I went to a bar in Windsor, Ontario and was blown away by the greatest invention. They had a freakin 25 cent breathalyzer that told you exactly how drunk you were! That's BRILLIANT!
But what happens when that little machine becomes the newest novelty bar game?
"Hey Joe, betcha I can get wasted before you can..."
Then you end up with someone who would have probably been drinking and driving anyway, but they have now consumed much more than they may have planned, in a much shorted timeframe. That's just asking for problems, and it is actually viewed as a liability by a lot of bars.
The best way to make sure your presentation works on every system, is simply making a swf Flash file...
I take it you haven't tried that on a 64-bit system running a native 64-bit browser. People have been asking for a 64-bit version of Falsh Player since the Athlon 64 came out (~3 years) and still no dice.
Given the normal difference in data density between magnetic storage media and paper documents, even a small fragment of a hard drive contains more information than would be on a full sheet of paper. If the spooks use burn bags to destroy paper documents, I wonder what their standards are for disposal of magnetic media?
There are many cable companies that now provide DVR capabilities with their service (usually part of a digital cable package -- gives a lot of the same channels available from Dish, DirecTv, etc.). I can't comment on the pricing because I don't use our local provider's DVR service, but I imagine it is comparable to what you're paying for Dish PVR.
50% of people will always use IE, because they're too dumb to use IE to download Firefox.
That brings up an interesting possibility under IE7. If Microsoft is greatly improving security in IE7 (and Vista for that matter) how difficult will they make it to install another browser?
Granted, they'll have to tread a fine line to avoid more anti-trust problems, but given their past public record as to security, I can easily see someone justifying it with "Well, we had to make it difficult to download and install other programs because of the spyware, adware, virii, etc."
Having run VMware (I'm assuming workstation) on both Windows and Linux hosts, I have seen plusses on both.
VMware needs kernel hooks to provide its virtualization services. Under Linux, there are only a few supported Linux distros (and specific versions at that) that have pre-built modules installed as part of VMware. I run my personal VMware on an FC5 Linux host, and had to download an unsupported "patch" (from one of the VMware developers -- not even hosted on the VMware web site) to allow the vmware-config.pl script to build the necessary modules for my specific kernel. Every time I upgrade kernels, I must then rebuild the modules to get VMware working again. Also, under FC5 with SELinux enabled, I had to manually change the context of one of the VMware files after install before SELinux would even allow VMware to run. Under Windows, all of the above "just works".
Under Linux, I get better performance when running multiple VM's at the same time. I have had three 384MB VM's running at the same time, and because of memory management under Linux I only saw an increase of approximately 600MB vs. not running the VM's (no swap increase either). I also have better I/O performance as well. When installing the 3 VM's above, I had the CD's mapped to ISO files on the same disk that my VMware files were being created on. During the install, my load average was constantly around 15 and my system was definitely slower, but it was still functional. I have brought a Windows host (with enough memory to host both VM's fully in RAM -- no swapping) to its knees trying to install just 2 VM's simultaneously in the same way (ISO files on the same disk as the VMware files). It was so unresponsive, it took almost 5 minutes to bring up Task Manager to see what was going wrong -- and Task Manager didn't really show me what was wrong, just that the CPU was pegged and the VMware processes were doing all the work.
Former SGI CEO Ed McCracken was a graduate of the ISU College of Engineering. In 1992 he donated $5 million worth of SGI equipment to the university. I'm not sure what (if any) of the original donation went to what became the VRAC, but the widespread use of SGI equipment in the ISU College of Engineering certainly contributed to the use of SGI hardware in the VRAC.
From the second image in TFA, you can clearly see the student is wearing some sort of optical device. These are most definitely not your standard "VR goggles".
About 8 or 9 years ago, I had an opportunity to spend some late-night time in the original "cave" (predecessor to the C4 and C6). The optical device that was used at the time employed computer-controlled polarizing lenses, along with sensors to determine the location and orientation (i.e. where the user was looking). The flight simulator application I was using back then provided an extremely "real" environment, even compared to the recent consumer-level VR technology that is available. I was definitely not prepared for the realism, and within a few minutes was feeling some motion sickness and experiencing vertigo.
I can only expect that with technological advances (computing, graphical display, enhancements to the optical headwear, etc.) over the past 8 or 9 years that the technology used in the C6 far surpasses anything available in "a decent set of VR goggles".
Last I knew, light isn't electromagnetic. Therefore, the impact of this proposal would only affect localized (e.g. ISP -> customer, or home LAN) areas, instead of the entire Internet. My access to/. runs over fiber somewhere, so/. shouldn't be responsible for tracking my access.
2)...enables users to access content...
My website doesn't allow any users access to the content. It provides the content to another computer, which then enables the access to that content via CRT, LCD, braille interface, text reader, etc. Whatever is enabling the user to access the content is on their end of the connection, and therefore not my problem.
3)...identification of subscribers...
I don't require any subscription to access my content. All that's needed is the URL.
Been there... done that. Turns out it's a client protocol issue (RDP 5.1 vs. RDP 5.2 I believe).
The standard client download on the MS website only supports the old RDP protocol. Although I don't have my notes anymore, I found this blog that has a solution that sounds vaguely familiar.
The RIAA representative is smart enough to know how dumb they are. They figure if they encourage the students to drop out, they are increasing the pool of future RIAA representatives. The students would be more than qualified, as they already know how the system screws people over.
...it doesn't offer the more advanced features such as snapshots...
According to the product comparison posted at http://www.vmware.com/products/player/comparison.h tml, the player can in fact use snapshots. There is an asterisk related to snapshots indicating that VMware ACE does not support snapshots, but the X in the "Revert to previous state using 'snapshots'" column for the player would imply that the player does in fact support them.
As they are targeting the player at "developers, testers, and other technical professionals", it would seem snapshots would be a must... especially for testers if something blows up.
...and has otherwise attempted to make me look bad in front of employees and long-time clients.
If what he's saying is not true, seems you may be able to claim damages for slander. However, if it is true, not much you can do here.
...even threatening to withhold my final paycheck if I don't find a replacement before I leave.
Does your job description/contract specify that you need to find your replacement? If not, that particular task is not part of your job duties and therefore your pay cannot be legally withheld. If such a chore is part of your job (but why would you have agreed to such a condition?), I'm sure there are plenty of people looking for tech jobs right now...
Is it worth sticking out the few weeks I already told him I worked or should I just cut my losses and leave early?"
Did you document the "few weeks" in your notice, or was it verbal? If it's in writing, you should probably stick with it or it may come back to haunt you later. If it's just verbal, he's got nothing he can hold against you.
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But what happens when that little machine becomes the newest novelty bar game?
"Hey Joe, betcha I can get wasted before you can..."
Then you end up with someone who would have probably been drinking and driving anyway, but they have now consumed much more than they may have planned, in a much shorted timeframe. That's just asking for problems, and it is actually viewed as a liability by a lot of bars.
Was this technology on display in the museum, or was it being used in day-to-day museum business?
I take it you haven't tried that on a 64-bit system running a native 64-bit browser. People have been asking for a 64-bit version of Falsh Player since the Athlon 64 came out (~3 years) and still no dice.
Is he one of the guys in the Guinness commercials?
Given the normal difference in data density between magnetic storage media and paper documents, even a small fragment of a hard drive contains more information than would be on a full sheet of paper. If the spooks use burn bags to destroy paper documents, I wonder what their standards are for disposal of magnetic media?
...but your parents did.
Well, I'm sure the FBI has many hardcopies of their ledgers floating around for review, approval, reconciliation, etc.
Sure didn't keep them from losing $170 million...
There are many cable companies that now provide DVR capabilities with their service (usually part of a digital cable package -- gives a lot of the same channels available from Dish, DirecTv, etc.). I can't comment on the pricing because I don't use our local provider's DVR service, but I imagine it is comparable to what you're paying for Dish PVR.
Granted, they'll have to tread a fine line to avoid more anti-trust problems, but given their past public record as to security, I can easily see someone justifying it with "Well, we had to make it difficult to download and install other programs because of the spyware, adware, virii, etc."
VMware needs kernel hooks to provide its virtualization services. Under Linux, there are only a few supported Linux distros (and specific versions at that) that have pre-built modules installed as part of VMware. I run my personal VMware on an FC5 Linux host, and had to download an unsupported "patch" (from one of the VMware developers -- not even hosted on the VMware web site) to allow the vmware-config.pl script to build the necessary modules for my specific kernel. Every time I upgrade kernels, I must then rebuild the modules to get VMware working again. Also, under FC5 with SELinux enabled, I had to manually change the context of one of the VMware files after install before SELinux would even allow VMware to run. Under Windows, all of the above "just works".
Under Linux, I get better performance when running multiple VM's at the same time. I have had three 384MB VM's running at the same time, and because of memory management under Linux I only saw an increase of approximately 600MB vs. not running the VM's (no swap increase either). I also have better I/O performance as well. When installing the 3 VM's above, I had the CD's mapped to ISO files on the same disk that my VMware files were being created on. During the install, my load average was constantly around 15 and my system was definitely slower, but it was still functional. I have brought a Windows host (with enough memory to host both VM's fully in RAM -- no swapping) to its knees trying to install just 2 VM's simultaneously in the same way (ISO files on the same disk as the VMware files). It was so unresponsive, it took almost 5 minutes to bring up Task Manager to see what was going wrong -- and Task Manager didn't really show me what was wrong, just that the CPU was pegged and the VMware processes were doing all the work.
Former SGI CEO Ed McCracken was a graduate of the ISU College of Engineering. In 1992 he donated $5 million worth of SGI equipment to the university. I'm not sure what (if any) of the original donation went to what became the VRAC, but the widespread use of SGI equipment in the ISU College of Engineering certainly contributed to the use of SGI hardware in the VRAC.
About 8 or 9 years ago, I had an opportunity to spend some late-night time in the original "cave" (predecessor to the C4 and C6). The optical device that was used at the time employed computer-controlled polarizing lenses, along with sensors to determine the location and orientation (i.e. where the user was looking). The flight simulator application I was using back then provided an extremely "real" environment, even compared to the recent consumer-level VR technology that is available. I was definitely not prepared for the realism, and within a few minutes was feeling some motion sickness and experiencing vertigo.
I can only expect that with technological advances (computing, graphical display, enhancements to the optical headwear, etc.) over the past 8 or 9 years that the technology used in the C6 far surpasses anything available in "a decent set of VR goggles".
2) Get a link to your site posted on /. so you can rake in referral $$ from noob /. readers checking out your hack.
3) Profit!
I finally figured out #2!
1) ...elecromagnetic transmission media...
Last I knew, light isn't electromagnetic. Therefore, the impact of this proposal would only affect localized (e.g. ISP -> customer, or home LAN) areas, instead of the entire Internet. My access to /. runs over fiber somewhere, so /. shouldn't be responsible for tracking my access.
2) ...enables users to access content...
My website doesn't allow any users access to the content. It provides the content to another computer, which then enables the access to that content via CRT, LCD, braille interface, text reader, etc. Whatever is enabling the user to access the content is on their end of the connection, and therefore not my problem.
3) ...identification of subscribers...
I don't require any subscription to access my content. All that's needed is the URL.
Called in the Mythbusters, eh?
The standard client download on the MS website only supports the old RDP protocol. Although I don't have my notes anymore, I found this blog that has a solution that sounds vaguely familiar.
...and then the U damn near killed him jokes...
The RIAA representative is smart enough to know how dumb they are. They figure if they encourage the students to drop out, they are increasing the pool of future RIAA representatives. The students would be more than qualified, as they already know how the system screws people over.
Damn... Is Google running Windows too?
According to the product comparison posted at http://www.vmware.com/products/player/comparison.h tml, the player can in fact use snapshots. There is an asterisk related to snapshots indicating that VMware ACE does not support snapshots, but the X in the "Revert to previous state using 'snapshots'" column for the player would imply that the player does in fact support them.
As they are targeting the player at "developers, testers, and other technical professionals", it would seem snapshots would be a must... especially for testers if something blows up.
By the converse of that logic, M$ has a lot of shit they should have fixed long ago...
If what he's saying is not true, seems you may be able to claim damages for slander. However, if it is true, not much you can do here.
Does your job description/contract specify that you need to find your replacement? If not, that particular task is not part of your job duties and therefore your pay cannot be legally withheld. If such a chore is part of your job (but why would you have agreed to such a condition?), I'm sure there are plenty of people looking for tech jobs right now...
Is it worth sticking out the few weeks I already told him I worked or should I just cut my losses and leave early?"
Did you document the "few weeks" in your notice, or was it verbal? If it's in writing, you should probably stick with it or it may come back to haunt you later. If it's just verbal, he's got nothing he can hold against you.
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