I assume they use H.264 or a variant of it (or will in the future). At even 3Mbps H.264 is superior to MPEG2 at the common DVD bitrate of ~7Mbps, at 5Mbps it would absolutely destroy MPEG2. The problem is cost of delivery at 5Mbps. An OC12 delivers 612Mbps, that would service 124 users at 5Mbps, it costs ~$25,000/month that means that even at an oversubscription rate of 10/1 your cost of bandwidth is still ~$20/month per user. I know bandwidth gets cheaper as you buy more but I don't think you'd even half that cost, so with storage and servers and the datacenters to support them it would be quite difficult to earn much profit doing it at 5Mbps with current pricing.
You DO know that the USPS is actually a private company with a congressional charter, right? Btw only the minority of private companies have shareholders, the majority or sole proprietorships. I think you were thinking of PUBLIC companies.
Huh? HD-DVD has the same MS patent encumbered codecs as BRD, which is why this article is BS. MS stands to make WAY more from patent licensing for the winning format then they do through some scheme to take over the online download business, because they are already locked into the codec business for the HD formats but there is no clear winner(s) in the online realm other than the omnipresent DivX.
Most of the "forensic guys" use a COTS software package to look at your Windows, Outlook and IM logs, throw something as trivial as Linux at them and they are lost, asking them to try to look through the MRAM of ASIC's would be funny. Sure if you're a high profile suspect for the FBI/CIA there's a chance someone with the knowledge will look at those things, but very few of us have that much to worry about.
It has little to do with resource usage and more to do with disk seeks. Using a SAN analyzer to watch a system boot is quite informative, even on a good SAN with 15K disks you only get a fraction of the theoretical throughput because the system does so many random seeks at boot time. MS has tried to address this with the boot time optimizers in XP and Vista with mixed success.
Write endurance is already good enough for quality flash that at interface speed it would take 20+ years to wear out the chip with wear leveling. Not only that but you have to remember that data is a gas, it expands to fill its container.
Huh? MRAM has been the next big thing as long as I've been in the IT industry, coming up on a decade and a half. Noone has figured out how to make them cheaply and with enough storage space to rival flash or SRAM.
I prefer MS Office because the spreadsheet in OpenOffice is a toy by comparison. The wordprocessor is superior to Word. and I don't have much experience with the Access or Powerpoint equivalent. I don't use those much in Office either. But there's definitely no tool that I've seen in the open source world to compare with Visio (a production MS bought).
Huh, DEC's FX!32 did both in the 90's to allow NT4 x86 programs to be run and then dynamically recompiled for use on the Alpha port of NT. That's one piece of software I wished were opensourced, I think a lot could be learned from it. Of course not all of the IP in it may have belonged to DEC, but most of it did since they had the best compiler guys in the business at the time.
Sort of, the AUP for NSFNet did not allow for commercial use of the network, there could be communications between.com's but not for commercial purposes, ie if two defense contractors needed to work on a joint project that would be ok but not for one contractor to solicit business from another. That changed in 1988 which MCI Mail was experimentally hooked to the network, so not too long after the.com TLD.
Huh? Those are full height HDD's, no way is that from 2004! 1994 I might believe but I don't believe there were ANY manufacturers of full height HDD's by 2000.
I don't disagree with you completely, but there was a very good reason to stop the ownership of space at the time those treaties were signed, it was to stop a new arms race. Space is the ultimate high ground and no sane person wanted to see the militarization of space because that's what's needed to hold onto to ownership, force.
nearly unlimited power and far more valuable metals that have been mined in the history of mankind, I'de say space exploration will pay huge dividends in the end. In fact in probably about the same timeframe as the exploration of the Americas if we actually put the resources into it.
That and we're doing it on the cheap. Even at the height of the Apollo program we were still spending less as a percentage of GDP on exploration than the Spanish had during Columbus's time or the Persians or Romans had during their time. Americans like to think of ourselves as explorers, but as a nation we really aren't really into funding exploration like many of our predecessors, we're a lot more like China, fairly isolationists with occasional small forays outside.
More importantly the real value of the dollar has almost nothing to do with the money in circulation, only a small fraction of the dollars out there are physically in existence, the rest are just digits in computers. The value of those bits is determined primarily by the fed funds rate and the trading ratio of the dollar to other world currencies.
Funny enough Google apps has exactly what you want, you can "Download user list as CSV" you could then reset all user passwords to whatever you wanted via the bulk user change. Combine with an MTA script and suddenly you can take everything wherever you want.
If OWIG has any sense at ALL he sends an email confirming that the boss is asking him to install software without a license due to budgetary concerns, bcc'ing his home account and prints out a datastamped copy of the the read receipt. Unless you are an intern or an idiot you very quickly learn to CYA. Sure I've gotten yelled at for sending such emails, but I've never been fired for such and would have a strong case for wrongful termination even in at at will state.
Tower Minnesota got down to -60F which is ~-51C, Prospect Creek Alaska got down to -80 which is ~-62C. Those temps are fairly recent too, 1996 and 1971, link.
Actually I imagine it has to do with the cell tower locations not the cell network. They want to use the emergency generators and landline facilities as well as the towers themselves.
Uh, they DO have just such a service, it's called Acela Express and it links Boston - New York - Philadelphia - Washington, DC at speeds up to 150MPH. You can go from Penn to Union in as little as 2:45. The next step should be to upgrade the lines along the Capitol Limited line which links Washington DC to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago. See this link for the Accela route and this link for all of Amtrack's NE/midwest routes.
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If you were doing real database work on a well run DB you wouldn't have been able to take the DB down =) Real DB's have resource limiters that allow the DBA to insure that no one user can exhaust resources to the point of taking the DB down. We even limit the percentage of system resources a user can take just to make sure that one bad report doesn't slow down OLTP processing. I'm not the DBA but I know enough to know that there are toys and then there are real business tools.
Yeah that was my thought too. Just enough knowledge to be really dangerous. Instead of using the enterprise servers costing tons of $ and maintained by highly paid, very knowledgeable professionals you get someone who's an amature that wastes tons of not quite as valuable time doing it themselves. And in the end the database(s) created by the amatures end up needing to be unraveled by highly paid developers and the same DBA's that should have handled it in the first place at the cost of many times what it would have cost to do right the first time. Obviously this doesn't apply if you're learning for the enjoyment of it or to power your own personal website, but too many times I've seen the MS Access affect in action and it costs many times more to clean up the mess than it would have to do it right from the getgo.
Yeah really, there were no replies when I clicked the link and it was already dead. Either this was already posted at fark or digg or their servers are just horrible.
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I assume they use H.264 or a variant of it (or will in the future). At even 3Mbps H.264 is superior to MPEG2 at the common DVD bitrate of ~7Mbps, at 5Mbps it would absolutely destroy MPEG2. The problem is cost of delivery at 5Mbps. An OC12 delivers 612Mbps, that would service 124 users at 5Mbps, it costs ~$25,000/month that means that even at an oversubscription rate of 10/1 your cost of bandwidth is still ~$20/month per user. I know bandwidth gets cheaper as you buy more but I don't think you'd even half that cost, so with storage and servers and the datacenters to support them it would be quite difficult to earn much profit doing it at 5Mbps with current pricing.
You DO know that the USPS is actually a private company with a congressional charter, right? Btw only the minority of private companies have shareholders, the majority or sole proprietorships. I think you were thinking of PUBLIC companies.
Huh? HD-DVD has the same MS patent encumbered codecs as BRD, which is why this article is BS. MS stands to make WAY more from patent licensing for the winning format then they do through some scheme to take over the online download business, because they are already locked into the codec business for the HD formats but there is no clear winner(s) in the online realm other than the omnipresent DivX.
Most of the "forensic guys" use a COTS software package to look at your Windows, Outlook and IM logs, throw something as trivial as Linux at them and they are lost, asking them to try to look through the MRAM of ASIC's would be funny. Sure if you're a high profile suspect for the FBI/CIA there's a chance someone with the knowledge will look at those things, but very few of us have that much to worry about.
It has little to do with resource usage and more to do with disk seeks. Using a SAN analyzer to watch a system boot is quite informative, even on a good SAN with 15K disks you only get a fraction of the theoretical throughput because the system does so many random seeks at boot time. MS has tried to address this with the boot time optimizers in XP and Vista with mixed success.
Write endurance is already good enough for quality flash that at interface speed it would take 20+ years to wear out the chip with wear leveling. Not only that but you have to remember that data is a gas, it expands to fill its container.
however the technology is quite young
Huh? MRAM has been the next big thing as long as I've been in the IT industry, coming up on a decade and a half. Noone has figured out how to make them cheaply and with enough storage space to rival flash or SRAM.
I prefer MS Office because the spreadsheet in OpenOffice is a toy by comparison. The wordprocessor is superior to Word. and I don't have much experience with the Access or Powerpoint equivalent. I don't use those much in Office either. But there's definitely no tool that I've seen in the open source world to compare with Visio (a production MS bought).
Huh, DEC's FX!32 did both in the 90's to allow NT4 x86 programs to be run and then dynamically recompiled for use on the Alpha port of NT. That's one piece of software I wished were opensourced, I think a lot could be learned from it. Of course not all of the IP in it may have belonged to DEC, but most of it did since they had the best compiler guys in the business at the time.
Sort of, the AUP for NSFNet did not allow for commercial use of the network, there could be communications between .com's but not for commercial purposes, ie if two defense contractors needed to work on a joint project that would be ok but not for one contractor to solicit business from another. That changed in 1988 which MCI Mail was experimentally hooked to the network, so not too long after the .com TLD.
Huh? Those are full height HDD's, no way is that from 2004! 1994 I might believe but I don't believe there were ANY manufacturers of full height HDD's by 2000.
I don't disagree with you completely, but there was a very good reason to stop the ownership of space at the time those treaties were signed, it was to stop a new arms race. Space is the ultimate high ground and no sane person wanted to see the militarization of space because that's what's needed to hold onto to ownership, force.
nearly unlimited power and far more valuable metals that have been mined in the history of mankind, I'de say space exploration will pay huge dividends in the end. In fact in probably about the same timeframe as the exploration of the Americas if we actually put the resources into it.
That and we're doing it on the cheap. Even at the height of the Apollo program we were still spending less as a percentage of GDP on exploration than the Spanish had during Columbus's time or the Persians or Romans had during their time. Americans like to think of ourselves as explorers, but as a nation we really aren't really into funding exploration like many of our predecessors, we're a lot more like China, fairly isolationists with occasional small forays outside.
More importantly the real value of the dollar has almost nothing to do with the money in circulation, only a small fraction of the dollars out there are physically in existence, the rest are just digits in computers. The value of those bits is determined primarily by the fed funds rate and the trading ratio of the dollar to other world currencies.
Funny enough Google apps has exactly what you want, you can "Download user list as CSV" you could then reset all user passwords to whatever you wanted via the bulk user change. Combine with an MTA script and suddenly you can take everything wherever you want.
Gmail doesn't even use SSL while you are reading your mail.
Sure it can, just use https://mail.google.com/ I use better gmail for firefox so even if I forget it only goes to the SSL protected site.
If OWIG has any sense at ALL he sends an email confirming that the boss is asking him to install software without a license due to budgetary concerns, bcc'ing his home account and prints out a datastamped copy of the the read receipt. Unless you are an intern or an idiot you very quickly learn to CYA. Sure I've gotten yelled at for sending such emails, but I've never been fired for such and would have a strong case for wrongful termination even in at at will state.
Tower Minnesota got down to -60F which is ~-51C, Prospect Creek Alaska got down to -80 which is ~-62C. Those temps are fairly recent too, 1996 and 1971, link.
Actually I imagine it has to do with the cell tower locations not the cell network. They want to use the emergency generators and landline facilities as well as the towers themselves.
Don't fly out of Newark/Atlanta/O'Hare/JFK/BOS/DFW much do you? All are considerably worse than Philly.
Uh, they DO have just such a service, it's called Acela Express and it links Boston - New York - Philadelphia - Washington, DC at speeds up to 150MPH. You can go from Penn to Union in as little as 2:45. The next step should be to upgrade the lines along the Capitol Limited line which links Washington DC to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago. See this link for the Accela route and this link for all of Amtrack's NE/midwest routes.
If you were doing real database work on a well run DB you wouldn't have been able to take the DB down =) Real DB's have resource limiters that allow the DBA to insure that no one user can exhaust resources to the point of taking the DB down. We even limit the percentage of system resources a user can take just to make sure that one bad report doesn't slow down OLTP processing. I'm not the DBA but I know enough to know that there are toys and then there are real business tools.
Yeah that was my thought too. Just enough knowledge to be really dangerous. Instead of using the enterprise servers costing tons of $ and maintained by highly paid, very knowledgeable professionals you get someone who's an amature that wastes tons of not quite as valuable time doing it themselves. And in the end the database(s) created by the amatures end up needing to be unraveled by highly paid developers and the same DBA's that should have handled it in the first place at the cost of many times what it would have cost to do right the first time. Obviously this doesn't apply if you're learning for the enjoyment of it or to power your own personal website, but too many times I've seen the MS Access affect in action and it costs many times more to clean up the mess than it would have to do it right from the getgo.
Yeah really, there were no replies when I clicked the link and it was already dead. Either this was already posted at fark or digg or their servers are just horrible.