is introducing cards like these later this year. All the turnstiles have been modified & cards are being used by staff as a trial. Not sure of the actual released-to-the-public date.
Yes, Microsoft will give you indemnity protection. Not sure if they do for an individual user, but they definitely do for corporates.
Any software manufacturer that sells into large corporates will have indemnity insurance - they simply won't get any contracts otherwise.
To answer the original poster's question: if you buy a support contract from Red Hat / IBM / whoever, they will provide you with indemnity protection. Possibly for an extra fee, but they will provide it.
allows you to export a single application rather than a full desktop, so it appears as if the app is running on a local machine instead of the server.
I'm not sure if WTS supports it, but it's worth a try. Oh, and it doesn't play well with window-managers like Vern.
Actually, the most efficient monopoly-money machine is operated by the good ol' US of A. Have you seen the size of your defence budget? How much of that goes to R&D? There ya go...
Every phone I've owned here in Europe has had the expiration set to 1 week. Message Sending Failed reports only occur immediately if the network is unavailable or massively overburdened.
You can set the priority of any given task by right-clicking on the process in Task Manager. If you've got admin rights, and have "Show All Processes" ticked, you'll be able to set the priority for any user's task from within your Citrix session.
I'm not sure whether this information will persist between sessions; you'll have to try that yourself.
If you've got more than one server, put the three power users on one, and the other 10 on the other.
Foreign scientists have been vital to the USA's economic and military development. For example, have you ever wondered about the nationality of most of the scientists involved in the USA's Manhattan project to build an atomic weapon?
Here's a hint: many weren't American. German (Bethe), Italian (Fermi), Russian (Kistiakowsky), and Polish (Rotblat) scientists contributed at least as much, if not more than the American (Oppenheimer, Lawrence) scientists. Those are just off the top of my head, I've probably forgotten the names of loads more.
You're free to be a xenophobe, but you could at least try to be a little less clueless about foreigner's role in your society.
For the benefit of/.ers:
CBOT = Chicago Board of Trade. Futures and options trading, mainly on commodities (corn, wheat, etc) and equities.
XETRA = European electronic securities trading system.
EUREX = Largest European equity derivatives exchange.
These are places where downtime can easily be measured in millions of USD per hour. The London Stock Exchange has had only one unplanned outage in the last decade. That's the kind of reliability these systems require, and it ain't easy to achieve. So, when you do, you tend to leave well enough alone...
The reason your processor is pegged at 100% is that there's all sorts of fancy software raytracing and algorithmic generation going on in the background - the fact that no hardware acceleration can be used means more CPU cycles are consumed.
Example providers of the you-just-pay-for-the-call service are Freeserve No Ties and Tiscali Pay As You Go. No credit card or personal details required.
I use Verizon and I get solid coverage throughout NYC
I was just using the NY Times article as a basis... if you get good coverage, then fine.
For instance, a significant city like, say, Seattle, may be relatively dense within city limits, but without having a cluster of other large cities nearby certain (meta-level) infrastructure considerations may not be economically viable.
99% of the Republic of Ireland has mobile phone coverage. Rural Mayo isn't exactly densely populated, but I get decent coverage there. I think GSM can quite handily manage metro-area Chicago and the like;-)
Now you may assert that this is a result of poor service, but it cannot be held a priori
I don't think it's because of poor service, I think it's because of a number of factors including:
So if that explains everything, why is cellphone coverage in New York terrible?
Each GSM cell has a maximum diameter of about 30Km, so it's understandable that very lightly populated areas will have signal issues. You're not going to be able to call your friend from an uninhabited island off the coast of Alaska, but that should not affect your calls from any of the big metropolitan areas on the East or West coasts.
You will have to wait. The PDA market simply isn't big enough (in comparison to the phone market) to warrant a big player diverting resources to producing a PDA without phone functionality.
Personally I think that within 18-24 months (at least in Europe), the smartphone will effectively wipe out the PDA. Not many people need the power of a high-end PDA and devices like the SonyEricsson P800 will do most people quite nicely, thanks.
Programming for parallel CPU's is a whole new ballgame, and the rules are still being written
Where did you get that idea? Have you seen an operating system recently? Or a database? Or a web-server?
If you meant to say that programming multi-threaded games is a whole new ball-game, then you're wrong there too. A computer game is a simply a soft real-time system, and that'a a pretty well understood application domain.
If, on the other hand, you meant to say that most games programmers don't know how to write effective efficient multi-threaded apps, then I might believe you. They can, however, learn from the engineers that have been doing this kind of stuff for years.
Not all of us live in the USA, you know. Some of us live in the rest of the world and do know how to build out reliable, scalable, interoperable wireless networks.
The Irish Aviation Authority bans the use of all battery operated or laser equipment on flights. This means that Ryanair & Aer Lingus (at least) don't allow it on flights into & out of Ireland. Not sure if it applies to any aircraft flying in or out of the country.
The corporate shop I work for would prefer to buy Sorceforge on Oracle than on PostgreSQL. Why? We already have a site licence for Oracle - it doesn't cost us a penny to add another DB. Much more importantly, we already have a pool of trained Oracle DBAs that can set up and manage the DB. Spending a couple of weeks retraining people that cost 300k EUR a year so we can support PostgreSQL 24/7/365 for one application is a waste of time and money. Especially since all the admin tools, scripts, and procedures that have been developed and are well understood by everyone must be thrown away.
Until you've worked in "dumber than a bunch of rocks" corporate environment where downtime can easily cost millions of dollars an hour, don't make assumptions about what's important and what's not.
It's a cordless phone, not a cellphone. It will only work near the base station (c. 30m range, IIRC). At home, noise should not be an issue, 'coz you can always go into another room or just yell at the kids to shut up!
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is introducing cards like these later this year. All the turnstiles have been modified & cards are being used by staff as a trial. Not sure of the actual released-to-the-public date.
Yes, Microsoft will give you indemnity protection. Not sure if they do for an individual user, but they definitely do for corporates.
Any software manufacturer that sells into large corporates will have indemnity insurance - they simply won't get any contracts otherwise.
To answer the original poster's question: if you buy a support contract from Red Hat / IBM / whoever, they will provide you with indemnity protection. Possibly for an extra fee, but they will provide it.
allows you to export a single application rather than a full desktop, so it appears as if the app is running on a local machine instead of the server. I'm not sure if WTS supports it, but it's worth a try. Oh, and it doesn't play well with window-managers like Vern.
Actually, the most efficient monopoly-money machine is operated by the good ol' US of A. Have you seen the size of your defence budget? How much of that goes to R&D? There ya go...
The Nokia 8310 has an inbuilt FM radio. The forthcoming 3650 will record video and supports GPRS, so you could use it as a webcam.
your biggest flaw ;-)
Now start adding up the cost per server. CALs, terminal services licences, Window 2K Advanced Server, etc all add up.
Every phone I've owned here in Europe has had the expiration set to 1 week. Message Sending Failed reports only occur immediately if the network is unavailable or massively overburdened.
You can set the priority of any given task by right-clicking on the process in Task Manager. If you've got admin rights, and have "Show All Processes" ticked, you'll be able to set the priority for any user's task from within your Citrix session. I'm not sure whether this information will persist between sessions; you'll have to try that yourself. If you've got more than one server, put the three power users on one, and the other 10 on the other.
There's a UK site called Binary Dinosaurs that does this properly...
Foreign scientists have been vital to the USA's economic and military development. For example, have you ever wondered about the nationality of most of the scientists involved in the USA's Manhattan project to build an atomic weapon?
Here's a hint: many weren't American. German (Bethe), Italian (Fermi), Russian (Kistiakowsky), and Polish (Rotblat) scientists contributed at least as much, if not more than the American (Oppenheimer, Lawrence) scientists. Those are just off the top of my head, I've probably forgotten the names of loads more.
You're free to be a xenophobe, but you could at least try to be a little less clueless about foreigner's role in your society.
For the benefit of /.ers:
CBOT = Chicago Board of Trade. Futures and options trading, mainly on commodities (corn, wheat, etc) and equities.
XETRA = European electronic securities trading system.
EUREX = Largest European equity derivatives exchange.
These are places where downtime can easily be measured in millions of USD per hour. The London Stock Exchange has had only one unplanned outage in the last decade. That's the kind of reliability these systems require, and it ain't easy to achieve. So, when you do, you tend to leave well enough alone...
The reason your processor is pegged at 100% is that there's all sorts of fancy software raytracing and algorithmic generation going on in the background - the fact that no hardware acceleration can be used means more CPU cycles are consumed.
Example providers of the you-just-pay-for-the-call service are Freeserve No Ties and Tiscali Pay As You Go. No credit card or personal details required.
So if that explains everything, why is cellphone coverage in New York terrible?
Each GSM cell has a maximum diameter of about 30Km, so it's understandable that very lightly populated areas will have signal issues. You're not going to be able to call your friend from an uninhabited island off the coast of Alaska, but that should not affect your calls from any of the big metropolitan areas on the East or West coasts.
You will have to wait. The PDA market simply isn't big enough (in comparison to the phone market) to warrant a big player diverting resources to producing a PDA without phone functionality.
Personally I think that within 18-24 months (at least in Europe), the smartphone will effectively wipe out the PDA. Not many people need the power of a high-end PDA and devices like the SonyEricsson P800 will do most people quite nicely, thanks.
If you meant to say that programming multi-threaded games is a whole new ball-game, then you're wrong there too. A computer game is a simply a soft real-time system, and that'a a pretty well understood application domain.
If, on the other hand, you meant to say that most games programmers don't know how to write effective efficient multi-threaded apps, then I might believe you. They can, however, learn from the engineers that have been doing this kind of stuff for years.
Not all of us live in the USA, you know. Some of us live in the rest of the world and do know how to build out reliable, scalable, interoperable wireless networks.
The Irish Aviation Authority bans the use of all battery operated or laser equipment on flights. This means that Ryanair & Aer Lingus (at least) don't allow it on flights into & out of Ireland. Not sure if it applies to any aircraft flying in or out of the country.
Until you've worked in "dumber than a bunch of rocks" corporate environment where downtime can easily cost millions of dollars an hour, don't make assumptions about what's important and what's not.
I believe you may be recalling wrongly. I never came across a 486 that didn't have a flashable BIOS.
It's a cordless phone, not a cellphone. It will only work near the base station (c. 30m range, IIRC). At home, noise should not be an issue, 'coz you can always go into another room or just yell at the kids to shut up!
You're thinking of the Jubilee Line Extension.