First, let me say thanks for replying. Second, do you have any information on actually using the serial interface on my directtv receiver? I've seen that thing and long wondered what the possibilities were with it.
Is there a PCI card that I can stick into a machine that will let me watch DirectTV? Assuming I have a valid card? Last I heard, no. Are you suggesting that people should hang a PVR directly off of their sat receiver and not be able to change channels, etc?
I'm trying to figure out what the implications are of your statement.
Anyone know if there are any cards which can hook up to my DirectTV dish? Seems like all of these PVR cards for your computer only work with cable. Are there any which work with satellite?
Actually, those that serious study and implement/experiment with various GC implementations and algorithms are never happy with Java's implementation. From what I've read, there are two or three rather obvious routes they can go which should dramatically improve things, however, Sun has done nothing other than tiddle their existing implementation.
Simply stated, as far as GC implementations go, Java's just isn't very good.
My neighbor has one for mowing his yard. He stopped using it because it has to mow pretty much every day. This is because it's electric and can only mow low grass. Once the grass gets too high, it's can't move well or mow (bogs down too much). Plus, you have to constantly recharge it every day.
In other words, this time saving marvel required more time spread out every day of the week than it took to mow it once per week on a single day. Then, you always had the concern about someone stealing it, breaking it, or running a toy over, if you were not there to watch it.
Now then, when they make the cold fusion model, with self defense laser turret, I'm there!;)
He obviously was being sarcastic to some degree. Perhaps you should securely attach your brain before you comment further. I thought it was rather obvious what his intent was. He clearly did not intend to be taken literally.
The point is, with Windows, you have maybe a couple of dozen significant apps, the OS, and IE. With most Linux distros, you get thousands of apps; hundreds are rather significant. The fact that you have such a huge difference in the number of applications between the two and yet MS still has such a huge number of security related flaws constantly being issued, should open anyone's eyes that there is a serious problem. If you can't understand this as is being explained, then obviously you're a hopeless troll.
Not really. You seem to forget that if IBM is caught "being guilty" of IP violations, they may turn around and ask for royalties from all Linux users. In other words, the IBM/SCO case would at as a legal precedent to allow them to enforce their IP and gleen royalties from it.
Having said that, someone asking a question is hardly blowing something out of proportion!
On one you at least have a choice. Wow...that was really hard to figure out. Besides, comparing one to the other is so completely out of balance you obviously have no idea what it is you're talking about.
Wow...was it Wacko-Monday that they let all you guys out???
Thanks for the information. I have a better fix. I just don't buy diamonds. IMO, it's only a matter of time before they become worthless or almost so (decades, centuries, who knows?)...they are artifially inflated and controlled and have an actual value of any rock you find in your back yard.
Long story short, I don't buy into the BS that is diamonds.
Well, once you take your tin foil hat off and the aliens stop reading your mind, you can attempt to go learn more about it. The information was gleaned from a documentary on deBeers, the diamond trade and the resulting slavery forced on the population as a result of deBeers and the government that he owns.
Feel free to ignore it if you like...but being so rude about it only makes you appear like a total jackass to those of us who happen to know even a little-bit on the topic.
Sorry, no I can't. It was on a documentary I saw on TV several years ago. They also happened to mention something about a mine here in the US being shutdown the day after deBeers visited too. I just don't recall which state it was in either.
deBeers has already seemingly purchased the rights to such technologies in the past. deBeers does to artificial diamond technology what the oil industry has long done to alternative fuel/energy sources.
Long story short, the technology to create non-industrial grade diamonds, flawless and in almost any color, for dollars each, has existed for years. deBeers visited the plant and it was shutdown the next day. Hmm....wonder what happened there...go figure...
In various parts of the world, diamonds are a dime-a-dozen and are directly responsible for much mistreatment of fellow humans. Remember, the next time you buy a diamond for your sweetie, slave (and probably child) labor, blood, sweat and tears literally goes into each one. Ahh...nothing says love like the suffering of your fellow man.
You really need to think about what you've posted. It changes nothing. Feel free to do the math. The numbers I gave were to help you along in your logic. Even that seems to of fallen short. When you can figure out why, you'll probably understand the rest of the thread and understand why it's full of legitate comments.
I should clarify something. When I said, "it turned out there was no way to do what we needed with a Microsoft solution", isn't exactly correct. It sould say, that in one of those situations, it would only be possible if TWO MS boxes were used. We wanted only one box and didn't want to add the cost of another box, plus MS license plus the TCO associated with it. In short, it couldn't be done without HUGE extra cost associated with it. Thusly, Linux saved the day.
Meanwhile, back in reality, if a tech takes 20-30 calls per day and there are 100-techs, how often do you think the boss is going to be able to listen in. Besides, listening in or not has absolutely nothing to do with them offering jobs or the reality of what you're commenting on. Period.
Your ability to use logic some how seems rather lacking.
LOL....I worked with MS support people after ramping it up through the support chain. I have been offered jobs over the phone because I usually know more about the product then they do. This, even, after it's been elevated up 3 times. In short, MS support generaly is very crappy. If you're in awe of these folks, your jaw would drop if you experienced real support from knowledgable people.
On a side note, both times I've had to us MS support were situations where their products claimed it would do what we needed. Both times, it turned out there was no way to do what we needed with a Microsoft solution. In both cases, we replaced an MS box with a Linux box. Problem solved.
I'm confused as to why you didn't do an incremental deployment or a test deployment. Seems like either would of easily caught this, with even the most modest of testing.
Don't discount the amount of memory that you can save from shared libraries and DLL's. If you have a DLL which consumes, on average, 5M of ram and it's used by three applications at the same time (e.g. word, excel, outlook), that's a savings of 10M (3x5-5M; one still has to use it). It doesn't take too many applications (think GUI widget sets) to be run concurrently for this to significantly add up.
It also helps reduce application start up times on MS platforms. In the case of Win, they don't generally use load on demand as one thinks of from the unix world. Instead, they load all references into the page file and then demand load from the page file as needed. This means, shorter start times for applications which share DLL's as they only have to be loaded once (into the page file).
Should one not be ensuring that known host contents are properly secured in it's container? Don't know about you, but I fully expect to be badly burned if I spill hot coffee on myself. Had they not ever purchased coffee from McD's before? Did they not know store bought coffee is wicked hot? On top of that, only an idiot places a steaming hot cup of coffee between their legs without first ensuring the lid is tightly secured. Don't know about you, but I even check this with ice cold soda too.
In other words, they were complete idiots. I'm sorry it happened but it was 100% their own fault.
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Shesh...what a pig of an application!
First, let me say thanks for replying. Second, do you have any information on actually using the serial interface on my directtv receiver? I've seen that thing and long wondered what the possibilities were with it.
Thanks!
Is there a PCI card that I can stick into a machine that will let me watch DirectTV? Assuming I have a valid card? Last I heard, no. Are you suggesting that people should hang a PVR directly off of their sat receiver and not be able to change channels, etc?
I'm trying to figure out what the implications are of your statement.
Anyone know if there are any cards which can hook up to my DirectTV dish? Seems like all of these PVR cards for your computer only work with cable. Are there any which work with satellite?
Exchange so it was either IMAP or MAPI
;)
;)
You mean it was either IMAP or DCOM or DCOM+MAPI. MAPI is not a line-wire protocol. It's an API.
The pedant in me was just screaming to get out...sorry.
Actually, those that serious study and implement/experiment with various GC implementations and algorithms are never happy with Java's implementation. From what I've read, there are two or three rather obvious routes they can go which should dramatically improve things, however, Sun has done nothing other than tiddle their existing implementation.
Simply stated, as far as GC implementations go, Java's just isn't very good.
My neighbor has one for mowing his yard. He stopped using it because it has to mow pretty much every day. This is because it's electric and can only mow low grass. Once the grass gets too high, it's can't move well or mow (bogs down too much). Plus, you have to constantly recharge it every day.
;)
In other words, this time saving marvel required more time spread out every day of the week than it took to mow it once per week on a single day. Then, you always had the concern about someone stealing it, breaking it, or running a toy over, if you were not there to watch it.
Now then, when they make the cold fusion model, with self defense laser turret, I'm there!
He obviously was being sarcastic to some degree. Perhaps you should securely attach your brain before you comment further. I thought it was rather obvious what his intent was. He clearly did not intend to be taken literally.
The point is, with Windows, you have maybe a couple of dozen significant apps, the OS, and IE. With most Linux distros, you get thousands of apps; hundreds are rather significant. The fact that you have such a huge difference in the number of applications between the two and yet MS still has such a huge number of security related flaws constantly being issued, should open anyone's eyes that there is a serious problem. If you can't understand this as is being explained, then obviously you're a hopeless troll.
...and if you were in touch with the American electorial process, you'd see that Bush was too....which has nothing to do with anything...
*cough*..hint...popular vote DOES NOT elect the president! Period!
This is a joke, right?
...walk along, nothing to see here...
Anyone with any common sense will see that your examples have absolutely nothing to do with anything.
shesh...
Not really. You seem to forget that if IBM is caught "being guilty" of IP violations, they may turn around and ask for royalties from all Linux users. In other words, the IBM/SCO case would at as a legal precedent to allow them to enforce their IP and gleen royalties from it.
Having said that, someone asking a question is hardly blowing something out of proportion!
On one you at least have a choice. Wow...that was really hard to figure out. Besides, comparing one to the other is so completely out of balance you obviously have no idea what it is you're talking about.
Wow...was it Wacko-Monday that they let all you guys out???
Shesh...
Thanks for the information. I have a better fix. I just don't buy diamonds. IMO, it's only a matter of time before they become worthless or almost so (decades, centuries, who knows?)...they are artifially inflated and controlled and have an actual value of any rock you find in your back yard.
Long story short, I don't buy into the BS that is diamonds.
Well, once you take your tin foil hat off and the aliens stop reading your mind, you can attempt to go learn more about it. The information was gleaned from a documentary on deBeers, the diamond trade and the resulting slavery forced on the population as a result of deBeers and the government that he owns.
Feel free to ignore it if you like...but being so rude about it only makes you appear like a total jackass to those of us who happen to know even a little-bit on the topic.
Sorry, no I can't. It was on a documentary I saw on TV several years ago. They also happened to mention something about a mine here in the US being shutdown the day after deBeers visited too. I just don't recall which state it was in either.
deBeers has already seemingly purchased the rights to such technologies in the past. deBeers does to artificial diamond technology what the oil industry has long done to alternative fuel/energy sources.
Long story short, the technology to create non-industrial grade diamonds, flawless and in almost any color, for dollars each, has existed for years. deBeers visited the plant and it was shutdown the next day. Hmm....wonder what happened there...go figure...
In various parts of the world, diamonds are a dime-a-dozen and are directly responsible for much mistreatment of fellow humans. Remember, the next time you buy a diamond for your sweetie, slave (and probably child) labor, blood, sweat and tears literally goes into each one. Ahh...nothing says love like the suffering of your fellow man.
You really need to think about what you've posted. It changes nothing. Feel free to do the math. The numbers I gave were to help you along in your logic. Even that seems to of fallen short. When you can figure out why, you'll probably understand the rest of the thread and understand why it's full of legitate comments.
I should clarify something. When I said, "it turned out there was no way to do what we needed with a Microsoft solution", isn't exactly correct. It sould say, that in one of those situations, it would only be possible if TWO MS boxes were used. We wanted only one box and didn't want to add the cost of another box, plus MS license plus the TCO associated with it. In short, it couldn't be done without HUGE extra cost associated with it. Thusly, Linux saved the day.
Meanwhile, back in reality, if a tech takes 20-30 calls per day and there are 100-techs, how often do you think the boss is going to be able to listen in. Besides, listening in or not has absolutely nothing to do with them offering jobs or the reality of what you're commenting on. Period.
Your ability to use logic some how seems rather lacking.
Because it reflects reality.
Close your eyes and hope it goes away all you like. In the meantime, my story is 100% accurate and highly reflective of reality.
LOL....I worked with MS support people after ramping it up through the support chain. I have been offered jobs over the phone because I usually know more about the product then they do. This, even, after it's been elevated up 3 times. In short, MS support generaly is very crappy. If you're in awe of these folks, your jaw would drop if you experienced real support from knowledgable people.
On a side note, both times I've had to us MS support were situations where their products claimed it would do what we needed. Both times, it turned out there was no way to do what we needed with a Microsoft solution. In both cases, we replaced an MS box with a Linux box. Problem solved.
MS support stinks.
I'm confused as to why you didn't do an incremental deployment or a test deployment. Seems like either would of easily caught this, with even the most modest of testing.
Don't discount the amount of memory that you can save from shared libraries and DLL's. If you have a DLL which consumes, on average, 5M of ram and it's used by three applications at the same time (e.g. word, excel, outlook), that's a savings of 10M (3x5-5M; one still has to use it). It doesn't take too many applications (think GUI widget sets) to be run concurrently for this to significantly add up.
It also helps reduce application start up times on MS platforms. In the case of Win, they don't generally use load on demand as one thinks of from the unix world. Instead, they load all references into the page file and then demand load from the page file as needed. This means, shorter start times for applications which share DLL's as they only have to be loaded once (into the page file).
Valid point.
Since we're pretty far off topic, hopefully no one else will jump in on this.
Should one not be ensuring that known host contents are properly secured in it's container? Don't know about you, but I fully expect to be badly burned if I spill hot coffee on myself. Had they not ever purchased coffee from McD's before? Did they not know store bought coffee is wicked hot? On top of that, only an idiot places a steaming hot cup of coffee between their legs without first ensuring the lid is tightly secured. Don't know about you, but I even check this with ice cold soda too.
In other words, they were complete idiots. I'm sorry it happened but it was 100% their own fault.