A counter example: cell phones. Back when they were expensive, had short battery lives, and lousy coverage, I could actually go to a movie, a park, or a religious service without being called. Sure, its nice to be able to sit on hold with AAA if my car dies on the highway, but I could do with being a little less accessible the rest of the time.
Make it for a car radio, and enable multiple station recording. Would hit the RIAA though, as then there's no more need for CD players...Wait, ClearChannel took care of that problem!
Right now, adding a third party would almost guarantee Bush stays in power. I'd rather it wait until after this election. Then, having more than 3 parties would be good. We've seen via Bush how 2 parties skew viewpoints to the extremes.
It works, and it works well. And it's something that is much easier and elegant to use than, say, CORBA. Just because it's not as elegant as.NET is like saying lemons aren't as nice to eat as oranges, much less apples..NET is targeted at running multiple languages on a single platform, java is targeted at running a single language on multiple platforms. Minor different in target audiences.
I'd make the argument that if you're low-end hosting in that realm, you're probably not a serious business anyways, and the cost of your shutdown won't be huge. Seriously, the lack of SLAs at that point almost guarantee that you'd be down significant amounts of time. So, how would anyone know whether it was just a normal outage or FBI activity?
(That's said tongue-in-cheek, for those with their humor filter on high)
Don't recall the exact name, but ran on MS DOS 4.x, or PC Dos, or DR DOS. Might have been called VirtuaDesk386... Was a long long time ago, and worked, at the time... (Maybe DeskPro386? Man there are sure a lot of cobwebs up here....)
Use aluminum foil instead. It's a radiant barrier, and properly grounded, can also make a Faraday cage or wikipedia link out of your house. (ie, reduces energy consumption and reduces EM energy emanations from passing into/out of your house, resulting, supposedly, in lower health risks as well.
This (usually baseless) need to have more and more power on a laptop - and to pay top dollar for it - has to be the marketing triumph of the century (well, maybe after bottled water). My old 400MHz IBM still does everything I ask of it, and if I had the choice I'd rather double the battery life than the processor speed.
To be honest, I'd have to say it's not baseless need for more people than you might think. There are a number of things I'd like a laptop for:
Replacement for my desktop, allowing my desktop to become a server
A surrogate for my other desktop, freeing me to work from living room, and hence, keeping the wife much happier... (Married folks will understand this one;)
A lightweight solution to carry with me to handle photography needs on the road (storage, editing, and sending)
Nice compartmentalized means of handling my personal data as compared to work data
There are others, but these should be a nice top 4 reasons on why a "powerful" laptop is a nice thing to have.
This is assuming maximum transmission speeds across a single bus. I would hope that TB of data would be on properly organized RAID arrays, and thus would span across multiple SCSI buses, and thus, creating a mirror of said data, while not cheap, should not take on the order of more than a couple of hours, provided hardware is available.
Place the cost of that against the cost of shutting you down, and it's pretty obvious which one you want. Then again, I'm astounded that the FBI would shut down a business.
1) I seem to recall there's no such thing as maximum entropy. There's just the law that for any closed system, entropy never decreases. (Third law of Thermo? It's been waay too long ago...;)
2) The eventual cold death/ever expanding argument. I think they're still trying to figure out which way the universe is going to go.
I'm always on the lookout for something different in the SF world. This review appears well done enough by not being all rosy, and instead focuses both on the pluses and minuses of the work. It has convinced me to at least look at the work for myself.
Thanks!
Easy enough to decompile any code, honestly. If it runs on current common hardware, it can be decompiled, and you're done, although the refactoring may be hell.
That's what OO is for. Properly designed and architected, there will never be a question about what you're getting back. (Since you should never see a data member outside of its class.)
While that still seems farfetched, I'd be somewhat concerned about computer glitches or hacking causing something similar. Since these things have to be controlled via some sort of transmission (last time I looked, it wasn't possible to run a cable up to a satellite;) unlike missiles and the like which are all hardwired. And transmissions can be beamed from anywhere with a line of sight.
Hummingbird really does (or did) have a great product. I do recall having to read the manual 2 or 3 times to finally figure out how to get it properly installed, and another time to figure out the CL flags to make it connect. Once set up, it's great. (Small solace in your situation). It took 3 guys about 4 days to get Hummingbird properly setup the first time (from us knowing nothing about it initially). Also a couple of calls to their tech support line (turns out a CL flag was missing from the manual, very helpful). This was with Exceed 5.x (so it was a while ago). Good luck.
A little premature on that. Longhorn, even if they hurried it and "removed" all excess "new" functionality that was promised, still probably wouldn't be out the door for a year or more. (Gee, sort of reminds me of what they did with "Cairo")
This proposed law is so idiotic, I don't even know where to start. (Then again, it being idiotic doesn't appear to dim its chances of passing, logic was never a mainstay of politics). It seems to me that such laws that are a sweeping brush to deal with the issues raised by a few by penalizing everyone are unjust. Hopefully New Mexico will get a dose of that "uncommon" sense and soundly vote this down.
Quick fixes are almost never that, and this one appears to not be quick, easy, or inexpensive.
In the end however, this particular case is most likely going to be a non-event. DDR RAM is the common RAM of the moment, and Intel just announced a newer, claimed to be much faster, memory model that completely bypasses all Rambus patents. So, Rambus may be awarded its patent... to effectively nothing.
As for the SCO case, I don't think so. SCO is claiming sets of 2-4 lines of code in more than 700 lines of code in Linux are "infringing" copyright! Are those infringing bits of code if-else clauses with "return null"? (I haven't checked the source, FYI)
I mean that's really funny as the same goes for lots of.h files again with only a couple of lines each out of hundreds.
I don't think the equivalent of copying a phrase or a sentence fragment out of a book is going to hold water in court, at least I hope not, not when the spanning work is several 1000% larger than the alleged "copied" item. If it does, every written work currently published is a copyright infringement on previous works, as I'm sure there's a "copied" phrase or sentence fragment that can be matched with some other work in every "new" work.
Naah, 3.51 had some issues, NT4.0 had serious issues until SP1, and then still had issues. Actually, all NT based code has major security issues - hence the forced upgrade to Longhorn...except that's not ready yet.... Whoopsie!
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Actually wouldn't this be awesome to test multi-process/multi-threaded applications for cheap?
Make it for a car radio, and enable multiple station recording. Would hit the RIAA though, as then there's no more need for CD players...Wait, ClearChannel took care of that problem!
Right now, adding a third party would almost guarantee Bush stays in power. I'd rather it wait until after this election. Then, having more than 3 parties would be good. We've seen via Bush how 2 parties skew viewpoints to the extremes.
It works, and it works well. And it's something that is much easier and elegant to use than, say, CORBA. Just because it's not as elegant as .NET is like saying lemons aren't as nice to eat as oranges, much less apples. .NET is targeted at running multiple languages on a single platform, java is targeted at running a single language on multiple platforms. Minor different in target audiences.
Because it could be interesting then?
I'd make the argument that if you're low-end hosting in that realm, you're probably not a serious business anyways, and the cost of your shutdown won't be huge. Seriously, the lack of SLAs at that point almost guarantee that you'd be down significant amounts of time. So, how would anyone know whether it was just a normal outage or FBI activity?
(That's said tongue-in-cheek, for those with their humor filter on high)Sarcasm doesn't transfer well without the obligatory ";)". My apoligies for forgetting this important detail!
Don't recall the exact name, but ran on MS DOS 4.x, or PC Dos, or DR DOS. Might have been called VirtuaDesk386... Was a long long time ago, and worked, at the time... (Maybe DeskPro386? Man there are sure a lot of cobwebs up here....)
Personally, I think the Patriot Act will either be rescinded, or thoroughly gutted within 12 months.
Use aluminum foil instead. It's a radiant barrier, and properly grounded, can also make a Faraday cage or wikipedia link out of your house. (ie, reduces energy consumption and reduces EM energy emanations from passing into/out of your house, resulting, supposedly, in lower health risks as well.
- Replacement for my desktop, allowing my desktop to become a server
- A surrogate for my other desktop, freeing me to work from living room, and hence, keeping the wife much happier... (Married folks will understand this one;)
- A lightweight solution to carry with me to handle photography needs on the road (storage, editing, and sending)
- Nice compartmentalized means of handling my personal data as compared to work data
There are others, but these should be a nice top 4 reasons on why a "powerful" laptop is a nice thing to have.LVD SCSI: 3.5 hours
U160: 1.75 hours
U320: 45 min
This is assuming maximum transmission speeds across a single bus. I would hope that TB of data would be on properly organized RAID arrays, and thus would span across multiple SCSI buses, and thus, creating a mirror of said data, while not cheap, should not take on the order of more than a couple of hours, provided hardware is available.
Place the cost of that against the cost of shutting you down, and it's pretty obvious which one you want. Then again, I'm astounded that the FBI would shut down a business.1) I seem to recall there's no such thing as maximum entropy. There's just the law that for any closed system, entropy never decreases. (Third law of Thermo? It's been waay too long ago...;)
2) The eventual cold death/ever expanding argument. I think they're still trying to figure out which way the universe is going to go.
If only the universe were as simple as E=mc2I'm always on the lookout for something different in the SF world. This review appears well done enough by not being all rosy, and instead focuses both on the pluses and minuses of the work. It has convinced me to at least look at the work for myself.
Thanks!
Easy enough to decompile any code, honestly. If it runs on current common hardware, it can be decompiled, and you're done, although the refactoring may be hell.
That's what OO is for. Properly designed and architected, there will never be a question about what you're getting back. (Since you should never see a data member outside of its class.)
While that still seems farfetched, I'd be somewhat concerned about computer glitches or hacking causing something similar. Since these things have to be controlled via some sort of transmission (last time I looked, it wasn't possible to run a cable up to a satellite;) unlike missiles and the like which are all hardwired. And transmissions can be beamed from anywhere with a line of sight.
$67M total, more like a wrist slap given with a feather.
Hummingbird really does (or did) have a great product. I do recall having to read the manual 2 or 3 times to finally figure out how to get it properly installed, and another time to figure out the CL flags to make it connect. Once set up, it's great. (Small solace in your situation). It took 3 guys about 4 days to get Hummingbird properly setup the first time (from us knowing nothing about it initially). Also a couple of calls to their tech support line (turns out a CL flag was missing from the manual, very helpful). This was with Exceed 5.x (so it was a while ago). Good luck.
A little premature on that. Longhorn, even if they hurried it and "removed" all excess "new" functionality that was promised, still probably wouldn't be out the door for a year or more. (Gee, sort of reminds me of what they did with "Cairo")
This proposed law is so idiotic, I don't even know where to start. (Then again, it being idiotic doesn't appear to dim its chances of passing, logic was never a mainstay of politics). It seems to me that such laws that are a sweeping brush to deal with the issues raised by a few by penalizing everyone are unjust. Hopefully New Mexico will get a dose of that "uncommon" sense and soundly vote this down.
Quick fixes are almost never that, and this one appears to not be quick, easy, or inexpensive.In the end however, this particular case is most likely going to be a non-event. DDR RAM is the common RAM of the moment, and Intel just announced a newer, claimed to be much faster, memory model that completely bypasses all Rambus patents. So, Rambus may be awarded its patent... to effectively nothing.
As for the SCO case, I don't think so. SCO is claiming sets of 2-4 lines of code in more than 700 lines of code in Linux are "infringing" copyright! Are those infringing bits of code if-else clauses with "return null"? (I haven't checked the source, FYI) I mean that's really funny as the same goes for lots of .h files again with only a couple of lines each out of hundreds.
I don't think the equivalent of copying a phrase or a sentence fragment out of a book is going to hold water in court, at least I hope not, not when the spanning work is several 1000% larger than the alleged "copied" item. If it does, every written work currently published is a copyright infringement on previous works, as I'm sure there's a "copied" phrase or sentence fragment that can be matched with some other work in every "new" work.
Naah, 3.51 had some issues, NT4.0 had serious issues until SP1, and then still had issues. Actually, all NT based code has major security issues - hence the forced upgrade to Longhorn...except that's not ready yet.... Whoopsie!