Actually, yes it is. If you subscribe to online streaming media such as Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, at 1GB/hr for high-quality, yes, it is not only doable, it is easily doable.
My bandwidth usage averaged about a gig a week, between internet radio, VoIP, etc. but then, I noticed my usage jumping to 12Gig/week virtually overnight. Initially I feared a virus. Then I checked, all of the traffic was going to my wifes computer. I then cross-referenced it, the day it jumped was the day she found Hulu, and signed up for Netflix. Now imagine 3-4 computers in the house, each one with someone seperately watching netflix or Hulu....
See, now I had a Panasonic 2x CD-ROM drive that plugged right into my sound card... strangely enough, Linux is the only OS I had on that machine that didn't freak out the first time I tried to use it.
I'd heard of Linux while at school, so during summer break I saw a book, "Linux Unleashed" with a copy of the latest Slackware (3.0) at the back. So, I bought the book, took it home, made the boot floppies, and proceeded to blow away the Windows 3.1 and installed Slackware 3.0 on the machine. Took a good 45 minutes (it was a 486SX2-50) but then, I was there. I configured my PPP dialer (took half the time than with Winsock dialer) and logged onto my ISP and proceeded to install ircII to then chat with my friends on IRC. I had an IRC star trek game to attend that weekend, so I logged into DALNet and then went to play my game, all the while enjoying the B&W plain jane interface. Then I flipped through the book and found the page talking about virtual terminals. ALT+F2 and BAM, I was then using Lynx to browse the web at the same time. I was in hog heaven. ALT+F3 and I was learning how to make an Xconfiguration script to try and turn on the GUI. then the magical moments, I typed startx.... and 5 minutes later fvwm came up! Rediculously slow compared to today, but compared to Win3.1 and OS/2 2.11, I was loving every moment of it.
I still have the hard drive from that old machine, still sporting Slackware 3.0 on it, with the 1.0.13 kernel in all of its glory residing as vmlinuz.orig.
Yet they lost money. They have gone from $11.8 billion in cash on hand this time last year to under $8 billion now. That is 25% of their cash to operate, *poof* gone. In a single year of operation. They do stock buybacks and such to balance their sheets, but the actual cash on hand # tells the story of whats going on in Redmond.
He cut the F22 but is pushing the F35 instead, a far more versitile aircraft with lower operating costs. And don't forget, the F22 can be brought down by a simple HAM radio (reference Brittish Library Direct). As for carriers, the issue is not that we are killing off air capability on the sea, it is that we've built 4 since the fall of the Soviet Union, and have plans to build 3 more over the next 15 years. The original plan was to build 5 during the same time. He is simply shifting to a more practical standing, 5 years between launches rather than 3.
This guy is dismissing the specs, calling it a Cellphone. Fine, call it that, but geesh, for $100, a smartphone with a 7" screen and full keyboard, that is one sweet phone. Sign me up right now!
Microsoft managed to reach its position through bullying and using it's position in one market to force its way into others (eg Office and DOS). Now what we have here is another quite ruthless company which just put together a platform which can out-bully the bully, using it's strong position in one market to now force its way into others. I can easily imagine the conversation, "So, Mr mega-bank, I know you enjoy our database software, have you ever considered the benefit of our servers as well?"
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Untrue. Niagara T2 embeds inside of it's CPU most of the parts you would find on the motherboard, such as the RAM controller, northbridge, southbridge, even the Gig-E controller. There is less than 10% of a normal PC in the picture with the single, solitary, only PCI Express port.
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What we have here on one hand is Oracle, a company that is incredibly well run, but with products that don't cover a complete spectrum, and Sun, a so-so run company with a wide range of product lines. This can go two ways, Suns platform quality goes down while Oracles management goes down with it, *or*, and this is the scenario I hope for, Oracle cleans out the dead wood in Sun management, and adopts the Sun technology in force. I've worked on Oracle machines, and Sun machines. I've also delt with both companies sales forces. If the synergy can be hammered out, this can really shake up the business world.
One suggestion tho, keep both names. Use Sun for the hardware, Oracle for the software.
There isn't a tier anymore, but at one time there was. Bands did shows with new songs, then the radio stations got "the drop" weeks if not months before the single was released, and the album came out weeks after that. That ended awhile ago, and for the improvement in the complete market I feel.
The tiered approach was how vinyl was handled for years, with singles, 45's and 33's, casettes, 8-tracks, nothing could knock the mightly LP off of it's perch. The vinyl disk fabricators got lazy, the production quality of the disks suffered with inherent scratches, even unplayable disks becoming all too common. Into this market comes the CD, with it's lossless playback, far more portable nature. The companies that produced the vinyl sat on their laurels, and lost out. Not talking the record companies, but the actual vinyl disk manufacturers, which they oftentimes had subcontracted the work out to. The record companies saw the potential of CD's, and grabbed at them, while the vinyl disk vendors continued to focus on their platters in many cases. The vinyl companies misjudged their customer base, the record companies and consumers, and as a result became the specialty vendors they are today, far smaller. The movie companies, never forget, are a middleman, delivering us content produced by the Production Houses. Only a matter of time before the Production Houses eliminate the middleman, and then the distributors that only focus on the traditional model will be the ones left out in the cold, I fear. They need to adapt, or will find themselves in the same boat.
You have some numbers confused. 7 began as project Blackcomb in 2000. Vista started later on in 2003 as Longhorn. In 2006 is when Blackcomb was renamed Vienna and then in 2007 was renamed Windows 7.
Your arguement would work, save the fact that tax money supports the roads and airports as well as the air traffic infastructure itself. Cut the tax money for, let's say, highway maintenance, and let's see how well those cars do.
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Actually, yes it is. If you subscribe to online streaming media such as Hulu, Netflix, Youtube, at 1GB/hr for high-quality, yes, it is not only doable, it is easily doable.
A single hulu show is roughly a gigabyte if you have the bandwidth. 44 hours a week is not unusual for television watching in some circles.
My bandwidth usage averaged about a gig a week, between internet radio, VoIP, etc. but then, I noticed my usage jumping to 12Gig/week virtually overnight. Initially I feared a virus. Then I checked, all of the traffic was going to my wifes computer. I then cross-referenced it, the day it jumped was the day she found Hulu, and signed up for Netflix. Now imagine 3-4 computers in the house, each one with someone seperately watching netflix or Hulu....
1.2.13, my mistake. (you made me have to boot up that drive for the first time in forever to look that up)
if it will run XP mode software, wouldn't that mean XP style viruses now have a key right into the system?
See, now I had a Panasonic 2x CD-ROM drive that plugged right into my sound card... strangely enough, Linux is the only OS I had on that machine that didn't freak out the first time I tried to use it.
Altho I call it Kubuntu with XP running in QEMU....
I'd heard of Linux while at school, so during summer break I saw a book, "Linux Unleashed" with a copy of the latest Slackware (3.0) at the back. So, I bought the book, took it home, made the boot floppies, and proceeded to blow away the Windows 3.1 and installed Slackware 3.0 on the machine. Took a good 45 minutes (it was a 486SX2-50) but then, I was there. I configured my PPP dialer (took half the time than with Winsock dialer) and logged onto my ISP and proceeded to install ircII to then chat with my friends on IRC. I had an IRC star trek game to attend that weekend, so I logged into DALNet and then went to play my game, all the while enjoying the B&W plain jane interface. Then I flipped through the book and found the page talking about virtual terminals. ALT+F2 and BAM, I was then using Lynx to browse the web at the same time. I was in hog heaven. ALT+F3 and I was learning how to make an Xconfiguration script to try and turn on the GUI. then the magical moments, I typed startx.... and 5 minutes later fvwm came up! Rediculously slow compared to today, but compared to Win3.1 and OS/2 2.11, I was loving every moment of it.
I still have the hard drive from that old machine, still sporting Slackware 3.0 on it, with the 1.0.13 kernel in all of its glory residing as vmlinuz.orig.
Yet they lost money. They have gone from $11.8 billion in cash on hand this time last year to under $8 billion now. That is 25% of their cash to operate, *poof* gone. In a single year of operation. They do stock buybacks and such to balance their sheets, but the actual cash on hand # tells the story of whats going on in Redmond.
He cut the F22 but is pushing the F35 instead, a far more versitile aircraft with lower operating costs. And don't forget, the F22 can be brought down by a simple HAM radio (reference Brittish Library Direct). As for carriers, the issue is not that we are killing off air capability on the sea, it is that we've built 4 since the fall of the Soviet Union, and have plans to build 3 more over the next 15 years. The original plan was to build 5 during the same time. He is simply shifting to a more practical standing, 5 years between launches rather than 3.
This guy is dismissing the specs, calling it a Cellphone. Fine, call it that, but geesh, for $100, a smartphone with a 7" screen and full keyboard, that is one sweet phone. Sign me up right now!
Microsoft managed to reach its position through bullying and using it's position in one market to force its way into others (eg Office and DOS). Now what we have here is another quite ruthless company which just put together a platform which can out-bully the bully, using it's strong position in one market to now force its way into others. I can easily imagine the conversation, "So, Mr mega-bank, I know you enjoy our database software, have you ever considered the benefit of our servers as well?"
Untrue. Niagara T2 embeds inside of it's CPU most of the parts you would find on the motherboard, such as the RAM controller, northbridge, southbridge, even the Gig-E controller. There is less than 10% of a normal PC in the picture with the single, solitary, only PCI Express port.
What we have here on one hand is Oracle, a company that is incredibly well run, but with products that don't cover a complete spectrum, and Sun, a so-so run company with a wide range of product lines. This can go two ways, Suns platform quality goes down while Oracles management goes down with it, *or*, and this is the scenario I hope for, Oracle cleans out the dead wood in Sun management, and adopts the Sun technology in force. I've worked on Oracle machines, and Sun machines. I've also delt with both companies sales forces. If the synergy can be hammered out, this can really shake up the business world.
One suggestion tho, keep both names. Use Sun for the hardware, Oracle for the software.
Q had the cool gadgets, but R would jump right in and give a hands on demonstration!
There isn't a tier anymore, but at one time there was. Bands did shows with new songs, then the radio stations got "the drop" weeks if not months before the single was released, and the album came out weeks after that. That ended awhile ago, and for the improvement in the complete market I feel.
for Linux, how about on OpenBSD for SPARC?
The tiered approach was how vinyl was handled for years, with singles, 45's and 33's, casettes, 8-tracks, nothing could knock the mightly LP off of it's perch. The vinyl disk fabricators got lazy, the production quality of the disks suffered with inherent scratches, even unplayable disks becoming all too common. Into this market comes the CD, with it's lossless playback, far more portable nature. The companies that produced the vinyl sat on their laurels, and lost out. Not talking the record companies, but the actual vinyl disk manufacturers, which they oftentimes had subcontracted the work out to. The record companies saw the potential of CD's, and grabbed at them, while the vinyl disk vendors continued to focus on their platters in many cases. The vinyl companies misjudged their customer base, the record companies and consumers, and as a result became the specialty vendors they are today, far smaller. The movie companies, never forget, are a middleman, delivering us content produced by the Production Houses. Only a matter of time before the Production Houses eliminate the middleman, and then the distributors that only focus on the traditional model will be the ones left out in the cold, I fear. They need to adapt, or will find themselves in the same boat.
You have some numbers confused. 7 began as project Blackcomb in 2000. Vista started later on in 2003 as Longhorn. In 2006 is when Blackcomb was renamed Vienna and then in 2007 was renamed Windows 7.
Tell that to the vinyl record industry.
You do realize that Windows can get a virus on it before it has even finished installing, right?
Have you read the article, where he discusses IE7, IE8, Firefox and Safari's own sandboxing techniques for comparison to Chromes?
And who is to blame for that, hmm? 50 years ago, over twice as many workers per-capita were unionized.
One of the funny things, Unions, if you want to be a member, well, you are free to sign up for it.
Your arguement would work, save the fact that tax money supports the roads and airports as well as the air traffic infastructure itself. Cut the tax money for, let's say, highway maintenance, and let's see how well those cars do.
> I would seize every piece of magnetic and writable optical media I could find in the suspect's possession.
Makes me glad I use this arcane technology, called pen and paper.....