameplay vids. Perhaps they took the fan criticism to heart =)
You kind of sound like some of my users, they keep running into the 255 character path limitation somehow. Stop using paragraphs for folder names and you won't have these problems =)
I'm more worried about a spontaneous reboot 2 years down the road which is caused by a flaky motherboard but which the vendor could legitimately pin on the third party memory. If it's all their stuff and our support contract is current then they have to replace both motherboard and memory in 4 hours if they can't convince me they can say with certainty which part is at fault. Saving a couple percent on hardware costs which are only a fraction of TCO just doesn't make sense if it puts reliability at basically any risk.
Unless you like/need to have no questions asked support. While a manufacturer can't void a warranty for use of third party addons (in most jurisdictions) they sure as heck can fight you and delay you. For my server's it's not worth the risk of having a production server down even if I am in the right.
The posting load is slashdot doing an open relay check against your IP, the next time you go to post (if greater than the warning time and less than the relay timeout) should be fast.
Umm, going forward is simple shorthand for "from this point forward", in the future implies that it doesn't apply today.
For a floppy you are going to use FAT12 which is old enough that even if it had been patented would now be free to use, FAT16 for small volumes is almost as old and probably not covered either. It's just for modern high capacity volumes that it's an issue. For really large volumes or where you need single files greater than 2GB then your only real option is UDF, exFAT isn't likely to be implemented on other platforms due to patent coverage and none of the other systems work out of the box on Windows.
Going forward you should be able to use UDF across all platforms since Vista, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and OS/2 all have read/write drivers for it, but it might be a bit of time before it's universally accepted since XP can't write to it or read version 2.5+ volumes.
You're paying for it either way! If they run things well then you are getting your personal PC + lab equipment for one price which shouldn't be significantly more than just the lab equipment and the university can reuse some of the lab space for other uses thus potentially reducing the need to build another expensive building.
The situation you described is EXACTLY why local franchise agreements are good and statewide universal franchise agreements are very bad. If there is sufficient demand for those services and the incumbent provider refuses to offer them then the city simply amends the franchise agreement at the next renewal to require those services to be offered by a certain date, if Charter fails to meet that obligation then they lose their monopoly in that community. I know that was the only reason the last place I lived got digital cable and broadband out of Adelphia, they kept dragging their feet until the local utility commissioner reminded them of the large fines and loss of monopoly status for missing the completion date on their rollout (they were still like 9 months late but at least they actually completed the rollout).
Because they were never needed there, the asian manufacturers neither treated employees like slaves nor discarded workers as worthless cogs at the first sign of trouble.
There's a limit to what you want you DB to cache in ram, at some point it takes longer to walk through the index of in-ram blocks then it does to simply pull the block from disk (assuming decent I/O). We've actually demonstrated this with a relatively fast SAN (110 spindles RAID10) vs 128GB of ram for Oracle. The probably points to some non-optimized piece in Oracle since it has to do some kind of lookup to find the block on disk, but it proved out what our DBA said about not pinning every table in memory.
Nah, even 1.4kW still fit's in the 80% rule for a 15A circuit@ 120V.
Uh, there are only four reasons to make things go boom, to kill someone, for research, to make money, or for entertainment. This was a bit of the latter two. You seriously have to be juvenile to have the attitude "making money is bad!"
I don't think it's that much bigger than the cement truck demolition, that was a couple hundred pounds of high order explosive.
Armor plate steel is bulletproof, any normal round will just powderize against it without affecting the structure of the steel at the macro level. I guess if you consider 50mm DU rounds bullets your statement is true, but that's a bit of a stretch.
And at $36/year it's almost certainly a good use of resources! Even if you make minimum wage you only have to work 4.5 hours to cost your company that much. So, for it to make economic sense to turn off the workstation your computer would have to boot in less than 1 minute (60*4.5=245 minutes, there are about 245 days in a work year). For professionals it's obvious that no computer is ever going to boot fast enough to cover their lost time. This is making a very big assumption which is that the time spent waiting for the PC to boot would otherwise be productive, but the scale is so wrong that even if a fraction of that time would be productive it's still cheaper to the company to leave the PC on.
Why? I keep 99 days of history and I'm a 20-50 tab at a time guy and my history tab takes all of 3-5 seconds to open.
Urgent SRs may need to travel across the globe. That means another engineer will start from scratch investigating the problem.
Then their follow the sun support system is broken, pure and simple. When I work with Microsoft or Cisco I don't have to retread the entire process every time a new engineer joins the team, the vendors have internal mechanisms to bring new engineers up to speed on the case. Only when an engineer wants to provide a new perspective on something we have already covered do I get asked to rehash something. Oracle on the other hand seems to always require going back over things from square one, whether it be follow the sun support or re-opening or updating an existing ticket.
For what you pay per core for Oracle licensing you would have to be an absolute idiot to run anything other than Oracle and possibly a backup application (though we don't) on your Oracle server. Having a tuned version of Linux specific to Oracle is a great idea, the problem comes when you get into the reality of support. Perhaps we aren't a big enough fish to matter to Oracle but our experience has been some of the worst support I have seen from ANY organization. That is a large reason why I'll be strongly suggesting Redhat for our Linux support later this year despite the fact that all we will be running on it is Oracle.
An iPhone user is not your typical user, the Blackberry plans start at $70/month and go up from there. The phone is subsidized by only a couple hundred dollars and requires a two year lock. The only thing that might make them slightly lower margin is whatever payments AT&T is making to Apple for the exclusive rights. I would expect first year profit to be in the couple hundred dollar per subscriber range and the second year to be very high margin.
Internet is starting to suck a lot less on the Blackberry as well. OS 4.5 makes the Blackberry browser very useable and Opera mini even more so. Heck on T-mobile I can even stream music just fine over EDGE using Slacker or Flycast. I'm not sure if your typical Blackberry user is as data intensive as I am (I doubt it) but you can certainly use as much bandwidth using a Blackberry as you can an iPhone.
Actually we are out of money because we went and launched our second offensive war in the countries history, not the other way around.
I left the write test running overnight, at 150MB/s it doesn't take long to fill a 32GB drive =)