From what I've heard this thing won't even be compabable with hard drives. EVERYTHING is going to be in flash ram or you're going to have to pay M$ to get it back from their network.
Backwards compatability with games is not my concern -- forward compatability with value and utility.
Its good to see an author re-using the creative commons. I've seen a bit of experiamentation with the license but this is the first author using this license for his _second_ book that I've seen.
The first market I can think of for these machines is the memory hungry. Mostly I'm thinking of databases seeking to be entirely in ram. I don't personally have any 8gb databases but I think they are more common than people think.
I'd love to see a comparison, on linux, Solaris, even windows of Databases crunching big piles of data.
For the most part I don't care about most of the bells and whistles. I WISH CELLPHONES WERE RATED FOR VOLUME!
Volume, Battery Life, and Range. Can't the industry come up with a way to compare Cell phones on those three categories? Right now many of them are obscuring rotten phones with gadgets.
Volume How often have you had trouble hearing a phone under wierd situations.
Battery Life I know its related to everything else but its still a consideration.
Range
Why do I have to buy a cell phone and hope it can reach the network????
I have to confess to being more interested in the universality of the testing framework than any of the results. Whatever is done I hope it leads to some standards for future, lower profile but perhaps more useful benchmarks.
An accepted cross distro testing criteria would be nice.
Thank you for your comment and I really appreciate you getting back to me. I even agree with you when you say that stupidity alone is not reason for overturning laws but,,,,
When it comes to cases of discrimination, which I believe this is, and when the powers of the day start limiting universal freedoms I think the courts are supposed to step in. Overturning this law would mean less regulation of the cyber cafes in this city. Its entirely possible some might hire security gaurds etc... but that would be their choice.
"Requiring a higher level of security for certain businesses bears a rational relationship to the objective of reducing crime. That's all the city has to show."
This logic leads to a police state. Every business would have less crime if they supported armed gaurds and video cameras -- but everyone would go broke.
Insurance companies force the levels of security in businesses to go up -- you try getting insurance for a bank without security.
The City is responsible to fight crime and businesses to cooperate but you shouldn't drive a business under because your city doesn't have enough (or affective) police. And you can't put everyone under survellance because somebody might have done something. Americans have an expectation of privacy.
This is the town outsourcing its police costs to a youth hangout so it can watch people it doesn't trust or like. They cannot get away from their responsibility to encounter, understand, guide and/or correct these offenders.
The reason they don't do this in restaurants is because the clientele of restaurants have more social clout than cyber geeks. The courts should expose the inequity. This is completely different than if the owner of the establishmet does it.
If I don't trust tatoo parlors, republican conventions, or KKK rallies I'd best go get some evidence that they're doing something wrong. I can't force every convention to keep tapes for me and hire guards.
So many dont get it. City ordinance _requires_ Cyber Cafes to hire private police and install video surveillance in their premises.
ChaChing! 30-60k added to the cost of your business. ChaChing! Lost Customers -- Who wants to go to a prison ward to explore the internet.
The point made by the dissenting judge is that there is as much (or more) evidence of illegal activities in restaurants but we dont mandate Gestapo there.
A minority of Cyber Cafe's have some unsavoury clientele so the city wants to make each cafe a small internment camp. Hope they don't target your group next.
Contractor 60/hr cheap no benefits, few obligations, instant downsizing, no training costs, no retraining costs.
Expectation that all time is applied and on target.
Employee 60/hr Might not include benifits doesn't include burden of office, management, training and retraining.
The biggest expense in all this is the opportunity cost which is small for the contractor since s\he is only there if there is an opportunity.
The employee, unless they are hired specifically for the task (like a contractor), is an ongoing expense to the business. If his/her hours are profitable re-assigning them is a loss. If they are not profitable this task must make them so. This need to find something for someone to do often colours jobs.
Length and success of the task are bigger issues than hourly rate. Mistakes even at 8/hr are expensive.
I will not however be blackmailed by some jerk's placing an automated personal vendetta on the web, anyone's vendetta.
If SCO thinks Linux people did it let them prove it. I hope whoever did it is caught. But it is too easy to oppose SCO for its incredulous, unsupported claims -- some jerk did this. SCO is the victem of playing to the MOB with grand pronouncements and no proof.
Please dont propose a solution that takes control from my hands because my computer 'might' be compromised. Trojan horses are wrong but they are not justification to steal control of my computer.
If a trojan would take control of this computer - against my best efforts. My computer IP on the mail would allow someone to inform me that my computer is spewing spam. I can then remove the trojan and find a way to protect it.
LS
Spam is a huge problem lets not turn it into a WMD!
And when this one is won, both parties should sue the EPO for costs. If the EPO/USPTO are not prepared to be responsable for the wrongful granting of these temporary monoplolies (patents) then they shouldn't be granting them in the first place.
This is a sound economic argument to punish inept law.
Knowing about the problem before the twin lands is probably a good thing because they might anticipate the problem.
But if it takes weeks to fix the solar panels on the lander will be degrading in the martian atmosphere. The will miss the down time for Spirit's task list.
It must be so frustrating to sit on a possible fix and wait for a communication window, or computer response to see if you're right.
Because Bush is in power. Because Republicans control Senate and Congress.
Being in power he has the ability to abuse the process and the responsibility to demonstrate that it is transparent.
When outside sources say this is insecure and corruptable but the Army says 'It will have to do.' The commander in chief of the army has to take responsiblity for it. -- last I checked that was Bush.
Where is the incumbant voice calling for bypartizan approval, outside authentication, defense of the basic tenants of democracy?
Considering the US military presence in so many countries (I think 145 at last count) whats wrong with a few polite soldiers, a few witnesses, and a paper trail.
Lightning fast counting with no paper trail seems too much like an adaptable magic wand to say whatever Bush wants it to say.
I think the SCO defence has earned them a few brownie points. I think Sourceforge has earned them a few brownie points. I think the eclipse contribution has earned them a few brownie points. And I personally think their Java stuff and Develper Shed has helped as well.
If it has raised their profile and gotten them some good press -- they deserve it.
Its only a featherlight, fixed wing..... It'll stay in the air forever.
What happens the first time gravity wins and this thing piles into a house? Gravity may be played with but its real patient. Without an orbit to keep them up....
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The problem is that without a portfolio of patents to buy your way into production there is a huge roadblock to new companies.
In Video Cards the only reason why S3 or Matrox have any chance in the industry is that they have patents to bargain with.
From what I've heard this thing won't even be compabable with hard drives. EVERYTHING is going to be in flash ram or you're going to have to pay M$ to get it back from their network.
Backwards compatability with games is not my concern -- forward compatability with value and utility.
ls
Its good to see an author re-using the creative commons. I've seen a bit of experiamentation with the license but this is the first author using this license for his _second_ book that I've seen.
Must mean it works for him.
LS
I agree.
For the record I think AMD has had the better value\performance point since the k5.
The first market I can think of for these machines is the memory hungry. Mostly I'm thinking of databases seeking to be entirely in ram. I don't personally have any 8gb databases but I think they are more common than people think.
I'd love to see a comparison, on linux, Solaris, even windows of Databases crunching big piles of data.
LS
AMD only also is just brand blindness.
I will always use the best priced solution. While I agree that right now that is AMD, Intel is welcome to tempt me -- I can be convinced.
For the most part I don't care about most of the bells and whistles. I WISH CELLPHONES WERE RATED FOR VOLUME!
Volume, Battery Life, and Range. Can't the industry come up with a way to compare Cell phones on those three categories? Right now many of them are obscuring rotten phones with gadgets.
Volume
How often have you had trouble hearing a phone under wierd situations.
Battery Life
I know its related to everything else but its still a consideration.
Range
Why do I have to buy a cell phone and hope it can reach the network????
LS
I have to confess to being more interested in the universality of the testing framework than any of the results. Whatever is done I hope it leads to some standards for future, lower profile but perhaps more useful benchmarks.
An accepted cross distro testing criteria would be nice.
ls
Thank you for your comment and I really appreciate you getting back to me. I even agree with you when you say that stupidity alone is not reason for overturning laws but,,,,
When it comes to cases of discrimination, which I believe this is, and when the powers of the day start limiting universal freedoms I think the courts are supposed to step in. Overturning this law would mean less regulation of the cyber cafes in this city. Its entirely possible some might hire security gaurds etc... but that would be their choice.
ls
BTW this is certainly not a flame.
"Requiring a higher level of security for certain businesses bears a rational relationship to the objective of reducing crime. That's all the city has to show."
This logic leads to a police state. Every business would have less crime if they supported armed gaurds and video cameras -- but everyone would go broke.
Insurance companies force the levels of security in businesses to go up -- you try getting insurance for a bank without security.
The City is responsible to fight crime and businesses to cooperate but you shouldn't drive a business under because your city doesn't have enough (or affective) police. And you can't put everyone under survellance because somebody might have done something. Americans have an expectation of privacy.
This is the town outsourcing its police costs to a youth hangout so it can watch people it doesn't trust or like. They cannot get away from their responsibility to encounter, understand, guide and/or correct these offenders.
The reason they don't do this in restaurants is because the clientele of restaurants have more social clout than cyber geeks. The courts should expose the inequity. This is completely different than if the owner of the establishmet does it.
If I don't trust tatoo parlors, republican conventions, or KKK rallies I'd best go get some evidence that they're doing something wrong. I can't force every convention to keep tapes for me and hire guards.
So many dont get it. City ordinance _requires_ Cyber Cafes to hire private police and install video surveillance in their premises.
ChaChing! 30-60k added to the cost of your business.
ChaChing! Lost Customers -- Who wants to go to a prison ward to explore the internet.
The point made by the dissenting judge is that there is as much (or more) evidence of illegal activities in restaurants but we dont mandate Gestapo there.
A minority of Cyber Cafe's have some unsavoury clientele so the city wants to make each cafe a small internment camp. Hope they don't target your group next.
ls
Well of course he had Stallman's Bio -- Bill's Bio is '(C)2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved'.
ls
Contractor 60/hr cheap
no benefits, few obligations, instant downsizing, no training costs, no retraining costs.
Expectation that all time is applied and on target.
Employee 60/hr
Might not include benifits
doesn't include burden of office, management, training and retraining.
The biggest expense in all this is the opportunity cost which is small for the contractor since s\he is only there if there is an opportunity.
The employee, unless they are hired specifically for the task (like a contractor), is an ongoing expense to the business. If his/her hours are profitable re-assigning them is a loss. If they are not profitable this task must make them so. This need to find something for someone to do often colours jobs.
Length and success of the task are bigger issues than hourly rate. Mistakes even at 8/hr are expensive.
ls
Yes but Export laws will keep any dns number above 2^2 from crossing the border.
Its amazing how those forigners keep sneaking back into the US to develop their software then releasing it like it came from other countries!
ls
"And watch out, I have lawyers."
Are they cute? Do you have pictures????
They'd only be beating up busines.
I think all viruses are a bad thing.
I will not however be blackmailed by some jerk's placing an automated personal vendetta on the web, anyone's vendetta.
If SCO thinks Linux people did it let them prove it. I hope whoever did it is caught. But it is too easy to oppose SCO for its incredulous, unsupported claims -- some jerk did this. SCO is the victem of playing to the MOB with grand pronouncements and no proof.
ls
Please dont propose a solution that takes control from my hands because my computer 'might' be compromised. Trojan horses are wrong but they are not justification to steal control of my computer.
If a trojan would take control of this computer - against my best efforts. My computer IP on the mail would allow someone to inform me that my computer is spewing spam. I can then remove the trojan and find a way to protect it.
LS
Spam is a huge problem lets not turn it into a WMD!
And when this one is won, both parties should sue the EPO for costs. If the EPO/USPTO are not prepared to be responsable for the wrongful granting of these temporary monoplolies (patents) then they shouldn't be granting them in the first place.
This is a sound economic argument to punish inept law.
The handle on their problem is a very good thing.
Knowing about the problem before the twin lands is probably a good thing because they might anticipate the problem.
But if it takes weeks to fix the solar panels on the lander will be degrading in the martian atmosphere. The will miss the down time for Spirit's task list.
It must be so frustrating to sit on a possible fix and wait for a communication window, or computer response to see if you're right.
The Cactus Pore pic makes funky wallpaper if you set it as a tile.
ls
Because Bush is in power. Because Republicans control Senate and Congress.
Being in power he has the ability to abuse the process and the responsibility to demonstrate that it is transparent.
When outside sources say this is insecure and corruptable but the Army says 'It will have to do.' The commander in chief of the army has to take responsiblity for it. -- last I checked that was Bush.
Where is the incumbant voice calling for bypartizan approval, outside authentication, defense of the basic tenants of democracy?
ls
Considering the US military presence in so many countries (I think 145 at last count) whats wrong with a few polite soldiers, a few witnesses, and a paper trail.
Lightning fast counting with no paper trail seems too much like an adaptable magic wand to say whatever Bush wants it to say.
ls
I think the SCO defence has earned them a few brownie points.
I think Sourceforge has earned them a few brownie points.
I think the eclipse contribution has earned them a few brownie points.
And I personally think their Java stuff and Develper Shed has helped as well.
If it has raised their profile and gotten them some good press -- they deserve it.
LS
You can be too bitter or distrusting.
Intel has been really reluctant to help with Linux on the Centrino. This is worrying because it might be a glass ceiling for Linux on new hardware.
If Intel doesn't support linux on its new hardware we can go AMD & IBM and never look back.
ls
http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html
Its only a featherlight, fixed wing..... It'll stay in the air forever.
What happens the first time gravity wins and this thing piles into a house? Gravity may be played with but its real patient. Without an orbit to keep them up....