I don't know French law but under US law you have to abuse a monopoly position in order to get your wrist slapped (see Microsoft), simply having a monopoly does not place any burden on you. Natural monopolies are not a bad thing, if you have a superior product and the market naturally flows most of the business your way then you have been a good capatalist and produced a superior product at a price point that most of the market will bear.
Yes because you know that I have to present ID and have that information logged whenever I look at any periodical at the universities science research library. /sarcasm
It is impossible to find out everyone who is trying to obtain information, and we really shouldn't try unless we have a specific need. Besides if research is deemed to be dangerous the goverment can and does ask the researcher not to publish in a public forum, see just about any nuclear research during WWII, even if it wasn't classified it was squelched. This information is already being deceminated, the question is merely one of cost for those who wish to access the info.
The problem is that the SID gets copied. However in a domain environment you are going to be renaming the machine and joining it to the domain. Which coincidently changes the SID for the machine, hench a complete lack of a problem. As anyone who has used Norton Ghost to clone machines in a corp environment can tell you. Personally I like TrueImage because it can backup a server while it is live, great for those times when you have a dying HDD and you don't dare shut the machine down =)
That's funny because not even IBM field tech's do those sorts of repairs. We had a line of servers with the bad caps that went out to a large customer. Once the line was identified an engineering change was sent out with new replacement motherboards. We simply unseated the CPU and placed it and the peripherals on the new motherboard and sent the old ones back, they were probably remanufactured somewhere with new caps but it sure wasn't done by anyone doing PC work, our time was too valuable for that.
Yep, my conclusion when looking into the issues surrounding my SB Live and KT133A based mobo was that neither VIA nor Creative hardware engineers could read. They both did retarded things which were complely counter to the PCI 2.1 spec. This was also the conclusion of a hardware engineering friend of mine who looked at what was going on at the electrical level (I was looking at it from the perspective of transfer modes and interrupts). Since then I have only used SiS or NForce boards for my Athlon and Opteron systems, I've heard that VIA has improved their products but I'm not willing to go back after finding such fundemental problems as non-compliance with published open specs.
Uh, the world manned balloon record altitude is 34,668 m, not... record setters go up to (40+km)., and most circumavigation attempts are at MUCH lower altitudes, the first sucessfull one the Breitling Orbiter hit a max altitude of 11,737 m, or aprox half the altitude that Wild Fire is shooting for. Stats are here, and here. So yes, I do think that wind will be a significant impediment to the sucessfull launch, relaunch, and commercial success of the Wild Fire approach. As to the bomb thing, I was trying to put the danger of the ballooning in perspective for those who thought it was a big risk, it's not compared to strapping yourself to a rocket, just about any rocket.
Look at the sucess rate for super high altitude dirigible flights with respect to circumnavigation, not very impressive. Hell half the time they fail to even get off the ground due to winds exceeding a couple miles per hour. That's not the kind of thing that a commercial launch concern is going to want to use, and not something likely to win a fast turnaround race with scaled composites. Of course as far as safety is concerned I wouldn't be too worried since the big bomb strapped to the balloon is a MUCH bigger concern for the sane =)
I'm not so sure. With the ability of viewing things with historic hindsight I think the NSA may be far more advanced then the tinfoil hat crowd wants to believe. For instance the sbox modifications to DES that the NSA helped protect against techniques that the public sector wouldn't rediscover for almost 30 years.
2) The editor. This is already pretty sophisticated. New features added should be added as an update to an already feature rich application, since you can't add much more to it already.
After having spent almost all of my free time for six months in the editor I can tell you that it leaves a LOT to be desired. The basics of the scripting engine are wonderfull, but the conversation editor is quite weak, custom content creation is painfull, area creation is a chore with no provision for any randomness, etc. Getting information into the game from outside is too dificult and module size quickly grows out of controll. Most of that would be difficult to fix without major changes to the engine.
Even the best HDD's hit only 60MB/s on the outside of the platters. That's a 15K RPM medium (by todays standards) density HDD. The best IDE high density HDD is the Maxtor Maxline 300GB SATA drive with an outside transfer of only 38MB/s this is a 7200RPM 100GB/platter drive. Assuming linear growth in transfer in relation to density even 200GB/platter won't hit 100MB/s @ 7200 RPM. All numbers are from storage review's performance database.
Be carefull, if you have a single 2k3 DC and it goes down you can end up with problems because the remaining DC's won't understand some of the objects in the extended schema. I think this only happens with things like an exchange2k3 server running as a member sever but I remember there being risks to running a mixed environment. I agree with you 100% on the resource kit =)
The reason that Datacenter Server is not supported is that NOTHING is supported on Datacenter Server unless your OEM supports it and has tested it. Things don't just get installed on DCS, they get tested and retested before you even think about deploying them. The support list for MS products on DCS is basically just a first point to see if you should even bother asking your OEM to check it out. Besides noone in their right mind is going to run Express on something the size of DCS, you're already paying hundreds of thousands to millions for the box and support, the MS-SQL licenses are not going to be much of a factor.
Uh, MySQL falls over about once a month on slashdot. You know it's happened when any link you visit comes up with a static version of the home page. Slashdot is not what I would call a glowing example for the stability of MySQL.
Dear god don't use Access for anything. At the very least use JET, or preferably use the freely downloadable and redistributable MS Data Engine, it's basically SQL Server Lite.
Nope, because if the PHB is tied to Outlook (they invariably are), then trying to sell a solution that doesn't work with Outlook is a non-starter. Getting them onto something different on the back end and then trying to ween them off of Outlook makes a lot more sense since the cost is in the CAL's for Exchange.
That's implied. Understanding anything beyond the basics makes me good in most of my clients eyes. The first time I undelete a file or pull the auto-archive up I become a god =)
Ah, but speed DOES matter. If you use XP for any amount of time during the day (I used it about 8-12 hours a day most days) then you can save yourself several minutes a day of pointless waiting by turning off the damn fade effects. WHY that pointless idiocy is turned on by default I will never understand. I ALWAYS turn it off as the first thing I do on a computer and clients always comment on how much snappier their computer seems. I tell them it's because their PC isn't spending a half second doing nothing every time they click on a menu.
Yes, if part of my job as a sysadmin is to monitor and report abuse then most certainly installing software designed to do just that is apropriate. Near me a city IT employee was cleaning a departments computer which was not functioning correctly, in the course of investigating the problem he ran across spyware and found out that it had been installed by a porn site that was in the browser history. The result of the insuing investigation was that the fire chief and several of his employees were fired for abuse of city resources in violation of written policy. When you are abusing the publics trust by goofing off on the job despite it being a violation of policy which you undoubtedly signed you should be fired, not the guy doing his job and catching you.
Nah, I already watch my niece several days a week (mother is fortunatly single as the sperm donor is rotting in jail where he belongs) and I have zero problems with hauling them both around in my Taurus.
According to this site Infiniband is about 2-4x slower than local CPU to CPU copy on an Itanium 2 (for values that fit into CPU cache, for some values larger than the cache it is actually faster to go across the Infiniband link!) and about 10x faster than messaging over GigE.
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I don't know French law but under US law you have to abuse a monopoly position in order to get your wrist slapped (see Microsoft), simply having a monopoly does not place any burden on you. Natural monopolies are not a bad thing, if you have a superior product and the market naturally flows most of the business your way then you have been a good capatalist and produced a superior product at a price point that most of the market will bear.
Yes because you know that I have to present ID and have that information logged whenever I look at any periodical at the universities science research library.
/sarcasm
It is impossible to find out everyone who is trying to obtain information, and we really shouldn't try unless we have a specific need. Besides if research is deemed to be dangerous the goverment can and does ask the researcher not to publish in a public forum, see just about any nuclear research during WWII, even if it wasn't classified it was squelched. This information is already being deceminated, the question is merely one of cost for those who wish to access the info.
The problem is that the SID gets copied. However in a domain environment you are going to be renaming the machine and joining it to the domain. Which coincidently changes the SID for the machine, hench a complete lack of a problem. As anyone who has used Norton Ghost to clone machines in a corp environment can tell you. Personally I like TrueImage because it can backup a server while it is live, great for those times when you have a dying HDD and you don't dare shut the machine down =)
That's funny because not even IBM field tech's do those sorts of repairs. We had a line of servers with the bad caps that went out to a large customer. Once the line was identified an engineering change was sent out with new replacement motherboards. We simply unseated the CPU and placed it and the peripherals on the new motherboard and sent the old ones back, they were probably remanufactured somewhere with new caps but it sure wasn't done by anyone doing PC work, our time was too valuable for that.
Oh how I wish I had mod points tonight, that's damn funny.
Yep, my conclusion when looking into the issues surrounding my SB Live and KT133A based mobo was that neither VIA nor Creative hardware engineers could read. They both did retarded things which were complely counter to the PCI 2.1 spec. This was also the conclusion of a hardware engineering friend of mine who looked at what was going on at the electrical level (I was looking at it from the perspective of transfer modes and interrupts). Since then I have only used SiS or NForce boards for my Athlon and Opteron systems, I've heard that VIA has improved their products but I'm not willing to go back after finding such fundemental problems as non-compliance with published open specs.
Uh, the world manned balloon record altitude is 34,668 m, not ... record setters go up to (40+km)., and most circumavigation attempts are at MUCH lower altitudes, the first sucessfull one the Breitling Orbiter hit a max altitude of 11,737 m, or aprox half the altitude that Wild Fire is shooting for. Stats are here, and here. So yes, I do think that wind will be a significant impediment to the sucessfull launch, relaunch, and commercial success of the Wild Fire approach. As to the bomb thing, I was trying to put the danger of the ballooning in perspective for those who thought it was a big risk, it's not compared to strapping yourself to a rocket, just about any rocket.
And what is wrong with balloon-launch, exactly?
Look at the sucess rate for super high altitude dirigible flights with respect to circumnavigation, not very impressive. Hell half the time they fail to even get off the ground due to winds exceeding a couple miles per hour. That's not the kind of thing that a commercial launch concern is going to want to use, and not something likely to win a fast turnaround race with scaled composites. Of course as far as safety is concerned I wouldn't be too worried since the big bomb strapped to the balloon is a MUCH bigger concern for the sane =)
I'm not so sure. With the ability of viewing things with historic hindsight I think the NSA may be far more advanced then the tinfoil hat crowd wants to believe. For instance the sbox modifications to DES that the NSA helped protect against techniques that the public sector wouldn't rediscover for almost 30 years.
2) The editor. This is already pretty sophisticated. New features added should be added as an update to an already feature rich application, since you can't add much more to it already.
After having spent almost all of my free time for six months in the editor I can tell you that it leaves a LOT to be desired. The basics of the scripting engine are wonderfull, but the conversation editor is quite weak, custom content creation is painfull, area creation is a chore with no provision for any randomness, etc. Getting information into the game from outside is too dificult and module size quickly grows out of controll. Most of that would be difficult to fix without major changes to the engine.
80KB/s.... I just got 350KB/s. Man do I love my Adelphia cable modem service, $27/month and insane download speeds.
Even the best HDD's hit only 60MB/s on the outside of the platters. That's a 15K RPM medium (by todays standards) density HDD. The best IDE high density HDD is the Maxtor Maxline 300GB SATA drive with an outside transfer of only 38MB/s this is a 7200RPM 100GB/platter drive. Assuming linear growth in transfer in relation to density even 200GB/platter won't hit 100MB/s @ 7200 RPM. All numbers are from storage review's performance database.
Be carefull, if you have a single 2k3 DC and it goes down you can end up with problems because the remaining DC's won't understand some of the objects in the extended schema. I think this only happens with things like an exchange2k3 server running as a member sever but I remember there being risks to running a mixed environment. I agree with you 100% on the resource kit =)
Thief, of course it really lacks the S part of FPS but it's generally lumped in the same category.
The reason that Datacenter Server is not supported is that NOTHING is supported on Datacenter Server unless your OEM supports it and has tested it. Things don't just get installed on DCS, they get tested and retested before you even think about deploying them. The support list for MS products on DCS is basically just a first point to see if you should even bother asking your OEM to check it out. Besides noone in their right mind is going to run Express on something the size of DCS, you're already paying hundreds of thousands to millions for the box and support, the MS-SQL licenses are not going to be much of a factor.
Uh, MySQL falls over about once a month on slashdot. You know it's happened when any link you visit comes up with a static version of the home page. Slashdot is not what I would call a glowing example for the stability of MySQL.
Dear god don't use Access for anything. At the very least use JET, or preferably use the freely downloadable and redistributable MS Data Engine, it's basically SQL Server Lite.
Nope, because if the PHB is tied to Outlook (they invariably are), then trying to sell a solution that doesn't work with Outlook is a non-starter. Getting them onto something different on the back end and then trying to ween them off of Outlook makes a lot more sense since the cost is in the CAL's for Exchange.
Nah, in general any savings on RAM refresh will be outweighed by increased disk activity unless you are never hitting the hdd anyways.
That's implied. Understanding anything beyond the basics makes me good in most of my clients eyes. The first time I undelete a file or pull the auto-archive up I become a god =)
Ah, but speed DOES matter. If you use XP for any amount of time during the day (I used it about 8-12 hours a day most days) then you can save yourself several minutes a day of pointless waiting by turning off the damn fade effects. WHY that pointless idiocy is turned on by default I will never understand. I ALWAYS turn it off as the first thing I do on a computer and clients always comment on how much snappier their computer seems. I tell them it's because their PC isn't spending a half second doing nothing every time they click on a menu.
here is probably the ULTIMATE real life test. CF in a metal body camera apears to be virtually indistructable.
Yes, if part of my job as a sysadmin is to monitor and report abuse then most certainly installing software designed to do just that is apropriate. Near me a city IT employee was cleaning a departments computer which was not functioning correctly, in the course of investigating the problem he ran across spyware and found out that it had been installed by a porn site that was in the browser history. The result of the insuing investigation was that the fire chief and several of his employees were fired for abuse of city resources in violation of written policy. When you are abusing the publics trust by goofing off on the job despite it being a violation of policy which you undoubtedly signed you should be fired, not the guy doing his job and catching you.
Nah, I already watch my niece several days a week (mother is fortunatly single as the sperm donor is rotting in jail where he belongs) and I have zero problems with hauling them both around in my Taurus.
According to this site Infiniband is about 2-4x slower than local CPU to CPU copy on an Itanium 2 (for values that fit into CPU cache, for some values larger than the cache it is actually faster to go across the Infiniband link!) and about 10x faster than messaging over GigE.