does anyone ever ask you about Jerry Cornelius, the Michael Moorcock fictional hero ? Every time I see your name I flash back to those books, the Cornelius Quartet.
I did not mean to imply the device was crappy, I meant the DiVX resolution of a movie limited to 1gb would not be good. The device is actually kinda cool, but not breakthrough as you say, and certainly not 'new' enough to make me drop my existing pda and spend that much cash.
Err 18 to 22 million is small time money as far as 'real business' is concerned. Don't get me wrong I am happy to see linux get a bigger market share and a foothold in business, but we do 18-22 million about every 60 minutes (projected year end revenues run in the 100 billions), and NO LINUX support vendor will come close to matching what M$ and IBM provide in personnel and equipment support. I hope things keep growing so that maybe someday it will happen but for now REAL BUSINESS, ie fortune 500 and better are NOT running their back offices on LINUX OR OSX, and as a former unix admin the thought of the general (L)user community having a unix/linux desktop terrifies me. With the release of 2003 for priemier customers the performance gap is going to grow. I hope that Linus going to work full time on the kernel for a year will help close the gap on high end scalability. On a side note we did tell SendMail where to go and are now moving to an OSS setup:)
I can hardly wait..That means I can watch a crappy resolution Divx on a screen the size of a matchbook for $600. While the techno geek in me drools to look at new hardware...This isn't going to find its way into my repetiore. I hope to see memory stick pro keep advancing but this seems like a product destined to flop anywhere BUT Japan, where they will BUY ANY electronic Gadget:)
we run a billion dollar a day system called Customer Relationship Management application on AIX. My director laughed for several minutes when I showed him some of the stories about this.
If this were to become enforceable, the financial chaos would be unimaginable. Try to envision all the crap they spouted about the millenia ACTUALLY coming true.....I honestly think we would just continue to use what we've got and deal with the penalties and licensing issue going forward...
needed for said rebuttals ? and where do I send the bill ? Otherwise welcome to the offshore hosting option, but of course they will make that illegal soon too. The US HAS its' problems, but I am still glad to live here, if we could just get someone to take King George off our hands we could 'disappear' A$$crap and go back to being a normally dysfunctional nation.
broadband market if things don't change soon. Uptake has dropped off, the number of providers has dropped of and the price is rising not falling..Go King George Go, by the time he has finished helping the industry, the US will be back to BBS's and 14.4 dial-up.
They are the best prepared for a disaster, by the virtue of being required to be open on the fourth day. Ever since the stock market crash, banks have exactly 3 day to recover from ANY disaster and open the doors or the federal government will step in and take over. The fines for failing to uphold any of the fed reg's is ENORMOUS. Both BofA and WellsFargo have used their plans successfully in the past. BofA in both SF during the quake, and in LA during the riots, and Welss Fargo's main headquarters burned. A good Contingency Operations Program is VERY EXPENSIVE, and requires many things beyond the obvious. Do your sales people have all their numbers in a rolodex on their desk, will they be able to function without it ?
there are other things included beyond just medical care, many of which we in the US pay for via individual taxes and use fees, sometimes more than once. Does Sweden have a national auto insurance plan as well ? That is by far my biggest insurance cost, and the one the is least likely to pay off, and THE ONE REQUIRED BY LAW:(
Having lived in a working nofault state, the move to California was a shocker. It doesn't matter how well I drive or really what kind of car I drive, but where I live that determines my auto insurance cost.
look like philanthropists. When Nike abandons a plant because of safety concerns, Wal-Mart negotiates a rent decrease and moves in...
I have been a netflix fan for a long time now, and Wal-Mart would have to pay ME to buy ANYTHING from them... Just check out www.corpwatch.org and search on WalMart, there's plenty to read...
at work we have 9 digit omni lock doors, I have the same problem, I can't actually remember the number unless I go thru the motions of punching it in:)
I've been part of a group that has hosted a lan party for many years. If the group gets too big it just fragments along age lines, so make sure there is a bar nearby, and access to good food. People will just clique up in small groups suitable to the game they are playing.
Finances are the killer, this is not a cheap undertaking so make sure you've got all the costs covered up front, OH and a dozen spare nics and patch cables:) If you do enough work ahead of time you can actually enjoy the party yourself, otherwise you run in circles just hosting...
I 2nd that notion, luckily my cd has 2 settings...performance and quiet..I run in quiet mode and it makes a difference, both in Db and in access speed though:(
read the warranty, most drives require to you activate the 52x function in some manual way or they run at 48X. The cd spec only covers up to 48X, any 52x running will generally void the warranty on the physical device. Gotta love the advertising line though, almost as bad as selling computers using P2P and music sharing as a 'feature'.
LOL the graffiti symbols bit made me snort out loud...I thought I was the only one to do that..
If I had not been forced to learn block letters due to police report req's I'd prolly be in the same boat, but while I was a deputy, they would not accept hand written reports in anything but block capitals, and I was too poor to afford a laptop at the time, 3 years of that and I can't hardly remember writing any other way:)
You are very correct about the 'thinking' about it part. I have the same problem writing cursive...Go Muscle Memory Go
I've got the same issue, I live near a naval weapons station and apparently they use most of those frequencies as part of some internal system...I just have to deal with it. The answer was of course a trip under the house and some gigbit ether to all the rooms. Not quite the portable I wanted but at least it stays connected, and thru-put of 100mbs is really nice.
write in block letters, this article is not saying the can't write, thy just can't write in stylish cursive with loops and swirls up to Miss Manners standards, which is hard to read anyways
few other items...winamp 3 - BIG BUSINESS, MASSIVE AOL integration and DRM control coming...
WINAMP 2.9x was a jewel, winamp 3 has a ton of useless stuff added and it stinks, I tried 3.x and then removed it and went back to 2.92 much better, plus it supports my nomad jukebox in a much better fashion.
This follows the pattern of another well to do company that made a great product...IQC, up until AOL decided it needed to be a suite of crap instead of a small IM client...ICQ 2000 blows chunks now as well...
AOL can rott out anything it touches, even a giant like timewarner:)
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does anyone ever ask you about Jerry Cornelius, the Michael Moorcock fictional hero ? Every time I see your name I flash back to those books, the Cornelius Quartet.
debacle ?
/also dA-'bÃk(l&)/
One entry found for debacle.
Main Entry: deÂbaÂcle
Pronunciation: dE-'bÃ-k&l, -'ba-; Ã'de-b&-k&l
Variant(s): also déÂbÃÂcle
Function: noun
Etymology: French débÃcle, from débÃcler to clear, from Middle French desbacler, from des- de- + bacler to block, perhaps from (assumed) Vulgar Latin bacculare, from Latin baculum staff
Date: 1802
1 : a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river
2 : a violent disruption (as of an army) : ROUT
3 a : a great disaster b : a complete failure : FIASCO
I did not mean to imply the device was crappy, I meant the DiVX resolution of a movie limited to 1gb would not be good. The device is actually kinda cool, but not breakthrough as you say, and certainly not 'new' enough to make me drop my existing pda and spend that much cash.
Err 18 to 22 million is small time money as far as 'real business' is concerned. Don't get me wrong I am happy to see linux get a bigger market share and a foothold in business, but we do 18-22 million about every 60 minutes (projected year end revenues run in the 100 billions), and NO LINUX support vendor will come close to matching what M$ and IBM provide in personnel and equipment support. I hope things keep growing so that maybe someday it will happen but for now REAL BUSINESS, ie fortune 500 and better are NOT running their back offices on LINUX OR OSX, and as a former unix admin the thought of the general (L)user community having a unix/linux desktop terrifies me. :)
With the release of 2003 for priemier customers the performance gap is going to grow. I hope that Linus going to work full time on the kernel for a year will help close the gap on high end scalability.
On a side note we did tell SendMail where to go and are now moving to an OSS setup
I can hardly wait..That means I can watch a crappy resolution Divx on a screen the size of a matchbook for $600. While the techno geek in me drools to look at new hardware...This isn't going to find its way into my repetiore. I hope to see memory stick pro keep advancing but this seems like a product destined to flop anywhere BUT Japan, where they will BUY ANY electronic Gadget :)
we run a billion dollar a day system called Customer Relationship Management application on AIX. My director laughed for several minutes when I showed him some of the stories about this.
If this were to become enforceable, the financial chaos would be unimaginable. Try to envision all the crap they spouted about the millenia ACTUALLY coming true.....I honestly think we would just continue to use what we've got and deal with the penalties and licensing issue going forward...
needed for said rebuttals ? and where do I send the bill ? Otherwise welcome to the offshore hosting option, but of course they will make that illegal soon too.
The US HAS its' problems, but I am still glad to live here, if we could just get someone to take King George off our hands we could 'disappear' A$$crap and go back to being a normally dysfunctional nation.
broadband market if things don't change soon. Uptake has dropped off, the number of providers has dropped of and the price is rising not falling..Go King George Go, by the time he has finished helping the industry, the US will be back to BBS's and 14.4 dial-up.
They are the best prepared for a disaster, by the virtue of being required to be open on the fourth day. Ever since the stock market crash, banks have exactly 3 day to recover from ANY disaster and open the doors or the federal government will step in and take over. The fines for failing to uphold any of the fed reg's is ENORMOUS. Both BofA and WellsFargo have used their plans successfully in the past. BofA in both SF during the quake, and in LA during the riots, and Welss Fargo's main headquarters burned. A good Contingency Operations Program is VERY EXPENSIVE, and requires many things beyond the obvious. Do your sales people have all their numbers in a rolodex on their desk, will they be able to function without it ?
Everybody know that is a fighting fool of a boy named Sioux ?
there are other things included beyond just medical care, many of which we in the US pay for via individual taxes and use fees, sometimes more than once. :(
Does Sweden have a national auto insurance plan as well ? That is by far my biggest insurance cost, and the one the is least likely to pay off, and THE ONE REQUIRED BY LAW
Having lived in a working nofault state, the move to California was a shocker. It doesn't matter how well I drive or really what kind of car I drive, but where I live that determines my auto insurance cost.
look like philanthropists. When Nike abandons a plant because of safety concerns, Wal-Mart negotiates a rent decrease and moves in...
I have been a netflix fan for a long time now, and Wal-Mart would have to pay ME to buy ANYTHING from them...
Just check out www.corpwatch.org and search on WalMart, there's plenty to read...
at work we have 9 digit omni lock doors, I have the same problem, I can't actually remember the number unless I go thru the motions of punching it in :)
I've been part of a group that has hosted a lan party for many years. If the group gets too big it just fragments along age lines, so make sure there is a bar nearby, and access to good food. People will just clique up in small groups suitable to the game they are playing.
:)
Finances are the killer, this is not a cheap undertaking so make sure you've got all the costs covered up front, OH and a dozen spare nics and patch cables
If you do enough work ahead of time you can actually enjoy the party yourself, otherwise you run in circles just hosting...
http://www.lanparty.com/parties/100.shtml
yes...RAR is a superior option, it currently does even cpio files and oldschool tar's
better compression, it will read gzip, tar, winzip and just about everything else...
when they pry my gun from my cold dead hands...
:)
If they come for me, you ALL will here about it
I 2nd that notion, luckily my cd has 2 settings...performance and quiet..I run in quiet mode and it makes a difference, both in Db and in access speed though :(
read the warranty, most drives require to you activate the 52x function in some manual way or they run at 48X. The cd spec only covers up to 48X, any 52x running will generally void the warranty on the physical device. Gotta love the advertising line though, almost as bad as selling computers using P2P and music sharing as a 'feature'.
LOL the graffiti symbols bit made me snort out loud...I thought I was the only one to do that..
:)
If I had not been forced to learn block letters due to police report req's I'd prolly be in the same boat, but while I was a deputy, they would not accept hand written reports in anything but block capitals, and I was too poor to afford a laptop at the time, 3 years of that and I can't hardly remember writing any other way
You are very correct about the 'thinking' about it part. I have the same problem writing cursive...Go Muscle Memory Go
I've got the same issue, I live near a naval weapons station and apparently they use most of those frequencies as part of some internal system...I just have to deal with it. The answer was of course a trip under the house and some gigbit ether to all the rooms. Not quite the portable I wanted but at least it stays connected, and thru-put of 100mbs is really nice.
write in block letters, this article is not saying the can't write, thy just can't write in stylish cursive with loops and swirls up to Miss Manners standards, which is hard to read anyways
MUCH less efficient, I really don't see the loss. Can anyone think of a good reason why we should mourn the loss of this...
Kind of like crying because 'Olde English' has gone the way of the dodo...
had anyways, and he claims he did no wrong, then why settle ? What else has he to lose ?
few other items...winamp 3 - BIG BUSINESS, MASSIVE AOL integration and DRM control coming...
:)
WINAMP 2.9x was a jewel, winamp 3 has a ton of useless stuff added and it stinks, I tried 3.x and then removed it and went back to 2.92
much better, plus it supports my nomad jukebox in a much better fashion.
This follows the pattern of another well to do company that made a great product...IQC, up until AOL decided it needed to be a suite of crap instead of a small IM client...ICQ 2000 blows chunks now as well...
AOL can rott out anything it touches, even a giant like timewarner