Comment Reality (Score 0) 145
"Favoring" in procurement just means it gets weighted more than the closed source project. It doesn't automatically mean they'll pick it instead.
"Favoring" in procurement just means it gets weighted more than the closed source project. It doesn't automatically mean they'll pick it instead.
I've made dozens of RG-58 wearable antennas while I was active duty army. Very easy and cheap narrowband design.
Or if you want to go expensive: http://wearableantenna.com/tactical_vest_antenna_system/
Who else remembers the short-lived iteration of the iPod Shuffle with only the on-off on the device and the goofy control built into the earbuds?
It was an experiment in eliminating buttons just like this that failed because of multiple reasons.
#1 was that it was no longer compatible with any other headphones, since Apple didn't simultaneously release a controller to plug them into.
#2 was that the controller itself was built around a "count the taps" system you had to memorize.
The reality is that Apple might release this "no home button" concept in real life, but sales will drop so hard they'll be forced to scramble to release a new version so everyone will forget the fuckup.
Cryptography is a long series of people reinventing schemes because A: they didn't know about them (the secrecy of the existence was maintained), and B: it was effective. A great example is the Jefferson disk (1795) and Bazeries Cylinder (US-Army M-94, 1923-1942), which were functionally identical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_disk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-94
VMWare could handle that. It dynamically assigns resources of the hardware to the the VMs so they are running at maximum efficiency. Unlike with traditional physical servers where the hardware is mostly at idle while the processes take maybe 10% of operating ability, or run up when overtasked and lock up when maxed out.
Wow. Just think how many servers you could run in VMWare on that. A hundred would be a decent functional number.
I don't know about you, but except for a C++ class in my sophmore year every single computer in my school district was an Apple system. And I'm sure quite a large majority of districts use Macs as well.
It was only once I actually had to do things that mattered that I really got into using Windows.
I'm not an average user, have some odd peripherals, and like to play games. Thus, Windows and decent hardware.
And considering you can get a decent PC for 600 or so now WITH Windows...
As to OSX that's because they refuse to sell the entire OS standalone and support the open-hardware environment.
Ubuntu does not do enough to make me happy.
If you want to get technical, Apple-, MS-, and Linux-centric hardware are all PCs. Especially now that Apple runs on x86 and the hardware itself doesn't matter.
Mac/PC ad freezes, nerdy looking guy walks in front.
"And hi!, I'm linux. I'm free, unlike these guys. And I've been configured to run on just about any hardware!
"As long as you don't care about using all the software these guys use, and are willing to deal with no real customer service, I'm a great alternative! I admit that unlike with these guys I don't easily work with the hardware you already have...
"Ummm...I'm really best in a server...en..vironment..." (trails off)
Walks off with head down.
Real Programmers don't write in FORTRAN. FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. FORTRAN is for wimp engineers who wear white socks.