Where did you get this 6 to 9? I have used an HP calculator where byte was 4 bits and consulting wikipedia it seems that the original byte was also 4 bits.
I watched a BR demo disk in a store where the screen is split in the middle and it tries to show the difference between DVD and BR. When I moved to 3 meters from the 42" screen (my normal viewing distance is about 3.3 meters and I have a 40" Sony), I could see that there was more detail in the BR side, but I saw absolutely nothing that would make my movie experience so much better that it would be worth it to have BR. Especially considering price.
At my viewing distance (11 feet) to tell the difference between 720p and 1080p I would have to have a 70" screen.
It's not so much the screen size as the viewing angle. I'll admit any day that watching standard DVD at a friends place from 5 meters away from a 110" projector picture, the standard DVD looked crap. My 40" Sony from 3 meters, DVD looks fine.
I have also interviewed people and the "test" I used was a part of the interview. I presented them with a difficult real life scenario and asked them to analyze the problem by letting them ask questions they needed to work towards the solution. What I really wanted to know was the way they think and solve problems, not if they can actually solve the problem on the spot.
Funny thing is that the last time I interviewed IT-support type people who have to know something about networking, I had several CCNA's fail on explaining the difference between hub, switch and router. They had absolutely no idea.
I have a HP g7061EO at home with Vista Home Premium with all the HP-crap preinstalled. It's a dual core pentium (T2370) with 2G memory and an Intel X3100. I have Panda Managed Office Protection running on it and it is absolutely never sluggish. I take Vista over XP on a machine that runs it good enough that I don't notice the operating system, so I won't downgrade my HP to XP nor will I install Ubuntu on it. Wakes up from suspend in about 2 seconds and boots in a lot less than a minute to the point where I have applications running and the desktop is actually usable.
At work (at this very moment) I have a Lenovo Thinkpad R52 with 1GB of memory with Pentium M 1.86GHz with XP Pro and F-Secure Client Security. This is a very sluggish machine. Takes minutes to shut down and more than 20 minutes to boot to a state where I am logged in and have applications running and a desktop that is even remotely responsive.
Reading Slashdot I would think that the HP with Vista would be an absolute pain and this 1G Thinkpad with XP would be very usable, but for me it is absolutely the other way around.
And sorry, haven't run into any issues related to DRM and I actually really really like UAC (after SP1).
I often leave a lot of tabs open that I plan to read later and I don't want 20 "to read later" things in my taskbar while I try to do other things that might even require changing between multiple other programs. I don't try to concentrate on them simultaneously or try to look at them all at the same time.
I would like to know if USB sync works on Nokia E-series that has been remotely locked using SMS. If anyone has tried - I haven't, but I probably will tomorrow just out of curiosity.
Regarding stolen phones my company uses Intellisync, where you can set the phone stolen (I don't remember the exact term used in the UI). The option does a reset to factory settings and destroys all data on at least Nokia E-series and 9300.
I know, doesn't prevent fast people from syncing PIM data from the phone or reading the file system.
What I was actually looking for was something like eee box pc (just heard about it for the first time in this discussion), but fanless and without the spinning disks.
I also (in addition to the laptop) want a cheap passively cooled and no moving parts computer that I can connect a keyboard, a mouse and a display to.
Doesn't need much computing power by todays standards, some web surfing and running OOo will be enough for me, which apparently the eee is enough for. It's funny that when you try to build a fanless surfing machine, it's possible, but becomes quite expensive considering what eee costs.
I wouldn't skip test stage and (as I said in an earlier reply) I understand the reasons for this.
The point is that you need more headcount to do things the SOX-way when you can't have the same people doing different things no matter how much audit trail they produce.
In fact I didn't realize that this is not a normal behaviour until I tried it after your reply and you're right, in a quick test, Firefox was the only program I found that can select multiple texts. Seems that cut or delete doesn't quite work, but copy seems to copy both selections at least when pasted to notepad.
Now I think multiple selections from text could be handy sometimes and should be standard behaviour, but unfortunately it seems that Firefox is pretty much the only program to implement this and not even TB allows selecting multiple texts.
Not so much hate as distrust, I think. Doing IT management I kind of understand the fact that IT staff often has a lot of power to do damage because from a practical point of view they need that power. I am myself at the moment in the middle of a risk management project (no full SOX, thank god) and the funny thing is that the upper management refuses to see that more controls and more audit trails means more used resources in both IT and business (if they are viewed as separate entities).
While I'm at this, the access management in the company I speak of above goes (due to SOX) so that all access to data and systems is given on a temporary basis. There has to be a written approval from the data or application owner to grant access and it has to have an expiration date. In the audit they check that every access is approved by the data or application owner from the business side and if the date on the form is passed, the access must be revoked. This takes a lot of resources comparing to a normal business where access is given basically based on the job title to everything the employee needs.
I haven't studied the data losses in UK to enough detail that I would be able to comment on how the SOX practice would have prevented them from happening. What I wonder the most is why would someone need to haul data of 4 million people on an unencrypted USB stick..
And yes, I know the reasoning behind no development people touching production systems. The point is, that if the same person cannot develop something and install it into production, you need more headcount. And more if there has to be a third person to test it before release and so on. One might argue that it would be enough that an audit trail is produced that someone other than the developer has tested it and approved it into production, but SOX (according to my minimal knowledge of it) seems to take risk reduction and audit trails very far by separating tasks to different people instead of just demanding processes that produce sufficient audit trails and acknowledge and evauluate risks.
I was just about to think no-one would bring up SOX, when AC came to the rescue. The SOX requirements AFAIK for IT are insane. People doing development aren't allowed to touch production systems, for example.
I met a guy recently that works for a US company that has to follow SOX. They have a quarterly audit which lasts 8 weeks at a time and has more than 600 audit points for IT alone. This means that 2/3 of the time of year they are under audit. And if you fail the same point in two audits in a row, it's byebye.
What's with the keyboard layouts on subnotebooks lately? Are they trying to slowly make the right shift key unusable enough that it can be removed completely? I, for one really, really don't want the arrow up to be on the left side of right shift.
And why have three keys on the right side of P and two keys on the right side of L and have the enter be the wrong shape.
To be fair, I also hate the HP laptop layout I'm using at the moment where home, pgup, pgdn and end are on the right side of bs, enter and right shift. I like the layout on my Lenovo shich has these extra keys basically below right shift and above backspace where they are not constantly hit accidentally when typing.
Worked for me in FF3 on Vista right away. Didn't even have to restart the browser. The box is black for a while before the photos appear, though and it doesn't give any clues that it is loading something. (probably loading, I don't know for sure why there is a delay)
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Luckily a boss that can open tar files doesn't exist.
But that's a very good thing. That also defines the size of byte used to calculate the capacity.
Where did you get this 6 to 9? I have used an HP calculator where byte was 4 bits and consulting wikipedia it seems that the original byte was also 4 bits.
Off the top of my head without knowing the context, I personally would prefer:
launchEvent.setMinutesBeforeLaunch( 12 );
This is one of the very few times I really, REALLY wish I had modpoints. :)
I watched a BR demo disk in a store where the screen is split in the middle and it tries to show the difference between DVD and BR. When I moved to 3 meters from the 42" screen (my normal viewing distance is about 3.3 meters and I have a 40" Sony), I could see that there was more detail in the BR side, but I saw absolutely nothing that would make my movie experience so much better that it would be worth it to have BR. Especially considering price.
At my viewing distance (11 feet) to tell the difference between 720p and 1080p I would have to have a 70" screen.
It's not so much the screen size as the viewing angle. I'll admit any day that watching standard DVD at a friends place from 5 meters away from a 110" projector picture, the standard DVD looked crap. My 40" Sony from 3 meters, DVD looks fine.
I have also interviewed people and the "test" I used was a part of the interview. I presented them with a difficult real life scenario and asked them to analyze the problem by letting them ask questions they needed to work towards the solution. What I really wanted to know was the way they think and solve problems, not if they can actually solve the problem on the spot.
Funny thing is that the last time I interviewed IT-support type people who have to know something about networking, I had several CCNA's fail on explaining the difference between hub, switch and router. They had absolutely no idea.
The definition of upload is kind of interesting here. Or would be if the Chrome license had not been changed.
Is any HTTP-request an upload?
I have a HP g7061EO at home with Vista Home Premium with all the HP-crap preinstalled. It's a dual core pentium (T2370) with 2G memory and an Intel X3100. I have Panda Managed Office Protection running on it and it is absolutely never sluggish. I take Vista over XP on a machine that runs it good enough that I don't notice the operating system, so I won't downgrade my HP to XP nor will I install Ubuntu on it. Wakes up from suspend in about 2 seconds and boots in a lot less than a minute to the point where I have applications running and the desktop is actually usable.
At work (at this very moment) I have a Lenovo Thinkpad R52 with 1GB of memory with Pentium M 1.86GHz with XP Pro and F-Secure Client Security. This is a very sluggish machine. Takes minutes to shut down and more than 20 minutes to boot to a state where I am logged in and have applications running and a desktop that is even remotely responsive.
Reading Slashdot I would think that the HP with Vista would be an absolute pain and this 1G Thinkpad with XP would be very usable, but for me it is absolutely the other way around.
And sorry, haven't run into any issues related to DRM and I actually really really like UAC (after SP1).
My Firefox 3 doesn't start a new process when I open a new window at least according to Task Manager in Windows.
I often leave a lot of tabs open that I plan to read later and I don't want 20 "to read later" things in my taskbar while I try to do other things that might even require changing between multiple other programs. I don't try to concentrate on them simultaneously or try to look at them all at the same time.
I would like to know if USB sync works on Nokia E-series that has been remotely locked using SMS. If anyone has tried - I haven't, but I probably will tomorrow just out of curiosity.
Regarding stolen phones my company uses Intellisync, where you can set the phone stolen (I don't remember the exact term used in the UI). The option does a reset to factory settings and destroys all data on at least Nokia E-series and 9300.
I know, doesn't prevent fast people from syncing PIM data from the phone or reading the file system.
What I was actually looking for was something like eee box pc (just heard about it for the first time in this discussion), but fanless and without the spinning disks.
I also (in addition to the laptop) want a cheap passively cooled and no moving parts computer that I can connect a keyboard, a mouse and a display to.
Doesn't need much computing power by todays standards, some web surfing and running OOo will be enough for me, which apparently the eee is enough for. It's funny that when you try to build a fanless surfing machine, it's possible, but becomes quite expensive considering what eee costs.
I think even worse is that (s)he said 9000 without 'over' preceding the number.
I for one really don't care about the install size. 22MB is nothing nowadays.
I have been giving Opera a chance for a while again now, but on my machine newest Opera is considerably slower and eats more memory than FF3.
Ed is the standard text editor.
I wouldn't skip test stage and (as I said in an earlier reply) I understand the reasons for this.
The point is that you need more headcount to do things the SOX-way when you can't have the same people doing different things no matter how much audit trail they produce.
In fact I didn't realize that this is not a normal behaviour until I tried it after your reply and you're right, in a quick test, Firefox was the only program I found that can select multiple texts. Seems that cut or delete doesn't quite work, but copy seems to copy both selections at least when pasted to notepad.
Now I think multiple selections from text could be handy sometimes and should be standard behaviour, but unfortunately it seems that Firefox is pretty much the only program to implement this and not even TB allows selecting multiple texts.
Not so much hate as distrust, I think. Doing IT management I kind of understand the fact that IT staff often has a lot of power to do damage because from a practical point of view they need that power. I am myself at the moment in the middle of a risk management project (no full SOX, thank god) and the funny thing is that the upper management refuses to see that more controls and more audit trails means more used resources in both IT and business (if they are viewed as separate entities).
While I'm at this, the access management in the company I speak of above goes (due to SOX) so that all access to data and systems is given on a temporary basis. There has to be a written approval from the data or application owner to grant access and it has to have an expiration date. In the audit they check that every access is approved by the data or application owner from the business side and if the date on the form is passed, the access must be revoked. This takes a lot of resources comparing to a normal business where access is given basically based on the job title to everything the employee needs.
I haven't studied the data losses in UK to enough detail that I would be able to comment on how the SOX practice would have prevented them from happening. What I wonder the most is why would someone need to haul data of 4 million people on an unencrypted USB stick..
And yes, I know the reasoning behind no development people touching production systems. The point is, that if the same person cannot develop something and install it into production, you need more headcount. And more if there has to be a third person to test it before release and so on. One might argue that it would be enough that an audit trail is produced that someone other than the developer has tested it and approved it into production, but SOX (according to my minimal knowledge of it) seems to take risk reduction and audit trails very far by separating tasks to different people instead of just demanding processes that produce sufficient audit trails and acknowledge and evauluate risks.
I was just about to think no-one would bring up SOX, when AC came to the rescue. The SOX requirements AFAIK for IT are insane. People doing development aren't allowed to touch production systems, for example.
I met a guy recently that works for a US company that has to follow SOX. They have a quarterly audit which lasts 8 weeks at a time and has more than 600 audit points for IT alone. This means that 2/3 of the time of year they are under audit. And if you fail the same point in two audits in a row, it's byebye.
What's with the keyboard layouts on subnotebooks lately? Are they trying to slowly make the right shift key unusable enough that it can be removed completely? I, for one really, really don't want the arrow up to be on the left side of right shift.
And why have three keys on the right side of P and two keys on the right side of L and have the enter be the wrong shape.
To be fair, I also hate the HP laptop layout I'm using at the moment where home, pgup, pgdn and end are on the right side of bs, enter and right shift. I like the layout on my Lenovo shich has these extra keys basically below right shift and above backspace where they are not constantly hit accidentally when typing.
Worked for me in FF3 on Vista right away. Didn't even have to restart the browser. The box is black for a while before the photos appear, though and it doesn't give any clues that it is loading something. (probably loading, I don't know for sure why there is a delay)
After reading a couple of dozen comments I have a strong deja vu feeling.
Did they change something in the Matrix?