Back in the 70s (when The Clapper first came out), we had a similar contraption that was basically a plastic whistle stuck to a hollow rubber ball. Squeeze the ball, the whistle whistles and the lamp turns on.
As a teenager I enjoyed it, but I'm sure the adults thought it got old really quickly.
High service uptime requires -- by definition -- high server uptime. (Very common in factory control systems which *might* have a fraction of one day per year to do system maintenance.)
True shared-disk active-active clustering systems (like what OpenVMS has had for almost 30 years) are a great boon to high service uptimes.
That smells suspiciously of a specialized process/factory automation system that required a custom interface card, the driver of which was written in "clever" MACRO-32 (the VAX/VMS assembly language).
There's still a 2GB limit on the size of a single process.
Not much of a problem if your server run multiple 1.5GB programs, but prevents one from opening huge video and image projects, and I've seen Firefox die from OOM when lots of tabs have loaded Web 2.0 sites chock full of JavaScript.
The WD TV Live does DLNA right out of the box. No need to install the Plex Media Server on my Linux box. The simple dlna server I've been using for two years works just fine.
One big reason I bought that WD unit is that the web page said, "plays DLNA". No need to hunt around or interpret ambiguous marketing-speak.
gradually slowing down, and gradually reentering the atmosphere over the course of days instead of hours
That means the craft would be traveling through the atmosphere at 17,000 miles an hour for many, many hours. Even at high altitude, that speed causes ginormous friction.
Anyway, gravity is trying to accelerate the fall, so you'd need lots of fuel to retard the pull of gravity.
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Back in the 70s (when The Clapper first came out), we had a similar contraption that was basically a plastic whistle stuck to a hollow rubber ball. Squeeze the ball, the whistle whistles and the lamp turns on.
As a teenager I enjoyed it, but I'm sure the adults thought it got old really quickly.
High service uptime requires -- by definition -- high server uptime. (Very common in factory control systems which *might* have a fraction of one day per year to do system maintenance.)
True shared-disk active-active clustering systems (like what OpenVMS has had for almost 30 years) are a great boon to high service uptimes.
That smells suspiciously of a specialized process/factory automation system that required a custom interface card, the driver of which was written in "clever" MACRO-32 (the VAX/VMS assembly language).
But can it see the hundreds of (legal) movies and TV series served via DLNA by my PC?
Yes, but only via an obscure plug-in. WD sells similar kit that does more than the Roku3 for only $25 more.
How about PAE?
There's still a 2GB limit on the size of a single process.
Not much of a problem if your server run multiple 1.5GB programs, but prevents one from opening huge video and image projects, and I've seen Firefox die from OOM when lots of tabs have loaded Web 2.0 sites chock full of JavaScript.
summary and thought polyvinyl chloride when reading "PVC"?
Maybe most people *want* to be dumbed down.... :(
That wasn't the tone of the original quote.
Why aren't you, a geek writer for a tech site, clever enough to do that approximating in your head?
But it is advertised as only doing streaming.
If a plugin allows it to connect to dlna servers, then shame on them for keeping it so well hidden.
Honest question: why roll your own when there are dozens of embedded Linux boxes that already do it all for $50-$100?
WD & Iomega use Linux in their media players.
A system that plays video (local, LAN-based and Internet streaming) is only $100.
Netflix works pretty well on Android, just pick up a nice Tegra tablet with an HDMI output and you're all set.
I bet it costs about the same as a dedicated media that does everything I want with a simple, muggle-friendly UI.
The WD TV Live does DLNA right out of the box. No need to install the Plex Media Server on my Linux box. The simple dlna server I've been using for two years works just fine.
One big reason I bought that WD unit is that the web page said, "plays DLNA". No need to hunt around or interpret ambiguous marketing-speak.
The Roku only does streaming media, which is useless for my *large* DVD collection.
In addition to the WD TV Live, I also have an Iomega 35045 (now discontinued) which I really like.
out there which have WiFi, Ethernet & USB, know CIFS, NFS & dlna and also have embedded Netflix, Vudu, etc clients.
I picked one up last week for $100. The dlna client -- which is all we have experience with -- works like a charm.
People pitched the timesharing computing model for a lot of reasons
And maybe the "PC on every desk" paradigm has it's own problems. But then, Ken Olsen is my hero, so I have my own biases...
I'm skeptical of Natural Rights. There is no Nature's God, no Creator and thus no One to bestow upon us more than a culture can establish for itself.
We have always had the natural right to make our own firearms in this country.
No. Our ancestors illegally used guns to assert that right against other people with guns trying to assert their dominance over us..
There's a big difference between "echoing current thought" and politicizing the court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937
Did the leaker provide a list of names, or just that there was a cheating investigation?
The matter was involving academic cheating ,... and if professors were aware of it DIRECTLY affects the credibility of the entire institution.
RTFA. The Deans weren't accused of cheating. Harvard was embarrassed at the scandal and hunted down the leaker, in the guise of "personnel matters".
and this time it passed constitutional muster due to FDR's appointments to the Supreme Court.
So what you're saying is that FDR politicized the Court?
gradually slowing down, and gradually reentering the atmosphere over the course of days instead of hours
That means the craft would be traveling through the atmosphere at 17,000 miles an hour for many, many hours. Even at high altitude, that speed causes ginormous friction.
Anyway, gravity is trying to accelerate the fall, so you'd need lots of fuel to retard the pull of gravity.