I think they mean that their WSUS downloaded and installed it without any prior notice, which is the way any MS shop should have it set up. This is exactly what happened in my office. It's a petty they couldn't notify everyone as they did with the IE 7 update, so we could have had a chance to unapprove it. I mean, Desktop search??? Who the hell needs it?
NPR did an interview with the author of "A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy" and they admitted that it was almost impossible to avoid goods from China. It's a very good interview if you want to reduce your purchases from "Made in China".
I was always told that it took at least 2Hz for a processor to do one instruction, but that was back in 1991 when I took my electronics degree.
A processor normally takes 2-3 clock pulses to perform any instruction, as it cannot perform the operation in the same clock cycle that it receives the operation in. If the operation requires a call to a memory location it will take 3 cycles (one to get the info from the memory location) which is why pre-fetch is so important in modern processors.
A cycle is triggered by the rising edge of the clock pulse. Whatever the computer does must be completed before the start of the next cycle
The instruction execution cycle is triggered by the clock cycle, but has several stages
- Each stage is triggered by successive clock pulses
- The exact timing depends on the details of a particular machine
- A complete instruction cycle usually takes several clock cycles to execute
The instruction cycle is divided into several stages
- In some machines, some of these stages are performed simultaneously, which speeds things up
- The stages are common to most architectures
The Merovingian:
"Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without... Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the 'why.' 'Why' is what separates us from them, you from me. 'Why' is the only real social power, without it you are powerless. And this is how you come to me, without 'why,' without power. Another link in the chain."
I really wonder if they are using Virtual machines. The ease that they can be erased and start from scratch would be handy in that type of environment, and it wouldn't matter what you did to it. It would also help in isolating the network, so you couldn't mess up all the other computers.
As an IT Network Admin, who has just started to use Vista (second week), I can say that I am about to reformat and either go back to XP or Linux (if my boss will let me). The major problem is that Microsoft's Admim tools, and other tools needed for my job just will not work under Vista (AD Users and Computers, etc.) and I've had to install MS VirtualPC so I can run XP for my tools. This is on top of the resource consumption and slowness in file operations, plus the annoying "Are you sure" dialog boxes.
Good point. Here in SC the max. tax on a new car is $300, and that is hit when you purchase a car over $15,000. If we were to make the upper limit 2% then people buying a $15,000 car will still pay $300 but people buying $60,000 would pay $1,200 which is fairer to me.
It runs on their own kernel which loads up a virtual machine console running Red Hat; this is referred to as VM0 or the first virtual machine, and is not the kernel that ESX runs on. It's talked about in all their training and should come to no surprise to anyone who runs ESX.
Microsoft also showed a very interesting new desktop virtualisation technology called SoftGrid, which allows applications to be virtualised individually, rather than a whole OS. Think Virtual PC or VMware, but instead of virtualising an OS, just a single application is virtualised.
Back in January I was at a VMWare User Conference and the main speaker talked about how VMWare was working with Oracle and other software vendors to do this very thing. Their take was to have a VMWare server running enterprise apps without the guest OS, which would speed up the host by not having the OS overhead. I gather that the apps have very basic drivers to handle video, network and such (if needed) with not much else, and because they will run on VMWare the drivers will be a minimal standard. I haven't seen anything official about this yet but I gather it is on it's way.
I'm wondering when the advertising bubble will burst. When will people become so fed up of advertising everywhere that it becomes almost worthless? TV has almost reached that point, with Nelson not counting DVR ratings (my fiend just did a Nelson survey, and they discounted everything watched on DVR) because everyone just bypasses the commercials. Jericho and a few other shows are good examples of where shows have been canceled because people watch them on DVR and online instead of at the regular time and miss all the commercials, thus being worthless to advertisers.
I'm not trying to be a troll, but why can't we just have a base standard for talking to peripherals? Have a "It will do basic functions" standard driver that will work, and then have propitiatory drivers for extended functionality. I'm still amazed that printers require different drivers in XP for even simple operations, but USB drives do not.
Thank you for that. As I am a UK citizen living in America I find that I am constantly defending the UK health care system.
I did come across a good interview from a British doctor recently (I think it was from "Sicko" but I'm not sure), where the doctor admits getting bonuses on top of his salary, but it was for getting people to stop smoking and reducing their cholesterol. I believe that American doctors get bonuses from the drug companies for people being on medication. That alone says a lot.
I'm not sure. I think one of the best things about Steve-FM is that they will play Linkin Park, then Frank Sinatra, followed by Robert Palmer; a mixture no request program is ever going to play!
Unfortunately that is almost here. Steve-FM in Columbia, SC does not have a DJ, and plays "whatever we want", so no requests. The sadder part is that it's the best station in Columbia, and has risen to be No. 1 in the area because it doesn't have a DJ.
I'm amazed that the politicians are talking about illegal workers and not the companies that employ them. Hold on... Nope, I'm not amazed!
If they actually investigated the companies that employ illegal workers, and imposed a decent fine and/or prison for the CEO, and then had some high profile cases, then we wouldn't have a problem with it.
The other problem is Americans. No matter how bad off people are, they will not go out in the mid-day sun and pick cotton or build houses for the pennies illegal people will do it for.
Also, the excuse used is cost, but I don't think that it would increase that much by using legal people and paying them min wage if they could get them.
You missed one point... It's also the amount of advertising on the web, TV, radio, etc. The reason I don't watch TV ads is due to the 20+ minutes of them in the middle of a 1 hour show (Thank you DVR!), so it doesn't matter how good it is. It's the same with the web; when most of the content is ads it's a huge turn-off, and magazines are the same.
Advertising would be more effective if there was less of it, but advertising agencies, etc just want to sell as much space as possible, regardless of how effective it is. Forcing us to view it is not good, as we will just resent it and go do something else.
My company built a new building with a custom data center in it. We installed all the servers, routers, switches, etc and moved everyone in. On day my boss was showing the data center to a newbie and he noticed a big red button by the door, so he pressed it thinking that it would open the door. Apparently someone forgot to label it "Emergency Power Cut-off" and the whole room died. It took us 5 minutes to locate the switch to turn it back on, as no-one had shown it to us, and then another 10 to get all the servers back up. No one pressed that button again...
Why can't they (Google or anyone else) host the web app on the local server, and upload it to the main web site? All the advantage of Web Apps plus it would be local, so always connected and easy to share. Good idea for Google OS? Just a thought...
Years ago someone made a Quake map of Queen's College Oxford (can't find URL), and St. John's College is a Doom map too. I can't remember anyone being arrested for it, but then again I can't remember a school in England being shot up either.
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I think they mean that their WSUS downloaded and installed it without any prior notice, which is the way any MS shop should have it set up. This is exactly what happened in my office. It's a petty they couldn't notify everyone as they did with the IE 7 update, so we could have had a chance to unapprove it. I mean, Desktop search??? Who the hell needs it?
NPR did an interview with the author of "A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy" and they admitted that it was almost impossible to avoid goods from China. It's a very good interview if you want to reduce your purchases from "Made in China".
Move the computer to a well-used room where people are always around.
A processor normally takes 2-3 clock pulses to perform any instruction, as it cannot perform the operation in the same clock cycle that it receives the operation in. If the operation requires a call to a memory location it will take 3 cycles (one to get the info from the memory location) which is why pre-fetch is so important in modern processors.
A cycle is triggered by the rising edge of the clock pulse. Whatever the computer does must be completed before the start of the next cycle
The instruction execution cycle is triggered by the clock cycle, but has several stages
- Each stage is triggered by successive clock pulses
- The exact timing depends on the details of a particular machine
- A complete instruction cycle usually takes several clock cycles to execute
The instruction cycle is divided into several stages
- In some machines, some of these stages are performed simultaneously, which speeds things up
- The stages are common to most architectures
Sometimes called the Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle.
Taken from this pdf.
I think "Thunderbirds" did that first.
The Merovingian:
"Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without... Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the 'why.' 'Why' is what separates us from them, you from me. 'Why' is the only real social power, without it you are powerless. And this is how you come to me, without 'why,' without power. Another link in the chain."
Sorry, I just had to do it...
I really wonder if they are using Virtual machines. The ease that they can be erased and start from scratch would be handy in that type of environment, and it wouldn't matter what you did to it. It would also help in isolating the network, so you couldn't mess up all the other computers.
As an IT Network Admin, who has just started to use Vista (second week), I can say that I am about to reformat and either go back to XP or Linux (if my boss will let me). The major problem is that Microsoft's Admim tools, and other tools needed for my job just will not work under Vista (AD Users and Computers, etc.) and I've had to install MS VirtualPC so I can run XP for my tools. This is on top of the resource consumption and slowness in file operations, plus the annoying "Are you sure" dialog boxes.
Good point. Here in SC the max. tax on a new car is $300, and that is hit when you purchase a car over $15,000. If we were to make the upper limit 2% then people buying a $15,000 car will still pay $300 but people buying $60,000 would pay $1,200 which is fairer to me.
It runs on their own kernel which loads up a virtual machine console running Red Hat; this is referred to as VM0 or the first virtual machine, and is not the kernel that ESX runs on. It's talked about in all their training and should come to no surprise to anyone who runs ESX.
Microsoft also showed a very interesting new desktop virtualisation technology called SoftGrid, which allows applications to be virtualised individually, rather than a whole OS. Think Virtual PC or VMware, but instead of virtualising an OS, just a single application is virtualised.
Back in January I was at a VMWare User Conference and the main speaker talked about how VMWare was working with Oracle and other software vendors to do this very thing. Their take was to have a VMWare server running enterprise apps without the guest OS, which would speed up the host by not having the OS overhead. I gather that the apps have very basic drivers to handle video, network and such (if needed) with not much else, and because they will run on VMWare the drivers will be a minimal standard. I haven't seen anything official about this yet but I gather it is on it's way.
I'm wondering when the advertising bubble will burst. When will people become so fed up of advertising everywhere that it becomes almost worthless? TV has almost reached that point, with Nelson not counting DVR ratings (my fiend just did a Nelson survey, and they discounted everything watched on DVR) because everyone just bypasses the commercials. Jericho and a few other shows are good examples of where shows have been canceled because people watch them on DVR and online instead of at the regular time and miss all the commercials, thus being worthless to advertisers.
Take a look at the UK and the system they use (Project Laser) if you want to know where this system is heading.
Welcome to 1984...
I'm not trying to be a troll, but why can't we just have a base standard for talking to peripherals? Have a "It will do basic functions" standard driver that will work, and then have propitiatory drivers for extended functionality. I'm still amazed that printers require different drivers in XP for even simple operations, but USB drives do not.
Just my 2cents worth.
Why use a word which works well when you can misuse an existing one and confuse everyone?
Thank you for that. As I am a UK citizen living in America I find that I am constantly defending the UK health care system.
I did come across a good interview from a British doctor recently (I think it was from "Sicko" but I'm not sure), where the doctor admits getting bonuses on top of his salary, but it was for getting people to stop smoking and reducing their cholesterol. I believe that American doctors get bonuses from the drug companies for people being on medication. That alone says a lot.
I'm not sure. I think one of the best things about Steve-FM is that they will play Linkin Park, then Frank Sinatra, followed by Robert Palmer; a mixture no request program is ever going to play!
Unfortunately that is almost here. Steve-FM in Columbia, SC does not have a DJ, and plays "whatever we want", so no requests. The sadder part is that it's the best station in Columbia, and has risen to be No. 1 in the area because it doesn't have a DJ.
I'm still waiting for a "None of the Above" option.
I'm amazed that the politicians are talking about illegal workers and not the companies that employ them. Hold on... Nope, I'm not amazed!
If they actually investigated the companies that employ illegal workers, and imposed a decent fine and/or prison for the CEO, and then had some high profile cases, then we wouldn't have a problem with it.
The other problem is Americans. No matter how bad off people are, they will not go out in the mid-day sun and pick cotton or build houses for the pennies illegal people will do it for.
Also, the excuse used is cost, but I don't think that it would increase that much by using legal people and paying them min wage if they could get them.
You missed one point... It's also the amount of advertising on the web, TV, radio, etc. The reason I don't watch TV ads is due to the 20+ minutes of them in the middle of a 1 hour show (Thank you DVR!), so it doesn't matter how good it is. It's the same with the web; when most of the content is ads it's a huge turn-off, and magazines are the same.
Advertising would be more effective if there was less of it, but advertising agencies, etc just want to sell as much space as possible, regardless of how effective it is. Forcing us to view it is not good, as we will just resent it and go do something else.
Just my 2cents worth.
Don't you mean "PPP"; it would be cheaper.
My company built a new building with a custom data center in it. We installed all the servers, routers, switches, etc and moved everyone in. On day my boss was showing the data center to a newbie and he noticed a big red button by the door, so he pressed it thinking that it would open the door. Apparently someone forgot to label it "Emergency Power Cut-off" and the whole room died. It took us 5 minutes to locate the switch to turn it back on, as no-one had shown it to us, and then another 10 to get all the servers back up. No one pressed that button again...
Why can't they (Google or anyone else) host the web app on the local server, and upload it to the main web site? All the advantage of Web Apps plus it would be local, so always connected and easy to share. Good idea for Google OS? Just a thought...
Years ago someone made a Quake map of Queen's College Oxford (can't find URL), and St. John's College is a Doom map too. I can't remember anyone being arrested for it, but then again I can't remember a school in England being shot up either.