I can understand having the QA machines affecting the data on the iPod, yet I fail to see how inventory management and asset tracking software could affect the data that goes onto the iPod. The problem here, is not that windows was being used, but that so little care was taken with what gets run on something in a production environment. This isn't the first report this week. Remember McDonald's Japan and the Infected USB sticks? All I'm saying is that if you have to have computers on the production line, ensure that they are properly secured. Don't run them in administrator mode, don't check your email or browse the internet on them, and ensure that nothing is being put on the hard drives that shouldn't be there.
Windows can be pretty secure when you take the proper precautions. When you're running it in a production environment, producing media that will be put into the computers of others, then you have to make sure you take the proper precautions. The proper precautions here doesn't even need to be install antivirus. What it needs to be, is don't have the machines hooked up to the internet, and don't hook them up unguarded to the company intranet. Don't turn autorun on, and don't have employees checking their email from this machine. Do not allow physical access to these machines by just anyone, and lock them down as much as possible. I'm sorry but no OS would be safe when result of infection is something so high profile.
But you can't generate cutscenes and CD quality audio with procedural techniques. This is why they are filling up the 25 GB. Although some of that 25 GB is due to larger textures, I would say that the majority of the space is being taken up by hi-res cutscenes and music. Look at Zelda, Ocarina of time. That game fit in 25 MB. The world was huge, and the game was great, but there were no cutscenes, and you had to read the text, not have it read to you. I'm not sure a lot of publishers are interested in creating games like this.
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I wonder if it's automatic along the same lines as the stuff in MS SQL Server that's automatic? As in, it's automatic, but if you do it manually you'll get a 50% speed up. Which is where they would make the money consulting. You can run everything automatic, but it will be slow, pay us to make it run faster.
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I think this would be great in that Oracle could provide the perfect OS for a database. Most people running Oracle probably have it as the only thing running on their server, at least in a production environment. I think that databases could be a lot more efficient if they had an OS designed specifically for them. This is good news considering most of the time, the DB is the bottleneck.
Like I said, I don't mind if they clone things that are cows produced only by breeding cows. However I do start to have a problem once they start splicing in genes from other animals.
Everything you eat is genetically modified. Selective breeding is a form of genetically modifying the food you eat. We have been doing it for so long that we don't even realize it. Compare your standard North American cow to the ones you see in India. They are very different. I don't see a problem with them finding the best cow they can find and cloning it. I'm not saying they should start splicing in pig/ostrich/whatever genes into the cows, because that's a little outside the abilities of selected breeding. However I have no problem with them using cloning to provide a good consistent product.
I don't think that people would not drive on the roads if they tolled them on peak hours. People need to get to work when they need to get to work. I'm sure that cutting your travel time in half would be enough incentive to travel during off-peak hours. If people didn't have to travel during peak hours, than they wouldn't.
That's my biggest fear as far as the PS3 is concerned. Nintendo opted out of optical media on the N64 because at that point optical media wasn't ready, and they didn't want their customers to have 2 minute loading times on games. With the GC, loading times were really good on most titles, and almost non-existent most of the games I've tried. However, whenever i've played PS2, I get really frustrated at the load times. I'm not sure how much faster Blu-Ray is than DVD in read speeds, but I've head that the PS3 load times are more than PS2, and that's not something I want out of a gaming system.
Photoshop elements costs $90 for your first hit. Plus you'll probably want to upgrade your software every couple years. GIMP is currently free. I also suspect that all future upgrades will be free. I don't know what you consider cheap, but $90 isn't it.
And even if it's not up to the level that professionals need, what stops common folk from using it over photoshop. My wife users it because she needed something to edit photos, and I didn't feel it was right to pirate photoshop when I knew GIMP would fulfill all her photo editing needs. She hasn't had many problems using it, and hasn't complained about any problems with the UI. I suspect most home users could operate fine with the GIMP.
MySQL is good enough for 99% of what people use it for
That's a tautology. If it isn't good enough for your needs, then you'd probably use something better like PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. Of the people who use it, it's always going to be good enough for what they use it for. Myself, I have no experience with PostgreSQL, but I know that just about everyone says it's a better DB than MySQL. MySQL does fit my needs. However, I don't run enterprise level stuff.
Well, it's really hard to define "running" for a computer. Is it when it's on, sitting idle? Is it when it's running at 100%, spinning every disk, and using every peripheral you have hooked up to it. With a washing machine, or a fridge, it's pretty easy to define the power usage. There are only so many standard operating modes. With a computer, the power consumption varies a lot with usage.
Another thing. Have you ever watched someone play video games with a regular controller. Most people look pretty stupid. The simple answer is that you may look stupid if someone peers inside your living room window, and sees you playing on the Wii. However, nobody really cares how stupid they look to their friends when they are sitting around playing a game. Even in games that require tons of movement (DDR) most people aren't worried about how they look because every in the room is looking at the screen.
This can be a big problem, especially for the non-technical people an organization to grasp. With the closed source competitors (MS,Oracle) having products that cost more than $10,000, it would seem to most that there must be something missing in that price difference. It's hard to convince people your product is competitive, when you are giving it away for free.
the lowest defects per KLOC by up to 12 times the industry standard, what do you attribute as the leading factor to your success in this respect?
They just ignore the errors, and pretend they don't exist.:). Seriously though, it's easy to program a database with less errors if you have less functionality and data integrity than everyone else in the database industry.
They still have competitors like PostgreSQL that are also free. MySQL currently has a huge following, and is "the" database offered by most shared hosting companies. What is MySQL doing to ensure that they stay in that position. As far as I've heard, PostgreSQL is a much better database, the only reason why MySQL is the DB used by webhosts is because many tools (phpBB and others) depend on MySQL to function properly.
Isn't mythTV only useful if you have a TV Tuner. Without that, it's just a way to play videos that you get onto the harddrive/network. There's a lot cheaper and easier ways to get a box that will play movies.
Yes, however, I didn't feel like subscribing to a third webmail service. I guess I could drop Yahoo, but it does a good enough job for me. With Yahoo, only about 1% of the spam gets through. Plus doing all that and having to get all my contacts to start sending me mail at a different address is just a pain.
I once read (on Slashdot, so not a great source) that "Could care less" was just the short form of "I suppose I could care less, but i'm not sure how".
This is really the issue. I know people who think that Trailer Park Boys is a great TV Show. I think it's terrible, and stupid, and not funny in the least. Yet there's many people who think it's the best show ever. Myself, I think South Park is a great show, but there's others who don't hold the same opinion as me.
But at least with Yahoo, it ends up in the spam box. Hotmail puts it in your inbox. Unless you turn on the option to only receive mail from your contacts (Whitelists are stupid) then just about everything ends up in your inbox with Hotmail. I have accounts for both, and as of now, I have 927 spam messages in my spam box from yahoo. With hotmail I have I have 2700 message in my inbox, 14 of which are from my contacts; I have 12 messages in my junk mail box. So, hotmail is terrible at blocking spam, while Yahoo, at least puts it in a separate box for you, so it doesn't clutter up your inbox.
129? WTF is that. Why not just use 128? Does extra 1000 bits really make that much of a difference. And besides, we all know 128 isn't really CD quality. They used to pretend it was back in 1998 when Napster was cool, but we know that you get a lot better sound out of 192 Kbps encoding, and probably a lot closer to actual CD quality.
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I can understand having the QA machines affecting the data on the iPod, yet I fail to see how inventory management and asset tracking software could affect the data that goes onto the iPod. The problem here, is not that windows was being used, but that so little care was taken with what gets run on something in a production environment. This isn't the first report this week. Remember McDonald's Japan and the Infected USB sticks? All I'm saying is that if you have to have computers on the production line, ensure that they are properly secured. Don't run them in administrator mode, don't check your email or browse the internet on them, and ensure that nothing is being put on the hard drives that shouldn't be there.
Windows can be pretty secure when you take the proper precautions. When you're running it in a production environment, producing media that will be put into the computers of others, then you have to make sure you take the proper precautions. The proper precautions here doesn't even need to be install antivirus. What it needs to be, is don't have the machines hooked up to the internet, and don't hook them up unguarded to the company intranet. Don't turn autorun on, and don't have employees checking their email from this machine. Do not allow physical access to these machines by just anyone, and lock them down as much as possible. I'm sorry but no OS would be safe when result of infection is something so high profile.
No, you don't understand, Bittorrent is where you get the pr0n from.
But you can't generate cutscenes and CD quality audio with procedural techniques. This is why they are filling up the 25 GB. Although some of that 25 GB is due to larger textures, I would say that the majority of the space is being taken up by hi-res cutscenes and music. Look at Zelda, Ocarina of time. That game fit in 25 MB. The world was huge, and the game was great, but there were no cutscenes, and you had to read the text, not have it read to you. I'm not sure a lot of publishers are interested in creating games like this.
I wonder if it's automatic along the same lines as the stuff in MS SQL Server that's automatic? As in, it's automatic, but if you do it manually you'll get a 50% speed up. Which is where they would make the money consulting. You can run everything automatic, but it will be slow, pay us to make it run faster.
I think this would be great in that Oracle could provide the perfect OS for a database. Most people running Oracle probably have it as the only thing running on their server, at least in a production environment. I think that databases could be a lot more efficient if they had an OS designed specifically for them. This is good news considering most of the time, the DB is the bottleneck.
Like I said, I don't mind if they clone things that are cows produced only by breeding cows. However I do start to have a problem once they start splicing in genes from other animals.
Everything you eat is genetically modified. Selective breeding is a form of genetically modifying the food you eat. We have been doing it for so long that we don't even realize it. Compare your standard North American cow to the ones you see in India. They are very different. I don't see a problem with them finding the best cow they can find and cloning it. I'm not saying they should start splicing in pig/ostrich/whatever genes into the cows, because that's a little outside the abilities of selected breeding. However I have no problem with them using cloning to provide a good consistent product.
I don't think that people would not drive on the roads if they tolled them on peak hours. People need to get to work when they need to get to work. I'm sure that cutting your travel time in half would be enough incentive to travel during off-peak hours. If people didn't have to travel during peak hours, than they wouldn't.
That's my biggest fear as far as the PS3 is concerned. Nintendo opted out of optical media on the N64 because at that point optical media wasn't ready, and they didn't want their customers to have 2 minute loading times on games. With the GC, loading times were really good on most titles, and almost non-existent most of the games I've tried. However, whenever i've played PS2, I get really frustrated at the load times. I'm not sure how much faster Blu-Ray is than DVD in read speeds, but I've head that the PS3 load times are more than PS2, and that's not something I want out of a gaming system.
Photoshop elements costs $90 for your first hit. Plus you'll probably want to upgrade your software every couple years. GIMP is currently free. I also suspect that all future upgrades will be free. I don't know what you consider cheap, but $90 isn't it.
And even if it's not up to the level that professionals need, what stops common folk from using it over photoshop. My wife users it because she needed something to edit photos, and I didn't feel it was right to pirate photoshop when I knew GIMP would fulfill all her photo editing needs. She hasn't had many problems using it, and hasn't complained about any problems with the UI. I suspect most home users could operate fine with the GIMP.
I would like to recommend against trying to use sliced bread as a programming language.
MySQL is good enough for 99% of what people use it for
That's a tautology. If it isn't good enough for your needs, then you'd probably use something better like PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. Of the people who use it, it's always going to be good enough for what they use it for. Myself, I have no experience with PostgreSQL, but I know that just about everyone says it's a better DB than MySQL. MySQL does fit my needs. However, I don't run enterprise level stuff.
Well, it's really hard to define "running" for a computer. Is it when it's on, sitting idle? Is it when it's running at 100%, spinning every disk, and using every peripheral you have hooked up to it. With a washing machine, or a fridge, it's pretty easy to define the power usage. There are only so many standard operating modes. With a computer, the power consumption varies a lot with usage.
Another thing. Have you ever watched someone play video games with a regular controller. Most people look pretty stupid. The simple answer is that you may look stupid if someone peers inside your living room window, and sees you playing on the Wii. However, nobody really cares how stupid they look to their friends when they are sitting around playing a game. Even in games that require tons of movement (DDR) most people aren't worried about how they look because every in the room is looking at the screen.
This can be a big problem, especially for the non-technical people an organization to grasp. With the closed source competitors (MS,Oracle) having products that cost more than $10,000, it would seem to most that there must be something missing in that price difference. It's hard to convince people your product is competitive, when you are giving it away for free.
the lowest defects per KLOC by up to 12 times the industry standard, what do you attribute as the leading factor to your success in this respect?
:). Seriously though, it's easy to program a database with less errors if you have less functionality and data integrity than everyone else in the database industry.
They just ignore the errors, and pretend they don't exist.
They still have competitors like PostgreSQL that are also free. MySQL currently has a huge following, and is "the" database offered by most shared hosting companies. What is MySQL doing to ensure that they stay in that position. As far as I've heard, PostgreSQL is a much better database, the only reason why MySQL is the DB used by webhosts is because many tools (phpBB and others) depend on MySQL to function properly.
Isn't mythTV only useful if you have a TV Tuner. Without that, it's just a way to play videos that you get onto the harddrive/network. There's a lot cheaper and easier ways to get a box that will play movies.
Yes, however, I didn't feel like subscribing to a third webmail service. I guess I could drop Yahoo, but it does a good enough job for me. With Yahoo, only about 1% of the spam gets through. Plus doing all that and having to get all my contacts to start sending me mail at a different address is just a pain.
I once read (on Slashdot, so not a great source) that "Could care less" was just the short form of "I suppose I could care less, but i'm not sure how".
This is really the issue. I know people who think that Trailer Park Boys is a great TV Show. I think it's terrible, and stupid, and not funny in the least. Yet there's many people who think it's the best show ever. Myself, I think South Park is a great show, but there's others who don't hold the same opinion as me.
But at least with Yahoo, it ends up in the spam box. Hotmail puts it in your inbox. Unless you turn on the option to only receive mail from your contacts (Whitelists are stupid) then just about everything ends up in your inbox with Hotmail. I have accounts for both, and as of now, I have 927 spam messages in my spam box from yahoo. With hotmail I have I have 2700 message in my inbox, 14 of which are from my contacts; I have 12 messages in my junk mail box. So, hotmail is terrible at blocking spam, while Yahoo, at least puts it in a separate box for you, so it doesn't clutter up your inbox.
129? WTF is that. Why not just use 128? Does extra 1000 bits really make that much of a difference. And besides, we all know 128 isn't really CD quality. They used to pretend it was back in 1998 when Napster was cool, but we know that you get a lot better sound out of 192 Kbps encoding, and probably a lot closer to actual CD quality.