THey are moving to light weight, thin clients here at my company too. We have about 5,000 desktops and they think many of them can be thin clients. For those who only do office work, email and light work processing they don't need a big computer. Others do.
One of the things people like about the thin clients is that they can sit down at ANY workstation, sign on and the desktop is right there. This is great if you go into conference room and make a presentation. First you in you office fire up Power Point run through the slides then sign off. Then in the conference room sign on and power point is ready to go right where you left off.
But because w are an enginerring company, many of us have specialized needs. So half the company can't move to the thin clients
Don't blame teachers. Don't blame low teacher pay eaither. The reason kids don't study math is becuse they see little reason to. If they did then the kids and their parents would be willing to fund "anything".
Why are there so few Basket weaving teachers? Simple because we all see little value in teaching basket making. If basketmaking paid $250K per year we'd see parents putting their kids in expensive private basket making schools.
There has to be a demand for people with math skills other then as math teachers
Very simple: Just ask each of them if they will provide FREE (all meanings of FREE) client software that runs on EVERY students computer even if that computer is running Linux or Solaris or Mac OS is if the "computer" is a Phone.
"but for some reason Jobs wanted to give AT&T full control over the phone."
That "some reason" becomes very clear when you realize that Jobs did NOT "give" AT&T full control. Jobs "SOLD" AT&T full control. I'm sure Apple is making a ton of money off AT&T.
"I bought a Sansa E280 the other day (at woot) for 59 dollars."
For some reason your logic while correct does not apply. For example. My wife has a nice handbage she paid over $100 for. But me being smarter found that the local market has reusable shopping bags for 99 cents. My bag cost 100 times less then hers and holds 4 times more stuff. Why do women buy expensive, not as big bags?
We can also compare a new $45,000 BMW to a used Toyota Corolla. Both will get you to work in the same amount of time, both will cary the same number of people inside. Why pay $45K?
The answer in all three cases, iPods, bags and cars is that (1) the buyer has enough money that s/he does not care much about the price and (2) the buyer simply likes the look of the more expensive product.
We can talk about art too. Why do I pay more for a "better" painting. Heck I could make a painting myself for just the cost of paint, canvas and a frame. Why spend the extra bucks?
"the" spot for big radio telescope arrays. Why not put our biggest optical telescope there as well?
Because while the FAR side will always face away from Earth and be isolated from the Earth's radio transmitters, the far side faces the sun and is in daylight exactly half the month.
A better place for an optical telescope is a place the aways faces away from BOTH the sun and the Erath. That place would be at either pole as the poles face roughly 90 degrees away. If you dig or find a small hole the bottom of the hole will be dark 100% of the time
The patent is NOT on the idea of a dosk but on cover specific detals about how the dock looks and acts. You yes you are right but a CDE dock does not look or act like an Apple dock. Similar yes but the patent covers thinks like magnification, bouncing and that buth running and not running rograms show up and so on. It covers just the "Apple stuff".
No. That "sound" is the sound of technology moving forward. At one steel mills were "high tech" but now it's a low tech "smoke stack industry" that has move over seas. It one point electronic assemby was a high tech industry and now it's moved to China where un-educated one time farmers can build iPhones. My point is that the cutting edge moves fast. The nest wave will be biology. Kids today who want to be on top and work in high tech should be taking Chemistry and Microbiology in school. Electrical Engineering and computer science was "so 1990's" (Disclaimer: I studied EE and CS in the 1970's) If not biology then "green energy". Everyone working in that area is having to deal with more work then they can handle
I read that Gordon Moore once explained his "Moore's law" as being economic, not technical. He said that when Intel builds a new plant, each new plant costs about twice as much as the last one. so he said at some point a plant will cost more money then there is on earth so they will have to stop buiding new plants at some point and then Moore's law will end. I think what we are seeing is the front end of this. A few smaller companies are finding they can build new fab plants. Maybe in 20 year even Intel will have to do what AMD is doing and then we will see the end of exponential growth.
The key observation here was by Gordon Moore that growth in the number of transisters is due to growth in capital spending on fab plants, not technology.
All these people who tTHINK they can brake better thwen an ABS system could be right. But first ask them how many hours a week they spend practising on a track. No one can beat an ABS system without considerable training and measuring the results. You can't safely practice on streets. Without 20 or more maximum.
This is the same thing we hear from people who think a handgun offers protection. It can if you have the training and keep the training current. I ask them how many round they've shoot this week
OK back on topic. This restricted key is designed specifically for new drivers, those lacking experiance. We'd hope these kids are not driving in snow. When the condidtions are good we give them the restricted key. whaen condidtins are bad we give them no key.
This does apply to me. I have a 17 year old son. I askes me "When can I have a car?" My answer is "whenever you want. Just go buy a car." I figure eventually he will buy a car and then he can use whatever key he likes.
I disagree. As an example there are people who live on their sailboats. They use TV sets, lights and radios that run off battery power and many of the charge the bateries with wind power. It can scale because every house can have it's own wind generator. No they don't work for all for power you need but you can have photovoltics on the roof. All of these scale because every house can have one and if roof mounted they take up zero aditional space. Yes we will still need a grid and big plants.
Yes being a sail plane pilot is good experience if your engine quits. But have you ever flown a Citaboria? I have. Here is how you land one: The plane has no "flaps" so don't worry about those. While at pattern altitude (about 1,000 feet above ground) when you are on down wind abeam of the numbers. Put the engine to down to idle. Make two left turns and the plane will land right on the number. basically you loose that 1,000 feet "way fast" the Citaboria glides like a rock. You really have to keep the nose down or you run out of airspeed. By comparison any two seat trainer flys like a sailplane
If the engine quits that plane is going to land within only a couple miles at best. That said there was a road within walking distance of the crash site. Any reasonable pilot still in control of the aircraft would have at least attempted to aim for a clear area. I don't think he was in control when it hit the ground.
My gues is the caue was either a mechanical, non engine failure of the structure or control system or a medical problem.
Engine/Fuel related? I kind of doubt it. I know the area. If the plane's engine quite at that altitude he could had still landed at Manmoth airport. He had more then a mile of elevation above the valley floor and the distance was not great. Even if not at the airport there was a road within WALKING distance of the crash site.
I've flown a Citobria they are very strong plans and can be put down on a very short space and crash landed on a few hundred feet of road way.
I strongly suspect that something else happened either for some reason he did not see the mountain. That would mean he fell ill while flying or some of the airplane's structure or control system broke in flight.
In any case if the structur and control system was intact, the pilot was awake and in control and the engine was dead the plan would have been aimed at the "best" landing site even if that was a two lane mountain road.
(1) I hiked in the same area a month ago, over labor day. I have photos of the area. It's actually not all that remote. A five to seven hour round trip walk from a road will get you there. There are quite a few hikers there to. If you spend time there you will run into a few other hikers each day.
(2) When I was learning to fly we used the same type of aircraft. I've got a few hours logged it one. If it crashed I can see where it would be hard to locate. The skin is not aluminum. The aircraft has truss type frame made of welded steel tubes and is covered with fabric. It is actually very strong. but would disintegrate in the weather quickly. In contrast I hiked up another mountain a few weeks ago and there is a well known crash there from the 1960's that aluminum wreckage is very easy to spot even a mile away as aluminum weathers well, that wreckage will last for 100+ years. It also flew head on into a mountain.
It's pure luck this was found, very soon the area will be covered in 20 feet of snow and then become very wet in spring and the run off from all that snow would have destroyed the last traces.
FIrst off. Moderd OSes don't ever actually swap out programs. They simply delete the programs from RAM without needing to write them out to disk because the program is already stored on on the disk asthe executable file. Only RAM pages that have been writen ever need to be swapped out.
In the old days, the address space of an entire process was swapped out to disk. The term back then was "roll out" and "roll in". OSes have gotten smarter and now the way a program is loaded into memory is by "mapping" the executable binary file to RAM. The mapping does not actually cause any data to move from disk to RAM it is moved s it is accessed.
I have a Linux system here that has been up for days. Lots of stuff running. PostgreSQL DBMS, Apache, a web browser, and 12 terminal logins, a VNC session and I'm running another Linux system inside a VMware machine. I have only 4GB physical RAM, 8GB swap. I check and see that 2.8MB (yes M not G) of swap is in use. One a modern system 1/2 GB would be plenty of space.
Why does everyone think these would be used to produce electric power for domestic use? Something like this is much better suited for use on spacecraft.
When you are covering your roof you care about the power/cost ratio. On spacecraft you care a lot about power/weight ratio. This new type of cell address power/area which translates directly to power/weight
"It does seem humorous that the scientist claimed he built a multi-surface detector which actually doesn't detect anything in particular...."
It is the same as when they discovery spectroscopy. They knew they could detect elements and componds but they knew they'd have to first build up some experiance with the technique. Same here
Don't work to hard at locking up the computer or they will simply spend time at the public library using gmail or at their friend's house. If they are to young to get themselves to those places then just make a google mail account for them that you have access to and check it now and then. Google lets you add your own filters if you like. Once they are old enough to know how to change the filers and cover up emails then there is little you can do because they can also make their own gmail accounts and use them from school. One hopes that by then you've taught them to be smart. Filters and blocks only work on very young kids.
I have two kids. One is 17 and he can do "whatever" I don't care or rather if I tried to stop hm he's just go elsewhere. I do shut off the Internet via a rule in the router at a certain time each night. The other is 10 years old and she only cares about Disney Channel charaters and her freinds she knows from school. If I were to set up a filter, so far it would not yet have caught anything.
There is a LOT of government written code available. In fact many of the biggest and most complex free software systems were developed and given away by the US government. It's just that they typically do not write word processors and games so your typical home user does not see it.
Most all the software I develop goes to the US government, mostly the DoD. I've been using Open Source for well over 20 years now. I don't think it was called "open source" back then but still much of it was.
You have to remember that government contractors and universities had access to the Internet starting back in the late 1970's and were on USNET long before there was a web.
I'm certain that the government and military were the second users of open source universities being the first users. Only after the web got popular did open source spread out into the rest of the world.
He could have started on a runway but he has a problem with not being able to run fast enough to get the thing flying. Jumping out of an airplan is the only way to gain enough speed.
"Boycott Vista and OSX, and get Linux instead and install a Macintosh skin [interfacelift.com] on Linux instead of pirating OSX."
OK so I do that. Now how do I run Aperture, Photoshop and Final Cut Pro on my Linux system? Yes those pprograms are the reason I have a Mac.
The reason one buys an OS is so they can run software. If the OS can't run the software you need it's usless.
That said. I'm typing this on a Linux system. I write software for Linux/Solaris but all of the creative digital content type stuff is done on mac OS X.
I've been a UNIX fan and user both at work and at home from long ago, i had UNIX before there was a thing called "Microsoft Windows". But I feel right at home on Mac OS X. It's the best desktop UNIX system out there. Solaris is the best server OS out there.
This "dongel" is simple a USB flash drive. In the instructions the users is told to set up the BIOS to boot off the dongle. Inside the flash drive is a bootable EFI emulator. If some one wanted to run Mac OS X on their PC why not simply burn the same EFI emulator onto a CD-ROM and boot off the CD?
The dongle is for people who don't know who to set up the CDROM themselves.
No, you should say "One of the things xcode does is provide a UI on top of gcc."
One of the other functions is to provide a full featured iPhone emulator that runs on a Mac. You kind of need this emulator if you are ever going to do any debugging. Another function od xcode is an interface building.
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THey are moving to light weight, thin clients here at my company too. We have about 5,000 desktops and they think many of them can be thin clients. For those who only do office work, email and light work processing they don't need a big computer. Others do.
One of the things people like about the thin clients is that they can sit down at ANY workstation, sign on and the desktop is right there. This is great if you go into conference room and make a presentation. First you in you office fire up Power Point run through the slides then sign off. Then in the conference room sign on and power point is ready to go right where you left off.
But because w are an enginerring company, many of us have specialized needs. So half the company can't move to the thin clients
Don't blame teachers. Don't blame low teacher pay eaither. The reason kids don't study math is becuse they see little reason to. If they did then the kids and their parents would be willing to fund "anything".
Why are there so few Basket weaving teachers? Simple because we all see little value in teaching basket making. If basketmaking paid $250K per year we'd see parents putting their kids in expensive private basket making schools.
There has to be a demand for people with math skills other then as math teachers
Very simple: Just ask each of them if they will provide FREE (all meanings of FREE) client software that runs on EVERY students computer even if that computer is running Linux or Solaris or Mac OS is if the "computer" is a Phone.
"but for some reason Jobs wanted to give AT&T full control over the phone."
That "some reason" becomes very clear when you realize that Jobs did NOT "give" AT&T full control. Jobs "SOLD" AT&T full control. I'm sure Apple is making a ton of money off AT&T.
"I bought a Sansa E280 the other day (at woot) for 59 dollars."
For some reason your logic while correct does not apply. For example. My wife has a nice handbage she paid over $100 for. But me being smarter found that the local market has reusable shopping bags for 99 cents. My bag cost 100 times less then hers and holds 4 times more stuff. Why do women buy expensive, not as big bags?
We can also compare a new $45,000 BMW to a used Toyota Corolla. Both will get you to work in the same amount of time, both will cary the same number of people inside. Why pay $45K?
The answer in all three cases, iPods, bags and cars is that (1) the buyer has enough money that s/he does not care much about the price and (2) the buyer simply likes the look of the more expensive product.
We can talk about art too. Why do I pay more for a "better" painting. Heck I could make a painting myself for just the cost of paint, canvas and a frame. Why spend the extra bucks?
"the" spot for big radio telescope arrays. Why not put our biggest optical telescope there as well?
Because while the FAR side will always face away from Earth and be isolated from the Earth's radio transmitters, the far side faces the sun and is in daylight exactly half the month.
A better place for an optical telescope is a place the aways faces away from BOTH the sun and the Erath. That place would be at either pole as the poles face roughly 90 degrees away. If you dig or find a small hole the bottom of the hole will be dark 100% of the time
CDE has had this for years, if not decades.
The patent is NOT on the idea of a dosk but on cover specific detals about how the dock looks and acts. You yes you are right but a CDE dock does not look or act like an Apple dock. Similar yes but the patent covers thinks like magnification, bouncing and that buth running and not running rograms show up and so on. It covers just the "Apple stuff".
No. That "sound" is the sound of technology moving forward. At one steel mills were "high tech" but now it's a low tech "smoke stack industry" that has move over seas. It one point electronic assemby was a high tech industry and now it's moved to China where un-educated one time farmers can build iPhones. My point is that the cutting edge moves fast. The nest wave will be biology. Kids today who want to be on top and work in high tech should be taking Chemistry and Microbiology in school. Electrical Engineering and computer science was "so 1990's"
(Disclaimer: I studied EE and CS in the 1970's) If not biology then "green energy". Everyone working in that area is having to deal with more work then they can handle
I read that Gordon Moore once explained his "Moore's law" as being economic, not technical. He said that when Intel builds a new plant, each new plant costs about twice as much as the last one. so he said at some point a plant will cost more money then there is on earth so they will have to stop buiding new plants at some point and then Moore's law will end. I think what we are seeing is the front end of this. A few smaller companies are finding they can build new fab plants. Maybe in 20 year even Intel will have to do what AMD is doing and then we will see the end of exponential growth.
The key observation here was by Gordon Moore that growth in the number of transisters is due to growth in capital spending on fab plants, not technology.
All these people who tTHINK they can brake better thwen an ABS system could be right. But first ask them how many hours a week they spend practising on a track. No one can beat an ABS system without considerable training and measuring the results. You can't safely practice on streets. Without 20 or more maximum.
This is the same thing we hear from people who think a handgun offers protection. It can if you have the training and keep the training current. I ask them how many round they've shoot this week
OK back on topic. This restricted key is designed specifically for new drivers, those lacking experiance. We'd hope these kids are not driving in snow. When the condidtions are good we give them the restricted key. whaen condidtins are bad we give them no key.
This does apply to me. I have a 17 year old son. I askes me "When can I have a car?" My answer is "whenever you want. Just go buy a car." I figure eventually he will buy a car and then he can use whatever key he likes.
Winds farms don't scale,???
I disagree. As an example there are people who live on their sailboats. They use TV sets, lights and radios that run off battery power and many of the charge the bateries with wind power. It can scale because every house can have it's own wind generator. No they don't work for all for power you need but you can have photovoltics on the roof. All of these scale because every house can have one and if roof mounted they take up zero aditional space. Yes we will still need a grid and big plants.
Yes being a sail plane pilot is good experience if your engine quits. But have you ever flown a Citaboria? I have. Here is how you land one: The plane has no "flaps" so don't worry about those. While at pattern altitude (about 1,000 feet above ground) when you are on down wind abeam of the numbers. Put the engine to down to idle. Make two left turns and the plane will land right on the number. basically you loose that 1,000 feet "way fast" the Citaboria glides like a rock. You really have to keep the nose down or you run out of airspeed. By comparison any two seat trainer flys like a sailplane
If the engine quits that plane is going to land within only a couple miles at best. That said there was a road within walking distance of the crash site. Any reasonable pilot still in control of the aircraft would have at least attempted to aim for a clear area. I don't think he was in control when it hit the ground.
My gues is the caue was either a mechanical, non engine failure of the structure or control system or a medical problem.
Engine/Fuel related? I kind of doubt it. I know the area. If the plane's engine quite at that altitude he could had still landed at Manmoth airport. He had more then a mile of elevation above the valley floor and the distance was not great. Even if not at the airport there was a road within WALKING distance of the crash site.
I've flown a Citobria they are very strong plans and can be put down on a very short space and crash landed on a few hundred feet of road way.
I strongly suspect that something else happened either for some reason he did not see the mountain. That would mean he fell ill while flying or some of the airplane's structure or control system broke in flight.
In any case if the structur and control system was intact, the pilot was awake and in control and the engine was dead the plan would have been aimed at the "best" landing site even if that was a two lane mountain road.
What a coincidence.
(1) I hiked in the same area a month ago, over labor day. I have photos of the area. It's actually not all that remote. A five to seven hour round trip walk from a road will get you there. There are quite a few hikers there to. If you spend time there you will run into a few other hikers each day.
(2) When I was learning to fly we used the same type of aircraft. I've got a few hours logged it one. If it crashed I can see where it would be hard to locate. The skin is not aluminum. The aircraft has truss type frame made of welded steel tubes and is covered with fabric. It is actually very strong. but would disintegrate in the weather quickly. In contrast I hiked up another mountain a few weeks ago and there is a well known crash there from the 1960's that aluminum wreckage is very easy to spot even a mile away as aluminum weathers well, that wreckage will last for 100+ years. It also flew head on into a mountain.
It's pure luck this was found, very soon the area will be covered in 20 feet of snow and then become very wet in spring and the run off from all that snow would have destroyed the last traces.
FIrst off. Moderd OSes don't ever actually swap out programs. They simply delete the programs from RAM without needing to write them out to disk because the program is already stored on on the disk asthe executable file. Only RAM pages that have been writen ever need to be swapped out.
In the old days, the address space of an entire process was swapped out to disk. The term back then was "roll out" and "roll in". OSes have gotten smarter and now the way a program is loaded into memory is by "mapping" the executable binary file to RAM. The mapping does not actually cause any data to move from disk to RAM it is moved s it is accessed.
I have a Linux system here that has been up for days. Lots of stuff running. PostgreSQL DBMS, Apache, a web browser, and 12 terminal logins, a VNC session and I'm running another Linux system inside a VMware machine. I have only 4GB physical RAM, 8GB swap. I check and see that 2.8MB (yes M not G) of swap is in use. One a modern system 1/2 GB would be plenty of space.
Don't list the tech support job on the resume. If some one asked you what you did talk about your own projects.
Why does everyone think these would be used to produce electric power for domestic use? Something like this is much better suited for use on spacecraft.
When you are covering your roof you care about the power/cost ratio. On spacecraft you care a lot about power/weight ratio. This new type of cell address power/area which translates directly to power/weight
"It does seem humorous that the scientist claimed he built a multi-surface detector which actually doesn't detect anything in particular...."
It is the same as when they discovery spectroscopy. They knew they could detect elements and componds but they knew they'd have to first build up some experiance with the technique. Same here
Don't work to hard at locking up the computer or they will simply spend time at the public library using gmail or at their friend's house. If they are to young to get themselves to those places then just make a google mail account for them that you have access to and check it now and then. Google lets you add your own filters if you like. Once they are old enough to know how to change the filers and cover up emails then there is little you can do because they can also make their own gmail accounts and use them from school. One hopes that by then you've taught them to be smart. Filters and blocks only work on very young kids.
I have two kids. One is 17 and he can do "whatever" I don't care or rather if I tried to stop hm he's just go elsewhere. I do shut off the Internet via a rule in the router at a certain time each night. The other is 10 years old and she only cares about Disney Channel charaters and her freinds she knows from school. If I were to set up a filter, so far it would not yet have caught anything.
Just one counter example: selinux came from the NSA. A pretty big "give back".
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
There is a LOT of government written code available. In fact many of the biggest and most complex free software systems were developed and given away by the US government. It's just that they typically do not write word processors and games so your typical home user does not see it.
I can think of many examples most from the areas of science and enginerring. Here is one
http://www.nec2.org/nec_hist.txt
Most all the software I develop goes to the US government, mostly the DoD. I've been using Open Source for well over 20 years now. I don't think it was called "open source" back then but still much of it was.
You have to remember that government contractors and universities had access to the Internet starting back in the late 1970's and were on USNET long before there was a web.
I'm certain that the government and military were the second users of open source universities being the first users. Only after the web got popular did open source spread out into the rest of the world.
"Why so high to start with?"
He could have started on a runway but he has a problem with not being able to run fast enough to get the thing flying. Jumping out of an airplan is the only way to gain enough speed.
Landing is easier. He has a parachute.
"Boycott Vista and OSX, and get Linux instead and install a Macintosh skin [interfacelift.com] on Linux instead of pirating OSX."
OK so I do that. Now how do I run Aperture, Photoshop and Final Cut Pro on my Linux system? Yes those pprograms are the reason I have a Mac.
The reason one buys an OS is so they can run software. If the OS can't run the software you need it's usless.
That said. I'm typing this on a Linux system. I write software for Linux/Solaris but all of the creative digital content type stuff is done on mac OS X.
I've been a UNIX fan and user both at work and at home from long ago, i had UNIX before there was a thing called "Microsoft Windows". But I feel right at home on Mac OS X. It's the best desktop UNIX system out there. Solaris is the best server OS out there.
This "dongel" is simple a USB flash drive. In the instructions the users is told to set up the BIOS to boot off the dongle. Inside the flash drive is a bootable EFI emulator. If some one wanted to run Mac OS X on their PC why not simply burn the same EFI emulator onto a CD-ROM and boot off the CD?
The dongle is for people who don't know who to set up the CDROM themselves.
"...xcode is just a UI on top of gcc,.."
No, you should say "One of the things xcode does is provide a UI on top of gcc."
One of the other functions is to provide a full featured iPhone emulator that runs on a Mac. You kind of need this emulator if you are ever going to do any debugging. Another function od xcode is an interface building.