About 10 years ago a couple of Alpha servers (Tru64 Unix) and EMA storage in a cluster arrangement was as fast and as stable you can get below the mainframe category (thanks to DEC VAX multiprocessor and shared memory technologies). The natural evolution of the alphas never came out of HP because of their infatuation with Intel Itanium processors, and see how that affair ended up.
IRC was cool when it was community based. For me it was like a real-time facebook, a facebook with weakly new random friends. I still maintain contact with people I meet in some geographically-based channels that eventually bacame meatspace friends. When it went sour? I think right after the chat networks like aim,msm,etc became mainstream, it denied IRC comumnities with new users so the communities eventually died.
Well.. you can say so if you are perfectly happy with their current catalog. I'll would like to keep buying premium games at a reasonably price (some times they are a steal) and be sure that I can move the steam folder to a new machine and start playing whatever I want in minutes.
I've never considered my account number as a low number. I've always regretted not having opened an account the first time posted on slashdot (~1998).
Hell, I've not even noticed that there are seven digit account numbers now.
These days, we don't play that much anyway And that's the reason why WoTC is getting this new version out: You are no longer their main business, they are after this generation of teenager's money and they are shaping and dressing the 4th edition for them.
I don't see any reason for you to be offended. I think the grantparent means "prestige for the manufacturer". The "My videocard is faster than yours" 16-year-old-mentality of well paid 30-something gamers may be the reason for most 8800 Ultras sold (and you made your point that not all of the high end buyers have the same motivations) but the subject was that R&D is not payed by the high end card's profits.
The prestige the manufacturers gets for having the fastest card helps them move large volumes of low to midrange cards, and that's what pays for R&D (and their yatchs).
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Confederate dollars are part of history. I doubt that SCO would be important enough in the long term to appear in anything more relevant than a wikipedia entry, and eventually even that may be lost in a pile of other more important articles about Linux and Open Source litigations.
It's mentioned that Voldemort intended to divide it's soul in 7(a magical number) pieces: 6 horcruxes and himself being the 7th pice. By trying to kill Harry as a baby it's soul was divided again in a total of eight pieces, thous the unbalance of is remaining soul.
On several sites that allow commenting, people are posting the spoilers. I've already had the book ruined for me unexpectedly:P (since it was a week before release)...
That's why I stoped reading HP forums and news sites a week ago..wait... why am I reading a post about Harry Potter being leaked? See you Monday!
PN as in Polish Notation? That's almost the same as the Reverse Polish Notation, it uses a heap only the operations go first and then the operands. To my knowledge there are no commercial PN scientific calculators.
The "regular" calculators with equal sign are not PN calculators.
It may sound highly bureaucratic to you, and yes, for a small change is like 5x times more slow but it works if you establish some policies.
I work for a fairly sized enterprise. There are 20+ engineers in development and only 6 of us in "infrastructure" (sys admins). Development teams simply don't touch the Test or Production environments, they have their own domain and servers which we help them to run on a you-broke-it-you-fix-it policy. All code, db scripts, catalog data, etc is managed by a Change Management Application, there are 3 people in change management that do the compilation of code and only them are allowed to upload executables (dlls, exes, jars, ears).
When the test environment admins receive a Change Order this package has already been checked for completeness (including deployment documentation and End User Manual deltas). If the test env. admins are not happy with the deployment documentation or if any script fails for something that is not infrastructure related we simply reject the package to development. Of course development has a chance to rebate the rejection but we usually have evidence for the failure prepared by then.
Same boat here. We're still using w2k images even on core duo machines. The only WinXP machines in my job are a couple of laptops that don't work compleately well with W2K.
Thanks god for my level of privileges as sysadmin, some developers aren't even allowed to install firefox.
This atrangely resambles those cosole pre-release press conferences where nothing new of the product is said at all. Hype machine at work for a science briefing, what's next?
Going from a single core to dual cores with shared cache is more than a mild upgrade.
And we're talking of a 4 times bigger L2 cache here. Going from 1MB to 4MB cache size will bring fenomenal performance improvements. You had to pay a lot more in the past for a motherboard that supported the much much more expensive Xeon chips with supportet 2Mb+ caches.
It's just the DRM scheme that is Apple exclusive, the AAC is an open standar: "Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), also known as MPEG-2 Part 7, and also MPEG-4 Part 3 in a slightly modified form, is a digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. AAC was declared an international standard by the MPEG group by the end of April 1997. It was developed with contributions by Dolby, Fraunhofer (FhG), AT&T, Sony and Nokia." [Wikipedia] Yes, sony codeveloped AAC boys.
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The reason lots of us came to study engineering too.
So they aren't? Why?, this site has journals you know. Slashdot is the only social network you need. What do you need pictures for?
Nice trolling attempt but I think mr. Cmdr To hit Armor Class 0 is quiting cold turkey for the moment.
About 10 years ago a couple of Alpha servers (Tru64 Unix) and EMA storage in a cluster arrangement was as fast and as stable you can get below the mainframe category (thanks to DEC VAX multiprocessor and shared memory technologies). The natural evolution of the alphas never came out of HP because of their infatuation with Intel Itanium processors, and see how that affair ended up.
IRC was cool when it was community based. For me it was like a real-time facebook, a facebook with weakly new random friends. I still maintain contact with people I meet in some geographically-based channels that eventually bacame meatspace friends. When it went sour? I think right after the chat networks like aim,msm,etc became mainstream, it denied IRC comumnities with new users so the communities eventually died.
Well.. you can say so if you are perfectly happy with their current catalog. I'll would like to keep buying premium games at a reasonably price (some times they are a steal) and be sure that I can move the steam folder to a new machine and start playing whatever I want in minutes.
I've never considered my account number as a low number. I've always regretted not having opened an account the first time posted on slashdot (~1998).
Hell, I've not even noticed that there are seven digit account numbers now.
I don't see any reason for you to be offended. I think the grantparent means "prestige for the manufacturer". The "My videocard is faster than yours" 16-year-old-mentality of well paid 30-something gamers may be the reason for most 8800 Ultras sold (and you made your point that not all of the high end buyers have the same motivations) but the subject was that R&D is not payed by the high end card's profits.
The prestige the manufacturers gets for having the fastest card helps them move large volumes of low to midrange cards, and that's what pays for R&D (and their yatchs).
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Confederate dollars are part of history. I doubt that SCO would be important enough in the long term to appear in anything more relevant than a wikipedia entry, and eventually even that may be lost in a pile of other more important articles about Linux and Open Source litigations.
It's mentioned that Voldemort intended to divide it's soul in 7(a magical number) pieces: 6 horcruxes and himself being the 7th pice. By trying to kill Harry as a baby it's soul was divided again in a total of eight pieces, thous the unbalance of is remaining soul.
PN as in Polish Notation? That's almost the same as the Reverse Polish Notation, it uses a heap only the operations go first and then the operands. To my knowledge there are no commercial PN scientific calculators.
The "regular" calculators with equal sign are not PN calculators.
I agree, this top 10 is for Digg an del.icio.us, Slashdot must differentiate somehow from them, that's what the editors are supposed to be for.
It may sound highly bureaucratic to you, and yes, for a small change is like 5x times more slow but it works if you establish some policies.
I work for a fairly sized enterprise. There are 20+ engineers in development and only 6 of us in "infrastructure" (sys admins). Development teams simply don't touch the Test or Production environments, they have their own domain and servers which we help them to run on a you-broke-it-you-fix-it policy. All code, db scripts, catalog data, etc is managed by a Change Management Application, there are 3 people in change management that do the compilation of code and only them are allowed to upload executables (dlls, exes, jars, ears).
When the test environment admins receive a Change Order this package has already been checked for completeness (including deployment documentation and End User Manual deltas). If the test env. admins are not happy with the deployment documentation or if any script fails for something that is not infrastructure related we simply reject the package to development. Of course development has a chance to rebate the rejection but we usually have evidence for the failure prepared by then.
Tenemos señal !!
"Gran Teslescopio Milimétrico" is his official name in Spanish. You can lern more about it in the official site (english version)
I've being looking for a new signature for months. Thanks a lot!
Same boat here. We're still using w2k images even on core duo machines. The only WinXP machines in my job are a couple of laptops that don't work compleately well with W2K.
Thanks god for my level of privileges as sysadmin, some developers aren't even allowed to install firefox.
Not to mention they are on a decent 3th place on this chart(ratio of people that belive in human evolution)
This atrangely resambles those cosole pre-release press conferences where nothing new of the product is said at all. Hype machine at work for a science briefing, what's next?
It's just the DRM scheme that is Apple exclusive, the AAC is an open standar: "Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), also known as MPEG-2 Part 7, and also MPEG-4 Part 3 in a slightly modified form, is a digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. AAC was declared an international standard by the MPEG group by the end of April 1997. It was developed with contributions by Dolby, Fraunhofer (FhG), AT&T, Sony and Nokia." [Wikipedia] Yes, sony codeveloped AAC boys.
As I commented in the poll discussion that started it "hollywoodized monkey robot ninja pirates" is the new recurring Slashdot gag.