Yes, clustering a bunch of small systems is great... except when your application is not supported on a cluster. The the awesome power of Solaris on Sun systems shines brightly in these cases.
Saul Williams did almost the exact same thing with his new album (produced by Trent Reznor who recently dumped his record label). They mixed it up slightly with users able to choose between 192Kbps or 320Kbps MP3 or lossless FLAC encoding.
It would be interesting to learn the numbers from his project since he is a much lesser known artist than Radiohead.
The idea that broadband services are sold "at a loss" is ridiculous. Even for the small time players it is sold for a profit. I've worked for ISPs that have as little as 30 xDSL customers to ones with hundreds of thousands. It shouldn't surprise anyone to hear that all of these companies made a rather nice profit selling broadband.
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Yesterday, I went to start my new job at Microsoft. I arrived just after 9:30 and informed the receptionist I had arrived and needed to be escorted into the building. I filled out my parking form, and went to wait. This began the....
I would opine you'd get a few comments along the lines of "bad hackers" on here *if* this hole had been exploited by some kiddie scripters with no point.
But the Sum deal was a DDOS. Those are an annoying part of life these days, and while there are steps to take to prevent such an attack there is still no 100% full proof defense.
And you can't forget about all of the/. geeks that will now have to explain (once again) to their family and friends why they should stop using IE only to have the concern brushed off.
I have a two year old daughter to whom I gave an old ViewSonic Tablet PC. It's a low-end model with only a sylus input (no keyboard), and I found it to be completely useless for any serious purpose.
Being two, she doesn't yet take advantage of all the features the tablet has to offer, but she is a huge fan of the Journal application. After helping her out with it for a week or two, she now knows how to power up the tablet, press the button that starts Journal, and select the different virtual pens and highlighters. She'll spend about half an hour at a time drawing and scribbling on the thing. It is actually pretty cute to watch.
I always know when she's been using it because there will be 20 - 30 instances of Journal running. Maybe by the time she turns three she'll know how to close the windows after she's done with them.
Exactly. I'm an amature PHP coder, which means I cut my teeth on PHP and MySQL. Last year, however, I was forced into a position where I needed to working with an Oracle database. I spent a couple of hours reading up on OCI8 and after a quick recompile of PHP, I was working with the Oracle database through PHP.
After getting the basic framework of the PHP application together, my reaction was, "Wow, so this is what they mean when they say *real* database." I had very little difficulties working with the new database, and very quickly began to appreciate the extra features Oracle had to offer. After about a week of working with Oracle, I found it quite hard to fall back into the old PHP+MySQL routine (although the mysqli extension has made this easier).
So I would say the average PHP light coder should have no problems transitioning to an Oracle database. I sure didn't.
I believe you have it all wrong. The average person is *exactly* who this would be great for. In fact, I would say the dumber the user the better.
One of the problems we have now is an entrenched Microsoft user base that knows nothing else. A move to anything else would be a big headache because these people don't want to learn computers, and they especially don't want to have to re-learn how to do all of the things they've become accustomed to doing.
However, if you've someone who's never used a computer before and you give them something like Ubuntu, they will do great. My father was recently inquiring about whether he needed a computer or not. I helped him out by giving him an old Dell laptop I had lying around. I installed Ubuntu (Warty) on it. It's been about eight months since and he has gotten pretty good at figuring out how to do things. I don't have to work so hard just to keep it running (as I do all my relatives using Windows) and he gets a computer that *just works*.
And as for your Word example, your average old lady doesn't need a big word processor to create exciting documents, and OO.org fits the bill nicely for viewing any.doc files you'll find.
RTFA....
"Later, by fall of this year, the new boxed "2006" release will fully integrate Conectiva technology and Mandrakesoft online services into a new product."
Not fall of '06, but fall of '05 will see the "2006" release.
Don't forget Celestica. They are a pretty huge company out of Canada. I don't know of anything evil they've done yet but send tons of jobs to places where labor is cheap (i.e. Mexico), but these days who isn't doing that? Besides, they actually employed me for a while to write PHP code. How many *paying* jobs are there out there like that?
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Yes, clustering a bunch of small systems is great ... except when your application is not supported on a cluster. The the awesome power of Solaris on Sun systems shines brightly in these cases.
Because the last time I checked, this was x86 only.
Saul Williams did almost the exact same thing with his new album (produced by Trent Reznor who recently dumped his record label). They mixed it up slightly with users able to choose between 192Kbps or 320Kbps MP3 or lossless FLAC encoding.
It would be interesting to learn the numbers from his project since he is a much lesser known artist than Radiohead.
The sad part is this concept is described as "radical" in the summary.
Step 1: Write x86 emulator in java.
Step 2: Wait three years for it to boot DOS
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!!!
There, I think that pretty much rounds out the list.
You have to read more than the headline:
And I bet you thought you were so fucking smart, didn't you?
The idea that broadband services are sold "at a loss" is ridiculous. Even for the small time players it is sold for a profit. I've worked for ISPs that have as little as 30 xDSL customers to ones with hundreds of thousands. It shouldn't surprise anyone to hear that all of these companies made a rather nice profit selling broadband.
Yesterday, I went to start my new job at Microsoft. I arrived just after 9:30 and informed the receptionist I had arrived and needed to be escorted into the building. I filled out my parking form, and went to wait. This began the....
https://www.darklock.com/blog/?p=74All you have to do is *read* the blog, just read.
I would opine you'd get a few comments along the lines of "bad hackers" on here *if* this hole had been exploited by some kiddie scripters with no point.
/. geeks that will now have to explain (once again) to their family and friends why they should stop using IE only to have the concern brushed off.
But the Sum deal was a DDOS. Those are an annoying part of life these days, and while there are steps to take to prevent such an attack there is still no 100% full proof defense.
And you can't forget about all of the
Wow, you weren't kidding there. Here are some things of which you should take note:
I have a two year old daughter to whom I gave an old ViewSonic Tablet PC. It's a low-end model with only a sylus input (no keyboard), and I found it to be completely useless for any serious purpose.
Being two, she doesn't yet take advantage of all the features the tablet has to offer, but she is a huge fan of the Journal application. After helping her out with it for a week or two, she now knows how to power up the tablet, press the button that starts Journal, and select the different virtual pens and highlighters. She'll spend about half an hour at a time drawing and scribbling on the thing. It is actually pretty cute to watch.
I always know when she's been using it because there will be 20 - 30 instances of Journal running. Maybe by the time she turns three she'll know how to close the windows after she's done with them.
Exactly. I'm an amature PHP coder, which means I cut my teeth on PHP and MySQL. Last year, however, I was forced into a position where I needed to working with an Oracle database. I spent a couple of hours reading up on OCI8 and after a quick recompile of PHP, I was working with the Oracle database through PHP.
After getting the basic framework of the PHP application together, my reaction was, "Wow, so this is what they mean when they say *real* database." I had very little difficulties working with the new database, and very quickly began to appreciate the extra features Oracle had to offer. After about a week of working with Oracle, I found it quite hard to fall back into the old PHP+MySQL routine (although the mysqli extension has made this easier).
So I would say the average PHP light coder should have no problems transitioning to an Oracle database. I sure didn't.
http://www.filzip.com/
I've been using Filzip for a while and it takes care of all my archival needs.
Not that anyone expects anyone to actually read the articles submitted...
I believe you have it all wrong. The average person is *exactly* who this would be great for. In fact, I would say the dumber the user the better.
One of the problems we have now is an entrenched Microsoft user base that knows nothing else. A move to anything else would be a big headache because these people don't want to learn computers, and they especially don't want to have to re-learn how to do all of the things they've become accustomed to doing.
However, if you've someone who's never used a computer before and you give them something like Ubuntu, they will do great. My father was recently inquiring about whether he needed a computer or not. I helped him out by giving him an old Dell laptop I had lying around. I installed Ubuntu (Warty) on it. It's been about eight months since and he has gotten pretty good at figuring out how to do things. I don't have to work so hard just to keep it running (as I do all my relatives using Windows) and he gets a computer that *just works*.
And as for your Word example, your average old lady doesn't need a big word processor to create exciting documents, and OO.org fits the bill nicely for viewing any .doc files you'll find.
I'm pretty sure the manufacturers of the current Xbox are already out of the picture.
I'm also pretty sure that the current Xbox (version 2) are being made in Mexico.
I'm also pretty sure that you could find that company's website here.
Of course, I don't know...I'm just guessing.
RTFA.... "Later, by fall of this year, the new boxed "2006" release will fully integrate Conectiva technology and Mandrakesoft online services into a new product." Not fall of '06, but fall of '05 will see the "2006" release.
You had it somewhat out of order.
Don't forget Celestica. They are a pretty huge company out of Canada. I don't know of anything evil they've done yet but send tons of jobs to places where labor is cheap (i.e. Mexico), but these days who isn't doing that? Besides, they actually employed me for a while to write PHP code. How many *paying* jobs are there out there like that?