With the low cost of modern computer technology, why does this device have to be THAT pricey? Just wondering.
Low volumes. They might put one into every ambulance and ten into each emergency department but thats not the same as selling ipods or iphones by the million.
Funny story: my son was in hospital and I had him psyched up for a blood test. Not easy, I knew it was going to be a battle. Then the nurse wheeled in this big machine with gadgets hung on the outside. It looked like a torture machine from star wars. Of course he freaked out. It was their jazzed portable video player. Meant to distract the kids but it didn't work for us.
I've seen someone treat the Windows recycling bin the exact same way
I reckon it should be possible to create arbitrary objects (folders?) with the same semantics as Trash or Recycling. That way you can create a Pending container if you want and continue to use Trash for its intended purpose.
these are "i think my cup holder is broken" users.
Yeah my wife uses apple mail and she started to complain to me about missing messages. I run the mail server so I was a bit concerned about that. I found her messages in the Junk folder after a brief search. Turned out she thought the Junk button is how you delete things so she had trained the mailer to Junk her messages automatically.
I assume you mean the versioned file names in VMS, but you can still delete all your files there. For people who haven't seen this a file name in VMS is like file.ext;vers where vers starts off at 1. So editing me.txt creates me.txt;1 editing it again creates me.txt;2. You can delete the most recent version by delete me.txt;. You can operate on version 1 edt me.txt;1. You can purge old versions purge me.txt. At our site I purged my whole account on log off to save space. We occasionally purged whole user disks when they filled up.
Batch jobs could fail if their log files created new versions above 2^15 so you had to code around that.
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The difference is that you can write an smtp server by reading in strings line by line and treating them as commands, then watch the logs and kludge it until it seems to interoperate well enough. With the OSI way of doing things you have to wear a blue tie for a start then you have to print out all the interface definition documents and spread them out on your desk and write the software to the interface.
You correctly point out that IP is cheaper, but that means all the people who work with it will be cheaper too and the product which is slightly cheaper will always win.
high latency that can occur in modern network connections due to large buffers in the network
Nobody ever explained this to me but I was using ping to measure latency on a network where I was actually most interested in ssh. Ping times went something like 10ms, 50ms, 90ms, 130ms... up to about 500ms, then started again at 10ms, 50ms and so on. Maybe some of my pings shared a buffer with a large, periodic data transfer and when that transfer filled a buffer somewhere my latency dropped.
I am pretty sure the people actually operating the WAN in question had no idea what was going on either.
You know what I hate? People that don't use reply to all, and force me to forward emails I receive. Idiots.
How about people that reply-all to mis-sent wide-reaching emails with "Why have I got this"
I work for a multinational with in excess of 60000 employees and one time somebody very high up broadcasted a message like "good news everybody!" or some such by sending an email with every address in the To: field. It surely can't have been all 60000 employees, but it was a lot. I am holding on to that message. The next best way for me to send STFU I am out of here is to create a bug report and assign it to everybody.
Apart from the fact that my wife has shares in them, I will be glad to see Telstra finally fold. Back when the Optus long distance service was new I used call forwarding from my telstra land line to my optus mobile. The telstra bill was in 25 cent units with no more detail than that so I called the telstra service line and asked them how much it actually cost to enable and disable forwarding. They put me on hold for five minutes and came back eventually: we are unable to answer your query because you have selected optus for long distance calls. In other words STFU.
Also the regolith is quite dense and tightly packed. Astronauts had trouble pushing a probe more than 20cm or so into the surface. So your mining equipment would have to skim the surface and deal with a lot of rocks and irregularities. Thats a lot of problems to solve for a little bit of Helium 3.
Careful there son thats the Post Master General you are messing with there. If it wasn't for the PMG inventing the telephone in 1961 none of you twitterers would be able to send your meaningless messages to each other.
Oh any by the way, 2400 bps should be enough for anybody.
Say you are talking about using PGP. A wants to send a message to B. To do this A need a public key for B. B could get on a plane and pass it directly to A however this won't work well enough on a large scale so A probably gets the key from a key server S. Unfortunately evil government G controls all the ISPs in their country. They have built their own proxies for important external services so the request from A for B's public key goes to the government proxy SP which sends back a key for which G has the private component. B may or may not get the message. It doesn't really matter because A is already getting the rubber hose treatment from employees of G.
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With the low cost of modern computer technology, why does this device have to be THAT pricey? Just wondering.
Low volumes. They might put one into every ambulance and ten into each emergency department but thats not the same as selling ipods or iphones by the million.
Funny story: my son was in hospital and I had him psyched up for a blood test. Not easy, I knew it was going to be a battle. Then the nurse wheeled in this big machine with gadgets hung on the outside. It looked like a torture machine from star wars. Of course he freaked out. It was their jazzed portable video player. Meant to distract the kids but it didn't work for us.
Apple are quite big businesses which use their workstations. Architects and other design oriented businesses. They sell a lot of servers there.
Take the iPad... Microsoft and OEMs have had tablets out since 2001-2002 or so. OTOH, those products, well... sucked.
I bought a second hand pen based tablet PC. It runs windows 3.1 and seems loaded with software for a telecommunications repair tech.
it's shitty UI design.
If so they learnt it from Apple.
I've seen someone treat the Windows recycling bin the exact same way
I reckon it should be possible to create arbitrary objects (folders?) with the same semantics as Trash or Recycling. That way you can create a Pending container if you want and continue to use Trash for its intended purpose.
these are "i think my cup holder is broken" users.
Yeah my wife uses apple mail and she started to complain to me about missing messages. I run the mail server so I was a bit concerned about that. I found her messages in the Junk folder after a brief search. Turned out she thought the Junk button is how you delete things so she had trained the mailer to Junk her messages automatically.
I assume you mean the versioned file names in VMS, but you can still delete all your files there. For people who haven't seen this a file name in VMS is like file.ext;vers where vers starts off at 1. So editing me.txt creates me.txt;1 editing it again creates me.txt;2. You can delete the most recent version by delete me.txt;. You can operate on version 1 edt me.txt;1. You can purge old versions purge me.txt. At our site I purged my whole account on log off to save space. We occasionally purged whole user disks when they filled up.
Batch jobs could fail if their log files created new versions above 2^15 so you had to code around that.
The difference is that you can write an smtp server by reading in strings line by line and treating them as commands, then watch the logs and kludge it until it seems to interoperate well enough. With the OSI way of doing things you have to wear a blue tie for a start then you have to print out all the interface definition documents and spread them out on your desk and write the software to the interface.
You correctly point out that IP is cheaper, but that means all the people who work with it will be cheaper too and the product which is slightly cheaper will always win.
high latency that can occur in modern network connections due to large buffers in the network
Nobody ever explained this to me but I was using ping to measure latency on a network where I was actually most interested in ssh. Ping times went something like 10ms, 50ms, 90ms, 130ms... up to about 500ms, then started again at 10ms, 50ms and so on. Maybe some of my pings shared a buffer with a large, periodic data transfer and when that transfer filled a buffer somewhere my latency dropped.
I am pretty sure the people actually operating the WAN in question had no idea what was going on either.
They are the guys. Sorry.
Face it, Canonical has gone rogue.
If they can make a profit out of Debian then that would be something, don't you think? Otherwise its just charity from Shuttleworth.
The alternative desktop themes are built in. Changing theme is four clicks. I don't really notice it because I always change the theme.
And OpenCola is a Coca-Cola like beverage.
Do you think Saudi will go the same way?
Knowing a few "Telstra People" I am poking fun at their somewhat one dimensional view of the world.
Clarke had a liquid magma weapon in Earthlight.
You know what I hate? People that don't use reply to all, and force me to forward emails I receive. Idiots.
How about people that reply-all to mis-sent wide-reaching emails with "Why have I got this"
I work for a multinational with in excess of 60000 employees and one time somebody very high up broadcasted a message like "good news everybody!" or some such by sending an email with every address in the To: field. It surely can't have been all 60000 employees, but it was a lot. I am holding on to that message. The next best way for me to send STFU I am out of here is to create a bug report and assign it to everybody.
Maybe programmers in the UK are accustomed to assuming that localtime always equals UTC.
Apart from the fact that my wife has shares in them, I will be glad to see Telstra finally fold. Back when the Optus long distance service was new I used call forwarding from my telstra land line to my optus mobile. The telstra bill was in 25 cent units with no more detail than that so I called the telstra service line and asked them how much it actually cost to enable and disable forwarding. They put me on hold for five minutes and came back eventually: we are unable to answer your query because you have selected optus for long distance calls. In other words STFU.
Also the regolith is quite dense and tightly packed. Astronauts had trouble pushing a probe more than 20cm or so into the surface. So your mining equipment would have to skim the surface and deal with a lot of rocks and irregularities. Thats a lot of problems to solve for a little bit of Helium 3.
There's tons of it on the moon....
So all we have to do is to solve the Sam Rockwell clone shortage problem.
I believe he has an Infinite Improbability drive so cloning him should be just a matter of finding how improbable it is.
Great film but they could have skipped making hundreds of clones by sending me. I would love to live on the moon.
Careful there son thats the Post Master General you are messing with there. If it wasn't for the PMG inventing the telephone in 1961 none of you twitterers would be able to send your meaningless messages to each other.
Oh any by the way, 2400 bps should be enough for anybody.
Say you are talking about using PGP. A wants to send a message to B. To do this A need a public key for B. B could get on a plane and pass it directly to A however this won't work well enough on a large scale so A probably gets the key from a key server S. Unfortunately evil government G controls all the ISPs in their country. They have built their own proxies for important external services so the request from A for B's public key goes to the government proxy SP which sends back a key for which G has the private component. B may or may not get the message. It doesn't really matter because A is already getting the rubber hose treatment from employees of G.
They could always build a ringworld.