Anyone know if anything happens to the 'compliant re-sellers'? If they were getting paid to buy product on that scale - certainly that is a red flag that something is questionable. If it was deliberate participation on their part, seems there should be some repercussions for their collusion in this fraud. (or maybe just not covered by this article)
If law doesn't cover this for some reason, with that many resellers involved, amazing it didn't get exposed earlier on.
As a scientist - you shouldn't be using HHMMSS time. Time should be in a relative format (i.e. milliseconds or microsends from start of test or some fixed point) If you choose to convert those relative times to something relative to you (i.e. year/month/day/hour/minute) - then you can choose whatever system you want, and to honor the leap second or not in that calculation.
You computer does the same (i.e. tracks milliseconds or better from a fixed point) - but what system it uses to translate that to Gregorian-type format is up to the OS, Application, whatever.
I've played Lost Coast, and while HDR does add some great effects at times, the entire effect appears to be sampled from the center of the screen, so as you pan over objects of different brightness, the entire world eventually changes to compensate. This effect is like being outside and a small cloud passing in front of the sun momentarily, the entire world gets dimmer/brighter - and I found this to be very distracting.
Ironically, this was Valve's showcase for advanced HDR (not the lesser HDR in DoD:Source) - and in the opening title screen, the sun is so over-exposed that the word HALF in HALF-LIFE is almost unreadable. So while pre-HDR some things were hard to see because it was too dark, now you may have the same problem on the flip side being too bright. (either way, it's a quality issue)
Has anyone seen the Nano advertisements where it's being placed in a jeans pocket? I think that if the screen gets substantially scratched after only a couple of days doing this, then there is a good argument for false advertising. (personally I don't have one, but I've heard numerous stories where scratches start to affect display quality)
I have an Audiovox SMT 5600 candybar smartphone, and after 1yr and plenty of abuse, I don't have a single scratch on the screen. I doubt any exotic materials are being used... so I would guess Apple just needs to find another material.
Why not release a program that downloads the map(s) (in various formats) and converts it iPod/Nano/etc? That way it is the user exercising their "fair use" - no different than if they put a physical map in a copier to zoom it down.
But really, NYC/SF/etc should just avoid the hooplah and take an hour and post them themselves and let people get them directly from the source. It's the right thing to do and they would look better and more responsive for it. (?: how do they look now?)
I would consider the following superior options for those recommended in the article.
7-Zip --> TUGzip http://www.tugzip.com/ I used 7zip originally, but when I found TUGzip I switched immediately. It has excellent Explorer right-click menu integration and supports drag/drop, and the 7z format itself. Plus it now supports encryption too.
Tinn --> PSPad http://www.pspad.com/ Just try it yourself, it's far more functional, and is starting to approach the featureset of UltraEdit.
First, 2-hours vs 2-weeks to install Windows vs RedHat EL3.0? My first guess is that their own IT guy did the 2-hour Windows install, at which point I quickly look to IBM as the culprit for the extensive Linux install time. Nothing takes 2-weeks to install/patch/whatever. (Even if SAP has specific requirements)
I remember Oracle had a few specifics for the older RedHat 2.1AS. It was annoying, but was manageable. However I would say that knowing the system from basic testing, I never would have used it in production until RedHat EL3.0. The same may be the case for SAP/RedHat between 3.0 and 4.0... Granted the 2-week install was ridiculous, if SAP's Linux pre-requisites require massive configuration time, and SAP and RedHat are certified partners... perhaps they should have done something to jump-start a RedHat install to the right levels for an SAP install. Again I still have doubts about how complex the OS-install is before SAP-install, perhaps someone with hands-on can comment.
Last note, sad to see that there was no saved info from the RedHat crash that could have provided them info post-mortem. Sounds like someone could have acted earlier, since the problem occured every few weeks and they got nowhere after 7 months. Although I have seen vendors ask you to take the system down for 1-2 days of diagnostics... and they may not have wanted to disrupt their testing/config schedule... although in hindsight maybe they should have made the time.
Anyone know if they used the exact same hardware for the replacement Windows system? Would be curious if it was a hardware issue after all and Win32 crashes after a few weeks.:P
I disagree. I have a black SMT 5600 smartphone with a large display. I use it heavily, dropped on asphalt, carry in pocket and many other bags/etc, and at a year old, the screen doesn't have a single scratch.
I definitely think Apple could choose different (better) materials.
You know MS will not do it if they aren't going to convert customers... plus any competing 3rd party formats they read presently, you can't write to them in the same format.
So if having this is of real value, wouldn't it be logical that OpenOffice should create a small downloadable MS-Office plugin that will create the functionality? After all Adobe installs a plugin to produce PDF's from MS Office...
I just think a lot of people focus on MS not supporting a rival formats when they should be asking why OpenOffice doesn't make it their own responsibility. It would help their cause immensely.
I wish NYT would have expanded into the subscription area and how this might be affected. Does anyone have an opinion on this? Most articles I've seen say Yahoo has an above avg reputation with Hollywood. Same with the music labels?
I use Yahoo Music Unlimited (beta), and am pretty pleased with the $5/mo unlimited music, and it works great with my cell phone (which has a 1gb miniSD card)
They also have the option to buy at $.79 flat fee (and much discounted for the full album) - although who needs to burn a CD anymore?
So back to the question, any insight to affects on subscription services?
The first page is dated in the year 2000! I wonder if this is really news after all! The second page is dated 2001. It states basically the same thing as the article the submitter linked to, however it says how long ago "recent" is--10,000,000 years!!
If 10,000,000 is "recent", then 2005 vs 2000 is still breaking news.:P
A good Raid 1 implementation should provide improvided (read) performance as well as redudancy, since it's possible to read from both disks simultaneously (can read 2 things at once), or less avg seek time on a single request if the heads are in different positions (i.e. one will get there faster than the other)
Of course, I don't know how fancy Intel's RAID implementation will be.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe Microsoft does the same things under the covers in their BitTorrent alternative, plus some consideration for locality.
Article here
...or it just so happens today "no evil" = "what's in their best interest"
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Anyone know if anything happens to the 'compliant re-sellers'?
If they were getting paid to buy product on that scale - certainly that is a red flag that something is questionable. If it was deliberate participation on their part, seems there should be some repercussions for their collusion in this fraud. (or maybe just not covered by this article)
If law doesn't cover this for some reason, with that many resellers involved, amazing it didn't get exposed earlier on.
As a scientist - you shouldn't be using HHMMSS time. Time should be in a relative format (i.e. milliseconds or microsends from start of test or some fixed point)
If you choose to convert those relative times to something relative to you (i.e. year/month/day/hour/minute) - then you can choose whatever system you want, and to honor the leap second or not in that calculation.
You computer does the same (i.e. tracks milliseconds or better from a fixed point) - but what system it uses to translate that to Gregorian-type format is up to the OS, Application, whatever.
Has anyone noticed that the upgrade installer and the apps->about do not show 2.0.1 anywhere?
It only says 2.0
Very annoying.
[eom]
If only DNS root-servers were a predominant source for syncing GMT time. :P
I've played Lost Coast, and while HDR does add some great effects at times, the entire effect appears to be sampled from the center of the screen, so as you pan over objects of different brightness, the entire world eventually changes to compensate. This effect is like being outside and a small cloud passing in front of the sun momentarily, the entire world gets dimmer/brighter - and I found this to be very distracting.
Ironically, this was Valve's showcase for advanced HDR (not the lesser HDR in DoD:Source) - and in the opening title screen, the sun is so over-exposed that the word HALF in HALF-LIFE is almost unreadable. So while pre-HDR some things were hard to see because it was too dark, now you may have the same problem on the flip side being too bright. (either way, it's a quality issue)
Hopefully they will keep working on this.
Has anyone seen the Nano advertisements where it's being placed in a jeans pocket?
I think that if the screen gets substantially scratched after only a couple of days doing this, then there is a good argument for false advertising. (personally I don't have one, but I've heard numerous stories where scratches start to affect display quality)
I have an Audiovox SMT 5600 candybar smartphone, and after 1yr and plenty of abuse, I don't have a single scratch on the screen. I doubt any exotic materials are being used... so I would guess Apple just needs to find another material.
You might check this one out too:
http://www.xoxide.com/bluegears-xmystique-ddl-gol
Has AC3 encoding for your SPDIF/toslink too!
Yes, SB really annoyed me with their 5.25" bay-of-crap and no AC3 support. (for the $$ spent)
Check this out:
http://www.xoxide.com/bluegears-xmystique-ddl-gol
It has AC3 real-time encoding like the Soundstorm had.
They failed to mention in the article, but Yahoo Music uses 192kbs WMA, which is probably the highest bitrate of all of them.
Microsoft has collaborated on a new P2P system which is supposedly more efficient than current P2P networks.
n tentdist.pdf
Perhaps this will be in Vista?
http://research.microsoft.com/~pablo/papers/nc_co
Why not release a program that downloads the map(s) (in various formats) and converts it iPod/Nano/etc?
That way it is the user exercising their "fair use" - no different than if they put a physical map in a copier to zoom it down.
But really, NYC/SF/etc should just avoid the hooplah and take an hour and post them themselves and let people get them directly from the source. It's the right thing to do and they would look better and more responsive for it. (?: how do they look now?)
I would consider the following superior options for those recommended in the article.
7-Zip --> TUGzip http://www.tugzip.com/
I used 7zip originally, but when I found TUGzip I switched immediately. It has excellent Explorer right-click menu integration and supports drag/drop, and the 7z format itself. Plus it now supports encryption too.
Tinn --> PSPad http://www.pspad.com/
Just try it yourself, it's far more functional, and is starting to approach the featureset of UltraEdit.
First, 2-hours vs 2-weeks to install Windows vs RedHat EL3.0?
My first guess is that their own IT guy did the 2-hour Windows install, at which point I quickly look to IBM as the culprit for the extensive Linux install time. Nothing takes 2-weeks to install/patch/whatever. (Even if SAP has specific requirements)
I remember Oracle had a few specifics for the older RedHat 2.1AS. It was annoying, but was manageable. However I would say that knowing the system from basic testing, I never would have used it in production until RedHat EL3.0. The same may be the case for SAP/RedHat between 3.0 and 4.0... Granted the 2-week install was ridiculous, if SAP's Linux pre-requisites require massive configuration time, and SAP and RedHat are certified partners... perhaps they should have done something to jump-start a RedHat install to the right levels for an SAP install. Again I still have doubts about how complex the OS-install is before SAP-install, perhaps someone with hands-on can comment.
Last note, sad to see that there was no saved info from the RedHat crash that could have provided them info post-mortem. Sounds like someone could have acted earlier, since the problem occured every few weeks and they got nowhere after 7 months. Although I have seen vendors ask you to take the system down for 1-2 days of diagnostics... and they may not have wanted to disrupt their testing/config schedule... although in hindsight maybe they should have made the time.
Anyone know if they used the exact same hardware for the replacement Windows system? Would be curious if it was a hardware issue after all and Win32 crashes after a few weeks.
I disagree. I have a black SMT 5600 smartphone with a large display. I use it heavily, dropped on asphalt, carry in pocket and many other bags/etc, and at a year old, the screen doesn't have a single scratch.
I definitely think Apple could choose different (better) materials.
Plus with their learning translators, I would assume that published material is of a substantially higher quality than simply scanning websites.
It would be easier to avoid summaries/fragments/slang/mistakes/etc...
You know MS will not do it if they aren't going to convert customers... plus any competing 3rd party formats they read presently, you can't write to them in the same format.
So if having this is of real value, wouldn't it be logical that OpenOffice should create a small downloadable MS-Office plugin that will create the functionality? After all Adobe installs a plugin to produce PDF's from MS Office...
I just think a lot of people focus on MS not supporting a rival formats when they should be asking why OpenOffice doesn't make it their own responsibility. It would help their cause immensely.
I wish NYT would have expanded into the subscription area and how this might be affected. Does anyone have an opinion on this?
Most articles I've seen say Yahoo has an above avg reputation with Hollywood. Same with the music labels?
I use Yahoo Music Unlimited (beta), and am pretty pleased with the $5/mo unlimited music, and it works great with my cell phone (which has a 1gb miniSD card)
They also have the option to buy at $.79 flat fee (and much discounted for the full album) - although who needs to burn a CD anymore?
So back to the question, any insight to affects on subscription services?
The first page is dated in the year 2000! I wonder if this is really news after all! The second page is dated 2001. It states basically the same thing as the article the submitter linked to, however it says how long ago "recent" is--10,000,000 years!!
:P
If 10,000,000 is "recent", then 2005 vs 2000 is still breaking news.
That's called RAID 10 (or 0+1)
A good Raid 1 implementation should provide improvided (read) performance as well as redudancy, since it's possible to read from both disks simultaneously (can read 2 things at once), or less avg seek time on a single request if the heads are in different positions (i.e. one will get there faster than the other)
Of course, I don't know how fancy Intel's RAID implementation will be.
Use with caution, it's the 'undo' button.