Lost the 1970 Hugo and nebula awards to Left Hand of Darkness.
Both are significant works that have enormous cultural and stylistic impacts and pioneered new sub genres of fiction. When science fiction breaks new ground as in any other genere it can take time to come to terms with the consequences of that.
This is simply the product that needs to be able to support ongoing growth in the core. It is neither revolutionary nor in fact terribly new. Juniper t1600+TXmatrix is roughly the same class of router.
Big core routers have a service life of around 5 years and the CRS-1 was introduced in 2004.
The size and complexity of the forwarding table in these mainframe style distributed router platforms is at least as important as their throughput (and speed of the slot interconnects to a non-blocking fabric is the biggest part of that). and of course that's not the part that journalists have been covering since in layman's terms it's almost completely incomprehensible. These boxes are designed for 5-10 million routes spread across a number of VRF (virtual router and forwarding) instances which is going to have to last them until 2015 or so which is potentially a fairly iffy proposition.
I use ekiga, android sip, a polycom ip550, clearone max-ip and x-10's client on windows. sip as a platform for telephony doesn't much matter unless there's some basic level or interoperability between the various platforms and clients.
What's wrong frankly with holding displays to more stringent energy standards then they meet today? It doesn't appear to be a particularly hard benchmark to meet which leaves me wondering what the big deal is?
Looking around the house both the samsung lcd panels including the 2 year old one meet the 2011 target... The projector uses ~200w to throw a 7' x4' image and the 36" crt nobody should be using anymore but it's hard to recycle a 200lb television..
If the pool is extended all etops-180 capable aircraft then there are a few more (twin engine) options.
What exactly do you replace a 747 with that isn't another 747, has four engines and lower operating costs? a340-500 or 600 come to mind, that's about it.
I can't imagine wanting to have an extended warranty serviced by anyone other than then manufacturer. laptop parts are still basically bespoke even if the building blocks are mostly standardized.
dell toshiba ibm and apple all have extended warranty options, a while occasioanly their service isn't great they're actaully capable of supporting a laptop that they made three years ago.
In order to use your gsm sim in Japan you need a 3g w-cdma handset, some include support for european gsm 900 & 1800 such as the nokia 6650 but I haven't seen one that works in the US as well... T-Mobile and probably other us carriers have roaming agreements with J-Phone and some J-Phone handsets will accept your sim card.
I suppose it makes sense that the semi-clued can't tell the difference between a transport protocol and a link layer protocol. The situation is futher obscured by the differences between the 4 layer IETF model for protocol stacks and the 7 layer osi model both of which are more or less obsolete when you start having things like link layer signaling effect what goes on in upper layers as many efforts in standards bodies aim to do just that or the converse.
Basically though, things like bic-tcp, and a lot of tuning that you can do to just plain-old-tcp are there so people with really fat network connections can utilize them in some sane fashion with a compartivily small number of data flows...
If you happen to have 10GB/s ethernet or oc-192 POS circuits into your office and need to move data in reasonable amounts of time this might be welcome news. There's nothing in here that amounts to a new link layer though, or really any technology that's useful in the near or long term future to more than a tiny subset of all transport consumers.
A reasonable desktop machine built today can do a passable job of keeping a gigabit ethernet link full which is fine if you have one, but not so useful if you don't. While the computing power I have personally available to me at home has increased by a factor of around 10,000 or so in the last decade, the actual speed of my external network connectivity has only increased (And I'm being optimistic here) by a factor of around 100 (to 1.5Mb/s symteric). I don't see and evidence that that would indicated that this is likely to change anytime soon, although if we follow the trend-line out another decade maybe oc-3 style connectity will really exist to the home. The gap between computing resources and available bandwidth doesn't really seem likely to get any narrower however. Thusly our ability to use data (of any variety) that we have to transport over a network is necessarily constrained not by protocol inovation but by the pidling little link-layer connections that connect our homes workpalces to the rest of the network.
The sound described is highly indicative of either spindle seizing or a head crash. neither is something you're likely to recover from.... it's possible if the spindle has seized that a strong lateral motion when it's powered on might break the disk free and allow it to spin up again.
So you can power it back on and clonk it into something but I wouldn't hold out a whole lot of hope.
I've worked in the common areas in my dorm (ok this was ten years ago) for rather long hours since I wasn't willing to power up the mastadon gateway 2000 486 desktop I had in 1993 and keep my roommate up. we also used to avoid using the impact printer at 4am as a mater of priciple...
a Sparc 5 is a sun 4(32bit) architecture machine with a microsparc cpu... the machine in this article is a sun ultra 5 with a ultrasparc IIi cpu, probably order of 10x the speed of an sparc-5-70 if not faster.
certain jabber clients allow you to pgp encrypt or just sign every message in an exchange. couple that with jabber servers support for ssl and you have a secure and autheticated message stream and meeting space
as more people need lpatops in the workplace it tends to push the thin client issue around as well since you end up supporting more desktop enivironments for those same users. mostlly we stoppped seriously considering lightweight clients for desktop machines because of the affordaqbility of localized ratehr than centralized computing resources. we were mostly and x-term based group before migrating away from that to desktop machines.
Ok so demons, and swords and paladins. And they die cause they're filled with the light of the spirit? Great that's so different than any other videogame.
There and plenty of games in the marketplace, that actually aren't violent and don't require massive killing or demons, or satanism or whatever.
I blew a significant portion of my flight (9 hours) back to the United States last week. playing simcity 3000, and frozen bubble, a classic console stle game that's more addictive than crack cocaine... http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
I would hold out both games as examples of what gaming is and should be all about, Entertaining diversions.
is that it's still not a real multitasking os. The new clie's especially have a fairly significant amout of resources, yet when you switch back and forth between applications connections go away and so forth... it's about as useful as having a dos box with a tcp-stack...
I hear palmos 5.2 will address this, but it's pushing me towards the sharp zaurus units even though I currently have a clie nx60
Take a look at the celestron nexstar 4 which is relativly inexpensive (~$600). Being a matsuto-cassengrain design the image will actually be right side up and the proper orientation which makes things slightly more straight forward for someone unfamiliar with telescopes. a 4" scope is more than adequate for the planets and messier objects.
For something with a bit more learning curve but more light gathering ability, that can really be a blast if you just want to slew around a dark sky... take a look at some of the larger dobsonians.
An Orion 10" dobsonian can be had for around $600 as well. Buy a low magnification widefield eyepiece like the orion deepview 35mm 2" eyepice or orion optilux 40mm and bring large chunks for the sky into sharp bright relief.
currently your only choice that meets both of your criterion (agp 8x and dual cpu support) is the intel 37505 chipset. that meens of course you'll be shopping for socket 603 xeons...
I would expect in most application benchmarks you'll see the difference in benchmarks of agp 4x and 8x being vanishingly close to zero at this time but yuor mileage may vary, especially if you're a doom3 developer...;)
Anyway supermicro makes such a board, the super X5DAL-TG which also has serial ata and gigabit ethernet so it's probably a niceish board even if it's outside my price range...
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Lost the 1970 Hugo and nebula awards to Left Hand of Darkness.
Both are significant works that have enormous cultural and stylistic impacts and pioneered new sub genres of fiction. When science fiction breaks new ground as in any other genere it can take time to come to terms with the consequences of that.
What valuable IPR is contained in header files?
This is simply the product that needs to be able to support ongoing growth in the core. It is neither revolutionary nor in fact terribly new. Juniper t1600+TXmatrix is roughly the same class of router.
Big core routers have a service life of around 5 years and the CRS-1 was introduced in 2004.
The size and complexity of the forwarding table in these mainframe style distributed router platforms is at least as important as their throughput (and speed of the slot interconnects to a non-blocking fabric is the biggest part of that). and of course that's not the part that journalists have been covering since in layman's terms it's almost completely incomprehensible. These boxes are designed for 5-10 million routes spread across a number of VRF (virtual router and forwarding) instances which is going to have to last them until 2015 or so which is potentially a fairly iffy proposition.
Use a standalone sip client...
I use ekiga, android sip, a polycom ip550, clearone max-ip and x-10's client on windows. sip as a platform for telephony doesn't much matter unless there's some basic level or interoperability between the various platforms and clients.
What's wrong frankly with holding displays to more stringent energy standards then they meet today? It doesn't appear to be a particularly hard benchmark to meet which leaves me wondering what the big deal is?
Looking around the house both the samsung lcd panels including the 2 year old one meet the 2011 target... The projector uses ~200w to throw a 7' x4' image and the 36" crt nobody should be using anymore but it's hard to recycle a 200lb television..
Is a mirror we hold up to our perceptions.
If we don't like what we see, what is to blame? The mirror, or us?
If so that does narrow the field considerably.
If the pool is extended all etops-180 capable aircraft then there are a few more (twin engine) options.
What exactly do you replace a 747 with that isn't another 747, has four engines and lower operating costs? a340-500 or 600 come to mind, that's about it.
I can't imagine wanting to have an extended warranty serviced by anyone other than then manufacturer. laptop parts are still basically bespoke even if the building blocks are mostly standardized.
dell toshiba ibm and apple all have extended warranty options, a while occasioanly their service isn't great they're actaully capable of supporting a laptop that they made three years ago.
In order to use your gsm sim in Japan you need a 3g w-cdma handset, some include support for european gsm 900 & 1800 such as the nokia 6650 but I haven't seen one that works in the US as well... T-Mobile and probably other us carriers have roaming agreements with J-Phone and some J-Phone handsets will accept your sim card.
jandr computer world would seen like the sensible place to go in manhattan... you can of course browse their store online first...
I suppose it makes sense that the semi-clued can't tell the difference between a transport protocol and a link layer protocol. The situation is futher obscured by the differences between the 4 layer IETF model for protocol stacks and the 7 layer osi model both of which are more or less obsolete when you start having things like link layer signaling effect what goes on in upper layers as many efforts in standards bodies aim to do just that or the converse.
Basically though, things like bic-tcp, and a lot of tuning that you can do to just plain-old-tcp are there so people with really fat network connections can utilize them in some sane fashion with a compartivily small number of data flows...
If you happen to have 10GB/s ethernet or oc-192 POS circuits into your office and need to move data in reasonable amounts of time this might be welcome news. There's nothing in here that amounts to a new link layer though, or really any technology that's useful in the near or long term future to more than a tiny subset of all transport consumers.
A reasonable desktop machine built today can do a passable job of keeping a gigabit ethernet link full which is fine if you have one, but not so useful if you don't. While the computing power I have personally available to me at home has increased by a factor of around 10,000 or so in the last decade, the actual speed of my external network connectivity has only increased (And I'm being optimistic here) by a factor of around 100 (to 1.5Mb/s symteric). I don't see and evidence that that would indicated that this is likely to change anytime soon, although if we follow the trend-line out another decade maybe oc-3 style connectity will really exist to the home. The gap between computing resources and available bandwidth doesn't really seem likely to get any narrower however. Thusly our ability to use data (of any variety) that we have to transport over a network is necessarily constrained not by protocol inovation but by the pidling little link-layer connections that connect our homes workpalces to the rest of the network.
was a frequent passtime of mine on the computer and in meatspace when I was in junior-high...
joelja
The sound described is highly indicative of either spindle seizing or a head crash. neither is something you're likely to recover from.... it's possible if the spindle has seized that a strong lateral motion when it's powered on might break the disk free and allow it to spin up again.
So you can power it back on and clonk it into something but I wouldn't hold out a whole lot of hope.
use a laptop and move to another room.
I've worked in the common areas in my dorm (ok this was ten years ago) for rather long hours since I wasn't willing to power up the mastadon gateway 2000 486 desktop I had in 1993 and keep my roommate up. we also used to avoid using the impact printer at 4am as a mater of priciple...
a Sparc 5 is a sun 4(32bit) architecture machine with a microsparc cpu... the machine in this article is a sun ultra 5 with a ultrasparc IIi cpu, probably order of 10x the speed of an sparc-5-70 if not faster.
certain jabber clients allow you to pgp encrypt or just sign every message in an exchange. couple that with jabber servers support for ssl and you have a secure and autheticated message stream and meeting space
logitech has had several generations of mice with a button or more than one that falls under the thumb...
I have in the past mapped that as the middle button.
the mouseman dual optical has 4 + the wheel axis the current mx700 has more like 9.
It's for Xbox. no-one cares. ship it for psX or gasp PC and maybe someone would notice.
as more people need lpatops in the workplace it tends to push the thin client issue around as well since you end up supporting more desktop enivironments for those same users. mostlly we stoppped seriously considering lightweight clients for desktop machines because of the affordaqbility of localized ratehr than centralized computing resources. we were mostly and x-term based group before migrating away from that to desktop machines.
joelja
There and plenty of games in the marketplace, that actually aren't violent and don't require massive killing or demons, or satanism or whatever.
I blew a significant portion of my flight (9 hours) back to the United States last week. playing simcity 3000, and frozen bubble, a classic console stle game that's more addictive than crack cocaine... http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
I would hold out both games as examples of what gaming is and should be all about, Entertaining diversions.
I hear palmos 5.2 will address this, but it's pushing me towards the sharp zaurus units even though I currently have a clie nx60
joelja
Now the micromv camcorders. and any other small form factor camcorder that record in mpeg2 format do really interest me.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process ?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=2071&pcount=&Product_Id=1 07727&Section.Section_Path=%2F%2FRoot%2FNostromo%2 E%2E%2EingTools%2F
For something with a bit more learning curve but more light gathering ability, that can really be a blast if you just want to slew around a dark sky... take a look at some of the larger dobsonians.
An Orion 10" dobsonian can be had for around $600 as well. Buy a low magnification widefield eyepiece like the orion deepview 35mm 2" eyepice or orion optilux 40mm and bring large chunks for the sky into sharp bright relief.
I would expect in most application benchmarks you'll see the difference in benchmarks of agp 4x and 8x being vanishingly close to zero at this time but yuor mileage may vary, especially if you're a doom3 developer... ;)
Anyway supermicro makes such a board, the super X5DAL-TG which also has serial ata and gigabit ethernet so it's probably a niceish board even if it's outside my price range...