Look to using Qt with their SDK and with Ming compiler. And your code is cross platform, so you can go beyond MS to the Mac, to Linux, to Unix etc. etc.
I use Qt which is CPP based and I am delighted to not have to deal with MS anything
Well if you want to spend a lot of money on a well-supported enterprise solution, there's still Solaris. And it's not like there's any shortage of commercially-supported Linux enterprise OSes too.
I understand that it's more important to some people to be able to have someone to scream at from outside the company who is contractually obligated to fix your stuff when it breaks. Microsoft offers that, but a million other companies do too.
I think it more often comes down to the simple fact that Microsoft stuff has more mindshare, and thus an easier learning curve for a greater number of employees. It's the standard because it's the standard because it's the standard.
Companies stay with Microsoft because of Office. It is an excellent product. I don't think they stay with MS because of their server or sharepoint or database. W7 is reasonable provided one uses the free Security essentials program
Re Newspapers having to stop providing free news. Our local radio stations read the news from the web, add some local content and report the interesting stuff every hour.
The web and news content must be giving Associated Press, Reuters, and other agencies indigestion.
Due to FFox anomalies, I do half my browsing with IE and the other with FF. IE leaves me more room on my netbook screen for text. With FF, I have to hit the F11 function key in order to see what I can with IE as is.
Based on the evaluation of the effect of ths in the UK, it will mean people divide into two camps:
Those who pay over the odds to buy a deal for a large amount of data they dont need, to ensure they dont exceed their budget limit.
Those who are too terrified to use the service at all for fear of "bill shock".
Over a period, most users end up in camp 2, and the usage collapses, until one or more ISPs revert to the "unmetered" model, and collect all the users.
Re a million lemmings cant be wrong, so are all the flies on the flypaper.
The reason that countries in Europe have declared Internet access to be a human right is because of the disparity in pretty much every walk of life between people who have access to the Internet, and people who don't. It has become a major deciding factor in school performance, which itself is a major deciding factor in future success in life. And of course, because people who are living on minimum wage can't really afford a $100/mo layout for Internet access, let alone the cost of the computer itself, it becomes a deciding factor for their children, too. $7.25/hr times 37.5h/week = a little under $1100/mo before taxes, and from that you need to pay rent, food, and utilities, not to mention stuff like clothes and incidentals... $100/mo for Internet is a very significant part of their budget.
Internet pricing and access absolutely needs to become a major public policy issue. It's nothing for most of the people reading this, but I'd lay odds that most of the people reading this are not trying to make ends meet on minimum wage. It's an entirely different kettle of fish when $100/mo means you don't eat for a week versus when it means you make one fewer trip to a restaurant each month and are still saving for retirement.
Internet pricing in Riga Latvia, where my son lived for three years was about $8..00 per month for fibre to the door at about 16 gigabits per second (about 1.2meg bytes). TV was on fibre as well.
The reason-- the war damaged all the wired infrastructure and -- if you put copper, the wire was stolen sometime shortly thereafter. People there stole the cables connecting the elevator cars to the control panels, thats how bad stealing was. But networking and cellphones together was less than $20 per month in Latvian money.
So, networking in the USA means that the information highway is private -- toll gates at every intersection.
The cashiers are not allowed to act as security guards. It has nothing to do with unions, but with having a security guard who approaches the customer as he attempts to leave the store, and asks if he is going to pay for what he has under his shirt. If the customer returns to pay, it is judged an oversite, if the customer refuses, and goes outside the store, the inside security agent contacts the exterior store agents to stop and make an arrest.
It is easier if the merchandise had a hidden rfid chip.
Just because I buy Kaspersky's anti-virus doesn't mean I support what that man stands for.
Yet Kaspersky helps Microsoft more than any other AV vendor at detecting virus and trojans. On a 1 hour presentation, Kaspersky was mentioned favorably more times than any other AV vendor.
I'm going to make several bets here which will also hold true:
* sequential performance will improve at a rate congruent with storage capacity * random performance will remain roughly the same as it has for the past 10 years (ie, poor, though it will likely improve slightly unless we go back to double-thick drives like we had 10-15 years ago) * resiliency will not improve for single disks and will likely be worse for in terms of longevity. * none of this will matter for the consumer market, because by that time, everyone will be using SSDs almost exclusively. You can still fit a lot of data on a 500GB drive, and those are commonly available for laptops and desktops already.
I recall when we strung ferrite cores together and made shift registers, and many logic circuits based on core technology. I would not close the door on an idea of a very large shift register being used as a ring buffer. Will it be cores, or some other construct, it is hard to say, Imagine you could excite a ferrite device with signals at one end, and read out the shifted bits from the far end. -- NO moving parts, magnetic storage, and I expect, high reliability.
I dream about different things we should be evaluating, perhaps some of the old technology will come back in a different form.
I see that with very large storage capacity, there is a negative aspect to going to the cloud for storage or ERP operations.
It's not the interface, it's the drives themselves. They aren't really faster than they were when ATA-133 came out. Doesn't matter what interface you stick on there, hard-drives aren't getting faster (thank god for SSD). At 60TB also, the BER rate approaches something like 600% chance over the whole of the drive, or something like that, if they are using the same reliability numbers that current drives use. Terrifying.
In 1970 we had drives that had special technology, known as RPS. (Rotational Positional Sensing). The drive electronics knew the angle of the disk from the index marker home position. Blocks could be read or written with based on where the disk was in it's rotation from a home position. I would suspect that today, if we add track to track position and rps together, larger blocks (8k or 16k blocks), and moderate drive cache memory, we could still get 4 or 5 millisecond sustained access. I would even say that the disk I/0 system should be as it was in the old mainframe days, a separate I/O processor with responsibility all disk operations, including error recovery. The disk controllers of 1980 allowed for shared Direct Access Storage Devices (DASD) (two computers able to do read/write to the same disks),
One thing we have had issues with is that even now, the issue with drives is how fast we can get data in and out of it.
Even the high end SAN makers know this and tell people to always use RAID 6 on the backend, just because the window of time that it takes to rebuild a drive is so long these days that it can easily allow for a second drive failure to happen with no protection.
What I really will dread seeing is an external 60TB drive that is stuck with a USB 3 interface as its only I/O. USB 3 (for lowest denominator compatibility), a SATA descendant, and Thunderbolt, would be ideal, but with how cheap some drives end up, it might just be a sole USB port for in/out.
With 60 terrabyte drives will come a reversal of moving to the cloud for computing. Cloud computing is cheaper today, because the computer room is too small for many organizations. With 60tb drives, we could see 2-4 tb drives for day to day stuff, and pairs of 60's used for backups and backup archiving.
Isn't that right. If the majority of the population breaks the law, there is a problem with the law.
How can you say there is a problem with the law. The law is not the problem, it is the overly priced software that people need, but it is out of reach of most pocket books.
I bet you that people will gladly pay a dollar a week for the privilege of pirating the software on a temporary basis because, they so badly need the software. Many people pirate software, not to use it, but to collect it. The software they pirate are "traders". Others just collect the software, but never find the time to more than explore it, and certainly not to use it for anything but to satisfy a curiosity.
I find that the whole situation is a laughing matter. The RIAA stomps on an individual who cannot pay, a small fortune was spent by the RIAA to win a paper value of $675k. The guy can't pay. Are they going to garnish his wages?
And all the other downloaders are laughing too, because the RIAA is like the wheelright, When we had wooden wheels, we needed the wheel right to adjust the spokes, to replace worn sessions of the steel band around the wagon wheels.
Well, the fact is that more music is being downloaded from small musicians who sell direct with a "pay what it's worth to you". They cut out the exorbitant overheads from the distributors. OK perhaps their music will not reach too too many music stores that are fading away into oblivion, or to radio stations, but the writers net more from their direct sales than the RIAA with their cost and marketing deductions taken from all the sales leaves for the writer.
RIAA, keep it up, it's a laugh. I listen to CBC radio in Canada, 24/7 of varied stereo music. I own no illegally downloaded music or mp3 cds or dvds. I will donate directly to authors who merit the money.
You mis-understand the meeting purpose, it was not at all directed at any form of change to the internet, it was to direct the followers to abstain from visiting sites that are less than puritanical in nature. No sex images, no sex jokes, no sex, no crime, no violence.
Just day to day news that is with Doris Day type of stories
What sort of response would you have the police make?
You do realize it is possible to have an investigation and not file criminal charges, right? That there is no requirement to file criminal charges just because there has been an investigation, correct? That prosecutors aren't just "allowed" but are "expected" to not file charges in unwinnable cases because the defendant in question is somebody who has ridiculed them publicly for years. Don't you?
That prosecutors and cops pressing an un-winnable case to the hilt, and just happen to be doing so against somebody who has been criticizing them publicly for years is a pretty large coincidence. But you're right, I'm sure his years-long criticism of Canadian anti-terrorism "security" theater had nothing to do with the reason he was used (correctly) to "send a message" to anybody else that might say the "wrong" things and "reveal our weaknesses" to "terrorists."
You're right, nothing to see here: Big Brother always knows whats best, and ours is not to reason why.
I grew up in school with what I was taught that the idea of Habius Corpus and 48 hours max internment without a charge was the law.
If you act like a terrorist, are in the wrong place and have all the tools, have all the chemicals, and you are going through divorce then you are under intense suspicion. He should sue for wrongful incarceration.
Sometimes the divorcee lies to the police. -- Example, my former husband beat me and the kids, he is violent. Then the guy and the cops know the wife wants him in jail for the week or until a bail hearing. -- A no win situation en any country.
He really could be the victim of an angry divorcee.
I believe there is another aspect to why immigrants are entrepreneurs. Many organizations want perfect speaking citizens, without accents, but disregard their education, or skills. The immigrants choices are work for Walmart, or begin a business.
Brains and luck help those to survive and grow.
Yes, much of small entrepreneurs are immigrants and that is the reason. It is too bad that schools in the USA teach you to be a great programmer, who works for someone else.
I have never seen child porn, and with all that talk, I am curious to see what it is all about. Does this mean that because I have never seen it and if I exercise my mouse click to satisfy my curiousity, that I am a criminal?
I could understand that if I started to collect the porn, (the downloads are multiple, with different time stamps), that I am guilty of collecting same. Still, being a pervert mains being proactive, does it not.
I guess that if I downloaded and saved pictures of liquor bottles, glasses of booz, etc. that saving those pictures would make me an alcoholic.
I should add that if you have iron pipes, you can get much of the same protection by grounding to the water pipes at the closest point to where they run underground.
That might not meet code, these days, but it used to for a very long time. And it will give you a serviceable ground.
Don't ground to your gas pipe, though. Not A Good Idea.
In my locale, it is absolutely against the law to ground to a water pipe that is more than a three feet from where it enters the ground. If lightning strikes the power pole near the house, the high amperage from the surge can cause the water in the pipe to heat to steam and even burst the pipe. Damage may not be insurable because of a wrong ground. On the other hand, I have a ground at a waterpipe in the laundryroom because the house wiring was old. But the ground was made with number 18 wire. The wire would melt and act like a fuse if the house was hit with lightning. I also have a GFI outlet. (House has 120-240 wiring)
interesting. All throughout Arabia, Shiite Muslims kill Sunni Muslims, nobody cares. Sunni Muslims kill Shiite Muslims, nobody cars. But if an Israeli kills a Palestinian - Apartheid, apartheid, apartheid.
Border disputes are border disputes all across the world. But if one party of a border dispute is Israel, it's occupation, settlement, apartheid racist.
You forgot to mention Sudan, with South and North killing each other. Or Rawanda, where almost one million were killed because of religion.
I live in a Metric measure country, however all our appliances and even furniture has to pass through a 30 inch wide opening. Sometimes sofas have to be turned 45 degrees in the length to allow 30 inches overall.
I presumed that 30 inches therefore must be a minimum standard opening in North America.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but it is halel and kosher too.
Emails will transform itself into slashdot entries, to be enjoyed by the masses.
Look to using Qt with their SDK and with Ming compiler. And your code is cross platform, so you can go beyond MS to the Mac, to Linux, to Unix etc. etc.
I use Qt which is CPP based and I am delighted to not have to deal with MS anything
Well if you want to spend a lot of money on a well-supported enterprise solution, there's still Solaris. And it's not like there's any shortage of commercially-supported Linux enterprise OSes too.
I understand that it's more important to some people to be able to have someone to scream at from outside the company who is contractually obligated to fix your stuff when it breaks. Microsoft offers that, but a million other companies do too.
I think it more often comes down to the simple fact that Microsoft stuff has more mindshare, and thus an easier learning curve for a greater number of employees. It's the standard because it's the standard because it's the standard.
Companies stay with Microsoft because of Office. It is an excellent product. I don't think they stay with MS because of their server or sharepoint or database. W7 is reasonable provided one uses the free Security essentials program
Re Newspapers having to stop providing free news. Our local radio stations read the news from the web, add some local content and report the interesting stuff every hour.
The web and news content must be giving Associated Press, Reuters, and other agencies indigestion.
Due to FFox anomalies, I do half my browsing with IE and the other with FF. IE leaves me more room on my netbook screen for text. With FF, I have to hit the F11 function key in order to see what I can with IE as is.
I do like FF for the multilanguage support.
Based on the evaluation of the effect of ths in the UK, it will mean people divide into two camps:
Those who pay over the odds to buy a deal for a large amount of data they dont need, to ensure they dont exceed their budget limit.
Those who are too terrified to use the service at all for fear of "bill shock".
Over a period, most users end up in camp 2, and the usage collapses, until one or more ISPs revert to the "unmetered" model, and collect all the users.
Re a million lemmings cant be wrong, so are all the flies on the flypaper.
The reason that countries in Europe have declared Internet access to be a human right is because of the disparity in pretty much every walk of life between people who have access to the Internet, and people who don't. It has become a major deciding factor in school performance, which itself is a major deciding factor in future success in life. And of course, because people who are living on minimum wage can't really afford a $100/mo layout for Internet access, let alone the cost of the computer itself, it becomes a deciding factor for their children, too. $7.25/hr times 37.5h/week = a little under $1100/mo before taxes, and from that you need to pay rent, food, and utilities, not to mention stuff like clothes and incidentals... $100/mo for Internet is a very significant part of their budget.
Internet pricing and access absolutely needs to become a major public policy issue. It's nothing for most of the people reading this, but I'd lay odds that most of the people reading this are not trying to make ends meet on minimum wage. It's an entirely different kettle of fish when $100/mo means you don't eat for a week versus when it means you make one fewer trip to a restaurant each month and are still saving for retirement.
Internet pricing in Riga Latvia, where my son lived for three years was about $8..00 per month for fibre to the door at about 16 gigabits per second (about 1.2meg bytes). TV was on fibre as well.
The reason-- the war damaged all the wired infrastructure and -- if you put copper, the wire was stolen sometime shortly thereafter. People there stole the cables connecting the elevator cars to the control panels, thats how bad stealing was. But networking and cellphones together was less than $20 per month in Latvian money.
So, networking in the USA means that the information highway is private -- toll gates at every intersection.
The cashiers are not allowed to act as security guards. It has nothing to do with unions, but with having a security guard who approaches the customer as he attempts to leave the store, and asks if he is going to pay for what he has under his shirt. If the customer returns to pay, it is judged an oversite, if the customer refuses, and goes outside the store, the inside security agent contacts the exterior store agents to stop and make an arrest.
It is easier if the merchandise had a hidden rfid chip.
Just because I buy Kaspersky's anti-virus doesn't mean I support what that man stands for.
Yet Kaspersky helps Microsoft more than any other AV vendor at detecting virus and trojans. On a 1 hour presentation, Kaspersky was mentioned favorably more times than any other AV vendor.
I'm going to make several bets here which will also hold true:
* sequential performance will improve at a rate congruent with storage capacity
* random performance will remain roughly the same as it has for the past 10 years (ie, poor, though it will likely improve slightly unless we go back to double-thick drives like we had 10-15 years ago)
* resiliency will not improve for single disks and will likely be worse for in terms of longevity.
* none of this will matter for the consumer market, because by that time, everyone will be using SSDs almost exclusively. You can still fit a lot of data on a 500GB drive, and those are commonly available for laptops and desktops already.
I recall when we strung ferrite cores together and made shift registers, and many logic circuits based on core technology. I would not close the door on an idea of a very large shift register being used as a ring buffer. Will it be cores, or some other construct, it is hard to say, Imagine you could excite a ferrite device with signals at one end, and read out the shifted bits from the far end. -- NO moving parts, magnetic storage, and I expect, high reliability.
I dream about different things we should be evaluating, perhaps some of the old technology will come back in a different form.
I see that with very large storage capacity, there is a negative aspect to going to the cloud for storage or ERP operations.
It's not the interface, it's the drives themselves. They aren't really faster than they were when ATA-133 came out. Doesn't matter what interface you stick on there, hard-drives aren't getting faster (thank god for SSD). At 60TB also, the BER rate approaches something like 600% chance over the whole of the drive, or something like that, if they are using the same reliability numbers that current drives use. Terrifying.
In 1970 we had drives that had special technology, known as RPS. (Rotational Positional Sensing). The drive electronics knew the angle of the disk from the index marker home position. Blocks could be read or written with based on where the disk was in it's rotation from a home position. I would suspect that today, if we add track to track position and rps together, larger blocks (8k or 16k blocks), and moderate drive cache memory, we could still get 4 or 5 millisecond sustained access. I would even say that the disk I/0 system should be as it was in the old mainframe days, a separate I/O processor with responsibility all disk operations, including error recovery. The disk controllers of 1980 allowed for shared Direct Access Storage Devices (DASD) (two computers able to do read/write to the same disks),
One thing we have had issues with is that even now, the issue with drives is how fast we can get data in and out of it.
Even the high end SAN makers know this and tell people to always use RAID 6 on the backend, just because the window of time that it takes to rebuild a drive is so long these days that it can easily allow for a second drive failure to happen with no protection.
What I really will dread seeing is an external 60TB drive that is stuck with a USB 3 interface as its only I/O. USB 3 (for lowest denominator compatibility), a SATA descendant, and Thunderbolt, would be ideal, but with how cheap some drives end up, it might just be a sole USB port for in/out.
With 60 terrabyte drives will come a reversal of moving to the cloud for computing. Cloud computing is cheaper today, because the computer room is too small for many organizations. With 60tb drives, we could see 2-4 tb drives for day to day stuff, and pairs of 60's used for backups and backup archiving.
Isn't that right. If the majority of the population breaks the law, there is a problem with the law.
How can you say there is a problem with the law. The law is not the problem, it is the overly priced software that people need, but it is out of reach of most pocket books.
I bet you that people will gladly pay a dollar a week for the privilege of pirating the software on a temporary basis because, they so badly need the software. Many people pirate software, not to use it, but to collect it. The software they pirate are "traders". Others just collect the software, but never find the time to more than explore it, and certainly not to use it for anything but to satisfy a curiosity.
I find that the whole situation is a laughing matter. The RIAA stomps on an individual who cannot pay, a small fortune was spent by the RIAA to win a paper value of $675k. The guy can't pay. Are they going to garnish his wages?
And all the other downloaders are laughing too, because the RIAA is like the wheelright, When we had wooden wheels, we needed the wheel right to adjust the spokes, to replace worn sessions of the steel band around the wagon wheels.
Well, the fact is that more music is being downloaded from small musicians who sell direct with a "pay what it's worth to you". They cut out the exorbitant overheads from the distributors. OK perhaps their music will not reach too too many music stores that are fading away into oblivion, or to radio stations, but the writers net more from their direct sales than the RIAA with their cost and marketing deductions taken from all the sales leaves for the writer.
RIAA, keep it up, it's a laugh.
I listen to CBC radio in Canada, 24/7 of varied stereo music. I own no illegally downloaded music or mp3 cds or dvds. I will donate directly to authors who merit the money.
You mis-understand the meeting purpose, it was not at all directed at any form of change to the internet, it was to direct the followers to abstain from visiting sites that are less than puritanical in nature. No sex images, no sex jokes, no sex, no crime, no violence.
Just day to day news that is with Doris Day type of stories
In DC systems power = I squared time R. I^2 * R or (E^2)/R. the formula i=E/R is used to derive the two on the left.
With alternating currents, there can be a phase difference between E and I, so Power is not necessarily E*I. (I^2)*R
Depending upon the angle of difference when E is at a max, I may be at zero and vice versa.
You may look up what the effective power consumption would be. It is a challenge to the reader.
What sort of response would you have the police make?
You do realize it is possible to have an investigation and not file criminal charges, right? That there is no requirement to file criminal charges just because there has been an investigation, correct? That prosecutors aren't just "allowed" but are "expected" to not file charges in unwinnable cases because the defendant in question is somebody who has ridiculed them publicly for years. Don't you?
That prosecutors and cops pressing an un-winnable case to the hilt, and just happen to be doing so against somebody who has been criticizing them publicly for years is a pretty large coincidence. But you're right, I'm sure his years-long criticism of Canadian anti-terrorism "security" theater had nothing to do with the reason he was used (correctly) to "send a message" to anybody else that might say the "wrong" things and "reveal our weaknesses" to "terrorists."
You're right, nothing to see here: Big Brother always knows whats best, and ours is not to reason why.
I grew up in school with what I was taught that the idea of Habius Corpus and 48 hours max internment without a charge was the law.
If you act like a terrorist, are in the wrong place and have all the tools, have all the chemicals, and you are going through divorce then you are under intense suspicion. He should sue for wrongful incarceration.
Sometimes the divorcee lies to the police. -- Example, my former husband beat me and the kids, he is violent. Then the guy and the cops know the wife wants him in jail for the week or until a bail hearing. -- A no win situation en any country.
He really could be the victim of an angry divorcee.
I believe there is another aspect to why immigrants are entrepreneurs. Many organizations want perfect speaking citizens, without accents, but disregard their education, or skills. The immigrants choices are work for Walmart, or begin a business.
Brains and luck help those to survive and grow.
Yes, much of small entrepreneurs are immigrants and that is the reason. It is too bad that schools in the USA teach you to be a great programmer, who works for someone else.
I have never seen child porn, and with all that talk, I am curious to see what it is all about. Does this mean that because I have never seen it and if I exercise my mouse click to satisfy my curiousity, that I am a criminal?
I could understand that if I started to collect the porn, (the downloads are multiple, with different time stamps), that I am guilty of collecting same. Still, being a pervert mains being proactive, does it not.
I guess that if I downloaded and saved pictures of liquor bottles, glasses of booz, etc. that saving those pictures would make me an alcoholic.
And thats my view.
I should add that if you have iron pipes, you can get much of the same protection by grounding to the water pipes at the closest point to where they run underground.
That might not meet code, these days, but it used to for a very long time. And it will give you a serviceable ground.
Don't ground to your gas pipe, though. Not A Good Idea.
In my locale, it is absolutely against the law to ground to a water pipe that is more than a three feet from where it enters the ground. If lightning strikes the power pole near the house, the high amperage from the surge can cause the water in the pipe to heat to steam and even burst the pipe. Damage may not be insurable because of a wrong ground. On the other hand, I have a ground at a waterpipe in the laundryroom because the house wiring was old. But the ground was made with number 18 wire. The wire would melt and act like a fuse if the house was hit with lightning. I also have a GFI outlet. (House has 120-240 wiring)
Pseudoscience, you mean. Circumcision is not connected with cancer prevention at all. On the other hand, this is a procedure that destroys half the penile skin (it is double-layered, keep in mind), and more precisely its most erotically sensitive bits , so it's no surprise that it is clearly linked to erectile dysfunction . Oh, how about over a hundred baby deaths , every year, in the USA alone, or life-lasting psychological effects ?
As a mutilated man, I'd fully support a return to Hadrian's law: a total ban, under penalty of death. Stern, but fair!
I guess you would stop the Muslims, Jews and others who practice it. Close to a million people, n those groups.
Apartheid, apartheid, apartheid, settlements, settlements, settlements.
interesting.
All throughout Arabia, Shiite Muslims kill Sunni Muslims, nobody cares.
Sunni Muslims kill Shiite Muslims, nobody cars.
But if an Israeli kills a Palestinian - Apartheid, apartheid, apartheid.
Border disputes are border disputes all across the world. But if one party of a border dispute is Israel, it's occupation, settlement, apartheid racist.
You forgot to mention Sudan, with South and North killing each other. Or Rawanda, where almost one million were killed because of religion.
I live in a Metric measure country, however all our appliances and even furniture has to pass through a 30 inch wide opening. Sometimes sofas have to be turned 45 degrees in the length to allow 30 inches overall.
I presumed that 30 inches therefore must be a minimum standard opening in North America.