Since paypal accepts debit payments to my knowledge, this opens the itunes market to those under the age of 18 in the United States. Not that they would pay for music...
Bittorrent needs a replacement that adds security. The protocol's creator has gone so far as to voice that doing illegal filesharing on torrent is a dumb idea, due to its utter lack of any security features. That said, Once you add this kind of capability to torrent as mentioned above, well, it will have become kazaa's replacement in every way. Let's hope the signal to noise ratio for downloads stays high.
Simple one-day, weekend, or even weeklong reviews are meaningless in the corporate IT environment. Hell, the merits of any particular vendor's gear isn't truly relevant either. I've worked in an institutional IT environment and a corporate one, and this is how purchasing works:
1. Requirements solicitation - figure out what needs we need to fill, be it wifi net access, a file server, etc
2. Vendor research - contact the usual suspects in the field (networking, big iron servers, etc) and arrange for consultation and formal bids to be made. NOTE: this step is skipped ENTIRELY if the company/institution already has a corporate account with a vendor that provides the appropriate services that you require.
3. Formal bidding process - pit the vendors against eachother, it's fun when you get them onsite to demo their gear. Generally vendors will lower prices to sweeten their bid.
4. Award the contract to one of the vendors, or (more likely) have funding denied to you by the beancounters and end up doing a half-assed implementation of what any of the vendors was going to do.
Individual machine or software reviews are a *tiny* part of the process for securing enterprise level hardware/software services.
So this is how they're getting around the godforsaken regulatory hell that is telecommunincations in the USA. Clever. And by partnering like this, Microsoft begins its battle to take over the digital TV distribution industry.
1 - all info on each game is provided by the game maker, so take it with a grain of salt.
2 - the stats don't differentiate between "players" and "accounts". So a single account with 3 characters may show up as 3.
3 - the stats don't differentiate between active accounts and inactive accounts.
4 - the lineage figures are crap as massive bulk of them come from South Korean cybercafes. It's noted that South Korea apparently doesn't get many Japanese import games, thus it figures that Lineage may have a disproportionately high user base there.
A much better chart would be the server population figures for these games;) But I doubt the makers would provide that data.
ooh, bigger than Apple's marketshare eh?
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I was recently "orphaned" in my program - a degree/diploma compsci/telecom course in Canada. The college providing the telecom/IT portion of my classes has dissolved their IT department, and while they'll finish any students still in classes, we're now orphans...
With everyone hearing about how the tech industry is still doing crappy overall, and how jobs are getting outsourced, it's no wonder compsci enrollment's down...
commence operation: keep our business model floating!
The harder they resist change, the harder it'll be for them to embrace it when their resistance crumbles.
This FTTP setup sounds great - but realise they're talking about fiber to the *HOME*. You want business usage? Static IP? Be prepared to pay out the @$$ for it just like with any other business ISP.
I do bi-weekly tape backups. Hard drives aren't reliable/durable enough, and their shelf life isn't good enough for backups. Optical media have the same problems, but worse. I can't imagine tape going away for a good long time.
Computer Power User - it's what Byte tried to be, before they were forced to have 3 pages of adverts for every page of content, and renamed themselves "MaximumPC"
Within the 915/925 chipset is a function that halts the function of the cpu should the cpu-chipset bus speed deviate outside of the acceptable tolerance (5%) of the rated bus speed. This affects both overclocking and underclocking the bus. The "fix" mainboard makers are considering is not much more than a small hack that allows for another 10-15% deviation from the nominal bus speed.
Analysis: this is nothing new. Intel retail mainboards have *never* allowed overclocking, and their processors have been multiplier-locked since 1998.bottom line: the lock is there for stability concerns. If you want to overclock a socket-T processor, use a mainboard with a different chipset.I'm sure Ali, SiS, VIA, and Ati would love your business.
With such a fragile socket and obscene thermal properties, who here is going to overclock a prescott P4 to begin with? 115W rated thermal dissipation on the 560 (3.6GHz) model. 115W!
Past performance IS indicative of future returns, it just depends on your job. If you're going for a position as an team leader for a major software engineering project, your prospective employers are going to take a look at past accomplishments *very* carefully.
That unless you have bags and bags of experience and a lengthy CV, your resume is rarely indicative of your true employable skills. The 8-year old Indian kid who got his MCSE is easy proof of this.
I find some cert courses are good for teaching the fundamentals, rather than proving expertise. I'm studying for a CCNA right now, and while I doubt it'll prove practical for a low level sysadmin job, it is certainly giving me the base networking knowledge required to further pursue a career in network technology...
Open-source software like Linux, BSD, etc is currently great for developers and for systems administrators - it's easy to automate a lot of the backend open-source programs. However, when you do a cost-benefits analyis of open-source software as a whole, you have to take into account user training and support costs.
While widescale windows site licenses may be expensive, the productivity lost in having to retrain all your users in the intimate details of office software surely makes up for the nominal cost-savings of going with "free" software. This is how Microsoft is making its pitch vs open-source solutions, and it's not FUD - it's a damned good argument.
This isn't an attack on the open-source development process - I actually hold it in high regard. However, converting to open source because it's free on the surface speaks is quite short-sighted.
Windows nowadays *is* very stable. I've been working as a systems administrator over Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 Systems for about 2 years now (obviously I haven't spent that much time on 2003...) and you know what? Except for one really screwy problem that later turned out to be memory-related, I have never had stability problems with those flavours of MS Windows.
Ok that's not entirely true. I've seen Windows stability problems. They were the result of user stupidity like truckloads of spyware and hard disks with no space left.
And as far as "idiotic debug statements" go, GCC holds the frikkin crown for those. When java compiler or runtime crashes, it tells you more about what went wrong than C++ does...perhaps the reason you see amateurish java programs is that the amateurs and programming students are switching from C++ (a language no one should use unless they're supremely gifted as a programmer) to Java (a language that saves them from their own stupidity).
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Since paypal accepts debit payments to my knowledge, this opens the itunes market to those under the age of 18 in the United States. Not that they would pay for music...
Bittorrent needs a replacement that adds security. The protocol's creator has gone so far as to voice that doing illegal filesharing on torrent is a dumb idea, due to its utter lack of any security features. That said, Once you add this kind of capability to torrent as mentioned above, well, it will have become kazaa's replacement in every way. Let's hope the signal to noise ratio for downloads stays high.
Simple one-day, weekend, or even weeklong reviews are meaningless in the corporate IT environment. Hell, the merits of any particular vendor's gear isn't truly relevant either. I've worked in an institutional IT environment and a corporate one, and this is how purchasing works:
1. Requirements solicitation - figure out what needs we need to fill, be it wifi net access, a file server, etc
2. Vendor research - contact the usual suspects in the field (networking, big iron servers, etc) and arrange for consultation and formal bids to be made. NOTE: this step is skipped ENTIRELY if the company/institution already has a corporate account with a vendor that provides the appropriate services that you require.
3. Formal bidding process - pit the vendors against eachother, it's fun when you get them onsite to demo their gear. Generally vendors will lower prices to sweeten their bid.
4. Award the contract to one of the vendors, or (more likely) have funding denied to you by the beancounters and end up doing a half-assed implementation of what any of the vendors was going to do.
Individual machine or software reviews are a *tiny* part of the process for securing enterprise level hardware/software services.
So this is how they're getting around the godforsaken regulatory hell that is telecommunincations in the USA. Clever. And by partnering like this, Microsoft begins its battle to take over the digital TV distribution industry.
Final Fantasy X immediately springs to mind. Any others?
1 - all info on each game is provided by the game maker, so take it with a grain of salt.
;) But I doubt the makers would provide that data.
2 - the stats don't differentiate between "players" and "accounts". So a single account with 3 characters may show up as 3.
3 - the stats don't differentiate between active accounts and inactive accounts.
4 - the lineage figures are crap as massive bulk of them come from South Korean cybercafes. It's noted that South Korea apparently doesn't get many Japanese import games, thus it figures that Lineage may have a disproportionately high user base there.
A much better chart would be the server population figures for these games
So they're at 1.5% of installed desktops now?
I was recently "orphaned" in my program - a degree/diploma compsci/telecom course in Canada. The college providing the telecom/IT portion of my classes has dissolved their IT department, and while they'll finish any students still in classes, we're now orphans...
With everyone hearing about how the tech industry is still doing crappy overall, and how jobs are getting outsourced, it's no wonder compsci enrollment's down...
Let's just all hope that Kirk doesn't go back to old habits, rip his shirt off, and fight a guy in a rubber suit...*shudders*
commence operation: keep our business model floating! The harder they resist change, the harder it'll be for them to embrace it when their resistance crumbles.
This FTTP setup sounds great - but realise they're talking about fiber to the *HOME*. You want business usage? Static IP? Be prepared to pay out the @$$ for it just like with any other business ISP.
Now THERE is your linux IM-EMAIL-VOIP killer app.
I do bi-weekly tape backups. Hard drives aren't reliable/durable enough, and their shelf life isn't good enough for backups. Optical media have the same problems, but worse. I can't imagine tape going away for a good long time.
nah it just means i only have to see up to her neck before i'm horny ;)
Computer Power User - it's what Byte tried to be, before they were forced to have 3 pages of adverts for every page of content, and renamed themselves "MaximumPC"
Dude you just made it into my friends list. Goddamn that's funny.
It's sure as hell not obvious to me, and I haven't heard of anyone else doing it yet?
Intel competes because Intel is a recognized brand name and employs a huge marketing budget, while AMD is/does not.
Within the 915/925 chipset is a function that halts the function of the cpu should the cpu-chipset bus speed deviate outside of the acceptable tolerance (5%) of the rated bus speed. This affects both overclocking and underclocking the bus. The "fix" mainboard makers are considering is not much more than a small hack that allows for another 10-15% deviation from the nominal bus speed.
Analysis: this is nothing new. Intel retail mainboards have *never* allowed overclocking, and their processors have been multiplier-locked since 1998.bottom line: the lock is there for stability concerns. If you want to overclock a socket-T processor, use a mainboard with a different chipset.I'm sure Ali, SiS, VIA, and Ati would love your business.
With such a fragile socket and obscene thermal properties, who here is going to overclock a prescott P4 to begin with? 115W rated thermal dissipation on the 560 (3.6GHz) model. 115W!
Past performance IS indicative of future returns, it just depends on your job. If you're going for a position as an team leader for a major software engineering project, your prospective employers are going to take a look at past accomplishments *very* carefully.
That unless you have bags and bags of experience and a lengthy CV, your resume is rarely indicative of your true employable skills. The 8-year old Indian kid who got his MCSE is easy proof of this.
I find some cert courses are good for teaching the fundamentals, rather than proving expertise. I'm studying for a CCNA right now, and while I doubt it'll prove practical for a low level sysadmin job, it is certainly giving me the base networking knowledge required to further pursue a career in network technology...
yes but every one of those 100,000 users has to learn how to use the new software. And that lost time could definitely be worth more than $50.
Open-source software like Linux, BSD, etc is currently great for developers and for systems administrators - it's easy to automate a lot of the backend open-source programs. However, when you do a cost-benefits analyis of open-source software as a whole, you have to take into account user training and support costs.
While widescale windows site licenses may be expensive, the productivity lost in having to retrain all your users in the intimate details of office software surely makes up for the nominal cost-savings of going with "free" software. This is how Microsoft is making its pitch vs open-source solutions, and it's not FUD - it's a damned good argument.
This isn't an attack on the open-source development process - I actually hold it in high regard. However, converting to open source because it's free on the surface speaks is quite short-sighted.
Windows nowadays *is* very stable. I've been working as a systems administrator over Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 Systems for about 2 years now (obviously I haven't spent that much time on 2003...) and you know what? Except for one really screwy problem that later turned out to be memory-related, I have never had stability problems with those flavours of MS Windows.
Ok that's not entirely true. I've seen Windows stability problems. They were the result of user stupidity like truckloads of spyware and hard disks with no space left.
And as far as "idiotic debug statements" go, GCC holds the frikkin crown for those. When java compiler or runtime crashes, it tells you more about what went wrong than C++ does...perhaps the reason you see amateurish java programs is that the amateurs and programming students are switching from C++ (a language no one should use unless they're supremely gifted as a programmer) to Java (a language that saves them from their own stupidity).