70 days/played. This guy is nothing more than a scrub in a medium-level guild. My guild is probably more advanced than his, and my gut is in BETTER shape than when I started playing. PS- over 100 days/played. And my GF still hasn't broken up with me.
Wow, you're awesome. You should tell your grandkids about how awesome you were, back in 2006. If you have grandkids.
No, I really didn't understand. I can believe that there was some sort of mainframe (or AS/400 if you want to include other IBM hardware) emulation on a card, but I hadn't heard of it, yet. I guess if you google mainframe emulator card, you get something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3270_emulator
So, yeah, still not sure what was on the card. And I am curious... no doubt IBM went though a period of believing that the mainframe was dead and offering all sorts of zany stuff, so I am really curious.
Why, if you are worried about the need to immediately lease temporary server capacity would you plan to always do it with physical servers? Isn't this product supposed to be obseleted by grid computing? This would seem to be a very niche product in the long run.
They tend to focus too much on the money aspect rather than if the long-term is better served by a few extra expenses, e.g. getting a tetanus shot for $ rather than fighting the disease later for $$$.
It's been called, "stepping over dollars to pick up nickels."
When you do though, ask a simple reality check question. With shuttle trips running on the order of a billion dollars these days, what will generate more actual scientific data? Squander those kind of funds on a rocket ride to fix the aging hubble, or, invest half of it in modern ground based observing infrastructure, then take the other half and feed it into the scientific welfare system known as grants over a period of 20 years.
Booooooring. Unless there are astronauts involved, you won't get anyone's attention.
Thank you for your reply. I understand your perspective. Hyperbole is okay in rhetoric, but not the law. Succint hyperbole is exactly what gets modded up on Slashdot, however. A reaction to "mod parent down" is an, "ok, what I *really* meant was..."
The history of open source is littered with BSD-based empty victories like this. Look at SPICE, it's been consumed into expensive proprietary products and has almost died as an open source product.
You're speaking my language, man. I have been wondering why I've dealt with four or five proprietary SPICE netlist formats when just one would do. Spice has been forked and extended to death.
Please mod parent down. This is absolutely, 100% just not true. Anything signed by an attorney in a court of law (motions, pleadings, etc.) must be based on existing law and have evidentiary support. That certainly includes counterclaims. Please read FRCP Rule 11(b) [cornell.edu] before you begin to dispense legal advice.
Step out of whatever context you think this was in, and step into the internet. What makes you think it's legal advice? Who, pray tell, was I advising? This is Slashdot, where a comment such as, "limewire isn't the plaintiff" probably uses one too many legal terms. Legalese such as your precious Rule 11(b) boils down to "don't waste the courts' time, you might get sanctioned." Since you're a fan of number such as 100%, please tell me in what percentage of cases the generalization "there's no such thing as a frivilous counterclaim" is false? To translate back to your non-English, how often are Rule 11(c) sanctions imposed on the defendant for counterclaims? Feel free to suprise me with a large number.
Yes, but, what's the harm in it? If it's frivilous beyond all doubt the judges will throw it out, but it doesn't hurt to try, right? IANAL and all that, but over-reaching on counterclaims can't possibly be all that harmful.
I'm just not sure a borderline-frivolous lawsuit is a "meaningful way" of pushing back.
There's no such thing as a frivilous counterclaim once you've been sued. It's defensive. Lime wire didn't bring this suit... they only need the jury to consider their side of any part of the issue when it comes to damages.
Yeah, it sure was nice of Adelphia to send a guy over just to make sure that I installed their spyware on my windows partition. I probably could have saved him the trip by assuring him that I knew the "Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot" necessary for efficient voice transmission of MAC addresses over the phone.
It could be a good thing: This will probably drive their stock price down quite a bit. If they hire you, any options you get will be set that much lower. After this all blows over, the price will recover and you collect the difference.
Especially if they back-date them. (rimshot)
But seriously, after Sarbanes-Oxley forced them to call a dollar a dollar, what companies still give their peons stock options? I know that MS moved to grants rather than options...
Did you discuss how many watts the high-speed electrical links require?
The 10GBase-T spec, however, is targeting power consumption of 8 to 10 watts, still well above the 3 to 6 W required for optical links. Because power and heat are major system considerations in the data center, 10GBase-T may not gain much traction until lower-power versions hit, perhaps in 2007.
Yes, there are now more efficient serdes, but I wouldn't discard this optical link idea because it consumes watts of power, especially if the watts it consumes don't increase with switching frequency as strongly as electrical link power suckage.
There are investors who think that the times when everyone is positive that things are in the shitter for sure is a great time to invest money. Reading this thread, it seems that nearly everyone thinks that the PS3 is going to flop, bit time, and be the next betamax, etc etc. With that being the prevailing wisdom, even a mild success will be great news for Sony. The bar has been set extremely low for the company that had the PS2. Yes, the console biz has a history of colossal failures, but how often has everyone predicted such colossal failure before sales even start? (I dunno... has it happened? It's easy to kick a dog once it's down, but before it's born?)
One huge advantage could be an orders-of-magnitude reduction in the current necessary to drive signals off-chip. (It's not mentioned in the article whether these drivers have a power advantage) Off-chip drivers are a significant source of current drain in a chip, and if this technique eliminates the necessity to wiggle the off-chip capacitive loads at high frequencies, then you'll see much lower power. And if each pin on the output bus is drawing less power, you may see larger bus sizes and more bandwidth between chips.
I'm not sure what is supposed to happen, but there's no way to adjust threshold and the floating window is just annoying.
Ironically, the floating window adjusts the threshold. No, it's not readily apparent that it does so, because it doesn't say "threshold" on it, but, there it is.
How do you explain to a ten-year-old that the BASIC exercise from the math book is essentially identical to the internal processes of a video game, a web server, or the embedded micro-processor that drives your microwave oven?
One thing easily forgotten in this "we no longer have simplicity" argument is that the "graphing calculators" that are required for most high school calculus students (or were 10 years ago) contain a very simple line-oriented program capability. So yeah, punching in a problem from the math book causes things to happen on the calculator, still. Now if only the math teachers cared to describe what's going on to twiddle those pixels...
It uses ruthenium. Ruthenium runs about 175 USD/ounce. Ruthenium is a member the cateogry called "precious metals". It's a rather limited supply item. Given it's other uses I wouldn't expect to see these things be inexpensive. Also menas it will be unlikely to be viable for larger scale applications such as automotive, residential, or commercial power requirements.
Wouldn't the same logic have ruled out the usage of catalytic converters in cars? It didn't say how much ruthenium was required. Per ounce, ruthenium appears to be cheaper than palladium and far cheaper than platinum.
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Seems like it may have been part of a development environment... which would make sense. Cool.
or this: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/printer/v 1r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.printers.ipmwin/com.i bm.printers.ipmwings/iprggmst38.htm
So, yeah, still not sure what was on the card. And I am curious... no doubt IBM went though a period of believing that the mainframe was dead and offering all sorts of zany stuff, so I am really curious.
Why, if you are worried about the need to immediately lease temporary server capacity would you plan to always do it with physical servers? Isn't this product supposed to be obseleted by grid computing? This would seem to be a very niche product in the long run.
Thank you for your reply. I understand your perspective. Hyperbole is okay in rhetoric, but not the law. Succint hyperbole is exactly what gets modded up on Slashdot, however. A reaction to "mod parent down" is an, "ok, what I *really* meant was..."
Yes, but, what's the harm in it? If it's frivilous beyond all doubt the judges will throw it out, but it doesn't hurt to try, right? IANAL and all that, but over-reaching on counterclaims can't possibly be all that harmful.
Yeah, it sure was nice of Adelphia to send a guy over just to make sure that I installed their spyware on my windows partition. I probably could have saved him the trip by assuring him that I knew the "Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot" necessary for efficient voice transmission of MAC addresses over the phone.
But seriously, after Sarbanes-Oxley forced them to call a dollar a dollar, what companies still give their peons stock options? I know that MS moved to grants rather than options...
http://www.eetimes.com/article/showArticle.jhtml?
Yes, there are now more efficient serdes, but I wouldn't discard this optical link idea because it consumes watts of power, especially if the watts it consumes don't increase with switching frequency as strongly as electrical link power suckage.
Poor Gus was sort of jinxed... His Mercury capsule filled with water and sank, he nearly sank with it. And then, well, Apollo 1.
There are investors who think that the times when everyone is positive that things are in the shitter for sure is a great time to invest money. Reading this thread, it seems that nearly everyone thinks that the PS3 is going to flop, bit time, and be the next betamax, etc etc. With that being the prevailing wisdom, even a mild success will be great news for Sony. The bar has been set extremely low for the company that had the PS2. Yes, the console biz has a history of colossal failures, but how often has everyone predicted such colossal failure before sales even start? (I dunno... has it happened? It's easy to kick a dog once it's down, but before it's born?)
One huge advantage could be an orders-of-magnitude reduction in the current necessary to drive signals off-chip. (It's not mentioned in the article whether these drivers have a power advantage) Off-chip drivers are a significant source of current drain in a chip, and if this technique eliminates the necessity to wiggle the off-chip capacitive loads at high frequencies, then you'll see much lower power. And if each pin on the output bus is drawing less power, you may see larger bus sizes and more bandwidth between chips.