If you are deploying Windows Server 2008 in a production environment you are going to take a long hard look at your total cost of ownership. Doing so you will likely come to the conclusion that paying a bit more upfront for hardware and drivers certified as server grade is a worthwhile investment. Joe Sixpack is going to buy the cheapest gaming rig he can find at Frys and grab whatever drivers he can get off the web. Writing a decent 64 bit driver stack for Windows is not the easiest thing in the world. MS is cognizant of this fact and it would appear they are heading off a massive influx of OCA bug reports by not allowing the rank and file of the world to live dangerously. I, for one, applaud such efforts.
Hey Mr. Jobs, whatever are you planning to buy with the money you make off of me? Oh wait, you don't get a single dime from me due to your draconian lockdown policies. Your brand of cool I can do without.
The notion that public education should be provided to all in the USA came about during the industrial revolution. This system of education was designed not to stimulate intellect as much as it was to create a workforce with the basic skills required to work at repetitive, menial tasks day after day. While much improved over the years, public schools are still chartered with the same task of generating a pool of semi-skilled labor that simply cannot compete in the current global economy.
Lets face it: the Windows Media Center PC concept has been faltering for its entire existance, and even now in the Windows 7 Release Candidate it still fails to provide anything even remotely compelling. The fact that it will not tune ClearQAM cable channels even when equipped with a capable tuner makes it about as useful as mammories on a fish. Why there has been no anti-trust investigation into the obvious collusion between Microsoft and the cable companies over this issue is a mystery to me.
This would be a neat trick if it allowed brewing with yeasts that produced an English flavor profile yet had the high flocculation rates associated with American ale yeasts (Wyeast 1232 is the best compromise currently produced commercially, IMHO).
The US rail system is broken not only in terms of the speed at which trains travel, but in terms of the costs associated with getting goods loaded and unloaded as they make their way to consumers. What is needed is greater efficiency in this process so that the value of fuel savings offsets the cost of freight handling.
One of the many tricky bits in implementing a yeast or other biological based in vivo power source will be in maintaining balance. Too little yeast and it would seem that immunities in the body would deplete it, too much and the culture will grow unchecked. Would antibiotics be required on an ongoing basis to sustain a controlled yeast population?
Building a working prototype of USB peripheral using development kit is not that difficult. Many of the kits available from Cypress Semiconductor include a daughter card specifically for prototyping. Your cost for a development kit should run about $500 and the cost of licensing the full SDK for firmware development should run about $1000 (you *might* be able to get by with the free trial version for your initial prototype build). Depending on the complexity of your design, a consultant could probably get you up and running with 20 - 40 hours of work with an hourly rate of $150 - $200 (consider going the DIY route if this cost is prohibitive). Once you have a working prototype you need to pound the pavement to get the Angel investment to take your product through a full design cycle.
I, for one, do not welcome the 3D float-over advertisement overlords. It is bad enough to see reputable sites use simple 2D float-over ads on their pages, but full 3D might force me to go text only or completely skip sites that allow these shenanigans.
With projects like the JP1 forum turning universal remotes into the Swiss army knife of the 21st century I hardly think the will meet their technological demise any time soon. I would rather bet my $0.02 that the killer device control app for smartphones will be remote interaction at an arbitrary distance, much like the remote DVR control applications now entering the market.
How about MS lives up to the financial obligation it entered into contractually and states that new/renewed contracts will be subject to reduced rates? Given that the duration of these contracts is limited to 265 days I would think that this would amount to a mere drop in the fiscal bucket. This seems more likely a ploy to lull investors into the thinking MS wields an iron fist with its workforce. Wooing investors at this point is hopeless, they are too fickle care about anything other than the indexes. Pissing off your workforce however will absolutely kill productivity. I, for one, think the chair throwing antics of one MS executive will come to an end sooner than later.
Every undergraduate should play with fire at least once. Have your students build a Ruben's tube to demonstrate standing waves. Bonus points if they can predict the the frequencies which will produce sinusoidal flame patterns prior to lighting it.
greytrapping hosts at the University of Alberta generates a downloadable blacklist based on the greyptrap data, updated once per hour, ready for inclusion in spamd setups elsewhere.
What stops the badguys from flooding the U of A email domain via gamed accounts (hotmail, yahoo, etc) and poisoning the list to block an unacceptable amount of legitimate traffic?
Might the the drives themselves be sensing the induced vibration via an embedded accelerometer and momentarily parking the heads to avoid damage? It seems like the marketing folks shouldn't have too hard of a time putting a positive spin on this behavior.
Apple should buy them out to parody the insecure nature of the Windows "Every user is a privileged user" culture. A nice keystone cops chasing malware baddies parody would serve this purpose nicely.
The resveratrol in wine does not come from the yeast used to ferment it, it is a present in the fruit from which the wine is produced. While I have had far too much beer this evening to produce any links to back up this claim I will stake my reputation as an engineer, brewer and vintner that the stress undergone during the maturation of red wine grapes leads to the production of resveratrol. While tweaking yeast strains to reduce their impact on the resveratrol present in beer wort is an interesting idea, I would hazard that producing barley malt which contains a higher level of resveratrol would be much more likely to produce the desired result.
With multiple ADC channels this thing would make a nice data logger. Hopefully, someone with time on their hands will add WiFi and TCP/IP stack. I would like to track a few key parameters in my vehicle and having a cheap data logger phone home via WiFi each time I pull into the garage would be sweet.
Can anyone enlighten me as to how offshore platforms such as in TFA will be able to withstand such a corrosive environment while remaining cost effective?
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If you are deploying Windows Server 2008 in a production environment you are going to take a long hard look at your total cost of ownership. Doing so you will likely come to the conclusion that paying a bit more upfront for hardware and drivers certified as server grade is a worthwhile investment. Joe Sixpack is going to buy the cheapest gaming rig he can find at Frys and grab whatever drivers he can get off the web. Writing a decent 64 bit driver stack for Windows is not the easiest thing in the world. MS is cognizant of this fact and it would appear they are heading off a massive influx of OCA bug reports by not allowing the rank and file of the world to live dangerously. I, for one, applaud such efforts.
Me too ;-)
Anyone care to spot me the $2.1 million and a bit of gas money? :-)
Hey Mr. Jobs, whatever are you planning to buy with the money you make off of me? Oh wait, you don't get a single dime from me due to your draconian lockdown policies. Your brand of cool I can do without.
On behalf of myself and all the other forum junkies can we please get a larger, ruggedized F5 key?
The notion that public education should be provided to all in the USA came about during the industrial revolution. This system of education was designed not to stimulate intellect as much as it was to create a workforce with the basic skills required to work at repetitive, menial tasks day after day. While much improved over the years, public schools are still chartered with the same task of generating a pool of semi-skilled labor that simply cannot compete in the current global economy.
Lets face it: the Windows Media Center PC concept has been faltering for its entire existance, and even now in the Windows 7 Release Candidate it still fails to provide anything even remotely compelling. The fact that it will not tune ClearQAM cable channels even when equipped with a capable tuner makes it about as useful as mammories on a fish. Why there has been no anti-trust investigation into the obvious collusion between Microsoft and the cable companies over this issue is a mystery to me.
Apparently Yamaha does ;-)
This would be a neat trick if it allowed brewing with yeasts that produced an English flavor profile yet had the high flocculation rates associated with American ale yeasts (Wyeast 1232 is the best compromise currently produced commercially, IMHO).
The US rail system is broken not only in terms of the speed at which trains travel, but in terms of the costs associated with getting goods loaded and unloaded as they make their way to consumers. What is needed is greater efficiency in this process so that the value of fuel savings offsets the cost of freight handling.
One of the many tricky bits in implementing a yeast or other biological based in vivo power source will be in maintaining balance. Too little yeast and it would seem that immunities in the body would deplete it, too much and the culture will grow unchecked. Would antibiotics be required on an ongoing basis to sustain a controlled yeast population?
I came in here hoping to see atleast one post rooting for a steampunk themed netbook. Sadly, I leave in disappointment.
Building a working prototype of USB peripheral using development kit is not that difficult. Many of the kits available from Cypress Semiconductor include a daughter card specifically for prototyping. Your cost for a development kit should run about $500 and the cost of licensing the full SDK for firmware development should run about $1000 (you *might* be able to get by with the free trial version for your initial prototype build). Depending on the complexity of your design, a consultant could probably get you up and running with 20 - 40 hours of work with an hourly rate of $150 - $200 (consider going the DIY route if this cost is prohibitive). Once you have a working prototype you need to pound the pavement to get the Angel investment to take your product through a full design cycle.
I, for one, do not welcome the 3D float-over advertisement overlords. It is bad enough to see reputable sites use simple 2D float-over ads on their pages, but full 3D might force me to go text only or completely skip sites that allow these shenanigans.
With projects like the JP1 forum turning universal remotes into the Swiss army knife of the 21st century I hardly think the will meet their technological demise any time soon. I would rather bet my $0.02 that the killer device control app for smartphones will be remote interaction at an arbitrary distance, much like the remote DVR control applications now entering the market.
How about MS lives up to the financial obligation it entered into contractually and states that new/renewed contracts will be subject to reduced rates? Given that the duration of these contracts is limited to 265 days I would think that this would amount to a mere drop in the fiscal bucket. This seems more likely a ploy to lull investors into the thinking MS wields an iron fist with its workforce. Wooing investors at this point is hopeless, they are too fickle care about anything other than the indexes. Pissing off your workforce however will absolutely kill productivity. I, for one, think the chair throwing antics of one MS executive will come to an end sooner than later.
Every undergraduate should play with fire at least once. Have your students build a Ruben's tube to demonstrate standing waves. Bonus points if they can predict the the frequencies which will produce sinusoidal flame patterns prior to lighting it.
greytrapping hosts at the University of Alberta generates a downloadable blacklist based on the greyptrap data, updated once per hour, ready for inclusion in spamd setups elsewhere.
What stops the badguys from flooding the U of A email domain via gamed accounts (hotmail, yahoo, etc) and poisoning the list to block an unacceptable amount of legitimate traffic?
Might the the drives themselves be sensing the induced vibration via an embedded accelerometer and momentarily parking the heads to avoid damage? It seems like the marketing folks shouldn't have too hard of a time putting a positive spin on this behavior.
Apple should buy them out to parody the insecure nature of the Windows "Every user is a privileged user" culture. A nice keystone cops chasing malware baddies parody would serve this purpose nicely.
...but I wish it were integrated into the MythTV backend as well so I could view it through the front end of my choice.
The resveratrol in wine does not come from the yeast used to ferment it, it is a present in the fruit from which the wine is produced. While I have had far too much beer this evening to produce any links to back up this claim I will stake my reputation as an engineer, brewer and vintner that the stress undergone during the maturation of red wine grapes leads to the production of resveratrol. While tweaking yeast strains to reduce their impact on the resveratrol present in beer wort is an interesting idea, I would hazard that producing barley malt which contains a higher level of resveratrol would be much more likely to produce the desired result.
With multiple ADC channels this thing would make a nice data logger. Hopefully, someone with time on their hands will add WiFi and TCP/IP stack. I would like to track a few key parameters in my vehicle and having a cheap data logger phone home via WiFi each time I pull into the garage would be sweet.
I thought that cassette storage for Apple computers was based on the Kansas City Standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_Standard/? Get off my lawn
Can anyone enlighten me as to how offshore platforms such as in TFA will be able to withstand such a corrosive environment while remaining cost effective?