I notice that you don't say whether this is good or bad.:) Having all coders actually remember all the code sounds like a great productivity booster and backup plan. But the initial 'cost', oy veh.
I think it's fine that a file has arbitrary content.
That the data is able to surreptitiously start network connections? Not so much. At least, the application should have the decency to inform the user before acting on its own.
This is a good example of why don't at all mind not-so-integrated applications, as it means I'm less exposed to this kind of "multimedia experience".
Siemens Nixdorf once sold a desktop computer that could boot a subset of Windows 3.1 in time to answer a ringing fax. That may be quick enough, but I don't know if it will meet your other requirements once it's booted up.
For hard drives, even damaged ones can be put back together if you do it carefully enough. I'm no specialist, but I doubt you could do that with ~50 shards of a flash chip.
Being able to have your own SL server doesn't get you access to Linden's grid. And that's what people want: to be on the grid with everybody else they know.
For all its other issues, this is the #1 reason I don't like SL. And, it's the #1 reason I don't understand why so many companies jumped on this. Seriously, would you run your intranet on your own hardware rather than someone else's? Would you want to (at least *be able to*) run your personal web site on your own private hardware? I would. But hey, I'm a privacy nut and I know it.
vertinox (846076):
You could link the non-linden grids together so you can jump from one to another or at least communicate between servers or even patch the linden client so that jumping between Linden and non-Linden without trouble.
I don't think you can do that; I suspect the SL server code expects to run in data center clusters, not distributed like the Internet. In that regard, the obvious choice should have been something like Multiverse or Solipsis rather than Second Life.
It's not just law suits, you know. Consider that the "total life cycle" is a tad longer than for most human endeavours. It really is about safe long-term storage.
Don't compare computing power based solely on CPU frequency. True, the figure is comparable to "horse power", but that's very much not the same thing as "top speed".
Yes, I too really, *really* wanted a Freerunner. But, now that it's here, it seems not quite as great as the iPhone, as far as I understand it the software is hardly stable as a basic cell phone (let alone as a useful pda).
I'm actually cancelling my group sales preorder because I prefer to use my ancient PalmT3 plus separate crummy old Nokia that can't even talk to my pda.
Lesson? Design your software around a virtual platform, then put together the hardware as late as possible. Maybe. I don't know.
if you're using Windows systems, check that both have "Cleartype" enabled and that it has been tweaked for that particular monitor's arrangement of RGB on the screen.
How do you find out if your particular monitor is RGB, or RBG, or whatever? I mean, if it's not in the manual, how do you know which selection to make?
Yeah, I've always done that on my computers (at least, when supported by the OS). I also adjust the dpi setting to the actual value; the default is 96 dpi but my laptop actually is 130-ish, making for a very small user interface unless adjusted (even more fun: work dual-screen with an external monitor that has an entirely different dpi resolution).
The downside is that few applications play nice with setups that are not default font size and dpi setting. I have quite a few applications where the bottom and right 5-10% is just not accessible, it's beyond the window edge (and not just low-grade apps either, this happens in MD5summer as well as in Lotus Notes).
Adjustment is the Right Thing to do, just don't expect the world to be prepared for that kind of actions.:)
Production... used up all the easily available vacuum on earth (mined from the air which contained precious little vacuum! - bringing it down from space is not cost-effective!)
Oh, come off it. There are still plenty of untapped vacuum sources around.
There's about of cubic foot of the stuff in any PHB cranium, you just need to open the thing and tap it! Granted, you'd need quite a bit of source PHB, but that's easy enough to come by -- and it's renewable.
Palm is doing the same that Psion did, with equal success.
They have a very good product, but then two things happen: (a) the market changes and they don't keep up; and (b) they make 'newer, better' devices that just aren't.
I used to have a Psion Revo (my brother still uses his Series 5mx). I loved it, but it died. It did everything I needed it to, and nothing I didn't need it to -- hence it had awesome battery life (but even so incomparable to a 5mx). But, it *was* an old and worn device, and it just did not last forever, in spite of the great build quality. Then the company died (very slowly, awkwardly, and unworthily). I miss it, though.
I have a T3 (well, two; one as a spare). I love it, but it's dying. It does everything I need it to, and nothing I don't need it to. But, it *is* an old and worn device, and it just is not going to last forever, in spite of the great build quality. I'm not surprised the company is dying. I'll miss it, too, though.
True, that. Processes are helpful just as often as they get in the way, if you're lucky. I work in a very process-heavy company, and often it's clearly at odds with common sense, and hard to change. I'd rather have 'freedom under responsibility' (can't think of the proper English term this early), and face the occasional court martial.
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I notice that you don't say whether this is good or bad. :) Having all coders actually remember all the code sounds like a great productivity booster and backup plan. But the initial 'cost', oy veh.
I think it's fine that a file has arbitrary content.
That the data is able to surreptitiously start network connections? Not so much. At least, the application should have the decency to inform the user before acting on its own.
This is a good example of why don't at all mind not-so-integrated applications, as it means I'm less exposed to this kind of "multimedia experience".
You know, I opened this news item specifically to see if someone referenced Deep Time, or to mention it myself.
I must say that I haven't read his book, only his paper which is itself very interesting and thought-provoking (and makes you feel utterly small).
Siemens Nixdorf once sold a desktop computer that could boot a subset of Windows 3.1 in time to answer a ringing fax. That may be quick enough, but I don't know if it will meet your other requirements once it's booted up.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of ...
Oh, and also, it's "disdains". I've met him once, and he does not dis Danes.
Wait a second ... this isn't the Texas Ranger dude from tv? ;-)
Now I'm confused...
(emphasis mine)
[...] get [...] a bunch of guys (ideally with the paranoia of the OpenBSD guys) set about creating a Linux distro [...]
I wonder if it would not be more* realistic to hope for a BSD distro with these things?
(* "more realistic" does not promise or imply actual realism. Batteries not included.)
Am I the only person who clicked on the hyperlink behind "Vote McCain in 2008"?
Dunno, but you may be the only one not reading /. from work... ;-)
Anyone who has problems with "large numbers such as 26" probably shouldn't be doing kernel coding ... just sayin' ;-)
A good whack with a hammer should do it.
For hard drives, even damaged ones can be put back together if you do it carefully enough. I'm no specialist, but I doubt you could do that with ~50 shards of a flash chip.
I use Dvorak *and* search-as-you-type. (No really, I do.)
Apparently, two wrongs don't make a right. Whaddaya know...
Todd Knarr (15451):
Being able to have your own SL server doesn't get you access to Linden's grid. And that's what people want: to be on the grid with everybody else they know.
For all its other issues, this is the #1 reason I don't like SL. And, it's the #1 reason I don't understand why so many companies jumped on this. Seriously, would you run your intranet on your own hardware rather than someone else's? Would you want to (at least *be able to*) run your personal web site on your own private hardware? I would. But hey, I'm a privacy nut and I know it.
vertinox (846076):
You could link the non-linden grids together so you can jump from one to another or at least communicate between servers or even patch the linden client so that jumping between Linden and non-Linden without trouble.
I don't think you can do that; I suspect the SL server code expects to run in data center clusters, not distributed like the Internet. In that regard, the obvious choice should have been something like Multiverse or Solipsis rather than Second Life.
Well, if you drive a wedge backwards, you're not going to get the same 'top speed' as going forwards. ;)
That said, My mom's old Volvo 66 could do that, due to its Variomatic gearbox. I don't think she ever tried it, though. :D
You know, some of us would rather host our data ourselves than trust Google with it...
It's not just law suits, you know. Consider that the "total life cycle" is a tad longer than for most human endeavours. It really is about safe long-term storage.
Do you think that something like this comes cheap?
http://www.physics.uci.edu/~silverma/benford.html
Don't compare computing power based solely on CPU frequency. True, the figure is comparable to "horse power", but that's very much not the same thing as "top speed".
Yes, I too really, *really* wanted a Freerunner. But, now that it's here, it seems not quite as great as the iPhone, as far as I understand it the software is hardly stable as a basic cell phone (let alone as a useful pda).
I'm actually cancelling my group sales preorder because I prefer to use my ancient PalmT3 plus separate crummy old Nokia that can't even talk to my pda.
Lesson? Design your software around a virtual platform, then put together the hardware as late as possible. Maybe. I don't know.
if you're using Windows systems, check that both have "Cleartype" enabled and that it has been tweaked for that particular monitor's arrangement of RGB on the screen.
How do you find out if your particular monitor is RGB, or RBG, or whatever? I mean, if it's not in the manual, how do you know which selection to make?
Yeah, I've always done that on my computers (at least, when supported by the OS). I also adjust the dpi setting to the actual value; the default is 96 dpi but my laptop actually is 130-ish, making for a very small user interface unless adjusted (even more fun: work dual-screen with an external monitor that has an entirely different dpi resolution).
The downside is that few applications play nice with setups that are not default font size and dpi setting. I have quite a few applications where the bottom and right 5-10% is just not accessible, it's beyond the window edge (and not just low-grade apps either, this happens in MD5summer as well as in Lotus Notes).
Adjustment is the Right Thing to do, just don't expect the world to be prepared for that kind of actions. :)
Production ... used up all the easily available vacuum on earth (mined from the air which contained precious little vacuum! - bringing it down from space is not cost-effective!)
Oh, come off it. There are still plenty of untapped vacuum sources around.
There's about of cubic foot of the stuff in any PHB cranium, you just need to open the thing and tap it! Granted, you'd need quite a bit of source PHB, but that's easy enough to come by -- and it's renewable.
balance between being "geeky" and being ... umm ... what's the term for someone who hangs out with suits?
That would be a Suit (nobody else would hang out with them, right?), which would make him what, suity? What a ridiculous word -- so quite appropriate.
I'll enter it in the dictionary. :)
Palm is doing the same that Psion did, with equal success.
They have a very good product, but then two things happen: (a) the market changes and they don't keep up; and (b) they make 'newer, better' devices that just aren't.
I used to have a Psion Revo (my brother still uses his Series 5mx). I loved it, but it died. It did everything I needed it to, and nothing I didn't need it to -- hence it had awesome battery life (but even so incomparable to a 5mx). But, it *was* an old and worn device, and it just did not last forever, in spite of the great build quality. Then the company died (very slowly, awkwardly, and unworthily). I miss it, though.
I have a T3 (well, two; one as a spare). I love it, but it's dying. It does everything I need it to, and nothing I don't need it to. But, it *is* an old and worn device, and it just is not going to last forever, in spite of the great build quality. I'm not surprised the company is dying. I'll miss it, too, though.
"You did say correct you if wrong"
The screen sized are mixed up? The Freerunner is definitely smaller than the iPhone.
True, that. Processes are helpful just as often as they get in the way, if you're lucky. I work in a very process-heavy company, and often it's clearly at odds with common sense, and hard to change. I'd rather have 'freedom under responsibility' (can't think of the proper English term this early), and face the occasional court martial.