Bad example, and one I think that bolsters the RIAA's argument. Like the failed Steven King experiment several years ago, the reason Radiohead pulled off this coup of Internet profiteering had everything to do with marketing and advertising.
If *ALL* music was sold this way, you would not see the same effect. If every iTMS download was unencumbered (easily), iTMS certainly wouldn't be making money.
My opinion is that there is a fine balance between DRM and device portability. The RIAA and Industry, however, haven't really found that mix yet.
I had a SuperTrak SX6000. Well, near the end of it's warranty life, it started throwing memory errors and performing a system halt (took me a while to figure out what it was up to). Well, I RMA'd it to Promise, and they replaced it (cross-ship), and I plugged it in, and away it went.
A decent vendor, like Promise, is going to make gear compatible with it's older gear; if they decom something, they need to give their commercial customers some assurance they'll still be able to get at their data if they need to replace hardware. The big exception is going to be architecture switches, IE PATA to SATA.
But I feel far safer using software RAID under Linux. I know for a fact I can build a RAID array and boot Knoppix and read it if I have to.
I wish I could give you mod points.:( I think VMware did a great thing bringing virtualization to the intel platform. They did a hard job. But Intel and AMD lowered the cost of entry. With Open APIs, Xen is only going to get better, and the management tool experience that Citrix brings to the table will only increase it's penetration into the datacenter. Everyone knows Citrix already, soon it will be a tough competitor to VMware. Two years. This will only benefit us all, as the trickle down effect to the open source space will benefit from the experience of the users of these products.
EFI based VM?
Perhaps a day will come when I can simply plug my new machine in, turn it on, let it get a DHCP address, and push iSCSI based VM guest targets to it without ever having to log in and configure it?
This was definitely true in the days of VMware code morphing where every kernel transition caused many extra thousands of CPU instructions. This is not necessarily true today in a hardware-assisted virtualization world.
In fact, IBM mainframes have been doing this for decades, so I challenge your argument that databases and virtualization are incompatible. It is an immature practice in the x86 world, but it's fast evolving into the way to do business, especially for underutilized resources.
Yup. And the same thing was said about Linux 6 or 7 years ago. Look where we are now...
VMWare blazed a path on Intel based hardware, that's for certain. Their only main way to keep their lead is to push the tools better and faster than Xensource (Citrix). Hardware-based paravirtualization saved Xen from having to implement VMware's code morphing; it's a level playing field and they only benefit to VMware at this point is the robust toolset.
Citrix has years of experience at building management toolsets. Personally, I think VMware is in deep shit with the Citrix buyout.
I've never had more mail problems from a wireless mail solution as I have had from my BlackBerry. I have to wipe it every month at least. I've had my 700p for six months now, and while it crashes much more often than my Blackberry, I've never had to wipe it to get it to perform basic functionality.
5 years? Windows CE came out in 1997, and it still blows. I used a Treo 700w for about four hours before turning it in for a 700p. Scrolling my calendar from Oct 31 to Nov 1 shouldn't result in a 3 second delay.
I don't think I could be called an anti-cellphone campaigner. I've had one for a decade and routinely carry two, for work unfortunately. Just like there's a time and a place to get drunk and blitzed out of your gourd, there's a time and a place for cellphones, and a theatre or restaurant isn't it. I'm far more forgiving of cellphone use in Dennys or Unos than I would ever be in the Capital Grille, for instance...
I got to try out an IBM X61 tablet when it first came out for school, and I loved it. It was unobtrusive, I could write mathematical formulas which my compatriots where slapping away on keyboards being annoying, and it was relaxing. I could ghost-write without having to look, just write away, where normally I have to do much in-band correction.
When just lounging around, I loved the relaxed feeling of browsing and reading on a tablet, it's comfortable to do.
But I was disappointed at the video support and small display size. I want a tabletPC that I can use as a desktop replacement, powerful, large memories, great video support. Most currently tablets are ultraportables, or try to be. And I've been hoping for a long time Apple brings core2 and an ATI gfx platform to the tablet space.
bullshit. I hate you texting fools in the middle of the theatre with your obnoxiously bright screens flashing around acting self important. Put it the fuck away, or don't come to the movie.
I can attest that Outlook IMAP is working just fine. Perhaps your problems are related to Exchange, or your particular configuration, but I'm using Outlook and SquirrelMail with Cyrus and I have no troubles at all.
Nearly all video adapters made in the past 10 years are either PCI, PCIe or AGP. Whether or not they are add in cards or soldered on the motherboard is irrelevant.
I did the opposite, bought a nice pair of Wolverine work boots that faired well in the store, but when I wore them for a whole day gave me tendonitis in the ankle. It took six months for that injury to heal.
Netbank customer since at least 2000. As of 18:45 EST, I still cannot access the Netbank website. Well at 18:50 I can, but read-only. Suckage. Complete surprise to me.
A bowflex revolution is $1800-2400 US. An older original bowflex from $1500-$2000.
At that price, getting yourself a decent set of free weights, an incline bench and a chin-up bar is far better ROI. I have to admit though that the selectec weight system looks intriguing, but at $400, I think I'd rather have a rack of steel.
In a language like python where DETAIL is extremely important, not being able to comprehend the requirements and/or submit an appropriate cover letter would tend to be an indicator that the person is completely unfit for the job.
I don't believe that software can do ANYTHING that hardware doesn't allow it to do. If your hardware allows you to run CPUs at higher clock speeds then they are rated, and turn down fan speeds without hardware/thermal interlocks, then you are a moron for building a system that's going to cost you more money in support costs then it will earn you in sales.
Dust bunnies, poor air quality, hot apartments and datacenters cabinets, all will eventually overheat your well-engineered computer. If you fail to design for it, do not make it my problem.
With such a huge aftermarket for car radios, how stupid is that? If replacing a radio can cause damage to emissions control systems, the manufacturer has a bigger problem than your car radio, big problems with names ending in Regulatory Commission.
Not for nothing, but with modern memory management subsystems, it doesn't matter how much memory you allocate to a process, but how big your working set size is. If your JVM uses 250MB to start up, but needs only 25MB to run your webserver, then that is all that is going to be resident in active RAM (eventually).
Startup and paging costs kill you, but you pay the paging cost anyway if you use lots of memory, or you have to *HAVE* lots of memory to avoid it.
That's utter bullshit. If a cop can get away with just believing something is legal, then I should be able to get away with driving 95 in a 50. I believe it's legal anyway.
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Bad example, and one I think that bolsters the RIAA's argument. Like the failed Steven King experiment several years ago, the reason Radiohead pulled off this coup of Internet profiteering had everything to do with marketing and advertising.
If *ALL* music was sold this way, you would not see the same effect. If every iTMS download was unencumbered (easily), iTMS certainly wouldn't be making money.
My opinion is that there is a fine balance between DRM and device portability. The RIAA and Industry, however, haven't really found that mix yet.
Bingo:
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lower "legacy" costs for retirees' pensions and health benefits
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That's it. And until we reach equilibrium in terms of retirees and existing workforce, this nation is in for a world of hurt.
Toyota, Honda, et al. don't have this problem of 60+ years of pensions and employees (not in the U.S. anyhow).
Just like digital cameras don't produce pictures either...
Nor celluloid film...
Even your retinas create images in a similar fashion, a collection of light hitting photo-sensitive receptor sites.
I had a SuperTrak SX6000. Well, near the end of it's warranty life, it started throwing memory errors and performing a system halt (took me a while to figure out what it was up to). Well, I RMA'd it to Promise, and they replaced it (cross-ship), and I plugged it in, and away it went.
A decent vendor, like Promise, is going to make gear compatible with it's older gear; if they decom something, they need to give their commercial customers some assurance they'll still be able to get at their data if they need to replace hardware. The big exception is going to be architecture switches, IE PATA to SATA.
But I feel far safer using software RAID under Linux. I know for a fact I can build a RAID array and boot Knoppix and read it if I have to.
I wish I could give you mod points. :( I think VMware did a great thing bringing virtualization to the intel platform. They did a hard job. But Intel and AMD lowered the cost of entry. With Open APIs, Xen is only going to get better, and the management tool experience that Citrix brings to the table will only increase it's penetration into the datacenter. Everyone knows Citrix already, soon it will be a tough competitor to VMware. Two years. This will only benefit us all, as the trickle down effect to the open source space will benefit from the experience of the users of these products.
EFI based VM?
Perhaps a day will come when I can simply plug my new machine in, turn it on, let it get a DHCP address, and push iSCSI based VM guest targets to it without ever having to log in and configure it?
This was definitely true in the days of VMware code morphing where every kernel transition caused many extra thousands of CPU instructions. This is not necessarily true today in a hardware-assisted virtualization world.
In fact, IBM mainframes have been doing this for decades, so I challenge your argument that databases and virtualization are incompatible. It is an immature practice in the x86 world, but it's fast evolving into the way to do business, especially for underutilized resources.
Yup. And the same thing was said about Linux 6 or 7 years ago. Look where we are now...
VMWare blazed a path on Intel based hardware, that's for certain. Their only main way to keep their lead is to push the tools better and faster than Xensource (Citrix). Hardware-based paravirtualization saved Xen from having to implement VMware's code morphing; it's a level playing field and they only benefit to VMware at this point is the robust toolset.
Citrix has years of experience at building management toolsets. Personally, I think VMware is in deep shit with the Citrix buyout.
I've never had more mail problems from a wireless mail solution as I have had from my BlackBerry. I have to wipe it every month at least. I've had my 700p for six months now, and while it crashes much more often than my Blackberry, I've never had to wipe it to get it to perform basic functionality.
5 years? Windows CE came out in 1997, and it still blows. I used a Treo 700w for about four hours before turning it in for a 700p. Scrolling my calendar from Oct 31 to Nov 1 shouldn't result in a 3 second delay.
I don't think I could be called an anti-cellphone campaigner. I've had one for a decade and routinely carry two, for work unfortunately. Just like there's a time and a place to get drunk and blitzed out of your gourd, there's a time and a place for cellphones, and a theatre or restaurant isn't it. I'm far more forgiving of cellphone use in Dennys or Unos than I would ever be in the Capital Grille, for instance...
I got to try out an IBM X61 tablet when it first came out for school, and I loved it. It was unobtrusive, I could write mathematical formulas which my compatriots where slapping away on keyboards being annoying, and it was relaxing. I could ghost-write without having to look, just write away, where normally I have to do much in-band correction.
When just lounging around, I loved the relaxed feeling of browsing and reading on a tablet, it's comfortable to do.
But I was disappointed at the video support and small display size. I want a tabletPC that I can use as a desktop replacement, powerful, large memories, great video support. Most currently tablets are ultraportables, or try to be. And I've been hoping for a long time Apple brings core2 and an ATI gfx platform to the tablet space.
Which isn't that big of a problem now-a-days because cdroms can lock themselves (short of a paperclip in the emergency eject hole...).
Then they shouldn't go into places where you are expected to maintain a certain sense of decorum, including not ruining 300 other persons experiences.
bullshit. I hate you texting fools in the middle of the theatre with your obnoxiously bright screens flashing around acting self important. Put it the fuck away, or don't come to the movie.
I can attest that Outlook IMAP is working just fine. Perhaps your problems are related to Exchange, or your particular configuration, but I'm using Outlook and SquirrelMail with Cyrus and I have no troubles at all.
Nearly all video adapters made in the past 10 years are either PCI, PCIe or AGP. Whether or not they are add in cards or soldered on the motherboard is irrelevant.
You can use Xen, but you need special versions of Intel and AMD processors (VT enabled) to do it seemlessly.
I did the opposite, bought a nice pair of Wolverine work boots that faired well in the store, but when I wore them for a whole day gave me tendonitis in the ankle. It took six months for that injury to heal.
Netbank customer since at least 2000. As of 18:45 EST, I still cannot access the Netbank website. Well at 18:50 I can, but read-only. Suckage. Complete surprise to me.
A bowflex revolution is $1800-2400 US. An older original bowflex from $1500-$2000.
At that price, getting yourself a decent set of free weights, an incline bench and a chin-up bar is far better ROI. I have to admit though that the selectec weight system looks intriguing, but at $400, I think I'd rather have a rack of steel.
In a language like python where DETAIL is extremely important, not being able to comprehend the requirements and/or submit an appropriate cover letter would tend to be an indicator that the person is completely unfit for the job.
I don't believe that software can do ANYTHING that hardware doesn't allow it to do. If your hardware allows you to run CPUs at higher clock speeds then they are rated, and turn down fan speeds without hardware/thermal interlocks, then you are a moron for building a system that's going to cost you more money in support costs then it will earn you in sales.
Dust bunnies, poor air quality, hot apartments and datacenters cabinets, all will eventually overheat your well-engineered computer. If you fail to design for it, do not make it my problem.
With such a huge aftermarket for car radios, how stupid is that? If replacing a radio can cause damage to emissions control systems, the manufacturer has a bigger problem than your car radio, big problems with names ending in Regulatory Commission.
Not for nothing, but with modern memory management subsystems, it doesn't matter how much memory you allocate to a process, but how big your working set size is. If your JVM uses 250MB to start up, but needs only 25MB to run your webserver, then that is all that is going to be resident in active RAM (eventually).
Startup and paging costs kill you, but you pay the paging cost anyway if you use lots of memory, or you have to *HAVE* lots of memory to avoid it.
That's utter bullshit. If a cop can get away with just believing something is legal, then I should be able to get away with driving 95 in a 50. I believe it's legal anyway.