I work in an office that uses windows networking, office, etc. for everything. The compelling use I've found for OOo is for presentations - you can make a very nice presentation very quickly, and save it as a pdf file. Everyone can read it, and you don't have to pay through the nose for Powerpoint.
I could be wrong, but I do believe flash turned off stuck in storage has a fairly limited lifetime
They specify 10 years for flash memory to hold it's data, but in practice (e.g. not at the highest temperature or most extreme operating voltage) it is significantly longer. I don't know to what extent the hard drives work around bad sectors, but they probably do it for both flash drives and the traditional magnetic type.
Does that mean that the taxpayers will receive a discount on the final product when it hits store shelves?
Actually, it was the citizens, not the taxpayers, that funded this. Money is collected by the government as representatives of the citizenry. Your right to control the government comes not from the money you pay into it; it comes from being a citizen.
I pay a solid middle class share of my taxes - it shouldn't give me any more say than the guy who makes nothing, or any less than the guy who pays ten times what I do.
Diebold is, obviously, acting in its own best interests, but that's how life in this country is
If they lose this case (which seems likely) and their reputation is tarnished (are they saying the disabled testers opinions are wrong?) than how is this in their best interests?
Being a jerk, either as an individual or a corporation, isn't only about agressively promoting your self interest. Sometimes it's just being a jerk.
We've made a similar transition. For years I had an Epson 740i, for which I bought inexpensive third party ink cartridges. Well, it broke eventually, and I couldn't find another one for love or money. So I bought another inkjet. The ink was outrageously expensive, so we bit the bullet and bought an inexpensive laser printer. (~$250 for the printer and a full cartridge).
We don't print color anymore - our printer was never that good for color photos anyway.
The lesson: the cost of a printing technology can be easily dominated by the cost of the consumables!
I haven't been able to find any access time numbers for Intel's PRAM technology, but competing technology from Hitachi boasts a 20ns read latency. This is much better than the 50ns to 90ns read latency typical of flash memory, but it's not even close to DDR2's ~3ns latency. If Intel's PRAM is in the same ballpark as Samsung's technology, then it won't be used as the main memory on your computer anytime soon.
Now, I'm not up on my memory archtecture, but I think that flash is not currently optimized for a high throughput, because if people need that kind of speed, they just dump the contents into SRAM. DRAM has been optimized for latency and throughput because of where it's used. Is it possible that that the throughput could be sped up using similar tricks as those used in DRAM, even if the latency can't be improved? How important is latency versus throughput?
Actually, group velocity can exceed c - even though no information is transferred faster than c.
If you define the group velocity as the speed of the peak of a gaussian pulse modulated by some frequency, this can travel faster than c. However, there are "tails" that extend far from the hump, and these contain the information about the hump.
A discontinuity (I wake up and decide to press a button) cannot be propagated faster than c.
My computer got completely hosed up after an automatic update from Microsoft, which could not be removed. The computer guy reinstalled the whole thing from scratch - now I have no audio.
And I didn't even have to pay for Vista to do this!
BDFL is the term used to describe Guido Van Rossum, the creator of Python. He maintains control over what does and does not go into the Python language.
Linus takes a different approach, and has said that the releases are "Linus's tree", and if you are unhappy with it, you are welcome to release your own! His approach is a little less tightly controlled than that of BDFL.
I can search for only DRM free songs. I've just checked out the website, and found no way to look only for non-DRM music.
Even if 90% of their music was DRM free, if I don't find out until I get to the song in question, it's going to be a very aggravating browsing and shopping experience. Imagine finding a song you want to here, only to discover you can't use it. Unless they offer a way to filter out the stuff I can't use, why should I waste my time looking through their stuff? It would be bad enough if it was mostly DRM-free - but given that it's mostly stuff I can't listen to, why would I waste my time?
I had a friend who was doing some consulting for a company that wanted to offer satellite based internet connectivity. When they first tried out the system, things took forever to download, despite the fact they had many Meg of bandwidth. Each picture that loaded involved a separate TCP/IP connection, which takes several back and forth messages to establish - which was sluggish because of the latency going to the geosynchronous satellite. (This was several years ago, and all the vendors have very sophisticated understanding of the issues).
With a twenty minute delay, the standard practice of resending dropped packets becomes more prohibitive (the send/NAK/resend would take an hour!), so you'd have to make the encoding redundant enough so that most errors could be recovered by the receiver - without doubling the bandwidth. Oh, it would be fun!
Ok, I'll go back to writing documentation now. >sigh
Lead would work, but is most effective against x rays and ionizing radiation - an aluminum or copper shielded box would work better and be a bit more practical...
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Agreed... of course, software doesn't really weigh anything.
Now a hexagon WITHOUT six sides would REALLY be bizarre.
I work in an office that uses windows networking, office, etc. for everything. The compelling use I've found for OOo is for presentations - you can make a very nice presentation very quickly, and save it as a pdf file. Everyone can read it, and you don't have to pay through the nose for Powerpoint.
They specify 10 years for flash memory to hold it's data, but in practice (e.g. not at the highest temperature or most extreme operating voltage) it is significantly longer. I don't know to what extent the hard drives work around bad sectors, but they probably do it for both flash drives and the traditional magnetic type.
Looks like I'll be buying computer equipment from Canada as well as my drugs.
If you don't agree to the EULA, will they give you a discount for removing Windows?
Actually, it was the citizens, not the taxpayers, that funded this. Money is collected by the government as representatives of the citizenry. Your right to control the government comes not from the money you pay into it; it comes from being a citizen.
I pay a solid middle class share of my taxes - it shouldn't give me any more say than the guy who makes nothing, or any less than the guy who pays ten times what I do.
Of course, as a DC resident, I am a second class citizen.
If they lose this case (which seems likely) and their reputation is tarnished (are they saying the disabled testers opinions are wrong?) than how is this in their best interests?
Being a jerk, either as an individual or a corporation, isn't only about agressively promoting your self interest. Sometimes it's just being a jerk.
One thing this buys a manager is time to think over how to respond to the situation before having to tell anyone about it.
Include in this all varieties of malware, and you have very compelling reason to learn assembly.
We don't print color anymore - our printer was never that good for color photos anyway.
The lesson: the cost of a printing technology can be easily dominated by the cost of the consumables!
I haven't been able to find any access time numbers for Intel's PRAM technology, but competing technology from Hitachi boasts a 20ns read latency. This is much better than the 50ns to 90ns read latency typical of flash memory, but it's not even close to DDR2's ~3ns latency. If Intel's PRAM is in the same ballpark as Samsung's technology, then it won't be used as the main memory on your computer anytime soon.
Now, I'm not up on my memory archtecture, but I think that flash is not currently optimized for a high throughput, because if people need that kind of speed, they just dump the contents into SRAM. DRAM has been optimized for latency and throughput because of where it's used. Is it possible that that the throughput could be sped up using similar tricks as those used in DRAM, even if the latency can't be improved? How important is latency versus throughput?
I hope this doesn't kill ATMEL, I really like their AVR microcontrollers. That would be sad.
If you define the group velocity as the speed of the peak of a gaussian pulse modulated by some frequency, this can travel faster than c. However, there are "tails" that extend far from the hump, and these contain the information about the hump.
A discontinuity (I wake up and decide to press a button) cannot be propagated faster than c.
I'm coming four hours early.
And I didn't even have to pay for Vista to do this!
Linus takes a different approach, and has said that the releases are "Linus's tree", and if you are unhappy with it, you are welcome to release your own! His approach is a little less tightly controlled than that of BDFL.
and Lyle Lovett
But the damage to the parent's lower back lasts for years.
Even if 90% of their music was DRM free, if I don't find out until I get to the song in question, it's going to be a very aggravating browsing and shopping experience. Imagine finding a song you want to here, only to discover you can't use it. Unless they offer a way to filter out the stuff I can't use, why should I waste my time looking through their stuff? It would be bad enough if it was mostly DRM-free - but given that it's mostly stuff I can't listen to, why would I waste my time?
With a twenty minute delay, the standard practice of resending dropped packets becomes more prohibitive (the send/NAK/resend would take an hour!), so you'd have to make the encoding redundant enough so that most errors could be recovered by the receiver - without doubling the bandwidth. Oh, it would be fun!
Ok, I'll go back to writing documentation now. >sigh
Then you're probably having a fight with your wife.
Lead would work, but is most effective against x rays and ionizing radiation - an aluminum or copper shielded box would work better and be a bit more practical...