When you are porting an accounting application to a new platform for the 10th time the waterfall process works pretty good, the lack of iterations is actually a good thing.
You shouldn't be needing a new design document if all you're doing is porting to a new platform.
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As far as notebook chips are concerned, I remember reading that the Pentium-M requires less power than the corresponding AMD chip (I beleive that would be a Sempron model now).
As long as AMD does not make their own chip set Intel will have if not a real at least a perceived advantage in stability.
From what I've heard, AMD and nVidia work pretty closely together. They may not be the same company, but I'm fairly sure that nVidia gets most of the support it wants from AMD when designing their AMD support chips.
Still, can't see the need for such a large memory. With an appropriate disk configuration, interleaving writes among the disks, one should be able to write data to disks as fast the system would be able to acquire it. And with disk speeds in the 150Mb/sec range, it's hard to imagine a system that would be acquiring data so fast.
We still grow the same corn. Sure we have tractors now, but even they have not advanced in years again.
Wanna make a bet on that?
The varieties of corn grown today are quite different than those grown 30 years ago. Typically producing two medium length ears per stalk rather than one long ear. The rows of corn are planted closer together. The plants within a row are spaced more closely. The varieties used today are more tolerant of this high density planting. Some varieties have been genetically engineered to combat certain insects or to be glyphosate (herbicide) tolerant. Correspondingly, yields have improved from about 110 bu/acre to 180 bu/acre. Back in the 1930's or 1940's a farmer could expect only 35-45 bu/acre.
Field tractors today are different as well, typically having four-wheel drive , and much higher horsepower ratings. Also one might typically to see considerably more electonic gadgets in the cab of a tractor than 30 years ago.
YOu realize, that the big F-1 engines on the Saturn-V were a revison of ones designed for the military. The rockets for the mercury program were basicaly ICBM's. The whole program wouldn't have been done if it the research and development didn't have immediate miliatry applications.
The military wanted to be able to put up spy satellites, and develop improved ICBMs. That's why the space program was so important.
Article:... though genetic evidence suggests one ancestor for all eyes.
Actually, from what I've read, the eye has been invented several times. The eye of a fly or insect is totally different than the typical mammalian eye.
They don't use a typical lens for focusing. I've also read that the octapus eye was also an independent evolution.
Not only language, but certain aspects of mathematics also require specific areas of the brain. There are people who have little sense of what numbers mean due to brain injuries or defects.
but I do know that hoary is an adjective used in the common names of a fox and marmot.
I believe that 'hoary' is an adjective that describes the coat of the animal. I believe it means that the fur has light colored ends on a generally darker color fur.
Having Mission Control in Houston, Texas was pretty much a political decision. I'm sure Lyndon B. Johnson (former President from Texas for you youngsters) had something to do with it.
Back in the day, to get the needed support for the space program, the polititions had to ensure that NASA contracts were spread out among various states. That's why you had parts and subsystems coming from all over the U.S, and various facilities located in different states.
Yes you can change the platform you are based on, but this typically costs more money than it is worth.
Sometimes one doesn't have a choice. Outgrowing old hardware, for instance.
Yes you could modify the source, but this will cost more money than it is worth in R&D.
I've not found this to be true. Typically mods that would be needed are relatively small. It may take awhile to garner enought of an understanding of the existing code to properly make the change, howerver. It certainlty beats waiting around 4 months for the DB vendor to fix a problem in their coce.
I.E., yes you are locked in, in the same way that the traditional behemoths that dominate the industry haved succesfully negotiated
But by having ths source code, and a whole community of others that understand the source code, you're free to make changes that are needed for, or would improve the performance of your own applications. You have the ultimate control of the database software, not some vendor whose going to cater to the needs its largest customers.
I guess there are apps that require something like SQL Server or Oracle, and there are apps that don't require much beyond a plain old database, for which MySQL will do quite nicely.
I'ld look at using an Open Source DB first. If I couldn't find the functionality I needed, then I'ld look to a DB such as Oracle or SQL Sever.
Sony has been coasting on their laurels for a number of years now. I realized a number of years ago that their quality was no better than the average run of the mill electonics product. The headphones on their audio products are generally of lesser quality. Don't believe me? Go to an audio store and listen to a good pair of good headphones vs your Sony ones.
Actually their definition of portable is more like:
It has wheels, or can be placed on something that has wheels.
Or possibly: Can be dissassembled, moved to a different location, and re-set up and working within a day.
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I was expecting a recipe for Penguin a l'orange.
Freedom 7 was not the first manned sub-orbital flight.
Friendship 7 was not the first manned orbital flight.
There was this country called the Soviet Union, remember?
You shouldn't be needing a new design document if all you're doing is porting to a new platform.
Oh, wait, now I see it. PS/2, not PS2.
As far as notebook chips are concerned, I remember reading that the Pentium-M requires less power than the corresponding AMD chip (I beleive that would be a Sempron model now).
From what I've heard, AMD and nVidia work pretty closely together. They may not be the same company, but I'm fairly sure that nVidia gets most of the support it wants from AMD when designing their AMD support chips.
Still, can't see the need for such a large memory. With an appropriate disk configuration, interleaving writes among the disks, one should be able to write data to disks as fast the system would be able to acquire it. And with disk speeds in the 150Mb/sec range, it's hard to imagine a system that would be acquiring data so fast.
Wanna make a bet on that?
The varieties of corn grown today are quite different than those grown 30 years ago. Typically producing two medium length ears per stalk rather than one long ear. The rows of corn are planted closer together. The plants within a row are spaced more closely. The varieties used today are more tolerant of this high density planting. Some varieties have been genetically engineered to combat certain insects or to be glyphosate (herbicide) tolerant. Correspondingly, yields have improved from about 110 bu/acre to 180 bu/acre. Back in the 1930's or 1940's a farmer could expect only 35-45 bu/acre.
Field tractors today are different as well, typically having four-wheel drive , and much higher horsepower ratings. Also one might typically to see considerably more electonic gadgets in the cab of a tractor than 30 years ago.
YOu realize, that the big F-1 engines on the Saturn-V were a revison of ones designed for the military. The rockets for the mercury program were basicaly ICBM's. The whole program wouldn't have been done if it the research and development didn't have immediate miliatry applications. The military wanted to be able to put up spy satellites, and develop improved ICBMs. That's why the space program was so important.
Proceed to light speed (through a supercooled Bose-Einstein condensate, approximately 15 mph).
Or acts in a Television Sci Fi series.
Try Radio Shack.
Article: ... though genetic evidence suggests one ancestor for all eyes.
Actually, from what I've read, the eye has been invented several times. The eye of a fly or insect is totally different than the typical mammalian eye.
They don't use a typical lens for focusing. I've also read that the octapus eye was also an independent evolution.
The human brain is really quite remarkable.
I believe that 'hoary' is an adjective that describes the coat of the animal. I believe it means that the fur has light colored ends on a generally darker color fur.
Having Mission Control in Houston, Texas was pretty much a political decision. I'm sure Lyndon B. Johnson (former President from Texas for you youngsters) had something to do with it. Back in the day, to get the needed support for the space program, the polititions had to ensure that NASA contracts were spread out among various states. That's why you had parts and subsystems coming from all over the U.S, and various facilities located in different states.
Sometimes one doesn't have a choice. Outgrowing old hardware, for instance. Yes you could modify the source, but this will cost more money than it is worth in R&D.
I've not found this to be true. Typically mods that would be needed are relatively small. It may take awhile to garner enought of an understanding of the existing code to properly make the change, howerver. It certainlty beats waiting around 4 months for the DB vendor to fix a problem in their coce. I.E., yes you are locked in, in the same way that the traditional behemoths that dominate the industry haved succesfully negotiated
But by having ths source code, and a whole community of others that understand the source code, you're free to make changes that are needed for, or would improve the performance of your own applications. You have the ultimate control of the database software, not some vendor whose going to cater to the needs its largest customers.
I guess there are apps that require something like SQL Server or Oracle, and there are apps that don't require much beyond a plain old database, for which MySQL will do quite nicely. I'ld look at using an Open Source DB first. If I couldn't find the functionality I needed, then I'ld look to a DB such as Oracle or SQL Sever.
It appears that they've still got a bug or two to work out with this system.
Here's a link to a device that can extend the range of communication. http://www.califone.com/product_info.php?cPath=40& products_id=99
Is this related to long hall communications?
Sony has been coasting on their laurels for a number of years now. I realized a number of years ago that their quality was no better than the average run of the mill electonics product. The headphones on their audio products are generally of lesser quality. Don't believe me? Go to an audio store and listen to a good pair of good headphones vs your Sony ones.
based on this article, he quite likely was autistic.
Actually their definition of portable is more like: It has wheels, or can be placed on something that has wheels. Or possibly: Can be dissassembled, moved to a different location, and re-set up and working within a day.
Radio Shack had a z-80 based pocket computer back in the mid 80's. I can't remember the model number off hand.