IA64 systems are not actually that bad when compared to Xeon boxes. One of my Xeon boxes (2x2.4Ghz 4GB ram, raid 5) cost about 20000USD, one of my top end IA64 boxes (4x800Mhz, 8GB ram, raid 5) cost about 30000USD. While the Xeon is bay far the fastest of the two when doing one task it just doesn't cut it when loaded. The IA64 scales up well and is just what is needed for the memory hungry image serving that I use it for. Of course, if Intel put the same memory bus stuff in the Xeon it might be a different story.
Wrong, whilst in general the BBC will not mind, the licence is required on all equipment capable of receiving a television picture, regardless of the fact that you may not use it for that.
You are also wrong about being able to watch videos that others have recorded. The law allows people to keep TV recordings for a limited time (very short time) for them to watch, not to pass them around.
The BBC are usually quite accurate when reporting events via TV or radio (I know the tech stuff is sometimes lacking, but they have to pack a lot in to a small segment of time and reach people who really wouldn't understand the more complex version). On the web side the BBC is crap, time after time you see: events being reported incorrectly, headlines that don't match the story, bad grammar (or even missing words), and dummed down tech articles. I've complained twice now to the BBC about the crappy news site and have only received the response from the auto-reply bot.
You are right, up to a point. But WTF has a digital signal got to do with image compression? Now if they had a device that took an image (think CCD in digital cameras) and then presented the results on some form of interface then that would be a digital signal (as far as I'm concerned), and would then be like a fax machine (and would then be invalid as fax compression has been about pre 1986). But for creating images direct on disk (like GIMP), or taking raw uncompressed imagery from a camera and compressing it on a PC, then this just doesn't apply. They are obviously going after digital camera makers with this one.
I've been using this for quite a while now on W2K. It's not quite as nice as Exceed, but it works well and is stable. What is nice is using 'XWin -query' to start a XDMCP session.
Well, being a Brit, I can answer this question. In London we have a venue called the 'London Palladium' where they host a lot of comedy stuff. I think that should explain it.
I was luck enough, when I was in Florida, to find a bar which shipped it in from either the UK or Ireland and knew how to pour it, mind you the owner's dad is from Liverpool, so that should help.
The market will buy into it, indeed it is now. Just not the desktop market. The IA64 is a server/science platform, and that is the sort of market that is using it. You could build a P4 (or P5 when it's out) box that has the hot swap bits that most IA64 systems have, but it would almost cost as much and you wouldn't get the benefits of the IA64, why do you think Intel make different chips ?
I've been on the mailing preference list for 12 years now, I can count my junk mail each week using one hand. As for phone calls, since going ex-directory and NEVER giving my number to anyone unless I really have to I've had maybe two junk calls (in 5 years), and they were from NTL and my old bank, I told both of them never to call again, and they haven't.
I've already moved to 64bits with my IA64 box. In fact I'm about to add another 2TB to my 1TB RAID, I may have to do a bit of digging now though. Shame that, I actually need at least 15TB when the system goes live. Could always move it onto my AIX system though, that has at least 370TB on HSM.
I've only driven in the states once (and that was in FL), to be honest I was really impressed at how nice ALL the other drivers were! People stopped for me to turn across 3 lanes at some lights because I was in the wrong lane, try doing that in the UK and you'll end up DOA. However I was not impressed with either the quality of driving or the cars. Almost everybody passed in every lane, tail gated, didn't signal, stopped for no reason, etc, I even saw one guy in a pickup who, having missed the offramp, drove up the embankment. As for the cars, the bigest problem is the suspension, so soft that you can't take a bend at speed and the brakes don't work correctly (although I loved the aircon, much better than my car here). I'm sure that I'm being a bit biased here, but I can only comment on what I experienced.
The EU Human Rights Act grants EU citizens the right to free speech, however it also states that you are responsible for any thing you say and can be held liable for it. Does that make any sense to any othe EU citizens out there? I think this means that I can't be stopped from saying something (except when bound by the Official Secrets Act for instance), but I'd better be very careful about what I say.
So much for free speech.
Ok, so write it for BSD and then someone else just re-implements it under a GPL/LGPL licence by reading the code and totally rewriting it. Of course this may require well documented code, but you can't have everything. So long as the original MS docs are not refered to in part or full then this shouldn't be a problem.
Lotus Cars (UK) used this system in the Esprit Turbo over 10 years ago. It cancelled out the engine noise, and in a 2.2 litre fiberglass car that can do 172mph you get a lot of noise.
My comment wasn't only aimed at US TV, I freely admit that UK TV is crap, it's just that with less channels we have less crap. Still very little worth watching though. I used to watch Discovery, then they started the other Disco channels and repeat everything all the time. You'll find that most folks here don't want the licence fee either, it used to be justified when the BBC were producing a lot of quality content and produced minority (non-sport) content, but those were the golden days, long gone now. I guess you were in the UK some time back, we now have the grand total of 5 terestial (sp?) channels, wow, plus most folk have cable or satellite, still a load of crap on though. We used to get some good educational stuff here, then the BBC did a deal with Discovery and started to make programs for both the UK and US markets, for some strange reason the programe makers (both here & the US) think that you Americans are a bit dense and everything is either dummbed down, repeated a lot, or both. Now, this isn't another dig at the states, I know, like you know, that every country probably has about the same ratio when it comes to being stupid. All I want is good quality original TV.
This could actually be a good thing. Imagine how the TV execs would react if people just didn't buy a new TV set or a converter box. They might just understand what people really think about TV content. I thought we had some crap on TV here (UK) until I went to the states, I feel really sorry for you guys there, the ammount of dumbing down, commercials, and daily repeats just made it unwatchable for me, I had to resort to talking to my wife instead!
I rarely watch TV now, and if it wasn't for the kids I'd be tempted to get rid of it.
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IA64 systems are not actually that bad when compared to Xeon boxes. One of my Xeon boxes (2x2.4Ghz 4GB ram, raid 5) cost about 20000USD, one of my top end IA64 boxes (4x800Mhz, 8GB ram, raid 5) cost about 30000USD. While the Xeon is bay far the fastest of the two when doing one task it just doesn't cut it when loaded. The IA64 scales up well and is just what is needed for the memory hungry image serving that I use it for. Of course, if Intel put the same memory bus stuff in the Xeon it might be a different story.
Wrong, whilst in general the BBC will not mind, the licence is required on all equipment capable of receiving a television picture, regardless of the fact that you may not use it for that. You are also wrong about being able to watch videos that others have recorded. The law allows people to keep TV recordings for a limited time (very short time) for them to watch, not to pass them around.
The BBC are usually quite accurate when reporting events via TV or radio (I know the tech stuff is sometimes lacking, but they have to pack a lot in to a small segment of time and reach people who really wouldn't understand the more complex version). On the web side the BBC is crap, time after time you see: events being reported incorrectly, headlines that don't match the story, bad grammar (or even missing words), and dummed down tech articles. I've complained twice now to the BBC about the crappy news site and have only received the response from the auto-reply bot.
You are right, up to a point. But WTF has a digital signal got to do with image compression? Now if they had a device that took an image (think CCD in digital cameras) and then presented the results on some form of interface then that would be a digital signal (as far as I'm concerned), and would then be like a fax machine (and would then be invalid as fax compression has been about pre 1986). But for creating images direct on disk (like GIMP), or taking raw uncompressed imagery from a camera and compressing it on a PC, then this just doesn't apply. They are obviously going after digital camera makers with this one.
I've been using this for quite a while now on W2K. It's not quite as nice as Exceed, but it works well and is stable. What is nice is using 'XWin -query' to start a XDMCP session.
Well, being a Brit, I can answer this question. In London we have a venue called the 'London Palladium' where they host a lot of comedy stuff. I think that should explain it.
No, the 1668 conquest of England by William of Orange.
1668, William of Orange ?
I was luck enough, when I was in Florida, to find a bar which shipped it in from either the UK or Ireland and knew how to pour it, mind you the owner's dad is from Liverpool, so that should help.
The market will buy into it, indeed it is now. Just not the desktop market. The IA64 is a server/science platform, and that is the sort of market that is using it. You could build a P4 (or P5 when it's out) box that has the hot swap bits that most IA64 systems have, but it would almost cost as much and you wouldn't get the benefits of the IA64, why do you think Intel make different chips ?
I've been on the mailing preference list for 12 years now, I can count my junk mail each week using one hand. As for phone calls, since going ex-directory and NEVER giving my number to anyone unless I really have to I've had maybe two junk calls (in 5 years), and they were from NTL and my old bank, I told both of them never to call again, and they haven't.
The correct term is 'literal', not 'typo'.
I've already moved to 64bits with my IA64 box. In fact I'm about to add another 2TB to my 1TB RAID, I may have to do a bit of digging now though. Shame that, I actually need at least 15TB when the system goes live. Could always move it onto my AIX system though, that has at least 370TB on HSM.
I've only driven in the states once (and that was in FL), to be honest I was really impressed at how nice ALL the other drivers were! People stopped for me to turn across 3 lanes at some lights because I was in the wrong lane, try doing that in the UK and you'll end up DOA. However I was not impressed with either the quality of driving or the cars. Almost everybody passed in every lane, tail gated, didn't signal, stopped for no reason, etc, I even saw one guy in a pickup who, having missed the offramp, drove up the embankment. As for the cars, the bigest problem is the suspension, so soft that you can't take a bend at speed and the brakes don't work correctly (although I loved the aircon, much better than my car here). I'm sure that I'm being a bit biased here, but I can only comment on what I experienced.
The EU Human Rights Act grants EU citizens the right to free speech, however it also states that you are responsible for any thing you say and can be held liable for it. Does that make any sense to any othe EU citizens out there? I think this means that I can't be stopped from saying something (except when bound by the Official Secrets Act for instance), but I'd better be very careful about what I say. So much for free speech.
Ok, so write it for BSD and then someone else just re-implements it under a GPL/LGPL licence by reading the code and totally rewriting it. Of course this may require well documented code, but you can't have everything. So long as the original MS docs are not refered to in part or full then this shouldn't be a problem.
£50k for a 4mbit link ? My firm only pays £18k for each of our 2mbit links, still seems a lot though.
Lotus Cars (UK) used this system in the Esprit Turbo over 10 years ago. It cancelled out the engine noise, and in a 2.2 litre fiberglass car that can do 172mph you get a lot of noise.
My comment wasn't only aimed at US TV, I freely admit that UK TV is crap, it's just that with less channels we have less crap. Still very little worth watching though. I used to watch Discovery, then they started the other Disco channels and repeat everything all the time. You'll find that most folks here don't want the licence fee either, it used to be justified when the BBC were producing a lot of quality content and produced minority (non-sport) content, but those were the golden days, long gone now. I guess you were in the UK some time back, we now have the grand total of 5 terestial (sp?) channels, wow, plus most folk have cable or satellite, still a load of crap on though. We used to get some good educational stuff here, then the BBC did a deal with Discovery and started to make programs for both the UK and US markets, for some strange reason the programe makers (both here & the US) think that you Americans are a bit dense and everything is either dummbed down, repeated a lot, or both. Now, this isn't another dig at the states, I know, like you know, that every country probably has about the same ratio when it comes to being stupid. All I want is good quality original TV.
This could actually be a good thing. Imagine how the TV execs would react if people just didn't buy a new TV set or a converter box. They might just understand what people really think about TV content. I thought we had some crap on TV here (UK) until I went to the states, I feel really sorry for you guys there, the ammount of dumbing down, commercials, and daily repeats just made it unwatchable for me, I had to resort to talking to my wife instead! I rarely watch TV now, and if it wasn't for the kids I'd be tempted to get rid of it.
My company use cell phone and radio station masts to 'true' the GPS signal, this gets us within 0.25 metres.