Well in my line of work (automotive outsourcing) You can't even buy licenses for many of our products (unigraphics, catia) for Alpha. The reason, I have been told, is because there is not enough demand. This is what I am using to base the statement I made above.
and while they're great machines that perform well, they're very limited. It's difficult for us to get many of the applications that we use for the Alpha, and if the app is available, the vendor usually provides poor support for it. Sure you can compile OS software on the alpha, but the commercial world overwhelmingly uses traditional closed software. HP decided to stop production of the Alpha because they had a competing product (pa/risc) that was in higher demand. They even plan to eventually lose PA/RISC in favor of itanium, as the article mentions. As far as price goes, one of our clients purchased a wildfire gs320 because of the low price. They found that while it offers acceptable performance, it's very difficult and expensive to find the expertise needed to properly maintain this equipment. We run a primarily Sun shop not because it's necessarily the best, but because it's what everyone else runs, and thus easier to maintain and cheaper in the long run.
Well 911 is provided free of charge (well kinda, that's what that 911 surcharge is on your monthly bill.) So a less fortunate person could in theory purchase an old cell phone (probably for a very small sum,) and use it to make free 911 calls in an emergency. In fact this is exactly what women's shelters do with donated cell phones, give them to battered women to call 911 in emergencies.
AMD seems to be making a lot of different decisions lately. I wonder if this apparent inability to decide if AMD is in the market or out, if they're going to pander to consumers or the embedded market, whether they're going to use cogswell cogs or spacely sprockets, is going to hinder adoption of Hammer? Especially since Intel (at least tries to give the appearance) that Itanium is a planned technology with a solid roadmap and development plan.
Sure we're a country of immigrants, that's hard to disagree with. But there's a difference when you have people who do not claim citizenship in a country wishing to use government funds. I agree that naturalized foreigners should have every right as a citizen born here, however visitors should not expect to have all of the benefits of a naturalized citizen.
You're probably not going to change the mind of someone who is CONVINCED the moon landing was a hoax. I don't see a need to spend money that could go toward research on trying to change people's minds.
Or you can use Via's C3 processors... with speeds up to 1GHz and socket compatibility with the Celeron, it's a pretty nice chip for less than $50... and since it only draws 12 watts, you can run it without a fan, and it's not a beast on power.
While the post does sound a lot like flamebait... he did bring up something more useful immediately after your cuttoff.
No sound card ? Expect to have trouble, as gnucash needs libaudio. Why does an accounting program link against an audio library ? Who knows ? Dig up Joe Barr's old article on "dependancy hell" and the associated slashdot article for more bad news.
I feel this is a valid concern, and it's one I was unaware of.
Anyone more knowledgeable than me care to explain how this might affect healing? Say someone with a transplant nicked themself shaving, would it heal naturally, even though the body would see the tissue as being foreign?
Unfortunately that link expired from the cache of the server (looks like searches are stored on the host side there.) You can find it by going to thomas.loc.gov and searching for "S.2537.is" as the bill number.
My company is often hired by other corporations to do exactly this. I'm bound by lots of pesky NDA's, so I can't offer advice unfortunately. I can mention that a lot of this is based on experience, and knowledge of what is done in a NOC. The best way to learn about one, is to see one in action, or work in one that's established. Companies pay a lot of money to us to make sure they get it right the first time. Be prepared for a learning curve, and willing to accept that your initial 'great ideas' may not be so great in practice. Be dilligent and I'm sure you'll build a great NOC, just not in a day.
More an issue of semantics. If you look in the context of the original post, he was asking about getting the 'thingie' that makes an apple boot, call it a bios, firmware, or a tuna salad, that doesn't change what it is... or what it does.
OpenFirmware is a consortium (granted dominated by sun.) It is a non machine specific framework that provides a standard boot time interface. It may look nothing like a pc's bios, but still could be considered a bios, without some type of bios, your system doesn't boot. While it's true that apple now uses openfirmware, that was not the case prior to the powerpc. And even though it's an open standard, it still must be implemented at a level that is specific to the specific hardware. A simplistic anology would be OpenFirmware:bios Posix:Linux
That was the Idea.... now the idea is to get people to buy Suns x86 based servers The Cost of the OS not only helps support the developers, but also gives you a little more incentive to buy their hardware. (It's about the same price as competetive systems from dell, hpaq, et al. why not get the OS free?)
Not that I think this is likely... but since each piece of paper is somewhat unique (one sheet from a 60,000 km^2 area.) Couldn't this be used for some kind of tracking. Microsoft uses media player (with their new update) to grab these.pen files, looks at the dot patterns to see which piece of paper it was written on, then figures out where that paper was sold. I'm getting my tinfoil hat ready now.
I have looked into Lasik eye surgery, and I've seen lots of doctors who advertise a very low rate... I for one, am very hesitant to trust my eyesight to someone who doesn't feel that they can charge as much as another doctor, I'd gladly pay more to guarantee quality, and I suspect similar reasoning is used by corporations.
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Or you could get a million little mirrors and lenses, then train a monkey to type based on how many electrical shocks you zap him with from your cozy remote location. Rube Goldberg rocks!
It's completely private, and EXTREMELY secure... I get calls when I breathe funny around it... ok maybe not... but if I'm on the surveilence camera near the system I can expect a call to check what I was doing there.
One of my clients (a government agency,) runs a system that attaches to the federal LEIN database, they use it to pull arrest records, whether a person has a concealed weapons permit, etc when someone is pulled over. This system is considered essential and requires 100% uptime (achived through multiple failovers) since officer's lives are on the line when the system is down.
Have you thought about people on the ground? It sounds like you won't have a lot of control over your horizontal movement. What if a jetstream blows you over a populated area. Do you have plans to make sure you don't hit someone's house, or worse yet, someone.
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Well in my line of work (automotive outsourcing) You can't even buy licenses for many of our products (unigraphics, catia) for Alpha. The reason, I have been told, is because there is not enough demand. This is what I am using to base the statement I made above.
and while they're great machines that perform well, they're very limited. It's difficult for us to get many of the applications that we use for the Alpha, and if the app is available, the vendor usually provides poor support for it. Sure you can compile OS software on the alpha, but the commercial world overwhelmingly uses traditional closed software. HP decided to stop production of the Alpha because they had a competing product (pa/risc) that was in higher demand. They even plan to eventually lose PA/RISC in favor of itanium, as the article mentions. As far as price goes, one of our clients purchased a wildfire gs320 because of the low price. They found that while it offers acceptable performance, it's very difficult and expensive to find the expertise needed to properly maintain this equipment. We run a primarily Sun shop not because it's necessarily the best, but because it's what everyone else runs, and thus easier to maintain and cheaper in the long run.
Well 911 is provided free of charge (well kinda, that's what that 911 surcharge is on your monthly bill.) So a less fortunate person could in theory purchase an old cell phone (probably for a very small sum,) and use it to make free 911 calls in an emergency. In fact this is exactly what women's shelters do with donated cell phones, give them to battered women to call 911 in emergencies.
AMD seems to be making a lot of different decisions lately. I wonder if this apparent inability to decide if AMD is in the market or out, if they're going to pander to consumers or the embedded market, whether they're going to use cogswell cogs or spacely sprockets, is going to hinder adoption of Hammer? Especially since Intel (at least tries to give the appearance) that Itanium is a planned technology with a solid roadmap and development plan.
I thought the speed of gravity was 9.8 M/S/S
*ducks*
(and to moderators lacking humor: it's a joke)
Sure we're a country of immigrants, that's hard to disagree with. But there's a difference when you have people who do not claim citizenship in a country wishing to use government funds. I agree that naturalized foreigners should have every right as a citizen born here, however visitors should not expect to have all of the benefits of a naturalized citizen.
The system runs at 100 Mips, not MHz
sounds like a job for rfc 1149
You're probably not going to change the mind of someone who is CONVINCED the moon landing was a hoax. I don't see a need to spend money that could go toward research on trying to change people's minds.
Or you can use Via's C3 processors... with speeds up to 1GHz and socket compatibility with the Celeron, it's a pretty nice chip for less than $50... and since it only draws 12 watts, you can run it without a fan, and it's not a beast on power.
I feel this is a valid concern, and it's one I was unaware of.
Anyone more knowledgeable than me care to explain how this might affect healing? Say someone with a transplant nicked themself shaving, would it heal naturally, even though the body would see the tissue as being foreign?
Unfortunately that link expired from the cache of the server (looks like searches are stored on the host side there.) You can find it by going to thomas.loc.gov and searching for "S.2537.is" as the bill number.
My company is often hired by other corporations to do exactly this. I'm bound by lots of pesky NDA's, so I can't offer advice unfortunately. I can mention that a lot of this is based on experience, and knowledge of what is done in a NOC. The best way to learn about one, is to see one in action, or work in one that's established. Companies pay a lot of money to us to make sure they get it right the first time. Be prepared for a learning curve, and willing to accept that your initial 'great ideas' may not be so great in practice. Be dilligent and I'm sure you'll build a great NOC, just not in a day.
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http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/dec/stories/water.
simple concept... evaporate water and condense the vapor... The output is clean.
More an issue of semantics. If you look in the context of the original post, he was asking about getting the 'thingie' that makes an apple boot, call it a bios, firmware, or a tuna salad, that doesn't change what it is... or what it does.
OpenFirmware is a consortium (granted dominated by sun.) It is a non machine specific framework that provides a standard boot time interface. It may look nothing like a pc's bios, but still could be considered a bios, without some type of bios, your system doesn't boot. While it's true that apple now uses openfirmware, that was not the case prior to the powerpc. And even though it's an open standard, it still must be implemented at a level that is specific to the specific hardware. A simplistic anology would be OpenFirmware:bios Posix:Linux
That was the Idea.... now the idea is to get people to buy Suns x86 based servers The Cost of the OS not only helps support the developers, but also gives you a little more incentive to buy their hardware. (It's about the same price as competetive systems from dell, hpaq, et al. why not get the OS free?)
Not that I think this is likely... but since each piece of paper is somewhat unique (one sheet from a 60,000 km^2 area.) Couldn't this be used for some kind of tracking. Microsoft uses media player (with their new update) to grab these .pen files, looks at the dot patterns to see which piece of paper it was written on, then figures out where that paper was sold. I'm getting my tinfoil hat ready now.
There's fluorinert, made by 3m, but it's VERY pricey.
I have looked into Lasik eye surgery, and I've seen lots of doctors who advertise a very low rate... I for one, am very hesitant to trust my eyesight to someone who doesn't feel that they can charge as much as another doctor, I'd gladly pay more to guarantee quality, and I suspect similar reasoning is used by corporations.
Or you could get a million little mirrors and lenses, then train a monkey to type based on how many electrical shocks you zap him with from your cozy remote location. Rube Goldberg rocks!
Ok, I'm done, I'll try to be nicer now...
It's completely private, and EXTREMELY secure... I get calls when I breathe funny around it... ok maybe not... but if I'm on the surveilence camera near the system I can expect a call to check what I was doing there.
One of my clients (a government agency,) runs a system that attaches to the federal LEIN database, they use it to pull arrest records, whether a person has a concealed weapons permit, etc when someone is pulled over. This system is considered essential and requires 100% uptime (achived through multiple failovers) since officer's lives are on the line when the system is down.
Have you thought about people on the ground? It sounds like you won't have a lot of control over your horizontal movement. What if a jetstream blows you over a populated area. Do you have plans to make sure you don't hit someone's house, or worse yet, someone.