"Wipe the disk and start over" is the solution always given by almost every OEM when there's a problem because it is the least labor intensive for them. They could care less about your precious photos, documents or that you've logged 100+ hours making it to level 30 in a game. If you can't troubleshoot and fix problems yourself then you're stuck with this solution. Keep back-ups of your precious files and stop whining.
BTW: If you're dead set on spending all that money on "It Just Works" so you can run "Where do you want to go today?" perhaps some more realistic multi-boot tools would be in order. Perhaps QTParted to reshape the disk partitioning, and GRUB to select the OS to boot, just a thought...
According to TFA there's no mention of the application of new technologies to old fiber. One in particular comes to mind; Wave Division Multiplexing, which allows for multiple wavelengths of light to be shot across the fiber simultaneously thereby multiplying capacity.
Are you serious? It takes a notebook over a minute and a half to boot Vista? And to think I was getting annoyed with my 40 seconds from power on to KDE desktop (which includes me typing my login). I'd actually have to get to class early just to give it enough time to be ready take some stupid notes.
If memory serves (rare I know...) I believe I read that the syphilis thing was the other way around. The native people of the Americas were said to be rather "friendly," the European explorers (conquerors), horny. Along with the silver and gold the Europeans carried back with them the natives' gift of syphilis where it spread like wild fire among the well-bred.
Maybe I'm an a**hole but I can't help but feel that these spammers deserve such treatment. They are parasites on society, preying on the mundanes, annoying the rest while clogging the pipes to the detriment of legit users of the WWW. They are scum and they deserve to go down.
Isn't it obvious why geeks (or smart people generally) have less sex when they're teens...? They spend all their fricken time doing cost-benefit analysis. The smarter the person, the more things they have to consider. No matter how smart or dumb they are in the end they all go for the girl. If I might make a suggestion... Since countless geeks have already sacrificed their youth for this cause only to reach the same conclusions, why not skip your own analysis?
I suspect that if the engineers putting together these server farms bothered to think about the problem for just a bit longer a far simpler solution would present itself. Since that obviously won't happen as they're far more interested in visions of greasy female techs who double as bikini models I'll give it a go... How about simply venting the waste heat off of the power hungry components (PSUs, CPUs, etc.) directly out of the building rather than just blowing it around inside and then relying upon highly inefficient A/C to pump it out of the building.
I got a HP-48GX back around 1995. I loved it then, use it still now, and still love it. The RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) stack based entry (don't worry there's also a rather fancy equation and matrix writer for things more sophisticated than 2+2 or should I say 2 2 +) is awesome and very intuitive for any computer geek.
The main difference I note between the TI-8x and the HP-48Gx series is in the intended user it was designed for. The TI-8x was designed with the student in mind and the HP-48Gx was designed with the professional/graduate student in mind. If you're already using math engines such as Octave then you will almost certainly find the HP-48Gx more familiar and similarly capable.
If you're bored the infrared Geiger counter software is always a fun distraction.
Hmm... And how many billions would it take to roll this toy out everywhere and would it detect the guy carrying something fun in his briefcase before he detonates it while in the security check line? Any how many billions would it take to just simply treat the third-world with some dignity and respect?
You may wish to re-read your Bible. Says nothing about the universe being only 6K. "In the beginning God create the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void..." The mentions about actually doing something useful by way of flora and fauna with the earth did not necessarily occur during this time period. Quite possibly this occurred later. Checking the "was" in the original language and there's reason to believe that it should well have been a "became."
There no mention of however long things were happening before, during or after the "was[became] without form and void". More over no where does it say how long Adam and Eve hung out in the garden. There's really no time references anywhere save for the first through seventh days some time arbitrarily following the initial creation.
This 6000 year crap came along much later based upon foolishly reading more into things not written. It caught on for some reason and has been the bane and laugh of most everyone ever since.
Only problem is, is that farmers are greedy by necesity of desparation. Except for small family farms who exploit their children rather than tech for yield increases, most farmers grow their crops on petrol products because they cannot afford not to. They dump them in the fields, they run it through outragously inefficient equipment. More petrol is spent growing bio-mass used in ethenol production than is produced. The whole industry is propped up by government transfer payments.
The solution is undoubtedly in electric cars. The only point of debate is where the power comes from to drive the motors. Some claim petrol-electric hybrids, others hydrogen--be it combustion or via fuel cells, and there are those who think we can hold the power in batteries and just plugin when we get home. The most promising tech for the present is likely the plugable petrol-electric hybrid. It's not the most glamorous but it is far closer to the budget of the average person than any of the others and it's readily available today.
In all honesty, they do provide that service... Perhaps it's a flaw in me but I have a real hard time working with people who find the QWERTY keyboard, and the jacks on the back of the box an intellectual challenge. I beleive rolodex flippers are a necessary evil. From a management perspective IT talent is not cheap. From a geek perspective; much like Sun Tzu's saying "a sword unused will rust, a skill unused will fade away, and a Samurai unused, pines for lost honor..." so too skilled IT professionals will get restless and depressed if all they get to do is rehearse their ABC's over and over.
Since Dell and all the other wonderful OEMs wish to maximize their profits by building notebooks as cheap as possible, cutting every corner imaginable; perhaps it's time they look into AMD Geode processors and the like. They use but a fraction of the power yet remain perfectly capable for the tasks most everyone would use a notebook for. With a 5 watt processor, wives could rest a little easier at night knowing their husbands will come home fully endowed.
Nobody drops my box but me. This isn't a safety switch for the consumer's benefit, this is a safety switch for their bottom line. Even ignoring this, what if some nice fascist government decided to compel M$ to disable peoples boxes? Or even better, M$ decides to get a big idea to hold the world PCs hostage?
How far do we have to go before the world has finally had enough of this overlord crap from big business and government? DMCA, Sony root kits, blank media taxes, Senator Fritz Hollings, RIAA hacking, software accessible CPU serial numbers, patents for everything and anything... When people? When are you going to stop handing your hard earned money to feed these beasts? You do have a choice.
Are they trained for HD-DVDs and BluRay? Maybe they're just trying to get us to jump the new tech so they don't have to worry about the patent expiration so much...
Hmm, I wonder if Netflix has plans to start lining their envelopes with coffee...?
Heck, why not?!? In the future half our cars will smell like McDonalds and the other half like a cow's ass mean while the inside will be freshened by the wonderful smell of vanilla. I should tell my father-in-law that he's sitting on a gold mine there with his dairy farm.
And to think all this time he's just been spreading that slippery, aroma filled gold on his fields...
If access to drive contents are bound to runtime drivers then that content can be made bound to DRM. Am I the only one noticing a nice little trend happening...
That depends upon what your goal is. The Pentium-M is superior in energy conservation. If this isn't your concern might I suggest: http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/FX7/
BTW: has there been any word on whether they plan to use this new tech on their standard desktop Athlon chips or are they just wanting to trade physical cache size for cores on their workstation/server Opterons?
It's real simple. If tramatic events more strongly mark themselves on your brain then all you have to do is make your learning ventures be similarly so. Go find some brutish looking woman named Helga, pay her $20 to dress in tight black leather and brandish a whip while quizing you on the material at hand. For each wrong answer provided mistress Helga gets to have her way with you. If you're lucky she might even do it for free!
I'm dropping $70/month for my 1Mbps/200Kbps sat. Your $55/month is about the going rate for pipes similar to yours in the more civilized parts of the country (though not with the static IP) but alas, I live far from them.
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"Wipe the disk and start over" is the solution always given by almost every OEM when there's a problem because it is the least labor intensive for them. They could care less about your precious photos, documents or that you've logged 100+ hours making it to level 30 in a game. If you can't troubleshoot and fix problems yourself then you're stuck with this solution. Keep back-ups of your precious files and stop whining.
BTW: If you're dead set on spending all that money on "It Just Works" so you can run "Where do you want to go today?" perhaps some more realistic multi-boot tools would be in order. Perhaps QTParted to reshape the disk partitioning, and GRUB to select the OS to boot, just a thought...
According to TFA there's no mention of the application of new technologies to old fiber. One in particular comes to mind; Wave Division Multiplexing, which allows for multiple wavelengths of light to be shot across the fiber simultaneously thereby multiplying capacity.
Are you serious? It takes a notebook over a minute and a half to boot Vista? And to think I was getting annoyed with my 40 seconds from power on to KDE desktop (which includes me typing my login). I'd actually have to get to class early just to give it enough time to be ready take some stupid notes.
If memory serves (rare I know...) I believe I read that the syphilis thing was the other way around. The native people of the Americas were said to be rather "friendly," the European explorers (conquerors), horny. Along with the silver and gold the Europeans carried back with them the natives' gift of syphilis where it spread like wild fire among the well-bred.
Maybe I'm an a**hole but I can't help but feel that these spammers deserve such treatment. They are parasites on society, preying on the mundanes, annoying the rest while clogging the pipes to the detriment of legit users of the WWW. They are scum and they deserve to go down.
Isn't it obvious why geeks (or smart people generally) have less sex when they're teens...? They spend all their fricken time doing cost-benefit analysis. The smarter the person, the more things they have to consider. No matter how smart or dumb they are in the end they all go for the girl. If I might make a suggestion... Since countless geeks have already sacrificed their youth for this cause only to reach the same conclusions, why not skip your own analysis?
--Neth
For $200-$300 + $3 I'm not sure I'd even call it a good typewriter. You can get those for 10 times less on eBay...
--Neth
I for one would like to see the look on his face when he climbs into the cockpit and sees the Vista boot splash...
--Neth
I suspect that if the engineers putting together these server farms bothered to think about the problem for just a bit longer a far simpler solution would present itself. Since that obviously won't happen as they're far more interested in visions of greasy female techs who double as bikini models I'll give it a go... How about simply venting the waste heat off of the power hungry components (PSUs, CPUs, etc.) directly out of the building rather than just blowing it around inside and then relying upon highly inefficient A/C to pump it out of the building.
--Neth
I got a HP-48GX back around 1995. I loved it then, use it still now, and still love it. The RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) stack based entry (don't worry there's also a rather fancy equation and matrix writer for things more sophisticated than 2+2 or should I say 2 2 +) is awesome and very intuitive for any computer geek.
The main difference I note between the TI-8x and the HP-48Gx series is in the intended user it was designed for. The TI-8x was designed with the student in mind and the HP-48Gx was designed with the professional/graduate student in mind. If you're already using math engines such as Octave then you will almost certainly find the HP-48Gx more familiar and similarly capable.
If you're bored the infrared Geiger counter software is always a fun distraction.
--Neth
Hmm... And how many billions would it take to roll this toy out everywhere and would it detect the guy carrying something fun in his briefcase before he detonates it while in the security check line? Any how many billions would it take to just simply treat the third-world with some dignity and respect?
--Neth
You may wish to re-read your Bible. Says nothing about the universe being only 6K. "In the beginning God create the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form and void..." The mentions about actually doing something useful by way of flora and fauna with the earth did not necessarily occur during this time period. Quite possibly this occurred later. Checking the "was" in the original language and there's reason to believe that it should well have been a "became."
There no mention of however long things were happening before, during or after the "was[became] without form and void". More over no where does it say how long Adam and Eve hung out in the garden. There's really no time references anywhere save for the first through seventh days some time arbitrarily following the initial creation.
This 6000 year crap came along much later based upon foolishly reading more into things not written. It caught on for some reason and has been the bane and laugh of most everyone ever since.
--Neth
Only problem is, is that farmers are greedy by necesity of desparation. Except for small family farms who exploit their children rather than tech for yield increases, most farmers grow their crops on petrol products because they cannot afford not to. They dump them in the fields, they run it through outragously inefficient equipment. More petrol is spent growing bio-mass used in ethenol production than is produced. The whole industry is propped up by government transfer payments.
The solution is undoubtedly in electric cars. The only point of debate is where the power comes from to drive the motors. Some claim petrol-electric hybrids, others hydrogen--be it combustion or via fuel cells, and there are those who think we can hold the power in batteries and just plugin when we get home. The most promising tech for the present is likely the plugable petrol-electric hybrid. It's not the most glamorous but it is far closer to the budget of the average person than any of the others and it's readily available today.
--Neth
In all honesty, they do provide that service... Perhaps it's a flaw in me but I have a real hard time working with people who find the QWERTY keyboard, and the jacks on the back of the box an intellectual challenge. I beleive rolodex flippers are a necessary evil. From a management perspective IT talent is not cheap. From a geek perspective; much like Sun Tzu's saying "a sword unused will rust, a skill unused will fade away, and a Samurai unused, pines for lost honor..." so too skilled IT professionals will get restless and depressed if all they get to do is rehearse their ABC's over and over.
--Neth
Since Dell and all the other wonderful OEMs wish to maximize their profits by building notebooks as cheap as possible, cutting every corner imaginable; perhaps it's time they look into AMD Geode processors and the like. They use but a fraction of the power yet remain perfectly capable for the tasks most everyone would use a notebook for. With a 5 watt processor, wives could rest a little easier at night knowing their husbands will come home fully endowed.
--Neth
Nobody drops my box but me. This isn't a safety switch for the consumer's benefit, this is a safety switch for their bottom line. Even ignoring this, what if some nice fascist government decided to compel M$ to disable peoples boxes? Or even better, M$ decides to get a big idea to hold the world PCs hostage?
How far do we have to go before the world has finally had enough of this overlord crap from big business and government? DMCA, Sony root kits, blank media taxes, Senator Fritz Hollings, RIAA hacking, software accessible CPU serial numbers, patents for everything and anything... When people? When are you going to stop handing your hard earned money to feed these beasts? You do have a choice.
--Neth
Are they trained for HD-DVDs and BluRay? Maybe they're just trying to get us to jump the new tech so they don't have to worry about the patent expiration so much...
Hmm, I wonder if Netflix has plans to start lining their envelopes with coffee...?
Heck, why not?!? In the future half our cars will smell like McDonalds and the other half like a cow's ass mean while the inside will be freshened by the wonderful smell of vanilla. I should tell my father-in-law that he's sitting on a gold mine there with his dairy farm.
And to think all this time he's just been spreading that slippery, aroma filled gold on his fields...
--Neth
If access to drive contents are bound to runtime drivers then that content can be made bound to DRM. Am I the only one noticing a nice little trend happening...
--Neth
That depends upon what your goal is. The Pentium-M is superior in energy conservation. If this isn't your concern might I suggest: http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/FX7/
--Neth
Dont' forget the thermo-nuclear weaponry. Why is it no one ever gets that saying right...
"Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and thermo-nuclear weaponry."
--Neth
Cache on a stick, now those where the days... :)
BTW: has there been any word on whether they plan to use this new tech on their standard desktop Athlon chips or are they just wanting to trade physical cache size for cores on their workstation/server Opterons?
--Neth
It's real simple. If tramatic events more strongly mark themselves on your brain then all you have to do is make your learning ventures be similarly so. Go find some brutish looking woman named Helga, pay her $20 to dress in tight black leather and brandish a whip while quizing you on the material at hand. For each wrong answer provided mistress Helga gets to have her way with you. If you're lucky she might even do it for free!
--Neth
You're just being mean. How dare you dash my hopes like that. :`(
--Neth
I'm dropping $70/month for my 1Mbps/200Kbps sat. Your $55/month is about the going rate for pipes similar to yours in the more civilized parts of the country (though not with the static IP) but alas, I live far from them.
--Neth