Saw these guys demoing at ESC on Wednesday. It was pretty intersting. I was walking up to the AMD booth and saw a blade rack with blue LEDs and what appeared to be steam inside. That was enough to make me think, "what the hell?" Then as I walked up I could see there were three dual Athalon 64 blades in the rack, all were powered up and none had heat sinks or fans. On top of that there were nozzles spraying a fluid onto the boards and CPUs. The fluid was dripping off the boards and being collected below. They say the system can cool up to 25KW without fans or heat sinks.
Download firefox, and do nothing else to it. Now compare a flash based site to an XMLHttpRequest+CSS+etc site. Which one works right away and which one directs the user to another page where they have to download a plugin and hope all goes well?
Now let's start with someone who wants to dabble in web development. Which of the two technologies can be done right away without having to buy a development environment?
Besides that, what really gets me is- hey, you're going to wait for some server process at some point anyway, right? What's your glorified Javascript doing besides displaying a "Waiting for server..." dialog anyway? Yea, real useful...
Actually....no. You missed what the A was for in Ajax. (And by the way, Ajax is just their name for the technology...they didn't invent it or combine it, it's not really new.) A stands for Asynchronous. As in I don't have to sit around waiting for the server, I can be doing other things in the page at the same time. Also, to get new data I don't have to refresh the page and fetch everything again, I can get only what is important to retrieve. I can use less bandwidth, load the server less and make my site respond faster. This is a plus for me (how much can you save by reducing your bandwitdh usage by just 20%?), and for my users who get faster access to my site. This can be intelligent use of javascript.
I suspect in your mind javascript is still just for making things blink and/or scroll.
Actually you don't even have to have the backend spit out XML for everything. Sometimes you'll run across something that needs to return a single but important piece of data. XML at that point is over kill. Despite its name XMLHttpRequest does not require that the data transport is done in XML, it is more flexible than that.
You can also use it for sending form data. I have applications that need to have form data sent to the server, but the user will continue to work in the same form. Prior to using the XMLHttpRequest object I would once again pull the web page from the server. Now I fire the post and forget about it. I don't need to redo the page, it's already just as I want it.
The XMLHttpRequest object can be used intelligently to reduce the load on a server and at the same time make the user experience rich and snappy. The fact that it works well across browsers just adds to the benefit.
I design a certain type of reliability test equipment for a living. The tests performed by NIST are not standard length, they took much longer than industry standards for determining reliability.
The shortest test was 450 hours, most reliability testing takes around one week, NIST took at least twice as long for their tests, and up to two months for some tests.
Occasionally researchers will run longer tests (one ran a two year test on our equipment), but companies need information quickly.
Bottom line: the NIST data is to be taken seriously.
My Yamaha weighs just under 500lb and can put out 94hp all for $6.5K, 0-60MPH or 0-120MPH will knock your socks off, and if I ride it hard I only get 40MPG (US Gal), 6L/100KM. Almost anyone in a car/cage is a "poor bastard".
1) When your power goes out, the phone still works. Your computers (and VoIP phone) do not.
Ever hear of a UPS? My ATA is on the UPS with the DSL modem. If power goes out for too long I can always hook up an inverter to the car for emergencies, or just use the auto-forward.
2) When your Network connection flakes out (as it is known to do periodically), your VoIP phone goes silent.
Speak for your own network connection. I pay a little extra for a good ISP and get good reliability....but once again if it were to go down the auto-forward is still in place.
3) When your ISP starts to block or throttle back VoIP calls which are not routed through their own VoIP service, your VoIP phone is almost useless. You can thank the lack of regulations for this.
And so I chose an ISP with a good Usage Agreement.
If you want to use VOIP as your primary voice transport you have to do some more work to make sure your connection will support more than web browsing. Then VOIP works and works well.
I've been a Vonage customer since 2003, the only problem I ever had with them was with the initial implementation of voice mail. I've been a DSL Extreme customer since DirectTV stopped their DSL service (early 2003?), the only problem I've had with them was a single outage right before a CS match. VOIP is mature and ready for prime time...now if only someone would talk to the Vonage about those TV spots.
Not too bad? The ejecta and seismic activity may not be so bad, but the air blast will be deadly (because of collapsing buildings etc) up to 200km away. There will be a 100km radius of complete destruction, almost no survivors, and at least half of the people from 100km to 200km would die in densly populated areas, especially those with construction not well suited to seismic events.
Interestingly enough even on the other side of the world the impact would be easily heard.
DS9 and most of the newer ST series succeeded because they provided mindless entertainment. B5 was a great show because it didn't.
ST was mindless entertainment because every episode had the same plot, because the whole crew could be wiped out at the end of an episode and be alive for the start of the next. There was no continuity at all. ST did not require you to watch most episodes. With the newer STs someone could watch only one episode their entire life and understand 90%. The discontinuity of ST is really annoying. In addition ST has a very unrealistic take on the future, it's sterile.
On the other hand if you watched B5 from the beginning it drew you in. It carried the tension of the story from week to week. It was the type of show where it was a big deal to miss an episode, not many shows do that anymore. B5 portrayed a more realistic fiction, there was dirt, the heroes were not perfect, actions carried with them responsibilities.
Part of the problem is the "New HP" is only a small portion of what the "Old HP" was. Look to Agilent for the HP innovation, top notch technology, etc. (And I speak as a competitor.)
HP today is just another clone house. They have to play catch up with Dell....that's sad.
Any cruise control that interfaces directly to the throttle control (usually with a second cable) cannot be overridden by pulling up on the accelerator pedal. The reason is that pushing on the pedal pulls the throttle cable, pulling on the pedal will attempt to push the cable and just loosens it, it will pull back against the cruise control.
Yep, in 2000 I spent a lot of time in Taiwan. I was in a motel that had a T1 (or equiv) shared between the rooms. I would call home for free, it was really nice.
If I was travelling as much now, I'd probably add a Vonage soft phone to my account and get similar features.
Actually it seems they have stopped offering their intermediate plan. When the premium plan was only $4 more per month we upgrade our intermediate. You may as well upgrade your plan if you're going to pay the same rate. Log into your account and check your usage history, 500 minutes basic may work just fine for you. Add up your in plan and regional minutes, if you're typically under 500 just go with that.
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Now for some, 10 years from now for Debian.
It was definately using a pump and fan. But since this was on a trade show floor it was difficult to judge how noisy the system was.
Saw these guys demoing at ESC on Wednesday. It was pretty intersting. I was walking up to the AMD booth and saw a blade rack with blue LEDs and what appeared to be steam inside. That was enough to make me think, "what the hell?" Then as I walked up I could see there were three dual Athalon 64 blades in the rack, all were powered up and none had heat sinks or fans. On top of that there were nozzles spraying a fluid onto the boards and CPUs. The fluid was dripping off the boards and being collected below. They say the system can cool up to 25KW without fans or heat sinks.
Microsoft doesn't sell boxes, just licenses.
Download firefox, and do nothing else to it. Now compare a flash based site to an XMLHttpRequest+CSS+etc site. Which one works right away and which one directs the user to another page where they have to download a plugin and hope all goes well?
Now let's start with someone who wants to dabble in web development. Which of the two technologies can be done right away without having to buy a development environment?
Besides that, what really gets me is- hey, you're going to wait for some server process at some point anyway, right? What's your glorified Javascript doing besides displaying a "Waiting for server..." dialog anyway? Yea, real useful...
Actually....no. You missed what the A was for in Ajax. (And by the way, Ajax is just their name for the technology...they didn't invent it or combine it, it's not really new.) A stands for Asynchronous. As in I don't have to sit around waiting for the server, I can be doing other things in the page at the same time. Also, to get new data I don't have to refresh the page and fetch everything again, I can get only what is important to retrieve. I can use less bandwidth, load the server less and make my site respond faster. This is a plus for me (how much can you save by reducing your bandwitdh usage by just 20%?), and for my users who get faster access to my site. This can be intelligent use of javascript.
I suspect in your mind javascript is still just for making things blink and/or scroll.
Actually you don't even have to have the backend spit out XML for everything. Sometimes you'll run across something that needs to return a single but important piece of data. XML at that point is over kill. Despite its name XMLHttpRequest does not require that the data transport is done in XML, it is more flexible than that.
You can also use it for sending form data. I have applications that need to have form data sent to the server, but the user will continue to work in the same form. Prior to using the XMLHttpRequest object I would once again pull the web page from the server. Now I fire the post and forget about it. I don't need to redo the page, it's already just as I want it.
The XMLHttpRequest object can be used intelligently to reduce the load on a server and at the same time make the user experience rich and snappy. The fact that it works well across browsers just adds to the benefit.
If he wants to be taken seriously he should have a website that will render properly on more than IE at 800x600.
what are these popup boxes you're talking about?
I design a certain type of reliability test equipment for a living. The tests performed by NIST are not standard length, they took much longer than industry standards for determining reliability.
The shortest test was 450 hours, most reliability testing takes around one week, NIST took at least twice as long for their tests, and up to two months for some tests.
Occasionally researchers will run longer tests (one ran a two year test on our equipment), but companies need information quickly.
Bottom line: the NIST data is to be taken seriously.
My Yamaha weighs just under 500lb and can put out 94hp all for $6.5K, 0-60MPH or 0-120MPH will knock your socks off, and if I ride it hard I only get 40MPG (US Gal), 6L/100KM. Almost anyone in a car/cage is a "poor bastard".
1) When your power goes out, the phone still works. Your computers (and VoIP phone) do not.
Ever hear of a UPS? My ATA is on the UPS with the DSL modem. If power goes out for too long I can always hook up an inverter to the car for emergencies, or just use the auto-forward.
2) When your Network connection flakes out (as it is known to do periodically), your VoIP phone goes silent.
Speak for your own network connection. I pay a little extra for a good ISP and get good reliability....but once again if it were to go down the auto-forward is still in place.
3) When your ISP starts to block or throttle back VoIP calls which are not routed through their own VoIP service, your VoIP phone is almost useless. You can thank the lack of regulations for this.
And so I chose an ISP with a good Usage Agreement.
If you want to use VOIP as your primary voice transport you have to do some more work to make sure your connection will support more than web browsing. Then VOIP works and works well.
I've been a Vonage customer since 2003, the only problem I ever had with them was with the initial implementation of voice mail. I've been a DSL Extreme customer since DirectTV stopped their DSL service (early 2003?), the only problem I've had with them was a single outage right before a CS match. VOIP is mature and ready for prime time...now if only someone would talk to the Vonage about those TV spots.
Or they might be licensing it from Apple. Patents don't prevent others from using the tech, just from using it without permission.
Yes, in an emergency anyone can use any portion of the band in any mode. Thus long before my wife got her license I had a radio in her car anyway.
Not too bad? The ejecta and seismic activity may not be so bad, but the air blast will be deadly (because of collapsing buildings etc) up to 200km away. There will be a 100km radius of complete destruction, almost no survivors, and at least half of the people from 100km to 200km would die in densly populated areas, especially those with construction not well suited to seismic events.
Interestingly enough even on the other side of the world the impact would be easily heard.
DS9 and most of the newer ST series succeeded because they provided mindless entertainment. B5 was a great show because it didn't.
ST was mindless entertainment because every episode had the same plot, because the whole crew could be wiped out at the end of an episode and be alive for the start of the next. There was no continuity at all. ST did not require you to watch most episodes. With the newer STs someone could watch only one episode their entire life and understand 90%. The discontinuity of ST is really annoying. In addition ST has a very unrealistic take on the future, it's sterile.
On the other hand if you watched B5 from the beginning it drew you in. It carried the tension of the story from week to week. It was the type of show where it was a big deal to miss an episode, not many shows do that anymore. B5 portrayed a more realistic fiction, there was dirt, the heroes were not perfect, actions carried with them responsibilities.
In short B5 made sense. ST made me cringe.
All you have to do is install the Launchy plugin for them. Then if the page doesn't work in Firefox, they just right click and choose open in IE.
With this I have converted a lot of people from IE to mostly Firefox.
Part of the problem is the "New HP" is only a small portion of what the "Old HP" was. Look to Agilent for the HP innovation, top notch technology, etc. (And I speak as a competitor.)
HP today is just another clone house. They have to play catch up with Dell....that's sad.
I wonder if they fixed it. My session was just expired and I had to login in again. (My latest two week session ended a couple days ago.)
Get an Epson and use their drivers, works nicely.
Grab the unofficial Google Bar plug-in it has many of the features of the IE Google Bar, works nicely.
Any cruise control that interfaces directly to the throttle control (usually with a second cable) cannot be overridden by pulling up on the accelerator pedal. The reason is that pushing on the pedal pulls the throttle cable, pulling on the pedal will attempt to push the cable and just loosens it, it will pull back against the cruise control.
Check you're usage, if you're consistantly under 500 minutes a month then Vonage is cheaper.
Yep, in 2000 I spent a lot of time in Taiwan. I was in a motel that had a T1 (or equiv) shared between the rooms. I would call home for free, it was really nice.
If I was travelling as much now, I'd probably add a Vonage soft phone to my account and get similar features.
Actually it seems they have stopped offering their intermediate plan. When the premium plan was only $4 more per month we upgrade our intermediate. You may as well upgrade your plan if you're going to pay the same rate. Log into your account and check your usage history, 500 minutes basic may work just fine for you. Add up your in plan and regional minutes, if you're typically under 500 just go with that.