(4)Stop trying to tell us what software and hardware we're allowed to fucking use on that network
I think most sysadmins/network engineers would agree that the network owners are totally within their rights to limit/approve/control/monitor the h/w and s/w in use on their networks. The network owners are trying to provide the most stable environment for the largest number of paying customers.
I don't work for a telco but I do like to have a very reliable cell network (especially since I have no landline, voip etc).
Unless you have multiple volumes in your device/environment you probably won't benefit much. For a brief description of the features and benefits of ZFS take a look at Jeff Bonwick's blog: http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/category/ZFS especially the "Friday May 04, 2007 Rampant Layering Violation?" post. In the first paragraph you get a summary of the features, and after the mathemagical diversion you get a brief summary of the "layers" comprising ZFS and some of the rationale behind the design.
Or, of course, take a look at the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs#Features I think the main benefits for clients would be the ginormous volume sizes, snapshot/clones, and variable block sizes. But I think the filesystem is aimed at servers with multiple volumes attached.
Wired.com also mentioned this stuff recently. I tried it - awesome.
One of the coolest features is that at any time you can restore your camera to default settings just by turning it off - no permanent flashing of BIOS/firmware!
I 'd hate to have our future options limited by dumbass decisions we make today.
Since the Moon is a harsh environment we can assume that any bacteria that flourish will be resistant to: extremes of temperature, extremes of radioactivity, lack of nutrients etc. Humans will come into contact with these badasses and we'd have a tough time defending ourselves.
I think that's the point the poster was making.
It always amazes me that when science has to change it's findings on anything it's reported with hardly a whisper.
Einstein's GR blew away Newton's model spectacularly. Likewise Darwin's Theory of Evolution swept away all the "competing" hypotheses. Similarly Galileo caused a little bit of a fuss when he supported heliocentrism. Those corrections to earlier theories caused more than a "whisper".
Genuine peer-reviewed science journals contain corrections, addenda, clarifications, amendments etc. Occasionally they include retractions. Non-scientific media prefer sensational, exciting news - not non-results or corrections - because that's what most readers want to see.
Possible spoiler follows (I'm going to reference events in Season 3):
In season 3 we learn that the humans may have provoked the attack by venturing into the Cylons' territory - with military vehicles. Uncool. So even the supposed "sneak attack" is not black & white. Which I kinda like.
I lost interest in the series when the mystical mumbo-jumbo took over. I really liked the way some story lines seem to parallel current affairs. I hope the final season returns to that style.
The MBA actually is thin. It's simple geometry. The wedge shape occupies half the volume of a rectangular profile.
I was skeptical until I actually held the MBA in my hands. Now I'm a believer. It's not for your average/.er but for the globetrotting exec who basically checks email, reads documents/presentations and does some light web surfing the MBA is perfect. Especially if he/she's trying to travel light (carry-on only). I wouldn't recommend it for a dev or engineer. Personally I would love one for my couch but I can't afford it.
Our CEO loves his MBA - he used to have an MBP. He doesn't need to watch DVDs in the air (he's in First or Upper or Grand Panjandrum or Muad'dib Class with personal TV, open bar, masseuse etc etc) or install software (he pays the IT monkeys to do that). When he's at home he's wireless; in the offices he leaves a wired USB-ethernet dongle at his desks. This guy's time and energy is worth a lot more than a laptop so if somehow he smashes the damn thing we'll buy him another. High level execs are not like the rest of us...
As for the:
"Advanced arresting gear" The Navy Fact File reference you provide states: "Electromagnetic Catapults and Advanced Arresting Gear that support future airwing configurations including unmanned air vehicles." - which suggests that the Navy is looking for better ways to land aircraft on their ships. Perhaps with shorter landing strips, better tennis nets, and perhaps some quick way of getting the 'planes out of the way so that the next 'plane can land.
It didn't look like the monster was only targeting buildings with cellphone towers/masts so it's not surprising that cellphone calls were still possible. But it is surprising that the emergency services allowed civilian cellphone calls to go through. After the 'planes hit the WTC in 2001 New Yorkers couldn't make cell calls for several hours because most of the bandwidth was given to the emergency services.
As for the gratuitous product placement: get used to it and learn to filter it out. Advertisers are finding it harder to get consumers' attention through "traditional" media. I'm sure you've noticed the increasing frequency of movies and TV shows with strange lingering shots of bland automobiles or uninspiring consumer electronics, or rap songs that list must-have luxury items.
Electric fields consist of photons? If that's not a typo of some kind, would someone care to explain? I think the author forgot to specify that the electric field is time-varying (to have an associated magnetic field). The combination of the two varying fields propagates as an electromagnetic wave ie light (photons). Take a look at Maxwell's Equations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations
Just curious (and I suspect some other readers are too) - do you have some references/reports/links I could read? If an affordable 2.5" SATA SSD comes out soon I'd seriously consider replacing my Mac Mini's HDD ASAP. But not if the wear levelling is ineffective!
I only hope this is total BS. The last thing this project needs is "help" from M$FT. The XO is a fine product and well-suited to its purpose: a platform to introduce people to technology, programming, etc. Nothing but the imagination, ingenuity and creativity of a child is needed. The only reason Microsoft are interested is that they want to poison the minds of the XO owners. Asshats.
First Intel attempted, and now Microsoft is trying to torpedo this project because they realize it's a threat to their future markets. Imagine a whole generation of Linux-schooled programmers writing the next killer apps, or buying last year's hardware to run Linux desktops (or servers!) - now imagine how Wintel feel about that.
The drive you linked to is 3.5" and 1.6TB; whereas the drive in TFA is 2.5" and 832GB. I assume they're aiming for a different market with this product. In fact the 2.5" might be ideal as a storage device for an HD video camera. Small, light, low power consumption, less susceptible to shocks etc. Or if you have a high performance laptop with which you perform video editing and want to avoid carrying bags of external FW drives, cables, PSUs, spare batteries etc etc this would be pretty cool to have *in* the laptop.
I think the main complaint people have is that those distracting "features" should be off by default. Word can be a perfectly reasonable word processor or junior document layout app but all the farking intrusive features drive users crazy.
Personally I like Office 2007 more than the most recent versions. However, since I'm fortunate enough to be a Mac user in a sea of broken Windows I'm writing in Pages or vim.:)
Because OLED supports colours, and e-ink is monochrome. Imagine having your Photoshop keyboard, or Final Cut keyboard colour-coded for different functions.
It doesn't mean that 34% of the desktops are virtualized. I'm running Windows XP on VMWare's Fusion on my Leopard MacPro. Similarly a few other people in the engineering/dev teams have virtualization products; but the other 99.9% of the company run Windows on their PCs. Losers.
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I think most sysadmins/network engineers would agree that the network owners are totally within their rights to limit/approve/control/monitor the h/w and s/w in use on their networks. The network owners are trying to provide the most stable environment for the largest number of paying customers.
I don't work for a telco but I do like to have a very reliable cell network (especially since I have no landline, voip etc).
Unless you have multiple volumes in your device/environment you probably won't benefit much. For a brief description of the features and benefits of ZFS take a look at Jeff Bonwick's blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/category/ZFS
especially the "Friday May 04, 2007 Rampant Layering Violation?" post. In the first paragraph you get a summary of the features, and after the mathemagical diversion you get a brief summary of the "layers" comprising ZFS and some of the rationale behind the design.
Or, of course, take a look at the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs#Features
I think the main benefits for clients would be the ginormous volume sizes, snapshot/clones, and variable block sizes. But I think the filesystem is aimed at servers with multiple volumes attached.
It's our national sport.
Electronic thumb. http://hhgproject.org/entries/electronicthumb.html
Surely the rest of his housemates will simply deny he ever existed at all?
Wired.com also mentioned this stuff recently. I tried it - awesome.
One of the coolest features is that at any time you can restore your camera to default settings just by turning it off - no permanent flashing of BIOS/firmware!
*Double* ROT 13. It's the only way to go.
I 'd hate to have our future options limited by dumbass decisions we make today.
Since the Moon is a harsh environment we can assume that any bacteria that flourish will be resistant to: extremes of temperature, extremes of radioactivity, lack of nutrients etc. Humans will come into contact with these badasses and we'd have a tough time defending ourselves.
I think that's the point the poster was making.
Einstein's GR blew away Newton's model spectacularly. Likewise Darwin's Theory of Evolution swept away all the "competing" hypotheses. Similarly Galileo caused a little bit of a fuss when he supported heliocentrism. Those corrections to earlier theories caused more than a "whisper".
Genuine peer-reviewed science journals contain corrections, addenda, clarifications, amendments etc. Occasionally they include retractions. Non-scientific media prefer sensational, exciting news - not non-results or corrections - because that's what most readers want to see.
I've always been a fan of INTERCAL. If you can learn it you can learn anything.
If you're a big MSFT user (ie Enterprise customer) then you'll probably have AD. In which case you can set up an activation server on your network.
Possible spoiler follows (I'm going to reference events in Season 3):
In season 3 we learn that the humans may have provoked the attack by venturing into the Cylons' territory - with military vehicles. Uncool. So even the supposed "sneak attack" is not black & white. Which I kinda like.
I lost interest in the series when the mystical mumbo-jumbo took over. I really liked the way some story lines seem to parallel current affairs. I hope the final season returns to that style.
Wait! I know this one! It's on the tip of my tongue... etc.
The MBA actually is thin. It's simple geometry. The wedge shape occupies half the volume of a rectangular profile.
/.er but for the globetrotting exec who basically checks email, reads documents/presentations and does some light web surfing the MBA is perfect. Especially if he/she's trying to travel light (carry-on only). I wouldn't recommend it for a dev or engineer. Personally I would love one for my couch but I can't afford it.
I was skeptical until I actually held the MBA in my hands. Now I'm a believer. It's not for your average
Our CEO loves his MBA - he used to have an MBP. He doesn't need to watch DVDs in the air (he's in First or Upper or Grand Panjandrum or Muad'dib Class with personal TV, open bar, masseuse etc etc) or install software (he pays the IT monkeys to do that). When he's at home he's wireless; in the offices he leaves a wired USB-ethernet dongle at his desks. This guy's time and energy is worth a lot more than a laptop so if somehow he smashes the damn thing we'll buy him another. High level execs are not like the rest of us...
That will make the winner a loser. Maybe they should give the winner the machine of their choice!
As for the: "Advanced arresting gear" The Navy Fact File reference you provide states: "Electromagnetic Catapults and Advanced Arresting Gear that support future airwing configurations including unmanned air vehicles." - which suggests that the Navy is looking for better ways to land aircraft on their ships. Perhaps with shorter landing strips, better tennis nets, and perhaps some quick way of getting the 'planes out of the way so that the next 'plane can land.
It didn't look like the monster was only targeting buildings with cellphone towers/masts so it's not surprising that cellphone calls were still possible. But it is surprising that the emergency services allowed civilian cellphone calls to go through. After the 'planes hit the WTC in 2001 New Yorkers couldn't make cell calls for several hours because most of the bandwidth was given to the emergency services.
As for the gratuitous product placement: get used to it and learn to filter it out. Advertisers are finding it harder to get consumers' attention through "traditional" media. I'm sure you've noticed the increasing frequency of movies and TV shows with strange lingering shots of bland automobiles or uninspiring consumer electronics, or rap songs that list must-have luxury items.
Just curious (and I suspect some other readers are too) - do you have some references/reports/links I could read? If an affordable 2.5" SATA SSD comes out soon I'd seriously consider replacing my Mac Mini's HDD ASAP. But not if the wear levelling is ineffective!
I only hope this is total BS. The last thing this project needs is "help" from M$FT. The XO is a fine product and well-suited to its purpose: a platform to introduce people to technology, programming, etc. Nothing but the imagination, ingenuity and creativity of a child is needed. The only reason Microsoft are interested is that they want to poison the minds of the XO owners. Asshats.
First Intel attempted, and now Microsoft is trying to torpedo this project because they realize it's a threat to their future markets. Imagine a whole generation of Linux-schooled programmers writing the next killer apps, or buying last year's hardware to run Linux desktops (or servers!) - now imagine how Wintel feel about that.
The drive you linked to is 3.5" and 1.6TB; whereas the drive in TFA is 2.5" and 832GB. I assume they're aiming for a different market with this product. In fact the 2.5" might be ideal as a storage device for an HD video camera. Small, light, low power consumption, less susceptible to shocks etc. Or if you have a high performance laptop with which you perform video editing and want to avoid carrying bags of external FW drives, cables, PSUs, spare batteries etc etc this would be pretty cool to have *in* the laptop.
I think the main complaint people have is that those distracting "features" should be off by default. Word can be a perfectly reasonable word processor or junior document layout app but all the farking intrusive features drive users crazy. :)
Personally I like Office 2007 more than the most recent versions. However, since I'm fortunate enough to be a Mac user in a sea of broken Windows I'm writing in Pages or vim.
Because OLED supports colours, and e-ink is monochrome.
Imagine having your Photoshop keyboard, or Final Cut keyboard colour-coded for different functions.
It doesn't mean that 34% of the desktops are virtualized. I'm running Windows XP on VMWare's Fusion on my Leopard MacPro. Similarly a few other people in the engineering/dev teams have virtualization products; but the other 99.9% of the company run Windows on their PCs. Losers.