IE is still used heavily in a lot on intranet based applications and you just can't really do a full clean house.
And it's exactly those "intranet based applications" that won't see much (if any) of a boost from offloading rendering from the CPU to the GPU - when's the last time you saw a corporate desktop with anything other than an entry-level, integrated graphics chip?
...so unless it's implemented by an idiot I'd say we'll be okay.
I've worked for one of those "financial institutions"... the IT departments aren't always run by the brightest folks on the planet. And the staff, while generally good, doesn't know how to do anything that isn't rigidly defined in their guidebooks:-|
at the moment, Oracle is focusing on large data-warehousing applications using the Sun hardware and OS until OEL is more-widely deployed. When Oracle brought out OEL, they effectively proclaimed that Solaris was no longer the OS of choice - if it were, why bother with their own Linux distribution?
I work for a major company and we're a Solaris shop, we run close to one hundred large Solaris boxes production and test. Hmm, I wonder how we're going to deal with it... oh well, guess that's why I'm not an admin:)
100 Solaris boxes is not a "major" installation... a couple thousand, sure - I'd agree with you there. I've done both contract work, and consulting engagements at locations in the thousands category. [Almost] All of their Sun admins were moving towards Linux or Windows, too.
Are you saying that Solaris has or has not "Patch Management"?
The only platform I've worked-with that comes close to doing actual "patches", and allows them to be unrolled at will*, and has a steady schedule, and can be relied-upon is Microsoft Windows.
Sure - go ahead and jest that it's because they need more patching.
Linux distributions release entire new packages - not patches.
AIX patches come out whenever IBM feels the need, and may or may not be announced well.
Solaris patches are released willy-nilly with poor announcements, the patch clusters don't always include everything that has been released since the last one, and.. oh yeah: it'll try to install patches that aren't needed, then complain they're not installed. And the number of times I've have to run cluster installs more than once because dependency-mapping was incorrect? Not pleasant.
* except for service packs - but those are effectively new revisions to the underlying OS
Then there is people claiming that CFLs give them headaches, if I had more time I'd point out the studies where people are shown to have similar sensitivity as those who sense EM fields.
Fluorescent lights *do* give me headaches - whether they're of the bar, ring, or compact varieties. The synchronicity of the light pulse with the phase of the power supply bothers me. Low-refresh-rate monitors (under 75hz) give me headaches, too. Due to the nature of incandescents, the synchonicity of "pulses" is far less noticeable (if at all since it stays hot even during the down phase of the alternating current, therefore still giving-off its normal light) until the filament is close to the end of its life-span.
And the spectrum emitted is distinctly not the same as with incandescent lights. The same is true of mercury vapor, LED, xenon, and halogen lights - they are all different from incandescents.
A rocket engine works like you explained. A jet engine still uses air pressure as a "pillow to push against".
So does a rocket engine, until the air runs out.
Ummm - no.
How does a rocket work in space with no air? Rockets have sealed front-ends, burning their fuel (and typically their on-board oxidizer) to produce thrust. No air needed for most/all.
I used to work for the largest manufacturer of MRIs - and it wasn't GE. Not even close. Try looking at Philips Medical Systems for the number of units produced per year vs everyone else.
Before Philips bought my old employer, they were its largest customer, but that supplier was also the one making the Hitachi systems.
No, only the FSF (which wrote the GPL under which the ImageMaster code was released) can make the definitions here.
By what law or right can the FSF define something but others can't? I can't find it anywhere in the Constitution of the USA.
Falcon
What does the United States Constitution have to do with the Free Software Foundation's definitions of anything? If I write something, I get to define terms. It's pretty simple. They wrote it, and own the term, so they can define it.
Yes, after reading the original letter I have one: how does that letter prove that Microsoft is evil? The only thing Gates is saying is that he and his company has invested around $40000 in building and supporting the software, and the return was so small, it was just enough to break even. The pay, he states, was $2 an hour. If you don't mind working for $2 an hour, that's ok of course, but most people probably wouldn't go to the university to learn computer science if their pay was less than that of a mcdonalds employee.
And what *was* minimum wage in 1980? Looks like about $3 (http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html). But how many startups are running on effectively 0 cash during their initial phases?
You've misunderstood my disability! I'm suing you!
I'm left-eyed, but right-handed. Can I use a right-handed bow with my left eye? (Some googleing says 'possibly').
Maybe I'll just invent some kind of prismatic spectacle system so my left eye can see out of the right hand side...
Can't speak to *you*, per se, but I can shoot a rifle and handgun left- or right-handed, and left- or right-eyed. I'm right-handed and left-eyed, but that doesn't stop me from making 3-4" groupings at 15 yards on my.45.
The first thing I do every winter is take my wife and I out to an icy parking lot to practice stopping, swerving, and spin out recovery because I know that these skills are FAR more valuable than obeying traffic laws.
another sane human!
I've done this every winter since I started driving: my parents refused to allow me to get a license before I could drive in snow/wet/ice conditions, because they happen a lot in upstate NY.
And, may I add, spinning-out is fun when you plan on it:)
But knowing how your car feels when it's about to spin/fishtail/lose control is a phenomenal comfort when it happens for real the next day at a poorly-cleaned intersection.
I always thought the general logic must be "sign it at 55mph and people will go 10mph faster, i.e. 65mph. If you went and signed it at 65mph everyone would go 75." 10mph faster than the signed speed limit (sometimes 15) seems to be the target most people actually go for, so if you were actually interested in highway safety that's what you'd need to do.
Nope. Studies have found that posted limits have very little effect on average driving speeds. People tend to drive at speeds up to what they feel are safe and no more. The only reason you get the "10mph faster" effect is because the limit is set lower than what most people feel is safe and it is rare for law enforcement to ticket anyone going less than 10mph over the limit - so that's factored into the 'danger' of speeding. If the posted limits were really set according to the DoT standard of 85th percentile, then then there would be a lot fewer people doing the 10mph over the limit thing.
I agree - I was comfortable driving my old MX3 substantially faster than I was allowed to drive it. My Escape I don't like taking past about 80 or 85. Not because I can't control it at 110, but with its increased wind resistance, and more top-heaviness than my old sprtscoupe, I don't deem it safe to do so.
But it's true that time spent driving inflates your risk. Hence some (but I stress only some) of the variance in the "men have more accidents" statistic is that the average man spends much more time on the roads than the average woman. So a lower risk to an insurance company doesn't totally refect "a better driver".
This is a fantastic point. Until I moved to Singapore for work, I drove a huge amount annually - >25k miles on my vehicle alone, and that was with spending over half the year traveling for work where I flew and had a *rental* car.
My fiancee has put 30k miles on her car in >2 years of owning it, and much of that came from commuting home from school once a month while in college. She just doesn't drive as much as I do. But she's an equal-ability driver.
I have the same problem. My wife has a serious problem with judging time and distance. She knows this and overcompensates by being way too careful. The end result is no accidents. But she does frequently piss of people behind her. My daughter (now 17, just had her first accident on friday) has the same time and distance judgment problem. Only she's an indestructible teenager who's personal life is so important, she needs red and blue lights on her car. After nearly two years of me trying to teach my daughter how to drive, i still don't like to be in the car with her. Her friends, sisters, and younger brother all refuse to ride with her. It's that scary. And she still isn't ready for the snow we'll get next month.:-/
Then why do you let her drive? I mean, really? You're her FATHER, and you won't tell her "no, you can't drive"? I think you're failing as a parent if you can't restrain her bad behavior.
If she is going to insist, and you're going to let her, make her pay for all her own expenses - insurance, maintenance, gas, etc.
the thermal inertia of liquid nitrogen (LN2) is extremely high: it will stay "liquid" at room temperature, slowly boiling-off, and generating all that foggy happiness special effects folks like (yes, I know - they often use dry ice on water for that effect).
However. Nitrogen liquifies at 77 Kelvin, or about -200 C or -320 F. That's damn cold. Oh - and it is also below the liquefaction point of oxygen - so it would condense the O2 out of the atmosphere, making a mix of LN2 and LO2. That's spiffy.
You can't walk in that environment without special protective gear - presuming it only was liquid up to ~your knees. If it's totally flooded, you can't go in or out at all.
Now - if you wanted to pump the LN2 through colling pipes to draw heat off the server, that's a possibility - but you also need to look at the thermal stressing of the electronic components, and whether or not they can handle the temperature extremes from the CPU "wanting" to be at ~50 C while the LN2 is at -200 C.
*I worked with cryogenics for a year at an MRI manufacturer
I don't work for Barracuda, but their link balancer (http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/link_overview.php) is ~$3700 US for the 3 connection device, with full support.
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IE is still used heavily in a lot on intranet based applications and you just can't really do a full clean house.
And it's exactly those "intranet based applications" that won't see much (if any) of a boost from offloading rendering from the CPU to the GPU - when's the last time you saw a corporate desktop with anything other than an entry-level, integrated graphics chip?
...so unless it's implemented by an idiot I'd say we'll be okay.
I've worked for one of those "financial institutions"... the IT departments aren't always run by the brightest folks on the planet. And the staff, while generally good, doesn't know how to do anything that isn't rigidly defined in their guidebooks :-|
at the moment, Oracle is focusing on large data-warehousing applications using the Sun hardware and OS until OEL is more-widely deployed. When Oracle brought out OEL, they effectively proclaimed that Solaris was no longer the OS of choice - if it were, why bother with their own Linux distribution?
I work for a major company and we're a Solaris shop, we run close to one hundred large Solaris boxes production and test. Hmm, I wonder how we're going to deal with it... oh well, guess that's why I'm not an admin :)
100 Solaris boxes is not a "major" installation... a couple thousand, sure - I'd agree with you there. I've done both contract work, and consulting engagements at locations in the thousands category. [Almost] All of their Sun admins were moving towards Linux or Windows, too.
Personally, I've noticed a down-take in Solaris adoption, and more Linux and Windows deployments taking their place over the last 3-5 years.
I have two words for you: Patch Management.
Are you saying that Solaris has or has not "Patch Management"?
The only platform I've worked-with that comes close to doing actual "patches", and allows them to be unrolled at will*, and has a steady schedule, and can be relied-upon is Microsoft Windows.
Sure - go ahead and jest that it's because they need more patching.
Linux distributions release entire new packages - not patches.
AIX patches come out whenever IBM feels the need, and may or may not be announced well.
Solaris patches are released willy-nilly with poor announcements, the patch clusters don't always include everything that has been released since the last one, and.. oh yeah: it'll try to install patches that aren't needed, then complain they're not installed. And the number of times I've have to run cluster installs more than once because dependency-mapping was incorrect? Not pleasant.
* except for service packs - but those are effectively new revisions to the underlying OS
and with projector prices coming so far down, I don't see why they wouldn't be preferable now :)
Then there is people claiming that CFLs give them headaches, if I had more time I'd point out the studies where people are shown to have similar sensitivity as those who sense EM fields.
Fluorescent lights *do* give me headaches - whether they're of the bar, ring, or compact varieties. The synchronicity of the light pulse with the phase of the power supply bothers me. Low-refresh-rate monitors (under 75hz) give me headaches, too. Due to the nature of incandescents, the synchonicity of "pulses" is far less noticeable (if at all since it stays hot even during the down phase of the alternating current, therefore still giving-off its normal light) until the filament is close to the end of its life-span.
And the spectrum emitted is distinctly not the same as with incandescent lights. The same is true of mercury vapor, LED, xenon, and halogen lights - they are all different from incandescents.
A rocket engine works like you explained. A jet engine still uses air pressure as a "pillow to push against".
So does a rocket engine, until the air runs out.
Ummm - no.
How does a rocket work in space with no air? Rockets have sealed front-ends, burning their fuel (and typically their on-board oxidizer) to produce thrust. No air needed for most/all.
And an Aussie dollar is *nearly* equivalent to a US dollar right now: (1.09AUD to the USD as of this morning EST) http://www.google.com/search?q=1usd+in+aud
I used to work for the largest manufacturer of MRIs - and it wasn't GE. Not even close. Try looking at Philips Medical Systems for the number of units produced per year vs everyone else. Before Philips bought my old employer, they were its largest customer, but that supplier was also the one making the Hitachi systems.
No, only the FSF (which wrote the GPL under which the ImageMaster code was released) can make the definitions here.
By what law or right can the FSF define something but others can't? I can't find it anywhere in the Constitution of the USA.
Falcon
What does the United States Constitution have to do with the Free Software Foundation's definitions of anything? If I write something, I get to define terms. It's pretty simple. They wrote it, and own the term, so they can define it.
Yes, after reading the original letter I have one: how does that letter prove that Microsoft is evil? The only thing Gates is saying is that he and his company has invested around $40000 in building and supporting the software, and the return was so small, it was just enough to break even. The pay, he states, was $2 an hour. If you don't mind working for $2 an hour, that's ok of course, but most people probably wouldn't go to the university to learn computer science if their pay was less than that of a mcdonalds employee.
And what *was* minimum wage in 1980? Looks like about $3 (http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/anth484/minwage.html). But how many startups are running on effectively 0 cash during their initial phases?
Reasonable accommodations are in the eye of the beholder.
and if the beholder is blind? then what? some blind person ought to sue whoever wrote the reasonable accommodations clause.
Ever think that maybe it's because it's in their eye that that's why they're blind? They just trying to behold too much.
You've misunderstood my disability! I'm suing you!
I'm left-eyed, but right-handed. Can I use a right-handed bow with my left eye? (Some googleing says 'possibly').
Maybe I'll just invent some kind of prismatic spectacle system so my left eye can see out of the right hand side...
Can't speak to *you*, per se, but I can shoot a rifle and handgun left- or right-handed, and left- or right-eyed. I'm right-handed and left-eyed, but that doesn't stop me from making 3-4" groupings at 15 yards on my .45.
The first thing I do every winter is take my wife and I out to an icy parking lot to practice stopping, swerving, and spin out recovery because I know that these skills are FAR more valuable than obeying traffic laws.
another sane human!
I've done this every winter since I started driving: my parents refused to allow me to get a license before I could drive in snow/wet/ice conditions, because they happen a lot in upstate NY.
And, may I add, spinning-out is fun when you plan on it :)
But knowing how your car feels when it's about to spin/fishtail/lose control is a phenomenal comfort when it happens for real the next day at a poorly-cleaned intersection.
I always thought the general logic must be "sign it at 55mph and people will go 10mph faster, i.e. 65mph. If you went and signed it at 65mph everyone would go 75." 10mph faster than the signed speed limit (sometimes 15) seems to be the target most people actually go for, so if you were actually interested in highway safety that's what you'd need to do.
Nope. Studies have found that posted limits have very little effect on average driving speeds. People tend to drive at speeds up to what they feel are safe and no more. The only reason you get the "10mph faster" effect is because the limit is set lower than what most people feel is safe and it is rare for law enforcement to ticket anyone going less than 10mph over the limit - so that's factored into the 'danger' of speeding. If the posted limits were really set according to the DoT standard of 85th percentile, then then there would be a lot fewer people doing the 10mph over the limit thing.
I agree - I was comfortable driving my old MX3 substantially faster than I was allowed to drive it. My Escape I don't like taking past about 80 or 85. Not because I can't control it at 110, but with its increased wind resistance, and more top-heaviness than my old sprtscoupe, I don't deem it safe to do so.
But it's true that time spent driving inflates your risk. Hence some (but I stress only some) of the variance in the "men have more accidents" statistic is that the average man spends much more time on the roads than the average woman. So a lower risk to an insurance company doesn't totally refect "a better driver".
This is a fantastic point. Until I moved to Singapore for work, I drove a huge amount annually - >25k miles on my vehicle alone, and that was with spending over half the year traveling for work where I flew and had a *rental* car.
My fiancee has put 30k miles on her car in >2 years of owning it, and much of that came from commuting home from school once a month while in college. She just doesn't drive as much as I do. But she's an equal-ability driver.
I have the same problem. My wife has a serious problem with judging time and distance. She knows this and overcompensates by being way too careful. The end result is no accidents. But she does frequently piss of people behind her. My daughter (now 17, just had her first accident on friday) has the same time and distance judgment problem. Only she's an indestructible teenager who's personal life is so important, she needs red and blue lights on her car. After nearly two years of me trying to teach my daughter how to drive, i still don't like to be in the car with her. Her friends, sisters, and younger brother all refuse to ride with her. It's that scary. And she still isn't ready for the snow we'll get next month. :-/
Then why do you let her drive? I mean, really? You're her FATHER , and you won't tell her "no, you can't drive"? I think you're failing as a parent if you can't restrain her bad behavior.
If she is going to insist, and you're going to let her, make her pay for all her own expenses - insurance, maintenance, gas, etc.
"Instant grits?
No self respectin' Southerner uses instant grits. I take pride in my grits."
the anti-CFC crowd would have your head for that :)
..and then they wonder why they have LAVA in the LIVING ROOM!
However. Nitrogen liquifies at 77 Kelvin, or about -200 C or -320 F. That's damn cold. Oh - and it is also below the liquefaction point of oxygen - so it would condense the O2 out of the atmosphere, making a mix of LN2 and LO2. That's spiffy.
You can't walk in that environment without special protective gear - presuming it only was liquid up to ~your knees. If it's totally flooded, you can't go in or out at all.
Now - if you wanted to pump the LN2 through colling pipes to draw heat off the server, that's a possibility - but you also need to look at the thermal stressing of the electronic components, and whether or not they can handle the temperature extremes from the CPU "wanting" to be at ~50 C while the LN2 is at -200 C.
*I worked with cryogenics for a year at an MRI manufacturer
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I don't work for Barracuda, but their link balancer (http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/link_overview.php) is ~$3700 US for the 3 connection device, with full support.