1. Your post suggests that you have limited cellphone connectivity. You can get a cellphone repeater ($200-$1000) to boost the cellphone signal. Depending on the carrier, you could be able to use EDGE/3G to get some connectivity.
2. You could use satellite . It is decently fast, but has high latency.
3. If you are in a neighborhood where broadband is widely available, but the specific location of your property is the limiting factor, you could work with your neighbor to share their broadband by way of a wifi connection. If you do some research, you will find a lot of ways to do it with things like repeaters, boosters and external antennas.
IANAL, but here is what I read in their "http://www.ajaxwindows.com/en/privacy.jspprivacy policy": [snip] Second, we collect personal and personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, credit card number and information concerning software downloaded, products and content purchased, accessed and/or downloaded through our products and services. [/snip] [snip] Choice/Opt-Out Back to top We do not disclose an individual customer's personally identifiable information to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes if we have received and processed a request from that customer not to have his or her personal information shared for this purpose. You may submit this type of opt-out request by sending an email to: information@Ajax13.com with the words "Opt Out" in the subject line, or to the following mailing address: Customer Service, Ajax13, Inc., 5960 Cornerstone Court West, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92121. In addition, we also allow you to decide whether you want to receive further marketing information from us. If you do not want Ajax13 to send to you announcements or special offers by email, please email us in the same manner as described above with the word "Remove" in the subject line. Please allow up to two weeks for your request to be processed. [/snip]
Looks like they can sell your info to spammers unless you opt-out. If you wan't to try them out, do not give them your "good" email address.
There are very, very few Oracle customers who are in any position to move away from Oracle. Those few customers will consider other options. A fraction of those will migrate - why would Oracle want to loose any Database customers for a product that they don't even own - it doesn't make sense to me.
There is also the infrastructure issue. Most corporations are standardized (or trying to standardize) on a single OS wether it be Windows, Solaris, SUSE linux or RHEL. A PHB might decide that it is cheaper to migrate an app from Oracle to SQL Server or Sybase than to make extensive changes to the corp's infrastructure.
I don't know why everybody is getting so freaked out,
Now Enterprise Linux is cheaper -> GOOD, Linux market gets bigger. IMO RHEL costs too damn much anyway. Unbreakable Linux becomes the standard linux -> GOOD, I am sick of trying to figure out how creative vendor X is in trying to hide a file from me.
On the other hand, if Red Hat goes under, Linux will loose a huge contributer, but I don't think it will be fatal.
I also doubt that Oracle would be stupid enough to limit support for their DB to Unbreakable linux. Their DB is their bread and butter, if they drop support for any OS that they curently support (say RHEL), there will be customer attrition. Why would they want to do loose Database customers for the sake of a product (Unbreakable Linux) that they will not make as much money on?
Unbreakable linux is a move against Microsoft. MS offers a stable, well integrated platform for their enterprise customers (SQL Server 2005 + Server 2003), Oracle wants to offer something comparable.
Most of these laws are designed to prevent students / non-immigrants from stealing jobs from the locals and driving down wages. This guy wasn't messing with the local job market - he could have made the same money in any city in China. Would it have been any diferent if he had made money in the stock market?
You want ACID...? Use J2EE transactions and Hibernate, and never worry about which database you use again.
Yes. But shit happens. It is always nice to have a relational database that GUARANTEES data integrity. You should not depend on the application for maintaining data integrity - all applications have bugs and you don't want those bugs thrashing your data. You shouldn't completely depend on the framework for transactions - even Websphere has bugs.
From TFA: Although the bookmark and history system will not be included in the next major update, the underlying SQLite-based MozStorage engine, which was built for the new bookmark and history system, will be included for use by plug-in developers.
Didn't firefox get popular because people wanted a lightweight browser (which mozilla wasn't)? Now they are bundling a db with the product???
I liked firefox beacuse it was a lightweight browser with good support for plugins. I was looking forward to see it run on $100 devices, celphones and so on... Looks like it will not happen because of all the bloat that firefox was supposed to stay away from.
but one of these days those $60 a month Asians are going to produce stuff as good as us $60 an hour North Americans Said Asian will cost $60 an hour when that happens...
I am a beginer when it comes to J2EE technology. I have been in Eclipse land, even paid $ for MyEclipse, but I have always come back to Netbeans (4.1) - It just works right out of the box - no need to go hunting for plugins, figuring out how they work...
In addition to that the IDE seems to follow (from a beginners perspective) the Sun Specs to the dot, so the code/xml produced should be extremely portable. Another thing I really liked about Netbeans is that it defaults to the Sun Standardized stuff (atleast when it comes to EJB's) - Instead of making you massage XDoclet to get the beans you want (MyEclipse), it has a very nice GUI for both the web.xml and ejb-jar.xml files.
Forgot to mention the nice GUI for creating the beans themselves:D.
My complements to the Netbeans team, I really like their product.
Just my thoughts, take it with a lot of salt, I am just a beginer.
-1 troll? OK i will admit i was nervous as this was my first ever post, plus it was a "first post", and the result was that I crashed and burned. The text, "The BBC News Online has an interesting story about a project to put traditional medical knowledge online..." should have read, "The BBC News Online has an interesting story about a project GOING ON IN INDIA to put traditional medical knowledge online." My confusion was further enhanced by the fact that the languages being used were what I would expect the UK to use. I understand it now, but I really am not a troll. I really was confused. Sorry. I will probably go back under my bridge now and keep to myself.
Welcome to Slashdot. Feel free to post again when you figure out what RTFA means.
I can think off several steps that they can take to reduce possibility of failure for such a device:
- Use RAM Drives. They can have an emergency battery pack to power only the RAM drive Bank on a power outage to prevent data loss.
- Use Flash based Drives.
- Derate the Opterons or change the whole CPU - Fan pardigan. If they remove the drives, they can just freeze the whole box. Removing the Hard drives will avoid the compications of having the moving parts operate in temeperatures they weren't designed for. Everything else can operate at cold temperatures. They could use a souped up meat packing/transporting truck that is already refriderated.
Given enough time and money this is supremely possible.
More than anything else, this seems to be a from of psycological warfare. Can you imagine the feelings of Bill G or Steve B when they read that article?
I mean if you are at Microsoft or Yahoo, where would you throw your money at? Office/Excel/Gamil like AJAX apps, this new 300 Uber Server threat or the next thing some bored reporter comes up with?
I don't know if this is report true or not, but I do know that Google is running a very effective psy-war campaign against their competitors.
This is above and beond what you can expect from QA. Hell this is above and beond what I would expect from a coder with a PHD in math. What Sun is looking for is h3x0r:D .
Actually, this is the kind of stuff used to generate data to program (ground hugging) cruise missiles with. The data generated can also be used as input for terrain following radars that the Indians use.
All of the above are critical technologies for a succesful (stealthy) nuclear first strike.
>> As for hackability, I think the system is based either on plain 802.11b or some derivative of it. It's really plenty hackable.
Actually, Hackability depends upon what you send accross the network. If you send unencrypted stuff over an 802.11b connection it will be hacked in no time. But if you send an already encrypted signal accross the connection, all the sniffer will see is garbabe. If you use a decent alogorithm (like RSA) which is administered well (key changed frequently), it likely will never be compromised.
Yes and No.
Class actions may not benifit the victims as much as the lawyer's but it sure does hurt the company's. Class action's are an indispensable tool to keep company's in line.
I've played with one real whacko who used to keep a list of the right and wrong things his players did, and when it hit five wrongs, he'd have his character try to kill their's. GOod thing he is getting his aggression out on D&D, otherwise, the fifth time you returned the movie you borrowed from him - LATE...
Actually, the SCO stories that gather tons of postings aren't harbringers of good news. They usually are news of more SCO shenanigans. This one is good news and the Open Source community can sit back and smile at the defeat of the "forces of evil".
>>Several telecommunications companies, which provide both dial-up Internet access as well as faster broadband connections through cable and DSL lines, say they were not involved in writing the bill.
I have lived in Texas and let me tell you this, Special interests RULE the legislature in Texas. The Texas legislature is limited by its constitution to meet for only 140 days every TWO years. The legislators are overloaded with work they HAVE to do to keep the state running. Because of that they rely on special interests very heavily.
In addition to that, campaign finance laws in Texas are virtually non-existant. There are no limits on contributions by citizens. My former representative bought a Ford Explorer with the leftovers of his campaign war-chest and got away with it.
>>THANK [Fill in god of your choice] FOR NETFLIX!!!
Actually, my local blockbuster (Norman - Ok) offers unlimited rentals (2 at a time) for $15 a month. This is a hell of a lot better than Netflix because I don't have to wait for the mailman.
But Netflix probably has a larger selection of movies. But then again, I am not that much for exotic/older movies. I guess it all depends on what your cup of tea is.
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You have several options:
1. Your post suggests that you have limited cellphone connectivity. You can get a cellphone repeater ($200-$1000) to boost the cellphone signal. Depending on the carrier, you could be able to use EDGE/3G to get some connectivity.
2. You could use satellite . It is decently fast, but has high latency.
3. If you are in a neighborhood where broadband is widely available, but the specific location of your property is the limiting factor, you could work with your neighbor to share their broadband by way of a wifi connection. If you do some research, you will find a lot of ways to do it with things like repeaters, boosters and external antennas.
Good luck.
IANAL, but here is what I read in their "http://www.ajaxwindows.com/en/privacy.jspprivacy policy":
[snip]
Second, we collect personal and personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, credit card number and information concerning software downloaded, products and content purchased, accessed and/or downloaded through our products and services.
[/snip]
[snip]
Choice/Opt-Out Back to top
We do not disclose an individual customer's personally identifiable information to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes if we have received and processed a request from that customer not to have his or her personal information shared for this purpose. You may submit this type of opt-out request by sending an email to: information@Ajax13.com with the words "Opt Out" in the subject line, or to the following mailing address: Customer Service, Ajax13, Inc., 5960 Cornerstone Court West, Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92121. In addition, we also allow you to decide whether you want to receive further marketing information from us. If you do not want Ajax13 to send to you announcements or special offers by email, please email us in the same manner as described above with the word "Remove" in the subject line. Please allow up to two weeks for your request to be processed.
[/snip]
Looks like they can sell your info to spammers unless you opt-out. If you wan't to try them out, do not give them your "good" email address.
There are very, very few Oracle customers who are in any position to move away from Oracle.
Those few customers will consider other options. A fraction of those will migrate - why would Oracle want to loose any Database customers for a product that they don't even own - it doesn't make sense to me.
There is also the infrastructure issue. Most corporations are standardized (or trying to standardize) on a single OS wether it be Windows, Solaris, SUSE linux or RHEL. A PHB might decide that it is cheaper to migrate an app from Oracle to SQL Server or Sybase than to make extensive changes to the corp's infrastructure.
I don't know why everybody is getting so freaked out,
Now Enterprise Linux is cheaper -> GOOD, Linux market gets bigger. IMO RHEL costs too damn much anyway.
Unbreakable Linux becomes the standard linux -> GOOD, I am sick of trying to figure out how creative vendor X is in trying to hide a file from me.
On the other hand, if Red Hat goes under, Linux will loose a huge contributer, but I don't think it will be fatal.
I also doubt that Oracle would be stupid enough to limit support for their DB to Unbreakable linux. Their DB is their bread and butter, if they drop support for any OS that they curently support (say RHEL), there will be customer attrition. Why would they want to do loose Database customers for the sake of a product (Unbreakable Linux) that they will not make as much money on?
Unbreakable linux is a move against Microsoft. MS offers a stable, well integrated platform for their enterprise customers (SQL Server 2005 + Server 2003), Oracle wants to offer something comparable.
Most of these laws are designed to prevent students / non-immigrants from stealing jobs from the locals and driving down wages. This guy wasn't messing with the local job market - he could have made the same money in any city in China. Would it have been any diferent if he had made money in the stock market?
You want ACID...? Use J2EE transactions and Hibernate, and never worry about which database you use again.
Yes. But shit happens. It is always nice to have a relational database that GUARANTEES data integrity. You should not depend on the application for maintaining data integrity - all applications have bugs and you don't want those bugs thrashing your data. You shouldn't completely depend on the framework for transactions - even Websphere has bugs.
From TFA:
Although the bookmark and history system will not be included in the next major update, the underlying SQLite-based MozStorage engine, which was built for the new bookmark and history system, will be included for use by plug-in developers.
Didn't firefox get popular because people wanted a lightweight browser (which mozilla wasn't)? Now they are bundling a db with the product???
I liked firefox beacuse it was a lightweight browser with good support for plugins. I was looking forward to see it run on $100 devices, celphones and so on... Looks like it will not happen because of all the bloat that firefox was supposed to stay away from.
but one of these days those $60 a month Asians are going to produce stuff as good as us $60 an hour North Americans
Said Asian will cost $60 an hour when that happens...
I am a beginer when it comes to J2EE technology. I have been in Eclipse land, even paid $ for MyEclipse, but I have always come back to Netbeans (4.1) - It just works right out of the box - no need to go hunting for plugins, figuring out how they work... In addition to that the IDE seems to follow (from a beginners perspective) the Sun Specs to the dot, so the code/xml produced should be extremely portable. Another thing I really liked about Netbeans is that it defaults to the Sun Standardized stuff (atleast when it comes to EJB's) - Instead of making you massage XDoclet to get the beans you want (MyEclipse), it has a very nice GUI for both the web.xml and ejb-jar.xml files. Forgot to mention the nice GUI for creating the beans themselves :D.
My complements to the Netbeans team, I really like their product.
Just my thoughts, take it with a lot of salt, I am just a beginer.
Duke Neukem forever really does take forever.
-1 troll? OK i will admit i was nervous as this was my first ever post, plus it was a "first post", and the result was that I crashed and burned. The text, "The BBC News Online has an interesting story about a project to put traditional medical knowledge online..." should have read, "The BBC News Online has an interesting story about a project GOING ON IN INDIA to put traditional medical knowledge online." My confusion was further enhanced by the fact that the languages being used were what I would expect the UK to use. I understand it now, but I really am not a troll. I really was confused. Sorry. I will probably go back under my bridge now and keep to myself.
Welcome to Slashdot. Feel free to post again when you figure out what RTFA means.
Did Microsoft pony up the money for your study after examining the methodologies and metrics you used?
How much did they know before the study was completed?
How much did they know about the study before you released the results publicly?
Did you receive all your funding in one shot or did Microsoft release funds in tranches based on certain milestones?
If you had to make periodic reports to Microsoft to continue the funding, did those reports contain any Data or preliminary conclusions?
Do you know of any other people researching TCO issues that had their funding pulled or denied by Microsoft?
Sorry about the tough questions, but based on your initial replies, I don't think you will have a problem answering them.
Thanks.
deinesh.
I can think off several steps that they can take to reduce possibility of failure for such a device: - Use RAM Drives. They can have an emergency battery pack to power only the RAM drive Bank on a power outage to prevent data loss. - Use Flash based Drives. - Derate the Opterons or change the whole CPU - Fan pardigan. If they remove the drives, they can just freeze the whole box. Removing the Hard drives will avoid the compications of having the moving parts operate in temeperatures they weren't designed for. Everything else can operate at cold temperatures. They could use a souped up meat packing/transporting truck that is already refriderated. Given enough time and money this is supremely possible.
More than anything else, this seems to be a from of psycological warfare. Can you imagine the feelings of Bill G or Steve B when they read that article?
I mean if you are at Microsoft or Yahoo, where would you throw your money at? Office/Excel/Gamil like AJAX apps, this new 300 Uber Server threat or the next thing some bored reporter comes up with?
I don't know if this is report true or not, but I do know that Google is running a very effective psy-war campaign against their competitors.
This is above and beond what you can expect from QA. Hell this is above and beond what I would expect from a coder with a PHD in math. What Sun is looking for is h3x0r :D .
Someone should mod the parent funny for pointing that out. It gave me laugh...lol
heck if someone setup a Telnet old school bbs or a dial-up one near me I'd sure move in!
Try telnetting sdf.lonestar.org.
You might like it there, it ain't the same thing... but it scratches that itch....
Actually, this is the kind of stuff used to generate data to program (ground hugging) cruise missiles with. The data generated can also be used as input for terrain following radars that the Indians use.
All of the above are critical technologies for a succesful (stealthy) nuclear first strike.
You obviously haven't heard of Physical Education.
>> As for hackability, I think the system is based either on plain 802.11b or some derivative of it. It's really plenty hackable.
Actually, Hackability depends upon what you send accross the network. If you send unencrypted stuff over an 802.11b connection it will be hacked in no time. But if you send an already encrypted signal accross the connection, all the sniffer will see is garbabe. If you use a decent alogorithm (like RSA) which is administered well (key changed frequently), it likely will never be compromised.
Yes and No. Class actions may not benifit the victims as much as the lawyer's but it sure does hurt the company's. Class action's are an indispensable tool to keep company's in line.
I've played with one real whacko who used to keep a list of the right and wrong things his players did, and when it hit five wrongs, he'd have his character try to kill their's.
GOod thing he is getting his aggression out on D&D, otherwise, the fifth time you returned the movie you borrowed from him - LATE...
Actually, the SCO stories that gather tons of postings aren't harbringers of good news. They usually are news of more SCO shenanigans. This one is good news and the Open Source community can sit back and smile at the defeat of the "forces of evil".
>>Several telecommunications companies, which provide both dial-up Internet access as well as faster broadband connections through cable and DSL lines, say they were not involved in writing the bill.
I have lived in Texas and let me tell you this, Special interests RULE the legislature in Texas. The Texas legislature is limited by its constitution to meet for only 140 days every TWO years. The legislators are overloaded with work they HAVE to do to keep the state running. Because of that they rely on special interests very heavily.
In addition to that, campaign finance laws in Texas are virtually non-existant. There are no limits on contributions by citizens. My former representative bought a Ford Explorer with the leftovers of his campaign war-chest and got away with it.
>>THANK [Fill in god of your choice] FOR NETFLIX!!!
Actually, my local blockbuster (Norman - Ok) offers unlimited rentals (2 at a time) for $15 a month. This is a hell of a lot better than Netflix because I don't have to wait for the mailman.
But Netflix probably has a larger selection of movies. But then again, I am not that much for exotic/older movies. I guess it all depends on what your cup of tea is.