True, but the point is that even at that wee age they can entertain themselves. Once they're marginally older that 30 minutes can easily grow to 3 hours. This is the catch-22 with having more than one child. When they're very young it's exhaustingly harder work having multiple kids than it is just having one kid. However, once they're even a little older, having two (or more) kids is actually easier in many respects than just having one because they entertain each other.
Wow. I knew airline flight control systems were getting clever, but I didn't realize they were so sophisticated that an actual aircraft could post on Slashdot.
The 'aforementioned company' is a highly scaled, recognizable technology provider with an extremely advanced IT organization. I guarantee that if "Gee gosh-golly maybe this here 'hibernate' option will take care of things!' was an option they would have gone down that road years ago...
Not sure where you expect to gain any kind of benefit by cutting your boot times maybe you could let me know?
This was largely in a fleet of tens-of-thousands of laptops, many of which previously took several minutes to boot, due to a large number of services, security applications etc.
I know of a large company that is starting the switchover. They calculated that removing the loss in productivity caused by long OS startups more than easily pays for the cost of switching to SSDs. The math that you might use on your home computer doesn't always apply in the business world.
The vast majority of high end real estate in Vancouver is being purchased by offshore (read Chinese) investors / immigrants.
I'm SO tired of hearing this. If you spend an afternoon walking around the residential highrises downtown you'll see families walking the dog, people shopping for groceries, kids in the parks throwing frisbees with dad.... These are "average people" who live in these neighbourhoods, not "offshore investors." Obviously these people can afford the real estate because they're living there...
Vancouver sure as fuck doesn't meet the affordable criteria!
If that's the case, who the hell are the tens-of-thousands of people buying these units? Sure, Vancouver isn't cheap like Detroit, but many many many people buy there. Keep in mind you can afford to spend more for your home if you don't need two cars.
You can't. It's a size issue. this idea of everyone living in a city is absurd.
Sure you can - It just takes city planners with vision. Look at these pictures from my city (Vancouver, Canada). I have lots of friends raising families in the city, with parks, schools, supermarkets nearby and all walkable.
I think the reason many people either "believe in ghosts" or, at a minimum, lean in that direction (I'm in the latter category) is most people seem to know someone they trust who has seen or experienced something weird. In my case, my sister and several friends have seen apparitions at a rustic old resort we go stay. They have no reason to make up stories. In my case I've never seen anything, but odd stuff happens from time to time in my old house. I'll turn out all the lights before going to bed, then I'll take the dog out for his business and come back to find all the lights turned on again. In the middle of the night, with everyone asleep, I'll hear footsteps in the house and get up to find the house empty. I'll put books away in then in the morning find them lying on the floor. Ghosts? I dunno. I trust the scientific method and they say there are no ghosts. But weird? For sure.
I'll keep fast-forwarding through each episode, just in case they do stumble upon something.
If they do actually stumble upon something real and get real evidence you don't need to wait for it on the show - It will be front-page news on every newspaper and news site in the world.
I once purchased a 'new' hard drive from a computer store here in Vancouver, Canada. The store is well known for having the best prices in town, but also the worst service imaginable. They are literally hostile to customers. When I got home and slaved up the drive I discovered it was already full of data - Someone had obviously returned it and the store just resold it. When I tried to return it I got quite the hassle. Conversation went something like this -
"I want to return this hard drive."
"NO REFUNDS. Bye bye."
"OK, I want to exchange it."
"We too busy, come back later. Exchanges later. New purchases now only. Bye Bye."
"Come back when?"
"Later. You call. We tell you when."
"No, no, look you just need to exchange this. This 'new' drive has someone else's data on it. It's not new. I want a new one."
"Data? What data?"
"It was someone else's master - The drive's full of data."
"No, no not bad. Good, good!"
"Good?"
"Drive comes with everything you need! Comes pre-loaded with Windows, MS-Office, all preloaded - Even games, movies! Best Value!! Bye Bye!"
"That's not legal. Give me a new drive."
"Drive great value. No exchanges right now. Bye bye. NEXT!"
Eventually I just reformatted the thing. I should have known better than going to this particular store...
I don't think it's a good idea for ISPs to be in the business of inspecting our packets and trying to determine if our machine(s) has been compromised
So if the ISPs can't / won't / shouldn't do anything, and the end user will click any old thing to get free screensavers / smileys / porn - How do you win?
there'll still always be people who click yes to every message box because they want
I'm not a network admin, but sometimes I wonder if the place to trap this is upstream at the ISP - So if my mum's box is a bot it doesn't matter (other than the slowdown) because the "bad" traffic from her machine is stopped at the ISP?
There's very little interest and profitability in making good or even passable sci-fi.
Part of the problem is the kind of people who are interested in 'good' Sci-Fi won't pay for it - And making good Science Fiction costs a lot of money. Look at the "Serenity" Firefly movie, which won all kinds of Sci-Fi awards and garnered many positive reviews, but didn't even make back its budget as a theatrical release.
By contrast, the people who are interested in "Transformers 3" *will* pay to see it, in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Guess where the Hollywood suits direct their energies?
Its [sic] the same fucking thing that Kirk and Spock used.
Incorrect - Not even close to what Kirk and Spock had, even in TOS. A Star Trek communicator fit it one's hand and could reach a vessel in orbit, even if it wasn't geosynchronous over their head. Signals seemed to bypass most EM interference, and the devices allow nearly instantaneous communication at distances that would otherwise require more time to traverse. Most sat-phones today are bulky with little to no data capability.
I agree, almost nobody upgrades the OS. However, IE will probably be made available as a Windows Update option, so people on Vista and Win 7 may upgrade.
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30 minutes != three hours
True, but the point is that even at that wee age they can entertain themselves. Once they're marginally older that 30 minutes can easily grow to 3 hours. This is the catch-22 with having more than one child. When they're very young it's exhaustingly harder work having multiple kids than it is just having one kid. However, once they're even a little older, having two (or more) kids is actually easier in many respects than just having one because they entertain each other.
2011 Kia? How much of an improvement is that really over the Model T?
Drive each of them into a concrete wall at 25 mph and get back to me. I recommend you do this with the Kia first.
I'm an actual Airbus A330
Wow. I knew airline flight control systems were getting clever, but I didn't realize they were so sophisticated that an actual aircraft could post on Slashdot.
Hiberate / Sleep does not play well with encryption software - Usually you need to fully shut the machine down.
The 'aforementioned company' is a highly scaled, recognizable technology provider with an extremely advanced IT organization. I guarantee that if "Gee gosh-golly maybe this here 'hibernate' option will take care of things!' was an option they would have gone down that road years ago...
Not sure where you expect to gain any kind of benefit by cutting your boot times maybe you could let me know?
This was largely in a fleet of tens-of-thousands of laptops, many of which previously took several minutes to boot, due to a large number of services, security applications etc.
The $/GB metric is often irrelevant.
Bingo.
I know of a large company that is starting the switchover. They calculated that removing the loss in productivity caused by long OS startups more than easily pays for the cost of switching to SSDs. The math that you might use on your home computer doesn't always apply in the business world.
The vast majority of high end real estate in Vancouver is being purchased by offshore (read Chinese) investors / immigrants.
I'm SO tired of hearing this. If you spend an afternoon walking around the residential highrises downtown you'll see families walking the dog, people shopping for groceries, kids in the parks throwing frisbees with dad.... These are "average people" who live in these neighbourhoods, not "offshore investors." Obviously these people can afford the real estate because they're living there...
Vancouver sure as fuck doesn't meet the affordable criteria!
If that's the case, who the hell are the tens-of-thousands of people buying these units? Sure, Vancouver isn't cheap like Detroit, but many many many people buy there. Keep in mind you can afford to spend more for your home if you don't need two cars.
You can't. It's a size issue. this idea of everyone living in a city is absurd.
Sure you can - It just takes city planners with vision. Look at these pictures from my city (Vancouver, Canada). I have lots of friends raising families in the city, with parks, schools, supermarkets nearby and all walkable.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2734/4112965898_7112701b00.jpg
http://static-p4.fotolia.com/jpg/00/08/70/45/400_F_8704550_q9V0W99I76eCkun4RbXmAi8sjTieGEix.jpg
The buildings you see in those pictures are all residential.
I grew up in the 80's and TV then was terrible
Cheers?
...and that's just off the top of my head.
L.A. Law?
Hill Street Blues?
Miami Vice?
Night Court?
St. Elsewhere?
Amazing Stories?
Max Headroom?
ST: TNG?
Quantum Leap?
Police Squad?
Sure, there was rubbish like "Mister Belvedere," but there was a lot of good TV in the 80s
Does anyone in Texas still believe in science?
Presumably some of those people in Mission Control still do...
I heard that last year was the "year of the Linux desktop" or something
No, no no. That's *next year*.
I think the reason many people either "believe in ghosts" or, at a minimum, lean in that direction (I'm in the latter category) is most people seem to know someone they trust who has seen or experienced something weird. In my case, my sister and several friends have seen apparitions at a rustic old resort we go stay. They have no reason to make up stories. In my case I've never seen anything, but odd stuff happens from time to time in my old house. I'll turn out all the lights before going to bed, then I'll take the dog out for his business and come back to find all the lights turned on again. In the middle of the night, with everyone asleep, I'll hear footsteps in the house and get up to find the house empty. I'll put books away in then in the morning find them lying on the floor. Ghosts? I dunno. I trust the scientific method and they say there are no ghosts. But weird? For sure.
I'll keep fast-forwarding through each episode, just in case they do stumble upon something.
If they do actually stumble upon something real and get real evidence you don't need to wait for it on the show - It will be front-page news on every newspaper and news site in the world.
Was this at ATIC?
BINGO! Give the man a prize.
I once purchased a 'new' hard drive from a computer store here in Vancouver, Canada. The store is well known for having the best prices in town, but also the worst service imaginable. They are literally hostile to customers. When I got home and slaved up the drive I discovered it was already full of data - Someone had obviously returned it and the store just resold it. When I tried to return it I got quite the hassle. Conversation went something like this -
"I want to return this hard drive."
"NO REFUNDS. Bye bye."
"OK, I want to exchange it."
"We too busy, come back later. Exchanges later. New purchases now only. Bye Bye."
"Come back when?"
"Later. You call. We tell you when."
"No, no, look you just need to exchange this. This 'new' drive has someone else's data on it. It's not new. I want a new one."
"Data? What data?"
"It was someone else's master - The drive's full of data."
"No, no not bad. Good, good!"
"Good?"
"Drive comes with everything you need! Comes pre-loaded with Windows, MS-Office, all preloaded - Even games, movies! Best Value!! Bye Bye!"
"That's not legal. Give me a new drive."
"Drive great value. No exchanges right now. Bye bye. NEXT!"
Eventually I just reformatted the thing. I should have known better than going to this particular store...
The space shuttle is not elegant
It sure as hell is. Pics of the orbiter in space always impress the hell out of me....
To wit:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Space_Shuttle_Discovery_(STS-114_'Return_to_Flight')_approaches_the_International_Space_Station.jpg
I don't think it's a good idea for ISPs to be in the business of inspecting our packets and trying to determine if our machine(s) has been compromised
So if the ISPs can't / won't / shouldn't do anything, and the end user will click any old thing to get free screensavers / smileys / porn - How do you win?
A lot of the bots encrypt their communications, so the ISP will just see an SSL connection to a web server.
Aren't these pwned computer bots the ones actually sending the SPAM? Won't the ISP see email traffic?
there'll still always be people who click yes to every message box because they want
I'm not a network admin, but sometimes I wonder if the place to trap this is upstream at the ISP - So if my mum's box is a bot it doesn't matter (other than the slowdown) because the "bad" traffic from her machine is stopped at the ISP?
There used to be something like that for Palm devices
Remember the TV ad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bcTc8e2-6U
There's very little interest and profitability in making good or even passable sci-fi.
Part of the problem is the kind of people who are interested in 'good' Sci-Fi won't pay for it - And making good Science Fiction costs a lot of money. Look at the "Serenity" Firefly movie, which won all kinds of Sci-Fi awards and garnered many positive reviews, but didn't even make back its budget as a theatrical release.
By contrast, the people who are interested in "Transformers 3" *will* pay to see it, in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Guess where the Hollywood suits direct their energies?
Its [sic] a communication device.
Correct.
Its [sic] the same fucking thing that Kirk and Spock used.
Incorrect - Not even close to what Kirk and Spock had, even in TOS. A Star Trek communicator fit it one's hand and could reach a vessel in orbit, even if it wasn't geosynchronous over their head. Signals seemed to bypass most EM interference, and the devices allow nearly instantaneous communication at distances that would otherwise require more time to traverse. Most sat-phones today are bulky with little to no data capability.
Almost nobody updates
I agree, almost nobody upgrades the OS. However, IE will probably be made available as a Windows Update option, so people on Vista and Win 7 may upgrade.