Its not hobbiest, not sure where your coming from, you seem like the same guy trolling a conversation that makes no sense. All OS's have problems and will require patches on a regular basis. Let me know if any Non free or free OS that does not require security patches.
Being older myself, how do you suggest those 30+ million folks died under stalin? How about why everyone was trying to leave before the wall was up and after? How about the cuban missle crisis that almost melted the planet?
Are you saying there were not shortages of basic items in communist countries?
The wall fell in 89, do you remember driving to Berlin and having Russian officers trading you bars off their collars for cigs and jeans at the stops?
Your making it sound like it was a walk in the park. Better Red than dead? Right?
How do you explain extermination buses in china? Sounds fun.
The problem with communism is the same problem with most governments. Its about money and power, and that is not to be shared.
Special rings in the chamber that corrode/expand over time or wear out like a lightbulb at 700hours-ish of usage. Guidance chips that require preauth would also work in missles/laser artillery to some degree.
I'd bet on the components breaking down as a better option as its much harder to create a good spring inside a sealed case, etc..
Never read any of those in school. Our reading was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... . I suppose if I'd taken more advanced literature I'd have done Shakespeare's writings. I'd have better grammar also, chances missed.:)
Actually unless you guarantee a number of sales or purchases up front(with money), the vendor almost always just orders as needed. The manufacturer will always improve the Mboards/cards/etc. So you get a,b,c version of the same numbered board. The only way to guarantee you get the same board and replacement board is to order up front all of them plus 40% so you have specific backups if one goes bad. Most likely you have to specify they all come from the same manufacturing run.
Even then you get subtle differences, as capacitors might change a bit, components the supplier uses change. Most keep the same numbers.
Writing a piece of paper that specifies these things is beyond most engineering departments as the cost of doing that is much better spent buying a machine from a company that controls the whole pipeline.
Could we reduce the cost of a patent by giving back some of the patent money if someone can show a working prototype within 6 months of the filing? or perhaps charge them more if they can't show a prototype? Would this reduce the number of patent trolls?
Because an Oracle LISC per Core costs you 18k to 40K x 64 more cores.
Anyone care to do the math? Wait till Oracle only runs on Sun for 254 Cores.
Uncle Larry needs a new Island!
This wasn't a stupid patent. I'd actually say it was one of the better ones ever created. Remember 1993 fast modems were not in around. Someone willing to do something like this was really thinking ahead for that time. The internet wasn't around. This latest judge process is suspect for reasons that do not appear logical.
1) Age is not legal when considering an employee.
2) Everything your working on today is going to change or be replaced in 2-4 years for more tech. You might still have older stuff around, but chances are really good it will not be in heavy development.
3) Languages that are very portable will be around a while. But the platforms they are running are going to change to something else.
So what you should be asking is, how fast do you learn new widget tech xyz?
How do you learn it? If you need 10 classes and hand holding thats an issue, someone that reads the book is what your looking for, because next year you will need a new set of books.
Check out how they think, working on something and being able to push it over the finish line, under time and on budget, with few flaws will save you a lot of money as a company versus what you saved on salary.
How long do you think this guy at the lower end of the pay scale will stay if they can get a 30% raise by taking a new job somewhere else. Retraining new people costs way more then salary if they flip the people every year and a half. Your expertise just left with that guy when they leave. That will cost you.
More experienced people will pursue the problem if they are motivated and will not settle for "To be Determined" when the server restarts for no reason.
On the flip side to all of this: If you can't manage people, motivate them with honestly, and understand they are real people, then you should look at why the last guys quit.
Whats the difference between a Clone Trooper and a Storm Trooper? Answer: Management
With one management change, they go from the good guys to the bad guys.
Its the bottom feeders you see, the smartest of that 2 percent aspire to Manage large multinational companies where they play the role of Neutral Evil Management. Treating you like crap, pilfering the company, and making you think its a Career.
Wall street anyone? It looks like the biggest Pidgen drop game in the world. AIG has to be the biggest winner here.
Excellent, perhaps we can fix something, before its used against my kids by another unscrupulous president. I'm going over to donate some money on this, its important.
So pirates are making jobs!! Rock on man.
But seriously, these numbers come from the people that gave you the Great Banking Crisis of 2008, and the 2009 Depression.
Yea this worked so well for the EU countries that did it. Whole parks full of drug addicts with half the jobs being filled by stoners. Do you want this type of thing driving your trains and planes? If its legal then its legal.
Normal woman do not want to be prostitutes, what you get slavery and stolen children. Frank Zappa is not someone I'd goto to find the key to anything beyond a few chords in music.
How about we try for improving our one step for man, versus one step back to being a monkey.
In this economy Farming looks like the way to go, solid work hours about same as IT, good pay, 1mill value on a farm when your done, way more then a house. And the value can only go up, they are not making any more land.
Your fricken kidding me, your average owner/manager is not going to give any money saved on lower wages to the investor. Its going into managerial bonuses and expensive cars.
Your idea of unbridled unmonitored capitalism is a joke, sounds like communism in reverse. If people only care for their own self interest the whole idea of civilization falls apart. That is unbridled capitalism. To leave it unregulated is ignorant, you have to find a balance. Capitalism and Socialism both fail when people's self interests are not taken into account.
We have jails for a reason, somehow though if you have enough money you can avoid them.
Currently the world is using China as a source of cheap almost free labor, proping up a socialist society that represses its people for the sake of Capitalism.
We are all losing jobs faster then you can shake a stick and now your saying its ok, to make people lose more. 5 day work week, 8 hours a day was a really hard thing to get.
Perhaps you should also say child labor laws should be removed so unbridled capitalism can maim a few more million children for a profit, anyone want their 10 year old son in machinery greasing an axle? Oh wait we shipped all those jobs to China!
Damn you write such a good comment, you almost sound like you know something smart.
I currently use Tru64 in production at least for another month. One of the issues with this encapsulation type FS process is it sucks. If I had to try and figure out how to merge two File systems by some vote of talking heads, this would be the result. It has some strong and good things it does well, but the way Tru64 merged it's file systems together, makes the final product a huge pain to administer and fix. Learn what you can from the code, and make something better. Do not try and port this crap to something else as is, you wont be happy.
Why do you think HP bought again the newer Veritas File system and didn't use the already payed for version they picked up with Tru64?
It has some good things in it. Pick them out carefully and learn from them. Then think about what is needed to administer your File systems in real life, and implement it.
I was going to get an eInk reader of some brand, but found someone at work that had one in his desk. I've been playing with it for a few weeks.
As a reference, I've read thousands of books to date, I actually had to move and realized I could not ship a ton(2000+lb) of books so they all had to go but a small handful.
What I've discovered to date: Technical books really are a waste of paper unless it deals with hard science. Just about every book I have over 10 years old that isn't based on Perl or C is trash now. Its a complete waste of a tree and some landfill.
So I now have a Sony Ereader with eInk display. I can read it outside in the sun just fine, it holds a very long charge, I have to say over 24 hours of usage if not playing mp3's. It took about 30 minutes to get used too the flash between pages and to figure out how to hold it and page flip comfortably, 2 weeks later I'm hooked.
I will no longer kill a tree for a 1400 page manual of xyz tech which will be gone in less then 5 years.
I no longer have to worry about where to store 200 manuals at work or home.
Sadly the Ereader does not support search pdf functionality and Acrobat files display poorly. There are a few free tools such as Calibre written in Python that help with most of my day to day tasks. I am not impressed with having to convert the pdf to a graphic pdf, then having to flip that, its cumbersome and takes way to long playing around to get the fonts right. This should be addressed by all eInk reader companies asap.
The upside, I will no longer kill trees, fill landfills, or require all the ink. I have a much more portable and flexable option to read most books. If I can convert them to text or html its an easy conversion. Reading Pdf's is going to be a font issue for a few more revisions, but I believe it will be fixed at some point.
So from above:
- Weigh a pound or maybe even less.
DONE
- Have a battery life of at least 24 hours (of usage - not just standby) on a single charge.
DONE
- Be rugged enough to handle the same kind of conditions as books.
I do not think I could spill coffee on this ereader and have it survive, perhaps a lite splash.:)
- Tactile comfort. Plenty of it.
DONE
- Easy loading of content, including stuff I download myself (PDF manuals, for instance).
DONE except for PDFs with small fonts, such as math or chem formulas.
- Wireless? Sure. That'd be nice too.
Available on some models, but I'm not really sure how useful that is for the price of putting it in, usb is fine for now though.
- Cheap enough that I won't be bitter if I lose it or have it swiped.
Not possible for a few more years. I would really wish for a better encryption on the memory cards since most of them run linux under the hood, allowing for the kernel supported encryption on the loopback file systems would be nice.
- My library needs to support it.
If your library goes digital its going to be fine, but we are a few years away from special interests being used to the idea of a full digital library.
Also if we get a really good EMP/sunflare/loses power/epidemic or long term loss of power, the library of digital would be a large dark brick celler. I'd prefer to keep the worlds knowledge on something with a longer retention policy.:)
Just for thought, the guy that had the ereader, stopped using it because he could not get any of his pdf's to view correctly because of the font issue in the pdf reader. I have the same issue, but have more tools to play with on linux.
Get a cube with Tall sound absorbing walls, now double that wall thickness, ceiling partitions should be the same. Also include a door on the cube, the noise will be an issue.
Get a modular wire system for the cube walls, you might even ask for a modular fiber patch panel system, there is a nice 6 port one on the market. You can run extra cat 5 for the speaker cables.:)
Run overhead wire rack system.
Cooling is the only thing under the raised floor.
You might want to carpet the cube area with a static resistant flooring that can help insulate the room from sound, static elec, and help keep it warmer then the 65ish your computers will need.
If you can install your own venting then you should be better off in the desk area.
The sad part is you will need to make sure the fire system has a stay/standby/hold button near your desk and your desk should be near to the main server door, as in 5 seconds max. These buttons generally only put the fire system on hold as long as you hold them in, once released you have a set amount of time to get out.
Badge security on the main door to get into the server room, so not just anyone can walk in, physical security of the servers is important. Also this gives peace of mind if you can get the noise down to a passable level.
I personally would love to have a desk system made out of legos, this way I could build any extra things later I'd think were useful. Dont forget an extra 100k legos so you get it in the budget for the new building. Perhaps just the surfaces in lego, that might work.
Make sure you get low heat lighting that isn't going to strain your eyes, server room lighting sucks for reading white paper print or certain computer screens.
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Its not hobbiest, not sure where your coming from, you seem like the same guy trolling a conversation that makes no sense. All OS's have problems and will require patches on a regular basis. Let me know if any Non free or free OS that does not require security patches.
Being older myself, how do you suggest those 30+ million folks died under stalin? How about why everyone was trying to leave before the wall was up and after? How about the cuban missle crisis that almost melted the planet?
Are you saying there were not shortages of basic items in communist countries?
The wall fell in 89, do you remember driving to Berlin and having Russian officers trading you bars off their collars for cigs and jeans at the stops?
Your making it sound like it was a walk in the park. Better Red than dead? Right?
How do you explain extermination buses in china? Sounds fun.
The problem with communism is the same problem with most governments. Its about money and power, and that is not to be shared.
Special rings in the chamber that corrode/expand over time or wear out like a lightbulb at 700hours-ish of usage. Guidance chips that require preauth would also work in missles/laser artillery to some degree.
I'd bet on the components breaking down as a better option as its much harder to create a good spring inside a sealed case, etc..
Never read any of those in school. Our reading was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D... . I suppose if I'd taken more advanced literature I'd have done Shakespeare's writings. :)
I'd have better grammar also, chances missed.
Actually unless you guarantee a number of sales or purchases up front(with money), the vendor almost always just orders as needed. The manufacturer will always improve the Mboards/cards/etc. So you get a,b,c version of the same numbered board. The only way to guarantee you get the same board and replacement board is to order up front all of them plus 40% so you have specific backups if one goes bad. Most likely you have to specify they all come from the same manufacturing run.
Even then you get subtle differences, as capacitors might change a bit, components the supplier uses change. Most keep the same numbers.
Writing a piece of paper that specifies these things is beyond most engineering departments as the cost of doing that is much better spent buying a machine from a company that controls the whole pipeline.
Could we reduce the cost of a patent by giving back some of the patent money if someone can show a working prototype within 6 months of the filing? or perhaps charge them more if they can't show a prototype? Would this reduce the number of patent trolls?
Yes and DA is not multiplayer. You can still find good multiplayer servers for nwn2 though . pw server
Because an Oracle LISC per Core costs you 18k to 40K x 64 more cores.
Anyone care to do the math? Wait till Oracle only runs on Sun for 254 Cores.
Uncle Larry needs a new Island!
This wasn't a stupid patent. I'd actually say it was one of the better ones ever created. Remember 1993 fast modems were not in around. Someone willing to do something like this was really thinking ahead for that time. The internet wasn't around. This latest judge process is suspect for reasons that do not appear logical.
1) Age is not legal when considering an employee. 2) Everything your working on today is going to change or be replaced in 2-4 years for more tech. You might still have older stuff around, but chances are really good it will not be in heavy development. 3) Languages that are very portable will be around a while. But the platforms they are running are going to change to something else.
So what you should be asking is, how fast do you learn new widget tech xyz? How do you learn it? If you need 10 classes and hand holding thats an issue, someone that reads the book is what your looking for, because next year you will need a new set of books.
Check out how they think, working on something and being able to push it over the finish line, under time and on budget, with few flaws will save you a lot of money as a company versus what you saved on salary.
How long do you think this guy at the lower end of the pay scale will stay if they can get a 30% raise by taking a new job somewhere else. Retraining new people costs way more then salary if they flip the people every year and a half. Your expertise just left with that guy when they leave. That will cost you.
More experienced people will pursue the problem if they are motivated and will not settle for "To be Determined" when the server restarts for no reason.
On the flip side to all of this: If you can't manage people, motivate them with honestly, and understand they are real people, then you should look at why the last guys quit.
Whats the difference between a Clone Trooper and a Storm Trooper? Answer: Management
With one management change, they go from the good guys to the bad guys.
Its the bottom feeders you see, the smartest of that 2 percent aspire to Manage large multinational companies where they play the role of Neutral Evil Management. Treating you like crap, pilfering the company, and making you think its a Career.
Wall street anyone? It looks like the biggest Pidgen drop game in the world. AIG has to be the biggest winner here.
The quality of the video's is so low grain who would want to watch these? I am disappointed.
Excellent, perhaps we can fix something, before its used against my kids by another unscrupulous president. I'm going over to donate some money on this, its important.
So pirates are making jobs!! Rock on man. But seriously, these numbers come from the people that gave you the Great Banking Crisis of 2008, and the 2009 Depression.
Yea this worked so well for the EU countries that did it. Whole parks full of drug addicts with half the jobs being filled by stoners. Do you want this type of thing driving your trains and planes? If its legal then its legal.
Normal woman do not want to be prostitutes, what you get slavery and stolen children. Frank Zappa is not someone I'd goto to find the key to anything beyond a few chords in music.
How about we try for improving our one step for man, versus one step back to being a monkey.
In this economy Farming looks like the way to go, solid work hours about same as IT, good pay, 1mill value on a farm when your done, way more then a house. And the value can only go up, they are not making any more land.
Your fricken kidding me, your average owner/manager is not going to give any money saved on lower wages to the investor. Its going into managerial bonuses and expensive cars.
Your idea of unbridled unmonitored capitalism is a joke, sounds like communism in reverse. If people only care for their own self interest the whole idea of civilization falls apart. That is unbridled capitalism. To leave it unregulated is ignorant, you have to find a balance. Capitalism and Socialism both fail when people's self interests are not taken into account.
We have jails for a reason, somehow though if you have enough money you can avoid them.
Currently the world is using China as a source of cheap almost free labor, proping up a socialist society that represses its people for the sake of Capitalism.
We are all losing jobs faster then you can shake a stick and now your saying its ok, to make people lose more. 5 day work week, 8 hours a day was a really hard thing to get.
Perhaps you should also say child labor laws should be removed so unbridled capitalism can maim a few more million children for a profit, anyone want their 10 year old son in machinery greasing an axle? Oh wait we shipped all those jobs to China!
Damn you write such a good comment, you almost sound like you know something smart.
I currently use Tru64 in production at least for another month. One of the issues with this encapsulation type FS process is it sucks. If I had to try and figure out how to merge two File systems by some vote of talking heads, this would be the result. It has some strong and good things it does well, but the way Tru64 merged it's file systems together, makes the final product a huge pain to administer and fix. Learn what you can from the code, and make something better. Do not try and port this crap to something else as is, you wont be happy.
Why do you think HP bought again the newer Veritas File system and didn't use the already payed for version they picked up with Tru64?
It has some good things in it. Pick them out carefully and learn from them. Then think about what is needed to administer your File systems in real life, and implement it.
We need Canada there to keep U.S. honest!
I expect Balmer will step up with his check book and this problem will go away.
I was going to get an eInk reader of some brand, but found someone at work that had one in his desk. I've been playing with it for a few weeks.
As a reference, I've read thousands of books to date, I actually had to move and realized I could not ship a ton(2000+lb) of books so they all had to go but a small handful.
What I've discovered to date: Technical books really are a waste of paper unless it deals with hard science. Just about every book I have over 10 years old that isn't based on Perl or C is trash now. Its a complete waste of a tree and some landfill.
So I now have a Sony Ereader with eInk display. I can read it outside in the sun just fine, it holds a very long charge, I have to say over 24 hours of usage if not playing mp3's. It took about 30 minutes to get used too the flash between pages and to figure out how to hold it and page flip comfortably, 2 weeks later I'm hooked.
I will no longer kill a tree for a 1400 page manual of xyz tech which will be gone in less then 5 years.
I no longer have to worry about where to store 200 manuals at work or home.
Sadly the Ereader does not support search pdf functionality and Acrobat files display poorly. There are a few free tools such as Calibre written in Python that help with most of my day to day tasks. I am not impressed with having to convert the pdf to a graphic pdf, then having to flip that, its cumbersome and takes way to long playing around to get the fonts right. This should be addressed by all eInk reader companies asap.
The upside, I will no longer kill trees, fill landfills, or require all the ink. I have a much more portable and flexable option to read most books. If I can convert them to text or html its an easy conversion. Reading Pdf's is going to be a font issue for a few more revisions, but I believe it will be fixed at some point.
So from above:
- Weigh a pound or maybe even less.
DONE
- Have a battery life of at least 24 hours (of usage - not just standby) on a single charge.
DONE
- Be rugged enough to handle the same kind of conditions as books.
I do not think I could spill coffee on this ereader and have it survive, perhaps a lite splash.
- Tactile comfort. Plenty of it.
DONE
- Easy loading of content, including stuff I download myself (PDF manuals, for instance).
DONE except for PDFs with small fonts, such as math or chem formulas.
- Wireless? Sure. That'd be nice too.
Available on some models, but I'm not really sure how useful that is for the price of putting it in, usb is fine for now though.
- Cheap enough that I won't be bitter if I lose it or have it swiped.
Not possible for a few more years. I would really wish for a better encryption on the memory cards since most of them run linux under the hood, allowing for the kernel supported encryption on the loopback file systems would be nice.
- My library needs to support it.
If your library goes digital its going to be fine, but we are a few years away from special interests being used to the idea of a full digital library.
Also if we get a really good EMP/sunflare/loses power/epidemic or long term loss of power, the library of digital would be a large dark brick celler. I'd prefer to keep the worlds knowledge on something with a longer retention policy.
Just for thought, the guy that had the ereader, stopped using it because he could not get any of his pdf's to view correctly because of the font issue in the pdf reader. I have the same issue, but have more tools to play with on linux.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein
This was done on purpose based on policy. "Not the Truth" is the rule of thumb for this administration.
Get a cube with Tall sound absorbing walls, now double that wall thickness, ceiling partitions should be the same. Also include a door on the cube, the noise will be an issue.
:)
Get a modular wire system for the cube walls, you might even ask for a modular fiber patch panel system, there is a nice 6 port one on the market. You can run extra cat 5 for the speaker cables.
Run overhead wire rack system.
Cooling is the only thing under the raised floor.
You might want to carpet the cube area with a static resistant flooring that can help insulate the room from sound, static elec, and help keep it warmer then the 65ish your computers will need.
If you can install your own venting then you should be better off in the desk area.
The sad part is you will need to make sure the fire system has a stay/standby/hold button near your desk and your desk should be near to the main server door, as in 5 seconds max. These buttons generally only put the fire system on hold as long as you hold them in, once released you have a set amount of time to get out.
Badge security on the main door to get into the server room, so not just anyone can walk in, physical security of the servers is important. Also this gives peace of mind if you can get the noise down to a passable level.
I personally would love to have a desk system made out of legos, this way I could build any extra things later I'd think were useful. Dont forget an extra 100k legos so you get it in the budget for the new building. Perhaps just the surfaces in lego, that might work.
Make sure you get low heat lighting that isn't going to strain your eyes, server room lighting sucks for reading white paper print or certain computer screens.
Or they wait 6 years, and crack it in 10 seconds with their wrist watch.
Anyone dumb enough to skim a mountain cliff in a suit flight, will be removed from the gene pool, and posted for a Darwin award. :)