The brain is a three dimensional matrix, however TFA only mentions wrapping around what appears to be the outer surface of the brain. How much of the brains' functions are available purely via the outer surface?
The last thing I need is for people to walk into my house and see me sitting on my couch wearing some goofy looking glasses.
The last thing I need (or anyone else for that matter), is to walk into my home and see me sitting on the couch wearing nothing BUT some goofy looking glasses. Luckily for me and the fireman that burst in one time (false alarm) I had decided that jocks were required that day.
You are not the only one, my requirements also focus on low power draw, low noise output, and it also needs to fit my microATX case. now that case has a proprietary 300w PSU, which is happily powering an old ATI X1900XT, so whatever I replace that with has to have no more power draw than that.
I got out of my cosy warm bed at 2am to remove the Digsby client, not sure if I had the affected version, but I wasn't going to leave on the PC anymore.
TY/.:)
Make IT responsible for your lost productuivity.
Quantify how much actual productive time is lost due to your slow/old PCs, then have that cost shifted to the IT department's budget.
It only take ~5 mins a day in lost productivity to equal a the cost of a new PC...
Any enterprise with IT staff will roll their own Win7 SOE and overwrite their existing installs.
Upgrading installations is a false economy once you scale up your number of PCs.
Oh, and if you've been smart enough to rollover hardware after 3 years of age, your oldest boxes will run Win7 just fine - so long as you didn't skimp on RAM (and who would with it so cheap these last years?)
The initial cost outlay of a Windows machine is higher, of course, but did you consider the other costs?
Have you considered how much it costs to prove compliance with Microsoft's licence agreements?
This is something we have to do at least annually, and there are millions of $$$ tied up in developing and implementing systems to do so, plus there are the $$$ spent keeping staff employed purely for managing these things.
I'd much rather have that money spent on open source development, though it would mean finding a new job....
*Everywhere*. I call BS, since I was working on satellite connections and we've just rolled a few satellite setups out to some job sites.
These are right next to major roads, even the federal highway system has large spots with no coverage.
Get 10km from major roads and you get diddly squat.
Here's a quick link to show you how much is/isn't covered:
http://www.fonezone.com.au/?p=2074
Oh, and I'm not dissing Telstra, they're doing a good job IMO in increasing coverage.
Why would hardware manufacturers bother to write drivers for a Windows Beta release?
Because this is the Windows OS that business will upgrade to from XP.
Related note: I installed this Winv7 beta last night and rate it much higher than Vista with only a couple hours playing around. Would need to spend considerable more time to evaluate against XP though.
RN2: All drivers bar audio were installed OOTB. Audio and updated video drivers were available via Windows Update (older PC, nForce 3 chipset).
No LAN plan in D3 = dissapointing.
Even now I can go to a 20-30 person LAN, whip out D2, and have a couple of people ready to jump in to a hosted LAN game.
Typically at these LAN's the only internet connection will be if you connect via mobile phone on 3G, so there will be effectively *no* interest in D3 in this group of people now:(
Re: open source - for anything over 10 years old I would expect open sourcing the code would be a great thing to do. Obviously if it's still a ca$h cow you might to make an exception, but things like D1, War1&2 should be available gratis.
I've eaten a burger two-handed while driving, a knee kept the car heading in the right direction.
A flatmate was *reading a book* while driving, now that's going just a little too far (I wasn't there, but he claims it).
Mind you, we were living where you can find 100km or more of dead straight road with little traffic, and during the day there's little wildlife on the roads so not much swerving required.
I do understand talking on a phone while driving is a major distraction though.
Knob Creek is one of my favourite bourbons, though being small batch it's hard to get down under.
For something a little easier to obtain, Jim Beam gold is ok too, though I prefer the Knob Creek.
Finding anything better than JD at a bar seems an impossibility though:(
Our organisation of ~10,000 PCs will be upgrading our environment next year:
- XP sp2 to sp3
- IE6 to IE7
- Office 2002 to 2003
We move pretty slowly, but I'm glad. Stability & compatibility with existing applciations are prime requirements.
Personal note, I just installed new hard drives in my PCs (gaming) and XP went back on, no Vista for me.
Holy crap, swap the 7.5hours for 7.25 hours and you've got me! Yep the same 40 hours and 15 min commute time (though mine i walking, not sure if you do).
Mind you, there are rarely 'crunches', so I'm usually a 9-5 person myself.
Oh, and I don't get overtime. Mind you I've never hit 40 hours flex though either...
I had understood (in extremely basic layman terms):
Natural selection is where you loose characteristics that are less able to compete. This is a loss of genetic information.
Evolution is where you gain genetic information through mutation. Natural Selection dictates whether those mutations survive to become dominant or a separate species.
If you have a better explanation I'd love to hear it though.
Australia has had monthly download quota's for 7+ years now. In many instances it will be split into peak and off-peak quota. Eg: my current plan is 150GB/month, 40GB peak, 110GB off-peak (which is 1am to 7am for this ISP).
Back in '02 Internodehttp://www.internode.on.net/ introduced Flat Rate plans, whereby you could download as much as you wanted while the network wasn't congested, however when utilisation reached 100%, those with the highest downloads over the last 28 days (rolling period) would be progressivly slowed down, to as low as dial-up speed. Once the network was less congested, your speed would ratchet back up (again depending on network congestion and your priority based on your downloads).
Those that only occassionally downloaded large files would get full speed pretty much all the time, those that downloaded continuously would see their downloads slow during peak periods.
It wasn't rocket science, but that 28day rolling period and how it worked was a confusion that eventually forced the cancellation of these type of plans - which is too bad, as they essentially gave everyone a fair go depending on how much you downloaded. No excess charges, just a flat fee and as much GB as you could squeeze out of the link.
It was a great system and I was sorry to see it go. I'm sure the developer of the software was dissapointed in much larger ways - this system could have made bandwidth provisioning & customer charging a lot easier to predict and manage.
What happened to your governance and change management processes?
Example 1:
Have a single person from the business be your contact point, and they have to nut out the requirements of the system. Put the onus back on them.
No IT budget for this work? Not IT's problem, the business wants extra work done, they pay for it. Oh, you don't do it that way? You're screwed - leave, get it changed, or have someone with clout to prioritise the work of the operational people that do this type of work.
Example 2:
Any IT related projects should have at a minimum certain touch points in your process that head off these issues.
Again - put the onus back on the business. Do some research and advise how much it will cost to make e-mail real-time & reliable(ha!). Let the busines decide if they want to spend that much money or cancel out of the contract.
I walked into Electronics Boutique and picked one up 2 days after launch here is Australia.
Too bad for the person that pre-ordered and didn't pick it up in the 24 hour time limit they set;)
It's still making it's way around my circle of friends.
I have been seeing relevant xkcd links in a lot of recent/. discussions recently. Is there no topic that they haven't covered? Or is the author following/. stories and quickly making up something that will fit? o_0
Ok, so we've had our party, and pics are going up on the web.
Now what?
I obviously missed out on a t-shirt.
But - who do I send pics/links to to go in the draw for the grand prize?
bah, no willpower there at all!
I started reading/. in early 2000 (still pretty late I guess) when I was really *supposed* to be testing software that was being developed by a different division in my workplace.
I think it took 6-7 years before I felt it was time to contribute back to the community:/
You DO have 15 times as many people to help defray the cost of covering that area (which is similar to Au btw).
Note that something like 98% of *people* are supposedly covered by mobile reception here...
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The brain is a three dimensional matrix, however TFA only mentions wrapping around what appears to be the outer surface of the brain. How much of the brains' functions are available purely via the outer surface?
The last thing I need is for people to walk into my house and see me sitting on my couch wearing some goofy looking glasses.
The last thing I need (or anyone else for that matter), is to walk into my home and see me sitting on the couch wearing nothing BUT some goofy looking glasses. Luckily for me and the fireman that burst in one time (false alarm) I had decided that jocks were required that day.
3D glasses are waaaay down on my list.
Did you just advocate the ACTA, but on a much larger scale?
You are not the only one, my requirements also focus on low power draw, low noise output, and it also needs to fit my microATX case. now that case has a proprietary 300w PSU, which is happily powering an old ATI X1900XT, so whatever I replace that with has to have no more power draw than that.
I got out of my cosy warm bed at 2am to remove the Digsby client, not sure if I had the affected version, but I wasn't going to leave on the PC anymore. TY /. :)
Make IT responsible for your lost productuivity. Quantify how much actual productive time is lost due to your slow/old PCs, then have that cost shifted to the IT department's budget. It only take ~5 mins a day in lost productivity to equal a the cost of a new PC...
It's called 'Whispering Eye' nowadays isn't it?
Any enterprise with IT staff will roll their own Win7 SOE and overwrite their existing installs. Upgrading installations is a false economy once you scale up your number of PCs. Oh, and if you've been smart enough to rollover hardware after 3 years of age, your oldest boxes will run Win7 just fine - so long as you didn't skimp on RAM (and who would with it so cheap these last years?)
The initial cost outlay of a Windows machine is higher, of course, but did you consider the other costs?
Have you considered how much it costs to prove compliance with Microsoft's licence agreements? This is something we have to do at least annually, and there are millions of $$$ tied up in developing and implementing systems to do so, plus there are the $$$ spent keeping staff employed purely for managing these things. I'd much rather have that money spent on open source development, though it would mean finding a new job....
*Everywhere*. I call BS, since I was working on satellite connections and we've just rolled a few satellite setups out to some job sites. These are right next to major roads, even the federal highway system has large spots with no coverage. Get 10km from major roads and you get diddly squat. Here's a quick link to show you how much is/isn't covered: http://www.fonezone.com.au/?p=2074 Oh, and I'm not dissing Telstra, they're doing a good job IMO in increasing coverage.
Why would hardware manufacturers bother to write drivers for a Windows Beta release?
Because this is the Windows OS that business will upgrade to from XP.
Related note: I installed this Winv7 beta last night and rate it much higher than Vista with only a couple hours playing around. Would need to spend considerable more time to evaluate against XP though.
RN2: All drivers bar audio were installed OOTB. Audio and updated video drivers were available via Windows Update (older PC, nForce 3 chipset).
No LAN plan in D3 = dissapointing. Even now I can go to a 20-30 person LAN, whip out D2, and have a couple of people ready to jump in to a hosted LAN game. Typically at these LAN's the only internet connection will be if you connect via mobile phone on 3G, so there will be effectively *no* interest in D3 in this group of people now :(
Re: open source - for anything over 10 years old I would expect open sourcing the code would be a great thing to do. Obviously if it's still a ca$h cow you might to make an exception, but things like D1, War1&2 should be available gratis.
I've eaten a burger two-handed while driving, a knee kept the car heading in the right direction. A flatmate was *reading a book* while driving, now that's going just a little too far (I wasn't there, but he claims it). Mind you, we were living where you can find 100km or more of dead straight road with little traffic, and during the day there's little wildlife on the roads so not much swerving required. I do understand talking on a phone while driving is a major distraction though.
Knob Creek is one of my favourite bourbons, though being small batch it's hard to get down under. For something a little easier to obtain, Jim Beam gold is ok too, though I prefer the Knob Creek. Finding anything better than JD at a bar seems an impossibility though :(
Our organisation of ~10,000 PCs will be upgrading our environment next year:
- XP sp2 to sp3
- IE6 to IE7
- Office 2002 to 2003 We move pretty slowly, but I'm glad. Stability & compatibility with existing applciations are prime requirements.
Personal note, I just installed new hard drives in my PCs (gaming) and XP went back on, no Vista for me.
Holy crap, swap the 7.5hours for 7.25 hours and you've got me! Yep the same 40 hours and 15 min commute time (though mine i walking, not sure if you do). Mind you, there are rarely 'crunches', so I'm usually a 9-5 person myself. Oh, and I don't get overtime. Mind you I've never hit 40 hours flex though either...
Natural selection is where you loose characteristics that are less able to compete. This is a loss of genetic information.
Evolution is where you gain genetic information through mutation. Natural Selection dictates whether those mutations survive to become dominant or a separate species.
If you have a better explanation I'd love to hear it though.
Back in '02 Internode http://www.internode.on.net/ introduced Flat Rate plans, whereby you could download as much as you wanted while the network wasn't congested, however when utilisation reached 100%, those with the highest downloads over the last 28 days (rolling period) would be progressivly slowed down, to as low as dial-up speed. Once the network was less congested, your speed would ratchet back up (again depending on network congestion and your priority based on your downloads).
Those that only occassionally downloaded large files would get full speed pretty much all the time, those that downloaded continuously would see their downloads slow during peak periods.
It wasn't rocket science, but that 28day rolling period and how it worked was a confusion that eventually forced the cancellation of these type of plans - which is too bad, as they essentially gave everyone a fair go depending on how much you downloaded. No excess charges, just a flat fee and as much GB as you could squeeze out of the link.
It was a great system and I was sorry to see it go. I'm sure the developer of the software was dissapointed in much larger ways - this system could have made bandwidth provisioning & customer charging a lot easier to predict and manage.
More info in an FAQ http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1037
What happened to your governance and change management processes? Example 1: Have a single person from the business be your contact point, and they have to nut out the requirements of the system. Put the onus back on them. No IT budget for this work? Not IT's problem, the business wants extra work done, they pay for it. Oh, you don't do it that way? You're screwed - leave, get it changed, or have someone with clout to prioritise the work of the operational people that do this type of work. Example 2: Any IT related projects should have at a minimum certain touch points in your process that head off these issues. Again - put the onus back on the business. Do some research and advise how much it will cost to make e-mail real-time & reliable(ha!). Let the busines decide if they want to spend that much money or cancel out of the contract.
I walked into Electronics Boutique and picked one up 2 days after launch here is Australia. Too bad for the person that pre-ordered and didn't pick it up in the 24 hour time limit they set ;)
It's still making it's way around my circle of friends.
Readup on the 'North American Union sometime, along with the Amero. To me it seems that 'illegals' won't be for much longer.
I have been seeing relevant xkcd links in a lot of recent /. discussions recently. Is there no topic that they haven't covered? Or is the author following /. stories and quickly making up something that will fit? o_0
Ok, so we've had our party, and pics are going up on the web. Now what? I obviously missed out on a t-shirt. But - who do I send pics/links to to go in the draw for the grand prize?
bah, no willpower there at all! I started reading /. in early 2000 (still pretty late I guess) when I was really *supposed* to be testing software that was being developed by a different division in my workplace.
I think it took 6-7 years before I felt it was time to contribute back to the community :/
You DO have 15 times as many people to help defray the cost of covering that area (which is similar to Au btw). Note that something like 98% of *people* are supposedly covered by mobile reception here...