as a SysAdmin... iPhone first, WinMobile second, blackberry distant third.
Well, as a user, business or otherwise, Winmobile over my dead body.
Seriously, I love my BB, while Winmobile crashed several times a day, usually using all my apps and data. That is "Goods not of merchandisable quality" in my estimation, and the H/W manufactuers did not even allow a paid upgrade when a new version of the OS came out.
I am not saying BB is perfect, but IPhone is not for me, and BB works. (I really wanted an upgrade of my Sony Ericsson P1i, with accelerometers, GPS and Android, but SE dont seem to care what customers want.)
It's critical to give whistleblowers anonymity if you want to protect yourself from your government.
That is exactly why our present government is cracking down in this case. The fact that our government is cracking and also down in all other possible senses of either word, can be considered contributory factors.
Under capitalism, Man exploits man - under communism, its the otherway round!
Under communism, the state owns "the means of production". According to Marx, one of the four "means of
production" is Labour - the people. Thus, under communism, the state owns the people.
Owning people is called "slavery".
The UK's CARDS (Content Addressable Relational Data Store) database engine, on which I worked in the 1980s, did this kind of stuff (Using RAID, though we didnt call it that at the time). Data was retrieved from multiple HDs using an array of Transputers, managed by a workstation that was similar to Sun workstations of the day (double-extended triple Eurocard with Motorola 68020 processor and Unix). Data relationships described graphically (like the stuff in Access, but more powerful).
So its not, like, a novel invention or anything. Please can I have a patent on "a round device for rolling heavy loads along paved areas". Thanks.
But 1000 lines of VHDL makes for a really, really tiny design
My point exactly. You dont place your whole design in a single schematics, andy more than your entire application is in a single subroutine/procedure/function/why. 1,000 lines is possibly 10 pages. 10 pages of schematics will give you an entire 8-bit MCU. Schematics are heriarchical in any sensible design.
Plenty of people have designed entire computers as schematics (can you say VAX?). You can get PHP8 schematics off the internet, and Sparc/Sparc64 if you want. I have done designs that fill Vertex parts using schematics - with perhaps some minor modules coded in VHDL. (About 25 pages of A2) I have designed 16-bit log/antilog hardware as schematics, although that might not be to everyone's taste:-)
Schematics give you "The big picture", and poor design can be spotted a mile off. Written language can very easily give you a can of worms concealed in a maze of twisted passages of text, all of which look alike, but you dont know till you are at your Witt's End.
Corporations move first to promote the interests of the *corporation* itself.
On which planet? Here on planet Earth, corporations act in the best interest of one or two board members on a good day, and on the supposed, but completely erroneously assessed, best interest of same board members the rest of the year. The shareholders and employees get shafted regularly. The American and British motor industries appear to act consistently against their own best interests.
Mergers are almost always to the benefit of a few board members, and to the complete detriment of the corporation and its shareholders.
Both MySQL and PostgreSQL are junk compared to Microsoft SQL Server.
Have they finally fixed date handling in MSSql server? Personally, I'd say MySQL and MSSql are junk compared to PostgreSQL,
but that is just because I have used all three. (I have also used DB2 which beats all three, and Oracle, which is just annoying).
nail everyone going more than 1km/h over the speed limit.
The do this in the UK. I bet more drivers die from heart attacks from the stress of watching the speedo and the road at the same time, than are saved because people drive at 30 instead of 33. Anal retentives rule. Time for the peasants to revolt!
Yes. All of Europe has limiters at 90kph (56MPH) on HGVs (in UK its now 7.5 ton and bigger).
Many UK companies set the limiters to 50 or 52 MPH to save fuel (consumption is about 50% at 50MPH). I am not convinced this is a good idea in safety terms, as drivers with 90KPH vehicles have considerable difficulty passing a 52MPH vehicle in a reasonable distance, but if the tacho shows sustained driving at 52MPH when you can do 56, the driver may be pressured by his manager (I know its illegal, but it happens).
The damage done by a 44-tonner at 56MPH is quite suficient for anyone's needs! If crash barriers etc had to be rated for higher speeds it would be very much more expensive, and the extra stress on drivers would lead to more accidents (Driving at 56MPH is quite relaxing!). The UK government wants to introduce a lower speed limits to reduce accident related deaths by 1,000 per year. However, we do not have 1,000 deaths in accidents which involve people exceeding the proposed limit and not exceeding the current limit. Speed related accidents are cause by blatant disregard for the current limits. There is obviously some hidden agenda here, or, more likely, the government is completely insane. (Some of our MPS may ahve to plead insanity to explain ther expense claims).
disclaimer: I have a current UK HGV licence (class 2) and train HGV drivers in fuel efficient driving.
response curve of the built-in microphone. Surely that would color the spectrum analyzer?
That would have to be the easiest thing in the world to compensate for!
There might be firm limits to the top and bottom of frequency response set intentionally to limit
the bandwidth intentionally (wide bandwidth is not good for telephony), but I expect these
to be done in software to guarantee sharp cutoff.
I had in mind a recording RTA application.
Sound techician could compare acoustics of different locations/PA rig setups/EQ settings,
Being able to e-mail a recorded sound spectrum to the lab for interpretation might be useful
to all manner of people. (Cant reveal more - they might shoot me!)
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Well, as a user, business or otherwise, Winmobile over my dead body.
Seriously, I love my BB, while Winmobile crashed several times a day, usually using all my apps and data. That is "Goods not of merchandisable quality" in my estimation, and the H/W manufactuers did not even allow a paid upgrade when a new version of the OS came out.
I am not saying BB is perfect, but IPhone is not for me, and BB works. (I really wanted an upgrade of my Sony Ericsson P1i, with accelerometers, GPS and Android, but SE dont seem to care what customers want.)
That is exactly why our present government is cracking down in this case. The fact that our government is cracking and also down in all other possible senses of either word, can be considered contributory factors.
No - they were designed to prevent us from being mistaken for the Kray Brothers or Jack the Ripper. Its more inteeligent than you think :-)
I think you will find S&M is more popular here!
???
If you need a question answered, then HR is definitely not the place to go!
Under communism, the state owns "the means of production". According to Marx, one of the four "means of production" is Labour - the people. Thus, under communism, the state owns the people. Owning people is called "slavery".
I am A Marxist of the Groucho faction
So its not, like, a novel invention or anything. Please can I have a patent on "a round device for rolling heavy loads along paved areas". Thanks.
just ask the crop circle guys.Planning? My brother and I managed quite well with a quart of cider and some rope.
Mod parent +5 "The Bee's Kneez"
My point exactly. You dont place your whole design in a single schematics, andy more than your entire application is in a single subroutine/procedure/function/why. 1,000 lines is possibly 10 pages. 10 pages of schematics will give you an entire 8-bit MCU. Schematics are heriarchical in any sensible design.
Plenty of people have designed entire computers as schematics (can you say VAX?). You can get PHP8 schematics off the internet, and Sparc/Sparc64 if you want. I have done designs that fill Vertex parts using schematics - with perhaps some minor modules coded in VHDL. (About 25 pages of A2) I have designed 16-bit log/antilog hardware as schematics, although that might not be to everyone's taste :-)
Schematics give you "The big picture", and poor design can be spotted a mile off. Written language can very easily give you a can of worms concealed in a maze of twisted passages of text, all of which look alike, but you dont know till you are at your Witt's End.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and a schematic is worth 1,000 lines of VHDL Disclaimer:
I have been using Xilinx since the 1800 (approx 1980).
When transferring 16 Gigabits/sec of uncompressed HD video at high frame rates
Well, the answer is quite obvious then, compress the video
Computational power is cheaper than HDMI cables anyuwhere you look.
There is more to the world than just the USA
Take this plane to Cuba, or its kebab-meat and chips for you!
On which planet? Here on planet Earth, corporations act in the best interest of one or two board members on a good day, and on the supposed, but completely erroneously assessed, best interest of same board members the rest of the year. The shareholders and employees get shafted regularly. The American and British motor industries appear to act consistently against their own best interests.
Mergers are almost always to the benefit of a few board members, and to the complete detriment of the corporation and its shareholders.
Have they finally fixed date handling in MSSql server? Personally, I'd say MySQL and MSSql are junk compared to PostgreSQL, but that is just because I have used all three. (I have also used DB2 which beats all three, and Oracle, which is just annoying).
The do this in the UK. I bet more drivers die from heart attacks from the stress of watching the speedo and the road at the same time, than are saved because people drive at 30 instead of 33. Anal retentives rule. Time for the peasants to revolt!
Yes. All of Europe has limiters at 90kph (56MPH) on HGVs (in UK its now 7.5 ton and bigger).
Many UK companies set the limiters to 50 or 52 MPH to save fuel (consumption is about 50% at 50MPH). I am not convinced this is a good idea in safety terms, as drivers with 90KPH vehicles have considerable difficulty passing a 52MPH vehicle in a reasonable distance, but if the tacho shows sustained driving at 52MPH when you can do 56, the driver may be pressured by his manager (I know its illegal, but it happens).
The damage done by a 44-tonner at 56MPH is quite suficient for anyone's needs! If crash barriers etc had to be rated for higher speeds it would be very much more expensive, and the extra stress on drivers would lead to more accidents (Driving at 56MPH is quite relaxing!). The UK government wants to introduce a lower speed limits to reduce accident related deaths by 1,000 per year. However, we do not have 1,000 deaths in accidents which involve people exceeding the proposed limit and not exceeding the current limit. Speed related accidents are cause by blatant disregard for the current limits. There is obviously some hidden agenda here, or, more likely, the government is completely insane. (Some of our MPS may ahve to plead insanity to explain ther expense claims).
disclaimer: I have a current UK HGV licence (class 2) and train HGV drivers in fuel efficient driving.
Yes, but the purpose of this project is to put it in a leakier sieve.
You go to jail if you dont register the birth within 30 days.
That is assuming we have survived bird flu, swine flu, horse flu, goat flu, and mad politician disease.
Not to mention globule warming.
That would have to be the easiest thing in the world to compensate for!
There might be firm limits to the top and bottom of frequency response set intentionally to limit the bandwidth intentionally (wide bandwidth is not good for telephony), but I expect these to be done in software to guarantee sharp cutoff.
I had in mind a recording RTA application. Sound techician could compare acoustics of different locations/PA rig setups/EQ settings,
Being able to e-mail a recorded sound spectrum to the lab for interpretation might be useful to all manner of people. (Cant reveal more - they might shoot me!)
Or indeed, a java app for most Symbian phones?
With a full-featured 1/3 octave spectrum analyser as well. Please
A cracked CD of Office will cost you less than a bottle of Coca-cola on most African campuses, and to get Coke, you have to bring your own bottle.
You dont develop film in Africa you "wash" it. (See Pigin dictionary.)