I had the "pleasure" of working with DocVerse before they got acquired by Google. Nice tool, but the bugs, crashes, inconsistencies of it removed all the advantages. Bad preview quality, unusable once you used non-english content, I really hope they did some serious work on it recently.
The transrapid project has had a similar length timeframe, and the only feasible implementation (munich to munich airport) was finally shot down a couple of weeks ago. Costs where double of what was originally projected.
While maglev is a really cool technology, it is not as brilliant in real life due to the high costs and the competition from airtravel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid
A year ago this would have been sad, contentwise
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But since the "issues" he had with Apple, the content on thinksecret wasn't really much beyond what someone with an Apple Developer Connect membership could access. To many articles on the latest seed of this or that. Before that ThinkSecret sometimes had some real gems every now and then (and was plain wrong lots of times also)
"And it costed me a term paper when it was W95 when i accidentally hit the 'sleep' button on the keyboard that actually crashes W95"
It went *beepbeeppbepp*! Huh? It devoured your paper. It was a really good paper. And you had to write it again, and it wasn't as good.
It was, like, a bummer!
Err, to be nitpicky. You probably mean "Sybian Sex Machines".
I don't know anything about them however, was just doing research on the subject.;-)
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Anyone remember the "Definitve Collection" Laserdisc set they put out in the mid 90s. 9 Discs CAV with lots of additional material. Those were the the Special Edition remastered versions WITHOUT the shitty new stuff. I remember being quite irate that they came out with the SE versions (after shelling out 500 Deutschmarks at that time for the LD set) now I'm happy I kept them.
>(sarcasm) >Yes lets just start over from scratch and >abandon 15 years of gui development. I am sure >in ten years the new system will be much better >than the old system. >(/sarcasm)
You're absolutely right. Most people spend too much money on cpu and way to little on IO. (We're talking average here). For IBM machines (it actually applies to most intel machines) IBM has a fairly good book (shameless self plug: I co-authored it;-) called "Tuning IBM eServer xseries for performance" which should point you in the right direction on what to spend on what.
I have to disagree with you when it comes to network IO. Way before you will reach a bottleneck with networking your CPUs will probably peak out. Network traffic for sql servers is usually fairly low.
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I had the "pleasure" of working with DocVerse before they got acquired by Google. Nice tool, but the bugs, crashes, inconsistencies of it removed all the advantages. Bad preview quality, unusable once you used non-english content, I really hope they did some serious work on it recently.
...there are just inquisitive idiots.
....can you find all those countries mentioned on the world map in less than a minute? "here there be dragons" does not count as an answer. Go!
> The device is expected to have access to the iTunes App Store. Another source stated that the device is likely to have the Apple Logo on it.
Go into sales ;-)
...music streamed over them has a much warmer tone to it.
The transrapid project has had a similar length timeframe, and the only feasible implementation (munich to munich airport) was finally shot down a couple of weeks ago. Costs where double of what was originally projected. While maglev is a really cool technology, it is not as brilliant in real life due to the high costs and the competition from airtravel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transrapid
But since the "issues" he had with Apple, the content on thinksecret wasn't really much beyond what someone with an Apple Developer Connect membership could access. To many articles on the latest seed of this or that. Before that ThinkSecret sometimes had some real gems every now and then (and was plain wrong lots of times also)
"And it costed me a term paper when it was W95 when i accidentally hit the 'sleep' button on the keyboard that actually crashes W95" It went *beepbeeppbepp*! Huh? It devoured your paper. It was a really good paper. And you had to write it again, and it wasn't as good. It was, like, a bummer!
Err, to be nitpicky. You probably mean "Sybian Sex Machines".
;-)
I don't know anything about them however, was just doing research on the subject.
Anyone remember the "Definitve Collection" Laserdisc set they put out in the mid 90s. 9 Discs CAV with lots of additional material. Those were the the Special Edition remastered versions WITHOUT the shitty new stuff. I remember being quite irate that they came out with the SE versions (after shelling out 500 Deutschmarks at that time for the LD set) now I'm happy I kept them.
>(sarcasm)
>Yes lets just start over from scratch and >abandon 15 years of gui development. I am sure >in ten years the new system will be much better >than the old system.
>(/sarcasm)
You CAN do something wrong for 15 years!
Yes it's been done and always been there.
Click Safari - Services - Mail - Send selection.
*Weeeee*
You're absolutely right. Most people spend too much money on cpu and way to little on IO. (We're talking average here). For IBM machines (it actually applies to most intel machines) IBM has a fairly good book (shameless self plug: I co-authored it ;-) called "Tuning IBM eServer xseries for performance" which should point you in the right direction on what to spend on what.
I have to disagree with you when it comes to network IO. Way before you will reach a bottleneck with networking your CPUs will probably peak out. Network traffic for sql servers is usually fairly low.
It would be kinda interesting to know what word processor HP uses on their own internal systems.
...they'd have to proove first that god exists. That should keep the courts busy for a while.