Transactions are required for Reliable databases and filesystems. If you don't mind occassional corruption then you can throw out transactions, otherwise you need them and you need to eat the cost (memory, access speed, cpu overhead, whatever). Since PC's are generally faster then most people need at the moment making them more reliable seems like a worthwhile goal.
That would impact people driving around, but would still make my idea workable in terms of people who listen to the radio at home.
Which is almost no one, check the Nielson ratings, the only time a significant number of people listen to radio is when they are essentially a captive audience, during the drivetime.
Reagan might have been a decent person, but he was a COMPLETE IDIOT, so having shady people around him is the worst kind of presidency possible, a person unqualified to lead the country surrounded by people who should be in jail or dead not helping the idiot run things.
Yes but sending 50 SDLT-320 tapes overnight every day for a month is 480TB a month, and would only cost you about $1,000 per month and $4,500 one time cost for the tapes, compare that to the cost of a WAN connection that could do 16TB overnight =)
I think he's talking about instant updates for remote locations like UPS drivers, delivery drivers, etc. Of course there are already solutions for this with things like embeded palms or blackberries, but bringing the costs down to that of a simple cellphone doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
Differential GPS with augmentation is capable or 1cm accuracy. MIT has an autonomous helicopter that pilots based on such a system. It is able to navigate a 3D course, pick up cargo and drop it in a small target zone based just on the GPS information.
Hey I never looked at an ad and I was rewarded with a free barcode scanner that allowed me to build a little database to track the ~500 tapes in our autochanger and the storage bins. This way when I have to go look for old tapes that Veritas tells me can now be reused I don't have to look through every tape, I just put the label numbers into the DB and it tells me which bin and tray they are in.
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converts between the Outlook native MAPI calls and WebDAV calls.
Grammatica is by FAR the best grammer checker ever written. The reason being that the guys that wrote it weren't simply programmers, many of them were also Phd's in English. As far as pdf's go the specification is free and open just check Adobe's site
When I tried to turn on encryption on my Nokia phone using AT&T's system it warned me on every connection that encryption was not active. My home network aparantly has encryption turned off, I believe this is true of the entire AT&T network.
They can already do this, in fact at least one phone companies policy on E-911 involves making modest upgrades to their basestation network to allow triangulation of customer devices to lead police or EMS units to the phones location when a 911 call is made.
They turn it off by having the basestation refuse the handshake, at that point the only thing the phone could do is refuse to make a connection. My question would be why they would do this, it's easier for intelligence services to just request a tap at the basestation then try to recreate the conversation from the digital signal.
The nuclear materials database was found to suffer from flaws in Microsoft's SQL server back in 2001. This series of flaws led to the amount of tracked materials being incorrectly reported although the actual information was being tracked correctly. The origional slashdot article can be found Here.
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The W3C has a ton of online resources linked from their learning CSS page Here
No, the page is not logic friendly, the left and right columns have absolute pixel values for widths and the middle column has no stated size, Mozilla renders it as requested while still fitting the page in the screen width, IE just does what it wants (and aparantly so does Konqueror).
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Whoever wrote that page is an idiot, first off the use tables for formatting (ugh), then they set the left and right columns to 720 pixels each absolute values rather than %ages. IE aparantly just ignores the width declaration and renders it how it wishes.
Which is if you don't understand the lingo anything on the shelf will probably meet your needs, now pick the one you like the look of and which fits into your budget? Really for a first PC to do email, write some letters, or surfing the web anything you can find in a retail establishment will fullfill your needs. By the time you need a more powerfull PC you will probably know most of the lingo or be able to find the info if you don't.
I see now that it is in fact an issue with AGP 1-2X cards that are not keyed for AGP 1.5V operation. I had tried to use a 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 with a new motherboard and that is where the information came from.
Nope, AGP 8X is keyed the reverse of AGP 1-4X, basically turn the pin order around and you see what an AGP 8X slot looks like. I believe they did this because of voltage differences between AGP 1-4X and 8X.
Because I can get an Athlon XP 2600+ for $91, but to get a new mobo, 1.5GB of DDR ram, and an AGP 8X video card would be over $400?? My current rig is an Athlon 1.2Ghz with 1.5GB of PC-133 and a Geforce3 Ti, but the ram and video card would not work on most modern motherboards so this would be a cost effective way for me to more than double my cpu power.
While this is true, if a store is in fact selling to retail customers they will often be forced into a minimum waranty by state law. I believe the legal term is fitness for sale, if you are selling a product you are by default guarenteeing that it is going to work for some minimum amount of time. Now this does not cover customer abuse but unless they can prove abuse it is unlikely that they will be able to weasel out of it.
Guess it must be a deeply entrenched culture of PHB'ness at Adobe then because I've heard these same type of comments from large scale users and developers since the days of Photoshop 3. Adobe really has some great coders and great products but the whole corporate culture just sucks majorly. Ultimitly if you piss off your developers AND your customers you are in for a rude awakening.
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Transactions are required for Reliable databases and filesystems. If you don't mind occassional corruption then you can throw out transactions, otherwise you need them and you need to eat the cost (memory, access speed, cpu overhead, whatever). Since PC's are generally faster then most people need at the moment making them more reliable seems like a worthwhile goal.
That would impact people driving around, but would still make my idea workable in terms of people who listen to the radio at home.
Which is almost no one, check the Nielson ratings, the only time a significant number of people listen to radio is when they are essentially a captive audience, during the drivetime.
Reagan might have been a decent person, but he was a COMPLETE IDIOT, so having shady people around him is the worst kind of presidency possible, a person unqualified to lead the country surrounded by people who should be in jail or dead not helping the idiot run things.
Then setup incoming HTTP to accept data files, if they force everything through port 80 then take advantage of what they give you =)
Damn and I thought the 140+ mph for the turbo Volvo S80 was crazy =)
Yes but sending 50 SDLT-320 tapes overnight every day for a month is 480TB a month, and would only cost you about $1,000 per month and $4,500 one time cost for the tapes, compare that to the cost of a WAN connection that could do 16TB overnight =)
I think he's talking about instant updates for remote locations like UPS drivers, delivery drivers, etc. Of course there are already solutions for this with things like embeded palms or blackberries, but bringing the costs down to that of a simple cellphone doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
Differential GPS with augmentation is capable or 1cm accuracy. MIT has an autonomous helicopter that pilots based on such a system. It is able to navigate a 3D course, pick up cargo and drop it in a small target zone based just on the GPS information.
Yes you are, and I'll be right beside you laughing hysterically =)
Hey I never looked at an ad and I was rewarded with a free barcode scanner that allowed me to build a little database to track the ~500 tapes in our autochanger and the storage bins. This way when I have to go look for old tapes that Veritas tells me can now be reused I don't have to look through every tape, I just put the label numbers into the DB and it tells me which bin and tray they are in.
converts between the Outlook native MAPI calls and WebDAV calls.
Grammatica is by FAR the best grammer checker ever written. The reason being that the guys that wrote it weren't simply programmers, many of them were also Phd's in English. As far as pdf's go the specification is free and open just check Adobe's site
When I tried to turn on encryption on my Nokia phone using AT&T's system it warned me on every connection that encryption was not active. My home network aparantly has encryption turned off, I believe this is true of the entire AT&T network.
They can already do this, in fact at least one phone companies policy on E-911 involves making modest upgrades to their basestation network to allow triangulation of customer devices to lead police or EMS units to the phones location when a 911 call is made.
They turn it off by having the basestation refuse the handshake, at that point the only thing the phone could do is refuse to make a connection. My question would be why they would do this, it's easier for intelligence services to just request a tap at the basestation then try to recreate the conversation from the digital signal.
The nuclear materials database was found to suffer from flaws in Microsoft's SQL server back in 2001. This series of flaws led to the amount of tracked materials being incorrectly reported although the actual information was being tracked correctly. The origional slashdot article can be found Here.
The W3C has a ton of online resources linked from their learning CSS page Here
No, the page is not logic friendly, the left and right columns have absolute pixel values for widths and the middle column has no stated size, Mozilla renders it as requested while still fitting the page in the screen width, IE just does what it wants (and aparantly so does Konqueror).
Whoever wrote that page is an idiot, first off the use tables for formatting (ugh), then they set the left and right columns to 720 pixels each absolute values rather than %ages. IE aparantly just ignores the width declaration and renders it how it wishes.
Which is if you don't understand the lingo anything on the shelf will probably meet your needs, now pick the one you like the look of and which fits into your budget? Really for a first PC to do email, write some letters, or surfing the web anything you can find in a retail establishment will fullfill your needs. By the time you need a more powerfull PC you will probably know most of the lingo or be able to find the info if you don't.
I see now that it is in fact an issue with AGP 1-2X cards that are not keyed for AGP 1.5V operation. I had tried to use a 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 with a new motherboard and that is where the information came from.
Nope, AGP 8X is keyed the reverse of AGP 1-4X, basically turn the pin order around and you see what an AGP 8X slot looks like. I believe they did this because of voltage differences between AGP 1-4X and 8X.
Because I can get an Athlon XP 2600+ for $91, but to get a new mobo, 1.5GB of DDR ram, and an AGP 8X video card would be over $400?? My current rig is an Athlon 1.2Ghz with 1.5GB of PC-133 and a Geforce3 Ti, but the ram and video card would not work on most modern motherboards so this would be a cost effective way for me to more than double my cpu power.
While this is true, if a store is in fact selling to retail customers they will often be forced into a minimum waranty by state law. I believe the legal term is fitness for sale, if you are selling a product you are by default guarenteeing that it is going to work for some minimum amount of time. Now this does not cover customer abuse but unless they can prove abuse it is unlikely that they will be able to weasel out of it.
Guess it must be a deeply entrenched culture of PHB'ness at Adobe then because I've heard these same type of comments from large scale users and developers since the days of Photoshop 3. Adobe really has some great coders and great products but the whole corporate culture just sucks majorly. Ultimitly if you piss off your developers AND your customers you are in for a rude awakening.