...that the son of an all powerful omnipotent (yet invisible) being was nailed to a cross 2000 years ago but was resurected, came back for a long weekend but hasn't been really seen from since.
It's strange, that when you strip away all the hype, the product tie-ins, the in your face constant advertising, and just go see the movie on it's own merits, it's not really all that bad...
The 0.9 version was just another rehash of the original microsoft rich text documents published in 92. Without the RPC/DCE API, you can't implement CIFS. Unless 1.0 includes the RPC/DCE API codes, this is just another useless document.
Text encoding distributed object messaging and remote procedure calls, just so you can tunnel over HTTP is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. If you sent the objects via carrier pigeon you could avoid the firewalls too!
By the time I get a fat multi-megabit pipe out to my cabin in the woods, the internet will be saturated with this BLOAT, and I still won't be able to do much more than send email.
Pitch correction boxes are beat (no pun intended).
They work "sort of ok" for simple harmonies, but as soon as you try them with complex harmonies they kind of suck. Plus they push the voice to the pure tempered tones, which is unnatural for a sliding instrument such as the voice. A natural voice (like a violin) will lean microtones off from the tempered pitch in the desired direction of the tendency tones. The result of pitch correctors is a very artificial sound.
However, the picture generally in Antarctica is a complicated one with temperatures in the interior actually falling over the same period. There is also some evidence that the retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, on the other side of the peninsula to the Larsen B shelf, has halted.
Why is this a disaster? The shelf displaced the same amount of water when it was solid that it does now melted because it was floating in the first place. Considering that the interior recessions have appeared to stop, the dire predictions of a sealevel rise are totally unsubstantiated.
Are you going to accept huge latencies to move data around?
While I didn't and wont deny your points regarding data ownership and privacy, I'd be more cautious about your technology presumptions. Latencies around hard drives are huge, and they haven't changed much over the past 10 years. It certainly is not keeping pace with networking and transport speeds. Your 100Mbs NIC has roughly the same throughput of the latest and greatest IDE drives. GigE has about 6-8 times the throughput of a disk drive and 10GigE has 60-80 times the throughput. It's just a matter of time before drive latency is outpaced by networking latency.
Network Latency is an issue, but on the LAN it is already noise compared to spindle speeds. It wont be long before the WAN is no different.
While I'm personaly not going to put my storage in some SP, I will put in my closet.
Ever since the first PC's, the technology in the box has been modularized and extracted from the box. Ironically, the PC was to break us free from the centralized mainframes.
Networking has once again revitalized specialization, centralization and modularization of the components within the box. We no longer think of the printer being an accessory to the PC. Direct Attached, NAS, and SAN storage have moved disks out of the box. Applications which used to run on our PCs now live on the server.
We now ask questions about our PCs. Why is there a hard disk in my workstation? Why is there a CPU capable of immense processing power in my workstation that will run idle for most of its life? Why is there anything in my PC other than the input and output devices that I require? Why can't everything else go in a specialized room somewhere, where it can be maintained, backed up and monitored more easily? Perhaps more controversially, why do I have to bother with that room at all and couldn't it be a service that I subsribe to?
I think if you were hit by one of these shells your kidneys would fail in a matter of microseconds.
The report also warned that DU particles in the ground near attack sites could contaminate the soil and pose a risk if some of the soil is swallowed by children.
Hey kids, see that burning hulk of a tank carcass over there in that crater! Let's go eat the soil around it.
You've hit the nail on the head for some embedded applications. We must draw a distinction between embedded systems which are tooled for a single purpose (routers, switches, storage appliances, caching appliances, accelerators, firewalls, etc), and systems which rely more on an application and service layer (PDA's, game consoles, cell phones, etc). Clearly both are technically suited for Linux, but it is unlikely that the first catagory will ever be dominated by linux given the licensing. This is especially true for the high end. Few will build a $100,000 box with GPL'd kernel modifications. The risks in building hardware are too high as it is, (because its so damn expensive todo!).
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Remember what happened to those Texas College students burning those logs? Don't build your CD burning pile too high. Stay clear when you ignite it. Be careful! Children's Barney CDs tend to ignite quickly. Don't burn only Brittney Spears. Don't leave out your David Hasslehoff and Shatner CD's. Be creative with your bad artists.
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The Searchers... staring Jar Jar Binks. The last scene, with his ears flopping in the wind standing in the doorway!
"She be comanch-a--wwooobbeeedo---!"
LCD monitors don't have refresh rates.
...that the son of an all powerful omnipotent (yet invisible) being was nailed to a cross 2000 years ago but was resurected, came back for a long weekend but hasn't been really seen from since.
Timebombs are a terrible idea. If I could draw and submit ASCII art of "thumbs down" I would.
The 0.9 version was just another rehash of the original microsoft rich text documents published in 92. Without the RPC/DCE API, you can't implement CIFS. Unless 1.0 includes the RPC/DCE API codes, this is just another useless document.
Text encoding distributed object messaging and remote procedure calls, just so you can tunnel over HTTP is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. If you sent the objects via carrier pigeon you could avoid the firewalls too!
By the time I get a fat multi-megabit pipe out to my cabin in the woods, the internet will be saturated with this BLOAT, and I still won't be able to do much more than send email.
Pitch correction boxes are beat (no pun intended).
They work "sort of ok" for simple harmonies, but as soon as you try them with complex harmonies they kind of suck. Plus they push the voice to the pure tempered tones, which is unnatural for a sliding instrument such as the voice. A natural voice (like a violin) will lean microtones off from the tempered pitch in the desired direction of the tendency tones. The result of pitch correctors is a very artificial sound.
That thing would give me nightmares.
This is just the same crappy CIFS documentation that microsoft has been recycling since the mid 90's in yet another doc format.
The facts are that without the DCE/RPC portion of the spec, you've got to get your reverse engineering hat on.
Why is this a disaster? The shelf displaced the same amount of water when it was solid that it does now melted because it was floating in the first place. Considering that the interior recessions have appeared to stop, the dire predictions of a sealevel rise are totally unsubstantiated.
While I didn't and wont deny your points regarding data ownership and privacy, I'd be more cautious about your technology presumptions. Latencies around hard drives are huge, and they haven't changed much over the past 10 years. It certainly is not keeping pace with networking and transport speeds. Your 100Mbs NIC has roughly the same throughput of the latest and greatest IDE drives. GigE has about 6-8 times the throughput of a disk drive and 10GigE has 60-80 times the throughput. It's just a matter of time before drive latency is outpaced by networking latency.
Network Latency is an issue, but on the LAN it is already noise compared to spindle speeds. It wont be long before the WAN is no different.
While I'm personaly not going to put my storage in some SP, I will put in my closet.
Ever since the first PC's, the technology in the box has been modularized and extracted from the box. Ironically, the PC was to break us free from the centralized mainframes.
Networking has once again revitalized specialization, centralization and modularization of the components within the box. We no longer think of the printer being an accessory to the PC. Direct Attached, NAS, and SAN storage have moved disks out of the box. Applications which used to run on our PCs now live on the server.
We now ask questions about our PCs. Why is there a hard disk in my workstation? Why is there a CPU capable of immense processing power in my workstation that will run idle for most of its life? Why is there anything in my PC other than the input and output devices that I require? Why can't everything else go in a specialized room somewhere, where it can be maintained, backed up and monitored more easily? Perhaps more controversially, why do I have to bother with that room at all and couldn't it be a service that I subsribe to?
The report also warned that DU particles in the ground near attack sites could contaminate the soil and pose a risk if some of the soil is swallowed by children.
Hey kids, see that burning hulk of a tank carcass over there in that crater! Let's go eat the soil around it.
Our QA guy names all of the machines after old TV shows.
You've hit the nail on the head for some embedded applications. We must draw a distinction between embedded systems which are tooled for a single purpose (routers, switches, storage appliances, caching appliances, accelerators, firewalls, etc), and systems which rely more on an application and service layer (PDA's, game consoles, cell phones, etc). Clearly both are technically suited for Linux, but it is unlikely that the first catagory will ever be dominated by linux given the licensing. This is especially true for the high end. Few will build a $100,000 box with GPL'd kernel modifications. The risks in building hardware are too high as it is, (because its so damn expensive todo!).
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BUT!!! When combined with ATOMIC RADIATION
Man and ant become....
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MANT!!!!
(loud horns play disonate chord!)
Glass is a perfectly nutritious snack. Slandering the silicon industry with statements like this is disingenious and performs a diservice to society.
Remember what happened to those Texas College students burning those logs? Don't build your CD burning pile too high. Stay clear when you ignite it. Be careful! Children's Barney CDs tend to ignite quickly. Don't burn only Brittney Spears. Don't leave out your David Hasslehoff and Shatner CD's. Be creative with your bad artists.
They let Richard Reed onto an airplane, but they take away your serial cable.
classic
Buy him a dictionary as a wedding gift.
He had to do that otherwise she might not think it was really him.
Ok, I'm sick.