So would a lot of things, really. Maybe that's why so many Chinese folk are skinny, those herbal shops are scary. That's not a dig, I'm mostly Chinese, and, yes, I've had most of my fair share of weird herbal remedies.
While AMD spending $300,000 at QuakeCon sounds like a lot of money, once you put these values into perspective they're not really that large. For less than the cost of a few TV advertisements on a major network during primetime, these companies get a lot of exposure to the exact demographic that is most likely to buy their gear. It's very targeted marketing, and it's probably money well spent. This is especially true for smaller companies like AMD and Nvidia - well almost everyone except a handful like IBM, MS, Intel - who can not afford a large TV campaign for the general non-techy public.
I think an Office Space party is in order...
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If you need ideas on what not to do, it might be time to dig up a copy of the movie Office Space. It'll do wonders.
Graphics don't scale on monitors! Who knows what the viewers are seeing if you use images for everything? Some folks still run at 800x600, while others are at much higher resolutions - all of this is semi-independent of actual monitor size. At least with fonts, people will often scale up their font sizes if they are running their screen at a high resolution.
Text is definitely the way to go, or in this case, stay. I really like the way wired.com does things. A nice clear list of "A"'s in the top right corner that somehow (DHTML?) changes the font size with a single click.
Barring that, in Moz, "Ctrl" + "+" and "Ctrl" + "-" do wonders. Similar features exist in other browsers, I suppose.
Oracle can still own the biggest-baddest-database (TM) market, but it will eventually be a big fish in an ever shrinking pond. Rather like Sun vs. Linux.
With mySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, and SAPDB growing, the whole bottom half, and maybe even 4/5th's (?) of the database market could go to open sourced products (with optional support packages). This transition is probably going to happen a lot quicker than any transition to Linux on the desktop. The guys running DB's are usually technical enough to handle the switchover with relative ease. And the end-users shouldn't see a difference, so they won't really care.
Ha! Yeah, those thermal prints are pretty fragile. I recently lost a couple receipts when I left a candle (don't ask) in the glovebox. We had one really hot day, and a large portion of the candle melted. All the text that was wax soaked had disappeared without a trace.
Luckily it wasn't a big deal... it was rather interesting really.
At first I thought, "WOW." That's insane, 20 something seconds. Then I read on to discover that there are solutions online that will help anyone beat the cube - and fast, with practice.
And to think that I was never able to finish much more than two sides of the cube... ah well, I was 10, and the 'net wasn't around then. It was probably more fun that way, really.
Yeah, I had that once or twice. Of course, the official reason is that the text better matches the topics of the course. After all, Prof's wouldn't take advantage of students... would they?
I think the untrained ear would notice, if it tried. Lately, I've been trying to pick out which songs are over processed to try and figure out who actually has talent on the radio and TV. After a while, even with my non-existent musical abilities, I think I've been able to pick out the worst offenders with some confidence.
It's not that hard. You just have to listen closely to the parts of the song that the artist is most likely to require help and where the processing will be most noticable - to me, it's the transition time during quick changes in the tone (?) of the song. (Sorry, I think I blew the terminology...)
Well, the whole alchemy thing still hasn't happened. And it's probably not going to be widespread in my lifetime. So, while diamonds could be made near worthless with time since they are just carbon, gold, platinum, and other rare elements will continue to be rare(ish) and valuable.
Years ago I would have plenty of time for epics like Civilization or SimCity. But no more...
Now, I'm quite content with the simple games. More often than not, the online games over at Yahoo. Simple way to burn 10 minutes.
That's not to say that complex games are bad or no longer going to sell though! It's just a realization that the "gaming" market is big and diverse. Not everyone has the time or interest to "learn a game".
A lot of places are using LED's like this. I think the biggest benefit to the city is in the maintenance. The old incandescent bulbs need to be replaced quite frequently, AND they must be changed on a regular basis, rather than just "waiting for them to die". Dead "Green Lights" are generally bad for traffic flow, and dead "Reds" are, well, deadly.
Even if you only budget a few minutes for a crew to change the light bulbs at each intersection every year, the labour costs are probably a lot more than any energy costs for the light itself.
I'm still using their web email, though I'm trying to move away from it. I actually got the email address with Geocities, a long time ago... then I got grandfathered into a Yahoo email account with a 6MB mailbox =).
I also use their financial tools at finance.yahoo.com. There are probably other services, but Yahoo's works fine and doesn't have excessive ads. Not sure if they have pop-ups or not, thanks to Moz.
I never use their search or directory anymore though.
Probably posting this too late to get a reply... but...
Does anyone have a guess as to how feasible it would be to build a new shuttle, but make it unmanned? In other words, simplify it by stripping out all the human-support gear, yet still keep all the research that went into aerodynamics and construction. I would imagine that this would remain significantly cheaper than a complete redesign.
Or go black hat and get reimbursed for their nefarious efforts... It's scary to think about how much damage one could do to individuals and companies using these same, well-publicized bugs. And, no, I haven't tried.
Which is fine for ONE PC. And, if you don't use air conditioning, then yes, a few watts in fans is all the cooling energy cost that you'll need. But try dissipating 25Kw. Your room and then house will heat up really quickly. Let's see, after the Big Blackout I think I saw an estimate that running a household oven is about 12Kw - so this cluster would be comparable to running two ovens 24/7. This heat has to go somewhere... and in most non-residential buildings, it'll be the air con. that has to get rid of it.
I don't know how efficient A/C's are, but it's definitely not going to be cheap.
I wonder if they could separate the computing room from the building's HVAC system and just run some fans to the outside on high speed. Enough air flow should be able to keep the computing room at more or less the ambient outside temperature. Probably uncomfortably warm during the summer, but it should be within the operating range of the PC's. How hot is a Kansas summer?
Corel's first Linux attempt was 3 years to early..
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I wouldn't be surprised if new versions of Corel Draw and their other graphics applications are eventually released for Linux. I have always felt that Corel was a little too early getting into Linux to actually profit from their efforts - mind you, they did get a great temporary run in stock price during the "Linux" stock mania.
But now, three years later, porting is easier - they've done the work on their sources already, and WINE has improved considerably. The market is bigger - Linux is gaining quickly in many computing niches, including multimedia work. And porting to Linux get's them halfway to porting to Apple gear (albeit not in a native mode).
As for their office suite, I wouldn't hold my breath. I'm going to bet that OpenOffice will dominate the Linux arena for office suite software (unless Microsoft comes along, which is quite a ways in the future). If you're going to switch people from Windows to save some dough, one might as well switch to an adequate OSS office suite like OpenOffice.
After years of deciding between GSM and CDMA (and I think we had a TDMA provider...) I'm glad that won't be a problem this time around. I'm definitely glad that they're not choosing some proprietary protocol... so at least getting a wireless card will remain as easy as hopping into your local computer store.
Now the first question I have, is how much is this going to cost? Data rates on the cell-networks were ridiculously high for non-necessary useage... hopefully it won't be the same with WiFi.
when I reread the article, I guessed that you might be asking about saving load on the public FTP server on a larger scale. I.e. providing an option for all other users of the same service an opportunity to help reduce the load. In this case, the best bet is to talk to the service provider and use whatever they are willing to use!
Ask the public FTP provider to put up Torrent files, or equivalent, right on the FTP site, or in a README. Alternatively, if they aren't interested or are too busy to set it up themselves, ask them to put a description and link to a webpage that YOU control in a readme file. Something along the lines of, "Our servers are busy. A good samaritan maintains an alternate download method at this URL. You may get faster results from there." Perhaps toss in some MD5 hashes so that people can verify data if they so desire, and then hope for the best. With any luck, your company wins, other groups win, and the provider wins.
Pretty much any P2P network would work, but you would probably have more support from IT groups for BitTorrent than eMule/eDonkey or Gnucleus.
Is it possible to spoof the IP address as well? I thought that that was added by the receiving server. Not that it really matters, fake From addresses cause more than enough headaches for me as it is.
So hang up when your phone is a hot potatoe!
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Interesting. So, the smart thing to do is hang up your phone when it gets a lot hotter than usual!
"Sorry, honey, I gotta go. My phone is about to spontaneously combust."
Sure it's a lot of traffic for some organizations. But for Microsoft to run time.windows.com, it's a drop in the bucket. Lets see... let's say 100M installations (probably high, since it's only XP, and boxes on a domain sync with the domain server) times 1kB per day (again, probably high) is about 100 GB per day and pretty evenly spread out over a 24 hour day. This amounts to less than two T1's. Not a bad deal, considering that in one "simple" move, a big portion of the wrong PC clocks that are out there are fixed. I wouldn't bother switching NTP servers on my XP workstations... why bother if MS is willing to pick up the dime...
The version of Accpac I sometimes use at work launches a web page (presumably with bits of info in a GET or POST) when it "detects" an invalid license. The thing is, we do have proper licenses - installed properly too! The first time I saw it, I freaked out a little... but nothing happened. No AccPac police ever showed up. I've since realized that it's probably because the check is buggy and inconsistent. So much so that I'm sure that they can't do any productive followups because of all the noise caused by validly licensed users.
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is probably enough to make anyone loose weight.
So would a lot of things, really. Maybe that's why so many Chinese folk are skinny, those herbal shops are scary. That's not a dig, I'm mostly Chinese, and, yes, I've had most of my fair share of weird herbal remedies.
While AMD spending $300,000 at QuakeCon sounds like a lot of money, once you put these values into perspective they're not really that large. For less than the cost of a few TV advertisements on a major network during primetime, these companies get a lot of exposure to the exact demographic that is most likely to buy their gear. It's very targeted marketing, and it's probably money well spent. This is especially true for smaller companies like AMD and Nvidia - well almost everyone except a handful like IBM, MS, Intel - who can not afford a large TV campaign for the general non-techy public.
If you need ideas on what not to do, it might be time to dig up a copy of the movie Office Space. It'll do wonders.
Graphics don't scale on monitors! Who knows what the viewers are seeing if you use images for everything? Some folks still run at 800x600, while others are at much higher resolutions - all of this is semi-independent of actual monitor size. At least with fonts, people will often scale up their font sizes if they are running their screen at a high resolution.
Text is definitely the way to go, or in this case, stay. I really like the way wired.com does things. A nice clear list of "A"'s in the top right corner that somehow (DHTML?) changes the font size with a single click.
Barring that, in Moz, "Ctrl" + "+" and "Ctrl" + "-" do wonders. Similar features exist in other browsers, I suppose.
Very well said!
Oracle can still own the biggest-baddest-database (TM) market, but it will eventually be a big fish in an ever shrinking pond. Rather like Sun vs. Linux.
With mySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, and SAPDB growing, the whole bottom half, and maybe even 4/5th's (?) of the database market could go to open sourced products (with optional support packages). This transition is probably going to happen a lot quicker than any transition to Linux on the desktop. The guys running DB's are usually technical enough to handle the switchover with relative ease. And the end-users shouldn't see a difference, so they won't really care.
Ha! Yeah, those thermal prints are pretty fragile. I recently lost a couple receipts when I left a candle (don't ask) in the glovebox. We had one really hot day, and a large portion of the candle melted. All the text that was wax soaked had disappeared without a trace.
Luckily it wasn't a big deal... it was rather interesting really.
At first I thought, "WOW." That's insane, 20 something seconds. Then I read on to discover that there are solutions online that will help anyone beat the cube - and fast, with practice.
And to think that I was never able to finish much more than two sides of the cube... ah well, I was 10, and the 'net wasn't around then. It was probably more fun that way, really.
Yeah, I had that once or twice. Of course, the official reason is that the text better matches the topics of the course. After all, Prof's wouldn't take advantage of students... would they?
I think the untrained ear would notice, if it tried. Lately, I've been trying to pick out which songs are over processed to try and figure out who actually has talent on the radio and TV. After a while, even with my non-existent musical abilities, I think I've been able to pick out the worst offenders with some confidence.
It's not that hard. You just have to listen closely to the parts of the song that the artist is most likely to require help and where the processing will be most noticable - to me, it's the transition time during quick changes in the tone (?) of the song. (Sorry, I think I blew the terminology...)
Well, the whole alchemy thing still hasn't happened. And it's probably not going to be widespread in my lifetime. So, while diamonds could be made near worthless with time since they are just carbon, gold, platinum, and other rare elements will continue to be rare(ish) and valuable.
Years ago I would have plenty of time for epics like Civilization or SimCity. But no more...
Now, I'm quite content with the simple games. More often than not, the online games over at Yahoo. Simple way to burn 10 minutes.
That's not to say that complex games are bad or no longer going to sell though! It's just a realization that the "gaming" market is big and diverse. Not everyone has the time or interest to "learn a game".
A lot of places are using LED's like this. I think the biggest benefit to the city is in the maintenance. The old incandescent bulbs need to be replaced quite frequently, AND they must be changed on a regular basis, rather than just "waiting for them to die". Dead "Green Lights" are generally bad for traffic flow, and dead "Reds" are, well, deadly.
Even if you only budget a few minutes for a crew to change the light bulbs at each intersection every year, the labour costs are probably a lot more than any energy costs for the light itself.
I'm still using their web email, though I'm trying to move away from it. I actually got the email address with Geocities, a long time ago... then I got grandfathered into a Yahoo email account with a 6MB mailbox =).
I also use their financial tools at finance.yahoo.com. There are probably other services, but Yahoo's works fine and doesn't have excessive ads. Not sure if they have pop-ups or not, thanks to Moz.
I never use their search or directory anymore though.
Probably posting this too late to get a reply... but...
Does anyone have a guess as to how feasible it would be to build a new shuttle, but make it unmanned? In other words, simplify it by stripping out all the human-support gear, yet still keep all the research that went into aerodynamics and construction. I would imagine that this would remain significantly cheaper than a complete redesign.
I think Roger's is all GSM now. At least that's all they sell for NEW phones... I suppose the old network is still running, for now.
Or go black hat and get reimbursed for their nefarious efforts... It's scary to think about how much damage one could do to individuals and companies using these same, well-publicized bugs. And, no, I haven't tried.
Which is fine for ONE PC. And, if you don't use air conditioning, then yes, a few watts in fans is all the cooling energy cost that you'll need. But try dissipating 25Kw. Your room and then house will heat up really quickly. Let's see, after the Big Blackout I think I saw an estimate that running a household oven is about 12Kw - so this cluster would be comparable to running two ovens 24/7. This heat has to go somewhere... and in most non-residential buildings, it'll be the air con. that has to get rid of it.
I don't know how efficient A/C's are, but it's definitely not going to be cheap.
I wonder if they could separate the computing room from the building's HVAC system and just run some fans to the outside on high speed. Enough air flow should be able to keep the computing room at more or less the ambient outside temperature. Probably uncomfortably warm during the summer, but it should be within the operating range of the PC's. How hot is a Kansas summer?
I wouldn't be surprised if new versions of Corel Draw and their other graphics applications are eventually released for Linux. I have always felt that Corel was a little too early getting into Linux to actually profit from their efforts - mind you, they did get a great temporary run in stock price during the "Linux" stock mania.
But now, three years later, porting is easier - they've done the work on their sources already, and WINE has improved considerably. The market is bigger - Linux is gaining quickly in many computing niches, including multimedia work. And porting to Linux get's them halfway to porting to Apple gear (albeit not in a native mode).
As for their office suite, I wouldn't hold my breath. I'm going to bet that OpenOffice will dominate the Linux arena for office suite software (unless Microsoft comes along, which is quite a ways in the future). If you're going to switch people from Windows to save some dough, one might as well switch to an adequate OSS office suite like OpenOffice.
After years of deciding between GSM and CDMA (and I think we had a TDMA provider...) I'm glad that won't be a problem this time around. I'm definitely glad that they're not choosing some proprietary protocol... so at least getting a wireless card will remain as easy as hopping into your local computer store.
Now the first question I have, is how much is this going to cost? Data rates on the cell-networks were ridiculously high for non-necessary useage... hopefully it won't be the same with WiFi.
Nah, in the US he would have claimed $100,000 for mental anguish and lost playing time.
when I reread the article, I guessed that you might be asking about saving load on the public FTP server on a larger scale. I.e. providing an option for all other users of the same service an opportunity to help reduce the load. In this case, the best bet is to talk to the service provider and use whatever they are willing to use!
Ask the public FTP provider to put up Torrent files, or equivalent, right on the FTP site, or in a README. Alternatively, if they aren't interested or are too busy to set it up themselves, ask them to put a description and link to a webpage that YOU control in a readme file. Something along the lines of, "Our servers are busy. A good samaritan maintains an alternate download method at this URL. You may get faster results from there." Perhaps toss in some MD5 hashes so that people can verify data if they so desire, and then hope for the best. With any luck, your company wins, other groups win, and the provider wins.
Pretty much any P2P network would work, but you would probably have more support from IT groups for BitTorrent than eMule/eDonkey or Gnucleus.
Is it possible to spoof the IP address as well? I thought that that was added by the receiving server. Not that it really matters, fake From addresses cause more than enough headaches for me as it is.
Interesting. So, the smart thing to do is hang up your phone when it gets a lot hotter than usual!
"Sorry, honey, I gotta go. My phone is about to spontaneously combust."
Sure it's a lot of traffic for some organizations. But for Microsoft to run time.windows.com, it's a drop in the bucket. Lets see... let's say 100M installations (probably high, since it's only XP, and boxes on a domain sync with the domain server) times 1kB per day (again, probably high) is about 100 GB per day and pretty evenly spread out over a 24 hour day. This amounts to less than two T1's. Not a bad deal, considering that in one "simple" move, a big portion of the wrong PC clocks that are out there are fixed. I wouldn't bother switching NTP servers on my XP workstations... why bother if MS is willing to pick up the dime...
The version of Accpac I sometimes use at work launches a web page (presumably with bits of info in a GET or POST) when it "detects" an invalid license. The thing is, we do have proper licenses - installed properly too! The first time I saw it, I freaked out a little... but nothing happened. No AccPac police ever showed up. I've since realized that it's probably because the check is buggy and inconsistent. So much so that I'm sure that they can't do any productive followups because of all the noise caused by validly licensed users.