Hmm, hibernate in a bunker for the first 2 weeks after this takes off (see what i did there?), and then enjoy the world filled with far fewer dumb people...
Or, Amazon can pay sales takes. It has the ability to do so. This is just another example of a massive corp walking on everyone.
Hmm i thought most state tax codes required you to report that you bought items without sales tax, and pay the sales tax on those items? not that anyone does that, but hey it's not amazon breaking the law there.
No, they sell where they have data centers, the purchasers telecommute there, and then if they are required by state laws pay taxes on their purchase.
I agree about the state of amazon though, but the above applies to newegg, tiger direct, itunes, hulu plus, etc.
an no ability to run 3rd party tools for their order of 100 unit per year, or open that spreadsheet with the VBA macro in it, or...... yea business PC == windows, MAc if you are an media firm.
hehe "a couple of hardrives" hehe, each "job" at work generates a few 100MB of data that needs to be stored, archived, and transfered... I do 3-4 "jobs" a week, so around 5TB of data a week. I work with 3 other people doing just about the same... so no "a couple of harddisks" isn't going to cut it.
"NO!!!! MR. PRESIDENT!!!!! thats the one that launches all the missiles. Well which one gets me a latte? The other big red button! Ohh, who designed this?"
Hmm VBA macros work in open office now? how about pulling in vendor DLLs? have a 3D cad package with feature parity to AutoCAD LT(including opening most normal cad file. sldprt, dwg, dxf, etc)?
For the web server and databases, i'f with you, but the desktop for engineering will be MS windows for a long time to come. I think your deffinition of "good server" and mine are different, I need to load 5MB-30MB excel sheets, 2MB-2000MB cad files, and so do a number of other people all day without noticiing that they are anywhere else other than locally. Autocad hangs when samba takes a short nap to handle someone else's request. It's very very annoying.
So yes, they will be windows. I'm not even sure there are MAC clients for most of the vendor selection tools i use daily.
P.S. I'd love to use linux at work, I'd be able to get more done, but only if everyone else supported it, and I'm beholden to 3rd parties that have little interest in writing a linux client for me, when i'm 0.00001% of their sales this year.
5) Are connections of sufficient throughput and latency even locally available? There's no mention of things like: mail use, type of work performed, etc. What if they do CAD work? What if they do a lot of email with attached documents? Graphic or sound work? These are use cases which are horrible for cloud computing.
YOu have just explained why I'm not likely to ever see my data in the "cloud", hell, our own server across the room is too slow for a lot of CAD models, even a 5400RPM harddrive is sometimes. Load a 600MB part into an assembly of 10 of them, or even just the one 600MB on into a 200MB assembly, now multiply that by 5, and all of a sudden you just about cannot get enough bandwidth on your server. Same goes for those people in video or audio production.
Well google has lots of my info, and i really wish i could "tag" places on maps. so that searches like "work to grocery store to home" would work. Or be able to store 2-3 different routes for any starting and ending point combination in google, and do "target on my way home from work", "bank on the way to grandmas", etc.
I'd happily trade some more info to google(i use gmail, reader, search, youtube, already)to get better routing for new places on maps.
and get the questions from where? the question bank that the cheaters have?
This prof has a pile of lab assistants, and TAs and yet the 7 people total can't write a newish 100 question test 3 times a semester... Yes i know that the TAs and whatnot are students as well, but few of them are undergrads taking 18 credits. They are taking 4 grad credits.
I think the publishers even say that the question banks are for "inspiration" or some-such, I'm not really seeing the problem here, other than multiple choice tests are easy to cheat on. Make them short essay questions and you'll do a much better job of testing.
switches the cgroup of each ${SHELL} to it's own group, making all command run from it in the same group as the terminal. Spawn a new term, and get a new cgroup.
It's been a very very long time since I've managed to make audio stutter on linux, and that was on a P100 that needed 95% cpu just to decode an mp3. ohh maybe i managed to make it stutter running dbench on the same drive my music is on. but that's about it.
hmm, show me per app audio adjustment from a central control interface using ALSA. Not saying i like pulse, but that is the only feature that I'm at all interested in.
not multiseat support kills using pulseaudio for me. I need 3 seats all working at the same time. "htpc/wife's instance", mpd (server run as a seperate user so that not everyone has the ability to play with shit they shouldn't, and my desktop instance.
Until he gets his head out of his ass, and starts supporting the systemwide server, I'm not really going to touch it.
I have a multi user OS, and i like using it that way.
except some people (*cough*unbuntufolks*cough*) don't like to use the terminal... so the kernel patch might be better, although wouldn't all gui apps have the same [p]tty?
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I would think fusion, or fission(which ever you want) would sort out the energy problem.
Hmm, hibernate in a bunker for the first 2 weeks after this takes off (see what i did there?), and then enjoy the world filled with far fewer dumb people...
is your motherboard a useful* form factor?
*Useful: uatx, mini-itx or smaller?
could you provide a list of modern games(last 3-5 years) that *require* "hardware sound acceleration"?
So have creative or asus released specs or open linux drivers yet? I'll stick to my integrated yet crappy card if it can at least make noises...
but what do electric penguins dream of?
Or, Amazon can pay sales takes. It has the ability to do so. This is just another example of a massive corp walking on everyone.
Hmm i thought most state tax codes required you to report that you bought items without sales tax, and pay the sales tax on those items? not that anyone does that, but hey it's not amazon breaking the law there.
No, they sell where they have data centers, the purchasers telecommute there, and then if they are required by state laws pay taxes on their purchase.
I agree about the state of amazon though, but the above applies to newegg, tiger direct, itunes, hulu plus, etc.
And that all sounds like more ways to take away the ability for home mechanics to repair their cars...
Time to buy a "kit" car, one that all i have to do is get insurance and connect the grounding strap.
how many of those openings on dice are really for the same company and 60 "recruiters" are all trying to be the one to fill it?
an no ability to run 3rd party tools for their order of 100 unit per year, or open that spreadsheet with the VBA macro in it, or... ... yea business PC == windows, MAc if you are an media firm.
hehe "a couple of hardrives" hehe, each "job" at work generates a few 100MB of data that needs to be stored, archived, and transfered... I do 3-4 "jobs" a week, so around 5TB of data a week. I work with 3 other people doing just about the same... so no "a couple of harddisks" isn't going to cut it.
"NO!!!! MR. PRESIDENT!!!!! thats the one that launches all the missiles.
Well which one gets me a latte?
The other big red button!
Ohh, who designed this?"
Hmm VBA macros work in open office now? how about pulling in vendor DLLs? have a 3D cad package with feature parity to AutoCAD LT(including opening most normal cad file. sldprt, dwg, dxf, etc)?
For the web server and databases, i'f with you, but the desktop for engineering will be MS windows for a long time to come. I think your deffinition of "good server" and mine are different, I need to load 5MB-30MB excel sheets, 2MB-2000MB cad files, and so do a number of other people all day without noticiing that they are anywhere else other than locally. Autocad hangs when samba takes a short nap to handle someone else's request. It's very very annoying.
So yes, they will be windows. I'm not even sure there are MAC clients for most of the vendor selection tools i use daily.
P.S. I'd love to use linux at work, I'd be able to get more done, but only if everyone else supported it, and I'm beholden to 3rd parties that have little interest in writing a linux client for me, when i'm 0.00001% of their sales this year.
5) Are connections of sufficient throughput and latency even locally available? There's no mention of things like: mail use, type of work performed, etc. What if they do CAD work? What if they do a lot of email with attached documents? Graphic or sound work? These are use cases which are horrible for cloud computing.
YOu have just explained why I'm not likely to ever see my data in the "cloud", hell, our own server across the room is too slow for a lot of CAD models, even a 5400RPM harddrive is sometimes. Load a 600MB part into an assembly of 10 of them, or even just the one 600MB on into a 200MB assembly, now multiply that by 5, and all of a sudden you just about cannot get enough bandwidth on your server. Same goes for those people in video or audio production.
Right, I'll just get work to dump those VBA macro'ed excel sheets, all of my vendor selection tools, and all of the "cheaply" priced cad systems.
That will work great, I'd love to use linux at work, but i'd need a windows VM anyways...
Well google has lots of my info, and i really wish i could "tag" places on maps. so that searches like "work to grocery store to home" would work. Or be able to store 2-3 different routes for any starting and ending point combination in google, and do "target on my way home from work", "bank on the way to grandmas", etc.
I'd happily trade some more info to google(i use gmail, reader, search, youtube, already)to get better routing for new places on maps.
and most spam filters simply dump to a folder and never actully delete messages for you.
and get the questions from where? the question bank that the cheaters have?
This prof has a pile of lab assistants, and TAs and yet the 7 people total can't write a newish 100 question test 3 times a semester... Yes i know that the TAs and whatnot are students as well, but few of them are undergrads taking 18 credits. They are taking 4 grad credits.
I think the publishers even say that the question banks are for "inspiration" or some-such, I'm not really seeing the problem here, other than multiple choice tests are easy to cheat on. Make them short essay questions and you'll do a much better job of testing.
switches the cgroup of each ${SHELL} to it's own group, making all command run from it in the same group as the terminal. Spawn a new term, and get a new cgroup.
and up hill both ways? with tires for shoes, over cacti?
It's been a very very long time since I've managed to make audio stutter on linux, and that was on a P100 that needed 95% cpu just to decode an mp3. ohh maybe i managed to make it stutter running dbench on the same drive my music is on. but that's about it.
yes, but when 90% of everything is run from the desktop....
hmm, show me per app audio adjustment from a central control interface using ALSA. Not saying i like pulse, but that is the only feature that I'm at all interested in.
not multiseat support kills using pulseaudio for me. I need 3 seats all working at the same time. "htpc/wife's instance", mpd (server run as a seperate user so that not everyone has the ability to play with shit they shouldn't, and my desktop instance.
Until he gets his head out of his ass, and starts supporting the systemwide server, I'm not really going to touch it.
I have a multi user OS, and i like using it that way.
except some people (*cough*unbuntufolks*cough*) don't like to use the terminal... so the kernel patch might be better, although wouldn't all gui apps have the same [p]tty?