It was a blast. We zipped all over the waterfront, testing it on inclines, gravel, etc. It's pretty amazing how steep a surface it can climb. I wished it could go faster, actually.
I work for a very LARGE bank. I guarentee you we have more boxes running MS Server 2003 than all others combined.
It can't be a very large bank if one person knows what OS is installed on all the banks servers.
I have enough trouble keeping track of the servers required to run our one application. Let alone keeping track of every server used by every application in each of dozens of subsiduaries across 80 operating countries.
So lets see, you've sold 10,000 hardrives in 10 years (about 3 drives at day, not bad).
Now lets assume maxtor has 15% marketshare, that's 1500 drives, or 150/year.
Now what's the failure rate for a drive? 1 every 50? That 3 drives a year.
You are saying that in your own experience you see about 3 maxtors a year fail, and you expect us to take this as hard unbaised broadly representative statistics rather than anecdotal evidence?
CORBA always required holes in firewall, more complicated to setup(as mentioned in article), poor/no load balancing/fault tolerance mechanism/ maintainability
Right, so SOAP gets around this problem by reusing port 80 which on insecure networks sometimes has an unrestricted hole in the firewall already. In secure environments, you still have to put a new server in the DMZ whether it's port 80 your talking on or port 9001.
As for load balancing and fault tolerance, Websphere here load balances CORBA clients over multiple machines in a cluster without any development effort. Just add more than one machine into your cluster and it does it.
I personally fear the day that a machine or algorithm can better determine the purpose for my keyword-based search than I can. [...] in the end it'll be my decision what's important and what isn't.
So you'd prefer google just return all pages in it's index with your keywords in them, in a random order, and let you go through the 3 million results and look for the important ones by hand?
The symantic web is all about allowing you to more precisely specify your keywords. More precise search results then follow from more precise keywords.
So when you search for "michael moore" you can specifiy michael the director of film, and not michael the directory of the WTO.
It would be if it just went straight to the movie!
Half the time it just shows the copyright warning and exits. Quarter of the time it shows the movie studio logo and exits a tenth the time it shows some previews and exits. the rest it actually plays the movie.
Nice selective picking of one piece of evidence to prove a general point.
A presumably (taking from context - i don't live in the US) left wing news outlet did a better job explaining a fact that supports a left wing view point. surprise surprise
a more elegant solution is to harness the power and disk space of your PC to store and manage your digital media
browsing, selecting, decoding, and displaying all your media is the hard part. You don't need powerfull box to store all that media.
Why not have the "media adapter" connect to a NAS box in your home office?
In fact, why not skip the NAS box, and get a cheaper USB enclosure for the drive?
In fact why not skip the expensive USB enclosure and put the drive in the "media adapter"?
Oh wait...
(PS. how common is it to have a "home office" to put your PC in, instead of putting it in the living room where everyone can use it?)
From the article: Such multi-tasking makes dual-core processors a necessity, which explains why Intel requires all vendors of Viiv machines to adopt a dual-core processor before gaining certification.
No web browsing and serving a file does not require a dual-core processor. That intel can charge more for a dual-core processor explains why they require it.
I've already got a "media adapter" in my living room, it consists of a tiny silent passively cooled VIA 800Mhz mini-ITX board in a small case with a TV card, 300Gb HDD, and slimline DVDRW. It looks the part and seamlessly integrates with my TV.
I don't see a problem with this "media centre PC taking up space in your living room" at 12.7"(322.58mm) x 2.7"(68.58mm) x 10"(254.0mm), intels forthcoming "media adapters" will probably take up as much.
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An example of how easy it is to change such limits can be found here
From your link: [ after changing the constant and recompiling, gnumeric hangs when scrolling ] "This is a know problem that I am in the process of addressing. Sorry for forgeting that it would affect you. There are some compile time constants that need to be replaced that represent the maximum scroll size. I've not had time to replace them with something more dynamic."
Sounds real easy, i bet any end user could come up with a fix for that in 60 seconds.
I work in the cell phone infrastructure business. It's not really FCC regulations that make it so, it's a requirement of the various cell phone technologies.
I think you've got it back to front there.
Cell phone infrastructure is designed that way becase it is required by law to be designed that way.
Personally, i installed ubuntu on a VIA EPIA mini-ITX board, and grabbed the precompiled.deb packages linked from the myth site.
I had a Kworld DVB TV card the cheapest i could find, and it just worked. zero setup for the card, just had to get myth to scan for channels (just like when you get a new TV).
Presumably knopmyth does more than save you 5mins selecting and installing the myth.debs?
I'd love to be able to invest in them. Can't you just open an account with a broker that deals in foreign markets? Is that why so many companies offer ADRs?
In the UK just about every broker can trade stocks on the major US and EU markets. They'll usually charge you a fraction more brokerage than UK & IE stock though.
Finding one to deal in your favourite asian, eastern european and middle eastern exchanges can take a little more shopping around. And with natwest who i went with in the end, they'll charge you a little more brokerage again than US & EU, and only offer it via telephone trading. Once you've placed your order you can track the order progress online just as if you had placed the order online though.
Problem with yahoo is they are crap for non US stocks. What's worse is they are less crap than all the others i've tried.
I've got HK/CN,UK,NZ & AU stocks and they don't have feeds of exchange announcements, they don't have the P/E, you get different news items depending on if you go to finance.yahoo.com or au.finance.yahoo.com or uk.finance.yahoo.com, and often the news about an AU country will appear in the uk. and not the au. site.
Then they keep getting confused several times a week over whether a london stock at 40.00 is 40.00 pence or 40.00 pounds. Try examining a stock chart that hovers around 39-40 pounds and then jumps up to 4000 for one day, you can't see much detail. And logging in to see that your portfolio just dropped 10K in value can give a bit of a shock the first time it happens.
A point release isn't the place to remove depricated features.
From all accounts, until the kernel folks started messing with it, the old interface worked very consistently and reliably for most users, even if internally it was "ugly"
PS. every PC motherboard i know of still has an ISA bus, even if it doesn't have an ISA slot. System management stuff often still hangs of the ISA bus.
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If I'm in a hurry, I drive. If not, I walk
In london, if i'm in a hurry i cycle. If not, I walk.
If im too drunk to do either i get a taxi. Cars are the slow way unless your heading home at 5am.
It was a blast. We zipped all over the waterfront, testing it on inclines, gravel, etc. It's pretty amazing how steep a surface it can climb. I wished it could go faster, actually.
These things could revolutionize cities,
You guys have heard about the bicycle right?
I work for a very LARGE bank. I guarentee you we have more boxes running MS Server 2003 than all others combined.
It can't be a very large bank if one person knows what OS is installed on all the banks servers.
I have enough trouble keeping track of the servers required to run our one application. Let alone keeping track of every server used by every application in each of dozens of subsiduaries across 80 operating countries.
So lets see, you've sold 10,000 hardrives in 10 years (about 3 drives at day, not bad).
Now lets assume maxtor has 15% marketshare, that's 1500 drives, or 150/year.
Now what's the failure rate for a drive? 1 every 50? That 3 drives a year.
You are saying that in your own experience you see about 3 maxtors a year fail, and you expect us to take this as hard unbaised broadly representative statistics rather than anecdotal evidence?
CORBA always required holes in firewall, more complicated to setup(as mentioned in article), poor/no load balancing/fault tolerance mechanism/ maintainability
Right, so SOAP gets around this problem by reusing port 80 which on insecure networks sometimes has an unrestricted hole in the firewall already. In secure environments, you still have to put a new server in the DMZ whether it's port 80 your talking on or port 9001.
As for load balancing and fault tolerance, Websphere here load balances CORBA clients over multiple machines in a cluster without any development effort. Just add more than one machine into your cluster and it does it.
I personally fear the day that a machine or algorithm can better determine the purpose for my keyword-based search than I can. [...] in the end it'll be my decision what's important and what isn't.
So you'd prefer google just return all pages in it's index with your keywords in them, in a random order, and let you go through the 3 million results and look for the important ones by hand?
The symantic web is all about allowing you to more precisely specify your keywords. More precise search results then follow from more precise keywords.
So when you search for "michael moore" you can specifiy michael the director of film, and not michael the directory of the WTO.
Why does the thing that we send small things up to space in have to be designed more recently than the 70's?
If it works, use it.
I quite happily commute on subway trains that are older than colour television.
Oh, I thought that was a feature.
It would be if it just went straight to the movie!
Half the time it just shows the copyright warning and exits.
Quarter of the time it shows the movie studio logo and exits
a tenth the time it shows some previews and exits.
the rest it actually plays the movie.
Nice selective picking of one piece of evidence to prove a general point.
A presumably (taking from context - i don't live in the US) left wing news outlet did a better job explaining a fact that supports a left wing view point. surprise surprise
If they can maintain 10% inflation, then it would take roughly 7 years for her salary to double to 24k U.S
Everything else being equal, if they maintain 10% inflation, and the US maintains 3%, then their currency will depreciate 7% a year against the US$.
Otherwise Zimbabwe (with 650% inflation) would be a bloody rich country.
a more elegant solution is to harness the power and disk space of your PC to store and manage your digital media
browsing, selecting, decoding, and displaying all your media is the hard part. You don't need powerfull box to store all that media.
Why not have the "media adapter" connect to a NAS box in your home office?
In fact, why not skip the NAS box, and get a cheaper USB enclosure for the drive?
In fact why not skip the expensive USB enclosure and put the drive in the "media adapter"?
Oh wait...
(PS. how common is it to have a "home office" to put your PC in, instead of putting it in the living room where everyone can use it?)
From the article:
Such multi-tasking makes dual-core processors a necessity, which explains why Intel requires all vendors of Viiv machines to adopt a dual-core processor before gaining certification.
No web browsing and serving a file does not require a dual-core processor. That intel can charge more for a dual-core processor explains why they require it.
I've already got a "media adapter" in my living room, it consists of a tiny silent passively cooled VIA 800Mhz mini-ITX board in a small case with a TV card, 300Gb HDD, and slimline DVDRW. It looks the part and seamlessly integrates with my TV.
I don't see a problem with this "media centre PC taking up space in your living room" at 12.7"(322.58mm) x 2.7"(68.58mm) x 10"(254.0mm), intels forthcoming "media adapters" will probably take up as much.
An example of how easy it is to change such limits can be found here
From your link:
[ after changing the constant and recompiling, gnumeric hangs when scrolling ]
"This is a know problem that I am in the process of addressing.
Sorry for forgeting that it would affect you. There are some compile time
constants that need to be replaced that represent the maximum scroll size.
I've not had time to replace them with something more dynamic."
Sounds real easy, i bet any end user could come up with a fix for that in 60 seconds.
You're using Excel for something best handled by a database solution.
The guy didn't say anything about what he is using Excel for, he simply listed some size limits.
The only thing you can imply from that is that he uses it for something with allot of rows and columns.
How do you know a database will do it better when you don't know what he's doing? The data might not be relational at all!
But what I'm saying is that the basic design of this is more secure than not only previously version of IE, but all browsers for all operating systems
How is this more secure than a java browser running in the java sandbox?
The HotJava browser came 12 years ago.
I work in the cell phone infrastructure business. It's not really FCC regulations that make it so, it's a requirement of the various cell phone technologies.
I think you've got it back to front there.
Cell phone infrastructure is designed that way becase it is required by law to be designed that way.
yeah and how do you get to the i2c bus? many are still connected to the ISA bus.
And to the other fella, this is using lm_sensors under linux, not windows.
As mentioned there is Knoppmyth.
.deb packages linked from the myth site.
.debs?
Personally, i installed ubuntu on a VIA EPIA mini-ITX board, and grabbed the precompiled
I had a Kworld DVB TV card the cheapest i could find, and it just worked. zero setup for the card, just had to get myth to scan for channels (just like when you get a new TV).
Presumably knopmyth does more than save you 5mins selecting and installing the myth
Instead, it will provide information and provide a place for developers to pose questions, post content, and engage in discussion.
MS have put up a wiki?
I'd love to be able to invest in them.
Can't you just open an account with a broker that deals in foreign markets? Is that why so many companies offer ADRs?
In the UK just about every broker can trade stocks on the major US and EU markets. They'll usually charge you a fraction more brokerage than UK & IE stock though.
Finding one to deal in your favourite asian, eastern european and middle eastern exchanges can take a little more shopping around. And with natwest who i went with in the end, they'll charge you a little more brokerage again than US & EU, and only offer it via telephone trading. Once you've placed your order you can track the order progress online just as if you had placed the order online though.
Problem with yahoo is they are crap for non US stocks. What's worse is they are less crap than all the others i've tried.
I've got HK/CN,UK,NZ & AU stocks and they don't have feeds of exchange announcements, they don't have the P/E, you get different news items depending on if you go to finance.yahoo.com or au.finance.yahoo.com or uk.finance.yahoo.com, and often the news about an AU country will appear in the uk. and not the au. site.
Then they keep getting confused several times a week over whether a london stock at 40.00 is 40.00 pence or 40.00 pounds. Try examining a stock chart that hovers around 39-40 pounds and then jumps up to 4000 for one day, you can't see much detail. And logging in to see that your portfolio just dropped 10K in value can give a bit of a shock the first time it happens.
A point release isn't the place to remove depricated features.
From all accounts, until the kernel folks started messing with it, the old interface worked very consistently and reliably for most users, even if internally it was "ugly"
PS. every PC motherboard i know of still has an ISA bus, even if it doesn't have an ISA slot. System management stuff often still hangs of the ISA bus.
That's a silly argument.
PCI is better than ISA. I'm all for progress.
But when i put my first PCI card in, it didn't break my ISA network card.
So updating the kernel broke your dvd recording software, and you conclude it must be the fault of the dvd software?
Security researchers have discovered that accepting input from a webpage can expose you to viruses if your webserver software is vunerable to viruses.
We got hundreds in the UK transmitted through the air. Including 40+ TV channels