So what if the electronic components in the fiber fail? Is someone going to have to repull that line? If so, wouldn't that make it significantly more expencive then replacing a module that is plugged in between two fiber optic lines?
This is a workstation card, not a gamer's card. 1 gig of memory on a graphics card will not help any video game on the market (even the 512 cards are over kill). Like the FireGL cards, they are not all that great for gaming, but are extremely impressive for rendering. Great for 3-d content creation, scientific modeling and other rendering intencive activities.
Price point on the 32gb drive is expected to be $750-$1000. The $6400 product is a currently available military grade drive. It'll take a wee bit more abuse and temperature range then the 'cheapest bidder' built one that will hit the commecial market.
"seems to be too plain and looks suspiciously like something quickly hacked together"
Yeah, in the same way google.com looks "quickly hacked together"
Just for fun I pulled up my 401k investments. The time line was nice, and the information was good. But I figured I'd check out the 401k's investment since I started investing in it. I clicked the 3yr link at the top of the chart and it made a pretty cool re-size effect, and the top bar changed too. Looks like you can click and drag either side of the total time line bar to change the zoom to any time period for the fund.
Pretty neat, and definitely not 'quickly hacked together'
Nah, my house will be paid off in about 6-7 years, my education should be completed by the end of this year. I was a software developer in the military and then a consultant just after the.Com bust. Spent a few years floundering for work, and finally went back to school on my VA benefits. Picked up a CS Assoc and a new job about 2 years ago, and I should be wrapping up my CS/Tech Management dual bachelors this year.
I'm wrapping up my school education, my house will be paid off soon enough, and the interest on my student loans is not going to be enough to off set my income. Yup, I'm going to need to find a new tax shelter in another year or two.
"we are proposing a 20 percent tax credit for qualified out-of-pocket expenses for open source software developers."
Well let's see what "out-of-pocket" expenses are defined as. Because my 'Home-Office' is paid for out of pocket. So that roughly 100 square foot room represents about 1/10th of my house's square footage. Figure the cost of the house minus the land, that's like $140k, which means I should be able to claim 20% of $14k for that expence. And then their are the numerous PCs, the custom built desks, the wiring, the internet connection... I bet I could pull enough expences out of that room to fully clear my taxes for a year, and enough residuals to help cut down from there on.
I wonder what limitations there are on this, if I could put a dent in my income tax by switching some game mods and tools to open source, I would switch them in a heart beat. 8 hours a week on a pet project to cut down on taxable income, a deal too sweet to pass up.
Nah, my Wife is more then capable. but some people with absolutely no gaming experience or gaming experience limited to 'The Sims' would have a drasticly different level of understanding of the game to start with.
Then the consultant is a MORON. If giving users Domain Admin access is the ONLY possible solution (which I highly doubt) there is still no reason to give the entire Domain Users group Domain Admin access. You would still only increase access for those users who need it. If we're going to name names, what is the name of the consultant who told this to you? Just so I know to make sure I don't inadvertantly wind up hiring him.
That still doesn't require domain access, just local read/write access to the local system folder and the server folder. You should also check to see if the server file activity is under the user's account or under the service account running on the server.
Basic math skills. Enough to realise that putting on that +6 to armour helm was more rewarding (in the game) than that pretty pink hat with the tassle on top.
I have my own nightmeres from trying to support a 3rd party app like that. At this point I would suggest investigating the issue as much as possible. Set up a file request watcher(MS has one, but I can't recall its name), a port sniffer, keep an eye on the Active Directory. Log into the system and see what resources are being access that could require that kind of access. Is it updating the AD or trying to use LDAP? Is it performing some process remotely on the server? Is it trying to create/share/access some sort of network resource?
Find out what it is trying to do and open security only for that action to the users.
My wife and I are currently playing Dungeon Siege together. It is simple enough that any one with point and click experience and basic math skills can excel at it, but entertaining enough to keep you clicking forward.
Simple, those apps already work, and work well. Why would MS invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to re-write MSPaint in.Net when 1) the unmanaged version has worked fine for years, 2) the demand for MSPaint is tiny, 3) they are working on a full fledge image editing suit.
Using the same logic, have you replaced the engine in your aging vehicle to a new hydrogen engine?
I'm not the hard core gamer I used to be, but I probably play 4-8 hours a week. So you figure $15/month = $180/year = $3.46/week = $0.43 to $0.86 per hour of entertainment.
Compared to a Movie, I paid $8.25 to see Underworld 2. Run time 106 minutes, but you could theoretical count the travel time and previews as "entertainment" so let's call it a 3 hour event. That puts the cost at $2.75/hour.
For me, $15 is a drop in the bucket. I would prefer to not have adds (specifically since I play high fantasy games usually) but in some games (the NFS series for instance) Ads can be put in the game seamlessly in a way that does not break immersion.
"fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute or the M240, which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute"
Those are cyclic rates, as in the fastest the hardware can theoretically move. Realistically, you'll never see those rates. If you are firing more then 5-7 round bursts for any period more then a few seconds you will start cooking rounds, and all sorts of bad things will happen. The M240 comes with 2 barrels for field use, so that in situations where you need to be firing 5-7 second bursts for extended periods of time, or extended sprays you can swap barrels. If you don't swap barrels often enough, you will start cooking off rounds. That's what happens when the heat from the barrel causes the charge in the round to ignite with out the firing pin hitting the primer. Once that starts happening the guy will fire uncontrolled until the ammo feed is interrupted (ie: a gunner grabs and twists the feed). If the gun is left to free fire and the ammo chain is long enough the barrel will get hot enough to soften, which can lead to the tip of the barrel sagging, rounds jamming in the barrel, and eventually the barrel will rupture. IOW, all sorts of beije.
I work for GFC. They are the largest printer/copier provider in the northern mid-west. If you are in the area I would recommend you give our sales guys a call. They can get you a custom fit solution that does exactly what you need at a price you can aford. Check us out online at http://www.gflesch.com/
I worked for a non-consumer bank as a consultant a few years back, and I was rather concerned with what I saw there.
The IS Coordination was rabidly anti-Microsoft. The network was mostly windows 98/NT machines on Banyon Vines 3.0 (this was in 2001, right about the time Novel released Banyon 6 I believe) with a handful of Unix based servers.
To prevent possible security breaches, none of the machines had access to the internet except for a few special machines. Those machiens where not suppose to have access to the internet and the intranet at the same time. What actually happened was that those employees with "one or the other" access figured out they could just leave both cables plugged in and no one would know.
Towards the end of my contract, relations where breaking down. The IS Coordination was accusing me of purposely introducing bugs to inflate my hours, and I was accusing her of blatant incompetence. The bug that she had been accusing me of creating happened only on the normal staff's PC. My laptop, and her brand new PC worked fine. Turns out that not only were they using an out dated version of Vines (v3 -> v6) they had also not patched it on any of the worker machines (They were on v3.0, and at that time v3 was patched to v3.3). Her machine and my laptop had been fully patched. The problem wound up being one of the dated libraries included in Vines 3.0.
Unregulated internet access + outdated and compromised network system + a high volume of multi-million dollar transactions = receipt for disaster.
Nope, so far as I know they are only responsible in this case for preventing the company I work for from converting any of their theaters to a digital system.
I appreciate unions as much as the next middle class American for protecting employees and keeping employers in check. But when a union threatens an industry to prevent technological improvement and improved customer experiences, they become the jerks.
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So what if the electronic components in the fiber fail? Is someone going to have to repull that line? If so, wouldn't that make it significantly more expencive then replacing a module that is plugged in between two fiber optic lines?
-Rick
This is a workstation card, not a gamer's card. 1 gig of memory on a graphics card will not help any video game on the market (even the 512 cards are over kill). Like the FireGL cards, they are not all that great for gaming, but are extremely impressive for rendering. Great for 3-d content creation, scientific modeling and other rendering intencive activities.
-Rick
Price point on the 32gb drive is expected to be $750-$1000. The $6400 product is a currently available military grade drive. It'll take a wee bit more abuse and temperature range then the 'cheapest bidder' built one that will hit the commecial market.
-Rick
Man, I completely missed the +1 Funny I was aiming for with that one.
-Rick
"Yahoo Finance [yahoo.com] got it nearly perfect."
Other then the huge ass banner that takes up most of my browser window. Once you get to the actual fund view it is pretty slick.
-Rick
"Don't give money to beggers." But I've got a few granola bars and juice drinks I would be willing to donate.
-Rick
"seems to be too plain and looks suspiciously like something quickly hacked together"
Yeah, in the same way google.com looks "quickly hacked together"
Just for fun I pulled up my 401k investments. The time line was nice, and the information was good. But I figured I'd check out the 401k's investment since I started investing in it. I clicked the 3yr link at the top of the chart and it made a pretty cool re-size effect, and the top bar changed too. Looks like you can click and drag either side of the total time line bar to change the zoom to any time period for the fund.
Pretty neat, and definitely not 'quickly hacked together'
-Rick
LOL, I live in a 120 year old house in a small town of Wisconsin. My house is worth $140,000.00 not 1.4 mil.
-Rick
Nah, my house will be paid off in about 6-7 years, my education should be completed by the end of this year. I was a software developer in the military and then a consultant just after the .Com bust. Spent a few years floundering for work, and finally went back to school on my VA benefits. Picked up a CS Assoc and a new job about 2 years ago, and I should be wrapping up my CS/Tech Management dual bachelors this year.
-Rick
I'm wrapping up my school education, my house will be paid off soon enough, and the interest on my student loans is not going to be enough to off set my income. Yup, I'm going to need to find a new tax shelter in another year or two.
"we are proposing a 20 percent tax credit for qualified out-of-pocket expenses for open source software developers."
Well let's see what "out-of-pocket" expenses are defined as. Because my 'Home-Office' is paid for out of pocket. So that roughly 100 square foot room represents about 1/10th of my house's square footage. Figure the cost of the house minus the land, that's like $140k, which means I should be able to claim 20% of $14k for that expence. And then their are the numerous PCs, the custom built desks, the wiring, the internet connection... I bet I could pull enough expences out of that room to fully clear my taxes for a year, and enough residuals to help cut down from there on.
I wonder what limitations there are on this, if I could put a dent in my income tax by switching some game mods and tools to open source, I would switch them in a heart beat. 8 hours a week on a pet project to cut down on taxable income, a deal too sweet to pass up.
-Rick
Nah, my Wife is more then capable. but some people with absolutely no gaming experience or gaming experience limited to 'The Sims' would have a drasticly different level of understanding of the game to start with.
-Rick
"DOMAIN USERS to DOMAIN ADMINS"
Then the consultant is a MORON. If giving users Domain Admin access is the ONLY possible solution (which I highly doubt) there is still no reason to give the entire Domain Users group Domain Admin access. You would still only increase access for those users who need it. If we're going to name names, what is the name of the consultant who told this to you? Just so I know to make sure I don't inadvertantly wind up hiring him.
-Rick
That still doesn't require domain access, just local read/write access to the local system folder and the server folder. You should also check to see if the server file activity is under the user's account or under the service account running on the server.
-Rick
Okay, that got a chuckle out of me!
-Rick
Basic math skills. Enough to realise that putting on that +6 to armour helm was more rewarding (in the game) than that pretty pink hat with the tassle on top.
-Rick
I have my own nightmeres from trying to support a 3rd party app like that. At this point I would suggest investigating the issue as much as possible. Set up a file request watcher(MS has one, but I can't recall its name), a port sniffer, keep an eye on the Active Directory. Log into the system and see what resources are being access that could require that kind of access. Is it updating the AD or trying to use LDAP? Is it performing some process remotely on the server? Is it trying to create/share/access some sort of network resource?
Find out what it is trying to do and open security only for that action to the users.
-Rick
My wife and I are currently playing Dungeon Siege together. It is simple enough that any one with point and click experience and basic math skills can excel at it, but entertaining enough to keep you clicking forward.
-Rick
Simple, those apps already work, and work well. Why would MS invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to re-write MSPaint in .Net when 1) the unmanaged version has worked fine for years, 2) the demand for MSPaint is tiny, 3) they are working on a full fledge image editing suit.
Using the same logic, have you replaced the engine in your aging vehicle to a new hydrogen engine?
-Rick
Yes, I type-oed "ads" thank you for pointing out my short comings as a human-being.
-Rick
I'm not the hard core gamer I used to be, but I probably play 4-8 hours a week. So you figure $15/month = $180/year = $3.46/week = $0.43 to $0.86 per hour of entertainment.
Compared to a Movie, I paid $8.25 to see Underworld 2. Run time 106 minutes, but you could theoretical count the travel time and previews as "entertainment" so let's call it a 3 hour event. That puts the cost at $2.75/hour.
For me, $15 is a drop in the bucket. I would prefer to not have adds (specifically since I play high fantasy games usually) but in some games (the NFS series for instance) Ads can be put in the game seamlessly in a way that does not break immersion.
-Rick
"fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute or the M240, which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute"
Those are cyclic rates, as in the fastest the hardware can theoretically move. Realistically, you'll never see those rates. If you are firing more then 5-7 round bursts for any period more then a few seconds you will start cooking rounds, and all sorts of bad things will happen. The M240 comes with 2 barrels for field use, so that in situations where you need to be firing 5-7 second bursts for extended periods of time, or extended sprays you can swap barrels. If you don't swap barrels often enough, you will start cooking off rounds. That's what happens when the heat from the barrel causes the charge in the round to ignite with out the firing pin hitting the primer. Once that starts happening the guy will fire uncontrolled until the ammo feed is interrupted (ie: a gunner grabs and twists the feed). If the gun is left to free fire and the ammo chain is long enough the barrel will get hot enough to soften, which can lead to the tip of the barrel sagging, rounds jamming in the barrel, and eventually the barrel will rupture. IOW, all sorts of beije.
Semi auto is your friend. One shot, one kill.
-Rick
"I wonder how much other news is in this catagory?"
I put pretty much anything that comes from the white house press corps in that category.
-Rick
I work for GFC. They are the largest printer/copier provider in the northern mid-west. If you are in the area I would recommend you give our sales guys a call. They can get you a custom fit solution that does exactly what you need at a price you can aford. Check us out online at http://www.gflesch.com/
-Rick
I worked for a non-consumer bank as a consultant a few years back, and I was rather concerned with what I saw there.
The IS Coordination was rabidly anti-Microsoft. The network was mostly windows 98/NT machines on Banyon Vines 3.0 (this was in 2001, right about the time Novel released Banyon 6 I believe) with a handful of Unix based servers.
To prevent possible security breaches, none of the machines had access to the internet except for a few special machines. Those machiens where not suppose to have access to the internet and the intranet at the same time. What actually happened was that those employees with "one or the other" access figured out they could just leave both cables plugged in and no one would know.
Towards the end of my contract, relations where breaking down. The IS Coordination was accusing me of purposely introducing bugs to inflate my hours, and I was accusing her of blatant incompetence. The bug that she had been accusing me of creating happened only on the normal staff's PC. My laptop, and her brand new PC worked fine. Turns out that not only were they using an out dated version of Vines (v3 -> v6) they had also not patched it on any of the worker machines (They were on v3.0, and at that time v3 was patched to v3.3). Her machine and my laptop had been fully patched. The problem wound up being one of the dated libraries included in Vines 3.0.
Unregulated internet access + outdated and compromised network system + a high volume of multi-million dollar transactions = receipt for disaster.
-Rick
Nope, so far as I know they are only responsible in this case for preventing the company I work for from converting any of their theaters to a digital system.
I appreciate unions as much as the next middle class American for protecting employees and keeping employers in check. But when a union threatens an industry to prevent technological improvement and improved customer experiences, they become the jerks.
-Rick