Ever read the errata for RH or any other Linux distro that has been out for over a year? Yeah it's about as long as the list of updates for XP. All modern OS's have these types of issues, especially since the OS covers a heck of a lot more than just the kernel these days. Basically software sucks, hardware sucks, if you don't like it get out of computer work =)
Actually the meter is based on a certain number of wavelengths from the decay of a certain isotope of cesnium and the second is based on how long it takes to generate those wavelengths.
Take the weight of whatever base item they're are using, and multiply it by a thousand.
That IS the point. There is not currently a base item to get the measurement of the kilogram or gram. The current measurements are based on relationship of mass to the SI standard Kilo bar, which is degrading and which is impossible to reproduce in every lab that needs to weigh things, so everyone goes off of an object that is weighed in relationship to device which was compared to the official kilo bar, in the US this would mean a NIST tracable weight. This is an error prone process and is only as exact as the comparison to the standard. By basing the kilo off of a natural and reoccouring phenomenom it can be reproduced like the rest of the SI units.
Basically because disorder rules the world making a perfect sphere of just about anything is nearly impossible at the atomic level. Therefore basing the standard on such is possibly a bit foolish as recreating such will be extremely difficult if not impossible.
Hmm, that's funny. I just visited T-mobile, vodafone, and orange's pricing pages and none of them list unlimited calling. Orange has a 2000 minute plan for 185UKP per month, which is prepaying a chunk of minutes (at a fairly expensive rate I might add) not unlimited use. If they are available they aren't widely advertised, so you can hardly blame me.
umm, you can't get a T-1 from a Level 3 providers which are the only ISP's that are going to let you do as you wish. Even commercial T-1's from level 2 providers (not very common unless you are a very large national account which will be buying a ton of T-1's or larger) come with restrictive TOS's. What spammers do is go with lax or incompetant ISP's, or they just look for open relays and other means of hiding their tracks so that their ISP doesn't cut them off faster than they can sign up a new account with another ISP. The technical solutions that will work are challenge response because then the sender is tracable and can therefore be held responsible, or a micropayment infrastructure where the cost of bulk solicitation is higher than the expected return.
Hehe, but the stupid europeans haven't got unlimited use plans. I have unlimited local and long distance on my cell for only $50/month. Basically the only time I would ever pay more than that is if I took the phone with me on vacation and then roaming is like $.15/minute or so. When I was on dialup my internet usage was several thousand minutes a month, that would have cost me a fortune in europe.
The only non-compete's I've ever signed have basically stated I would not call on my current customers for 1 year after my last call with them. This is sound and reasonable, after one year much of the sway you have as an insider is gone and yet you can still work your trade with all the other potential customers out there. The consultancy I am about to start with has a blanket NCA that I have already told the owner I refuse to sign. He asks that you not practice your trade in a 50 mile radius of the HQ for 3 years. I told him I would bring forth one of my other NCA's and sign it for his company but that I would not force myself to move just because I was no longer working for him. I mean every time you move you lose a ton on realestate agent fees, mortage fees, etc. Besides I like being near my parents and my wife loves being near the inlaws, not being near them would be a major quality of life decrease for me.
Good luck, I can't count how many times my wallet has gone through the wash without fading at all, true it's only 5% chlorine bleach or so but still. And the magnetic black in probably wouldn't come off without totally destroying the bill. If it were that easy then a lot fewer counterfeiters would get caught.
While it can't be proven all one would need to do is ask for the compile options, compile it with the same compiler and then compare the compiled version to the one they have from the election (assuming that they do have a copy, which they possibly do not considering that it appears they merely use the machines from this election software firm.) I believe that like encryption election code is one area where full public disclosure is absolutly necessary to assure that they system is operating as expected. The fact that the election commision in Ireland handed the auditing over to a private company is sure lunacy.
Well with draft spec equipment most vendors have a switch for pure 11g environments but I believe with the 11g final draft as it is this will not be allowed on conforming equipment so yes any 11b equipment being detected by your equipment will result in 40-50% real world performance decrease. This is kind of what you get when you are in an unliscensed spectrum, especially when you want backwards compatibility with an existing standard.
Umm, what companies support 11a and won't have an 11g product?? None that I am aware of. Everyone has a solution for both and very soon everyone will have a single solution for a,b, and g. 11a and 11g share signaling methods and 11b and 11g share the same frequency, so supporting all three just makes sense. What some companies like Cisco are and have been saying is that for people who have legacy 11b equipment it makes more sense to have the newer equipment on 11a. This is a simple fact, the implementation details to get 11b and 11g to coexist in the same band is difficult. Beyond that there is no good way to do it without reducing the throughput for 11g devices, the backoff becons etc that are needed will reduce the throughput in real world applications whereas the 11a network will continue to get as close to the theoretical bandwidth as the implementation allows. Frankly none of the wireless networking companies cares one way or another about 11a vs 11g, they just want to advise their customers on what will be the best so that their customers come away with the most satisfaction possible, duh.
The problem is that as soon as you introduce one 11b device into the same cell as an 11g network you will reduce the effective throughput of the even the faster devices down to around 11-15Mbps vs the 25+Mbps that a pure 11g or 11a network achieves. Basically you pay a 40-50% real world performance penalty for mixed mode operation a 2.4Ghz. Since 11a is in the fairly unused 5Ghz range it doesn't have these problems. The reality is it won't matter in 6-9 months because every chipset provider will have tri-mode dual band chipsets so you can use 11b for legacy networks, 11g for those that bought equipment while it was a draft spec, and 11a for those who bought that equipment or who will buy trimode equipment in the future.
No, the point is that sending data from the video card to main memory is extremely slow. The video bandwidth is fast, as is the bandwidth TO the video card, but the bandwidth FROM the video card to main memory is almost non-existant, this is true even for AGP 8X as it is an extremely asymetric bus. From what I remember the bandwidth from the card to main memory on AGP 4X is actually slower than PCI 32bit 33Mhz.
Trust me the uptime for an IDE RAID system is probably going to be within 1% of the SCSI system if built with quality components. If it wasn't I doubt EMC could get away with selling them, nor could NetApp, IBM, etc. The only thing faster spindles gets you is lower seek times which mean exactly didly for most applications, database servers and webservers with high amounts of small files being hit in a non-sequential manner are about the only applications that demand ultra-low seek times. As to fast, the XServe RAID can come within a couple % of maxing out its 2Gbps Fibrechannel connections so I don't think SCSI gains you anything there. BTW SCSI drives are not built any better, in fact they usually use exactly the same manufacturing procedures and equipment that their IDE counterparts do, where SCSI drives excell is more factory testing to weed out the bad drives before being shipped.
On the oposite end of the spectrum is how infuriated I am with the Ohio state legislature for capping awards for malpractice and a rediculously low $750,000 even in cases of limb removal or permenant disability. My uncle was permenatly paralyzed when undergoing a routine back muscle surgery the doctor cut his spinal chord. You can't tell me that my 45 year old Phd uncle's complete loss of mobility and ability to make an income is only worth 3/4 of a million!
The big problem with using PC graphics cards is that the memory bandwidth on the AGP bus leading back to the system is abysmal. I know several groups looked into this when the Geforce 3 came out and suddenly we had a high speed low cost programmable vector processor, the result was that unless your application could return relativly small datasets you weren't going to get much performance out of them. I think a PS2 would be similarly hampered by the small amount of ram available, not many interesting datasets would fit in it.
Actually Access is in the craptacular catagory, it isn't fast, it isn't scalable, and it corrupts data more frequantly then any other program I've run into bar perhaps Outlook. If you need something smaller than SQL but a whole lot better than Access and you insist on an MS product then use the dektop data engine, at least it's based on solid code. As far as this partnership goes I think that the long term outlook for the MySQL folks is an easy to setup and administer RDBMS system with a variety of backends with various capabilities, from the basic almost flatfile like tables of the early and speedy editions, to the newer InnoDB , and probably eventually an Oracle like mode using the core from SAP-DB. Sounds like a great idea because now you can optimize things to your needs and scale as your needs grow without losing the experience from your previous system.
Very good point. Actually the ad on the back of eWeek says 76% of enterprises run SAP on Oracle. I guess the point is that SAP has a vested interest in having an enterprise strength DB to bring the cost of SAP installations down.
Bah, it maybe more expensive then a bunch of IDE disks but even a base f880 cluster + Storagetek of comparable size is only pushing $300K, and thats for like 4TB of space, still only $75/GB. Now that doesn't include tech time, but that should be about 2 hours per month max for tape changeout, those techs must make a bunch more than I did as a tech because that still leaves a heck of a lot of profit margin in for hundreds per month.
Hmm, then go to Apple.com and check out the Xserve RAID and realize that for bulk storage like storing pdf's 7200rpm IDE disks in RAID are more than fast enough. $11K for 2.5TB is a much better price =)
SAP is one of the biggest businesses in the world. Basically they are business consultants that re-form businesses into more effecient forms from a workflow perspective. They do this around a central core of business process modules that are interlinked and which are well suited for integrating with customers current systems. The core of the system is their database so this is a HUGE deal. btw why would IBM hook up with MySQL, they are already the worlds biggest database vendor, unlike their OS which actually costs considerably more to maintain then they make off of it DB2 is a large profit center. DB2 is available for basically every platform that could conceivably run it, from VMS, to S/390, Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc.
good chemists gloves would work though the loss of dexterity would hopefully make the job tougher.
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Have you ever been hit by a stungun, any decent voltage one will incapacitate you basically instantly. Your muscles all spasm simultaneously and you fall down becuase your leg muscles don't work anymore, then you flop around like a fish if they keep the juice on. Trust me it is NOT a fun experience, but I did it because my police inlaws wanted me to see what it was like. The reason king was able to fight is that the first hit didn't contact skin, it hit his clothes, after the second hit which was actually effective he wasn't struggleing much, that's part of the reason the beating was so f'ing outrageous, he was already incapacitated, it was just a bunch of adrenahlin pumped white guys beating the snot out of a uppity black guy that challenged their authority.
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Ever read the errata for RH or any other Linux distro that has been out for over a year? Yeah it's about as long as the list of updates for XP. All modern OS's have these types of issues, especially since the OS covers a heck of a lot more than just the kernel these days. Basically software sucks, hardware sucks, if you don't like it get out of computer work =)
Actually the meter is based on a certain number of wavelengths from the decay of a certain isotope of cesnium and the second is based on how long it takes to generate those wavelengths.
Take the weight of whatever base item they're are using, and multiply it by a thousand.
That IS the point. There is not currently a base item to get the measurement of the kilogram or gram. The current measurements are based on relationship of mass to the SI standard Kilo bar, which is degrading and which is impossible to reproduce in every lab that needs to weigh things, so everyone goes off of an object that is weighed in relationship to device which was compared to the official kilo bar, in the US this would mean a NIST tracable weight. This is an error prone process and is only as exact as the comparison to the standard. By basing the kilo off of a natural and reoccouring phenomenom it can be reproduced like the rest of the SI units.
Basically because disorder rules the world making a perfect sphere of just about anything is nearly impossible at the atomic level. Therefore basing the standard on such is possibly a bit foolish as recreating such will be extremely difficult if not impossible.
Hmm, that's funny. I just visited T-mobile, vodafone, and orange's pricing pages and none of them list unlimited calling. Orange has a 2000 minute plan for 185UKP per month, which is prepaying a chunk of minutes (at a fairly expensive rate I might add) not unlimited use. If they are available they aren't widely advertised, so you can hardly blame me.
umm, you can't get a T-1 from a Level 3 providers which are the only ISP's that are going to let you do as you wish. Even commercial T-1's from level 2 providers (not very common unless you are a very large national account which will be buying a ton of T-1's or larger) come with restrictive TOS's. What spammers do is go with lax or incompetant ISP's, or they just look for open relays and other means of hiding their tracks so that their ISP doesn't cut them off faster than they can sign up a new account with another ISP. The technical solutions that will work are challenge response because then the sender is tracable and can therefore be held responsible, or a micropayment infrastructure where the cost of bulk solicitation is higher than the expected return.
Hehe, but the stupid europeans haven't got unlimited use plans. I have unlimited local and long distance on my cell for only $50/month. Basically the only time I would ever pay more than that is if I took the phone with me on vacation and then roaming is like $.15/minute or so. When I was on dialup my internet usage was several thousand minutes a month, that would have cost me a fortune in europe.
The only non-compete's I've ever signed have basically stated I would not call on my current customers for 1 year after my last call with them. This is sound and reasonable, after one year much of the sway you have as an insider is gone and yet you can still work your trade with all the other potential customers out there. The consultancy I am about to start with has a blanket NCA that I have already told the owner I refuse to sign. He asks that you not practice your trade in a 50 mile radius of the HQ for 3 years. I told him I would bring forth one of my other NCA's and sign it for his company but that I would not force myself to move just because I was no longer working for him. I mean every time you move you lose a ton on realestate agent fees, mortage fees, etc. Besides I like being near my parents and my wife loves being near the inlaws, not being near them would be a major quality of life decrease for me.
Good luck, I can't count how many times my wallet has gone through the wash without fading at all, true it's only 5% chlorine bleach or so but still. And the magnetic black in probably wouldn't come off without totally destroying the bill. If it were that easy then a lot fewer counterfeiters would get caught.
While it can't be proven all one would need to do is ask for the compile options, compile it with the same compiler and then compare the compiled version to the one they have from the election (assuming that they do have a copy, which they possibly do not considering that it appears they merely use the machines from this election software firm.) I believe that like encryption election code is one area where full public disclosure is absolutly necessary to assure that they system is operating as expected. The fact that the election commision in Ireland handed the auditing over to a private company is sure lunacy.
Well with draft spec equipment most vendors have a switch for pure 11g environments but I believe with the 11g final draft as it is this will not be allowed on conforming equipment so yes any 11b equipment being detected by your equipment will result in 40-50% real world performance decrease. This is kind of what you get when you are in an unliscensed spectrum, especially when you want backwards compatibility with an existing standard.
Umm, what companies support 11a and won't have an 11g product?? None that I am aware of. Everyone has a solution for both and very soon everyone will have a single solution for a,b, and g. 11a and 11g share signaling methods and 11b and 11g share the same frequency, so supporting all three just makes sense. What some companies like Cisco are and have been saying is that for people who have legacy 11b equipment it makes more sense to have the newer equipment on 11a. This is a simple fact, the implementation details to get 11b and 11g to coexist in the same band is difficult. Beyond that there is no good way to do it without reducing the throughput for 11g devices, the backoff becons etc that are needed will reduce the throughput in real world applications whereas the 11a network will continue to get as close to the theoretical bandwidth as the implementation allows. Frankly none of the wireless networking companies cares one way or another about 11a vs 11g, they just want to advise their customers on what will be the best so that their customers come away with the most satisfaction possible, duh.
The problem is that as soon as you introduce one 11b device into the same cell as an 11g network you will reduce the effective throughput of the even the faster devices down to around 11-15Mbps vs the 25+Mbps that a pure 11g or 11a network achieves. Basically you pay a 40-50% real world performance penalty for mixed mode operation a 2.4Ghz. Since 11a is in the fairly unused 5Ghz range it doesn't have these problems. The reality is it won't matter in 6-9 months because every chipset provider will have tri-mode dual band chipsets so you can use 11b for legacy networks, 11g for those that bought equipment while it was a draft spec, and 11a for those who bought that equipment or who will buy trimode equipment in the future.
No, the point is that sending data from the video card to main memory is extremely slow. The video bandwidth is fast, as is the bandwidth TO the video card, but the bandwidth FROM the video card to main memory is almost non-existant, this is true even for AGP 8X as it is an extremely asymetric bus. From what I remember the bandwidth from the card to main memory on AGP 4X is actually slower than PCI 32bit 33Mhz.
Trust me the uptime for an IDE RAID system is probably going to be within 1% of the SCSI system if built with quality components. If it wasn't I doubt EMC could get away with selling them, nor could NetApp, IBM, etc. The only thing faster spindles gets you is lower seek times which mean exactly didly for most applications, database servers and webservers with high amounts of small files being hit in a non-sequential manner are about the only applications that demand ultra-low seek times. As to fast, the XServe RAID can come within a couple % of maxing out its 2Gbps Fibrechannel connections so I don't think SCSI gains you anything there. BTW SCSI drives are not built any better, in fact they usually use exactly the same manufacturing procedures and equipment that their IDE counterparts do, where SCSI drives excell is more factory testing to weed out the bad drives before being shipped.
On the oposite end of the spectrum is how infuriated I am with the Ohio state legislature for capping awards for malpractice and a rediculously low $750,000 even in cases of limb removal or permenant disability. My uncle was permenatly paralyzed when undergoing a routine back muscle surgery the doctor cut his spinal chord. You can't tell me that my 45 year old Phd uncle's complete loss of mobility and ability to make an income is only worth 3/4 of a million!
The big problem with using PC graphics cards is that the memory bandwidth on the AGP bus leading back to the system is abysmal. I know several groups looked into this when the Geforce 3 came out and suddenly we had a high speed low cost programmable vector processor, the result was that unless your application could return relativly small datasets you weren't going to get much performance out of them. I think a PS2 would be similarly hampered by the small amount of ram available, not many interesting datasets would fit in it.
Actually Access is in the craptacular catagory, it isn't fast, it isn't scalable, and it corrupts data more frequantly then any other program I've run into bar perhaps Outlook. If you need something smaller than SQL but a whole lot better than Access and you insist on an MS product then use the dektop data engine, at least it's based on solid code. As far as this partnership goes I think that the long term outlook for the MySQL folks is an easy to setup and administer RDBMS system with a variety of backends with various capabilities, from the basic almost flatfile like tables of the early and speedy editions, to the newer InnoDB , and probably eventually an Oracle like mode using the core from SAP-DB. Sounds like a great idea because now you can optimize things to your needs and scale as your needs grow without losing the experience from your previous system.
Very good point. Actually the ad on the back of eWeek says 76% of enterprises run SAP on Oracle. I guess the point is that SAP has a vested interest in having an enterprise strength DB to bring the cost of SAP installations down.
Bah, it maybe more expensive then a bunch of IDE disks but even a base f880 cluster + Storagetek of comparable size is only pushing $300K, and thats for like 4TB of space, still only $75/GB. Now that doesn't include tech time, but that should be about 2 hours per month max for tape changeout, those techs must make a bunch more than I did as a tech because that still leaves a heck of a lot of profit margin in for hundreds per month.
Hmm, then go to Apple.com and check out the Xserve RAID and realize that for bulk storage like storing pdf's 7200rpm IDE disks in RAID are more than fast enough. $11K for 2.5TB is a much better price =)
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SAP is one of the biggest businesses in the world. Basically they are business consultants that re-form businesses into more effecient forms from a workflow perspective. They do this around a central core of business process modules that are interlinked and which are well suited for integrating with customers current systems. The core of the system is their database so this is a HUGE deal. btw why would IBM hook up with MySQL, they are already the worlds biggest database vendor, unlike their OS which actually costs considerably more to maintain then they make off of it DB2 is a large profit center. DB2 is available for basically every platform that could conceivably run it, from VMS, to S/390, Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc.
good chemists gloves would work though the loss of dexterity would hopefully make the job tougher.
Have you ever been hit by a stungun, any decent voltage one will incapacitate you basically instantly. Your muscles all spasm simultaneously and you fall down becuase your leg muscles don't work anymore, then you flop around like a fish if they keep the juice on. Trust me it is NOT a fun experience, but I did it because my police inlaws wanted me to see what it was like. The reason king was able to fight is that the first hit didn't contact skin, it hit his clothes, after the second hit which was actually effective he wasn't struggleing much, that's part of the reason the beating was so f'ing outrageous, he was already incapacitated, it was just a bunch of adrenahlin pumped white guys beating the snot out of a uppity black guy that challenged their authority.