Since the inside of your house is not designed to be - by default - accessible to anyone. The point of web pages is to have people see them. Not so for your living room.
My former manager would hold meetings and play a similar game.
His standard meeting is a "status meeting". About a dozen engineers show up and discuss what they're working on, how far along they are, and what's left to do. Each engineer would in turn talk about all of that.
Nevermind the fact that a simple email would suffice. "Hey. What's your project status?" That's all that was necessary.
So why the project meetings? Email leaves a trail. He refused to talk business through email, because in the past he had emailed people and those emails were used to hang him on deadlines. So all communication with the head of the department was strictly word-of-mouth.
As an added "benefit", he could change schedules in the middle of a project, deadlines on a whim, requirements, specifications...you name it. He would simply say "that's not how I remember it" and you'd be hosed.
At the company I just left, sometimes we would lose half our work week in pointless meetings. So if I knew we were going to have a long meeting, I'd bring in a bunch of printouts and scatter them around in front of me. And bring a notepad and scribble until someone asked me a question.
But I wasn't coding. I'm a hobbyist woodworker, and I would be making plans for stuff I'd want to do at home later on that day.
The way I see it, it's kind of like running SETI @ home, but for your brain not your PC. They're keeping me sitting there, effectively useless. So don't let those spare cycles go to waste!
igital Media is reporting that French President Jacques Chirac is making plans for a European search engine called "Quaero" to rival US internet companies such as Yahoo and Google.
"Making plans for" is a long, long way from delivering anything. I'm betting that once they start to realize the scope of what they're suggesting, they will change their tune a bit. Or at least scale back the idea somewhat. A google that understands audio and video?
Good luck though, because after all it's saying "why not" that makes change happen - but I think they'll be surprised when they realize the magnitude of their undertaking. Underestimating Google is a classic internet blunder.
Well, since it's next to you and not in your lap, I disagree that it's a laptop.
Anyway, yeah I know that you can make power supplies smaller and quieter. I was just trying to point out that the task the original poster was trying to define was pretty much the part he was wanting to replace.
Where do you get one of those bricks to convert from AC to DC, and how big/noisy are they?
Unfortunately, the answer is that the brick is exactly big and noisy as your existing 480W power supply, since that's exactly what it is. A brick that takes AC and turns it into various DC levels.
It takes dc and supplies dc. Doesn't that make it more of a converter?
And if so, it's no big deal. You can buy decent switched cap converters at Digi-key for a couple of bucks. I bought one not too long ago to step 14v down to 5 and supply 4 or so amps, and it was about the same size. The small footprint at 120w is fairly nifty, but otherwise I don't see the big deal.
Here's hoping they do, but it probably won't happen within the month. I bit the bullet and bought a 4400+ X2 around the beginning of last December and paid about $520. They're not coming down in price very fast.
But that being said - it's worth it. X2 is so good you'd swear it's alien technology.
If you go to pricewatch.com or any other place that lets you look at a bunch of computer gear all at once, you'll see what I mean. The price goes up a dollar or two for every 100MHz or so until it hit a certain point. Then it starts to go up $10 or so per 100MHz for 3 or 4 processors...then *wham*, prices shoot through the roof. $100 to $500 per 100MHz. The graph, if you plot (roughly) dollars on the y-axis and performance on the x, will have a knee in it.
Shop there. Best bang for your buck.
That being said, it's another noticeable thing that the top 5 or 10 processors are past the knee. Whenever another new processor appears as the very most expensive, one of the ones above the knee tends to drop into the knee.
So everytime a new super-expensive part comes out, a new candidate drops into the knee. And that's a great thing if you keep your eyes open for a bargain two-weeks-ago-it-was-high-end cpu.
Nope, my point was just simple statistics. I'm sure security is important to both. But - Microsoft has thousands of coders working, whereas Wine only has a few dozen. If it's obscure enough to slip by thousands, then the odds are pretty high that it will slip by another dozen or two guys. That's all I was saying.
It's also worth noting that no matter how you feel about Microsoft, they have thousands of people writing code for them - and none of them found this exploit. Wine right now is a couple of dozen guys.
And they have bigger fish to fry, like getting DCOM working correctly so installers work, getting copy protected CDs to work correctly, and implementing DirectX fully.
The surprising part about finding this flaw in Wine is that they implemented the entire Meta File API without realizing that this could be a security issue.
Remember, the goal of WINE is to duplicate the API as exactly as possible. And up until a few days ago, that *was* part of the API.
WINE isn't supposed to be an improvement, just a duplication of the API so that win32 apps can run on x86 *nix. It should be no surprise to anyone that their implementation of the metafile API is exactly like the one in Windows. That's the point.
Put in in the EULA for the phone service. Or hide it with an opt-out clause in the contract. Either would work, and zap! You're served the second you touch the damned thing.
33 is fantastic. Creepy as hell and seriously intense. From that point on, calling it science fiction didn't quite fit. I describe BSG as science fiction horror.
You forgot to mention in your second possibility that the original series honestly wasn't really very good. Only thing that made it good at the time (for me, IMHO, etc.) was the fact that I was a kid.
If you doubt that, try to watch some of those old shows like the original Battlestar Galactica or Buck Rogers now. They'll give you a nosebleed they're so bad. That's part of what makes the new BSG so great. As it turns out, you really can polish a turd.
I personally think that Battlestar Galactica was remade with class, care and just the right ammount of respect.
As do I. I love it when they do a small tip of the hat to the original series. Like the schematic of the original Cylon being shown briefly in a camera sweep. Or the deck of the Galactica during the decommissioning ceremony where they played the national anthem, and it was the old theme song. Very very nifty, and damn clever.
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A friend of mine is a chef and found out the hard way...do NOT google for a "loose meat sandwich"!!!
Currently, the government is in the *AA's back pocket. Why sue an ally?
Dude, it's already been covered. Do a Google search for it.
Oh wait, nevermind.
Since the inside of your house is not designed to be - by default - accessible to anyone. The point of web pages is to have people see them. Not so for your living room.
My former manager would hold meetings and play a similar game.
His standard meeting is a "status meeting". About a dozen engineers show up and discuss what they're working on, how far along they are, and what's left to do. Each engineer would in turn talk about all of that.
Nevermind the fact that a simple email would suffice. "Hey. What's your project status?" That's all that was necessary.
So why the project meetings? Email leaves a trail. He refused to talk business through email, because in the past he had emailed people and those emails were used to hang him on deadlines. So all communication with the head of the department was strictly word-of-mouth.
As an added "benefit", he could change schedules in the middle of a project, deadlines on a whim, requirements, specifications...you name it. He would simply say "that's not how I remember it" and you'd be hosed.
At the company I just left, sometimes we would lose half our work week in pointless meetings. So if I knew we were going to have a long meeting, I'd bring in a bunch of printouts and scatter them around in front of me. And bring a notepad and scribble until someone asked me a question.
But I wasn't coding. I'm a hobbyist woodworker, and I would be making plans for stuff I'd want to do at home later on that day.
The way I see it, it's kind of like running SETI @ home, but for your brain not your PC. They're keeping me sitting there, effectively useless. So don't let those spare cycles go to waste!
My last job (that I quit in frustration) was very much like that.
We used to have meetings. All the time, even to the point where our projects would run late because of the damn meetings.
Our PHB's solution?
Mandatory overtime for the entire department. And - the punch line - an additional meeting every morning for status reports.
igital Media is reporting that French President Jacques Chirac is making plans for a European search engine called "Quaero" to rival US internet companies such as Yahoo and Google.
"Making plans for" is a long, long way from delivering anything. I'm betting that once they start to realize the scope of what they're suggesting, they will change their tune a bit. Or at least scale back the idea somewhat. A google that understands audio and video?
Good luck though, because after all it's saying "why not" that makes change happen - but I think they'll be surprised when they realize the magnitude of their undertaking. Underestimating Google is a classic internet blunder.
Well, since it's next to you and not in your lap, I disagree that it's a laptop.
Anyway, yeah I know that you can make power supplies smaller and quieter. I was just trying to point out that the task the original poster was trying to define was pretty much the part he was wanting to replace.
Where do you get one of those bricks to convert from AC to DC, and how big/noisy are they?
Unfortunately, the answer is that the brick is exactly big and noisy as your existing 480W power supply, since that's exactly what it is. A brick that takes AC and turns it into various DC levels.
It takes dc and supplies dc. Doesn't that make it more of a converter?
And if so, it's no big deal. You can buy decent switched cap converters at Digi-key for a couple of bucks. I bought one not too long ago to step 14v down to 5 and supply 4 or so amps, and it was about the same size. The small footprint at 120w is fairly nifty, but otherwise I don't see the big deal.
...for successfully using "boondoggle" in a tech based forum. You scallawag! ;^)
Here's hoping they do, but it probably won't happen within the month. I bit the bullet and bought a 4400+ X2 around the beginning of last December and paid about $520. They're not coming down in price very fast.
But that being said - it's worth it. X2 is so good you'd swear it's alien technology.
If you go to pricewatch.com or any other place that lets you look at a bunch of computer gear all at once, you'll see what I mean. The price goes up a dollar or two for every 100MHz or so until it hit a certain point. Then it starts to go up $10 or so per 100MHz for 3 or 4 processors...then *wham*, prices shoot through the roof. $100 to $500 per 100MHz. The graph, if you plot (roughly) dollars on the y-axis and performance on the x, will have a knee in it.
Shop there. Best bang for your buck.
That being said, it's another noticeable thing that the top 5 or 10 processors are past the knee. Whenever another new processor appears as the very most expensive, one of the ones above the knee tends to drop into the knee.
So everytime a new super-expensive part comes out, a new candidate drops into the knee. And that's a great thing if you keep your eyes open for a bargain two-weeks-ago-it-was-high-end cpu.
It's a joke only die hard Frank Herbert fans will get...but it's *really* appropriate here.
Nope, my point was just simple statistics. I'm sure security is important to both. But - Microsoft has thousands of coders working, whereas Wine only has a few dozen. If it's obscure enough to slip by thousands, then the odds are pretty high that it will slip by another dozen or two guys. That's all I was saying.
It's also worth noting that no matter how you feel about Microsoft, they have thousands of people writing code for them - and none of them found this exploit. Wine right now is a couple of dozen guys.
And they have bigger fish to fry, like getting DCOM working correctly so installers work, getting copy protected CDs to work correctly, and implementing DirectX fully.
The surprising part about finding this flaw in Wine is that they implemented the entire Meta File API without realizing that this could be a security issue.
Remember, the goal of WINE is to duplicate the API as exactly as possible. And up until a few days ago, that *was* part of the API.
WINE isn't supposed to be an improvement, just a duplication of the API so that win32 apps can run on x86 *nix. It should be no surprise to anyone that their implementation of the metafile API is exactly like the one in Windows. That's the point.
The difference between dogs and cats. Put a bowl of food in front of each.
The dog will think, "Hey! They're feeding me! They must be Gods!
The cat will think, "Hey! They're feeding me! I must be a God!
Fritz Hollings just suggested to W. that Australia probably has WMDs.
Put in in the EULA for the phone service. Or hide it with an opt-out clause in the contract. Either would work, and zap! You're served the second you touch the damned thing.
33 is fantastic. Creepy as hell and seriously intense. From that point on, calling it science fiction didn't quite fit. I describe BSG as science fiction horror.
Ok, this is Slashdot so we know the story is false. You watch BSG and post here...and have a girlfriend?
Next time try something more believeable, pal.
You forgot to mention in your second possibility that the original series honestly wasn't really very good. Only thing that made it good at the time (for me, IMHO, etc.) was the fact that I was a kid.
If you doubt that, try to watch some of those old shows like the original Battlestar Galactica or Buck Rogers now. They'll give you a nosebleed they're so bad. That's part of what makes the new BSG so great. As it turns out, you really can polish a turd.
I personally think that Battlestar Galactica was remade with class, care and just the right ammount of respect.
As do I. I love it when they do a small tip of the hat to the original series. Like the schematic of the original Cylon being shown briefly in a camera sweep. Or the deck of the Galactica during the decommissioning ceremony where they played the national anthem, and it was the old theme song. Very very nifty, and damn clever.