Go spec out a Dell Precision 490. The default config Mac Pro, Dual 2.8Ghz Quad core, 2 GB RAM, etc is $2800 + 249 for 3 year warranty. The 490 starts at $12xx but as soon as you get the processors to match(actually 2.6Ghz instead of 2.8), and a few other bits(250GB HD instead of 80GB, Mac Pro has a 350GB), the Precision 490 is at $4377.
I'm not disagreeing that there are deals to be had, but when you compare similar spec'd machines, the Apple workstations are sometimes actually compellingly priced. As for Gateway's willingness to sell you something cheaper, well I don't see any Xeon based machines in their lineup. Maybe I'm missing something.
Again, I'm not saying a $2800 dollar workstation is for everyone, but the comparison for a Mac Pro is NOT an emachine, HP Pavillion, or Dell Inspiron/Vostro/Optiplex. Its Dell Precision/XPS, HP xwSeries workstations and I don't know what else. When I spec out a GIS workstation, I usually have about $6000-$7000 to spend, and the only thing that keeps the Mac Pro from being the best buy out there are the limited RAID options that they have.
In my opinion the best way to illustrate the weakness of the MS registry design is to illustrate one of it's strengths at the same time. Run regmon.exe to monitor registry activity and then open folder. I just did this on one of my workstations. With no windowed apps open and limited non-XP services running, opening a folder triggered ~2900 registry actions(OpenKey, QueryValue, SetValue, CloseKey) On one hand, this is amazing. Those 2900 registry actions must be extremely efficient, as it doesn't take but a second for that folder to open. On the other hand, this IMO is part of why Windows performance always degrades over time in non-static workstation configs. The number of keys being queried from has linear growth over time, so those 2900 actions will get slower and slower as the registry grows.
I just don't see how it could be deemed efficient for a basic desktop app to query a registry of hundreds of thousands(millions?) of keys/values to decide if my background should be blue or green.
I've been wondering for the last few years why no one is doing this. I read about studies that are considered HUGE where there are 50,000 participants. Many studies are only in the hundreds. What happens when you can do statistical analysis on millions of patient records? It would seem to me that the potential for finding trends amongst otherwise disparate symptoms would be amazing.
As a poster above noted, finding a way to query the data is a problem. Finding ways to anonymize patient information is a problem(how many elements of medical history does it take to identify a human?) But in the end, if google were subsidizing my health care, I just might say do whatever the fuck you want with my charts!
Which brings this back to one of the question of the century: When will the consumer own it's own data? Today this might be a service Google looks to sell as "You pay us to data warehouse your medical records", but tomorrow it might be "You pay us to mine the data warehouse that we've established."
Are the inconsistencies of patients chart data too much of an obstacle to overcome? I'd hate to think that Google is just doing this as a form of Web 2.0 SAS, 'pay me to do what you used to do yourself' service. I've always imagined that Google figures, if they get enough data in one place, something magical will happen. Medical research of millions or hundreds of millions of patient histories seems like it could be magical.
This is just their feeler into the children's toy industry. Microsoft is poised to release a whole line of toy's called Megos that will revolutionize the toy industry. They will be stronger, more precise, more modular and cheaper than their competitors, while leveraging your existing toy inventory. Furthermore, by retaining resale value, Megos will have a better ROI after your children are grown! Available in 2010.
First off, there are plenty of artists who haven't signed away ALL of their rights, though they may not be with major labels. Secondly, it would be interesting because if an RIAA lawyer actually mounted a successful defense against an independent artist, the same legal approach might be usable against the RIAA. Assuming we are talking about an artist that has retained/aquired the same copyright that the RIAA defends for the majors.
What would be REALLY interesting is if the RIAA as an ORGANIZATION could be found to be infringing the copyrighted works of an independent via p2p, and what kind of defense they would mount. Of course the independent would have to resist the temptation of a payout.
If you consider that Apple supposedly pays about $.70/song for iTunes downloads, $9,250 of lost revenue per song would translate to about 13,214 downloads per song, or 303,922 downloads total. If the average mp3 is about 3MB, that puts the total data transfer at 911,766MB, or about 890.39GB of data. How long did she have this crap shared? I wonder what kind of DSL/Cable plan she was on.
But unfortunately it's not that simple. How about an artist sues a man for standing on a street corner holding a photocopy of her artwork. The street corner experienced an unknown amount of traffic, may have been dark at the time, and may have been blocked from entry by thousands of armed guards. Despite this the prosecutor decides to push for $222,000 in damages and somehow gets the judgement . . .
Does that make any sense?
The site was pretty unresponsive for the first week or so after the downloads were available. I took three tries for me, first two ended out of impatience.
If you have a 3rd party piece of software that uses office components, you will still need MS office. A perfect example is Quickbooks. You can export reports to excel from quickbooks, but if you don't have excel installed you can't export(no csv options).
Roaming profiles are a torture device designed by Bill Gates to help subjugate hapless IT workers.
It doesn't "Synchronize", it checks if which is older(local or remote) and then dumps the whole damn thing over the network. Roaming Profiles make.Mac synchronization look like a fucking work of art.
I have approximately 60 users with Roaming Profiles. They suck.
<nasal whine>I deleted this icon and when I logged on it came back again, can you fix it?!</nasal whine>
As someone who supports a small(~300 users) Callmanager install, it's 1., 3.(a common perception), 4.(should read "It's free, so it can't have much support"), 6., and 7. Of these, I'd say 3 and 7 are at least somewhat true in this case. While Cisco's support costs are high, I can at least get someone on the phone 24/7, generally within 1 hour and they know their stuff pretty well(some of course better than others). I can attest that when your phone or voicemail system freaks out at 6pm on a weekday, knowing someone can help you get things back to normal by morning is well worth the support cost.
I've only given Asterisk a cursory look at this point, though at first glance I'd say it looks quite a bit tougher to install and maintain. Moving our org from a Mitel PBX to Callmanager, we took over phone system management with no additional staff, and with a minimum of increased support calls, once the system was set up. To me, the high cost is the only real drawback as the system is rock solid. As far as costs go, if you could use something other than Unity for voicemail, your cost would probably be cut in half if not more.
It will be interesting to see how I feel about this in a year, when CallManager 5.0 is in full swing, since it runs on Linux instead of Win2k and will be moving to SIP instead of SCCP as the default.
This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the crumpled horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built.
I am not a physicist, but I don't believe in the Gravitron. The theory of mass curving space just makes so much sense, and I think there is a long lingering backlash against the "ether" concept, such that science has a difficult time defining the properties of empty space. Then of course there's that itty bitty problem of how to "measure" nothing . . .
This is where the Obj-C/Cocoa/XCode weakness really hits home for me. I'm not a programmer. The purity of the application created isn't necessarily the utmost of concern for me. It's great if the IDE helps keep things clean, but I've found it much harder to break into learning Obj-C/Cocoa/XCode than VB/.NET/VS. That said, I know that the methods for binding the UI to the code aren't the primary reasons I've had difficulty here.
There, I've said it. I write small basic apps in VISUAL BASIC.NET. It gets the job done. It makes my job easier. It makes me more productive.
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Go spec out a Dell Precision 490. The default config Mac Pro, Dual 2.8Ghz Quad core, 2 GB RAM, etc is $2800 + 249 for 3 year warranty. The 490 starts at $12xx but as soon as you get the processors to match(actually 2.6Ghz instead of 2.8), and a few other bits(250GB HD instead of 80GB, Mac Pro has a 350GB), the Precision 490 is at $4377.
I'm not disagreeing that there are deals to be had, but when you compare similar spec'd machines, the Apple workstations are sometimes actually compellingly priced. As for Gateway's willingness to sell you something cheaper, well I don't see any Xeon based machines in their lineup. Maybe I'm missing something.
Again, I'm not saying a $2800 dollar workstation is for everyone, but the comparison for a Mac Pro is NOT an emachine, HP Pavillion, or Dell Inspiron/Vostro/Optiplex. Its Dell Precision/XPS, HP xwSeries workstations and I don't know what else. When I spec out a GIS workstation, I usually have about $6000-$7000 to spend, and the only thing that keeps the Mac Pro from being the best buy out there are the limited RAID options that they have.
Anyone buying XP licenses is wasting money anyway. Buy Vista Business, install XP Pro.
Worst case scenario you will be buying Windows 7 in 2009, but at least you won't be buying Vista in 2009.
Be careful, there may be 25 other ninjamonkeys there to back him up.
Hey, some of us drink Breve's . . .
behavoir - is this some french only Apache mod?
In my opinion the best way to illustrate the weakness of the MS registry design is to illustrate one of it's strengths at the same time. Run regmon.exe to monitor registry activity and then open folder. I just did this on one of my workstations. With no windowed apps open and limited non-XP services running, opening a folder triggered ~2900 registry actions(OpenKey, QueryValue, SetValue, CloseKey) On one hand, this is amazing. Those 2900 registry actions must be extremely efficient, as it doesn't take but a second for that folder to open. On the other hand, this IMO is part of why Windows performance always degrades over time in non-static workstation configs. The number of keys being queried from has linear growth over time, so those 2900 actions will get slower and slower as the registry grows.
I just don't see how it could be deemed efficient for a basic desktop app to query a registry of hundreds of thousands(millions?) of keys/values to decide if my background should be blue or green.
I've been wondering for the last few years why no one is doing this. I read about studies that are considered HUGE where there are 50,000 participants. Many studies are only in the hundreds. What happens when you can do statistical analysis on millions of patient records? It would seem to me that the potential for finding trends amongst otherwise disparate symptoms would be amazing.
As a poster above noted, finding a way to query the data is a problem. Finding ways to anonymize patient information is a problem(how many elements of medical history does it take to identify a human?) But in the end, if google were subsidizing my health care, I just might say do whatever the fuck you want with my charts!
Which brings this back to one of the question of the century: When will the consumer own it's own data? Today this might be a service Google looks to sell as "You pay us to data warehouse your medical records", but tomorrow it might be "You pay us to mine the data warehouse that we've established."
Are the inconsistencies of patients chart data too much of an obstacle to overcome? I'd hate to think that Google is just doing this as a form of Web 2.0 SAS, 'pay me to do what you used to do yourself' service. I've always imagined that Google figures, if they get enough data in one place, something magical will happen. Medical research of millions or hundreds of millions of patient histories seems like it could be magical.
This is just their feeler into the children's toy industry. Microsoft is poised to release a whole line of toy's called Megos that will revolutionize the toy industry. They will be stronger, more precise, more modular and cheaper than their competitors, while leveraging your existing toy inventory. Furthermore, by retaining resale value, Megos will have a better ROI after your children are grown! Available in 2010.
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First off, there are plenty of artists who haven't signed away ALL of their rights, though they may not be with major labels. Secondly, it would be interesting because if an RIAA lawyer actually mounted a successful defense against an independent artist, the same legal approach might be usable against the RIAA. Assuming we are talking about an artist that has retained/aquired the same copyright that the RIAA defends for the majors.
What would be REALLY interesting is if the RIAA as an ORGANIZATION could be found to be infringing the copyrighted works of an independent via p2p, and what kind of defense they would mount. Of course the independent would have to resist the temptation of a payout.
Just pull the hard drive and do a full system scan from another Universe. It's the only way to be sure.
A full Universal Singularity Format(Big Bang) is the only way to be REALLY sure. Damn Universe rootkits!
If you consider that Apple supposedly pays about $.70/song for iTunes downloads, $9,250 of lost revenue per song would translate to about 13,214 downloads per song, or 303,922 downloads total. If the average mp3 is about 3MB, that puts the total data transfer at 911,766MB, or about 890.39GB of data. How long did she have this crap shared? I wonder what kind of DSL/Cable plan she was on.
But unfortunately it's not that simple. How about an artist sues a man for standing on a street corner holding a photocopy of her artwork. The street corner experienced an unknown amount of traffic, may have been dark at the time, and may have been blocked from entry by thousands of armed guards. Despite this the prosecutor decides to push for $222,000 in damages and somehow gets the judgement . . . Does that make any sense?
The site was pretty unresponsive for the first week or so after the downloads were available. I took three tries for me, first two ended out of impatience.
In other news, 20590965, 20590971 and 20590979 were all thinking the same thing at the same time.
Maybe since the US legal system is failing so miserably to protect consumers, MS is going to take down malware vendors with patent infringement cases.
If you have a 3rd party piece of software that uses office components, you will still need MS office. A perfect example is Quickbooks. You can export reports to excel from quickbooks, but if you don't have excel installed you can't export(no csv options).
Roaming profiles are a torture device designed by Bill Gates to help subjugate hapless IT workers.
.Mac synchronization look like a fucking work of art.
It doesn't "Synchronize", it checks if which is older(local or remote) and then dumps the whole damn thing over the network. Roaming Profiles make
I have approximately 60 users with Roaming Profiles. They suck.
<nasal whine>I deleted this icon and when I logged on it came back again, can you fix it?!</nasal whine>
As someone who supports a small(~300 users) Callmanager install, it's 1., 3.(a common perception), 4.(should read "It's free, so it can't have much support"), 6., and 7. Of these, I'd say 3 and 7 are at least somewhat true in this case. While Cisco's support costs are high, I can at least get someone on the phone 24/7, generally within 1 hour and they know their stuff pretty well(some of course better than others). I can attest that when your phone or voicemail system freaks out at 6pm on a weekday, knowing someone can help you get things back to normal by morning is well worth the support cost. I've only given Asterisk a cursory look at this point, though at first glance I'd say it looks quite a bit tougher to install and maintain. Moving our org from a Mitel PBX to Callmanager, we took over phone system management with no additional staff, and with a minimum of increased support calls, once the system was set up. To me, the high cost is the only real drawback as the system is rock solid. As far as costs go, if you could use something other than Unity for voicemail, your cost would probably be cut in half if not more. It will be interesting to see how I feel about this in a year, when CallManager 5.0 is in full swing, since it runs on Linux instead of Win2k and will be moving to SIP instead of SCCP as the default.
This is the farmer sowing his corn,
That kept the cock that crowed in the morn,
That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,
That married the man all tattered and torn,
That kissed the maiden all forlorn,
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
That tossed the dog,
That worried the cat,
That killed the rat,
That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
It's what he happened to have on hand.
Nothing to SEE here . . . 10mbit of bandwidth to see it with . . .
I am not a physicist, but I don't believe in the Gravitron. The theory of mass curving space just makes so much sense, and I think there is a long lingering backlash against the "ether" concept, such that science has a difficult time defining the properties of empty space. Then of course there's that itty bitty problem of how to "measure" nothing . . .
As a Non-Programmer who occasionally builds an application to do a sysAdmin/NetAdmin task, I fully agree with ClearlyPennsylvania. For me, again not-A-programmer, the point is to start a project and accomplish a task. A single button application where clicking the button does "something©" is extremely quick to start in VS, in a matter of seconds I'm thinking about my "something©" and not thinking about the vagaries of a programming environment. While I can appreciate the Build UI:Write Class Method:Connect UI to Class Method process, I think the Double Click UI(Method Autocreated in Form Class):Write Class Method is pretty slick. Maybe the inherent weakness here is that you end up with your Class comingled with the Form Class when they should really be separate.
This is where the Obj-C/Cocoa/XCode weakness really hits home for me. I'm not a programmer. The purity of the application created isn't necessarily the utmost of concern for me. It's great if the IDE helps keep things clean, but I've found it much harder to break into learning Obj-C/Cocoa/XCode than VB/.NET/VS. That said, I know that the methods for binding the UI to the code aren't the primary reasons I've had difficulty here.
There, I've said it. I write small basic apps in VISUAL BASIC.NET. It gets the job done. It makes my job easier. It makes me more productive.
sysctl -a | grep icmplim
This showed the setting for my 10.4 box