This is a perplexing no-brainer error.
Afterall, this is the company that has brought us so much, underpinned by writing or rewriting the book on datacenters, storage and databases.
I understand that its field testing or in Google-speak "Beta", but "running out of disk space"?
+3 for communicating what the issue was and apologizing.
-5 for it happening in the first place.
I'm not a coder, but I try to keep up with what's going on.
Many replies have sited that libraries are now doing the heavy lifting based on the back breaking and artisan level skill of coders passed.
Another reply stated roughly that coding drives chip design and chip design drives coding.
This is the key why programmers, while not in great 90's style artificially and foolishly created demand will continue to exist.
Intel has scrapped its P4 4Ghz plans and is shifting to the Pentium-M multicore theory.
AMD has implemented its AMD64 strategy and Intel is following suit.
A program will not take advantage of the full capacity of even the current-day AMD64 chips unless it is recoded to take advantage of those extra advantages - some of those will be realized through recompilation while the majority will be realized by going through the code again.
It is stated in many places online that consumer desktop / business workstation applicatons / the predominant Windows operating system are not set up to give a rats arse about whether there is any SMP action going on.
This coupled with the benefits of AMD's HyperTransport strategy and (gasp!) Intel's wanting to bring out FB-DIMMs will change how one optimizes an application or how they write it entirely.
The programmer lives and will live for some time to come.
And please, I've interacted with several thousand users in my lifetime and if they can figure out how to add two cells in Excel they're lucky.
I read somewhere in my net travels that there was a really bored and skilled buy in either the UK or Australia (can't remember which) who had cranked himself out his very own transforming semi trailer ala Optimus Prime. Hasbro and Takara contacted him and told him to keep it to himself or dismantle it as he had violated their IP.
Sad you feel that way - but that is what consumer choice is all about. Again, I've seen 100+ of these things in action with only one right-out-of-the-package failure and no subsequent deaths.
In reality - because it can be lost, stolen, accidentally erased, blown up, or whatever else happens to it is why you should do a backup of your important informatin that would be a PITA to lose just like you do anything else. While we're in reality - those drives usually come with a 1 year or a lifetime warranty - after 6 months what would you have been out had you used industry best practices and protected your data - nothing that's what.
I have personally beat the living Hell out of my 128MB jumpdrive - it long ago lost its protective cap and lanyard, sits in my pocket banging against keys change and whatever, has likely been stepped on several times and washed and dried at least once. Its a year old and keeps on ticking.
I don't work from them but I buy their products and have seen 20+ of their pen drives in service personally and at various sites 100+ varying between the 128MB USB1.1 and the various USB2.0 drives all the way up to 1GB in capacity. Out of all these - I have only seen one and only one have a problem reporting itself to the OS through the USB interface - it was returned - big woop.
What is the issue that just because its sold at Wal-Mart, its useless - jeez
Again, paraphrasing not quoting was the point of it all.
While I haven't read the book in a while - I have my 7 year old reading it and reading it to him as one of his introductions to "chapter-books".
I would prefer that my computer be able to differentiate between there;their;they're and eight;ate to name a few.
For simple commands ("Computer Lights On") it would be farely useless, but what I mentioned would be a drop in the bucket compared to the basic AI needed to do a decent text-to-speach-completely-handsoff solution.
You are forgetting the coded phonetic context of a word and distillations for "known dialects". Besides dialects, English is bereft with words that sound the same yet mean different things or even sound differently (slightly) depending on the surrounding contectual words and whether it is a statement, question or exclamation (different intonations). Feel free to multiply that K figure by up to 1000 times.
We are more or less stuck. Time Warner Cable only available here in "western ohio" and its 50-60$/month with 3Mbit down.
While a 2 hour drive north to Michigan and there are 2 competing cable companies, one of which offers a tiered solution so that you can get that instant on / always on without shelling out big bucks.
"Frankly, I'm glad we have the situation that we do here in the States. There are plenty of venues for people to obtain broadband if they want it. Cable/DSL in most cities, or satellite and other esoteric forms for the rest."
Have to argue on that one.
I have access to Time Warner Cable and that's about it. DSL is not available because I am, despite being in a city, too far from the nearest hub - yet SBC is too dumb to quit calling me and asking if I'm interested in getting it. My other options are DirecPC which is a service purposely hobbled by download limitations, lack of newsgroups, poor ping reply (500-700 ms best conditions) and its outrageous price and overall requirement that you buy their shoddy equipment. There is "wireless" internet but its the same thing, slow expensive and strangely enough the signal doesn't get everywhere.
And further back, the greatest advertising snafoo of all time when M&Ms (instead of Reesie's Pieces) turned down the offer to be the candy depicted in the movie "E.T."
I have no problem registering with many of these sites that provide content in either a newspaper of forum-like format.
This is many orders of magnitude better than having to deal with this information in its dead-tree form. Information how I want it formatted and nothing extra to leaf through.
On top of all this a free reg is a lot better than the unworkable micropayment crap that noone has been able to get working.
Perhaps this is what Agrajag utilized to make his monstrous Arthur Dent replica, yet I am suprised that he ever lived long enough to manage to make it to the shop to place the order.
A significant number of folks tend to gravitate towards Hawking's disfiguring life depleting disease (as he by rights he should have died from complications at least a decade ago.) Yet he can mentally run circles around the majority of us. And while we are unable to measure it, I would be willing to bet that he has the spare mental capacity to abate some of the effects of his disease.
Now look around, at a society of persons striving to be normal. Millions of kids "diagnosed" with ADHD/ADD and other similar disorders and parents more than willing to cram pills down their throat. Yet look at our environment, we are rarely required to concentrate on things for more than a bit at a time yet every job description on the planet says that we need the ability to "multitask".
Likely not the best argument.
But, we have slowed our own growth and evolution as a species due to classifying everything as an ailment and something that needs corrected if it is out of the "norm" and by other practices.
Perhaps if we reevaluate this, more extraordinary persons will emerge and humanity will be all the better for it.
I work for a rather large corporation as a contractor and received a rather pointed email from someone else in the department to the effect of "I have a pen drive here for you to keep you from using peraonsl equipment for "Company" purposes," accompanied by a walking in and the person (who is not my supervisor) telling me "you know you can't copy anything and take it home, right ?" This is after 14 months on the job. This is even after I saved corporate data on users' desktops with a utility stored on same.
The long and the short of it is this. The only thing that gets copied to and from my personal pen drive and company property is my favorites as they represent a technical resource that I utilize at work. In this case, it works as the synchronization middleman for a technical resource. No different than bringing a reference book to work, which I also have done. On extremely rare occassion I bring no-footprint-no-install tools from home to get jobs done for which no corporate authorized tool is available. On even more rare occassions I have hacked out a quick note or spreadsheet and dumped it to the drive. There are corporate policies about not using resources for personal use but virtually everyone does it in some manner - it is better to drop it on the drive than my corporately owned property. Give us what we need to do our jobs and we won't be having to walk in with our toolkits or devices that arouse suspicion.
It makes absolutely no sense on so many levels to try to launch and construct a space-to-earth power generation system. In this circumstance, putting the receiving station "out of harm's way" will dilute the return on the investment due to the same losses that the traditional power generation industries see from transport of electricity while hyper-centralizing our electric generation infrastructure.
This is completely opposite from the way we need to go for decentralization of the power grid. Most homes and businesses, with the exception of heavy manufacturing, have enough roof space to allow photovoltaics to completely power their entire energy needs. If this isn't enough, you could fill a 1 mile square section of any piece of land with current technology solar panels for about 1-1.5 billion and come up with a 200MW generation facility - boring but it works. At what point is the "oh cool" factor just going to get us all killed.
This thing meets an SUV or worse a semi-truck and you are virtually guaranteed to be oozed out of this thing like someone stepping on a banana.
So here's my rant. Look it up and you will determine that BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) technology has been virtually stagnant for almost 100 years. We have virtually the same range now as we did then.
Battery technology:
Lead Acid - replace a 2-4000$ battery pack every 3 years.
NiMH - replace a 4-8000$ battery pack every 1000 recharge cycles (basically 3 years).
Lithium Ion - replace a 11-15000$ battery pack every 500 (1000 if you are lucky) recharge cycles again basically 3 years.
On top of it - 3 hour recharging time ? Come on, get it down to 15 minutes - even 15 minutes to reach 70% charge on a vehicle with a 300 mile range will give you 200 miles of driving. Some battery chargers are capable of doing this but it requires special wiring with the charger kicking out 440v at an ungodly amount of amps.
Give me an uncramped and safe commuter vehicle that can withstand all the nastiness that winter has to throw at me with a 200 mile or greater range. Then give me a "family" car that is a plug-in hybrid with a decent batter bank - 200 mile range minimum. Top it off with an NEV (Neighborhood Electric Vehicle) for those quick errands around the near-city. Make it have multiple charging options and then - maybe - we have something.
We all talk about Open Source and the sharing of information. I have looked at sites about converting vehicles to electric and its an unorganized hodgepodge. We have enough minds in the Internet community to make something happen for those of us who want it to happen.
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This is a perplexing no-brainer error. Afterall, this is the company that has brought us so much, underpinned by writing or rewriting the book on datacenters, storage and databases. I understand that its field testing or in Google-speak "Beta", but "running out of disk space"? +3 for communicating what the issue was and apologizing. -5 for it happening in the first place.
I'm not a coder, but I try to keep up with what's going on. Many replies have sited that libraries are now doing the heavy lifting based on the back breaking and artisan level skill of coders passed. Another reply stated roughly that coding drives chip design and chip design drives coding. This is the key why programmers, while not in great 90's style artificially and foolishly created demand will continue to exist. Intel has scrapped its P4 4Ghz plans and is shifting to the Pentium-M multicore theory. AMD has implemented its AMD64 strategy and Intel is following suit. A program will not take advantage of the full capacity of even the current-day AMD64 chips unless it is recoded to take advantage of those extra advantages - some of those will be realized through recompilation while the majority will be realized by going through the code again. It is stated in many places online that consumer desktop / business workstation applicatons / the predominant Windows operating system are not set up to give a rats arse about whether there is any SMP action going on. This coupled with the benefits of AMD's HyperTransport strategy and (gasp!) Intel's wanting to bring out FB-DIMMs will change how one optimizes an application or how they write it entirely. The programmer lives and will live for some time to come. And please, I've interacted with several thousand users in my lifetime and if they can figure out how to add two cells in Excel they're lucky.
I read somewhere in my net travels that there was a really bored and skilled buy in either the UK or Australia (can't remember which) who had cranked himself out his very own transforming semi trailer ala Optimus Prime. Hasbro and Takara contacted him and told him to keep it to himself or dismantle it as he had violated their IP.
Sad you feel that way - but that is what consumer choice is all about. Again, I've seen 100+ of these things in action with only one right-out-of-the-package failure and no subsequent deaths. In reality - because it can be lost, stolen, accidentally erased, blown up, or whatever else happens to it is why you should do a backup of your important informatin that would be a PITA to lose just like you do anything else. While we're in reality - those drives usually come with a 1 year or a lifetime warranty - after 6 months what would you have been out had you used industry best practices and protected your data - nothing that's what. I have personally beat the living Hell out of my 128MB jumpdrive - it long ago lost its protective cap and lanyard, sits in my pocket banging against keys change and whatever, has likely been stepped on several times and washed and dried at least once. Its a year old and keeps on ticking.
I don't work from them but I buy their products and have seen 20+ of their pen drives in service personally and at various sites 100+ varying between the 128MB USB1.1 and the various USB2.0 drives all the way up to 1GB in capacity. Out of all these - I have only seen one and only one have a problem reporting itself to the OS through the USB interface - it was returned - big woop. What is the issue that just because its sold at Wal-Mart, its useless - jeez
Again, paraphrasing not quoting was the point of it all. While I haven't read the book in a while - I have my 7 year old reading it and reading it to him as one of his introductions to "chapter-books".
I would prefer that my computer be able to differentiate between there;their;they're and eight;ate to name a few. For simple commands ("Computer Lights On") it would be farely useless, but what I mentioned would be a drop in the bucket compared to the basic AI needed to do a decent text-to-speach-completely-handsoff solution.
Obligatory HHGTTG paraphrase: No doubt it will dispense something just about but not completely like tea.
You are forgetting the coded phonetic context of a word and distillations for "known dialects". Besides dialects, English is bereft with words that sound the same yet mean different things or even sound differently (slightly) depending on the surrounding contectual words and whether it is a statement, question or exclamation (different intonations). Feel free to multiply that K figure by up to 1000 times.
We are more or less stuck. Time Warner Cable only available here in "western ohio" and its 50-60$/month with 3Mbit down. While a 2 hour drive north to Michigan and there are 2 competing cable companies, one of which offers a tiered solution so that you can get that instant on / always on without shelling out big bucks.
"Frankly, I'm glad we have the situation that we do here in the States. There are plenty of venues for people to obtain broadband if they want it. Cable/DSL in most cities, or satellite and other esoteric forms for the rest." Have to argue on that one. I have access to Time Warner Cable and that's about it. DSL is not available because I am, despite being in a city, too far from the nearest hub - yet SBC is too dumb to quit calling me and asking if I'm interested in getting it. My other options are DirecPC which is a service purposely hobbled by download limitations, lack of newsgroups, poor ping reply (500-700 ms best conditions) and its outrageous price and overall requirement that you buy their shoddy equipment. There is "wireless" internet but its the same thing, slow expensive and strangely enough the signal doesn't get everywhere.
And further back, the greatest advertising snafoo of all time when M&Ms (instead of Reesie's Pieces) turned down the offer to be the candy depicted in the movie "E.T."
Chips or no chips, screw smart building - I want smart people. Stupidity and ignorance are spreading like a plague.
I have no problem registering with many of these sites that provide content in either a newspaper of forum-like format. This is many orders of magnitude better than having to deal with this information in its dead-tree form. Information how I want it formatted and nothing extra to leaf through. On top of all this a free reg is a lot better than the unworkable micropayment crap that noone has been able to get working.
Perhaps this is what Agrajag utilized to make his monstrous Arthur Dent replica, yet I am suprised that he ever lived long enough to manage to make it to the shop to place the order.
A significant number of folks tend to gravitate towards Hawking's disfiguring life depleting disease (as he by rights he should have died from complications at least a decade ago.) Yet he can mentally run circles around the majority of us. And while we are unable to measure it, I would be willing to bet that he has the spare mental capacity to abate some of the effects of his disease. Now look around, at a society of persons striving to be normal. Millions of kids "diagnosed" with ADHD/ADD and other similar disorders and parents more than willing to cram pills down their throat. Yet look at our environment, we are rarely required to concentrate on things for more than a bit at a time yet every job description on the planet says that we need the ability to "multitask". Likely not the best argument. But, we have slowed our own growth and evolution as a species due to classifying everything as an ailment and something that needs corrected if it is out of the "norm" and by other practices. Perhaps if we reevaluate this, more extraordinary persons will emerge and humanity will be all the better for it.
I work for a rather large corporation as a contractor and received a rather pointed email from someone else in the department to the effect of "I have a pen drive here for you to keep you from using peraonsl equipment for "Company" purposes," accompanied by a walking in and the person (who is not my supervisor) telling me "you know you can't copy anything and take it home, right ?" This is after 14 months on the job. This is even after I saved corporate data on users' desktops with a utility stored on same. The long and the short of it is this. The only thing that gets copied to and from my personal pen drive and company property is my favorites as they represent a technical resource that I utilize at work. In this case, it works as the synchronization middleman for a technical resource. No different than bringing a reference book to work, which I also have done. On extremely rare occassion I bring no-footprint-no-install tools from home to get jobs done for which no corporate authorized tool is available. On even more rare occassions I have hacked out a quick note or spreadsheet and dumped it to the drive. There are corporate policies about not using resources for personal use but virtually everyone does it in some manner - it is better to drop it on the drive than my corporately owned property. Give us what we need to do our jobs and we won't be having to walk in with our toolkits or devices that arouse suspicion.
It makes absolutely no sense on so many levels to try to launch and construct a space-to-earth power generation system. In this circumstance, putting the receiving station "out of harm's way" will dilute the return on the investment due to the same losses that the traditional power generation industries see from transport of electricity while hyper-centralizing our electric generation infrastructure. This is completely opposite from the way we need to go for decentralization of the power grid. Most homes and businesses, with the exception of heavy manufacturing, have enough roof space to allow photovoltaics to completely power their entire energy needs. If this isn't enough, you could fill a 1 mile square section of any piece of land with current technology solar panels for about 1-1.5 billion and come up with a 200MW generation facility - boring but it works. At what point is the "oh cool" factor just going to get us all killed.
This thing meets an SUV or worse a semi-truck and you are virtually guaranteed to be oozed out of this thing like someone stepping on a banana. So here's my rant. Look it up and you will determine that BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) technology has been virtually stagnant for almost 100 years. We have virtually the same range now as we did then. Battery technology: Lead Acid - replace a 2-4000$ battery pack every 3 years. NiMH - replace a 4-8000$ battery pack every 1000 recharge cycles (basically 3 years). Lithium Ion - replace a 11-15000$ battery pack every 500 (1000 if you are lucky) recharge cycles again basically 3 years. On top of it - 3 hour recharging time ? Come on, get it down to 15 minutes - even 15 minutes to reach 70% charge on a vehicle with a 300 mile range will give you 200 miles of driving. Some battery chargers are capable of doing this but it requires special wiring with the charger kicking out 440v at an ungodly amount of amps. Give me an uncramped and safe commuter vehicle that can withstand all the nastiness that winter has to throw at me with a 200 mile or greater range. Then give me a "family" car that is a plug-in hybrid with a decent batter bank - 200 mile range minimum. Top it off with an NEV (Neighborhood Electric Vehicle) for those quick errands around the near-city. Make it have multiple charging options and then - maybe - we have something. We all talk about Open Source and the sharing of information. I have looked at sites about converting vehicles to electric and its an unorganized hodgepodge. We have enough minds in the Internet community to make something happen for those of us who want it to happen.