The comment I was replying to inferred the satellites had some sort of spatial accuracy, so that's the point I was addressing. But yes, they have extreme temporal accuracy.
Actually, the satellites themselves have no "accuracy" to speak of. It's entirely up to the receiver. With a good carrier-phase differential receiver, you can get accuracies of ~1cm from the existing GPS satellites.
But Caddys are just so....eeewww. I'd much rather lust after one of these. At least it's theoretically attainable. Now where's that crowd of little people for me to crush ruthlessly to get one....?
Nah, it's just that they're both techies, with responsibility for making tech decisions. Ballmer's a businessman and probably wouldn't know vi from a Roman numeral. Gates is too much of an old-school bit head (and control freak) to give others too much say in the technical direction of his company.
1s/write once, run anywhere/portable assembler/ %s/Java/C/ %s/C/assembler/
I'm sure that when we're writing all our apps in Elroy or 3.5 hectare then people will be whinging about how much faster things were when we were using Java. And the stats will be just the same: Elroy apps are three times slower than Java apps, and it'll be the difference between performing some operation in 0.1 versus 0.0337 seconds.
Can a person be convicted of solely possessing stolen property, when it was purchased in good faith from the thief?
Yes, if your story is as bad as this guys was. "Well, I kinda wondered if it was stolen, but she said it wasn't, so I bought it..." Kind of hard to prove "good faith" when the deal is as obviously skewed as this one was.
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Ah, but it's only an "opportunity cost" sort of penalty. Intel isn't threatening to raise Dell's costs above those it charges anyone else, or cut off their supply, or only sell them low-end chips. They're just offering them better terms than they can get elsewhere, which Dell is free to decline. And I'm sure if it ever makes economic sense for them to do so, they will.
I once spent a long afternoon eating ice cream, because the proprietor of the shop (my uncle) told me I could have as much as I wanted as long as I ate it while standing directly in front of the shop. All things being equal, I would rather have had a French vanilla cone from the shop down the road, but things weren't equal and free won big time.
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IMHO that's not an acceptable explanation for offering zero AMD servers.
Well, then, you're a retard. Why would someone give up a N-where-N-is-large% discount from the supplier that will provide 95% of your processors just so you can sell 5% of your volume with processors from another vendor? How are you going to explain to your shareholders that you're going to raise production costs by millions of dollars just so you can do a couple million dollars more in sales? Do you honestly think that AMD is able to offer Dell better prices than Intel?
And let's not forget that Opterons, despite "taking a larger and larger piece of the server market" still have a less than 12% share. If Dell's going to tweak Intel's nose, it would make more sense for them to go with IBM's Power line of processors for the high-end. IBM's doing well with that line; unlike HP, whose Itanium sales haven't managed to outpace PA-RISC declines.
I like Opterons (I have a Sun Ultra 20 at home), but suggesting that Dell destroy its margins just so they can offer a processor that's more appealing to you (I'm guessing you're not a Fortune 100 CIO planning to outfit a dozen or so new data centers) is just stupid.
That's one of the decisions I hope will fall out from all this. If J. Random Busybody happens to find out something covered by an NDA, can he just buy a domain name, throw up a web page with that information and claim "Hey, I'm a journalist, I don't have to tell you anything!"? Hopefully not, but how long do you have to have a web site up before you become recognized as a journalist? Is there some specific kind of content you have to include (editorials?), or some specific disclaimer? Does your site have to have a masthead? I'm certainly not in favor of requiring registration or some sort of certification, but it would be nice to have some kind of definition as to what distinguishes a "journalistic site" as opposed to a fanbois page.
Maybe there'll be a convergence: people will return to using horses for short-range transport, and we'll use the dung to fuel our longer-range transport. We could make downtown a 'horse-friendly' environment by banning cars and installing watering troughs every couple of blocks.
Of course, here in the US, we'll wind up with people driving ten-horse hitches to pull their SUWs (sports utility wagons), but at least horses can be counted on to not drift across three lanes of traffic while the driver yaks on a cell phone...
You probably won't need a scope at every station, just put it on a cart. Alternately, you might want to have one of these on every bench. That said, with bus speeds moving into the 400MHz range, it'll be hard to find an affordable scope that will trigger that fast.
Me, I just stick with my 547, but then again, I'm not a real tech....
Check this out. Opteron workstation for $1K. They were running a promo where you could get one for something like $29.95/mo for three years, not sure if that's still on.
I remember back in the day (this would have been ca. 1987) my former roommate was helping to set up a new data center for a large financial services company. Apparently, the traders had special rooms with their own separate air handlers and redundant network, power and Sun workstations. The reason given was that so if the rest of the building caught fire, they wouldn't necessarily have to leave, unless their corner of the building was actually burning. And that was when I learned just how much money those people turn over in single day,
I've got an old Umax scanner sitting on a shelf, too. Problem is, it sits there until I need to scan something, then I GC until I have ~2 sq ft of desk space so I can set the damn thing up, then it just works. Since 90+% of my scanning is photos, it's overkill to have a full (legal!) page scanner, but the damn thing just won't die. Maybe I'll just have to get over this aversion to replacing non-broken stuff...
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The comment I was replying to inferred the satellites had some sort of spatial accuracy, so that's the point I was addressing. But yes, they have extreme temporal accuracy.
Actually, the satellites themselves have no "accuracy" to speak of. It's entirely up to the receiver. With a good carrier-phase differential receiver, you can get accuracies of ~1cm from the existing GPS satellites.
But Caddys are just so....eeewww. I'd much rather lust after one of these. At least it's theoretically attainable. Now where's that crowd of little people for me to crush ruthlessly to get one....?
"We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. We forge our spirits in the traditions of our ancestors. You have our gratitude!"
I'm sure the development manager sat down with the assistant head of PR and came up with these gems.
"People who sue for emotional distress also often bring the following charges: ..."
Nah, it's just that they're both techies, with responsibility for making tech decisions. Ballmer's a businessman and probably wouldn't know vi from a Roman numeral. Gates is too much of an old-school bit head (and control freak) to give others too much say in the technical direction of his company.
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we have registers over here
Yeah, and my chair is directly over one. That warm air sure feels good on a chilly autumn day!
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1s/write once, run anywhere/portable assembler/
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%s/C/assembler/
I'm sure that when we're writing all our apps in Elroy or 3.5 hectare then people will be whinging about how much faster things were when we were using Java. And the stats will be just the same: Elroy apps are three times slower than Java apps, and it'll be the difference between performing some operation in 0.1 versus 0.0337 seconds.
I think one of the biggest impediments to Java for applications is that you have the load the JRE over again for each app
The sticky bit is your friend...
Can a person be convicted of solely possessing stolen property, when it was purchased in good faith from the thief?
Yes, if your story is as bad as this guys was. "Well, I kinda wondered if it was stolen, but she said it wasn't, so I bought it..." Kind of hard to prove "good faith" when the deal is as obviously skewed as this one was.
Ah, but it's only an "opportunity cost" sort of penalty. Intel isn't threatening to raise Dell's costs above those it charges anyone else, or cut off their supply, or only sell them low-end chips. They're just offering them better terms than they can get elsewhere, which Dell is free to decline. And I'm sure if it ever makes economic sense for them to do so, they will.
I once spent a long afternoon eating ice cream, because the proprietor of the shop (my uncle) told me I could have as much as I wanted as long as I ate it while standing directly in front of the shop. All things being equal, I would rather have had a French vanilla cone from the shop down the road, but things weren't equal and free won big time.
IMHO that's not an acceptable explanation for offering zero AMD servers.
Well, then, you're a retard. Why would someone give up a N-where-N-is-large% discount from the supplier that will provide 95% of your processors just so you can sell 5% of your volume with processors from another vendor? How are you going to explain to your shareholders that you're going to raise production costs by millions of dollars just so you can do a couple million dollars more in sales? Do you honestly think that AMD is able to offer Dell better prices than Intel?
And let's not forget that Opterons, despite "taking a larger and larger piece of the server market" still have a less than 12% share. If Dell's going to tweak Intel's nose, it would make more sense for them to go with IBM's Power line of processors for the high-end. IBM's doing well with that line; unlike HP, whose Itanium sales haven't managed to outpace PA-RISC declines.
I like Opterons (I have a Sun Ultra 20 at home), but suggesting that Dell destroy its margins just so they can offer a processor that's more appealing to you (I'm guessing you're not a Fortune 100 CIO planning to outfit a dozen or so new data centers) is just stupid.
the ATF doesn't hire drunk smokers w/ unregistered firearm violations
Huh, no wonder they don't return my calls. Oh well, I guess I can always fall back on AOL tech support...
That's one of the decisions I hope will fall out from all this. If J. Random Busybody happens to find out something covered by an NDA, can he just buy a domain name, throw up a web page with that information and claim "Hey, I'm a journalist, I don't have to tell you anything!"? Hopefully not, but how long do you have to have a web site up before you become recognized as a journalist? Is there some specific kind of content you have to include (editorials?), or some specific disclaimer? Does your site have to have a masthead? I'm certainly not in favor of requiring registration or some sort of certification, but it would be nice to have some kind of definition as to what distinguishes a "journalistic site" as opposed to a fanbois page.
Maybe there'll be a convergence: people will return to using horses for short-range transport, and we'll use the dung to fuel our longer-range transport. We could make downtown a 'horse-friendly' environment by banning cars and installing watering troughs every couple of blocks.
Of course, here in the US, we'll wind up with people driving ten-horse hitches to pull their SUWs (sports utility wagons), but at least horses can be counted on to not drift across three lanes of traffic while the driver yaks on a cell phone...
No matter how smart your garage disposal unit is
They say Americans are wasteful, but that's just something else. I wonder what kind of power is required to turn a motor that big?
It's really just 11 amps or so.... Hell, you can even get a cordless one!
a totally revamped OSX (to be called OSXI)
And will, predictably, be pronounced "oh, sexy"...
There's a "GTK#"? WTF?
I already get enough micro-management, thankyouverymuch.
You probably won't need a scope at every station, just put it on a cart. Alternately, you might want to have one of these on every bench. That said, with bus speeds moving into the 400MHz range, it'll be hard to find an affordable scope that will trigger that fast.
Me, I just stick with my 547, but then again, I'm not a real tech....
Check this out. Opteron workstation for $1K. They were running a promo where you could get one for something like $29.95/mo for three years, not sure if that's still on.
I remember back in the day (this would have been ca. 1987) my former roommate was helping to set up a new data center for a large financial services company. Apparently, the traders had special rooms with their own separate air handlers and redundant network, power and Sun workstations. The reason given was that so if the rest of the building caught fire, they wouldn't necessarily have to leave, unless their corner of the building was actually burning. And that was when I learned just how much money those people turn over in single day,
I've got an old Umax scanner sitting on a shelf, too. Problem is, it sits there until I need to scan something, then I GC until I have ~2 sq ft of desk space so I can set the damn thing up, then it just works. Since 90+% of my scanning is photos, it's overkill to have a full (legal!) page scanner, but the damn thing just won't die. Maybe I'll just have to get over this aversion to replacing non-broken stuff...