Same here, I installed Boxee on my AppleTV just to get access to Hulu. The service worked great, but if Hulu can no longer be used, then I no longer have a need for Boxee. Could Boxee claim some sort of anti-competitive practice if Hulu bans them from streaming but not the big browser makers?
Either way, unless Hulu wises up and changes their mind, I'm boycotting.
Don't forget that Palm is still going to produce devices running Windows Mobile alongside WebOS.
Having spent much time with Windows Mobile, Symbian, and a Palm VII, none of those come close to an iPhone (I haven't used the new BlackBerry Storm so I can't comment). But, you are definitely correct in that that Windows Mobile has the best SDK and development tools available, bar none. There is something said about being able to write your own apps and distribute them freely.
I may be blowing smoke since I haven't tried Boxee HD...but HD from the iTunes store works fine on my AppleTV (720p). Wouldn't this reflect a problem with Boxee instead of a "slow processor" in the AppleTV?
I use this as well. Relatively simple to install using a USB stick. I use it more for Hulu than the Boxee codecs. It's still in alpha so there are a few glitches from a performance standpoint, but nothing too serious.
This combined with Netflix streaming from my Xbox360 and simple AppleTV purchases has allowed me to totally ditch cable since October of last year. I do receive OTA to my Media Center PC, which allows me to use my Xbox as a MCE. This allows me to access my local channels for news and such. I still get to watch what I want, commercial free for the most part. AppleTV's video podcast are also phenomenal, allowing me to watch the national news channels on a nightly basis.
So after all the smack talking that Sony did about the power of Cell being untapped....they've decided to abandon it for the their next console?
But if you listen to Sony, PS3 is a "10 year platform" anyways. This means that we wouldn't see the PS4 until at least 5-6 years from now. There is no telling what kind of processors would be available during that time frame. Do we really know if Larrabee would still be available by then?
I think it's still way to early for Sony to start talking about specs for the PS4. Some people are bound to stop buying PS3s because it would just mean that the PS4 is right around the corner, and Sony knows this. They really can't afford to halt sales of the PS3 at their current selling rate.
I stand corrected guys. Looks like I was 9 days too slow with my comments!
Being an MCDBA, it seems like I should have been notified when SP3 was released. I new it was just around the corner, but it looks it just came and went.
Funny. Being a DBA, I always say the same thing about developers....
But in all honestly, you're partially correct in that good DBA's are hard to come by. In the 10+ years I've been working in the field I can immediately think of three examples of DBA's that fit your description:
1) A DB2 DBA working for a large state government agency who couldn't write a SELECT statement. 2) A lady claiming to be an "MS Access DBA" 3) A guy who designed an OLTP database used for tracking help desk tickets that contained no normalization whatsoever
I think part of the reason is that almost nobody is actually pursuing a role as a DBA. They actually planned on being developers or sysadmins, and sort-of accidently ended up in the DBA role. I think being a DBA requires a person who is knowledgeable with coding, security, administration, and hardware; it takes a different king of training and experience than a developer or a sysadmin is going to be exposed to.
SQL 2005 Service Pack 3 hasn't been RTM'd yet.
All versions of SQL 2000 seem to be affected.
This probably means that the most popular versions are affected.
"One expert suggested the nano phone would have a touch wheel on the back and display on the front so that numbers would be dialled from behind."
I can't even fathom how hard it would be to try to use something like this. If this were the case, it would mean that there is no touchscreen, otherwise you would just dial directly from the screen.
This is a rumour that I expect will never come to fruition, given the current price of the 3G.
Man I couldn't agree with you more. I gave it the benefit of a doubt, and tried it for a day. It was complete waste of time. Don't believe me? Do a search on Google of "Slashdot Wikipedia" and then do the same search on Cuil. Google acts as expected...the first link posted is the Wikipedia article about Slashdot. On Cuil, it brings you to a Slashdot article referencing the history of Wikipedia. It proves that just indexing a bazillion pages is useless if you can't effectively *use* those indexes.
There's a reason that Google is the #1 search engine...simplicity, speed, and accurate results.
I think you found my source!
What sucks is that everyone is saying I didn't read the article....fact is I didn't see any information in the article that wasn't mentioned on NOVA or National Geographic.
I remember hearing about this quite a few years ago, so this really isn't ground breaking news.
I wish I could name a source....probably the Discovery Channel.
I saw the special on the National Geographic Channel about this last night. The part that amazes me is that Ballard was able to keep his French partner in the dark about searching for the Scorpion.
Thanks for the info. My machine is watercooled, so heat isn't really a big problem for me anyways.
I can overclock the e4400 easily, so I'm not really sure if the 1066Mhz bus speed boost would really make a big difference. Besides, I'm a little skittish about fooling around with the pins of a processor that costs quite a few bucks to replace if fried.
I just looked up BSEL mod and this is really interesting. I have a e4400 which uses 800Mhz bus speed. This mod will bring my chip up to 1066Mhz?
Have you had any processors die because this mod was applied?
You have a good point, I obviously don't know enough about the Cali prison system.
But you're right, he's probably going to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-A** Prison instead of a white-collar resort.
I agree. The clincher for me was his lawyers closing argument, when he asked the jury to consider a sentence of voluntary manslaughter if they felt that Hans was guilty. Why would he do this if he really felt his client was innocent? Whatever chance he had of getting acquitted, it was pretty much blown at that point.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/attorney-declar.html
17 years? Soyuz 11 was in 1971. Columbia launched in 1981.
Soyuz does indeed have a better track record if you take the number of launches into account. One thing we have to remember is how many near misses Soyuz has had...such as the Mir collision and the explosion of Soyuz T-10-1 on the launch pad (neither of which could be directly attributed to the Soyuz itself). Of course, the Shuttle has had it's fair share of near-catastrophes. I think the point I'm trying to make is that safety can't really be determined solely based off of how many successful launches and how many disasters a space craft has had....the ultimate goal of course is to have a %100 success record, and whether or not we should try to hold ourselves to that goal or be willing to take the risk of not being %100 "safe".
Actually, both the Soyuz and Shuttle are 2 for 2 on lost crews. While both the Challenger and Columbia disasters ended in lost crews, so did Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11.
So is Soyuz really "safer"? I guess it depends on how you measure such things...
The only specs I could find that you refer to say that it has a PowerPC 405 CPU, but the summary says it has Alchemy. I think the specs linked from the article are for a different platform.
It uses Alchemy, which is a MIPS processor that AMD typically uses in embedded devices, such as portable media players and such....as a result, I wouldn't expect to have Crysis running on this thing anytime soon.
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Same here, I installed Boxee on my AppleTV just to get access to Hulu. The service worked great, but if Hulu can no longer be used, then I no longer have a need for Boxee. Could Boxee claim some sort of anti-competitive practice if Hulu bans them from streaming but not the big browser makers? Either way, unless Hulu wises up and changes their mind, I'm boycotting.
Don't forget that Palm is still going to produce devices running Windows Mobile alongside WebOS. Having spent much time with Windows Mobile, Symbian, and a Palm VII, none of those come close to an iPhone (I haven't used the new BlackBerry Storm so I can't comment). But, you are definitely correct in that that Windows Mobile has the best SDK and development tools available, bar none. There is something said about being able to write your own apps and distribute them freely.
I may be blowing smoke since I haven't tried Boxee HD...but HD from the iTunes store works fine on my AppleTV (720p). Wouldn't this reflect a problem with Boxee instead of a "slow processor" in the AppleTV?
I use this as well. Relatively simple to install using a USB stick. I use it more for Hulu than the Boxee codecs. It's still in alpha so there are a few glitches from a performance standpoint, but nothing too serious. This combined with Netflix streaming from my Xbox360 and simple AppleTV purchases has allowed me to totally ditch cable since October of last year. I do receive OTA to my Media Center PC, which allows me to use my Xbox as a MCE. This allows me to access my local channels for news and such. I still get to watch what I want, commercial free for the most part. AppleTV's video podcast are also phenomenal, allowing me to watch the national news channels on a nightly basis.
Isn't Larrabee a CPU/GPU hybrid architecture and not a dedicated GPU?
So after all the smack talking that Sony did about the power of Cell being untapped....they've decided to abandon it for the their next console? But if you listen to Sony, PS3 is a "10 year platform" anyways. This means that we wouldn't see the PS4 until at least 5-6 years from now. There is no telling what kind of processors would be available during that time frame. Do we really know if Larrabee would still be available by then? I think it's still way to early for Sony to start talking about specs for the PS4. Some people are bound to stop buying PS3s because it would just mean that the PS4 is right around the corner, and Sony knows this. They really can't afford to halt sales of the PS3 at their current selling rate.
I stand corrected guys. Looks like I was 9 days too slow with my comments! Being an MCDBA, it seems like I should have been notified when SP3 was released. I new it was just around the corner, but it looks it just came and went.
Funny. Being a DBA, I always say the same thing about developers....
But in all honestly, you're partially correct in that good DBA's are hard to come by. In the 10+ years I've been working in the field I can immediately think of three examples of DBA's that fit your description:
1) A DB2 DBA working for a large state government agency who couldn't write a SELECT statement.
2) A lady claiming to be an "MS Access DBA"
3) A guy who designed an OLTP database used for tracking help desk tickets that contained no normalization whatsoever
I think part of the reason is that almost nobody is actually pursuing a role as a DBA. They actually planned on being developers or sysadmins, and sort-of accidently ended up in the DBA role. I think being a DBA requires a person who is knowledgeable with coding, security, administration, and hardware; it takes a different king of training and experience than a developer or a sysadmin is going to be exposed to.
SQL 2005 Service Pack 3 hasn't been RTM'd yet. All versions of SQL 2000 seem to be affected. This probably means that the most popular versions are affected.
And follow the example of unionized U.S. auto-makers? That's a sure fire way to watch your job get outsourced if it already hasn't been.
"One expert suggested the nano phone would have a touch wheel on the back and display on the front so that numbers would be dialled from behind." I can't even fathom how hard it would be to try to use something like this. If this were the case, it would mean that there is no touchscreen, otherwise you would just dial directly from the screen. This is a rumour that I expect will never come to fruition, given the current price of the 3G.
Man I couldn't agree with you more. I gave it the benefit of a doubt, and tried it for a day. It was complete waste of time. Don't believe me? Do a search on Google of "Slashdot Wikipedia" and then do the same search on Cuil. Google acts as expected...the first link posted is the Wikipedia article about Slashdot. On Cuil, it brings you to a Slashdot article referencing the history of Wikipedia. It proves that just indexing a bazillion pages is useless if you can't effectively *use* those indexes. There's a reason that Google is the #1 search engine...simplicity, speed, and accurate results.
I think you found my source! What sucks is that everyone is saying I didn't read the article....fact is I didn't see any information in the article that wasn't mentioned on NOVA or National Geographic.
I remember hearing about this quite a few years ago, so this really isn't ground breaking news. I wish I could name a source....probably the Discovery Channel. I saw the special on the National Geographic Channel about this last night. The part that amazes me is that Ballard was able to keep his French partner in the dark about searching for the Scorpion.
Thanks for the info. My machine is watercooled, so heat isn't really a big problem for me anyways. I can overclock the e4400 easily, so I'm not really sure if the 1066Mhz bus speed boost would really make a big difference. Besides, I'm a little skittish about fooling around with the pins of a processor that costs quite a few bucks to replace if fried.
I just looked up BSEL mod and this is really interesting. I have a e4400 which uses 800Mhz bus speed. This mod will bring my chip up to 1066Mhz? Have you had any processors die because this mod was applied?
Um, no. The system was actually running SGI 3D Navigator. Check out the Wikipedia entry on SGI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics
You have a good point, I obviously don't know enough about the Cali prison system. But you're right, he's probably going to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-A** Prison instead of a white-collar resort.
I agree. The clincher for me was his lawyers closing argument, when he asked the jury to consider a sentence of voluntary manslaughter if they felt that Hans was guilty. Why would he do this if he really felt his client was innocent? Whatever chance he had of getting acquitted, it was pretty much blown at that point. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/attorney-declar.html
17 years? Soyuz 11 was in 1971. Columbia launched in 1981. Soyuz does indeed have a better track record if you take the number of launches into account. One thing we have to remember is how many near misses Soyuz has had...such as the Mir collision and the explosion of Soyuz T-10-1 on the launch pad (neither of which could be directly attributed to the Soyuz itself). Of course, the Shuttle has had it's fair share of near-catastrophes. I think the point I'm trying to make is that safety can't really be determined solely based off of how many successful launches and how many disasters a space craft has had....the ultimate goal of course is to have a %100 success record, and whether or not we should try to hold ourselves to that goal or be willing to take the risk of not being %100 "safe".
Actually, both the Soyuz and Shuttle are 2 for 2 on lost crews. While both the Challenger and Columbia disasters ended in lost crews, so did Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11. So is Soyuz really "safer"? I guess it depends on how you measure such things...
Depending on who you ask, I think it's "GNU/Tape".
Right, so if the drive is stolen and put in another machine, the AES key is included on the processor, which is part of the drive?
The only specs I could find that you refer to say that it has a PowerPC 405 CPU, but the summary says it has Alchemy. I think the specs linked from the article are for a different platform.
It uses Alchemy, which is a MIPS processor that AMD typically uses in embedded devices, such as portable media players and such....as a result, I wouldn't expect to have Crysis running on this thing anytime soon.