Oh c'mon, the adapters are really cheap, I paid like $5 for mine, including the mounting rails and already regret not having bought more at the time to save on shipping. I'm using an older 2.5" drive in my desktop because it makes much less noise than the 3.5" drives and also after a over year the noise hasn't increased noticably like I expirienced with all previous 3.5" drives that I had in there.
I don't think I'll ever use a 3.5" drive in my desktop again, those are good for the "home-server" in the other room where noise doesn't matter.
but Enemy Territory runs at maybe 20fps max (10fps average)
Hmmm. Really, the same Enemy Territory that I can play fine on my Matrox G550 (which has very little 3d acceleration to speak of...)?
Admittedly I'm playing with almost all details set to "low" (which has some advantages btw, for example I can sometimes see enemy players shine through walls;-) ) and I'm not sure right now whether I run it at 800x600 or 1024x768 but I think it's the latter even.
The performance with these settings is good enough for a fluid game (~40fps or so?) and I don't miss the high textures / effects all that much. After all gameplay is what counts and that's what ET delivers par excellence.
Since most modern laptops ship with graphics chipsets that have better 3D acceleration than my old matrox I'd be really surprised if they weren't good enough for ET - probably even at higher detail settings than I am using.
Oh and give ion a shot. It's very different but actually made me more productive (no more shuffling windows around only to get to what's beneath them...).
Yeah, that's a common problem in our generation. Grown up with TV and playstation our attention span has degraded to..Oh, something beeped, hold'on a sec.
I think for now the main feature is the hack-a-bility.
I, personally, could imagine to turn one these into a "smart remote-control" to control my home-theatre without getting up. The touchscreen would definately be good for a nice interface (playlist editing etc). OTOH $400 is a bit much only for that and a little web browsing. I would at least want a scroll wheel for that money because scrolling websites with a stylus doesnt sound very comfortable...
Does anyone have an idea how long it would take to find a collision that matches both md4 and md5 at the same time? I guess it must be possible because otherwise people would probably simply use a combination of (cheap) md4 and md5 instead of looking for more powerful hash functions. Just how long, anyone have a clue?
Behold France which is currently in upheaval because unsatisfied Muslims are striking out at the national culture which has been keeping them down
How does this AC get an insightful mod?! Anyone who has paid attention to the news knows that it's not "unsatisfied Muslims" who started the riots but just a very mixed bunch of poor people from french ghettos.
The Muslims are demanding a political change in Europe from Western-style democracy to Sharia Law.
I find it really sad that a random idiot like you gets modded insightful on here. Not only are your retarded generalizations painfully wrong but they also totally miss the point on what's going on in france. The riots in france have nothing to do with an "expansion of islam" as you're trying to suggest. In fact they don't appear to have any religious motivation.
All this talk in this thread about "special treatment" for sales staff, management, etc. yet you want programmers to make their own hours, dress like slobs and play video games whenever they feel like it? Hello? If you want to be treated (and compensated) like a professional - stop acting like spolied children! Your job can be outsourced to $foreign_country for less than half the cost of paying and providing benefeits to you. Give them a reason to keep you, not an excuse to get rid of you.
Thanks for the generalizations. Makes you sound a bit frustrated, though.
You fail to understand that a programmer requires a different environment than a sales-person. Very simplified it could be summed up as: Programmers need to think (whenever, whereever that works best), sales-people need to talk (during business hours, mostly in an office and/or in person). Most good programmers that I have met are the most productive in an environment that you would most likely not consider "professional". Their productivity-cycle isn't attached to "business hours" like yours but rather to the hours where they personally feel that they can think best about hard problems. What would you prefer, the well-dressed guy who looks really busy and productive from 9-5 but only puts out broken code that takes dozens of manhours to fix? Or the guy who doesn't seem busy at all most of the time, shows up irregularly, but once a month creates that one piece of *working* code that actually pushes your business forward?
This ain't a myth, I have seen both of these stereotypes in reality more than once and I'm sure many of us have. If you still don't get it then just take a look at a successful software company, any successful software company. Their success lies in how they treat their most valuable ressource. Some of these companies can even make those shady, unpredictable, not-so-well-dressed guys function better against schedules and show up more regularly. How? E.g. by providing them with an office with a door that they can close instead of sitting them down in the big room where they're surrounded by ringing phones and general office noise.
You, as a sales-person, probably wouldn't even mind the noise because you're talking yourself most of the day. Now imagine you weren't talking but trying to solve some kind of complicated math puzzle instead...
And another hint: Only because some people function differently than you doesn't make them spoiled children or whatever you like to call them. In my not so humble opinion it is you (as a representative of the "PHB"-crowd) who is behind the times here. Companies thinking like you ("and if nothing works we can still outsource it") will mostly drop out of the software-market over the next few years. Simply because their competition, those who have realized how to hire and keep *good* IT staff is creating products that simply dwarf their former competitors.
Yes, you can survive with that kind of attitude when you're manufacturing electric toothbrushes or selling $whatever through an onlineshop. When your IT-people are actually *creating* your product then you'd better get the best people you can and give them everything they want - or your competitor will.
Re:Interesting? mod this clown down.
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Nope, Gecko is written in C++ but the whole Firefox interface, which is for all means and purposes "my browser" is written in XUL, which is nothing more than Javascript + CSS + XML. Which is why you can get browsers such as K-Meleon, also based on Gecko and still different browsers (K-Meleon being written in C++/Win32).
Can anyone explain to me why the firefox UI is so dog slow under linux while it's sufficiently snappy under windows? I'd love to use Firefox more but the tab-switching-delay alone drives me go back to opera again and again. Even worse is how the whole UI freezes while rendering a big (or, god forbid, multiple) pages...
I don't think Oracle are MySQL are in the same market. As someone else cited, an Oracle license starts at around $15k.
Also you'll need at least one dedicated DBA to keep it ticking.
The pricetag alone reserves oracle for the "big guys" while MySQL is your average-joe database. And feature-wise MySQL can't hold a candle to the big O either...
So, no, MySQL is not really threatening Oracle at all, right now.
No big deal. The relevant and/or interesting parts of most hollywood productions (e.g. spiderman) could easily be edited down to 1s. Now play it at double speed et wallah, full movie in 0.5s.
So why is it Microsoft's fault when someone else breaks their product?
Because this whole car analogy misses the point. Windows is not a car, not at all. It is an Operating System which is supposed to provide you with *safe* access to the internet.
They advertise it like that. There is no text on the box to warn Joe Sixpack that he'd better *not* plug that cable in because that will make all his private files world-readable.
It is Microsoft's fault because they *know* (and have known for years) that their software is horribly broken in that regard but they still pretend that there is no problem.
If you really need a car analogy then try comparing it to a car that will accept *any* key for unlocking he doors and starting the engine.
No problem. They are simply saying that by pro-actively leveraging the synchronicity of a paradigm-shifting product line and building a reliable logistical capability in cooperation with an responsive amalgam of industry professionals those startups can be enable a superior win-win scenario with competitive advantage on the diversified but fragmented market of solutions.
The parts costs is therefore $1,300 per 1.8 terabyte node of networked storage.
Yeah, right. You *may* want to triple this figure for adequate hardware, though.
Now they could be wrong, but you're going to need a hell of a lot better argument than "it's really hard to do" or "those EMC guys know what they're doing and we don't" to overcome $3,000,000 in savings.
Well, "it's really hard to do" pretty much sums it up. If "create a large storage device from scratch" is not an essential part of your business-plan you should probably back the hell off and buy something off-the-shelf. You obviously underestimate the effort it takes to create a system like this, much less the effort to make it perform reasonably and maintain it. SATA, my ass...
If your business really plans with and depends on 1PB of storage but at the same time a 3mio investment makes you pee then there's something seriously wrong with your business plan.
And, last but not least, if you have to "ask slashdot" about it then you're most certainly not in a position to pull it off either way.
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Oh c'mon, the adapters are really cheap, I paid like $5 for mine, including the mounting rails and already regret not having bought more at the time to save on shipping. I'm using an older 2.5" drive in my desktop because it makes much less noise than the 3.5" drives and also after a over year the noise hasn't increased noticably like I expirienced with all previous 3.5" drives that I had in there.
I don't think I'll ever use a 3.5" drive in my desktop again, those are good for the "home-server" in the other room where noise doesn't matter.
but Enemy Territory runs at maybe 20fps max (10fps average)
;-) ) and I'm not sure right now whether I run it at 800x600 or 1024x768 but I think it's the latter even.
Hmmm. Really, the same Enemy Territory that I can play fine on my Matrox G550 (which has very little 3d acceleration to speak of...)?
Admittedly I'm playing with almost all details set to "low" (which has some advantages btw, for example I can sometimes see enemy players shine through walls
The performance with these settings is good enough for a fluid game (~40fps or so?) and I don't miss the high textures / effects all that much. After all gameplay is what counts and that's what ET delivers par excellence.
Since most modern laptops ship with graphics chipsets that have better 3D acceleration than my old matrox
I'd be really surprised if they weren't good enough for ET - probably even at higher detail settings than I am using.
Damn newbies...
Oh and give ion a shot.
It's very different but actually made me more productive (no more shuffling windows around only to get to
what's beneath them...).
CNet's com.com thing
Easily one of the most retarded ideas a suit ever came up with.
It is pure, unadulterated greed. So much greed that it completely clouds any sensibility they might have.
Welcome to the USA. And it's only getting better.
Yeah, that's a common problem in our generation.
Grown up with TV and playstation our attention span has degraded to..Oh, something beeped, hold'on a sec.
Obligatory karma-whore stating the obvious and then demanding that we all just get along.
I think for now the main feature is the hack-a-bility.
I, personally, could imagine to turn one these into a "smart remote-control" to control my home-theatre without getting up.
The touchscreen would definately be good for a nice interface (playlist editing etc). OTOH $400 is a bit much only for that and a little web browsing. I would at least want a scroll wheel for that money because scrolling websites with a stylus doesnt sound very comfortable...
Does anyone have an idea how long it would take to find a collision that matches both md4 and md5 at the same time?
I guess it must be possible because otherwise people would probably simply use a combination of (cheap) md4 and md5 instead of looking for more powerful hash functions. Just how long, anyone have a clue?
Behold France which is currently in upheaval because unsatisfied Muslims are striking out at the national culture which has been keeping them down
How does this AC get an insightful mod?!
Anyone who has paid attention to the news knows that it's not "unsatisfied Muslims" who started the riots but just a very mixed bunch of poor people from french ghettos.
The Muslims are demanding a political change in Europe from Western-style democracy to Sharia Law.
I find it really sad that a random idiot like you gets modded insightful on here.
Not only are your retarded generalizations painfully wrong but they also totally miss the point on what's going on in france. The riots in france have nothing to do with an "expansion of islam" as you're trying to suggest. In fact they don't appear to have any religious motivation.
Is it so hard to monitor him while you're busy making a case against him?
Just have Moulder and Scully sit in a car in front of his house...
All this talk in this thread about "special treatment" for sales staff, management, etc. yet you want programmers to make their own hours, dress like slobs and play video games whenever they feel like it? Hello? If you want to be treated (and compensated) like a professional - stop acting like spolied children! Your job can be outsourced to $foreign_country for less than half the cost of paying and providing benefeits to you. Give them a reason to keep you, not an excuse to get rid of you.
Thanks for the generalizations. Makes you sound a bit frustrated, though.
You fail to understand that a programmer requires a different environment than a sales-person.
Very simplified it could be summed up as: Programmers need to think (whenever, whereever that works best),
sales-people need to talk (during business hours, mostly in an office and/or in person).
Most good programmers that I have met are the most productive in an environment that you would most likely not
consider "professional". Their productivity-cycle isn't attached to "business hours" like yours but rather
to the hours where they personally feel that they can think best about hard problems. What would you prefer,
the well-dressed guy who looks really busy and productive from 9-5 but only puts out broken code that takes dozens
of manhours to fix? Or the guy who doesn't seem busy at all most of the time, shows up irregularly, but once a month
creates that one piece of *working* code that actually pushes your business forward?
This ain't a myth, I have seen both of these stereotypes in reality more than once and I'm sure many of us have.
If you still don't get it then just take a look at a successful software company, any successful software company. Their success lies in how they treat their most valuable ressource. Some of these companies can even make those
shady, unpredictable, not-so-well-dressed guys function better against schedules and show up more regularly. How?
E.g. by providing them with an office with a door that they can close instead of sitting them down in the big
room where they're surrounded by ringing phones and general office noise.
You, as a sales-person, probably wouldn't even mind the noise because you're talking yourself most of the day.
Now imagine you weren't talking but trying to solve some kind of complicated math puzzle instead...
And another hint: Only because some people function differently than you doesn't make them spoiled children or whatever you like to call them. In my not so humble opinion it is you (as a representative of the "PHB"-crowd) who is behind the times here. Companies thinking like you ("and if nothing works we can still outsource it") will mostly drop out of the software-market over the next few years. Simply because their competition, those who have realized how to hire and keep *good* IT staff is creating products that simply dwarf their former competitors.
Yes, you can survive with that kind of attitude when you're manufacturing electric toothbrushes or selling $whatever through an onlineshop. When your IT-people are actually *creating* your product then you'd better get the best people you can and give them everything they want - or your competitor will.
Nope, Gecko is written in C++ but the whole Firefox interface, which is for all means and purposes "my browser" is written in XUL, which is nothing more than Javascript + CSS + XML. Which is why you can get browsers such as K-Meleon, also based on Gecko and still different browsers (K-Meleon being written in C++/Win32).
Can anyone explain to me why the firefox UI is so dog slow under linux while it's sufficiently snappy under windows?
I'd love to use Firefox more but the tab-switching-delay alone drives me go back to opera again and again.
Even worse is how the whole UI freezes while rendering a big (or, god forbid, multiple) pages...
sure. please direct your complaints to aibo@sony.com
Well, it's the same guy who smokes 10 cigarettes while running a half-marathon!
Please don't make him babble about his kidney-problems...
but they are still steps removed from getting the "meat".
Yup, exactly the one step of installing a $30 keylogger device on your PS/2- or USB-port.
Yup, about 1s would be acceptable. 5s is "noticable lag".
I don't think Oracle are MySQL are in the same market.
As someone else cited, an Oracle license starts at around $15k.
Also you'll need at least one dedicated DBA to keep it ticking.
The pricetag alone reserves oracle for the "big guys" while MySQL is your average-joe database.
And feature-wise MySQL can't hold a candle to the big O either...
So, no, MySQL is not really threatening Oracle at all, right now.
No big deal. The relevant and/or interesting parts of most hollywood productions (e.g. spiderman) could easily be edited down to 1s. Now play it at double speed et wallah, full movie in 0.5s.
Gentlemen, can we please stick with car analogies?
This is sickening.
So why is it Microsoft's fault when someone else breaks their product?
Because this whole car analogy misses the point. Windows is not a car, not at all.
It is an Operating System which is supposed to provide you with *safe* access to the internet.
They advertise it like that. There is no text on the box to warn Joe Sixpack that he'd better *not* plug that cable in because that will make all his private files world-readable.
It is Microsoft's fault because they *know* (and have known for years) that their software is horribly broken
in that regard but they still pretend that there is no problem.
If you really need a car analogy then try comparing it to a car that will accept *any* key for unlocking
he doors and starting the engine.
Can we have a translation to English, please?
No problem. They are simply saying that by pro-actively leveraging the synchronicity of a paradigm-shifting product
line and building a reliable logistical capability in cooperation with an responsive
amalgam of industry professionals those startups can be enable a superior win-win scenario
with competitive advantage on the diversified but fragmented market of solutions.
Clear enough?
a project like that might actually be fun!
;-)
Until you get fired when it breaks down...
OTOH, the learning expirience may actually be worth it
The parts costs is therefore $1,300 per 1.8 terabyte node of networked storage.
Yeah, right. You *may* want to triple this figure for adequate hardware, though.
Now they could be wrong, but you're going to need a hell of a lot better argument than "it's really hard to do" or "those EMC guys know what they're doing and we don't" to overcome $3,000,000 in savings.
Well, "it's really hard to do" pretty much sums it up.
If "create a large storage device from scratch" is not an essential part of your business-plan you should probably back the hell off and buy something off-the-shelf. You obviously underestimate the effort it takes to create a system like this, much less the effort to make it perform reasonably and maintain it. SATA, my ass...
If your business really plans with and depends on 1PB of storage but at the same time a 3mio investment makes you pee
then there's something seriously wrong with your business plan.
And, last but not least, if you have to "ask slashdot" about it then you're most certainly not in a position to pull it off either way.