Every chance I get, I boot Windows out the door; for any sized company. From my experience, anything *nix is the best choice for business critical.
Further, converting those big Windows licensing costs into consulting/support dollars is a wise choice for any Linux capable consultant. The client benefits from lower overall support costs because the machines run so reliably.
The consultant who sells Windows servers is probably some "accelerated" DeVry graduate who also sells Norton and McAfee for protection; (Kind of like selling someone a condom with a hole in it)
Here in Edmonton, the major metropolitan areas have WiFi access by nature of business density.
Thanks to comments on/. , I bought a Palm T3 with WiFi Card and loaded on NetChaser. The unit goes off, (beeps and vibrates to show an access point), every step I take in any major business area. More so in places like the University of Alberta.
I'm thinking this would be the case anywhere in the world. Although, some places like coffee shops do this on purpose, I don't think other open access points are as intentional.
Now all I need is that VOIP WiFi to replace my cell phone.
When it comes down to actually purchasing anything "dual", the price always leads me to buy two seperate systems with money left over to bank.
In the future no doubt more applications will include multi-threading, but I'm not holding my breath. What do you think the stability will be like with yet more bloated code?
When setting up servers, you will most certainly find that "dual" is something to stay away from. Running multiple machines is far more economical, easier to replace components, and moving your eggs out of one basket in a client/server environment is really a good idea unless you enjoy the pressure of having a company go completely offline in one shot. Anyone have instances where this is contrary?
I can envision a flexible photovoltaic fabric skin around the whole thing with rubber feet at each node or an energy collection mode that unrolls a photovoltaic sheet.
With a fabric skin it would look like an ameba when it moved.
I like the concept overall. Should be interesting if this comes to fruition.
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"Dell can send a service engineer out to fix their products if they fail. JPL can't"
Put a repair robot on the thing then. AND for heavens sakes put flashable ROM on everything. Why is it I have to solve all the problems of the Universe?
"Reliability is more important than speed or even mass."
So you're saying that reliability can not be built into integration and miniaturization? Come on!
"Titan IV is the biggest expendable launcher the US has. What exactly is the problem with using this?"
Nothing if you don't care about every milligram.
"But I'll tell you what, it will run for far longer and much more reliably, and will be far more useful. So don't knock it."
Are you speaking hypothetically that it will be better in the future? Cause if you are, that's my point exactly, if they diverge away from RS232 jackets in probes of the past.
That Huygens mission cost almost 1$ per km. If we want more useful missions, we need to get that cost under control or you can forget about sending anything human into the future.
I "obviously" disagree. If they were concerned about saving every mil"l"igram then why does the probe look like the inside of 8086? Space hardening and 1980 technology? blah! They strapped the thing to a converted ballistic missile for crying out loud.
AND if you recall, the probe was *not* as successful as it could have been. Remember the Doppler shifting problem or the Chan A loss?
My point is, if we are going to do this again, let's evolve the technology and get more bang for our buck using more integration and miniaturization.
Hell, Dell does it successfully. (well sort of:-> )
If you think RS232 is the future of spacecraft and probe design, then I'd have to say your very narrow minded.
My point is simply this: Integrate and condense; you'll come in on budget with more gear to ride the rocket IMHO.
If you read the entire message you'd have seen the "Albeit" caveat. I didn't think I had to point out the obvious need for "hardening" the electronics in the rigors of space exploration. It certainly doesn't mean you can't improve and shrink probe design.
I'd like to see a permanent orbiter that can map out the moon in detail first.
Select a target for something similar to "comet busting".
Then drop several probes into prime targets.
Further, lets put some robotics onboard these probes.
Look at the heavy equipment used in the Huygens probe.
Albeit its great for durability, there has to be a more compact way to design the connectors.
Ya I'm starting to get tired of everything Google. How about Google continue to focus on improving its search engine?
Search engine technology still has much room for improvement IMHO. It's frustrating when you can't find what you're looking for and Google is working on some other service to offer.
My fear is that they will grow into a massive consuming organism with little symbiotic intentions bent on monopolizing everything.
No thanks, we have enough of those types of companies already.
To make things easier, here is a reconstruction with instruction.
Just sit back about 2 feet from the monitor and try to cross your eyes till you get something similar to the bottom group.
If there is a good response to this, I'll do the others.
Otherwise, you may be able to do them on your own after training with this: Stereo Image of Titan with Training bars
Just to clarify, the "command" to turn "on" the oscillator for Channel A was not sent due to human error.
So that equates to no data sent to Earth from Cassini for that Channel which contains the wind data and half of the photos.
Channel B does not have a similar oscillator so it did not suffer from the same problem.
So my question is, what data did they get, (or could get potentially)?
Sounds like the photos will be lost because all they seem to have accomplished with the global radar conglomerate was a measurement of Huygens's Doppler shifting carrier wave signal.
This is probably not as accurate as the direct measurements but will give us a replay of the descent to within 1km thanks to some correlation to VLBI measurements taken on Earth also.
There is a heated debate between project teams going on in the background as to exactly where the probe landed.
So this data should do well to help pinpoint the location.
I'm interested in seeing more images.
Knowing wind speeds is good data, but personally I'd much rather have more photos for my collage.:)
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Every chance I get, I boot Windows out the door; for any sized company.
From my experience, anything *nix is the best choice for business critical.
Further, converting those big Windows licensing costs into consulting/support dollars is a wise choice for any Linux capable consultant.
The client benefits from lower overall support costs because the machines run so reliably.
The consultant who sells Windows servers is probably some "accelerated" DeVry graduate who also sells Norton and McAfee for protection;
(Kind of like selling someone a condom with a hole in it)
Yes, you've definitely defined a sweet spot.
I wonder, is there yet another level where you'll want to start clustering instead?
Then the cycle repeats.
Here in Edmonton, the major metropolitan areas have WiFi access by nature of business density.
/. , I bought a Palm T3 with WiFi Card and loaded on NetChaser.
Thanks to comments on
The unit goes off, (beeps and vibrates to show an access point), every step I take in any major business area.
More so in places like the University of Alberta.
I'm thinking this would be the case anywhere in the world.
Although, some places like coffee shops do this on purpose, I don't think other open access points are as intentional.
Now all I need is that VOIP WiFi to replace my cell phone.
When it comes down to actually purchasing anything "dual", the price always leads me to buy two seperate systems with money left over to bank.
In the future no doubt more applications will include multi-threading, but I'm not holding my breath.
What do you think the stability will be like with yet more bloated code?
When setting up servers, you will most certainly find that "dual" is something to stay away from. Running multiple machines is far more economical, easier to replace components, and moving your eggs out of one basket in a client/server environment is really a good idea unless you enjoy the pressure of having a company go completely offline in one shot. Anyone have instances where this is contrary?
lol, seriously though, you could bioengineer the grass to give you more BTUs.
More importantly, what would the appliance I burn them in look like?
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These stories would be far more interesting if they pursued the recipe.
Another story;
http://www.agrinewsinteractive.com/fullstory.htm?
Here is a good link;
http://www.reap-canada.com/bio_and_climate_3_2.ht
A stove that burns pellets;
http://www.pelletstove.com/
Google does not like my search choice;
machine to make "grass pellet"
http://www.google.ca/search?num=20&hl=en&q=machin
Do what most Canadians do when things get shut down...buy a flat of beer and sit around the fire pit till dawn...then pass out.
Seriously though, I'd like to see one of these in Canada.
The beer here is far better.
I can envision a flexible photovoltaic fabric skin around the whole thing with rubber feet at each node or an energy collection mode that unrolls a photovoltaic sheet.
With a fabric skin it would look like an ameba when it moved.
I like the concept overall.
Should be interesting if this comes to fruition.
Ya but were talkin the land of the BIG.
Las Vegas should be able to handle the entire industry, no?
The story does not say why it was cancelled.
Same reason as last time?
LOL!
I'd mod that up if I could.
lol
No wonder I have back problems lugging this around: Vintage TV
Let me save you the suspense.
It's painful.
I thought my Timex Sinclair was pretty portable.
Carrying around a TV was harsh though.
Timex Sinclair Emulator
Timex Sinclair Picture
So I guess no one would be interested in a cluster of 64bit P4s?
Seriously though, I'd love to see them start to increase the cores from 2 to 4 then 8 etc.
Could the chip be designed like a parking lot, such that if a processing core is being used the request is sent to the next available core?
Time to make the chips smarter without relying on enhancements from the OS community.
Just trying to punch a hole in this paper bag.
ntpdate ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de
(Germany always seems to work best for me for some reason)
Account for your GMT offset and THEN watch the numbers turn.
Otherwise, you won't feel that disturbance in the force as 1000s of geeks go "Ahhhh"
If you felt that force 4 minutes before the turnover, it's just all those Astronomers going "Ahhhhh" because they converted to Sidereal Time.
Ya your right.
I'm wrong.
Go collect your hero biscuit now.
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Maybe it's a good thing I'm *not* employed as a scientist.
This way I can butcher the pictures.
Here is the link to the Enceladus image I cooked up to bring out all those surface features instead of that drab grey.
Enceladus Feature Contrast
"Dell can send a service engineer out to fix their products if they fail. JPL can't"
Put a repair robot on the thing then.
AND for heavens sakes put flashable ROM on everything.
Why is it I have to solve all the problems of the Universe?
"Reliability is more important than speed or even mass."
So you're saying that reliability can not be built into integration and miniaturization?
Come on!
"Titan IV is the biggest expendable launcher the US has. What exactly is the problem with using this?"
Nothing if you don't care about every milligram.
"But I'll tell you what, it will run for far longer and much more reliably, and will be far more useful. So don't knock it."
Are you speaking hypothetically that it will be better in the future?
Cause if you are, that's my point exactly, if they diverge away from RS232 jackets in probes of the past.
That Huygens mission cost almost 1$ per km.
If we want more useful missions, we need to get that cost under control or you can forget about sending anything human into the future.
I "obviously" disagree.
:-> )
If they were concerned about saving every mil"l"igram then why does the probe look like the inside of 8086?
Space hardening and 1980 technology? blah!
They strapped the thing to a converted ballistic missile for crying out loud.
AND if you recall, the probe was *not* as successful as it could have been.
Remember the Doppler shifting problem or the Chan A loss?
My point is, if we are going to do this again, let's evolve the technology and get more bang for our buck using more integration and miniaturization.
Hell, Dell does it successfully. (well sort of
If you think RS232 is the future of spacecraft and probe design, then I'd have to say your very narrow minded.
My point is simply this:
Integrate and condense; you'll come in on budget with more gear to ride the rocket IMHO.
If you read the entire message you'd have seen the "Albeit" caveat.
I didn't think I had to point out the obvious need for "hardening" the electronics in the rigors of space exploration.
It certainly doesn't mean you can't improve and shrink probe design.
"..., I would like deep-penetrating radar"
I'd like to see a permanent orbiter that can map out the moon in detail first.
Select a target for something similar to "comet busting".
Then drop several probes into prime targets.
Further, lets put some robotics onboard these probes.
Look at the heavy equipment used in the Huygens probe.
Albeit its great for durability, there has to be a more compact way to design the connectors.
Look at these pictures:
Huygens Internals
Huygens RS232 Connectors
Surely you can save space and weight with a more efficient connector than an RS232 jacket.
Look at how compact electronic devices are.
Get Sony to help with development.
Be good for some advertising I'd think.
Ya I'm starting to get tired of everything Google.
How about Google continue to focus on improving its search engine?
Search engine technology still has much room for improvement IMHO.
It's frustrating when you can't find what you're looking for and Google is working on some other service to offer.
My fear is that they will grow into a massive consuming organism with little symbiotic intentions bent on monopolizing everything.
No thanks, we have enough of those types of companies already.
To make things easier, here is a reconstruction with instruction.
Just sit back about 2 feet from the monitor and try to cross your eyes till you get something similar to the bottom group.
If there is a good response to this, I'll do the others.
Otherwise, you may be able to do them on your own after training with this:
Stereo Image of Titan with Training bars
Just to clarify, the "command" to turn "on" the oscillator for Channel A was not sent due to human error.
:)
Lager version at spacescience.ca
So that equates to no data sent to Earth from Cassini for that Channel which contains the wind data and half of the photos.
Channel B does not have a similar oscillator so it did not suffer from the same problem.
So my question is, what data did they get, (or could get potentially)?
Sounds like the photos will be lost because all they seem to have accomplished with the global radar conglomerate was a measurement of Huygens's Doppler shifting carrier wave signal.
This is probably not as accurate as the direct measurements but will give us a replay of the descent to within 1km thanks to some correlation to VLBI measurements taken on Earth also.
There is a heated debate between project teams going on in the background as to exactly where the probe landed.
So this data should do well to help pinpoint the location.
Because, I made up a collage, Titan's Huygens Collage
I'm interested in seeing more images. Knowing wind speeds is good data, but personally I'd much rather have more photos for my collage.