Check your next Netflix dvd. I'll bet you'll find that isn't the orginal dvd case the dvd came in but a custom dvd case designed for the rigors of shipping.
A lot of earlier work by European directors that was released on laserdisk hasn't been released on dvd and doesn't show up in any future dvd release lists. This used to bother me but most of these aren't mainline films so you have to weborder them. I have yet to get a dvd shipped to me that wasn't partly damaged by UPS or Fedex so I only buy them in the stores now. So I wouldn't be rebuying my collection even if they were available. Unless they showed up at Best Buy or something, which is unlikely.
Nope, it's not free. Buying congressmen costs. But maybe not a much as I think if some 2 bit company like Wrigleys can buy enough congressional support to get the Commerce Dept. to force Singapore to allow import of chewing gum. I mean how critical can the export of chewing gum be to the US economy. And the chewing gum ban was the one strict Singapore law that made sense. Well ok, they have strict toilet laws, too. But, then they are the headquarters of the World Toilet Organization. Good website. They have free posters here. Pick your favorite; the fly, the rat, or the roach. Just the thing for coworkers who could use a hint (assuming you still have coworkers).
BTW, the US steel industry is not a good comparison to US IT. The US steel industry kind of got itself into the mess it's in by doing no capital reinvestment, so it deserves to go out of business. The exception is the US specialty steel (high tech) industry which has modern production equipement and is doing quite well AFAIK. For the US IT and computer industry, overinvestment was part of the problem.
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Somebody is going to have to do a rethink when SATA replaces PATA. The removable carriers for SATA use the SATA disk's data and power connectors rather than a specially designed and built connector for the task. The plug/unplug duty cycle for SATA disks is rather low, similar to what scsi SCA connectors are, not the 10's of thousands that a PATA carrier was rated for.
C++ is more complicated than any language has a right to be. When you select for C++ programmers, you are looking for people who pick the most complicated ways of doing things. Are you sure that's what you want?
BTW, I wouldn't fault anyone for not knowing what protected is. Most of my C++ texts only use protected as an adjective so you wouldn't know from context that it was a C++ keyword.
A lot of them appear to be critical positions* that were recently vacated and need to be filled quickly. So we now have reliable data on how long it takes to overwork someone to death.
* job description usually mentions being on call 24/7.
It's been suggested before. That assumed all the ISPs would somehow just all start doing that. But I don't think that's going to happen.
But that doesn't preclude someone from setting up a private paid email service where you have to pay,in the form of micropayments, to send mail to its customers. Business opportunity here.
Yes, chains can be repaired if you can get at them. I'm not too sure about that chain through the frame concept. If the chain housing doesn't break open for field repairs, you'd need one of those cable snakes that electricians use to pull wires through conduit. And that's assuming the chain didn't kink up and jam inside of the housing.
But that's solvable given the amount of creativity you see in bicycle tool design, the number of "third hand" tools devised to help in a lot of the tricky situations that bicycle repair seems to run into.
I've been looking at that trying to figure out why it has 2 PATA connectors and only one SATA connector. Because as a hobbyist you'd want a bunch of SATA connectors and it's not like you have legacy hw issues here.
It appears from Via's nano-ITX web page that they are aiming at the imbedded systems OEM market, not hobbyists. With that market cost is everything and parallel drives are cheaper. It will be nice when Via starts taking the hobbyist market more seriously and they come out with small form factor MBs that don't look like super deformed anime characters with those huge clunky legacy connectors.
Well, the passive cooled Via mini-ITX and nano-ITX mother boards are there but the power supplies for them aren't there yet. They have these whiney little 4cm or 6cm fans. No you need a nice slow rpm 12cm fan. Pulls lots of air and is quiet. Though I see Nexus and Papst have some really slow 8cm fans that might work. Silicon Acoustics carries a lot of this kind of stuff including 12cm fan PSUs, though I haven't dealt with them yet. Unfortunately it's mostly for full sized P4 based systems which by definition have a whiney cpu fan.
You'd probably need a set of headphones that kept track of their orientation and signaled back that info to the sound processor which would then adjust the sound to what you were supposed to hear in that orientation. A good application for wi-fi.
Of course the marketers would catch on and program a sales pitch voice that would follow you about the room or house. You wouldn't be able to get away from it.
The virtual machine is a virtual hardware architecture and will not be exactly the same as real hardware. There are likely to be architecture enhancements unique to the virtual architecture that allow more efficiency than would otherwise occur in an emulated machine. In the mainframe world they used to be called virtual machine assists. Guess who is more likely to know about these enhancements and who is not?
The problem is that it's just a game, as in game theory, just a set of arbitrary rules. The selection of those rules is determined more by who gets the most advantage than by any form of reality check. The stock market is only a good predicter of the stock market. Right now the stock market is rising so things must be "good", right? Tell that to all the thousands of unemployed.
There's also the assumption that there are a core group of "experts" who really are good at predicting things. Studies of sucessful entrepreneurs show they are no better at subsequent ventures than anyone else. What you are really looking at is luck and mistaking it for something else. And don't think that making money once you have a lot of money means anything. Remember, the system is gamed in their favour.
See the movie October Sky? We were shooting steel pipes into the sky in those days (pre Estes). You took a keen interest in where those suckers came down. Mostly suger and salt peter fuel (hint don't cook this up in your kitchen unless you think soot from premature combustion is a nice decorative motif) but we had an Explorer post sponsored by IBM with geek IBM engineers as advisors with unlimited buget. Bad idea. Dialog right out of Real Genius. "Oh, don't breath any of that zinc powder. It's microgranulated and highly toxic". "Yeah, your finger will stick instantly to the strain gauge if you touch that new instant glue Kodak just invented. Let's get the razor blade and unstick your finger." "Aieeee...".
That's where they mail the card to. You didn't actually think they'd just give you a card. Just do what I do. Separate out the discount card items and tell the cashier you "forgot" your card. They always seem to have a card of their own. I've never been able to tell them sorry I don't want them, please reshelve the items themselves.
But you will get ads for fixing up your credit rating or consolidating your debt. Why else would you not have a credit card?
That rfid in currency will be a pain. ATMs will start recording rfids in dispensed cash, and banks will starting selling that information. And that information will be pretty reliable. After all, how many of us only use ATMs and if 20s are the largest bill dispensed, how likely will we get 20s in our change. Meaning most 20s spent will have come from an ATM.
It's too bad RFIDs are going to be abused and all that. I think I found a practical use for RFID that would make everyone want them. Ever misplace something and waste a lot of time trying to remember where you put it and looking for it? Now you could just take your RFID finder and use it to find that misplaced item in O(1) time. How cool is that?
Now if I could only remember where I put that RFID finder thingie.
I'm guessing that the template pattern in question is public domain, otherwise copyright law would suffice to allow the mfgr to protect itself. So basically, what they are selling is convenience, that it is easier to buy a copy of the template from them than to find somebody who will give you a copy of their template. That's a valid market strategy. Same thing as people who sell CD's of public domain software.
What they are doing differently, is to try to protect or enlarge their niche market by using EULA to prevent you from becoming one of their competitors, i.e. somebody who'd give away a free copy, or sell it even.
IANAL but I have my doubts about the enforcebility of such licenses, especially if there's no "click" on install to prove you alledgedly even knew there *was* a license. Also, they'd have a hell of an enforcement issue proving a copy of a public domain template came from their product.
Biodegradability is nice but will somebody please check to see what percentage of our landfills are CDs (and CD cases). I've heard that in that category, yard and lawn waste is one of the leading contenders. Which I might note is biodegradable but won't because nothing biodegrades in an anaerobic landfill environment.
A lot more in depth characterization in the manga. Nausicaa still comes across as a little bit unreal and two dimensional. Her motivation is a little opaque at times. The more interesting characters are Princess Kushana, daughter of the Emporer and therefore pretty much in the thick of court intrique and target of various plots and schemes by her brothers to get her killed in battle, and Kurotawa, sent by the imperial court as her next in command in order to keep an eye on her. Being sent from the court to the field isn't the jaded Kurotawa's idea of a good time but he does start to find her interesting and takes a more personal interest in his job, a first for him. And, yes, you won't get much of this from the anime.
IBM was going to come out with personal powerpc systems which would even have a common motherboard reference design with Macs. The volume of production would drive down costs dramatically. But IBM didn't and Apple basically got screwed on that deal.
Interestly enough, the reason IBM canned the personal powerpc systems was that OS2 for PPC completely blew its schedule several times over. IBM had a personal AIX edition for PPC ready but chose not to go with that. The reason. Unix would never make it as a mainstream operating system for PCs.
The 2x speed up was comparing to sockets and sysv message queues alone. It's possible, especially if you are avoiding syscalls and the sysv message queue implementation is particularly inept. But it depends on what the overall percentage of overhead is attributable to queueing vs. rendering. If queueing is only 4% of overhead, then a 2x improvement is only going to be a 2% performance improvement. Maybe if they really are writing to X pixel by pixel.
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Check your next Netflix dvd. I'll bet you'll find that isn't the orginal dvd case the dvd came in but a custom dvd case designed for the rigors of shipping.
A lot of earlier work by European directors that was released on laserdisk hasn't been released on dvd and doesn't show up in any future dvd release lists. This used to bother me but most of these aren't mainline films so you have to weborder them. I have yet to get a dvd shipped to me that wasn't partly damaged by UPS or Fedex so I only buy them in the stores now. So I wouldn't be rebuying my collection even if they were available. Unless they showed up at Best Buy or something, which is unlikely.
BTW, the US steel industry is not a good comparison to US IT. The US steel industry kind of got itself into the mess it's in by doing no capital reinvestment, so it deserves to go out of business. The exception is the US specialty steel (high tech) industry which has modern production equipement and is doing quite well AFAIK. For the US IT and computer industry, overinvestment was part of the problem.
Somebody is going to have to do a rethink when SATA replaces PATA. The removable carriers for SATA use the SATA disk's data and power connectors rather than a specially designed and built connector for the task. The plug/unplug duty cycle for SATA disks is rather low, similar to what scsi SCA connectors are, not the 10's of thousands that a PATA carrier was rated for.
BTW, I wouldn't fault anyone for not knowing what protected is. Most of my C++ texts only use protected as an adjective so you wouldn't know from context that it was a C++ keyword.
* job description usually mentions being on call 24/7.
But that doesn't preclude someone from setting up a private paid email service where you have to pay
But that's solvable given the amount of creativity you see in bicycle tool design, the number of "third hand" tools devised to help in a lot of the tricky situations that bicycle repair seems to run into.
It appears from Via's nano-ITX web page that they are aiming at the imbedded systems OEM market, not hobbyists. With that market cost is everything and parallel drives are cheaper. It will be nice when Via starts taking the hobbyist market more seriously and they come out with small form factor MBs that don't look like super deformed anime characters with those huge clunky legacy connectors.
Well, the passive cooled Via mini-ITX and nano-ITX mother boards are there but the power supplies for them aren't there yet. They have these whiney little 4cm or 6cm fans. No you need a nice slow rpm 12cm fan. Pulls lots of air and is quiet. Though I see Nexus and Papst have some really slow 8cm fans that might work. Silicon Acoustics carries a lot of this kind of stuff including 12cm fan PSUs, though I haven't dealt with them yet. Unfortunately it's mostly for full sized P4 based systems which by definition have a whiney cpu fan.
but you must be God in 3 different religions now.
Of course the marketers would catch on and program a sales pitch voice that would follow you about the room or house. You wouldn't be able to get away from it.
The virtual machine is a virtual hardware architecture and will not be exactly the same as real hardware. There are likely to be architecture enhancements unique to the virtual architecture that allow more efficiency than would otherwise occur in an emulated machine. In the mainframe world they used to be called virtual machine assists. Guess who is more likely to know about these enhancements and who is not?
There's also the assumption that there are a core group of "experts" who really are good at predicting things. Studies of sucessful entrepreneurs show they are no better at subsequent ventures than anyone else. What you are really looking at is luck and mistaking it for something else. And don't think that making money once you have a lot of money means anything. Remember, the system is gamed in their favour.
See the movie October Sky? We were shooting steel pipes into the sky in those days (pre Estes). You took a keen interest in where those suckers came down. Mostly suger and salt peter fuel (hint don't cook this up in your kitchen unless you think soot from premature combustion is a nice decorative motif) but we had an Explorer post sponsored by IBM with geek IBM engineers as advisors with unlimited buget. Bad idea. Dialog right out of Real Genius. "Oh, don't breath any of that zinc powder. It's microgranulated and highly toxic". "Yeah, your finger will stick instantly to the strain gauge if you touch that new instant glue Kodak just invented. Let's get the razor blade and unstick your finger." "Aieeee...".
That's where they mail the card to. You didn't actually think they'd just give you a card. Just do what I do. Separate out the discount card items and tell the cashier you "forgot" your card. They always seem to have a card of their own. I've never been able to tell them sorry I don't want them, please reshelve the items themselves.
That rfid in currency will be a pain. ATMs will start recording rfids in dispensed cash, and banks will starting selling that information. And that information will be pretty reliable. After all, how many of us only use ATMs and if 20s are the largest bill dispensed, how likely will we get 20s in our change. Meaning most 20s spent will have come from an ATM.
It's only libel if it's not true.
Now if I could only remember where I put that RFID finder thingie.
What they are doing differently, is to try to protect or enlarge their niche market by using EULA to prevent you from becoming one of their competitors, i.e. somebody who'd give away a free copy, or sell it even.
IANAL but I have my doubts about the enforcebility of such licenses, especially if there's no "click" on install to prove you alledgedly even knew there *was* a license. Also, they'd have a hell of an enforcement issue proving a copy of a public domain template came from their product.
Biodegradability is nice but will somebody please check to see what percentage of our landfills are CDs (and CD cases). I've heard that in that category, yard and lawn waste is one of the leading contenders. Which I might note is biodegradable but won't because nothing biodegrades in an anaerobic landfill environment.
Heh! I noticed not a lot of RTFA in evidence. The researchers who discovered this stated where the energy comes from.
A lot more in depth characterization in the manga. Nausicaa still comes across as a little bit unreal and two dimensional. Her motivation is a little opaque at times. The more interesting characters are Princess Kushana, daughter of the Emporer and therefore pretty much in the thick of court intrique and target of various plots and schemes by her brothers to get her killed in battle, and Kurotawa, sent by the imperial court as her next in command in order to keep an eye on her. Being sent from the court to the field isn't the jaded Kurotawa's idea of a good time but he does start to find her interesting and takes a more personal interest in his job, a first for him. And, yes, you won't get much of this from the anime.
Interestly enough, the reason IBM canned the personal powerpc systems was that OS2 for PPC completely blew its schedule several times over. IBM had a personal AIX edition for PPC ready but chose not to go with that. The reason. Unix would never make it as a mainstream operating system for PCs.
The 2x speed up was comparing to sockets and sysv message queues alone. It's possible, especially if you are avoiding syscalls and the sysv message queue implementation is particularly inept. But it depends on what the overall percentage of overhead is attributable to queueing vs. rendering. If queueing is only 4% of overhead, then a 2x improvement is only going to be a 2% performance improvement. Maybe if they really are writing to X pixel by pixel.