Comment Re:Not so much (Score 1) 203
if that message gets cross posted you have a method to help identify who posted it.
Maybe you're making it too easy for them?
http://p8ste.com - Web based Clipboard
if that message gets cross posted you have a method to help identify who posted it.
Maybe you're making it too easy for them?
http://p8ste.com - Web based Clipboard
I had been wondering about that. It seemed to me that it describes a system in which you don't have control of your system and couldn't poke around in the process to find out what it was doing.
I'll stick with the broken version, thanks.
(*) As an aside, I'm still pretty proud of that software. It runs like a charm on anything from windows 3.11 to Vista
Excluding XP x64 and Vista x64 of course. As it runs on 3.11 it must be 16-bit, and Windows x64 won't run 16-bit software. On the upside, it probably runs on 32-bit Windows 7 too.
I know Google is a big company, but you don't think it's remotely possible that they might - just might - start to notice a pattern after the first few hundred reports of search engine spam concerning a single domain?
People becoming wealthier means in the long run they can buy stuff from you (not necessarily directly mind you, but is no use to have people starving to death when they could be earning a living and trading with people around the world).
They added this OO stuff because you can't do much on windows with text processing tools (i.e. parse the registry),
That's just not true; there are plenty of text processing tools in Windows, including ports of all the Unix utilities. If anybody needed it, it's trivial to write some utility that reads the registry and dumps it to stdout for parsing. They added the OO stuff because it's a much more powerful and modern approach.
In the end, this OO stuff makes it more complex and less powerfull than the
good old character streams, which work so well exactly because they are damn simple.
I'll have to disagree; character streams are simple, but this simplicity makes them less powerful, not more. The programmer is forced to do a lot of work the computer ought to handle. As to the complexity, this is due to the data itself: modern applications push around all kinds of data that aren't, by their nature, character strings. The Unix approach requires applications to convert the data to character streams and back (so the programmer needs to design a format complex enough to represent the data items and their relationships as character streams, write serialization code and parsers to convert it back). That's a lot of overhead.
Target employs SEO. For a company their size that's diligence. Now list companies in the Fortune 500 that neither know nor care about SEO and report back how much that's costing the shareholders.
Extra points if you mention HP whose web technologies are for a technology company nothing short of incredible.
In most of our lifetimes? Per Wikipedia:
The very large IPv6 address space supports a total of 2^128 (about 3.4×10^38) addresses--or approximately 5×10^28 (roughly 2^95) addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5×10^9) people alive in 2006. In a different perspective, this is 2^52 (about 4.5×10^15) addresses for every observable star in the known universe.
It will take way more than poor management to use up all those numbers in any timescale with meaning to a human life.
That quote from Wikipedia you pulled, is immediately followed by this:
"While these numbers are impressive, it was not the intent of the designers of the IPv6 address space to assure geographical saturation with usable addresses. Rather, the longer addresses allow a better, systematic, hierarchical allocation of addresses and efficient route aggregation."
If we could arbitrarily ignore the network structure and special ranges assigned in IPv4, we have 4.2 billion possible IP numbers (2^32). Do we have 4 billion computers on the Internet? No. Do we have IPv4 shortage? Yes. In fact we had IPv4 shortage even back in the early 90-s when Internet was far from being mainstream yet (which prompted the jump from classful network to CIDR).
For me, two years of Judo and five years of Aikido practice. But the software guys don't mess with me, either... there are wrist locks that send regular folks into new and painful places. Imagine if you have carpal tunnel syndrome! And I know how to fall, after bashing my head too hard.
I don't think, in this age of unprecedented teenage sloth, it's wise or necessary to cut down the value of sports just to raise up the value of the sciences, computer or otherwise. What we need to really address is "fat kid on a couch, playing X-Box and eating chips, for hours after school" as a standard and acceptable behavior.
There's a commonality between these, too. When you get good at a sport, you get pushed to new physical plateaus... places you never imagined going. But you go there primarily with your mind, or you fail... most people give up mentally long before their bodies just stop working (which they absolutely will, if you can keep pushing hard enough, long enough... but that's good too, as long as its not a destructive failure).
It really is two sides of the same coin, physical and mental development. This occurred to me again last Sunday, during a 6 hour, non-stop, snow shoveling session, clearing my 1/5th mile driveway from a 24" blizzard. You need to go to the same place on those three-or-four-days-without-sleep marathon hacking sessions as well (in the old days at Commodore, this was otherwise termed "between Christmas and New Years"... that annual week of sleeplessness, getting ready for the CES show). But I digress.
Yeah, except ditch the cpu fan and get a custom one. The typical "included" cpu fan is annoyingly noisy.
The organisation I work at (it's a university) spends about a million quid a year because people fail to turn off PCs overnight. The running costs of your cheap Dell POS are much higher; the power consumption too.
For clerical and administrative staff, we can put 7-14 virtualised desktops onto a single box/blade - more with non-whole-stack virtualisation or terminal services. We put our heat generation in a few places, we do get better utilisation. We also export pictures of our data to users, not the data itself, which is quite a bonus.
The downsides are what you'd expect: mostly, we have fewer spindles to deliver storage to the desktops (this is the biggest issue we face, I think); multimedia is okay-ish; for heavy computational users there aren't really gains to be had.
It's certainly got its place. Anyone selling you a "one size fits all" for your organisation probably doesn't understand your organisation, but this isn't not a completely incredible approach.
Oxygen leaking out near nozzles or methane/other hydrocarbons leaking IN could be just as bad
No worse than oxygen leaking in or methane leaking out of a natural gas powered car on earth.
I know they'll devise an alternative way of doing this, but I at least like to dream that this might kill off mail-in rebates.
No longer will I have to wait 3-6 months for a $5 check that never comes.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
