Just the opposite. If you're high, you're going to read their patent app, chuckle, grab a handful of cheetoes, and throw it in a box never to be seen from again.
What about using Hurricane Electric for connectivity? Their IPv6 support is top notch. I assume the problem with that is that Verizon is providing the last mile. I'd see if you can document their material breach of the contract and get some dark fiber to a POP/Neutral Colo with HE there.
True. But Capacity - Used Bandwidth = Unused Bandwidth. Unused Bandwidth = Wasted Capacity.
Disclaimer: I own a hosting/infrastructure company, and encourage my customers to use all the bandwidth we give them, and try to provide more as cost-effectively as possible.
That is so depressing to hear. I was excited to get a Kindle. I have hundreds of books, and a lot of them I can get as PDFs. I'm also a pilot, and a nice software developer put up free approach plates and Airport/Facility Directories (www.pdfplates.com) formatted for the Kindle (being able to get your flight docs electronically is a big deal, much less paper to deal with). Sad day =( Some day I guess, just not yet.
Leaving this issue aside, it does seem that Android is not the open savior that every thought it might be. Given that for a cell phone to work it must have towers, and that the towers are controlled by private enterprise in search of profit, and that large firms tend to sue each other as part of the competitive process, any completely open phone is unlikely to thrive in the marketplace. If google were no a commodity vendor, then I would say that an open phone might work. But given they want tens of millions of customers, there is going to be a compromise of open software and control.
Cell phones don't require towers. My Blackberry from T-Mobile will tunnel calls over WiFi back to T-Mobile, so I can make free calls when out of the country, on cruise ships, wherever, as long as I have free wifi access.
In the near future, I think you'll see most phones move to having a voice app, and they'll be physical layer agnostic (WiFi, HSDPA, whatever). Your cellular provider will just be another data provider; your device just another end point for your voice communications.
Have a "lock last refreshed" field in the database, and a process that scans records for locks that haven't been refreshed in X seconds (whatever you think is sane) and release the lock.
The way that other people are suggesting, honestly, would just annoy me. I'd be *really* pissed if I opened a document, spent half an hour working on it, then committed my changes only to find out that somebody else had been spending time working on it as well. That adds up to a lot of wasted time. If, however, I were given an indication that somebody else was editing it, I could work on a different record without wasting my time.
I think Google Docs shows an excellent way of handling this. It uses AJAX to tell everyone on that page, spreadsheet, etc. who else is viewing/collaborating on it, and changes are reflected in real time. You don't have to go so far as to reflect changes in real-time, but just seeing who else is working on the doc would be helpful so you could IM them to collaborate and prevent collisions.
I had a client who wanted to use either DynDNS Enterprise or UltraDNS, and priced both out for them. When the UltraDNS sales dude called me to find out why they didn't win the business, I told them because DynDNS was $250/month (thousands of A records) and they wanted $3500/month. He said "Oh, I thought you were looking for enterprise-grade DNS services." I responded with an email, "What do you provide that they don't?". Never heard back. UltraDNS can go DIAF. Gougers like that belong with lawyers, at the bottom of the ocean.
A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar shipped its first solar panels -- priced at $1 a watt. That's the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. Curious that this story is not on every front page.
Note that the article is from 2007. What I love about their process is that when they run the roll of substrate faster, the process becomes more efficient. And while you're correct, the support equipment and installation aren't exactly cheap, the panels will continue to come down in price making the total installation cost cheaper.
You're correct. It's much more fun to watch an inept manager make a poor technical decision you're forced to implement. The fun part is when you get to tell the CIO your boss is a moron for his decision(s), you walk out, and watch your old boss get the shoe a month later due to said decisions.
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After work today, I'll be passing out sweaters in hell, as I never thought I'd say this. Thanks Verizon!
You obviously have no idea how women correlate to money =)
Just the opposite. If you're high, you're going to read their patent app, chuckle, grab a handful of cheetoes, and throw it in a box never to be seen from again.
What about using Hurricane Electric for connectivity? Their IPv6 support is top notch. I assume the problem with that is that Verizon is providing the last mile. I'd see if you can document their material breach of the contract and get some dark fiber to a POP/Neutral Colo with HE there.
Disclaimer: I own a hosting/infrastructure company, and encourage my customers to use all the bandwidth we give them, and try to provide more as cost-effectively as possible.
Data is data =)
You have no idea =)
Seriously though, it would rock to get a collider for that kinda price =)
That is so depressing to hear. I was excited to get a Kindle. I have hundreds of books, and a lot of them I can get as PDFs. I'm also a pilot, and a nice software developer put up free approach plates and Airport/Facility Directories (www.pdfplates.com) formatted for the Kindle (being able to get your flight docs electronically is a big deal, much less paper to deal with). Sad day =( Some day I guess, just not yet.
Ok. Use a webcam and memory resident software. See the big blob that is a person who is usually there walk away? Lock right away!
Leaving this issue aside, it does seem that Android is not the open savior that every thought it might be. Given that for a cell phone to work it must have towers, and that the towers are controlled by private enterprise in search of profit, and that large firms tend to sue each other as part of the competitive process, any completely open phone is unlikely to thrive in the marketplace. If google were no a commodity vendor, then I would say that an open phone might work. But given they want tens of millions of customers, there is going to be a compromise of open software and control.
Cell phones don't require towers. My Blackberry from T-Mobile will tunnel calls over WiFi back to T-Mobile, so I can make free calls when out of the country, on cruise ships, wherever, as long as I have free wifi access.
In the near future, I think you'll see most phones move to having a voice app, and they'll be physical layer agnostic (WiFi, HSDPA, whatever). Your cellular provider will just be another data provider; your device just another end point for your voice communications.
Have a "lock last refreshed" field in the database, and a process that scans records for locks that haven't been refreshed in X seconds (whatever you think is sane) and release the lock.
The way that other people are suggesting, honestly, would just annoy me. I'd be *really* pissed if I opened a document, spent half an hour working on it, then committed my changes only to find out that somebody else had been spending time working on it as well. That adds up to a lot of wasted time. If, however, I were given an indication that somebody else was editing it, I could work on a different record without wasting my time.
I think Google Docs shows an excellent way of handling this. It uses AJAX to tell everyone on that page, spreadsheet, etc. who else is viewing/collaborating on it, and changes are reflected in real time. You don't have to go so far as to reflect changes in real-time, but just seeing who else is working on the doc would be helpful so you could IM them to collaborate and prevent collisions.
Lazy. I just tear the door off a microwave oven, set to popcorn, and stand in front of it with it at the same level as my man bits.
Thanks!
Disclaimer: I support the EFF with a yearly contribution, and am a big fan of their work.
I had a client who wanted to use either DynDNS Enterprise or UltraDNS, and priced both out for them. When the UltraDNS sales dude called me to find out why they didn't win the business, I told them because DynDNS was $250/month (thousands of A records) and they wanted $3500/month. He said "Oh, I thought you were looking for enterprise-grade DNS services." I responded with an email, "What do you provide that they don't?". Never heard back. UltraDNS can go DIAF. Gougers like that belong with lawyers, at the bottom of the ocean.
I can't, because their capacity is sold out for the next year or two, which isn't a bad thing. They're available though.
The Linux kernel today does 10^10 more than what it could do 15 years ago.
A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar shipped its first solar panels -- priced at $1 a watt. That's the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. Curious that this story is not on every front page.
Note that the article is from 2007. What I love about their process is that when they run the roll of substrate faster, the process becomes more efficient. And while you're correct, the support equipment and installation aren't exactly cheap, the panels will continue to come down in price making the total installation cost cheaper.
Michael Bay can work that into Transformers 3. With some more explosions.
If I have 100 sq miles of land I can cover with solar panels, do I care how efficient they are if they're dirt cheap?
SWOOSH!
Not that I'd know from experience or anything =)
Great minds yo. Take an oil tanker, go process all that plastic in the ocean, come back and sell the product. Profit and environmental cleanup FTW