I'll admit that good profiling means advertising I like more. However, I'm with adbusters in that I don't particularly like being "sold" as much as I like being "informed" or "accomodated". They're free to send me coupons, but trust me, I'll check if it was on sale last week for less than the coupon gives me this week...
I would love to see that argued too, and its something the various free DVD player people have been trying to make a case for for a long time. However, the discussion always seems to end up on the technical side of "CSS isn't well implemented" instead of "CSS isn't a copy protection system at all".
The argument, IMHO (and IANAL) should go something like "Calling software copy protection doesn't make it so anymore than calling a tree a person." The courts need to make a point of forcing software (and other) companies to label their products accurately.
If you don't want to work for the person, pick a price that you're willing to grit your teeth and bear it for (like $10k perhaps) and if they say no then they turned you down, not the other way around.
I wasn't trying to infer that this cache memory was 'a good thing', but rather that this is where a lot of the performance numbers come from when comparing IDE and SCSI.
Rotational speed isn't for high speed data transfers in my case, its for fast seeks, and if you look at the specs on some of these drives (below), you'll see that you can get 3.2ms access times; and that makes the difference for database and web apps where you've got thousands (or millions) of small files all over the place on the drive. A fast IDE drive, like the Diamond Max below, has up to 8MB of buffer space for caching but a ~9ms seek time (4.17ms latency).
A 10% increase is pretty impressive, considering the increases we used to get out of Intel (2%ish)...
For what its worth, I think it bears mentionning that a PR2600 from AMD is running nowhere near 2600MHz and is still holding its own against 3GHz parts from Intel. Thats some impressive engineering folks...
How often do the programmers who work on things like vehicle modeling and chemical mock-ups work with someone like 3dlabs to explain what they want support for instead of just relying on extensions since they probably always use exactly the same hardware (SGI)?
I assumed that the IR would not pass through ceilings or windows because of reasons given earlier (treated glass, etc.)
PS, wouldn't UV work?:)
Possible encryption work-around: 1) All equipment handed out in the office has a software-settable key value that is entered by the sysadmin before giving it to the user; a key value that can be deleted or added but not viewed (requires well-audited firmware). This allows for equipment that works on multiple networks, of course.
I'm surprised theatres still allow the carrying of any personal effects into the theatre at all; giving out locker spaces with your movie ticket (or charging an extra $1 for it) to put anything you brought with you in would make sense, until people bring in fibre optic cameras:)
The problem was that the library in question (at my.mp3.com) was stored on mp3.com's servers, not your computer, so they were liable for distribution, since they _didn't_ own those CDs. If the person who owns the CD were the one sharing it, it would be a different story.
Its hard to argue that fair use rights apply to the physical CD and not just the music though...
If you didn't know the lyrics were too explicit before previewing the album, you're not very aware of the artist at all...... all the more reason to have previewing too:)
What about a close approximation to not needing cables? If you had a ceiling antenna in each area like an 'eye in the sky' camera with wide field of reception, you could have desk-mounted antennae that just face upward...?
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I'll admit that good profiling means advertising I like more. However, I'm with adbusters in that I don't particularly like being "sold" as much as I like being "informed" or "accomodated". They're free to send me coupons, but trust me, I'll check if it was on sale last week for less than the coupon gives me this week ...
I would love to see that argued too, and its something the various free DVD player people have been trying to make a case for for a long time. However, the discussion always seems to end up on the technical side of "CSS isn't well implemented" instead of "CSS isn't a copy protection system at all".
The argument, IMHO (and IANAL) should go something like "Calling software copy protection doesn't make it so anymore than calling a tree a person." The courts need to make a point of forcing software (and other) companies to label their products accurately.
It pays to remember that the 'other guy' is probably a lot like you; he'll lose / leave jobs, get new ones, move on, try to make a buck, and so on.
:)
Good post
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The Friends' characters have normal relationships?
... I need to go tell all the normal people I know that they're not anymore.
Wow
If you don't want to work for the person, pick a price that you're willing to grit your teeth and bear it for (like $10k perhaps) and if they say no then they turned you down, not the other way around.
There's a protocol for that; its called multicast. It works great, if ISPs would allow it ...
The EU version also means a broader source of tax income, since multiple companies are able to play (and quite possibly, more jobs).
I wasn't trying to infer that this cache memory was 'a good thing', but rather that this is where a lot of the performance numbers come from when comparing IDE and SCSI.
It'll be like watching Ultima Online; it may work out for them, or they may get overloaded and not have been ready for it afterall ...
Does this make anyone else think of Episode 2 (Star Wars, for the slow people)? :)
Maxtor Atlas 15k RPM SCSI drive
Maxtor DiamondMax 7200 RPM IDE drive
And its probably relatively cheap to put those 4 and 8Meg memory buffers on them to make them perform really well in gaming-type situations.
5 x 10k drives in an SCA container (3 x 5 1/4" bays in size) with two side fans and two rear blowers generates a _lot_ of heat :-).
http://www.elanvital.com.tw for where I get equipment.
Submit a request at bugzilla.mozilla.org ...
I'd love to see a performance / power dissipation graph.
Or a performance / power / price graph (3d).
A 10% increase is pretty impressive, considering the increases we used to get out of Intel (2%ish) ...
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For what its worth, I think it bears mentionning that a PR2600 from AMD is running nowhere near 2600MHz and is still holding its own against 3GHz parts from Intel. Thats some impressive engineering folks
How often do the programmers who work on things like vehicle modeling and chemical mock-ups work with someone like 3dlabs to explain what they want support for instead of just relying on extensions since they probably always use exactly the same hardware (SGI)?
A number of methodologies have been tried that actually increase productivity and decrease errors per line of code.
A recent article about coding firms in India points out that they talk in single errors per thousand lines of production code, not per hundred.
I assumed that the IR would not pass through ceilings or windows because of reasons given earlier (treated glass, etc.)
:)
PS, wouldn't UV work?
Possible encryption work-around:
1) All equipment handed out in the office has a software-settable key value that is entered by the sysadmin before giving it to the user; a key value that can be deleted or added but not viewed (requires well-audited firmware). This allows for equipment that works on multiple networks, of course.
Or more likely, "I'll give a million dollars to the first person who tells me who's responsible for this!"
I'm surprised theatres still allow the carrying of any personal effects into the theatre at all; giving out locker spaces with your movie ticket (or charging an extra $1 for it) to put anything you brought with you in would make sense, until people bring in fibre optic cameras :)
The problem was that the library in question (at my.mp3.com) was stored on mp3.com's servers, not your computer, so they were liable for distribution, since they _didn't_ own those CDs. If the person who owns the CD were the one sharing it, it would be a different story.
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Its hard to argue that fair use rights apply to the physical CD and not just the music though
If you didn't know the lyrics were too explicit before previewing the album, you're not very aware of the artist at all ... ... all the more reason to have previewing too :)
What about a close approximation to not needing cables? If you had a ceiling antenna in each area like an 'eye in the sky' camera with wide field of reception, you could have desk-mounted antennae that just face upward ...?
... running in parallel to complete one overall task would be a closer definition.
A web cluster is a bunch of webservers all serving the same / slightly different things working together from the same database / files / etc.
A "cluster" computer would be a large set of computers that all act as one big computer.