Why didn't you get the system which supports GLONASS. If you are paying the kind of money for that level of accuracy it's generally not that expensive to add support for multisystem inputs.
In the case of the Pentagon I assume it is to keep someone from hitting the nuclear generator with a tunneling warhead. Of course no one with the technology to make a tunneling warhead is going to use it without also carpet bombing with MIRV nuclear warheads so protecting the generator is a little moot.
You obviously say that as someone who has never been involved with a piece of communications gear. While software radios and wideband PHI's are starting to be developed today, traditional comm gear has very specially tuned PHI's which can only recieve fairly narrow ranges of signals . These are combined with antenna's which are tuned to the same fairly narrow band of signals to allow ideal amplification and beam focus. Trying to do wide ranging signals with the accuracy needed to communicate over distances measured in AU's just wouldn't work.
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The estimate for the shuttle was one loss in one hundred missions (Challenger doesn't count from my perspective since it was stupid politico administrators overriding the engineers that caused that failure). NASA says that the upgraded shuttle (after the last round of updates) is estimated at one loss in 220 missions, and that the CEV has an expected loss rate of one in 2,000 missions. Now I don't know how they can think that any large pile of explosives can have that low a failure rate I have no idea, but the origional shuttle design team was just abour right on the money so they may have a clue on this one =)
Jesus christ, mod the man up. I'm almost ashamed to be a Symantec customer after that kind of crap. Of course the fact that they make a decent AV product and now own the best backup software means I'm kind of SOL since the alternatives suck even more.
God do I hear that. Novel's solution would be a lot more tempting if it wasn't for the abortion known as Groupwise. It's the single worst email solution I have ever used. When I was a consultant I winced every time I had to fix a problem on a customers Groupwise server, or even had to load the slow arse Java management console.
Yes, that is exactly what she was doing. She was a poll runner and transportation provider for the poor and disabled. She would get the list of who voted, the party would check it against their list of registered Democrats and they would contact anyone who had not yet voted and if they required transportation volunteers like my parents would drive them to the poll and back home.
Uh, manu Sub/Ex urban areas had significant lines, although nothing like the inner city polling places. The Republicans were out in force in Democratic polling districts challenging a large percentage of voters. This led to voting taking an average of nearly double what it had in the past. I personally had to wait over an hour to vote. My mother was almost arrested when she requested the listing of all Democrats that had voted in her precint, as is required by law. Luckily the county prosecuter happened to show up and told the officer that he was to do no such thing and that in fact he was requesting that the Republican challenger be removed from the voting place for illegal interference.
It has recently come to my attention that a certain program with hundreds of millions of users worldwide can be used to easily distribute copyrighted content. In fact the product as shipped from the manufacturer makes it so easy that no additional work is required on the part of the end user, they simply connect their computer to the internet and within minutes it will start to deceminate any copyrighted content it contains, and is often used by others to hold content which they do not hold a valid license for. It would disturb me greatly if you did not seek to stop this insidious program after all of the recent media attention brought to your efforts to thwart the trading of copyrighted material.
Yours truely,
A concerned citizen (please think of the clidren)
p.s. The name of the program in question is Microsoft Windows.
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Yes, but the fact is that SVG code was mature enough for inclusion back at M13 or so. For some reason Netscape really did NOT want to include it in the official builds, and the Mozilla foundation kept that tradition up until the upcoming release. Why did it take so many years to get SVG support into the official builds?
Well the Sun online store doesn't agree with you, I could not make it give me the option for four HDD's no matter what configuration changes I made. Either way only 4 10K RPM drives in a 2U enclosure sucks. And yes I am very familiar with jumpstart, and have been doing them since I was first introduced to Sun kit a decade ago, the future is yesterday =)
GM's cost per car is so high due to the fact that they have a HUGE retired base relative to their active workforce. GM's marketshare has shrunk significantly and so they are left with legacy overhead which is very much not in keeping with current production levels. None of the other auto manufacturers have anything like the problem GM does, and I highly doubt Intel does either.
Well, other than the the fact that they have a gajillion holes in their frequency response, overemphasise the mids, have no positional faithfulness, and are way overpriced, I have no problem with them. Basically for the same amount of cash you can always recieve a significantly better product with a little bit of research. After doing some studio work with great equipment, and having decent home gear, I have come to the conclusion that basically all speakers suck anyways =) I now use a pair of Sennheiser HD 555's and with a preamp they sound about as good as the $5K per speaker reference monitors at the last studio I recorded at. The only thing they lack in is really deep bass response when listening to deep house music and the like.
Let's see: IBM -problems with bad capacitors on motherboards of certain e-server models
Sun -problems with cache corruption on Ultrasparc 2 -450's that took several years for Sun to own up to
Dell -Problems with more than 2 banks of ram on 2650 servers
Those are just some of the problems I can rember off the top of my head. The fact is at some time every manufacturer has a product that has problems, to me the difference is in how they deal with it and how pervasive such problems are.
Actually only the 4200 can have 4 disks, and they top out at 72GB capacity. I just did a quick price comparison to an HP server I'm specing for next fiscal year. From Sun I get a 2U server with a single dual core cpu, 4GB of ram, 3 year 24x7 hardware only support, dual PSU's, and 4x72GB 10K rpm drives for $7,700. For about the same price from HP I can get a 2U server with dual single core cpu's, 4GB of ram, 3 year 24x7 total support, dual PSU's, and 3x146GB 15K rpm drive with room for three more drives for future expandability. At least for my application (new AD controller and file server) the HP is the hands down winner.
Actually it depends, on the XEON line for example you would want to spread your most cache starved applications to CPU's which are geographically distant (that is on different CPU bus's) due to cache coherency issues.
Well, since the weapons system that would eventually be called PATRIOT was first sucessfully test fired against a drone target at White Sands in 1975 I wouldn't say that the technology was non-existant! The technology might not have been fully matured, but I would guess that research was well under way.
Hurricanes are ephemeral, they must have near perfect conditions to even form, and must have perfect conditions to grow to be powerfull. Even a fraction of a percent of the storms energy, applied in the correct manner, could disipate or weaken the storm significantly. Something as simple as changing the reflectivity of the oceans surface over a hundred square mile area in front of a storm might be enough. Should we just throw up our hands and give up, or should we look for a way to stop some human suffering and large scale economic loss?
Generally I see this with corrupted PDF's being printed through a PCL driver. If the driver used is PS then you generally just get an invalid Postscript page =)
Yep, my coworker is running the Beta 1 build on a machine with Intel Integrated Graphics 2.0 with 512MB of unified memory, it runs just fine with Aeroglass turned on. Now I wouldn't want to multitask on it like I do with my XP workstation at work, but that's a sub $600 solution today, in a year you should be able to get a machine with double the ram for about the same price.
Anyone know if any of the code changes will make it back to the Mozilla Suite tree? Or is that officially dead as of 1.7? I would like to know because I love the integration of email and browser. I've been using the Suite style since Communicator first came out and I really like it at home. At work I use Firefox and Outlook.
GE runs Exchange. I don't know of any company that has more employees likely to use email then GE (Walmart has more employees but a LOT of them are minimum wage drones who are unlikely to need email access). If they can make it work, and work well, I don't think anyone can deny that it's enterprise ready =)
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Why didn't you get the system which supports GLONASS. If you are paying the kind of money for that level of accuracy it's generally not that expensive to add support for multisystem inputs.
In the case of the Pentagon I assume it is to keep someone from hitting the nuclear generator with a tunneling warhead. Of course no one with the technology to make a tunneling warhead is going to use it without also carpet bombing with MIRV nuclear warheads so protecting the generator is a little moot.
You obviously say that as someone who has never been involved with a piece of communications gear. While software radios and wideband PHI's are starting to be developed today, traditional comm gear has very specially tuned PHI's which can only recieve fairly narrow ranges of signals . These are combined with antenna's which are tuned to the same fairly narrow band of signals to allow ideal amplification and beam focus. Trying to do wide ranging signals with the accuracy needed to communicate over distances measured in AU's just wouldn't work.
The estimate for the shuttle was one loss in one hundred missions (Challenger doesn't count from my perspective since it was stupid politico administrators overriding the engineers that caused that failure). NASA says that the upgraded shuttle (after the last round of updates) is estimated at one loss in 220 missions, and that the CEV has an expected loss rate of one in 2,000 missions. Now I don't know how they can think that any large pile of explosives can have that low a failure rate I have no idea, but the origional shuttle design team was just abour right on the money so they may have a clue on this one =)
Jesus christ, mod the man up. I'm almost ashamed to be a Symantec customer after that kind of crap. Of course the fact that they make a decent AV product and now own the best backup software means I'm kind of SOL since the alternatives suck even more.
God do I hear that. Novel's solution would be a lot more tempting if it wasn't for the abortion known as Groupwise. It's the single worst email solution I have ever used. When I was a consultant I winced every time I had to fix a problem on a customers Groupwise server, or even had to load the slow arse Java management console.
Yes, that is exactly what she was doing. She was a poll runner and transportation provider for the poor and disabled. She would get the list of who voted, the party would check it against their list of registered Democrats and they would contact anyone who had not yet voted and if they required transportation volunteers like my parents would drive them to the poll and back home.
Uh, manu Sub/Ex urban areas had significant lines, although nothing like the inner city polling places. The Republicans were out in force in Democratic polling districts challenging a large percentage of voters. This led to voting taking an average of nearly double what it had in the past. I personally had to wait over an hour to vote. My mother was almost arrested when she requested the listing of all Democrats that had voted in her precint, as is required by law. Luckily the county prosecuter happened to show up and told the officer that he was to do no such thing and that in fact he was requesting that the Republican challenger be removed from the voting place for illegal interference.
Hmm, maybe we can get rid of Windows for good:
Dear RIAA,
It has recently come to my attention that a certain program with hundreds of millions of users worldwide can be used to easily distribute copyrighted content. In fact the product as shipped from the manufacturer makes it so easy that no additional work is required on the part of the end user, they simply connect their computer to the internet and within minutes it will start to deceminate any copyrighted content it contains, and is often used by others to hold content which they do not hold a valid license for. It would disturb me greatly if you did not seek to stop this insidious program after all of the recent media attention brought to your efforts to thwart the trading of copyrighted material.
Yours truely,
A concerned citizen (please think of the clidren)
p.s.
The name of the program in question is Microsoft Windows.
Yes, but the fact is that SVG code was mature enough for inclusion back at M13 or so. For some reason Netscape really did NOT want to include it in the official builds, and the Mozilla foundation kept that tradition up until the upcoming release. Why did it take so many years to get SVG support into the official builds?
Well the Sun online store doesn't agree with you, I could not make it give me the option for four HDD's no matter what configuration changes I made. Either way only 4 10K RPM drives in a 2U enclosure sucks. And yes I am very familiar with jumpstart, and have been doing them since I was first introduced to Sun kit a decade ago, the future is yesterday =)
GM's cost per car is so high due to the fact that they have a HUGE retired base relative to their active workforce. GM's marketshare has shrunk significantly and so they are left with legacy overhead which is very much not in keeping with current production levels. None of the other auto manufacturers have anything like the problem GM does, and I highly doubt Intel does either.
Well, other than the the fact that they have a gajillion holes in their frequency response, overemphasise the mids, have no positional faithfulness, and are way overpriced, I have no problem with them. Basically for the same amount of cash you can always recieve a significantly better product with a little bit of research. After doing some studio work with great equipment, and having decent home gear, I have come to the conclusion that basically all speakers suck anyways =) I now use a pair of Sennheiser HD 555's and with a preamp they sound about as good as the $5K per speaker reference monitors at the last studio I recorded at. The only thing they lack in is really deep bass response when listening to deep house music and the like.
Let's see:
IBM -problems with bad capacitors on motherboards of certain e-server models
Sun -problems with cache corruption on Ultrasparc 2 -450's that took several years for Sun to own up to
Dell -Problems with more than 2 banks of ram on 2650 servers
Those are just some of the problems I can rember off the top of my head. The fact is at some time every manufacturer has a product that has problems, to me the difference is in how they deal with it and how pervasive such problems are.
I'll make the typical audiophile quip: If you like the sound of Bose you have nothing to worry about, you're already deaf =)
Actually only the 4200 can have 4 disks, and they top out at 72GB capacity. I just did a quick price comparison to an HP server I'm specing for next fiscal year. From Sun I get a 2U server with a single dual core cpu, 4GB of ram, 3 year 24x7 hardware only support, dual PSU's, and 4x72GB 10K rpm drives for $7,700. For about the same price from HP I can get a 2U server with dual single core cpu's, 4GB of ram, 3 year 24x7 total support, dual PSU's, and 3x146GB 15K rpm drive with room for three more drives for future expandability. At least for my application (new AD controller and file server) the HP is the hands down winner.
Actually it depends, on the XEON line for example you would want to spread your most cache starved applications to CPU's which are geographically distant (that is on different CPU bus's) due to cache coherency issues.
Or Salesforce.com or SAP....
Well, since the weapons system that would eventually be called PATRIOT was first sucessfully test fired against a drone target at White Sands in 1975 I wouldn't say that the technology was non-existant! The technology might not have been fully matured, but I would guess that research was well under way.
For a history of PATRIOT see this page.
Hurricanes are ephemeral, they must have near perfect conditions to even form, and must have perfect conditions to grow to be powerfull. Even a fraction of a percent of the storms energy, applied in the correct manner, could disipate or weaken the storm significantly. Something as simple as changing the reflectivity of the oceans surface over a hundred square mile area in front of a storm might be enough. Should we just throw up our hands and give up, or should we look for a way to stop some human suffering and large scale economic loss?
Generally I see this with corrupted PDF's being printed through a PCL driver. If the driver used is PS then you generally just get an invalid Postscript page =)
Yep, my coworker is running the Beta 1 build on a machine with Intel Integrated Graphics 2.0 with 512MB of unified memory, it runs just fine with Aeroglass turned on. Now I wouldn't want to multitask on it like I do with my XP workstation at work, but that's a sub $600 solution today, in a year you should be able to get a machine with double the ram for about the same price.
Thanks!
Are you guys using the Mozilla Foundations Bugzilla, and if so what keywords are used? I'll be happy to test new versions.
Anyone know if any of the code changes will make it back to the Mozilla Suite tree? Or is that officially dead as of 1.7? I would like to know because I love the integration of email and browser. I've been using the Suite style since Communicator first came out and I really like it at home. At work I use Firefox and Outlook.
GE runs Exchange. I don't know of any company that has more employees likely to use email then GE (Walmart has more employees but a LOT of them are minimum wage drones who are unlikely to need email access). If they can make it work, and work well, I don't think anyone can deny that it's enterprise ready =)