Wow...imagine if the article said that they had done this...inside a gated community.
Fact of the matter is that gated communities without a guard stationed there offer little extra security. It will help stop the casual opportunistic theft, but does nothing against people who are interested in getting in. People just tailgate in or rely on the same mechanism that the school busses, garbage trucks and other utilties use.
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... but that's about all it'll be useful for. A Nehemiah CPU is really weedy by todays standards, even the 1GHz one is about the same as a 600MH P3. So, he's got 12 of them, which is probably less CPU power than an average dual P4 motherboard...
Why is it that most people think that 1 4GHz system is just as fast as 2 2GHz systems? This is the fallacy that never fails to irritate me. The fact is that for a lot of things, the number of machines matters. It's a pipeline, and a CPU can only do one thing at a time. For many application having multiple CPUs that are slower will give you faster response time than a single fast CPU. Of course, most people here don't get that, give it up when trying to talk to the PHB about it.
As near as I can tell, the ReplayTv pretty much uses black screens. Recent versions of their software are much better than previous versions. (BTW: The term is CommercialAdvance). It turns out that this is (I believe) a patented procedure that is licensed from one company. (Yes, this is the correct link, do a google for "commercial advance patent" and you'll find the hidden document on it as the top hit.)
The thing that irritates me about this is that I have a very nice Panasonic VCR from about 2 years ago that also has this feature. You record the show, when the record is done, it goes back and marks the tape, and when you play it automatically goes through the commercials. This works correctly about 98% of the time (how is that for an exact number based on nothing?)
The ReplayTV works correctly about 90% of the time, and shows that have a lot of loud noise and black spaces cause it the most problems (Alias, 24, etc....)
Additionally, because it just skips, as opposed to fast forwarding, it is sometimes hard to tell if has messed up.
So, the same technology, licensed from the same company, has different results. Sounds like implementation problems. I also don't recall hearing that Panasonic was sued.
One thing that has always irritated me about the back button is the lack of a 'tree' effect. In the notation of the paper, lets say I did this:
a->b->c->d<=>c<=>b->e
Now with the stand back button, or even their modified results, I tend to see:
[b,a], where what I would like to
see is something like:
[b, [c,d] , a]
I like mouse gestures, and I find the only one
I really ever use is back, and tabbed browsing
does get rid of a lot of the single back, but
I'm suprised that this 'tree' view hasn't
been investigated/implemented.
Its interesting to note that the certification effort was made for the more proprietary (and costlier) Red Hat Advanced Server and not the basic Red Hat distribution
You're right, it does cost more....for the first copy! After that, it's free.
However if you want support for it, it will cost you about $1200 per machine per year. This is cheaper than most other OS's.
Personally, I think you would be better served developing in house resourcs for the support, but that's just me.
I'm also not necessarily happy with RH's choices on some packages to include in AS. The one that jumps out at me is choosing to use a beta version of an
ntp4 release as opposed to simply using whatever was the stable version at the time.
And yes, I work somewhere that is probably going to implement hundreds of copies of RH AS, and pay for the support.
You're missing the other side of the coin. Exempt can work in your favor. There was the recent analysis in CA that said that if you worked 1 hour they had to pay you for the whole week. This was in response to the companies that were doing the 'shutting down for a week' thing and putting people on call.
If you work less than 40 hours a week you still get paid for 40/week.
This is a single device you have to purchase for every device you want to put onto your SCSI controller. Ok, so the idea is that your IDE or ATAPI device is cheaper. Is it $100 cheaper, which is what it appears the converters cost? If so, is it really worth it to buy the drive, buy the converter, hook them up, and then hope if something goes wrong you can debug it? How many people out there have SCSI controllers that are crying for a device they can't find that is SCSI.
Save your money for neon lights, or plexiglass, or whatever other case mod you were going to blow money on.
Ad agencies have long complained that the proliferation of so many sizes forces them to have reformat ads multiple times to meet the various specifications of Web publishers -- a time-consuming process that increases their costs
In response to this, the IAB is happy to provide four new formats for the new year, because the banner is actually well liked.
Also, what the hell ever happened to designing a page that was...oh...I don't know....simple? If I just have an image at the top, does it really matter how big it is? Why do I have to redesign my entire site?
"Larger ad units are far more alluring and impactful," Mr. Schroeder said. "Now that we offer skyscapers, big boxes and leaderboards, there is no question that the banner is less relevant. The leaderboard, for instance, occupies basically the same position on our pages as a banner, but is more than twice the size."
A dictionary doesn't even show a word for impactful. Those clever marketing people, so innovative. Of course, I think they're more moronicful. I also think they are suckful.
I like how they take normal words (skyscraper, leader board) and turn them into marketingesse.
I'm just thankful that the pop-up, was met by
something like mozilla with pop-up blocking, or what I propose we call guillotine
This is one of the things that has been annoying me. The use of a word that describes historical and current practices that are pretty bad, to something that is a business problem.
Even today (especially in Asia) pirates actually board ships, kill, rape and pillage.
People who download music, or books, or even p0rn are not doing anything that is within an order of magnitude of what piracy really is.
It's like describing using bug spray as genocide.
The project will begin with M. genitalium, a minuscule organism that lives in the genital tracts of people and may cause or contribute to some cases of urethritis, an inflammation of the urethra.
[...] The artificial chromosome will be inserted into the hollowed-out cell, which will then be tested for its ability to survive and reproduce.
If it can reproduce it will already be a more sophisticated life form than the average Slashgeek.
Of course the average Slashgeek hasn't irritated the genital area of someone else, but has irritated the woman it's attached to.
Ha! I think I've got you beat.
Sometime back in college I realized I was tired of having a wallet in my pocket and a knife, and other cruft, so I started carrying a fanny pack. (Actually, I rarely wear it in the back, so technically I believe it is a scrotum bag)
On this I attach my leatherman, and a pager (company pager).
Into it I fit:
Counter-intuitively it makes going through airport security easier because I just take it off, toss it on the xray machine, and pick it up on the other side. None of the "Do you have keys, change, a tinfoil covered cucumber in your pants?"
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Wow...imagine if the article said that they had done this...inside a gated community.
Fact of the matter is that gated communities without a guard stationed there offer little extra security. It will help stop the casual opportunistic theft, but does nothing against people who are interested in getting in. People just tailgate in or rely on the same mechanism that the school busses, garbage trucks and other utilties use.
... but that's about all it'll be useful for. A Nehemiah CPU is really weedy by todays standards, even the 1GHz one is about the same as a 600MH P3. So, he's got 12 of them, which is probably less CPU power than an average dual P4 motherboard...
Why is it that most people think that 1 4GHz system is just as fast as 2 2GHz systems? This is the fallacy that never fails to irritate me. The fact is that for a lot of things, the number of machines matters. It's a pipeline, and a CPU can only do one thing at a time. For many application having multiple CPUs that are slower will give you faster response time than a single fast CPU. Of course, most people here don't get that, give it up when trying to talk to the PHB about it.
As near as I can tell, the ReplayTv pretty much uses black screens. Recent versions of their software are much better than previous versions. (BTW: The term is CommercialAdvance). It turns out that this is (I believe) a patented procedure that is licensed from one company. (Yes, this is the correct link, do a google for "commercial advance patent" and you'll find the hidden document on it as the top hit.)
The thing that irritates me about this is that I have a very nice Panasonic VCR from about 2 years ago that also has this feature. You record the show, when the record is done, it goes back and marks the tape, and when you play it automatically goes through the commercials. This works correctly about 98% of the time (how is that for an exact number based on nothing?)
The ReplayTV works correctly about 90% of the time, and shows that have a lot of loud noise and black spaces cause it the most problems (Alias, 24, etc....)
Additionally, because it just skips, as opposed to fast forwarding, it is sometimes hard to tell if has messed up.
So, the same technology, licensed from the same company, has different results. Sounds like implementation problems. I also don't recall hearing that Panasonic was sued.
As reported by "America's Finest News Source" this is even happening to Company CEOs!
"Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do."
-Steven Brust
Now with the stand back button, or even their modified results, I tend to see:
[b,a], where what I would like to see is something like:
[b, [c,d] , a]
I like mouse gestures, and I find the only one I really ever use is back, and tabbed browsing does get rid of a lot of the single back, but I'm suprised that this 'tree' view hasn't been investigated/implemented.
However if you want support for it, it will cost you about $1200 per machine per year. This is cheaper than most other OS's.
Personally, I think you would be better served developing in house resourcs for the support, but that's just me.
I'm also not necessarily happy with RH's choices on some packages to include in AS. The one that jumps out at me is choosing to use a beta version of an ntp4 release as opposed to simply using whatever was the stable version at the time.
And yes, I work somewhere that is probably going to implement hundreds of copies of RH AS, and pay for the support.
Pros
- Main character is quirky and engaging
- Side characters are unusually unpredictable, but very human
- Last third of the book really moves
Cons- The first 2/3rds of the book is pretty slow
- By putting the book in the current/very near future Gibson has enough technical things that are just a little off to annoy me
- It seemed very disjointed
SummaryI'd own this in trade paperback, and in hardcover I would borrow it from the library
You're missing the other side of the coin. Exempt can work in your favor. There was the recent analysis in CA that said that if you worked 1 hour they had to pay you for the whole week. This was in response to the companies that were doing the 'shutting down for a week' thing and putting people on call.
If you work less than 40 hours a week you still get paid for 40/week.
Save your money for neon lights, or plexiglass, or whatever other case mod you were going to blow money on.
Rats!
In response to this, the IAB is happy to provide four new formats for the new year, because the banner is actually well liked.
Also, what the hell ever happened to designing a page that was...oh...I don't know....simple? If I just have an image at the top, does it really matter how big it is? Why do I have to redesign my entire site?
"Larger ad units are far more alluring and impactful," Mr. Schroeder said. "Now that we offer skyscapers, big boxes and leaderboards, there is no question that the banner is less relevant. The leaderboard, for instance, occupies basically the same position on our pages as a banner, but is more than twice the size."
A dictionary doesn't even show a word for impactful. Those clever marketing people, so innovative. Of course, I think they're more moronicful. I also think they are suckful.
I like how they take normal words (skyscraper, leader board) and turn them into marketingesse. I'm just thankful that the pop-up, was met by something like mozilla with pop-up blocking, or what I propose we call guillotine
Even today (especially in Asia) pirates actually board ships, kill, rape and pillage.
People who download music, or books, or even p0rn are not doing anything that is within an order of magnitude of what piracy really is. It's like describing using bug spray as genocide.
If it can reproduce it will already be a more sophisticated life form than the average Slashgeek. Of course the average Slashgeek hasn't irritated the genital area of someone else, but has irritated the woman it's attached to.
- Sony Clie
- Asprin
- Carmex
- Cell phone
- Wallet
- Lens cleaning cloth
- Nail clippers
- Comb
- Keys
- spare change
Counter-intuitively it makes going through airport security easier because I just take it off, toss it on the xray machine, and pick it up on the other side. None of the "Do you have keys, change, a tinfoil covered cucumber in your pants?"I'm shocked.
Here is a result that is pretty good if you know the author of the phrase.