With the mini drives you have the battery drain, mechanical noise (that quiet "whirr" you hear on home movies) and stability (if the camera gets hit hard you'll likely smash the drive, making the camera worthless).
I'm curious, though... I wouldn't want one 8G card, I'd want perhaps four 2G cards RAIDed togethere. Bandwidth problems sovled, and the price of 4 2Gs is noticably less than one 8G.
I honestly think that a lot of the current commentators are dead on when they say that this is a "fad" and this will eventually balance itself out.
I am not a fad. I've been professionally developing for years and I've put a ton of people out of work. That's why people hire programmers; because we produce programs which do jobs so that corps. don't have to PAY A HUMAN to do them. When I do my job well I've produced great software. A great reporting package means the company spends less money on retaining old reports, hiring "gurus" to figure out custom reports, etc. My actions have put a ton of people out of work, programmers included.
People need to get over the "my job went to India and it's not fair" crap. America was outsourced (slave / indentured servant) labor for centuries. It's just how things work. If you lost your job maybe you should get your skills up and find something else; nobody wants to hear it.
Cylon enemies look more like humans, complete with feelings, including one with rabid sexual desires
Kinda gives a whole new meaning to "By Your Command"...
I'm curious as to who exactly is getting fired here
Apparently the folks in GIS (seismic oil/gas exploration). Their office on Westheimer (Houston) is now dark and has little "do not enter" tape up.
The Linux/Windows clusters got 'em. Look around at the GIS tech companies; they're either already using clusters, in the process of migrating to clusters, or getting ready to lay people off.:-/
Kylix supports OpenGL on Linux out-of-the-box. Of course there's no law that says you have to use OpenGL (or D3D); you can always write your own custom renderer. They're much harder to write and I get tired of writing graphics code as, frankly, graphics just don't impress me anymore. It's the physics and scripting that are the interesting part of newer games.
The USA are in a war right now which they declared and which violates the law of nations.
Please check your sources;
UN Resolution 1441 states that the UN may use any necessary force to enforce compliance. Seeing as Iraq just flung a couple of Scuds (which they said they didn't have anymore IIRC) at the civilians in Kuwait City I would say the action is justified.
This whole thread is off-topic and has nothing to do with music "sharing".
"Terrorism" is the new "Racism"; in the 90s it seemed that everything was "racist", no matter how removed from race the issue of discussion may have been. Now when somebody doesn't get their way it's not racism, it's "terrorism".
Hilarious. Kids learn quick, don't they? Let's see, sell your FREE school computer and buy a PlayStation 2, some new skis and a couple bottles of hooch from the older kids... hell yeah I'd have done the same thing. (=
This whole thing is just good old-fashioned graft. Nice to see the kids picked up on it so quickly. No wonder attendance is up!
That's nice, $37M of PUBLIC money spent on closed source machines. Nice big fat "F you" to Linux there.
Want to spend taxpayer money on something that will give value? Have the kids start learning Linux; who knows which of them will be the next Linus.....instead of another Bill Gates / Steve Jobs.
I'm assuming they didn't want to do a real comparison and just kept changing the setup in an effort to maximize the spread...
500 WalMart PCs vs. 500 SPARCstation... eh, no, that's no good for our side....OK, lets use terminal services for the *nix boxes but not on the PCs......and now let's try it with top-end PCs instead of normal "student" boxen....and let's add printers to each PC, yeah, that's it....and use really expensive FLAT PANELs insted of a CRTs on the PCs
Woohoo! We have TCO dominance! We're brilliant!
What a joke.
What will probably happen is that the store will keep a copy of all the EULAs on file and available to the customers at, say, the Service Desk.
Currently you can go into Micky D's and view their foods' nutritional information. Nobody really does it, but if you wanted to find out just how greasy a Big Mac is, the information is there and the must provide it for you. Same concept.
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With the mini drives you have the battery drain, mechanical noise (that quiet "whirr" you hear on home movies) and stability (if the camera gets hit hard you'll likely smash the drive, making the camera worthless). I'm curious, though... I wouldn't want one 8G card, I'd want perhaps four 2G cards RAIDed togethere. Bandwidth problems sovled, and the price of 4 2Gs is noticably less than one 8G.
I am not a fad. I've been professionally developing for years and I've put a ton of people out of work. That's why people hire programmers; because we produce programs which do jobs so that corps. don't have to PAY A HUMAN to do them. When I do my job well I've produced great software. A great reporting package means the company spends less money on retaining old reports, hiring "gurus" to figure out custom reports, etc. My actions have put a ton of people out of work, programmers included.
People need to get over the "my job went to India and it's not fair" crap. America was outsourced (slave / indentured servant) labor for centuries. It's just how things work. If you lost your job maybe you should get your skills up and find something else; nobody wants to hear it.
Cylon enemies look more like humans, complete with feelings, including one with rabid sexual desires
Kinda gives a whole new meaning to "By Your Command"...
Will everyone else now belive me that Carl Sagan may know more than he is letting on?
Eh, you meant knew and was, right?
The Dell-Winston Solar Challenge starts tomorrow just outside of Austin, Texas and will be travelling across The South to central Florida...
Apparently the folks in GIS (seismic oil/gas exploration). Their office on Westheimer (Houston) is now dark and has little "do not enter" tape up.
The Linux/Windows clusters got 'em. Look around at the GIS tech companies; they're either already using clusters, in the process of migrating to clusters, or getting ready to lay people off.
It will be very popular down here in The South. (=
Kylix supports OpenGL on Linux out-of-the-box. Of course there's no law that says you have to use OpenGL (or D3D); you can always write your own custom renderer. They're much harder to write and I get tired of writing graphics code as, frankly, graphics just don't impress me anymore. It's the physics and scripting that are the interesting part of newer games.
Please check your sources; UN Resolution 1441 states that the UN may use any necessary force to enforce compliance. Seeing as Iraq just flung a couple of Scuds (which they said they didn't have anymore IIRC) at the civilians in Kuwait City I would say the action is justified.
This whole thread is off-topic and has nothing to do with music "sharing".
"Terrorism" is the new "Racism"; in the 90s it seemed that everything was "racist", no matter how removed from race the issue of discussion may have been. Now when somebody doesn't get their way it's not racism, it's "terrorism".
Responsibly? THEY WEREN'T GOING TO TELL ANYONE until the AAS called them on it. As a former UT grad I'm not at all surprised. Not at all.
Hilarious. Kids learn quick, don't they? Let's see, sell your FREE school computer and buy a PlayStation 2, some new skis and a couple bottles of hooch from the older kids... hell yeah I'd have done the same thing. (=
This whole thing is just good old-fashioned graft. Nice to see the kids picked up on it so quickly. No wonder attendance is up!
That's nice, $37M of PUBLIC money spent on closed source machines. Nice big fat "F you" to Linux there.
..instead of another Bill Gates / Steve Jobs.
Want to spend taxpayer money on something that will give value? Have the kids start learning Linux; who knows which of them will be the next Linus...
I remember how excited I was when I could get my Commodore 64 to make the Cylon voice.
"By your command"... heheheheh
Yeah, they were pretty damn cool for 1978.
I'm assuming they didn't want to do a real comparison and just kept changing the setup in an effort to maximize the spread... 500 WalMart PCs vs. 500 SPARCstation... eh, no, that's no good for our side. ...OK, lets use terminal services for the *nix boxes but not on the PCs... ...and now let's try it with top-end PCs instead of normal "student" boxen ....and let's add printers to each PC, yeah, that's it ....and use really expensive FLAT PANELs insted of a CRTs on the PCs
Woohoo! We have TCO dominance! We're brilliant!
What a joke.
What will probably happen is that the store will keep a copy of all the EULAs on file and available to the customers at, say, the Service Desk.
Currently you can go into Micky D's and view their foods' nutritional information. Nobody really does it, but if you wanted to find out just how greasy a Big Mac is, the information is there and the must provide it for you. Same concept.