This is interesting. The financier in Yugoslavia paid out $5.15MM USD to a couple of chess players. Two things to note as to why this should have been allowed:
1. $3.65MM would have come back to the US to be spent, taxed, etc. etc. Plus, it would have been easier to get that money once you let him back in!
2. I can't imagine that a chess event in that land of the Yugo is really that big of a money maker (I could be wrong), so I would assume that the promoter lost money on the event. If we had more of these contests where Americans win and the locals lose their shirt, we could drive foreign economies into the ground!
I had only been in the PC-building business for a few months when the Pentiums came out. I was always really nonchalant when it came to building computers and was certainly not gentle. However, everything I had built up to that point either had the CPU soldered onto the motherboard or someone else had done it because I had never seen a separate CPU.
When the first Pentium-based system arrived at my workstation to build I mounted the motherboard to the case and then put the CPU in place, but it didn't go in very well. I pulled it out and bent the pins back into place and put it in again. It felt like it went in okay.
I took the little arm thing and pulled down to secure it in place and heard a sound, but I thought it was okay... I had never done this before.
I put in the cards, drives and memory and fired the system up... blank screen and then... POP!!! and some smoke.
I didn't realize the CPU had a dot that corresponded with a notched corner indicating how to put the thing into place. From then on I started paying attention to things like that.
The Pentium made me mature as a technician... for about a week; then it was a contest to see how far we could launch them in the air. (kidding)
I agree with most of the posters who say "what's new" regardless of the technology behind this. X, VNC, Remote Desktop, Mainframe sessions, etc. etc. this has all been done before in one way or another. I also agree with security problems that people talk about. With that, I don't see this really working for the average Jane or Joe.
However, this type of setup in an enterprise would be great. I read a story (can't find it anymore) about how Sun has saved a great deal of money on Real Estate by implementing a system where an employee logs on to a workstation with a smart card in any of their offices worldwide and has access to the system as they normally would. Okay, not very novel. But, what also follows them is their telephone extension over VoIP. Now we are talking.
What they have done is created an environment where they now have 1.5 people to every workstation and were able to eliminate thousands of square feet of unnecessary rented property. This is an example of technology truly helping the overall bottom line of the company.
It makes sense too, if a person is out of the office, traveling, etc. etc. why does their cube need to take up space? Very cool idea.
Again, this type of moving from one system to another in the real world might not make sense, but for businesses it could save millions in technology support and systems costs and, in this case, real estate.
It seems to me that there will always be two markets; device and PC-based. Even if MCE is a pre-packaged, Microsoft deal, it still involves a desktop computer which not everyone has, or even, *gulp*, wants!
Some people will always like to be able to control what is going on and configure their own system. Others will want nothing to do with configuration of any kind and will simply want it to work. Until M$ spins the MCE off into a device or integrates it with X-Box or whatever, the PC'ness of it will remain its barrier of entry to the mainstream.
I deal with computers all day long and when I get time to watch TV, the last thing I want to think about are computers.
This is not a dig on RFID or other tracking technologies. I believe they have their place and if they can help streamline operations, great. However, it would seem in the case of Delta, or pretty much any other airline than Southwest, they may want to invest that money in infrastructure upgrades, pilot salaries, fuel spec buys, etc. etc. It just doesn't seem like an RFID project like this money well spent at this time.
I can't find the episode, but they had a bin for Beta (full), VHS (full), and an empty one marked DVD. I can't recall the context but it was on the Simpson's so I had to post it.
If those IE malware guys were smart, the next piece of malicious code would perform stealth uninstall of Mozilla/Firefox/Opera and set IE back to the default browser...
I work with his son-in-law, but didn't know it for a long time. We went on a business meeting a few weeks back and he was driving Bob's truck which had ASCII on the License plate and the holder said "Yes, I am the father of ASCII".
I remember back when Napster and Kazaa were cool. I was looking for some really obscure old Rap song and I found it. I had previously found it on an import CD on cdnow.com. The CD cost at least $40USD. I told my GF "I don't see what all the fuss is, this service just saved me $40!"...
err... that was when I realized the problem with the P2P music sharing... if I *really* wanted to hear that song, in the past, I might actually have shelled out the 40 clams... but now I didn't have to.
First Post, Bitches... (for me anyway... been lurkin for like 5 years... yikes, I've wasted my life)
How do I figure this into my points of failure?
I guess it doesn't change my "point of failure" count any.
Server = Single point of failure Network box = Single point of failure
Combo box = Single point of failure
Cosmic...
(I realize that you don't generally use just one blade server so its probably not a SPF, but humor me here, I'm tired)
In most systems I can lose my server or my network appliance. Now IBM and Cisco have given me the ability to lose them both at the same time. Hooray!
I realize that the Tivoli provisioning software can reroute traffic, but just because I lose my network box doesn't mean I should also lose my server. Seems like a waste, but the Press Release... err... story didn't give great details.
Perhaps I am wrong here, but this seems wrong somehow. Or maybe I AM looking at it all wrong and if every machine had network infrastructure built in all of the naughty bits of network hardware could go away... hmmm... a better world may still exist.
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I can't stand it... it is Internet, not internet. Big "I"... upper case "I". Internet. Internet is a formal name, like Joe or Prauge.
This is interesting. The financier in Yugoslavia paid out $5.15MM USD to a couple of chess players. Two things to note as to why this should have been allowed:
1. $3.65MM would have come back to the US to be spent, taxed, etc. etc. Plus, it would have been easier to get that money once you let him back in!
2. I can't imagine that a chess event in that land of the Yugo is really that big of a money maker (I could be wrong), so I would assume that the promoter lost money on the event. If we had more of these contests where Americans win and the locals lose their shirt, we could drive foreign economies into the ground!
Long live Chess as Economic Warfare!
I thought Dell said they had nothing to do with the VAR that was loading Linspire and selling the PCs in Europe other than selling them machines?
Story Here
I had only been in the PC-building business for a few months when the Pentiums came out. I was always really nonchalant when it came to building computers and was certainly not gentle. However, everything I had built up to that point either had the CPU soldered onto the motherboard or someone else had done it because I had never seen a separate CPU.
When the first Pentium-based system arrived at my workstation to build I mounted the motherboard to the case and then put the CPU in place, but it didn't go in very well. I pulled it out and bent the pins back into place and put it in again. It felt like it went in okay.
I took the little arm thing and pulled down to secure it in place and heard a sound, but I thought it was okay... I had never done this before.
I put in the cards, drives and memory and fired the system up... blank screen and then... POP!!! and some smoke.
I didn't realize the CPU had a dot that corresponded with a notched corner indicating how to put the thing into place. From then on I started paying attention to things like that.
The Pentium made me mature as a technician... for about a week; then it was a contest to see how far we could launch them in the air. (kidding)
If the combination of trains (heavy and light rail) and buses that I spend 4 hours a day on had Wi-Fi, I could actually:
1. Reduce my work day by 4 hours, allowing for the commute time to be used productively and spending less time in the office
or
2. Add 4 billable hours to my timesheet if I am a contract developer with VPN access (which I am).
I agree with most of the posters who say "what's new" regardless of the technology behind this. X, VNC, Remote Desktop, Mainframe sessions, etc. etc. this has all been done before in one way or another. I also agree with security problems that people talk about. With that, I don't see this really working for the average Jane or Joe.
However, this type of setup in an enterprise would be great. I read a story (can't find it anymore) about how Sun has saved a great deal of money on Real Estate by implementing a system where an employee logs on to a workstation with a smart card in any of their offices worldwide and has access to the system as they normally would. Okay, not very novel. But, what also follows them is their telephone extension over VoIP. Now we are talking.
What they have done is created an environment where they now have 1.5 people to every workstation and were able to eliminate thousands of square feet of unnecessary rented property. This is an example of technology truly helping the overall bottom line of the company.
It makes sense too, if a person is out of the office, traveling, etc. etc. why does their cube need to take up space? Very cool idea.
Again, this type of moving from one system to another in the real world might not make sense, but for businesses it could save millions in technology support and systems costs and, in this case, real estate.
My company stopped paying for broadband when wi-fi caught on in the neighborhood...
whooops, not what the poster meant...
It seems to me that there will always be two markets; device and PC-based. Even if MCE is a pre-packaged, Microsoft deal, it still involves a desktop computer which not everyone has, or even, *gulp*, wants!
Some people will always like to be able to control what is going on and configure their own system. Others will want nothing to do with configuration of any kind and will simply want it to work. Until M$ spins the MCE off into a device or integrates it with X-Box or whatever, the PC'ness of it will remain its barrier of entry to the mainstream.
I deal with computers all day long and when I get time to watch TV, the last thing I want to think about are computers.
Well, if VoIP is supposed to replace POTS, it stands to reason caller-id spoofing would be included...
You can spoof POTS caller-ID as it is with an Orange Box, as well as many other ways, including from a Nokia Cellphone.
These guys, Halo Networks, tried to do this with planes... I just love the ingenuity that comes from a lack of rational thinking!
No, I did not RTFA...
This is not a dig on RFID or other tracking technologies. I believe they have their place and if they can help streamline operations, great. However, it would seem in the case of Delta, or pretty much any other airline than Southwest, they may want to invest that money in infrastructure upgrades, pilot salaries, fuel spec buys, etc. etc. It just doesn't seem like an RFID project like this money well spent at this time.
I can't find the episode, but they had a bin for Beta (full), VHS (full), and an empty one marked DVD. I can't recall the context but it was on the Simpson's so I had to post it.
If those IE malware guys were smart, the next piece of malicious code would perform stealth uninstall of Mozilla/Firefox/Opera and set IE back to the default browser...
I work with his son-in-law, but didn't know it for a long time. We went on a business meeting a few weeks back and he was driving Bob's truck which had ASCII on the License plate and the holder said "Yes, I am the father of ASCII".
I remember back when Napster and Kazaa were cool. I was looking for some really obscure old Rap song and I found it. I had previously found it on an import CD on cdnow.com. The CD cost at least $40USD. I told my GF "I don't see what all the fuss is, this service just saved me $40!"...
err... that was when I realized the problem with the P2P music sharing... if I *really* wanted to hear that song, in the past, I might actually have shelled out the 40 clams... but now I didn't have to.
First Post, Bitches... (for me anyway... been lurkin for like 5 years... yikes, I've wasted my life)
How do I figure this into my points of failure?
I guess it doesn't change my "point of failure" count any.
Server = Single point of failure
Network box = Single point of failure
Combo box = Single point of failure
Cosmic...
(I realize that you don't generally use just one blade server so its probably not a SPF, but humor me here, I'm tired)
In most systems I can lose my server or my network appliance. Now IBM and Cisco have given me the ability to lose them both at the same time. Hooray!
I realize that the Tivoli provisioning software can reroute traffic, but just because I lose my network box doesn't mean I should also lose my server. Seems like a waste, but the Press Release... err... story didn't give great details.
Perhaps I am wrong here, but this seems wrong somehow. Or maybe I AM looking at it all wrong and if every machine had network infrastructure built in all of the naughty bits of network hardware could go away... hmmm... a better world may still exist.
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