Typical retail will NOT have any network printers at the stores. They will have the POS terminals on the floor, a backend server (optional) and a back office reports station with a printer locally attached. This is what I saw across dozens of different retailers when I worked as a field tech for IBM and later as a consultant. Of course weakly protected wireless has become much more common since stores want to reduce cost with wireless inventory tracking but the embedded devices typically don't support WPA2.
Wadsworth, Ohio and yeah anyone can move there. It's a smallish town in a pretty economically depressed area (NE Ohio). On the positive side it's library is part of the third most used system in the country (Medina County District Libraries).
Exactly. I never bought any music online (and very little on cd) until Amazon started offering high quality, DRM free MP3's that are guaranteed to play on just about any music device in existence. As far as your conjecture that selling music is a dying business, I strongly disagree. The price may drop over time, but since costs are dropping probably faster I feel the industry will do just fine.
Two areas I know of, Wadsworth and the surrounding area and the north end of Brunswick/south Strongsville. The latter was just due to automated equipment isolating that area and there being a small natural gas power station being there. I lived in N Brunswick at the time, it was nice to have power but the traffic was the worst I have ever experienced because everyone who knew about it came to the area for gas.
In NE Ohio, right in the heart of where the meltdown started. Smart and fast action by some engineers meant they were able to isolate their generation and the load of their customers from the broader grid before things got too out of hand. Luck had nothing to do with it other than the fact that they did it fast enough.
It's just as likely that the explanation that Amazon gave was legit and that a technical error caused them to be removed (it wasn't just negative reviews, but ALL reviews on Spore retail which went away). Remember never attribute to malice that which can be more easily explained by a simple fuckup. They probably have never had that many comments on any single object before and some limit was simply exceeded. They fairly quickly reposted all comments and never removed the volumes of negative feedback on the other versions of the game. My favorite DRM free games are freeciv and Scorched 3D.
Fiber to the home is what is known as a natural monopoly, there is an (essentially) fixed cost for deploying and maintaining such a utility and it is extremely inefficient and cost-ineffective to have multiple providers of the same service. The most efficient way to address this is to do exactly what the city set out to do, have a government run entity maintain the physical plant and allow competing private business to provide products over that plant. If you allow a monopoly private business to maintain the plant you simply increase the subscribers costs by the profit of the private business (baring any economies of scale enjoyed by the company operating a business larger than the incorporated area, but history has shown this is generally minimal and far overshadowed by the profit costs)
Basically the really huge freaking breakers at the substation connecting the plant to the grid tripped for some reason. The plant suddenly found itself without a load to support, and quickly shut itself down to prevent massive permanent damage to the equipment. If you generate a ton of electrons without having someplace to send them the equipment that deals with those electrons tends to get VERY hot very quickly and not be very happy about it.
My boss lives in a town that has had their own utilities for over a century and they have stellar service and prices are lower than the crappy monopolies provide. It started with their own power station and over the years they added phone, cable, and fiber internet services. If they need service they get local people that actually care about fixing their issues and local students can get internships that teach them marketable skills. All this and they pay much *less* than the government granted/privately run monopolies in most surrounding areas. A good example of the non-financial benefits this has provided include the fact that they were one of the few communities to have power during the great NE blackout of 2003. Basically it comes down to the fact that there is a certain cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure, and if you let a monopoly private business run it you have to pay those costs over time plus the profits that are expected by the owners of that company.
Yeah, except the fact that they STILL would have collapsed and would have released TONS of asbestos into the air in Lower Manhattan, what a great outcome THAT would have been....
Eh, I know that for LAME unless you specify strict cbr you get an average bit rate that attempts to be close to what you specified. If one encoder tries to be below the target bitrate and the other attempts to provide better quality at the expense of larger file size I can see how they would diverge, even significantly.
meh, I run all the business software for an entire S&P 500 company with hardly any users having admin privileges. It's not that hard to do. You might need to figure out what registry key the lazy dev forgot to have the installer set the security rights on, but rarely does an app really need admin privileges.
Yes, thunking from kernel space to userland will always be more expensive than staying in kernel space however not many things are so performance critical that it's worth the risk. Graphics, network, file, and audio drivers are the ones that come to mind. Network and Audio only qualify if you are trying to do significantly more than your average user (IE full gig ethernet or multichannel recording).
Actually, the ipod driver SHOULD be running in userland, there's a userland driver framework for XP SP2 and Vista and something like a freaking ipod should be using it, there's absolutely nothing performance critical enough to justify running it in kernel space.
Nah, a terminal server in this context generally means a router with a multiport serial cable (hydra or octal cables are common names) attached. They allow you to dial into one device and connect to everything else. We used to even assign IP's to the async serial port so you could simply telnet to an IP and get into the connected devices console, worked well when you used adjacent subnets =)
I'm pretty sure the failure mode of a well loaded laminate beam is WELL before it burns through... You do know that some of the smartest people in the world are mechanical engineers, right? If those beams were significantly superior then I'm sure they would be more widely used.
The jet fuel had almost nothing to do with the collapse other than it was a big match that set everything else on fire. The vast majority of the fuel was consumed in the initial fireaball or within a few minutes of the crash. The critical part was the removal of fire protection and the severing of the sprinkler stack. The solution is a more robust and adhesive fire coating (like foam bead containing cement with polymer binders added to the liquid portion) and redundant sprinkler stacks. NIST estimates the cost increase to be between 2 and 5 percent for ALL of their building code enhancement guidelines including the biggest cost of increase emergency stairwell size. To me this seems like a small price to pay for general emergency preparedness and can most likely be offset over the lifetime of the building through decreased insurance premiums.
Or, you could use MS Dynamics and combine the two. The Dynamics plugin for Outlook will use the RPC over HTTPS connection of Outlook (if configured) to grab data from the Dynamics system. This is the kind of integration that makes shops choose MS.
I got mine for $109 in October of 2006 =) I paid a small premium (like $10) for the silent model, but it had a faster GPU and ram clock too so it was easy to justify.
New Processes are still pretty heavy weight. The average I have seen for Chrome is around 20-30MB with typical content open. I currently have 37 tabs open in Mozilla, that would be a crudload of memory in Chrome, but with Mozilla 3 it's only ~300MB.
And this is where the small premium for a business class laptop pays off bigtime. Buy an HP business laptop or a Dell Vostro machine and you get pretty much a clean OS install with working drivers and a minimal (of often helpful) third party apps.
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Typical retail will NOT have any network printers at the stores. They will have the POS terminals on the floor, a backend server (optional) and a back office reports station with a printer locally attached. This is what I saw across dozens of different retailers when I worked as a field tech for IBM and later as a consultant. Of course weakly protected wireless has become much more common since stores want to reduce cost with wireless inventory tracking but the embedded devices typically don't support WPA2.
Wadsworth, Ohio and yeah anyone can move there. It's a smallish town in a pretty economically depressed area (NE Ohio). On the positive side it's library is part of the third most used system in the country (Medina County District Libraries).
Exactly. I never bought any music online (and very little on cd) until Amazon started offering high quality, DRM free MP3's that are guaranteed to play on just about any music device in existence. As far as your conjecture that selling music is a dying business, I strongly disagree. The price may drop over time, but since costs are dropping probably faster I feel the industry will do just fine.
Two areas I know of, Wadsworth and the surrounding area and the north end of Brunswick/south Strongsville. The latter was just due to automated equipment isolating that area and there being a small natural gas power station being there. I lived in N Brunswick at the time, it was nice to have power but the traffic was the worst I have ever experienced because everyone who knew about it came to the area for gas.
In NE Ohio, right in the heart of where the meltdown started. Smart and fast action by some engineers meant they were able to isolate their generation and the load of their customers from the broader grid before things got too out of hand. Luck had nothing to do with it other than the fact that they did it fast enough.
It's just as likely that the explanation that Amazon gave was legit and that a technical error caused them to be removed (it wasn't just negative reviews, but ALL reviews on Spore retail which went away). Remember never attribute to malice that which can be more easily explained by a simple fuckup. They probably have never had that many comments on any single object before and some limit was simply exceeded. They fairly quickly reposted all comments and never removed the volumes of negative feedback on the other versions of the game. My favorite DRM free games are freeciv and Scorched 3D.
Fiber to the home is what is known as a natural monopoly, there is an (essentially) fixed cost for deploying and maintaining such a utility and it is extremely inefficient and cost-ineffective to have multiple providers of the same service. The most efficient way to address this is to do exactly what the city set out to do, have a government run entity maintain the physical plant and allow competing private business to provide products over that plant. If you allow a monopoly private business to maintain the plant you simply increase the subscribers costs by the profit of the private business (baring any economies of scale enjoyed by the company operating a business larger than the incorporated area, but history has shown this is generally minimal and far overshadowed by the profit costs)
Basically the really huge freaking breakers at the substation connecting the plant to the grid tripped for some reason. The plant suddenly found itself without a load to support, and quickly shut itself down to prevent massive permanent damage to the equipment. If you generate a ton of electrons without having someplace to send them the equipment that deals with those electrons tends to get VERY hot very quickly and not be very happy about it.
My boss lives in a town that has had their own utilities for over a century and they have stellar service and prices are lower than the crappy monopolies provide. It started with their own power station and over the years they added phone, cable, and fiber internet services. If they need service they get local people that actually care about fixing their issues and local students can get internships that teach them marketable skills. All this and they pay much *less* than the government granted/privately run monopolies in most surrounding areas. A good example of the non-financial benefits this has provided include the fact that they were one of the few communities to have power during the great NE blackout of 2003. Basically it comes down to the fact that there is a certain cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure, and if you let a monopoly private business run it you have to pay those costs over time plus the profits that are expected by the owners of that company.
Yeah, except the fact that they STILL would have collapsed and would have released TONS of asbestos into the air in Lower Manhattan, what a great outcome THAT would have been....
Eh, I know that for LAME unless you specify strict cbr you get an average bit rate that attempts to be close to what you specified. If one encoder tries to be below the target bitrate and the other attempts to provide better quality at the expense of larger file size I can see how they would diverge, even significantly.
Masters of Orion, Masters of Magic, X-COM UFO Defense, and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 are also good examples that are still sitting on my HDD's =)
meh, I run all the business software for an entire S&P 500 company with hardly any users having admin privileges. It's not that hard to do. You might need to figure out what registry key the lazy dev forgot to have the installer set the security rights on, but rarely does an app really need admin privileges.
Yes, thunking from kernel space to userland will always be more expensive than staying in kernel space however not many things are so performance critical that it's worth the risk. Graphics, network, file, and audio drivers are the ones that come to mind. Network and Audio only qualify if you are trying to do significantly more than your average user (IE full gig ethernet or multichannel recording).
Actually, the ipod driver SHOULD be running in userland, there's a userland driver framework for XP SP2 and Vista and something like a freaking ipod should be using it, there's absolutely nothing performance critical enough to justify running it in kernel space.
Not really, a terminal server could easily have a modem on one end and a bunch of serial cables on the other, not at all an uncommon setup.
Nah, a terminal server in this context generally means a router with a multiport serial cable (hydra or octal cables are common names) attached. They allow you to dial into one device and connect to everything else. We used to even assign IP's to the async serial port so you could simply telnet to an IP and get into the connected devices console, worked well when you used adjacent subnets =)
Uh, Dell offers XP on the Vostro line, your fault for not ordering it that way....
I'm pretty sure the failure mode of a well loaded laminate beam is WELL before it burns through... You do know that some of the smartest people in the world are mechanical engineers, right? If those beams were significantly superior then I'm sure they would be more widely used.
The jet fuel had almost nothing to do with the collapse other than it was a big match that set everything else on fire. The vast majority of the fuel was consumed in the initial fireaball or within a few minutes of the crash. The critical part was the removal of fire protection and the severing of the sprinkler stack. The solution is a more robust and adhesive fire coating (like foam bead containing cement with polymer binders added to the liquid portion) and redundant sprinkler stacks. NIST estimates the cost increase to be between 2 and 5 percent for ALL of their building code enhancement guidelines including the biggest cost of increase emergency stairwell size. To me this seems like a small price to pay for general emergency preparedness and can most likely be offset over the lifetime of the building through decreased insurance premiums.
Or, you could use MS Dynamics and combine the two. The Dynamics plugin for Outlook will use the RPC over HTTPS connection of Outlook (if configured) to grab data from the Dynamics system. This is the kind of integration that makes shops choose MS.
I got mine for $109 in October of 2006 =) I paid a small premium (like $10) for the silent model, but it had a faster GPU and ram clock too so it was easy to justify.
New Processes are still pretty heavy weight. The average I have seen for Chrome is around 20-30MB with typical content open. I currently have 37 tabs open in Mozilla, that would be a crudload of memory in Chrome, but with Mozilla 3 it's only ~300MB.
And this is where the small premium for a business class laptop pays off bigtime. Buy an HP business laptop or a Dell Vostro machine and you get pretty much a clean OS install with working drivers and a minimal (of often helpful) third party apps.
Yep I did the same when the fan on my retail Athlon XP 1200 died a few years ago, I really do love the no-hassle way Newegg approaches things.