"Enterprise" users outside the tech industry have been loathe to switch to MS Office in the first place.
You'd be surprised how many large companies still use text-based interfaces for their entire systems because they're reliable and no training is required.
I've replied elsewhere in this thread as well about USB and Firewire, but consider looking at Tom's Hardware's review of FW vs. USB for data transfer as well (FW trumps USB, not the other way around).
Oh, and move your mouse around while doing the transfer;-)
Hope you don't have USB speakers attached as well.
USB is a shared medium, and has some pretty neat traffic handling, but its still shared. Firewire is designed to be a dedicated host-to-host high-bandwidth data transfer medium.
That said (assuming your mom is a neophyte as you seem to be inferring), your mom would probably not have locked down the OpenBSD boxen properly and the experienced network admin would use firewalls (or something akin to them).
But yes, skills are much more important than software in many cases.
Gravity is an interesting one. We all know gravity happens, since we experience it all the time. Most of us have never experienced evolution however, making it much more fun to argue about.
Evolution however, we have a pretty good idea about how it does or would work.
Gravity on the other hand, while we know the basic rules, is a complete mystery in terms of the 'why' and 'how'. (If you think gravity is a moot point, you haven't been reading lately).
I've been personally annoyed with Intel for pushing for more and more processing to be done solely by the core processor on PCs as well. I'm glad things are slowly moving back toward accelerated individual operations, partly because of GPUs of course (as the history of modern gaming goes at least).
CPU-driven soft modems irked me, soft sound cards were even worse, and all of a sudden you've got so many things being driven in software drivers that the CPU feels slower at 3GHz than my old 333.
You don't need to fit it into RAM on a PS2, it has huge amounts of memory bandwidth for that reason.
It took a while for developpers to truly take advantage of the high bandwidth memory pipeline though. See God of War PS2 if you need a comparison in graphics quality.
I wish people had the comprehension of what this actually means.
First off, a console's lifetime is at least two or three years. In 2008 or 2009, will people have HDTVs? Probably.
Secondly, there's nothing "high definition" about a blu-ray disc. Its just a higher-volume disc that could store a high definition movie (but so can VHS... don't argue without doing your homework btw).
The big deal for us is that 1) we get the potential for a lot more information being included on the game disc (no more second and third discs for a long time either), not just the ability to watch HD movies and TV off blu-ray discs we buy at the store.
IOW, you don't need HDTV to take advantage of the PS3 with a BD player, you happen to be buying it primarily to play games, remember?
Some people make business decisions without any thought to profits. This is folly.
Some people make business decisions without any thought to morals. This also is folly.
MySQL's largest support group has always been that running Linux and other OSS platforms. Touting a partnership with SCO as a good thing cannot be seen as anything but a slap in the face to this community. Not because SCO is closed-source, like Mac or Windows, but because SCO has openly stated that Linux is essentially either a forgery or illegal.
I care not if MySQL provides official support for SCO platforms. I do care if MySQL gives SCO any more publicity.
Just for those with no strong grasp of the English language, Synergy (and its adjective derivatives) is in fact a valid and well-accepted term to refer to things that work together to a common goal, or that work better together than they would alone.
It is used as a buzzword, of course, for "teams" and such, but I find it a very valid use when describing a number of (almost useless) processors that when shmucked together with some PPC glue work wonders.
... most of the screens at our local Galaxy Cinemas actually don't sound as good as my home theatre receiver + speakers. I don't have anything special, but I've tuned it properly, its a small room and its well balanced comparatively.
There are 2 big screens in town that are actually big enough and sound good enough (THX certified, etc.) to be worth paying for, but you have to show up for the biggest movie that week to see it on those screens.
Your network is only open to D.o.S. attacks if you use all secure protocols on it. If you wanted to be paranoid, you'd use IPSec on each wireless device and not allow unauthenticated traffic, but that's what WPA attempts to do anyway, almost.
Assuming the teacher dealing with computers is as educated in computers as an English teacher ought to be in English, this shouldn't be a reality.
I know it is, but that just requires that we explain our requirements to the public school boards that computer-educated teachers work with the computers for grade school students.
IMHO, scientists and labourers may be immoral or even valid targets for war prisons, but are not in any means enemy combattants until they hold a weapon and aim it at their enemies.
What defines a civilian? They're the people with no means to defend themselves and probably no real interest in being active members of the war.
Are the singers who go to the front and sing for the soldiers combattants? They raise moral and troop effectiveness more than some of those in your list would.
I'm with you -- I'm tired of interviewing programmers who know how to 'code' in pet languages like Pascal but can't actually produce something functional on a real server for a real client.
Throw in a good Unix shell course while you're at it... learning how to use a good shell and manipulate shell scripts is worthy of at least one semester.
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"Enterprise" users outside the tech industry have been loathe to switch to MS Office in the first place.
You'd be surprised how many large companies still use text-based interfaces for their entire systems because they're reliable and no training is required.
... and if you want the songs, buy them with the iTMS. Copy protected CDs are not allowed, IMHO.
I'm sure Microsoft put some time and effort into this, but I don't like it.
Its hard to put my finger on it, but its inconsistent (button size, text placement, icon usage, drop-shadows, etc.) and asymetrical.
Just IMHO.
I've replied elsewhere in this thread as well about USB and Firewire, but consider looking at Tom's Hardware's review of FW vs. USB for data transfer as well (FW trumps USB, not the other way around).
Watch CPU usage too.
;-)
Oh, and move your mouse around while doing the transfer
Hope you don't have USB speakers attached as well.
USB is a shared medium, and has some pretty neat traffic handling, but its still shared. Firewire is designed to be a dedicated host-to-host high-bandwidth data transfer medium.
That said (assuming your mom is a neophyte as you seem to be inferring), your mom would probably not have locked down the OpenBSD boxen properly and the experienced network admin would use firewalls (or something akin to them).
But yes, skills are much more important than software in many cases.
Gravity is an interesting one. We all know gravity happens, since we experience it all the time. Most of us have never experienced evolution however, making it much more fun to argue about.
Evolution however, we have a pretty good idea about how it does or would work.
Gravity on the other hand, while we know the basic rules, is a complete mystery in terms of the 'why' and 'how'. (If you think gravity is a moot point, you haven't been reading lately).
I haven't used MyISAM for years either. We converted for the better locking in InnoDB (although I was excited about Gemini for a while too).
:-)
InnoDB on raw LVM2 logical volumes is how I run things now. Works very well for me, YMMV.
help-mysql-sd7@mikebabcock.ca if you want to try it and aren't sure how. Sorry for the long E-mail address
I've been personally annoyed with Intel for pushing for more and more processing to be done solely by the core processor on PCs as well. I'm glad things are slowly moving back toward accelerated individual operations, partly because of GPUs of course (as the history of modern gaming goes at least).
CPU-driven soft modems irked me, soft sound cards were even worse, and all of a sudden you've got so many things being driven in software drivers that the CPU feels slower at 3GHz than my old 333.
Would you please list your video game writing credentials?
Thanks.
You don't need to fit it into RAM on a PS2, it has huge amounts of memory bandwidth for that reason.
It took a while for developpers to truly take advantage of the high bandwidth memory pipeline though. See God of War PS2 if you need a comparison in graphics quality.
I wish people had the comprehension of what this actually means.
... don't argue without doing your homework btw).
First off, a console's lifetime is at least two or three years. In 2008 or 2009, will people have HDTVs? Probably.
Secondly, there's nothing "high definition" about a blu-ray disc. Its just a higher-volume disc that could store a high definition movie (but so can VHS
The big deal for us is that 1) we get the potential for a lot more information being included on the game disc (no more second and third discs for a long time either), not just the ability to watch HD movies and TV off blu-ray discs we buy at the store.
IOW, you don't need HDTV to take advantage of the PS3 with a BD player, you happen to be buying it primarily to play games, remember?
Some people make business decisions without any thought to profits. This is folly.
Some people make business decisions without any thought to morals. This also is folly.
MySQL's largest support group has always been that running Linux and other OSS platforms. Touting a partnership with SCO as a good thing cannot be seen as anything but a slap in the face to this community. Not because SCO is closed-source, like Mac or Windows, but because SCO has openly stated that Linux is essentially either a forgery or illegal.
I care not if MySQL provides official support for SCO platforms. I do care if MySQL gives SCO any more publicity.
Just for those with no strong grasp of the English language, Synergy (and its adjective derivatives) is in fact a valid and well-accepted term to refer to things that work together to a common goal, or that work better together than they would alone.
It is used as a buzzword, of course, for "teams" and such, but I find it a very valid use when describing a number of (almost useless) processors that when shmucked together with some PPC glue work wonders.
Just my $0.02
... most of the screens at our local Galaxy Cinemas actually don't sound as good as my home theatre receiver + speakers. I don't have anything special, but I've tuned it properly, its a small room and its well balanced comparatively.
There are 2 big screens in town that are actually big enough and sound good enough (THX certified, etc.) to be worth paying for, but you have to show up for the biggest movie that week to see it on those screens.
Your network is only open to D.o.S. attacks if you use all secure protocols on it. If you wanted to be paranoid, you'd use IPSec on each wireless device and not allow unauthenticated traffic, but that's what WPA attempts to do anyway, almost.
Canadian military pilots fly with their gonads.
Outlook isn't good because your phone sync's to it, your phone sync's to it because everyone uses it.
Back to the original comment; why would anyone use it in the first place?
Sync'ing to different apps is *easy* for any decent programmer, its just a case of caring about the client.
... besides, a PS2 or XBox costs less than the license for Windows XP Pro.
I bought myself a PS2 and play some games using Cedega of course, but mostly in my living room now (which also has a decent home theatre setup).
Assuming the teacher dealing with computers is as educated in computers as an English teacher ought to be in English, this shouldn't be a reality.
I know it is, but that just requires that we explain our requirements to the public school boards that computer-educated teachers work with the computers for grade school students.
This is cloudier than you make it out to be.
IMHO, scientists and labourers may be immoral or even valid targets for war prisons, but are not in any means enemy combattants until they hold a weapon and aim it at their enemies.
What defines a civilian? They're the people with no means to defend themselves and probably no real interest in being active members of the war.
Are the singers who go to the front and sing for the soldiers combattants? They raise moral and troop effectiveness more than some of those in your list would.
He's providing a basic additional step, much like 3DES does to get around single-DES hackability.
;-)
You're still better off, IMHO, just encrypting signed messages to the recipient.
Britton and Merchant had been collecting blood from crocodiles but weren't careful ...
Port 25 connections aren't the issue, authenticated smtp is.
If ISPs used SMTP AUTH instead of unauthenticated SMTP, they'd be much better off.
You *have* to support port 25 connections for other mail servers to send your customers mail anyway.
I'm with you -- I'm tired of interviewing programmers who know how to 'code' in pet languages like Pascal but can't actually produce something functional on a real server for a real client.
... learning how to use a good shell and manipulate shell scripts is worthy of at least one semester.
Throw in a good Unix shell course while you're at it