Yeah, when I call my CDW rep I can have a system built to order the next business day if I call early enough and the base system is something they have in stock. Hell if I choose right I can have a truckload of servers the next day. Imaging them takes about 4 hours for up to 32 servers (more than that and it slows down due to disk resources on the SAN that pushes the images). Of course if the crunch is bandwidth that takes a lot longer because the telcos suck, but you should be able to get a line in a couple weeks as a rush order if you are as big as MS.
How about as a consultant I'm called in to troubleshoot a broken web application and during my troubleshooting I come across what I believe may be the problem but it appears to be a breakin, should I be forced to end my work simply because I don't have a PI license? To me that is asinine and big government regulation run amuck.
I doubt the bottleneck's in assembly, and that is most likely already outsourced to one of the big electronics houses. Most likely there's a handful of components that are the limiting factor, most likely the GPU and/or CPU. My bet is on the CPU which is being fabed by IBM which has historically had production problems (hence why Apple switched to Intel).
Huh? HDMI 1.3 already has 1080p24 as a standard and it's been available for months on production panels. I know the high end Toshiba Cinema display for 2007 support that mode and they came out last summer. Of course even though I'm using it for mixed uses I couldn't justify a 75% increase in price from the 42HL167 to the 42LX177.
Do you not want your children to be safe from drugs?
Not really, I want them to enjoy life and learn some of its lessons the hard way. Now if my child found themselves addicted and wanting to quit then I would do everything in my power to get them the vaccine, but I wouldn't inoculate them in hope that they would never try drugs. I say this even after having lived through over a decade of watching an older sibling deal with drug dependency issues.
I'm the EXACT opposite, my passport never leaves my person. That way if I'm ever in trouble I can find a way to the embassy and be assured that I can prove who I am. I also have very strongly rebuffed hotel employees in Europe that insisted that I leave my passport with them, I tell them it's illegal for an American citizen to surrender their passport like that and they leave me alone. I don't know if they think they will hold my passport ransom if I don't pay or something but my rooms are always prepaid on the Visa anyways.
Many of the games I play are ones I've owned on various media over the years when the creative people were actually being paid to create them. Paying some holding company that bought up the assets at fractions of a penny on the dollar isn't what drives games to be made so I really don't see the point of enriching them. Of course when the original developer still owns the rights and is still selling the game I've been known to pay. For instance Rise Of The Triad is still sold so when I felt nostalgic for it I bought a network license pack to play with some friends.
Messing with driver settings? What, you're hdtv doesn't have HDMI/DVI? Because all I did was plug in my Toshiba 42HL196 to my Nvidia 7600GS via DVI->HDMI cable and it showed up automagically as a PnP 1920*1080 display. Then I use my emulator plugin to my DVR software and now I have literally thousands upon thousands of games to play via wireless keyboard and mouse or wiimote using a USB dongle =) The one thing that's not wireless is the arcade stick but that has a 12' cord so it's not a big deal unless I want to play it from the back of the couch.
Huh? One of the best ways to get onto the list is to figure out a new and innovative interconnect topology. Remember System X from Virginia Tech, it was in the top 10 on the list when implemented and cost a fifth of the next cheapest system. It's not all about money unless you are gunning for #1. Virginia Tech is also the creators of an interesting alternative list, the Green 500, a list of the most power efficient supercomputers.
Uh, anything that can be done in the registry can be done via group policy! In fact if you don't know how to do this you shouldn't be let near a GPO because it's so basic that the only place you should be learning that kind of stuff is in a lab environment, either corporate or academic. I guess I know where the stigma against Windows admins comes from, people who know just enough to be very dangerous.
When you're comparing a superscaler, out of order, multipiplined x86 chip vs an ARM? Yeah I think the 2x faster chip will win, in fact even at the same mhz the x86 part would most likely be faster. Now the question is, is it capable of more MIPS/WATT, which is what matters almost as much as absolute performance in the embedded space. There the answer is possibly but unlikely.
Since the pinpoint at 500 feet is as small as the pinpoint at 10 feet, the number of photons going out at the source is about the same as the number hitting the pinpoint, so 500 feet or 20 feet or 1 foot is exactly the same bloody thing.
No it's freaking NOT, I wish slashdot actually had geeks around. A typical consumer pointer has a beam divergence of at LEAST 2mrad (milliradians) which means the beam spreads by 1mm for every meter traveled or 10cm for every 1km.
20 years for something that really doesn't even qualify as attempted homicide? Are you SERIOUS. The nanny state really is having an affect on the US if people think that a third of your adult life in the hellhole that is American federal prisons is appropriate for playing with what amounts to a big flashlight. The beam spread at even a quarter mile would be 8cm wide for a typical 2mrad consumer device and thus MUCH lower in power density so much so that I doubt anything an unlicensed person could buy would be powerful enough to cause any kind of damage.
Not that I've been able to deduce, it's almost like they load a freaking alternate HAL or something, Sony support had been worthless so I told the C level person that wanted it that I would be happy to add it to the domain but that I couldn't offer any support beyond that. After some sideways glances my way I explained in plain English why I couldn't support it and offered to find an HP with similar features. He ended up with an HP with a high res, high contrast display that worked with a slightly tweaked version of our standard image. It was about 8oz heavier than the Sony but otherwise pretty comparable.
There's a patch available and it's called a volume license key disk. I NEVER use the factory default image which is why I can't support Sony Vaio's despite the fact that I like the hardware, they don't provide a way of taking a VLK disk and getting a working machines you HAVE to install from the recovery disk.
I just picked it up a couple weeks ago so I avoided all the problems people seem to have had with patch 0. It's terribly addictive in the same way Diablo 2 was for me and I haven't even started playing hardcore yet =) Of course the people I played with was one of the things that kept me playing D2 for over 2 years and Hellgate doesn't seem to have quite the same community around it as D2 did.
The US produces only 50% more power from nuclear than France and France only has 20% of the population. Of course oil is hardly used for power production, it's mostly for transportation with fertilizer being the second biggest use AFAIK.
It wouldn't matter WHAT the fuel is, if it's fissile enough to produce 200kW then it can be made into a dirty bomb. The fact is if a terrorist wanted to they could buy old smoke detectors through front company and pack the americurium around an explosive and make a dirty bomb.
Yeah my problem with this concept is what percentage of the world doesn't have to potential for SOME kind of natural disaster? Japan has earthquakes and typhoons, most of the world has at least some chance of tornado's, etc. Unless these thing are designed to take 300mph hits by large object and a large building falling on them I can't see how regulators can possibly allow them to be sold.
I haven't run it on a truly low end machine since the early 1.x days but back then it would run fine for about a week on a win2k machine with a P3 266 and 192MB of ram, anything older than that isn't worth powering up. I'm currently typing on a IBM T30 with 512MB and have had the browser open for about two months, it's using 144MB of ram with about 30 tabs open. Firefox isn't perfect but compared to most browsers (especially those that came before it) it's damn good.
I was talking about 3 line cards for the 9500 series, not 3 HBA's! By the time you buy the chassis, PSU's and sup(s) you have a LOT of sunk cost if you are going with less than 96 ports.
That's not far off from what Cuyahoga County Ohio is planning to do for the upcoming primaries. They are proposing to drop the error prone, insecure electronic machines they spent millions on and going to photo-scan sheets similar to those used for basically all standardized testing in the US. The known error rate for those machines is lower than any other technology including double checked hand counting and of course you can always go the hand counting route if you want to because the forms are completely human readable.
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Yeah, when I call my CDW rep I can have a system built to order the next business day if I call early enough and the base system is something they have in stock. Hell if I choose right I can have a truckload of servers the next day. Imaging them takes about 4 hours for up to 32 servers (more than that and it slows down due to disk resources on the SAN that pushes the images). Of course if the crunch is bandwidth that takes a lot longer because the telcos suck, but you should be able to get a line in a couple weeks as a rush order if you are as big as MS.
How about as a consultant I'm called in to troubleshoot a broken web application and during my troubleshooting I come across what I believe may be the problem but it appears to be a breakin, should I be forced to end my work simply because I don't have a PI license? To me that is asinine and big government regulation run amuck.
I doubt the bottleneck's in assembly, and that is most likely already outsourced to one of the big electronics houses. Most likely there's a handful of components that are the limiting factor, most likely the GPU and/or CPU. My bet is on the CPU which is being fabed by IBM which has historically had production problems (hence why Apple switched to Intel).
Huh? HDMI 1.3 already has 1080p24 as a standard and it's been available for months on production panels. I know the high end Toshiba Cinema display for 2007 support that mode and they came out last summer. Of course even though I'm using it for mixed uses I couldn't justify a 75% increase in price from the 42HL167 to the 42LX177.
Do you not want your children to be safe from drugs?
Not really, I want them to enjoy life and learn some of its lessons the hard way. Now if my child found themselves addicted and wanting to quit then I would do everything in my power to get them the vaccine, but I wouldn't inoculate them in hope that they would never try drugs. I say this even after having lived through over a decade of watching an older sibling deal with drug dependency issues.
I'm the EXACT opposite, my passport never leaves my person. That way if I'm ever in trouble I can find a way to the embassy and be assured that I can prove who I am. I also have very strongly rebuffed hotel employees in Europe that insisted that I leave my passport with them, I tell them it's illegal for an American citizen to surrender their passport like that and they leave me alone. I don't know if they think they will hold my passport ransom if I don't pay or something but my rooms are always prepaid on the Visa anyways.
Many of the games I play are ones I've owned on various media over the years when the creative people were actually being paid to create them. Paying some holding company that bought up the assets at fractions of a penny on the dollar isn't what drives games to be made so I really don't see the point of enriching them. Of course when the original developer still owns the rights and is still selling the game I've been known to pay. For instance Rise Of The Triad is still sold so when I felt nostalgic for it I bought a network license pack to play with some friends.
Messing with driver settings? What, you're hdtv doesn't have HDMI/DVI? Because all I did was plug in my Toshiba 42HL196 to my Nvidia 7600GS via DVI->HDMI cable and it showed up automagically as a PnP 1920*1080 display. Then I use my emulator plugin to my DVR software and now I have literally thousands upon thousands of games to play via wireless keyboard and mouse or wiimote using a USB dongle =) The one thing that's not wireless is the arcade stick but that has a 12' cord so it's not a big deal unless I want to play it from the back of the couch.
Huh? One of the best ways to get onto the list is to figure out a new and innovative interconnect topology. Remember System X from Virginia Tech, it was in the top 10 on the list when implemented and cost a fifth of the next cheapest system. It's not all about money unless you are gunning for #1. Virginia Tech is also the creators of an interesting alternative list, the Green 500, a list of the most power efficient supercomputers.
Uh, anything that can be done in the registry can be done via group policy! In fact if you don't know how to do this you shouldn't be let near a GPO because it's so basic that the only place you should be learning that kind of stuff is in a lab environment, either corporate or academic. I guess I know where the stigma against Windows admins comes from, people who know just enough to be very dangerous.
When you're comparing a superscaler, out of order, multipiplined x86 chip vs an ARM? Yeah I think the 2x faster chip will win, in fact even at the same mhz the x86 part would most likely be faster. Now the question is, is it capable of more MIPS/WATT, which is what matters almost as much as absolute performance in the embedded space. There the answer is possibly but unlikely.
Since the pinpoint at 500 feet is as small as the pinpoint at 10 feet, the number of photons going out at the source is about the same as the number hitting the pinpoint, so 500 feet or 20 feet or 1 foot is exactly the same bloody thing.
No it's freaking NOT, I wish slashdot actually had geeks around. A typical consumer pointer has a beam divergence of at LEAST 2mrad (milliradians) which means the beam spreads by 1mm for every meter traveled or 10cm for every 1km.
20 years for something that really doesn't even qualify as attempted homicide? Are you SERIOUS. The nanny state really is having an affect on the US if people think that a third of your adult life in the hellhole that is American federal prisons is appropriate for playing with what amounts to a big flashlight. The beam spread at even a quarter mile would be 8cm wide for a typical 2mrad consumer device and thus MUCH lower in power density so much so that I doubt anything an unlicensed person could buy would be powerful enough to cause any kind of damage.
Not that I've been able to deduce, it's almost like they load a freaking alternate HAL or something, Sony support had been worthless so I told the C level person that wanted it that I would be happy to add it to the domain but that I couldn't offer any support beyond that. After some sideways glances my way I explained in plain English why I couldn't support it and offered to find an HP with similar features. He ended up with an HP with a high res, high contrast display that worked with a slightly tweaked version of our standard image. It was about 8oz heavier than the Sony but otherwise pretty comparable.
There's a patch available and it's called a volume license key disk. I NEVER use the factory default image which is why I can't support Sony Vaio's despite the fact that I like the hardware, they don't provide a way of taking a VLK disk and getting a working machines you HAVE to install from the recovery disk.
Wow, not all web developers are webmonkeys, at least one actually paid attention in CS class =) kudos.
I just picked it up a couple weeks ago so I avoided all the problems people seem to have had with patch 0. It's terribly addictive in the same way Diablo 2 was for me and I haven't even started playing hardcore yet =) Of course the people I played with was one of the things that kept me playing D2 for over 2 years and Hellgate doesn't seem to have quite the same community around it as D2 did.
Yeah that was a typo.
The US produces only 50% more power from nuclear than France and France only has 20% of the population. Of course oil is hardly used for power production, it's mostly for transportation with fertilizer being the second biggest use AFAIK.
It wouldn't matter WHAT the fuel is, if it's fissile enough to produce 200kW then it can be made into a dirty bomb. The fact is if a terrorist wanted to they could buy old smoke detectors through front company and pack the americurium around an explosive and make a dirty bomb.
Yeah my problem with this concept is what percentage of the world doesn't have to potential for SOME kind of natural disaster? Japan has earthquakes and typhoons, most of the world has at least some chance of tornado's, etc. Unless these thing are designed to take 300mph hits by large object and a large building falling on them I can't see how regulators can possibly allow them to be sold.
I haven't run it on a truly low end machine since the early 1.x days but back then it would run fine for about a week on a win2k machine with a P3 266 and 192MB of ram, anything older than that isn't worth powering up. I'm currently typing on a IBM T30 with 512MB and have had the browser open for about two months, it's using 144MB of ram with about 30 tabs open. Firefox isn't perfect but compared to most browsers (especially those that came before it) it's damn good.
I was talking about 3 line cards for the 9500 series, not 3 HBA's! By the time you buy the chassis, PSU's and sup(s) you have a LOT of sunk cost if you are going with less than 96 ports.
That's not far off from what Cuyahoga County Ohio is planning to do for the upcoming primaries. They are proposing to drop the error prone, insecure electronic machines they spent millions on and going to photo-scan sheets similar to those used for basically all standardized testing in the US. The known error rate for those machines is lower than any other technology including double checked hand counting and of course you can always go the hand counting route if you want to because the forms are completely human readable.
Dude are you such a weenie that you can't enjoy a pretty damn good film adaptation of a large book?