I moved my system from a 5400RPM ata/66 to a 7200RPM ata/133, and I have noticed a quite dramatic speed improvement. In the limited benchmarks that I have done, I get about 40MB a second unbuffered read from the drive. This is about double the speed that I got from my old setup. On a more subjective level, compiling and development with a sourcecode base on the new drive as opposed the the old one is much more responsive (I still have the old drive hooked up).
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My solution:
By an extra 80gig hard drive for your computer, along with an audiotron. Make sure that you're home network has an 802.11b access point attached to it. Insert a compact flash ethernet card into your windows ce device. The audiotron had a pretty nice web based interface for doing things, but if it really sucks on the small device set up a shoutcast server on your computer and develop some custom screens. You now have a remote control that works from any room in your house with a 320x120 screen.
Um,,. no. The record label that produced the cd that you bought gets money. The record label then takes a portion of the the money that money and may or may not pay the artist a royalty depending on the artists contract.
Then they take another percentage of money and pay the publishing company(s) that is administering the rights to the songs on the album. There are a lot of weird deals that get worked out, but unless the publishing company and the record label are owned by the same company this basically works out to the statutory rate, which is 7.5 cents per song per cd. The publishing company takes a cut of this before passing it along to the writer of the song.
In actuality it's even more complicated, because most publishing companies and record labels use an intermediary (Harry Fox Agency) as a central place to send and collect payments from.
This is why the more successful artists who write their own songs eventually have enough pull to form their own publishing companies- they can demand the full statutory rate, rather than the reduced rate that they'll end up with if they let the record label/publishing company conglomerate call the shots.
After all this, each record company and publishing company sends the RIAA a check to cover operating funds. The RIAA doesn't really have a whole lot of money, and really isn't all that evil. They just act as the mouthpiece/deflector of anger for the individual publishing companies and record labels. Think of the RIAA as a sort of pathetic disciple, and the record and publishing companies as the archdukes of hell.
Unfortunately you will be helping microsoft spread it's name around, which is probably what they really want anyway. Microsoft has enough cash on hand to take the write down in a single quarter for giving every single person in the united states an XBox. (There latest 10-k lists them as having $32 billion)
Did you ask your shaman friend to point out people who have "good" energy and query them about cell phone usage? How does he feel about flying? How about tv?
The newer plastic ones don't shatter quite like that- they even bend almost like coax. You can't kink it, but you can bend it pretty sharply. The dust buildup is an issue, but is not that serious. For a consumer device we would probably see some sort of automatic cover (Picture a twist on bnc style cable that irises open a cover upon connection), which would reduce/eliminate dust problems.
Well first off I would hardly call the invention of the horseshoe, the horse collar, and the waterwheel to name but a few as a virtual halt in human progress. There are also environmental factors that more than outweigh any effect that the church had on medieval life. Europe in the dark ages, was a great deal colder than it is today. Scientists aren't sure why, but they have definite evidence that Europe experienced a "mini" ice age during the dark ages.
Europe started to warm up again just before the time period historians generally refer to as the middle ages.
The Catholic Church is definitely not my favorite institution, but one could make the argument that it kept whatever tiny spark of learning that existed through the dark ages alive until it could blossom in the middle ages and come to fruition during the renaissance.
To do this I need to quote from the building code. Can I do so if the code is copyrighted? Under DMCA?
Fortunately all the really heavy hitting copyright lawyers are already working for the RIAA, so you may be able to sneak a fair use defense past the opposition's lawyer...
Speed only matters if you're giving something an impulse and than no longer applying a force to it. Yes, if I hit a baseball and imart to it speed of ~7 miles/sec it will escape the earth's orbit. But the same baseball, if it could expend a force sufficent to accelerate, at let's say 40 feet/sec, for a long enough period of time would also escape orbit. No rocket made by human hand has ever achieved escape velocity on lift off.
A good laymens explanation can be found in Robert A Heinlein's Rocketship Galileo
Actually both usages are acceptable. AT&T would like you to use all caps and capitalization is definitely required when refering to one of their variants of unix. In the general case, especially in reference to linux I prefer mix cased or all lower case. See Dictionary.com or the excellent book A Quarter Century of Unix by Peter H. Salus who gives a very good explanation of why it's appropriate to refer to unix in lower case.
But all that doesn't really matter- I was gently chiding iceT because I don't like being yelled at.
Who said they don't work? There just happen to be better ways to do things under Windows. Also, while I'm willing to forgive the use of UNIX and COM in capitol letters, there's really no reason to use them for pipes, unless you meant to be shouting.
But to get back to your initial question, yes I would recommend that you rewrite the software. If you're fooling around with pipes, you're probably dealing with so much system level stuff that you have a major porting job anyway.
Especially since Pipes are basically unused for server applications on Windows. The only significant place that Microsoft still recommends their use is when your connecting to a SQL Server database that resides on the same box as you components. Other than that you're pretty much dealing with console processes. Windows has much better IPC mechanism (COM and COM+ Events and Method Calls, Local Procedure Calls, Memory Mapped Files...)
For a lot of companies, that's the only real server application that they need in house. Email and calendaring is still the only real killer server application out there. If it runs best on MS, and you don't have any other needs why not? Furthermore there are some significant problems with webcalendar apparent from only a cursory glance at it's sourceforge page.
No support for groups
No support for syncing with a palmpilot (export only)
No popup reminders
No doubt it will improve, but I think the point everyone's making is that outside of exchange or notes everything else lacks functionality and integration. Fix those problems and integrate it with a nice webmail interface and you a major contender in the small business market
Accept the fact that some people like not knowing exactly what's available or do not have the time to compile playlists. Take the time to come up with a valid complaint, like why the hell would I spend $420 the first year to listen to the radio?
I love hyperion, but I can't remember any black holes on earth- and I've read the book maybe twenty times. Perhaps you're thinking of Earth [amazon.com] by David Brin?
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Er, how about the five million dollars cash they donated yesterday? and the five million dollars in tech is not just licenses, it also includes mcs time
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pop in a couple EA (NOP) bytes, and then loop back to the beginning. Take a lab of apple II, and put in variable numbers of nop's- you have a sound effect not unlike nails going down a blackboard. If you're really nice you do a LDA $C010 to check the keyboard strobe and return if a key's been pressed... (or was the strobe $c025)
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I moved my system from a 5400RPM ata/66 to a 7200RPM ata/133, and I have noticed a quite dramatic speed improvement. In the limited benchmarks that I have done, I get about 40MB a second unbuffered read from the drive. This is about double the speed that I got from my old setup. On a more subjective level, compiling and development with a sourcecode base on the new drive as opposed the the old one is much more responsive (I still have the old drive hooked up).
My solution:
By an extra 80gig hard drive for your computer, along with an audiotron. Make sure that you're home network has an 802.11b access point attached to it. Insert a compact flash ethernet card into your windows ce device. The audiotron had a pretty nice web based interface for doing things, but if it really sucks on the small device set up a shoutcast server on your computer and develop some custom screens. You now have a remote control that works from any room in your house with a 320x120 screen.
Um,,. no. The record label that produced the cd that you bought gets money. The record label then takes a portion of the the money that money and may or may not pay the artist a royalty depending on the artists contract.
Then they take another percentage of money and pay the publishing company(s) that is administering the rights to the songs on the album. There are a lot of weird deals that get worked out, but unless the publishing company and the record label are owned by the same company this basically works out to the statutory rate, which is 7.5 cents per song per cd. The publishing company takes a cut of this before passing it along to the writer of the song.
In actuality it's even more complicated, because most publishing companies and record labels use an intermediary (Harry Fox Agency) as a central place to send and collect payments from.
This is why the more successful artists who write their own songs eventually have enough pull to form their own publishing companies- they can demand the full statutory rate, rather than the reduced rate that they'll end up with if they let the record label/publishing company conglomerate call the shots.
After all this, each record company and publishing company sends the RIAA a check to cover operating funds. The RIAA doesn't really have a whole lot of money, and really isn't all that evil. They just act as the mouthpiece/deflector of anger for the individual publishing companies and record labels. Think of the RIAA as a sort of pathetic disciple, and the record and publishing companies as the archdukes of hell.
Unfortunately you will be helping microsoft spread it's name around, which is probably what they really want anyway. Microsoft has enough cash on hand to take the write down in a single quarter for giving every single person in the united states an XBox. (There latest 10-k lists them as having $32 billion)
The only study that shows this was done on rats in the sixties.
Did you ask your shaman friend to point out people who have "good" energy and query them about cell phone usage? How does he feel about flying? How about tv?
I wish I had access to the MS source like the WINE guys do.
The newer plastic ones don't shatter quite like that- they even bend almost like coax. You can't kink it, but you can bend it pretty sharply. The dust buildup is an issue, but is not that serious. For a consumer device we would probably see some sort of automatic cover (Picture a twist on bnc style cable that irises open a cover upon connection), which would reduce/eliminate dust problems.
Given the context of the previous comment (laws regulating drugs) the meaning was obvious.
Well first off I would hardly call the invention of the horseshoe, the horse collar, and the waterwheel to name but a few as a virtual halt in human progress. There are also environmental factors that more than outweigh any effect that the church had on medieval life. Europe in the dark ages, was a great deal colder than it is today. Scientists aren't sure why, but they have definite evidence that Europe experienced a "mini" ice age during the dark ages.
Europe started to warm up again just before the time period historians generally refer to as the middle ages.
The Catholic Church is definitely not my favorite institution, but one could make the argument that it kept whatever tiny spark of learning that existed through the dark ages alive until it could blossom in the middle ages and come to fruition during the renaissance.
Not really. Drug use is not nearly as common as listening to music.
Fortunately all the really heavy hitting copyright lawyers are already working for the RIAA, so you may be able to sneak a fair use defense past the opposition's lawyer...
A good laymens explanation can be found in Robert A Heinlein's Rocketship Galileo
But all that doesn't really matter- I was gently chiding iceT because I don't like being yelled at.
Who said they don't work? There just happen to be better ways to do things under Windows. Also, while I'm willing to forgive the use of UNIX and COM in capitol letters, there's really no reason to use them for pipes, unless you meant to be shouting.
But to get back to your initial question, yes I would recommend that you rewrite the software. If you're fooling around with pipes, you're probably dealing with so much system level stuff that you have a major porting job anyway.
Especially since Pipes are basically unused for server applications on Windows. The only significant place that Microsoft still recommends their use is when your connecting to a SQL Server database that resides on the same box as you components. Other than that you're pretty much dealing with console processes. Windows has much better IPC mechanism (COM and COM+ Events and Method Calls, Local Procedure Calls, Memory Mapped Files...)
"I'm a Contra Too," Newsweek, March 24, 1986, p. 20
No support for groups
No support for syncing with a palmpilot (export only)
No popup reminders
No doubt it will improve, but I think the point everyone's making is that outside of exchange or notes everything else lacks functionality and integration. Fix those problems and integrate it with a nice webmail interface and you a major contender in the small business market
There are three or four sites discussed in the article- one is california (also japan, midwest, fermilab)
Sometimes you want to listen to material you're not familiar with?
Accept the fact that some people like not knowing exactly what's available or do not have the time to compile playlists. Take the time to come up with a valid complaint, like why the hell would I spend $420 the first year to listen to the radio?
Really? How would you feel if you had to give a printout of your dna out anytime you went somewhere?
I love hyperion, but I can't remember any black holes on earth- and I've read the book maybe twenty times. Perhaps you're thinking of Earth [amazon.com] by David Brin?
Er, how about the five million dollars cash they donated yesterday? and the five million dollars in tech is not just licenses, it also includes mcs time
pop in a couple EA (NOP) bytes, and then loop back to the beginning. Take a lab of apple II, and put in variable numbers of nop's- you have a sound effect not unlike nails going down a blackboard. If you're really nice you do a LDA $C010 to check the keyboard strobe and return if a key's been pressed... (or was the strobe $c025)