I would be more apt to enter into a service, where the hardware I buy would be generic. Sort of like Napster is now for all "compatible" music players.
Basically, I want some company like Logitech to build a sweet-ass DVR-type box with the ability to CHOOSE which services I want to download/buy from.
Or chess/checkers, or pong... What'd I'd really like to see is something like Magic the Gathering, but where the cards are recognized when set down (isn't there a game like that? I don't follow anime or Asian culture but I seem to remember something...)
My FIRST "networked environment:" Two computers, a bi-directional crossover LPT cable and some REALLY crappy Novell software. Definitely some frustrating times just to play Warcraft I against a single friend!
It's ironic you should say that. When I was in college I could upload and download movies from Sweden at 12 Megabytes a second. Capital M. (ahem) Now that I'm on a "residential" connection I am lucky to get 300 KB/s down, 100 KB/s up from anywhere... Thank YOU Internet2!
Just a thought, but once quantum entanglement is more fully understood we could have data storage centers on the moon with instant retrieval! Hell, we could even eventually use the "moon atoms" to be a harddrive...
Sybase / Adaptive Server Anywhere (as it's called now) is NOT ANYTHING like MSSQL. OLE DB vs ODBC, MSSQL requires an insane amount of resources comparatively, many syntax differences including table referencing, restoring, OS commands (ASA can run in Linux.) Licensing for ASA is about 20% the price of MSSQL. MSSQL CAN do indexed views and multiple triggers, where ASA cannot. Naming conventions are shorter in ASA.
Also, don't even get me STARTED on security. I work for a software dev company that uses both platforms and I still refuse to touch MSSQL if I can help it. Not because I'm anti-Microsoft but because there are so many fundamental differences between the two that I'm not willing to completely relearn a "new" SQL syntax for it. I feel bad if you're stuck with MSSQL but migrating to ASA FROM MSSQL would suck even worse in my opinion.
It has been proven "wrong." Again, just because the amount of error is within certain tolerances doesn't mean that it's merely "incomplete." With your logic, 3.14 isn't "wrong" it's just incomplete. Science is exact, and even though approximations and models are used so that we as humans can perceive things greater and smaller than we are, it doesn't mean it's correct. Besides, Einsteins model is MORE accurate anyway, even at slow (non-relativistic) speeds. The math is just a bitch to work out.
# Upwards of 450,000 servers ranging from a 533 MHz Intel Celeron to a dual 1.4 GHz Intel Pentium III (as of 2005)
# One or more 80GB hard disks per server (2003)
So at least using these numbers, let's say on average they have 120gb per server (1 and a half, 80 GB drives...) That would mean they have 54,000 TBs or 54 PBs. I'm sure they have even more now, but as a point of reference! Yes, Google has a finite amount of space!
One of my friends started messaging me the interjection "wtc?" at work, her definition being "what the crap?" I didn't understand what she meant at the time so when she came to actually talk to me I said "World Trade Center your FACE!"... So now that's our insult of choice </offtopic_anecdote>
just a thought, but can't they just change the hash seed and be done with it? it'd take the bots however long again to figure it out....
seems a simple fix to me (and I run a few sites with captchas, not that hard to change!) but then again, I'm not google so I guess I'm evil...
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But now instead of having to pay for hardware, Google just gets all your personal data hosted elsewhere...
I have no idea and don't always trust wiki 'opinions'
But you trust ours?!
I would be more apt to enter into a service, where the hardware I buy would be generic. Sort of like Napster is now for all "compatible" music players.
Basically, I want some company like Logitech to build a sweet-ass DVR-type box with the ability to CHOOSE which services I want to download/buy from.
Nick the psychologist?
Oh yeah? Like what? Not hating, merely curious.
Science damn it!
You can get Adblock to run using this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543
once installed, go to "addons" and there will be a new button "force compatibility."
Or chess/checkers, or pong... What'd I'd really like to see is something like Magic the Gathering, but where the cards are recognized when set down (isn't there a game like that? I don't follow anime or Asian culture but I seem to remember something...)
Myst or Carcassone would be wicked cool too.
My FIRST "networked environment:" Two computers, a bi-directional crossover LPT cable and some REALLY crappy Novell software. Definitely some frustrating times just to play Warcraft I against a single friend!
Troll?! Seems pretty insightful to me!
Wrong though?
It's ironic you should say that. When I was in college I could upload and download movies from Sweden at 12 Megabytes a second. Capital M. (ahem) Now that I'm on a "residential" connection I am lucky to get 300 KB/s down, 100 KB/s up from anywhere...
Thank YOU Internet2!
Nuclear science has progressed, but the design of the nuclear bomb hasn't changed all that much since the 50s.
Just a thought, but once quantum entanglement is more fully understood we could have data storage centers on the moon with instant retrieval! Hell, we could even eventually use the "moon atoms" to be a harddrive...
Sybase / Adaptive Server Anywhere (as it's called now) is NOT ANYTHING like MSSQL. OLE DB vs ODBC, MSSQL requires an insane amount of resources comparatively, many syntax differences including table referencing, restoring, OS commands (ASA can run in Linux.)
Licensing for ASA is about 20% the price of MSSQL. MSSQL CAN do indexed views and multiple triggers, where ASA cannot. Naming conventions are shorter in ASA.
Also, don't even get me STARTED on security. I work for a software dev company that uses both platforms and I still refuse to touch MSSQL if I can help it. Not because I'm anti-Microsoft but because there are so many fundamental differences between the two that I'm not willing to completely relearn a "new" SQL syntax for it. I feel bad if you're stuck with MSSQL but migrating to ASA FROM MSSQL would suck even worse in my opinion.
It has been proven "wrong." Again, just because the amount of error is within certain tolerances doesn't mean that it's merely "incomplete." With your logic, 3.14 isn't "wrong" it's just incomplete. Science is exact, and even though approximations and models are used so that we as humans can perceive things greater and smaller than we are, it doesn't mean it's correct. Besides, Einsteins model is MORE accurate anyway, even at slow (non-relativistic) speeds. The math is just a bitch to work out.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
# Upwards of 450,000 servers ranging from a 533 MHz Intel Celeron to a dual 1.4 GHz Intel Pentium III (as of 2005)
# One or more 80GB hard disks per server (2003)
So at least using these numbers, let's say on average they have 120gb per server (1 and a half, 80 GB drives...) That would mean they have 54,000 TBs or 54 PBs. I'm sure they have even more now, but as a point of reference! Yes, Google has a finite amount of space!
Newton's model IS wrong just like "3.14" is wrong as the value of pi. It might be a good approximation, but it's by no means correct.
And steal your underpants? Last I checked the birthday song copyright expired in 1985 but then again anyone can write anything in Wikipedia...
Take it elsewhere, Mr. Bainwol...
Chess would work with a lot of patience!
http://www.avast.com/ with a footprint 10 megs, AND 100% free (not "free") I will never use anything else.
Basically a high-tech ping with a lot more math involved...
One of my friends started messaging me the interjection "wtc?" at work, her definition being "what the crap?" I didn't understand what she meant at the time so when she came to actually talk to me I said "World Trade Center your FACE!" ... So now that's our insult of choice
</offtopic_anecdote>
just a thought, but can't they just change the hash seed and be done with it? it'd take the bots however long again to figure it out.... seems a simple fix to me (and I run a few sites with captchas, not that hard to change!) but then again, I'm not google so I guess I'm evil...