So the whole article comes down to the fact the new Seagates are really good if you use them for what they're designed for, but are not as good at what they're not designed for. Surprise...
Looks like Seagate designed the new drives for servers (probably file servers) because they're really good a moving large chunks of data around, doing large reads, and large write, but not so good a a ton of little reads and writes. So, don't buy them for your desktop/workstation.
The need has been seen, and Intel is working to fulfill it with WiMax. I've been following it because I'd really like to use my notebook at a coffee shop and not have to pay the cafe for Internet access. Also, my parents live in the middle of nowhere and only dialup is available to them. They try to use YouTube to be "hip and with it" but it's just painful.
From what I understand WiMax uses a cellular style approach to broadband and each tower has roughly a 30 mile range. Should help significantly to get broadband spread throughout the "heart land".
My worry will be security. Unless Intel had placed some form of strong encryption at the core of WiMax it's going to be far too easy to eavesdrop on.
We don't know that M$ isn't going to bid, there's nothing preventing them from doing so. It wouldn't suprise me to see M4 make a bid, and perhaps Apple too. But lets face it, more than likely the telcos are going to buy the vast majority of the spectrum and lock it up.
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In my company we have a 'reports' web page that generates a list of items sold to whom, where, and when with in a given time frame (specified by the viewer). Needless to say the resulting page can be huge, literally ten of thousands of table rows long by dozens wide for even a short time span (a full year cannot be rendered on a typical workstation because of memory limitations, think 5+ million rows) - so far only Opera is capable of copying the data to the clip board for pasting into something like Access (god save me). IE and Firefox both choke (lock up and crash) on such a large select and copy when using a machine with less than 2GB of RAM.
I don't know what they do differently in Opera, but they do it right - and it's gotten them a number of new users in my company's administrative offices to boot.
I work for a small company, about 50 employees, we have one person using Office 2007 because he got to select his own Dell machine. The rest are all on 2003, guess what format everybody is using? You got it.doc - so these numbers are misleading.
You can do the same type of thing mid-request stream with.Net and there are a number of ISAPI filters that do similar things (ISAPI_REWRITE comes to mind) if you don't want to use.Net. Finally, it's easy enough to code your own ISAPI filter to do the job just fine. In fact, if you're not a half bad coder you can develop something lighter than mod_rewrite because it does just what you need and no more.
Lastly, what I find almost funny is that most LAMP devs assume because a site is hosted on IIS that MSSQL is the backend. I've worked on a lot of IIS/.Net sites and about half are MSSQL and other half are MySQL. Each has its advantages and a smart development house will decide based on what it needs its RDBMS to do - not based on some software ethics.
Poor Micheal Jackson, he owns the Beatles songs anyways. At this point I'll bet McCartney would rather see them songs in the public domain than in the hands of somebody that out bid him for his own music when they were supposed to be friends and only knew about the auction because Paul told him in the first place.
I'm sure a lot of people are having joy spasms about reduced copyright, but copyright isn't DRM and it'll really suck for to start seeing all of the great songs of the past (Dylan, Lennon, The Doors, Stones, etc...) being used in television ads ad nauseum. To me, it just takes something away from the music.
The Beatles however, have already been bought and sold as I mentioned before.
Since disabling JavaScript really isn't an option these days, I guess my question is: Do using a Master Password (like I do) really protect you and will somebody from Mozilla comment, please. Seriously, since the advent of an integrated Master Password I've been letting my web browser remember passwords for me, but really put a dent in my confidence.
Since we have now identified what creates fear, it logically extends that we can induce it. Great, a whole no meaning for the term 'terrorist' will be in order. People who can induce fear without the need to kill, cause damage, or threaten action have inordinate amount of power.
Where are we going? And what's with the hand basket?
I know this really isn't code, but APIs mean a lot to - and I hate to say it but M$'s.Net APIs are really well laid out and designed. It allows for the code developed using them to be a lot cleaner and easier to read. Also, if you stick with their naming conventions the code is easy to read as well.
The Java API seems to have similar benefits, but I'm a lot less experienced with it, so I'm not a good source when it comes to Java.
Yeah, yeah - I said something pro M$, mod me down.
Think of the wonders this could have on software development. 14 years after the release of Win98 we point budding software developers at code for Win32 and say "never, never code like this." It's a virtual "what not to do" list.
Seriously though, for posterity and the future development of software in general, governments should require that all protected code become public domain after a given amount of time. This would be the "price" of receiving protection. In fact, this should apply to all IP copyright protection from business models, to novel ideas, to ways of doing thing. There's no point in governments protecting what cannot eventually help the entire economy.
Of all the people I know, it's the computer engineers and software programmers who are the most privacy concerned. I'm not sure what this article is talking about (I didn't RTFA), but in my experience it's the non-technical who don't understand (like politicians, and business people) that don't care and need to be educated.
Look, all the socially conscious engineers in the world won't do you any good if the people signing their pay checks are demanding spyware, massive personal ID databases, and the like.
I had given up on waiting for the day that something the US government did made sense. Looks like somebody does have a clue. Too bad lobbyist, and greed mongers won't ever let this idea see the light of day.
Oh god forbid, people may not be able to watch TV! Won't somebody think of the children?!!!
NTSC is very old, wasteful technology. Once freed up, new technology will able to make much more efficient use of the same frequencies. Much like how digital mobiles are more efficient that the small car sized devices we had 15 years ago.
"Have to create a crack for every cartridge" - Yeah, just like crackers needed to to break the encryption on DVDs, HD-DVDs, and BluRay DVDs? You just figure out the master key for all, say..., HP printers and you've "fixed" the problem. Security like this is ridiculous. If they're so worried about it, why don't they raise the price of the printers and say "buy Brand X, we have the cheapest ink around!" and then not bother with all this FUD?
Sadly, it's because the viral diseases you mentioned tend to happen to poor people, where as the middle and upper classes get the lifestyle diseases. Sad fact of the world is that people tend to do what gathers them the largest amount of resources most easily and fastest. This includes but it not limited to global warming and wars as well. We're talking billions here, not the hundreds of thousands, or even millions that philanthropic organizations could award for prizes. Limited manpower and limited resources mean corporate R&D companies are looking for the easy money first.
IMO, this would be less of a problem if the United States had socialized medical care like the rest of the modern world. However, since this isn't the case the wealthier people in the US accidentally promote R&D into non live saving medicine because it suits them more, and they're willing to pay. If medical care were socialized, there'd be less of a lure to develop so many "useless" medicines, and more of a lure to develop live saving medicine.
This work is wonderful, and if it can be developed into a cure - or a catalyst for a cure WONDERFUL! The next step will be to develop a way to produce the cure cheaply, and that is where I think the philanthropic organization come into play. Too bad patents will probably prevent the medicine from seeing wide spread distribution in the poorer areas of the world that are most infected with HIV, like Africa.
I know people on/. tend to think about the absurdity of software patents, but medical patents can be far more deadly and really need a review when they're used to prevent delivery of medication to people too poor to pay for medicine.
The Japanese emperor is not an autocrat because an external force [United States] denied him his authoritative power. Until the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end or WWII, he was an autocrat.
Czar is an English spelling of a Russian word meaning caesar - which means autocrat. So what they're saying when they label somebody a czar is that his a leader who's above the law and with absolute authority. Seems to me, that in the "free" West, terms like czar should avoided for so many reasons.
I mean what western leader thinks he's above the law... oh right.
Anyways, why not follow the British example and refer to everyone as a minister?
The "game" is so easy. The only time it is difficult is when you want to get your party elected, or to keep the incumbents. If you ask me, all districts should be drawn by a computer who knows nothing of race, religion, or party affiliation - the only requirements should be compact format districts and roughly equal populations (with in, say, 2%).
You don't have to be rich to buy gold. I just hit Google up for WoW Gold and found about a hundred sites. A quick flip through them showed that about 100G is worth about US$50 - not bad. However, if the farmers themselves are getting short changed so bad ($1.25 / 100G) somebody is price gouging. Seems to me the farmers should make at least 25-50% of the cost.
Blu-ray: Scratch resistant coating, huge plus when the little dots are easily wiped out by scratches. Plays on PS3. Studio backing.
HD-DVD: Plays on XBox 360 (with attachment). Already hacked!
Honestly, I just want the HD quality. I don't care about the format. My preference is who is lighter on the DRM. Sony has a history of avid DRM usage - which really turns me off. If by passing on the better format, we send a message that we don't like DRM big companies start backing off the DRM bandwagon; we all win.
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Looks like Seagate designed the new drives for servers (probably file servers) because they're really good a moving large chunks of data around, doing large reads, and large write, but not so good a a ton of little reads and writes. So, don't buy them for your desktop/workstation.
From what I understand WiMax uses a cellular style approach to broadband and each tower has roughly a 30 mile range. Should help significantly to get broadband spread throughout the "heart land".
My worry will be security. Unless Intel had placed some form of strong encryption at the core of WiMax it's going to be far too easy to eavesdrop on.
We don't know that M$ isn't going to bid, there's nothing preventing them from doing so. It wouldn't suprise me to see M4 make a bid, and perhaps Apple too. But lets face it, more than likely the telcos are going to buy the vast majority of the spectrum and lock it up.
I don't know what they do differently in Opera, but they do it right - and it's gotten them a number of new users in my company's administrative offices to boot.
I work for a small company, about 50 employees, we have one person using Office 2007 because he got to select his own Dell machine. The rest are all on 2003, guess what format everybody is using? You got it .doc - so these numbers are misleading.
You can do the same type of thing mid-request stream with .Net and there are a number of ISAPI filters that do similar things (ISAPI_REWRITE comes to mind) if you don't want to use .Net. Finally, it's easy enough to code your own ISAPI filter to do the job just fine. In fact, if you're not a half bad coder you can develop something lighter than mod_rewrite because it does just what you need and no more.
Lastly, what I find almost funny is that most LAMP devs assume because a site is hosted on IIS that MSSQL is the backend. I've worked on a lot of IIS/.Net sites and about half are MSSQL and other half are MySQL. Each has its advantages and a smart development house will decide based on what it needs its RDBMS to do - not based on some software ethics.
Well, this just means soon websites will start offering SSL on every thing, even the stuff they normally wouldn't need to.
P2P sites will start doing the same.
Poor Micheal Jackson, he owns the Beatles songs anyways. At this point I'll bet McCartney would rather see them songs in the public domain than in the hands of somebody that out bid him for his own music when they were supposed to be friends and only knew about the auction because Paul told him in the first place.
I'm sure a lot of people are having joy spasms about reduced copyright, but copyright isn't DRM and it'll really suck for to start seeing all of the great songs of the past (Dylan, Lennon, The Doors, Stones, etc...) being used in television ads ad nauseum. To me, it just takes something away from the music.
The Beatles however, have already been bought and sold as I mentioned before.
Since disabling JavaScript really isn't an option these days, I guess my question is: Do using a Master Password (like I do) really protect you and will somebody from Mozilla comment, please. Seriously, since the advent of an integrated Master Password I've been letting my web browser remember passwords for me, but really put a dent in my confidence.
Since we have now identified what creates fear, it logically extends that we can induce it. Great, a whole no meaning for the term 'terrorist' will be in order. People who can induce fear without the need to kill, cause damage, or threaten action have inordinate amount of power.
Where are we going? And what's with the hand basket?
I know this really isn't code, but APIs mean a lot to - and I hate to say it but M$'s .Net APIs are really well laid out and designed. It allows for the code developed using them to be a lot cleaner and easier to read. Also, if you stick with their naming conventions the code is easy to read as well.
The Java API seems to have similar benefits, but I'm a lot less experienced with it, so I'm not a good source when it comes to Java.
Yeah, yeah - I said something pro M$, mod me down.
Think of the wonders this could have on software development. 14 years after the release of Win98 we point budding software developers at code for Win32 and say "never, never code like this." It's a virtual "what not to do" list.
Seriously though, for posterity and the future development of software in general, governments should require that all protected code become public domain after a given amount of time. This would be the "price" of receiving protection. In fact, this should apply to all IP copyright protection from business models, to novel ideas, to ways of doing thing. There's no point in governments protecting what cannot eventually help the entire economy.
Of all the people I know, it's the computer engineers and software programmers who are the most privacy concerned. I'm not sure what this article is talking about (I didn't RTFA), but in my experience it's the non-technical who don't understand (like politicians, and business people) that don't care and need to be educated.
Look, all the socially conscious engineers in the world won't do you any good if the people signing their pay checks are demanding spyware, massive personal ID databases, and the like.
I had given up on waiting for the day that something the US government did made sense. Looks like somebody does have a clue. Too bad lobbyist, and greed mongers won't ever let this idea see the light of day.
NTSC is very old, wasteful technology. Once freed up, new technology will able to make much more efficient use of the same frequencies. Much like how digital mobiles are more efficient that the small car sized devices we had 15 years ago.
Oh the irony! My company's email service is hosted by Postini and is down this morning.
Wow, thanks for the link... now how do I tie that to Google Maps for something truly useful?
If we knew what the patents were it wouldn't be FUD, it'd just be something to work around. Fear is power, remember that.
"Have to create a crack for every cartridge" - Yeah, just like crackers needed to to break the encryption on DVDs, HD-DVDs, and BluRay DVDs? You just figure out the master key for all, say..., HP printers and you've "fixed" the problem. Security like this is ridiculous. If they're so worried about it, why don't they raise the price of the printers and say "buy Brand X, we have the cheapest ink around!" and then not bother with all this FUD?
Sadly, it's because the viral diseases you mentioned tend to happen to poor people, where as the middle and upper classes get the lifestyle diseases. Sad fact of the world is that people tend to do what gathers them the largest amount of resources most easily and fastest. This includes but it not limited to global warming and wars as well. We're talking billions here, not the hundreds of thousands, or even millions that philanthropic organizations could award for prizes. Limited manpower and limited resources mean corporate R&D companies are looking for the easy money first.
/. tend to think about the absurdity of software patents, but medical patents can be far more deadly and really need a review when they're used to prevent delivery of medication to people too poor to pay for medicine.
IMO, this would be less of a problem if the United States had socialized medical care like the rest of the modern world. However, since this isn't the case the wealthier people in the US accidentally promote R&D into non live saving medicine because it suits them more, and they're willing to pay. If medical care were socialized, there'd be less of a lure to develop so many "useless" medicines, and more of a lure to develop live saving medicine.
This work is wonderful, and if it can be developed into a cure - or a catalyst for a cure WONDERFUL! The next step will be to develop a way to produce the cure cheaply, and that is where I think the philanthropic organization come into play. Too bad patents will probably prevent the medicine from seeing wide spread distribution in the poorer areas of the world that are most infected with HIV, like Africa.
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The Japanese emperor is not an autocrat because an external force [United States] denied him his authoritative power. Until the unconditional surrender of Japan at the end or WWII, he was an autocrat.
Czar is an English spelling of a Russian word meaning caesar - which means autocrat. So what they're saying when they label somebody a czar is that his a leader who's above the law and with absolute authority. Seems to me, that in the "free" West, terms like czar should avoided for so many reasons.
I mean what western leader thinks he's above the law... oh right.
Anyways, why not follow the British example and refer to everyone as a minister?
The "game" is so easy. The only time it is difficult is when you want to get your party elected, or to keep the incumbents. If you ask me, all districts should be drawn by a computer who knows nothing of race, religion, or party affiliation - the only requirements should be compact format districts and roughly equal populations (with in, say, 2%).
You don't have to be rich to buy gold. I just hit Google up for WoW Gold and found about a hundred sites. A quick flip through them showed that about 100G is worth about US$50 - not bad. However, if the farmers themselves are getting short changed so bad ($1.25 / 100G) somebody is price gouging. Seems to me the farmers should make at least 25-50% of the cost.
Blu-ray: Scratch resistant coating, huge plus when the little dots are easily wiped out by scratches. Plays on PS3. Studio backing. HD-DVD: Plays on XBox 360 (with attachment). Already hacked! Honestly, I just want the HD quality. I don't care about the format. My preference is who is lighter on the DRM. Sony has a history of avid DRM usage - which really turns me off. If by passing on the better format, we send a message that we don't like DRM big companies start backing off the DRM bandwagon; we all win.