And as soon as you do that, environmentalists will start complaining about the loss of natural desert because of it being blanketed with these millions of these little generators.
Even at the lowest speed offered by my ISP (6 Mbps symetrical), downloading a 100MB album takes less than a minute and a half, which is trivial.
You need to check that again. 6Mbps is about 500K per second (accounting for overhead). To download 100MB at 6Mbps would take about 2.5 minutes. You'd need about 10Mbps to download 100MB in a 1.5 minutes. It'd take 21 hours to download 50GB at your current bandwidth and even at 10Mbps, it'd be 12 hours.
It may not seem like a big difference between 1.5 and 2.5 mintues, but try holding your breath for 2.5 minutes.
If rental stores are any guide, it'll be a 5 to 7 years before you see DVD's disappear from stores completely. I remember I got my first DVD player around 97 or 98, just when DVD's were starting to show up in the movie rental places on a little shelf. Now, you'd be hard pressed to find a VHS in a rental store and it's been like that for quite a while.
Still, your resistance to change attitude doesn't hold any water. You seemed to have ditched your VHS players for DVD with no problems and I expect around 2017, you'll be having another argument about your legacy Blu-Ray players work just fine and you're not ditching them for the [insert cool future product here] players.
Yeah, they are down to about 480 bucks now for a burner. Looks like they've halved in price in the last 6 to 8 months. Probably another 6 or 8 months they will halve again, then again. In about a 18 months, they'll probably hit about 100 bucks, and I assume the media prices will keep dropping as well (unless the nameless, faceless media giants artificially keep the price of the media high as a deterrent to copying). Still.. I remember when DVD-R disks were 5 bucks each, so I assume they'll drop as well.
On a slightly related note, has anybody even seen a PC version of the HD-DVD drive? I did a casual search and couldn't find any. The Blu-Ray drives have been available for months. HD-DVD looks like it's loosing the war on that front by not even fighting.
You're conspiracy theory will be proved correct when, in two or three months, Microsoft re-opens the site with the announcement: "Well, we looked at how to do it and we can't figure it out, so we're just going to reopen the site."
The bottom line is this: if you need concurrency in your application, you should be using processes, not threads. If you insist on using threads, you'd better have a damned good reason for it, because the reliability implications of threads are hugely negative while the performance implications are modest at best.
You haven't done a lot of GUI programming, have you?
From your text above, I'd guess you worked in Microsoft for the Outlook programming team.
Probably because most of the things that are to start up after DHCP really need the network interface configured. If your DHCP is spinning in the background, what happens when "ntp" tries to get the current time from the network - error!
Umm.. Judging by how much infrastructure would have to be replaced, I think you were off by a factor of a million (and I don't mean the 6 dollar web, either).
Funny, but reality is a bit different. I have a Myth box that the only time I have to reboot it is when I throw a kernel patch on. Right now, it's uptime is 45 days. The last big outage it had was upgrading from FC4 to Ubuntu, and that was only about 6 hours. Granted I'm a professional sysadmin by day, but there's a lot to be said for following instructions.
I love his blog comment about compatibility:
If the goal is to guarantee perfect fidelity with the existing base of Microsoft Office documents (which would be implied by the "billions of documents" statement), then there is still a long way to go. Why are they so strict in wanting "perfect fidelity" for a conversion to ODF when you don't even get perfect fidelity upgrading from one version of Office to the next?
Heck, I like Open Office because it's LESS functional than MS Office. Haven't people been screaming "bloatware" on MS Office for years?
I don't know about more efficient, but OO is certiainly more logically organized than MS Office. It's bugged me for years that if you want to change the page format (or layout, if you please) in Word, it's under the "File" menu. In OO Writer, it's under the "Format" menu. Which makes more sense to you?
Implemnted by multiple vendors So, as a killing blow, Microsoft could implement an OOXML plugin for OpenOffice?? Ouch... Hopefully, that wouldn't technically pass the "multiple vendors" test since OOXML, Office and the plugin were all implemented by Microsoft, but I'm sure they've got enough money to pay somebody (Novell, anyone?) to implement the plugin for them.
Well.. (playing the devil's advocate here for a minute).. If you decrypt the content and throw it on your MythTV box in your house, or store it on your computer to watch later, nobody gives a damn. Technically, that's still illegal, but could probably argued under fair use since it never left your house. It's when somebody decrypts the content and sends a copy to 400,000 of their closest friends that lawyer's ears start to perk up.
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And as soon as you do that, environmentalists will start complaining about the loss of natural desert because of it being blanketed with these millions of these little generators.
You need to check that again. 6Mbps is about 500K per second (accounting for overhead). To download 100MB at 6Mbps would take about 2.5 minutes. You'd need about 10Mbps to download 100MB in a 1.5 minutes. It'd take 21 hours to download 50GB at your current bandwidth and even at 10Mbps, it'd be 12 hours.
It may not seem like a big difference between 1.5 and 2.5 mintues, but try holding your breath for 2.5 minutes.
If so, somebody please give him an Ubuntu CD...
Yes. More specifically, Amigas with Video Toasters (before NewTek split LightWave off as a separate product to run on other platforms). See here.
So... Red Hat is to blame for a more secure system just because they put out more than a couple of updates a decade?
If rental stores are any guide, it'll be a 5 to 7 years before you see DVD's disappear from stores completely. I remember I got my first DVD player around 97 or 98, just when DVD's were starting to show up in the movie rental places on a little shelf. Now, you'd be hard pressed to find a VHS in a rental store and it's been like that for quite a while.
Still, your resistance to change attitude doesn't hold any water. You seemed to have ditched your VHS players for DVD with no problems and I expect around 2017, you'll be having another argument about your legacy Blu-Ray players work just fine and you're not ditching them for the [insert cool future product here] players.
Samsung's Blu-Ray player hit the market the third week of June, 2006 - 9.00000001 months ago.
Yeah, they are down to about 480 bucks now for a burner. Looks like they've halved in price in the last 6 to 8 months. Probably another 6 or 8 months they will halve again, then again. In about a 18 months, they'll probably hit about 100 bucks, and I assume the media prices will keep dropping as well (unless the nameless, faceless media giants artificially keep the price of the media high as a deterrent to copying). Still.. I remember when DVD-R disks were 5 bucks each, so I assume they'll drop as well.
On a slightly related note, has anybody even seen a PC version of the HD-DVD drive? I did a casual search and couldn't find any. The Blu-Ray drives have been available for months. HD-DVD looks like it's loosing the war on that front by not even fighting.
You're conspiracy theory will be proved correct when, in two or three months, Microsoft re-opens the site with the announcement: "Well, we looked at how to do it and we can't figure it out, so we're just going to reopen the site."
Ads? I don't see no steenking ads... Adblock rulez!
Offtopic, yes, but I couldn't resist..
You haven't done a lot of GUI programming, have you?
From your text above, I'd guess you worked in Microsoft for the Outlook programming team.
Probably because most of the things that are to start up after DHCP really need the network interface configured. If your DHCP is spinning in the background, what happens when "ntp" tries to get the current time from the network - error!
I'm aware of that. I watched the show when it came out.
Umm.. Judging by how much infrastructure would have to be replaced, I think you were off by a factor of a million (and I don't mean the 6 dollar web, either).
Umm.. I think the Ubuntu install is as complicated as:
sudo apt-get install mythtv mythvideo mythmusic mythtv-themes
Took about 10 minutes.
Yeah, yeah, I know.. It's a LITTLE more complicated than that, but copy and pasting commands from a HOWTO isn't really that complicated is it?
Yeah... The third MythTV commandment is "Thou shalt not mount NFS over wireless". Pretty good idea even for non-mythtv setups.
Funny, but reality is a bit different. I have a Myth box that the only time I have to reboot it is when I throw a kernel patch on. Right now, it's uptime is 45 days. The last big outage it had was upgrading from FC4 to Ubuntu, and that was only about 6 hours. Granted I'm a professional sysadmin by day, but there's a lot to be said for following instructions.
You didn't read TFA, did you.... It clearly says that it's running inside a 2MB BIOS chip.
You mean... Like a UNIX box?
Heck, I like Open Office because it's LESS functional than MS Office. Haven't people been screaming "bloatware" on MS Office for years?
I don't know about more efficient, but OO is certiainly more logically organized than MS Office. It's bugged me for years that if you want to change the page format (or layout, if you please) in Word, it's under the "File" menu. In OO Writer, it's under the "Format" menu. Which makes more sense to you?
Problem solved. See this previous post
Nice try, but XML and HTML are subsets of SGML. See the abstract in the spec document.
Well.. (playing the devil's advocate here for a minute).. If you decrypt the content and throw it on your MythTV box in your house, or store it on your computer to watch later, nobody gives a damn. Technically, that's still illegal, but could probably argued under fair use since it never left your house. It's when somebody decrypts the content and sends a copy to 400,000 of their closest friends that lawyer's ears start to perk up.