Look at Nokia's models. For their series 60 phones, the compiler is free and access is unlimited. Nokia even paid Borland to release a free version with a built in compiler for use with its series 60 line of devices. They'll work on any GSM network (T-Mobile, Cingular, AT&T) and I think some others as well. If Borland isn't your choice, you can even develop with open source tools or use the visual studio plugin. Even with open phones available, many people still chose other devices because $2.50 isn't much money to them if it saves them some trouble. As far as data transfer goes, T-Mobile at least offers an unlimited plan for GPRS.
If you don't want to buy a phone, that's your choice, but you're wrong in saying that all phones are closed.
If the nuclear submarine guess is right, then there would be some issues. Assuming you have access to a high voltage power feed (7kV or more) which allows you limit your windings and keep your pumps small, the pumps, heat exchangers, and power electronics for that level of cooling would probably take up half of any cooling trailer. Water cooling on that scale would also be very dangerous to your hardware. One leak in the wrong spot and you'd fry the entire thing.
If I were engineering it, I'd probably skip the water step and investigate CO2 or freon refridgeration cooling. CO2 can be used as a refridgerant in place of freon, but it's typically not as efficient for air cooling purposes. The only real reason to look at CO2 is that it may be a safer solution when you have so many possible sources of leaks. Presumably you'd have multiple loops and leak detection/shutoff valves on each blade. You'd have to be careful to make sure that any condensation from your blade or chip coolers drips into a drain system. You could also put a thermal plug in each blade and use it for primary fire supression. Precautions against leaks would still be necessary, as high concentrations of either gas can kill people.
Sometimes you have to wonder why any decent attractive woman in her right mind would ever create a profile on one of those things.
I've known plenty of attractive women in real life who have signed up for an online dating service. They're not meeting the type of people they want to meet in bars and clubs. I have no clue if there are indeed fake profiles on there, but there are definitely plenty of real people on those sites.
My original source was an engineering class, I can't find anything to back it up right now unfortunately. One thing to consider is that each electronic component such as the vehicle computers and car stereo each has hundreds or thousands of parts. Also, while the screws are mostly standardized, they're probably still considered individual parts.
Here is a newsflash for Journalists: The xbox is trivial to manufacture compared to other products. Go tour a plant making large Xerox machines, or a Toyota factory, if you want to see something which actually has a challange to it.
This is true, an automobile has a parts count in the millions.
I was under the impression that EEs and manufacturing engineers usually designed things to be flexible. i.e., defining a range of resistors and capacitors to be used in the circuitry, allowing greater flexibility in manufacturing. Hard disks, screws, etc., would be fairly interchangeable in case of a supply shortage. Of course there would always be a few items which may be custom for the x-box, but I would assume that they would have at least two suppliers for these items or at worst get each supplier to produce the parts at more than one plant.
If a shortage in every single one of those 1,700 parts could cause the launch to be delayed, Microsoft has the worst engineers in the industry. Somehow I doubt that's the case.
Connecting those devices indirectly to the internet requires NAT or some other kludge. While it works to a degree, it has a lot of shortcomings and is not a viable long term solution.
You can dress comfortably and fashionably at the same time. A pair of Old Navy khakis, a pair of rockport walking shoes, and a decent button down shirt is not a difficult ensemble to throw together and it looks more stylish than jeans and a t-shirt.
It's also not fashionable. You may be able to pass the bare minimum standard for not violating your company's dress code, but you'll look like a tool.
The Brain Book - there's nothing I hate more than starting a new job and having to learn all those server names, IP addresses, what I'm supposed to have access to, where in the directory tree the stuff I works on live, what types of DBs we use and their versions, etc. So I developed the Brain Book, where I would write these things down as I learned them, to have a point of reference. It's a good idea to do this for all your major projects, so as new people come on, they can spend less time learning their way around and more time coding.
The wiki feature of trac is excellent for this because it can be collaboratively maintained. The excellent subversion integration is also a plus.
Try running the latest CVS nightly and see if it fixes your problem. While it may sound like a bad idea, it's what the mailing list people told me to do repeatedly when I was suffering from these issues. This was for non-cluster mysql and years ago. We stopped using mysql due to many issues like this so my experience is somewhat outdated and limited, but it seemed like MySQL coders never released any production quality code.
I threw my Epson Stylus C64 in the garbage a couple days ago. The black cartridge worked intermittently. At the times the printer did work I had to do a couple cleanings in order to get a decent printout. Each cleaning seems to use about 5% of the ink in all cartridges, or about $4 in ink. The printer also refuses to print anything if any cartridge is below 10%. I had similar driver issues, but they were far from the biggest problem I had with this printer. Prior to trashing it I took some disassembly pictures, which are available here: http://www.e-normous.com/gallery/epsonc64
Wouldn't you still need a power supply to convert to the various voltages required by a computer, which may change over time. Most DC power setups I've seen run at 48v, which still requires conversion to 12v, 5v, and 3.3v. You can buy a 48v power supply for most servers and other equipment today. With a switched power supply, you'd need larger capacitors or a higher switching frequency in order to smooth out the lower powered DC. It's very unlikely that you would eliminate any heat loss. I would assume that telecommunications equipment uses a 48v setup due to legacy issues and that it was a better idea before switching power supplies became cheap and efficient.
The downside with DC is that lower voltages require much thicker wires, and you're at much greater risk for fire. Circuit breakers and other things are also more complicated and expensive since DC tends to weld things together.
An EE I know just built a data center supplying 208v (2 branches of a 3 phase iirc) to all the racks. Almost all existing power supplies can take it, and it saves a bundle in wiring costs. I'm not sure about servers, but most desktop power supplies operate at a power factor of.8 or so, meaning 20% of the billable power is effectively wasted and could be recovered for a slight increase in cost.
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A helmet which automatically darkens in response to bright light can be bought on ebay for about $30. The availability of such an easy defense means that this technology is entirely pointless for road blocks, as a speeding vehicle will be too close to stop with other methods (bullets) once you've discovered they're immune to your primary attack.
It's a bit more useful for protests (peaceful or not) because it's very hard to wear a welding helmet and a gasmask at the same time.
There's also the little problem that you can't use InnoDB in non-GPL apps without buying a license.
"The GNU GPL license, under which both MySQL and InnoDB are published, does not allow, without a permission from MySQL AB and Innobase Oy, linking of InnoDB and MySQL, or the client libraries of MySQL, to a product which you distribute but which does not itself satisfy the GNU GPL license."
You can use the crosstab features of the tablefunc contrib to get a fake table (can be used in joins iirc) from those key/value tables. It's probably not nearly as fast, but it is flexible
We'll need legions of Blackwater mercenaries guarding the Sun in a no bid contract at a cost of thousands of dollars per day per person. Don't worry where the money is coming from, we'll bankrupt social security and cut benefits to the poor and middle class to pay for it.
Apparently the Republicans are sick of starting unwinnable wars such The War On Some Drugs or The War On A Method Of Warfare. The War On Privacy is much more winnable, look at all the progress they've made in the few short years since the "Patriot Act" was passed.
Let's look at what they have accomplished in this war:
Any time we don't want to follow very reasonable rules of international or US law, technicalities are made up so the people can be detained and tortured. indefinitely.
Wiretaps can be obtained without a judge's approval.
Due process is gone. Citizens can be held indefinitely and secretly. Without right to a trial.
Secret search and seizures are now legal
The US government has built prisons in remote locations specifically to escape any law whatsoever. (Incidentally, an oil services company named Halliburton with no previous prison building experience was given a no-bid contract to build them)
Your library records are now available to the government without a judge's approval
Nobody is allowed to talk about anything that occurs under the patriot act. This does a good job of preventing the general public from finding out about its violations of the principles this nation was founded on.
Even our own CIA agent's identities are not private with this administration.
And why did we give up all of our rights? Because the Republicans could supposedly prevent and prepare us for another terrorist attack. You saw how well the new DHS handled a natural disaster with several days notice. Is there any reason to assume that the political appointees in charge of prevent terrorist attacks are any more competent than those who were appointed to handle the aftermath?
Good job Republicans. You've erased privacy. You've made the biggest expansion of the US government under any president. You managed to create a nation where Islam is the absolute rule of law out of one which was secular before. You've managed to kill thousands of American soldiers for an undefined cause. You've given all of your friend's companies no-bid contracts to be highly paid mercenaries and steal another nation's natural resources. You let North Korea get nukes and become a major threat. Best of all, you've paid for it by bankrupting social security, screwing us average citizens out of a future.
I believe their "legal obligations" are a bit more complicated than requiring their stock value to improve more than Apple on a percentage basis looking over the past year. The original post seemed to suggest things such as customer service could only be calculated as a cost without any calculated benefit as well as the idea that costs must continually be reduced (implying that they would reach $0 at some point).
Dell isn't stupid, I'm sure they're capable of quantifying the return on investments such as R&D and advertising and comparing them to costs when making business decisions. Maintaining profitability doesn't require anything specific other than making good business decisions.
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Look at Nokia's models. For their series 60 phones, the compiler is free and access is unlimited. Nokia even paid Borland to release a free version with a built in compiler for use with its series 60 line of devices. They'll work on any GSM network (T-Mobile, Cingular, AT&T) and I think some others as well. If Borland isn't your choice, you can even develop with open source tools or use the visual studio plugin. Even with open phones available, many people still chose other devices because $2.50 isn't much money to them if it saves them some trouble. As far as data transfer goes, T-Mobile at least offers an unlimited plan for GPRS.
If you don't want to buy a phone, that's your choice, but you're wrong in saying that all phones are closed.
If the nuclear submarine guess is right, then there would be some issues. Assuming you have access to a high voltage power feed (7kV or more) which allows you limit your windings and keep your pumps small, the pumps, heat exchangers, and power electronics for that level of cooling would probably take up half of any cooling trailer. Water cooling on that scale would also be very dangerous to your hardware. One leak in the wrong spot and you'd fry the entire thing.
If I were engineering it, I'd probably skip the water step and investigate CO2 or freon refridgeration cooling. CO2 can be used as a refridgerant in place of freon, but it's typically not as efficient for air cooling purposes. The only real reason to look at CO2 is that it may be a safer solution when you have so many possible sources of leaks. Presumably you'd have multiple loops and leak detection/shutoff valves on each blade. You'd have to be careful to make sure that any condensation from your blade or chip coolers drips into a drain system. You could also put a thermal plug in each blade and use it for primary fire supression. Precautions against leaks would still be necessary, as high concentrations of either gas can kill people.
Sometimes you have to wonder why any decent attractive woman in her right mind would ever create a profile on one of those things.
I've known plenty of attractive women in real life who have signed up for an online dating service. They're not meeting the type of people they want to meet in bars and clubs. I have no clue if there are indeed fake profiles on there, but there are definitely plenty of real people on those sites.
My original source was an engineering class, I can't find anything to back it up right now unfortunately. One thing to consider is that each electronic component such as the vehicle computers and car stereo each has hundreds or thousands of parts. Also, while the screws are mostly standardized, they're probably still considered individual parts.
Here is a newsflash for Journalists: The xbox is trivial to manufacture compared to other products. Go tour a plant making large Xerox machines, or a Toyota factory, if you want to see something which actually has a challange to it.
This is true, an automobile has a parts count in the millions.
I was under the impression that EEs and manufacturing engineers usually designed things to be flexible. i.e., defining a range of resistors and capacitors to be used in the circuitry, allowing greater flexibility in manufacturing. Hard disks, screws, etc., would be fairly interchangeable in case of a supply shortage. Of course there would always be a few items which may be custom for the x-box, but I would assume that they would have at least two suppliers for these items or at worst get each supplier to produce the parts at more than one plant.
If a shortage in every single one of those 1,700 parts could cause the launch to be delayed, Microsoft has the worst engineers in the industry. Somehow I doubt that's the case.
Connecting those devices indirectly to the internet requires NAT or some other kludge. While it works to a degree, it has a lot of shortcomings and is not a viable long term solution.
You can dress comfortably and fashionably at the same time. A pair of Old Navy khakis, a pair of rockport walking shoes, and a decent button down shirt is not a difficult ensemble to throw together and it looks more stylish than jeans and a t-shirt.
It's also not fashionable. You may be able to pass the bare minimum standard for not violating your company's dress code, but you'll look like a tool.
The Brain Book - there's nothing I hate more than starting a new job and having to learn all those server names, IP addresses, what I'm supposed to have access to, where in the directory tree the stuff I works on live, what types of DBs we use and their versions, etc. So I developed the Brain Book, where I would write these things down as I learned them, to have a point of reference. It's a good idea to do this for all your major projects, so as new people come on, they can spend less time learning their way around and more time coding.
The wiki feature of trac is excellent for this because it can be collaboratively maintained. The excellent subversion integration is also a plus.
Try running the latest CVS nightly and see if it fixes your problem. While it may sound like a bad idea, it's what the mailing list people told me to do repeatedly when I was suffering from these issues. This was for non-cluster mysql and years ago. We stopped using mysql due to many issues like this so my experience is somewhat outdated and limited, but it seemed like MySQL coders never released any production quality code.
I threw my Epson Stylus C64 in the garbage a couple days ago. The black cartridge worked intermittently. At the times the printer did work I had to do a couple cleanings in order to get a decent printout. Each cleaning seems to use about 5% of the ink in all cartridges, or about $4 in ink. The printer also refuses to print anything if any cartridge is below 10%. I had similar driver issues, but they were far from the biggest problem I had with this printer. Prior to trashing it I took some disassembly pictures, which are available here: http://www.e-normous.com/gallery/epsonc64
I will never buy another Epson product again.
The more toxic parts of these batteries can be recycled, making it less of an issue.
Why not just cut their benefits again while they're busy overseas? How else can we afford more tax cuts for the rich?
Wouldn't you still need a power supply to convert to the various voltages required by a computer, which may change over time. Most DC power setups I've seen run at 48v, which still requires conversion to 12v, 5v, and 3.3v. You can buy a 48v power supply for most servers and other equipment today. With a switched power supply, you'd need larger capacitors or a higher switching frequency in order to smooth out the lower powered DC. It's very unlikely that you would eliminate any heat loss. I would assume that telecommunications equipment uses a 48v setup due to legacy issues and that it was a better idea before switching power supplies became cheap and efficient.
.8 or so, meaning 20% of the billable power is effectively wasted and could be recovered for a slight increase in cost.
The downside with DC is that lower voltages require much thicker wires, and you're at much greater risk for fire. Circuit breakers and other things are also more complicated and expensive since DC tends to weld things together.
An EE I know just built a data center supplying 208v (2 branches of a 3 phase iirc) to all the racks. Almost all existing power supplies can take it, and it saves a bundle in wiring costs. I'm not sure about servers, but most desktop power supplies operate at a power factor of
A helmet which automatically darkens in response to bright light can be bought on ebay for about $30. The availability of such an easy defense means that this technology is entirely pointless for road blocks, as a speeding vehicle will be too close to stop with other methods (bullets) once you've discovered they're immune to your primary attack.
It's a bit more useful for protests (peaceful or not) because it's very hard to wear a welding helmet and a gasmask at the same time.
This is certainly less lethal than bullets or a nuclear weapon. Whether or not we should be using any of these weapons is another question.
There's also the little problem that you can't use InnoDB in non-GPL apps without buying a license.
"The GNU GPL license, under which both MySQL and InnoDB are published, does not allow, without a permission from MySQL AB and Innobase Oy, linking of InnoDB and MySQL, or the client libraries of MySQL, to a product which you distribute but which does not itself satisfy the GNU GPL license."
The funny thing is, you can't have fulltext indexes and transactions on the same table in mysql because fulltext indexes are incompatible with innodb.
You can use the crosstab features of the tablefunc contrib to get a fake table (can be used in joins iirc) from those key/value tables. It's probably not nearly as fast, but it is flexible
How is it useful?
We'll need legions of Blackwater mercenaries guarding the Sun in a no bid contract at a cost of thousands of dollars per day per person. Don't worry where the money is coming from, we'll bankrupt social security and cut benefits to the poor and middle class to pay for it.
Let's look at what they have accomplished in this war:
And why did we give up all of our rights? Because the Republicans could supposedly prevent and prepare us for another terrorist attack. You saw how well the new DHS handled a natural disaster with several days notice. Is there any reason to assume that the political appointees in charge of prevent terrorist attacks are any more competent than those who were appointed to handle the aftermath?
Good job Republicans. You've erased privacy. You've made the biggest expansion of the US government under any president. You managed to create a nation where Islam is the absolute rule of law out of one which was secular before. You've managed to kill thousands of American soldiers for an undefined cause. You've given all of your friend's companies no-bid contracts to be highly paid mercenaries and steal another nation's natural resources. You let North Korea get nukes and become a major threat. Best of all, you've paid for it by bankrupting social security, screwing us average citizens out of a future.
Government kidnapping and months in a secret prison in eastern Europe.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=AAPL&t=my&l=on&z=m &q=l&c=dell
I believe their "legal obligations" are a bit more complicated than requiring their stock value to improve more than Apple on a percentage basis looking over the past year. The original post seemed to suggest things such as customer service could only be calculated as a cost without any calculated benefit as well as the idea that costs must continually be reduced (implying that they would reach $0 at some point).
Dell isn't stupid, I'm sure they're capable of quantifying the return on investments such as R&D and advertising and comparing them to costs when making business decisions. Maintaining profitability doesn't require anything specific other than making good business decisions.